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Sankoty Aquifer

The Sankoty aquifer is an aquifer in the U.S. state of Illinois that provides groundwater to a number of communities in northwestern and central Illinois.  It is an  unconsolidated deposit lying in a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River.

Type locality

The sand which forms the Sankoty aquifer was named after a railroad siding near Peoria, Illinois in 1946 by Leland Horberg.  The legal description given by Horberg in identifying the type locality for the Sankoty sand is T9N, R8E, Section 15 (Peoria County, Illinois).

Lithology and stratigraphy 

The Sankoty sand is an unconsolidated deposit within a bedrock valley formerly occupied by the ancestral Mississippi River. It is classified as a member of the Banner Formation and occupies the same stratigraphic position as the Mahomet sand.  

The Sankoty sand has distinctive characteristics that are readily recognized in sample cuttings.  In its most typical aspect, the Sankoty is composed of 70 to 90 percent quartz grains of which 25 percent or more are pink, rounded, and polished.  The texture is usually medium-grained but varies from silty fine sand to coarse gravelly sand.

Groundwater occurrence
The Sankoty sand is one of the most extensive aquifers in the state.  It frequently is  thick and is typically found below elevations of 520 to 530 feet above sea level. It has been used as a water source in the Peoria area since at least 1892.  By 1909, it was observed that groundwater levels at the North Field in Peoria fluctuated with the river stage in the Illinois River.  The Sankoty aquifer extends beyond the width of the Illinois River valley and occurs beneath the uplands.  In these locations, it is frequently confined by clayey deposits of glacial till (which may include other sands).  Consequently, the groundwater may occur under confined (artesian) conditions.

Groundwater pumping has altered historical groundwater flow in the Sankoty aquifer.  The flat geography of the area leads to groundwater flows that are perpendicular to the Illinois River; however, municipal groundwater pumping in the Peoria, Illinois area and to a lesser degree agricultural pumping elsewhere over the aquifer has led to numerous cones of depression.

References
Groundwater in the Peoria Region. Horberg, Leland, Max Suter, and T.E. Larson, 1950   Illinois State Water Survey, Bulletin 39, Champaign, IL 128 p.

Water Resources in Peoria-Pekin District.  Buswell, A.M, 1940   Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, Bulletin 33, IL 114 p.

Geology of Illinois
Aquifers in the United States
Dameon Porter

Dameon Porter (born May 21, 1975) is a former wide receiver/defensive back in the Arena Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL).

Early life and education
He played college football at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska.

Career
He played for the Green Bay Packers 2001-2002, Iowa Barnstormers (1998–1999), the New Jersey Red Dogs (2000), the Chicago Rush (2001–2003), the Georgia Force (2004), the Austin Wranglers (2004), the Las Vegas Gladiators (2005–2006), the Grand Rapids Rampage (2006).

Porter led the Arena Football League in interceptions in back-to-back seasons from 2001 and 2002. Porter picked off 12 passes in 2001 and recorded 10 more in 2002. In Week 4 of the 2003 Arena Football League season, Porter made a clutch interception against the Los Angeles Avengers at the goal line to seal the Chicago Rush victory. The Rush entered the game 0-3 playing 3-0 Los Angeles, which gave Chicago its first win of the 2003 season while handing the Avengers their first defeat of the year.

Awards and honors
He was named First Team All-Arena in 2001 and 2002. Porter was also named the AFL Breakout Player of the Year and the Ironman of the Year in 2001.

References

External links
http://www.arenafan.com/players/?page=players&player=2099

1975 births
Living people
Players of American football from Los Angeles County, California
American football wide receivers
American football defensive backs
Iowa Barnstormers players
New Jersey Red Dogs players
Chicago Rush players
Georgia Force players
Austin Wranglers players
Las Vegas Gladiators players
Grand Rapids Rampage players
Hương Điền district

Hương Điền is a former district of Thừa Thiên province (now Thừa Thiên–Huế Province) in South Vietnam. Here, according to North Vietnamese sources was the site of the Huong Dien massacre in July 1955 by Ngo Dinh Diem troops, killing 92 local villagers.

In mid-1972, the Republic of Vietnam Marine Division established its forward command post at Hương Điền.

References

Former districts of Vietnam
Yanga

Yanga may refer to:

People
 Yanga (singer), South African singer-songwriter
 Yanga people, an Aboriginal Australian people
 Yanga Chief, South African musician
 Gaspar Yanga, leader of a slave revolt in Spanish colonial Mexico
 Yanga R. Fernández (born 1971), astronomer at the University of Hawaii

Places
 Yanga, Burkina Faso, a village in Burkina Faso
 Yanga, Veracruz, a settlement in Mexico founded by Gaspar Yanga
 Yanga National Park, NSW, Australia

Sports
 Yanga F.C., a football club from Nyahururu, Kenya
 Young Africans S.C., nicknamed Yanga, a football club from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Other
 Yanga (cicada) a genus of cicadas
 Yanga (composition), a 2019 orchestral composition by Gabriela Ortiz

See also
 Yangga, an Aboriginal Australian people
 Yangan (disambiguation)
 Yenga (disambiguation)
John Welles, 5th Baron Welles

John de Welles, 5th Baron Welles (1352–1421) was an English soldier and noble. The son of John de Welles, 4th Baron Welles and Maud de Ros. He married Eleanor de Mowbray, daughter of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray, and Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave.

