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Auldbar Road railway station
Auldbar Road railway station was located near the town of Guthrie in the Scottish county of Angus.
History
Opened by the Arbroath and Forfar Railway, and absorbed into the Caledonian Railway, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. Passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, it was then closed by the British Transport Commission.
The site today
Although the wooden buildings on the platforms have gone the platforms, and some other buildings such as the station house and signal box remain.
References
Notes
Sources
RAILSCOT on Arbroath and Forfar Railway
Auldbar Road station on navigable O. S. map
Disused stations
Category:Disused railway stations in Angus
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San Pedro de Cajas District
San Pedro de Cajas District is one of nine districts of the province Tarma in Peru.
Geography
Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below:
See also
Qanchisqucha
Waskaqucha
References
External links
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Shigaon
Shigaon is a village in Sangli District, Maharashtra State, India. In 2011, it had a population of 6,844: 3,457 males and 3,387 females.
References
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Navasota persectella
Navasota persectella is a species of snout moth in the genus Navasota. It was described by George Hampson in 1918 and is known from Timor (including Dili, the type location).
References
Category:Moths described in 1918
Category:Anerastiini
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Old Dairy Farm Depot
The Old Dairy Farm Depot, or Old Dairy Farm Building, is a building in Central, Hong Kong, which currently houses the Hong Kong Fringe Club (South Block) and the Foreign Correspondents' Club (North Block). It is located at 2 Lower Albert Road. The back of the building is located along Wyndham Street, while its edge faces Glenealy.
History
In 1892, Dairy Farm built a low-rise brick and stucco building on Lower Albert Road in Central for use as a cold storage warehouse. It was designed by Danby & Leigh (now Leigh & Orange). The original depot only comprised about half (the southern part) of the present premises. This warehouse was later renovated and expanded in 1913, 1917 and 1925 to include a dairy shop, a room for meat smoking, a cold storage room for winter clothes and residency for the general manager. The building later evolved into the company headquarters until the company moved in the 1970s.
The Foreign Correspondent's Club started occupying the North Block in 1982. The South Block was acquired by the Hong Kong Fringe Club in 1984. It has undergone many major renovations since the Fringe Club moved in, in 1983.
Architecture
The building is built in the Eclectic architectural style with strong Neoclassical and some Arts and Crafts influence. The facade features polychromatic "bandaged" brickworks.
Conservation
The building is located along the Central and Western Heritage Trail. It was listed as a Grade II historic building in 1981, and as a Grade I historic building in 2009. The project of renovation and refurbishment of the Old Dairy Farm Building and its conversion into the Hong Kong Fringe Club was a winner of the 2001 Hong Kong Heritage Awards, organised by the Antiquities Advisory Board and the Antiquities and Monuments Office.
References
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Category:Grade I historic buildings in Hong Kong
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Rosén
Rosén is a Swedish surname.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 96.9% of all known bearers of the surname Rosén were residents of Sweden (frequency 1:1,475) and 1.5% of Norway (1:50,415).
In Sweden, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,475) in the following counties:
1. Gävleborg County (1:784)
2. Kalmar County (1:824)
3. Östergötland County (1:826)
4. Kronoberg County (1:957)
5. Dalarna County (1:1,007)
6. Jönköping County (1:1,039)
7. Södermanland County (1:1,193)
8. Uppsala County (1:1,245)
9. Örebro County (1:1,333)
10. Halland County (1:1,470)
People
Sven Rosén (1708–1750), Swedish Radical-Pietistic writer and leader
Gunhild Rosén (1855–1928), Swedish ballerina, choreographer and ballet master
Gustav Rosén (1876–1942), Swedish newspaper owner, journalist and politician
Erik Rosén (1883–1967), Swedish film actor
Sven Rosén (1887–1963), Swedish gymnast
Nils Rosén (1902–1951), Swedish footballer
Kjell Rosén (1921–1999), Swedish footballer
Bengt Rosén (1936–2017), Swedish politician
Jonas Rosén (born 1958), Swedish fencer
Magnus Rosén (born 1963), Swedish musician
Conny Rosén (born 1971), Swedish footballer
Robert Rosén (born 1987), Swedish professional ice hockey centre
Anton Rosén (Born 1991), Swedish motorcycle speedway rider
Calle Rosén (born 1994), Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman
References
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Crescent Summer Sessions
Crescent Summer Sessions is an acoustic solo EP by InMe lead singer Dave McPherson. The EP was made available on his MySpace site on March 6, 2007. The title comes from Dave's old home in Crescent Road, where he wrote the songs in the summer of 2004.
Track listing
Emerald Barrier - 3:44
Sunny Lynton - 4:50
Gotham City Blues - 3:10
Love The Red Button - 4:09
The Stupid Franchise Of Love - 4:02
Song For The Drunk Walk Home - 3:36
You Shouldn't Give Up On Her - 4:53
Category:2007 EPs
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Vieux-Ruffec
Vieux-Ruffec is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Charente department
References
INSEE
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Ura, Estonia
Ura, Estonia is a village in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County in southwestern Estonia.
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Heremites auratus
Heremites auratus, the Levant skink, golden grass mabuya, or golden grass skink, is a species of skink. It is found in Greece and Turkey, and possibly much more widely in Asia and even north-eastern Africa.
References
Category:Skinks
Category:Lizards of Europe
Category:Reptiles of Turkey
Category:Reptiles described in 1758
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Rhode Island Medical Society
Rhode Island Medical Society is a medical society founded in 1812. It is the eighth oldest state medical society in the United States.
They have published the Rhode Island Medical Journal since 1917.
From 1912 to 2002, their headquarters was located in the Rhode Island Medical Society Building in Providence, Rhode Island.
References
External links
Official website
Act Establishing the Rhode Island Medical Society
Category:Medical associations based in the United States
Category:1812 establishments in Rhode Island
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Tascosa High School
Tascosa High School is a public high school located in Amarillo, Texas (USA) and classified as a 6A school by the UIL. It is one of four high schools in the Amarillo Independent School District located in southern Potter County. The school was opened in 1958. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
Athletics
The Tascosa Rebels compete in the following sports -
Cross Country, Cheerleading, Volleyball, Football, Wrestling, Basketball, Swimming, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, Track, Softball & Baseball
State titles
Girls Basketball -
1991(5A)
Team Tennis -
1996(5A)
Boys Track -
1963(4A)
Girls Wrestling -
2002(All), 2014(5A)
One Act Play -
1969(4A), 1971(4A)
Notable alumni
Melinda Bordelon - illustrator
Kevin Fowler, Class of 1984 - country musician
Paul Lockhart, Class of 1974 - former USAF test pilot and astronaut
Walter Thomas Price, IV, Class of 1986 - Amarillo attorney
Brandon Slay - U.S. gold medalist in wrestling
J.D. Souther - singer/songwriter associated with The Eagles
Francie Swift - Actress
Alex O'Brien - is a retired professional tennis player from the United States, who competed on the ATP Tour
Sarah Beckham-Turner, Class of 2001 - opera singer
Lauren Hough- Author
References
External links
Amarillo ISD
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Leon Ó Broin
Leon Ó Broin (10 November 1902 – 26 February 1990) was an Irish civil servant, known as a writer and playwright. He wrote many plays, stories and historical works in both English and Irish.
Life
He was born in Dublin, and joined Sinn Féin and Fianna Éireann while still at school.
He was imprisoned in 1921 and 1922 and afterwards joined the Free State army as a non-combatant. In 1924 he was the first Administrative Officer appointed by the new Free State civil service, where he worked mainly in the Department of Finance. He was Secretary of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs from 1948 to 1967.
Together with Frank Duff he formed the Pillar of Fire Society in 1942, for Catholic-Jewish dialogue, after rumours about the killing of Jews in Europe starting coming through to Ireland. He presented a paper at the first meeting, helped by a Jewish colleague and friend, Laurence Elyan.
Writings
Books in Irish
Arus na nGábhadh agus Scéalta Eile (Dublin 1923)
Ag Strachadh leis an Saol agus Scéalta Eile (Dublin 1929)
An Rún agus Scéalta Eile (Dublin 1933)
Parnell (Dublin 1937)
Miss Crookshank agus Emmet (Dublin: Sairseal & Dill 1954)
Miss Crookshank agus Coirp Eile (Dublin: Sairseal & Dill 1951)
Comhcheilg sa Chaisleán (Dublin 1963)
Na Sasanaigh agus Eirí Amach na Cásca (Dublin: Sáirséal agus Dill 1967).
An Maidíneach: Staraí na nÉireannach Aontaithe (Dublin 1971)
Plays
Slan Muirisg (1944)
An Boisgín Ceoil (1945)
An Oíche úd i mBeithil (1949).
Translations
An Fuadach (1931) Kidnapped by R L Stevenson
Cogadh na Reann (1934) War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Books in English
See also
Parnell Commission The conspiracy case written about by Ó Broin.
Irish History
References
External links
Broadcasting the Angelus bell
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Category:1990 deaths
Category:20th-century Irish people
Category:Irish-language writers
Category:Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) members
Category:People of the Irish Civil War (Pro-Treaty side)
Category:Irish non-fiction writers
Category:Irish male short story writers
Category:Irish short story writers
Category:People from Dublin (city)
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Nicolás Fagúndez
Nicolás Emilio Fagúndez Sequeira (born February 20, 1986 in Salto, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan professional footballer.
Teams
Tacuarembó FC 2011-2015
Galícia Esporte Clube 2014 (loan)
San Marcos de Arica 2015–2016
Águila 2016–2017
Tacuarembó FC 2017
Sonsonate 2017–2018
Isidro Metapán 2018–2019
References
Category:1986 births
Category:Living people
Category:Uruguayan footballers
Category:Uruguayan expatriate footballers
Category:Tacuarembó F.C. players
Category:San Marcos de Arica footballers
Category:Chilean Primera División players
Category:Expatriate footballers in Chile
Category:Association football forwards
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Bulbophyllum bomiense
Bulbophyllum bomiensis is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.
References
The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
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Anaeropsis
Anaeropsis is a genus of stilt-legged fly. It is found in New Guinea.
References
Category:Micropezidae
Category:Nerioidea genera
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Transport Workers Union
Transport Workers Union may refer to:
Transport Workers Union of America, active in the United States
Transport Workers Union of Australia
Swedish Transport Workers' Union
See also
Communication, Transport and General Workers Union, active in Trinidad and Tobago
International Transport Workers' Federation
Irish Transport and General Workers' Union
Maharashtra Sugarcane Cutting and Transport Workers Union
National Transport Workers' Federation, active in the United Kingdom
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, active in the United Kingdom
Scottish Transport and General Workers' Union (Docks)
South African Transport and Allied Workers Union
Transport and General Workers' Union, active in both Ireland and the United Kingdom
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Jove, Gijón
Jove or is one of the twenty-six parishes within the municipality of Gijón, in Asturias, Spain, part of the West district of the city.
Previously to be integrated in Gijón, Roces was one of the historical parishes of the city.
Its population was 1,579 in 1995 and grew to 3,189 in 2012.
Jove is located on the western coast of Gijón. It borders the city in the east, and with the municipality of Carreño in the west.
El Musel port is located in this district.
Points of interest
In addition to El Musel port, in the Campa Torres (the highest point of Jove), is the archaeological park where there are still remains of Oppidum Noega, the first important settlement in Gijón.
Jove is also the seat of UD Gijón Industrial, football team which currently plays in Tercera División.
Barrios and places
Jove
Rubín
Jove de Arriba
Las Cabañas
El Muselín
Portuarios
References
External links
Official Toponyms - Principality of Asturias website.
Official Toponyms: Laws - BOPA Nº 229 - Martes, 3 de octubre de 2006 & ''DECRETO 105/2006, de 20 de septiembre, por el que se determinan los topónimos oficiales del concejo de Gijón."
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William Conway
William, Bill, or Billy Conway may refer to:
William A. Conway (actor) (1789–1828), English-born American actor
William B. Conway (1802–1839), American lawyer and Secretary of Iowa Territory
William Conway (United States Navy) (1802–1865), American sailor
Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (William Martin Conway, 1856–1937), English mountaineer, cartographer, art critic and politician
Bill Conway (baseball) (William F. Conway, 1861–1943), American Major League Baseball player
William C. Conway (1865–1969), American leader of a mystical Latter Day Saint sect
William A. Conway (1910–2006), American banker
William Conway (cardinal) (1913–1977), Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Bill Conway, American singer with The Modernaires
William G. Conway (born 1929), American zoologist
William E. Conway Jr. (born 1949), American founder of the Carlyle Group, former CFO of MCI Communications
William Conway (Irish republican) (1902–1979), one of three Irish Republicans convicted of murder for events of the 1920 Bloody Sunday
Billy Conway (born 1967), English rugby league footballer
Billy Conway, a character in Accidents Happen
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Bianca Pinheiro
Bianca Pinheiro (Rio de Janeiro, September 21, 1987) is a Brazilian comics artist and illustrator. She graduated from Graphic Arts by UTFPR and did postgraduate studies in Comics by the Grupo Educacional Opet.
Bianca began publishing webcomics in 2012. Her main work is Bear, which tells the story of a lost girl who befriends a bear. Three printed volumes of the webcomic were launched by Editora Nemo in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017, the book was launched in France by the publisher La Boîte à bulles entitled Raven et l'Ours. Between 2012 and 2015, Bianca also published a series of short comics online in her Tumblr, in Portuguese and in English.
In 2015, Bianca won the Troféu HQ Mix, the main Brazilian comic book award, in the category "New talent (writer)" for her work in the horror graphic novel Dora. The book, published the previous year independently, was republished in 2016 by the publisher house Nemo, which had already released the printed editions of Bear.
Among her main works are the independent comics Meu Pai é Um Homem da Montanha (written by Greg Stella, 2015) and Alho-Poró (2017), both financed by crowdfunding. She and Greg also published Eles Estão Por Aí (2018), by Todavia. She also did illustrations for several books, such as the children's book Palavras, Palabras (written by Lucio Luiz, Marsupial Editora, 2015) and the illustrated books Mônica(s) (many illustrators, Panini Comics, 2013) and Androides Sonham com Ovelhas Elétricas? (Aleph, 2017, Brazilian edition of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, with special illustrations in honor of the book's 50th anniversary).
In 2016, she launched the graphic novel Mônica - Força, part of the Graphic MSP label of Panini Comics, which brings new stories of the classic characters of Mauricio de Sousa created by independent Brazilian comics artists. This graphic novel won the Troféu HQ Mix of "best youth publication" in 2017
Bibliography
Bear volume 1 (Nemo, 2014)
Dora (independent, 2014)
Bear volume 2 (Nemo, 2015)
Meu Pai é Um Homem da Montanha (written by Greg Stella, independent, 2015)
Bear volume 3 (Nemo, 2016)
Mônica - Força (Panini Brasil, 2016)
Alho-Poró (independent, 2017)
Eles Estão Por Aí (written by Greg Stella, Todavia, 2018)
References
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Marawing 1-L Malamut
The Marawing 1-L Malamut is a Czech ultralight aircraft, designed and produced by Marawing of Kolín. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.
Design and development
The Malamut was developed from the classic Piper J-3 Cub. It was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules. It features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-tandem enclosed cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft is constructed in the same manner as the Cub. The fuselage is made from welded steel tubing, while the wings have a wooden structure, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing has an area of and flaps. The standard engine available is the Rotax 912UL four-stroke powerplant.
Specifications (1-L Malamut)
References
External links
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Johnstown, County Kilkenny
Johnstown (), historically known as Coorthafooka (), is a small town in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Bypassed in December 2008 by the M8, the town lies at the junction of the R639, the R502 and the R435 regional roads. It is the home of the Fenians GAA hurling club. Situated from Dublin and from Cork, it lies in the agricultural heartland of the southeast.
The village of Johnstown was once part of the barony of Galmoy and was laid out in the early 1700s by the Hely family of Foulkscourt Castle. The Hely family were descended from Sir John Hely (died 1701), Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
Public transport
Route 828 operated by M & A Coaches on behalf of the National Transport Authority provides a daily journey each way to/from Cullohill, Durrow, County Laois, Abbeyleix and Portlaoise. There is no Sunday service. Bus Éireann's Expressway service between Dublin and Cork ceased to serve Johnstown on 30 June 2012.
Places of interest
Ballyspellan Spa Well is a nearby mineral spa which was visited by Jonathan Swift in 1728. A poem praising the medicinal qualities was penned by Thomas Sheridan and a retort was produced by Swift. In 1806, a Viking age brooch was found in Ballyspellan and is now on display in the National Museum of Ireland.
Grangefertagh is a 6th Century Round tower situated 3.5 km northeast of the village. It is associated with St Ciarán of Saigir and was attacked by the Vikings in 865.
Foulkscourt Castle, is a Norman-era tower house northwest of the village.
People
J.J Delaney, hurler
Pat Delaney, hurler
P.J. Delaney, hurler
Billy Fitzpatrick, hurler
Sir John Hely, judge and landowner
Ger Henderson, hurler
John Henderson, hurler and inter-county manager
Pat Henderson, hurler and inter-county manager
Ethel Colburn Mayne, writer
Nicky Orr, hurler
P.J. Ryan, hurler
Ronan Tynan, tenor and 1984 & 1988 Paralympic athlete
See also
List of towns and villages in Ireland
Further reading
External links
Fertagh Parish
Diocese of Ossory
Fenians GAA
Edward Law - Kilkenny History - Miscellaneous Houses
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Dewitt Clinton Haskin
Col. Dewitt Clinton Haskin (circa 1824 – July 17, 1900) was an American engineer who developed the initial methods for construction of the first tunnels under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan.
In the late 1860s Haskin gained experience in California on the construction of the California Pacific Railroad.
For the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad project, he founded the Hudson Tunnel Company in 1873, and began construction in 1874 by digging a shaft in Jersey City, New Jersey. He had patented a compressed air method for reducing cave-ins, but in 1880, 20 workers were killed in a blowout. Another blowout in 1881 and a gradual loss of funding halted the project in 1887. After a British firm worked on the project from 1889-1891, lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo completed the project in 1908. (See Uptown Hudson Tubes.)
References
Brennan, Joseph (2004-2005). "Restarting the Hudson Tunnel from Jersey City." Alfred Beach’s Pneumatic Subway and the beginnings of rapid transit in New York.
External links
Engineering News-Record. (1908). "Hudson River Rail Tunnel Plagued by Delays."
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Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, previously the Humanitarian Bowl (1997–2003, 2007–2010) and the MPC Computers Bowl (2004–2006), is an NCAA-sanctioned post-season college football bowl game that has been played annually since 1997 at Albertsons Stadium on the campus of Boise State University in Boise, Idaho. The game is televised nationally on the ESPN family of networks. Cincinnati defeated Utah State in the inaugural game in 1997.
History
Conference tie-ins
The Humanitarian Bowl was launched in part to give the Big West Conference a bowl to send its champion to. From 1982 until the end of the 1996 season, the Big West champion faced the winner of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship in a bowl; this was the California Bowl until 1991 and the Las Vegas Bowl afterward. After the 1996 game the Las Vegas Bowl renegotiated its contract, forcing both conferences to look for other options. This led to the creation of the Humanitarian Bowl as well as the creation of the Detroit-based Motor City Bowl, where the MAC was to send its champion.
From 1997 to 1999, the Big West champion was matched with a team from Conference USA (C-USA), while in 2000 the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) sent a representative. The Big West stopped sponsoring football after the 2000 season, and bowl organizers extended a permanent invite to the WAC to replace the Big West as host of the game, and struck an agreement with the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) to provide a bowl-eligible team if it had yet to fill its bowl allotment. The WAC champion would receive the automatic bid to the game unless that team received a better offer from another bowl game or qualified for the Bowl Championship Series (BCS).
The WAC and ACC met in the 2001 through 2008 editions of the bowl, except for 2002 when the ACC's slot was filled by Iowa State of the Big 12 Conference. In 2009, the Mountain West Conference was to provide a team, but Mountain West champion TCU was selected for the Fiesta Bowl and the conference did not have enough bowl-eligible teams to send a replacement; as a result, Bowling Green of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) was invited. In 2010, the bowl inherited the MAC's International Bowl tie-in after that Toronto-based bowl folded; the bowl featured a MAC vs. WAC matchup through 2012.
After the WAC stopped sponsoring football in 2012, Mountain West inherited its spot as host, reaching agreement with the bowl to provide a team, starting with the December 2013 edition. The bowl featured MAC vs. Mountain West matchups in the 2013 through 2015 games. In 2016, the bowl invited in-state Idaho of the Sun Belt Conference in place of a MAC team. The 2017 edition returned to MAC vs. Mountain West, while in the 2018 edition, independent BYU was invited in place of a Mountain West team. In late July 2019, it was announced that the Mountain West and Mid-American Conferences would maintain their tie-ins to the bowl through the 2025–26 football season.
Sponsors
The game was sponsored by Micron Technology, an Idaho-based manufacturer, from 1999 to 2002 under the name Crucial.com, which sold computer memory upgrades from Micron. The bowl game then briefly had no sponsor for the January 2004 game. In December 2004, the name was changed to the MPC Computers Bowl. MPC Computers, which is also based in Idaho, was formerly MicronPC, the computer manufacturing division of Micron, but was later split off as a separate company. In April 2007, it was announced that the bowl would again be called the Humanitarian Bowl. In May 2007, Boise-based Roady's Truck Stops was announced as the new sponsor, thus renaming the game the Roady's Humanitarian Bowl. On May 25, 2010, uDrove, a maker of applications for the transportation industry, became the sponsor of the Humanitarian Bowl, signing a four-year agreement to replace Roady's. On August 3, 2011, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) signed a six-year naming rights deal to sponsor the bowl, renaming it the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. In December 2017, IPC announced that they would be sponsoring the bowl for an additional five years.
The game is the longest running cold weather bowl game currently in operation. The payout is $750,000, but teams are required to provide a corporate sponsor, purchase a minimum number of tickets, and stay at a selected hotel for a minimum stay. Because of this, 7–4 UCLA declined an invitation to the 2001 Humanitarian Bowl.
Highway Angel
From 2008 through 2012, bowl organizers, in conjunction with the Truckload Carriers Association, featured a "Highway Angel of the Year" to game attendees. Highway Angels are truck drivers who performed a heroic feat to save the life of another motorist.
Game results
MVPs
From 1997 through 2014, the bowl named an MVP from each team; since 2015, a single MVP has been named.
Most appearances
Boise State, the game's host school, is tied with Idaho for most wins with three, and Fresno State has won twice. Boise State and Utah State have made the most appearances, four each; the Broncos last played , in 2005. Idaho was a member of a different conference for each of its three appearances (Big West in 1998, WAC in 2009, and Sun Belt in 2016).
Of the current 12 members of Mountain West, eight have appeared in the bowl—Air Force, Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Nevada, San Diego State, Utah State, and Wyoming—either as members of Mountain West or the WAC. The four that have yet to play are Hawaii, New Mexico, San Jose State, and UNLV.
The below table has been updated through the January 2020 edition (23 games, 46 total appearances).
Teams with multiple appearances
Teams with a single appearance
Won: Air Force, Akron, Boston College, BYU, Cincinnati, Clemson, Maryland, Miami, Northern Illinois, San Diego State, Wyoming
Lost: Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Colorado State, Iowa State, Louisiana Tech, Louisville, Southern Miss, Toledo, Tulsa, UTEP, Virginia
Appearances by conference
Updated through the January 2020 edition (23 games, 46 total appearances).
Games marked with an asterisk (*) were played in January of the following calendar year.
Records reflect conference membership at the time each game was played.
Conferences that are defunct or no longer active in FBS are marked in italics.
Independent appearances: BYU (2018)
Game records
Source:
Media coverage
The bowl has been televised on ESPN or ESPN2 since its inception.
References
External links
Official website
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Peter Cox (climatologist)
Peter M. Cox is professor of climate system dynamics within mathematics at the University of Exeter. Until 2006 he was the Science Director - Climate Change at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and before that he was at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (1990-2004).
References
External links
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter_Cox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bCMGjOKXeI
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Horst Kadner
Horst Kadner (born 29 September 1930) is a German former sports shooter. He competed in the 50 metre pistol event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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Bradysia ocellaris
Bradysia ocellaris is a species of fly in the family Sciaridae. It is found in the Palearctic.
References
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Stuart Carter (rower)
Stuart Carter (born 31 October 1958) is an Australian former rowing coxswain. He was a ten-time national champion and a representative at world championships and Olympics. In 1976 still aged seventeen and in his final year of school, he coxed Sydney Rowing Club crews to three state titles in a pair, four and eight and to two national titles in a pair and a four; coxed the New South Wales representative eight to a King's Cup victory; and coxed the Australian men's eight at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Club and state rowing
Carter was educated at Newington College in Sydney, coxed that school's first VIII in 1975 and was coached by his future club and representative coach Michael Morgan. In 1975 both the entire Newington and the Riverview first VIIIs were selected as New South Wales' #1 and #2 youth eights to contest the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. Carter coxed the New South Wales #2 crew to second place behind a Geelong College eight racing as Victoria's state entrant. In 1976, in his final year of school Carter joined the Sydney Rowing Club and picked up the ropes in the club's senior eight and its champion coxed four.
He steered the Sydney coxed four to a state title and a national championship win in 1976, and then successfully defended that same national title in 1977 1978 and 1979. In 1976 he was under the bow of a Sydney coxed pairing of Stephen Handley and Simon Dean who rowed to a national championship title. In 1977 he steered a composite pair of Dean and Mosman's Chris Shinners to a second place. In 1978 and 1979 he coxed an SRC pairing of Handley and Islay Lee to consecutive national titles.
Carter made senior state selection for New South Wales in 1976 in the men's eight which contested and won the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. In 1977 and 1978 he was again in the stern of the New South Wales's eights who successfully defended their King's Cup titles.
International representative rowing
Carter was still aged seventeen when in 1976 he won state and national titles in every heavyweight coxed boat class and was the youngest ever coxswain selected to an Australian Olympic eight. The crew for the 1976 Montreal Olympics was mostly that year's King's Cup winning New South Wales crew excepting Malcolm Shaw in the two seat and Brian Richardson at bow. They commenced their Olympic campaign with a heat win in a new world record time and progressed to the final. In the heat Shaw suffered a severe back injury (a collapsed vertebra) which saw him out of the eight and replaced by Peter Shakespear, the reserve. In the final the Australians finished fifth.
Mosman's Terry O'Hanlon coxed the Australian eight at the 1977 World Rowing Championships but for the 1978 World Rowing Championships in Lake Karapiro, the successful New South King's Cup eight was again selected with Carter in the stern and composed of all Sydney men excepting Mosman's Gary Uebergang and Athol MacDonald. The Australian eight placed second in their heat, third in the repechage and in the final finished fourth being edged out for third by the host nation New Zealand.
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Watch It Now
Watch It Now (foaled 2003) is a Tennessee Walking Horse who won the World Grand Championship in the 2009 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration.
Life and career
Watch It Now is a black stallion with a blaze face and a sock on his left front foot. He was foaled on March 13, 2003, and bred by Jack Littrell and Steve Roberts of Florence, Alabama. He was sired by the World Champion The Skywatch, and his grandsire was Pride's Generator, a three-time World Champion and noted sire. His dam was Pride of Jubilee, daughter of the World Grand Champion Pride's Jubilee Star. Watch It Now had multiple owners until 2008. His original name as registered with the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association was The Titan, but it was changed in 2008 when he was sold to Bill and Sandra Johnson of Waterfall Farms. The Johnsons already had a horse named The Titleist and thought the names were too similar and would cause confusion. They also pointed out that the stallion's new initials spelled W.I.N., which were appropriate since he was a show horse.
Watch It Now was trained by Jimmy McConnell. In 2008 McConnell entered him in the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration and placed fourth in two classes, including the Four-Year-Old World Championship. McConnell and Watch It Now entered the Celebration again the next year and won the World Grand Championship. Following his win, Watch It Now was moved to Waterfall Farms to stand at stud for the 2010 breeding season.
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TOM (object-oriented programming language)
TOM was an object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s that built on the lessons learned from Objective-C. The main purpose of TOM was to allow for "unplanned reuse" of code via a well-developed extension mechanism. This concept was introduced seemingly by accident in Objective-C and later proved to be of wide use, and was applied aggressively in TOM.
The primary changes in TOM are the addition of multiple inheritance, tuples as a first-class part of the language, cleaner syntax, free of the C requirements for header files and pre-compiler commands, and the ability to use categories (the re-use mechanism) to include anything.
It is this latter ability that represents "the whole idea". Unlike Objective-C's categories that allowed only new methods to be built onto existing classes, TOM allowed the addition of class and instance variables, new methods, even new superclasses. This results in the redefinition of "class" as "a class is defined by its main definition and any extensions", these extensions have become a first-class citizen of the language (similarly to Ruby).
The book The Pragmatic Programmer lists TOM as an example for a new language to learn.
Development of the TOM language has ceased.
Hello World
This is the classic hello world program in TOM:
implementation class HelloWorld
int
main Array argv
{
[[[stdio out] print "Hello, world!"] nl];
}
end;
implementation instance HelloWorld end;
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Comrie Glacier
Comrie Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing west to enter the head of Bigo Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. It was first sighted and roughly surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition in 1909. It was resurveyed in 1935–36 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), and later named for Leslie J. Comrie, founder and first Director of the Scientific Computing Service Ltd, London, who, as Superintendent of HM Nautical Almanac Office in 1934, greatly assisted the BGLE, 1934–37, by providing advance copies of The Nautical Almanac up to 1937.
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Agnes Kittelsen
Agnes Elisabet Hilden Kittelsen (born 20 May 1980 in Kristiansand) is a Norwegian actress.
Biography
Agnes Kittelsen is known for her role as Anneli in the TV-series Skolen (2004), as the title character's wife Tikken in the 2008 film Max Manus and as Liv Heyerdahl, the wife of Thor Heyerdahl in the film Kon-Tiki. She also starred in the sitcom Dag from 2010 to 2015.
After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre in 2003, she worked at Den Nationale Scene from 2004 to 2006, before starting at the National Theatre in 2007.
She played the witch in the Norwegian 2012 movie Reisen til julestjernen and Vivian in then television adaption of the book The Half Brother that was broadcast on NRK in 2013.
Kittelsen's mother is Finnish.
Filmography
Short films
2006 : Bagasje : Hilde
2006 : Road Movie : Celine
2010 : Neglect : Ellinor
TV series
2004-2005 : Skolen : Anneli
2005 : Brødrene Dal og mysteriet med Karl XIIs gamasjer : Mette-Mari Dal
2008-2009 : Honningfellen : Signe Maria Øye
2010- 2015 : Dag : Malin Tramell
2013 : Halvbroren : Vivian
2015 : Hæsjtægg : Vivi
2017 : Neste Sommer : Gunnhild
2019 : Beforeigners : Marie
2019 : Exit : Hermine Veile
2019 : Mellem os : Merete
Cinema
2008 : Max Manus by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg : Tikken Lindebrække
2009 : Millénium 3 - Luftslottet som sprängdes by Daniel Alfredson
2010 : Happy Happy by Anne Sewitsky : Kaja
2012 : Kon-Tiki by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg : Liv Heyerdahl
2012 : Reisen til julestjernen by Nils Gaup : Heksa
2015 : Prästen i paradiset by Kjell Sundvall : Line
2015 : Staying Alive by Charlotte Blom : Marianne
2016 : Pyromaniac by Erik Skjoldbjærg : Elsa
2018 : En affære by Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken : Henriette
2019 : Skammerens datter II: Slangens gave by Ask Hasselbalch : Melussina
2019 : Hjelperytteren by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen : Grete Stein
References
External links
Home page
Interview with Dagbladet
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Albert de Rippe
Albert de Rippe (Alberto da Ripa da Mantova) (c. 1500–1551) was an Italian lutenist and composer. He was born in Mantua and worked there before 1528, when he left for France. There, he joined the court of Francis I. De Rippe was evidently held in great esteem at the court, as his annual salary was double that of any other lutenist, and he also frequently received gifts of land, money, wine, etc., and various other benefits. He only published three works during his lifetime, but six volumes of his music were published posthumously by his pupil, Guillaume de Morlaye. That edition was titled, and is now sometimes referred to as, tab[u]lature de leut.
De Rippe's oeuvre consists of 26 fantasias, 59 intabulations (46 chansons, 10 motets and 3 madrigals) and 10 dances, all for six-course lute, and 2 fantasias for four-course Renaissance guitar. The lute fantasias are now considered his most important works: they represent a novel type for the time, of purely instrumental composition. Their dense polyphony and complex architecture (some evolve for several hundred bars), as well as the skill required to play them, make the fantasias some of the most important works in the repertoire.
References and further reading
R.W. Bruggart. Alberto da Ripa: Lutenist and Composer (diss., U. of Michigan, 1956)
External links
Free scores at Luth-Librarie include the complete fantasies for six-course lute.
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Motilal
Motilal is an Indian given name. It may refer to:
Motilal Banarsidass, an Indian publishing house on Sanskrit and Indology since 1903
Motilal Nehru (1861– 1931), activist of the Indian National Movement, leader of the Indian National Congress, and patriarch of the Nehru-Gandhi family
Motilal Rajvansh (1910–1965), film actor
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Bad Soden-Salmünster station
Bad Soden-Salmunster station is the station of the town of Bad Soden-Salmünster on the Kinzig Valley Railway in the German state of Hesse. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station.
History
The station was opened on 1 July 1868 along with the Wächtersbach–Steinau an der Straße section of the Kinzig Valley Railway. The Kinzig Valley Railway was part of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway, initiated by the Electorate of Hesse, the Grand Duchy of Hesse and Free City of Frankfurt and completed by Prussia. It was originally called Salmunster until 1880, when it was changed to Salmünster-Soden (until 1914) and then Salmünster-Bad Soden (until 1971).
The entrance building is listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act.
Operations
The station has a "house" (next to the entrance building) and an island platform. The house platform (platform 1) and track 2 are exclusively used by the hourly Regional-Express services on the Frankfurt–Hanau–Wächtersbach–Fulda route. Track 3, which is located next to platform 2 on the island platform, is served by several regional services each day on the Frankfurt–Hanau–Wächtersbach–Bad Soden-Salmunster route.
The station is now exclusively served by Regional-Express and Stadt-Express services. Intercity-Express and Intercity services pass through without stopping.
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Monkwell Square
Monkwell Square is a London street and garden square. It forms part of the Barbican estate, and lies to the west of Wood Street.
The Worshipful Company of Barbers Barber-Surgeons' Hall was established in Monkwell Street in the 14th century. The Hall survived the Great Fire, but was destroyed by enemy bombing in the London Blitz in the Second World War. The modern hall was rebuilt approximately 10m to the east of the former site, in Monkwell Square.
Notable residents
Sir David Howarth Seymour Howard, 3rd Baronet, businessman and public official
References
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Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai
The Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition, Mumbai, generally known as IHM Mumbai, is a hospitality management school located in Mumbai, India.
The institute offers the following programmes of study:
B.Sc. in Hospitality and Hotel Administration
Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics and Hospital Food Service
Certificate Course in Institutional Hospitality Management
Craftsmanship course in Food & Beverage Service
References
External links
Official site
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Federal University of Minas Gerais Ecological Station
The Federal University of Minas Gerais Ecological Station () is an ecological station in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Location
The Federal University of Minas Gerais Ecological Station is located on the Pampulha campus of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
It is divided into two areas by Avenida Presidente Carlos Luz.
The first area is bounded by the BR-262 ring road, the Army Ministry CPOR facility, the Nuclear Energy Commission, Rua Quatorze and Avenida Presidente Carlos Luz. The second area is bounded by BR-262, Rua Engenho Nogueira and Avenida Presidente Carlos Luz.
History
The site of the ESEC was once occupied by the Dalva farm, and later by the Don Orione Boys' Home, inaugurated by Juscelino Kubitschek in 1944. There are still some traces at the site of pottery and buildings from the past.
A proposal to create a conservation area on the campus was approved in January 1979.
A committee was formed, and on 29 July 1988 an agreement was signed with the city of Belo Horizonte.
The site, formerly abandoned and holding debris from the university, was restored and is now used for various research projects including a Master's course in Ecology Conservation and Wildlife Management.
Environment
The ESEC is an urban conservation area of holding typical semi-deciduous forest and cerrado vegetation.
It has very diverse flora and fauna, including mammals such as capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) and opossum (Didelphis), amphibians and reptiles such as Tupinambis lizards and False coral snakes, and about 150 species of birds including squirrel cuckoo (Piaya cayana), toco toucan (Ramphastos toco), Penelope, Saíra and cinnamon tanager (Schistochlamys ruficapillus).
Vegetation includes native species such as Guazuma ulmifolia (Mutamba), Cedar, Ipê, Cotieira and exotic species such as Eucalyptus, Mango (Mangifera indica) and Baobab (Adansonia).
Notes
Sources
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Țelna
The Țelna is a left tributary of the river Ighiu in Romania. It flows into the Ighiu in the village Ighiu. Its length is and its basin size is .
References
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Trevor Zegras
Trevor Zegras (born March 20, 2001) is an American collegiate ice hockey center who currently plays for Boston University of the Hockey East. He was selected by the Anaheim Ducks, ninth overall, in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
Playing career
During the 2018–19 season, Zegras recorded 117 points (40 goals, 87 assists), across all competitions with the U.S. National Development Team.
On June 21, 2019, Zegras was selected by the Anaheim Ducks with the ninth overall pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
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Category:Living people
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Category:People from Bedford, New York
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CUSA
CUSA may refer to:
Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464), German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer
Carleton University Students' Association
Colleges and Universities Sports Association, a collegiate athletic conference in the Philippines
Conference USA, a collegiate athletic conference in the United States
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Alain Dithurbide
Alain Dithurbide (born 18 January 1959) is a French former professional racing cyclist. He rode in the 1984 Tour de France.
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Love Is on Her Mind
"Love Is on Her Mind" is the second single released by freestyle singer Sa-Fire from her 1988 eponymous debut.
Track listing
Charts
References
External links
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Category:Sa-Fire songs
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Niggas Is Men
Too Dirt For TV2 – Niggas Is Men is a 2013 mixtape album by American rapper and producer Quelle Chris. It featured audio production handled by Messiah Musik, Sifu and Quelle himself, and guest appearances from Bwameeks, Cavalier, Chay, Denmark Vessey, DJ GroWeyez, Fresh Daily, Mosel, and Tanya Morgan.
Background
Niggas Is Men is Quelle's debut full-length with Tucson, Arizona-based independent label Mello Music Group. Also it is the second album of Quelle's ongoing 'too dirt for TV' series, following up to his 2012 release of 2Dirt4TV and preceding his 2015 release of Innocent Country.
The record was released on March 19, 2013 for sale digitally, on April 30, 2013 on CD and vinyl, and distributed by Fat Beats.
Track listing
Notes
"Green Eyes" contains samples from "Soul Girl" by Ahmad Jamal (1973) and "Treat 'Em Right" by Chubb Rock (1990)
"In Retrograde" contains samples from "Spell" by Blue Magic (1974)
Personnel
André Trenier – artwork
Chris Keys – guest vocals (track 14)
Denmark Vessey – guest vocals (track 7)
Devon Callender – guest vocals (track 6)
Donald Freeman – guest vocals (track 6)
Gavin Christopher Tennille – main artist, executive producer, producer (tracks 1, 3-4, 7, 9, 11-12, 14)
Ilyas Nashid – guest vocals (track 6)
Michael Richardson – guest vocals (tracks 5-7)
Michael Tolle – executive producer
Bwameeks – guest vocals (track 4)
Cavalier – guest vocals (tracks 2-8, 10-11, 13)
Chay – guest vocals (track 5)
DJ Groweyez – guest vocals (track 1)
Messiah Musik – producer (tracks 2, 6, 8-10)
Mosel – guest vocals (track 11)
P.U.D.G.E. - guest vocals (track 14)
Sifu – producer (tracks 5, 13)
References
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1960–61 Coppa Italia
The 1960–61 Coppa Italia was the 14th Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Fiorentina.
First round
Serie B teams.
p=after penalty shoot-out
Second round
14 clubs from Serie A are added.
p=after penalty shoot-out
Round of 16
Juventus, Fiorentina, Torino, Lazio are added.
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
p=after penalty shoot-out
Third place match
p=after penalty shoot-out
Final
Top goalscorers
External links
rsssf.com
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Henry Loney
Henry Loney was a Scottish football player, who played for Falkirk, Alloa Athletic and Dumbarton during the 1920s.
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Independent Publishers Group
Independent Publishers Group (IPG) is a worldwide distributor for independent general, academic, and professional publishers, founded in 1971 to exclusively market titles from independent client publishers to the international book trade. As per other book wholesalers and distributors, IPG combines its client publishers’ books into a single list, comparable to the larger publishing houses. IPG’s distribution services to publishers include warehousing, bill collecting, and sales to the book trade. IPG currently represents about 1,000 publishers. They are based in Chicago, Illinois. IPG distributes publishers based in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Ireland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Israel, and others.
Merger with Chicago Review Press
In 1987, IPG was acquired by Chicago Review Press (CRP) an independent publisher founded at about the same time as IPG.
Acquisition of other book distributors
IPG acquired Paul & Company, an 11-year-old distributor of university presses, in 2001. IPG now sells directly to universities.
In 2006, IPG acquired Trafalgar Square Publishing, founded in 1973, which is the distributor of more than 100 publishers from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Germany, representing more than 20,000 titles. Its roster includes HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, and Penguin Random House from the UK and Allen and Unwin and Penguin Random House from Australia; these publisher's titles are not always issued in US editions.
In 2018, IPG acquired International Specialized Book Services (ISBS), an academic book distributor.
In August 2018, IPG acquired the book distributor, Midpoint Trade Books. Speaking to Publishers Weekly, IPG's CEO, Joe Matthews said that the publishing industry "is consolidating because distribution rewards scale, requires expensive technology, and demands high-level access to customers."
See also
List of book distributors
Chicago Review Press
References
External links
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K. Jaswant-Singh
Air Commodore K. Jaswant-Singh was an Indian air force personnel and served in the Ghana Air Force. He was the Chief of Air Staff of the Ghana Air Force from May 1959 to August 1960.
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Musica Ficta (Danish ensemble)
Musica Ficta (disambiguation)
Musica Ficta is a Danish choral group founded in 1996 by conductor and composer Bo Holten.
Selected Discography
Mogens Pedersøn (1585-1623) Madrigals. Musica Ficta, Holten. Da Capo.
A Danish Christmas, Musica Ficta, Holten. Naxos (compilation from Danish release)
Johannes Ockeghem (1430-1497): Missa pro defunctis (Requiem), Naxos
Winds & Voices at the Court of Christian III, Copenhagen Cornetts & Sackbutts, Musica Ficta, Holten
Medieval Music from Denmark Musica Ficta, Holten Da Capo
Seized by Sweet Desire - Singing Nuns and Ladies Naxos
Danish children's songs by contemporary Danish composers. EXLCD 30062 · 1997
C. E. F. Weyse: Songs and romances. Naxos Denmark 8.554961 · 1998
Romantic songs - Sange fra Romantikken. Naxos Denmark 8.554964 · 1999
Carl Nielsen: Motets op.53, selection of songs. Naxos Denmark 8.554965 · 2000
Højskolesangen: Songs from Grundtvig's "High School movement" 1900-1970. Naxos Denmark 8.554970 · 2001
20th Century songs - Sange fra det 20. århundrede Naxos Denmark 8.554973 · 2001
Danish Folk Songs with Poul Høxbro. Naxos Denmark 8.557424 · 2004
Children's Songs - Børnesange. Naxos Denmark 8.557730 · 2004
Songs to lyrics of H. C. Andersen. Naxos Denmark 8.557810 · 2005
Songs to lyrics of J. P. Jacobsen. Naxos Denmark 8.572070 · 2008
Danish Songs - Denmark Ministry of Culture Naxos Denmark 8.570175 · 2006
Thomisson's Easter Ribe Cathedral 1560 - Clemens non Papa: Missa Virtute magna. Da Capo 2018
References
External links
Vocal Ensemble MUSICA FICTA / Bo Holten
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Everlasting Love (Vanessa Williams album)
Everlasting Love is the seventh studio album (eighth overall) by Vanessa Williams, released in the United States on January 25, 2005 by Lava Records. Produced entirely by Rob Mathes, the album contains cover versions of 1970s soul love songs (except for the final track, which is an original song), such as "You Are Everything"—released as a single—, "Show and Tell", and the title track originally performed by Rufus and Chaka Khan.
The album received rave reviews and has sold 60,000 copies to date. The album peaked at number one hundred and fifty-nine on the Billboard 200 and number fifty-seven on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. The single "You Are Everything" became another hit for Williams, reaching number sixteen on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, number five on the Hot Dance Club Play, and number four on the Hot Dance Singles Sales. It also became a major club hit that summer due to disco club mixes of the song by Junior Vasquez.
Track listing
Charts
References
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School of Fish (album)
School of Fish is the debut studio album by the band of the same name. It was released in April 1991.
Track listing
All tracks written by Josh Clayton-Felt & Michael Ward, except where noted.
"Intro" - 1:42
"3 Strange Days" - 5:12
"Talk Like Strangers" - 3:37
"Deep End" - 4:54
"King Of The Dollar" (Felt/Jagger/Richards/Ward) - 2:47
"Speechless" - 4:56
"Wrong" - 4:28
"Rose Colored Glasses" - 3:43
"Under The Microscope" - 4:34
"Fell" - 2:50
"Euphoria" - 5:45
Personnel
School of Fish
Josh Clayton-Felt - vocals, guitar, drum box
Michael Ward - lead guitar, background vocals, drum box
M.P. - drums
Dominic Nardini - bass guitar
Production
Produced by John Porter
Engineered by Dave "Death" Pine, assisted by Ken Paulakovich and Lee Manning
Mixed at Chapel Studio
Art direction – Tommy Steele
Design – Heather Van Haaften
Photography – Dennis Keeley
Management
A&R Direction - Alison Donald
A&R Coordination - Valerie Pack
Legal representation - Jon Blaufarb
Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
Singles - Billboard (North America)
References
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Psalm 113
This article uses the Hebrew (Masoretic) Psalms numbering. Psalm 113 in Septuagint/Vulgate numbering would correspond to Psalm 114–115 in Hebrew numbering.
Psalm 113 is the 113th psalm of the Book of Psalms, generally known in English by its first verse, in the King James Version, "Praise ye the Lord, O ye servants of the Lord". The Book of Psalms is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament. In the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in the Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 112 in a slightly different numbering system. In Latin, it is known as "Laudate pueri Dominum".
The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Anglican, and Protestant liturgies. In Judaism, it is the first of the six psalms comprising the Hallel, a prayer of praise and thanksgiving recited on Rosh Chodesh (the first day of the Hebrew month) and Jewish holidays. In Catholicism, it is one of the psalms included in the vespers service. It has been set to music often, notably by Claudio Monteverdi in his Vespro della Beata Vergine of 1610.
Text
Hebrew Bible version
Following is the Hebrew text of Psalm 113:
King James Version
Praise ye the . Praise, O ye servants of the , praise the name of the .
Blessed be the name of the from this time forth and for evermore.
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the 's name is to be praised.
The is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
Who is like unto the our God, who dwelleth on high,
Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the .
Uses
Judaism
Is the first of six psalms (113-118) of which Hallel is composed. On all days when Hallel is recited, this psalm is recited in its entirety.
It is one of the so called Egyptian Hallel though it was probably written by King David.
Verse 2 is part of Baruch Hashem L'Olam during Maariv, the mezuman preceding Birkat Hamazon, is recited when opening the Hakafot on Simchat Torah, and is found in the repetition of the Mussaf Amidah on Rosh Hashanah.
Verses 2-4 are the second thru fourth verses of Yehi Kivod of Pesukei Dezimra.
Musical settings
This psalm has been set to music often, as it is one of the psalms included in vespers, typically set in Latin as Laudate pueri Dominum. Claudio Monteverdi wrote a setting in his Vespro della Beata Vergine, published in 1610. Mozart set the text in his two vespers compositions, Vesperae solennes de Dominica, K. 321, and Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339.
Individual settings of the psalm include five by Antonio Vivaldi, RV 600–603. Handel set it twice, a setting in F major which is his earliest extant autograph which may have been written as early as 1701/02 in Halle, HWV 236, and a setting composed in D major in Rome in 1707, HWV 237. In 1830, Mendelssohn set the psalm as one of 3 Motets for female choir and organ, Op. 39, No. 2.
In 1863, Bruckner set the psalm in German, Psalm 112 Alleluja! Lobet den Herrn, ihr Diener'', WAB 35.
References
Sources
External links
Text of Psalm 113 according to the 1928 Psalter
Psalms Chapter 113 text in Hebrew and English, mechon-mamre.org
Hallelujah! Praise, you servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. text and footnotes, usccb.org Unites States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Psalm 113:1 introduction and text, biblestudytools.com
Psalm 113 – Praise to the LORD Who Lifts the Lowly. enduringword.com
Psalm 113 / Refrain: From the rising of the sun to its setting let the name of the Lord be praised. Church of England
Psalm 113 at biblegateway.com
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Combat Colin
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}}Combat Colin is a slapstick comedy adventure comic strip created, written and drawn by humour comic artist/writer Lew Stringer. It appeared in a number of Marvel UK titles.
Publication historyCombat Colin appeared as a back-up humour strip in Action Force comic in the 1980s.<ref>Action Force #5 (1987)</ref> Stringer had a back-up story, Robocapers in The Transformers and was asked if he could come up with something similar for Action Force and he came up with a story about a character who was originally named "Dimbo" when he submitted it.
The story then moved over to The Transformers comic for a popular run. After editorial changes dropped humour material from Marvel UK's comics in 1991, Marvel UK gave Lew Stringer the rights to Combat Colin and he revived the character in several small-press titles and fanzines, including a Combat Colin Special with new material.
Colin reappeared as a supporting character in the Brickman back-up strips for Image Comics' Elephantmen series. His final appearance in that comic was in the Brickman strip in Elephantmen No.24, Feb 2010. Since then, brand new Combat Colin strips have appeared from time to time in the digital comic Aces Weekly.
Fictional character biography
The bobblehatted Colin Doobrey-Smiff, otherwise known as Combat Colin, wanted to be a war hero, but even the army thought he was too thick for them; instead, he lived with his Mum and Dad in a suburban English neighbourhood. For many years Colin claimed to have been obsessed with military matters since he was a baby, but he would later admit that all this was a rouse. In fact, he was a comic book geek into adulthood when an alien visited Earth and gave him the "Combat Trousers," which have pockets that contain a gateway into another dimension, allowing him to access all his weapons and equipment.
In the beginning, the strips were simplistic complete slapstick half-page stories. As time progressed, the strip's popularity enabled it to become a full pager. Here, Stringer was allowed to develop the character in a series of two to six part serials. Colin also acquired a gun-toting assistant, Semi-Automatic Steve, and a host of supporting characters including their blonde girlfriends The Giggly Sisters (Julie and Joanne Giggly) and a catalogue of recurring villains. Colin and Steve had many adventures battling villains all over the world and even venturing into space and travelling through time. One of the characteristics of the strip was frequent breaking of the fourth wall - Colin and Steve were aware they were characters in a comic strip (and a back-up strip in a comic about "toy robots," at that).
Recurring villains in the strip included the following:
Dr Nasty. A mad scientist and ruler of the land "Evilonia."
Professor Madprof. Another mad scientist, short in stature and appears to have Vulcan ears. Later acquires a dimwitted human sidekick, Moptop.
The Brain (later Megabrain). An alien with an entire head resembling a human brain. Always trying to conquer Earth. When the Brain was granted his wish of attaining ultimate knowledge from the intergalactic being "Pyramid Head", the Brain amassed too much knowledge and his head exploded. However, the Brain later resurrected himself as a new entity he christened "Megabrain," and resumed his efforts to defeat Colin and conquer the Earth.
Mountain Man. Possesses a rocky, bulletproof appearance (similar to The Thing of the Fantastic Four). Later acquires a human alias, "The Amazing Dave" (a stage magician).
Aunt Arctic. A middle-aged female parody of Mr. Freeze. In her final appearance, Aunt Arctic teamed up with Madprof and battled Colin and Steve in Earth's prehistoric past, only to be eaten by dinosaurs.
Skydriver. An aviation-themed villain.
DJ Yampy. A villainous disc jockey, specializing in hypnotizing people through music. Possibly a parody of the Hypno-Hustler.
Ragdoll. A living Rag doll, impervious to bullets.
Gladys Blemish. Originally Colin's love interest; she later used her "Crusher Tank" to lay waste to the city before Colin defeated her.
Jane Bondski. A spy who claimed to be the third Giggly Sister ("Jane Giggly") but she confessed her true identity after falling into, and barely escaping, the dimensionally transcendental pockets of Colin's Combat Trousers.
The Bad Hatter. A hat-themed villain, similar to the Mad Hatter. In his first appearance, the Bad Hatter tricked Colin into wearing a tight-fitting bobble hat that cut off the circulation to his brain, making Colin (temporarily) evil and turn to crime.
Bankrobber Man. Robs banks.
Supporting characters in the strip included the following:
Roy L.T. Check. Colin's agent.
Headline Howard. A tabloid newspaper journalist.
Combat Kate. Originally a villain, and the girlfriend of Headline Howard. The pair framed Colin for crimes he didn't commit, turning the public against him and allowing Kate to take his place. Colin regained the public's trust when he helped repel an alien invasion, and after witnessing Kate's prowess in combat, Colin suggested she continue crimefighting "oop north" while he remained "darn saff." Kate thereafter became a recurring character, occasionally teaming up with Colin and Steve.
The strip would also feature humorous cameo appearances from Transformers and characters from the Marvel universe.
A fan of The Prisoner television series, Stringer often added references to the TV show in the strip, most blatantly when Combat Colin found himself in "The Place of No Return"; a village resembling Portmeirion in the TV series. Trapped in the Village, Colin discovered it to be a place where old comic characters (Stringer's comedy back-up characters for Marvel UK) were "retired" to. Starting a revolt, Colin led his fellow heroes to escape.
In the final issue of Marvel UK's Transformers series, Combat Colin fought a final battle against Megabrain. Afterwards, he and Steve threw away all their weapons to live a life of pacifism - unfortunately, one of those weapons was a nuclear bomb and they were seemingly killed. A new story Stringer produced for a one-off mini-comic revealed that the nuclear bomb had thrown the heroes back in time to Blackpool in 1967. Brand new Combat Colin strips have recently appeared in the digital comic Aces Weekly.
Collected editions
"The Place of No Return" has recently been reprinted as "Village of the Doomed" in the book Brickman Begins!.
A six-issue Combat Colin comic, reprinting the 1980s strips, began in 2017 and as of 2019 the first four volumes are available for purchase through Lew Stringer's website.
Notes
References
External links
Lew Stringer's Combat Colin gallery at ComicSpace
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Whitewash (2013 film)
Whitewash is a 2013 Canadian drama film directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and written by Hoss-Desmarais and Marc Tulin. The film stars Thomas Haden Church as Bruce, an unemployed snowplow driver in rural Quebec who develops a pseudo-friendship with Paul, a man who hides his deep disturbances behind a facade of warm demeanor which is slowly revealed through a series of sporadic flashbacks. The film's cast also includes Anie Pascale, Marc Labrèche, Isabelle Nélisse, Geneviève Laroche, Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais.
Plot
Bruce is a snowplow driver in a small remote town in Quebec. While driving drunk during a snowstorm, Bruce fatally strikes a pedestrian. After Bruce panics and hides the body in a snowbank, he drives deep into the woods in a stupor and falls asleep. When he wakes, he finds that the vehicle has become stuck. Stranded in the freezing cold without supplies, he initially sets off to find help but returns to the snowplow when he sees no nearby signs of civilization. Left with nothing but his own thoughts, Bruce practices his statement to the police. During the imaginary conversations, he becomes overcome with emotion when told that his victim had children.
As Bruce wrestles with his guilty conscience, flashbacks reveal that the dead man, Paul, was Bruce's
houseguest. Leaving a convenience store and coming across Paul in his vehicle attempting to commit suicide by inhaling vehicle exhaust fumes, unplugging the hose, Bruce starts conversation with Paul, admiring his vehicle and eventually commandeers the vehicle, driving around casually with Paul, developing a casual friendship, though Bruce becomes frustrated when Paul takes advantage of his hospitality and requests a loan. Bruce, a widower who has fallen on hard times after he lost his job due to drunkenly crashing his snowplow into a restaurant, explains that he can not help Paul. When Paul notices Bruce's collection of highly realistic ocular prostheses, Paul claims his proficiency with web design to Bruce and offers to set up an online presence to sell the collection. Bruce declines the offer and says that he can not bring himself to sell his wife's crafts.
In the present, Bruce leaves his snowplow once again after he runs out of gas. After a long trek, he finds a restaurant, where he learns from the newspaper that both he and Paul have been reported missing. After stocking up on supplies, he returns to his snowplow. When his supplies run out again, he investigates the area further and finds a large house near a frozen lake. He breaks into the shed and steals supplies, then hides there overnight when the owners return. In the morning, Simone, the owner's daughter, discovers him, and he frightens her. He apologizes to her father, Eric, and retreats into the woods.
Later, when Eric and his friend go into the woods to look for him, Bruce injures his ankle while he hides. Frustrated and unable to hobble back to civilization, he camps out on Eric's land and engages in more imaginary conversations with the police. Further flashbacks reveal that Bruce caught Paul stealing; he was pursuing Paul when he accidentally struck him. Paul seemingly smiles as the snowplow hits him, which causes Bruce to wonder if it was a second suicide attempt. Bruce also implicates the snowplow itself in the accident and becomes increasingly hostile toward it. This culminates as Bruce dumps his remaining gasoline on the snowplow and lights it on fire.
When Bruce's ankle heals, he breaks into Eric's shed again and steals a snowmobile. He digs up Paul's body and disposes of it in a frozen lake, but he is caught in the act. The witnesses flee, and Bruce returns to his own home, where he becomes increasingly paranoid. When he realises that two men are looking for him either the police or accomplices of Eric, Bruce attempts to hide in the snowplow banging his boot and attracting attention but they pass away. Bruce attempts to repair the snowplow but his expertise is limited. Bruce is obviously beginning to starve as he attempts to eat tree bark and is numbingly bored as the area around the snowplow becomes increasingly worn down. In the last moments, the winter gets milder but the cold quickly returns. The film's epilogue is Bruce voice of thought; with two life observances: "every guilty person is his own hangman", "...and each new day will be better"; concluding with, "Goddamn, it's freezing."
Cast
Thomas Haden Church as Bruce
Marc Labrèche as Paul
Anie Pascale as Waitress
Isabelle Nélisse as Simone
Geneviève Laroche as Julie
Vincent Hoss-Desmarais as Eric
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 82% of 22 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating was 6.8/10. Metacritic rated it 63/100 based on five reviews. John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Thomas Haden Church hits the exact balance of desperation and resignation demanded by the peculiar story". Bruce Demara of the Toronto Star wrote, "Despite Church's solid performance, Whitewash feels so leaden in its gravity, it borders on dull." Writing in The Globe and Mail, Geoff Fevre called it "a small but sparking gem on ice".
Awards
The film premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, where Hoss-Desmarais won the award for Best New Narrative Director. The film went on to earn Hoss-Desmarais a nomination for Best Director at the 2013 Directors Guild of Canada awards. In January 2014, Hoss-Desmarais was awarded the Canadian Screen Award for the year's best feature by a first-time film director, and the film garnered two Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Labrèche) and Best Original Screenplay (Hoss-Desmarais and Tulin).
References
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Magic Time (Opa album)
The band Opa recorded Magic Time, their second album, in February 1977 at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. The album was released in 1977 on Milestone Records.
History
At this time, the members of Opa : Hugo Fattoruso, Osvaldo Fattoruso and Ringo Thielmann, were joined by Rubén Rada as a full-time member of the band on vocals and percussion. Airto returned to play percussion with the band also including guitarist Barry Finnerty and, on the track Arisa, Airto's wife Flora Purim performed vocals. Together they recorded the album: Magic Time.
Track listing
Side 1
"Mind projects" (R. Rada, H. Fattoruso, Lyrics in English by G. Fattoruso) 5:55
"Camino: Arise/Long Walk/Romantica/Land" (H. Fattoruso, G. Fattoruso, R. Thielmann, R. Rada) 7:25
"La cumbia de Andres" (R. Rada, H. Fattoruso) 6:37
Side 2
"Montevideo" (R. Rada, H. Fattoruso) 8:34
"Malísimo" (R. Rada) 8:25
Personnel
Hugo Fattoruso: keyboards, vocals
George Fattoruso: drums
Ringo Thielmann: bass
Rubén Rada: vocals, percussion
Airto Moreira: percussion
Barry Finnerty: electric guitar
Flora Purim: vocals (in "Arisa" only)
Musical direction and arrangements: Hugo Fattoruso
Recording engineers: Eddie Bill Harris asistido por Jakson Schwartz y Steve Williams (Fantasy Studios, Berkeley; February 1977)
Remix: Kerry "Gordísimo" McNabb (Paramount Studios, Los Angeles; March 1977)
Mastering: John Golden (Kendon Recorders, Burbank, Ca.)
References
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Liberia (Manassas, Virginia)
Liberia is a historic plantation house located at Manassas, Virginia, United States. It was built about 1825, and is a two-story, five-bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a parapet side-gable roof and a molded brick cornice with a saw-tooth design. It has a single-pile, modified central passage plan. During the American Civil War, it was used as headquarters by both Confederate and Union forces. Both Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, in addition to other statesmen, visited Liberia during the War.
The house was acquired by the City of Manassas on December 31, 1986, for use as a museum. The house is being restored and is open for special events and tours by appointment.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
References
External links
Liberia Plantation – City of Manassas
Liberia, 627 Centreville Road, Manassas, Manassas, VA: 4 photos at Historic American Buildings Survey
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Halimeda
Halimeda is a genus of green macroalgae. The algal body (thallus) is composed of calcified green segments. Calcium carbonate is deposited in its tissues, making it inedible to most herbivores. However one species, Halimeda tuna, was described as pleasant to eat with oil, vinegar, and salt.
As in other members of the order Bryopsidales, individual organisms are made up of single multi-nucleate cells. Whole meadows may consist of a single individual alga connected by fine threads running through the substrate.
Halimeda is responsible for distinctive circular deposits in various parts of the Great Barrier Reef on the north-east coast of Queensland, Australia. Halimeda beds form in the western or lee side of outer shield reefs where flow of nutrient-rich water from the open sea allows them to flourish, and are the most extensive, actively accumulating Halimeda beds in the world.
The genus is one of the best studied examples of cryptic species pairs due to morphological convergence within the marine macroalgae.
Some species grow so vigorously in tropical lagoons that the sediment is composed solely of the remains of their tissues, forming a calcareous "Halimeda sand". In fact some tropical reef systems, such as atolls, consist largely of Halimeda sand accumulated over the aeons.
Species
H. bikinensis
H. borneensis
H. cereidesmis
H. copiosa
H. cryptica
H. cuneata
H. cylindracea
H. discoidea
H. distorta
H. favulosa
H. fragilis
H. gigas
H. goreauii
H. gracilis
H. heteromorpha
H. howensis
H. hummii
H. incrassata
H. kanaloana
H. lacrimosa
H. lacunalis
H. macroloba
H. macrophysa
H. magnidisca
H. melanesica
H. micronesica
H. minima
H. monile
H. opuntia
H. pumila
H. pygmaea
H. renschii
H. scabra
H. simulans
H. stuposa
H. taenicola
H. tuna
H. velasquezii
References
External links
"Deepwater seagrass and Halimeda: lost lawns of the outer shelf",
Australian Institute of Marine Science, retrieved 10 November 2006
"Other species of conservation concern",
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, retrieved 10 November 2006
ReefCorner - Halimeda Algae Database Entry
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Mama Do the Hump
“Mama Do the Hump” is the third official single taken from British hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks’ debut studio album, Stereo Typical (2011). The single was released in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2011. The track was produced by Fatboy Slim. The song incorporates a sample of Craig McLachlan’s 1990 cover of “Mona (I Need You Baby)”, originally recorded by Bo Diddley and an interpolation of "Reunion" by Bobbie Gentry. It peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart on 22 January 2012, held off the top spot by Jessie J’s “Domino”.
The song was the 17th best-selling single of 2012 in the UK with sales of 559,000 for the year. Also, the song has been used a lot in the media, for example in the adverts for American import sitcom Mom, as well as the adverts for the Chromecast.
Critical reception
Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review stating: “Not that you’d guess from their casual and carefree attitude on the track. “I just want all of these girls to be on me, And maybe even one of them could be Beyoncé,” they cheekily boast over a bounding guitar riff before engaging in some bump ’n’ grind with their “Mama” on the dancefloor. The result is the Christmas party of songs - a proper knees-up that rarely fails to disappoint.”
Music video
A music video to accompany the release of “Mama Do the Hump” was uploaded to YouTube on 29 November 2011, at a total length of four minutes and fifteen seconds. It was directed by Jordan ‘Rizzle’ Stephens and filmed by Jim Shreim. The video features Jordan's mother and aunt miming to the rapping. Eamonn Walker appears in the video and James Corden also makes a cameo appearance, arriving towards the end of the video at 3:07 and being let by the duo through the front door. He puts his coat down and then suddenly begins dancing to the chorus.
Track listing
Charts and certifications
Charts
Certifications
Release history
References
External links
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White Room (film)
For the unreleased film by The KLF, see The KLF films.
White Room is a 1990 Canadian drama film written and directed by Patricia Rozema and starring Maurice Godin, Kate Nelligan and Sheila McCarthy. Ziggy Lorenc and Erika Ritter also have cameo appearances in the film as interviewers.
Premise
Norm is a confused young man who is drawn into events after witnessing the murder of rock star Madeleine X (Margot Kidder). Jane, a mysterious woman, meets Norm at Madeleine X's funeral, and Zelda, a quirky bohemian artist, helps Norm get a job and attempt to solve the murder.
Cast
Kate Nelligan as Jane
Maurice Godin as Norm
Margot Kidder as Madelaine X
Sheila McCarthy as Zelda
Barbara Gordon as Mrs. Gentle
Nicky Guadagni as Narrator
Erika Ritter as Radio Interviewer
Les Rubie as Man with Cow
Dwayne McLean as Attacker
David Ferry as Record Executive
Home media
The movie was released in Canada on VHS by Alliance Releasing Home Video. In 2002, the film was released on DVD by Alliance Atlantis. The DVD contains a widescreen presentation, French and English audio tracks, and an audio commentary by the director.
Streaming
As of 2019 the film has been released online on Canada Media Fund's Encore+ YouTube channel.
External links
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Hypericum antiquum
Hypericum antiquum is an extinct species of the genus Hypericum that was present during the Eocene epoch. The species' fossils are the oldest collected of Hypericum, and it is assumed that the species is the common ancestor of the tribe Hypericeae. Fossil seeds have been found in Russia, and the predicted paleoregion of the species stretched across Eurasia. It is theorized that one factor leading to the species' extinction is a global cooling at the end of the Eocene that removed much of its habitat.
Specimens
Fossils of seeds were collected in the Novosibirsk Oblast of Russia from a borehole at a depth of 250 meters.
Description
Because the only recovered fossils of the species are seeds, the only description available is of said seeds. The collected seeds were approximately 0.5 x 0.3 mm in size. They are anatropous, and either cylindrical or somewhat flattened in shape. The meshes of the surface are elongated and hexagonal, and are formed by the elongated cells of the testa. One end of the seed is rounded, while the other is slightly narrowed with a small tubercule. The case of the seed is rather thin, and is colored black.
References
Bibliography
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The Bureaucrats
The Bureaucrats can refer to:
The Bureaucrats (Les employés The Government Clerks, 1841) unfinished work by Honore de Balzac
Officialdom Unmasked ("The Bureaucrats: A Revelation"), a Chinese novel
The Bureaucrats (1936 film), a French film
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KGBC
KGBC (1540 AM, 101.7 FM) is a terrestrial American brokered time AM radio facility, paired with an FM relay translator. KGBC is licensed to serve the City of Galveston, Texas. K269GS is licensed to serve Houston, broadcasting from a location near Baytown, off of W Baker Road & Texas Highway 330. Established in 1947, KGBC Radio is wholly owned by SIGA Broadcasting, Inc., of Houston, Texas.
In 2016, after 69 years of broadcasting as "1540 KGBC", Siga changed the station's image to reflect the new 101.5 translator dial position attached to the heritage AM. In October 2017, 1540 imaging was changed to "KGBC Radio" omitting mention of either the AM or FM dial position altogether. In February 2018, KGBC began simulcasting KLVL fulltime in order to expand the Synergy Radio Network onto the Island and surrounding coastal communities. This proved to be short lived as Siga leased out KGBC and K269GS in April, which both began to air Tejano, branded as Puro Tejano 101.7 FM & 1540 AM.
KGBC's Texas sister stations with SIGA Broadcasting include KTMR (1130 AM, Converse), KLVL (1480 AM, Pasadena), KAML (990 AM, Kenedy-Karnes City), KHFX (1140 AM, Cleburne), and KFJZ (870 AM, Fort Worth).
Programming
In the early 2000s, the station carried a Catholic radio format. It later shifted to non-English programming until being forced off the air by Hurricane Ike in September 2008. The station resumed full-power broadcasting in February 2009 with a mix of local talk radio and classic hits.
History
Galveston Broadcasting Company Signs On KGBC
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit in August 1946 for a new station to broadcast on 1540 kilohertz and serve the community of Galveston, Texas. The station began broadcasting under program test authority on February 1, 1947, and received its original broadcast license in May 1947. Chosen to represent original owner James W. Bradner's Galveston Broadcasting Company, the "KGBC" call sign was assigned by the FCC. The station has served the Galveston area since 1947. At its launch, the station broadcast with 1,000 watts of power and only during daylight hours. In 1950, the station added nighttime service, but in a directional array and at just 250 watts. The station powers down at night to protect clear-channel station KXEL in Waterloo, Iowa, from skywave interference.
KGBC-FM Launches
After 17 years of continuous operation by Galveston Broadcasting Company, KGBC was sold to Harbor Broadcasting Company, Inc., effective December 20, 1964. On February 11, 1968, KGBC's new owners launched an FM sister station as "KGBC-FM" (106.1 FM). In 1974, the FM station was sold, moved to 106.5 FM, and re-licensed as "KUFO". With shifting ownership and declining fortunes, the station became "KXKX" in 1979 and "KQQK" in 1986 before signing off forever and having its license cancelled by the FCC in March 1989. , the 106.5 frequency is occupied by an unrelated Spanish-language religious station licensed as "KOVE-FM".
Siga Purchases KGBC
On February 20, 2002, Prets/Blum Media Company, Inc., contracted to sell KGBC to SIGA Broadcasting Corporation. The sale was approved by the FCC on April 25, 2002, and the transaction was completed on May 9, 2002.
On September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the upper Texas coast causing flooding and widespread damage. The KGBC broadcast facilities suffered both flooding and damage, knocking the station off the air and keeping it dark for several weeks. The station resumed broadcasting (albeit with low power) on October 6, 2008, and returned to full power operation on February 3, 2009. After spending all of 2009 as a "live and local" broadcaster, the station began leasing all of its airtime,starting January 1, 2010.
In 2016, KGBC flipped to a business news format with programming provided by the BizTalkRadio network.
References
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KGBC official website
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Singleton Family Cemetery
The Singleton Family Cemetery is a historic cemetery on the western outskirts of Charleston, Arkansas. Established in the 1870s, it is the oldest resource associated with the early formation of Charleston, containing the burials of several of its earliest settlers. It contains more than 120 graves, only about 60 of which are marked. Its most prominent grave is that of Julia Singleton Cormack, one the community's first school teachers. It continues to be used by the Singleton family descendants as a burial ground.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Arkansas
References
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Kingston Interchange
The Kingston Interchange is a roundabout interchange which connects the Southern Outlet with the Huon Highway and the Channel Highway at Kingston, within the greater area of Hobart, Tasmania.
The Kingston Interchange has recently been upgraded to address safety problems associated with right-turn movements at the interchange. The interchange modifications included:
Replacement of the existing T junction of the Southern Outlet south bound off-ramp and the Huon Highway with a roundabout
Provide a new on-ramp for Kingston to Hobart Traffic
Provide a new on-ramp for Kingston to Margate Traffic
The Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources also upgraded the interchange with the intention of providing a dual-carriage highway south of the interchange some time in the future (see Kingston Bypass).
See also
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Mardi Gras Doubloons
Mardi Gras Doubloons are Mardi Gras throws shaped like coins that commemorate various Mardi Gras Krewes. They are typically made of aluminum and are thrown from floats in carnival parades. The first doubloons used as throws from parades of Mardi Gras Krewes date to 1960, and these early doubloons are collectible.
Mardi Gras doubloons were first created by New Orleans artist and entrepreneur H. Alvin Sharpe in 1959. Sharpe had his own metal dies for striking the doubloons from aluminum blanks. He presented a design to Darwin Schreiver Fenner, who was the captain of the Krewe of Rex, the leading Mardi Gras organization of the time. As a result of the presentation, Schreiver personally financed production of 3000 doubloons for the 1960 Mardi Gras year, although the Krewe of Rex produced 80,000 undated doubloons using Sharpe's design, all minted by a firm in Ohio.
Sharpe's design was larger but lighter than United States silver dollars, rendering them safe as Mardi Gras throws. The size was similar to Spanish doubloons, providing public appeal and giving rise to the name. This original design depicted a bust of Rex the King of Carnival on one side of the doubloon with the arms of the School of Design (the organization that stages the Rex Mardi Gras parade) on the other side. The undated design was intentional so that the doubloons could be used as Mardi Gras throws in subsequent years.
In 1964, New Orleans businessmen John Barr and Bill Cox founded the Barco Mint Company to locally produce Mardi Gras doubloons. In 1996, Barco Mint changed its name to the New Orleans Mint. It currently produces Mardi Gras doubloons in addition to commemorative doubloons for other purposes. In recent years, some Mardi Gras organizations have also used producers in China to mint their doubloons, although New Orleans Mint remains dominant.
Mardi Gras doubloons were common Mardi Gras throws by the late 1960s. The typical design for common aluminum throw doubloons has the emblem of the Mardi Gras krewe with its name and year on the front side, and this side generally does not change from year-to-year. The back side of the doubloon depicts the theme of the particular Mardi Gras krewe for that year. Over the years of production, significant variety in shape and color came about. Some are made of materials other than aluminum. The common aluminum doubloon throws went through a period of significant over production limiting their value. However, ones made of silver or cloisonné often have value in excess of the metal itself.
References
External links
Crescent City Doubloon Traders Club. They provide a price guide for collectible versions of Mardi Gras doubloons.
New Orleans Mint, makers of Mardi Gras doubloons
Charles V. Booth Collection at the University of New Orleans, documenting the history of New Orleans Mardi Gras throws.
Introduction to collecting Mardi Gras doubloons
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1983 Five Nations Championship
The 1983 Five Nations Championship was the 54th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship.
Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 89th series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 21 January and 19 March. For the 17th time, the championship was shared. France and Ireland finished level on points, and no tie-break procedure existed before 1993. It was France's 5th shared title, and Ireland's 8th.
French wing Patrick Estève scored a try against each other team in this tournament, finishing as the top try scorer, with five tries. This was the first time since 1925 that such a feat had been achieved.
Participants
The teams involved were:
Table
Squads
Results
References
External links
The official RBS Six Nations Site
1983 Five Nations Championship at ESPN
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1714 in architecture
The year 1714 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings and structures
Buildings
St Alfege Church, Greenwich, London, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, is completed.
Church of St Mary's, Twickenham, London, designed by John James, is consecrated.
Church of Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco in Rome, designed by Giovanni Battista Contini, is completed.
Church of Tolentini, Venice, is completed to designs of 1590 by Vincenzo Scamozzi with a portico by Andrea Tirali.
Altar of the 22-domed wooden summer Church of the Transfiguration at Kizhi Pogost in Karelia is laid.
Geffrye Almshouses in London built.
Summer Palace of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg, designed by Domenico Trezzini, is completed.
Bellevue Palace, Kassel, built as an observatory.
Sint-Lodewijkscollege (Lokeren) in Belgium built as a private house.
Wotton House in Buckinghamshire, England, is completed.
Llanelly House in south Wales is built.
Births
April 1 – Jean-François de Neufforge, Flemish architect and engraver (died 1791)
Robert Taylor, English architect (died 1788)
Deaths
May – Andreas Schlüter, German baroque sculptor and architect (born 1664)
Pietro Perti, Swiss-Italian baroque sculptor and architect working in Lithuania (born 1648)
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Bon Secours Sisters
The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours is an international Roman Catholic women's religious congregation for nursing (gardes malades), whose declared mission is to care for those who are sick and dying. It was founded by Josephine Potel in 1824, in Paris, France. The congregation's stated object is to care for patients from all socio-economic groups, although in some territories they only operate for-profit private hospitals. Reflecting their name ("bon secours" means "good help" in French), the congregation's motto is "Good Help to Those in Need."
Initially active in France, the sisters tended the wounded during the Revolution of 1848 and 1870 Franco-Prussian War, and the sick during the 1893 cholera epidemic in Boulogne-Sur-Mer. In 1832, at the request of the Archbishop of Boulogne, they took charge of an orphanage. Their work expanded to both others countries, and other areas of service. A home nursing service was opened in Scotland.
The Sisters of Bon Secours arrived in the United States in 1881. They established their first hospital in Baltimore in 1919. Many more followed, as well as community health clinics, nursing care facilities for the elderly, alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation centers and convalescent homes. Bon Secours Health System was established in 1983 to coordinate the administration and management of the various healthcare facilities in the United States. A separate system was formed in 1993 to coordinate the health care facilities managed by the sisters in Ireland.
Headquartered in Marriottsville, Maryland, the congregation works in France, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and Ireland.
In 2014, it was claimed that the bodies of up to 796 children under the care of the order had been buried in a sewage tank in the Tuam Children’s Home, which the Sisters of Bon Secours ran in Tuam, Ireland. Excavations in 2017 found an "underground structure divided into 20 chambers", containing the remains of children up to three years old. Examination of the remains found that they dated from the 1920s through to the 1950s. "The death records site sickness, disease, deformities and premature birth as causes. This would reflect an Ireland, that in the first half of the 20th century had one of the worst infant mortality rates in Europe, with tuberculosis rife."
History
The foundress
The congregation's foundress, Josephine Potel, was born on March 14, 1799 in the small rural village of Bécordel in Northern France. At the age of 22, she traveled to Paris and was moved to pity by the suffering she observed. At that time, France had been shaken by centuries of political, social, and religious upheaval — including, most recently, the French Revolution. The violence of the Revolution — particularly the Reign of Terror – had taken many lives and destroyed lives the very fabric of society.
With rampant poverty among France's lower class, healthcare for the poor was scarce and low-quality. When people fell ill or were injured, they avoided the hospitals, which were seen as death traps and often had filthy, prison-like conditions. Care, if available at all, was usually provided by a family member with little or no experience caring for the sick. With overcrowding and a lack of sanitation, diseases spread quickly through city streets, afflicting rich and poor alike.
Potel and eleven other women formed the group that would become the Sisters of Bon Secours. They chose Potel (Sister Marie-Joseph) as their leader, for her dedication to the seemingly endless work, and her ability to encourage and guide others. Contemporary norms held that nuns were supposed to either remain in the convent or at least return by nightfall if they ventured out into the world. Consequently, when the Sisters applied for acceptance of their new congregation, Archbishop de Quélen of Paris was skeptical. After persistent efforts by Sister Marie-Joseph, the Archbishop eventually granted the Sisters a one-year probationary period. According to their founding constitution, "After the personal sanctification of its members, the principal aim of this pious society is the care of the sick in their own homes". The group was formally approved by Pope Pius IX in 1875. Our Lady Help of Christians is their patron.
Early days
Although its patients were expected to pay as much as they could afford, the congregation provided nursing free of charge to the poor. Despite the divisions between social classes in French society at the time, the Sisters cared for rich patients in large estates as well as the poor, avoiding distinctions based on socioeconomic status. In addition to providing care to the sick, the Sisters would also share their food with patients' hungry family members, striving to help bring health to everyone in their patients' homes, not just the actively ill. Furthermore, among the ill, the Sisters at that time took a holistic view, considering not just the body but also the mind and spirit of each patient, and aiming to bring healing to the whole person. Another radical view at the time, this approach, along with the group's extension of care to the patient's family, distinguished them from traditional religious congregations operating at the time.
Word of the Sisters' work spread quickly throughout Paris and the surrounding countryside, and the Sisters were sought out by other women who, inspired by their work, wanted to join the institute. By the end of its first year, eighteen new members had joined, bringing the number to thirty. On January 24, 1824, Monsignor de Quelen, accepted their vows and gave them the name of the Bon Secours Sisters of Paris. On May 6, 1826, Mother Josephine died. Three days later, on May 9, Angelique Geay was appointed Superior General, taking her predecessor's name, Mother Mary Joseph.
Growth of the congregation's mission in France
The Sisters reached a major milestone in 1827, when the French Bourbon government legally recognized them as the first association of nursing religious individuals in the country. Following this milestone, the demand for the organization's services continued to grow. In 1829, Mere Geay established a new group of twelve sisters in Lille, and the following year the Sisters began a ministry in Boulogne. Three years later, at the Archbishop's request, the congregation took over an orphanage in Paris.
As the Sisters’ numbers continued to grow, they moved in 1833 into a larger home in Paris. Meanwhile, France continued to be subject to epidemics, wars, and social upheaval. After the King of France was exiled during the Revolution of 1848, the former King's palace became a hospital where the Sisters cared for the wounded; they also tended to the injured on the streets of Paris. Similarly, during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Sisters cared for the wounded and dying on the battlefield and brought them into their convents to convalesce. Although the sisters had been requested to take over care for the sick during the 1893 cholera epidemic in Boulogne-Sur-Mer, the congregation subsequently became a target of anti-clerical governments during the early 20th century.
Europe
In addition to extending their work around France, the Sisters of Bon Secours began to expand beyond the country's borders due to international demand for their services. In 1861, Ireland became the Sisters' first foreign foundation. Nine years later, the congregation was invited to establish themselves in London. The Sisters expanded to Scotland in 1948, opening a home nursing service, and also opening a home for the elderly in Glasgow. The independent Bon Secours Health System, one of largest hospital groups in Ireland, developed from the initial Bon Secours hospitals.
In 2015, the for-profit Bon Secours Health System had about 2,700 staff who worked with 350 medical consultants and saw more than 200,000 patients, making €2.5 million in profit after paying €3 million to the order in rent.
The United States
The Sisters of Bon Secours' arrival in America came about because of a honeymoon gone awry in the late 1800s. A newlywed couple, the Whedbys, were on their wedding trip in Paris when the bride fell ill. An English-speaking Bon Secours Sister nursed her back to health, and the couple was impressed with the care she provided. Upon returning to the States, the couple spoke to some prominent area physicians, who contacted Archbishop Gibbons of Baltimore to request that the Sisters be asked to practice their ministry in the United States. Approving of the request, while on his way to Rome to become a cardinal, Archbishop Gibbons stopped in Paris to ask the Sisters if they would be willing to provide their home care services in Baltimore. In 1881, three Sisters sailed to the United States, and in the following year they opened a convent in Baltimore on the site of the present Grace Medical Center. The Bon Secours established the first day care facility in Baltimore in 1907 to help working mothers whose only alternative was to place their children in orphanages.
As hospitals became the preferred place of treatment, the Sisters broadened where they cared for the sick and dying. Soon the Sisters were building their own health care facilities. By 1916 the Sisters were staffing a home for crippled children in Philadelphia. In 1919, they opened the Bon Secours Hospital in Baltimore, their first hospital in the U.S. They began formally training young women at the Bon Secours School of Nursing in 1921.
In 1958 the Congregation of Bon Secours in the United States became a separate Province. As the twentieth century progressed, the sisters responded to people's changing needs, opening convalescent homes, running clinics and mobile health care vans, caring for the sick in rural areas and those struggling with addictions in inner cities. Bon Secours Health System was established in 1983 to coordinate the administration and management of the various healthcare facilities. The congregation hosts a Retreat & Conference Center in Marriottsville, Maryland.
South America and Africa
By the 1950s and 1960s, the Sisters had begun to expand into the Third World with work in South America and Africa. In 1957, the Sisters opened a home for sick children in Chad, working also to educate mothers and reduce the infant mortality rate. Nine years later, the Irish Sisters of Bon Secours began the institute's first work in South America after the Bishop of Cork and Ross took responsibility for a shantytown on the Peruvian coastline and invited the Sisters to minister to the populace there.
They opened a mission in Riobamba, Ecuador. About forty Bon Secours sisters responded to provide emergency assistance during the 2017 floods in Peru.
Present day
The Congregation of Bon Secours is headquartered in Marriottsville, Maryland. As of 2020, the congregation works in France, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and Ireland. Within the U.S., the order operates in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home controversy
Between 1925 and 1961, the order operated Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (also known as St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home), a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children in Tuam, Ireland. In 2014, news media reported that the bodies of 796 children and babies who died of malnutrition (including marasmus-related malnutrition) and disease were suspected to have been buried in a former septic tank on the site of the home. The child mortality rate at the home during certain local epidemics had averaged up to two a week. Medical reports at the time listed the cause of death as disease or disease-induced effects.
Catherine Corless, an amateur historian, had obtained death records for 796 children who had died of various diseases and malnutrition (including marasmus-related malnutrition) at the home — an overall rate of 22.1 per year between 1925 and 1961, and finding no trace of their burial in any of the local graveyards, she inferred that they probably were buried on the property. However, she had not uncovered evidence of mistreatment, or at that point in time a mass grave. In 1975, two local boys had lifted a concrete slab and seen the skeletons of "maybe twenty" babies. While Corless speculates that the pit in which the skeletons lay may have been part of the sewage tank installed by the workhouse in 1840, eighty-five years before the Bon Secours sisters took it over, she told the Irish Times, "I never used that word, 'dumped'. I never said to anyone that 800 bodies were 'dumped' in a septic tank. That did not come from me at any point. They are not my words. ... I just wanted those children to be remembered and for their names to go up on a plaque. That was why I did this project, and now it has taken [on] a life of its own." Still, figures for 1947 from the National Archives showed that the death rate of children in Bon Secours, during the preceding twelve months, was almost twice that of other mother and baby homes.
The death records obtained by Corless had established the identities of those who died in the home. She concluded that their bodies had been buried on the St. Mary's property, and she set up a fund to build a memorial for the site. Bon Secours sisters are said to have donated money for this purpose.
The area is labeled as a septic tank when overlaid with maps from the earlier workhouse era, and had been decommissioned in the 1930s. A judicial Commission of Investigation commissioned an Expert Technical Group which found that "The human remains found by the Commission are not in a sewage tank but in a second structure with 20 chambers which was built within the decommissioned large sewage tank. The precise purpose of the chamber structure has not been established but it is likely to be related to the treatment/containment of sewage and/or waste water." "The Commission has also not yet determined if it was ever used for this purpose." Carbon dating confirmed that the remains date from the timeframe relevant to the operation of the Mother and Baby Home by the Bon Secours order. The Commission stated that it was shocked by the discovery and that it is continuing its investigation into who was responsible for the disposal of human remains in this way.
Mother and baby homes commission of investigation
On 4 June 2014 the Irish government announced it was forming a panel of representatives from a number of government departments to investigate the deaths at the home and propose a course of action for the government to take in addressing the issues.
Charles Flanagan, the then children's minister, said the inquiry would be charged with investigating burial practices, high mortality rates, forced adoptions and clinical trials of drugs on children in four suspect homes. In addition to the home in Tuam, so-called "little angel" plots will be investigated at Sean Ross Abbey, Co. Tipperary, Bessborough, Co Cork, and Castlepollard, Co Westmeath.
On 3 June 2015, the Irish Examiner published a special report which claimed that the Irish Health Services Executive had voiced concerns in 2012 that up to 1,000 children may have been trafficked from the Home, and recommending that the then health minister be informed so that "a fully fledged, fully resourced forensic investigation and State inquiry" could be launched. The issue had arisen within the HSE when a principal social worker responsible for adoption discovered "a large archive of photographs, documentation and correspondence relating to children sent for adoption to the USA" and "documentation in relation to discharges and admissions to psychiatric institutions in the Western area." The HSE noted that there were letters from the Home to parents asking for money for the upkeep of their children and notes that the duration of stay for children may have been prolonged by the order for financial reasons. It also uncovered letters to parents asking for money for the upkeep of some children who had already been discharged or had died. The social worker had compiled a list of "up to 1,000 names." HSE reports mentioned the possibility that children had been trafficked for adoption with one speculating that it was possible that death certificates were falsified so children could be "brokered" for adoption.
On 3 March 2017, the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation announced that human remains had been found during a test excavation carried out between November 2016 and February 2017 at the site. Tests conducted on some of the remains indicated they had been aged between 35 foetal weeks and 2–3 years. The announcement confirmed that the deceased died during the period of time that the property was used by the Mother and Baby Home, not from an earlier period, with most of the bodies dated to the 1950s. The remains were found in an "underground structure divided into 20 chambers", later determined to be a sewage tank.
The Commission stated that it is continuing its investigation into who was responsible for the disposal of human remains in this way, that it has also asked the relevant State authorities to take responsibility for the appropriate treatment of the remains, and that it has notified the coroner. Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone said that the coroner's results would determine the direction of the investigation and that the commission will determine if other sites need to be excavated, including another part of the Tuam site.
The then (Irish prime minister), Enda Kenny, described the find as "truly appalling", saying "the babies of single mothers involved had been treated like some kind of sub-species." He commended the work of Catherine Corless in bringing the issue to light. Speaking on the find in Dáil Éireann, in response to requests to widen the terms of reference of the Commission, he described the Mother and Baby Home as "a chamber of horrors."
In the same debate, AAA-PBP T.D. Bríd Smith called for the Bon Secours order of nuns to be disbanded. She said "its hospital empire, the biggest private hospital group in the [Irish] State, was built on the bones of the dead Tuam babies." Smith said "everyone was not responsible for what happened in Tuam. It was paid for by the State, which knew exactly what was going on, and there were 'headage payments' of up to $3,000 for each child sent to the United States."
The Taoiseach's speech was criticised by some. In the Dáil, Catherine Connolly directly addressed the speech, stating: "A shocking discovery, according to everyone, and particularly to yourself Taoiseach. But this is something that Galway has been aware of for a long time, highlighted by Catherine Corless back in 2014, in her painstaking and self-funded research. By the witnesses, the many, many women who went before the commission of inquiry into child abuse which culminated in the Ryan Report, as far back as 2009. They told their stories about their experience in Mother and Baby Homes. It was brought to the attention of Martin McAleese when he concluded his report on the Magdalene laundries. So none of this is shocking to the survivors. What is shocking to the survivors, and to me, is the carefully crafted words that you’ve come into the chamber with. And, in particular, that you say 'no nuns broke into our homes to kidnap our children', 'we gave them up to what we convinced ourselves was the nuns' care' and so on. I don’t doubt your bona fides, a thaoisigh, but I certainly doubt your judgement in reading that out, a carefully crafted speech with a sentence like that in these circumstances. My question: please answer. Where is the interim report that has sat with the minister since September last year? Please confirm that the site will be sealed off as any crime scene is sealed off."
The Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald, stated that "the discovery is an infinitely sad reminder of an Ireland that was a very harsh, harsh place for women and their babies" and that "it shows the tortured relationship the State and church had with pregnant women – it is a tragedy that we are now facing in its entirety."
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, Michael Neary, said that he is horrified by the confirmation that significant quantities of human remains were buried on the site. He said he had been "greatly shocked to learn of the scale of the practice during the time in which the Bon Secours ran the mother and baby home in Tuam."
The Irish Roman Catholic Bishops' Conference apologised for the hurt caused by its part in the system, which they said also involved adoptions. They said that "the appalling story of life, death and adoptions related to the Mother and Baby Homes has shocked everyone in Ireland and beyond."
The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, said "there are dark shadows that hang over our meeting, shadows that require us all to summon up yet again a light that might dispel the darkness to which so many women and their children were condemned, and the questions left unanswered as we moved on." President Higgins described Catherine Corless' work as "another necessary step in blowing open the locked doors of a hidden Ireland."
Grove Hospital
Some Tuam residents have now called for an investigation into the town's Grove Hospital, which had also been run by the Bon Secours order. A number of people have claimed their children or siblings were buried on the site from the 1950s right up until the late 1970s, although the order denies that there was a graveyard on the site. Galway County Council has stipulated that an archaeologist must monitor excavation work on the site in order to preserve any remains which may be buried there.
See also
Bon Secours Health System
Bon Secours Health System (USA)
Convent de Bon Secours, a historic building in Washington, D.C.
References
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Sisters of Bon Secours Spiritual Center
Sisters of Bon Secours International
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Radio Foyle Interview with Catherine Corless, 27 May 2014
BBC Our World 2014 documentary Ireland's Hidden Bodies Hidden Secrets, by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
List of 796 children who died at the Tuam home (scrolling video)
List of 796 children who died at the Tuam home (text)
Barry, Dan. (Oct. 28, 2017). Ireland Wanted to Forget. But the Dead Don't Always Stay Buried. The New York Times.
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László Palácsik
László Palácsik (born 22 May 1959) is a Hungarian biathlete. He competed in the 20 km individual event at the 1984 Winter Olympics.
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John Battelle
John Linwood Battelle (born November 4, 1965) is an entrepreneur, author and journalist. Best known for his work creating media properties, Battelle helped launch Wired in the 1990s and launched The Industry Standard during the dot-com boom. In 2005, he founded the online advertising network Federated Media Publishing. In January 2014, Battelle sold Federated Media Publishing's direct sales business to LIN Media and relaunched the company's programmatic advertising business from Lijit Networks to sovrn Holdings.
Battelle is the Executive Chairman of sovrn Holdings, Executive Chairman of NewCo. Board Director at LiveRamp and Board Director at Chute.
His 2005 book, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, described the history and impact of search engines and the late emergence of Google from a field of competitors.
Battelle also co-founded the annual Web 2.0 Summit, and co-hosted it during its lifetime from 2004 to 2011.
Career
Born in Pasadena, California, Battelle studied at Chandler School, Polytechnic School and the University of California, Berkeley, earning both a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology in 1987 and a master's degree in journalism in 1992. He went on to become chairman and CEO of Standard Media International, which launched The Industry Standard and its website, TheStandard.com, and was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and its entrepreneurial arm, Wired Ventures.
Battelle was a visiting professor of journalism 2001-2004 at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where he chaired the Bloomberg Chair on Business Reporting and co-chaired the Magazine Publishing program. His projects included The Big Story, an online magazine examining how the media covers major events and China Digital Times, a bilingual news website aggregating news about China.
In 2003, Battelle and publisher Tim O'Reilly founded the Web 2.0 Conference, which was later renamed the Web 2.0 Summit. Battelle called "this grandfather of Internet conferences" among his "proudest editorial works". During its lifetime, he was the conference's executive producer and program chair, and, with O'Reilly, its co-moderator. He shut down the event after 2011.
In 2005, Battelle began focusing on how popular blogs could earn steady advertising revenue for their work. After testing his ideas with the BoingBoing technology blog, Battelle founded Federated Media Publishing, which sells advertising space in a network of online properties, keeping a percentage and giving the rest to the site owners. Battelle likened the company to a music label, "except we don't control their intellectual property and tell them what to sing". The following year, an Ad Age reporter wrote that some 85 high-profile blogs, including BoingBoing and Digg, had become affiliated with the company, "giving up a slice of their ad dollars for the exposure to the bigger advertisers and better rates that a bit of scale gets them". In 2011, comScore ranked the company among the top 20 United States Web properties and the Wall Street Journal named Federated one of the top 50 venture-funded companies.
Battelle sat on the board of the International Advertising Bureau and has become a spokesman for what he calls "the Independent Web": blogs and other semi-professional websites beyond Facebook, Twitter, and Google. He has argued that marketers are themselves content creators, and their marketing campaigns should be rooted in "their own domain, independent from any platform other than the Internet itself".
Writings
Battelle's 2005 book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, chronicled the rise of search engines. The book was an international best seller and finalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The book has been translated into more than 25 languages.
Battelle maintains Searchblog, an ongoing daily site which covers the intersection of media, technology, and culture, with archives dating back to October 2003.
Accolades
Battelle was named a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum, and was a finalist in Ernst & Young's “Entrepreneur of the Year” competition. Ad Age named him one of 10 best marketers in the business. In 2007, PC World listed Battelle as one of "The Most Important People on The Web”.
Personal life
In a brief biographical entry, Battelle summarized his personal life as: "Father of three. Drums, mountain biking, yoga, drinking with friends, taking pictures, cursing at closed systems". He lives in New York City.
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German toponyms (Upper Silesia)
This is a list of German language place names (toponyms) for the region of Upper Silesia. Upper Silesia today is in the Opole Voivodeship and the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland.
Bielsko (nowadays part of Bielsko-Biała) - Bielitz
Bytom - Beuthen
Chorzów - Königshütte
Cieszyn - Teschen
Gliwice - Gleiwitz
Głubczyce - Leobschütz
Głuchołazy - Bad Ziegenhals
Katowice - Kattowitz
Kędzierzyn-Koźle - Kandrzin-Cosel
Kluczbork - Kreuzburg
Krapkowice - Krappitz
Łaziska Górne - Ober Lazisk
Mikołów - Nicolai
Mysłowice - Myslowitz
Nysa - Neisse
Olesno - Rosenberg
Opole Oppeln
Orzesze - Orzesche
Piekary Śląskie - Deutsch Piekar
Prudnik - Neustadt
Pszczyna - Pless
Racibórz Ratibor
Ruda Śląska - Ruda
Siemianowice Śląskie - Laurahütte
Strzelce Opolskie - Groß Strehlitz
Świętochłowice - Schwientochlowitz
Tarnowskie Góry - Tarnowitz
Tychy - Tichau
Zabrze - Hindenburg
Zdzieszowice - Deschowitz
Żory - Sohrau
See also
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Thekla, wife of Michael II
Thekla (died c. 823) was the first Empress consort of Michael II of the Byzantine Empire.
Family
According to Theophanes the Confessor, Thekla was the son of an unnamed strategos of the Anatolic Theme, where Michael served. On this account, her father has been identified with the general and later rebel Bardanes Tourkos. Michael, along with Leo the Armenian and Thomas the Slav, were close associates of Bardanes, although during his revolt in summer 803, both Michael and Leo deserted him.
Thekla and Michael had only one known son, the Emperor Theophilos (813 – 20 January 842). The existence of a daughter called Helena is possible but there is a contradiction between different sources. Helena is known as the wife of Theophobos, a patrician executed in 842 for conspiring to gain the throne for himself. George Hamartolus and Theophanes report him marrying the sister of the Empress Theodora. Joseph Genesius records Theophobos marrying the sister of the Emperor Theophilos. Whether Helena was sister or sister-in-law to Theophilos is thus unclear.
Empress
In 820, Leo V accused his former comrade-in-arms Michael of conspiring against him. Michael was imprisoned but his co-conspirators organized the assassination of Leo in the cathedral Hagia Sophia on Christmas, 820. Leo had entered the cathedral unarmed and was thus unable to successfully defend himself. Michael succeeded him as Emperor with Thekla becoming the new Empress.
Her term as Augusta was brief and unremarkable. She died c. 823. Michael proceeded to marry Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI.
Sources
Lynda Garland, Byzantine Women:Varieties of Experience 800-1200 (2006)
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Stacy Woodard
Stacy Robert Woodard (June 11, 1902 in Salt Lake City, Utah – January 27, 1942 in New York City) was a producer, cinematographer, and editor of nature films, who with his brother Horace Woodard edited Frank Buck's film Fang and Claw.
Early years
Stacy Woodard was the son of Robert F. Woodard, listed as a gasoline salesman on the 1910 US Census, and Christine Woodard. Stacy was educated at the Universities of Chicago and Arizona, specializing in biology. Before entering motion pictures he took part in surveys in the West and Alaska.
Film career
The two brothers, Stacy and Horace Woodard, cooperated in every aspect of the making of the "Struggle to Live" series of one-reel films, produced for Educational Pictures and distributed by Fox Film Corporation (Struggle for Life, Life in the Deep, Born to Die, and Man, the Enigma), sharing the producing, writing, photographing, directing, and editing. These pictures displayed the masterly use of the microscopic camera, devised by Stacy Woodard, a huge apparatus weighing two tons, erected in the garage of its inventor's Santa Monica home. In one film, massed regiments of ants were seen assailing entrenched termites; a second recorded the fights between desert insects and animals; a third, City of Wax, showed the life of the bee. However, Woodard has since been criticized for staging unnatural insect battles by forcing the creatures together in very small spaces.
Stacy Woodard, the elder of the two brothers by two years, photographed The River (1938), the under-sea portion of Samarang (1933) and the whaling portion of I Conquer the Sea. The brothers shared two Academy awards for their short pictures, City of Wax (1934) and The Sea. The entire expedition that went to Mexico to make The Adventures of Chico (1938), the story of a small Mexican boy and his animal friends, consisted of Stacy and Horace Woodard and two cameras with lenses, reflectors and reels of negative.
Amadee J. Van Beuren co-produced some of the Woodard brothers' nature films, and hired the two men to edit Frank Buck's film Fang and Claw.
Later years and death
Stacy Woodard lived in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. He died in New York City at the home of a friend at 10 Monroe Street in Knickerbocker Village. His body was found lying on the floor of the kitchen, the medical examiner later stating that death resulted from natural causes (heart attack). Woodard had recently returned from Texas and Louisiana, where he had made a series of short films for the Shell Oil Company. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Vesperland Section, map 01, lot 2047, space 3 (ground).
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William Gates (soldier)
William Gates (6 April 1788 – 7 October 1868) was a long serving career United States Army officer who served on active duty from when he entered West Point as a cadet in 1801 until his final retirement in 1867. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, Seminole Wars, the Mexican War and the American Civil War, to which he was called to duty at the age of 73.
Early life
He was born on 6 April 1788 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was the son of Captain Lemuel Gates, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1800.
Military career
Gates was one of the first cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point when he was appointed as a cadet on 2 March 1801. He graduated on 6 March 1806, and was commissioned in the Army as a second lieutenant in the Regiment of Artillerists. He was the 11th cadet to graduate West Point and was ranked first in the Class of 1806.
He served in garrison at forts along the Atlantic seaboard from 1806 to 1812. He was promoted to first lieutenant on 3 November 1807.
War of 1812
In the War of 1812 he served as acting adjutant of Regiment of Light Artillery, and Aide-de-camp to Brevet Brigadier General Moses Porter in 1813, being engaged in the capture of York (now Toronto) in Upper Canada on 27 April 1813. He was promoted to captain on 3 March 1813.
Gates then participated in the bombardment and capture of Fort George on 27 May 1813.
He was placed in command of Fort Independence, Massachusetts from 1813 to 1815. This coincided with British capturing Castine, Maine in 1814 which created the fear that any part of the New England coast might be subject to attack but no attacks were made against Massachusetts. The war ended with the news of the Treaty of Ghent had been signed in early 1815.
Middle career
Gates was in garrison at Fort Niagara, New York from 1815 to 1820. He spent the next several years at various posts in New York state including Madison Barracks in Sackett's Harbor from 1820 to 1821; Plattsburg from 1821 to 1824; Fort Lafayette from 1824 to 1826 and Fort Columbus on Governor's Island from 1826 to 1827.
He was awarded a brevet (honorary promotion) to the rank of major on March 3, 1823, for "Faithful Service Ten Years in one Grade".
He next series of assignments brought him south and included Fort McHenry in Maryland in 1827; Fort Marion in Florida from 1827 to 1829; Fort Moultrie near Charleston, South Carolina in 1829 and Fort Marion, Florida from 1829 to 1832.
Gates was promoted to major of 1st Artillery Regiment on May 30, 1832. He was assigned to Fort Monroe, Virginia (where he served as the major of Artillery School for Practice), in 1832 and then to Charleston, South Carolina, from 1832‑33, (which was during South Carolina's threatened nullification) and again to Fort Moultrie from 1833‑35.
Seminole War
He was assigned to Fort Washington, Maryland from 1835 to 1836 and then served in the Seminole War in Florida from 1836 to 1838. He fought against the Seminole Indians in defense of Fort Barnwell (Volusia) on April 12, 1836. In June of that year he was court-martialed for cowardice, having failed to retrieve the bodies of slain soldiers outside his bulwark, resulting in their being mutilated by the Seminoles.
Gates transferred to the 2nd Artillery Regiment on August 4, 1836. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 3d Artillery on 17 December 1836.
Gates arrested Seminole leader Osceola on October 21, 1837 during peace negotiations at Fort Marion (a.k.a. Castillo San Marcos) in St. Augustine, Florida. Osceola was sent to Fort Moultrie near Charleston, South Carolina where he died a few weeks later. He was in the combat of Locha-Hatchee on January 24, 1838, in the Cherokee Nation, while transferring the Indians to the West. He returned to Florida from 1839 to 1842 and served in garrison at Fort Pickens.
War with Mexico
He served at Fort Moultrie from 1842‑43 and in Savannah, Georgia from 1843 to 1844 before returning to Fort Moultrie from 1844 to 1846. He was promoted to colonel in command of the 3rd Artillery Regiment on 13 October 1845 which made him one of the highest-ranking officers in the Army. He served in the War with Mexico, from 1846 to 1848, as Governor of Tampico, Mexico. He served as the commander of Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island from 1848 to 1853.
Wreck of SS San Francisco
Late in 1853 Gates and his regiment were ordered to be stationed in California. Gates was on board, along with hundreds of his soldiers and their families, the ill-fated steamer SS San Francisco when it was wrecked in a storm on 24 December 1853.
An investigation of the incident found Gates to be delinquent in this duties and he was placed on waiting orders (i.e. with no active assignment) from 1854 until 1861.
Civil War service
With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861 the Union needed to maximize its resources and Gates was given an active assignment, despite being 73 years old. In December 1861 he assumed command of Fort Trumbull in New London, Connecticut. He was retired from the Army on 1 June 1863, under the retirement law of 17 July 1862, for having served in the Army for more that 45 years. Due to wartime needs, however, he continued to command Fort Trumbull until he was reassigned in March 1864 to Fort Constitution near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He remained at Fort Constitution until his full retirement in 1867 after 66 years of military service.
After the Civil War, Gates was breveted as a brigadier general for "Long and Faithful Service in the Army" to rank from March 13, 1865.
Death
General Gates died in New York City on 7 October 1868, at the age of 80. He is buried in the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
References
Register of Graduates of the United States Military Academy. George W. Cullum. Vol. 1.
Dictionary of American Biography
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A Tear and a Smile
A Tear and a Smile may refer to:
A Tear and a Smile (book) by Kahlil Gibran, first published in Arabic, 1914
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The Silo
The Silo is a fortnightly agricultural newspaper printed and distributed in Lesotho. The paper mainly publishes environmental and agricultural news in and around the country.
In its 13 July 2011 issue, The Silo featured King Letsie III, presenting the interview as a special edition for the King's birthday celebrations, a public holiday duly observed each year in Lesotho.
As the only agricultural newspaper in the country, The Silo follows in the foot-steps of its predecessors in neighboring South Africa, Farmers Weekly, in that its content is restricted to farming, environmental and agricultural news only.
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Holmi
Holmi or Holmoi (), or Holmia, also possibly called Hermia, was a Greek town of Cilicia Tracheia with a harbor, a little to the south-west of Seleucia ad Calycadnum. When Seleucia ad Calycadnum was founded, the inhabitants of Holmi migrated there.
Its site is located near Taşucu in Asiatic Turkey.
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Battle of Fallujah
Battle of Fallujah may refer to:
Anglo-Iraqi War
A 1941 battle
Gulf War
A 1991 bombing of Fallujah
Iraq War
First Battle of Fallujah, in April 2004
Second Battle of Fallujah, in November 2004
Iraqi civil war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Fall of Fallujah, in winter 2013–14
Siege of Fallujah, in early 2016
Battle of Fallujah (2016) in May and June 2016, which follows the Siege of Fallujah
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Daniel Vallverdú
Daniel "Dani" Vallverdú (born March 17, 1986) is the tennis coach of the Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka, together with Magnus Norman. Since the beginning of 2020 he also coaches Karolína Plíšková, the current world number 3 female player on the WTA Tour.
Vallverdú has formerly coached Andy Murray (2010–2014), Tomáš Berdych (2014–2016), Grigor Dimitrov (2016–2019) and Juan Martin Del Potro.
Vallverdú and Murray had a longstanding and successful partnership which led to many tournament wins, including Murray's first Olympic Gold medal in 2012 (Vallverdú was head coach for the British Olympic tennis team), and two Grand Slam wins: the 2012 US Open (Tennis) and 2013 Wimbledon (Vallverdú was working alongside Ivan Lendl).
Under Vallverdú's guidance in May 2015, at the age of 29, Czech player Tomáš Berdych reached his highest career singles ranking of No. 4 in the ATP Rankings.
He became the coach of Grigor Dimitrov in July 2016. At the time the Bulgarian was No. 40 in the ATP Rankings. Vallverdú guided him to his first Masters 1000 win beating Nick Kyrgios in the Final at the Cincinnati Masters 2017, followed by the ATP Finals title in November 2017, resulting in Dimitrov's career high ranking of No. 3 by the end of 2017. On 7 May 2019, after 3 years, Dimitrov and Vallverdú ended their working relationship.
In June, 2018 Vallverdú was voted by the body of ATP coaches to act as the Coaches representative in the ATP Player Council.
Vallverdú joined Stan Wawrinka in July 2019 as his coach, together with Magnus Norman. Wawrinka ended 2019 back in the top 20 of the ATP Rankings ranked 16 in the world.
In Dec 2019 Vallverdu agreed to work also with Karolina Pliskova, ranked then number 2 in the WTA Rankings. She successfully went on to defend her Premier Brisbane International title in January 2020 beating Naomi Osaka in the semifinal and Madison Keys in the final.
Coaching history with Andy Murray
Vallverdú met Andy Murray in the Sánchez-Casal Barcelona Tennis Academy when he was 15, where they were both training to become professional tennis players. The two quickly became best friends.
In June 2008, he became British tennis player Andy Murray's doubles partner for the 2008 Queen's Club Championships in London.
Vallverdú started working with Murray following his split with Miles Maclagan in 2010 and became Murray's de facto coach after he parted company with Alex Corretja in March. He coached Murray, organised practice sessions and served as liaison with Darren Cahill and Sven Groeneveld. "Quiet and unassuming, Vallverdú scouts opponents and helps devise tactical plans. Despite his relative youth, he is known for his professionalism and in-depth knowledge of the game."
Vallverdú was also selected to be the head coach of the British men's tennis team for the London Olympics 2012, in which Murray won the Gold medal.
With Andy Murray, Vallverdú worked actively alongside Ivan Lendl, who joined Murray's team in 2012.
Other memorable highlights of his coaching work with Murray and Lendl included when Murray won two Grand Slam titles, Wimbledon 2013 and the US Open in 2012.
Following a mutual split with Murray in November 2014, Vallverdú took on the head coaching job for Tomáš Berdych.
Coaching history with Tomáš Berdych
Vallverdu started working with Tomáš Berdych following the mutual split from Andy Murray in November 2014.
At the time Tomáš Berdych was ranked World no. 7.
It was an immediate success as Tomáš Berdych reached his second Australian Open semifinal after beating Rafael Nadal, but then losing to Andy Murray in a tense match 6-7 (6-8) 6-0 6-3 7-5.
Under Vallverdú's guidance in May 2015, at the age of 29, Berdych reached his highest career singles ranking of No. 4 in the ATP Rankings and entered the Roland Garros grand slam event as the number 4 seed.
On 16 May 2016, Berdych and Vallverdú parted their ways.
Coaching history with Grigor Dimitrov
He became the coach of Grigor Dimitrov in July 2016. At the time the Bulgarian was No. 40 in the ATP Rankings.[4] Vallverdu guided him to his first Masters 1000 Win, as he beat Nick Kyrgios in the final of the Western and Southern Open, Cincinnati Masters 2017. This success was followed by the ATP Finals title for Dimitrov in November 2017, resulting in a career high ranking of No. 3 by the end of 2017. On 7 May 2019, after three years, Dimitrov and Vallverdú ended their working relationship..
Coaching history with Stan Wawrinka
After parting ways with Grigor Dimitrov, Vallverdú joined Stan Wawrinka's coaching team before the grass court season 2019 started. He coaches Wawrinka alongside Magnus Norman.
Tour career
Doubles
In June 2008, he became British tennis player Andy Murray's doubles partner for the 2008 Queen's Club Championships at Queens Club in London.
Davis Cup
Vallverdú has played for Venezuela in eight matches over six ties, including a semifinal appearance in Group I of the Americas Zone in 2005.
Educational background
Vallverdú graduated from the University of Miami in 2009 with a BA in International Marketing and Finance.
During his time at the University of Miami, Vallverdú was captain of the university tennis team.
He received five all-American honors, was no. 3 in the nation in singles and no. 1 in the nation in doubles with teammate Carl Mikael Sundberg.
External links
Daniel Vallverdú at the Association of Tennis Professionals Coach profile
Davis Cup Profile
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Geneseo Community Unit School District 228
Geneseo Community Unit School District 228, also known as Geneseo Schools, is a public school district serving Geneseo, Illinois.
Schools
Middle schools
Geneseo Middle School
High schools
Geneseo High School
Alternative programs
Rock River Cooperative Alternative School (grades 6-12)
ExCEL program (grades 6-12)
Elementary
Southwest
Millikin
Northside
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Bathymunida recta
Bathymunida recta is a species of squat lobster in the family Munididae. It is found off of Futuna Island, at depths between about .
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Jack Storer
Jack Frederick Wendell Storer (born 2 January 1998) is an English footballer who plays for Leamington FC. He previously played for Stevenage, for whom he made his debut in the Football League, Birmingham City, and on loan to Yeovil Town, Gloucester City, Solihull Moors, Partick Thistle and Redditch United.
Life and career
Early life and career
Storer was born in Birmingham and attended Baverstock School in the Druids Heath area. He was a member of Birmingham City's youth academy until the under-15 level, and played youth football for Shirley Town before joining Wolverhampton Wanderers' academy in early 2013 after a trial. He was not offered a scholarship by Wolves, and briefly played junior football for Paget Rangersbecoming the club's youngest ever first-team player and youngest goalscorerbefore linking up with Stevenage, with whom he agreed a scholarship to begin in July 2014 after he left school. In his first year, he was twice named among the substitutes for League Two matches, but remained unused. He made his debut in the Football League on 18 August 2015, aged 17 years 229 days, replacing Tom Pett in the 79th minute of a 3–0 defeat away to Leyton Orient. He signed a professional contract with the club a couple of weeks later.
Birmingham City
Storer signed a six-month contract with Birmingham City of the Championship in April 2016, to begin on 9 May when the transfer window opened. The fee was undisclosed by Birmingham, while Stevenage reported it as "a five-figure fee ... with further performance payments based on success". After scoring seven goals in pre-season friendlies, four of which came in first-team matches, his contract was extended to 2018. They also earned him a place on the bench for the opening fixture, at home to Cardiff City. He made his debut after 70 minutes, replacing Diego Fabbrini, and came close to giving Birmingham a lead when he narrowly failed to touch Reece Brown's cutback past the goalkeeper; the match finished goalless.
His second league appearance was again as a second-half substitute, with his side losing 2–1 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers. After seven minutes on the field, he won a free kick in an attacking area; he and opponent Kortney Hause confronted each other, and Storer was sent off for headbutting Hause. Birmingham lost 3–1. When leaving the field, Storer kicked the advertising hoardings, suffering a foot injury that kept him out for longer than the three-match ban. With Clayton Donaldson injured, Storer returned to the bench for the visit to Queens Park Rangers on 24 September, made a brief appearance, and was an unused substitute for the next two fixtures.
Loan moves
Having failed to feature in the matchday squad since then, Storer joined League Two club Yeovil Town on 1 January 2017, on loan until the end of the season. He went straight into the starting eleven for the following day's visit to Crawley Town, but he and Otis Khan were both substituted at half time as Yeovil lost 2–0. After two matches as an unused substitute, and missing one for personal reasons, his loan was cancelled on 25 January 2017 by mutual consent, again citing personal reasons.
Storer was omitted from Birmingham's under-23 training camp in July 2017 because he was joining another club on trial with a view to a loan move. He played for Macclesfield Town of the National League in a pre-season friendly against Derby County, but returned to Birmingham after an incident in that match.
In October 2017, Storer joined National League South club Gloucester City on a short-term loan. He made his debut in the starting eleven for Gloucester's league match at home to Braintree Town on 7 October, and played 64 minutes as his team lost 3–1. He finished his loan spell with one goal from seven league appearances.
Storer signed for Solihull Moors of the National League on 22 December 2017 on loan for a month. He went straight into the starting eleven for the visit of Boreham Wood, and twice came close to scoring in the first half, but the match finished goalless. He made one more substitute appearance before returning to his parent club. In February 2018, Birmingham confirmed that Storer would be released when his contract expired at the end of the season.
Partick Thistle
After a successful trial, Storer signed for Scottish Championship club Partick Thistle in early July 2018, on a one-year deal with the option of a second year. He admitted later that he genuinely feared his reputation for hotheadedness would prevent him ever finding another club. He made his debut in the League Cup on 14 July away to Stenhousemuir, starting as an attacking midfielder and playing 66 minutes as Thistle won 2–0. Storer scored his first Thistle goal three days later to open the scoring in their second group match, a 2–1 victory against Greenock Morton. Meeting a defensive clearance well outside the penalty area, he "slammed a half-volley towards goal, meeting the ball on the rise and finding the top corner"; according to the Herald match report, the ball "was still gathering speed as it nestled in the top corner. If it's not goal of the season then the eventual winner is going to be something out of this world." Storer had his contract with the club terminated by mutual consent on 21 December 2018.
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West of Scotland F.C.
West of Scotland Football Club is a rugby union club based in Milngavie, Scotland.
Founded in 1865, West of Scotland are one of the oldest rugby clubs in the world, and one of the founding members of the Scottish Rugby Union. West have enjoyed a long and successful history, winning numerous Scottish Championships and producing an incredible number of international players, and a strong contingent of British and Irish Lions.
During the 1960s and 1970s, West were a true powerhouse of British rugby - regularly fielding up to ten internationals. Indeed, West famously developed a pack featuring Gordon Brown, Peter Brown, Sandy Carmichael (2 Lions and the Scotland Captain), all of whom are considered amongst the best rugby players ever produced by Scotland.
In the 'Open Era' of professionalism, West have produced a significant number of players who have progressed to the professional and international levels. The most notable of these luminaries is Gordon Bulloch, who enjoyed sparkling professional career with playing Glasgow and Leeds, captaining Scotland, and playing for the British and Irish Lions, before reportedly rejecting a contract offer from the famous French Champions Stade Toulousain to make a triumphant return to the even-more-famous 'Red and Yellow'.
A number of other professional players - such as Rob Harley - have emanated from West before going on to higher honours; and a number of current international players pulled on the red and yellow jersey having played for the club through the SRU's 'Scottish Premiership Division One' player draft.
Current Teams and Leagues
West of Scotland's First XV currently play in BT Scottish National League Division Two – the third tier of Scottish club rugby.
The Second XV play in the BT National Reserve League Division 2 - and the 2A XV play in BT West Reserve League Division 1.
The club also have a Women's team - and an occasional 'golden oldies' team, known as the Burnbrae Bulls.
Youth Section
West's youth section was founded in the 1980s, and is now a thriving development centre with over 200 players - and an excellent track record of success, both on and off the field. The club's youth development programme's ethos is to 'look at the individuals and develop the person, not just the player'. Notable recent graduates of West's youth programme include: Rob Harley (Glasgow Warriors and Scotland), Robert McAlpine (Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby), and Murray McConell (Glasgow Warriors and Nottingham Rugby).
West's midi sides (S1 - Under 18) play in the 'Presidents Conference', the top division in Scottish Youth Rugby. West's youth set up is therefore extremely well regarded, and West's youth team's have regularly competed for (and won) silverware, including the Scottish Cup on several occasions.
Early History (1865 - 1960)
Formation
Formed in 1865, West of Scotland played a founding role in establishing international rugby in Scotland, and have provided a number of SRU presidents and players. The club originated at Hamilton Crescent in Partick, Glasgow as an offshoot of the Cricket Club. The bye laws of West of Scotland Football Club were agreed on 15 October 1865.
First Match
Initially, West games were 20-a-side intra-club affairs. However, In November 1867, West took to the field against live opposition for the first time - beating Edinburgh Academicals, in one of the first ever rugby matches ever played. West lost the return game at Raeburn Place in December 1867. This remains one of the oldest fixtures in world rugby, and the sides have clashed regularly over the years.
Club Colours
West have played in red and yellow coloured strips since 1871, having elected to discard their old navy strips. The local football club Partick Thistle decided to copy in the 1930s when they also switched from dark blue strips.
Founding of the Scottish Rugby Union
In 1872 the formation of the Scottish Rugby Union took place at a meeting at Glasgow Academy on Elmbank Street, and the first members were Edinburgh Academicals, West of Scotland, Royal High School FP, Glasgow Academicals, Merchistonians, Glasgow University, St Andrews University and Edinburgh University.
Early Success
West twice won the Scottish Unofficial Championship in 1883 and 1885, and provided several players - including captains - to the National side. The club also won four consecutive Scottish Unofficial Championship titles in 1899, 1890, 1891, 1892 (joint), before once more taking the trophy in 1895.
However, despite this outstanding on-field success, the club experienced some off-field strife at this time; largely pertaining the West of Scotland cricket club's incessant demands for more money.
The first world war (1914–18) not only curtailed the club's playing activities - they also decimated many of the local club sides, many of whom never recovered. Nonetheless, despite further issues with the cricket club over the lease, West thrived during this era, fielding up to 4XV's, and featuring many players who play at district and international level.
In 1929 one of rugby's great personalities, W. H. Kidston died. He was responsible, with others for introducing the kicking code to Scotland, in his early days had played for West and, was Honorary Secretary for 18 years, and the first President of West of Scotland FC. Kidston went on to become the President of the SRU. These years also saw people like Bill Nicholson, W. A. Burnet, H. Stewart Mackintosh (later Director of Education for Glasgow ) and Arthur Ferns becoming involved both in playing terms and later in the transfer of West to Burnbrae. Although the Club had limited success on the playing field at this time it had a large membership.
West's Odyssey
At the outset of the World War Two (1939-1945), after years of simmering tension, the cricket club cancelled West's lease in Patrick - stating that they saw no avenue for the rugby club's return post WWII. It would be 15 years before West found a new permanent home, and this period therefore represented somewhat of an odyssey for the club.
West's first attempted solution was a ground and team-share with Kelvinside Academy FP at Balgray. This was successful for a number of years, but the sheer volume of players rendered it untenable. Therefore, in 1951, West once more began looking for a new home - with club officials A.D. Ferns, M.D. Ballantyne, H.S Mackintosh, W Nicholson, J.A.D. Thom, W.A. Burnet and President Hugh Harper all playing critical roles. The committee considered grounds in Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch, Pollock Estate, Stepps, and Whitecraigs, none of which were deemed desirable.
In this period West played their games at a variety of grounds over this period; namely at Old and New Anniesland, Balgray, Glasgow University, and St Aloysius College. Nonetheless, the club continue to thrive - often putting out 6 XV's,
Later History (1960 - Present)
In 1952 after some 15 years in the wilderness, West purchased the now hallowed ground at Burnbrae in Milngavie - though it would take a further 8 years, and significant effort and expenditure before the first game was played at Burnbrae. The first game was played against local rivals High School of Glasgow.
Golden Era (1960s and 1970s)
West were an 'open club', meaning that in contrast to the restricted approach of the School's FP clubs, they were open to all players, regardless of background.
This approach means that during the 1960s and 1970s some of the best players in the world graced the Burnbrae turf. West teams in this era featured many Scottish internationals, some of whom went on to star for the British and Irish Lions. Notable players from this era include Sandy Carmichael, Gordon Brown, Peter Brown, and Alastair McHarg, all of whom are considered to be amongst Scotland's best ever players; whilst Lionel Weston was capped for England. West teams were littered with international players in all positions at this time, and not withstanding the outstanding pack noted above, Burnbrae crowds were dazzled by outstanding international backs such as David Sheddon, Chris Rea, and Quentin Dunlop, as well as England's scrum-half Lionel Weston.
During this golden era the club enjoyed much on-field success, jointly-shared Championship honours with Hawick in 1965, before once more lifting the trophy in 1971.
Decline
However, this wasn't to last, and West's fortunes somewhat decline when the FP teams opened their clubhouses to non FP's. Indeed. when the official SRU leagues were established however West were in Division 1, fell back to Division 2, before collapsing eventually to Division 3.
Rejection of Hawks Amalgamation
In the 1990s, faced with the Border and Edinburgh team's domination of Scottish rugby – the great old clubs of Glasgow met to discuss amalgamating, so as to compete at a higher level. This led to the origination of Glasgow Hawks, an amalgamation of the High School of Glasgow, Glasgow Academy, and Kelvinside FP clubs – each of whom 'donated' letters to the Hawks acronym. The 'W' in Hawks is therefore a vestige of West's potential involvement – although the club decided to reject the move, thus maintaining its independence and history.
Resurgence and Return to Premiership
West's fortunes showed signs of revival when they won the Scottish Shield in 2006. This led to an old-field resurgence for the club, who enjoyed successive promotions from Premiership Division Three, and then Premiership Division Two.
Indeed, it was on Saturday 29 March 2008 that West won Premiership Division Two, thus securing their promotion to Premiership Division One as champions. The 2nd XV and 3rd XV teams also won their leagues, making 2007–08 a historic season for the club.
West of Scotland played in Premiership Division One in 2008–2009, 2009–2010, and 2010–2011. This marked a strong era for the club, with former players such as British and Irish Lion Gordon Bulloch electing to return to club, alongside brother Alan Bulloch, Rory Kerr, and former Glasgow professional Guy Perrett These 'stars' were augmented by a strong crop of West players including Robert Harley, Robert McAlpine, Murray McConell, all of whom progressed to professional rugby, as well as a selection of young Glasgow professional players, selected in the SRU draft (including Peter Horne, Jon Welsh, Richie Vernon, and Richie Gray).
West played in Premiership Division Two in season 2011–12 following relegation at the end of the 2010–11 season.
Facility Upgrade
In August 2014, work started on a new Waitrose supermarket, on land purchased from the club. West of Scotland received a new state of the art artificial all-weather pitch from this deal.
The supermarket was opened in June 2015, with the new pitch being completed and opened soon after.
150th Anniversary Season (2015)
In 2015, West celebrated the 150th year of their existence with a stellar season, which saw all three senior men's teams gain promotion. The First XV, captained by rotund flanker Jamie McAuley, gained promotion to National 2, the third highest league in Scotland.
A West team – augmented by players from the SRU's other founding clubs – also played in an invitational game against fierce local rivals Glasgow Academicals, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of both clubs. The match ended in victory for West in the First XV match, which was pre-cursed by a 'golden oldies' game between FP's of both teams – including British and Irish Lion John Beattie - in which Accies were triumphant.
West of Scotland Sevens
The club run the West of Scotland Sevens tournament.
Distinguished Players
Alexander Robertson, who played in the first ever international, 1871 was the first West of Scotland international cap. Between 1871 and 1914, the club provided over 42 players to the national side. Since then, many other players who have pulled on the famous red and yellow jersey have gone on to represent Scotland, with a number reaching the pinnacle as British and Irish Lions. A selection are listed below:
British and Irish Lions
Gordon Brown (30) Caps 1969–1976
Gordon Bulloch 75 caps; Scottish captain and Lion.
Bill Scott, British and Irish Lions and Barbarian F.C.
Sandy Carmichael (50 caps - and Lion)
Richie Gray (58 Caps, and 1 Lions Cap) Present
Scottish Internationals
English Internationals
Lionel Weston
Professional Players
Guy Perrett – Edinburgh Rugby
Murray McConnell – Glasgow Warriors and Nottingham Rugby
Robert McAlpine – Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby
Presidents of the Scottish Rugby Union
William Hamilton Kinston 1876–77 - and first President of West of Scotland football club.
Ian McLauchlan
Bill Nicholson.
Other Distinguished Players
Tom Bottomly
Alisdair Burnett
Tom Young
Colin Mair
Scott Hunter
Sandy McCallum
Andrew Park
Honours
Scottish National League Division One
Champions (2): 1991-92, 2007-08
Scottish National League Division Two
Champions (1): 2006-07
Scottish National League Division Three' Runners-up (1): 2015-16
Scottish Rugby Shield
Winners (1): 2005-06
Scottish Unofficial Championship
Winners (8): 1883, 1885, 1899, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1895, 1965, 1971
Glasgow City Sevens
Champions (1): 2000
Earlston Sevens
Champions (1): 1999
Kelso Sevens
Champions (1): 2000
Hyndland Sevens
Champions: 1967
Ardrossan Sevens
Champions: 1973, 1974
Highland Sevens
Champions: 1966
Hillhead HSFP Sevens
Champions: 1978, 1979, 1980
Kilmarnock Sevens
Champions: 1982
Ayr Sevens
Champions: 1959, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1973, 1977, 1978
Glasgow University Sevens
Champions: 1959, 1961, 1968
Clarkston Sevens
Champions: 1965, 1966, 1991
Strathendrick Sevens
Champions: 1989, 1991
Glasgow Academicals Sevens
Champions: 1997
Bibliography
Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 )
Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, )
Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 )
Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; )
References
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516th Signal Brigade
The 516th Signal Brigade is a forward based major subordinate operations and maintenance command of the 311th Signal Command. The Brigade supports the United States Army Pacific (USARPAC). The Brigade has four signal battalions, located in Alaska, Hawaii, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, Japan.
The brigade mission is to provide and defend the Pacific LandWarNet and expeditionary communications capabilities as part of U.S. Pacific Command's Theater Information Grid and the Army Enterprise in support of Joint, Combined, and Army Forces, enabling the battle command and information superiority to the Warfighter.
History
The 516th Signal Brigade and its battalions were reactivated on 16 October 1992, assuming the former missions of the 1106th Signal Brigade and its battalions, which were discontinued 15 October 1992. The 516th is a Modified Table of Organization and Equipment, or MTOE command, while the 1106th was a Table of Distribution and Allowances, or TDA command.
Today's brigade headquarters therefore traces its legacy in two directions: On the MTOE side, the 516th Signal Brigade was originally activated as the 3367th Signal Service Battalion on 25 November 1944 at New Guinea; and on the TDA side, the 1106th Signal Brigade was a successor to the United States Army Strategic Communications Command-Pacific (STRATCOM-PAC), which was activated on 1 September 1964 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.
During World War II, the original 516th (then the 3367th) earned battle streamers for the campaigns of New Guinea, Leyte, Southern Philippines, and Luzon, with another streamer recognizing the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. Following WWII, the 3367th Signal Service Battalion was redesignated as the 516th Signal Service Battalion in Guam. It was re-designated as the 516th Signal Group in Germany on 10 February 1954, deactivating there on 13 November 1967. Each of the 516th's Signal Battalions—the 30th today located in Hawaii, 58th in Okinawa, 59th in Alaska, 78th in Japan, and the 307th Integrated Theater Signal Battalion located in Hawaii and Alaska—also earned World War II battle streamers in their original incarnations. The 30th, 59th, and 307th participated in the European Theater, while the 58th and 78th were in the Pacific Theater.
The 1106th's other predecessor command, STRATCOM-PAC, had communications-electronics responsibilities during the 1960s and 1970s for the United States Army in Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as Hawaii—a geographical area spanning one-third of the earth's surface. During this period, more than 27,000 soldiers and civilians were assigned to the command, with approximately 21,000 of them assigned to STRATCOM-PAC's 1st Signal Brigade in Vietnam. Over the years, many reorganizations changed the command's missions and names. It became the 1106th Signal Brigade on 1 October 1989, eventually having five signal battalions in Alaska, Hawaii, Japan and Okinawa.
During 1990-91, nineteen soldiers from the 1106th Signal Brigade were deployed to Saudi Arabia to support Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Since then, the 516th has deployed soldiers to Somalia, Kuwait, Haiti, Honduras, Bosnia, East Timor, and other locations to support United Nations and United States efforts there. Since 2002, brigade soldiers and contractors have deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and various other U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command geographical areas in support of the Global War on Terrorism.
Subordinate Units
516th Signal Brigade, Hawaii
4th Regional Cyber Center, Hawaii
30th Signal Battalion, Hawaii (supporting US Army Pacific)
59th Signal Battalion, Alaska (supporting US Army Alaska)
78th Signal Battalion, Japan (supporting US Army Japan)
307th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, Hawaii
External links
https://www.usarpac.army.mil/516thSig/
References
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Rob Edmonds
Rob Edmonds (born 12 May 1962) is an Australian gymnast. He competed in seven events at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Jay-Jay Feeney
Jay-Jay Feeney (previously Jay-Jay Harvey) is a radio host on More FM's drive show, Jase, Jay-Jay & Flynny Driving You Home, with Jason Gunn and Paul Flynn. She has spent the majority of her career at The Edge, mostly on its breakfast show, until she left in December 2017.
Early life
Feeney was born Jacqulyn-Joanne Barbara Feeney on 28 March 1974, to Robynne Andersen.
Career
Feeney began her radio career doing six weeks of work experience at Energy FM in New Plymouth at the age of 15. Over the next two years, she helped out with station promotions. At one point, she donated $50 to charity to go on air with Heemi Hill on Radio Taranaki for half an hour, and ended up staying on air for four hours. She left school at the end of sixth form and studied towards a certificate in Media Studies at Taranaki Polytechnic, while continuing to work at Energy FM; she had her first on-air break in February 1991, when the usual 1 am - 7 am weekend host didn't show up. She was later given the Monday-Friday midnight - 6 am shift, then a couple of weeks later, promoted to 7 pm - midnight.
In 1994, she moved to The Breeze in Hamilton, where she hosted the drive show. She then left four months later, to host the drive show (2 pm - 7 pm) on eight-week-old station The Edge, where she started on air on 26 September 1994. In May 1995, she moved to host breakfast (6 am - 10 am) with Malcolm Paul, and drive (10 am - 2 pm) by herself. Feeney won her first two radio awards, for Best Individual Air Personality, in 1995 and 1996. In 1996, Malcolm Paul was replaced by Brian "Butt Ugly Bob" Reid. In 1998, Reid took his own life, and Jason Reeves took over as his temporary replacement, and eventually became permanent. From 1998-2001, several co-hosts appeared, including Clarke Gayford and Jesse Mulligan. In 2001, Dominic Harvey, Feeney's boyfriend, joined the show, moving from the breakfast show on 2XS FM in Palmerston North.
In 2004, Mike Puru, the night show host at the time, took over from Jason Reeves. The trio of Jay-Jay, Mike & Dom lasted for 11 years, before Puru was replaced by Clint Randell (called Randell on air to avoid confusion with Clint Roberts, who worked on the drive show at the time). In 2015, she appeared in the sixth series of Dancing with the Stars, where she placed fourth. In 2017, Jay-Jay left The Edge, with her last day on air being 22 December 2017.
In April 2018, she began on More FM, hosting the drive show, Jase & Jay-Jay Driving You Home, with Jason Gunn. Paul "Flynny" Flynn joined the show in May 2019, which became Jay-Jay, Flynny & Jase Driving You Home.
Personal life
Feeney married co-host Dominic Harvey on 20 June 2004. They adopted Feeney's nephew, Seven, in 2007; ten years later, he went to live with another family member. As a result of surgery, Harvey has retrograde ejaculate; this means that in vitro fertilisation was necessary to have children, they did five rounds without success. In 2010, she changed her name to Jay-Jay Harvey. The pair announced they had split in August 2017, and she reverted to her surname of Feeney.
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CBC Radio (Barbados)
CBC Radio is the flagship radio station of the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, Barbados' public broadcaster. It broadcasts on 900 kHz (AM) and formerly on 94.7 MHz (FM). The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation also owns and operates The One on 98.1 MHz FM and Q-100.7 on 100.7 MHz FM.
CBC Radio was introduced on 16 December, 1963 as the first wireless radio station in Barbados. (Previously, Barbados had a wired cable Rediffusion service from 1935 to 1997.) CBC Radio was the only wireless radio station in Barbados until Voice of Barbados its former radio station Gospel 790 AM was introduced in 1981. It was known as "Radio Barbados" and later on in the late 1980s as "Sound Sensation 900 AM", and is now known as "CBC 94.7 FM, The Caribbean's Best Connection".
Local programs include "Under the Sandbox Tree", "What's Your Opinion" and others. It also presents radio broadcasts of some sporting events (though international events originating outside of Barbados, such as Champions' Trophy cricket, are blacked out on the internet feed). When no regularly scheduled programs are heard, CBC Radio plays all Caribbean music. The station has news updates on the hour and major newscasts which are held every seven days at 5:00 AM, 6:00 AM, 7:00 AM, 8:00 AM, 1:00 PM, 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM. The station used to air obituary announcements, but those are now aired on its sister station, Quality 100.7 FM.
The station maintains an online stream mainly for Barbadians from around the world to tune in, as well as social media such as Facebook where contests, debates of differing points of view, and other communication with on-air personalities take place. The all new CBC Radio 94.7 FM was re-introduced and re-broadcast on 29 May, 2010, along with the greatest songs and hits of the '70s, '80s, '90s and today. It was formerly known as "The Caribbean's Best Connection" in the 1980s' and now it is known as "The Rhythm of Life" station since 29 May, 2010.
CBC Radio 94.7 FM was closed on 31 December 2018. CBC continues to broadcast on 900 AM.
See also
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
List of radio stations in Barbados
References
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Dougie Flockhart
Douglas "Dougie" Flockhart (born 25 November 1984) is a Scottish professional rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. He has played representative level rugby league for Scotland, and at club level for the Clyde Buccaneers and the York City Knights, as a or , and representative level rugby union for Scotland A, at invitational level for Barbarian F.C., and at club level for Currie RFC, Border Reivers, Esher RFC and Doncaster R.F.C., as a wing, i.e. number 11 or 14.
International honours
Dougie Flockhart won caps for Scotland (RL) while at the Clyde Buccaneers in 2005.
References
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Jackpot (musical)
Jackpot is an American musical with music by Vernon Duke, lyrics by Howard Dietz, and a musical book by Guy Bolton, Sidney Sheldon, and Ben Roberts. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on January 13, 1944. It closed on March 11, 1944 after a total of 69 performances. Directed by Roy Hargrave, the production starred Nanette Fabray as Sally Madison, Betty Garrett as Sgt. Maguire, Allan Jones as Hank Trimble, and, in the small role of Edna, future novelist Jacqueline Susann (Valley of the Dolls). Choreographer Flower Hujer danced in the production. A wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, Jackpot failed to garner a following among critics and audiences. A few songs from the show were published: I've Got A One Track Mind, Sugarfoot, There Are Yanks (From the Banks of the Wabash), and What Happened?.
Sources
The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan, Time, January 24, 1944
Show tunes: the songs, shows, and careers of Broadway's major composers by Steven Suskin, page 165
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Roger Poincelet
Roger Poincelet (3 March 1921 - 1 November 1977) was a French jockey who rode a total of over 3,000 winners in a long career on both the flat and, initially, jumps. He is regarded as one of the finest French jockeys ever.
His first win came on Prince Aly Khan's Manchuria on 17 May 1937. In his home country, he won three Prix de l'Arc de Triomphes - on Coronation in 1949, Nuccio in 1952 and, lastly, on Prince Royal in 1964. He also went on to win five British classics - the 2,000 Guineas on Thunderhead in 1952, the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks on Never Too Late in 1960, the 1,000 Guineas again on Hula Dancer in 1963 and, most notably, the Derby on the rank outsider, Psidium in 1961.
Psidium had been the less-favoured of two horses from the same stable. Poincelet kept Psidium at the back of the field until reaching Tattenham Corner. He then brought the horse on a path along the outside of the field to win the race. In doing so, Psidium became the longest priced Derby winner for 48 years. Sovrango, the stable's number one horse, finished fourth.
After he retired from race riding, Poincelet began training horses in 1971.
He died in a Paris hospital on Tuesday, 1 November 1977, aged 57, after a long and painful illness.
Major wins
Great Britain
1,000 Guineas Stakes - (2) - Never Too Late (1960), Hula Dancer (1963)
2,000 Guineas Stakes - Thunderhead (1952)
Ascot Gold Cup - Pan (1951)
Champion Stakes - Hafiz (1955)
Epsom Derby - Psidium (1961)
Epsom Oaks - Never Too Late (1960)
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes - (2) - Vimy (1955), Right Royal (1961)
France
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - (3) - Coronation (1949), Nuccio (1952), Prince Royal (1964)
Prix du Jockey Club - Right Royal (1961)
External links
Pathe footage of Thunderhead winning the 2,000 Guineas in 1952
Pathe footage of Vimy winning the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1955
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FDTL
The abbreviation FDTL can stand for:
the Democratic Forum for Labour and Liberties (Forum démocratique pour le travail et les libertés), a Tunisian political party
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Dave Campbell's Texas Football
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}}Dave Campbell's Texas Football is a biannual magazine previewing American football teams in the state of Texas.
It previews football teams in Texas at all levels, from the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans, college football, to the roughly 1,400 high schools (public and private) in the state.
The summer magazine is issued in June, about 1–2 months before the start of preseason football. It sells for $10.95 and is available in most Texas stores which sell magazines. A winter edition, which began in 2008, is published each January. In 2015, the winter magazine became known as Texas Football Rising which focuses solely on recruiting and recruiting rankings.
History
The magazine was started in 1960 by Dave Campbell, a longtime writer and sports editor for the Waco Tribune-Herald, along with fellow Waco sportswriters Hollis Biddle, Jim Montgomery, and Al Ward. He published the magazine out of his kitchen. On the cover of the inaugural edition was Texas Longhorns running back Jackie Collins. The cover price for the 96-page magazine was fifty cents.
It was bought in 1985 by Host Communications, which was bought by IMG in 2007. In 2014, Sports in Action, a company operated by the family of Texas businessman Drayton McLane and run by President Adam Hochfelder bought the rights to operate the magazine from IMG. In 2017, Sports In Action completed the outright purchase of the media brand from IMG. Sports in Action, LLC also has done business as Highfield Marketing, LLC and is based in Lewisville, Texas. More information on Sports In Action can be found at www.sportsinaction.com.
It is one of the best-selling football magazines in the state and has been dubbed "The Bible of Texas Football". Each year, the identity of its cover subject(s) is a tightly-guarded secret. At the age of 93, Campbell still holds the position of editor-in-chief.
Currently, Dave Campbell's Texas Football is a twice-yearly statewide magazine with over 400,000 readers. Fans can subscribe to Dave Campbell's Texas Football and get the magazines sent directly to their home via this link https://www.texasfootball.com/store/product/become-a-dave-campbell’s-texas-football-insider. In 2018, the web site added an array of premium content covering recruiting and other High School and College Football content that is bundled with the annual subscription cost.
To accompany the print version, a website, TexasFootball.com, was created in 1999. In summer 2009, Texas Football launched a statewide weekly radio program — the Dave Campbell's Texas Football Radio Hour — which airs across Texas State Network affiliates. The radio program ended in 2016. In 2010, the magazine started its own television program, Texas Football Game Day, a half-hour variety show. Game Day was filmed weekly at the stadium of a key game and broadcast (sometimes live, sometime tape delayed) on Fox Sports Southwest. Due to its popularity, in 2011 DCTF has teamed with Fox Sports Southwest to present Fox Football Friday Powered by Dave Campbell's Texas Football, a three-hour live show on Friday nights featuring whip-around coverage of the biggest games in Texas high school football.
In October 2015, the brand launched Texas Football Today, a daily live show covering football in Texas streamed on TexasFootball.com and can also be seen on its facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/davecampbells/) and on Livestream.
In 1999, Texas Football started its own high school football event, the Texas Football Classic, which is held at the beginning of each season at the Alamodome in San Antonio. The event ran through 2010.
The overall brand is run by President Adam Hochfelder, and the editorial content — including the magazine, website, TV show, and Texas Football Today — are run by managing editor Greg Tepper and digital director Max Thompson. Adam Hochfelder has run the media brand since 2005 and Greg Tepper has been its Editor since 2011.
In 2015, Sports In Action created a sister magazine, Dave Campbell's Texas Basketball - with a web site - https://www.texasbasketball.com
Summer magazine covers
1960s
1960: Jackie Collins of Texas
1961: Ronnie Bull of Baylor (also pictured: Lance Alworth, Arkansas and James Saxton, Texas)
1962: Sonny Gibbs of TCU
1963: Coach Darrell Royal and Scott Appleton of Texas
1964: Lawrence Elkins and John Bridgers of Baylor
1965: Donny Anderson of Texas Tech
1966: John LaGrone of SMU (also pictured: Greg Pipes, Baylor and Diron Talbert, Texas)
1967: Maurice Moorman of Texas A&M
1968: Edd Hargett of Texas A&M
1969: James Street of Texas
1970s
1970: Steve Worster of Texas
1971: Charles Napper of Texas Tech
1972: Brad Dusek of Texas A&M
1973: Glen Gaspard of Texas
1974: Coach Darrell Royal of Texas
1975: Coach Grant Teaff of Baylor
1976: Coach Bill Yeoman of Houston
1977: Rodney Allison of Texas Tech
1978: Russell Erxleben of Texas and Tony Franklin of Texas A&M
1979: Steve McMichael of Texas
1980s
1980: Mike Singletary of Baylor and Mike Mosley of Texas A&M
1981: Craig James of SMU and Walter Abercrombie of Baylor
1982: Gary Kubiak of Texas A&M
1983: Lance McIlhenny of SMU
1984: Ray Childress of Texas A&M
1985: Coach Jim Wacker and Kenneth Davis of TCU
1986: Coach Jackie Sherrill of Texas A&M
1987: Coach David McWilliams and Bret Stafford of Texas
1988: Eric Metcalf of Texas and John Roper of Texas A&M
1989: Coach Jack Pardee of Houston and Coach Forrest Gregg of SMU
1990s
1990: Coach Spike Dykes of Texas Tech
1991: David Klingler of Houston
1992: Trevor Cobb of Rice
1993: Coach R. C. Slocum of Texas A&M (also pictured: Jerrod Douglas of Converse Judson)
1994: Shea Morenz of Texas (also pictured: Tony Brackens of Texas)
1995: An illustrated collage featuring important figures in Southwest Conference history, including Earl Campbell, Bill Yeoman, Darrell Royal, Fred Akers, Sammy Baugh, Doak Walker, Mike Singletary, and Grant Teaff
1996: Coach Chuck Reedy of Baylor, Coach John Mackovic of Texas, Coach R. C. Slocum of Texas A&M and Coach Spike Dykes of Texas Tech
1997: James Brown and Ricky Williams of Texas (also pictured: Coach Kim Helton of Houston)
1998: Two covers: one with Coach Mack Brown and Ricky Williams of Texas, the other with Dat Nguyen of Texas A&M
1999: Coach Mack Brown of Texas, Coach Dennis Franchione of TCU
1999 (alternative cover): Troy Aikman of the Dallas Cowboys, for sale outside the state of Texas
2000s
2000: Cedric Benson of Midland Lee
2001: Casey Printers of TCU, Kliff Kingsbury of Texas Tech, Chris Simms of Texas and Mark Farris of Texas A&M McKenzie Tilmon of Irving MacArthur High
2002: Kliff Kingsbury of Texas Tech, Coach G.A. Moore of Celina High School, Emmitt Smith of the Dallas Cowboys, and Drew Tate of Baytown Lee
2003: Roy Williams of Texas
2004: Adell Duckett of Texas Tech, Patrick Cobbs of North Texas, Marvin Godbolt of TCU and Kevin Kolb of Houston
2005: Vince Young of Texas and Reggie McNeal of Texas A&M
2006: Earl Campbell of Texas, John Chiles of Mansfield Summit, Ryan Mallett of Texarkana Texas, Jarrett Lee of Brenham, and G.J. Kinne of Gilmer
2007: Tommy Blake of TCU, Colt McCoy of Texas, and Stephen McGee of Texas A&M
2008: Coach Mike Leach, Michael Crabtree, and Graham Harrell of Texas Tech
2009: Colt McCoy of Texas
2010s
2010: Jerrod Johnson of Texas A&M, Case Keenum of Houston, and Andy Dalton of TCU
2011: Cyrus Gray of Texas A&M and Johnathan Gray of Aledo
2012: Coach Gary Patterson of TCU
2013: Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M
2014: Coach Art Briles, Bryce Petty, and Antwan Goodley of Baylor
2015: Illustration of the Texas vs. Texas A&M football rivalry by artist Roberto Parada
2016: Coach Kliff Kingsbury and Patrick Mahomes of Texas Tech
2017: Coach Tom Herman of Texas
2018: Coach Jimbo Fisher of Texas A&M (alternate cover: Ed Oliver of Houston)
Winter magazine covers
When the University of Texas won the BCS national title in the 2006 Rose Bowl, Texas Football put out a special championship edition of the magazine. Two years later, the magazine brought back the winter edition as a permanent feature. Beginning in 2016, the winter edition was replaced with Dave Campbell Presents Texas Football Rising, a magazine spotlighting top recruits in Texas.
2006: Vince Young of Texas
2008: Coach Mike Sherman of Texas A&M
2009: Quan Cosby of Texas, Michael Crabtree of Texas Tech, and Chase Clement of Rice
2010: Jordan Shipley of Texas and Jerry Hughes of TCU
2011: Coach Gary Patterson of TCU
2012: Robert Griffin III of Baylor
2013: Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M
2014: Bryce Petty of Baylor
2015: Trevone Boykin of TCU, Kyler Murray of Allen, and Tony Romo of the Dallas Cowboys
Texas Football Rising
2015: Jett Duffey of Mansfield Lake Ridge (Texas Tech)
2016: Baron Browning of Kennedale (Ohio State)
2017: Keaontay Ingram of Carthage (Texas)
2018: Kenyon Green of Humble Atascosita (Texas A&M)
Mr. Texas Football
When Texas Football'' revived the winter book after the 2007 season, it began giving a "Mr. Texas Football Award" honoring the top high school player in the state. It is currently sponsored by Wells Fargo
2007: Jacquizz Rodgers, Rosenberg Lamar
2008: Garrett Gilbert, Lake Travis
2009: Darian "Stump" Godfrey, Gilmer
2010: Johnny Manziel, Kerrville Tivy
2011: Johnathan Gray, Aledo
2012: Dontre Wilson, DeSoto
2013: Kyler Murray, Allen
2014: Kyler Murray, Allen
2015: Jett Duffey, Mansfield Lake Ridge
2016: Roshauud Paul, Bremond High School
2017: Spencer Sanders, Denton Ryan
2018: Landry Gilpin of Veterans Memorial High School
Dave Campbell's Texas Basketball
2015: Coach Tubby Smith of Texas Tech and Shaka Smart of Texas
2016: Coaches Kim Mulkey and Scott Drew of Baylor
2017: Brooke McCarty and Coach Karen Aston of Texas, Kalani Brown and Coach Kim Mulkey of Baylor
2018: Chris Beard of Texas Tech
References
External links
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Hedera azorica
Hedera azorica is a species of ivy (genus Hedera) which is native to the Atlantic coast in Azores Islands. Its common name is Ivy. It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces are available, and grows as ground cover where there are no vertical surfaces. It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate.
Ecology
The plant has an attractive and elegant aspect. It is quite common in Azores islands and lives in slopes rock, soil, trunks of trees especially in Laurel forest of Barbusano. The natural habitat is forest or dense bush which are cloud-covered for much of the year, where the dense moisture from the sea or ocean, is precipitated by the action of the relief, causing it to condense part of the moisture that falls as rain or fog, creating a habitat tropical or subtropical especially cool, saturated with moisture in the air and soil, with no seasonal changes, wetter climate, annual oscillation of the temperature moderated by the proximity of the ocean.
The species has great differences from island to island. Very plentiful on the rocky slopes of the Fire Lake (Lagoa das Fogo), Sao Miguel Island, Azores. It is a woody climber shrub or bush perennial, which climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the substrate. It grows 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces (trees, cliffs, walls) are available, and also growing as ground cover where there are no vertical surfaces.
Stems are green. The leaves are large, alternate, and are of two types: palmately lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems, and unlobed cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems exposed to full sun (usually high in the crowns of trees or the top of rock faces).
Flowers are in small umbels, tight and erect, with a long peduncle. The fruits are small, globular, and black when ripe.
The plant has been cultivated in gardens and used in floral arrangements.
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Juan Mauricio Wurmser
Juan Mauricio Wurmser is a founding partner, President and CEO of Wurmser Ogilvy & Mather, the O&M advertising firm in Guatemala. He is also founding partner and Chairman of Hill + Knowlton Strategies Guatemala, the local subsidiary of this international public relations firm. He is a member of the Ogilvy Latina Executive Committee where he represents the Central American and Caribbean operations. Mr. Wurmser is involved in other business ventures in the marketing services and communications areas that include 141 Soho Square, MEC, Mindshare and Mediacom, all part of the WPP Group. He has more than 30 years of experience in the marketing of consumer goods throughout Latin America and a history of active participation in business chambers and organizations, as well as a spell of public service with the government of Guatemala .
Prior History
Prior to joining WO&M and Hill and Knowlton Guatemala in mid-1998, Mr. Wurmser served as Minister of Economy of Guatemala. He was responsible for trade and industry promotion - with special emphasis on attracting foreign investment - and coordinated the regional and global economic integration efforts of the Arzú administration. He was a key member of the Guatemalan Economic Cabinet and sat on the Monetary Board where monetary, credit and exchange policies were defined. He was also Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Central American Bank of Economic Integration between 1997 and 1998.
Before taking up public service, Mr. Wurmser was responsible for developing and implementing the franchise program of Pollo Campero, one of the most successful fast food restaurant chains in Central America, which led to its international expansion.
His years as a corporate marketing executive include early assignments with the Guatemala subsidiaries of Warner Lambert, Avon, and Colgate-Palmolive, before joining British American Tobacco in 1978, a company that he served for 15 years in Guatemala, Panama, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina before returning to Guatemala as President and General Manager of its local subsidiary.
Juan Mauricio has been committed to fostering Guatemala' s viability through his participation in business chambers and organisations through the years.
More recently, he was chosen by The Guatemalan Management Association as CEO of the Year 2015, one of the most coveted awards of the regional business community, followed by the early 2016 recognition as Guatemala's Entrepreneur of the Year by the Central American edition of The Economist magazine.
In mid 2016, affiliation agreements were signed by the Wurmser Communications Group with MEC and Mindshare, two of the global premier Media Investment Management companies, thus expanding further the WPP Group footprint in Guatemala and the Central American region.
Other information
A native of Guatemala City, Mr. Wurmser holds a B.S. in business administration from The College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) and also attended the graduate school of business of Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.
Mr. Wurmser has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Industry of Guatemala, was Chairman of the Business Chamber of Guatemala in 1993 and also sat on the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce of Guatemala (AMCHAM) in 2009. He has been a board member of the Guatemalan Advertising Association (UGAP) over the years, having chaired it in 2001 and in 2013-2014. At present, he is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Guatemala Development Foundation (FUNDESA) .
External links
New Board of Directors 2009, AmCham
H&K sets up in Guatemala as private industry booms, PR Week
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Norman Parish
Norman Parish (born Chicago August 26, 1937 - July 8, 2013) was an American artist and art dealer. He was the founder and director of the Parish Gallery (founded in 1991) in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. The gallery was described by The Washington Post as an art gallery "that spotlighted African American artists at a time when few other galleries concentrated on showing their work."
Education
Parish studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago.
Early life and artwork
Early in his career as an artist in Chicago, Parish was part of a politically active group of African American artists in Chicago, some of whom were later part of the AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) group founded in 1968 by artists Wadsworth Jarrell and Jeff Donaldson, who both taught at Howard University. In the late 1960s, Parish and more than a dozen politically active African American artists in Chicago created a then controversial mural, known as The Wall of Respect, in Chicago’s South Side which 40 years later is now "credited with sparking the creation of other ethnic murals around the world." The mural was also celebrated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks in one of her poems: “The Wall.”
Parish moved to Washington, DC in 1988 and opened the Parish Gallery in 1991. “It’s because I found out how many artists there were that needed support,” says Norman. “They were good, really good. But they needed someone to help get their work out into the world”, he recalled in an interview in 2013.
“At first, a lot of the artists we featured I knew from art school,” he added in the same interview. “But around 93 and 94, other artists just started coming to me. These were artists missing opportunities because nobody was looking out for them, nobody was out there promoting their work.”
Parish Gallery
Norman Parish's Georgetown gallery "became one of the country’s best-known black-owned art galleries, with a focus on works by African Americans and other artists of what is known as the African diaspora."
Over the years that the gallery was opened, it showcased the work of more than 170 artists from the United States, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa and Morocco, alongside those from Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Spain, and France, including such well-known artists as Sam Gilliam, Richard Mayhew, Lou Stovall, Percy Martin, Evangeline Montgomery, Victor Ekpuk, Lois Mailou Jones, and Wadsworth Jarrell.
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Phloeotribus dentifrons
Phloeotribus dentifrons is a species of crenulate bark beetle in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.
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Brandon Williams (linebacker)
Brandon Williams (born June 21, 1988) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals. He played college football at Texas Tech University.
Early years
Williams attended South Hills High School. He received All-district (District 8-4A) honors as a senior, after registering 102 tackles and 11 sacks.
College career
He accepted a football scholarship from Texas Tech University. As a true freshman, he appeared in 11 games, tallying 16 tackles and 3.5 sacks (third on the team). He became a starter at defensive end as a sophomore, leading the team with 6 sacks and 12.5 tackles for loss. He also had 41 tackles, 2 passes defensed, 3 forced fumble and one fumble recovery.
As a junior, he registered 11 sacks (led Big 12 Conference and tied for fourth in school history), 13 tackles for loss, 21 tackles, 3 passes defensed and one forced fumble. At the end of the season, he declared his intention to enter the 2009 NFL Draft. At the same press conference when he announced his plans to forgo his senior season, he accompanied Texas Tech wide receiver Michael Crabtree, who made a similar announcement. He finished his college career with 78 tackles (29 for loss), 20.5 sacks (fourth in school history), 6 passes defensed, 6 forced fumbles and one fumble recovery.
Professional career
Dallas Cowboys
Williams was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth round (120th overall) of the 2009 NFL Draft, with the plan of converting him into an outside linebacker in their 3-4 defense. He tore his left ACL in the second preseason game while playing special teams and was placed on the injured reserve list.
In his second season, he played tentatively coming back from injury and was declared inactive in 10 games. He finished with four special teams tackles. He was waived on September 3, 2011.
Arizona Cardinals
The Arizona Cardinals signed him to their practice squad on November 22, 2011. He was promoted to the active roster on December 21. Williams was released with a shoulder injury on August 31, 2012.
Coaching career
In 2016, he was the Texas Stealth head coach of the American Indoor Football league. He is a football coach at Nolan Catholic High School.
Personal life
Williams parents are Debra and Gary Hampton, who have also two daughters, LaToya and Camry, and 2 other sons, Demondre and Gary Jr.
References
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Damu Kenkre
Damu Kenkre (born Damodar Kashinath Kenkre) was an Indian director known for his work in the Marathi language theatre.
Stage career
Some of Kenkre's most famous plays include Hamlet, Suryachi Pille and Akhercha Sawaal.
Honors
Kenkre received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1974 and the Jeevan Gaurav Puraskar in 2008. He was ex-Director of Cultural Affairs Govt of Maharashtra.
References
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Tommy Lawrence
Thomas Johnstone Lawrence (14 May 1940 – 10 January 2018) was a Scottish professional footballer, who played as a goalkeeper for Liverpool and Tranmere Rovers from the 1950s to the 1970s. Lawrence played in three full internationals for Scotland during the 1960s.
Early years
Born Thomas Johnstone in Dailly, Ayrshire one of three children of Frank and Ruby Lawrence. The Lawrence family moved to North West England when Tommy was a child along with elder brother William (Billy) and younger sister Mary.
On leaving school he worked at Rylands wire factory and played for Warrington Town as an amateur.
Club career
Liverpool, 1957–1971
Aged 17, Lawrence was signed by Liverpool under the management of Phil Taylor in 1957. He made his first team debut under manager Bill Shankly, playing in a 1–0 defeat against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns on 27 October 1962. His first clean-sheet came on 17 November, when Liverpool beat fellow promotion hopefuls Leyton Orient at Anfield 5–0, with Roger Hunt scoring a hat-trick.
Lawrence went on to retain the No.1 jersey that season making 35 appearances, including 6 ties in Liverpool's run to the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough. Leicester City were their opponents and prevented the Reds from reaching the 1963 FA Cup Final by winning the game 1–0. Liverpool had finished in 8th place in their first season back in the First Division, as their Merseyside rivals Everton won the 1962-63 league championship. The following season Lawrence played in 40 league games out of a possible 42, and he also played in 5 cup ties. Liverpool won the 1963-64 league championship, four points clear of Manchester United.
In the 1964–65 season Lawrence and Liverpool were unable to repeat the previous season's achievements, finishing in 7th place and a full 17 points behind winners Manchester United. However, a cup run took Liverpool to the 1965 FA Cup Final, where they faced Leeds United at Wembley. It was Liverpool's first cup final appearance since 1950, and they had never won the trophy before. Both sides had only conceded two goals during their runs to the final. Lawrence kept a clean sheet during the 90 minutes of normal time, but Liverpool also could not score so the game went into extra-time. After 3 minutes of the extra period Roger Hunt opened the scoring for Liverpool, but the lead lasted just 2 minutes as Billy Bremner scored the equaliser. In the 113th minute Ian St John headed the ball home for the winner.
Lawrence enjoyed more success the following season as the Reds found their league form once more, winning the 1965–66 title by 6 clear points over Leeds. Such was Lawrence's form, consistency and durability he missed only a handful of games during eight years as the regular Liverpool goalkeeper. He earned the affectionate nickname The Flying Pig because of his ability to dive around the penalty area despite weighing more than 14 stone (89 kg). He is credited with being one of the first sweeper-keepers.
Lawrence held off the challenge of teenage keeper Ray Clemence when the youngster arrived from Scunthorpe United in 1967, but Liverpool had begun to decline as the team aged. Though Lawrence was not the eldest, he was suddenly removed from the team in favour of Clemence after a 1–0 6th round FA Cup defeat at Watford in 1970; along with outfield players Ron Yeats and Ian St John. Lawrence played for Liverpool only once more, against Manchester City in a 2–2 draw at Maine Road on 26 April 1971.
Tranmere Rovers, 1971–74
After 390 appearances in the Liverpool goal, Lawrence joined Tranmere Rovers on 10 November 1971. He spent three years and made 80 league appearances for Tranmere under player/manager and ex-Liverpool team mate, Ron Yeats. Lawrence then drifted back into the non-league game with Chorley, before retiring.
International career
During his time at Liverpool, Lawrence won three caps for Scotland. His international debut came on 3 June 1963 in a friendly international at Dalymount Park, Dublin, which the Republic of Ireland won 1–0. Lawrence had to wait six years for his second and third caps, a 1–1 draw with West Germany in a 1970 World Cup qualifier and a 5–3 victory over Wales in a British Home Championship match. During the latter appearance, his last international, Lawrence collided with the crossbar and had to be carried off.
Later years/death
After retiring from professional football, Lawrence returned to work at Rylands.
In February 2015, Lawrence was inadvertently interviewed in the street by BBC journalist Stuart Flinders who was asking elderly people if they remembered the 1966–67 FA Cup Fifth Round game between Liverpool and Everton. Lawrence replied "I do, I played in it. I was [the] goalkeeper for Liverpool."
Lawrence died on 10 January 2018 in Warrington, at the age of 77.
Honours
Liverpool
Football League First Division (2): 1963–64, 1965–66
FA Cup (1): 1965
FA Charity Shield (3): 1964, 1965 (shared), 1966
References
External links
Thisisanfield.com Forgotten Heroes
Official past players at Liverpoolfc.tv
Player profile at LFChistory.net
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Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship
The Hubert H Humphrey Fellowship Program, offered by Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, is an exchange program for young and mid-career professionals from developing countries and nations undergoing democratic transition. The one-year long non-degree graduate level study program focuses on leadership development, and collaboration with U.S. counterparts. The Program, which was established to honor the services of service career of the late Senator and Vice President, Hubert H. Humphrey, began in 1978. Fourteen major universities in the United States, which are chosen for their excellence in the Program's designated fields of study and for the resources, host Humphrey Fellows. Each year, approximately, 200 fellowships are awarded. Since 1978, more than 4,600 Fellows from 157 countries have participated in the program. Primary funding for this fellowship comes from the U.S. Congress. The following universities host the Humphrey Fellows.
American University, Washington College of Law
Arizona State University
Boston University
Cornell University
Emory University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan State University
Pennsylvania State University
Syracuse University
University of California, Davis
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Vanderbilt University
Virginia Commonwealth University
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