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International Firefighters' Day

International Firefighters' Day (IFFD) is observed on May 4, in order to honour firefighters for their service internationally, remember firefighters who lost their lives during service and to commemorate firefighters killed in the September 11 attacks. It was established after a proposal by Australian firefighter, JJ Edmondson, was made on January 4, 1999, following the deaths of five firefighters fighting a bushfire in Australia on 2 December, 1998.

Proposal and establishment
On December 2 1998, firefighters of the Geelong West Fire Brigade responded to a call for assistance by other firefighters fighting a wildfire from Linton, Victoria, Australia. A sudden change of wind direction caused due to a cold front led to the fire truck being engulfed by the fire on the way to refilling the water tank. As a result, five Geelong West firefighters were killed: Garry Vredeveldt, Christopher Evans, Stuart Davidson, Jason Thomas, and Matthew Armstrong. This incident eventually led to the proposal for an International Firefighters' Day.

Activities

Sound off ritual 
A "sound off" occurs at noon local time on the first Sunday of May, as part of International Firefighters' Day. It involves turning on fire sirens for 30seconds, and a subsequent moment of silence for one minute to commemorate all firefighters who were killed in duty. The sound off began in 2002, and has been continued annually.

Fire prevention 
Fire prevention and the need for more intensive and thorough training is promoted through International Firefighters' Day, and the day is seen as an important opportunity to raise both skills and awareness.

Symbols

Red and blue ribbon 
The red and blue ribbon is a symbol used for International Firefighters Day, the ribbon is  long and  wide, with the two separate colors conjoined at the top. The red of the ribbon represents fire while the blue represents water. The ribbon is traditionally worn on the lapel but is not limited to the lapel.

Saint Florian 

Saint Florian, regarded in the Catholic Church as the patron saint of firefighters, is another symbol of International Firefighters' Day. The saint's day (as observed in the Catholic Church) of St. Florian is May 4, hence International Firefighters' Day is also observed on May 4. This day is seen as a day to hold events such as memorials or fundraisers.

See also
Firefighting
Women in firefighting

References

 Diamantes, David. Fire Prevention: Inspection and Code Enforcement. 3rd ed. Cliffton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning, 2007. Print
 Facts About Wind and Wildfires. The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc, 2010. Web. October 15, 2010.
 International Firefighters’ Day. IFFD.NET, 2006. Web. 15 October 2010.
 Klinoff, Robert. Introduction to Fire Protection. 3rd ed. Cliffton Park, NY: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2007. Print.
 The Origins of International Firefighters’ Day. Newcastle Events, 2010. Web. October 15, 2010.
 United States. U.S. Fire Administration. Fire Statistics. Sept 2010. U.S. Fire Administration. Web. October 15, 2010.

External links
 IFFD site

Fire service awards and honors
Firefighting
International observances
May observances
Bruce Walthers

Bruce Walthers von Alten (born 1944) is an American underground cartoonist. Also known as Bruce von Alten, Walthers was part of the late-1960s/early-1970s Milwaukee underground comix scene and a member of the Krupp Comics/Kitchen Sink group, which also included Denis Kitchen, Jim Mitchell, Don Glassford, and Wendel Pugh.

In the early 1970s, he regularly created weekly strips for the Wisconsin underground newspaper The Bugle-American, which were subsequently syndicated to about fifty other underground and college newspapers via the Krupp Syndicate. These strips, titled O. K. Comics, frequently featured his trademark character, Oscar Kabibbler, a spherical eyeless nebish who drifted into bizarre and cryptic settings. Walthers was also known for inexplicable blimps emblazoned with mysterious messages. In 1972, he drew two issues of O.K. Comix for Kitchen Sink Press and also contributed to the company's anthology Snarf.

References 

Underground cartoonists
Living people
1944 births
American comic strip cartoonists
Miss Nebraska Teen USA

The Miss Nebraska Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Nebraska in the Miss Teen USA pageant. The pageant is directed by Vanbros & Associates, headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas. In 2002, Nebraska joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system. In 2022, Nebraska became the 28th state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time.

Nebraska has had only six placements at Miss Teen USA. The state was the second-to-last to make its first placement, which came in 2004, when Meagan Winings advanced to the semi-finals. 

Five Nebraska teens have crossed over to win the Miss Nebraska USA title and compete at Miss USA, with Sarah Summers being the most successful, winning the title of Miss USA 2018. One other Nebraskan previously competed in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen.

Faron Medhi of Omaha was crowned Miss Nebraska Teen USA 2022 on March 6, 2022, at Rose Blumkin Performing Arts Center in Omaha. She went on to win Miss Teen USA 2022 on October 1, 2022, becoming the very first delegate from Nebraska to win the title.

Results summary

Placements
Miss Teen USA: Faron Medhi (2022)
3rd runner-up: Audrey Eckert (2020)
Top 10: Meagan Winings (2004)
Top 15/16: Danielle Zuroski (2006), Erin Swanson (2019), Daisy Sudderth (2021)
Nebraska holds a record of 6 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Awards
Miss Congeniality: Jasmine Fuelberth (2013), Daisy Sudderth (2021)

Winners 

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

External links
Official website

Nebraska
Women in Nebraska
Multi-tap

Multi-tap (multi-press)  refers to a text entry system for mobile phones. The alphabet is printed under each key (beginning on "2") in a three-letter sequence as follows; ABC under 2 key, DEF under 3 key, etc. Exceptions are the "7" key, which adds a letter ("PQRS"), and the "9" key which includes "Z". Punctuation is typically accessed via the "1" key and various functions mapped to the "*" key and "#" key.  

The system is used by repeatedly pressing the same key to cycle through the letters for that key.  For example, pressing the "3" key twice would indicate the letter "E". Pausing for a set period of time will automatically choose the current letter in the cycle, as will pressing a different key.

It is commonly used in conjunction with text-messaging services. Some portable telecommunications devices (such as the BlackBerry) have bypassed the need for this by incorporating a mini-keyboard for users to type on. As of 2012, most mobile phones with fewer keys than alphabet letters offer a predictive text input method.

See also
 Telephone keypad letter mapping

References

Input methods for handheld devices
Mobile phones
William Butcher

William James Burchell Butcher (24 July 1858 – 24 May 1944), Australian politician, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for twelve years.

Born in Richmond, Tasmania on 24 July 1858, William Butcher was the son of squatter and landowner Edward William Burchell Butcher, and Maria Susan née Schaw. He was educated at private schools in Melbourne, Victoria.

In 1876, Butcher's father joined with other Victorian investors in forming the Murchison River Squatting Company. The following year Butcher, his father and his brother Charles John Hunt Butcher emigrated to Western Australia, establishing Barrington Station in the Murchison district. In 1878 Butcher took part in an exploring expedition that aimed to find a shorter route to port from the Lower Gascoyne district, where he later purchased land. He later also bought Boolathana Station near Carnarvon in partnership with John Brockman, whose niece Margaret Harriet Brockman he married on 5 November 1892. They had three sons and five daughters.

Butcher became a Justice of the Peace in 1898. On 24 April 1901, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly seat of Gascoyne as an independent, succeeding George Hubble who had not contested the election. He sat as a Liberal after 1905, holding the seat until the election of 3 October 1911, when he was defeated by John McDonald. He contested for a seat in the Australian Senate in the elections of 31 May 1913 and 15 September 1914, but was unsuccessful. On 12 November 1915, he won the Legislative Assembly seat of Roebourne in a by-election called because of the still-unexplained abandonment of the seat by Joseph Gardiner. The by-election was a crucial one for John Scaddan's Labor government, with Butcher's win erasing its two-seat majority. He held the seat until the election of 18 October 1917, which he did not contest.

In 1904, the Butcher brothers bought Avondale Estate near Beverley. They expanded Avondale from  to   by purchasing surrounding properties. Four years later the brothers approached the government and offered to sell the land at £5/10/- per acre, the government counter offered with £5/5/- per acre. The brothers accepted this offer and in March 1910 the sale of Avondale occurred for the total price of £51,494/12/6.

In 1910 and 1911, Butcher was president of the WA Pastoralists Association. In 1900 he purchased Meeberrie Station north east of Geraldton, and later also became owner of Nangetty Station near Mingenew.

Little is known of Butcher's life after 1917.  He died at Nedlands on 24 May 1944, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.

References

Sources

1858 births
1944 deaths
Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery
Explorers of Western Australia
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
People from Richmond, Tasmania
Australian pastoralists
Commonwealth Liberal Party politicians
Druz

Druz may refer to
 Druze, a Middle Eastern religious community
Druz-Iki, a village in Azerbaijan
Aleksandr Druz (born 1955), Russian television personality 
Émile Druz (1891–?), French racing cyclist
118P/Shoemaker–Levy

118P/Shoemaker–Levy (also known as periodic comet Shoemaker–Levy 4) is a comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy.

During the 2010 apparition the comet became as bright as apparent magnitude 11.5.

The comet nucleus is estimated to be 4.8 kilometers in diameter.

On December 3, 2015, comet Shoemaker–Levy 4 will pass  from asteroid 4 Vesta.

This comet should not be confused with Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (D/1993 F2) which spectacularly crashed into Jupiter in 1994.

References

External links 
 Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
 118P magnitude plot for 2010
 http://jcometobs.web.fc2.com/pcmtn/0118p.htm
 118P on Kronk's Cometography

Periodic comets
0118
Discoveries by Carolyn S. Shoemaker
Discoveries by Eugene Merle Shoemaker
118P Shoemaker-Levy
Comets in 2016
19910209
Split Image (album)

Split Image is the debut album by Excel, released in 1987. It is the band's first album as Welcome to Venice is a compilation album with Suicidal Tendencies, Beowülf, No Mercy and Los Cycos. Compared to their later works, this album sees Excel play thrash metal with hardcore punk and doom metal influences.

Track listing
 "Your Life, My Life" – 3:17
 "Insecurity" – 2:12
 "Split Image" – 5:12
 "Never Look Away" – 3:41
 "Wreck Your World" – 2:54
 "Social Security" – 2:36
 "Set Yourself Apart" – 2:22
 "The Joke's on You" – 2:46
 "Looking for You" – 2:58
 "Spare the Pain" – 5:15

2000 re-release bonus tracks:
 "Sonic Decapitation"
 "No Deal"
 "Split Image"
 "Insecurity"
 "Looking for You"
 "Spare the Pain"
 "Gods of Power"
 "Blitz & Confinement"
 "Enforcer"
 "Conclusion"
 "Make Up Your Mind"

Personnel 
 Dan Clements – vocals
 Adam Siegel – guitars
 Shaun Ross – bass guitar
 Greg Saenz – drums

Excel (band) albums
1987 debut albums
Caroline Records albums
Miss Nevada Teen USA

The Miss Nevada Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Nevada in the Miss Teen USA pageant.

Contestants compete in interview, active wear, and evening gown. Winners have most commonly come from Las Vegas since the pageant began in 1983.

Janae McIntosh of Las Vegas was crowned Miss Nevada Teen USA 2022 on May 15, 2022 at South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas. She will represent Nevada for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements

 2nd runners-up: Victoria Franklin (1998), Helen Salas (2004), Alexis Smith (2017), Erica Bonilla (2019)
 4th runner-up: Carissa Morrow (2016) 
 Top 10: Kimberly Cannon (1983), Kristen Walthers (1999)
Top 15/16: Ileri Tunrarebi (2009), Britney Barnhart (2018), Janae McIntosh (2022)
Nevada holds a record of 10 placements at Miss Teen USA

Awards
 Miss Congeniality: Janae McIntosh (2022)
 Miss Photogenic: JJ Casper (1990)

Winners

See also
 Miss Nevada USA
 Miss Nevada

References

External links

Official website

Nevada
Women in Nevada
ReSurge International

ReSurge International, formerly known as Interplast, is an international humanitarian organization that provides free reconstructive surgery in developing countries, primarily to children with cleft lip and palate and burn scar contractures.

ReSurge International, Interplast at the time, was founded in 1969 by Stanford plastic surgeon Donald Laub, and as of 2023, has treated more than 124,000 patients worldwide. The first patient was a 13-year-old boy who had come to Stanford University Medical Center from his home in Mexicali, Mexico, to receive surgery to repair his cleft lip and palate. Soon after, Laub and other surgeons began organizing regular trips to a charity hospital in Mexicali to treat children with disabling deformities.

Inherent in the goals of organizations such as ReSurge Inter-national is the supposition that many such disabling conditions can be greatly alleviated or even resolved through plastic surgical intervention.

Interplast was the subject of "A Story of Healing", winner of the 1997 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.

Interplast still exists under the Interplast name in Australia.

See also
 Cleft lip and palate organisations

References

External links
 ReSurge International

Health charities in the United States
Plastic surgery organizations
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Medical and health organizations based in California
Sima Fu

Sima Fu () (180– 3 April 272), courtesy name Shuda, was an imperial prince and statesman of the Jin dynasty of China. He previously served as an official in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period before his grandnephew, Sima Yan (Emperor Wu), usurped the Wei throne in 266 and established the Jin dynasty. Sima Guang, author of Zizhi Tongjian, claimed to be his descendant.

Life
Sima Fu was the third among the eight sons of Sima Fang, who served as the Intendant of the Capital (京兆尹) during the reign of Emperor Ling towards the end of the Eastern Han dynasty ( 184–220). He was known for being well read, highly competent as an official, and generous towards those in need. He was also a close friend of Cao Zhi.

Sima Fu's second brother, Sima Yi, rose to power in the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period (220–280) and became the regent and de facto ruler of Wei after seizing power in a coup d'état in 249. After Sima Yi's death, his sons Sima Shi and Sima Zhao consecutively succeeded him as the regent and de facto ruler of Wei. During his service under the Wei regime, Sima Fu held relatively high offices: Prefect of the Masters of Writing (尚書令) during the reign of Cao Rui; and Grand Commandant (太尉) and Grand Tutor (太傅) during the reigns of Cao Fang, Cao Mao and Cao Huan. He also served as a military commander in some battles against Wei's rival states, Shu Han and Eastern Wu. In 266, Sima Zhao's son Sima Yan forced the last Wei emperor Cao Huan to abdicate the throne in his favour, thereby ending the Wei regime. Sima Yan established the Jin dynasty and became its first emperor.

Sima Fu was known for his loyalty to the Wei regime, even after it was replaced by the Jin dynasty. In June 260, when the Wei emperor Cao Mao was assassinated during a failed coup to seize back power from Sima Zhao, Sima Fu was one of the few Wei officials who wept at Cao Mao's funeral. In February 266, after Sima Yan established the Jin dynasty and became the emperor, he granted titles of nobility to his relatives, including his granduncle Sima Fu, whom he enfeoffed as the Prince of Anping. In response to his ennoblement, Sima Fu said, "I am, and always have been, a subject of Wei." He also held the position of taizai (太宰; "Grand Chancellor") in the Jin government from 17 February 266 until his death in April 272 at the age of 92. He was survived by at least nine sons and 14 grandsons.

See also
 Lists of people of the Three Kingdoms

References
Citations

Bibliography
 Chen, Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).
 
 Fang, Xuanling (ed.) (648). Book of Jin (Jin Shu).
 Pei, Songzhi (5th century). Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi zhu).
 Sima, Guang (1084). Zizhi Tongjian.

180 births
272 deaths
Government officials under Cao Cao
Cao Wei government officials
Jin dynasty (266–420) imperial princes
William Joseph Williams

William Joseph Williams (November 17, 1759 – November 30, 1823) was an American portrait and miniature painter.

Biography 
He was born in New York City, the son of William Williams, a Welsh painter born in Bristol, and Mary Mare Williams, sister of the painter John Mare.

Williams resided in New Bern, North Carolina from 1804 to 1823, after living in Philadelphia, Georgetown, and Charleston.

He painted portraits of Presidents Washington and John Adams, as well as other important figures of his time.

Williams died in New Bern and buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Today, Williams is viewed as one of the first American national portraitists.

References

External links 

 About Williams' painting of Washington, National Portrait Gallery Archived
 American Gallery: William Joseph Williams (1759–1823)

1759 births
1823 deaths
18th-century American painters
18th-century American male artists
American male painters
19th-century American painters
19th-century American male artists
People from New Bern, North Carolina
Painters from North Carolina
Painters from New York City
American people of Welsh descent
People from Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)
Seeking Refuge

Seeking Refuge is the third and last album to date by Excel. It was released in 1995. Some of the material on this album dates back to 1991 when Excel began writing The Joke's on Yous follow-up. Due to lineup changes and band members being involved in their own activities at the time, Seeking Refuge was set aside for a number of years before finally being completed in 1995. With this album, Excel once again presented a change in musical style, from the pure thrash of The Joke's on You to a more stoner/groove metal sound.

Like other Excel albums, the album is out of print. The only single off this album was "Unenslaved".

Track listing
 "Unenslaved"
 "Hair Like Christ"
 "Plastic Cracks"
 "Take Your Part Gotta Encourage"
 "Drowned Out"
 "United Naturally in True Youth"
 "Riptide"
 "Overview"
 "Downpressor"

Personnel
 Dan Clements - vocals
 Brandon Rudley - guitar
 Shaun Ross - bass
 Max - drums

Delicious Vinyl albums
Excel (band) albums
1995 albums
Shu'ubiyya

Shu'ubiyya () was a literary-political movement which opposed the privileged status of Arabs within the Muslim community and the Arabization campaigns particularly by the Ummayads. The vast majority of the Shu'ubis were Persian.

Terminology
The name of the movement is derived from the Qur'anic use of the word for "nations" or "peoples", šuʿūb. The verse (49:13)

In Iran

When used as a reference to a specific movement, the term refers to a response by Persian Muslims to the growing Arabization of Iran in the 9th and 10th centuries. It was primarily concerned with preserving Persian culture and protecting Persian identity.

In the late 8th and early 9th centuries, there was a resurgence of Persian national identity. This came mainly through the patronage of the Sunni Iranian Samanid dynasty. The movement left substantial records in the form of Persian literature and new forms of poetry. Most of those behind the movement were Persian, but references to Egyptians, Berbers and Arameans are attested.

In Al-Andalus
Two centuries after the end of the Shu'ubiyyah movement in the east, another form of the movement came about in Islamic Iberia and was controlled by Muwallad (mixed Arab and Iberian Muslims). It was fueled mainly by the Berbers, but included many European cultural groups as well including Galicians, Catalans (known by that time as Franks), Calabrians, and Basques. A notable example of Shu'ubi literature is the epistle (risala) of the Andalusian poet Ibn Gharsiya (García).

Opposition
Ibn Qutaybah (a Persian scholar) and  the Arab writer and scholar Al-Jahiz are known to have written works denouncing Shu'ubist thoughts.

Neo-Shu'ubiyya
In 1966, Sami Hanna and G.H. Gardner wrote an article "Al-Shu‘ubiyah Updated" in the Middle East Journal. The Dutch university professor Leonard C. Biegel, in his 1972 book Minorities in the Middle East: Their significance as political factor in the Arab World, coined from the article of Hanna and Gardner the term Neo-Shu'ubiyah to name the modern attempts of alternative non-Arab and often non-Muslim nationalisms in the Middle East, e.g. Assyrian nationalism, Kurdish nationalism, Berberism, Coptic nationalism, Pharaonism, Phoenicianism. In a 1984 article, Daniel Dishon and Bruce Maddi-Weitzmann use the same neologism, Neo-Shu'ubiyya.

See also
Islamization of Iran
Ajam
Mawali
Islamistan, movement of non-Arab Islamic unity
Bashar ibn Burd, famous Shu'ubi poet
 Islam Nusantara

References

Sources
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Ethnic groups in the Arab world
Islam in Iran
Islamic terminology
Religion and race
Culture of the Abbasid Caliphate
Pattersonville

Pattersonville may refer to:
Pattersonville, Iowa, a former name for Hull, Iowa
Pattersonville, Louisiana, which was incorporated in 1907 as the Town of Patterson, Louisiana
Pattersonville, New York
Pattersonville, Pennsylvania, see List of places in Pennsylvania: Pa–Pi
Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Central Auditing Commission (CAC; ) was a supervisory organ within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Similar organs existed in a number of other communist parties, which were analogous with that of the CPSU.

The Central Auditing Commission was elected by and reported to the CPSU Party Congress and its membership was just below that of the CPSU Central Committee within the intraparty bureaucratic hierarchy.

The Central Auditing Commission supervised the expeditious and proper handling of affairs by the central bodies of the Party, and audited the accounts of the treasury and the enterprises of the CPSU Central Committee.

It is not to be confused with yet another CPSU control organ: the Party Control Committee of the CPSU Central Committee, which was responsible for enforcing Party discipline.

Chairmen

References 

 
Bodies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1921 establishments in Russia
1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union
Legal act

Legal act may refer to:

Legal transaction, means by which legal subjects can change the legal positions of themselves or other persons intentionally
Legislative act, e.g. an act of Parliament or act of Congress, a formal written enactment produced by a legislature
 a legal document, regulation, part of law.

See also
Legal action
Miss New Hampshire Teen USA

The Miss New Hampshire Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New Hampshire in the Miss Teen USA pageant. It was directed by The Clemente Organization based in Malden, Massachusetts from 2013 to 2019. GDB Theatre and Pageant Productions became the new directors for the event starting from 2020 competition.

In terms of number of placements New Hampshire is one of the least successful states. From 1983 to 2007 their only placement was when Janel Bishop won the Miss Teen USA title in 1991 becoming the 8th state that won the Miss Teen USA title for the first time.

Two New Hampshire teens have competed at Miss USA, one after winning the Miss New Hampshire USA and one as Miss New York USA.

Grace Paradise of Plaistow was crowned Miss New Hampshire Teen USA 2022 on May 1, 2022, at  Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. She will represent New Hampshire for the title of Miss Teen USA 2022.

Results summary

Placements
Miss Teen USAs: Janelle Bishop (1991)
Top 15: Courtney Morgan (2008)
New Hampshire holds a record of 2 placements at Miss Teen USA.

Winners 

1 Age at the time of the Miss Teen USA pageant

References

External links
Official website

New Hampshire
Women in New Hampshire
James Enright (referee)

James Enright (April 3, 1910 – December 20, 1981) was a college and professional basketball referee and sportswriter. He was born in Sodus, Michigan and began officiating at 20 years old.

After retiring in 1964 from a refereeing career that saw him officiate the 1954 NCAA tournament Final Four and the 1948 and 1952 Olympic basketball qualifying tournaments, Enright resumed a career he had abandoned for refereeing in 1930 and covered basketball and baseball for such publications as The Sporting News and the Chicago Evening American.

In 1968, Enright became president of the United States Basketball Writers Association and, in 1978, in view of his contributions to the game of basketball as a referee, Enright was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.  He is also a member of the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.

External links
Basketball Hall of Fame profile

1910 births
1981 deaths
Basketball referees
College men's basketball referees in the United States
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Michigan
Sportswriters from Illinois
20th-century American non-fiction writers
Muslims for America

Muslims For America is an advocacy group dedicated to introducing American Muslims into politics and ensuring US foreign policy is "written with an understanding of Islam." According to its website, Muslims For America aims to work with the Republican National Committee, in setting up American Muslim Republican Caucuses within each US state Republican Party, in addition to building relations with the Democratic Party.

The group was founded and is funded by American Muslims of Pakistani and Central Asian descent, Muhammad Ali Hasan, and his mother, Seeme Gull Khan Hasan.
Claiming to be bipartisan in nature, Muslims For America believe "the best foreign policy plans can mature from both the Republican Party and Democratic Party".

However, some hold the view that the group is really a partisan Republican lobby organization; one of the group's founders, Seeme Gull Khan Hasan, reportedly having "donated more than $1 million to Bush and Republican causes since the 2000 [US Presidential election] campaign". When announcing the name change from Muslims For Bush, the group stated among its aims, to "create greater friendships between American Muslims and the Republican Party."

During the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict the organization faced conflicting interest between the strong support of Israel by the U.S. government and American politicians, and the general attitude of Muslims toward Israel.

Muslims For America has consistently expressed a zero tolerance policy for any kind of terrorism, "in following the example left by Prophet Muhammad."

In 2010, co-founder Muhammad Ali Hasan announced that he would be leaving the Republican Party citing the party's bigotry against Muslims, undocumented immigrants, and gays. His mother Seeme has also criticized the party for its opposition to the Park51 Muslim community center, claiming that "The past few years in the Republican party has been constant humiliation for Muslims."

See also
Saba Ahmed

References

External links
Muslims for America
Muslims for Bush
Who are "Muslims for Bush"?, examination of the Hasan family's political connections
The Muslim World's Savior, article by Muhammed Ali Hasan
Television appearances by Muslims For America

Political advocacy groups in the United States
Islamic organizations based in the United States
Al Unser Jr.'s Road to the Top

Al Unser Jr.'s Road to the Top is a racing video game released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Gameplay
In order to succeed in the racing world, the player has to progress from go-karts to snowmobiles, IROC racing cars, and eventually to Indy racing cars.

If the player does well, then the final challenge is to take on Al Unser Jr. in the final event at Vancouver. This race uses the Molson Indy Vancouver as a final test of the player's skills. The player can also practice every stage of the game except the final stage. Go-kart racing involves regional action in the United States of America while snowmobiles provide challenge for the game's simulated winter months. Competing in the stock cars of the IROC is considered to be gaining experience for the faster and lighter open wheel vehicles of the Indy league.

Game progress is saved using passwords.

Reception

In their review, GamePro described Al Unser Jr's Road to the Top as an excellent racing game for beginners due to its simple mechanics and controls and uncluttered graphics.

Allgame gave the game a rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars.

See also
Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing

References

1994 video games
Champ Car video games
North America-exclusive video games
Radical Entertainment games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games set in Canada
Video games set in Vancouver
Video games developed in Canada
Multiplayer and single-player video games
The Software Toolworks games
Wabanaki

Wabanaki, Wabenaki, Wobanaki, etc. may refer to:

 Wabanaki Confederacy, a confederation of five First Nations in North America
 Abenaki, one member Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy
 People who speak one of the Eastern Algonquian languages

Language and nationality disambiguation pages
Cliff Fagan

Clifford B. Fagan (March 3, 1911 – January 18, 1995) was a high school basketball referee who became executive director of the National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations (NFHS) and eventually president of the Basketball Hall of Fame and board member for FIBA, the international governing body for the sport of basketball. He was born in Mankato, Minnesota.

For his contributions to the sport of basketball, including his service as a member of the board of directors for the United States Olympic Committee, Fagan was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 1984. He was awarded the FIBA Order of Merit, in 1994.

References

External links
Basketball Hall of Fame profile
Green Bay East HS profile

1911 births
1995 deaths
Basketball referees
Sports commissioners
High school basketball coaches in Wisconsin
High school football coaches in Wisconsin
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
Sportspeople from Mankato, Minnesota
University of Iowa alumni
University of Wisconsin–La Crosse alumni
Wisconsin–Eau Claire Blugolds football coaches
I Like the Way You Move

I Like The Way You Move may refer to the following:

 "I Like the Way (You Move)", a 2005 single by the BodyRockers
 "I Like The Way You Move", a 2013 dance track with Pattie Brooks
 "I Like the Way You Move", an episode of the American TV series Transamerican Love Story
 I Like the Way You Move, 2021 British dating series

See also
 "The Way You Move", a 2003 single by OutKast
WAFS

WAFS may refer to:

 Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron
 Wide area file services, a recently coined term for distributed office functions
 WAFS (AM), a radio station (1190 AM) licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Super Bomberman 3

is a game released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995. It is the third installment in the Super Bomberman series, and the third Bomberman game to be released for the system. Up to five players can play at the same time. The game was released in Japan and the PAL region, but not in North America due to the closure of Hudson Soft USA.

Gameplay 

This game scales back a lot of gameplay additions made in Bomberman '94 and Super Bomberman 2 and returns to the classic formula. As for multiplayer, the game adds a lot over the previous game by adding more characters, each representing a country of Earth (including one of the villains, Pretty Bomber, as France, which marks her first appearance as a non-enemy character). There are also new cutscenes for the Story mode, which centers around the resurrection of the Five Dastardly Bombers who were previously defeated in Super Bomberman 2, as White Bomber and Black Bomber adventure across various element themed stars in which the Five are causing havoc, under the rule of their creator, Bagular.

The overall animation graphics changed with the third installment; unlike Super Bomberman and Super Bomberman 2, the third sequel's graphics were simplified, which look similar to the graphics of the Bomberman games for the PC Engine, and most of the music in the game are remixed versions of previous older Bomberman soundtracks. Super Bomberman 3 was notably the first installment in the series that allowed for up to five players in Battle Mode, as the first two installments only allowed up to four.

Plot
One night, Bagular enters a junkyard inside of his UFO. He finds the bodies of the five Dastardly Bombers, and then sucks them into his UFO. Upon doing that, he sets all five on tables, and begins working on reviving them! Upon hearing this, White Bomber and Black Bomber set out to stop the five Dastardly Bombers, and ultimately defeat Bagular himself. The two set out to save the day once again!

Development and release

Reception 

On release, Famitsu scored the game a 28 out of 40. The game sold over 612,000 copies in Japan alone. In November 1997, in its 60th monthly issue, Nintendo Acción listed it as the 22th best game they had ever reviewed.

Notes

References

External links 
 Super Bomberman 3 - Hudson Game Navi at Hudson Soft (Japanese) on Wayback Machine
 Super Bomberman 3 at GameFAQs
 Super Bomberman 3 at Giant Bomb
 Super Bomberman 3 at MobyGames

1995 video games
Action games
Bomberman
Cooperative video games
Hudson Soft games
Maze games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Science fiction video games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Top-down video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Jun Chikuma
Saskatchewan Party candidates, 2003 Saskatchewan provincial election

The Saskatchewan Party ran a full slate of 58 candidates in the 1999 provincial election, and won 28 seats to form the official opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Several candidates have their own biography pages; information on others may be found here.

Patrick Bundrock (Saskatoon Sutherland)

Bundrock campaigned for the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1995 provincial election, and served on the Reform Party of Canada's Saskatoon—Humboldt riding executive in the mid-1990s (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 18 May 1996). He became an executive assistant to Member of Parliament (MP) Jim Pankiw in 1998.

He sought the Canadian Alliance nomination for Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar in the 2000 federal election, and lost to Carol Skelton. He was listed as 29 years old at the time (19 August 2000).

Bundrock's association with Pankiw became controversial in the leadup to the 2003 campaign, after Pankiw made several controversial comments about aboriginal rights (7 March 2003). Bundrock resigned from Pankiw's office in March 2003, citing differences of opinion on aboriginal policy (13 March 2003).

He lost to New Democrat Graham Addley in 2003, after outspending Addley by a margin of $43,323 to $38,007 (6 March 2004).
Suburbia Streets

"Suburbia Streets" is the third single released by New Zealand hip hop group Fast Crew, released in 2005 in New Zealand and in February 2006 in Australia. The song reached number 10 in New Zealand and number 31 in Australia

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

2004 songs
2005 singles
Fast Crew songs
Warner Music Australasia singles
Milford Magazine

Milford Magazine, a regional lifestyle publication, was published from 2001 to 2009. It produced approximately 10 issues per year and was distributed to over 200 high-traffic locations by Pike Media Partners, a media startup co-owned by Sean Strub.  Krista Gromalski served as its Editor from 2001 through 2005.

While located in Milford, Pennsylvania, it was distributed throughout the Delaware River Highlands region: Pike, Wayne, and Monroe counties in Pennsylvania; the Orange and Sullivan counties in New York; and Sussex county of New Jersey.

Mission
Milford Magazine's editorial mission was to re-brand Milford and the northern Pocono Mountains area as a distinct region known as the Delaware River Highlands, and to distance it from the traditional Pocono brand.  The magazine's tagline was Navigating the Delaware River Highlands.

Awards
Milford Magazine received a 2005 Community Service Award from the Upper Delaware Council in recognition of the publication's mission to cover topics of importance within the Delaware River Valley.

References

2001 establishments in Pennsylvania
2009 disestablishments in Pennsylvania
Lifestyle magazines published in the United States
Local interest magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2001
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Magazines published in Pennsylvania
The First Team

The First Team were the first players known to have played the sport of basketball, having been taught the game in 1891 by James Naismith, who is recognized as the inventor of the sport. The team comprised 18 players who were studying in Springfield, Massachusetts, to become executive secretaries of the YMCA and who, as part of their coursework, studied physical education with Naismith, who is said to have invented the game to teach teamwork skills to his charges. The team was inducted as a group into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of that organization's inaugural 1959 induction class for their efforts in popularizing the sport and as the game's first practitioners.

T. B. Patten and C. B. Libby were designated captains of the sides, who played a game that looked distinctly different from what fans would see in future years. With nine men to a side, each team had three forwards, three guards and three centers. The three positions were divided into three section of the court, with only the centers allowed to roam. The final score of the first game was 1–0 with William Chase scoring the first basket in the history of the sport.

In 1937, a re-enactment of the contest was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City using Naismith's 13 original rules, a soccer ball and peach baskets. The six surviving members of the first team were interviewed by the organizers of the event to ensure it was true to the original game.

Team members
The following are recognized by the Basketball Hall of Fame as members of "The First Team":

Lyman Walker Archibald (July 3, 1868 – November 10, 1947)
Franklin Everts Barnes (August 28, 1868 – October 3, 1947)
Wilbert Franklin Carey (October 31, 1868 – June 16, 1940)
William Richmond Chase (June 23, 1867 – August 30, 1951)
William Henry Davis (July 31, 1867 – October 9, 1919)
George Edward Day (September 21, 1864 – October 31, 1919)
Benjamin Snell French (July 14, 1871 – March 21, 1910)
Henry Gelan (September 13, 1863 – March 16, 1910)
Ernest Gotthold Hildner (October 26, 1873 – July 15, 1968)
Genzabaro Sadakni Ishikawa (July 27, 1866 – December 7, 1956)
Raymond Pimlott Kaighn (December 8, 1869 – August 16, 1962)
Donald Freas (December 24, 1865 - June 7, 1942)
Eugene Samuel Libby (April 28, 1865 – September 1, 1948)
Finlay Grant MacDonald (April 1, 1870 – March 29, 1951)
Frank Hoyt Mahan (October 17, 1867 – February 11, 1905)
Thomas Duncan Patton (April 15, 1865 – April 1, 1944)
Edwin Pakenham Ruggles (January 5, 1873 – June 19, 1940)
John George Thompson (September 10, 1859 – August 17, 1933)
George Radford Weller (August 25, 1870 – February 11, 1956)

References

External links
Hall of Fame profile
The Story of the First Basket Ball Players by Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
The first basketball game by NBA Hoops Online

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
1891 in basketball
Glacier ice accumulation

Glacier ice accumulation occurs through accumulation of snow and other frozen precipitation, as well as through other means including rime ice (freezing of water vapor on the glacier surface), avalanching from hanging glaciers on cliffs and mountainsides above, and re-freezing of glacier meltwater as superimposed ice.  Accumulation is one element in the glacier mass balance formula, with ablation counteracting.  With successive years in which accumulation exceeds ablation, then a glacier will experience positive mass balance, and its terminus will advance.

Accumulation zones
Glaciologists subdivide glaciers into glacier accumulation zones, based on the melting and refreezing occurring. These zones include the dry snow zone, in which the ice entirely retains subfreezing temperatures and no melting occurs.  Dry snow zones only occur within the interior regions of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets.  Below the dry snow zone is the percolation zone, where some meltwater penetrates down into the glacier where it refreezes.  In the wet snow zone, all the seasonal snow melts.  The meltwater either percolates into the depths of the glacier or flows down-glacier where it might refreeze as superimposed ice.  A glacier's equilibrium line is located at the lower limit of the wet snow zone.

See also
 Glacier growing

References

Glaciology
Seattle Pro Musica

Seattle Pro Musica is an American choir, based in Seattle, Washington, performing under the direction of conductor and artistic director Karen P. Thomas. Seattle Pro Musica is widely considered to be one of the finest ensembles in the Pacific Northwest, and has received international recognition and acclaim for its CD recordings and live performances. Seattle Pro Musica has appeared as a featured ensemble on the NPR radio show Saint Paul Sunday, has performed by invitation for the World Festival of Women's Singing 2004, Festival Vancouver 2003 in Canada, the American Guild of Organists National Convention 2000 and the American Choral Directors Association Northwest Division Conventions 2000 and 2006, as well as numerous Northwest festivals.
Seattle Pro Musica produced and hosted the American Masterpieces Choral Festival in 2007, under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts' American Masterpieces Choral Initiative.

Awards
 Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence
 ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music

Premieres
 Four Lewis Carroll Songs, Karen P. Thomas, 1989
 Three Medieval Lyrics, Karen P. Thomas, 1993
 Lux Lucis, Karen P. Thomas, 2003
 Veni, Sancte Spiritus, John Muehleisen, 2005
 Three New Motets, Steven Stucky, 2006
 Da Pacem, John Muehleisen, 2008
 Canticum Canticorum IV, Ivan Moody, 2010
 You Have Ravished My Heart, Karen P. Thomas, 2010
 I Sing of Love, Bernard Hughes, 2012
 Wild Nights, Karen P. Thomas, 2013
 Eternity Passing Over: an Arctic Requiem, John Muehleisen, 2015

Discography

CDs 
 Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil: Vespers (1998)
 Alnight by the Rose (2001)
 Weihnachten! A German Christmas (2002)
 Peace in Our Time (2002)
 Music of the Spirit (2006)
 American Masterpieces (2008)
 Navidad (2009)
 In Dulci Jubilo (2011)
 Horizons - digital release (2012)
 Celtic Christmas (2013)
 Northern Lights (2016)
 Silent Night (2019)
 Panta Rhei (2021)

External links
Seattle Pro Musica - Official Site

Choirs in Washington (state)
Musical groups from Seattle
Musical groups established in 1972
1972 establishments in Washington (state)
Rebecca Balding

Rebecca Balding (September 21, 1948 – July 18, 2022) was an American actress best known for her appearances on Soap and Charmed.

Life and career
Balding was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She attended the University of Kansas. She had the role of Carol David, mother of Jodie Dallas' child, on Soap, appearing in 19 episodes from 1978 through 1980. Balding played Corky Crandall in 1979 in the sitcom Makin' It, as well as the original female reporter Carla Mardigian during the first three episodes of the inaugural 1977 season of the drama series Lou Grant, starring Ed Asner, before that character was written out for a different female reporter. That same year she again appeared with Asner, playing his daughter Julie, in the classic Christmas TV film, The Gathering. Also in 1977, Balding played Amy Franklin in Deadly Game, a movie that starred Andy Griffith and James Cromwell. In 1980 she starred in the pilot of the sitcom Mr. and Mrs. and Mr., that was never progressed as a series. In 1996, she made a guest appearance on 7th Heaven as Ellen, the mother of Matt's new girlfriend Tia.

In 1998, Balding guest starred as Aunt Jackie in the season one episode "The Fourth Sister" of Charmed. She later returned to the show during its fourth season in 2002 under a different role. Balding played the recurring character Elise Rothman, a newspaper editor-in-chief and the boss of Phoebe Halliwell (played by Alyssa Milano). She played the role until the show's eighth and final season in 2006.

Balding was married to television producer James L. Conway, whom she met while auditioning for a part in the 1981 horror movie The Boogens, which Conway directed and in which Balding ultimately starred.

Balding died on July 18, 2022, in Park City, Utah, at the age of 73, after having suffered from ovarian cancer.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 

1948 births
2022 deaths
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Little Rock, Arkansas
American television actresses
University of Kansas alumni
Deaths from ovarian cancer 
Deaths from cancer in Utah
Timna

Timna (Qatabānic: , romanized: , ; ) is an ancient city in Yemen, the capital of the Qataban kingdom; it is distinct from a valley in southern Palestine that shares the same name.

During ancient times, Timna was an important hub in the famous Incense Route, which supplied Arabian and Indian incense via camel caravan to ports on the Mediterranean Sea, most notably Gaza, and Petra.

An American excavation of Timna took place in the 1950s chronicled in the book "Qataban and Sheba" by the American archaeologist Wendell Phillips.

In 1962, an alabaster head and a block with writing was found by a British squadron on patrol. The head was discovered about 500 yards from the main wall and gate, the only structures left standing. The block was sent to the Manchester Museum and in a letter by the curator it was described as being a link between Egyptian and Arabic.

For a modern treatment of the city, see: Beihan

References

Archaeological sites in Yemen
Shabwah Governorate