Commissaire de la National Football League

Temporary Secretary.

Ralph Hay (1920).

In 1920, the Canton Bulldogs were one of 14 teams to form the American Professional Football Association (APFA), which would become the National Football League (NFL) two years later. Bulldogs owner Ralph Hay was named the first head of the league (the title was officially "Temporary Secretary") until a permanent president could be chosen.  Hay did make one notable contribution in his short tenure as Temporary Secretary. Vernon Maginnis, who operated one of Akron's professional teams in 1919, wanted to field a team under the name of the Massillon Tigers in 1920. Hay was thoroughly unimpressed with Maginnis, as the team he had led in 1919 was

Presidents.

Jim Thorpe (1920).

Hay chose his own running back, Jim Thorpe, as the league's inaugural President; Hay believed Thorpe's status and fame as an athlete would bring instant credibility to the league. Thorpe was nominally the APFA's first president; however, he spent most of the year playing for Canton.  Thorpe nominally oversaw what was in its first year a haphazard and somewhat informal league, not unlike the loose coalitions of squads such as the Ohio League, Western Pennsylvania League and New York League that had played prior to the APFA's formation. League teams regularly played those outside the league, and Thorpe allowed those games to be counted in the standings. As a result,

Joseph Carr (1921–1939).

At the same meeting where this dispute was resolved in favor of Ranney's own Akron Pros, Joseph Carr, owner of the Columbus Panhandles, was named league president. Carr moved the Association's headquarters to Columbus, drafted a league constitution and by-laws, gave teams territorial rights, developed membership criteria for the franchises, and issued formal standings for the first time, so that the APFA would have a clear champion. The Association's membership increased to 22 teams. Carr first set a deadline for the season to be completed and a minimum number of league games to be played in order to win the league championship. This led to standardized schedules and prevented teams from scheduling non-league teams to pad their win columns.

Contracts.

After taking office, Carr began cleaning up the problems surrounding professional football. By 1925, he introduced a standard player's contract, fashioned after the ones being used in pro

Amateur issues.

In the early days of professional football, the game was shunned by many in the college ranks. Fearing that the pro game tainted the college game, many college administrators barred players from having anything to do with the pros. Carr would try to attack this problem and bring a peace between the pros and amateur ranks.

Franchise stability.

Carr also knew that for the league to survive, franchises needed to have a sense of stability. In his early years as president, NFL franchises constantly were setting up and then folding. From 1920 through 1932 more than 40 NFL franchises went through the league. The only two charter members to stay with the league by 1932 were the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Cardinals. In those first years, 19 teams lasted one year (one, the Tonawanda Kardex, lasted only one game) and 11 teams lasted two years. Carr envisioned the day the NFL could compete with Major League Baseball as America's favorite spectator sport. While few really took him seriously (Leo Lyons, the owner of the Rochester Jeffersons, was one of the few who had the same belief), he thought in time it could happen and devised a plan to make it happen.  Carr knew that the NFL's success rested on franchise stability. He also believed that

Carl Storck (1939–1941).

Upon Carr's death, former Dayton Triangles owner Carl Storck, the league's secretary-treasurer since 1921, was named to succeed him. His most notable act was the refusal to allow the creation of the Pennsylvania Keystoners, a proposed merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and what would become the Pittsburgh Steelers. Storck remained president after the position of Commissioner was created. He

Commissioners.

On January 17, 1941, the NFL franchise owners amended the league's constitution to change the chief executive's title from "president" to "commissioner." This was part of an attempt to bring all professional football leagues under the authority of a single commissioner with powers similar to those of Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis. The owners had already reached working agreements with the American Football Association and the Dixie League and invited all other leagues, including the American Football League to join.

Elmer Layden (1941–1946).

Election.

At their January 17 meeting the owners also narrowed the list of candidates to eight people. They pledged not to reveal who the finalists were, although it was reported that former United States Postmaster General and Democratic National Committee Chairman James Farley was considered for the job. "Chicago Tribune" journalist Arch Ward was offered the position of commissioner, but he turned it down and suggested Elmer Layden for the position.  Layden, famous from his playing days as a member

Tenure as commissioner.

In five years as Commissioner, Layden saw the NFL through the World War II years, in which teams had to use many men of inferior abilities as replacements while most of the regulars were fighting in the war (as did Major League Baseball). During this period a few teams temporarily merged due to lack of manpower, most notably the Pittsburgh Steelers, who merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and earned the nickname the Phil-Pitt Steagles (unlike the Keystoners idea, which was intended to be permanent, the Steagles lasted only one year) in 1943 and then merged with the Chicago Cardinals to form Card-Pitt in 1944. The Cleveland Rams ceased operations for the 1943 season.  Layden's tenure as NFL commissioner came to an end in January 1946. After Brooklyn owner Dan Topping withdrew his team from the league to join the new All-America Football Conference, some owners opposed renewing Layden's contract, as they felt that he was too much of a gentleman and not forceful enough to deal with the competing league. Layden resigned on January 11, 1946.

Bert Bell (1946–1959).

On the day of Layden's resignation, Pittsburgh Steelers co-owner Bert Bell was elected commissioner and given a three-year contract at $20,000 per year. He subsequently sold his stake in the Steelers to co-owner Art Rooney. A year later, the contract was changed to a five-year pact at the same salary, a move that was followed in 1949 by a ten-year agreement that boosted his annual pay to $30,000.  Bell's salary was raised to $40,000 in 1951, which was extended for a dozen years in 1954.  Before his appointment, Bell had been active in the NFL for two decades, first as co-founder, owner, general manager and head coach of the Eagles, then as part-owner of the Steelers.  Among his accomplishments as commissioner, Bell merged the league with the All-America Football Conference, and did battle with the Canadian Football League over scheduling and player rights. He also coined the phrase, "On any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team."  One of his first major

Pete Rozelle (1960–1989).

Election.

After Bert Bell's death in 1959, Rozelle was the surprise choice for his replacement as NFL commissioner. The owners first met on January 20, 1960, and took eight ballots without any candidate receiving the two thirds vote needed to be elected. On the first ballot San Francisco 49ers attorney Marshall Leahy defeated interim commissioner Austin Gunsel 7 to 5. Gunsel was soon dropped from consideration in favor of Baltimore Colts general manager Don Kellett. On the final ballot of the day, Leahy defeated

1960s.

When Rozelle took office there were twelve teams in the NFL playing a twelve-game schedule to frequently half-empty stadiums, and only a few teams had television contracts. The NFL in 1960 was following a business model that had evolved from the 1930s. NFL sources credit Rozelle with originating gate and television profit-sharing. However, it was the rival American Football League which initiated both concepts at its formation in 1959. The revenue-sharing was a major factor in stabilizing the AFL and guaranteeing the success of its small-market teams. Rozelle recognized the value of such an arrangement, and following the lead of the rival AFL, Rozelle negotiated large television contracts to broadcast every NFL game played each season. In doing so, he not only deftly played one television network against the other, but also persuaded NFL team owners — most notably Carroll Rosenbloom of the Baltimore Colts and George Preston Marshall of the Washington Redskins — to agree to share revenues between teams, as the American Football League (AFL) had done since its inception. His business model, which emulated that of the AFL, was essentially a cartel that benefited all teams equally, from revenue sharing to the player draft.

1970s.

The 1970s saw Rozelle at the peak of his powers as a sports league commissioner. He presided over a decade of league expansion. "Monday Night Football" became a staple of American television viewing, and the Super Bowl became the single most watched televised event of the year. During this

1980s.

The 1980s saw drug scandals and further struggle with powerful owners over team movement. Rozelle, again according to "Monday Night Football" commentator Howard Cosell, pushed the NFL into an internecine struggle with Al Davis concerning the movement of the Oakland Raiders franchise to Los Angeles. Other owners, such as Leonard Tose of the Philadelphia Eagles, sought to move their franchises elsewhere. Ultimately, the NFL lost its court case with Davis, and the Oakland franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1982. The sports world was very aware of the men's dislike for one another, going back to Davis' brief time as AFL commissioner in 1966. In early 1981, the

Paul Tagliabue (1989–2006).

After serving as a lawyer for the NFL, Tagliabue was selected by NFL owners to succeed Pete Rozelle as Commissioner of the NFL in 1989.

Election.

On March 22, 1989, Pete Rozelle announced that he would retire as commissioner as soon as a successor was elected. Many owners wanted Rozelle to be succeeded by two equally responsible chiefs; a president that would oversee the business aspects of the game, and a commissioner responsible for maintaining the game's integrity. A six-owner search committee consisting of Wellington Mara, Lamar Hunt, Art Modell, Robert Parins, Dan Rooney, and Ralph Wilson was formed to find candidates for the job and the firm of Heidrick & Struggles was hired to assist in the search. The committee narrowed the candidates to five finalists; New Orleans Saints general manager and minority owner Jim Finks, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority President and CEO Robert E. Mulcahy III, former Green Bay Packers defensive end and businessman Willie Davis, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul G. Kirk, and league attorney Paul Tagliabue. Housing and Urban Development Secretary and former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jack Kemp was considered for the job, but chose to remain in his cabinet post. Although committee chairman Mara had said they would present the owners with

Tenure.

In 1998, Tagliabue's $2.5 million annual salary was doubled to $5 million. His final contract, signed in 2004, paid Tagliabue about $8 million per year.  Two days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Tagliabue announced that the games scheduled for the upcoming weekend were canceled. Tagliabue said the NFL was acutely aware of Commissioner Pete Rozelle's well-publicized regret not to cancel the games on the weekend following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Roger Goodell (2006–present).

In 1987, Goodell was appointed assistant to the president of the American Football Conference (Lamar Hunt), and under the tutelage of Commissioner Paul Tagliabue filled a variety of football and business operations roles, culminating with his appointment as the NFL's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2001.  As the NFL's COO, Goodell took responsibility for the league's football operations and officiating, as well as supervised league business functions. He headed NFL Ventures, which oversees the league's business units, including media properties, marketing and sales, stadium development and strategic planning.  Goodell was heavily involved in the negotiation of the league's current collective bargaining agreement. He had worked extensively with Tagliabue since the latter became commissioner in 1989. He has played an extensive role in league expansion, realignment, and stadium development, including the launch of the NFL Network and securing new television

See also.

Commissioners of major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada:

The Commissioner of the NFL is the chief executive of the National Football League (NFL). This article details the previous history of the chief NFL executive.

Le commissaire de la National Football League (NFL) est l'officiel le plus important de la ligue de football américain. De 1920 à 1941, le poste est désigné par le qualificatif de Président de la National Football League. Alors qu'il est toujours joueur, Jim Thorpe devient en 1920 le premier président de la ligue. L'actuel commissaire de la National Football League est Roger Goodell.


José Luis Rodríguez (footballer, born 1998)

Person life.

Rodríguez grew up in El Chorrillo, Panama City and is the brother of retired Chorrillo captain Marcos Villarreal. He was nicknamed "Cocobolo" at a young age for his short hair.

Club career.

Rodríguez played for hometown club Chorrillo in his youth. In the 2015–16 season of the Liga Panameña de Fútbol, he made his debut on 17 July 2015 in a 0–1 away loss against Atlético Chiriquí. His first and only goal of the season came on 2 April 2016 in a 3–2 away win against Alianza, scoring the winning goal for Chorrillo in the 90th minute. In 2016, Rodríguez moved to the under-21 team of Belgium club Gent on loan with an option to buy. On 9 December 2016, Gent signed Rodríguez on a permanent deal, with a contract lasting until 2019. In September 2018 he signed for Croatian club Istra 1961.  On 1 February 2019, Rodríguez joined Deportivo Alavés and would play for their B-team.

International career.

Rodríguez was called up to the Panama under-17 team in 2014, scoring on 3 March 2015 against Haiti in the 2015 CONCACAF U-17 Championship.  On 14 May 2018, Rodríguez was included in Panama's preliminary squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the country's first ever FIFA World Cup. Rodríguez made his international debut for Panama on 29 May 2018 in a 0–0 friendly home draw against Northern Ireland. The following day, Rodríguez was included in Panama's final 23-man World Cup squad.  Rodríguez made his World Cup debut in Panama's opening match on 18 June 2018 in a 0–3 loss to Belgium, starting the match before being substituted in the 63rd minute for Ismael Díaz.

José Luis Rodríguez Francis (born 19 June 1998) is a Panamanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Deportivo Alavés B and the Panama national team.

José Luis Rodríguez, né le dans la Ville de Panama au Panama, est un footballeur international panaméen. Il évolue au NK Istra 1961 au poste de milieu droit.


Biography.

Christina Ramberg was born on August 21, 1946 on the Kentucky military base of Camp Campbell where her father, Vernon Ramberg, was an army officer. Her mother, Norma, had a love of music, and had originally wanted to go a conservatory to pursue her musical career, but was unable to due to a lack of financial resources, although she did eventually teach music lessons. Due to Vernon's military service, the family moved frequently, including overseas. When Christina was two her family moved to Yokohama Japan for two-and-a-half-years, and she attended school in Germany during her third and fourth grades. In the United States, her family lived in Kansas, Virginia, and Highwood, Illinois (just north of Chicago) where Christina attended Highland Park High School for her junior and senior year. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1968 and her Master of Fine Arts in 1973 both from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with Ray Yoshida, who was a primary mentor of the Chicago Imagists group that Christina became a part of. Yoshida encouraged his students in the use of commercial and popular culture images such as comic books and magazines as a basis for their art. This is also where she met her husband Philip Hanson who was also an art student who studied with Yoshida and is also considered a member of the Chicago Imagists group. They were married in 1968, the same year that they both exhibited their work for the first time in the "False Image" show at the Hyde Park Art Center. They were also both faculty members at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Philip reflected years later that "students liked her a lot. A good woman teacher was important to them, particularly in that time. It was much more dominated by men, so to have a teacher like Christina, who was doing her own work, that was a big deal. The men could be very nice, but it was really meaningful to learn from another woman." Ramberg and Hanson had one son, Alexander, who was born in 1975, although they did have a late term miscarriage before Alex, and both experiences greatly impacted her art. By 1980 her marriage to Hanson had become strained, and they eventually agreed to live apart, although they remained close for the rest of their lives. In 1989 Ramberg was diagnosed with Pick's disease or frontotemporal dementia, a rare form of dementia that attacks the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. When she could no longer live alone, Hanson took care of her until she had to go to an assisted living facility. She died in 1995 at the age of forty-nine.

Style and works.

The depiction of the female torso is the most common motif in Ramberg's art, with the torso being corseted, girdled, and otherwise constricted and veiled by the bondage-like trappings of typical 1950s female garments. Ramberg relates a memory of watching her mother dress for a party in an interview: "She would wear these—I guess that they are called 'Merry Widow[s]'—and I can remember being stunned by how it transformed her body, how it pushed up her breasts and slenderized down her waist. I think that the paintings have a lot to do with this, with watching and realizing that a lot of these undergarments totally transform a woman's body.... I thought it was fascinating... in some ways, I thought it was awful." Another distinguishing feature of Ramberg's art is the absence of any faces, with the head not drawn at all, seen only from the back, or concealed by hair. The motif of the "hairdo" is likewise common in Ramberg's oeuvre, the hairstyle also being indicative of a type of mid-century female "conditioning" or conformity. Critic Katheryn Rosenfeld, in a 2000 "New Art Examiner" review states: "it's... hard not to read in the work a psycho-sexual inventory of the limitations of white middle-class womanhood at mid-century."  In keeping with their subject matter, Christina Ramberg's paintings are highly composed and finished to the point that they themselves are referred to as fetishistic. Worked on masonite in acrylic, they are precisely painted and are characterized by their low tone and mute palette. In a 2012 "Art in America" review by Nancy Princenthal, she describes the draftsmanship in Ramberg's 1970 "Corset/Urn" series this way: "inky black with spiky pink highlights, they are prim and sexily sinister... deft, dark and reticent." In the 1970s, Ramberg's work evolved from its strict focus on the female form to less sexualized, even non-human forms such as urn forms, chair backs, and geometries "eliding the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, human and object." Her human forms turned from figures seen from the back or in profile to fully frontal torsos that are more rigid and robotic, and have both male and female characteristics which gives her art a sense of androgyny and uncertainty. Still, her signature style remained: crisp, black outlines, muted colors, cropped forms, attention to pattern and detail. By the early 1980s Ramberg took a break from her exploration of the female body and started to quilt more actively than she had in the past. Like her paintings, the patterns in her quilts are crisp and exact, with complex combinations of contrasting colors and forms. In the mid to late 1980s Ramberg's artwork shifted to include a "satellite" motif that incorporated some patterns and shapes from her quilting, only her color palette was back to the gray, white, blue, and black of her earlier work instead of brighter colors. These later works are referred to as her "satellite" motif phase because the combination of circles, cones triangles, and lines resemble the plans for a telescope, satellite, or some other mechanical invention.

Exhibitions.

Christina Ramberg did more group exhibitions than solo exhibitions during her life time, however she is getting recognized more and more in the contemporary art community with exhibitions of her artwork being displayed in recent years. Below is a list of her solo and group exhibitions during her life time to the present.

Solo exhibitions.

1974 – Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago  1977 – Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York  1981 – Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York  1982 – Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York  1988 – "A Retrospective 1968–1988", The Renaissance Society, Chicago  2000 – "Drawings", Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago  2000 – "Drawings", Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles  2000–"-Drawings", Herron Gallery at the Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN  2000 – "Drawings", Marsh Gallery at University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA  2001 – "Paintings and Drawings", Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York  2011 – "Corset Urns and Other Inventions: 1968–1980", David Nolan Gallery, New York  2013 – "Christina Ramberg", The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston  2014 – "Christina Ramberg" (in Glasgow International, Festival 2014), Carlton Place, Glasgow

Group exhibitions.

1968 – "False Image", Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL  1969 – "False Image II", Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL  1969 – "Spirit of the Comics", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia  1969 – "Don Baum Sez 'Chicago Needs Famous Artists"', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  1970 – "Thirteen Chicago Artists", Richard Feigen Gallery, New York  1970 – "Surplus Slop from the Windy City", San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco  1970 – "Surplus Slop from the Windy City", Sacramento State College of Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA  1971 – "The New Curiosity Shop", The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago  1972 – "What They're Up To in Chicago", National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada  1972 – "Chicago Imagist Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  1972 – "Young Chicago Artists", Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI  1972 – "75th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity", The Art Institute of Chicago  1972 – "1972 Biennial Exhibition", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York  1973 – "Made in Chicago: XII Bienal Sao Paulo", Sao Paulo, Brazil  1974 – "Beispiel Eisenstadt IV: Internationale Malerwochen im Burgenland", Landesgalerie im Schloss Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, Austria  1976 – "Visions: Painting and Sculpture: Distinguished Alumni from 1945 to the Present", The School of the Art Institute of Chicago  1976 – "Old and New Work by Artists from the Phyllis Kind Gallery", Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI  1976 – "The Chicago Connection", E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Traveled to: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis TN; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York  1977 – "76th Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity", The Art Institute of Chicago  1978 – "Contemporary Chicago Painters", University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA  1978 – "Eleven Chicago Painters", The University of South Florida Gallery of Art, Tallahassee, FL  1979 – "Chicago Currents: The Koffler Foundation Collection", National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.  1979 – "1979 Biennial Exhibition", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York  1980 – "American Paintings of the Sixties and Seventies: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art", Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL 1980 – "Renderings of the Modern Woman", Joseloff Gallery of the University of Hartford, Hartford, CT  1980 – "Some Recent Art from Chicago", Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill  1980 – "The Figurative Tradition in American Art", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York  1980 – "Who Chicago? An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists", Ceolfrith Gallery Sunderland Arts Centre London, England; Traveled to: Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Boston; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA  1981 – "A Woman's Place", John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI  1982 – "Fifty National Women in Art", Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FL  1982 – "Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  1982 – "Chicago Imagists", Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; Traveled to: Saginaw Museum of Art, Saginaw, MI  1983 – "Contemporary Chicago Imagists", Merwin and Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Chicago  1983 – "Looking at Women: Images of Women by Contemporary Artists", Artemisia Gallery, Chicago  1983 – "Chicago Scene", Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA  1984 – "Chicago Cross Section", Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, Athens, OH  1984 – "Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  1984 – "Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean", Dart Gallery, Chicago  1985 – "Contemporary Quilts", Karl Oskar Gallery, Westwood Hills, KS  1985 – "Imagist Update", Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago  1987 – "Quilts", Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago  1987 – "Drawings from the Chicago Imagists", The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago  1987 – "The Prints of Ten Chicago Imagist Artists", David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago  1987 – "Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago", Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago  1989 – "On Kawara: Date Paintings", The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago  1990 – "Drawing Invitational: Twenty-Nine Chicago Artists", Sara Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA  1996 – "Art in Chicago, 1945–1995", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  1999 – "On Paper", Fleischer/Ottman Gallery, Philadelphia  1999 – "Quirky", Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York  2002 – "Hair Stories", Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York  2004 – "Fabulous Histories: Indigenous Anomalies in American Art", Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia  2004 – "Soft Edge", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  2006 – "Abstract Imagist", Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago  2007 – "Unsung", Nicole Klagsbrun, New York  2007 – "Karl Wirsum: Winsome Works (some) and Hairy Who (and some others)", Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI  2008 – "Chicago Imagism", Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago  2008 – "Girls and Company", Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI  2008 – "Everything's Here", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  2010 – "Ox-bow Centennial", Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago  2011 – "Go Figure", Smart Museum at The University of Chicago  2011 – "Re:Chicago", DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago  2011 – "Chicago Imagists", Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI  2012 – "Automaton", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne  2013 – "Sinister Pop", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York  2014 – "Liverpool Biennial: A Needle Walks Into a Haystack", Tate Liverpool  2014 – "What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present", RISD Museum, Providence, RI  2015 – "Unorthodox", The Jewish Museum, New York

Partial list of works.

"Black Widow", 1971. Acrylic on Masonite. Collection of the Illinois State Museum.  "Untitled (Crying Women)", 1968. Felt-tip pen on paper (double-sided).  "Untitled (Hands)", c. 1971. Felt-tip pen, graphite, and colored pencil on graph paper.  "Waiting Lady", 1972. Acrylic on Masonite.  "Back to Back", 1973. Etching."Untitled (Skirts Jackets Weaving)". Graphite on paper.  "Rolling Stone", 1983. Cotton.  "Untitled (Satellite Sketches)". Graphite on paper.  "Wired", 1974–1975. Acrylic on Masonite.  "Hexagons, Number 1", 1984. Cotton.  "Hermetic Indecision", 1977. Acrylic on Masonite.  "Sedimentary Disturbance", 1980. Acrylic on Masonite  "Freeze and Melt", 1981. Acrylic on Masonite.  "Untitled (#126)", 1986. Acrylic on linen.  "Untitled (torso with pants)", 1982. Acrylic on Masonite.  "Untitled (torso with leaf)", 1980. Acrylic on Masonite.  "O.H.D.", 1976. Acrylic on Masonite.  "Corset/Urns", 1970. Acrylic on 8 Masonite panels.  "Gray Day", 1969. Acrylic on Masonite.  "Cabbage Head (Side 1)", 1968.  "Hearing", 1981.  "Japanese Showcase", 1984.  "Glamour Guide", 1973.  "Tall Tickler", 1974.  "Strung (For Bombois)," 1975.  "Chairbacks", 1976  "Vertical Amnesia", 1980. Collection of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.  "Muscular Alternative", 1979.  "Apron/Core", 1982.  "Untitled #129", 1987.  "Untitled #130", 1987.  "Hand", 1971.  "Shady Lacy", 1971.  "Skirted Vessel", 1982.  "Cabbage Head (Side 2)", 1968.  "Untitled", 1980.  "Lola La Lure", 1969.  "Shadow Panel", 1972.  "Rose's Woe", 1969.  "Sore Head," 1969.  "Hair", 1968.  "A Cross Breeding", 1978.  "O.H. #2", 1976.  "Istrian River Lady", 1974.  "Untitled #3", 1981.  "Untitled #1", 1981.  "Black N Blue Jacket", 1981.  "No Regrets", 1980.  "Dull Quilt", 1968.  "Pearl Rainbow", 1969.  "Wrapped Ticklers", 1974.

Christina Ramberg (1946–1995) was an American painter associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of representational artists—such as Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Roger Brown, and Ed Paschke—who attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1960s. The Imagists took their cues from Surrealism, Pop, and West Coast underground comic illustration, and were "enchanted with the abject status of sex in post-war America, particularly as writ on the female form." Ramberg is best known for her depictions of partial female bodies (heads, torsos, hands) forced into submission by undergarments and imagined in odd, erotic predicaments.

Christina Ramberg est une peintre américaine née le à Fort Campbell, dans le Kentucky, et morte en 1995 à Naperville, dans l'Illinois.


Education.

An interdisciplinary scholar, Williams-Jones completed a bachelor's degree in Philosophy and then a Masters in Religious Studies (bioethics specialization) at McGill University, before pursuing his PhD in Interdisciplinary studies (bioethics) at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia, where he focused on issues of genetics and ethics. He then did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, and was a junior research fellow at Homerton College. Before taking up his current position at the Université de Montréal, he worked for a year as a research ethicist at the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics, Cardiff University, Wales.

Research.

Williams-Jones is interested in the socio-ethical and policy implications of health innovations in diverse contexts. His work examines the conflicts that arise in academic research and professional practice with a view to developing practical ethical tools to manage these conflicts when they cannot be avoided. He has published more than 100 articles, commentaries, book chapters and case studies, on topics related to public health policy, regulation and science and technology innovation on subjects including genetics, pharmaceutical development, direct-to-consumer advertising, nanotechnology, and pharmacogenomics. He has also published on the responsible conduct of research (i.e., research integrity, research ethics), with a focus on the management of conflicts of interest.

Academic service.

Williams-Jones is active in developing innovative pedagogical approaches in professional ethics, public health ethics, and research integrity, and has served on university committees in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and in the School of Public Health, to develop governance initiatives to encourage the responsible conduct of research and prevent misconduct (such as plagiarism and conflicts of interest). He is a member specialized in ethics of the top-level University Research Ethics Committee (CUER), and has served on expert advisory committees for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Genome Canada, and the Quebec National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS).

Media.

Williams-Jones has been interviewed by "LaPresse", CBC, "Le Devoir", "Toronto Star", "National Post", and appeared on radio and television shows such as "Tout le monde en parle", ICI Radio-Canada, and CBC Newsworld.

Bryn Williams-Jones (born 1972) is a Canadian bioethicist who since 2010 has directed the Bioethics Program at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, and is professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the "Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique", the first open access bilingual bioethics journal in Canada (formerly called "BioéthiqueOnline", 2012–17), and is a member of the Public Health Research Institute of the Université de Montréal (IRSPUM) and the Centre for Ethics Research (CRÉ).

Bryn Williams-Jones est un bioéthicien canadien qui, depuis 2010, dirige les programmes de bioéthique à l'École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal et est professeur au Département de médecine sociale et préventive. Il est cofondateur et éditeur en chef du "Canadien Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique", la première revue de bioéthique bilingue en libre accès au Canada (anciennement appelée "BioéthiqueOnline", 2012-17), et est membre de l'Institut de recherche en santé publique (IRSPUM) et le Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ).


History.

Planning.

As early as 2006, the Nashville Sounds had planned to leave Herschel Greer Stadium for a new ballpark to be called First Tennessee Field located on the west bank of the Cumberland River. The $43 million facility would have been the central part of a retail, entertainment, and residential complex which was expected to continue the revitalization of Nashville's "SoBro" (South of Broadway) district, but the project was abandoned in April 2007 after the city, developers, and team could not come to terms on a plan to finance its construction. Instead, Greer was repaired and upgraded to keep it close to

Construction.

The ballpark project received the last of its necessary approbations from the Metro Council, the State Building Commission, and the Nashville Sports Authority on December 10, 2013. Groundbreaking took place on January 27, 2014; the public ceremony was attended by Mayor Dean, Sounds owner Frank Ward, Minor League Baseball president Pat O'Conner, and Milwaukee Brewers General Manager Doug Melvin. At the time, the Sounds were the Triple-A affiliate of the Brewers.  The construction team began site excavation on March 3,

Naming rights.

Memphis-based bank First Tennessee purchased the naming rights to the stadium in April 2014 for ten years with an option for a further ten years, naming it First Tennessee Park. The bank's name had been attached

Tenants and events.

Minor League Baseball.

In the ballpark's inaugural game on April 17, 2015, the Sounds defeated the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, 3–2 in 10 innings, courtesy of a walk-off double hit by Max Muncy that scored Billy Burns from first base. Nashville pitcher Arnold León recorded the park's first strikeout when Colorado Springs' Matt Long struck out swinging as the leadoff hitter at the top of the first inning. The park's first hit was a left field single that came in the top of the second inning off the bat of Colorado Springs' Matt Clark. Clark also recorded the stadium's first RBI, slapping a single to center field

Soccer.

Nashville SC, an expansion soccer team of the United Soccer League, played the majority of their first two seasons (2018–2019) at First Tennessee Park. The club competed in a preseason exhibition Major League Soccer (MLS) match against Atlanta United FC on February 10, 2018, in the first-ever soccer match played at the park. Nashville was defeated amid a rainstorm by Atlanta, 3–1, in front of a crowd of 9,059 people. The park's first goal was scored by Atlanta forward Josef Martínez in the 58th minute. Ropapa Mensah, the youngest player on the Nashville squad, scored the first goal in franchise history in the 64th minute. Nashville's first regular season home match, scheduled for March 24 versus the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, was moved to Nissan Stadium to accommodate a greater number of fans. Their second home match was played at First Tennessee Park on April 7 against the Charlotte Independence before a crowd of 7,487. Nashville won, 2–0,

Other events.

First Horizon Park began hosting the annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Game in 2015. Started in 1990, the event is played during the CMA Music Festival held in Nashville, and was previously held at Herschel Greer Stadium from 1991 to 2014. Two teams of country music stars representing the Grand Ole Opry and iHeartRadio compete in the game with all proceeds going to fund the research and treatment of cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening diseases. Past participants have included Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, and Vince Gill. Over $200,000 was raised from the first game held at the park.  On March 29, 2016, the Vanderbilt Commodores and Belmont Bruins became the first collegiate teams to play at the facility. The Commodores defeated the Bruins, 8–2, in front of a crowd of 3,782 people. Vanderbilt, Belmont, and the Lipscomb Bisons have since played subsequent games at the venue. The

Facilities.

Design.

After Sulphur Dell was dismantled on April 16, 1969, the ballpark's sunken field was filled in with rock, dirt, and the remains of the demolished Andrew Jackson Hotel. It was then converted to a number of state-owned parking lots for the nearby Tennessee State Capitol. While Sulphur Dell was nestled in an area that was home to the city's garbage dump, stockyards, the Atlantic Ice House building, and other various warehouses, First Horizon Park is now surrounded by new apartments, parking ramps, and restaurants. The facade at the home plate entrance on

Playing field and dimensions.

The playing surface is covered with of Bermuda Tifway 419 grass sod that was grown on a farm in San Antonio, Texas, then over-seeded with of perennial rye-grass. Over of red clay infield soil was brought in from Laceys Spring, Alabama. The warning track surrounding the field is made of of crushed red shale on top of of sand and of gravel. The field is equipped with a drainage system capable of draining of water per hour.  The distance from home plate to

Scoreboard.

One of Greer Stadium's most distinctive features was its guitar-shaped scoreboard. After First Tennessee Park was approved, the team announced it would not be relocating the original Greer scoreboard, which was technologically outdated and difficult to maintain, to the new stadium. While plans for the new ballpark's scoreboard were initially undisclosed, following overwhelming support for Greer's guitar from the community, the team announced plans for the installation of a larger, more modern guitar-shaped scoreboard. The new guitar scoreboard, paid for entirely by the Sounds, was designed by TS Sports in conjunction with Panasonic, and was installed beyond the right-center field wall on the concourse.  The scoreboard, which has a HD LED screen, is located in the middle of the concourse; visitors entering or leaving the park through the stadium's right-field entrance on Fifth Avenue pass under it. Excluding the neck and the borders of the body and headstock, the surface of the guitar is composed of

Seating.

The lower seating bowl is divided into 25 sections and wraps around the playing field from just past one foul pole to just past the other. The second level has 16 sections of seating that begin behind third base and wrap around to first base. The last nine rows, from row M, on the first level between the dugouts are sheltered by the upper deck. Seats on both levels are traditional, plastic stadium-style chairs. All lower-level seats behind home plate, seats behind and between the dugouts through row P, and all second-level seats have padded seat cushions. Seats in the three center upper-deck sections behind home plate and all second-level suites also have padded seat backs. A grass berm that can accommodate 1,500 spectators is located beyond the left-center field wall.  The park has several areas reserved for small and large groups.

Concessions.

Four permanent concession stands and several portable carts located on the concourse offer traditional ballpark foods including hot dogs, corn dogs, pizza, nachos, soft pretzels, popcorn, and ice cream. Each stand also serves foods unique to and common in Nashville and the South, including Nashville hot chicken, pulled pork barbecue sandwiches, and baby back ribs. The stadium's second level has a bar, lounge, and concessions area with views of the field; it is accessible only by those with suite, party-deck, or upper-deck tickets. Certain menu items, such as prime rib tacos, sliders, and onion rings are only available on the second level.

The Band Box.

Another specialty concession area is The Band Box, a outdoor restaurant and bar located on the right field concourse. The restaurant serves variations on traditional ballpark foods including cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, jalapeño corn fritters, smoked chicken nachos, quinoa chopped salads, and local draft craft beer. It is accompanied by a 150-person bar to its rear overlooking right field. The bar has an adjoining lounge area with couches, televisions, ping pong, cornhole, foosball, and shuffleboard, which is open to all game ticket-holders. Patrons in the adjacent 4-top seating section can order food and drinks from The Band Box and have items delivered to their seats. On June 28, 2016, a 9-hole miniature golf course, called The Country Club at The Band Box, opened behind the restaurant between the bar and Fifth Avenue. Each of the nine holes exhibits art from different local or regional artists. It is open to game attendees for an additional $5 playing fee.

Parking.

A 1,000-car above-ground parking garage, owned by the state, is located south of the stadium's center field and right field entrances on Harrison Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues. As the garage is used by state employees during the day,

Attendance records.

First Horizon Park's single-game attendance record was set on March 24, 2019, during an exhibition game between the Sounds and their major league affiliate, the Texas Rangers, in front of a sellout crowd of 11,824 people. The park's season attendance record of 603,135 was set in 2018, while its average attendance record (8,861) was set in 2017. Five of the top-ten highest-attended games occurred in 2017. There have been 98 sellout games at the stadium. Attendance records through the completion of the 2019 season are as follows.

Single-game attendance.

Bold indicates the

Popular culture.

The ballpark has been featured in two music videos. Cole Swindell's "Middle of a Memory" (2016) includes shots of Swindell in the audience watching a Nashville Sounds game as well as footage of the game and an appearance by the team's mascot, Booster. Former Sounds pitcher Barry Zito's music video for "That Sound" (2017), which is about Sounds games, is composed almost entirely of footage of Nashville's games, players, and fans shot at the stadium during the 2016 season.  Trisha Yearwood filmed scenes for the "Tailgaiting" episode of Food Network's "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" at the ballpark on May 31, 2016. The August 5, 2017, episode of "CMT Hot 20 Countdown" was filmed at the stadium on July 25 and included performances by country musicians Michael Ray and Chris Lane from before that day's game. Segments for a series of season 36 (2018–2019) episodes of "Wheel of Fortune", including host Pat Sajak throwing out the first pitch, were shot at the ballpark on May 4, 2018.

First Horizon Park, formerly known as First Tennessee Park, is a baseball park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The home of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), it opened on April 17, 2015, and can seat up to 10,000 people. It replaced the Sounds' former home, Herschel Greer Stadium, where the team played from its founding in 1978 until 2014.

Le First Tennessee Park, est un stade de baseball de places situé à Nashville dans l'État du Tennessee. Il est officiellement inauguré le 17 avril 2015. C'est le domicile des Sounds de Nashville, club de niveau Triple-A évoluant en Ligue de la côte du Pacifique, également la franchise de soccer de la United Soccer League, le Nashville SC.


Qualification.

A total of 22 teams participated in the CONCACAF League:  Therefore, teams from either 10 or 11 out of the 41 CONCACAF member associations could participate in the CONCACAF League.

North America.

The one berth for the North American Zone (NAFU) was allocated to the Canadian Soccer Association through the Canadian Premier League. As the inaugural 2019 Canadian Premier League season was not scheduled to finish by the start of the 2019 CONCACAF League, the Canadian CONCACAF League berth for this season was decided by the winners of the home and away matches in the Canadian Premier League spring season between FC Edmonton, Forge FC, and Valour FC, the three "inaugural teams" of the Canadian Premier League. They were the second Canadian representative included in CONCACAF competitions, besides the Canadian Championship champions which qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League. In future seasons, the Canadian Premier League champions would qualify for the CONCACAF League.

Central America.

The 18 berths for the Central American Football Union (UNCAF), which consisted of seven member associations, were allocated as follows: three berths for each of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, two berths for Nicaragua, and one berth for Belize.  All of the leagues of Central America employed a split season with two tournaments in one season, so the following teams qualified for the CONCACAF League:  If teams from any Central American associations were excluded, they were replaced by teams from other Central American associations, with the associations chosen based on results from previous CONCACAF League and CONCACAF Champions League tournaments.

Caribbean.

The three berths for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), which consisted of 31 member associations, were allocated via the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship and CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, the first-tier and second-tier subcontinental Caribbean club tournaments. Since 2018, the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship was open to teams from professional leagues, where they could qualify as champions or runners-up of their respective association's league in the previous season, while the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield was open to teams from non-professional leagues, where they could qualify as champions of their respective association's league in the previous season.  Besides the champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship which qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League, the runners-up and third-placed team of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship, and the winners of a playoff between the fourth-placed team of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Championship and the champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield, qualified for the CONCACAF League. For the champions of the CONCACAF Caribbean Club Shield to be eligible for the playoff, they had to comply with the minimum CONCACAF Club Licensing requirements for the CONCACAF League.

Teams.

The following 22 teams (from eleven associations) qualify for the tournament.

Draw.

The draw for the 2019 CONCACAF League was held on 30 May 2019, at 20:00 Eastern Time (18:00 local time), at the Grand Tikal Futura Hotel in Guatemala City, Guatemala.  The draw determined each tie in the preliminary round (numbered 1 through 6) between a team from Pot 1 and a team from Pot 2, each containing six teams. The "Bracket Position Pots" (Pot A and Pot B) contained the bracket positions numbered 1 through 6 corresponding to each tie. The teams from Pot 1 were assigned a bracket position from Pot A and the teams from Pot 2 were assigned a bracket position from Pot B. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other in the preliminary round except for "wildcard" teams which replaced a team from another association.  The draw also determined each tie in the round of 16 (numbered 1 through 8) between a team from Pot 3 and a team from Pot 4, each containing eight teams, with the six preliminary round winners, whose identity was not known at the time of the draw, in Pot 4. The "Bracket Position Pots" (Pot A and Pot B) contained the bracket positions numbered 1 through 8 corresponding to each tie. The teams from Pot 3 were assigned a bracket position from Pot A and the teams from Pot 4 were assigned a bracket position from Pot B.  The seeding of teams was based on the CONCACAF Club Index. The CONCACAF Club Index, instead of ranking each team, was based on the on-field performance of the teams that had occupied the respective qualifying slots in the previous five editions of the CONCACAF League and CONCACAF Champions League. To determine the total points awarded to a slot in any single edition of the CONCACAF League or CONCACAF Champions League, CONCACAF used the following formula:  Teams qualified for the CONCACAF League based on criteria set by their association (e.g., tournament champions, runners-up, cup champions), resulting in an assigned slot (e.g., CRC1, CRC2) for each team.  The 22 teams were distributed in the pots as follows:

Format.

<section begin=Format /> In the CONCACAF League, the 22 teams played a single-elimination tournament. Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.

Schedule.

The schedule of the competition was as follows.  Times are Eastern Time, as listed by CONCACAF (local times are in parentheses):

Bracket.

Preliminary round.

In the preliminary round, the matchups were decided by draw: PR-1 through PR-6. The teams from Pot 1 in the draw hosted the second leg.

Summary.

The first legs were played on 30 July – 1 August, and the second legs were played on 6–8 August 2019. <section begin=PR />

Matches.

"Alianza won 6–1 on aggregate."  "1–1 on aggregate. Robinhood won on away goals."  "Saprissa won 6–2 on aggregate."  "Forge FC won 2–1 on aggregate."  "Comunicaciones won 3–2 on aggregate."  "2–2 on aggregate. Santa Tecla won on away goals."

Round of 16.

In the round of 16, the matchups were decided by draw: R16-1 through R16-8. The teams from Pot 3 in the draw hosted the second leg.

Summary.

The first legs were played on 20–22 August, and the second legs were played on 27–29 August 2019. <section begin=R16 />

Matches.

"Motagua won 3–2 on aggregate."  "2–2 on aggregate. Waterhouse won 7–6 on penalties."  "0–0 on aggregate. San Carlos won 4–2 on penalties."  "Alianza won 2–1 on aggregate."  "Independiente won 3–2 on aggregate."  "Saprissa won 2–1 on aggregate."  "Comunicaciones won 2–1 on aggregate."  "Olimpia won 4–2 on aggregate."

Quarter-finals.

In the quarter-finals, the matchups were determined as follows: The winners of round of 16 matchups 1, 3, 5, 7 hosted the second leg.

Summary.

The first legs were played on 24–26 September, and the second legs were played on 1–3 October 2019. <section begin=QF />

Matches.

"Motagua won 2–0 on aggregate."  "Alianza won 2–1 on aggregate."  "Saprissa won 4–2 on aggregate."  "Olimpia won 2–0 on aggregate."

Semi-finals.

In the semi-finals, the matchups were determined as follows: The semi-finalists in each tie which had the better performance in previous rounds (excluding preliminary round) hosted the second leg.

Summary.

The first legs were played on 24 October, and the second legs were played on 31 October 2019. <section begin=SF />

Matches.

"Motagua won 4–1 on aggregate."  "Saprissa won 4–3 on aggregate."

Finals.

In the finals (Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2), the finalists which had the better performance in previous rounds (excluding preliminary round) hosted the second leg.

Summary.

The first leg was played on 7 November, and the second leg was played on 26 November 2019. <section begin=F />

Matches.

"Saprissa won 1–0 on aggregate."

Qualification to CONCACAF Champions League.

Starting from the round of 16, teams were ranked based on their results (excluding preliminary round) using the following criteria (Regulations II, Article I):  Based on the ranking, the top six teams, i.e., champions, runners-up, both losing semi-finalists, and best two losing quarter-finalists, qualified for the 2020 CONCACAF Champions League.

Awards.

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

The 2019 CONCACAF League (officially the 2019 Scotiabank CONCACAF League for sponsorship purposes) was the 3rd edition of the CONCACAF League, a football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.

La Ligue de la CONCACAF 2019 est la troisième édition de cette compétition. Les six meilleurs clubs (les demi-finalistes et les deux meilleurs quarts-de-finaliste) se qualifient pour la Ligue des champions de la CONCACAF 2020.


Service history.

1942-1943.

Departing Norfolk on 31 January 1942, in company with, "Hambleton" began a shakedown, unique in wartime, that took her through the Panama Canal to Callao, Peru; Valparaiso, Chile; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Cartagena, Colombia; and Balboa, Panama Canal Zone She was diverted for antisubmarine search north of Cuba in early March, and on 15 March 1942 rescued six men on a life raft who had survived the torpedoing of. After antisubmarine patrol along the East Coast and intensive training in Casco Bay, Maine, "Hambleton" sailed as escort to the cruiser and aircraft carrier on 14 April. Reaching Africa's Gold Coast on 10 May, "Ranger" launched her cargo of Curtiss P-40s for the North African fighting and headed back to the West Indies. In heavy rain and low visibility on 17 May, "Hambleton" collided with and had to proceed to San Juan and then Charleston Navy Yard for repairs.  "Hambleton" joined a fast troop transport out of New York on 1 July, sailed for Ireland and arrived on 11 July. Immediately she reported for duty with the Joint British and American Naval Forces In Europe. With Royal Navy personnel on board as communications liaison, she conducted antisubmarine patrols and served as plane guard for the battleship through August. She then returned to the United States for duty along the coast in preparation for Operation Torch, the forthcoming invasion of North Africa.  "Hambleton" joined the invasion fleet on 28 October, and as part of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force, she screened the escort carrier during operations against airfields in French Morocco on D-Day, 8 November. As she lay anchored by off Fedala in the evening of 11 November 1942, "Hambleton" was struck amidships on the port side by a torpedo fired by the. With all power gone, the destroyer took a 12 degree list to starboard as her damage control parties worked swiftly to jettison topside weights and shore up weakened bulkheads. The crippled ship was towed to Casablanca for temporary repairs in the floating dry dock sunk just the day before. Seabees cut the ship in two, removed a section of her damaged hull, then joined the two remaining halves together under the command of Lt. Cdr. Clayton Ross Jr. Escorted by a tug, "Hambleton" reached Boston 28 June 1943 for permanent repairs. On the Trans-Atlantic cruise, the German U-Boat, considered the German submarine which originally hit the Hambleton, was sunk by the Hambleton.

1944.

After a second shakedown in the Caribbean and training along the East Coast, "Hambleton" escorted a convoy to Oran in April 1944, and began to prepare for her role in the Normandy invasion. Operating in the Western Mediterranean with seven other destroyers and British scout planes, she sank the on 17 May after an intensive 4-day pursuit of the German marauder. From the Mediterranean "Hambleton" sailed to Plymouth, England, staging area for the epochal invasion. She escorted a large convoy of LSTs to the landing areas on 7 June, D-Day plus 1, and remained off Omaha Beach for critical shore bombardment and screening duties. In the early morning hours of 9 June, "Hambleton"s radar picked up several contacts, soon determined to be Nazi E-boats. Her guns blazing, "Hambleton" set out after the enemy. In a 4-hour running gun battle, she sank one and severely damaged another of the five German boats. After returning for provisions at Portland, England, "Hambleton" was back on the line for the Bombardment of Cherbourg 25 June.  "Hambleton" departed Belfast, Northern Ireland on 4 July, and steamed to the Mediterranean, touching Oran, Algeria, 10 July and reaching Naples, Italy, on 15 July. On 11 August, she participated in the bombardment of shore positions on the southern coast of France prior to Operation Anvil, the invasion of that vital area. "Hambleton" remained in the Mediterranean for patrol and screening duty until sailing to Boston on 25 October. Arriving Boston on 8 November, the battle-training destroyer was converted into a high speed minesweeper and redesignated DMS-20 on 15 November.

1945.

"Hambleton" emerged from the yard 13 December and sailed for the Pacific 30 December. Steaming via San Diego, Pearl Harbor, and Eniwetok, she arrived Ulithi 9 March 1945, to prepare for the invasion of Okinawa, the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific. Departing on 19 March, she arrived off Okinawa, the gateway to the heart of the Japanese Empire, 23 March. Prior to the invasion 1 April, she cleared channels and anchorages for the 1,200 ships taking part in the invasion. During the long campaign that followed, she operated off Okinawa to sweep, screen, patrol, and provide fire support. She was under almost constant attack from the air. Although damaged on 3 April by a "kamikaze", which splashed close aboard her port quarter, "Hambleton" remained on duty as part of the fleet that had come to the Ryukyu Islands.  With Okinawa nearly secured, "Hambleton" and her sister ships deployed to the East China Sea in mid-July to begin massive sweeping of mines of this area. In a month they cleared more than from the area in one of the largest sweep operations yet launched. "Hambleton" was in the East China Sea for a second such mission when Japanese acceptance of peace terms was announced 15 August. Joining Admiral William F. Halsey's 3rd Fleet off Tokyo, "Hambleton" steamed into Tokyo Bay 28 August to clear the way for the occupation forces. In the next few months "Hambleton" swept a total of 184 mines from Japanese minefields in various straits and channels. During this period she rode out four typhoons, one of which battered her with waves. Departing Japanese waters 20 November, "Hambleton" steamed via Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, and San Diego to Norfolk arriving late December.

1946–1955.

Based at Charleston, South Carolina, the veteran minesweeper maintained an operational pattern that kept her prepared for the emerging Cold War struggle. During the next decade "Hambleton" participated in fleet and tactical exercises in the Caribbean and along the East Coast. In 1949, 1952, and 1954 she deployed to the Mediterranean and operated with the 6th Fleet from the shores of North Africa to the turbulent Middle East.  After returning to Charleston from her third Mediterranean cruise on 6 July 1954, "Hambleton" decommissioned on 15 January 1955, and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. She was reclassified DD-455 the same day.  "Hambleton" was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1971. She was sold 22 November 1972 and broken up for scrap.

Awards.

"Hambleton" received seven battle stars for World War II service.

USS "Hambleton" (DD-455/DMS-20) was a of the United States Navy, named for Purser Samuel Hambleton (1777–1851). "Hambleton" was laid down by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, New Jersey, on 16 December 1940 and launched on 26 September 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Nannie Hambleton Martin, great grandniece of Samuel Hambleton. The destroyer was commissioned on 22 December 1941, Commander Forrest Close in command.

L'USS "Hambleton" (DD-455/DMS-20) est un destroyer de classe Gleaves en service dans la Marine des États-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il fut le seul navire nommé en l'honneur du lieutenant de l'US Navy Samuel Hambleton, un officier s'étant distingué lors de la guerre anglo-américaine de 1812.


Early life.

Najjar's father used to be employed in Israel in the scrap metal business until restrictions disallowed travel across the border. He then worked in the Strip as a motorbike mechanic but was unemployed at the time of her death. The family lived in an apartment supplied by relatives in Khuza'a, within eyeshot of Israeli soldiers stationed over the border. Their area had a concrete wall installed to shield local residents from Israeli fire.  She, one of a family of eight, grew up witnessing three wars, that of 2008-2009, then Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense when a teenager, aged 16, and shortly afterwards the 7 week 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict in which her neighbourhood was devastated. Too poor to afford a university education, she studied calligraphy and took on coursework in nursing.

Volunteering.

Her formal training after volunteering was as a paramedic in Khan Younis at Nasser Hospital and she became an active member of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, a non-governmental health organization. She wore the white coat of the medics and a medics vest with bandages, and was attending those wounded during protests at the border fence between Gaza and Israel during Ramadan. According to her mother, Najjar attended every Friday event from 7am and 8pm, and would return home spattered with the blood of those whom she had tended care to. Even before her death, she had become something of an icon within the Gaza Strip, with local media published many images of her online, including photos of her bandaging the head of a youth who had been wounded.  Al-Najjar already believed the Israeli army was targeting her months before her death. In April, she told Al Jazeera media that Israeli soldiers had shot directly at her multiple times in a warning not to tend to the wounded in the protests.  She was 21 years old at the time of her death. Najjar was a fixture at the Khan Younis camp and spoke about her role at the fence in an interview, relishing in the idea that a woman could brave the dangers. "In our society women are often judged," she said. "But society has to accept us. If they don't want to accept us by choice, they will be forced to accept us because we have more strength than any man. The strength that I showed the first day of the protests, I dare you to find it in anyone else."

Death.

Some 25 Gaza medical personnel and first responders assisting people injured during the border protests, from 30 March to 2 June, had been wounded or killed by Israeli snipers. On 14 May 2018, Dr. Tarek Loubani, clearly identifiable as a doctor, was shot in the leg close to the separation fence, at a site where no protests, fire or smoke occurred. According to his account, an hour later, Musa Abuhassanin, a paramedic who had come to help him was killed with a shot to the chest while performing another rescue mission that day. On the day of her death 100 demonstrating Palestinians were wounded, 40 shot by Israeli live fire.  Medical personnel fine-tuned strategies to avoid being mistaken by snipers for protestors, wearing white jackets with reflective, high-visibility stripes, moving in teams in the direction of casualties, and holding their hands above their heads as they negotiate a pathway past burning tires and plumes of smoke. When in the vicinity of the border, and within speaking range of the Israeli troops, they shout in unison: "Don't shoot. There are wounded." The usual Israeli response was to scream at them to go back.  Al-Najjar was a first responder at the "Great March of Return" that resulted in the 2018 Gaza border protests. On 1 June, the third Friday of Ramadan, 3,000 protestors demonstrated near the fence and Najjar was one of five paramedics on a shift, and had taken all of these precautions according to another of the group, Faris al-Qidra, and was even wearing surgical gloves. They went to rescue a man who was calling for help' after being hit in the face by a tear-gas canister, some 20 metres from the perimeter. Other accounts state the distance as 100 metres from the border. Three shots were heard. A relative, Ibrahim al-Najjar, was one of those who carried her to a waiting ambulance. Shortly afterwards, a Boston-born American woman serving in the IDF was falsely accused on social media of being the sniper in question. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights performed an investigation that found al-Najjar was clearly marked as a paramedic and that she "did not pose an imminent threat of death or serious injury to the ISF when she was shot". The report concluded that the Commission "found reasonable grounds to believe that Israeli snipers intentionally shot health workers, despite seeing that they were clearly marked as such."  Al-Najjar's death came before she and her fiancé Izzat Shatat were to announce their engagement at the end of Ramadan.  Thousands of Gazans attended her funeral along with hundreds of medical personnel, with her body being wrapped in a Palestinian flag. Her father carried her blood-stained medical jacket, while other mourners demanded revenge.

Israeli response.

An internal IDF review claimed that al-Najjar was not intentionally targeted.  After initially reporting that an internal review showed that al-Najjar was not intentionally targeted, the IDF released video that purportedly showed al-Najjar admitting to being a human shield, with an IDF spokesman saying "Razan al-Najjar is not the angel of mercy Hamas propaganda is making her out to be." The video that was released misleadingly took a prior interview that al-Najjar gave to a Lebanese television station out of context. She had said "I'm here on the line being a protective human shield saving the injured" and added she was at the protests to "save the wounded at the front lines", however the IDF released video cut out everything past "human shield". The Israeli military was widely criticized for its efforts in manipulating the video, with commentators drawing parallels to past instances of the IDF manipulating or otherwise faking evidence in the past. A spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister denied that editing the video was "political manipulation". The edited video was also shared by the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Israeli ambassador to London, Mark Regev, in a tweet placed the description of her as "medical personnel" in quotation marks and continued that her death was further proof of Hamas' brutality.  Further footage showing an unidentified nurse, her face cannot be seen, was presented as evidence al-Najjar threw a tear-gas canister or smoking grenade, at a distance of some 100 metres from the border was also released by the Israeli army. Describing this video as having also been "tightly edited", "The New York Times" estimated that footage did not appear to have been taken on the day she was killed, stating also that "the canister does not appear to be aimed at anyone." According to Gideon Levy, the video filmed the nurse, perhaps Najjar, from behind as she flings away a smoke grenade which Israeli soldiers had thrown in her direction.  Media commentators described the IDF's release of selectively edited videos against Al-Najjar as part of a "narrative battle". and "a coordinated smear campaign". The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights remarked that the sharing of the fraudulent, Israeli-edited version of the video provoked widespread hate speech and dehumanizing rhetoric to be directed on social media against Palestinian demonstrators in general and Al-Najjar in particular.

B'Tselem's investigation.

The investigation conducted by B'Tselem concluded that Israeli soldiers shot al-Najjar deliberately. The group interviewed another paramedic called Rami Abu Jazar, who was at the same protest during which al-Najjar was killed. Jazar told the group that he saw two Israeli soldiers aiming their guns at a group of paramedics, including himself and al-Najjar, "taking a sniper stance". Jazar himself was shot in the knee. No protesters were near the group during the attack, according to him.  B'Tselem wrote:

U.N. recognition.

On 2 June 2018, a group of agencies at United Nations in New York City issued a press release expressing their anguish over her death, calling al-Najjar "a clearly identified medical staffer," and stating that the killing of the nurse was "particularly reprehensible". The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process singled her case out for attention, tweeting "Medical workers are #NotATarget!".  On 1 June, a UN Security Council resolution proposed condemning the state of Israel for use of "excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate force" against Palestinian protesters at the border fence. The resolution was vetoed by the United States.

Military investigation.

Israeli military spokespersons responded, but provided no official report on the shooting; they did say that the facts would be investigated. Israel had repeatedly warned that anyone approaching the fence risked death. The Gazans were calling this a peaceful protest while the Israelis referred to the protests as riots. The protests began 30 March 2018.  On 29 October it was reported that the IDF's military advocate had rejected the findings of the preliminary probe earlier that year that found that she was not shot intentionally. Instead, a criminal investigation into the matter would be opened.

"New York Times" investigation.

On 30 December 2018, the "New York Times" together with Forensic Architecture published an in-depth investigative article concerning the killing by utilizing a 3D map to pinpoint the source of the shots fired that resulted in the death. Times reporters collected more than 1,001 pictures of the site on 1 June and crowdsourced 30 cellphone videos to map the movements of the medics at the time of the incident. They also consulted with witnesses, medical officials and Israeli government spokesmen to assess if the shooting was a war crime.  They concluded she was killed by a bullet from 120yds (109m.) away that ricocheted and fragmented from the ground near her. The bullet was "fired by an Israeli sniper into a crowd that included white-coated medics in plain view", and that "neither the medics nor anyone around them posed any apparent threat of violence to Israeli personnel."  Malachy Browne of the "Times" wrote, "Though Israel claims Rouzan's killing was unintentional, our investigation shows that her shooting appears to have been reckless at best, and possibly a war crime, for which no one has yet been punished."  Ryan Goodman, a New York University professor and expert on the laws of war, told the "Times", "The laws of war would not want any military personnel to deliberately fire in the direction of the medics," Mr. Goodman said. "I'm not saying it's close to the line. I'm saying it crosses the line." According to the "Times", Israel considers unarmed members of Hamas fair game, "an interpretation of international law that is not universally accepted."  Ira Stoll wrote that the paper engaged in the "same old Israel bashing" and complained that the paper had not devoted the same depth of coverage that they gave to the killing of al-Najjar to an Israeli-American who was killed in the Israeli settlement of Efrat in the West Bank. Seth Mandel, executive editor of the "Washington Examiner", wrote that the paper downplayed violence by Palestinians, which he called "sickening". In contrast, Israeli columnist Oded Shalom admired the "New York Times" investigation, contrasting the ability of foreign journalists to access the Gaza Strip to perform investigations as opposed to the Israeli media, who are barred from entering Gaza by the Israeli military, relying on announcements from the IDF spokesman instead.

Commemoration.

In November on Interstate 93 near Boston, Massachusetts, the Palestine Advocacy Project sponsored a billboard to commemorate al-Najjar. The billboard had the text "Honoring the First Responders of Gaza. Saving Lives. Rescuing Hope" and featured a photograph of al-Najjar. Billboard owner Logan Communications took it down over complaints of terrorism and anti-semitism.

Rouzan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar ( "Rouzān 'Ashrāf 'Abd al-Qādir an-Najjār"; 13 September 1997 – 1 June 2018) was a Palestinian nurse/paramedic who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) while volunteering as a medic during the 2018 Gaza border protests. She was fatally hit by a bullet shot by an Israeli soldier as she tried to help evacuate the wounded near Israel's border fence with Gaza. The IDF first denied that she was targeted, while not ruling out that she may have been hit by indirect fire. Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that al-Najjar was shot intentionally.

Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar ( à Khan Younès - dans la bande de Gaza), est une infirmière bénévole palestinienne du ministère de la Santé palestinien dans la bande de Gaza.


History.

Hoopeston was laid out in 1871. It was named for Thomas Hoopes, one of the men who offered land for the crossing of two railroads: the Lafayette, Bloomington and Western Railroad and the Chicago, Danville and Vincennes Railroad. The two railroads separated the town into four sections. The latter railroad still exists and is now operated jointly by CSX Transportation and Union Pacific Railroad.  In 1890, Greer College was established in Hoopeston, funded by a gift of $40,000 and of land from John Greer.  Business and manufacturing in Hoopeston have historically been related to agriculture. In 1875, S. S. McCall established the Illinois Canning Company to can locally grown vegetables; and this was so successful that in 1878 the Hoopeston Canning Company was established, which later became part of Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. In addition, Silgan Can (formerly American Can) had a factory which manufactured the tin cans themselves, and an FMC plant manufactured agricultural machinery. There was also an engine company there until at least 1915, the Hoopeston Gas Engine Company, which catered to agriculture and home use.  In honor of its agricultural roots, including the growing of sweet corn, Hoopeston holds a Sweet Corn Festival each September, starting the Thursday before Labor Day and ending on Labor Day. In association with the festival, the Miss National Sweetheart is held during the same week. Runners-up from the Miss America state pageants are eligible to compete for the title of Miss National Sweetheart.  It was also the location of one of several prisoner of war camps housing German soldiers during World War II (see German Prisoner of War Camp, Hoopeston, Illinois).

Geography.

Hoopeston is located at the intersection of Illinois Route 1 and Illinois Route 9, about one mile from the north edge of Vermilion County. According to the 2010 census, Hoopeston has a total area of, all land.

Demographics.

Hoopeston is part of the Danville, Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area.  As of the census of 2010, there were 5,351 people residing in the city. The population density was 1,451.7 people per square mile. There were 2,529 housing units. The racial makeup of the city was 91.79% White, 0.82% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 5.60% from other races, and 1.37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.38% of the population.  There were 2,369 households out of which 30.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.5% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.7% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.04.  In the city, the population was spread out with 24.8% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 20.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.6 males.  The median income for a household in the city was $31,947, and the median income for a family was $39,368. Males had a median income of $31,656 versus $20,474 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,055. About 12.3% of families and 13.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 16.6% of those under age 18 and 11.7% of those age 65 or over.

Education.

Primary and secondary education.

The school district has faced increasingly declining enrollment over the past 10 years. The district has also struggled financially in recent years. Honeywell School, formerly serving 3rd and 4th-grade students, was closed at the end of the 2015–2016 school year due to funding cuts and declining enrollment.  The school teams are named the "Cornjerkers", a term describing farm workers who picked corn prior to the use of mechanized corn picker implements.  Hoopeston Area High School is the alma mater of former Ohio State University head men's basketball coach Thad Matta.

Library.

Hoopeston is served by the Hoopeston Carnegie Public Library.

Miss National Sweetheart pageant.

The Miss National Sweetheart beauty pageant was created in 1941. Its contestants are runners-up from the Miss America state pageants who have been invited to Hoopeston for the competition. The event, which has no official ties to the Miss America Organization, is sponsored by the Hoopeston Jaycees and is held on Labor Day weekend in conjunction with the town's annual Sweetcorn Festival. Most contestants were the first runners-up in their state pageants, but second and other runners-up are invited if the first runner-up chooses not to attend. The winner of the title receives a $1,200 scholarship and a pendant shaped like an ear of corn.  Winning this title does not guarantee that a contestant will win a Miss America state title, but since 1980, five Miss National Sweetheart winners have gone on to win both their state and the Miss America title. Since 1970 there have been nine Miss America titleholders who have competed in the National Sweetheart pageant.  In 2016, the Miss America organization officially disassociated itself with the Miss National Sweetheart Organization. This decision was believed to be based on the inappropriate behavior of long time pageant judge Justin Jagiella and his preferential treatment of Pandas. Pursuant to their decision, Miss America state pageant contestants are prohibited from competing for Miss National Sweetheart.

Hoopeston () is a city in Grant Township, Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 5,351.

Hoopeston est une petite ville du comté de Vermilion dans l'Illinois aux États-Unis. Elle est incorporée le. La ville est fondée à l'intersection des lignes ferroviaires et. Cette dernière n'existe plus.


Club career.

Internazionale.

Pușcaș made his Internazionale debut on 1 February 2015 by appearing in the last minutes of a 3–1 loss to Sassuolo in the 2014–15 Serie A matchday 21. On 26 February 2015, he made his UEFA Europa League debut as a substitute replacing Rodrigo Palacio in the 89th minute of a 1–0 home win over Celtic. On 4 April 2014, Pușcaș played his first match as a starter for Internazionale, a 1–1 home draw against Parma, he was replaced by Mateo Kovačić in the 46th minute.

Loan to Bari.

On 4 August 2015, Pușcaș, along with his teammate Gaston Camara, were sent on loan at Serie B for the 2015–16 season. On 9 August he made his debut for Bari as a substitute replacing Anthony Partipilo in the 60th minute of a 2–1 home defeat against Foggia in the second round of Coppa Italia. He played his first Serie B match later on 22 September 2015 in the 4–1 away loss to Crotone, starting and playing for 57 minutes. On 22 February he played his first entire match for Bari, a 1–0 away defeat against Virtus Lanciano. On 1 March, Pușcaș scored twice in a 4–0 home win over Ternana. Pușcaș ended his loan to Bari with 18 appearances, 5 goals and 1 assist.

Loan to Benevento.

On 15 July, Pușcaș was loaned to Serie B side Benevento on a 2-years loan deal. On 7 August he made his debut in a match loss 4–2 at penalties after a 0–0 home draw against Salernitana in the second round of Coppa Italia; he was replaced by Fabio Mazzeo in the 68th minute. On 27 August he made his Serie B debut for Benevento as a substitute replacing Fabio Ceravolo in the 71st minute and scoring his first goal 8 minutes later in a 2–0 home win over SPAL. On 20 September he played his first entire match for Benevento, a 1–1 home draw against Pro Vercelli. On 19 November, Pușcaș scored his second goal, again as a substitute, in the 89th minute of a 4–0 home win over Brescia. In June 2017 he scored the goal that sealed Benevento's promotion to Serie A.  Pușcaș started his second season with Benevento by playing 80 minutes in a 4–0 home defeat against Perugia in the third round of Coppa Italia. On 20 August, Pușcaș made his Serie A debut for Benevento in a 2–1 away defeat against Sampdoria. On 3 December 2017, Pușcaș scored his first Serie A goal in the 2–2 home draw versus Milan that gave Benevento their first ever point in the top flight. In January 2018 he was recalled by Inter, thus leaving Benevento with a total of 34 appearances and 8 goals.

Loan to Novara.

On 29 January 2018, Pușcaș was again sent on loan, this time returning at Serie B to Novara. He debuted for his new team five days later in the 1–2 home defeat to Ascoli, netting his team's only goal in the first half. The following week, in his second appearance, Pușcaș scored his first career hat-trick to give his side the 3–1 win at Cittadella.

Palermo.

On 8 August 2018, Pușcaș joined Palermo and subsequently signed a four-year contract. The deal was reported to be worth €3.25 million plus bonuses. On 3 November 2018, he registered his first league goal for the Sicilian team by scoring in the 90th minute of a 2–1 victory over Cosenza. At the end of the season, with Palermo relegated to Serie D, Internazionale exercised their buy back option for the Romanian forward.

Reading.

On 7 August 2019, Pușcaș signed for Reading on a five-year contract from Inter Milan for €8 million euros plus €2 million in bonuses, becoming Reading's most expensive signing in history. He scored his first goal for Reading in an EFL Cup tie against Wycombe Wanderers on 13 August 2019, and also went on to score one of the penalties as Reading won the shoot-out. On 18 August 2019 he scored two goals on his home league debut for the Royals against Cardiff City.. Pușcaș scored his first EFL Championship hat-trick against Wigan Athletic on 30 November 2019 in a 3-1 victory, with the goals all coming in the space of 4 minutes 54 seconds.

International career.

Pușcaș scored seven times for Romania under-21 in the 2019 UEFA European Championship qualifying competition, as his side won its group and progressed to the final tournament in Italy. On 18 June 2019, he obtained the penalty from which he scored the opener in a 4–1 victory over Croatia at the San Marino Stadium. He netted again in the next group game against England, surpassing Ionuț Luțu as the highest scorer of the "Tricolorii mici". Pușcaș then gave Romania a half-time lead after scoring a double against Germany in the semi-finals, but Romania eventually lost the match 2–4.  He earned his first full cap for the nation on 23 May 2018, entering in the 74th minute of a 3–2 win against Chile. On 17 November that year, he scored his first goal in a UEFA Nations League 3–0 defeat of Lithuania.

Honours.

Individual

George Alexandru Pușcaș (; born 8 April 1996) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for English club Reading and the Romania national team.

George Pușcaș (né le à Marghita, Roumanie) est un footballeur international roumain qui joue actuellement pour le Reading FC au poste d'attaquant.


History.

Columbus was platted in 1835. A post office called Columbus was established in 1837, and remained in operation until 1963.

Geography.

Columbus is located at (39.988141, -91.147503).  According to the 2010 census, Columbus has a total area of, all land.

Demographics.

As of the census of 2000, there were 112 people, 42 households, and 34 families residing in the village. The population density was 444.5 people per square mile (173.0/km2). There were 51 housing units at an average density of 202.4 per square mile (78.8/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 94.64% White and 5.36% African American.  There were 42 households out of which 35.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.6% were married couples living together, 4.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.7% were non-families. 14.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 2.91.  In the village, the population was spread out with 24.1% under the age of 18, 8.9% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 19.6% from 45 to 64, and 17.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 107.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.7 males.  The median income for a household in the village was $38,438, and the median income for a family was $38,125. Males had a median income of $31,250 versus $15,417 for females. The per capita income for the village was $16,429. There were 5.6% of families and 5.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including 8.3% of under eighteens and none of those over 64.

Columbus is a village in Adams County, Illinois, United States. The population was 99 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Columbus est un village du comté d'Adams dans l'Illinois, aux États-Unis. Le village est fondé en 1835 et incorporé le. Un bureau postal est créé en 1837 et reste en service jusqu'en 1963.


Saison 2017 de la première ligue de soccer du Québec

Changes from 2016.

For the third season running, the league will feature a total of seven teams. Dynamo de Québec & CS St-Hubert will begin their first season in the league, while Lakeshore SC & Ottawa Fury FC Academy departed after the 2016 season.  Starting this year, the league champion was granted a place in the next year's Canadian Championship. As a result, the Inter-Provincial Cup was discontinued.

Teams.

The following seven teams will take part in the 2017 season:

Standings.

Each team plays 18 matches as part of the season; three against every other team in the league. There are no playoffs; the first-place team is crowned as league champion at the end of the season and qualifies for the 2018 Canadian Championship.  <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>

Cup.

The cup tournament is a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all seven teams from the league take part, and is unrelated to the season standings. It is not a form of playoffs at the end of the season (as is typically seen in North American sports), but is a competition running in parallel to the regular season (similar to the Canadian Championship or the FA Cup), albeit only for PLSQ teams. All matches are separate from the regular season, and are not reflected in the season standings.  The 2017 PLSQ Cup will maintain the same format as the previous seasons, as a two-game aggregate knockout tournament with a single match final. As defending champion, AS Blainville will obtain a bye for the first round.

First Round.

Semifinals.

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The 2017 Première Ligue de soccer du Québec season is the sixth season of play for the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec, a Division 3 semi-professional soccer league in the Canadian soccer pyramid and the highest level of soccer based in the Canadian province of Québec.

La saison 2017 de la Première ligue de soccer du Québec est la 6 édition du championnat, créé en 2012. Le plus haut niveau du football au Québec (et le 3 niveau du football canadien), le championnat est organisé par la Fédération de soccer du Québec. 7 équipes s'opposent pendant le championnat. Lors de cette saison, le CS Mont-Royal Outremont défend son titre contre six équipes dont le CS Saint-Hubert et le Dynamo de Québec qui ont nouvellement rejoint le championnat.


History.

Initial operations.

After shakedown out of San Diego, "McCook" sailed for the east coast 22 May 1943. She reported at Norfolk for duty in the Atlantic Fleet, 6 June, and by the end of the month had begun her first escort assignment, a convoy to Casablanca, departing Norfolk 26 June and returning 17 July. Before the end of the year she completed two more north African convoys, one to the United Kingdom and numerous escort assignments along the northeastern coast. On 15 December, she reported to COTCLANT and spent the next six weeks training destroyer crews out of Norfolk. Detached from training duties, "McCook" resumed escort work 31 January 1944 when she sailed for Trinidad with new aircraft carrier on her shakedown cruise, returning with her to Boston on 27 February.  Further training in antisubmarine and antiaircraft warfare took up much of March as "McCook" prepared to return to European waters. On 18 April, she joined Task Group 27.8 (TG 27.8) and steamed for the United Kingdom, arriving at Plymouth, England on 28 April. The destroyer continued on to Portland and from there participated in a month of intensive amphibious landing exercises at Slapton Sands and at Belfast.  At Weymouth Roads 28 May "McCook" was caught in an air raid in which she suffered damage to her radar, sound equipment, range finder, and main battery director in addition to having five guns disabled and losing steering control from the bridge. Luckily there were no personnel casualties. The damage threatened to keep her out of the upcoming invasion for which she had been training for the past month. But the fast and efficient craftsmen on board the destroyer tender quickly had her back in fighting trim.

Normandy landings, Operation Anvil.

On 5 June, "McCook" departed with Destroyer Squadron 18 (DesRon 18) and ships of Assault Force "O" for the coast of France. Early 6 June, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Ralph Lester Ramey she arrived in the Baie de la Seine and at 03:20 commenced bombardment of the beaches and waterfront of the Pointe du Hoc–Vierville-sur-Mer area. By 06:16 she had neutralized her assigned targets (three pillboxes, 13 machine gun nests and three shore guns) and had begun to take on targets of opportunity. By the end of the day, she had added to her score seven pillboxes, eight gun emplacements and ten stone houses, in which enemy machine guns and snipers had been placed.  Resupplying and fueling at Portland and Plymouth, "McCook" continued to operate in the invasion area until 14 July. Four days later she was en route to Bizerte screening a convoy of LSTs and infantry landing craft. She delivered her charges on 28 July and steamed to Mers-el-Kebir, where she remained until 4 August. She then sailed to Naples to join the forces assembling for Operation Anvil, the invasion of southern France. On 13 August she sailed for France, arriving on 14 August to take up a screening position south of Toulon. For the next 35 days she remained in the assault area providing gunfire support and screen protection to the Allied combatants and to the supply and reinforcement convoys from Corsica and Naples.  She departed for the United States via Oran and Gibraltar on 21 September. She arrived at New York 3 October, and operated off the east coast until close to the end of the year. She again resumed transatlantic convoy duties on 28 December, completing six by 24 May 1945 when she entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard. There she commenced conversion to a destroyer-minesweeper. She was reclassified DMS-36 on 30 May.  Her conversion completed on 12 July, she conducted minesweeping exercises until 12 August. She then departed for postwar duties in the western Pacific.

Postwar services.

"McCook" arrived at Okinawa 28 September and, after riding out two typhoons, commenced minesweeping operations in the Yellow Sea toward the end of October. Working with MinRon 1, she cut 77 of the 500 mines swept by that group during the period 23 October to 15 November.  She arrived at Sasebo for duty in the coastal waters of Japan on 17 November. Assigned a courier trip to Wakayama, 14 December, she suffered extensive damage in a typhoon on the return voyage. Repairs were begun upon her return to Sasebo on 18 November and finished the next month. She sailed to the Kure–Hiroshima area to check the swept channels in the Inland Sea on 3 February 1946. Accomplishing that mission by the 26th she steamed to Shanghai, returning two weeks later to Japan. She departed Yokosuka on 12 March for the United States, arriving at San Francisco on 31 March.  "McCook" remained at San Francisco until 14 January 1947 when she was ordered to San Diego. Working primarily with the Underwater Training Unit, San Diego, she operated out of that port for the next two years. She also participated in destroyer squadron exercises and battle problems off the California coast and in the Hawaiian Islands. A cruise to the Marshalls and the Marianas, 7 July to 11 September 1947, was her only oversea deployment during this period.  By January 1949, deactivation had begun aboard "McCook" and on 27 May she was decommissioned and was berthed at San Diego as a part of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Reclassified DD-496 on 15 July 1955, "McCook" was stricken from the register on 15 January 1972. She was sold 27 August 1973 and broken up for scrap.  "McCook" received three battle stars for World War II service.

USS "McCook" (DD-496), a, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commander Roderick S. McCook (1839–1886), who was an officer in the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

L'USS "McCook" (DD-496/DMS-36) est un destroyer de classe Gleaves en service dans la Marine des États-Unis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il fut le deuxième navire nommé en l'honneur du "commander", un officier de l'Union Navy pendant la guerre de Sécession.