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The 190th Fighter Squadron, Blues and Royals friendly fire incident was a friendly fire incident involving two United States Air Force (USAF) Air National Guard 190th Fighter Squadron A-10 Thunderbolt II ground attack aircraft, and vehicles from the British D Squadron, The Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry, and took place on 28 March 2003 during the invasion of Iraq by armed forces of the United States and United Kingdom. In the incident, the two USAF A-10s fired on and destroyed two Blues and Royals armored vehicles, killing one British soldier, and wounding five others. Although not the only fratricide incident during the invasion, the circumstances of the inquest into the death of British lance-corporal of horse Matty Hull – and the subsequent verdict of unlawful killing – led to much media scrutiny in the UK. This was related to the release of video evidence from the attacking aircraft, and perceived levels of cooperation by government agencies of both the United States and United Kingdom with the British inquest. Operation Telic – 28 March 2003 The Blues and Royals were serving as an armoured reconnaissance element for 16th Air Assault Brigade. Four vehicles from D Squadron, two FV107 Scimitars and two FV103 Spartans, were moving north of the main force, patrolling the Forward Edge of Battle Area. The area of the patrol had been declared as a no engagement zone to the allied forces and the vehicles were marked with the agreed coalition Combat Identification markings including orange overhead canvas panels, thermal reflectors and Union Flags. Two A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft of the Idaho Air National Guard, 190th Fighter Squadron were completing a two-hour mission; engaging artillery and rocket launchers of Iraq's 6th Armoured Division, dug in north of Basra. The aircraft were guided to their targets by US Marine Corps forward air controllers, embedded with British ground units, and flown by a major and an lieutenant colonel on their first operational flight of the invasion. According to media reporting of the subsequent investigation, the flight was commanded by the major. From an altitude of , the aircraft spotted Iraqi vehicles 800 yards north, and the British patrol less than three miles (5 km) west. Following dialogue with the Forward Air Controller (FAC) and between the aircrew, the British convoy was engaged by the A-10s in a gun and rocket attack which left the vehicles disabled. The British soldiers exited the vehicles, taking cover underneath the hulls. The aircraft conducted a second attack, resulting in the death of L/CoH Hull, still within his Scimitar. Trooper Christopher Finney, 18, driver of the lead Scimitar, re-entered his burning vehicle calling a Mayday report on his still-functional radio. Trooper Finney then dragged a badly wounded L/Cpl Tudball from the burning vehicle before attempting to recover Hull in the second Scimitar, but being beaten back by exploding munitions and heat. For his actions, Trooper Finney was later awarded the George Cross, the highest award for gallantry "not in the face of the enemy." As well as the death of Hull, a further five soldiers were injured. Boards of inquiry The US Air Force conducted an investigation into the incident in 2003, but the results of that investigation were not publicly released, and did not result in a court-martial. Subsequent reporting of the US Air Force investigation states that the investigation found fault with both pilots' actions in the incident, including, "findings of cognitive and physical task overload, ineffective communication and failure to recognise identification panels by the two pilots." The investigation report recommended administrative or disciplinary action against both pilots. Higher United States Department of Defense officials, however, cleared both pilots of any wrongdoing. A British Army Board of Inquiry (BoI) was held in 2004, the findings of which, among others, stated that the major authorised the lieutenant colonel to attack, but no authorisation was given by controllers on the ground. The report was released to the family of Lance Corporal Hull and later to the public. It has been alleged that certain classified material available to the BoI was withheld from the family. Inquest into the death of L/CoH Hull At the time, the bodies of those service personnel dying overseas were repatriated to the UK via RAF Brize Norton, leading to the responsibility for inquests being under the civilian jurisdiction of the Oxfordshire coroner. An inquest into the death of L/CoH Hull was convened in 2006, presided over by Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker. Discussion prior to the inquest The stated position of the United States government is that US servicemen do not attend non-US courts, with written statements normally being provided. British media reported that the UK government had pressured the US government, via the US embassy in London, to release all evidence related to the incident. A meeting between Constitutional Affairs Minister Harriet Harman and Deputy Head of Mission, David Johnson, was reported on 20 November 2006 where assurances were given that concerns of the UK government over the US policy on attendance were to be relayed to Washington. Harman reiterated this position on 1 February 2007, highlighting the request for evidence and indicating that the US personnel could not be compelled to attend the inquest. Conduct of the inquest The inquest took oral testimony from the various British personnel associated with the incident, including those in the convoy, and a FAC who expressed the opinion that the aircrew were acting independently. Walker commented on the actions of L/Cpl Finney GC, stating: "You are a brave man. You are to be commended for what you did." It was publicly acknowledged during the inquest that a cockpit video of the head-up display from one of the aircraft existed, which media reports indicated had been shown to the BoI, but not released to Hull's family with the findings. The video was shown to the coroner in private, although permission to use it in public was refused by the Ministry of Defence, citing international agreements related to the release of classified information, and the US classification of the tape as secret. This adherence to international protocols led to significant criticism in the British media, leading to a public statement by Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram which reiterated the requirement for US de-classification of the video and highlighting ongoing engagement to achieve that. Media reporting indicated that the MOD had previously denied the existence of the video. On 2 February 2007 Walker opted to adjourn the inquest until the video could be displayed in open court. Unauthorised leak and subsequent de-classification of video evidence The video was leaked to The Sun tabloid newspaper, and reported on 6 February 2007, as well as published on the newspaper's website. The newspaper indicated that the leak had come from a US military source. The US government subsequently announced that the video would be declassified, but noted that the leak was likely to be a criminal offence. The video released was 19 minutes long, and was accompanied with recordings of cockpit audio and radio communications. British media allege six errors on the part of the aircrew: The pilots asked the Forward Air Controller ("Manila Hotel") if friendly forces were around the Iraqi vehicles – not to the west. Neither pilot gave the precise grid references for the Household Cavalry patrol to double check its identity. The pilots convinced themselves that the orange identification panels were in fact orange rocket launchers. POPOV36 decided to attack, saying he is "rolling in" without permission from the Forward Air Controller. POPOV35 asked for artillery to fire a marker round into the target area to clear up confusion, but POPOV36 attacked without waiting for it. POPOV36 strafed the column for a second time, but still doubted its identity. The audio track includes debate over the identity of the targets and the order, from the FAC, to disengage identifying a likely "blue-on-blue" incident. The audio track also includes notification of one death and several injuries with the order to return to base. Subsequent audio indicates the pilots crying and their frustration. A statement released by the Oxfordshire coroner's office later confirmed that Walker was of the view that, being in the public domain, the video could now be presented as evidence without the approval of the US government, and that the inquest would resume on 12 March 2007. On 6 February 2007 the Sun named POPOV36 as Colonel Gus Kohntopp, a commercial pilot for Southwest Airlines and member of the Idaho Air National Guard. However, POPOV35, the one who gave the order: “Get him, get him,” has never been publicly identified. The British inquest was set to resume on 12 March 2007. Inquest reconvened The Oxfordshire inquest resumed as scheduled on 12 March with testimony from a British FAC involved in the incident, who stated that the incident would not have happened if the two U.S. pilots involved had followed the same procedures that UK pilots must follow in the same type of situation. On 13 March, the same British FAC testified that POPOV36 committed a "catalogue of serious failures" when he shot at the British vehicles in the incident, including "ignoring crucial warning signs, attacking without permission, and failing to wait for an artillery shell marker on a proposed target." After the inquest revealed that portions of relevant evidence from the U.S. investigation into the incident were blacked out in the copy of the report given to the inquest, Matty Hull's widow made a personal appeal to U.S. president George W. Bush for the information to be released to the inquest. Inquest verdict On 16 March, coroner Andrew Walker returned a narrative verdict, stating that the killing of Hull was "unlawful". Walker said: "The attack on the convoy amounted to an assault. It was unlawful because there was no lawful reason for it and in that respect it was criminal." Neither of the two U.S. pilots involved nor any other representative from the U.S. government appeared at the inquest, despite numerous requests from Walker, Harman, and Hull's family to do so. Research focused on the incident As a rare case where video of an incident of fratricide or 'friendly fire' has become publicly available, the case has attracted a great deal of interest among researchers interested in exploring the question of why such incidents occur and what might be done about them. Drawing on the sociological research traditions of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, the work of Nevile and the work of Elsey, Mair, Smith and Watson, among these, has offered detailed accounts of how the incident unfolded in real-time as well as how it was subsequently investigated by the various military and non-military inquiries after-the-fact. In the course of their research, Elsey, Mair, Smith and Watson developed an alternative version of the transcript, based in part on the detailed information released in the USAF Friendly Fire Investigation Board Report, to make it easier to follow the incident's interactional dynamics. The transcript is available open access. See also List of post-1945 U.S. friendly-fire incidents with British victims East Knoyle War Memorial References Notes Web 21st-century history of the British Army 21st-century military history of the United States Accidents and incidents involving United States Air Force aircraft Conflicts in 2003 Friendly fire incidents Household Cavalry Iraq War legal issues Articles containing video clips March 2003 events in Iraq United Kingdom–United States military relations 2003 in Iraq

Govurqala is a name shared by four archaeological sites in Azerbaijan, located in Oguz. This Govurqala lies to the north from Khachmaz village and is a medieval walled stand with round and square towers (3–6 m in height, 1–1.5 m wide). Twelve buildings are within the stand; out of walls there are two moats (15 m long, 8 m wide, 10 m deep, another is 100/30/20 m). During the 1965 excavations, some other evidences were found. Notes Archaeological sites in Azerbaijan Former populated places in the Caucasus

Ostedes subfasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Matsushita in 1933. References Ostedes Beetles described in 1933

Ophiolites are sequences of mafic to ultramafic rock generally believed to represent ancient oceanic lithosphere. They are distributed all across the world being all of them located at present or past orogenic belts, sites of mountain building processes. Ophiolites are common in orogenic belts of Mesozoic age, like those formed by the closure of the Tethys Ocean. Ophiolites in Archean and Paleoproterozoic domains are rare. Mediterranean and Peri-Arabic Morais ophiolite complex, Portugal Internal Ligurian Ophiolites in Northern Apennines, Italy Troodos Ophiolite in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus Kizildag ophiolite, southern Turkey Mirdita Ophiolite, middle Jurassic ophiolite in northern Albania between the Apulian and Pelagonian subcontinents in the Balkan Peninsula Cap Corse ophiolite, Corsica, France Vourinos and Pindos Ophiolites in Northern Greece and their northern extensions (numerous ophiolite bodies) in Albania, Serbia and Bosnia Ronda peridotite, Southern Spain Lherz Massif, France Beni Bousera ophiolite, Morocco Golyamo Kamenyane Complex, Bulgaria Semail Ophiolite in Oman and the United Arab Emirates Makran Ophiolite, Makran, Iran and Pakistan Zagros ophiolite, Zagros mountains, Iran Iraq Zagros ophiolites, Zagros mountains, Iraq, includes; Cretaceous ophiolites (Mawat, Penjwen, Pushtashan, Hassanbig and Bulfat) and Eocene ophiolites (Rayat and Qalander). Tibetan Dongbo ophiolite Loubusa ophiolite Purang ophiolite Circumpacific Asia-Pacific Zambales Ophiolite in western Luzon, Philippines Angat Ophiolite in eastern Luzon, Philippines Rapu-rapu Ophiolite Complex in eastern Philippines Southeast Bohol Ophiolite Complex in Bohol, Philippines Macquarie Island, Tasmania, Australia Palawan Ophiolite, western Philippines Papuan ophiolite in Papua New Guinea Yakuno, Horokanai, and Poroshiri, three full ophiolite sequences in Japan Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, South Island, New Zealand Naga-Manipur Ophiolite Complex, India North American Cordillera Coast Range Ophiolite, in the California Coast Ranges from Santa Barbara through San Francisco Counties, California. Kings River ophiolite, southwest Sierra Nevada foothills, California Point Sal ophiolite, Point Sal, Santa Barbara County, Southern California. California ophiolite, Smartville Block of the Sierra Nevada, and the Klamath Mountains, northern California Josephine Ophiolite in Southern Oregon Canyon Mountain and Sparta Complexes ophiolite, Northeastern Oregon Payson Ophiolite, Payson, Arizona. Metchosin Igneous Complex ophiolite, southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada Ingalls Terrane ophiolite, Cascade Mountains, Washington Fidalgo Complex ophiolite, Skagit County, Washington. Mexico and the Caribbean Olivos ophiolite, Chihuahua, Mexico Vizcaino ophiolite, Baja California Sur, Mexico Cuban ophiolititic belt Puerto Rican ophiolite Andes La Tetilla Ophiolite Complex, near Popayán, Colombian Cordillera Occidental (Andes) Famatinian Ophiolites, near Famatina in the Argentine Andes. Tapo ophiolite, Peru Taitao ophiolite Rocas Verdes ophiolites, Patagonian Andes, Chile Tortuga ophiolite complex Sarmiento ophiolite complex Brazil Quatipuru ophiolite, Brazil Cerro Mantiqueiras Ophiolite, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Eastern North America Betts Cove, St. Anthony, Little Port, Advocate, Gander River, Pipestone Pond, Great Bend and Annieopsquotch ophiolites in Newfoundland Bay of Islands Ophiolite in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987 because of its superbly exposed complete ophiolite stratigraphic sequence Thetford Mines ophiolite Complex (Thetford Mines, Cantons de l'Est, Québec, Canada) Asbestos ophiolite (Asbestos, Cantons de l'Est, Québec, Canada) Mont Orford ophiolite (Magog, Cantons de l'Est, Québec, Canada) Mont Albert ophiolite (Gaspésie, Québec, Canada) Maryland ophiolite in the central Appalachian orogen, Baltimore, Maryland. Northern Europe Ballantrae Complex, Girvan-Ballantrae area, SW Ayrshire, Scotland Jormua Ophiolite, Finland Karmøy ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway Leka Ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway Løkken Ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway Nuttio Ophiolite, Finland Solund-Stavfjord Ophiolite, Scandinavian Mountains, Norway Lizard complex in Cornwall, United Kingdom Outokumpu Ophiolite, Finland Shetland Ophiolite, Unst and Fetlar, Shetland, Scotland References 5 - Forearc extension and sea-floor spreading in the Thetford Mines Ophiolite complex (link : https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=sWm-LdoAAAAJ&cstart=20&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=sWm-LdoAAAAJ:B2rIPIGFPLEC) 6 - Structural evolution of the Thetford Mines Ophiolite Complex, Canada: implications for the southern Québec ophiolitic belt (link : https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=sWm-LdoAAAAJ&cstart=20&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=sWm-LdoAAAAJ:u0Mu_IsstPMC) + Ophiolites

Garrett Reynolds (born August 2, 1990) is an American BMX Dirt and Freestyle rider from Gold Coast. Reynolds debuted at the X Games 2007 BMX Park 4th the first rookie to score a BMX Park medal since Brazilian Diogo Canina in 2006. In 2007, Reynolds took gold at X Games Brazil, X Games Mexico and X Games Dubai, finishing fourth in the X Games 13 street contest. Career highlights X Games 2007 BMX Park 4th X Games 2008 BMX Street 1st X Games 2009 BMX Park 11th X Games 2009 BMX Street 1st X Games 2009 BMX Park 11th X Games 2010 BMX Street 1st X Games 2010 BMX Park 13th X Games 2011 BMX Park 6th X Games 2011 BMX Street 1st X Games Los Angeles 2012 BMX Street 1st X Games Barcelona 2013 BMX Street 1st X Games Los Angeles 2013 BMX Street 2nd X Games Austin 2014 BMX Street 1st World of X Real BMX 2016 BMX Real BMX 1st X Games Minneapolis 2017 BMX Street 1st X Games Minneapolis 2017 BMX Street 1st X Games Minneapolis 2018 BMX Street 2nd X Games Sydney 2018 BMX Street 3rd X Games Shanghai 2019 BMX Street 1st X Games Minneapolis 2019 BMX Street 1st World of X Real BMX 2020 BMX Real BMX 1st References 1990 births BMX riders American male cyclists Living people X Games athletes People from Toms River, New Jersey

The Bohdan Dobrzański Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IA PAS, Instytut Agrofizyki im. Bohdana Dobrzańskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk, IA PAN) is a public research and higher education institution dedicated to the study of agrophysics, agricultural sciences and research on physical problems of agriculture. The Institute publishes two English-language scientific journals, the quarterly Acta Agrophysica (since 1993) and the semi-annual Polish Journal of Soil Science (since 1968). The Institute promotes agrophysics as a part of agricultural sciences that uses knowledge and methods of basic sciences such as physics, biology and chemistry for solving contemporary problems in agronomy. It develops new methods, experimental and numerical tools, products, and technological and service innovations for agriculture and for exploitation of the agricultural resources. The Institute is funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. It is located in Lublin, Poland. Its email addresses include sekretariat@ipan.lublin.pl and agrof@demeter.ipan.lublin.pl. Its telephone numbers include (48 81) 744 50 61 (to 66), and its facsimile line is (48 81) 744 50 67. Mission The Institute's mission addresses Research and development in agricultural sciences (agricultural environment, agri-food biomaterials, bio-energy) and dissemination of achieved results, Education of research staff for industry and science in order to make them capable of solving contemporary problems of agriculture and developing bio-economy, and Cooperation and participation in inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborations with researchers, industry and public actors for ensuring sustainable exploitation of agricultural resources, and therefore, contributing to regional, European and worldwide bio-economy. Research and development Research and development at the Institute is both inter- and trans-disciplinary, involving the soil-plant-atmosphere system and distributed in three areas: Agricultural Environment, including ensuring sustainable management and exploitation of the soil-plant-atmosphere system, development of new climate services and prediction of climate change, and mitigation of the impact of agriculture on climate change, Agri-Food Biomaterials, including ensuring sustainable food security, exploitation of agri-food biomaterials for designing new food and non-food products, and waste valorization, and Bio-Energy, including sustainable exploitation of agri-food biomass for bio-energy production, and optimization processes in production of bio-energy. History The Institute was founded in 1968 by Professor Bohdan Dobrzański, PAS, who was its director until 1979. Originally with the rank of a basic research institution, in 1986 it was elevated to the full rank of an Institute in the structure of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1990 the Institute was named after its founder. In 1989 the Institute was awarded the right to confer the degree of PhD, and in 1992 the degree of DSc in the field of agronomy-agrophysics. In 1998 the Institute became a legal entity and was entered in the Register of Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences. References External links Institute of Agrophysics website (in Polish and English) Institute of Agrophysics page at the Polish Academy of Sciences website (in English) Acta Agrophysica Polish Journal of Soil Science Research institutes in Poland Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences Agricultural research institutes Agricultural organisations based in Poland 1968 establishments in Poland Research institutes established in 1968

