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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Davao

The Archdiocese of Davao (Latin: Archidioecesis Davaensis) is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It is a metropolitan see in southern Mindanao. The archdiocese comprises the city of Davao, The Island Garden City of Samal, and the municipality of Talaingod, Davao del Norte in Davao del Norte.

Under its jurisdiction are the three suffragan dioceses of Digos, Tagum, and Mati the capital cities of the three Davao provinces.

History

The beginnings of the Archdiocese started with the arrival of the Augustinian Recollects in 1848 followed by the Jesuits soon after.

Its official beginnings came during its establishment as a Prelature Nullius on December 17, 1949, having the Archdiocese of Cebu as its Metropolitan. It was elevated into a diocese on July 11, 1966, and eventually became an archdiocese on June 29, 1970 taking as its titular patron saint Peter the Apostle whose feast day is celebrated also on June 29.

The official name given to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction is "Archidioecesis Davaensis" and San Pedro Cathedral Parish as the seat of the archbishop.

On December 29, 1954, Clovis Thibault was appointed as prelate of the prelature of Davao. He was a priest of the Foreign Mission Society of Quebec. He became the first bishop and archbishop when the prelature was elevated into a diocese and later into an archdiocese. Antonio Lloren Mabutas, a native of Agoo, La Union, succeeded him on December 9, 1972. He was then succeeded by Fernando Capalla who first became Coadjutor Archbishop on June 28, 1994, and became its archbishop on November 6, 1996. The current archbishop of Davao is Romulo Valles, who was appointed in 2012.

Ordinaries

Archbishops

Auxiliary bishops
 Fernando Capalla (1975–1977)
 Pedro Rosales Dean (1977–1980)
 Generoso Cambronero Camiña (1978–1979)
 Patricio Hacbang Alo (1981–1984)
 Juan de Dios Mataflorida Pueblos (1985–1987)
 Alfredo Banluta Baquial (1988–1993)
 Guillermo Dela Vega Afable (2001–2002)
 George Beluso Rimando (2006–present)

Suffragan dioceses

Diocese of Digos
Diocese of Mati
Diocese of Tagum

Statistics
As of 2019

 Total Population – 1,816,529
 Catholic Population – 1,498,149
 Diocesan Priests – 74
 Religious Priests – 88
 Male Religious – 354
 Female Religious – 552
 Parishes – 39
 Vicariates – 7
 Catholic educational institutions – 3 seminaries, 2 universities, 6 colleges, and 14 high schools

See also
Roman Catholicism in the Philippines

References

External links

Archdiocese of Davao - CBCP Online
Archdiocese of Davao - Catholic Hierarchy Website
Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines
Most Rev. Fernando R. Capalla, D.D., Archbishop of Davao
Archdiocese of Davao - Official Website

Roman Catholic dioceses in the Philippines
Archdiocese
Christian organizations established in 1970
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century
Religion in Davao del Sur
Davao City
Lintneria geminus

Lintneria geminus, the gemmed sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is found from Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua with an occasional stray into Texas.

The wingspan is 92–105 mm. The upperside of the forewings is gray with wavy black and light gray bands and two small gray spots, while the upperside of the hindwing is black with two wavy white bands.

There is one generation per year with adults on wing from July to August. They feed on the nectar of various deep-throated flowers, including Lonicera japonica, Saponaria officinalis, Petunia species and Catalpa speciosa.

References

External links

Lintneria
Moths described in 1903
Oscar Milani

oscR miLanI (born November 24, 1946 in Rosario, Argentina), is an Argentine musician. A Bariloche Foundation scholarship holder, he went to Buenos Aires to specialize; harpsichord, chamber music, and interpretation on early keyboard instruments. His activities as a soloist and chamber musician with the Camerata Bariloche took him to several countries of South America and also to Europe. He has made recordings for the ORF and Picks Records.

He built one of his country’s first harpsichords based on historical models (Baffo of 1574), which has met with great acclaim from the European press. Claudio Di Veroli was a great help.

A German State grant from the DAAD, enabled him to continue his studies in Europe, first with Kenneth Gilbert in Stuttgart, then in courses with Marinette Extermann, Johann Sonnleitner, Colin Tilney and Bob van Asperen.

With his friend and compatriot Gabriel Garrido, and for more than ten years, he organised the early music classes at Neuburg an der Donau.

Oscar Milani has been teaching harpsichord, chamber music and continuo at the Hochschule in Nuremberg since 1981 and at the Fachakademie für Kirchenmusik in Bayreuth since 1993. As a performer he is also interested in works of the present day and he has recorded works by Ástor Piazzolla (self transcribed works for Harpsichord with Mario Raskin), Hugo Distler and Frank Martin. He has appeared at the Gewandhaus, Leipzig, the Semperoper, Dresden, the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, the Salle Cortot, Paris, the Konzertsaal of the Meistersinger Conservatorium and Meistersingerhalle the Martha Kirche in Nuremberg and at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

His last recording was Sonatas for Harpsichord of the famous Padre Martini of Bologna.

External links 
 Oscar Milani Website

1946 births
People from Rosario, Santa Fe
Argentine classical pianists
Living people
Argentine emigrants to Germany
21st-century classical pianists
Queen Bian

Queen Bian (; personal name unknown) was an empress  of the Xianbei-led Chinese Western Qin dynasty. Her husband was Qifu Gangui (King Wuyuan).

Shortly after Qifu Gangui became king in 388, after the death of his brother, the founding king Qifu Guoren (King Xuanlie), he created her empress. Qifu Guoren was not mentioned as having created an empress, but could have. At that point, she was already described of as his wife.  However, nothing more is known about her, including whether she was the mother of his eventual successor, his son Qifu Chipan (King Wenzhao).  In 394, Qifu Gangui, in a political marriage, married the sister of the Former Qin emperor Fu Deng, the Empress Dongping, as queen, although presumably Empress Fu was deposed and Empress Bian restored after Former Qin's destruction by Later Qin later in 394, for after Qifu Gangui lost his state but restored it in 409, he again created Empress Bian empress.  (The succession table below assumes as such.)

References

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Western Qin queens
4th-century Chinese women
4th-century Chinese people
Lintneria istar

Lintneria istar, the Istar sphinx moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903. It is found in mountains and pine-oak woodlands from southern Arizona east to southern Texas and south through Mexico to Guatemala.

Adults are on wing from July to September.

The larvae feed on Salvia species.

References

Lintneria
Moths described in 1903
Mike Wilks

Mike Wilks is the name of:

 Mike Wilks (basketball) (born 1979), NBA basketball player
 Mike Wilks (author), author of The Ultimate Alphabet and Mirrorscape

See also
Michael Wilk (born 1952), American musician
Michael Wilkes (1940–2013), former Adjutant-General to the Forces in the United Kingdom
Michael Wilks (born 1973), Australian lawn bowler
Bob Franklin (comedian)

Robert Andrew Franklin (born 1965), is a Hillingdon, London-born, Welsh raised, comedian who has lived in Australia since 1989.

Career

Television
On Australian television, Franklin was both writer and performer on Jimeoin (1994–95), Shaun Micallef's World Around Him (1996), Small Tales & True (1998), Eric (1997), The Mick Molloy Show (1999) and Introducing Gary Petty (2000), in which he played the title role and received an Australian Writers' Guild award nomination.

Franklin has also acted in TV dramas such as Kangaroo Palace (1997), Stingers (2002), After the Deluge (2003), CrashBurn (2003), The Heartbreak Tour (2005), Tripping Over (2006) and an episode of The Adventures of Lano and Woodley ("Starquest").

From 2012 to 2021, Franklin had a recurring role as Brendan O'Grady in the Jack Irish films and television series.

Franklin has made several appearances on Thank God You're Here and was in the sitcoms The Librarians, and Stupid Stupid Man.

Franklin starred in Shaun Micallef's TV series Mr & Mrs Murder, Episode 9: The Art of Murder (aired 17 April 2013) as "Jack"; a homeless gentleman with an exquisite eye for class and beauty.  He had a recurring role in the second and third series of Please Like Me, a drama by Australian comedian Josh Thomas.  Franklin also featured as a loan shark in the Australian opera miniseries The Divorce.

Film
Franklin has appeared in several Australian films, including The Craic (1999), You Can't Stop The Murders (2003), Bad Eggs (2003), The Extra (2005), Macbeth (2006), BoyTown (2006)  The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008), Three Blind Mice (2008) and Beneath Hill 60 (2010).

Books
Franklin's first book Under Stones, a collection of 'tales of unease', was published in 2010 by Affirm Press. It won the 2010 Australian Shadows Award for Long Fiction.

His debut novel, Moving Tigers, was published in 2015.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

External links
 
 Bob Franklin Bio

Comedians from London
Male actors from London
British expatriates in Australia
British male film actors
British male television actors
British stand-up comedians
People from Hillingdon
Living people
1965 births
20th-century British male actors
20th-century British comedians
21st-century British male actors
21st-century British comedians
Sphinx leucophaeata

Sphinx leucophaeata is a moth of the  family Sphingidae.

Distribution 
It is known from north-western Mexico with an occasional stray into Texas.

Description 
The length of the forewings is 62–75 mm.

Biology 
There is probably one generation per year with adults on wing from late June to early August.

References

Sphinx (genus)
Moths described in 1859
Mike Wilks (author)

Mike Wilks (born 1947, London) is an artist, illustrator and author of nine books including the global bestseller The Ultimate Alphabet (Pavilion Books, 1987), which was a New York Times bestseller and Sunday Times bestseller for 57 weeks with over 750 000 copies sold worldwide.

Mike Wilks won a scholarship to art school at the age of thirteen. After running his own successful design consultancy for several years, he devoted his time to painting and writing. In 1990, Mike Wilks was the subject of an award-winning documentary on BBC television. His original paintings and drawings, which have a surreal and dreamlike quality with an unsettling undertone, have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, as well as many private collections.

His first novel, Mirrorscape, is a fantasy adventure set in the land of Nem, a parallel world where the bizarre is commonplace and everyday logic is in abeyance. Two more Mirrorscape books have since been published. The three form the Mirrorscape Trilogy. The second book, Mirrorstorm, focuses on Mel, Wren and Ludo (the main characters) and their journey back into the Mirrorscape. The third book, Mirrorshade, published in late 2009, is the last in the trilogy, and is about the same three, but facing worse troubles than ever before.

Bibliography

(with Alan Sillitoe) The Incredible Fencing Fleas (1978)
(with Brian Aldiss) Pile: Petals from Saint Klaed's Computer (1979)
(with Sarah Harrison) In Granny's Garden (1980)
The Weather Works (1983) (new edition, 2016)
The Ultimate Alphabet (1986) (new edition, 2015)
The Annotated Ultimate Alphabet (1988) (new edition, 2015)
The BBC Drawing Course (1990)
The Ultimate Noah's Ark (1993)
The Ultimate Spot-The-Difference Book ("Metamorphosis" in North America) (1997)
Mirrorscape (2007)
Mirrorstorm (2009)
Mirrorshade (2010)
(with Thomas Hobbes) Leviathan (2012)

About Mike Wilks

Mike Wilks: Making His Mark. BBC TV Film (1990. Director: Dick Foster, 30 minutes duration).
Mike Wilks: Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations 1977–1997 (published 1997) by Michael Heseltine with an introduction by Sir Tim Rice.

External links
Mike Wilks' website
More on Mike Wilks

References 

1947 births
English illustrators
Living people
Queen Fu

Queen Fu (; personal name unknown) was a queen of the Xianbei-led Chinese Western Qin dynasty. Her husband was Qifu Gangui (King Wuyuan).

She was a younger sister of the Former Qin emperor Fu Deng (Emperor Gao), and he created her Princess Dongping.  In 394, with his forces having been nearly wiped out by the rival Later Qin's emperor Yao Xing, Fu Deng sought aid from Western Qin, and as part of the agreement, married her to Qifu Gangui.  However, later that year, Fu Deng was captured and killed by Yao Xing.  Subsequently, Qifu Gangui, notwithstanding the marital relations, expelled Fu Deng's son and successor Fu Chong, who then tried to attack Qifu Gangui but was defeated and killed in battle, ending Former Qin.  No further reference was made to Queen Fu, and since his first wife Queen Bian was the one mentioned as being created queen after he lost his state to Later Qin but reestablished in 409, the table below assumes that she was deposed, and Queen Bian restored, after Former Qin's destruction.

Western Qin queens
Former Qin people
4th-century Chinese women
4th-century Chinese people
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
The White Tower (Ullman novel)

The White Tower is a 1945 novel by James Ramsey Ullman. It was the fourth best-selling novel in the US in 1945 and was reprinted as an Armed Services Edition.

It was filmed in 1950 under the direction of Ted Tetzlaff and starred Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Claude Rains, Lloyd Bridges, Cedric Hardwicke, and Oskar Homolka.

See also

List of bestselling novels in the United States

1945 American novels
American novels adapted into films
J. B. Lippincott & Co. books
Cadmium oxide

Cadmium oxide is an inorganic compound with the formula CdO. It is one of the main precursors to other cadmium compounds. It crystallizes in a cubic rocksalt lattice like sodium chloride, with octahedral cation and anion centers. It occurs naturally as the rare mineral monteponite. Cadmium oxide can be found as a colorless amorphous powder or as brown or red crystals. Cadmium oxide is an n-type semiconductor with a band gap of 2.18 eV (2.31 eV) at room temperature (298 K).

Production and structure
Since cadmium compounds are often found in association with zinc ores, cadmium oxide is a common by-product of zinc refining. It is produced by burning elemental cadmium in air. Pyrolysis of other cadmium compounds, such as the nitrate or the carbonate, also affords this oxide. When pure, it is red, but CdO is unusual in being available in many differing colours due to its tendency to form defect structures resulting from anion vacancies. Cadmium oxide is prepared commercially by oxidizing cadmium vapor in air.

Uses
Cadmium oxide is used in cadmium plating baths, electrodes for storage batteries, cadmium salts, catalyst, ceramic glazes, phosphors, and nematocide. Major uses for cadmium oxide are as an ingredient for electroplating baths, optoelectronic devices, and in pigments.

Transparent conductor
CdO is used as a transparent conductive material, which was prepared as a transparent conducting film as early as 1907 by Karl Baedeker. Cadmium oxide in the form of thin films has been used in applications such as photodiodes, phototransistors, photovoltaic cells, transparent electrodes, liquid crystal displays, IR detectors, and anti reflection coatings. CdO microparticles undergo bandgap excitation when exposed to UV-A light and is also selective in phenol photodegradation.

Cadmium plating
Most commercial electroplating of cadmium is done by electrodeposition from cyanide baths. These cyanide baths consist of cadmium oxide and sodium cyanide in water, which likely form cadmium cyanide and sodium hydroxide. A typical formula is 32 g/L cadmium oxide and 75 g/L sodium cyanide. The cadmium concentration may vary by as much as 50%. Brighteners are usually added to the bath and the plating is done at room temperature with high purity cadmium anodes.

Reactivity
CdO is a basic oxide and is thus attacked by aqueous acids to give solutions of [Cd(H2O)6]2+. Upon treatment with strong alkaline solutions,  forms.
A thin coat of cadmium oxide forms on the surface of cadmium in moist air at room temperature. Cadmium will oxidize at room temperatures to form CdO. Cadmium vapor and steam will form CdO and hydrogen in a reversible reaction.

References

External links

Cadmium(II) oxide information at Webelements.

Cadmium compounds
Oxides
II-VI semiconductors
IARC Group 1 carcinogens
Rock salt crystal structure
Jéssica Eterovic

Jéssica Miroslava Eterovic Pozas is Chilean beauty queen who was crowned Miss World Chile 1993 and represented her country at the Miss World 1993 pageant in Sun City, South Africa where she was unplaced.

She is married to television producer Eduardo Dominguez.

Jessica Miroslava is of Croat origin.

References
History of Miss World Chile, 1988-2006 

Living people
Chilean people of Croatian descent
Miss World Chile winners
Miss World 1993 delegates
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century births
Legio III Diocletiana

Legio III Diocletiana was a comitatensis Roman legion, levied in 296 by Diocletian, from whom the legion took its name. The aim of this unit was to guard the newly re-organized province of Aegyptus, being based in Alexandria. It was created to support II Traiana Fortis, and thus it took the numeral III.

The Papyri Beatty Panopolis contains records of some vexillationes of the III Diocletiana stationed in the south of Egypt, at Thebes and Syene (modern Aswan). These provide information about provisioning, pay (which was often in arrears), and unit sizes.

Theodosius I sent soldiers from the north to III Diocletiana in Egypt, and Egyptian soldiers in Macedonia, forming the III Diocletiana Thebaeorum, under the command of the Magister Militum per Thracias (Notitia Dignitatum Orientis, VIII). The shield pattern of III Diocletiana Thebaeorum was a red rose on white field.

See also
List of Roman legions

References

External links 
 Livius.org: Account of Legio III Diocletiana

03 Diocletiana
Roman Egypt
03 Diocletiana
Military units and formations established in the 3rd century
4th century in Egypt
296 establishments
290s establishments in the Roman Empire
Guy Lizard

The Guy Lizard Armoured Command Vehicle was a British command vehicle built during Second World War.

In May and June 1940, the Headquarters 1st Armoured Division with the British Expeditionary Force in France were mounted in mild steel prototype and wooden mock-up armoured command vehicles, but later in the year the first armoured steel armoured command vehicles were produced by Guy Motors on their Lizard 4x4 chassis. Twenty-one units were produced, and by early 1941 some were issued to the Headquarters, 7th Armoured Division in the North African Campaign as well as some formations within the United Kingdom. Guy was unable to continue production so a new design was prepared based on the AEC Matador, which became the AEC Armoured Command Vehicle.

References 

World War II armoured cars
World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom
Command vehicles
Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944
Paulina Mladinic

Paulina Mladinic Zorzano (born c. 1980) was the Chilean delegate for Miss World in 1997. Paulina is of Croatian and Basque descent.

References
History of Miss World Chile, 1988-2006 

Living people
Chilean female models
Chilean people of Croatian descent
Miss World Chile winners
Miss World 1997 delegates
1980s births
Chilean people of Basque descent
Henry Burritt

Henry Burritt (August 26, 1791 – November 4, 1872) was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Augusta Township in 1791, the son of Stephen Burritt. He settled on a farm in Marlborough Township. In 1821, he was appointed justice of the peace in the Johnstown District. He was a member of the local militia, eventually becoming lieutenant-colonel. He was elected to the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada in an 1839 by-election after William Benjamin Wells was expelled from the assembly.

He died at Burritt's Rapids in 1872.

References 
Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson (1989)

1791 births
1872 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
People from Leeds and Grenville United Counties
Canadian justices of the peace
Innocent owner defense

An innocent owner defense is a concept in United States law providing for an affirmative defense that applies when an owner claims innocence of a crime and so the property should not be forfeited. It is defined in section 983(d) of title 18 of the United States Code () and is part of the Code that defines forfeiture laws and more specifically the general rules for civil forfeiture proceedings. It states that the "claimant shall have the burden of proving that the claimant is an innocent owner by a preponderance of the evidence.

United States v. Liberty Avenue is a case in which the innocent owner defense was used.  It can be claimed when the owner can prove that he had no knowledge of illegal activity or had not consented to the illegal activity. Many property owners choosing to assert the innocent owner defense are burdened by inconsistent judicial interpretation of the statutory phrase "without the knowledge or consent of that owner." Some jurisdictions give this phrase a conjunctive meaning by requiring an owner to prove both lack of knowledge and lack of consent to defeat a forfeiture. Other jurisdictions interpret the phrase disjunctively by allowing the owner to prove either lack of knowledge or lack of consent to defeat a forfeiture action. The question in the case was whether a property owner can assert the innocent owner defense on the basis of lack of consent even if he admits to having knowledge of the drug-related use of his property.

The government argued that to assert the innocent owner defense successfully, the claimant must show both lack of knowledge and lack of consent. Claimant, on the other hand, asserted that lack of consent represents an independent way of satisfying the requirements of the innocent owner defense and so he could thus prevail by showing that he did not consent to the criminal use of his property.

In United States v. 92 Buena Vista a woman had purchased a home with money that her boyfriend had given her without knowledge that the money came from drug-trafficking. She claimed the innocent owner defense, but the court ruled that it applied to her as well even if it was later nullified by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000. There are many jurisdictions that refuse to take any position, leaving the determination of the conjunctive or disjunctive question to the lower courts.

Moreover, courts have also inconsistently defined the statutory terms "knowledge" and "consent." The inconsistent judicial interpretation renders the standard for "innocence" under the innocent owner defense unclear.

See also
 Bennis v. Michigan

References

Asset forfeiture
Criminal defenses
HJS

HJS may refer to:

 Croatian Sailing Federation (Croatian: )
 Henry Jackson Society, a British think tank
 Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, an Indian civil rights organisation
 Paarl Boys' High School, in Western Cape Province, South Africa
 Sikorsky HJS, an American helicopter
 Hic jacet sepultus (Latin; "here lies buried"); see List of Latin phrases (H)
ITM

ITM may stand for:

Education
 ITM Global School, an English medium co-educational day school in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
 ITM Law School, one of the professional graduate schools of ITM University
 ITM-IFM, Mumbai, India
 Institut Teknologi Mara, a public university in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
 Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law, educational organization in Münster, Germany
 Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, research and training in tropical medicine, Belgium
 Information technology management
 International Tourism Management

Music
 In This Moment, a female-led metalcore band
 Irish traditional music
 In the Meantime (Alessia Cara album)

Other
 Independent Timber Merchants, a New Zealand building supplies and hardware retailer
 ITM Cup, a rugby union professional competition for New Zealand unions
 ITM Power, manufactures integrated hydrogen energy solutions
 ITM Stadium, in Whangarei, New Zealand
 Indiana Transportation Museum, a railroad museum
 Intermediate-term memory, a stage of memory
 International Trade Mart
 International Tourism Mart, an international tourism event in India
 Irish Transverse Mercator, new geographic coordinate system of Ireland
 Israeli Transverse Mercator, new geographic coordinate system of Israel
 IATA Airport Code of Osaka International Airport, Japan

See also
 ITM University (disambiguation)
 In the Morning (disambiguation)
Legio II Flavia Virtutis

Legio II Flavia Virtutis ("brave Flavian") was a comitatensis Roman legion, levied by Emperor Constantius II (337–361), together with I Flavia Pacis and III Flavia Salutis.

According to Ammianus Marcellinus (Res Gestae xx.7.1), in 360 II Flavia Virtutis was stationed in Bezabde with II Armeniaca and II Parthica, when the King of Persia Shapur II besieged and conquered the city, killing many of the inhabitants.

According to Notitia Dignitatum (in partibus Occidentis, vii), at the beginning of the 5th century, the comitatensis legion Secundani (very probably II Flavia Virtutis) were under the command of the comes Africae.

See also
List of Roman legions

References
 livius.org account

02 Flavia Virtutis
Military units and formations established in the 4th century
02 Flavia Virtutis
Milo McCarger

Milo McCarger (c.1798 – January 14, 1860) was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.

He settled in South Gower Township and then Mountain Township. He served in the local militia and fought at the Battle of the Windmill. He served as coroner in the Johnstown District. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Grenville in an 1839 by-election after Hiram Norton resigned from his seat.

He died in Kemptville in 1860.

References 
Becoming Prominent: Leadership in Upper Canada, 1791-1841, J.K. Johnson (1989)

1860 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Year of birth uncertain
Canadian coroners
The Comas

The Comas were an indie rock band active from 1998 to 2008. They formed in Chapel Hill, NC, in March 1998 as a 'joke country band', a sort of counterweight to the hyped No Depression movement. Before long, however, both the "joke" and the "country" parts of the concept were eliminated, thus allowing the band to develop into a quirky alternative rock outfit. The Comas' respectable 1999 debut, Wave to Make Friends, was composed of sleepy (but not lethargic) indie pop and off-kilter boy-and-girl vocal harmonies, courtesy of co-founders Andrew Herod and Nicole Gehweiler. The band's instrumental canvas proved to be larger and more eclectic than that of the typical indie group, buoying the usual guitars and rhythm section with violin, organ, and creative non-rap samples. Faced with the challenge of labeling such music, the Comas' label billed deemed the sound "stoner pop."

In 2008, lead singer Andy Herod moved to Asheville, and formed a new project, called Electric Owls, which was signed to Vagrant Records. Electric Owls has produced two EPs and a full-length record titled 'Ain't Too Bright'. Assisting him in the studio were a few friends and former member Caperton.

Discography

Albums

EPs and Singles

References

External links 
 
Pitchforkmedia review of Conductor
Myspace page
Yahoo Music Interview/Performance

Indie rock musical groups from North Carolina
Musical groups from Chapel Hill-Carrboro, North Carolina
Yep Roc Records artists
Vagrant Records artists
Aikins

Aikins is a surname, and may refer to:

 James Cox Aikins (1823–1904), Canadian politician, cabinet minister
 James Albert Manning Aikins (1851–1929), Canadian politician in Manitoba
 John Somerset Aikins (1850–1911), financier and politician in Manitoba
 Luke Aikins (born 1973), professional skydiver, BASE jumper, pilot, and aerial photographer
 Matthieu Aikins, a journalist known for reporting on the war in Afghanistan

See also
 Akins
 Aikin
Uranium(III) chloride

Uranium(III) chloride, UCl3, is a water soluble salt of uranium.  UCl3 is used mostly to reprocess spent nuclear fuel.  Uranium(III) chloride is synthesized in various ways from uranium(IV) chloride; however, UCl3 is less stable than UCl4.

Preparation
There are two ways to synthesize uranium(III) chloride.  The following processes describe how to produce uranium(III) chloride.

(1) In a mixture of NaCl-KCl at 670–710 °C, add uranium tetrachloride with uranium metal.
3UCl4 + U → 4UCl3

(2) Heat uranium(IV) chloride in hydrogen gas.
2UCl4 + H2 → 2UCl3 + 2HCl

Properties
In solid uranium(III) chloride each uranium atom has nine chlorine atoms as near neighbours, at approximately the same distance, in a tricapped trigonal prismatic configuration.

