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Future: Tense: The Coming World Order

Future: Tense: The Coming World Order () is a 2004 book by Canadian journalist and author Gwynne Dyer.  In it he examines the motivations and consequences of the 2003 U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq.

Arguments

In his book, Dyer makes the argument that:
the U.S. "neo-conservative agenda" included the invasion of a country as a demonstration of U.S. military power and a new willingness to operate in defiance of international co-operation and the UN;
Iraq was chosen because it was an unpopular government engaged in human rights violations and obstruction in implementing U.N. resolutions, and that therefore an invasion would elicit a minimum of antipathy from the world;
Iraq was also chosen because, while it was a potential long-term threat, the invasion would be low-risk as it was considered unlikely that Iraq possessed usable weapons of mass destruction;
oil was not a motivating factor, as military occupation is not the most cost-effective way to obtain oil;
undermining the UN's role in international security will result in the kind of security situation that existed in 1914;
the United States does not have the military assets or economic base to sustain a self-appointed role as the world's 'judge, jury and executioner';

His conclusion is that embarking on a mission of world domination without the ability to sustain it in the long term will lead to a dangerous increase in the chances of a world war.

Online resources
Full text available at Internet Archive

Iraq–United States relations
2004 books
Works by Gwynne Dyer
Austrian Rugby Federation

The Austrian Rugby Federation () is the governing body for rugby union in Austria.

The first documented game of rugby played in Austria occurred on April 14, 1912. The sport was being brought to Austria by two Englishmen hoping to expand the sports base. It was over sixty years, however, before rugby union took hold in Austria.

Vienna Celtic RFC was founded in 1978 and was the first rugby union club founded in Austria. The ÖRV was founded in 1990 and joined the International Rugby Board in 1992.

List of presidents
Thomas Gabriel (2001–2003)
Paul Duteil (2003-2007)
Andreas Schwab (2007-present)

List of vice presidents
Wolfgang Roehrer (2003-2007)
Renee Carmine-Jones (2007-present)

General secretary
Alexandra Langer-Hansel (2003-present)

National league coordinator
Martin Puchinger (2008-present)

Women's rugby development officer
Renee Carmine-Jones (2003-present)

Training and education coordinator
Renee Carmine-Jones (2007-present)

See also
Rugby union in Austria
Austria national rugby union team

References

External links
 Österreichischer Rugby Verband - Official site 
 Women's Rugby Austria - Official site 

 
Rugby union governing bodies in Europe
Rugby
Sports organizations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Austria
Florida Hills

Florida Hills is a suburb of Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa. It lies to the northwest of downtown Johannesburg and north of Soweto. It is a suburb of Roodepoort.

References

Johannesburg Region C
Trikuta

Trikuta is a three-peaked mountain near Jammu city in Jammu and Kashmir, India which is considered significant and holy in Hinduism.

Significance to history and Hinduism
Trikuta is one of the twenty mountains surrounding Maha Meru (Mount Meru) the home of Brahma. The height is said in the Bhagavata Purana to be 10,000 yojanas, and the three peaks are iron, silver and gold. The mountain is believed to be the second home of the divine goddess Durga. She was created with the power of the three goddesses to end evil; hence, the mountain is called Trikuta.

Trikuta in Jammu
Another Trikuta is located in Jammu,INDIA division. Trikuta, the triple peak, is where the holy shrine of Vaishno Devi can be found.

See also 
 Sacred mountains of India

References

Locations in Hindu mythology
Ancient Indian mountains
Places in the Ramayana
Katra, Jammu and Kashmir
Masticophis

Masticophis is a genus of colubrid snakes, commonly referred to as whip snakes or coachwhips, which are endemic to the Americas. They are characterized by having a long, thin body and are not dangerous to humans.

Distribution and habitat
Species of Masticophis are found in the United States, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.

Description
Adults of species in the genus Masticophis may attain a total length (including tail) from 152 cm (5 ft) for M. lateralis to 259 cm (8.5 ft) for M. flagellum. A distinctive character of this genus is the shape of the frontal scale (the large scale in the center of the upper surface of the head) which is bell-shaped and elongated. At the rear of the body, the dorsal scales are arranged in only 13 rows.

Species and subspecies
The genus Masticophis contains eleven species that are recognized as being valid, five of which have recognized subspecies.
Masticophis anthonyi  – Clarion Island whip snake
Masticophis aurigulus  – Baja California striped whip snake
Masticophis barbouri  – Baja California striped whip snake, Espiritu Santo striped whip snake
Masticophis bilineatus  – Sonoran whip snake
Masticophis flagellum  – coachwhip
Masticophis flagellum cingulum  – Sonoran coachwhip
Masticophis flagellum flagellum  – eastern coachwhip
Masticophis flagellum lineatulus  – lined coachwhip
Masticophis flagellum piceus  – red coachwhip
Masticophis flagellum ruddocki  – San Joaquin coachwhip
Masticophis flagellum testaceus  – western coachwhip
Masticophis fuliginosus  – Baja California coachwhip
Masticophis lateralis  – California whipsnake
Masticophis lateralis euryxanthus  – Alameda striped racer
Masticophis lateralis lateralis  – California striped racer

Masticophis mentovarius  – neotropical whip snake
Masticophis mentovarius centralis 
Masticophis mentovarius mentovarius 
Masticophis mentovarius suborbitalis 
Masticophis mentovarius striolatus 
Masticophis mentovarius variolosus 
Masticophis schotti  – Schott's whip snake
Masticophis schotti ruthveni  – Ruthven's whip snake
Masticophis schotti schotti  – Schott's whip snake
Masticophis slevini  – Isla San Esteban whipsnake, San Esteban Island whipsnake 
Masticophis taeniatus  – striped whip snake
Masticophis taeniatus girardi  – Central Texas whip snake
Masticophis taeniatus taeniatus  – desert striped whip snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority or trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species or subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Masticophis.

References

Further reading
Baird SF, Girard C (1853). Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part I.—Serpents. Washington, District of Columbia: Smithsonian Institution. xvi + 172 pp. (Masticophis, new genus, p. 98).

External links

https://serpientesdevenezuela.org/masticophis-mentovarius/

Masticophis
Snake genera
Taxa named by Spencer Fullerton Baird
Taxa named by Charles Frédéric Girard
In the Sky

In the Sky is the second extended play by Australian singer–songwriter Mallrat, released on 1 June 2018 through Dew Process.

Reception

Hannah Kenny from Forte Magazine described the sound on the EP as "dreamy, mixing harmonious melodies with serene vocals, the perfect contemporary lullaby music" and called the production "more refined".

Joanna Panagopoulos from Happy Mag said "In the Sky bottles up emotion and hands it to you in a dreamy, electro-pop vial. The music she makes is personal, nostalgic, but it's music for the world."

Tim Lambert from Stack Magazine called the EP an "evolution" from her debut single in 2015. Lambert said "...as a general rule you shouldn't allow Shaw's subtle, candied vocals to fool you into expecting matching up-beat lyrical content; most of it's fairly personal, with unrequited love and frustration the most repeated themes."

Chris White from When the Horn Blows said "Two years have shown what Mallrat is capable of and how much her talents have grown, bringing stronger themes to the EP, such as loss, loneliness and uncertainty, but always manages to keep the listener feeling good with its fantastic beats and wonderfully poppy harmonies."

Track listing

Release history

References

2018 EPs
Mallrat EPs
Jeff Coetzee

Jeff Coetzee (born 25 April 1977) is a South African professional tennis player and competes regularly on the ATP tour, as a doubles specialist.

The 5'8" player plays right-handed, double-handed on both sides and has won six ATP Tour doubles titles in his career. Coetzee plays doubles for the South Africa Davis Cup team.  When Jeff is not traveling, he resides in Florida Hills, South Africa.

ATP Tour finals

Doubles (6–9)

Doubles runners-up (10)
2006: Newport (with Justin Gimelstob, lost to Robert Kendrick and Jürgen Melzer)

Doubles performance timeline

Notes

References

External links
 
 
 

1977 births
Living people
Coloured South African people
South African people of Dutch descent
South African male tennis players
Tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players for South Africa
Gaze heuristic

The gaze heuristic is a heuristic used in directing correct motion to achieve a goal using one main variable. An example of the gaze heuristic is catching a ball. The gaze heuristic is one example of psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer's one good reason heuristic, where human animals and non-human animals are able to process large amounts of information quickly and react, regardless of whether the information is consciously processed.

The gaze heuristic is a critical element in animal behavior, being used in predation heavily. At the most basic level, the gaze heuristic ignores all casual relevant variables to make quick gut reactions.

Example

A catcher using the gaze heuristic observes the initial angle of the ball and runs towards it in such a way as to keep this angle constant. The gaze heuristic does not require knowledge of any of the variables required by the optimizing approach, nor does it require the catcher to integrate information, yet it allows the catcher to catch the ball. The gaze heuristic may therefore be described at ecologically rational at least in the simple case of catching a ball in the air.

References

Heuristics
Shing Wong Street

Shing Wong Street () is a street on the hill slope of Sheung Wan and Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. The street extends from Gough Street at its lowest to Caine Road highest.  The street is one of ladder streets in Hong Kong, made of stone steps, in the section between Hollywood Road and Caine Road.

Between Hollywood Road and Staunton Street, a large terrace at the street east erects two former staff quarters of Hong Kong Police Force built in 1950s, which have been converted into PMQ. The terrace was constructed for the old campus of Queen's College earlier, the largest building in Hong Kong at the time.

The Staunton Street ends at Shing Wong Street and Bridges Street extends it west. Bridges Street Market is located their junction. Walking upstair are mixture of modern and pre-World War II buildings till the end of the Shing Wong Street at Caine Road.

In 2018, Hong Kong highway officials put anti-skid coating on 100 steps along Shing Wong Street. After public backlash and criticism that the coating would destroy the historic steps, it was removed in early 2019.

See also
 List of streets and roads in Hong Kong

References

External links

 Shing Wong Street on Film Services Office website

Ladder streets in Hong Kong
Roads on Hong Kong Island
Sheung Wan
Veterans Bridge

Veterans Bridge may refer to a bridge in the United States:

 Veterans Bridge (Chesapeake, Virginia), on U.S. 17 which replaced Dominion Boulevard Steel Bridge
 Veterans Bridge (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, part of Interstate 579
 Veterans' Bridge (Pueblo), Colorado
 Veterans Bridge (St. Cloud, Minnesota)
 Veteran's International Bridge, in Brownsville, Texas
 Martin Luther King Bridge (St. Louis), Missouri, formerly known as the Veterans Bridge

See also 
 Veterans Memorial Bridge (disambiguation)
Wall (Unix)

(an abbreviation of write to all) is a Unix command-line utility that displays the contents of a computer file or standard input to all logged-in users. It is typically used by root to send out shutting down message to all users just before poweroff.

Invocation
 reads the message from standard input by default when the filename is omitted. This is done by piping the output of the  command:
alice@sleipnir:~$ # `tty` to show the current terminal name
alice@sleipnir:~$ tty
/dev/pts/7
alice@sleipnir:~$ echo Remember to brush your teeth! | wall

The message may also be typed in much the same way  is used: invoking  by typing  and pressing  followed by a message, pressing  and +:
alice@sleipnir:~$ wall
Remember to brush your teeth!
^D

Using a here-string:
alice@sleipnir:~$ wall <<< 'Remember to brush your teeth!'

Reading from a file is also supported:
alice@sleipnir:~$ cat .important_announcement
Remember to brush your teeth!
alice@sleipnir:~$ wall .important_announcement # same as `wall !$`

All the commands above should display the following output on terminals that users allow write access to (see mesg(1)):
Broadcast Message from alice@sleipnir
  (/dev/pts/7) at 16:15 ...

Remember to brush your teeth!

See also 
 Jordan Hubbard § rwall incident

References
 
 
 
 

Unix user management and support-related utilities
HKFA League Cup

Hong Kong Football Association League Cup () is an annual football competition contested by clubs in the top-tier Hong Kong domestic football league (currently Hong Kong Premier League). The cup was relaunched for the 2014–15 season after being discontinued in the 2012–13 season.

Format
All teams in Hong Kong First Division League (until 2013–2014 season) / Hong Kong Premier League (starting from 2014 to 2015 season) are divided in the 2 groups (Group A & B) in first round stage. Each team plays against all other teams in the group once. The top two teams in each group qualify into the semi-finals.
In the semi-finals, the first team in Group A plays against second team in Group B while the first team in Group B plays against second team in Group A.
The winner of the semi-finals enter the final, which is usually held in Hong Kong Stadium.

Finals

Key

Results

Results by team

See also
The Hong Kong Football Association
Hong Kong First Division League

References

External links
Hong Kong Football
RSSSF.com Hong Kong – List of League Cup Finalists

 
Cup
Football cup competitions in Hong Kong
Recurring sporting events established in 2000
2000 establishments in Hong Kong
List of Australian rules footballers and cricketers

This is a listing of players to have played both Australian rules football in the nation's premier leagues and first-class cricket or higher. These leagues are the Australian Football League (AFL) (formerly the VFL), AFL Women's (AFLW), West Australian Football League (WAFL) and South Australian National Football League (SANFL). First-class cricketers who played football in other states are eligible if they had a notable career in that state's top league.

In the early years of the VFL it was quite common for footballers to play district cricket over the summer months, some of them even made their state sides and others represented Australia. Likewise cricketers would often play football in the off season to keep fit and if good enough would appear in their state's best league.

Players are divided into the lists below by which state they spent the majority of their sporting career or in come cases their state or origin.

International cricketers who played interstate football

International cricketers who played league football

State cricketers who played interstate football

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

First-class cricketers who played league football

Australian Capital Territory

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

References
 (section titled "On Famous Footballing Cricketers" based on work by Jim Phelan)

Cricket
Football
Cricket
Old Thong Chai Medical Institution

The Old Thong Chai Medical Institution () is a historic building in Singapore, and is located at Eu Tong Sen Street in the Singapore River Planning Area, within the Central Area, Singapore's central business district.

The building was constructed in 1892, and housed one of the best known Chinese charity medical centres in Singapore. Traditional Chinese doctors or sinsehs used to dispense free treatment and medicine to patients of all races in Singapore. Today, it is used as a commercial building for the Singapore office for Forever Living Products.

The current Thong Chai Medical Institution was located in Thong Chai Building, 50 Chin Swee Road.

History

In 1867, two Chinese merchants got together to set up Singapore's first traditional Chinese medical institution for the poor. These compassionate men saw an urgent need for a charitable organisation that provided medical advice and assistance to those who could not afford to pay for it.

The Old Thong Chai Medical Institution was gazetted as a national monument on 6 July 1973.

Commercial history
The late 1990s saw the building first becoming a nightclub and later a number of restaurants. In 2000, the building was acquired by Tung Lok Group and the building became a restaurant known as Jing. Not long after its opening, the group revamped its concept and named it Asian. Both restaurants proved to be unpopular, and it closed down in 2003 due to SARS outbreak. The building was unused for around two years and it was converted into its current use in 2005.

The building is currently owned by Forever Living Products Intl, a multi-level marketing company selling aloe vera products. The company bought the building from the government in 2005 for S$7 million. The furnishing and such cost the company an additional $3 million as they imported the antique furnitures from Malaysia and China.

References

National Heritage Board (2002), Singapore's 100 Historic Places, Archipelago Press, 
Preservation of Monuments Board, Know Our Monuments

External links
 Singapore eCitizen website
 Singapore Infopedia

National monuments of Singapore
Infrastructure completed in 1892
Singapore River
Forever Living Products
19th-century architecture in Singapore
Fred Stenson

Fred Stenson may refer to:

 Fred Stenson (politician), former Canadian MP for Peterborough
 Fred Stenson (writer), writer of historical fiction from Alberta

See also
 Fred Stinson, a puppeteer; see Cult of Chucky
 Fred C. Stinson (1922–2007), Canadian politician
Reich Technologies

Reich Technologies was one of the UML Partners, a consortium that was instrumental to the development of standards for the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The CEO for the company (Georges-Pierre Reich) represented Reich Technologies on the committee, and was involved in the development of the proposal. The proposal was submitted to the Object Management Group (OMG), which approved the proposal, circa late 1997.

