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Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936

Officers' Competency Certificates Convention, 1936 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1936, with the preamble stating:

Ratifications
As of January 2023, the convention has been ratified by 37 states. It has subsequently been denounced by 26 of the ratifying states.

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International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1936
Treaties entered into force in 1939
Treaties of Argentina
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Treaties of Vargas-era Brazil
Treaties of Cuba
Treaties of Djibouti
Treaties of the Kingdom of Egypt
Treaties of Estonia
Treaties of West Germany
Treaties of Ireland
Treaties of Israel
Treaties of South Korea
Treaties of the Libyan Arab Republic
Treaties of Mauritania
Treaties of Mexico
Treaties of Montenegro
Treaties of New Zealand
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of Peru
Treaties of Slovenia
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Admiralty law treaties
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Treaties extended to Guam
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1936 in labor relations
Patty Berg (politician)

Patty Berg (born June 6, 1942) is an American politician who served in the California State Assembly from 2002 to 2008.  A Democrat, she was elected in November 2002 to represent the 1st Assembly District, which includes Del Norte County, Humboldt County, Mendocino County, Lake County, and Trinity County as well as parts of Sonoma County.

Early life
Berg was born in Seattle, and graduated from California State University at Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in Sociology & Social Welfare in 1967. She has lived in Humboldt County since the 1970s.

Local politics
Berg founded the Executive Director of the Area Agency on Aging serving Humboldt and Del Norte Counties for 19 years. While there, she grew the agency from a staff of 4 and a budget of $300,000 to 25 employees and a multimillion-dollar budget. Berg was a regional leader advocating for policy change in Sacramento and Washington, DC on issues related to aging.

In 1993, she wrote the Humboldt County Crime Prevention Plan and chaired its first Crime Commission. Berg then worked in partnership with law enforcement taking a number of steps to make local citizens safer.

Berg has a history as an advocate for women's rights and a woman's right to choose. In 1982, she helped found "CHOICES" Humboldt County's first pro-choice Political Action Committee. She also developed California's first K-12 comprehensive family life education curriculum in 1980, which was implemented in 80% of Humboldt County School Districts. Patty designed and taught a course through Humboldt State University to teachers and parents who adopted the curriculum. The training module was published and distributed nationally.

Berg retired from the Area Agency on Aging in 1999 and later that year, ran the campaign preventing Wal-Mart from building on the coast.

State Assembly
She served as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Aging and Long Term Care as well as Chair of the Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Post-Assembly career
Berg filed a statement of intent to run for California Insurance Commissioner in 2010. Two other Democrats who has filed paperwork are Assemblymember Dave Jones from Sacramento and Assemblymember Hector De La Torre from South Gate.

External links
State Assembly Website
 https://web.archive.org/web/20070208225202/http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a01/

Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly
Women state legislators in California
Politicians from Seattle
1942 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
Loggieville, New Brunswick

Loggieville is a Canadian suburban neighbourhood in the city of Miramichi, New Brunswick. The community is located at the mouth of the Miramichi River on the southern bank where the river estuary discharges into the bay. Named after the Loggie family who were prominent local merchants, Loggieville was an incorporated village in Northumberland County until municipal amalgamation in 1995.

History

Originally named Black Brook, the first store opened at Loggieville sometime between 1809 and 1813.
It was settled by principally by Scottish and English immigrants, although the community also has some Acadian and Irish inhabitants. The community developed into an important shipping port in the mid-1880s after the Canada Eastern Railway built its eastern terminus on the shores of Miramichi Bay.

Fishing and fish packing were prominent industries for many years.

Notable people

See also
List of neighbourhoods in Miramichi, New Brunswick

References

Neighbourhoods in Miramichi, New Brunswick
Former villages in New Brunswick
Populated places disestablished in 1995
Rock Island Trail State Park (Illinois)

The Rock Island Trail State Park is a  long public rail trail in the west-central region of the U.S. state of Illinois.  It was designated a National Recreation Trail in 2003.

It passes through portions of Peoria and Stark counties.  The southern end of the trail is currently located at Pioneer Parkway in north Peoria, Illinois, and the northern end is in Toulon, Illinois, the county seat of Stark County.  The right-of-way served as a railroad line from 1871 to 1963, was unused in 1963-1989, and has been a public trail since 1989.

History
The trail derives its name from the former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, commonly known as the Rock Island.  The current Rock Island Trail is a fragment of what was once a predecessor railroad, the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad built in 1869-1871, stretching southeastward from the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa to Peoria.  The Rock Island soon acquired the Peoria and Rock Island and added it to their extensive trackage throughout the North American Great Plains; and this branch line once delivered large quantities of barley, rye, and other small grains to the distilleries of Peoria for the manufacture of American blended whiskey.  With the coming of Prohibition in 1920, use of the railroad for this purpose declined, and the last train ran in 1963.

The Rock Island Trail became one of the first rail-trail conversions in downstate Illinois.  The right-of-way was acquired for public use in 1965 and was deeded to the State in 1969, but it was only after a twenty-four-year period, in 1989, that the line was opened for use as a public trail. The official dedication came in May 1990.

Points of interest
From south (Peoria) to north (Toulon):

Pedestrian tunnel under Illinois Route 6 (Kellar Branch extension)
Kickapoo Creek Recreation Area, including a Class D camping area and  of restored tallgrass prairie (Fox Road, north of Alta)
Bridge over Kickapoo Creek (Cedar Hills Drive, south of Dunlap, Illinois)
Class B tallgrass prairie remnant (County Line Road, north of Princeville, Illinois)
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Depot and state trail headquarters (east side of Wyoming, Illinois)
Bridge over the Spoon River ( west of Wyoming)

References

External links

Friends of the Rock Island Trail Official Site

Rail trails in Illinois
State parks of Illinois
Protected areas of Peoria County, Illinois
Protected areas of Stark County, Illinois
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
National Recreation Trails in Illinois
Protected areas established in 1989
1989 establishments in Illinois
The Mustard Seed

The Mustard Seed may refer to:

 Parable of the Mustard Seed, a parable told by Jesus
 The Mustard Seed (restaurant), a restaurant in Ireland

See also
 Mustard seed, the seed of the mustard plant
 Kisa Gotami, featuring in a Buddhist story about mustard seeds
Renato Salvatori

Renato Salvatori (20 March 1933 – 27 March 1988) was an Italian actor.

Born in Seravezza, Province of Lucca, Salvatori began his career in his teens playing juvenile, romantic roles. After working with directors such as Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, he developed into one of Italy's strongest character actors.

He met French actress Annie Girardot on the set of the film Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and married her on 6 January 1962. They had a daughter, Giulia; later the couple separated but never divorced.

Salvatori died in Rome of liver cirrhosis on 27 March 1988.

Selected filmography

Three Girls from Rome (1952) - Augusto Terenzi
The Three Pirates (1952) - Il Corsaro Rosso - Rolando di Ventimiglia
Good Folk's Sunday (1953) - Giulio
Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair (1953) - Ralf, figlio di Morgan
What Scoundrels Men Are! (1953) - Carletto
Public Opinion (1954) - Mario
The Virtuous Bigamist (1956) - Gino - le frère de Maria
Poveri ma belli (1957) - Salvatore
Husbands in the City (1957) - Mario
Pretty But Poor (1957) - Salvatore
Oh! Sabella (1957) - Raffaele Rizzullo
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) - Mario Angeletti
Mogli pericolose (1958) - Federico Carpi
Nella città l'inferno (1959) - Piero
Poveri milionari (1959) - Salvatore
Policarpo (1959) - Mario Marchetti
Winter Holidays (1959) - Gianni
The Magliari (1959) - Mario Balducci
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959) - Mario Angeletti
Vento del sud (1959) - Antonio Spagara
Escape by Night (1960) - Renato Balducci
Rocco and His Brothers (1960) - Simone Parondi
Two Women (1960) - Florindo, il camionista (uncredited)
A Day for Lionhearts (1961) - Orlando
Disorder (1962) - Mario
Le glaive et la balance (1963) - François Corbier
The Shortest Day (1963) - Soldato
Omicron (1963) - Omicron / Angelo
La banda Casaroli (1963) - Paolo Casaroli
The Organizer (1963) - Raoul
Three Nights of Love (1964) - Nicola (segment "La vedova")
The Reckless (1965) - Ettore Zambrini
 How to Seduce a Playboy (1966) - Boy Schock
Her Harem (1967) - Gaetano
Z  (1969) - Yago
Burn! (1969) - Teddy Sanchez
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971) - Montefiore
The Burglars (1971) - Renzi
La prima notte di quiete (1972) - Marcello
State of Siege (1972) - Captain Lopez
Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse (1972) - Henri
The Burned Barns (1973) - The Hôtelier
A Brief Vacation (1973) - Franco Mataro, the husband
The Suspect (1975) - Gavino Pintus
Flic Story (1975) - Mario Poncini
The Gypsy (1975) - Jo Amila, dit "Jo le boxeur"
Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Police commissary
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976) - Pasquini
The Last Woman (1976) - Rene
Todo modo (1976) - Dr. Scalambri
Armaguedon (1977) - Albert, called 'Einstein'
Ernesto (1979) - Cesc
La luna (1979) - Communist
Oggetti smarriti (1980) - Davide
The Cricket  (1980) - Carburo
Asso (1981) - Bretella
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981) - Colonel (final film role)

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1933 births
1988 deaths
Actors from the Province of Lucca
Deaths from cirrhosis
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian male actors
Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome
11:Metre One Design

The 11:Metre One Design, also called the 11 Metre or 11 Meter, is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Ron Holland and Rolf Gyhlenius as a one-design racer and first built in 1990.

The design was at one time a World Sailing international class.

Production
The design was built by Precision Boat Works in Palmetto, Florida, United States, starting in 1990, with 350 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The 11 Meter is a racing keelboat, built predominantly of cored fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a raked stem, a sharply reverse transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed fin keel with a weighted lead bulb. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel.

The design has minimal cabin space, intended for storage space.

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with a symmetrical masthead spinnaker.

Operational history
The boat is supported by a class club that organizes racing events, the International 11:Metre One Design Class Association.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
Former classes of World Sailing
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Ron Holland
Sailboat type designs by Rolf Gyhlenius
Sailboat types built by Precision Boat Works
Frameserver

A Frameserver is any program that acts as a media source in the process called frameserving, which transfers digital video data from one computer program to another without intermediate files. The program that receives the data – the frameclient – could be any type of video application.

The process is controlled by the frameclient: the frameclient requests audio/video frames and the frameserver serves them. The client can request frames in any order, allowing it to pause or jump to an arbitrary frame, just as a media player does with a file on disk. The client is most commonly a media encoder, a non-linear editing system, or a media player.

