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Ellis Park Arena

The Ellis Park Arena (formerly Standard Bank Arena and often acknowledged as Ellis Park Indoor Arena) is an indoor sporting arena located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The capacity of the arena is 5,000 people. A large number of sports events and concerts have occurred in this arena.

Facilities
The Ellis Park Arena has 4,300 permanent seats which give all spectators an unobstructed view. In addition there are retractable seats on the east and west sides on the floor for an additional 850 spectators. Chairs can also be placed on the floor up to a maximum of 1,200 making the capacity of the Arena approximately 6,300. There is a covered walkway around the Arena which includes a theatre style foyer, a fully licensed bar facility, as well as refreshment outlets and entertainment areas.

Several suites in the Ellis Park Arena have a cocktail environment and can be used for private functions. While the Donald Ross Room accommodates 100 people, the VIP suite and Media Centre each cater for 200 people. The main foyer can accommodate up to 1,000 people.

Events
The arena hosted NBA Africa Game 2015 on August 1, the first NBA-sanctioned game in Africa. It was contested between NBA players that were born in Africa or had parents born in the continent and players from the rest of the world.
The Legends Cup of the Legends Football League was originally supposed to be hosted here in 2019; instead, it'll be played at the Accesso ShoWare Center in Kent, Washington, United States.

References

External links 
Arena information

Indoor arenas in South Africa
Sports venues in Johannesburg
Sports venues completed in 1990
Netball venues in South Africa
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Kovalyov (, born March 2, 1975) is a Russian sprint canoeist who has competed from 1997 to 2005.

Having just missed out on a medal at the Sydney Olympics, he and partner Aleksandr Kostoglod won two medals at Athens in 2004 with a silver in the C-2 1000 m and bronze C-2 500 m events.

Kovalev also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (C-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999; C-4 200 m: 2005), one silver (C-2 1000 m: 2003), and two bronzes (C-2 500 m: 1999, C-4 200 m: 2001).

A member of the Russian national team since 1997, he is small for a world-class canoeist at  tall and  but makes up for this with excellent technique.

References

External links
 
 

1975 births
Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Russia
Olympic silver medalists for Russia
Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
Russian male canoeists
People from Belaya Kalitva
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Rostov Oblast
WeBuyCars Dome

The WeBuyCars Dome, previously known as the TicketPro Dome, Coca-Cola Dome, The Dome at Northgate, and MTN Sundome, is a defunct indoor arena and car showroom located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The showroom accommodates over 1,000 vehicles and covers about 11,000 square metres. The Dome opened on 8 April 1998 with a concert by Diana Ross in front of a 15,000 strong audience. Nelson Mandela made a surprise appearance on stage during the official opening. The arena closed on 7 September 2021 due to being sold; as of March 2022, it is now used as a car showroom.

Location

The WeBuyCars Dome is situated adjacent to Northgate Shopping Centre on the corner of Olievenhout Avenue and Northumberland Road, in the suburb North Riding, a short distance west of the N1/Western Bypass highway.

The venue is 45 km from O. R. Tambo International Airport, 16 km from Lanseria Airport and 20 km from the Sandton business centre.

Historical events

On 8 May 2005, Avril Lavigne held a concert Bonez Tour in support of her second studio album, Under My Skin.

On 20 May 2001, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for their Where Dreams Come True Tour supporting their album Coast to Coast.

On 25 October 2015, South African hip hop recording artist Cassper Nyovest announced that tickets to his upcoming show at the venue titled #FillUpTheDome had sold out. He is the first South African hip hop act to accomplish this feat.

On 1 and 2 May 2016, American pop-R&B diva Mariah Carey performed at the Dome for The Sweet Sweet Fantasy Tour.

On 5 August 2017, the NBA Africa Game was held at the Dome.

From 18 to 21 July 2018, American singer-songwriter Katy Perry performed at the Dome as part of her Witness: The Tour.

On 13–14 April 2019, British singer Sam Smith performed at the dome as part of their The Thrill of It All Tour.

See also 
Fourways Mall

References

External links
 Official website
 Ticketpro website

Defunct indoor arenas
Defunct basketball venues
Indoor arenas in South Africa
Covered stadiums
Buildings and structures in Johannesburg
Event venues established in 1998
Event venues disestablished in 2021
1998 establishments in South Africa
2021 disestablishments in South Africa
Sports venues in Johannesburg
John Baird (revolutionary)

John Baird (born 1 September 1790, died in Stirling, 8 September 1820) was a Scottish revolutionary.  A weaver by trade, he was brought up in the village of Condorrat.  He is best remembered as a radical commander in the "Radical War" of 1820, and along with James Wilson and Andrew Hardie is the best remembered radical combatant in the "Radical War".

Baird had a military career in the British Army, serving in the 2nd Battalion of the 95th Regiment of Foot (known as the Rifle Brigade) seeing military action in both Argentina and Spain.  His military experience meant that he was suitable to become commander of the Radicals in their doomed march to the Carron Ironworks.

He was sentenced to death and was executed outside Stirling Tolbooth on 8 September 1820 along with Hardie.  He is remembered as a martyr to the fight for universal suffrage by many figures in Scotland, particularly the 1820 Society.

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1790 births
1820 deaths
Executed revolutionaries
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19th-century executions by the United Kingdom
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Sings America

Sings America is the tenth studio album by American actor and singer David Hasselhoff. It was released on February 2, 2004, by Edel Records. It became his first studio project in seven years since Hooked on a Feeling (1997).

The album contains covers of songs originally made famous by artists such as Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Glen Campbell, Burt Bacharach and Madonna. The German release contains a bonus track, "More Than Words Can Say", which is the only original Hasselhoff composition on the album (written in conjunction with Wade Hubbard and Glenn Morrow).

Track listing 
"City of New Orleans"  – 3:34 (Steve Goodman)
"Rhinestone Cowboy"  – 3:33 (Larry Weiss)
"You've Lost That Loving Feeling" (duet with Marilyn Martin) – 4:40 (Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann and Phil Spector)
"Forever in Blue Jeans"  – 3:30 (Neil Diamond and Richard Bennett)
"Blue Bayou"  – 2:35 (Roy Orbison and Joe Melson)
"California Girls"  – 2:51 (Brian Wilson)
"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" 2:41 (Burt Bacharach and Hal David)
"California Dreaming"  – 2:47 (John Phillips and Michelle Gilliam)
"These Boots Are Made For Walking"  – 2:52 (Lee Hazlewood)
"La Isla Bonita" (Pat Leonard, Madonna and Bruce Gaitsch)
"Country Roads"  – 3:21 (Bill Danoff, John Denver and Taffy Nivert)
"Love Me Tender"  – 3:05 (Vera Matson and Elvis Presley)
"New York, New York"  – 3:30 (John Kander and Fred Ebb)
"Amazing Grace"  – 2:58 (Trad.)
"More Than Words Can Say" (bonus track)  – 4:11 (David Hasselhoff, Wade Hubbard, Glenn Morrow)

Charts

References 

2004 albums
Covers albums
David Hasselhoff albums
Orchids (album)

Orchids is the debut album of dream pop band Astral.  It contained ten songs and was released in 2003.  The title track, Orchids, is a highly melodic instrumental slightly reminiscent of space rock.  The record was mixed at Stout Recording Studio in Oakland, California and was engineered by Randy Burk, who in the past had worked with Swingin' Utters The album charted #119 on the CMJ 200.  Two songs, Orchids and Raining Down, were preloaded on the Rio Carbon MP3 Players.

Track listing

Barreling (3:09)
Blinder (4:35)
In Heaven (3:22)
Under Lock and Key (3:55)
Turn Me Around (2:41)
Slumber (4:54)
Orchids (3:01)
Last Light (4:05)
Raining Down (3:29)
Forbidden Kiss (5:19)

Notes

2003 debut albums
Astral (band) albums
Deborah Lynn Steinberg

Deborah Lynn Steinberg (7 October 1961 – 6 February 2017) was a British-based American academic, author, educator and sociologist. She was a Professor of Gender, Culture and Media Studies in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

Steinberg was born and brought up in Los Angeles, the daughter of Irwin Steinberg, a radiologist, and his wife, Maxine (née Beckerman) Steinberg, a lawyer. She had a BA in Women's Studies from the University of California, Berkeley; an MA from the University of Kent, and a PhD from the University of Birmingham.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, but was given the all clear in 2013. However, the disease returned the following year. She continued to work until incapacitated by the disease, and died in 2017, aged 55. She was survived by her partner, Gershon Silins, her parents, and her brother, David.

Books
 
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References

External links
Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (c1970-2000), academic and sociologist, papers at the National Archives

1961 births
2017 deaths
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Alumni of the University of Kent
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Warwick
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
American sociologists
American women sociologists
British sociologists
Writers from Los Angeles
Place of death missing
Deaths from breast cancer
People associated with The Institute for Cultural Research
21st-century American women
John Eden

John Eden may refer to:

John Eden, Baron Eden of Winton (1925–2020), British politician
Sir John Eden, 2nd Baronet (died 1728), Member of Parliament for Durham (UK Parliament constituency)
Sir John Eden, 4th Baronet (1740–1812), Member of Parliament for Durham (UK Parliament constituency)
John R. Eden (1826–1909), U.S. Representative from Illinois
John Eden (athlete) (born 1955), Paralympic athlete from Australia
John Richard Eden (1859–19??), politician in Ontario, Canada
John Eden (producer), a music producer, including for The Catch (album)
Heartbreak Express

Heartbreak Express in the twenty-fourth solo studio album by American entertainer Dolly Parton. It was released on March 29, 1982, by RCA Records. The album returned Parton to a more fully realized country sound (a process she had begun on the previous year's 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs), after her late 1970s pop recordings. The album's first single, "Single Women", a slow-tempo honkytonk ballad about a singles bar, was written by Saturday Night Live writer Michael O'Donoghue, and had previously appeared in an SNL skit in late 1980.  The single provided a top ten single for Parton.  The title cut also was a top ten hit for her. "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" (a song Parton had written in the early 1970s but had never officially recorded) appeared as a double-A-sided single (along with Parton's rerecording of "I Will Always Love You" from the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), and reached No. 1 on the country charts in August 1982.

"Hollywood Potters", Parton has explained to interviewers, came out of her experience filming the movie 9 to 5, as Parton watched many of the film's extras and bit players, who had worked very hard at acting through the years, but with very little success. Heartbreak Express was re-released in digital format in 2013.

Track listing

Personnel
Dolly Parton - vocals
Albert Lee, Fred Tackett, Jeff Baxter, Mike Severs, Steve Cropper - guitar
Abraham Laboriel, Leland Sklar, Nathan East - bass
Joe McGuffee - steel guitar
Buddy Spicher - fiddle
Gregg Perry - dulcimer, backing vocals
Red Young, Ron Oates - keyboards
Eddy Anderson - drums
Lenny Castro - congas
Terry McMillan - harmonica
Alex Brown, Anita Ball, Denise Maynelli, Gene Morford, Jim Salestrom, Richard Dennison, Roy Galloway, Stephanie Spruill, Willie Greene Jr. - backing vocals
Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Gary Herbig, George Bohanon, Jim Horn, Slyde Hyde, Tom Saviano, Tom Scott - horns
Herb Ritts - Photography

Major releases

Chart performance
Album

Album (Year-End)

References

External links
Heartbreak Express at Dolly Parton On-Line

Dolly Parton albums
1982 albums
RCA Records albums
George Harcourt

George Granville Harcourt (né Venables-Harcourt and Vernon-Harcourt, 6 August 1785 – 19 December 1861) was a British Whig and then Conservative Party politician.

Background
Harcourt was the eldest son of clergyman Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt.

Political career
Harcourt was elected as MP for Lichfield in 1806 and which he represented until he was elected for Oxfordshire in 1831. By 1850 he had become the longest-serving member, and so became the Father of the House of Commons for the last 11 years of his life.

Family
On 27 March 1815, he married Lady Elizabeth Bingham (the eldest daughter of the 2nd Earl of Lucan) and they had one child, Elizabeth Lavinia Anne (d. 1858, married Montagu Bertie, 6th Earl of Abingdon). Harcourt's wife died in 1838 and he then married Frances Waldegrave (the widow of the 7th Earl Waldegrave and future wife of the 1st Baron Carlingford), a daughter of the noted tenor, John Braham.

References

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1785 births
1861 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Lichfield
UK MPs 1806–1807
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Betwixt and Between

Betwixt and Between (L'Envers et l'endroit, also translated as The Wrong Side and the Right Side, Collection, 1937) is a work of non-fiction by Albert Camus.

Betwixt and Between is the first work of Albert Camus published under his own name, in Algiers in 1937 by Edmond Charlot. It consists of a series of essays on the Algerian district of Belcourt as well as on two trips, the first to the Balearic Islands and the second to Prague and Venice. The book was barely distributed during the war and did not take advantage of the success of The Stranger and the Myth of Sisyphus after the war. It was reprinted in 1958, with a preface in which Camus takes stock of his work to date and critically judges his writing. He declares that "his work has not even begun." Camus saw in this early work the secret source of all his thought: "I know that my source is in Betwixt and Between, in this world of poverty and light where I have lived for a long time and whose memory still preserves me from the two contrary dangers which threaten every artist, resentment and satisfaction.

References

Essays by Albert Camus
1937 non-fiction books
French essay collections
G. M. C. Balayogi Indoor Stadium

G. M. C. Balayogi Indoor Stadium is an indoor arena located in Hyderabad, India. It holds 5,000 people. It is located in the Gachibowli suburb. The stadium was built in 2002 headed by N. Chandrababu Naidu Government to host the 2003 Afro -Asian games. The indoor stadium is located beside the Hyderabad International Institute of Information Technology. The venue hosted the 2009 BWF World Championships. It is one of the home arenas for the India's prime basketball league, the UBA Pro Basketball League. In 2017, 3rd edition of TEDxHyderabad was conducted in Gachibowli Indoor Stadium.

Central arena
The central playing arena measures 60 metres by 40 metres in size and consists of a basketball court and six badminton courts. The indoor stadium can also host other sporting events such as kabaddi, taekwondo, table tennis, boxing, judo, wrestling and weight lifting.

Pedestrian bridge
The design of the indoor stadium involves segregation of spectators' access from the access of sports-persons and officials. Four large pedestrian bridges placed at the four cardinal points allow access to the spectators directly to the stands at the up-per level.
A combination of ramps and staircases lead the spectator to a height of 3m from ground level, from where a 4m wide steel-truss bridge of 12m span leads the spectators to a circumferential corridor from where they enter into the stands.

See also
 G. M. C. Balayogi Athletic Stadium
 List of stadiums in Hyderabad, India
 2002 National Games of India
 2003 Afro-Asian Games

References

Indoor arenas in India
Badminton venues
Sport in Hyderabad, India
Badminton in India
Sports venues in Hyderabad, India
Wrestling in India
Basketball venues in India
Boxing venues in India
Sports venues in Telangana
Sports venues completed in 2002
2002 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Kabaddi venues in India
Saroornagar Indoor Arena

Saroornagar Indoor Stadium is an indoor sporting arena located in Hyderabad, India.  The capacity of the arena is 2,000 people.  And it has even got a wide number of sports being taught all along the year and many national and international players have emerged from that stadium.

Indoor arenas in India
Sports venues in Telangana
Sports venues in Hyderabad, India
Sport in Hyderabad, India
Year of establishment missing
Thylacinus potens

Thylacinus potens ("powerful pouched dog") was the largest species of the family Thylacinidae, originally known from a single poorly preserved fossil discovered by Michael O. Woodburne in 1967 in a Late Miocene locality near Alice Springs, Northern Territory. It preceded the most recent species of thylacine by 4–6 million years, and was 5% bigger, was more robust and had a shorter, broader skull. Its size is estimated to be similar to that of a grey wolf; the head and body together were around 5 feet long, and its teeth were less adapted for shearing compared to those of the now-extinct thylacine.

Taxonomy 
 
The description of the species was published in 1967, the author Michael O. Woodburne distinguishing the new thylacine with the epithet potens for what he interpreted as a "powerful" predator. The evidence for the species emerged from geological and palaeontological research into the fossil fauna of the Alcoota site.

Description 

A larger species of Thylacinus, greater in size and weight than the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and only exceeded by Thylacinus megiriani, the largest of the genus. The animal was similar to a dog in the form of its body and jaws, and probably able to kill prey such as wallabies and other herbivores larger than itself.

More specimens were described by Adam Yates in 2014, also discovered at the Alcoota site, revealing greater variety within the species and revising the weight estimates to greater than 35 kilograms. This material was found in a newly excavated site, named as "Shattered Dreams", that was opened by a backhoe to allow the extraction of specimens. The new T. potens specimens were a left dentary and maxilla which included the previously unknown anterior section of the dentition. The teeth of the new material exhibited a more gracile form than that previously assigned to T. potens, displaying a closer resemblance to T. cynocephalus.

An examination of tooth wear that suggests durophagy, probably bone-cracking behaviour, is interpreted as an evolutionary recent practice, to which the dentition was only partially suited, or a consequence of the ecological circumstances that created the mass assemblage of fossils at the same site. The modern thylacine was not recorded as cracking bones as part of its regular feeding habits, but known as a consumer of carrion, and the individual T. potens may have encountered a mass death during a period of drought in the sub-tropical Alcoota region.
The revision of Thylacinus potens by Yates in 2014 concluded that the characteristics were closest to those of the thylacine, the most derived characters of the thylacinid phylogeny.

References

Prehistoric mammals of Australia
Prehistoric thylacines
Miocene marsupials
Fossil taxa described in 1967
Taxa named by Michael Woodburne
Independence Public School District

Independence Public School District (usually referred to as the Independence School District, acronym is the ISD) is a school district headquartered in Independence, Missouri, United States. The district serves most of Independence and Sugar Creek.

Schools

 High schools
William Chrisman High School
Truman High School
Van Horn High School

 Alternative schools
Independence Academy

 Middle schools
Pioneer Ridge
George Caleb Bingham
James Bridger
Clifford H. Nowlin

Elementary schools
Abraham Mallinson
Thomas Hart Benton
Blackburn
Bryant
Fairmount
Glendale
Korte (originally North Rock Creek)
Little Blue
John W. Luff
Mill Creek
Christian Ott
Alexander Procter
Randall
Santa Fe Trail
Spring Branch
Sugar Creek
Sycamore Hills
Three Trails
William Southern

 Early education
Hanthorn
Sunshine Center

Annexation boundary line debate
In November 2007, the voters of Independence and Kansas City voted for seven schools (one high school, one middle school, and five elementary schools) to be taken over by the Independence Public School District. Jim Hinson, the superintendent of the Independence district, believed that the KCMO district fought the annexation was because it was a "pride issue" and because the KCMO district feared that other parts of the district could secede.

The transfer did not include the C. R. Anderson School, which was originally called the Pitcher School. KCMSD annexed the school in 1957, and it became an alternative school for troubled students in the 1980s. It closed in 2000.

Transfer to Independence School District
 Van Horn High School (Independence)
 Nowlin Middle School (Independence)
 Fairmount Elementary (Independence)
 Mount Washington Elementary  (Independence) (no longer part of the district, was sold)
 North Rock Creek / Korte Elementary (Independence)
 Sugar Creek Elementary (Sugar Creek)
 Three Trails Elementary (Independence)

References

External links

District website

School districts in Missouri
Independence, Missouri
Education in Jackson County, Missouri
White Ring (arena)

The White Ring, officially Nagano City Mashima General Sports Arena, is an indoor sporting arena located in Nagano, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 7,000 people.

It was a venue at the 1998 Winter Olympics, hosting the figure skating and short track speed skating events.

It is the home arena of the Shinshu Brave Warriors of the B.League, Japan's professional basketball league.

References

External links
Official website

Basketball venues in Japan
Indoor arenas in Japan
Venues of the 1998 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skating venues
Olympic short track speed skating venues
Shinshu Brave Warriors
Sports venues in Nagano Prefecture
Sport in Nagano (city)
Ookini Arena Maishima

Ookini Arena Maishima is an indoor sporting arena located in Osaka, Japan. The capacity of the arena is 7,000 people.

Since 2004, it has been the home arena and the practice facilities for the Osaka Evessa, a professional basketball team of the B.League.

External links
  Ookini Arena Maishima web site

Osaka Evessa
Sports venues in Osaka
Indoor arenas in Japan
Basketball venues in Japan
Towa Pharmaceutical Ractab Dome

is an indoor sporting arena located in Kadoma city in the Osaka Prefecture of Japan.

Construction was completed in early 1996. The primary architect was Mamoru Kawaguchi, founder of the firm Kawaguchi & Engineers.
The dome is composed largely of reinforced concrete and aluminum frames and covers an area of approximately 25,000 m2. Inside is a main competition arena plus a separate swimming pool, training room, multipurpose hall, conference rooms and Restaurant Namihaya. The main arena has 6,000 fixed seats with a possible capacity for 10,000 people. There is a large screen display and a large electrical score screen.

Main Arena uses
The purpose of the arena changes with the seasons.
 In summer, the arena has a swimming pool, 50 m by 25.5 m, where the depth can be changed due to a movable floor. The diving pool, 25 m by 25 m, with three diving platforms and five springboards, also has a movable floor.
 In winter, the arena has ice skating rinks. The main rink is 60 m by 30 m, and a sub rink is 18 m by 30 m.
 In autumn and spring, the arena is transformed to a gymnasium where sporting competitions, exhibitions and conferences are held.

Sporting events
 In 2005, the final competition of six international events, the 2005 NHK Trophy was held at the dome for the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating.
 Some games of the 2003 Women's Volleyball World Cup were held at the dome.
 Some games of the national tennis matches, Davis Cup have been held at the dome.
 Japan Figure Skating Championships 2001–02, 2009–10, and 2007–08.

References

External links 
 Official site
 Official site 
 i-Mode 

Basketball venues in Japan
Sports venues in Osaka Prefecture
Swimming venues in Japan
Osaka Evessa
Tennis venues in Japan
Indoor arenas in Japan
Covered stadiums in Japan
Kadoma, Osaka
Sports venues completed in 1996
1996 establishments in Japan
Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium

is an indoor sporting arena located in Namba, Osaka, Japan. It first opened in 1952 and the current building was constructed in 1987. It is the venue of a professional sumo tournament (honbasho) held in March every year. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people. Its total revenue for the 2006 fiscal year was 260 million yen, of which sumo provided 80 million.

In April 2008 the Japan Sumo Association made clear its surprise at plans by the prefectural government to demolish the gymnasium and sell the vacant lot.

In March 2012, the arena was renamed  after the naming rights were sold to sports apparel company BB Sports for the next three years. The name was changed back in April 2015, when BB Sports did not renew their deal. In June 2015, EDION Corporation signed a three-year deal for the arena's naming rights, renaming it .

It has hosted several professional wrestling shows, including Osaka Hurricane from 2005 to 2012, NJPW Dominion from 2009 to 2014, NJPW Power Struggle since 2011, and The New Beginning in Osaka since 2012.

On October 12, 2019, the venue hosted the Rizin 19 mixed martial arts fight.

On February 22, 2023, the International Lethwei Federation Japan held a Lethwei event called Japan 15 - Kizuna at the venue.

Cultural references
The Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium is featured in the manga/anime series Fighting Spirit (Hajime no Ippo) as one of the venues the boxers fight at. It is also included in the video game adaptation of the series, Victorious Boxers.

Access

Namba Station - Nankai Electric Railway (250m from South Exit), Osaka Metro (350m from Exit 5)
Ōsaka Namba Station - Kintetsu Namba Line, Hanshin Namba Line (600m)
JR Namba Station - West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Kansai Main Line (Yamatoji Line) (800m)

References

External links

Official website 

Basketball venues in Japan
Indoor arenas in Japan
Osaka Evessa
Sports venues in Osaka
Sumo venues in Japan
Lethwei venues in Japan
Volleyball venues in Japan
Boxing venues in Japan
Judo venues
Elkford

Elkford is a district municipality in the southeast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia in the Rocky Mountain range. It is  north of the junction at Sparwood, on provincial Highway 43. Outdoor recreational activities take place in Elkford throughout the year. Elkford hosts an annual festival called Wildcat Days during the last weekend of June.

The town and area have many kilometres of horse riding, hiking, snowmobiling and cross country ski trails, and a ski hill, Wapiti, run by Elkford resident volunteers. The Elkford Aquatic Centre has a competition-size pool, hot tub and sauna.

There are two public schools Rocky Mountain Elementary School and Elkford Secondary School with a combined student population of 400 in January 2006.

There are five open-pit coal mines within an hour's drive of Elkford: Fording River Operations (FRO), Greenhills Operations (GHO), Line Creek Operations (LCO), Elkview Operations (EVO) and Coal Mountain Operations (CMO). All mines belong to Teck Resources. Elkford was created due to mining activity, in the early 1970s. Many Elkford residents work for the mines or as contractors; other residents work in service industries directly related to the mines. The Fording River Operations (FRO) mine is located on the Continental Divide of the Americas, known as the Great Divide.

A coal seam close to Aldridge Creek, north of Elkford, has been burning for decades and is known to residents of the area as "The Burning Coal Seam."

Climate
Fording River weather station, near Elkford, has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc).

Demographics 
In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Elkford had a population of 2,749 living in 1,159 of its 1,602 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 2,499. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Religion 
According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Elkford included:
Irreligion (1,530 persons or 55.7%)
Christianity (1,195 persons or 43.5%)
Buddhism (10 persons or 0.4%)
Other (10 persons or 0.4%)

Local media

Radio stations
 99.1 FM - CJDR, Classic Rock
 92.7 FM - CFBZ, Country
 97.7 FM - CBTN, CBC Radio
 106.9 FM - CJAY, Rock
 90.1 FM - ..., Hip-hop/Hits
 93.5 FM rock
 92.9 FM rock
107.9 FM  summit 107

Cable television stations
 Channel 10:  Shaw TV
 Channel 5:  CFCN, CTV
 Channel 13:  CBUT, CBC

In popular culture
Elkford is the setting of Braceface, an animated children's television series that aired in the early 2000s.

See also
Elk
Elk River
Elk Valley
Ktunaxa

References

External links

District municipalities in British Columbia
Elk Valley (British Columbia)
Populated places in the Regional District of East Kootenay
Dama, Syria

Dama () is a village in the As-Suwayda Governorate of southwest Syria. It is located in the heart of the Lejah lava plateau, 29 km north west of the city of As-Suwayda. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Dama had a population of 1,799 in the 2004 census.

History
Dama and neighboring villages are thought to be the place where Saint Paul took refuge after escaping from Damascus.

The village, like most of the villages in Jabal ad-Druze, was an old Roman location. Many of its houses are still in their original condition. The inhabitants are mostly Druze and their main occupation is agriculture.

Ottoman era
In 1596 Dama appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as part of the nahiya of Bani Abdullah, in the Sanjak Hauran. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 74 households and 28 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40% on various agricultural products, including  wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives; a total of 12,000 akçe.

In 1838, Dama was noted as a ruin, situated "in the Lejah itself", but also noted as "central point, which is considered the capital of Lejah".

Modern era
Dama played a major role in the late stages of the Great Syrian Revolution (1925-1927). It hosted the important Dama Convention which resulted in the refusal of French proposals and the collapse of negotiations between the Druze rebels and the French.
It was also the site of some of the last battles in the revolution fought by guerrilla groups led by Emir Adel Arslan.

See also
 Druze in Syria

References

Bibliography

External links
 Map of the town, Google Maps
Ezra-map

Populated places in Shahba District
Druze communities in Syria
Farman F.400

The Farman F 400 was a 1930s French three-seat cabin high-winged monoplane which was designed and built by Farman.

Design and development
The Farman series "400" was a revolution for its builder because it had a thin, cantilever-constructed, high wing, with round edges, which could be dismounted for better storage and transportation.

The aeroplane had mixed construction. The fuselage was made of steel tubes, while the wings had a wood frame. The fuselage and the wings are both covered with plywood.

This version, the Farman F 402, had a Lorraine 5 Pb 5-cylinder radial engine of , but the plane in the picture had it changed for a 9-cylinder radial engine Salmson of .

The F 402 has an unusual feature, which is that the control stick hangs from the ceiling of the cockpit, and the rudder control is a vertical steering wheel.

The fuel tanks, which are placed inside the wings, have a capacity of 200 liters.

The landing gear structure is constructed of iron bars, which allows this plane to land "hardly" in short space.

This aircraft served, among other countries, in Spain, during the 1936-1939 civil war, on both sides.

Variants
F.400
Three-seat cabin monoplane.
F.402
Powered by a 120hp (89-kW) Lorraine 5Pb radial piston engine.
F.403
Powered by a 150hp (112-kW) Farman 7Ed engine.
F.404
Similar to the F.403, powered by a 140hp (89kW) Renault 4Pei engine.
F.405
Powered by a 110hp (82kW) Lorraine 5Pb radial piston engine.
F.406
Powered by a 125hp (93kW) de Havilland Gipsy Major piston engine.

Operators

 French Air Force

Spanish Republican Air Force

Survivors
One aircraft of the Spanish Republican Air Force survives and is on display at the Spanish Museo del Aire (Madrid). This plane was used in Zaragoza during the Spanish Civil War as a transport, communication and ambulance aircraft.

Specifications (F 402)

See also

Citations

Bibliography

External links

Farman F.402
Paul Grieu Farman F.402 

1930s French civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
F.0400
Aircraft first flown in 1934
Martin Luther King Jr. Library

The Martin Luther King Jr. Library may refer to:

 Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Oakland Public Library in Oakland, California
 Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Sacramento Public Library in Sacramento, California
 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose, California
 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, D.C.
 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Brevard County Libraries in Melbourne, Florida
 Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Atlanta–Fulton Public Library System in Atlanta
 Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Chicago Public Library in Chicago
 Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the New Orleans Public Library in New Orleans
 Martin Luther King Jr. Library at Boston University in Boston
 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York
 Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library in Cleveland, Ohio
 Martin Luther King Jr. Library and Learning Center of the Dallas Public Library in Dallas, Texas
 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library of the Tacoma Public Library in Tacoma, Washington
 Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Columbus, Ohio
 Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the  Milwaukee Public Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Al White

Allen Cliffton White (born May 17, 1942) is an American character actor. He has appeared in various movies, such as Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel, and Back to the Future Part II. Over the course of his Hollywood acting career, White has frequently portrayed police detectives in television and film.

Career

On screen, White is perhaps best known for his role in hit comedy Airplane! as the jive-talking man whose words have to be translated (he reprised the jive-talking for a courtroom scene in the sequel). He also acted in Back to the Future Part II and has a long television resume, including roles in popular shows Wonder Woman, The Jeffersons. The Incredible Hulk and The Dukes of Hazzard, and more recently CSI: Miami and The King of Queens.

White, who was raised in San Francisco, California from an early age, decided to embark on an acting career after he had been employed as a janitor in Golden Gate Park for eight years. White has won a number of awards for his theatre work. He later became a member of the American Conservatory Theater company for three years, performing in more than seventeen plays, from Shakespeare to playwright Tennessee Williams, who was playwright in residence at the time. White originated the role of the military officer in Williams' play This Is (An Entertainment). In 1975, the group went to the Soviet Union for a bicentennial cultural exchange, performing at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, as well as in Leningrad and Riga.

Partial filmography
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) - Spectator Outside Church (uncredited)
The Hollywood Knights (1980) - Louis
Airplane! (1980) - Second Jive Dude
The Dukes of Hazzard (1982) - Burnett
Gangster Wars (1981) - Big Joe Isson
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) - Witness
The Dukes of Hazzard (1984) - Eddie Scoggins
Massive Retaliation (1984) - Highway Patrolman
Black Moon Rising (1986) - Maintenance Man
Big Trouble (1986) - Mr. Williams
Omega Syndrome (1986) - Sergeant Carlyle
Critical Condition (1987) - Reggie
Russkies (1987) - Captain Foley
Red Scorpion (1988) - Kallunda Kintash
Liberty & Bash (1989) - Detective Anderson
Back to the Future Part II (1989) - Lewis (Dad)
Servants of Twilight (1991) - Pete Lockburn
Leprechaun 2 (1994) - Desk Sergeant
Bombmeister (1995)
Perfect Opposites (2004) - Dr. Barrett
A Night at the Silent Movie Theater (2012) - Al - Dad

References

External links

Shockya interview with actor Al White, June 6, 2009, accessed 2011/1/20.

1942 births
Living people
American male film actors
Male actors from San Francisco
Male actors from Houston
American male stage actors
American male television actors
African-American male actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people
Shakeel Khan (cricketer)

Shakeel Ahmed Khan (born May 28, 1968, Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played one ODI in 1987.

References 

1968 births
Living people
Pakistan One Day International cricketers
Habib Bank Limited cricketers
Pakistani cricketers
Water and Power Development Authority cricketers
Rawalpindi cricketers
Islamabad cricketers
Cricketers from Lahore
Pedro Elías Gutiérrez

Pedro Elías Gutiérrez (March 14, 1870–May 31, 1954) was a Venezuelan musician who is mainly remembered for the song Alma Llanera, whose music he composed for the zarzuela of the same name.  

Gutiérrez also led the Orquesta Caraqueña, directed the Caracas Martial Band (Banda Marcial Caracas) from 1903 to 1946, and wrote several other zarzuelas, including Percance en Macuto and Un Gallero como Pocos.  He died in Macuto, Vargas.

Alma Llanera
The song is a joropo, a Venezuelan dance form. The lyrics were written by Rafael Bolivar Coronado and it is regarded as the unofficial second National anthem of Venezuela. The first part of Alma Llanera is inspired on the waltz Marisela by composer Sebastian Díaz Peña from Venezuela, while the second part of Alma Llanera is inspired on the waltz Mita by the Curaçaon composer Jan Gerard Palm. 

People from La Guaira
Venezuelan composers
Male composers
1870 births
1954 deaths
Flight controller (disambiguation)

Flight controller may refer to:

Ground-based staff and positions 
 Air traffic controller, a person trained to expedite and maintain a safe and orderly flow of air traffic
 Flight controller, a person who aids in the operations of a space flight

On-board systems 
 A civil-airliner flight controller, or autopilot
 An UAV flight controller, a combination of hardware and software that helps control the UAV flight

See also
 Aircraft flight control systems, which cover main flight controls
 Comparison table including UAV flight controllers 
 Flight director (disambiguation)
 Joystick, used to control a (real or simulated) aircraft
Haafiz Shahid

Haafiz Shahid Yaqoob (Urdu: حافظ شاہد یعقوب) (born 10 May 1963) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played three One Day Internationals in 1988. He plays domestic tournament by WAPDA. He was right arm fast medium bowler. He makes his international debut in 1988.

References 

 
 

1963 births
Lahore City Blues cricketers
Lahore City cricketers
Living people
Pakistan One Day International cricketers
Pakistani cricketers
Cricketers from Lahore
Water and Power Development Authority cricketers
Bosch-Halle

Bosch-Halle is an indoor sporting arena located in Wels, Austria.  The capacity of the arena is 9.060 people.

Indoor ice hockey venues in Austria
Sports venues in Upper Austria
Moin-ul-Atiq

Moin-ul-Atiq (born August 5, 1964 in Karachi, Sindh) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played five ODIs between 1988 and 1989.

First Pakistani international cricketer who received a degree in Sports Management from University of Central Lanchashire UK, Also Done MBA in Marketing from Hims, working as sports director at DHA SUFFA UNIVERSITY KARACHI.

International awards

One-Day International Cricket

Man of the Match awards

References 

1964 births
Living people
Pakistan One Day International cricketers
Habib Bank Limited cricketers
United Bank Limited cricketers
Pakistani cricketers
Karachi cricketers
Karachi Whites cricketers
Karachi Blues cricketers
Peshawar cricketers
Cricketers from Karachi
Sohail Fazal

Sohail Fazal (born November 11, 1967, Lahore, Punjab) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played two ODIs in 1989. He is one of the few Christians to have played for Pakistan.

References

1967 births
Living people
Cricketers from Lahore
Pakistani cricketers
Pakistan One Day International cricketers
Pakistani Christians
Palais des Sports de Gerland

Palais des Sports de Gerland is an indoor sporting arena located in Lyon, France. The seating capacity of the arena is 5,910 people.

History
It was the venue of the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon tournament. The arena was the regular home venue of ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne for European Champions cup games in the late 1970s and early 1980s, for which it had a maximum capacity for 10,000 spectators.

The arena also hosted the 1968 European Champions cup final in basketball, in which Real Madrid defeated Spartak Brno 98-95 in front of 8,000 spectators. The venue also saw France defeat the United States in the 1991 Davis Cup final. The arena hosted the last Saporta Cup final in 2002, in which Montepaschi Siena won the trophy. In 2006 hosted the 2006 European Figure Skating Championships.

See also
 List of tennis stadiums by capacity

References

External links

City of Lyon website

Indoor arenas in France
Tennis venues in France
Defunct basketball venues
7th arrondissement of Lyon
Sports venues in Lyon
Buildings and structures in Lyon
1991 Davis Cup
Maqsood Rana

Maqsood Rana, (born 1 August 1972) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played single One Day Internationals for Pakistan in 1990. He is a son of former Pakistani cricket umpire Shakoor Rana and brother of Mansoor Rana, Azmat Rana was his uncle.

In February 2021, he began to undertake coaching courses with the Pakistan Cricket Board.

References

External links 

1972 births
Living people
Pakistani cricketers
Pakistan One Day International cricketers
Lahore City A cricketers
Lahore City cricketers
National Bank of Pakistan cricketers
Rawalpindi B cricketers
Lahore Whites cricketers
Pakistan University Grants Commission cricketers
Cricketers from Lahore
New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer

New York City Transit Authority v. Beazer, 440 U.S. 568 (1979), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in which the constitutionality of an employer's refusal to hire methadone users was upheld.

Background
The New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) adopted a rule prohibiting the employment of anyone who used narcotic drugs.  This rule was applied to persons using methadone, a drug used to treat heroin addiction.  Two former NYCTA employees who had been fired while receiving methadone treatment and two applicants who were denied employment because of their use and past use of methadone sued the TA in federal district court.

The court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and found the policy unconstitutional.  While the district court enjoined the NYCTA from denying employment solely on the basis of past or current participation in a methadone maintenance program, it did authorize the transit authority to exclude methadone users from certain safety-related positions, as well as to condition employment on satisfactory performance in a methadone program for at least one year.  This decision was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Issues presented
The Court was confronted with the question of whether a government could choose not to employ, as an entire class, users of narcotic drugs.

Decision
The Court, in an opinion delivered by Justice Stevens, reversed the decision of the lower courts and found that the NYC Transit Authority had a rational basis for its classification of narcotics users and the extension of this rule to cover methadone users.

Dissent
Justices Brennan and White wrote separate dissents.  Justice Brennan dissented on the grounds that the Title VII claim had been proven.  Justice White, joined by Justice Marshall, argued that the classification of persons successfully participating in a methadone program as dispositively different from the general population was without justification.  They believed that this classification violated the equal protection clause as irrational and invidious.

See also
List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Burger Court

External links
 

United States equal protection case law
United States Supreme Court cases
United States employment discrimination case law
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Kakunodate Station

is an interchange railway station in the city of Semboku, Akita Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Kakunodate Station is served by the JR East Tazawako Line and the Akita Shinkansen, and is located 58.8 km from the terminus of both lines at Morioka Station. It is also the southern terminus for the third sector Akita Nairiku Jūkan Railway Akita Nairiku Line and is located 92.4 kilometers from the northern terminus at

Station layout
The station consists of a single side platform and an island platform serving the JR portion of the station, and a single side platform for the Akita Nairuke Railway. The station building, designed to resemble a samurai residence, was selected to be one of the "Hundred Stations of Tohoku". The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms (JR)

Platforms (Akita Nairiku)

History
Kakunodate Station opened on July 30, 1921 as a station on the Obonai Railway, which was nationalized into the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) the following year. The JGR became Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The Kakunodate Line (which later became the Akita Nairiku Railway) began operation from November 1, 1971.. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987. Services on the Akita Shinkansen began on March 22, 1997.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 545 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
 former Samurai residences (buke yashiki)
former Kakunodate town hall
 Kakunodate Post Office

See also
List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 JR East Station information 
 Akita Nairiku Railway Station information 

Railway stations in Japan opened in 1921
Railway stations in Akita Prefecture
Akita Shinkansen
Tazawako Line
Semboku, Akita