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Juno Award for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "R&B/Soul Recording of the Year" was awarded from 1985 to 2020, as recognition each year for the best rhythm and blues/soul album in Canada. Beginning with the Juno Awards of 2021, it was split into two new categories for Contemporary R&B/Soul Recording of the Year and Traditional R&B/Soul Recording of the Year.

Winners

Best R&B/Soul Recording (1985 - 2002)

R&B/Soul Recording of the Year (2003 - Present)

References 

RandB Soul Recording
Consejo Coordinador Argentino Sindical

The Consejo Coordinador Argentino Sindical (CCAS) is a National trade union center of Argentina. It is led by Victor R. Huerta.

The CCAS is affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation.

References

National trade union centers of Argentina
World Federation of Trade Unions
Canadian Environmental Network

The Canadian Environmental Network (RCEN) is an umbrella organization for environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) located across Canada.  This non-profit organization was mainly funded by Environment Canada and helped to facilitate networking and communication between environmental organizations, and coordinate ENGO participation in consultations with government.  A portion of the funding flowed through to affiliated provincial environmental networks before it was cancelled in 2011.  The RCEN also works to educate the public on major issues and policy-making in regards to the environment.

The RCEN is independent and non-partisan, which means it does not take positions on environmental issues, although its members do. It was established in 1977 by six environmental organizations, and today connects more than 700 ENGOs through its eleven regional networks. The Manitoba Eco-Network is an example of one of the provincial umbrella groups in the network that have members from only that province.

Organization
The RCEN facilitates and promotes sharing of knowledge, resources and collaborative efforts to influence domestic and international practices, policies, laws and agreements affecting the environment. An annual general meeting is held each year to elect a governing board of directors and national council which represent the network's diverse membership. A Conference on the Environment is also organized to allow staff, members from all the regional networks and the public to meet, plan and discuss environmental issues. This increases public participation in the democratic process and to helps Canadian citizens communicate more effectively with the federal government.

Several national caucus groups allow individual members to work collaboratively on issues. These caucuses also choose delegates to participate in government consultations
through a transparent democratic selection process.

Goals
The organization's principal mandate is to Protect the Earth and Promote Ecologically Sound Ways of Life by helping its member groups preserve and protect the natural beauty, diversity, habitats, landscapes, regions, forests, ecological integrity, quality of water, quality of air and health of all species and their interdependent relationships.

References

External links
RCEN website

Environmental organizations based in Ontario
Non-profit organizations based in Ottawa
Juno Award for Reggae Recording of the Year

The Juno Award for "Reggae Recording of the Year" has been awarded since 1985, as recognition each year for the best reggae album or single in Canada.

The award was not presented in 1992 or 1993, during which time reggae albums were subsumed into the new World Beat Recording category, but a separate reggae category was reinstituted in 1994 and has been presented continuously since then.

Best Reggae/Calypso Recording (1985 - 1991)

Best Reggae Recording (1994 - 2002)

Reggae Recording of the Year (2003 - Present)

References

Reggae Recording
Toni Turner

Toni Turner, President of Trendstar Trading Group, LLC, is a technical analyst as well as an educator and speaker in the financial arena. She is the author of the books: A Beginner’s Guide to Day Trading Online, 2nd Ed., A Beginner’s Guide to Short-term Trading, 2nd Ed., Short-Term Trading in the New Stock Market, and Invest to Win: Earn & Keep Profits in Bull and Bear Markets with the Gains Master Approach, co-authored with Gordon Scott, CMT. Her books have been translated into five languages.

Turner has appeared on CNBC, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and FOX Business News. She has been featured in periodicals including Fortune, Stocks and Commodities, SFO, Fidelity Active Trader, and Bloomberg Personal Finance and online publications including TradingMarkets.com, Equities.com, and MarketWatch. She speaks at trading forums and conferences across the United States, including college campuses, trading expos, and money shows. Turner is a bi-weekly contributor to The Street’s RealMoney.com and RealMoneyPro.com.

References

External links 
Official Website

People from Aliso Viejo, California
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year

The Juno Award for "Rock Album of the Year" has been awarded since 1991, as recognition each year for the best rock album in Canada.  The award has been called a number of other names, including the "Best Hard Rock/Metal Album" and "Best Rock Album".

Winners

Best Hard Rock/Metal Album (1991)

Hard Rock Album of the Year (1992 - 1993)

Best Hard Rock Album (1994 - 1995)

Best Rock Album (1996)

North Star Rock Album of the Year (1997)

Blockbuster Rock Album of the Year (1998)

Best Rock Album (1999 - 2002)

Rock Album of the Year (2003 - Present)

See also
:Category:Canadian rock music groups
:Category:Canadian rock musicians

References

Rock Album
Album awards
Rock music awards
Theodore Kanavas

Theodore James "Ted" Kanavas (April 29, 1961 – July 3, 2017) was an American politician and businessman.

Biography
Kanavas was raised in Brookfield, Wisconsin and graduated from Brookfield East High School. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983. While attending the school, Kanavas worked as an aide to Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner. Kanavas subsequently attended Pepperdine University's school of law. Kanavas also worked in the software industry. He served on the Elmbrook School District Board from 1999 to 2002.