He was summoned to parliament between 20 January 1376 and 26 February 1421.

At a banquet in Edinburgh and presumably after too much alcohol he issued, as Champion of England, the following challenge to David Lindsay (later 1st Earl of Crawford): "Let words have no place; if ye know not the Chivalry and Valiant deeds of Englishmen; appoint me a day and a place where ye list, and ye shall have experience". As a result of the challenge, on St George’s Day, 23 April 1390, he fought David Lindsay in mock combat on horseback on London Bridge, losing the match by falling from his horse in their third charge against each other.

He was the father of:
 Thomas de Welles (1380-1411) who predeceased his father. He married Cecilia Aston and had a son:
 John de Wells (1407-)
 Joan de Welles (1382-1409)
 Eudo de Welles (1387-1417), who predeceased his father. He married Maud Greystoke, daughter of Ralph de Greystoke, 3rd Baron Greystoke and Katherine Clifford. by whom he had two sons:
Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles.
Sir William Welles, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, married to Anne Barnewall, daughter of Sir Christopher Barnewall, and had issue including Elizabeth, Lady Slane and Ismay, Lady Navan;
 Eleanor de Welles (1390-1458) who married Hugh de Poynings, son of Thomas Poynings, 3rd Baron Poynings and Joan ..., and had issue

See also
Crawford Castle for additional details of challenge

Notes

1352 births
1421 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of England
Quandary Peak

Quandary Peak is the highest summit of the Tenmile Range in the Rocky Mountains of North America and is the most commonly climbed fourteener in Colorado. It has nearly the same elevation as Castle Peak and Mount Blue Sky. It lies in Summit County and within the White River National Forest about  south-southwest of the town of Breckenridge.

The standard route up Quandary Peak is a trail hike (class 1), starting from a trailhead about  north of Hoosier Pass on the east side of the peak. Hence it is a popular fourteener to climb because of the relatively easy ascent and its proximity to Denver and Breckenridge. Quandary Peak is also popular with backcountry skiers and snowboarders.  The gentle ascent makes for an easy climb from the east with less danger from avalanche than on many other fourteeners. The other slopes of the peak are steep and appeal to expert backcountry skiers.
One such steep ski mountaineering route is the Cristo Couloir.

In June 2021 the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative announced that Quandary Peak was Colorado's most popular 14'er in 2020. The Initiative's data indicated that the peak saw 49,179 hiker days in 2020. Its popularity in recent years has caused serious parking problems at the trailheads, prompting local officials to initiate new parking policies.

Climate

See also

List of mountain peaks of Colorado
List of Colorado fourteeners

References

External links

 
 

Mountains of Colorado
Mountains of Summit County, Colorado
Fourteeners of Colorado
North American 4000 m summits
Dary Myricks

Dary Myricks (born September 27, 1976 in Jackson, Georgia) is a former Arena Football League offensive lineman/defensive lineman. He played for the Carolina Cobras, the Detroit Fury, and the Georgia Force. Myricks became the head football coach for his alma mater, Jackson High, in 2013.

High school years
Myricks attended Jackson High School in Jackson, Georgia and lettered four times in football and three times in basketball. In football, he was a McDonald's All-America honoree and played in the North-South All-Star Game.

College years
Myricks attended The Citadel, and was a four-year letterman. He finished his career with 178 tackles and six sacks, and as a senior, he won first team All-Southern Conference honors.

After completing a successful career in the Arena Football League, Mr. Myricks now works as a high school graduation specialist at Jackson High School, where he coaches football and is the head basketball coach.

References

External links
 Stats from arenafan.com

1976 births
Living people
American men's basketball players
American football defensive linemen
American football offensive linemen
Carolina Cobras players
Detroit Fury players
Georgia Force players
The Citadel Bulldogs football players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
High school football coaches in Georgia (U.S. state)
High school basketball coaches in Georgia (U.S. state)
People from Jackson, Georgia
Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state)
African-American coaches of American football
African-American players of American football
African-American basketball coaches
African-American basketball players
Sportspeople from the Atlanta metropolitan area
Bay Knoll, Houston

Bay Knoll is a neighborhood located within the master-planned community of Clear Lake City in Houston, Texas, USA. The neighborhood was developed in the mid-1980 and borders the neighborhoods of Bay Glen, Bay Pointe, Bay Oaks, Meadowgreen, and Oak Brook West. Bay Knoll, along with Bay Glen, is a member of the Pineloch Community Association.

Residents living in Bay Knoll take advantage of all the amenities offered with the master-planned community of Clear Lake City—such as community parks, swimming pools, and tennis courts.

Police service 
Houston Police Department's Clear Lake Patrol Division serves the area.

Education
Bay Knoll is served by the Clear Creek Independent School District and students living in Bay Knoll attend John F. Ward Elementary, Clear Lake Intermediate, and Clear Brook High School. Despite being located in Houston, it is not served by the Houston Independent School District.

Notes

Neighborhoods in Houston
Galveston Bay Area
Duelo

Duelo "El Desafio Musical" is a Mexican norteño band from Roma, Texas, United States. The band is also known as Grupo Duelo and originally known as Duelo Norteño. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s and continues to record to the present day.

