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Cecil Elaine Eustace Smith, later Gooderham, then Hedstrom (September 14, 1908 – November 9, 1997), was a Canadian figure skater. In 1924 she became the first female figure skater to represent Canada at Winter Olympics; she placed sixth individually and seventh in pairs, together with Melville Rogers. At the 1928 Winter Olympics she finished fifth individually. In 1930, she won the silver medal at the World Figure Skating Championships in singles.
Biography
In 1922, Smith won the national junior title, and next year was a runner-up as a senior. Aged 15, she participated in the 1924 Winter Olympic Games, held in Chamonix, France. In the women's singles, she finished sixth, two places ahead of Sonja Henie. In the pairs competition, she placed seventh.
Smith won the Canadian championship in 1925 and 1926. In 1928, she competed in her second Olympics and place fifth in the women's singles (Sonja Henie claimed the gold). In 1930, she became the first Canadian to win a World championship figure skating medal, earning a silver medal in New York City. In 1991 she was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame.
Smith changed her last name twice, first to Gooderham, then to Hedstrom. Around 1935 she gave birth to a son named Edward Douglas Gooderham. She had an elder sister Maude, who also competed at the 1928 Olympics, but in pairs. Their mother, Maude Delano-Osborne, won the 1892 Canadian tennis championship.
Competitive highlights
Ladies' singles
Pairs
(with Rogers)
(with Reburn)
References
1908 births
1997 deaths
Canadian female single skaters
Canadian female pair skaters
Figure skaters at the 1924 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters from Toronto
World Figure Skating Championships medalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil%20Smith%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
Burges James Gadsden Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, south of the confluence of the Blaeberry and Columbia Rivers, northwest of Golden.
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Columbia Country
1965 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burges%20James%20Gadsden%20Provincial%20Park |
Bull Canyon Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, protecting Bull Canyon on the Chilcotin River, which is below the confluence of the Chilko River with the Chilcotin. The canyon and park are located just west of the community of Alexis Creek. Bull Canyon is part of a large volcanic plateau called the Chilcotin Group.
The park is c.343 ha. in size and lies on the north side of the river.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Canyons and gorges of British Columbia
Geography of the Chilcotin
1993 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull%20Canyon%20Provincial%20Park |
Buckinghorse River Wayside Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located on the Alaska Highway (Highway 97), approximately 175 km northwest of the city of Fort St. John. It is located on the north side of the Buckinghorse River, to the northwest of the community of Pink Mountain. The park is 36 ha. in size and is near the community of Buckinghorse River.
The park was established by Order-in-Council in 1970, comprising initially 102 acres. The park's area was expanded the same year to approximately 135 acres. In 2000, the boundary was redrawn, with the current area comprising approximately 55 hectares.
See also
Prophet River Wayside Provincial Park
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Peace River Country
1970 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas established in 1970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckinghorse%20River%20Wayside%20Provincial%20Park |
Butler Ridge Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Located on the northern shore of the Peach Reach arm of Williston Lake, 20 km northwest of Hudson's Hope, the park covers an area of 6,694 ha. Within the Peace Foothills ecosection, it includes three biogeoclimatic zones: the Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir, the Sub-Boreal Spruce, and the Black and White Boreal Spruce zones. This cold and moist area is used as winter ranges by caribou, Stone's sheep, moose, and elk. It is recognized by the province and the Treaty 8 Tribal Association as an area that has traditionally been used by First Nations people. The park is used for fishing, hunting, trapping, hiking, and wildlife/nature viewing, cross-country skiing. There is a boat launch for Williston Lake, and motorized recreation (ATV, snowmobile is permitted on designated trails).
References
British Columbia. Ministry of Employment and Investment (March 1999). Dawson Creek Land & Resource Management Plan.
Ministry of Environment's Butler Ridge Page
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Peace River Country
2000 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler%20Ridge%20Provincial%20Park |
Bulkley Junction Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the west side of the Skeena River opposite Hazelton. It was established in 1997 and expanded in 2004 from 133 ha. to its current size of 169 ha.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Skeena Country
1997 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulkley%20Junction%20Provincial%20Park |
Kingswood College a is coeducational K–12 college located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Box Hill South, Victoria, Australia. It began as New College in 1890, and was known as Box Hill Grammar from 1928 to 1965. Among other associations, it operates in association with the Uniting Church in Australia but is not governed or managed by the Church.
History
In 1890, Arthur Stephenson established New College, in Rose Street Box Hill, as a boys' school for day students and boarders. The school was renamed Box Hill Grammar around 1928. The Methodist Church assumed responsibility for the school in 1929 and purchased a property in Station Street, Box Hill, known as Gwynton Park. A new building, the Cato Block, was built there in 1930. The move to the new site generated much optimism, and a master plan of imposing buildings was developed. However, the Great Depression and World War II had a damaging effect on the school and, instead of implementing the master plan, increased numbers of students had to be accommodated at virtually no cost.
The school became co-educational in 1933 when girls were introduced to the boarding section of the school. That arrangement was unheard of at that time in mainstream church schools in Victoria, if not Australia. In 1936, there were 14 girls at the school and, in 1937, with 21 girls enrolled, co-educational classes were held. By 1945, there were 83 boys and 52 girls at the school and, by 1955, the numbers of students had increased to 174 boys and 73 girls. However, between 1964 and 1977, the school reverted to only enrolling boys.
In 1937, the school granted Wesley College an option to purchase its land and buildings, in return for funds from Wesley to reduce some of the school's debt. In 1946, with Wesley struggling for space to accommodate increasing numbers, it opened negotiations to take over the school, and an agreement was reached in 1947 which, in effect, vested the school in Wesley, but allowed the school to maintain its own council until Wesley was ready to proceed. That proved to be a slow process and, when Box Hill Grammar's own enrolments increased in the early 1950s, the council became less enamoured of the idea. In 1955, it was finally abandoned, with Wesley paying the school £4,500 to recoup losses while Wesley's control had restricted development.
The school was renamed Kingswood College in 1965, to reflect both the Methodist tradition and to help create a new image. Between 1963 and 1968, enrolments doubled and a new science block and library were opened. The opening of the Junior School, in 1971, was a significant development, both financially and educationally. A new Senior School centre, named for Charles Fitzroy Walker, a former 36-year principal, was opened in 1975, providing for a balanced academic and social education for Year 11 and 12 students. Co-education was re-introduced in 1977.
During the 1990s, the school tried to build its educational, sporting and artistic programs. A pre-school centre, Speedy House, was opened both 3-year-old and 4-year-old children. Computer, food technology and library facilities were upgraded, and a new technology centre was opened in 1996, which provided a modern environment for students to study graphics and develop skills in the area of production technology.
A new Middle School centre, opened in 2002, provided a base for Year 7 students and catered for a range of administrative functions. Landscaping was undertaken to complement the building. In 2005, the refurbishment of the Junior School was completed with new Grade 5 and 6 rooms. In 2008, construction began on a new Science Building, named after the then principal Annette Bennet. It was officially opened on the 28 March 2009. The former science block was completely renovated and became the Year 10 Centre. In 2010, Brimacombe Hall was refurbished to provide a larger auditorium and additional performance and rehearsal spaces.
The College is now in the first year of the current strategic plan. It has launched into a refurbishment and redevelopment plan with the completion of a Master Plan and overall landscape plan for the campus.
Kingswood College has strong relationships with two sister schools in China: Gaoxin No 1 High School in Xi'an and Jiangsu Xishan Senior High School in Wuxi. Both participate in exchange programs with Kingswood, as well as offering guided visits to China, including a study of its education system.
Co-curricular activities
House system
The college has four houses, Brunning (red, named after Rupert Brunning, a former headmaster), Gwynton (blue, taking its name from Gwynton Park, the site the college is situated on), New (yellow, with the name taken from the original name of the school, New College), and Walker (green, named after Charles Fitzroy Walker, a long serving headmaster).
Sport
Inter-house competitions
Students will compete in a carnival for each swimming, athletics and cross country yearly. The swimming and cross country carnivals are held for Years 7–12 exclusively, while the athletics carnival is open to all students Prep to Year 12.
The 'House Cup' is awarded to the winning house after each event, as well as an overall award at the end of the year.
The 'Spirit Cup' is awarded to the house with the most spirit at each event, and overall throughout the year.
Interschool competitions
Between Years 7 and 12, all students at the college compete in Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne (EISM) competitions. Each season lasts either one or two terms, and consists of a normal season and finals.
Swimming and athletic carnivals are also available for the champions of the inter-house tournaments.
EISM premierships
Kingswood has won the following EISM senior premierships.
Combined:
Athletics (5) – 1979, 1980, 1981, 1999, 2000
Badminton – 2019
Swimming – 1979
Boys:
Athletics (2) – 1999, 2000
Basketball (4) – 1996, 1999, 2001, 2005
Cricket (5) – 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2019
Cross Country – 2005
Football (2) – 2001, 2004
Football 12's (2) – 2018, 2019
Hockey (2) – 2000, 2002
Soccer (2) – 1996, 1997
Swimming (4) – 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981
Table Tennis (4) – 1981, 1997, 2003, 2014
Tennis – 2018
Girls:
Athletics – 1999
Basketball (4) – 1982, 1998, 2016, 2021
Cross Country – 2001
Netball (2) – 1998, 2006
Soccer (5) – 1998, 2005, 2007, 2016, 2020
Softball (3) – 1998, 2000, 2015
Table Tennis (6) – 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2018
Tennis – 1998
Volleyball (3) – 1998, 2000, 2001
Performing arts
House performing arts, or HPA, takes place in the later half of the year, and is optional for students to take part in. Each house has 15 minutes to present a piece that includes elements of music, drama, and dance. This is then judged out of 500, and the winner is awarded with the House Cup.
Each house presents their piece twice, once in the early afternoon to the school and a panel of judges, and one in the evening to the general public.
References
Sources
Wesley College - The First Hundred Years Geoffrey Blainey, James Morrisey and S.E.K. Hulme (1967) Robertson & Mullens
External links
Kingswood College
Former Methodist schools in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1890
Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne
Private schools in Victoria (state)
Uniting Church schools in Australia
Junior School Heads Association of Australia Member Schools
1890 establishments in Australia
Buildings and structures in the City of Whitehorse | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingswood%20College%20%28Box%20Hill%29 |
Bugaboo Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located in the central Purcell Mountains.
It was established in 1995 as an amalgamation of Bugaboo Glacier Park, Bugaboo Alpine Recreation Area, and various adjacent lands. The park is known primarily for the Bugaboos, a formation of mountains that attracts climbers and mountaineers, and for the Conrad Kain hut, an alpine hut managed by the Alpine Club of Canada.
Climate
Bugaboo has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc).
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Columbia Valley
Purcell Mountains
1995 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas established in 1995
Buildings and structures in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugaboo%20Provincial%20Park |
Buccaneer Bay Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 17 km west of Sechelt on North Thormanby Island, offshore from the community of Halfmoon Bay.
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Sunshine Coast (British Columbia)
Provincial Parks of the Gulf Islands
1989 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccaneer%20Bay%20Provincial%20Park |
Broughton Archipelago Provincial Park is the largest marine provincial park located in British Columbia, Canada. The park is located in the Queen Charlotte Strait around 30 km east of Port McNeill, a town situated on Vancouver Island. In terms of its functions, the park offers tourism opportunities such as kayaking and whale watching, preserves a wide array of wildlife including many at-risk species, and has a long history of use by First Nation peoples.
Geography
Broughton Archipelago Park is located near the south-eastern end of the Queen Charlotte Strait and the mouth of Knight Inlet. The Park’s boundary is defined by the archipelago on which it is situated, encompassing the majority of the smaller islands in said archipelago. In spite of this, the boundary deviates around Crease, Midsummer and Swanson island and covers only portions of Berry and Baker Island, making the majority of the park's area situated among small islands and the ocean.
Ecology
The park contains many different examples of flora and fauna endemic across much of the Pacific Northwest. Examples of the marine life that inhabit the waters of the park include cutthroat trout and salmon varieties such as pink, chinook, or coho. Likewise, the park is home to many examples of marine mammals including harbor seals, sea lions, porpoises, dolphins and a variety of whale species. Additionally, the islands are home to both clam gardens that are dotted around intertidal areas as well as a historically sporadic community of pacific white-sided dolphins.
Aside from the mainly marine animals, a few of the many terrestrial animals that inhabit the area are as follows: black bears, grizzly bears, mink, and raccoons. In terms of flora, the forests across the islands contain 63% of British Columbia's protected examples of Outer Fiordland Ecosection Coastal Western Hemlock.
Species at Risk
There are many species that inhabit the park, including many that are categorized as being under some level threat. Species at risk whose range includes areas of the marine park are the northern abalone, marbled murrelet, killer whale, and sea otter. In terms of how these species are faring, two of the populations of killer whale that inhabit the area have been growing in recent years. The northern resident population has experienced growth from 1973 to 2021 except for small fluctuations between 1990 and 2003. The second population of killer whales, the west coast transient stock, experienced rapid growth during the 1970s to 1990s, where population growth slowed down but stayed positive. Northern abalone, which live within the boundaries of the park, have faced a large decline in their population since the 1970s and the latest report on their numbers indicated no significant recovery in abalone populations. Conservation of these species and the ecosystem as a whole is one of the primary purposes of the park.
History
Prior to European colonization, the First Nations had a village situation along Charles Creek. The village was strategically located on the water to take advantage of the annual salmon run; however, a landslide destroyed the village. In 1906, a cannery was built on the old site, which was subsequently destroyed by another landslide in 1933. Due to the growing demand for salmon, the archipelago was used for aquaculture starting in 1987.
On September 16, 1992, Broughton Archipelago Marine Park was created by Order in Council No.1489 by converting crown land into a Class A Provincial Park. The park was created under the auspices of both the BC Land Act and the BC Park Act by the government of BC Premier Mike Harcourt.
Broughton Archipelago Provincial Park was established for three purposes: protecting the ecosystem, providing a recreational area, and preserving the cultural heritage of the area. The primary purpose of the creation of the park was to protect the natural ecosystem because it represents large portions of three ecosections of the British Columbia coast and is home to several uncommon species. The second goal for the park was to create a recreational area that can be used for a variety of water-based recreational activities such as kayaking, diving, and fishing. The third purpose of the park was to protect the history of the region, particularly the cultural heritage of the Kwakiutl First Nation.
Indigenous Presence
Broughton Archipelago Provincial Park (established in 1992) was one of many provincial parks established by B.C.’s Protected Areas Strategy. The archipelago is situated on the ancestral territories of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw people of the Northwest coast. What was once one large group, the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw Nation has been subject to separation through time. These separate groups ranged throughout the archipelago and thrived off its ecosystems. However, the arrival of European settlers and disease to the West Coast caused the dispossession and abandonment of sacred Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw territory, and forced movement and increased interactions between groups. Today, the Dzawada'enuxw, Gwawaenuk, Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis, Mamalilikulla, and ‘Na̲mg̲is nations are among those who remain.
These groups, who have stewarded the Broughton Archipelago since time immemorial, coexisted with the many other species of animals who also called this area home. Among the species that inhabited the region, there are arguably none more important than the five species of Pacific salmon. For the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw people, salmon were not just a food source, but also an integral part of their culture. Although, with the arrival of early settlers came resource extraction, and Pacific salmon were unfortunately a major victim. Fish farms (commercial breeding) in the Broughton archipelago devastated local stocks through various changes to the environment, such as diseases like sea lice (see below) and intensified competition between species.
A change was needed, so the Dzawada'enuxw, Gwawaenuk, Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis, Mamalilikulla, and ‘Na̲mg̲is nations came together to form what is known as the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council (MTTC). The MTTC has, and continues to play a large role in ensuring a collaborative approach to resource management decisions in the region, both on land and in the water. Media platforms like Facebook and magazines like The Tyee have also been significant for informing the public about these issues and ensuring that concerns are recognized and dealt with. In 2018, a breakthrough document - a letter of understanding (LOU) between the BC government and the MTTC was finally realized. This letter set the foundation for a consent-based approach for all future decisions relating to the archipelago's ecosystems.
To this day, these actions have seen great effect towards conservation efforts, even going as far as having the BC government agree to phase out all fish farms rejected by the council.
Human Impacts
Aquaculture
In the archipelago lie several salmon farms. The first salmon farm was introduced into Broughton Archipelago in 1987 and production steadily rose to 17 Gg (gigagrams) by 1999. However, due to the nature of open-net pen salmon aquaculture, the tight space became a breeding ground for sea lice.
Sea louse are common in both wild and farmed adult salmon populations, they feed on the host surface tissue leading to mortality in high infection rates. After a collapse of pink salmon fish stocks in 2000 and 2001, scientists investigated juvenile pink salmon and found that over 90% were infested with sea lice caused by the fish farms. Pink salmon are not like other species in that they do not rear in freshwater for the developing stages of their life. Instead, once hatched, they go straight out to sea and develop for the first few months in intertidal zones. At this stage, salmonids are particularly vulnerable to infestation as it is correlated to reduced survival.
Climate Change
Warmer water temperatures are associated with higher infection of parasites and pathogens. In the 1970s, fish farms were located on the Sunshine Coast, but due to warming water temperatures, there were severe losses in product caused by algal blooms and disease. So these farms migrated to cooler waters up north and settled in Broughton Archipelago. Outbreaks in parasites are found to be more severe in warmer temperatures, and temperature increases are expected to increase the frequency of outbreaks. Due to warming temperatures, parasites and pathogens are expected to shift their geographic distribution.
Noise Pollution
Pinnipeds and cetaceans are common inhabitants of Broughton Archipelago. Both use echolocation to communicate, hunt, and orientate themselves in the water. Many aquaculture farms have implemented acoustic harassment devices to deter predators. Originally designed to deter seals from fish farms, other species with similar hearing thresholds can also be affected by the noise. The first acoustic harassment device was implemented at the beginning of 1993 and then more were subsequently implemented. The high-powered acoustic harassment devices were designed to cause physical pain to marine mammals. They have been implemented on marine fishing gear, aquaculture, and disturbed estuarine habitats. While this deters marine mammals from fish farms, it also causes long-term displacement.
Tourism
Broughton Archipelago has become a destination spot for many activities. Due to the geography of the archipelago with its dozens of islands, inlets, and channels, kayaking and canoeing are some of the most popular activities. In addition, recreational fishing is also a common activity due to the amount of pink salmon that spawn there every year. Visitors can also experience whale watching in the area. The southern resident killer whales live in the area year-round and humpback whales return to the area in the summer. There are also camping opportunities. While there are no formal campsites, kayakers use some areas year round. For those visitors more inclined to educational opportunities, there is cultural tourism to learn from the First Nation communities.
External links
Broughton Archipelago Provincial Park at BC Parks
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Central Coast of British Columbia
1992 establishments in British Columbia
Marine parks of Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton%20Archipelago%20Provincial%20Park |
Browne Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located 22 km east-southeast of Kelowna in the Okanagan Highland, near Big White Ski Resort and between the heads of Hydraulic and Grouse Creeks.
The park was established in 2004 by Order-in-Council, to protect the Interior Douglas-fir-Montane Spruce transition forest.
Browne Lake Ecological Reserve, comprising 114 hectares, lies to its northwest, and had been established in 1973, to protect a wet meadow ecosystem and surrounding forest in the Interior Cedar Hemlock zone.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Monashee Mountains
Provincial parks in the Okanagan
2004 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas established in 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browne%20Lake%20Provincial%20Park |
Parts of this article have been adapted from the BC Parks website.
M𐞥uqʷin/Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park is a provincial park located on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
History
As a result of land-use planning for Vancouver Island, this former 28,780 hectare (71,117 acre) recreation area (established in 1986) was upgraded in 1995 to a Class 'A' Provincial Park. In addition to this upgrade, 22,851 hectares (56,466 acres) known as the Brooks-Nasparti area, has been added to the park. On July 13, 2009, the park was renamed Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park (a.k.a. M𐞥uqʷin Provincial Park) and, in 2018, M𐞥uqʷin/Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park under the guidance of the Che:k'tles7et'h' peoples.
Geography
The park is 51,631 hectares (127,583 acres) in size. Brooks Peninsula is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Port Alice, British Columbia. Access to the park is by boat or float plane.
Brooks Peninsula juts 20 kilometres (12 mi) into the Pacific Ocean and has a rugged and varied coastline, with long fjords and sandy beaches. The inland is seldom-explored and densely wooded with mostly old growth forest.
The highest point is a sub-peak of Snowsaddle Mountain at 1143 m (3,750 ft) elevation. Mountains in the park, known as the Refugium Range, include Klaskish (963m or 3,159 ft), Nunatak (930m or 3,051 ft), and Doom (787m or 2,582 ft). Peaks in the area higher than 700 m (2,300 ft) were above the glaciers during the last ice age and are therefore a refugium with unique plants.
Conservation
Unaffected by the last ice age, Brooks Peninsula is considered a unique geologic feature. As a result, the geology of the peninsula is different from that of the rest of Vancouver Island and many rare plant communities exist, providing unparalleled opportunities for scientific study. This remote wilderness area includes an extensive, wild ocean coastline, long sheltered inlets, rugged mountains, pristine estuaries with high waterfowl and fishery values and high biodiversity values associated with old-growth forests. The Brooks-Nasparti addition encompasses the entire watershed of the Nasparti River and streams draining into Johnson Lagoon, the west-facing slopes along Nasparti Inlet, the Power River and Battle Creek watersheds and the Mount Seaton area
The park preserves the peninsula's pristine wilderness landscape, which contains the Refugium Range of the Vancouver Island Ranges and Coastal Western Hemlock biogeoclimatic zone.
Cultural Heritage
The park is located within the traditional territory of the peoples comprising today's Kyuquot/Cheklesahht and Quatsino First Nations band governments. Battle Bay in the southern portion of the park is rich in First Nations cultural history. Many battles were fought at this location in order to retain control of this prosperous area. First Nations reserves located adjacent to the southern portion of Brooks Peninsula Provincial Park are not for recreational use. Visitors are encouraged to contact the Kyuquot/Cheklesahht First Nation band office in Kyuquot prior to exploring Brooks Peninsula.
Recreation
Brooks Peninsula is infrequently visited; its surrounding waters however provide superb kayaking and canoeing. It is entirely undeveloped and has no marked trails and no facilities, although in some locations ocean debris is placed at known trail heads.
Camping is permitted anywhere in the park, but made complicated due to the remoteness, difficulty of access, and lack of facilities.
Nearby Solander Island is an Ecological Reserve and access is prohibited.
Gallery
See also
List of British Columbia Provincial Parks
List of Canadian provincial parks
References
External links
Brooks Peninsula Marine Provincial Park at BC Parks
Brooks Peninsula at the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia
A collection of aerial photos of Brooks Peninsula
Peninsulas of British Columbia
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Kyuquot Sound region
Kwakwaka'wakw
Nuu-chah-nulth
1995 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%20Peninsula%20Provincial%20Park |
The National Division (, , ) is the highest football league in Luxembourg. Until 2011, it was known as the BGL Ligue, after the Luxembourg Football Federation managed to seal a sponsorship deal with Fortis. Before 2006, it contained twelve teams, but it expanded to fourteen for the 2006–07 season. Following the abandonment of the previous season, the 2020–21 season saw the further expansion of the league to 16 teams. The current champions are Swift Hesperange.
The competition was first held in 1909–10, and has been held every year since, with the exceptions of 1912–13 and four seasons during the Second World War. The competition was called the Luxembourgish Championship (, ) until 1913–14. From the 1914–15 season until 1931–32 it was called the Premier Division (, ). It was then called the Division of Honour (, ) from 1932–33 to 1956–57. Since the 1957–58 season, the competition has been known as the National Division. Presently, the representatives of the National Division occupy three bottom places in the UEFA all-time Champions League table.
Winners
Champions were (team names in French):
Statistics
Performance by club
Teams in bold are playing in First Division. Teams in italics no longer exist.
Top scorers
References
External links
League on FIFA.com (archived 17 December 2013)
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Top level football leagues in Europe
Sports leagues established in 1909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg%20National%20Division |
Bromley Rock Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Bromley Rock is a popular swimming, canoeing and cliff jumping destination located on the Similkameen River, approximately fifteen minutes from Princeton.
History
Bromley Rock Provincial Park was established on March 16, 1956. Bromley Rock is a traditional First nations fishing site.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Similkameen Country
1956 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley%20Rock%20Provincial%20Park |
Bridge Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the eastern end of the lake of the same name, adjacent to the community of the same name, which is the largest community on the Interlakes Highway. It was established in 1956, and a merge with the nearby Bridge Lake Centennial Park in 2004 and another expansion in 2013 brought the park to its current size.
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Geography of the Cariboo
1956 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas established in 1956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20Lake%20Provincial%20Park |
Tā Chilā Provincial Park, formerly Boya Lake Provincial Park, is a provincial park located in the Stikine Region of British Columbia, Canada. The park located 120 km north-by-northwest of the community of Dease Lake near BC Highway 37 (the Stewart–Cassiar Highway). Boya Lake is named for Charlie Boya, a First Nations man from the area.
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Cassiar Country
1965 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81%20Ch%27il%C4%81%20Provincial%20Park |
Boyle Point Provincial Park and Protected Area is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the south end of Denman Island in the western Gulf of Georgia.