Profile
Reich Technologies is an international group of companies, providing a coordinated suite of products and services to support object-oriented (OO) software development in large corporations. With a presence throughout Europe and North America, Reich Technologies occupies leading positions in the world markets for integrated OO CASE tools, fine-grained object repositories and OO team programming environments.

The Intelligent Software Factory (ISF) offers an integrated object-oriented CASE tool suite. It is built on the concept of model-driven development in which the work done at the beginning of a project creates an environment for configuration management and cost containment for software maintenance. ISF has been originally built by Franck Barbier, a French researcher on OO modeling.

The Intelligent Artifact Repository (IAR) provides an enterprise-wide resource for the management and reuse of Information System assets. This concept is so powerful that the development team uses ISF and IAR for production, making ISF the first CASE tool to be self-generated. Recognizing the impact of introducing tools, Reich Technologies offers success oriented services including training, consulting and tool customizations. Corporations combine tools, services and processes with their own organizations to implement a Corporate Software Ecology.

Reich Technologies worked with Alistair Cockburn (special advisor to the Central Bank of Norway) and Ralph Hodgson (founder of TopQuadrant) to flesh out the concept of Use Case and integrate it in the context of Responsibility-Driven Design. Several large companies have built systems upon these constructs since 1992. Structured Use Cases and detailed Responsibility models proved to be a relevant answer to the challenge of gathering and organizing thousands of requirements, defining the scope of the system, and designing an architecture for objects. A methodology with processes and identified deliverables has been created in a joint effort. 

As tool builders, Reich Technologies adds the knowledge of implementing lifecycle management for the meta-model objects. Reich Technologies has also extensive experience designing the meta-models that implement in ISF the modeling notations of diverse methodologists.

Reich Technologies sells off-the-shelf and tailored versions of their CASE tools.

References

External links
Official Site
UML Partners List
Creator of Intelligent Software Factory

Unified Modeling Language
Companies with year of establishment missing
Fred Stenson (writer)

Frederick "Fred" Stenson (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian writer of historical fiction and nonfiction relating to the Canadian West.

In addition to his published work, Stenson has been a faculty member at The Banff Centre, where he has directed the Wired Writing Studio for eleven years. He is also a documentary film writer, with over 140 credits. He writes a regular wit column for Alberta Views Magazine. His 2000 novel The Trade was shortlisted for Canada's Giller Prize.  Both The Trade and his 2003 novel Lightning won the Grant MacEwan Author's Prize for best Alberta book of the year. His 2008 novel The Great Karoo was nominated for the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award in Fiction and was a nominee for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Canada/Caribbean).

Stenson was raised on a farm and cattle ranch in the Waterton region of southwest Alberta. He is married to the poet Pamela Banting and lives in Cochrane, Alberta. His son Ted is a film director, whose feature debut Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game was released in 2020.

Bibliography
 Lonesome Hero - 1974
 Rocky Mountain House - 1985
 Waste to Wealth - 1985
 Last One Home - 1988
 Working Without a Laugh Track - 1990
 The Story of Calgary - 1994
 Teeth - 1994
 RCMP: The March West - 1999
 The Last Stack - 2000
 The Trade - 2000
 Lightning - 2003
 Thing Feigned or Imagined - 2003
 The Great Karoo - 2008
 Who by Fire – 2014

References 

Canadian male novelists
1951 births
Living people
Canadian people of Norwegian descent
Writers from Calgary
People from Cochrane, Alberta
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller

Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller is a 1988 Canadian fantasy adventure film written and directed by Michael Rubbo. It is the seventh in the Tales for All series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.

Plot
A young boy, Ralph, and his sister discover a magical ability to travel the world, riding within postage stamps. Complicated by a series of rules, they are soon lost in such far-flung places as Australia and China. Ralph has a stutter, and the film is essentially a coming-of-age story wherein Ralph can speak fluently by the film's end.

Cast
 Anthony Rogers as Tommy
 Lucas Evans as Ralph
 Jill Stanley as Nancy
 Andrew Whitehead as Albert
 Paul Popowich as Cass
 Ron Lea as Brin James
 Han Yun as Mai Ling
 Chen Yuen Tao as Chen Tow
 Catherine Wright as Cheryl
 Rufus Wainwright as Singer
 Ernie Dingo as Dave
 Tony Barry as Mad Mike

Soundtrack
The film features one of the first appearances of Rufus Wainwright. Wainwright also provides the song I'm a Runnin' and his sister, Martha Wainwright, provides the song "Tommy, Come Back" for the soundtrack.

References

External links

1980s English-language films
1980s Canadian films
1980s children's adventure films
1980s children's fantasy films
1988 films
1980s fantasy adventure films
1988 independent films
Canadian children's fantasy films
Canadian independent films
Canadian fantasy adventure films
English-language Canadian films
Fictional duos
Films about families
Films about friendship
Films directed by Michael Rubbo
Films shot in Montreal
Teen adventure films
Michele Jaffe

Michele Sharon Jaffe (born March 20, 1970) is an American writer. She has authored novels in several genres, including historical romance, suspense thrillers, and novels for young adults.

Early life and education
Jaffe was born in Los Angeles, California. She is a 1991 graduate of Harvard University, where she earned a B.A. degree. Jaffe worked at the Huntington Library, an educational and research institution in San Marino, California. She returned to Harvard and in 1998 earned a Ph.D. in comparative literature.

Writing career
After writing a book on the Renaissance, she decided to foray into fiction, starting with a romance novel set in the Renaissance. The debut novel, The Stargazer, was published in 1999, initiating a four-book saga of historical fiction.

Soon afterward, she left the historical sphere, moving to suspense thrillers such as Lover Boy and Bad Girl in 2003.

She then wrote her first Young Adult book, Bad Kitty, published in January 2006, and the following month, it was named Book of the Month in the Meg Cabot Book Club. The next year, she published Kiss and Tell which was included in the anthology Prom Nights from Hell. In 2008, she wrote Kitty Kitty, the sequel of Bad Kitty, and the same year was published its graphic novel, Catnipped. Her latest YA novel is "Rosebush," which was published on December 7, 2010.

Jaffe is friends with bestselling Young Adult author Meg Cabot; they occasionally blogged advice columns together on Cabot's website. Thus persisted until Jaffe got her own Young Adult website. Now, she writes advice blogs on her own site more frequently.

Personal life 
Jaffe is divorced, and living in NYC.

Bibliography

Historical Novels

Arboretti Family Saga Series (Romance)
 The Stargazer - 1999
  The Water Nymph  - 2000
 Lady Killer/Secret Admirer - 2002

Contemporary Thrillers of suspense
Lover Boy - 2004
Bad Girl - 2003

Young adult novels

Bad Kitty Series
Bad Kitty - 2006
Kitty Kitty - 2008

Single Novels
Rosebush - 2010
Ghost Flower - 2012
Minders - 2014

Omnibus in Collaboration
Prom Nights from Hell - 2007 (Exterminator's Daughter by Meg Cabot, Madison Avery and the Dim Reaper by Kim Harrison, Kiss and Tell by Michele Jaffe, Hell on Earth by Stephenie Meyer and The Corsage by Lauren Myracle)

Graphic novels

Bad Kitty Series
Catnipped - 2008

Nonfiction
Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good For Nothings in the Renaissance - 1999

References and sources

External links
 Official Site of Michele Jaffe
 Site of Bad Kitty

Living people
1970 births
Harvard University alumni
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American romantic fiction writers
American mystery writers
American thriller writers
American children's writers
American women children's writers
Women romantic fiction writers
Women mystery writers
American women novelists
Women thriller writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
Electoral district of Avon

Avon was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1911 to 2008. The name of the district was changed to Avon Valley in 1950, but reverted to its original name in 1962.

For most of its history, Avon was a Country Party (now Nationals) seat. However, at the 1974 state election, when it merged with the neighbouring safe Labor seat of Northam, Avon was held by Labor's Ken McIver until 1986, when it was won by the newly reunified Nationals. A boundary redistribution occasioned by electoral reforms in 1987 brought in more rural areas and ensured its continuing safety for the National Party.

Avon was abolished when the number of rural seats was reduced as a result of the one vote one value reforms. Almost all of its area moved into the new seat of Central Wheatbelt.

Geography
At the time of its abolition Avon was a rural electorate covering the eastern side of the Darling Scarp. Its main population centres included Northam, York, Beverley, Brookton, Pingelly, Boddington, Wandering, Popanyinning, Cuballing and Wickepin.

Members

Election results

External links
 
 
 

Former electoral districts of Western Australia
1911 establishments in Australia
2008 disestablishments in Australia
Constituencies disestablished in 2008
Constituencies established in 1911
Sultan Mahmud Bridge

Sultan Mahmud Bridge or Jambatan Sultan Mahmud (Jawi: جمبتن سلطان مهمود) is a bridge in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia, which crosses Terengganu River. Constructed in 1988, the bridge was officially opened by the late of Sultan of Terengganu, Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah on 11 March 1990. Toll collection for the bridge was abolished in 1999 by the then PAS state government following an election promise.

Sultan Mahmud International Bridge Run

The Sultan Mahmud International Bridge Run is the annual bridge run that is held on September every year. It is organised by the Terengganu State Government, the Terengganu Amateur Athletic Association (POAT) and the Terengganu State Tourism Action Council (MTPNT).

See also
 Jalan Tengku Mizan
 Federal Route 65

References

Bridges completed in 1990
Bridges in Terengganu
Former toll bridges in Malaysia
Say It's Forever

Miz's first Japanese album, Say It's Forever, contains her first two Japanese singles—a-sides and b-sides—as Miz, New Day and Waiting For. If You Run was used as an ending theme for the docchi no ryouri SHOW.

Track listing
"New Day"
"Waiting For"
"What's Going On"
"If You Run"
"Interlude"
"Confusion"
"Dreams"
"Not You"
"Say It's Forever"
"Circles"
""What's It to You?!""
"In The Dark"
"Got It"

Swedish Diary DVD
New Day (Video clip)
Waiting For (Video clip)
at Gotland (Slideshow)
at Stockholm (Slideshow)

2004 albums
Victor Entertainment albums
James Forrest

James, Jim or Jimmy Forrest may refer to:

Sports
 James Forrest (rugby union) (1907–1981), Scotland international rugby union player
 James Forrest (baseball) (1897–1977), American baseball player
 James Forrest (basketball) (born 1972), American basketball player
 James Forrest (footballer, born 1894), Scottish footballer
 James Forrest (footballer, born 1991), Scottish footballer
 James Forrest (New Zealand cricketer) (born 1974), New Zealand cricketer
 James Forrest (South African cricketer) (1921–2010), South African cricketer
 Jim Forrest (curler), Scottish curler
 Jim Forrest (footballer, born 1927) (1927–1992), Scottish footballer
  Jim Forrest (footballer) (1944–2023), Scottish footballer
 Jimmy Forrest (footballer) (1864–1925), Blackburn Rovers and England footballer

Others
 Sir James Forrest, 1st Baronet (1780–1860), Lord Provost of Edinburgh
 James Alexander Forrest (1905–1990), Australian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist
 James Forrest (actor), American actor
 James Forrest (engineer) (1825–1917), British civil engineer
 Jimmy Forrest (musician) (1920–1980), American jazz saxophonist
 James Forrest (adventurer), English adventurer, hiker and author

See also
 James Goodwin Forest, forest near Carthage, North Carolina
Jim Forrest (footballer, born 1944)

James Forrest (22 September 1944 – 27 September 2023) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a striker for Rangers, Preston, Aberdeen and Hong Kong Rangers.

Club career
James Forrest was born in Glasgow, raised in the Townhead district of the city and signed for Rangers (the club he supported) as a schoolboy; he was sent for a short period to Drumchapel Amateurs for development. In coming into the first-team, he displaced Jimmy Millar as the successful early 1960s Rangers side was breaking up.

Forrest was known as a prolific goalscorer – in total scoring 145 goals in his 163 games for Rangers, his 50th goal for the club coming in his 45th appearance. He scored 57 goals in the 1964–65 season, just two short of Jimmy McGrory of Celtic who holds the record of most goals scored in a season in British football. Forrest holds the record for number of goals scored for Rangers in a League Cup match, scoring five in an 8–0 victory over Stirling Albion in August 1966. Other highlights included two goals in his first Old Firm appearance in 1963 (when he was aged just 18), four in the 1963 Scottish League Cup Final win over Morton, both goals in the 1964 Scottish League Cup Final victory over Celtic, and another five-goal haul against Hamilton in a 1965 league game.

His Rangers career came to an end shortly after the infamous Scottish Cup defeat to Berwick Rangers in January 1967. He and George McLean were deemed entirely to blame, and both were dropped by manager Scot Symon and transferred within weeks.

After spending a year at Preston, he had a five-year stint at Aberdeen, where he received a Scottish Cup winner's medal in 1970, before transferring to Hong Kong Rangers in 1973.

International career
Forrest played five times for Scotland between 1965 and 1971, but did not score. He had also featured for the Under-23 side.

Personal life and death
Forrest's cousin, Alex Willoughby, was also a professional footballer. The two were team-mates at Drumchapel, Rangers, Aberdeen and Hong Kong Rangers.

Jim Forrest died on 27 September 2023, at the age of 79.

Career statistics

Club

International

References

External links

1944 births
2023 deaths
People from Townhead
Scottish men's footballers
Footballers from Glasgow
Men's association football forwards
Scotland men's international footballers
Scotland men's under-23 international footballers
Scottish Football League players
English Football League players
National Football League (South Africa) players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Scottish league football top scorers
Aberdeen F.C. players
Drumchapel Amateur F.C. players
Cape Town City F.C. (NFL) players
Hong Kong Rangers FC players
Preston North End F.C. players
Rangers F.C. players
San Antonio Thunder players
Hawick Royal Albert F.C. players
Scottish expatriate men's footballers
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong
Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong
Scottish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
The Tah Dahs

The Tah Dahs are a Dallas-based indie rock band formed in 2001 by Roy Ivy and James Porter. The original lineup started as a five piece and included friends Chris Fowler on rhythm and Wurlitzer, Michael Bryant on guitar and Rebecca Kraemer on viola. Ivy left for a year's stint to tour and record with the Polyphonic Spree. On his return to Dallas, the band trimmed down to a power trio and began to write a more aggressive style of pop music. In 2005, the band released Le Fun on Dallas's indie label Undeniable Records. Later that year, work began with Stuart Sikes (Modest Mouse, Cat Power, The Promise Ring) on a follow-up album due out in late 2006.

External links
The Tah Dahs Official Website
The Tah Dahs MySpace page

Indie rock musical groups from Texas
Musical groups from Dallas
Musical groups established in 2001
Fighting Clowns

Fighting Clowns is a 1980 album by the Firesign Theatre. It is unique among Firesign Theatre albums because it is primarily made up of songs rather than the group's usual audio theater or sketch comedy pieces. Many of the songs on this album were recorded live in front of an audience while some of the songs and much of the linking material was recorded in the studio. Cover artwork was done by Phil Hartman.

Track listing

Side one

 "The Bozos Song"
 "The Four Gobs"
 "The 8 Shoes"
 "In The Hot Tub"
 "Hey, Reagan"

Side two

 "In The War Zone"
 "Oh, Afghanistan"
 "In The Alley"
 "Violent Juvenile Freaks"
 "In The Hot Tub Again"
 "This Bus Won't Go To War"

Bonus tracks

 "Jimmy Carter"

Performers

Phil Austin — Vocals and Rhythm Guitar
Peter Bergman — Vocals
David Ossman — Vocals
Philip Proctor — Vocals
Richard Parker — Keyboards
Jeff Baxter — Lead Guitar
Tim Emmons — Bass
Ed Roscetti — Drums
John Mitchell — Tenor & Baritone Sax
Dick Spencer — Alto Sax & Clarinet
Richard Cooper — Trumpet 
Phil Hartman    Album Cover Illustration

Release history

There have been numerous issues and re-issues of this album (and excerpts from this album) in a variety of formats including a one-sided picture disc.

