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Alma, New Brunswick

Alma is a former village in the parish of Alma, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023, when it became part of the new village of Fundy Albert. Alma is centered on the small delta of the Upper Salmon River and Cleveland Brook, where they empty into Salisbury Bay.

The headquarters of Fundy National Park is in Alma West, making tourism a major part of the local economy. Fishing, of lobster and scallops, is another primary economic activity.

History

The settlement, known as Salmon River Settlement, began in earnest as the lumbering trade took root with the exchange of land-grant title, and construction of a sawmill on the Upper Salmon River by its new owners. Prior to this, Loyalist John Coffin, who held the land grant, caused frustration for would-be settlers because of his absence.  Thus began the most vibrant period in the community's history.

The Parish of Alma was created surrounding the community in 1856, commemorating the then-recent Battle of Alma during the Crimean war. The Village municipality incorporated in 1966 following sweeping changes that disbanded county councils. 18 years earlier, the federal government had expropriated land in the village and parish west of the Upper Salmon River for the creation of Fundy National Park. Many homes were relocated east of the river as lumber barons gave way to the new land managers, the Parks Canada Agency. In addition to tourism related to the park, lobster and scallop fishing are an important industry based out of Alma's tidal harbour.

On 1 January 2023, Alma amalgamated with the villages of Hillsborough and Riverside-Albert and parts of five local service districts to form the new village of Fundy Albert. The community's name remains in official use.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Alma had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021. Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.

Notable people

Alma was the birthplace of Molly Kool, who in 1939 became Master Mariner for offshore sailing, a captain, a first in the Western World, sailing a commercial Bay of Fundy scow sloop between ports. A monument on the Alma waterfront marks her accomplishment.

Images

Climate 
Alma has a relatively cool, wet and snowy humid continental climate with significant seasonal differences in spite of its near-ocean location. Summers are warm but relatively short, whereas winters are relatively cold but milder than inland areas.

References

External links

Village of Alma

Communities in Albert County, New Brunswick
Former villages in New Brunswick
Populated places disestablished in New Brunswick in 2023
Kyiv Funicular

The Kyiv Funicular () is a steep slope railroad on Kyiv Hills that serves the city of Kyiv, connecting the historic Uppertown, and the lower commercial neighborhood of Podil through the steep Volodymyrska Hill overseeing the Dnieper River. The line consists of only two stations and is operated by the Kyiv city community enterprise Kyivpastrans.

History
The funicular was constructed during 1902–1905, and was first opened to the public on . The construction cost, about 230,000 rubles, was covered by a Belgian owner of the Kyiv trams. The funicular was the project of Arthur Abrahamson, who received professional training on railroad engineering in Zürich, Switzerland and Saint Petersburg, Russia. The station vestibules were initially developed by N. Pyatnitskiy, and the railway structure was designed by N. Baryshnikov.

Due to its proximity to the St. Michael's Cathedral, it was once named the Mykhailivskyi Mekhanichnyi Pidyom (, literally St. Michael's Mechanical Lift). After the cathedral was destroyed by the Soviet authorities in 1935–1936, the name of the funicular was changed.

In 1984 the lower station changed its outlook. It was redeveloped by architects Janos Vig, Valentine Yezhov, and others.

Various facts
The funicular uses the two rail and passing-loop system. The two cars are designated with the Cyrillic letters Λ () and П () which stand for left and right cars. The funicular was renovated three times: in 1928, 1958, and 1984.

Track gauge: . Total track length: . The total gradient of the slope on which the funicular runs on is 36%. The cable cars are powered by an electric motor which is located inside the upper station and in tram type.

The travel time between the stations is approximately 3 minutes. The route is from the Mykhailivska Square in the Uptown to the Poshtova Square in the Podil. The ticket price is much like for the other city-owned public transportation methods, ₴8 (approx. US$0.3 as of July 2018). The funicular provides daily service to 10,000-15,000 passengers, and annually to 2.8 million passengers.

Originally funicular built as trams were unable to ride the grade. Later funicular fare was included in tram monthly tickets if tram is alone transport in it.

The funicular was closed on September 25, 2006, for restoration, which is usually conducted every year. The total cost of the restoration was expected to be ₴455,400 (about US$90,500). The funicular is operated by Kyivpastrans.

Gallery

See also
 Odesa Funicular
 List of funicular railways

References

External links

 фунікулер in Wiki-Encyclopedia Kyiv 
 Photos of Kyiv Funicular  

Funicular railways in Ukraine
Rail transport in Kyiv
Metre gauge railways in Ukraine
Railway lines opened in 1905
Tourist attractions in Kyiv
1905 establishments in the Russian Empire
Music Is Power

"Music is Power" is a song by English singer-songwriter Richard Ashcroft, the second track on his third studio album, Keys to the World (2006). The song features a sample from Walter Jackson's "It's All Over", written by Curtis Mayfield. It was released as the second single from that album on 17 April 2006, peaking at  20 in the UK Singles Chart on 23 April.