In July 2001, he was elected to the Wisconsin Senate as a Republican in a special election, defeating Democrat Dawn Marie Sass, and he was re-elected in 2002. On January 25, 2010, Kanavas announced he would not seek reelection.

In 2014, Kanavas co-founded Michael Best Strategies, a government relations and public policy firm. He died of cancer on July 3, 2017.

Notes

External links
Citizen Legislator Ted Kanavas' Blog
Follow the Money - Theodore J Kanavas
2006 2004 2002 campaign contributions

1961 births
2017 deaths
School board members in Wisconsin
Republican Party Wisconsin state senators
21st-century American politicians
People from Brookfield, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Pepperdine University School of Law alumni
Businesspeople from Wisconsin
Deaths from cancer in Wisconsin
20th-century American businesspeople
American people of Greek descent
Greek Orthodox Christians from the United States
CCAS

CCAS may refer to:

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome
Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the liberal arts and sciences college of The George Washington University
Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
Consejo Coordinador Argentino Sindical
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences
Erxian

The erxian (二弦; pinyin: èrxián; jyutping: ji6 jin4; literally "two string") is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments. It has two strings and is used primarily in Cantonese music, most often in "hard string" chamber ensembles. In the 1920s, following the development of the gaohu, the erxian experienced a decline and since the late 20th century has been little used outside the tradition of Cantonese opera.

Similar instruments also referred to as erxian (constructed and played differently from the Cantonese erxian discussed above) are used in Chaozhou music (where it is called touxian, 头弦, literally "leading string [instrument]") and in the nanguan music of the Southern Fujian people.

The erxian (called yi6 yin4 二弦 in Cantonese) is often referred to as the yizai () amongst older Cantonese opera musicians. The neck of most erxian is made of hardwood (often suanzhi (酸枝, rosewood) or zitan (紫檀, rosewood or red sandalwood). The sound chamber is made of a large section of bamboo with a dome-shaped ring of hardwood glued on the front end, making the actual playable face of the chamber about half the size of the entire face. The back of the sound chamber is not covered with any lattice work like those of erhu or gaohu. Erxian can be found with very ornate dragon heads, ruyi () heads, or a very plain box-cut stock head. Earlier erxian very closely resembled the jinghu of Beijing opera in size, construction, and playing technique.

Currently, the erxian is used for accompanying the singing of dai-hau (大喉) characters in Cantonese opera as well as all roles in gu-hong Cantonese opera (). Other instruments used in conjunction with the erxian are the juktaikam/zhutiqin (), yueqin (yuetkam), sanxian (samyin), and doontong/duantong (). Together, this grouping of instruments is called the "hard bow ensemble" (). The name "hard bow" comes from the fact that both the erxian and tiqin are/should be played with a bow made of a thick, hard piece of bamboo rather than a thinner and softer reed like modern huqin bows.

The erxian of earlier times came in two forms: one for playing bongjee/bangzi (梆子), and a slightly larger one for playing yiwong/erhuang (二黃).
A bangzi erxian is tuned to 士-工/la-mi/A-e    
An erhuang erxian is tuned to 合-尺/so-re/G-d
Today, the bangzi erxian is more commonly used to play both bangzi and erhuang melodies. The heavy silk strings of the earlier erxian have largely been replaced with wound steel strings and some modern players have begun to use erhu bows instead of the heavier (and more uncomfortable) "hard bows."

While the erxian has experienced a decline in usage since the 1920s, it remains a staple instrument in any Cantonese opera orchestra and recently composed Cantonese operas like "新霸王別姬" and "林沖之魂會山神廟"  are calling for its regular usage.

See also
Huqin
Đàn nhị
Gaohu
Tiqin
Traditional Chinese musical instruments

External links
Article about nanyue erxian (Chinese)
Erxian photograph
Photograph of nanguan erxian
Erxian page (Chinese)

Video
Cantonese erxian video by Chu Yung

Chinese musical instruments
Huqin family instruments
Necked bowl lutes
Cantonese music
Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Traditional Jazz Album of the Year was presented as recognition each year for the best traditional jazz album in Canada. It was first presented in 1994, after the Juno Awards split the former award for Best Jazz Album into separate categories for traditional and contemporary jazz, and was discontinued after 2014, when the traditional and contemporary jazz categories were replaced with new categories for Jazz Album - Solo and Jazz Album - Group.

Winners

Best Mainstream Jazz Album (1994 – 1999)

Best Traditional Jazz Album – Instrumental (2000 – 2002)

Traditional Jazz Album of the Year (2003 – 2014)

References

Traditional Album Of The Year
Jazz awards
Album awards
Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando Lake Buena Vista

The Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando Lake Buena Vista is a resort hotel on the property of Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The resort is located across from the Disney Springs area.

History
The Travelodge at Lake Buena Vista opened on November 21, 1972. In 1984, Trusthouse Forte assumed management and the property was renamed the Viscount Hotel. In 1989,  Travelodge resumed management and the hotel became the Travelodge Lake Buena Vista. In 2000, Best Western assumed management, and the property became the Best Western Lake Buena Vista Resort Hotel. The hotel was renovated in 2004 and has 2 outdoor pools. The hotel was purchased in August 2017 by Drury Hotels. In December 2019, Drury announced plans to remodel the property, adding a new wing, expanding the hotel from 325 to 604 rooms. The hotel closed in March 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and ceased to be affiliated with Best Western. Construction of the new wing and renovations to the existing wing began in 2020. The hotel is set to debut in October 2022 as the Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando Lake Buena Vista, with the first 264 rooms opening. The remainder of the 604-room hotel will open in 2023.

References

External links
 Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando Lake Buena Vista official website
 Drury Plaza Hotel Orlando Lake Buena Vista official chain website

Hotels in Walt Disney World Resort
Hotels established in 1972
Hotel buildings completed in 1972
1972 establishments in Florida
Under Secretary of State for Management

The Under Secretary of State for Management is a position within the United States Department of State that serves as principal adviser to the Secretary of State and Deputy Secretary of State on matters relating to the allocation and use of Department of State budget, physical property, and personnel, including planning, the day-to-day administration of the Department, and proposals for institutional reform and modernization.

The Under Secretary is appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of the United States Senate to serve at the request of the President.

In 2021, President Joe Biden nominated John R. Bass, a career foreign service officer and former ambassador, to the position.

Overview
The Under Secretary of State for Management is the State Department's representative on the President's Management Council, and is the Department official responsible for implementing the President's Management Agenda.

History
In an Act of February 7, 1953, Congress created for a 2-year period the position of Under Secretary of State for Administration as the third ranking officer in the Department. The position was not renewed, however; and between 1955 and 1978, the ranking officer in the Department handling administration and management questions was either a Deputy Under Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of State. On October 7, 1978, an Act of Congress created the permanent position of Under Secretary of State for Management.

Reporting officials
Officials reporting to the USS(M) include:

Officeholders
The table below includes both the various titles of this post over time, as well as all the holders of those offices.

References

 
1953 introductions
Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year has been awarded since 2000, as recognition each year for the best vocal jazz album in Canada.

Winners

Best Vocal Jazz Album (2000 – 2002)

Vocal Jazz Album of the Year (2003 – present)

References

Vocal Jazz
 Juno Award
Jazz awards
Album awards
For Blood and Empire

For Blood and Empire is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band Anti-Flag. It was released on March 21, 2006. It was the band's first release on RCA Records, which caused the band to receive criticism from many due to their initially anti-corporate message.

Background
The booklet which comes with the CD contains a short essay for all but two songs ("State Funeral" and "Cities Burn") which gives more in-depth perspective on the inspirations for the song subjects such as the Downing Street Memo and Monsanto Company Corporation, as well as information on one of Anti-Flag's side projects, Military Free Zone. The CD also comes with two stencils, of the "Gunstar", a star formed with broken M-16s as seen on the cover of Mobilize, and the phrase "What are we going to do about the U.S.A.?".

Mike Ski of The A.K.A.s did the art direction, design and layout design for the album art.

The song "Emigre" (which on the promotional version was originally called "Exodus") includes an adaptation of Martin Niemöller's poem "First they came".

Songs from the album were used by several video games. "This is the End (For You My Friend)" is used in two EA Sports video games, Madden NFL 07 and NHL 07. "The Press Corpse" is used in the video games Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam and Shaun White Snowboarding.

By April 3, 2008, the album had sold 97,000 copies.

Track listing

Personnel
Justin Sane - guitar,  lead vocals on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13
Chris Head - guitar, backing vocals
Chris #2 - bass guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12
Pat Thetic - drums, backing vocals

Charts

See also
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (the book for which the song was named)
Lee Kyung Hae (Track 11 relates to his suicide at an anti-WTO protest)

References

External links
Essays from the CD booklet

Anti-Flag albums
2006 albums
RCA Records albums
Albums produced by David Schiffman
Big Blue River (Indiana)

The Big Blue River is an  tributary of the Driftwood River in east-central Indiana in the United States.  Via the Driftwood, White, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Course
The Big Blue rises in northeastern Henry County and flows generally southwestwardly through Rush, Hancock, Shelby and Johnson counties, past the towns of New Castle, Knightstown, Carthage,  Morristown, Shelbyville and Edinburgh.  It joins Sugar Creek to form the Driftwood River  west of Edinburgh.  At Shelbyville, it collects the Little Blue River.

At the USGS station at Shelbyville, Indiana, the Big Blue River has an approximate discharge of 513 cubic feet per second.

See also
List of Indiana rivers
County Line Bridge (Morristown, Indiana)

References

Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
DeLorme (1998).  Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer.  Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme.  .

Rivers of Indiana
Rivers of Hancock County, Indiana
Rivers of Henry County, Indiana
Rivers of Johnson County, Indiana
Rivers of Rush County, Indiana
Rivers of Shelby County, Indiana
Tributaries of the Wabash River
Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia

The Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia (CTUA) (), is a national trade union center of Armenia. It is led by Chairman Eduard Tumasyan.

About
The Confederation was established on 1 October 1992 and currently unites 23 trade union branches, which includes over 730 organizations. As of April 2016, there are approximately 208,000 trade union members (17.4% of all employees).

International cooperation
The Confederation is a full member of the General Confederation of Trade Unions and the International Trade Union Confederation. In addition, Chairman Eduard Tumasyan is a member of the Executive Committee of the Pan-European Regional Council.