Some popular frameservers are:
 AviSynth
 VirtualDub
 Blender
 VapourSynth
 Debugmode FrameServer

See also
Client–Server Model

References

Video editing software
Holidays with Pay (Sea) Convention, 1936

Holidays with Pay (Sea) Convention, 1936 is an International Labour Organization Convention. It never came into force.

It was established in 1936, with the preamble stating:

Modification 

The principles contained in the convention were revised in by ILO Convention C72, Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention, 1946.

Ratifications
The convention did not receive enough ratifications to be brought into force.

External links 
Text.
Ratifications.

Employee benefits
International Labour Organization conventions
Holidays
Treaties concluded in 1936
Treaties not entered into force
Admiralty law treaties
1936 in labor relations
Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention, 1946

Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention, 1946 is an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1946, with the preamble stating:

The treaty has never been brought into force.

Modification 
The principles contained in the convention were subsequently revised and included in the ILO Convention C91, Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention (Revised), 1949 (shelved).

Ratifications
The convention has not been brought into force and is not binding upon any country that ratified it.

External links 
Text.
Ratifications and denunciations.

International Labour Organization conventions
Leave of absence
Treaties concluded in 1946
Admiralty law treaties
Treaties not entered into force
1946 in labor relations
Choszczno County


Choszczno County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Choszczno, which lies  south-east of the regional capital Szczecin. The county contains three other towns: Recz,  north-east of Choszczno, Pełczyce,  south-west of Choszczno, and Drawno,  east of Choszczno.

The county covers an area of . As of 2006 its total population is 50,066, out of which the population of Choszczno is 15,753, that of Recz is 2,995, that of Pełczyce is 2,698, that of Drawno is 2,399, and the rural population is 26,221.

The county includes the lake districts of Pojezierze Choszczeńskie, Pojezierze Myśliborskie, Pojezierze Ińskie and Równina Drawska. Within Gmina Drawno is a large forest (Puszcza Drawska) which is part of the Drawno National Park.

Neighbouring counties
Choszczno County is bordered by Drawsko County to the north, Wałcz County to the east, Strzelce-Drezdenko County to the south, Myślibórz County to the south-west and Stargard County to the north-west.

Administrative division
The county is subdivided into six gminas (four urban-rural and two rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

Transport

Railways 
in use: Szczecin Gł. - Poznań Gł. (through Choszczno and Bierzwnik).
unused, existing: Stargard Szczeciński - Piła Główna (through Recz Pomorski) and Barlinek - Kalisz Pomorski (through Pełczyce, Lubiana Pyrzycka, Choszczno and Drawno).
unused, non-existing: Lubiana Pyrzycka - Strzelce Krajeńskie.

Roads 
national grade: 10: Lubieszyn - Płońsk (through Recz).
voivodship grade: 151: Recz - Świdwin, 155: Recz - Gorzów Wielkopolski (through Choszczno and Pełczyce), 160: Suchań - Miedzichowo (through Choszczno and Bierzwnik), 161: Choszczno - Kalisz Pomorski (through Drawno), 122: Piasecznik - Krajnik Dolny.

References
Polish official population figures 2006

 
Choszczno
Anterior horn disease

Anterior horn disease is one of a number of medical disorders affecting the anterior horn of the spinal cord. Anterior horn diseases include spinal muscular atrophy, poliomyelitis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

References

Central nervous system disorders
Kevin Billington

Kevin Billington (12 June 1934 – 13 December 2021) was a British film director, who worked in the theatre, film and television from the 1960s.

Biography
The son of a factory worker, and educated at Bryanston School and Queens' College, Cambridge, early in his career he worked for the BBC as a radio producer in Leeds (1959–60) and then for television in Manchester (1960–61) before working on the early evening Tonight and on documentaries for the BBC and ATV until 1967. Billington's films include The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970), which stars Peter Cook, while his theatre work includes several productions of plays by Harold Pinter, who was married to his wife's sister, Lady Antonia Fraser.

Billington's television work includes Henry VIII (1979) for the BBC Television Shakespeare project, one of the best received productions in the series. He also directed The Good Soldier (Granada 1981), based on the novel by Ford Madox Ford, and A Time to Dance (BBC 1992), adapted by Melvyn Bragg from his own work of fiction.

He was married to Lady Rachel Billington; having met while they were both working in New York, they married the following year in 1967. The couple had four children and five grandchildren.

Billington died from cancer on 13 December 2021, at the age of 87.

Filmography as director
 Whicker; Down Mexico Way (TV documentary, 1963) 
 Mary McCarthy's Paris (TV documentary, 1964)
 A Few Castles in Spain (TV documentary, 1966)
 Interlude (1968)
 The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
 The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
 And No One Could Save Her (TV, 1973)
 Voices (1973)
 Henry VIII (TV, 1979)
 The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (TV, 1981)
 The Good Soldier (TV, 1981)
 Outside Edge (TV, 1982)
 Reflections (1984)
 The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest (TV, 1986)
 Heartland (TV, 1989)
 A Time to Dance (TV series, 1992)

References

External links
 
 Entry in The International Who's Who (2004), p. 163

1934 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
English film directors
People educated at Bryanston School
Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention (Revised), 1949 (shelved)

Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention (Revised), 1949 (shelved) is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1949, with the preamble stating:

Modification 
The concepts contained in this convention were revised and included in ILO Convention C146, Seafarers' Annual Leave with Pay Convention, 1976.

Ratifications
Prior to it being shelved, the convention had been ratified by five states.

External links 
Text.
Ratifications.

Shelved International Labour Organization conventions
Leave of absence
Treaties concluded in 1949
Treaties entered into force in 1967
Admiralty law treaties
Damian Jackson

Damian Jacques Jackson (born August 16, 1973) is an American former major league second baseman who played 11 seasons for nine Major League Baseball (MLB) teams. He batted and threw right-handed.

Early life
Jackson grew up in Los Angeles, but moved to Northern California when he was in high school. Jackson transferred to Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, California, when he was a junior. Jackson only played one year of high school baseball, his senior year. He decided to try out for baseball on a whim the first day of baseball, when he saw a friend walking to practice. That season, Jackson caught the eye of pro scouts because of his blazing speed and potent bat.

Major league career
Jackson was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 44th round of the 1991 draft. He did not play a full season until he joined the San Diego Padres in 1999 when he led all rookies in stolen bases. He sustained an injury in 2001, when he was hit by A. J. Burnett during Burnett's no-hit game.

On July 14, 2001, Jackson hit a broken-bat grand slam against Wade Miller that helped the Padres beat the Houston Astros. The home run barely cleared the fence down the left-field line, near the 315-foot sign in the hitter-friendly Minute Maid Park, then named "Enron Field".

During the 2003 American League Division Series, Jackson collided with his Red Sox teammate, center fielder Johnny Damon, knocking Damon unconscious.

He was released by the Washington Nationals on August 25, 2006, and signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, but was released from them on March 11, 2007.

Atlantic League
On April 14, 2008, Jackson signed with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the independent Atlantic League. He was released on July 22 and was immediately signed by the Long Island Ducks, but was traded on August 2 to the Camden Riversharks. He later played for the Orange County Flyers of the independent Golden Baseball League.

References

External links 

1973 births
Living people
Baseball players from Los Angeles
Major League Baseball shortstops
Major League Baseball second basemen
Major League Baseball outfielders
African-American baseball players
Canton-Akron Indians players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Indianapolis Indians players
Portland Beavers players
Omaha Royals players
Iowa Cubs players
Washington Nationals players
Cleveland Indians players
Cincinnati Reds players
San Diego Padres players
Detroit Tigers players
Boston Red Sox players
Chicago Cubs players
Kansas City Royals players
Southern Maryland Blue Crabs players
Long Island Ducks players
Camden Riversharks players
Orange County Flyers players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Seafarers' Annual Leave with Pay Convention, 1976

Seafarers' Annual Leave with Pay Convention, 1976 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1976, with the preamble stating:

Modification 
The convention revised Convention C91, Paid Vacations (Seafarers) Convention (Revised), 1949 (shelved).

Ratifications
As of 2023, the convention had been ratified by 17 states. Subsequently, 14 of the ratifying states have denounced the treaty.

External links 
Text.
Ratifications.

Leave of absence
International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1976
Treaties entered into force in 1979
Treaties of Brazil
Treaties of Cameroon
Treaties of Germany
Treaties of Ba'athist Iraq
Treaties of Italy
Treaties of Kenya
Treaties of Nicaragua
Treaties of Portugal
Treaties of Turkey
Admiralty law treaties
Treaties extended to French Guiana
Treaties extended to French Polynesia
Treaties extended to Guadeloupe
Treaties extended to Martinique
Treaties extended to New Caledonia
Treaties extended to Réunion
Treaties extended to Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Treaties extended to Aruba
1976 in labor relations
Firass Dirani

Firass Dirani (born 1984) is an Australian film and television actor.

Early life
Dirani was born in Sydney in 1984, and is of Lebanese descent.

He attended St Paul's Grammar School and graduated in 2014.

Career
Dirani pursued his acting career in Hollywood before receiving a call to play the role of John Ibrahim in Underbelly: The Golden Mile. In April 2010, Dirani was named Cleo Bachelor of the Year.

In 2020, it was announced Dirani would be participating the Seven Network's reality program SAS Australia.

In 2023, Dirani was cast in The Office Australia but did not make it to the production stage.

Following the start of the Israel–Hamas war in October 2023, Dirani expressed support for Hamas.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre
 Sydney Dream Ball (2003) as Aerial Acrobat
 Stories (2003)
 A Midsummer Night's Dream (2003) as Puck
 Kid Stakes/Other Times (2003)
 The Tempest (2004) as Caliban

References

External links
 

1984 births
Male actors from Sydney
Australian male film actors
Australian people of Lebanese descent
Living people
Logie Award winners
Lisa Potts

Lisa Webb GM (née Potts) is a former nursery teacher. On 8 July 1996, her class at St Luke's Primary School in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, England, was attacked by a man with severe paranoid schizophrenia wielding a machete.

Potts' arm was almost severed in the attack, in which four children were also injured. Potts, who was 21 years old at the time, also suffered severe cuts to her head, back, and to both arms. In 1997, Queen Elizabeth II presented Potts with the George Medal.  Her attacker, Horrett Campbell, was sentenced to indefinite detention in a secure mental hospital.

Potts suffered severe scarring, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. She was awarded £68,000 compensation more than four years after the attack. The compensation was widely criticised as inadequate, especially by comparison with high libel awards. Potts subsequently worked as a counsellor and, in 2001, founded a charity, Believe To Achieve, based in schools in Wolverhampton. The charity aims to encourage independence and to increase self-esteem in children.