Divergent evolution or divergent selection is the accumulation of differences between closely related populations within a species, sometimes leading to speciation. Divergent evolution is typically exhibited when two populations become separated by a geographic barrier (such as in allopatric or peripatric speciation) and experience different selective pressures that drive adaptations to their new environment. After many generations and continual evolution, the populations become less able to interbreed with one another. The American naturalist J. T. Gulick (1832–1923) was the first to use the term "divergent evolution", with its use becoming widespread in modern evolutionary literature. Classic examples of divergence in nature are the adaptive radiation of the finches of the Galapagos or the coloration differences in populations of a species that live in different habitats such as with pocket mice and fence lizards. The term can also be applied in molecular evolution, such as to proteins that derive from homologous genes. Both orthologous genes (resulting from a speciation event) and paralogous genes (resulting from gene duplication) can illustrate divergent evolution. Through gene duplication, it is possible for divergent evolution to occur between two genes within a species. Similarities between species that have diverged are due to their common origin, so such similarities are homologies. In contrast, convergent evolution arises when an adaptation has arisen independently, creating analogous structures such as the wings of birds and of insects. Creation, definition, and usage The term divergent evolution is believed to have been first used by J. T. Gulick. Divergent evolution is commonly defined as what occurs when two groups of the same species evolve different traits within those groups in order to accommodate for differing environmental and social pressures. Various examples of such pressures can include predation, food supplies, and competition for mates. The tympanal ears of certain nocturnal insects are believed to be a result of needing the ultrasonic hearing that tympanal ears provide in order to hear predators in the dark.   Non-nocturnal insects - that do not need to fear nocturnal predators - are often found to lack these tympanal ears. Causes Animals undergo divergent evolution for a number of reasons. Predators or their absence, changes in the environment, and the time at which certain animals are most active are chief among them. Predators A lack of predators – predatory birds and mammals - for cliff-side nest residing kittiwake caused that particular group of kittiwake to lose their ancestral mobbing behavior that had been exhibited up until that point for protecting young. The mobbing behavior normally displayed by the kittiwake is lost when the kittiwake take residence in this area with little threat from predators towards their young. The mobbing behavior was originally developed to protect ground-level nests containing young from various predators such as reptiles, mammals and other birds. Environment The cliff-side nesting area itself was similarly responsible for the kittiwakes losing their mobbing mentality – predatory mammals small enough to fit on the cliff edges along with the kittiwakes and their offspring would not be able to make the climb up while predatory birds would not be able to maneuver near the cliff face while also being afflicted by the weather conditions of the area. Distinctions Divergent evolution is understood in distinction to convergent evolution, as they are both similar and different in various facets such as whether something evolves, what evolves, and why it evolves. It is instructive to compare divergent evolution with both convergent and parallel evolution. Divergent versus convergent evolution Convergent evolution is defined as a similar trait evolution that occurs in two otherwise different species of animal as a result of those two species living in similar environments with similar environmental pressures (like predators and food supply). It differs from divergent evolution in that the species involved are different while the traits they obtain do not differ from each other. An example of convergent evolution is the development of horns in various species for sparring over mates, resources, and territory Divergent versus parallel evolution Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in species descending from the same ancestor. It is similar to divergent evolution in that the species descend from the same ancestor, but it differs in that the trait is the same while in divergent evolution the trait is not. An example of parallel evolution is that certain arboreal frog species, 'flying' frogs, in both Old World families and New World families, have developed the ability of gliding flight. They have "enlarged hands and feet, full webbing between all fingers and toes, lateral skin flaps on the arms and legs, and reduced weight per snout-vent length". Darwin's Finches One of the most famous examples of divergent evolution is the case of Darwin's Finches. During Darwin's travels to the Galápagos Islands he discovered several different species of finch that shared a common ancestor. They lived on varying diets and had beaks that differed in shape and size reflecting their diet. The changes in beak shape and size were believed to be required to support their change in diet. Some Galápagos finches have larger and more powerful beaks to crack nuts with. A different type allows the bird to use cactus spines to spear insects in the bark of trees. Divergent evolution in dogs Another good example of divergent evolution is the origin of the domestic dog and the modern wolf. Dogs and wolves both diverged from a common ancestor. The similarity of the mitochondrial DNA sequences from 162 wolves from various parts of the world and 140 dogs of 60 different breeds, revealed by genomic research, further supported the theory that dogs and wolves have diverged from shared ancestry. Dogs and wolves have similar body shape, skull size, and limb formation, further supporting their close genetic makeup and thus shared ancestry. For example, malamutes and huskies are physically and behaviorally similar to wolves. Huskies and malamutes have very similar body size and skull shape. Huskies and wolves share similar coat patterns as well as tolerance to cold. In the hypothetical situations, mutations and breeding events were simulated to show the progression of the wolf behavior over ten generations. The results concluded that even though the last generation of the wolves were more docile and less aggressive, the temperament of the wolves fluctuated greatly from one generation to the next. See also Cladistics Devolution Chronospecies References Further reading Evolutionary biology Evolution of animals

Semyon Mikhailovich Strugachyov (; born December 10, 1957) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, People's Artist of Russia (2008). Biography Semyon Strugachyov was born on December 10, 1957 in the village of Smidovich, Smidovichsky District, Jewish Autonomous Region. Father Misha Strugashvili is half Georgian, half Mountain Jew. In 1979, he graduated from the acting department of the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute of Arts in Vladivostok. He also worked in the Primorsky Regional Drama Theater (Vladivostok), Gorky Academic Theater, Kuibyshev Drama Theater. In 1988 he started acting at the Saint Petersburg Lensoviet Theatre. He made his debut in cinema in 1991. All-Russian fame to Strugachyov was brought by Aleksandr Rogozhkin’s comedy Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995). Subsequently, starred in all sequels of this film. Selected filmography (1991) as blind painter Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995) as Lev Soloveichik Operation Happy New Year (1996) as Lev Soloveichik Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998) as Lev Soloveichik Peculiarities of the National Hunt in Winter Season (2000) as Lev Soloveichik Peculiarities of National Politics (2003) as Lev Soloveichik Deadly Force (2004-2006) as Semyon Chernyga, forensic expert The Fall of the Empire (2005) as Fleishman The Master and Margarita (2005) as Matthew the Apostle Cinderella (2012) as Mikhail Levitsky Sherlock Holmes (2013) as Charles Gauthier, Ambassador of France Kidnapping, Caucasian Style! (2014) as the Coward Catherine the Great (2015) as Lestocq Awards and honours Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1999) People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2008) Medal of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland II class Civilian Division (2018) References External links 1957 births Living people People from the Jewish Autonomous Oblast Soviet male film actors Soviet male stage actors Russian male film actors Russian male stage actors Russian male television actors People's Artists of Russia Honored Artists of the Russian Federation Soviet Jews Recipients of the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class 20th-century Russian male actors 21st-century Russian male actors Jewish Russian actors

Caelostomus cribrifrons is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Maximilien Chaudoir in 1872. References Caelostomus Beetles described in 1872

Hydrotaea cyrtoneurina is a fly from the family Muscidae. It is found in the Palearctic . References External links D'Assis Fonseca, E.C.M, 1968 Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata: Muscidae Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects pdf Seguy, E. (1923) Diptères Anthomyides. Paris: Éditions Faune de France Faune n° 6 393 p., 813 fig.Bibliotheque Virtuelle Numerique pdf Muscidae Muscomorph flies of Europe Insects described in 1845 Taxa named by Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt

Indoor Stadium Huamark (, , ) is an indoor sporting arena, located in Bangkok, Thailand. The original capacity of the arena is 15,000 spectators and it was built in 1966 for the 5th Asian Games. After renovation for 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup, the capacity is reduced to 6,000 seats and expandable to 8,000 seats. It is used mainly for concerts, badminton, boxing, basketball, futsal, and volleyball. On 22 May 2001, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for their Where Dreams Come True Tour supporting their album Coast to Coast. History Indoor Stadium Huamark originally named Kittikachorn Stadium, based on the last name of former prime minister Thanom Kittikachorn. The stadium was built for the 1966 Asian Games which was hosted by Thailand. The name was later changed to Indoor Stadium Huamark until today. Transportation Indoor Stadium Huamark is accessible from Ramkhamhaeng Station of the Airport Rail Link and In 2024 it can accessible from Rajamangala Stadium of the MRT Orange Line. References External links Arena information Indoor arenas in Thailand Sports venues completed in 1966 Sports venues in Bangkok Indoor Stadium Huamark Basketball venues in Thailand Volleyball venues in Thailand Boxing venues in Thailand Taekwondo venues Badminton venues Badminton in Thailand

Beit Tikvah, officially Congregation Beit Tikvah Ottawa, abbreviated as CBTO, is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located in the Nepean district of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, serving the Craig Henry area. History The Jewish population of Ottawa grew from 20 families in 1889 to approximately 5,500 in 1961. Beth Shalom Beth Shalom congregation represents the amalgamation in 1956 of two orthodox congregations, Adath Jeshurun and Agudath Achim. B'nai Jacob congregation amalgamated with Beth Shalom in 1971. The First officials were Rabbi Simon L. Eckstein, Cantor Emeritus, Joseph Rabin, Cantor Hyman Gertler, Ritual Director Jacob Y. Cement, Secretary Louis Slack and President, Bernard M. Alexandor. The congregation commenced with 850 families, with about 150 being singles or widows. A synagogue, designed by Hazelgrove and Lithwick, was inaugurated on Rosh Hashana, 1956. Beit Tikvah Beit Tikvah was established in 1985 as Beth Shalom West, a satellite synagogue of Beth Shalom, Ottawa located in the Craig Henry area of Ottawa. After a groundbreaking ceremony held on September 9, 1984, construction commenced on land donated by Jack and Irving Aaron. The synagogue officially opened for Shabbat services on September 11, 1985. Clergy Rabbi Gershon Sonnenschein became the first full-time rabbi in 1989, followed by Rabbi Howard Finkelstein, on August 8, 1991, until his 2019 retirement and appointment as Rabbi Emeritus. Rabbi Finkelstein was succeeded by Rabbi Aryeh Kravetz in 2021. Rabbi Howard Finkelstein is married to Rivka Finkelstein and they moved to Ottawa in 1991. He has been the Rabbi of CBTO (formerly Beth Shalom West) for 28 years and was previously the Rabbi at Kingston's Beth Israel Synagogue for 12 years. While in Ottawa, Rabbi Finkelstein was a teacher at Yitzhak Rabin High School (1995-2015) as well as the Dean of Judaic studies at the Ottawa Jewish Community School (2015–present). When retired, he and his wife plan on moving to Israel. Jewish Memorial Gardens As of 1 July 2008, each of the Founding Members: Congregation Machzikei Hadas; Congregation Beth Shalom; Agudath Israel (Ottawa); the Jewish Reform Congregation Temple Israel (Ottawa); Young Israel of Ottawa; Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa transferred to Jewish Memorial Gardens the cemetery lands that they had. References External links Facebook page Jews and Judaism in Ottawa Synagogues in Ottawa Synagogues completed in 1985 Modern Orthodox synagogues in Canada 1985 establishments in Ontario 20th-century synagogues in Canada

Toba Tek Singh Railway Station (Urdu and ) is located in Toba Tek Singh city, Toba Tek Singh district of Punjab province, Pakistan. Gallery See also List of railway stations in Pakistan Pakistan Railways References External links Railway stations in Toba Tek Singh District Railway stations on Khanewal–Wazirabad Line

The 2012–13 Four Hills Tournament was held at the four traditional venues of Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, located in Germany and Austria, between 29 December 2012 and 6 January 2013. Overall standings The final standings after the four events. Gregor Schlierenzauer was the overall winner. Oberstdorf HS 137 Schattenbergschanze, Germany 30 December 2012 Garmisch-Partenkirchen HS 137 Große Olympiaschanze, Germany 1 January 2013 Innsbruck HS 130 Bergiselschanze, Austria 4 January 2013 Bischofshofen HS 140 Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Austria 6 January 2013 See also 2012–13 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup References External links Official website Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament, 2012-13 Four Hills Tournament, 2012-13 Four Hills Tournament, 2012-13 Four Hills Tournament, 2012-13 Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament

Sky Watch was a five-gaited American Saddlebred show horse. He won four open World's Grand Championships and five stallion World's Grand Championships in the World's Championship Horse Show. Life Sky Watch was foaled June 14, 1977, sired by Flight Time and out of Aries Golden Gift. He was a chestnut stallion. His grandsire was Wing Commander, the first six-time five-gaited World Grand Champion. He was born on Earl Teater and Sons Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, bred by Della Large and owned by Michele MacFarlane. He retired to the Kentucky Horse Park in 1998, while he was still being bred. He was euthanized due to age-related infirmities on April 22, 2001 at the Kentucky Horse Park and is buried there near his rival Imperator. Career Sky Watch was originally supposed to be a fine harness show horse, but he didn't take to being driven and was soon switched to under-saddle showing instead. He was initially trained by Mitch Clark, who showed Sky Watch to a win in the two-year-old five-gaited World Championship in 1979. Michele McFarlane saw the horse as a two-year-old, bought him for $50,000 and shipped him to California where he was put in training with Rob Tanner. Sky Watch won 4 five-gaited World Grand Championships, in the years 1982-84 and 1988. In 1983, he competed against another champion Saddlebred, Imperator, in a well-known duel that Sky Watch won. He won the five-gaited stallion World Grand Championship in the years 1982, 1983, 1984 , 1985 and 1988. He was named the five-gaited Horse of the Century by American Saddlebred magazine. References Individual American Saddlebreds

Tabernacle Baptist Church (also known as Evans Avenue Baptist Church and now Mt Pisgah Missionary Baptist) is a historic church building at 1801 Evans Avenue in Fort Worth, Texas. It was built in 1923 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas References External links Churches in Fort Worth, Texas Baptist churches in Texas Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas National Register of Historic Places in Fort Worth, Texas Neoclassical architecture in Texas Churches completed in 1923 Neoclassical church buildings in the United States

Konyshyovka (Russian: Конышёвка) is an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of Konyshyovsky District in Kursk Oblast, Russia. The population was History Konyshyovka was first mentioned in the 19th century as the village on Dmitriyev to Lgov route. In 1891 the Moscow Railway was extended to that point. One version of the origin of the name Konyshyovka (Конышёвка) is from Turkic word коныш 'konysh' meaning 'stop'. Konyshyovka as the town was founded in 1910 and had received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1968. Demographics Note: Census data Economy Konyshyovka has a granary, a combine fodder factory, a brick factory, an asphalt factory, a creamery, a food factory, a meat processing factory, and a pig farm. Culture There are different entertainment and educational organizations in town: museum of local lore, public library, children's art school. The available newspaper is "Трибуна" ("Tribune"). Sights The sculpture on bed of honor of warriors of the Soviet army, who died in February 1943. Some architectural monuments: building of railroad terminal, barracks, estate of Nenarokov landowner (19th century), water tower (19th century), pharmacy building (19th century), building of The District Committee of All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1946 until 1947). References Urban-type settlements in Kursk Oblast Lgovsky Uyezd

The Kipoi Mine is a copper mine in Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with an inferred 306,000 tonnes of copper in high-grade ore. Ownership Kipoi Mine is a joint venture between Tiger Resources (60%) and the state-owned Gécamines (40%). It was planned to start generating revenue in 2011. In June 2011, Tiger Resources said they were negotiating to acquire a higher share of the operation from Gécamines. Development The Kipoi Mine property covers . Actual mineral reserves with 3.35% copper or more are 2.68 Mt containing 7.0% copper, 0.2% cobalt and 4.5 g/t silver. Plans included installing a plant with crushing, scrubbing and heavy media separation (HMS) equipment to produce 120,000 tonnes of 25% copper concentrates annually. Two shaft furnaces would produce 32,000 tonnes annually of black copper ingots at 95% to 98% copper. Tiger Resources invested more than $60 million to start the mine. In 2014, Tiger Resources bought out Gecamines' 40% stake in the Kipoi Mine for $111 million, leaving it as the sole shareholder. Production The target is to reach a capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year of copper metal. By June 2011 Tiger was producing 25% copper concentrate at a rate of 130,000 metric tons a year. The company was considering using $250 million from cash flow to build a Solvent Extraction Electrowinning (SXEW) copper cathode plant, with capacity of 50,000 tons per year. In September 2011 the company announced that the SXEW study had proved positive at current copper prices, and the plant would start operation in mid-2014, initially processing residues from the HMS plant. In October 2011 Tiger Resources slowed extraction of ore, since there was a stockpile with three month's supply. References Copper mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Mining in Haut-Katanga Province

Portumna Castle is a semi-fortified house in Portumna, County Galway, Ireland which was built in the early 17th century by Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde. Location Portumna Castle is located close to the shore of Lough Derg near where the River Shannon enters the lake. Portumna Abbey is to the east. History When it was built, Portumna Castle was without equal in Ireland at the time in style, grandeur and distinction, outshining castles at Rathfarnham, Kanturk, Carrickfergus, Charlemont and Burncourt. Its builder was Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde, Lord President of Connaught, of the de Burgo family of Norman descent. The castle was built around 1610 to 1617 at a cost of £10,000. The Earl also built a mansion, Somerhill House, Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Portumna castle was built in the Renaissance style already prevalent in Italy and France for over a century, but not commonly found in Ireland or England at that time. The Renaissance features of the exterior are, strictly speaking, limited to the doorcase of the front entrance and the Tuscan gateway of the innermost courtyard, but the layout is an expression of Renaissance ideas. The castle is symmetrical in shape and consists of three stories over a basement with square corner projecting towers. The castle measures 29.7m by 21.2m and the corner towers are 6.5m square with gunports. A central corridor, 3m wide, runs longitudinally from top to bottom, supported by stone walls, which contain numerous recesses and fireplaces. The castle was abandoned as a home following a fire in 1826. The Office of Public Works has re-built the huge chimney stacks. The estate grounds contain walled gardens, gate lodges, gateposts and a yard. See also Flight of the Wild Geese References Portumna Castle & its Lords, Michael Mac Mahon Jacobite Ireland, J.G Simms. A Short History of Ireland, J.C. Beckett. Visit To Portumna, Portumna Junior Chamber of Commerce. How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill. Various Articles: Dr P.K. Egan, Stephen Nevin, O.E. Moeran, M. Craig, H.A. Wheeler, John Bilson, Louisa Beaufort, Duchas. External links Portumna Castle at Heritage Ireland Portumna Castle at Galway Tourism National Monuments in County Galway Castles in County Galway Historic house museums in the Republic of Ireland Flight of the Wild Geese Military and war museums in the Republic of Ireland Museums in County Galway

Leiognathus berbis, the Berber ponyfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a ponyfish from the family Leiognathidae. It is found in brackish and marine waters in the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Zanzibar east in the Indian Ocean to south-east Asia. Like its relatives, the fish is a demersal species that feeds on small crustaceans and bivalves. Equula berbis is considered by some authorities to be nomen dubium with the taxon it is assigned to being of uncertain placement beyond the family level, the name being thought to probably be a junior synonym of Equulites oblongus. References Classification Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish of the Indian Ocean Bioluminescent fish Fish described in 1835 berbis

Poecilopsyra is a monotypic genus of katydids or bush crickets native to Malesia. The single (type) species, Poecilopsyra octoseriata, was originally taken from Borneo. References Phaneropterinae Orthoptera of Asia Monotypic Orthoptera genera

Favorit is a station on line M5 of Bucharest Metro. It is located between Orizont and Tudor Vladimirescu. The station was opened on 15 September 2020 as part of the inaugural section of M5, from Eroilor to Valea Ialomiței and Râul Doamnei. References Bucharest Metro stations Railway stations opened in 2020 2020 establishments in Romania

Alhambra is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Clearwater County. It is located close to the David Thompson Highway, east of Rocky Mountain House. The hamlet is located in census division No. 9. It was first settled in 1906 and the local post office had the name Horseguards. (Horseguards Creek is nearby.) It was re-named Alhambra when the railroad arrived in 1914. The community takes its name from Alhambra, in Grenada, Spain, as an attempt to share some of that place's glory. Demographics Alhambra recorded a population of 64 in the 1991 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada. See also List of communities in Alberta List of hamlets in Alberta References Clearwater County, Alberta Hamlets in Alberta

The 1894 Georgia Tech football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1894 college football season. It was the team's 3rd ever season. Schedule References Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football seasons College football winless seasons Georgia Tech fotball

Low Lake (or Lac Low) is a lake in western Quebec, Canada. It is located in the municipality of Baie-James. Lakes of Nord-du-Québec

The 2009–10 Four Hills Tournament was held at the four traditional venues of Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen, located in Germany and Austria, between 29 December 2009 and 6 January 2010. Overall standings Oberstdorf HS 137 Schattenbergschanze, Germany 29 December 2009 Garmisch-Partenkirchen HS 140 Große Olympiaschanze, Germany 1 January 2010 Innsbruck HS 130 Bergiselschanze, Austria 3 January 2010 Bischofshofen HS 140 Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Austria 6 January 2010 See also 2009–10 Ski Jumping World Cup References 2009-10 Ski Jumping World Cup Schedule.- accessed 11 November 2009. Official website Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament, 2009-10 Four Hills Tournament, 2009-10 2009 in German sport 2010 in German sport 2010 in Austrian sport Four Hills Tournament Four Hills Tournament

EOS.IO is a blockchain protocol based on the cryptocurrency EOS. The smart contract platform claims to eliminate transaction fees and also conduct millions of transactions per second. It was developed by the private company Block.one and launched in 2017. The platform was later released as open-source software. History Based on a white paper published in 2017, the EOSIO platform was developed by the private company Block.one and released as open-source software on June 1, 2018. At the launch of the blockchain, one billion tokens were distributed as ERC-20 tokens by Block.one. The CEO of Block.one, Brendan Blumer, announced that the company would support the EOSIO blockchain with over one billion USD in funding from the token sale and ultimately Block.one raised over four billion USD to support the blockchain during the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) period. The original test net, Dawn 1.0, was released on September 3, 2017, with test net versions Dawn 2.0 released on December 4, 2017, Dawn 3.0 on January 25, 2018, and Dawn 4.0 on May 7, 2018. The name of the cryptocurrency EOS comes from Ancient Greek Ἠώς, "dawn". EOSIO's Dawn 1.0 was launched on the EOSIO mainnet on June 1, 2018, and is currently operating under version 2.1.0. In September 2019, Block.one agreed to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges related to the $4 billion unregistered ICO for a $24 million penalty. The settlement did not require a restitution offer, registration of tokens, or any disqualifications. EOS Network Foundation In August 2021, Yves La Rose founded the organization EOS Network Foundation (ENF). La Rose is an EOS enthusiast who disputes the way Block.one has managed to blockchain and its tokens. The organization has attempted to pressure Block.one into reinvesting its profits into development of the blockchain, and to support new development. Block.one, EOSIO ecosystem and Everipedia Block.one is a company registered in the Cayman Islands, which began offering EOS tokens in June 2017 to the public, raising over $4 billion (a record for an ICO). Daniel Larimer was the Chief Technology Officer of Block.one. Larimer had previously worked on the decentralized exchange Bitshares from 2013 to 2016. After that, he worked on Steemit, a blockchain-based social media platform. On January 10, 2021, Larimer announced his resignation from Block.one. On December 6, 2017, Everipedia, a for-profit, wiki-based online encyclopedia, announced plans using EOS blockchain technology and work on an airdrop of a cryptocurrency called IQ to encourage generating information. The IQ tokens are intended to be exchangeable for Bitcoin. One of the goals of the company is to stop certain countries from blocking the content, by the integration of the blockchain model. The goal is that once Everipedia is decentralized and hosted on the EOSIO platform, countries such as Turkey and Iran that block Wikipedia will no longer be able to block it, via Everipedia's fork. Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Investment LP, a cryptocurrency investment firm, and Block.one led a group of institutions that invested $30 million in Everipedia on February 8, 2018. Novogratz also funds EOSIO Ecosystem, a $325-million joint venture between his Galaxy Digital LP and Block.one. References External links Cryptocurrency projects Companies of the Cayman Islands 2017 software Blockchains Ethereum tokens

