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Jaason Simmons

Jaason Simmons (born 12 July 1970) is an Australian actor best known for the role of Logan Fowler on the TV series Baywatch.

Biography

Early life and career
Born as Jaason Matthew Simmons in Hobart, Tasmania, he attended Warrane Primary School as a child and first began acting in 1993 with a role on the short-lived Australian series Paradise Beach. The following year, he won the role of Logan Fowler on Baywatch. After leaving the series in 1997, Simmons appeared in several theater productions in London and had roles in several independent films including the 1997 film Nowhere. Some of his most recent onscreen appearances have been in the 2006 cult film Mad Cowgirl and in the 2013 SyFy movie Sharknado.

Personal life
Simmons came out as gay in the March 2008 issue of Australian New Idea magazine with his fiancé Irish actor John O'Callaghan.

Filmography

References

External links
 
 
 NY Times filmography
 

1970 births
Living people
Australian male film actors
Australian male stage actors
Australian male television actors
Australian gay actors
Male actors from Hobart
Minolta XD-7

The Minolta XD-7 (sold as the XD-11 in North America and as the XD in Japan) is a 35mm SLR film camera manufactured by Minolta from 1977 until 1984. It was Minolta's first SLR camera to feature both shutter priority and aperture priority automatic exposure modes. The camera also offered fully metered manual exposure as well as depth of field preview and an eyepiece shutter. Also, included were fully mechanical "O" (1/100 sec) and bulb settings, which allowed it to operate without a battery. The XD-7 was the top-of-the-line Minolta camera when it was in production and retains a reputation for quality. It was Minolta's last metal-bodied SLR design before the company switched to plastic with the X-700.

There was also a less-expensive version of the XD-7 called the XD-5. Introduced in 1979, the XD-5 was mostly identical to the XD-7 but without some higher-end features like the eyepiece shutter or the display of the selected shutter speed in the viewfinder in manual exposure mode. A black variant with a viewfinder diopter instead of the eyepiece shutter called the XD-S was also offered in Japan. 

Many professional photographers have used the XD-7. One of the best known is Harry Benson, who often acknowledged the XD-7 in the various photography books he published in the 1980s.

Specifications 
 Exposure range of EV 1 to EV 18 (ISO 100 and f1.4).
 Exposure correction from -2 to +2 EV.
 Minolta SR lens mount
 Flash sync at hot shoe or terminal at 1/100s.
 Electronic vertical-travel metal shutter with electromagnetic release.
 Mechanical shutter mode available at 1/100s.
 Shutter speeds of 1s to 1/1000s plus bulb setting.
 Stepless control of shutter speeds in aperture-priority auto-exposure mode.
 TTL center-weighted metering (silicon diode).
 94% viewfinder coverage.
 Acute Matte focusing screen with split-image bi-prism surrounded by microprisms. Four screens available, replaced by technician.
 0.87x viewfinder magnification.
 Viewfinder information depends on operating mode:
 In aperture priority, shutter speed is indicated by LEDs.
 In shutter priority, aperture is indicated by LEDs.
 In manual mode, recommended shutter speed is indicated by LEDs. The chosen shutter speed is shown in a separate window.
 With Minolta X-type flashes, flash-ready is signaled by blinking over-range LED.
 Aperture setting is shown in all modes.
 Battery: 2x LR44; 2x SR44 or equivalents; or one CR1/3N.
 Mechanical self-timer.
 Depth of field preview.
 Film memo holder.
 Safe-load signal indicating film present and correctly spooled.
 Film advance release allowing multiple exposures.
 Motorized film advance possible with Minolta Auto Winder D.

References

Sources 

 
 

135 film cameras
XD-7
Trumwine of Abercorn

Trumwine () was the only ever Bishop of the Northumbrian see of the Picts, based at Abercorn.

Trumwine was a contemporary and friend of St. Cuthbert. In 681, during the reign of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria, Trumwine was appointed "Bishop of the Picts"  by Theodore of Tarsus, then Archbishop of Canterbury ("Bishop of those Picts who were then subject to English rule", i.e. those living north of the River Forth paying tribute to Northumbria). This was part of a more general division of the Northumbrian church by the Archbishop, who also divided the Bishopric of Hexham from the Bishopric of Lindisfarne. 

After the defeat and death of Ecgfrith at the Battle of Nechtansmere in 685, Trumwine and his monks fled and dispersed. He retired to the monastery at Whitby,  then ruled by Ælflæd, Ecgfrith’s sister and St. Hild's successor.

It is possible that Trumwine was present at the aforementioned battle, and certainly he would have been a valuable source of advice for Ecgfrith. Whatever the case here, the Anglo-Saxons were defeated, expelled from Southern Pictland, and the episcopal establishment at Abercorn was hence abandoned and the diocese ceased to exist. The territory of modern West Lothian hence probably passed into the hands of the Verturian kings, although it is also possible that the British of Strathclyde took it over.

In his days after 685, it is known that Trumwine interacted with Bede, and Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert tells us that Trumwine was used as one of its sources. Trumwine is said to have related a story about Saint Cuthbert's childhood, which in turn had supposedly been told to Trumwine by Cuthbert himself.

He was buried in Saint Peter's church in Whitby.

Notes

References
 Colgrave (tr.), Bertam, Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, (Oxford, 1969), Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Judith McClure & Roger Collins, (Oxford, 1994/1999)
 Fraser, James E., The Battle of Dunnichen, 685, (Gloucestershire, 2002)
 Kirby, D.P., The Earliest English Kings, (London, 1992), Revised Ed. (London, 2000)
 Webb, J.F., & Farmer, D.H., (trs.), The Age of Bede, (London, 1965)

External links
 

Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England
Bishops of the Picts
7th-century Scottish bishops
Sala Lavardén

The Sala Lavardén (Spanish, Lavardén Hall) is an important theater in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is formally called Teatro Provincial Manuel José de Lavardén and is part of the culture center of the same name, in turn administered by the provincial state.

At present the theater has a capacity for 400 attendants. It is hosted in a luxurious palace-like building on the corner of Mendoza St. and Sarmiento St. in downtown Rosario, which has an area of 1,242 m² in six floors and two underground levels.

The building was started in 1925 as the seat of the Argentine Agrarian Federation, and inaugurated as such on 3 March 1927. The theater itself was opened on 23 June as a cinema (Cine La Federación). The effects of the Great Depression caused the Federation to be unable to pay the installments of the loan requested for the building, which was finally given over to the provincial state. In 1933 it was in turn ceded to the national Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. The Ministry authorized the provincial state to use the theater room again in 1965 (it was being employed as a warehouse). It was then renamed after Manuel José de Lavardén, a renowned poet and scriptwriter.

References

 Centro Cultural Lavardén.
 Ministry of Culture of Santa Fe — Cultural centers.
 
 Works and sites of patrimonial value of the municipality of Rosario

Culture in Rosario, Santa Fe
Theatres in Argentina
Buildings and structures in Rosario, Santa Fe
National League Party

The National League was a political party in Ireland.  It was founded in 1926 by William Redmond and Thomas O'Donnell in support of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, a close relationship with the United Kingdom, continued membership of the British Commonwealth and conservative fiscal policy.

Its broadly Anglophile stance brought it the support of many Unionists. Supporters of the former Irish Parliamentary Party were also a natural target group, given that the party's leader was the son of John Redmond, who had himself been leader of the nationalist party. A third group to which it sought to appeal, according to Manning (1972), comprised middle-class economic sectoral interests whose members were alienated by the policies of the Cumann na nGaedheal government, such as licensed vintners. These groups would not benefit from the more statist economic approach of the Fianna Fáil or Labour parties. However, all these efforts were largely ineffectual. The contemporary political scientist Warner Moss described the League as "a party of malcontents representing nothing fundamental in Irish political divisions."

In the June 1927 general election, the National League won eight seats in Dáil Éireann and entered opposition. In August it supported Fianna Fáil's motion of no confidence in the Cumann na nGaedheal government, in an attempt to form an alternative government under Labour leader Thomas Johnson, with the National League as the junior partner and Fianna Fáil supporting the resulting minority government. However, two League TDs opposed this tactic—Vincent Rice, who defected to Cumann na nGaedheal, and John Jinks, who was absent from the vote. As such the motion failed, and the National League was portrayed as politically opportunist in its attempt at an alliance with two very different parties; National League supporters would have been far more likely to favour a continued Cumann na nGaedheal government than to allow the quasi-revolutionary Fianna Fáil to influence government policy.

The political discord associated with the Cumann na nGaedheal minority government prompted the September 1927 general election. Only two National League TDs, Redmond and James Coburn, were elected. The financial strain of two general elections in four months took its toll on the small parties, and the National League declared bankruptcy in 1928. It was disbanded in 1931.

General election results

References

Sources
 Barberis, Peter, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, 2005. Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organisations. London: Continuum International Publishing Group. , 
 Manning, Maurice, 1972. Irish Political Parties: An Introduction. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.

See also 
:Category:National League Party politicians

Defunct political parties in the Republic of Ireland
Political parties established in 1926
Political parties disestablished in 1931
1926 establishments in Ireland
1931 disestablishments in Ireland
Ireland and the Commonwealth of Nations
Gaf

Gaf (; ), is the name of different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing . They are all derived from the letter kāf, with additional diacritics, such as dots and lines. There are four forms, each used in different alphabets:

  in the Persian alphabet 
  in the Jawi script
  in the Pegon script
  in Pashto

Use in Arabic 
The standard practice in Egypt (for Literary and Egyptian Arabic), as in coastal Yemen and southwestern and eastern Oman, is to use  () for , while in Arabic dialects like Algerian Arabic, Hejazi Arabic and Najdi Arabic it is  (), so the name gāf can be used for the letter when trying to explain a pronunciation or a spelling of a word, whether the word is foreign or dialectal.

 () has been traditionally used in the Levant and Iraq for , if not gāf (), particularly in Iraq. In Morocco, gāf () or kāf () is used. In Tunisia and Algeria,  ( or ) is used.

 () is preferred in the Levant (nowadays) and by Al Jazeera TV channel to represent , e.g., هونغ كونغ (Hong Kong) and غاندالف (Gandalf). Foreign publications and TV channels in Arabic, e.g. Deutsche Welle and Alhurra, follow this practice.

Variant forms

Kaf with line 

The most common form of gāf () is based on kāf with an additional line. It is rarely used in Standard Arabic itself but is used to represent the sound  when writing other languages.

It is frequently used in Persian, Pashto, Uyghur, Urdu and Kurdish, and is one of four Perso-Arabic letters not found in Arabic. It is also commonly used in Mesopotamian Arabic.

Kaf with ring 

In Pashto, this letter is used for .

Kaf with single dot above 

This gāf () is derived from a variant form of kāf (), with the addition of a dot. It is not used in the Arabic language itself, but is used in the Jawi script to represent .

Unicode includes two forms on this letter: one based on the standard Arabic kāf (), and one based on the variant form (). The latter is the preferred form.

Kaf with three dots below 

This letter () is derived from a form of kāf (), with the addition of three dots below. It is not used in the Arabic language itself, but is used in the Pegon script for Indonesian languages to represent .

Gaf with inverted stroke 

In Chechen, Kabardian, and Adyghe, the Arabic character  is used to spell  or . In Chechen, ⟨⟩ is alternatively used as well.

Kaf with a dot below 

This letter () is derived from a form of kāf (), with the addition of three a dot below. It is not used in the Arabic language itself, but is used in the Arwi alphabet for the Tamil language to represent .

Kaf with three dots 

The letter / was used in Ottoman Turkish for . Both forms are based on variant forms of kāf (/), with the addition of three dots.

It is used in Berber and Moroccan Arabic to represent . Examples of its use include city names (e.g., Agadir: ) and family names (e.g., El Guerrouj: ). The preferred form is .

Character encoding

See also 
 , a letter derived from  and used for  in Tunisia and Algeria
 Ghayn, another letter used for 
 Ng (Arabic letter)
 Gueh

References

External links 
 Notes on some Unicode Arabic characters: recommendations for usage (PDF)

Gaf
Oar Folkjokeopus

Oar Folkjokeopus (commonly known as Oar Folk) was a Minneapolis record store that operated on the corner of Lyndale Ave and 26th St from 1973 until 2001. The store was considered one of the staples of the Minneapolis rock scene in the 1980s, along with Jay's Longhorn Bar, and became a popular hub for musicians in the Twin Cities and the Midwest. The store was essentially the only place in Minneapolis that sold punk rock records in the 1970s and early 1980s, which made it a popular hangout for members of local bands such as Hüsker Dü, The Replacements, the Suicide Commandos, Soul Asylum and many more. Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü called it the city's "preeminent record store" and an important venue for him to find a fellow music-loving community.

Martin Keller, writer for the Minneapolis City Pages, said about Oar Folk: "A lot of people trace the whole rock scene (in the Twin Cities) to Oar Folk. I was living six blocks away at the time, and you'd always run into [Peter] Jesperson there because he worked the counter most days. [Bob] Mould was in and out on a regular basis. It was a real nice hangout." Lori Barbero, drummer for Babes in Toyland said concerning the store: "I have about 8,000 records, and I bought 7,000 of them at Oar Folk." Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü was not so fond of the store: "Oar Folk had a real snobbish attitude. It was a place to be condescended to."

History

Vern Sanden purchased what was then North Country Music in 1973 and renamed it "Oar Folkjokeopus." (The name was based on the solo album Oar by Alexander "Skip" Spence, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape and an album by British folk musician Roy Harper, Folkjokeopus.) Peter Jesperson managed the store from 1974 until 1982. Jesperson co-founded Twin/Tone Records during this time and the store as well as the label thrived due in large part to each other. Between Twin/Tone, local venue Jay's Longhorn Bar and Oar Folk, this trifecta largely fueled the punk and rock scene in Minneapolis during that era. Bands such as The Replacements, The Suburbs, Flamin' Oh's, Hüsker Dü, Soul Asylum, Jayhawks, and Curtiss A all maintained links between the three.

In 1985, a fire gutted Oar Folk. Vern Sanden reopened the record store with the help of Bill Melton and Mark Trehus, who ran his own indie record label, Treehouse Records.

Treehouse Records
After Oar Folkjokeopus closed in April, 2001, Mark Trehus opened a store at the same site known as Treehouse Records. Much of the store's original character remained. Treehouse specialized in vinyl LPs, vinyl 45s, and both new and used CDs. Treehouse closed on December 31, 2017.

References

External links
Treehouse Records on MySpace
Treehouse Records

Music retailers of the United States
Independent stores
History of Minneapolis
Defunct companies based in Minneapolis
Diagnosis for Death

Diagnosis for Death is the debut album by American horror punk band Dr. Chud's X-Ward, released in 2004 on Dr. Chud's Bloodwork Records label.

The first 1,000 copies of the album were limited edition and were signed, numbered and came with a free vinyl sticker. In 2005, it was released on purple vinyl; only 1,250 copies were released.

The video for the song "Powerless" was filmed in Zounds Rehearsal Studios in Saddebrook, New Jersey.

Track listing
 Powerless (also a video which was included on the release)
 Mommy Made Luv 2 an Alien (also a video which was included on the release) 
 Heavy Metal 
 Spiderbaby  
 Blue Skin  
 Goodbye 
 Rabid  
 Bury You Alive

2004 albums
Dr. Chud's X-Ward albums
Sop language

Sop (also Sob, Usino) is a Rai Coast language spoken in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 2,500 people.

The Sob language has been labelled under several different names. Among the names are Usino, Usina, Sopu, and Igoi. Usino is the name of one of the villages and the name used for the government station. The speakers of this language do not recognize the name Usino as a name for their language, but use the endonym Sob.

Phonology

Consonants

Where symbols appear in pairs the one to the left represents a voiceless consonant
t, and d represent dental/alveolar/post-alveolar consonants, while n is only alveolar

Vowels

Syllabification

The canonical syllable profile of Sob is (C)V(C). Thus, vowels are required to have a nuclear vowel, and may optionally have an onset and/or coda. The overwhelming majority of syllables have an onset in Sob, forming the unmarked CV shape. Complex onsets and complex codas are disallowed for markedness.

Personal pronouns

References

External links
Rosetta Project: Sop Swadesh list

Rai Coast languages
Languages of Madang Province
Robert James (defensive back)

Robert James (born July 7, 1947) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back for six seasons (1969–1974) for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). James was a three-time Pro Bowler, in 1972, 1973 and 1974. He ran track for Fisk University in Tennessee.

References

External links
 Stats

1947 births
Living people
American football cornerbacks
Buffalo Bills players
Fisk University alumni
American Conference Pro Bowl players
College men's track and field athletes in the United States
Sportspeople from Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Players of American football from Tennessee
Fayette County School System (Georgia)

Fayette County School System is a public school district based in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States and covering residents of Fayette County. The county is included in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The school system serves all of Fayette County.

Residents elect a five-member school board to set policy and hire a superintendent of schools. Until May 2013, school board members were elected at-large in the county; this jurisdiction was one of only 20 remaining among the 180 school districts in the state to elect board members by an exclusively at-large process. After trying to persuade the county board of commissioners to change the system, a coalition of residents, represented by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, filed suit against the county and school board for violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, asserting that the county system diluted the voting power of the significant minority of African Americans, who today comprise 20% of the county population.

They had been prevented by this system (and disenfranchisement prior to 1965) from ever electing a candidate of their choice to the board or county council in 191 years. As a result of Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, et al. v. Fayette County Board of Commissioners, et al. (2013), the federal court ordered the county on May 22, 2013 to change its electoral system for the County Council and the County School Board to single-member districts, in order to correct and prevent such dilution of voting power. The court's ruling required "the Board of Commissioners and Board of Education to develop a district-based remedial plan that contains at least one district in which black voters comprise a majority of the voting-age population by June 25, 2013."

In August 2014, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that superintendent Joseph Barrow Jr. created a tax-payer funded position to pay his wife $75,000 per year through the Fayette County School System. Despite concerns of nepotism raised by at least one member of the board of education and many teachers in the district, the district followed through with the plan.

Elementary schools
Braelinn Elementary
Robert J. Burch Elementary
Cleveland Elementary
Crabapple (Lane) Elementary
Fayetteville Elementary 
Huddleston Elementary
Inman Road Elementary
Kedron Elementary
Sara Harp Minter Elementary
North Fayette Elementary
Oak Grove Elementary
Peachtree City Elementary
Peeples Elementary
Spring Hill Elementary

Middle schools
Flat Rock Middle School
J.C. Booth Middle School
Whitewater Middle School
Bennett's Mill Middle School
Rising Starr Middle School is a "Georgia Lighthouse School to Watch," located in unincorporated Fayette County. The school serves southern Peachtree City and was named Best School for Your Kid by Atlanta magazine in 2006 and 2007.

High schools
Fayette County Open Campus
Fayette County High School
McIntosh High School
Sandy Creek High School
Starr's Mill High School
Whitewater High School

References

External links

School districts in Georgia (U.S. state)
Education in Fayette County, Georgia
History of voting rights in the United States
Jewish Student Union

The Jewish Student Union, or JSU is an organization run by the Orthodox Union's youth group, NCSY. Created in 2002, JSU attempts to create Jewish culture clubs in public schools across the United States. 

JSU was created to serve a broad spectrum of Jewish teens from all different backgrounds and affiliations. Clubs bearing the "JSU" or "Jewish Student Union" name are run by the Orthodox Union.

JSU clubs are aimed at educating Jewish youth in public schools about Jewish culture, heritage, and religion. The mission of Jewish Student Union is to encourage more Jewish teens attending public high schools "to do something Jewish! That's it! It's that simple!!!" JSU currently has clubs throughout Canada and the United States.

Partners
JSU partners with a variety of Jewish organizations to provide programming. JSU receives funding, including donations of in-kind support, predominantly from the Orthodox Union, and private foundations.

References

External links
The JSU website

Jewish youth organizations
Youth organizations based in the United States
Federación Agraria Argentina

The Argentine Agrarian Federation (in Spanish, Federación Agraria Argentina, FAA) is a private institution that serves as a business organization for small and medium agricultural owners of means of production (land, farms, etc.) or rural entrepreneurs in Argentina. It was founded on 15 August 1912 after the first employers' strike of agrarian farmers demanding protection from the exploitation of big landowners. The strikers gathered in Alcorta, in the south of the province of Santa Fe.

The FAA divides the country in 14 districts. The institution is ruled by a body of directors (the Central Directive Council) proposed by the districts and others, elected during an Ordinary Annual Congress. Its current seat is located in Rosario.

References

 Official website

Agricultural organisations based in Argentina
Notebook (style)

Notebook is a style of writing where people jot down what they have thought or heard at the spur of moment. The contents of a notebook are unorganized, and the number of subjects covered in a notebook are unlimited: a paragraph of autobiography can be followed immediately by one on astronomy or one on history. 

Some famous authors are also famous for the notebooks they left.   

There are writers who earned their posthumous fame solely by their notebooks, such as the German scientist and humorous writer Georg Lichtenberg. He called his notebooks "waste books," using the English book-keeping term.

The notebooks of scientists, such as those of Michael Faraday and Charles Darwin, can reveal the development of their scientific theories. On the other hand, the notebooks used by scientists for recording their experiments are called lab notebooks.

The notebooks used by artists are usually referred to as sketchbooks, which may contain more than sketches. Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks contain his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions and music, as well as his sketches, his grocery lists and the names of people who owed him money.

In Chinese literature, "notebook" or biji is a distinct genre, and has a broader meaning.

Notes

Non-fiction genres
Note-taking
Notebooks
Quebec Route 213

Route 213 is a short two-lane north/south highway in the province of Quebec, Canada, which starts in Frelighsburg at the junction of Route 237 and ends in Dunham at the junction of Route 202. It is the shortest road in Quebec that is provincially signed.

Municipalities along Route 213

 Frelighsburg
 Dunham

Major intersections

See also
 List of Quebec provincial highways

References

External links 
 Official Transport Quebec Road Map
 Route 213 at Google Maps

213
Qenan Al-Ghamdi

Mr Qenan Al-Ghamdi (Arabic: قينان الغامدي) is a Saudi Arabian journalist and former editor in chief of Al-Watan (Arabic: جريدة الوطن السعودية), a popular newspaper based in the south of Saudi Arabia.

References

Living people
Saudi Arabian journalists
Asian newspaper editors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Makaira

Makaira (Latin via Greek: μαχαίρα "sword") is a genus of marlin in the family Istiophoridae. It includes the Atlantic blue, and Indo-Pacific blue marlins. In the past, the black marlin was also included in this genus, but today it is placed in its own genus, Istiompax.

Species
  Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 (Atlantic blue marlin) 
  Makaira mazara (Jordan & Snyder, 1901) (Indo-Pacific blue marlin)

Although they are traditionally listed as separate species, recent research indicates that the Atlantic blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) and Indo-Pacific blue marlin (Makaira mazara) may be parapatric populations of the same species.

References

 
Marine fish genera
Quebec Route 215

Route 215 is a two-lane north/south highway in Quebec, Canada. It starts in Sutton at the junction of Route 139 and links it to Brome and Fulford, in the northern part of Lac-Brome, where it ends at the junction of Route 243. It is the shortest link between Sutton and Autoroute 10.

Municipalities along Route 215
 Sutton
 Brome
 Lac-Brome

Major intersections

See also
 List of Quebec provincial highways

References

External links 
 Official Transport Quebec Road Map

215
John Philip Bagwell

John Philip Bagwell (11 August 1874 – 22 August 1946) was an Irish businessman and politician.

Early life and family
Bagwell was born on 11 August 1874, the son of Harriet Newton and Richard Bagwell. The Bagwells of Marlfield could trace their arrival in Ireland to John Bagwell (Backwell), a captain in Cromwell's New Model Army.

He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford.

Bagwell married Louisa Shaw in 1901, the daughter of George Shaw, a Major General. They had three children. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment on 7 March 1900, and promoted to lieutenant on 28 July 1900.

Business
After Oxford, he joined the Midland Railway, England, where he served as an assistant superintendent of line from 1905 to 1909. He then returned to Ireland and served as superintendent of passenger services from 1910 to 1911. Bagwell was general manager of Ireland's Great Northern Railways (GNR) between 1911 and 1926.

Politics
Bagwell became an independent member of Seanad Éireann in the Irish Free State in 1922, and held that office until 1936. He was nominated to the Seanad by the President of the Executive Council in 1922 for 6 years. He was elected for six years in 1928. He was re-elected for a further six years in 1934, but served until the abolition of the Free State Seanad in 1936.

During the Irish Civil War he was kidnapped from near his house in Howth and held hostage by anti-Treaty forces in the Dublin Mountains. The Free State government responded by issuing a proclamation to the effect that if Bagwell were not safely released, reprisals would be taken.

Bagwell, however, maintained that he escaped his captors through his own efforts and his safe release could not be attributed to these threats. At around the same time, the family residence at Marlfield House, Clonmel, County Tipperary, was burned by anti-Treaty forces and the library of rare historical documents destroyed.

References

1874 births
1946 deaths
Independent members of Seanad Éireann
Members of the 1922 Seanad
Members of the 1925 Seanad
Members of the 1928 Seanad
Members of the 1931 Seanad
Members of the 1934 Seanad
John Philip
Deputy Lieutenants in Ireland
People of the Irish Civil War (Pro-Treaty side)
Politicians from County Tipperary
Irish people in rail transport
People from Howth
People from Clonmel
Businesspeople from County Tipperary
People educated at Harrow School
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Linda Stephens

Linda Stephens is an American lawyer who formerly served as an associate judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.  She was first appointed to the Court of Appeals by Gov. Mike Easley (D-NC) in January 2006 and lost her seat in the general election of November 2006. Gov. Easley then reappointed her to the Court of Appeals in January 2007 to fill the seat vacated by the election of Robin Hudson to the NC Supreme Court.  Judge Stephens won a full term in a non-partisan election on November 4, 2008.  Her opponent for the seat was Dan Barrett, an attorney and author from Davie County.

Linda Stephens' 2008 candidacy had the endorsement of the NC National Organization for Women, EqualityNC, the Muslim-American PAC, The Black Political Caucus of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, NC Academy of Trial Lawyers, and NC Association of Women Attorneys.

Stephens was defeated in her bid for re-election in 2016 by Phil Berger, Jr. She ran as a Democrat.

Stephens is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of South Carolina and received her J.D. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

External links
Judge Stephens' Web Site
Judge Stephens' Facebook Page
North Carolina Court System
Charlotte Observer endorses Stephens and others for Court of Appeals

North Carolina Court of Appeals judges
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of South Carolina alumni
University of North Carolina School of Law alumni
American women judges
21st-century American women
Lambert-Meadowlands Trophy

The Lambert Trophy was an annual award given to the best team in the East in Division I FBS (formerly I-A) college football.
In affiliation with the Metropolitan New York Football Writers (founded 1935), the Lambert Trophy was established by brothers Victor A. and Henry L. Lambert in memory of their father, August V. Lambert. The Lamberts were the principals in a distinguished Madison Avenue jewelry house and were prominent college football boosters. 

By the time the “Lambert Trophy” was established in 1936, major schools in other regions of the country had formed their own leagues (i.e., SEC, Big Ten, Big Eight, Pacific Coast Conference, etc.) and Division I FBS (formerly I–A) schools located in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions remained independent, with the exception of the 1954 formation of the Ivy League. Emblematic of the "Eastern championship", the Lambert Trophy, voted on by a panel of sports writers in New York, became the de facto conference championship for those schools.

Since 1936, there have been 19 different winners in Division I-A/FBS. To be eligible for the Lambert Award, a school must be located in the "East."  Teams in the "East" include teams located in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia (although there are no FBS teams in Delaware nor Washington D.C., there are teams that compete at lower levels that can win the various Lambert Cup awards for their levels).  Additionally, while the Big East Conference was a football conference, members of that conference outside of the "East" were also made eligible if at least half their schedule was against Lambert-eligible teams.

A set of parallel trophies collectively known as the Lambert Cup is awarded to teams in Division I FCS (formerly I-AA), Division II, and Division III.  The Metropolitan New York Football Writers, owned and operated by American Football Networks, Inc., took the administration of the Lambert Meadowlands Awards back from the New Jersey Sports & Exhibition Authority in 2011.

Lambert Trophy winners

By year

By team

^ Now a member of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).† Now a member of NCAA Division III.

* No longer eligible to win Lambert Trophy

Lambert Cup

Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA)

NOTE:  The Ivy League, and until 1997, the Patriot League, do/did not participate in the NCAA Division I Football Tournament.

Most FCS Lambert Cups 

† Now a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
‡ Discontinued football

Division II

Most D-II Lambert Cups 

‡ Now a member of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
† Now a member of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
^ Now a member of Division III.

Division III

Most D-III Lambert Cups 

† Now a member of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
‡ Now a member of Division II.
^ Discontinued football

References

College football championship trophies
Awards established in 1936
1936 establishments in the United States
Frank Miller (screenwriter)

Frank Miller (1891–1950) was a prolific screenwriter, film director, and actor from London, England, UK.

Selected filmography
 The March Hare (1919)
Control (1920)
 The Knave of Diamonds (1921)
 The Alley of Golden Hearts (1924)
 Houp-La! (1928)
 Cupid in Clover (1929)
 Love Lies (1931)
 Shadows (1931)
 Out of the Blue (1931)
 Lucky Girl (1932)
 Verdict of the Sea (1932)
 A Southern Maid (1933)
 Letting in the Sunshine (1933)
 Money Talks (1933)
 My Song Goes Round the World (1934)
 The Scotland Yard Mystery (1934)
 It's a Bet (1935)
 The Deputy Drummer (1935)
 Dandy Dick (1935)
 Father O'Flynn (1935)
 Honeymoon for Three (1935)
 She Knew What She Wanted (1936)
 Annie Laurie (1936)

External links

1891 births
1950 deaths
Dale Franks

Dale Franks (born 1964) is an American author and commentator. Currently, he is an editor of the weblog QandO Online Magazine.  He also presents a weekly internet podcast, Observations, under the aegis of QandO.  Franks was formerly publisher and editor of the website The New Libertarian.  All of these current projects are co-produced with Bruce McQuain, and were previously co-produced with Jon Henke as well.

From 1993 to 1996, Franks was the host of The Business Day, a daily, four-hour business and financial news program on KMNY Radio in Los Angeles, California. From 2002–2004, he was a contributing writer on military and international affairs for TechCentralStation.

References

1964 births
Living people
American libertarians
Pleasant Gehman

Pleasant Gehman is an American author, writer, poet,  actress,  dancer and musician from Los Angeles.

Career
In the 1980s, she was the singer for the punk rock band Screamin' Sirens.

Her articles on rock 'n' roll, American pop culture, sex, the arts and human interest have appeared in L.A. Weekly and BAM. She has written and edited a number of books, including  Showgirl Confidential, The Belly Dance Handbook, Senorita Sin, Princess of Hollywood, Escape From Houdini Mountain and The Underground Guide to Los Angeles.

In 1994, she recorded a collection of her poetry and spoken-word routines entitled Ruined. Among the venues where she has performed spoken-word pieces include The Unhappy Hour at the Parlour Club.

She co-starred in Margaret Cho's Off-Broadway variety show, The Sensuous Woman, in 2007  and again shared the stage with Cho in a 2012 Victory Variety Hour performance. 

She appeared as Estelle in Steve Balderson's film Firecracker.

In April 2009, Pleasant worked with cult director Steve Balderson for Stuck! - an homage to film noir women in prison dramas.  Co-starring Karen Black, Mink Stole, Susan Traylor, and The Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin. Stuck! was filmed in Macon, Georgia and released in 2010.

Books
Showgirl Confidential: My Life Onstage, Backstage And On The Road {Punk Hostage Press) ) The Belly Dance Handbook: A Companion For The Serious Dancer {Princess Productions} )
Escape From Houdini Mountain (Manic D Press, )
Senorita Sin (1994, Incommunicado Press, )
Princess Of Hollywood (1997, Incommunicado Press, )
The Underground Guide To Los Angeles (1999, Manic D Press, )

References

External links
 - official Pleasant Gehman site
 www.PrincessFarhana.com - Official Princess Farhana site
 www.stucknoir.com - Stuck! movie site
 Armendariz, Alicia (March 2005). "Women in L.A. Punk: Pleasant Gehman" - interview with Pleasant Gehaman
 3am Magazine - interview with Pleasant Gehman
 Gilded Serpent - article by Pleasant Gehman
 A Riotous Disarray - interview with Pleasant Gehman

American women poets
American women singers
American film actresses
American spoken word artists
1959 births
Living people
Actresses from Los Angeles
Singers from Los Angeles
American television actresses
American punk rock singers
American women journalists
21st-century American women
Women in punk
PGPR

PGPR may refer to:
Polyglycerol polyricinoleate
Plant-growth promoting rhizobacteria
Cold Cold Hearts

Cold Cold Hearts was a punk rock band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1995. Comprising singer and songwriter Allison Wolfe, guitarist and back-up vocalist Erin Smith, bass player Nattles, and drummer Katherine Brown, the band released one 7" single in 1996, and a full-length self-titled record the following year, both through Olympia, Washington-based label Kill Rock Stars. Wolfe and Smith were members of the band Bratmobile prior to forming Cold Cold Hearts; they revived Bratmobile (with bandmember Molly Neuman) after Cold Cold Hearts disbanded.

In a retrospective in The New York Times, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote: "Everything about that combo was bare-bones: its discography (one 7” and one album), its songs (under two minutes) and its production (minimal but poppy). But Cold Cold Hearts burned bright and was funny, too, fully indulging in the humor that marked Bratmobile's best songs."

Discography
"Yer So Sweet (Baby Donut)" (1996)
Cold Cold Hearts (1997)

References

External links
Kill Rock Stars factsheet

All-female punk bands
Indie rock musical groups from Washington, D.C.
Kill Rock Stars
Musical groups established in 1995
Riot grrrl bands
Damn It's 2 Early

Damn It's 2 Early is the second CD of live music recorded on The Dudley & Bob Show released by the show and radio station KLBJ.

Track listing
Steve Poltz: "Sugar Boogers (Answering Machine Song)" (Poltz) – 0:45
Carolyn Wonderland: "Judgement Day Blues" (Brown) – 3:11
They Might Be Giants: "Boss of Me" (They Might Be Giants) – 0:56
Rachel Loy: "The Same Man" (Loy) – 2:35
Brian Van Der Ark: "Photograph" (Willis) – 2:31
Wideawake: "Bigger Than Ourselves" (Wideawake) – 3:15
Jane Bond: "Sure Would Go Good" (Walker) – 2:14
Jimmy Lafave: "Never Is a Moment" (Lafave) – 4:14
Hayseed Dixie: "Poop in a Jar" (Wheeler) – 2:23
Li'l Cap'n Travis: "Lonesome and Losin'" (Li'l Cap'n Travis) – 4:42
Reckless Kelly: "Nobody's Girl" (Braun, Braun) – 2:57
Skunkweed: "Open Minded Redneck" (Waddy, Brown) – 3:10
Steven Fromholz: "I Game Her a Ring" (Fromholz) – 2:22
Bruce Robison: "What Would Willie Do" (Robison) – 4:23
Ray Wylie Hubbard: "Screw You We're From Texas" (Hubbard) – 3:21
Ruthie Foster: "Jordan" (Traditional) – 3:14
Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines: "Wallet" (Hendrix) – 2:36
Monte Montgomery: "Took Too Long" (Montgomery) – 4:12
Wendy Colonna: "M'aider" (Colonna) – 3:38
Warren Haynes: "Beautifully Broken" (Haynes, Louis) – 3:37
Steve Poltz: "You Were Meant for Me" Viva Las Vegas version (Poltz, Jewel) – 8:56
The Gourds: "Gin and Juice" (Casey, Young, Finch, Broadus) – 6:06
Bob Schneider: "If I Only Had a Brain" (Arlen, Harburg) – 2:22

References

The Dudley & Bob Show albums
2003 live albums
2000s comedy albums
All Blues

"All Blues" is a jazz composition by Miles Davis first appearing on the influential 1959 album Kind of Blue. It is a twelve-bar blues in ; the chord sequence is that of a basic blues and made up entirely of seventh chords, with a VI in the turnaround instead of just the usual V chord. In the composition's original key of G this chord is an E7. "All Blues" is an example of modal blues in G mixolydian.

A particularly distinctive feature of the piece is the bass line that repeats through the whole piece, except when a V or VI chord is reached (the 9th and 10th bars of a chorus). Further, there is a harmonically similar vamp that is played by the horns (the two saxophones in the case of Kind of Blue) at the beginning and then (usually) continued by the piano under any solos that take place. Each chorus is usually separated by a four-bar vamp which acts as an introduction to the next solo/chorus.

While originally an instrumental piece, lyrics were later added by Oscar Brown Jr.

Personnel
 Miles Davis – trumpet
 Julian "Cannonball" Adderley – alto saxophone
 John Coltrane – tenor saxophone
 Bill Evans – piano
 Paul Chambers – double bass
 Jimmy Cobb – drums

References

External links 
"All Blues" Analysis, Melody, Chords & Improvisation

Songs about blues
1950s jazz standards
1959 compositions
Compositions by Miles Davis
Jazz compositions in G major
Birati

Birati is a locality in North Dumdum of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

History
Nimta-Birati area was a well known Janapada since the days of Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury. Later after his death in 1649, it became the capital of Laksmikanta's jagir and remained the administrative headquarters till 1716 when the capital was shifted to Barisha. Still Birati remains an abode of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family. In ancient India, Birati used to be a part of Greater 24 parganas which were then under the Satgaon (formerly known as Saptagram, now in Hoogly district) administration during the Mughal regime. During Murshid Quli Khan the whole of Greater 24 Parganas including Birati, Rajarhat, Madhyamgram, Khaspur, Ikhtiarpur, Kalikata, Bagjola, Muragaccha, Shahpur and many other regions were included in Hoogly Chakla district. Post Battle of Plassey, Nawab Mir Jafar conferred the zamindari of 24 Parganas and other small administrative units to the British East India Company in the year 1757.

Geography and locality

Birati is bound by the Jessore Road in the East, Belgharia in the West, New Barrackpore in the North and Durganagar in the South. It also features a railway station. Its closeness to Dum Dum also adds the Kolkata Metro as a way of conveyance. Madhusudan Banerjee Road (commonly known as M.B. Road) connects Birati with Belgharia. Birati is adjacent to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. North Dumdum Municipality headquarters is situated near Birati Railway Station.

Education
Mrinalini Dutta Mahavidyapith 
 
 Birati High School(Boys)
 Birati Mahajati Vidyamandir(Boys)
 Birati Mahajati Balika Vidyamandir (H.S)
 Birati Vidyalay for Girls' (H.S)
 Uttar Dum Dum Vidyapith for Boys'
 Uttar Dum Dum Vidyapith for Girls'
 Rajanikanta Shiksha Sadan (Primary School)
 Uttarayan Sishu Vidyatan (Primary school)
 Vidya Bharati School(Primary School)
•Literacy : 92%

Transport

By air
Birati is close to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport.

By road
Kolkata-Siliguri highway passes through Birati. Birati also has the 237 and Birati Mini Bus services which go to Babughat and B.B.D Bag respectively.

By rail
Birati railway station on the Sealdah–Bangaon line serves the area. Birati will soon be connected with the Noapara-Barasat Line (Line 4) of Kolkata Metro. The metro station will be underneath Jessore Road at Birati More.

Notable residents
 Mihir Sen: Writer

References

External links

Cities and towns in North 24 Parganas district
Neighbourhoods in North 24 Parganas district
Neighbourhoods in Kolkata
Kolkata Metropolitan Area
12/8

12/8 may refer to:
 December 8 (month-day date notation)
 12 August (day-month date notation)
 , in sheet music, a time signature containing twelve quavers per measure
 12 shillings and 8 pence in UK predecimal currency

See also
 128 (disambiguation)
 8/12 (disambiguation)
Lesser Ury

Leo Lesser Ury (November 7, 1861 – October 18, 1931) was a German impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Life and career
Ury was born on November 7, 1861 in Birnbaum in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia (now Międzychód in Poland). He was the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the family's relocation to Berlin. In 1878 Ury left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Munich, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.

His first exhibition was in 1889 and met with a hostile reception, although he was championed by Adolph Menzel whose influence induced the Akademie to award Ury a prize. In 1893, he joined the Munich Secession, one of the several Secessions formed by progressive artists in Germany and Austria in the last years of the 19th century. In 1901, he returned to Berlin, where he exhibited with the Berlin Secession, first in 1915 and notably in 1922, when he had a major exhibition. By this time Ury's critical reputation had grown and his paintings and pastels were in demand. His subjects were landscapes, urban landscapes, and interior scenes, treated in an impressionistic manner that ranged from the subdued tones of figures in a darkened interior to the effects of streetlights at night to the dazzling light of foliage against the summer sky. He also painted Biblical scenes, many of which have not survived.

Ury is especially noted for his paintings of nocturnal cafe scenes and rainy streets. He developed a habit of repeating these compositions in order to sell them while retaining the originals, and these quickly-made and inferior copies have harmed his reputation.

Always introverted and distrustful of people, Ury became increasingly reclusive in his later years. He died on October 18, 1931 in Berlin and is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee.

Gallery

See also
 Tanya Ury

References

Citations

Sources

Further reading

External links
 
 Hecht Museum
 Available Works & Biography Galerie Ludorff, Duesseldorf, Germany

1861 births
1931 deaths
19th-century German Jews
People from Międzychód
People from the Province of Posen
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists
German male painters
20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
German Impressionist painters
Jewish painters