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Elza T. Renfro
Elza Tillman Renfro (April 3, 1902 – September 21, 1935) was an American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach of football, basketball, and track. He served as the head football coach at Arkansas State College—now known as Arkansas State University—for one season in 1933, compiling a record of 2–4–2.
Renfro died of blood poisoning in 1935.
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Ageplay
Ageplay or age play is a form of roleplaying in which an individual acts or treats another as if they were a different age. Ageplay is roleplaying between adults, and involves consent from all parties. Ageplay can be sexual or non-sexual, it all depends on what people agree to within their relationship. Portraying any age can be the goal of ageplay, from babies to a child to the elderly. Usually this involves someone pretending to be younger than they actually are, but more rarely can involve assuming an older role.
Sexual ageplay
Ageplay can be sexual. It may be mildly sexual, or very sexual. Within dominant/submissive relationships, ageplay can enhance power dynamics, and allow a partner to feel more comfortable with their dominance or submission.
Sexual variations may include among other things such as incest play, in which individuals recreate and sexualize roles within a family, and daddy's girl fetishism in which real or imagined age differences are the basis of the roleplaying and the female is portrayed as the younger partner.
Ageplay is not considered pedophilia or related to it by professional psychologists. Individuals who engage in ageplay enjoy portraying children, or enjoy childlike elements typical of children present in adults (and to a lesser extent, adolescents).
In a BDSM (Bondage, Dominance, Submission, Masochism)-type ageplay relationship, there might be roleplay that includes spankings or some sort of punishment that consenting parties agree to. This type of relationship may intersect with elements of petplay, in which one party is a "pet" to a human caregiver, although there often are differences between the items and scenarios used in each.
See also
Age disparity in sexual relationships
Animal roleplay
Doll fetish
Kawaii
Paraphilic infantilism
Sexual roleplay
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Science and technology in Vietnam
The main managing agency responsible for science and technology (S&T) in Vietnam is the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). MOST's responsibilities include scientific research, technology development and innovation activities; development of science and technology potentials; intellectual property; standards, metrology and quality control; atomic energy, radiation and nuclear safety; and state management on public services in fields under the Ministry’s management as stipulated by law.
Background and Context
The origins of science and technology and Vietnam can be traced back to as early as 20,000 BC to the Sơn Vi culture, a late Paleolithic Age in Vietnam charaterized by stone tools. Pebble tools similar to ones found around the world dating to this period have been found by archeologists in the Son La and Phu Tho provinces. Following the Stone Age, the Dong Sun Bronze Age culture dating from 1,000 BC-100 AD came about in the Red River Valley region of northern Vietnam. Dong Son culture is charaterized by rice cultivation techniques, domestication of water buffalo and pigs, fishing and sailing via dugout canoe, and most notably expert bronze casting in the form of distinctive Dong Son drum decorated with geometric patterns, scenes of war, animals, and boats.
Vietnam's relationship with its northern neighbor China is crucial to understanding the history and current status of science and technology in Vietnam. Following the Dong Son period, Vietnam came into an extended period of conflict with China beginning with the Baiyue-Qin War. The prevailing attitude in China during this period was that of the Sino–barbarian dichotomy, a concept in which Vietnamese were considered "wild tribes" or "barbarians" in relation to China. Fear of raids and conquests into China eventually did come true in the form of Vietnamese general Lý Thường Kiệt's raids into Song China in 1075. However part of this some Sinocentric view came from the great inventions of the Han Dynasty period, such as the Four Great Inventions of the compass, gunpowder, papermaking, and printing. These inventions, which were adopted by Vietnam in the coming years, would go on to impact civilization throughout the world. These and many other Han discoveries beyond the scope of this article (negative numbers in math, seismometers, advancements in metallurgy, junk ships, and wheelbarrows to name just a few) would make their way south to Vietnam as ethnic Chinese migrated into Vietnamese territories.
Socio-economic context
Structure of the economy
Viet Nam has become increasingly integrated into the world economy, particularly since its efforts to liberalize the economy enabled it to join the World Trade Organization in 2007. The manufacturing and service sectors each account for 40% of GDP. However, almost half the labour force (48%) is still employed in agriculture. One million workers a year, out of a total of 51.3 million in 2010, are projected to continue leaving agriculture for the other economic sectors in the foreseeable future.
In manufacturing, Viet Nam is expected to lose some of its current comparative advantage in low wages in the near future. It will need to compensate for this loss with productivity gains, if it is to sustain high growth rates: GDP per capita has almost doubled since 2008. High-tech exports from Viet Nam grew dramatically during 2008–2013, particularly with respect to office computers and electronic communications equipment. A big challenge will be to implement strategies that increase the potential for enhancing technology and skills currently present in large multinational firms to smaller-scale domestic firms. This will require strategies to enhance technical capacity and skills among local firms that are, as yet, only weakly integrated with global production chains.
Many foreign multinational firms have gravitated towards Vietnam in recent years but the number of patents nevertheless remains low: 47 were granted between 2002 and 2013. Even though 11% of Southeast Asia's high-tech exports came from Vietnam in 2013 (excluding the Republic of Korea and Japan), according to the Comtrade database, the majority of high-tech exports from Vietnam were designed elsewhere and assembled in Vietnam. Even if foreign firms change their behaviour and intensify their in-house R&D, this will only boost R&D in Vietnam if the multinationals can train a sufficient number of local personnel and work with skilled local suppliers and firms.
Higher education
Since 1995, enrolment in higher education has grown tenfold to well over 2 million in 2012. By 2014, there were 419 institutions of higher education. A number of foreign universities operate private campuses in Vietnam, including Harvard University (USA) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia).
The government’s strong commitment to education (6.3% of GDP in 2012), in general, and higher education, in particular (1.05% of GDP in 2012), has fostered significant growth in higher education but this growth will need to be sustained to retain academics. The Law on Higher Education (2012) gives university administrators greater autonomy, although the Ministry of Education retains responsibility for quality assurance.
Issues and difficulties in Science and Technology in Vietnam
According to a report on the role of science and technology in Vietnam (1999), “the issues and difficulties in S&T in Vietnam are the following (i) policies are inconsistent and even contradictory, (ii) decision-making processes pertaining to the entire S&T system are slow, burdensome, and bureaucratic, (iii) Vietnam does not have well-developed systems or capabilities for technical and economic forecasting or foresight, (iv) Vietnam has limited technology acquisition under existing arrangements, (v) Vietnam has a weakness in the assimilation of new technologies and underinvestment in assimilation following the purchase of new technologies, (vi) the national R&D system in Vietnam is highly fragmented, (vii) Very serious underinvestment in technology management and systems engineering.
Science, technology and innovation
Institutional context
There are a large number of universities and an even larger pool of research institutions in Vietnam. This poses a challenge for ministries in terms of co-ordination. To some extent, market forces are likely to eliminate the smaller and financially weaker units.
The autonomy which Vietnamese research centres have enjoyed since the mid-1990s has enabled many of them to operate as quasi-private organizations, providing services such as consulting and technology development. Some have ‘spun off’ from the larger institutions to form their own semi-private enterprises, fostering the transfer of public sector personnel employed in science and technology to these semi-private establishments. One comparatively new university, Ton Duc Thang (est. 1997), has already set up 13 centres for technology transfer and services that together produce 15% of university revenue. Many of these research centres serve as valuable intermediaries bridging public research institutions, universities and firms.
60% of the population in Vietnam is below 30 years old and more than 25000 eligible engineers graduate from college every year.
Policy developments
The Law on Higher Education (2012) offers university administrators greater autonomy and there are reports that growing numbers of academic staff are also serving as advisors to NGOs and private firms. The Strategy for Science and Technology Development for 2011–2020 drawn up by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2012, builds upon this law by promoting public–private partnerships and seeking to transform ‘public S&T organisations into self-managed and accountable mechanisms as stipulated by law’. The main emphasis is on overall planning and priority-setting, with a view to enhancing innovation capability, particularly in industrial sectors. Although the Strategy omits to fix any targets for funding, it nevertheless sets broad policy directions and priority areas for investment, including:
research in mathematics and physics;
investigation of climate change and natural disasters;
development of operating systems for computers, tablets and mobile devices;
biotechnology applied particularly to agriculture, forestry, fisheries and medicine; and
environmental protection.
The Strategy foresees the development of a network of organizations to support consultancy services in the field of innovation and the development of intellectual property. The Strategy also seeks to promote greater international scientific co-operation, with a plan to establish a network of Vietnamese scientists overseas and to initiate a network of ‘outstanding research centres’ linking key national science institutions with partners abroad.
Vietnam has also developed a set of national development strategies for selected sectors of the economy, many of which involve science and technology. Examples are the Sustainable Development Strategy (April 2012) and the Mechanical Engineering Industry Development Strategy (2006), together with Vision 2020 (2006). These dual strategies call for a highly skilled human resource base, a strong policy for investment in research and development, fiscal policies to encourage technological upgrading in the private sector and private-sector investment and regulations to steer investment towards sustainable development.
Research trends
In 2011, domestic research expenditure amounted to 0.19% of GDP, one of the lowest ratios in Southeast Asia. Women accounted for 41% of the country's researchers in 2012, one of the highest ratios in Southeast Asia.
The number of Vietnamese publications in Thomson Reuters' Web of Science has increased at a rate well above the average for Southeast Asia but from a low starting point: Vietnamese scientists had 570 articles catalogued in international journals in 2005 and 2 298 in 2014. By 2014, Vietnam had a modest scientific publication density of 25 publications per million inhabitants. This places Vietnam behind Thailand (94), Vanuatu (74) and the Solomon Islands (30) but ahead of the Lao Peoples' Democratic Republic (19). Vietnamese publications catalogued in international journals focus mainly on life sciences (22%), physics (13%) and engineering (13%), which is consistent with recent advances in the production of diagnostic equipment and shipbuilding. Almost 77% of all papers published between 2008 and 2014 by Vietnamese scientists had at least one international co-author, which is common in developing countries.
See also
Ministry of Science and Technology (Vietnam)
Ministry of Health (Vietnam)
Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Hanoi University of Science and Technology
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K. S. Amur
Krishna Shyamacharya Amur (born 1931) a professor emeritus of mathematics in Differential geometry was head of the department of mathematics, Karnatak University, Dharwar.
Amur is the founder member of the Sri Aurobindo Society in Dharwar (1992) of Karanataka State and the vice-president of Karnatak Education Board, Dharwar. Amur is the younger brother of G. S. Amur a leading contemporary writer and critic in Kannada and English.
Born and raised in Suranagi village of Haveri taluka, he earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. (1964) in mathematics from the Karnataka University, Dharwar. From 1960 to 1962, he was a lecturer of mathematics at Karnataka College, Dharwar and then a professor of mathematics at the department of mathematics Karnatak University, Dharwar.
Amur was a postdoctoral fellow at the department of mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1967 to 1968 and again in 1984, he went to the USA on a fellowship program for a year. He was also acting registrar of the Karnatak University, Dharwar from 1978-80.
Amur has been working as the president of Sri Aurobindo society, Karnataka State.
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G. Kaito Aye
G. Kaito Aye is a Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party politician from Nagaland. He has been elected in Nagaland Legislative Assembly election in 2018 from Satakha constituency as candidate of Janata Dal (United) but later he joined Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party. He was minister of Agriculture and Cooperative in Fourth Neiphiu Rio ministry from 2018.
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Nikko Hotels
is an international hotel chain comprising properties in Asia, Europe, North America, and the South Pacific. It is owned by Okura Hotels. Nikko Hotels International (NHI) began operations in 1972 as the global hotel brand of Japan Airlines, with its first property located in Jakarta. The first NHI-operated hotel in Japan opened in 1973. Other Nikko properties have been owned and operated by other entities; among the oldest Nikko properties is the Ginza Nikko, which opened in 1959.
Nikko Hotels International used to be owned by Japan Airlines Development Company Limited, which in the 1990s was renamed JAL Hotels. Following its acquisition in 2010, it became a subsidiary of Okura Hotels. Hotel Nikko affiliates include the Hotel Royal properties in Southeast Asia.
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Ivan Komar
Ivan Komar (; born 18 March 1970) is a retired Belarusian middle-distance runner who competed primarily in the 800 metres. He represented his country at three consecutive World Championships starting in 1993.
Competition record
Personal bests
Outdoor
600 metres – 1:17.69 (Bielsko-Biała 2002)
800 metres – 1:45.63 (Sopot 1999)
1000 metres – 2:19.22 (Stockholm 1999)
Indoor
600 metres – 1:16.76 (1998) NR
800 metres – 1:47.18 (Sindelfingen 1998)
1000 metres – 2:19.27 (Erfurt 1999) NR
1500 metres – 3:43.67 (Moscow 1998)
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Phrynocephalus versicolor
Phrynocephalus versicolor, the variegated toadhead agama, is a species of agamid lizard found in desert areas of China and Mongolia. It was first described by the Russian herpetologist Alexander Strauch, director of the Zoological Museum at the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg.
Subspecies
Four subspecies, including the nominate one, are recognized:
Phrynocephalus versicolor hispidus Bedriaga 1909
Phrynocephalus versicolor doriai Bedriaga 1909
Phrynocephalus versicolor kulagini Bedriaga 1909
Phrynocephalus versicolor versicolor Srauch 1876
Description
Phrynocephalus versicolor grows to a length of about including the tail, which is longer than the combined head and body. The head is large and rounded and the blunt snout has an oblique profile which makes the nostrils easily visible from above. There is no transverse fold of skin across the shoulders. There are large scales which are smooth and unribbed along the spine. Other dorsal scales are thickened with their rear margin slightly raised, which gives the lizard a rough appearance. Scales on the ventral surface are extended into short spines. The tail is long and tapering, flattened at the base and cylindrical further from the body. It is thickened at the base in the male. The colour is variable. The dorsal surface of the body is olive or leaden-grey with two to five transverse bars of brownish-black, the most intense colour being just behind the shoulders and there is often an orange patch in the armpit. The legs are also banded with darker colour and the underparts are white. The tail has up to nine dark bars, some of them extending to the underside, and the tip is black underneath.
Distribution and habitat
Phrynocephalus versicolor occurs in Mongolia and in the provinces of Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, and Nei Mongol in China. It is found on stony plains and slopes, in canyons and on sand dunes with sagebrush and other sparse scrubby vegetation. Much of its habitat is more than above sea level and the temperature can vary from in the winter to in the summer. There is very little precipitation, and the small amount of rainfall is concentrated in mid-summer.
Biology
Phrynocephalus versicolor hibernates during the winter and is active between March and the end of September. During summer it remains in its burrow during the cold nights and midday heat. The burrow is unbranched, has a single entrance and ends in a chamber some beneath the surface of the ground. This lizard feeds on small invertebrates such as ants, flies, grasshoppers and ground beetles. When rain falls, it stands with its hind legs straightened, its front legs bent and its head lowered, so that water landing on its back trickles towards its mouth.
A female becomes sexually mature when about long. In the rainy season she digs a hole in damp ground some deep in which she lays a clutch of up to five white or pink-tinged eggs. Incubation takes about thirty days and the young are about long when they hatch. They exhibit great diversity in colour and adopt a stance similar to that of adults when rain is falling.
Status
Phrynocephalus versicolor has a wide range and is common in its arid habitats. The population is stable and no particular threats have been identified so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its status as being of "least concern".
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Eunidia similis
Eunidia similis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1942.
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William Richard Arnold (bishop)
Chaplain (Major General) William Richard Arnold, USA (June 10, 1881 – January 7, 1965) was an American Army officer and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the 5th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army from 1937 to 1945 and Military Delegate of the Armed Forces from 1945 until his death in 1965.
Biography
Early life and education
William Arnold was born in Wooster, Ohio, to Augustine Adam and Catherine Mary (née Dalton) Arnold. He attended St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, graduating in 1902. Before beginning his studies for the priesthood, he learned his father's trade of cigar-making and later worked as a bar-straightener at a steel mill in Muncie. In Peru, Indiana, he became acquainted and quartered with the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus.
Arnold then studied at St. Bernard's Seminary in Rochester, New York.
Ordination and ministry
Arnold was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Fort Wayne on June 13, 1908. His first assignment was as a curate at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Peru. In April 1913, he entered the Army Chaplain Corps with the rank of first lieutenant. Arnold then served at Fort Washington, Maryland, until 1915, when he was sent to Fort Mills at Corregidor in the Philippines. Returning to the United States in 1918, he briefly served at Fort Winfield Scott in California, and taught at the Chaplain Training School at Camp Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.
Arnold subsequently served at Fort Hancock in New Jersey (1918–19), and was promoted to captain in May 1919. He was director of the Chaplain Training School at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas from 1925 to 1929 and named a major in April 1927. He then returned to the Philippines, serving as department chaplain at Fort McKinley from 1929 to 1931. After serving at Fort Bliss in Texas from 1931 to 1937, he was chaplain of the First Cavalry Division and supervising chaplain of the Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas District of the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in April 1933, and served again as director of the Chaplain Training School at Fort Leavenworth from June to November 1937.
Chief of the Army Chaplain Corps
On December 23, 1937, Arnold was appointed Chief of the Army Chaplain Corps by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the rank of colonel. He was the first Catholic to hold the office. He was named a papal chamberlain by Pope Pius XI in August 1938, and raised to the rank of domestic prelate by Pope Pius XII in January 1942. He became a brigadier general on November 21, 1941, and was re-appointed Chief of Chaplains on December 23 of that year. Arnold was promoted to the rank of major general on November 17, 1944. He continued to serve as Chief of Chaplains until April 1, 1945, when he became Assistant Inspector General of the Army.
Military Delegate of the Armed Forces
On May 5, 1945, Arnold was appointed Military Delegate of the Armed Forces and Titular Bishop of Phocaea by Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following October 11 from Archbishop Francis Spellman, with Bishops John F. Noll and John Francis O'Hara serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He traveled extensively during his 19-year tenure, visiting American military installations throughout the world and administering the sacraments to members of the armed services and their families.
Arnold died at St. Clare's Hospital in New York City, at age 83.
See also
Catholic Church hierarchy
Catholic Church in the United States
Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
Insignia of Chaplain Schools in the US Military
List of Catholic bishops of the United States
List of Catholic bishops of the United States: military service
Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
Military chaplain
Religious symbolism in the United States military
United States military chaplains
References
External links
Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, official website
Archdiocese for the Military Services of the United States. GCatholic.org. Retrieved 2010-08-20.
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1910 World Wrestling Championships
The 1910 World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship were held in Düsseldorf, Germany in June 1910.
Medal table
Medal summary
Men's Greco-Roman
References
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AD 35
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AD 35 (XXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Gallus and Nonianus (or, less frequently, year 788 Ab urbe condita). The denomination AD 35 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Roman Empire
Pliny the Elder is brought to Rome before this year.
Persia
Tiridates III becomes king of Parthia (until AD 36).
Births
Decimus Valerius Asiaticus, Roman senator and governor
Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus, Roman prefect (approximate date)
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, Roman rhetorician (approximate date)
Quintus Junius Arulenus Rusticus, Roman senator (d. AD 93)
Statilia Messalina, Roman empress and wife of Nero (approximate date)
Deaths
Arsaces I (or Arshak I), Roman client king of Armenia
Epaticcus, British prince of the Catuvellauni (approximate date)
Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus, Roman statesman and consul
Lucius Fulcinius Trio, Roman senator and suffect consul
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Financial Access Initiative
The Financial Access Initiative (FAI) is an American consortium, established in 2006, of researchers at New York University (NYU), Yale University, Harvard University and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) focused on finding answers to how financial sectors can better meet the needs of poor households.
The Initiative was launched with core funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU.
Led by Managing Director Jonathan Morduch (NYU), Dean Karlan (Yale), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard), the Initiative seeks to provide rigorous research on the impacts of financial access and on innovative ways to improve access. FAI’s website states that financial access holds the promise to help low-income individuals in developing countries manage their economic lives and build wealth.
Activities
The Financial Access Initiative involves three main activities:
Systematizing evidence and communicating lessons: Clarify and organize what is known (and what needs to be known) about the demand for finance by the poor. Emphasis is placed on presenting the information in actionable form and targeting regulators, donors, and other key decision makers.
Generating new evidence: Key topics include the nature of demand for financial services; the extent of impacts of financial access on incomes, businesses, and broader aspects of well being; and mechanisms that can increase impact and scale.
Policy around regulation: Describe policy options for central bankers and regulators in a high-level but accessible format. The outputs are independent guides to policy with an emphasis on direct effects and trade-offs of policy choices.
Research
Funded by a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FAI’s research aims to assess existing research on global financial access, generate new evidence through field work, and inform regulatory policy.
Field research
Field research is coordinated by Innovations for Poverty Action, an organization based in New Haven, Connecticut, and headed by Dean Karlan. Current research is taking place in Bolivia, Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico, Peru, India, Ghana, and the Philippines. Randomized control trials are used to focus on three central research initiatives: demand for financial services, impact of financial services and the role of regulatory policy.
Supporters
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Partner websites
Innovations for Poverty Action
References
External links
Official website Financial Access Initiative
“In Praise of Usury” The Economist
“The Poor’s Access to Microcredit” The Morningside Post
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Mount Booth
Mount Booth () is a peak, high, surmounting the junction of mountain ridges at the southwest end of Murphy Valley in the Olympus Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2004 after John F. (Johan) Booth, science technician who wintered eight times at the United States Antarctic Program Palmer Station and South Pole Station between 1994 and 2004.
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Depler Springs, Illinois
Depler Springs is an unincorporated community in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. Depler Springs is near Illinois Route 97, between Cuba and Lewistown.
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Anarta Kingdom
Anarta is the name of a Vedic period kingdom of ancient India described in the Mahabharata, roughly forming the northern Gujarat state of India. It was founded by a grandson of Vaivasvata, inter alia the father of the present Manu and of Yama, named Anartha. He built a fortress at Kusasthali (Dvaraka), which was later flooded by Varuna. The place remained then for some time as a forest land, before Krishna and the Yadavas went there and built Dvaraka.
It was then ruled by Yadavas after they fled from Mathura of Surasena Kingdom, due to the attacks of Jarasandha, the king of Magadha. The Yadava chiefs like Vasudeva Krishna, Bala Rama (brother of Krishna), Kritavarma and Satyaki, ruled this kingdom under their king Ugrasena. In Mahabharata, Dwaraka is considered as a capital city of Anarta Kingdom. But some other ancient texts like Mahabhagavata, mentions Dwaraka and Anarta as two independent kingdoms. As per the Purana viz. Bhagavata Purana, Bala Rama's wife Revati was from this kingdom.
Other Yadava kingdoms in west-central India include:
Chedi (Jhansi district in Uttar Pradesh)
Surasena (Mathura district in Uttar Pradesh (also known as Vraja)
Dasarna (south to Chedi Kingdom)
Karusha (east to Dasarna Kingdom)
Kunti (North to Avanti Kingdom)
Avanti (Ujjain district in Madhya Pradesh
Malava (West to Avanti Kingdom)
Gurjara (southern Rajasthan)
Heheya (Narmada valley around the city Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh)
Saurashtra (southern Gujarat)
Dwaraka (offshore the Dwarka city in Gujarat)
Vidarbha. (north eastern Maharashtra)
References in Mahabharata
Draupadi's sons in Anarta country undergoes military training
Mahabharata 3.182
When Pandavas were exiled to the woods, by the Kauravas, the five sons of Pandavas, born to Draupadi, were sent to Panchala, the kingdom ruled by their maternal grandfather Drupada. They later went to the Anarta Kingdom, ruled by the Yadavas, so that they can stay with their step brother and dear friend, Abhimanyu, and learn military science from eminent Yadava warriors.