Armenia is a member of the International Labour Organization and has ratified 23 conventions of the ILO. Armenia has also committed itself to adhering to international standards such as Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which includes the right to form trade unions and guarantees their basic rights.

See also

 List of trade unions
 Trade unions in Armenia
 Trade unions in Europe

References

External links
 Confederation of Trade Unions of Armenia on Facebook

Trade unions in Armenia
Trade unions in Europe
General Confederation of Trade Unions
National federations of trade unions
Nightcliff Football Club

The Nightcliff Football Club, nicknamed, Tigers, is a member club of the Northern Territory Football League, and is based in the Darwin suburb of Nightcliff.

Club achievements

 note: Nightcliff finished on top in the 1974/75 season after when it got cancelled after Round 11.

History
The club was formed in 1950. It was formally known as Working & Housing. Michael McLean was coach in 2005/06. Steve Easton was coach for the 2006/07 season.

Nightcliff Football Club has competed in the NTFL competition in Darwin, Northern Territory since it entered as the Works & Housing team in 1950. The Home and Away season commences in October with Finals played in March the following year.

The Club has its own home ground at the Nightcliff Oval (Darwin Mazda Oval) situated adjacent to the Nightcliff Sports Club. Games are also played at Darwin's TIO Marrara Stadium and various other club home grounds.

The Nightcliff Football Club was originally formed as Works and Housing Football Club in 1950 and competed in the 1950/51 NTFL season; the club was renamed Nightcliff Football Club in 1963/64.

In the early-1970s the football club established the Nightcliff Sports Club which is now an icon of the suburb and the football club is the proud senior affiliate of the Sports Club.

The football club runs teams in the Premier League, Division 1, Under 18, Under 16, Under 14 and Under 12 grades.

Football exports
The club has produced many AFL players, including Collingwood and Brisbane Lions players Jason Roe and Anthony Corrie, Melbourne player, Liam Jurrah, Fremantle's Ryan Nyhuis, Melbourne player Andy Moniz Wakefield and Giants Wade Derksen.

In the 2016 AFL draft, Geelong selected Tigers' product Brandan Parfitt, the youngest winner of the club's Best and Fairest award. when he won it at 16.

Club song
Oh we're from Tigerland
A fighting fury we're from Tigerland
In any weather you will see us with a grin, Risking head and shin
If we're behind, we never mind we'll fight and fight and win
Oh we're from Tigerland
We never weaken til the final sirens goes
Like the tigers of old, we're strong and we're bold
Oh we're from Tiger
-YELLOW AND BLACK-
Oh we're from Tigerland
-EAT 'EM ALIVE-
We're from Tigerland

External links

Nightcliff Football Club official website
Full Points Footy Profile for Nightcliff

Sport in Darwin, Northern Territory
Australian rules football clubs established in 1950
Australian rules football clubs in the Northern Territory
1950 establishments in Australia
Darwin Football Club

The Darwin Football Club, nicknamed, Buffaloes, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the Northern Territory Football League. It is the third oldest football club in the Northern Territory. Darwin has won the second most premierships in the NTFL competition. It has produced a large number of Australian Footballers who went on to play professionally in the Australian Football League.

Club achievements

History
The club was formed in 1916. They've been known as Warriors in 1917, Vestey’s in 1918, Buffaloes in 1926, Darwin in 1963 and eventually the Darwin Buffaloes in 2010.

The Buffaloes Premier League Men have won 23 titles in the competition. Their most recent win was in the 2005/06 NTFL Grand Final.

The Buffaloes (Buffettes) Premier League Women won the 2016/17 & 2021/22 NTFL Grand Finals.

The club has produced AFL players including Matthew Whelan, Andrew McLeod, Matthew Ahmat, Robert Ahmat, Matthew Campbell, Darryl White, Matthew Whelan, Cameron Stokes, Joe Anderson, Jed Anderson and Malcolm Rosas Jr.

External links

Official Facebook
Full Points Footy Profile for Darwin

Sport in Darwin, Northern Territory
Australian rules football clubs in the Northern Territory
1916 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1916
Wanderers Football Club

The Wanderers Football Club, nicknamed, Eagles, is an Australian rules football club, currently playing in the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL).

The club was formed in 1916 as a founding member of the NTFL. It has produced Australian Football League (AFL) players such as Shannon, Daniel and Marlon Motlop, Russell Jeffrey, Mark West, Troy Taylor, Relton Roberts, Steven Motlop and Liam Patrick.

Club achievements

Club song

External links

Wanderers FC - Facebook
Full Points Footy Profile for Wanderers Football Club

Sport in Darwin, Northern Territory
Australian rules football clubs in the Northern Territory
1916 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1916
Venus in Furs (disambiguation)

Venus in Furs is an 1870 novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

In music, Venus in Furs may refer to:
"Venus in Furs" (song), by the Velvet Underground
A song by Electric Wizard, from the album Black Masses
The Venus in Furs, a fictional band created for the 1998 movie Velvet Goldmine

On screen and stage, Venus in Furs may refer to:
Venus in Furs (1965 film), directed by Piero Heliczer
Venus in Furs (1967 film), directed by Joseph Marzano
Venus in Furs (1969 Franco film), directed by Jesús Franco
Venus in Furs (1969 Dallamano film), directed by Massimo Dallamano
Seduction: The Cruel Woman, 1985 West German film directed by Elfi Mikesch and Monika Treut 
Venus in Furs (1995 film), directed by Victor Nieuwenhuijs and Maartje Seyferth
Venus in Fur, two-character play by David Ives first produced in 2010
Venus in Furs (2012 film) (Korean: 모피를 입은 비너스), directed by Song Yae-sup (송예섭)
Venus in Fur (film), 2013 French adaptation of the Ives play, directed by Roman Polanski
Waratah Football Club

The Waratah Football Club, nicknamed, Warriors or Tahs, is a member club of the Northern Territory Football League.

Club achievements

History
The club was formed in November 1916, and was one of the original foundation clubs. Waratah is the only Club with an involvement in every year the competition has been played in Darwin.

The Waratah FC has won 15 League Premierships (including 3 consecutive Premierships from 1928/29 to 1930/31) 12 Reserves Premierships and 2 Under 18 Premierships.

The League side broke a 21-year drought in the 1998/99 season to win the League Premiership and followed this up with a back-to-back Premiership in 1999/2000. The Reserve Grade won the Premiership for 3 consecutive years over this period with Premiership wins in 1997/98, 1998/99 and 1999/2000, and again last season.

The prestigious AFLNT Nichols Medal has been won by 8 legends of the Club, with one of these players to have won dual medals. Denis Ganley 1951/52, Bluey McKee 1952/53, Bill James 1953/54, Jim Wilson 1960/61, Bertram Kantilla 1962/63, Keith Nickels 1971/72, Hank McPhee 1979/80, Peter Ivanoff 1981/82 and 1986/87.

Notable Waratah players in the AFL such as Essendon's Dean Rioli.

Club song

External links

Official website
Full Points Footy Profile for Waratah Football Club

Sport in Darwin, Northern Territory
Australian rules football clubs in the Northern Territory
1916 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1916
Holiday Inn Orlando - Disney Springs Area

Holiday Inn Orlando - Disney Springs Area is a resort hotel located on the property of Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It is near the Disney Springs district on Hotel Plaza Boulevard. The resort has 323 rooms, a heated swimming pool and a hot tub. The hotel also has a view of the Disney Springs area and the rest of the Walt Disney World Resort from certain areas of the hotel.

History
The hotel opened on February 8, 1973, as Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, later the Howard Johnson at Walt Disney World Village. The hotel was expanded in 1978. It was bought by Marriott Hotels in 1994 and became the Courtyard by Marriott at Walt Disney World Village on January 20, 1995. InterContinental Hotels Group bought the resort in 2003 and it closed on December 30, 2003, for renovations to convert it to a Holiday Inn. The incomplete hotel was extensively damaged by Hurricane Charley on August 14, 2004. The hotel remained closed for six years, until it was restored and reopened on February 12, 2010, as the Holiday Inn Walt Disney World Resort, after a $35 million renovation. On December 9, 2016, the hotel was sold to Chicago-based GEM Realty Capital for $24 million. It is currently operated and managed by Interstate Hotels & Resorts, under the Holiday Inn brand.

References

External links
Hotel page on Holiday Inn website
Hotel page on Disney Springs™ Resort Area Hotels website
Hotel page on disneyworld.com website
Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge -- Lake Buena Vista

Hotels in Walt Disney World Resort
Lake Buena Vista
Hotels established in 1973
Hotel buildings completed in 1973
1973 establishments in Florida
Palmerston Football Club

The Palmerston Football Club, nicknamed, Magpies, is an Australian rules football club, currently playing in the Northern Territory Football League. They were first called Internationals before entering the NTFL, then they were called North Darwin from the 1972/73 to 1995/96 season.

Club achievements

History
The Palmerston Magpies Football Club began in 1970 and was originally known as the Internationals. At that time most players were English and Greek soccer players. John O'Donoghue and Paul Fricker got the started with  John doing the ground work while Paul represented the club at NTFL meetings. In 1971, the club was informed by the NTFL executive to field three teams and to change its name to a more suitable football name, hence Nth Darwin was born.

In 1972 club was renamed North Darwin Football Club, with the club winning a premiership in 1980/81 under the leadership of Coach Ian Smith and Captain John Stokes (father of AFL footballer Mathew Stokes). North Darwin Football Club moved to Palmerston in the 1995/1996 season and became the Palmerston Magpies Incorporated the following season, at which time the club moved to Palmerston to play home games for 1 season at Archer Oval. Following a move back to Marrara as our home ground, the club played in 4 grand finals 1999/2000 to 2002/2003 and won 2 premierships in 2000/2001 and 2001/2002.

Palmerston Magpies is the only club in the NTFL that represents its own City. The City of Palmerston is located 21 km south of Darwin. The Magpies home ground is the Cazalys Oval, a $2 million facility located at Charles Darwin University Palmerston Campus.

The club has produced players for the AFL such as Aaron Davey, Alwyn Davey, Trent Hentschel, and Mathew Stokes.

Club song

External links

Official website
Full Points Footy Profile for Palmerston

Sport in Darwin, Northern Territory
Australian rules football clubs in the Northern Territory
1970 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1970
Palmerston, Northern Territory
Athens Airport (disambiguation)

Athens Airport or Athens International Airport is the primary airport of Athens, Greece.

Athens Airport may also refer to:

 Athens Airport Station, the railway station of Athens International Airport
 Ellinikon International Airport, the old airport of Athens, Greece
 Athens Ben Epps Airport in Athens, Georgia, United States
 Athens Municipal Airport in Athens, Texas, United States
A Girl Like Me

A Girl Like Me or Girl Like Me may refer to:

Film and television
 A Girl like Me (film), a 2005 American documentary short film by Kiri Davis
 A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, a 2006 American television film

Music

Albums
 A Girl Like Me (Emma Bunton album) or the title song, 2001
 A Girl like Me (Rihanna album) or the title song, 2006
 A Girl Like Me: Letters to My Lovers, an EP by Peppermint, or the title song, 2020
 A Girl like Me, by Nikkole, 2005

Songs
 Girl Like Me (Black Eyed Peas and Shakira song), 2020
 Girl Like Me (Jazmine Sullivan song), 2021
 Girl Like Me (Luv' song), 1990
 A Girl Like Me, by Christina Milian from Christina Milian, 2001
 A Girl Like Me, by The Desert Sessions from Volume 10: I Heart Disco, 2003
 Girl Like Me, by Jessie James Decker from Southern Girl City Lights, 2017

See also
 A Girl Like You (disambiguation)
Melus of Bari

Melus (also Milus or Meles, Melo in Italian) (died 1020) was a Lombard nobleman from the Apulian town of Bari, whose ambition to carve for himself an autonomous territory from the Byzantine catapanate of Italy in the early eleventh century inadvertently sparked the Norman presence in Southern Italy. He was the first Duke of Apulia.

Biography

Melus and his brother-in-law Dattus rebelled in 1009 and quickly took Bari itself. In 1010, they took Ascoli and Troia, but the new catapan, Basil Mesardonites, gathered a large army, and on 11 June 1011 Bari fell. Melus fled to the protection of Prince Guaimar III of Salerno and Dattus to the Benedictine abbey of Montecassino, where the anti-Greek monks, at the insistence of Pope Benedict VIII, gave him a fortified tower on the Garigliano. Melus' family, however, were captured and carted off to Constantinople.

In 1016, according to the Norman chronicler William of Apulia, Melus went to the Shrine of Saint Michael at Monte Gargano to intercept some Norman pilgrims. There he petitioned Rainulf Drengot and a band of Norman exiles to aid in his rebellion, assuring them of the ease of victory and the abundance of spoils. By 1017, Norman adventurers were already heading south. They joined with the Lombard forces under Melus at Capua and marched into Apulia immediately, trying to catch the Byzantines off-guard. Successful in an encounter in May on the banks of the Fortore against forces sent by the catapan Kontoleon Tornikios, they had seized all the territory between the Fortore and Trani by September and were ravaging Apulia; in October, however, they experienced a stunning reverse.

The new catapan, Basil Boioannes, had garnered a massive force of reserves and a contingent of the famed Varangian Guard from Emperor Basil II. He met the Norman and Lombard hosts on the Ofanto at the site of the famous defeat dealt the Romans by Hannibal in 216 BC: Cannae. This second battle of Cannae was a disaster both for the Normans, who lost their leader Gilbert, and for the Lombards, whose leaders fled: Melus to the "Samnite lands" (Amatus) of the Papal States and Dattus to Montecassino and the tower again.

Melus continued wandering through south and central Italy and finally northwards to Germany. He ended up at the imperial court of Henry II in Bamberg. Though greatly honoured (he was given the empty title Duke of Apulia by the emperor), he died a broken man only two years later, just after Pope Benedict arrived in Bamberg at Eastertide to discuss an imperial response to the Byzantine victories. He was given a lavish funeral and an ornate tomb in the new Bamberg Cathedral by his old ally, the emperor. His son Argyrus would carry on the struggle for Lombard independence in Apulia after his return from imprisonment in Constantinople.

Sources
Norwich, John Julius. The Normans in the South 1016–1130. Longmans: London, 1967.
Amatus of Montecassino. History of the Normans Book I. Translated by Prescott N. Dunbar. Boydell, 2004.

External links
History of the Norman World.

11th-century Lombard people
10th-century births
1020 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Lombard warriors

Dukes in Italy
Vela Supernova Remnant


The Vela supernova remnant is a supernova remnant in the southern constellation Vela. Its source Type II supernova exploded approximately 11,000 years ago (and was about 900 light-years away). The association of the Vela supernova remnant with the Vela pulsar, made by astronomers at the University of Sydney in 1968, was direct observational evidence that supernovae form neutron stars.

The Vela supernova remnant includes NGC 2736. The Vela supernova remnant overlaps the Puppis A supernova remnant, which is four times more distant. Both the Puppis and Vela remnants are among the largest and brightest features in the X-ray sky.

The Vela supernova remnant is one of the closest known to us. The Geminga pulsar is closer (and also resulted from a supernova), and in 1998 another near-Earth supernova remnant was discovered, RX J0852.0-4622, which from our point of view appears to be contained in the southeastern part of the Vela remnant. One estimate of its distance puts it only 200 parsecs away (about 650 ly), closer than the Vela remnant, and, surprisingly, it seems to have exploded much more recently, in the last thousand years, because it is still radiating gamma rays from the decay of titanium-44. This remnant was not seen earlier because when viewed in most wavelengths, it is lost in the Vela remnant.

See also
 CG 4
 List of supernova remnants
 List of supernovae

References

External links
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gum Nebula (annotated)
 Bill Blair's Vela Supernova Remnant page 

Gum Nebula
Supernova remnants
Vela (constellation)
Special Warfare Group (Singapore)

The Special Warfare Group (SWG) is the primary special forces unit of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) responsible for conducting special operations from sea, air, and land. It is one of six squadrons of the Naval Diving Unit (NDU).

It is also a component of the Special Operations Task Force (SOTF), alongside the Special Operations Force (SOF) of the Singapore Army. 

Information about the SWG is designated as classified.

History
Formed in 1989, the group prosecutes special operations and counter-terrorism operations in the maritime domain, with capabilities of being deployed from the sea, air, and land. Due to the sensitive nature of their operations, their size and the identities of their operators are kept classified.

Selection and training
To qualify as an operator of the Special Warfare Group, prospective candidates must be regular servicemen and pass the Combat Diver Course, Special Forces Qualification Course, and Special Warfare Advanced Training. 

Operators within the squadron are tasked with conducting maritime special operations including counter-terrorism and direct action. The size of the unit and the details of their missions are kept classified due to their sensitive nature.  

Best performing operators are often sent to overseas courses such as the United States Navy's Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL course.

References

Special forces of Singapore
PEX (disambiguation)

PEX is cross-linked polyethylene, a form of polyethylene with cross-links.

PEX or Pex may also refer to:

Science and technology
Peer exchange, a method to gather peers for BitTorrent
PHIGS Extension to X, in programming
Pex (software), a unit testing framework for the .NET programming languages
Pex (company), a digital rights technology company
Physical examination, in medicine
Plasma exchange, a form of plasmapheresis
Pseudoexfoliation syndrome, condition related to glaucoma
Parasitic extraction, tool in IC Layout Design, used for extract parasitic elements and see their effects on the circuit

Other
Palestine Exchange, a stock exchange
People Express Airlines (1980s)
PEX, operators of OPEX stock exchange
Pex, a character in the Doctor Who story Paradise Towers

See also
 PXE (disambiguation)
Milus

Milus may refer to:

Milus or Miles (bishop of Susa) (d. c. 340)
Milus or Melus of Bari (d. 1020)
ATUC

ATUC may refer to:

 Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation, a national trade union centre in Azerbaijan
 African Trade Union Congress, a former Rhodesian and Zimbabwean trade union federation
 Aden Trade Union Congress, a former trade union in South Yemen

See also 
 Atuc, a village in Azerbaijan
 Atuk
Croomia

Croomia is a genus of primitive angiosperm herbs in the Stemonaceae family, first described as a genus in 1840.

Taxonomy 
Once included in its own family, Croomiaceae, Croomia has also previously been included in Dioscoreaceae.

Subdivision 
About six species.
 Croomia heterosepala (Baker) Okuyama - Japan
 Croomia hyugaensis Kadota & Mas.Saito - Kyushu
 Croomia japonica Miq. - Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Chugoku, Kyushu
 Croomia kinoshitae Kadota - Shikoku
 Croomia pauciflora (Nutt.) Torr. - United States (FL GA AL LA)
 Croomia saitoana Kadota - Kyushu

Distribution and habitat 
Croomia is native to China, Japan, and the southeastern United States. The plants grow in moist, shady woods. Their small flowers are borne beneath the leaves.

References

Bibliography

External links

 C. pauciflora at the Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
 C. pauciflora at the USDA Plants Database
 Image of C. pauciflora  at Torreya State Park

Pandanales genera
Stemonaceae
Archibald J. Weaver

Archibald Jerard Weaver (April 15, 1843 – April 18, 1887) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Republican Party politician, serving three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1883 to 1889.

He is best known for being the father of Governor of Nebraska Arthur J. Weaver and grandfather of Nebraska politicians Arthur J. Weaver Jr. and Phillip Hart Weaver.

Early life and education 
He was born in Dundaff, Pennsylvania, on April 15, 1843, and graduated from Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania. He became a faculty member of the school from 1864 to 1867. In 1869, he graduated from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the bar in Boston, Massachusetts. He moved to Falls City, Nebraska, in 1869 to practice law.

Career 
He attended the State constitutional conventions in 1871 and 1875 and became the district attorney for the first district of Nebraska in 1872. In 1875 and 1879 he was elected judge of the first judicial district of Nebraska.

Congress 
He resigned as judge in 1883 having been elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth United States Congress. He was then reelected to the Forty-ninth United States Congress, but did not run for reelection in 1886. 

He ran unsuccessfully in 1887 for the United States Senate, lost and resumed his practice of law.

Death and burial 
He died in Falls City on April 18, 1887, and is buried in Steele Cemetery in Falls City.

References
 
 
 
 

1843 births
1887 deaths
Harvard Law School alumni
Nebraska state court judges
People from Falls City, Nebraska
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American judges
Lag

Lag, or similar, may refer to:

Lag
 Łąg, Poland
 Lag (company), a French guitar maker
 Lag (cue sports), a brief pre-game competition to determine which player will go first
 Latency (engineering), a slower response time in computing, communications, and engineering
 Lag (video games), a slower response time in video gaming
 Lag screw or lag bolt
 Jet lag
 Turbo lag
 A very long putt in golf
 British slang for inmate in a prison (usually "old lag")
 The time between tasks in project plans; see 
 The time before a medical diagnosis
 A measure for spatial dependence in a sampling variogram
 A delay of payment to take advantage of an expected change in exchange rates; see Leads and lags

LAG
 LAG Motorcoach, a Belgian bus and trailer manufacturer
 La Grange Road station (Amtrak station code: LAG)
 Lancaster Gate tube station (London Underground station code: LAG)
 Latin America Solidarity Organisation in Norway (Latin-Amerika gruppene i Norge)
 Ligue d'Athlétisme de la Guyane, the governing body for the sport of athletics in French Guiana
 Lines of arrested growth, also known as Harris lines
 Link aggregation group, multiple computer network cables/ports used in parallel
 Local action group, a community-based organization used by groups like LEADER programme and OneVirginia2021
 Lokalbahn AG, a former German private railway company

LAGS
 Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School
 Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States
 LA Game Space

See also 
 
 Lagg (disambiguation)
 Lagging (disambiguation)
Six Mile Run

Six Mile Run may refer to the following in the U.S. state of New Jersey:

Six Mile Run (New Jersey), a tributary of the Millstone River
Six Mile Run, New Jersey, several different but related features in Franklin Township
Six Mile Run Reformed Church, a Dutch Reformed church listed on the NRHP in Somerset County
Six Mile Run Reservoir Site, part of the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park
Franklin Park, New Jersey, a community once known as Six Mile Run

See also
Six Mile Creek (disambiguation)
Sugar Creek (Driftwood River tributary)

Sugar Creek is an  tributary of the Driftwood River in east-central Indiana in the United States.  Via the Driftwood, White, Wabash and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Sugar Creek was likely so named from the sugar trees growing along its banks.

Course
Sugar Creek rises in western Henry County and flows generally southwestwardly through Madison, Hancock, Shelby and Johnson counties, past the towns of Spring Lake and New Palestine.  It joins the Big Blue River to form the Driftwood River in southeastern Johnson County,  west of Edinburgh.

Sugar Creek has a mean annual discharge of 532 cubic feet per second near Edinburgh, Indiana.

See also
List of Indiana rivers

References

Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
DeLorme (1998).  Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer.  Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme.  .

Rivers of Indiana
Rivers of Hancock County, Indiana
Rivers of Henry County, Indiana
Rivers of Johnson County, Indiana
Rivers of Madison County, Indiana
Rivers of Shelby County, Indiana
Tributaries of the Wabash River
Miami Vise

The Miami Vise were an arena football team formed by Arena Football League (AFL) founder Jim Foster for the purposes of playing a "showcase game" on February 27, 1987, at the Rosemont Horizon against the Chicago Bruisers. Chicago's Eddie Phillips scored three touchdowns, including one in the last minute, but the Bruisers fell to the Vise by a score of 33–30. Today, this contest is known as the "showcase" game, as it had far more prestige and fanfare than the original 1986 test game between the Rockford Metros and Chicago Politicians.

This was the only game the Vise (whose name was a take on the popular TV series Miami Vice) ever played, and Miami did not get a team in the AFL until 1993. The Vise were not even a Florida-based team to begin with, as they were created out of Foster's imagination and consisted mostly of former college players located in the Midwest. At the time, the players were sworn to secrecy so fans would believe the team was located in Miami. Current Arena League Commissioner Jerry B. Kurz coached the Metros and Ray Jauch coached the Vise.

External links
AFL Official Website

Defunct Arena Football League teams
Vise
American football teams in Florida
American football teams in Miami
1987 establishments in Illinois
1987 disestablishments in Illinois
American football teams established in 1987
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1987
Arena Football League in Chicago
American football teams in Illinois
Sergio López Miró

Sergio López Miró (born August 15, 1968) is a former international top swimmer from Spain, who won the bronze medal in the 200 meters breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

He competed in college for Indiana University and American University. López served as the head coach for the men's and women's swim teams at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia from 2005 to 2007. In 2007 he became the head swimming coach at The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida and has coached several swimmers onto the U.S. national team: Ariana Kukors, Charlie Houchin, Ryan Murphy and also Singapore’s Joseph Schooling.

He was appointed head coach of Singapore Swimming as well as an adviser coach of the coaching academy of the Singapore Sports Institute, with his term starting on January 1, 2015.

On April 30, 2018, Virginia Tech athletic director Whit Babcock announced Lopez's hiring as head coach for the university's swimming and diving programs.

References

External links
West Virginia University athletics profile 

1968 births
Living people
Swimmers from Catalonia
Spanish male breaststroke swimmers
Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Spain
Olympic bronze medalists for Spain
Spanish swimming coaches
Swimmers from Barcelona
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Indiana Hoosiers men's swimmers
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Spain
Swimmers at the 1987 Mediterranean Games
American Eagles men's swimmers
West Virginia Mountaineers swimming coaches
Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Virginia Tech Hokies swimming coaches