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Michael Park School

Michael Park School is a Waldorf school located in Auckland, New Zealand

The founding of Michael Park School and Kindergarten arose out of a community vision for Rudolf Steiner education in Auckland which culminated in the school opening on the present site in 1979, beginning with a kindergarten and lower school classes. Today Michael Park is an integrated Area School, providing seamless education for students from Playgroup (children aged 2–3 years), Nursery (2½ - 4 years), Kindergarten (4–6 years), lower school (6–14 years) to high school (students aged 14–18 years). The Steiner School refers to the Year 2 to Year 13 as Class 1 to Class 12.

Steiner's Philosophy 
Unlike 'conventional' state schools, the Steiner philosophy encourages a slightly later development, and a more creative environment.

Another unique aspect of Michael Park is their keen eye for aesthetics. The belief is that more graceful architecture will be beneficial to student's learning, meaning that there are less right angles in the school buildings and more curves.

Independent Study
One of the key things making Rudolf Steiner schools unique is the year-long project of each and every 7th Form/Year 13 student. The student is encouraged to learn or develop a skill, complete an exercise and assist the community. Some recent projects have included: learning to play a musical instrument, making a short film, learning authorship or painting, restoration/building of cars, boats, etc.

The student study is assessed on many levels including the presentation of an oral speech, and development of records (i.e., keeping a diary or their efforts) and compiling a visual display to represent their work and what they've learned over the course of the year.

The final result of the Independent Study contributes substantially to their Steiner certificate results for the year.

Qualifications 
This is a state integrated school (i.e., they are largely funded by Government subsidy). This way, Michael Park School students can participate in both government standard assessment, NCEA as well as Steiner School Certificate. Currently Steiner School Certificate is offered at Level 1.

Sporting success

Michael Park has had an unusually high proportion of students representing New Zealand in sport, particularly lacrosse. Their school team, the MPS Storm, contained eight members of the Under-19 New Zealand Men's Lacrosse team, including the captain, Toby Delamore.

See also 
Curriculum of the Waldorf schools
Rudolf Steiner
Anthroposophy

References

Five Reasons Why Parents Choose a Waldorf Education for Their Child
For creativity, capability and resilience, Steiner schools work
Tablets out, imagination in
Te Kete Ipurangi
Education Review Office report

Educational institutions established in 1979
Primary schools in Auckland
Secondary schools in Auckland
Waldorf schools in New Zealand
1979 establishments in New Zealand
Blackfoot Glacier

Blackfoot Glacier is the second largest of the remaining 25 glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana. Blackfoot Glacier is just to the north of Blackfoot Mountain and near Jackson Glacier. The glacier was most recently measured in 2015 at , yet when first documented in 1850, the glacier also included the now separate Jackson Glacier and together, they covered . In 1850, there were an estimated 150 glaciers in the park. Glaciologists have stated that by the year 2030, all the glaciers in the park may disappear. However, under a modest increase in overall carbon dioxide levels, some glaciers will remain until the late 23rd century.
 
Jackson and Blackfoot glaciers have been selected for monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey's Glacier Monitoring Research program, which is researching changes to the mass balance of glaciers in and surrounding Glacier National Park. The glacier is being monitored using remote sensing equipment and repeat photography, where images of the glacier are taken from identical locations periodically. Between 1966 and 2005, Blackfoot Glacier lost over 23 percent of its surface area.  In the summer of 2007, a portion of Blackfoot Glacier broke off and formed an ice avalanche.

See also
 List of glaciers in the United States
 Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)

References

Glaciers of Glacier County, Montana
Glaciers of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glaciers of Montana
Fouad Mohamed Abou Zikry

Admiral Fouad Mohamed Abou Zikry (; November 17, 1923 – January 26, 1983) was a career military man, rising in the ranks of the Egyptian military, and then the ministry of defense, ending his career where he witnessed two wars as a presidential advisor. Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Navy (June 1967 to September 1969 / October 1972 to November 1976) and Vice Defense Minister from 12 February 1972 to October 29, 1973.  He later served as an Advisor of Naval Affairs to the President of the Republic of Egypt (Anwar Al Sadat), Deputy Minister of Maritime Transport, Chairman of Federal Arab Maritime Company (FAMCO). He remains the only Egyptian Navy officer to have held the ranks of both Admiral and Field Marshal in the history of the Egyptian Armed Forces.

Cultural depictions
 Abu Zikry was portrayed by Egyptian actor Salah Zulfikar in the 1994 war film Road To Eilat (Al-Tareek Ela Eilat).