Discography

Studio albums

As Duelo Norteño 

 Si acaso me escuchas (1998) (Debut album)
 Duelo Norteño (1999) (This album and its successor contain songs from "Si acaso me escuchas" plus unreleased tracks)
 Duelo Norteño II (1999)

As Duelo
 El amor no acaba (2002) (First album on Fonovisa Records)
 Desde Hoy (2003)
 Para Sobrevivir (2004)
 En el área de sueños (2005)
 Relaciones Conflictivas (2006)
 En las manos de un ángel (2007)
 Historia de Valientes (2008)
 Necesito más de ti (2009) 
 Solamente Tú (2010)
 Por una mujer bonita: Corridos y Canciones (2010)
 Vuela Muy Alto (2011) (Last album on Fonovisa Records)
 Libre por naturaleza (2013) (First album on La Bonita Music)
 Navidad desde el meritito Norte (2014)
 Veneno (2015)
 Eres Vida (2020)
 No Digas no (2022)
 Nostalgia (Late 2022)

Compilation and live albums
 Mi Historia Musical (2004)
 En Vivo Desde Monterrey (2005) (Live album)
 Houston Rodeo Live! (2008) (Live album)
 Solo Hits (2008)
 On Tour (2009) (Live album)
 Vive Grupero 2010:El Concierto (2010) (Live album)
 20 Kilates (2014)

External links
 Official website

References

 01
American norteño musicians
Norteño music groups
Tejano music groups
American Latin musical groups
Musical groups from Texas
Fonovisa Records artists
Universal Music Latin Entertainment artists
Jim Lachey

James Michael Lachey (born June 4, 1963) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Raiders, and Washington Redskins. He was drafted by the Chargers in the first round of the 1985 NFL Draft with the 12th overall pick.

He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, earning All-American honors.  He was a three-time Pro Bowl player in 1987 with the Chargers, and 1990 and 1991 with the Redskins as a member of "The Hogs."  He helped the Redskins win Super Bowl XXVI.  He was also a three-time All-Pro selection. After his playing career, he became a radio analyst for Ohio State football.

Personal life
Lachey later became a broadcaster and wrote a book called Jim Lachey: The Ultimate Protector.

Lachey currently is a radio broadcaster for Buckeyes football games. His son Luke, currently a tight end on the Iowa Hawkeyes football team, says Jim encouraged him to make his own college decision, "pick wherever I want to go, it’s not about anyone else.”

Lachey coached for the Columbus Destroyers during their run to the XXI Arena Bowl in 2007.

Awards and honors
NCAA
1984 First-team All-American

NFL
Three-time NFL All-Pro First-team
Three-time NFL Pro Bowl selection
Super Bowl XXVI winner (as a member of the Washington Redskins)

References

External links
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/LachJi00.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20101028132857/http://www.buckeyesportspage.com/live/content/info/staff.html

1963 births
Living people
All-American college football players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
American football offensive tackles
College football announcers
Los Angeles Raiders players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
Ohio State Buckeyes football players
Ohio State Buckeyes football announcers
People from St. Henry, Ohio
Players of American football from Ohio
San Diego Chargers players
Washington Redskins players
Wislow Island

Wislow Island is an island in the Fox Islands group of the eastern Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is  across and situated in Reese Bay midway between Capes Wislow and Cheerful on the north coast of Unalaska Island, 11.3 miles (18.2 km) northwest of Dutch Harbor. It was named in 1888 by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries.

References

Fox Islands (Alaska)
Islands of Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska
Islands of Alaska
Islands of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
Los Fugitivos

Los Fugitivos (The Fugitives) is an American grupero band. They formed the band in 1985 as Grupo Kariño with brothers Jaime and Edi Espinoza. But in 1991, with the addition singer/guitarist Roberto Nieto, the band became Los Fugitivos. The band's first hits were covers, including "Esperando Por Ti," which was a Spanish-language version of Richard Marx's "Right Here Waiting." In 1993, the band scored their biggest hit with José Luis Perales' "La Loca," which landed them on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart, climbing all the way to number 3. In 1998, they had a hit with another cover, Roberto Carlos' "Pajaro Herido," which appeared on their album Secretos. In 1999, Nieto was replaced by Hekar Rivero, and that same year the band left PolyGram and signed with Sony Discos, who issued their album "Mi Última Tentación" soon afterwards. Los Fugitivos have recorded 10 albums,  earning seven gold records and two platinum albums.

Discography

As Grupo Kariño 

 1986 Este Dolor
 1987 Locuras del Corazón
 1988 Perdoname
 1989 Tristes Momentos

As Los Fugitivos 

 1990 Corazón Gitano
 1992 No Supiste Comprender
 1993 Vanidosa 
 1994 Te Conquistaré 
 1995 Ilusiones
 1996 Dios
 1998 Secretos
 1999 Mi Última Tentación
 2000 Mil Fantasías
 2001 Cancionero
 2003 Un Ángel a Mi Lado
 2005 Fue En un Cafe
 2009 Nomás Contigo
 2012 Quiero Ser

Mexican cumbia musical groups
Musical groups established in the 1990s
American pop music groups
Musical groups from California
Robert S. Ross

Robert S. Ross (born April 9, 1954) is a professor of political science at Boston College, associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, senior advisor of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is one of the foremost American specialists on Chinese foreign and defense policy and U.S.-China relations.

