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2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres

The women's 3000 metres event at the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on February 25–27. Medalists Results Heats First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final. Final References Results Category:3000 metres at the European Athletics Indoor Championships 3000 Category:2000 in women's athletics

George Gibson (Tasmania cricketer)

George Gibson (christened 15 October 1827, died 8 October 1873) was an Australian first-class cricketer, who played three games for Tasmania over an 8-year period. He has the distinction of having participated in the first ever first-class cricket match in Australia. Gibson died in Sandy Bay, Tasmania. See also List of Tasmanian representative cricketers External links Category:1827 births Category:1873 deaths Category:Australian cricketers Category:Tasmania cricketers Category:Melbourne Cricket Club cricketers Category:Cricketers from Tasmania

WrestleMania X-Seven

WrestleMania X-Seven was the 17th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on April 1, 2001 at the Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas, the first WrestleMania held in the state of Texas. Twelve matches were contested at the event, including one broadcast exclusively on Sunday Night Heat. The main event was a No Disqualification match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock for the WWF Championship. The undercard included Triple H versus The Undertaker, the second Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the WWF Tag Team Championship and a Street Fight between Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon with Mick Foley as special guest referee. A record-breaking attendance for the Reliant Astrodome of 67,925 grossed US$3.5 million. In addition to its commercial success, the event has received universal acclaim from critics and fans, and is often regarded as the greatest professional wrestling pay-per-view of all time, and by many considered the best WrestleMania of all time. The event has also generally been cited as the conclusion of the Attitude Era. Production Background WrestleMania is considered World Wrestling Federation's (WWF, now WWE) flagship event, having first been held in 1985. It is the longest-running professional wrestling event in history and is held annually between mid-March to mid-April. It was the first of WWF's original four pay-per-views, which includes Royal Rumble, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, dubbed the "Big Four". It has been described as the Super Bowl of sports entertainment. WrestleMania X-Seven was the seventeenth WrestleMania event. Storylines The main feud leading into WrestleMania X-Seven involved Stone Cold Steve Austin challenging The Rock for the WWF Championship. The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin had fought for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania XV and Backlash in 1999. Stone Cold Steve Austin earned his opportunity to compete for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania X-Seven by winning the 2001 Royal Rumble match when he last eliminated Kane, while The Rock became the first ever six-time WWF Champion when he defeated Kurt Angle at No Way Out. During their feud, Austin's wife Debra, who was trying to get back into managing, was ordered by WWF chairman, Vince McMahon, to be The Rock's manager against her wishes as well as both Rock and Austin's. As a result, Austin would hold The Rock and McMahon responsible if any harm came to her. On the March 12 episode of Raw is War, The Rock was placed in an overlong Ankle Lock hold during his rematch with Kurt Angle. When Debra went to check on The Rock, Angle also placed her into an Ankle Lock hold. Austin soon ran in to save her and knocked Angle out of the ring. Keeping to his word, he immediately gave The Rock a Stone Cold Stunner as punishment. The following week on Raw is War, during a handicap tag team match involving The Rock, Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, and William Regal, Austin made his way down to the ring and ended up getting a Rock Bottom from The Rock in response to the stunner from the previous week. On the March 29 episode of SmackDown!, Debra was relieved from her managerial role by Mr. McMahon after failing to prevent a brawl between Rock and Austin. The secondary feud leading into the event pitted The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane) against Triple H and The Big Show. After defeating Stone Cold Steve Austin in a Three Stages of Hell match at No Way Out, Triple H felt that he deserved to be in the WrestleMania main event having defeated everyone in the WWF, including The Rock and Austin. The Undertaker took exception to that and told him that Triple H had never defeated him. Before WrestleMania X-Seven, the two had never faced each other in a one-on-one match on a pay-per-view event. During his entrance for a Hardcore Championship match against The Big Show, Triple H ambushed Undertaker. Kane ran in and saved the Undertaker from a further attack but was met with his own ambush by The Big Show. On the following episode of SmackDown!, Undertaker tried to break into the limousine of Triple H and his wife, Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley, on arrival but ended up being arrested by the police. As a result, Kane requested a match against Triple H later that night but lost when The Big Show interfered on behalf of Triple H. In retaliation, Kane interfered in The Big Show's Hardcore Championship match against Raven on Raw is War, helping Raven pin Big Show to become the new Hardcore Champion. Undertaker's arrest led to a restraining order from Stephanie. To circumvent this, the Brothers of Destruction interfered in Triple H's match against Test, with Kane ordered to run after Stephanie. With Stephanie held at ransom by Kane on a balcony in the arena, WWF commissioner William Regal gave Undertaker and Kane matches at WrestleMania against Triple H and The Big Show respectively and the Undertaker told Kane to put her down. After being attacked during a Hardcore Championship title defense, Regal would later include Raven into Kane and Big Show's match, making it a Triple Threat Hardcore match for the Hardcore Championship. Another major feud that was built up in the lead to WrestleMania was the one involving Vince McMahon and his son Shane McMahon. The feud started with Vince's disapproval of Mick Foley's job as then-WWF commissioner as well as Foley's decision of holding a six-man Hell in a Cell match at Armageddon 2000, taking into consideration about the well-being of the wrestlers involved in the match. Despite his attempts Foley was given full support by Linda McMahon, Vince's wife and the WWF's CEO. Not pleased with this result, Vince immediately demanded a divorce from Linda. Shortly after Armageddon, secretly to Vince's delight, it was revealed Linda was rushed to hospital suffering with a nervous breakdown. With Linda hospitalized, the Board of Directors appointed Vince as the new CEO of the WWF, allowing him to fire Foley as commissioner. With Linda in a comatose-like state, Vince started to have a public affair with Trish Stratus. Vince's daughter, Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley, was at first far from pleased about the turn of events. At No Way Out, Stephanie and Trish squared off, with Stephanie scoring the victory after a run-in by William Regal. On the February 26 episode of Raw is War, however, during a match that placed Vince and Trish against Stephanie and William Regal, Stratus was turned on by the other participants in the match and had sewage dumped over her. In the following shows, Vince continued to demean Trish by having her do such actions as bark like a dog around the ring and stripping down to her lingerie. Despite this, Trish remained loyal to Vince and begged for his forgiveness. On the March 12 episode of Raw is War, Shane McMahon made his return to the WWF. Angry with his father's actions, Shane started to throw punches at Vince only to be stopped by William Regal. Shane explained his actions on the following episode of SmackDown! as a result of frustrations over the manipulation of his sister, his mother's state and Vince's treatment of Trish. On March 23, World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. purchased the assets of their longtime rival promotion, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from AOL Time Warner. With it, the purchase brought in an extra twist to the storyline. On the March 26 episode of Raw is War (which was held at Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio), Vince McMahon made a live speech that was also simulcast on the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro (which was held in Panama City Beach, Florida). In the speech, Vince announced that the signing was not final and that he wanted Ted Turner to come to WrestleMania to hand-deliver the contract for signing. He then promised that with the purchase he was going to bury his rival forever. However, Shane, who was at the venue for Nitro, interrupted the speech and said: To make matters worse for Vince, Mick Foley appeared shortly afterward that night and revealed that prior to his firing, Linda had made multiple contracts for him to sign, one of them was for Foley to referee a match of his choice at WrestleMania. Foley then chose the match between Vince and Shane, which was designated a street fight. At the Royal Rumble, Chyna (kayfabe) injured her neck during a match with Ivory, causing her to lose the match and fail to capture the Women's Championship. In order for Chyna to again challenge for the title, Ivory required the match contract to include a "hold harmless" clause, stating that if Ivory injures Chyna's neck again, there could be no legal recourse against Ivory. In doing so, the contract also included a provision to ban Ivory's Right To Censor stablemates from ringside. Event Before the event aired live on pay-per-view, a Sunday Night Heat match was aired with Steve Blackman and Grand Master Sexay squaring off against X-Factor members X-Pac and Justin Credible. Near the end of the match, fellow X-Factor member Albert interfered by pulling Sexay out of the ring, allowing X-Pac and Credible to hit their X Marks the Spot finisher on Blackman for the win. The first match of the event was the Intercontinental Champion between Chris Jericho and WWF commissioner William Regal. During the match, Regal exposed one of the top turnbuckles to throw Jericho's shoulder into it before giving him a double underhook superplex. Jericho attempted the Walls of Jericho submission hold but had it reversed into a Regal Stretch. After Jericho managed to grab a ring rope to break the hold, he retaliated with numerous chops before throwing Regal into the exposed turnbuckle and finishing him off with a Lionsault to retain the Intercontinental Championship. Tazz and The APA (Bradshaw and Faarooq) took on Right to Censor (The Goodfather, Val Venis, and Bull Buchanan) next in a short match that ended with Bradshaw pinning the Goodfather after a Clothesline from Hell. The third match was the triple threat hardcore match between Raven, Kane and The Big Show for the Hardcore Championship. During the match, the three wrestlers fought their way out of the ring and through the crowd into the backstage area. Big Show tried to lock himself, Raven and the referee in a security cage but Kane broke the padlock and afterward threw Raven through a glass window. Big Show and Kane continued to brawl ending with the two throwing each other through a wall. Raven tried to escape by driving off in a golf cart, but Big Show stopped him and caused him to crash. Kane shortly followed with another golf cart, accompanied by the referee, and ran into Raven. The fight headed back into the stadium with Big Show attempting to press slam Raven off the entrance stage but both were kicked off it by Kane. Kane followed this with a diving leg drop off the stage onto Big Show, pinning him to become the new Hardcore Champion. The fourth match was the European Championship match between Test and Eddie Guerrero. During the match, Test went over the top rope but got his foot caught between the top two ropes, forcing the referee and Guerrero to have to untangle him. With the help of his fellow Radicalz members Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn, Guerrero hit Test in the face with the European Championship while the referee was distracted and pinned him to become the new champion. The fifth match pitted Kurt Angle against Chris Benoit. The match started with mat wrestling between the two but Angle soon punched Benoit out of frustration and threw him out of the ring, so he could throw him into the broadcast table and the steel steps. Back in the ring, both men tried to submit their opponent using the other's signature hold with Benoit using the ankle lock on Angle, and Angle using the Crippler Crossface on Benoit. Benoit eventually succeeded in forcing Angle to tap out to the Crippler Crossface but the referee was knocked down and didn't see it. Near the end of the match, Benoit tried to pin Angle after a diving headbutt but was met with a two-count. Angle then quickly rolled-up up Benoit, using the tights for leverage to win the match. The following match saw Chyna challenge the Women's Champion Ivory. After an early bit of offense from Ivory, Chyna performed a Chynabomb and looked to have the pinfall, but picked Ivory up after the 2-count. Chyna then performed a gorilla press drop and nonchalantly pinned Ivory to win the Women's Championship. The seventh match was the street fight between Shane McMahon and Vince McMahon with Mick Foley as the special guest referee. Shane dominated his father during the earlier part of the match by attacking him with various weapons such as a kendo stick and monitors from the Spanish broadcast table. Shane laid Vince on said table and performed a diving elbow drop off the top rope but his sister, Stephanie, pulled Vince out of the way, causing Shane to crash through it. Trish Stratus came towards the ring, pushing Linda McMahon out in a wheelchair, and then slapped Vince, causing her and Stephanie to get into a fight that led them out of the stadium. As referee Foley tried to wheel Linda out to safety, Vince hit him with a steel chair, and then pulled Linda into the ring to make her watch as he beat down Shane with a garbage can. However, Linda stood up and low-blowed Vince, allowing Foley to recover and attack him. With Vince prone in the corner, Shane placed a garbage can in front of Vince's face and hit a Coast-to-Coast dropkick, pinning his father to win the match. The eighth match, dubbed "TLC II", was the heavily destructive, violent and chaotic Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the Tag Team Championship between the Dudley Boyz, the Hardy Boyz, and Edge and Christian. Respective associates of each tag team, Spike Dudley for the Dudley Boyz, Rhyno for Edge and Christian, and Lita for the Hardy Boyz, interfered during the match. With Spike (who had just taken a chair shot to the head from Lita) and Rhyno (who had already been dispatched by Jeff Hardy) both laying on two tables outside the ring, Jeff Hardy set up a huge ladder beside them and performed a Swanton Bomb onto them through the tables with most of his body landing on Spike, taking him out of the match. Lita was taken out of the match when Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley performed a 3-D on her. When Jeff tried to unhook the belts but had the ladder beneath him pulled away by Bubba Ray, leaving him hanging in the air, and allowing Edge to jump off another ladder and spear Jeff to the ground at a height of 12 feet. Bubba Ray and Matt Hardy climbed the same ladder but Rhyno tipped the ladder over, sending Bubba Ray and Matt through four stacked tables at ringside and taking them out of the match. With Edge holding onto D-Von's legs, Christian sat on Rhyno's shoulders and unhooked the belts, making him and Edge the new Tag Team Champions. The ninth match was a gimmick battle royal, involving nineteen WWF alumni famous for their outlandish gimmicks. To further increase the nostalgia, former announcers "Mean Gene" Okerlund and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan handled commentary for the match. The Iron Sheik won the match by throwing Hillbilly Jim out of the ring. In revenge for being eliminated, Sgt. Slaughter reentered the ring and put him in the Cobra Clutch. The penultimate match was between The Undertaker and Triple H. For his entrance, Triple H had British heavy metal band Motörhead perform his theme song, "The Game", live. The match started with the two fighting outside of the ring with Triple H quickly being put through the replacement Spanish announcers' table. Later on, referee Mike Chioda accidentally had Triple H catapulted into him and was then attacked by Undertaker due to his dissatisfaction over a two-count. With Chioda knocked out, the two brawled outside the ring, through the crowd, and into the technical area. On top of scaffolding, Triple H used a steel chair to attack Undertaker's legs, but Undertaker retaliated with a chokeslam off the scaffolding, followed by a diving elbow drop. Back in the ring, Undertaker hit Triple H with a Tombstone piledriver and went for the pin but Chioda was still unconscious. Later in the match, Triple H tried to pin Undertaker after hitting him in the head with a sledgehammer while in the Last Ride position but only gained a two-count. Triple H sent Undertaker into the corner and stood on the second rope to hit him with more punches, but Undertaker countered with a Last Ride, allowing him to pin Triple H and increase his WrestleMania winning streak to 9–0. The final contest of the night was the WWF Championship match between The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, which had a surprise no disqualification stipulation added just before the superstars were introduced. During the match, the two brawled inside and outside of the ring, with both men bleeding after hitting each other with the ring bell. The Rock attempted to place Austin in a Sharpshooter hold, but Austin reversed it into a Sharpshooter of his own. After Rock reached the ropes to force a break, Austin applied the Million Dollar Dream, a submission hold best known from his former gimmick, The Ringmaster. Shortly after, Rock used Austin's own finishing maneuver on Austin by executing a Stunner. Vince McMahon then came to ringside to observe the match. When Rock tried to pin Austin after the People's Elbow, McMahon seized Rock's leg and pulled him off Austin, breaking the pin attempt. After chasing McMahon around the ring, Austin responded by using Rock's signature move, the Rock Bottom. Later, Rock executed a Rock Bottom for a near fall. After Rock attacked McMahon, he was given a Stunner by Austin for a near fall. After Rock kicked out of the Stunner, McMahon handed Austin a steel chair to hit Rock with at Austin's request, revealing that Austin had sided with McMahon, a man he once considered his nemesis. With this, Austin turned heel. Austin attacked him with the steel chair, hitting him sixteen times, before pinning him and becoming the new WWF Champion. The show ended with the new champion and the chairman shaking hands and sharing beers. Aftermath The following night on Raw is War, Austin and The Rock faced each other in a rematch held in steel cage which Triple H entered the cage and teased a fight with Austin before turning on The Rock. For several minutes Austin, Triple H, and Vince McMahon triple-teamed the outnumbered Rock forging an alliance with Triple H and Austin called The Two-Man Power Trip. The Rock was written out of the WWF's storylines with McMahon giving him a suspension. This allowed The Rock time off to begin filming The Scorpion King. The Rock returned on the edition of July 30 of Raw is War and chose to fight for Team WWF over Team WCW/ECW. Three weeks later at SummerSlam, Rock won his first WCW Championship by defeating Booker T. Rock and Austin would face each other again at WrestleMania XIX in a rematch that would also be known as Austin's last match to date, with Rock winning that match. Following The Rock's suspension, Triple H's feud with the Brothers of Destruction continued with Austin now on his side. On the edition of April 5, 2001, of SmackDown!, Triple H challenged Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho for his title and after interference from Commissioner William Regal and his wife Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley defeated Jericho to win his third Intercontinental Championship. The feud with Undertaker and Kane was temporarily put on hold after Triple H and Austin entered a brief rivalry with the Hardy Boyz, which resulted in Jeff Hardy beating Triple H for the Intercontinental Championship the following week and Triple H promptly regaining the title the next Monday on Raw. Meanwhile, the Brothers of Destruction defeated Edge and Christian to become the new WWF Tag Team Champions on the edition of April 19, 2001, of SmackDown in a no-disqualification match. Austin and Triple H decided to challenge Undertaker and Kane for their newly won titles, but due to some wrangling by Linda McMahon the match between the teams signed for Backlash forced the two to put up their singles titles against the tag team titles in a "winner-take-all" match. Triple H scored the pin after attacking Kane with his sledgehammer and the Power Trip became the second team in WWF history to hold both major singles titles and the tag team titles at the same time. The feud came to a climax at Judgment Day when Austin defeated Undertaker to retain the WWF Championship while Kane defeated Triple H for the Intercontinental Championship. The next night Austin and Triple H lost the tag team titles to Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit; during the course of the match Triple H tore his quadriceps tendon and would miss the remainder of the year, leaving Austin to feud with the tag team champions alone. The feud culminated in a Triple Threat Match at King of the Ring, where Austin pinned Benoit to retain the WWF Championship. Ten years later in 2011, Undertaker and Triple H would once again renew their rivalry, went on to face each other in a rematch at WrestleMania XXVII with The Undertaker defeating HHH via submission, to set his WrestleMania winning streak to 19–0. A year later, they faced each other a third time at WrestleMania XXVIII in a Hell in a Cell match with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee. The Undertaker once again won the match to extend his WrestleMania winning streak to 20–0. Due to the acquisition of WCW, Vince's feud with Shane would later spiral into The Invasion storyline that dominated the WWF in the latter half of the year. It consisted of WCW wrestlers "invading" the WWF's televised shows in an attempt to "take over" the WWF. The Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) promotion would also be involved with Stephanie as its new owner, merging WCW and ECW into The Alliance. Despite giving her own demands for a divorce shortly after WrestleMania, Linda would eventually reconcile with Vince in the wake of the Alliance's threat to the WWF. Shane McMahon's next feud would involve Kurt Angle as he would crash Angle's Olympic Gold Medal Ceremony reenactment on the May 21st edition of RAW. Angle was celebrating the return of his Gold Medal from Chris Benoit which he won back the previous night at Judgment Day. Shane mocked him while declaring the return of WCW, and he got an Angle slam for his efforts. Shane would return the favor on the June 11 edition of RAW with an assist from The Undertaker. The two would eventually meet in a streetfight at King of the Ring, which was the third of three matches for Kurt Angle on the night. The other two matches were the Semifinals and Final of the King of the Ring tournament which Angle was the defending champion. He would lose to Edge thanks to interference from Shane. Following King of the Ring, Edge let success go to his head and this led to Christian becoming jealous of Edge's success. They would break up on the September 3, 2001, edition of RAW following Christian's loss to The Rock in a WCW title match. After a brief feud for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, both would go on to become successful singles wrestlers in their own right with Edge being best known as the "Rated R Superstar." Despite its success, due to WWE buying WCW and the eventual Invasion angle that would happen latter in the year, and the fact that Stone Cold Steve Austin, the biggest baby face in the WWE, turned heel, this event is seen by many as the beginning of the end of the attitude era. Reception The event was met with acclaim from fans and critics alike. John Powell of Canadian Online Explorer's professional wrestling section rated the event a perfect 10 out of 10 stars, with the main event between The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in a No Disqualification Match for the WWF Championship rated 9 out of 10 stars. The Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the WWF Tag Team Championship between The Hardy Boyz, Edge and Christian, and The Dudley Boyz also received a perfect 10 out of 10 stars, the Street Fight between Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon rated 5 out of 10 stars, the match between Triple H and The Undertaker rated 4 out of 10 stars and the match between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit rated 8 out of 10 stars. This pay-per-view was also awarded Best Major Show for 2001 by Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter. The Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the WWF Tag Team Championship between The Hardy Boys, Edge and Christian and The Dudley Boyz was also placed #5 on IGN's list of Top 20 Matches in WrestleMania History and noted that the match included "some of the most memorable bumps wrestling fans have ever witnessed." In 2013, WWE released a list of their "15 best pay-per-views ever", with WrestleMania X-Seven ranked the best. Results References External links The Official Website of WrestleMania X-Seven Category:2001 in Texas Category:Events in Houston Category:WrestleMania Category:Professional wrestling in Houston Category:2001 WWF pay-per-view events Category:April 2001 events in the United States

La Bandida

La Bandida ("The Bandida") is a 1963 Mexican film. It stars María Félix. Cast María Félix as María Mendoza 'La Bandida' Pedro Armendáriz as Roberto Herrera Ignacio Lopez Tarso as Anselmo Emilio Fernandez as Epigmenio Gomez Katy Jurado as La Jarocha Lola Beltrán as Cantante de palenque (Singer of palenque) References External links Category:1960 films Category:Mexican films Category:Spanish-language films Category:Films directed by Roberto Rodríguez

2017 San Luis Open Challenger Tour – Singles

Peđa Krstin was the defending champion but lost in the first round to Caio Zampieri. Andrej Martin won the title after defeating Adrián Menéndez-Maceiras 7–5, 6–4 in the final. Seeds Draw Finals Top half Bottom half References Main Draw Qualifying Draw San Luis Open Challenger Tour - Singles 2017 Singles

Patrick Forbes (bishop of Caithness)

Patrick Forbes (c.1611–1680) was a Scottish bishop of Caithness. Life Forbes was the third son of John Forbes, minister of Alford, Aberdeenshire, and afterwards of Delft. He studied at the university and King's College of Aberdeen, of which his uncle, the bishop, was chancellor, and took his degree in 1631. Returning to Holland he became an army chaplain. He was in Scotland in 1638, and signed the national covenant in presence of the General Assembly held at Glasgow in that year. In 1641 he became minister of the British church at Delft, in which his father had officiated. He was an acquaintance and correspondent of Principal Baillie, who makes favourable mention of him in his letters of 1644, 1645, and 1646. He commends a manuscript which Forbes had written and sent him, and wishes to see it in print. He asks Spang, minister of the Scots church at Campvere, to ‘keep correspondence with that young man,’ and to urge him to ‘use diligence’ against the British sectaries in Holland, and to ‘write against the anabaptists.’ After a short ministry at Delft he again became a military chaplain (apparently to the Scots brigade), and continued to officiate in that capacity till the Restoration. The king Charles II, having restored episcopacy in Scotland, appointed Forbes, then chaplain to Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot, governor of Dunkirk, to the bishopric of Caithness, and with five others he was consecrated at the abbey church of Holyrood 7 May 1662 by the archbishops of St. Andrews and Glasgow and the bishop of Galloway. He had probably received presbyterian ordination in Holland, but none of the presbyterian clergy who were raised to the episcopate in Scotland were reordained. James Kirkton, referring to his appointment to the bishopric, calls him ‘the degenerate son of ane excellent father.’ Forbes died in 1680, aged about sixty-nine. Family He married in Holland a daughter of Colonel Erskine, an officer of the Scots brigade, and had a family. His son John, who was commissary of Caithness, died at Craigievar, Aberdeenshire, in October 1668, and was buried at Leochel in the Craigievar aisle. References Category:1611 births Category:1680 deaths Category:People from Aberdeenshire Category:Bishops of Caithness Category:17th-century Scottish people Category:Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Category:Scottish chaplains Category:Christian chaplains Category:Scottish Restoration bishops Category:Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1661–1663 Category:Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1665 Category:Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1669–1674

Thomas Sanctuary

Thomas Sanctuary (1814-1889) was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1862 until his death on 27 May 1889. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and ordained in 1845. He was Rector of Powerstock for over 40 years and a Canon Residentiary at Salisbury Cathedral from 1875. Notes Category:1815 births Category:Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Category:Archdeacons of Dorset Category:1889 deaths

