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Ian Khan

Ian Tarik Khan (born 12 May 1960) is a British racing driver. He took part in the FIA GT and FIA GT3 Championships, as well as the British Touring Car Championship.

Racing career
In 1992 he won the BRDC British Saloon Car Championship. The year after he continued to the British Touring Car Championship in a Vauxhall Cavalier, his most notable performance coming in the season-ending TOCA Shootout at Donington Park where he led for several laps thanks to the reverse-grid format.  In 1994 he competed again, firstly in a Toyota Carina and then his old Vauxhall for Maxted Motorsport.  From 1996 Ian raced in the Ferrari F355 championship and various endurance races. With races in the Renault Clio V6 Trophy between 1999 and 2001, from 2002 he has competed in the FIA GT Championship and the Le Mans 24 Hour.

Racing record

Complete 24 Hours of Spa results

Complete British Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

† Not classified in championship due to only entering in the non-championship event.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete 24 Hours of Silverstone results

Complete Porsche Supercup results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

† Not eligible for points due to being a guest driver.

External links

 FIA GT Championship
  
 British Racing Drivers' Club

English racing drivers
FIA GT Championship drivers
1960 births
Living people
British Formula Three Championship drivers
British Formula 3000 Championship drivers
British Touring Car Championship drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
European Le Mans Series drivers
Porsche Supercup drivers
World Sportscar Championship drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
Britcar 24-hour drivers
British GT Championship drivers
Music to Raise the Dead

Music to Raise the Dead is the first independent cassette from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1974. Although technically the band's first release, the album Awaiting Your Reply four years later is considered by most to be the band's official debut.

Recording history
The cassette, featuring the kind of hard rock for which Resurrection Band would eventually become known, was recorded not long after the Jesus People USA community had moved from Minneapolis to Chicago, but before they found a permanent home in Uptown. The record was created in the basement of friend Gary Rotta entirely on headphones, so as not to wake Rotta's wife, who was asleep when the band recorded. However, the mixing board had been used many years previously to record one of Elvis Presley's number-one hits.

The tape was recorded in the same period than All Your Life, both of which were given away at their concerts. All your life was an independent set of acoustic numbers, a reflection of folk-oriented sets that were played at conservative venues, like nursing homes and churches, whose audiences would otherwise be unreceptive to the borderline heavy metal that Resurrection Band otherwise played and which were contained in the rock set Music To Raise the Dead.
The cassette was re-released in a limited number of copies by the band's own label, Grrr Records, in 1992. It is considered a collector's item and is extremely hard to find.

The song "Quite Enough" was re-recorded in a live version on the 1984 album Live Bootleg.

Track listing

Side one
 "Down Baby" - 6:17
 "I Can't Help Myself" - 4:17
 "Crimson River" - 6:04
 "There Will Be Fire" - 4:03

Side two
 "We Can See" - 4:42
 "Better Way" - 4:01
 "Growin' Stronger" - 4:22
 "The Man I Used to Be" - 5:25
 "Quite Enough" - 5:58

Band members
 Glenn Kaiser - Lead vocals, guitars
 Wendi Kaiser - Lead vocals
 Stu Heiss - Lead guitar, piano
 Jim Denton - Bass guitar, backing vocals
 John Herrin - drums
 Tom Cameron - Harmonica

Production
 Producer - Resurrection Band

References

Resurrection Band albums
1974 albums
Demo albums
Martin Brennan (Irish politician)

Martin Brennan (9 August 1900 – 21 June 1956) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who was elected three times to Dáil Éireann.

He was born on 9 August 1900 in the family home at Rhue, Tubbercurry, County Sligo, the sixth of thirteen children of Matthew Brennan, a farmer, and his wife Bridget Gallagher. An exceptional student, he won scholarships to both St. Nathy's College, Ballaghaderreen, and University College Galway (UCG).

He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1916 and campaigned against the introduction of conscription in summer 1918, he became captain of the UCG company of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1920. Later the same year he suspended his study of medicine and returned to Sligo, where as a prominent member of the South Sligo Brigade active service unit of the IRA.

Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, he was arrested in 1923 and sentenced to death, but after the intervention of the Bishop of Achonry, he was reprieved. After a forty-two-day hunger-strike he was released in July 1924 and resumed his medical studies, graduating in 1927. Between 1927 and 1932, he held a series of short-term medical posts before being appointed district medical officer for the Aclare dispensary, County Sligo in 1932.

Brennan was elected as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála (TD) for the Sligo constituency at the 1938 general election. He was returned at the 1943 general election, and the following year he was re-elected at the 1944 general election. He did not contest the 1948 general election. 

In January 1954 he succeeded Richard Hayes as the national film censor, and during his term of office (1954–1956) banned 9 per cent of all films submitted, as compared to 5 per cent in 1946–1953. He was the last film censor to respond to direct church intervention, when on 26 August 1954 the shot of the monstrance (bearing the blessed sacrament) was cut from Universal Newsreel.

A keen Irish language revivalist, he assisted Séamus Ó Duilearga in the collection of over 500 folklore records in the west of Ireland and Tomás Ó Máille in his research on Irish dialects and philology. His nephew Matt Brennan was a Fianna Fáil TD for Sligo–Leitrim from 1982 to 2002.

See also
Families in the Oireachtas

References

1900 births
1956 deaths
Fianna Fáil TDs
Members of the 10th Dáil
Members of the 11th Dáil
Members of the 12th Dáil
Alumni of the University of Galway
People from Tubbercurry
Politicians from County Sligo
Rauno Lehtinen

Rauno Väinämö Lehtinen (7 April 1932 in Tampere – 1 May 2006 in Helsinki) was a Finnish conductor and composer. He composed the 1960s hit Letkis which was based on a folk-dance. Letkis was recorded in over 92 countries.

Lehtinen was also the man behind Tom-tom-tom, which was the most successful Finnish participant (6th) in the Eurovision song contest until 2006. The song was performed by Marion Rung in 1973. He was also the composer of the music to the ident of MTV in 1975.

External links
Eurovision square

1932 births
2006 deaths
musicians from Tampere
Finnish composers
Finnish male composers
Finnish music arrangers
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century male musicians
Frac

Frac or FRAC may refer to:

 Frac or fraccing, short name for Hydraulic fracturing, a method for extracting oil and natural gas
 FRAC Act, United States legislation proposed in 2009 to regulate hydraulic fracturing
 Frac module, a format for the MOTM modular synthesizer
 Frac pacs, packaged ground coffee for coffee machines
 Frac Press, an imprint of OmniScriptum devoted to the reproduction of Wikipedia content
 Frac(R), mathematical notation for field of fractions, the smallest field in which an integral domain can be embedded

 Fonds régional d'art contemporain (FRAC), a network of 23 public collections of contemporary art across France
 Fleet Replacement Aircrew Training, an advanced training option for aircrewmen in the U.S. Navy
 Formula Regional Americas Championship, regional Formula 3 championship
 Formula Regional Asian Championship, regional Formula 3 championship
 Front for the Alternance and Change, a party coalition formed during the Togolese presidential election, 2010
 Fungicide Resistance Action Committee, an organization for fungicide management

See also

 Frack (disambiguation)
 Frak (disambiguation)
 Frakk, a fictional Hungarian cartoon character
 FRACS, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, in Australia and New Zealand
 Phrack, an ezine for hackers
Anton Çetta

Anton Çetta (aka Anton Çeta) (3 January 1920 – 4 November 1995) was an Albanian folklorist, academic and university professor from Kosovo.

Biography 
Anton Çetta was born in Gjakova, completed elementary school in his hometown and secondary school in Tirana and Korça, Albania. He graduated in Romance languages and culture at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. For a period of time he worked as assistant professor at the department of Albanian Studies in Belgrade. From 1960 to 1968 he lectured on Old Albanian Literature, The History of Literature, and Latin language at the University of Pristina.

From 1968 he was chief of the Department of Folklore at the Institute of Albanian Studies in Prishtina. Since 1959, Çeta was collecting folklore material from all regions of Kosovo. From 1953 to 1987 he published 16 books of collected folklore from all regions of Kosovo (this includes fairy tales, myths, ballads, legends, songs etc.).

In 1990 he was the founder of the Reconciliation Committee for erasing blood feuds in Kosovo () which erased almost all blood-related hatred among Albanians in Kosovo in the 1990s. He also was president of the Mother Teresa Association, which provided medical care to people in Kosovo, a position taken over after his death by Don Lush Gjergji, his long-time collaborator in the anti blood feud campaign. He died in Pristina in 1995.

On 30 April 2010, he was awarded with the "Golden Medal for Peace, Democracy and Humanism-Dr. Ibrahim Rugova" prize, by the Kosovar president Fatmir Sejdiu.

References

1920 births
1995 deaths
Academic staff of the University of Pristina
University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni
Kosovan Roman Catholics
Brian Meeks

Brian Meeks (born 1953) is a Caribbean poet and academic, who was born in Canada and grew up in Jamaica.

Biography 
Brian Meeks was born in Montreal, Quebec, of West Indian parents, and grew up in Jamaica. His poetry has been published in several anthologies, and his collection The Coup Clock Clicks was published in 2018. His novel, Paint the Town Red (published by Peepal Tree Press in 2003), is an exploration of the turbulent years of the 1970s in Jamaica (the first Michael Manley administration) through the eyes of a young middle-class man.

Meeks is a Professor of Africana Studies and former chair (2015-2021) of the department at Brown University. He taught political science at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and was director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies until 2015.

He has written or edited eleven books on Caribbean revolutions, radical Caribbean politics, Caribbean futures and Caribbean political thought, including Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory, Caribbean Revolutions and Revolutionary Theory: an Assessment of Cuba, Nicaragua and Grenada, Narratives of Resistance: Jamaica, Trinidad, the Caribbean, and Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives.

References

21st-century Jamaican novelists
Jamaican male novelists
Jamaican male poets
Canadian emigrants to Jamaica
1953 births
Living people
Writers from Montreal
21st-century Jamaican poets
21st-century male writers
Colony of Jamaica people
Canadian emigrants to the British Empire
Grenada Lake

Grenada Lake is a reservoir on the Yalobusha River in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of four flood control lakes in North Mississippi constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Grenada Lake was constructed to help control flooding along the Yazoo River Basin. The dam is located on the Yalobusha River approximately 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Grenada, Mississippi.

The operation of Grenada Lake began in 1954 after a cost of $32 million to construct. The elevation of the top of the earthen-filled dam is  NGVD. The Grenada Project encompasses  with  of this in water during the recreation season (215 NGVD). At this elevation the lake has approximately  of shoreline.

Flood control is the primary purpose of the Grenada Lake Project. The Mississippi River Basin Flood Control Project was the direct result of the Great Flood of 1927. The levees which were the only protection against flooding at the time, broke along the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers, literally swamping thousands of acres of land in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

Even though the Corps of Engineers main objective is flood control, Federal Legislation calls for other activities on Corps of Engineers Lands. Since its impoundment, Grenada Lake has attracted an ever-increasing number of visitors who enjoy water-based and other outdoor recreational activities and is host to several fishing tournaments annually as well.

Grenada Lake is the home to Hugh White State Park and its associated Carver Point Group Camp.  Many other campgrounds are located around the lake.

References

External links
Grenada Lake  - USACE official web page.
Mississippi Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Parks: Hugh White, Grenada, Mississippi.

Protected areas of Grenada County, Mississippi
Reservoirs in Mississippi
Protected areas of Yalobusha County, Mississippi
Dams in Mississippi
United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Landforms of Yalobusha County, Mississippi
Landforms of Grenada County, Mississippi
Karol Langner

Karol Langner (June 28, 1843 in Deutsch Piekar in Oberschlesien (today Piekary Śląskie) – January 1912 in Negaunee, Michigan) was a Polish priest and schoolmate of Jan Pitass. Starting as a priest in Marquette, Michigan in 1869, he was later assigned a pastorate in nearby Escanaba, where he stayed for twelve years and witnessed the growth of a considerable Polish community.

Langner was reassigned in 1885 to a German community near Houghton, Michigan, and in 1899 to St. Paul's Parish in Negaunee, where he remained until his death in 1912. He was distinguished with a domestic prelate by Pope Leo XIII in 1900, the same year he became vicar general in the Marquette Diocese.

1843 births
1912 deaths
People from Piekary Śląskie
Polish Roman Catholic priests
Clergy from the Province of Silesia
German emigrants to the United States
Chinatown station (Los Angeles Metro)

Chinatown station is an elevated light rail station on the  of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located along Spring Street above College Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, just north of Downtown Los Angeles. This station opened on July 26, 2003, as part of the original Gold Line, then known as the "Pasadena Metro Blue Line" project.

The Chinatown station is a short walk from North Broadway, a bustling street of Chinese-American restaurants and stores. Broadway is accessible through a flat walkway between the North Mezzanine and Blossom Plaza, which is lined with businesses and apartment buildings.

Service

Station layout

Hours and frequency

Connections 
, the following connections are available:
Los Angeles Metro Bus: 
City of Santa Clarita Transit: 799
LADOT Commuter Express: , 
LADOT DASH: B, Lincoln Heights/Chinatown

Notable places nearby 
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
 Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
 Dodger Stadium
 Los Angeles State Historic Park
 Thien Hau Temple

References

External links 

A Line (Los Angeles Metro) stations
Chinatown, Los Angeles
Railway stations in the United States opened in 2003
Richard Bolles

Richard Bolles may refer to:
 Richard Nelson Bolles (1927–2017), Episcopal clergyman and author
 Richard "Dicky" J. Bolles (1843–1917), Florida land salesman
Metal Mutant

Metal Mutant is a side-scrolling action-adventure game developed and published for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST by Silmarils and released in 1991. The game allows the player to transform at any time into three different robot forms: Cyborg, Dino, and Tank.

The cover features an illustration by John Bolton.

Plot
The player controls Metal Mutant, the ultimate battle machine, which was sent to the heavily protected high-tech planet Kronox to find and destroy the tyrant AROD 7. On the way to this goal, the player needs to solve puzzles and combat hostile lifeforms and enemy robots.

Gameplay 
Right from the start the player has a possibility to instantly transform into 3 mechanical robots, each possessing unique abilities:

Cyborg
From the start: Jump, Recharge, Trident
Later: Axe, Grappling Hook, Energy Blast

Dino
From the start: Bite, Flame, Flame Tail
Later: Shield, Remote Mechanical Fly, Bionic Eye

Tank
From the start: 360° Laser Gun
Later: Heavy Torpedo, Boss Energy Signature Detector

The only feature that is common to all robots is the Turbomutant, in the last screens of the game. Upgrades are performed either by finding and picking them up as modules, or programming via terminals.

Development
According to an April 1991 issue of The One, Metal Mutant was originally subtitled Clash of the Tin Cans, and is inspired by the wargame board game BattleTech.

At the fan festival Jaguar Connection 2003, Silmarils co-founder Louis-Marie Rocques stated that an Atari Lynx port was developed and completed but the release was cancelled by Atari Corporation.

Reception
The One gave the Amiga version of Metal Mutant an overall score of 85%, beginning their review by stating that "Metal Mutant is initially disappointing: all you do for the first few screens is match appropriate manoeuveres to combat situations and keep plugging away until your enemies are destroyed. If you begin to persevere however, you begin to discover the game's appeal: horrible puzzles, 40 different types of monster to defeat and a variety of weapons and gadgets to acquire." The One calls Metal Mutant a "130-screen test of memory and joystick dexterity" and praises its "good" graphics, further expressing that Metal Mutant has "a host of excellent animation sequences".

References

External links
 Metal Mutant at Amiga Hall of Light

1991 video games
Action-adventure games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Cancelled Atari Lynx games
DOS games
Silmarils (company) games
Video games developed in France
Video games about robots
Video games scored by Fabrice Hautecloque
Fictional robots
Single-player video games
Tahira Syed

Tahira Syed (in Punjabi and ) (born 1958, Lahore) is a Pakistani ghazal and folk singer. Her repertoire includes folk songs in Urdu, Punjabi, Dogri and Pahari.

Early life
Tahira Syed was born in Lahore to a vocalist Malika Pukhraj and Shabbir Hussain, a Punjabi, government official and writer.

Syed obtained her primary education from the Convent of Jesus and Mary where she passed her Senior Cambridge examinations. She graduated from Lahore College, then studied law at the Punjab University. After obtaining an LLB degree, she enrolled in a Masters Program in English at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, but later dropped out of the college.

Syed began singing, aged 12, to please her mother. After two years of rigorous classical music training by Akhtar Hussain, Syed was instructed in geet and ghazal by her mother. Her final teacher, Nazar Hussain, taught her voice modulation and raggi (singing using the throat).

Music career 
Syed first appeared on air in 1968–1969 on Radio Pakistan, and then on Pakistan Television. "Yeh Alam Shauq Ka Dekha na Jaey", "Chanjar Phabdi Na Mutiar Bina" and "Abhi Tau Main Jawan Houn", written by Pakistani poet Hafeez Jalandhri, are some of her most popular songs. In April 1985, she appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine. She received the Pakistan Television Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Pride of Performance Award from the President of Pakistan on 23 March 2013. In 1972, she won the Nigar Award for Best Female Playback Singer.

Syed continues to perform at diverse events such as a "ghazal evening" in Dallas, Texas, U.S., a tribute to Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., and at the Faiz International Festival in Lahore.

Personal life 
Syed was married to lawyer Naeem Bukhari for 15 years (1975-1990) before their separation and divorce; they had two children. She is a well-known personality in Pakistan and occasionally speaks publicly at art and literature events.

Awards and recognition

References

External links
 Bridging differences with cultural exchanges

1958 births
20th-century Pakistani women singers
20th-century Pakistani singers
Radio personalities from Lahore
Pakistani ghazal singers
Living people
Pakistani classical singers
Punjabi people
Urdu-language singers
Punjabi women
Urdu playback singers
Nigar Award winners
Pakistani playback singers
Singers from Lahore
Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore alumni
Kinnaird College for Women University alumni
Recipients of the Pride of Performance
University of the Punjab alumni
Punjabi-language singers
Women ghazal singers
21st-century Pakistani women singers
21st-century Pakistani singers
PTV Award winners
Pakistani radio personalities
People from Lahore
Lacrosse at the Summer Olympics

Lacrosse has been contested at two editions of the Summer Olympic Games, 1904 and 1908. Both times a Canadian team won the competition.  In its first year, two teams from Canada and one team from the United States competed at the games in St. Louis, Missouri. Only two teams, one from Canada and one from Great Britain competed in 1908 in London.

Lacrosse was also held as a demonstration event at the 1928, 1932, and 1948 Summer Olympics. In 1928 and 1932 the United States was represented by the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse team, and in 1948 by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (R.P.I.). Canada sent an all-star team in 1928 and 1932; Great Britain sent an all-star team in 1928 and 1948.

The International Olympic Committee granted provisional status to World Lacrosse in 2018 and was later approved to be included in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. It will be played in the sixes format.

Event
• = official event, (d) = demonstration event

Medal table

Every team that has played lacrosse has won a medal.  Canada has won three of the five medals, by virtue of having had three of the five competing teams.

Participating nations
1904
 (two teams)

1908

1928 (demonstration)

1932 (demonstration)

1948 (demonstration)

See also
List of Olympic venues in discontinued events
World Lacrosse
World Lacrosse Championship

References

External links
 

 
Discontinued sports at the Summer Olympics
Flag of Madison, Wisconsin

The flag of Madison, Wisconsin, includes a sky blue background with a diagonal white stripe that goes from the bottom left corner to the top right which symbolizes Lake Mendota, Lake Monona and the isthmus between them. At the center of the flag is a black cross, which symbolizes the four lakes (Mendota, Monona, Kegonsa, and Waubesa), as well as the cross shape of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The gold circle in the middle represents the Wisconsin State Capitol's dome.

History

Rick and Dennis Stone who were members of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps designed the flag with their color guard instructor John Price.  In the original design, adopted by the municipal government on April 12, 1962, the shape overlaid on the cross was a Zia sun symbol, sacred to the Native American Zia people of New Mexico. While Madison's flag designers intended to represent an "Indian sun symbol", it is not used by any of the Native American groups in the Wisconsin area, and the flag designers were unaware that it was specifically Puebloan or New Mexican.

In a 2004 poll conducted by the North American Vexillological Association, the flag of Madison was rated 11th best of 150 major cities in the United States.

Madison's flag experienced a resurgence beginning in 2015, when Madison Alder Maurice Cheeks authored and passed a resolution to require the flag to be flown on city property as part of a campaign to increase awareness of the symbol of local pride. That increased exposure led to concerns about the "cultural appropriation" of a symbol sacred to the Zia, as well as other Pueblo, mestizo Hispano, and many other native affiliated New Mexican people, so in 2017 Cheeks joined with fellow Alder Arvina Martin in spearheading an effort to modify the design of the flag. Original designer Rick Stone was publicly supportive of the efforts, "as long as it doesn’t significantly change the flag’s design or (make) it look completely different." The Common Council settled on a design that replaced the sacred Zia sun symbol with a gold disc.  Their bill was supported by Mayor Paul Soglin and was unanimously passed by the council on July 24, 2018. After the vote passed, Martin presented the Stone brothers with the first copy of the new flag.

Use
The city's professional soccer team, Forward Madison FC, incorporates the city flag into its main logo, and its home jersey is sky blue with a white diagonal sash to mimic Madison's flag.

Notes

External links
Resolution 4408 of the City of Madison, making the flag official

Flag
Flags of cities in Wisconsin
Flags introduced in 1962
Flags introduced in 2018
Jan Pitass

Rev. Jan Pitass (3 July 1844 in Piekary Śląskie - 11 December 1913 in Buffalo) was a Polish priest who was the founder and first pastor of the oldest Polish parish (St. Stanislaus - Bishop & Martyr Church) in the diocese of Buffalo, New York. He was a graduate of Niagara University before moving to Buffalo.

He has been described a "leading figure" in the Polish-American community of his time.

References

External links
 History of Stanislaus Church in Buffalo

Polish Roman Catholic priests
American Roman Catholic priests
1913 deaths
1844 births
Niagara University alumni
Polish emigrants to the United States
People from Piekary Śląskie
New Asia College

New Asia College is a constituent college of the Chinese University of Hong Kong located in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

History 
New Asia College was founded in 1949 by Chinese scholars Ch'ien Mu (Qian Mu), Tang Junyi (Tang Chun-i), and Zhang Pijie (Tchang Pi-kai), in Hong Kong, then a British dependency, after the Communist victory in mainland China.

In 1963, the college joined forces with United College and Chung Chi College to form the Chinese University of Hong Kong under a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. The college has since then become a research and educational hub for Confucian philosophy and Chinese studies.

Presidents and Heads

Presidents and heads of New Asia College:

Presidents (1949–1977)
1. Prof. Ch'ien Mu (1949–1965)
2. Prof.  (1965–1969)
3. Prof.  (1969–1970)
4. Prof.  (1970–1973)
5. Prof. Yu Ying-shih (1973–1975)
6. Prof. Chuan Han-sheng (1975–1977)

College heads (1977–present)
7. Prof. Ambrose King (1977–1985)
8. Prof.  (1985–1992)
9. Prof.  (1992–2002)
10. Prof.  (2002–2010)
11. Prof.  (2010–2013)
12. Prof. Henry N. C. Wong (2014–2020)
13. Prof. Hector Sun-on Chan (2021–present)

Notable alumni
 Vincent Cheng (1973) — chairman of HSBC China (2005–11); chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (2005–10)
 Lavender Cheung (1993) — news anchor at Cable TV Hong Kong (1998–2009)
 Man-kwong Cheung (1978) — member of the Legislative Council from the Education constituency (1991–97, 1998–2012); president of the Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union (1990–2010)
 Ming-kwai Lee (1972) — Commissioner of Police (2003–07)
 Sammy Leung (1994) — DJ, MC, and actor 
 Lap-Chee Tsui (1972) — geneticist; vice-chancellor and president of the University of Hong Kong (2002–14)
 Ying-shih Yu (1952) — historian; tenured professor at Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University

See also
New Asia Middle School
Chinese University of Hong Kong

References

External links

  List of faculty of New Asia College (1949-1976)

 
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Road show

Road show or Road Show may refer to:

Road Show (album), a 1960 album by the Stan Kenton Orchestra with June Christy and The Four Freshmen
Road Show (film), a 1941 film
Road Show (musical), a musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
The Road Show, a 1977 Canadian television series
RoadShow, a media company in Hong Kong
Roadshow theatrical release, a practice in which a film opened in a limited number of theaters in large cities
Antiques Roadshow, a BBC TV series where antiques specialist travel around the country to appraise objects
Radio 1 Roadshow, a former summer event in the UK (1973-1999)

See also
Financial roadshows
Travelling exhibition
John Clarke (poet)

John "Jack" Clarke (1933–1992) was an American poet.

A noted poet, jazz musician and scholar of William Blake and Charles Olson, John "Jack" Clarke was the author of several books of poetry, essays and lectures, among them The End of This Side, Fathar 3, Gloucester Sonnets, and In the Analogy (published posthumously). From Feathers To Iron, his masterwork on poetics, was published in 1987. In the Analogy, a fragmentary collection of more than 200 sonnets composed as an epic, is his response/furthering of Olson's Maximus Poems.

As director of the Institute of Further Studies (founded in 1965 with George F. Butterick, Fred Wah, and Albert Glover), he and Albert Glover oversaw the publication of A Curriculum of the Soul, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2016) a serial epic homage to Olson, based on his poem of the same name, which gathers the work of 28 of Olson's companions in poetry. He taught for 29 years at the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1989 to 1991 he edited intent: letter of talk, thinking, and document. In 1989 he was awarded the Ohioanna Poetry Award from the Ohio Library Association (Clarke was a native of Ohio) and in 1991, the prestigious Artists Fellowship for Poetry presented by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

External links 
 Steve Ellis makes valuable comments on Clarke and his work in Jack Magazine Vol, 2 No. 1.
 A link to A Curriculum of the Soul

1933 births
1992 deaths
20th-century American poets
Csilla Molnár

Csilla Andrea Molnár (20 January 1969 – 10 July 1986) was a Hungarian beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Hungary on 5 October 1985, in Budapest, the first Hungarian beauty queen after a 50-year interval. She also entered for the Miss Europa 1986 beauty contest in Malta, where she came in third place.

She committed suicide on 10 July 1986 by overdosing on lidocaine.  In a radio interview, shortly before her death, she complained of being harassed by the public saying: "I don't know whether I can bear this, everybody is harassing me. They ask: Where and from whom did you get those beautiful clothes? Who helped you? Do you or your father have special connections with the jury? And so on".

She was the subject of a 1987 book Isten óvd a királynőt! – a felszabadulás utáni első – eddig egyetlen – magyar szépségkirálynő, Molnár Csilla Andrea életének és halálának hiteles dokumentumai ("God Save the Queen! – the first authentic documentary on the life and death of Csilla Andrea Molnár, the first – and so far only – Hungarian beauty queen after the liberation") by   (HP Hungaroprop Kulturális Kiadó, ).

The 1987 film  (Pretty Girls), directed by  and , explored the story of the beauty contest and Molnar's death.

Her life and death continues to be a source of interest in modern Hungarian news media.

On 20 January 2019, several Hungarian newspapers reviewed her biography on what would have been her 50th birthday.

Bibliography

References

External links
 
 

1969 births
1986 deaths
1986 suicides
Hungarian beauty pageant winners
Hungarian female models
People from Kaposvár
Drug-related suicides in Hungary
Prittlewell railway station

Prittlewell railway station is on the Shenfield to Southend Line in the East of England, serving the residential district of Prittlewell in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. It is  down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between  and  stations. The Engineer's Line Reference for the line is SSV; the station's three-letter station code is PRL. The platforms have an operational length for 12-coach trains.

History 
The line from Wickford to Southend including Prittlewell station was opened on 1 October 1889. There was a goods yard handling mainly domestic coal to the north-west of Prittlewell station; the yard closed on 5 June 1967. Electrification of the Shenfield to Southend Victoria line using 1.5 kV DC overhead line electrification (OLE) was completed on 31 December 1956. This was changed to 6.25 kV AC in November 1960 and to 25 kV AC on 25 January 1979.

Prittlewell itself was the original settlement here, until Southend expanded and engulfed it.

Services 

The station is close to Prittlewell Priory and to Southend United's football stadium, Roots Hall. It is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving it.

Prittlewell is the preceding station to , the eastern terminus of the line; the typical off-peak service to Southend Victoria is three trains per hour. In the London-bound direction, trains call at all stations along the line to its western terminus of , where they join the Great Eastern Main Line to run non-stop to  and Liverpool Street. The typical off-peak service towards London is also three trains per hour (one of which calls additionally at ).

The station is now open on a Sunday after the timetable change in December 2019.

References

External links 

Railway stations in Southend-on-Sea
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Greater Anglia franchise railway stations
William Neville Ashbee railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1892
DfT Category E stations
Bomarea

Bomarea is one of the two major genera in the plant family Alstroemeriaceae. Most occur in the Andes, but some occur well into Central America, Mexico and the West Indies. Some species are grown as ornamental plants.

These plants are similar to their relatives in Alstroemeria, but many take a twining form. Others stand freely upright. A distinctive morphological trait of most, if not all, Alstroemeriaceae is resupinate leaves. The blades twist from the base, taking an upside-down position on the stems.

Bomarea is divided into four subgenera, Baccata, Bomarea, Sphaerine, and Wichuraea. The largest is Bomarea with about 70 species.

There are about 110 to 122 species in the genus.

Species
Species accepted as of July 2014:

References

 
Liliales genera
New York Collegiate Baseball League

The New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL) is a collegiate summer baseball league founded in 1978 and sanctioned by the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball, National Amateur Baseball Federation and Major League Baseball. Each NYCBL team plays a 42-game schedule starting in 2017, down from 46 previously, from June to July with three teams from each division making a three-round playoff. Several players from this league have become Major Leaguers.  The league has teams located in central and western New York.

Teams

West

Dansville Gliders
Genesee Rapids (Houghton, New York)
Hornell Steamers
Horseheads Hitmen
Olean Oilers

East

Cortland Crush
Rochester Ridgemen
Sherrill Silversmiths
Syracuse Salt Cats
Syracuse Spartans

Champions
 Note: Hornell Dodgers became the Hornell Steamers before the 2022 Season
2023 – Rochester Ridgeman
2022 – Cortland Crush
2021 – Cortland Crush
2020 – Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2019 – Niagara Power
2018 – Onondaga Flames
2017 – Hornell Dodgers
2016 – Olean Oilers
2015 – Olean Oilers
2014 – Hornell Dodgers
2013 – Oneonta Outlaws
2012 – Syracuse Jr. Chiefs
2011 – Oneonta Outlaws
2010 – Amsterdam Mohawks
2009 – Amsterdam Mohawks
2008 – Brockport Riverbats
2007 – Elmira Pioneers
2006 – Saratoga Phillies
2005 – Hornell Dodgers
2004 – Amsterdam Mohawks
2003 – Amsterdam Mohawks
2002 – Hornell Dodgers
2001 – Rome Indians
2000 – Hornell Dodgers
1999 – Newark Raptors
1998 – Geneva Knights
1997 – Ithaca Lakers
1996 – Ithaca Lakers
1995 – Hornell Dodgers
1994 – Ithaca Lakers
1993 – Little Falls Diamonds
1992 – Little Falls Diamonds
1991 – Broome Rangers
1990 – Little Falls Diamonds
1989 - Cortland Apples
1988 – Schenectady Mohawks
1987 – Cohocton Red Wings
1986 – Cohocton Red Wings
1985 – Broome Rangers
1984 – Broome Rangers
1983 – Broome Rangers
1982 – Cortland Apples
1981 – Broome Rangers
1980 – Broome Rangers
1979 – Syracuse Chiefs
1978 – Syracuse Chiefs

Alumni
Active Major Leaguers:
Shawn Dubin
Mike Fiers
JD Martinez
Tim Locastro
Former Major Leaguers:
Jeremy Accardo
Glen Barker
Clay Bellinger
Dallas Braden
Scott Cassidy
Archi Cianfrocco
Logan Darnell
Rajai Davis
Brendan Harris
Tim Hudson
Josh Kinney
Steve Kline
Greg Larocca
Brad Lidge
Kirt Manwaring
John McDonald
Tim Naehring
Hunter Pence
Earl Snyder

References

External links
New York Collegiate Baseball League website
Collegiate Summer Baseball Register website

Summer baseball leagues
Sports in Rochester, New York
Sports leagues established in 1978
Baseball in Vermont
Baseball leagues in New York (state)
College baseball leagues in the United States
1978 establishments in New York (state)
John Addison Porter

John Addison Porter (March 15, 1822 – August 25, 1866) was an American professor of chemistry and physician.  He is the namesake of the John Addison Porter Prize and was a founder of the Scroll and Key senior society of Yale University.

Academic life

Porter was born in Catskill, New York.

Porter graduated from Yale College in 1842.  At Yale, he, along with William Kingsley, publisher of The New Englander, and eleven others, founded the senior or secret society Scroll and Key and incorporated the Kingsley Trust Association in 1841.

He and moved to Philadelphia for further study. In 1844 he became a professor at Delaware College and remained there until 1847 when he moved to Germany to study at the University of Giessen under Justus von Liebig.

In 1850 he returned to the United States and became a professor at Brown University.  He left in 1852 to take the place of the retiring Professor John Pitkin Norton at Sheffield Scientific School (then Yale Scientific School). He was the Professor of Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry from 1852 to 1856, and Professor of Organic Chemistry from 1856 to 1864.  He remained at Yale until he had to resign for health reasons in 1864, two years before his death in New Haven.  In 1872 the Kingsley Trust endowed at Yale a prize in his honor to be given annually.

Personal life

In 1855 he married Josephine Earl Sheffield, daughter of Joseph E. Sheffield, whose name was to eventually adorn the school where he was professor for 12 years.

One of their sons was another John Addison Porter, who became the first person to hold the title "Secretary to the President", when he served in that capacity to William McKinley.

Works and achievements

Literary works

 First book of chemistry and allied sciences. 1857
 Principles of chemistry. 1857, 1860, 1864, 1868
 First book of science. 1858
 Outlines of the first course of Yale agricultural lectures. 1860
 Selections from the Kalevala, the Great Finnish Epic. 1868

Porter was the first person to translate any part of the Finnish national epic Kalevala into English using the German translation by Franz Anton Schiefner (the same version used by John Martin Crawford for his complete 1888 translation).

John Addison Porter Prize

The John Addison Porter Prize, established in 1872, is a prize at Yale University awarded annually to the best work of scholarship in any field "where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the results in such a literary form as to make the product of general human interest."

References

External links
 Article from New Englander and Yale review. (Volume 27, Issue 103) On Porters early translation of parts of the Finnish epic, Kalevala

1822 births
1866 deaths
Yale University alumni
Brown University faculty
Yale University faculty
19th-century American people
19th-century American chemists
Sheffield Scientific School faculty
American agronomists
Léon Balcer

Léon Balcer,  (October 13, 1917 – March 22, 1991) was a Canadian politician.

He was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec and was a lawyer by profession.

Member of the House of Commons
He was one of only three Progressive Conservative (or PC) candidates who were elected to the House of Commons in 1949 from Quebec, representing the district of Trois-Rivières. He was re-elected in the elections of 1953, 1957, 1958, 1962, and 1963. He sat with the Government of Canada from 1957 to 1963 and with Official Opposition from 1949 to 1957 and 1963 to 1965.

Balcer held numerous ministerial positions in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, including Solicitor General of Canada (1957–1960), and Minister of Transport (1960–1963). He also briefly acted as Minister of Mines and Technical Surveys (Acting), and Secretary of State of Canada (Acting).

During John Diefenbaker's leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party, Balcer was his Quebec lieutenant and Deputy Leader of the PC Party.

A few months before the 1965 election, he left his party and sat as an independent, saying, "there is no place for a French Canadian in the party of Mr. Diefenbaker." In 1964, he had led a small group of PC MPs who broke with Diefenbaker and supported a new flag of Canada during the flag debate championed by the Liberal prime minister, Lester B. Pearson. He did not run for re-election in that year.

Provincial politics
Balcer ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Trois-Rivières in 1966, but lost to Union Nationale incumbent Yves Gabias.

Death
Balcer died on March 22, 1991.

Archives
There is a Léon Balcer fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

Footnotes

External links
 
Léon Balcer at The Canadian Encyclopedia

1917 births
1991 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Quebec lieutenants
People from Trois-Rivières
Canadian Ministers of Transport
Solicitors General of Canada
Lithuanian Labour Federation

The Lithuanian Labour Federation (), also known as the Christian Labour Party in 1934–1942, is a national trade union center in Lithuania. It was founded in 1919, but was subsequently dissolved at the time of the Soviet occupation. It was recreated in 1991.

The LDF is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation, and the European Trade Union Confederation.

History
The party was established on 28 September 1919 during the Kaunas convention of the Lithuanian Christian Workers Association.

It won 15 seats in the 1920 elections and became part of the Christian Democratic Bloc alongside the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and the Farmers' Association. Together the Bloc held a majority in the Seimas, and formed a government with the Peasant Union. The DF won 11 seats in the 1922 elections, with the Bloc just short of a majority. After governing with the support of independents, early elections were held in 1923 which saw the DF win 12 seats and the Bloc gain a parliamentary majority, allowing it to govern alone.

The 1926 elections saw a significant loss of support for the DF, as its vote share fell from 15% in 1923 to 8%, with the party winning just five seats. As a result, the Christian Democratic Bloc lost its majority and control of the government.

Following the 1926 coup, the DF joined the opposition to the Antanas Smetona government. It was subsequently dissolved by decree in 1932. It was later resurrected as a non-partisan organisation under the name Association of Christian Workers on 15 April 1934, and grew to have 6,000 members by 1938.

References

Political parties established in 1919
Political parties established in 1991
Trade unions in Lithuania
International Trade Union Confederation
European Trade Union Confederation
Organizations based in Vilnius
Trade unions established in 1991
1991 establishments in Lithuania
1919 establishments in Lithuania
Steffi Nerius

Steffi Nerius (; born 1 July 1972) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. During her career, she was a European and World Champion. She also won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her personal best throw was 68.34 m, set in 2008. This ranks her second among German female javelin throwers, behind Christina Obergföll.

Initially playing volleyball in school, Nerius later switched to athletics. She was taught the javelin throw by her mother, a former javelin thrower. Her first international success was a bronze medal at the 1991 European Junior Championships. Her first gold medal at a major competition came at the 2006 European Championships. From 2003 to 2006 she won four consecutive German Championships.

Achievements

1Old model javelin

References

External links

 
 
 
 Official website
 Leverkusen who's who

1972 births
Living people
People from Bergen auf Rügen
Athletes from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
German female javelin throwers
German national athletics champions
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Members of the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia
World Athletics Championships medalists
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
World Athletics Championships winners
People from Bezirk Rostock
JoBe Cerny

JoBe Cerny (born December 5, 1947), sometimes credited as Jo Be Cerny, is an American actor. He is best known as the current voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy, succeeding Paul Frees and Jeff Bergman, and as Procter & Gamble's silent spokesman, The Cheer Man.

Career
In addition to appearing in advertising spots and commercials, Cerny has appeared in numerous films, including Legally Blonde 2 (2003), Road to Perdition (2002), and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997). Cerny has also been featured in televised series and talk shows including Chicago Hope and Oprah, as well as appearing in numerous theatrical performances.

Currently, Cerny is the founder and president of Cerny/American Creative, a Chicago-based production company which offers creative services catering to film companies and advertising agencies, a weekly column writer for Screen Magazine and a recipient of The American Scene Award.
  
Cerny received his bachelor's degree in Speech & Drama at Valparaiso University and his master's degree in Theater at Northwestern University.

Filmography

References

External links

Chicago Reader article on JoBe Cerny

1947 births
American male film actors
American male voice actors
Northwestern University School of Communication alumni
People from Cicero, Illinois
Valparaiso University alumni
Living people
Pedernales, Delta Amacuro

Pedernales () is a village in the Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro on the Gulf of Paria.

References

Cities in Delta Amacuro
Port cities in Venezuela
Port cities in the Caribbean
Gulf of Paria
Carbonaro

Carbonaro may refer to:

Singular form of Carbonari
Michael Carbonaro, American actor and magician
The Carbonaro Effect, a hidden-camera TV series hosted by Michael Carbonaro
John Carbonaro, owner of JC Comics
Martino Carbonaro, an 1801 Italian opera
Arturo Carbonaro (born 1986), Italian footballer
Paolo Carbonaro (born 1989), Italian footballer

See also
Carbonara