LP - Rhino RNLP-018 - 1980
Cassette — Rhino RNC-018 - 1980
Picture Disc — Rhino RNPD-904 - 1980
CD Mobile Fidelity MFCD-748 - 1993
CD Firesign Theatre Records (distributed through Whirlwind Media) - 2001
CD Firesign Theatre Records / Lodestone Catalog 2006

Citations

  Smith, Ronald L.  The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996.
  Carruthers, Sean. "Fighting Clowns > Overview." Allmusic. March 4, 2006  – 10:3hq7g4gttvoz.
    Firesign Theatre.  Fighting Clowns.  Mobile Fidelity, 1993.

External links
The Firesign Theatre's Official Website
FIREZINE: Linques! (A Firesign Theatre FAQ)

1980 albums
The Firesign Theatre albums
Rhino Records albums
1980s comedy albums
The Game (Australian TV series)

The Game is an Australian television show that aired in 2000 and 2001 on the Seven Network.

It was hosted by Dermott Brereton, who defected from the Nine Network to Seven amid much controversy. Following Seven's loss of the AFL coverage rights, Brereton moved back to Nine in 2002.

The Game was seen as a replacement to the failed Australian rules football show Live And Kicking (1998–99), but in terms of ratings it was even less successful and was axed.

References

Seven Network original programming
Australian rules football television series
2000 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings
ANZAC A badge

The ANZAC "A" badge is a brass insignia authorised in November 1917 for members of the First Australian Imperial Force who had served as a member of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. In 1918,  eligibility was extended to those who had served at Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos and the transports and hospitals off Gallipoli as well as the communications line to Egypt.

History
The origins of the award are uncertain with John Monash, William Birdwood and John Gellibrand all being credited with the idea in various accounts. The most likely version is that the award was a result of several ideas proposed in early 1916 to commemorate the Anzacs. When Monash led his brigade in commemorating the first Anzac Day, men who had served at Gallipoli wore a blue ribbon on their right breast and those who had gone ashore as part of the first landing wore a red ribbon as well. Birdwood advised in August 1916 that he supported Australian veterans of the ANZAC campaign wearing an "A" badge on their colour patches.

The 1st and 2nd Divisions supported the idea enthuastically. The 3rd and 4th, both of which had fewer ANZAC veterans in their ranks, were less enthusiastic in their adoption of the badge. However, Monash, as commander of the 3rd Division, was able to claim by November 1916 that "'All who have a right to be called "Anzacs" among us are now wearing a metal "A" on the colour patches on the sleeves".

In early 1917, convalescent soldiers returned to Australia wearing the badge and its status was initially questioned. This led to its formal approval through AIF Order 937 issued in November 1917. Subsequent orders clarified the entitlement to the badge and made it compulsory. In January 1918, the order extended eligibility to people who had served behind the lines on the Greek islands of Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos, on the communication lines and hospital ships offshore or on the islands or in the communications to Egypt. This included nurses who served in the hospital ships meaning that women as well as men received acknowledgement as ANZACS.

There was initial resentment of the badges by soldiers who had fought in France at the Battle of Pozières and the Battle of Mouquet Farm in 1916 who thought that their contribution had been equal to the Anzacs.

ANZAC rosettes were also worn by men who had joined in 1914 and came home on ANZAC leave to show that they had not been shirking their duty.

References

 Australian Encyclopedia (1996), Volume 1, page 1.

External links
 Anzacs.org "A is for Anzac"
 Anzac Day org
 Australian War Memorial ANZAC badge article

Australian military insignia
Australian campaign medals
Badges
ANZAC (Australia)
Military awards and decorations of World War I
Australia in World War I
Buloh Kasap Bridge

The Buloh Kasap Bridge () is a historical bridge in Malaysia, made famous during World War II. It is located on Federal Route 1 in the town of Buloh Kasap, Segamat District, Johor, Malaysia. The bridge is built across the Muar River (Sungai Muar) which flows pass Buloh Kasap.

The old Buloh Kasap bridge was built by the Johor Government and built by the Federal Malay States Public Works Department during the construction of Federal Route 1 This bridge was first built in 1926 and completed in 1930. In 1938 , the bridge was inaugurated by the Sultan of Johore in conjunction with the completion of the Federal Route 1 from Bukit Kayu Hitam to Johor Bahru.  However, the Allied soldiers demolished a part of the bridge during World War II to stop the advance of Japanese soldiers from moving forward to Singapore. After the war ended, the bridge was repaired. During the floods in 1964, the wooden bridge was badly damaged and temporarily replaced with a bailey bridge while a new bridge was being constructed next to it. In a short span the new bridge was ready to be used and the old bridge was left in a state of disrepair and till today it exists as a historical sight.

When the stretch of Federal Route 1 was upgraded from Gemas to Ayer Hitam recently, the bridge was upgraded to a single-lane dual carriageway bridge to fulfil the latest standards of Malaysian federal roads.