Gallery

References

External links
 Australian Airforce

1923 births
1983 deaths
Egyptian people of the Yom Kippur War
20th-century Egyptian military personnel
Egyptian Navy admirals
Lamphun (disambiguation)

Lamphun may refer to
the town Lamphun
Lamphun Province
Mueang Lamphun district
Lamphun district, the present-day Ban Na San district, Surat Thani Province
Thukpa

Thukpa (Tibetan: ཐུག་པ ; ; IPA: /tʰu(k̚)ˀ˥˥.pə˥˥/ ) is a Tibetan noodle soup, which originated in the eastern part of Tibet. Amdo thukpa (especially thenthuk) is a famous variant among the Indians (especially Ladakhis and the Sikkimese), Nepalese and Tibetans. Thukpa can be prepared in both vegetarian and non-vegetarian variations; the most popular non-vegetarian variation includes chicken. There are numerous varieties of thukpa which includes:

 Thenthuk (): Hand-pulled noodle
 Gyathuk (): Chinese noodle
 Thuppa ()
 Thugpa (): Hand-rolled pinched noodle (like gnocchi)
 Drethug ()

Etymology
Thukpa has been described as a "generic Tibetan word for any soup or stew combined with noodles."

Regional traditions

Indian thukpa
In India, the dish is consumed by people of Nepalese and Tibetan origin in the state of Sikkim, the district of Darjeeling and in the union territory of Ladakh.

Nepalese thukpa
The Nepalese version of Thukpa in general has a predominant vegetarian feature and a bit of spicier flavor. The protein ingredients of the dish are given vegetarian alternative according to availability, including beans, chickpeas, gram, kidney beans, etc. However, non-vegetarian thukpa are also enjoyed by non-vegs. Egg thukpa is probably the second most popular variety after vegetarian thukpa among Nepalese. Coriander leaves, spring onion, or garlic leaves are the popular Nepalese choices of garnish.

Bhutanese thukpa
The Bhutanese version of Thukpa tends to be sweeter than the Nepalese version.

Gallery

See also
 Thukpa bhatuk
 List of soups
 List of Tibetan dishes
 List of Nepalese dishes

External links
 What Lends Flavour to this Comforting Noodle Soup?

References

 

Tibetan cuisine
Nepalese cuisine
Bhutanese cuisine
Indian cuisine
Indo-Caribbean cuisine
Noodle soups
Callosity

A callosity is another name for callus, a piece of skin that has become thickened as a result of repeated contact and friction.

Primates 

All Old World monkeys, gibbons, and some chimpanzees have pads on their rears known as ischial callosities. Ischial relates to the ischium: it forms the lower and back part of the hip bone.

The pads enable the monkeys to sleep sitting upright on thin branches, beyond reach of predators, without falling.

The ischial callosities are one of the most distinctive pelvic features which separates Old World monkeys from New World monkeys.

Right whales 

In whales, the term callosity refers to the rough, calcified skin patches found on the heads of the three species of right whales. Callosities are a characteristic feature of the whale genus Eubalaena. Because they are found on the head of the whale and appear white against the dark background of the whale's skin, they make it very easy to identify individuals of the species.

The callosities themselves are grey, but their white appearance is due to large colonies of whale lice, whale barnacles and parasitic worms which reside on them. Young whales and diseased individuals are often infested with a different species of cyamid, which gives the callosities on those whales an orange hue rather than white. Callosities arise naturally and are present even in late-term whale fetuses, although the work of lice digging into the surface of the skin may make them more jagged and hard over time.

Callosities are found on the upper surface of the whale's head: above the eyes, on the jawline and chin, and surrounding the blowholes. Callosities form a unique pattern on every right whale and, although callosities which are overgrown break off, the patterns do not change over a lifetime. That makes them a very useful tool for the purposes of photo-identification and conservation.

The evolutionary significance of callosities is unknown. Male right whales have a higher density of callosities than females. Males have been observed scratching one another with their callosities and it has been suggested by Payne & Dorsey (1983) that they are a sexually dimorphic feature, used for intra-specific sexual aggression. That explanation is not entirely satisfactory, because it does not account for the appearance of callosities in females. It has also been proposed that the barnacles attached to callosities are important in helping fend off attacks by orcas.

See also 
 Callus

Notes

References
 
Callosities by Mason T. Weinrich in the Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. .
A Dictionary of Zoology 1999, Oxford University Press 1999
"On Butts and Baboons". Artsibasheva, A.''  http://monkeybuiznezz.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/on-butts-and-baboons/

Cetaceans
Animal anatomy
Katie Williams

Katie Williams may refer to:

Katie Williams (footballer) (born 1994), Welsh football defender
Katie Williams, a character in Family Affairs

See also
Kate Williams (disambiguation)
Katherine Williams (disambiguation)
Williams (surname)
Tjurkö bracteates

The Tjurkö Bracteates, listed by Rundata as DR BR75 and DR BR76, are two bracteates (medals or amulets) found on Tjurkö, Eastern Hundred, Blekinge, Sweden, bearing Elder Futhark runic inscriptions in Proto-Norse.

Description
The Tjurkö bracteates were discovered in 1817 near Tjurkö when cultivating, for the first time, a field on a stony hill. The bracteates were found in the roots of the grass among the rocks. Also discovered with the bracteates was a gold coin of the Emperor Theodosius II of the Eastern Roman Empire that has been dated to 443 AD.