Bibliography

 
 Great Wall and Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security (with Andrew J. Nathan); 1998
 Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power, and Politics: 2009
 

As editor:

 China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the Cold War; 1993
 East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order; 1997
 After the Cold War: Domestic Factors and U.S.-China Relations; 1998
 Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power (with Alastair Iain Johnston); 1999
 Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Diplomacy, 1954-1973 (with Changbin Jiang); 2001
 New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy (with Alastair Iain Johnston); 2006
 China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges (with Jo Inge Bekkevold); 2016.
 Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia (with Øystein Tunsjø); 2017.

External links
Boston College bio
M.I.T. bio

1954 births
Living people
American political scientists
Boston College faculty
International relations scholars
Naval War College Review people
Political science educators
Political science writers
Yellow Tanabe

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 is a Japanese manga artist. She was an assistant for Mitsuru Adachi and Makoto Raiku and made her debut in 2002 with the short story Lost Princess. She is best known for the manga series Kekkaishi, which has been adapted as an anime television series and translated into many languages. She published a one-shot story in the inaugural issue of the revival of Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009.

She was born on June 13 in Tokyo, and she graduated from the Musashino Art University. In 2007 she won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga for Kekkaishi.

Works
 Kekkaishi (2003–2011) — Serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday Laughter at the World's End (2012) — Serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday Birdmen (2013–2020) — Serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday''

References

External links
 

Living people
Manga artists from Tokyo
Women manga artists
Japanese female comics artists
Female comics writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Japanese women writers
Japanese writers
Michio Kuga

was a mathematician who received his Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 1960. His work helped lead to a proof of the Ramanujan conjecture which partly follows from the proof of the Weil conjectures by .

In 1963–1964, he introduced Kuga fiber varieties in a book published by the University of Chicago Press. In the summer of 1965 he gave a talk on Kuga fiber varieties at the American Mathematical Society's Symposium in Pure Mathematics held at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 2019 Beijing's Higher Education Press published a reprint of Kuga's 1964 book.

One of his books, Galois' Dream: Group Theory and Differential Equations, is a series of lectures on group theory and differential equations for undergraduate students, considering such topics as covering spaces and Fuchsian differential equations from the point of view of Galois theory, though it does not treat classical Galois theory of polynomials and fields in depth.

References

Notes

Bibliography
Kuga, Michio. Galois' Dream: Group Theory and Differential Equations. translated by Susan Addington and Motohico Mulase, 1993. Birkhäuser Boston, 

20th-century Japanese mathematicians
University of Tokyo alumni
Stony Brook University faculty
1990 deaths
1928 births
Piloña

Piloña () is a municipality in the province and autonomous community of Asturias, northwestern Spain. Its capital is the town of Infiesto. Piloña is bounded to the north by Villaviciosa and Colunga, to the east by Parres, to the west by Nava and Cabranes, and to the south by Ponga, Caso, Sobrescobio and Laviana. The area is semi-mountainous with many small, but deep and narrow valleys.

History
In prehistoric times there were paleolithic settlements in caves in Piloña such as Aviao (Espinaredo) Cave, Collaréu Cave, and La Peña Ferran (Ferran Rock) which were excavated by the Count de la Vega del Sella in the 1920s. There are several sites with paleolithic rock art and Neanderthal remains, including Sidrón Cave in Borines.

Piloña lies in a narrow basin that runs parallel with the coast.  Over time it formed part of the natural path between Oviedo and Cangas de Onís, which connects central Asturias with the Asturian east. Piloña was the largest settlement along that path. 

In Roman times Beloncio was occupied, and is identified with the town Paelontium mentioned by Ptolemy as the capital of the Astur tribe known as Lugones. There is also evidence of Roman occupation at Borines.

Economics
The area is poor and depopulating.  There were over 20,000 inhabitants in 1930; 8,799 in 2001; and 8,440 in 2005.

The three largest towns are Infiesto (with about 20% of the population), Villamayor and Sevares.  All three are on the Piloña River, a left-hand tributary of the Sella River, and on the main highway, the N-634.

The area is agricultural with cattle being raised for both milk and meat, and with some production of forest products.

Parishes 
There are 24 parishes (administrative divisions):

References

External links
 Virtual Guide to Piloña, in Spanish
 Piloña page of the Asturian Federation of Municipalities, in Spanish
Photo Archive of Piloña

Municipalities in Asturias

Astures
Ferguson Left

The Ferguson Left (also known as the "Soft Left" in New South Wales) is a political sub-faction in New South Wales within the Australian Labor Party (ALP) founded by Jack Ferguson.

In New South Wales, the Soft Left traces its roots to the supporters of Peter Baldwin, who led the Steering Committee (previous name for the New South Wales Socialist Left) during its rise in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was the dominant group on the Steering Committee until March 1989, when the Soft Left's John Faulkner was succeeded by the Hard Left's Anthony Albanese in an internal faction ballot for the leading position of Assistant General Secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party. The new Hard Left majority changed the name of the faction to the Socialist Left in November 1989. The traditional base for the Soft Left has been rank-and-file Labor activists. Strategically, it has advocated a continuation of the Baldwinite bottom-up strategy of mobilising the grassroots membership to win party positions. The large Australian trade union, United Voice supported the Soft Left until 2010. In 2014 the sub-faction in New South Wales was led by Paul Lynch, and it currently still exists in New South Wales with the support of the CFMEU. The Soft Left continues to enjoy the support of the majority of Labor Party members in Western Sydney and Newcastle.