Track listings
 7-inch and CD (R6688; CDR6688)
 "Music Is Power" – 4:01
 "Long Way Down" – 5:42

 DVD (DVDR6688)
 "Music Is Power" – 3:55
 "Break the Night with Colour" (live at London's Kings College) – 5:24
 "Music Is Power" (live at London's Kings College) – 5:20
 "Music Is Power" (video) – 3:55
 "Music Is Power" (making of the video) – 2:00

References

2006 singles
2006 songs
Parlophone singles
Richard Ashcroft songs
Song recordings produced by Chris Potter (record producer)
Trifun Živanović

Trifun Živanović (; born on April 17, 1975, in Santa Monica, California) is an American-born Serbian figure skater.

Career
Through 2001, Zivanovic competed for the United States, twice capturing medals at the U.S. Championships. In 2001, he decided to represent Yugoslavia. The country later became known as Serbia and Montenegro.

To qualify for the 2006 Olympics, Zivanovic needed to place in the top 24 at the 2005 World Championships, where he finished 30th, or in the top six at the 2005 Karl Schafer Memorial, where he was 9th. He finally qualified for the Olympics after several skaters withdrew.

In his final season, Zivanovic competed for Serbia.

Zivanovic has the distinction of having competed at the World Figure Skating Championships representing four countries: the United States, Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Serbia. He is also one of the few skaters to have competed at both the Four Continents Championships and the European Championships. He is the first male singles skater to have competed at every senior-level ISU Championships.

Zivanovic works as an ice skating instructor at Pickwick Ice Center in Burbank, California.

Personal life 
In 2001, Zivanovic moved to Belgrade for a year to establish Yugoslav citizenship. His father is Serbian. His mother has muscular dystrophy.

Programs

Competitive highlights

For Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia

For the United States

References

External links
 

1975 births
American male single skaters
Serbian male single skaters
Olympic figure skaters for Serbia and Montenegro
Figure skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Living people
Sportspeople from Santa Monica, California
American people of Serbian descent
Serbia and Montenegro sportsmen
The Job (2003 film)

The Job is a 2003 American crime drama film directed and written by Kenny Golde Starring Daryl Hannah, Brad Renfro and Dominique Swain.

Plot

A hit woman is contracted to perform one final job before she leaves her life of cold-blooded killing behind forever. She is now faced with the challenge of dealing with carrying out the contract she accepted and her own moral values.

Cast

Daryl Hannah as Carol Jean "C.J." March
Brad Renfro as Troy Riverside
Dominique Swain as Emily Robin
Eric Mabius as Rick
Alex Rocco as Vernon Cray
Shawn Woods as Roger Washington
Alanna Hanly as Young C.
Bruce Nozick as Hal 
Joseph Whipp as The Man
Kiva Dawson as C.J.’s Mom
Michelangelo Kowalski as Parker

Release
The Job premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2003. However, it did not receive a theatrical release; instead, it was released straight-to-DVD on January 13, 2004, by Lionsgate Films.

Accolades

External links

2003 films
American crime thriller films
2000s crime thriller films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
Bill Anderson (American football, born 1936)

Walter William Anderson (July 13, 1936 – April 18, 2017) was an American football tight end in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Green Bay Packers. He played high school football at Manatee High School in Bradenton, Florida and college football at the University of Tennessee.  He was drafted in the third round of the 1958 NFL Draft.

Washington
Anderson played for the Redskins from 1958 to 1963.  He was selected by the team as Rookie of the Year in 1958 and Player of the Year in 1959.  Bill made 178 catches, averaging 17.1 yards per catch, and scored 14 touchdowns over six seasons.  Anderson was a two-time Pro Bowl selection (1959 and 1960).

Comeback with Green Bay
Anderson retired from football in 1963 and joined the Tennessee staff as an assistant coach.  However, he temporarily put his retirement plans on hold and signed with the Green Bay Packers in 1965.  He played 24 games with Green Bay from 1965–1966 and averaged 11.9 yards per catch. The comeback was a good thing for him as the Packers won the 1965 and 1966 NFL Championships and he subsequently earned a Super Bowl ring when the Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl I on January 15, 1967.

Broadcasting
In 1968, Anderson returned to Tennessee as color analyst for football games on the Vol Network, partnered with play-by-play announcer John Ward. Ward and Anderson would remain together for 31 years, the longest-running broadcast partnership in college football at the time.  Their final game was the 1998 national championship game, the first game of the Bowl Championship Series, won by Tennessee over Florida State University.

Family
Anderson is the second cousin of Giant Bomb staff member Brad Shoemaker.

Death
Anderson died on April 18, 2017, at a hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee, at the age of 80.

References

External links
 

1936 births
2017 deaths
American football ends
American football tight ends
Green Bay Packers players
Tennessee Volunteers football announcers
Tennessee Volunteers football players
Washington Redskins players
Eastern Conference Pro Bowl players
People from Hendersonville, North Carolina
Julia Stegner

Julia Stegner (born 2 November 1984 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany) is a German model.