The Tjurkö 1 bracteate is dated to the Germanic Iron Age between 400 and 650 AD and is now at the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities (SHM 1453:25). It is a typical C-bracteate, similar to the Vadstena bracteate, and shows a stylized head in the center above a horse and beneath a bird. This iconography is usually interpreted as depicting an early form of the Norse pagan god Odin with his associated animals, a horse and a raven.

Inscription

Tjurkö 1 bracteate

The inscription of the Tjurkö 1 bracteate (DR BR75, IK184) reads:

Transliteration:
wurte runoz an walhakurne heldaz kunimundiu

Proto-Norse transcription:
Wurte runoz an walhakurne Heldaz Kunimundiu

English translation:
Heldaz wrought runes on 'the foreign grain' for Kunimunduz.

There is a consensus that walha-kurne is a compound word referring to the bracteate itself, and that walha (cognate with Modern English Welsh) means "foreign, non-Germanic" - here perhaps more specifically "Roman" or "Gallic." However, differing explanations have been proposed for the second element kurne. According to one interpretation, kurne is the dative singular of kurna (cognate with Modern English corn), and walha-kurne "Roman or Gallic grain" is a kenning for "gold;" cf. the compounds valhöll, valrauðr and valbaugar in the Old Norse poem Atlakviða. This may refer to the melting of solidi as source of the gold for the bracteate. An alternative interpretation of the second element sees kurne as an early loan from Latin corona "crown," but this is now considered to be unlikely since "crowns" as currency appear only in medieval times, from images of crowns minted on the coins' faces. The personal name Heldaz is derived from *held- "battle" (Old English hild, Old Norse hildr, etc.), while Kunimundiu (dative singular of Kunimunduz) is from kuni- "kin" (which appears with connotations of royalty as the first element of Old English compounds, cf. Modern English king) and mund- "protection."

Tjurkö 2 bracteate
The Tjurkö 2 bracteate (DR BR76, IK185) is dated to the same period and has an inscription of just three runes that read ota, which translates as "fear." This formulistic word is also used on other bracteates such as DR IK55 (Fjärestad), DR IK152 (unknown location in Skåne), and DR IK578 (Gadegård).

Notes

References

External links
Danske Brakteater, Arild Hauge website 
Tjurkö 1 bracteate - Map and Rundata
Photograph of Tjurkö 2 bracteate

Bracteates
Elder Futhark inscriptions
Proto-Norse language
Individual items of jewellery
Theo Foley

Theo Foley (2 April 1937 – 26 June 2020) was an Irish footballer and football manager/coach.

He was born in Inchicore, Dublin, Ireland.

Playing career

During his footballing career, he played as a defender for Home Farm, Exeter City, Northampton Town and  Charlton Athletic.

He also appeared nine times for the Republic of Ireland.

Coaching career

In the mid 1970s Foley was assistant manager, then manager, at Charlton Athletic.

This was followed by a spell as assistant manager at Millwall, reserve team coach at Queen's Park Rangers and another spell as assistant manager at Millwall from December 1982 to George Graham.

On 14 May 1986 Foley became assistant manager of Arsenal when Graham was appointed manager. Graham and Foley's focus was on organised defence and strong running resulting in the club winning a League Cup and Football League Title together.

In May 1990 when Graham changed his managerial staff, he appointed Stewart Houston as his number two. Rather than take the reserve team managers job, Foley left Arsenal to manage Northampton Town where he remained for two years.

In April 1993 he became youth team coach at Fulham. He was assistant manager at Southend United from June 1994 until he was dismissed on 10 February 1997. In the summer of 1997, he joined Leeds United to become a scout under George Graham. In July 1998 he became Reserve Team Coach at Tottenham Hotspur, linking up with Graham again three months later when the latter became Spurs manager. Foley remained at the club even after the sackings of both Graham and Stewart Houston in March 2001. However he was made redundant along with several other coaching staff members in July 2003 by Enic in a cost cutting exercise. He did some scouting for Wolves for a time. After this he went into retirement though he was a matchday host for Charlton and in retirement watched Millwall and Arsenal.

Author

In October 2018, Foley published his autobiography "Theo Give Us A Ball" which he wrote with his son Paul.

Death
Theo Foley died on 26 June 2020, aged 83.

References

External links
 Theo Foley at NTFC.premiumtv.co.uk

1937 births
2020 deaths
Home Farm F.C. players
League of Ireland players
Burnley F.C. players
Exeter City F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. managers
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Millwall F.C. non-playing staff
Arsenal F.C. non-playing staff
Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
Republic of Ireland men's international footballers
Republic of Ireland association football managers
Men's association football defenders
Southend United F.C. non-playing staff
People from Inchicore
Association footballers from Dublin (city)
Jinx (game)

Jinx is a game, typically a schoolyard or children's game, with varying rules and penalties that occur when two people unintentionally speak the same word or phrase simultaneously. It can also be used to refer to the general phenomenon of uttering the same content at the same time.

Rules 
A jinx can be initiated when at least two people say any same word or phrase at the same time. Typically, after the coincidental voicing of the same content, the individuals compete to say the word "jinx" before the other, with the slower respondent being the "loser" or "jinxee."

There are different variations on what is required of the jinxee. A report in 1973 described that the loser should remain silent until they are freed by the winner.
 In another, the winner will say, "Jinx, buy me a soda" or "pinch poke, you owe me a Coke" first and the loser must comply. There is also a version where the name of the jinxee has to be uttered a number of times to "free" the jinxee.

See also 

Punch buggy

References

External links

December 17, 2006 comic strip from Big Nate in which the characters play a game of Jinx

Children's games
Julita Abbey

Julita Abbey  (Julita kloster) was a monastery of the Cistercian monks in the parish of Julita in Oppunda Hundred, Södermanland, Sweden.

History
The monastery was founded in 1160 at Viby, close to Sigtuna, but under the patronage of King Knut Eriksson (ca 1150 – died 1195) who donated land and a right to parts of the fishing at Älvkarleby. It was relocated in 1180 to Säby by the lake Öljaren in Julita. The monastery was therefore also known as Säby, or Saba in Latin. It continued to receive rich donations from King Erik Knutsson (1210-1216), and later from other members of the aristocracy and royal circles. It was finally the owner of some 80 farms, mostly in Södermanland. 

At the time of the Protestant Reformation, King Gustavus Vasa appropriated the abbey in accordance with the Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden and gave it in fief to Olof Arvidsson, a bailiff in Nyköping, in 1527. The secular estate thus created later had various possessors, including diplomat  Matthias Palbitzki and members of the  Lewenhaupt  family.

In 1944, the Nordic Museum assumed the ownership of the estate in accordance with the will of the last private owner, Arthur Bäckström (1861-1941). The manor is now a large open-air museum, incorporating a small part of the abbey in the basement of one of its wings, which is open to the public.
Together with another small building originally located outside the cloisters, this is all that can be seen of the abbey today, though archaeological excavations have revealed the full extent of the main abbey buildings.

References

Other sources
Ralph Edenheim and Hans A. Lidén (1978) Julita kloster. Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities  (Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell International)

External links
 Julita Manor website

Cistercian monasteries in Sweden
Open-air museums in Sweden
Agriculture museums in Sweden
1520s disestablishments in Europe
1160 establishments in Europe
Christian monasteries established in the 12th century
Medieval Sweden
12th-century establishments in Sweden
Monasteries dissolved under the Swedish Reformation
Li Jingshou

Li Jingshou () (died 437?) was a princess of the Xiongnu-led Northern Liang dynasty of China. Her husband was Juqu Mujian (Prince Ai).

Li Jingshou was the daughter of the Western Liang prince Li Gao and Lady Yin, who was later princess dowager when Li Jingshou's brother Li Xin became prince in 417.  When he was subsequently defeated and killed in 420 by the Northern Liang prince Juqu Mengxun, the Western Liang capital Jiuquan (酒泉, in modern Jiuquan, Gansu) fell to Northern Liang, and Princess Dowager Yin and Li Jingshou were captured.  However, because Juqu Mengxun admired Princess Dowager Yin's courage (in refusing to plead for her life), he treated her with respect, and married Li Jingshou to his son Juqu Mujian.

In 433, with Juqu Mengxun extremely ill, the Northern Liang nobles, believing Juqu Mengxun's younger brother Juqu Puti (沮渠菩提), whom Juqu Mengxun had designed heir apparent, to be too young to govern, deposed Juqu Puti and made Juqu Mujian heir apparent instead. Apparently, after Juqu Mengxun soon died and was succeeded by Juqu Mujian, Li Jingshou was created princess. However, in 437, Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, to whose state Northern Liang submitted as a vassal, wanted to marry his sister Princess Wuwei to Juqu Mujian. Juqu Mujian was therefore forced to divorce Princess Li, and she and her mother Princess Dowager Yin were relocated from the Northern Liang capital Guzang (姑臧, in modern Wuwei, Gansu) to Jiuquan.  Princess Li soon died.

Northern Liang princesses
437 deaths
Western Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms) people
Year of birth unknown
5th-century Chinese people
5th-century Chinese women
Jim Toy (baseball)

James Madison Toy (February 20, 1858 – March 13, 1919) was an early Major League Baseball player having a short two-year career with the Cleveland Blues  and the Brooklyn Gladiators, both of the American Association.

Career
Born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, Toy began his professional baseball career in the International League for the Utica, New York team. He showed his versatility by playing many different positions, as well as having a well known good throwing arm. He helped lead the Utica team to the International League championship in .

This showing earned him a spot on the Cleveland Blues for the  season, where he played in 109 games, batted .222, and played mainly at first base, but again showed his ability at other positions, including catcher, and all three outfield positions.

Toy played minor league baseball in Brooklyn, New York for the  and  seasons, mainly as a catcher. He joined the Gladiators later that season, playing in 44 games, batting .181, and gathering only seven RBI. His career ended after suffering an injury when he was hit with a foul tip in the groin. Because of the lack of modern medical attention, the injury plagued him throughout the rest of his life along with cutting his career short.

Death
Toy died at the age of 61 in Cresson, Pennsylvania, and is interred at Beaver Cemetery in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

References

External links

1858 births
1919 deaths
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball catchers
Cleveland Blues (1887–88) players
Brooklyn Gladiators players
19th-century baseball players
New Brighton (minor league baseball) players
Rochester Flour Cities players
Utica Pent-Ups players
Oswego Starchboxes players
Augusta Browns players
Rochester Jingoes players
Sakamoto Station (Miyagi)

is a railway station in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The original station was severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and was relocated to a new location in December 2016.

Lines
Sakamoto Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 321.2 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at  in Tokyo.

Station layout
The station had a single island platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. It is now an elevated station with a single side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station building is located underneath. The station is staffed.

History
Sakamoto Station opened on November 10, 1897. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Services on the Jōban Line between Hamayoshida Station and Soma Station were suspended due to damage caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. The station reopened at a new location 1100 meters further inland on 10 December 2016.。

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 135 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

 Former Sakamoto town hall

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

 JR East station information 

Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897
Yamamoto, Miyagi
Imbituba

Imbituba is a port and coastal town in the southern Brazil state of Santa Catarina. As of 2020, it has an estimated population of 45,286. It is also home to a population of Portuguese, Italian, and German descent, and it is about one hour drive from Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina.

Whaling
Up until the mid‑20th century Imbituba was an important home of Brazilian whalers since 1796, when the southernmost whaling station in Brazil was established there to prey on right whales. Today, the rebuilt whaling station is a historic site and museum managed by the internationally acclaimed Brazilian Right Whale Project (Projeto Baleia Franca), based in nearby Itapirubá at the National Right Whale Conservation Center. The Project has worked for the recovery of this endangered whale species since 1982. Right whales visit Imbituba, Itapirubá and Ibiraquera/Ribanceira beaches in winter and spring to mate, give birth and nurse their calves. Thanks to the work of the Right Whale Project, this region has become a federal  Environmental Protection Area currently under implementation.

Infrastructure
The Port of Imbituba is currently the only privately operated port in Brazil. As part of Brazil's plan to modernize its port infrastructure, it plans to invest in the Port of Imbituba and transform it into one of Brazil's most prominent ports such as the Port of Santos. As part of this initiative, the government also plans on upgrading routes that lead to the port itself such as roads and railroads, as well as integrating the various transport modes. The Santa Catarina investments put the port as first priority of the city, which some see as unfortunate as tourism should also be given adequate priority due to the regional potential of activities like ecotourism and visits to historical sites. Imbituba is now one of the homes for WCT worldwide surfing championships.

Imbituba has stocks in the Brazilian capital market, Bovespa; the codes of the stocks are imbi4 and imbi3.

People
Jorginho, Italian-Brazilian footballer

References

Populated coastal places in Santa Catarina (state)
Whaling stations
Whaling in Brazil
Municipalities in Santa Catarina (state)
United Nations station (LRT)

United Nations station (also known as U.N. Avenue station) is an elevated Manila Light Rail Transit (LRT) station on Line 1. The station serves Ermita in Manila, and is located above the intersection of Taft and United Nations Avenues. The station is named after United Nations Avenue, which in turn is named after the United Nations organization.

United Nations station is also near educational institutions such as the Technological University of the Philippines, the Philippine Normal University, Adamson University, Santa Isabel College Manila, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Araullo High School and Manila Science High School. It is convenient to several tourist destinations including Rizal Park, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Anthropology, and the National Museum of Natural History. It is also adjacent to the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region office and National Bureau of Investigation headquarters. It is also near public squares such as Plaza Salamanca and Plaza Rueda, as well as Paco Park.

United Nations station is the seventh stop from  and the twelfth from Fernando Poe Jr.

Transportation links
United Nations station is served by buses, jeepneys, and UV Express along Taft Avenue and other nearby routes. Regular taxis and cycle rickshaws also stop at and near the station.

Gallery

See also
List of rail transit stations in Metro Manila
Manila Light Rail Transit System

Manila Light Rail Transit System stations
Railway stations opened in 1984
Buildings and structures in Ermita
Yamashita Station (Miyagi)

is a railway station in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The original station was severely damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and was relocated to a new location in December 2016.

Lines
Yamashita Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 325.7 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at  in Tokyo.

Station layout
The station had a single island platform and a side platform connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station had a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office.

History
Yamashita Station opened on May 10, 1949. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987.

Services on the Jōban Line between Hamayoshida Station and Soma Station were suspended due to damage caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. The station reopened at a new location approximately 1 kilometer further inland on 10 December 10, 2016.。

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 598 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
Yamamoto town hall

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

  

Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1949
Yamamoto, Miyagi
Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen

Queen's Cross Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland.  It is located at the intersection of Carden Place and Albyn Place, at Queen's Cross in the heart of Aberdeen's west end business community. It is a short walk from the main 
shopping areas of the city and several main hotels. The church was designated as a Category B listed building in 1967 and was upgraded to Category A in 1984.

History 
The Revd Dr Edmund S. P. Jones was minister at Queen's Cross from 1965 until 1983. During his tenure the church experienced a period of significant change and growth: In 1975 the old church manse on Desswood Place was sold and a new manse was purchased nearby on St. Swithin Street; the church facilities were expanded with the construction of a nursery wing in 1971; and the church sanctuary was redesigned and redecorated by architect James Roy for its centenary in 1981.

When Dr Jones moved to America in November 1983 he was replaced at Queen's Cross by the Revd Bob Brown, who was minister from 1984 until his retirement in 2008.

The church was at the centre of an online protest from fellow Church of Scotland clergy when Revd Scott Rennie, an openly gay minister, was appointed in 2009. Upon hearing of Rennie's new position, the Westboro Baptist Church announced its intention to picket the church in protest. Pastor Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper planned to travel to Scotland to begin their protest, however their entry to the country was blocked as the WBC had been banned from coming into the country since 2009.

See also
 List of Church of Scotland parishes

References

Religious organizations established in 1878
19th-century Church of Scotland church buildings
Category A listed buildings in Aberdeen
Listed churches in Scotland
Churches in Aberdeen
Úhošť

Úhošť () is a hill and a national nature reserve in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It lies in the Doupov Mountains. The hill reaches the elevation of . It is also a place where might have occurred the Battle of Wogastisburg in 631 AD.

Geography

Úhošť is located in the Doupov Mountains in the municipal territory of Kadaň, between the villages Brodce and Pokutice (parts of Kadaň). The hill is a mesa with an area of ; the plateau at the top has an area of . It has been protected as a national nature reserve since 1974. The national nature reserve has an area of  and a negligible area of the reserve lies also in the territory of Klášterec nad Ohří.

Nature
The hill arose in connection with the volcanic activity thad created all the Doupov Mountains. It is thus mainly formed by basalt.

In terms of plants, the area is very diverse. There are 1,000 plant species out of 3,000 recorded in the Czech Republic in the nature reserve. The slopes are covered with natural forest and steppe phytocoenose with such plants as hepaticas, orchis, pasqueflowers and others.

There is also a rich bird colony (owls, bee-eaters etc.).

Settlement
There used to be a village Úhošť on the top of the hill. It probably existed in Prehistory and some cultures from the Bronze Age (Knovíz culture) have been approved by excavations. The first written record of the village comes from 1401 when it was sold to a Kadaň townsman. It changed  the holders coming usually from the nearby noble families. It remained in the property of the Thun family since the confiscations after the Battle of White Mountain till 1850 when it became an independent municipality and had a steady population of about 50 people. The population started to decline after World War II, and the village was officially dissolved in 1963. Nowadays there are just scrubby ruins of several houses.

Tourism
There is an educational trail leading through the nature reserve.

References

Former villages in the Czech Republic
Mountains and hills of the Czech Republic
Chomutov District
Populated places disestablished in 1963
1963 disestablishments in Europe
National nature reserves in the Czech Republic
Steven Salopek

Steven Salopek (born 21 June 1985) is an Australian rules footballer of Croatian descent who played for Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from Narre Warren Football Club in Melbourne's south-east, Salopek played for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup before being a first round drafted choice at the 2002 AFL Draft, being selected at number six by Port Adelaide. Salopek is currently an Assistant Coach (Backline) for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's.

Port Adelaide career
Salopek wore number 31 for Port Adelaide until 2005 when he changed to number three and enjoyed probably his best season for Port Adelaide in 2006.  Salopek was part of Port Adelaide's 2007 Grand Final side and had continued success from 2008 to 2010. However, recurring injuries would limit his playing time.

Glenelg Football Club 2012
When not in the Port Adelaide side, Salopek played with South Australian National Football League (SANFL) team Glenelg. However, following his demotion to Glenelg's reserve side in 2012, Salopek sought and was granted a transfer to Port Adelaide's SANFL team.

Coaching

Carlton Football Club 2018 - Present 
On the 9th of November, Salopek was announced as an Assistant Coach (Backline) for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's.

References

External links

1985 births
Port Adelaide Football Club players
Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)
Living people
Australian people of Croatian descent
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Dandenong Stingrays players
Glenelg Football Club players
Port Adelaide Football Club (SANFL) players
Walter B. Jones (geologist)

Walter Bryan Jones, Ph.D. (1895–1977) was an American geologist and archaeologist. He served as Alabama State Geologist for 34 years and was director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History. Jones undertook the first large-scale, scientific excavation of the Moundville Archaeological Site, and he founded the Jones Museum at Moundville Archaeological Park.

Born in Alabama, Jones earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.

Jones and his three brothers, Howard, Edwin, and Raymond, served in World War I and World War II; a fourth brother Carl served in World War II.  During World War II, he was stationed in New Guinea and sent anthropological collections back to the Alabama Museum of Natural History. Jones's oldest son, Nelson Bolling Jones, was killed in Germany, April 2, 1945, fighting the German Army, but he lived to see another son, Douglas Epps Jones, become a professor of geology at the University of Alabama. His other son, Warren Phelps Jones, managed an electro-chemical manufacturing plant in Huntsville, until his retirement in 1994.

Jones excavated the Moundville Archaeological Site in Central Alabama, establishing an important Native American burial site and shedding light on its culture.  Jones accepted the position of Assistant State Geologist under Eugene Allen Smith in 1924, and served as State Geologist of Alabama and Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History from 1927 to 1961. He served as Secretary of Conservation, as well as Professor Emeritus, at the University of Alabama, till his death in 1977 in Huntsville, Alabama.  Jones was an avid conservationist, hunter, explorer, collector, and photographer, especially of the state of Alabama and the Southeast.

As State Geologist of Alabama, Walter B. Jones directed research on many topics including economic minerals, surface and groundwater, petroleum, geologic mapping, fossils, caves, and archaeology. He was the first director of the State Oil and Gas Board of Alabama, putting wise regulations into place before the first large discoveries of petroleum were made. He was instrumental in passing the Alabama Antiquities Act, which protects archaeological artifacts from casual excavation. The collections of the Alabama Museum of Natural History (until 1961 an arm of the Geological Survey) were greatly increased under his direction. Walter B. Jones Hall still houses the Geological Survey of Alabama on the University of Alabama campus.

Notes

References

External links
Walter Bryan Jones photographs, University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama

1895 births
1977 deaths
20th-century American geologists
People from Huntsville, Alabama
20th-century American archaeologists
American military personnel of World War II
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Alabama alumni
Hamayoshida Station

is a railway station in the town of Watari, Miyagi, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines
Hamayoshida Station is served by the Jōban Line, and is located 329.6 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at  in Tokyo.

Station layout
The station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is staffed.

History
The station opened on November 10, 1897 as . It was renamed Hamayoshida on June 1, 1915. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. Following severe damage in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, operations on the Joban Line between Hamayoshida Station and Soma Station were suspended until December 10, 2016.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 504 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area
 Hamayoshida Post Office

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

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Railway stations in Miyagi Prefecture
Jōban Line
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1897
Watari, Miyagi
Jackson Glacier

Jackson Glacier is approximately the seventh largest of the remaining 25 glaciers in Glacier National Park located in the US state of Montana. A part of the largest grouping of glaciers in the park, Jackson Glacier rests on the north side of Mount Jackson. The glacier was most recently measured in 2005 at , yet when first documented in 1850, the glacier also included the now separate Blackfoot Glacier and together, they covered . Between 1966 and 2005, Jackson Glacier lost almost a third of its acreage. When the two glaciers were united prior to their separation sometime before 1929, they were known simply as Blackfoot Glacier.  In 1850, there were an estimated 150 glaciers in the park. Glaciologists have stated that by the year 2030, many if not all of the glaciers in the park may disappear completely. Jackson and Blackfoot glaciers have been selected for monitoring by the U.S. Geological Survey's Glacier Monitoring Research program, which is researching changes to the mass balance of glaciers in and surrounding Glacier National Park. The glacier is being monitored using remote sensing equipment and repeat photography, where images of the glacier are taken from identical locations periodically.  Jackson Glacier is one of the easiest of the park's glaciers to observe, and is located south of the Going-to-the-Sun Road on the east side of the Continental Divide, upper St. Mary Valley.

See also
 List of glaciers in the United States
 Glaciers in Glacier National Park (U.S.)

References

Glaciers of Glacier County, Montana
Glaciers of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Glaciers of Montana
Croft baronets

There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Croft, one in the Baronetage of England and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. All three creations are extant as of 2008.

The Croft Baronetcy, of Croft Castle in the County of Hereford, was created in the Baronetage of England on 18 November 1671 for Herbert Croft, who later represented Herefordshire in Parliament. He was a member of a prominent Herefordshire family of Norman descent. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Leominster, Winchelsea and Bere Alston. The fifth Baronet was an author. The ninth Baronet represented Herefordshire in the House of Commons. The former seat of the family was Croft Castle in Herefordshire.

The Croft Baronetcy, of Cowling Hall in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 17 December 1818 for John Croft, in honour of his services during the Peninsular War. He shared a common ancestry with the Croft Baronets of Croft Castle.

The Croft Baronetcy, of Bournemouth in the County of Southampton was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 February 1924 for Henry Croft. He was the grandson of Reverend Richard Croft, third son of the sixth Baronet of the 1671 creation. In 1940 he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Croft. For more information on this creation, see this title.

Croft baronets, of Croft Castle (1671)
Sir Herbert Croft, 1st Baronet (–1720)
Sir Archer Croft, 2nd Baronet (1684–1753)
Sir Archer Croft, 3rd Baronet (1731–1792)
Sir John Croft, 4th Baronet (c. 1735–1797)
Sir Herbert Croft, 5th Baronet (1751–1816)
Dr. Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet (1762–1818)
Sir Thomas Elmsley Croft, 7th Baronet (1798–1835)
Sir Archer Denman Croft, 8th Baronet (1801–1865)
Sir Herbert George Denman Croft, 9th Baronet (1838–1902)
Sir Herbert Archer Croft, 10th Baronet (1868–1915)
Sir James Herbert Croft, 11th Baronet (1907–1941)
Sir Hugh Matthew Fiennes Croft, 12th Baronet (1874–1954)
Sir Bernard Hugh Denman Croft, 13th Baronet (1903–1984)
Sir Owen Glendower Croft, 14th Baronet (born 1932)

The heir apparent to the baronetcy is Thomas Jasper Croft (born 1962), only son of the 14th Baronet.

Croft baronets, of Cowling Hall (1818)
Sir John Croft, 1st Baronet (died 1862)
Sir John Frederick Croft, 2nd Baronet (1828–1904)
Sir Frederick Leigh Croft, 3rd Baronet (1860–1930)
Sir John William Graham Croft, 4th Baronet (1910–1979)
Sir John Archibald Radcliffe Croft, 5th Baronet (1910–1990)
Sir Thomas Stephen Hutton Croft, 6th Baronet (born 1959)

Croft baronets, of Bournemouth (1924)
see the Baron Croft

References
Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

Citations

Croft
1671 establishments in England
1818 establishments in the United Kingdom
Croft
Bobby Madritsch

Robert Allen Madritsch (born February 28, 1976) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners, and most recently played for the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League in 2008.

Baseball career
Madritsch attended Reavis High School in Burbank, Illinois, where he was All-Conference two consecutive years. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth round of the 1998 Major League Baseball draft out of Point Park University. He was released by the Reds in 2001. He played independent ball with the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the Northern League; the Chico Heat of the Western Baseball League; and the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings, and San Angelo Colts of the Texas–Louisiana League.

On September 23, 2002, the Seattle Mariners purchased his contract. Madritsch spent two years pitching for the Mariners, compiling six total wins and a 3.41 ERA. On October 21, 2005, he was selected off waivers by the Kansas City Royals and assigned to the minor leagues. He was released by the Royals on September 1, 2006. Beset by injuries, Madritsch did not pitch for four years.

He was signed by the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League on August 2, 2008 and appeared in two games before retiring from professional baseball.

Awards
 2002 – Independent Leagues All-Star SP, Independent League Player of the Year, Northern League Western Division All-Star LHP
 2003 – Texas League All-Star P
 2004 – MLB All-Rookie All-Star P

Personal life
Madritsch, who is Native American, was raised by his father and has never known his mother. He admits to getting into a lot of trouble as a teen – "I was always playing with fire and getting burned all the time" – and said he finally turned things around after getting badly hurt: "I knew right from wrong after that."

He currently works out with his brother Ken in Burbank, Illinois with a little league baseball team.

References

External links

Bobby Madritsch Profile at Native American Sports Council

Major League Baseball pitchers
Seattle Mariners players
San Antonio Missions players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Long Island Ducks players
Native American baseball players
1976 births
Living people
Point Park Pioneers baseball players
Winnipeg Goldeyes players
San Angelo Colts players
Rio Grande Valley White Wings players
Chico Heat players
People from Oak Lawn, Illinois
Baseball players from Cook County, Illinois
American people of Austrian descent
Henry Pelham Lee

Henry Pelham Lee (1877–1953) was an English engine pioneer.

Biography
Lee was born in Putney the son of a London architect. Known as Horace by his family. Following his education at Bradfield College he studied electrical engineering in Kensington.  He served with the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars during the Boer War, and on his return to England he moved to Coventry to finish his engineering training with the Daimler Company.

In 1903, Lee left Daimler convinced that his future lay, not in electrical engineering, but in the development of the internal combustion engine. That year he, in partnership with Jens Stroyer, a Dane, founded the Lee Stroyer company in Coventry, producing petrol engines, and a limited number of cars.

Following the departure of Stroyer in 1905 Lee relocated and renamed the company Coventry Simplex. The company continued the production of engines which were used in many early cars including the Abbey, the Ashton-Evans, the Crouch 11/27 and Marendaz cars.

In 1917, Lee's engine company became Coventry Climax Engines, a company which, in the 1960s, produced championship Formula One and Two racing engines.

By the late 1930s, Lee had passed the running of Coventry Climax to his son, Leonard Pelham Lee.

References

1877 births
1953 deaths
British automotive engineers
People educated at Bradfield College
Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry officers