Potts published an autobiography entitled Behind the Smile in 1998. A foreword was contributed by Cherie Blair. Potts went on to study a degree in counselling in 2004. In 2010 she retrained as a nurse at Wolverhampton University and then went on to become a specialist public health nurse.

Earlier in 2022 Potts was made the first Freewoman of the City of Wolverhampton. On 24 July 2022, she participated in the Queen's Baton Relay marking the 2022 Commonwealth Games when it visited Wolverhampton.

Books
Thank You God: Book of Children's Prayers (editor) (1997) Hodder Children's Books, London 
Behind the Smile: My story by Lisa Potts (1998) Hodder & Stoughton, London 
Heroes for a Day (2000) Hodder & Stoughton, London

References

External links
 London Gazette - George Medal citation

Living people
Recipients of the George Medal
People from Wolverhampton
Schoolteachers from the West Midlands
English women non-fiction writers
Women autobiographers
English autobiographers
English nurses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Greatest Hits from the Bong

Greatest Hits from the Bong is the greatest hits album by American hip hop group Cypress Hill. It was released on December 13, 2005 via Columbia Records. Production was handled by Alchemist, DJ Khalil, Fredwreck, T-Ray and Cypress Hill themselves. It features guest appearances from Tego Calderón.

The compilation contains nine hit songs from previous CDs and two new tracks, "EZ Come EZ Go" and "The Only Way". The disc also contains a bonus Reggaeton mix of "Latin Thugs" featuring Tego Calderon. European pressings contained an additional three bonus tracks. A European reissue, with substantially different artwork, was released in 2006 via Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Although this album is called Greatest Hits from the Bong, it does not include the song "Hits from the Bong".

Track listing

Notes
Tracks 1 to 3 are taken from the 1991 album Cypress Hill
Tracks 4 and 5 are taken from the 1993 album Black Sunday
Track 6 is taken from the 1995 album III: Temples Of Boom
Tracks 7 and 13 are taken from the 1998 album IV
Tracks 8 and 14 are taken from the 2000 album Skull & Bones
Track 9 is taken from the 2004 album Til Death Do Us Part
Track 15 is taken from the 2001 album Stoned Raiders
Tracks 10 to 12 were recorded in 2005.

Personnel

Louis "B-Real" Freese – rap vocals, producer & mixing (track 11)
Senen "Sen Dog" Reyes – rap vocals
Lawrence "DJ Muggs" Muggerud – producer (tracks: 1-4, 6-8, 13-15), mixing (tracks: 1-8, 13-15), arranger (tracks: 7-8, 13-15)
Camillo Wong "Chino" Moreno – speech (track 8)
Erik "Everlast" Schrody – speech (track 8)
Tego Calderón – toasting (tracks: 9, 12)
Barron Ricks – rap vocals (track 13)
Todd Ray – producer (track 5)
Alan "The Alchemist" Maman – producer (tracks: 9, 12)
John Kirby – keyboards (track 10)
Daniel Seeff – bass (track 10)
Khalil Abdul-Rahman – producer (track 10)
Farid "Fredwreck" Nassar – keyboards, guitar, producer, mixing (track 11)
DJ Kazzanova – remixer (track 12)
Joe "The Butcher" Nicolo – mixing (tracks: 1-5)
Jason Roberts – recording (tracks: 1-3), engineering (tracks: 4-6)
Michael Miller – recording (tracks: 1-3), engineering (tracks: 13-15)
Troy Staton – additional mixing (track 8)
Rob Hill – recording & mixing (track 9)
Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering (tracks: 10-11)
James Cruz – mastering (track 12)
Rob Abeyta – design
Estevan Oriol – photography
Ryan Ruden – coordinator
Paul D. Rosenberg – management
Tracy McNew – management

Charts

References

External links

Cypress Hill albums
2005 greatest hits albums
Albums produced by DJ Muggs
Albums produced by DJ Khalil
Albums produced by Fredwreck
Columbia Records compilation albums
Albums produced by the Alchemist (musician)
Richard Brancatisano

Richard Peter Brancatisano (born 29 October 1983), also known by his stage name Richie Branco, is an Australian television actor and musician, best known for his roles as Xander Bly, the Green Mystic Ranger, in Power Rangers: Mystic Force and Dominic Russo on the ABC Family drama series, Chasing Life.

Early life and education
Brancatisano was born in Sydney, in Australia, to an Italian father and an Australian mother.  His interest in the dramatic arts began at an early age, and he appeared in several musicals and plays at his high school, The King's School in Parramatta.

He studied for three years at Theatre Nepean.

Career
Before appearing in Power Rangers, Richard performed as Corey in the 2005 season of Boyband: The Musical, put on by Ricochet Working Productions, an Australian theatre company, and in the theatre production "Vin," as the lead character, Vin..

In the Australian theatre and music circles, he is also known as "Richie Branco". He was touring with New Zealand Artist (Gin Wigmore).

He appears in the international children's TV series The Elephant Princess (season 2) as Caleb and in Home and Away as Prince Vittorio Secca.

He is the main protagonist in the hit Australian stage play, turned to big screen sensation, Alex & Eve (2015), written by Alex Lykos. A modern take on Romeo and Juliet and likened to My Big Fat Greek Wedding but taken to the next level, the synchronous multicultural dating landscape between a Greek Orthodox Alex and a Muslim Lebanese, Eve, played by Andrea Demetriades, and also stars Tony Nikolakopoulos, Zoe Carides and George Kapiniaris.

He released his debut single "Fight Me" on 10 July 2018.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Public appearances
Richard was one of the guests of the Power Morphicon, the first Power Rangers convention, at Los Angeles in June 2007 and August 2014.

References

External links

1983 births
Australian male television actors
Australian people of Italian descent
Living people
Musicians from New South Wales
Actors from New South Wales
People educated at The King's School, Parramatta
Melanie Vallejo

Melanie Vallejo (born 27 October 1979) is an Australian actress who is best known for portraying Madison Rocca, the Blue Mystic Ranger in Power Rangers Mystic Force, and Sophie Wong in the Australian television series Winners & Losers.

Personal life
Vallejo is a native Australian of Filipino and Ukrainian descent.

She dated her co-star Firass Dirani (Nick Russell/Mystic Red Ranger) from 2006 until 2009.

Vallejo married New Zealander Matt Kingston, an advertising planner, in June 2011. They live in New Zealand and have two children: Sonny Kingston, born October 2016, and Luna Grace, born October 2019. In 2001, she graduated from Flinders University Drama Centre.

Career
Vallejo played the role of shy Madison Rocca in Power Rangers Mystic Force. Since then, she has starred in other Australian shows, including Winners & Losers.

Filmography

Films 
 Dying Breed (2008) .... Rebecca
 The Sculptor (2009) .... Renee
 Upgrade (2018) .... Asha Trace

TV work
 All Saints (2005) .... Lynica Forbes
 Power Rangers: Mystic Force (2006) .... Madison Rocca (Blue Mystic Ranger)
 Packed to the Rafters (2008) .... Kat Ripley
 Dance Academy (2010) .... Dana Strong
 Winners & Losers (2011–2016) .... Sophie Wong
 Australia's Cheapest Weddings .... Narrator

Theatre
 The Return (2002–2003) .... Lisa, productions at Adelaide Fringe Festival, Adelaide Come Out Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
 Gosling (2003) .... Sydney Theatre Company production
 Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany & Contemporary America (2003 and 2005) .... Marguerite, Sydney Theatre Company production
 Morph (2004) .... Grace Black, Adelaide Fringe Festival production
 Baghdad Wedding (2009) .... Luma, Belvoir St Theatre production

References

External links 
 
 Filmography (maintained by her theatrical agency)

1979 births
Australian people of Filipino descent
Australian people of Ukrainian descent
Australian television actresses
Australian stage actresses
Australian film actresses
Living people
Shipowners' Liability (Sick and Injured Seamen) Convention, 1936

Shipowners' Liability (Sick and Injured Seamen) Convention, 1936 is an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1936, with the preamble stating:

The convention was ratified by the United States Senate and made effective by proclamation of the President on 29 October 1939, 54 Stat. 1963, 1704.  In Warren v. United States, 340 U.S. 523 (1951), the Supreme Court considered the application and interpretation of Article 2 of the Convention in a seaman's case against his employer, the United States, in its capacity as owner of the merchant ship S. S. Anna Howard Shaw.

While on shore leave, the seaman visited a dance hall.  An adjoining room overlooking the ocean had French doors that opened to an unprotected ledge.  The seaman stepped out onto the ledge, lost his balance, and fell.  He sued to recover maintenance and cure.

The district court awarded maintenance and cure and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals disallowed it.  Reversing, the Supreme Court noted:

"The Convention was a product of the International Labor Organization.  Its purpose was to provide an international system of regulation of the shipowner's liability.  That international system was aimed at providing a reasonable average which could be applied in any country. . . .  The aim indeed was not to change materially American standards but to equalize operating costs by raising the standards of member nations to the American level."

Ratifications
As of 2023, 18 states have ratified the convention. It has subsequently been denounced by 13 of those ratifying states.

External links
 Text.
 Ratifications.

International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1936
Treaties entered into force in 1939
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of Belize
Treaties of Djibouti
Treaties of Egypt
Treaties of Italy
Treaties of Mexico
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of Peru
Treaties of Tunisia
Treaties of Turkey
Treaties of the United States
Admiralty law treaties
Liability treaties
Treaties extended to American Samoa
Treaties extended to Guam
Treaties extended to Puerto Rico
Treaties extended to the United States Virgin Islands
Occupational safety and health treaties
1936 in labor relations
A7 road (Northern Ireland)

In Northern Ireland, the A7 is a major trunk road running 15.0 miles (24.1 km) from Downpatrick, through Crossgar and Saintfield, to Carryduff. Here the A7 joins the A24 (running from Newcastle) at an at-grade roundabout, and continues to Belfast.

The section between Carryduff and Saintfield was constructed in the latter half of the 19th century, to bypass Ouley Hill, as the previous route along Old Saintfield Road/Killynure Road was proving too arduous for stagecoach horses.

Composition
The road is standard single-carriageway throughout most of its length, with two short sections of climbing lanes (approx 500m each).
The first of these runs northbound, starting about two miles north of Downpatrick at the former site of the Abbey Lodge Hotel.
The second runs southbound and begins about a mile south of Saintfield near Doran's Rock.

Junctions

Apart from its terminus junction with the A24, the A7 road crosses these A and B roads:

B2 (2 miles north of Downpatrick)
B7 (Crossgar)
B6 (Saintfield)
A21 (Saintfield)

References 

Roads in Northern Ireland
Roads in County Down
Djun djun

Djun djun may refer to:
a Western misnomer for dunun, a cylindrical drum of the Malinké people
Dundun, an hourglass-shaped talking drum of the Yoruba people
Junjung, a war drum of the Serer people.
Paul Birch

Paul Birch may refer to:
 Paul Birch (basketball) (1910–1982), American basketball player and coach
 Paul Birch (actor) (1912–1969), American stage and film actor
 Paul Birch (writer) (1956–2012), British author and astronomer
 Paul Birch (footballer, born 1962) (1962–2009), English football midfielder
 Paul Birch (footballer, born 1968), English football striker
 Paul Hansen Birch (1788–1863), Norwegian general
Wazouba

Wazouba may refer to:

Wazouba, Mali, a village in the commune of Kassa, Mali, in the Cercle of Koro in the Mopti Region of Mali, inhabited by Dogon People
Wazouba (dialect), one of the Dogon languages
Oddi Altarpiece (Raphael)

The Oddi altarpiece, or more correctly the degli Oddi altarpiece, is an altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin painted in 1502-1504 by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael for the altar of the Oddi family chapel in the church of San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, Italy, now in the Vatican Pinacoteca. The altarpiece was commissioned for the Oddi family chapel in San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, was taken to Paris in 1797 (for the Musée Napoleon) and in 1815 brought back to Italy, not to Perugia but to the Vatican Pinacoteca.
 	
The altarpiece was commissioned by Leandra Baglioni, widow of Simone degli Oddi; in Perugia there were different Oddi and degli Oddi families, but English sources often ignore this, including the English version of the Vatican Museums website..

The crowning of the Virgin 
The actions of the painting occur in two related scenes, one in heaven and the other terrestrial. Above the coronation shows the Virgin being crowned by Jesus, while angels are playing music; while below the section depicts the apostles gathering around the empty tomb of Mary, whose body was raised to heaven without corruption. St Thomas holds in his hands the girdle Mary dropped down to him as a testament to her assumption. The saints raise their eyes to the heavenly spectacle.

The predella 
The predella (39 × 190 cm) is composed of three 27 × 50 cm paintings, showing scenes of The Life of the Virgin:
The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple

See also
List of paintings by Raphael

Notes

External links 
 The altarpiece and the predella at the Vatican Pinacotheca.
 The altarpiece and the left, center and right part of the predella at the Web Gallery of Art.
 

Paintings by Raphael
1500s paintings
Paintings in the Vatican Museums
Raphael
Altarpieces
Musical instruments in art
Dogs in art
Horses in art
Adoration of the Magi in art
Paintings of apostles
Raphael
Paintings depicting the Annunciation
Gibson L5S

The Gibson L5S is a solid-body electric guitar model produced by the Gibson Guitar Corporation.

Introduced in 1972, the Gibson L5S was essentially a smaller, thinner solid-body version of the popular Gibson L-5 hollowbody. Like the L-5, it featured multiple binding on the single-cutaway 3-ply solid maple body, 5-piece maple neck, and headstock, and also featured an ebony fingerboard with block inlays. The headstock featured a flower-pot inlay similar to the L-5 archtop and most L5S models featured the L-5 trapeze tailpiece (though some had stop-bar or TP-6 fine-tuning tailpieces). The L5S was available in various finishes, such as ebony, cherry sunburst, wine red and natural.

Upon its introduction in 1972, the L5S featured two low-impedance pickups, similar to those found on several Gibson Les Paul models of that period, such as the Recording model, the Signature model, the Personal model, and the Professional model. This incarnation of the model was not a success, however, thus Gibson switched from low-impedance pickups to regular [[humbucker] Super Humbucking Tarback pickups, which were designed by Bill Lawrance.]. Though it was considered one of Gibson's more top-of-the-line models, it was still not particularly popular among guitarists. In the mid-1980s, the L5S was dropped from the Gibson line. L5-S guitars were produced with a one-piece top and back (very rare), two-piece top and back (also quite rare). The Norlin era in the production of Gibson guitars did not pass over the L5-S model, and that is why guitars with a three-piece top and back are the most common. [probably they were saving on materials and that's why they started gluing tops from three pieces]. Today, the L5-S is sought after by collectors and blues and jazz musicians, the sound of the L5-S is clear and warm. They work great with different types of music. Today it is extremely difficult to find a guitar with the original [Tarback] pickups.
Only 1,813 units were produced, according to Gibson.

Notable L5S players 

The L5S was a unique high-end solid body, and once Gibson adorned it with super humbuckers, famous guitarists took notice, especially jazz and fusion virtuosos like Pat Martino and John McLaughlin. Additionally other players picked up the L5S such as Paul Simon and others including possibly Keith Richards at one time. Ronnie Wood has been seen playing a new incarnation of the Gibson L5S which is currently a signature model in production, the 'Ronnie Wood L-5S'as well as Mark Farner from Grand Funk.

References 

L5S
Heath MacQuarrie

Heath Nelson Macquarrie (September 18, 1919 – January 2, 2002) was a Canadian politician, teacher, scholar, and writer. Macquarrie described himself as a Red Tory, using the term in the title of his autobiography Red Tory Blues.

During the October Crisis of 1970, he agonized over the implementation of the War Measures Act, and was prepared to vote against it, but relented for the sake of keeping the Tory caucus united behind Robert Stanfield. Writing in retrospect, Macquarrie described his vote in favour of the Act as "fundamentally wrong".

He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1957 federal election that brought John Diefenbaker to power. He served as a member of parliament for twenty-two consecutive years, until he was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1979 on the advice of Joe Clark. He sat in the upper house for a further fifteen years, retiring at the mandatory age of 75 in 1994.

He was publicly loyal to Clark's successor, Brian Mulroney, but privately disagreed with the government on several occasions, once saying during a caucus meeting, "You know, a lot of people think I have a prominent nose because of my enjoyment of a certain beverage. Well, that's all nonsense. I got it that way by having to hold it so often while voting for some of Mulroney's bills."

Macquarrie remained active following his retirement from the Senate in 1994, by contributing a column to the Hill Times and to newspapers in his home province of Prince Edward Island.

Macquarrie was educated at Prince of Wales College, the University of Manitoba, the University of New Brunswick and McGill University. He studied for his doctorate at McGill, choosing for his thesis topic Robert Borden. He lectured at Brandon University and at Mount Allison University, in economics, political science and international relations.

He edited and wrote the introduction to the published edition of Sir Robert Borden's diaries. An admirer of the World War I-era prime minister, Macquarrie considered Borden to be the architect of Canadian independence.

Bibliography 
 The Conservative Party (1965)
 Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs (1969, 2 vols.) (ed.)
 Canada and the Third World (1976)
 Canada and the Palestinians, 1947–1982 (1982), 
 Red Tory Blues: A Political Memoir (1992),

Archives 
There is a Heath Nelson Macquarrie fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

Electoral record

References

External links 
 

1919 births
2002 deaths
Canadian Presbyterians
Canadian non-fiction writers
Canadian political scientists
Canadian senators from Prince Edward Island
McGill University alumni
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Prince Edward Island
People from Queens County, Prince Edward Island
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada senators
University of Manitoba alumni
Writers from Prince Edward Island
20th-century non-fiction writers
20th-century political scientists
Li Nina

Li Nina (, born January 10, 1983, in Benxi, Liaoning) is a Chinese aerial skier who won silver at both the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.  She placed 5th at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and has won three World Championships in aerials.

External links
 FIS-Ski.com Biography/Results

1983 births
Living people
Freestyle skiers at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
People from Benxi
Olympic silver medalists for China
Olympic freestyle skiers for China
Chinese female freestyle skiers
Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
Skiers from Liaoning
Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Asian Games medalists in freestyle skiing
Freestyle skiers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Universiade medalists in freestyle skiing
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
FISU World University Games gold medalists for China
Competitors at the 2009 Winter Universiade
Iiro Rantala

Iiro Rantala (born 1970, in Helsinki) is a Finnish jazz pianist. He studied piano in the jazz department of Sibelius Academy and classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music. He is one of the best known Finnish jazz pianists, both in Finland and abroad. Rantala is a pianist and composer with Trio Töykeät, a Finnish jazz trio. In addition to jazz, he has composed some classical pieces, most notably the Concerto for Piano and Concerto in G♯ΔA♭.

In 2008, he released the album Elmo with his new formation, the Iiro Rantala New Trio. The members of the trio are Rantala (piano), Marzi Nyman (guitar) and Felix Zenger (beatbox).

Discography

Trio Töykeät 
 Päivää (Sonet, 1990)
 International version: G'day (Emarcy, 1993)
 Jazzlantis (Emarcy, 1995)
 Sisu (PolyGram Emarcy, 1998)
 Kudos (Universal Music Group, 2000)
 High Standards (EMI Blue Note, 2003)
 Wake (EMI Blue Note, 2005)
 One Night in Tampere (EMI Blue Note, 2007)

Big Bad Family 
 Big Bad Family (Kompass, 1988)
 Big Bad Family (re-release) (Final Mix Records, 1996)

Tango Kings 
 Tango Kings (Big World, 1995)

Sinfonia Lahti, Trio Töykeät, Jaakko ja Pekka Kuusisto
 Music! (BIS Records, 2002)

SaloRantala Soi 
 SaloRantala Soi! (Johanna Kustannus, 2003)
 Talvijalka (Sateen ääni, 2009)

Rantala & Tapiola Sinfonietta 
 Concerto for Piano and Concerto in G♯ΔA♭ (Ondine, 2006)

Iiro Rantala New Trio 
 Elmo (Rockadillo Records, 2008)

Pekka Kuusisto & Iiro Rantala 
 Subterráneo, (Liverace, 2009)

Iiro Rantala solo piano 
 Lost Heroes, (ACT, 2011)
 My History of Jazz, (ACT, 2012)

Iiro Rantala String Trio 
 Anyone with a Heart, (ACT, 2014)

Iiro Rantala 
 My Working Class Hero, (ACT, 2015)
 How Long Is Now?, (ACT, 2016)
 Good Stuff, (ACT, 2017)
 My Finnish Calendar, (ACT, 2019)
 Potsdam, (ACT, 2022) (live)

References

External links 
Iiro Rantala official homepage
Homepage of Espoo Big Band

1970 births
Living people
Musicians from Helsinki
Finnish classical pianists
Finnish jazz pianists
Manhattan School of Music faculty
Avant-garde jazz pianists
Finnish jazz composers
ACT Music artists
21st-century classical pianists
Trio Töykeät members