References
External links
Provincial Parks of the Gulf Islands
Provincial parks of British Columbia
1989 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle%20Point%20Provincial%20Park%20and%20Protected%20Area |
Brackendale Eagles Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the Squamish River adjacent to Brackendale, a suburban neighbourhood of Squamish. It is notable for its eagle population during the winter months and is inaccessible to visitors.
History
In 1992, the government of British Columbia announced its Protected Areas Strategy that would protect 12% of the province by 2000. The west side of the Squamish River, which is recognized as a critical wintering site for bald eagles, was selected for protection as part of the strategy, and Brackendale Eagles Provincial Park was formally established in 1999. The park is the holder of the world record for bald eagles counted, with 3,769 in 1994.
Ecology
The park is a critical wintering site for bald eagles, who feed off salmon in the Squamish and Cheakamus Rivers during the winter, and the park hosts approximately 148 other species of bird. The park is also home to several large mammals species; these are black bear, Roosevelt elk, bobcat, cougar, grey wolf, Columbian black-tailed deer, and coyote. There are many small mammals, such as northern flying squirrels, yellow pine chipmunks, and snowshoe hares. Reptiles and amphibians are also present in the park, although with a smaller variety of species than that of the park's mammals.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Sea-to-Sky Corridor
1999 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackendale%20Eagles%20Provincial%20Park |
Brandywine Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located adjacent to BC Highway 99 between Garibaldi and Whistler, British Columbia. It is managed by Sea to Sky Parks for BC Parks.
Falls
The falls are located on Brandywine Creek, which has its origin in the Powder Mountain Icefield to the west, and are formed by the lip of a lava flow flanking the west bank of the Cheakamus River. Just downstream of the falls is Daisy Lake.
At least four basaltic lava flows of Late Pleistocene age comprise the vertical walls surrounding Brandywine Falls. These Cheakamus Valley basalts are part of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, a northwest-southeast chain of volcanoes and related lavas that form the northern end of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. The lava flowed over deposits of glacial till, silt, and gravel then cooled creating a hard weather resistant top cap over loose unconsolidated material easily weathered. The perfect conditions for a water fall creation. 10,000 years later ice from the Fraser Glaciation receded from Cheakamus Valley releasing melt water and creating Brandywine Creek. This worked its way downstream and started to erode the looser material and undercut the hard basalt top layer, creating the falls.
History
The name Brandywine is believed to have come from a wager between two surveyors (Jack Nelson and Bob Mollison) for the Howe Sound and Northern Railway over the height of the Falls. The closest guess winning a bottle of brandy (wine). The height was measured with a chain and it was Mollison who won the bottle of brandy and Nelson then named the falls Brandywine.
Another explanation of the naming of the falls comes from around the 1890s when Charles Chandler and George Mitchell passed out there after drinking too much brandywine in their tea.
Around the early 1900s Brandywine Falls used to have a train station and many log cabins adjacent to the falls. Some cabins can still be seen in a dilapidated state by the side of the trail. As part of the improvements of Highway 99 for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the area was subject to many day-use improvements which replaced overnight camping with parking and picnic tables.
References
External links
Brandywine Falls Hiking Guide - provides hiking directions to the falls.
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Waterfalls of British Columbia
Sea-to-Sky Corridor
1973 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas established in 1973
New Westminster Land District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandywine%20Falls%20Provincial%20Park |
Jamaal RaShaad Jones Charles (born December 27, 1986) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns, where he won the 2006 Rose Bowl, and was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
Charles began his career as a backup to halfback Larry Johnson, rushing only 67 times for 357 yards in his rookie season. His breakout season came the following year in 2009. In his second year, Charles rushed 190 times for 1,120 yards, despite only starting 10 games after Johnson was suspended. Shortly thereafter, Johnson was released, leaving Charles as Kansas City's starting halfback. Over the next several seasons he would make four Pro Bowls and two All-Pro teams, and would lead the league in rushing touchdowns in 2013. Charles later suffered injuries, which lead to him appearing in just five games in 2015 and 2016, and he was eventually released by the team.
Charles then played a season for the Denver Broncos and had a 2-game stint for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2018. He is the all-time leader in yards per carry among players with at least 1,000 carries with 5.4 yards per carry.
Early years
Charles has reported being diagnosed with a learning disability as a child, having difficulty reading, and being mocked and teased. In 2015, he shared his experience including being invited to participate in the Special Olympics: "[...] I was afraid. I was lost. When I was a boy, I had trouble reading. I found out I had a learning disability. People made fun of me. They said I would never go anywhere. But I learned I can fly. When I was 10 years old, I had a chance to compete in the Special Olympics. That's right, the Special Olympics gave me my first chance to discover the talent I did not know that I had. When I competed in the Special Olympics, I found out just how fast I was. I stood high on the podium, getting the gold medal in track and field."
Charles attended and played high school football for Memorial High School of Port Arthur, Texas. As a junior, he ran for 2,051 yards and 25 touchdowns while leading Memorial to the 5A Division II quarterfinals. He was named first-team all-state by the Texas Sports Writers Association and second-team all-state by the Associated Press.
Charles followed up his stellar junior season by rushing for 2,056 yards and 25 touchdowns during his senior year with the Titans. The Associated Press named him to their first-team all-state squad and he was declared the Houston Chronicle area offensive MVP. Charles was also named to the 2005 Parade All-America Football Team and was the District 22-5A Player of the Year both his junior and senior year. Charles participated in the 2005 U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
Charles is a two-time recipient of the Willie Ray Smith Award, which is given to the southeast Texas offensive MVP.
College career
Track
Charles was a standout track athlete at Port Arthur (TX) Memorial. In the summer between his sophomore and junior years, Charles won the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics. He went on to win the 110m hurdles and 300m hurdles Texas 5A state championships with times of 13.69 and 36.03 seconds, respectively, his senior year.
In college he ran track during his freshman year, competing in both the indoor and outdoor seasons. On March 11, 2006, Charles placed fourth in the NCAA 60-meter indoor track and field championship finals. On May 14, 2006, Charles captured his first conference title and the third Big 12 100-meter title for Texas by winning the event in 10.23 at the Big 12 outdoor meet. He led the 200 meter race after the preliminary round but elected not to participate in the final, as Texas had the Big 12 team title well in hand. On June 10, at the NCAA outdoor competition, Charles took fifth place in the 100 meter finals, edging out UTEP's stand-out sprinter Churandy Martina (sixth place), who earlier in the year ran a 9.76 (wind-aided) 100-meters. Charles also placed seventh in the 200 meter finals, and ran the third leg of the 4 × 100 Texas Longhorn relay team, earning a fifth place in the finals. Charles's efforts helped the Longhorns earn a third place showing for the men's track and field team, the highest since a second-place finish at the 1997 NCAA finals. Charles completed his collegiate track career as a four-time All-American (60m indoor, 100m outdoor, 200m outdoor, 4 × 100 m relay outdoor).
Personal bests
Football
Charles attended and played college football for the University of Texas from 2005 to 2007 under head coach Mack Brown.
2005 season
In his true freshman season with the Longhorns, Charles was an instant contributor in a crowded backfield that included Vince Young as a dual-threat quarterback. In his collegiate debut against Louisiana-Lafayette, he had 14 carries for 135 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 60–3 victory. Two weeks later, against Rice, he had 16 carries for 189 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns in the 51–10 victory. On October 8, in the Red River Showdown against Oklahoma, he had nine carries 116 rushing yards and a touchdown in the 45–12 victory. Texas ended up going 11–0 in the regular season to earn a berth in the Big 12 Championship Game against Colorado. Against the Buffaloes, he had seven carries for 62 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns in the 70–3 victory. The victory put Texas in the National Championship Game in the Rose Bowl against the USC Trojans. He had five carries for 34 rushing yards in the 41–38 victory as Texas claimed a perfect season and National Championship.
Overall, Charles rushed 119 times for 878 yards and 11 touchdowns, averaging 7.4 yards per carry. He finished second on the team in rushing attempts and rushing yards and third in rushing touchdowns.
2006 season
In the 2006 season, the Longhorns' rushing offense dropped significantly from the prior year going from 274.9 yards per game to 162.6 yards per game. Despite the down year for the rushing offense and sharing the backfield with Selvin Young, Charles's production remained consistent compared to his freshman year. He went over 100 rushing yards once, which was against in-state rival Rice in the Longhorns' third game, a 52–7 victory. He found the endzone on the ground twice on November 11 against Kansas State in a 45–42 loss. He had a 72-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Colt McCoy in the 2006 Alamo Bowl 26–24 victory over Iowa. Overall, he finished with 831 rushing yards, seven rushing touchdowns, 18 receptions, 183 receiving yards, and one receiving touchdown.
2007 season
In the summer prior to the 2007 season, some observers believed he was the fastest college running back in the upcoming season. CBS SportsLine said, "Track star Jamaal Charles has the potential at running back to enjoy a break-out season and possesses the kind of breakaway speed that lead to an 80-yard rush and a 70-yard catch last season." Athlon Sports remarked, "Over the last two years, running back Jamaal Charles has run for 1,702 yards at 6.2 yards per carry with 18 touchdowns despite starting only four games. He has the job to himself and should have a breakout year."
In 2007, Charles rushed for 1,619 yards, with an average of 6.3 yards per carry. Charles started the season with 27 carries for 112 rushing yards and a touchdown in a 21–13 victory over Arkansas State. In the next game, a 34–13 victory over rival TCU, he had
22 carries for 134 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. In the next game, a 35–32 away victory at Central Florida, he had 22 carries for 153 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown, which put the Longhorns up by two possessions late in the game. In the next game, he had 14 carries for 72 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns in a 58–14 victory over Rice. Despite his successes early in the season, Mack Brown and Greg Davis hinted that Charles could face less playing time as a result of his fumbling problems. Charles said that he felt a deep remorse over his fumbles and felt that he is the biggest reason the team lost to the Oklahoma Sooners in the 2007 Red River Shootout. Texas running backs coach Ken Rucker and former Longhorn running back Earl Campbell both worked with Charles on his ball handling. Greg Davis said he wanted to get the ball to Charles "in space", on pitches and passes, instead of in heavy traffic up the center.
On October 28, 2007, Charles rushed 33 times for 290 yards in the 28–25 victory, the most ever against the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the fourth-highest total in Texas Longhorns history. His 216 yards in the fourth quarter were just six shy of the NCAA record for a single quarter set by the University of Washington Huskies's Corey Dillon in 1996. For these accomplishments, Charles won a fan vote for AT&T All-America Player of the Week. He followed that up with 16 carries for 180 rushing yards and three rushing touchdowns in a 38–35 victory over Oklahoma State. On November 10, against rival Texas Tech, he had 23 carries for 174 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 59–43 victory. In the Holiday Bowl against Arizona State, he had 27 carries for 161 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns in the 52–34 victory.
Charles decided to forgo his senior season with Texas in favor of joining the NFL as a professional football player in the 2008 NFL Draft. This decision came after earlier statements that he would stay with Texas. In November, Charles said he would return for his senior season rather than enter professional football in the NFL. Sources reported in December 2007 that Charles and fellow Longhorn Jermichael Finley had filed paperwork with the NFL to evaluate how high they might be drafted if they decided enter professional football in the NFL Draft instead of returning for their senior season. Mack Brown did not comment about specific players but said, "We always try to help our guys get as much information as possible when it comes to the NFL. We encourage and help them go through the process... All of our underclassmen have told us they will be coming back, but if you're playing well enough to be considered an NFL prospect, going through the process can only help you better understand it and realize what you need to work on to improve your status." Charles said he would not go pro unless he was predicted to be chosen in the first round of the draft. After the Holiday Bowl, Charles said, "Right now, I'm probably coming back. I didn't think I did that good in the game. Next year maybe I'll be up for the Heisman. I will come back." From 2000–2007, the Longhorns have had seven players taken in the Top 10 draft picks by the NFL, more than any other school. On January 2, Charles announced he received and was happy with the results of his draft evaluation and that he would declare for the draft.
Despite skipping his senior year, Charles ranked fourth in the list of total-rushing yards by a Texas player, behind Ricky Williams, Cedric Benson, and Earl Campbell, with 3,328 yards. Williams and Campbell each won the Heisman Trophy in their senior season.
In 2020 he was named to the Longhorns Hall of Honor.
College statistics
Professional career
Kansas City Chiefs
2008 season
The Kansas City Chiefs selected Charles in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft with the 73rd overall pick, acquired from the Minnesota Vikings in the Jared Allen trade. He was the ninth running back to be selected that year. Charles thought he would go early in the second round but said he had no regrets about leaving college early. Charles was expected to begin his career as the Chiefs' No. 3 back behind Larry Johnson and Kolby Smith.
In his NFL debut, Charles started the game and rushed for 28 yards on five carries and had two receptions for six yards in the 17–10 loss to the New England Patriots in Week 1. In Week 9, with Larry Johnson out, Charles had 18 carries for 106 rushing yards in a 30–27 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In Week 12, against the Buffalo Bills, Charles had his first professional touchdown on a 36-yard reception from quarterback Tyler Thigpen in the 54–31 loss. In Week 16, Charles had three catches for 102 receiving yards, including a 75-yard reception to help set up a Larry Johnson rushing touchdown, against the Miami Dolphins in the 38–31 loss. In Charles's rookie season, he ended with 67 carries for 357 rushing yards for a 5.3 yards per carry average. In addition, he had 27 receptions for 272 receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.
2009 season
In the first six games of the 2009 season, Charles saw a limited role with 23 carries for 116 rushing yards and 14 receptions for 120 receiving yards to go along with kick return duties. During Week 9 of the 2009 NFL season, Larry Johnson was released and Charles was promoted to first-string but split carries with Kolby Smith. In limited action against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 9, Charles managed 36 yards on only six carries for a six-yard per carry average. During Week 10, against the Oakland Raiders, Charles ran for 103 yards on 18 carries including a 44-yard touchdown run, the Chiefs first rushing touchdown of the year and the first rushing touchdown of Charles's professional career, in the 16–10 victory. In Week 11, in a 27–24 overtime victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Charles returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown. He went on to have 17 carries for 58 rushing yards and had a two-yard reception for a touchdown. Charles became the fourth player in franchise history to have a receiving touchdown and a kickoff return touchdown in the same game. Charles was named AFC Special Teams Player of the Week. In Week 14, against the Buffalo Bills, Charles ran for a 76-yard touchdown, one of the longest runs in Chiefs history, as part of a 20-carry, 143-rushing yard performance. In Week 15, against the Cleveland Browns, he had 25 carries for 154 rushing yards and one rushing touchdown in the 41–34 loss. In Week 16, in a 17–10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, he had 24 carries for 102 rushing yards. In Week 17, on the road against the Denver Broncos, Charles rushed for a career-high 259 yards on 25 carries, scoring two rushing touchdowns and breaking the Chiefs' single-game rushing record, in the 44–24 victory. Charles became only the fourth player in NFL history to run for over 250 yards in a single game while averaging over 10 yards a carry. On the season, he became the only player in NFL history to rush for 1,100 or more yards in 200 or fewer carries.
2010 season
In the 2010 season, Charles shared the majority of backfield carries with Thomas Jones. The Chiefs opened up the 2010 season with a 21–14 win over their division rival, the San Diego Chargers. In that game, Charles played a pivotal role, including a 56-yard rushing score. On October 31, against the Buffalo Bills, he had 22 carries for 177 rushing yards in the 13–10 victory. On November 28, against the Seattle Seahawks, he had 22 carries for 173 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 42–24 victory. In the following game, he had 136 scrimmage yards in the 10–6 victory over the Denver Broncos. In Week 15, against the St. Louis Rams, he had 153 scrimmage yards and a rushing touchdown in the 27–13 victory. Charles finished the season with 1,467 rushing yards and five rushing touchdowns on only 230 carries. In addition, he had 45 receptions for 468 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns. He was voted to his first career Pro Bowl. His 6.38 yards per carry average for the season was the second-highest average in NFL history, second only to Hall of Famer Jim Brown, only two one-hundredths of a yard off of the record pace set by the Browns legend.
On December 11, 2010, the Chiefs reached an agreement with Charles on a five-year, $32.5 million deal that included $13 million guaranteed. Charles made his postseason debut in the Wild Card Round against the Baltimore Ravens. He had nine carries for 82 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 30–7 loss. In the 2011 Pro Bowl, Charles rushed for 72-yards on 10 carries and scored one touchdown. Charles was honored for his performance in the 2010 season by being selected to his first AP All-Pro team. On the NFL Network's Top 100 Players of 2011, Charles was ranked the 33rd by his fellow players and was also one of the youngest players on the list.
2011 season
Charles's 2011 season was short lived. In Week 2, against the Detroit Lions, he suffered an ACL injury. Chiefs head coach Todd Haley confirmed the next day that Charles would miss the remainder of the 2011 season. He was officially placed on injured reserve on September 19.
2012 season
Coming off of an ACL injury in 2011, Charles had an All-Pro caliber season, running for 1,509 yards and five touchdowns. Once again, Charles proved to be very efficient running the ball as he managed a 5.3 yard per carry average on the year. In the season opening 40–24 loss to the Atlanta Falcons, he had 87 rushing yards on 16 carries in his first action back from injury.
In Week 3 against the New Orleans Saints, Charles ran a career-high 33 times for 233 rushing yards, scored a rushing touchdown, and caught six passes for 55 yards to earn his first AFC Offensive Player of the Week nod. Charles became the first player in franchise history to rush for at least 200 rushing yards and have at least 50 receiving yards in the same game. His 91-yard rushing touchdown in the third quarter was the longest rushing play in franchise history, a feat later tied by Damien Williams in the 2019 season.
In Week 5 against Baltimore Ravens, Charles had 31 carries for 140 rushing yards in the 9–6 loss. However, in Week 8, Charles carried the ball only five times for four rushing yards in a 26–16 loss to the Oakland Raiders. When asked the reason why, head coach Romeo Crennel said "Now, that I'm not exactly sure, either."
Starting In Week 10 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Charles reeled off a stretch where he had over 100 scrimmage yards, including 165 rushing yards against the Cleveland Browns, in five consecutive games. In a 20–13 loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Week 16, Charles carried the ball 22 times for 226 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. He became the second player in franchise history, joining Larry Johnson, to record two games with at least 200 rushing yards in a single season. Charles's performance was his second career game with over 200 rushing yards while averaging more than ten yards a carry. He became only the second player in NFL history to accomplish the feat, after Adrian Peterson, who accomplished his feat in the 2012 season as well. Charles carried the ball at least 20 times in six games, and in each of those games managed at least 100 yards. This has been a trend throughout his entire career, in every game he has carried the ball 20 times, he has gained at least 100 yards. On December 23, 2012, following his qualifying 750th career carry, Charles broke NFL legend Jim Brown's 47-year-old all-time average yards per carry record of 5.22 with an average of 5.82. He was named to his second Pro Bowl as a result of his successful season. On the NFL Top 100 Players of 2013, he was ranked 20th by his peers
2013 season
Charles started the 2013 season with scoring at least one touchdown in each of the first seven games. In Weeks 12 and 14, he went over 150 scrimmage yards and scored two touchdowns in both games against the San Diego Chargers and Washington Redskins.
On December 15, in the second divisional game against the Oakland Raiders in Week 15, Charles had eight receptions for 195 receiving yards, eight carries for 20 rushing yards, and five total touchdowns (four receiving, one rushing) in a 56–31 Chiefs victory. Charles's performance made him the first Chiefs player to score five touchdowns in a game since Abner Haynes accomplished the feat for the Dallas Texans in 1961. He became the first player in NFL history to have four touchdown receptions and one rushing touchdown in a single game. He scored 30 total fantasy points in the game, which was tied with for the most by any player in a single game in the 2013 season, and earned AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors. Charles's performance was only the 11th game in NFL history where a player accounted for at least 30 points, the first since Clinton Portis accomplished the feat against the Chiefs in 2003. His 195 receiving yards were the fourth-most for a running back in a single game in NFL history and the most since Marshall Faulk had 204 against the Chicago Bears in 1999.
Overall, Charles finished the 2013 season with 259 carries for 1,287 rushing yards and 12 rushing touchdowns to go along with 70 receptions for 693 receiving yards and seven receiving touchdowns. Charles ended up leading the team in targets, receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. His 12 rushing touchdowns tied with Marshawn Lynch for the league lead. In the Chiefs' Wild Card Round game against the Indianapolis Colts, Charles recorded three carries for 18 rushing yards before having to leave the 45–44 loss with a concussion in the first quarter.
Charles earned First-team All-Pro honors for the second time in his career. He was named to his second consecutive and third career Pro Bowl. He was ranked as the eighth best player in the NFL on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2014.
2014 season
On July 23, 2014, one day after threatening to hold out of training camp, Charles agreed to a two-year, $18.1 million extension making him one of the top five highest paid running backs in the NFL. On September 14, 2014, Charles suffered a high ankle sprain in Week 2 against the Denver Broncos. On September 29, against the New England Patriots, he had 18 carries for 92 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 41–14 victory to earn AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors. On October 19, against the San Diego Chargers, Charles passed Priest Holmes's mark of 6,070 rushing yards to become the all-time leading rusher for the Chiefs. In the next game, he had 67 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns in the 34–7 victory over the St. Louis Rams. On November 16, against the Seattle Seahawks, he had 159 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns in the 24–20 victory. On December 7, against the Arizona Cardinals, he had 111 scrimmage yards and two total touchdowns in the 17–14 loss. Overall, he finished the 2014 season with 1,033 rushing yards, nine rushing touchdowns, 40 receptions, 291 receiving yards, and five receiving touchdowns. He tied for the team lead in receiving touchdowns, with Travis Kelce, for the second time in his career. He was named to his third consecutive Pro Bowl for the 2014 season. He was ranked 12th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015.
2015 season
In the season opener against the Houston Texans, Charles had recorded 103 scrimmage yards and a receiving touchdown in the 27–20 victory. Four days later, against the Denver Broncos, he had 125 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the 24–31 loss. In the loss, he had a key fumble late in the game that was returned for a touchdown by Bradley Roby and gave the Broncos the winning points. In the next game, a 28–38 loss to the Green Bay Packers, he had 11 carries for 49 rushing yards and a career-high three rushing touchdowns. On October 11, Charles tore his ACL in his right knee in a Week 5 game against the Chicago Bears. He was placed on injured reserve ending his season. Despite the injury, Charles was still ranked 75th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016.
2016 season
Heading into the 2016 season, Charles never fully recovered from his torn ACL suffered the previous season. He returned to the field in Week 5 and played in three games, recording 40 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown along with two receptions for 14 yards. He suffered a setback with his knee prior to Week 8 and needed a second knee surgery to trim his meniscus. He was placed on injured reserve on November 1, 2016.
On February 28, 2017, Charles was released by the Chiefs.
Denver Broncos
On May 2, 2017, Charles signed a one-year, $3.75 million contract with the Denver Broncos. He was part of a backfield rotation that was shared with C. J. Anderson and Devontae Booker. In the season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers, Charles had 10 rushes for 40 yards but lost a fumble in the 24–21 victory. In Week 3, in a 26–16 loss to the Buffalo Bills, he scored his lone rushing touchdown of the season. In 14 games, he had 296 rushing yards, one rushing touchdown, 23 receptions, and 129 receiving yards.
Jacksonville Jaguars
Charles signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars on October 9, 2018. He was released on October 22, 2018. He played in two games with the Jaguars in the 2018 season and only totaled six carries for seven rushing yards and two receptions for seven receiving yards.
Retirement
On May 1, 2019, Charles retired after signing a one-day contract with the Chiefs. After signing the ceremonial contract, he went to the practice field for a ceremonial "last carry", which he took from Patrick Mahomes.
In September 2023, Charles was nominated for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
NFL career statistics
Regular season
Playoffs
Records
NFL records
Receiving touchdowns by a running back, single game: 4 (2013)
Career yards-per-carry among running backs, minimum 1000 attempts (5.4)
Kansas City Chiefs records
Longest rushing play from scrimmage: 91 (2013, tied)
Career rushing yards (7,260)
Rushing yards in a game: 259 (2010)
Receiving touchdowns in a game: 4 (2013, tied)
Awards and honors
NFL
2× First-team All-Pro (2010, 2013)
Second-team All-Pro (2012)
4× Pro Bowl (2010, 2012–2014)
NFL rushing touchdowns leader (2013)
College
BCS national champion (2005)
Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year (2005)
First-team All-Big 12 (2007)
Second-team All-Big 12 (2005)
References
External links
Official website
Twitter
Kansas City Chiefs bio
1986 births
Living people
African-American players of American football
American football running backs
Kansas City Chiefs players
Players of American football from Port Arthur, Texas
Texas Longhorns football players
American Conference Pro Bowl players
Unconferenced Pro Bowl players
Denver Broncos players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaal%20Charles |
Knock Out is a family tabletop game for two or more players published by the Milton Bradley Company in 1991.
Gameplay
The players set up a wall of plastic bricks of various colors, with a special large "Knockout" brick embedded in the center of the wall. On their turn, the active player rolls a color-coded die and then must remove a brick of the corresponding color from the wall with a small battery-powered "jackhammer". If the player is successful, the brick is placed on top of the wall, and play continues. If the player knocks more than one brick out of the wall, but the special "Knockout" brick remains in place, the brick that the player was attempting to remove is set on top of the wall, and the other downed bricks are removed from the game. If, however, the special "Knockout" brick is dislodged and hits the table, the offending player is eliminated, the remaining players rebuild the wall, and another round is played. This continues until only one player is left.
Each game takes about 15-20 minutes to play. The jackhammer, known in the game as the "Rammer Hammer", uses two AA batteries.
Reception
In 1992, FamilyFun declared Knock Out one of the best new games for children aged 8–10.
In a retrospective review in 2018, Eric Mortensen compared this to other stacking games requiring dexterity such as Jenga, saying, "The electric hammer does a good job of differentiating Knock Out from other similar games but at its core it is still a pretty average dexterity game." He also noted that "Like all stacking games where you begin with a built tower, you will spend close to as much time building the wall as you do playing a round." He warned potential buyers that "if you have never liked stacking games like Jenga, Knock Out is not going to be for you. If you want a more challenging game it also won’t be for you." He concluded by giving the game an average rating of 3 out of 5 stars, stating that for people who liked stacking games, "If you can get a good deal on Knock Out, I think it is worth looking into."
References
Milton Bradley Company games
tabletop games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock%20Out%20%28tabletop%20game%29 |
Big Bar Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It includes vehicle accessible camping, a boat launch, swimming, angling, and hiking opportunities. There are 46 campsites within the park in two very close campgrounds.
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Thompson-Nicola Regional District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bar%20Lake%20Provincial%20Park |
Boundary Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located south of Greenwood BC in that province's Boundary Country, adjacent to BC Highway 3. The eponymous Boundary Creek flows through the park.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Boundary Country
1956 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20Creek%20Provincial%20Park |
Benjamin ben Abraham Anaw (also known as Benjamin ben Abraham Anav) was a Roman Jewish liturgical poet, Talmudist, and commentator of the thirteenth century, and older brother of Zedekiah ben Abraham Anaw.
Perhaps the most gifted and learned of his Roman contemporaries (although chiefly a poet), Anaw possessed a thorough mastery of halakhic literature, diligently studied philology, mathematics, and astronomy, and wielded a keen, satirical pen.
Poetry
His poetical activity began in 1239, when Nicholas Donin, a Jewish convert to Christianity, assailed the Talmud and appealed to Pope Gregory IX to order its destruction and the persecution of its students. Donin's agitation filled the Roman Jews with terror, and they seem to have appointed a day for fasting and prayer. At that time—and possibly for that fast-day—Anaw composed a penitential hymn "To whom shall I flee for help"—an acrostic of twelve stanzas.
Donin's endeavors met meanwhile with great success. In June, 1239, several wagon-loads of Talmudic manuscripts were burned in Paris and Rome: at the latter place the Jewish cemetery was destroyed. These events stirred the poet to a bitter elegy, "My heart is convulsed", in which he deeply laments the fate of Israel and passionately appeals to God to avenge the desecration of the dead.
Anaw wrote numerous Hebrew poems for the liturgy, which are embodied in part in the Roman Machzor, partly still extant in manuscript. He is the author of the following works:
"The Burden of the Valley of Vision", a satirical poem directed against the arrogance of the wealthy and the nobility (Riva di Trento, 1560; reprinted, Lemberg, 1859, by M. Wolf, in his Hebrew chrestomathy (Israel's Praises).
"Alphabetical Commentary", on the Aramaic pieces of the Shavuot liturgy. In this treatise he exhibits a knowledge of Italian, Latin, Greek, and Arabic.
"Sefer Yedidut" (Book of Friendship), a ritualistic work, which has disappeared. It is mentioned by Anaw in the preface to his abridgment of Eliezer ben Samuel's "Sefer Yereim."
"Sha'arei Etz Chayyim" (The Gates Conducting to the Tree of Life), a work on practical ethics, in the form of moral sayings. The poem contains sixty-three strophes, arranged according to the letters of the alphabet. Each chapter deals with one virtue or one vice. Among the subjects treated are love, hospitality, faithfulness, cheating, thankfulness, shame, pride, charity. It was printed in Prague, 1598, and reprinted in "Kobetz al Yad".
Glosses to Rashi's commentary on the Bible and to Solomon ben Shabbethai's commentary on the "Sheëltot."
"Rules for Making a Calendar," in which he utilizes his mathematical and astronomical knowledge. This manuscript served several later writers on the same subject. Anaw was in correspondence with Abigdor Cohen, to whom he addressed numerous halakhic questions. He himself gave many halakhic decisions, which are referred to in his brother's work, Shibbolei haLekket.
References
Bibliography:
Hermann Vogelstein and Paul Rieger, Geschichte der Juden in Rom, i. 379 et seq.;
Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. No. 4514;
Zunz, Literaturgeschichte, pp. 352 et seq.;
Landshuth, 'Ammude ha-'Abodah, p. 51;
Moritz Güdemann, Gesch. des Erziehungswesens der Juden in Italien, p. 201;
Michael, Or ha-Chayyim, No. 570.
13th-century Italian rabbis
Writers from Rome
Jewish poets
13th-century poets
Rabbis from Rome
Jewish liturgical poets | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20ben%20Abraham%20Anaw |
Boulder Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located to the west of BC Highway 16 near Smithers, in the Bulkley Valley.
External links
Bulkley Valley
Provincial parks of British Columbia
1999 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder%20Creek%20Provincial%20Park |
Border Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the right (west) bank of the Unuk River and extending from that river's crossing of the Canada–United States border upstream.
External links
Boundary Ranges
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Canada–United States border
2001 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20Lake%20Provincial%20Park |
Bonaparte Provincial Park is an 11,811 hectare provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is located within the Bonaparte Plateau.
History
The park was established April 30, 1996 under the Kamloops Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) through the Environment and Land Use Act.
First nations use of the land is not well known. More recently it had been used as a ranchland by settlers and for fly in tourism. Prior to the development of the park a moratoria had been placed on timber harvesting in the area in 1974.
Geology
The park has many small hills formed by lava flow. This has led to the over 50 small interconnected lakes located within the park.
Geography
The park is located 55 kilometers northwest of Kamloops. Motorized vehicle access is most easily obtained via Jamieson Creek Road.
Park Boundaries
The Southern boundary of the park is formed by the Hiakwah-Shelley Lake chain. To the east are tree farm license lands. To the north and west are Provincial Forest lands.
Ecology
The park contains sub-alpine forest, small lakes and wetlands at high elevation. There are no known threatened species within the park. Cattle grazing is permitted within the park.
Recreation
There is no access within the park to motorized vehicles though snowmobile use is permitted in the southern portion. The park can also be accessed by floatplane and there are fly in fishing lodges. Horses are also permitted. All camping and hiking in the park is in the backcountry without any regular service or parks patrol. Seasonal hunting is permitted.
See also
Lac du Bois Grasslands Protected Area
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Geography of the Cariboo
1996 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonaparte%20Provincial%20Park |
Bodega Ridge Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is on Galiano Island, which lies between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, and comprises . The park's high cliffs are home to bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and turkey vultures.
The park was preserved as a result of a long fund-raising campaign from 1991 to 1995, which eventually gained the support of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. In recent years it has received donations from adjacent landowners, and has nearly doubled in size.
External links
– Souvenir of the preservation campaign, 1993.
Another preservation campaign PSA with Margaret Atwood & Graeme Gibson (bad audio)
Official website
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Galiano Island
2001 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodega%20Ridge%20Provincial%20Park |
Bocock Peak Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located in the Hart Ranges of the Northern Rocky Mountains to the north of the summit of the Pine Pass on BC Highway 97.
References
External links
Parks in the Canadian Rockies
Provincial parks of British Columbia
2000 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocock%20Peak%20Provincial%20Park |
Bobtail Mountain Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It was established on June 29, 2000, under the Protected Areas of British Columbia Act.
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
2000 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobtail%20Mountain%20Provincial%20Park |
Big Bunsby Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park on the west coast of northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, to the southeast of the Brooks Peninsula in Checleset Bay. It is accessible only by boat.
The park is a good spot for viewing gray whales, bald eagles and sea otters. The area of the park is .
References
External links
Big Bunsby Marine Provincial Park at BC Parks
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Kyuquot Sound region
Year of establishment missing
Marine parks of Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bunsby%20Marine%20Provincial%20Park |
Big Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
It is adjoined on the south by the Spruce Lake Protected Area (a.k.a. the South Chilcotin or Southern Chilcotins, though in the Bridge River Country) and on the west by Tsʼilʔos Provincial Park. Neighbouring on the east is the Churn Creek Protected Area.
The park was first established in 1995 and expanded in 2000, 2001 and 2004 to total approximately 67,918 hectares.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Geography of the Chilcotin
Chilcotin Ranges
1995 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas established in 1995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Creek%20Provincial%20Park |
Silber is a surname, originally the German word meaning silver. It may refer to:
Notable people named Silber
Alexandra Silber (born 1983), American actor, singer, writer, and educator
Christoph Silber (born 1971), German-born British film producer, screenwriter, and director
Christopher Silber (born 1973), American television writer and producer
Eddie Silber (1914–1976), American baseball player
Irwin Silber (1925–2010), American writer, editor, publisher, historian, folk-song collector, and political activist
Jane Silber (born ?), American chief executive, computer scientist, and artificial intelligence technologist
Joan Silber (born ?), American novelist
John Silber (1926–2012), American academician, politician, philosophy professor, and university president
Jules C. Silber (1885–?), German WWI spy, autobiographer, and interpreter
Laura Silber (born ?), American professor, foundation executive, and writer
Marianne Rafferty (née Silber; born 1971), American television news anchor and journalist
Mary Silber (born ?), American statistical science professor, mathematician, and physicist
Max I. Silber (1911–2004), American Scouting promoter and enthusiast, ingot manufacturer, and businessman
Mitchell D. Silber (born 1970), American political risk, intelligence, and security analyst, and television commentator
Otto Silber (1893–1940), Estonian footballer and Olympics competitor
Sherman Silber (born ?), American urologist, microsurgeon, inventor, and infertility specialist
Stephen Silber (born 1944), British judge
William L. Silber (born ?), American economist, professor, and writer
Fictional characters
Katrina Silber, minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Silber, a character in the Buriki One video game series
See also
Silberman
Silver (disambiguation)
Silverman
Zilber
German-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin
Yiddish-language surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silber |
Bijoux Falls Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. The park is located north of the city of Prince George on BC Highway 97 on the southern approach to the summit of the Pine Pass through the Rocky Mountains. The park was established in 1956 primarily to serve as a rest stop and to provide information about the park system in BC to travellers. The park is named for Bijoux Falls, a 40 m high cascading waterfall that is the central feature of the park.
References
External links
Northern Interior of British Columbia
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Parks in the Canadian Rockies
1956 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijoux%20Falls%20Provincial%20Park |
Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located in the Lillooet Country region to the northeast of Pemberton and immediately northwest of Birkenhead Peak and Gates Lake (a.k.a. Birken Lake) at the community of Birken.
History and conservation
It was established in 1963 to provide a recreation and conservation area between the Pemberton Valley and Lillooet and it has 79 vehicle accessible campsites and a lakeside beach area. The park's wildlife includes mountain goats, black bears and grizzly bears while the lake itself is home to Rainbow Trout and Kokanee. The lake is also home to a protected species of Bull Trout, often mistaken for Dolly Varden.
Location and access
It is located 90 kilometres north-east of Whistler, the last 12 kilometres of which are a non-paved gravel road branching off the main paved from between Mount Currie and D'Arcy via Blackwater Creek, a tributary of the Gates River, a few miles northeast of the community of Birken.
Size
Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park is 97.55 km2.
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Sea-to-Sky Corridor
Lillooet Country
1963 establishments in British Columbia
Protected areas of British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkenhead%20Lake%20Provincial%20Park |
Bishop River Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains on the Mainland of British Columbia, Canada, located southwest of and adjoining Ts'yl-os Provincial Park. It lies along the upper course of the Bishop River, the main tributary of the Southgate River, from the Bishop's source at the western side of the Lillooet Icecap to midway along its course above its confluence with the Southgate. The park is 19,947 ha. in size. There are no roads or trails in the park although a forest service road from Waddington Harbour at the head of Bute Inlet leads up the Southgate to within a few miles of the park boundary.
References
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Pacific Ranges
Year of establishment missing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop%20River%20Provincial%20Park |
Blackcomb Glacier Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located just east of and above the resort town of Whistler and adjacent to Garibaldi Provincial Park. The park was established in 1990 on land formerly protected by Garibaldi Park.
External links
”Blackcomb Glacier Provincial Park”. BC Parks.
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Whistler, British Columbia
Garibaldi Ranges
1990 establishments in British Columbia
New Westminster Land District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackcomb%20Glacier%20Provincial%20Park |
The Dadda multiplier is a hardware binary multiplier design invented by computer scientist Luigi Dadda in 1965. It uses a selection of full and half adders to sum the partial products in stages (the Dadda tree or Dadda reduction) until two numbers are left. The design is similar to the Wallace multiplier, but the different reduction tree reduces the required number of gates (for all but the smallest operand sizes) and makes it slightly faster (for all operand sizes).
Dadda and Wallace multipliers have the same three steps for two bit strings and of lengths and respectively:
Multiply (logical AND) each bit of , by each bit of , yielding results, grouped by weight in columns
Reduce the number of partial products by stages of full and half adders until we are left with at most two bits of each weight.
Add the final result with a conventional adder.
As with the Wallace multiplier, the multiplication products of the first step carry different weights reflecting the magnitude of the original bit values in the multiplication. For example, the product of bits has weight .
Unlike Wallace multipliers that reduce as much as possible on each layer, Dadda multipliers attempt to minimize the number of gates used, as well as input/output delay. Because of this, Dadda multipliers have a less expensive reduction phase, but the final numbers may be a few bits longer, thus requiring slightly bigger adders.
Description
To achieve a more optimal final product, the structure of the reduction process is governed by slightly more complex rules than in Wallace multipliers.
The progression of the reduction is controlled by a maximum-height sequence , defined by:
, and
This yields a sequence like so:
The initial value of is chosen as the largest value such that , where and are the number of bits in the input multiplicand and multiplier. The lesser of the two bit lengths will be the maximum height of each column of weights after the first stage of multiplication. For each stage of the reduction, the goal of the algorithm is the reduce the height of each column so that it is less than or equal to the value of .
For each stage from , reduce each column starting at the lowest-weight column, according to these rules:
If the column does not require reduction, move to column
If add the top two elements in a half-adder, placing the result at the bottom of the column and the carry at the bottom of column , then move to column
Else, add the top three elements in a full-adder, placing the result at the bottom of the column and the carry at the bottom of column , restart at step 1
Algorithm example
The example in the adjacent image illustrates the reduction of an 8 × 8 multiplier, explained here.
The initial state is chosen as , the largest value less than 8.
Stage ,
are all less than or equal to six bits in height, so no changes are made
, so a half-adder is applied, reducing it to six bits and adding its carry bit to
including the carry bit from , so we apply a full-adder and a half-adder to reduce it to six bits
including two carry bits from , so we again apply a full-adder and a half-adder to reduce it to six bits
including two carry bits from , so we apply a single full-adder and reduce it to six bits
are all less than or equal to six bits in height including carry bits, so no changes are made
Stage ,
are all less than or equal to four bits in height, so no changes are made
, so a half-adder is applied, reducing it to four bits and adding its carry bit to
including the carry bit from , so we apply a full-adder and a half-adder to reduce it to four bits
including previous carry bits, so we apply two full-adders to reduce them to four bits
including previous carry bits, so we apply a full-adder to reduce it to four bits
are all less than or equal to four bits in height including carry bits, so no changes are made
Stage ,
are all less than or equal to three bits in height, so no changes are made
, so a half-adder is applied, reducing it to three bits and adding its carry bit to
including previous carry bits, so we apply one full-adder to reduce them to three bits
are all less than or equal to three bits in height including carry bits, so no changes are made
Stage ,
are all less than or equal to two bits in height, so no changes are made
, so a half-adder is applied, reducing it to two bits and adding its carry bit to
including previous carry bits, so we apply one full-adder to reduce them to two bits
including the carry bit from , so no changes are made
Addition
The output of the last stage leaves 15 columns of height two or less which can be passed into a standard adder.
See also
Booth's multiplication algorithm
Fused multiply–add
Wallace tree
BKM algorithm for complex logarithms and exponentials
Kochanski multiplication for modular multiplication
References
Further reading
Arithmetic logic circuits
Computer arithmetic
Multiplication
1965 introductions
1965 in computing | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadda%20multiplier |
Blanket Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. The park is in size. It hosts one of the nearest campgrounds for visitors going to the Mount Revelstoke National Park.
External links
Columbia Country
Provincial parks of British Columbia
1982 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket%20Creek%20Provincial%20Park |
Bligh Island Marine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
The park encompasses several islands in Nootka Sound, including Bligh Island, the Villaverde Islands, and the Pantoja Islands.
See also
William Bligh
References
External links
Bligh Island Marine Provincial Park - BC Parks site.
(map)
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Nootka Sound region
1995 establishments in British Columbia
Marine parks of Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bligh%20Island%20Marine%20Provincial%20Park |
Blue Earth Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Upper Hat Creek area at the south end of the Cornwall Hills, just northwest of Ashcroft, British Columbia, Canada.
See also
Bedard Aspen Provincial Park
Cornwall Hills Provincial Park
Marble Canyon Provincial Park
Oregon Jack Provincial Park
References
BC Parks webpage
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Thompson Country
Canyons and gorges of British Columbia
1996 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Earth%20Lake%20Provincial%20Park |
Blue River Black Spruce Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Thompson Country
1996 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20River%20Black%20Spruce%20Provincial%20Park |
Blue River Pine Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada.
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Thompson Country
1996 establishments in British Columbia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20River%20Pine%20Provincial%20Park |
Little Otik (), also known as Greedy Guts, is a 2000 Czech surreal dark comedy horror film by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. Based on the folktale Otesánek by Karel Jaromír Erben, the film is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in an apartment building in the Czech Republic.
The film uses the Overture to Der Freischütz (1821) by Carl Maria von Weber as the score.
Plot
Karel Horák (Jan Hartl) and Božena Horáková (Veronika Žilková) are a childless couple and for medical reasons are doomed to remain so. While on vacation with their neighbors, the Stadlers at a house in the country, Karel decides to buy the house at the suggestion of Mr. Stadler. When he is fixing up the house, he digs up a tree stump that looks vaguely like a baby. He spends the rest of the evening cleaning it up and then presents it to his wife. She names the stump Otík and starts to treat it like a real baby. She then works out a plan to fake her pregnancy and becoming more and more impatient she speeds up the process and 'gives birth' one month early.
Otík comes alive and has an insatiable appetite. Alžbětka (Kristina Adamcová), the Stadlers’ daughter, has been suspicious all along, and when she reads the fairy tale about Otesánek, the truth becomes clear to her. Meanwhile, little Otík has been just eating and growing. At one point he eats some of Božena's hair, and another day she returns home to find that Otík has eaten their cat. Karel and his wife are at odds with Karel pushing for killing the creature and Božena defending it as their child. The baby later consumes a postal worker (Gustav Vondráček) and then a social worker (Jitka Smutná).
The resulting deaths lead Karel to tie up and lock Otík away in the basement of their apartment building, leaving Otík to starve. Alžbětka secretly takes over as prime caretaker. She tries to keep Otík fed with normal human food, but, when her mother stops her, she is forced to drawing straws (matches in this case) to choose a person to feed to Otík. The chosen victim is an old man and pedophile, Mr. Žlábek (Zdeněk Kozák) who has been stalking her recently. Deciding she cannot take the stalking anymore, Alžbětka lures Mr. Žlábek to the basement where he gets entangled by Otik's vines and devoured. Karel himself later becomes a victim when he comes into the basement with a chainsaw but on seeing Otík he hesitates and calls him "son" before dropping the chainsaw. Afterwards, Božena goes into the basement and is heard screaming; having become a victim herself. In the end, Otík disobeys Alžbětka despite repeated warnings and eats all of Mrs. Správcová's (Dagmar Stříbrná) cabbage patch, prompting the old woman to take charge.
Ending
In the fairy tale upon which the movie is based, the old woman kills Otesánek by splitting his stomach open with a hoe; however, the film ends with her descending the stairs, Alžbětka reciting the end of the fairy tale tearfully; the audience is not allowed to witness the deed.
Cast
Veronika Žilková as Božena Horáková
Jan Hartl as Karel Horák
Kristina Adamcová as Alžbětka
Jaroslava Kretschmerová as Alžbětka's Mother
Pavel Nový as Alžbětka's Father
Dagmar Stríbrná as Pani spravcova (the caretaker)
Zdenek Kozák as Mr. Žlábek
Gustav Vondracek as Mládek, the Postman
Jitka Smutná as Bulanková, the Social worker
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 84% based on , with a weighted average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though rather overlong, Little Otik is a whimsical, bizarre treat."
Little Otik was placed at 95 on Slant Magazine's best films of the 2000s.
Notes
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2000 comedy-drama films
2000 comedy horror films
2000s pregnancy films
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Films directed by Jan Švankmajer
Films with live action and animation
2000s monster movies
2000s stop-motion animated films
Czech comedy horror films
British comedy-drama films
Czech black comedy films
British black comedy films
Films set in apartment buildings
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Films based on Slavic mythology
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Golden Kingfisher winners
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Czech monster movies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Otik |
Suzanne Morrow Francis (December 14, 1930 – June 11, 2006) was a Canadian figure skater and veterinarian. She competed in Ladies' Singles in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics. Between 1947 and 1948, Francis competed in Pairs Mixed competitions with Canadian figure skater Wallace Diestelmeyer. Together they won the bronze medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and the 1948 World Figure Skating Championships. They were the first pair team to perform the death spiral one-handed, with the man holding the woman in position with one hand, at the 1948 Olympic Games.
Figure skating
Competing in Ladies' Singles, Suzanne Morrow Francis came in 14th at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics but ended up in 6th place at the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics. She retired from competition in 1953 but did not sever ties with figure skating. While working as a veterinarian, Francis continued to serve as a figure skating judge and has been for over fifty years. Additionally, she planned to work to work with the Peterborough Figure Skating Club. Also, she was included in the top six women skaters in the world five years prior to when she had retired.
At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Francis took the Judge's Oath, the first woman to do so at the Winter Olympics. In 1992, she was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame together with Diestelmeyer. She continued working as a veterinarian until retirement in 1995.
Veterinary career
In 1952, Francis earned her degree in veterinary medicine from the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario. For a time, Francis shared a clinic with Dr. Edith Williams, the second Canadian woman to earn a degree as a veterinarian. During that time, she also served as an All Breed dog show judge as part of the Canadian Kennel Club.
Francis had always loved dogs and frequently had a dog by her side. Her favourite dog was a German Shepherd. Other than the time she went to College in Guelph for veterinarian school her longest time she spent in school was two months because figure skating took up the majority of her time. As well, because of this she mostly relied on tutors to get the help she needed to get through school.
Francis' figure skating records
Ladies singles
Pairs Mixed with Wallace Diestelmeyer
Ice dance with Wallace Diestelmeyer
References
External links
IOC 1988 Winter Olympics (shown as Suzanna Morrow-Francis)
Wendl, Karel. "The Olympic Oath - A Brief History" Citius, Altius, Fortius (Journal of Olympic History since 1997). Winter 1995. pp. 4,5.
databaseOlympics.com: Suzanne Morrow
1930 births
2006 deaths
Canadian female single skaters
Canadian female pair skaters
Canadian female ice dancers
Canadian veterinarians
Figure skaters from Toronto
Figure skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Olympic medalists in figure skating
Olympic officials
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Women veterinarians
Oath takers at the Olympic Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne%20Morrow%20Francis |
Donnis Butcher (February 8, 1936 – October 8, 2012) was an American basketball player. A 6'1" guard from Pikeville College, Butcher was selected by the New York Knicks in the seventh round of the 1961 NBA draft.
References
External links
BasketballReference.com: Donnie Butcher (as coach)
1936 births
2012 deaths
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Kentucky
Basketball players from Kentucky
Detroit Pistons head coaches
Detroit Pistons players
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
New York Knicks draft picks
New York Knicks players
People from Johnson County, Kentucky
Pikeville Bears men's basketball players
Point guards
Shooting guards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnis%20Butcher |
Wallace William "Wally" Diestelmeyer (July 14, 1926 – December 23, 1999) was a Canadian figure skater. He competed in pair skating with Suzanne Morrow. The couple won the bronze medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and the 1948 World Figure Skating Championships. They are credited as being the first pair to perform the death spiral one-handed, with the man holding the woman in position with one hand, at the 1948 Olympic Games.
After retiring from competitions Distelmeyer worked as a skating coach. In 1992 he was inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame, together with Morrow.
Results
Men's singles
Pairs with Suzanne Morrow
with Joyce Perkins
with Floraine Ducharme
Ice dance with Suzanne Morrow
References
External links
Profile
1926 births
1999 deaths
Canadian male single skaters
Canadian male pair skaters
Canadian people of German descent
Figure skaters at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Sportspeople from Kitchener, Ontario
Skating people from Ontario
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Canadian figure skating coaches
20th-century Canadian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20Diestelmeyer |
Commodore Books is the first Black Canadian literary press in Western Canada. Founded in 2006 by Wayde Compton, Karina Vernon and David Chariandy, this press is dedicated to publishing work relevant to black people in Canada.
Adventures in Debt Collection, by Vancouver-based author Fred Booker, is Commodore's inaugural title. Addena Sumter-Freitag's play Stay Black and Die, an account of growing up black in Winnipeg during the 1950s and 1960s, is Commodore's second title.
The company takes its name from the Commodore, a paddle steamer which transported British Columbia's first black settlers from San Francisco to Victoria during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush.
External links
Commodore Books Web site
Book publishing companies of Canada
Companies based in Vancouver
Publishing companies established in 2006
Literary publishing companies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%20Books |
Zipang is a twenty-six episode Japanese anime television series directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi and produced by Studio Deen. It aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System in Japan between October 7, 2004, and March 31, 2005, and was licensed for release in North America by Geneon Entertainment with DVD release starting in September 2006. It was adapted from the manga of the same name by Kaiji Kawaguchi.
Episode list
DVD release
Zipang was licensed for release in North America by Geneon Entertainment with DVD release starting in September 2006.
Screen Ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Layers: Single Side, Single Layer
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Subtitles: English
Packaging: Keep case
Audio Tracks: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo and JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Stereo
Zipang | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Zipang%20episodes |
Donald George Jackson, (born April 2, 1940) is a Canadian retired figure skater. He is the 1962 World Champion, four-time Canadian national champion, and 1960 Olympic bronze medallist. At the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he landed the first triple Lutz jump in international competition and won the world title.
Biography
Jackson was coached by Pierre Brunet in New York City, where he lived with the family of 1960 Olympic Champion Carol Heiss.
He won a bronze medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics at the age of 19.
In both 1959 and 1960, he won a silver medal at the World Championships. The 1961 event was cancelled after the tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of many of Jackson's contemporaries in the US figure skating team. He had not been scheduled to attend the championships that year and was luckily not on board the fatal flight. In 1962, at the World Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jackson became world champion and made history by landing the first triple Lutz in international competition.
He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1962, and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1977.
Jackson is the former director of skating and was also a coach at the Minto Skating Club in Ottawa, Ontario.
In 1997, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. He was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.
In 2004, Jackson was included in the first induction of the Lisgar Collegiate Institute Athletic Wall of Fame, as part of the 160th Anniversary celebrations.
In 2012, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario.
In May 2016, aged 76 years old, Jackson appeared in a couple of Stars on Ice shows in Canada, performing a duet with Kurt Browning. His part included an Axel jump and a waltz jump.
Results
References
External links
Watch King of Blades, a 1965 National Film Board of Canada short film on Donald Jackson
1940 births
Canadian male single skaters
Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Living people
Northern Star Award winners
Members of the Order of Canada
Members of the Order of Ontario
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Sportspeople from Oshawa
Sportspeople from Ottawa
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Lisgar Collegiate Institute alumni
BBC Sports Personality World Sport Star of the Year winners
20th-century Canadian people
21st-century Canadian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Jackson%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
The Endocrine Society is a professional, international medical organization in the field of endocrinology and metabolism, founded in 1916 as The Association for the Study of Internal Secretions. The official name of the organization was changed to the Endocrine Society on January 1, 1952. It is a leading organization in the field and publishes four leading journals. It has more than 18,000 members from over 120 countries in medicine, molecular and cellular biology, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, immunology, education, industry, and allied health. The Society's mission is: "to advance excellence in endocrinology and promote its essential and integrative role in scientific discovery, medical practice, and human health."
It is said to be "the world's oldest, largest and most active organization devoted to research on hormones and the clinical practice of endocrinology."
Annual Meetings have been held since 1916 except in 1943 and 1945 during World War II when meetings were cancelled at the request of the United States government. Realizing the increasing importance of endocrinology to general medicine, the Council, in 1947, established an annual post graduate assembly now known as the Clinical Endocrinology Update.
The Society publishes Endocrinology, the first issue of which was published in January 1927 and edited by Henry Harrower. Another publication, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, was established in 1941, and the name of the journal was changed to The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism on January 1, 1952.
Hormone Health Network
In 1997, The Society established The Hormone Foundation, a public education affiliate; the name was changed to the Hormone Health Network in 2012. The mission of the Network is to serve as a resource for the public by promoting the prevention, treatment and cure of hormone-related conditions through outreach and education.
Sister societies
The Endocrine Society provides a forum for other related societies to discuss, interact and share views in the field of endocrinology. The list of related societies is as follows:
American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)
American Association of Endocrine Surgeons
American Diabetes Association
American Society for Bone & Mineral Research
American Society for Reproductive Medicine
American Society of Andrology
American Society of Endocrine Physician Assistants
American Thyroid Association
Androgen Excess and PCOS Society
Association for Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Endocrine Nurses Society
International Society for Clinical Densitometry
Pediatric Endocrine Society
Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
Society for Gynecologic Investigation
Society for the Study of Reproduction
The Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
The Obesity Society
The Pituitary Society
Publications
The Endocrine Society publishes the following journals:
Discover Oncology
Endocrine Reviews
Endocrinology
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
Molecular Endocrinology
JCEM Case Reports
References
External links
The Hormone Health Network, the public education affiliate of The Endocrine Society
Medical and health organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Medical associations based in the United States
Endocrinology organizations
Organizations established in 1916
1916 establishments in the United States
1916 establishments in Washington, D.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endocrine%20Society |
The Luxembourg Cup () is the national knockout cup competition in Luxembourgian football. It was first held in 1922, and has been held annually since, with the exception of the four seasons during the German occupation during Second World War, though the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons were unable to be completed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Stade de Luxembourg hosts the final of the tournament.
Winners
Performances
Performance by club
Performance by town
Performance by canton
References
External links
Luxembourg – List of Cup Finals, RSSSF.com
National association football cups
Cup
1921 establishments in Luxembourg
Recurring sporting events established in 1921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg%20Cup |
The Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC), formerly the National Home Study Council and then as the Distance Education and Training Council, is a non-profit national educational accreditation agency in the United States specializing in the accreditation of (51 percent or more) distance education programs of study and institutions. The U.S. Department of Education identifies DEAC to be among the recognized institutional accrediting agencies in the U.S. that are reliable authorities on the quality of education offered by the institutions they accredit.
History
The DEAC was established in 1926 as the National Home Study Council (NHSC), a trade association for correspondence schools. Its formation was in response to a Carnegie Corporation study that found a lack of standards to ensure quality in correspondence schools and protect their students and the public from fraud. Under its first director, John Noffsinger, the NHSC developed a list of minimum standards for proprietary schools.
The NHSC adopted the name Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) in 1994 and its current name in 2014.
Also in 2014, Dr. Leah Matthews, Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of DEAC, wrote an article that attributes distance education learning vs. traditional learning in part, to constant changes in the education landscape. “Distance education institutions are uniquely positioned to meet the changing demands for enhanced technologies and higher education program delivery. Some view this as a threat to the traditional higher education model as opposed to a strategic opportunity. More than ever before, technology-enhanced learning has the potential to transform higher education accessibility and raise the level of education attained globally.”
Accreditation
In 1959 the NHSC was formally recognized by the U.S. Office of Education as an accreditor of higher education institutions. Currently the DEAC is recognized by Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the United States Department of Education as an accreditor of institutions of higher education. According to the DEAC, it is made up of over 100 distance education institutions located in 21 states and 7 countries. These institutions include non-profit institutions, trade associations, for-profit companies, colleges and universities, and military organizations. The DEAC has strict criteria for approving schools for accreditation, and the process includes examining the schools' educational, ethical, and business practices.
Comparison with regional accreditation
DEAC is a national accreditor category. DEAC also uses independent subject specialists drawn primarily from regionally accredited institutions to review the courses/programs of applicants for accreditation or reaccreditation, as well as in evaluating any new programs. DEAC shares many of the same subject specialist evaluators working in regionally accredited higher education institutions used by the American Council on Education for its Credit Recommendation reviews."
Each college or university cannot guarantee acceptance of transfer credits and the receiving college or university formulates its own transfer credit policies for admission. It is the receiving college or universities responsibility to provide reasonable and definitive transfer policies and to fairly judge the quality and quantity of the transfer students work. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) offered an opinion in a November 2000 statement that, "Institutions and accreditors need to assure that transfer decisions are not made solely on the source of accreditation of a sending program or institution." The Higher Education Transfer Alliance (HETA) online directory was designed by DEAC to help students and the public find educational institutions with transfer practices consistent with criteria articulated by CHEA in its Statement to the Community: Transfer and Public Interest. According to CHEA, institutions that are members of HETA have agreed that their "transfer decisions are not made solely on the basis of the accredited status of a sending institution and that the institution has agreed at least to consider transfer requests from other institutions." The HETA directory provides links to member institutions so that students and others can review a specific institution's transfer policies and practice.
See also
List of universities accredited by DEAC
List of recognized accreditation associations of higher learning
Educational accreditation
References
External links
HETA Directory
Organizations established in 1926
Educational organizations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance%20Education%20Accrediting%20Commission |
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a group of familial cholestatic conditions caused by defects in biliary epithelial transporters. The clinical presentation usually occurs first in childhood with progressive cholestasis. This usually leads to failure to thrive, cirrhosis, and the need for liver transplantation.
Types
Types of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis are as follows:
Type 1 (OMIM #211600), also called Byler disease
Type 2 (OMIM #601847), also called ABCB11 deficiency or BSEP deficiency
Type 3 (OMIM #602347), also called ABCB4 deficiency or MDR3 deficiency
Type 4 (OMIM #615878), from mutation in TJP2
Signs and symptoms
The onset of the disease is usually before age 2, but patients have been diagnosed with PFIC even into adolescence. Of the three entities, PFIC-1 usually presents earliest. Patients usually present in early childhood with cholestasis, jaundice, and failure to thrive. Intense pruritus is characteristic; in patients who present in adolescence, it has been linked with suicide. Patients may have fat malabsorption, leading to fat soluble vitamin deficiency, and complications, including osteopenia.
Pathogenesis
PFIC-1 is caused by a variety of mutations in ATP8B1, a gene coding for a P-type ATPase protein, FIC-1, that is responsible for phospholipid translocation across membranes. It was previously identified as clinical entities known as Byler's disease and Greenland-Eskimo familial cholestasis. Patients with PFIC-1 may also have watery diarrhea, in addition to the clinical features below, due to FIC-1's expression in the intestine. How ATP8B1 mutation leads to cholestasis is not yet well understood.
PFIC-2 is caused by a variety of mutations in ABCB11, the gene that codes for the bile salt export pump, or BSEP. Retention of bile salts within hepatocytes, which are the only cell type to express BSEP, causes hepatocellular damage and cholestasis.
PFIC-3 is caused by a variety of mutations in ABCB4, the gene encoding multidrug resistance protein 3 (MDR3), which codes for a floppase responsible for phosphatidylcholine translocation. The defective phosphatidylcholine translocation leads to a lack of phosphatidylcholine in bile. Phosphatidylcholine normally chaperones bile acids, preventing damage to the biliary epithelium. The free or "unchaperoned" bile acids in bile of patients with MDR3 deficiency cause a cholangitis. Biochemically, this is of note, as PFIC-3 is associated with a markedly elevated GGT.
The inheritance pattern of all three forms of PFIC defined to date is autosomal recessive.
Liver biopsies typically show evidence of cholestasis (including bile plugs and bile infarcts), duct hypoplasia, hepatocellular injury, and Zone 3 fibrosis. Giant cell change and other features of hepatocellular injury are more pronounced in PFIC-2 than in PFIC-1 or PFIC-3. End-stage disease in all forms of PFIC defined to date is characterized by bridging fibrosis with duct proliferation in peri-portal regions.
Diagnosis
Biochemical markers include a normal GGT for PFIC-1 and -2, with a markedly elevated GGT for PFIC-3. Serum bile acid levels are grossly elevated. Serum cholesterol levels are typically not elevated, as is seen usually in cholestasis, as the pathology is due to a transporter as opposed to an anatomical problem with biliary cells.
Treatment
Initial treatment is supportive, with the use of agents to treat cholestasis and pruritus, including the following:
Ursodeoxycholic acid
Cholestyramine
Rifampin
Naloxone, in refractory cases
The partial external biliary diversion (PEBD) procedure is a surgical approach that diverts bile from the gallbladder externally into an ileostomy bag.
Patients should be supplemented with fat-soluble vitamins, and occasionally medium-chain triglycerides in order to improve growth. When liver synthetic dysfunction is significant, patients should be listed for transplantation. Family members should be tested for PFIC mutations, in order to determine risk of transmission.
Prognosis
The disease is typically progressive, leading to fulminant liver failure and death in childhood, in the absence of liver transplantation. Hepatocellular carcinoma may develop in PFIC-2 at a very early age; even toddlers have been affected.
Epidemiology
Consanguinity is believed to be a major risk factor.
Similar transport protein mutations are believed to pose a higher risk for intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy.
See also
Alagille syndrome
Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy
Liver transplantation
References
External links
GeneReview/NIH/UW entry on Low γ-GT Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis
OMIM entry on CHOLESTASIS, PROGRESSIVE FAMILIAL INTRAHEPATIC, 1; PFIC1
Diseases of liver
Congenital disorders
Membrane transport protein disorders
Hepatology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20familial%20intrahepatic%20cholestasis |
Irwin Silber (October 17, 1925 – September 8, 2010) was an American Communist, editor, publisher, and political activist. He edited the folk music magazine Sing Out! and was active in far-left politics throughout his life.
Biography
Early years
Irwin Silber was born in New York City, to Jewish parents.
As a young man, Silber joined the Young Communist League, the youth section of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), moving later to membership in the adult party. Silber ultimately severed his ties with the CPUSA in 1955.
Silber attended Brooklyn College, where he was instrumental in establishing the American Folksay Group. Through his involvement with folk music, Silber made the acquaintance of Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, and others influential in that music scene.
Activist and author
The co-founder, and former long-time editor of Sing Out! magazine from 1951 to 1967, Silber was perhaps best known for his writing on American folk music and musicians until he left Sing Out! and began writing for the radical left wing newspaper The Guardian. His creation of Oak Publications was responsible for a large portion of the folk music material available in print during the growth of the revival. On the occasion of his 80th birthday an interview with Mr. Silber was published giving details on his role in the progressive folk music circles of the 40s, 50s and 60s as well as his appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.
In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. After leaving Sing Out! in 1968, Silber became cultural editor of the independent radical newsweekly, The Guardian and also its film critic. He began to write on more directly political subjects, specializing in analysis of both national and international developments and developing a broad and appreciative readership. He became the Guardian's executive editor in 1972 and led it into the milieu of the New Communist Movement. Factional disagreements led to a split within the Guardian staff, and Silber left the newspaper in 1979, moving to California to join the leadership of a current within US Marxism known as the "rectification movement" and he affiliated with the Line of March.
Silber and blues/folk singer/fellow activist Barbara Dane became a couple in 1964. Among other collaborations, they established the independent recording company Paredon Records to distribute and document the music being created by the liberation movements of the 1970s. Dane produced nearly 50 LPs, and Silber handled the promotion and distribution. To insure availability of the material, in the mid-1980s they donated the label to Smithsonian Folkways, which distributes the collection on CD and digitally.
Among Silber's most important political writing is Socialism; What Went Wrong, an examination of the theoretical and practical events in the USSR leading up to its collapse. His only non-political book in the last 20 years is A Patient's Guide to Hip and Knee Replacement based on his own experience with these operations. Silber's most recent book, Press Box Red, tells the story of sports editor Lester Rodney, whose decade-long campaign in the pages of the Daily Worker helped pave the way for the racial integration of major league baseball.
In the December 24, 2007 issue of Newsweek magazine Garrison Keillor of Prairie Home Companion fame was asked to name his five most important books. His #2 choice (after the Acts of the Apostles) is The Folksinger's Wordbook by Irwin Silber, a huge collection of "hymns, blues, murder ballads, miner's laments-the whole culture."
Open letter to Dylan
In the November 1964 edition of Sing Out!, Silber wrote an article called "Open Letter to Bob Dylan."
I saw at Newport how you had somehow lost contact with people ... some of the paraphernalia of fame were getting in your way.
Dylan did not like being told how to perform or how to write, and he replied by telling his manager Albert Grossman that his songs were no longer available for publication in Sing Out!.
Eventually, in 1968, Silber retracted his criticism in The Guardian.
"Many of us who did not fully understand the dynamics of the political changes... felt deserted by a poet." "Dylan is our poet – not our leader... Dylan... is communicating where it counts."
The words quoted above are from page 314 of No Direction Home: the Life and Music of Bob Dylan, by Robert Shelton.
In Chronicles Volume One (2004), Bob Dylan commented:
I liked Irwin, but I couldn't relate to it. Miles Davis would be accused of something similar when he made the album Bitches Brew... what I did to break away was to take simple folk changes and put new images and attitudes into them.
Personal life
Silber lived in Oakland with his wife, folk singer Barbara Dane, from 1980 until his death.
Bibliography
Lift Every Voice, Foreword by Paul Robeson (1953)
Songs of the Civil War, Columbia University Press (1960), Dover (1995)
Hootenanny Song Book (with Jerry Silverman), Consolidated Music Publishers (1963)
Songs of the Great American West, Macmillan (1967), Dover (1995)
Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, edited and produced by Irwin Silber, compiled by Alan Lomax, foreword by John Steinbeck, notes by Woody Guthrie, music transcription by Pete Seeger; Oak Publications (1967), Univ. Nebraska Press (1999)
Folksong Festival, Scholastic Book Services (1967)
Vietnam Songbook (with Barbara Dane), Guardian (1969)
The Cultural Revolution: A Marxist Analysis, Times Change Press (1970)
Songs America Voted By, Stackpole (1971)
Songs of Independence, Stackpole (1973)
Folksingers Wordbook (with Fred Silber), Music Sales Corporation (1973, reissued 2000)
Afghanistan – The Battle Line is Drawn, Line of March Publications (1980)
Kampuchea: The Revolution Rescued, Line of March Publications (1986)
Socialism: What Went Wrong? – An Inquiry into the Theoretical and Historical Roots of the Socialist Crisis, Pluto Press (1994)
A Patient's Guide to Knee and Hip Replacement, Simon & Schuster (1999)
Press Box Red: The Story of Lester Rodney, the Communist Who Helped Break the Color Line in American Sports, Temple University Press (2006);
References
External links
[ Biography at allmusic.com]
Brief biographical sketch by Martin Snapp
2002 interview at Perfect Sound Forever
Archive of Irwin Silber's official website (as of Aug 15, 2020)
1925 births
2010 deaths
American folk-song collectors
American male journalists
American magazine editors
American music journalists
American political writers
American tax resisters
American communists
Members of the Communist Party USA
Deaths from dementia in California
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
Writers from Oakland, California
Activists from the San Francisco Bay Area
Brooklyn College alumni
Historians from California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin%20Silber |
Barbara Aileen Wagner (born May 5, 1938) is a Canadian former pair skater. She teamed up with Robert Paul in 1952. They became the 1960 Olympic champions, four-time World champions, and five-time Canadian national champions. After retiring from competition, the pair toured with Ice Capades.
Wagner was formerly married to U.S. figure skater James Grogan. She resides in Alpharetta, Georgia, coaching figure skating at the Alpharetta Family Skate Center, the Cooler, and is a member of the Atlanta Figure Skating Club.
Results
(with Paul)
References
Canadian female pair skaters
1938 births
Living people
Northern Star Award winners
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Figure skaters from Toronto
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Wagner |
Forgiving Dr. Mengele is a 2006 documentary film about Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of the Holocaust, and Dr. Josef Mengele and his staff, who experimented on her and her twin sister Miriam Mozes, as well as approximately 1,400 other twin pairs. The documentary was directed by Bob Hercules and Cheri Pugh, who also served as producers. They followed Kor for over four years, chronicling her story, including her pilgrimage to Israel.
Forgiving Dr. Mengele premiered at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, Illinois, on February 24, 2006. It was scheduled to play for a week, and then travel to other cities in the US. The film is distributed by First Run Features, which handles independent films and documentaries.
Eva Mozes Kor
Eva Mozes Kor and her sister Miriam were born on January 30, 1934, in Porț, Kingdom of Romania. In 1944, Nazis transported her immediate family to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Because Eva and Miriam were twins, Dr. Mengele selected them to remain alive for experiments.
After a 70-hour ride without food or water, Eva and Miriam, along with their mother, arrived at the selection platform. Eva gripped her mother's hand and looked around: her father and her two older sisters were nowhere in sight. She never saw them again. Soon the twin girls were ripped from their mother, whom they also never saw again.
Kor later recalled how she and her family arrived at the Auschwitz railhead:
When the doors to our cattle car opened, I heard SS soldiers yelling, "Schnell! Schnell!" (Quick!), and ordering everybody out. My mother grabbed Miriam and me by the hand. She was always trying to protect us because we were the youngest. Everything was moving very fast, and as I looked around, I noticed my father and my two older sisters were gone. As I clutched my mother's hand, an SS man hurried by shouting, "Twins! Twins!" He stopped to look at us. Miriam and I looked very much alike. "Are they twins?" he asked my mother. "Is that good?" she replied. He nodded yes. "They are twins," she said ...
Once the SS guard knew we were twins, Miriam and I were taken away from our mother, without any warning or explanation. Our screams fell on deaf ears. I remember looking back and seeing my mother's arms stretched out in despair as we were led away by a soldier. That was the last time I saw her..
Eva and Miriam remained in Auschwitz for nine months, enduring experimentation such as being injected with potentially lethal strains of bacteria (and not given treatment). After World War II, they went to Romania and then immigrated to Israel. Eva served in the Israeli Army for ten years. After meeting a tourist who was a Holocaust survivor living in the United States, the two were married, and she moved to the US. In Terre Haute, Indiana, they raised a family and she became a successful realtor and created the C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Museum (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiment Survivors). The museum is dedicated to education about the Holocaust and operates under the mission to "eliminate hatred and prejudice from our world." Eva Kor's husband, Michael, is a pharmacist, and her son, Alex, is active in the museum and education. He has made trips to Auschwitz on his mother's behalf and has documented these experiences.
External links
"A Holocaust Survivor's Path To Peace: Forgiving Josef Mengele" - article in Der Spiegel.
Documentary films about the Holocaust
Nazi human subject research
2006 films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgiving%20Dr.%20Mengele |
Mikel Alonso Olano (, ; born 17 May 1980) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a midfielder.
He spent most of his career at Real Sociedad, making 110 appearances and scoring four goals over seven seasons. He totalled 132 games and three goals in La Liga for that club and CD Tenerife, while also recording 48 matches and four goals in Segunda División for the latter and Numancia.
Additionally, Alonso had two brief spells in England, finishing his career at Real Unión.
Club career
Real Sociedad
A product of Real Sociedad's youth ranks, as was younger brother Xabi, Alonso was born in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa, and made his debut in La Liga on 22 April 2001 against Real Valladolid (seven minutes played, 3–1 home win). However, the presence of his sibling and Mikel Aranburu in central midfield meant that he was restricted to a supporting role, and he was then sent on loan to Segunda División's CD Numancia for 2003–04 but, while he was dedicated to the Soria team's bid for promotion, he remained keen to establish himself at Real Sociedad, returning at the end of the season; under the management of José Mari Bakero, the player's importance to the team was demonstrated in the 2005–06 campaign, when he was the club's most used footballer playing in 37 games.
After his brother Xabi had already settled in England with Liverpool (having arrived during the summer of 2004), Alonso also decided to move to the Premier League and joined Bolton Wanderers, another team in north-west England, on a loan deal on 10 July 2007 with the option of a permanent deal at the end of the season. However, after manager Sammy Lee was dismissed he fell out of favour and, under new coach Gary Megson, he only made two competitive appearances; subsequently, the Trotters opted to not extend his contract.
Alonso went back to Spain for 2008–09 but, upon his return to the Basque Country, discovered he was not a part of coach Juan Manuel Lillo's plans and was sent on trial to Olympiacos FC. This proved unsuccessful, however, and Real Sociedad exercised their right to buy the remainder of his contract, releasing him as a free agent.
Tenerife
Following his release from Real Sociedad, Swansea City boss Roberto Martínez offered compatriot Alonso a chance to regain fitness. After his brother highly recommended both coach and the player to arrange the deal, he accepted the offer and joined the squad in training.
However, Alonso would not remain in Wales and, in late January 2009, moved to CD Tenerife after being contacted regarding a season-long deal. He accepted the offer and stated that he had "heard good things" about his new team. However, he remained a fan of his former club Real Sociedad, stating that, although both sides competed in the second level, he hoped they gained promotion; he contributed with 11 matches in a return to the top flight, after a seven-year absence.
In the 2009–10 campaign, Alonso began as a starter, scoring with a rare header in the second matchday, a 1–0 home win against Athletic Bilbao. However, he appeared less regularly in the final stretch, as the Canarians were eventually relegated back.
Charlton
In late June 2011, following another Tenerife relegation, 31-year-old Alonso returned to England, joining Football League One club Charlton Athletic. He made his official debut on 5 October in the Football League Trophy tie at The Valley against Brentford, conceding a penalty in an eventual 0–3 loss.
Alonso was released at the end of the season, without making any appearances in any of the three major competitions.
Real Unión
On 14 July 2014, after nearly two years without a club, Alonso signed for Real Unión in Segunda División B. Four years later, the 38-year-old announced his retirement.
International career
Alonso earned five caps for the Basque Country regional team.
Personal life
The first son of Periko Alonso, who played with Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona, Alonso grew up surrounded by football: he and his younger brother, Xabi – who also appeared for Real Sociedad before representing with individual and team success Liverpool, Real Madrid and FC Bayern Munich – would go training with their father when he was playing for CE Sabadell FC; all three were midfielders.
Influenced by his father, Alonso followed his example and became a professional footballer at the San Sebastián side.
References
External links
Real Sociedad official profile
1980 births
Living people
People from Tolosa, Spain
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Gipuzkoa
Men's association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Antiguoko players
Real Sociedad B footballers
Real Sociedad footballers
CD Numancia players
CD Tenerife players
Real Unión footballers
Premier League players
Bolton Wanderers F.C. players
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Basque Country men's international footballers
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England
Alonso family (Gipuzkoa) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikel%20Alonso |
Robert Paul (born June 2, 1937) is a Canadian former pair skater. He teamed up with Barbara Wagner in 1952. They became the 1960 Olympic champions, four-time World champions, and five-time Canadian national champions. After retiring from competition, the pair toured with Ice Capades.
Paul choreographed for Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Linda Fratianne, and Donny and Marie. He was one of Mirai Nagasu's coaches. He appeared in the Bewitched episode "Samantha on Thin Ice".
Results
(with Wagner)
References
Canadian male pair skaters
1937 births
Living people
Northern Star Award winners
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Figure skating choreographers
Figure skaters from Toronto
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1960 Winter Olympics
20th-century Canadian people
21st-century Canadian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Paul |
Max Merkel (7 December 1918 – 28 November 2006) was an Austrian footballer who played international football for both Germany and Austria as a defender. At club level, he played for Rapid Wien, Wiener SC, and Luftwaffen SV Markersdorf.
Managerial honours
Rapid Wien
Austrian League: 1956–57
1860 Munich
Bundesliga: 1965–66
DFB-Pokal: 1963–64
European Cup Winners' Cup: Runners-up: 1964–65
1. FC Nürnberg
Bundesliga: 1967–68
Atlético Madrid
Copa del Generalísimo: 1971–72
Spanish League: 1972–73
References
1918 births
2006 deaths
Austrian men's footballers
Austria men's international footballers
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Sevilla FC managers
Austrian football managers
Atlético Madrid managers
Austrian people of German descent
La Liga managers
HBS Craeyenhout football managers
Netherlands national football team managers
Wiener Sport-Club players
SK Rapid Wien players
SK Rapid Wien managers
FC Zürich managers
FC Schalke 04 managers
Borussia Dortmund managers
TSV 1860 Munich managers
1. FC Nürnberg managers
Karlsruher SC managers
FC Augsburg managers
Dual men's international footballers
Bundesliga managers
Footballers from Vienna
Men's association football defenders
Austrian expatriate football managers
Germany men's international footballers
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in West Germany
Expatriate football managers in West Germany
Expatriate football managers in Switzerland
Expatriate football managers in the Netherlands
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate football managers in Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Merkel |
Døden på Oslo S (meaning "The death at Oslo Central Station") is a Norwegian film released in 1990. Set in Oslo in the late eighties, it is based on a book by Ingvar Ambjørnsen from his series Pelle og Proffen. It was the highest-grossing Norwegian film of the year.
Plot
The film is about the two teenage boys, Pelle and Proffen, who try to help Pelle's girlfriend, Lena, overcome a drug problem. She is only 15 years old, and they initially meet at a snack bar in downtown Oslo. She has been abused by a social worker at a home for troubled teens. While they try to help Lena she runs away, they get beat up, and watch people overdose at the central train station in Oslo.
The film deals with issues including drugs, troubled teens and their parents, and child pornography. It's also about Pelle's and Proffen's families and their differing backgrounds: Pelle's parents are former hippies and very liberal; while Proffen's parents are older and conservative.
Production
The scene where Lena is at Pelle's home for the first time and he suggests they spend the night together, was shot on one of the first days of filming. In the scene, 16-year-old Helle Beck Figenschow is seen removing all her clothes in front of Håvard Bakke. Asked later if he had seen a naked girl before, Bakke said, "Hehe, yes, but not many!"
References
External links
En hyllest til det ustreite [an hommage to the unconventional], NRK
1990 films
1990s Norwegian-language films
1990 action films
Norwegian action films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B8den%20p%C3%A5%20Oslo%20S |
Frances Helen Dafoe, (December 17, 1929 – September 23, 2016) was a Canadian pair skater. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She competed with Norris Bowden. The couple captured four Canadian titles and two World Figure Skating Championships, and won the silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
Following her skating career, Dafoe worked as an Olympic judge and costume designer. She worked for CBC for nearly 40 years designing costumes for various shows, and she also designed the performers' costumes for the closing ceremonies at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
In 1991, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. Dafoe died on September 23, 2016, at the age of 86.
Results
References
1929 births
2016 deaths
Canadian female pair skaters
Figure skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Members of the Order of Canada
Members of the Order of Ontario
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Figure skaters from Toronto
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Dafoe |
Pressbyrån is a chain of convenience stores in Sweden that sells magazines and newspapers, convenience foods such as chilled drinks, potato chips, candies, ice cream, hot dogs and tobacco products. They also sell tickets for public transport, prepaid SIM cards, top-ups and stamps. Stores are often located adjacent to metro stations, commuter railway stations and bus terminals.
History
The company was founded in 1899, and started out by selling newspapers in railway stations.
In 1917, Pressbyrån started a subsidiary Alga to manufacture postcards and stationery. The name derives from the initials of the two directors' wives: Anna Lundquist och Anna Gadh. Alga later developed into a major publisher of board games in Sweden, was spun off as an independent company by Pressbyrån's owner Bonnier Group in 1940, and was acquired by BRIO in 1983.
It has since grown to around 300 stores, all franchised, and is now owned by the Reitan Group, which also owns the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian rights to franchise its historical direct competitor 7-Eleven. Since the 2010s, both brands have faced increased competition from new convenience store chains such as Circle K, Direkten and MyWay.
On 11 July 2020, Pressbyrån opened its first automated convenience store called Pressbyrån Go in a small section of an existing staffed store in Kungsholmen, Stockholm. The first true standalone Pressbyrån Go store opened just outside Westfield Mall of Scandinavia on 19 January 2021.
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Retail companies established in 1899
Swedish companies established in 1899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressbyr%C3%A5n |
Robert Norris Bowden (August 13, 1926 – April 9, 1991) was a Canadian figure skater.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Bowden won championships in every division of Canadian figure skating. He was national men's champion as a junior and senior (1947), national pairs (junior and senior), dance (1952), waltz, and 10-step champion with Frances Dafoe, and national fours champion.
Bowden and Dafoe captured four Canadian titles (1952, 1953, 1954, 1955) and two world championships (1954, 1955). They won the silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, where Bowden was Canada's flag bearer in the opening ceremonies. Norris and his partner were the first pair skaters to do the twist lift, throw jump, ‘leap of faith’ and overhead lasso. It was because of these two that some of the rules in pairs skating were changed.
Outside skating, Bowden graduated with an MBA and worked in the life insurance industry. He was founding president of the Centennial Nursery School for Retarded Children (now the Centennial Infant and Child Centre) in Toronto.
He has been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (1955), the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame (1958), and the Skate Canada Hall of Fame (1993).
Results
men's singles
J. = Junior level
(pairs with Frances Dafoe)
(ice dance with Frances Dafoe)
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1991 deaths
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Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
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20th-century Canadian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norris%20Bowden |
Romulus Earl Whitaker (born 23 May 1943) is an American-born Indian herpetologist, wildlife conservationist, and founder of the Madras Snake Park, the Andaman and Nicobar Environment Trust (ANET), and the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust.
In 2008, Whitaker was selected as an associate laureate in the 2008 Rolex Awards for Enterprise for his efforts to create a network of rainforest research stations throughout India.
In 2005, he was a winner of a Whitley Award for outstanding leadership in nature conservation. He used this award to found the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station in Karnataka, for the study of king cobras and their habitat.
For his work in wildlife conservation, he received the Padma Shri award in 2018.
Background and personal life
Whitaker (known as "Rom") was born in New York City, United States, to an American couple. His mother, Doris Norden, was an artist, and his father served in the United States Army. He has one older sister, Gail (b. 1939). After his parents divorced, his mother (who had custody of her children) married Rama Chattopadhyay, son of Harindranath and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay. The family, including Rom and Gail, initially settled in New York City. In 1951, after the birth of Rom's half-sister Nina, they all moved to Bombay (now Mumbai). Rom's stepfather Rama Chattopadhyay was a pioneer in color film processing; he established India's first colour motion-picture processing lab in Worli, Mumbai. Rom's half-brother Neelkanth was born in Mumbai in 1953.
Rom continued his education (begun in New York) at the Kodaikanal International School (class of 1960). He studied briefly at the University of Wyoming. During the early Vietnam era, as an American citizen of the correct age, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he trained and served as a medic on a military base hospital in Japan. After his Army tour of duty, he apprenticed from 1963 to 1965 at the Miami Serpentarium with Bill Haast, whom he affectionately calls "guru". A short career in the Merchant Navy brought him back to India, and he has lived here ever since. He is now a naturalized Indian citizen.
In 1974, Whitaker married Zai Whitaker, and the couple had two sons, Nikhil and Samir. However, the marriage eventually failed, and the couple were divorced. He later married again and his wife, Janaki Lenin, is an Indian. They live on a farm just south of Chennai, on the outskirts of Chengalpattu town in Tamil Nadu.
In 1986, well into his 40s, Whitaker earned a B.Sc. in wildlife management from Pacific Western University. This was merely a by-product of his lifelong passion for wildlife, especially of the reptilian variety. He is also a licensed amateur radio operator, holding an Indian callsign, VU2WIT.
Work in India
Whitaker was the founding director of the Snake Park in Chennai. The park was conceived to rehabilitate the Irula tribe, who are known for their expertise in catching snakes. The tribals were left jobless after the ban of snake trading. Whitaker helped the Irula tribe to get involved in extracting snake venom used for the production of antivenom drugs.
Rom is the founder-director of the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust Centre for Herpetology, actively involved in crocodile breeding and conservation programs.
Whitaker is currently coordinating an effort to save the gharial, a critically endangered species of Crocodilia on the brink of extinction, with less than 250 individuals left in Indian waters.
On 27 December 2010, the Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, during a visit with Rom at the Madras Crocodile Bank, announced the formation of a National Tri-State Chambal Sanctuary Management and Coordination Committee for gharial conservation on 1,600 km2 of the National Chambal Sanctuary for gharials along the Chambal River in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. The committee will comprise representatives of the states' water resources ministries, state departments of irrigation and power, Wildlife Institute of India, Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, the Gharial Conservation Alliance, Development Alternatives, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Worldwide Fund for Nature, and the divisional forest officers of the three states. The committee will plan strategies for protection of gharials and their habitat. This will involve further research on the species and its ecology and socioeconomic evaluation of dependent riparian communities. Funding for this new initiative will be mobilized as a subscheme of the Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats in the amount of Rs.50 to 80 million (US$1 to 1.7 million) each year for five years. This project has long been advocated by Rom Whitaker.
Professional affiliations
Whitaker is a member of the advisory committee and the editorial board of the Bombay Natural History Society, correspondent of The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, USA, advisor of Irula Tribal Women's’ Welfare Society, Afforestation Project, member of the Centre for Science and Education, New Delhi, and of the Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad. He co-founded the Tamil Nadu Society for Social Forestry Research and the Palni Hills Conservation Council. He is chief technical advisor of Irula Snake Catchers’ Industrial Cooperative Society and convenor of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Chapter. He is honorary consultant of International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources/Species Survival Commission (IUCN/SSC), vice chairman (Western Asia), IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group, member of IUCN/SSC Reptile and Amphibian Group and of IUCN/SSC Sea Turtle Specialist Group.
Popular culture
He was producer of the 1996, 53-minute, Super 16-mm wildlife documentary, The King and I, made for the National Geographic Channel Explorer program. This film on the natural history of the king cobra, the largest venomous snake in the world, received the Emmy Award for Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement, 1998. It also received Best Photography Award, Progetto Natura 8th Stambecco d'Oro Nature Film Festival, Turin, 1997; it was nominated for Best Cinematography, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival 1997; Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft-Cinematographers and News and Documentary, 1998, and Best Animal Behaviour, Wildscreen Film Festival 1998.
In February 2007, he was the subject of a critically acclaimed documentary produced by Icon Films and WNET (and broadcast as Supersize Crocs on PBS's Nature series) on oversized crocodiles, which was filmed in India, Ethiopia, and Australia.
In January 2009, Whitaker was in another Nature documentary on real-life reptiles, such as Komodo dragons and dracos that inspired tales of dragons.
In February 2011, BBC Natural World followed Whitaker during his ongoing research into the causes and prevention of snake bites in India.
He has authored several scientific articles and popular books on reptiles, especially on snakes, including the comprehensive field guide, titled Snakes of India - The Field Guide in 2004.
on the snakes of India.
In 2018, he received the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian awards in India for distinguish services in wildlife conservation.
Honors, awards, and other recognitions
He won the Whitley Award (considered as top U.K. conservation prize) in 2005 for his work.
He became the associate laureate in Rolex Awards in 2008.
A species of Indian boa, Eryx whitakeri, is named in honor of Romulus Whitaker.
A species of krait, Bungarus romulusi is named in honor of Romulus Whitaker.
Romulus Whitaker was awarded the Padma Sri (the fourth-highest civilian award) by the government of India for his work done in the field of wildlife conservation in 2018.
References
External sources
I married a croc man - Romulus Whitaker Whitaker, Zai. Dec. 1994. National Wildlife Federation
Agumbe Rainforest Research Station (ARRS) Web Portal
1943 births
American emigrants to India
Nature conservation in India
Indian herpetologists
Indian conservationists
Indian people of American descent
20th-century American zoologists
20th-century Indian zoologists
Living people
Kodaikanal International School alumni
Military personnel from New York City
Naturalised citizens of India
Recipients of the Padma Shri in other fields
Former United States citizens
Members of the Bombay Natural History Society
Tyabji family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romulus%20Whitaker |
John Donald McPherson (February 20, 1945 – November 24, 2001) was a Canadian figure skater. He is the 1963 World Champion and the 1963 Canadian national champion. He represented Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympics, where he placed 10th at the age of 15. He turned 15 years old during the Olympic figure skating competition.
Donald McPherson started to skate with the age of 4. He represented the Stratford Figure Skating Club in Ontario, and was coached by Dennis Silverthorne. He won the 1963 World Figure Skating Championships at the age of 18, becoming the youngest men's World Champion. McPherson won his World title skating on an unusual pair of skates with small serrations in the blades.
Following that win, he turned professional, starring in Dick Button's Ice-Travanganza at the 1964 New York World's Fair. He also toured for 11 years for Holiday on Ice, and won the 1965 World Professional Figure Skating Championships.
He was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1963 and the Canadian Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1996.
Donald McPherson was inducted into the Stratford Sports Hall of Fame in the Athlete's Section on Saturday April 16, 2011 along with Howie Morenz, Larry Landreth and Jodeyne Higgins' Also inducted were the 1977 JS News Peewees Baseball team and the 1952 Stratford Indians Senior Men's Hockey team in the Team Category. Denis 'Dinny' Flanagan was inducted in the builder's category.
Later in life, he moved to Munich, Germany. He died of complications arising from diabetes in Munich on November 24, 2001.
Competitive highlights
J = Junior level
References
External links
http://www.abendblatt.de/extra/service/944949.html?url=/ha/2001/xml/20011201xml/habxml011012_18055.xml
1945 births
2001 deaths
Canadian male single skaters
Deaths from diabetes
Figure skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Skating people from Ontario
Sportspeople from Windsor, Ontario
World Figure Skating Championships medalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20McPherson%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
DIN 62056 Electric DIN Standard for electric metering released 2002. Most of the description are used to certificate a common electronic readout from electrical readers, such as private households, industries and power generators over telephone lines or the Internet.
The DIN 62056 has some sub-parts, which describes several protocols.
DIN 62056-3 Energy data identification code
DIN 62056-21 Direct local data exchange.
DIN 62058-42 Physical layer services and asynchronous data exchange
DIN 62056-46 Data link Layer with HDLC Protocol
DIN 62056-53 Data exchange for meter reading COSEM Application layer
DIN 62056-61 OBIS Object identification Code or International Electrotechnical Commission 61107
DIN 62056-62 Interface objects
62056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN%2062056 |
Busby's Bore, Sydney's second water supply, is a heritage-listed former water management facility located between Centennial Park and College Street, Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Busby and built from 1827 to 1837 by convict labour. It is also known as Busbys Bore. The property is owned by Sydney Water, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999, and on local government heritage registers.
History
By the 1820s, the Tank Stream, Sydney's original water supply, had become little more than an open sewer, and the growing colony had become reliant on wells or water carted from the Lachlan Swamps. In 1826, Busby recommended that water from the Lachlan Swamps be delivered to a reservoir at the Racecourse (now Hyde Park) via a tunnel (or 'bore'). The reservoir was not approved but construction of the tunnel began in September 1827. The Bore was not completed until 1837 but began supplying drinkable water in 1830.
The construction of Busby's Bore, a water supply tunnel extending from Centennial Park to Hyde Park, began in September 1827 and was completed 10 years later. The bore was designed to carry water from the Lachlan Swamp, now Centennial and Queen's Parks. It would supply the "rising capital of Australia", as Sydney was described in the Report of a Committee of the Legislative Council appointed to enquire into the state of the tunnel and outstanding wage claims in 1837.
The water was gravity fed, the fall being over the from end to end, to feed out at Hyde Park at a height sufficient to allow the supply of the General Hospital in Macquarie Street. The tunnel had to be re-routed around the sites of the Sydney Football Stadium and the Sydney Cricket Ground and through the Showground because of quicksand encountered in Moore Park. The Bore commenced at what is now Busby's Pond, close to the present Lang Road entrance to Centennial Park and ended in the present Hyde Park near the Oxford Street entrance. From there, a line of pipe supported on trestles extended to a point near the corner of Park and Elizabeth Streets.
John Busby had been employed as a mineral and water surveyor in England, Ireland and Scotland. He applied to the English Colonial Office for employment in NSW. Lord Bathurst, then Secretary of State, appointed him as Mineral Surveyor and Civil Engineer with particular attention to "the management of coal mines [and] in supplying the Town of Sydney with water". Busby arrived in Sydney in 1824 aged 59. He was employed as engineer at the Newcastle Coal Mines and on the breakwater then under construction there. However, his major task was to undertake surveys with a view to obtaining a permanent and adequate water supply for Sydney.
During Busby's time at Newcastle, the Sydney domestic water still came from the virtually defunct and certainly highly polluted Tank Stream and a spring at Ultimo and another near Oxford Street. These were supplemented by wells both public and private. Many of these, especially those in the north of the town, were contaminated.
At the start of construction Busby engaged his son, Alexander, as his assistant, but the appointment was disallowed in London. William Busby then acted as assistant at his fathers expense. There were three free overseers but these were for the first year only. Apart from these, the whole of the work was performed by convicts. Between 50 and 140 were employed working 24 hours a day in three eight-hour shifts, a common practice in mining since it prevented an unnecessary buildup of underground water. Busby claimed that not 1 in 10 of the men were trained stone miners, that the rest had to be trained on the job. He also complained of their "vicious, drunken and idle habits" and alleged that they were often absent as they preferred to work illicitly on their own account in the town. False returns of work were made by their convict overseers. "One third of the time lost [could] be ascribed to the workmen, and the villainy of the overseers" sent to the bore. Such was the character of the men employed, that their acquired constant vigilance, though such was their character that Busby was afraid ever to enter the underground workings.' This is not surprising given the working conditions. The prisoners were often up to their waists in water. Most of the work was by pick through rock. Gunpowder was used occasionally, but when this occurred the blast fouled the air in the tunnel and filled it with smoke.
Work started at the Hyde Park end and progressed along South Head Road, now Oxford Street, turning west of that road at Dowling Street, then across the west corner of Victoria Barracks to Moore Park Road. The route traversed several springs and low lying basins which drained into the bore. Thus by 1830, with the tunnel well short of the Lachlan Swamp, a pipe at Hyde Park began to supply pure, filtered water and the supply increased with the length of the bore. Offcuts from the tunnel also trapped sources of ground water.
In 1833, pipes were laid to the Port to allow ships to be supplied. In 1837 the tunnel reached a point near what is now the corner of Cook and Lang Roads. The only work outstanding was an open cut into the swamp itself and the construction of reservoirs or holding dams at each end. There is no evidence that these were ever built, though some sort of channel seems to have been cut at the south end of the tunnel. Major Barney, Commander of the Royal Engineers, was called to inspect the work. Although critical of the site of the tunnel Barney considered the structure to be of professional merit and fairly done. Starting in 1844, reticulation pipes were laid, allowing houses to be connected, as well as the establishment of a number of public fountains. In 1854, supply was supplemented with the installation of a small pumping station at the lower end of the swamp, as well as a number of small dams. In 1872, the Bore was cleaned and some irregularities removed, increasing the tunnel flow to about per day.
Busby, then 72 years old, retired to his property, Kirkton, between Branxton and Singleton in the Hunter Valley where he died in 1857.
The creation of a municipal water supply in the form of Busby's Bore highlighted the need for an administration to control its use. Municipal instructions were discussed for the colony in the early 1830s but met with fears in the community that such institutions would impose a burden of taxes or levies.
In 1842 the Sydney Corporation was formed. The Sydney Corporation endeavoured to squeeze as much revenue as possible from Busby's Bore and ignored public demands for planning towards the development of new and more suitable sources. In 1851 Sydney manufacturers expressed a total lack of confidence in the Sydney Corporation after its failure to fulfil its contracts with new industrial developments such as Tooth's Brewery and Sugar Company.
The length of time to complete the bore, that it relied on the simple mechanism of mechanical feed and that it and its successor, the Botany Bay Swamps Scheme, tied up land suitable for industrial development in water reserves had a significant impact on the shape and development of Sydney. The bore can also be seen as having a critical role in forcing the creation of municipal administration in the colony.
Description
The Bore was built by convict labour, mostly through solid sandstone. It averaged high by wide, though it varied from by to high. The completed Bore delivered about water per day. Not all went to plan as there were injuries.
Starting in 1859, Busby's Bore was supplemented and later supplanted by water pumped from Botany Swamps. In 1934, part of the Bore under Oxford Street was filled with sand to remove the risk of subsidence under the tram lines.
The Bore remains under the ownership of Sydney Water. It is listed on the New South Wales Heritage Register and the former Register of the National Estate and is protected by a Permanent Conservation Order.
Condition
As at 30 July 1997, the archaeological potential is good. It is an intact example of its type.
Chronology
Key dates include:
1827Work started at Hyde Park
1830First water from springs encountered
1833Pipes from Hyde Park to supply shipping
1837Tunnel completed: per day to water carts
1844General pipe reticulation
1872Refurbishment and cleanout of tunnel: per day
1881Some pipes laid inside tunnel in Oxford Street to reduce tainting from coal tar laid on road surface
1890Superseded by other schemes
1902Botanic Gardens supply only
1934Oxford Street section backfilled with sand when the weight of tram traffic caused stone slabs under Oxford Street to collapse
2004Proposal to reactivate Bore to supply city parks and gardens
2006NSW Government allocates funds for restoration of the Bore to supply parks of Sydney central business district.
Commemorative items
1962A fountain was provided by Sydney City Council to commemorate "Sydney's second source of water and its first piped water supply." The fountain is situated in Hyde Park, near the corner of St James Road and Elizabeth Street, Sydney.
1988A cairn was placed in Centennial Park commemorating Busby's Bore, the centenary of the Water Board and the dedication of Centennial Park. The cairn is situated on Grand Drive, Centennial Park approximately 100 metres east of the Robertson Road Gates.
Heritage listing
As at 10 September 1997, Busby's Bore is a unique engineering achievement which played a crucial role in the development of urban Sydney. As a product of convict labour and a major factor in the establishment of local administration in NSW (in the form of the Sydney Corporation) the bore is associated with the important steps that changed Sydney from penal colony to colonial trading port.
The fabric of the bore and associated archaeological deposits possess research potential relating to substantive historical and scientific questions relating to 19th century work and technology and to changes in the environment.
The intactness of the bore and the fact that it is still in use make it a rare survivor from the first half of the 19th century within urban Sydney.
Busby's Bore was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.
Busby's Bore, as a most important public work between 1827 and 1837 and Sydney's main water supply between 1837 and 1852, is a physical remnant of many of the major processes which have shaped modern Sydney.
Busby's Bore was an important factor leading to the establishment of the Sydney Corporation in 1842. It highlights the Colonial Government's lack of interest in managing the problems caused by Sydney's fast growing urban population.
The bore is associated with Busby and Commissioner Bigge and symbolises their aspirations for Sydney and themselves.
The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
Contemporary Community Esteem - The community has demonstrated its esteem for this item through the making of a Permanent Conservation Order. It is known to be valued by groups such as the Institute for Engineers, The National Trust and Local Historical Societies.
The place has potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
The bore's fabric possesses research potential regarding its construction techniques, the technology and materials available in the colony at the time, convict working conditions, the history of its use through changes made to it over time and the success of government regulation of the water supply through evidence of illegal entries.
The archaeological deposits surrounding the bore may also provide evidence of its use and construction. Archaeological deposits within the curtilage of the bore may possess research potential relating to; aboriginal occupation of the area, environmental changes since colonisation including the introduction of new species, grazing, draining of swamps and development and the development of the Royal Agricultural Society's Showground.
The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
The intactness of this early 19th century, convict built water supply makes it a rare survivor from this period within urban Sydney. As the main water supply to Sydney from 1837 to 1853 the bore is a unique item.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.
The bore is representative of English rock mining techniques of the period and of rock mining in other parts of Australia. It is also representative of public works carried out by convict labour and 19th century engineering techniques.
Engineering heritage
The bore is listed as a National Engineering Landmark by Engineers Australia as part of its Engineering Heritage Recognition Program.
See also
Sydney Water
References
Bibliography
Attribution
External links
reference and article (CC-by-sa) on Busby's Bore in the Dictionary of Sydney
1837 establishments in Australia
Canals opened in 1837
Creeks and canals of Sydney
Tunnels completed in 1837
Water tunnels
Sydney Water
New South Wales State Heritage Register sites located in the Sydney central business district
New South Wales State Heritage Register sites located in Surry Hills
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
Centennial Park, New South Wales
College Street, Sydney
Recipients of Engineers Australia engineering heritage markers
Tunnels in Sydney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby%27s%20Bore |
Louis Ferdinand of Prussia may refer to:
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1772–1806), post-Frederican soldier, son of Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, nephew of Frederick II
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1907–1994), son of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, head of the Prussian Royal House | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Louis%20Ferdinand%20of%20Prussia |
Bishopdale is a residential suburb located in the north of Christchurch, New Zealand.
Bishopdale lies close to Christchurch International Airport at Harewood and Christchurch's zoo, Orana Wildlife Park.
History
The suburb takes its name from the three Bishop brothers, James (1826–1910), Robert (1827–1909) and William (1829–1903), who bought land in the area in 1858 or 1859 and established pipfruit orchards. Initially, the area was called "Bishopsdale", but the second 's' was dropped from the name. Part of Greers Road (the section between Harewood Road and Sawyers Arms Road) was formerly called Bishop's Road. It was renamed in 1948 to avoid confusion with Bishops Road in Papanui and Bishop Street in St Albans.
Bishopdale is overall a middle-class suburb, with a wide range of people living in the area. Most of the houses date from the 1960s, and use either brick or wood, single-storey designs. The area boasts a lot of parks and recreational areas, and a small shopping mall.
Demographics
Bishopdale, comprising the statistical areas of Bishopdale North, Bishopdale West and Bishopdale South, covers . It had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2.
Bishopdale had a population of 9,306 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 249 people (2.7%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 354 people (4.0%) since the 2006 census. There were 3,504 households, comprising 4,569 males and 4,734 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.97 males per female, with 1,788 people (19.2%) aged under 15 years, 1,839 (19.8%) aged 15 to 29, 4,092 (44.0%) aged 30 to 64, and 1,590 (17.1%) aged 65 or older.
Ethnicities were 79.8% European/Pākehā, 8.9% Māori, 4.3% Pasifika, 13.1% Asian, and 2.8% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.
The percentage of people born overseas was 22.9, compared with 27.1% nationally.
Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 49.9% had no religion, 38.3% were Christian, 0.3% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.8% were Hindu, 0.9% were Muslim, 1.0% were Buddhist and 1.9% had other religions.
Of those at least 15 years old, 1,575 (20.9%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 1,425 (19.0%) people had no formal qualifications. 1,122 people (14.9%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 3,795 (50.5%) people were employed full-time, 1,116 (14.8%) were part-time, and 249 (3.3%) were unemployed.
Economy
Retail
Bishopdale Village Mall was established in Bishopdale in the 1960s. It has 600 carparks and 80 retailers, including a New World supermarket.
Education
Breens Intermediate is an intermediate school catering for years 7 to 8. It has a roll of . The school, initially named Fendalton Intermediate, opened in 1976.
Bishopdale School, Cotswold School and Isleworth School are contributing primary schools catering for years 1 to 6. They have rolls of , and , respectively. Bishopdale School opened in 1957, Cotswold in 1968 and Isleworth in 1962.
Emmanuel Christian School is a state-integrated interdenominational school for years 1 to 10. It has a roll of .
All these schools are coeducational, and all except Emmanuel Christian School are state schools. Rolls are as of
Religion
Bishopdale has a library and many churches, including Presbyterian, Jehovah's Witnesses and Catholic.
In popular culture
Margaret Mahy has set her book The Changeover in Bishopdale; it is called Gardendale in that popular book, and production of a film of the same name began in 2016.
References
Suburbs of Christchurch | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishopdale%2C%20Christchurch |
Matthew Hockley (born 5 June 1982) is an English former professional footballer, who plays for Bideford. He can play in defence or midfield.
Hockley was born in Paignton, Devon and joined Torquay United as a trainee. He turned professional in July 2000 and made his first-team debut in the 1-1 draw at home to Southend United in the FA Cup 1st Round on 18 November 2000. His league debut came the following week in a 2-1 home win against Barnet. He made sporadic appearances over the next two seasons before becoming a regular under Leroy Rosenior, missing only one game in the 2003-04 promotion season. He is nicknamed 'Pitbull' due to his tenacious tackling.
In May 2005, he accepted a new contract with Torquay and in the 2006-07 season made his 200th first team appearance for the Gulls. His 200th league appearance came on 2 March 2007 in a 1-1 draw away to Chester City, Hockley replacing Lloyd Kerry as a late substitute.
Torquay were relegated to the Conference National at the end of the 2006-07 season, but Hockley chose to remain with the club, agreeing a new contract with new Torquay manager Paul Buckle. He was an unused substitute in Torquay's FA Trophy Final defeat at Wembley in May 2008, and was released by Torquay three days later.
Hockley joined Truro City in June 2008. After 1 season at Truro City he then moved onto Bideford on a free transfer.
His brother Wayne was also a professional with Torquay United.
All time playing career
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
People from Paignton
English men's footballers
Torquay United F.C. players
Truro City F.C. players
Dereham Town F.C. players
Bideford A.F.C. players
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Devon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Hockley |
The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Eastern Conference. The Flyers were founded in 1967 as one of six expansion teams, increasing the size of the NHL at that time to twelve teams.
Since the franchise was established, the team has had ten general managers, including Keith Allen, who built the Flyers teams that won two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992. Allen served the longest single stint, 14 seasons, as Flyers GM while Bob Clarke served the most seasons (19) over two stints. Daniel Briere is the team’s current general manager.
Key
General managers
See also
List of NHL general managers
References
General
Specific
Philadelphia Flyers general managers
Philadelphia Flyers
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William McLachlan is a Canadian ice dancer. He competed first with partner Geraldine Fenton, and later with Virginia Thompson. He won five medals at the World Figure Skating Championships, two silvers and a bronze with Fenton, and one silver and a bronze with Thompson.
Competitive highlights
(with Fenton)
(with Thompson)
References
Canadian male ice dancers
Living people
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Canadian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20McLachlan%20%28figure%20skater%29 |
Ikano Group is a privately held international group of companies with the parent company Ikano S.A. based in Luxembourg. It was originally a part of IKEA, which was founded by Ingvar Kamprad, then became independent in 1988, and has since been owned by the Kamprad family.
Operations
Ikano has operations in 15 countries in Europe, Southeast Asia and North America. Ikano performs business within the following areas:
Data analysis (United Kingdom)
Finance (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom)
Group Services (Luxembourg)
Insurance (Switzerland)
Production (Mexico, Poland)
Real Estate (Sweden, Denmark (Ikano Bolig))
Retail (Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Mexico)
Subsidiaries include for example Ikano Bank AB, Ikano Bostad AB (Real Estate). Its financial services include mortgage loans, consumer loans, and loyalty cards for retailers and the residential operations consist of rental and tenant owned apartments in various locations in Sweden.
Ikano owns the IKEA franchise rights for Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Mexico and Thailand, and operates IKEA stores in these markets.
History
In 2015, Lars Thorsén succeeded Arja Taaveniku as CEO of Ikano Group.
References
Holding companies of Sweden
IKEA
Financial services companies of Luxembourg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikano |
DOS/4G is a 32-bit DOS extender developed by Rational Systems (later Tenberry Software). It allows DOS programs to eliminate the 640 KB conventional memory limit by addressing up to 64 MB of extended memory on Intel 80386 and above machines.
Features
Functioning as a highly flexible and reusable memory extension library, DOS/4G allowed programmers to access extended memory without writing specialized code. It embeds itself in the executable file at linking time and executes before main application code, so usually DOS/4G initialization messages show up at launch. It can in principle operate within MS-DOS, PC DOS, DR-DOS and other DOS clones, the DOS boxes of OS/2, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT and Windows 95, and DOS emulators such as DOSBox. However, in practice few DOS/4G games or other applications will run on non-DOS-based versions of Windows, including Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, since none of these allow direct access to the hardware as was used for display rendering in those days.
History
DOS/4GW 1.95 was a free limited edition of DOS/4G and was included with the Watcom C compiler with a commercial re-distribution license. It was made widely popular by computer games like Doom or Tomb Raider.
Initial versions of DOS/4G had trouble with secondary DMA channels on the ISA bus, which prevented 16-bit devices like Gravis Ultrasound series from normally functioning; Gravis even had to develop PREPGAME, a patch utility which updated the game executable with a new version 1.97 to fix the incompatibility.
In case of problems, DOS/4G or DOS/4GW can be replaced with the newer and free DOS/32; a patch utility can even replace DOS/4G code embedded inside a compiled executable file.
See also
DOS/32
DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI)
DOS API
References
External links
DOS/4GW FAQ
DOS extenders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G |
In chess, a blunder is a critically bad move or decision. A blunder severely worsens the player's situation by allowing a loss of material, checkmate, or anything similar. It is usually caused by some tactical oversight, whether due to time trouble, overconfidence, or carelessness. Although blunders are most common in beginner games, all human players make them, even at the world championship level. Creating opportunities for the opponent to blunder is an important skill in chess.
What qualifies as a "blunder" rather than a normal mistake is somewhat subjective. A weak move from a novice player might be explained by the player's lack of skill, while the same move from a master might be called a blunder. In chess annotation, blunders are typically marked with a double question mark ("??") after the move.
Especially among amateur and novice players, blunders often occur because of a faulty thought process where players do not consider the opponent's . In particular, checks, , and need to be considered at each move. Neglecting these possibilities leaves a player vulnerable to simple tactical errors.
One technique formerly recommended to avoid blunders was to write down the planned move on the , then take one last look before making it. This practice was not uncommon even at the grandmaster level. However, in 2005 the International Chess Federation (FIDE) banned it, instead requiring that the move be made before being written down. The US Chess Federation also implemented this rule, effective as of January 1, 2007 (a change to rule 15A), although it is not universally enforced.
Examples
Strong players, even grandmasters, occasionally make critical blunders.
Mikhail Chigorin vs. Wilhelm Steinitz
This position is from game 23 of the 1892 World Championship in Havana, Cuba. Chigorin, playing White, is a piece up (Steinitz lost a knight for a pawn earlier in the game), but his bishop is forced to stay on d6 to protect both the rook on e7 and the pawn on h2. If he won, Chigorin would have tied the match and sent it to a tiebreaker game. After 31...Rcd2, he played 32.Bb4??. Steinitz replied 32...Rxh2+ and Chigorin immediately resigned (in light of the blind swine mate 33.Kg1 Rdg2#), losing the match.
Ernst Gruenfeld vs. Alexander Alekhine
This game between Ernst Gruenfeld and Alexander Alekhine is from Karlsbad tournament in 1923, round 2. In position on the diagram, White is to make his 30th move. Gruenfeld played 30.f3?? which immediately loses to 30...Rxd4 because 31.exd4 is impossible: after 31...Bxd4+ 32.Kf1 Nf4 33.Qxe4 Qc4+ 35.Ke1 Nxg2+ 36.Kd2 Be3+ and White will at least lose his queen. The game ended shortly afterwards following some further blunders by Gruenfeld: 31.fxe4 Nf4 32.exf4 Qc4 33.Qxc4?? Rxd1+ 34.Qf1?? Bd4+ and he resigned due to the unavoidable back-rank mate 35.Kh1 Rxf1#.
Archil Ebralidze vs. Viacheslav Ragozin
This chess game was played at the USSR Chess Championship in 1937, held in Tbilisi.
Ragozin was planning to trade rooks with 40...Rc7 41.Rxc7 Bd6+ as this would transpose the game into a winning bishop versus knight endgame for Black. Therefore, Ragozin played 40...Rc7??, not realizing that after 41.Rxc7, the bishop would be pinned to the king, and would therefore be a full blunder of a rook.
Ebralidze started to calculate, not wanting to be in a lost endgame. He, too, had not realized that after 41.Rxc7 the bishop would be pinned. After Ebralidze had thought for around 15 minutes, according to Adrian Mikhalchishin, "the crowd went literally crazy."
Someone in the audience shouted "Archil, take the rook!" Further shouts from the audience followed. Eventually, Ebralidze shouted back "I can see that, you patzers!". Ebralidze played 41.Rd5??, missing the free rook entirely.
The game continued 41...Bf6 42.Nb5 Rc2+ 43.Kg3 a6 44.Rd7+ Ke8 45.Rc7??, with Ebralidze losing his rook to the bishop fork 45...Be5+, which Ragozin played, and Ebralidze resigned.
Tigran Petrosian vs. David Bronstein
This position arose in the 1956 Candidates Tournament in Amsterdam. Petrosian (White), enjoys a clear advantage with strong knights, active rooks and great mobility while Black's position is congested. Bronstein (Black) has for the last seven turns made aimless knight moves, Nc6–d4–c6–d4, and now has played Nd4–f5, threatening White's queen while White had kept strengthening his position. White can preserve the advantage by a move like 36.Qc7. However, he overlooked that the queen was , played 36.Ng5?? and resigned after 36...Nxd6.
Miguel Najdorf vs. Bobby Fischer
This game between Miguel Najdorf and Bobby Fischer from the 1966 Piatigorsky Cup is an example where a player in a bad position breaks under the pressure. According to Mednis, Fischer's decisive error came earlier in the game, and here the black pawn on f4 is about to fall. Fischer played the blunder 30...Nd6?? cutting the game short. After Najdorf played 31.Nxd6, Fischer resigned because he realized after Najdorf's response that 31...Qxd6 32.Nxb7 wins a piece because 32...Rxb7 33.Qc8+ is a fork that wins the rook on b7, so White wins at least a .
Najdorf commented on Black's 29...Rb8: "There is no satisfactory defense. If 29...Ba8 then 30.Nb6 or 30.Qf5 would win. ... I had to win minor (the pawn at f4) but this [30...Nd6] decides immediately. Fischer, demoralized because of his inferior position, did not notice the simple point."
Viktor Korchnoi vs. Anatoly Karpov
This position is from Game 17 of the 1978 World Championship between Viktor Korchnoi, the challenger, and the World Champion, Anatoly Karpov. Karpov, playing Black, is threatening a back-rank mate with 39...Rc1#. Korchnoi could have prevented this by moving his g-pawn (but not the h-pawn because 39.h3 or h4 leads to 39...Rc1+ 40.Kh2 Nf1+ 41.Kg1 Nfg3+ 42.Kh2 Rh1#), providing an escape square for his king. In serious time trouble, Korchnoi played 39.Ra1?? and resigned after 39...Nf3+ with the forced checkmate after 40.gxf3 Rg6+ 41.Kh1 Nf2# or 40.Kh1 Nf2#. Karpov went on to win the match and later beat Korchnoi again in 1981 in the "Massacre in Merano".
Abraham Sztern vs. Rolf Lundquist
In this position, Black offered a draw. White asked Black to make a move first. According to the rules of chess (see draw by agreement), Black must make a move in response to this request, and the draw offer cannot be retracted. Black played 28...Qxb2+!, which wins on the spot (29.Kxb2 Rb3+ 30.Ka1 Ra8+ 31.Ba6 Rxa6#). White was so stunned he forgot he could still accept the draw offer, and resigned.
This blunder was published in a one-off Not the British Chess Magazine organized by GM Murray Chandler in 1984, where it was voted the blunder of the year by a team of panelists.
Murray Chandler vs. Susan Polgar
In this example, from a tournament in Biel in 1987, the game did not result in a loss for the blunderer, but led to an embarrassing draw for the British GM Murray Chandler. In the diagram position, Chandler is completely winning. His opponent, Susan Polgar, played the wily trap 53...Ng8–h6. Chandler realized that after 54.gxh6+ Kxh6 he will be left with the considerable material advantage of a and bishop against a bare king. However, since the bishop is unable to control the promotion square h8, Black will draw if she is able to get her king to control h8 due to the wrong rook pawn fortress. But Chandler calculates further, and realizes that it is he who will win control over the h8 square after 55.Kf6, and thereby win the game.
Therefore, Chandler played 54.gxh6+??, but instead of the expected 54...Kxh6, Polgar played 54...Kh8, leading to almost the same king, bishop, and rook pawn versus bare king situation as Chandler had calculated that he would avoid, and the small difference that White has two rook pawns rather than one has no effect on the result. Black controls the h8 square and cannot be chased or squeezed away from it, and so White cannot promote his pawn. After 55.Bd5 Kh7 56.Kf7 Kh8 the players agreed to a draw.
Chandler had numerous moves that would have maintained his winning position; the fastest ways to win were 54.h4 and 54.Bf5 according to the Shredder tablebase.
Alexander Beliavsky vs. Leif Erlend Johannessen
This example, from a game played in Linares in 2002, is one of the very rare circumstances where a grandmaster makes the worst move possible, the only one allowing checkmate on the next move. In this queen endgame, White has some advantage after 69.fxg6+ fxg6 70.Kf4 due to Black's weak pawn on c6. Beliavsky playing White played 69.Kf4??, however, overlooking the response 69...Qb8#. According to Johannessen, it took a few moments for both players to realize that it was checkmate, and Beliavsky was a good sport over this mishap.
Deep Fritz vs. Vladimir Kramnik
In November 2006, reigning world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik competed in the World Chess Challenge: Man vs. Machine, a six-game match against the chess computer Deep Fritz in Bonn, Germany. After the first game had ended in a draw, Kramnik, playing Black, was generally considered in a comfortable position in Game 2, and he thought so himself apparently, as he refused a draw by avoiding a potential threefold repetition on 29...Qa7. Kramnik's troubles began when he decided to play for a win and pushed his a-pawn, 31...a4. Commentators, including American grandmaster Yasser Seirawan, voiced concerns about Kramnik's intentions and the situation became more uncertain as the game went on with 32.Nxe6 Bxe3+ 33.Kh1 Bxc1 34.Nxf8, turning it into a likely draw. The game could have ended with 34...Kg8 35.Ng6 Bxb2 36.Qd5+ Kh7 37.Nf8+ Kh8 38.Ng6+.
However Kramnik's next move, 34...Qe3?? (a move awarded "???" originally by ChessBase on a story covering Kramnik's blunder, and even "??????" by Susan Polgar), came as a big surprise and was described as possibly the "blunder of the century" and perhaps the "biggest blunder ever" by Susan Polgar, as Kramnik overlooked a mate in one. Deep Fritz immediately ended the game with 35.Qh7#. Seirawan later called Kramnik's move "a tragedy".
From ChessBase: "Kramnik played the move 34...Qe3 calmly, stood up, picked up his cup and was about to leave the stage to go to his rest room. At least one audio commentator also noticed nothing, while Fritz operator Mathias Feist kept glancing from the board to the screen and back, hardly able to believe that he had input the correct move. Fritz was displaying mate in one, and when Mathias executed it on the board, Kramnik briefly grasped his forehead, took a seat to sign the score sheet and left for the press conference." During it, he stated that he had planned the supposedly winning move 34...Qe3 already when playing 29...Qa7, and had rechecked the line after each subsequent move. After an exchange of queens, Black would win easily with his distant pawn; after 35.Qxb4 Qe2 or 35.Ng6+ Kh7 36.Nf8+ Kg8 Black also wins eventually.
Chess journalist Alexander Roshal attempted to explain the blunder by saying that the mating pattern of a queen on h7 protected by a knight on f8 is extremely rare and not contained in a grandmaster's automatic repertoire.
Étienne Bacrot vs. Ernesto Inarkiev
This game was played in May 2008 at the Baku Grand Prix from the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010. In round 11, Étienne Bacrot played White against Ernesto Inarkiev. On move 23, he checked the black king with 23.Qe7+??. Both players calmly wrote down the move. Bacrot then realized that his queen was under attack by the black knight and resigned.
Magnus Carlsen vs. Levon Aronian
The game between the world's two highest-rated players in the 2012 Grand Slam Master's final in São Paulo and Bilbao (this game was played in São Paulo) featured a double blunder. Carlsen, with White, played the tactical blunder 27.Bf4??, and saw almost immediately that this loses to 27...R8xf4!, in effect winning a piece since taking the rook gives Black a forced mate: 28.gxf4 Nxf4 (threatening Qg2#) 29.Rg1 Qxh2+ 30.Kxh2 Rh3#.
Carlsen waited for Aronian to make his move, and Aronian eventually played the otherwise solid 27...Bc3??, allowing White back into the game. Aronian had seen 27...R8xf4, but playing quickly to avoid time trouble, he thought that White could strike back with 28.gxf4 Nxf4 29.Ra8+ since both 29...Kf7 and 29...Kh7 lose to the knight fork 30.Ng5+. He had missed, however, that the retreat 29...Bf8! ends White's brief counterattack and leaves White defenseless against the mate threat.
The game was eventually drawn by perpetual check on move 48.
Magnus Carlsen vs. Viswanathan Anand
The sixth game of the World Chess Championship 2014 in Sochi between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand also featured a double blunder. Carlsen adopted the space-gaining Maróczy Bind setup against the Kan Variation of the Sicilian Defence, and accepted a set of isolated doubled pawns in return for active play. After an early queen exchange he soon developed a commanding position and appeared to have excellent winning chances. On his 26th move Carlsen played 26.Kd2??, immediately realizing after making the move that 26...Nxe5! (with a discovered attack on the g4-rook) 27.Rxg8 Nxc4+ (zwischenzug) 28.Kd3 Nb2+ 29.Ke2 Rxg8 leads to Black picking up two extra pawns and gaining excellent winning chances. Anand, not expecting the blunder, replied with 26...a4?? in less than a minute. He, too, saw the missed tactic immediately after making his move. Carlsen made no further mistakes and converted his advantage into a win.
Alireza Firouzja vs. Magnus Carlsen
In this pawn ending (from a game in 2020), White is a pawn down, and to hold the draw, he either needs to preserve his last pawn, or (if Black decides to play Ke6 followed by f5) bring the king close enough to the e-file and stop the king from reaching any key squares. The correct move to draw is 69.Kd2!, when 69...Kc5 70.Kc3 keeps the opposition and prevents Black from penetrating, while 69...Ke6 70.Ke3 f5 71.exf5+ Kxf5 72.Kf3 prevents the king from advancing any further and reaching a key square. Instead, White blundered with 69.Kc3?? and after 69...Kc5 White resigned, as he loses his last pawn: 70.Kb3 Kd4 or 70.Kd3 Kb4 71.Ke3 Kc4 72.Kf3 Kd4 73.Kg3 Kxe4. Thus, the position after 69.Kc3?? Kc5 is reciprocal zugzwang: if Black were to move, it would be a draw, while if White to move, Black wins.
Ian Nepomniachtchi vs. Magnus Carlsen
During the ninth game between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2021, the game was equal until Nepomniachtchi played 27.c5??. This move handed the advantage to Carlsen, since after 27...c6, the White bishop on b7 is trapped and the knight on b3 cannot move to c5 to defend it. The game followed with 28.f3 Nh6 29.Re4 Ra7 30.Rb4 Rb8 31.a4 Raxb7, leaving Carlsen a bishop up. Nepomniachtchi resigned eight moves later.
Nepomniachtchi had previously blundered in game 8 and would do so again in game 11, both times losing a pawn and giving Carlsen winning positions that he converted to win the match. Chess players and commentators widely believed that Nepomniachtchi's mental state was significantly impacted by the nearly 8-hour long game 6, and that the blunder in game 11 might have been him giving up on the match to get it over with.
Resignation in won positions
Sometimes players, including strong grandmasters, resign in a position in which they are actually winning, not losing. Chess historian Tim Krabbé calls this kind of mistake "the ultimate blunder".
Ignatz von Popiel vs. Georg Marco
In this 1902 game between Ignatz von Popiel and Georg Marco, the black bishop on d4 is pinned to the rook on d7, and there are no additional friendly pieces to come to its defense. Seeing no way to save his bishop, Black resigned, missing 36...Bg1!, threatening ...Qxh2# and leaving no way for White to save both his queen and rook while staving off checkmate. Tim Krabbé called this the "earliest, most famous, and clearest example" of resigning with a winning position.
György Négyesy vs. Károly Honfi
In this game played in Budapest in 1955, Black saw that White's c3-knight is stopping ...Rd1#. Therefore, Black played 19...Qxa2+??, deflecting the knight. White agreed and resigned. Both players overlooked that after 20.Nxa2 Rd1+, the deflected knight can still stop the mate with 21.Nc1.
Raúl Sanguineti vs. Miguel Najdorf
Black has a substantial material advantage, but due to Black's poor king safety, White has a forced win. Correct is 58.Qg8+ winning the bishop (since 58...Bf7 59.Qd8 leaves two mate threats which cannot be parried at the same time). Instead, White played 58.Kd8?? (threatening 59.Qe7#), thinking that it won on the spot. Miguel agreed, and resigned. Both players overlooked the defense 58...Rxg4, winning more material and allowing the black king to escape to f5. With the king on d8, White cannot play Qc8+, which would have won the rook.
Victor Korchnoi vs. Geert Van der Stricht
Here, Black seems helpless against White's kingside threats. Agreeing with this idea, Black resigned – presumably seeing 36...Nxe5! 37.Rxe6 Nxd3 (threatening 38...Nf4+ and 38...fxe6) 38.Rxh6+ gxh6 39.Qxh6#. He missed, however, the fact that the White king was lined up with Black's rook, so 38...gxh6+ would have been check and 39.Qxh6# is illegal. After 39.Kf1 Rg6, Black defends his h6-pawn and has a decisive material advantage.
See also
Back-rank checkmate
Choke (sports)
Kotov syndrome
Swindle (chess)
References
External links
Complete game scores of the examples:
Mikhail Chigorin vs. Wilhelm Steinitz, Havana 1892
Ernst Gruenfeld vs. Alexander Alekhine, Karlsbad 1923
Tigran Petrosian vs. David Bronstein, Amsterdam 1956
Miguel Najdorf vs. Bobby Fischer, 1966
Viktor Korchnoi vs. Anatoly Karpov, 1978
Murray Chandler vs. Susan Polgar, Biel 1987
Alexander Beliavsky vs. Leif Erlend Johannessen, Linares 2002
Deep Fritz vs. Vladimir Kramnik, Bonn 2006 (chessbase.com)
Étienne Bacrot vs. Ernesto Inarkiev, 2008
Magnus Carlsen vs. Levon Aronian, 2012
Magnus Carlsen vs. Viswanathan Anand, 2014
Alireza Firouzja vs. Magnus Carlsen, 2020
Ian Nepomniachtchi vs. Magnus Carlsen, Dubai 2021
Ignatz von Popiel vs. Georg Marco, 1902
Gyorgy Negyesi vs. Karoly Honfi, Budapest 1955
Raul Sanguineti vs. Miguel Najdorf, Mar del Plata 1956
Viktor Korchnoi vs. Geert van der Stricht, Plovdiv 2003
Chess terminology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunder%20%28chess%29 |
Geraldine Fenton is a Canadian ice dancer. With partner William McLachlan, she is a three-time Canadian national champion and three-time World medallist.
Fenton retired from competition in 1959 in order to take a coaching position.
Competitive highlights
(with McLachlan)
References
Canadian female ice dancers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
World Figure Skating Championships medalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine%20Fenton |
Weatherwise is a magazine founded by David M. Ludlum and was published by Heldref Publications in Washington DC, but now is published by Taylor & Francis Group. It covers weather and climate for weather enthusiasts as well as meteorologists and climatologists and is the only popular press publication in the United States to do so. It is richly illustrated with large color photographs that showcase the power, beauty and excitement of weather. Articles are published on the latest discoveries and topics in meteorology, usually using experts in the respective field to write the article. Articles tend to focus on the relation of weather to technology, history, culture, the arts, and society. The magazine releases an annual almanac to highlight key topics that happened internationally, in the U.S. and corresponding hurricane and tornado seasons. The magazine also features commentaries, photography contests, questions and answers, and weather maps.
References
External links
Weatherwise magazine homepage
1947 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1947
Magazines published in Philadelphia
Magazines published in Washington, D.C.
Science and technology magazines published in the United States
Taylor & Francis academic journals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherwise |
Virginia Thompson is a Canadian ice dancer. With partner William McLachlan, she is the 1960-1962 Canadian national champion and a two-time World medallist.
Competitive highlights
(with McLachlan)
References
Canadian female ice dancers
Living people
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Thompson |
Jeremiah Films is a media production and distribution company. The organization was founded by Patrick Matrisciana in 1978. , they are based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
Organizational background
Jeremiah Films produces videos that the group says "promote patriotism, traditional values, and the Biblical worldview of [the] founding fathers" of the United States. It has produced films that investigate subjects as varied as terrorism, paganism, evolution, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, abortion, Halloween, Islam, Christianity, Cults, the occult, Jim Jones, Jehovah's Witness, and the Clinton presidency and scandals surrounding Gennifer Flowers and the alleged murder of Vince Foster.
Filmography
In 1996, Jeremiah Films distributed a film titled The Clinton Chronicles, which contains a list of people who were linked to President Bill Clinton who either died mysteriously or who was murdered. One of the most recognizable films produced in conjunction with Chuck Smith and Caryl Matrisciana is titled Halloween: Trick or Treat, the first in a 13-part series titled The Pagan Invasion.
Another noteworthy title is The God Makers film, released in 1982, along with its sequel The God Makers II released five years later.
The company produces a variety of videos, including Baby Parts For Sale, an "investigation into the multimillion-dollar-a-year baby parts trafficking industry" and stem cell research; and Halloween: Trick or Treat?, which challenges parents with a Biblical worldview "to decide whether to allow their children to participate in celebrations which glorify Pagan Occultism". The company also produced and distributes the videos The Godmakers, The Secret World of Mormonism, Freemasonry: From Darkness to Light, Death By Entertainment, Sudan: The Hidden Holocaust, The Evolution Conspiracy, The Death of Vince Foster, and Hillary uncensored! Banned by the Media telling the Peter F Paul story and includes Gala Hollywood Farewell Salute to President Clinton.
In 1996, Patrick Matrisciana, the founder of Jeremiah Films and an organization called Citizens for an Honest Government, produced a video called Obstruction of Justice: The Mena Connection. It claimed that two police officers with links to former Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton were implicated in drug trafficking, two murders, and a cover-up of the murders. The police officers sued Matrisciana for defamation and won an award of $598,750. In 1999, the award was overturned after Matrisciana appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He won in appeals court; the three-judge panel saying: Campbell and Lane being public officials bear the burden of proving statements made by a defendant are false, and they failed to meet that standard. The judge said a public figure plaintiff must also prove malice and they did not.
References
External links
Companies based in Jacksonville, Florida
Critics of Mormonism
Film production companies of the United States
Christian film production companies
Conservative media in the United States
Mass media companies established in 1978
American companies established in 1978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20Films |
Cherokee High School is one of six public high schools of the Cherokee County School District in Cherokee County, Georgia, United States. It is located in Canton. Established in 1956, it replaced Canton High School, the county's first high school.
Notable alumni
Jayson Foster, football player
Josh Holloway, actor
Chad Jenkins, baseball player
Brittain Brown, football player
Montrell Washington, football player
References
External links
Public high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Schools in Cherokee County, Georgia
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee%20High%20School%20%28Georgia%29 |
The Meligrove Band is a Canadian indie rock band, based in Toronto, and consisting of Jason Nunes on vocals, guitar and piano, Darcy Rego on vocals and drums, Brian O'Reilly on guitar and synthesizer, and Michael Small on bass guitar.
History
The band was formed in 1997 in Mississauga by Nunes, Small and Rego, when the three attended Father Michael Goetz Secondary School in Mississauga. Their first public performance was in March 1998 at Club Shanghai in Toronto. The band pressed a demo cassette in May 1998, and its first album, Stars & Guitars, was released by Ductape Records in April 2000.
Original drummer Rick Gomes departed in June 2001, and the band stayed a trio (with singer-guitarist Rego permanently moving to drums) until the release of their second album, Let It Grow on Endearing Records in October 2002. The album showed a move to a more orchestrated sound.
Andrew Scott joined in October 2002, months before his former band, Femme Fatale, ceased touring. Scott's bandmates in Femme Fatale included Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler, who later played together as Death from Above 1979. Although the Meligrove Band's sound has been compared to Sloan by some Canadian critics, Scott is not the same person as Sloan's Andrew Scott. His last show as a member of the band was in September 2007 in London, but he has occasionally appeared with them as a guest since.
In 2003, Nunes, Small and Rego appeared in Joel Plaskett Emergency's Come On Teacher music video, playing Plaskett's high school posse. In 2004, the band appeared as themselves on an episode of the teen comedy Radio Free Roscoe.
In early 2005, Small played briefly with Jessie Stein and Owen Pallett in SS Cardiacs, a predecessor band of The Luyas.
In summer 2005, The Meligrove Band became the first Canadian group signed to V2 Records. In 2006, the label released their album Planets Conspire in the United Kingdom, Canada, Taiwan, Scandinavia and Finland Planets Conspire was featured as Rough Trade Shops' Album of the Month for April 2006, and in Canada it reached No. 2 on the national campus radio chart. That year the band toured in western Canada.
The band's 2010 album, Shimmering Lights, was released in September 2010 by Nevado Records in Canada and Last Gang Records in the United States, and reached No. 1 on CBC Radio 3 in late October. The album also appeared on the !Earshot National Top 50 Chart.
A documentary entitled Ages & Stages: The Story of the Meligrove Band was released in the summer of 2012. The film includes interviews with about 40 other Canadian bands and music industry personalities including Joel Plaskett, Tokyo Police Club, Born Ruffians, Fucked Up, The Arkells, The Most Serene Republic and Sebastien Grainger.
The Meligrove Band song "Bones Attack!!" was used as the theme song for TV show The Basketball Jones.
Their fifth album, Bones of Things, was released in November, 2014.
The band took a break from touring in 2015, and played their last performance at Lee's Palace in Toronto in November, 2017.
Discography
Albums
2000 - Stars & Guitars (Ductape Records)
2002 - Let It Grow (Endearing Records)
2006 - Planets Conspire (V2 Records /[We Are Busy Bodies)
2010 - Shimmering Lights (Last Gang Records / Nevado Records)
2014 - Bones of Things (We Are Busy Bodies)
7" Singles
2006: Everyone's a Winner b/w Kingfisher Demo (V2 Records; United Kingdom only)
2010: Halflight b/w Super VGF (Nevado Records; Canada only)
EPs
2013: Remixes I: Stay Hard (independent)
Cassettes
1998: The Meligrove Band EP (independent)
Compilation appearances
1999: Music to Fall Asleep By (Ductape Records)
2001: Songs in Motion (Hasil Records)
2003: Underpin Collective No. 1 (Underpin Collective)
2003: Recordings from CKLN's Wired for Sound, 2001-2002 (My Mean Magpie)
2003: Food for Thought vol. 1 (The Food and Shelter Project)
2004: Function Magazine (Ryerson University School of Image Arts)
2005: Queen Aritzia (M1 Group)
2006: Doormat Records Remembers the Low-Five (Doormat Records)
2006: Brit Rock Best (a collection of V2 Records artists, released in South Korea only)
2007: Friends in Bellwoods (Out of This Spark)
2007: Everything's Gone Green original soundtrack (Lakeshore Records)
2008: Songs for the Gang: Thrush Hermit Tribute (Gooseberry Records)
2011: Last Gang Records: The Collector's Edition, Volume 7 (Last Gang Records)
References
Citations
External links
The Meligrove Band Official website
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups from Mississauga
Canadian indie rock groups
1997 establishments in Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Meligrove%20Band |
was a Japanese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Osaka from 1941 until his death in 1978, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1973.
Taguchi was born in Sotome, Nagasaki (now part of the city of Nagasaki). After graduation from Sapientia University, now St. Thomas University, Japan, he studied at the Pontifical Urbaniana University and Pontifical Athenaeum S. Apollinare in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on December 22, 1928. After finishing his studies in 1931, he returned to the Archdiocese of Tokyo, where he served as a seminary professor and director general of the Catholic Press Centre until 1936. From 1936 to 1940, he was secretary of the Apostolic Delegation to Japan.
On November 25, 1941, Taguchi was appointed Bishop of Osaka by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 14 from Apostolic Delegate in Japan Archbishop Paolo Marella, with Archbishop Peter Doi and Bishop Johannes Ross, S.J. serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of Tokyo. He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was promoted to the rank of metropolitan archbishop on July 24, 1969. He also served as President of the Japanese Episcopal Conference from 1970 to 1978. Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal Priest of S. Maria in Via in the consistory of March 5, 1973.
During the Second World War, he was mobilized by the Japanese authorities to establish contacts for the government with the Catholics of the Philippines. Apparently, this move alerted the American Archbishop of Manila, Michael J. O'Doherty, who claimed that this was an attempt to supplant his authority as the Primate of the Philippines. Then, correspondence between Washington, Vatican, and Manila cleared up the misunderstanding since Taguchi's visit to Manila served no political purpose.
Taguchi died in Osaka, aged 75; he is buried in the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Osaka.
His most accessible writing in English is "The study of Sacred Scripture".
References
1902 births
1978 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Japan
Cardinals created by Pope Paul VI
Japanese cardinals
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
People from Nagasaki
Pontifical Urban University alumni
Japanese Roman Catholic archbishops | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Yoshigoro%20Taguchi |
Guy Revell (August 2, 1941 - March 11, 1981) was a Canadian pair skater. With skating partner Debbi Wilkes, he became a two-time Canadian national champion, the 1963 North American champion, and the 1964 Olympic silver medallist.
Career
Revell began skating with Debbi Wilkes, six years his junior, in 1958 after meeting at the Unionville skating carnival. Though their height difference was adequate at the start of their partnership, by the time Wilkes was seventeen in 1963, her height was to Revell's . They were coached by Bruce Hyland at Crosby Arena and represented the Unionville Skating Club throughout their career.
Wilkes fell from a lift while posing for press photographs prior to the 1963 World Championships, hitting the ice head-first and fracturing her skull. The pair had to withdraw from the competition.
Wilkes/Revell were awarded the bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, while gold went to Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov and silver to Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler. After taking the bronze at the 1964 World Championships in Dortmund, the pair parted ways — Wilkes decided to pursue an education while Revell elected to tour professionally in ice shows.
In 1966, Wilkes/Revell were informed that the silver medallists in Innsbruck, Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler of Germany, had been disqualified after an International Olympic Committee investigation found they had signed pro contracts before the Olympics. IOC executive James Worrall presented Wilkes/Revell with the silver medals during the Canadian Championships in Peterborough, Ont. Later, Kilius/Baumler were reinstated in the record books, but the medals were never redistributed. In December 2013, after an investigation by The New York Times, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that Kilius/Bäumler and Wilkes/Revell share the 1964 Olympic silver medal and Joseph/Joseph of the United States are the bronze medallists. Despite the information on its website over the years, the IOC stated that this was intended to be the official result since 1987.
Revell joined the Ice Capades and had a long career skating professionally with Gertrude Desjardins. Having relatively little formal education, he had difficulty adjusting to life after the end of his performing career and committed suicide in 1981.
Results
(with Wilkes)
References
1941 births
1981 suicides
1981 deaths
Canadian male pair skaters
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Suicides in British Columbia
20th-century Canadian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Revell |
Debbi Wilkes (born December 16, 1946) is a Canadian former pair skater. With skating partner Guy Revell, she became a two-time Canadian national champion, the 1963 North American champion, and the 1964 Olympic silver medallist.
Personal life
Wilkes was born on December 16, 1946, in Toronto. She graduated from York University with an honors degree in psychology and then earned a master's degree in communications at Michigan State University. She is currently married to Bruce McEwan.
Career
On the ice by the age of five, Wilkes took up pairs at age ten and skated with her first partner until he quit.
She began skating with Guy Revell, six years her elder, in 1958 after meeting at the Unionville skating carnival. Though their height difference was adequate at the start of their partnership, by the time Wilkes was seventeen in 1963, her height was to Revell's . They were coached by Bruce Hyland at Crosby Arena and represented the Unionville Skating Club throughout their career.
Wilkes fell from a lift while posing for press photographs prior to the 1963 World Championships, hitting the ice head-first and fracturing her skull. The pair had to withdraw from the competition.
Wilkes/Revell were awarded the bronze medal at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, while gold went to Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov and silver to Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler. After taking the bronze at the 1964 World Championships in Dortmund, the pair parted ways — Wilkes decided to pursue an education while Revell elected to tour professionally in ice shows.
In 1966, Wilkes/Revell were informed that the silver medallists in Innsbruck, Marika Kilius / Hans-Jürgen Bäumler of Germany, had been disqualified after an International Olympic Committee investigation found they had signed pro contracts before the Olympics. IOC executive James Worrall presented Wilkes/Revell with the silver medals during the Canadian Championships in Peterborough, Ont. Later, Kilius/Baumler were reinstated in the record books, but the medals were never redistributed. In December 2013, after an investigation by The New York Times, the International Olympic Committee confirmed that Kilius/Bäumler and Wilkes/Revell share the 1964 Olympic silver medal and Joseph/Joseph of the United States are the bronze medallists. Despite the information on its website over the years, the IOC stated that this was intended to be the official result since 1987.
After retiring from competition, Wilkes became a television skating analyst, an author, a coach, and Skate Canada's Director of Marketing and Sponsorship.
Results
(with Revell)
References
1946 births
Living people
Figure skaters from Toronto
Canadian female pair skaters
Canadian television sportscasters
Olympic figure skaters for Canada
Figure skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Women sports announcers
Figure skating commentators
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1964 Winter Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Canadian women television personalities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbi%20Wilkes |
The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.
General
Features
See also
Comparison of HTML editors
Comparison of integrated development environments
Comparison of text editors
Comparison of word processors
Notes
ao: ANSI is the Windows character set, OEM is the DOS character set. Both are based on ASCII.
References
External links
"Harry's Windows Hex Editor Review" (July 2002). harrymnielsen.tripod.com. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
Hex editors
Text editor comparisons | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20hex%20editors |
Haplogroup R, or R-M207, is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is both numerous and widespread amongst modern populations.
Some descendant subclades have been found since pre-history in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia. Others have long been present, at lower levels, in parts of West Asia and Africa. Some authorities have also suggested, more controversially, that R-M207 has long been present among Native Americans in North America – a theory that has not yet been widely accepted.
According to geneticist Spencer Wells, haplogroup K, from which haplogroups P and Q descend, originated in the Middle East or Central Asia. However, Karafet et al. (2014) proposed that "rapid diversification ... of K-M526", also known as K2, likely occurred in Southeast Asia (near Indonesia) and later expanded to mainland Asia, although they could not rule out that it might have arisen in Eurasia and later went extinct there, and that either of these scenarios are "equally parsimonius".
Structure
Origins
Geneticist Spencer Wells suggests that haplogroup K, from which haplogroup P descends, likely originated in the Middle East or Central Asia, perhaps in the region of Iran or Pakistan. Haplogroup P1 may have emerged in Southeast Asia, however according to Karafet, et al. this hypothesis is "parsimonius" and it is just as likely that it originated elsewhere in Eurasia. The SNP M207, which defines Haplogroup R, is believed to have arisen during the Upper Paleolithic era, about 27,000 years ago.
Only one confirmed example of basal R* has been found, in 24,000 year old remains, known as MA1, found at Mal'ta–Buret' culture near Lake Baikal in Siberia. (While a living example of R-M207(xM17,M124) was reported in 2012, it was not tested for the SNP M478; the male concerned – among a sample of 158 ethnic Tajik males from Badakshan, Afghanistan – may therefore belong to R2.)
It is possible that neither of the primary branches of R-M207, namely R1 (R-M173) and R2 (R-M479) still exist in their basal, original forms, i.e. R1* and R2*. No confirmed case, either living or dead, has been reported in scientific literature. (Although in the case of R2*, relatively little research has been completed.)
Despite the rarity of R* and R1*, the relatively rapid expansion – geographically and numerically – of subclades from R1 in particular, has often been noted: "both R1a and R1b comprise young, star-like expansions" .
The wide geographical distribution of R1b, in particular, has also been noted. Hallast et al. (2014) mentioned that living examples found in Central Asia included:
the "deepest subclade" of R-M269 (R1b1a1a2) – the most numerous branch of R1b in Western Europe, and;
the rare subclade R-PH155 (R1b1b) found only in one Bhutanese individual and one Tajik.
(While Hallast et al. suggested that R-PH155 was "almost as old as the R1a/R1b split", R-PH155 was later discovered to be a subclade of R-L278 (R1b1) and has been given the phylogenetic name R1b1b.)
Distribution
Y-haplogroup R-M207 is common throughout Europe, South Asia and Central Asia . It also occurs in the Caucasus and Siberia. Some minorities in Africa also carry subclades of R-M207 at high frequencies.
While some indigenous peoples of The Americas and Australasia also feature high levels of R-M207, it is unclear whether these are deep-rooted, or an effect of European colonisation during the early modern era.
R (R-M207)
Haplogroup R* Y-DNA (xR1,R2) was found in 24,000-year-old remains from Mal'ta in Siberia near Lake Baikal.ghavan|2013}} | vauthors = Raghavan M, Skoglund P, Graf KE, Metspalu M, Albrechtsen A, Moltke I, Rasmussen S, Stafford TW, Orlando L, Metspalu E, Karmin M, Tambets K, Rootsi S, Mägi R, Campos PF, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Khusnutdinova E, Litvinov S, Osipova LP, Fedorova SA, Voevoda MI, DeGiorgio M, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Brunak S, Demeshchenko S, Kivisild T, Villems R, Nielsen R, Jakobsson M, Willerslev E | display-authors = 6 | title = Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans | journal = Nature | volume = 505 | issue = 7481 | pages = 87–91 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 24256729 | pmc = 4105016 | doi = 10.1038/nature12736 | bibcode = 2014Natur.505...87R }}</ref>
In 2013, R-M207 was found in one out of 132 males from the Kyrgyz people of East Kyrgyzstan.
R1 (R-M173)
There are many downstream mutations of haplogroup R.( and ).
Initially, there was debate about the origin of haplogroup R1b in Native Americans. Two early studies suggested that this haplogroup could have been one of the founding Siberian lineages of Native Americans, however this is now considered unlikely, because the R1b lineages commonly found in Native Americans are in most cases identical to those in western Europeans, and its highest concentration is found among a variety of culturally unaffiliated tribes, in eastern North America.
Thus, according to several authors, R1b was most likely introduced through admixture during the post-1492 European settlement of North America.
R2 (R-M479)
Haplogroup R-M479 is defined by the presence of the marker M479. The paragroup for the R-M479 lineage is found predominantly in South Asia, although deep-rooted examples have also been found among Portuguese, Spanish, Tatar (Bashkortostan, Russia), and Ossetian (Caucasus) populations .
One rare subclade may occur only among Ashkenazi Jews, possibly as a result of a founder effect.
See also
Mal'ta–Buret' culture
Prehistoric Asia
Prehistoric Europe
Genetics
Y-DNA R-M207 subclades
Y-DNA backbone tree
References
Further reading
External links
Discussion and projects
Yahoo group Y-DNA Haplogroup R
Family Tree DNA R2-M124-WTY (Walk Through the Y) Project
Family Tree DNA R-Arabia Y-DNA Project
R
R | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20R%20%28Y-DNA%29 |
Maidenhead Citadel Band (MCB) is a Salvation Army Band and part of the Maidenhead Corps of The Salvation Army. For over 120 years the band has consistently contributed to the worship and evangelical outreach promoted by the Maidenhead Corps in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.
Brief history
The Band can trace its history back to 1886 when William Thomas, a young farmer from the Salisbury area moved to Maidenhead and became the first Bandmaster of Maidenhead Citadel Band.
On 25 June 1892, 18 members of Maidenhead Band were arrested during an open-air meeting as they "unlawfully obstructed the free passage of the Highway by standing together for the space of twenty minutes." Bandmaster William Thomas took responsibility for the Band's actions and was sentenced to several months manual labour in Reading Gaol.
In more recent times the size of the Band has fluctuated but has experienced a revival under the leadership of the current Bandmaster Stuart Hall, who is also a member of the International Staff Band.
The Band is possibly now the biggest it has ever been with many young players still entering from the junior sections.
Over the years Maidenhead Band has contributed many players to the Salvation Army's "Premier" Staff Bands. To date five Maidenhead Bandsmen have been members of Salvation Army Staff Bands; three in the International Staff Band, one in the Melbourne Staff Band and two in the German Staff Band.
Bandmasters
1886 1926 William Thomas
1926 1930 Hanbury Thomas
1930 1951 Walter Steventon
1951 1957 Trevor Steventon
1957 1964 Walter Steventon (recommenced)
1964 1973 David Alexander
1973 1975 George Horrobin
1975 1977 Bram White
1977 1978 Fred Betts
1978 1980 Eric Hallam
1980 1991 Brian Cooper
1991 2016 Stuart Hall
2016 ---- Mark Lazenbury
Mission
As well as assisting in the weekly religious services; both indoor and in the open-air, the Band has travelled throughout the United Kingdom, playing at Christian services and events. The Band has performed in concert halls, worship centres, prisons and hospitals, appeared on film and radio as well as marched through cities, towns and villages proclaiming the good news of God's love for all.
In October 2003 the Band completed its first overseas tour to the Western Cape Division of The Salvation Army in South Africa where they travelled in and around Cape Town. Visiting Robertson, Elilandia, Worcester, Paarl, Stellenbosch, Rondebosch, Goodwood, Mitchell's Plain and Fish Hoek.
The Band also completed a UK tour the "Gospel Train" during May and June 2006 where they travelled the North Scotland Division of The Salvation Army visiting Fort William, Inverness, Wick, Peterhead, Aberdeen, Dundee and Blairgowrie.
In May 2009 the Band travelled to Finland where they performed several concerts in Suolahti, Kiuruvesi as well as Jyväskylä. Sponsored jointly by the Pentecostal and Adventist Churches as well as the local Salvation Army, the band captivated large audiences in each of their concerts with a programme of classical and sacred music including work from the Finnish composer Sibelius.
Recordings
The Band released its first CD "Gospel Train" for the 2006 tour to North Scotland. The track list is:
Make the world with music ring (Himes)
People need the Lord (Davies)
A London Celebration (Graham)
Gift for His altar (Condon)
How great thou art (Wood)
Gospel Train (Gott)
All to Jesus (Herikstad)
Aria From Magic Flute (Mozart)
Piano Sonata in C Minor (Beethoven)
And they were heroes (Cheyne)
Benediction (Brahms)
To Regions Fair (Bearcroft)
In March 2007 the Band produced a short promotion CD featuring the music of Raymond Edmund John Cuell who has had a very long association with the Maidenhead. The CD also features a piece arranged by BM Stuart Hall that was dedicated to Maidenhead Bandsman John Mattingley and his family who emigrated to Canada in May 2006. The CD was recorded live.
Scarborough Citadel (Cuell)
Field Service (Cuell)
Haera Ra (Hall)
The most recent CD recording is "Faith Victorious" which was released in time for the Band's Tour to Finland. The track list is:
Dance like David (Mackereth)
What a friend (Leidzen)
Blessing & Honour (Sharman)
Give me Jesus (Burgmayer)
Yarmouth Fair (Warlock)
In perfect peace (Downie)
Faith is the Victory (Curnow)
Piano Sonata in C minor (Beethoven)
Shalom (Silfverberg)
A Rose there bloomed (Redhead)
Amazing Grace (Trad)
Faithfulness (Himes)
On the King's Highway (Leidzen)
Hymn Tune Finlandia
See also
Salvation Army Band
The Salvation Army
Household Troops Band
International Staff Band
Chalk Farm Salvation Army Band
Brass Band
Melbourne Staff Band
Parramatta Citadel Band
Sydney Youth Band
References
External links
Maidenhead Citadel Band
International Staff Band of The Salvation Army
Melbourne Staff Band
German Staff Band
Salvation Army brass bands
British brass bands
Maidenhead
Salvationism in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead%20Citadel%20Band |
Weeley railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line, a branch of the Great Eastern Main Line, in the East of England, serving the village of Weeley, Essex. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between to the west and to the east. Its three-letter station code is WEE.
The station was opened by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway, in 1866. It is currently managed by Greater Anglia, which also operates all trains serving the station.
History
The station was opened on 8 January 1866 by the Tendring Hundred Railway, a subsidiary of the Great Eastern Railway.
The original level crossing beside the station was replaced by a flyover as part of the first Weeley by-pass in the 1930s.
In 2011 the station received a minor facelift, which included the addition of an accessible ramp with hand rails, updated warning signs, and a clean-up. In 2014 a footbridge of modular steel construction connecting the platforms was installed, replacing the old concrete structure.
Since the original station building has been disused for many years, in 2016 it was reported that the franchisee, Greater Anglia, planned to demolish it and provide platform shelters in its place. It also planned to demolish the station buildings at and . The buildings were subsequently offered to Tendring District Council for £1 each, should the council wish to renovate them.
Services
The typical off-peak service is of one train per hour to and one to . Due to its low patronage – the lowest of all the stations on the Sunshine Coast Line – Weeley is closed on Sundays. There are some additional services running to and from London Liverpool Street and Clacton-on-Sea during peak hours.
References
External links
Original station house
Railway stations in Essex
DfT Category F2 stations
Former Great Eastern Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Greater Anglia franchise railway stations
1866 establishments in England
Tendring | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeley%20railway%20station |
Iroquois Ridge High School is a secondary school located in the Joshua Creek Neighborhood of Oakville, Ontario. It is often colloquially referred to as "IRHS", "Iroquois", or "The Ridge."
Layout
Iroquois Ridge High School has three stories, each of which is dedicated to a particular academic field. The first floor is dedicated to courses relating to business studies, the arts, technologies, and physical education. The second floor is devoted to modern languages, social studies, and computer sciences. The second floor is also home to the library and three computer labs. The third floor holds mathematics classrooms and science labs.
Facilities
For recreation, Iroquois Ridge High School has a large gymnasium, a soccer/football field surrounded by a 400-meter track with a long jump pit, and a fitness centre. Across from the school is the Iroquois Ridge Community Center, which houses a 25-meter swimming pool and the public library. The Town of Oakville maintains two baseball parks behind the school and a field hockey/soccer field and a tennis court next to the school. The school itself also houses a library, two art rooms, two music rooms, an auto workshop, a construction workshop, a theater, a cafeteria, and numerous computer and science labs.
Accomplishments
School Rankings (Fraser Institute)
Notable alumni
Kyle Bekker, Center Midfielder for Major League Soccer, Toronto FC
Daniel Clark, star of Degrassi: The Next Generation and Juno (film)
Joshua Close, actor, filmography includes The Pacific (miniseries), The Exorcism of Emily Rose and Twist The Craigslist Killer
Victor Oreskovich, Winger for NHL Vancouver Canucks
Jasmine Richards, star of Camp Rock and Naturally, Sadie
Brian Robinson, bassist in Massachusetts-based punk band A Wilhelm Scream, former bassist of The Fullblast
Jessica Shepley, LPGA member
See also
List of high schools in Ontario
References
External links
Iroquois Ridge High School
High schools in Oakville, Ontario
1994 establishments in Ontario
Educational institutions established in 1994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois%20Ridge%20High%20School |
Empty nest can refer to:
Empty nest syndrome, experienced by parents when children move away from their parents' house
Empty Nest, an American television show
Empty Nest (film), a 2008 Argentine drama film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20nest |
Charles Snelling may refer to:
Charles Snelling (figure skater), Canadian and Olympic figure skater
Charlie Snelling (1886–1957), Canadian amateur ice hockey player and paddler
Charles Mercer Snelling (1862 – 1939), Chancellor of the University of Georgia and the University System of Georgia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Snelling |
The topknot pigeon (Lopholaimus antarcticus) is a pigeon native to eastern Australia.
Taxonomy
English naturalist George Shaw described the topknot pigeon as Columba antarctica in 1793.
The topknot pigeon is sister taxon to a lineage that gave rise to the mountain pigeons (Gymnophaps) of New Guinea, the common ancestor of both diverged from a lineage that gave rise to the kererū and Chatham pigeon.
"Topknot pigeon" has been designated the official common name by the International Ornithologists' Union (IOC); John Gould noted in 1848 that it had been given this name by the colonists of New South Wales. It is also known by the name of "flock pigeon".
Description
The topknot pigeon is a large predominately slate-grey bird, in length. The back, coverts and upper secondaries are a darker slate-grey with black quills. The primaries are black, the remaining body in a lighter slate-grey in colour. The chest and hind neck are notched, showing dark bases giving a streaked appearance.[2] The tail is black crossed with a board grey band. The crest is grey from the cere to the forehead, and russet brown on the crown with black sides. The mandibles are red with a brown tip, the protuberances at the base of the mandibles are bluish-green. The tarsals and feet are purplish red. The sexes are similar in description. However, Males have larger crest and lack some of the streaking on the chest. Juveniles are like females but the chest is mottled not streaked, the crest is smaller, with the cere and forehead being light brown, the crown grey. Tarsals and feet are reddish brown. The iris is yellow-golden with a bright red outer band. In fledglings the iris is brown.[2]
Calls
Three distinct calls have been described. The first, ‘coo-oo, eee’, might be related to nestlings. The second, ‘coo-oo, ooo’, is distinctly louder but still soft. The third, ‘cor-or’, is "a quiet, croaky, almost guttural utterance", not unlike the call of the domestic pigeon. During times of flocking and mass feeding, this pigeon has a short raucous call. This last call has been described as "a distant flying fox or domestic pig".
Distribution and habitat
Found from the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to the central south coast of New South Wales. These pigeons cover great distances in search of fruit bearing trees suddenly appearing in areas where they have not been seen for many years and will occasionally move beyond their normal southern range limit, into eastern Victoria.[2] Historic records from 1953 show the topknot pigeon as an "accidental" species to Tasmania with a specimen taken at Spreyton near Devonport. This bird was one of a flock of 9-10 birds feeding on cherries. Previous to this sighting, the only other recording was in 1907 when two specimens were taken near St. Helens, east coast of Tasmania. The Spreyton specimen is held in the Tasmania Museum, Collection Number 13184/B2703.
Diet
The topknot pigeon has a solely frugivorous diet which varies throughout its range as fruit ripen at different times during the year. This includes various species of Ficus and other rainforest fruit trees. Unlike some other species of Columbidae, the topknot pigeon does not use grit in its crop to break down the seeds of the fruit it consumes, and therefore the seeds are defecated intact. This results in seed dispersal not only under the fruiting trees the birds are feeding on but also under their roosting trees.
The breeding season can be directly related to the combined ripening of fruit trees and palms within the rainforest habitat. Forcing to birds to mass flock and congregated at these areas. Nests and eggs have been reported from June to December. Few nests have been observed in the wild. The nest has been described as sometimes flimsy but frequently substantial, built of stout sticks from turpentine and eucalyptus trees. A single ovate egg about 43 by 30 mm in size is laid. Incubation takes 17–24 days in captivity, and both sexes appear to share the incubation duties.
Conservation
The species used to occur in enormous numbers in Australian rainforest, but the population declined because of forest clearance and shooting. Because of concern over the steep decline in their population, topknot pigeons now are a protected species in Australia. However the increasing prevalence of a new food source in the fruit of the 'weed' camphor laurel trees has seen a recent resurgence in their number.
As populations appear to be fluctuating but large, the species is currently classified as Least concern by the IUCN.
Gallery
References
External links
Topknot Pigeon Breed Guide - Pigeonpedia.com
Birds in Backyards
topknot pigeon
Birds of Queensland
Birds of New South Wales
Birds of Victoria (state)
Endemic birds of Australia
topknot pigeon
Articles containing video clips
Taxa named by George Shaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topknot%20pigeon |
The city of Hamburg was one of the most powerful fortresses east of the Rhine. After being freed from Napoleonic rule by advancing Cossacks and other following Coalition troops it was once more occupied by Marshal Davout's French XIII Corps on 28 May 1813, at the height of the German Campaign during the War of the Sixth Coalition from French rule and occupation. Ordered to hold the city at all costs, Davout launched a characteristically energetic campaign against a similar numbered Army of the North made up of Prussian and other Coalition troops under the command of Count von Wallmoden-Gimborn, winning a number of minor engagements. Neither force was decidedly superior and the war ground to a halt and resulted in a rather stable front line between Lübeck and Lauenburg and further south along the Elbe river, even after the end of the cease-fire of the summer 1813. In October 1813 a French column's movement towards Dannenberg resulted in the only major engagement in Northern Germany, the Battle of the Göhrde. The defeated French troops retreated back to Hamburg.
Despite steadily shrinking manpower, food and ammunition supplies, Davout's forces displayed no signs of abandoning Hamburg. When French armies withdrew west after the lost Battle of Leipzig at the end of the year, the Allies deployed a large portion of Bernadotte's Army of the North to watch the city during the 1814 campaign for France. Davout was still in control of Hamburg when the War of the Sixth Coalition ended in April, and eventually capitulated to Russian forces under General Bennigsen on 27 May 1814, obeying orders delivered by General Gérard from the new king of France, Louis XVIII.
Strengths
French forces are estimated to 42,000 (Including 10,000 Danes and 8,000 wounded
Allied force are estimated to 52,000 in the start (Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn's corps) to 120,000 in the seat area, in January 1814, when Levin August, Count von Bennigsen took command.
Other
During Davout's defense of Hamburg, one type of silver coin was issued. The design of the 32 schilling coin of 1809 was reused, and the date was not changed, but the mintmaster's initials were changed from HSK (for Hans Schierven Knoph) to CAIG (for C. A. J. Ginquembre, who was the French director of the mint in 1813). The coins were issued in 1813, and are listed in the Standard Catalog of World Coins 1801-1900 by Krause Publications as type number KM242 for Hamburg.
See also
List of Napoleonic battles
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
German campaign of 1813
Sieges of the Napoleonic Wars
1810s in Hamburg
1813 in Germany
1814 in Germany
Conflicts in 1813
Conflicts in 1814
Sieges involving Prussia
Sieges involving France
Sieges involving Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Hamburg |
Hythe railway station may refer to the following railway stations in England:
Hythe railway station (Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway), a terminus in Hythe, Kent, on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.
Hythe railway station (South Eastern Railway), a closed station in Hythe, Kent, on the SER main line's former branch line from Sandling to Sandgate.
Hythe railway station (Essex) on the Sunshine Coast Line Railway.
Hythe railway station (Hampshire) on the closed branch line from Totton to Fawley.
Hythe Road railway station, a proposed railway station in West London.
the pair of stations on the 2 foot gauge railway that forms part of the Hythe Pier, Railway and Ferry in Hampshire. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hythe%20railway%20station |
Matteo Sereni (born 11 February 1975) is an Italian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
Born in Parma, Sereni started his career at UC Sampdoria, and was loaned out to A.C. Crevalcore in 1994. He returned to Sampdoria and only made 10 appearances before being transferred to Piacenza Calcio in 1997. Here he helped the club avoid relegation to Serie B, but in 1998 he transferred to Empoli F.C., where he failed to avoid relegation.
In 1999, Sereni returned to Sampdoria in Serie B and made 75 (out of 76) Serie B appearances. In 2001, Ipswich Town signed him for £4.5 million, which remains the highest transfer fee paid by the club. He failed to avoid relegation with Ipswich and was loaned to Brescia in 2002.
Lazio
In 2003, he transferred to Lazio, for €550,000 to compete for the number one goalkeeping slot with Angelo Peruzzi. In 2004, he started for the club in both legs of the 2004 Coppa Italia Final against Juventus FC and played the matches in the 2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup, when Lazio went out to Olympique de Marseille in the semi-finals.
In January 2006 he was loaned out to Treviso, with Samir Handanović going to Lazio on loan in return. He returned to Lazio for the 2006–07 campaign, but did not play a single match, being excluded from the roster for the whole season.
Torino
In June 2007 he signed for Torino in a free transfer to replace Christian Abbiati, signed a two-year contract. In November 2008, he signed a new contract which last until June 2011.
Brescia
On 5 July 2010 he was signed by Brescia Calcio for on free transfer. A few days before the last game of Serie A, his contract was mutually terminated, following the club's relegation a few weeks before.
International career
He was internationally selected at the age of 16 for the Italy national under-17 team, and played for the Italy national under-23 team at the 1997 Mediterranean Games, where Italy were champions.
Post-playing career
After divorcing his ex-wife Silvia, Sereni was accused of having raped their daughter during a 2009 holiday on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda. He denied the charges. In 2015, Sereni was found guilty, and was sentenced to three years and six months in prison. In July 2017, Sereni's conviction was annulled on appeal and he was scheduled a new trial in Turin.
References
External links
National Team Statistics at FIGC official site
Statistics at Voetbal International
http://aic.football.it/scheda/1507/sereni-matteo.htm
1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Parma
Italian men's footballers
Premier League players
Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
Empoli FC players
Ipswich Town F.C. players
Brescia Calcio players
UC Sampdoria players
SS Lazio players
Treviso FBC 1993 players
Torino FC players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Italian expatriate men's footballers
Italy men's under-21 international footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Italian expatriate sportspeople in England
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in football
Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo%20Sereni |
Westfields Sports High School (abbreviated as WSHS) is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive and specialist secondary day school, with speciality in sports, located in Fairfield West, a western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Established in 1963, the school caters for approximately 1,660 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom three percent identified as Indigenous Australians and 66 percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Andrew Rogers.
Westfields Sports High School is a member of the NSW Sports High Schools Association. The school sits on a total area of approximately .
History
The school was established in 1963 and opened by Edward Gough Whitlam, later Australian Prime Minister. The school's first Principal was J. P. Quinlan and its first year enrolment had 300 students. Principal Quinlan had originally wanted the school's motto to be ANZAC, but that was not allowed, so he then chose the , translated as "courage and valour", that remains the school's motto today. The school originally had four sporting houses: Prospect (team colours black and gold); Kanangra (red); Werriwa (blue) and Lansdowne (green).
In 1964 the new student intake was even larger than the previous year, with close to a thousand new students enrolled. Classes were listed alphabetically from A down to J to include them all. That year also saw a massive fire at the school that affected mainly the science block and the technical arts block, rendering many of the classrooms unusable. Classrooms were temporarily offered at the local primary school, Fairfield West Public School on Hamilton Road, until the burnt out classrooms could be restored. Each day for close to a year, around 100 or so new Year 7 students would attend assembly at Westfields, then march up the hill to classrooms at Fairfield West PS. The cause of the fire was never stated, but it was strongly suspected that the expulsion of several students earlier in the year had led to a grudge arson attack, since the words "N R gang" had been painted in large letters across the girls' and boys' toilet blocks.
From the 1960s to the 1980s the school achieved moderate success in sports and was on the rise during the late 1980s. The then principal, Philip Tucker, had wanted to establish Westfields as a school that could provide any sports person who attended, a pathway to the Australian Institute of Sport, and extend their possibilities beyond high school level sporting competition. The school was eventually officially declared a sports school on 24 April 1991.
Notable teachers who taught at the school in the early years of their careers include the artist Mary Shackman and the international concert pianist Michael Leslie.
Since 1997, there has been an annual student and teacher exchange scheme with Kasukabe High School, from Kasukabe, Saitama, Japan.
In 2008, the International Olympic Committee recognized Westfields Sports for their involvement in producing many Australian Olympians with a special Sport and Youth Trophy.
Enrolment policy
The school has a partially selective approach to enrolment, with students needing to either live within the relatively small catchment area of the school, or demonstrate their ability in sport. The school is very well regarded for having produced sporting talent in a number of different areas of sporting endeavour, and has received a range of grants to support its work with sporting talent.
Talented sports program
Sports offered at Westfields Sports High School include athletics, Australian rules football, baseball, basketball, boxing, cricket, dance, equestrian, golf, gymnastics, hockey, netball, rowing, rugby league, rugby union, soccer, softball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, and wrestling.
Notable alumni
Mustafa Aminisoccer player
Chris Armitrugby league player
Terry Antonissoccer player
Michael Beauchampsoccer player
Leon Bottrugby league player
Alex Brosquesoccer player
Michael Buettnerrugby league player
Jacob Burnssoccer player
Anthony Cáceressoccer player
Jason Cadeebasketball player
David Carneysoccer player
Ellie Carpentersoccer player
Connor Chapmansoccer player
Michael Clarkecricket player
Jason Culinasoccer player
Hannah Darlington- Cricketer
Miloš Degeneksoccer player
Israel Folaurugby union, rugby league, and Australian rules football player
Liam Fultonrugby league player
Bryce Gibbsrugby league player
Kelly Golebiowskisoccer player
Blake Greenrugby league player
Michael Greenfieldrugby league player
Eric Grothe Jr.rugby league player
Dene Halataurugby league player
Amy Harrisonsoccer player
Jarryd Haynerugby league player
Trent Hodkinsonrugby league player
Justin Hororugby league player
Bernie Ibini-Iseisoccer player
Princess Ibini-Iseisoccer player
Jamal Idrisrugby league player
Krisnan Inurugby league player
Luke Ivanovicsoccer player
Scott Jamiesonsoccer player
Matthew Jurmansoccer player
Billie Kayprofessional wrestler
Kris Keatingrugby league player
Matt Keatingrugby league player
Alanna Kennedysoccer player
Harry Kewellsoccer player
Usman Khawajacricket player
David Klemmerrugby league player
Tim Lafairugby league player
Fabrice Lapierreathlete
Issac Lukerugby league player
Alfie Mafirugby union player
Sitiveni Mafirugby union player
Kristiana Manu'a-netball player
Feleti Mateorugby league player
Karl McNicholrugby league player
Mark Minichiellorugby league player
Aaron Mooysoccer player
Moudi Najjarsoccer player
Ramy Najjarinesoccer player
Heka Nanairugby league player
Luke O'Donnellrugby league player
Helen Petinossoccer player
Corey Paynerugby league player
Kim Ravaillionnetball player
Pat Richardsrugby league player
Peyton Royceprofessional wrestler
Mathew Ryansoccer player
Jason Saabrugby league player
Dani Samuelsathlete
Sam Silvera – soccer player
Lindsay Smithrugby league player
Jeremy Su'arugby union player
John Thornellathlete
Maria Tranactress and filmmaker
Stefano Utoikamanurugby league player
Danny Vukovicsoccer player
Amorette Wildnetball player
Tony Williamsrugby league player
Daniel Wilmeringsoccer player
Josh Schusterrugby league player
See also
List of government schools in New South Wales
Selective school (New South Wales)
Education in Australia
References
Educational institutions established in 1963
Public high schools in New South Wales
1963 establishments in Australia
South Western Sydney
Sports schools in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westfields%20Sports%20High%20School |
The Endellion String Quartet was a British string quartet, named after St Endellion in Cornwall.
History
The quartet was formed in 1979 with the following original members:
Andrew Watkinson, violin
Louise Williams, violin
Garfield Jackson, viola
David Waterman, cello
In 1986, Ralph de Souza replaced Louise Williams as second violin of the quartet.
The Endellion Quartet became the quartet-in-residence at Cambridge University in 1992. The quartet regularly performed at such venues as Wigmore Hall. The quartet has commissioned new music from such composers as Sally Beamish, Prach Boondiskulchok, Jonathan Dove, and Giles Swayne. The quartet received the 1996 award for 'Best Chamber Ensemble' from the Royal Philharmonic Society. Their commercial recordings included a Beethoven album for Warner Classics and Jazz.
The Endellion Quartet had planned the 2019–2020 concert season as their farewell season. The COVID-19 pandemic prevented the quartet from performing their final scheduled concerts in the 2019–2020 season, as originally planned. In February 2021, the quartet decided not to reschedule these planned farewell concerts and to disband, with immediate effect.
References
External links
Official website
Musical groups from Cambridge
Musical groups established in 1979
English string quartets
1979 establishments in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endellion%20Quartet |
Carl Yaya Priso (born 10 July 1979) is a French former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
His professional football career began in France with Poissy, moving on to Parisian side Red Star 93 and German side Chemnitzer FC in July 2004. He played just four times for Chemnitz in the Regionalliga before joining Italian side Magna Grecia in January 2005.
Leroy Rosenior signed him on a free transfer for Torquay United in August 2005 at the same time as two other French players, Morike Sako and Mamadoli Sow. His Torquay debut came on 13 August 2005 in a 3–0 defeat away to Mansfield Town. He made two more first team appearances before a foot injury kept him out of action. He was one of six players transfer-listed by Rosernior in October 2005 and was released by new manager Ian Atkins at the end of the 2005–06 season without making any further appearances for the Gulls.
In October 2007, Priso joined Crawley Town on trial, playing in their Sussex Senior Cup win. Later that month he had trials with Shrewsbury Town and Oxford United.
References
External links
Living people
1979 births
French men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Regionalliga players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
English Football League players
AS Poissy players
Red Star F.C. players
Torquay United F.C. players
Chemnitzer FC players
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
French expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Priso |
Erik Aldar Locke is an Australian political and business figure, who was the State Secretary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the state of Victoria, a national official for the ALP and a chief of staff in three jurisdictions, as well as having a career in the private sector, in investment banking and entitlements.
Early life and education
Locke was educated at Hollywood Senior High in Western Australia, and later at Griffith University. His mother served as a union official, and his father an academic and psychologist.
Career
Locke worked for Labor in Perth, Western Australia, where he was connected to the Subiaco branch, and then Victorian Labor. He was a leading figure within ALP's Socialist Left faction, but has not been active since the mid-2000s.
Locke was an adviser and Chief of Staff to Lynne Kosky, the Victorian Education Minister, and later became ALP State Secretary. During his two years as State Secretary, Locke brokered a preference deal between the ALP and the Family First Party, helping to elect Family First Steve Fielding as Senator ahead of the Greens, which allowed the Coalition to form an Upper House majority. He resigned from the State Secretary position in April 2005 amidst factional infighting and in protest of a branch stacking controversy.
Locke was later the CEO of CPR Communications and Public Relations, a federal Chief of Staff, the lead of Essential Media Communications' union practice and was an unsuccessful candidate for the ALP in the Legislative Council at the 2014 Victorian state election for Southern Metropolitan Region.
Locke moved to Western Australia to become Chief of Staff to the Deputy Premier, Roger Cook. He was cleared by an independent investigation of bullying. He later disclosed he was suffering from anxiety. He received public support from a number of former colleagues.
He is now the CEO of Incolink, Australia's largest Workers' Entitlement Fund, and appeared on radio and TV current affairs program as an advocate, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when Incolink worked to keep the construction industry open.
References
1971 births
Living people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Locke |
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