Vasudeva Krishna's words to Princess Krishna (alias Draupadi, Panchali):- Those sons of yours, are devoted to the study of the science of arms, are well-behaved and conduct themselves on the pattern of their righteous friends. Your father and your uterine brothers proffer them a kingdom and territories; but the boys find no joy in the house of Drupada, or in that of their maternal uncles. Safely proceeding to the land of the Anartas, they take the greatest delight in the study of the science of arms. Your sons enter the town of the Vrishnis (Dwaraka) and take an immediate liking to the people there. And as you would direct them to conduct themselves, or as the respected Kunti would do, so does Subhadra (their stepmother) direct them in a watchful way. Perhaps, she is still more careful of them. As Pradyumna is the preceptor of Aniruddha, of Abhimanyu, of Sunitha, and of Bhanu; so he is the preceptor and the refuge of your sons also! And a good preceptor, would unceasingly give them lessons in the wielding of maces and swords and bucklers, in missiles and in the arts of driving cars and of riding horses, being valiant. And he, Pradyumna, the son of Rukmini, having bestowed a very good training upon them, and having taught them the art of using various weapons in a proper way, takes satisfaction at the valorous deeds of your sons, and of Abhimanyu. O daughter of Drupada! And when your son goes out, in pursuit of (out-door) sports, each one of them is followed thither by cars and horses and vehicles and elephants.’
Vasudeva Krishna, next told to the exiled Pandava king Yudhishthira, that the fighting men of Anarta, consisting of Satwata, Dasarha, Kukura, Adhaka, Bhoja, Vrishni and Madhu tribes will be kept ready to overthrow the enemies of Pandavas, viz the Kauravas headed by Duryodhana, ruling the Kuru city Hastinapura. Bala Rama, with plough as his weapon, will lead the warriors consisting of bowmen, horsemen, foot-soldiers, cars and elephants.
In the fifth book, Chapter 83 of Mahabharata (MBh 5.83), it is mentioned that Pandava's mother Kunti also stayed for some time in Anarta, during the exile of the Pandavas.
Pandava's cousins from Anarta join them at Upaplavya
Mahabharata 4.72
After the expiry of the thirteenth year, the five Pandavas took up their abode in one of Virata’s towns called Upaplavya. Arjuna brought over Abhimanyu and Vasudeva Krishna, and also many people of the Dasarha race from the Anarta country.
Both Duryodhana and Arjuna arrive at Anarta city (Dwaraka) seeking alliance
Mbh 5.7
Both Duryodhana and Arjuna arrived at the city of Anarta (Dwaraka alias Dwaravati) seeking alliance of Yadavas, to join their side in the Kurukshetra War. Some Yadava heroes allied with Kauravas while others allied with the Pandavas. Vasudeva Krishna allied with the Pandavas and promised not to take any weapons in the battle. Thus he took part in the war not as a warrior, but as a diplomat, an ambassador of peace, an adviser on war-strategy and as the guide and car-driver of Arjuna. The army owned by Vasudeva Krishna, called the Narayanas were given to Duryodhana. The Narayanas consisted of a large body of cowherds, all of whom are able to fight in the thick of battle. Another hero Bala Rama, took a neutral standpoint, though he wished to aid Duryodhana, because he cannot fight against his brother Vasudeva Krishna, who had already joined the Pandavas. Thus he will not fight for any of the parties and wished to set for a pilgrimage over Sarasvati River. The Bhoja Yadava hero, Kritavarman joined Duryodhana with a body of troops numbering an Akshauhini of troops. Another Yadava hero, Satyaki joined the Pandavas, with an Akshohini of troops.
Anarta mentioned as a kingdom of Ancient India (Bharata Varsha)
MBh. 6.9
the Pundras, the Bhargas, the Kiratas, the Sudeshnas, and the Yamunas, the Sakas, the Nishadhas, the Anartas, the Nairitas, the Durgalas, the Pratimasyas, the Kuntalas, and the Kusalas;
Anartas in Kurukhsetra war
Satyaki was a general in the Pandava, army. He was a chief of Anartas. (9. 17)
Kritavarman was a general in the Kaurava, army (9. 17). He is described as the dweller of the Anarta country, the son of Hridika, the mighty car-warrior, the foremost one among the Satwatas, the chief of the Bhojas.
Vivingsati, one among the 100 Kaurava brothers, had slain hundreds of Anarta warriors.
See also
Kingdoms of Ancient India
References
External links
Kisari Mohan Ganguli, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose, 1883-1896.
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Helio R. Camargo
Helio da Rocha Camargo (born 1 February 1926) was the first Brazilian general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 1985 and served there for four years. In 1989, he was transferred, along with other limited-term members of the First Quorum of the Seventy to the newly created Second Quorum of the Seventy. Camargo was released as a general authority in 1990.
Camargo was born in Rio de Janeiro. He entered a military academy in 1943 and he advanced to the rank of captain in the Brazilian military before his retirement.
Camargo married Nair Belmira de Bouvea and they had six children. Nair served as temple matron of the São Paulo Brazil Temple when her husband was the temple's president. She was also as an area representative for the church's auxiliary boards.
After leaving the military, Camargo moved to São Paulo where he became a banker and also entered a Methodist seminary. Camargo was ordained a Methodist minister but was later expelled from the seminary because he opposed infant baptism. He was one of three ministers expelled at that point, the other two were Saul Messias de Oliveira and Walter Guedes de Queiroz, who also later joined the LDS Church.
Camargo read literature he had previously received from the Mormon missionaries and then started attending meetings of the LDS Church. His conversion was helped by hearing the testimony of a young lady on the power of the law of chastity. He was baptized in 1957.
Camargo served as the first president of the São Paulo East Stake when it was organized in November 1968.
Camargo also served as a bishop, counselor to a mission president, and as a mission president.
Camargo's son, Milton R. Camargo, was called as 1st counselor in the LDS Church's Sunday School Presidency in 2019.
Notes
References
"The Church in Brazil," Ensign, February 1975, p. 24
McClellan, Richard D. "Helio R. Camargo" in Garr et al., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History, p. 172
"Elder Helio R. Camargo of the First Quorum of the Seventy," Ensign, May 1985, p. 93
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Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge
The Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge is a cable-stayed road bridge which spans the Martwa Wisła River in Gdańsk, Poland.
The bridge forms an inverted “Y”-shape with a 100-metre-tall pylon. Until Rędziński Bridge was opened on the 31 August 2011, it used to be the longest cable-stayed bridge in Poland supported by a single pylon.
The bridge links the Northern Port of Gdańsk with the national road network and is the first section of the future by-pass road of the city of Gdańsk.
References
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Third Millennium John Paul II Bridge in Structurae database
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Fort du Salbert
Fort du Salbert, also known as Fort Lefebvre, was built between 1874 and 1877. It was named after General François Joseph Lefebvre. It forms part of the Séré de Rivières system fortifications in the fortified region of Belfort in northeastern France. It is located at the summit of Salbert hill to the northwest of Belfort. During the early years of the Cold War it briefly served as an air defense coordination center.
Séré de Rivières fort
Fort du Salbert is one of the second ring of forts around Belfort, built about 5000 to 6000 meters outside the first ring of the 1840s. All of the new generation of forts abandoned sheer walls and bastions in favor of low earth-covered mounds to better resist artillery.
After it became apparent that masonry forts would not resist explosive shells, the fort was modernized beginning in 1885 with concrete over the caponiers and the creation of underground shelters for troops. From 1893 the fort was connected to other Belfort forts by the Chemins de fer du Territoire de Belfort strategic railroad. The fort was equipped with optical semaphores allowing communications with other forts. During the First World War a number of underground galleries were constructed to link the caponiers to the caserne.
Fort du Salbert commands an area of ponds surrounding Malsaucy, and controls roads to Lure, Giromagny and the Paris rail line. Its initial construction cost was 2,120,332 francs d'or. Initial manning was 460 men, 24 non-commissioned officers, and 13 officers. A well and cistern provided water. Armament in 1882 was five 155mm long guns, eight 120mm long guns, and a variety of small mortars and small-caliber guns for close defense.
A 1900 modernization was to add a Galopin armored twin 155mm gun turret and an armored observation post. The gun turret project was abandoned, along with a further addition of a machine gun turret and a 75mm gun turret. The main fort never received the extensive concrete cover that was applied to other Séré de Rivières forts.
During the quarrying of the fort's stone the caves of Cravanche were discovered in 1876.
Currently, the fort has lost much of its original appearance (late nineteenth century) due to the creation in 1950 of the Ouvrage "G" de la D.A.T. that required modernization of the fort.
Sources
This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding French Wikipedia article as of January 20, 2010.
See also
Fortified region of Belfort
Fort de Giromagny, Salbert's neighbor to the north
References
External links
Fort du Salbert at Chemins de mémoire
Fort du Salbert at Fortiff' Séré
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Max McGee
William Max McGee (July 16, 1932 – October 20, 2007) was a professional football player, a wide receiver and punter for the Green Bay Packers in the NFL. He played from 1954 to 1967, and is best known for his seven receptions for 138 yards and two touchdowns in the first Super Bowl in 1967.
Early life
McGee played high school football in White Oak, Texas, and was the first player in high-school football history ever to rush for over 3,000 yards in a single season. He rushed for 3,048 his senior year as a White Oak Roughneck in 1949.
McGee played college football at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was a fullback and a top punter. At the time, Tulane was a member of the Southeastern Conference.
Professional career
McGee was selected in the fifth round (51st overall) of the 1954 NFL draft by the Packers. He was the punter during the first few years of his career. In his rookie season in 1954, McGee led the NFL in punting yards while catching 36 passes for 614 yards and nine touchdowns. He missed the next two seasons (1955 and 1956) to serve as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, but returned to become the Packers' leading receiver from 1958 to 1962. McGee was one of the few bright spots on the 1958 team, which finished the season with a league-low 1-10-1 record, the worst in Packers history. During 1958, he led the NFL in yards per catch average (23.2), punting yards (2,716), and net yards average (36.0).
After Vince Lombardi took over as head coach in January 1959, McGee may be best known for his performance during the first Super Bowl game. He helped the team to six NFL championship appearances, five NFL championship wins, and two Super Bowl titles during the remaining years of his career. He was a Pro Bowl selection during the season.
Despite reductions in playing time due to injuries and age, McGee's final two seasons were the ones for which his career is best remembered. In the 1966 season, McGee caught only four passes for 91 yards and a touchdown as the Packers recorded a 12–2 record and advanced to Super Bowl I against the Kansas City Chiefs. McGee did not expect to play in the game, and he violated his team's curfew policy and spent the night before the Super Bowl out on the town. The next morning, he told starting receiver Boyd Dowler, "I hope you don't get hurt. I'm not in very good shape," alluding to his hangover. Dowler went down with a separated shoulder on the Packers' second drive of the game, and McGee, who had to borrow a teammate's helmet because he had not brought his own out of the locker room, was put into the game. A few plays later, McGee made a one-handed reception of a pass from Bart Starr, took off past Chiefs defender Fred Williamson, and ran 37 yards to score the first touchdown in Super Bowl history. This was a repeat of his performance in the NFL championship game two weeks earlier, when he had also caught a touchdown pass after relieving an injured Dowler. By the end of the game, McGee had recorded seven receptions for 138 yards and two touchdowns, in a 35-10 Packers' victory.
The following year, he recorded a 35-yard reception in the third quarter of Super Bowl II that set up a touchdown in the Packers' 33–14 win over the Oakland Raiders. McGee retired shortly after the game and finished his 12-season career with 345 receptions for 6,346 yards and 12 carries for 121 yards. He scored 51 touchdowns (50 receiving and one fumble recovery). On special teams, he punted 256 times for 10,647 yards, an average of 41.6 yards per punt, and returned four kickoffs for 69 yards.
Career as a celebrity restaurateur
McGee entered into a restaurant partnership with Packer left guard Fuzzy Thurston; they operated the Left Guard Charcoal Houses in Appleton, Fond du Lac, Madison, Green Bay, and Eau Claire. They also operated the Left Guard Steak Houses in Menasha, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis–St. Paul, and the Left End Steak House in Manitowoc. In addition, McGee co-founded the Mexican restaurant chain Chi-Chi's.
Life after the NFL
After retiring from football, McGee became a major partner in developing the popular Chi-Chi's chain of Mexican restaurants with restaurateur Marno McDermott.
McGee was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in 1975. His ties to the Packers continued from 1979 to 1998 when he served as the color commentator for radio broadcasts of Packers' football games. With droll wit and keen insights, McGee was extremely popular as a color commentator.
McGee founded the Max McGee National Research Center for Juvenile Diabetes in 1999 at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. He raised money for diabetes research.
Cancer
McGee was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 56 in April 1989, but it was caught early and he recovered after surgery.
Death
In 2007, at the age of 75, McGee died after a fall at his home in Deephaven, Minnesota, a suburb west of Minneapolis. He fell from the roof on October 20 while removing leaves with a leaf blower. His wife said he had been suffering from an early form of Alzheimer's disease for the previous five years.
See also
List of NCAA major college yearly punt and kickoff return leaders
References
External links
Sports Illustrated – cover – January 23, 1967
Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame – Max McGee
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Blackthorn (cocktail)
The Blackthorn is a whiskey or gin based cocktail. While the whiskey-based version of the cocktail is commonly attributed to 19th century New Orleans, the modern, gin-centric incarnation of the drink is credited to cocktail historian Gary Regan.
See also
List of cocktails
References
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Eastwood Mall (disambiguation)
Eastwood Mall is an indoor shopping center in Niles/ Howland Township, Ohio.
Eastwood Mall may also refer to:
Eastwood Mall (Birmingham) or Eastwood Village, a now-demolished shopping mall in Birmingham, Alabama
Algo Centre Mall or Eastwood Mall, a now-collapsed mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario
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Festuca gigantea
Festuca gigantea, or giant fescue, is a plant species in the grass family, Poaceae. Because this and other members of Festuca subgenus Schedonorus have more in common morphologically with members of the genus Lolium than with Festuca and often produce fertile hybrids with other Lolium species, Festuca gigantea has been recently published as Lolium giganteum and then as Schedonorus giganteus . Sources vary as to which placement is more acceptable.
Description
This grass can grow up to 2 metres. It is loosely tufted, hairless, and has auricles. It has dark red-purple leaf nodes, and there are six 8–13 mm long spikelets. Festuca Gigantea have long awns, forming flowers during the July to August period.
It is a common plant found especially on heavy, neutral and calcerous soils, in woodland, hedge banks and shady places. It is said to grow best in moist woods.
Festuca gigantea produces fertile hybrids with perennial ryegrass and italian ryegrass, hence the confusion with its phylogeny and identification.
Nutrition value
Cattle and horses will readily eat its abundant foliage.
Similar species
Festuca altimssima also known as Wood Fescue, is similar but is found in rocky woods, has spikelets which droop much more but are half as long, and ligules 3mm long.
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Kalamelu Seloto
Kalamelu Seloto (born 24 February 1992) is a Tuvaluan international footballer who plays as a defender for Tuvalu A-Division side Nauti.
Career
International
Seloto made his senior international debut on 2 December 2017 in an 8-0 defeat to Fiji at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games.
Career statistics
International
References
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2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault
The Men's Pole Vault event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 27 and 29.
Defending champion and Olympic champion Steven Hooker came into the meet injured. He was not able to clear his opening height in the trials.
In the final, with three competitors already over 5.85 (including countryman Łukasz Michalski), Paweł Wojciechowski strategically passed his remaining attempts. At 5.90, he cleared on his second (and last remaining) attempt for the win. Lázaro Borges also cleared 5.90, but on his third attempt, setting the national record for Cuba in the process. Renaud Lavillenie edged Michalski for the bronze, because Michalski had a miss at 5.75.
Medalists
Records
Qualification standards
Schedule
Results
Qualification
Qualification: Qualifying Performance 5.70 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.
Final
External links
Pole vault results at IAAF website
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List of Primitive Baptist churches
This is a list of Primitive Baptist churches that are notable.
In the United States, these include:
Abbott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Thomasville, NC
Angier Primitive Baptist Church, Angier, NC
Bethany Primitive Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, Angier, NC
Canyon Primitive Baptist Church, Canyon, TX website
Bear Grass Primitive Baptist Church, Bear Grass, NC
Beards Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Glennville, GA
Beesley Primitive Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, TN
Cane Springs Primitive Baptist Church, College Hill, KY
Cool Springs Primitive Baptist Church, Travelers Rest, SC
Coosa River Primitive Baptist Church, Deatsville, AL
Denton Primitive Baptist Church, Denton, TX website
Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA website
Ephesian Primitive Baptist Church, Nashville, TN
Flint River Primitive Baptist Church, Huntsville, AL website
Goose Creek Island Primitive Baptist Church, Lowland, NC
Goshen Primitive Baptist Church, Winchester, KY
Grace Primitive Baptist Church, Pearl, MS
Grants Mill Primitive Baptist Church, Irondale, AL
Hannah's Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Benson, NC
Hepzibah Primitive Church Ridge Road, Lee County, AL
Kehukee Primitive Baptist Church, Scotland Neck, NC
Little Union Primitive Baptist Church, Lithia, FL
Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church, Austin, TX website
Lone Pilgrim Primitive Baptist Church, Mesa, AZ website
Lynn Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Louisville, KY
McCray Primitive Baptist Church, Burlington, NC
Middleton Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Meadville, MS website
Mount Carmel Primitive Baptist Church, Bel Air, MD website
Mount Olive Primitive Baptist Church, Topeka, KS
Mount Zion Old School Baptist Church, Aldie, VA
Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church, Greenville, NC
Moriah Primitive Baptist Church, Madison County, GA
New Jerusalem Primitive Baptist Church, Miami, FL
North Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Belhaven, NC
Old Carroll Primitive Baptist Church, Point of Rocks, MD website
Old Paths Primitive Baptist Church, Howardwick, TX
Paradise Primitive Baptist Church, Arlington, TX
Prattville Primitive Baptist Church, Prattville, AL
Primitive Baptist Church, Nashville, TN
Primitive Baptist Church of Brookfield, Slate Hill, NY
Providence Primitive Baptist Church, Walter Hill, TN
Radnor Primitive Baptist Church, Nashville, TN website
Red Banks Primitive Baptist Church, Bell Fork, NC
Republican Primitive Baptist Church, Haywood County, TN
Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church, Robersonville, NC
Rocky Mount Primitive Baptist Church, Arab, AL website
Roswell Primitive Baptist Church, Roswell, NM - constituted 2016
St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church, Summit, OK
Salem Primitive Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, TX website
Shady Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Gainesville, FL
Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church, Brogden, NC
Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church, Blackshear, GA
Snow Hill Primitive Baptist Church, Mebane, NC
Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church, Williamston, NC
Smithwick's Creek Primitive Baptist Church, Farmlife, Martin County, NC
Sneedville Primitive Baptist Church, Sneedville, TN
Spring Green Primitive Baptist Church, Hamilton, NC
Sweet Leaf Primitive Baptist Church, Louisville, KY
Tucson Primitive Baptist Church, Tucson, AZ
Union Primitive Baptist Church, Roswell, GA website
Vestavia Primitive Baptist Church, Birmingham, AL website
Wheelers Primitive Baptist Church, Person County, NC
Winter Garden Primitive Baptist Church, Winter Garden, FL website
Zion Rest Primitive Baptist Church, Jasper, AL website
See also
List of Baptist churches
References
Primitive Baptist
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Rich's Houston
Rich's Houston, or simply Rich's, is a gay nightclub in Midtown, Houston, Texas, in the United States. It was established in 1980s, closed in 2013, then re-opened in 2016.
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Car game
Car games are games played to pass the time on long car journeys, often started by parents to amuse restless children. They generally require little or no equipment or playing space. Some such games are designed specifically to be played while traveling (e.g. the license plate game, the Alphabet Game, or Padiddle), while others are games that can be played in a variety of settings including car journeys (e.g. twenty questions).
Car tag
A common car game is car tag. Car tag is when people look out for particular models of car on the road. The game ends when the travellers reach their destination, and the person who spotted the most wins. Cars in a dealership lot are usually not counted.
House rules may make certain models of car trigger other effects beyond or instead of awarding points, most famously in the game variant known as "Punch Buggy" where spotting a Volkswagen Beetle allows the spotted to punch another passenger.
The Australian game Spotto requires players to spot yellow cars of any model, to score a point.
I Spy
I Spy is a common car game, one person calling out "I spy with my little eye, something beginning with..." then naming a letter, and others attempting to guess the object that was spied.
Players may agree that any chosen object should remain visible during the journey, rather than something that will be passed and not seen again during the journey. Players may also agree to decide if the objects will be all outside or all inside the vehicle.
Sign cricket
Sign cricket is a British game where players earn points according to the numbers of legs belonging to the people or animals in the pub's name. For example, a "Horse and Groom" pub would score 6 points: 4 for the four-legged horse, plus 2 for the two-legged groom.
See also
I packed my bag
Twenty Questions
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Romani people in Tunisia
Romani people in Tunisia speak the Domari language. They immigrated to the territory of the present day Tunisia from South Asia, particularly from India, in Byzantine times. Romani (Dom or Nawar) people self-segregated themselves for centuries from the dominant culture of Tunisia, who view Romani as dishonorable though clever. Historically, Gypsies in Tunisia have provided musical entertainment as weddings and other celebrations. The Romani people or Gypsies in Tunisia include subgroups like Nawar, Halebi and Ghagar.
See also
Romani people in Egypt
Romani people in Libya
Romani people in Syria
Romani people in Iraq
Nawar people
References
External links
The Gypsies of Tunisia , Dom Research Center
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Time Flies... but Aeroplanes Crash
Time Flies...but Aeroplanes Crash is the fifth EP by the anarcho-punk band Subhumans. Unlike their previous EP's, "Time Flies..." was released as a 12" record, and features both live and studio tracks - the live tracks being taken from an aborted live album, recorded at Feltham Football Club. The record also features the piano-based song "Susan", written by Steve Hamilton - a friend of vocalist Dick.
In 1990, this EP, along with the band's sixth EP "Rats" was compiled as the "Time Flies + Rats" record, therefore collecting all of the band's remaining EP's (bar 1998's "Unfinished Business") that weren't featured on the "EP-LP" compilation.
Track listing
"Get Out of My Way"
"First Aid"
"Word Factory"
"People are Scared" (Live)
"Susan"
"I Don't Wanna Die" (Live)
"Everyday Life" (Live)
"Work. Rest. Play. Die"
Further track information
Both "Get Out of My Way" and "First Aid" were songs originally written by the Stupid Humans - the band that guitarist Bruce (plus original Subhumans drummer Andy) played in before the band's formation.
Personnel
Dick Lucas - vocals, piano
Bruce - guitar
Grant Jackson - bass
Trotsky - drums
Steve Collinson - engineer
Steve Hamilton - lyrics to "Susan"
External links
AGM Review
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Elpidia
Elpidia is a genus of deep-sea sea cucumbers. Members are characterised by their rod-shaped spicules which each have two pairs of obliquely-placed horizontal arms and two vertical apophyses. There is a high degree of endemism in this genus with different species occupying different deep sea basins or regions.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species recognises the following species:
Elpidia adenensis Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia antarctica Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia atakama Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia belyaevi Rogacheva, 2007
Elpidia birsteini Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia chilensis Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia decapoda Belyaev, 1975
Elpidia echinata (R. Perrier, 1896)
Elpidia glacialis Théel, 1876
Elpidia gracilis Belyaev, 1975
Elpidia heckeri Baranova, 1989
Elpidia javanica Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia kermadecensis Hansen, 1956
Elpidia kurilensis Baranova & Belyaev in Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia lata Belyaev, 1975
Elpidia longicirrata Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia minutissima Belyaev, 1971
Elpidia ninae Belyaev, 1975
Elpidia solomonensis Hansen, 1956
Elpidia sundensis Hansen, 1956
Elpidia theeli Hansen, 1956
Elpidia uschakovi Belyaev, 1971
References
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Milk equivalent
Milk equivalent is a measure of the quantity of fluid milk used in a processed dairy product. Measured on a milkfat basis, it takes about 21.8 pounds of farm milk to make a pound of butter, and about 9.2 pounds to make a pound of American cheese. Measured on a skim solids basis, it takes about 11.6 pounds of farm milk to make a pound of nonfat dry milk. Farm milk weighs about 8.6 pounds per gallon.
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Bartholomew County Annex building
The Bartholomew County Annex building, which is also known as the State Street School, was designed by architect Norman Hill and completed in 1928. The building stands on the northwest corner of State and Pence streets in Columbus, Indiana. From 1928 to the early 1970s it served as an elementary school in the neighborhood of East Columbus under the ownership of Bartholomew County. In the mid 1970s the building began to be used as the County Annex. Today the building houses the Purdue University Extension office, the Bartholomew County Health Department’s nursing program and the Women, Infants and Children program. In late 2013 the County paid an Indianapolis-based engineering and architectural firm, DLZ Indiana Inc., to study the cost of rehabilitating the building.
School history
On April 21, 1928, a bond of $36,500 was issued by the Columbus Township Trustee for the erection of a new school building and the remodeling of the existing building. This new building was to be built to the east and in close proximity to the existing school, which also received remodeled floors, stairways, lighting, and indoor plumbing.
When this building was finished in 1928, it would have stood next to another two-story brick building that was built in 1905. Together these two buildings made up the elementary school (grades 1-3 being housed in this building, and 4-6 being housed in the 1905 building).
These two schools remained in operation for more than 40 years in the community. Students from these schools would have advanced to what was then called Central Junior High School, which was demolished in 2009.
The architect of the building, Norman Hill, also remodeled the Bartholomew County Courthouse (1928) and built the Central School gymnasium (1923), the Wilson School building (1923). In Indianapolis, Indiana he made an addition to the Central Christian Church (1920); the Ohio Theatre (1919); and a library in Paoli, Indiana (1915-1917).
References
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Little Creek (Addition Creek tributary)
Little Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Montana. It is a tributary to Addition Creek.
According to tradition, Little Creek was named in celebration of the birth of firstborn child of forestry official Donald Bruce (himself namesake to Bruce Creek).
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Saurauia rubens
Saurauia rubens is a species of plant in the family Actinidiaceae. It is a tree endemic to Peninsular Malaysia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Occupy Windsor
Occupy Windsor was an Occupy movement encampment in David Croll Park, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The protest ended and all protesters evacuated the area on December 12, 2011 with promises to return to the park to reseed areas damaged by the camp.
Organization
There were 25 residents as of November 11, 2011. Meetings were held twice a day. Occupy hand signals were used so that no one's voice was drowned out. Drinking and drugs in the camp were not permitted. Sanitation for the encampment was provided by rented portable toilets and was offered by the nearby All Saints' Church.
History
The Occupy Windsor movement respected the wishes of Armoured Reserve Regiment's 75th anniversary celebrations by delaying the start time of the protests to allow the regiment use of the public space, officially starting the occupation of David Croll Park on October 15. During the protests the city staff of Windsor turned on water sprinklers and soaked the encampment as part of regular maintenance. In support of the Occupy Detroit movement (located across the US-Canada border), 50 people from Occupy Windsor group marched down to the waterfront and offered support.
On December 9, the protesters announced their intention to end the occupation, with one of the protesters stating to the media, "We believe the encampment has served its purpose to make a statement that we have a right to freely assemble and conduct a dialogue [about] the concerns we have about how the political and corporate control over our lives is undemocratic."
After the protest was officially ended on December 12, 2011, four of the protesters expressed their concerns about being homeless to the rest of the group. In response, the group was able to, "with the assistance of the Windsor Police and the city social services department", obtain four apartments for the men to live in until longer term housing could be found. One of the other members involved with getting the apartments stated, "People from Occupy Windsor made a commitment to them. We're going to stay in touch."
While no longer actively occupying, the Occupy Windsor protesters, numbering around 50, protested on December 17, 2011 outside the Windsor city hall in regards to the discussion going on among the city council about "lower tuition rates, improved pension plans, poverty and the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement with Europe (CETA)". The protesters have stated that they are no longer going to occupy, but that they "will continue to hold assemblies and marches".
Response
The city and police force both indicated that the Windsor occupiers were generally well behaved and few complaints were registered against them. Mayor Eddie Francis explained that "taking action against a small group of peaceful protestors can lead to bigger problems." Police Chief Gary Smith also stated, "I can't speak for the other agencies that check on safety and that, but nothing's been reported to us that's raised any concerns at this point."
One of the City Councillors, Drew Dilkens, threatened in early November to "lodge a formal complaint about the protesters not abiding by a bylaw requiring them to get a permit to set up tents and stay overnight in a public park." He also made a statement to CBC News, saying, "I think we've been more than tolerant. So, I personally would like to see them gone, because I don't think their message is coherent...They pride themselves on being a leaderless movement, and I've never seen change without leadership...It's an accident waiting to happen. I'd hate for someone to die to get to the point to say, 'We really should have removed them earlier.'"
See also
List of Occupy movement protest locations
References
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Football in Guatemala
Football is the most popular sports in Guatemala and is run by the Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala. The association administers the national football team, as well as the Liga Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala.
Local tournaments
The first clubs of the country were established in the capital Guatemala City, where a second football club was founded with Olympic FC at the beginning of the 20th century. These two teams started the first competition with the Copa Centroamericana between 28 August and 30 October 1904, and they were conceded exclusively between these two teams, who competed ten times against each other. With six wins and a draw against three defeats, the younger Olympic FC won this first match. The second competition took place between October 1905 and February 19066 and was contested by a total of three teams. Once again, Olympic FC went through, but the Guatemala FC "defended" second place in front of the newly added team of the Gay SC. After that, other tournaments were played out as of 1911 under the new name Copa Manuel Estrada Cabrera. The first tournament won the Gay SC, but in the years 1913 and 1914 the Guatemala FC finally entered the winner list
Soon the football reached also the second largest city in the country, Quetzaltenango, where the Quetzaltenango FC was founded in May 1906.
Already in 1919 the League Capitalina was launched and the first Campeonato Nacional won, which was won by the Hércules FC
With the establishment of the Campeonato de Liga for the season 1942/43, the professional football was introduced in Guatemala. Since then the country's football has been dominated by the two major rivals from Guatemala City, CSD Comunicaciones and CSD Municipal, who have won the championship title 59 times already (until the end of the 2015/16 season, Comunicaciones was successful 30 times, Municipal 29 Times). In the third place follows by a long distance the Aurora FC, which also lives in the capital, and between 1964 and 1992/93 a total of eight times came to champions. Best team outside the capital is with five titles the Club Xelajú MC from the second largest city in the country, Quetzaltenango
International competitions
Club football
CSD Municipal won the biggest successes in the CONCACAF Champions Cup in 1974. Four years later, the archrival Comunicaciones F.C. was also delighted with this triumph, although he was only one of three season winners. However, because the tournament of the year 1978 was not carried out anymore, all three teams were declared as equivalent tournament champions.
Comunicaciones won the final in the first tournament in 1962, where they also failed against the Mexican neighbor Chivas Guadalajara as well as seven years later against Cruz Azul. Municipal reached the final once again in 1995 and failed in this case against the Costa Rican C.D. Saprissa.
National team
The Guatemalan national soccer team celebrated their best result so far with fourth place at the 1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The only title the national team was winning the 1967 CONCACAF Championship overwhelming northern neighbor Mexico.
The qualification for a FIFA World Cup has not yet been achieved.
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Dhak Manak
Dhak Manak is a village in Phagwara Tehsil in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. It is located from Kapurthala, from Phagwara. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per the constitution of India and Panchayati raj (India).
Demography
According to the report published by Census India in 2011, Dhak Manak has 5 houses with the total population of 22 persons of which 10 are male and 12 females. Literacy rate of Dhak Manak is 78.95%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children in the age group 0–6 years is 3 which is 13.64% of the total population. Child sex ratio is approximately 2000, higher than the state average of 846.
Population data
Nearby villages
Babeli
Bhabiana
Brahampur
Chair
Dhak Chair
Domeli
Dug
Malikpur
Manak
Sahni
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Regional policy
Regional policy aims to improve economic conditions in regions of relative disadvantage, either within a nation or within a supranational grouping such as the European Union. Its main tool is public investment.
Regional policy in the European Union
Although the European Union is one of the richest parts of the world, there are large internal disparities of income and opportunity between its regions. The May 2004 Enlargement, followed by accession of Bulgaria and Romania in January 2007, has widened these gaps. Regional policy transfers resources from richer to poorer regions.
The argument for regional policy is that it is both an instrument of financial solidarity and a powerful force for economic integration.
Regional policy in Italy
The major Italian experience of regional policy is the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, set up in the mid-1950s to foster economic development in southern Italy. Originally intended to last for six months, it survived until 1984.
New roads, irrigation projects and developments in infrastructure were built in an area where local communities had suffered seriously from poverty, de-population and high levels of emigration. Tourism projects attempted to exploit Calabria’s beaches.
Regional policy in the United Kingdom
UK regional policy was born during the economic depression of the 1930s, when heavy industries in the north were devastated. "Assisted Areas" were established, within which companies could acquire grants or capital allowances – known as Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) – in return for protecting jobs.
The overall pattern of policy changed little in the next forty years. Despite criticism by a 1970s Royal Commission that it was "Empiricism run mad; a game of hit and miss played with more enthusiasm than success", governments of both parties maintained Assisted Areas. Under the 1980s Thatcher government, regional policy was significantly rolled back, with Assisted Areas substantially reduced in size.
The post-1997 Labour administration reorganised regional policy, with RSA replaced by Selective Finance for Investment in England and Scotland. UK policy has been subject to EU regional policy framework, with its strong injunctions against unfair competition (generally meaning state aid).
Regional policy in the United States
Tennessee Valley Authority
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
See also
Region
Regional development
Regional Studies Association
References
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Michael Lumb (cricketer)
Michael John Lumb (born 12 February 1980) is a former English cricketer, who played for Nottinghamshire at county level and England in Twenty20 International cricket and One Day International cricket. Born and raised in South Africa, Lumb is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He became only the second cricketer after Dennis Amiss to score a century on ODI debut for England and ninth player overall to do so.
Domestic career
The son of prolific Yorkshire opener Richard Lumb, Michael Lumb was born in South Africa and was educated at Montrose Primary, then St Stithians College in Johannesburg. He was in the South Africa national under-19 cricket team squad for the 1998 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Lumb made his way through the junior teams in Transvaal before returning to his roots to play for Yorkshire. A hard-hitting batsman, Lumb made his county debut in 2000, scoring 66 not out against the touring Zimbabweans. A knee injury in 2001 meant that Lumb played only a small part in Yorkshire's success in winning the County Championship that year, although he did record a maiden first-class hundred against Leicestershire. In doing so Lumb became part of only the fourth father-and-son pair to score centuries for Yorkshire.
Lumb made progress in 2002 by becoming a regular member of both the championship and limited-overs sides and, in 2003, scored close to a thousand first-class runs at an average of over 40, including two centuries and six fifties. He was selected for the ECB National Academy squad the following winter, but failed to kick on as people expected and was dropped by Yorkshire during the 2005 season. He averaged in the middle-thirties for the 2005 and 2006 seasons, with a top score of 144 in 2006 but, at the end of the season, decided against renewing his contract and moved to Hampshire for the 2007 County Championship.
In July 2009 some good form for Hampshire, particularly when opening the batting in the One-Day and Twenty20 games, led for his inclusion in the England Cricket Team's provisional 30-man squad for the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy taking place in South Africa during September 2009.
Hampshire progressed to the Friends Provident Trophy final in 2009 and Lumb shared in a 93 run opening partnership with James Adams against Sussex as Hampshire forged a six wicket win at Lord's Cricket Ground. In the semi-final Lumb had also impressed scoring 76 against Lancashire as he and Adams put on over 150 for the first wicket. Lumb made his highest first-class score against Nottinghamshire during a 2009 County Championship game, making 219 runs in Hampshire's first innings.
Lumb was signed by former Hampshire teammate Shane Warne to play for the Rajasthan Royals in the 2010 Indian Premier League, in a deal worth a reported £30,000. For the season of IPL 2011, Lumb was picked up by Deccan Chargers.
On 10 November 2010, Lumb agreed to terms with the Queensland Bulls to play in the 2010/11 KFC Big Bash season.
On 22 July 2011, Lumb signed with the Sydney Sixers for Australia's Big Bash League as one of their two allowed overseas players He was part of the Sixers' squad that won the 2012 Champions League Twenty20. Lumb scored an unbeaten 82 in the final and was named man of the match.
It was announced on 10 August 2011, that Lumb would join Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club from the 2012 season, on a 3-year deal.
In July 2017, Lumb was forced to retire from cricket due to an ankle injury.
International career
Lumb was selected in England's fifteen man squad for the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 held in the West Indies. He made his Twenty20 International debut against the West Indies, where opening the innings, he hit a quickfire 28 before being bowled by Chris Gayle. Lumb played in all of England's seven matches in the tournament, where he helped to form a fast-paced opening partnership with Craig Kieswetter. Lumb scored 137 runs in the tournament at a batting average of 19.57 and a high score of 33. Lumb ended on a high note by collecting a winners medal, as England defeated Australia by seven wickets to win the tournament. During the match he ran out David Warner and scored two runs with the bat off four deliveries. He scored a match winning 50 against India on the second of two games and proved that he deserved a place in the England team.
Lumb made his ODI debut against the West Indies on 28 February 2014, where he scored a century. In the same tour he scored his highest T20 score and a few months later he was part of England's 2014 World T20 Cup squad in Bangladesh, playing in all of England's matches.
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1917 Ealing by-election
The Ealing by-election of 1917 was held on 30 April 1917. The by-election was held due to the incumbent Conservative MP, Herbert Nield, becoming Recorder of York. It was retained by Nield.
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Nick Straker
Nick Straker (born Nicholas Bailey) is a London-born musician, who had hits in Europe and the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Career
Straker joined his first band, called Stonehenge, in 1969. The band changed its name in 1971 to Matumbi, a reggae band signed to Trojan Records, but Straker left in 1974. Along with his friend, guitarist Dave McShera, Straker joined Pete Hammond (bass) and Phil Towner (drums) in a dance band playing working men's clubs and weddings. They then met American soul singer Limmie Snell, and the band became Limmie Funk Limited with Andy Gierus on guitar. They played discotheques around the country and toured the Netherlands and Sweden in early 1978.
Tony Mansfield, later the lead singer and songwriter with New Musik, joined, originally as roadie, but eventually he and Straker formed a collaboration that led to the recording of a successful UK single, "A Walk in the Park", in 1979. A year later, the track was re-recorded and released, and made number 20 in the UK Singles Chart.
The Nick Straker Band released a few more singles, but none had the success of "A Walk in the Park" in the UK, although "A Little Bit of Jazz" reached number 1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1981. Straker re-recorded "A Walk in the Park" in 1987; the new version was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman, and charted at only number 82 in the UK.
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David Van Drunen
David John Van Drunen (born January 31, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Odessa Jackalopes of the Central Hockey League. He played in one National Hockey League game for the Ottawa Senators during the 1999–2000 NHL season.
See also
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Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts
The Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts, is the chief administrative manager of Saugus, Massachusetts. Saugus has a Town Manager/Representative town meeting (Plan E) system of government. The Town Manager’s Office is located in Saugus Town Hall. Scott Crabtree has been town manager since March 30, 2015 and previously held the position from 2012 to 2014.
Saugus has had more instability with the Manager's position compared to other towns. This high rate of turnover has been used by some opponents of the Town Manager form of government as an example of why their community should not adopt it.
History
The Plan E form of government adopted following a referendum on June 2, 1947, in which the proposed form of government was supported 3,252 votes to 816. Saugus became the first town in Massachusetts to accept this form of government. The movement to adopt the Plan E form of government was led by Frederick Willis, Saugus' State Representative and the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. C. F. Nelson Pratt led the opposition. The issue had been brought up two previous times. The first time it was approved by town meeting, but rejected by the voters. The second time it was approved by town meeting, but the vote was brought up for reconsideration and then blocked by parliamentary procedure.
In addition to creating the office of Town Manager, the Plan E form of government also expanded the Board of Selectmen from three members to five and changed the electoral system to Single transferable vote. Also, the offices of tax collector and tree warden switched from being elected positions to appointed positions. STV was abandoned after the 1950 election.
On February 15, 1948, the Board of Selectmen unanimously selected James Shurtleff, who had been recommended by the International City Managers Association, to serve as the first town manager of Saugus, Massachusetts. He took office on April 1. His salary was $8,000 a year.
Appointment
The Town Manager is appointed by a four-fifths vote of the Board of Selectmen for a term of years determined by the board. The Town Charter requires that the Manager be
"Especially fitted by education, training and experience to perform the duties of the office"
"Be appointed without regard to his political beliefs".
"Need not be a resident of the town or the Commonwealth"
The town manager shall be sworn in by the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, the Town Clerk, or a justice of the peace.
When the position becomes vacant, the Selectmen shall fill the office as soon as possible by appointing a temporary Manager. During a temporary absence or disability, the town manager may designate a qualified officer of the town to perform his duties. If the Manager does not make such designation, the Selectmen shall designate an officer of the town to perform the duties of the manager until he returns to office.
Removal
The Selectmen may remove the town manager by a four-fifths vote. At least thirty days before a proposed removal, the selectmen must file a preliminary written resolution with the Town Clerk detailing the specific reasons for his proposed removal. The manager may reply in writing to the resolution and request a public hearing. After full consideration, the selectmen may adopt a final resolution of removal by a majority vote of the full membership of the board. The selectmen may suspend the manager from duty in the preliminary resolution, but shall pay him any unpaid balance of his salary and his salary for the next three calendar months.
Duties and powers
The Town Manager shall supervise and direct the administration of all departments, commissions, boards and offices, except for the Board of Selectmen, School Committee, Board of Appeals, Board of Library Trustees, election officers, and the registrars of voters. He may reorganize, consolidate or abolish departments, commissions, boards, or offices under his control, establish new ones as he deems necessary, and may transfer the duties, powers and appropriation of one department, commission, board or office to another. He is in charge of fixing the compensation of all town officers and employees under his control. He can dismiss any officer or employee of the town, except for employees of the school department.
The Town Manager shall attend all regular meetings of the Board of Selectmen, except for meetings at which his removal is being considered.
He has jurisdiction over the rental and use of all town property and is responsible for the maintenance, repair, and construction of all town buildings.
The Town Manager is responsible for purchasing all supplies, materials, equipment (except schools books), and for awarding contracts for all town departments.
The Town Manager is directly or indirectly responsible for administering all of the town's general and special laws as well as all by-laws and regulations established by the Selectmen.
The Town Manager has authority to prosecute, defend, and compromise all litigation to which the town is a party. He can employ special counsel to assist the town counsel whenever he deems it to be necessary.
The Town Manager shall perform any other duties, consistent with his office, that the Board of Selectmen may assign to him.
The Town Manager may without notice investigate the affairs of any division, department, officer, or employee under his control.
The Town Manager is responsible for appointing members to the Planning Board, Board of Public Welfare, Board of Health, Board of Youth and Recreation Commissioners, Board of Cemetery Commissioners, Board of Assessors, as well as the Fire Chief, Town Clerk, Town Treasurer, Town Collector, Town Accountant, Superintendent of Public Works, Tree Warden, and Town Counsel. All of these appointments must be approved by a majority of the full board of selectmen at an open session. The Manager may also assume the duties of any office which he is authorized to fill by appointment.
The town manager is the chief fiscal officer of the town. Warrants for the payment of town funds must be approved by town manager. The town manager must submit an annual budget to the Board of Selectmen. He is also responsible for writing estimates of the probable expenditures of the town government, statements showing the town's expenditures, and statements showing all the revenue collected by the town. He shall report the probable amount to be levied and raised by taxation to cover all expenses and liabilities of the town and provide an estimate of the tax rate.
List of Town Managers
Notes
1. Fitzgerald signed a contract and was sworn in as Town Manager, but his contract was voided before he took office.
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Wild International
"Wild International" is the first track and single from One Day as a Lion's self-titled five track EP. This track was first revealed on July 16, 2008. It was made available to stream on the band's myspace page. On the same day the song was premiered by the influential L.A. radio station KROQ-FM and on Australian radio station Triple J. It peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot Modern Tracks, and #6 in Norway.
Inspiration
When Zack de la Rocha was asked about the song, he said,
When told the song seemed anti-religious, he said,
Charting
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Law of the Jungle (film)
Law of the Jungle is a 1942 American adventure film directed by Jean Yarbrough.
Plot summary
A singer, Nona Brooks, is stranded at a hotel in Africa because her passport is missing. It turns out enemy agents, in collaboration with hotel owner Simmons, have stolen her papers, then try to use her for their nefarious schemes.
Brooks flees and encounters paleontologist Larry Mason in the jungle. He and his assistant Jefferson Jones give her shelter, then fend off unfriendly natives while Simmons is murdered by the villainous agents. All looks hopeless until the tribal chief turns out to be a reasonable, Oxford-educated man who helps Larry and Nona out of their jam.
Cast
Arline Judge as Nona Brooks
John 'Dusty' King as Larry Mason
Mantan Moreland as Jefferson 'Jeff' Jones
Arthur O'Connell as Simmons
C. Montague Shaw as Sgt. Burke
Guy Kingsford as Constable Whiteside
Laurence Criner as Chief Mojobo - an Oxford Graduate
Victor Kendall as Grozman
Feodor Chaliapin, Jr. as Belts
Martin Wilkins as Bongo
Soundtrack
Arline Judge - "Jungle Moon" (Written by Edward J. Kay as Edward Kay)
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James Knoll Gardner
James Knoll Gardner (September 14, 1940 – April 26, 2017) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Education and career
Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Gardner received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Yale University in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1965. He was on active duty in the United States Navy JAG Corps from 1966 to 1969, remaining a U.S. Naval Reserve JAG Corps officer from 1969 to 1993, retiring as a Captain. He was in private practice of law in Philadelphia from 1965 to 1966 and 1969 to 1970, and in Allentown from 1970 to 1981. He was Solicitor to the Treasurer of Lehigh County from 1971 to 1977. He was an Assistant District Attorney of Lehigh County from 1972 to 1977, and then First Assistant District Attorney of Lehigh County from 1977 to 1981. He was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County from 1981 to 2002, serving as President Judge from 1997 to 2001.
District court service
On April 22, 2002, Gardner was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Jan E. DuBois. Gardner was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 2, 2002, and received his commission on October 3, 2002. He assumed senior status on April 3, 2017, serving in that status until his death on April 26, 2017.
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Bavand dynasty
The Bavand dynasty () (also spelled Bavend), or simply the Bavandids, was an Iranian dynasty that ruled in parts of Tabaristan (Mazandaran) in what is now northern Iran from 651 until 1349, alternating between outright independence and submission as vassals to more powerful regional rulers.
Origins
The dynasty itself traced its descent back to Bav, who was alleged to be a grandson of the Sasanian prince Kawus, brother of Khosrow I, and son of the shah Kavad I (ruled 488–531), who supposedly fled to Tabaristan from the Muslim conquest of Persia. He rallied the locals around him, repelled the first Arab attacks, and reigned for fifteen years until he was murdered by a certain Valash, who ruled the country for eight years. Bav's son, Sohrab or Sorkab (Surkhab I), established himself at Perim on the eastern mountain ranges of Tabaristan, which thereafter became the family's domain. The scholar J. Marquart, however, proposed an alternative identification of the legendary Bav with a late-6th-century Zoroastrian priest ("magian") from Ray. P. Pourshariati, in her re-examination of late Sasanian history, asserts that this Bav is a conflation of several members of the powerful House of Ispahbudhan: Bawi, his grandson Vistahm and his great-nephew Farrukhzad. She also reconstructs the events of the middle 7th century as a civil war between two rival clans, the Ispahbudhan and Valash's House of Karen, before the Dabuyid Farrukhan the Great conquered Tabaristan and subdued the various local leaders to vassalage. The Dabuyid house then ruled Tabaristan until the Abbasids subdued the region in 760.
History
It is at the time after the Abbasid conquest that the Bavandids enter documented history, with Sharwin I, in later tradition accounted the great-grandson of Surkhab I. The dynasty is commonly divided into three major branches: the Kayusiyya, named after Kayus ibn Kubad, the Arabicized name of the family's legendary ancestor Kawus son of Kavad, which ruled from 665 until 1006, when the family's rule was ended by Qabus ibn Wushmagir. Several members of the family continued to rule in various localities thereafter, giving rise to the second line, the Ispahbadhiyya, in 1073. Their capital was Sari, and their rule extended over Gilan, Ray and Qumis as well as Tabaristan, although they were mostly vassals of the Seljuqs and later of the Khwarezmshahs. The line was ended in 1210 with the murder of Rustam V, and the Khwarezmshah Muhammad II took over direct control of the region. The third line or Kinakhwariyya was established in 1237 following the Mongol invasions and the widespread anarchy that prevailed, and lasted, as a vassal of the Mongols, until the final end of the dynasty in 1349.
Kayusiyya line
Following the demise of the Dabuyids, two major local dynasties were left in Tabaristan: the Bavandids in the eastern mountains and the Karenids, who also appropriated the heritage of the Dabuyid rulers, in the central and western mountain ranges. Both claimed Sasanian origin and titelature, with the Bavandids styling themselves as "kings of Tabaristan" and, like the Karenids, claiming the title of ispahbadh.
Sharwin I, along with the Karenid ruler Vandad Hormozd, led the native resistance to Muslim rule and the efforts at Islamization and settlement begun by the Abbasid governor, Khalid ibn Barmak (768–772). Following his departure, the native princes destroyed the towns he had built in the highlands, and although in 781 they affirmed loyalty to the Caliphate, in 782 they launched a general anti-Muslim revolt that was not suppressed until 785, when Sa'id al-Harashi led 40,000 troops into the region. Relations with the caliphal governors in the lowlands improved thereafter, but the Bavandid and Karenid princes remained united in their opposition to Muslim penetration of the highlands, to the extent that they prohibited even the burial of Muslims there. Isolated acts of defiance like the murder of a tax collector occurred, but when the two princes were summoned before Harun al-Rashid in 805 they promised loyalty and the payment of a tax, and were forced to leave their sons behind as hostages for four years.
After his death in 817, Sharvin was succeeded by his grandson, Shahriyar I, who managed to evict the Karenid Mazyar from his own realm. Mazyar fled to the court of the Caliph al-Ma'mun, became a Muslim and in 822/23 returned with the support of the Abbasid governor to exact revenge: Shahriyar's son and successor, Shapur, was defeated and killed, and Mazyar united the highlands under his own rule. His growing power brought him into conflict with the Muslim settlers at Amul, but he was able to take the city and receive acknowledgement of his rule over all of Tabaristan from the caliphal court. Eventually, however, he quarreled with Abdallah ibn Tahir, and in 839, he was captured by the Tahirids, who now took over control of Tabaristan. The Bavandids exploited the opportunity to regain their ancestral lands: Shapur's brother, Qarin I, assisted the Tahirids against Mazyar, and was rewarded with his brother's lands and royal title. In 842, he converted to Islam.
This period saw the rapid Islamization of the native population of Tabaristan. Although the majority accepted Sunni Islam, Shi'ism also spread, especially in Amul and the neighbouring areas of Astarabad and Gurgan. Thus, in 864, a Zaydi Alid, Hasan ibn Zayd, was invited to Tabaristan, and with support from the Daylamites took over control of the province. The Bavandids remained steadfastly opposed to the Alid dynasty throughout its existence, and Qarin's grandson Rustam I was to pay with his life for this: in 895, the Alid supporter Rafi' ibn Harthama tortured him to death. The Sunni Samanids drove out the Alids in 900, but in 914 a relative of Hasan ibn Zayd, Hasan al-Utrush, managed to drive out the Samanids, restore Alid control over the province, and force even the Bavandids and Karinids to accept his rule.
The history of the Bavandis is detailed in the works of Ibn Isfandiar and Mar'ashi which belong to the genre of local histories that gained popularity in Iran after 1000 AD. We know that they were related to the Ziyarid dynasty, through the marriage of Mardanshah, the father of Ziyar, to the daughter of one of the Bavandi kings. The prominence of the Bavandi kings apparently continued throughout the Seljuq and Mongol period. One of their greatest kings, Shah Ghazi Rustam, is reported to have seriously defeated the Ismailis who were gaining prominence in Tabaristan and to have made significant progress in consolidating power in the Caspian provinces.
After the Mongol conquest, the Bavandis continued to rule as local strongmen of Tabaristan and sometimes Dailam. Their power was finally brought down around 1350 when Kiya Afrasiyab of the Afrasiyab dynasty, themselves an offshoot of the Bavandis, managed to kill Hasan II of Tabaristan, the last of the mainline Bavandi kings.
Culture
The Bavandids stressed their lineage with the Sasanian Empire. As late as the early 13th-century, their coronation customs were assumed to go back to the remote past, as depicted thorough by the 13th-century Iranian historian Ibn Isfandiyar;
Bavandid rulers
Kayusiyya
Farrukhzad (651–665)
Valash (usurper, 665–673)
Surkhab I (673–717)
Mihr Mardan (717–755)
Surkhab II (755–772)
Sharwin I (772–817)
Shahriyar I (817–825)
Shapur (825)
Rule by the Karenid Mazyar (825–839)
Qarin I (839–867)
Rustam I (867–895)
Sharwin II (896–930)
Shahriyar II (930–964)
Rustam II (964–979)
al-Marzuban (979–986)
Sharwin III (986)
Shahriyar III (986–987)
al-Marzuban (987–998)
Shahriyar III (998)
al-Marzuban (998–1006)
Abu Ja'far Muhammad (???-1027)
Qarin II (1057–1074)
Ispahbadhiyya
Shahriyar IV (1074–1114)
Qarin III (1114–1117)
Rustam III (1117–1118)
Ali I (1118–1142)
Shah Ghazi Rustam (1142–1165)
Hasan I (1165–1173)
Ardashir I (1173–1205)
Rustam V (1205–1210)
Kinkhwariyya
Ardashir II (1238–1249)
Muhammad (1249–1271)
Ali II (1271)
Yazdagird (1271–1300)
Shahriyar V (1300–1310)
Shah-Kaykhusraw (1310–1328)
Sharaf al-Muluk (1328–1334)
Hasan II (1334–1349)
See also
Bavandid family tree
References
Sources
Ibn Isfandiar, Mohammad b. Hasan. Tarikh-e Tabaristan, ed. M. Mehrabadi, Tehran: Ahl-e Qalam, 1381 [2002].
Kasravi, Ahmad. Shahriaran-e Gomnam, Tehran: Amir Kabir, 1957.
Mar'ashi, Sayyed Zahiruddin. Tarikh-e Tabaristan o Royan of Mazandaran, ed. by Bernhard Darn, St. Petersburg, 1850 (Tehran Edition: Gostareh, 1363 [1984]).
External links
Britannica: Bavandi Dynasty
Iranolgie.com: Independent Kingdoms
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Afon Clun
The Afon Clun () is a long tributary of the River Ely (), in the counties of Cardiff and Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. Its bedrock is predominantly of sandstone. Beginning on the western slope of The Garth () the river is fast-flowing, in clear shallow water with a hard substrate, flowing to the south of Llantrisant and generally west to its confluence with the River Ely at Pontyclun, falling over its course.
The river contains species such as stone loach, lamprey, eel, roach, chub and bullhead, and the Afon Clun valley is home to many species, including dragonflies and damselflies, badger, and the marsh fritillary butterfly, as well as the European Protected Species – bats, dormouse, otter and great crested newt. Birds in the area include bullfinch, kingfisher, linnet, reed bunting, skylark, and song thrush.
The valley is at risk of flooding between Cross Inn and Pontyclun and the river is liable to overflow its northern bank along its length downstream from the main A4119 (Tonypandy to Cardiff Bay ()) road at Talbot Green () to Pontyclun, providing a wetland wildlife habitat.
Many archeological sites are close to the river, from the Bronze Age tumuli on The Garth and an Iron Age hill fort at Rhiwsaeson, to the more recent industrial archeology of coal mines.
Course
The Afon Clun, a major tributary of the River Ely, drains an area of to the north-west of Cardiff in south Wales. The river's source is on the western slope of The Garth, a ) mountain of pennant sandstone midway between Cardiff () and Pontypridd, whose eastern slopes feed the River Taf by Taff's Well (). The Garth stands in the north western corner of the City and County of Cardiff (), above the village of Gwaelod y Garth, about north west of Cardiff city centre and about a mile or 1.5 km north of Pentyrch. The lower northern slopes of The Garth form the boundary with Rhondda Cynon Taf, about half a mile (800 m) north of the Clun's source. To the east the land falls away sharply from the summit, dropping more than over a distance of . The drop is less dramatic on the western slopes, the source of the Clun, but the river still falls to by the time it crosses the county boundary into Rhondda Cynon Taf at Rhiwsaeson, just under two miles (nearly 3 km) from its source. The Clun is fast-flowing, with clear shallow water and a hard substrate (gravel/cobble/pebble).
Near the Dŵr Cymru/Welsh Water water treatment plant at Rhiwsaeson the Afon Clun is fed from the north by Nant Myddlyn, which itself is joined from the east by Nant Dowlais. Nant Myddlyn rises in Tynant, Beddau about to the north of its confluence with the River Clun, between Beddau and Llantwit Fardre (), and Nant Dowlais rises in Church Village (). Nant Dowlais also has a tributary, which rises on Garth Isaf, two and a quarter miles (3.5 km) from it on the north western slopes of The Garth and about half a mile (800 m) north of the Clun's source.
Leaving Rhiwsaeson, about a mile (1.5 km) east of Cross Inn, the Clun widens to between about and and slows. Here, where the Clun flows to the south of Cross Inn, as well as along the banks of Nant Dowlais and Nant Myddlyn, evidence of otter activity has been noted. The river flows to the south of the A473 Pontypridd to Bridgend () road (Talbot Green By-Pass), where it is fed from the south by Nant Mwyndy. Nant Mwyndy flows over a bedrock of Carboniferous Limestone, rising in Creigiau and, flowing westwards, immediately north of Groesfaen, passing a small industrial estate at Mwyndy, feeding a lake resulting from Victorian opencast iron mining (see History below) and turning south to flow past Cefn-y-Parc Cemetery, Penygawsi, before reaching its confluence with the Afon Clun. The Clun then flows beneath the main A4119 (Tonypandy to Cardiff Bay) route about south of the roundabout by Glamorgan Vale Retail Park, Talbot Green. At this point, the river often overflows onto the meadows to the north, providing a wetland wildlife habitat, although drainage of floodplain grasslands, for industrialisation, housing and associated infrastructure, has affected wildlife by reducing its available area. To the south, the enclosed woodland of Coed-yr-Hendy follows the river's course for its final half-mile (800 m). The woodland's gentle slope, up from the Clun towards Miskin () and Pontyclun, prevents significant flooding over Afon Clun's southern bank.
After passing Y Pant Comprehensive School and Pontyclun Fire Station, the Clun flows under the bridge built for the Llantrisant to Cowbridge () main road, also known as the A4222, and gives its name to the nearby village, Pontyclun ("Clun bridge"). Immediately past the bridge, from its source, is the Afon Clun's confluence with the River Ely, which heads south, east to Miskin, almost encircling Pontyclun, then south on its way to Cardiff, where it flows into Cardiff Bay by Penarth Marina, which flows into the Bristol Channel.
Clun Valley
The River Clun and its tributaries pass through the following towns and villages within Rhondda Cynon Taf, before merging with the River Ely at Pontyclun -
Efail Isaf (Llantwit Fardre)
Tonteg (Llantwit Fardre)
Church Village (Llantwit Fardre)
Llantwit Fardre
Beddau (Llantrisant)
Rhiwsaeson (Llantrisant)
Groes-faen (Pontyclun)
Cross Inn (Llantrisant)
Talbot Green
Tyla Garw (Pontyclun)
Pontyclun
Ecology
Average annual rainfall in the area is .
Bedrock along the river's course is predominantly sandstone.
The Clun's water quality is generally class RE2 or better.
[Note: River Ecosystem Classification (RE) regulations and EU Directives for Bathing Water, Freshwater Fisheries, Dangerous Substances and Urban Waste Water Treatment;
RE1: 'Water of very good quality suitable for all fish species';
RE2: 'Water of good quality suitable for all fish species';
RE3: 'Water of fair quality suitable for high class coarse fish populations';
RE4: 'Water of fair quality suitable for coarse fish populations';
RE5: 'Water of poor quality which is likely to limit coarse fish populations.']
Afon Clun and its tributaries are designated 'salmonid waters and cyprinid waters' by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) under the EC Freshwater Fish Directive (2006/44/EC), which sets physical and chemical water quality objectives to protect fresh water bodies suitable for sustaining fish populations
Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) has designated the Afon Clun Valley and Rhiwsaeson Hill as a Site of Important Nature Conservation, which is intended to provide the area with some protection from development. In addition, RCT has designated the undeveloped areas of the southern bank of Afon Clun (from Rhiwsaeson to Coed-yr-Hendy, including Mwyndy) and Efail Isaf, Garth and Nantgarw Western Slopes as Special Landscape Areas (SLAs). (SLAs) are intended to protect the visual qualities of "areas of fine landscape quality", when considering development proposals. Coed-yr-Hendy and Mwyndy consist mainly of "undisturbed" fields and woodlands. The south and west of the Efail Isaf, Garth and Nantgarw Western Slopes area consists of farmland – considered to be a buffer between The Garth and the urban area of Efail Isaf and Church Village. The eastern part is the prominent wooded slopes of the Taf Valley – a backdrop to the Treforest Industrial Estate. SLAs are identified using the Countryside Council for Wales' LANDMAP criteria, considering factors such as prominence, spectacle (dramatic topography and views), unspoilt areas (pre-industrial patterns of land use), remoteness and tranquility, vulnerability and sensitivity to change, and local rarity of landscape.
Diversity
The Afon Clun and Nant Dowlais contain minnow, stickleback, stone loach, lamprey, and eel. The species European bullhead (Cottus gobio) were also present, until a pollution incident in 2000 CE (see Industry below). In addition, the Clun contains roach and chub.
Among the species in the flood-meadows adjacent to the Afon Clun is the common orchid. The river's banks contain broadleaf woodland as well as invasive plants such as Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed.
Several species of dragonfly and damselfly hunt on the river. Other species present include bats, badger, dormouse, otter, great crested newt and the marsh fritillary butterfly, of which bats, dormouse, otter and great crested newt are European Protected Species. There is evidence that otters use Nant Dowlais and Nant Myddlyn, as well as the Clun and several species of bat have been sighted in the area, including Natterer's, long-eared, noctule and pipistrelle.
The Clun flows through, and close to, several areas defined in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) as 'Areas of Ecological Significance'. Birds of 'conservation concern' recorded in surveys of the area are bullfinch, kingfisher, linnet, reed bunting skylark, and song thrush.
Hedgerows throughout the area qualify for protection, under the Hedgerows Regulations 1997.
Domesticated animals – horses and sheep – are kept in many of the fields bordering the river. Farmers have been encouraged to fence off access to the river for their animals, to prevent erosion of the riverbank and to prevent organophosphates (and the alternative synthetic pyrethoids) used in sheep dip, from contaminating the river.
Industry
Two companies in the area around the Afon Clun valley are regulated by a system known as Integrated Pollution Control (IPC). They are Nipa Laboratories, at Llantwit Fardre, who operate processes involving the manufacture and use of organic chemicals, and Maxibrite, who produce smokeless fuels at Mwyndy, using carbonisation processes. IPC attempts to minimise the effect of industrial processes on the environment. Coal Products, who produced foundry coke at the Cwm Coke Works at Tynant, Beddau, were also regulated by IPC until the works closed in 2002. Under IPC the Environment Agency ensure that: "in carrying out a prescribed process the operator shall use BATNEEC (Best Available Techniques Not Entailing Excessive Cost) for:
i) preventing the release of substances prescribed for any environmental medium or, where that is not practicable by such means, for reducing the release of such substances to a minimum and for rendering harmless any such substances which are so released; and
ii) for rendering harmless any other substances which might cause harm if released into any environmental medium."
Since the end of coal mining in south Wales, the Afon Clun gradually returned to the condition in which it was before the Industrial Revolution, although it has been polluted several times since then. In 2000 CE ammonia discharged into Mwyndy Brook killed over 600 fish and eels, including the complete resident population of a conservation species known as bullheads, and many hundreds of small coarse fish fry, in the Clun. The coal briquetting plant that caused the pollution were fined a total of GBP31,816 in fines and costs, after a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. Nant Myddlyn, a tributary on the Clun, suffered from a diesel spill near Llantwit Fardre, in early 2008 CE, which was raised at the Senedd.
Between 1994 and 1996, water quality at Nant Myddlyn, from Tynant to the confluence with the Nant Dowlais, was noted as RE5; at Afon Clun, from the confluence with the Myddlyn to Rhiwsaeson village, the quality was RE4. The deterioration of water quality was caused by the discharge of industrial effluent from Cwm Coke Works at Tynant. An effective effluent treatment plant was recommissioned to solve the discharge problem and water quality soon returned to RE2, until the works' closure in 2002 CE.
Since Coal Products' Cwm Coking Works closed, water abstraction from the Afon Clun area is minimal. The Works at Tynant had used up to 3.9 million litres per day (Ml/d) from Nant Myddlyn and a borehole and occasionally, water abstraction at the Works had caused Nant Myddlyn to dry up.
Floodplain
Upstream, the river has steep slopes and shallow soils. Around 18% of the catchment area is defined as urban and, as the area has a relatively high rainfall, the combination produces a catchment that responds rapidly to rainfall and has flooding problems throughout. Further flooding problems occur at its confluence when the river levels in the River Ely are high.
Areas of flat land next to waterways are attractive to developers. Parts of the floodplain between Cross Inn and Pontyclun have been developed over the last 20 years, reducing the area available for the river to overflow. The A473 Talbot Green by-pass, Glamorgan Vale Retail Park, Leekes department store, Y Pant School, Ynysddu Farm housing estate and the houses along the former Pant y Dderwyn meadow have all been built where the river water used to go when its banks could no longer contain the volume. Some earthen banks (the pre-existing flood defence) are incorporated in the gardens of the Ynysddu estate. Y Pant School was constructed on the floodplain against the advice of the then Glamorgan River Board.
The authorities now consider the floodplain as an integral part of the overall river system. Under the Environment Agency's Floodplain Policy, it is deemed essential that it is kept free from development for flood defence reasons. The Clun is liable to overflow its northern bank for about one and a half miles, between Cross Inn and the River Ely. This floodplain provides a wetland wildlife habitat. In addition, horses are kept in the meadows, when the ground is not too waterlogged.
History
From the end of the last ice age, between 12,000 and 10,000 years before present (BP), mesolithic hunter-gatherers from Central Europe began to migrate to Great Britain. They would have been able to walk between Continental Europe and Great Britain on dry land before the postglacial rise in sea level around 8000 BP. As the area was heavily wooded and movement would have been restricted, it is likely that people also came to what is now Wales by boat from the Iberian Peninsula. These neolithic colonists integrated with the indigenous people, who gradually changed from being hunter-gatherers to being settled farmers. They cleared the forests to establish pasture and to cultivate the land.
Over the following centuries the local people assimilated new immigrants and exchanged ideas with the Bronze Age and Iron Age Celtic cultures. Together with the approximate areas now known as Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire and the rest of Glamorgan, the Afon Clun Valley was settled by a Celtic British tribe called the Silures.
Bronze Age
There is a group of five round barrows, near the river's source at the top of The Garth, thought to be Bronze Age, one of which supports a trig. pillar on its flat top.
Iron Age
Overlooking the Clun at Rhiwsaeson, Caerau hillfort is an oval Iron Age enclosure, measuring (east–west) by . Dating from 700 BCE, it is one of the largest known hill forts in south Wales. The defences comprise a set of two banks and ditches, with a counterscarp bank. Originally, the bank stood approximately high, though much of it has been destroyed, and only of the north east (the best preserved) part remain. Where the hillside below is steepest, to the south, there are no outer stone defences, though the inner ramparts continue to the cliff edge. The entrance to the fort, at the south west, is approximately wide, between parallel in-turned banks about long.
Caerau Hillfort was the subject of a forgery in a book called 'Gwentian Brut' in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, edited by Jones, O.; Williams, E.; Pughe, W.O. (1801). The forgery was fabricated by Edward Williams Iolo Morganwg) while he was one of the editors of Myvyrian Archaiology; it suggested that Caerau Hillfort was the site of the "Battle of Rhiwsaeson" in 873 CE.
Tudor iron making
Lead mines were opened in Mwyndy (between Llantrisant and Groesfaen) in the "Parke of Cloune" in May 1531 CE. By August 1531 iron ore was being mined there. Iron smelting began nearby during the summer of 1532, with one bloomery furnace site at Mwyndy, and (probably) another smaller smelting site at Rhiwsaeson, employing 4 blowers/hewars, with three blowers operating the bellows at any one time. They produced up to two blooms, of 50 kg per bloom per day, from 150 kg of ore, taking 6 to 7 hours each to produce. Charcoal to heat the furnaces was probably derived locally, from "Cloune Park" — mention is made by Rice Lewis in his 'A breviat of Glamorgan' (1595 and 1600) of the destruction of the forests of Garth Maelog and Allt Griffith because of the ironworks. The iron mines were leased by the crown in 1539, granting rights to mine and make iron and to build water powered ironworks within three miles of Cloune Park for 21 years. There is no evidence to suggest that either iron mining or smelting continued in the area after the 16th century.
The name of the house built on or near the ironworks probably derived from the words mwyn (), and dŷ (soft mutation of tŷ) (). And from that, the area name of Mwyndy.
The mine was either reopened, or dug out near the original workings, about 1859. Over one million tons of iron ore (goethite) were mined at Mwyndy before the mine closed in 1884. The resulting lake feeds into Nant Mwyndy.
Coal
The Afon Clun marks the southern edge of the South Wales Coalfield. There are several former collieries to the north of the river. Many pits were begun in the 1860s in Beddau, Ty'n-y-nant and Gelynog pits being the most important, prior to which the area was mostly farmland. Cwm Colliery was sunk by the Great Western Colliery Company Limited in 1909 and this marked a rapid expansion of the population. In 1923 the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company sunk the Ynysmaerdy Colliery at Llantrisant, also known as the New Duffryn and Llantrisant Colliery, it had three shafts, employing 216 men. The Cwm was acquired by Powell Duffryn in 1928. In 1931 an underground railway linked the Cwm to the Maritime Colliery, Pontypridd and by 1934 the Cwm employed 100 men on the surface and 780 men underground. A methane gas explosion on bank holiday Monday, 2 June 1941, killed four men — Ernest Evans (Banksman), Noah Fletcher (Winding Engineman), John Gregor (Manager), and David Thomas (Switchboard Attendant) — and destroyed most of the surface buildings. The explosion would have caused far greater loss of life had it not occurred on a bank holiday. The colliery never reopened after the accident.
The mines were nationalised in 1947 and in 1957 another underground railway linked the Cwm with Coedely Colliery, north of Llantrisant. The merger of these two pits created the largest colliery in the south Wales coalfield. At the peak of production in 1960, the Cwm Colliery employed 1,470 men and produced 324,794 tons of coal. British Coal closed Cwm Colliery in 1986, a year after the Miners' Strike.
Ffordd-y-Bryniau
Ffordd-y-Bryniau is a ridgeway walk through Taff-Ely (), beginning at Mynydd Maendy (SS977861), Bridgend in the west, and ending at Caerphilly mountain () (ST153856), in the east. The route passes through Llantrisant Forest, Llantrisant Town and Caerau Hillfort, only dropping from the ridgeway at the Ely Valley and Nant Myddlyn. The Waymark is a yellow/black named disc, with a hills motif.
The route links with the Ogwr Ridgeway Walk, which joins the Coed Morgannwg Way, the Taff Trail near Taffs Well and the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk at Caerphilly Mountain.
Future developments
Improvements to the road network, in particular the A4119 linking the Rhondda Valleys to the M4, through Tonyrefail and Talbot Green, brought development pressure to the area around Llantrisant. Extensive housing development has taken place recently in the villages along the A473, the main Pontypridd to Bridgend road, linking Llantwit Fardre to Llantrisant, Talbot Green, Llanharan and Pencoed, the road that runs parallel to the Afon Clun from Rhiwsaeson to Pontyclun. This development brought further pressure on the road system, which led to the revival of the 1989 plans for the Church Village bypass. Preparatory work on the bypass began in February 2008, and an announcement was made on 12 March 2008 that the Welsh Assembly Government had given the go-ahead for work to start in the "next few months".
An Environmental Constraints Plan has been compiled and updated from ecological surveys of 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007, with a view to minimising the effect of the bypass scheme. Findings from the surveys show the presence of bat, badger, dormouse, otter, great crested newt and the marsh fritillary butterfly.
Leading on from the Church Village Bypass scheme, is a proposal to dual the existing A473 Talbot Green Bypass, between the Church Village Bypass and the former headquarters of the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service (who moved to Llantrisant in 2009) at Lanelay Hall. The scheme is "highly dependent on the level of development activity in the area" however, and Rhondda Cynon Taf's Strategic Site 7: Mwyndy/Talbot Green Area, in particular.
A single track railway runs north from Pontyclun station, turning west at Talbot Green to run roughly parallel to the Clun, alongside the north of the A473. At Cross Inn the track turns north east, running north of the Caerau Hillfort, and originally ran to the Cwm Coking Works at Tynant, Beddau, although the track has been dismantled to the east of Cross Inn. All the original railway paraphernalia remains intact between Talbot Green and Pontyclun, including the track, signals and bridges with cages above the track to prevent people throwing things (or themselves) onto the trains, tracks or coal wagons. The track is still embedded in the road where it crosses the A473, the warning lights remain at the roadside and the road signs warn drivers to stop if they see warning lights flash at the level crossing. A recent consultative study (Sewta Rail Strategy Study—January 2006) has considered the possibility of reopening the Pontyclun to Beddau branch line, as a passenger line rather than just for freight. This would require new stations at Talbot Green, Llantrisant, Gwaun Meisgyn and Beddau (Tynant).
See also
Britons (historic)
Cairn
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List of rivers of Wales
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Pollution
Prehistoric Britain
River Clun, Shropshire
Tumulus
Water quality
Welsh placenames
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Mitti Wajaan Maardi
Mitti Wajaan Maardi, (English: The Soil Calls, 2007) is an Indian Punjabi film directed by Manmohan Singh.
Plot
There is a moving saga of Punjabis who go abroad for better prospects but circumstances prevent them from returning to their homeland. One such story focuses on Surjit Singh who goes to America leaving behind his wife and two-year-old daughter. But to get American citizenship he has to marry for a second time. This act breaks his relationship with his family back home in Punjab.
Now a wealthy man, Surjit hopes his son, Varyam, will marry the daughter of his best friend back in Punjab but his plans are soon put on hold when he discovers he is dying. On his death bed Surjit reveals the truth of his first marriage to his son, and begs him to make things right with his first family. Little does Varyam know that doing so will completely change his life.
Cast
Harbhajan Mann
Japji Khera
Gurpreet Ghuggi
Mahi Gill
Rana Ranbir
Binnu Dhillon
Dolly Minhas
Kanwaljit
Vivek Shauq
References
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William Bailhache
Sir William James Bailhache (born 24 June 1953) is a Jersey lawyer who was Bailiff of Jersey from 29 January 2015 until 11 October 2019. He is the brother of Sir Philip Bailhache who previously served as Bailiff.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford.
He held the position of Her Majesty's Attorney General in Jersey for almost 10 years before being sworn in as the island's Deputy Bailiff on 2 November 2009 and then from Bailiff 29 February 2015 until 11 October 2019.
He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2017 Birthday Honours.
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1994 All-Big Eight Conference football team
The 1994 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. The selectors for the 1994 season included the Associated Press (AP).
Offensive selections
Quarterbacks
Kordell Stewart, Colorado (AP-1)
Chad May, Kansas State (AP-1 [tie])
Running backs
Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (AP-1)
Lawrence Phillips, Nebraska (AP-1)
Tight ends
Christian Fauria, Colorado (AP-1)
Wide receivers
Michael Westbrook, Colorado (AP-1)
Tyson Schwieger, Kansas State (AP-1)
Centers
Bryan Stoltenberg, Colorado (AP-1)
Offensive linemen
Zach Wiegert, Nebraska (AP-1)
Tony Berti, Colorado (AP-1)
Brenden Stai, Nebraska (AP-1)
Hessley Hempstead, Kansas (AP-1)
Defensive selections
Defensive lineman
Shannon Clavelle, Colorado (AP-1)
Cedric Jones, Oklahoma (AP-1)
Tim Colston, Kansas State (AP-1)
Linebackers
Ed Stewart, Nebraska (AP-1 [ILB])
Ted Johnson, Colorado (AP-1 [ILB])
Donta Jones, Nebraska (AP-1 [OLB])
Troy Dumas, Nebraska (AP-1 [OLB])
Defensive backs
Joe Gordon, Kansas State (AP-1)
Chris Hudson, Colorado (AP-1)
Darrius Johnson, Oklahoma (AP-1)
Barron Miles, Nebraska (AP-1)
Special teams
Place-kicker
Scott Blanton, Oklahoma (AP-1)
Punter
Greg Ivy, Oklahoma State (AP-1)
Coach of the Year
Tom Osborne, Nebraska (AP-1)
Key
AP = Associated Press
See also
1994 College Football All-America Team
References
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B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th
B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty 8th is a combat flight simulator developed by Wayward Design and published by Hasbro Interactive in 2000 as a sequel to the 1992 flight simulator B-17 Flying Fortress World War II Bombers in Action. Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally publishes it through its Retroism brand in 2015.
Reception
The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
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Civil Courage Prize
The Civil Courage Prize is a human rights award which recognizes "steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk — rather than military valor." The prize was founded in 2000 by the Northcote Parkinson Fund. The goal of the prize is not to create a "ranking", but "to draw attention individually to some extraordinary heroes of conscience." It was inspired by the example of Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
History
In 2007, the Northcote Parkinson Fund's name was changed to The Train Foundation in recognition of the contributions of the family of investment advisor John Train, the fund's primary donor.
In 2012, the board of trustees consisted of eight members:
John Train (chair)
Edward Streator, former US diplomat
Louis N. Bickford, CEO of MEMRIA.ORG
Ariadne Calvo-Platero, journalist
Musa T. Klebnikov, Paul Klebnikov Fund executive director
John K. Menzies, Dean of Seton Hall University's Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations
Enid C.B. Schoettle, international affairs consultant
Ann Brownell Sloane, adviser from GHS Philanthropy Management
Since 2000, the foundation has awarded the Civil Courage Prize one or two activists each year. The prize comes with a $50,000 honorarium. Nominations are accepted from international non-governmental organizations, while unsolicited nominations are discouraged. The award ceremony is held in New York City or London in October of each year. Keynote speakers have included British historian Michael Howard, US journalist Jon Meacham, British Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, and Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.
Seven posthumous award winners have also been named, ranging from Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg, who worked to save the lives of Hungarian Jews during World War II, to Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, assassinated in 2004. In 2004 and 2005, the Foundation also awarded "Certificates of Distinction in Civil Courage" to selected prize finalists. The certificates included honorariums of $1,000 apiece.
Honorees
Posthumous honorees
Certificates of Distinction in Civil Courage
References
External links
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CJLO
CJLO is the official campus and community radio station for Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and is operated almost entirely by its volunteer membership. The station broadcasts from the Loyola campus, and it can be heard at 1690 AM in Montreal, iTunes radio in the College/University category, the CJLO mobile app, or on the CJLO website.
CJLO started streaming online 7 days a week in early 2003, and the station began broadcasting by radio in the Montreal area on 1690 AM with 1000 watts of power in late 2008. The tower and transmitter are located in Lachine and the signal can be heard as far as Ottawa and Burlington, Vermont.
History
The station was originally formed in 1998 from the merger of CRSG, a closed circuit station at Concordia's Sir George Williams Campus, and CFLI, a carrier current station at the Loyola Campus. It continued to broadcast by closed circuit until 2003, when it launched an Internet radio stream.
The station was granted a license by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in 2006 to broadcast on the AM band at 1690, and began airing a testing signal in September 2008.
The station officially launched its on-air programming on October 15, 2008 with the song "Left of the Dial" by The Replacements.
On April 25, 2014, the CRTC published CJLO's application for a low-power FM retransmitter on 107.9 MHz, to alleviate reception issues downtown. The main concern with the use of 107.9 is potential interference from WVPS, the Vermont Public Radio flagship in Burlington. The application was denied by the CRTC on January 26, 2015, as they felt that there were no broadcasting deficiencies of the 1690 AM signal within its immediate broadcast area. WVPS, whose signal is not protected outside the United States, was not considered a factor in this decision.
Programs
CJLO has over 70 original live programs with formats that include spoken-word and a variety of musical genres such as rock alternative, classical, hip-hop, jazz, experimental, metal, world beat, and more.
As of Winter 2016, the station currently airs the following:
Aloof Future, hosted by Chubby
Ashes to Ashes, hosted by Alex
Anatomy of Caribbean Music, hosted by Gordon "Gee" Weekes
At the Movies, hosted by Remi Caron-Liss
Audio Penpals, hosted by DJ Littleforest and Friendz
Autobeat, hosted by MNJIVR
Beat the World, hosted by Kelly "Sugarface Nene" and Neil "Mr Lalla"
Behind the Counter, hosted by Rebekah G. and Sonja H.
Beyond The Black Rainbow, hosted by OCDJ.
Beyond That Graveyard III, hosted by the K-Man
Brave New Jams, hosted by Clifton Hanger
Burnt Offerings, hosted by DJ Spacepirate
BVST, hosted by Angelica
Caribbean Callaloo, hosted by Raphael McKenzie (DJ 610), Pete Douglas, and Gordon "Gee" Weekes
Champions of the Local Scene, hosted by the CJLO Volunteers
Charts & Crafts, hosted by Dennis A. and Joana C.
Cinema Smackdown, hosted by Tessipedia and Max
Colours that can't be seen, hosted by Ozzdog
Computer Sourire, hosted by Danilo
Cornice Crow, hosted by Genaro PC
Creators Chorus, hosted by Annick MF, Jess Glavina, and Teeana Munro
Democracy Now, hosted by Amy Goodman
Diggin' in the Crates, hosted by Lazy the selector and DJ Sleazy P
Dirty Work, hosted by Denis A.
Don't mess this up, Jacob, hosted by Jacob Greco
Fatal Attraction, hosted by Patricia Petit Liang
Floydian Slip, hosted by Craig Bailey
Fukubukuro, hosted by DJ Lawrell
Gospel Unlimited, hosted by Ray Johnston with research/talk facilitator Curtis, and produced by Tynesha
Grade A Explosives, hosted by Andrew Wixq
Hiway 1, hosted by Fredy Iuni
Hooked on Sonics, hosted by Omar Sonics
Into the Coven, hosted by Patrick McDowall
In the Club, hosted by N. Gattuso
Impossible Music, hosted by Gachary
Je Suis TBA, hosted by Joana C.
Jonny & Cupcakes, hosted by Sam Obrand and Jon Levine
Local Everything, hosted by MC Jonny B
Main Event Radio, hosted by Ryan Rider
More Fyah, hosted by Junior Vibes and Singing P
My Private HE.B.G.B.S, hosted by the K-Man
Necromantik, hosted by DJ Necrotik and DJ Dreadkitten
New Media and Politics 2.0, hosted by Karl Knox
Nozin' Around', hosted by Emeline VidalPhantastiq Cypha, hosted by Brian Döc HolidæPsychic City, hosted by Abby S.Radio Fun, hosted by Idle MattRex's Barn Sessions, hosted by Rex Elroy CliffSewer Spewer, hosted by Chris the frogSomething for the radio, hosted by D Shade and Redd DreddSlax Trax, hosted by Zakary SlaxShibuya Crossing, hosted by Saturn De Los Angeles a.k.a. SATYYY.Sublime State of Doom, hosted by SeanThe Belldog, hosted by LucyThe Commonwealth Conundrum, hosted by Rebecca Munroe and Danny PayneThe F Hole, hosted by Erica BridgemanThe Go-Go Radio Magic Show, hosted by Oncle Ian and Prince PaluThe Groove Master's Hour, hosted by Pete DouglasThe Limelight, hosted by DJ Lady Oracle and J-NiceThe Live Wire Show, hosted by Pete DouglasThe Machine Stops, hosted by DJ ThinkboxThe Noisy Loft, hosted by Orin LoftThe Sound You Need, hosted by DJ JenevaThe Starting Rotation, hosted by Julian McKenzie, Robert Arzenshek, Giordano Cescutti, Daniele Iannarone, Justin Ferrara, and Matthew ShanahanThe Trend, hosted by Camille and Krystal ChristineThe Vibe Room, hosted by MEL P a.k.a. DJ LilmangoTurn on the darkness, hosted by PhilliamVibe$tation, hosted by MylestoneWorld Beat News, hosted by Gordon "Gee" WeekesWaves of Honey, hosted by HoneydripYeti Dreams and Stranger Things, hosted by Stephanie Dee
Some of CJLO's programs that aired in the past several years include:Beats from the East, hosted by DJ Mister VeeBest of the West, hosted by Sarah StuparChante Lakay, hosted by SchillerCountdown to Armageddon, hosted by Brian HastieCurrently Concordia, hosted by Melissa Mulligan and Nikita SmithDeath Metal Disco Show, hosted by Emaciate BeatsDigital Coffee, hosted by DJ Soykaff a.k.a. KNIGHTExit Hour, hosted by Daniel DixonGeek Soda, hosted by DJ Soykaff a.k.a. KNIGHTGlitch, Please, hosted by your best friend John JacobGoing Down Under, hosted by Tim ForsterGreedy Graffiti, hosted by DJ MisschiefHayti Plus, hosted by Jean D.Haze World, hosted by Stephen K.Killer Baby Tomatoes, hosted by Colin HarrisFairest Dwellings, hosted by Alex MasséFear of Music, hosted by Marshall V.Feel Good Hit of the Summer, hosted by C.W. MacGregorFunk Shui, hosted by Marina Minh Nguyen and Patricia Petit LiangLet the Rhythm Hit Em, hosted by RemissionMidnight Love Affair, hosted by Mason WindelsMorning Jazz Hour, hosted by Karl KnoxMaiden Voyage, Hosted by Beansie SaretskyOnomatopoeia Show, hosted by Robin FPits & Poisoned Apples, hosted by Serge Del GrossoPurple Carrot, hosted by Anna C.Revolution 33 1/3, hosted by Mack MackenzieSalvation from Sin, hosted by DJ Michael Terzian a.k.a. SinisterStroll Around the Groove, hosted by Julien B. and MouradStation to Station, hosted by Ethan VesTake 5, hosted by Connor McComb, a.k.a. DJ C-DADDYThe Anglo-Franco Tango, hosted by Floraine BonnevilleThe Hypnotic, hosted by YanissaThe Kids Are So-So, hosted by DJ So-SoThe Link Radio, hosted by The Link, Concordia's award-winning independent newspaperThe Reaktor, hosted by Abby SchachterThe Sports Grind, hosted by Gerry Brossard Jr. and Grant RobinsonThe Midnight Caper, hosted by Kyle FitzsimmonsThe New Noise, hosted by RuntThe Game Misconduct, hosted by Google Guy, Phil, and MaggThe Wake-Up Call, hosted by Carlo S.Twee Time, hosted by Stephanie PastelWith Gay Abandon', hosted by Julie, a.k.a. OCDJ
Awards and Honours
CJLO is an award-winning station that has received multiple nominations and wins at the CMJ Music Marathon College Radio Awards since 2008. The station was consistently voted as one of the top-ten Best Radio Stations in The Montreal Mirror's Best of Montreal Readers Poll.
CMJ College Radio Awards
Montreal Mirror Best of Montreal Readers Poll
Other
In 2010, CJLO was ranked as one of the best college radio stations by the Huffington Post and was the only Canadian radio station selected to attend the First Annual International Radio Festival in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2013, CJLO was voted the second Best Radio Station in the CultMTL'' Best of MTL Readers Poll.
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Electric Mary
Electric Mary is a rock and classic rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Their debut single "Sail On" reached #76 on the ARIA Singles chart.
Synopsis
The band formed in 2003 and named themselves after Rusty Brown met Mary Campbell, the manager of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York City. In 2008 they were finalists at the MusicOz Awards, nominated for Best Rock Band. They were also selected to support Whitesnake and Judas Priest. 2009 saw them tour with Alice Cooper and Glenn Hughes, as well as showcasing at Experience PRS for PRS Guitars in Stevensville, Maryland alongside the likes of Carlos Santana, Dweezil Zappa and Buddy Guy. In 2010 they supported Deep Purple. Whilst in the States, Electric Mary collaborated with engineer/producer Jason Corsaro on a live recording.
The latter part of 2011 saw the band perform at the World Cup in South Africa and then embark on an extensive concert tour of mainland Europe including Hell Fest in France.
In 2012 the band returned to Europe for an extensive tour taking in France, Spain and Belgium and then over to the UK and then went on to perform at the Hard Rock Hell Festival in Wales. The same year, the band's drummer Stephen (Venom) Brown decided to leave and was replaced by Davey Porter, who Rusty had played with on and off for the previous 20 years.
In 2014 the band released the EP The Last Great Hope and embarked on a European tour, selling out shows in Spain and France. Upon returning home, Davey fell from a roof and broke his ankle, which kept the band off the road for more than a year.
In 2016 the band discovered the lost tapes of Hell Dorado from the previous tour, it was a revelation and they quickly snapped up the services of The Machine to mix the album. The band were hellbent on using The Machine after falling in love with his work on records by the band Clutch.
A tour of Europe in October 2016 started the Straight Out of Hell Dorado tour. At the end of the 2016 Straight Out of Hell Dorado tour, Davey decided to depart from the band and after extensive searching Paul (Spyda) Marrett was signed up for drumming duties.
In 2017 the band started writing for the next album and by the end of 2017 recording had begun. The album, Mother, was released in February 2019.
Discography
Albums
Four Hands High (2004) – Big Records
Down to the Bone (2008) – Powerage Records
III (2011) – Listenable Records (Europe)
Alive in Hell Dorado (2016)
Mother (2019)
EPs
The Definition of Insanity (2006)
The Venom Principle (2008)
Long Time Coming (2011)
From the Vault (2012)
The Last Great Hope (2014)
Singles
"Sail On" (2004) – Big Records AUS #76
References
External links
MySpace page
Facebook page
Electric Mary web page
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Anodonthyla nigrigularis
Anodonthyla nigrigularis is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss from agriculture, timber extraction, charcoal manufacturing, spread of non-native eucalyptus, livestock grazing and human settlement. The exact population is unknown but it is seemingly abundant in well-managed Andohahela National Park and less common in Ambohitantely Reserve which is not well managed. Not much else is known about the species.
References
Nussbaum, R. & Vallan, D. 2004. Anodonthyla nigrigularis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 23 July 2007.
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Ace of Aces (1982 film)
L'as des as (The Ace of Aces; alternate English title: The Super Ace) is a 1982 French-German action comedy film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Gérard Oury.
Plot
In 1916, during the thick of World War I, a German and a French fighter ace by the names of Gunther von Beckman (Hoffman) and Jo Cavalier (Belmondo) manage to drag each other out of the sky. An argument and subsequent fistfight about who is to be whose prisoner is rudely interrupted by an artillery barrage, forcing both to stick together in order to survive. In a humorous side scene, corporal Adolf Hitler (Meisner) is berated by his frustrated First Lieutenant Rosenblum for his clumsiness.
In 1936, 20 years later, Jo and his team of boxers travel to Germany to participate in the Olympic Games in Berlin. On the train Jo meets young Simon Rosenblum (Ferrache), the grandson of aforementioned First Lieutenant Rosenblum and a Jew, and a beautiful reporter named Gaby Delcourt (Pisier), who is to interview Hitler. When his grandfather doesn't show up at the station, Simon asks Jo, whom he idolizes for his World War I days, to accompany him to his grandfather's bookstore. Arriving there, Jo gets into a fight with Gestapo agents who are demolishing the place, and subsequently he is asked by the whole Rosenblum family to hide them. Knowing no other place, he takes them to his team's hotel, which also happens to be Gaby's domicile. Jo begins to flamboyantly flirt with Gaby, who seems to return his affections.
The next morning, just before they depart for the stadium for the opening ceremony, Jo re-encounters his old friend Gunther, now a general of the Luftwaffe. He fast-talks Gunther into borrowing his car, which he gives to the Rosenblums for their escape to Austria. Due to a critical blunder on the Rosenblums' part, however, the whole family is caught before they reach the border, and only Simon escapes. The boy phones Gaby, who informs Jo. Torn between his affection for Gaby, his sense of duty for Simon, and the need to see his team in the games (though not in that order), Jo decides to settle the matter as quickly as possible and goes off to fetch Simon.
However, things do not go as planned. The Gestapo is hot on Jo's heels, a bear drives him and Simon from their forest camp, and they temporarily pick up its cub, whom they spontaneously name Beethoven. Finally they are captured and taken to the next police station, where the rest of the Rosenblums are also held. Gunther arrives to secure the release of his friend, but Jo won't abandon the Rosenblums and takes Gunther for all appearances hostage. As they drive to the Austrian border, Gunther advises Jo to go with the Rosenblums since he is now considered a fugitive criminal, and Jo reluctantly agrees.
However, due to circumstances the group misses the way and ends up right in Hitler's Berghof residence on the Obersalzberg. Mistaking it for a simple hotel, they are taken in by the grounds' caretaker, Hitler's sister Angela (again played by Meisner). As it so happens, Gunther has been invited by Hitler to the Berghof for a staff conference, along with Gaby, to whom Gunther has also taken a fancy. Jo is quick to find out about the residence's true nature, however, when he comes face to face with Hitler himself while following the Olympic boxing finals on the radio in the latter's personal office. He procures an officer's uniform, reveals himself to Gunther and Gaby, and devises a plan to rescue the Rosenblums by stealing Hitler's personal car, while a very reluctant Gunther is to create a diversion by eloping with Angela Hitler.
The film ends with a furious car chase between Jo, the Rosenblums and Gaby in one car, and Hitler and his adjutants in another, during the course of which the elderly Rosenblum reveals himself to his old subordinate. Startled by the unexpected encounter with his former commanding officer, Hitler is sent crashing into a duck pond, while Jo and company successfully escape to Austria (a humorous hint on the Anschluss which would follow two years later), where they also encounter Beethoven again.
References
External links
Ace of Aces at Le Film Guide
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/83071/L-As-des-As/overview
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SS John R. McQuigg
SS John R. McQuigg was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. She was named after John R. McQuigg, the National Commander of the American Legion, 1925–1926.
Construction
John R. McQuigg was laid down on 14 June 1944, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 2311, by J.A. Jones Construction, Panama City, Florida; she was sponsored by Mrs. John R. McQuigg, the widow of the namesake, and launched on 19 July 1944.
History
She was allocated to the American South African Lines, Inc., on 31 July 1944. On 1 June 1946, she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, in the Hudson River Group. On 16 December 1946, she was transferred to the Italian Government, which in turn sold her to the Italian Commission, for $555,667.40, on 27 December 1946. She was renamed Villa Di Brugine. In 1968, she was scrapped.
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Ederson Trinidad Lopes
Ederson Trindade Lopes or simply Eder (born December 31, 1984) is a Brazilian football player.
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Peabody Public Schools
Peabody Public Schools is a public school district on the North Shore of Massachusetts. It includes 8 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school.
Current Schools in the District
Elementary Schools
Captain Samuel Brown School — 150 Lynn Street
John E. Burke School — 127 Birch Street
Thomas Carroll School — 60 Northend Street
Center Elementary School — 18 Irving Street
John E. McCarthy Memorial School — 76 Lake Street
South Memorial School — 16 Maple Street Extension
William A. Welch Sr. Elementary School — 50 Swampscott Avenue
West Memorial Elementary School — 15 Bow Street
Junior High Schools
J. Henry Higgins Middle School — 1 King Street Extension
Secondary Schools
Peabody Veterans Memorial High School — 485 Lowell Street
Peabody Community High School — 1 King Street Ext. Door 19
Former Schools in the District
Kiley Brothers Memorial Elementary School— 21 Johnson Street –
Farnsworth Elementary School Central Street
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Tumtum River
The Tumtum River is a tributary of the Marys River in Benton and Lincoln counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. The river rises in the Central Oregon Coast Range west of Burnt Woods and passes through the communities of Burnt Woods and Blodgett. It then drains into the Marys River north of Alder.
The name Tumtum is a Chinook Jargon word for "heart", and the river was so-named because it was considered to be the heart of the valley through which it flowed. When the Burnt Woods post office was to be named, one of the names proposed to the Post Office Department was Tumtum.
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Eamonn Laidir Ó Flaithbertaigh
Eamonn Laidir Ó Flaithbertaigh, Irish Jacobite, died 1749.
Biography
Ó Flaithbertaigh was the grandson of Edmond mac Morogha na Maor and Morogh na Mart Ó Flaithbertaigh, sons of Morogh na Maor Ó Flaithbertaigh, (died 1627, who was the last substantial chief of the O'Flaherty clan. Both brothers fought in the Irish Confederate Wars. Edmond was executed in Galway in 1653 for the murder of civilians in County Clare in 1641. He was survived by three sons, Donal, Morogh and Edmond. Nothing is known of Donal; Morogh is said to have gone to England and killed a Captain Vernor in a duel; Edmond Ó Flaithbertaigh fought for James II during the Williamite War in Ireland. After the war he survived by farming land at Renvyle, which were previously in the possession of his family, but now owned by one of The Tribes of Galway, the Blake family. Edmond's son was Eamonn Laidir.
Eamonn Laidir (strong Ned) left a strong impression in Connemara folk memory, with several anacedotes relating to his strength. In particular, he was remembered for his frequent combats with his neighbour, Captain Richard Martin. Martin had fought with the Jacobites in the war, but had managed to obtain a pardon from William III, enabling him to keep title to several estates in Connemara. The pair frequently fought each other on horseback, sword on hand, though because Eamonn Laidir had fewer retainers he was usually obliged to leave the field. He married three times - one of his wives was Julia Martyn, a cousin of Richard Martin - and had four sons.
Eamonn died in deeply distressed circumstances at his home in Cloonadrawen, Ballinakill, in or about 1749. His body was buried in a small chapel attached to Ballinakill church from where, many years later, they were taken up and placed in a niche in the chapel wall for people to see, due to the large size of Eamonn's bones.
See also
O'Flaherty
References
West or Iar-Connacht, Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, 1684; edited and published with notes by James Hardiman, 1844
Origin of the Surname O'Flaherty, Anthony Matthews, Dublin, 1968
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage, Lilliput Press, 1986
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth, Tim Robinson, Lilliput Press, 1995
"The Chair of Strong Ned Flaherty:Cathaoir Éamon Láidir Ó Flaithbheartach", Eamonn P. Kelly, Irish Lives Remembered, Issue 39, Winter 2017, pages 37-39
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List of villages in Shevgaon taluka
There are around 112 villages in Shevgaon tehsil of Ahmednagar district of state of Maharashtra. Following is the list of village in Shevgaon tehsil.
A
Adhodi
Akhatwade
Akhegaon Titarfa
Amrapur
Antarwali Bk
Antarwali Khurd she
Avhane Bk
Avhane Kd
Aapegaon
B
BhaviNimgaon
Bodhegaon
Balamtakali
Belgaon
Baktarpur
Bodkhe
Badgahavan
Bhatkudgaon
Bhagur
C
Chapadgaon
Chedechandga
D
Dadegaon
Dahifal New
Dahifal Old
Dahigaon Ne
Dahigaon She
Deotakli
Dhorjagaon She
Dhorjalgaon Ne
Dhorsade
Divate
Dhumagad Tanda
Dhorhingani
Erandgao
Erandgaon
G
Gadewadi
Gaikwadjalgaon
Ghotan
Golegaon
Garadwadi
H
Hasanapur
Hatgaon
Hingangaon Ne
J
Joharpur
K
Karhetakali
Khadaka
Khamgaon
Khampimpri New
Khampimpri
Old
Khanapur
Kharadgaon
Khuntephal
Kol gaon
Konoshi
Kurudgaon
L
Ladjalgaon
Lakhamapuri
Lolegaon
Lakhephal
M
Maalegaon Ne
Madake
Majaleshahar
Malegaon She
Mangrul Bk
Mangrul Kd
Mungi
Malkapur
N
Nagalwadi Tanda
Nagalwadi
Najik Babhulgaon
Nimbe
Nandurvihire
P
Pingewadi
Prabhuwadgaon
R
Ranegaon
Ranjani
Rakshi
S
Salwadgaon
Samangaon
Shahartkali
Shekte Bk
Shekte Kd
Shevgaon
Shingori
Sonesangavi
Sonvihir
Sukali
Sultanpur Bk
Sultanpur Kd
Shobhanagar
Sevanagar
Sule pimpalgaon
Sahapur
Sahajanpur
T
Tajnapur
Talni
Thakurnimgaon
Thakurpimpalgaon
Thate
V
Vijaipur
W
Wadgaon
Wadule Bk
Wadule Kd
Wagholi
Warkhed
Warur Bk
Warur Kd
See also
Shevgaon tehsil
Tehsils in Ahmednagar
Villages in Akole tehsil
Villages in Jamkhed tehsil
Villages in Karjat tehsil
Villages in Kopargaon tehsil
Villages in Nagar tehsil
Villages in Nevasa tehsil
Villages in Parner tehsil
Villages in Pathardi tehsil
Villages in Rahata tehsil
Villages in Rahuri tehsil
Villages in Sangamner tehsil
Villages in Shrigonda tehsil
Villages in Shrirampur tehsil
References
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Dabru Emet
The Dabru Emet (Heb. דברו אמת "Speak [the] Truth") is a document concerning the relationship between Christianity and Judaism. It was signed by over 220 rabbis and intellectuals from all branches of Judaism, as individuals and not as representing any organisation or stream of Judaism.
In light of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the Dabru Emet was first published on 10 September 2000, in The New York Times, and has since been used in Jewish education programs across the U.S. While affirming that there are theological differences between these two religions, the purpose of Dabru Emet is to point out common ground and a legitimacy of Christianity, for non-Jews, from the Jewish perspective. It is not an official document of any of the Jewish denominations per se, but it is representative of what many Jews feel. Eight major themes are expressed:
Jews and Christians worship the same God
Jews and Christians seek authority from the same book
Christians can respect the claim of the Jews on the land of Israel
Jews and Christians together accept the moral principles of the Torah (Pentateuch)
Nazism is not a Christian phenomenon
The controversy between Jews and Christians will not be settled until God redeems the entire world as promised in scripture and no-one should be pressed into believing another’s belief
A new relationship between Jews and Christians will not weaken Jewish practice
Jews and Christians must work together for justice and peace
Jewish criticism
There are various objections to Dabru Emet from within the Jewish community. Some hold that it understates the significant theological differences between the two religions. Thus, most Conservative and Reform rabbis have not signed it, although many do agree with most of the document. Very few Orthodox rabbis have signed it; The Institute for Public Affairs, of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (commonly known as the Orthodox Union) issued this response:
While agreeing with desire to encourage inter-faith dialogue and reconciliation, many Jews disagree with the section in Dabru Emet which holds that Christian theology is not in any way to blame for most of the last 2,000 years of anti-Semitism, or the Holocaust. Instead, it is believed by many Jews that much of Christian theology and teachings have been deeply anti-Semitic. Jews point to statements in the New Testament, such as , in which Jesus speaks divisive words to some particular Jews of his day:
Orthodox Rabbis' Statement: "Christianity Is Neither Accident Nor Error"
On 3 December 2015, 28 Orthodox Rabbis released a statement through the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation (CJCUC) in Israel. Rabbis David Rosen, Shlomo Riskin and Mark Dratch are prominent among them in the interfaith movement. The unprecedented declaration, entitled "To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians", praises “Nostra Aetate,” a Vatican document that repudiated Christian persecution against Jews. “Now that the Catholic Church has acknowledged the eternal Covenant between God and Israel, we Jews can acknowledge the ongoing constructive validity of Christianity as our partner in world redemption, without any fear that this will be exploited for missionary purposes,” it reads.
Christian reaction
The European Lutheran Commission on the Church and the Jewish People (Lutherische Europäische Kommission Kirche und Judentum, LEKKJ), an umbrella organization representing twenty-five Lutheran church bodies in Europe, issued on May 12, 2003 A Response to Dabru Emet:
Further reading
"How not to conduct Jewish-Christian dialogue" Jon D. Levenson; Commentary; Dec 2001; Vol. 112(5)
"Jewish-Christian dialogue" Jon D. Levenson; Commentary; Apr 2002; Vol. 113(4)
"A Cordial Invitation to 170 Rabbis and Jewish Scholars" Atila Sinke Guimaraes; Tradition in Action, Los Angeles 2001
See also
Christianity
Christian–Jewish reconciliation
Judaism
Relations between Catholicism and Judaism
Religious Pluralism
Tikva Frymer-Kensky
References
External links
National Jewish Scholars Project - the text of Dabru Emet
Signers of Dabru Emet
Hebrew translation: http://yehoyada-amir.blogspot.com/
Amy-Jill Levine: Reassessing Jewish-Christian Relations, Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society, 6/19/2001
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Inermoleiopus
Inermoleiopus is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
Inermoleiopus delkeskampi Breuning, 1958
Inermoleiopus flavosignatus Breuning, 1972
Inermoleiopus fuscosignatus Breuning, 1977
Inermoleiopus girardi Breuning, 1978
Inermoleiopus roseofasciatus Breuning, 1973
References
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Demon Diary
Demon Diary (ko: 마왕일기 mawang ilgi, "Diary of a Demon King") is a 7-volume soonjung Japanese style manhwa (Korean comic) illustrated by Kara. "Kara" is the name of the duo team consisting of Kim Yoon-gyeong and Jeong Eun-sook. The name Kara is taken from the Hebrew Bible - Jeremiah 35:17 - and it means "to invite". Demon Diary was originally published by Sigongsa and has been licensed in North America by Tokyopop. In Scandinavia, it was published by Mangismo between 2005-2006.
A number of writers have worked with Kara on the production of Demon Diary. The story for volume 1 was written by Lee Jeehyung. Lee stopped writing, because he had to prepare for the upcoming high school exams. The stories for volumes 2 through 7 were written by Lee Yun-hee.
Story
Demon Diary is a light story about Raenef, a newly appointed Demon Lord, and Eclipse, his instructor, who is both a powerful demon and a veteran of a human-versus-demon war. Because of his actions during the Hangma War (which are not elaborated upon), he became known for his cruelty and incredible power. However, when attempting to teach Raenef, Eclipse's 'anger' is often played for laughs.
Characters
Raenef V
A sweet, somewhat naive boy who is the complete opposite of a proper Demon Lord. Though he drives Eclipse to endless distraction, he warms the stoic demon's heart quite quickly. Despite his happy-go-lucky personality (even as a thief), he harbors a dark past, which includes joining the thieves' guild in order to survive because he was an orphan. At first, he is quite an idiot but somewhat cute. However, as the series progresses, he becomes weary of his own sweetness and another side of his personality is revealed. The "other Raenef" is a particularly cruel Demon Lord with high intelligence and a strong grasp of magic. In the end, the two personalities are blended. Raenef IV said he is his child.
Eclipse
A powerful and ancient high ranking demon whose occupation consists of serving those of the Raenef name. It is revealed that his services are highly sought after by many demon lords. He is charged with finding the newest Lord Raenef (Raenef V) and educating him. Though the newest demon lord never ceases to annoy and exasperate him, he comes to care very deeply for the innocent boy. He and Raenef IV are implied to have had a relatively close relationship, which becomes a point of conflict later in the series.
Erutis
A young Swordsmaster and former mercenary who originally came to kill the "fearsome demon lord," only to find Raenef. Not believing that such a naive, innocent boy could be an evil demon lord, she tried to leave, only to be attacked by a somewhat miffed Raenef. Though she easily beats him in a fight, when she tried to kill him, her sword broke, leaving her with no weapon. Thinking quickly, she managed to trick Raenef into thinking that she would work as a henchman for him. Her intentions were to slip away once he fell asleep. Unfortunately, she ran into Eclipse, who trapped her in a bubble shield and later coerces her into really becoming a servant. Her ambiguous gender becomes a running joke throughout the series (in a character omake, she is seen kicking the artist and writer for deliberately making her seem so boyish). Despite her role as comic relief for most of the series, she is quite skilled as a warrior, with an enchanted blade (which unfortunately broke when Raenef defended himself), replaced with a handmade wooden sword that she is able to use almost as well because of her abilities as a Swordsmaster. To her dismay, her fearsome temper only attracts the attentions of the eccentric Demon Lord Krayon, who insists on following her around and quite inadvertently gets her a position as the head of her own mercenary group.
Chris
He is a hot-headed, over-zealous High-Priest-in-training. Chris accidentally summons Raenef with a summoning circle, almost causing another war. Because of his infraction, the High Priest sends Chris to Raenef's palace to learn some humility. With his delusions of grandeur, Chris acts as another source of comic relief. However, like most of the characters, he has a tragic past. As a child, he watched as his mother was killed and his entire village was destroyed by demons, leaving him in a catatonic state. The High Priest of Rased saved him in time, only to be visited by the God of Light, Rased, who had chosen to protect the boy, declaring that Chris was "someone very precious" to him. Though it is yet to be seen how important Chris is to the demon and human world, it is only due to Chris's clerical magic that an evil Raenef is able to be stalled and weakened long enough to be stabilized.
Meruhesae
She is one of the main Demon Elders. She is a seductive and elegant female demon also known for her abilities as a seer. She directs Eclipse to the location of Raenef V and is one of the few characters able to unsettle the normally stoic demon. Flirtatious and somewhat vain, she has a serious side, revealed in her particular relationship with the previous Raenef. She particularly likes to annoy Eclipse, who has a curious dislike of her, asking for "payment" for her services. In the case of information on Raenef V, she asks for a kiss--however, she simply kisses Eclipse on the forehead. She states her reasoning as not wanting to bring on the wrath of Eclipse's fans by going for more.
Krayon
He is one of the five elders. He is a very eccentric and flamboyant demon who nevertheless is not to be underestimated (As shown in the last volume when he burns down a town after a family there "wronged" Euritis). He is the Demon Lord of Dreams, therefore he is able to throw Raenef, Erutis, and Chris into a dream world when he comes to the castle to buy Eclipse's services from Raenef. During the ensuing battle with the trio, he comes to be particularly attracted to Erutis, who blanches at his declarations of love. He goes as far as to ask Raenef IV to protect her if any upheavals were to happen in the demon world and ceaselessly follows her around. He took care of Raenef IV and tutored him at one point (when both were much younger), and seems to be somewhat wary of the other Demon Lord.
Raenef IV
He is the previous Demon Lord Raenef. A powerful Demon Lord, he specialized in incantations, written spells that increase the user's power tremendously when memorized or written correctly. Much of him is shrouded in mystery, particularly the circumstances of his death. Though he is portrayed as eccentric and even a little mischievous (particularly by a very irritated Krayon, who had to "tutor" the younger demon lord in years past), he is ruthless and somewhat self-serving. Though he has been dead for some time, his spirit still appears, though the older demons Meruhesae and Krayon don't seem to be particularly ruffled by his apparition. It is revealed that Raenef IV caused his own death to avoid a powerful curse, called "the Destruction of the Name," placed on him during the war. He had a particularly close relationship with Eclipse, which could echo the latter's growing bond with Raenef V.
Leeche
A young girl from a noble human family who runs off to find adventure and/or kill the Demon Lord. She drugs the actual Demon Lord's bride - a young human maiden sent off to marry the Demon Lord in order to please him - and takes her place. She meshes quite well with Chris, although they fight a lot, they agree on one thing: they must kill the Demon Lord. However, as Leeche got to know Raenef better, she found out that he isn't at all like the Demon Lord she expected. Her father comes with the actual Demon Lord's bride and brings her home, along with the bride after Raenef - by the way of Eclipse - refuses the bride. Before she leaves, she confesses her love for Raenef with a kiss on his lips (Eclipse and Leeche's father are shocked and pull them apart quickly). She said that Raenef should wait ten years and that she wouldn't forgive him if he finds another girl and marries her.
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List of presidents of Ukraine
The modern Ukrainian presidency was formed when the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic passed a law on 5 July 1991 establishing the office of the "President of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic." Upon the proclamation of Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991, the title was changed to the "President of Ukraine." The first election of the President of Ukraine was contested on 1 December 1991, which was won by Leonid Kravchuk.
All the presidents except for Volodymyr Zelensky have been people's deputies of the Verkhovna Rada prior to their election. Kravchuk was the first president to have resigned from the office, following a power struggle between him and Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma. After the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Viktor Yanukovych abandoned his office and fled the country. He was subsequently impeached, and replaced with Oleksandr Turchynov as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, who takes on as acting president when the office is vacant. Early presidential elections were contested on 25 May 2014, which were won by Petro Poroshenko; Poroshenko was inaugurated as the fifth president on 7 June 2014. On 18 June 2015 Yanukovych was officially deprived of the title of President of Ukraine. After defeated Poroshenko, the comedian Volodymyr Zelensky was inaugurated as President of Ukraine on 20 May 2019.
List of Presidents of Ukraine
Party legend
Living former Presidents
All five former Ukrainian presidents are still living as of December 18 2019.
Notes:
Viktor Yanukovych was stripped of the title following his departure from Ukraine during the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
Timeline
Statistics
A - Acting President
Social poll rankings of Ukrainian Presidents
See also
List of Ukrainian rulers, from ancient to modern times
List of leaders of Ukraine, since Ukrainian independence in 1917
List of Presidents of Ukraine by longevity
List of Prime Ministers of Ukraine, since 1917
List of Chairmen of the Verkhovna Rada, since 1938
References
Notes
a. Although Leonid Kravchuk's official inauguration ceremony was conducted on 22 August 1992, he carried out most of the presidential responsibilities temporarily ceded to him as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada from 24 August 1991 until 5 December 1991 when he became President of Ukraine in his own right. He had served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR since 23 July 1990.
b. As President of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
c. "In the event of the pre-term termination of authority of the President of Ukraine in accordance with Articles 108, 109, 110 and 111 of this Constitution, the execution of duties of the President of Ukraine, for the period pending the elections and the assumption of office of the new President of Ukraine, shall be vested in the Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine." —Constitution of Ukraine, Article 112.
Footnotes
External links
*List
Ukrainian
Presidents
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Saint-Martin-du-Bois
Saint-Martin-du-Bois may refer to the following places in France:
Saint-Martin-du-Bois, Gironde, a commune in the Gironde department
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Kornai
Kornai is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Josef (József) Kornai (1889–1989), Hungarian painter
János Kornai (Kornhauser) (born 1928), Jewish Hungarian economist, noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states
András Kornai (born 1957), Hungarian mathematical linguist
Kornai-Liptak Decomposition
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Fiction Tales
Fiction Tales is the only studio album by English post-punk band Modern Eon. It was released in 1981 on record label Dindisc and reached No. 65 on the UK Albums Chart.
Track listing
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote, "Although not an easy album to like, Fiction Tales does convey originality and stylishness as well as flashes of accessibility; occasional use of odd instrumentation and a good drummer make this more than just a routine genre exercise".
Personnel
Danny Hampson – bass guitar
Cliff Hewitt – drums, timpani
Tim Lever – guitar, saxophone
Alix Johnson – guitar, vocals, Chinese horn, piano
Bob Wakelin – synthesizer, strings, percussion, vocals on "High Noon"
Technical
Modern Eon - production
Lawrence Diana – co-production, engineering
Further reading
References
External links
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USS Beaufort (AK-6)
USS Beaufort (AK-6) was a cargo ship acquired by the U.S. Navy for service in World War I.
Seizing a German freighter
The German steel-hulled collier SS Rudolph Blumberg (ex-SS Rheingraf) built in 1909 at Lübeck, Germany, was operating in the Gulf of Mexico, flying the house flag of Leonhardt and Blumberg, when she learned of the outbreak of hostilities in July 1914. She sought refuge at Pensacola, Florida.
With American entry into the global conflict and the accompanying need for auxiliary ships, SS Rudolph Blumberg was seized there by the U.S. Collector of the Port of Pensacola on 6 April 1917. Taken to New Orleans, Louisiana, to be fitted out for naval service, the ship was renamed Beaufort, given the identification number (Id. No.) 3008, and commissioned on 20 September 1917, Lt. Comdr. William M. Gifford, USNRF, in command.
World War I North Atlantic operations
Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Beaufort resumed the occupation she had carried on under a different flag; she took on a cargo of coal at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and departed Staten Island, New York, on 25 October 1917 in a convoy bound for France. Upon reaching Europe, Beaufort joined the Cross Channel Service, Coal Trade, and carried her cargoes from Cardiff, Wales, to aid the Allied war effort.
Grounded off the coast of France
While thus employed, Beaufort grounded 17 March 1918 on a rocky reef off Lorient, France. Fortunately, little hull damage resulted; and, two days later, the collier was again ready for sea.
Post-war activity
Sailing from Cardiff on 6 February 1919, Beaufort loaded war material and munitions at Rosyth, Scotland, for return to the United States. She arrived at Hampton Roads on 3 April 1919, and began a tour of duty with the Atlantic Fleet Train, a predecessor of the Service Force. On 17 July 1920 when the Navy adopted the alphanumeric system of ship classification and identification, she was classified as a cargo ship and designated AK-6.
Beaufort's peacetime service included voyages between Norfolk, Virginia, and Key West, Florida, and ports in the West Indies transporting coal and supplies. On several occasions she sailed from the naval ammunition depot at St. Julien's Creek, Virginia, with discarded ammunition for dumping in the mid-Atlantic.
Inactivation and decommissioning
The withdrawal of U.S. Marines from Santo Domingo and a reduction in the number of marines in Haiti "considerably reduced" the "transportation requirements" to West Indian ports, so the Navy withdrew the ship from that service, and decommissioned her on 23 December 1925 at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Her name was struck from the Navy List the same day. The former Beaufort was sold on 22 October 1926 to Julius Levey of New York City, agent for a Norwegian Shipping Co., and was renamed SS Fjorden. She was reportedly lost, 12 April 1933 off Cheung Chau, Hong Kong.
Military awards and honors
Beaufort's crew member were authorized the following medals:
World War I Victory Medal (with Transport clasp)
Haitian Campaign Medal
References
External links
NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - Beaufort (ID 3008) AK-6
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Jaime Bailón
Jaime Bailón Galindo (born 3 January 1978) a Paralympic swimmer from Spain.
Personal
Bailón is from the Madrid region of Spain. He has a physical disability.
Swimming
Bailón is an S8 classified swimmer, and is affiliated with the Integra Sports Foundation.
Bailón competed at the 2011 IPC European Swimming Championships in Berlin, Germany, where he won a gold medal in the 4x50 meter medley relay. He finished sixth in the 100 meter butterfly race. In 2012, he competed at the Paralympic Swimming Championship of Spain by Autonomous Communities.
He competed at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships. He was one of fourteen swimmers from the CN Alcobendas swimming club to participate in a competition at South Park Rivas Vaciamadrid in December 2013.
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References
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Fuad Kasumović
Fuad Kasumović (; born 20 March 1958) is a Bosnian politician, economist and businessman. He is currently holding the office of Zenica City mayor (from 2016).
Biography
He was born 1958 in Gornji Vakuf. After graduating from the Economics Faculty Sarajevo (1987), he was employed at the Coal Mine "Gračanica" in his hometown, and soon became the CFO of this company. He worked at the mine until the Bosnian War began in 1992. During the war he was a member of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (he is awarded highest recognition, ), and upon his graduation he obtained a job in the Ministry of Dedicated Production in the Government of the Republic of BiH. From 1990 to 2017, he was a member (1990–2016) and functionary of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA). Subsequently, he participated in the founding of the Independent Bloc in September 2017 – whose president is Senad Šepić (who has a particular criticism of Bakir Izetbegović's politics) – and used to be its member until April 2019.
He began his political career in 1996 as Minister of Finance in the Central Bosnia Canton (SBK). Prior to the end of his term in the office, in July 1998, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Customs Administration of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH). Following his removal from office in 2001, he remained in the Customs Administration for two more years as a financial advisor. Following the establishment (by OHR, Kasumović and others) of the Indirect Taxation Authority () in 2004, Kasumović was appointed Advisor to the Director for International Cooperation. He remained in this post throughout the judicial process until his termination in 2007. In the same year he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance of BiH.
In 2010 he was a president of NK Čelik Zenica. Kasumović ran in the 2010 general election but did not win enough votes to enter the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliamentary Assembly. However, that year he received the trust for the second term of the Deputy Minister of Finance and Treasury. He was removed from office in October 2012 due to the SDA's departure from the ruling state-level coalition. In 2015–16 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Development Bank of the FBiH. In the 2016 local elections, he was elected Zenica City Mayor as an independent candidate.
Accusations
The Cantonal Prosecutor's Office of Sarajevo Canton charged Kasumović with malpractice because he, as a director of the FBiH Customs Administration, signed a transfer order for 69,000 KM to the Tuzla customs office for material costs and lease of premises. However, the money was used to buy the flat of an officer of the Administration. After a five-year trial, Kasumović was acquitted. In 2008, the Central Election Commission submitted a report against Kasumović to the BiH Prosecutor's Office on suspicion that he did not report all assets in the 2007 property file. Kasumović told CIN reporters that no one had contacted him about the issue. Kasumović also said that he had not been contacted in connection with the allegations made against him by the FBiH Financial Police. In 2003, this police institution submitted a report to the SBK Prosecutor's Office, in which Kasumović was suspected of having paid himself and other officials of the FBiH Customs Administration financial compensation for a non-existent separate life.
Private life
He and his wife Mersija (also politician) have one child. The family owns three business offices, including a gas station in Zenica of which price Kasumović holds over a half a million KM value.
See also
4th Electoral Unit of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abdulah Mutapčić
References
Further reading
Interview from candidacy for City Mayor 2016, L. Sarajlić ("Naša riječ" via fuadkasumovic.ba)
Program from candidacy for City Mayor 2016, F. Kasumović (self)
External links
Official website (archive)
Official biography
CIN profile
Tag 'Fuad Kasumović' on N1 website
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Mukunda Sharan Upadhyaya
Mukunda Sharan Upadhyaya (Nepali: मुकुन्द शरण उपाध्याय) is a Nepali Poet and Linguist. He was born in Hemja, Near Pokhara on April 17, 1940 AD.
He is best known for his book Prakrit Pokhara (प्राकृत पोखरा) which won Madan Puraskar on 1964 AD (2021 BS). He is the author of numerous Nepali & Sanskrit books and has made important contribution to Nepali & Sanskrit language, therefore a recognized literary figure by both Nepal & India Government.
His Story 'Jhagada Ko Okhati' is famous, and a translated version of it is also taught in the school curriculum of Bangladesh.
Early life
Upadhyaya was born on 17 April 1940 in Pokhara, the son of Pandit Dasharath Upadhyaya and Keshar Kumari Upadhyaya.
Upadhyaya attended Shri Nimbarka Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya Vrindavan, India. He graduated with a Masters of Arts from Tribhuvan University.
See also
Madan Puraskar
Nepali literature
Nepali Language
Sanskrit Language
References
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Bernard Jean (politician)
Bernard A. Jean (March 2, 1925 – June 4, 2012) was a lawyer and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Gloucester County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a Liberal member from 1960 to 1970.
He was born in Lamèque, New Brunswick, the son of Ezade G. Jean and Esther Duguay. He was educated at Saint Joseph's University and the Université Laval. Jean was admitted to the bar in 1951. In 1953, he married Corinne Lanteigne. Jean served as speaker for the provincial assembly from 1963 to 1966 when he was named Attorney General. He lived in Caraquet.
References
Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1967, PG Normandin
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Urushiyama Station
is a railway station on the Ōu Main Line in the city of Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Lines
Urushiyama Station is served by the Ōu Main Line, and is located 94.9 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Fukushima Station.
Station layout
Urushiyama Station has two opposed side platforms. Track one is adjacent to the station building; track 2 is on a passing loop. The station is unstaffed.
Platforms
Adjacent stations
History
Urushiyama Station opened on November 1, 1902. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987. A new station building was completed in March 2009.
Surrounding area
Since December 1946 the Topcon factory has been next to the station.
References
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JR East Station information
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Marion Game
Marion Game (born 31 July 1938) is a French actress.
Filmography
References
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Horace Silver discography
This is a discography of the recordings of Horace Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014), an American hard bop jazz pianist. His major discography consists of 36 studio albums, 3 live albums and 7 compilations.
Silver was initially a sideman, first recording in 1950, then a leader of mainly small groups. He was a founding member of The Jazz Messengers, originally run cooperatively, later by drummer Art Blakey alone. After leaving the Messengers, Silver led a five-piece combo into the 1980s. The vast majority of Silver's recordings as a leader were for the Blue Note label.
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Singles (78s and 45s)
Albums recorded with The Jazz Messengers
In addition to Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers listed above, Silver recorded two live albums, a studio album and portions of two more compilation albums as co-leader of the original Jazz Messengers with Art Blakey.
Albums recorded as a sideman
Notes
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UP Pulse
The UP Pulse is a German single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by UP Europe of Kochel am See. Introduced in 2000, production ended in 2003.
Design and development
The Pulse was designed as a beginner's glider for flight training.
Unlike other designs by the company, the Pulse only had one generation of models. The models are each named for their relative size.
The Pulse's sail was made from Porsher Marine New Skytex and its lines were fabricated from Cousin Trestec Super Aramid.
Variants
Pulse S
Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 36 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.5:1. The take-off weight range is . The glider model is Deutscher Hängegleiterverband e.V. (DHV) 1 certified.
Pulse M
Mid-sized model for medium-weight pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 36 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.5:1. The take-off weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Pulse L
Large-sized model for heavier pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 36 cells and the aspect ratio is 4.5:1. The take-off weight range is . The glider model is DHV 1 certified.
Specifications (Pulse M)
References
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Falborz
Falborz () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brześć Kujawski, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Brześć Kujawski, west of Włocławek, and south of Toruń.
References
Falborz
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Dye, Missouri
Dye is an unincorporated community in Platte County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is within the Kansas City metropolitan area.
History
A post office called Dye was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1902. The community has the name of James Dye, the original owner of the site.
References
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Cheti Chand
Chetri Chand (चेट्री चन्ड्र) is a festival which marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year for the Sindhi Hindus. The festival date is based on the lunar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, it being the first day of the year and the Sindhi month of Chet (Chaitra). It typically falls in late March or early April in the Gregorian calendar on or about the same day as Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra and Ugadi in other parts of the Deccan region of India.
The festival marks the arrival of spring and harvest, but in Sindhi community it also marks the birth of Uderolal in year 1007, after they prayed to Hindu god Varun Dev to save them from the persecution by tyrannical Muslim ruler named Mirkhshah. Uderolal morphed into a warrior and old man who preached and reprimanded Mirkhshah that Muslims and Hindus deserve the same religious freedoms. He, as Jhulelal, became the champion of the people in Sindh, from both religions. Among his Sufi Muslim followers, Jhulelal is known as "Khwaja Khizir" or "Sheikh Tahit". The Hindu Sindhi, according to this legend, celebrate the new year as Uderolal's birthday.
The tradition likely started with Daryapanthis. During the British colonial rule era, major annual fairs (melas) used to be held in Uderolal and Zindapir (near Hyderabad, Pakistan). In contemporary times, the Sindhi community celebrates the festival of Cheti Chand with major fairs, feast parties, processions with jhankis (glimpse stage) of Jhulelal (an avatar of [Varun dev], similar to Vithoba), other Hindu deities, and social dancing.
Uday Chand, Amar Laal and Laal Sain are a few other names Jhulelal is addressed by.
On this day, many Sindhis take Baharana Sahib to a nearby river or lake. Baharana Sahib consists of Jyot (oil lamp), Misiri (crystal sugar), Fota (cardamom), Fal (fruits), and Akha. Behind is Kalash (water jar) and a Nariyal (coconut) in it, covered with cloth, phool (flowers) and patta (leaves). There is also a Murti (statue) of Pujya Jhulelal Devta. It has been a major festival of Hindu Sindhis in India and Pakistan, one also celebrated by the Hindu Sindhi diaspora around the world.
References
External links
Images of Cheti Chand in Sindhunagar from Sindhunagar.com
Recipe to make Tairi (an authentic Sindhi delicacy or Sweet Rice made on occasion of Chetichand) from sindhirasoi.com
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Remoria
Remoria is a place associated with the legendary founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus where, according to Roman tradition, Remus saw six birds land and which he chose as an auspicious location for the future city. It is also where he was buried, after being killed by his brother Romulus during a dispute.
Roman historical sources provide conflicting information about the exact location of Remoria. While some sources place it on the site of the church of Santa Balbina on the Aventine hill, others place it on a hill near the Tiber, at a distance of either 5 Roman miles or 30 stadia downstream from the Palatine hill. Plutarch identifies the summit of the Aventine as the auguraculum and the tomb of Remus but refers to it as Ρεμώνιον (Rhemónion) or Ρεμώνια (Rhemónia), noting that it was contemporaneously called Ριγνάριον (Rhignárion). Later generations of historians have used literary and archaeological evidence to build a hypothesis that places Remoria on the left bank of the Tiber, further south of the city. During their study on the walls of Rome, the archaeologists Antonio Nibby and William Gell placed the site on the location of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in the Ostiense quarter.
In a 2003 essay, the archaeologist and historian Filippo Coarelli notes that the legendary figures of Romulus and Remus, first appearing in the historical record no earlier than the 4th century BC, were substituted into an earlier myth of the founding of Rome by the Lares, twelve sons of the deity Acca Larentia (etymologically, Mother of the Lares). Remus represents the Roman plebs, thus explaining his traditional association with the Aventine hill, where the plebs staged a secession in 449 BC. By combining the figurative location of Remoria at a place associated with the plebs and the literal location at a distance of 5 miles from the ancient city (a symbolic number representing the limit of the archaic ager romanus) on the banks of the Tiber, Coarelli argues that the location of Remoria is in the sacred grove of the goddess Dea Dia near the Via Campana, in the present-day zone of Magliana on the right bank of the Tiber. During the Kingdom and early Republic, the grove was an important site for auspication and haruspication in the care of the Arval Brethren, a college of priests tracing their descent from Romulus and the sons of Acca Larentia. In this view, Romulus and Remus represent the dichotomy between the Urbs (city) dominated by the patricians and the Arva (farmlands) dominated by the plebeians.
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Gyllebo Manor
Gyllebo Manor () is a manor house in Simrishamn Municipality, Scania, in southern Sweden. Adjacent to the castle is Gyllebohus, the ruins of a 16th-century stronghold.
The fortress Gyllebohus was built by Laurids Lauridsen Knob in 1538-1544. It was at the time one of the biggest fortresses in Scania. The fortress burnt down in the early 18th-century. Between 1713 and 1754, the estate was owned by Christina Beata Dagström; because of the law of the minority of married women it was formally owned by her husband Olof Dagström, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason, but she managed it alone without his interference. After her death in 1754, it was owned by the Schönström family until 1904. The current manor house was built in Classic style in 1813-1818 by Hedvig Sofia Schönström.
In 1927, the land of the manor was divided up to smaller farms, and the authorities bought the manor house itself and converted it to a resting home. It functioned this way until 1971.
See also
List of castles in Sweden
Sources
Gyllebo i Nordisk familjebok (andra upplagan, 1909)
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The Imperial OPA
The Imperial OPA Circus is a modern circus headquartered and operated out of Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 2009 by Timothy Mack, it currently contains a core company of 15 performers. In conjugation with its core philosophy, to be creative, to be inspirational, and to do good, the Imperial OPA Circus performs at local events to benefit nonprofit organizations such as Wish for Wendy, which benefits those with cystic fibrosis, and the Atlanta Hunger Walk, which benefits the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Their first performance was an Atlanta local fundraiser to supply the East Atlanta Village with recycling cans. Their second performance, entitled "Cirque du Beaute", was on October 3, 2009 with Jyl Craven, a local hair studio. This was a fundraiser for the St. Jude's Children's Hospital of Atlanta.
References
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Jealousy, U.S. Virgin Islands
Jealousy is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
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Dost Muhammad Khan (judge)
Dost Muhammad Khan () (born 20 March 1953) is a Pakistani jurist who remained a senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1 February 2014 to 20 March 2018. Previously, he served as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court from 17 November 2011 to 31 January 2014. He refused to take oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) 3 November 2007 and rejected all kinds of offers.
As Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court and justice at the Supreme Court, Justice D.M. Khan's judicial interpretation has been described as nationalist and moderate leanings when he delivered several major judgments: terming drone strikes as "war crimes’" ordering the government to raise the issue at the UN; a lifelong disqualification of former president Pervez Musharraf from contesting elections; declaring fuel adjustment charges illegal; taking suo motu notice of women being barred from voting and ordering missing persons be shifted to internment centers. His other achievement include ;Alternative dispute resolution(ADR) System, Online complaint system and mobile courts.
On 5 June 2018, Dost Muhammad Khan was appointed as caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and he assumed office on 6 June 2018.
Early life and education
Khan was born on 20 March 1953 in Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He received his early education from Government High School No. 1, Bannu. He graduated from the Government Post Graduate College, Bannu in 1974 and obtained law degree from Government Sindh Muslim Law College, Karachi in 1976.
In June, 2008, he attended the Course "on Reducing Delay in Justice, Administration of Justice and Court Management" held by RIPA International, London, United Kingdom. He also attended Conference at Washington-DC on sharing of Judicial Experience on Intellectual Property Rights & International Commercial Arbitration held in October–November, 2010.
Professional career
Khan began his career as a lawyer in 1976 and served in lower and high courts as well as the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He remained President of District Bar Association, Bannu from 1986-87 and President of Peshawar High Court Bar Association D.I. Khan Bench from 1999-2000.
Judicial career
Khan was appointed as additional judge on 10 September 2002. He was elevated as permanent Judge of the Peshawar High Court on 10 September 2003 and took oath as Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court on 17 November 2011, where he served for two years and two months, before being elevated to the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 31 January 2014.
During his tenure as Chief Justice, Peshawar High Court, he delivered several major judgments including; terming drone strikes ‘war crimes’, a lifelong disqualification of former president Pervez Musharraf from contesting elections; declaring fuel adjustment charges illegal; taking suo motu notice of women being barred from voting and ordering missing persons be shifted to internment centers.
Achievements
Khan took initiatives for the provision of "speedy justice. Mobile courts were established to resolve petty civil disputes and criminal cases at the earliest and at the involved parties’ doorsteps. Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) center was established at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy for criminal and civil cases pending in courts. The E-citizens Grievances Redressal System was introduced at the PHC’s Human Rights Directorate on 13 January 2014 to enable citizens to file their complaints without having to visit the PHC.
See also
Peshawar High Court
Supreme Court of Pakistan
References
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Tetrapleura andongensis
Tetrapleura andongensis is a species of ulidiid or picture-winged fly in the genus Tetrapleura of the family Ulidiidae.
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Mount Pleasant High School (North Carolina)
Mount Pleasant High School is a comprehensive public high school in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, United States, in the Cabarrus County Schools system. The school's current campus opened in 1992.
MPHS is the top school in Cabarrus County in Technology with a grant for all new computers in 2010. There is at least 1 smartboard per department and most classrooms have NEC digital projectors in 2 of the science department, all of the CTE Class (Except Masonry & Auto Mechanics), 2 of the math classes, 3 in the Social Studies department. MPHS has approximately 2 computer labs with about 30 DELL Optiplex Workstations. There are 6 CTE classes with about 25 workstations including Digital Communications, Computer Applications 1 & 2, E-commence 1 & 2, Digital Media 1, Drafting 1, & Drafting 2. Our library is also equipped with 25 workstations for student use and 3 newer workstations for card catalog searching. MPHS also feature 6 C.O.W.S. (Computer on Wheels) which consists of a Dell workstation (some with StarBoards, or Mimios), a Digital Projector, and a cart.
MPHS also has 2 dedicated backup power generators which power computers and lights in the event of a power outage in both the main building and the Vocational building.
Athletics
Mount Pleasant's athletic teams are known as the Tigers. The Tigers are placed in the 2A classification of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) and compete in the Rocky River Conference. The school values interscholastic football, basketball, baseball, golf, cross country, track and field, tennis, swimming, volleyball, softball, wrestling, and soccer. The football team won its lone state championship in 1964. The tennis team won its lone state championship in 1991. The Wrestling team won its lone state championship in 2007.
See also
Education in the United States
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Foreigner (Sawyer novel)
Foreigner is a science fiction novel by the Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer, originally published in 1994 by Ace Books. It is the final book of the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, following Far-Seer and Fossil Hunter. The book depicts an Earth-like world on a moon which orbits a gas giant, inhabited by a species of highly evolved, sentient Tyrannosaurs called Quintaglios, among various other creatures from the late Cretaceous period, imported to this moon by aliens 65 million years earlier.
Plot summary
In the beginning of the novel, Afsan is accidentally run over by a chariot, causing severe crush injuries to his face. As Quintaglios can regenerate large amounts of tissue, Afsan heals, and in the process, his eyes, which were cut out by Yenalb in Far-Seer, also regenerate. However, Afsan does not regain his sight, despite having fully anatomically functional eyes. Believing suggestions that the issue may be psychological, he consults Mokleb, who has recently pioneered the new field of psychoanalysis. While this does not cause him to regain his sight, it does cure the chronic nightmares and insomnia he suffered after setting up the royal culling in Fossil Hunter.
With the moon on which the Quintaglios live continuing its inward spiral towards the giant planet known as the "Face of God", the death of their world continues to put a forced acceleration of Quintaglio scientific advancement. Within the discovered Jijaki spacecraft, the Quintaglios accidentally trigger the formation of a tower of kiit – a blue nanotech material. Much to their astonishment, this tower extends all the way to the Lagrangian point above the moon's surface. Novato ventures upwards, making a monumental discovery: she discovers that there is a sort of surveillance camera system overlooking all of the worlds to which the "Watcher" (from Fossil Hunter) had the Jijaki transport life from Sol III (Earth). Staying to watch, she glimpses many life-forms, including red blob-like creatures, Quintaglios, and humans. She also notices that several cameras are returning black screens, unsettling her as to the possible meaning. Proceeding to explore the structure at the top of the tower, she accidentally opens an airlock, nearly killing her. While saved by the emergency systems, she realizes that the Quintaglio aviation advancements up to that point will not be sufficient to evacuate their moon, as there is no air in space on which winged aircraft can fly.
Meanwhile, Toroca makes an equally astounding discovery – another sentient species of saurian, inhabiting a small archipelago on the other side of the moon from the continent known as Land. These dinosaurs are markedly different both in physiology and psychology to the Quintaglios; most significantly, they use tools and cook meat, are capable of lying, and have a reduced sexual dimorphism, the last of which causes all Quintaglios except for Toroca – who has no territorial instincts – to immediately enter dagamant. After Captain Keenir kills two of the "Others" in such a frenzy, Toroca attempts to negotiate, not altogether unsuccessfully. However, the Others eventually decide that the Quintaglios are a threat to their survival and decide to exterminate them, sending a huge fleet for Land. In a last-ditch attempt to settle the dispute, Afsan ventures to one of the ships, where he is shot. Overcoming their cultural aversion to tools, the Quintaglios retaliate, using their prototype aircraft as bomber planes, dropping a napalm-like substance on the enemy fleet, destroying it.
Afsan does eventually regain his sight, but shortly thereafter dies from his wounds. Toroca, having rescued a child of the Others, raises it as his own.
In an epilogue, the Quintaglios have successfully achieved spaceflight, and send a great many starships out to many planets, including at least one – the Dasheter – to Earth, the original homeworld. Other advancements have been made as well; for example, the Dasheter is navigated by an AI named Afsan, built to mimic the mannerisms of the long-dead astronomer.
Major themes
Following with the style of the previous two novels in the trilogy, Foreigner displays the interaction between science and religion. Just as Afsan was the equivalent of Galileo and Toroca of Charles Darwin, Mokleb corresponds to Sigmund Freud, having pioneered a new form of psychology - psychoanalysis.
The Science vs Religion theme has been further downplayed from what it was in Far-Seer, as the religions of the Quintaglios have partly faded in prominence.
References
External links
Robert J. Sawyer's web site
The first chapter of Foreigner
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Models And Counter-Examples
Mace stands for "Models And Counter-Examples", and is a model finder. Most automated theorem provers try to perform a proof by refutation on the clause normal form of the proof problem, by showing that the combination of axioms and negated conjecture can never be simultaneously true, i.e. does not have a model. A model finder such as Mace, on the other hand, tries to find an explicit model of a set of clauses. If it succeeds, this corresponds to a counter-example for the conjecture, i.e. it disproves the (claimed) theorem.
Mace is GNU GPL licensed.
References
See also
Otter (theorem prover)
Prover9
External links
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Melam (chemistry)
Melam (N2-(4,6-diamino-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine) is a condensation product of melamine.
Synthesis
Melam was discovered by Liebig in 1834 from the residue of heating ammonium thiocyanate.
Chemical property
In the presence of 30% ammonia, melam undergoes hydrolysis to form ammeline and melamine. It also reacts with concentrated nitric acid, producing cyanuric acid.
Upon heating, melam first loses ammonia to form melem, and then melon.
References
B. Bann and S.A. Miller, "Melamines and derivatives of melamine", Chemical Reviews, vol.58, p131-172 (1958).
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Dave Morrison (footballer)
Dave Morrison (born 30 November 1974) is an English former professional footballer.
Morrison started his professional football career with Chelmsford City, before being sold to Peterborough United in May 1994 for a fee of £50,000. During his time with The Posh, Morrison made 77 appearances and scored 12 goals. He was also sent out to Rushden & Diamonds on loan in October 1996.
March 1997 saw Morrison move to Leyton Orient for a fee of £25,000. Morrison played a total of 46 games and scored three goals during his time with The O's. He was also loaned out to Dover Athletic in January 2000.
Morrison then moved to Bohemians in the summer of 2000 where he played in European wins against Aberdeen and FC Kaiserslautern. He also played a big part as Bohemians won the League and Cup Double in May 2001. He left Bohemians in December 2004, joining Kidderminster Harriers, but was released in January 2005.
Morrison then returned to the English game with Tamworth in March 2005, where he played with the Conference National side until the end of the 2005/06 season when he was released and joined Moor Green in July 2005.
In the 2007 close season Moor Green merged with local rivals Solihull Borough and like many of his Moor Green teammates Morrison joined the newly formed Solihull Moors.
On 28 June 2011 he was appointed fitness coach at Sheffield United.
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Khirbat al-Simia
Khirbat al-Simia () is a Palestinian village located four kilometers north-west of As-Samu .The village is in the Hebron Governorate Southern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of 1,705 in mid-year 2006.
History
It has been suggested that Khirbat al-Simia was identical to a Biblical place named Eshean.
Ottoman era
Khirbat al-Simia was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596 the village appeared under the name Simya Burin (Abu Hasan), being in the Nahiya of Halil of the Liwa of Quds. It had a population of 18 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards and fruit trees, goats and bee-hives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 1,600 Akçe.
In 1838, Simieh was noted by Edward Robinson as a place "in ruins or deserted," part of the area south-west of Hebron.
In 1863, Victor Guérin noted: "The highest point of this mound is occupied by the debris of a small fort, the lower courses of which, still standing, are composed of enormous blocks cut in bosses.
Lower down I notice the location of a building which, except for a fine section of wall of very regular stones, is upset from top to bottom. Two tombs of broken stone columns lie on the ground in the interior. Perhaps, in the Christian era, this edifice served as a church.
As for the houses, there was scarcely anything left, except for the cisterns and caves dug in the rock which a number of them contained. I also observe a small birket about ten · paces by four wide; it is partly built and partly dug in the rock.
A short distance to the east of this hill, on the last slopes of a mountain, is a magnificent tomb, which is preceded by a small courtyard, cut in the bright rod, which measures eight steps in length by six and half wide. From there one enters into an open vestibule, decorated externally with two pilasters and two Doric columns, arranged in the thickness of the rock, and whose frieze consists of denoted metopes and triglyphs. This vestibule is, on the inside, seven paces long and three and a half wide. A very low bay in the center allows one to penetrate crawling into the sepulchral chamber, which itself is seven paces long by five wide and is surrounded by a bench. The place for two bodies had been prepared under a curved arch."
In 1883, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Palestine (SWP) noted at Es Simia: "Walls, cisterns, caves, and tombs, principally broken, but one well cut. It is a large ruin, and evidently an ancient site. A courtyard, 23 feet 8 inches by 19 feet 6 inches, is cut in rock in front of the porch, which is 20 feet 9 inches wide and 8 feet to the back. It is supported on two pillars, 14 inches diameter, and two pilasters, all cut in rock with very simple capitals. Over the pillars at 6 feet from the
ground is a frieze with 9 medallions, divided by triglyphs.
A door 2 feet 3 inches wide leads from the porch into a chamber, 11 feet 7 inches wide, by 9 feet 8 inches to the back. In the right-hand corner at the back is a recess, 2 feet wide, 16 inches to the back. On the
right a door 2 feet wide leads into another chamber 6 feet square."
British Mandate era
In the 1931 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Khirbat al-Simia, together with As-Samu and Kh. Rafat had a total of 1,882 Muslims, in 372 houses.
Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Khirbat al-Simia came under Jordanian rule.
1967, aftermath
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, the village has been under Israeli occupation. The population in the 1967 census conducted by the Israeli authorities was 267.
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links
Welcome To Khirbat al-Simya
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 21: IAA, Wikimedia commons
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Hunsrück
The Hunsrück () is a low mountain range in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the river valleys of the Moselle (north), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). The Hunsrück is continued by the Taunus mountains on the eastern side of the Rhine. In the north behind the Moselle it is continued by the Eifel. To the south of the Nahe is the Palatinate region.
Many of the hills are no higher than 400 metres (1,300 ft) above sea level. There are several chains of much higher peaks within the Hunsrück, all bearing names of their own: the (Black Forest) Hochwald, the Idar Forest, the Soonwald, and the Bingen Forest. The highest mountain is the Erbeskopf (816 m; 2,677 ft).
Notable towns located within the Hunsrück include Simmern, Kirchberg, and Idar-Oberstein, Kastellaun, and Morbach. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is also located within the region.
The climate in the Hunsrück is characterised by rainy weather, and mist rising in the morning. Slate is still mined in the mountains. Since 2010, the region has become one of Germany's major onshore wind power regions, with major wind farms located near Ellern and Kirchberg. Nature-based tourism has increased in recent years and in 2015, a new national park was inaugurated. Culturally, the region is best known for its Hunsrückisch dialect and through depictions in the Heimat film series. The region experienced significant emigration in the mid-19th century, particularly to Brazil.
Geography
Location
The heart of the Hunsrück is formed by the Hunsrück Plateau and the Simmern Bowl. In the northwest the Hunsrück is bounded by the Moselle river and in the east by the Rhine. Its northeasternmost tip is thus formed by the Deutsches Eck. The Nahe - on the edge of the Bingen Forest, the Soonwald and the Lützelsoon - borders the mountains to the south. The Lower Naheland is not part of the Hunsrück, but belongs to the Upper Rhine Plain. The Idar Forest, the Hochwald and the Wildenburger Kopf adjoin the Hunsrück to the southwest. Here the Upper Nahe Hills rise in the shadow of the Hunsrück. The Osburger Hochwald, Schwarzwalder Hochwald and the rivers Saar and Ruwer form the western perimeter. Its southern continuation is formed by the Westrich and the North Palatine Uplands.
The low mountain range is around 100 km long (SW to NE) and an average of 25 to 30 km wide (NW to SE). Its perimeter is a heavily incised peneplain with elongated ridges in the south (the Hochwald, Idar Forest, Soonwald and Bingen Forest). The range, which begins at the Saar in the southwest and, with breaks, reaches as far as the Rhine, climbs to its highest point in the Hochwald at the Erbeskopf (), the highest peak in the Hunsrück and in the Rhenish Massif west of the Rhine. It continues to the NE as the Idar Forest with its highest peaks, An den zwei Steinen () and the Idarkopf (). Its northeasternmost part is formed by the Soonwald (highest mountain: the Ellerspring, ), the Lützelsoon (Womrather Höhe, ) and the Bingen Forest (Kandrich, ). All these ranges form an almost unbroken belt of forest. – To the east of the Rhine the crest of the Hunsrück is continued by the Taunus.
Geomorphologically the Hunsrück bears great similarities to the Eifel, the Taunus and the Westerwald, which are also part of the Rhenish Massif.
The Hunsrück hill road runs from west to east from Saarburg to Koblenz. A Roman military road, the so-called Via Ausonia also once ran through the mountains in an east-west direction and linked Trier with Bingen.
In many primary schools in the Hunsrück children are taught the boundaries of the Hunsrück using the following rhyme: "Mosel, Nahe, Saar und Rhein schließen unsern Hunsrück ein." ("Moselle, Nahe, Saar and Rhine enclose our Hunsrück")
Mountains and hills
The following table lists the highest mountains and hills of the Hunsrück by sub-range (Osburger and Schwarzwalder Hochwald, Idar Forest, Haardt Forest, Soonwald, Bingen Forest and Lützelsoon) and height in metres above sea level (NN):
Flora and fauna
Despite, in places, intensive agricultural or timber use, the Hunsrück remains a landscape with a biodiversity, because many elements of the landscape can only be extensively utilised or even not used at all.
Flora
The plant world of the Hunsrück is rich and varied. In the Soonwald there are over 850 species of ferns and flowers. The traditional forest monocultures are increasingly giving way, especially as a result of windthrow damage, to mixed woods, supporting a greater variety of plant species.
Fauna
Although the Hunsrück is not classified as a bird reserve, it is home to a wide variety of bird species: woodpeckers, birds of prey and song birds may be seen at all times of the year. Even the rare and shy black stork nests in the forests. The Hunsrück is rich in mammals; red deer, roe deer and wild boar are intensively hunted. Larger predators include a few examples of European wildcat or even the Eurasian lynx. Red fox, European badgers and pine martens are more commonly encountered.
The best known mammal in the Hunsrück has become the barbastelle. It achieved notoriety when the presence of this rare species of bat delayed construction on the runway extension at Hahn Airport.
In the numerous wet areas, amphibians, like the fire salamander, and insects have found ideal habitats. Meanwhile, in areas covered by dry grassland or scree, numerous reptiles like the slowworm and smooth snake have found a home. The viper does not occur in the Hunsrück.
History
Prehistory
Finds such as stone axes indicate that the Hunsrück has been settled since the New Stone Age. Older discoveries, which prove that the area was either settled or crossed during the Old Stone Age, are rare. Middle Palaeolithic (ca. 200,000–400,000 B.C.) surface finds from Weiler bei Bingen are an exception. By contrast the Gravettian (ca. 30,000–20,000 B.C.) sites in Heddesheim (in the municipality of Guldental) and Brey (in the municipality of Rhens) are the first settlements in the area around the Hunsrück. The rather more recent Old Stone Age site of Nußbaum near Bad Sobernheim and the encampment of Late Palaeolithic deer hunters in Boppard, which was first discovered in 2001 by the ARRATA Archaeology Society, should also be mentioned. In 2014, Late Palaeolithich rock carvings, like those known in southern France and Spain, were found for the first time in Germany in the Hunsrück. They were portraits of animals, especially horses, about 25,000 years old carved into a 1.2 m² slab of slate.
The oldest witnesses from the New Stone Age are dated to no later than the Middle Neolithic, relics of the so-called Rössen culture (whose sites include Biebernheim and Reckershausen). The majority of finds, especially of stone axes date, however, to the Late Neolithic and belong to the Michelsberg culture. Up to 2007, numerous oval stone axes were discovered, especially in the Fore-Hunsrück (Morshausen, Beulich and Macken). Likewise, finds of flint arrowheads point to a Late Neolithic (inter alia at Bell) and very Late Neolithic (Hirzenach) settlement. Other finds from the Bronze Age prove that there was continual settlement (especially documented by graves and grave goods). A greater process of settlement took place in the Early Iron Age (Hallstatt period) with the Laufeld culture and in the La Tène period (5th– 1st century B.C.) with the Hunsrück-Eifel culture, which can be linked with the Celts. This is indicated, e.g. by the coach grave of Bell, the Waldalgesheim prince's grave, the circular rampart of Otzenhausen, the Pfalzfeld flame column, the upland settlement of Altburg in the Hahnenbach valley and the numerous fields of tumuli. At that time, the Hunsrück was the tribal area of the Treveri.
Roman period
Between about 50 BC and AD 400 the Romans opened up the Hunsrück by building a dense network of roads. The best known relic of this is the Via Ausonia. Numerous finds of Roman farms (Villa Rustica), settlements, like the vicus, Belginum, and military structures point to an almost total settlement of the region by the Romans.
Frankish period
The final years of the 4th century saw the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Franks conquered the Roman territories and began to divide them up. This was the start of the great western and central European empire of Francia. In the mid-8th century this was divided into gaus under Carolingian rule. The northern part of the present Hunsrück foreland belonged to the Trechirgau, the southern part to the Nahegau. The Trechirgau was managed by the so-called Bertholds, the Nahegau by the Emichones. The capital of the Trechirgau, Trigorium, was in Treis.
Middle Ages to French period
The Hundesrucha is mentioned for the first time in a 1074 deed from Ravengiersburg Abbey.
In the Middle Ages, the Hunsrück was territorially fragmented between the counts Palatine of the Rhine, the archbishops of Trier, the counts of Sponheim and the successors of the Emichones (the Wildgraves, the Raugraves and the counts of Veldenz). There were also a number of smaller dominions.
In 1410 the Principality of Simmern emerged as a territory ruled by a side line of the counts Palatine. In the following years, Simmern became the most important residence of a noble family in the Hunsrück. Under Duke John II the town achieved supra-regional importance for a short time.
After the Thirty Years' War, Louis XIV of France made reunification demands on several principalities in the Palatinate, the Hunsrück and the Eifel. He had his troops invade and thus precipitated the Nine Years' War. In 1689 Kirchberg, Kastellaun, Simmern and the town and castle of Stromberg were set on fire. Then came the chaos of war, which led to the War of the Spanish Succession and which ended in 1713.
In the following years, trade and commerce grew. In the Hunsrück the first industry was set up by the families of Hauzeur, Pastert and Stumm. They ran mining, processing and ore smelting businesses. These, in turn, spurred the manufacture of implements for the house, farming and handicrafts: ovens, pans, boilers, weights, spades, nails, hammers, anvils, looms, spinning wheels and ammunition (cannonballs and shells weighing from 2 to 30 pounds). Leaders in the iron processing industry were the family of Stumm. Their progenitor, Christian Stumm, was a blacksmith in Rhaunensulzbach. Two of his sons were important entrepreneurs. Johann Nikolaus Stumm (1668-1743) was a smeltery owner and his sons, Johann Ferdinand, Friedrich Philipp and Christian Philipp Stumm, bought on 22 March 1806, the Neunkirchen ironworks, part of today's Saarstahl AG. Johann Michael Stumm (1683-1747) was the founder of an organ building workshop.
The notorious robbers, Johannes Bückler (known as Schinderhannes) and Johann Peter Petri (Black Peter) brought insecurity to the Hunsrück in the late 18th century.
In 1792, as a result of the French Revolution and the seizure of power by Napoleon, French troops once again invaded the territories west of the Rhine and annexed them during the French period. After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, most of the Hunsrück was reallocated at the Congress of Vienna to Prussia's Rhine Province. Parts of today's Birkenfeld and the northern Saarland belonged to the Oldenburg Principality of Birkenfeld until 1937.
Prussia era and emigration
The economic situation in the Hunsrück became serious during the years 1815-1845. A poor harvest in 1815 was followed by the year without a summer in 1816; grain prices rose rapidly and 1817 became a year of famine.
In September 1822, the Brazilian government sent Georg Anton Schäffer to Germany to recruit mercenaries and colonists. He arrived in 1823, as a representative of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil, and visited the Hanseatic cities, Frankfurt and many of the German courts. This mission sparked the first major wave of German emigrants to Brazil. Many of them were recruited by Schäffer from the Hunsrück, the northern and western parts of present-day Saarland and the Western Palatinate.
The first immigrants from the Hunsrück settled in 1824 in what is now the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, near the city of São Leopoldo. Not until 1830 did the number of emigrants to Brazil begin to fall.
The 1840s in Europe were marked by inflation, crop failures and a degree of social unrest, so that again (especially in 1846 and 1861) many people in Hunsrück decided to leave in two more waves of emigration, especially to North America and Brazil.
In August 1846, it was announced in Dunkirk, that free passage to Brazil would no longer be possible. At this time there were over 800 people waiting there. Prussia refused to give any assistance to the impoverished and helpless emigrants. They were transported from France in three warships to Algeria and settled in the villages of Stidia and Sainte-Léonie. Most of their descendants returned to France after the Algerian War in 1962.
As a result of the increasing neglect and deprivation of parts of the population in Germany during the era of industrialization, an Inner Mission association was founded at the initiative of the Simmern pastor, and later superintendent, Julius Reuss, in Simmern, with the aim of building a rescue centre in the Hunsrück for children living in poverty. In 1851, an area between Simmern and Nannhausen, the Schmiedel, was acquired. There, the first building was erected as a "mother house" (Mutterhaus or domus materna), which opened on 13 September 1851 with a householder and twelve boys. Even today, the head offices of the Schmiedel organization remain on the site.
German Reich
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871 and the foundation of the German Reich under Prussia's leadership, the so-called Gründerzeit began. Its success did not impact the Hunsrück until later, which is why many job seekers and even entire families went looking for work in the Ruhr area and migrated there.
The Protestant pastor, later Prussian Landtag MP, Richard Oertel, founder of the Hunsrück Farmers' Union in 1892, and Albert Hackenberg, acting pastor in Hottenbach from 1879 to 1912, successfully worked to improve the economic, social and technological conditions in the Hunsrück region. They achieved this through the creation of dairy cooperatives, postal agencies and, in particular, through adult education.
First and Second World War
The First World War, the Occupation Period and inflation also had a serious impact on the economy of the Hunsrück and its inhabitants, but there were not the political tensions that arose in many places in the German Reich.
A pioneer of industrialisation in the Hunsrück was entrepreneur, Michael Felke. In 1919 he founded the Felke Möbelwerke, a company that produced and sold furniture in Central Europe until the late 1990s. It was one of the first major employer in the region.
In 1938 and 1939, the German army became interested in the Hunsrück region as a strategic deployment route to the German-French border and the Siegfried Line, building the Hunsrück Highway, 140 kilometres long, in just 100 days. Supply depots and airfields were built in the woods on both sides of the road. In the Second World War and post-war period, two places in the Hunsrück rose to notoriety: Hinzert concentration camp and Bretzenheim POW camp, the so-called "Field of Misery".
Cold War to the present
In 1946, most of the Hunsrück became part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate, with small elements around Nonnweiler going to the Saarland.
During the Cold War until the early 1990s, the Hunsrück was home to numerous military airfields, ammunition dumps, command positions and missile sites. The most famous were Hahn Air Base, Pferdsfeld Air Base, the Börfink Command Bunker and the Pydna Missile Base.
In 1986/87, as a result of the NATO Double-Track Decision, 96 cruise missiles, fitted with nuclear warheads, were to be stored at Pydna. On 11 Oct 1986, on the market place in Bell, what was probably the largest demonstration in the Hunsrück's history took place. Around 200,000 people, 95% of whom were not from the Hunsrück, peacefully protested against the deployment of the missiles. At the end of the day the "Hunsrück Declaration" was read out which called for a reversal of the security policy. This did not happen, however, the Cold War ended two years later anyway, and the missile based was closed on 31 August 1993, the land being acquired by the Kastellaun garrison authority.
Likewise the US airbase at Hahn was transferred in 1993 to the German authorities and became a civilian facility, Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The airport has expanded steadily since that time.
In the early 1980s, the film director Edgar Reitz shot the first part of his trilogy Heimat in the Hunsrück, a large part of it in Woppenroth, a;so known as Schabbach. In 2012, Reitz returned to the Hunsrück for the shooting of his film Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht in the village of Gehlweiler. The film focuses on the pre-March era in the mid-19th century and the waves of emigration from the Hunsrück to Brazil.
Sights and attractions
Baybach valley and Waldeck Castle
Birkenfeld: museum of the local history society; Birkenfeld Castle was the residenz of the Wittelsbach line of Palatinate-Birkenfeld; residenz schloss of the grand dukes of Oldenburg
Bundenbach: Herrenberg roofing slate pit, Celtic settlement
Dhaun Castle: medieval knights's castle
Dickenschied: where the martyr, Paul Schneider, worked and is buried
Dill: ruins of one of the Sponheim family castles; church with ceiling murals by Johann Georg Engisch
Emmelshausen: Ehrbach Gorge, Baybach valley, Hunsrück Railway
Erbeskopf (part of Deuselbach): Hunsrückhaus Museum, highest mountain in the Hunsrück
Feilbingert: Schmittenstollen show mine
Fischbach (Nahe): Historic copper mine (open to visitors)
Gemünden: Gemünden Castle, Koppenstein Castle
Hattgenstein: observation tower
Hermeskeil: steam engine museum, Firefighting Museum and aviation museum
Herrstein: historic town centre
Hinzert: memorial to the victims of Nazism at Hinzert concentration camp
Idar-Oberstein: German Gemstone Museum, Rock church, Gemstone show mine and much more.
Kastellaun: castle ruins and old US nuclear missile base of Pydna
Kempfeld: Wildenburg Castle and wildlife park on the Wildenburger Kopf
Kirchberg: market place, St. Michael's Market (Thursday after St. Michael's Day)
Krummenau: refuge of the famous Schinderhannes
Leisel: Heiligenbösch church and Roman baths
Morbach: telephone museum, Hinzerath: Baldenau Castle, Wederath: Belginum archaeological park, Weiperath: timber museum and Hunolstein: Hunolstein Castle
Neuerkirch: Cultural History Museum, agricultural implements and machines, old handicraft skills, their products and village life and culture of bygone times
Otzenhausen: Hunnenring, a Celtic fortification
Pfalzfeld: Flammensäule
Ravengiersburg: "Hunsrück Cathedral" from the 12th/13th century
Rhaunen: Protestant church with the oldest surviving Stumm organ dating to 1723, village with historic buildings from various style periods
Sargenroth: the Nunkirche with fresco in the tower, Nunkircher Market (early September)
Schneppenbach: Schmidtburg, extensive castle ruins above the Hahnenbach stream
Schwollen: Sauerbrunnen (fountain)
Seesbach: Gateway to the Soonwald, Semendis Chapel (murals by Bishop Willigis) Rock formation in the centre of the village dating to the last ice age, RC parish church, Schinderhannes' Cave
Siesbach: Roman gravesite
Simmern: Schinderhannes Tower, local history museum in Simmern Castle, Hunsrück Museum, Simmern
Spabrücken: RC church with the "Black Mother of God of the Soon" (Schwarzer Mutter Gottes vom Soon), active monastery, Gräfenbacher Hütte with remains of a free-standing furnace for Soonwald ore
Stipshausen: "Hunsrück Baroque" church and Stumm organ
Stromberg: Stromburg Castle, home of the deutschen Michel
Sulzbach: home of the Stumm organ-building family with a large Stumm organ, the last one made by Johann Michael Stumm
Trollbach valley: rock landscape between Rümmelsheim Castle Layen and Münster-Sarmsheim along the Trollbach
Woppenroth: the village which was one of the main locations for the films Heimat and Heimat 3 by Edgar Reitz. From Woppenroth one can reach the Hahnenbach valley and the Hellkirch
Züsch: Züscher Hammer Mill, a former hammer mill once driven by water power
In popular culture
The German television drama series Heimat, directed by Edgar Reitz, examined the 20th-century life of a small fictional village in the Hunsrück.
The electronic music festival Nature One is held at the Pydna missile base in Kastellaun.
Gallery
References
External links
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Ellefsen Harbour
Ellefsen Harbour () is a harbour lying at the south end of Powell Island between Christoffersen Island and Michelsen Island, in the South Orkney Islands. It was discovered in the course of a joint cruise by Captain George Powell, a British sealer, and Captain Nathaniel Palmer, an American sealer, in December 1821. Shortly afterward, it was briefly occupied by Sam Pointer. The name first appeared on Powell's chart published in 1822.
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2013–14 Serie A
The 2013–14 Serie A (known as the Serie A TIM for sponsorship reasons) was the 112th season of top-tier Italian football, the 82nd in a round-robin tournament, and the 4th since its organization under a league committee separate from Serie B. The season began on 24 August 2013 and concluded on 18 May 2014. As in previous years, Nike provided the official ball for all matches with a new Nike Incyte model used throughout the season. Juventus were the defending champions, and successfully defended their title to win a third Serie A title in a row.
A total of 20 teams competed in the league: 17 sides from the 2012–13 season and three promoted from the 2012–13 Serie B campaign. Palermo, Pescara and Siena were each demoted from the top flight. They were replaced by Serie B champion Sassuolo, runner-up Hellas Verona and play-off winner Livorno. Hellas Verona returned to Serie A after an 11-year absence, Livorno after four seasons and this season marked Sassuolo's Serie A debut.
For the first time in the competition's history, there were five derbies among teams from the same city: Milan (Internazionale and Milan), Turin (Juventus and Torino), Rome (Lazio and Roma), Genoa (Genoa and Sampdoria), and Verona (Chievo and Hellas Verona).
Teams
Stadiums and locations
1Cagliari is going to play at Stadio Nereo Rocco in Trieste while Stadio Sant'Elia is under renovation.
2Some matches may be played at Stadio Nereo Rocco in Trieste if Stadio Friuli's renovation is not finished.
Personnel and sponsorship
Managerial changes
Assistant coach Diego López was promoted to head coaching role after he was admitted to the yearly UEFA Pro Licence course on 16 July 2013, with former head coach Ivo Pulga being moved to an assistant role, thus exchanging roles with respect to the previous season.
League table
Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches were not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match was scheduled for matchday 29 (Sampdoria–Inter Milan), but then postponed and played between days 30 and 31, it was added to the standings for day 30.
If there is a color without a number, it means that the team is at least qualified for that round.
Results
Season statistics
Top goalscorers
Source:
Top assists
Source:
Scoring
First goal of the season: Poli (Milan) in Hellas Verona–Milan 2–1, 15 minutes (24 August 2013)
Fastest goal of the season: Sansone (Sampdoria) in Sassuolo–Sampdoria 1–2, 18 seconds (26 March 2014)
Discipline
First yellow card of the season: Jorginho (Hellas Verona) in Hellas Verona–Milan 2–1, 20 minutes (24 August 2013)
First red card of the season: Castellini (Sampdoria) in Sampdoria–Juventus 0–1, 90 minutes (24 August 2013)
Hat-tricks
Average attendance
Source:http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm
References
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Bob Regh
Robert Peter Regh (October 11, 1912 – June 24, 1999) was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Sheboygan Red Skins in the National Basketball League and averaged 1.0 point per game. Regh also competed in independent leagues as well as the Amateur Athletic Union.
In 1942–43 he won the NBL championship while playing for the Red Skins.
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