Uranium(III) chloride is a green crystalline solid at room temperature.  UCl3 melts at 837 °C and boils at 1657 °C.  Uranium(III) chloride has a density of 5500 kg/m3 or 5.500 g/cm3.

Its composition by weight:
Chlorine: 30.84%
Uranium: 69.16%

Its formal oxidative states:
Chlorine: −1
Uranium: +3

This salt is very soluble in water and is also very hygroscopic.  UCl3 is more stable in a solution of hydrochloric acid.

Uses

Reagent
Uranium(III) chloride is used in reactions with tetrahydrofuran (THF) and sodium methylcyclopentadiene to prepare various uranium metallocene complexes.

Catalyst
Uranium(III) chloride is used as a catalyst during reactions between lithium aluminium hydride (LiAlH4) and olefins to produce alkyl aluminate compounds.

Molten form
The molten form of uranium(III) chloride is a typical compound in pyrochemical processes as it is important in the  reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels. UCl3 is usually the form that uranium takes as spent fuel in electrorefining processes.

Hydrates
There are three hydrates of uranium(III) chloride:
UCl3.2H2O.2CH3CN
UCl3.6H2O
UCl3.7H2O

Each are synthesized by the reduction of uranium(IV) chloride in methylcyanide (acetonitrile), with specific amounts of water and propionic acid.

Precautions
While there are no long-term data on the toxic effects thas UCl3, it is important to minimize exposure to this compound when possible.

Similar to other uranium compounds that are soluble, UCl3 is likely absorbed into the blood through the alveolar pockets of the lungs within days of exposure.  Exposure to uranium(III) chloride leads to toxicity of the renal system.

References

External links 
 Uranium(III) chloride information at Webelements
 Uranium(III) chloride International Bio-Analytical Industries, Inc.
Depleted Uranium: All the Questions about DU and Gulf War Syndrome are Not Yet Answered

Uranium(III) compounds
Chlorides
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Trafikmagasinet

Trafikmagasinet (The Traffic magazine) was a Swedish TV-show about traffic and motoring, broadcast on the Swedish public service network SVT from 1978 to 2003. Aside from reviewing new cars (which were graded by awarding "steering wheels"), Trafikmagasinet featured news, educational content, and consumer reports. The show was created by Carl Ingemar Perstad who also hosted the show until 2002.  Christer Glenning co-hosted the show and was responsible for car testing until his death in 1998.

History
Trafikmagasinet launched on March 15, 1978. The show was an immediate success and its ratings were higher than many popular entertainment shows. Internationally, the show was a pioneer. The type of road tests first introduced in Trafikmagasinet became very popular and used by motor journalists in several countries.

Beside the TV-audience, journalists and car industry looked upon Trafikmagasinet with high confidence. In 1987 Carl-Ingemar Perstad received an award from the Swedish Royal Automobile Club for his contribution to enhance and improve the level of Swedish road and traffic safety.

An important event in the show's history was when a Škoda failed miserably in a road test, flipping over while turning in 30 km/h. History repeated itself in 1997, when Trafikmagasinet together with the car magazine Teknikens Värld overturned the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class during testing.  Mercedes-Benz initially claimed that the car had been manipulated and threatened to sue the journalists, but finally had to admit that the car was unsafe during sharp turns at high speed. The A-Class was re-released with Electronic Stability Control, and the episode gave some fame to the expression moose test - this due to Mercedes-Benz' initial attempt to ridicule the failed test and claim that it was only of interest to Swedes.

During the 1990s and onward new co-hosts joined Trafikmagasinet. Sofia Lindahl was followed by Bodil Karlsson and later Veronica Marklund.  When Christer Glenning died in 1998, Staffan Borglund replaced him as car tester.

During its last year, Trafikmagasinet left the studio-based concept. The show was one of many that were axed when SVT were forced to make major budget-cuts in 2003.

References

External links
 SVT official site

Sveriges Television original programming
Automotive television series
Sillerboån

Sillerboån is stream in Ljusdal Municipality, Hälsingland, Gävleborgs län, Sweden that is about 80 kilometers long.

Ljusdal Municipality
Rivers of Gävleborg County
Aikin

Aikin is an English surname, and may refer to:

 A. M. Aikin Jr. (1905–1981), American politician
 John Aikin (Unitarian) (1713–1780), English Unitarian scholar and theological tutor, closely associated with Warrington Academy, father of Anna and John
 Anna Aikin (1743–1825), better known as Anna Laetitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who published in many genres
 John Aikin (1747–1822), English physician, father of Arthur, Edmund and Lucy
 Arthur Aikin (1773–1854), English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer
 Edmund Aikin (1780–1820), English architect
 Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), English writer, particularly of history
 Jesse B. Aikin (1808–1900), American musician
 Laura Aikin (born 1964), American soprano
 Scott Aikin (born 1971), American philosopher

See also 
 
 Aickin, surname
 Aikinite, sulfide mineral of lead, copper and bismuth with formula PbCuBiS3
 Aiken (disambiguation)
 Akin (disambiguation)
 Aikins, surname

References 

English-language surnames
HNoMS Glommen (1916)

The minelayer HNoMS Glommen was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War I, as the lead ship of the two ship Glommen class of mine layers. Her sister ship was Laugen.
Glommen and her sister ship were kept in service until the German invasion of Norway in 1940. Glommen surrendered to the Germans on 14 April 1940, and was rebuilt as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was scuttled at Kirkenes in 1944 by the retreating Germans.

Glommen was built at Akers mekaniske verksted in Kristiania.

She was named after the Glomma - the longest and largest river in Norway.

See also
 List of World War II ships of less than 1000 tons

External links
 Naval history via FLIX: Glommen, retrieved 17 March 2006

Ships built in Oslo
Glommen-class minelayers
Naval ships of Norway captured by Germany during World War II
World War II minelayers of Norway
Shipwrecks in the Barents Sea
World War II shipwrecks in the Arctic Ocean
1916 ships
Maritime incidents in November 1944
Bielkowo railway station

Bielkowo is a non-operational PKP railway station in Bielkowo (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland.

Lines crossing the station

References 
Bielkowo article at Polish stations database, URL accessed at 17 March 2006

Railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Disused railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Gdańsk County
Legio I Iovia

Legio I Iovia ( First Legion "Jovian", "devoted to Jupiter") was a Roman legion, levied by Emperor Diocletian (284–305), possibly together with II Herculia, to guard the newly created province of Scythia Minor. The cognomen of this legion came from Diocletian's attribute Iovianus, "similar to Jupiter". According to Notitia Dignitatum, at the beginning of the 5th century I Iovia was still in its camp on the Danube. The legion may have even survived the fall of Rome and continued to serve the Byzantine empire.

See also
List of Roman legions

References 

01 Iovia
Military units and formations established in the 3rd century
Pręgowo Gdańskie railway station

Pręgowo Gdańskie is a non-operational PKP railway station in Pręgowo Gdańskie (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland.

Lines crossing the station

References 
Pręgowo Gdańskie article at Polish stations database, URL accessed at 17 March 2006

Railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Disused railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Gdańsk County
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1907
HNoMS Laugen (1918)

The mine layer HNoMS Laugen was built for the Royal Norwegian Navy during World War I, as the lead ship of a two ship class. Her sister ship was Glommen.

She and her sister ship were kept in service until the German invasion of Norway in 1940. Laugen surrendered to the Germans on 14 April 1940, and like her sister ship was rebuilt as a floating anti-aircraft battery. She was returned to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1945 and decommissioned in 1950.

Laugen was built at Akers mekaniske verksted in Kristiania. She was named after the river Lågen in southern Norway.

References

External links
 Naval history via FLIX: Glommen, retrieved 17 March 2006

Naval ships of Norway captured by Germany during World War II
Ships built in Oslo
Glommen-class minelayers
World War II minelayers of Norway
1918 ships
Legio II Herculia

Legio II Herculia (devoted to Hercules) was a Roman legion, levied by Emperor Diocletian (284–305), possibly together with I Iovia, to guard the newly created province of Scythia Minor. It was stationed at Capidava. The cognomen of this legion came from Herculius, the attribute of Maximian (Diocletian's colleague) meaning "similar to Hercules".

According to Notitia Dignitatum, at the beginning of the 5th-century, II Herculia was still in its camp on the Danube.

See also
 List of Roman legions

References and external links 
 livius.org account

02 Herculia
Military units and formations established in the 3rd century
Ahsan-ul-Haq

Ahsan-ul-Haq (16 July 1878 – died 29 December 1957) was an Indian cricketer. He was a hard-hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium fast bowler.

Ahsan-ul-Haq went to England to study law where he played for Hampstead in club cricket. In June 1901, Haq scored 135 for Middlesex Second XI against Sussex Second XI.  In the next year, he played three first-class matches for Middlesex. But his official work restricted his appearances and he soon returned to India.

At the age of 45 he captained the Muslims in the Lahore tournament of 1924. On what was his first appearance in a first-class match on Indian soil, he went in last against Sikhs and scored 100 not out in 40 minutes, adding 150 in an unbroken tenth-wicket partnership with Abdus Salaam. Excluding centuries made under contrived circumstances, it is the second-fastest hundred (in terms of minutes) ever made in first-class cricket.

Haq was later involved in the creation of the Indian cricket board.

References
 Mohandas Menon, Indians in English county and university cricket, ACSSI Cricket Yearbook, 1990–91

External links

1878 births
1957 deaths
Indian cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Muslims cricketers
Cricketers from Jalandhar
Punjabi people
Supreme Hockey League

The All-Russian Hockey League (VHL) (, Vserossiyskaya hokkeinaya liga (VHL)), also known as the Major Hockey League or Higher Hockey League (HHL), is a professional ice hockey league in Eurasia, and the second highest level of Russian hockey.

History
Though currently acting independently, plans were in place to convert it to a farm system for the Kontinental Hockey League  (KHL)'s 2010–11 season. It was preceded by the Major League of the Russian Championship (Vysshaya Liga) that formerly held a relegation role for the Russian Superleague and was governed by the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. As of the 2022–23 season, most VHL teams were affiliated with a KHL team (e.g., Khimik Voskresensk is affiliated with KHL's Spartak Moscow), while some teams of the VHL are not affiliated with a KHL team.

Russian Classic
The Russian Classic () is an outdoor ice hockey game that is played during the Supreme Hockey League regular season. So far, the visiting team has won every edition of the game.

Seasons overview

Teams in 2022–23

All-time team records
Since its foundation in 2010, 40 different clubs have played in the VHL, and 34 of them have at least once qualified for the playoffs. Only one club (Toros Neftekamsk) has made the playoffs in all nine championships of the VHL, reaching the semi-final stage six times. The table gives the final regular season ranks for all teams, with the playoff performance encoded in colors. The teams are ordered by their best championship results.

See also
Kontinental Hockey League
VHL-B
Junior Hockey League
National Junior Hockey League

References

External links
VHL Official 
VHL Official 
VHL Official
AllHockey.Ru
Euro Hockey

 
Russia
Professional ice hockey leagues in Russia
Ice hockey competitions in China
Ice hockey competitions in Kazakhstan
Edward William Thomson

Edward William Thomson (January 1794 – April 20, 1865) was a farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Kingston in 1794 and settled in Scarborough Township in 1808. He served with the York militia during the War of 1812 and the Rebellions of 1837, eventually commanding the 5th militia district in Canada West. He was involved in building locks on the Rideau Canal and worked as a contractor on the Welland Canal in the 1840s. In 1833, he was appointed justice of the peace in the Home District. In 1836, he was elected to the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada in the 2nd riding of York. He was the first president of the provincial Agricultural Association and the York County Agricultural Society.

He represented Canada at the London at the exhibitions of 1851 and 1862.

He died in York Township in 1865.

His older brother Hugh Christopher Thomson was also a member of the legislative assembly.

His grandson, Edward William Thomson, was a journalist and writer.

References

External links
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

1794 births
1865 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)
Canadian justices of the peace
Michael Dugan (poet)

Michael Dugan (1947 – 16 March 2006) was an Australian poet, children's writer, and editor.  

In 1968, he first published his own small poetry magazine, Crosscurrents, from the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury. He created the King Hippo Poetry Band who performed folk-rock versions of well-known poems. With Phillip Edmonds and Robert Kenny, he was involved in the development of Contempa Publications.

In the 1970s, he worked as a consultant to the publisher Jacaranda Press, and was the editor of The Australian Library News  Furthermore, Dugan co-founded and edited Bookmark. In the 1980s, he was a consultant and an editor for the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs. He worked as poetry editor of Overland magazine for many years. He served as vice-president of the Victorian Fellowship of Australian Writers. He has also written plays and scripts for radio.

Along with his works in children's literature, Dugan has an extensive background in Australian History. He has written numerous historical textbooks, published by Macmillan Education Australia and others.

His works
 Missing People (1970)
 The Drunken Tram : Six young Melbourne poets (1972)
 Clouds (1975)
 The Outback Reader (1975), with John Jenkins
 Nonsense Places (1976)
 Dragon's Breath (1978)
 Dingo Boy (1980)
 Melissa's Ghost (1986), illustrated by Elizabeth Honey
 The Maltese Connection (1988)
 The Highjacked Bathtub (1988)
 The Wombat's Party (1990)
 To a Trainee Accountant (2002)
 Childmemory
 Vietnam War (2000)
 Aboriginal Australia (1998)
 Bushrangers (1978)
 Boer War (2000)
 Korean War (2000)
 Children In Wartime (1997)
 World War II (2000)
 World War I (2000)

References

1947 births
2006 deaths
20th-century Australian poets
Australian male poets
20th-century Australian male writers
Michael Dugan

Michael Dugan, Mike or Mickey Dugan may refer to:
 Michael Dugan (general) (born 1937), Chief of Staff of United States Air Force
 Michael Dugan (poet) (1947–2006), Australian poet
 Michael T. Dugan (born 1957), accounting academic
 Mike Dugan (politician) (born 1956), American politician in Georgia
 Mickey Dugan, see The Yellow Kid
 Michael Dugan, fictional President of the United States in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
 Mike Dugan, a character in the DC streaming series ''Stargirl''

See also
 Mike Duggan (born 1958), American businessman and politician in Michigan
 Michael Duggan, American TV show producer
Richard D. North

Richard D. North (born 1946), is a UK conservative commentator. He worked for The Independent newspaper as its first environment correspondent (1986–1990) and then as environmental columnist for The Sunday Times (1990–1992). His book, Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress (Manchester University Press, 1995) was widely regarded as a renunciation of his green ideals. He now works with the free-market thinktank, the Institute of Economic Affairs (as media fellow) and with the conservative Social Affairs Unit, where he blogs on art, film and social issues.

North appeared in a segment featured on Da Ali G Show in 2000, discussing animal rights. In reflecting on his appearance, he criticized the show's format of "ambush television", in which unwitting guests are tricked into appearing on a comedy program.

The Social Affairs Unit has published North's Rich Is Beautiful: A very personal defence of Mass Affluence (2005), Mr Blair's Messiah Politics: Or what happened when Bambi tried to save the world (2006) and 'Scrap the BBC!': Ten years to set broadcasters free (2007).

In 2012, North published a 650-entry, interactive eBook entitled The Right-wing Guide to Nearly Everything.

Books
 Life on a modern planet: a manifesto for progress, Manchester University Press, 1995
 "Mr Cameron's Makeover Politics: Or why old Tory stories matter to us all", Social Affairs Unit, 2009

References

External links
 Richard D North's blog

British political writers
British columnists
British bloggers
Living people
1946 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Kolbudy railway station

Kolbudy is a non-operational PKP railway station in Kolbudy (Pomeranian Voivodeship), Poland. Station was closed on May 29, 1994.

Lines crossing the station

References 
Kolbudy article at Polish stations database, URL accessed at 17 March 2006

Railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Disused railway stations in Pomeranian Voivodeship
Gdańsk County
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1886