In Victoria, there was a separate and distinct Ferguson faction led by Martin Ferguson, who was not affiliated with the Ferguson Left in New South Wales. Following the retirement of Martin Ferguson, the Ferguson faction reunited with the Victorian Socialist Left in 2014–15. Past federal members included Martin Ferguson and Julia Gillard.

References

Australian Labor Party factions
Asian Academy for Sports and Fitness Professionals

The Asian Academy for Sports and Fitness Professionals (AASFP) is a fitness instructors certification body founded in Hong Kong in 1992. The academy provides professional education and training programs in Asia.

Certification Programs
AASFP runs a variety of fitness programs which include instructor certification courses in personal fitness training, aerobic & group fitness, yoga, pilates, fit-ball, children's fitness, aquatic fitness, distance running and Muay Thai. AASFP also conducts a number of professional certification courses in such fields as sports massage, sports injury management and nutrition and weight management. Since its establishment, AASFP has conducted programs in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan. Research of Hong Kong Fitness Guide 2018 (www.fitnessguide.hk) stated that, 60% of certified personal trainers are certified by AASFP in Hong Kong.

Development in China
In 2001, AASFP became the first fitness academy to enter China, introducing the concept of “Fitness” to a relatively new but rapidly developing Chinese fitness industry. AASFP worked closely with the China Sports Authorities to set recognized standards for the fitness industry and has conducted fitness education programs in 28 Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing and Xian.

In 2005, AASFP conducted the first major survey of the Chinese fitness industry - creating a statistics report that provided data on the development of fitness clubs all around China. 2005 also marked AASFP's establishment of the first fully equipped fitness academy in Beijing, China - providing a training facility for AASFP students, graduates and national team coaches.

Major Events & Conferences
AASFP holds two major conferences every year: The Asian Fitness Education Expo (AFEEX) in Beijing and the AASFP Fitness Forum in Hong Kong. Both events invite a number of international fitness professionals to present and educate personal trainers and group exercise instructors within the Asian fitness industry. AASFP also participates and provides workshops and seminars in fitness conferences around Asia such as Asiafit and has helped to co-organize Fitness China Beijing.

AASFP in 2006
In 2006, AASFP was appointed 'Approved Training Provider' by the Register of Exercise Professionals New Zealand (REPs NZ) - providing AASFP-certified personal trainers with a chance to register as a Registered Exercise Professional and train in any of the member countries under the International Confederation of Registers for Exercise Professionals (ICREPs) - which currently includes New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia.

External Reference
www.aasfp.com

Sports professional associations
Sports organisations of Hong Kong
Theophylact of Nicomedia

Theophylact or Theophylaktos (d. 845 AD) became bishop of Nicomedia in Asia Minor following the Iconoclastic Controversy of the eighth century.

He was well known for having built churches, hospices, and homes for wanderers. He generously distributed alms, was the guardian of orphans, widows and the sick, and personally attended those afflicted with leprosy, not hesitating to wash their wounds. During the iconoclast reign of Leo the Armenian (813-820 AD), Theophylaktos argued vigorously for the use of art in the Church. The emperor  sent him into exile for his disagreement.

He is recognized as a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church for his tireless defense of the faith, for miraculous deeds attributed to him, and for his Christian spirit.

His life is commemorated on March 8.

References
Orthodox Church in America

External links
  St. Theophylact
Saints.SQPN: Theophylact of Nicomedia

Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Catholic saints
9th-century Christian saints
Byzantine Iconoclasm
Byzantine saints
Saints from Anatolia
Bishops of Nicomedia
9th-century Byzantine bishops
Catocalinae

The Catocalinae are a subfamily of noctuoid moths, placed in family Noctuidae.
In the alternative arrangement, where the Noctuidae are reduced to the core group around the Noctuinae, the present lineage is abolished, the upranked Catocalini being merged with the Erebini and becoming a subfamily of the reestablished family Erebidae.

Many of the species are large () compared to other noctuids in temperate zones, and have brightly colored backwings.

The closely related Ophiderinae and Calpinae are sometimes merged into this group.

Genera 
The Catocalinae genera are usually assigned to the tribes Tytini, Armadini and Erebini, which have a fairly small number of genera, and the much larger Catocalini. The Poaphilini are another proposed tribe around the genus Argyrostrotis (= Poaphila), but is here considered to be paraphyletic. In addition, a high proportion of genera is not at present assigned to a specific tribe as their relationships require further study. These genera incertae sedis are:

  Acanthodelta
  Acanthodica
  Alapadna
  Allotria
  Alophosoma
  Amphiongia
  Anereuthina
  Anisoneura
  Anydrophila
  Argyrostrotis
  Arsacia
  Artena
  Arthisma
  Athyrma
  Attatha
  Attonda
  Axiocteta
  Bamra
  Batracharta
  Blasticorhinus
  Bocula
  Calesia
  Calliodes
  Celiptera
  Chalciope
  Chrysopera
  Coenipeta (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Crioa
  Ctenusa
  Cutina
  Cyligramma
  Dasypodia
  Delgamma
 Dermaleipa (sometimes in Thyas)
  Dinumma
  Donuca
  Dordura
  Doryodes
  Ecphysis
  Egybolis
  Entomogramma
  Ercheia
  Erygia
  Eubolina (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Euclystis (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Euparthenos (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Felinia
  Focillidia
  Gesonia
  Hamodes
  Hexamitoptera
  Homodes
  Hypopyra
  Iontha
  Ischyja
  Lacera
  Loxioda
  Lygniodes
  Matigramma (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Metria (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Mocis
  Niguza
  Ocalaria
  Ommatophora
  Pantydia
  Parallelia (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Phoberia
  Phyllodes
  Platyja
  Plecoptera
  Pseudanthracia (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Pseudoarcte
  Pseudosphetta
  Pterocyclophora
  Ptichodis
  Remigiodes
  Sciatta
  Scolecocampa
  Serrodes
  Speiredonia
  Spiloloma
  Spirama
  Sympis
  Tephriopis
  Thyas (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)
  Trigonodes
  Varicosia
  Zale (Catocalini: Ophiusina?)

In addition, some little-known noctuoid moth species which differ somewhat from the bulk of their supposed genera might belong here:
 Crypsiprora oxymetopa Turner, 1941
 Hypoprora tortuosa Turner, 1929
 Prorocopis acroleuca Turner, 1929
 Raparna trigramma Turner, 1906
 Sophta aeluropis Meyrick, 1902

Placement of Xenogenes in the Catocalinae is in error; it is a geometer moth, family Geometridae.

Footnotes

References

  (2011): Erebinae. Version 2.4, 2011-JAN-27. Retrieved 2011-DEC-27.
  (2011): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Catocalinae. Version of 2011-OCT-29. Retrieved 2011-DEC-27.

External links 
 R.A.R.E. France species.
 Catocalinae classification and pictures
 Photo gallery of Catocalinae
 Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Catocalinae. Retrieved 2006-JAN-11.
Nizki Island

Nizki Island (Avayax̂ in Aleut; ) is an uninhabited island in the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at , it is the middle island of the Semichi Islands group of the Near Islands. Flanked by Shemya to the east and Alaid to the west, three-mile-long (5 km) Nizki is periodically joined to Alaid by a sand spit. The name is said to derive from the Russian nizkiy, meaning "low," a term descriptive of the island's topography, with a maximum elevation of . Nizki's shoreline is very irregular and is fringed by numerous rocks, reefs, and kelp-marked shoals.

Foxes were introduced to Nizki Island by Russian fur traders in the 19th century. This decimated the population of many bird species on the island. The last fox was removed from Nizki Island in 1976, and now Aleutian Canada Geese (once believed to be extinct), Puffins, and Aleutian Terns are common on the island.

References

External links
Nizki Island Photos Photos from Nizki Island, July 2008
Alaska Science Forum: Aleutian Canada goose comeback continues

Semichi Islands
Uninhabited islands of Alaska
Islands of Alaska
Islands of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
Randy Vasquez

Randy Vasquez (born October 16, 1961) is an American actor and director.

Early life

Vasquez was born in Escondido, California. He attended Escondido High School and is a cousin of actor and director James Vasquez, who also grew up in Escondido. His father, a school teacher and accountant, is of Mexican ancestry and his mother was a coal miner's daughter, originally from West Virginia. Vasquez's parents divorced in 1966 and he elected to live with his father in Escondido. He initially attended the University of California, Los Angeles before dropping out in 1979 to become an actor. Talent manager Bob Marcucci spotted him in an acting class and helped him find auditions. In 1984, he got his first role, a small part on Highway to Heaven.

Career
Since debuting on television in 1984, Vasquez has made several appearances in TV series, most notably as Marcos in Acapulco H.E.A.T. and as Gunnery Sergeant Victor Galindez in JAG. In 1998, he was cast as bartender Paolo Kaire on Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 2002, he moved into film direction with Testimony, a documentary about Salvadorean activist Maria Guardado. In 2005, he directed a comedic drama titled Perceptions. In 2009, Vasquez returned to UCLA, where he earned a bachelor's degree in American Indian Studies. His 2011 film The Thick Dark Fog won the Best Documentary award at the 36th annual American Indian Film Festival. In 2017, he directed a third documentary, Badger Creek, a film about a Blackfeet Nation family.

Partial filmography
Highway to Heaven (TV) (Help Wanted: Angel) (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) .... Beverly Palms Hotel Bellhop (as Randy Gallion)
Knots Landing (TV) (6 episodes) (1989–1990) .... Ricardo Fonseca
Almost an Angel (1990) .... Hood Nervo at Bank
Acapulco H.E.A.T. (TV) (22 episodes) (1993–1994) .... Marcos
The Demolitionist (1995) .... Henry 'Little Henry' Burne
The Stranger (1995) .... Marcus
Moonbase (1997) .... Masani
Sliders (TV) (1 episode) (1997) .... Carlos
Love Boat: The Next Wave (TV) (6 episodes) (1998) .... Bar Manager Paolo Kaire
First Monday (TV) (13 episodes) (2002) .... Miguel Mora
JAG (TV) (48 episodes) (1999–2003) .... Gunnery Sergeant Victor 'Gunny' Galindez
Perceptions (2005) .... Mark Westin
Level Seven (2008) .... Warden Vasquez
The Rookie - S4E3 In the Line of Fire (2021) .... Arson Investigator Breeze

References

External links

1961 births
Living people
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
American male television actors
American male film actors
People from Escondido, California
Male actors from California
American male actors of Mexican descent
American film directors of Mexican descent
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Ralph Pomeroy (poet)

Ralph Pomeroy (October 12, 1926 – November 18, 1999) was an American poet.

Biography
Born in Evanston, Illinois, and raised in Winnetka, Illinois.  He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois.  At eighteen he had already published poems in "Poetry", which was one of the leading poetry magazines in America at the time.  He pursued painting in Paris, France, in the 1940s, and then worked as an editor, art critic, curator and exhibiting artist in New York City.  In the 1950s he was active in San Francisco's poetry scene, although he was not a Beat poet.  The New York Times published his poetry on five separate occasions in 1968 and 1969.  He taught at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Many years later, he was stabbed in the chest by a "fag basher", and also suffered a broken wrist while engaged in what a friend described as "S&M games with a trick."

Pomeroy died of cirrhosis of the liver in San Francisco in the fall of 1999.

Writing career
Throughout his writing career he published essays, monographs, catalogs, three poetry collections and an illustrated book of poems with Andy Warhol entitled "A La Recherche du Shoe Perdu". One of his books was about painter Theodoros Stamos.  His friend, Edward Field, discusses his life in his book: The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Other Intimate Portraits of the Bohemian Era (2007, University of Wisconsin Press) In an article for "The Gay & Lesbian Review," (July–August, 2005, Volume 11 Issue 4),  Field notes that the openly gay Pomeroy was accepted by Yaddo 1955, "where he scandalized the sedate arts colony by having an open affair with painter Clifford Wright."

20th-century American poets
American LGBT poets
American gay writers
People from Winnetka, Illinois
Writers from Evanston, Illinois
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
1926 births
1999 deaths
Deaths from cirrhosis
Poets from Illinois
American male poets
Academy of Art University faculty
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American LGBT people
Gay poets
MIRAS

MIRAS or Miras may refer to:

 Miras, village and administrative unit of the Devoll municipality, Korçë County, southeastern Albania
 Miras (TV channel), a state-owned channel in Turkmenistan
 Mortgage Interest Relief At Source, tax relief for mortgages in the UK
 Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis
 Multi-Color Infrared Alerting Sensor, missile warning sensor for the Airbus A400M
 Multiple isomorphous replacement with Anomalous Signal, method to solve crystallographic structures of proteins
 Mir Infrared Spectrometer, science instrument on the Mir space station 
 Domingo Miras, Spanish dramatist
 Fernando López Miras, Spanish politician
 Shah Miras, a village in Iran
Mike Rapada

Michael Rapada (born August 28, 1964) best known as "The Colorado Kid" Mike Rapada is an American professional wrestler.

Professional wrestling career
Mike Rapada started out in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  It took three months, but eventually he convinced Jeff Jarrett to hire him. After Jarrett left for the WWF, Rapada sought out training from the likes of Ken Wayne, Buddy Wayne and others.

He also made several appearances on WCW Monday Nitro as a security guard during his career.

In 1994, he was named Rookie of the Year in the United States Wrestling Association promotion out of Memphis. He also had a reign as NAASW North American Heavyweight champion in Jonesboro, Arkansas, beating Cactus Jack, and as USWA Unified World Heavyweight champion, beating Jerry Lawler.

Until winning the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in September 2000, he had been the NWA North American Heavyweight champion, the top belt recognized by the NWA Worldwide promotion based out of Nashville. Colorado Kid teamed with Scuffling Hillbilly and the duo won and held the North American Tag Team title for about 18 months from early 1996 to late 1997.

He was the first American wrestler ever to win a match in China.  His son, Mike Rapada Jr., is currently a wrestler on the independent circuit.

In 2001, Mike Rapada moved to San Diego, CA, where he began training local talent and in 2004, Rapada started Southwestern Alliance of Wrestling ("SAW").  SAW had the privilege of wrestling at local elementary schools throughout the San Diego area helping to raise money for military and underprivileged children.  SAW also performed at many of the street fairs every year in the local communities and yearly at the Christmas Party that The Nice Guys of San Diego sponsored for the children of San Diego and military families.  The event attracted 20,000 people and was held at Qualcomm Stadium.  Mike Rapada's vision was to create family friendly professional wrestling shows.

In early 2010, Rapada returned to Nashville where he works and continues to wrestle locally for independent wrestling companies.

Championships and accomplishments
 National Wrestling Alliance
 NWA World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 Ozark Mountain Wrestling/North American All-Star Wrestling/Music City Wrestling/NWA Nashville/NWA Main Event
 NWA North American Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
 OMW/NAASW/MCW North American Heavyweight Championship (5 times, final champion)
 Pro Wrestling Zero1
 NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Steve Corino
 United States Wrestling Association
 USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship  (1 time)
 Rookie of the Year (1994)

References

External links
 

1966 births
American male professional wrestlers
Living people
NWA World Heavyweight Champions
USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champions
NWA North American Heavyweight Champions
Branch Rickey Award

The Branch Rickey Award was given annually to an individual in Major League Baseball (MLB) in recognition of his exceptional community service from 1992 to 2014. The award was named in honor of former player and executive Branch Rickey, who broke the major league color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, while president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rickey also created the Knothole Gang, a charity that allowed children to attend MLB games.

The award, created by the Rotary Club of Denver in 1991, was first awarded to Dave Winfield in 1992 at their annual banquet. Each MLB team nominates one individual who best exemplifies the Rotary Club motto: "Service Above Self". A vote is then conducted by the national selection committee, which consists of members of the sports media, previous winners of the award, and Rotary district governors in major league cities. Proceeds of the banquet benefit Denver Kids, Inc., a charity for at-risk students who attend Denver Public Schools. Each winner receives a bronze sculpture of a baseball player measuring , named "The Player", designed by sculptor George Lundeen.  A larger version of "The Player", standing  tall, was erected at Coors Field in Denver.

Winners of the Branch Rickey Award have undertaken different causes. Many winners, including Todd Stottlemyre, Jamie Moyer, John Smoltz, Torii Hunter, Vernon Wells, and Shane Victorino, worked with children in need. Stottlemyre visited and raised money for a nine-year-old girl who suffered from aplastic anemia and required a bone marrow transplant, while Moyer's foundation raised US$6 million to support underprivileged children. Other winners devoted their work to aiding individuals who had a specific illness, such as Curt Schilling, who raised money for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Trevor Hoffman, who lost a kidney as an infant and devoted himself to working with individuals with nephropathy. Also, some winners devoted themselves to work with major disasters and tragedies. Bobby Valentine donated money to charities benefiting victims of the September 11 attacks, while Luis Gonzalez worked with survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

Previous winners

See also
Roberto Clemente Award
Players Choice Awards (The Marvin Miller Man of the Year Award)
Bart Giamatti Award
Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
Baseball awards
Clayton Kershaw
Cy Young Award

References
General

Specific

Awards established in 1992
Major League Baseball trophies and awards
Rotary International
Michael Worth

Michael Troy Worth (born January 13, 1965) is an American actor, martial artist, screenwriter, and director.

Early life
Born in Philadelphia in 1965, Worth is from German and Delaware Indian Native American heritage. As a child, he grew up near the Chesapeake Bay before moving to Northern California with his parents. At the age of 11, he directed his first film titled The Tire with a super 8mm camera he had spent his allowance on. He continued making short films and experimental video projects during his youth including The Toad Warriors and The Berkeley Junk Food Massacre.

Career 
Sometime later, he moved to Los Angeles, and earned a handful of bit parts in film and television including Pacific Blue and Alien Nation. He lived with his dog in his truck for six months in Venice, California while trying to save money. Surviving on odd jobs and construction work, Worth accepted small parts and worked as a martial arts trainer for George Lazenby.

His first leading role was in the independent action film Final Impact. Variety magazine labeled him a "promising newcomer". Signed to several films with PM Entertainment, he worked through a series of low-budget films before landing the role of "Tommy" on the TV series Acapulco H.E.A.T.. He was also one of the front-runners for the role of Robin in Batman Forever, although the role ultimately went to Chris O'Donnell. Worth ended up having a cameo alongside O'Donnell in one of the film's fight scenes. He also appeared in "The Storytellers" alongside Tippi Hedren.

In 2004, he wrote and directed a micro-budget experimental film, titled Killing Cupid. It earned him a Best Director nomination at the Action On Film Film Festival in 2005 as well as "Best Fiction Film" at the "Hollywood Documentary and Fiction Film Festival" in 2006. He continued to act in a variety of small independent films while honing his skills as a filmmaker, ghostwriting for film and television, as well as directing second unit. Worth wrote the screenplays for and starred in the psychological thriller/western film Dual (2005) and the sci-fi/horror film Devil On The Mountain (2006). He also appeared in an episode of the CBS sitcom The King of Queens in 2005.

Filmography

Film

Television

External links

References 

1968 births
Living people
Male actors from Philadelphia
Film directors from Pennsylvania
Sleep Is the Enemy

Sleep Is the Enemy is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Danko Jones. The album was released on February 17, 2006 in Europe and February 21 in Canada. The album was released in the US on May 23. "She's Drugs" was featured in the Swedish vampire film Frostbiten. "Baby Hates Me" served as the theme song for WWE Backlash.

Track listing
 "Sticky Situation" – 2:35
 "Baby Hates Me" – 3:27
 "Don't Fall in Love" – 3:23
 "She's Drugs" – 2:38
 "The Finger" – 2:26
 "First Date" – 3:11
 "Invisible" (featuring John Garcia from Kyuss) – 3:23
 "Natural Tan" – 2:51
 "When Will I See You" – 3:26
 "Time Heals Nothing" – 3:42
 "Sleep Is the Enemy" – 2:25

Limited digipak edition bonus track
 "Choose Me" – 2:27

Personnel
 Produced and engineered by Matt DeMatteo
 Mixed by Vic Florencia
 Recorded at Record High Productions in Toronto, Canada. Mixed at Phase One Studios in Toronto, Canada
 Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York, US
 Art direction by WalseCustomDesign.com

Charts

References

2006 albums
Danko Jones albums
Aquarius Records (Canada) albums