See also
 Transport in Malaysia

Bridges in Johor
Segamat District
Sri Lankan Chetties

Sri Lankan Chetties (, ) also known as Colombo Chetties, is an elite, royal and a high class ethnicity in the island of Sri Lanka. This  Before 2001, they were known as the Sri Lankan Tamil ( ශ්‍රී ලංකා දෙමළ) caste, but then after 2001, they were classified as a separate ethnic group in the 2001 census. Now they are known as the Colombo Chetties as a whole. They are an elite class of people who are said to have migrated from India under Portuguese rule but now they are considered as one of the most elite, richest and high classed ethnicities in Sri Lanka and in Colombo. Apart from their titled race, these people showcase no difference from the Sinhala people in Sri Lanka and in the present and nowadays, most chetties grow in Sinhala backgrounds and are basically Sinhala apart from their written identity. "Hetti] is another term used in this context where the term Hetti refers to the present generation of chetties who doesn't have any relation to India but are solely from Sri Lanka.

Etymology 
The word is thought to have been derived from the Tamil word Etti, an honorific title bestowed on the leading and noble people.

History

They settled mostly in western Sri Lanka, especially in the ports of Colombo from the 16th century to mid 17th century, during the rule of the Portuguese and Dutch. The Chetties of Western Sri Lanka converted to various forms of Christianity during the colonial era: Roman Catholicism under Portuguese rule, as well as to Anglicanism and Reformed Christianity under British rule and Dutch rule, respectively. Marriages between Sinhalese ( Sinhala people) and Chetties are very common and therefore, many also got Sinhalised. However, the Colombo Chetties showcases no differences from the Sinhalese people in Sri lanka apart from their origins. 

Representatives of the Colombo Chetty Association stressed out their distinctiveness, appealing for forming a separate ethnic group. The Chetties were notably also from 1814 to 1817 listed as a separate ethnic group.

As an elite, prosperous and a noble group, they no longer strictly marry amongst themselves. In addition, migration to Australia, England, United States of America and Canada has tended to dilute their numbers.

See also
Tyron D. S. Silvapulle PWV, RWP. RWP 
Simon Casie Chetty 
Bharatakula
Nagarathar
Malacca Chitty
Jeyaraj Fernandopulle

References
Sources
 Casiechitty S, The Castes, Customs, Manners and Literature of the Tamils. Colombo: Ceylon Printers, 1934.
 Pulle Tissera Shirley - History of The Colombo Chetties - 2000
 Thurston E, Castes and Tribes of Southern India

Notes

External links
Dutch Burgher/Sri Lankan Chetty Combined Genealogy list
Sri Lankan Hydridity
Ondaatje Family history

 
Chetties
Chetties
Chetties
Sri Lankan Tamil castes
Sri Lankan people of Indian descent
Indians in Sri Lanka
Kuala Krai Bridge

Kuala Krai Bridge or Sultan Ismail Suspension Bridge is a historical bridge built by the British in the 1920s. It is located on Federal Route 8 near Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia.

See also
 Transport in Malaysia

References

Bridges in Kelantan
Bridges completed in the 20th century
Kuala Krai District
20th-century architecture in Malaysia
Miz

Miz or the Miz may refer to:

 Miz (singer) (Mizuki Watanabe, born 1981), Japanese singer and actress
 The Miz, ring name of Mike Mizanin (born 1980), an American professional wrestler
 The Miz, nickname of Steve Mizerak (1944–2006), an American professional pool player
 Ms., usually pronounced  ("Miz"), an English-language honorific for women regardless of marital status
 Miz Cracker (born 1984), American drag queen

See also
 MS (disambiguation)
 Mrs. (disambiguation)
 Miss (disambiguation)
 MIS (disambiguation)
 Mistress (disambiguation)
 Missus (disambiguation)
 Les Misérables (musical), colloquially known as Les Miz
Secrets and Lies

Secrets and Lies may refer to:

Film and television
 Secrets & Lies (film), a 1996 film directed by Mike Leigh
 Secrets & Lies (Australian TV series), a 2014 Australian television series
 Secrets and Lies (American TV series), a 2015 American television series, based on the Australian series
 Secrets and Lies (South Korean TV series), a 2018 South Korean television series
 "Secrets and Lies" (30 Rock), a 2007 episode of 30 Rock
 "Secrets and Lies", a 2007 Desperate Housewives special recapping previous episodes
 "Secrets and Lies", a 2007 episode of The Best Years
 "Secrets & Lies", an episode from the first season of Degrassi: The Next Generation
 "Secrets and Lies", a 2002 episode of ER
 "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down", originally titled "Secrets and Lies", a 2004 episode of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica
 an Instinct episode
"Secrets & Lies", Episode 58 in H2O: Just Add Water

Books
 Secrets and Lies (book), a 1999 book by Nicky Hager
 Secrets and Lies, a 2005 book by David Southwell
 Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, a book by Bruce Schneier

Music
 Secret & Lies, a 2003 EP by U-ka Saegusa in dB
 Secrets and Lies (album), a 2009 album by Bertie Blackman
 Secrets & Lies (album), a 2020 album by Jakko Jakszyk
Anderson High School

Anderson High School can refer to any of the following.

Malaysia 
Anderson National Secondary School, Ipoh, Perak

In the United Kingdom 
Anderson High School, Lerwick

In the United States 

Anderson Union High School, Anderson, California
Boyd H. Anderson High School, Lauderdale Lakes, Florida
Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, Florida
Anderson High School (Indiana), Anderson, Indiana
Anderson County High School (Kansas), Garnett, Kansas
Anderson County High School (Kentucky), Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
Southgate Anderson High School, Southgate, Michigan
Anderson High School (Ohio), Cincinnati, Ohio
David Anderson High School, Lisbon, Ohio
Anderson County High School (Tennessee), Clinton, Tennessee
Anderson High School (Texas), Austin, Texas