Early life 
Stegner, the daughter of Günter Stegner, the Director Central and Eastern Europe for LSI Corporation, and Erika Stegner, an accountant, was raised in an animal-loving household with many dogs alongside her older sister Jeanette, who currently works in film production. For seven years she was a child model, appearing in commercials and children's catalogs, and for nine years was trained in dance.

In high school she discovered a passion for playing basketball, and eventually she joined a club team in Munich. Being 180 cm tall by that time, she was naturally fit for the sport; her classmates even called her "Beanpole" because of her towering height.

Shortly before her 15th birthday, while celebrating Oktoberfest in her hometown, she was discovered by Louisa von Minckwitz of Louisa Models. Tilla Lindig, a Munich and London based couture label first booked her. Although planning to study accounting when she left high school, Stegner moved to Paris to pursue modeling afterwards instead.

Career 
In Paris, she made her first major cover appearance, for Elle magazine. She was eventually signed by Supreme Management and, within four months, she opened the fall 2003 Yves Saint Laurent show. In 2003, she did Strenesse and Sportmax campaigns, among others and appeared on the cover of Vogue (French, Italian, Nippon, and German editions).

By the summer 2004, she had done advertisement work for Celine, Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce & Gabbana, Ralph Lauren, and Dior. She also has been the Hugo Boss house model for several seasons. Stegner has appeared in a 2005 campaign for French fashion house Chloé and shows such as Anna Sui, Shiatzy Chen, Lanvin, Gucci, Versace and Valentino. She walked for Stella McCartney in autumn 2004. She also appeared in the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Victoria's Secret Fashion Shows.

She also modeled for the 2005 Pirelli Calendar, where she appeared half-nude. Stegner has done print and runway work for the fur industry, wearing fur clothing for American Legend Minks and others.

She has been the face of Aquascutum, Guerlain KissKiss, Hugo Boss Eyewear and the Hugo Boss perfume, and Femme.  In 2008, she became a face of Maybelline and Gianfranco Ferré.  In 2009 she became the new face of Mercedes Benz advertising.

Personal life 
She married the Australian photographer Benny Horne in 2014. They had been dating since 2009. In May 2014, shortly after their wedding, Stegner gave birth to their daughter.

References

External links
Julia Stegner's - official website

Julia's profile at Storm Models
Julia Stegner at Style.com
Julia at Askmen.com
Interview at models.com
Julia Stegner at New York Magazine

1984 births
Living people
German female models
Child models
Models from Munich
Aroostook, New Brunswick

Aroostook ( ) is a former village in Victoria County, New Brunswick, Canada. It held village status prior to 2023. It is now part of the village of Southern Victoria.

Geography
The community is located on the west bank of the Saint John River at the mouth of the Aroostook River. It is approximately 11 kilometres north of Perth-Andover.

History

Aroostook was founded in 1852 and became an important railway centre in 1878 with the completion of the New Brunswick Railway from Fredericton to Edmundston and the Aroostook River Railway from Aroostook to Caribou, Maine. Both railways were leased by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1890 and a large rail yard and locomotive roundhouse was constructed in the village to service CPR trains operating in northwestern New Brunswick and northern Maine.

The construction of taxpayer-funded highways during the 20th century saw railways decline in use following World War II. CPR abandoned service through Aroostook in March 1987 following the loss of 2 bridges to ice jams downstream from the village.

On 1 January 2023, Aroostook amalgamated with Perth-Andover and parts of two local service districts to form the new village of Southern Victoria. The community's name remains in official use.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Aroostook had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.  Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.

Notable people

See also
List of communities in New Brunswick

References

External links

Communities in Victoria County, New Brunswick
Former villages in New Brunswick
Daniel Hollander

Daniel "Dan" Hollander (born May 9, 1972) is an American figure skater. He is a two-time Vienna Cup champion (1995, 1997) and a two-time U.S. national bronze medalist (1996, 1997). He finished tenth at the 1996 World Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

In the 1996–97 season, Hollander trained under Diana Ronayne in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. In 1999, he sustained a number of injuries that forced him to turn professional. He became known for his comedic skating programs. Hollander announced his retirement from competition by executing a backflip, which is an illegal element in figure skating.

Hollander coaches figure skating in Maryland.  On October 17, 2015, he married a skating coach, Emily Chase, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Their daughter, Arianna Alina, was born on May 13, 2016.

Programs

Competitive highlights
GP: Champions Series / Grand Prix

References

External links

Official website of Dan Hollander
Dan Hollander at Figure Skaters Online

1972 births
American male single skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Royal Oak, Michigan
20th-century American people
21st-century American people
Peculiar (album)

Peculiar is an album by the New York City ska band The Slackers. It was released on Hellcat Records in 2006.

