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List of Miami Marlins broadcasters

Media and broadcast information/history for the Miami Marlins:

Flagship broadcast outlets
All names/call letters used are those used by the broadcaster the last time the team was broadcast on that outlet.

Television
SportsChannel Florida/Fox Sports Net Florida/FSN Florida/Fox Sports Florida/Bally Sports Florida (1997–present)
Sunshine Network/Sun Sports (1993–1997, 2006–2010)
WBFS-TV (1993–1998)
WAMI-TV (1999–2001)
WPXM-TV (2002–2005)
Marlins Television Network (1993–2005)

Radio

English
WINZ 940 AM (2014–present) – Flagship in Miami
WAXY 790 AM (2008–2013) – Flagship in Miami
WQAM 560 AM (1993–2007) – Flagship in Miami
Marlins Radio Network (1993–present) – Distributes games to radio stations around Florida
XM Satellite Radio (2005–present) – Carries games as part of MLB package

WQAM did not renew the contract with the Marlins when it expired after the 2007 season at the request of the Miami Dolphins. WAXY 790 (The Ticket) signed a contract to become the flagship station for the Marlins.

Spanish
WAQI 710 AM  (present)
WQBA 1140 AM (1998–2008)
WCMQ 1210 AM (1993–1997)

Broadcasters

Television
Joe Angel: TV play-by-play 1997–2000*
Gary Carter: TV analyst 1993–1996
Tommy Hutton: TV analyst 1997–2015, 2021–present
Len Kasper: TV play-by-play 2002–2004
Craig Minervini: Reporter 2002–present
Dave O'Brien: TV play-by-play 1997–2001*
Jay Randolph: TV play-by-play 1993–1996, Pre-game 1997–2000
Cookie Rojas: SAP Analyst 2003–present
Raul Striker, Jr.: SAP play-by-play 2003–present
Preston Wilson: TV analyst 2016
Eduardo Pérez: TV analyst 2016
Al Leiter: TV analyst 2016
Jeff Conine: TV analyst 2016
Rich Waltz: TV play-by-play 2005–2017
Todd Hollandsworth: TV analyst 2017–2021
Paul Severino: TV play-by-play 2018–present

Radio

English
Jesse Agler: Radio studio/Marlins extra host 2006–2007
Joe Angel: Radio play-by-play 1993–2000*
Roxy Bernstein: Radio play-by-play, 2005–2007
Glenn Geffner: Radio play-by-play, 2008–2022
Dave O'Brien: Radio play-by-play, 1993–2000*
Jon Sciambi: Radio play-by-play 1999–2004, Pre-game 1999–2000
Dave Van Horne: Radio play-by-play 2001–2021

Spanish
Manolo Alvarez: Spanish radio play-by-play 1993–1998
Jesus Diaz: Spanish radio play-by-play 1999
Luis Quintana: Spanish radio play-by-play 2002–present
Felo Ramírez: Spanish radio play-by-play 1993–2017
Ángel Rodríguez: Spanish radio play-by-play 2000–2001

See also 
 List of current Major League Baseball announcers

Notes
* Angel & O'Brien split innings doing play-by-play between radio and television for four seasons

References

Florida Marlins: History: Marlins All-Time Broadcasters.  Accessed 12 April 2006.
Florida Marlins: Roster: Broadcasters. Accessed 12 April 2006.
Florida Marlins: Team: Broadcasters. Accessed 1 May 2007.

 
Miami Marlins
Broadcasters
Prime Sports
Fox Sports Networks
Bally Sports
David A. Bowers

David Allen Bowers (born May 11, 1952) is a politician who served as mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, for a first term from 1992 to 2000 and then for a second term from 2008 to 2016.

Biography
He previously served as mayor of the city from 1992 to 2000.  A Democrat, he was elected mayor after serving on the city council. Bowers is a lawyer who has continued to serve in private practice both during and after his term as mayor.

He was also the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Virginia's 6th District congressional seat in 1998, losing to incumbent Republican Bob Goodlatte.

Bowers attempted a comeback in the May 2, 2006, election for city council, but he finished in fifth place out of ten candidates in the race for three seats.  Bowers ran for mayor of Roanoke as an Independent against the incumbent, Democrat Nelson Harris, Independent George A. Sgouros, and Independent Anita Powell, in the May 2008 municipal election.  Bowers won the election with 53% of the vote. In May 2012 Bowers gained a consecutive term as mayor by defeating Republican Mark Lucas 52% percent to 48%.

Bowers ran for mayor in 2020 against Democratic incumbent Sherman Lea, Sr. Though an independent, Bowers was endorsed by Roanoke Republican Party and appeared at a pro-police event that was also attended by Republican representative Ben Cline and Senate nominee Daniel Gade. Bowers criticized Lea and the city council for being insufficiently supportive of the police and fire department as well as of Bower personally in reference to a speaker at a city council meeting that called Bower a white supremacist and received no pushback from council members. Bowers also called the city council and mayor unelected in reference to the fact that elections had been delayed six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bowers lost the election by six percentage points.