The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. The story is set in the Lincolnshire Fens, and revolves around a group of bell-ringers at the local parish church. The book has been described as Sayers' finest literary achievement, although not all critics were convinced by the mode of death, nor by the amount of technical campanology detail included. Plot Twenty years before the events of the novel, the family of Sir Henry Thorpe, squire of the Fenland village of Fenchurch St Paul, had suffered the theft of a valuable emerald necklace, still unrecovered. The family's then butler, Geoffrey Deacon, and his accomplice, Nobby Cranton, had been convicted and imprisoned. In 1918 Deacon had escaped from prison but apparently died shortly afterwards, the body lying in a quarry where it was found two years later, still in prison clothes. Deacon's widow Mary subsequently married one of the village bell-ringers, William Thoday. The novel opens with Lord Peter Wimsey running his car into a ditch near Fenchurch on a snowy New Year's Eve. Stranded for a few days while repairs are carried out, Wimsey helps ring an all-night peal on the church bells after William Thoday is struck down with influenza. Lady Thorpe, Sir Henry's wife, dies the next day. When Sir Henry dies the following Easter, a man's mutilated body is found in his wife's grave, believed to be that of a labourer calling himself 'Stephen Driver'. Oddly, the dead man was wearing French-made underclothes. The rector writes to Wimsey asking him to return to investigate. At the Post Office, Bunter, Wimsey's manservant, finds an uncollected letter posted in France. The writer is the French wife of a British soldier, Arthur Cobbleigh, who had deserted in 1918. Cobbleigh evidently knew where the emeralds were hidden and plotted to recover them with 'Driver' – who is revealed to be not the mutilated man, but Cranton. A document found in the bell chamber is a cipher, written on the same paper as the letter from France. Wimsey's knowledge of change ringing enables him to decipher it, leading him to the emeralds, still in their hiding place in the church. He shows the document to Mary Thoday, and she and William promptly abscond to London. Wimsey speculates they have gone to be remarried, Mary having recognised the handwriting as that of Deacon, her first husband, and realising that her marriage to William was void as Deacon had still been alive at the time. Wimsey identifies the mutilated man as Deacon himself. After his escape, Deacon had killed Cobbleigh and swapped clothes and identities with him, leaving him in the quarry. After marrying bigamously in France, Deacon had waited several years to return for the emeralds that he had hidden before his arrest. He had asked Cranton for help, sending him the cipher as a token of good faith. Cranton had broken into the church, discovered Deacon's body in the bell chamber and fled, horrorstruck. William Thoday and his brother Jim, a merchant seaman, are interviewed. William confesses that on 30 December he had encountered Deacon, whom he had long believed to be dead, prowling around the church. Desperate to protect his wife from the scandal of a bigamous marriage, he had tied Deacon up and locked him in the bell chamber, planning to bribe him to leave the country the next day. Unfortunately, his bout of influenza prevented him from returning, and Jim discovered Deacon's dead body still tied up two days later. Still loyal to his brother, Jim had waited until the night after Lady Thorpe's funeral, when he made the body unrecognisable, hid it in her grave, then returned to his ship. When the body was rediscovered at Easter, each of the brothers thought that the other had killed Deacon. When Wimsey returns to Fenchurch the following Christmas, floods are threatening the countryside, and Wimsey climbs the tower as the bells are sounding the alarm. The appalling noise in the bell chamber convinces him that Deacon, tied there for hours during the all-night New Year peal, could not have survived: Deacon had been killed by the bells themselves. Wimsey explains, "We needn't look for a murderer now. Because the murderers of Geoffrey Deacon are hanging already, and a good deal higher than Haman". William Thoday is drowned in the flood trying to save another man. Wimsey speculates that "I think perhaps he guessed at last how Geoffrey Deacon died and felt himself responsible". Principal characters Lord Peter Wimsey Bunter, his manservant The Reverend Theodore Venables, rector of Fenchurch St Paul; his wife, Mrs Agnes Venables Sir Henry Thorpe, the local squire; his wife Lady Thorpe; their daughter Hilary Superintendent Blundell Geoffrey Deacon, once the Thorpes' butler, convicted of the theft of a necklace 20 years previously Nobby Cranton, London jewel-thief and Deacon's accomplice William Thoday, absent bell ringer, struck down with influenza Mary Thoday, William Thoday's wife, previously married to Deacon James "Jim" Thoday, William's brother, merchant seaman Potty Peake, village idiot The bell ringers: Hezekiah Lavender, leader, Rings Bell 8. Tailor Paul; Harry Gotobed, sexton Rings Bell 4. Jericho; Joe Hinkins, gardener, Rings Bell 5. Jubilee; Ezra Wilderspin, blacksmith, Rings Bell 1. Gaude; Alfred "Alf" Donnington, landlord of the Red Cow inn, Rings Bell 6. Dimity; Jack Godfrey, churchwarden, Rings Bell 7. Batty Thomas; Walter "Wally" Pratt, trainee ringer, Rings Bell 3. John; William "Will" Thoday and Lord Peter Wimsey, Ring Bell 2. Sabaoth. Title The Nine Tailors of the book's title are taken from the old saying "Nine Tailors Make a Man", which Sayers quotes at the end of the novel. As explained by John Shand in his 1936 Spectator article The Bellringers' Art, "'Nine Tailors' means the nine strokes which at the beginning of the toll for the dead announce to the villagers that a man is dead. A woman's death is announced with 'Six Tailors'. Hence the old saying ... which might otherwise be construed as a slander on a worthy profession". Awards and nominations In 1996 the British Crime Writers' Association awarded the story a Rusty Dagger award for the best crime novel of the 1930s, an award devised and organised for the Association by the noir writer, Russell James. Literary significance and criticism Writing in The New York Times on the book's first publication, Isaac Anderson said, "It may be that you, like this reviewer, do not know the difference between a kent treble bob major and a grandsire triple, but even so, you will probably enjoy what Dorothy Sayers has to say about them and about other things concerned with the ancient art of change-ringing, since her dissertation is all woven into a most fascinating mystery tale.... This is, most emphatically, Dorothy Sayers at her very best." John Shand, writing in The Spectator in 1936, said "Those who would appreciate an artist's picture of a group of village bellringers – of the kind who can pull a rope with any Londoner – may find one in [this novel], [which] contains the best description known to me of the bells, the ringers and the art. It is probably, indeed, the only novel based on a study of campanology. Its very title and chapter-headings pay tribute to the peculiar vocabulary of the art." Shand considered the means of death to be "Novelist's licence, I am afraid. But a trifle like that cannot spoil a good story." In his 1941 book Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story, Howard Haycraft noted that Sayers has been called by some critics the greatest of living mystery writers. He went on, "Whether or not the reader agrees with this verdict, he can not, unless he is both obtuse and ungrateful, dispute her preëminence as one of the most brilliant and prescient artists the genre has yet produced... [This book is] in the writer's estimation her finest achievement and one of the truly great detective stories of all time." Taking the opposite view, the American critic Edmund Wilson, in his excoriating 1945 essay attacking the entire genre of detective fiction, Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, criticised The Nine Tailors in particular for being dull, overlong and far too detailed. He considered the bell-ringing prose to be "a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopaedia article on campanology". In his view, Sayers does not, really, write very well: "it is simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the other detective story-writers and that she thus attracts attention in a field which is mostly on a sub-literary level." Sayers’ obituarist, writing in The New York Times in 1957, noted that many critics regarded The Nine Tailors as her finest literary achievement. In their review of crime novels (revised edn 1989), the American writers Barzun and Taylor called this novel "For many reasons, no great favourite... despite Dorothy's swotting up of bell-ringing and the two good maps. The cause of death, however, is original, and the rescue scene in the church amid the flood shows the hand of the master. It should be added that this work is a favourite with many readers. Sinclair Lewis judged it the best of his four 'indispensables'. " Also writing in 1989, H. R. F. Keating said that the author "incautiously entered the closed world of bell-ringing in The Nine Tailors on the strength of a sixpenny pamphlet picked up by chance – and invented a method of killing which would not produce death, as well as breaking a fundamental rule of that esoteric art by allowing a relief ringer to take part in her famous nine-hour champion peal." Background As a child and young teenager, Sayers lived on the southern edge of the Fens at Bluntisham-cum-Earith, where her father was rector. She also was inspired by her father's restoration of the Bluntisham church bells in 1910. Much of the technical detail of the novel was taken from Charles Troyte's Change Ringing, quotations from which are placed at the start of many of the chapters. In a letter discussing the book, Sayers said "I wrote [the novel] without ever having seen bells rung, by brooding over Troyte on Change-Ringing and trying to translate its technical descriptions into visual effects. That ... 'came out' beyond expectation". Adaptations The Nine Tailors has been adapted several times for BBC Radio: as a four-part serialisation by Giles Cooper for the BBC Light Programme in 1954, with Alan Wheatley as Lord Peter Wimsey; as an eight-part adaptation by Alistair Beaton for Radio 4 in 1980, with Ian Carmichael as Wimsey; and as a single two-hour Murder for Christmas programme by Michelene Wandor in 1987, with Gary Bond as Wimsey. In 1974 the novel was adapted for BBC television by Anthony Steven as a series of four hour-long episodes, starring Ian Carmichael as Wimsey. References Further reading External links 1934 British novels Campanology Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers British mystery novels Novels set in the 1930s Novels set in England Victor Gollancz Ltd books British novels adapted into television shows Identity theft in popular culture

John McConnell (14 February 1881 – 16 March 1957) was a Scottish professional footballer who played in the Football League for Grimsby Town as a full back. Career statistics References 1881 births 1957 deaths Footballers from East Ayrshire Brentford F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football fullbacks Glenbuck Cherrypickers F.C. players Kilmarnock F.C. players Nithsdale Wanderers F.C. players St Cuthbert Wanderers F.C. players Hurlford United F.C. players Southern Football League players Grimsby Town F.C. players Scottish Football League players Scotland men's junior international footballers Scottish men's footballers People from Dalmellington

A trans-lunar injection (TLI) is a propulsive maneuver used to set a spacecraft on a trajectory that will cause it to arrive at the Moon. History The first space probe to attempt TLI was the Soviet Union's Luna 1 on January 2, 1959 which was designed to impact the Moon. The burn however didn't go exactly as planned and the spacecraft missed the Moon by more than three times its radius and was sent into a heliocentric orbit. Luna 2 performed the same maneuver more accurately on September 12, 1959 and crashed into the Moon two days later. The Soviets repeated this success with 22 more Luna missions and 5 Zond missions travelling to the Moon between 1959 and 1976. The United States launched its first lunar impactor attempt, Ranger 3, on January 26, 1962, which failed to reach the Moon. This was followed by the first US success, Ranger 4, on April 23, 1962. Another 27 US missions to the Moon were launched from 1962 to 1973, including five successful Surveyor soft landers, five Lunar Orbiter surveillance probes, and nine Apollo missions, which landed the first humans on the Moon. The first human-crewed mission to perform TLI was Apollo 8 on December 21, 1968, making its crew the first humans to leave low Earth orbit. For the Apollo lunar missions, TLI was performed by the restartable J-2 engine in the S-IVB third stage of the Saturn V rocket. This particular TLI burn lasted approximately 350 seconds, providing 3.05 to 3.25 km/s (10,000 to 10,600 ft/s) of change in velocity, at which point the spacecraft was traveling at approximately 10.4 km/s (34150 ft/s) relative to the Earth. The Apollo 8 TLI was spectacularly observed from the Hawaiian Islands in the pre-dawn sky south of Waikiki, photographed and reported in the papers the next day. In 1969, the Apollo 10 pre-dawn TLI was visible from Cloncurry, Australia. It was described as resembling car headlights coming over a hill in fog, with the spacecraft appearing as a bright comet with a greenish tinge. In 1990 Japan launched its first lunar mission, using the Hiten satellite to fly by the Moon and place the Hagoromo microsatellite in a lunar orbit. Following that, it explored a novel low delta-v TLI method with a 6-month transfer time (compared to 3 days for Apollo). The 1994 US Clementine spacecraft, designed to showcase lightweight technologies, used a 3 week long TLI with two intermediate Earth flybys before entering a lunar orbit. In 1997 Asiasat-3 became the first commercial satellite to reach the Moon's sphere of influence when, after a launch failure, it swung by the Moon twice as a low delta-v way to reach its desired geostationary orbit. It passed within 6200 km of the Moon's surface. The 2003 ESA SMART-1 technology demonstrator satellite became the first European satellite to orbit the Moon. After being launched into a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), it used solar powered ion engines for propulsion. As a result of its extremely low delta-v TLI maneuver, the spacecraft took over 13 months to reach a lunar orbit and 17 months to reach its desired orbit. China launched its first Moon mission in 2007, placing the Chang'e 1 spacecraft in a lunar orbit. It used multiple burns to slowly raise its apogee to reach the vicinity of the Moon. India followed in 2008, launching the Chandrayaan-1 into a GTO and, like the Chinese spacecraft, increasing its apogee over a number of burns. The soft lander Beresheet from the Israel Aerospace Industries, used this maneuver in 2019, but crashed on the Moon. In 2011 the NASA GRAIL satellites used a low delta-v route to the Moon, passing by the Sun-Earth L1 point, and taking over 3 months. Theory Typical lunar transfer trajectories approximate Hohmann transfers, although low-energy transfers have also been used in some cases, as with the Hiten probe. For short duration missions without significant perturbations from sources outside the Earth-Moon system, a fast Hohmann transfer is typically more practical. A spacecraft performs TLI to begin a lunar transfer from a low circular parking orbit around Earth. The large TLI burn, usually performed by a chemical rocket engine, increases the spacecraft's velocity, changing its orbit from a circular low Earth orbit to a highly eccentric orbit. As the spacecraft begins coasting on the lunar transfer arc, its trajectory approximates an elliptical orbit about the Earth with an apogee near to the radius of the Moon's orbit. The TLI burn is sized and timed to precisely target the Moon as it revolves around the Earth. The burn is timed so that the spacecraft nears apogee as the Moon approaches. Finally, the spacecraft enters the Moon's sphere of influence, making a hyperbolic lunar swingby. Free return In some cases it is possible to design a TLI to target a free return trajectory, so that the spacecraft will loop around behind the Moon and return to Earth without need for further propulsive maneuvers. Such free return trajectories add a margin of safety to human spaceflight missions, since the spacecraft will return to Earth "for free" after the initial TLI burn. The Apollos 8, 10 and 11 began on a free return trajectory, while the later missions used a functionally similar hybrid trajectory, in which a midway course correction is required to reach the Moon. Modeling Patched conics TLI targeting and lunar transfers are a specific application of the n body problem, which may be approximated in various ways. The simplest way to explore lunar transfer trajectories is by the method of patched conics. The spacecraft is assumed to accelerate only under classical 2 body dynamics, being dominated by the Earth until it reaches the Moon's sphere of influence. Motion in a patched-conic system is deterministic and simple to calculate, lending itself for rough mission design and "back of the envelope" studies. Restricted circular three body (RC3B) More realistically, however, the spacecraft is subject to gravitational forces from many bodies. Gravitation from Earth and Moon dominate the spacecraft's acceleration, and since the spacecraft's own mass is negligible in comparison, the spacecraft's trajectory may be better approximated as a restricted three-body problem. This model is a closer approximation but lacks an analytic solution, requiring numerical calculation. Further accuracy More detailed simulation involves modeling the Moon's true orbital motion; gravitation from other astronomical bodies; the non-uniformity of the Earth's and Moon's gravity; including solar radiation pressure; and so on. Propagating spacecraft motion in such a model is numerically intensive, but necessary for true mission accuracy. See also Astrodynamics Comparison of super heavy lift launch systems Low energy transfer Trans-Earth injection Trans-Mars injection References Astrodynamics Spacecraft propulsion Orbital maneuvers Exploration of the Moon Apollo program ja:月遷移軌道

Crescent View station is a light rail station in Sandy, Utah, United States, served by the Blue Line of Utah Transit Authority's TRAX light rail system. The Blue Line provides service from Downtown Salt Lake City to Draper. Description The station is located in the southern end of Sandy at 361 East 11400 South and is accessed on that road from either I-15 on the west (via the I-15/11400 South interchange) or 700 East (SR-71) on the east. The station is located within a residential area of the city, with no commercial development nearby. Immediately east of the station is the Porter Rockwell Trail (Sandy Railtrail). The station has a free Park and Ride lot. A unique feature of the station is signage that shows currently available parking spaces in the Park and Ride lot at this station, as well as at the two stations further south (Kimballs Lane and Draper Town Center). The station opened August 18, 2013, as part of the Draper extension of the Blue Line and is operated by Utah Transit Authority. References TRAX (light rail) stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 2013 Railway stations in Salt Lake County, Utah 2013 establishments in Utah

Rainie may refer to: Rainie Yang (Chinese: 楊丞琳; born 1984), a Taiwanese singer, actress and television host Robert Rainie (1860–1945), a Scottish rugby union player Lorraine "Rainie" Highway, a fictional character from the BBC One soap opera EastEnders Lorraine (given name) Loraine (name) See also Raini (disambiguation)

In 2020, Shelbourne F.C. competed in the League of Ireland Premier Division for the first time since 2013. They were promoted in the 2019 season, having finished top of the first division. For a second season running, Shelbourne were under the management of Ian Morris. In October 2019, shortly after the end of the previous season, Shelbourne released a new jersey ahead of the 2020 season which emulated the style of the 1960s jersey used by the club. This was part of marking the pending 125th anniversary of the founding of the club. Overview On 12 March the Football Association of Ireland announced the sudden postponement of football under their rule including the League of Ireland premier division due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This meant the postponement of Shelbourne F.C. fixtures too. This was initially set as a postponement until 29 March but was later extended. Shels finished in 9th position in the league, forcing them into a promotion/relegation play-off with Longford Town. They lost this fixture which condemned them back to the First Division. League table Results summary FAI Cup Shelbourne received a first round bye. The draw for the second round took place on 12 August 2020 and was broadcast live on the Football Association Ireland Facebook page with Republic of Ireland senior manager Stephen Kenny conducting proceedings. References Shelbourne F.C. seasons Shelbourne FC

() is the name of organized supporters' groups of football teams in Latin America, analogous to European ultras and British hooligans in providing fanatical support to their clubs in stadiums and provoking violence against rival fans as well as against the police. Actions such as exhibition of choreographies (like throwing smoke bombs, firecrackers, confetti and balloons and displaying giant flags that cover entire stands, or part of them, before the match's start) to welcome the team when it goes out to the pitch; waving and displaying of flags, banners and umbrellas; and coordination of chants (that accompany playing bass drums and trumpets and end up being sung by part or the rest of their team's crowd in the stadium while jumping or applauding) during the whole match, are characteristic of their fervent behavior, whose purpose is to encourage their team while intimidating referees and rival fans and players, for which they also provoke violence. They also look to attack rival fans (especially rival barras bravas), which leads to fights with them (most of the time outside of stadiums before or after matches, but sometimes during them in the stands), and defend the rest of their team' spectators from rival attacks (especially in away matches, where normally they are outnumbered by home fans) and police repression. These groups originated in Argentina in the 1950s and spread throughout the rest of Latin America. They are similar to hooligan firms (from United Kingdom), torcidas organizadas (from Brazil) and ultras (originally from Italy but spread to the most part of Europe and Asia, Australia and North Africa). History During the 1920s in Argentina, irregular groups of fervent fans spontaneously began to appear at football matches. These groups were denominated as barras by the media, a term that in Rioplatense Spanish slang is equivalent to the term gang, but in its original meaning (not necessarily associated to crime), that is 'an informal group of people (usually friends) who meet frequently and usually do common activities'. Their actions were limited to stadiums during home matches because they could not follow (at least the whole members) their teams to other cities very often, neither was violence provocation their objective, as violence arose spontaneously due to frustration caused by bad results of their team or as a way to influence the match through intimidation of rival players and referees with insults, throwing objects and occasionally entering onto the pitch to assault them. Sometimes they also attacked rival fans (usually barras also) who used the same methods against their team. At the end of this decade, a few newspapers described one of this groups as a barra "brava" (Spanish for fierce), appearing the words together for the first time, but not yet like a term. One of those groups, named La barra de la Goma ("The barra of the rubber") by the press, appeared in 1927 and supported San Lorenzo de Almagro. The nickname comes from the rubber of bike inner tubes (filled with sand, and tied with wire at the ends) that this group used in some occasions to attack rival fans. Sometimes they would also throw objects at the players of rival teams to bother them when they should intervene in the game. The barras became a traditional part of the Argentine football crowds and evolved until, in the mid-1950s, they began receiving funding from football clubs to attend all the away matches. While intimidation towards referees and rival players and supporters was previously spontaneous, from that moment on it would be their main objective (along with encouraging their team). Another objective came to be defending the rest of spectators and players of their club from the attacks of rival fans (especially in away matches), and police repression, which increased fights and riots, that occurred more frequently before and after the matches outside of stadiums (although many also occurred on the terraces during the games, sometimes leading to their suspension). Thus, they became the first organized, violence-centered supporters' groups of football fans in the world (which later appeared as hooligan firms in United Kingdom, ultras in Italy and torcidas organizadas in Brazil). Argentine journalist Amílcar Romero stated that, before the appearance of such groups, when a team played away, it was intimidated by home fans. Barras bravas were a response to this pressure, so each club started to have its own , financed by the club leadership. These groups were given tickets and paid travel to the stadiums, and access to these benefits were controlled by the group's main members. To obtain prestige, the member had to be violent. In 1958, media has begun to notice the existence of barras bravas after the riots during a match between Vélez Sarsfield and River Plate (at José Amalfitani Stadium), at which 18-year-old bystander Alberto Mario Linker was killed by police (he was accidentally hit in the head by a tear gas grenade thrown at point-blank range from a grenade launcher) when cops tried to disperse River Plate fans who were causing unrest in a terrace located behind one of the goals. Police and rioters were criticized by the media, and newspaper La Razón mentioned the existence of barras fuertes (strong gangs) in Argentine football that were already known by many people, differentiating them for the first time from the traditional barras as being more organized, hierarchical, and coordinated, as observed among River Plate' rioters on that occasion. is the currently term appeared in Argentine media in the 1960s, but became popular in the 1980s. Until the early 1990s, members in Argentina rejected that term (many even today) for considering it pejorative, and prefer being denominated as fanbase/crowd's guides (largely because if a supporter group it's identified as a defined group of people that is involved in illegal acts, the Argentine justice can judge the members as participants of an illicit association, a legal figure that hardens the penalties). Although there were many fights and riots carried out by fans since the beginnings of Argentine football, Argentine players, club leaders, and police (with the first registered death caused by violence in 1923), the death of Alberto Mario Linker signaled the beginning of an era of habituation to violence. During the following decades, riots and deaths increased at the same time that barras bravas organized and multiplied. According to some studies, Argentina has the most dangerous organized supporters' groups in the world. Through August 2012 Argentine football has experienced more than 200 deaths related to hooliganism. Since 2013, all visiting fans were banned from matches of the first division. Characteristics These groups deploy and wave flags (that in Argentine football slang are called trapos -rags-), banners and umbrellas (with their team's uniforms), and use musical instruments (such as drums and, since the mid-2000s, trumpets) to accompany their chants. They occupy terraces where viewers must stand, while in all-seater stadiums (rare in Argentina), barras bravas also remain standing throughout the match. The most characteristic flags are shaped like giant strips several meters in length (called trapos largos -long cloths- or tirantes -suspenders-), that are deployed from the top of the terrace to the bottom. Each group usually also has a banner with its name. Traditionally, many members (usually important ones) stand upon the crush barriers that are placed in terraces to prevent crushing. In order to not fall from there, they hold on from a "suspender" (this was the purpose for making these flags shaped like strips), the body of someone else that is by his side and sustained to the flag, or the hand of some supporter that is standing below (in the floor). They start and coordinate most of the chants, wave the most important flags, and always are located in the center of the terrace that they occupy. Until the group enters onto the terrace (usually a few minutes before or sometimes after the match starting), the center is not occupied by the crowd (even if the terrace it is almost filled). It is left empty to show respect for the place of the . Originally these groups were not very numerous or powerful. Over the years, this changed to the point of cases where the decided who would be the club's chairman. Since the 1980s and 1990s, hooliganism has grown and some groups engaged in illegal activities such as extorting money from club leadership, players and hawkers that work at the stadium and surroundings, sell tickets (that are given by club leaders) to matches on the black market, charge for parking in the vicinity of the stadium, etc. Many members also steal (participating in burglaries, larcenies and robberies, sometimes even being part of criminal organizations) or sell drugs as a way to obtain money for travels (club leaders do not pay the travel for the whole group when the destination is too far), the making of flags or buying elements (balloons, confetti, pyrotechnics, etc.) used in the team's receptions on the pitch. They often provide services to political and union leaders who hire them as agitator groups (during rallies and mass meetings, that in Argentina traditionally have people chanting like football crowds, playing drums and even shooting firecrackers), goon squads (clashing with supporters of other political parties, unions or police during demonstrations, protests, rallies and strikes), bodyguards, etc. They are funded also by club leadership, which may give salaries to some members or even a percentage of the profits. Also, when the stadium of some club is used for a non-football event (like concerts), usually the club's members are employed as security guards to take care of the facilities. In Argentina, since the 2000s, a large percentage of deaths related to football were related to internal disputes within barras bravas, emerging subgroups into it that sometimes even had its own names. The size of a is generally related to the level of the club's popularity. However, some clubs have big supporters' groups without being very popular (this usually occurs when the club has, at least, a relatively high popularity in a high populated working class zone of an urban area). Group sizes range from a dozen of members in very small clubs, to more than a thousand in important ones (groups with several hundred of members or more started to appear in the 1980s -before that decade such groups weren't so big-), all of them with a hierarchical structure that gets stronger and more complex when the group's size is bigger. There are also many small clubs (with very few fans) that do not have a . See also Association football culture Casuals Curva Hooliganism Major football rivalries Supporters' groups Torcida organizada Ultras References External links In Fútbol-Mad Argentina, Ms. Rubeo Teaches Soccer Fans to Play Nice Miami Ultras Soccer Fans Documentary about Barra Bravas in Buenos Aires Barra Brava Website Association football culture Gangs in Argentina

Oleg Grigoryevich Chukhontsev (; born 1938 in Pavlovskiy Posad) is a Russian poet. Biography In 1962 he finished the philology department of the State University of the Moscow Region. He worked for poetry section of journals Yunost and Novy Mir. His first poems were first published in 1958, however the first poetic books that were prepared by him ("The Intention" in 1960, and then "The Name") were not published, as his works did not suit the norms implied for the Soviet poetry in those days. After the publication of his poem "A story about Kurbsky" in the Yunost journal in 1968, he was heavily attacked in press, and for 8 years his original works were officially considered "unpublishable". During these years Oleg Chukhontsev worked as a translator from the European languages, and local languages of the USSR. His first book ("From Three Notebooks") was published in 1976, and the second one ("The Dormer Window") - in 1985, both still censured. His first book not affected by censorship-implied editing was "By Wind and by Ashes", published in 1989. In 2003 he published a book of new poems "Fifia". His works are translated into various languages. He is a winner of several prizes, such as State Prize of the Russian Federation, Pushkin Prize, Anthologia premium for poetry, the Russian National Premium "Poet" and several others. The name "Chukhontsev" comes from an old Russian word "chukhonets", which means "a Finn", or "a person of Finnish origin". References Links Songs on poetry and translations by Chukhontsev Russian male poets Russian-language poets 20th-century Russian poets Pushkin Prize winners 1938 births Living people

LEY may refer to: Lelystad Airport, The Netherlands; IATA airport code: LEY Leyland railway station, England; National Rail station code: LEY Leyton tube station, England; London Underground station code: LEY See also Ley (disambiguation)

Moana is a 2009 Italian biographical dramatic miniseries directed by Alfredo Peyretti. The miniseries premiered at the 2009 Roma Fiction Fest, and was broadcast in two parts on 1 and 2 December of the same year on Sky Cinema. Moana recounts the life of iconic Italian pornographic actress Moana Pozzi. Actress Ilona Staller sued the production for unauthorized use of the character "Cicciolina", of which she owned the rights; the case was eventually dismissed by the court. Cast Violante Placido as Moana Pozzi Fausto Paravidino as Riccardo Schicchi Gaetano Amato as Pasquale Michele Venitucci as Antonio Di Ciesco Giorgia Würth as Cicciolina Antonella Salvucci as Ramba Elena Bouryka as Baby Pozzi References External links 2000s Italian-language films Films about pornography 2009 biographical drama films 2009 television films 2009 films Biographical films about entertainers Biographical films about actors Italian biographical drama films Cultural depictions of pornographic film actors Cultural depictions of Ilona Staller 2009 drama films

Poknapham is the most-read Meitei language newspaper published in Bengali script, from Imphal, Manipur in India. Poknapham means Birth Place in Meitei. It is owned and published by Gurumayum Shantikumari Devi from Keishampat Thiyam Leirak, Imphal and printed by her at Padma Printers, Imphal. A Robindro Sharma is the Editor. Started in the year 1975 the daily is now published from Imphal, Manipur. The online version of Poknapham was launched in June 2008 and is the first Meitei language newspaper to go online. Poknapham, meaning "Birth Place" in Meitei, is recognized as the most widely read Meitei language newspaper published in the Bengali script. It serves as a vital medium of communication and expression for the Meitei-speaking population in Manipur. The newspaper has been instrumental in preserving the rich cultural heritage, language, and traditions of the Meitei community. See also Hueiyen Lanpao Naharolgi Thoudang The Sangai Express List of Meitei-language newspapers References External links Poknapham Website Daily newspapers published in India Meitei-language newspapers Meitei-language websites Newspapers established in 1975 Imphal Indian news websites 1975 establishments in Manipur

is an East Japan Railway Company (JR East) railway station on the Hanawa Line in the city of Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Lines Higashi-Ōbuke Station is served by the 106.9 km Hanawa Line, and is located 4.9 kilometers from the starting point of the line at . Station layout Higashi-Ōbuke Station has a single side platform serving a single bi-directional track. The station is unattended. History Higashi-Ōbuke Station opened on December 1, 1960, as a station serving the village of Nishine. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on April 1, 1987. Surrounding area Nambu-Fuji Country Club See also List of Railway Stations in Japan References External links Hanawa Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1960 Railway stations in Iwate Prefecture Stations of East Japan Railway Company Hachimantai, Iwate

The Falconer Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district comprises 348 Chicago bungalows built from 1915 to 1931. As homeownership became more affordable in early twentieth century Chicago, the bungalow became popular as an affordable and easily replicable home style, and tens of thousands of the homes were built throughout the city. While more industrial than average, the Belmont Cragin area was otherwise typical of the new bungalow neighborhoods, as it was an underdeveloped area on the outskirts of the city. Laughlin Falconer, for whom the district is named, owned and farmed on the land before dividing it and selling it to developers in 1913. Architects Ernest Braucher and Johan F. Knudson designed most of the bungalows in the district; both architects frequently gave their houses full-length, open-air front porches, and the district has one of the city's most significant collections of open front porch bungalows as a result. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 2007. History In the mid-1800s, the Scottish immigrant Laughlin Falconer settled in the land for farming. The area was transformed into a mixture of industrial, commercial, and residential in the early decades of the 20th century. In November 1915, home building initiated in the Falconer District. Edward H. Olsen and Henry Van Vooren started on a series of bungalows on the 4900 block of West Oakdale Avenue. George C. Hield, a former hay dealer from Wisconsin, was the most important player in the growth of the Falconer District. He purchased most of the land subdivided by the Falconer family between 1913 and 1919. According to the Chicago Tribune, Hield had the intention of building thirty houses of various designs, including single dwellings of the ordinary type, bungalows, and two flat buildings. From November 1915 to April 1921, only three of 101 homes built in the district were constructed by builders other than Hield and Olsen and Van Vooren. After 1921, dozens of developers, builders, architects, and potential homeowners filled the remaining lots, building 240 properties between 1921 and 1925. Working-class neighborhood Like other bungalows that sprang up between the northwest extensions of Chicago, the Falconer Historic District was not segregated from the industrial and manufacturing districts. The developers of the Falconer District built homes within walking distance of major areas employers. The availability of manufacturing and clerical jobs in the Belmont Cragin community allowed extended family and adult children of a good number of bungalow owners made contributions to the household economy. This was advantageous to the Depression of the early 1930s. One example of these cases was a Norwegian-born piano tuner at musical instrument factory Lyon and Healy on Fullerton Avenue. His oldest son worked as a pattern maker at a clothing factory, while 19-year-old-son worked as a file assistant with an electric parts manufacturer. References National Register of Historic Places in Chicago Historic districts in Chicago Bungalow architecture in Illinois

Afterlife is a 1978 animated short by Ishu Patel that takes an impressionistic look at life after death, based on recent studies, case histories and myths. In the film, the afterlife state is portrayed as a working-out of all the individual's past experiences. Summary Afterlife was produced by Derek Lamb for the National Film Board of Canada. A film without words, Afterlife received numerous awards including a Golden Sheaf Award, a Canadian Film Award for Best Animated Film and the award for Best short Film from the Montreal World Film Festival. Music is by Herbie Mann, performing the David Mills composition, "In Tangier", from his album Stone Flute. References External links 1978 films Canadian animated short films National Film Board of Canada animated short films Films directed by Ishu Patel Animated films without speech Films about the afterlife Best Animated Short Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 1970s animated short films 1978 animated films 1970s Canadian films

Jeremy Norman Henry (born 3 April 1974) is a former Irish and current Australian lawn and indoor bowler born in Northern Ireland. Bowls career Outdoor Bowls Henry has achieved major success in the sport winning two gold medals in the World Outdoor Bowls Championship and three Commonwealth Games medals. In 1996 he won the gold in the pairs with Sammy Allen at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide, Australia. Four years later he won a second gold at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in the singles in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the Commonwealth Games he won the bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in the singles at Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and four years later won silver at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Heaton Park, Manchester. Another silver medal in 2006 came in the triples event. All of the medals were won representing a combined Ireland team or Northern Ireland (Commonwealth Games) before Henry emigrated to Australia where he resides and plays for Warilla and has been capped by Australia. He has also won six outdoor Irish National Bowls Championships; the 1996 and 2001 singles, the 1990, 1994 and 2003 pairs titles and the 1993 triples title. He has also won the singles at the British Isles Bowls Championships in 1997. In 2006, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic singles title. Indoor bowls He won a 2004 World Indoor Bowls Championship pairs title with Ian McClure and after emigrating most of his career has been revolved around indoor bowls. He has taken advantage of the fact that the World Cup Singles are held at his home club which had contributed in a record six title wins in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018. References External links 1974 births Living people Male lawn bowls players from Northern Ireland Australian male bowls players Bowls World Champions Indoor Bowls World Champions Commonwealth Games medallists in lawn bowls Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Northern Ireland Bowls players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Bowls players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living people)

Saint-Antonin-de-Sommaire () is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. Population See also Communes of the Eure department References Communes of Eure

Maryeve Dufault (born February 16, 1982) is a Canadian professional racing driver, model, and advertising spokeswoman. She has raced in the Skip Barber, Formula BMW, Formula Renault, Star Mazda, NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, ARCA Racing Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series. As a model, she has appeared on numerous television series, most notably The Price is Right. Racing career Dufault's father and brother raced motorcycles in Quebec. She began riding as a four-year-old, then racing motocross and turned to go-karts as an eight-year-old. By the time that she was nine years old she had broken both arms while racing. She began racing karts nationally in Canada and the United States in several series, including the Rotax International Series, winning several karting championships. She later moved up to formula racing, including Formula BMW USA, the Skip Barber Racing Series, Formula Russell, Formula Renault, Pro Star Mazda, and Formula 3, scoring podium finishes on several occasions, and captured victories in several series. Dufault has also performed precision driving for Honda, Polaris and Yamaha, and has also extensively tested Formula cars in China and Great Britain. Dufault began Stock Car racing in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series in 2010 by racing in two events. She signed as a driver development contract with the FAZZT Race Team in 2010, and was the first female race car driver selected to be part of the Dodge Motorsport driver development program. In early testing of her ARCA Racing Series car at New Smyrna Speedway and Daytona International Speedway in January 2011, Dufault impressed NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski. She made her ARCA debut at Daytona in February 2011; by December she had made fourteen starts in the ARCA Racing Series with one top 10 and six top 13 in her first year in stock car racing; her first top 10 being a tenth-place finish at Chicagoland Speedway. She finished the ARCA season sixteenth in the series points standings, despite missing five races during the season because of a lack of sponsorship. Dufault made her NASCAR Nationwide Series debut at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on August 20, 2011 driving for MacDonald Motorsports. As the team was in the top 30 in season car-owner points, she was guaranteed a starting position; she started 39th and finished 30th with a transmission mount broke. She was the first Canadian woman to race in the NASCAR Nationwide Series since it took that name. Dufault was listed as one of the "Top female drivers in racing today" by Fox Sports, and was also named as one of the "Top 12 Up-and-Coming Female Drivers in Motorsports" by Bleacher Report. In addition, Dufault competed in the inaugural Dodge Viper Celebrity Challenge at Miller Motorsports Park in October 2011, competing alongside racing legends such as Roger Penske, Kurt Busch and Allen Johnson. Dufault was featured on a Press Pass trading card in 2012. A lack of sponsorship delayed the start of her 2012 season. In 2012, Dufault participated in the 'Drive for the Fans' social media contest, representing Fiat Abarth. After competing in three ARCA Racing Series events for Carter 2 Motorsports in 2012, Dufault joined Go Green Racing for the 2013 season, impressing the team during testing and being assigned to drive in a Nationwide Series race for the team at Chicagoland Speedway. In November 2013, it was announced that Dufault would drive full-time in ARCA for the 2014 season in the No. 46 for Team Stange Racing, as well as to return to Go Green Racing for an expanded twelve race schedule in the Nationwide Series in the No. 79 car. However, her Nationwide deal fell through because of Go Green's merger with Cup Series team FAS Lane Racing later in the offseason, and it was decided that the team would only compete in Cup with FAS Lane's No. 32 team and to close down their Nationwide No. 79 team. Due to lack of sponsorship, Dufault and TSR only ran three races at the start of the season, and her and the team did not complete the season. The No. 46 had skipped the race at Salem, which indicated the team was having financial problems. Media career Dufault won Miss Hawaiian Tropic International in 2000, beating over 35,000 competitors for the honor, becoming the only Miss Hawaiian Tropic International ever from Quebec and only the third Canadian winner. She, along with co-winner Lisa Kessous, also from Quebec, won the Miss Hawaiian Tropic Canada competition and both represented Canada at the world competition in Las Vegas in 2000. She narrowly beat the more curvaceous and exotic Kessous for the world title in Las Vegas. Her main participation reason was winning prizes including a motorcycle and Jet Ski, as well as prize money to keep racing. She was invited to the United Service Organizations "USO" tour, Operation in Kosovo, Bosnia and Macedonia. She has appeared on a number of television shows and movies like Driven, Entourage, Relative Strangers, The Bold and the Beautiful, Jay Leno's opening show and including the American game show "The Price Is Right" during the Bob Barker era. She modeled in the August 2011 issue of Maxim. She also acted as a stunt driver for the movie Fast Girl. Dufault was invited to participate on the show The Insider, as well as on E! News to talk about women in racing and the difficulties of competing in a male dominated sport. She has also been featured by Sports Illustrated as their "Lovely Lady of the Day". Dufault said that she models to earn money to be a race car driver. "I wasn’t buying myself clothes. I was buying tires," Dufault said to the New York Post. "I am a racer who uses modeling jobs to pay my bills." Dufault said she still gets the questions and the puzzled looks as some folks struggle to understand her preference for the noise and smoke at the race track over the glitz and glamour of the modeling world. Charity work In 2010 Dufault raised US$10,000 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, as well as participating in a Bermudan trip to raise funds for the Syncairly Yours Foundation, a charity for uninsured mothers with premature babies. Personal life In the early 2000s Dufault moved from her native Quebec to Los Angeles to pursue her racing career. She currently resides in Mooresville, North Carolina. Motorsports career results NASCAR (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) Nationwide Series Canadian Tire Series ARCA Racing Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) References External links Living people 1982 births Sportspeople from Sorel-Tracy Racing drivers from Quebec NASCAR drivers ARCA Menards Series drivers Indy Pro 2000 Championship drivers Formula BMW USA drivers French Quebecers Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Canadian female racing drivers Canadian racing drivers

Paul Whitehead Sturrock (born 10 October 1956) is a Scottish former football coach and former player. As a player, Sturrock spent his entire senior career with Dundee United, making more than five hundred appearances between 1974 and 1989. He won the Scottish Football League title with United in 1982–83 and the Scottish League Cup twice, in 1979 and 1980. He was named the SFWA Footballer of the Year in 1982. At international level, Sturrock played twenty times for Scotland and appeared at the 1982 and 1986 World Cups. Sturrock's managerial career began with St Johnstone in 1993, where he went on to win the Scottish First Division title in 1996–97 before returning to Dundee United as manager. Since 2000, Sturrock has worked as a manager in English football, initially with Plymouth Argyle where he helped the club to win two promotions before moving on to a brief spell with Southampton. He has subsequently also managed Sheffield Wednesday, Swindon Town and Southend United as well as returning to Plymouth for a second spell. He became Yeovil Town manager in April 2015, but left the club eight months later. According to an analysis by the Financial Times he was among the country's best ever managers, even though he has mostly managed clubs at Championship level and below. He is known by fans as Luggy (from the Scots language word lugs, Eng: ears). Sturrock announced in July 2008 that he was suffering from a mild form of Parkinson's disease. His son, Blair, was also a professional footballer. Early life Sturrock was born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, and grew up in Pitlochry, Perthshire, where he was educated at the local primary and secondary schools and played for amateur side Grandtully Vale. In 1972, he joined Vale of Atholl of the Perthshire Amateur First Division (where he returned as coach in his latter days with Dundee United), and in the 1972–73 season he scored approximately 100 goals. He then moved on to Bankfoot Athletic, and in the 1973–74 season he scored 53 goals as they finished 2nd in the Scottish Junior FA First Division. He had trials with Morton and St Johnstone, but was signed for Dundee United by then manager Jim McLean on 1 July 1974. Club career Sturrock made his debut in the European Cup Winners' Cup match v Juil Petrosani of Romania on 18 September 1974 and his league debut on 28 December 1974 as a substitute against Motherwell. In his first season at Tannadice he made nine League appearances and came on from the substitutes' bench for three more and in the process he scored six goals. His first goal for Dundee United was one of two he scored in a 2–2 draw with Rangers at Tannadice on 5 April 1975. Dundee United finished fourth in the League that year. In the following season, he made 18 League appearances, eight as sub, and scored three times. He was also played as a substitute in two of the three Scottish Cup ties and was on from the start in five out of six League Cup games and scored once. He also started in three of the four UEFA Cup games netting one in that competition, too. 1976–77 not only saw Dundee United consolidate their Premier League position but throughout the campaign Sturrock was an ever-present, playing in all 36 League games and scoring 15 times. Adding that total to one each in the Scottish Cup and League Cup he was top scorer at the Club that year. He played in United's only Scottish Cup tie, a 4–1 defeat at St Mirren. He also appeared four times plus once as sub out of the six League Cup ties. In a short-lived Anglo Scottish Cup campaign he was brought on as sub in one leg of the tie against Aberdeen. In 1982–83, Dundee United won the Scottish League Championship, losing only four League games during the season. Sturrock contributed to this success with eight goals in his 28 appearances. He also set up Ralph Milne for his fourth-minute opener against Dundee in the final League game. The Scottish Cup that year had been yet another early exit at the hands of St Mirren. Sturrock scored seven in the nine games he turned out in on the way to a League Cup quarter-final exit. He also played in seven of the eight games and scored once in a UEFA Cup run that ended with an exit in Prague. His playing career came to an end in 1989, with his final goal for United occurring on 8 April 1989 in a 2-1 victory against local rivals Dundee. Over the course of his playing career from 1974 to 1989, he made 385 league appearances for the club and scored 109 goals. When considering all competitions, he amassed a total of 171 goals in 576 games, which places him as the second-highest goal scorer in Dundee United's history. Following his playing career, Sturrock remained at Tannadice for the next five years in a coaching role. After twenty years of continuous service, he eventually departed the club in 1993. International career Sturrock made his first appearance for the Scotland under-21 team on 12 October 1976, in a goalless draw with Czechoslovakia. Four months later, he scored in a 3–2 win against Wales under-21s on 9 February 1977. Sturrock made his full international debut for Scotland against Wales on 16 May 1981, and on 8 November 1981, he scored his first goal for Scotland in the 2–1 World Cup qualifier defeat against Portugal in Lisbon. Sturrock won 20 caps for his country, scoring three goals. He was a non-playing member of the Scotland squad for the 1982 World Cup finals in Spain and appeared twice in Mexico in 1986. Managerial career In a 2012 study by Stefan Szymanski, economics professor at the University of Michigan, Sturrock was rated as one of the best managers in English football. St Johnstone In 1993, Sturrock became the manager of First Division team St Johnstone, having been recommended by the outgoing manager, John McClelland. Despite some early poor form – which included a 4–0 Scottish Cup humbling at the hands of Stenhousemuir – Sturrock eventually guided the team to a comfortable promotion in 1996–97. Dundee United In September 1998 Sturrock was appointed manager at Dundee United. He made a bright start to his time as manager at Tannadice, where he was feted by the fans for his excellent spell as a player. His United team failed to recover from the sale of top scorer Billy Dodds in December 1999, when they were lying third in the table. The team scored few goals following Dodds's departure, and Sturrock resigned after two games of the 2000–01 season. Plymouth Argyle In October 2000 Sturrock joined Plymouth Argyle, a club which had reached the lowest ebb in its history, struggling in the English Football League Third Division. A shake-up at boardroom level took place, Sturrock began to build his own squad. The following season, he guided them to the Third Division title breaking numerous records in the process, including a club and league points total of 102. In October 2003, Sturrock had successfully taken Argyle back to the top of the Football League Second Division and left when Plymouth had just 12 games to play in what would prove to be another season when they would finish as divisional champions and return to the Football League Championship, formerly known as the First Division. As a result of his success at Home Park he was named as the manager of Argyle's Team of the Century in a BBC Devon poll. Southampton Sturrock was named as the successor to Gordon Strachan as manager of Southampton on 4 March 2004. On 23 August 2004 it was announced that Sturrock was leaving the club 'by mutual consent', after a disappointing run of form and rumours of player unrest and boardroom dissatisfaction with his management. Sheffield Wednesday Sturrock was then appointed by League One club Sheffield Wednesday languishing in 14th place on 23 September 2004, and he guided the club to the League One play-offs. After beating Brentford in the semi-final with an aggregate score of 3–1, Sturrock took Wednesday to the play-off final at the Millennium Stadium and beat Hartlepool United 4–2 after extra-time, winning promotion to the Championship. Despite numerous injuries to key players he helped Wednesday to finish 10 points clear of relegation in their first season back in The Championship. A slow start to the 2006–07 season sparked rumours that Wednesday were about to sack Sturrock, but this speculation looked to be false when he agreed a new four-year contract on 14 September. But he was sacked on the evening of 19 October, just five weeks and three games after agreeing this new deal. The new contract was agreed while the club were at the bottom of the League, while he was sacked when they were fourth from bottom. Swindon Town In late October 2006, Swindon Town allowed their management team of Dennis Wise and Gustavo Poyet to join Leeds United. Swindon pounced at the opportunity to acquire the services of Sturrock and on 7 November 2006 Sturrock was confirmed as manager with Kevin Summerfield and John Blackley following him from Wednesday. Sturrock's first season in charge at Swindon was a success, achieving promotion from League Two to League One. Swindon made a decent start to the 2007–08 season, maintaining their position in the top half of the league table after the first 8 games. Return to Plymouth On 27 November 2007, Sturrock resigned his post as Swindon Town manager after just over a year with the club to rejoin previous club Plymouth Argyle. Sturrock also brought back to the club assistants Kevin Summerfield and John Blackley, who were previously with him during his first successful spell as manager. Sturrock then proceeded to take the club to its highest league position in 20 years: tenth in the Championship. However, the team subsequently struggled and finished five points and one place outside the Championship relegation zone in the 2008–09 season. On 10 December 2009, Sturrock was removed as Plymouth Argyle manager and put into a business support role by chairman Sir Roy Gardner. On 22 April 2010, the Plymouth board confirmed that Sturrock had left his role within the club to pursue other managerial opportunities. Following Sturrock's departure, it emerged that the board had mis-managed the finances of the club and Argyle entered administration. Southend United On 5 July 2010, Sturrock was confirmed as manager of League Two Southend United. Former Salisbury City manager Tommy Widdrington was named as Sturrock's assistant manager while one of Sturrock's former players at Plymouth Argyle and Sheffield Wednesday, who served as captain at the latter, Graham Coughlan was soon appointed as a player-coach. Sturrock faced the tough task of rebuilding the Southend side with only five first team players available for selection at one stage of pre-season, with only Anthony Grant, Matt Paterson and Scott Spencer surviving. He soon appointed new signing Craig Easton, who he had previously managed at Swindon Town, as captain while another player from one of Sturrock's old clubs, Chris Barker, was later appointed as vice-captain, having initially been signed on loan, and then permanently on deadline day. It was not an easy task for Sturrock as his assistant, Tommy Widdrington left for "footballing reasons" on Wednesday 15 December 2010. After a mid table finish in his first season, he enjoyed more success during the 2011–12 season where Southend led League Two for most of the campaign. Sturrock was named Manager of the Month for September 2011 by the Football League. Sturrock was sacked as manager of Southend United on 24 March 2013 although it was agreed that he could lead out the players in the final of the Football League Trophy to be held at Wembley on 7 April. Sturrock declined the offer. Yeovil Town After a brief spell as an advisor to Conference Premier side Torquay United, he departed just four days after taking the job, after being appointed manager of Football League One side Yeovil Town on 9 April 2015, with the club all but relegated. Following a poor start to the season, Yeovil announced on 1 December 2015 that they had parted company with Sturrock. Post-retirement Following his retirement from professional management, Sturrock returned to live in the South West of England. He remained involved in local football, being given an advisory role at non-League club Plymouth Parkway. He also writes a regular column for local newspaper, the Plymouth Evening Herald. On 8 March 2018, Sturrock renewed his involvement with Dundee United when he was appointed as the club's chief scout in England. Later in March, Sturrock was added to the United coaching staff. He left United during the 2018–19 season. Career statistics Club International Scores and results list Scotland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sturrock goal. Managerial record Research by football economists Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski found Sturrock to be among the highest performing managers in English football. The measure was based on game success after controlling for the club's wage bills. Honours As a player Dundee United Scottish Football League Premier Division: 1982–83 Scottish League Cup: 1979–80, 1980–81; runner-up: 1981–82, 1984–85 UEFA Cup runner-up: 1986–87 Scottish Cup runner-up: 1980–81, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88 As a manager St Johnstone Scottish League First Division (second tier): 1996–97 Plymouth Argyle Football League Third Division: 2001–02 Football League Second Division: 2003–04 Sheffield Wednesday Football League One play-offs: 2004–05 Swindon Town Football League Two promotion: 2006–07 Individual Football League Third Division Manager of the Year: 2001–02 Football League Second Division Manager of the Year: 2003–04 LMA Managers Performance League: January 2004 Awards Scottish Football Hall of Fame inductee: 2019 Books His autobiography was published in 2015, Luggy: The Autobiography of Paul Sturrock. See also List of Dundee United F.C. players List of one-club men in association football List of Scotland international footballers References External links 1956 births Living people Dundee United F.C. players Dundee United F.C. managers Premier League managers 1982 FIFA World Cup players 1986 FIFA World Cup players Men's association football forwards People from Ellon, Aberdeenshire People with Parkinson's disease Plymouth Argyle F.C. managers Scotland men's international footballers Scottish football managers Scottish men's footballers Scottish Football League players Sheffield Wednesday F.C. managers Southampton F.C. managers St Johnstone F.C. managers Swindon Town F.C. managers Southend United F.C. managers Yeovil Town F.C. managers English Football League managers Scottish Premier League managers Scottish Football League managers Scotland men's under-21 international footballers Bankfoot Athletic F.C. players Dundee United F.C. non-playing staff Footballers from Aberdeenshire Scottish Football Hall of Fame inductees Association football coaches Association football scouts People from Pitlochry Footballers from Perth and Kinross

Julius Ferdinand von Hann (23 March 1839 in Wartberg ob der Aist near Linz – 1 October 1921 in Vienna) was an Austrian meteorologist. He is seen as a father of modern meteorology. Biography He was educated at the gymnasium of Kremsmünster and then studied mathematics, chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna, then geology and paleontology under Eduard Suess and physical geography under Friedrich Simony. From 1865 to 1868, he was master at the Oberrealschule at Linz, and in 1865 was invited by Karl Jelinek to become the first editor of the Zeitschrift für Meteorologie. In 1877, he succeeded Jelinek as the director of the Meteorologische Zentralanstalt (Central Institute for Meteorology and Earth Magnetism) and was appointed professor of meteorology at the University of Vienna. In 1897, he retired as director and became professor of meteorology at the University of Graz, but returned to Vienna to fill the chair of professor of cosmic physics in 1900, where he remained until 1910. He became an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902. In 1912, he was made a foreign knight of the Prussian Ordre Pour le Mérite. Hann window Hann invented a weighted moving average technique for combining meteorological data from neighboring regions, using the weights [1/4, 1/2, 1/4], known as Hann smoothing. In signal processing, the Hann window is a window function, called the Hann function, derived from this technique by R. B. Blackman and John Tukey in 1959. Here, the use of the Hann window is called "hanning", e.g., "hanning" a signal is to apply the Hann window to it. Works Die Erde als Ganzes, ihre Atmosphäre und Hydrosphäre, 1872, 5th edition 1896 Handbuch der Klimatologie, first issued 1883, revised editions until 1911 Atlas der Meteorologie, 1887 Allgemeine Erdkunde. Ein Leitfaden der astronomischen Geographie, Meteorologie, Geologie und Biologie, 5th edition 1896 Lehrbuch der Meteorologie, 1901, 3rd edition 1915 He contributed many papers to the Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Notes References "Hann, Julius Ferdinand von." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (June 26, 2014). Austrian meteorologists Austrian untitled nobility Recipients of the Buys Ballot Medal (Netherlands) Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) 1839 births 1921 deaths Academic staff of the University of Vienna Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala

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Uttar Kusum is a census town and a gram panchayat within the jurisdiction of the Usthi police station in the Magrahat I CD block in the Diamond Harbour subdivision of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Geography Area overview Diamond Harbour subdivision is a rural subdivision with patches of urbanization. Only 14.61% of the population lives in the urban areas and an overwhelming 85.39% lives in the rural areas. In the eastern portion of the subdivision (shown in the map alongside) there are 24 census towns. The entire district is situated in the Ganges Delta and the eastern part of the district is a flat plain area with small towns, many in clusters. Location of places in the larger map varies a little. It is an OpenStreetMap, while we are using coordinates as in Google Maps. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map. Location Uttar Kusum is located at Usthi, Ghola Noapara, Barijpur and Uttar Kusum form a cluster of census towns in the Magrahat I CD block. Uttar Bishnupur, Kalikapota and Bamna are a little away from this cluster. This is as per the map of the Magrahat I CD block on page 445 in the District Census Handbook for the South 24 Parganas. Demographics According to the 2011 Census of India, Uttar Kusum had a total population of 10,716 of which 5,580 (52%) were males and 5,136 (48%) were females. Population below 6 years was 1,818. The total number of literates in Uttar Kusum was 5,849 (65.73% of the population over 6 years). Infrastructure According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Uttar Kusum covered an area of 3.3112 km2. Among the civic amenities, it had 814 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 3 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had were 3 primary schools, 1 secondary school, 1 senior secondary school. Transport Deula railway station is located nearby. Education Uttar Kusum High School is a Bengali-medium coeducational institution established in 1950. It has facilities for teaching from class VI to class XII. Healthcare Baneswarpur Rural Hospital, with 30 beds, at Baneswarpur, is the major government medical facility in the Magrahat I CD block. References Cities and towns in South 24 Parganas district

Sättra, Ekerö kommun is a village (smaller locality) in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, southeastern Sweden. References Populated places in Ekerö Municipality Uppland

Olivier Meyer is a French photographer born in 1957. He lives and works in Paris, France. Biography His photo-journalism was first published in France-Soir Magazine and subsequently in the daily France Soir in 1981. Starting from 1989, a selection of his black and white photographs of Paris were produced as postcards by Éditions Marion Valentine. He often met the photographer Édouard Boubat on the île Saint-Louis in Paris and at the Publimod laboratory in the rue du Roi de Sicile. Having seen his photographs, Boubat told him: "at the end of the day, we are all doing the same thing...". When featured in the magazine Le Monde 2 in 2007 his work was noticed by gallery owner Charles Zalber who exhibited his photographs at the gallery Photo4 managed by Victor Mendès. Work His work is in the tradition of humanist photography and Street photography using the same material as many of the forerunners of this style: Kodak Tri-X black and white film, silver bromide prints on baryta paper, Leica M3 or Leica M4 with a 50 or 90 mm lens. The thin black line surrounding the prints shows that the picture has not been cropped. His inspiration came from Henri Cartier-Bresson, Édouard Boubat, Saul Leiter. His portrait of Aguigui Mouna sticking his tongue out like Albert Einstein, published in postcard form in 1988, and subsequently as an illustration, in a book by Anne Gallois served as a blueprint for a stencil work by the artist Jef Aérosol in 2006 subsequently reproduced in the book VIP. His photographs were exhibited at the Photo4 gallery in Paris in April 2008, and again in January 2010 together with photographs by Ralph Gibson. In September 2012, the Dupif gallery in Paris held an exclusive exhibition of his work to mark the publication of the book Paris, Nothing new. Collections Musée juif de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Belgium Bibliography Olivier Meyer, Paris Nothing new, Éditions Letzalem, 2012. A book of black and white photographs of Paris, some recent, but with a choice of subjects and backgrounds which avoid any reference to the modern world, hence the subtitle Nothing new. Olivier Meyer, Kotel Beyond the wall, Éditions Letzalem, 2012. A collection of black and white photographs punctuated with questions about the Kotel also called the Western Wall, remnant of the Temple in Jerusalem. The subtitle Beyond the wall refers to the questions which evoke a spirituality capable of transcending a wall made of stones. Olivier Meyer, London Nothing new, Éditions Letzalem, 2015. A book of black and white photographs of London, foreword by the collector Alain Dercourt, interview of the photographer by Patricia Frischer, Founder and Coordinator of the San Diego Visual Art Network, California. References This article has been translated from the French Wikipedia External links official website (http://www.omeyer.fr) official reference : Bibliothèque nationale de France (http://catalogue.bnf/ark:/12148/cb165384862) French photographers Street photographers 1957 births Living people

The Champions is a three-part Canadian documentary mini-series on lives of Canadian political titans and adversaries Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. Directed by Donald Brittain and co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the series follows Trudeau and Lévesque from their early years until their fall from power in the late 1980s. The series itself took over a decade to complete. The first two-hour-long episodes Unlikely Warriors and Trappings of Power were released in 1978. The third installment, the 87-minute The Final Battle, was not completed until 1986, after both men had retired from politics. Episodes Unlikely Warriors explores Lévesque’s and Trudeau’s early years, from their university days through to 1967, when Lévesque left the Liberal party and Trudeau became the federal minister of justice. The episode documents the men’s similarities as well as differences. Though both were from wealthy families and were schooled by Jesuits, Trudeau had a detached intellectual perspective in sharp contrast with Lévesque’s more emotional journalistic approach. At their first meeting at a CBC cafeteria in Montreal, after a series of Socratic questions, Lévesque told Trudeau, "If you’re a goddamned intellectual, I don’t want to talk to you," setting the tone for their relationship to come. Trappings of Power begins in 1967, when Trudeau, now Justice Minister, is being courted to run for the leadership of the Liberal party, and climaxes with Lévesque and his separatist Parti Québécois winning 1976 Quebec provincial election. The Final Battle over the years between 1977 and 1986, including Lévesque and Trudeau’s final showdown in the 1980 Quebec referendum and the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution. Part Three also follows each man’s fall from political grace. Production The first two episodes of the series had a budget of $175,433 () and The Final Battle had a budget of $350,659 (). Release and honours Originally broadcast on CBC Television, Parts one and two of The Champions were also released as a feature-length film in 1978, winning four Canadian Film Awards, including Best Feature Documentary and Best Non-Dramatic Script. The Final Battle won Genie Awards for Best Feature Documentary and Best Direction in a Documentary. In 2006, the series was designed as a Masterwork by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada. The series had been unavailable for several years, due to the expiration of rights for stock footage used in the film. As of 2009, those issues have been resolved and the series has been added to the National Film Board's online Screening Room. References Works cited External links The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely Warriors at the National Film Board of Canada catalog The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power at the National Film Board of Canada catalog The Champions, Part 3: The Final Battle at the National Film Board of Canada catalog National Film Board of Canada documentaries Films directed by Donald Brittain Documentary films about Canadian politicians Pierre Trudeau Best Documentary Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners CBC Television original programming 1980s Canadian television miniseries 1978 films 1986 films Documentary films about Quebec politics René Lévesque Cultural depictions of Pierre Trudeau 1978 documentary films 1986 documentary films 1980s Canadian films 1970s Canadian films