Track listing
 "86 the Mayo" (Ruggiero)  – 4:23
 "Peculiar" (Ruggiero)  – 4:08
 "Propaganda" (Ruggiero/Babajian/Geard)  – 4:31
 "Crazy" (Ruggiero/The Slackers)  – 3:31
 "Set the Girl Free" (Ruggiero)  – 2:38
 "In Walked Capo" (Pine)  – 3:21
 "I'd Rather Die Happy" (Ruggiero)  – 2:59
 "What Went Wrong" (Pine)  – 3:55
 "Keep It Simple" (Hillyard/Ruggiero)  – 3:05
 "International War Criminal" (Ruggiero)  – 3:57
 "Sauron" (Hillyard)  – 3:46
 "Rider" (Ruggiero)  – 4:02
 "I Shall Be Released" (B. Dylan)  – 4:20

Personnel

The Slackers' players
 Ara Babajian – drums
 Marcus Geard – bass, stick guitar, backing vocals
 Dave Hillyard – saxophone
 Jay Nugent – guitar
 Glen Pine – trombone, vocals
 Vic Ruggiero – organ, piano, guitar, vocals, etc.

Additional players
 Marc Lyn – backing vocals on 3, 5, 6, 12, 13
 Alex Desert – backing vocals on 1, 5
 Larry McDonald – percussion on 12, 13
 Sidney Mills – organ on 13
 T.J. Scanlon – guitar on 3, 10, 12, 13
 Susan Walls – trumpet on 2, 8

References

2006 albums
The Slackers albums
Weeks manifold

In mathematics, the Weeks manifold, sometimes called the Fomenko–Matveev–Weeks manifold, is a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold obtained by (5, 2) and (5, 1) Dehn surgeries on the Whitehead link.  It has volume approximately equal to 0.942707… () and  showed that it has the smallest  volume of any closed orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold.  The manifold was independently discovered by  as well as  .

Volume
Since the Weeks manifold is an arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifold, its volume can be computed using its arithmetic data and a formula due to Armand Borel:

 

where  is the number field generated by  satisfying  and  is the Dedekind zeta function of .  Alternatively,

 

where  is the polylogarithm and  is the absolute value of the complex root  (with positive imaginary part) of the cubic.

Related manifolds
The cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold obtained by (5, 1) Dehn surgery on the Whitehead link is the so-called sibling manifold, or sister, of the figure-eight knot complement.  The figure eight knot's complement and its sibling  have the smallest volume of any orientable, cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold.  Thus  the Weeks manifold  can be obtained by hyperbolic Dehn surgery on one of the two smallest orientable cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds.

See also
Meyerhoff manifold - second small volume

References

.

3-manifolds
Hyperbolic geometry
Property Ladder (TV series)

Property Ladder is the name of two television shows from the United Kingdom and United States where first-time property or real-estate developers purchase houses (usually in need of repair), renovate them, and attempt to sell them (or flip) for a profit.  Their efforts (and frustrations) are the featured bit of the show. An expert property developer steps in to provide advice.

Original UK version

The original UK version of the show is produced by Talkback Thames and airs on Channel 4, with repeats frequently shown on various channels including Discovery Real Time. Sarah Beeny features as the expert property developer, and is noted as appearing both pregnant and not pregnant at least once in each episode.  The show underwent a change in format during 2004 and now features two developments per episode rather than one. In 2009, the UK version was re-titled Property Snakes & Ladders, reflecting the increasing jeopardy for would-be developers in a falling market.

The UK version has also aired in Australia on The Lifestyle Channel. When the retitled show Property Snakes & Ladders was shown in Australia the original title Property Ladder (with the original title sequence) was retained by The Lifestyle Channel to retain its audience.

US version
The US version is produced by TLC, with Kirsten Kemp as the expert property developer. The show premiered in June 2005.

An episode featured Tanya McQueen and her cousin as flippers operating out of Columbus, Texas.  That episode was noticed by ABC producers, who invited McQueen to join the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition design team.

Dutch edition
The UK edition is also broadcast in the Netherlands on RTL 4, which also broadcasts a Dutch edition of the series, called Bouwval gezocht (Ruin Wanted) which is hosted by Peter van der Vorst (2013 series: Irene Moors).

This version of the show is not based on profit, but on people fixing up a bought home for their own way of living, though the results of the renovation are still valuated by real estate agents as a loss or a profit.

References

External links
UK edition
Property Ladder at Channel4.com

U.S. edition
Property Ladder at TLC

Dutch edition
Bouwval gezocht at RTL Nederland

Channel 4 original programming
Home renovation television series
American television series based on British television series
TLC (TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
2001 British television series debuts
2001 American television series debuts
John Edgar (politician)

John Edgar (ca. 1750–1832) was an Illinois pioneer and politician. He was born in Ireland. In 1776, he was the commander of a British ship in the Great Lakes. He resigned from the British Navy rather than fight against the Americans.

Edgar settled at Fort Kaskaskia in 1784. He became a merchant, and built a flour mill. He shipped large quantities of flour from Illinois to New Orleans.

Edgar was an Illinois delegate to the Legislature of the Northwest Territory. He also served as Justice of the Peace and Judge in Kaskaskia.

In his time, Edgar was believed to have been the wealthiest man in Illinois. He held many large land claims around the State. Edgar County, Illinois was named in his honor. Although he probably never went there, there is an old story that he once bought and then sold the entire County.

Notes

Sources
 History of McKendree College, Walton, 1928

1750 births
1832 deaths
People from Kaskaskia, Illinois
Northwest Territory House of Representatives
J. Paul Binnebose

J. Paul Binnebose (born November 26, 1977) is a former American pair skater. With his partner Laura Handy, he is the 1999 World Junior silver medalist and 1999 U.S. senior national bronze medalist.

Career 
Early in his pairs career, Binnebose competed with Sara Ward. They placed ninth at the 1994 World Junior Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He and his next partner, Jacki Davidson, won the junior bronze medal at the 1996 U.S. Championships.

By the 1997–98 season, Binnebose was competing with Laura Lynn Handy. The pair won the 1997 Nebelhorn Trophy and finished sixth at the 1998 U.S. Championships. In the 1998–99 season, Handy/Binnebose won the silver medal at the 1999 World Junior Championships and senior bronze at the 1999 U.S. Championships. They withdrew from the 1999 World Championships because Binnebose had the flu.

On September 29, 1999, Binnebose fell while lifting Handy and hit his head on the ice, suffering a skull fracture and brain injury. He had emergency brain surgery and was put in an induced coma. His heart also stopped twice but he was brought back and gradually began to recover. Binnebose was released from hospital on November 30, 1999. His accident and recovery was featured on the Discovery Health Channel television series Impact: Stories of Survival. As of 2010, he continued to suffer facial paralysis and other effects of the injury but had returned to the ice and was teaching skating.

Binnebose has worked with numerous nonprofit organizations including Feed America and a monthly residual program he started in 2014 through a franchise company, ACN, INC.

Personal life 
Binnebose married a fellow skater, with whom he has two sons, Ethan and Eli. He was divorced in 2013 and later married his longtime friend, Crystal Hess-Binnebose. He has a daughter, Eléora, from his second marriage and a stepdaughter Enya. The family lives in WI and CO.

Results

With Sara Ward

With Jacki Davidson

With Laura Handy

References 

1977 births
American male pair skaters
Living people
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
Serov Instructions

The so-called Serov Instructions (full title: On the Procedure for Carrying out the Deportation of Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia) was an undated top secret document, signed by General Ivan Serov, Deputy People's Commissar for State Security of the Soviet Union (NKGB). The instructions detailed procedures on how to carry out the mass deportations to Siberia of June 13–14, 1941, which occurred throughout Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia during the first (1940-1941) Soviet occupation of the three Baltic countries.

The instructions specified that the deportations would be carried out as secretly, quietly and speedily as possible. Families were restricted to taking  of their belongings (clothes, food, kitchenware). The heads of the families were sent to Gulag labor camps, and other members were transported to forced settlements in remote areas of the Soviet Union.

Dating and confusion
While the original document is undated, sources provide various dates from October 11, 1939 to January 21, 1941. However, the NKGB was created only on February 3, 1941 and so could not have issued documents earlier.

A copy of the instructions, found in Šiauliai, had a stamp that the document was received on June 7. Therefore, the instructions must have been written sometime between February and June 1941.

The Serov Instructions are often confused with NKVD Order No. 001223, a completely different document that was signed by Lavrenty Beria on October 11, 1939, which was prepared by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) and listed various groups of people (anticommunists, former military or police personnel, large landowners, industrialists etc.) to be targeted by Soviet security structures according to the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code). The original Serov Instructions had no date or number. The confusion possibly originates from the Third Interim Report by the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R., which published the full text of the Instructions under a misleading heading as Order № 001223.

See also 
 Population transfer in the Soviet Union

References 

Government documents of the Soviet Union
1941 in Estonia
1941 in Lithuania
1941 in Latvia
1941 in the Soviet Union
Forced migration in the Soviet Union
World War II documents
1941 documents
Laura Handy

Laura Lynn Handy (born July 25, 1980, in Atlantic City, New Jersey) is an American pair skater. With partner Paul Binnebose, she is the 1999 U.S. senior national bronze medalist and 1999 World Junior silver medalist. Later that year, Binnebose suffered a skull fracture, and he never returned to competitive skating. Handy later competed with Jonathon Hunt and Jeremy Allen. Handy is now a coach.

Programs
With Hunt

With Allen

Results

Singles

Pairs 

With Peterson

With Binnebose

With Hunt

With Allen

References

1980 births
American female pair skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Atlantic City, New Jersey
World Junior Figure Skating Championships medalists
21st-century American women
20th-century American women
Tracy Woodson

Tracy Michael Woodson (born October 5, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and college coach. He played all or part of five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1987 to 1989 and 1992 to 1993, primarily as a third baseman. He recently coached the Richmond Spiders baseball team.

Playing career
Woodson played college baseball for NC State from 1982 to 1984.  His teammates included Doug Davis, Dan Plesac, Doug Strange, and Jim Toman. In 1983, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Over his five-year major league career, he played with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals. Woodson was a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers team that won the 1988 World Series. Notably, against the Cincinnati Reds on September 16 of that year, he struck out for the 27th and final out in Tom Browning's perfect game. Woodson pinch-hit for Dodgers right-hander Tim Belcher. His first career home-run came off of Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan.

Coaching career
After his playing career was over, he managed for several years in minor league baseball, where he compiled a record of 443 wins and 468 losses and the 2003 Southern League championship with the Carolina Mudcats.  Prior to the start of 2007 season, he was named the head baseball coach at Valparaiso, where he coached for seven seasons (2007–13) and led the program to two NCAA Tournament appearances. Prior to the start of the 2014 season, he left Valparaiso to become the head coach of Richmond.

He also works as a Division I men's college basketball referee.

Minor League Baseball managerial record

Head coaching record
The following is a table of Woodson's NCAA head coaching records.

See also
 List of current NCAA Division I baseball coaches

References

External links

1962 births
Living people
Albuquerque Dukes players
Albuquerque Isotopes managers
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball coaches from Virginia
Baseball players from Richmond, Virginia
Columbus Clippers players
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Iowa Cubs players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Louisville Redbirds players
Major League Baseball third basemen
NC State Wolfpack baseball players
Richmond Braves players
Richmond Spiders baseball coaches
Rochester Red Wings players
St. Louis Cardinals players
San Antonio Dodgers players
Valparaiso Beacons baseball coaches
Vancouver Canadians players
Vero Beach Dodgers players
Lazar Lyusternik

Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik (also Lusternik, Lusternick, Ljusternik; ; 31 December 1899 – 22 July 1981) was a Soviet mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle. Using the theory he introduced, together with Lev Schnirelmann, he proved the theorem of the three geodesics, a conjecture by Henri Poincaré that every convex body in 3-dimensions has at least three simple closed geodesics. The ellipsoid with distinct but nearly equal axis is the critical case with exactly three closed geodesics.

The Lusternik–Schnirelmann theory, as it is called now, is based on the previous work by Poincaré, David Birkhoff, and Marston Morse. It has led to numerous advances in differential geometry and topology. For this work Lyusternik received the Stalin Prize in 1946. In addition to serving as a professor of mathematics at Moscow State University, Lyusternik also worked at the Steklov Mathematical Institute (RAS) from 1934 to 1948 and the Lebedev Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Engineering (IPMCE) from 1948 to 1955.

He was a student of Nikolai Luzin. In 1930 he became one of the initiators of the Egorov affair and then one of the participants in the notorious political persecution of his teacher Nikolai Luzin known as the Luzin affair.

See also
 Lusternik–Schnirelmann category
 Lyusternik's generalization of the Brunn–Minkowski theorem

References

 Pavel Alexandrov et al., LAZAR' ARONOVICH LYUSTERNIK (on the occasion of his 60th birthday), Russ. Math. Surv. 15 (1960), 153–168.
 Pavel Alexandrov, In memory of Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik, Russ. Math. Surv. 37 (1982), 145-147

External links
 

1899 births
1981 deaths
20th-century Polish Jews
20th-century Polish mathematicians
20th-century Russian mathematicians
People from Zduńska Wola
People from Kalisz Governorate
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Moscow State University alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Differential geometers
Topologists
Soviet mathematicians
Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery
Jan Čarek

Jan Čarek (29 December 1898, in Heřmaň, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic – 27 March 1966, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czechoslovak poet, essayist, and literary critic. He was greatly popular in his day for his children's books a "rural" poetry.

Biography 
From 1910 to 1918 he studied at the gymnasium in Písek. He was initially working as a railway clerk. Since 1946 he started his professional writer career.

Since the 1920s he regularly published his works in a number of Czech literary magazines. After 1948 he devoted himself almost exclusively to children's literature.

Works 
Vojna, 1920
Chudá rodina z Heřmaně, 1924
Temno v chalupách, 1926
Smutný život, 1929
Tři baldy o válce, 1934
Hvězdy na nebi, 1934
Balada o Kýrovi, 1934
Všechny chalupy,. 1936
Tváří k vesnici, 1938
Svatozář, 1939
Devítiocasá kočka, 1936
Básně rolníků, 1939
Temno v chalupách, 1941
O životě a literatuře, 1941
Maminka, 1941
V zemi české, 1942
Na špičku nože, 1943
Železná panna, 1946
Mezi dvěma ohni, 1947
Dopis na věčnost, 1947
Ráj domova, 1948
Jan Opolský, 1949
Heřmaň, 1952
Zvířátka – naši přátelé, 1953
Zlatý dětský věk, 1953
Bajky o nástrojích, 1953
Radost nad radost, 1954
Náš jeden rok, 1954
Máš rád stromy? 1954
Co si povídaly stroje, 1955
Ovoce, ovoce na naší zahrádce, 1957
Co zvířátka dovedou, 1957
Bylo – nebylo, 1957
Veselý věneček, 1958
Svíce potěšení, 1958
Dobrý den, zvířátka, 1958
Od jehly k mašinkám, 1960
Kreslíme rozprávku k medvídkovej chalúpke, 1960
O veselé mašince, 1961
Na polane, na lúke, 1961
Kolo radovánek, 1961
Dve mašinky, 1961
Farby, farbičky, 1962
10 kuriatok, 1963
Políčko, pole, 1963
Nejkrásnější zvířátko, 1963
Cose to děje? 1965
Čarokruh, 1971
Motýlí čas, 1978

External links
 citarny.cz  

1898 births
1966 deaths
Czechoslovak poets
Evald Okas

Evald Okas (28 November 1915 – 30 April 2011) was an Estonian painter, probably best known for his portraits of nudes.

Biography
Okas was born in Tallinn, where he began his artistic career while studying at the State Art School.  With the advent of World War II and the Soviet invasion and occupation of Estonia, he was subsequently mobilized into Soviet army, but, like many other Estonians, moved to work battalions in Kotlas, Russia. When the Soviet officials decided to organize the artistic collectives in the Soviet rear in Yaroslavl, several Estonian artists, including Okas, were provided with an opportunity to leave the work battalions and join the artistic ensembles in 1942. The "Yaroslavl artists", as they came to be known,  were also the founding members of the Soviet Estonian Artists Union established in 1943.

In Yaroslavl Okas befriended the rather well-known Estonian graphic artist Aino Bach and Richard Sagrits who mentored Okas and helped him hone his skills as an artist. By Soviet regulations, however, all artists were expected to paint in the Social Realism genre.

In 1947, Okas, with Elmar Kits and Richard Sagrits painted the ceiling of the Estonian National Opera in the style of Socialist Realism. By the late 1950s, Evald Okas was working mainly in the medium of charcoals and earning his living by sketching ex libris - graphic designs that identify the owner of a book, usually pasted onto the inside cover. Around this time Okas was even given permission to travel; first, within the Soviet Republics, then later worldwide and exhibit works as far afield as Asia and Western Europe.

In 1954 he became the professor at the Estonian State Art Institute; in 1962 the corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union and the full member of the academy in 1975.

Evald Okas lived in Tallinn and was a member of the Estonian Artists’ Association.

His son Jüri Okas is an architect, installation artist and printmaker.

References

References/External links
Haus Galerii Biography

1915 births
2011 deaths
Artists from Tallinn
People from Kreis Harrien
Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1963–1967
Members of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, 1967–1971
Ninth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Tenth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
20th-century Estonian painters
20th-century Estonian male artists
Estonian illustrators
Estonian graphic artists
21st-century Estonian painters
Estonian Academy of Arts alumni
Soviet military personnel of World War II
People's Artists of the USSR (visual arts)
People's Artists of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (visual arts)
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 3rd Class
Drijat

Drijat (; ), also known as Draijat, is an Arab village in southern Israel. Located in the Negev desert near Arad, between Kuseife and the Yatir Forest, it falls under the jurisdiction of al-Kasom Regional Council. In  its population was .

History
According to its residents, Drijat was established in the 19th century. However, like dozens of other Arab locales in the Negev Desert, was an unrecognized village until 2004, when it joined the Abu Basma Regional Council. It is the only Arab village in the Negev that is not Bedouin; its residents are descended from a long line of fellahin. The ruins of a historical site named Dargot is located in Drijat, which is on the Israel National Trail.

In 2009 the village was connected to national water carrier, but remains unconnected to the electricity grid. In 2005, it became the first town in the world to be outfitted with a multipurpose solar electricity system for providing power to the entire village and reducing pollution. The only solar-powered mosque in the Middle East is also located in the village.

See also
Arab localities in Israel

References

Al-Kasom Regional Council
Arab villages in Israel
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
Stephanie Kalesavich

Stephanie Kalesavich Buono (born May 31, 1984) is an American former competitive pair skater. With Aaron Parchem, she is the 2000 Golden Spin of Zagreb champion and the 2001 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medalist. They competed at one ISU Championship, the 2002 Four Continents, where they placed fifth.

Personal life
Stephanie Kalesavich was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. She married Michael Buono in around 2005 and has three daughters, Gabriella, Aria and Liliana.

Career
Kalesavich began skating at age eight. In 1997, she won a U.S. national title on the novice level with Amaan Archer. The pair competed at one ISU Junior Grand Prix event, in the autumn of 1998.

Coaches at the Detroit Skating Club paired Kalesavich with Aaron Parchem in March 1999. The pair won the junior title at the 2000 U.S. Championships with all first-place ordinals in the free skate.

In 2001, Kalesavich/Parchem began competing internationally and won a pewter medal at the 2001 U.S. Championships. The following year, the pair placed second after the short program, but were narrowly edged out for the silver by Scott/Dulebohn after the free skate. As bronze medalists, Kalesavich/Parchem were named the first Olympic alternates in that year. Their partnership ended just after the 2003 U.S. Championships.

Kalesavich coaches young skaters of all levels at the Onyx-Suburban Skating Academy in Rochester and Macomb Township, Michigan.

Programs
(with Parchem)

Results

With Archer

With Parchem

References

1984 births
American female pair skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
20th-century American sportswomen
21st-century American sportswomen
Bluff Swamp

Bluff Swamp (, )  is located in northwest Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The potential site covers 2,208 acres (8.9 km2). About 1,240 acres (5.0 km2) of the Bluff Swamp area make up the Bluff Swamp Wildlife Refuge.

Swamps of Louisiana
Landforms of Ascension Parish, Louisiana
MacHTTP

MacHTTP is a webserver designed to run on the classic Mac OS versions 7.x through 9.x. It was written by software developer Chuck Shotton and was originally shareware; it dates from 1993; it is now available in source code form from SourceForge.net under the Perl Artistic License. The current version is 2.6.1. It is still used on some older Macintosh hardware. It was later commercialized as WebSTAR, sold originally by StarNine and later bought by Quarterdeck Software.

The program runs on Mac OS X under the Classic Environment, but has not been ported to run natively on Mac OS X (though an attempt was apparently underway in 2003 to do so). It has functionally been replaced with the Apache web server.

MacHTTP supports the Common Gateway Interface standard for generating dynamic content, as well as Apple Events for scriptability.

References

External links
The MacHTTP home page
The Sourceforge record for MacHTTP

Web server software
Macintosh-only software
Discontinued software
Larisa Spielberg

Larisa B. Spielberg Joeright (born December 22, 1980) is an American former competitive pair skater. With her husband, Craig Joeright, she is the 2002 Golden Spin of Zagreb champion and 2000 U.S. national bronze medalist.

Personal life 
Spielberg was born on December 22, 1980, in Lansing, Michigan. She graduated from East Lansing High School in 1999 and later studied health sciences, with an emphasis on physical therapy, at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She graduated from Wayne State University School Of Medicine in 2005.

Spielberg and Joeright announced their engagement in August 2003. Their twin daughters were born in 2012.

Career 
Spielberg began learning to skate in 1990. A pairs coach, Johnny Johns, introduced her to Craig Joeright. Spielberg/Joeright teamed up in September 1996 at the Detroit Skating Club. Early in their partnership, they were coached by Johns, Mitch Moyer, and Jason Dungjen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Competing in the 1998–99 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, the pair won bronze in Mexico City, Mexico, and placed fifth in Budapest, Hungary.

During the 1999–2000 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Spielberg/Joeright won silver in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and then took bronze in Nagano, Japan. They finished as third alternates for a spot at the JGP Final. In February, they competed in the senior ranks at the 2000 U.S. Championships and received the bronze medal. In March, they placed 13th at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.

In 2001, Spielberg injured her left wrist and foot, causing the pair to withdraw from the Grand Prix series. Sergey Petrovskiy, Richard Callaghan, and Veronica Voyk became their coaches after Spielberg/Joeright relocated to the Onyx Skating Academy in Rochester, Michigan, in 2001.

Making their senior international debut, the pair placed fifth at the 2002 Nebelhorn Trophy and then won gold at the 2002 Golden Spin of Zagreb. They took the pewter medal at the 2003 U.S. Championships.

In their final season, Spielberg/Joeright competed at two senior Grand Prix events; they placed seventh at the 2003 Skate America and tenth at the 2003 Skate Canada International. They retired from competitive skating after placing sixth at the 2004 U.S. Championships.

Programs 
(with Craig Joeright)

Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

 with Joeright

References

External links
 

1980 births
American female pair skaters
Living people
People from East Lansing, Michigan
21st-century American women
20th-century American women
Alena Vostrá

Alena Vostrá (May 17, 1938, Prague – April 15, 1992, Prague) was a Czech novelist. One of her most popular works was A Matter of Days.

She was born as Rozená Obdržálková in Prague and in 1956, after graduating from the high school, studied engineering at Czech Technical University in Prague for two semesters, then stopped and started her studies at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU). In 1960, she was expelled for "individualism", but she was eventually allowed to continue with her studies. In 1962, she started to specialize in dramaturgy. In 1963, she married the author Jaroslav Vostrý. Vostrá started to publish in 1963 and won a state prize for her first book aimed at adults, Bůh z reklamy. She graduated in 1966.

Alena Vostrá wrote mainly theater pieces and screenplays, as well as fiction and fairy tales for children. In the theater pieces, her characters often encounter the grotesque reality of life. In prose, she often underlines connections between seemingly unimportant things.

Bibliography

Novels 
Vodní bubláček Tarabka
Kdo nevěří, ať tam jede
Co dělá vítr, když nefouká
Pepibubu
Kouzelný oblázek
U nás ve Švandaluzii
Bůh z reklamy  (1964)
Vlažná vlna  (1966)
Všema čtyřma očima  (1982)
Než dojde k vraždě  (1985)
Výbuch bude v šest  (1985)
Tanec na ledě  (1988)
Médium (1991)
Benedikt Sluhou Barona Prasila  (1997, posthumous)

Plays 

 Na koho to slovo padne  (1967)
 Na ostří nože  (1968)

References 

1938 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Czech writers
20th-century Czech women writers
Czech children's writers
Czech Technical University in Prague alumni
Czech screenwriters
Czech dramatists and playwrights
Dramaturges
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni