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Winnipeg Cyclone

The Winnipeg Cyclone was a professional basketball club based in Winnipeg, Manitoba that competed in the International Basketball Association from 1995 to 2001. The Cyclone played its home games at the Winnipeg Convention Centre (dubbed the "Wind Tunnel"). However, the Cyclone did not enjoy significant popularity, usually playing before sparse crowds. The club was backed largely by local businessman Earl Barish.

Notable players

The Cyclone had several recognizable names on the roster and coaching staff during the franchise's short existence. From 1998-2000, Former NBA star Darryl Dawkins served as a players coach for the franchise, winning Co-Coach of the Year for the 1999 season along with Mansfield Hawks coach Kevin Mackey. "Hoop Dreams" subject Arthur Agee played on the team for a brief stint, as well as Andrell Hoard, who won back-to-back Most Valuable Player honors in 1998 and 1999.

End of Franchise 

After the 2001 season, it was announced that the IBA would cease operations. League leaders made the decision after failing to acquire commitments for the upcoming 2002 season from several franchises, having to push back the application deadline on several occasions. Four teams from the IBL (Dakota Wizards, Fargo Beez, Sioux Falls Skyforce, and Saskatchewan Hawks) would go on to join the Continental Basketball Association's eight-team expansion. For a time, Winnipeg was rumored to be joining the CBA as well, but ultimately decided against the move. In 6 seasons, the Cyclone won 90  games while losing 108. Darryl Dawkins finished as the franchise's winningest coach, tallying a 37-33 record in his two years as the head of the Cyclone.

Basketball in Winnipeg 
 
Following the sequential demises of the Winnipeg Thunder and the Cyclone, professional basketball disappeared from Winnipeg. In 2013, the Canadian Basketball League, in conjunction with Cosmos Sports, conducted a feasibility study that showed Winnipeg could successfully host a professional basketball franchise if chosen. After a meeting with potential owners later in the year, it was decided that there wasn't enough interest to reach the expansion minimum of eight teams. Professional basketball would return to Winnipeg in 2023 with the expansion CEBL franchise Winnipeg Sea Bears.

Franchise Record

References  

Defunct basketball teams in Canada
Sports clubs and teams in Winnipeg
Basketball teams established in 1995
Basketball teams disestablished in 2001
Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia

The Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia (; abbr. СРСЈ or SRSJ) was a liberal political party in the SFR Yugoslavia led by Ante Marković that opposed the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

History 
The party was short-lived and fairly unsuccessful, but it later served as a basis for liberal parties in Serbia (the Reform Party of Serbia, later Civic Alliance of Serbia and Reformists of Vojvodina) and in North Macedonia (the Reformist Forces of Macedonia-Liberal Party, later the Liberal Party of Macedonia).

In Montenegro, it was the main opposition to the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists, as a coalition formed from the Liberal Alliance of Montenegro, Socialist Party of Montenegro, Social Democratic Party of Reformists, Independent Organization of Communists of Bar and Party of National Equality. It won 17 seats.

In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina it was a basis for the Social Democrats, led by Selim Bešlagić, which merged into Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Republika Srpska it was a basis for the Party of Independent Social Democrats (later Alliance of Independent Social Democrats).

In Slovenia, it was organized under the name Social Democratic Union (Socialdemokratska unija, SDU), but it failed to gain any significant weight in the political spectrum, remaining a small extra-parliamentary party.

Parliamentary elections

Montenegro

Macedonia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Serbia

References 

1990 establishments in Yugoslavia
1991 disestablishments in Yugoslavia
Anti-fascist organizations
Anti-nationalist parties
Defunct liberal political parties
Defunct political parties in Europe
Defunct social democratic parties
Federalist parties
Liberal parties in Europe
Political parties in Yugoslavia
Social liberal parties
Social democratic parties in Yugoslavia
Pro-European political parties in Yugoslavia
Urengoy (disambiguation)

Urengoy may refer to:
Urengoy, an urban-type settlement in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Urengoy gas field in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Novy Urengoy, a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Urengoy

Urengoy (; Nenets: Пюра ңо, Pjura ŋo) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Purovsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population:

History
Urengoy was founded in 1932 as a Nenets settlement. Between 1949 and 1953, the construction of the railway between Salekhard and Igarka was coordinated from Urengoy, and a large number of convicted prisoners were moved to Urengoy to work on the construction sites. The construction was frozen in 1953, and the prisoners were moved out of Urengoy. The railway was never completed.

Economy
The Urengoy gas field was named after the settlement.

References

Urban-type settlements in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Barbara Becker

Barbara Becker (born November 1, 1966 as Barbara Feltus) is a German-American designer, former actress and model.

Early life
Barbara Becker was born to a Black American father, Harlan Feltus, and a German mother, Ursula. Her father originally went to Europe as a lieutenant in the US medical corps, but became a successful photographer. Her mother was a teacher.

Personal life
Growing up in Germany, she studied acting and dance. Her early career included both modeling and television roles.

In the autumn of 1991, Feltus met international tennis star Boris Becker. They married in 1993. They have two sons, Noah and Elias. In 2001, their marriage ended in divorce.

Starting in 2006, Becker was the UNICEF ambassador for a program to prevent tetanus in developing countries. Between 2006 and 2009 more than 300 million doses of the vaccine were donated.

Becker and artist Arne Quinze announced their engagement on 6 January 2009. They married on 9 September 2009 at their home in Miami, Florida, and celebrated the wedding on 13 September 2009 in Berlin. Both events were photographed by Miami interior designer Sam Robin. Becker and Quinze divorced in 2011.

Currently, Becker lives in Miami, where she creates and promotes fitness videos in addition to designing and promoting home products.

References

External links
Official website (archived)

German film actresses
German television actresses
German women fashion designers
Actresses from Munich
German people of African-American descent
1966 births
Living people
Waldorf school alumni
German emigrants to the United States
Actresses from Heidelberg
Nancy Delahunt

Nancy Dale Delahunt (born January 5, 1959) is a Canadian curler from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Delahunt currently plays third for Colleen Jones.

Career
Delahunt was born in Montreal, Quebec. She was a member of the Colleen Jones team which won five Scott Tournament of Hearts (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004) and two World Curling Championships (2001, 2004). Delahunt was a rarity among leads, because she held the broom for when Jones threw. She rejoined Jones in 2011 participating in the Nova Scotia Senior Women's Championship, along with Marsha Sobey and Sally Saunders. The team won the provincial title and would represent Nova Scotia at the Canadian Senior Women's Curling Championships.

At the beginning of the 2011/2012 curling season Jones had formed a rink with three players, all of whom previously played with Theresa Breen. However Jones has modified her lineup adding Delahunt at third, Sobey at second and Mary Sue Radford (who began the season with Jones) at lead. The team has entered the qualifying round for the Nova Scotia Scotties with a goal of advancing to provincials and winning the title.

For the 2012/2013 season Jones reunited with Mary-Anne Arsenault and Kim Kelly, with the goal of reaching the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Jones will either play third or second position, while Arsenault will skip. Arsenault's current lead Jennifer Baxter, will play lead, while her third Stephanie McVicar, is expected to join the team as the fifth. Delahunt has offered to join the team as coach or manager. Since this announcement McVicar has left the team to play with Heather Smith-Dacey, and Delahunt has joined the team as the 5th. Jones will play third, and Kelly will remain at second.

Delahunt (as lead) joined Jones, Kelly, and Radford to win the 2016 Canadian Senior Curling Championships, following that with an undefeated run to win the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships in Lethbridge, Alberta.

She is currently president of the Clayton Park Chapter of the NCDC.

References

External links

1959 births
Living people
Canadian women curlers
Canadian women's curling champions
World curling champions
Continental Cup of Curling participants
Canada Cup (curling) participants
Curlers from Quebec
Sportspeople from Montreal
Curlers from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Lungalunga language

Lungalunga (Lunga Lunga), frequently though ambiguously called Minigir, is spoken by a small number of the Tolai people of Papua New Guinea, who live on the Gazelle Peninsula in East New Britain Province. It is often referred to in the linguistics literature as the Tolai "dialect" with an .

Classification
Lungalunga belongs to the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. The most immediate subgroup is the Patpatar–Tolai group of languages which also includes Kuanua (also spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula) and Patpatar (spoken on New Ireland).

A "Tolai-Nakanai trade language" reported in the literature was apparently not a pidgin as assumed, but Minigir (Lungalunga) with perhaps some Meramera or Nakanai mixed in.

Geographic distribution
Lungalunga is spoken on Ataliklikun Bay, in the villages of Lungalunga, Kabaira and Vunamarita, located on the Gazelle Peninsula in the East New Britain Province of Papua New Guinea.

Grammar

Independent pronouns

Lungalunga pronouns have four number distinctions (singular, dual, trial and plural) and three person distinctions (first, second and third) as well as an inclusive and exclusive distinction. There are no gender distinctions.

Syntax
The usual word order of Lungalunga is subject–verb–object (SVO).

References

 
 

St George linkage
Languages of East New Britain Province
Pitt River Expedition

The Pitt River Expedition is a series of expeditions in the U.S. state of California in the 1850s. The expeditions  are named for the Pit River, one of many tributaries of the Sacramento River, and the Pitt River Indians (historical spellings differed). The expeditions were part of the larger  American Indian Wars and took place during the California Gold Rush.

US Military

First Pitt River Expedition 
The most usually noted expedition is the Pitt River Expedition, in California, April 28 to September 13, 1850. The Indian Agent, Colonel E. A. Stevenson, led the expedition to the Achomawi (Pit River), Atsugewi (Hat Creek) and Modoc to establish relations with them.

Second Pitt River Expedition 
In 1857, George Crook, later US Civil War Officer and General led the second Pitt River Expedition as a first lieutenant.  In one of the several engagements, he was severely wounded by an Indian arrow.

State of California's Pitt River Expedition (1859) 
The State of California notes expenditures for the California Militia and "Expeditions Against the Indians", 1850–1859; which makes note of a Pitt River Expedition in 1859 . Ongoing conflicts between settlers and the tribes in the northern counties of California provoked appeals by citizens for the removal of the tribes from the region.  Federal authorities could not do so due to the shortage of Federal troops available; some were already involved in the early phases of the Bald Hills War.  Citizens requested Governor John B. Weller to call out State troops from the northern counties to remove the Indians from the mountains and place them on a reservation.

The Governor sent Adjutant General of California, William C. Kibbe to the northern counties of California to organize volunteer military companies to stop Indian raids, collect them and remove them to the Mendocino Indian Reservation.  At Red Bluff, General Kibbe raised a company of 93 California militia, the Kibbe Rangers, under Captain William Byrnes.  General Kibbe directed Captain Byrnes to carry out an expedition against the Indians in Tehama, Shasta, Plumas, and Butte counties.  In the following three months,  Captain Byrnes' rangers had many minor clashes with bands of Indians and captured more than 500. Due to the snow blocking the route over the coastal ranges to the Mendocino Reservation, the captive Indians were taken by steamboat from Red Bluff to the Tejon Reservation.

References

Pit River
1850s in California
Native American history of California
Pre-statehood history of California
Pit River tribes
Wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America in California
History of Butte County, California
History of Plumas County, California
History of Shasta County, California
History of Tehama County, California
Shasta Cascade
1850 in California
1857 in California
Conflicts in 1857
1859 in California
Conflicts in 1859
Patpatar language

Patpatar, or , is an Austronesian language spoken in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea.

Phonology 
Phonology of the Patpatar language:

References

Languages of New Ireland Province
St George linkage
2002 Czech parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in the Czech Republic on 14 and 15 June 2002. The result was a victory for the Czech Social Democratic Party, which won 70 of the 200 seats, and formed a coalition government with the KDU-ČSL and Freedom Union – Democratic Union. Voter turnout was 58%.

Campaign finances

Opinion polls

Results

References

Czech Republic
Parliamentary
Elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic
Czech
Berwyn station (CTA)

Berwyn is a temporarily closed 'L' station on the CTA's Red Line. It is located at 1121 West Berwyn Avenue in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The adjacent stations are Bryn Mawr, located about  to the north, and Argyle, about  to the south, both still in service and serving as alternate stations. Four tracks pass through the station, but there is only single island platform in the center of the tracks. The two western tracks are temporarily out of service for construction and trains on both the Red and Purple Lines pass Berwyn on the eastern tracks without stopping. When it reopens, it will consist of an island platform with Red Line trains stopping on the inner tracks and Purple Line Express trains bypassing the station on the outer tracks. Berwyn is named for the Berwyn station in the community of the same name, which is west of Philadelphia. Many of the roads (and thus CTA stations) in the Edgewater neighborhood are named after stations on the former Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line.

History
The Northwestern Elevated Railroad extended its services north from Wilson to Central Street in Evanston in 1908, but they did not build a station at Berwyn Avenue until the tracks between Wilson and Howard were elevated onto an embankment between 1914 and 1922. This new station was built to a design by architect Charles P. Rawson; the date of opening is not known, but a station may have existed at Berwyn by 1916. At the time of its opening the station was named Edgewater Beach Station; the name was changed to Berwyn in the late 1950s, around about the time that Lake Shore Drive was extended from Foster Avenue to Hollywood Avenue destroying the namesake Edgewater beach.

Red & Purple Modernization Project
As part of Phase I of the Red & Purple Modernization Project, the station closed for demolition beginning on May 16, 2021 and a newly constructed station will reopen in 2025. The new station will feature wider platforms, better lighting, and be accessible to passengers with disabilities.

Bus connections
CTA
  92 Foster 
  146 Inner Lake Shore/Michigan Express

Notes and references

Notes 

Station closed until further notice and will reopen in 2025

References

External links

Berwyn Station Page CTA official site
Berwyn Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View

CTA Red Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1916
Custos Rotulorum of Derbyshire

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Derbyshire.

 Sir John Vernon bef. 1544 – aft. 1544
 Sir Francis Leke bef. 1547 – bef. 1580
 Sir John Manners 1580–1611 
 George Manners bef. 1617–1617 
 William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Devonshire 1617–1628
 Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of Dorset 1628–1646
 Interregnum
 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle 1660–1676
 Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle 1677–1689
 William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire 1689–1707
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire.

References

Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1544-1646
Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828

Derbyshire
Naṟṟiṇai

Natrinai ( meaning excellent tinai), is a classical Tamil poetic work and traditionally the first of the Eight Anthologies (Ettuthokai) in the Sangam literature. The collection – sometimes spelled as Natrinai or Narrinai – contains both akam (love) and puram (war, public life) category of poems. The Naṟṟiṇai anthology contains 400 poems, mainly of 9 to 12 lines, but a few with 8 to 13 lines each. According to Takanobu Takahashi – a Tamil literature scholar, the Naṟṟiṇai poems were likely composed between 100–300 CE based on the linguistics, style and dating of the authors. While Kamil Zvelebil – a Tamil literature and history scholar , dates some poems to the 1st century BCE. The Naṟṟiṇai manuscript colophon states that it was compiled under the patronage of the Pandyan king named Pannatu Tanta Pantiyan Maran Valuti, but the compiler remained anonymous. 

The Naṟṟiṇai poems are credited to 175 ancient poets. Two of these poems are attributed to the patron king. According to Kamil Zvelebil – this poetic anthology contains a few Sanskrit loan words and contains 59 allusions to historical events. Many lines from these poems were borrowed into later Tamil works such as the famed post-Sangam Tamil works: Tirukkural, Silappatikaram and Manimekalai. The Tamil legend about Kannagi (Kannaki), one who tore of her breast to protest against her husband's unjust execution, appears in Naṟṟiṇai 312.

Translations
The text has been translated by A. Dakshinamurthy and published by the International Institute of Tamil Studies, Chennai in the year 2000.

References

Bibliography
 Mudaliyar, Singaravelu A., Apithana Cintamani, An encyclopaedia of Tamil Literature, (1931) - Reprinted by Asian Educational Services, New Delhi (1983)
 

Sangam literature
Daniela Rocca

Daniela Rocca (12 September 1937 – 28 May 1995) was an Italian actress, model and writer.

Biography
Rocca was born and raised in Acireale, a small town near Catania. She became Miss Catania in 1953, and was discovered by talent scouts after competing in a Miss Italy competition.

Rocca made her film debut in French director Maurice Cloche's Marchands de Filles (1957) and also appeared in the Riccardo Freda film Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (Caltiki – il mostro immortale, 1959), and Esther and the King (1960). More film roles followed, but Rocca did not garner international attention until Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'Italiana, 1961). Rocca became a star after playing the part of the smothering wife Marcello Mastroianni is desperate to escape in Pietro Germi's international box-office hit. Rocca fell in love with Germi during filming and attempted suicide when he rejected her. After that, she was considered unstable and was not offered significant roles. A nervous breakdown led to a stay in a mental hospital.

After playing minor roles in movies and television, her show business career ended in 1967. She ended her days in a retirement home in Milo, near Catania.  There she wrote four books: Agente segreto con licenza di vivere; Avvocato offresi; Il condannato a morte; and Psicoanalisi, sogni, fantasie nascosti nella mente; and a collection of poems, Ara.

Partial filmography

 La Luciana (1954)
 Il nostro campione (1955)
 Il padrone sono me (1955) - Nunziata
 Addio sogni di gloria (1957)
 Marchands de filles (1957) - Bettina
 Head of a Tyrant (1959) - Naomi
 Non perdiamo la testa (1959) - Volante
 Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (1959) - Linda
 Legions of the Nile (1959) - Teyrè
 The Giant of Marathon (1959) - Karis
 Austerlitz (1960) - Caroline Bonaparte
 Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960) - Melitta
 Esther and the King (1960) - Queen Vashti
 Revenge of the Barbarians (1960) - Galla Placidia, Onorius' Sister
 Rome 1585 (1961) - Princess Alba of Portoreale
 Divorce, Italian Style (1961) - Rosalia Cefalù
 Peccati d'estate (1962) - Teresa
 The Captive City (1962) - Doushka
 I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra (1962) - Assuntina Greco, aka Géneviève
 L'attico (1963) - Silvana D'Angelo
 Symphonie pour un massacre (1963) - Hélène Valoti
 The Empty Canvas (1963) - Rita
 Behold a Pale Horse (1964) - Rosana, Mistress of Vinolas
 The Sucker (1965) - (uncredited)
 Assicurasi vergine (1967) - Carmela - don Pippo's lover
 Un giorno, una vita (1970) - Olga (final film role)

References

External links
 

1937 births
1995 deaths
People from Acireale
Italian film actresses
Actors from Sicily
20th-century Italian actresses
Models from Sicily
Nowy Tomyśl

Nowy Tomyśl  () is a town in western Poland, in Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the capital of Nowy Tomyśl County. The population is 15,627 (2004).

History

The town has a long tradition of wickerwork. In the main town square stands a wicker basket woven in 2006, measuring  long, 9 m wide and 7.7 m high, entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's largest basket. The town also has a Museum of Basketry and Hop Growing, which is one of the branches of the National Museum of Agriculture in Szreniawa. Next to the museum is a small zoo.

Since 2012, Nowy Tomyśl has been the site of one of the tallest wind turbines in the world.

Notable people
Sławomir Busch (born 1998), Polish volleyball player
Mateusz Kościukiewicz (born 1986), Polish actor
Paweł Najdek (born 1973), Polish weightlifter
Tomasz Tomiak (1967–2020), Polish rower

External links
 

Cities and towns in Greater Poland Voivodeship
Nowy Tomyśl County
Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939)
Paul Winn

Paul Angelo Winn is a Canadian human rights activist, and a former lawyer.

He served as a director and interim Chief of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, a Canadian crown corporation with a goal of building a national framework for the fight against racism in Canadian society.  Mr Winn is also past president of the Black Historical and Cultural Society of British Columbia.

In the 1980s, Mr. Winn wrote and hosted a weekly CBC Television program entitled The Canadians, which surveyed the multicultural communities of Canadian society.  He was the first visible minority host of a national television program in Canada.

Mr. Winn was active in the Anti-discrimination directorate of the Canadian government in the 1980s and 1990s, before pursuing a law degree at the University of British Columbia.  In 2000, Mr. Winn was selected by then Heritage Minister Sheila Copps to the board of directors of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

He resigned from his membership with the Law Society of British Columbia in 2004 over trust account violations.

See also
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

References

Lawyers in British Columbia
Canadian television hosts
Black Canadian broadcasters
Canadian human rights activists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
The Young and the Useless

The Young and the Useless were an American punk band formed in the early 1980s that consisted of  Adam Trese,  Arthur Africano, David Scilken and future Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz. They were managed by former Beastie Boys manager Nick Cooper. Their first recording Real Men Don't Floss was released by Ratcage Records. It is rumoured that they recorded a second album, but it was never released and its whereabouts is unknown. They played shows in New York City clubs including: A7, CBGB, Rock Lounge, Mudd Club, Club 57, Rock Hotel and 2+2; and played with Bad Brains, The Stimulators, Dead Kennedys, Ramones, P.I.L., Hüsker Dü, the Mob, the Necros, Adrenalin O.D. and the Beastie Boys.

On Friday, November 13, 1982, The Young and the Useless opened for the Beastie Boys at a concert produced by Philip Pucci, in honor of his birthday for the purposes of his short concert film of the Beastie Boys, Beastie. Pucci held the concert in Bard College's Preston Drama Dance Department Theatre. This performance marked both The Young and the Useless' and the Beastie Boys' first on screen appearance in a published motion picture, although the segment including The Young and the Useless was not included in the film's final edit.

By late 1984, due to the local success of Beastie Boys' 12" single, "Cooky Puss", the group had fallen apart, as Adam Horovitz began to spend more of his time working with The Beastie Boys. On October 28, 1984, they played their final gig at Club CBGB in New York City.

Real Men Don't Floss
Real Men Don't Floss was their only official recording, released on Rat Cage in 1982. 
All tracks written by The Young and The Useless except "Funky Music" which is a loose cover of "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry.

References

Hardcore punk groups from New York (state)
Beastie Boys
Fishermen's Competency Certificates Convention, 1966

Fishermen's Competency Certificates Convention, 1966 is  an International Labour Organization Convention.

It was established in 1966, with the preamble stating:

Ratifications
As of 2022, the convention had been ratified by 10 states.

External links 
Text
Ratifications.

International Labour Organization conventions
Treaties concluded in 1966
Treaties entered into force in 1969
Fishers
Treaties of Belgium
Treaties of the military dictatorship in Brazil
Treaties of Djibouti
Treaties of France
Treaties of West Germany
Treaties of Panama
Treaties of Senegal
Treaties of Sierra Leone
Treaties of Syria
Treaties of Trinidad and Tobago
Admiralty law treaties
1966 in labor relations
Lorraine Lang

Lorraine Lang (born October 8, 1956, Port Arthur, Ontario as Lorraine Edwards) is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario.  Lang is a two-time Tournament of Hearts champion and World Champion.

Curling career 
In 1981, Lang won the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship playing lead for her future husband Rick Lang.

Lang played in her first Scott Tournament of Hearts in 1983 as a third for Anne Provo. The team finished 4–6. She returned to the Hearts in 1988 as Heather Houston's third. At the 1988 Hearts, the team had to win two tie-breakers before winning two playoff games to claim the championship. They defeated the defending champion Pat Sanders.
At the 1988 World Championships, the team won the silver medal, losing to Germany's Andrea Schöpp in the final. The Hearts victory gave them a berth at the 1989 Scott Tournament of Hearts. The team would go on to win that as well. They had to win three playoff games before beating Chris More of Manitoba in the final.

At the 1989 World Championships, they avenged their silver medal by defeating Trine Trulsen of Norway in the final.  Their Hearts victory in 1989 qualified them for the 1990 Scott Tournament of Hearts. They were not able to win for a third straight year, however as they lost to Alison Goring of Ontario in the semi-final. The team returned to the Hearts in 1991 as Team Ontario. The team lost to Heidi Hanlon of New Brunswick in the semi-final. It would be Lang's last Hearts until 2006 when she played lead for Krista McCarville. At the 2006 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the team finished with a 4–7 record, out of the playoffs. She returned with McCarville to the 2007 Scotties Tournament of Hearts where the finished with a 6–5 record and lost in a tie-breaker. She played in her last Scotties in 2009. After the McCarville rink won the bronze medal at the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, Lang retired from curling.

Personal life
Lang works as a medical radiation technology program coordinator at Confederation College. She is married to Rick Lang and has two children, including Sarah Potts.

References

External links

Lorraine Lang at the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame

Curlers from Northern Ontario
Curlers from Thunder Bay
Living people
1956 births
World curling champions
Canadian women curlers
Canadian women's curling champions
Canadian mixed curling champions
Canadian curling coaches
Charlie Noble (chimney)

Charlie Noble is the smoke stack on a ship's galley.  

Around 1850, a British merchant service captain, Charles Noble, upon discovering that the stack of his ship's galley was made of copper, ordered that it be kept bright. From then onwards the ship's crew then started referring to the galley smokestack as the "Charlie Noble".

See also
 Glossary of nautical terms
 Dorade box

References
Origin of Navy Terminology

Nautical terminology
Islamic Salvation Army

The Islamic Salvation Army (AIS, ) was the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front, which was founded in Algeria on 18 July 1994. It was ordered to dissolve by the Court of Algiers in 1992. Since then, many of its members have either been arrested or forced into exile. The army had about 4,000 men in western and eastern Algeria, and later 40,000 men in 1994. It pledged allegiance to imprisoned FIS leaders Abbasi Madani and Ali Benhadj. It was supported by Libya and Saudi private donors, and allegedly by Morocco and Iran.

The Islamic Salvation Army wanted to distance itself from the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) which indiscriminately bombed and massacred civilians. Unlike the GIA, the AIS fought security forces instead of civilians and conducted guerrilla warfare. The AIS tried to control territories and gained some support in rural areas, and it fought a few battles against the GIA in 1995 and 1996. As the GIA rose, the FIS-loyalist guerillas attempted to unite their forces. In July 1994, the MIA, together with the remainder of the MEI and a variety of smaller groups, united as the Islamic Salvation Army, declaring their allegiance to FIS and strengthening FIS' hand for the negotiations. It was initially headed by MIA's Abdelkader Chebouti, who was succeeded in November 1994 by MEI's Madani Mezrag. It rejected all truces with the government. By the end of 1994, it controlled over half the guerrillas of the east and west, but barely 20% in the center, near the capital, where the GIA were mainly based.

The Islamic Salvation Army was formed on 18 July 1994 after the 1991 Algerian legislative election which resulted in an FIS victory was interrupted by the 1992 Algerian coup d'état led by the military, which wanted to prevent Algeria from turning into an Islamic state. The Islamic Salvation Front was banned by the government on 4 March 1992. On 24 September 1997, the leader of the Islamic Salvation Army Madani Mezrag declared a ceasefire. The FIS lost influence after this and was dissolved on 13 January 2000 after the Civil Concord decreed by president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

References

Paramilitary organisations based in Algeria
Algerian Civil War
Islamism in Algeria
Arab militant groups
Factions of the Algerian Civil War
Rebel groups in Algeria
Islamist groups
Live! (Chuck Berry album)

Live! is a live album by Chuck Berry, released in 1994 by Columbia River Entertainment Group.

Track listing
"School Days" – 3:09
"Sweet Little Sixteen" – 2:58
"Roll Over Beethoven" – 3:36
"Every Day I Have the Blues" – 4:00
"Bio" – 3:01
Medley: "Maybellene"/"Mountain Dew" – 2:46
"Let It Rock" – 3:42
Medley: "Carol"/"Little Queenie" – 4:15
"Key to the Highway" – 5:07
"Got My Mojo Working" – 3:29
"Reelin' and Rockin'" – 8:59
"Johnny B. Goode" – 2:53

Personnel
Chuck Berry – guitar, vocals
Ingrid Berry - vocals on "Keys to the Highway", "Got My Mojo Working" and "Reelin' and Rockin'"

References

Chuck Berry live albums
1994 live albums
Mary R. Dawson

Mary R. Dawson (February 27, 1931 – November 29, 2020) was a vertebrate paleontologist and curator emeritus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Education and career
Dawson was raised in Michigan, received her undergraduate degree from Michigan State University, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. She was Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh from 1972 until she retired in 2003, including serving as chair of the Earth Sciences Division from 1973 to 1997.

Research 
Dawson's research has focused on the evolution of mammals, especially of Cenozoic rodents and lagomorphs.  She has also maintained an active research program at Ellesmere Island and other sites in the high Arctic which showed that tropical and subtropical animals lived inside the Arctic Circle during the exceptionally warm climates of the Paleogene geological period.  Through this work, she and her collaborators discovered the first fossils of Tertiary land animals that documented a migration route between North America and Europe. This migration route provided early support for the theory of plate tectonics, which was only gaining wide acceptance in the 1960s and 1970s. In 2006 she disputed the classification of the Laotian rock rat, arguing that it is a member of the family Diatomyidae, which had previously been believed to have gone extinct 11 million years ago.

Awards and honors 
In 1992 Dr. Dawson became the first American woman to receive the Romer-Simpson medal, which is awarded for lifetime achievement in the field of vertebrate paleontology and considered the highest honor bestowed by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.  Likewise she was only the second woman to serve as the Society's president in 1973–1974.  The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's Mary R. Dawson Predoctoral Fellowship Grant, which recognizes and supports graduate student research excellence, is named after her.

In 1986, Dr. Dawson was awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Bernese Mountain Dog Club of America for her service to the breed and the club.

Major Publications 
 Later Tertiary Leporidae of North America (1958)
 Late Eocene rodents (Mammalia) from Inner Mongolia (1964)
 Contributions in Quaternary vertebrate paleontology : a volume in memorial to John E. Guilday (1984, edited with Hugh H. Genoways)
 Papers on fossil rodents in honor of Albert Elmer Wood (1989, edited by Craig Call Black)
 Dawn of the age of mammals in Asia (1998, edited with K. Christopher Beard)
 Paleogene rodents of Eurasia (2003)
 Fanfare for an uncommon paleontologist : papers in honor of Malcolm C. McKenna (2004, edited with Jason A. Lillegraven)

References

External links 
Biography from Pocantico Hills Central School
 TrowelBlazers profile
 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Biography 
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article

American paleontologists
Women paleontologists
2020 deaths
1931 births

Michigan State University alumni
Kent State University alumni
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
American women curators
American curators
Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Baltic Air Surveillance Network

Baltic Air Surveillance Network (BALTNET) is an air defense radar network operated by the Baltic States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

Structure 

The Baltic Air Surveillance Network (BALTNET) is one of the commands within the NATO Integrated Air Defense System (NATINADS). BALTNET's Regional Airspace Surveillance Coordination Centre (RASCC) is located in Karmėlava and reports to NATO's (CAOC) Combined Air Operations Centre: CAOC Uedem.

 Regional Airspace Surveillance Coordination Centre (RASCC), in Karmėlava, Lithuania
 (Estonian Air Force) Air Operations Centre, at Ämari Air Base
 Radar Station, in Levalõpme, with GM 403
 Radar Station, in Otepää, with GM 403
 Radar Station, in Kellavere, with AN/TPS-77
 (Latvian Air Force) Air Operations Centre, at Lielvārde Air Base
 1st Radiotechnical (Radar) Post, at Lielvārde Air Base, with AN/TPS-77
 2nd Radiotechnical (Radar) Post, in Audriņi, with AN/TPS-77
 3rd Radiotechnical (Radar) Post, in Čalas, with AN/TPS-77
 (Lithuanian Air Force) Airspace Operations Centre, in Karmėlava
 Radar Station in Antaveršis
 Radar Station in Degučiai
 Radar Station in Ceikiškės
Lithuanian radars are manufactured by Indra Sistemas.

See also 
 Airspace Surveillance and Control Command (Lithuania)

References 

Air defence radar networks
Military projects of the Baltic states
Military of Lithuania
Military of Latvia
Military of Estonia
Jack Thompson

Jack Thompson may refer to:

Sports
Jack Thompson (footballer, born 1892) (1892–1969), English footballer who played for Sheffield United and Bristol City
Jack Thompson (1920s footballer), English footballer who played for Aston Villa and Brighton & Hove Albion
Jack Thompson (boxer) (1904–1946), American boxer
Jack Thompson (Australian footballer) (1927–1961), Australian footballer for Collingwood
Jack Thompson (basketball) (born 1946), American professional basketball player
Jack Thompson (American football) (born 1956), American Samoan football quarterback
Jack Thompson (American soccer) (born 1992), American soccer player

Other
Jack Thompson (politician) (1928–2011), British politician
Jack Thompson (actor) (born 1940), Australian film and television star
T. Jack Thompson (1943–2017), Irish missiologist and scholar of African Christianity
Jack Thompson (activist) (born 1951), disbarred Florida attorney known for his actions against violent video games
Jack Thompson, a fictional character from Marvel's Agent Carter

See also
Jack Thomson (disambiguation)
John Thompson (disambiguation)
Houses of the Holy (song)

"Houses of the Holy" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 sixth album Physical Graffiti. The name of the song was used as the title of the band's fifth album, although it was not included on that album; they decided the song did not fit well with the other album material, so it was moved to the subsequent release.

Composition and recording
In order to create the layered guitar introduction and fade-out, Page used a Delta T digital delay unit. The squeak of John Bonham's drum pedal can be heard throughout the song.

Record producer Rick Rubin has remarked, "This is a funk jam with really interesting, jazzy chords. It's one of their more compact feeling songs. And it's the only Zep song to use what sounds like a cowbell."

Live performances
The song was never played live by Led Zeppelin, though Robert Plant performed it with the Band of Joy during his 2010 solo tour. Additionally, Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes tested out the song in rehearsals for their 2000 tour, but dropped it before touring began.

Reception
In a contemporary review of Physical Graffiti, Jim Miller of Rolling Stone gave "Houses of the Holy" a positive review, saying "Plant's lyrics mesh perfectly with Page's stuttering licks." Miller continues "Here again, the details are half the fun: Bonham kicks the cut along with a cowbell while the two final verses add what sounds like a squeaky chorus of "doit"s behind the vocal; Plant meanwhile is almost inaudibly overdubbed on the song's central chorus, underlining the phrase "let the music be your master.""

See also
List of cover versions of Led Zeppelin songs"Houses of the Holy" entries

References

1975 songs
Led Zeppelin songs
Songs written by Jimmy Page
Songs written by Robert Plant
Song recordings produced by Jimmy Page
Swan Song Records singles
Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering

Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering (BVCoE) is a private engineering college in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, India, established in the year 1990. The campus is located in CBD Belapur and is founded by the Bharati Vidyapeeth group. The college is permanently affiliated to University Of Mumbai and approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi. UG courses are currently NBA accredited.

Departments
Post-Graduate courses confer Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Engineering.

History 
The college was established in 1983. It is one of the colleges from the Bharati Vidyapeeth group of higher educational institutions established in Pune, India, in 1964 by Indian politician and educationist Patangrao Kadam.

References

External links
Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering (BVCoE)

Engineering colleges in Maharashtra
Education in Navi Mumbai
Affiliates of the University of Mumbai
Universities and colleges established in 1990
1990 establishments in Maharashtra
Shaheed Chandu Stadium

Shaheed Chandu Stadium (), previously known as Bogura Divisional Stadium or Bogura Stadium, is a stadium located in the northwestern side of Bogura district, Bangladesh.

History
The venue got its first international exposure when it hosted three group stage matches of 2004 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

It became a test cricket venue on 8 March 2006, when it hosted a Test match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It has a total capacity of 18,000. The ground has a field dimensions of 175m x 140m. The last international match played here was between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in 2006, since then it has hosted domestic cricket .

Stats
Till 2006 the venue has hosted

 Test Matches - 1
 One Day International - 5
 T20I - 0

International match hosting problem
The venue hosted its last international match in 2006. Transportion problems, player's accommodation problems, are a few of problems for which Bangladesh Cricket Board preclude matches being hosted at the venue. Although the city has a domestic airport, it is maintained by the Bangladesh Air Force and needs prior approval for operations which makes it difficult to host international matches. The Bangladesh Cricket Board and the Government of Bangladesh are trying to solve problems related to hosting so that the venue can come back to host international matches as soon as possible.

See also
 List of international five-wicket hauls at Shaheed Chandu Stadium
 Stadiums in Bangladesh
 List of Test cricket grounds
 One-Test wonder
 List of international cricket grounds in Bangladesh

References

Further reading

External links
 CricketArchive

Sport in Bangladesh
Cricket grounds in Bangladesh
Test cricket grounds in Bangladesh
Bogura District
Sports venues completed in 2002
2002 establishments in Bangladesh
Alpha Chamaeleontis

Alpha Chamaeleontis, Latinized from α Chamaeleontis, is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Chamaeleon. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.06 and thus is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. With an annual parallax shift of 51.12 mas, it is located 63.8 light years from the Sun. The star is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −13 km/s, and is predicted to come to within  in 666,000 years.

This is an F-type main sequence star with a stellar classification of , where the 'Fe−0.8' notation indicates an anomalously low abundance of iron. It has an estimated 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, 2.1 times the Sun's radius, and radiates 7.5 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 6,580 K. The star is around 1.8 billion years old with a projected rotational velocity that is too low to be measured. The star has been examined for an infrared excess that would suggest the presence of an orbiting debris disk, but none was found.

References

F-type main-sequence stars
Chamaeleon
Chamaeleontis, Alpha
Durchmusterung objects
0305
071243
040702
03318
Alicia Hall

Alicia Hall (born December 2, 1985) is an American model who won NBC's 2005 reality TV show Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search.

Early life 

Hall was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, and by the age of seven, becoming a swimsuit model was her lifelong career goal.  Once she was old enough, Hall began appearing in local fashion shows. At the age of 13, encouraged by her mother and stepfather, she participated in her first professional photo shoot in October 1998 before winning a competition held by the John Robert Powers School, a well-established Las Vegas modeling institution where she then received formal training while working as a freelance web designer.

Career 

In January 2003, Hall competed on CBS's revival of Star Search, making it as far as the semi-finals in the model category.

Hall again took the reality TV path when she was chosen from thousands of applicants to be one of the 12 finalists on series Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search, which pitted aspiring models against one another in a six-episode modeling competition for a $1-million modeling contract with NEXT Model Management and a spread in Sports Illustrateds annual Swimsuit Issue.  Hall made it to the final two, along with Shannon Hughes, and subsequently won.

She has since modeled for Skechers and is currently signed with Elite Model Management in Miami and Los Angeles, Chic Model Management in Australia, DCM Models in Seoul, Satoru Models in Japan, Major Model Management in Paris, and Race Model Management in New York.

In 2009, Hall auditioned online for the Victoria's Secret Model Search. She was selected as one of the top 10 finalists that competed to walk in the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Though Hall garnered substantial praise during the competition's first task, a lingerie shoot with photographer Russell James, she struggled during the second task workout with personal trainer David Kirsh and ultimately lost to fellow competitors Kylie Bisutti and Jamie Lee Darley.

She featured in the video of Egyptian singer Amr Diab's song Wayah.

References

External links
 

1985 births
Living people
People from the Las Vegas Valley
Place of birth missing (living people)
Reality modeling competition winners
Female models from Nevada
Web designers
21st-century American women
Volsk

Volsk () is a town in Saratov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Volga River, opposite the mouth of the Bolshoy Irgiz (a tributary of the Volga),  northeast from Saratov, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 66,508.

History
It was founded in 1699 as the sloboda of Malykovka () and was granted town status and renamed Volgsk () in 1780. In the 19th century, the name gradually changed to a more pronounceable "Volsk". After the October Revolution of 1917, Volsk became a major center of cement production.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Volsk serves as the administrative center of Volsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the work settlement of Kleny and three rural localities, incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Volsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Volsk is incorporated within Volsky Municipal District as Volsk Urban Settlement.

See also
Tomka gas test site

References

Notes

Sources

External links
Wolsk.ru, unofficial website of Volsk 

Cities and towns in Saratov Oblast
Volsky Uyezd
Populated places established in 1699
Populated places on the Volga
1699 establishments in Russia