The trapezium bone (greater multangular bone) is a carpal bone in the hand. It forms the radial border of the carpal tunnel. Structure The trapezium is distinguished by a deep groove on its anterior surface. It is situated at the radial side of the carpus, between the scaphoid and the first metacarpal bone (the metacarpal bone of the thumb). It is homologous with the first distal carpal of reptiles and amphibians. Surfaces The trapezium is an irregular-shaped carpal bone found within the hand. The trapezium is found within the distal row of carpal bones, and is directly adjacent to the metacarpal bone of the thumb. On its ulnar surface are found the trapezoid and scaphoid bones. The superior surface is directed upward and medialward; medially it is smooth, and articulates with the scaphoid; laterally it is rough and continuous with the lateral surface. The inferior surface is oval, concave from side to side, convex from before backward, so as to form a saddle-shaped surface for articulation with the base of the first metacarpal bone. This saddle-shaped articulation is partially responsible for the thumb's opposable motion. The dorsal surface is smooth. The palmar surface is narrow and rough. At its upper part is a deep groove, running from above obliquely downward and medialward; it transmits the tendon of the Flexor carpi radialis, and is bounded laterally by an oblique ridge. This surface gives origin to the Opponens pollicis and to the Abductor and Flexor pollicis brevis; it also affords attachment to the transverse carpal ligament. The lateral surface is broad and rough, for the attachment of ligaments. The medial surface presents two facets; the upper, large and concave, articulates with the trapezoid bone; the lower, small and oval, with the base of the second metacarpal. Tubercle of trapezium The tubercle of trapezium is a tubercle found on the anterior surface of the bone. It is where sometimes abductor pollicis brevis muscle attaches. Function The carpal bones function as a unit to provide a bony superstructure for the hand. The trapezium is the most radial of the bones surrounding the carpal tunnel. It is important in thumb movement. Clinical relevance The trapezium is susceptible to arthritis at the joint with the metacarpal bone of the thumb, due to overuse. History The etymology derives from the Greek trapezion which means "a little table", from trapeza meaning "table", itself from (te)tra- "four" and pod- "foot". The name was first documented in 1840. Additional images See also Carpal bone Finger Hand References Skeletal system Wrist Bones of the hand Carpal bones

Elton Patterson (born June 3, 1981) is a former professional gridiron football defensive end. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at UCF. Patterson was also a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Minnesota Vikings, Berlin Thunder, Orlando Predators, and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Early years Patterson graduated from James S. Rickards High School in Tallahassee, Florida. Patterson received his undergraduate and master's degree in sports leadership from The University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL References External links Personal bio & book Just Sports Stats Hamilton Tiger-Cats bio Orlando Predators bio UCF Knights bio 1981 births Living people American football defensive ends American players of Canadian football Canadian football defensive linemen UCF Knights football players Cincinnati Bengals players Jacksonville Jaguars players Minnesota Vikings players Berlin Thunder players Orlando Predators players Hamilton Tiger-Cats players Players of American football from Tallahassee, Florida

USS LST-965 was an in the United States Navy. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation. Construction LST-965 was laid down on 27 October 1944, at Hingham, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; launched on 25 November 1944; and commissioned on 20 December 1944. Service history Following the war, she performed occupation duty in the Far East and saw service in China until mid-October 1945. She returned to the United States and was decommissioned on 3 June 1946, and struck from the Navy list on 19 July, that same year. On 23 October 1947, the ship was sold to the Boston Metals Corp., Baltimore, Maryland, for scrapping. Notes Citations Bibliography External links LST-542-class tank landing ships World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States Ships built in Hingham, Massachusetts 1944 ships

Massingham may refer to: Great Massingham, a village in Norfolk, England RAF Great Massingham Little Massingham, a village in Norfolk, England Massingham railway station, a former station which served Great Massingham and Little Massingham People with the surname H. J. Massingham (1888–1952), British writer Henry William Massingham (1860–1924), British journalist, father of H. J. Massingham Richard Massingham (1898–1953), British actor Harold Massingham (1932-2011), British poet and crossword setter Daniel Massingham (1991-), Grandson of Harold Massingham Entertainment The Massingham Affair a 1962 novel by Edward Grierson The Massingham Affair (TV series), a 1964 BBC Television adaptation See also Messingham (disambiguation) Missingham, a surname

Bayle Mountain is a mountain located in Carroll County, New Hampshire, standing above Conner Pond. See also List of mountains in New Hampshire External links Bayle Mountain - FranklinSites.com Hiking Guide Bayle Bayle

Mark Poland is an Irish Gaelic footballer who played in the 2010 All-Ireland Final. Poland was part of the team that lost an All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship final in 2005. The following year he made his first senior championship appearance, as a substitute, in a game against Sligo. He made 33 further championship appearances to give him a total of 34 championship appearances by the time he had finished in 2017 and contributed a total score of 3–46 before retiring, along the way losing heavy in two provincial finals in 2012 and 2017. He was included in the squad for Match for Michaela in 2012. Poland took Warrenpoint's reins, according to an announcement in November 2022. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Down inter-county Gaelic footballers

Sheldon Weinig (born in New York City) is an American businessman who studied at Columbia University, where he received his doctorate and was a professor. In 1957, he founded Materials Research Corporation (MRC), a global manufacturer and supplier of specialized semiconductor materials and equipment. Early years Weinig attended Stuyvesant High School, a magnet school in New York. After completing high school, he served in the United States Army for two years and received his education on the GI Bill and was awarded a doctorate in metallurgy from Columbia University in 1955. Career Weinig as a professor at Cooper Union and New York University for several years and then went on to found MRC. MRC introduced leading-edge manufacturing equipment to the semiconductor industry. In 1989, it was acquired by Sony. The U.S. government objected to the sale but the company needed a large infusion of capital and no American-owned company was prepared to make the investment to purchase it and keep it (and its technology) intact. Weinig remained with Sony for nearly seven years as vice chairman for engineering and manufacturing of Sony America. He retired from Sony in 1995 and has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he teaches a bridge course between academia and the industrial world. Publications In 2018 Weinig published a book entitled Rule Breaker - An Entrepreneur's Manifesto. Awards and recognition 1980: Awarded the SEMMY Award, by the Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute 1984: Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for "the development of high purity, highly characterized materials, and technological processing equipment for electronic and metallurgical applications" 1988: Awarded the rank of Chevalier dans l’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur by the Government of France 1990: Elected to the International Technology Institute’s Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology He also received three honorary doctorates from St. Thomas Aquinas College (law), Adelphi University (science) and the State university of New York at Stony Brook (science). References External links Living people American manufacturing businesspeople Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Year of birth missing (living people)

Otto Maull (8 May 1887 – 16 December 1957) was a German geographer and geopolitician. He taught human geography at University of Graz, in Austria, and was the author of several books, including ("Political geography" 1925, "Introduction in to geopolitics", 1928, etc.). He spent time in Latin America, about which he wrote extensively in a series of papers. He was a co-founder and co-editor of Zeitschrift, and subscribed to the theory of the organic state as a collection of spatial cells (regions, cities etc.), each with a life of its own. Maull was at one time part of a team led by former military commander and political geographer Karl Haushofer. Haushofer was a close associate of Rudolf Hess and called for Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan to form a Eurasian panregion. References 1887 births 1957 deaths German geographers Geopoliticians 20th-century geographers

This is a list of visual novel engines. Digital Novel Markup Language Digital Novel Markup Language (DNML) is one of the first scripting language game engines for creating visual novels, also known as interactive fiction games. DNML was developed using C++ by a Japanese programmer known by their Internet name, Karin. The initial release was in 1998. The programming structure is similar to HTML, which made it easy to produce dōjin games. DNML was succeeded by software like NScripter, KiriKiri and Ren'Py. There have been various attempts to create a more modern DNML interpreter. However the only known successful project is DNML Midori, a full reimplantation of DNML that has several features of its own. While it is free to use, it is not open source. As of 2021, it was last updated in 2019 and development seems to be concluded. KiriKiri is a scripting engine by Japanese developer "w.dee", initially released in 1998. It is almost exclusively used with the KAG (KiriKiri Adventure Game System) framework as a visual novel engine. Usually, the package of the two components is regarded as the whole engine, and referenced with major version numbers. Thus, the current version is called KiriKiri2/KAG3. It is available under the GNU General Public License, though commercial licenses can be acquired if somebody wishes to expand the software without disclosing the changes. KiriKiri is often used as a more modern and expandable replacement of the older NScripter engine. It has been used in both dōjin and commercial visual novels, the most well known of which are TYPE-MOON's Fate/stay night and Fate/hollow ataraxia. Another notable visual novel that is known to be implemented using this engine is . The Nekopara game series, available on Steam, also uses a modified version of Kirikiri. For KiriKiri2 and Kirikiri Z's implementation of KAG there is a module called 鱧天 (Hamotem). which provides a myriad of plugins and a ready made template to build games on. As TyranoBuilder is to TyranoScript, there are several programs which create a graphical editor on top of the KAG script. The most well known of these is NVLMaker, which also has a cloud platform. Due to a lack of updates since October 2010, from 2013 onward the code has been forked and continued as . NScripter NScripter is a visual novel engine written by Naoki Takahashi. Due to its simplicity and its liberal license (while it is not open-source software, royalty-free commercial use is permitted), it quickly became popular in Japan, and was used for a number of high-profile commercial and dōjin titles, such as HaniHani and Tsukihime. NScripter is closed-source and only available for Windows. A number of cross-platform clones have been written, the best-known being ONScripter, an example of free and open-source software implementation. Its popularity among the visual novel localisation community is attributed to the ease of modifying the engine to support languages other than Japanese. It strives to maintain compatibility with visual novels designed for NScripter. ONScripter is based on the Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL) library, and can thus be used to run NScripter games on platforms supported by SDL, such as OS X, Linux, PSP and the iPod. ONScripter-EN is a branch of ONScripter that is maintained separately by the English-language community, for convenience and for ease of introducing enhancements that are suited to the community. PONScripter (abbreviation for "Proportional-OnScripter") is a fork of ONScripter-EN. Its stated goal is to provide an easy porting target for translation projects, with emphasis on Western languages. PONScripter has made heavy modifications to the ONScripter-EN base code, and is deliberately backwards-incompatible. PONScripter was originally maintained by Peter "Haeleth" Jolly. Since September 2009, it is maintained by Mion of Sonozaki Futago-tachi, the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni translation group. KScripter is a Flash-based scripting engine that was inspired by NScripter but uses ActionScript and SWF. NVList NVList is an open source visual novel engine that runs on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, and even online (through an applet). It is coded in the Java language, even though the scripts are written in Lua. It is being updated to this day on GitHub. It has all the functionality required for a Visual Novel, and more. It has support for resolution scaling and switching, along with pixel and vertex shaders. Ren'Py The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine is a free software engine. Ren'Py is a portmanteau of , the Japanese word for 'love', a common element of games made using Ren'Py; and Python, the programming language that Ren'Py runs on. The easy to learn script language allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels, while its Python scripting is enough for complex simulation games. Ren'Py has proved attractive to western hobbyists; over 1000 games use the Ren'Py engine, nearly all in English. Visual novels, kinetic novels, role-playing games, simulation games, and many other games can be made with Ren'py. Narrat Narrat is a free and open source narrative RPG engine that can easily make visual novels. Narrat uses web technologies to output games that run on Web Platforms, as well as Desktop. Narrat was inspired by games like Disco Elysium in its visual layout and presence of RPG mechanics, as well as dice-based tabletop role playing games style skill checks. It features an easy to learn script language that allows anyone to efficiently write large visual novels that can contain more advanced RPG mechanics like an inventory and quests. It has a system for customising UI based on CSS, which allows game developers to radically change the presentation of their games. The engine has been particularly noticed in the Spanish speaking interactive fiction community. Narrat has also been listed as one of the best free tools for narrative games by Game Developer. Suika2 Suika2 is a free and open source visual novel engine. It is lightweight, compact, and portable by design. Games created with Suika2 can run on Desktop, Mobile and Web Platforms. Having Japanese and International language options, it is one of the few Japanese Visual Novel Engines supporting multiple languages out of the box. Its simple command based syntax allows for easy creation of Visual Novels, while its GUI system provides the framework for a robust visual experience. The provided Visual Debugger allows easy testing of scripts, and facilitates packaging of game files. Suika2 Kirara, a drag-and-drop development tool for Suika2, is being developed. TyranoBuilder TyranoBuilder is a commercial visual novel engine. Projects created in this engine can be compiled for use on Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and browser-based web apps. Geek & Sundry said it uses "a simple drag-and-drop system and the interface makes it easy to see how the scene will look as you change elements on the fly." The GUI is similar to GameMaker, usually bypassing any need for scripting. TyranoBuilder acts as an interface for TyranoScript, a web-focused engine created in Japanese language (a partial English version exists). TyranoBuilder and TyranoScript use a syntax similar to the scripting language of KiriKirki, although less flexible. A unique feature of TyranoBuilder is its support for Live2D. Robert Ciesla, author of Game Development with Ren’Py: Introduction to Visual Novel Games Using Ren’Py, TyranoBuilder, and Twine said, "TyranoBuilder one ups Ren’Py in the visual category, since it includes an impressive character animation system called Live2D. Said system may be implementable in Ren’Py, but probably not as easily." Asobu, an independent game development community and shared workspace, hosted a TyranoBuilder Meetup in Japan in January 2020. A small group of developers (including the 'Tyrano Game Festival 2018' 2nd-place winner, Takumi Kato) were in attendance, and the event corrdinator said there will be future events. References Video game engines

Richard Storry Deans (1868 – 31 August 1938) was a British politician. Storry Deans studied at the University of London and then at Gray's Inn. He joined the Conservative Party, and was narrowly elected when he stood as its candidate in Sheffield Park at the 1923 general election. He increased his majority in 1924, but lost the seat in 1929. References External links 1868 births 1938 deaths Politics of Sheffield Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1924–1929 Members of Gray's Inn

Judith E. Tucker is a professor of history at Georgetown University. She was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Middle East Studies from 2004 until 2009. She is a past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America Education and career Tucker grew up in Connecticut and was first introduced to Middle East studies through reading 1001 Nights. She has a B.A. from Radcliffe College and an M.A. from Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981, and started at Georgetown University in 1983 as an assistant professor. From 2004 to 2009 Tucker was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. Tucker was president of the Middle East Studies Association from 2017 until 2020. Selected publications reviewed in Islamic Law and Society Honors and awards Tucker was named a distinguished lecturer in 2012 by the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. Personal life Tucker and her husband, Sharif Elmusa, met in graduate school and they have two children. References Harvard University alumni Radcliffe College alumni Georgetown University faculty Living people Middle Eastern studies scholars Year of birth missing (living people)

Mahmoud Khalil (born 1 June 1991) is an Egyptian handball player for Zamalek SC (handball) and the Egyptian national team. References External links 1991 births Living people Egyptian male handball players Expatriate handball players Egyptian expatriates in Qatar Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Egypt 21st-century Egyptian people

Mirificarma rhodoptera is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in Romania, Greece, Turkey, Israel and Lebanon. The wingspan measures 5-7.5 mm for males and 5.5–7 mm for females. There are two forms, a small and large form. The head is mid-brown. The forewings are mottled light brown, very faintly pink-tinged, and dark brown. Adults of the large form (typical form) are found in June and July, those of the small form in May and June. References Moths described in 1866 Mirificarma Moths of Europe Moths of Asia

The Mamiya RZ67 is a professional medium format single-lens reflex system camera manufactured by Mamiya. There are three successive models: the RZ67 Professional (first model released in 1982), RZ67 Professional II (released in 1993) and RZ67 Professional IID (released in 2004). It is primarily designed for studio use, but can also be used in the field. The RZ67 name is adopted from the model name of the Mamiya RB67, which was first introduced in 1970. Details The RZ67 is a modular camera system, meaning the lenses, viewfinders, ground glasses, film winders and film backs designed for the system are all interchangeable. It is primarily designed for studio use, but can also be used in the field. The RZ67 Sekor lenses have built-in electronic leaf shutters which are cocked and triggered from the body. Focusing is performed with a set of bellows. The camera accepts 120 and 220 film film with film backs configurable for 6×7cm, 6×6cm and 6×4.5cm exposures. Special-purpose backs allow for the use of Polaroid film as well as Quadra 72 4×5 sheet film. These backs are rotating, allowing for both landscape and portrait orientation without removing the back. Mamiya RB67 backs are also supported via the G-Adapter. The film speed is set on each RZ back via a dial. There are two versions of the 6×7 and 6×4.5 backs the model II versions have a second film counter to always show the film count on the top, regardless of the back orientation. The RZ67 operates on one 6V 4SR44 silver oxide battery, or 6V 4LR44 alkaline battery. It can be used in emergency mode fully mechanically with a fixed 1/400 sec shutter speed. Multiple exposures are possible in the M-mode. Mirror flip up is supported. The body has one standard flash hot shoe on its left side, one plug for a standard remote shutter cable release, and a socket for an electronic shutter trigger. The RZ67 measures 104 mm (W) × 133.5 mm (H) × 211.5 mm (L) with the 110mm lens, and weighs approximately 2.4 kg (5.29 lbs). The flange distance is 105 mm. The RZ67 name is adopted from the model name of the Mamiya RB67 (in which RB stands for "Revolving Back"), which was first introduced in 1970, thus the RZ67 also takes backs which can be rotated 90 degrees to provide a horizontal or vertical composition. The orientation is shown in the viewfinder with black guides. The viewfinder also hosts LEDs informing of the state of the camera (flash ready, low battery, dark slide not removed, shutter not cocked). In addition to manual operation (photographer chooses aperture and shutter speed), the RZ67 is able to operate in AEF mode with an AE viewfinder (AE being an abbreviation for automatic exposure), which transmits exposure information directly to the body. In RBL compatibility mode, the RZ67 is able to use RB67 lenses. The biggest difference between RB67 and RZ67 is that the RB67 is completely mechanical. The RZ67 has also mechanical couplings between the parts, but the shutter is electronic, and parts are able to transmit exposure information with electronic couplings. In addition, the RZ67 has plastic exterior body, which makes it somewhat lighter. Versions Original RZ67 Professional (RZ67 Pro I): Electronic shutter 8 sec: sec with full EV steps RZ67 Professional II (RZ67 Pro II): Some improvements of the electronics An additional knob was added to the right side of the focusing unit for fine tuning of the focus Shutter can be adjusted in 0.5 EV steps RZ67 Professional IID (RZ67 Pro IID): Has an integrated interface for communicating with digital backs (the earlier versions need either an interface plate or external triggering wires) Minor internal mechanical improvements Lenses There are a wide variety of lenses available for the RZ67: Four wide-angle lenses: 43 mm . prototype lens. ULD glass, floating system and aspherical. 21 mm equivalent 50 mm . Two versions exist, the non ULD and ULD L (contains floating element), the ULD version is clearly marked. 24 mm equivalent 65 mm , two versions (the second one has a floating element), 32 mm equivalent 75 mm , with floating element, 36 mm equivalent Three normal lenses: 90 mm , with extension tubes 1 and 2 has the largest magnification of all RZ67 lenses, able to shoot 1.92:1. A prototype lens of 90 3.5 M L-A with floating system also exists. 44 mm equivalent 110 mm , smallest of the RZ lenses, also has largest aperture, 53 mm equivalent 127 mm and an older model , 62 mm equivalent Eight telephoto lenses: 150 mm , 73 mm equivalent 180 mm , three generations,W-N version is the latest and has improved optics, 87 mm equivalent 210 mm APO, apochromatically corrected design, 102 mm equivalent 250 mm , 2 versions (newer one is APO), 121 mm equivalent 350 mm APO, 170 mm equivalent 360 mm , an older lens, 175 mm equivalent 500 mm APO and an older model , longest of the RZ lenses, 238 mm equivalent Seven specialty lenses: 37 mm Fisheye, (the widest RZ lens), captures 180 degrees diagonally across the frame, does not correct distortion, 18 mm equivalent 75 mm Short Barrel, possible to use with a tilt/shift adapter for perspective and focus plane control, needs an SB spacer for normal 75 mm use, 36 mm equivalent 75 mm Shift, perspective control lens, needs manual cocking of the shutter, 36 mm equivalent 140 mm Macro, two versions - "Mamiya M Macro L-A" and "Mamiya-Sekor Macro Z W" (both containing floating element system with "M" being the newer of the two, producing better results), able to shoot 1:3 without extension tubes or bellows and 1.22:1 with extension tubes 1 and 2, 68 mm equivalent 180 mm Variable Soft Focus, uses three interchangeable diffusion and spherical aberration disks for soft effect, 87 mm equivalent 180 mm Short Barrel, for tilt and shift adapter, needs an SB spacer for normal 180 mm use, 87 mm equivalent 100-200 mm Zoom, the only RZ zoom lens, 48-97 mm equivalent Most RB67 lenses which are mechanical only All lenses have internal electronic Seiko #1 shutters with a maximum 1/400 sec speed, PC-type X flash sync plug, T-switch for long exposures, a plug for standard remote cable release for B exposures, depth of field preview lever, distance scale, aperture adjust ring. In "B" mode, the RZ67 models will expose up to 30 seconds (a warning beep will sound for the last 10 seconds). In "T" mode, the camera can expose indefinitely without drawing power from the battery. Most lenses, except for the 37 mm, 75 mm shift lenses and the 500 mm lenses have 77 mm filter threads on the front of the lens. The 75 mm shift lenses and the 500 mm lenses have 105 mm filter threads. Some lenses have a floating element; focusing these lenses involves setting a subject distance ring on the lens after focusing with the bellows. Accessories Waist level viewfinder with a magnifier loupe (interchangeable with different dioptre adjusts) AE prism, prism and chimney viewfinders Vertical split image, matte, matte with corners, checker (default), microprism, crosshair and rangefinderspot microprism ground glasses Variable dioptre flip-up magnifier for RB and RZ prism finders G-2 Bellows lens hood (a simpler version of the G-3 Bellows lens hood) G-3 Bellows lens hood (65–350 mm lens adjustable) Bellows front hood extension for G-3 bellows lens hood 100–200 mm zoom lens mounting ring, prevents G-3 from rotating when zooming Gelatine filter holder for 50–350 mm lenses Adjustable sun shield plate Metz SCA 395 flash module Hot shoe PC flash adapter Quick shoe for fast attaching and detaching for tripods Mirror-up dual cable release (attaches both to body and lens) External battery case for keeping battery warm in cold weather Electromagnetic cable release Left hand grip (L-Grip) and U-shaped Aerial Grip, these attach to the electronic coupling on the body Adjustable flash bracket Infrared transmitter and receiver Tilt/Shift adapter for 75 mm and 180 mm SB lenses, with special electronic cable release adapter Ground glass for Tilt/Shift adapter Power winder, winds 1 frame per 1.5 sec, uses six AA cells, attaches to the base of the body 1.4× tele converter for best use with 90 mm, 110 mm, 127 mm, 140 mm, 180 mm and 100–200 mm lenses 45 mm and 82 mm auto extension tubes, electronically coupled short barrel spacer for use with the 75 mm and 180 mm short barrel lenses without the Tilt/Shift adapter at infiniti viewfinder masks for the 6×6 cm and 6×4.5 cm backs Polaroid also made a radio transmitter and receiver for the RZ series. Famous photos Arguably the most famous photo taken with this camera is the "Bliss" photo used as the default background for Microsoft Windows XP. Seen by many millions of people every day, this photo was taken by photographer Charles O'Rear in 1996. RZ67 was used by Annie Leibovitz for many of her famous works in the 1980s and 1990s References Further reading Bob Shell (1995). Mamiya Pro Guide. Hove Foto Books, Newpro, Faringdon Oxon., UK. . External links In English: RZ67II Review in ephotozine (2001) by David Tarn Mamiya RZ Lens Table by Christoph Sensen Mamiya RZ Closeup Tables for Film Backs by Christoph Sensen Man behind famous Windows XP wallpaper In French: Mamiya RZ67 on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand In Japanese: The 6×4.5 and 6×7 SLRs in the Camera Museum of the Mamiya official website, covers the original RZ67 Professional 120 film cameras Mamiya SLR cameras ja:マミヤ・オーピーのカメラ製品一覧#マミヤRZ67シリーズ

Lithium is a census-designated place and former village located in Perry County, Missouri, United States. The population was 92 at the 2020 census. The 2000 Census found Lithium to have zero residents; an Associated Press article, however, stated that about 50 people in fact resided there, but may have been counted as part of Perry County's rural population. Lithium had a ZIP Code of 63775, but it has since been declared by the USPS to be "Not Acceptable - Use Perryville." Etymology Lithium's location is due to two natural mineral springs; one of the two springs contained lithium salts, giving the town its name. History Lithium was first surveyed as a town in 1882. The first settlers were Dr. Henry Clay Fish, Richard P. Dobbs and James G. Christian, who all came to Missouri from Illinois. The town was incorporated in 1883 and the first mayor was Richard C. Lisenby. The location of the town was determined by two mineral springs, which were highly prized on account of their medicinal qualities, which led to the construction of a bath house by Thomas King in 1883. A Baptist church, Lithium Baptist, was organized in 1885 and a Catholic church, St. John the Evangelist, was organized in 1896. By 1912 the town had two general stores, two mills, a brick yard and population of 98. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were no people living in the village. 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 89 people, 28 households, and 22 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 32 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 98.88% White and 1.12% from other races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.12% of the population. There were 28 households, of which 53.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.3% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 21.4% were non-families. 7.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 3.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.18 and the average family size was 3.27. The median age in the village was 27.5 years. 34.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.7% were from 25 to 44; 20.2% were from 45 to 64; and 10.1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 57.3% male and 42.7% female. Gallery Location of nearby communities References Unincorporated communities in Perry County, Missouri Census-designated places in Missouri Populated places disestablished in 1986

Muszkowice is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ciepłowody, within Ząbkowice Śląskie County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately east of Ciepłowody, north-east of Ząbkowice Śląskie, and south of the regional capital Wrocław. References Muszkowice

Cheetah was an American rock music and counterculture magazine launched in October1967. Although influential, its run was short-lived, closing in May1968. Published by Diners Club founder Matty Simmons and partner Len Mogel, Cheetah was the first project of their Twenty First Century Communications Inc. Following the close of the magazine, Simmons joined the leadership team of National Lampoon, even co-producing the 1978 box office hit comedy Animal House with Ivan Reitman. Acting as Cheetah'''s first editor was novelist-journalist Jules Siegel, briefly an associate of Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson, although he was soon replaced by Larry Dietz, assisted by Ellen Willis. At the time, a girlfriend of fellow Cheetah writer and music critic Robert Christgau, Willis went on to become the first rock critic for The New Yorker and later wrote for Rolling Stone, Village Voice'', and other papers. See also "Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!" References Music magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1967 Magazines published in New York City

The Victorian Railways P class was a class of goods locomotives operated by the Victorian Railways between 1860 and 1921. References Specific External links P class locomotive no. 7, circa 1865 P class steam locomotive no. 3 0-6-0 locomotives P class 1859 Railway locomotives introduced in 1859 Broad gauge locomotives in Australia Scrapped locomotives Beyer, Peacock locomotives

Squaw Rapids Airport, formerly , is located south-west of Thunder Rapids Lodge, Saskatchewan, Canada, in the RM of Moose Range No. 486. It is north-east of E.B. Campbell Hydroelectric Station and Tobin Lake by the Saskatchewan River. See also List of airports in Saskatchewan List of defunct airports in Canada References Defunct airports in Saskatchewan Moose Range No. 486, Saskatchewan

Skirroceras bayleanum is a Stephanoceratacean (ammonite) species belonging to the family Stephanoceratidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Jurassic period, in the Bajocian age. Description Skirroceras bayleanum has a shell reaching about of diameter. Distribution Fossils of Skirroceras bayleanum are found in the Middle Jurassic Bajocian age marine strata of United Kingdom and France. References Geological Survey Professional Paper, Vol. 755-757 External links MNHN Jurassic ammonites Stephanoceratoidea

Vladimir Malozemlin is a Soviet Olympic middle-distance runner. He represented his country in the men's 1500 meters at the 1980 Summer Olympics. His time was a 3:38.68 in the first heat, and a 3:43.56 in the semifinals. References 1956 births Living people Soviet male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics People from Novokuybyshevsk

Matt Schmit (born 1979) is an American state politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represented District 21 in southeastern Minnesota. Early life, education, and career Schmit was born and raised in Red Wing, Minnesota. He graduated from Red Wing High School. He attended Saint John's University, graduating with a B.A. in biology and political science. He later attended the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, graduating with a M.P.P. He is a public policy consultant. Minnesota Senate Schmit was first elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2012. He lost re-election to Republican Mike Goggin in 2016. While a member of the Senate, Schmit resided in Red Wing, Minnesota. Illinois Office of Broadband In 2019, Schmit was appointed the head of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's Office of Broadband. Schmit will manage the “Connect Illinois” program and work with the state's Broadband Advisory Council. References External links 1979 births Living people Democratic Party Minnesota state senators Year of birth uncertain 21st-century American politicians

Morristown is a town in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,434. Morristown is the largest town by population in Lamoille County, and its central village of Morrisville serves as the county's main commercial center. Geography Morristown is in southern Lamoille County, to the east of the main range of the Green Mountains. The Lamoille River flows through the northern part of the town, with Ryder Brook and others joining the river from a broad valley to the south. The village of Morrisville is in the northern part of town along the Lamoille River, east of Lake Lamoille, a small reservoir. Several Vermont state highways converge in Morrisville. Vermont Route 100 leads northwest to Hyde Park, the Lamoille County shire town, and south to Stowe, while Vermont Route 12 leads southeast to Montpelier, the state capital. Vermont Route 15 passes through Morristown north of Morrisville village, leading northwest past Hyde Park to Jeffersonville and southeast to Hardwick. Vermont Route 15A leads east out of Morrisville, running to Route 15. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which are land and , or 1.02%, are water. Climate This climatic region is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold) winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Morristown has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. Demographics At the 2000 census there were 5,139 people, 2,101 households, and 1,317 families living in the town. The population density was 100.1 people per square mile (38.6/km2). There were 2,271 housing units at an average density of 44.2 per square mile (17.1/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 97.51% White, 0.35% African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.47% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 1.21% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.78%. Of the 2,101 households 31.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.5% were married couples living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.3% were non-families. 27.8% of households were one person and 10.2% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.92. The age distribution was 24.2% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 24.1% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% 65 or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.2 males. The median household income was $33,359 and the median family income was $40,456. Males had a median income of $28,050 versus $21,014 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,195. About 6.9% of families and 10.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.1% of those under age 18 and 9.9% of those age 65 or over. Notable people H. Henry Powers, lawyer and US congressman (1891–1901) Leslie M. Shaw, businessman and lawyer; Treasury Secretary (1902–1907); 17th governor of Iowa; 1908 candidate for the nomination of the Republican party Shap Smith, lawyer; Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives (2009–2017) References External links Towns in Vermont Towns in Lamoille County, Vermont

This article show all participating team squads at the 2007 Pan American Games, played by eight countries held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Head Coach: José Roberto Guimarães Head Coach: Eladio Vargas Head Coach: Antonio Perdomo Head Coach: Beato Miguel Cruz Head Coach: Macario González Head Coach: Enio de Figueiredo Head Coach: Juan Carlos Núñez Head Coach: Susan Woodstra See also 2007 Men's Pan American Games Volleyball Squads References NORCECA 2007 in volleyball P Events at the 2007 Pan American Games

Thomas Kennedy (died 18 September 1947) was an Irish Labour Party politician and trade union official. He was elected to the Irish Free State Seanad in 1934 for 9 years and served until the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936. He was defeated at the 1938 Seanad election. He was elected to the 4th Seanad Éireann in 1943 by the Labour Panel, and was re-elected at the 1944 Seanad election. He died in office on 18 September 1947. His son Fintan Kennedy was also a trade union official and senator. References Year of birth missing 1947 deaths Labour Party (Ireland) senators Members of the 1934 Seanad Members of the 4th Seanad Members of the 5th Seanad Irish trade unionists Place of birth missing Labour Panel senators

Michelle Beaudoin (born August 25, 1975) is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Jenny Kelley in the sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Penny Foster in the teen drama Madison. Career Beaudoin played Sabrina's best friend Marnie in the Sabrina the Teenage Witch movie, and Sabrina's best friend Jenny Kelley in the first season of the series. Apart from Melissa Joan Hart, Beaudoin was the only other original cast member from the film that went on to the Sabrina the Teenage Witch television series. Beaudoin's character was removed from the series after only one season. The show's star Melissa Joan Hart said characters left, because of the backstage drama, such as audience reaction and payments for actors and the writers who created the characters. Beaudoin had earlier starred as Penny Foster in the Canadian teen drama series Madison, which earned her a 1994 Gemini Awards nomination for "Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series". Beaudoin has also guest-starred in many popular television series including Da Vinci's Inquest and The Outer Limits as well as several independent films such as Waydowntown, Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed, Sweetwater and Sunset Strip. Filmography Awards and nominations References External links 1975 births Living people Actresses from Edmonton Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Franco-Albertan people

Gibbs & Cox is an American naval architecture firm that specializes in designing surface warships. Founded in 1922 in New York City, Gibbs & Cox is now headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The firm has offices in New York City; Washington, D.C.; Newport News, Virginia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and New Orleans, LA. In 2003, more than 150 warships built to the firm's designs, including 60 percent of the U.S. Navy's surface combatant fleet, were on active duty in nearly 20 navies. History The firm was founded as "Gibbs Brothers" by self-taught naval architect William Francis Gibbs and his brother Frederic H. Gibbs. The name was changed when architect Daniel H. Cox of Cox & Stevens joined the firm in 1929. In 1931, Gibbs & Cox designed the MV Savarona, a large luxury yacht. According to company officials, more than 70 percent of U.S. tonnage launched during World War II was built to Gibbs & Cox designs. Ship types included destroyers, LST landing craft, minesweepers, tankers, cruisers, Liberty Ships, and a variety of conversions. In 1950, Gibbs & Cox designed the , the largest liner ever built in the United States and the fastest liner built anywhere. On May 7, 2021, Leidos completed acquisition of Gibbs & Cox for $380 million. Gibbs & Cox operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary and is combined with Leidos’ maritime systems division. Ships designed Among the ship classes designed by Gibbs & Cox are: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Captain-class frigate EC2-S-C1-class transport ("Liberty ships") Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship Gleaves-class destroyer Mahan-class destroyer Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate Tacoma-class frigate Wind-class icebreaker Among the individual ships designed by Gibbs & Cox are: SS America SS Malolo SS Santa Paula SS Santa Rosa SS United States Model shop From 1939 until 1962, the firm operated a model shop that produced high-quality ship models that are considered among "the very finest examples of the steel ship modeler's art ever to be seen." Of these, the most expensive and elaborate was a 1/24-scale cutaway model of the . This model, which is over 16 feet long, shows the complete inner structure on the starboard, and the exterior on the port. Another notable model is the as she appeared on September 2, 1945, at 9:02 in the morning, the time of the Japanese surrender. This 1/48-scale ship required 77,000 man-hours to construct, and is as of September 2012 on display at the Navy Museum, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC. Contracts CG(X): "Awarded a Naval Sea Systems Command multi-year contract for program management support, technical management support, ship design support and engineering" in partnership with Alion Science and Technology Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship: design and support of and subsequent ships. FFG(X): On 30 April 2020, it was announced that Fincantieri Marinette Marine's FREMM multipurpose frigate had won the contest and was awarded a $795 million contract for detailed design and construction of the lead ship, with options for nine additional ships. DDG(X): Design and engineering support contract awarded in 2022. References External links Gibbs & Cox Official site Design companies disestablished in 1922 Engineering companies of the United States 1922 establishments in New York (state) American companies established in 1922 American naval architects Companies based in Arlington County, Virginia 2021 mergers and acquisitions American corporate subsidiaries

Hoogeveen Airport (Dutch: Vliegveld Hoogeveen) is a small general aviation airfield located northeast of Hoogeveen, a town in the northeastern Netherlands. There are several flying clubs and flying schools located at the airport. It has one grass runway with a length of . Once per year the special event Wings and Wheels is hosted here. It is a show with classic planes and cars. Special aircraft from all over The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium come to show them to the people. There is also a steakhouse on the grounds. Fokker The Airport was initially intended for the Fokker company when they made their older Propeller airplanes. See also List of airports in the Netherlands References Vliegveld Hoogeveen (official website) External links Airports in Drenthe Hoogeveen

Gregory Michael Quade (pronounced: KWAH-dee) (born March 12, 1957) is an American professional baseball coach and manager. The manager of the Rochester Red Wings, Triple-A farm system affiliate of the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball from 2015–17, Quade is currently the roving outfield coordinator in the Minnesota farm system. He had spent as a roving outfield and baserunning instructor for the New York Yankees' organization. Quade played college baseball at the University of New Orleans, and played professionally in Minor League Baseball (MiLB) as an outfielder, third baseman and second baseman. He became a MiLB manager after he retired as a player. From 2000 through 2002, he served as a coach for the Oakland Athletics, and he coached the Cubs from 2007 through 2010. He took over as the Cubs' manager in 2010, and held the position through 2011. Playing career Quade played college baseball at the University of New Orleans. He was named to the Sun Belt Conference "All-time baseball team" as part of the Conference's 30th anniversary celebration in January 2006. Quade was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 22nd round (560th overall choice) of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft. He played for the Pirates' minor league system through 1983 at OF, 3B, 2B, and SS. Managerial career After retiring as a player, Quade was named the manager of the Macon Pirates, who he managed in 1985 and 1986. He managed the Rockford Expos in 1989 and 1990, the Harrisburg Senators in 1991 and 1992, the Ottawa Lynx in 1993, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Red Barons in 1994 and 1995, the West Michigan Whitecaps in 1996, the Huntsville Stars in 1997, the Edmonton Trappers in 1998, the Vancouver Canadians in 1999, and the Iowa Cubs in 2003–06. Quade was the Minor League Manager of the Year in 1991 with the Harrisburg Senators and 1993 with the Ottawa Lynx. In 1997, he managed the West Michigan Whitecaps to a league championship and the Águilas Cibaeñas to win the Caribbean World Series. He managed the Vancouver Canadians to victory in the 1999 AAA World Series. In November 1999, Quade managed a team of minor leaguers representing the United States to a Fourth place finish at the IBAF International Cup held in Sydney, Australia. Quade also served as the first base coach of the Oakland Athletics between 2000 and 2002 as well as on the Chicago Cubs bench staff during the 2003 playoff run. Quade won his 1,000th game as a minor league manager on April 18, 2004. During July of the 2006 season, Quade substituted for then Cubs third base coach Chris Speier. Speier was out for three games of third base/coaching duties because of a DUI. In October 2006, Quade was named one of the five finalists for the 2007 Chicago Cubs managerial opening. Quade, along with AA manager Pat Listach, were two Cubs minor league candidates interviewed for the job opening. Instead, Lou Piniella came out of retirement to accept the job. Quade was subsequently promoted to serve as the third base coach for the Cubs. Quade was promoted to serve as interim manager of the Cubs after Piniella's sudden retirement on August 22, 2010. On October 19, the "interim" label was removed from his job title, and he was given a two-year contract with a club option for a third year to remain as manager of the Cubs. On November 2, 2011, however, Quade was terminated as manager by Theo Epstein, Cubs president of baseball operations. In 2013, the New York Yankees hired Quade as a roving outfield and baserunning instructor. Managerial record Personal He is a 1975 graduate of Prospect High School in Mt. Prospect, Illinois. He attended the University of New Orleans (1976–1979). He was diagnosed with Alopecia universalis at age three. References External links Steve Holley interviews Mike Quade for Inside The Ivy Mike Quade interviewed as part of WGN Radio Cubs Central Podcast 1957 births Living people Alexandria Dukes players Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players Chicago Cubs coaches Iowa Cubs managers Major League Baseball first base coaches Chicago Cubs managers Major League Baseball third base coaches American expatriate baseball people in the Dominican Republic New Orleans Privateers baseball players Oakland Athletics coaches Rochester Red Wings managers Salem Pirates players Sportspeople from Evanston, Illinois Watertown Pirates players

The Sudost (; ) is a river in Bryansk Oblast in Russia and Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine. It is a right tributary of the Desna. Some sections of the river form the Russia–Ukraine border. The length of the Sudost is . The area of its basin is approximately . The river freezes up in November and December, and stays icebound until late March–early April. The town of Pochep and the urban-type settlement of Pogar stand on the river. References Rivers of Bryansk Oblast Rivers of Chernihiv Oblast

Nelson Rodrigo Pizarro Donoso (born 30 January 1970) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Chile, Germany and Venezuela. Club career A product of Universidad Católica youth system, in Chilean Primera División he also played for Cobresal (1992), Deportes La Serena (1993), Palestino (1994–95), Deportes Concepción (1996) and Huachipato (1997). In 1998 he moved to Germany and joined Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2. Bundesliga, managed by Klaus Allofs. He made 22 appearances in the 1998–99 season and two appearances in the DFB-pokal, scoring 2 two goals in the last. Then, he moved to Venezuela and played for Deportivo Italchacao in the 2000 Torneo Clausura. International career Pizarro represented Chile at under-20 level in the 1988 South American Championship Personal life After his retirement, he graduated as a lawyer. Honours Universidad Católica Copa Chile: 1991 References External links Nelson Pizarro at Oocities.org 1970 births Living people Footballers from Santiago Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers C.D. Cobresal footballers Deportes La Serena footballers Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Deportes Concepción (Chile) footballers Huachipato FC footballers Fortuna Düsseldorf players Deportivo Miranda F.C. players Chilean Primera División players 2. Bundesliga players Venezuelan Primera División players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Germany Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Venezuela Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Venezuela Men's association football forwards Chilean lawyers 21st-century Chilean lawyers

Absher is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States. Its elevation is 906 feet (276 m). References Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky

The Cati River is a river of Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil. See also List of rivers of Rio Grande do Sul References Brazilian Ministry of Transport Rivers of Rio Grande do Sul

Ricquelle Kristina Farquharson (born 12 November 1998) is an American-raised Jamaican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Jamaica women's national team. She played in college for the University of South Florida. International career Farquharson made her senior debut for Jamaica on 6 October 2019. References 1998 births Living people Women's association football goalkeepers Jamaican women's footballers Jamaica women's international footballers American women's soccer players Soccer players from Broward County, Florida People from Davie, Florida African-American women's soccer players American people of Jamaican descent South Florida Bulls women's soccer players 21st-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American women

Campodea wallacei is a species of two-pronged bristletail in the family Campodeidae. References Further reading Diplura Animals described in 1918

The Enemy Within () is a Greek film, directed by Yorgos Tsemberopoulos. The film released in 2013 and it stars Manolis Mavromatakis and Maria Zorba. Tsemberopoulos has described the film as a social drama that "deals with whether morally conscious people can stick to their principles in the very difficult times we live in." The film premiered at the 2013 Athens International Film Festival. It won three awards in Hellenic Film Academy Awards in categories Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Plot A progressive and open-minded man, owner of a flower shop, lives in Athens with his family, his wife and two teenage children. His serene and ordinary life turns over when some burglars, invade in his house. After this event, his perception and his ideas change. He feels unsafe, fear but mostly rage. His anger drives him to find the burglars in order to revenge them. But this act destroys the family calmness and he starts to live under the fear. Cast Manolis Mavromatakis Maria Zorba Yiorgos Gallos Antonis Karistinos Thanasis Papageorgiou Awards References External links Greek crime drama films 2013 films

Leocadio is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Paolo da San Leocadio (1447–1520), Italian painter Antonio Leocadio Guzmán (1801–1884), Venezuelan politician, journalist, military leader and father of Antonio Guzmán Blanco Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga (1825–1891), full name of Pedro II of Brazil, Brazilian monarch

Acer henryi is an Asian species of maple. It has been found only in China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang). Acer henryi is a small tree up to 10 meters tall, dioecious (meaning that male and female flowers are on separate trees). Leaves are compound with 3 leaflets, thin and papery, up to 12 cm wide and 5 cm across usually with 3 lobes, with a waxy, whitish underside. Leaflets sometimes have a few shallow teeth but no lobes. References External links line drawing for Flora of China drawing 1 at top henryi Plants described in 1889 Flora of China Dioecious plants

The 1992 Korean League Cup, also known as the Adidas Cup 1992, was the second competition of the Korean League Cup. Ilhwa Chunma became the champions. League Table Matches Final Awards Source: See also 1992 K League References External links Official website RSSSF 1992 1992 1992 domestic association football cups 1992 in South Korean football

Anne Bierwirth is a German contralto, focused on concerts and recordings of sacred music, appearing internationally. Besides the standard repertoire such as Bach's Christmas Oratorio, she has explored rarely performed Baroque music such as Bach's St Mark Passion and Reinhard Keiser's Passion oratorio Der blutige und sterbende Christus. Career Bierwirth was born in Unkel, where she grew up and received first singing lessons from the church musician K. Wester. She won the national competition Jugend musiziert in 1998. She then studied voice at the Folkwang Hochschule with Ulf Bästlein. She moved in 2001 to study voice and also historically informed performance at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt with Hedwig Fassbender. She also attended the opera class. From 2004, she studied with Heidrun Kordes, graduating in 2007 with a diploma. That summer, she appeared as Ottavia in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Theater Gießen. She appeared in concert with ensembles such as the Freiburger Vokalensemble and La Stagione Frankfurt, also touring internationally. Bierwirth took part in a 2009 performance and live recording of cantatas by C. P. E. Bach, composed when he was director of music in Hamburg, with other soloists and the ensemble Les Amis de Philippe, conducted by Ludger Rémy. She performed all alto solos in Bach's St Matthew Passion in St. Martin, Idstein, alongside Ulrich Cordes as the Evangelist, Andreas Pruys as the vox Christi, soprano Katia Plaschka and bass Klaus Mertens that year, in a performance with period instruments. She sang the alto solo in Cantatas 4–6 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Erlöserkirche, Bad Homburg, on 8 January 2011, with the church's Bach-Chor conducted by . She recorded church music by Zelenka in 2011 with the Marburger Bachchor, soloists Katia Plaschka, Christian Dietz and Markus Flaig, and the orchestra L'arpa festante conducted by Nicolo Sokoli. In 2013, she recorded a reconstructed version of Bach's St Mark Passion with the Knabenchor Hannover, conducted by Jörg Breiding, in 2013. In 2018, she took part in a performance and recording of the first German Passion oratorio, Reinhard Keiser's Der blutige und sterbende Christus, at the Bachfest Leipzig, conducted by . In December 2018, she appeared as soloist in a complete performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Unionskirche, Idstein, with Thomas Jacobs as the Evangelist and Johannes Hill as the bass, the second evening conducted by Carsten Koch. Bierwirth has performed regularly with the ensembles Rheinische Kantorei and Das kleine Konzert conducted by Hermann Max, such as in 2019 in Bach cantatas at the Musikfest Stuttgart at the Stiftskirche, in Telemann's St Mark Passion and in Buxtehude's Das Jüngste Gericht (The Last Judgment) at Knechtsteden Abbey, in Hamburg in Telemann's Ode an Hamburg, Admiralitätsmusik and Wassermusik in a scenic performance, in Bach's motets Jesu, meine Freude and Ich lasse dich nicht and motets by Johann Michael Bach and Johann Christoph Bach at the Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden, conducted by Edzard Burchard, and repeated at the Köthener Herbst festival. Bierwirth was planned as the soloist in an oratorio with light show at the Cologne Cathedral on 7 and 8 May 2020. The work Lux in Tenebris (Light in darkness), subtitled Ein Oratorium für den Frieden (An oratorio for peace) was composed by Helge Burggrabe for narrator, four soloists, choir, organ and orchestra. The concerts with live broadcast were meant to celebrate 75 years of peace after World War II. The performances, planned to be performed by the Cathedral choirs of Cologne, Berlin and Bruges conducted by Winfried Krane, were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 29 November 2020, she performed in a cantata service at the Dreikönigskirche, Frankfurt, in Georg Böhm's chorale cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland with four other soloists and no choir due to the restrictions. She was a soloist in a Europe-wide broadcast of Christmas music on 20 December 2020, singing in a Christmas oratorio compiled from cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann, and performed that day at the Cologne conducted by Max. References External links German contraltos German performers of early music Folkwang University of the Arts alumni Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts alumni Living people Year of birth missing (living people)

The Essex Leopards, or just Leopards as they were more commonly known, was a British basketball team competing in the British Basketball League. Established in 1994, the Leopards franchise was one of the most successful teams of the 1990s, dominating the domestic scene with local rivals London Towers. Originally playing out of the London Arena as Leopards and later Greater London Leopards, the team was moved to Brentwood in 1999, and in 2002 the name was changed to the Essex Leopards. For financial reasons the team decided to "sit out" the 2003–04 season of the BBL and while every effort was made to find a buyer for the franchise, the Leopards soon folded completely. Season-by-season records New team This was not the end though, as in 2004 a merger took place between Ware Rebels and Leopards Alive (an organisation of supporters of the defunct Greater London Leopards), and renamed as the Essex & Herts Leopards. In 2006, the team was renamed again to London Leopards, and currently play in EBL Division 1, the league below the BBL. See also Essex Leopards References Basketball teams established in 1994 Basketball teams disestablished in 2003 Defunct basketball teams in the United Kingdom Basketball teams in London Former British Basketball League teams 1994 establishments in England 1994 disestablishments in England Brentwood (Essex town) Sport in Essex

The Stainless Steel Rat for President is the fifth Stainless Steel Rat novel, published by Harry Harrison in 1982. Plot summary The Stainless Steel Rat for President is a comic science fiction novel in which interstellar con man Slippery Jim DiGriz and his family clean up corruption on the banana republic world of Paraiso-Aqui. After realizing that a planetary dictator is rigging elections, the rat decides to oust him by running as a competing candidate. As his Vice President, he chooses a fair man who should have been president if not for the corruption. Since the entire media, military, and political establishment is on the side of the dictator, DiGriz has few tools at his disposal. He uses political judo on his opponent. After deliberately angering the dictator into creating a blowout political election, DiGriz conducts a live interview in a precinct where 100% of the vote went to the incumbent. He then asks each villager to publicly state who they voted for and they all say DiGriz. This is clear evidence that fraud was committed, which forces a redo of the election with better balloting controls. After winning the (mostly) fair election, DiGriz feigns being assassinated so that the Vice President can take over. Reception Ken Ramstead reviewed The Stainless Steel Rat for President in Ares Magazine #17 and commented that "The Stainless Steel Rat for President is the product of a craftsman comfortable and satisfied with his work; Harrison has hit his stride with his latest effort, and his readers can hopefully look forward to more of the same." In other media In Computer Gaming World, editor Johnny Wilson adapted scenes from The Stainless Steel Rat for President into unofficial scenarios for the SSI tactical space combat game Galactic Gladiators. Reviews Review by Jude Camillone (1982) in Fantasy Newsletter, #54 December 1982 Review by Joseph Nicholas (1983) in Paperback Inferno, Volume 6, Number 4 Review by Frank Catalano (1983) in Amazing Science Fiction, May 1983 Review by John Silbersack (1983) in Heavy Metal, September 1983 References 1982 novels

James Harry McGregor (September 30, 1896 – October 7, 1958) was an American World War I veteran who served nine terms as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1940 to 1958. Biography James Harry McGregor was born on a farm near Unionport, Jefferson County, Ohio. He attended the public schools, West Lafayette College, and Oberlin College. World War I During the First World War, he served as a sergeant with the One Hundred and Seventy-sixth Field Artillery, United States Army, in 1917 and 1918. Political career He was engaged in the lumber and general contracting business at West Lafayette, Ohio, 1918-1945. He was a member of the school board of West Lafayette, Ohio, for eight years. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1935 to 1940, serving as minority whip from 1937 to 1939 and as majority leader and speaker pro tempore in 1939 and 1940. McGregor was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William A. Ashbrook. He was reelected to the Seventy-seventh and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served until his death. He served as chairman of the Special Committee on Chamber Improvements during the Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses. He had been renominated to the Eighty-sixth Congress. Death He died in Coshocton, Ohio, in 1958 at the age of 62. Interment in Fairfield Cemetery in West Lafayette, Ohio. McGregor voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99) Footnotes Sources The Political Graveyard 1896 births 1958 deaths Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives People from Jefferson County, Ohio United States Army personnel of World War I 20th-century American politicians People from Coshocton County, Ohio Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio

Megan Ki'llani Faraimo (born July 14, 2000) is an American professional softball pitcher. She played college softball at UCLA from 2019 to 2023, where she was named a three-time All-American by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA). As a sophomore in 2020, she was named Softball America Pitcher of the Year. High school career Faraimo attended Cathedral Catholic High School in San Diego, California where she was a two-sport star, playing volleyball for three years, and softball for four years. As a junior in 2017, she went 27–1 with a 0.60 earned run average (ERA) and 251 strikeouts in innings to help lead CCHS to a CIF-SDS Open Division title, as well as a Western League championship. Following the season she was named CIF-SDS Pitcher of the Year and Western League Most Valuable Player. As a senior in 2018, she went 26–3 in 2018, with a 0.23 ERA and 405 strikeouts in innings and allowed just 47 hits and eight walks. She had 17 shutout and five no-hitters, including four perfect games. Her 405 strikeouts were the second-highest single-season total in CIF-SDS history. Following an outstanding season, she was named Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year, and San Diego Union-Tribune Pitcher of the Year. She was the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2018 according to FloSoftball and Extra Inning Softball. She finished her career with 1,029 strikeouts, and with the school's all-time record for most wins (78), shutouts (45) and perfect games (five). College career Faraimo began her collegiate career for the UCLA Bruins in 2019. During her freshman year she appeared in 27 games, with 21 starts, and posted a 16–4 record with a 1.41 ERA and 143 strikeouts in 114 innings. She threw 11 complete games, six solo shutouts, and two no-hitters, while holding opponents to a .166 batting average. She was a five-time Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honoree. She ranked third among Pac-12 pitchers in ERA and opponents batting average, tied for seventh in wins and eighth in strikeouts. Following an outstanding season, she was named Pac-12 Conference Freshman of the Year, All-Pac-12 First Team, Pac-12 All-Freshman Team, and was a top-ten finalist for the NFCA National Freshman of the Year. During her sophomore year in 2020, she led the Bruins with a 13–1 record, a 0.85 ERA and 149 strikeouts in innings. She pitched complete games in all 10 of her starts, including five shutouts and limited opponents to a .153 batting average. She ended the season with a streak of consecutive scoreless innings, before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She ranked first among all pitchers in the nation in strikeout-to-walk ratio (29.80), second in strikeouts, tied for second in wins, fourth in walks allowed per seven innings (0.39), and tied for sixth in shutouts. She ranked first among Pac-12 pitchers in ERA, opposing batting average, strikeouts and wins and second in innings pitched. Following the season she was named Softball America Pitcher of the Year. During her redshirt sophomore year in 2021, she appeared in 28 games, with 19 starts, and posted a 19–3 record, a 1.10 ERA and 184 strikeouts in innings. On February 24, 2021, she pitched the 19th perfect game in UCLA program history. She recorded five strikeouts, and threw just 64 pitches with a 67.2 strike percentage, in a 14–0 victory against San Diego State. On April 17, 2021, she recorded a career-high 17 strikeouts in a one-hit shutout against Oklahoma State. She finished the season with 13 complete games, including eight shutouts and limited opponents to a .142 batting average. She allowed zero or one earned run in 22 of her 28 appearances. She ranked first among Pac-12 pitchers in opposing batting average, second in ERA, fourth in strikeouts and tied for fourth in wins, and led the nation in strikeout-to-walk ratio (14.15). Following the season she was named a finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, All-Pac-12 First Team, and NFCA First-Team All-American. During her redshirt-junior year in 2022, she posted a 22–4 record, with seven saves, a 1.78 ERA, and 244 strikeouts in innings. She led the Pac-12 in strikeouts (244), batters struck out while looking (59), saves (6) and appearances (35). She ranks second in program history in solo perfect games (3) and holds the single-season saves record (7). Following an outstanding season, she was named the Pac-12 Conference Pitcher of the Year and a second-team All-American. She became the second player in conference history to win both Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and Pitcher of the Year in a career, after Rachel Garcia. During her redshirt-senior year in 2023, she posted a 28–2 record, with a 1.11 ERA, and 215 strikeouts. She led the NCAA in wins and became the fourth pitcher in UCLA history to surpass 100 career wins. Following an outstanding the season she was named a finalist for USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, All-Pac-12 First Team, and the Pac-12 Conference Pitcher of the Year for the second consecutive year. Professional career On April 17, 2023, Faraimo was drafted fourth overall by the USSSA Pride in the 2023 Women's Professional Fastpitch draft. On May 8, 2023, Faraimo was drafted second overall by Athletes Unlimited Softball in the 2023 Softball College draft, officially signing on to compete in both the 2023 AUX Softball Season and 2023 Championship Season on May 31, 2023. On August 6, 2023, Faraimo became the second pitcher in Athletes Unlimited history to throw a no-hitter. International career Faraimo represented the United States at the 2019 U-19 Women's Softball World Cup. She finished the tournament with three wins and allowing no walks, one earned run, eight hits and 43 strikeouts in innings, with a 0.32 ERA. She opened the tournament with a four-inning perfect game on August 10, 2019, against Mexico, striking out all 12 batters she faced. Three days later against Canada, she was a part of a combined perfect game, striking out eight in three innings. She pitched a complete game on August 15 against Japan, striking out 14 in the victory and giving up just three hits. In the gold medal game against Japan on August 17, she struck out nine in innings, allowing one earned run and five hits, to help USA win gold. Personal life Faraimo was born to Marcie and Bill Faraimo. She has a sister, Muta, and two brothers, Matthew and Madden. Matthew was a member of USC Trojans men's volleyball team from 2017 to 2020. She is of Samoan and Hawaiian descent. References Living people 2000 births American people of Samoan descent Sportspeople from San Diego Softball players from California UCLA Bruins softball players Competitors at the 2022 World Games World Games gold medalists World Games medalists in softball Cathedral Catholic High School alumni

"Then What?" is a song written by Jon Vezner and Randy Sharp, and recorded by American country music artist Clay Walker that reached the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart. It was released in January 1998 as the fourth and final single from his album Rumor Has It. Content The song's subject concerns advising a man against committing adultery, and the consequences that infidelity would bring for the rest of his life. Background In an interview with Billboard Walker stated, "Music should provoke some type of emotion in people, whether it be sad, romantic, or happy, and 'Then What?' is definitely a pick-me-upper." He also stated, "As an entertainer, being on the road so much, I hope to have a song that will go over good live. And this is probably the best song live that we've had since my first single." Critical reception Larry Flick of Billboard wrote "The island feel of this track's production gives Walker's new single a fresh, bouncy, and totally appealing sound. Walker's vocal is teeming with personality, and this little number should find instant favor among programmers looking for a sunny winter offering." The Dallas Morning News wrote, "A quasi-calypso ditty - you can't get more innocuous than this - the song's accompanying video comes complete with Gilligan's Island motif and the usually stiff Mr. Walker donning sandals and singing with his denim shirt wide open. Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe listed "Then What?" as the 377th greatest contemporary country single and wrote, "With this out-of-left-field smash, Walker has the dubious honor of bringing Caribbean-flavored country back to the forefront." Music video The music video was directed by Martin Kahan. It has a very summery beachy theme, with Walker performing the song against an aquarium backdrop with a huge shark with its mouth wide open in the middle to an audience, and at a boat marina both on a pier and a boat singing to the customers as they are boarding. Other scenes feature Walker inside a huge crocodile prop, a couple going into a huge fish head only to run out again, people painting green balls, and a reggae band playing on a beach. Chart performance This song debuted at number 60 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated December 27, 1997. It charted for 27 weeks on that chart, and peaked at number 2 on the chart dated April 11, 1998. It also peaked at number 65 on the Billboard Hot 100. Charts Year-end charts References 1998 singles Clay Walker songs Songs written by Randy Sharp Song recordings produced by James Stroud Giant Records (Warner) singles 1997 songs Songs written by Jon Vezner

Santhigram is a location in Manjeri municipality in Malappuram district of Kerala State of south India. Culture Shanthigram village is a predominantly Muslim populated area. Hindus exist in comparatively smaller numbers. So the culture of the locality is based upon Muslim traditions. Duff Muttu, Kolkali and Aravanamuttu are common folk arts of this locality. There are many libraries attached to mosques giving a rich source of Islamic studies. Most of the books are written in Arabi-Malayalam which is a version of the Malayalam language written in Arabic script. People gather in mosques for the evening prayer and continue to sit there after the prayers discussing social and cultural issues. Business and family issues are also sorted out during these evening meetings. The Hindu minority of this area keeps their rich traditions by celebrating various festivals in their temples. Hindu rituals are done here with a regular devotion like other parts of Kerala. Transportation Santhigramam village connects to other parts of India through Manjeri town. National highway No.66 passes through Parappanangadi and the northern stretch connects to Goa and Mumbai. The southern stretch connects to Cochin and Trivandrum. National Highway No.966 connects to Palakkad and Coimbatore. The nearest airport is at Kozhikode. The nearest major railway station is at Tirur. References Manjeri

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Isaac Walker Hall (1868 – 9 October 1953) was a British pathologist and writer. Walker Hall was educated at Owens College, Manchester. He obtained his M.B. with honours at Victoria University in 1899 and his M.D. in 1902. He studied pathology in Leipzig, Stockholm and Wiesbaden. In 1900, he was appointed senior demonstrator of physiology and lecturer in pathology at Victoria University. In 1905, he co-authored Methods of Morbid Histology and Clinical Pathology, with Gotthold Herxheimer. Hall was appointed first honorary pathologist and bacteriologist to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and first professor of pathology at University College, Bristol in 1906. Walker Hall authored important papers on typhoid fever in 1908 and contributed literature on the bacteriology of public health. He was a member of the British Medical Association for fifty-five years and was vice-president for its Section of Pathology at the Annual Meeting at Belfast in 1909 and at Liverpool in 1912. He was an honorary member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. His The Purin Bodies Of Food Stuffs was positively reviewed in The British Medical Journal. He retired in 1936 and moved to Godalming with his wife. Selected publications The Clinical Estimation Of Urinary Purins By Means Of The Purinometer (1902) The Purin Bodies of Food Stuffs and the Role of Uric Acid in Health and Disease (1904) Methods of Morbid Histology and Clinical Pathology (with Gotthold Herxheimer, 1905) Clinical Estimations of Purin Bodies in Gouty Urines, Etc (1906) References External links PubMed search for Isaac Walker Hall 1868 births 1953 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors Alumni of the University of Bristol Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester British bacteriologists British medical writers British pathologists Gout researchers