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Harry Glickman born May 13, 1924 is a retired American journalist, promoter, and sports executive. He was one of the founders of the Portland Trail Blazers, and was the team's president from 1987 to 1994. Glickman is considered as the father of professional sports in Oregon. Early life and career Glickman grew up in the Great Depression Portland, son of Polish immigrant Bessie, who worked in the ladys garment industry, and Glickman also had a job as a paperboy. Bessie would trade letters in Yiddish with her family in Wysokie until 1939, when the Nazis invaded the country, and sent Glickman's relatives to the Treblinka extermination camp. Glickman played basketball at Lincoln High School, where he graduated in 1941. Afterwards Glickman enrolled at the University of Oregon, from which he graduated in 1948 with a degree in journalism. He had plans to become a sportswriter, and served as the campus correspondent for The Oregonian, the director of the universitys athletic news bureau, and wrote for the school paper as well as The Register-Guard. Glickman left college to enlist for World War II, spending three years at the 12th Armored Division of the 7th Army. After returning to Oregon, he graduated in 1948. While a student at Oregon, he became a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity he was president of the fraternity in his senior year and an editor of the alumni magazine, Old Oregon. When a job offer at The Oregonian fell through, Glickman took to promoting sporting events. Opening a company named Oregon Attractions, Glickman began with boxing matches, and branched off into show business events. In 1955, he promoted a Pacific Northwest tour for Judy Garland, but once she refused to appear on stage for the last concert in Spokane, Washington, Glickman got so irritated he swore to only work with sports. Afterwards, Glickman's achievements included preseason games for National Football League teams at Portlands Multnomah Stadium, games by the Harlem Globetrotters and post-season NBA All-Star games at the newly opened Memorial Coliseum. In 1960, he was one of the founders of the Portland Buckaroos of the Western Hockey League, a now-defunct minor hockey league and one of several leagues to bear that name. The Buckaroos were one of the most successful franchises in minor league hockey history, winning three WHL championships, and playing in three others, during their 13 years in the Western Hockey League. The WHL would fold in 1974, largely as a result of losing major market teams in Los Angeles and Vancouver to the National Hockey League NHL and others, including Denver and Phoenix, to the World Hockey Association which later merged with the NHL. The Buckaroos ultimately folded in 1975, after moving to a different league. Portland Trail Blazers Glickman was interested in creating a basketball team in Portland as soon as a bond for the Memorial Coliseum was passed in 1954. While the NBA refused his offer, in 1959 Glickman negotiated with Abe Saperstein to have a team on his American Basketball League, but the league folded before he could do so. In 1970, Glickman, working without any investor support, won an expansion franchise with the National Basketball Association, subject to coming up with $3.8 million in a matter of days. Glickman soon rounded up 3 wealthy real estate developers led by Herman Sarkowsky of Seattle, who then brought in Larry Weinberg of Los Angeles and Robert Schmertz of Boston. Later, Sarkowskly and Schmertz sold their shares to Weinberg, who was the teams majority owner until the club was sold to Paul Allen in 1988. Glickman oversaw all business and basketball operations as the General Manager of the franchise from its inception in 1970 until his retirement in 1987, and continues as the Blazers' president emeritus. After Paul Allen brought the club, Glickman's son Marshall was promoted to Senior Vice-President. After his Blazer career, Glickman served his son Marshall Portland Family Entertainment, a business venture which promotes baseball and soccer in Portland, and which managed a $38 million renovation of 21,000-seat Civic Stadium now Providence Park on behalf of the City of Portland. In 1977, Glickman authored his autobiography Promoter Ain't a Dirty Word. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1986 for his contribution to sports in Oregon. He was cited as Portland, Oregon's First Citizen of the Year in 1992. On February 15, 2019, Glickman was named as one of two 2019 recipients of the John Bunn Award with Del Harris, awarded by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a lifetime achievement honor for those whose outstanding accomplishments have impacted the high school, college, professional and/or the international game. References Category:Living people Category:1924 births Category:American people of Polish-Jewish descent Category:Businesspeople from Oregon Category:Jewish American sportspeople Category:Lincoln High School Portland, Oregon alumni Category:Portland Trail Blazers executives Category:University of Oregon alumni

Vzemi ali pusti Take It or Leave It is the Slovenian version of Deal or No Deal, which is produced by POP TV. The show originally had a top prize of 15,000,000 tolarjev about US$82,000, but it has changed to €70,000 about US$97,000 since Slovenia's switch to the euro on New Year's Day, 2007. Case Values new Case Values old External links Vzemi ali pusti Category:Deal or No Deal Category:2005 Slovenian television series debuts Category:2007 Slovenian television series endings Category:Slovenian television series Category:2000s Slovenian television series

A microbial desalination cell MDC is a biological electrochemical system that implements the use of electro-active bacteria to power desalination of water in situ, resourcing the natural anode and cathode gradient of the electro-active bacteria and thus creating an internal supercapacitor. Available water supply has become a worldwide endemic as only .3 of the earth's water supply is usable for human consumption, while over 99 is sequestered by oceans, glaciers, brackish waters, and biomass. Current applications in electrocoagulation, such as microbial desalination cells, are able to desalinate and sterilize formerly unavailable water to render it suitable for safe water supply. Microbial desalination cells stem from microbial fuel cells, deviating by no longer requiring the use of a mediator and instead relying on the charged components of the internal sludge to power the desalination process. Microbial desalination cells therefore do not require additional bacteria to mediate the catabolism of the substrate during biofilm oxidation on the anodic side of the capacitor. MDCs and other bio-electrical systems are favored over reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and other desalination systems due to lower costs, energy and environmental impacts associated with bio-electrical systems. MDC Structure An MDC is constructed similarly to a microbial fuel cell by including two chambers with two electrodes, an anode and a cathode, in addition to both a third chamber separated by an anion exchange membrane AEM and cation exchange membrane CEM, and a peripheral, external circuit that is responsible for aerobic and anaerobic processes at each respective electrode. Organic matter from the sludge proliferates in the anode chamber and creates a biofilm that generates an electric current. The biofilm thus begins to oxidize the pollutants in the sludge by strictly adhering to the anode, freeing both electrons and protons from the bio-sludge, creating a current of atoms that are collected by the electrodes through circuit transportation. Electrical current is produced by the potential difference generated between the anode and cathode due to the aerobic nature of the cathode chamber. Applications Seawater desalination MDCs are utilized in seawater desalination by primarily acting as a precursor treatment for electrodialysis ED due to the inefficiency in salinity removal due to biofouling and membrane scaling by the complex ion composition. Studies show that efficacy of MDC systems diminish over 5000 hours due to membrane scaling such as calcium and potassium accumulation, increasing ohmic resistance and reducing ion exchange through the membrane. However, by utilizing MDCs as a precursor treatment for electrodialysis, results show that system time is reduced by 25 and energy expenditure decreases by 45.3. Reduction in external resistance increases desalination efficiency to as high as 74, as demonstrated in upflow microbial desalination cells UMDC, but increased membrane scaling on the ion exchange membranes by calcium and magnesium accumulation, resulting in a higher internal ohmic resistance and decrease in overall desalination of seawater. With the application of an osmotic MFC OsMFC in conjunction with the UMDC as an initial pretreatment of biosolid removal and desalination, 85 of oxygen demand and approximately 97 of salts was reduced after secondary treatment. Subsequent treatment by traditional BES systems such as electrodialysis can function as a more effective system for desalination, provisioning energy demands by the output energy obtained from the MDC pretreatment. Brackish water desalination As MDCs contain low electrical conductivity in the desalination chamber and additional energy is not applied to the system, electron conductive-resins are applied to improve conductivity, decrease internal resistance and increase the desalination process of brackish waters. Brackish waters are low in salinity with a high amount of total dissolved solids, which results in difficulties in maintaining strong electrical currents due to increased internal resistance in the cell. MDCs also experience problems with the saturation of ions in the anode chamber which can be combatted by utilizing a microbial capacitive desalination cell MCDC. MCDCs are analogous to MDCs with the exception of modification to the cation membrane by the addition of activate carbon cloth, permitting the free exchange of protons across both chambers of the cell and increasing the efficiency of desalination. Groundwater denitrification Increasing agricultural development is associated with the trend of elevated nitrogen concentrations in surrounding soil and groundwater composition due to the runoff of fertilizers and agricultural byproducts. Development of a submerged microbial desalination-denitrification cell SMDDC to remove nitrogen and saline from subsurface water alleviates the demand for additional compounds acting as electron donors and instead produces both a net energy and clean, desalinated and denitrified water. In contrast to the typical MDC model, the SMDDC excludes a middle desalination chamber, but instead only contains an anode and cathode chamber separated by a polycarbonate plate and are parallel to the exterior AEM and CEM respectively. Nitrate is introduced through the AEM into the anode chamber through synthetic groundwater, then propagated as an effluent through the external loop to the cathode chamber, in which nitrate is reduced to nitrogen by the cathode and sodium influent. A wastewater feeding tank pumps water to the anodic chamber for subsequent oxidation of sludge by the anodic biofilm. Similar to the original configuration of the MDC, the SMDDC also includes an external circuit in which electrons are thus freed from the oxidation process of the sludge and drove through a closed, external circuit to the cathodic chamber. The toxic and pathogenic content of the wastewater are thus separated simultaneously with the denitrification of the groundwater, producing water that is thus filtered out as a usable effluent. Highest nitrate removal was exhibited when an external voltage 0.8 V was applied to the circuit, transporting the ions to the anodic chamber and reducing nitrate via heterotrophic denitrification. References Category:Water desalination Category:Electrochemistry

Shushā Guppy ; née Shamsi Assār ; 24 December 1935 21 March 2008 was a writer, editor and, under the name of Shusha, a singer of Persian and Western folk songs. She lived in London from the early 1960s. Early life Her father, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammad-Kāzem Assār , was a distinguished Shia theologian and Professor of Philosophy at University of Tehran. At age 17 Shusha was sent to Paris, where she studied Oriental languages and philosophy, and also trained as an opera singer. In Paris she encountered artists, writers and poets such as Louis Aragon, José Bergamín, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. She was encouraged by Jacques Prévert to record an album of Persian folk songs. She married the writer and explorer Nicholas Guppy in 1961. They had two sons, Darius and Constantine Guppy, and were divorced in 1976. At the time of her marriage she moved to London, where she became fluent in English; she was already fluent in Persian and French. Guppy wrote articles for major publications in both Britain and America. She also began singing and acting professionally. Singer Guppy's first British release, in 1971, was an album of traditional Persian music, complementing her first album released in France fourteen years earlier. By now, influenced by the Folk Revival, she was writing and singing some of her own songs, as well as covering the works of many contemporary singer-songwriters. She gave successful concerts in Britain, America and continental Europe, and appeared on television and radio programmes. She gave concerts in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1975 with Lori Lieberman and Dimitri van Toren. She contributed music in collaboration with G.T. Moore and narrated the 1973 documentary film Bakhtiari Migration - The sheep must live. In 1976 this film was more than doubled in length and her narration was replaced by James Mason and it was released as People of the Wind. The following year the film was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar and also for a Golden Globe. The film follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribes in southern Iran. The soundtrack was later released in the USA. How much she contributed to the film is in dispute. According to Shusha Guppy herself: What has saddened me, and frankly made me angry, is not the money as I said I wanted to make the film and financial rewards were not my aim but the fact that all the credits were taken from me on People of the Wind of which the idea, the production, and the text were mine. Discography All are vinyl LPs except where noted. The years given are for the first release. Chansons d'Amour Persanes 7 EP 1957 Persian Love Songs and Mystic Chants 1971 Song of Long-time Lovers 1972 Shusha 1974 This is the Day 1974 Before the Deluge 1975 People of the Wind 1977 From East to West 1978 Here I Love You 1980 La Fortune 1980 - cassette Lovely in the Dances: Songs of Sydney Carter 1981 Durable Fire 1983 Strange Affair 1986 Refugee 1995 - CD on Sharrow Records Shusha / This is the Day 2001 - reissue on CD Writer and editor Guppy promoted Persian culture and history, and was a commentator on relations between the West and the Islamic world. Guppy's first book, The Blindfold Horse: Memoirs of a Persian Childhood, was published in 1988. It was highly praised, winning the Yorkshire Post Prize from the Royal Society of Literature, the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle. The book describes a Persia before the excesses of Shah Reza Pahlavi led to his overthrow, describing a country with an Islamic way of life without dogmatism or fanaticism. Her last book, The Secret of Laughter 2005, is a collection of Persian fairy tales from Irans oral tradition. Many had never previously been published in written form. For twenty years, until 2005, she was the London editor of the American literary journal The Paris Review. Bibliography The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood, William Heinemann Ltd, 1988, ; I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2004, . Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan: Vol 2, by Isabella L. Bird with introduction by Shusha Guppy, Virago Press, 1989, . A Girl in Paris, William Heinemann Ltd, 1991, ; I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2007, . Looking Back: A Panoramic View of a Literary Age by the Grandes Dames of European Letters, with introduction by Anita Brookner, Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1992, . On the Death of a Parent, Shusha Guppy et al., ed. Jane McLoughlin, Virago Press, 1994, . One Thousand and One Persian-English Proverbs, eds. Simin Habibian, Shusha Guppy et al. Ibex Publishing, 1995, . Three Journeys in the Levant: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Starhaven, 2001, . The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2005, . See also Music of Iran List of Iranian musicians References Biographical details Shusha, Discography Roger Scruton, Shusha Guppy, Obituary, Monday, March 24 2008, The Guardian Obituaries Note: This obituary incorrectly refers to Shamsi as Shansi. External links [ Shusha Guppy] at Allmusic Shusha Guppy, A paean to kingship, The Guardian, Monday 18 February 2008. . Note: This is Shusha Guppy's valedictory Comment in The Guardian. It concludes with the words: Well, the doctors have told me that my cancer is terminal and so I am having to dictate what is certainly my last piece of journalism. Shusha Guppy, ASHA Foundation. Shusha Guppy speaks in the documentary film on Omar Khayyām, Intoxicating Rhymes and Sobering Wine, 1 min. Shusha Guppy on her return to Iran, Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 16 March 2006. 8 min 35 sec. Shusha Guppy, School of Illumination, Sunday Feature, 45 minutes, BBC Radio 3, Sunday 19 March 2006, . Note: At present BBC offers no audio recording or a transcript of this programme. The website presents however an extensive bibliography. Shusha Guppy, What Rumi Means for Muslims Today, Heart and Soul Feature, BBC Radio World Service, Friday 27 June 2008 rebroadcast from November 2007, 26 min 30 sec. Shusha Guppy, 'The Book of Kings' published in Parnassus magazine, Vol. 30. Shusha Guppy's song, Natalya, referred to in the obituary of Natalya Gorbanevskaya. 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The Tono River is the main river in Oecusse District, an exclave of East Timor. The river flows north, through the center of the district into the Sawu Sea, reaching the sea near Lifau. The area is the main rice producing place in Oecusse. In June 2017 the Noefefan Bridge was inaugurated over the Tono River. The 380-meter-long bridge connects Citrana, Passabe and other isolated regions west of the Tono River to the regional capital of Pante Macassar, providing them permanent access to markets, the ferry and airport, even on the rainy season November to April. References Wheeler, T. 2004 East Timor. Footscray, VIC; Lonely Planet. Category:Rivers of East Timor Category:Oecusse Municipality

Powiercie-Kolonia is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Koło, within Koło County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. The village has a population of 440. References Powiercie-Kolonia

Lyric Suite may refer to: Lyric Suite Berg, a six-movement work for string quartet by Alban Berg 192526 Lyric Suite Grieg, an orchestration of four of the six piano pieces from Book V of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces, Op. 54 Lyric Suite, Op. 30, a four-movement work for string trio by Bernard Stevens 1958 Lyric Suite, a four-movement work for euphonium and wind ensemble by Donald H. White 1978 Lyric Suite, a work for bassoon and piano by Thomas Dunhill Lyric Suite, a work by Ferenc Szabó Lyric Suite, a five-movement work by Robert Morris composer Lyric Suite, a four-movement work by Walter Hartley Lyric Suite, Op. 51, a four-movement work for cello and piano by Leevi Madetoja 1922 Lyric Suite, a seven-movement work for piano trio by Gloria Coates 1993/96 Lyric Suite No. 2, a work for flute, cello and piano by Gloria Coates 2002 Lyric Suite for Sextet, an album for piano, vibraphone and string quartet by Chick Corea and Gary Burton 1983 Lyric Suite, a series of ink-on-rice-paper drawings by Robert Motherwell 1965 Lyric Suite, a play by Frank Corsaro Lyric Suite, a dance by Anna Sokolow 1953

Klaus Nomi is the debut album by German countertenor Klaus Nomi. Track listing Side one Keys of Life Klaus Nomi 2:26 Lightning Strikes Lou Christie, Twyla Herbert 2:59 The Twist Hank Ballard 3:10 Nomi Song Kristian Hoffman 2:47 You Don't Own Me John Medora, David White 3:39 Side two The Cold Song Henry Purcell, John Dryden 4:03 Wasting My Time Klaus Nomi, Scott Woody 4:16 Total Eclipse Kristian Hoffman 3:29 Nomi Chant Man Parrish 1:53 Samson and Delilah Aria Camille Saint-Saëns 3:43 Personnel Ron Johnsen: Producer Klaus Nomi: Lead & background vocals Julie Berger, Jon Corbet, Scott Woody: Background vocals Jon Cobert: Synthesizer, keyboards Scott Woody: Guitar Rick Pascual: Bass Guitar Daniel Elfassy: Drums Michael Frondelli: Engineer and Mixer Michael Halsband: Cover photograph References Category:1981 debut albums Category:Klaus Nomi albums Category:RCA Records albums

Mandoto is a district of Vakinankaratra in Madagascar. References Category:Districts of Madagascar

Gunung Tua is a town in North Sumatra province of Indonesia and it is the seat capital of North Padang Lawas Regency. Gunung Tua is a district which is also the administrative center capital city North Padang Lawas Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Formerly Gunung Tua is a district part of South Tapanuli Regency. And finally on July 17, 2007 Gunung Tua endorsed as the capital of North Padang Lawas Regency which is a formerly part of the District of South Tapanuli Regency. Category:Populated places in North Sumatra Category:Regency seats of North Sumatra

The Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season Cup, first played in 2008, is an annual league competition for Puerto Rico Soccer League. The top four teams advance to the PlayOff cup. History Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season Champions by Season 2008 Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season The 2008 Puerto Rico Soccer League season is the first season that the league has been held. It had eight teams playing and the top four teams advanced to the PlayOffs cup, where semi-final matches were played to determine the teams moving to the championship game. This year, the Sevilla FC Bayamón won both the Regular Season and the PlayOffs cup. The team them took both cups to Spain and gave them to tha main club Sevilla FC in a ceremony at the star of La Liga. 2009 Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season The 2009 Puerto Rico Soccer League season saw the addition of a ninth team, the Bayamón FC, which ended up winning the PlayOffs cup. Nevertheless, the CA River Plate Ponce had an undefeated season, winning the Regular Season cup. 2010 Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season The 2010 season was suspended. In its place, the Súper Copa DirectTV was held to determine Puerto Rico's representatives at the 2011 CFU Club Championship. 2011 Puerto Rico Soccer League Regular Season During the 2011 Puerto Rico Soccer League season, several teams decided not to compete. The total number of team playing was reduced to six. Out of the nine teams that played the 2009 season, only three remained. The 2011 expansion team was FC Leones de Ponce, which ended up winning the PlayOffs cup. The other two teams Mayagüez FC & Puerto Rico United SC had already played the 2010 cup. The Sevilla FC Juncos won its second Regular Season cup. * Mayagüez FC fifth placed replaced the fourth placed Puerto Rico United SC in the PlayOffs cup as PR United SC had been suspended by PRSL. See also Puerto Rican Football Federation Puerto Rico national football team Puerto Rico U-20 national football team Liga Nacional de Futbol de Puerto Rico Association Football in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Islanders References External links Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol Futbol de Puerto Rico Regular Category:Defunct football competitions in Puerto Rico

is a public school in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It accommodates approximately 600 students that are in their final three years of education. It was built in 1973 to accommodate for the outburst of children needing education in Hitachinaka. It is regulated by the Ibaraki Prefecture council. Katsuta High School has facilities such as computer labs, a library, a gymnasium and sports clubs. It is considered by the community to be of high standard education. Katsuta High School teaches English and other foreign studies. In 2009, a University teacher from America spoke in front of students interested in going overseas to study. External links School website Category:High schools in Japan Category:Schools in Ibaraki Prefecture

Psalm 82 is the 82nd psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms, subtitled A Psalm of Asaph. In the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 81 in a slightly different numbering system. Uses Judaism Psalm 82 is the psalm of the day in the Shir Shel Yom on Tuesday. It is recited on Hoshana Rabbah. Verse 1 is part of Mishnah Talmud 7:4 and is found in Pirkei Avot Chapter 3, no. 7. Christianity Jesus quotes verse 6 in John : I said, You are gods. Jesus uses this text to assert that he is not blaspheming when he calls himself the Son of God. The second part of verse 6: All of you are sons of the Most High does not appear in the text quoted by John. Quoting Bishop Westcott, the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges says of this text: The fact that it was possible for men so to represent God as to be called gods or divine was a foreshadowing of the Incarnation. 'There lay already in the Law the germ of the truth which Christ announced, the union of God and man'. Contextual interpretation This passage was produced in the context of the ancient Hebrews, and their Ancient Near Eastern environment. sets the scene for the divine council paradigm present throughout scripture, which is central to the work of Jesus Christ. 'Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurementssurely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?' Morning stars and sons of God were ancient Hebrew and Ancient Near East motifs for angels, or the divine council referred to here in Psalm 82. has sons of God who illicitly sire the Nephilim. has Day star and v13 the stars of God. Both of which are polemics against Satan, the chief rebel of the sons of God. Hence one interpretation of Psalm 82, is that God is holding court in the divine council of the elohim gods, and sentencing them for their malpractice after assigning the postdiluvian nations to their liege, after the Tower of Babel apostasy, in . In , Jesus alludes directly to Psalm 82, where the elohim gods receive the word of God in the form of judgment and condemnation. Against his accusers Jesus was appealing to the precedent already established in their Torah, which referred to God's holy ones, or his divine council, as gods elohim. See also Territorial Spirit References Bibliography External links in Hebrew and English - Mechon-mamre King James Bible - Wikisource 082

Henry Andrade Harben FSA 12 August 1849 - 18 August 1910 was a barrister, insurance company director, politician, and historian of London. His highly regarded book, A Dictionary of London, was published posthumously in 1917. Early life and family Henry Harben was born at Hounslow, Middlesex, on 12 August 1849 to Sir Henry Harben 1823-1911, chairman of the Prudential Assurance Company, and his wife Ann, née Such. He graduated from the University College London in 1868. He married Mary Frances James in 1873. Their son was the politician and supporter of women's suffrage, Henry Devenish Harben. They had five other children. Career Harben was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1871. In 1879, he followed his father into the Prudential as a director and was chairman of the company from 1907 until his death. Public positions In 1878, Harben became a freeman of the City of London. Harben entered local politics as a member of the Paddington Vestry and from 1900 for the successor Paddington Borough Council, and he was Mayor of Paddington in 190203. He was a Moderate Party member of the London County Council, first elected to represent Paddington South in 1898 and re-elected twice, retaining his seat until 1907. He was chairman of the Central Hospital Council of London and in 1897 joined the board of St Mary's Hospital. He was chairman from 1903 and then held various other positions at the hospital. He was a justice of the peace for Buckinghamshire and the County of London. History Harben was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1893 and became a member of the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1894. Around 1888, Harben began to compile a new edition of John Stow's Survey of London 1598 but progress was very slow and that objective was abandoned after C.L. Kingsford's new edition of Stow appeared in 1908 and Harben decided to turn his book into a dictionary of London instead. The book was still unfinished at the time of his death and was eventually completed by his friend I.I. Greaves and published posthumously in 1917 as A Dictionary of London. It deals only with the City of London. Death and legacy Harben died on 18 August 1910 at 29 Wimpole Street, London, following complications after surgery. His address at the time of his death was Newland Park, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, and Hertfordshire. He left an estate of £349,845. Harben left his collection of around 2,000 items relating to the history of Greater London to the London County Council. Selected publications A Dictionary of London: Being notes topographical and historical relating to the streets and principal buildings in the city of London ... With six plans. H. Jenkins, London, 1918 [1917]. Edited by I. I. Greaves References External links http://jot101.com/2015/08/henry-harben-and-his-dictionary-of-london/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120417063744/http://www.motco.com/Harben/ Category:1849 births Category:1910 deaths Category:English barristers Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Category:Historians of London Category:Freemen of the City of London Category:Mayors of Paddington Category:Members of London County Council Category:Prudential plc people Category:Businesspeople in insurance Category:Harben family Category:English justices of the peace Category:People from Hounslow Category:Alumni of University College London

This is a list of notable people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick. Although not everyone in this list was born in Gloucester County, they all live or have lived in Gloucester County and have had significant connections to the communities. This article does not include People from Bathurst as they have their own wiki page. Members of the House of Assembly of New Brunswick The House of Assembly of New Brunswick was, between 1784 and 1968, founded on a representative democracy based on a county system. This list, from MacMillan reference below, is of Members elected in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, which was originated in 1827 on the partition of Northumberland County, New Brunswick. Cabinet members seem to be indicated in MacMillan's list by the prenominal Honourable. Other people from Gloucester County See also List of people from New Brunswick References Bibliography * People Gloucester

is the title of a shōnen-ai light novel series written by Satoru Kannagi. It was made into a manga illustrated by Hotaru Odagiri, which has been licensed in the United States by Digital Manga Publishing. Plot In the school that Wataru Fujii goes to, when one wears matching rings on their right middle finger it is a sign of friendship, a ring on the right ring finger means single, and to wear matching rings on the left ring finger means a couple. One day Wataru accidentally switches rings with the very kind, handsome, popular senior, Yuichi Kazuki, because for some strange twist, their rings match. For reasons that Wataru doesn't understand, Yuichi becomes uncharacteristically mean to Wataru. After this strange incident, Wataru and Kazuki happened to meet more often, starting an electric relationship around the matching rings. Wataru starts to wonder why Yuichi's mood towards him switches to sweet-teasing to evil: is it because he just can't stand him or is it because he actually loves him? This meeting of two students that everything seems to oppose, will led to the birth of an unexpected secret that only the ring finger knows. Characters In Manga and Novel Wataru Fujii The typical impulsive, brash high school student, with normal teenage problems. His life is turned upside down, however, after a fateful encounter with senior, Yuichi Kazuki who he finds wears a ring identical to his. Yuichi Kazuki A popular upperclassman, with a reputation of being a gentleman. He always gives a girl a proper let down. Generally seen as a kind person, his cutting remarks bewilder Wataru, whom he treats with contempt. Karin Fujii Wataru's younger sister. They look so much alike that people often mistake them as twins. She goes to an all-girls school and through strange circumstances, people think she and Yuichi have a relationship. Kawamura Wataru's classmate and class friend. He has a crush on Mai Tachibana, the hottest girl in their class and is slightly resentful of Yuichi for stealing her away. Touko Yuichi's older cousin. Toko runs a jewelry shop, Parfait, and was the person who made Yuichi's ring. She enjoys going places with Yuichi to show him off. Mai Tachibana The hottest girl in the class. She has a big crush on Yuichi and rejected Kawamura because of it. Takako Kazuki Yuichi's little niece who comes to visit him on his birthday. She has a dog. She gets engaged to Wataru accidentally. Only In Novel Miho Ookusa Pretty, popular first-year student who finds Wataru's ring and seems to show an interest in him. She is used to having guys notice her good looks and attempts to use her charm on Wataru, however he remains unaffected. To get his ring back, she tells Wataru that he must become friends with her, so they spend a large amount of time together and rumors about the two spread. It is later revealed that she stole Wataru's ring in the first place to cause him trouble because she had secretly been in love with Kazuki and had found out about their relationship. Kazuki later says, however, that although she might have once loved him she now liked Wataru. Masanobu Asaka He is Kazuki's rival and senior in college. He is very similar to Kazuki, in that both stand out for their looks and have similar mannerisms. Kazuki becomes jealous whenever he sees Asaka talking to Wataru and does not like Asaka. Wataru is oblivious to Asaka's feelings. Later on in the novel he falls deeply in love with Wataru resulting in making passes at Wataru when Yuichi isn't around. He has a brother who literally worships him. He also used to have a girlfriend by the name of Yuina but she died in a car accident. It mentions in the novel that Masnobu was deeply in love with but in the end they broke up. His broken ended up being broken by Wataru in the 4th novel of the series when he forcefully kissed Wataru which ends with Wataru saying that could not see each other anymore. In the end he ends up going to New York. Shohei Kazuki's older brother who doesn't approve of Wataru and Kazuki's relationship. Media Only the Ring Finger Knows first began as a series of novels, and was later adapted into a manga. Novels In conjunction with Digital Manga Publishing, five paperback novels are planned to be released based on the series: Only the Ring Finger Knows: The Lonely Ring Finger: Released March 2006 Only the Ring Finger Knows: The Left Hand Dreams of Him: Released July 2006 Only the Ring Finger Knows: The Ring Finger Falls Silent: Released October 2006 Only the Ring Finger Knows: The Ring Will Confess His Love: Released June 10, 2009 Only the Ring Finger Knows: The Finger Never Sleeps: Released August 29, 2012 The Japanese version of volume 5 was published on September 27, 2008, which is the final volume. The English version was released on August 29, 2012. Manga The manga version written by Satoru Kannagi and illustrated by Hotaru Odagiri only contains one volume and was published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan. The manga is now licensed by Digital Manga Publishing. Drama CD Only the Ring Finger Knows also has 4 volumes of Drama CDs to date, the first 3 based on the first part of each of the three novels, while the fourth drama is based on the second half of the third novel. Cast: Suzumura Kenichi as Fujii Wataru Sakurai Takahiro as Kazuki Yuichi Kamiya Hiroshi as Asaka Masanobu Konishi Katsuyuki as Kazuki Shohei Reception As of mid-2005, the English-language edition of the manga was in its third printing, with sales of over 12,000 copies. References External links DMP official site for the manga Kannagi knows the Ring Finger Category:2002 Japanese novels Category:2002 manga Category:Digital Manga Publishing titles Category:Light novels Category:Shōnen-ai anime and manga Category:Tokuma Shoten manga

Ecatzingo is a small town and municipality, in Mexico State in Mexico. The municipality covers an area of 54.71 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 8247. References Category:Municipalities of the State of Mexico Category:Populated places in the State of Mexico

Frank Ealton Zeke Wilson December 24, 1869 April 26, 1928 was a professional baseball pitcher. He played five seasons in Major League Baseball from 1895 to 1899, for the Boston Beaneaters, Cleveland Spiders and St. Louis Perfectos. References External links Category:Major League Baseball pitchers Category:Boston Beaneaters players Category:Cleveland Spiders players Category:St. Louis Perfectos players Category:Montgomery Colts players Category:Easton Dutchmen players Category:Pottsville Colts players Category:New Bedford Whalers baseball players Category:Cleveland Lake Shores players Category:Atlanta Firemen players Category:Atlanta Crackers players Category:Montgomery Senators players Category:New Orleans Pelicans baseball players Category:People from Benton, Alabama Category:Baseball players from Alabama Category:19th-century baseball players Category:1869 births Category:1928 deaths

İstersen Remixes is the first remix album by Cypriot-Turkish singer Buray. It was released on 30 October 2015 by Sony Music. Release and content Following the high demands for a remix album after the release of his first studio album 1 Şişe Aşk, Buray released remixed versions of the album's lead single, İstersen, as an album on digital platforms. The song was written by Gözde Ançel, and composed by Buray together with Ançel. Seven different remixes for İstersen were included in the album. DJs Mahmut Orhan, Serhat Karadağ, Soner Babutsa, Sunstroke, Kougan Ray, G.E.M.N.I and Levent Aydın created these altered versions. Track listing Charts Release history References Category:2015 remix albums Category:Turkish-language albums Category:Sony Music remix albums

Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip is a 2002 Filipino romantic comedy and fantasy film directed by Wenn Deramas and produced by Star Cinema. The cast was led by Jolina Magdangal, with Leandro Muñoz and Rafael Rosell in his introducing film. It is Magdangal's first solo starring film and her first and only film opposite Muñoz and Rosell. Cast Main cast Jolina Magdangal as Rosalie Leandro Muñoz as Eric Rafael Rosell as Paolo Special participation Nida Blanca as Fairy Supporting cast John Lapus as Sugar Kaye Abad as Peachy Boboy Garovillo as Felipe Eugene Domingo as Josie Denise Joaquin as Beauty Rio Locsin as Helen Aljon Valdenibro as Niño Others Karla Estrada as Bebang/Bisaya Justine Cuyugan as Wen/Ilokano Marvin Martinez as Shawie Michael Pamular as Age Athenea Pla as Korinna Nicole Hofer as Silk sister Cy Jaravata as Silk sister Don Laurel as Gym instructor boyfriend Roderick Lindayag as Pulis boyfriend Justine Estacio as Beauty's new boyfriend JR Luzarraga as Sugar's boyfriend Christian Santino as Mall guy Ced Torrecarion as Church guy Cj Tolentino as Bar guy Kathy Despa as Bar girl Julie Ann Cañeda as Billboard girl Reception Box office The film was commercially successful. On its opening day, Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip registered the highest box office receipts compared to its competitions. For the box office success of the film, Magdangal received the citation Princess of Philippine Movies in the 33rd Box Office Entertainment Awards. Critical response The film received positive reviews from moviegoers and film critics with Butch Francisco of the Philippine Star saying Kung Ikaw ay Isang Panaginip... is a fun movie to watch. Call it baduy if you wish, but we cannot close our eyes to the fact that it is a decently-made movie ... it is a very small movie with an obviously tight budget but I do appreciate the fact that it is inventive, creative and very energetic with its every scene well-planned and well-thought of... It is a far cry from those usual small-budgeted run-of-the-mill Tagalog pictures that are downright stupid and assault the sensibilities of the viewers... Kung Ikaw ay Isang Panaginip is cute, fun and perky. More importantly, it stresses old positive values and traits that are so sorely lacking in most of our films today. The film also marks Magdangal's first film without her long time screen partner Marvin Agustin, of which the team up has produced successful films in the past in F.L.A.M.E.S.: The Movie 1997, Kung Ayaw Mo, Huwag Mo! 1998, Labs Kita... Okey Ka Lang? 1998, and Hey Babe! 1999. Despite this, Magdangal's pairing with Rosell and Munoz in Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip received positive feedbacks from moviegoers. Soundtrack Panaginip Music: Lorie Ilustre Words: Dennis Garcia Arranger: Isaias Nalasa Performer: Jolina Magdangal Ay, Ay, Ay Pag-Ibig Composer: Norman Caraan Performer: Denise Joaquin Note: Panaginip was later included in Magdangal's compilation album Jolina: Platinum Hits Collection released on 2002 by Star Music. Notes The film marks Nida Blanca's last film after she was stabbed to death in a condo parking in Makati City, Philippines on 7 November 2001. It was reported that Blanca's spirit was allegedly felt in the studio where Magdangal was dubbing her scenes with the actress. Producer Lita Santos later revealed that Blanca admires Magdangal seeing her youth in the latter. Blanca and Magdangal has starred in two other films before Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip, in Hataw Na 1995 and Ang TV Movie: The Adarna Adventures 1996. Magdangal's Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip Star Cinema and Judy Ann Santos' film May Pag-ibig Pa Kaya? Starlight Films was released on same day, 30 January 2002, of which developed their natural rivalry with critics believing that said rivalry is their generation's version, popularity wise, of the country's top rivalries in Gloria Romero and Nida Blanca and Nora Aunor and Vilma Santos. Director Wenn Deramas, in 2003, revealed Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip as one of his favorite directorial films. References External links Category:2002 films Category:Films directed by Wenn V. Deramas

Thackery is an unincorporated community in southeastern Jackson and southwestern Mad River Townships in Champaign County, Ohio, United States. It lies along State Route 55, southwest of the city of Urbana, the county seat of Champaign County. History A post office called Thackery was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1965. The community was named for its founder, one Mr. Thackery. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Ohio Category:Unincorporated communities in Champaign County, Ohio

This is a full list of the mammals native to the U.S state of Georgia. The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: Some species were assessed using an earlier set of criteria. Species assessed using this system have the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: Subclass: Theria Infraclass: Metatheria Marsupials are an infraclass of pouched mammals that was once more widely distributed. Today they are found primarily in isolated or formerly isolated continents of Gondwanan origin. Georgia's only extant marsupial, the Virginia opossum is a relatively recent immigrant from South America. South American marsupials are thought to be ancestral to those of Australia and elsewhere. Order: Didelphimorphia Family: Didelphidae American opossums Subfamily: Didelphinae Genus: Didelphis Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana LC Infraclass: Eutheria Superorder: Afrotheria Order: Sirenia manatees and dugongs Sirenia is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. All four species are endangered. They evolved about 50 million years ago, and their closest living relatives are elephants. Manatees are the only extant afrotherians in the Americas. However, a number proboscid species, some of which survived until the arrival of Paleo-Indians, once inhabited the region. Mammoths and mastodons all formerly lived in Georgia. Family: Trichechidae Genus: Trichechus West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus VU Superorder: Xenarthra Order: Cingulata armadillos Armadillos are small mammals with a bony armored shell. There is only one extant species present in Georgia. Their much larger relatives, the pampatheres and glyptodonts, once lived in North and South America but went extinct following the appearance of humans. Family: Dasypodidae long-nosed armadillos Subfamily: Dasypodinae Genus: Dasypus Nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus LC Magnorder: Boreoeutheria Superorder: Euarchontoglires Order: Rodentia Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40 of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing. Most rodents are small though the capybara can weigh up to 45 kg 100 lb. Suborder: Castorimorpha Family: Castoridae beavers Genus: Castor American beaver, Castor canadensis Family: Geomyidae pocket gophers Genus: Geomys Southeastern pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis Suborder: Hystricomorpha Family: Myocastoridae Genus: Myocastor Nutria, Myocastor coypus I Suborder: Sciuromorpha Family: Sciuridae squirrels Subfamily: Sciurinae Tribe: Sciurini Genus: Sciurus Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Eastern fox squirrel, Sciurus niger Genus Tamiasciurus American red squirrel, Tamiasciuris hudsonicus Tribe: Pteromyini Genus: Glaucomys Southern flying squirrel, Glaucomys volans Subfamily: Xerinae Tribe: Marmotini Genus: Tamias Eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus Genus: Marmota Woodchuck, Marmota monax Suborder: Myomorpha Family: Cricetidae Subfamily: Arvicolinae Genus: Ondatra Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus Genus: Microtus Meadow vole, Microtus pennsylvanicus Woodland vole, Microtus pinetorum Genus: Myodes Southern red-backed vole, Myodes gapperi Genus: Neofiber Round-tailed muskrat, Neofiber alleni Subfamily: Neotominae Genus: Neotoma Eastern woodrat, Neotoma floridana Genus: Ochrotomys Golden mouse, Ochrotomys nuttalli Genus: Peromyscus Cotton mouse, Peromyscus gossypinus White-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus Deer mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus Oldfield mouse, Peromyscus polionotus Genus: Reithrodontomys Eastern harvest mouse, Reithrodontomys humulis Subfamily: Sigmodontinae Genus: Oryzomys Marsh rice rat, Oryzomys palustris Genus: Sigmodon Hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus Family: Dipodidae Subfamily: Zapodinae Genus Napaeozapus Woodland jumping mouse, Napaeozapus insignis Genus: Zapus Woodland jumping mouse, Zapus hudsonius Family: Muridae mice, rats, voles, gerbils, hamsters, etc. Subfamily: Murinae Genus: Mus House mouse, Mus musculus I Genus: Rattus Brown rat, Rattus norvegicus Black rat, Rattus rattus I Superorder: Laurasiatheria Order: Artiodactyla Family: Bovidae Bison bison, American bison Ex Family: Cervidae Dama dama, fallow deer I Odocoileus virginianus, white-tailed deer Cervus canadensis, elk Ex Family: Suidae Sus scrofa, wild boar I Order: Carnivora Family: Canidae Canis latrans, coyote Canis lupus, gray wolf Ex Canis rufus, red wolf Ex Urocyon cinereoargenteus, gray fox Vulpes vulpes, red fox Family: Felidae Lynx rufus, bobcat Puma concolor, mountain lion Ex Family: Mephitidae Mephitis mephitis, striped skunk Spilogale putorius, eastern spotted skunk Family: Mustelidae Lontra canadensis, North American river otter Mustela frenata, long-tailed weasel Mustela nivalis, least weasel Mustela vison, American mink Family: Phocidae Cystophora cristata, hooded seal Phoca vitulina, harbor seal Family: Procyonidae Procyon lotor, raccoon Family: Ursidae Ursus americanus, American black bear Order: Cetacea Family: Balaenidae Eubalaena glacialis, north Atlantic right whale Family: Eschrichtiidae Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale Ex Family: Balaenopteridae Balaenoptera brydei, Bryde's whale Balaenoptera physalus, fin whale Balaenoptera musculus, blue whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata, common minke whale Balaenoptera borealis, sei whale Megaptera novaeangliae, humpback whale Family: Delphinidae Feresa attenuata, pygmy killer whale Globicephala macrorhynchus, short-finned pilot whale Pseudorca crassidens, false killer whale Stenella coeruleoalba, striped dolphin Stenella frontalis, Atlantic spotted dolphin Stenella attenuata, pantropical spotted dolphin Stenella clymene, clymene dolphin Stenella longirostris, spinner dolphin Steno bredanensis, rough-toothed dolphin Lagenodelphis hosei, Fraser's dolphin Tursiops truncatus, common bottlenose dolphin Delphinus delphis, short-beaked common dolphin Peponocephala electra, melon-headed whale Orcinus orca, killer whale Family: Physeteridae Physeter macrocephalus, sperm whale Family: Kogiidae Kogia breviceps, pygmy sperm whale Kogia simus, dwarf sperm whale Family: Ziphiidae Mesoplodon densirostris, Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon europaeus, Gervais' beaked whale Mesoplodon mirus, True's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris, Cuvier's beaked whale Order: Chiroptera Family: Molossidae Tadarida brasiliensis, Mexican free-tailed bat Family: Vespertilionidae Corynorhinus rafinesquii, Rafinesque's big-eared bat Eptesicus fuscus, big brown bat Lasionycteris noctivagans, silver-haired bat Lasiurus borealis, eastern red bat Lasiurus cinereus, hoary bat Lasiurus intermedius, northern yellow bat Lasiurus seminolus, Seminole bat Myotis austroriparius, southeastern myotis Myotis grisescens, gray bat Myotis leibii, eastern small-footed myotis Myotis lucifugus, little brown bat Myotis septentrionalis, northern long-eared myotis Myotis sodalis, Indiana bat Nycticeius humeralis, evening bat Pipistrellus subflavus, eastern pipistrelle Order: Insectivora Family: Soricidae Blarina brevicauda, northern short-tailed shrew Blarina carolinensis, southern short-tailed shrew Cryptotis parva, least shrew Sorex cinereus, cinereus shrew Sorex dispar, long-tailed shrew Sorex fumeus, smoky shrew Sorex hoyi, American pygmy shrew Sorex longirostris, southeastern shrew Sorex palustris, American water shrew Family: Talpidae Condylura cristata, star-nosed mole Parascalops breweri, hairy-tailed mole Scalopus aquaticus, eastern mole Order: Lagomorpha Family: Leporidae Sylvilagus aquaticus, swamp rabbit Sylvilagus floridanus, eastern cottontail Sylvilagus obscurus, Appalachian cottontail Sylvilagus palustris, marsh rabbit References Georgia U.S. state G

Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Inc. was a cargo airline based in Pasay City, Philippines. The carrier served domestic services from the Philippines with two Boeing 727 freighter aircraft. The airline also had an agreement on selected routes flown by Air Philippines. PEAC was also an affiliate airline of TNT Airways, with PEAC operating TNT leased BAe 146 aircraft. History On October 9, 1990, Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, Inc. PEAC was officially formed and on the 20th of December 1991 was granted a certificate of public convenience and necessity CPCN to operate scheduled international all-cargo services. On the September 1, 1999, the airline came to a cargo agreement with local airline, Air Philippines. During 2002 the airline operated freighter flights to Hong Kong using A300F type aircraft leased from the Turkish Airline, MNG Airlines, freighter flights to Taipei using a Boeing 727F and domestic freighter flights to Cebu and Clark utilizing another B727 freighter. In the period 2007 to 2011, PEAC was the fifth largest cargo carrier in the Philippines with a market share of 3.17, transporting 23.3 million kilograms. But on March 19, 2010, its air operator's certificate was suspended, and eleven days later on March 30, the airline was added to the European list of banned air carriers until June 25, 2015. By the end of 2010, the company ceased operations. Services Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines PEAC served domestic and regional destinations around the Philippines and surrounding region with a fleet of 727 freighter aircraft and a variety of leased aircraft. The airline also had an agreement with domestic carrier, Air Philippines, to codeshare selected cargo operations to airports that Air Philippines operates to. During a tie-up with TNT, PEAC leased four Bae 146 aircraft from TNT Airways, at the end of the lease in 1999 the aircraft where returned to Europe. The TNT-PEAC joint-venture also considered re-locating the airline's hub from Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport to nearby Olongapo's Subic Bay International Airport. In June 2006, PEAC resumed its three times weekly Angeles-Clark Angeles City Taipei all-cargo services, utilizing a B727-200F freighter. This was in addition to PEAC's five times weekly service between Cebu and Angeles-Clark utilizing a B727-100 freighter with aircraft registry RPC-5353, operating since 2002. Former destinations Pacific East Asia Cargo Airlines PEAC served the following Destinations May, 2008. This also included cargo flights with their Air Philippines Agreement. The Airline also offers its 727 aircraft for charter services. Philippines Luzon Angeles Clark International Airport Legazpi Legazpi Airport Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport Puerto Princesa Puerto Princesa Airport Tuguegarao Tuguegarao Airport Visayas Bacolod Bacolod-Silay International Airport Cebu Mactan-Cebu International Airport Dumaguete Sibulan Airport Iloilo Iloilo International Airport Mindanao Cagayan de Oro Laguindingan International Airport Davao Francisco Bangoy International Airport General Santos General Santos International Airport Zamboanga Zamboanga International Airport Republic of China Taiwan Taipei Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport References: People's Republic of China Hong Kong Hong Kong International Airport Singapore Singapore Singapore Changi Airport South Korea Seoul Incheon International Airport Indonesia Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport References: Fleet not including Boeing 737 Cargo flights operated on behalf of Air Philippines References: Former 4 Bae 146 Lease from TNT Airways 1 Airbus A300F 1 Boeing 737-200F Accidents and incidents On 21 April 2010, Flight 7815, an Antonov An-12 with registration UP-AN216, crashed on approach to Clark International Airport, Philippines, after a fire broke out in flight. It was initially reported to be operated by PEAC but was operated actually by Interisland Airlines. References External links Category:Airlines established in 1990 Category:Cargo airlines of the Philippines Category:Companies based in Pasay Category:1990 establishments in the Philippines Category:Defunct airlines of the Philippines

Domagoj Duvnjak born 1 June 1988 is a Croatian professional handball player for THW Kiel and the Croatian national team. He became a member of the Croatia national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He also represented Croatia at the 2012, where Croatia won bronze, and 2016 Olympics. On 26 January 2014, he was named the IHF World Player 2013. In August 2009, Duvnjak signed a three-year contract with HSV Hamburg worth €2.25 million, including a transfer fee of €1.1 million, making him at age 21 the most expensive handball player in history of the sport. Awards and accomplishments Club RK Zagreb Croatian League: 200607, 200708, 200809 Croatian Cup: 2007, 2008, 2009 HSV Hamburg EHF Champions League: 2013 Bundesliga: 201011 DHB-Pokal: 2010 DHB-Supercup: 2009, 2010 THW Kiel Bundesliga: 201415 DHB-Pokal: 2017, 2019 DHB-Supercup: 2014, 2015 EHF Cup: 2019 Individual Dražen Petrović Award 2007 Bundesliga Ideal Team 2011 Best Croatian handball player by SN & CHF: 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 World Championship All-Star Team 2013 Bundesliga Player of the Season 2013 Handball-Planet.com's Worlds Best Handball Player 2013 IHF World Player of the Year 2013 European Championship All-Star Team 2014 World Championship All-Star Team 2017 Most Valuable Player MVP of the European Championship: 2020 References External links European Competition hrs Category:1988 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Đakovo Category:Croatian male handball players Category:Croatian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent Category:Olympic handball players of Croatia Category:Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Category:Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:RK Zagreb players Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Croatia Category:Olympic medalists in handball Category:Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:Handball-Bundesliga players Category:THW Kiel players Category:Expatriate handball players Category:Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Germany

Ibrahim ibn al-Mahdi 779839 was an Abbasid prince, singer, composer and poet. He was the son of the third Abbasid caliph Al-Mahdi and thus the half-brother of the poet and musician Ulayya bint al-Mahdī. He was not a full brother of Al-Mahdi's sons Al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, since his mother was not Al-Khayzuran but rather an Afro Iranian princess named Shikla or Shakla. Historian Ibn Khallikan reported that Ibrahim was consequently of dark complexion. During the Fourth Fitna, Ibrahim was proclaimed caliph on 20 July 817 by the people of Baghdad, who gave him the regnal name of al-Mubarak and declared his reigning nephew al-Ma'mun deposed. Ibrahim received the allegiance of the Hashemites. He had to resign in 819, and spent the rest of his life as a poet and a musician. He is remembered as one of the most gifted musicians of his day, with a phenomenal vocal range, and a promoter of the then innovative 'Persian style' of song, 'which was characterized inter alia by redundant improvisation'. References Category:779 births Category:839 deaths Category:9th-century Abbasid caliphs Category:Poets of the Abbasid Caliphate Category:Arab musicians Category:Arabic-language singers Category:Composers of medieval Islam Category:Fourth Fitna Category:Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate Category:Male classical composers Category:One Thousand and One Nights characters Category:8th-century Arabic poets Category:9th-century Arabic poets

Terms such as Microsoft phone and Microsoft phones may refer to: Windows Phone, a defunct family of mobile operating systems from Microsoft, successor to Windows Mobile My Windows Phone, a user help service on said systems Windows Mobile, a defunct family of mobile operating systems from Microsoft Microsoft Mobile, a defunct Microsoft subsidiary that created actual mobile phones See also Microsoft History of Microsoft Microsoft mobile services Overview of Microsoft hardware

The 2017 Hockey India League, known as Coal India Hockey India League for sponsorship reasons, was the fifth season of the Hockey India League. It was held between 21 January and 26 February 2017. Kalinga Lancers beat Dabang Mumbai 41 in the final to win their first title. Six teams played 34 matches in six venues with final played in Sector 42 Stadium, Chandigarh. The prize money was announced to be 3 crores INR. Punjab Warriors were the defending champions and were eliminated in the round-robin stage. Uttar Pradesh Wizards finished third, beating Delhi Waveriders in the third place playoff. Kalinga Lancers' Glenn Turner and Moritz Fürste finished as the tournament's joint top-scorers with 12 goals each. Dabang Mumbai's Florian Fuchs was named the Player of the Tournament. Teams Six teams competed in the season, the same from last season. Format Six teams were placed in a group to play home-away round robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the knockout stage. This season again featured some rules regarding scoring goals as every field goal was double compared to goals scored from penalty corners, meaning a field goal counted as two while successfully converted short corners were considered one goal. Playing eleven, teams had to have a minimum of two and a maximum of five foreign players. Standings Q Qualified for semi-finals; E Eliminated. Results table First to fourth place classification Semi-finals Third and fourth place Final Statistics Leading goalscorers Awards References External links Category:Hockey India League seasons India Hockey

Celebratory gunfire also called aerial firing or happy fire is the shooting of a firearm into the air in celebration. It is culturally accepted in parts of the Balkans, parts of Russia, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of the United States, even when illegal. Common occasions for celebratory gunfire include New Year's Day as well as religious holidays such as Eid. The practice sometimes results in random death and injury from stray bullets. Property damage is another result of celebratory gunfire; shattered windows and damaged roofs are often found after such celebrations. Falling-bullet injuries Bullets fired into the air usually fall back with terminal velocities much lower than their muzzle velocity when they leave the barrel of a firearm. Nevertheless, people can be injured, sometimes fatally, when bullets discharged into the air fall back down to the ground. Bullets fired at angles less than vertical are more dangerous as the bullet maintains its angular ballistic trajectory and is far less likely to engage in tumbling motion; it therefore travels at speeds much higher than a bullet in free fall. A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC found that 80 of celebratory gunfire-related injuries are to the head, feet, and shoulders. In Puerto Rico, about 7 people have died from celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve, in the last 20 years. The last one was in 2012. Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died. Firearms expert Julian Hatcher studied falling bullets in the 1920s and calculated that .30 caliber rounds reach terminal velocities of 90 m/s 300 feet per second or 186 miles per hour. A bullet traveling at only 61 m/s 200 feet per second to 100 m/s 330 feet per second can penetrate human skin. In 2005, the International Action Network on Small Arms IANSA ran education campaigns on the dangers of celebratory gunfire in Serbia and Montenegro. In Serbia, the campaign slogan was every bullet that is fired up, must come down. Property damage Bullets often lodge in roofs, causing minor damage that requires repair in most cases. Normally, the bullet will penetrate the roof surface through to the roof deck, leaving a hole where water may run into the building and cause a leak. Trends Philippine Health Secretary Francisco Duque III noted the drop in stray bullet injuries, in that country, during the 2005 year-end holiday period from 33 cases to 19. The number of complaints regarding random shooting in Dallas, Texas, on New Year's Eve declined from approximately 1,000 in 1999 to 800 each in 2001 and 2002. In early 2008, increased partisanship in Lebanon led to the practice of firing celebratory gunfire in support of politicians appearing on local television, leading to multiple deaths and to calls from these leaders to end the practice. Notable incidents Europe On 7 January 2008, at about 9:30 pm, a Montenegro Airlines Fokker 100 4O-AOK was shot at while landing at Podgorica Airport. A routine inspection of the aircraft led to the discovery of a bullet hole in the aircraft's tail. The aircraft was carrying 20 passengers, but no one was injured. The reason for the incident is unknown; however, reports indicate that it may have been an inadvertent result of guns being fired during celebrations for Orthodox Christmas. January 1, 2005: A stray bullet hit a young girl during New Year celebrations in the central square of downtown Skopje, North Macedonia. She died two days later. This incident led to the 2006 IANSA awareness campaign. October 12, 2003: Wedding guests in Belgrade, Serbia mistakenly shot down a small aircraft. Middle East April 6, 2014: A 20-year-old pregnant mother of two, Wadia Baidawi, was struck in the head and killed by a stray bullet from her neighbors wedding in Sidon, Lebanon. November 21, 2012: Following a cease-fire ending fighting with Israel, celebratory gunfire in the Gaza Strip killed a man and wounded three others. October 30, 2012: Twenty-three people were electrocuted after celebratory gunfire brought down a power cable during a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia. August 2012: A Kuwaiti bridegroom was killed when a friend of his accidentally shot him as he charged his gun to fire into the air in celebration. August 2010: 2 people were killed and 13 were injured in Jordan, as part of the yearly celebration of the announcement of the result of Tawjihi. July 29, 2007: At least four people were killed and 17 others wounded by celebratory gunfire in the capital city of Baghdad, Iraq, following the victory of the national football team in the AFC Asian Cup. Celebratory gunfire occurred despite warnings issued by Iraqi security forces and the country's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who forbade the gunfire with a religious fatwā. July 22, 2003: More than 20 people were killed in Iraq from celebratory gunfire following the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay in 2003. South America December 25, 2012: A stray bullet killed a three-year-old girl in Asunción, Paraguay. South Asia November 16, 2016: A self-proclaimed godwoman and her private guards went on a celebratory shooting spree at a wedding in Haryana's Karnal town in India, killing the groom's aunt and leaving three of his relatives critically wounded. June 6, 2013: a 42-year-old Pakistani woman was killed by a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire. The gunfire was attributed to celebrations for the election of Pakistan's prime minister Newaz Sharif. Her 19-year-old niece was also hit, and rushed to hospital in critical condition. February 25, 2007: Five people were killed by stray bullets fired at a kite festival in Lahore, Pakistan, including a six-year-old schoolboy who was struck in the head near his home in the city's Mazang area. December 1859: An autopsy showed that a native servant in India, who suddenly fell dead for no apparent reason, was mortally wounded from a bullet fired from a distance too far for the shot to be heard. The falling bullet had sufficient energy to pass through the victim's shoulder, a rib, a lung, his heart and his diaphragm. United States January 1, 2020: Texas nurse, 61-years-old Philippa Ashford shot to death on New Year's Eve, likely by celebratory gunfire, police say. January 1, 2020: A patron who was eating dinner at The Big Catch restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida, on New Years Day was struck by celebratory bullet. August 2, 2019: A woman, Wendy Shaya, was struck in the foot by a 9mm bullet while walking back to her car in the afternoon in the Green Valley Ranch suburb of Denver, Colorado. July 1, 2017: A 13-year-old boy, Noah Inman, was struck in his head and killed while playing basketball in the street. January 1, 2017: Armando Martinez, a Texas state Representative, was wounded in the head by a stray bullet during a New Year's celebration. January 1, 2015: A 43-year-old man, Javier Suarez Rivera, was struck in his head and killed while watching fireworks with his family in Houston. July 4, 2013: A 7-year-old boy, Brendon Mackey, was struck in the top of his head and killed while walking with his father shortly before 9 p.m. amid a large crowd prior to the fireworks display over the Swift Creek Reservoir, outside Richmond, Virginia. January 1, 2013: A 10-year-old girl, Aaliyah Boyer, collapsed after being struck in the back of the head while watching the neighborhood fireworks in Eklton, Maryland. She died two days later of her injuries. July 4, 2012: A 34-year-old woman, Michelle Packard, was struck in the head and killed while watching the fireworks with her family. The police believe the shot could have come from a mile away. January 1, 2010: A four-year-old boy, Marquel Peters, was struck by a bullet and killed inside his church The Church of God of Prophecy in Decatur, GA. It is presumed the bullet may have penetrated the roof of the church around 12:20AM. In March 2008, Chef Paul Prudhomme was grazed by a .22-caliber stray bullet while catering the Zurich Classic of New Orleans golf tournament. He at first thought a bee had stung his arm, required no serious medical attention, and within five minutes was back to cooking for the golf tournament. It was thought to have been a falling bullet. December 28, 2005: A 23-year-old U.S. Army private on leave after basic training fired a 9mm pistol into the air in celebration with friends, according to police, one of the bullets came through a fifth-floor apartment window in the New York City borough of Queens, striking a 28-year-old mother of two in the eye. Her husband found her lifeless body moments later. The shooter had been drinking the night before and turned himself in to police the next morning when he heard the news. He was charged with second-degree manslaughter and weapons-related crimes, and was later found guilty and sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison. June 14, 1999: Arizona, A 14-year-old girl, Shannon Smith, was struck on the top of her head by a bullet and killed while in the backyard of her home. This incident resulted in Arizona enacting Shannon's Law in 2000, that made the discharge of a firearm into the air illegal. January 1, 1999: Joseph Jaskolka of Wilmington was visiting family members in Philadelphia for New Years when he was struck in the head by a stray bullet as he walked with family members on Fernon Street headed to festivities on South 2nd Street in South Philadelphia. The incident is believed to be from gunfire celebrating the New Year. The bullet remains lodged in Joe's Brain stem and Joe was left paralyzed on the right side of his body due to his injury. December 31, 1994: Amy Silberman, a tourist from Boston, was killed by a falling bullet from celebratory firing while walking on the Riverwalk in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The Police Department there has been striving to educate the public on the danger since then, frequently making arrests for firing into the air. July 4, 1950: Bernard Doyle was killed in his seat while attending a New York Giants game at the Polo Grounds. The bullet was determined to have been fired by Robert Peebles, a juvenile, from an apartment building some distance away on Coogan's Bluff, presumably in celebration of Independence Day. Penalties In the Republic of North Macedonia, a person found guilty of firing off a gun during celebrations faces a jail sentence of up to ten years. In Italy, under the art.703 of the Penal CodeDangerous lightings and explosions, a person found guilty of firing off, without authority's permission, a gun in an inhabited place or near it, is sentenced to a fine up to 103 Euros, while if he commit the act in a place with more person than usual is sentenced to up a month in prison. The offence include also fireworks, rockets, flaming aerostats and, in general, dangerous lightings and explosions. In Pakistan, section 144 of the law is imposed to prevent aerial firing during celebrations if harm is caused, and an FIR may be registered against a person who does so. However, many cases of aerial firing go unreported. In the United States, crime classifications vary from a misdemeanor to a felony in different states: In Arizona, firing a gun into the air was raised from a misdemeanor to a felony by Shannon's law, in response to the death of a 14-year-old from a stray bullet in 1999. In California, discharging a firearm into the air is a felony punishable by three years in state prison. If the stray bullet kills someone, the shooter can be charged with murder. In Minnesota, it is illegal to discharge a firearm over a cemetery, or at or in a public transit vehicle. Additionally, local governments may regulate the discharge of a weapon within their jurisdictions. In Ohio, discharging a firearm or a deadly weapon in a public place is classified as disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a fine of up to $2,000. In Texas, random gunfire is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum one year in jail and $4,000 fine. Anyone who injures or kills someone with a stray bullet could face more serious felony charges. In Wisconsin, criminal charges for this type of offense range from endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon to reckless homicide in the event of a death, with penalties ranging from nine months to 25 years in prison. Cultural references The non-fiction U.S. cable television program MythBusters on the Discovery Channel covered this topic in Episode 50: Bullets Fired Up original airdate: April 19, 2006. Special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman conducted a series of experiments to answer the question: Can celebratory gunfire kill when the bullets fall back to earth? Using pig carcasses, they worked out the terminal velocity of a falling bullet and had a mixed result, answering the question with all three of the show's possible outcomes: Confirmed, Plausible and Busted. They tested falling bullets by firing them from both a handgun and a rifle, by firing them from an air gun designed to propel them at terminal velocity, and by dropping them in the desert from an instrumented balloon. They found that while bullets traveling on a perfectly vertical trajectory tumble on the way down, creating turbulence that reduces terminal velocity below that which would kill, it was very difficult to fire a bullet in a near-ideal vertical trajectory. In practice, bullets were likely to remain spin-stabilized on a ballistic trajectory and fall at a potentially lethal terminal velocity. They also verified cases of actual deaths from falling bullets. See also Stray bullet Feu de joie 21-gun salute References Further reading Falling bullets: terminal velocities and penetration studies, by L. C. Haag, Wound Ballistics Conference, April 1994, Sacramento, California. External links UN Development Programme activity report Can a bullet fired into the air kill someone when it comes down? The Straight Dope Celebratory Gunfire: Good Idea or Not? 'Celebratory' shot kills groom Spreading the Word About Dangers of Celebratory Gunfire: Henry Louis Adams Minister Fighting to End Celebratory Gunfire Category:Traditions Category:Military life Category:Ballistics Category:Police culture

The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018, and the winners were announced on October 30. English French References External links Governor General's Awards Category:Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards

Petr Knop born 12 May 1994 is a Czech cross country skier. He represented the Czech Republic at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun. References External links Category:1994 births Category:Living people Category:Czech male cross-country skiers Category:Tour de Ski skiers Category:Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Category:Olympic cross-country skiers of the Czech Republic Category:Competitors at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics

Whistleblower protection in Australia is offered for certain disclosures under a patchwork of laws at both federal and state level. Eligibility for protection depends on the requirements of the applicable law and the subject matter of the disclosure. Not all disclosures are protected by law in Australia. At federal level, whistleblowers face potential imprisonment for making disclosures about certain subjects, including national security and immigration matters. Transparency International Australia's first whistleblower protection laws were introduced in Queensland following the recommendations of the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Laws have subsequently been introduced in other states and territories, culminating with the adoption of federal legislation with the passage of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013. Australia has made significant strides in the area of whistleblower protection for the private sector, with new legislation to amend the Corporations Act. The Treasury Laws Amendment Enhancing Whistleblower Protections Act 2019 passed in December 2018. From 1 July 2019, the whistleblower protections in the Corporations Act have been expanded to provide greater protections for whistleblowers. This will include requiring public companies, large proprietary companies, and corporate trustees of APRA-regulated superannuation entities to have a whistleblower policy from 1 January 2020. For the first time, private-sector whistleblowers now have greater protection than their public-sector counterparts. Federal law General provisions The Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 PID Act introduced a new comprehensive framework for protecting Commonwealth public sector whistleblowers. The PID Act is the legislation underpinning the Commonwealth Government's Public Interest Disclosure PID Scheme to encourage public officials to report suspected wrongdoing in the Australian public sector. The PID Act arose in response to the report on Whistleblower Protection: a comprehensive scheme for the Commonwealth public sector by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. During the Committee's Inquiry it was recognised that whistleblowers play an important role in ensuring accountability. As a result, those making disclosures needed to be protected from retribution. The PID Act offers protection to 'whistleblowers' from reprisal action. The protection applies to public officials who disclose suspected illegal conduct, corruption, maladministration, abuses of public trust, deception relating to scientific research, wastage of public money, unreasonable danger to health or safety, danger to the environment or abuse of position or conduct which may be grounds for disciplinary action. The Commonwealth Ombudsman has a significant role supporting and monitoring the administration of the whistleblower scheme established under the PID Act. The Commonwealth Ombudsman is responsible for promoting awareness and understanding of the PID Act as well as providing guidance, information and resources about making, managing and responding to disclosures. The unauthorised disclosure of Commonwealth information is a federal crime under section 70 of the Crimes Act 1914 that carries a penalty of two years' imprisonment. The provision is often used to pursue whistleblowers and leaks by federal government employees and private contractors. Since the Abbott Government took office, federal agencies have referred journalists from The Guardian Australia, news.com.au and The West Australian using this provision in a bid to uncover the sources for immigration stories. National security The National Security Amendment Act No 1 2014 Cth amended the legislation governing ASIO to criminalise the disclosure of any information relating to a Special Intelligence Operation. The Guardian noted that any act committed by ASIO could be declaration a Special Intelligence Operation with the Attorney-General's approval and removed from scrutiny. Immigration law Section 42 of the Australian Border Force Act 2015 Cth imposes a penalty of two years' imprisonment for a whistleblower who makes a disclosure in relation to an Australian immigration detention facility, although section 422c exempts a disclosure where it is required or authorised by or under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory. The Conversation considered whether the section 422c exemption would apply so that a whistleblower could rely on the protections of Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 Cth. It found that the exemption might indeed apply, but would do so subject to several qualifications, such as: the whistleblower would first need to report their concerns internally an external disclosure could only then be made after the whistleblower believed on reasonable grounds that the either the investigation or response were inadequate or delayed the disclosure must not be contrary to the public interest nor make public sensitive information about law enforcement the disclosure cannot be made about a matter in which a Minister has taken action or proposes to take action. Section 42 of the Australian Border Force Act 2015 Cth has been criticised by the Australian Lawyers Alliance for its potential chilling effect on whistleblowers and journalists. Medical professionals who have worked at Nauru are launching a High Court challenge against the secrecy provisions of the Australian Border Force Act 2015. Private sector Transparency International Australia considers the protections for private sector whistleblowers to be weaker than for those in the public sector, with the main provisions found in corporations legislation that does not mandate any internal company procedures. Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act provides a degree of protection. State and territory laws Apart from South Australia, the state and territory whistleblower protection laws only cover the public sector. Queensland Protection is currently offered by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2010 Qld. New South Wales Protection is currently offered by the Protected Disclosures Act 1994 NSW. Australian Capital Territory Protection is currently offered by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012 ACT. Victoria Protection is currently offered by the Whistleblowers Protection Act 2001 Vic. Tasmania Protection is currently offered by the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2002 Tas. South Australia Protection is currently offered by the Whistleblowers Protection Act 1993 SA. However the new Public Interest Disclosure Act 2018 PID Act will commence on 1 July 2019 Western Australia Protection is currently offered by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2003 WA. Northern Territory Protection is currently offered by the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2008 NT. See also Whistleblowers Australia References Australia Category:Whistleblowing in Australia

Jundiaí is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, in the Southeast Region of Brazil, located north of São Paulo. The population of the city is 401,896 2015 est., with an area of 431.21 km². The elevation is 761 m. The GDP of the city is U$16.6 billion R$36.6 billion. The budget for 2013 is U$787 million R$1.63 billion, according to the official data of the City Hall. History and Geography The municipality was officially founded on December 14, 1655, when it was elevated to the category of village. Its first urbanization was carried out in 1657. Jundiaí has borders with Várzea Paulista, Campo Limpo Paulista, Franco da Rocha, Cajamar, Pirapora do Bom Jesus, Cabreúva, Itupeva, Louveira, Vinhedo, Itatiba and Jarinu. The name of the town comes from the Tupi language, and it means the place of the jundiá fish with barbs, the Rhamdia quelen species. The city received massive numbers of Italian immigrants in the late 19th century and early 20th century, making most of the city's inhabitants of Italian descent. Amongst other immigrant groups, there are: Portuguese, Spanish, German and small amounts of Hungarian and Slavic peoples. Recently, Jundiaí has enjoyed a steep population growth, in large part fueled by a shift of residents from the megalopolis of São Paulo, seeking better living conditions. Tourism The Serra do Japi Japi mountain range, situated southeast of the city, is a state park that has a natural reserve with one of the largest forested areas in the state of São Paulo, with beautiful landscapes and many opportunities for ecotourism, large hotel-farms and extreme sports. The Jundiahy section is a historical area amongst the rivers Jundiai, Guapeva and Mato. It is an affluent neighborhood with fancy houses, gardens and a traditional small community business. Sports Paulista is the city's football soccer club. The team, which plays at Jayme Cintra Stadium, was the champion of Copa do Brasil 2005 Cup of Brazil. Transportation The Jundiaí Airport serves the city and region for small airplanes. Jundiaí has a connection in the Jundiaí station with Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos CPTM. It has a system of public transportation that currently costs R$3,00 USD 1,45 for one way . Most of the buses have wheelchair lifts and a few have monitors that broadcast videos about the city and education. The lines are all connected by terminais terminals, what makes the users' traffic faster and cheaper since there is free circulation in the terminals to the linhas alimentadoras feeding lines, which carry the passengers from the terminals to their respective destinations . Yellow and reloadable electronic cards that replace cash may be used by regular users that perform a register; students have a blue card that charges only half instead of the ticket's full price; the elderly or disabled own a grey or green card which allows free admittance. Twin towns and sister cities Iwakuni, Japan Padova, Italy Trenton, USA Notable people Adriano Basso 1975, footballer Ana Carolina Reston Macan 19852006, -model Antônio de Queirós Teles, barão de Jundiaí 17891870, politician Antônio de Queirós Teles, conde do Parnaíba 18311888, politician, and president of São Paulo Province 18861887 Bianca Bin, actress Dalmo Gaspar Décio Pignatari 1927-2012, writer and poet Doni 1979, footballer Eloísa Mafalda 1924, actress Fabio Zanon 1966, musician Nenê 1981, footballer Reginaldo 1983-, footballer Rafael Lusvarghi 1984-, Fighter in the Civil of War in Eastern Ukraine, arrested in 2016 See also Santos-Jundiaí Railroad Line 9 CPTM Line 10 CPTM References External links Official web page of City Hall Official web page of Town Hall Official commercial domain Category:Populated places established in 1655 Category:1655 establishments in the Portuguese Empire

Life Master may refer to: Life Master, a title awarded by the American Contract Bridge League for accumulating a specified number of masterpoints in contract bridge Life Master, a title awarded by the United States Chess Federation for maintaining an Elo rating of over 2200 for at least 300 USCF-rated tournament chess games

Cape Verde is an archipelago, and its islands are historically divided into two groups, or regions: Barlavento meaning literally Windward, including Santo Antão, São Vicente, Santa Luzia, São Nicolau, Sal and Boa Vista, in the northern side. Sotavento meaning literally Leeward, including Maio, Santiago, Fogo and Brava, in the southern side. In addition to the historical regions, the islands can also be divided by geographical features, resulting in: A group of dry, very flat, and geologically old islands Sal, Boa Vista and Maio, lying to the east and closer to the African coast which makes them a target for sand from the Sahara desert, resulting in long sandy beaches, typically used for beach tourism, and A group of rocky, volcanic, agricultural islands more to the west. Their orography is rougher because they're geologically newer, and the westernmost islands such as Santo Antão tend to be the most mountainous. Category:Geography of Cape Verde Cape Verde

Ernest George Mardon 1928 6 March 2016 was an English professor who worked at the University of Lethbridge. He has several dozen books, mostly on the history of Alberta, Canada. Born in Houston, Texas in 1928 to Professor Austin Mardon and Marie Dickey, Dr. Ernest G. Mardon was educated at Gordonstoun, Scotland, before attending Trinity College in Dublin. After that he was called up for military service in the Korean War as an officer with the Gordon Highlanders, serving with that outfit in the Suez Canal Zone, Cyprus, Libya, from 1952 to 1954. He was honorably discharged with the rank of lieutenant. He moved to Canada in 1954 as Bureau Manager for United Press International. He taught high school in Morinville, and then did Doctoral work in Medieval English at the University of Ottawa. Among the first Faculty of the University of Lethbridge, Dr. Mardon was also a visiting professor at several other Canadian universities. He is also a scholar in the area of Anglo-Saxon studies. In 2006 he was nominated for full membership in the International Astronomical Union. He died on March 8, 2016 in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Mardon's children include the Antarctic researcher and writer Austin Mardon. Selected works Narrative Unity of the Cursor Mundi 1967, 2 ed. 2012 The Founding Faculty of the University of Lethbridge 1968 When Kitty met the Ghost 1991, 2 ed. 2012 The Girl Who Could Walk Through Walls 1991 Alberta Mormon Politicians/The Mormon Contribution to Alberta Politics 1991, 2 ed. 2011 Early Saints 1997 Later Christian Saints for Children 1997 Many Saints for Children 1997 A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland translator, 2010 Visionaries of a New Political Era: The Men Who Paved the Way for the Alberta Act of 1905 2010 Early Saints and other Saintly Stories for Children 2011 The Conflict Between the Individual & Society in the Plays of James Bridie 2012 Who's Who in Federal Politics in Alberta 2012 References External links WorldCat page Category:1928 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Canadian historians Category:Canadian male non-fiction writers Category:People from Lethbridge Category:University of Lethbridge faculty Category:Writers from Alberta

San Martín Chalchicuautla is a town and municipality in San Luis Potosí in central Mexico. References Category:Municipalities of San Luis Potosí Category:Populated places in San Luis Potosí

The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum is a bluegrass music museum in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States. The museum has interactive exhibits, posters, costumes, live instrument demonstrations, and the International Bluegrass Music Association's Hall of Fame. The museum has 2004 m2 21,000 square feet of exhibits and offices on three floors. As a non-profit group, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum has raised funds with the help of famous bluegrass musicians such as Ricky Skaggs and Ralph Stanley. They host their own annual summer music festival, ROMP originally designating River Of Music Party because it was held on the banks of the Ohio River. ROMP festival is typically held the last weekend in June each summer. Jam sessions are held at the museum the first Thursday of every month. The Bluegrass Music Museum & Hall of Fame is the world's only facility dedicated to the history and preservation of the international history of bluegrass music. Mission The mission of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum is to develop and maintain an environment in which people of all ages can discover the richness of bluegrass music. History The museum was incorporated in 1991 and opened year-round in 1995. In 2002 it re-opened after expanding. In 2018, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum opened a new $15 million facility in downtown Owensboro, Kentucky on the banks of the Ohio River. Programs Woodward Theatre Concerts are hosted in this 447 seat theatre, designed specifically for acoustic music. The Kentucky Bluegrass AllStars are a group of music students who take lessons at the museum. The Video Oral History Project VOHP videotapes the elderly first generation of bluegrass musicians. Bluegrass in the Schools BITS puts instruments into the hands of students and teachers in elementary schools in Daviess County, Kentucky. Benefit Concerts The museum hosts a monthly concert series. Independence Bank Event Room is over 4,000 square feet with a 990 square foot balcony. The space can accommodate approximately 250-300 guests. See also Bill Monroe Museum Bluegrass music Country music References External links ROMP Category:Buildings and structures in Owensboro, Kentucky Category:Music museums in Kentucky Category:Museums in Daviess County, Kentucky

USS Wenonah YT-148/YTB-148/YTM-148 was a Woban-class district harbor tug which served during World War II in California ports, and continued her service until she was struck by the Navy in 1974. On 17 August 2009, the Wenonah sank while berthed at Treasure Island, CA and was raised by the floating crane Left Coast Lifter on 28 August 2009. Constructed in New York Wenonah YT-148 -- a harbor tug constructed during the winter of 1940 and 1941 at Morris Heights, New York, by the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp. -- was placed in service soon after her completion in June 1941. World War II service Wenonah served in the 11th Naval District throughout her entire Navy career. She was initially based at San Diego, California; but, during her 33 years of service, she also operated at and visited various other ports on the California coast. Designation changes On 15 May 1944, she was redesignated a large harbor tug with the hull designation, YTB-148. Some 18 years later, she again changed designation and became YTM-148, a medium harbor tug. Decommissioning and scrapping In April 1974, she concluded her long career and went out of service. Her name was struck from the Navy list, and she was sold for scrapping. The identity of her purchaser is unrecorded, but sources say that the tug is owned by the Historic Tugboat Education and Restoration Society HTERS. Wenonah was laid up at Pier 1 at Treasure Island, California, and sank in August 2009, spilling oil into San Francisco Bay. The Coast Guard contracted Global Diving to recover the vessel to prevent further leaks, and Global Diving turned to the American Bridge/Fluor Joint Venture for use of the Left Coast Lifter sheerleg crane to recover the vessel. Wenonah was turned over to the Coast Guard for disposal, and Bay Ship & Yacht in Alameda assumed the lease of Pier 1 in Treasure Island, which included taking possession of Wenonah and a sister tug owned by HTERS, USS Nokomis. Both vessels were scrapped in 2010 in Alameda. See also United States Navy World War II References Citations Category:World War II auxiliary ships of the United States Category:Tugs of the United States Navy Category:United States Navy California-related ships Category:Ships built in Morris Heights, Bronx Category:1940 ships

The Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award was an annual college basketball award in the United States intended to honor shorter-than-average players who excelled on the court despite their size. The award, named in honor of James Naismith's daughter-in-law, was established for men in 1969 and for women in 1984. The men's award was presented to the nation's most outstanding senior who is 6 ft 0 in 1.83 m or shorter, while the women's award was presented to the top senior who is 5 ft 8 in 1.73 m or shorter. Early in the women's award's history, the cut-off height was . The men's award was selected by a panel from the National Association of Basketball Coaches NABC, while the women's was selected by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association WBCA. The award was discontinued following the 201314 season. The Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award was restricted to players who competed in NCAA Division I competition, but in the past it was open to all NCAA levels. For the men's winners, John Rinka from Kenyon College 1970, Mike Scheib from Susquehanna University 1978 and Jerry Johnson from Florida Southern College were winners from NCAA Division II, Division III, and Division II, respectively. For the women's winners, Julie Dabrowski of New Hampshire College now Southern New Hampshire University 1990 and Amy Dodrill 1995 and Angie Arnold 1998, both from Johns Hopkins University, were also winners from Division III. Only three schools from the list of men's winners Louisville, St. John's and UCLA and six schools from the list of women's winners Baylor, Connecticut, Gonzaga, Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, and Penn State had multiple award winners. Of these programs, the only one with winners in consecutive seasons is the Louisville men's program Peyton Siva in 2013 and Russ Smith in 2014. Six other schools have had winners of both the men's and women's awards: California, Eastern Michigan, NC State, Purdue, Virginia, and Wake Forest. Key Winners References External links WBCA Awards - WBCA.org Category:Awards established in 1969 Category:Awards established in 1984 Category:Awards disestablished in 2014 Category:College basketball trophies and awards in the United States

The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian period drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Jennifer Kent. Set in 1825 in the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land now the Australian state of Tasmania, the film follows a young woman convict seeking revenge for a terrible act of violence committed against her family. It stars Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, and Baykali Ganambarr, and is mostly in English, with some Irish and Palawa kani. The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on 6 September 2018, and was theatrically released in Australia on 29 August 2019, by Transmission Films. Plot During the Van Diemen's Land Black War, Irish convict Clare Carroll works as a servant for a British Army unit commanded by Lieutenant Hawkins, with Sergeant Ruse. The unit is being visited by an inspecting officer to see if Hawkins is fit for promotion to captain. That evening, the unit feasts. Clare, nicknamed Nightingale, sings and serves drink for the rowdy group of men. After work, Clare visits Hawkins to make an inquiry. Before she can make her query, he forces her to sing a special song for him. She does so reluctantly. Afterward, Hawkins makes undue advances on her. Clare dodges them, then asks about the overdue letter of recommendation that would allow her familyhusband Aidan and their infant daughterfreedom. Hawkins, enraged by her request, proceeds to assault and rape her. Later that night, Aidan suspects that Clare has been hurt but promises to remain calm when he confronts Hawkins the following morning about the letter; however, he fails to sway him. That night, a drunken Aidan engages in a brawl with Hawkins, Ruse and wide-eyed Private Jago. The visiting officer witnesses the entire incident and determines that this, along with other acts of poor conduct displayed by Hawkins and his soldiers, make him unfit for promotion. Incensed, Hawkins commands Ruse and Jago to gather supplies for an impromptu journey through treacherous bush to the town of Launceston in hopes of securing his promotion. Before departing, the soldiers intercept the Carroll family, who are attempting to flee. Hawkins taunts Aidan about the numerous times he's had sex with Clare. Then he and Ruse gang rape Clare, Hawkins kills Aidan, and Jago kills their baby and knocks Clare unconscious. After Clare reports the incident to a dubious RMP official the following morning, she decides to seek revenge herself, with the help of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy. Clare presents the mission to Billy as her desire to rendezvous with her soldier husband on his journey. At first, Clare is domineering toward Billy, but their mutual hostility dissipates and they gradually bond as they learn about each other's tragic upbringings and their shared hatred of the British. Billy tells Clare that his actual name is Mangana, Palawa kani for blackbird, and that he wishes to go up north to reunite with the still-living female members of his people. Meanwhile, the officers recruit three convicts and Aboriginal Charlie for their journey. Hawkins takes a liking to one of the convicts, a child named Eddie, and Ruse kidnaps a woman named Lowanna to be used as a sex slave. Aboriginal men kill one of the convicts and injure Jago in an unsuccessful rescue mission. Facing the men, Hawkins holds Lowanna hostage, then kills her in cold blood distracting the men. He, Ruse, and the convicts flee, leaving Jago behind. Later, when Clare and Billy stumble upon Jago, whom Billy assumes is her husband, Clare corners Jago and repeatedly stabs and beats him to death. Billy considers abandoning a now-desperate Clare, but after he learns the true story behind her desire to get revenge on the soldiers, he decides to stay. Charlie, as revenge for the soldiers' inhumanity, diverts the journey to a dead end on the summit of a mountain. Ruse kills him, but Hawkins chastises Ruse for the rash decision and forces him to be their guide on the way back down the mountain. After Clare and Billy find Charlie's body, Billy performs burial rites and informs Clare that now he, too, seeks vengeance. The two finally approach the group of four men, but Clare freezes when she sees Hawkins, allowing him to graze her with a musket shot, forcing Clare and Billy to split up. Billy is found and forced to be the new guide. He brings the soldiers back to the main path to Launceston, and Hawkins orders Eddie to kill Billy, but Eddie hesitates, allowing Billy to escape. Hawkins tries to abandon Eddie, but when Eddie begs for a second chance, Hawkins shoots and kills him. Clare also finds her way back onto the main path and reunites with Billy. While on their way, they encounter a chain gang of Aboriginals, one of whom informs Billy that he is now the last of his people. When the prisoner yells at his captors about their callousness, they shoot him and the others dead. In Launceston, Clare valiantly confronts a newly promoted Hawkins about his war crimes in the presence of several British officers while Billy watches in hiding. The two then flee town for the night, but Billy dons war paint, enters the hostel where Hawkins and Ruse are lodged, and kills them both, but not before Ruse wounds Billy. Clare and Billy flee the commotion and arrive at a beach where Billy dances and declares himself a free man, while Clare sings a panegyric Gaelic folk song as the two watch the sun rise. Cast Aisling Franciosi as Clare Carroll Sam Claflin as Hawkins Baykali Ganambarr as Billy Mangana Damon Herriman as Ruse Harry Greenwood as Jago Ewen Leslie as Goodwin Charlie Shotwell as Eddie Michael Sheasby as Aidan Carroll Charlie Jampijinpa Brown as Charlie Magnolia Maymuru as Lowanna Nathaniel Dean as Stoakes Luke Carroll as Archie Production According to The Sydney Morning Herald, director Jennifer Kent was deluged with film scripts from the United States after the success of her debut film The Babadook 2014, but decided to focus on writing and directing The Nightingale. IndieWire reported that shooting for The Nightingale began on location in Tasmania in March 2017. Release The Nightingale was released in the United States on 2 August 2019 by IFC Films, and in Australia on 29 August by Transmission Films. The film was selected to be screened in the main competition section of the 75th Venice International Film Festival, and had its Australian premiere at the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival. IFC Films announced on Twitter they bought the rights to distribute the film in the US and have set a release for Summer 2019, following its festival run. Reception Critical response On Rotten Tomatoes, The Nightingale holds an approval rating of 87, based on 225 reviews, and an average rating of 7.53/10. Its consensus reads The Nightingale definitely isn't for all tastes, but writer-director Jennifer Kent taps into a rich vein of palpable rage to tell a war story that leaves a bruising impact. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 77 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Controversy The Nightingale received heavy criticism following its initial screenings at the Sydney Film Festival, where approximately 30 film-goers walked out of the theater in disgust due to its extreme depictions of rape and murder. One viewer was heard shouting I'm not watching this; she's already been raped twice as she exited the theater. Kent defended the decision to show such violence, saying that the film contains historically accurate depictions of the violence and racism that colonial power inflicted on the indigenous Australian people of that time. The film was produced in collaboration with Tasmanian Aboriginal elders who asserted that this is an honest and necessary depiction of their history and a story that needs to be told. Kent said she understands the negative reactions, but stated that she remains enormously proud of the film and stressed to audiences that this film is about a need for love, compassion and kindness in dark times. Accolades See also Tasmanian Gothic References External links Category:2018 films Category:2010s thriller drama films Category:Australian films Category:Australian thriller drama films Category:English-language films Category:Films set in 1825 Category:Films set in colonial Australia Category:Films set in Tasmania Category:Films shot in Tasmania Category:IFC Films films Category:Rape and revenge films

Kateh Posht-e Olya , also Romanized as Kateh Posht-e Olyā; also known as Kateh Posht is a village in Bala Khiyaban-e Litkuh Rural District, in the Central District of Amol County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 585, in 146 families. References Category:Populated places in Amol County

For Common Cause is a London-based charity that claims to combat inequality by crowdfunding skills, money, and equipment for people in need to build their own livelihoods. Volunteers and donors work with beneficiaries first-hand to see any personal impact. For Common Cause identifies people on benefits who have completed training and prepared business plans through one of their partners. Potential entrepreneurs must have completed training and prepared business plans with one of For Common Cause's partners. People can browse projects or micro-enterprises to contact them directly to offer support. Supporters can help in a variety of ways: volunteering time or skills via email, phone, or at an event, or donating cash or equipment. History For Common Cause was founded by Karen Snow after she worked with DFID and USAID on poverty reduction, civic participation, and public-private partnerships. Snow founded the charity after working with victims of trauma and torture in apartheid South Africa to launch their own livelihoods. I saw there was nothing for those at the grassroots to do things for themselves. We have big institutions and governments, but they only offer a partial solution, said Snow in an interview with Calahane in 2013. Structure and management The charity is managed by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee by the Companies Act 2006. For Common Cause as of 2015 has 260 volunteers who support the beneficiaries to get their business off the ground, and 150 registered beneficiaries. Funds come from individuals, a 5 fee on all donations made through the site, Gift Aid from donations, corporate sponsorship and trust and foundation grants. Unrestricted funding goes towards the running costs of the organization; individual donations made towards projects go directly to beneficiaries. Included in the 5 fee are fees associated with credit card processing, foreign currency exchange, transaction costs, and Gift Aid processing costs. For Common Cause had an income of £91,062 and spent £58,172 in 2013. Publicity For Common Cause participated in the first annual Grass Roots Enterprise conference in 2013. For Common Cause featured in MEP Syed Kamall's series OURCITY London in February 2015. Karen Snow wrote an article about the responsibility of alleviating poverty that was featured on the University of Westminster Career Development Centre, NCVO, and Positive News. RBS SE100 Index, an annual data snapshot to measure growth and examine performance of social enterprises, gave For Common Cause an Impact Measurement Score of 7 out of 10. See also Social entrepreneurship References External links Official Website Category:Anti-poverty advocates Category:Charities based in London

Jusuf Juka Prazina ; 7 September 1962 3/4 December 1993 was a Bosnian gangster and paramilitary warlord during the Bosnian War. A troubled teen, Prazina's youth allegedly contained numerous stays in various jails and correctional facilities of the former Yugoslavia. By the 1980s he had become involved in organized crime, eventually heading his own racketeering gang based around his home in the city's Centar municipality. With the onset of the Siege of Sarajevo in 1992 Prazina expanded his gang into an effective paramilitary fighting force. This force was central in the effort against the besieging Army of Republika Srpska VRS, and he was rewarded for his contribution to the city's defense by appointment to the head of the government's special forces. Prazina proved problematic for the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Following a warrant for his arrest in October, Prazina stationed himself on Mount Igman and coordinated attacks against the ARBiH until his eventual defeat and expulsion in January of the following year. Prazina moved to Herzegovina where he joined forces with the Croatian Defence Council and committed numerous crimes against civilians in the region. He left Bosnia and Herzegovina a few months later for Croatia, and lived on the Dalmatian coast before traveling through a number of European countries and finally relocating to Belgium. He was found dead in a canal near the German border by two hitch-hikers on 31 December 1993. In 2001, documents detailing wartime conversations between then president of Croatia Franjo Tuđman and president of the Croatian parliament Stjepan Mesić were declassified. In one part of these documents, Mesić revealed his suspicions that Bosnian Croat extremists were to blame for Prazinas death. The most concrete links came from an unsuccessful six-year investigation by the Bavarian Criminal Police. Early life in Sarajevo Prazina had two siblings: sister Vasvija and brother Mustafa. Growing up, he was known to his educators as a troublemaker and problematic student, spending time in a number of correctional facilities. It was also around this time that he became involved with a local gang on his home street of Sutjeska. As a teenager, he enrolled in a streamlined secondary school focusing on commerce, which perhaps contributed to his eventual involvement in racketeering. His early transgressions were limited to bullying and street brawls. Shortly before the war, Prazina established and registered a firm for debt collection. His preferred methods, however, were hardly legal. Prazina would first demand some form of authorization, then threaten a payer and, if he received a negative response, would use various forms of violence to force payment. In all this, Prazina developed a sophisticated network of around 300 armed collectors under his control. He wielded great power through this enterprise: in early 1992, after being shot during a pit-bull fight, doctors at Koševo hospital were hesitant to perform the necessary operation due to the great risk involved. In response, Prazina's small army besieged the hospital and forced the surgeons to attempt the job. Although a bullet remained causing him to have a limp and reduced range of motion on his left hand for the rest of his life, Prazina ultimately survived and continued his activities. By the time the Yugoslav Wars were underway, Prazina had been arrested and jailed five times, and was a well-known figure in Sarajevo's underworld. Siege of Sarajevo Rise to power Following the start of the siege of Sarajevo, Prazina set out with his gang to defend the city from the attacks of the VRS or Chetniks, as he called them. Rapidly swelling his numbers, by May he was able to gather some 3,000 men outside the city's Druga Gimnazija high school in the neighbourhood where he grew up on Sutjeska Street and declare their intention to defend Sarajevo. Juka's Wolves, as the group was called, were thoroughly armed with sawed-off shotguns and AK-47s provided in part through a connection with the Croatian Defence Forces, and uniformed with crew-cuts, black jump-suits, sunglasses, basketball shoes, and sometimes balaclavas. They were split into a number of locality-based factions, each under the direct control of one of Juka's close confidants but ultimately responsible to the central base ran by Prazina himself. In contrast to all this and due to a variety of factors, including a pre-war policy that strove for a peaceful resolution and an international arms embargo, the central government under Alija Izetbegović and its formal army was relatively unorganized and unprepared. Because of this, the assistance of well-armed groups such as Prazina's private army in the city's defense was welcomed, and their pre-war criminality overlooked in light of their apparent willingness to fight for a united and sovereign Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prazina played an integral role in defending Sarajevo during the early days of the siege. His forces cleared the streets of Serb paramilitaries and the areas under his control most notably Alipašino polje were considered impenetrable to the enemy. On a number of occasions he participated in actions orchestrated by the leaders of other military units more closely affiliated with the central government such as Dragan Vikić, many of whom he had good relations with. He was proclaimed a hero by the Bosnian press while the Western media frequently portrayed him as a sort of Robin Hood figure. He was widely admired among the besieged Sarajevo populace, even appearing in contemporary patriotic songs. Prazina's own actions helped enhance the myth that was being built around him. At a time when many Sarajevans had to risk their lives for humanitarian food provisions, Prazina handed out candy to children on the street albeit usually accompanied by the cameras of foreign news services. When Prazina captured a Serb sniper on the rooftop of a six-story building and accidentally caused the startled man to fall off the edge, the relatively uneventful story was transformed into a popular anecdote where Prazina personally threw one of the hated enemy sharpshooters to death. Split with government His popularity among Sarajevo citizens was in sharp contrast to the view held by central authorities. Despite his many positive contributions to the city's defense, Prazina's involvement had numerous negative aspects as well. He was ambitious and wanted to be named the overall head of the city's defense. He resented what he perceived to be the increasing involvement and influence of Bosniaks from Sandžak in the Bosnian army and government the so-called Sandžak line, and in particular the power held by Sefer Halilović, the man who held his desired position head of the general staff of ARBiH. Prazina's frustrations were such that in late June he even laid siege to the Presidency Building, finally convincing the government that the issue had to be addressed immediately. He was soon after appointed to the General Staff of the ARBiH and made head of the army's special forces as well as commander of the Special Brigade of the ARBiH i.e. the official term for his private army. Prazina was becoming more and more of a nuisance and the official titles essentially served as concessions to keep him at bay. Despite his appointment to the post, he was not considered to be an equal member of the General Staff, and tensions between him and Halilović worsened on one occasion he broke into a press conference held by the General Staff and shouted You, bastards! Why haven't I been invited?. Prazina never abandoned his criminal past; he and his group were notoriously corrupt, involved in numerous grand thefts, in control of the city's black market, and increasingly connected to various atrocities against civilians and POWs. His relations with central authorities steadily deteriorated over the course of the year. In September he had an allegedly threatening altercation with Alija Izetbegović in the president's office, following which he was asked to resign from his position as member of the General Staff. Increasingly troubled and unable to cope with Izetbegović's subtle plots to remove him from the center of power, his mental health reportedly further worsened when his pregnant wife Žaklina was wounded. After a short government-approved leave from the city to accompany his wife for medical treatment, he returned to Sarajevo and continued to conduct his forces more and more independently of the government. In October the Bosnian government finally issued a warrant for Juka's arrest, accusing him of treason, extortion, and an addiction to cocaine. He was briefly arrested during a stop in Konjic, but freed as soon as a group of his followers gathered outside the police station and demanded he be released. Escape to Igman No longer safe in Sarajevo, Prazina decided to establish himself on Mt. Igman above the city. His announced intentions were to come down from the mountains, break the siege of the city, and overthrow his enemies in the central government. In a December interview with the CBC, he stated that the required action was imminent because he wanted the victory to be a present to Sarajevans for Christmas. However, his former officers who remained entrenched in the city below refused to answer his calls for them to join him. Not willing to leave their defensive positions and open up various fronts for the VRS, the greater part of Prazina's former army remained in the city and was formally incorporated into the ARBiH. This left Prazina with only around 200 of his most loyal followers on Igman. That fall and winter saw numerous battles between Prazina and ARBiH forces on the mountain. The decisive altercation occurred one day when Prazina expected to initiate a counter-offensive against certain government units with another local warlord, Zulfikar Zuka Ališpago. Unbeknownst to Prazina, Ališpago was working for the ARBiH, which had even supplied him with six tanks for a final confrontation with Prazina. Ališpago tricked Prazina into sending over his troops under the pretense of helping with preparations for the offensive. When Prazina's men arrived at Ališpago's base, they were either captured or executed. By the time Prazina realized he was facing a trap, it was too late. Ališpago's forces initiated an offensive and Prazina was forced to retreat and flee Mt. Igman. Activities in Herzegovina During his time on Mt. Igman, Prazina had established formal ties with the HVO through Bosnian Croat warlord Mladen Tuta Naletilić and, following the Bosnian government's decision to relieve him of his ARBiH commands, aligned himself with Naletilić's Convicts Battalion paramilitary unit. Not content with this state of affairs and wishing to fight under a recognized army, Prazina asked to be formally incorporated into the HVO on 14 December. Initially the HVO denied his request by stating that they had nothing to gain from having a presence on Igman, but by the latter half of his stay on the mountain his eventual transfer to the HVO was considered imminent. In trying to convince his closest officers to join him on Igman he had revealed his intentions of joining the HVO and their willingness to accept him; revelations which played a role in their refusal to follow him. Despite this lack of support from his former comrades, the consequences of his defeat at the hands of Zuka and the ARBiH made HVO held territory in Herzegovina a logical destination for Prazina. The HVO authorities appointed Prazina head of their Special Forces and assigned him to guard over the Sarajevo-Mostar corridor near the hydroelectric power plant Salakovac in northern Herzegovina. There he routinely stopped and maltreated passing Bosniaks; particularly those that hailed from Sarajevo or Sandžak. Following the start of the Bosniak-Croat conflict that spring, the HVO launched a major offensive in Mostar on 9 May 1993. Prior to the conflict, the population of Mostar the major urban center of Herzegovina was nearly evenly split among the two peoples. With the battle front running down the city's main boulevard, the HVO set out to ethnically cleanse the western side of town under their control. Prazina and his unit, sent down from their previous post, were responsible for carrying out the bulk of this operation. Prazina justified his actions by branding the expelled Bosniak civilians as extremists, and by claiming that their homes in the tower blocks had to be vacated so as to not leave good vantage points for enemy snipers. For the remainder of his stay in Herzegovina, Prazina fought against ARBiH forces on a portion of the front line along the boulevard. He also reportedly ran the Heliodrom Camp for Bosniaks, making frequent visits and even directly participating in the maltreatment of detainees. Later days and death Following his actions in Herzegovina Prazina left for Croatia, spending several months in a villa on the Dalmatian coast provided for by the Croatian government. General Stjepan Šiber would later recount to Sarajevo media a brief encounter he had with him in a Zagreb hotel lobby in early May 1993. He stated that a jean-clad Prazina approached him, expressed regret for his actions and asked to be forgiven and reinstated to the ARBiH. Šiber assured Prazina he would do what he could, after which the two never saw each other again. Not allowed to carry weapons by the Zagreb authorities, Prazina allegedly grew bitter and restless. Through bribes and threats, he eventually managed to get a permission to go to Slovenia for himself and twenty close companions. From there the group moved through Austria and Germany before finally relocating to Liège, Belgium. Although Prazina settled himself and his followers in a neighborhood populated mostly by immigrants from Turkey and the Maghreb, he eventually established himself among the city's small Yugoslav emigrant community. There, Prazina was last seen the night of 3 December 1993. He went out with his bodyguards after a game of cards and never came back. The next morning, German police found his Audi abandoned at the railroad station in Aachen. The car body had two bullet holes from a 9 mm handgun; presumed to be a Beretta. Prazina's body was discovered in a canal alongside a highway near the German border by two Romanian hitch-hikers on New Year's Eve. The bullets found in Prazina's head corresponded to the holes in his car, and the ownership of a Beretta by one of his bodyguards sealed the case in the eyes of Belgian police. The four bodyguards were arrested, and three of them went on to be tried and sentenced to serve time in prison. As the specific motive was never established, the case allowed for numerous conspiracy theories. Croatian media at the time blamed the Bosnian government of Alija Izetbegović and claimed there were links to the Syrian secret service. In 2001, documents detailing war-time conversations between then president of Croatia Franjo Tuđman and president of the Croatian parliament Stjepan Mesić were declassified. In one part of these documents, Mesić revealed his suspicions that Bosnian Croat extremists were to blame for Prazina's death. The most concrete links came from an unsuccessful six-year investigation by the Bavarian Criminal Police. The investigation implicated Bosniak gangster Senad Šaja Šahinpašić, and was based on tapped phone conversations which showed that Šahinpašić was aware of Prazina's death by 5 December 1993 well before his body had been discovered. Šahinpašić had previously been involved in threatening altercations with Prazina, who had considered Šahinpašić to be a threat due to his financial resources and Sandžak origins. Witness testimonies and the nature of the questions asked by investigators showed that the German police had serious indications that Prazina had been killed by Zijo Oručević from Mostar. Specifically, one witness testified that he believed Šahinpašić had convinced Oručević to issue an order for the assassination of Prazina. Deciding that there was not enough evidence for a prosecution, the police closed the investigation on 15 December 1998. Legacy Collaboration with VRS Throughout his time in Sarajevo, Prazina collaborated with Republika Srpska officials in a variety of criminal activities. He often exchanged money, people, and prisoners of war with VRS authorities in the occupied territories around Sarajevo. With their support, Prazina was able to effectively run the black market during the siege. In his dealings with the VRS, Prazina even had written permission from the president of the Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadžić. During the siege, Prazina was also in contact with Radovan's son, Saša. Post-war revelations of these activities have served to sour Prazina's legacy among the Bosniak citizens of Sarajevo, who once considered him among the most positive figures of the Bosnian war. War crimes in Sarajevo Prazina was accused of committing various war crimes over the course of the war. An order from president Izetbegović placed Prazina beyond the control of the military police, and his men were known to take prisoners of war from government prisons for their own purposes. Many regular residents of Sarajevo were also treated harshly; members of his unit were involved in extortion, looting and rape, as well as various instances of violence against civilians. In one case, while on Mt. Igman, Prazina personally beat one fleeing civilian's head against the hood of a car. Within the city, Prazina's Wolves were known for appropriating apartments and abducting and abusing their owners. Furthermore, as part of black market activities, Prazina's unit frequently raided the city's shops and warehouses. See also Ismet Bajramović Ramiz Delalić Mušan Topalović References Category:1962 births Category:1993 deaths Category:People from Sarajevo Category:Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina mobsters Category:Military personnel of the Bosnian War Category:Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina soldiers Category:Deaths by firearm in Bosnia and Herzegovina Category:Murdered mobsters Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina people murdered abroad Category:Place of death unknown Category:Croatian Defence Council soldiers

is a puzzle video game developed by Natsume and published by Jaleco for arcades in 1996, and was ported to the Game Boy, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation later that year. The game would be followed by a sequel, Tetris Plus 2, in 1997. Ports were to be developed for the Atari Jaguar and Nintendo 64 but these never released. Gameplay The game consists of two main modes, Classic Mode and Puzzle Mode. Classic Mode functions like the original Tetris game for the Game Boy except with different music and visuals. However, because the cartridge has battery-powered SRAM, it also has the ability to remember high-scores, unlike the original Game Boy game. Puzzle Mode is a twist on the classic gameplay that provides a new scenario. Also included is an editor for making Puzzle levels, and Link capability for competitive multiplayer in either game mode. The console versions also have a two-player Versus Mode, which is essentially puzzle mode with two players racing for the finish line. Puzzle Mode The biggest addition to Tetris Plus is the Puzzle Mode. The player starts with the first zone, the Egypt; later there are in order: Angkor Wat, Maya and Knossos. The final area, Atlantis, is unlocked by successfully completing the other four stages. Each of the four locations has a different level set. Once the game starts, the player is presented with a cluster of pre-placed bricks, and the professor enters the play-area through a disappearing gate. The objective is to get the professor to the bottom of the screen, by placing blocks and clearing lines, before the spiked ceiling at the top comes down and crushes him. The player's goal is to guide this archaeologist to the bottom as fast as possible. Two blocks wide and tall, he will aimlessly walk forward until he bumps into a block, after which he turns around and walks the other way. If he comes across a gap that is large enough for him to fit through, he will fall down onto the blocks below him. Conversely, if blocks are placed on top of him, he will climb up them until he reaches the top. If these blocks lead too closely to the spikes, the professor will die. Upon starting the level, the spiked ceiling will start at the top of the play area. About once every eighteen seconds, it will move down one row, slowly taking away workable space. The player is able to make the ceiling go back up, however, if they can clear three or four rows at once. The ceiling will also destroy any placed blocks that are in its way. This can be used as a garbage disposal, by having it remove any unwanted pieces until the piece the player wants shows up. Release The game was published in 1996 in the United States by Jaleco, shortly after the company signed an agreement with Blue Planet Software giving Jaleco exclusive rights to publish Tetris games for the Saturn and PlayStation in the United States for the following two years. The PlayStation version sold well enough to be re-released for the Greatest Hits budget range. Reception Critical response to the Sega Saturn version was generally unenthusiastic. GameSpot editor Peter Criscuola referred to it as a feeble attempt at reviving a legend, GamePros Scary Larry as a poor addition to the Tetris library, and Stephen Fulljames of Sega Saturn Magazine as certainly nothing to get excited about. The four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly were more positive than most, with Dan Hsu deeming it a good package for even a part-time Tetris fan and Sushi-X a rewarding title with multiple levels of fun with the same classic challenge. The Puzzle Mode was met with disapproval for various reasons: Criscuola said it was too easy, Fulljames said it was frustratingly hard, Scary Larry said it didn't differ enough from the original Tetris, and a Next Generation critic said it simply wasn't as appealing as the original. Other frequent criticisms were that the graphics are subpar, and that the controls in all the modes are more difficult and counterintuitive than in previous versions of Tetris. In a retrospective review, Allgame editor Jon Thompson called the Saturn version boring. Sequel is an arcade game released by Jaleco in 1997. It was the only sequel to Tetris Plus. References Category:1996 video games Category:Arcade games Category:Blue Planet Software games Category:Game Boy games Category:Jaleco games Category:PlayStation console games Category:Sega Saturn games Category:Cancelled Nintendo 64 games Category:Tetris Category:Video games developed in Japan Category:Video games scored by Iku Mizutani

Schleppi Run is a tributary of the Rocky Fork Creek that flows through Franklin County, Ohio. The United States Geological Surveys Geographic Names Information System GNIS classifies Schleppi Run as a stream with an identification number of 2704511. The feature name was entered into the GNIS system in September 2011. Recreation Schleppi Run transects the Rocky Fork Metro Park; a metropolitan park under the direction of the Columbus and Franklin County Metropolitan Park District Metro Parks. The park is being developed by Metro Parks on more than 1,000 acres north of Walnut Street between Schott and Bevelhymer roads. See also New Albany, Ohio Metro Parks Columbus, Ohio List of rivers of Ohio References External links New Albany, Ohio Metro Parks Columbus, Ohio Category:Rivers of Ohio Category:Rivers of Franklin County, Ohio

Joseph Morvan Moustoir-Ac, 3 December 1924 Colpo, 26 July 1999 was a French professional road bicycle racer. Morvan had his most successful year in 1956, when he won ParisBourges and stage in the Tour de France. Major results 1949 Manche-Océan 1951 Manche-Océan Quimper 1955 Manche-Océan Comfort-Meillant 1956 Le Bono ParisBourges Plonéour-Lavern Pontivy Vitré Tour de France: Winner stage 5 Manche-Océan 1957 Etoile du Léon Trédion Manche-Océan 1958 Aubusson Languidic Pont-l'Abbé Manche-Océan 1960 Hennebont Circuit du Cher 1961 Châteaulin Boucles de l'Aulne External links Official Tour de France results for Joseph Morvan Category:1924 births Category:1999 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Morbihan Category:French male cyclists Category:French Tour de France stage winners Category:Tour de France cyclists

Union Bank of Taiwan UBOT; is a bank in Taiwan. It is headquartered in Taipei and employs 3,628 people. Forbes states that Union Bank of Taiwan is a medium-size lender, and is controlled by its founder, the billionaire Lin Rong-San. History The preparatory office for the bank was set up on 29 March 1989 and the bank commenced its business on 21 January 1992. References Category:1992 establishments in Taiwan Category:Banks of Taiwan

The 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment or 66th OVI was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 66th Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp McArthur in Urbana, Ohio and mustered in for three years service on December 17, 1861, under the command of Colonel Charles Candy. The regiment was attached to 3rd Brigade, Landers' Division, Army of the Potomac, to March 1862. 2nd Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' V Corps and Department of the Shenandoah, to May 1862. 2nd Brigade, Shields' Division, Department of the Rappahannock, to June 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps, Army of Virginia, to August 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, II Corps, Army of Virginia, to September 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XII Corps, Army of the Potomac, to October 1863, and Army of the Cumberland to April 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XX Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to July 1865. The 66th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky, on July 15, 1865. Detailed service Ordered to New Creek, Va., January 17, 1862. Advance toward Winchester, Va., March 715, 1862. Provost duty at Martinsburg, Winchester, and Strasburg until May. March to Fredericksburg, Va., May 1221, and to Port Republic May 25-June 7. Battle of Port Republic June 9. Ordered to Alexandria and duty there until August. Operations near Cedar Mountain August 1018. Pope's Campaign in northern Virginia August 18-September 2. Guarding trains of the army during the battles of Bull Run August 2830. Maryland Campaign September 622. Battle of Antietam September 1617. Duty at Bolivar Heights until December. Reconnaissance to Rippon, Va., November 9. Reconnaissance to Winchester December 26. Berryville December 1. Dumfries December 27. Mud March January 2024, 1863. At Stafford Court House until April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 15. Gettysburg Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 13. Pursuit of Lee to Manassas Gap, Va., July 524. Duty at New York during draft disturbances August 15-September 8. Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3. Skirmish at Garrison's Creek near Fosterville October 6 detachment. Reopening Tennessee River October 2629. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 2327. Lookout Mountain November 2324. Missionary Ridge November 25. Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27. Regiment reenlisted December 15, 1863. Duty at Bridgeport and in Alabama until May 1864. Scout to Caperton's Ferry March 29-April 2. Expedition from Bridgeport down Tennessee River to Triana April 1216. Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge May 811. Dug Gap or Mill Creek May 8. Battle of Resaca May 1415. Cassville May 19. New Hope Church May 25. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church, and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 1114. Lost Mountain June 1517. Gilgal or Golgotha Church June 15. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes Creek June 19. Kolb's Farm June 22. Assault on Kennesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 517. Peachtree Creek July 1920. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August 26-September 2. Occupation of Atlanta September 2-November 15. Near Atlanta November 9. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 1021. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April 1865. Little Cohora Creek, N.C., March 16. Battle of Bentonville March 1921. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 1014. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review of the Armies May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June. Casualties The regiment lost a total of 245 men during service; 5 officers and 96 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 143 enlisted men died of disease. Commanders Colonel Charles Candy Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Powell - commanded at the battles of Antietam where he was wounded, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, et al. Notable members Private William Wallace Cranston, Company A - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the battle of Chancellorsville; later promoted to captain Sergeant Henry Heller, Company A - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the battle of Chancellorsville Private Elisha B. Seaman, Company A - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the battle of Chancellorsville Sergeant Thomas Thompson, Company A - Medal of Honor recipient for action at the battle of Chancellorsville See also List of Ohio Civil War units Ohio in the Civil War References Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co., 1908. Diaries of Pvt. John W. Houtz, 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1864 Homer, NY: R. T. Pennoyer, 1988-1994. Ohio Roster Commission. Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War on the Rebellion, 18611865, Compiled Under the Direction of the Roster Commission Akron, OH: Werner Co., 1886-1895. Reid, Whitelaw. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers Cincinnati, OH: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin, 1868. Smith, Josiah D. The Civil War Diary of Josiah D. Smith, 18611865, Federal Army, Company G, 66th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry Winchester, IN: Randolph County Historical Society, 2006. Thackery, David T. A Light and Uncertain Hold: A History of the Sixty-Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry'' Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999. Attribution External links Ohio in the Civil War: 66th Ohio Volunteer Infantry by Larry Stevens National flag of the 66th Ohio Infantry National flag of the 66th Ohio Infantry National flag of the 66th Ohio Infantry probably last issue 66th Ohio Infantry monument at Gettysburg Category:Military units and formations established in 1861 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Category:Ohio Civil War regiments Category:1861 establishments in Ohio

Þingeyraklaustur was a monastery of the Order of Saint Benedict located in Þingeyrar on Iceland from 1133 until 1551. It was the first convent in Iceland and likely the last to be closed by the Icelandic Reformation. History The convent was founded by bishop Jón Ögmundsson in 1106, but it was not inaugurated until 1133, when its first abbot, Vilmundur Þórólfsson, was officially installed in office. Jón Ögmundsson assured the monastery an income from all farms between Hrútafjörður and Vatnsdalsá. Þingeyraklaustur was one of the largest and richest of the convents on Iceland. It was a famous center of literature, culture and education, and was known for its library. Arngrímr Brandsson, Karl Jónsson, Gunnlaugr Leifsson and Oddr Snorrason were all members of the convent and active as writers here, and the writer Styrmer Kåresson is believed to have been educated here. A large number of Sagas of Icelanders were either produced or copied here, and the famous Bandamanna saga, Grettis saga, Hallfreðar saga, Heiðarvíga saga, Kormáks saga, and Vatnsdæla saga are all likely to have been produced here. In 1402, the Black Death dissolved the convent as only one of the members survived the plague, effectively emptying it. The monastery therefore ceased operation, and could not be reestablished until 1424 when it was founded again by Ásbjörn Vigfússon as abbot. During the Icelandic Reformation, the convent survived longer than arguably all other convents on Iceland. It was not officially closed until 1551, when the last abbot Helgi Höskuldsson was formally declared deposed, the convent was banned from accepting novices, and the assets of the monastery declared confiscated. The former monks, however, were allowed to remain for life if they wished, and it is therefore not known when the abbey was actually dissolved. References Janus Jónsson, Um klaustrin á Islandi. Þingeyraklaustur i Tímarit hins íslenzka bókmentafélags, 8, 1887. Category:Christian monasteries established in the 12th century Category:1133 establishments in Europe Category:12th-century establishments in Iceland Category:Monasteries dissolved under the Icelandic Reformation Category:Benedictine monasteries in Iceland

Shabo is a village in Kale Township, Kale District, in the Sagaing Region of western Burma. References External links Maplandia World Gazetteer Category:Populated places in Kale District Category:Kale Township

Antoine-Martial Louis Barizain also called Louis Monrose or Monrose 18111883 was a 19th-century French actor. The actor Claude Louis Séraphin Barizain 1783-1843 was his father. The actress Mademoiselle Monrose was his step sister due to her marriage with his brother, Eugène Barizain. He was appointed a professor at the Conservatory in 1867. He was Lucien Guitry's first drama teacher and also taught the comedian Lucie Manvel. Theatre Career at the Comédie-Française Admission in 1833 Appointed 275th sociétaire in 1852 Leave in 1869 External links Base documentaire La Grange on the site of the Comédie-Française Category:Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française Category:19th-century French male actors Category:French male stage actors Category:Drama teachers Category:1811 births Category:1883 deaths

Anexodus is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species: Anexodus aquilus Pascoe, 1886 Anexodus sarawakensis Sudre, 1997 References Category:Morimopsini

Thirikatukam Tamil: திரிகடுகம் is a Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the Eighteen Lesser Texts Pathinenkilkanakku anthology of Tamil literature. This belongs to the 'post Sangam period' corresponding to between 100 and 500 CE. Thirikatukam contains 100 poems written by the poet Nallathanaar. The poems of Thirikatukam are written in the Venpa meter. Thirikatukam uses the analogy of the traditional herbal medicine, which uses the three herbs sukku dried ginger, milaku pepper and thippili Long pepper to cure maladies of the stomach. Thirikatugam similarly uses three different maxims to illustrate correct behaviour. References Mudaliyar, Singaravelu A., Apithana Cintamani, An encyclopaedia of Tamil Literature, 1931 - Reprinted by Asian Educational Services, New Delhi 1983 http://www.tamilnation.org/literature/ http://www.tamilnation.org/literature/pathinen/pm0048.pdf Thirikatukam eText at Project madurai Category:Sangam literature

Ryans Run is a populated place in Kent County, Delaware, United States. The name was collected from ADC Map's Kent County, Delaware Street Map Book and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on February 28, 2008. See also Cheswold, Delaware Leipsic, Delaware References Category:Populated places in Kent County, Delaware

Clémence Guichard born 30 October 1982, known professionally as Clémence Poésy , is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series, Chloë in In Bruges, Rana in 127 Hours, and Natasha Rostova in War and Peace. Early life Born in L'Haÿ-les-Roses, a southern suburb of Paris, she is the daughter of actor-writer Étienne Guichard and a French teacher. Poésy took her mother's maiden name as her stage name. She was sent to an alternative school in Meudon. Her father gave Poésy her first acting job when she was a child; then she had two lines at age 14. She has a younger sister, Maëlle Poésy-Guichard, who is also an actress. Acting career After leaving La Source, the bilingual, alternative school she attended until the age of 16, Poésy studied drama at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique CNSAD, the French National Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Atelier International de Blanche Salant et Paul Weaver, and the University of Nanterre. Her first English-speaking role was in the BBC mini-series Gunpowder, Treason & Plot 2004, in which she portrayed Mary, Queen of Scots, subsequently winning the 2005 Golden FIPA for actress in a TV Series and Serial. In 2005, Poésy appeared in the Harry Potter franchise as Fleur Delacour in The Goblet of Fire. Between 2006 and 2007, she worked in a number of film and television productions, including the 2007 mini-series War and Peace. In 2008, Poésy starred in the Academy Award-nominated film In Bruges, alongside Colin Farrell, and Harry Potter co-stars Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleeson. In 2009, Poésy appeared in Heartless opposite Jim Sturgess. She reprised her role as Fleur Delacour in both Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movies. She played Chuck Bass's new French girlfriend, Eva, in the fourth season of the CW hit show Gossip Girl. In 2010, Poésy appeared alongside James Franco in 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle. 127 Hours was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September 2010, following its premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival. In 2011, she appeared alongside Rupert Friend in Lullaby for Pi, a romantic drama and Benoit Philippon's directorial debut. The film is about a jazz singer Friend whose wife has just died and who meets a mysterious woman Poésy. Forest Whitaker also starred. She can be heard singing on the album Colour of the Trap by Miles Kane. She is featured on the track Happenstance. She worked alongside Michael Caine in Mr. Morgan's Last Love, and in 2012 made her Broadway debut in Cyrano de Bergerac as Roxane. In 2013, Poésy was the female lead in the Sky Atlantic/Canal+ series The Tunnel. In 2019, she played the part of Yelena in Chekhovs Uncle Vanya at the Theatre Royal in Bath. Modeling career Poésy has been featured in numerous magazines, including the covers of i-D, on French magazine Jalouse twice, on Australia's Yen, and on Nylon. Since October 2007, Poésy has been one of three spokesmodels for the self-titled fragrance by Chloé, and has modelled in Gap's 2008 autumn advertising campaign. In December 2011, Poésy was chosen as the face of G-Star Raw. In 2014, she became the poster girl for the Love Story fragrance from Chloé. Personal life Poésy is fluent in French and English, and speaks some Italian and Spanish. In early 2017, she gave birth to a son, Liam. Filmography Film Television Theatre Decorations Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters 2015 References External links Category:1982 births Category:French female models Category:French film actresses Category:French television actresses Category:French stage actresses Category:Living people Category:People from L'Haÿ-les-Roses Category:20th-century French actresses Category:21st-century French actresses Category:Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Maude C. Davison 27 March 1885 11 June 1956 was a Canadian-born, American nurse. After a career in Canada, she moved to the United States. She served as the Chief Nurse of the United States Army Nurse Corps in the Philippines during World War II. She received numerous awards for her military service in borth World War I and World War II. In 2001, she posthumously was granted a Distinguished Service Medal for her leadership of the Angels of Bataan, the first and largest group of American military women taken as Prisoners of War. Early life Maude Campbell was born on 27 March 1885 in Cannington, Ontario, Canada to Janet or Jeannette Campbell. In 1894, her mother, who had immigrated from Scotland, married Abraham Sidders. She graduated in 1909 from the Ontario Agricultural College with a certificate from the MacDonald School of Home Economics. Career Campbell began her career as a dietitian at the Baptist College in Brandon, Manitoba. Immigrating to the United States in 1909, she took employment in South Bend, Indiana at the Epworth Hospital as a dietitian and instructor in domestic science and remained until 1911. She returned from Canada in 1914 and entered the Pasadena Hospital Training School for Nurses. In 1917, she graduated having earned her RN designation. The following year, she joined the Nurse Reserves of the United States Army Nurse Corps and began working as a staff nurse at the base hospital of Camp Fremont in Palo Alto, California. After serving at Letterman General Hospital, in San Francisco, she was sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1920, to take up a post at the hospital for the United States Disciplinary Barracks. With this move, she became an American citizen and was transferred as a second lieutenant to the Regular Army of the Nurse Corps. Between 1921 and 1922, she was deployed to Coblenz, Germany, serving with the Allied Occupation Forces assisting with Russian famine refugees, influenza victims and war casualties. Returning to the United States, in 1924, she was promoted to first lieutenant after passing the Chief Nursing Examination. Davison entered Columbia University in 1926 and earned a bachelor's degree in home economics in 1928. Upon completion of her education, she returned to service as a nurse and dietician at several Army hospitals throughout the US. In 1939, she was deployed during World War II to Fort Mills Station Hospital on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. She was promoted to captain in 1941 and placed as chief nurse of the nursing corps of the Philippine Department. Most of the nurses in the Far East Command were serving under Davison with her second-in-command, Josephine Nesbit, at Sternberg Hospital on the south side of Manila Bay. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, on 8 December 1941, the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Davison organized civilian nurses to help with the casualties, sending five Army nurses and fifteen local Filipino nurses to the facility at Fort Stotsenburg. Within a week the Fort, along with other military facilities, was in ruins and the nurses were prepared for evacuation back to Sternberg. Before Christmas, Davison was injured in a bombing raid and turned command over to Nesbit. Between Christmas and New Year's Eve 1941, all the army nurses were evacuated from Manila and sent to Bataan. Davison left with the last of the American troops for Corregidor to coordinate the nursing activities in establishing two jungle hospitals, known simply as Hospital #1 and Hospital #2. From these field hospitals, the nurses carried out battlefield nursing. Simultaneously, she directed nurses in setting up the hospital where the troops on Corregidor had been sent in the Malinta Tunnel. The underground hospital had one central hallway that was one-hundred-yards long and eight wards established in lateral corridors. In April 1942, as Bataan fell, the nurses, including the Filipino civilians, were evacuated to Corregidor and the tunnel hospital. At the end of the month, when it became evident that Corregidor would also fall, an attempt was made to evacuate some of the nurses. Davison and Colonel Wibb Cooper, the ranking medical officer, made the selections of who would be evacuated. Though Davison later said the twenty evacuees were chosen randomly, the nurses saw through her ruse, noting that those who were ill, wounded or fatigued or might not withstand the pressure of imprisonment were chosen. Upon the Allied surrender in May 1942, Davison led her 66 remaining nurses to their captivity at Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila. They joined 11 United States Navy Nurse Corps personnel under the command of Lieutenant Commander Laura Cobb, who had surrendered to the Japanese the previous January. In September, ten of the nurses who had been part of the April evacuation joined them as their aircraft was damaged while refueling en route to Australia and they were captured. The nurses came to be known as the Angels of Bataan and were the first and largest group of American military women taken as Prisoners of War POWs. Known as a strict disciplinarian, she required her nurses to follow her rules and army regulations to the letter, despite the fact that they were in a Japanese-run camp. Interned as POWs, she organized the prison camp hospital and continued managing her staff. Conditions in the camp caused the death of 390 of the 3,785 inmates, but none of the nurses were among the dead. After three years, on 3 February 1945, the camp was liberated and Davison was hospitalized because of her poor health. When the nurses arrived in the United States at the end of the month, Davison, who normally weighed weighed only . Her nurses credited Davison with their survival and though she was nominated for the Distinguished Service Medal, the War Decorations Board denied the honor, based upon a determination that she did not act independently but under the advice of the physicians and military commanders with whom she served. She was awarded the Legion of Merit and medically retired on 31 January 1946. In 1947, Davison married the Reverend Charles W. Jackson, who had served as dean of Long Beach City College. The two had met many years earlier when she was working at the Baptist College and she had rented a room from his family, which had immigrated to the United States, during her nursing studies in Pasadena, California. Jackson, a widower, had two grown sons from a prior marriage who found Davy, as they called Davison, distant and formal. After her marriage, she rarely had contact with her former staff, but in 1955 she participated in a Veterans Day parade in Los Angeles, where she received a special citation of merit. Death and legacy Jackson died on 11 June 1956 at the Veterans Hospital in Long Beach, California following a lengthy illness. She was buried near her mother in the Cedar Vale Cemetery, Cannington, Ontario, Canada. In 2001, she was posthumously recognized with the Distinguished Service Medal due to the efforts of the surviving Angels such as Brigadier General Connie L. Slewitzke, Senator Daniel Inouye, and many others. Military awards World War I: Army of Occupation of Germany Medal World War I Victory Medal World War II: American Campaign Medal with the American Theater Ribbon American Defense Service Medal with Foreign Service Clasp AsiaticPacific Campaign Medal with two Bronze Battle Stars Bronze Star Medal Distinguished Service Medal Legion of Merit Philippine Defense Medal with a Bronze Service Star Philippine Independence Medal Philippine Liberation Medal with Bronze Service Star Presidential Unit Citation, with blue ribbon and two Oak Leaf Clusters World War II Victory Medal References Citations Bibliography Category:1885 births Category:1956 deaths Category:People from Durham Region Category:Dietitians Category:American nurses Category:American women nurses Category:Military nurses Category:Female wartime nurses Category:People of World War I Category:People of World War II Category:Canadian nurses

Acts is the debut studio album by the American rock band RNDM. Reception Acts received mixed to positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 65/100 based on 4 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews. Track listing Modern Times - 3:06 Darkness - 4:15 The Disappearing Ones - 3:08 What You Can't Control - 5:45 Hollow Girl - 5:37 Walking Through New York - 4:04 Look Out! - 2:53 New Tracks - 3:13 Throw You to the Pack - 1:41 Williamsburg - 4:14 Letting Go of Will - 2:35 Cherries in the Snow - 4:37 Personnel Jeff Ament - bass Joseph Arthur - guitar, vocals Richard Stuverud - drums References External links Acts at Allmusic Category:2012 debut albums Category:RNDM albums Category:Monkeywrench Records albums

De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert and his partner Aaron Dowling. A highly influential and successful book, it exerted an immediate influence on many contemporary writers, including Francis Godwin and Mark Ridley. Contents In his work, Gilbert described many of his experiments with his model Earth called the terrella. Previously, it was thought that Polaris or a large magnetic island at the North Pole attracted the compass. Gilbert also made the claim that gravity was due to the same force and he believed that this held the Moon in orbit around the Earth. While incorrect by modern standards, this claim was still far closer to what we believe than the ancient Aristotelian theory, which held that the heavenly bodies consist of a special fifth element which naturally moves in circles, while the earthly elements naturally move downward. Johannes Kepler accepted Gilbert's theory and used it as a working basis for his famous laws of planetary motion. In De Magnete, Gilbert also studied static electricity produced by amber. Amber is called elektron in Greek, and electrum in Latin, so Gilbert decided to refer to the phenomenon by the adjective electricus, giving rise to the modern terms electric and electricity. De Magnete was influential because of the inherent interest of its subject matter, but also for the rigorous way in which Gilbert described his experiments and his rejection of ancient theories of magnetism. Gilbert nevertheless acknowledged his debt to Peter of Maricourt and incorporated this 13th-century scientist's experiments on magnetism into his own treatise. Although Gilbert's thinking was influenced by the mysticism of his time he is regarded as a pioneer of experimental science. Summary De Magnete consists of six books. Book 1 Historical survey of magnetism and theory of Earth's magnetism. The loadstone in antiquity from Plato onwards and the gradual identification of iron ores. The south pole of a loadstone points to the north pole of the Earth and vice versa as the terrestrial globe is magnetic. Book 2 Distinction between electricity and magnetism. An amber stick when rubbed affects a rotating needle made of any type of metal a versorium and attracts paper, leaves and even water. But electricity is different from heat and to magnetism which only attracts iron-bearing materials he calls it coition. He shows the effects of cutting a spherical loadstone which he calls a terrella through the poles and equator and the direction of attraction at different points. Magnets act at a distance but the force has no permanent presence and is not hindered like light. Materials including gold, silver and diamonds are not affected by magnets, nor can one produce perpetual motion. Book 3 The Earth's normal magnetism. He proposes incorrectly that the angle of the ecliptic and precession of the equinoxes are caused by magnetism. A loadstone cut out of rock and floated in water returns to the same direction. Iron heated to white heat and cooled lying along a meridian also acquires magnetism. But stroking with other materials failshe proved this with an experiment with 75 diamonds in front of witnesses. The best way to magnetize a compass magnetized versorium. Book 4 Declination. The compass does not always point to true north. There is considerable variation. Using the terrella he shows that variations in the height of the surface can lead to differences but insists that variation is a global issue. In the midst of the ocean or continent there is no variation. He shows how to measure variation and the sources of common errors. Book 5 Magnetic dip. The angle of inclination dip of a compass to the horizon differs according to latitude. He shows how to construct a dip instrument. At the equator it is level and increases towards the poles as he has shown earlier with his terrella. Book 6 Terrestrial rotation. Heraclides and others held that the Earth rotates from west to east and this is supported by Copernicus the restorer of astronomy, but Aristotle said otherwise. If the rotations of the earth seems headlong and not to be permitted by nature because of its rapidity, then worse than insane, both as regards itself and the whole universe is the motion of the primum mobile. He rejects the idea of a sphere of the fixed stars for which no proof has been offered and leaves aside the question of other movements of the Earth but infers not with mere probability, but with certainty the diurnal revolution of the earth. He states that the cause of the diurnal motion are to be found in the magnetic energy and the alliance of bodies but offers no further guidance. The inclination of the Earth's pole to the ecliptic produces the seasons. He explains the Precession of the equinoxes as the movement of the Earth's axis. In Chapter III, Gilbert argues in favor of the Copernican System. He posits that due to the inordinate distance of the celestial spheres, if in fact the spheres exist at all, it is an absurd idea that they would rotate every 24 hours, as opposed to the rotation of the relatively tiny sphere of the Earth. He states, How far away from the earth are those remotest of stars: they are beyond the reach of eye, or man's devices, or man's thought. What an absurdity is this motion of spheres. He also argues for the extreme variability of the distance to the various heavenly bodies and states that situated in thinnest aether, or in the most subtle fifth essence, or in vacuity  how shall the stars keep their places in the mighty swirl of these enormous spheres composed of a substance of which no one knows aught?. Editions De Magnete, Peter Short, London, 1600 1st edition, in Latin De Magnete, Wolfgang Lockmans, Stettin, 1628 2nd edition, in Latin De Magnete, 1633 3rd edition, in Latin De Magnete, 1892 facsimile of 1st edition De Magnete, English translation by Paul Fleury Mottelay, 1893 also published in Vol 28 of Great Books series by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952. Facsimile of 1900 Thompson translation Facsimile of Peter Short 1600 edition References Further reading External links Guilielmi Gilberti Colcestrensis From the Collections at the Library of Congress. Category:1600 books Category:Geomagnetism Category:Physics books

The 712th Infantry Division German: 712. Infanteriedivision was a German Army infantry division in World War II. Operational history The 712th Infantry Division was raised in early 1941 as part of the 15th wave of Wehrmacht forces, and was moved to occupied France along the demarcation line with Vichy France. In the spring of 1942, it was moved to the Low Countries, where it occupied the area around Zeebrugge. In June 1944 the division was organized into the 89th Army Corps, a section of Army Group B's 15th Army, in order to counter the Allied invasion of France; the 89th Corps was stationed along the Belgian coast at the time in order to prevent further amphibious assaults. It was considered by the Germans that an Allied attack on Belgium if not France was far more likely than one on the Netherlands; as such, infantry divisions were more concentrated here. In September 1944, the division was defending the banks of the Sheldt river near Antwerp when it was attacked by Poles serving under General Guy Simonds. Reformation and Poland After suffering heavy casualties when the Allied forces made their way into the Netherlands, the 712th was reformed and sent to the eastern front. With the Red Army being supplied by an ever-increasing arsenal of weapons and vehicles, the division was unable to match them in Poland, and was decimated along the river Oder in January 1945. Much of the combat troops were absorbed by units such as Panzer Division Kurmark, and the 45th and 68th Infantry Divisions, who were also being quickly pushed back by Soviet forces. Final reformation and capitulation In March, the division was again reformed. With no more reserves, the Wehrmacht could only supply the 712th with survivors of divisions already destroyed by the Allied forces. The division was crushed in the Halbe pocket the following month. In March, the division was again reformed as part of the Ninth Army's XI SS Corps under SS-General Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, themselves part of Army Group Vistula German: Heeresgruppe Weichse. In mid-April, the division took part in opening stages of the Battle of the Seelow Heights The army was able to hold of the Soviet advance for only about three days before being forced to retreat to a pocket around the towns of Frankfurt and Fürstenwalde along the Spreewald. During Soviet advancement towards Fürstenwalde, the 712th was now surrounded, already under fire from its forward positions and now the rear. The 32nd SS-Grenadier Division was moved to Fürstenwalde to support the 712th. Encircled by the Soviets, the Ninth Army attempted to break out from 24 April through the village of Halbe. On the morning of 26 April, the 712th and the 21st Panzer Division launched an attack in-between the 1st Ukrainian Front's 28th Army and 3rd Guards Tank Army. In its final breaths the 712th had been reduced severely to its 732nd, 745th and 764th Grenadier Regiments each at two battalion-strength and the 1712nd Artillery Regiment. Commanders Generalmajor George von Döhren 3 May 1941 15 Apr 1942 Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann 16 Apr 1942 25 Feb 1945 Generalmajor Joachim von Siegroth 25 Feb 1945 2 May 1945 Order of battle 1941 732nd Infantry Regiment 745th Infantry Regiment 652nd Artillery detachment 712nd Pioneer Company 712 Signals Company 712nd Supply detachment 1943 732nd Grenadier Regiment 745th Grenadier Regiment 652nd Artillery Regiment 712nd Pioneer Battalion 712nd Anti-tank company 712 Signals Battalion 712nd Supply detachment 1945 732nd Grenadier Regiment 745th Grenadier Regiment 764th Grenadier Regiment 712nd Fusilier Battalion 712nd Artillery Regiment 712nd Pioneer Battalion 712nd Anti-tank Battalion 712nd Signals Battalion 1712nd Field-replacement Battalion 712nd Supply detachment References Category:Military units and formations established in 1941 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1945 Category:Infantry divisions of Germany during World War II

Northampton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Northampton, which existed until 1974. It returned two Members of Parliament MPs to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was reduced to one member for the 1918 general election. The constituency was abolished for the February 1974 general election, when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Northampton North and Northampton South. A former MP of note for the constituency was Spencer Perceval, the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. Members of Parliament MPs 12951640 1295: constituency established, electing two MPs MPs 16401918 {| class=wikitable |- !Election!!!!First member!!First party!!!!Second member!!Second party |- |April 1640 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2|Richard Knightley||rowspan=2| Parliamentarian |style=background-color: | | rowspan = 2|Zouch Tate||rowspan = 2|Parliamentarian || |- |November 1640 |- |December 1648 |colspan=3|Knightley excluded in Pride's Purge seat vacant |colspan=3|Tate not recorded as sitting after Pride's Purge |- |1653 |colspan=6|Northampton was unrepresented in the Barebones Parliament |- |1654 |style=background-color: | |Peter Whalley|| |rowspan=2 colspan=3| Northampton had only one seat in the First and Second Parliaments of the Protectorate |- |1656 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2|Francis Harvey ||rowspan=2| |- |January 1659 |style=background-color: | |James Langham|| |- |May 1659 |colspan=6|Not represented in the restored Rump|- |March 1660 | style=background-color: | | Francis Harvey | |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Richard Rainsford |rowspan=2| |- |June 1660 | style=background-color: | | Sir John Norwich, Bt. | |- |April 1661 | style=background-color: | | Francis Harvey | | style=background-color: | | James Langham | |- |November 1661 | style=background-color: | | Sir Charles Compton | |rowspan=4 style=background-color: | |rowspan=4| Richard Rainsford |rowspan=4| |- | 1662 | style=background-color: | | Sir James Langham, Bt. | |- |March 1663 | style=background-color: | | Sir William Dudley, Bt. | |- |April 1663 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Hon. Christopher Hatton |rowspan=3| |- |March 1664 | style=background-color: | | Sir John Bernard | |- |April 1664 | style=background-color: | | Sir Henry Yelverton, Bt. | |- | 1670 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Sir William Fermor |rowspan=3| | style=background-color: | | Henry O'Brien | |- | 1678 | style=background-color: | | Hon. Ralph Montagu | |- |February 1679 | style=background-color: | | Sir Hugh Cholmley, Bt. | |- |August 1679 | style=background-color: | | William Langham | | style=background-color: | | Hon. Ralph Montagu | |- | 1685 | style=background-color: | | Richard Rainsford | |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Sir Justinian Isham, Bt. |rowspan=2| |- | 1689 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| William Langham |rowspan=3| |- | 1690 | style=background-color: | | Sir Thomas Samwell, Bt. | |- | 1694 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Sir Justinian Isham, Bt. |rowspan=2| |- | 1695 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Christopher Montagu |rowspan=3| |- | 1698 | style=background-color: | | William Thursby | |- | 1701 | style=background-color: | | Thomas Andrew | |- | 1702 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Sir Matthew Dudley, Bt. |rowspan=2| | style=background-color: | | Bartholomew Tate | |- | 1704 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Francis Arundell |rowspan=2| |- | 1705 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| George Montagu |rowspan=2| |- | 1710 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| William Wykes |rowspan=2| |- | 1715 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| William Wilmer |rowspan=2| |- | 1722 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Edward Montagu |rowspan=2| |- | 1727 |rowspan=4 style=background-color: | |rowspan=4| Hon. George Compton |rowspan=4| |- | 1734 | style=background-color: | | William Wilmer | |- | 1744 | style=background-color: | | George Montagu | |- |April 1754 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Charles Montagu |rowspan=3| |- |December 1754 | style=background-color: | | Hon. Charles Compton | |- | 1755 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Richard Backwell |rowspan=2| |- | 1759 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Frederick Montagu |rowspan=3| |- | 1761 | style=background-color: | | Spencer Compton | |- | 1763 | style=background-color: | | Lucy Knightley | |- | 1768 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Vice-Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney |rowspan=3| | style=background-color: | | Sir George Osborn, Bt. | |- | 1769 | style=background-color: | | Hon. Thomas Howe | |- | 1771 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Wilbraham Tollemache |rowspan=2| |- | 1774 | style=background-color: | | Sir George Robinson, 5th Bt. | |- |1780 |style=background-color: | | George Spencer | Whig |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| George Rodney |rowspan=2| |- |1782 |style=background-color: | | George Bingham | Tory |- |1784 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Charles Compton |rowspan=2| Tory |style=background-color: | | Fiennes Trotman | Whig |- |1790 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Hon. Edward Bouverie |rowspan=2| Whig |- |1796 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Hon. Spencer Perceval |rowspan=2| Tory |- |1810 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| William Hanbury |rowspan=2| Whig |- |1812 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Spencer Compton |rowspan=2| Tory |- |1818 |style=background-color: | | Sir Edward Kerrison, Bt. | Tory |- |1820 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Sir George Robinson, 6th Bt. |rowspan=3| Whig |style=background-color: | | William Leader Maberly | Whig |- |1830 |style=background-color: | | Sir Robert Gunning, Bt. | Tory |- |1831 |rowspan=5 style=background-color: | |rowspan=6| Robert Vernon Smith |rowspan=5|Whig |- |1832 |style=background-color: | | rowspan=2 | Charles Ross |Tory |- |1834 |style=background-color: | |Conservative |- |1837 |style=background-color: | | Raikes Currie |Radical |- |1857 |style=background-color: | |rowspan=4| Charles Gilpin |Radical |- |1859 |rowspan=3 style=background-color: | |rowspan=3| Liberal |rowspan=1 style=background-color: | |rowspan=1| Liberal |- |1859 by-election |style=background-color: | | Anthony Henley |Liberal |- |February 1874 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| Pickering Phipps |rowspan=2|Conservative |- |October 1874 by-election |style=background-color: | | Charles Merewether |Conservative |- |1880 |rowspan=4 style=background-color: | |rowspan=4| Henry Labouchère |rowspan=4|Liberal |style=background-color: | | Charles Bradlaugh |Liberal |- |1891 by-election |style=background-color: | | Philip Manfield |Liberal |- |1895 |style=background-color: | | Adolphus Drucker |Conservative |- |1900 |rowspan=2 style=background-color: | |rowspan=2| John Greenwood Shipman |rowspan=2|Liberal |- |1906 |style=background-color: | | Herbert Paul |Liberal |- |Jan. 1910 |style=background-color: | | Hastings Lees-Smith |Liberal |style=background-color: | | Charles McCurdy |Liberal |- |1918 |colspan=6| Representation reduced to one member|} MPs 19181974 Election results Elections in the 1830s After the election, a 13-day scrutiny was approved by the Mayor and tallies were revised to 1,570 for Robinson, 1,279 for Vernon Smith, 1,157 for Gunning, and 185 for Lyon. 188 votes were rejected. Elections in the 1840s Elections in the 1850s Vernon Smith was appointed Secretary of State for War, requiring a by-election. Vernon Smith was appointed President of the Board of Control, requiring a by-election. Vernon Smith was raised to the peerage, becoming 1st Baron Lyveden, and causing a by-election. Elections in the 1860s Elections in the 1870s Gilpin's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1880s Bradlaugh was unseated after voting in the Commons before taking the Oath of Allegiance, causing a by-election. Bradlaugh was expelled from the House of Commons due to his continuing prevention from taking the Oath, causing a by-election. Bradlaugh resigned and sought election once more, after a resolution to exclude him from the precincts of the House of Commons was sought. Elections in the 1890s Bradlaugh's death caused a by-election. Elections in the 1900s Elections in the 1910s A General Election was due to take place by the end of 1915. By the summer of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election. Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place. British Socialist Party: Ben Tillett Elections in the 1920s Elections in the 1930s General Election 1939/40 Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by the Autumn of 1939, the following candidates had been selected; Conservative: Labour: Reginald Paget British Union: Norah Elam Elections in the 1940s Elections in the 1950s Elections in the 1960s Elections in the 1970s References Robert Beatson, A Chronological Register of Both Houses of Parliament London: Longman, Hurst, Res & Orme, 1807 D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954 Cobbett's Parliamentary history of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803'' London: Thomas Hansard, 1808 Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Northamptonshire historic Category:United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies established in 1295 Category:United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies disestablished in 1974 Category:United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies represented by a sitting Prime Minister Category:Politics of Northampton

Gluten exorphins are a group of opioid peptides formed during digestion of the gluten protein. It has been hypothesized that people with autism and schizophrenia have abnormal leakage from the gut of these compounds, which then pass into the brain and disrupt brain function, a process collectively known as the opioid excess theory or a part of leaky gut syndrome. This is partly the basis for the gluten-free, casein-free diet. The medical evidence is mixed. Two clinical studies of autism patients who followed this diet found no benefit. Another study found a benefit. Another study suggested the diet may present a greater risk to brain development. Categorization There are four known gluten exorphins with known structure: Gluten exorphin A5 Structure: H-Gly-Tyr-Tyr-Pro-Thr-OH Chemical formula: C24H37N5O9 Molecular weight: 599.64 g/mol Gluten exorphin B4 Structure: H-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Trp-OH Chemical formula: C24H27N5O6 Molecular weight: 481.50 g/mol Gluten exorphin B5 Structure: H-Tyr-Gly-Gly-Trp-Leu-OH Chemical formula: C30H38N6O7 Molecular weight: 594.66 g/mol Gluten exorphin C Structure: H-Tyr-Pro-Ile-Ser-Leu-OH Chemical formula: C29H45N5O8 Molecular weight: 591.70 g/mol References Category:Opioid peptides

The Big Ten Conference began sponsoring women's basketball during the 198283 basketball season. In February 1982 during the 198182 season, the conference held a tournament at Michigan State in which Ohio State defeated Illinois 6966 in the championship game. The conference has listed this in some publications as a regular season championship. Championships by school Bold indicates an outright championship. See also Big Ten Conference men's basketball regular season champions Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Big Ten Conference Women's Basketball Tournament Champions

The European University Center for Peace Studies offered postgraduate political studies from 19902013 in Stadtschlaining, Austria. The institution was founded in 1988 by Gerald Mader in his capacity as president of the ASPR, with the support of European UNESCO commissions, and is affiliated to the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution ASPR, also located at Stadtschlaining. The original curriculum of EPU was designed along the lines of Johan Galtungs Plan for a Master of Peace and Conflict Resolution which he developed for the University of Hawaii. The EPU has been offering postgraduate programs in Peace Studies since 1990. In 1995, EPU was co-winner of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education. The EPU's UNESCO Chair on Peace, Human Rights and Democracy was established in 1996. Between 2010 and 2013, the institute gained accredited private university status and was renamed to European Peace University EPU - Private Universität. In July 2013, EPU's accreditation was withdrawn by Austria's accreditation body; students currently enrolled in the Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies programme may finish their studies until 2014. Primary goals of the EPU are: Spreading the idea of peace in the spirit of the UNESCO Giving scientific and educational support to global peace Promoting a world domestic policy based on sustainable development, cooperative responsibility and ecological security Contributing to the development of a global peace culture Training and improving individual capabilities in peace-making and conflict resolution References Category:UNESCO Category:Universities and colleges in Austria Category:Private universities and colleges in Austria

{{Speciesbox | image = Forpus_passerinus-Venezuela-8a.jpg | image_caption = Male right and female left in Venezuela | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | genus = Forpus | species = passerinus | authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | synonyms = *Psittacus passerinus | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision = *F. p. cyanophanes F. p. viridissimus F. p. cyanochlorus F. p. deliciosus }} The green-rumped parrotlet Forpus passerinus is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is the nominate species F. p. passerinus. There are four subspecies: the Colombian green-rumped parrotlet or Rio Hacha parrotlet F. p. cyanophanes, the Trinidad green-rumped parrotlet or Venezuelan parrotlet F. p. viridissimus, the Roraima green-rumped parrotlet or Schlegel's parrotlet F. p. cyanochlorus, and the Amazon green-rumped parrotlet or delicate parrotlet or Santarem passerine parrotlet F. p. deliciosus. Description Distribution and habitat Green-rumped parrotlets are found in tropical South America, from Caribbean regions of Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad south and east to the Guianas and Brazil, on the lower Amazon River. It has been introduced in Jamaica, Curaçao, Barbados and Tobago, and was not recorded on Trinidad prior to 1916. They are the only parrotlet species to occur in the Caribbean. Green-rumped parrotlets are fairly common in open, semi-arid habitat and are found residing in dry scrubland, deciduous woodland, gallery forest, farmland, forest edges, and deforested areas throughout their range. While they are non-migratory, they may wander locally to locate sources of food. They are not found at altitudes greater than above sea level. Conservation The global population size is not known, but this species has been described as widespread and common. However, there is strong evidence that populations are decreasing, which is likely related to habitat destruction by deforestation. The species has been classified as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List. Behavior and ecology Social Green-rumped parrotlets are very gregarious and roost communally; they are often seen in flocks of up to 100 individuals. Green-rumped parrotlets make light, twittering calls. While in flocks, calls are louder and more penetrating. Contact calls, similar to names, are individually distinct and are used for individual mate recognition. Each call varies in duration, frequency, and pitch. Green-rumped parrotlets have been observed in flocks consisting of combinations of breeding male-female pairs, nonbreeding male-female pairs, male-male pairs, and individual nonbreeding males; the number of each type depends on the season. Extra-pair copulation is relatively uncommon less than 8 of young are conceived through extra-pair fertilization. Reproduction Green-rumped parrotlets form strong pair bonds and rarely switch mates, but typically only breed with the same individual for 1-2 seasons. Almost half of wild females attempt a second brood during their breeding season. Green-rumped parrotlets breed during the rainy season May-November, though each subspecies tends to breed during different months. They typically make their nests in unlined tree cavities, holes found in arboreal termite nests, or in cavities in wooden fence posts. The female lays 5-6 small white eggs over a period of 916 days. The female usually initiates incubation after the first egg is laid, leading to asynchronous hatching which begins 1822 days after the start of incubation. Depending on the clutch size, hatching concludes 214 days after the first egg hatches. Fledging occurs 2935 days after hatching, with the clutch fledging over a period of 14 days on average. The unusual length of the green-rumped parrotlet's nestling period is believed to be caused, or at least influenced, by the low levels of available nutrients and minerals for young found in typical green-rumped parrotlet habitat. Because of the difference in hatching time, not all chicks are the same size when they are young. Research has been done on resource allocation between different chick sizes by green-rumped parrotlet parents. It was shown that male parents tend to feed larger chicks more often, while females are far more likely to feed smaller individuals first because of their begging habits - smaller chicks tend to beg more, while larger chicks are more submissive. This effect has also been observed in other parrot species. Research has shown that by planning asynchronous hatching, parent parrotlets don't have to spend as much time expending the high levels of energy associated with brooding, but the amount of energy expended does not change. It has been observed that over the course of mating and raising a brood of chicks, a female green-rumped parrotlet's mass varies greatly. Female individuals gained up to 25 more mass before laying and maintained this mass through incubation until hatching began. The amount of mass lost over the brooding and fledging periods was dependent on the size of the brood. It is believed that this mass change is caused by a combination of brooding starvation, adaptation to a new lifestyle, and sexual activity. Diet Green-rumped parrotlets primarily eat seeds from grasses and forbs, as well as flowers, buds, berries, and fruits. They have also been observed to eat the seeds from fruit trees including Annona sp. and guava. Aviculture Green-rumped parrotlets are bred in captivity and kept as pets, though they are less common than some other Forpus species. Imports of wild green-rumped parrotlets into the United States are prohibited under the Wild Bird Conservation Act and international trade is limited by other laws, so aviculture is dependent on existing captive populations. References Related books and articles Birds of Venezuela'' by Hilty, External links World Parrot Trust Parrot Encyclopedia: species profile Green-rumped parrotlet photo gallery on VIREO Neotropical Birds by Cornell Lab of Ornithology: species profile eBird by Cornell Lab of Ornithology: species profile green-rumped parrotlet Category:Birds of Jamaica Category:Birds of Barbados Category:Birds of Colombia Category:Birds of Venezuela Category:Birds of Curaçao Category:Birds of the Guianas Category:Birds of Trinidad and Tobago Category:Birds of the Amazon Basin green-rumped parrotlet

Sabam Pandapotan Siagian 4 May 1932   3 June 2016 was an Indonesian journalist. He served as the first editor in chief of The Jakarta Post. Siagian departed the Jakarta Post in 1991 upon his appointment as Ambassador of Indonesia to Australia. From 1991 to 1995, while ambassador, Sabam lived in Canberra. He criticised the Australian media for lagging behind other sectors in Australia when it came to engaging with Indonesia. After leaving Canberra in 1995, Sabam joined the board of Jakarta Post. Sabam died in Jakarta on 3 June 2016 after extended health complications. Numerous colleagues, including former Indonesian foreign minister Hassan Wirajuda, paid tribute to his contributions during a long career as a journalist in Indonesia. References Category:1932 births Category:2016 deaths Category:The Jakarta Post people Category:Indonesian newspaper editors Category:Indonesian journalists Category:Indonesian diplomats Category:Ambassadors of Indonesia to Australia Category:People of Batak descent

John Young Filmore Blake or also known as John Y.F. Blake and J.Y.F. Blake was an Irish-American soldier and military writer. He was born October 6, 1856, in Bolivar, Missouri, United States, and died January 24, 1907, in New York City. He was an avowed advocate of resistance to British imperialism worldwide and fought as a foreign volunteer for the Boer republics during the Second Boer War. Early life After his birth, Blake's family soon moved to Denton County, Texas. There he grew up cattle ranching and learned to ride horses. His father sent him to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1871. Soon after graduating, he received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1876. Upon graduating from West Point in June 1880, Blake began his military career, assigned as a 2nd Lieutenant to the 6th U.S. Cavalry stationed in Arizona. He served under General Willcox, General Crook, and General Miles during the Apache wars. He was known as a fearless and magnetic leader, at one point rustling an Apache pony herd. Resigning from the military in 1889, Blake moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan to become a businessman, as his wife and family wanted him to settle down. After about 5 years he soon found out that 'the tricks of the trade', were too deep for me and giving into his desire for adventure, headed to South Africa as a gold prospector. Boer War While in South Africa he became deeply involved in the Second Boer War, leading the Chicago Irish-American Corps, known as Blake's Irish Brigade against the British. . He returned to the United States after the war to a hero's welcome and the lecture circuit. He subsequently published a memoir of his African experience, A West Pointer With The Boers. Blake's memoir is conceived as a highly critical expose of the motives and actions of Great Britain, particularly in its support of Cecil Rhodes. He also lingers on the British maltreatment of black Africans and Afrikaners alike, and the honor and decency of Boer partisans in defending their liberty and families. Family John's mother Sinclair T. Chitty married his father Thomas Kincaid Blake Jr. at the age of 15. In 1885 John married Katherine Euphrasia Aldrich in Grand Rapids while still in the service. Together they lived in the officers' quarters at Fort Leavenworth, where John's first son Aldrich Blake was born on November 6, 1885. In 1888 Katherine, being pregnant with John's second son, persuaded him to resign from the military and return to Grand Rapids. He agreed, and on September 19, 1889 Ledyard Blake was born. Death Blake was found dead in his home in Harlem, New York City of gas asphyxiation on January 24, 1907. He had previously been tending a sick friend for 3 days. Some sources said the death was accidental, while others called it suicide. He is buried at West Point, New York. See also Boer Foreign Volunteers Irish commandos References Blake, John Y. F. A West Pointer with the Boers http://penandspindle.blogspot.com/search/label/blake20john20young20filmore External links https://web.archive.org/web/20121108171237/http://www.roguery.com/safrica/giorno5.htm https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/01/25/106109897.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/01/28/101723522.pdf Category:1856 births Category:1907 deaths Category:People from Bolivar, Missouri Category:United States Military Academy alumni Category:South African military personnel Category:University of Arkansas alumni Category:Boer military personnel of the Second Boer War Category:People from Denton, Texas

Hubert Milton J. Nelson August 14, 1907 May 10, 1981 was a professional ice hockey player. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nelson played professionally in United States Hockey League for the Minneapolis Millers AHA and St. Louis Flyers. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1978. External links United States Hockey Hall of Fame biography Category:1907 births Category:1981 deaths Category:American men's ice hockey goaltenders Category:Ice hockey people from Minnesota Category:Sportspeople from Minneapolis Category:United States Coast Guard Cutters players Category:United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductees

18th Avenue is an avenue in Brooklyn. It may refer to the following New York City Subway stations that serve the avenue: 18th Avenue IND Culver Line; serving the F train 18th Avenue BMT Sea Beach Line; serving the N train W train part-time 18th Avenue BMT West End Line; serving the D train

Tincture is the limited palette of colours and patterns used in heraldry. The need to define, depict, and correctly blazon the various tinctures is one of the most important aspects of heraldic art and design. Development and history The use of tinctures dates back to the formative period of European heraldry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The range of tinctures and the manner of depicting and describing them has evolved over time, as new variations and practices have developed. The basic scheme and rules of applying the heraldic tinctures dates back to the 12th century. The earliest surviving coloured heraldic illustrations, from the mid-thirteenth century, show the standardized usage of two metals, five colours, and two furs. Since that time, the great majority of heraldic art has employed these nine tinctures. Over time, variations on these basic tinctures were developed, particularly with respect to the furs. Authorities differ as to whether these variations should be considered separate tinctures, or merely varieties of existing ones. Two additional colours appeared, and were generally accepted by heraldic writers, although they remained scarce, and were eventually termed stains, from the belief that they were used to signify some dishonour on the part of the bearer. The practice of depicting certain charges as they appear in nature, termed proper, was established in the seventeenth century. Other colours have appeared occasionally since the eighteenth century, especially in continental heraldry, but their use is infrequent, and they have never been regarded as particularly heraldic, or numbered among the tinctures that form the basis of heraldic design. Frequency and national variants The frequency with which different tinctures have been used over time has been much observed, but little studied. There are some general trends of note, both with respect to the passage of time, and noted preferences from one region to another. In medieval heraldry, gules was by far the most common tincture, followed by the metals argent and or, at least one of which necessarily appeared on the majority of arms see below. Among the colours, sable was the second most common, followed by azure. Vert, although present from the formative period of heraldic design, was relatively scarce. Over time, the popularity of azure increased above that of sable, while gules, still the most common, became less dominant. A survey of French arms granted during the seventeenth century reveals a distinct split between the trends for the arms granted to nobles and commoners. Among nobles, gules remained the most common tincture, closely followed by or, then by argent and azure at nearly equal levels; sable was a very distant fifth choice, while vert remained scarce. Among commoners, azure was easily the most common tincture, followed by or, and only then by gules, argent, and sable, which was used more by commoners than among the nobility; vert, however, was even scarcer in common arms. Purpure is so scarce in French heraldry that some authorities do not regard it as a real heraldic tincture. On the whole, French heraldry is known for its use of azure and or, while English heraldry is characterized by heavy use of gules and argent, and unlike French heraldry, it has always made regular use of vert, and occasional, if not extensive, use of purpure. German heraldry is known for its extensive use of or and sable. German and Nordic heraldry rarely make use of purpure or ermine, except in mantling, pavilions, and the lining of crowns and caps. In fact, furs occur infrequently in German and Nordic heraldry. List The colours and patterns of the heraldic palette are divided into three groups, usually known as metals, colours, and furs. Metals The metals are or and argent, representing gold and silver respectively, although in practice they are often depicted as yellow and white. Or Ger. , , or derives its name from the Latin aurum, gold. It may be depicted using either yellow or metallic gold, at the artist's discretion; yellow has no separate existence in heraldry, and is never used to represent any tincture other than or. Argent Ger. , , , or is similarly derived from the Latin argentum, silver. Although sometimes depicted as metallic silver or faint grey, it is more often represented by white, in part because of the tendency for silver paint to oxidize and darken over time, and in part because of the pleasing effect of white against a contrasting colour. Notwithstanding the widespread use of white for argent, some heraldic authorities have suggested the existence of white as a distinct heraldic colour. Colours Five colours have been recognized since the earliest days of heraldry. These are: gules, or red; sable, or black; azure, or blue; vert, or green; and purpure, or purple. Gules Fr. , Ger. is of uncertain derivation; outside of the heraldic context, the modern French word refers to the mouth of an animal. Sable Ger. is named for a type of marten, known for its dark, luxuriant fur. Azure Fr. or , Ger. comes through the Arabic lāzaward, from the Persian lāžavard both referring to the blue mineral lapis lazuli, used to produce blue pigments. Vert Fr. or , Ger. is from Latin viridis, green. The alternative name in French, sinople, is derived from the ancient city of Sinope in Asia Minor, which was famous for its pigments. Purpure Fr. or , Ger. is from Latin purpura, in turn from Greek porphyra, the dye known as Tyrian purple. This expensive dye, known from antiquity, produced a much redder purple than the modern heraldic colour; and in fact earlier depictions of purpure are far redder than recent ones. As a heraldic colour, purpure may have originated as a variation of gules. Stains Two more tinctures were eventually acknowledged by most heraldic authorities: sanguine or murrey, a dark red or mulberry colour; and tenné, an orange or dark yellow to brownish colour. These were termed stains by some of the more influential heraldic writers, and supposed to represent some sort of dishonour on the part of the bearer; but in fact there is no evidence that they were ever so employed, and they probably originated as mere variations of existing colours. Nevertheless, the belief that they represented stains upon the honour of an armiger served to prevent them receiving widespread use, and it is only in recent times that they have begun to appear on a regular basis. Sanguine or Murrey, from Latin , blood red, and Greek , mulberry, one of the two so-called stains in British armory, is a dark red or mulberry colour, between gules and purpure in hue. It probably originated as a mere variation of one of those two colours, and may in fact represent the original hue of purpure, which is now treated as a much bluer colour than when it first appeared in heraldry. Although long shunned in the belief that it represented some dishonour on the part of the bearer, it has found some use in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Tenné or tenny, from Latin , to tan, is the second of the so-called stains. It is most often depicted as orange, but sometimes as tawny yellow or brown. In earlier times it was occasionally used in continental heraldry, but in England largely confined to livery. Furs The use of heraldic furs alongside the metals and colours dates to the beginning of the art. In this earliest period, there were only two furs, ermine and vair. Ermine represents the fur of the stoat, a type of weasel, in its white winter coat, when it is called an ermine. Vair represents the winter coat of the red squirrel, which is blue-grey above and white below. These furs were commonly used to line the cloaks and robes of the nobility. Both ermine and vair give the appearance of being a combination of metal and colour, but in heraldic convention they are considered a separate class of tincture that is neither metal nor colour. Over time, several variations of ermine and vair have appeared, together with three additional furs typically encountered in continental heraldry, known as plumeté, papelonné, and kürsch, the origins of which are more mysterious, but which probably began as variations of vair. Ermine Ermine Fr. , Ger. is normally depicted as a white field powdered with black spots, known as ermine spots, representing the ermine's black tail. The use of white instead of silver is normal, even when silver is available, since this is how the fur naturally appears; but occasionally silver is used to depict ermine. There is considerable variation in the shape of ermine spots; in the oldest depictions, they were drawn realistically, as long, tapering points; in modern times they are typically drawn as arrowheads, usually topped by three small dots. Vair Vair Ger. derives its name from Latin , variegated. It is usually depicted as a series of alternating shapes, conventionally known as panes or vair bells, of argent and azure, arranged in horizontal rows, so that the panes of one tincture form the upper part of the row, while those of the opposite tincture are on the bottom. Succeeding rows are staggered, so that the bases of the panes making up each row are opposite those of the other tincture in the rows above and below. As with ermine, the argent panes may be depicted as either white or silver; silver is used more often with vair than with ermine, but the natural fur is white. When the pattern of vair is used with other colours, the field is termed vairé or vairy of the tinctures used. Normally vairé consists of one metal and one colour, although ermine or one of its variants is sometimes used, with an ermine spot appearing in each pane of that tincture. Vairé of four colours Ger. , gay-coloured or checked vair is also known, usually consisting of two metals and two colours. Several variant shapes exist, of which the most common is known as potent Ger. , upside-down crutch vair. In this form, the familiar vair bell is replaced by a T-shaped figure, known as a potent due to its resemblance to a crutch. Other furs sometimes encountered in continental heraldry, which are thought to be derived from vair, include plumeté or plumetty and papelonné or papellony. In plumeté, the panes are depicted as feathers; in papelonné they are depicted as scales, resembling those of a butterfly's wings whence the name is derived. These can be modified with the color, arrangement, and size variants of vair, though those variants are much less common. In German heraldry there is also a fur known as Kürsch, or vair bellies, consisting of panes depicted hairy and brown. Here the phrase vair bellies may be a misnomer, as the belly of the red squirrel is always white, although its summer coat is indeed reddish brown. Other tinctures Several other tinctures are occasionally encountered, usually in continental heraldry: Cendrée, or ash-colour; Brunâtre Ger. , or brown, occasionally used in German heraldry, in place of purpure; Bleu-céleste or bleu de ciel, a sky blue colour intended to be lighter than azure; Amaranth or columbine, a strong violet-red, found in at least one grant of arms to a Bohemian knight in 1701; Eisen-farbe, or iron-colour, found in German heraldry; and Carnation, often used in French heraldry as the colour of flesh. The heraldic scholar A. C. Fox-Davies proposed that, in some circumstances, white should be considered a heraldic colour, distinct from argent. In a number of instances, a label or collar blazoned as white rather than argent appears on a supporter blazoned argent or or. The use of white in place of argent would be consistent with the practice of heraldic blazon that discourages repeating the name of a tincture in describing a coat of arms, but if it were merely intended as a synonym of argent, this placement would clearly violate the rule against placing metal on metal or colour on colour see below. This difficulty is avoided if white is considered a colour in this particular instance, rather than a synonym of argent. This interpretation has neither been accepted nor refuted by any heraldic authority, but a counter-argument is that the labels are not intended to represent a heraldic tincture, but are in fact white labels proper. Other exceptional colours have occasionally appeared during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: The arms of the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia have a field of aquamarine, which is emblazoned more as a kind of dark green than a true aquamarine colour. The Canadian Heraldic Authority granted arms containing rose as a colour in 1997. In 2002, the Authority granted arms including copper, treated as a metal, to the municipality of Whitehorse, Yukon. Ochre, both red and yellow, appears in South African heraldry; the national coat of arms, adopted in 2000, includes red ochre, while yellow ochre appears in the arms of the University of Transkei. In the United States, heraldry is not governed by any official authority; but the United States Army, which makes extensive use of heraldry, does have its own authority, the United States Army Institute of Heraldry. The armorial designs of the Institute of Heraldry include a number of novel tinctures, including buff employed variously as either a metal or a colour, and horizon blue. Silver gray has appeared in the heraldry of both the Army and the Air Force. Bronze appears as a colour in the arms of the Special Troops Battalion of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. There seems to be some confusion about the colour crimson, as in some cases it is treated as a separate tincture, while in others it is used to specify the shade of gules to be employed by the artist. Differing from most heraldic practice, the Institute of Heraldry often specifies the exact shades to be used in depicting various arms. Buff is also used by the Canadian Heraldic Authority, who treat it as a colour. Proper A charge that is coloured as it naturally appears is blazoned proper Fr. , or the colour of nature. Strictly speaking, proper is not a tincture in itself, and if, as is sometimes the case, a charge is meant to be depicted in particular colours that are not apparent from the word proper alone, they may be specified in whatever detail is necessary. Certain charges are considered proper when portrayed with particular colours, even though a range of different colours is found in nature; for instance, a popinjay proper is green, even though wild parrots occur in a variety of colours. In some cases, a charge depicted in a particular set of colours may be referred to as proper, even though it consists entirely of heraldic tinctures; a rose proper, whether red or white, is barbed vert and seeded or. The most extensive use of non-heraldic colours is probably associated with landscape heraldry, a common feature of British and German armory during the latter part of the eighteenth century, and the early part of the nineteenth. Although rarely used for the field itself, landscapes were often granted as augmentations, typically depicting a fortress successfully captured or defended, or a particular ship, or a battle in which the armiger to whom the augmentation was granted was involved. Such landscapes, usually appearing on a chief, might be blazoned with great particularity as to the things portrayed and the colours used to portray them. Officially, these landscapes appeared on a field of argent, but it was common, and perhaps expected, for the artist to add further details, such as the sky and clouds, by which the field might be wholly obscured. The use of landscapes in heraldry fell out of fashion during the Victorian era, when heraldic scholars and artists began looking to earlier and simpler periods of armorial design for inspiration. Terminology In the English-speaking world, heraldic terminology is based largely on that of British armory, which in turn is based on Norman French. With respect to the heraldic tinctures, French heraldry, which is often cited by heraldic authors, uses similar terminology. However, German heraldry, also highly influential, uses a different vocabulary; it calls the colours by their everyday names. In its original sense, tincture refers only to the group conventionally referred to as colours. But as the word colour seems inapplicable to the heraldic furs, and no other term clearly encompasses all three classes, the word tincture has come to be used in this broader sense, while colour has acquired the more restricted sense originally given to tincture. Thus, when consulting various heraldic authorities, care must be taken to determine which meaning each term is given. Designations Artistic liberties In most heraldic tradition, the various metals and colours have no fixed appearance, hue, or shade. The heraldic artist is free to choose a lighter or darker blue or green, a deeper or brighter red; to choose between depicting or with yellow or any of various gold paints, to depict argent as white or silver. Recently the College of Arms explained, there are no fixed shades for heraldic colours. If the official description of a coat of arms gives its tinctures as Gules red, Azure blue and Argent white or silver then, as long as the blue is not too light and the red not too orange, purple or pink, it is up to the artist to decide which particular shades they think are appropriate. In blazoning Most heraldic authors do not capitalize the names of the various tinctures, although a few do sometimes inconsistently, and some who do not capitalize the other tinctures recommend capitalizing or in order to avoid confusion with the conjunction. However, there are relatively few occasions in which the conjunction or would appear in the blazon of a coat of arms; and if properly worded, which meaning is intended should be readily apparent from the context. Another convention has been to capitalize only the first word or the first tincture appearing in the blazon, but no other words. In the elaborate calligraphy appearing on most grants of arms, all of the tinctures are capitalized, as indeed are the names of the charges; but this is purely a matter of decorative style, and in no way does the manner of capitalization used in the original grant affect how the arms may be described on other occasions. A long-standing heraldic tradition has been to avoid repeating the names of tinctures multiple times in any given blazon. If it is possible to mention multiple charges of the same tincture at once, followed by the name of the tincture, then this problem is avoided; but when it is impossible to combine elements of the same tincture in this manner, more creative descriptions may be used. For example, instead of gules, on a fess or between three chess-rooks argent, a lion passant gules, armed and langued argent, one might say, gules, on a fess or between three chess-rooks argent, a lion passant of the field, armed and langued of the third. Similar phrases include of the last and of the like. Alternately, descriptions such as gold and silver might be substituted for or and argent on a subsequent occurrence. Another rule of blazon relating to tinctures suggests the placing of a comma after each occurrence of a tincture. In recent years, the College of Arms has regularly dispensed with many of these practices, believing them to cause confusion; and in new grants of arms, the names of tinctures are repeated on each instance that they occur. The names of all tinctures and charges are capitalized, although the word proper, indicating the colour of nature, is not; and internal commas are entirely omitted. Rule of tincture The first so-called rule of heraldry is the rule of tincture: metal should not be placed upon metal, nor colour upon colour, for the sake of contrast. The main duty of a heraldic device is to be recognized, and the dark colours or light metals are supposed to be too difficult to distinguish if they are placed on top of other dark or light colours, particularly in poor light. Though this is the practical genesis of the rule, the rule is technical and appearance is not used in determining whether arms conform to the rule. Another reason sometimes given to justify this rule is that it was difficult to paint with enamel colour over enamel, or with metal over metal. This rule has at times been followed so pedantically that arms that violate it were called armes fausses false arms or armes à enquérir arms of enquiry; any violation was presumed to be intentional, to the point that one was supposed to enquire how it came to pass. One of the most famous armes à enquérir often said to be the only example was the shield of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which had gold crosses on silver. This use of metal on metal, that is to say white and gold together, is seen on the arms of the King of Jerusalem, the flag and arms of the Vatican, and the bishop's mitre in the arms of Andorra. It indicates the exceptional holy and special status of the Coat of Arms. An example of colour on colour is the arms of Albania, with its sable two-headed eagle on a gules field. The rule of tincture has had an influence reaching far beyond heraldry. It has been applied to the design of flags, so that the flag of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was modified to conform to the rule. Counterchanging When a charge or group of charges is placed across a division line, variation, or ordinary, it may be counterchanged Fr. , but modern , Ger. or , meaning that the charges are divided the same way as the field upon which they rest, with the colours reversed. In the municipal arms of Behnsdorf, Saxony-Anhalt, seen below, the field is divided with the left half white argent and the right half green vert, and the counterchanged tree is green where it lies on the white part of the field, and white where it lies on the green part. The flag of Maryland is another example of counterchanging. The only U.S. state flag to be directly based on English heraldry, it is the arms of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, who founded the colony of Maryland in 1632. In the 1st and 4th quarters, the field is divided into six vertical bands of gold or and black sable with a diagonal band a bend in which the colours are reversed i.e., the bend is counterchanged. The 2nd and 3rd quarters are themselves quartered between white argent and red gules with a counterchanged cross bottony that is red where it lies on the white part of the field and white where it lies on the red part of the field. Counterchanging is rare in early heraldry; early examples from German heraldry are found in the late fifteenth-century Wernigerode Armorial; it becomes more frequently applied from the seventeenth century onward, especially with the substantial number of newly-created coats of arms, of which some notable examples include Baron Baltimore 1624, Nightingale baronets 1628, Barrett-Lennard baronets 1801, Verney baronets 1818, and Baron Alvingham 1929. In Scottish heraldry, charges are sometimes blazoned as counterchanged of different colours from the field; for instance, per fess gules and azure, a sun in splendour counterchanged or and of the first. A more typical blazon for this would be per fess gules and azure, a sun in splendour per fess or and of the first. The term countercoloured is sometimes used in place of counterchanged. The arms of the Fenwick baronets were originally blazoned as silver, a chief gules with six martlets countercoloured. In this case, three martlets argent rest on a chief gules, while three martlets gules rest on the argent field. Some heraldic authorities regard the use of this term as erroneous. Monochromatic presentation Hatching During the first half of the seventeenth century, the proliferation of the printing press coupled with the persistence of difficulties in and expense of colour printing prompted the development of a number of systems of hatching for the purpose of depicting heraldic designs without the use of colour. Intended chiefly for printing and engraving, the system which eventually gained widespread acceptance was that of Silvestro de Petra Sancta, a Jesuit priest and heraldic scholar, originally published in 1638. In Petra Sancta's method, illustrated in the table above, a separate hatching represents each metal and colour, while the furs are treated as combinations of metal and colour. Argent is represented by a plain field, while or is represented by a field strewn with dots. Gules is represented by vertical lines, azure by horizontal lines, and sable by a combination of horizontal and vertical lines. Diagonal lines running from dexter chief to sinister base represent vert, while purpure is the reverse, represented by diagonal lines running from sinister chief to dexter base. Sanguine is represented by diagonal lines running in each direction, while tenné is represented by a combination of horizontal lines and diagonal lines running from sinister chief to dexter base. Nine additional hatchings, published by Marcus Vulson de la Colombière in 1639, were intended to represent other colours, although none of them correspond with regular heraldic tinctures, and they have never been used in British armory. A combination of vertical lines with diagonal lines running from dexter chief to sinister base represents brown; blood red is represented by vertical lines combined with diagonal lines running from sinister chief to dexter base; earth-colour by horizontal and vertical lines combined with diagonal lines running from dexter chief to sinister base; iron-grey by diagonal lines running in each direction the same as sanguine in Petra Sancta's system; water-colour by broken horizontal lines; flesh-colour by broken vertical lines; ashen-grey by a combination of broken horizontal and broken diagonal lines; orange by broken vertical lines interspersed with dots; and the colour of nature by zig-zag lines running from dexter chief to sinister base. Tricking Before the use of hatching to depict individual heraldic tinctures, it was common to trick heraldic designs when colours were unavailable. The arms would be drawn in outline, and the tinctures written in abbreviated form: O or or for or; A, ar, or arg for argent, G or gu for gules; S or sa for sable; Az or B for azure B for blue being used in older trickings to avoid confusion between ar and az; Vt for vert, Purp for purpure, and Pr for proper. Although most records of the College of Arms are in colour, the practice of tricking is used in all other cases, even after the widespread adoption of hatching for printing and engraving arms. French heraldry also uses tricking to depict heraldic tinctures, using O for ; A for ; G for ; S for ; B for to avoid confusing with ; V for to avoid confusing with ; P for or ; and Pr for . In German heraldry, G is used for gold; W for white; R for red; S for black; B for blue; and Gr, or a shape like an upright leaf, for green; German heraldry makes little use of purpure, but in its place allows Br for brown. These abbreviations may be either capitalized or lowercase. Poetic representation Heraldry has been influenced by allegorical and astrological views, including the idea of sympathies and antipathies among stars, minerals, animals, plants, and people. Some tinctures were considered to represent astrological symbols. The lore of sympathies originated with the Babylonians, who saw gems and rare minerals as the concentrates of cosmic powers. Later, Pliny the Elder's Natural History organized nature according to a system of sympathies and antipathies among species and other elements of the natural world. This doctrine influenced medieval medicine, pharmacy, alchemy and also heraldry. During the 1350s, the work of Bartolo de Sassoferrato 1313/1314-1357 linked Or to the sun, Azure to the element air, and Gules to the element fire. Honoré Bonet, a heraldist from Provence, declared in his work Arbre des Batailles 1387 that the metal gold Or is the noblest in the world because, due to its very nature, it is bright and shining and full of virtues. During the late medieval period and Renaissance, there was an occasional practice of blazoning tinctures by gemstones, or by references to the seven classical planets including the sun and the moon. The work of Bonet influenced the 15th century Burgundian heraldist Jean Courtois d. 1436, also known as the Sicily Herald. In his work Le Blason des Couleurs 1414, Courtois developed a heraldic system consisting of the tinctures, planets and carbuncles, together with the virtues, metals, months, the zodiac, and weekdays. His main contribution was the development of a gemstone-planetary blazon that related color to gemstone to planet: or, topaz, the sun; argent, pearl, the moon; gules, ruby, Mars; sable, diamond, Saturn; azure, sapphire, Jupiter; vert, emerald, Venus; purpure, amethyst, Mercury; tenné, jacinth, dragon's head ascending lunar node; sanguine/murrey, sardonyx, dragon's tail descending lunar node. The dragon's head also called Anabibazon in astronomy and astrology and dragon's tail also called Catabibazon were in use from ancient times. In heraldry the dragon's head symbolizes a light colour tenné, and dragon's tail symbolizes a dark colour sanguine. In alchemy the dragon's head is the materia prima that is subjected to transmutation to produce the philosopher's stone. During the process of transmutation the light-colored starting material is transformed to a darker and more reddish one. In astrology the dragon's head is connected to good luck, while the dragon's tail is unlucky. These links indicate that heraldry in the 15th century was strongly under the influence of magical views and alchemistic ideas, which were in turn connected to the lore of sympathies between colors, planets, gemstones, metals, virtues etc. The work of Jean Courtois was distributed in manuscripts and later in one of the first books printed in French. During the Tudor and Stuart dynasties in England 14851702, it appeared in heraldry manuals. In his book Traité du blason 1465, Clément Prinsault deals with the relation of colors to the virtues, the seven planets, the 12 celestial signs, gemstones, weekdays, the three elements etc. This book is among the earliest writings on heraldry available today. The English historian and heraldist Sir Henry Spelman 15641641 used the symbols of the planets to designate tinctures in his 1654 book Aspilogia. Sir John Ferne d. 1609 enumerates 14 different methods of blazon: 1. by colors; 2. by planets; 3. by precious stones; 4. by virtues; 5. by celestial signs; 6. by the months of the yea; 7. by the days of the week; 8. by the ages of man; 9. by flowers; 10. by the elements; 11. by the seasons of the year; 12. by the complexions of man; 13. by numbers; and 14. by metals. As well as the main tinctures, tricking abbreviations for other tinctures such as Proper ppr, pp, Ermine er etc. existed in English and some other languages during the Renaissance. To designate carnation carnea tinctura, the zodiac sign of Leo was used in reverse . German heraldry used trefoil to designate colors other than the seven main tinctures . Spener 1717. p. 113 also linked tenné and sanguine to the zodiac sign of Leo . Rudolphi also refers to trefoil ♣ as a designation of colour vert, usually connected with Venus. He also assigned specific variants of astrological signs for dragon's head and dragon's tail ☊ ☋, derived from the sign for Leo, to the tinctures orange and carnation, respectively. Ultimately, a system of nine tinctures was developed, with dukes, earls, and barons having their arms blazoned by gemstones, and princes, kings and emperors having arms blazoned by the planets. It is worth noting that the Austrian troubadour and herald Peter Suchenwirt c. 1320-1395 used gemstones to designate the tinctures even earlier c. 1355 in the coat of arms of the Hungarian king Louis the Great 13421382. Konrad von Würzburg c. 1230 -1287 also mentioned coats of arms made of gemstones in his poem Turnier von Nantheiz c. 1258, for example describing the arms of the king of England as an escutcheon covered with Arabian gold with leopards made of rubies lines 310-320. Footnotes References Bibliography External links Category:Color in culture Category:Heraldry

Machineries of Empire is a trilogy of military science fiction/science fantasy/space opera novels by the American writer Yoon Ha Lee and published by Solaris Books. It consists of Ninefox Gambit 2016, Raven Stratagem 2017 and Revenant Gun 2018. The trilogy follows the young infantry captain Kel Cheris and the traitorous general Shuos Jedao in a war among factions of a despotic interstellar empire, the Hexarchate, whose technology and power is based on the population's faith in the imperial calendar. Several of Lee's short stories are prequels to the trilogy. Ninefox Gambit received the 2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and was nominated for the 2016 Nebula and 2017 Hugo Awards for Best Novel, and the 2017 Clarke award. Raven Stratagem was nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Revenant Gun was nominated for the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel Novels Ninefox Gambit, Solaris, 14 June 2016, Raven Stratagem, Solaris, 13 June 2017, Revenant Gun, Solaris, 12 June 2018, References Category:Novel series Category:21st-century American novels Category:Space opera novels Category:Military science fiction novels

This is list of Eastern Catholic seminaries in the world. They prepare candidates for the priesthood. Alexandrian liturgical tradition Coptic St. Leos Patriarchal Seminary in Maadi 1953, a suburb of Cairo Ethiopian Seminary in Asmara, Eritrea Ethiopian Seminary in Keren, Eritrea Ethiopian Capuchin Franciscan Institute of Philosophy and Theology in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Ethiopian Seminary in Adigrat, Ethiopia Ethiopian Pontifical Ethiopian College in Rome Antiochian Antiochene or West-Syriac liturgical tradition Maronite Seminary of St. Antoine in Lebanon MaroniteCollegio dei Maroniti 1584, reopened in 2000 in Rome Maronite Maronite Patriarchal Seminary at Ghazir Maronite diocesan seminary at Karm Sadde, near Tripoli Maronite Our Lady of Lebanon Seminary in Washington, D.C. The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik , Lebanon provides advanced theological education for Maronite Syriac Al-Charfet Patriarchal Seminary in Lebanon Syro-Malankara St. Marys Malankara Major Seminary 1983 at Trivandrum Armenian liturgical tradition Italy Collegio Armeno in Rome Lebanon Bzoummar Seminary in Bzoummar Mechitarist Fathers Seminary in Bikfaya Chaldean or East Syriac liturgical tradition India Malpan Seminary with University status in Kottapuram/ Pallipuram Established by Patriarch of Church of The East in AD 450 for Malabar, later seminary was shifted to Mananam and dissolved in St.Joseph's Seminary of Syro - Malabar Church CMI fathers Syro-Malabar St. Joseph's Pontifical Seminary Mangalapuzha Seminary in Mangalapuzha, Aluva Syro-Malabar St. Thomas Apostolic Seminary in Vadavathoor Syro-Malabar Good Shepherd Major Seminary in Kunnoth, Tellicherry Syro-Malabar St. Ephrem Major Seminary for Missions, Satna Syro-Malabar Mary Matha Major Seminary, Thrissur Iraq Chaldean St. Peter Seminary for Chaldean Patriarchate in Iraq. http://chaldeanseminary.com/ United States Chaldean The Seminary of Mar Abba the Great in San Diego Byzantine Constantinopolitan liturgical tradition Brazil Ukrainian Greek Catholic Seminary in Curitiba Canada Ukrainian Holy Spirit Seminary of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Edmonton, Alberta Croatia Greek Catholic Seminary in Zagreb Germany Collegium Orientale in Eichstätt Hungary Saint Athanasius Greek Catholic College of Theology and Seminary in Nyíregyháza Israel and the Palestinian Territories Melkite St. Annes Seminary in Jerusalem, under the direction of the White Fathers now called the Missionaries of Africa closed Melkite Holy Savior Seminary in Beit Sahour, Holy Land, for dioceses in Israel, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza of Melkite Italy Ukrainian Pontifical College of Saint Josaphat 1897 Pontifical Ukrainian College of the Protection of our Lady in Rome closed Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius Pontificio Collegio Greco in Rome Collegium Russicum Pontificio Collegio Russo 1929 in Rome Pontifical Romanian College Pio Romeno in Rome Lebanon Melkite Patriarchal Seminary of St. Anne in Raboueh, Antelias, Lebanon Romania Greek Catholic Theological Faculty at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca Slovakia Slovak Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Pavol Peter Gojdič in Prešov United States Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Seminary of SS. Cyril and Methodius of Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church Pittsburgh, PA Ukrainian St. Basil College Seminary, of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Stamford Ukrainian Saint Josaphat Seminary, Washington, DC St. Basil's Greek Melkite Catholic Seminary Methuen, Massachusetts Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv Holy Spirit Seminary of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Lviv Greek Catholic Seminary in Uzhhorod 1995 Seminary of Blessed Martyrs Severyn, Yakym and Vitalij of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, in Drohobych Greek Catholic Seminary in Ivano-Frankivsk Greek Catholic Seminary in Ternopil Greek Catholic Three Saints Interepachial Seminary in Kyiv See also List of Roman Catholic seminaries List of evangelical seminaries and theological colleges Pontifical Oriental Institute References External links Syro-Malankara Seminaries and Institutions Syro-Malabar Seminaries *seminaries Category:Lists of Catholic universities and colleges *

Massimo Marchese born in Savona, Italy is an Italian musician, lutenist, theorbist and recording artist. Biography Born in Savona in the Italian region of Liguria, Marchese was a student of Jakob Lindberg at the Royal College of Music in London. Collaborations He collaborated with the pipa player Jiao Xiangwen and the poet Sandro Boccardi He accompanied Nigel Rogers, Ottavio Dantone, Flavio Colusso, Flavio Emilio Scogna, and many ensemble as a Basso continuo musician. He played in Europe, Asia and South America. His recordings include the works of Francesco Spinacino , Franciscus Bossinensis, Joachim van den Hove , Robert de Visée, Gabriele Fallamero, and Roman Turovsky-Savchuk. Partial discography Roman Turovsky-Savchuk - Dialogues with Time daVinci Edition C00028, 2017 Francesco Spinacino - Intavolatura di Leuto, Libri I e II Tactus, 2006 Franciscus Bossinensis - Petrarca ed il cantare a Leuro Tactus, 2007 The journeys of Rubens - Music from the courts of Europe Centaur Records 2011 Virtuoso Vihuela music from Spain and Italy Centaur records, 2013 Robert de Visee La musique de la chambre du Roi voll I, II and III Brilliant Classics 2013 Joachim van den Hove - Florida Brilliant Classics 2015 See also Lute Theorbo Vihuela Basso continuo References External links Category:Living people Category:Italian lutenists Category:People from Savona Category:1965 births

Trissodoris pansella is a moth in the family Cosmopterigidae. It is found on Rennell Island. References Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog Category:Cosmopteriginae

Frog Station is an unincorporated community in the towns of Red River and Luxemburg, in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States. It sits at the junction of County Trunk K and County Trunk AB, about north of the village of Luxemburg. Notes Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin Category:Unincorporated communities in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

A swing yarder is a mobile piece of heavy duty forestry equipment used for pulling logs from the woods to a logging road with cables. The swing yarder is also known as a grapple yarder. In any logging operation, it is necessary to transport the harvested tree from the stump to a landing for transport to market usually on a truck. If the ground is relatively flat it may be possible to transport the tree or logs cut from the tree on a wheeled or tracked machine. However if the ground is too steep for the operation of such machinery, it is common practice to rig some sort of a cable system for moving the wood. The swing yarder is one of several varieties of machines that have been used for this purpose. The swing yarder has several drums to pull in the cables. The cables run up an angled boom and then to the far side of a setting. By using two cables set up like a clothes line, the rigging can be pulled out and logs can be pulled across a logging setting where the trees have been previously felled. This machine is most suitable for steep ground where it is difficult to access the logs with other machinery. Swing yarders can also be used in flatter areas with lighter loads. While there are various rigging options, the most common one uses a grapple that can be lowered onto a logs and closed via the cable system. Using a grapple avoids the need for people in the setting to attach chokers to the log. Choker setting as a profession is a very dangerous occupation. The main difference between a swing yarder and a tower yarder is that the upperworks is mounted on a large slewing bearing. This bearing permits the boom and cable system to be 'swung' across a setting without relocating the machine. An experienced operator uses timing and cable tension to swing the grapple to the desired location. In practice, however, the main benefit of a swinging machine is that once the logs are yarded up to the machine, they can be swung to the side and landed. This allows the machine to be positioned in a small area such as on a road, and to land set down the logs on the road behind or in front of the machine. By contrast a tower has no options on where to set the logs---so the tower has to be positioned back from the break of the hill so as to leave a landing area on the downhill side of the machine, the logs can only be pulled up to near the tower and then lowered to the ground making it necessary for a shovel log loader to also be present to remove the logs once landed. Implicitly a swing machine does not need to be as tall as a tower machine particularly in steep ground because the swing machine can be set right up to the 'edge' of the steep ground while the tower must be set back from the 'edge' to allow landing space. External links Washington TL-6 Swing yarder Category:Log transport Category:Forestry equipment

Berczik Árpád July 8, 1842 in Temesvár July 16, 1919 in Budapest was a Hungarian writer. He studied laws and worked for the administration, Kisfaludy Társaság 1873 and Borsszem Jankó. He published his writings in publications such as Pesti Napló 187072, but he is mainly known for his theatrical plays. Works Az igmándi kispap, 1881; Nézd meg az anyját Bp., 1883; A Protekció Bp., 1885; Himfy dalai 1898 Színművei I-V., 1912 References Kozma Andor: B. Á. emlékezete MTA Emlékbeszédek, Bp., 1921; Berczik Árpád: B. Á. Bp., 1933; Molnár Pál: B. Á. a drámaíró Bp., 1936. Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon External links Category:1842 births Category:1919 deaths Category:Hungarian writers

Bernardo Vargas born March 31, 1939 is an Argentine former footballer. Career Vargas played with Talleres Cordoba in 1958. In 1960, he played in the Argentine Primera División with Racing, and later with Argentinos Juniors. In 1964, he played in the Mexican Primera División with Club América. In 1965, he played in the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League with Toronto Italia, where he secured an ECPSL Championship in 1966. He played with Toronto Falcons originally in the National Professional Soccer League in 1967, and later in the North American Soccer League. In 1968, he played in the American Soccer League with Rochester Lancers. References Category:1939 births Category:Argentine footballers Category:Talleres de Córdoba footballers Category:Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers Category:Argentinos Juniors footballers Category:Club América footballers Category:Toronto Italia players Category:Toronto Falcons 1967-68 players Category:Rochester Lancers 19671980 players Category:Argentine Primera División players Category:Liga MX players Category:Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League players Category:National Professional Soccer League 1967 players Category:North American Soccer League 19681984 players Category:American Soccer League 19331983 players Category:People from Mendoza, Argentina Category:Living people

Pyramid G1-d also known as 'G Id', 'G1d', or 'GId' is a satellite pyramid within the Khufu Pyramid complex. It was discovered in 1993 during work to remove a road near the pyramid G1 the Great Pyramid of Giza. It is located about 25m southeast of the southeast corner of the Great Pyramid of Giza and about 7 m west of the subsidiary pyramids G1b and G1c. All the stonework of the pyramid core had been removed in ancient times. What remains of the superstructure core is two courses of stone. There was also a substructure which was U-shaped but this was destroyed in antiquity. During the excavation the actual apex stone of the pyramid, a single piece of fine Tura-quality limestone, was found. It is the second oldest pyramidion ever found, the earliest belonging to the North Pyramid of Sneferu discovered by Rainer Stadelmann at Dahshur. This rare find has been left in place. One inscription was found written in red paint on the inside surface of one block set in the south wall. The notation says, imy rsy S3. This graffiti, meaning on the south back side, probably instructed the stone movers where to place the block. The purpose of the pyramid is under debate by scholars. Some possible explanations are that it is for the king's Ka, or it represents the king as the ruler of Upper Egypt, or it is for the viscera of the King, or it is a dummy room for the Sed festival, or it has a solar function. Zahi Hawass, who led the uncovering of the pyramid, believed that the satellite pyramid was used symbolically as a changing room for the Sed festival. See also Pyramid G1-a Pyramid G1-b Pyramid G1-c List of Egyptian pyramids References External links The discovery of the satellite Pyramid of Khufu The discovery of the satellite Pyramid of Khufu The revised and complete article on the pyramidion of the satellite pyramid of Khufu, g1d Origins of Pyramid GI-d, Southeast of the Great Pyramid Category:Giza Plateau Category:Pyramids of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt

Mike Jimenez born May 15, 1987 is an American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division. Jimenez fought Jesse Hart for the USBA Super Middleweight title on the undercard of Mayweather-Pacquiao. References External links Category:1987 births Category:Living people Category:American male boxers Category:Super-middleweight boxers

A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made. Fretless bass guitars are readily available, with most major guitar manufacturers producing fretless models. The forerunner to fretless guitars like the Hawaiian Guitar is the traditional 3000 year old Indian Chitravina, aka Gotuvadyam, popularised globally by Chitravina N Ravikiran On the fretless guitar, the performer's fingers press the string directly against the fingerboard, as with a violin, resulting in a vibrating string that extends from the bridge where the strings are attached to the fingertip instead of to a fret. Technique Musicians employ a standard harmony and the twelve-tone technique as a base for exploring tones, using a fretless guitar. Fretless guitars offer musicians an ability to explore new sounds through using microtonal harmonies and folk melodies in a jazz-groove context. A detailed article on extended techniques for fretless electric guitar - written by British guitarist Rich Perks - was published by Music and Practice journal in 2019. Musicianship with fretless guitars differ from fretted guitars: They require greater finger position precision, because the position of the node of the string is continuously variable being established by the position of the finger rather than fixed established by the position of a fret. As a consequence of this, chordal playing in particular is more difficult to achieve accurately. The string resonance is reduced, requiring more forceful plucking or modified amplification pickups to achieve desired volume. The smooth surface of the fingerboard allows legato playing, with smooth transitional slurs between notes Fretless guitars are uncommon in most forms of western music and generally limited to the electrified instruments, due to their decreased acoustic volume and sustain. The fretless bass guitar has found popularity in many forms of western music, from pop to jazz. The first use of fretless bass guitars dates back to Bill Wyman in the early 1960s. Festivals featuring live fretless guitar music have been held for several years both in the US and in Europe. In New York, the first NYC Fretless Guitar Festival was held in 2005. In the Netherlands, the Dutch Fretless Guitar Festival has taken place since 2006. See also Frets on bass guitar References links Unfretted.com - fretless guitar resource: history, news, reviews, tips, FAQs, MP3s, lists, dictionary, etc. NYC Fretless Guitar Festival - The New York Fretless Guitar Festival features the best fretless players from around the world. Ned Evett The home of the glass guitarist. Rich Perks Official website for the British fretless guitarist, composer and academic. Iki keklik by Erkan Ogur A beautiful Erkan Ogur piece Turkish fretless guitar virtuoso Erkan Ogur in concert Category:Guitars Category:Continuous pitch instruments

Kingfisher First Nation Oji-Cree language: ᑮᐡᑭᒪᓂᐦᓰᐋᐧᐴᕽ Giishkimanisiiwaaboong, At Kingfisher-waters; unpointed: ᑭᐡᑭᒪᓂᓯᐊᐧᐳᐠ is an Oji-Cree First Nation reserve located north of Sioux Lookout, Ontario. It is accessible by air all year and by waterway in summer and ice roads in winter. As of December 2009, the First Nation had a total registered population of 500 people, the on-reserve population being 462. The community speaks the Oji-Cree language, but most of it is fluent in English as well. The police Kingfisher Lake is the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an Aboriginal-based service. History In 1808 the Hudson's Bay Company established an outpost at Big Beaver House, located approximately 12 kilometres southwest of the present Kingfisher Lake reserve. Big Beaver House was frequented by Kingfisher Lake people for trading fur, community activity and freight hauling employment. In 1929 to 1930, the leaders of Kingfisher Lake First Nation were required to gather at Big Trout Lake to participate in the signing of the adhesion to Treaty 9. As the result, Kingfisher Lake was considered a part of Big Trout Lake Band. In 1947, Ontario enacted the Trapline Registration and Fee Program, which eventually forced the Kingfisher Lake people to outline their ancestral hunting areas into trapping boundaries and also to pay for the land use requirements. In 1964, the leaders of Kingfisher Lake decided to establish permanent community and to move to the current location of the reserve lands. As Kingfisher Lake was already included in the Big Trout Lake Band and so had reserve status, the formality of gaining band status was achieved in 1975. In 2011, many of the residents were temporarily housed in Ottawa because of forest fires in the surrounding area. Governance The officials of Kingfisher First Nation are elected for a two-year term through the Custom Electoral System. Their council consists of Chief Eddie Mamakwa, Deputy Chief Verna Aganash and three Councillors: Amos Mamakwa, Esther Sakakeep, and Samuel Sturgeon. The First Nation is part of the Shibogama First Nations Council, a Regional Chiefs Council, and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, a Tribal Political Organization representing majority of the First Nations in northern Ontario. Reserve The First Nation have reserved three tracts for their Indian Reserve: Kingfisher Lake 1 Indian Reserve, which serves as their main Reserve, containing the community of Kingfisher Lake, Ontario. Kingfisher 2A Indian Reserve Kingfisher 3A Indian Reserve External links AANDC profile Profile from Chiefs of Ontario 2006 Canadian Census: Kingfisher Lake Indian Reserve 1 Category:Communities in Kenora District Category:Nishnawbe Aski Nation Category:Road-inaccessible communities of Ontario

Theresa Bowyer was a former Women's Editor of the Daily Times of Nigeria. She is a graduate of the London School of Journalism. Bowyer started work with Daily Times in 1951, after two years on the job, she became the first Women's Editor. In 1961, she attended the 8th U. S. National Commission for UNESCO Conference in Boston. After the end of the conference, she went on a State Department sponsored tour of select American cities. Bowyer left the Times in 1963. She founded a school in Zaria where she lived with her husband. References Category:Year of birth missing living people Category:Living people Category:Nigerian women journalists Category:Alumni of the London School of Journalism

The 201112 Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team represented the University of Tulsa during the 201112 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Golden Hurricane, led by seventh year head coach Doug Wojcik, played their home games at the Reynolds Center and are members of Conference USA. They finished the season 1714, 106 in C-USA to finish in a tie for third place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the C-USA Basketball Tournament to Marshall. They did not accept an invitation to a post season tournament. Head coach Doug Wojcik was fired at the end of the season. He compiled a record of 14092 in seven seasons and is the schools all-time leader in coaching victories. He will be replaced by Danny Manning. Roster Schedule |- !colspan=9| Exhibition |- !colspan=9| Regular Season |- !colspan=9| 2012 Conference USA Men's Basketball Tournament References Category:Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball seasons Tulsa Category:2011 in sports in Oklahoma Category:2012 in sports in Oklahoma

The history of the Irish Guards as an infantry regiment of the British Army dates from the Regiment's formation in 1900. The Irish Guards have an over one hundred year-long history during which the regiment have served with distinction in almost all of the United Kingdom's conflicts throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries ranging from the First World War to the War in Afghanistan. The Irish Guards were formed by Queen Victoria in 1900 to honour the Irishmen who had fought in the Second Boer War. The Irish Guards first saw combat as a regiment in the First World War during which they fought on the Western Front from the beginning to the end of the war. The regiment played a significant role in many of the First World War's pivotal battles such as the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme. By the end of the war, the regiment had experienced significant losses and won four Victoria Crosses, two of them posthumous. The Irish Guards were to experience similar fighting just twenty one years later with the commencement of the Second World War. The regiment won two further Victoria Crosses and saw action during the Norwegian Campaign, the Battle of France, the Tunisian Campaign, the Italian Campaign, Operation Overlord and Operation Market Garden. Following the conclusion of the Second World War, the Irish Guards were involved in several conflicts arising from the decline of the British Empire, including the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine, against the EOKA group in Cyprus and in the Aden Emergency. Moving into the 21st Century, the Irish Guards served in the Balkans Conflicts, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan. Creation The Irish Guards was formed on 1 April 1900 by order of Queen Victoria to commemorate the Irish people who fought in the Second Boer War for the British Empire. This followed an initial suggestion from the Irish-born British Army officer Field Marshal Viscount Wolseley to allow soldiers in Irish Regiments to wear the shamrock in their headdress on St. Patrick's Day. This developed into a suggestion that an Irish Guards regiment should be created. The Irish Guards' first honorary Colonel-of-the-Regiment was Field Marshal Lord Roberts, known to many troops as Bobs. Because of this, the regiment gained the nickname Bob's Own but are now known affectionately as The Micks although a generally derogatory term if used in society, this term is not seen as offensive or derogatory by the regiment. Roberts, as the new Commander-in-Chief in the Second Boer War, was too busy at the time to take over a new regiment, but he was appointed a Colonel of the regiment on 17 October 1900. Major Richard Joshua Cooper, of the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, was appointed the first Commanding Officer on 2 May 1900 and 200 Irishmen from the same regiment were transferred as the nucleus of the new regiment. Selected members of the line infantry regiments were chosen to fill out the ranks of the new regiment. The regiment's first Colours were presented by King Edward VII to the 1st Battalion on 30 May 1902 at Horse Guards Parade. A few Irish Guardsmen saw action as mounted infantry in the final stages of the Boer War. Otherwise, the Irish Guards were stationed in the United Kingdom for the first fourteen years of its existence, performing ceremonial duties in London during that time until the beginning of World War I. First World War 1914-1915: Outbreak of War and the first battles on the Western Front The 1st Battalion, Irish Guards deployed to France, eight days after the United Kingdom had declared war upon the German Empire, as part of 4th Guards Brigade of the 2nd Division, and would remain on the Western Front for the duration of the war. The battalion took part in the Battle of Mons and the subsequent arduous and bloody Great Retreat. The Irish Guards was part of the rearguard during the retreat and took part in a small-scale action at Landrecies against the advancing Germans. The 1st Irish Guards also took part in another rearguard action at the woods near Villers-Cotterets, on 1 September, during the Battle of Le Cateau in which their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. George Morris and the Second-in-Command Major Hubert Crichton were killed. Le Cateau was a successful action that inflicted very heavy losses on the Germans and helped delay their advance towards Paris. In August that year, the 2nd Reserve Battalion was raised at Warley Barracks to serve as a training battalion for the men needed to replace losses sustained by the 1st Battalion in France. The 1st Irish Guards later in September took part in the First Battle of the Marne and the advance towards the Aisne. The Irish Guards, having lost their Commanding Officer only a few weeks after they had reached France, would take part in one of the bloodiest battles of 1914, the First Battle of Ypres, which began on 19 October. The battle caused major casualties among the old Regular Army. The 1st Battalion was involved in fighting for the duration of the battle, taking part in the major actions, at Langemarck, Gheluvelt and Nonne Bosschen. The 1st Battalion suffered huge casualties between November 18 holding the line against near defeat by German forces, while defending Klein Zillebeke, with No. 3 Company suffering severe casualties on November 1 and No. 1 Company being caught in the open after a French retreat on November 6 exposed their flank, ensuring that at the end of the day the greater part of them were missing. By the end of First Battle of Ypres on the 22 November, the battalion had suffered over 700 casualties and could only field two companies from the survivors. The 2nd Division, of which the 1st Irish Guards were part of, suffered 5,769 officers and men killed, wounded or missing in action. The original battalion of 1st Irish Guards which had arrived in France barely two months before had been practically wiped out and had to be reconstructed with new arrivals. The rest of 1914 and early 1915 was spent in the trenches with little action, although the soldiers were at risk from snipers and shells. In February 1915, Lance-Corporal Michael O'Leary performed an act of bravery at Cuinchy, where attack and counter-attack had been taking place between the British and Germans since 29 January until early February. On 1 February, O'Leary was part of a storming party which attacked an enemy barricade, during the attack the party suffered casualties and a group of the storming party then were hit by their own artillery bombardment. O'Leary rushed forward, shooting five Germans before attacking a further three in a machine-gun position at the next barricade, capturing two Germans in the process. The trench and many prisoners were taken thanks to the actions of O'Leary. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the first VC the Irish Guards won in the war. In May 1915, the 1st Irish Guards took part in the Battle of Festubert, though did not see much action. In July 1915, the 2nd Reserve Battalion was redesignated the 3rd Reserve Battalion, and another battalion, the 2nd Battalion Irish Guards was formed at Warley Barracks. In August that year the 1st Irish Guards, along with the rest of the 4th Guards Brigade, was moved to the Guards Division. The brigade was redesignated the 1st Guards Brigade. August 1915 also saw the arrival to France of 2nd Irish Guards who were subsequently attached to the 2nd Guards Brigade. In September that year, both battalions of the Irish Guards fought together for the first time in the Battle of Loos, which lasted from 25 September until early October. 1916-17: The Battle of the Somme and Passchendaele Both the 1st and 2nd Irish Guards spent much of the remainder of 1915 and early 1916 in the trenches until 1 July 1916 when the Battle of the Somme began, which was, and still is, the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, but the 1st Irish Guards were spared the day's bloodshed as they were held in reserve. The 1st Irish Guards were soon called into the fray at the Battle of FlersCourcelette where they suffered severe casualties in the attack in the face of withering fire from the German machine-guns. The battalion then went on to take part in the Battle of Morval. They were involved in the capture of the northern part of the village on 25 September and were relieved the following day by the 2nd Irish Guards. The 1st Irish Guards suffered quite heavily during the Morval engagement with over 250 casualties. The 2nd Irish Guards fought until 28 September when they too were relieved and entered into a period of rest along with the rest of the Guard's Division. The Irish Guards had been brought back up to strength sufficiently during their rest period so that by the summer of 1917 they would once again be called on to front a major British offensive with the start of the Battle of Passchendaele. The 2nd Irish Guards were the first to enter the Battle of Pilckem which began on 31 July and despite taking heavy casualties, including their Commanding Officer, achieved their objectives in the face of heavy German resistance. 1st Irish Guards spent the first day of the offensive in reserve before joining their sister battalion on 1 September. Further actions took place for the 1st Irish Guards at the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, where they beat off several German counterattacks, and at the Battle of Poelcapelle, during which the battalion lost every one of its company commanders although 2nd Irish Guards suffered few casualties. In a testament to the ferocity of fighting that the Irish Guards faced at the Battle of Passchendaele, an action took place on 12 September that would see two members of the regiment win the Victoria Cross. Lance-Sergeant John Moyney and Private Thomas Woodcock of the 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards, were part of an advance post that became surrounded by Germans. During the defence, the Lance-Sergeant attacked the advancing Germans with grenades and with his lewis gun. He, and his men, then charged the Germans, breaking through them and reaching a stream where he and Private Woodcock formed a rearguard while the rest of the party withdrew. They subsequently began to withdraw, crossing the stream, but Private Woodcock heard cries for help and he returned, retrieving the wounded man and carrying him back to British lines under machine-gun fire. They had held out for ninety-six hours. The Irish Guards took part in the Battle of Cambrai, the first large use of the tank in battle took place during the engagement. The 1st Irish Guards initially enjoyed a quite sector for the opening of the battle until 30 November when they suffered heavy casualties fighting through the streets of the village of Gouzeaucourt. The Guards Division, and with it the 1st and 2nd Irish Guards, were pulled off the line on 6 December for a rest period, having fought almost continuously since the start of August. 1918: Final victory and the ending of the War The regiment enjoyed the relative respite provided by the stalemate that the Western Front experienced in early 1918. This respite, however, was going to be short lived with a major German offensive expected. This great German offensive, termed the Spring Offensive, began on 21 March 1918 with the launching of Operation Michael. The 1st Irish Guards were ordered to join the fight on the night of 21 March once the British realised how serious the situation had become and the battalion found themselves forming the rearguard for a retreating army on the defensive for the first time since the opening stages of the war four years previously. The 2nd Irish Guards, who had been in reserve to meet the expected German offensive, were ordered to create a defensive line east of Boisleux-Saint-Marc in an attempt to stem the German advance. The men of the 2nd Irish Guards would continue a fighting withdrawal for ten days until, finally, the German offensive ran out of momentum and the battalion were relieved from the line on 31 March. The failed German offensive marked the beginning of the end of the war but the Irish Guards would fight in a number of engagements before its finish, including at the Battle of Arras and the Battle of Albert. The regiment also took part in a number of battles during the British offensives against the Hindenburg Line. On 4 November 1918 at the Sambre-Oise Canal, Acting Lieutenant Colonel James Marshall of the Irish Guards but attached to the 16th Service Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, organised repair parties who were trying to repair a damaged partly finished bridge. The first party soon came under fire and all were killed or wounded. Marshall, disregarding his own safety, stood on the bank, encouraging and helping the men as they worked on the bridge. Once it was repaired, he began to lead his men across the bridge but was shot and killed. He was awarded the posthumous Victoria Cross, the fourth and final to be earned by the Irish Guards during the First World War. Throughout October and early November, the Irish Guards took place in the last advances on the Western Front against the crumbling German Army. On 11 November 1918 the Armistice with Germany was signed. The 1st Battalion, Irish Guards were at Maubeuge when the Armistice was signed, which was near to where the Irish Guards began their war in 1914 at Mons, although by 11 November there were few surviving Irish Guardsmen of that first battle. The sacrifice by the Irish Guards during the First World War had been immense. The two battalions of Irish Guards had suffered 2,349 officers and men killed and well over 5,000 wounded. The regiment was awarded 406 medals, including four Victoria Crosses, during the Great War. Among those killed serving with the Irish Guards in the First World War was Second Lieutenant John Kipling, the 18-year-old son of author Rudyard Kipling, who was listed as missing during the Battle of Loos in September 1915. In tribute to his son's regiment, Kipling composed the poem The Irish Guards and after the war wrote a two-volume history of the regiment's service in the war. Inter-War With the First World War at an end, occupation duties awaited the Irish Guards and on 11 December 1918 the regiment marched into Germany, drums beating, as part of the British Army of the Rhine. Both battalions returned to Britain victoriously in the spring of 1919 and after a final parade through London, the 2nd and 3rd Irish Guards were now surplus to requirements and disbanded. In 1920, for St Patrick's Day, the regiment donned its full-dress for the first time since before the outbreak of World War I. The regiment was also compelled to cope with the internal tensions caused by the political situation back home in Ireland following the end of the First World War although the regiment remained largely detached from the events of the Irish War of Independence, with only one member of the Irish Guards being charged with trying to smuggle weapons to republicans and even this act was motivated by a desire for monetary gain rather than political motives. The regiment's continued existence was threatened briefly when Winston Churchill later destined to become the Prime Minister, who served as Secretary of State for War between 1919 and 1921, sought the elimination of the Irish Guards and Welsh Guards as an economy measure. This proposal, however, did not find favour in government or Army circles and was dropped. In 1922 the regiment deployed to Constantinople as part of an allied force during the troubles in that region. In late 1923 the regiment deployed to the garrison at Gibraltar. They returned to the United Kingdom in 1924. They were then based in the south of England until 1936 when they deployed to Egypt. While stationed there, the regiment deployed to Palestine for a number of months on internal security duties against Arab militants. The regiment returned to the United Kingdom in 1938 as war with Germany looked increasingly likely. The following year the 2nd Battalion of the Irish Guards was re-formed five months before World War II began. Second World War Norwegian Campaign and retreat from North-West Europe Upon the outbreak of war in September 1939, both battalions of the Irish Guards were based in the United Kingdom. In April 1940, the 1st Battalion deployed to Norway as part of the 24th Guards Brigade. In May the brigade HQ and the 1st Irish Guards was aboard the Polish liner/troopship Chrobry, being transported to the northern Norwegian town of Bodø from another area of Norway. Chrobry was attacked by German Heinkel He 111 bombers which killed many men, including the commanding officer CO, the second-in-command, the adjutant and three of the five company commanders of the 1st Irish Guards, as well as all their heavy equipment. Fire engulfed the ship and, considering the amount of ammunition on board, an immense explosion seemed imminent. However, the surviving Guardsmen were rescued by escorting vessels. Later that month the battalion fought in northern Norway, seeing action at Pothus, where they held out against heavy German attacks for two days until they were finally forced to withdraw as their positions were being outflanked. The brigade HQ and battalion were withdrawn by boat, though they left many men behind, who managed to break through the German forces and reach Allied lines later that day. With the situation worsening for the British in the Battle of France, it was decided to withdraw all British forces from Norway and the 1st Irish Guards were evacuated back to the United Kingdom with the rest of the expeditionary force in June. In May 1940, the 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards deployed to the Hook of Holland to cover the evacuation of the Dutch Royal Family and Government. The battalion returned to the United Kingdom the day after the evacuation, but had only a short respite, for just a few days later they, along with the Welsh Guards, crossed over to the northern French port of Boulogne, reaching the town on 22 May. Their orders were to defend part of Boulogne during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force BEF from the overwhelming and inexorable advance of the Germans. The Guards stoutly defended their area of responsibility from better-equipped German forces, repulsing a number of German attacks on the 22nd, but on the morning of the 23rd, superior German forces attacked the battalion and the Guards suffered very heavily. Later that day the battalion was evacuated from Boulogne, being the last to leave and having fought valiantly while awaiting evacuation. In 1941, 2nd Irish Guards made regimental history when they were reorganised as an armoured battalion, the first in the Irish Guard's history, joining the newly formed Guards Armoured Division as part of 5th Guards Armoured Brigade. The Training Battalion of the Irish Guards was raised the same year, later becoming the 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards. In 1943, the 3rd Irish Guards were reorganised as a full infantry battalion and followed their sister regiment into the Guards Armoured Division as part of the 32nd Guards Brigade. North Africa and Italy In March 1943 the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, who had been based in the United Kingdom since their return from Norway in June 1940, landed, with the rest of the 24th Guards Brigade, in Tunisia, to fight in the final stages of the campaign in North Africa. The battalion fought in the Medjez Plain area, seeing heavy action at Djebel bou Aoukaz, or 'Bou'. The 1st Irish Guards were tasked with capturing a vital ridge and part of the area was taken on 27 April but further fighting continued for several days with the Irish Guards beating off several German counterattacks and suffering heavy casualties before they were relieved on 1 May. It was in this fierce fighting which marked the Irish Guard's Tunisian Campaign that the regiment would win their first Victoria Cross of the Second World War. During an action on 28 April, Lance-Corporal John Patrick Kenneally of the 1st Irish Guards charged down the forward slope of the ridge on which his company was positioned, attacking the main body of a German company preparing to assault the ridge. He fired his Bren LMG as he advanced, causing so much surprise and confusion that the Germans broke in disorder and retreated. Lance-Corporal Kenneally then returned to his position unharmed. On 30 April Lance-Corporal Kenneally repeated his brave actions when, accompanied by a sergeant of the Reconnaissance Corps, he charged the enemy who were again forming up to assault the same ridge. Both men charged the Germans, inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans which resulted in the rout of the German force. The two men began to return to their position but as they did so, Kenneally was hit in the thigh. However, he continued to fight, refusing to relinquish his Bren gun or leave his position. Despite his wound he fought for the rest of the day and for his actions was awarded the Victoria Cross. Sixty hand-picked men of the Irish Guards were part of the 14,000 strong British contingent that took part in the victory parade in the capital Tunis on 20 May 1943. The 1st Irish Guards did not have much time to bask on their victories in North Africa however when in December of that year they were, together with the rest of the 24th Guards Brigade, deployed to the Italian Front. The battalion took part in the Anzio landings codenamed Operation Shingle as one of the first units to land in Italy on 22 January 1944. The landings were met by stronger than expected resistance as the Allied armies moved inland and a German counterattack was launched several days later. The Allies were soon driven back to the beachhead where fierce fighting raged and the 1st Irish Guards saw action at Carroceto where they repulsed several German attacks. The battalion also took part in the attack on Campoleone, where they experienced heavy casualties. The Irish Guards inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, but were surrounded the following day with little support against German armour, and were forced to fight their way through to Allied lines, suffering many casualties in the process. A few further actions took place for the battalion's companies but, by April, the 1st Irish Guards, having suffered devastating losses, had been severely depleted in manpower and were returned to the UK along with the remainder of the 24th Guards Brigade. Back in the UK, it was decided that the 1st Irish Guards would become the regiment's training battalion in order to provide manpower to the 2nd and 3rd Irish Guards who would soon be undertaking the invasion of Europe. Landing in Normandy, Market Garden and the advance to Germany Following the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, the 2nd and 3rd Irish Guards were landed in France on 25 June to take part in the Normandy Campaign. The Irish Guards, as part of the Guards Armoured Division, took part in Operation Goodwood 1820 July. The Division's objective was Cagny, Vimont and the surrounding area. During 18 July 1944, near Cagny, Lieutenant later Sir John Gorman of the 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards was in his Sherman tank when he was confronted by a far superior German Tiger II or 'King Tiger'. Gorman's tank fired one shot at the Tiger II, but the shot bounced off its thick armour. The Sherman's gun jammed before a second shot could be fired, and Gorman then gave the order to ram the Tiger II just as it was beginning to turn its massive 88mm gun on his tank. The Sherman smashed into the Tiger II, the collision disabling both tanks. The crews of both tanks then bailed out. Lieutenant Gorman, once he had seen his crew to safety, returned to the scene in a commandeered Sherman Firefly and destroyed the King Tiger. He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions, while the driver from his own crew, Lance-Corporal James Baron, won the Military Medal. The Irish Guards were involved in the further fighting that raged around Cagny for the rest of the day. Cagny, devastated by heavy bombing, was finally liberated by the Guards on the morning of 19 July. The Irish Guards also saw action in Operation Bluecoat launched on 30 July which saw the British capture the strategically important high ground around the Mont Pincon area. Following the breakout from Normandy and rapid advance through the more open French terrain, the 2nd and 3rd Irish Guards crossed the River Seine on 29 August and began the advance into Belgium with the rest of the Guards Armoured Division towards Brussels which was liberated on 3 September. Following the liberation of Brussels, the Irish Guards pushed into north-east Belgium in the face of stiffening resistance and reached the Dutch border on the evening of 10 September, capturing the strategically vital Joe's Bridge in a daring surprise assault. The Irish Guards were then chosen to be part of the ground force of Operation Market Garden, 'Market' being the airborne assault and 'Garden' the ground attack, which one of the most ambitious operations of the entire war and designed to enable a swift advance into Germany by capturing vital bridges over the River Rhine. The Irish Guards Group were commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel JOE Vandeleur. The 2nd Irish Guards led XXX Corps in their advance towards Arnhem, which was the objective of the British 1st Airborne Division, furthest from XXX Corps' start line. Operation Market Garden opened on the afternoon of 17 September with the dropping of three Allied Airborne divisions behind the German line. XXX Corps crossed the Belgian-Dutch border 15:00 hours, advancing from Neerpelt, but met very heavy resistance from German forces prepared with anti-tank weapons and most of the tanks in the initial troops were hit and destroyed. After Hawker Typhoons were called in to provide the Irish Guards aerial support, the Guardsmen moved forward to clear the German positions, manned by elements from two German parachute battalions and two battalions of the 9th SS Panzer Division and soon routed the German forces flanking the road. The fighting soon died down and the Irish Guards were able to advance and occupy Valkenswaard Despite the progress of XXX Corps, the unexpected resistance meant that the advance was already much slower than planned. Early on 18 September, reconnaissance units of the Guards Armoured Division made contact with the U.S. 101st Airborne Division who had liberated Eindhoven, with the rest of XXX Corps reaching the city later that day. The Irish Guards now camped outside Son while the Royal Engineers built a Bailey bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal so that XXX Corps could advance to Nijmegen. The bridge was completed early on 19 September and XXX Corps continued their advance. Later that day the Guards Division, still led by the 2nd Irish Guards, reached Nijmegen where the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division was located. Their advance had to be halted, however, for the 82nd had failed to take the bridge due to heavy German resistance. The bridge was finally captured on the evening of the 20th but the Irish Guards and the rest of the Guards Armoured Division were now scattered over 25 square miles trying to secure Nijmegen itself and defend their rear from constant German attacks. On the 21st, the British 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem, heavily outnumbered and outgunned, had to surrender after many days fighting that saw true heroism and courage. XXX Corps had been just an hour from the bridge at Arnhem but had to wait for the arrival of the 43rd Wessex Infantry Division before they could advance. The Irish Guards took part in further fighting until 25 September when the remnants of the 1st Airborne Division were evacuated across the Rhine. The Irish Guards remained in the Netherlands until the Allied advance into Germany was launched, seeing heavy action during the Rhineland Campaign. On 21 April 1945, at the village of Wistedt in northern Germany, Guardsman Edward Charlton of the 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards, was a co-driver of a tank during the capture of the village by a small force of the Irish Guards. The Germans soon attempted to retake the village with numerically superior forces, consisting mostly of officer cadets under the command of very experienced instructor officers as well as two or three self-propelled guns. Three of the four tanks of the Irish Guards force were knocked out, while the fourth Charlton's was disabled by a complete electrical failure before the action started. When the tank was disabled, Guardsman Charlton was ordered to dismount the turret 0.50 Browning machine gun and support the infantry, who were in danger of being overrun by the Germans. Charlton took the machine gun from his disabled tank and advanced in full view of the attacking Germans, firing and inflicting heavy casualties on them, halting their lead company and allowing the rest of the Guards to reorganise and retire. Charlton, despite having one arm shattered, continued firing until he collapsed from a further wound and loss of blood. His courageous and selfless disregard for his own safety helped most of the Irish Guards to escape capture. He later died of the wounds he had received and was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross, the last VC of the European theatre, and the last, so far, of the Irish Guards. Unusually, much of the citation for the award of the VC was based on German accounts of the fight as most of his later actions were not witnessed by any Guards officers or surviving non-commissioned officers. With the signing of the final German surrender on 9 May 1945, the Irish Guard's war had finally come to an end. For the second time in barely a generation, the Irish Guards had served throughout a world war with distinction and sacrifice with the regiment losing over 700 men killed, 1,500 wounded and being awarded 252 gallantry medals, including two Victoria Crosses. 1945 present day End of Empire and the Cold War in Europe The end of the Second World War signaled the inevitable downsizing of the British Army and the demobilisation of its wartime strength which led to the 3rd Irish Guards being disbanded in 1946 and the 2nd doing so the following year. The ending of the Second World War had also signaled the beginning of the end for the British Empire and over the next decades the Irish Guards would find themselves serving in conflicts throughout Britain's withdrawal from its remaining colonies. In 1947, the 1st Irish Guards deployed abroad for the first time since 1944, heading for troubled Palestine to perform internal security duties there against the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. Following the British withdrawal from Palestine in May 1948, the battalion moved to Tripoli, Libya for a year before returning home to the UK in 1949. Faced with the new reality of the Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union in Europe, the Irish Guards joined the British Army of the Rhine BAOR in West Germany in 1951, remaining there until 1953. After returning to the UK, the Irish Guards participated in ceremonial duty for the Coronation of Elizabeth II before it was posted to the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt, remaining there until the British withdrawal in 1956. It was not long before the Irish Guards would find themselves in another trouble spot of Britain's declining Empire when they were deployed to Cyprus to once again perform vital internal security duties due to the EOKA campaign against the British forces as well as the tension, indeed violence, that was occurring between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. They returned to Britain in the closing months of that year before once again joining the BAOR in 1961 when they were moved back to West Germany. In 1966, the regiment was deployed to Aden, another colony experiencing violence with the Radfan Uprising against British rule. During their tour of Aden, the Irish Guards experienced some of the fiercest fighting they had seen since the Second World War. The Irish Guards returned home to the UK just before Aden gained independence from the British Empire in 1967. In 1970 the Irish Guards were posted to the Hong Kong garrison, remaining there for two years until its return to the UK. In 1974, the regiment was re-roled as a mechanised battalion, subsequently being posted to the BAOR for the third time. During this time the Irish Guards had to once again contend with face the difficult reality of trouble on their home island of Ireland and in 1977 the regiment suffered their only fatal casualty of The Troubles, when Guardsman Samuel Murphy was shot by the Provisional IRA while walking with his mother near his parents home in Andersonstown in West Belfast whilst on leave. He later died of wounds. Upon returning to the United Kingdom from Germany, however, The Troubles reached into central London when an IRA bomb blasted a bus carrying men of the regiment to Chelsea Barracks on 10 October 1981. Twenty-three soldiers and 16 others were wounded and two passers-by killed. The Irish Guards returned to the BAOR in February 1982, just missing the Falklands War which was instead participated in by the Scots Guards and Welsh Guards. In 1986, the regiment returned home from Germany and received new colours two years later from Queen Elizabeth. They returned to Belize later that year, before being posted to the British sector of West Berlin in 1989, which was their first and only deployment to the city. The regiment were present for the historic moment when the Berlin Wall fell that year, signifying the end of the Cold War in Europe. They Irish Guards left the newly united Berlin in 1992 and returned home to the UK. 1990's: Northern Ireland and the Balkans Conflict The Irish Guards and a number of other British Army regiments including the Gurkhas were long exempted from service in Northern Ireland. Small numbers of Irish Guardsmen, however, gained experience in Ulster while attached to other Guards regiments during their service in the troubled province. The drawdown in the overall size of the British Army following the end of the Cold War, however, meant that this policy was no longer sustainable and the year 1992 saw the regiment finally carry out its first tour-of-duty in Northern Ireland, being based in County Fermanagh. The violence in Northern Ireland had mostly subsided by this time and their first-ever tour west of the Irish Sea passed quietly. They left the following year. In 1995, the Irish Guards began their second tour of Northern Ireland, being based in County Tyrone. The regiment headed for Germany in 1998 as part of British Forces Germany, successor to BAOR. The Irish Guards were not in Germany long before the Yugoslav Wars meant they were called on to deal with the troubles in the Balkans in 1999. The regiment formed the Irish Guards Battle Group which was split with a company of the Irish Guards deployed to Macedonia while the rest deployed to Kosovo, where heavy fighting had broken out between Serbian forces and Kosovo Albanian rebel groups. The Irish Guards were the first British unit to enter the Kosovan capital city of Pristina on 12 June and were greeted by the local population who treated the Guards like heroes. After the city had been secured the British troops began to consolidate their position, moving across the surrounding countryside to secure it. The Irish Guards performed professionally, attempting to prevent violence from breaking out between the Albanian and Serb Kosovans while also helping to rebuild the country. The Irish Guards left the Balkans in September 1999, heading back to their base in Germany. 21st Century: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan The beginning of the Irish Guards second century in existence saw the death of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who had for many decades traditionally presented the Irish Guards with shamrock on St. Patrick's Day, in 2002. At the Queen Mother's funeral the coffin bearer-party was made up of Irish Guardsmen. This was a remarkable honour, given the fact that the late Queen Mother not only was not the regiment's colonel she was, in fact, colonel-in-chief of the Black Watch, she had no official connection with the regiment at all, in spite of her long identification with it. In 2003, the Irish Guards were deployed to Kuwait during the build-up to the Iraq War. The Irish Guards formed part of the 7th Armoured Brigade which was the successor of the famed 7th Armoured Division, or 'The Desert Rats', which had fought throughout the deserts of North Africa during the Second World War, and began training to prepare for the war. Similarly to their experience in the Balkans, the Irish Guards were split up with companies, platoons and sections being attached to various units of the Desert Rats. The war began on 21 March when British and American forces began crossing the Iraq border, with the Desert Rats beginning the journey towards Basra, Iraq's second largest city. The British troops spent the next few weeks gradually taking control of much of the area that surrounded Basra with soldiers of the Irish Guards leading the British advance on Basra from late March, helping in securing objectives on the outskirts of the city. After a number of days consolidating their position, the Irish Guards fought their way into the city on 6 April and took a number of casualties in heavy urban warfare before securing the city by the end of the day. The regiment claim to have been the first to enter Basra on 6 April, stating they did so many hours before the Parachute Regiment. Following the conclusion of the conventional warfare phase in Iraq, the British Army were now faced with a growing insurgency and the Irish Guards reverted from a war-role to performing many duties that would be familiar to any British soldier that has served in Northern Ireland. They performed these duties until early May when they left Iraq and returned home but upon their return to the UK, they were almost immediately posted back to Northern Ireland for a four-month posting for their third tour of the province. In 2005, the 1st Battalion, Irish Guards became the first regiment in the British Army to be officially awarded battle honours for service in Iraq this was to enable these to be displayed on the battalion's new regimental colour during the Sovereign's Birthday Parade. The Irish Guards returned to Iraq in April 2007 for a six-month tour of the country during which they were based Basra Airport and were responsible for training the Iraqi Army in the face of an intensifying Shia-led insurgency. Following their return from their second tour of Iraq, the Irish Guards enjoyed a two-year rest period before, in September 2010, they deployed to Afghanistan as part of the British forces in the Afghanistan. While deployed in Helmand Province, the Irish Guards fought the Taliban insurgency and helped to train the Afghan National Army before returning home in April 2011. The regiment returned to Afghanistan in 2013 to complete their second and final tour of Afghanistan. Following the Manchester Arena bombing, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards were deployed in London to guard key locations, including the Ministry of Defence building in Whitehall, as part of Operation Temperer. Over twelve years after their last deployment to Iraq, the Irish Guards returned to the country in early December 2019 to help train the Iraqi security forces in their fight against ISIS as part of Operation Shader. However, the deployment rapidly changed in January 2020 with the escalation of the 201920 Persian Gulf crisis following the American killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Irish Guard's role switched from training to force protection in order to protect British assets in Iraq from possible retaliation by Iran. Notes Notes Citations References The Long, Long Trail Irish Guards Irish Guards.org.uk Category:Irish Guards Category:20th-century history of the British Army

Boggs Island is an island on the Ohio River in Marshall County, West Virginia between the cities of Bellaire, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia. It is a small island near the Ohio shore opposite the mouth of Boggs Run, from which it may take its name. Strip mine companies removed every mature tree on this island in the 1980s. See also List of islands of West Virginia Category:River islands of West Virginia Category:Landforms of Marshall County, West Virginia Category:Islands of the Ohio River

The Mersing District is a district in Johor, Malaysia. The district capital is Mersing Town. Name The Mersing name is derived from the Chinese Mau Sheng Port 茂盛港 since 1880 and further simplify to Mersing. Mersing's Chinese name was renamed to Feng Sheng Port 丰盛港, with the meaning of good harvest. There are also said that Mersing's name is derived from Sikh traders who named Amir Singh and Men Singh. Geology Beside the mainland area, the district also consists of 36 islands. Geography With an area of 2,838 km2, Mersing District is the third largest district in Johor, which covers 14.6 area of the state. As of 2001, the district has a total residence of 69,947 people. Administrative divisions Mersing District is divided into 10 mukims, which are: Jemaluang Lenggor Mersing Town Padang Endau Penyabong Offshore islands Pulau Aur, Pulau Rawa, Pulau Tengah, Pulau Pemanggil, Pulau Sibu Sembrong Tenggaroh Tenglu Triang Demographics In 2000, the annual population growth of the district was 1.21. Economy The main economy activities in the district are ecotourism, fishery, marine activities, agriculture and light manufacturing. Tourist attractions Aur Island Besar Island Harimau Island Mount Arong Recreational Forest Pemanggil Island Rawa Island Sibu Island Taman Negara Endau Rompin Transportation Mersing Airport See also Districts of Malaysia References

The 1985 WCT Houston Shootout was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was a World Championship Tennis event which was part of the 1985 Nabisco Grand Prix, as the two organisations had reunited. It was played in Houston, United States from February 25 through March 3, 1985. John McEnroe won the singles title and $60,000 prize money. Prize money *per team Finals Singles John McEnroe defeated Kevin Curren, 75, 61, 7674 Doubles Peter Fleming / John McEnroe defeated Hank Pfister / Ben Testerman, 63, 62 References Category:1985 Grand Prix tennis Category:World Championship Tennis Category:1985 in Texas

The Black Sleep is a 1956 American independent horror film directed by Reginald LeBorg, and written by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. It stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role. The film was produced by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, as part of a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists. The film was released as a double feature with the 1955 British film The Creeping Unknown. The Black Sleep was re-released in 1962 under the title Dr. Cadman's Secret. Plot Set in England in 1872, the story concerned a prominent, knighted surgeon whose wife has fallen into a coma caused by a deep-seated brain tumor. Due to medicine's state of the art at the time, he does not know how to reach the tumor without risking brain damage or death to the woman he loves, so he undertakes to secretly experiment on the brains of living, but involuntary, human subjects who are under the influence of a powerful Indian anesthetic, Nind Andhera, which he calls the Black Sleep. Once he has finished his experiment, surviving subjects are revived and placed, in seriously degenerated and mutilated states, in a hidden cellar in the gloomy, abandoned country abbey where he conducts his experiments. Cast Basil Rathbone as Sir Joel Cadman Akim Tamiroff as Udu the Gypsy Herbert Rudley as Dr. Gordon Ramsay Patricia Blake as Laurie Munroe Phyllis Stanley as Daphnae Lon Chaney Jr. as Dr. Munroe aka Mungo John Carradine as Bohemund Bela Lugosi as Casimir Tor Johnson as Mr. Curry George Sawaya as Sailor Subject Sally Yarnell as Female Subject Peter Gordon as Det. Sgt. Steele Claire Carleton as Carmoda Daily John Sheffield as Det. Redford Clive Morgan as Roundsman Blevins Louanna Gardner as Angelina Cadman Aubrey Schenck as Prison Coroner's Aide uncredited Release Produced during 1955, the film was released to theaters in the early summer of 1956. This was just ahead of the TV syndication, through Screen Gems, of two decades of Universal monster movies, under the package title Shock Theater. Writer Higgins, director LeBorg, and stars Rathbone, Chaney, Carradine, and Lugosi had all been significantly associated with Universal horror films or related B movies. The Black Sleep is similar to Universal's two houseful of monster films released in the mid-40s, House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula, only relying on a completely new cadre of human monsters. Critical reception Amongst contemporary reviews, Variety wrote that the film plays the horror tale fairly straight so what's happening is not too illogical until the finale wrapup, when all restraint comes off and the melodramatics run amok. ...Basil Rathbone is quite credible as the surgeon, enough so that the brain operations he performs will horrify many viewers; and The Motion Picture Exhibitor noted that Rathbone has a grand time as the mad scientist, assisted nobly by some of the best names in the horror field. Audiences should be frightened plenty, and past experience proves that this can mean good grosses... Sure, a lot of it is corny, but it is all good fun in a grisly, frightening manner. Home media The Black Sleep was released by Kino on Blu ray in 2016 and contains audio commentary by Tom Weaver and David Schecter. See also List of American films of 1956 References External links The Black Sleep at Basilrathbone.net Category:1956 horror films Category:1956 films Category:American films Category:American science fiction horror films Category:Films directed by Reginald Le Borg Category:Films scored by Les Baxter Category:Mad scientist films Category:Films set in 1872 Category:Films set in England Category:United Artists films

John Stanley Mattick born 1950, Sydney is an Australian molecular biologist known for his efforts to assign function to non-coding DNA. Mattick was the Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 2012 to 2018. He joined Genomics England in May 2018 as Chief Executive Officer. Career Mattick received his high school education at St Patrick's College Strathfield. He obtained his Bachelor of Science from the University of Sydney and his PhD in biochemistry from Monash University. Subsequently, he worked at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the CSIRO Division of Molecular Biology in Sydney, and the University of Queensland, where he was based between 1988 and 2012. Mattick has also worked at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Cologne and Strasbourg. He was Foundation Director of the Australian Genome Research Facility, two ARC Special Research Centres and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Mattick was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2001 for service to scientific research in the fields of molecular biology, genetics and biotechnology, particularly through the development and administration of research institutes and the Australian Genome Research Facility. In 2007 he was elected an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and in 2008 elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. More recently, he was awarded the Julian Wells Medal by the Lorne Genome Society in 2009 and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology IUBMB Medal in 2011. He received the HUGO Chen Award for Distinguished Achievement in Genetic and Genomic Research in 2012, the same year he was appointed Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences FAHMS in 2015. References External links http://www.hgm2011.org/john_s_mattick.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120427170715/http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/3401/full Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Australian molecular biologists Category:Australian biochemists Category:University of Sydney alumni Category:Monash University alumni Category:University of Queensland faculty Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Category:Officers of the Order of Australia Category:Garvan Institute of Medical Research alumni Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences

Vivaldi was a Quebec television program broadcast in 1988. Synopsis This program is the biography of the famous composer Antonio Vivaldi 16781741. We can discover extracts of operas, sonatas, concertos, etcetera. It was broadcast in French. It was also nominated for a Gemini Award in 1988 for Best Performing Arts Program. Cast Corey Cerovsek Arthur Grosser Victor Knight Albert Millaire Phillip Pretten Tom Rack Daniel Roussel Steven Staryk Christian Vidosa Writer Richard Bocking Director Richard Bocking Category:Television series produced in Quebec Category:1988 Canadian television series debuts Category:1980s Canadian music television series

Arne Hamarsland born 24 July 1933 is a Norwegian middle distance runner who specialized in 1500 metres. He represented IL Gular. At the 1960 Summer Olympics he finished ninth in the 1500 m final in 3:45.0 minutes. He also competed at the 1958 European Championships without reaching the final. He became Norwegian champion in 800 m in 1960 and 1961 and in 1500 m in the years 1955-1956, 1959-1961 and 1963. He has represented the Centre Party for eight years in Ytrebygda borough council, and chaired Bergen Sports Council from 1997 to 1998. Personal bests 800 metres - 1:49.1 min 1958 1500 metres - 3:39.8 min 1958 - twelfth among Norwegian 1500 m runners. References Category:1933 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Bergen Category:Norwegian male middle-distance runners Category:Athletes track and field at the 1960 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic athletes of Norway Category:Politicians from Bergen Category:Centre Party Norway politicians Category:Norwegian sportsperson-politicians

Gustavo Montoya July 9, 1905 July 12, 2003 was a Mexican artist considered to be a late adherent to the Mexican School of Painting, most often associated with Mexican muralism. He was born in Mexico City, from a family associated with the Porfirio Díaz regime and who had to hide during part of the Mexican Revolution. He attended the Academy of San Carlos despite his father's objections. He later met and married artist Cordelia Urueta, with whom he lived in Paris, developing his artistic talents. He was not heavily involved in Mexico's artistic circles but was a founding member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. His best-selling work was that of children in regional traditional Mexican clothing, but he also painted many street scenes in Mexico City as well as portraits and still lifes. Life He was born in Mexico City on July 9, 1905, to Adolfo Montoya and Concepción Carranco. His father was part of the Porfirio Díaz government, so when that government fell at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, the family went into hiding from Mexico City into the state of Morelos. At this time, Gustavo was only seven years old, but he remembered hearing that the Zapatistas had killed two neighboring families. To protect the family, the father moved them frequently, often going to one house at night and Gustavo waking up in another. At one point, they were at the house of a stableman, who dressed the family in their clothes. When Zapatistas came looking for them, they were told the family was not there and then bribed with a silver coin that Montoya's mother had. After a time, Montoya's father decided it was safe enough to return to Mexico City. The father dressed as a priest, taking advice from sympathetic people on how to look, and the family traveled in a large wagon safely. By 1918, the war had wound down and Montoya was able to finish middle school, when he expressed the desire to become a painter. His father objected but in the end accepted, allowing Montoya to enroll in the Academy of San Carlos. Montoya entered the school at age fifteen, with Germán Gedovius and Roberto Montenegro among his teachers, painting his earliest works such as Cabeza de viejo, Desnudo and La monja. He stated that the school only taught him the craft of art, not the spirit of it and for this reason he considered himself a mostly self-taught artist. His two main passions in life were women and painting. He married his first wife, Luz Saavedra, without his parents permission, moving into a very small apartment as the couple was very poor with no means of support. When his father saw this, he offered to help, using connections in Los Angeles to get Gustavo work creating posters in the United States. The couple had one daughter Rosa Elena Montoya Saavedra. The marriage did not last long, and Montoya returned to Mexico. He met his second wife, Cordelia Urueta, at the studio of Pastor Velázquez. Velazquez was renting space that could be used as a studio and Montoya asked Urueta to join him and other artists to rent it. It allowed Montoya to date Urueta. Montoya proposed to Urueta, who accepted with the condition that he move with her to Europe where she had received a diplomatic post at the Mexican embassy in Paris. He received a grant from the Mexican government to travel to Switzerland, England and Italy to study European vanguard art and resided in Paris with his wife. His time in Europe allowed him to develop as an artist, including learning to paint with his non-dominant left hand in order to experience art from a different physiognomy. In 1965, Montoya and Urueta divorced after twenty six years of marriage. He was mostly solitary and did not involve himself in artistic circles. However, he was a founding member of the Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios along with Cordelia Urueta and others. He was also a founding member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana . His last apartment was a modest dwelling on Calle Victoria across from the San Juan Market in the historic center of Mexico City, where he spent the rest of his life. He won three medals as a tennis player, the last of which when he was seventy five. His last wife was Trina Hungria. When he died, he had four grandchildren. He died at age 98 in Mexico City on July 12, 2003. His body was cremated at the Panteón Español. Career His first professional artistic work was making posters for movies with the West Coast Theaters Co in the United States, starting in 1928. He returned for a time to Mexico, working with Pastor Velázquez and other artists and working in 1936 at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas ENAP . He then went to Europe, then New York where he had several exhibitions before returning again to Mexico in 1942. At this time, he became focused on the work of fellow Mexicans, joining the Mexican neo-realism movement to continue the traditions of Mexican muralism. He began to teach at ENAP again in 1953. His first exhibition was at the Durand Gallery in Los Angeles, California followed by exhibits in Mexico as well as Peru, the United States, Belgium, Japan and other countries. In 1945, he exhibited at the Galería de Plástica Mexicana of Inés Amor. In 1949, his work was recognized at the La ciudad de México y sus pintores event and exhibited his work at the first Bienal Mexicana at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1958, at the second Bienal Panamericana in 1960 and then at the Retrato Mexicano event at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1961. In 1966 he exhibited at Beverly Hills Collectors Gallery in Los Angeles. His work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in San Antonio, Texas in 1978. In 1985 he exhibited at the Galeria Arte Nucleo in Mexico City. He participated in collective exhibitions at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera and the Galeria Marstelle in 1995 and 1996. In 1997, the Museo Mural Diego Rivera realized an anthology of his work, referring to him as a Great Silent One. His most commercially successful work was that of children dressed in regional traditional clothing, showing influence from Diego Rivera. Most of the collectors of his work were those who appreciated his traditional style, mostly from the United States. Significant works include Las calles de Mexico 1945, Bodegones mexicanos 1951, Ninos mexicanos 1954, Muros 1962 and Ajedrez 1971. His last works include Agonia de una tarde, Autorretrato muerto and La muerte canta in 1996. Artistry He spent most of his career painting the streets of Mexico and its inhabitants. He painted murals, still lifes, portraits and street scenes. Elements in his work include mansions, tenements, churches, alleys and markets of Mexico City. He preferred to paint the poor and working class, considering them the more authentic of Mexico City's residents. His work has been called late Mexican School of Painting as it is in the style of the muralists of the early part of the 20th century. He was also considered to be an excellent sketch artist, especially creating academic style portraits such as those of his daughter Rosa Elena. References Category:Mexican artists Category:1905 births Category:2003 deaths

Group information management GIM is an extension of personal information management PIM as it functions in more public spheres as a result of peoples' efforts to share and co-manage information, and has been a topic of study for researchers in PIM, humancomputer interaction HCI, and computer supported cooperative work CSCW. People acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items to support individual needs, but these PIM activities are often embedded in group or organizational contexts and performed with sharing in mind. The act of sharing moves personal information into spheres of group activity and also creates tensions that shape what and how the information is shared. The practice and the study of GIM focuses on this interaction between personal information and group contexts. Issues in the study and practice Challenges of GIM that have been identified or studied in literature include situating individual workspaces within group contexts; the lack of conventions in sharing information; integrating and negotiating the varied approaches to organizing information; understanding information spaces that others have personalized; and retrieving information from shared spaces. Improved software may help to alleviate some of these challenges, for example by analyzing group activities or improving Web services that support shared folders. Faced with the limitations of current software, users often prefer more traditional, ad hoc methods of sharing information, such as the use of e-mail attachments, and will even circumvent institutionalized software to do so. Therefore the need for understanding and improving collaborative information tasks is clearly great, and work remains to be done. Other issues include: formerly private calendar entries could be used for ends other than scheduling meetings what users choose to reveal or conceal how their disclosure of personal information is related to the ends that they hope to achieve the ethics of 'counterfeiting' links or conspiring to garner 'inauthentic' recommendations to increase their stature in the system. complex questions of privacy and access and ownership. user control, privacy and trust user reliance on system defaults Tool support Group calendaring Social networking Patient medical records Collaborative filtering and recommendations Collaborative tagging File sharing and presentation Private family network applications like Stretch for Families. See also Collaborative software Computer-supported cooperative work CSCW Humancomputer interaction Personal information management PIM Privacy The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life References Category:Planning

John Charles Bisby 4 December 1876 1945 was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half. References Category:1876 births Category:1945 deaths Category:People from Rawmarsh Category:English footballers Category:Association football wing halves Category:Kilnhurst Colliery F.C. players Category:Sheffield United F.C. players Category:Grimsby Town F.C. players Category:Denaby United F.C. players Category:English Football League players

Short-handed is a term used in ice hockey and several related sports, including water polo, and refers to having fewer skaters players on the ice during play, as a result of a penalty. The player removed from play serves the penalty in the penalty box for a set amount of time proportional to the severity of the infraction. If a goaltender commits a minor infraction, another player who was on the ice at the time of the penalty serves, often but not necessarily the team captain. The penalized team is said to be on the penalty kill, abbreviated as PK for recording purposes, while their players are in the penalty box. The opposing team is usually referred to as having an advantage until the penalized player returns to play. This situation is often called a power play for the opposing team. The advantage largely comes from having an additional player, making it impossible for the short-handed team to defend every player one-on-one and, in the event the short-handed team is making an offensive run, the team on the power play can double-team one of the short-handed team's players while still covering everyone else. The short-handed team has one advantage during a power play: it is free to ice the puck without the play being stopped and thus can change lines at roughly the same intervals as during five-on-five play. This advantage can also be exploited by skaters with enough speed and offensive skill: without the threat of icing, breakaways can be more safely attempted, which opens the opportunity for short-handed goals. However, two governing bodies have enforced icing on power plays, thus putting the short-handed team at an even stronger disadvantage: The World Hockey Association did so during the 1970s. USA Hockey has done so in all sanctioned youth competitions players 14 and under, in all age groups since 201718. The team on the power play often only has one defenseman at the rear rather than the typical two, in favor of adding another attacker. Rarely, teams have pulled their goalie for the sixth on-ice player such as in Game 2 of the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals. Players assigned to power play or penalty killing duties are often known as special teams. If the team with the power play scores a goal while the other team is short-handed, the penalty is over, except if a goal was scored during a major penalty or a match penalty in regulation time. In leagues that reduce the number of players on the ice in overtime, the concept still exists, but is slightly modified to accommodate the reduced team size. For example, overtime during regular-season NHL games uses a 3-on-3 format, with each side having three skaters plus the goaltender. If a player is penalized during overtime, he is sent to the penalty box, but can be replaced by another player. However, the non-penalized team receives an extra skater for the duration of the penalty. If the penalty expires without a goal being scored, the extra skater is removed from the ice and play continues. If regulation time ends with a power play in progress, the advantaged team will start overtime with more than three skaters almost always four, very rarely five. 5-on-3 A team can have two players in the penalty box, but can only be limited to three players on the ice at any given time. If the other team is at full strength and the penalized team has two players in the penalty box, plus a goalie in net, the situation is called a 5-on-3. This situation gives the team on the power play an even greater chance of scoring. If the advantaged team on the 5-on-3 scores, the player who took the earlier of the two penalties may return to the ice, and play resumes as a power play with only one player in the penalty box. However, if the first penalty taken was a double-minor penalty, the penalty that expires is the first penalty of the double-minor, and the clock then begins to run down on the second penalty, with the 5-on-3 continuing. A call for too many men on the ice in a 5-on-3 situation in the last two minutes of regulation or in overtime now results in a penalty shot. This current rule resulted from Coach Roger Neilson's exploitation of rule loopholes during an OHL game when his team was up one goal, but was down two men in a five-on-three situation for the last minute of the game. Realizing that more penalties could not be served under the existing rules, Neilson put too many men on the ice every ten seconds. The referees stopped the play and a face-off was held, relieving pressure on the defense. In regular-season overtime in the NHL, a 5-on-3 situation is possible if two players on one team are serving penalties at the same time. Short-handed goals A short-handed goal is a goal scored in ice hockey when a team's on-ice players are outnumbered by the opposing team's. Normally, a team would be outnumbered because of a penalty incurred. However, the opposing team on the power play often only has one defenseman at the rear rather than the typical two, in favor of adding another attacker. This strategy can often be exploited by the short-handed team, if they do manage to get the puck out into the neutral zone leaving most of the opposing players behind, and the penalty killers may enjoy odd man rushes and breakaways against the single defenseman of the advantaged team. As previously noted, the suspension of icing rules also allows passes to be longer and the puck to be dumped and chased without stopping play. Unlike power play goals, shorthanded goals cannot end penalties unless if a shorthanded goal is scored in overtime, which automatically ends the game. When one team pulls its goalie near the end of a game to play with an extra attacker, any goal scored on the empty net is not considered to be short-handed because there are equal numbers of players on ice for the teams. Short-handed goals are somewhat infrequent when a team is down one player, and some instances have occurred where two short-handed goals have been scored on the same penalty. Very rarely is a short-handed goal scored by a team that is down two players. The general approach when down two men is for the opposing team to assume the iron cross: establish a diamond shape with one forward, two defensemen and the goaltender, remain in the defensive zone, and clear the puck whenever possible, without making any effort to make an offensive play and jeopardize the already weakened defensive position. Former Philadelphia Flyers captain Mike Richards holds the record for most career 3-on-5 goals with three, having attained the last one during the 2008-09 season. The quickest trio of short-handed goals ever scored in a National Hockey League game occurred on April 10, 2010 during a game at the TD Garden between the Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes, when the Bruins scored three short-handed goals against Carolina goaltender Cam Ward in only 1:04 of game time, during a minor hooking penalty to Bruins defenseman Matt Hunwick. The Boston Bruins also made NHL history for those short-handed goals, as it was the first time that a team scored three times on a single penalty kill Daniel Paille, Blake Wheeler, Steve Begin. The most short-handed goals ever scored in one NHL game by one team occurred on April 7, 1995, when the Winnipeg Jets scored four, the most since the end of the era of the Original Six teams of the NHL. See also Power play References Category:Ice hockey rules Category:Ice hockey terminology

Satanas sa Lupa Satan on Earth, subtitled nobelang pangkasalukuyan Present-day Novel, is a 1970 Tagalog-language novel by Filipino author and scriptwriter Celso Al. Carunungan, one of the titans of Philippine literature. The novel criticizes the Philippine government and society during the early part of the 1970s, a reason why the author had been included among the group known as Class 1081, Filipinos imprisoned when Martial Law was declared by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. Apart from being one of the political novels in the Philippines from 1967 to 1972 that represented a clamor for change in society Filipino: kinatawan ng paghingi ng pagbabago sa lipunan, Satanas sa Lupa was one of the novels in the Philippines that incorporated romanticism in its plot using the love triangle Filipino: tatsulukan ng pag-ibig genre, a genre that began in the Philippines in 1906 through another novel entitled Juan Masili by another Filipino author named Patricio Mariano. The love triangle in Satanas sa Lupa is between the characters Benigno Talavera, Conrado, and Chona. Description According to Ruby Gamboa-Alcantara in her Romantisismo, Estilong Pilipino Itinatak sa Nobelang Tagalog Romanticism, Filipino Style Stamped on the Tagalog Novel, the character Benigno Talavera was the representative of Philippine politics in Satanas sa Lupa. Talavera was a formerly good citizen who was influenced by three other Congressmen Filipino: Konggresista Carpio, David, and Balbino. The three were cheating each other for the sake of climbing up the ladder of power and for gaining wealth. In Satanas sa Lupa, the reign of greed was ended by the persecution of Senator Morales, the death of Talavera, and the burning of evidence used to blackmail Talavera. The evidence was burned by Talavera's wife, Virginia. The other circumstances presented in Satanas sa Lupa were the drug addiction of Ismael, the son of Talavera; the pregnancy out of wedlock and motherhood as a single woman by Esther, the daughter of Talavera; the love affair between Contrado and Chona; and the elopement of Conrado and Chona Conrado was supposed to become a priest. According to Gamboa-Alcantara, there is an unrealistic circumstance in Satanas sa Lupa, which is the excessive portrayal of Virginia, the wife of Talavera, as the martyred spouse and mother, due to the use of Philippine-style romanticism. See also Mga Anak-Bukid References External links Pages of Satanas sa Lupa online Category:Philippine novels Category:1970 novels Category:Tagalog-language novels Category:Political novels Category:Novels set in the Philippines

Loving You is a song by Irish singer Feargal Sharkey, released as a non-album single in 1985. It was written by Sharkey and Jo Callis, and produced by Queen drummer Roger Taylor and David Richards. Loving You reached No. 26 in the UK and remained in the charts for eleven weeks. A music video was created to promote the single, while Sharkey also performed the song on the UK music show Top of the Pops. Taylor provided additional drums and synths on Loving You. The single's B-side, Is This An Explanation?, was exclusive to the single. It was written by Sharkey and Callis, and produced by Sharkey. Formats Chart performance Personnel Feargal Sharkey - vocals, producer of Is This An Explanation? Roger Taylor - producer of Loving You, additional drums and synths on Loving You Dave Richards - producer of Loving You Caryn Gough - sleeve design Richard Haughton - photography References Category:1985 singles Category:Feargal Sharkey songs Category:Pop ballads Category:1985 songs Category:Virgin Records singles Category:Songs written by Jo Callis

The Chiltern School is a coeducational special school located over two sites in Dunstable and Houghton Regis in Bedfordshire, England. The school accepts pupils from all over the Central Bedfordshire area. Special education The Chiltern School is for pupils between the ages of 3 and 19 years of age, whose special educational needs fall within the categories of moderate to severe learning difficulties. Some pupils may have additional medical, physical or sensory impairments or emotional and behavioural difficulties. Facilities for pupils at the Houghton Regis campus of the school include sensory rooms, and a residential bungalow on campus which is used to support the development of pupils' life skills. History The school was formed in 2012 from the merger of Glenwood School in Dunstable and Hillcrest School in Houghton Regis. The school continues to operate over both sites with the primary department of the school based in Dunstable and the secondary department based in Houghton Regis. The school celebrated its first anniversary in 2013, with celebrants noting achievements of students and staff. In 2014, head teacher Shirley-Anne Crosbie was awarded the Order of the British Empire for For services to Children with Special Needs Education. Since September 2017, Lisa Leonard has served as head teacher. Inspections and evaluations The UK's Office for Standards in Education Ofsted inspected Chiltern School in 2012 and again in 2017, ranking it overall Good on both reports. References External links The Chiltern School homepage Category:Special schools in Central Bedfordshire District Category:Special secondary schools in England Category:Community schools in Central Bedfordshire District Category:Educational institutions established in 2012

Haldea striatula formerly Virginia striatula, commonly called the rough earth snake, is a species of nonvenomous natricine colubrid snake native to the southeastern United States. Taxonomy The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766, as Coluber striatulus. Over the next two and a half centuries its scientific name has been changed several times see synonyms. Most recently, the generic name was changed back from Virginia to Haldea in 2013. Common names Other common names for Haldea striatula include: brown ground snake, brown snake, ground snake, little brown snake, little striped snake, small brown viper, small-eyed brown snake, southern ground snake, striated viper, and worm snake. Geographic range The rough earth snake is found from southern Virginia to northern Florida, west along the Gulf Coast to southern Texas, and north into south-central Missouri and southeastern Kansas. Description H. striatula is a small, harmless, secretive, fairly slender snake, 7-10 inches 1825 cm in total length including tail. It has a round pupil, weakly keeled dorsal scales, and usually a divided anal plate. Dorsally, it is brown, gray, or reddish, and essentially has no pattern. Females are a little longer and heavier than males, with relatively shorter tails. Young individuals often have a light band on the neck, which is normally lost as they mature. The belly is tan to whitish and is not sharply defined in color from the back, unlike in the wormsnake Carphophis amoenus or the red-bellied snake Storeria occipitomaculata. Keeled scales differentiate the rough earth snake from the similar smooth earth snake Virginia valeriae, as well as from the wormsnake. H. striatula is most likely to be confused with De Kay's brown snake Storeria dekayi, which is a little larger and is light brown with dark markings on the back and neck. Unlike the rough earth snake, De Kay's brown snake retains these markings into adulthood. Also, S. dekayi has a rounder snout than H. striatula. Habitat The rough earth snake is fossorial, hiding beneath logs, rocks, or ornamental stones, in leaf litter, or in compost piles and gardens. The species is found in a variety of forested habitats with plenty of ground cover, as well as in many urban areas. It can reach very high densities in urban gardens, parks, and vacant lots. Reproduction H. striatula is viviparous, giving birth to 3 to 8 live young in mid-summer. Newborns are about 10 cm 4 inches in total length. The young somewhat resemble the ring-necked snake Diadophis punctatus with a light-colored neck collar, but they are much drabber and lack a brightly-colored belly. Many sources refer to snakes that give birth to live young as either ovoviviparous or viviparous. In reality, the distinction between these two terms is not very sharp, and the diversity of reproductive modes is better thought of as a spectrum or continuum between matrotrophy embryonic nutrients come directly from the mother and lecithotrophy embryonic nutrients come mostly or completely from egg yolk. Viviparity is the most extreme form of matrotrophy, whereas oviparity is the most extreme form of lecithotrophy. Behavior The rough earth snake is generally not aggressive towards humans, is not venomous, and is harmless if encountered. Although it has teeth, the rough earth snake normally does not bite. Its response when harassed is to remain motionless, or to try to escape. It will defecate and excrete a foul smelling musk as a defense mechanism to make itself less palatable to would-be predators. If necessary, the rough earth snake can be safely picked up by hand and relocated. Diet H. striatula eats invertebrates. It feeds almost exclusively on earthworms, although slugs, snails, sow bugs, insect eggs and larvae have also been found in the stomach. H. striatula is not venomous and does not constrict prey; rather, it swallows prey without subduing it. The pointed snout of the rough earth snake helps in burrowing in moist soil where prey are found. References External links Checklist of Florida Amphibians and Reptiles: Rough Earth Snake South Carolina Reptiles and Amphibians: Earth Snake Snakes of Georgia and South Carolina: Rough Earth Snake Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries: Rough Earth Snake Further reading Behler JL, King FW 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 743 pp. . Virginia striatula, pp. 678679 + Plates 470, 473. Boulenger GA 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum Natural History. Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum Natural History. Taylor and Francis, printers. xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. Haldea striatula, p. 291. Conant R 1975. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. xviii + 429 pp. + Plates 1-48. hardcover, paperback. Virginia striatula, p. 168 + Plate 22 + Map 124. Conant R, Bridges W 1939. What Snake is That?: A Field Guide to the Snakes of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. with 108 drawings by Edmond Malnate. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Frontispiece map + viii + 163 pp. + Plates A-C, 1-32. Haldea striatula, pp. 113114. Linnaeus C 1766. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, diferentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Duodecima, Reformata. Stockholm: L. Salvius. 532 pp. Coluber striatulus, new species, p. 275. in Latin. Schmidt KP, Davis DD 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 365 pp. Haldea striatula, pp. 231232, Figure 75 + Plate 25. Smith HM, Brodie ED Jr 1982. Reptiles of North America: A Guide to Field Identification. New York: Golden Press. 240 pp. hardcover, paperback. Virginia striatula, pp. 152153. Stejneger L, Barbour T 1917. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 125 pp. Potamophis striatulus, p. 99. Wright AH, Wright AA 1957. Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, A Division of Cornell University Press. 1,105 pp. in two volumes. Haldea striatula, pp. 287290, Figure 88, Map 27. Category:Colubrids Category:Extant Pleistocene first appearances Category:Reptiles described in 1766 Category:Reptiles of the United States Category:Fauna of the Southeastern United States

Acleris thomasi is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in India Sikkim. The wingspan is 2123 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is greenish and brownish distally. There is an diffuse ochreous-yellow fascia between the disc and the tornus, suffused with brown distally and tornally. There are two diffuse brownish rust shades. The discal and apical areas are greyish, marked with refractive silvery scales. The hindwings are brownish-cream, but brownish in the apex area. References Category:Moths described in 1990 thomasi Category:Moths of India