Controversy
In November 2015, Bowers spoke out against the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Roanoke, citing as positive precedent the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, an event for which the American government formally apologized and provided reparations as part of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. Bowers's comment prompted a social media backlash and calls for his resignation.

References 

Living people
Candidates in the 1998 United States elections
20th-century American politicians
Virginia Independents
Mayors of Roanoke, Virginia
Virginia Democrats
Virginia lawyers
1952 births
Poppy Cannon

Poppy Cannon (August 2, 1905 – April 1, 1975) was a South African-born American author, who at various times the food editor of the Ladies Home Journal and House Beautiful, and the author of several 1950s cookbooks. She was an early proponent of convenience food: her books included The Can Opener Cookbook (1951) and The Bride's Cookbook (1954). Other books included The President's Cookbook: Practical Recipes from George Washington to the Present (1968).

Career
Her writing style was distinctive and has been described as "relentless." Her recipes might call for such measurements as "a splotch of wine," "a flurry of coconut," or "a great swish of sour cream," and she once advised readers that they could "rassle a lemon pie in a jiff" with "the new wonderstuff called Clovernook."

She was a contemporary of James Beard and Julia Child, and she collaborated with Alice B. Toklas on Aromas and Flavors of the Past and Present.

Personal life
She was born Lillian Gruskin in Cape Town as part of a large Lithuanian Jewish community in South Africa.  Her parents had been called Robert and Henrietta Gruskin, but had apparently changed their names to Robert and Marion Whitney at the time of their immigration to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1908.  Her sister Anne Fogarty became a popular fashion designer during the 1950s.

Poppy Cannon married four times and had three children. Her third husband was restaurateur Claude Philippe of the Waldorf Astoria New York, with whom she had a daughter, Claudia. In 1949 she became the second wife of the NAACP leader Walter Francis White (with whom she had an affair while he was married to his first wife, Leah Gladys Powell White) at a time when such a marriage was viewed as scandalous, not least within the Black community, some of whom viewed White's marriage to a white woman as a betrayal. The couple lived in New York until White's death in 1955. She wrote a biography of White, Gentle Knight, published the following year.  (According to the family history of her second husband, he was descended from the ninth president.)

Cannon died on April 1, 1975, after falling from the 23rd-floor balcony of her apartment in New York City. She was 69 years old, and had been in failing health in recent years.

References

External links
 Walter Francis White and Poppy Cannon Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
 The Women's Review of Books: A feminist guide to good reading
 Brown Sugar: Soul Food Desserts from Family and Friends by Joyce White from HarperCollins Publishers
 The Daguerreian Society: DagNews
 Lime Jell-O Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise contains birth date

1905 births
1975 deaths
American food writers
Jewish American writers
American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
American people of South African-Jewish descent
South African Jews
South African emigrants to the United States
South African people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Deaths from falls
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American women writers
American women non-fiction writers
20th-century American Jews
1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

The 1996–97 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was won by Barcelona after beating holders Paris Saint-Germain in the final. It was the last of four occasions that the Spanish club won the tournament.

All times are CET/CEST.

Teams

TH Title Holders

Qualifying round

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First leg

Second leg

KR Reykjavík won 3–2 on aggregate.

Budapest Honvéd won 2–0 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate. Nyva Vinnytsia won on away goals. 

AEK Larnaca won 5–1 on aggregate. 

Gloria Bistrița won 4–2 on aggregate.

Ruch Chorzów won 6–1 on aggregate.

Chemlon Hummené won 3–0 on aggregate.

Dinamo Batumi won 9–0 on aggregate.

Sion won 4–2 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate. Vaduz won 4–2 on penalties.

3–3 on aggregate. Constructorul Chişinău won on away goals. 

Brann won 5–2 on aggregate.

1–1 on aggregate. Olimpija Ljubljana won 4–2 on penalties.

MyPa won 2–1 on aggregate. 

Varteks won 5–1 on aggregate.

Sparta Prague won 10–1 on aggregate.

1–1 on aggregate. Red Star Belgrade won on away goals.

First round

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First leg

Second leg

Sion won 6–0 on aggregate.

AEK Athens won 3–1 on aggregate.

2–2 on aggregate. Lokomotiv Moscow won on away goals.

Galatasaray won 5–0 on aggregate.

AIK won 2–1 on aggregate.

1–1 on aggregate. Olimpija Ljubljana won on away goals.

Brann won 6–3 on aggregate.

Benfica won 5–1 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 2–0 on aggregate.

3–3 on aggregate. Sparta Prague won on away goals.

Red Star Belgrade won 4–1 on aggregate.

Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven won 4–1 on aggregate.

Nîmes won 5–2 on aggregate.

Liverpool won 4–1 on aggregate.

Paris Saint-Germain won 7–0 on aggregate.

Second round

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First leg

Second leg

AIK won 3–2 on aggregate.

Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.

AEK Athens won 6–0 on aggregate.

Brann won 4–3 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 4–2 on aggregate.

Liverpool won 8–4 on aggregate.

Fiorentina won 3–2 on aggregate.

Paris Saint-Germain won 6–4 on aggregate.

Quarter-finals

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First leg

Second leg

Paris Saint-Germain won 3–0 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 4–2 on aggregate.

Fiorentina won 2–1 on aggregate.

Liverpool won 4–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals
 

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First leg

Second leg

Paris Saint-Germain won 3–2 on aggregate.

After Barcelona's second goal, Iván de la Peña of Barcelona was hit by an object thrown from the stands and required medical assistance. As a result, Fiorentina received a two-match European competition stadium ban, enforced at the start of their 1998–99 UEFA Cup campaign.

Barcelona won 3–1 on aggregate.

Final

Top scorers
The top scorers from the 1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup are as follows:

See also
1996–97 UEFA Champions League
1996–97 UEFA Cup
1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup

Notes

References

External links 
 1996-97 competition at UEFA website
 Cup Winners' Cup results at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  Cup Winners Cup Seasons 1996-97 – results, protocols
 Archive of old pages site UEFA Season 1996–97, written protocol games.

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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup seasons
Abu Dhabi TV (Canada)

Abu Dhabi TV is a Canadian exempt Category B Arabic language specialty channel and is wholly owned by Ethnic Channels Group. The channel name is used under license from Abu Dhabi Media, the owners of the Emirati-based channel, Abu Dhabi TV.

Abu Dhabi TV broadcasts programming primarily from Abu Dhabi TV, in addition to Canadian content. It features a wide variety of programming including news, current affairs, sports, films, and more.

History
In September 2003, Ethnic Channels Group was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called Arabic TV, described as "a national ethnic Category 2 specialty television service providing a programming service primarily in the Arabic language."

The channel launched on November 9, 2005 as Abu Dhabi TV on Rogers Cable.

On August 30, 2013, the CRTC approved Ethnic Channels Group's request to convert Abu Dhabi TV from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service.

References

External links
 Abu Dhabi TV
 Abu Dhabi TV (UAE) 

Arab-Canadian culture
Arabic-language television stations
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Emirati diaspora
Arabic-language television in Canada
Thomas W. Merrill

Thomas W. Merrill, a legal scholar, is the Charles Evans Hughes professor at Columbia Law School. He has also taught at Yale Law School and Northwestern University School of Law.

He is a leader in three fields: property, administrative, and environmental law. He received a B.A. from Grinnell College in 1971 and a B.A. with first-class honors in philosophy, politics and economics in 1973 from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  He received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1977 and went on to clerk for Judge David L. Bazelon of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and then United States Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.  Before moving to Yale, he was the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia from 2003 to 2008 and the John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University from 1993 to 2003.  He also served as a Deputy Solicitor General from 1987 to 1990. Merrill returned to Columbia in 2010.

Merrill has published dozens of articles in the country's most prestigious law reviews, including the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He has co-authored multiple textbooks, generally dealing with the laws of property. In 2013, Merrill was awarded the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize by the College of William and Mary School of Law for his extensive body of work concerning property rights.

See also 
 List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 2)

References

External links
Thomas W. Merrill at Columbia Law School

American Rhodes Scholars
Columbia Law School faculty
Grinnell College alumni
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Living people
Northwestern University faculty
Scholars of constitutional law
University of Chicago Law School alumni
Yale Law School faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
The Waking

"The Waking" is a poem written by Theodore Roethke in 1953 in the form of a villanelle. It comments on the unknowable with a contemplative tone. It also has been interpreted as comparing life to waking and death to sleeping.

In popular culture
The poem appears as an object in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
An excerpt of the poem also appears at the beginning of Dean Koontz's novel Odd Hours.
Kurt Elling sings the poem on his 2007 album Nightmoves.
Quoted by the psycho cop in Stephen King's novel Desperation.
Quoted in Dana Simpson's "Ozy and Millie."

References

External links 
 Source text
 Secondary source of the text

American poems
1953 poems
Egan Junior High School

Ardis G. Egan Junior High School is a public middle school for seventh graders and eighth graders in Los Altos, California. It is part of the Los Altos School District. Most of Egan's over five hundred students live in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, and a few students live in Mountain View. Egan is named after Ardis Egan, the founder and former Superintendent of the Los Altos School District.

Egan is mainly fed by local elementary schools of the same district: Almond, Santa Rita, Covington and Gardner Bullis. Egan has inherited these schools' high success rates, ranking as one of the top intermediate schools in the state. Most Egan students who remain within the public education system go on to study at Los Altos High School, which is in the Mountain View–Los Altos Union High School District.

Awards and recognition
In 1988, 1990, and 2009, Egan was chosen as a California Distinguished School, and it has often scored high in STAR testing. It has been reported as the public school with the highest STAR test scores in California numerous times. From 1999 to 2002, Egan was ranked as the top junior high school in the state, based on its performance on the Academic Performance Index (API) Growth Reports.

Education
Greatschools awarded Egan a 9/10 in 2018.

Egan is one of the few schools in the Bay Area that offers two Spanish classes: the regular Spanish 1A class and a Spanish Conversation class. Like all schools in the Los Altos School District, Egan has a musical program. Their band, orchestra, and chorus visit Disneyland every year to perform at a concert (Magic Music Days).

Egan is well funded with a variety of electives, including Technology, Music, Languages, and Miscellaneous Items, such as Art, Yearbook, Financial Wisdom, and Leadership. It also offers a variety of classes that allow students to learn teaching, secretary skills, and librarian skills. Besides, it has many well-funded main courses, Algebra, Science, History, English, and Physical Education. Los Altos's wealthy environment helps Egan's education funding.

Egan has sports programs for boys and girls in soccer, basketball, tennis, track and field, cross-country, volleyball, wrestling, football, and others. Egan students also compete in the national MathCounts and AMC8 Math competitions. Egan students also compete in the national Science Olympiade competition.

Students are given awards for a variety of achievements; the most notable of these awards is the "Block E", which is earned through sports, after-school activities, and service to the school.

Miscellaneous
Bullis Charter School (BCS) also has its campus on the east side of Egan's grounds bordering San Antonio Road. The Los Altos School District (LASD) offered to let BCS use this space (known at the time as the Egan camp school) from 1 May 2004. The charter school has been located here ever since.

References

External links
 Egan School home page
 Egan School Reviews

Public middle schools in California
Los Altos, California
Schools in Santa Clara County, California
Parties in the European Council during 2006

This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council during the year 2006. The list below gives the political party that each head of government, or head of state, belongs to at the national level, as well as the European political alliance to which that national party belongs. The states are listed from most to least populous. More populous states have greater influence in the council, in accordance with the system of Qualified Majority Voting.



Summary

List of leaders (1 January 2006)

 DIKO's MEP is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament, but the party is not formally attached to any pan-European organization.

Changes during the year

Affiliation

 Prodi officially aligns himself only with his The Olive Tree coalition rather than any member-party, but he was previously a member of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy's ancestor-party and is honorary president of its European parent, the EDP.

Office-holder only

See also
Presidency of the Council of the European Union

External links
Council of the European Union (official website)

Lists of parties in the European Council
Angel Roleplaying Game

The Angel Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game published by Eden Studios, Inc. in 2003.

Background
Based on the Angel TV series, this game uses Eden's Unisystem game system.

Books and products

Angel RPG: Corebook
() Though it is presented as a distinct line, the Angel Role-playing Game serves as a wholly compatible companion to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer roleplaying game. The ruleset is virtually identical, but the game offers an extensive point-based system which allows players and Directors to create their own supernatural package Qualities, thus producing characters ranging from psychics to demons. The book is also noteworthy for its introduction of organizational rules, allowing players and Directors to easily and quickly define the resources, influence and obligation associated with any given group - including, potentially, the player characters themselves.

Given the differences in both characters and setting, the Angel RPG describes that series' main cast and adversaries through the end of Season 3. Los Angeles is also presented, with the expected focus upon the fictional aspects of L.A. introduced on the show. Finally, the book includes the pregenerated adventure "Blood Brothers," which offers a plotline and general tone reminiscent of Angel's somewhat darker style. This is only the first part of a larger adventure, concluded in the Director's Screen (see below).

A Limited Edition () of this book was produced in 2003, featuring a black leatherette cover printed with an abstract design, a pale foil "Angel" graphic, and a cloth bookmark. This printing was limited to 500 copies.

Angel RPG: Director's Screen
() This product includes a four-panel cardstock screen offering easy reference charts for the Director, as well as a 32-page booklet containing tips, aids, additional charts, and "Blood Brothers, Part Two," the conclusion to the adventure presented in the Corebook.

Angel RPG: Character Journal
() Much like the Buffy Character Journal (see above), this 16-page booklet was expected to provide a vastly expanded character sheet allowing players to record a great deal of information. Like many of the Buffyverse supplements, it was never released due to the end of the Fox/Eden licensing agreement.

Angel RPG: Investigator's Casebook
() This supplement would have provided expanded rules and setting detail, an overview of the American legal system (appropriately enough, as the employees of Angel Investigations frequently butt heads with police officers, lawyers and others on the show), and a pregenerated adventure. Eden Studios will not release this product since the recent end of their license with Fox.

Reception
The Angel role-playing game won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Game in its year of release.

References

Angel (1999 TV series)
Contemporary role-playing games
Eden Studios games
Horror role-playing games
Origins Award winners
Role-playing games based on television series
Role-playing games introduced in 2003
Vampires in games
Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba

The United States Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba (CAFC) was created by United States President George W. Bush on October 10, 2003, to, according to him, explore ways the U.S. can help hasten and ease a democratic transition in Cuba.

Members
The commission was co-chaired by Condoleezza Rice and Carlos M. Gutierrez.

Commission members include all Cabinet-level agencies. The core agencies responsible for day-to-day operations of the Commission include, the Secretary of State (chairman); Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Homeland Security; the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, or their designees. The core group undertakes the day-to-day work of the commission. Any US government agencies may be called upon to provide support to the commission's work by the authority granted it by National Security Presidential Directive 29 to create and task working groups.

First report
The commission's first report was released to the public on May 6, 2004. It set out a plan for bringing about change on the island and outlined numerous perceived problem areas and solutions to solve them.

Second report
The commission released a second report in July 2006, which built on the findings of the first report. It also issued the "Compact with the Cuban People," which pledged that the US government would assist a transition government.

Response of Cuban government
Fidel Castro referred to Rice as a "mad" woman and to the US Chief of Mission in Havana, Michael E. Parmly, as a "little gangster" and a "bully." He insisted that in spite of the formation of the commission, Cuba is itself "in transition: to socialism [and] to communism" and that it is "ridiculous for the U.S. to threaten Cuba now."

See also

 Cuba-United States relations
 Opposition to Fidel Castro
 Cuba and democracy

References

External links
 "Report to advise Bush on post-Castro Cuba" (Reuters)

Cuba–United States relations
Opposition to Fidel Castro
Anthony Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley

Anthony Philip Gilson Hughes, Lord Hughes of Ombersley, PC (born 11 August 1948 in St Albans, Hertfordshire) is a former English judge of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He was previously a Lord Justice of Appeal and Vice-President of the Criminal Division from 2009, following the retirement of Lord Justice Latham, to 9 April 2013.

Education and early life 
He was born to Patrick and Patricia Hughes. He was educated at Tettenhall College and obtained a BA in law from Van Mildert College, University of Durham. He was made an honorary fellow of the college in 2015.

Career 
He was called to the Bar (Inner Temple) in 1970. He was a Crown Court Recorder from 1985 to 1997, being Head of Chambers until 1997 of No.1 Fountain Court Chambers, Birmingham. He was knighted in 1997. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1990, and a judge of the High Court of Justice, Family Division, from 1997 to 2003. He served as Presiding Judge on the Midland circuit from 2000 to 2003, and transferred to the Queen's Bench Division from 2004 to 2006.

On 9 April 2013, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. By Royal Warrant, all members of the Supreme Court, even if they do not hold a peerage, are entitled to the judicial courtesy title "Lord" for life. Hughes was granted the judicial courtesy title Lord Hughes of Ombersley, referencing Ombersley in Worcestershire. He retired from office on 11 August 2018, upon reaching the age of 70.

Personal life 
In 1972, he married Susan March. They have a son and a daughter.

Selected cases
The Public Prosecution Service v William Elliott and Robert McKee [2013] UKSC 32

See also
List of Lord Justices of Appeal
List of Durham University people

References

External links
Information about Court of Appeal

1948 births
Living people
People educated at Tettenhall College
Alumni of Van Mildert College, Durham
20th-century English judges
People from St Albans
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Family Division judges
20th-century King's Counsel
Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
21st-century English judges
Timothy O'Connor (Irish politician)

Timothy O'Connor (1 October 1906 – 21 July 1986) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1961 to 1981.

A businessman from Killorglin, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil TD for the Kerry South constituency at the 1961 general election. He was re-elected at each subsequent general election until he lost his seat at the 1981 general election when he was defeated by Labour's Michael Moynihan. He stood unsuccessfully at the 1979 European Parliament election for the Munster constituency. He was also a member of Kerry County Council for many years, representing the Killorglin local electoral area.

References

1906 births
1986 deaths
Fianna Fáil TDs
Members of the 17th Dáil
Members of the 18th Dáil
Members of the 19th Dáil
Members of the 20th Dáil
Members of the 21st Dáil
People educated at St Munchin's College
People from Killorglin
Polish comics

Polish comics are comics written and produced in Poland. Very few of these comics have been published in languages other than Polish.

History 
One of the first and most famous Polish comics was Koziołek Matołek (Matołek the Billy-Goat), created by Kornel Makuszyński (story) and Marian Walentynowicz (art) in  1933. It became a cult classic, still popular today, and is an important part of the canon of Polish children's literature.

In the People's Republic of Poland the term comic (komiks) was discouraged as a "demoralising Western influence," and the terms "graphic stories" (historyjki obrazkowe) or "color books" (kolorowe zeszyty) were preferred instead; they were actually illegal and forbidden from 1947 to 1957. In modern Poland those terms have largely been forgotten, and the formerly discouraged English loanword "comics" (Polish "komiks") is now the main term for the medium.

One of the most notable series created in 1957 (and concluded in 2009) was Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek (eng. Tytus, Romek, and A'Tomek), which became the longest-published and one of the most popular Polish comic book series. Created by Henryk Jerzy Chmielewski (aka Papcio Chmiel), it centers on Romek and A'Tomek, two Boy Scouts, and Tytus de Zoo, a chimpanzee with the ability of human speech.

Over the past few years, the market for comics in Poland has grown rapidly; there is an increasing number of Polish comic books and magazines. Japanese manga has been introduced, and the first Polish manga-style publications have appeared. As throughout the world, webcomics have also become increasingly popular.

List of popular Polish comics

 Bradl
 Brom
 Czaki
 Dollicious
 Emilka Sza
 Funky Koval
 Jeż Jerzy
 Kajtek i Koko
 Kajko i Kokosz
 Kapitan Kloss
 Kapitan Żbik
 Komisarz Żbik
 Koziolek Matolek
 Likwidator
 Lil i Put
 Mikropolis
 Podróż smokiem Diplodokiem
 Przygody Kleksa
 Przygody Małpki Fiki-Miki
 Podziemny front
 Polscy Podróżnicy
 Quo Vadis
 Ratman
 Rewolucje
 Serce Mostu
 Tytus, Romek i A'Tomek
 W.E.
 Wiedźmin
 Wilq - Superbohater
 Osiedle Swoboda
 Yoel
 Życie Jezusa Chrystusa

External links
 History of comics in Poland
 Polish'd Silence - Polish comics without words
National Institute for the Promotion of Science

The National Institution for the Promotion of Science organization was established in Washington, D.C. in May 1840, and was heir to the mantle of the earlier Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences. The National Institution for the Promotion of Science was later renamed the National Institute and eventually became a part of the Smithsonian Institution.

The National Institute was the initial repository for collections of artifacts brought to the US by the United States Exploring Expedition, as well as various other object accumulated by the government, such as items owned by early American politicians, patent models, and natural objects.  Housed in the Patent Office Building, these were the precursor to the Smithsonian Institution collection.

The cabinet was managed by a group of scientists in 1840 and others to secure control of the Smithson bequest and create a National Museum in Washington.

Among those who were elected as corresponding members were such distinguished men as:

 Matthew Fontaine Maury 1st superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.,
 Jacob Whitman Bailey, professor of chemistry and mineralogy at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point;
 Professor Joseph Henry, of the College of New Jersey, at Princeton;
 Alexander Dallas Bache, president of Girard College of Orphans, Philadelphia;
 Denison Olmsted, professor of natural history at Yale College;
Foreign scientists were also represented:
Professor Charles Wheatstone of King's College, London
Adolphe Quetelet, the astronomer royal of Belgium;
 Professor Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, director of the Russian Imperial Central Observatory near St. Petersburg.

References

1840 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Institute for the Promotion of Science
Noel C. Taylor

Noel Calvin Taylor (July 15, 1924 – October 29, 1999) was the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia from 1975 to 1992.   An African American leader who helped facilitate Roanoke's peaceful desegregation in the late 1960s, Taylor was widely considered one of the most influential political and civic leaders in the city's history.

Taylor was pastor of the historic High Street Baptist Church in Roanoke's northwest neighborhood from 1961 until his death in 1999.

Early life, education, family
Taylor was born on July 15, 1924, in Moneta, Virginia.

Taylor attended the historically black college and university Bluefield State College, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Science with honors. He also attended Virginia Seminary and College, graduating in 1955 with a Masters of Divinity and a in 1959 with a Doctors of Divinity. In 1963, Taylor earned a Master of Arts in Religious Education from New York University.

Education, Ministerial Career
After graduating from  Bluefield State College in 1949, Taylor became a teacher in the Bedford County, Virginia Public School. Between 1950 and 1952, Taylor served as an elementary school principal.

In 1950, Taylor became an ordained Baptist Church Pastor. He pastored several churches: First Baptist Church - Clifton Forge, Virginia in 1954; First Baptist Church (Berkley) in Norfolk, Virginia between 1955 and 1958; and High Street Baptist Church in Roanoke, Virginia between 1958 and 1961.

Political, Mayoral Career
In 1970, Taylor became the first African American elected to Roanoke, Virginia's City Council. He served as vice-mayor between 1974 and 1975. In 1975, he was appointed Mayor to complete the term of Roy L. Webber who died while in office. In 1976, Taylor became the first African American elected as mayor of Roanoke, Virginia. He served as mayor from 1976 to 1992. He was a member of the Republican Party.

He was widely considered one of the most influential leaders in the city's history.  During his mayoral term, he oversaw downtown Roanoke's revitalization and the inaugural development of Valley View Mall.

Civic Leadership
Taylor served on the board of directors of the First National Exchange Bank, the Virginia Board of directors of the American Red Cross, the board of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield - Southwestern Virginia, the board of Baptist Children's Home, the board of the Blue Ridge Mountains Council - Boy Scouts of America. He was also a member of the Virginia Coal Research and Development Advisory Council.

Death
Taylor died on October 29, 1999, in Roanoke, Virginia. He was interred in southern Bedford County.

References

1924 births
1999 deaths
Mayors of Roanoke, Virginia
African-American mayors in Virginia
Virginia Republicans
20th-century American politicians
Baptists from Virginia
20th-century African-American politicians
20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States
Filipino TV

Filipino TV (FTV) is a Canadian exempt Category B Tagalog language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group (ECG). It broadcasts news and public affairs from the Philippines and locally produce Canadian content on a daily basis.

History

In September 2003, ECG was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a specialty channel called Filipino TV, described as "an ethnic Category 21 specialty television service... targeting the Filipino-speaking community."

The channel launched on June 23, 2004, along with 3 other channels from ECG, initially on Rogers Cable. It launched under the name ECG Filipino and featured programming from now-defunct Pinoy Central TV. In late 2005, the channel was renamed The Mabuhay Channel Canada via an agreement with The Mabuhay Channel, a new Filipino channel that had launched in the United States. The Mabuhay Channel was a partnership of five different Filipino broadcasters: ABC Channel 5 (now TV5), NBN Channel 4 (now PTV), IBC Channel 13, CCI Asia Group (ISLA & Juice), and Viva Entertainment. It was created exclusively for Filipinos living abroad by Philippine Multimedia Systems Inc. (PMSI), the only DTH satellite broadcaster in the Philippines.

In August 2008, The Mabuhay Channel was dropped by Dish Network, the only provider who carried the channel in the US. As a result of this, the channel ceased broadcasting and on August 18, 2008. Ethnic Channels Group re-branded the channel yet again this time calling it FTV- Filipino TV.

Coinciding with the launch of Filipino TV, Ethnic Channels announced a partnership with Filipino-Canadian production company Minerva Studio, whereby Minerva would produce several original productions for FTV.

On November 4, 2014, the CRTC approved Ethnic Channel Group's request to convert Filipino TV from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted category B third language service.

In December 2016, the channel underwent a rebranding, introducing a new logo and additional programming including locally produced programming from all provinces.

References

Digital cable television networks in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Filipino-Canadian culture
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Roy L. Webber

Roy L. Webber (November 7, 1904–October 1975) served twice as the mayor of the U.S. city of Roanoke, Virginia.  He was mayor from 1949 to 1954 and from 1968 to 1975.

Webber was a florist and the business he established in Roanoke carried his name until its closure in 2008.  U.S. Route 220 from the end of Interstate 581 at State Route 24 (Elm Avenue) through the road's interchange with State Route 419 was named the Roy L. Webber Expressway in his honor.

Webber appeared in a scene in the 1972 Elvis Presley documentary film Elvis On Tour, greeting Presley on board his private jet upon arrival in Roanoke on April 11, 1972. At the meeting Webber also presented Presley with the key to Roanoke and a guitar shaped bouquet of flowers made especially for the occasion by his own company.

References

1904 births
1975 deaths
Mayors of Roanoke, Virginia
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American politicians
International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities

The International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities (IAAOU) is a self-styled "accreditation" board based in the United States. It has no status with the United States Department of Education (USDE) or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Without USDE and CHEA recognition, its "accreditations" are essentially meaningless.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has indicated that Rochville University and Belford University, and the agencies from which they claim accreditation, "appear to be operated by the same people".

Schools claiming IAAOU accreditation
Ashwood University
Belford University (not to be confused with the University of Bedford which is linked to University Degree Program, another diploma mill)
Belford High School

See also
 Accreditation mill
 Diploma mill
 List of unaccredited institutions of higher learning
 List of unrecognized accreditation associations of higher learning

References

External links
International Accreditation Agency for Online Universities Official
Credential Watch Lists ACCTS as suspect agency.
State of Michigan Cites ACCTS as unapproved.
State of Oregon Cites ACCTS as unapproved.

Higher education accreditation
Unrecognized accreditation associations
Long Branch Pier

The Long Branch Pier was a pier located at 65 Ocean Ave, in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States.

History 
The pier was popular among fishermen and club goers who enjoyed late nights at "The Pier Pub" night club.  From the late 1950s -- all through the 1960s and into the 1970s, it was the home of Leon's Amusements, a popular "penny" arcade that was dominated inside by a merry-go-round along with numerous skee-ball, pin ball and "spin and win" machines.  The pier itself was owned by the Sowul family until May 1979, when developers Pat Cicalese and Carmen Ricci teamed together to buy the pier and build the Haunted Mansion, inspired by the Brigantine Castle in nearby Brigantine. The new pier had an arcade, several retail stores, a  haunted mansion, a McDonald's, Big Al's Hot Dogs & Lemon Aide and Junior's Restaurant. The pier was heavily advertised in New Jersey and New York City. By 1985, Kid's World was introduced, it was an amusement park inspired by Sesame Place in Langhorne, Pennsylvania. The park featured a pay-one-price system, that included both the Haunted Mansion on the Pier and the Giant Waterslide and other attractions across the street.  That section of Ocean Avenue was closed and became part of the park so kids could go from one side of the park to the other without fear of traffic.  After the change, the advertisements changed from gruesome mansion photos, to happy, family-friendly photos of kids laughing.

In the end 
On June 8, 1987, a gas leak and an electrical glitch sparked a fire under the pier. The heavy winds that day caused the fire to spread, destroying the whole pier. Luckily, nobody was injured.

There were rebuilding plans for the pier, but with almost no insurance, and no banks offering to pay for the project, the plans would never come to be. In 2001, after 14 years of slow deterioration, the remnants were torn down and replaced by a mixed-use shopping/dining/entertainment complex, Pier Village, which opened in 2005.

In 2005, it was announced that a new pier is in the works for the waterfront of Long Branch.

In 2016, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded the City of Long Branch a $2.4 million grant to hire a contractor for design of a new pier.  The funding proposal was built around the concept that a rebuilt pier would house a ferry terminal with commuter access to Manhattan.  TDG-NJ Planning and Architecture firm was contracted by the City in April 2016 to draft a conceptual design for a pier and ferry terminal.  While the concept design was funded by this grant, it is expected private investors will be needed to fund construction.  A pier design would also need permits and additional approvals from the State of New Jersey.

References

External links 
 Long Branch Pier / Haunted Mansion History
 Pier Village Official Website

Long Branch, New Jersey
Buildings and structures in Monmouth County, New Jersey
Piers in New Jersey
Percussion interlude

Percussion interlude may refer to:
Percussion interlude, a break in music, an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song
"Percussion Interlude", a song by Galactic from their 1998 album Coolin' Off
Sempronius Densus

Sempronius Densus was a centurion in the Praetorian Guard in the 1st century. He was bodyguard to the emperor's heir, and is remembered by history for his courage and loyalty in singlehandedly defending his charge from scores of armed assassins, while all his comrades deserted or switched sides.

Conspiracy
On January 10, 69 CE, Emperor Galba chose a man to become his deputy and heir. One of Galba's advisors had led Marcus Otho to expect to be appointed to this office, but instead Galba chose one Piso Licinianus. This unexpected choice led Otho to conspire to assassinate both of them and seize power.

Assassination and death
On January 15 Otho struck. Galba and Piso were being carried on litters through the street when they were accosted by a large company of renegade Praetorians in Otho's employ. The Praetorians were supposed to be the personal bodyguard of the emperor, but now they intended his death. Of all the soldiers present, only Sempronius Densus, who had been assigned by Galba to guard Piso, stood firm, while his colleagues either joined in the murder or melted away. While Piso fled to seek a safe hiding place, Sempronius bought him time to escape, first remonstrating with the assassins and then fighting them to the death.

At this point sources differ slightly. According to Plutarch, Sempronius gave his life defending both Galba and Piso:

After Sempronius finally fell, the assassins surrounded Galba and killed him.

Tacitus however describes Galba's death as occurring first in the order of events, followed by the centurion's last stand, in which Sempronius uses a pugio.

Dio Cassius simply relates:

Suetonious entirely omits the death of Sempronius from his accounts on the deaths of Galba and Piso.

Outcome
However, all of the sources agree on what happened next. While most of the assassins hacked Galba's corpse to pieces and paraded his severed head on a pole, two of them sought out Piso, who had taken refuge in the Temple of Vesta. They dragged him outside and killed him at the door.

Around 120 people later claimed credit for killing Galba and Piso, hoping that Otho would reward them. However, in April that year Otho was deposed by Vitellius, who replaced him as emperor. Vitellius found the list of their names and ordered them all executed. He also disbanded the Praetorian Guard (although the Guard was reinstated by the next emperor, Vespasian).

Although ultimately unsuccessful, Sempronius Densus's last stand is recorded by historians as being the only heroic act done in Rome that day.

References

69 deaths
1st-century Romans
Ancient Roman murder victims
Bodyguards
Members and leaders of the Praetorian Guard
People of the Year of the Four Emperors
Year of birth unknown
Sempronii
Deans' Cup

The Deans' Cup is an annual charity basketball game between Columbia Law School (CLS) and New York University School of Law (NYU), two of the top law schools in the country.  First held in 2002, the game raises money for public interest and community service organizations at both universities and is sponsored by many large New York City law firms.  A game between faculty members of the two schools is held at halftime.  The game is the single largest law school event in the United States, and has raised more than a half million dollars for public interest foundations at the two law schools.

The 2020 and 2021 editions of the Deans' Cup were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the game returned in 2022 and was played at Columbia University's Levien Gymnasium on April 9, 2022. NYU won by a final score of 48-34.

Past results
Venues

 Coles Sports and Recreation Center (NYU)
 Levien Gymnasium (Columbia)

External links
 The Deans' Cup Official Site
 In This Subway Series, NYU Law Vies With Columbia
 CLS Routs NYU For Dean's Cup
NYU Law wins Deans' Cup fifth year in a row

Columbia University
New York University
Recurring sporting events established in 2002
2002 establishments in New York City
Basketball competitions in New York City
Oak Park Ice Arena

Oak Park Ice Arena is an indoor arena located in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, Michigan. It was built in 1971 and was a temporary home for the Detroit Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League in 1996. Current teams that call the rink home include, the Little Ceasers AAA Hockey Club, Brother Rice High school, and Rolston Hockey Academy.

References

Ontario Hockey League arenas
Sports venues in Michigan
Indoor ice hockey venues in Michigan
Sports venues completed in 1971
1971 establishments in Michigan