Narisa Chakrabongse

Mom Rajawongse Narisa Chakrabongse (; , born 2 August 1956) is a Thai publisher, author, and environmental activist. Early life She is the only daughter of Prince Chula Chakrabongse and his English wife Elizabeth Hunter. Her paternal grandfather was Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath, the Prince of Bishnulok (Phitsanulok), who in turn was the son of King Rama V (Chulalongkorn) of Siam. Education Narisa Chakrabongse was born in England and spent the first years of her life in Tredethy, Cornwall. She has studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She married Allen Levy and has a son, the musician Hugo Chula Alexander or Chulachak Chakrabongse. Later they divorced and she remarried Korsvasti Svasti Thomson, son of Mom Rajawongse Sai Svasti Svastivatana and Gary Thomson, and had a son, Dominic Phuwasawat Chakrabongse. Career She is the founder and CEO of River Books which publishes a wide range of books on Southeast Asian art and culture, and is the editor of the Oxford River Books English-Thai Dictionary. Chakrabongse Villas, the family home, is a small boutique hotel in Bangkok. She is the founding president of Green World Foundation (GWF), an environmental campaign organisation promoting education and awareness about issues relating to the environment in schools. A well-known media personality in Thailand, she withdrew from the torch-running ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympics, protesting against China's actions in Tibet, the first person to do so on political grounds, though others followed. She is on the board of The Anglo-Thai Society, promoting good relations and cultural interchange between Thailand and the UK. Together with her aunt Eileen Hunter she has authored Katya & the Prince of Siam, a biography of her Ukrainian grandmother Ekaterina Ivanovna Desnitskaya (Mom Katerin) and her grandfather Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath. Works (Selection) (Co-authored with Eileen Hunter) (Co-authored with Naengnoi Suksri) (Co-authored with Henry Ginsburg, Santanee Phasuk, and Dawn F. Rooney) (Co-authored with Naengnoi Suksri, and Thanit Limpanandhu) (Co-authored with Worawat Thonglor) Translated and edited Letters from St. Petersburg - A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar. River Books. 2017. Ancestors References Category:1956 births Narisa Category:Living people Category:Mom Rajawongse Category:Thai people of English descent Category:English people of Thai descent Category:Writers from London Category:Thai writers Category:Thai environmentalists Category:Thai women environmentalists Category:Thai activists Category:Thai women activists Category:Thai Buddhists Category:Thai people of Ukrainian descent Category:English people of Ukrainian descent

Tim Jeal

John Julian Timothy Jeal but known as Tim Jeal (born 27 January 1945 in London, England) is a British biographer of notable Victorians and is also a novelist. His publications include a memoir and biographies of David Livingstone (1973), Robert Baden-Powell (1989), and Henry Morton Stanley (2007). Jeal was formally educated in London and Oxford, and lives in north London. He has a wife and three daughters. Biography Tim Jeal's father, Clifford Jeal, about whom Jeal published a memoir in 2004, was a Christian mystic and follower of the Anglican Order Of The Cross fellowship and as such practised pacifism and vegetarianism. Jeal's mother was Norah Pasley, daughter of Sir Thomas Pasley Bt, and Constance Wilmot Annie Hastings, who is the daughter of the 14th Earl of Huntingdon. Jeal was educated at Westminster School, London, and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1966 to 1970, he worked for BBC Television in the features group. Jeal is married to Joyce Jeal and they have three daughters. Publications Jeal has been writing books since the 1960s, for London and New York-based publishers. Although most of his works are fictional, he is best known for his biographies. His biography, Livingstone (1973) based on private letters, diaries and archives was the first to describe the explorer/missionary's faults and failings and to reveal the man behind the icon. It became the basis for a BBC TV documentary and a film for the Discovery Channel. Livingstone has never been out of print since first publication in 1973 and in 2013 was reissued in a revised and expanded edition by Yale University Press. In Baden-Powell (1989), Jeal offers a revisionist account of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, restoring his reputation which had deteriorated during the 20th century. However, Jeal also speculated that Powell was a homosexual, even a repressed one, and this sparked a great deal of attention in the popular press culminating in scouting organizations reissuing an earlier biography of Powell by William Hillcourt to dilute attention and sales of Jeal's book. In 1995 Jeal's book was the basis for a TV documentary in the Channel 4 series "Secret Lives" entitled Lord Baden-Powell: The Boy Man. The 2007 biography of Henry Morton Stanley was a revisionist account that showed Stanley in a more sympathetic light. Professor John Carey in The Sunday Times accepted that Jeal's 'ardent, intricate defence of a man history has damned' had been successful, and concluded: 'Anyone who, after reading this book, imagines they would have behaved better than Stanley, if faced with the same dangers, must have a vivid imagination.' Tim Gardam said in The Observer that Jeal had 'fulfilled a mission to rehabilitate one of the most complex heroes of Victorian Britain'. Kevin Rushby in The Guardian said he was 'aware of the dangers of revisionism' and doubted that Stanley was as innocent as Jeal argued. While calling Stanley 'an awesome piece of scholarship executed with page-turning brio,' he expressed doubt that it would be the 'last word on Henry Morton Stanley.' In the Washington Post Jason Roberts wrote of '...this commanding, definitive biography' being 'an unalloyed triumph...'; and in the New York Times Book Review Paul Theroux described it as 'the most felicitous, the best informed, the most complete and readable [biography of Stanley]'. Tim Jeal had unique access to the massive Stanley collection in the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Brussels and saw many letters, diaries and other documents (including correspondence between Stanley and King Leopold II of Belgium) unseen by previous biographers. The book had its detractors. Kenyan law professor Makau Mutua said "If Jeal's attempt was the resurrection of a humane Stanley, then I must judge him a complete failure," going on to suggest that "the author should have set aside any biased personal agendas and let history speak for itself. Instead, Jeal writes a political book in defence of a historical monster." Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (2011) is about the search for the source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, Richard Francis Burton, Samuel White Baker, Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone and many others from 1856-1878. It is particularly focused on John Hanning Speke, seeking to restore his reputation, who is credited with unraveling the mystery of the source. Jeal has pitched the book as an update to Alan Moorehead's The White Nile. Bibliography Novels For Love or Money (1967) Somewhere Beyond Reproach (1968) Cushing's Crusade (1974) Until the Colours Fade (1976) A Marriage of Convenience (1979) The Adventures of Madelene and Louisa, editor (1980) Carnforth's Creation (1983) For God or Glory (1996) US; published in UK as The Missionary's Wife (1997) Deep Water (2000) Biographies Livingstone (1973) Baden-Powell (1989) Swimming with My Father (2004) (memoir) Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (2007) Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (2011) Awards and honours 1973 New York Times Notable Book of the Year selection for Livingstone 1975 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner for Cushing's Crusade 1989 New York Times Notable Book of the Year selection for Baden-Powell. 2004 PEN/Ackerley Prize shortlist for Swimming with my Father 2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) finalist for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer 2007 The Sunday Times "Biography of the Year" winner for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) winner for Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer References Category:1945 births Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Category:British biographers Category:Living people Category:John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners Category:People educated at Westminster School, London Category:21st-century British writers Category:20th-century English novelists Category:20th-century biographers Category:21st-century biographers

Aug (band)

Aug is a hard rock band from New Jersey. The band was formed in 2008 and have since released two albums and have opened for many bands including King's X, Dixie Chicks and Joe Lynn Turner. The band is also notable for the lead singer's voice, which is similar to Mickey Mouse. The band has appeared in the program That Gay Metal Show. The band released its debut album, entitled 20 Years in Hell, in 2011 and sold nearly double figures. In 2014, the band released its second album, entitled Be Careful What You Wish For. Band members Current members Aug (Anthony Agostine) – vocals, bagpipes Rich Tanis – bass, backing vocals Tommy Shauger – lead guitar, vocals Russ LaMater – drums, percussion Discography 20 Years In Hell (2011) Be Careful What You Wish For (2014) References External links Category:2008 establishments in New Jersey Category:American hard rock musical groups Category:Heavy metal musical groups from New Jersey Category:Musical groups established in 2008

Georgeta Snegur

Georgeta Snegur (23 April 1937 – 23 December 2019) was the First Lady of Moldova from 1990 to 1997 as the wife of President Mircea Snegur. Personal life and death In 1960, she married Mircea Snegur (born 17 January 1940) and had a daughter, Natalia Gherman, and a son. She died on 23 December 2019 at the age of 82. She was buried on 25 December at the Central Cemetery of Chisinau. References Category:1937 births Category:2019 deaths Category:First Ladies and Gentlemen of Moldova

Giddy Up (song)

"Giddy Up" is a song by the British singer-songwriter, Fe. It was released on SoundCloud and Spotify on 4 October 2013, as the singer's last independent single of that year. Background and composition "Giddy Up" is a pop song. The track is part of the Mercedes Benz mixtape soundtrack. Following "Let It Go", "Remarkable Affair" and "Mother Russia", "Giddy Up" is Fe's fourth and last independent single of 2013. Critical reception "Giddy Up" received positive reviews from music critics. Mu-sique.com described the song as "delicate pop". Rachel Skotarczyk of Indieshuffle.com said Fe has a "similar quality" to Lana Del Rey. References Category:2013 songs Category:British pop songs

Bruce Bolt

Bruce Alan Bolt (February 15, 1930 – July 21, 2005) was an Australian-born American seismologist and a professor of earth and planetary science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Bolt was known as pioneer of engineering seismology. He served for 15 years on the California Seismic Safety Commission leading public debate on earthquake safety in that state, and acted as a consultant on major projects throughout the world. As well, Bolt published a number of popular and technical books on seismology. His research led to construction of earthquake resilient bridges and buildings. Bolt was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for application of the principles of seismology and applied mathematics to engineering decisions and public policy”. Since 2006, there is an award with his name, the Bruce A. Bolt Medal, to recognize individuals worldwide whose accomplishments involve the promotion and use of strong-motion earthquake data and whose leadership in the transfer of scientific and engineering knowledge into practice or policy has led to improved seismic safety. Early life and career Bolt was born in Largs, New South Wales just north of Maitland in 1930. He studied at the University of Sydney obtaining his bachelor's degree in 1952, a master's degree in 1955 and a doctorate in applied mathematics in 1959. He also lectured at Sydney University in mathematics but developed an interest in mathematical modelling of the Earth's interior. He obtained a D. Sc from Sydney University in 1972 while working at Berkeley. After visiting the Lamont Geological Observatory in New York, he visited the Department of Geodesy and Geophysics at Cambridge University where he met Professors Perry Byerly and John Verhoogen of UC Berkeley who invited him there. Career at Berkeley and consultant on seismology Bolt started as director of the Berkeley Seismological Stations (now the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory) in 1963 and served in that position until 1991. In that position, he was at the forefront of seismology especially as a pioneer of engineering seismology. He identified the impact of near-fault effects of earthquakes as well as the "fling" where the fault slips during an earthquake which has a strong impact on structures near the quake. Professor Bolt was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1978 as recognition for his contribution to that profession. As director of the Berkeley Seismology Center, Bolt pioneered the use of digital recordings rather than paper readouts to read data. Bolt identified that the epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake was near Daly City, California not near Olema, California in Marin County as had been previously thought. He also helped to design a simulation of the 1906 quake at the California Academy of Sciences museum in Golden Gate Park which has been seen by millions of people. He has written a number of works including Earthquakes: a Primer in 1978 and Inside the Earth: Evidence from Earthquakes in 1982. Professor Bolt served on the California Seismic Safety Commission for 15 years including a year as chairman in 1986. In that position, he had a significant impact on California's earthquake safety legislation and helped to create that states mandatory system of earthquake hazard mapping. Bruce retired from teaching in 1993 and became professor emeritus of seismology, thus continuing his academic activities until his death. He was a consultant on seismology for every major earthquake engineering project including on the Diablo Canyon Power Plant as well as international projects including the Aswan Dam, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and BART tube under the San Francisco Bay. After the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, he started to work on characterizing the seismic sources and assessing tsunami risk. This probably was his last work as consultant on seismology. Bolt died of pancreatic cancer in July 2005 at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland. He was a citizen of the US at the time of his death. Scientific and academic positions and recognitions During his career, professor Bolt served as a member of a number of important scientific and academic organizations, including: President of the California Academy of Sciences between 1982 and 1985; Member of the Board of Trustees for the California Academy of Sciences between 1981–92 and again in 1999; President of the Academic Senate at Berkeley in 1992-93; and President of the Faculty Club at Berkeley between 1994 and 2004; President of the Seismological Society of America in 1974; Bulletin editor of the Seismological Society of America between 1965 and 1972; and President of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior between 1980 and 1983. Chairman of the California Seismic Safety Commission. Bruce Bolt received many awards for his scientific achievements, among them: The Berkeley Citation in 1993. Alfred E. Alquist Special Recognition Medal, in 1994. Distinguished Lecture Award of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, in 1998. George W. Housner Medal, in 2000. In 1995, Bolt delivered the fifth Mallet-Milne memorial lecture (entitled From Earthquake Acceleration to Seismic Displacement) for the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, in London. In 2006, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute jointly with the Seismological Society of America established an award in his name, The Bruce A. Bolt Medal, to recognize individuals worldwide whose accomplishments involve the promotion and use of strong-motion earthquake data and whose leadership in the transfer of scientific and engineering knowledge into practice or policy has led to improved seismic safety. Written works Professor Bolt wrote six textbooks and edited eight book on earthquakes, geology and computers among other topics. Geophysics Editor Academic Press New York 1973 Geological Hazards: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Avalanches, Landslides, Floods editor 1975 and 1977 Springer-Verlag New York Nuclear Explosions and Earthquakes: the Parted Veil W.H. Freeman San Francisco 1976 Earthquakes: A Primer W.H. Freeman San Francisco 1978 . Inside the Earth: Evidence from Earthquakes W.H. Freeman San Francisco 1982 Earthquakes 5 editions 1987-2003, 2003 edition published by W. H. Freeman New York Earthquakes: 2006 Centennial Update W. H. Freeman; Fifth Edition (August 5, 2005) and Earthquakes and Geological Discovery Scientific American Library New York 1993 He also wrote almost 200 research papers, including: References Category:1930 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer Category:Australian emigrants to the United States Category:American seismologists Category:Fellows of the Seismological Society of America Category:American people of Australian descent Category:American geophysicists Category:University of California, Berkeley faculty Category:Deaths from cancer in California Category:People from New South Wales Category:Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area

Iragul Community

Iragul is a small Aboriginal community, located in the Goldfields-Esperance Region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Dundas. Native title The community is located within the Registered Ngadju (WAD6020/98) Native Title claim area. Governance The community is managed through its incorporated body, Iragul Aboriginal Corporation, incorporated under the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Act 1976 on 13 February 1989. Town planning Layout Plan No.1 has been prepared in accordance with State Planning Policy 3.2 Aboriginal Settlements. Layout Plan No.1 was endorsed by the community on 20 April 2004 and the WAPC on 17 January 2006. Notes External links Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations Native Title Claimant application summary Category:Towns in Western Australia Category:Goldfields-Esperance Category:Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Thanthoni block

Thanthoni block is a revenue block in the Karur district of Tamil Nadu, India. It has a total of 18 panchayat villages. References Category:Revenue blocks of Karur district

John Bán Gallagher

John Bán Gallagher is an Irish former Gaelic footballer who played for Na Cealla Beaga and the Donegal county team. Gaelic football career Bán Gallagher won the 1987 Ulster Under-21 Football Championship and the 1987 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship with Donegal. He went on to play for the senior county team in both league and championship. He kicked the winner in the 1995–96 National Football League semi-final against Cork at Croke Park; the victory meant Donegal played in that season's final. Personal life Bán Gallagher's son Eoghan also played for Na Cealla Beaga and Donegal. References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Donegal inter-county Gaelic footballers Category:Killybegs Gaelic footballers

Nebria coloradensis

Nebria coloradensis is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America. References Further reading Category:Nebria Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Beetles described in 1943

Saint-Privé

Saint-Privé may refer to: Saint-Privé, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the French region of Bourgogne Saint-Privé, Yonne, a commune in the French region of Bourgogne

Claudio Barragán

Claudio Barragán Escobar (born 10 April 1964) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a striker, and the manager of Recreativo de Huelva. His professional career was closely associated to Elche, as both a player and manager, but he was also an important part of the Deportivo de La Coruña teams of the 90s. Claudio amassed La Liga totals of 259 games and 66 goals over nine seasons, also representing in the competition Mallorca and Salamanca. He added 181 matches and 32 goals in Segunda División, and started working as a coach in 2008. Playing career Club Known as Claudio in his playing days, he was born in Manises, Province of Valencia, and made his senior debut at only 16 with local Levante UD. He scored once in two full Segunda División seasons combined – being relegated in 1982 – and was also loaned to lowly AgD Ceuta. In summer 1984, Claudio signed for neighbouring Elche CF, making his La Liga debut on 18 November 1984 in a 0–1 away loss against RCD Español and finishing his first season with 18 games and two goals, including one in a 1–6 defeat at Real Madrid as the team were eventually relegated; he would achieve another promotion with the club in 1988, followed by immediate relegation. After two top flight seasons in RCD Mallorca, reaching the Copa del Rey final in 1990–91, Claudio joined Deportivo de La Coruña in the 1991 off-season. He netted ten times in 34 matches in his first year as the Galicians narrowly avoided relegation, beating Real Betis in the promotion/relegation playoffs. In the following summer, however, the club bought Brazilians Bebeto and Mauro Silva, amongst others, and Super Depor came to fruition, achieving two top-two and one top-three finishes. Claudio formed an extremely efficient attacking partnership with the former, with the pair combining for 67 league goals from 1992 to 1994; he won the first and only trophy of his career in 1995, the Spanish Cup against Valencia CF, and also scored four goals in nine games in the UEFA Cup over two seasons. Claudio lost his importance in Deportivo in the 1994–95 campaign after the emergence of younger Javier Manjarín and the summer signings of Emil Kostadinov and Julio Salinas, and left the team altogether prior to the start of the following season, after the appointment of new manager John Toshack. Aged 31, he signed with UD Salamanca, scoring 11 goals in his first year but being relegated from the top level. In December 1996, after suffering an injury and losing his starting place with the Castile and León side, Claudio returned to Elche, helping the club to two promotions from Segunda División B before retiring professionally at the age of 36. After two years out of football, he played a couple of seasons with amateurs Club Deportivo Alone from Guardamar del Segura, in Alicante. International During his spell with Deportivo, Claudio earned six caps for Spain. His debut came on 14 October 1992, in a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Northern Ireland (0–0 in Belfast). Coaching career Barragán joined Elche's coaching staff shortly after retiring, going on to work as an assistant with the club. Just seven games into 2008–09, he replaced fired David Vidal at the helm of the first team, finally leading them to the 12th position; he himself was sacked in early October 2009, after roughly one year in charge. On 14 January 2011, Barragán was appointed at SD Ponferradina also in the second division, eventually not being able to prevent relegation. He immediately won promotion back with a play-off win over CD Tenerife, and remained at the club until his contract expired in June 2014. Barragán replaced the dismissed Antonio Calderón as manager of Cádiz CF in the third tier on 24 November 2014. In his first season, the team won their group and dispatched Hércules CF in the play-off semi-finals before losing the final 3–1 on aggregate to Bilbao Athletic; he was relieved of his duties on 18 April 2016, when a run of one point in four matches put the Andalusians in fourth place. For 42 days at the end of 2016 and the start of the new year, Barragán managed CD Mirandés in the second division, winning once and losing three of his four games in charge. In October 2017, he succeeded Gustavo Siviero at third level side Hércules. He was fired the following February, with them seven points off the play-offs and having not won in 2018. On 11 February 2020, Barragán succeeded Alberto Monteagudo at 13th-placed Recreativo de Huelva. He signed for the rest of the season, with the option of one more if the team qualified for the national cup. Managerial statistics Honours Deportivo Copa del Rey: 1994–95 References External links Deportivo archives Spain stats at Eu-Football Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:People from Horta Oest Category:Spanish footballers Category:Valencian footballers Category:Association football forwards Category:La Liga players Category:Segunda División players Category:Segunda División B players Category:Tercera División players Category:Levante UD footballers Category:Elche CF players Category:RCD Mallorca players Category:Deportivo de La Coruña players Category:UD Salamanca players Category:Spain international footballers Category:Spanish football managers Category:Segunda División managers Category:Segunda División B managers Category:Elche CF managers Category:SD Ponferradina managers Category:Cádiz CF managers Category:CD Mirandés managers Category:Hércules CF managers Category:Recreativo de Huelva managers

List of lighthouses in Kiribati

This is a list of lighthouses in Kiribati, an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean. Lighthouses See also Lists of lighthouses and lightvessels References External links Kiribati Lighthouses

Vectis Radio V2

Vectis Radio is an community radio station in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The station began transmitting exclusively online from 23 January 2010, and continued to broadcast this way until beginning FM broadcasting on 4 November 2017. Vectis Radio transmits on FM from Newport Golf Club. History Vectis Radio was founded in 2010 when Ian Mac created a studio for broadcast from The Quay Arts Centre in Newport. Described as a "broom cupboard", the team of presenters, less than ten in number, then moved to locations such as St Georges Park and studios in Crocker Street and West Street, Newport respectively. They moved into their current home at The Riverside Centre in Newport in 2013. The station's slogan fits inline with their community outreach, as a station 'for the people, by the people'. In 2017, Vectis Radio became a Community Interest Company. FM launch The station applied in October 2015 to Ofcom after the regulators welcomed bids for FM broadcasting by community radio stations in the South of the United Kingdom. The license was granted in June 2016. A crowdfunding period then began to fund Vectis Radio's aim to go to FM broadcasting - launched on air by Manager Ian Mac. Enough funding was secured by this process and by other means to begin the work. In the meantime marketing drive began to promote the Vectis Radio name in time for the FM launch. The station began broadcasting on FM 104.6 on 4 November 2017. The launch took place at their studio in The Riverside Centre, Newport. 4Ps student and presenter Hannah Barker was selected to press the button that commenced transmissions. In Late 2019, Vectis Radio was granted a coverage extension by Ofcom and work is currently under way to upgrade the transmitter to improve the output power. It is hoped this will be complete by Spring 2020. The 4Ps Project In 2012 the station launched a teaching program called The 4Ps Project for people aged 11 - 19 (and up to 25 with additional needs). The project covers four ingredients the station deems required for radio broadcasting: Presenting, Producing, Podcasting and Promoting. The aim of the scheme is to give people the opportunity to broadcast on a local radio station, and to give members and students a chance to put a skill on their CV. In 2018, Vectis Radio won a bronze award at the Community Radio Awards for the project in the Community Development Project of the Year category. The station also picked up a Highly Commended award in the Business in the Community category at the 2019 Isle of Wight Chamber Of Commerce awards. The station gained another Bronze for its 4Ps project and a Silver Sage award in the Community Radio Awards in October 2019. References Category:Community radio stations in the United Kingdom Category:Radio stations established in 2010 Category:2010 establishments in the United Kingdom

2003 British Formula 3 International Series

The 2003 British Formula Three season was the 53rd British Formula Three Championship season. It commenced on 6 April, and ended on 28 September after twenty-four races. Drivers and teams The following teams and drivers were competitors in the 2003 British Formula Three Championship. The Scholarship class is for older Formula Three cars. Teams in the Invitation class are not series regulars, and do not compete for championship points. Results * Round 19 stopped after 5 of 11 laps, half points awarded. Standings References http://forix.autosport.com/cp.php?l=0&d=46&r=462003&c=0 External links The official website of the British Formula 3 Championship Category:British Formula Three Championship seasons Formula Three season British

Tribar

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Unprecedented

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Soliloquy (song)

"Soliloquy" is a 1945 song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, written for their 1945 musical Carousel, where it was introduced by John Raitt. Gordon MacRae performs the song in the 1956 film version. The now jobless carousel barker Billy Bigelow, the antihero of the musical, sings this seven-and-a-half minute song just after he has learned he is about to become a father. In it, he happily daydreams over what it would be like to be a father to a boy, but midway through the song, he realizes that it could turn out to be a girl. The song immediately becomes more tender, as he begins to like the idea. At song's end, he considers that a girl needs the very best a father can offer, and decides to get money to provide for her. It is this idea that spurs him on to help his criminal pal Jigger Craigin in committing a robbery, an act which ultimately leads to personal disaster for Billy. Frank Sinatra had recently become a father when he recorded "Soliloquy" for the first time on May 28, 1946. With the time limitation of about 3:30 on a 10" 78-rpm record his 7:57 long recording was released on Columbia's Masterwork label (the classical division) as two sides of a 12" record. The song is extremely unusual in that it requires the singer to sing solo (and occasionally speak) for a full seven-and-a-half minutes, in the manner of an operatic aria, without the benefit of an accompanying choral group "taking up the slack", as is usually the case in long musical numbers (e.g. Ol' Man River). The lengthy song Glitter and Be Gay, from Leonard Bernstein's Candide, makes a similar requirement of the soprano performing it. Notable recordings Cast and studio albums feature John Raitt, Robert Goulet, Robert Merrill, Gordon MacRae, Alfred Drake, Michael Hayden and Samuel Ramey as Billy. Other recordings include the following: Frank Sinatra - The Concert Sinatra (1963), "A Man And His Music" (1965), Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert (1995) Sammy Davis Jr. - Mr. Entertainment (1961) Anthony Warlow - Centre Stage Mandy Patinkin - Mandy Patinkin Thomas Hampson - "Leading Man: The Best of Broadway" James Barbour - Broadway in Concert (2007) Bryn Terfel - Something Wonderful (1996) Brian Stokes Mitchell - "Simply Broadway" (2012) Glen Campbell - "Live at the Royal Festival Hall" (SWBC-11707) (1977) Joshua Henry - "CAROUSEL" on Broadway (2018) Category:Songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals Category:Frank Sinatra songs Category:1945 songs Category:Songs with music by Richard Rodgers Category:Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Furnas Mill Bridge

Furnas Mill Bridge, also known as County Bridge No. 7080, is a historic Pratt through truss located in Blue River Township, Johnson County, Indiana. It was built in 1891 by the King Iron Bridge Co. The bridge consists of two 120 foot long spans, with a 16 foot wide roadway. The bridge rests on limestone block abutments and a central pier. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. References Category:Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Category:Bridges completed in 1891 Category:Transportation buildings and structures in Johnson County, Indiana Category:National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Indiana Category:Road bridges in Indiana Category:Pratt truss bridges in the United States Category:Metal bridges in the United States

Luis Brethauer

Luis Brethauer (born 14 September 1992 in Aschaffenburg) is a German racing cyclist who represents Germany in BMX. Luis Brethauer is a so-called sports soldier (German Bundeswehr). He takes part as TSV Betzingen in Air BMX team. His sport career started in 2000. His first international championship happened in 2003 (European Championships in Klatovy), where he finished third. In the German Championships 2010, he was vice-winner. In 2011 Brethauer took his first noble ranking as 10th in the European Championship in Haaksbergen. He was also 10th at the World Championships in Copenhagen. In 2012 he won his first national title at the World Championships 2012 in Birmingham. Even though he was 49th in the final race of the European Championships in Orléans, he reached the final at the 6th Place. One of his biggest international successes in the World Cup (Supercross) 2012 is the 6th place in the Super Time Trial in Papendal and the 12th in the Super Time Trial in Randa mountain. With his teammate, Maik Baier, Brethauer participated in 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he became the 1st German Olympic athlete in BMX cycling in general, both retired from there in the quarterfinals. In 2015 Luis Brethauer has reached Semi-final of the '1st European Games' in Baku. July 2015 became very successful for Luis as he won the Time Trial in German National Championships and took the title of German Champion in 6th times. Brethauer's biggest success was recorded at the BMX World Championships 2013 in Auckland. After a good performance, he reached the final and won the bronze medal. He had to admit defeat to the British Liam Phillips and the New Zealander Marc Willers. References Category:1992 births Category:Living people Category:Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Category:Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic cyclists of Germany Category:German male cyclists Category:People from Aschaffenburg Category:Sportspeople from Bavaria Category:European Games competitors for Germany Category:Cyclists at the 2015 European Games

Space Invaders Virtual Collection

is a 1995 compilation video game developed and published by Taito in Japan for the Virtual Boy. It includes direct ports of the arcade game Space Invaders (1978) and its direct sequel Space Invaders Part II (1979), alongside 3D remakes that take advantage of the Virtual Boy's hardware capabilities. Both games also feature a number of alternative gameplay modes, such as score attack and time attack modes. Development of the game was headed by director Toshiki Sakai, with music composed by Fumito Tamayama and programming by Tatsuya Kitasawa. Space Invaders creator Tomohiro Nishikado is also credited for the remade arcade ports. Virtual Collection was met with a mixed reaction from critics; some praised the game's accurate versions of the included games and 3D effects, while others criticized its lack of content and small amount of titles. It is notable for being one of the rarest Virtual Boy games released, with original copies demanding high prices on online auction sites such as eBay. Gameplay Space Invaders Virtual Collection includes ports of the arcade game Space Invaders (1978) and its direct sequel Space Invaders Part II (1979). In both games, the player controls a laser base that must eliminate all of the aliens that march down from the top of the screen, who plot to take over Earth. Aliens will slowly move towards the edge of the screen and then move downward, and will become faster as more aliens are destroyed. The player can hide behind large shields that protect them from enemy shots; however the shields will become damaged if hit by either the player or an alien's projectile. A UFO will occasionally appear towards the top of the screen, which can be shot down for bonus points. Space Invaders Part II features slight alterations to the gameplay, such as new aliens that split into smaller ones when shot, a flashing UFO that can only be hit when it becomes visible, and short intermissions in-between stages. Virtual Collection also features 3D remakes of both titles, taking advantage of the Virtual Boy's hardware capabilities. The games place the player in a third-person perspective, with aliens appearing farther in the background and the laser base towards the front. Gameplay is otherwise identical to the originals, featuring a pre-rendered backdrop depicting a futuristic metropolis. All versions of the games also include a score attack mode, where the objective is to achieve the highest score under a time limit, and a time attack mode, where the player must destroy an entire formation of aliens as quickly as possible. Development and release Space Invaders Virtual Collection was released by Taito for the Virtual Boy in Japan on December 1, 1995. Development of the game was headed by director Toshiki Sakai, with programming done by Tatsuya Kitasawa and music composed by Fumito Tamayama. Tomohiro Nishikado, the creator of the original Space Invaders, is also credited for the arcade game ports. Like all other titles for the Virtual Boy, it uses a red and black color scheme and 3D visual effects. Reception and legacy Space Invaders Virtual Collection was met with a mixed reaction from critics; while some praised the game's accurate versions of the included games and 3D effects, others criticized its lack of content and small amount of titles. Famitsu magazine was particularly negative towards the game, saying the game made for a "pointless" entry to the console's library due to its lack of content and for not taking advantage of the Virtual Boy's hardware capabilities. They also wrote that other console ports of Space Invaders made for a more worthwhile experience, notably Space Invaders: The Original Game on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Jeremy Parish said that the compilation would be much more worthwhile had other Space Invaders games been included, namely Majestic Twelve, Space Invaders '95 and Minivaders, and that the low amount of content makes it a hard sell. N64 Magazine disliked the game's lack of a save battery and the player's base being too slow to maneuver. Retro Gamer magazine wrote that the 3D remakes failed to be as enjoyable as the original versions, making for a disappointing update. Several would praise the game's accurate portrayals of the included games and the 3D remakes for taking advantage of the console's hardware. Parish recommended the game to Space Invaders fans for its excellent emulation quality, and for the 3D remakes providing a unique and interesting take on the core gameplay. N64 Magazine liked the game's detailed backdrops in the 3D mode and the additional gameplay modes for adding replay value, although noted that it was diminished due to the lack of a save battery. French publication Revival compared the 3D modes favorably to Breakout 2000 on the Atari Jaguar, writing that it was one of the major selling points of the compilation, concluding that it was worth the purchase for fans of the original. Space Invaders Virtual Collection is notable for being one of the rarest Virtual Boy games ever released, a fact attributed to a limited production run and the downfall of the console itself. Copies of the game typically command high prices on online auction sites such as eBay, some upwards of over US$1,000 or more. Parish noted that the high price point made the game near-impossible to justify a purchase, further saying it would have been a "no-brainer pickup" had it gone for $20 or $30. Retrogames UK disagreed with his statement, saying that the 3D remakes and original ports made the game a must-own for Virtual Boy collectors. Notes References Category:1995 video games Category:Space Invaders Category:Taito games Category:Virtual Boy games Category:Fixed shooters Category:Japan-exclusive video games Category:Video games developed in Japan

Norman Lee

Norman Lee (10 October 1898 – 2 June 1964) was a British screenwriter and film director. Selected filmography The Lure of the Atlantic (1929) The Streets of London (1929) Night Patrol (1930, documentary) Doctor Josser K.C. (1931) The Strangler (1932) Strip, Strip, Hooray (1932) Josser in the Army (1932) The Pride of the Force (1933) Money Talks (1933) The Outcast (1934) Spring in the Air (1934) A Political Party (1934) Doctor's Orders (1934) Royal Cavalcade (1935) Mother, Don't Rush Me (1936) Happy Days Are Here Again (1936) No Escape (1936) Saturday Night Revue (1937) French Leave (1937) Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937) Kathleen Mavourneen (1937) Knights for a Day (1937) Wanted by Scotland Yard (1937) Save a Little Sunshine (1938) Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938) Murder in Soho (1939) The Door with Seven Locks (1940) The Farmer's Wife (1941) This Man Is Mine (1946) The Monkey's Paw (1948) The Idol of Paris (1948) The Case of Charles Peace'' (1949) References External links Category:1898 births Category:1964 deaths Category:British film directors Category:British male screenwriters Category:People from Surrey

Eichelbach

Eichelbach may refer to: Eichelbach (Baunach), a river of Bavaria, Germany, tributary of the Baunach Eichelbach (Nidda), a river of Hesse, Germany, tributary of the Nidda Eichelbach (Weil), a river of Hesse, Germany, tributary of the Weil

Three Sisters (1970 film)

Three Sisters is a 1970 British drama film starring Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright, based on the 1900 play by Anton Chekhov. Olivier also directed, with co-director John Sichel; it was the final feature film directed by Olivier. The film was based on a 1967 theatre production that Olivier had directed at the Royal National Theatre. Both the theatrical production and the film used the translation from the original Russian by Moura Budberg. The film was released in the U.S. in 1974 as part of the American Film Theatre. This was a series of thirteen film adaptations of stage plays shown to subscribers at about 500 movie theaters across the country. Cast Jeanne Watts as Olga Joan Plowright as Masha Louise Purnell as Irina Derek Jacobi as Andrei Sheila Reid as Natasha Kenneth MacKintosh as Kulighin Daphne Heard as Anfisa Judy Wilson as Serving Maid Mary Griffiths as Housemaid Ronald Pickup as Baron Tusenbach Laurence Olivier as Dr. Ivan Chebutikin Frank Wylie as Maj. Vassili Vassilich Solyony Alan Bates as Col. Vershinin Richard Kay as Lt. Fedotik Reception The film was apparently not widely reviewed in either its 1970 British or its 1974 US releases. Following the US release, the prominent critic Judith Crist wrote, "Once again we are faced with a neither-film-nor-play production, but it is, in Moura Budberg's liberal but satisfying translation and under Olivier's semi-cinematic direction, one at very least to fascinate devotees of the play. ... Through several performances, in Geoffrey Unsworth's luscious cinematography (and I mean the adjective in praise of the uncluttered and naturally generated flow his work deserves), and in the pacing there is somehow a sensuality and a sexuality underlying the work that I had not hitherto felt." Molly Haskell wrote that the film "boasts in Joan Plowright's Masha the finest performance I have seen or ever hope to see of one of Chekhov's greatest women characters." Home video The film was first released as a region 1 DVD in 2004. A Blu-ray version was released in the US in 2017. See also Three Sisters (1994 film), a 1994 Russian language film References External links Category:1970 films Category:Films based on Three Sisters Category:Films directed by Laurence Olivier Category:1970s historical drama films Category:British historical drama films Category:British films Category:Films scored by William Walton

Asaph

Asaph (Hebrew for "God has gathered") may refer to: Asaph Hall, 19th century astronomer Asaph Hall Jr., son of the above Asaph Fipke, Canadian animator Saint Asaph, first bishop of the diocese of Saint Asaph in Wales Asaph ben Berekhyah (also known as Asaph ha-Rophe; Asaph ha-Yarhoni; Asaph ha-Yehuda Asaph Iudaeus), 6th-century Jewish physician, author of the Book of Assaf The Diocese of St Asaph St Asaph, a city in North Wales Psalms of Asaph Asaph (biblical figure), the name of several Biblical figures Asaph (album)

Danny Light

Daniel Light (10 July 1948 – 18 October 2014) was a professional footballer who played as a forward. Career Light began his career at Crystal Palace in 1965, making 22 appearances before being sold to Colchester United in 1968 for £4,000. He was a regular player for Colchester, and made 73 appearances before moving to Guildford City on a free transfer in 1970. He later played for Dartford, Dover, Wealdstone and Tonbridge Angels. Whilst at Dartford, he was part of the squad that finished as runners-up in the 1973–74 FA Trophy. Later life and death He retired and moved to Turners Hill. He died on 18 October 2014, aged 66. References External links Danny Light at holmesdale.net Category:1948 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Footballers from Chiswick Category:English footballers Category:Association football forwards Category:Crystal Palace F.C. players Category:Colchester United F.C. players Category:Guildford City F.C. players Category:Dartford F.C. players Category:Dover F.C. players Category:Wealdstone F.C. players Category:Tonbridge Angels F.C. players Category:English Football League players

Song Bird

Song Bird is the sophomore studio album of singer Deniece Williams released on October 28, 1977 by Columbia Records. The album rose to No. 23 on the US Billboard Top Soul Albums chart and No. 5 on the UK Blues & Soul Top British Soul Albums chart. Overview Song Bird was produced by Maurice White. Critical reception Simon Gage of The Daily Express noted that Songbird is "filled with gorgeous songs that showcase her four-octave range to full effect". John Rockwell of The New York Times also called the album "most appealing" and "refreshingly varied". Singles "Baby, Baby My Love's All for You" rose to No. 13 upon the US Billboard Hot R&B Songs and No. 32 on the UK Pop singles chart. Samples and Covers We Have Love for You was sampled on the track Remember Them Days by Beanie Sigel featuring Eve off Sigel's 2000 album The Truth. Williams also covered Ferlin Husky's Time upon the album Appearances in other media Williams went on to perform the album cut God Is Amazing at the 1984 Grammy Awards. Track listing Personnel Deniece Williams – lead vocals Deniece Williams, Maurice White, Sidney Barnes – backing vocals Jerry Peters – piano Larry Dunn – synthesizer Al McKay, Charles Fearing, John Rowin Jr., Marlo Henderson – guitar Nathan Watts, Verdine White – bass David Garibaldi, Fred White, Maurice White – drums Paulinho da Costa – percussion Victor Feldman – vibraphone Andrew Woolfolk, Azar Lawrence, Don Myrick, George Patterson – saxophone Charles Loper, George Bohanon, Louis Satterfield – trombone Chuck Findley, Michael Harris, Oscar Brashear, Steve Madaio – trumpet Don Myrick – saxophone solo (6, 8) Michael Harris – trumpet solo (8) Tom Tom 84 (Tom Washington) – string and horn arrangements Production Producer – Maurice White Co-Producer – Jerry Peters Engineer – Warren Dewey Assistant Engineer – Jack Rouben Design – Nancy Donald Photography – Kenneth McGowan Management – Cavallo-Ruffalo Management Charts References Category:1977 albums Category:Deniece Williams albums Category:Albums produced by Maurice White Category:Albums produced by Jerry Peters Category:Columbia Records albums

List of New Zealand television personalities

This is a list of New Zealand television personalities, including presenters and journalists. It includes those who left the profession, retired, or died. A Suzy Aiken – television personality and Prime News presenter Peter Arnett – television journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner Astar – television arts and crafts presenter Aunt Daisy – radio personality B Petra Bagust – television presenter Judy Bailey – television news presenter (Mother of the Nation) Simon Barnett – radio and television personality, NewsTalk ZB Afternoon Host Hilary Barry – journalist, radio and television presenter Maggie Barry – radio host, television presenter, politician Alison Bell – television journalist and former anchorwoman Kevin Black – radio host Dominic Bowden – television personality and host Ben Boyce – television and radio personality Greg Boyed – television news and current affairs presenter Keith Bracey – television presenter and journalist Sarah Bradley – television presenter Pat Brittenden – talkback host Clint Brown – television sports presenter Jaquie Brown – television presenter, actress and radio presenter Shaun Brown – reporter, presenter and producer and television executive Geoff Bryan – reporter, presenter C Cathy Campbell – sports and news presenter John Campbell – television reporter and current affairs host Tina Carline – weather presenter and continuity announcer Sharyn Casey – radio and television host, actress Suzy Cato – children's entertainer and television host Wallace Chapman – radio and television host Matt Chisholm – former host of Celebrity Treasure Island, Survivor NZ, Sunday, Fair Go, and Seven Sharp Rawdon Christie – journalist, news presenter and host Suzy Clarkson – television host and presenter Lana Coc-Kroft – radio and television host, beauty queen Jenny-May Coffin – netball player, sports commentator and news presenter James Coleman – television presenter, radio host and actor Neil Collins – broadcaster and local body politician Daniel Corbett – weather presenter Pam Corkery – journalist, broadcaster, and former politician. Joe Cotton – television and radio personality Max Cryer – presenter, singer, writer and academic Dave Cull – television presenter, writer and politician D Simon Dallow – journalist, barrister and a television personality Tania Dalton – international netball player and netball commentator Murray Deaker – radio and television sports reporter Joel Defries – television presenter (British born) Martin Devlin – radio and television broadcaster Oliver Driver – actor, director, broadcaster and television presenter E Brian Edwards – media personality and author Janika ter Ellen – television news anchor Guyon Espiner – print and television journalist and presenter Alma Evans-Freke – television personality, actor, producer, teacher F Andrew Fagan – radio broadcaster and musician Daniel Faitaua – television host Joan Faulkner-Blake – broadcaster Carly Flynn – radio and television reporter and presenter Mihingarangi Forbes – television presenter, journalist and radio broadcaster Derek Fox – broadcaster, commentator, publisher, journalist and candidate Ian Fraser – broadcaster and television executive G Iain Gallaway – radio sports commentator Duncan Garner – radio and television host and political journalist Clarke Gayford – television presenter and partner of current Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Matthew Gibb – television presenter Jo Giles – television presenter and former representative sportswoman Pauline Gillespie – radio host Amanda Gillies – political reporter Ewen Gilmour – comedian and television presenter Charlotte Glennie – journalist and presenter Jennie Goodwin – journalist, newsreader and continuity announcer Patrick Gower – political presenter, interviewer and reporter Steve Gray – blogger and broadcaster Kay Gregory – journalist and former presenter Airini Nga Roimata Grennell – singer, pianist, broadcaster Jason Gunn – television personality H Oriwa Tahupotiki Haddon – Methodist minister, pharmacist, artist and broadcaster Richard Harman – political journalist and broadcaster Russell Harrison – presenter, vocalist and musician Robert Harte – actor and television presenter Claudette Hauiti – presenter, producer and politician Mikey Havoc – DJ, radio host and television personality John Hawkesby – television presenter Kate Hawkesby – television reporter, radio and television presenter Jean Emily Hay – teacher, broadcaster and early childhood educator Karyn Hay – radio and television presenter and author Sam Hayes – television reporter and presenter Matt Heath – radio host, actor, sports commentator Tau Henare – talkback host and politician Paul Henry – television presenter and radio personality Dai Henwood – comedian and television presenter Mark Hewlett – radio and television personality (born in Zimbabwe) Jim Hickey – weather presenter Graeme Hill – radio and television presenter Kim Hill – radio and television broadcaster Carol Hirschfeld – broadcaster Paul Holmes – radio and television presenter Alison Holst – food writer and television chef Hayley Holt – television presenter Jim Hopkins – known for his work in television, radio and theatre Brendan Horan – former weather presenter and politician Mike Hosking – television and radio journalist and presenter Brooke Howard-Smith – television presenter John Hudson – journalist and television presenter Hudson and Halls – presenters of the television cookery show Hudson and Halls I April Ieremia – former television host, former netball player J Willie Jackson – radio and television presenter and politician Billy T. James – entertainer, comedian, musician and actor Arthur Owen Jensen – musician, music tutor and promoter, critic, broadcaster, composer Ian Johnstone – journalist, TV presenter and narrator K Miriama Kamo – television presenter, host and producer Raybon Kan – columnist, comedian Phil Keoghan – television presenter Grant Kereama – radio personality Graham Kerr – television cooking personality Phil Kerslake – leadership coach, speaker, author and television presenter Ruud Kleinpaste – television presenter L Mary Lambie – television presenter Candy Lane – Dancing with the Stars co–host Michael Laws – radio personality Bob Leahy – radio and television broadcaster Mark Leishman – television presenter, producer, director Phillip Leishman – television personality Shimpal Lelisi – actor and television presenter Vicki Lin – television presenter and actor Alister Murray Linton – surveyor, local politician, land officer, community leader, horticulturist and broadcaster Chic Littlewood – television entertainer and actor Richard Long – former newsreader Zane Lowe – BBC Radio One DJ, record producer and television presenter Marcus Lush – radio host and television presenter M Robbie Magasiva – actor and television presenter Toni Marsh – weather presenter and radio news reader Marama Martin – news reader, continuity announcer Paul Martin – radio presenter Colin Mathura-Jeffree – television presenter and host Alison Mau – television presenter Gary McCormick – poet, radio and television personality, debater and raconteur Darren McDonald – television news anchor Hamish McKay – television presenter, sportscaster, rugby editor and sports journalist Anita McNaught – TVNZ and BBC World newsreader (born in England) Sacha McNeil – journalist and news presenter Mike McRoberts – television journalist and presenter Andrea McVeigh – sports broadcaster and former netball player Simon Mercep – news reporter, journalist Kevin Milne – television presenter Peter Montgomery – sports broadcaster Graeme Moody – sports broadcaster Jim Mora – television and radio presenter Stacey Morrison – television and radio host Alan Edward Mulgan – journalist, writer and broadcaster Jesse Mulligan – television host and radio broadcaster Herbert David Mullon – postal worker, broadcaster, philatelist and historian Lesley Murdoch – international sports broadcaster N Geeling Ng – model, actress, restaurateur and television presenter Susie Nordqvist – news presenter O Margaret Kathleen O'Brien – dance teacher, hostess, radio presenter and film director Tova O'Brien – television reporter, later Newshub political editor Bernadine Oliver-Kerby – television and radio broadcaster Olly Ohlson – first Māori person to host a children's television show, the After School program; radio broadcaster P Steve Parr – television and radio presenter Veeshayne Patuwai – television presenter, actress, emcee and singer Suzanne Paul – television infomercial presenter Inez Isabel Maud Peacocke – teacher, novelist and broadcaster Arthur Fairchild Pearce – clerk, jazz specialist, broadcaster and pianist Amber Peebles – television presenter and former Miss New Zealand Lindsay Perigo – television and radio broadcasting personality Brian Perkins – BBC Radio Four newsreader and announcer Wendy Petrie – television news reader and presenter Te Aritaua Pitama – teacher, broadcaster and concert party producer Brendon Pongia – television presenter and basketball player Antonia Prebble – actress and television presenter Jono Pryor – radio DJ/television Presenter Mike Puru – radio DJ/presenter and television presenter Q Keith Quinn – radio and television sports commentator and presenter R Bill Ralston – journalist, broadcaster, and media personality, active in television, radio and print Cherry Raymond – current affairs interviewer, game show participant Jason Reeves – radio broadcaster and television presenter Mark Richardson – radio and television presenter and former cricketer Matthew Ridge – television presenter, former All Black, and international rugby league captain S Mark Sainsbury – current affairs television presenter Andrew Saville – radio and television sports presenter Eion Scarrow – gardening personality, broadcaster and author Colin Scrimgeour – Methodist minister and broadcaster Haydn Sherley – radio broadcaster Peter ('Pete') Sinclair – television presenter Slave & Otis – hip hop MCs and television and radio presenters Aaron Slight – former professional motorcycle road racer and television presenter Rachel Smalley – current affairs presenter, interviewer Kerry Smith – actor, radio and television broadcaster Leighton Smith – talkback radio host Merv Smith – former long term breakfast radio presenter Barry Soper – journalist on radio and television Iain Stables – radio and television personality Percy Ronald Stevens – mechanic and radio broadcaster Dougal Stevenson – television newsreader and network news anchor Craig Stanaway – former radio presenter and television sports reporter Toni Street – television presenter and sports commentator T Dylan Taite – television presenter and interviewer Jack Tame – television and radio journalist and presenter John Tamihere – politician, television and radio personality and political commentator Ian Taylor – business and former television presenter Ramon Te Wake – documentarian, singer-songwriter and television presenter Sara Tetro – model, television presenter, actress, and entrepreneur Hilary Timmins – television presenter Selwyn Toogood – television and radio presenter Harold Bertram Turbott – doctor, public health administrator, broadcaster and writer U Tui Uru – first Maori television presenter (October 1964) V Nic Vallance – conservationist and television presenter Jordan Vandermade – television presenter Dayna Vawdrey – television presenter Tony Veitch – television presenter and radio personality W Bryan Waddle – sports broadcaster Neil Waka – television presenter Arnold Wall – university professor, philologist, poet, mountaineer, botanist, writer and radio broadcaster Louise Wallace – television presenter and reporter Jeremy Wells – host of Eating Media Lunch and Seven Sharp. Pippa Wetzell – television host and presenter Guy Williams - comedian and presenter for New Zealand Today Peter Williams – former TVNZ news presenter, talkback host at Magic Talk. Tim Wilson – TVNZ reporter and Newstalk ZB host Susan Wood – radio host and television Y Lindsay Yeo – radio host Eric Young – radio and television presenter References Broadcasters New Zealand Category:Lists of New Zealand mass media

2009 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The 2009 British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts, British Columbia's women's provincial curling championship, was held January 20-25 at the Parksville Curling Club in Parksville, British Columbia. The winner represents team British Columbia at the 2009 Scotties Tournament of Hearts in Victoria, British Columbia. Teams Standings Results January 21 Wheatcroft 8-3 Palmer Maskiewich 6-3 Garvey Jones 5-3 Mallett MacInnes 5-4 Recksiedler Recksiedler 7-2 Garvey Mallett 10-3 Palmer MacInnes 4-3 Maskiewich Wheatcroft 8-5 Jones January 22 MacInnes 7-5 Palmer Maskiewich 8-6 Jones Recksiedler 5-4 Wheatcroft Mallett 8-2 Garvey Maskiewich 5-3 Mallett MacInnes 11-3 Wheatcroft Garvey 10-3 Jones Recksiedler 7-2 Palmer January 23 Wheatcroft 7-5 Garvey Recksiedler 12-5 Jones Maskiewich 9-7 Palmer MacInnes 5-4 Mallett MacInnes 9-5 Jones Garvey 5-3 Palmer Mallett 10-6 Recksiedler Wheatcroft 5-4 Maskiewich January 24 Maskiewich 9-6 Recksiedler Mallett 5-4 Wheatcroft MacInnes 6-5 Garvey Jones 11-6 Palmer Tie breakers Reckseidler 6-4 Wheatcroft Mallett 8-6 Recksiedler Playoffs All games January 25 Semi-final Final External links Official site British Columbia Category:Curling in British Columbia Category:Parksville, British Columbia Category:2009 in British Columbia

The Forgotten Frontier

The Forgotten Frontier (1931) is a documentary film about the Frontier Nursing Service, nurses on horseback, who traveled the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. It was directed by Mary Marvin Breckinridge, and featured her cousin, Mary Breckinridge, who was a nurse-midwife and founded the Frontier Nursing Service. Also featured are the people of Leslie County, Kentucky, many of whom reenacted their stories. The film was shot with a hand-cranked camera, often in extreme climate. Stills created during the film's production are available at the Library of Congress. A soundtrack was added in the 1990s by the Library of Congress. In 1996, this film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films". Footage from the film was used in the 1984 documentary Frontier Nursing Service. References External links The Forgotten Frontier on the United States National Library of Medicine Category:1931 films Category:United States National Film Registry films Category:Black-and-white documentary films Category:American documentary films Category:American films Category:English-language films Category:Sponsored films Category:Documentary films about United States history Category:Documentary films about health care Category:1931 documentary films Category:Works about midwifery Category:Nursing in the United States Category:Documentary films about Appalachia Category:Works about human pregnancy Category:American black-and-white films

Colin Coosemans

Colin Coosemans () (born 3 August 1992) is a Belgian professional football player currently playing for KAA Gent. He made his professional debut for Club Brugge K.V. on 30 September 2010 in an 2010–11 UEFA Europa League game against Villarreal. On 3 October 2010 he made his league debut against Gent. After his impressive performances in early 2011, he was briefly nicknamed "The Magnet". However, after being replaced as first keeper by Bojan Jorgačević and two coach changes at Club Brugge, he was allowed to leave on loan to Waasland-Beveren during the 2012–13 season. In 2017 he made a fantastic performance as a field player, attempting a dribble, losing a ball, recovering it and delivering a last minute assist in one of Belgium national league matches. References External links Profile by UEFA Belgium stats at Belgian FA Category:1992 births Category:Living people Category:Belgian footballers Category:Club Brugge KV players Category:Waasland-Beveren players Category:KV Mechelen players Category:K.A.A. Gent players Category:Belgian First Division A players Category:Belgium youth international footballers Category:Belgium under-21 international footballers Category:Association football goalkeepers Category:Sportspeople from Ghent

Pūl (coin)

Pūl (Russian: , Tatar: پول) was a historical Russian currency that circulated in Russian Turkestan. Pūls were used in Golden Horde, Afghanistan, Bukhara, Chagatai Khanate, Kokand Khanate, Dzungar Khanate, and other Eurasian principalities, it was a copper coin of very small denomination, 1/60 of an altyn. Etymology From Middle Persian *pōl, Borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀβολός (obolós). In the Golden Horde In the Golden Horde pūl coins were officially set to a rate of 16 pūls per dannik as was escribed on many pūl coins, and were often struck by banks at the request of private customers who exchanged their raw copper for coins. The Khans, and their financial advisors often manipulated the market value of pūls by issuing new coins with the inscription “a new pūl” while declaring all other pūls in circulation to no longer be valid media of exchange, and the population was forced to exchange their old pūl coins for new ones. Generally speaking the newer pūl coins tended to be heavier, though their weights weren't standard. Officially they remained set at 16 pūls per dannik however this was purely symbolic and many local government issued their own exchange rates. Dzungar pūls under Manchu rule After the Manchu conquest of the Dzungar Khanate pūl coins were offered by the Qing government to be exchanged for ”Red Cash” at a ratio of 2 pūl for 1 cash, but after 1762 the exchange was altered to 1:1. Under the Qing dynasty pūl coins continued to be produced until 1745, and the Manchus stopped pulling them out of circulation to cast “Red Cash” in 1768. Small amounts of pūl coins returned to the market during the Dungan Revolt (1862–77). Pūl coins of Yaqub Beg The Tajik Dungan leader Yaqub Beg first issued pūl coins with the name of the late Kokandi leader Malla Khan (1858–1862), and despite being minted in Kashgar, Xinjiang they bore the inscription “Struck in the Mint of Kokand”, however from 1873 new coins produced under Yaqub Beg bearing the name of Abdülaziz, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and this time these pūls did bear the inscription "Struck in the Mint of Kashgar, the Capital". Pūl coins in the Kokand Khanate The monetary system of the Khanate of Kokand was dependent on the influx of foreign coins into its territory, particularly coins from Bukhara. However under the reign of Narbuta Beg monetary reforms were enacted to produce local coinage, pūl (or ful) coins which were referred to as “black money”, and at the time of there introduction a single pūl could buy a sheep. The mint of the khanate had a capacity to produce 1000 coins on a daily basis. The exchange between copper, silver, and gold coinages as well as the purchasing power of Kokandi pūls often changed, Kokandi pūls generally weighed 1 mithqāl (4.55 g), in the 1850s 6 pūls were needed for 1 Miri, and 24 pūls for a silver coin. Silver coins minted by Mingbashi Musulmonqul were valued at 24–32 pūls, this the 1870s this fluctuated between 42 and 64 pūls with the highest exchange rate being at 100 pūls. Generally 3 Kokandi pūls were valued at 1 Russian silver kopeyka, and Kokandi pūls also circulated in the Khanate of Khiva, the Emirate of Bukhara, and the Chinese city of Kashgar. Pūl coins of Tashkent In 1784 Tashkent became independent from the Kazakh Khanate, this was briefly followed by the concurrent rule of 4 ḥākims (circuit justice administrators), the ḥākim Shaykhantaur took control from the others and proclaimed himself as the only ruler of Tashkent. As the title of ḥākim was elected this period in Tashkent's history is sometimes referred to as the “Republic of Tashkent”, during this era Tashkent issued its own copper pūl (or Fulūs), and silver tanga coins. Pūl coins produced in Tashkent generally had 2 sizes with the lower denomination pūl being between 14 and 17 millimeters in diameter, while those of higher value would be between 20 and 24 millimeters. The coins often contained the mint mark of Tashkent in Persian as “Coinage of Tashkent” (Persian: ضرب تاشكند), and had a Persian blessing inscribed on them reading “May the future life be good” (Persian: عاقبت خير باد). The obverse of Tashkent's pūls often would not bear any mint marks but various images like cats, birds, fish, or mythological creatures. These coins continued to be produced until Tashkent was annexed by the Khanate of Kokand in 1809. See also Afghan afghani Dirham Yuan dynasty coinage References Literature Uzdennikov V. Coins of Russia (1700—1917): Third edition. Moscow, Collector's Books; IP Media Inc., 2004 (Узденников В. Монеты России (1700—1917): Издание третье. — М.: Collector's Books; IP Media Inc., 2004). Album, S. 1998. A Checklist of Islamic Coins, 2nd ed. Bosworth, C. E. 1996. The New Islamic Dynasties. New York: Columbia University Press. Bregel, Y. 1988. S.v. “Mangit/Mangits” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, new ed., 6: 417–419. Burnasheva, R. 1967. Monety Bukharskogo Khanstva pri Mangytakh: Epigrafika Vostoka, 18: 113–128. 4 plates, 3 tables. (Shah Murad, Haydar Tora, and Husayn). Burnasheva, R. 1972. Monety Bukharskogo Khanstva pri Mangytakh: Epigrafika Vostoka, 21:69-80. 4 tables (Nasr Allah, Muzaffar, ʿAbd al-Ahad, and ʿAlim Khan). Davidovich, E. A. 1964. Istoriia Monetnogo Dela Srednei Azii XVII-XVIII vv. [Gold and Silver of the Janids]. Dushanbe. Fedorov, M. 2002. “Money circulation under the Janids and Manghits of Bukhara, and the Khans of Khoqand and Khiva.” Supplement to ONS Newsletter 171. Kennedy, H., ed. 2002. An Historical Atlas of Islam. Brill. Krause, C. L., and C. Mishler. 2002. Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701–1800, 3rd ed. Krause, C. L., and C. Mishler. 2004. Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801–1900, 4th ed. Krause, C. L., and C. Mishler. 2005. Standard Catalog of World Coins, 32th ed. Lane-Poole, S. 1882. The Coinage of Bukhara in the British Museum: The Mangit Dynasty, 74–85. (No AE coins listed). Torrey, C. C. 1950. “Gold coins of Khokand and Bukhara.” Numismatic Notes and Monographs 117. Category:Modern obsolete currencies Category:Business in Russia Category:Economic history of Russia

Arigatō

Arigatō, Arigatou or in popular culture Arigato (meaning "thank you" in Japanese) may refer to: Arigatō (manga) by Naoki Yamamoto Arigato (Kokia song) "Arigato" (B'z song), 2004 "Arigatō" (Flow song), 2008 "Arigatō" (Sekai no Doko ni Ite mo), a 2010 single by Hey! Say! JUMP Arigato!, an album by John Davis Arigato (Hank Jones album) Arigatō (Miyuki Nakajima album), 1977 Arigatō (Hatsune Okumura album), 2008

Anthony Savage

Anthony Savage (December 25, 1893 – January 1970) was an American basketball and baseball player and coach of American football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at University of Washington in 1918 and at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts—now known as New Mexico State University—in 1919, compiling a career college football record of 3–4–1. Savage played basketball at Washington from 1911 to 1915 and also coached the team for two seasons from 1913 to 1915. He also played on the Washington baseball team in 1914. Savage was the older brother of another football coach, Joe Savage. Head coaching record Football References Category:1893 births Category:1970 deaths Category:All-American college men's basketball players Category:American men's basketball players Category:New Mexico State Aggies football coaches Category:Washington Huskies baseball players Category:Washington Huskies football coaches Category:Washington Huskies men's basketball coaches Category:Washington Huskies men's basketball players

Kým nás máš

"Kým nás máš" (As long as you have us) was the Slovak entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, sung by Marcel Palonder in the Slovak language. The song was performed twenty-second on the night, following Bosnia & Herzegovina's Amila Glamočak with "Za našu ljubav" and preceding Sweden's One More Time with "Den vilda". At the close of voting, it had received 19 points, placing eighteenth in a field of twenty three. This is also the best Slovak result in Eurovision history to date. It was succeeded as Slovak representative at the 1998 contest by Katarína Hasprová with "Modlitba". Category:Eurovision songs of Slovakia Category:Eurovision songs of 1996 Category:1996 songs

Lhota u Příbramě

Lhota u Příbramě is a village and municipality in Příbram District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. References This article was initially translated from the Czech Wikipedia. Category:Villages in Příbram District

Vivaro (disambiguation)

Vivaro is a comune in the province of Pordenone, northern Italy. Vivaro may also refer to: Opel Vivaro (disambiguation) and Vauxhall Vivaro, a series of light commercial vehicles See also Vivaro Romano, a commune near Rome, in Italy

Sedgley Woods

Sedgley Woods Disc Golf Course is a section of the Fairmount Park System in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. A section of East Fairmount Park since 1977, Sedgley Woods is one of the oldest permanent pole-hole disc golf courses in the world. It has been host to over 2 million pole-holes of Disc Golf. The Friends of Sedgley Woods administer the course, provide grounds keeping, run monthly tournaments, a yearlong tag-challenge, community out reach programs, best-disc doubles events, and large events in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Disc Club and the Professional Disc Golf Association. History In 1976, after graduating from Penn State, Jim Powers, along with Joe D'Annunzio and Rick Vlam, founded the Philadelphia Frisbee Club. Jim played Ultimate Frisbee in college, starting the Penn State Ultimate Team in 1974. Once back in the Philadelphia area he formed the new club by word of mouth and contacting local Frisbee Masters Joe D'Annunzio and Rick Vlam. The members were interested in all flying disc games including Ultimate, disc golf, freestyle, Double Disc Court and the field events of distance and self-caught-flight (maximum time aloft, MTA; throw run and catch, TRC). The club began meeting and playing weekly at several areas around the city, most notably in Valley Forge National Park outside of the city and within Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Even though the club was dedicated to all Frisbee sports, Ultimate and disc golf quickly became the favorites among the PFC members. Wherever the members met for informal “pick-up” Ultimate they designed golf holes with natural tree targets or available manmade targets such as lampposts. Club members began to dream of a permanent Frisbee golf course for more structured play including tournaments. While Jim was establishing the PFC, "Steady Ed" Headrick and his son Ken were developing the Pole Hole, a disc golf target capable of catching and retaining a Frisbee. Steady Ed had just left Wham-O to set up his own company, the Disc Golf Association (DGA) and to found the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA). Steady Ed, like members of the PFC in Philadelphia, especially enjoyed the game of Frisbee golf. He and Ken believed that what the sport needed most was a standardized target. After testing numerous prototype baskets Steady Ed hit upon the idea of using suspended chains to arrest the forward motion of a disc and thereby allowing it to drop into a basket. Production of the first baskets followed after he and Ken patented their final design, later to be known as the Mach 1. They installed the first (and oldest permanent) Pole Hole course in Oak Grove Park in Pasadena, California, in 1976. Wham-O brought Steady Ed and Jim together and that brought Pole Hole baskets to Sedgley Woods. Frisbee manufacturer Wham-O set up and funded the International Frisbee Association (IFA) in order to promote organized Frisbee play. To do this the IFA established Regional Directors, a group of dedicated Frisbee people, one from each of 12 regions across the country. The Regional Directors communicated with clubs and players, organized tournaments, sanctioned events and records, distributed rulebooks and many other similar activities. As Jim had just established a robust Frisbee club in a major metropolitan area he was appointed as the Regional Director of the Northeast region. He and the other Regional Directors were invited to participate in the IFA's "Invitational World Frisbee Championships" held at the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California. There Jim met Ed Headrick and Wham-O officials who indicated that they were interested in establishing the first Pole Hole disc golf course on the East Coast. Jim invited Ed and Wham-O reps to attend the first major PFC tournament, to be held on Belmont Plateau in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. Early in 1977 the Philadelphia Frisbee Club hosted the multi-event "Philadelphia Frisbee Championships." The site for the competition was Belmont Plateau, a particularly beautiful section of Fairmount Park that overlooks the skyline of Philadelphia. The tournament was well attended, both with competitors and spectators. The disc golf portion of the tournament was played on a temporary "object course" where trees were used as the targets. Steady Ed and Wham-O representatives were so impressed with the club and Fairmount Park that they offered to donate 18 baskets and tee signs if the club would handle the installation. Jim contacted the Fairmount Park Commission and explained the offer. The commission responded favorably and after three meetings between the commission and the club, a site was chosen in West Fairmount Park. This site, the first, was near the site of the tournament, just off Belmont Avenue. Here the club members met and began to layout 18 holes through the densely wooded area. After 4 weeks of work clearing our fairways through the trees, the park commission directed the club to another site, this time in East Fairmount Park. The name of the second site: Sedgley Woods. The reason for the change is not documented. Perhaps the park commissioners wanted to bring this new activity to the largely unused East Park, particularly close to one of the most depressed areas of the city thinking that a new sports activity would help stabilize that portion of the park and the city. The first site lacked off street parking and some club members had hoped for a better site with the possibility for more amenities. The club redirected their efforts to the new site. When club members visited the Sedgley site, they found a landscape that varied from small open areas to dense woods, with a predominance of lightly wooded land and gentle slopes. The area that became the front nine features many small leafed locust trees and several huge oak and maple specimens. The trees in this area allow just enough sun in for grass to grow below these trees. The area of the back nine is more densely wooded. Two ravines cut through the area with dry streambeds. The site is bounded by Reservoir Drive, a park road, on the North; the Smith Memorial Play Ground on the West; a ball golf driving range on the East; and a densely wooded unused area of the park to the South. The area takes its name from the Sedgley Estate, one of many private holdings along the Schuylkill River that were purchased to create Fairmount Park in the 19th century. The Sedgley Mansion was located on the south side of Girard Avenue, to the south of the course. Today only a gatehouse remains from the Sedgley Estate. Fairmount Park currently uses it as office space. Well beyond hole 12 and overlooking the river are the remains of The Cliffs, one of many "country" houses from the 18th century that dot Fairmount Park. At the new site the club leaders, including John Schalberg, Max Smith, Rick Vlam, Joe D'Annunzio and Jim, set about creating a course with the same enthusiasm they had shown at the first site. Ed Headrick visited the site several times and provided the initial design. The layout, at 4,016 feet, utilized the existing landscape features to the best advantage. Holes were designed with narrow fairways through the tightly treed areas, and up, down and across the modest hills. No major trees had to come down to create the layout. Sedgley fit Ed's vision of how a disc golf course should be designed: a predominance of short holes each requiring a great variety of shots. Each hole was designed to be unique, both in length and the type and variety of hazards. Several holes were designed with both left and right curve fairways while some holes mandated roller tee shots because of the low hanging trees very close to the tee. The woods at Sedgley and the areas of underbrush that line many holes are still challenging to disc golfers. Even though every hole can be birdied, scores of 4, 5 or more can be carded on every hole as well. The course is still a challenge and delight to play today. This reinforces the assertion that this early course is a masterpiece of disc golf course design. Sedgley was played as an object course for almost a year. Club members marked the original tees with signs made of upright 2x4's with the hole number and layout carved into its surface. The original targets were trees. In the summer of 1978 the Pole Hole baskets and tee signs arrived from DGA. The club members and Fairmount Park staff installed them creating what is claimed to be the first permanent Pole Hole disc golf course on the East Coast, although Leonard Park in Mt. Kisco, NY and several ski hills in New England had Pole Hole baskets installed in 1977. It is probably one of the first 50 in the world overall and likely one of the first dozen to exist continuously. Ed Headrick kept no official record of the original order of the first Pole Hole courses. Part of the confusion in the record keeping stems from the fact that many disc golf courses existed with object targets, some for years, before baskets were installed. Other early courses were not permanent. Late in the Fall of 1978 two of the holes were lengthened. The club members decided that holes 2 and 12 should be more challenging and moved the baskets to permanent extended positions. Once the basket positions were fixed the club members appointed a course pro, Max Smith, and began to have tournaments at Sedgley. With the baskets and tee signs in place Sedgley Woods was the site of numerous important Frisbee tournaments. The PFC, by virtue of strong club support and the Pole Hole baskets, bid for and won the right to host national golf events sanctioned by the IFA. These golf tournaments were part of the National Series Tournaments that ran from 1976 to 1982 and acted as qualifiers for the Invitational World Frisbee Championships. In addition to the NS meets, OCTAD, a multi-event competition that started in New Jersey, came under the auspices of the PFC and was held at Sedgley for several years. The golf portion of these tournaments took place in Sedgley proper and the other events were held on the large ball-golf driving range next to the course and on the large field north of Reservoir Drive. These tournaments attracted the top players from across the country, over 300 at one event. Players' packages for the competitors included everything from custom printed discs and shirts to visors and hats. Various Philadelphia rock stations including WMMR, WYSP and WIOQ sponsored these major tournaments which drew many spectators and live FM radio media attention. In the Fall of 1984 Darby Williammee, Jim Powers and Dave Stembel created a new PDGA tournament course by designing a new set of tees. These tees are now the "yellow" tees. This was done in response to Innova's original Aero and Discraft's original Phantom discs which had allowed the average winning rounds to drop from 4 or 5 under to 10 or better. The course measures 4,754 feet from the yellow tees. The yellow tee layout quickly became the favorite course for the pros, though the blue tees are still played to this day in various competitive formats including best-disc doubles and the Sedgley Tag Challenge. Friends of Sedgley Woods The Friends of Sedgley Woods is an organization dedicated to the preservation of Sedgley Woods Disc Golf Course and the development of the sport of Disc Golf in Philadelphia, PA. This club was formed in 1990 after ten of the original Sedgley baskets were stolen. The first act of the Friends group was to raise money and replace all of the baskets with Mach 3 Pole Holes. The remaining "old" baskets were donated to other clubs to "seed" new courses. Sedgley now has three tee placements for each basket, the blue "original 1977 tees", yellow "1984" tees and red "1991" tees (4,691 feet), however all of the baskets remain in their 1978 locations. Since 1978, the Philadelphia Frisbee Club has evolved into several organizations devoted to disc sports. Many of the original club members have moved on to start new clubs and design new disc golf courses. There are now separate disc golf clubs in New Jersey, Delaware, and in Bucks and Chester Counties in Pennsylvania and Pole Hole courses have spread throughout the east coast states. Along the way the PFC became the PAFC, adding "Area" to its name. Later it became the Tri-State Frisbee Club when a strong contingent of Delaware and New Jersey golfers developed. The Tri-State club begat the Mid-Atlantic Disc Club (MADC) which now runs a golf series enjoyed by thousands and has provided some of the largest purses in professional disc golf. The Ultimate players split off and formed their own club called The Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance (PADA). In addition to fostering men's and women's tournament teams, PADA now runs a summer league serving over 800 people per year. Sedgley Woods Official Course Pros Max Smith 1977-1978 Rick Vlam 1978-1981 Darby Williammee 1981-1989 Barry Noakes 1989–2015 David Woods 2016 Alex Caldwell 2017–Present External links Visit Philly: Sedgley Woods Category:Disc golf courses in Pennsylvania Category:Fairmount Park Category:1977 establishments in Pennsylvania Category:Northwest Philadelphia

Philip Watson

Vice Admiral Sir Philip Alexander Watson KBE, LVO (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2009) was an officer of the Royal Navy, rising to the rank of vice-admiral. Naval career Watson was born on 7 October 1919 at 93 Limestone Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland to Alexander Henry St Croix Watson (1885–1963) and Gladys Margaret Watson (née Payne). He was baptised on 30 January 1920 and confirmed at St Albans Abbey on 6 December 1934. Educated at St. Albans School he trained as an electrical engineer with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and joined the Admiralty Compass Observatory, Slough, serving until 10 March 1940 when he was commissioned in the Royal Naval Reserve as an Electrical Sub Lieutenant. He served in on the Arctic convoys from the United Kingdom to the northern ports of the Soviet Union—Arkhangelsk and Murmansk; in (Assistant Torpedo Officer) and was at the German surrender at Trondheim when serving in as Torpedo Officer. He was then transferred to the Royal Navy as a lieutenant in 1946, and served as Naval Assistant to Admiral Bateson. Watson served with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, with the s and , before moving to the Admiralty in London. A spell at as assistant to the training commander followed, with Watson being promoted to lieutenant-commander. He spent two years with the radio section at Malta Dockyard, before becoming electrical officer in in 1954. Watson was promoted to commander in 1955, and returned to working at the Admiralty. On 11 December 1948 he married Jennifer Beatrice Tanner and they have two daughters and a son. Watson spent two years from 1957 as Electrical Officer on board HM Yacht Britannia, for which he was made a member of the Royal Victorian Order. He followed this with a move to Chatham Dockyard where from 1959 he was in command of the electrical shops and weapon section. He went to sea again aboard in 1962, where he served as Weapon Electrical Engineer Officer. He was promoted to captain and joined the Ship Department at Bath where he became involved in the designs of submarines, aircraft carriers and commando ships. In 1967 he became captain of HMS Collingwood, but by 1969 he was back at Bath as Deputy Director of Engineering (Electrical) in the Ship Department. He was promoted to Rear-Admiral and made Director-General Weapons (Naval) in 1970, and later promoted again to Vice-Admiral and given the post of Chief Naval Engineer Officer in 1974. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974 and retired from the navy in March 1977. He became chairman of Marconi Radar Systems between 1981 and 1985. Before his retirement to Oxfordshire he was a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Bath and County Club. He remained active in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the City of Oxford Society of Model Engineers. He died on 8 December 2009. Honours and awards References Category:1919 births Category:Royal Navy admirals Category:Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers Category:People from Belfast Category:2009 deaths Category:Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order Category:People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Category:Royal Navy officers of World War II

Corkickle

Corkickle may refer to: Corkickle, Cumbria, a suburb of Whitehaven Corkickle railway station

João Gabriel da Silva

João Gabriel da Silva (born 4 July 1984) is a retired Brazilian football midfielder. References External links Profile at Soccerway Profile at Eurosport Category:1984 births Category:Living people Category:Brazilian footballers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Brazilian expatriate footballers Category:Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Category:Expatriate footballers in Croatia Category:Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Category:Expatriate footballers in Slovenia Category:Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Malta Category:Expatriate footballers in Malta Category:Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Category:Expatriate footballers in Austria Category:NK Solin players Category:HNK Šibenik players Category:NK Primorje players Category:NK Drava Ptuj players Category:NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players Category:NK Maribor players Category:NK Nafta Lendava players Category:Valletta F.C. players Category:Qormi F.C. players Category:Pietà Hotspurs F.C. players Category:Croatian First Football League players Category:Slovenian PrvaLiga players Category:Maltese Premier League players

Coleman Lantern

The Coleman Lantern is a line of pressure lamps first introduced by the Coleman Company in 1914. This led to a series of lamps that were originally made to burn kerosene or gasoline. Current models use kerosene, gasoline, Coleman fuel (white gas) or propane and use one or two mantles to produce an intense white light. Over the years more than 50 million of the lanterns have been sold throughout the world. History In 1900, William Coffin Coleman was selling high pressure gasoline fueled lamps. These lamps, notably 'The Efficient' Pendant Arc lamp No. 6, were manufactured by Irby & Gilliland in Memphis, Tennessee. However, poor sales led him to acquire the patent for the lamp and redesign it. He began to produce the lamp in 1903, and in 1914 he introduced the Coleman Lantern, a design incorporating various improvements, such as bug-screen and flat base. The double-mantle models in various iterations were amongst the most widespread and were in production from 1927 until 1979 (for model 228) or 1983 (for model 220). References External links International Coleman Collectors Club Category:Products introduced in 1914 Category:Types of lamp Category:Light fixtures

Witkówko

Witkówko () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Witkowo, within Gniezno County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Witkowo, south-east of Gniezno, and east of the regional capital Poznań. The village has a population of 60. References Category:Villages in Gniezno County

2008 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors election

The 2008 Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors elections were held on June 3, 2008, coinciding with the California elections, June 2008. Three of the five seats (for the Second, Fourth and Fifth Districts) of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors were contested in this election. None of the incumbents were termed out. Results Second District Since Second District voters failed to elect a Supervisor by a two-thirds vote, a runoff election was held on November 4, 2008, coinciding with the 2008 United States presidential election. Fourth District Fifth District References External links Los Angeles County Department of Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Category:Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors elections Los Angeles County

Ernest Baggallay

Ernest Baggallay (11 July 1850 – 9 September 1931) was an English barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1887. He resigned to become a stipendary magistrate. Bagallay was the son of Lord Justice Richard Baggalay, and his wife Ann Lacy, daughter of Henry Charles Lacy M.P. for Bodmin. He was educated at Marlborough College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1873, and was engaged as legal counsel by the Post Office from 1877 to 1887. At the 1885 general election Baggallay was elected as a member of parliament for Brixton in south London. He held the seat at the ensuing contest in 1886. He resigned his seat in 1887 (by taking the office of Steward of the Manor of Northstead), in order to become stipendiary magistrate for West Ham. In July 1901 Baggallay became a Metropolitan Police magistrate, and served on the benches at Greenwich, Tower Bridge and Lambeth. He became ill in 1913, and resigned from the magistracy in March of the following year. Baggallay died at his London home in 1931, aged 81. Baggallay married Emily Burrell daughter of Sir Walter Wyndham Burrell, 5th Baronet, and they had a son and two daughters. References Obituary: Mr. Ernest Baggallay, The Times, 11 September 1931, p. 15 External links Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies Category:1850 births Category:1931 deaths Category:UK MPs 1885–1886 Category:UK MPs 1886–1892 Category:People educated at Marlborough College Category:Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

David Starr, Space Ranger

David Starr, Space Ranger is the first novel in the Lucky Starr series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French. The novel was written between 10 June and 29 July 1951 and first published by Doubleday & Company in January 1952. Since 1971, reprints have included an introduction by Asimov explaining that advancing knowledge of conditions on Mars have rendered some of the novel's descriptions of that world inaccurate. The novel was originally intended to serve as the basis for a television series, a science-fictionalized version of The Lone Ranger, but the series was never made, in part because another series called Rocky Jones, Space Ranger was already in the planning stages. Plot summary David Starr, Space Ranger introduces the series' setting and the main characters. The novel is set around A.D. 7,000 (five thousand years after the first nuclear bomb, as stated at the beginning), when humanity has spread among the worlds of the Solar System as well as planets orbiting other stars. The most powerful organization in the Solar System is the Council of Science, which suppresses threats to the System's people. Protagonist David Starr is an orphaned biophysicist qualified for membership in the Council of Science, who learns from his guardians Augustus Henree and Hector Conway of some 200 deaths in the last four months, whose victims died while eating produce raised on Mars. Conway and Henree fear that the deaths are part of a conspiracy to frighten the people of Earth; wherefore Starr travels undercover to Mars to discover the deaths' connection to the Martian Farming Syndicates. On Mars, Starr meets John "Bigman" Jones, a pugnacious 5-foot, 2-inch tall Martian farmboy blacklisted at the Farming Syndicates for seeing something forbidden him. When his former boss Hennes orders Jones out of the Farm Employment Building, Starr intervenes, and gains positions for both himself and Bigman. Hennes subsequently has Starr and Bigman stunned. Starr wakes in the farm owned by Hennes' boss, Mr. Makian, to whom he gives the alias Williams, and states that he came to Mars explain a younger sister's death of food poisoning; wherefore Makian sends the farm's agronomist Benson to speak with him. According to Benson, the poisoned food came from several Martian farms, but was exported through Wingrad City, one of three domed human settlements on Mars; whereas Makian and several other farm owners have been offered ridiculously small sums of money for their farms, apparently without connection to the poisonings. Benson suggests also that intelligent native Martians living below the planet's surface are poisoning the food in order to drive humanity from Mars, possibly through bacterial infection. Makian offers to let Starr join a survey of the farmlands. Bigman warns him that Hennes will attack him during the survey; but when Starr decides to take part anyway, Bigman joins him. As he enters Martian gravity, Starr loses control of his sand-car, nearly sending it over a crevasse; whereupon Bigman discovers that Starr's sand-car is missing the weights required for low-gravity operation, and Starr realizes that Griswold deliberately failed to warn him. He then confronts Griswold, who in the struggle falls into the crevasse and dies. The next day, Benson makes Starr his assistant, to keep him from Hennes. When Bigman receives his references from Hennes and takes his leave, Starr asks him to obtain some book-tapes from the library at Wingrad City. Bigman agrees, then admits that he has recognized the pretended 'Williams' as David Starr of the Council of Science. When Starr meets Bigman that night outside the dome, he reveals that he believes in Benson's Martians, and that the crevasse into which Griswold fell is an entrance to their caverns. Starr descends into the crevasse and is captured by the Martians — disembodied intelligences curious about the Earthmen on the surface, and who know nothing of the poisoned food – although, according to them, any organic matter of Martian origin is poison for Earthmen. They give Starr the name "Space Ranger", because he travels through space, and give him an immaterial mask that will act as a personal force field and disguise him from other humans. Starr uses the mask to shield himself from a Martian dust storm as he returns to Makian's farm, where he is questioned how he survived the storm and answers (truthfully) that he was returned by a masked man called the Space Ranger. Benson tells him that while he was gone, all the farm owners received a letter from the poisoner, who claims that unless the farm owners surrender control to him within thirty-six hours, the poisoner will increase the amount of poisoned food a thousandfold. After Benson leaves, another of Hennes' minions tries to shoot Starr. Later, Hennes accuses Starr of poisoning the food. Bigman enters with Dr. Silvers of the Council of Science, who announces that the government has declared a System Emergency and that the Council will take control of all the farms on Mars. If the mystery is not solved by the time the deadline expires, all Martian food exports to Earth will stop, and food rationing will be instituted. Starr arranges with Silvers to be publicly removed from the Makian farm, then allowed to secretly return. Disguised by his mask, he confronts Hennes, who blinds himself firing a blaster at him. Starr searches Hennes and, once undisguised, persuades Silvers to meet with Makian, Hennes and Benson the next day. At the meeting, Starr appears in disguise and reveals that Benson poisoned the food while pretending to take samples of it, and Hennes maintained contact with Benson's henchmen in the Asteroid Belt. Following Benson's confession, Bigman reveals that despite the disguise of the Martian mask, he recognized Starr by his uniquely colorless black-and-white boots. Themes As John H. Jenkins has noted, Asimov's novels typically are set either on Earth (Pebble in the Sky, The End of Eternity, The Caves of Steel), or on fictional extrasolar planets (The Currents of Space, The Naked Sun, the Foundation series). The major exceptions to this rule are the Lucky Starr novels, all of which take place among the familiar worlds of the Solar System. David Starr: Space Ranger is the only Asimov novel set on Mars, and the picture of Mars that he draws is accurate, if optimistic, based on what was known about the planet in 1951. The Martian atmosphere is one-fifth as dense as Earth's and is unbreathable by humans due to lack of oxygen. The famous Martian canals are not mentioned as such, though Asimov's Mars does have a network of fissures that might be the inspiration thereof. David Starr, Space Ranger was unabashedly based on the Western hero the Lone Ranger, and Asimov goes to great lengths to recreate the fictional American West on Mars. The Martian farm boys are tough, rugged individualists like the fictional cowboys. The Space Ranger is a science fictionalized Lone Ranger, including the mask and the habit of disappearing after defeating the villains. In this first book in the series, Starr exposes and defeats a criminal conspiracy, in the classic tradition of the masked crime-fighter. In subsequent books in the series, Starr moves away from being a masked crime-fighter, and becomes a Cold War secret agent, defending the Solar System from external enemies. In a later novel in the series, Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus, the Council of Science is described this way: "In these days, when science really permeated all human society and culture, scientists could no longer restrict themselves to their laboratories. It was for that reason that the Council of Science had been born. Originally it was intended only as an advisory body to help the government on matters of galactic importance, where only trained scientists could have sufficient information to make intelligent decisions. More and more it had become a crime-fighting agency, a counterespionage system. Into its own hands it was drawing more and more of the threads of government." The most important scientific development of Asimov's own lifetime was the discovery of nuclear energy. Asimov had seen nuclear power escape the control of the scientists who discovered it and become the plaything of politicians who only dimly understood it, and who seemed blind to the danger it represented. His concerns are evident from individual stories such as "Hell-Fire" and "Silly Asses", as well as from the semi-habitable post-nuclear Earth depicted in Pebble in the Sky and The Stars, Like Dust. The Council of Science can be seen as wish-fulfillment on Asimov's part, as scientists in the future tilt the balance of power toward themselves and away from the scientific illiterates who populate the government. Reception Writing in The New York Times, Ellen Lewis Buell reported that Asimov "ingeniously combines mystery with science fiction, saying that "his inventiveness and use of picturesque details" were reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein. Groff Conklin praised the novel as effective juvenile fare: "no romance, parlous little science, but endless imagination, exciting ideas and events." Astounding reviewer P. Schuyler Miller described it as "fast-moving space opera of a type we all know, with no particular regard for scientific plausibility." References External links Category:Science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov Category:1952 American novels Category:Mars in fiction Category:American science fiction novels Category:Doubleday (publisher) books Category:Fictional deserts Category:Space Westerns Category:Children's science fiction novels

Ruhot

Ruhot is a village in the western part of Kosovo which falls under the jurisdiction of municipality of Peja. It is located in a larger region which is known as Rrafshi i Dugagjinit, famous for its fertile land and beautiful nature. White Drin flows along the whole north side of the village and is used as a source of water for crops. Notes References Category:Villages in Peć

Carl F. Eyring

Carl Ferdinand Eyring (August 30, 1889–January 3, 1951) was an acoustic physicist. He served for nearly 30 years as dean of Brigham Young University's (BYU) College of Arts and Sciences. Eyring was born in Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico to Henry Eyring and Deseret Fawcett. Eyring was also a leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served as the first president of the New England Mission from 1937 to 1939. During this time, Eyring exerted efforts to keep Latter-day Saint students at Harvard University, MIT and other Boston-area institutions of higher learning active in the church. Eyring was the uncle of the noted chemist Henry Eyring, who was father of Henry B. Eyring, of the LDS Church's First Presidency. Carl Eyring was married to Fern Chipman, a daughter of Stephen L. Chipman. She was the sister of Lorena Chipman, who was the wife of Harvey Fletcher. From 1924 until 1951, excepting his time as mission president, Eyring served as the dean of the college of Arts and Sciences at BYU. During some of this time he also served as a member of the General Board of the Deseret Sunday School Union. Eyring was a popular professor; in the words of a BYU student of the time, Spencer W. Kimball, he was "[t]he swellest professor on the whole faculty". (However, because this is a quote from a letter Kimball wrote to Eyring's niece, Camilla (who Kimball would soon marry), it must be read in that context.) Eyring personally supervised the building of a new science building on BYU campus in the late 1940s. When the cement was laid for the building, Eyring sprayed it with a special hose to help it cure better. It is said that this cement never cracked. Shortly after the building was dedicated, Eyring died from cancer which had afflicted him for many years. In 1954, it was renamed the Carl F. Eyring Science Center in his honor. Loren C. Dunn was among those who studied under Eyring. Notes External links Carl F. Eyring lecture notes, UA 7 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University Faculty biographical records, containing files on Carl F. Eyring, UA 909 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University References Church News, April 14, 1998. Category:1889 births Category:1951 deaths Category:Brigham Young University faculty Category:Mexican emigrants to the United States Category:Mexican leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Category:Mission presidents (LDS Church) Category:American Mormon missionaries in the United States Category:20th-century Mormon missionaries Category:People from Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua Category:Bennion–Eyring family Category:Deaths from cancer in Utah Category:Sunday School (LDS Church) people Category:Latter Day Saints from Utah

The Crown (album)

The Crown is the seventeenth studio album by American rapper Z-Ro. It was released on June 23, 2014 through Rap-A-Lot Records/J. Prince Entertainment with distribution via RED. Recording sessions took place at King of the Ghetto Studio in Houston. Production was handled solely by Leroy "Mr. Lee" Williams, who also served as executive producer with J. Prince and King Shaun. The album features guest appearances from Chris Ward, Kez, King Shaun and Billy Brasco. Track listing Personnel Joseph Wayne McVey IV – primary artist, songwriter Chris Ward – featured artist & songwriter (track 2) Kez Jones – featured artist & songwriter (track 3) "King" Shaun Morrow – featured artist & songwriter (track 12), executive producer W. "Billy Brasco" Brown – featured artist & songwriter (track 13) Leroy Williams, Jr. – producer, songwriter, executive producer, mixing (tracks: 1-11, 13-15), mastering James A. Smith – executive producer Joshua David Moore – mixing, mastering Kevin "Supa K" Miles – mixing (tracks: 1-11, 13-15), A&R Matt Kennedy – mixing (track 14) Tony "Big Chief" Randle – A&R Anzel "Int'l Red" Jennings – A&R Chris Hall – production coordinator Danielgotskillz – artwork Mike Mack – marketing and promotions director Alvin "Short Dog" Stafford – marketing and promotions director References Category:2014 albums Category:Z-Ro albums

Henri Richelet

Henri Richelet (16 June 1944 – 18 March 2020) was a French painter. Biography Born to primary school teachers in a small village close to Domrémy, the birthplace of Joan of Arc, Henri Richelet spent his childhood and adolescence in the neighbouring small town of Neufchâteau (Vosges). After his Baccalauréat, he first attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, then the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1968, he got the First Grand Prix of the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid in the etching category. He has been living in Paris since the seventies after having spent a few years in Quebec. He was married to the Chilean painter Ximena Armas. Besides his participation in group exhibitions since 1963, Richelet made numerous solo exhibitions between 1965 and 2007 in France, Quebec and Chile. He also regularly took part in several salons such as: Salon d'Automne, Salon de Mai, Salon Comparaisons, Salon Grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Salon de Boulogne-Billancourt, Salon d'art contemporain de Montrouge, Salon Figuration critique. During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, he died of COVID-19 on 18 March 2020 in Paris, aged 75. Works Richelet's provocative humour made him choose gloomy colours. Following the tradition of Caravaggio, or of Georges de La Tour in his Saint Jérôme pénitent, he uses dark backgrounds to make livid and pallid flesh of tense, hunched up bodies stand out. ″Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas,″ he was fond of reminding us. This apophthegm haunts many works of his, where his obsession with sex and death is expressed by a parallel between impotence and incapacity to create. One can be surprised, in some of his canvases, by the warm vermilion of a drape, a borrowing which would not have been renounced by the two old masters he so admired. Energetic lines in his paintings, drawings, and etchings oddly bring corpses, broken and mutilated in their physical beauty, on the verge of Death. Works in museum collections Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile : Ne pas toucher : Indian ink on paper (51 x 60 cm). Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile : Derniers outrages : oil painting on canvas (100 x 81 cm). Solo exhibitions 1965 : Casino de Contrexéville, France. 1968 : Maison des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 1971 : Galerie Beaudelaire, Quebec. Galerie Chantauteuil, Quebec. 1974 : Galerie L’Art du Monde, Paris. 1976 : Galerie L'Estuaire, Honfleur, France. 1990 : Galerie Ceibo, Paris. 1996 : Hôtel de Ville, Neufchâteau, France. 1998 : Galerie Thermale, Contrexéville, France. 1999 : Galería Modigliani, Viña del Mar, Chile. 2001 : Musée Roybet–Fould, Courbevoie, France. Galerie Aux créations du possible, Paris. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile. 2006 : Galería Modigliani, Viña del Mar, Chile. 2007 : Le Trait d’Union, Neufchâteau, France. Main group exhibitions 1969 & 1970 : Casa de Velázquez, Madrid. Salle Comtesse de Caen, Institut de France, Paris. 1977–1978 : La Boîte, ARC 2, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. 1981 : Cent gravures contemporaines, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France. 1982 & 1987 : Casa de Velázquez, Madrid. Salle Comtesse de Caen, Institut de France, Paris. 1991 : Art contemporain international, Château de la Bonnetière, Haut-Poitou, France. 1996 : 3e Festival de l’art actuel, Château d’O, Orne, France. 1997 : Dialogue Est-Ouest Art Festival, Vayolles, France. 2000 : Variations, Espace Belleville, Paris. 2003 : Hommage à S. Allende, Ris-Orangis, France. 2004 : George Sand, interprétations, Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France. Bibliography References External links Henri Richelet's official Web site Previous works Recent pastels Recent drawings Category:1944 births Category:2020 deaths Category:People from Vosges (department) Category:Alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Category:20th-century French painters Category:French male painters Category:21st-century French painters Category:French etchers Category:French erotic artists Category:French lithographic artists Category:20th-century French printmakers Category:Deaths from the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Paris

Bentonyx

Bentonyx (meaning "Bentons' claw") is an extinct genus of rhynchosaur from the middle Triassic epoch of Devon in England. Its fossil, a well preserved skull, BRSUG 27200, was discovered in Otter Sandstone Formation (late Anisian age) and was first assigned to Rhynchosaurus spenceri, that is known from 25 specimens. This species was reassigned to its own genus, Fodonyx, that was first described by David W. E. Hone and Michael Benton in 2008. More recently, this skull was reassigned to this genus by Max C. Langer, Felipe C. Montefeltro, David E. Hone, Robin Whatley and Cesar L. Schultz in 2010 and the type species is Bentonyx sidensis. The Cladogram below is based on work by Martin Ezcurra et al. References Category:Rhynchosaurs Category:Middle Triassic reptiles of Europe Category:Fossil taxa described in 2010 Category:Anisian life

TCDD DH44100

DH44100 was a series of six diesel-hydraulic shunters bought by the Turkish State Railways from Maschinenbau Kiel in 1955. The units were very close to the DB Class V 65 used by Deutsche Bundesbahn. External links Trains of Turkey page on DH44100 Category:MaK locomotives Category:D locomotives Category:Turkish State Railways diesel locomotives Category:Standard gauge locomotives of Turkey Category:Railway locomotives introduced in 1955

1995 Uzbek presidential term referendum

A referendum on extending President Islam Karimov's term was held in Uzbekistan on 26 March 1995. The proposal would see Karimov remain in office until 2000. It was approved by 99.6% of voters, with a 99.3% turnout. The referendum was held a few months before Karimov's current term was due to expire, as he had been elected in December 1991. Conduct The United States criticized the referendum for its "lack of public debate", and noted several cases where one person cast votes for their entire family. At the time, Karimov publicly stated that he considered the referendum to be the equivalent of re-election for a second term, which under the Constitution would have required him to leave office in 2000. However, the legislature passed a resolution opposing the decision, leading Karimov to announce he would run for re-election in 2000. Results References Uzbekistan Category:1995 in Uzbekistan Category:Referendums in Uzbekistan

James Williams (Ohio Auditor)

James Williams (May 21, 1822 – November 1892) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was in the Ohio House of Representatives, and was Ohio State Auditor 1872–1880. James Williams was born in Prince George's County, Maryland, and moved with his family to Mechanicsburg, Champaign County, Ohio in 1831. He was educated, studied medicine, and was admitted to practice in 1843. In 1849, he caught Gold Fever, and went to California. When Williams returned to Champaign County in 1851, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives for the 50th General Assembly in 1852–1853. In 1856, Williams went to the State Capitol in Columbus with Ohio State Auditor Francis M. Wright, and served for sixteen years as clerk, chief clerk and deputy in the office. He was elected as State Auditor in 1871 and re-elected in 1875, serving eight years. Williams died at his home in Mechanicsburg in November, 1892. He was married to Sarah Staley of Champaign County in 1848. Notes References Category:Ohio Republicans Category:People from Mechanicsburg, Ohio Category:State Auditors of Ohio Category:Members of the Ohio House of Representatives Category:1822 births Category:1892 deaths Category:Physicians from Ohio Category:19th-century American politicians Category:People from Prince George's County, Maryland

No friend but the mountains

"No friend but the mountains" is a Kurdish proverb which is expressed to signify their feeling of betrayal, abandonment and loneliness due to their history as a semi-stateless ethinic minority in the Middle East without faithful allies. See also No Friend But the Mountains, memoir by Iranian-Kurdish writer References Further reading Literature Documentary Category:Kurdish-language culture Category:Proverbs

Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents

The Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents is a large collection of non-litigious legal forms and precedents published by LexisNexis UK. The encyclopaedia is available in hard copy, on a searchable online database, and on CD-ROM. It currently consists of 90+ volumes which are subject to constant alteration, as volumes are regularly revised and reissued to reflect changes in the law. Subscribers are provided with frequent updates in the form of modifications to the online database, and a quarterly looseleaf service. The encyclopaedia is most often subscribed to and utilised by legal practices and academic institutions. The First Edition was published in 17 volumes from 1902 to 1910. The Second Edition was published in 20 volumes in 1925. The Third Edition was published in 20 volumes from 1946 to 1951. References See also Halsbury's Laws of England Halsbury's Statutes ''LexisNexis Butterworths Category:Law books Category:Legal literature Category:Legal research Category:English law Category:Encyclopedias of law

2004 Indian general election

General elections were held in India in four phases between 20 April and 10 May 2004. Over 670 million people were eligible to vote, electing 543 members of the 14th Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha, or "House of the People," is the directly elected lower house of the Parliament of India. On 13 May, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its alliance National Democratic Alliance conceded defeat. The Indian National Congress, which had governed India for all but five years from independence until 1996, returned to power after a record eight years out of office. It was able to put together a comfortable majority of more than 335 members out of 543 with the help of its allies. The 335 members included both the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance, the governing coalition formed after the election, as well as external support from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Kerala Congress (KC) and the Left Front. (External support is support from parties that are not part of the governing coalition). Congress President Sonia Gandhi surprised observers by declining to become the new prime minister, instead asking former Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, a respected economist, to head the new government. Singh had previously served in the Congress government of Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in the early 1990s, where he was seen as one of the architects of India's first economic liberalisation plan, which staved off an impending national monetary crisis. Despite the fact that Singh had never won a Lok Sabha seat, his considerable goodwill and Sonia Gandhi's nomination won him the support of the UPA allies and the Left Front. Seven states also held assembly elections to elect state governments along with the parliamentary elections Organisation The election dates for the parliamentary elections were: 20 April - 141 constituencies 26 April - 137 constituencies 5 May - 83 constituencies 10 May - 182 constituencies Counting began simultaneously on 13 May. Over 370 million of the 675 million eligible citizens voted, with election violence claiming 48 lives, less than half the number killed during the 1999 election. The Indian elections were held in phases in order to maintain law and order. A few states considered sensitive areas required deployment of the armed forces. The average enrolment of voters in each constituency is 1.2 million, although the largest constituency has 3.1 million. The Election Commission of India is responsible for deciding the dates and conducting elections according to constitutional provisions. The Election Commission employed more than a million electronic voting machines for these elections. According to the magazine India Today, 115.62 billion rupees (approx US$2.6 billion) were expected to have been spent in campaigning for the elections by all political parties combined. Most of the money was spent on the people involved in the election. The Election Commission limited poll expenses to Rs. 2.5 million ($57,000 approx.) per constituency. Thus, the actual spending is expected to have been approximately 10 times the limit. About 6.5 billion rupees (approx. $150 million) are estimated to have been spent on mobilising 150,000 vehicles. About a billion rupees are estimated to have been spent on helicopters and aircraft. Political background Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had recommended premature dissolution of the 13th Lok Sabha (in accordance with a provision of the Constitution) to pave the way for early elections apparently in view of the recent good showing of the BJP in the Assembly elections in four states. The two "major parties" in India are the BJP (led by Vajpayee) and the Congress (led by Sonia Gandhi). The Chief Election Commissioner who conducted the 2004 general elections in India was T.S.Krishnamurthy Pre-poll alliances In these elections, compared to all the Lok Sabha elections of the 1990s, the battle was more of a head-to-head contest in the sense that there was no viable third front alternative. Largely the contest was between BJP and its allies on one hand and Congress and its allies on the other. The situation did, however, show large regional differences. The BJP fought the elections as part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), although some of its seat-sharing agreements were made with strong regional parties outside of the NDA such as Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Andhra Pradesh and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in Tamil Nadu. Ahead of the elections there were attempts to form a Congress-led national level joint opposition front. In the end, an agreement could not be reached, but on regional level alliances between Congress and regional parties were made in several states. This was the first time that Congress contested with that type of alliances in a parliamentary election. The left parties, most notably the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India, contested on their own in their strongholds West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala, confronting both Congress and NDA forces. In several other states, such as Punjab and Andhra Pradesh, they took part in seat sharings with Congress. In Tamil Nadu they were part of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led Democratic Progressive Alliance. Two parties refused to go along with either Congress or BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party. Both are based in Uttar Pradesh, the largest state of India (in terms of population). Congress made several attempts to form alliances with them, but in vain. Many believed that they would become the 'spoilers' that would rob Congress of an electoral victory. The result was a four-cornered contest in UP, which didn't really hurt or benefit Congress or BJP significantly. Forecast and campaigns Most analysts believed the NDA would win the elections. This assessment was also supported by opinion polls. The economy had shown steady growth in the last few months and the disinvestment of government owned production units (a continuation of India's liberalisation policies initiated in the early 1990s) had been on track. The Foreign Exchange Reserves of India stood at more than US$100 billion (7th largest in the world and a record for India). The service sector had also generated a lot of jobs. The party was supposed to have been riding on a wave of the so-called "feel good factor", typified by its promotional campaign "India Shining". In the past, BJP has largely been seen as a hard-line Hindu party with close ties with the Hindu organisation the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Over the years, the party has slightly distanced itself from its Hindutva policies, a change that is being questioned after the party's poor showing in the elections. These elections were marked by the campaign's emphasis on economic gains. From the last few elections, BJP had realised that its voter base had reached a ceiling and had concentrated on pre-poll rather than post-poll alliances. The foreign origin of Sonia Gandhi also constituted part of the NDA's campaign. Results Support for formation of UPA-led Government Results by states and territories States Territories Results by Parties Results by alliances Votes and seats of the major parties are compared with those won in the 1999 election |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" colspan="2"|Alliance ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;vertical-align:top;" colspan="2"|Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Votes ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |% ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" |Change |- |style="background-color:" rowspan="12"|   |style="text-align:left;" rowspan="12"|United Progressive Alliance |rowspan="12"| 138,312,337 |rowspan="12"| 35.4 |rowspan="12"| +1.9 |rowspan="12"| 218 |rowspan="12"| +83 |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | Indian National Congress | 103,405,272 | 26.7 | -1.6 | 145 | +32 |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | (National People's Party) | 8,613,302 | 2.2 | -0.5 | 21 | +12 |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | (Dravidian Progress Federation) | 7,064,393 | 1.8 | +0.1 | 16 | +4 |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | Nationalist Congress Party | 6,915,740 | 1.8 | -0.5 | 9 | +1 |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | (People's Power Party) | 2,771,427 | 0.6 | ? | 4 | ? |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | (Telangana State Front) | 2,441,405 | 0.6 | ? | 2 | ? |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | (Labour Party) | 2,169,020 | 0.5 | -0.1 | 6 | +1 |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | (Jharkhand Liberation Front) | 1,846,843 | 0.5 | - | 5 | - |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | (Progressive Dravidian Renaissance Organisation) | 1,679,870 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 4 | - |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | Indian Union Muslim League | 770,098 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1 | +1 |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | Republican Party of India (Athvale) | 367,510 | 0.1 | ? | 1 | ? |- |style="background-color:" |   | style="text-align:left;" | Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party | 267,457 | 0.0 | - | 1 | - |- |style="background-color:" rowspan="9"|   |style="text-align:left;" rowspan="9"|National Democratic Alliance |rowspan="9"| 128,931,001 |rowspan="9"| 33.3 |rowspan="9"| -3.8 |rowspan="9"| 181 |rowspan="9"| -89 |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Indian People's Party) | 85,866,593 | 22.2 | -1.5 | 138 | -44 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (People's Party (United)) | 9,924,209 | 2.6 | -0.5 | 8 | -11 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (All India Annadurai Progressive Dravidian Organisation) | 8,547,014 | 2.2 | ? | 0 | ? |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Nationalist Trinamool Congress | 8,047,771 | 2.1 | -0.5 | 2 | -6 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Army of Shivaji) | 7,056,075 | 1.8 | +0.2 | 12 | -3 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Biju Janata Dal (Biju People's Party) | 5,084,428 | 1.3 | +0.1 | 11 | +1 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Shiromani Akali Dal (Akali Religious Party) | 3,506,681 | 0.9 | +0.2 | 8 | +6 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Nagaland People's Front | 715,366 | 0.2 | - | 1 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Mizo National Front | 182,864 | 0.0 | - | 1 | - |- |style="background-color:" rowspan="4"|   |style="text-align:left;" rowspan="4"|Left Front |rowspan="4"| 30,578,698 |rowspan="4"| 7.7 |rowspan="4"| -0.9 |rowspan="4"| 59 |rowspan="4"| +17 |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 22,061,677 | 5.7 | +0.3 | 43 | +11 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Communist Party of India | 5,434,738 | 1.4 | -0.1 | 10 | +6 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Revolutionary Socialist Party | 1,717,228 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 3 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | All India Forward Bloc | 1,365,055 | 0.2 | ? | 3 | ? |- |style="background-color:" rowspan=14|  |style="text-align:left;" colspan=6 rowspan=14|Other |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Majority Society Party) | 20,713,468 | 5.3 | +1.1 | 19 | +5 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Socialist Party) | 16,645,356 | 4.3 | +0.5 | 36 | +10 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Party of the Telugu People) | 11,844,811 | 3.0 | -0.6 | 5 | -24 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (People's Party (Secular)) | 5,732,296 | 1.5 | +0.6 | 3 | +2 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (National People's Party) | 2,463,607 |0.6 |? |3 |? |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Assam People's Association) | 2,069,610 | 0.5 | - | 2 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Jammu and Kashmir National Conference | 493,067 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 2 | -2 |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (All India Council of United Muslims) | 378,854 | 0.1 | ? | 1 | ? |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Kerala Congress | 353,529 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Sikkim Democratic Front | 153,409 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (National Democratic Party) |367,049 |0.1 |? |1 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Socialist People's Party (National)) |337,386 |0.1 |? |1 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Indian Federal Democratic Party |256,411 |0.1 |? |1 | - |- |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | (Indian New Force Party) |171,080 |0.1 |? |1 | - |- |colspan="7"|  |style="background-color:"|   | style="text-align:left;" | Independents | - | - | - | 5 | - |- | style="text-align:left;" colspan=2 | Total |colspan="7"|  | 387,453,223 | - | - | 543 | - |- |colspan= 14 style="text-align:left;"|Source: Election Commission of India |} Elected MPs See separate article, List of Members of the 14th Lok Sabha Results by post-alliance/allies There are a maximum of 545 members of Parliament: 543 elected, and two may be nominated by the President to represent the Anglo-Indian community. Repolling was ordered in four constituencies due to irregularities. The results in the remaining constituencies were as follows (parties recognised by the Election Commission as national parties are in italics, and regional or state parties in Roman font): Congress and allies: 275 Indian National Congress: 145 Samajwadi Party: 39 Rashtriya Janata Dal: 21 Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 16 Nationalist Congress Party: 9 Kerala Congress: 2 Pattali Makkal Katchi: 6 Telangana Rashtra Samithi: 5 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha: 5 Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: 4 Lok Jan Shakti Party: 3 Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party: 1 Republican Party of India: 1 Muslim League: 1 BJP and allies: 185 Bharatiya Janata Party: 138 Shiv Sena: 12 Biju Janata Dal: 11 Shiromani Akali Dal: 8 Janata Dal (United): 7 Nationalist Trinamool Congress: 2 Nagaland People's Front: 1 Mizo National Front: 1 Left Parties: 60 Communist Party of India (Marxist): 43 Communist Party of India: 10 Revolutionary Socialist Party: 3 All India Forward Bloc: 3 LDF-supported Independent: 1 Other parties: 78 Bahujan Samaj Party: 19 Telugu Desam Party: 5 Janata Dal (Secular): 4 Rashtriya Lok Dal: 3 Asom Gana Parishad: 2 Jammu and Kashmir National Conference: 2 Indian Federal Democratic Party: 1 Loktantrik Jan Samta Party: 1 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen: 1 Bharatiya Navshakti Party: 1 National Loktantrik Party: 1 Sikkim Democratic Front: 1 Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya): 1 Independents: 3 Analysis Though pre-poll predictions were for an overwhelming majority for the BJP, the exit polls (immediately after the elections and before the counting began) predicted a hung parliament. However, even the exit polls could only indicate the general trend and nowhere close to the final figures. There is also the general perception that as soon as the BJP started realising that events might not proceed entirely in its favour, it changed the focus of its campaign from India Shining to issues of stability. The Congress, who was regarded as "old-fashioned" by the ruling BJP, was largely backed by poor, rural, lower-caste and minority voters that did not participate in the economic boom of previous years that created a large wealthy middle class and thus achieved its overwhelming victory. Another reason which was not mentioned much but still spoken of in the public was that BJP supporters are working-class people, and the poll surveys predicted BJP win, and therefore they did not reach the ballot. Whereas the Congress support base, the weaker sections of the society, don't miss voting at all. Another more prominent reason came from checking the RSS contribution, RSS cadres reached Vajpayee over the killing of 4 RSS workers in Assam, and Vajpayee disappointed them. RSS backed off, and results were evident. Other possible reasons that have been given for the NDA defeat are: People were more concerned about issues of their immediate environment such as water scarcity, drought, etc., than national issues. The anti-incumbency factor was at work for the BJP allies. It is also believed that voters, regardless of which country they are in, are enthused by negative messages and are indifferent to positive messages. It is generally believed that RSS plays an important role in mobilising the BJP supporters, the results were not for the win for Congress led UPA, but more for the defeat of BJP led NDA. And, the reason was that RSS did not mobilise the voters and BJP cadres. Impact The rout of the ruling parties in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the general elections led to calls for the dissolution of the governments of these states. The stock market (Bombay Stock Exchange) fell in the week prior to the announcement of the results due to fears of an unstable coalition. As soon as counting began, however, it became clear that the Congress coalition was headed for a sizeable lead over the NDA and the market surged, only to crash the following day when the left parties, whose support would be required for government formation, announced that it was their intention to do away with the disinvestment ministry. Following this, Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister (in office 2004-14) and the prime architect of the economic liberalisation of the early 1990s, hurried to reassure investors that the new government would strive to create a business-friendly climate. Events 13 May - The Congress and allies win a plurality of seats in the Lok Sabha (219 seats against 188 for the BJP). 13 May - Counting of votes in the parliamentary elections begins. 11 May - Congress wins the Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh by 2/3 majority. 10 May - The fourth and final phase of elections comes to an end. Results will come out for 542 of the 543 parliament seats with elections to be held again in Chhapra. 5 May - Third phase of polling comes to an end with the ruling coalition government gaining seats according to exit polls but still off the victory target. Reports of booth capturing in Chhapra capture headlines. 26 April - Second phase of elections sees 55-60% polling. This is the final phase for assembly elections. Polling covers 136 parliamentary constituencies in 11 states. The share market starts to crash as it becomes evident that the NDA government may find it hard to come back to power—raising doubts about the continuation of economic reforms initiated by the NDA government. 22 April - Tripura, where polling was delayed because of a local holiday, votes for its two MPs. A turnout of close to 60% is reported, despite calls for abstention made by separatist militants. 20 April - The first phase of the vote is held, with average turnouts of between 50% and 55%. Voting is reported as brisk, and the day unfolds relatively smoothly, albeit with some glitches reported with the electronic voting machines. Isolated violent incidents take place in Kashmir, Jammu, Manipur, and Jharkhand. 8 April - The NDA's top leaders meet in New Delhi to adopt its manifesto for the elections, "Agenda for Development and Good Governance". 7 April - Ram Jethmalani says he will contest the elections against Prime Minister Vajpayee as an independent candidate from Lucknow. He claims he will be supported by the Congress and some other parties. 6 April - The BJP and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) tell the Election Commission that they will not stop raising the issue of the foreign origin of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. 4 April - A First Information Report is lodged against external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha for alleged violation of election code of conduct during a poll meeting in Ranchi. Besides Sinha, FIRs were lodged against three other BJP leaders who participated in the meeting. See also State Assembly Elections in India, 2004 Election Commission of India 2002 Indian presidential election Further reading Shastri, Sandeep, K.C. Suri & Yogendra Yadav (2009) (ed.). Electoral Politics in Indian States : Lok Sabha Elections in 2004 and Beyond, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, References External links Election Commission of India Parliament of India Interactive map at rediff.com Report from Mumbai, Gujarat during 2004 election

A15 phases

The A15 phases (also known as β-W or Cr3Si structure types) are series of intermetallic compounds with the chemical formula A3B (where A is a transition metal and B can be any element) and a specific structure. Many of these compounds have superconductivity at around , which is comparatively high, and remain superconductive in magnetic fields of tens of teslas (hundreds of kilogauss). This kind of superconductivity (Type-II superconductivity) is an important area of study as it has several practical applications. History The first time that A15 structure was observed was in 1931 when an electrolytically deposited layer of tungsten was examined. Discussion of whether the β–tungsten structure is an allotrope of tungsten or the structure of a tungsten suboxide was long-standing, and even in 1998 articles about the discussion were published. It seems most likely the material is a true allotrope of tungsten. The first inter-metallic compound discovered with typical A3B composition was chromium silicide Cr3Si, discovered in 1933. Several other compounds with A15 structure were discovered in following years. No large interest existed in research on those compounds. This changed with the discovery that vanadium silicide V3Si showed superconductivity at around 17 K in 1953. In following years, several other A3B superconductors were found. Niobium-germanium held the record for the highest temperature of 23.2 K from 1973 until the discovery of the cuprate superconductors in 1986. It took time for the method to produce wires from the very brittle A15 phase materials to be established. This method is still complicated. Though some A15 phase materials can withstand higher magnetic field intensity and have higher critical temperatures than the NbZr and NbTi alloys, NbTi is still used for most applications due to easier manufacturing. Nb3Sn is used for some high field applications, for example high-end MRI scanners and NMR spectrometers. A relaxed form of the Voronoi diagram of the A15 phase seems to have the least surface area among all the possible partitions of three-dimensional Euclidean space in regions of equal volume. This partition, also known as the Weaire–Phelan structure, is often present in clathrate hydrates. Examples Vanadium-silicon Vanadium-gallium Niobium-germanium Niobium-tin Titanium-gold References Further reading Category:Intermetallics Category:Superconductors Category:Crystal structure types

Cotter (farmer)

Cotter, cottier, cottar, or is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer (formerly in the Scottish Highlands for example). Cotters occupied cottages and cultivated small land lots. The word cotter is often employed to translate the recorded in the Domesday Book, a social class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion among historians, and is still a matter of doubt. According to Domesday, the were comparatively few, numbering fewer than seven thousand people. They were scattered unevenly throughout England, located principally in the counties of Southern England. They either cultivated a small plot of land, or worked on the holdings of the . Like the , among whom they were frequently classed, their economic condition may be described as free in relation to every one except their lord. A cottar or cottier is also a term for a tenant who was renting land from a farmer or landlord. Scotland Cottars were between a third and a half of the rural population of the Scottish Lowlands for the 17th and most of the 18th century. They held small amounts of land from lease-holding farming tenants of the traditional fermetouns. They provided labour, especially at the peak times of ploughing and harvest, in lieu of monetary rent. Many were also engaged in trades, such as weaving, or blacksmithing. The agricultural improvement that transformed the rural economy of the Lowlands in the 18th century, created larger farms with fewer tenants. From the 1770s onwards, this left no place for the cottar: many migrated to the nearby developing industrial towns, others became farm servants or day labourers for the new larger farms. Highland Cottars (including on the islands, such as Mull) were affected by the Industrial Revolution. Landowners realized that they could make more money from sheep, whose wool was spun and processed into textiles for export, than crops. The landowners raised rents to unaffordable prices, or forcibly evicted entire villages. This resulted in the mass exodus of peasants and cotters, leading to an influx of former cotters into industrial centers, such as a burgeoning Glasgow. Cottars were often idealised in Scottish pastoral poetry of the 18th century, such as "The Cotter's Saturday Night" by Robert Burns and "The Farmer's Ingle" by Robert Fergusson. Germany A Kö(t)ter, Köt(h)ner, Kätner, singular and plural forms are identical, or Kotsasse(n [pl.]), and especially in Prussia and Mecklenburg also Kossat(h)e(n [pl.]), Kossater (sg./pl.) or Kossäte(n [pl.]), was a villager in medieval Europe who lived in a simple dwelling known as a Kate(n [pl.]) or Kotten (sg./pl.) ("cottage"). The term Kötter is recorded in Germany from the 14th century. The term Kossäte is derived from Low German and translates "who sits in a cottage". Cotter houses (Kate or Kotten) were detached houses near German villages, used as homes and workshops. Many of these Kotten/Cotter houses still remain. The farmsteads of Kötter were generally sited on the edge of a village or were sub-divisions of an old farm. Because the return on their land was frequently insufficient to sustain their livelihood, they usually supplemented their income with a craft or trade, or by working as day labourers (Tagelöhner) on bigger farms or at manor houses. They usually had a plot of land of between an eighth and a half an oxgang (Hufe); they had few cattle and no more than one horse. In most cases the cottage or Kate had a small vegetable garten that also provided a secondary source of income. Most Kätner had another main occupation. They were e. g. teachers, craftsmen or, if their land was sufficient, farmers. Their land was beyond the fields (Flur) allocated to the full-time farmers or Hufnern. The Kötter usually had a small share in the common land. In the social agricultural hierarchy a Kötter ranked below the full-time farmer or Vollbauer, but above the Büdner, who just owned a house and garden and earned his living as a tradesman, and above the various categories of day labourer (the Inste and the Tagelöhner). Around the middle of the 15th century, encouraged by a form of primogeniture known as the Anerbenrecht and by the rapid population growth, the Kötter were divided into Erbkötter and Markkötter. The former, who normally arose as a result of the division of land, always had a house and garden within the village, or within a farming community, something which was considered essential for reasons of protection and mutual assistance. Now, land that could be farmed, no matter how poor, was cleared elsewhere in the parish; often miles away from the village or nearest settlement, and in its middle a so-called Markkotten was built which was allocated to the Markkötter where he had to live. The Markkötter was not really given an inheritance proper and he ranked below the Erbkötter. Unlike the heirs or old farmers (Altbauern), none of this group inherited the family farm. Both groups of Kötter - the Erbkötter and Markkötter - were still higher in the social hierarchy than the Heuerling, who were, legally and economically, more dependant on the owners of their cottages. Poland The Polish equivalent of the cotter (at least to the 19th century) was the Pachciarz krów. The term translates as "Cow tenant". One of the functions of the Pachciarz krów was to supply the landowner with milk and other bovine produce. Ireland One definition of cottier in Ireland (c.1700–1850) was a person who rented a simple cabin and between one and one and a half acres of land upon which to grow potatoes, oats, and possibly flax. The ground was held on a year-to-year basis and rent was often paid in labour. Usually, the land available to the cottier class was land that the owners considered unprofitable for any other use. The cottier existed at subsistence level because of high rents and the competition for land and labour. The more prosperous cottier worked for his landlord and received cash after rent and other expenses were deducted. There was no incentive to improve a land holding, as any such improvement usually prompted a rent increase. During the early decades of the nineteenth century, the situation for cottiers worsened considerably as the population continued to expand. This way of life was brought abruptly to a close by the effects of the potato blight, which resulted in death by starvation and disease of many peasants, with consequent depopulation, of the Great Famine of 1845–49. After the Famine, the cottier class almost completely disappeared. See also Serfdom Notes References External links KÖTER,KÖTHER,KÖTTER, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1854-1960 More on the Kossäten Entry KOTHSASZ,KOTSASZ in Grimm's Deutsches Wörterbuch Website about Knechte and Mägde, Insten, Kätner and Hufner Category:1770s disestablishments in Scotland Category:1849 disestablishments in Ireland Category:Agriculture in Europe Category:Feudalism in Scotland Category:German feudalism Category:German words and phrases Category:History of agriculture Category:History of the Scottish Highlands Category:Peasants Category:Scottish words and phrases Category:Social class in Germany Category:Social class in Ireland Category:Social class in Poland Category:Social class in the United Kingdom Category:Social history of Scotland

Peter Quillin

Peter Quillin (born June 22, 1983) is an American professional boxer who held the WBO middleweight title from 2012 to 2014. Early Life Peter Quillin (born June 22, 1983) was born in 1983 in Chicago, Illinois but was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During his amateur boxing career he had 15 fights and soon after the tall, aggressive fighter turned pro in New York.He said on his early life "Homelessness, a rotten childhood, no love in my household growing up, drugs, sexual assault, with all these things I experienced in life. No one can say my life isn’t a miracle." Professional career Quillin turned professional on June 9, 2005 after signing with promoter Cedric Kushner. In April 2008, Quillin dominated former contender Antwun Echols. On June 11, 2008, Peter defeated Dionisio Miranda by unanimous decision at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City. Quillin won most of the early rounds of the fight and was cruising Miranda in the seventh round. Peter would recover well in the eight round, after being caught by Dionisio. Then Quillin fought the last two rounds of the fight effectively, with the final judges’ scores being 97-92, 97-92 and 97-93. In April 2010, Peter moved from New York City to Los Angeles to train with 4-time trainer of the year Freddie Roach. On April 29, 2011, Quillin stopped title contender Jesse Brinkley to win the vacant United States Boxing Organisation Super Middleweight Championship in Reno, Nevada. On July 23, 2011, Quillin defeated late substitute Jason LeHoullier in Las Vegas. Although there were no knockdowns, LeHoullier was outclassed. On November 5, 2011, Quillin made his HBO debut, stopping Craig McEwan in the 6th round in Cancún, Mexico. Then in June 2012 he fought Winky Wright, winning by unanimous decision and making Wright retire. On September 4, 2014, Quillin vacated his WBO 160 pound title instead of facing the mandatory challenger Matvey Korobov for a purse that would have been over three times greater than any previous purse Quillin had received in his career. On April 11, 2015, Quillin returned to the ring to fight Andy Lee at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York in his Premier Boxing Champions debut, live on NBC. Due to not making weight at the weigh-in however, Quillin was ineligible to win Lee's WBO World Middleweight Title. In the first round, Quillin dropped Lee hard with an overhand right near the end of round one, and scored a questionable knockdown in round 3 when he stood on Lee's foot and tripped him. In round 7 however, Quillin tasted the canvas for the first time himself on a Lee right hook. The rest of the fight Lee boxed consistently as Quillin's work rate and accuracy dropped. By the end of the 12th round, the fight was scored 113-112 for Lee, 113-112 for Quillin, and 113-113, making the official result of the fight a split draw. On December 5, 2015, Quillin suffered the 1st defeat of his career suffering a TKO loss to Daniel Jacobs in the 1st round. On September 8, 2017, Quillin made his return to the ring winning a competitive fight with Dashon Johnson Professional boxing record References External links Peter Quillin profile at Premier Boxing Champions Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:Boxers from Illinois Category:Sportspeople from Chicago Category:American male boxers Category:World Boxing Organization champions Category:World middleweight boxing champions Category:Super-middleweight boxers

Ziyah Vastani

Ziyah Vastani (born 8 December 2003) is an Indian bollywood and television child actress. She made her Bollywood debut in 2008 with Hindi film Contract as Binty. In 2010, she played in Hindi film Bumm Bumm Bole as Rimzim. She also appeared in Indian serial Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. Her twin sister is child actress Zaynah Vastani. Television Alaxmi Ka Super Parivaar as Tina Laxman Kapadiah Ammaji Ki Galli Filmography Contract as Binty Bumm Bumm Bole as RimZim Break Ke Baad as Young Aaliya References External links Category:Living people Category:Indian television actresses Category:Indian child actresses Category:21st-century Indian child actresses Category:2003 births Category:Actresses from Kolkata

Croatian music festivals

The Croatian music festivals are a series of music festivals which showcase the top Croatian musical acts, in both traditional and contemporary music. They usually involve live performances as well as awards given by festival jurors as well as from the fans. The majority of the festivals release a compilation of the songs entered. Pop Festivals Dora This is the festival which selects Croatia's representative at the Eurovision Song Contest. It is organized by Croatian Radiotelevision. Croatian Radio Festival A popular festival which receives coverage on Croatian radio, as it organized by the Croatian Association of Radio and News. Listeners are encouraged to call in to vote for their favourite songs. Unlike other festivals, the Croatian Radio Festival has no permanent home and moves host cities each year. Split Festival Begun in 1960, the Split Music Festival is one of the oldest in Croatia. It has a heavy emphasis on the music of Dalmatia. Zagrebfest The oldest Croatian music festival, Zagrebfest is oriented towards urban chansons and schlagers. It has suffered in recent years as many of the top Croatian pop acts have been from Dalmatia. Zadarfest A pop music festival held in the coastal city of Zadar. Evenings of Dalmatian Chansons Held annually in Šibenik, this festival focusses on the chansons of the Dalmatian region. Melodije Mostara Held in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, this festival primarily draws Croatian singers. It is organized by the city of Mostar and sponsored by Aluminij, the largest Bosnian Croat firm. Etnofest Neum Another festival based in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this one takes place in the coastal city of Neum. Unlike in Mostar, Etnofest only features Croatian music and focusses on music with a folk sound. Marco Polo Fest A somewhat smaller pop festival held on the island of Korčula. Melodije Istre i Kvarnera A festival held in several towns in Istria and Kvarner which focusses mostly on the regional music. Folk Festivals Festival kajkavske popevke Held annually in Krapina since 1966, this festival features original songs inspired by the traditional folk music of Hrvatsko Zagorje, and sung in the Kajkavian dialect. Zlatne žice Slavonije A festival of both tambura and pop music held annually in Požega in late August or early September. Rock Festivals Urban Fest Osijek Features less traditional Croatian music such as hard rock, alternative rock and electronica. It is held in Osijek. Hartera Festival is held in Rijeka, in former paper factory halls. First festival was held in 2005. and there were two stages - one for rock/alternative and one for electro music. In 2007. it was divided in two days. Electronic Festivals Love international festival Festival is held in Tisno. Hospitality On The Beach Festival is held in Tisno. SuncéBeat 9 Festival is held in Tisno. Soundwave Festival Croatia Festival is held in Tisno. Defected Croatia 2018 Festival is held in Tisno. Dekmantel Selectors Festival is held in Tisno. Seasplash Festival Festival is held in Pula. Outlook Festival Festival is held in Pula. Dimensions Festival Festival is held in Pula. Unknown Festival Festival is held near Rovinj. Classical Music Biennale Zagreb An international festival of contemporary classical music Dubrovačke ljetne igre Musical Evenings in St. Donatus A classical music festival which takes place in Zadar. Varaždin Baroque Evenings A festival of baroque music in the baroque city of Varaždin. Osor Musical Evenings A classical music festival which takes place in Osor on the island of Cres. English Radar Festival''' A summer music festival featuring foreign rock bands. See also Music of Croatia croatiafestivals.co.uk * Music festivals Category:Music-related lists

Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage

Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage is an action video game developed by Viacom New Media (a then-sister company to Nickelodeon, who had broadcast Looney Tunes cartoons at the time of the game's release) and published by Sunsoft released exclusively for the SNES in 1994. The player controls Bugs Bunny as he fights traditional Looney Tunes villains in order to confront the main villain of the story, animator Daffy Duck. The game's title is derived from the 1955 animated short Rabbit Rampage, which follows a similar plot of Bugs at the mercy of an antagonistic animator, revealed to be Elmer Fudd. The characters in the game were voiced by Greg Burson. Gameplay The goal of the game is to guide Bugs who is trapped by Daffy Duck in a painting and has to traverse through various stages based on old Looney Tunes shorts. Bugs can jump, dive into holes, and attack by either jumping, kicking, pieing, or perform a spin attack that drains his health which is in the form of a carrot. He can regain his health by finding carrots which become scarce as the game progresses as well as items that either stun or kill enemies in one hit. The game features characters such as Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil, and Wile E. Coyote. Many of whom function as a boss towards the end of a level. The levels vary from simply going left to right to making your way down while avoiding enemies who become harder to defeat such as pigs who harm Bugs with various projectiles coming from their slingshots, robots who will electrocute Bugs if he gets too close and black cats that can cause Bugs to get crushed by various objects such as safes and horses due to superstition if he crosses their path. In some levels you have to learn how to out think and out maneuver the boss such as Toro the Bull from Bully For Bugs and Taz while also figuring out how to damage them. In the final level Bugs has to spill all of the paint Daffy uses while avoiding his 3 alter egos. After spilling all of the paint Bugs then has to defeat Drip-Along Daffy if all the paint hasn't been spilled or Robin Hood Daffy if all the paint was spilled as well as avoid Duck Dodgers who can't be defeated at all and can kill Bugs in one hit with his laser blaster. Reception Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage garnered a highly favorable 4.3-out-of-five review from Nintendo Power, giving much praise to the graphics, animation, variety of level types and audio and writing that "Sunsoft uses the Looney Tune license for the maximum effect and fun". Notes References External links Category:1993 video games Category:Sunsoft games Category:Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Category:Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games Category:Video games based on Looney Tunes Category:Video games developed in the United States Category:Video games featuring Bugs Bunny

Teresa De Sio

Teresa De Sio (born 3 November 1952) is an Italian pop-folk singer and songwriter. She is the elder sister of actress Giuliana De Sio. Biography and career Teresa De Sio was born in Naples and grew up in Cava de' Tirreni, where her family was originally from. In 1976 she started her career as a vocalist with Eugenio Bennato and Musicanova, a group which focused on Neapolitan folk music. In 1980 she launched her solo career with the album (Sulla terra sulla luna). Her second album Teresa De Sio, sung in Neapolitan, was met with critical and commercial success and sold over 500,000 copies in italy. Her third album Tre (1982), sold over 500,000 copies and reinforced her status as one of Italy's most promising talents; some of her well-known songs from this period include Voglia 'e turnà, Aumm aumm, 'E pazzielle, Terra 'e nisciuno and Ario'. De Sio collaborated with Brian Eno for her next two albums, Africana (1985) and Sindarella suite (1988). In the 1990s her work became more politically engaged. In her 1995 album Un libero cercare she worked with Fabrizio De André and Fiorella Mannoia. In 2003 performed, along with Stewart Copeland and Vittorio Cosma at "La Notte della Taranta" in Melpignano. In 2005 De Sio participated to the 62nd edition with the documentary Craj The film was directed by Davide Marengo, and went on to win the Lino Micciché Prize. Discography Solo albums 1978 – Villanelle Popolaresche del '500 1980 – Sulla terra sulla luna 1982 – Teresa De Sio 1983 – Tre 1985 – Africana 1986 – Toledo e regina 1988 – Sindarella suite 1991 – Ombre rosse 1993 – La mappa del nuovo mondo 1995 – Un libero cercare 1997 – Primo viene l'amore 1999 – La notte del Dio che balla 2004 – A Sud! A Sud! 2007 – Sacco e fuoco 2011 - Tutto cambia Compilation albums 1991 – Voglia 'e turnà 1998 – Successi 2002 – Voglia 'e turnà e altri successi 2006 – Primo viene l'amore: Le più belle canzoni di Teresa De Sio 2012 – Primo viene l'amore: Mediterranea Singles 1995 - "Animali Italiani" 2011 - "Inno Nazionale" / "Non Dormo Mai Tutta La Notte" / "Padroni E Bestie" Notes References External links Teresa De Sio official site Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:Italian singer-songwriters Category:Italian folk singers Category:People from Cava de' Tirreni Category:Italian-language singers

Mario Martín Delgado

Mario Martín Delgado Carrillo (born 17 June 1972) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRD. He currently serves as Senator of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Mexico City. References Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:Politicians from Colima City Category:Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Category:Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians Category:21st-century Mexican politicians Category:National Regeneration Movement politicians

Phil Freeman

Phillip Emery "Phil" Freeman (born December 9, 1962) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League. He played three seasons for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1985–1987). During his time with the Buccaneers, Freeman kick returned for 1667 yards, making him one of the top kick returners in Tampa Bay Buccaneers history. References Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Saint Paul, Minnesota Category:Players of American football from Minnesota Category:American football wide receivers Category:Arizona Wildcats football players Category:Tampa Bay Buccaneers players

Andi Tóth

Andrea "Andi" Tóth (born 18 January 1999) is a Hungarian actress and singer, most notable for winning of the fifth series of X-Faktor, acting in the television show Válótársak, and for participating in A Dal. Life Tóth was born in Oradea (Nagyvárad), in Romania on 18 January 1999. She has been interested in singing since childhood and went to the Lyceum of Arts in her hometown, where she studied drawing. By age 13, she had already participated in various competitions and small performances. In 2014, she participated in the fifth season of X Faktor, of which she did not duel until the finale, and won. She became one youngest winners in X Factor history, as well as the first winner in Hungary from the Girls category. She was mentored by Róbert Szikora. In 2015, the then 16-year-old released her first music video for Legyek én!, and was cast in Madách Theatre's production of Les Misérables. She then was a part of a new series on RTL Klub, Válótársak, as Noémi Jakab. In 2016, she participated in A Dal 2016, the 2016 of the national selection of Hungary for the Eurovision Song Contest, in a duet with Olivér Berkes, with the song "Seven Seas". In 2016, she also released Itt vagyok! and Tovább. She competed in A Dal 2017 with the song "I've got a Fire" and was eliminated in the second heat. She currently acts at the Madách Theatre. She last played Eponine in Les Misérables. Songs sung at X-Faktor Legyen valami Let's Get Rocked Purple Rain Walk This Way Right Here Waiting The Show Must Go On Free Your Mind Jailhouse Rock Cabaret Ő még csak most 14 Sweet Child O' Mine No Diggity/Shout Elég volt I Will Always Love You One Night Only Játszom Shake up Christmas Legyek én! (Winning song) Discography Chart-topping songs Further reading Tóth Andi: „Szerintem a legjobb úton haladok” (kozpont.ro, 2015. augusztus 24.) (Hungarian) External links References Category:1999 births Category:People from Oradea Category:Living people Category:Romanian musicians of Hungarian descent Category:Hungarian female singers Category:21st-century Hungarian actresses Category:Hungarian child actresses Category:21st-century Hungarian singers Category:21st-century women singers

Euler–Maruyama method

In Itô calculus, the Euler–Maruyama method (also called the Euler method) is a method for the approximate numerical solution of a stochastic differential equation (SDE). It is a simple generalization of the Euler method for ordinary differential equations to stochastic differential equations. It is named after Leonhard Euler and Gisiro Maruyama. Unfortunately, the same generalization cannot be done for any arbitrary deterministic method . Consider the stochastic differential equation (see Itô calculus) with initial condition X0 = x0, where Wt stands for the Wiener process, and suppose that we wish to solve this SDE on some interval of time [0, T]. Then the Euler–Maruyama approximation to the true solution X is the Markov chain Y defined as follows: partition the interval [0, T] into N equal subintervals of width : set Y0 = x0; recursively define Yn for 1 ≤ n ≤ N by where The random variables ΔWn are independent and identically distributed normal random variables with expected value zero and variance . Example Numerical simulation An area that has benefited significantly from SDE is biology or more precisely mathematical biology. Here the number of publications on the use of stochastic model grew, as most of the models are nonlinear, demanding numerical schemes. The graphic depicts a stochastic differential equation being solved using the Euler Scheme. The deterministic counterpart is shown as well. Computer implementation The following Python code implements the Euler–Maruyama method and uses it to solve the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process defined by The random numbers for are generated using the NumPy mathematics package. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt num_sims = 5 # Display five runs t_init = 3 t_end = 7 N = 1000 # Compute 1000 grid points dt = float(t_end - t_init) / N y_init = 0 c_theta = 0.7 c_mu = 1.5 c_sigma = 0.06 def mu(y, t): """Implement the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck mu.""" # = \theta (\mu-Y_t) return c_theta * (c_mu - y) def sigma(y, t): """Implement the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck sigma.""" # = \sigma return c_sigma def dW(delta_t): """Sample a random number at each call.""" return np.random.normal(loc=0.0, scale=np.sqrt(delta_t)) ts = np.arange(t_init, t_end, dt) ys = np.zeros(N) ys[0] = y_init for _ in range(num_sims): for i in range(1, ts.size): t = (i-1) * dt y = ys[i-1] ys[i] = y + mu(y, t) * dt + sigma(y, t) * dW(dt) plt.plot(ts, ys) plt.show() The following is simply the translation of the above code into the MATLAB (R2019b) programming language: %% Initialization and Utility close all; clear all; numSims = 5; % display five runs tBounds = [3 7]; % The bounds of t N = 1000; % Compute 1000 grid points dt = (tBounds(2) - tBounds(1)) / N ; y_init = 1; % Initial y condition pd = makedist('Normal',0,sqrt(dt)); % Initialize the probability distribution for our % random variable with mean 0 and % stdev of sqrt(dt) c = [0.7, 1.5, 0.06]; % the initial Theta, Mu, and Sigma, respectively ts = linspace(tBounds(1), tBounds(2), N); % From t0-->t1 with N points ys = zeros(1,N); % 1xN Matrix of zeros ys(1) = y_init; %% Computing the Process for j = 1:numSims for i = 2:numel(ts) t = (i-1) .* dt; y = ys(i-1); mu = c(1) .* (c(2) - y); sigma = c(3); dW = random(pd); ys(i) = y + mu .* dt + sigma .* dW; end figure(69) hold on; plot(ts, ys, 'o') end See also Milstein method Runge–Kutta method (SDE) References Category:Numerical differential equations Category:Stochastic differential equations Category:Leonhard Euler Category:Articles with example Python code

David Luce

Admiral Sir John David Luce, (23 January 1906 – 6 January 1971) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second World War as a submarine commander before taking part in the Dieppe Raid and becoming Chief Staff Officer to the Naval Forces for the Normandy landings. He also commanded a cruiser during the Korean War. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the mid-1960s and in that role resigned from the Royal Navy along with Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew in March 1966 in protest over the decision by the Labour Secretary of State for Defence, Denis Healey, to cancel the CVA-01 aircraft carrier programme. Naval career Born the son of Rear Admiral John Luce and Mary Dorothea Luce (née Tucker), Luce was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1919 and, having been promoted to midshipman on 15 January 1924, he went to sea in the battleship . Promoted to sub-lieutenant on 30 January 1927, Luce trained as a submarine specialist in 1927 and was posted to the submarine in April 1928. Promoted to lieutenant on 16 October 1928, he transferred to the submarine HMS H49 in October 1929. He joined the battleship in the Mediterranean Fleet in December 1930 and became First Lieutenant in the submarine on the China Station in September 1933. Having attended the Submarine Command Course in Summer 1935, he was given command of the submarine in August 1935. Promoted to lieutenant commander on 16 October 1936, he attended the Royal Naval Staff College in Spring 1937 and then became Staff Officer (Operations) for the 4th Submarine Flotilla on the China Station in January 1938. He was given command of the submarine in December 1938 and the submarine in March 1939. Luce served in the Second World War, initially in command of the Rainbow and then, from June 1940, in command of the submarine . The hazardous patrols he undertook in these submarines led to him being awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) on 12 November 1940. Promoted to commander on 31 December 1940, he was posted to the Plans Division of the Admiralty in March 1941 and then became Naval Raid planner on the staff of the Naval Adviser at Combined Operations Headquarters. He took part in the Dieppe Raid in August 1942 for which he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 2 October 1942 and was appointed Chief Staff Officer to the Naval Forces for the Normandy landings in June 1944 as a result of which he won a Bar to his DSO on 14 November 1944. He went on to be Executive Officer of the cruiser in the British Pacific Fleet in August 1944 and was promoted to captain on 30 June 1945. After the war, Luce became Chief of Staff (Operations) to the Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet. He went on to be Commanding officer of Royal Naval Air Station Ford in September 1946 and became Deputy Director of Plans at the Admiralty in December 1948. After that he became Commanding Officer of the cruiser in 1951 and then commanded the cruiser in 1952 in coastal bombardment operations during the Korean War for which he was mentioned in despatches on 19 May 1953. Luce became Director of the Royal Naval Staff College in March 1953 and was appointed Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen on 7 July 1954 before moving on to be Naval Secretary in August 1954. Promoted to rear admiral on 7 January 1955, he became Flag Officer, Flotillas for the Home Fleet in August 1956 and, having been appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1957 New Year Honours and promoted to vice admiral on 31 January 1958, he became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland in July 1958. Advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1960 New Year Honours, he became Commander-in-chief, Far East Fleet in April 1960 and, having received promotion to full admiral on 22 August 1960, he became Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in the Far East and UK Military Adviser to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in November 1962. He was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1963 Birthday Honours. Luce became First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in August 1963. He resigned from the Royal Navy along with Navy Minister Christopher Mayhew on 15 March 1966 in protest over the decision by the Labour Secretary of State for Defence, Denis Healey, to cancel the CVA-01 aircraft carrier programme. Later career In retirement, Luce became President of the Royal Naval Association. He was appointed an Officer of the Venerable Order of Saint John on 3 January 1969. He died, less than five years after his resignation from the Navy, at Lansdown Nursing Home in Bath, Somerset on 6 January 1971. Family In 1935, Luce married Mary Adelaide Norah Whitham; they had two sons. His younger brother, Sir William, was Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden (1956–1960). William's son, Richard Luce, Baron Luce, was a Conservative MP (1971–1992), Governor of Gibraltar (1997–2000) and Lord Chamberlain (2000–2006). References |- |- |- Category:First Sea Lords Category:Royal Navy admirals Category:1906 births Category:1971 deaths Category:Royal Navy officers of World War II Category:Royal Navy submarine commanders Category:Royal Navy personnel of the Korean War Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire Category:Grand Officers of the Order of Aviz Category:Recipients of the Order of Al Rafidain Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order Category:Lords of the Admiralty

Feyzabad, Ashtian

Feyzabad (, also Romanized as Feyzābād and Feyẕābād; also known as Faizābād) is a village in Siyavashan Rural District, in the Central District of Ashtian County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 697, in 155 families. References Category:Populated places in Ashtian County

South Glastonbury, Montana

South Glastonbury is a census-designated place in Park County, Montana, United States. Its population was 284 as of the 2010 census. References Category:Census-designated places in Park County, Montana Category:Census-designated places in Montana

1968 Central Michigan Chippewas football team

The 1968 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University in the Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1968 NCAA College Division football season. In their second season under head coach Roy Kramer, the Chippewas compiled a 7–2 record (2–1 against IIAC opponents), tied for the IIAC championship and outscored their opponents, 256 to 132. The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Bob Miles with 918 passing yards, tailback Craig Tefft with 1,126 rushing yards, and Dave Lemere with 325 receiving yards. Tefft received the team's most valuable player award. Seven Central Michigan players (Tefft, defensive end Bucky Colton, guard Fred Ferguson, linebacker Steve Lockman, defensive back Bob Markey, tackle Mike Post, and offensive tackle Ralph Sarnowski) received first-team honors on the All-IIAC team. Schedule References External links 1969 Chippewa yearbook Central Michigan Category:Central Michigan Chippewas football seasons Central Michigan Chippewas football Category:Interstate Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football champion seasons

In the Christmas Spirit

In the Christmas Spirit is the fourth album by the R&B/Soul band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, released in November 1966. The album features instrumental versions of traditional Christmas carols and songs. Track listing Side one "Jingle Bells" (James Lord Pierpont) "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) "Winter Wonderland" (Felix Bernard, Dick Smith) "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells) "Silver Bells" (Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) Side two "Merry Christmas Baby" (Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore) "Blue Christmas (Bill Hayes, Jay Johnson) "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" (Bob MacGimsey) "Silent Night" (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr) "We Three Kings" (John Henry Hopkins, Jr.) "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" (Traditional) Personnel Booker T. & the M.G.s Booker T. Jones - Hammond organ, piano, vibraphone Steve Cropper - guitar, bass guitar on "White Christmas" Donald Dunn - bass guitar, claves on "White Christmas" Al Jackson Jr. - drums, percussion Category:Booker T. & the M.G.'s albums Category:1966 Christmas albums Category:Christmas albums by American artists Category:Stax Records albums Category:Atlantic Records albums Category:Covers albums Category:Albums produced by Jim Stewart (record producer) Category:Rhythm and blues Christmas albums

Yukarısebil, Haymana

Yukarısebil is a village in the District of Haymana, Ankara Province, Turkey. References Category:Populated places in Ankara Province Category:Haymana, Ankara Category:Villages in Turkey

Catadau

Catadau is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera Alta in the Valencian Community, Spain. Commons has image archives on Catadau: Category:Municipalities in the Province of Valencia Category:Ribera Alta (comarca) Category:Populated places in the Province of Valencia

Moonbyul

Moon Byul-yi (born December 22, 1992), better known by the mononym Moonbyul, is a South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter and actress. She is the main rapper of South Korean girl group Mamamoo. In May 2018, Moonbyul made her debut as solo artist with releasing digital single, "Selfish". Biography Moon Byul-yi was born in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. She was accepted into Paekche Institute of the Arts for media music and vocals in 2011. Moonbyul debuted as a member of Mamamoo in June 2014. In May 2018, she debuted as a solo artist with the single "Selfish", featuring Seulgi. She released her debut EP, Dark Side of the Moon, on February 14, 2020. Discography Extended plays Single album Singles Filmography Television series Television shows References External links Category:1992 births Category:Living people Category:Korean-language singers Category:K-pop singers Category:South Korean female pop singers Category:South Korean female rappers Category:South Korean female idols Category:South Korean jazz singers Category:21st-century South Korean singers Category:21st-century women singers Category:King of Mask Singer contestants Category:Mamamoo members

Lyndon Dale, Wisconsin

Lyndon Dale is an unincorporated community located in the town of Fox Lake, Dodge County, Wisconsin, United States. The community is found on a peninsula in Fox Lake. Notes Category:Unincorporated communities in Dodge County, Wisconsin Category:Unincorporated communities in Wisconsin

Monument Rocks (Kansas)

Monument Rocks (also Chalk Pyramids) are a series of large chalk formations in Gove County, Kansas, rich in fossils. The formations were the first landmark chosen by the US Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark. The chalk formations reach a height of up to and include formations such as buttes and arches. The carbonate deposits were laid down during the Cretaceous Period in what was then the Western Interior Seaway, which split the continent of North America into two landmasses. They are estimated to have been formed 80 million years ago. History On January 29, 2008, Monument Rocks, 25 miles south of Oakley, Kansas, and Castle Rock, 31 miles to the east, were jointly named as one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas. Gallery See also Other geological formations in Kansas: Castle Rock (Kansas) Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park Mushroom Rock State Park Rock City, Kansas Big Basin Prairie Preserve References Further reading External links Monument Rocks (Chalk Pyramids) Monument Rocks/Rock Pyramids Monument Rocks Gove County Map, KDOT Category:Natural arches of Kansas Category:Landforms of Gove County, Kansas Category:National Natural Landmarks in Kansas Category:Landmarks in Kansas Category:Tourist attractions in Gove County, Kansas

Video interaction guidance

Video interaction guidance (VIG) is a video feedback intervention through which a “guider” helps a client to enhance communication within relationships. The client is guided to analyse and reflect on video clips of their own interactions. Applications include a caregiver and infant (often used in attachment-based therapy), and other education and care home interactions. VIG is used in more than 15 countries and by at least 4000 practitioners. Video Interaction Guidance has been used where concerns have been expressed over possible parental neglect in cases where the focus child is aged 2–12, and where the child is not the subject of a child protection plan. History Colwyn Trevarthen, a Professor at Edinburgh University, studied successful interactions between infants and their primary care givers, and found that the mother's responsiveness to her baby's initiatives supported and developed intersubjectivity (shared understanding), which he regarded as the basis of all effective communication, interaction and learning. In the 1980s Harry Biemans, in the Netherlands, applied this research using video clips, creating VIG. Research results Research results include that VIG enhances positive parenting skills, decreases/alleviates parental stress, increases parenting enjoyment, improves parental attitudes to parenting, and is related to more positive development of the children, although the effect at child-level is reduced in high-risk families. One study found an increase in sensitivity of mothers but no impact on infant attachment. VIG has also been found to increase the child sensitivity of teachers. The limitations of the experimental studies undertaken so far, such as their small number of subjects, are acknowledged, and more research is needed. Research linking VIG use to better subsequent long-term mental health of the child has not been published, but parenting is a causal risk factor for mental illness, and some mental health NGO's are pursuing programmes on expectation of a positive link. Video Interaction Guidance has been used where concerns have been expressed over possible parental neglect in cases where the focus child is aged 2–12, and where the child is not the subject of a child protection plan. Am evaluation of the project demonstrated that VIG produced a significant change in the emotional and behavioural difficulties of the population of children who received the service, and improvement in reported level of parenting and reported parental relationship with their children in the population of parents whose children received the service. The data excludes to parents who failed to complete the programme, parents who completed the programme but decided not to complete evaluation measures, and on some measures parents who completed measures but whose feedback was adjudged to have been positively biased. Parents also reported developing a better understanding of the following aspects of good parenting: · Giving each of their children one-to-one time. · Giving children space to make choices and develop skills. · Listening to children and not interrupting. · Making eye contact when talking to children. · Taking children out to parks and finding activities for them to do. · The importance of good relationships between separated parents. Theories of effectiveness Theories of why VIG is effective includes that the use of video clips enables a shared space to be created, where positive sensitivity and attunement moments can be seen. This allows clients to improve their relationship attunement skills, by developing their ability to mentalise about their own and their infants mental states, and by encouraging mind-minded interactions. (Trevarthen focuses particularly on how babies seek companionship, rather than using the term attachment, and has said "I think the ideal companion... is a familiar person who really treats the baby with playful human respect.") Understanding the mechanisms through which Video Interaction Guidance works Qualitative research studies have also illuminated some of the ways in which Video Interaction Guidance can help individual parents. Social learning theory in action Evaluations have demonstrated that in certain cases parents have learned to improve their parenting in the way described by social learning theory. Social Learning Theory suggests people learn by observing positive desired outcomes resulting from the observed behaviour. Parents, with several children, who traditionally spent all their time with the children with the children together in the group, started spending one-to-one time with individual children, after having been required by Video Interaction Guidance, to do one-on-one activities with a particular child, for the first time. Some parents started to do activities with their children, which involved a small element of risk, after having agreed to do them for the first time as part of Video Interaction Guidance. Similar findings are reported in an evaluation of the Triple P intervention. The importance of the relationship between the practitioner and the parent A principal factor which influences parents' engagement and perception is the quality of the relationship that they are able to build up with the practitioner delivering the programme. Key factors in helping practitioners engage parents into the intervention include: Establishing a sense that the practitioner will support the family beyond what is necessary to complete the intervention. Giving family members time to talk about their problems both during and out of appointments. Advocating for the family on issues with which the intervention is not directly concerned. Ensuring that fun forms a part of the interaction. Making family members feel cared for through the provision of clothes, food and gifts. Giving parents a lead in analysing family functioning and parenting. Carrying out the intervention in the home of the parent. Practitioners working on weekday evenings. In the case of Video Interaction Guidance, when parents were asked about their experience of the intervention, parents invariably referred to the care and support provided by the practitioner. Effectively the intervention is experienced as an aspect of the overall relationship of care. Recommendations and use VIG is recommended in the UK by NICE (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) and is one of two interventions recommended by the NSPCC to improve parenting. It is also recommended for health visitors. The European Union DataPrev database also recommends VIG. VIG is used by NHS and other health services providers. In 2014 the UK NGO Mental Health Foundation and partners began to use VIG in an early years intervention to prevent mental illness in later life. Training AVIGuk, a UK 'association of supervisors', manages 18 month training programmes in the UK. Most research results have involved guiders who have undertaken such training. In the United States, SPINUSA, the national training institute for VIG trains agency staff and supervisors in applying the model for parent education, family therapy, staff training and development and leadership development. Criticisms VIG has been criticised for only focusing on positive factors, but this criticism has not been substantiated in terms of making VIG ineffective. The length and cost of the VIG training that AVIGuk provides has been criticised, on the grounds that this limits scalability and prevents wider use of VIG. This is shown in the emergence of similar video feedback interventions with much shorter training, such as Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP), a particular application of VIG, and Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD), and other 'introductory' VIG courses. See also Attachment-based therapy Attachment theory Attachment measures Attachment in children Child psychotherapy Mental health Colwyn Trevarthen Mental illness References Category:Parenting Category:Infancy Category:Interpersonal relationships Category:Relationship counseling

Jelly blubber

The jelly blubber (Catostylus mosaicus), also known as the blue blubber jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish from coastal regions in the Indo-Pacific. It is the most commonly encountered jellyfish along the Australian eastern coast and large swarms sometimes appear in estuarine waters. Description In Sydney waters, the jelly blubber's large bell is a creamy white or brown colour, but farther north in Australia it is usually blue. The colours are derived from pigment produced by the jellyfish itself (not symbiotic algae, as in some other jellyfish). There is no obvious mouth on the underside, but there are small openings on each arm, through which food is passed to the stomach. The tentacles also have stinging cells that can capture tiny crustaceans and other plankton. It grows to a diameter of . The sting can be painful but generally poses no serious risk to humans. Distribution and habitat This jellyfish is found in coastal parts of the Indo-Pacific. In Australia, it occurs off the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. It can also enter intertidal estuaries. Food Eats mainly plankton, small fish, some crustaceans, and small particles in the ocean water. References Category:Rhizostomeae Category:Animals described in 1824 Category:Catostylus

Mowtowr Pamp-e Mohammad Reza Pir Moradi

Mowtowr Pamp-e Mohammad Reza Pir Moradi (, also Romanized as Mowtowr Pamp-e Moḩammad Rez̤ā Pīr Morādī) is a village in Arzuiyeh Rural District, in the Central District of Arzuiyeh County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 226, in 49 families. References Category:Populated places in Arzuiyeh County

Cameron Litvack

Cameron Litvack (born 23 September 1980) is an American television producer and screenwriter. Litvack was born in Los Angeles, California. As a producer, he has worked on sixteen episodes of V (2009), sixteen episodes of Ugly Betty's first season and two episodes of Charmed's eighth season. As a writer, he has worked on ten episodes of Charmed', three episodes of V (2009), two episodes of Ugly Betty's first season and a single episode of Smallville's first season. The demon character "Litvack" that appeared on the sixteenth episode of the second season of Charmed was named after his father, a WB executive at the time. The character "Dr. Litvack," a neurosurgeon that appeared in the "Lexmas" episode of Smallville was named after his brother Zachary Litvack, an actual neurosurgeon. External links Category:American television writers Category:Male television writers Category:American television producers Category:Writers Guild of America Award winners Category:Living people Category:1980 births

Aspisoma ignitum

Aspisoma ignitum is a species of firefly in the family Lampyridae. It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, North America, and South America. References Further reading Category:Lampyridae Category:Bioluminescent insects Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Beetles described in 1767

2001 Nicaraguan general election

General elections were held in Nicaragua on 4 November 2001. Enrique Bolaños of the Constitutionalist Liberal Party (PLC) was elected president, with Daniel Ortega losing his third successive presidential election. The Constitutionalist Liberal Party also won the parliamentary elections, receiving over half the vote and 52 of the 92 seats. Results President National Assembly By region References Category:Elections in Nicaragua Category:2001 elections in Central America Category:2001 in Nicaragua 2001 Category:November 2001 events

1999 Sugar Bowl

The 1999 Sugar Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 1, 1999. It was the 65th edition of the Sugar Bowl and featured the Ohio State Buckeyes, and the Texas A&M Aggies. Ohio State entered the game ranked number 4 in the BCS at 10–1, whereas Texas A&M entered the game at 11-2, and ranked number 6 in the BCS. Texas A&M scored first on a 9-yard touchdown run by Dante Hall to open the game 7–0. Joe Germaine threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Reggie Germany to tie the game at 7–7. Later in the quarter, running back Joe Montgomery rushed 10 yards for a touchdown, and Ohio State opened up a 14–7 lead. Derek Ross blocked an A&M punt, that Kevin Griffin returned 16 yards for a touchdown. Ohio State led 21–7 after the first quarter. Ohio State kicked a 31-yard field goal in the second quarter to open up a 24-7 halftime lead. Texas A&M closed to 24–14 on a 7-yard touchdown pass from Branndon Stewart to Leroy Hodge. Ohio State's defense was stout throughout the contest, and they held on to win, 24–14. References Sugar Bowl Category:Sugar Bowl Category:Ohio State Buckeyes football bowl games Category:Texas A&M Aggies football bowl games Category:January 1999 sports events in the United States Category:1999 in sports in Louisiana

Yeong-jun

Yeong-jun, also spelled Yeong-joon, Young-jun, Young-joon, or in North Korea Yong-jun, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 34 hanja with the reading "yeong" and 34 hanja with the reading "jun" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. People with this name include: Entertainers Kim Young-joon (born 1963), stage name Yoo Ha, South Korean film director Kim Young-joon (born 1988), stage name Kim Si-hoo, South Korean actor Seo Young-jun (born 1990), South Korean singer, member of Ledt Yim Young-jun (born 1994), South Korean singer, member of High4 Footballers Choi Young-jun (footballer, born 1965), South Korean football defender (K-League Classic) Kim Yong-jun (footballer) (born 1983), North Korean football midfielder Shin Young-jun (born 1989), South Korean football forward (K-League Challenge) Choi Young-jun (footballer, born 1991), South Korean football midfielder (K-League Challenge) Other sportspeople Kim Young-jun (wrestler) (born 1948), South Korean wrestler Park Yeong-jun (born 1965), South Korean track and field athlete Kim Young-jun (tennis) (born 1980), South Korean tennis player Ji Young-jun (born 1981), South Korean long-distance runner Byun Young-jun (born 1984), South Korean race walker Kang Young-jun (born 1987), South Korean volleyball player Lee Young-jun (born 1991), South Korean ice hockey centre Seo Yeong-jun (born 1995), South Korean ice hockey defenceman Won Young-jun (born 1998), South Korean swimmer See also List of Korean given names References Category:Korean masculine given names

Ju Kwang-min

Ju Kwang-min (born 20 May 1990) is a North Korean footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Kigwancha of the DPR Korea Premier Football League. References External links Ju Kwang-min at DPRKFootball Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:North Korean footballers Category:North Korea international footballers Category:Association football goalkeepers Category:2015 AFC Asian Cup players Category:Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games Category:Asian Games competitors for North Korea

Steve Clifford

Steven Gerald Clifford (born September 17, 1961) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He previously was the head coach of the Charlotte Hornets. Early life Born in Island Falls, Maine, Clifford grew up in Mattawamkeag, Maine, until the third grade, when he moved to Vermont. He played varsity basketball under Gerald Clifford, his father and head coach at North Country Union High School in Newport, Vermont. Clifford attended the University of Maine at Farmington, where he played college basketball for four years. In his final two seasons, he was team captain and was named Best Defensive Player. He graduated with a degree in special education. Coaching career After graduating from college, Clifford became a teacher at Woodland High School in Maine. He also gained his first coaching experience at the school, serving as their head coach for two seasons while leading them to two tournaments. He then served as an assistant coach at St. Anselm's College, Fairfield University, Boston University and Siena College. In 1995, he assumed the head coaching duties at Adelphi University and coached for four seasons under Keith Dickson, leading their team to four appearances in the NCAA Division II Tournament, an 86–36 (.705) record and four consecutive 20-win seasons; he was the first coach in the school's history with back-to-back 20-plus win seasons. Clifford became an NBA assistant coach with the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets under Jeff Van Gundy and quickly developed a reputation as a defensive expert. He then was an assistant for Stan Van Gundy with the Orlando Magic. He considers both the Van Gundy brothers as mentors. He reached the NBA Playoffs in each of his five seasons with Orlando, appearing in the NBA Finals in 2009. Clifford then joined the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012–13 as an assistant. Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets On May 29, 2013, Clifford was hired by the Charlotte Bobcats to be their head coach. Clifford implemented a defensive mentality in Charlotte during his first year as head coach turning the Charlotte Bobcats into a top five defensive team when in the years prior to his tenure they ranked near the bottom of the NBA in that category. He led the Bobcats to the 2014 NBA playoffs in his first year as head coach, during which he coached the Bobcats to a 43–39 record. The two years prior to him joining the Bobcats only had a combined total of 28 wins. He was named Eastern Conference Coach of the Month for April 2014 after he led the Bobcats to a 7–1 record leading to the playoffs. He finished fourth in Coach of the Year voting in his first year. On December 6, 2017, it was announced that Clifford would not coach indefinitely to deal with his health issue. On January 11, 2018, the Hornets announced that Clifford was medically cleared to return to coaching after a 21-game absence after dealing with sleep deprivation. After the 2017–18 regular season, he was fired as head coach on April 13, 2018, after five seasons coaching the team to a 196–214 record total. Orlando Magic On May 30, 2018, Clifford was named the head coach of the Orlando Magic. The Magic started the 2018–19 season by splitting their first 24 games before falling 11 games under .500 after a 126–117 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Despite the dismal start, Clifford led the Magic on a dramatic turnaround. On April 7, 2019, Orlando defeated the Boston Celtics 116–108 to clinch their first playoff berth since the 2011–12 season. The win also clinched the Magic's first Southeast Division title since the 2009–10 season. This was the Magic's first playoff appearance since trading Dwight Howard to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012, ending the longest playoff drought in franchise history. Head coaching record College NBA |- | style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||43||39|||| align="center"|3rd in Southeast|||4||0||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||33||49|||| align="center"|4th in Southeast|||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||48||34|||| align="center"|3rd in Southeast|||7||3||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||36||46|||| align="center"|4th in Southeast|||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Charlotte | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||36||46|||| align="center"|3rd in Southeast|||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|Orlando | style="text-align:left;"| | 82||42||40|||| align="center"|1st in Southeast||5||1||4|| | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |-class="sortbottom" ! colspan="2"|Career ! 492||238||254|||| ||16||4||12|||| See also References External links Profile at NBA.com Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Adelphi Panthers men's basketball coaches Category:American basketball scouts Category:American men's basketball coaches Category:Basketball coaches from Maine Category:Basketball coaches from Vermont Category:Boston University Terriers men's basketball coaches Category:Charlotte Bobcats head coaches Category:Charlotte Hornets head coaches Category:College men's basketball head coaches in the United States Category:College men's basketball players in the United States Category:East Carolina Pirates men's basketball coaches Category:Fairfield Stags men's basketball coaches Category:High school basketball coaches in Maine Category:Houston Rockets assistant coaches Category:Los Angeles Lakers assistant coaches Category:New York Knicks assistant coaches Category:New York Knicks scouts Category:Orlando Magic assistant coaches Category:Orlando Magic head coaches Category:People from Aroostook County, Maine Category:People from Derby, Vermont Category:People from Penobscot County, Maine Category:Siena Saints men's basketball coaches Category:University of Maine at Farmington alumni Category:American men's basketball players

Sierra Vista, California

Sierra Vista, California may refer to: Sierra Vista, Los Angeles County, California Sierra Vista, Madera County, California

Jabari Price

Jabari Price (born August 31, 1992) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He played college football at North Carolina. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the seventh round, 225th overall of the 2014 NFL Draft. High school career Price attended Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach, Florida. He played as a cornerback and free safety. In 2010, his senior year, opponents threw his way only 23 times and he still made five interceptions and 12 pass break-ups, to go along with 39 tackles and 5 forced fumbles, helping lead Ely to an 11-2 record and the state 5A regionals, where they nearly pulled off an upset of St. Thomas Aquinas, the nation’s No. 1 team. He was named All-county and played in the annual Dade vs. Broward County high school all-star game in January. The United States Achievement Academy named Price an All-American Scholar in 2010. As a member of Blanche Ely's track & field team, Price competed as a sprinter. In 2008, he took eighth in the 200 meters (23.42s) and eight in the 400-meter dash (52.95s) at the BCAA North Meet. At the FHSAA 4A District Meet, he ran a personal-best time of 11.32 seconds in the 100-meter dash and ran the third leg on the 4 × 100 m relay squad, helping them win the event with a time of 41.48 seconds. He also posted a career-best time of 21.42 seconds in the 200-meter dash at the Charles Johnson Invitational as a senior. Recruiting He was rated the no. 83 cornerback in the country by Rivals, and received 7 D-1 scholarship offers, including letters from Minnesota and Rutgers, but ultimately decided to play for Butch Davis and the North Carolina Tar Heels. College career As a true freshman cornerback, Price played in all 13 games, starting in the final four. He recorded 20 tackles, four pass break-ups and one interception. He missed a four games his sophomore season due to hand surgery, but still ended up with 16 tackles, two pass break-ups and a tackle for loss. His junior year is when he stepped his game up. In 11 games, he tallied 76 tackles (good for third on the team), 9 pass break-ups (good for first), 4 tackles for loss, one sack, one forced fumble, one QB hurry and one interception. He registered at least 4 tackles in each game. His final year at UNC, he posted 74 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 9 pass break-ups and a forced fumble while starting all 12 games, earning All-ACC honorable mention accolades. Professional career After being projected as a fifth-seventh round pick, Price was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the seventh round (225th overall) of the 2014 NFL Draft. On May 16, 2014, the Vikings signed Price and Kendall James (sixth round) to rookie contracts. He agreed to a 4 year/$2.28 million contract. On September 3, 2016, he was placed on injured reserve. On September 2, 2017, Price was released by the Vikings. References External links North Carolina Tar Heels bio Category:Living people Category:People from Pompano Beach, Florida Category:American football cornerbacks Category:North Carolina Tar Heels football players Category:Minnesota Vikings players Category:1992 births Category:Players of American football from Florida Category:Sportspeople from the Miami metropolitan area Category:Blanche Ely High School alumni

Spiro Sports Center

Spiro Sports Center is a 2,100-seat multi-purpose arena located on the campus of Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. It was built in 1999 as an extensive addition to the Sutter Gymnasium, which was constructed in 1951. The center is home to the Wagner College Seahawks men's and women's basketball team. The Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament was held there in 1999, 2003, 2016, and 2018 The center also houses a pool, numerous locker rooms, fitness center/weight room, training room, equipment room, as well as offices and meeting rooms for Wagner's intercollegiate athletic programs. See also List of NCAA Division I basketball arenas Category:Wagner Seahawks men's basketball Category:College basketball venues in the United States Category:Sports venues in Staten Island Category:Basketball venues in New York City Category:1999 establishments in New York (state) Category:Sports venues completed in 1999

RTJ

RTJ may refer to: Rivera Triple Junction, a geologic triple junction located on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean southeast of the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula Rodrigues Triple Junction, a geologic triple junction in the southern Indian Ocean Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, a private golf club in Gainesville, Virginia Ring Type Joint, a type of plumbing joint Run the Jewels, an American hip hop duo consisting of Killer Mike and El-P

Torolv Solheim

Torolv Solheim (7 November 1907, Radøy – 23 May 1995) was a Norwegian educator, essayist, resistance member and politician. He was originally a politician for the Communist Party of Norway, later a member of the Norwegian Labour Party, he was among the initiators of the Socialist People's Party, founded in 1961, and its chairman from 1969 to 1971. He was later a member of the Socialist Left Party. He edited the magazine Fossegrimen from 1954 to 1968. References Category:1907 births Category:1995 deaths Category:People from Radøy Category:Norwegian resistance members Category:Communist Party of Norway politicians Category:Labour Party (Norway) politicians Category:Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians