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The Berndt–Hall–Hall–Hausman (BHHH) algorithm is a numerical optimization algorithm similar to the Newton–Raphson algorithm, but it replaces the observed negative Hessian matrix with the outer product of the gradient. This approximation is based on the information matrix equality and therefore only valid while maximizing a likelihood function. The BHHH algorithm is named after the four originators: Ernst R. Berndt, Bronwyn Hall, Robert Hall, and Jerry Hausman.
Usage
If a nonlinear model is fitted to the data one often needs to estimate coefficients through optimization. A number of optimisation algorithms have the following general structure. Suppose that the function to be optimized is Q(β). Then the algorithms are iterative, defining a sequence of approximations, βk given by
,
where is the parameter estimate at step k, and is a parameter (called step size) which partly determines the particular algorithm. For the BHHH algorithm λk is determined by calculations within a given iterative step, involving a line-search until a point βk+1 is found satisfying certain criteria. In addition, for the BHHH algorithm, Q has the form
and A is calculated using
In other cases, e.g. Newton–Raphson, can have other forms. The BHHH algorithm has the advantage that, if certain conditions apply, convergence of the iterative procedure is guaranteed.
See also
Davidon–Fletcher–Powell (DFP) algorithm
Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno (BFGS) algorithm
References
Further reading
V. Martin, S. Hurn, and D. Harris, Econometric Modelling with Time Series, Chapter 3 'Numerical Estimation Methods'. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Estimation methods
Optimization algorithms and methods | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berndt%E2%80%93Hall%E2%80%93Hall%E2%80%93Hausman%20algorithm |
Sadie Coles HQ is a contemporary art gallery in London, owned and directed by Sadie Coles. The gallery focuses on presenting the work of established and emerging international artists. It was at the forefront of the Young British Artists movement.
History
Sadie Coles HQ opened in April 1997 and has since operated from a variety of distinctive spaces. Its inaugural exhibition at 35 Heddon Street, by American painter John Currin, was followed by Sarah Lucas’s exhibition ‘The Law’ in lofts on St John Street.
Between 2010 and 2013, Sadie Coles HQ was located at both New Burlington Place – a space on the site of Nigel Greenwood's gallery during the 1980s and 90s – and on South Audley Street.
In 2013, Sadie Coles HQ moved to its current location, a first floor gallery on Kingly Street in what was formerly the La Valbonne nightclub. In November 2015, it opened a third location in a glass-fronted space on Davies Street in Mayfair designed by 6a architects
Since her inaugural exhibition, Coles has followed the same formula for each of her invitations. Taking the graphic identity of the gallery itself – a grey block that represents the gallery space and is found on all her branded material – she uses the same block on the invitations, allowing each artist to choose their own colour. A piece of the artist’s work is then shown on the inside of the card.
In 2014, Sadie Coles was listed as one of 'the most powerful people in the art world' by The Guardian.
From February to December 2012, Situation, a temporary space, showed works by Sarah Lucas. The extended display included works both new and historical, mainly by Lucas and occasionally involving other artists.
Artists
Sadie Coles HQ represents numerous living artists, including:
Alvaro Barrington
Steve Dowson
Sarah Lucas (since 1997)
Carl Andre
Matthew Barney
Avner Ben-Gal
Frank Benson
John Bock
Don Brown
Spartacus Chetwynd
Steven Claydon
John Currin
Sam Durant
Angus Fairhurst
Urs Fischer
Jonathan Horowitz
David Korty
Gabriel Kuri
Jim Lambie
Lawrence Lek
Hilary Lloyd
Sarah Lucas
Helen Marten
Hellen van Meene
Victoria Morton
JP Munro
Laura Owens
Simon Periton
Raymond Pettibon
Elizabeth Peyton
Richard Prince
Ugo Rondinone
Wilhelm Sasnal
Gregor Schneider
Daniel Sinsel
Andreas Slominski
Christiana Soulou
Rudolf Stingel
Ryan Sullivan
Martine Syms (since 2017)
Nicola Tyson
Paloma Varga Weisz
TJ Wilcox
Jordan Wolfson
Andrea Zittel
In addition, the gallery manages various artist estates, including:
William N. Copley
References
Further reading
Sadie Coles and Jonathan Harris, "Sadie Coles HQ: Anatomy of a gallery in the age of globalised contemporary art" in Art, Money, Parties: New Institutions in the Political Economy of Contemporary Art, ed. Jonathan Harris, University of Chicago Press, 2005.
External links
Sadie Coles HQ website
Sadie Coles HQ at Ocula
Sadie Coles HQ at Royist
Event venues established in 1997
Contemporary art galleries in London
Buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
Tourist attractions in the City of Westminster
Art galleries established in 1997
1997 establishments in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie%20Coles%20HQ |
Nervous laughter is laughter provoked from an audience's expression of alarm, embarrassment, discomfort or confusion, rather than amusement. Nervous laughter is usually less robust in expression than "a good belly laugh", and may be combined with confused glances or awkward silence on the part of others in the audience. Nervous laughter is considered analogous to a courtesy laugh, which may be rendered by more of a conscious effort in an attempt to move a situation along more quickly, especially when the comedian is pausing for laughter.
Nervous laughter is a physical reaction to stress, tension, confusion, or anxiety. Neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran states "We have nervous laughter because we want to make ourselves think what horrible thing we encountered isn't really as horrible as it appears, something we want to believe." Psychologist and neuroscientist Robert Provine, from the University of Maryland, studied over 1,200 "laughter episodes" and determined that 80% of laughter isn't a response to an intentional joke.
Unhealthy or "nervous" laughter comes from the throat. This nervous laughter is not true laughter, but an expression of tension and anxiety. Instead of relaxing a person, nervous laughter tightens them up even further. Much of this nervous laughter is produced in times of high emotional stress, especially during times where an individual is afraid they might harm another person in various ways, such as a person's feelings or even physically.
People laugh when they need to project dignity and control during times of stress and anxiety. In these situations, people usually laugh in an unconscious attempt to reduce stress and calm down, however, it often works otherwise. Nervous laughter is often considered fake laughter and even heightens the awkwardness of the situation.
People may laugh nervously when exposed to stress due to witnessing others' pain. For instance, in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment, subjects ("teachers") were told to shock "learners" every time the learners answered a question incorrectly. Although the "learners" were not actually shocked, the subjects believed they were. As they were going through the study, many of the "subjects showed signs of extreme tension and conflict". Milgram observed some subjects laughing nervously when they heard the "learners'" false screams of pain. In A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran suggests that laughter is used as a defense mechanism used to guard against overwhelming anxiety. Laughter often diminishes the suffering associated with a traumatic event.
If the individual is shy or bashful and appears nervous when talking, they are likely to exhibit nervous laughter. Individuals who are shy and introverted who find themselves the center of conversational attention often become "giddy" with nervous laughter; this is an unconscious response caused by the brain over-thinking due to social anxiety or inexperience.
References
Laughter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous%20laughter |
The Pittsburgh LAN Coalition, Inc. (Pittco) is a video gaming organization which holds LAN parties in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Pittco history
Pittco was established in December 2003 by several of well-established, smaller LAN parties looking to combine efforts to hold a very large LAN party in the greater Pittsburgh area. Following Iron Storm 1, the first event with 120 attendees, the organization decided to continue and hold semi-yearly events.
Since its establishment, all of its founding member organizations have dissolved, except one (ThinkComputers.org, which no longer holds events).
To date, its largest confirmed event attendance was Iron Storm 8, with "more than 160 people" attending. Iron Storm 13 was said to have brought more than 180 attendees.
Pittco Logo
The Pittco logo has changed many times since the organization's inception. Originally, Pittco used an image of the city of Pittsburgh with "Pittsburgh LAN Coalition" on top of it. The logo eventually changed to the modern one, bearing three pentagons in yellow, blue, and gray to the left of "Pittco". The pentagons reference the "Three Rivers" for which Pittsburgh is known. Its positioning is also a vague reference to the logo of the Pittsburgh Steelers professional American football team, which features three stars to the right of "Steelers".
More recent use of the logo shows a drop shadow behind it, but the official logo remains without it.
Event details
The name of Pittco's primary event was originally Iron Storm. The name comes from Pittsburgh's notability as a former steel mill center.
At its events, Pittco held tournaments for various new and old games, most often featuring Counter-Strike: Source, the Unreal Tournament series, Quake 3, the Call of Duty series, and the StarCraft series. Attendees often organize unofficial tournaments for games. Popular console tournaments also include the Halo series, the Call of Duty series, the Street Fighter series, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Iron Storm 8 was the first event that to feature a console game (Halo 3) as featured event, with prizes being given out.
Pittco has also held two smaller events, Lite and PURE. Pittco Lite was so named because a sudden venue conflict for the scheduled Iron Storm 5 caused a last-minute change of location, and approximately half of the registrants were unable to be contacted less than a week before IS5. PURE was so named because it was a "return to classic LAN gaming, without sponsors and with minimal Internet".
There were also many side games and tournaments, called "jackass events" by many attendees. These were meant as time-passers to allow attendees to keep busy while waiting for their game to start.
Jackass Tournaments
Karaoke
Rap Battle
Human-powered drag racing
Red Bull chug
Red Bull relay
Ice head (who can hold their head underwater the longest in the cooler full of ice water)
Musical chairs
"Bring me a" go-for contests
Clamato mini-games
Frozen T-shirt (break a frozen shirt from its ice ball and put it on the fastest)
Vertical/Horizontal Can Stacking
Starting in 2015, Pittco began holding it No Sleep series of events, starting with Revival, followed by Insomnia, Delirium and ending with Restless. All three of those events brought approximately 80 people. No major tournaments were held, but we more focused on a community building atmosphere.
Running since 2011, Pittco has also held its twice-annual suddenLAN series. A more intimate LAN party inspired by the LAN party of the past. With 20-30 people in attendance, the venue is usually more intimate and, according to Pittco's website, is "inspired by the LAN parties held in your parent's basement."
Past Events
Iron Storm is held semi-annually, generally in March and in August.
2004-2009, Pittco of Old
Iron Storm 1
February 28–29, 2004 - 120 attendees, held at the Four Points Sheraton by Pittsburgh International Airport
Iron Storm 2
July 31 - Aug 1, 2004 - 115 attendees, held
Iron Storm 3
March 5–6, 2005 - 115 attendees, held at the Ross Township Community Center
Iron Storm 4
August 6–7, 2005 - 105 attendees, held at the Ross Township Community Center
Pittco Lite
March 4–5, 2006 - 76 attendees + staff, held at the Beechview Holiday Inn Select; a sudden venue conflict for the scheduled Iron Storm 5 caused a last-minute change of location, and approximately half of the registrants were unable to be contacted
Iron Storm 5
August 12–13, 2006 - 136 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall
Iron Storm 6
March 17–18, 2007 - 141 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall
Iron Storm 7
August 11–12, 2007 - 139 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall
Iron Storm 8
March 15–16, 2008 - 167 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall.
Iron Storm 9
August 17–18, 2008 - ~100 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall; attendees gave conflicting reports as to why the attendance was significantly lower than previous events; most reports involve a less visible on-line advertising campaign
Iron Storm 10
March 21–22, 2009 - 145 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall.
2010-2012, Pittco Modern
Iron Storm 11
March 26–28, 2010 - ~100 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall.
Iron Storm PURE
August 21–22, 2010 - 86 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall.
Iron Storm 12
March 4–6, 2011 - 156 attendees, 31 sponsors, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall.
RetroLAN
August 13–14, 2011 - 35 attendees, 3 sponsors (estimated), held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall.
Iron Storm 13
April 20–22, 2012 - 180 attendees, held at the Castle Shannon Fire Hall. Largest event as of April 2012.
2014-2018 - No Sleep
Pittco Presents: Revival
September 6–7, 2014 - 89 Attendees, held at the Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania BVAMS Middle School.
Pittco Presents: Insomnia
June 27–28, 2015 - 78 Attendees, held at the Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania BVAMS Middle School.
Pittco Presents: Delirium
September 10–11, 2016 - 45 Attendees, held at the Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania BVAMS Middle School.
Pittco Presents: Restless
September 15–16, 2018 - 42 Attendees, held at the Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania BVAMS Middle School.
External links
Official web site
Tom's Hardware Guide review of Iron Storm 3
Pittco Iron Storm X LAN party at ThinkComputers.org
Videogamers come together in Castle Shannon for 24 hours of competition covering IS8, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
References
LAN parties
Culture of Pittsburgh
Companies based in Pittsburgh | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20LAN%20Coalition |
August Ferdinand Howaldt (23 October 1809 – 4 August 1883) was a German engineer and ship builder. The German sculptor Georg Ferdinand Howaldt was his brother.
Biography
Born in Braunschweig, the son of the silversmith David Ferdinand Howaldt, with whom he got his first practice working in metal, Howaldt made an apprenticeship in Hamburg and became a practical mechanicus.
In 1838 he moved to Kiel, where he married Emma Diederichsen. In Kiel he founded together with the Kiel entrepreneur Johann Schweffel the "Maschinenbauanstalt Schweffel & Howaldt", a company initially building boilers for industry and the new railroad companies in between Hamburg and Kiel and agricultural machinery for the surrounding estates in Holstein.
In 1849 Schweffel & Howaldt built its first steam engine for naval purposes for the Von der Tann, a gunboat for the small navy of Schleswig-Holstein, and the Brandtaucher, the first German incendiary diver or submarine designed by Wilhelm Bauer. The Brandtaucher is today an exhibit of the German Forces Military History Museum in Dresden. Schweffel & Howaldt also built two tugs in 1860 and 1864. When he passed his company to his sons Georg, Bernhard and Hermann Howaldt, who continued in 1879 under the name Gebrüder Howaldt. The firm merged with Georg's shipyard in Kiel in 1889 to become Howaldtswerke AG, today known as Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW).
References
Christian Ostersehlte: Von Howaldt zu HDW. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004,
August Ferdinand Howaldt in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein und Lübeck, Vol 12 Neumünster 2006, p. 201 ff.
External links
1809 births
1883 deaths
Scientists from Braunschweig
Engineers from Lower Saxony
German shipbuilders
German company founders
German industrialists
19th-century German businesspeople
People from the Duchy of Brunswick
Businesspeople from Kiel
Submarine pioneers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%20Howaldt |
The Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America (APPNA) is an American nonprofit organization headquartered in Westmont, Illinois, United States. It is one of the largest medical associations in the United States.
APPNA is the largest medical organization of expatriate Pakistanis.
Founding
In 1976, Dr. Zaheer Ahmed, a Pakistani gastroenterologist based in Michigan, envisioned an idea of a professional organization of Pakistani physicians in the U.S and Canada that would provide a platform for social gatherings and a vehicle for educational and humanitarian projects in Pakistan. APPNA was registered in the state of Michigan as a non-profit charitable organization on 29 August 1978. The Internal Revenue Service granted it tax exempt status in 1983.
Past presidents
The list of APPNA's past presidents includes:
Dr. Zaheer Ahmed, 1979-80 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Kamil Muzaffar, 1980-81 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. M Ayub Omayya, 1981 and 1982 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. S. Amjad Hussain, 1982-83 (Khyber Medical College)
Dr. Amanullah Khan, 1983-84 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. M. Aslam Malik, 1984-85 (Nishtar Medical College)
Dr. Ikramullah Khan, 1985-86 (Dow Medical College)
Dr. Hassan Imam Bukhari, 1986-97 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Nasim Ashraf, 1987-88 (Khyber Medical College)
Dr. Mohammad Murtaza Arain, 1988-89 (Liaquat Medical College)
Dr. Arif Ali Akbar Toor, 1989-90 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Arif Muslim, 1990-91 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Mushtaq A. Khan, 1991-92 (Dow Medical College)
Dr. Prevez Ali Shah, 1992-93 (Dow Medical College)
Dr. M. Khalid Riaz, 1993-94 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Waheed Akbar, 1994-95 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Mushtaq Sharif, 1996 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Shaukat H. Khan, 1997 (Nishtar Medical College)
Dr. Durdana Gilani, 1998 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Shabir H. Safdar, 1999
Dr. M. Javed Akhtar, 2000 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Riaz Chaudhry, 2001 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Mohammad Suleman, 2002 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Raana Akbar, 2003 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Omar Taimoor Atiq, 2004 (Khyber Medical College)
Dr. Hussain G. Malik, 2005
Dr. Abdul Rashid Piracha 2006 (Nishtar Medical College)
Dr. Nadeem A. Kazi, 2007 (Sind Medical College)
Dr. Mahmood Alam, 2008 (Allama Iqbal Medical College)
Dr. Syed Abdus Samad, 2009 (Dow Medical College)
Dr. Zeelaf B. Munir, 2010 (Dow Medical College)
Dr. Manzoor A. Tariq, 2011 (Quaid-e-Azam Medical College)
Dr. Saima Zafar, 2012 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. Javed Suleman, 2013 (Sind Medical College)
Dr. Asif M. Rehman, 2014 (Nishtar Medical College)
Dr. Mubasher E. Rana, 2015 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. M. Nasar Qureshi, 2016 (Dow Medical College)
Dr. Sajid Chaudhary, 2017 (Allama Iqbal Medical College)
Dr. Iqbal Zafar Hamid, 2018 (Sind Medical College)
Dr. Naseem A. Shekhani, 2019 (Dow Medical College)
Dr. Ghazala Naheed Usmani, 2020 (King Edward Medical College)
Dr. M. Rizwan Khalid, 2021 (Aga Khan Medical College)
Dr. Haroon H. Durrani, 2022 (Nishtar Medical College)
Constituent alumni organizations
The following university alumni organizations are constituent members of APPNA:
Aga Khan University Alumni Association of North America (AKUAANA)
Allama Iqbal Medical College Alumni Association of North America (AIMCAANA)
Alumni Association of Physicians of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences of North America (LUMHS)
Army Medical College Alumni Association of North America (AMCOLAANA)
Association of Physicians of Pakistani-descent of Caribbean Medical Schools (APPCMS)
Bolan Medical College Alumni Association of North America (BMCAANA)
Dental APPNA
Dow Graduates Association of North America (DOGANA)
Fatima Jinnah Medical College Alumni Association of North America (FJMCAANA)
Jinnah Sind Medical University Alumni Association of North America (JSMUAANA)
Khyber Medical College Alumni Association of North America (KMCAANA)
King Edward Medical College Alumni Association of North America (KEMCAANA)
Nishtar Medical College Alumni Association of North America (NANA)
North American Medical Alumni of APPNA (NAMA)
Punjab Medical College Alumni Association of North America (PMCAANA)
Quaid-e-Azam Medical College Alumni Association of North America (QMCAANA)
Rawalpindi Medical College Alumni Association of North America (RMCAANA)
Representation in Pakistan Government Health Task Force
In December 2021, Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan gave APPNA representation in his government's health task force for getting its input towards improving the healthcare system in the country.
Meetings
APPNA holds four meetings through the year. Its meetings present opportunities for continuing medical education as well as social get-togethers. The four meetings are:
Spring meeting
Annual summer convention
Fall meeting
Winter meeting
Activism
Amidst news of the exorbitantly high prices of the COVID-19 vaccine set in Pakistan, APPNA wrote to the Prime Minister to express its concern. "A human tragedy must not be allowed to be used for profiteering," the APPNA association pleaded in the letter. The association recommended that the government should undertake the task of importing the vaccine itself, "on an emergent basis" as it is "best positioned to negotiate favorable rates with manufacturers." The group of doctors noted that although ideally the vaccine should be available to all free of cost, but if the country's financial situation did not allow it, it should be sold "at no more than cost". It also urged for subsidies to be provided to the poor regardless.
In March 2022, the United States Department of State acknowledged APPNA's efforts for COVID-19 relief.
APPNA members offer free community healthcare through free clinics.
References
External links
APPNA website
APPNA on Twitter
Medical associations based in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Illinois
Pakistani-American organizations
Pakistani diaspora in Canada
1977 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Physicians%20of%20Pakistani%20Descent%20of%20North%20America |
Billy Preston (sometimes referred to Do What You Want) is the eleventh studio album by American soul musician Billy Preston, released in 1976 on A&M Records. It includes the singles "I've Got the Spirit" and "Girl", both of which were top 50 hits on Billboards Soul Singles chart in the US. Preston recorded the album in Malibu, California in March 1976, shortly before joining the Rolling Stones on their two-month European tour.
The song "Do What You Want" is a remake of the 1969 original from Preston's debut album for Apple Records, That's the Way God Planned It. Two other tracks, "Let the Music Play" and "When You Are Mine", are re-recordings of songs that appeared on Preston's 1970 album Encouraging Words. In a 1974 interview for the NME, Preston said that he and George Harrison, his former producer, were "both convinced that some of those Apple cuts were among the best I've ever done and could still have a chance of being hits. They missed out first time around largely because of the internal dissension at Apple."
Track listing
All songs by Billy Preston, except where noted.
Side one
"Do What You Want" – 2:56
"Girl" (Preston, Bruce Fisher) – 3:15
"Bells" (Preston, Fisher) – 3:20
"I've Got the Spirit" (Preston, Doug Jones) – 3:57
"When You Are Mine" – 2:48
Side two
"Bad Case of Ego" – 2:56
"Take Time to Figure It Out" (Preston, Jones) – 3:14
"Let the Music Play" (Preston, Jesse Kirkland) – 3:00
"Simplify Your Life" (George Johnson, Louis Johnson) – 3:46
"Let's Make Love" (Preston, Fisher) – 2:46
"Ecstasy" – 4:04
Personnel
Billy Preston - Hammond organ, piano, organ, Hohner Clavinet, synthesizers, Hohner Pianet, vocals
Jeff Beck - lead guitar on "Bad Case of Ego"
Steve Beckmeier - guitars
Ollie E. Brown: Drums
Keni Burke - bass guitar
Merry Clayton - backing vocals
Olivia Foster - backing vocals
George Johnson - bass on "Simplify Your Life"
Tony Maiden - rhythm guitar on "Bad Case of Ego"
Stephanie Spruill - percussion, backing vocals
Alvin Taylor - drums
Tower of Power Horn Section:
Greg Adams - flugelhorn, trumpet
Emilio Castillo - tenor saxophone
Mic Gillette - flugelhorn, trumpet, piccolo
Steve Kupka - baritone saxophone
Lenny Pickett - tenor saxophone
Malcolm Cecil - synthesizer programming
Technical
Norman Seeff - photography
References
1976 albums
Billy Preston albums
Albums produced by Billy Preston
Albums produced by Robert Margouleff
A&M Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Preston%20%28album%29 |
Sadie Judith Coles (born February 1963) is a British art dealer. She is the owner of Sadie Coles HQ, a contemporary art gallery in London, that has been at the forefront of the Young British Artists movement.
Early life
Coles was born in February 1963. She studied at Middlesex University in the early 1980s and received a degree in art history and film studies.
Career
Coles spent six years working for Anthony d'Offay, before opening her own gallery, Sadie Coles HQ in 1997.
In 2003, Coles served on the selection committee for the first edition of Frieze Art Fair.
In 2014, The Guardian named her in their "Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world".
Coles was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to art.
Personal life
Coles is divorced from German fashion photographer Juergen Teller, with whom she has one child.
References
1963 births
Living people
Art dealers from London
Alumni of Middlesex University
Officers of the Order of the British Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie%20Coles |
Phi Sigma Phi,() is a national fraternity in the United States founded on July 30, 1988 in South Bend, Indiana by chapters formerly of Phi Sigma Epsilon that declined to participate in that fraternity's merger into Phi Sigma Kappa. There are currently 5 active chapters of Phi Sigma Phi nationwide. The current National President is University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Alumn Joshua Finch.
History
The foundation for Phi Sigma Phi stems from the merger between Phi Sigma Epsilon and Phi Sigma Kappa. After this merger, a small group of Phi Sigma Epsilon alumni and then-current undergraduate collegians decided not to participate with the new fraternity, instead electing to form their own national fraternity. Historically, was founded as an evolution of ideals and dedication to independence and freedom of choice. On , in South Bend, Indiana, Phi Sigma Phi National Fraternity, Inc. was formally organized to serve as a national organization.
Leading this small group of chapters into the formation of a new national fraternity were former Phi Sigma Epsilon alumni who were elected to serve as Phi Sigma Phi's first National Council.
The current National Council of Phi Sigma Phi includes:
Joshua Finch (National President)
Aaron Bestul (National Vice-President)
Mike Brennan (National Vice-President)
Paul Jarosh (National Vice-President)
Joe Sharpe (National Vice-President)
Shawn Head (National Director of Crisis Management)
Nate Church (National Executive Director and Advisory Councilor)
Mark Helling (Advisory Council)
Harry Parker (Advisory Council)
Scott Wilson (Advisory Council)
John Sandwell (Advisory Council)
David Prueher (Advisory Council)
Shawn Head (Advisory Council)
Travis Steinke (Advisory Council)
Dustin Blankenshiip (Advisory Council)
In addition, longtime supporters and former Phi Sigma Epsilon National Presidents Dean Rockwell, (originally of Eastern Michigan's Lambda chapter '35 and 's National President 1950–1958) and John Sandwell, (originally of Fort Hays State's Zeta chapter '71 and 's National President 1978–1984) added their advice and experience to all areas of Phi Sigma Phi's new operations.
The foundation for Phi Sigma Phi stems from a desire to keep alive many of the ideals of Phi Sigma Epsilon, and chose to form the National Fraternity with founding Chapters, and not specifically Founding Fathers. Still, the creation of Phi Sigma Phi was driven by its Alumni volunteers. The chapters opposed to the merger determined which groups would form the new national fraternity. By there existed seven chapters which became the foundation of the new organization. These seven chapters are known by the Fraternity as the "Founding Seven" chapters:
Lambda ( chapter, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Omega () chapter, University of Wisconsin–Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin
Phi Beta () chapter, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Phi Iota () chapter, Northland College, Ashland, Wisconsin
Phi Kappa () chapter, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, West Virginia
Phi Mu () chapter, Concord University, Athens, West Virginia
Sigma Zeta () chapter, University of Wisconsin–River Falls, River Falls, Wisconsin
Although there was strong support for this new fraternity from many campuses and alumni, the first years of Phi Sigma Phi's existence were difficult. During the years of through , the National Fraternity struggled for survival, and expansion was non-existent. Establishing new national programs, publications, visitations, and a new financial program were top priorities and took most of the new national Fraternity's energy and efforts. The dawn of the s saw Phi Sigma Phi settle into its position as that of a strong and determined new national fraternity. The National Council and Staff of Phi Sigma Phi were determined to chart a course for this new national fraternity where the emphasis was on superior service and support for the membership. The initial turmoil of the late s gradually settled, and the desire and drive for expansion was put into action.
Phi Sigma Phi became the 66th member fraternity of the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) in .
Mission and Philanthropy
Phi Sigma Phi is a partnering organization with the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.
This partnership was first implemented by Doug Renshaw at the Epsilon Zeta chapter at Fairmont State University and was expanded to a national effort at the July 2015 National Leadership Development Academy in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Chapters
Active:
Omega () chapter, 1988–present, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI
Epsilon Nu () chapter, 2005–present, York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA
Kappa () chapter, 2012–present, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI
Epsilon Chi () chapter, 2018–present, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Alpha Epsilon () chapter, 2021–present, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
Inactive:
Lambda () chapter, 1988–2023, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Phi Beta () chapter, 1988-~2011, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
Phi Iota () chapter, 1988-1990+, Northland College, Ashland, WI This now-dormant "Founding Seven" chapter was established with the national , but had previously been chartered as a Phi Sigma Epsilon chapter in .
Phi Kappa () chapter, 1988-1997, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV
Sigma Zeta () chapter, 1988-1994, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls, WI
Epsilon Alpha () chapter, 1991-1997, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Xi () chapter, 1995–2023, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Epsilon Beta () chapter, 1996–2023, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Epsilon Delta () chapter, 1998-19xx, Bluefield State College, Bluefield, WV
Epsilon Eta () chapter, 1988-1995, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK
Epsilon Kappa () chapter, 19xx-19xx, Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
Epsilon Xi () chapter, 19xx-19xx, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Sigma Psi () colony(?), 19xx-19xx, University of Minnesota-Duluth, Duluth, MN
Phi Pi () colony, 19xx-19xx, University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, WI
Epsilon Tau () colony, 2016-2016, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Epsilon Sigma () colony, 2016-2018, Penn State University, State College, PA
Epsilon Omicron () chapter, 2011–2018, Penn State Harrisburg, Lower Swatara Township, PA
Phi Mu () chapter, 1988–2022, Concord University, Athens, WV
Epsilon Lambda () chapter, 2009–2022, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI
Epsilon Zeta () chapter, 2000–2022, Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV
See also
List of social fraternities and sororities
Notes
External links
Phi Sigma Phi National Site
References
Student organizations established in 1988
North American Interfraternity Conference
Student societies in the United States
1988 establishments in Indiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Sigma%20Phi |
Kreileroord is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Hollands Kroon, and lies about 21 km north of Hoorn.
The settlement started around 1930 as Dorp IV (village IV). In the 1950s, the current name was selected. It refers to a peat excavation are on the former island of Creil in the former Zuiderzee. See also: the village Creil in the Noordoostpolder. The village was officially founded in 1957 for farm workers.
References
Populated places in North Holland
Hollands Kroon
1957 establishments in the Netherlands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreileroord |
The Battle of Southwold Bay off the Suffolk coast can refer to any of a number of exchanges in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars, namely
13 June 1665 - Battle of Lowestoft
7 June 1672 - Battle of Solebay | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Southwold%20Bay |
Akte may refer to:
Mount Athos, a mountain in northern Greece, known as Akte in Classical times
Akte, a Maya archaeological site near Lake Petén Itzá in northern Guatemala | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akte |
Prêmio Brasil Olímpico (Brazil Olympic Prize) is the name given to the highest recognition that a Brazilian athlete can receive nationally.
History and configuration
The award was created in 1999 by the Brazilian Olympic Committee (BOC), who wanted to have a form of maximum recognition that could be bestowed upon the Brazilian athletes that were considered to have been the best in the country.
The first installment of the award was held in São Paulo, but every other ceremony thereafter has been held in Rio de Janeiro. A strike of the Theatro Municipal employees in 2016 postponed the ceremony until March 29, 2017.
In order to be eligible, an athlete must be affiliated to a sport's Confederation whose sport is part of the Olympic Program. The athlete is then nominated by his or her Confederation for a vote that will determine the best athlete in the country for each sport — some Confederations have nominated only one athlete at times, which results in the need for only one vote in order for the athlete to be chosen as the best in the country.
The winners of each sport's election integrate the longlist for the highest award to be granted: the Athlete of the Year award. From the longlist, three finalists (or nominees) are selected, with the winner announced only at the Award Ceremony, which takes place in the first half of December. It is also possible that an athlete that may not have won in his or her sport (which serves as a longlist for the Athlete of the Year award), still be included in the shortlist, if said athlete is the winner of the previous year award. This was done in 2005, when female gymnast Daiane dos Santos, although not having won in her sport's category, was included in the shortlist for the female award as the winner of the 2004 award — this resulted in the unusual circumstance of having two athletes from the same sport running for the same award, since gymnast Laís Souza was also nominated for the female Athlete of the Year award.
A noteworthy discrepancy is that, in the election for best athlete in each sport, men and women run together (there is only one "best athlete" in each sport, man or woman), but for the nomination for Best Athlete of the Year, there are separate categories for male and female athletes. This has the effect of ensuring a variety of sports amidst the six athletes (between men and women) that run for the two awards, since no sport will have two nominees (one male and one female).
In the election, the candidates are voted on by two separate groups: a selected jury (chosen by the BOC) and the popular vote, both voting online. The results are then combined and the winner, chosen.
In addition, there is another award, which can be granted to both athletes and non-athletes: the Personalidade Olímpica (Olympic Personality) Award. This is granted to any public figure whose efforts were deemed to have helped advance sport in the country.
In 2004, for the first time, awards were given for the Best Paralympic Athlete of the Year (separately for men and women).
Best athlete of the year
Men
Women
Fan's Choice
References
External links
Official website (Portuguese)
Braz
Awards established in 1999
1999 establishments in Brazil
Sport in Brazil
Sports trophies and awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%AAmio%20Brasil%20Ol%C3%ADmpico |
Slootdorp is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Hollands Kroon, and lies about 19 km southeast of Den Helder.
The village has recently begun a revitalisation project where municipal owned dwellings to the centre have been replaced with modern homes.
The village is a local hub for farming and a small number of shops. Despite current economic trends, Slootdorp's population has been steadily dwindling. This has left the now rather quaint township in the ideal position of slowly becoming an enclave for those seeking a "Green Change"
The village is serviced by a number of the districts canals which intersect here. A number of local businesses still use these canals as the main method of transport of goods.
Gallery
References
Populated places in North Holland
Hollands Kroon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slootdorp |
The Cougar Fund is a non-profit educational organization concerned with protecting the cougar throughout the Americas. It is based in Jackson, Wyoming.
History
The Cougar Fund was founded in 2001 by the writer Cara Blessley Lowe and the photographer Tom Mangelsen after a first-hand experience observing a lion and her three cubs on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Frequent collaborators, Blessley Lowe and Mangelsen produced a book called Spirit of the Rockies: The Mountain Lions of Jackson Hole and a subsequent documentary short film on the historical event. These two pieces went on to garner major national media attention, broadly publicizing the principal issues facing cougars at the dawn of the 21st century: lack of scientific data on cougar populations within state game agencies, inadequate regulations on protection for female cougars and their dependent young, and a dwindling natural habitat further fragmented by human development.
In 2002, Jane Goodall joined the Board of Directors of the Cougar Fund. Since 2010, the Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust supports the Cougar Fund.
Description
The Cougar Fund is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization based in Jackson, Wyoming, concerned with protecting the cougar throughout the Americas. The Cougar Fund educates the public on the value of cougars in nature and promotes the gathering and application of sound science in their management.
Important to The Cougar Fund is an ethic of collaborative efforts in approaching predator conservation and management. There is room for all stakeholders to participate in The Cougar Fund, and its membership base includes hunters and non-hunters alike.
Board of directors
President: Rick Hopkins
Vice-President, Co-Founder: Thomas D. Mangelsen
Treasurer, Co-Founder: Cara Blessley Lowe
Members:
Marc Bekoff
Patricio Robles Gil
Jane Goodall, DBE
Corinne E. Rutledge
Bibliography
References
External links
Official website
Cat conservation organizations
Non-profit organizations based in Wyoming
Jackson, Wyoming
Environmental organizations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Wyoming | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar%20Fund |
William Capell may refer to:
William Capel (died 1515), Lord Mayor of London
William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex (1697–1743), 3rd Earl of Essex
William Capell, 4th Earl of Essex (1732–1799), 4th Earl of Essex
William Capel (sportsman) (1775–1854), sportsman and priest
William Jennings Capell (born 1953), American heir presumptive to the earldom of Essex
See also
William Kapell, pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Capell |
Borghild Tenden (born 23 June 1951) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
She was born in Stryn. After finishing her secondary education in 1970, she studied for two years at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and four years at the University of Oslo. Graduating as a teacher, she worked at Valler Upper Secondary School from 1978 to 1993 and also took further courses in law and sociology. From 1993 to 1996 she held a job as adviser to the Liberal Party parliamentary caucus, and from 1996 to 2005 she worked as an informational adviser in Parliament.
Standing for political election, she served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Akershus from 1997 to 2001, and was elected as a full representative in 2005. She served as the first deputy chair the Standing Committee on Transport and Communications.
Although the 2009 parliamentary election ended badly for the Liberal Party, Tenden won a seat in Akershus. She and Trine Skei Grande from Oslo made up the Liberal Party's parliamentary delegation. Incidentally, this was the first time a Norwegian parliamentary caucus consisted only of women.
Ahead of the 2013 election she was offered the second ballot spot behind Abid Raja. She declined, choosing to not fight head-to-head for the first ballot spot, and retired from politics.
Tenden had also been a member of Bærum control committee from 1999 to 2003, deputy member of Bærum municipal council from 1999 to 2007 and a member from 2007 to 2011, as well as a member of Akershus county council from 2003 to 2007. She was deputy leader of Akershus Liberal Party from 1994 to 1996 and leader of Bærum Liberal Party from 1998 to 2001. Outside of politics, she sat on the council and sat on the central board of the European Movement Norway.
References
1951 births
Living people
People from Stryn
University of Oslo alumni
Norwegian schoolteachers
Members of the Storting
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Bærum politicians
Women members of the Storting
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borghild%20Tenden |
Katie King may refer to:
Katie King (ice hockey) (born 1975), American Olympic athlete
Katie King (professor), University of Maryland women's studies professor
Katie King (spirit), name given by spiritualists to what they believed to be a materialized spirit
See also
Catherine King (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20King |
The Mazdaspeed3 is a sport compact hatchback introduced for the 2007 model year by Mazdaspeed and produced until 2013. The Mazdaspeed3 is a performance-enhanced version of the 5-door Mazda3.
Mazda unveiled the Mazda3 MPS (Mazda Performance Series) at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show in February. The same model is sold in North America as the Mazdaspeed3 and as the Mazdaspeed Axela in Japan. The vehicle is front-wheel drive and powered by a turbocharged inline-four gasoline engine. The Mazdaspeed3 was designed prior to the latest generation of hot hatches, including the Dodge Caliber SRT-4, Ford Focus ST, and the Volkswagen Golf/Rabbit GTI. The engine produces a power output of and of torque. The Mazdaspeed3 also features a limited slip differential.
The Mazdaspeed3 is the company's first hot hatchback since the BG Familia GT-X of the early 1990s.
First generation (2007–2009)
The Mazdaspeed3 features the same turbocharged 2.3-liter MZR L3-VDT I4 engine from the Mazdaspeed Atenza (known as Mazdaspeed6 in North America and Mazda 6 MPS in Europe, South Africa, and Australia). In this application, it produces and when running on 91 octane gasoline ((R+M)/2). This is routed through the front wheels rather than the complex all-wheel drive system found on the Mazdaspeed Atenza. The Australian market receives the Mazda3 MPS with the same engine as the Mazda6 MPS with power output of . The engine was listed in Ward's 10 Best Engines for three years straight.
A GKN limited slip differential is standard, along with a six-speed manual transmission, anti-lock brakes, traction control and dynamic stability control. No automatic transmission option was offered. To limit wheel slip, boost in the first gear will be limited to produce a maximum of , boost in second gear is also limited. The amount of boost reduction is determined by the gear selection and steering angle. There is no reduction of boost third or above.It uses the five-door hatchback body of the Mazda3, though it has extra structural bracing and subtle exterior styling differences. Volvo-sourced front and rear brake discs hide under wheels.
Critical reception has been generally very positive, with automotive writers praising the car's balance of good performance and low cost. The review by Edmunds.com compared the vehicle favorably to some more expensive rivals, saying "It's a lot of machine for the money and it offers the same balance of speed, practicality and value we've found previously only in the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution or Subaru WRX STI."
In several road tests, the Mazdaspeed3 accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in under six seconds with skidpad numbers in the 0.87g to 0.91 g range. A time of 14.0 at .
Trim levels
Mazda offered two trim levels with the Mazdaspeed3. The Grand Touring model (pictured) has few outwardly visible differences from the Mazdaspeed3 Sport but includes leather and lycra weave logo-embroidered racing seats, Bose stereo with 6-CD in-dash changer, automatic Xenon headlamps with manual leveling control, LED tail lights (the main visible difference), and rain-sensing windshield wipers.
The Mazdaspeed3 Sport and GT both include front and side driver and passenger airbags, air-curtains, logo-embroidered racing seats, signature red-stitched seams throughout, logo sill-plates, aluminium GT-style pedals, steering-wheel audio and cruise controls, automatic climate control and 18 inch by 7 inch wide aluminum alloy wheels. Additional cross-members within the chassis frame and body stiffen the vehicle to improve handling and control under heavy braking and acceleration in addition to quelling torsional flex. ABS brakes assist corner and wet-weather braking, lateral and through-ventilated disc brakes on all wheels provide extreme stopping power with reduced fade. DSC and Traction Control on all Speed3 models is also standard.
The JDM Mazdaspeed Axela models retained similar features to the Mazdaspeed 3 and Mazda3 MPS, They differed by all models featuring keyless entry and start, automatic Xenon headlamps, rain-sensing windshield wipers, and LED tail lights, with the options for the Bose stereo and/or the Leather and Alcantara seats and doorcards. There was no option for cruise controls and only Bose stereo optioned cars received steering wheel audio controls
The AU/NZ DM Mazda3 Sporthatch MPS was again similar to the other markets, They did not receive the keyless entry system, automatic headlamps, or rain-sensing windshield wipers. All models featured cruise controls, half leather seats, and headlamp washers, and there was the option for the Bose stereo and/or the Leather and Alcantara seats and doorcards.
In late 2007, All markets besides AU/NZ received an interior facelift. This changed the interior accent color from silver to piano black, and the seat and doorcard color from silver to black.
Second generation (2010–2013)
The 2010 Mazdaspeed3 retained the MZR 2.3 DISI Turbo engine. New ECU tweaks provided for a more useful power curve; additionally the gear ratios were revised. The 6-speed manual transmission has a wider 2nd through 5th gear ratio than the previous generation. A torque-sensing conical limited-slip differential (LSD) is standard. The second generation Mazdaspeed3 comes with larger diameter stabilizers with longer mount spans and wider Dunlop 18-inch tires. Front brakes have large diameter 12.6-inch ventilated discs. A functional hood scoop was added to allow for a denser charge to the top-mounted intercooler while also keeping heat soak to a minimum, a common complaint with the 1st generation Mazdaspeed3. The newer generation MZR engine contained updated pistons with a "dish" around the spark plug area. This was probably to keep the fuel mix concentrated around the spark plug for better combustion. The car weighed more than its predecessor at , but this was offset by the ECU and gear updates. From a standstill a 2010 Mazdaspeed3 can reach in 5.2 seconds, and the in 13.9 seconds at . The suspension and steering have been changed to improve performance, most notably with the addition of electric-assisted steering. On the 2013 models, the wheels were powder coated a black hue, and the mirrors and rear valance were black. The U.S. EPA rates the 2013 Mazdaspeed3 at City and Highway on premium gasoline.
The 2013 model year was the final year of production for this generation of Mazdaspeed3 vehicles.
Awards and recognition
The Mazdaspeed3 has received numerous awards since its inception, winning Car and Driver's 10 Best list for 2007, 2008, and 2010; the car was an Automobile Magazine's 2007 All Star as well and has also received several more mentions and awards.
References
External links
Mazdaspeed3 official sites for Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Mazdaspeed vehicles
Sport compact cars
Hot hatches
2010s cars
Cars introduced in 2007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazdaspeed3 |
Boschendal (Dutch: bush and dale) is one of the oldest wine estates in South Africa and is located between Franschhoek and Stellenbosch in South Africa's Western Cape.
Huguenot Origins
The farm's title deeds are dated 1685. The estate's first owner, Jean le Long, was one of the party of 200 French Huguenot refugees who were fleeing religious persecution in Europe. He was granted land in the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in 1688 and the title deed was written in 1713. In 1715 the farm was acquired by another Huguenot, Abraham de Villiers, who sold it to his brother Jacques in 1717. The De Villiers family farmed Boschendal until 1879. In 1812 Paul de Villiers and his wife, Anna Susanna Louw, completed a new house at Boschendal on the site of his father's home. This is the homestead as restored today. Among the guests in the later years of the De Villiers era was the British Governor at the Cape, Sir George Grey, who stayed at Boschendal whenever he visited the region.
Rhodes Fruit Farms and Anglo-American
In 1887 the estate was bought by Cecil Rhodes and formed part of his commercial fruit business, Rhodes Fruit Farms which has become today's Boschendal Farm.
Phylloxera Epidemic
A global phylloxera epidemic, caused by tiny, sap-sucking insects, spread through the Cape vineyards in the 1880s and 1890s, destroying the vines of the Boschendal area in 1890. It caused much damage and led to a farming depression before resistant American vine stocks were introduced on a scale wide enough to stop the epidemic.
In the meantime, farmers needed alternative forms of agriculture, and the lucrative fruit industry in California provided a suitable model for the Cape. Pioneering work was done by fruit farmers in Wellington and the Hex River Valley. In 1892, shipping magnate Percy Molteno developed and introduced refrigerated cargo space on Union-Castle shipping lines, between the Cape and the largest consumer markets in Europe, which revolutionized the industry and made the export of fresh fruit an attractive proposition.
Rhodes & Pickstone
Harry Pickstone, an Englishman with experience of growing fruit in California, convinced Rhodes that a commercial nursery was needed to propagate new varieties of fruit trees for the industry. Rhodes financed his first venture, the Pioneer Fruit Growing Company.
Rhodes's political career had seen him rise to Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. When he was implicated in the Jameson Raid, an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Boer Republic in the Transvaal, he was left with little option but to resign. In 1896 Rhodes decided to invest further in fruit farming. Pickstone advised him to buy old wine farms in the Groot Drakenstein, Wellington and Stellenbosch areas.
In March 1897 Rhodes secured the first of more than 20 farms, including Boschendal and Rhone. Twelve young managers were appointed, many of whom had been trained in California. Under Pickstone's tutelage they transformed the farms, introducing modern methods of pruning, grafting and irrigation, and training farm workers in the new skills. They planted 200 000 deciduous fruit trees - pears, apricots, plums and peaches.
In its new incarnation as Boschendal - The Estate, the former "Rhodes Fruit Farms" continues to be a major source of employment for local communities.
Boschendal - The Estate
The Boschendal estate is crowned by the original Cape Dutch manor house, which is open to visitors, together with associated wine tasting venues, restaurants and outbuildings and visitor attractions.
In the late 1960s the estate was taken over by the Anglo American Corporation, before being sold in 2003 to a consortium of international investors, led by the property developer Clive Venning. In 2012 the estate was sold to a consortium of South African investors who began an intensive rejuvenation and agricultural programme.
The Wines
The vineyards at Boschendal cover 2.54 km² between Groot Drakenstein and Simonsberg, and include substantial plantings of Chardonnay and Sauvignon blanc, together with recent plantings of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Shiraz. The winery is noted particularly for its complex white wines.
When Anglo American took ownership of Rhodes Fruit Farms and Boschendal in 1969 one of the key projects was the re-establishment of a range of wines under the Boschendal brand. In 1978, Achim van Arnim took charge as Cellarmaster, vowing to restore pre-eminence for the Estate's produce.
It was then that "Blanc de Noir" ( white from black) was created — a "blush" white wine made from red grapes, an innovation that sets Boschendal Wines apart.
See also
Huguenots in South Africa
Cecil John Rhodes
Herbert Baker
Rhodes Fruit Farms
Paarl
Stellenbosch
References
External links
Official Boschendal web site
Official Boschendal The Estate Website
Official Boschendal Wines web site
Official Boschendal Restaurants web site
Boschendal in Australia web site
Wineries of South Africa
Economy of the Western Cape
Huguenot history in South Africa
Wine brands
South African brands
South African heritage sites | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boschendal |
Vera Lysklætt (born 29 January 1954 in Jøssund) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party (V). She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Finnmark in 2005. She came in on a leveling seat, in spite of low local support in the county with only 818 votes, or 2 percent.
She was a member of Karasjok municipal council from 1999 to 2003.
Parliamentary Committee duties
2005 - 2009 member of the Standing Committee on Local Government and Public Administration.
External links
Stortinget.no - Bio
Valgtriller mellom Raymond og Vera (Close race between Raymond and Vera, article in Norwegian)
1954 births
Living people
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Women members of the Storting
Members of the Storting
21st-century Norwegian politicians
21st-century Norwegian women politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Lyskl%C3%A6tt |
Samuel Edwin Weir (March 14, 1903 – May 15, 1991) was an American collegiate and professional football player. He was the first Nebraska Cornhuskers football player elected to the College Football Hall of Fame and is known as one of Nebraska's greatest athletes. In 2005 the Omaha World-Herald, as part of a series on the 100 Greatest Athletes of Nebraska, named Weir the 19th best athlete in the state's history.
Biography
Born in Superior, Nebraska in 1903, Weir played on the line at Nebraska and was captain of the 1923 team that beat the "Four Horsemen" of the University of Notre Dame. He was elected All-American in 1924 and 1925.
Weir turned down offers to play professionally in Jacksonville in 1925. He went on to play professionally for the Frankford Yellow Jackets of the National Football League (NFL). In 1927, he and several teammates took over the coaching job in mid-season and achieved a 6–9–3 record, as Weir earned All-Pro honors. The following year, Weir coached the team to an 11–3–2 record, good for a second-place league finish.
Weir was a member of Acacia fraternity, and the track and field complex was later named in his honor.
References
External links
Nebraska profile
1903 births
1991 deaths
American football tackles
Frankford Yellow Jackets coaches
Frankford Yellow Jackets players
Nebraska Cornhuskers football coaches
Nebraska Cornhuskers football players
College track and field coaches in the United States
All-American college football players
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
People from Superior, Nebraska
Players of American football from Nebraska
Burials in Nebraska | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Weir |
On 23 January 1974 on the Berwyn Mountains in Llandrillo, Merionethshire, Wales, lights and noises were observed that were alleged to be related to a UFO sighting on Cadair Berwyn and Cadair Bronwen. Scientific evidence indicated that the event was generated by an earthquake combined with sightings of a bright meteor widely observed over Wales and northern England at the time.
History
On the evening of 23 January 1974, residents of the Berwyn Mountains area in northern Wales reported a loud noise and a bright light in the sky. When UFOlogists claimed that a UFO crashed and the British Government covered up the military's recovery of a crashed spaceship, some tabloid newspapers jokingly labelled it "The Roswelsh Incident".
Scientific evidence indicates the event was generated by an earthquake combined with sightings of a bright meteor widely observed over Wales and Northern England at the time.
Declassified Ministry of Defence documents also suggest the incident was caused by the combined effects of an earthquake and a meteor. The Institute of Geological Sciences (now British Geological Survey) reported that a magnitude 3.5 earthquake was felt at 8:38 p.m. that night over a wide area of northern Wales and as far as Formby in England - 13 miles north of Liverpool. It was not immediately identified as an earthquake, hence the police investigation. However, the magnitude of the shock was such that had it been due to an aircraft crash, the resulting crater would have been large enough to be easily visible. The unusual lights reported may have been simply the meteor, but may also have included the phenomenon known as earthquake light.
In popular culture
The incident was the subject of a segment on BBC1's The One Show on 2 March 2021.
A 2017 episode of Ancient Aliens speculated that a UFO crashed at Berwyn and its wreckage was likely taken to Rudloe Manor.
See also
UFO sightings in the United Kingdom
References
External links
MOD response to this incident
Listing National Archive records AIR 2/18873 and AIR 2/18874 relating to this event
Richard D. Hall documentary including local exploration and interviews
1974 in Wales
Conspiracy theories in the United Kingdom
UFO sightings in Wales
January 1974 events in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn%20Mountain%20UFO%20incident |
Miyolangsangma is the Tibetan Buddhist goddess who lives at the top of Chomolungma (Mount Everest). She is one of the five long-life sisters and her virtue is Inexhaustible Giving. She started out as a malevolent demoness and was converted by a great Buddhist. Now she is the Goddess of inexhaustible giving and of Everest and the Khumbu area in general. She rides a golden tigress, and hands out the jewels of wishes to those deserving. Many climbers of Chomolungma beseech her favor at the traditional stupa in which a Buddhist monk prays for them and they go through certain ceremonies.
It is said that Tenzing Norgay followed her up Everest and that she allowed him to be the first to summit Everest.
References
Dharmapalas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyolangsangma |
NGC 5102 is a lenticular galaxy in the Centaurus A/M83 Group of galaxies. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1835.
Distance measurements
At least two techniques have been used to measure the distance to NGC 5102. The surface brightness fluctuations distance measurement technique estimates distances to spiral galaxies based on the graininess of the appearance of their bulges. The distance measured to NGC 5102 using this technique is 13.0 ± 0.8 Mly (4.0 ± 0.2 Mpc). However, NGC 5102 is close enough that the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) method may be used to estimate its distance. The estimated distance to NGC 5102 using this technique is 11.1 ± 1.3 Mly (3.40 ± 0.39 Mpc). Averaged together, these distance measurements give a distance estimate of 12.1 ± 0.7 Mly (3.70 ± 0.23 Mpc).
References
External links
Lenticular galaxies
Unbarred lenticular galaxies
Centaurus
Centaurus A/M83 Group
5102
Astronomical objects discovered in 1835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%205102 |
Muscatel ( ) is a type of wine made from muscat grapes. The term is now normally used in the United States to refer to a fortified wine made from these grapes rather than just any wine made from these grapes. This fortified muscatel became popular in the United States when, at the end of prohibition, in order to meet the large demand for wine, some poor strains of muscat grapes (used normally for table grapes or raisins) mixed with sugar and cheap brandy were used to produce what has since become infamous as a wino wine. This kind of fortified wine has, in the United States, damaged the reputation of all muscat-based wines and the term muscatel tends no longer to be used for these "better" wines in the United States. In other markets the term Muscatel, or Moscatel, refers to a wide range of sweet wines based on these grapes.
In 16th-century Germany elderflower infused Salvia sclarea was added to Rhine wines to make a more potent varietal that was called "Muscatel", giving the plant one of its common names "muscatel sage".
See also
Moscatel de Setúbal
References
Fortified wine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscatel |
The Canadair CF-5 (officially designated the CF-116 Freedom Fighter) is a Canadian licensed-built Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter, a light, supersonic, twin engine, daylight air superiority fighter primarily for the Canadian Forces (as the CF-5) and the Royal Netherlands Air Force (as the NF-5). The CF-5 was upgraded periodically throughout its service career in Canada. The Canadian Forces retired the aircraft in 1995, although the CF-5 continues to be used by other countries.
The CF-5 was ordered by the Royal Canadian Air Force, which became part of the Canadian Forces on 1 February 1968. The new unified force took delivery of the first CF-5s (it was almost universally referred to as the CF-5 except in official documentation) at the end of 1968. Production by Canadair for the Canadian Forces was 89 single-seat aircraft, 46 dual-seat aircraft and 75 single-seat with 30 dual-seat aircraft for the Royal Netherlands Air Force, a total production of 240. Twenty surplus Canadian aircraft were sold to Venezuela.
Design and development
Originally designed by Northrop as a low-cost, low-maintenance fighter jet, the F-5 was intended for use by air forces that had limited resources and technical expertise to maintain a sophisticated aircraft. For Canada, which had an extensive aerospace industry, selection of the F-5 was seen as a step backwards. Selected originally to provide a tactical support role based in Canada, CF-5 squadrons were also committed to NATO's northern flank to act as a rapid-deployment force. However, the role for the CF-5 throughout its service with the RCAF was changed frequently and eventually, the diminutive fighter would serve as a light attack strike fighter, reconnaissance platform and trainer.
Compared to the Northrop F-5, the Canadian CF-5 had several modifications to make it more suitable for operating in Canadian Forces theaters of operations. In order to address complaints about long takeoff runs, the Canadair version featured a two-position nose landing gear; compressed it operated like the original, but extended (before takeoff) it raised the nose and thereby increased the angle of attack and increased lift. The system reduced takeoff distance by almost 20%. A midair refueling probe was installed, Orenda-built General Electric J85-15 engines with 4,300 lbf (19 kN) thrust were used, and a more sophisticated navigation system was added. The nose of the CF-5 was also interchangeable with a specially designed reconnaissance set with four cameras in it. Over the course of its life, it received many upgrades to its avionics and capabilities.
An order for 105 aircraft for the Royal Netherlands Air Force was signed in early 1967, 75 single-seaters to replace the Republic F-84 and 30 twin-seaters to replace the Lockheed T-33. The plan to use some single-seaters for photo-reconnaissance to replace the Lockheed F-104G Starfighters never materialized. Production of the F-5 in Europe was originally planned by Fokker and SABCA, for the Dutch and Belgian Air Forces, but hesitancy by Belgium led to the Netherlands government ordering under a production sharing agreement with Canada. As part of the production sharing agreement between the Canadian and Dutch governments the centre fuselages for all but the first 31 aircraft were built by Fokker in the Netherlands.
The first CF-5 was formally rolled out in a ceremony at the Cartierville factory on 6 February 1968. The first NF-5 was rolled out on 5 March 1969.
Operational history
Canada
Initially 433 Squadron and 434 Squadron were the only two squadrons to operate the CF-5. It was intended that three squadrons would fly the aircraft, but due to budgetary restrictions, the excess aircraft were put into storage in CFB North Bay and CFB Trenton, some later being sold to other countries. 434 Squadron was assigned to do lead-in tactical fighter training for the Canadair CF-104 Starfighter, but was transitioned to the role of a rapid reaction squadron, being ready to deploy to Europe at short notice in the event of hostilities. The squadron moved to CFB Bagotville with 433 Squadron, for a short time, and then on to CFB Chatham.
The training role was adopted by 419 Squadron at CFB Cold Lake; it would continue to provide jet training, dissimilar air combat training (painted in Soviet style "aggressor" schemes similar to USAF, USN and USMC F-5Es), and serve as a lead-in fighter trainer for the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet until retired in 1995. All remaining airframes were put into storage at CFD Mountain View.
While originally intended to be deployed to Europe, due to budgetary limitations the CF-5 became a rapid deployment reinforcement, to be deployed to central Europe or later Norway in time of war. CF-5s did deploy to Europe for several reasons many times during the Cold War: in 1970 six CF-5As deployed to CFB Baden–Soellingen in Germany, later flying to Norway in early 1971; in 1973 eight CF-5A and CF-5R flew to Norway; in 1974 four CF-5A and CF-5Rs participated in a NATO reconnaissance exercise at Leck, Germany; two Canadair CF-5R visited Leeuwarden, Netherlands in 1974; sixteen CF-5As flew to Europe in 1977; in 1978 eight CF-5As deployed to Norway to participate to NATO's Arctic Express exercise; in 1980 eight CF-5As participated in the Anorak Express exercise in Norway; in 1985 and 1986 CF-5As depolyed to NATO exercises (Brave Lion) in Norway, and finally, the last deployment to Europe was in 1987 when four CF-5As arrived at CFB Baden–Soellingen; in June, 1988 the CF-5A was replaced in the rapid deployment force by the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet. Additionally, CF-5R photo reconnaissance aircraft participated in Best Focus exercises in Europe during 1978, 1980 and 1985, with a Canadian pilot winning the NATO "Photo Derby" in 1985.
Netherlands
The Royal Netherlands Air Force took delivery of its first aircraft (an NF-5B two-seater) in October 1969, with the first squadron to be formed being 313 Squadron at Twente. The initial role of 313 Squadron was a conversion unit to train pilots on the new type. The NF-5 would serve with four operation squadrons, 313 and 315 Squadron at Twenthe, 316 Squadron at Gilze-Rijen and 314 Squadron at Eindhoven. The last NF-5 was delivered in March 1972.
From 1986 the squadrons began to convert to the licence-built General Dynamics F-16 and the last NF-5 was stood down in March 1991.
Most surplus aircraft were sold to Turkey (most to Turkish Stars) and Venezuela (mix CF-5A and CF-5D - 18 in 1972, 2 new CF-5D in 1974 and 7 ex-RNAF NF-5A/B in 1990; all served with Grupo de Caza 12) or retained for spares support. A dozen aircraft were donated to Greece.
Variants
CF-5A : Single-seat fighter version for the Canadian Forces, designation CF-116A. 89 built. 13 sold to Botswana and 16 sold to Venezuela.
CF-5A(R) : Single-seat reconnaissance version for the Canadian Forces. 50 interchangeable camera noses built to swap the CF-5A's twin 20mm cannon nose with a quad 70mm Vinten camera nose. Canadian Forces provisional designation CF-116A(R).
CF-5D : Two-seat training version for the Canadian Forces, CF-116D. 46 built. 5 sold to Botswana and 4 sold to Venezuela.
NF-5A : Single-seat fighter version for the Royal Netherlands Air Force. 75 built. 1 sold to Venezuela and 10 donated to Greece.
NF-5B : Two-seat training version for the Royal Netherlands Air Force. 30 built. 6 sold to Venezuela and 2 donated to Greece.
VF-5A : Single-seat fighter version sold to Venezuelan Air Force.
VF-5D : Two-seat training version sold to Venezuelan Air Force.
Operators
Botswana Air Force
Total of 18 ex-Canadian fighters delivered in 1996 and 2000; (13 CF-5A and 5 CF-5D). All assigned at Z28 Squadron and stationed Maparangwane Air Base. 11 CF-5A and 4 CF-5D were still in use as of 2021.
Turkish Air Force
19 NF-5A/B 2000 Freedom Fighters were in service as of 2021, used as trainers and flying with 133rd Aerobatic Squadron Turkish Stars.
Tactical Air Support, Inc.
In 2013, the company added four Canadair CF-5D Freedom Fighters and 20 years' worth of spare F-5 parts to its fleet.
Venezuelan Air Force
Air Group 12 - 6 CF-5A in use as of 2021.
Former operators
Canadian Forces Air Command
419 Squadron
433 Squadron
434 Squadron
Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment
8 CF-5D aircraft assigned to AETE from 1968 to 1996
Sale of 28 used Canadian CF-5 offered to Greece, for $75 million, in 2001 was unsuccessful and the aircraft were used for avionics training and the spare parts were scrapped.
Hellenic Air Force
12 NF-5s (10 NF-5As, one NF-5B and one NF-5B for spares) were donated by the Netherlands to Greece in 1991 for use with 349 "Kronos" Squadron. They were withdrawn in 2001.
Royal Netherlands Air Force 105 NF-5 (75 single and 30 dual seaters) were introduced into service between 1969 and 1972, decommissioned in 1991
No. 313 Squadron; Twente Air Base (transitioned to F-16 in 1987)
No. 314 Squadron; Eindhoven Air Base (transitioned to F-16 in 1990)
No. 315 Squadron, Operation Conversion Unit (OCU); Twente Air Base (transitioned to F-16 in 1986)
No. 316 Squadron; Gilze-Rijen Air Base (transitioned to F-16 in 1991)
Field Technic Training Unit NF-5 (1971–1984); Twente Air Base
Aircraft on display
Air Force Heritage Museum and Air Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum
Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian War Museum Ottawa, Ontario – reconnaissance version
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario
Cold Lake Air Force Museum
CFB Cold Lake - CF-5A '116736' mounted on a pole near the base entrance.
Defence Research and Development Canada – Toronto (DRDC) (mounted on Sheppard Avenue West), Toronto, Ontario
Kamloops Airport
Memorial Military Museum in Campbellford, Ontario (s/n 116730).
National Air Force Museum of Canada, Trenton, Ontario
Reynolds-Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alberta
The Military Museums Calgary, Alberta
Toronto/Markham Airport 2 located at Markham, Ontario
Europe
NF-5A 'K-3003' on display at Gilze-Rijen Air Base, the Netherlands
NF-5A 'K-3020' on display at Nationaal Militair Museum, former Soesterberg Air Base, the Netherlands
NF-5A 'K-3068' on display at Eindhoven Air Base, the Netherlands
NF-5B 'K-4011' in storage at Nationaal Militair Museum, former Soesterberg Air Base, the Netherlands.
NF-5B 'K-4012' as instructional airframe at Deltion College Zwolle, the Netherlands
Specifications (CF-116)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
McIntyre, Bob. Canadair CF-5 (Canadian Profile: Aircraft No. 4). Ottawa, Ontario: Sabre Model Supplies Ltd., 1985. .
Pickler, Ron and Larry Milberry. Canadair: the First 50 Years. Toronto: CANAV Books, 1995. .
Stachiw, Anthony L. Canadair CF-5 Freedom Fighter (Canadian Service Aircraft No.1). St. Catharine's, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2003. .
Van Gent, C.J. De Northrop NF-5: De geschiedenis van de NF-5 in Nederland. Alkmaar, Netherlands: Uitgeverij De Alk, 1992. .
Van Gent, C.J. De Northrop NF-5: De historie van de NF-5 bij de Koninklijke Luchtmacht. Odoorn, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Lanasta, 2020. .
Van Gent C.J. De Starfighter: De geschiedenis van de Starfighter in Nederland. Maarssen, Netherlands: Uitgeverij Geromy, 2012. .
External links
CF-5 (CF-116) Freedom Fighter – Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum
1960s Canadian fighter aircraft
1960s Canadian attack aircraft
CF-005
CF-005
Twinjets
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1968
Canada–United States military relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair%20CF-5 |
Cleonae or Cleonæ or Kleonai () may refer to:
Cleonae (Argolis), a city of ancient Argolis, Greece, now in Corinthia, Greece
Cleonae (Chalcidice), a city of ancient Chalcidice, on Mount Athos, Greece
Cleonae (Phocis), a town of ancient Phocis, Greece | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleonae |
John Anthony Powers (August 22, 1922 – December 31, 1979), better known as Shorty Powers, was an American public affairs officer for NASA from 1959 to 1963 during Project Mercury. A U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and war veteran, he was known as the "voice of the astronauts," the "voice of Mercury Control," and the "eighth astronaut", a nickname he received for his 5-foot, 6-inch (1.68 m) height. In the mid-1960s, he was a TV commercial spokesperson for Oldsmobile.
Biography
Powers was born August 22, 1922, to first generation Welsh immigrant parents in Toledo, Ohio. Powers father's last name was actually Power, however, upon signing the immigration documents, Power became Powers. When Powers was an infant his family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois, where he was a cheerleader at Downers Grove North High School, from which he graduated in 1941. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 and became a C-46 and C-47 pilot with the 349th Troop Carrier Group. He was one of six pilots who volunteered to learn the technique of snatching fully loaded troop gliders off the ground, and spent the end of World War II ferrying gasoline in cargo planes to Gen. George Patton's command in Germany.
Powers left the service in January 1947; but was recalled to active duty in December 1948 and flew as part of the Berlin Airlift, making 185 round-trip flights. He later volunteered for the Korean War. He flew 55 night missions in B-26 bombers with the 13th Bombardment Squadron and received the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross and a combat promotion to Major.
Following Korea, Powers bounced around the Air Force, helping establish the first Community Relations Program in 1955. After being assigned to the personal staff of Maj. Gen. Bernard Schriever with the Air Research Development Command in Los Angeles, he handled the public dissemination of information related to the Air Force's ballistic missile program.
Project Mercury
Powers' experience with public affairs caught the attention of the newly formed NASA, and he was detailed to NASA's Space Task Group in April 1959 as its public affairs officer at the request of T. Keith Glennan, NASA's first administrator. Very early on April 12, 1961, John G. Warner, a UPI rewrite-man in Washington, D.C., roused Powers from sleep at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia seeking comment on the flight of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space. Powers replied, in part, "We're all asleep down here," which made headlines.
He served as mission commentator for the six crewed Mercury flights, introducing "A-OK" into the American vocabulary to signify procedures during the missions had proceeded as planned. He claimed astronaut Alan Shepard first used the expression during his Freedom 7 flight, but communication transcripts later showed he had not. In his 1979 book The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe wrote that Powers had borrowed it "from NASA engineers who used it during radio transmission tests because the sharper sound of A cut through the static better than O".
Powers enjoyed the limelight, and was accused of scheduling news conferences so he could appear live on national television and occasionally twisting the facts. For example, he told reporters the day before Gus Grissom's flight that the astronaut had gone fishing that day and had cooked and eaten his catch, which would have violated his pre-flight diet.
Manned Spacecraft Center Director Robert Gilruth announced Powers' reassignment on July 26, 1963, reportedly following a dispute with NASA Headquarters over handling publicity for the final Mercury flight. Powers objected to the HQ decision to release the mission's 22-orbit flight plan in advance. He was succeeded by Paul Haney on September 1, and Powers soon resigned.
Later years
Powers retired from the Air Force in 1964 and opened a public relations firm in Houston. He became part owner of KMSC-FM in Clear Lake, Texas (the call letters standing for the Manned Spacecraft Center), where he anchored live coverage of Gemini and Apollo flights, distributed to radio stations across the country. He also served a spokesman for products including the 1965 Oldsmobile Delta 88 (touting its "Super Rocket V-8" engine), Carrier air conditioners, Triptone motion sickness pills, and Tareyton cigarettes (which claimed to use the same charcoal-activated filter used for the astronauts' oxygen supply). He lectured extensively about the space program, and served as emcee at the dedication of the Clear Lake Theatre Time Capsule on April 20, 1966. In 1967, he authored a newspaper column syndicated nationally by Field Enterprises called "Space Talk", answering readers' questions.
Powers was married three times and was the father of three children. He married Sara Kay McSherry, women's editor of the Indianapolis News, on August 7, 1965.
Powers moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1978, and died there at his home on December 31, 1979, at age 57 from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage related to chronic alcoholism.
Film and TV
Powers appeared as himself in the 1963 episode entitled "Junior Astronaut" of CBS's sitcom, Dennis the Menace, starring Jay North in the title role.
He was the narrator for the 1966 Jerry Lewis space comedy, Way...Way Out.
He is referenced in the 1988 cult film, Miracle Mile, by actor Kurt Fuller when, as Soviet warheads appear over Los Angeles, a drug-addled, panicked character in the movie yells, "Talk me down, Shorty Powers".
He appears in Season One, Episode Three of the alt-historical 2019 TV series For All Mankind.
He is portrayed by actor Danny Strong in the Disney+ series The Right Stuff (2020), based on the 1979 book of the same title by Tom Wolfe.
References
Notes
Benedict, Howard "'Voice of the Astronauts' Shorty Powers Dead" (January 3, 1980), The Associated Press
"Shorty Powers, 'voice of the astronauts,' is found dead at 57" (January 3, 1980), St. Petersburg Times, p. 1-A
External links
13th Bomb Squadron Alumni
Col. Shorty Powers Squadron—Civil Air Patrol, Illinois Wing
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1979 deaths
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United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War
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Braidfauld is a small area of Glasgow, Scotland which is in the East End of the city slightly north of the River Clyde and south of the Tollcross area. It was also the name of the 45th ward of Glasgow City Council, prior to the re-organisation into multi-member wards in 2007.
Braidfauld ward, extending from Parkhead to Sandyhills, was an artificial creation and few residents recognised the name other than as a sub-district of the area, feeling more affinity (depending on where they lived) with neighbouring areas such as Lilybank, Parkhead and Tollcross. It is now within the larger Shettleston ward.
Origins of name
The neighbourhood is named after Braidfauld Farm, which is mentioned on local maps until the 1930s, at the junction of London Road with the now Braidfauld Avenue. "Braid" is Old Scots for the top of a slope. A "fauld" was the poorer part of the village fields left fallow until manured by grazing sheep or cattle. "Braidfauld" was the "fallow land at the top of the slope". Similarly, "Maukinfauld" was the "fallow land pestered by hares" ("maulkens" in Scots). Braidfauld Street ran to a farm of that name, as Maukinfauld Road, in the middle of the district, ran to the farm after which it is named.
History
Auchenshuggle
Braidfauld Street was the terminus of the Number 9 tram, opposite the Auchenshuggle woods. Auchenshuggle was a hamlet slightly to the north east, and was part of the Easterhill Estate, which ran down to the River Clyde. Easterhill House, erected as a country retreat by Glasgow merchants in the 19th century has been demolished. Other farms underlying modern Braidfauld were Braidfauld and Maukinfauld farms and Newbank House (all mentioned on an 1865 map). Lilybank is not mentioned on any earlier map and is perhaps a modern fanciful name, modelled on the nearby Newbank.
Dalbeth
Beyond the woods is the site of the Dalbeth Estate. The estate was primarily a country retreat, but the owners worked the freestone and coal underneath. It is even said some local gold was found while, in the shallows of the Clyde large mussel-like bi-valves often provided serviceable pearls. Here Thomas Hopkirk established the prize collection of rare plants which became the basis of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens in the West-end.
Later, in 1850, Dalbeth returned (after 300 years) to the possession of the Roman Catholic Church. The Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd established a Magdelen Asylum, where unmarried mothers could work out their penitence. In 1865, they established a Girls' Reformatory. A Boy's Reformatory was established later, slightly further west, in Westthorn Mills. A Church designed by Peter Paul Pugin (1851–1904), (brother of E.W. Pugin) in typical ornate style, with three naves, was opened in 1902. A Polish Education Centre was established during the Second World War, so that soldiers in the Free Polish Army could complete their (Polish) secondary education there (from a newspaper clipping of April 1944). It became the Parish Church in 1948 and the Reformatory buildings became the Good Shepherd R.C. Primary School. The Church and school were closed in 1975 and later demolished, along with the Primary School/ Reformatory Buildings. The land is now used as an extension to Dalbeth Cemetery.
Like the other great houses erected by Glasgow merchants, Dalbeth House has disappeared, as has the 19th-century convent, though the administration building of the cemetery may incorporate parts of both. The sisters' cemetery is still there, slightly to the side of the much larger St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth, which included a Jews' Cemetery in the 19th century. There are distinctive Polish and Italian parts of the cemetery, and many locally famous Catholics (including John Wheatley) are buried there.
Govancroft Pottery 1911-1981
Across London Road, at the corner of Potter Street, was the substantial Govancroft Pottery. At one point this had (according to the Pottery Society), "a monopoly of (ceramic) jam jars" which it exported throughout the world. Latterly, it produced distinctive thistle shaped ware. A quick search on the website indicates that there is still a substantial trade among collectors for them. The pottery was closed in 1981. A set of modern houses has taken their place, called "The Potteries".
Westthorn
Further west again (close by the Glasgow Celtic supporters' club) is what remains of Westthorn Park (the allotments only, the cycle track and football fields having been removed). The beauty of the sylvan, meandering Clyde at Westthorn was described rapturously in the First Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–1799) and again in Rambles Around Glasgow of 1835. It still feels very surprisingly remote and is still beautiful. Westthorn was the site of riots in the early 19th century. Thomas Harvie became the new owner of Westthorn House and estate. He tried to cut off a right of way (from Dalmarnock to Carmyle) in 1819. The riots were put down by the military (the Enniskillen Dragoons) under the direction of the Sheriff. However, the locals, supported by a fund raised by Glasgow democrats, took Harvie to court - all the way to the House of Lords - and eventually won their case. Mr Harvie owned a distillery in Port Dundas. Nowadays the site of Westthorn House is occupied by a bottling plant for John Dewar and Sons.
Buildings
18th century
The east end of Glasgow was initially the preferred choice area of Glasgow's tobacco merchants and they built several country estates in the Braidfauld and surrounding area. None of these buildings survives, all having been demolished and the estates turned into housing. The estates included Easterhill House, Dalbeth House, Westthorn House and Belvidere House - each was photographed in the late 19th century by Thomas Annan. The buildings at the entrance to 1920 London Road are the remains of the lodge house for Dalbeth House.
The Farm Shop in Cuthelton Street was part of the 18th-century farm in that area.
19th century
The administration building for St Peter's Cemetery, Dalbeth was part of the 19th-century Convent of the Good Shepherd and may incorporate part of the original Dalbeth House. Eastwards of the entrance to the driveway is a much remodelled 19th-century cottage, set back from the road at the entrance to the Nuns' Cemetery.
Half-a mile westwards on London Road, opposite the entrance to the former Belvidere Hospital, is a much re-modelled two storey family house, possibly related to the original farm. It is of locally quarried sandstone and is probably of about the middle of the 19th century. All that remains of the ruins of Belvidere Hospital is the imposing, Administration Building, in classical style and of the same grey sandstone.
Overlooking Tollcross Road, and set in its original grounds, is , built in 1848. It was built (of gray ashlar) for one of the partners of Clyde Iron Works, James Dunlop. The architect was David Bryce who also designed Fettes College in Edinburgh and Balfour Castle in Orkney which shares with Tollross House the Scots Baronial style of crowstepped gables, circular towers with conical caps, massed chimneys and mullioned windows. The family gave up living there as tenements invaded the surrounding area. The grounds became Tollcross Park in 1897 and the buildings became a Children's Museum, housing the locally famous “Who killed Cock Robin?” display of stuffed birds, small mammals and insects. It also had the last deer shot in the park -"Bobbie" - stuffed and on display. The building was turned into flats in 1998, and the display moved to the Forge shopping mall a mile away.
With the coming of railways, sandstone could be easily transported over long distances and buildings began to be built of an attractive red sandstone, usually quarried at Lockerbie. A two-storey family house in the middle of the drive to St Peter's Cemetery at 1920 London Road is of red brick, rather than sandstone. More imposing is the line of four-storey red sandstone tenement flats, known as the Deer Park flats, built at the turn of the century along Tollcross Road, opposite Tollcross Park and running towards Parkhead Cross. These tenements have repeating, rounded, bow windows. (At the juncture with Maukinfauld Road, shops and a pub formed the ground floor. There is also a small shop built into the middle of the tenements opposite the main park gates).
20th century
Between Maukinfauld Road and Braidfauld Street is a post-World War II development of low-rise houses, many semi-detached or short terraces.
A range of low-rise "maisonette"-type houses, some in closes, some short terraces, were built in Glenisla Street in the 1960s. They are brick built and roof-tiled.
In the 1980s, the council began releasing land for private development (something it had previously declined to do). Eastwards along the railway, new houses were erected in the 1990s as was a development known as The Potteries (on the site of the old Govancroft Pottery). On Tollcross Road, east of the Deer Park tenements, flats in an extensive, super-modern block was built in 2005.
Industrial and commercial
The only major industrial or commercial buildings are the United Biscuits factory in Clydeford Drive and a range of hangar-type developments along the London Road in the old Westthorn estate, mostly concerned with bottling or storing whiskey (Allied Distillers and John Dewar & Sons Ltd).
Famous residents
Thomas Hopkirk (1785–1841) assembled a huge collection of plants at his estate in Dalbeth and published a comprehensive Flora - one of the first. He was one of the founders of what was to become the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. He donated his collection of plants to start it off. There is a Hopkirk Laboratory in Glasgow University named after him.
John Quinton Pringle (1864–1925) was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow and later lived in Maukinfauld Road, Tollcross. After leaving school at twelve and serving an apprenticeship as an optician, he set up his own business in his early 30s. From 1865, he attended evening classes in Glasgow School of Art. He painted comparatively few works, and most were small scale and were of his relatives, friends and the local area. He did not exhibit a lot during his lifetime. One of his paintings in the Kelvingrove Art Galleries is of the view from his flat in Maukinfauld Road - across open countryside to St Margaret's Church, Braifauld Street, with a train steaming up the line from Parkhead Station to Tollcross. His work can be seen at Kelvingrove, at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Tate Britain in London, and as part of the Government Art Collection (GAC). Many can be viewed on-line.
John Wheatley (1869–1930), MP, represented the Glasgow Shettleston constituency in the House of Commons. He was Minister for Health in 1924, in Ramsay MacDonald's first Labour Government, when he passed the Housing Act mentioned above. He is buried in St Peter's Cemetery Dalbeth.
Jack House (1906–1991) was a locally renowned journalist, historian and novelist. He was born in 13 Deerpark Gardens, on Tollcross Road, opposite the park, though he moved to Dennistoun when he was two.
Susan Baird (1949- ) represented Braidfauld from 1974 and was Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1988 and 1992. She lives in the constituency.
Kay Carmichael Social activist who lived on benefits in the area for a short time to find out about the conditions.
References
External links
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/YourCouncil/Council_Committees/Councillors/ward45.htm gives a Council factsheet on Braidfauld.
http://edina.ac.uk/stat-acc-scot/ - click ‘browse scanned pages’ then search for « Barony » to see a facsimile of the Reverend Mr John Burns’ account for the First Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–99)
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/glasgow/carmyle_kenmuir.htm - gives an extract from ‘Rambles Round Glasgow’ (1854) by MacDonald
http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/ - for photographs and histories of the great houses on the Clyde (that is, Easterhill, Dalbeth, Westthorn and Belvidere)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071001032003/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gordon.adams1/GlasgowHistory/Books/ - for many resources on the history of Tollcross and Dalbeth
http://www.hopkirk.org/hopkirk/Page122321.html - a family history site, containing a portrait an information on Thomas Hopkirk of Dalbeth
https://web.archive.org/web/20090201124315/http://www.davidbryce.org.uk/intro.html - a site dedicated to the architect of Tollcross House.
Paintings by John Quinton Pringle can be viewed on:-
http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collections
http://www.tate.org.uk/
https://web.archive.org/web/20060213210824/http://www.culture.gov.uk/about_dcms/gac.htm
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Burt, John ‘Working Class Housing in Glasgow’ in S D Chapman (ed) ‘The History of Working Class Housing’ David and Charles 1971.
Corporation of Glasgow ‘Short Account of the Municipal Undertakings of the City of Glasgow.’ 1938
Corporation of Glasgow Housing Department ‘Review of Operations 1919 - 1937’ (1937)
Damer, Seàn & Hartstone, Linda ‘A Social History of Glasgow Housing 1919 to 1965’ Appendix III Articles, from Déviance et Société Vol 15 No 3 pp 293–299 1991
Damer, Seàn ‘From Moorpark to "Wine Alley"- the rise and fall of a Glasgow housing scheme.’ Edinburgh Education and Society Series, Edinburgh 1989. / 0 85224 657 9 pbk
Gibb, Andrew ‘The Development of Public Sector Housing in Glasgow’ (University of Glasgow, 1982)
Gibb, Andrew ‘Glasgow: the making of a city’ (1983)
Jury, A. G., Housing Centenary: A Review of Municipal Housing in Glasgow from 1866 to 1966,(Glasgow, 1966).
McLellan, D (ed) ‘No Mean City to Miles Better’ (1988)
Mooney, Gerry ‘Living in the periphery: housing, industrial change and the state’ (1988 - unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow; copy Mitchell Library Glagow ref f363.50941443 MOO).
Niven, D ‘The Development of Public Housing in Scotland’ Croom Helm (London 1979)
Pacione, Michael ‘Housing Policies in Glasgow since 1880’ Geographical Review Vol. 69 No.1 (Copy in Mitchell Library Glasgow ref GC f 363.5094 1443 PAC H)
Pacione, M., Glasgow, The Socio-Spatial Development of the city,(Chichester, 1995).
Smith, John G and Mitchell, John O ‘The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry’ 2nd ed 1878)
Strathclyde Regional Archivist ‘Housing in 20th Century Glasgow: Documents 1914-1990s’ from Housing in Glasgow - plans, studies and datasets.
Williamson, Elizabeth, Ritches, Anne & Higgs, Malcolm ‘The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow’ Penguin Books in association with the National Trust for Scotland 1990
Worsdall, Frank ‘The Tenement - a way of life. A social, historical and architectural study of housing in Glasgow’ W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh 1979
Other resources
BBC Scotland/ Carmichael, Kay - three-part documentary on the Lilybank scheme, Glasgow 1977 (BBC archives)
Areas of Glasgow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braidfauld |
Edward Ernest (Ernie) Courtney (January 20, 1875 – February 29, 1920) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Beaneaters (), Baltimore Orioles (), New York Highlanders (), Detroit Tigers () and Philadelphia Phillies (-). Courtney batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa.
Career
In a six-season career, Courtney posted a .245 batting average with five home runs and 200 RBI in 558 games played. He led the National League in games played in .
External links
Baseball Almanac
Ernie Courtney
Baseball Reference
Baltimore Orioles (1901–02) players
Boston Beaneaters players
Detroit Tigers players
New York Highlanders players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Major League Baseball third basemen
Baseball players from Des Moines, Iowa
1875 births
1920 deaths
Watsonville Hayseeds players
Watsonville Gardiners players
San Francisco A's players
Stockton Wasps players
Sacramento Senators players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Providence Grays (minor league) players
Memphis Turtles players
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The fauna of Madagascar is a part of the wildlife of Madagascar.
Madagascar has been an isolated island for about 70 million years, breaking away from Africa around 165 million years ago, then from India nearly 100 million years later. This isolation led to the development of a unique endemic fauna.
Before humans arrived about 2,000 years ago, there were many large and unusual animals living there, descended from species that were originally present when Madagascar became an island, or from species that later crossed the sea to Madagascar. Ecological niches were often filled by animals with quite different histories from those on the African mainland, often leading to convergent evolution. A large proportion of these endemic Malagasy animals have died out since the arrival of humans, most particularly the megafauna.
Despite this, and massive deforestation, Madagascar is still home to an incredible array of wildlife, the vast majority of which is unique in the world. Madagascar is a primary spot for ecotourism, with more than fifty national parks and other protected reserves.
There are believed to have been only four colonization events of terrestrial mammals from mainland Africa. They brought to Madagascar the ancestors of its tenrecs, lemurs, carnivorans and nesomyine rodents. The other mammalian colonizations were those of the amphibious hippopotamuses (now extinct) and bats.
Mammals
The lemurs are the best known of Madagascar's mammals. They can only be found on Madagascar. In the absence of monkeys and other competitors, these primates have adapted to a wide range of habitats and diversified into numerous species. The tenrecs are another group of mammals characteristic of Madagascar. Most of the world's species of these small to medium-sized insectivores are found on the island. Rodents are poorly represented on the island with only a handful of native species, all belonging to the subfamily Nesomyinae. They include the large, endangered Malagasy giant rat. Due to their ability to fly, a greater variety of bats have reached the island. However, only about a third of these are endemic, a lower proportion than in other groups of land mammals. There are eight members of the Carnivora on the island, all now classified in the endemic family Eupleridae. The cat-like fossa is the largest of these.
Malagasy living mammals
Lemurs: As of 2008, there are officially 99 species and subspecies of lemur, 39 of which have been described by zoologists between 2000 and 2008. Of the 51 species that were evaluated by the IUCN that year, 43 were categorized as threatened to some degree, with six species being classified as "Critically Endangered", the designation of highest risk. The evaluations became considerably more pessimistic in 2012.
Eupleridae: Primary among these malagasy carnivores is the fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), an animal similar in appearance to a feline. Other Malagasy carnivores include the fanaloka (Fossa fossana), which, despite its scientific name, should not be confused with the fossa. Nor should it be confused with the very similarly named falanouc (Eupleres goudotii), also known as the Malagasy small-toothed civet. Five species of mongoose are also found in Madagascar, as is the small Indian civet, one of the carnivores believed to have been introduced to the island.
Tenrecidae: Three species of tenrec (the otter shrews) are found on the African mainland. The majority of tenrecs, around 30 species, are found in Madagascar. They have radiated into many different niches. For example, web-footed tenrecs (Limnogale mergulus) resemble river otters in appearance and behaviour. The lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) resembles its namesake the hedgehog.
Rodents: About 30 species of indigenous rodent are known from Madagascar, three of which are now extinct. They are all members of the muroid subfamily Nesomyinae. These have also radiated into various niches, with vole-like forms, arboreal mice, fossorial varieties, and rabbit-like forms.
Bats: Approximately 69 species of bat are known from Madagascar, more than half of which are endemic to the island (see List of bats of Madagascar).
Malagasy extinct mammals
Plesiorycteropus (P. germainepetterae, P. madagascariensis): One or two species of mysterious aardvark-like tenrec relatives that may have gone extinct about 1000 years ago.
Giant lemurs: At least 17 species of lemur have become extinct since man arrived on Madagascar, all of which were larger than the surviving lemur species. They include the giant aye-aye, three to five times as heavy as the extant species. Megaladapis, which had three species, reached the size of orangutans. The eight sloth lemurs show evolutionary convergence with the South American sloths; Palaeopropithecus was chimpanzee-sized, while Archaeoindris grew to over 200 kg, more massive than a silverback gorilla.
Giant fossa (Cryptoprocta spelea): The fossil record of Madagascar has yielded the remains of a recently extinct fossa which was about a quarter larger than the living species, making it close to the size of an ocelot. This species was believed to have preyed upon the larger lemurs that inhabited Madagascar until the island was settled by man.
Malagasy hippopotamuses: There are thought to have been three species of dwarf or pygmy hippopotamus in Madagascar, the last of which died out no earlier than 1,000 years ago, probably as a result of human settlement of the island.
Birds
About 280 species of bird have been recorded on Madagascar and about 200 of these breed. Although these are relatively low numbers for a large tropical island, there is a high degree of endemism. Over 100 bird species are endemic and 49 of these are restricted-range endemics with a range of less than 50,000 km2. There are five bird families unique to Madagascar or shared only with the Comoro Islands: the mesites, the ground-rollers, the cuckoo-roller, the asities and the vangas. In addition, recent studies suggest that several songbirds should be grouped together in a new endemic family: the Malagasy warblers.
Elephant birds (e.g. Aepyornis maximus) were flightless ratites up to over three metres tall and half a tonne in weight. Genetic studies have revealed that their closest living relatives are the kiwi of New Zealand, rather than the nearby ostriches of Africa; i.e., their presence on the island appears to be due to long-range dispersal rather than vicariance. They are thought to have become extinct within the last millennium, as a result of human activity. Other endemic birds that have disappeared since human settlement of the island include the Malagasy lapwing and Malagasy shelduck.
Reptiles
Relatively few families and genera of reptile have reached Madagascar but they have diversified into more than 260 species, with over 90% of these being endemic. The chameleons are very well represented with two-thirds of the world's species found there. The other lizard groups on Madagascar are the geckoes, skinks, girdle-tailed lizards and iguanids. Over 60 different snakes occur on the island; none of these are harmful to man. There are six land tortoises species, five endemics and one introduced species (Bell's hinge-back tortoise). Land based turtles include the African helmeted turtle, yellow-bellied mud turtle and East African black mud turtle. The shores are used for nesting by the loggerhead sea turtle, green sea turtle and hawksbill sea turtle while the olive ridley sea turtle forages here. Madagascar's largest reptile is the Nile crocodile which has become very rare due to hunting for its skin. Endemic voay (V. robustus) became extinct.
Madagascar is a stronghold for a wide diversity of endemic species of chameleons and is considered the radiation point for day geckos. The two genera of iguanas present have a basal relationship to other iguanas and are believed to have been present on the island since it separated from Africa. The Madagascar big-headed turtle, spider tortoise, flat-backed spider tortoise, radiated tortoise and ploughshare tortoise are endangered species.
Chameleon genera found in Madagascar: Calumma, Furcifer and Brookesia
Iguanian (or iguanid) lizard genera of Madagascar: Chalarodon and Oplurus
Amphibians
There are more than 290 amphibian species in Madagascar with new species being found regularly. Nearly all of these are endemic and the majority are restricted to primary forest. Examples of well-known amphibian species found in Madagascar include tomato frog and golden mantella frog.
Freshwater fish
Madagascar has a rich freshwater fish fauna with a very high rate of endemics. The full diversity is unclear, as new species are being described regularly and species may have disappeared before even being discovered; estimates suggest the island has between 135 and 150 native fish species that are restricted to freshwater (this number grows significantly if including widespread euryhaline species). Among these are two families entirely restricted to Madagascar, the anchariid catfish and the Madagascar rainbowfish. Additionally, several genera are endemic to Madagascar, including cichlids (Katria, Oxylapia, Paratilapia, Paretroplus, Ptychochromis and Ptychochromoides), round herrings (Sauvagella and Spratellomorpha), Old World silverside (Teramulus), sleeper gobies (Ratsirakia and the troglobitic Typhleotris), and aplocheilid killifish (Pachypanchax – strictly speaking near-endemic, as there is a single species from the Seychelles). There are endemic species from other genera (notably Ambassis, Arius, Eleotris, Glossogobius, Kuhlia, Mesopristes, Ophiocara, Pantanodon and Sicyopterus), but these also have other species found elsewhere.
The geographic history of Madagascar (long isolated, but part of Gondwana) has resulted in unusual biogeographic patterns, comparable to those seen in other animal and plant groups of the island. For example, the closest relatives of the Madagascar rainbowfish are the "true" rainbowfish of New Guinea and Australia,<ref>Sparks; and Smith (2004). 'Phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and Australasian rainbowfishes (Teleostei: Melanotaenioidei): Gondwanan vicariance and evolution in freshwater. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33(3): 719–734.</ref> while the killifish Pachypanchax and the cichlids Paretroplus have their closest relatives in South Asia.
The freshwater fish fauna in Madagascar has declined drastically due to habitat loss (pollution, siltation following deforestation, damming and alike), overfishing and introduced species (tilapia, Nile perch, African arowana, blotched snakehead, green swordtail and many other), with some suggesting that only a remnant of the natives can be saved. Among species already believed to be extinct are Pantanodon madagascariensis and Ptychochromis onilahy.
Invertebrates
Oligochaeta
Thirty-eight species of earthworms are recorded in seven families, i.e. the Megascolecidae, Kynotidae (giant earthworms; endemic family with a single genus), Acanthodrilidae, Eudrilidae, Ocneodrilidae, Octochaetidae and Glossoscolecidae. Among the species reported 59% are endemic.
Insects
Madagascar is home to huge variety of insects, the majority of which are endemic. Thousands of species are present in some groups such as the beetles and moths. There are approximately 100,000 species of insects and counting in Madagascar. Distinctive species include the long-necked giraffe weevil, the huge comet moth and the butterfly-like Madagascan sunset moth. About 80 species of stick insect occur; the Achrioptera species are large and colourful while others are small and very well-camouflaged. Many of the island's praying mantises are also well-camouflaged, mimicking dead leaves or bark. There are over 100 cockroaches, including the large hissing cockroaches.
The mosquitoes of Madagascar include 235 species, among which 138 (59%) are endemic and 64 (27%) have a known medical or veterinary interest because they can transmit diseases.
Beetles: Various species of beetles. For example, various tiger beetles (Cicindelidae): 109 species from genus Pogonostoma, 65 species from genus Physodeutera.
Madagascar is home to the smallest bee in the World, Liotrigona bitika (Brooks & Michener 1988) with a body length of less than 2 mm, and to several other species of Meliponini.
Spiders
Darwin's bark spider was discovered in 2009. It is famous for making the strongest and largest spider webs (ranging from 900 – 28000 square centimetres). The silk produced by this spider is twice as strong as other common spider silk.
Molluscs
Freshwater crustaceans
Madagascar is home to several endemic freshwater crustaceans, including 17 species of potamonautid crabs (Boreas, Foza, Hydrothelphusa, Madagapotamon, Malagasya, Marojejy and Skelosophusa), 7 species of parastacid crayfish (Astacoides), and atyid shrimp.Cumberlidge (2008). Insular species of Afrotropical freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae and Potamidae) with special reference to Madagascar and the Seychelles. Contributions to Zoology 77(2): 71–81.Cumberlidge, Klaus, Meyer & Koppin (2015). New collections of freshwater crabs from northern Madagascar, with the description of a new species of Foza Reed & Cumberlidge, 2006 (Brachyura, Potamonautidae), and comments on their conservation status. European Journal of Taxonomy 109: 1–15.
Marine life
The seas around Madagascar host a high diversity of wildlife, including invertebrates. There is a still a large area of mangrove swamp around the coast, particularly in the west, and there are extensive coral reefs around the island. Thousands of fish species occur, including the rare coelacanth. Four species of sea turtle breed on the beaches, but many are taken for food by local people. For whales, humpback whales breed off the south-western coasts such as at Île Sainte-Marie, Omura's whales notably around Nosy Be, pygmy blue whales on the Madagascar Plateau, and southern right whales slowly increasing along Malagasy coasts.
Malagasy faunal names
Fish
Selected Malagasy fish names:Bauchot, M-L. & G. Bianchi 1984. Guide de poisons commerciaux de Madagascar (espèces marines et d’eaux saumâtres). Rome : FAO.Richmond, M.D. 2002. A field guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands (2nd ed). Milan: SIDA/SAREC – University of Dar es Salaam.
gogo: Arius spp.
mahalogy: Caesio spp.
tsenaby: Cheilio inermislemeleme: Coris formosalanora: Elagatis bipinnulataalovo: Epinephelus fasciatus, Epinephelus coeruleopunctatusangoa, vohy: Euthynnus affinistserakantsiva: Fistularia petimbaambariake: Gerres oyenasoavahindriaka: Hippocampus cf. borboniensisndwaro: Istiophorus platypterusfiambondis (?): Labroides dimidiatustapaporoha: Lethrinus harakambitsy: Lethrinus nebulosusromanjia: Lethrinus variegatustsivaravana: Lutjanus boharamposama: Lutjanus fulviflammafiamasika: Lutjanus kasmirandwaro: Makaira indicakipela, talatala: Monodactylus argenteusamgelika: Monotaxis grandoculisdangiara, filao papango: Platax orbicularisfiandolo, lafalovo: Plotosus lineatusbodoloha: Pseudanthias squamipinnislemilemy: Pseudochromis dutoitisabonto: Rastrelliger kanagurtasoroboa: Rhynchobatus djiddensismaro taobana: Sardinella albellalamatra, talafeta: Scomberomorus commersonlamatra: Scomberomorus plurilineatusakihoviko: Sphyrna spp.
drihy, tsarabora: Terapon jarbualemeleme: Thalassoma hebraicumsampramale, vivano: Variola loutifiam'akoho: Zanclus cornutusMammals
Extinct megafauna
Birds
Vorompatra: AepyornisLemurs
Tratratratra, tretretretre: probably Palaeopropithecus (a type of sloth lemur)
Tokandia: probably Megaladapis (koala lemur)
Kidoky: Hadropithecus or Archaeolemur (monkey lemurs, baboon lemurs)
Others
Kilopilopitsofy, tsomgomby, railalomena: Malagasy hippopotamus
Antamba: Cryptoprocta spelea or similar
Habitat loss
Most of Madagascar's habitats are in danger; they are being threatened by today's demands and growing needs. Environmental damage has been especially severe for humid forests. Fauna and Flora International, abbreviated as FFI is one of the organizations that supports Madagascar's habitats.
In popular culture
As a part of conservation efforts, the Wildlife Conservation Society has recently opened a Madagascar! exhibit at the Bronx Zoo.
The 2005 animated film Madagascar'' featured a number of animals of Madagascar as cartoon characters.
See also
Madagascar Fauna Group
List of mammals of Madagascar
Wildlife of Madagascar
References
External links
Large database of local names of fauna of Madagascar with English and scientific names
Moravec J. (2010): Tiger Beetles of the Madagascan Region (Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarenes, and other islands) Taxonomic revision of the 17 genera occurring in the region (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae),430 pp.
Madagascar and other Islands: Human Settlers Invade Paradise
New York Academy of Sciences Podcast | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna%20of%20Madagascar |
Cochrane–Orcutt estimation is a procedure in econometrics, which adjusts a linear model for serial correlation in the error term. Developed in the 1940s, it is named after statisticians Donald Cochrane and Guy Orcutt.
Theory
Consider the model
where is the value of the dependent variable of interest at time t, is a column vector of coefficients to be estimated, is a row vector of explanatory variables at time t, and is the error term at time t.
If it is found, for instance via the Durbin–Watson statistic, that the error term is serially correlated over time, then standard statistical inference as normally applied to regressions is invalid because standard errors are estimated with bias. To avoid this problem, the residuals must be modeled. If the process generating the residuals is found to be a stationary first-order autoregressive structure, , with the errors {} being white noise, then the Cochrane–Orcutt procedure can be used to transform the model by taking a quasi-difference:
In this specification the error terms are white noise, so statistical inference is valid. Then the sum of squared residuals (the sum of squared estimates of ) is minimized with respect to , conditional on .
Inefficiency
The transformation suggested by Cochrane and Orcutt disregards the first observation of a time series, causing a loss of efficiency that can be substantial in small samples. A superior transformation, which retains the first observation with a weight of was first suggested by Prais and Winsten, and later independently by Kadilaya.
Estimating the autoregressive parameter
If is not known, then it is estimated by first regressing the untransformed model and obtaining the residuals {}, and regressing on , leading to an estimate of and making the transformed regression sketched above feasible. (Note that one data point, the first, is lost in this regression.) This procedure of autoregressing estimated residuals can be done once and the resulting value of can be used in the transformed y regression, or the residuals of the residuals autoregression can themselves be autoregressed in consecutive steps until no substantial change in the estimated value of is observed.
It has to be noted, though, that the iterative Cochrane–Orcutt procedure might converge to a local but not global minimum of the residual sum of squares. This problem disappears when using the Prais–Winsten transformation instead, which keeps the initial observation.
See also
Hildreth–Lu estimation
Newey–West estimator
Prais–Winsten estimation
Feasible generalized least squares
References
Further reading
External links
by Mark Thoma.
Autocorrelation
Curve fitting
Regression with time series structure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane%E2%80%93Orcutt%20estimation |
Ethephon is a plant growth regulator.
Mechanism of action
Upon metabolism by the plant, it is converted into ethylene, a potent regulator of plant growth and ripeness. It is also a butyrylcholinesterase inhibitor.
Uses in various crops
Ethephon often used on wheat, coffee, tobacco, cotton, and rice in order to help the plant's fruit reach ripeness more quickly.
Cotton is the most important single crop use for ethephon. It initiates fruiting over a period of several weeks, promotes early concentrated boll opening, and enhances defoliation to facilitate and improve efficiency of scheduled harvesting. Harvested cotton quality is improved.
Ethephon also is widely used by pineapple growers to initiate reproductive development (force) of pineapple. Ethephon is also sprayed on mature-green pineapple fruits to degreen them to meet produce marketing requirements. There can be some detrimental effect on fruit quality.
The toxicity of ethephon is very low, and any ethephon used on the plant is converted very quickly to ethylene.
The use of this chemical is allowed in the European Union.
References
Phosphonic acids
Organochlorides
Chloroethyl compounds | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethephon |
Alex Duthart (7 October 1925 – 27 November 1986) was a Scottish drummer. He is widely regarded as having revolutionised pipe band snare drum playing.
Life
Duthart was born on 7 October 1925 in Cambusnethan, near Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. His father John Duthart was an Ulsterman who worked as a blacksmith, and had played both the bass and snare drums for the 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the First World War.
For most of his life Duthart lived in Newmains, near where he was born, and worked as a blacksmith in the steel works at Motherwell.
With his wife Cathie he had three sons and one daughter. Two of his children are drummers; Drew Duthart is the leading drummer of the 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band and John Duthart is a kit drummer.
Duthart was awarded the title of Drum Major by the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association for being the principal drumming instructor in the association.
Band career
After being taught by his father from a young age, Alex joined the Craigneuk Parish Church Juvenile pipe band at the age of 12, and then the Home Guard Pipe Band (later known as the Dalzell Highland Pipe Band) in 1942. His elder brother John also played the pipes in the Home Guard band.
Alex became leading drummer of the Dalzell Highland Pipe Band in 1949, and led the Dalzell band to first place for drumming at the World Pipe Band Championships in 1953. Later that year he left Dalzell to focus on playing the drum kit for local big bands.
In 1957, John K. McAllister, pipe major of Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band, approached Duthart to request assistance with the formation of a drum corps, with the World Championships twelve weeks away. Duthart managed to create a drum corps that won the drumming title at the Worlds that year, and Shotts also won the overall title, as it did in 1958, 1959 and 1960.
Duthart stayed with Shotts until 1982, with the exception of the years 1964 to 1967, when he led the Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band, and 1968 to 1969, when he led the Edinburgh City Police Pipe Band. With both of those bands Duthart won the drumming title at the World Championships, in 1966 and 1967 with Invergordon Distillery, and with Edinburgh Police in 1968. Duthart was succeeded as leading drummer of Shotts by Willie Stevenson, who led the Shotts drumming corps to first place at the Worlds in 1969. After this, Stevenson invited Duthart to return as leading drummer, with Duthart leading the band to first place again in 1970.
In 1982, Duthart joined the British Caledonian Airways Pipe Band, while playing for this band he suffered a fatal heart attack while lined up to play in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on 27 November 1986.
Musical style
Duthart pioneered a new style of pipe band drumming at a time when pipe bands were becoming more adventurous in their musical selections. Duthart was also known for his drum salutes, introducing elements such as back-sticking and stick clicking to pipe band drumming.
He cited as musical influences Alex D. Hamilton, a drum major in the Seaforth Highlanders, Jimmy Catherwood, leading drummer of the Dalzell Highland Pipe Band at the time Alex joined, Paddy Donovan, a pipe band drummer from Dublin, and Alex McCormick of the Glasgow Police Pipe Band. Duthart met Dr. Fritz Berger from Switzerland, embracing the Basel style of drumming as well as the Swiss-style snare drum notation, utilizing non-mainstream notation of using only one line, with right hand stickings written above and left hand stickings written below that line. He also listened to jazz, and met and exchanged ideas with Joe Morello.
Teaching
Alex was engaged in teaching all around the world, giving classes and demonstrations as well as co-authoring two tutorial books on pipe-band drumming under his own name, containing many drum scores, variations of which are still played today.
Among his pupils was Jim Kilpatrick, former leading drummer of Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia and sixteen-time winner of the World Solo Drumming Championships, and his son Drew Duthart, the current leading drummer of 78th Fraser Highlanders Pipe Band.
References
External links
1925 births
1986 deaths
Scottish drummers
British male drummers
20th-century Scottish musicians
Pipe band drummers
20th-century British drummers
20th-century British male musicians
People from Cambusnethan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Duthart |
Leif Helge Kongshaug (born 31 July 1949 in Averøy) is a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 1997, but not re-elected in 2001. During the second cabinet Bondevik, Kongshaug was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. He was re-elected to a second parliamentary term in 2005.
On the local level he was a member of Averøy municipal council from 1979 to 1997, serving as mayor from 1986.
Outside politics he has worked as a school teacher, counselor and farmer.
References
1949 births
Living people
People from Averøy
Liberal Party (Norway) politicians
Members of the Storting
Norwegian state secretaries
Mayors of places in Møre og Romsdal
21st-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif%20Helge%20Kongshaug |
Vogel and De Vogel are surnames originating in German and Dutch-speaking countries. An alternate spelling is Fogel. Vogel is the German and Dutch word for "bird". Equivalent surnames are Bird or Byrd in English or L'Oiseau in French. Notable people with the surname include:
Academics
Arthur Vogel (chemist) (1905–1966), British chemist
Betsy Vogel Boze (born 1953), American academic and higher education administrator
Cornelia Johanna de Vogel (1905–1986), Dutch classicist, philosopher and theologian
Dan Vogel (born 1955), historian of Mormonism
David Vogel (professor) (born 1949), American political scientist
Detlef Vogel (born 1942), German historian
Eduard Vogel (1829–1856), German astronomer and explorer in Central Africa
Ezra Vogel (1930-2020), American Japanologist and author
Friedrich Vogel (human geneticist) (1925–2006), German human geneticist
Hans Vogel (scientist) (1900–1980), German helminthologist
Hermann Carl Vogel (1841–1907), German astronomer
Hermann Wilhelm Vogel (1834–1898), German photochemist and photographer
J. Ph. Vogel (1871–1958), Dutch Sanskritist and epigraphist
Johann Carl Vogel (1932–2012), South African physicist
Johannes Vogel (botanist) (born 1963), German botanist
Jörg Vogel (born 1967), German biologist
Joseph Vogel (born 1981), American popular culture critic
Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel (1812–1841), German botanist
Klaus Vogel (1930–2007), German legal scholar
Kurt Vogel (historian) (1888–1985), German historian of mathematics
Louis Vogel (born 1954), French jurist and professor
Marcel Vogel (1917–1991), American inventor and esotericist
Michelle Vogel (born 1972), Australian-born film historian, author and editor
Orville Vogel (1907–1991), American biologist
Stefanie N. Vogel (born 1951), American physician-scientist, microbiologist, and immunologist
Steven K. Vogel (born 1951), American political scientist, son of Ezra
Steven Vogel (1940–2015), American biomechanics researcher
Thomas Vogel (historian) (born 1959), German military historian
Wolfgang Vogel (mathematician) (1940–1996), German mathematician
Arts
Poetry
Johann Vogel (1589—1663), German poet
Music
Allan Vogel (born 1944), American oboist
Cristian Vogel (born 1972), British experimental electronic musician
Edith Vogel (1912–1992), Austro-Hungarian classical pianist active in the UK
Eric Vogel (1896–1980), Czech jazz trumpeter
Harald Vogel (born 1941), German organist and author
Janet Vogel (1941–1980), American pop singer
Jaroslav Vogel (1894–1970), Czech conductor
Johann Vogel (composer) (1756–1788), German composer
Karsten Vogel (born 1943), Danish composer
Lars Vogel (born 1982), Dutch metal musician and known as Lars NachtBraecker in Heidevolk
Roger Craig Vogel (born 1947), American composer
Sam Vogel (born 1993), American DJ and music producer known as Jauz
Scott Vogel (born 1973), American rock singer
Seja Vogel (born 1981), German-Australian singer-songwriter
Siegfried Vogel (born 1937), German operatic bass
Tyson Vogel (born 1981), American rock musician
Vic Vogel (1935–2019), Canadian jazz musician
Winston Dan Vogel (born 1943), Israeli-born American conductor
Wladimir Vogel (1896–1984), Russian-born Swiss composer
Performing arts
Albert Vogel (1874–1933), Dutch officer, teacher and performer
Amos Vogel (1921–2012), Austrian-born American film critic
Darlene Vogel (born 1962), American actress
Ellen Vogel (1922–2015), Dutch television, film and stage actress
Franz Vogel (1883–1956), German film producer
Frederic B. Vogel (1925–2005), American theater producer and actor
Friedemann Vogel (born 1979), German ballet dancer
Henry Vogel (1863–1925), American actor and bass-baritone singer
Jürgen Vogel (born 1968), German actor, screenwriter and film producer
Matt Vogel (puppeteer) (born 1970), American puppeteer
Mike Vogel (born 1979), American actor
Mitch Vogel (born 1956), American actor
Nicolas Vogel (1925–2006), French actor and comedian
Nikolas Vogel (1932–1991), Austrian-German film actor and camera man
Paul C. Vogel (1899–1975), American cinematographer
Paula Vogel (born 1951), American playwright
Peter Vogel (actor) (1937–1978), German film actor
Rudolf Vogel (1900–1967), German film and television actor
Tony Vogel (1942-2015), English actor
Virgil W. Vogel (1919–1996), American television and film director
Visual arts
Arthur Vogel (photographer) (1868–1962), German merchant, photographer and publisher
Bernhard Vogel (engraver) (1683–1737), German engraver
Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788–1868), German painter
Christa Frieda Vogel (born 1960), German photographer
Christian Leberecht Vogel (1759–1816), German painter, draughtsman and writer on art
Dorothy Vogel (born 1935), American art collector
Franck Vogel (born 1977), French photojournalist and documentary film director
Herbert Vogel (1922-2012), American art collector
Hermann Vogel (French illustrator) (1856–1918), German-born French painter
Hermann Vogel (German illustrator) (1854–1921), German illustrator
Hugo Vogel (1855–1934), German painter
Johannes Gijsbert Vogel (1828–1915), Dutch landscape painter
Kate Vogel (born 1958), American studio glass artist
Lillie Lewisohn Vogel (1876-1976), American art collector, philanthropist, and socialite
Ludwig Vogel (1788–1879), Swiss painter
Peter Vogel (artist) (1937–2017), German sound artist
Speed Vogel (1918–2008), American sculptor and painter
Zygmunt Vogel (1764–1826), Polish illustrator and painter
Business
August H. Vogel (1862-1930), American businessman
Frederick Vogel (1823–1892), German-born American tanner and businessman
Jeff Vogel (born 1970), American video game developer and entrepreneur
John W. Vogel (1863–1951), American white minstrel-show entrepreneur
Joseph Vogel (executive) (1895–1969), American executive, president of MGM
Paul Bernard Vogel (1899-1972), Swiss industrialist
Military
Clayton Barney Vogel (1882–1964), American Marine Corps general
Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein (1797–1885), Prussian general
Emil Vogel (1894–1985), German World War II general
Kurt Vogel (German officer) (1889-1967), German military officer
Politics and law
Bernhard Vogel (born 1932), German Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia
Bob Vogel (politician) (born 1951), America (Minnesota) politician
Bruce Vogel (born 1958), American (Minnesota) politician
Carl M. Vogel (1955–2016), American (Missouri) politician
Charles Joseph Vogel (1898–1980), American judge
Elder Vogel (born 1956), American Pennsylvania state politician
Frank A. Vogel (1888–1951), American North Dakota politician and banker
Georg Wilhelm Vogel (1743–1813), German jurist and mayor of Jena
Hans Vogel (1881–1945), German politician
Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926–2020), German politician
Hugo E. Vogel (1888–1974), American (Wisconsin) politician
Hunter Vogel (1903–1990), Canadian (British Columbian) politician
Jill Vogel (born 1970), American politician and lawyer
Johannes Vogel (born 1982), German politician
Julius Vogel (1835–1899), New Zealand politician and Prime Minister
Mel Vogel (1848–?), German-born American (California) politician
Robert Vogel (US politician) (1919–2005), Justice on the North Dakota Supreme Court (son of Frank A. Vogel)
Otto A. Vogel (1886–1951), American (Wisconsin) politician
Sarah Vogel (born 1946), North Dakota politician and lawyer (granddaughter of Frank A. Vogel)
Volkmar Vogel (born 1959), German politician
William Vogel (1931–2019), Canadian (British Columbia) politician
Wolfgang Vogel (1925–2008), German lawyer
Religion
Arthur A. Vogel (1924–2012), American Episcopal bishop
Catherine Vogel (c. 1460–1539), Polish Jewish martyr
Cyril John Vogel (1905–1979), American Roman Catholic prelate
Hansjörg Vogel (born 1951), Swiss theologian
Pierre Vogel (born 1978), German Islamist preacher and boxer
Sports
Bob Vogel (born 1941), American football player
Daniel Vogel (born 1991), Mexican footballer
Eberhard Vogel (born 1943), German footballer
Florian Vogel (cyclist) (born 1982), Swiss racing cyclist
Florian Vogel (swimmer) (born 1994), German swimmer
Frank Vogel (born 1973), American professional basketball coach
Gary Vogel (born 1956), American soccer defender
Heiko Vogel (born 1975), German football manager
Joe Vogel (born 1973), American-Lebanese basketball player
Johann Vogel (born 1977), Swiss football midfielder
Justin Vogel (born 1993), American football punter
Kristina Vogel (born 1990), German track cyclist
Markus Vogel (born 1984), Swiss alpine ski racer
Marvin Vogel (born 1985), Zimbabwean cricketer
Matt Vogel (swimmer) (born 1957), American swimmer
Nick Vogel (born 1990), American volleyball player
Otto Vogel (1899–1969), American baseball player
Peter Vogel (cyclist) (born 1939), Swiss cyclist
Peter Vogel (footballer) (born 1952), German footballer
Pia Vogel (born 1969), Swiss rower
Rémy Vogel (1960–2016), French football defender
Renate Vogel (born 1955), East German swimmer
Richard Vogel (born 1964), Czech tennis player
Robert Vogel (marksman) (born 1981), American sport shooter
Sam Vogel (boxer) (1902–?), American Olympic boxer
Sigfrido Vogel (1912–?), Argentine sports shooter
Sydne Vogel (born 1979), American figure skater
Ted Vogel (1925–2019), American marathon runner
Thomas Vogel (born 1965), German football coach and player
Thomas Vogel (born 1967), German footballer
Timothy Vogel (born 1960), New Zealand cricketer
Turia Vogel (born 1969), Cook Islands windsurfer
Wouter de Vogel (born 1990), Dutch footballer
Writing
Alfred Vogel (1902–1996), Swiss herbalist and writer
Bruno Vogel (1898–1987), German pacifist and writer
Dan Vogel (born 1955), American author on Mormonism
David Vogel (author) (1891–1944), Russian-born Hebrew poet, novelist, and diarist
Debora Vogel (1902–1942), Polish philosopher and poet
Eduard Vogel (1829–1856), German explorer
Elise (Vogel) Polko (1822–1899), German novelist, sister of Eduard
Henriette Vogel (1780–1811), German muse of the poet Heinrich von Kleist
Ilse-Margret Vogel (1914–2001), German-American author
Kenneth P. Vogel (born 1975), American journalist
Nicole Vogel, American magazine publisher and author
Nikolai Vogel (born 1971), German writer
Other
Anita Vogel (born 1969), American television reporter
Elise Vogel (1895–?), Latvian chess player
Peter Vogel (banker) (born 1954), Polish murderer and later banker
Peter Vogel (computer designer) (born 1954), Australian inventor and technologist
Willem Thomas de Vogel (18681955), Dutch-Indonesian physician and official
Fictional characters
Alex Vogel, a fictional character in the 2015 film The Martian (film)
Burgomaster Vogel, a fictional character in the films Frankenstein (1931 film) and Bride of Frankenstein
Christopher Vogel, a fictional character in the Fablehaven novels by Brandon Mull
Colonel Vogel, fictional character in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Evelyn Vogel, a fictional character introduced in the eighth season of Dexter
Dane Vogel, a fictional character in the 2008 video game Saints Row 2
Lew Vogel, a fictional character in the 2008 film The Bank Job
Mathias Vogel, a fictional character in the 2018 film Tomb Raider
Preston Vogel, a fictional character in the television series Gargoyles (TV series)
Sabine Vogel, a fictional character in the 2017 video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
Verner Vogel, a fictional character in the 2021 video game Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One
Viktor Vogel, titular character of the comedy film Viktor Vogel – Commercial Man
Walter Vogel, a fictional character in the 2009 novel Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George. He also appears in the sequel Princess of the Silver Woods.
Warden Vogel, a fictional character in the television series Futurama''
See also
Fogel
Vogl
Vogle
Vogels
Dutch-language surnames
German-language surnames
Yiddish-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin
Surnames from nicknames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogel%20%28surname%29 |
The Willard House and Clock Museum is a museum located in North Grafton, Massachusetts, United States.
Overview
The Willard House and Clock Museum is located at the former farm homestead of the Willard brothers (Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron). The brothers made clocks there in the late 18th century, before they moved the business to Roxbury, where they became pillars of the emerging American clockmaking industry. The house was built about 1718. It stands in a rural setting, in the middle of a field that was part of the Willard farm back in the 18th century.
Like other contemporaneous horologists, the Willard family originally divided its life seasonally, between farming and the clock workshop. Eventually the business became profitable, at which point the house was further enlarged. While in Grafton, Simon, the most innovative and most famous of the Willard brothers, developed his first so called banjo clock, more properly called the "Willard Patent Timepiece", which was patented in 1802.
Museum founding and history
The museum was founded by Dr. Roger W. Robinson and his wife Imogene, collectors of Willard clocks, after they were able to acquire the Willard homestead. For a period in the late 1990s the museum was administered by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, but soon was turned into an independent foundation again, governed by a board made up of representatives of the Willard family, the founding couple, the local community and some horological experts.
The original homestead farmhouse have been added to in recent years and in addition to the original rooms there are now two large galleries. The museum has over 80 Willard clocks, representing the craftsmanship of all the members of the family in the horological trade. While there are several clocks signed Grafton, the exhibits include also clocks made later after the Willard clock enterprise had moved on to Roxbury, Massachusetts, now part of Boston.
Besides hosting the world's most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces there are many Willard family memorabilia on display. The original house is furnished with period furniture, and in the reconstructed workshop building there is a small collection of historic horological tools in a display showing what Simon Willard's original workshop may have looked like. The majority of clocks are shown in running condition.
There is a small gift shop, and the museum has a small Willard-centric library open to museum members by appointment.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts
References
External links
Willard House and Clock Museum
Museums on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Horological museums in the United States
Biographical museums in Massachusetts
Historic house museums in Massachusetts
Museums in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Grafton, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Worcester County, Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%20House%20and%20Clock%20Museum |
In mathematics and statistics, an error term is an additive type of error. Common examples include:
errors and residuals in statistics, e.g. in linear regression
the error term in numerical integration
Error measures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20term |
Clane GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of 17 Kildare county senior football championships, 16 county senior hurling championships and Kildare club of the year in 1975. Clane players are credited with bringing the handpass into Gaelic football. Richard Cribben was regarded as one of the best players in the game in the 1890s and played on the international team that played England at Stamford Bridge in 1896. Pa Connolly (a Cuchulainn All-Star award winner in 1963) and Tommy Carew featured on the Kildare football team of the millennium. Martin Lynch was an All Stars Award winner in 1991.
History
Clane town sports pre-date the GAA, those of 12 June 1884 on a field opposite the Dispensary House being reported as "ayquel to Punchestown" by the Leinster Leader. Dr O’Connor, organizer of the 1885 sports became first chairman of Kildare county board. A Leinster Leader report in April 1887 claims Clane had ‘the honour of being the first club to be established in County Kildare.’ Clane were first Kildare football champions, a Clongowes Teacher member of the team Professor Crowley was later accredited with having invented the handpass. RIC records from 1890 show that Clane William O'Briens had 50 members with officers listed as CJ O'Connor (who was also first chairman of Kildare county board) John Geoghegan, Maurice Sammon and James Archer. A set of white jerseys from a house rugby team at Clongowes, used by the club after 1901, were used for the 1903 All Ireland final leading to the tradition of Kildare wearing all white as their county colours: the Lily Whites.
Gaelic Football
The Clane-Roseberry duopoly between 1901 and 1910 was responsible for raising standards in Kildare. Eight Clane players Larry ‘Hussey’ Cribbin, Bill Merriman, Ned Kennedy, Joe Rafferty, Jim Wright, Bill Bracken, William ‘Steel’ Losty and Johnny Dunne participated to Kildare’s cathartic twice-replayed home final appearance against Kerry in 1903 and first All Ireland success in 1905. By the time the club was seriously affected by the Irish Civil War, it had won eight county titles. Pa Connolly spearheaded the revival of the 1960s which resulted in three more titles, including the dramatic comeback of 1967 which turned a four-point deficit into a six-point win in the final ten minutes. Martin Lynch was the star of the 1990s when Clane won four more titles in a six-year period. After Clane won the 1997 county championship with nine Kildare players in the line-up they went to the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship final, eventually losing to Erins Isle, and provided six players for the Kildare team that reached the 1998 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final.
Hurling
The decision of Dick Brien to bring a set of hurleys to Clane and the appointment of Wexfordman, John P Lacey, as secretary of the Clane club in 1903 established hurling in the club. Clane went on to win 16 titles before 1922, including a famous comeback against Landenstown from seven points down in 1920. A split in 1922, probably related to the civil war, led to the establishment of Mainham hurling club. In their glory period Clane had lost just two finals, to Maynooth on objection in 1913 and to Celbridge when some of their players were missing in 1921. They returned to senior ranks in the 1990s. David Harney was Kildare club hurler of the year in 2004.
League Champs 2009.
Clane Minor hurling team won the Minor B league on 4 May 2012 defeating Eire Og Choirracoill on a score of 2-15 to 2-05.
Clane won the Kildare Junior Hurling Championship in 2013 beating Naas in the final.
Camogie
The club was founded in 1931 when Bridie Ennis was listed as ‘one of the best players in the county.’ Clane won the county championship in 1939 shortly before the club lapsed and the best players joined Sallins. A team trained by Wexford man Ned Coughlan won the 1953 league and championship, the 1962 senior league, but the club lapsed again 1966-1976. Clane revived in 1976 and won league and championship in 1977 wearing the green gym-slips of the local Scoil Mhuire. They won junior league and championship in 1980 but lapsed in 1983 when the best players joined Prosperous. Geraldine Dwyer and Marianne Johnson were selected on the Kildare camogie team of the century. Clane hosted the final of the 1993 Gael Linn Cup inter-provincial series.
Clane camogie won the Kildare Intermediate final on Sunday 30 September defeating Leixlip on a scoreline of 2-06 to 1-05.
Clane were captained by Sabine Kennedy and managed by 'The Special One' from Cork, Bernard Crowley with the assistance of John Cribbin and Tony O' Grady.
Clane retained the Intermediate Championship in 2013 with a hard fought victory over Leixlip on a scoreline of 4-11 to 3-09. Clane were captained by the veteran Karen O'Reilly with Ciara Herbert as vice captain. Manager this year was Louise Conlon ably assisted by Ciara Smullen and Tony O' Grady. In 2016, the minor camogie team won the Division 1 Minor Cup final with a score of 1-7 to 0-6 against Naas.
Honours
Leinster Senior Club Football Championship Finalists 1997
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (17) 1888, 1892, 1895, 1897, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1916, 1963, 1967, 1975, 1980, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997
Kildare Under-21 'A' Football Championship: (1) 2018
Kildare Minor A Football Championship(1) 2017
Kildare Under-21 'A' Football Shield (1) 2013
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (2) 1940, 1949
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (1) 1929
Kildare Junior B Football Championship: (1) 1977
Kildare Minor A Football League Winners (2) 2015, 2017
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship: (16) 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1922
Kildare Senior Hurling League Winners (1) 2009
Kildare Junior Hurling League Winners (1) 2008
Kildare Junior Hurling Championship: (4) 1915, 1945, 1994, 2013
Kildare Under-21 'B' Hurling Championship: (2) 2018, 2019
Kildare Senior Camogie Championship: (1) 1953
Kildare Intermediate Camogie Championship (3) 2008, 2012, 2013
Kildare Junior Camogie Championship (2) 1977, 1980
Kildare Senior Camogie League: (2) 1953, 1962
Kildare Junior Camogie league: (2) 1976, 1980
Kildare Minor Camogie Division 1 Winners 2016
Kildare Junior C Ladies Football Championship: (1) 2008
Leinster Junior A Ladies Football Championship Finalists: 2014
Bibliography
Clane GAA A Century - A History Of The Club And The People (Clane GAA Club) 1985, 528pp.
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
External links
Kildare GAA site
Kildare Hurling site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Hurling clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare
Clane | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clane%20GAA |
The Ford S-Max (stylized as Ford S-MAX) is a car produced by Ford Europe for the European market. A multi-purpose vehicle (MPV), Ford also describes the S-Max as an SAV (sports activity vehicle). Introduced at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show, the S-Max went on sale alongside the new generation Galaxy in June 2006.
The S-Max is intended to be sporty as a saloon car, and spacious as an MPV. It shows inspiration from the seven-seater large MPV Galaxy, and compact MPV Ford C-Max. The S-Max has received many positive reviews and awards, and was voted European Car of the Year 2007 on 13 November 2006. Ford had plans to sell the S-Max in Japan under the then subsidiary brand Mazda, but they are no longer viable since the latter's split.
The S-Max is set to be discontinued in April 2023 alongside the Ford Galaxy. The Ford Fiesta followed in June 2023.
Features
The S-Max was the first vehicle in Ford's lineup to feature their Kinetic Design styling. The Kinetic Design scheme includes angular headlights, twin trapezoidal grilles, and large wheel arches.
It comes with heated front and back windscreens, parking sensors, aux input and dual climate control as standard. One major selling point of the S-Max is its "Fold Flat System". This design allows the second and third-row seats to fold seamlessly into the floor, leaving extra storage space. Also, the S-Max's second row has 3 individual seats, all with ISO-FIX.
First generation (CD340; 2006)
For the English speaking markets there are three derivatives of the S-Max: Edge, Zetec, and the high-end Titanium. Ford has stated that around sixty percent of all S-Max buyers choose Titanium specification. Continental trim levels are Trend, Titanium and the top-of-the-line Titanium S.
In March 2008, a 2.2L 175 PS TDCi common rail diesel was added to Titanium series and delivers acceleration from 0-62 mph in 9.0 seconds. In September 2008, the popular 2.0 140 PS TDCi manual engine was offered with a CO2 of 159 g/km. The S-Max Trend debuted in China in 2010. The Trend is basically a normal S-Max, but without the back row of seats. The idea is to make it more affordable, and to give more storage space to people who might want it.
Facelift
Powertrain
All S-Maxes use versions of the Duratorq or Duratec engines. The S-Max uses a five-speed or six-speed manual transmission, and a six-speed automatic option.
This vehicle has also been converted to use an aftermarket conversion hybrid powertrain: Langford Performance Engineering 'Whisper' powertrain
New petrol engines for the 2010–2011 models:
1.6 STCi EcoBoost, 6-speed manual, 160 PS
2.0 STCi EcoBoost, Powershift, 203 PS
Engines available for the 2012 models:
1.6T 160 PS EcoBoost (Start/Stop), 6-speed manual
2.0 203 PS EcoBoost, PowerShift auto
2.0 240 PS EcoBoost, PowerShift auto
1.6 TDCi 115 PS (Start/Stop), 6-speed manual
2.0 TDCi 140 PS, 6-speed manual
2.0 TDCi 140 PS, PowerShift auto
2.0 TDCi 163 PS, 6-speed manual
2.0 TDCi 163 PS, PowerShift auto
2.2 TDCi 200 PS, 6-speed manual
2.2 TDCi 200 PS, Automatic
Safety
The Ford S-Max incorporates no breakthrough safety features, but it has received a 5-star/36-point (Best in Class) rating from the Euro NCAP.
The S-Max's safety features include the Intelligent Protection System (IPS) which combines a body structure optimised for strength and crashworthiness with restraint equipment and driver aids that help avoid an accident and features that lessen the likelihood of injuries in an impact. It has many modern airbags, including a knee airbag and a thorax airbag.
S-Max's also have an advanced neck protection system, three point seat belts, optimised pre-tensioners, load limiters, anti-submarining seat subframes, a collapsible steering system and safety pedals. For handling it has an Anti-Lock Braking System (ABS) along with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD) and standard Electronic Stability Program (ESP) system.
Media
The high performance version Ford S-Max was reviewed on Top Gear (Series 8, Episode 7) against the similar spec Vauxhall Zafira and the Mercedes B200. The S-Max was the most affordable, yet was described as having the best interior and exterior, and being the most comfortable. The presenters, James May and Richard Hammond, also considered it to be the most practical. Overall, they praised the car and declared it to be the best value for money out of the three.
Second generation (CD539; 2015)
The second generation was first presented at the 2014 Paris Motor Show.
After its sibling, Ford Galaxy, was being presented at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, the S-Max went on production in late 2015. It comes with the same engines as the Galaxy, Mondeo and Edge, which consist of one diesel (in four states of tune) and two petrols. The 1.5 SCTi Ecoboost has 160 hp, and the 2.0 SCTi has 240 hp; the latter can only be had with the Ford 6F automatic transmission. All the diesels average over 50mpg – the best is the 2.0 TDCi Duratorq 120, which produces 57mpg.
Both the 2.0 TDCi 150 and 180 versions come with either a six-speed manual or the Powershift; the latter can also be specced with AWD. The final model, the Bi-Turbo 2.0 TDCi 210 comes with the Powershift Gearbox only, and hits 0 to 62 in under nine seconds. The trim levels are similar to any Ford, and mirror those found in the Galaxy, Mondeo and Edge, including Zetec, Titanium and Titanium Sport; also an executive spec Vignale is available.
Facelift
Engine specifications
References
External links
S-Max
Euro NCAP large MPVs
Minivans
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 2006
2010s cars
Ford CD4 platform | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20S-Max |
Robert D. Raiford (December 27, 1927 – November 17, 2017) was an American radio broadcaster and actor, best known for his political/social commentaries delivered during The John Boy and Billy Big Show, a morning radio program heard on stations throughout the American South. He was from Concord, North Carolina and majored in communication at the University of South Carolina. Raiford got his start in broadcasting in 1944 by calling play by play at baseball games. His first real radio job was at WEGO (AM) in Concord, North Carolina. Raiford has appeared in 28 movies, often portraying judge characters. He frequently closed his commentaries with the line "Who says that? I say that!", which also served as the title of a book containing excerpts from these segments. Early in his career, Raiford worked for WTOP radio and WTOP-TV, both CBS News affiliates in Washington, D.C. His best-known work was a live radio broadcast on WTOP, a CBS Radio affiliate, covering the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. He also worked at Charlotte radio station WBT, and hosted a show on WIST, which aired Charlotte's first telephone talk radio format. Raiford later taught Communications at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 1978 to 1986, Raiford was a news anchor and talk show host for Charlotte's NBC television affiliate, known as WRET-TV and later WPCQ-TV during his tenure there (it is now WCNC-TV).
On the June 9, 2016, episode of The John Boy and Billy Big Show, John Isley ("John Boy") announced that Raiford had retired from the show, due to suffering a stroke the previous August that greatly affected his speech and mobility. Raiford had not delivered any commentaries during the intervening months, choosing to focus on his recovery instead.
Raiford died on November 17, 2017 at age 89.
Filmography
References
External links
Raiford's bio at the John Boy and Billy web site
Archive.org version of Raiford's bio at the John Boy and Billy web site
1927 births
2017 deaths
American male film actors
People from Concord, North Carolina
University of South Carolina alumni
University of North Carolina at Charlotte faculty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Raiford |
"Amar Sin Ser Amada" / "You Know He Never Loved You" is a song recorded by Mexican singer Thalía for her ninth studio album El Sexto Sentido (2005).
Song information
The song is written and produced by the Colombian Estéfano and Jose Luis Pagán. The English version was written by Thalía.
Literally translated "Amar Sin Ser Amada" means "To Love Without Being Loved". In the song, Thalía advises women who are "heartbroken" to leave it all behind and try not to think of their exes anymore. When she unintentionally does think about him and miss him, she has to recall the pain she's been through, so she will never go through it again.
The song reached number two on the Billboards Hot Latin Tracks chart.
Music video
The video was shot in a white background showing Thalia getting over her controlling ex-boyfriend after he turned down her advantages while trying to seduce him. There were two music videos for the song: one for the Spanish Version ("Amar sin ser amada") and another one for the English one ("You Know He Never Loved You"). The English version contains the same footage of the Spanish video.
The music video was directed by Jeb Brien and shot in New York City, and was officially released by the TV Magazine Primer Impacto ("First Impact").
Synopsis
The video begins with a vintage radio and a woman's voice speaking in French. We then see Thalia and her boyfriend in a car with the singer slapping and pushing him away. As they get out of the car, they go to a restaurant where they drink glasses of champagne together. Thalia attempts to seduce and dance for him, but the boyfriend brushes her off and rejects her charm. When the boyfriend looks away from her, she confronts him and gets back into the car. Thalia sees her boyfriend in the rear view mirror trying to be apologetic, but she takes one last look at him before driving away. Scenes of Thalia singing are shown, dancing in front of a car, dancing with a microphone and sitting on a chair.
Track listings
Argentina 5" CD single
"Amar Sin Ser Amada" [Album Version] – 3:31
Charts
References
2005 singles
Spanish-language songs
Thalía songs
Songs written by Estéfano
EMI Latin singles
2005 songs
Songs written by Julio Reyes Copello
Song recordings produced by Estéfano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar%20sin%20ser%20amada |
NGC 5164 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by William Herschel on April 14, 1789.
References
External links
Barred spiral galaxies
Ursa Major
5164
08458
047124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%205164 |
Alsenz-Obermoschel is a former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the Donnersbergkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. On 1 January 2020 it was merged into the new Verbandsgemeinde Nordpfälzer Land. It was situated on the river Alsenz, approx. 15 km south of Bad Kreuznach, and 30 km north of Kaiserslautern. The seat of the municipality was in Alsenz.
Local municipalities
The Verbandsgemeinde Alsenz-Obermoschel consisted of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):
Former Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate
North Palatinate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsenz-Obermoschel |
Ariel Hernández Azcuy (born May 3, 1970 or April 8, 1972) is a boxer from Cuba, who won two Olympic gold medals in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg); at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. He captured the world title at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, just two months after having triumphed at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata.
Amateur accomplishments
Twice Olympic Gold Medalist (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996)
Twice Junior World Champion (Bayamon 1989, Lima 1990)
Twice World Champion (Tampere 1993, Berlin 1995)
Seven-time Cuban National Champion (1992–1998)
Twice Goodwill Games Champion (St Petersburg 1994, New York 1998)
Twice World Championships Challenge Winner (Dublin 1994, Macon 1998)
Olympic results
1992
Defeated Joseph Laryea (Ghana) 6-0
Defeated Gilberto Brown (Virgin Islands) 13-2
Defeated Sven Ottke (Germany) 14-6
Defeated Lee Seung-Bae (South Korea) 14-1
Defeated Chris Byrd (United States) 12-7
1996
Defeated Kabary Salem (Egypt) 11-2
Defeated Sven Ottke (Germany) 5-0
Defeated Alexander Lebziak (Russia) 15-8
Defeated Rhoshii Wells (United States) 17-8
Defeated Malik Beyleroğlu (Turkey) 11-3
Pan American Games results
1995
Defeated Jorge Melo Silva (Brazil) RSC-1
Defeated Alex James (Grenada) RSC-1
Defeated Ronald Simms (United States) KO-1
Defeated Ricardo Araneda (Chile) 13-0
References
1970 births
Living people
Boxers at the 1995 Pan American Games
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Cuba
Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
Olympic medalists in boxing
Cuban male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
Pan American Games medalists in boxing
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games
Middleweight boxers
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
Sportspeople from Pinar del Río Province | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel%20Hern%C3%A1ndez%20%28boxer%29 |
The Work and the Story is a 2003 Mormon mockumentary comedy film written and directed by Nathan Smith Jones and starring Nathan Smith Jones, Jen Hoskins, Eric Artel, Dan Merkley, and Richard Dutcher. The title of the film is a reference to the Mormon-oriented film The Work and the Glory.
Plot
The story takes place just after the fictional disappearance of Richard Dutcher, famous for beginning the current Mormon cinema phase with his work God's Army. After Dutcher's disappearance the film follows the journeys of three amateur filmmakers who are eager to take his place as the first "Mormon Steven Spielberg". One of these filmmakers doesn't want to see Dutcher found.
Production
Richard Dutcher donated the 16mm film stock to make the film. This is the same stock (three years-old) that God's Army was going to be shot on, had Dutcher not found the financing to shoot on 35mm.
External links
The Work and the Story at LDSFilm.com
2003 films
Mormon cinema
2003 comedy films
Films about film directors and producers
Films set in Utah
Films shot in Utah
American mockumentary films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Work%20and%20the%20Story |
Pleasant Valley is a neighborhood that is among the older western neighborhoods of the city of Little Rock, Arkansas. The area is to the northwest of Breckenridge and west of Colony West. Pleasant Valley lies to the south of the hillier Pleasant Ridge and Walton Heights areas, and mostly to the east of St. Charles.
Background
The neighborhood is centered on Pleasant Valley Country Club, which is ranked by Golf Digest as the 3rd best course in the state and 11th best by "Top 100 Golf Courses.com". Pleasant Valley is encompassed entirely by the 72212 zip code. The Average Adjusted Gross Income for 72212 in 2011 was $123,178 placing it in the 98th percentile nationally and the wealthiest in the City of Little Rock. The neighborhood is served by the westernmost portion of Rodney Parham Road, named for an influential former Pulaski County judge, and landmarks such as Pleasant Valley Country Club, houses of worship including Pleasant Valley Church of Christ, First Baptist Church, St James Methodist and Temple B'nai Israel, and moderate to upscale retail and restaurants. Additionally, several real estate agencies and other professional service firms conduct business from headquarters or branch offices in the neighborhood. Rural telecom company Windstream Communications established its corporate headquarters in Pleasant Valley following its spinoff from Alltel.
Much of the residential development of Pleasant Valley, evidence of Little Rock's continual westward expansion and migration, has stemmed from the late 1960s and early 1970s. A significant number of empty-nester dwellings in the neighborhood and large homes adjoining the country club were built following the creation of a partial interchange at Rodney Parham Road's intersection with Interstate 430 in 1970.
References
Neighborhoods in Little Rock, Arkansas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant%20Valley%20%28Little%20Rock%29 |
Cleonae or Kleonai () was a city in ancient Peloponnesus, described by writers of the Roman period as a city of Argolis, but never included in the Argeia or territory of Argos, in the flourishing period of Greek history. Cleonae was situated on the road from Argos to Corinth, at the distance of 120 stadia from the former city, and 80 stadia from the latter. There was a narrow pass through the mountains, called Tretus, leading from Argos to Cleonae. Cleonae stood in a small plain upon a river flowing into the Corinthian Gulf a little westward of Lechaeum. In its territory was Mount Apesas, now Mount Phoukas, connected with the Acrocorinthus by a rugged range of hills. Both Strabo and Pausanias describe Cleonae as a small place; and the former writer, who saw it from the Acrocorinthus, says that it is situated upon a hill surrounded on all sides by buildings, and well walled, so as to deserve the epithet given to it by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad – ἐϋκτιμένας Κλεωνάς ('well-built Cleonae'). Statius also speaks of "ingenti turritae mole Cleonae."
Cleonae possessed only a small territory. It derived its chief importance from the Nemean Games being celebrated in its territory, in the grove of Nemea, between Cleonae and Phlius. Hence the festival is called by Pindar ἀγὼν Κλεωναῖος ('the Cleonaean games') Heracles is said to have slain Eurytus and Cteatus, the sons of Actor, near Cleonae; and Diodorus mentions a temple of Heracles erected in the neighbourhood of the city in memory of that event.
Cleonae is said to have derived its name either from Cleones, the son of Pelops, or from Cleone, the daughter of the river-god Asopus. It was conquered by the Dorians, whereupon some of its inhabitants, together with those of the neighbouring town of Phlius, are said to have founded Clazomenae in Asia Minor. In the Dorian conquest, Cleonae formed part of the lot of Temenus, and in early times was one of the confederated allies or subordinates of Argos. Indeed in the historical period, Cleonae was for the most part closely connected with Argos. After the Greco-Persian Wars, the Cleonaeans assisted the Argives in subduing Mycenae; and they fought as the allies of Argos at the Battle of Mantinea (418 BCE). Of their subsequent history little is known, though their city is occasionally mentioned down to the time of Ptolemy.
Timanthes of Cleonae was a victor in the pankration.
The site of ancient Cleonae is located near modern Ag. Vasileios, near Archaies Kleones.
See also
List of ancient Greek cities
References
Populated places in ancient Argolis
Former populated places in Greece
Locations in the Iliad
Cities in ancient Greece
Ancient Greek cities
Greek city-states | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleonae%20%28Argolis%29 |
Middle temporal gyrus is a gyrus in the brain on the temporal lobe. It is located between the superior temporal gyrus and inferior temporal gyrus. It corresponds largely to Brodmann area 21.
The middle temporal gyrus is bounded by:
the superior temporal sulcus above;
the inferior temporal sulcus below;
an imaginary line drawn from the preoccipital notch to the lateral sulcus posteriorly.
It has been connected with processes as different as contemplating distance, recognition of known faces, audio-visual emotional recognition, and accessing word meaning while reading.
Some studies indicate that lesions of the posterior region of the middle temporal gyrus, in the left cerebral hemisphere, may result in alexia and agraphia for kanji characters (characters of Chinese origin used in Japanese writing). The left middle temporal gyrus is also activated during poem composition.
Additional images
References
Gyri
Temporal lobe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20temporal%20gyrus |
Linda Haynes (born Linda Lee Sylvander; November 4, 1947 – July 17, 2023) was an American actress who appeared in several films in the 1970s and early 1980s before retiring from the business and becoming a legal secretary. A life member of The Actors Studio, Haynes was best known for her roles in Coffy, The Nickel Ride and Rolling Thunder.
Early life and career
Born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Miami and Caracas, Venezuela, Haynes was the first of three daughters born to Swedish parents. Her first film was Latitude Zero in 1969, which also starred Cesar Romero, Richard Jaeckel, and Joseph Cotten. She then went on to appear in films such as Coffy (1973), The Nickel Ride (1974), The Drowning Pool (1975), Rolling Thunder (1977), Human Experiments (1979), Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980), and Brubaker (1980). She also appeared in the episode of the 1974 television series Paper Moon, portraying Bonnie Parker. She mysteriously left the acting world in 1980 and was found in 1995 by director Quentin Tarantino and author Tom Graves. In 2015 Graves published a long profile about her titled Blonde Shadow: The Brief Career and Mysterious Disappearance of Actress Linda Haynes that is included in his anthology Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers.
Critical evaluation
Although no comparably substantive treatments of her career have surfaced thus far, Graves and Tarantino are far from alone in citing the integrity of Haynes' work – though some also note a corresponding failure of filmmakers to put it to good use. In her 1977 review of Rolling Thunder in New York Magazine, Molly Haskell remarks:
The men... come off better than the women because they are excused from ever uttering a word. Linda Haynes, who was so exciting and authentically rural in Robert Mulligan's Nickel Ride, has that most thankless role of the adoring and impossibly patient woman who must babble on to fill the silences.
In his book-length critique of cinema's track record, regarding the homecoming veteran, author Emmett Early discusses the same film:
Linda Haynes plays the barmaid with measured abandon. She says at one point, after Charlie has involved her in a violent scene, "Why do I get stuck with crazy men?" Charlie replies, "That's the only kind that's left." He describes himself as already dead when she tries to make love to him. Like Charlie, the movie fails to take advantage of her talents.
Reviewing the 2011 DVD release of The Nickel Ride, Slant Magazine's Fernando F. Croce (who elsewhere cites "the unheralded Linda Haynes") notes that its downtrodden protagonist (portrayed by sometime playwright Jason Miller):
nevertheless hangs on to a thread of taciturn self-respect largely thanks to his "cracker wife" Sarah (perennial "Whatever Happened To?" case Linda Haynes, a sort of thrift-store Sissy Spacek who can imprint a whole blowsy lifetime into the way she shimmies her hips).
Reviewing the same film, critic Glenn Erickson notes that the protagonist's "intensely loyal... ex-dancer girlfriend' is portrayed by "the remarkable Linda Haynes."
Death
Haynes died in Summerville, South Carolina on July 17, 2023, at the age of 75.
References
External links
Tom Graves' Blog: Quentin Tarantino Lauds Our Friend Linda Haynes
1947 births
2023 deaths
Actresses from Miami
American film actresses
American people of Swedish descent
21st-century American women
20th-century American actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Haynes |
Jeff Pillars (born July 13, 1958) is an American actor and screenplay writer. Pillars is originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He currently writes and performs for the breakfast radio programme, the John Boy and Billy Big Show in Charlotte, North Carolina. His "Ernest" co-star Duke Ernsberger is a Charlotte native.
Acting filmography
Movies
Critical Condition (1987) – Correction Officer
Born to Race (1988) – Kenny's 'Henderson Hardware' Team
Killer! (1989)
Mr. Destiny (1990) – Duncan the Tow Truck Driver
Super Mario Bros. (1993) – Devo Technician
Ernest Rides Again (1993) – Joe
Road-Kill U.S.A. (1993) – Harvey
Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel (1994) – Deputy Ed
Radioland Murders (1994) – Nerdy Stagehand
Bandwagon (1996) – Trumholdt
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) – Truck Driver
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997) – Galloway
Bloodmoon (1997) – Justice
Ernest in the Army (1998) – Gen. Rodney Lincoln
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy: For Love or Mummy (1999) – Biker
Pirates of the Plain (1999) – DeGroot
Cold Storage (2006) – Sheriff Bullock
Television
The Night of the Hunter (1991) – Mechanic
In a Child's Name (1991) – Friendly Guard
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Episode – Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920 (1993) – Tom
Matlock
Episode – The Fortune (1993) – Nick Dempsey
Episode – The Verdict (1995) – Rusty Stambler
Deadly Pursuits (1996) – Delacroix
The Stepford Husbands (1996) – Gordon
Twilight Man (1996) – Fat Guy
A Kiss So Deadly (1996) – Ray
Any Place But Home (1997) – Melvin the Pig Farmer
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997) – Ed Syler
From the Earth to the Moon (1998, TV mini-series) – Charlie
Writing filmography
Ernest in the Army (1998) (screenplay)
The All New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy: For Love or Mummy (1999) (co-wrote screenplay)
External links
1958 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male screenwriters
Male actors from Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Pillars |
Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) is a marine conservation charity working with communities to protect oceans, waves, beaches and marine life. It was created in 1990 by a group of Cornish surfers from the villages of St Agnes and Porthtowan on the north coast of Cornwall.
History
Set up as a single-issue campaign group in 1990, Surfers Against Sewage led a nationwide campaign for improved water quality. Their campaign's success was helped by key pieces of EU legislation including the Bathing Water Directive.
In 2012, Surfers Against Sewage was recognised as a national marine conservation charity focused on the protection of waves, oceans, beaches, marine wildlife and coastal communities.
In 2018 it was one of the seven charities nominated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to receive donations in lieu of wedding presents.
Campaigns
Today the organisation represents an ever-expanding supporter base and campaigns on a diverse range of issues. SAS campaigns for both the UK's coastal environment and the health of all surfers and other recreational waters users. Recently, SAS has expanded its remit into the protection of the wave resource and surfing spots through the Protect Our Waves (POW) campaign. Since 1990, SAS has secured a multitude of campaign successes on behalf of all water users.
Plastic Free Coastlines
More recently, Surfers Against Sewage have turned their attention to battling the new sewage - plastic pollution. Through national initiatives such as the Big Spring Beach Clean and the Autumn Beach Clean Series they hope to empower communities to protect their coastlines. Further up in the chain of events, SAS are using their Waves All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) to encourage politicians to explore and introduce policies to prevent plastic emissions from entering the environment.
Protect Our Waves
SAS launched the Protect Our Waves campaign to increase public awareness to the importance of waves in the socioeconomic fabric of many UK coastal communities. Behind the scenes SAS has been consistently representing surfers and waveriders on rights of access, and ensuring the wave resource is recognised and valued.
Beach Bum Survey
Surfers Against Sewage helped recruit participants for a University of Exeter study on the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant E. coli in surfers and bodyboarders. The work was published in Environment International in January 2018.
See also
Surfing and environmentalism
References
External links
Surfers Against Sewage website
Surfing organizations
Surfing in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Cornwall
Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom
Marine conservation organizations
Pollution in the United Kingdom
1990 establishments in the United Kingdom
Charities based in Cornwall
Organizations established in 1990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers%20Against%20Sewage |
NGC 5253 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by William Herschel on 15 March 1787.
Properties
NGC 5253 is located within the M83 Subgroup of the Centaurus A/M83 Group, a relatively nearby galaxy group that includes the radio galaxy Centaurus A and the spiral galaxy M83 (the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy). NGC 5253 is considered a dwarf starburst galaxy and also a blue compact galaxy.
Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 5253. SN 1895B (type unknown, mag. 8) was discovered on 7 July 1895. Supernova SN 1972E, the second-brightest recent supernova visible from Earth (peak visual magnitude of 8.5, fainter only than SN 1987A in the 20th century), was discovered on 6 May 1972.
Contents
NGC 5253 contains a giant dust cloud hiding a cluster (believed to be a super star cluster) of more than one million stars, among them up to 7,000 O-type stars. The cluster is 3 million years old and has a total luminosity of more than one billion suns. It is the site of efficient star formation, with a rate at least 10 times higher than comparable regions in the Milky Way.
References
External links
17870315
Irregular galaxies
Peculiar galaxies
Centaurus A/M83 Group
Centaurus
5253
48334
UGCA objects | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%205253 |
Mohamed Bahari (born June 29, 1976 in Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria) is a boxer from Algeria.
Bahari won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He shared the podium with US boxer Rhoshii Wells.
Olympic results
Defeated Marcus Thomas (Barbados) RSC 2 (2:20)
Defeated Akaki Kakauridze (Georgia) 8-5
Defeated Brian Magee (Ireland) 15-9
Lost to Malik Beyleroğlu (Turkey) 11-11, referee's decision
Pro career
Bahari turned pro in 2003, his last fight came in 2004 and he retired with a record of 3-2-2.
Professional boxing record
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Career
Olympic Games
OlympicGames1996 (Atlanta, USA) (-75 kg)
World Amateur Boxing Championships
Quarter-finals World Junior Championships (Istanbul, Turkey) 1994 (-75 kg)
Preliminaries 1/16 World Amateur Boxing Championships 1995 (Berlin, Germany) (-75 kg)
CISM - World Military Championships
CISM Championships ( San Antonio, USA) 1997 (- 81 kg )
African Amateur Boxing Championships
African Amateur Boxing Championships 1998 ( Algiers, Algeria ) (- 81 kg )
African Amateur Boxing Championships ( Johannesburg, South Africa) 1994 (-75 kg)
All-Africa Games
All-Africa Games (Harare, Zimbabwe ) 1995 (-75 kg)
All-Africa Games ( Johannesburg, South Africa) 1999 (- 81 kg )
Pan Arab Games
Pan Arab Games 1997 ( Beirut, Lebanon) (-75 kg)
Pan Arab Games 1999 (Amman, Jordan) (- 81 kg )
International tournaments
Italia Junior ( Sardinia, Italy )1994 (- 81 kg )
President's Cup ( Jakarta, Indonesia) 1995 (-75 kg)
Quarter-finals Strandja Memorial ( Sofia, Bulgaria) 1996 (-75 kg)
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
Middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Algeria
Olympic bronze medalists for Algeria
Olympic medalists in boxing
People from Sidi Bel Abbès
Algerian male boxers
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
African Games gold medalists for Algeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 1995 All-Africa Games
Competitors at the 1999 All-Africa Games
21st-century Algerian people
20th-century Algerian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Bahari |
EndSerenading is the second studio album by Mineral, released on August 25, 1998, after the band had broken up.
The album was noted for its overall softer and quieter sound in comparison to the band's former album, The Power of Failing, which featured much louder and more energetic pieces. Tensions rose among the band during recording, and after recording was completed, the band split up. Simpson and Gomez formed The Gloria Record, while McCarver and Wiley formed Imbroco.
Track listing
"Lovelettertypewriter" – 3:45
"Palisade" – 4:31
"Gjs" – 4:46
"Unfinished" – 6:07
"ForIvadell" – 3:36
"Wakingtowinter" – 4:02
"Aletter" – 4:53
"Soundslikesunday" – 5:20
"&serenading" – 5:24
"Thelastwordisrejoice" – 5:09
References
External links
1998 albums
Mineral (band) albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EndSerenading |
Capital League 1 is the second tier of men's senior football (soccer) in Brisbane, (5th tier Queensland and Level 6 within Australia). It is administered by Football Brisbane. All clubs participating in Capital League 1 must field two teams, one in first grade, and another in the reserves competition. Clubs in the NPL and Brisbane Premier League cannot field their reserves teams in this division.
History
The first edition of a second tier league in the Brisbane soccer competition to be widely reported was the newly formed Division 2 in 1921. Seven clubs contested the Division 2 championship in 1921: Blackstone Rovers, Queens Park, Kangaroo Rats, Western Suburbs, Toowong, Bulimba Rangers and Kedron United. Blackstone Rovers, an Ipswich-based club, won the Division 2 premiership after beating Queens Park 1–0 in a play-off after the clubs finished level on points at the end of the regular season.
A second division of the Brisbane soccer competition has been contested continuously since 1921 with the exception of the early 1930s when the Ipswich clubs broke away from the Brisbane competition to form their own league, and during World War 2. When the top clubs split away to form the Queensland Soccer Federation in 1962, enough clubs joined the new body to form a Division One under the new State League. The QSF absorbed the former Brisbane & Ipswich District Football Association clubs in 1964 and the top two divisions were renamed back to Division One and Two in 1965. Since the formation of the Brisbane Premier League in 1983, the Brisbane soccer competition structure has been altered several times. Second tier divisions in the Brisbane competition have been:
Division 2 (1921 to 1961)
QSF Division 1 (1962 to 1964)
Division 2 (1965 to 1982)
Division 1 (1983)
Intermediate League (1984 to 1986)
Division 2 (1987 to 1996)
Semi-Pro Division (1997 to 2001) – in North and South sections from 1997 to 2000
Division 1 (2002)
Premier Division 1 (2003 to 2012)
Capital League 1 (2013 to present).
From 2003 to 2012 the tier below the Brisbane Premier League was known as Premier Division 1. It operated as a twelve team competition from 2004 to 2009, then expanded to fourteen teams for season 2010, to accommodate clubs returning to the BPL from the now defunct Queensland State League.
Since being renamed Capital League 1 in 2013 in which the competition has returned to a 12 team format.
Format
The regular season consists of 22 rounds with teams playing each other twice in a home and away format. The team which finishes first is crowned as the Premiers of the division.
Following the regular season the top four teams on the table play in a finals series using the following format:
First Week: Semi Final 1 – 3rd vs 4th; Semi Final 2 – 1st vs 2nd
Second Week: Preliminary Final – Loser Semi 2 vs Winner Semi 1
Final Week: Grand Final – Winner Semi 2 vs Winner Preliminary.
The winner of the Grand Final is declared as the Champions of the division.
Promotion/relegation
At the end of the regular season the top two teams are eligible for promotion to Brisbane Premier League.The bottom two teams at the end of the regular season are relegated to Capital League 2.
Clubs
The clubs for the 2024 season are shown in the table below:
Seasons since 1962
Sources:www.socceraust.co.uk
Brisbane Football (Soccer) Tables (Tier 2 Top Four – 1921 to 2018)
Media
Matches from Capital League 1 are irregularly filmed by FBTV. Media outlets in Ipswich and Toowoomba in particular follow the fortunes of their local clubs.
References
External links
Football Brisbane Official Website
Football Queensland Official website
SportsTG Fixtures & Results
Football Queensland
Soccer leagues in Queensland
Sports leagues established in 2013
2013 establishments in Australia
Sixth level football leagues in Asia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Queensland%20Premier%20League%204%20%E2%88%92%20Metro |
Alex Bayouth (January 25, 1926 – October 14, 2022), known professionally as Ted White, was an American stuntman and actor who was best known for playing Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. He was also notable for having doubled for John Wayne, Fess Parker, Clark Gable, and Richard Boone.
Life and career
Born as Alex Bayouth in Krebs, Oklahoma, White grew up in Snyder, Texas. He played football for the University of Oklahoma, then pursued a stuntman/acting career. In Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), White was approached because of his Marine Corps background when they needed a consultant for the layout of the island. That was when White met John Wayne and began doubling for him in 1952.
White had minor roles in several western films and in such television series as Daniel Boone; The Andy Griffith Show; Hunter; Magnum, P.I.; and The Rockford Files, usually in tough-guy roles such as police officers or hired thugs. He has also worked in Gone in 60 Seconds, Silverado, Major League, Starman, and Tron.
In 1984, White played hockey masked murderer Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, after the director needed a large man for the part. White reluctantly accepted because he needed the money. White asked not to be credited on screen for his part, partly because he did not appreciate how the young actors and actresses had been treated during production. He was later credited for the archive footage of him as Jason that was used in the seventh Friday film. White was offered the role of Jason for Friday the 13th: A New Beginning and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, but turned them down. The roles ultimately went to stuntmen Tom Morga and C. J. Graham, respectively.
White died at his home on October 14, 2022, at the age of 96.
Partial filmography
Actor
Stuntman
References
External links
Official website
1926 births
2022 deaths
People from Pittsburg County, Oklahoma
People from Snyder, Texas
Male actors from Texas
Military personnel from Texas
Oklahoma Sooners football players
American male film actors
American stunt performers
United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20White%20%28stuntman%29 |
Richard Drengot (died 1078) was the count of Aversa (1049–1078), prince of Capua (1058–1078, as Richard I) and duke of Gaeta (1064–1078).
Early career in Italy
Richard, who came from near Dieppe in the Pays de Caux in eastern Normandy, was the son of Asclettin I, count of Acerenza, younger brother of Asclettin II, count of Aversa, and nephew of Rainulf Drengot. Richard arrived in Southern Italy shortly after Rainulf's death in 1045, accompanied by forty Norman knights. When he first arrived in Aversa, according to Amatus of Montecassino Richard was well received by the people who followed him as if he were a count. He was described as strikingly handsome, a young man of open countenance who by design rode a horse so small his feet nearly touched the ground. But the attention he garnered disturbed his cousin, Rainulf Trincanocte, the reigning Count of Aversa who asked him to leave. Richard then took up service with Humphrey of Hauteville, brother of Drogo of Hauteville, count of Apulia who treated him with great respect and honor.
When Sarulus of Genzano, an adherent of Richard's brother Asclettin (who died ), discovered Richard was with Humphrey, he approached Richard and asked him to come to Genzano, which his brother had ruled. Richard came and the townspeople accepted him as their lord giving him rule over the town. With Sarule's help Richard's plundering and pillaging made him powerful enough that Trincanocte, in an effort to appease Richard, gave him a grant of lands formerly held by his brother Asclettin. He next dealt with Drogo but this time was less successful, for Drogo captured and imprisoned Richard, placing him at Drogo's mercy. Richard languished there until Rainulf Trincanocte died leaving an infant son Herman, who needed a regent to govern for him. The suzerain of Aversa and Apulia, Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno, procured Richard's release and he was set up as Herman's guardian in 1048. Soon, however, Herman disappeared from the records and Richard titled himself count.
Count of Aversa
He was present, in 1053, at the Battle of Civitate, where he commanded the right wing against the Lombards of the papal army. He charged first that day and routed the Lombard contingent, pursuing them a long distance before turning back to assist Humphrey and Robert Guiscard. The battle ended in a decisive victory for the Normans. The citizens promptly surrendered Pope Leo IX to the Normans, who treated him with the utmost respect while nonetheless escorting the pope to Benevento, where he was held until shortly before his death in 1054. A series of deaths during the period of 1054–1056, that of Pope Leo with no immediate successor, of Constantine IX Monomachos leaving Constantinople in internal strife and Emperor Henry III leaving a child heir, gave the Normans a near free hand in Southern Italy. Richard had been constantly seeking territorial expansion through war against his Lombard neighbors, Pandulf VI of Capua and Guaimar's son and successor, Gisulf II of Salerno. He pushed back the borders of the latter until there was little left of the once great principality but the city of Salerno itself and when the weak prince of Capua died in 1057, he immediately besieged Capua and took the princely title (1058) from Pandulf's brother, Landulf VIII, but left the keys to the city in Lombard hands for at least four years more, until 12 May 1062.
Prince of Capua
Relations with Gaeta
Richard betrothed his daughter to the son of Atenulf I, Duke of Gaeta, but when the boy died before the marriage took place, he demanded the morgengab anyway. The duke refused and consequently Richard besieged and took Aquino. Even before the siege of Aquino was finished, Richard as the Prince of Capua, visited the abbey of Monte Cassino with a small force to give thanks to St.Benedict He was welcomed with all due pomp and ceremony and in turn he issued a grant of protection to the Monastery's property. The monastery had previously been under the control of the fanatically anti-Norman abbot Frederick of Lorraine, who was replaced when Pope Stephen IX died, the Normans were warmly welcomed. But Desiderius of Benevento, the new the abbot of Montecassino, asked Richard to extort only 4000 sous from Duke Atenulf which, after several more weeks of trying to hold out, the duke finally paid.
In 1062, Richard sent his son Jordan to take Gaeta from Atenulf II, but Atenulf was allowed to continue personal rule until 1064. Though, in that year, Richard and Jordan appropriated the ducal and consular titles of the Gaetan rulers. Richard quelled a later rebellion of Atenulf's.
Relations with the papacy
In February 1059, Hildebrand, the future Pope Gregory VII, then only a high-ranking member of the Papal Curia, travelled to Capua to enlist his aid on behalf of the reforming Pope Nicholas II against the antipope Benedict X. Soon, Richard was besieging Benedict in Galeria and, in 1059, Nicholas convened a synod at Melfi where he confirmed Robert Guiscard as duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily and Richard as count of Aversa and prince of Capua. Richard swore allegiance to the papacy and respect for papal territory, completely transforming the political loyalties of the south of Italy and removing the few remaining independent Greek and Lombard princes and the Holy Roman emperor from the picture.
In 1061 he, again at Hildebrand's request, militarily installed the reformers' papal candidate Alexander II against the claims of an antipope, this time Honorius II. He was rapidly becoming a popemaker, though, in 1066, still bent on expanding in all directions his power, he marched on Rome itself, but was beaten back by the pope's Tuscan allies.
In 1071, when Robert Guiscard was away besieging Palermo, his chief barons, Abelard and Herman, sons of his brother Humphrey, Peter, lord of Trani, and the lord of Giovinazzo rebelled with the support of Richard of Capua and Gisulf of Salerno. Though Robert quickly dispelled all threats to his power from within, he took ill and could not make an expedition against Richard, who was soon confirmed in his possessions by and allied with the new pope, Gregory VII, Hildebrand.
In 1076, in response to the Emperor Henry IV's deposition of the pope, Robert and Richard each sent ambassadors to the other. They met midway and arranged a meeting of the two rulers at Monte Cassino later that year. An alliance was formed, and the pope, by excommunicating the emperor, having proven capable of taking care of himself, the two Norman leaders sat down to besiege Gisulf in Salerno. The siege was successful and Gisulf fled to Capua, where he tried to stir up Richard against Robert, who had kept Salerno, but to no avail. Richard began to besiege Naples, still independent, with the aid of Robert's naval blockade. Then, on 3 March 1078, the pope excommunicated Robert and Richard and soon after Richard lay dying in Capua. He quickly reconciled with the church and died. His eldest son, the aforementioned Jordan, who had been invading ecclesiastic domains in the Abruzzi at the time, traveled to Rome to renew his fealty to the papacy and be confirmed in his father's titles and possessions. Naples remained untaken.
Family
Richard married Fredescende d'Hauteville, daughter of Tancred of Hauteville and Fressenda, and sister of Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia. Together they had:
Jordan I of Capua
Jonathan, Count of Carinola
Bartholomew, Count of Carinola
an unnamed daughter, married William of Montreuil
an unnamed daughter, married Lando of Gaeta
Notes
References
Further reading
Chalandon, Ferdinand. Histoire de la domination normande en Italie et en Sicile. Paris, 1907.
Loud, G. A. "A Calendar of the Diplomas of the Norman Princes of Capua". Papers of the British School at Rome 49 (1981), 99–143.
Skinner, Patricia. Family Power in Southern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and its Neighbours, 850–1139. Cambridge, 1995.
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Flesherin () is a small village on the Point peninsula of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Located near Portnaguran, the village has a population of around 100. Flesherin is within the parish of Stornoway. Flesherin is home to the famous accordionists Tommy Darky and John 'Tonkan' Macdonald. Flesherin is also home to the mother of Stuart Braithwaite, from the Glasgow rock band Mogwai and Ronnie McKinnon the famous Scotland football player.
Places of Interest
The 1915 built steam trawler Wyre Law made by Livingstone & Cooper ran aground near on the Flesherin cliffs in October 1952. Remains of the iron wreck can still be seen, although only the bow section remains visible above the sealine.
Caisteal Mhic Creacail, a neolithic Chambered Cairn is located near the shoreline between Flesherin and Shulishader.
References
External links
Geograph images of the area around Flesherin
Villages in the Isle of Lewis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesherin |
State House is the official residence of the president of Kenya. It was the prime minister's residence from independence until 12 December 1964 when Kenya became a republic. As the prime minister's position was abolished, it has been the official residence of the president ever since.
History
Before the construction of Government House in Nairobi, the first governor's residence was at Government House, Mombasa, constructed in 1879. Government House in Nairobi, now State House, was built in 1907 in Nairobi to serve as the official residence of the governor of British East Africa, when Kenya was a colony within the British Empire. The governor would conduct his official functions at the old Provincial Commissioner's office (now a national monument) next to Nyayo House and then retire to Government House for the day. It was designed by the British architect Sir Herbert Baker.
After independence, Government House was renamed State House. Although it remained the official residence of the Head of State, in practice it became an administrative or operational office occasionally providing accommodation to visiting state guests and receptions on National Days. This scenario has prevailed to-date with the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and President Moi preferring private residences as opposed to living in State House.
Other residences
State House in Nairobi stands on a piece of land. It is a 10-minute drive from the city centre. Other than the Nairobi one, there are other State Houses in Mombasa and Nakuru.
There are state lodges in Eldoret, Sagana, Kisumu, Kakamega,Kitale town, Rumuruti, Cheran'gany and Kisii. They are scattered around the country to provide accommodation to the president whenever he is touring various parts of the country.
President Uhuru Kenyatta once met Somali Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon in Sagana State Lodge, which is said to be Kenya's own version of Chequers in Buckinghamshire or Camp David in Maryland. The president was said to be shifting key presidential functions to stations outside Nairobi.
See also
Government Houses of Africa
Government Houses of the British Empire
Governor-General of Kenya
References
External links
The Presidency | Official Website of the President
State House, Kenya satellite picture in Google Maps
Houses completed in 1907
Official residences in Kenya
Government Houses of the British Empire and Commonwealth
Presidential residences
Buildings and structures in Nairobi
British Kenya
Government buildings completed in 1907
Herbert Baker buildings and structures
Palladian architecture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20House%2C%20Nairobi |
Naushad Waheed (born December 15, 1962, in Malé) is a cartoonist and painter from the Maldives.
He was detained by the government for four months following the publication of one of his cartoons in the magazine Hukuru in 1999. In 2001, he was arrested for participating in debates critical of the government, tried for treason, and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released on February 22, 2006. Naushad Waheed is also the brother of Dr. Mohammed Waheed Hassan, a leading political figure who served as the 5th president of Maldives from 7 February 2012 to 17 November 2013. He was appointed as Deputy High Commissioner of Maldives to the UK in 2008 after the new government settled into place.
References
External links
Naushad Arts
Naushad's Biography
Amnesty International press release
Official website of Dr. Waheed, Naushad's brother
High Commission role for Naushad
Mohammed Waheed Hassan
1962 births
Living people
Maldivian journalists
People from Malé
20th-century Maldivian writers
21st-century Maldivian writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naushad%20Waheed |
Carbury GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland, winner of 11 Kildare county senior football championships and participants in eight successive county finals between 1965 and 1972. Ollie Crinnigan and (an All Star in 1978) and Pat Mangan (replacement All Star on two occasions) were on the Kildare football team of the millennium.
History
Though the present Carbury club was founded in 1925, local tradition holds that football was played in the parish since pre-GAA times. RIC records from 1890 show that Kirkpatrick CJ Kickhams club had 30 members, with the officers listed as Michael Mooney, Walter Broderick and John Tracey. Carbury teams reached the quarter-finals of the championship in 1897 and 1905.
Gaelic Football
The Bourke family, including Dermot (after whom the county senior football championship trophy is named) and John and William Hynan were the backbone of early Carbury teams. After winning the Intermediate Championship in 1930 Carbury have had an unbroken run in Kildare senior football, playing in four successive finals as they won three titles between 1940 and 1946. The minor team of 1959 broke through at senior level to play in eight successive county finals. They travelled to New York in 1973 and beat New York in two challenge matches and reached the final of the Kilmacud sevens in 1973, losing to Waterville. Also, Jack Carey is one of only two players with seven County Championship medals. They also reached a county final in 2011 but lost to Athy.
Hurling
Carbury players hurl with Broadford.
Camogie
Carbury affiliated 1933-45 with Stoirin Burke as their captain, formerly of Dominican, Eccles Street, described as "one of Ireland’s best players." Ticknevin and Carbury both fielded teams in the 1950s. The club revived in 1983 and won All Ireland Feile na nGael Division 2 in 1985.
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship Winners (11) 1940, 1941, 1946, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1985
Kildare Centenary Cup (1) 1984
Senior F League (Leinster Leader Cup): (7) 1938, 1940, 1943, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1982
Kildare Minor Football Championship (2) 1959, 1984
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship (1) 1930
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (1) 1926
Kildare Senior Camogie Championship (4) 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941
Kildare Junior Camogie Championship (1) 1988
Kildare Senior Camogie League (1) 1937
Bibliography
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
Notable players
Ollie Crinnigan
Morgan O'Flaherty
Eoghan O'Flaherty
External links
Facebook page
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare
1925 establishments in Ireland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbury%20GAA |
Jon Ivar Christensen (20 March 1943 – 18 February 2020) was a Norwegian jazz drummer. He was married to actress, minister, and theater director Ellen Horn, and was the father of singer and actress Emilie Stoesen Christensen.
Career
In the late 1960s, Christensen played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell. He also was a central participant in the jazz band Masqualero, with Arild Andersen, and they reappeared in 2003 for his 60th anniversary. He appears on many recordings on the ECM label with such artists as Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Terje Rypdal, Bobo Stenson, Eberhard Weber, Ralph Towner, including the seminal 1975 Solstice, Barre Phillips, Arild Andersen, Enrico Rava, John Abercrombie, Michael Mantler, Miroslav Vitous, Rainer Brüninghaus, Charles Lloyd, Dino Saluzzi Jakob Bro, and Tomasz Stanko. Christensen was a member of the Keith Jarrett "European Quartet" of the 1970s, along with Jan Garbarek and Palle Danielsson, which produced five jazz recordings on ECM Records.
Jon Christensen died on 18 February 2020, at the age of 76.
Honors
Jazznytt musician poll, 1967
Buddyprisen, Norwegian Jazz Forum, 1967
Drummer of the Year, European Jazz Federation, 1975
Spellemannprisen, 1977
Spellemannprisen, three times with Masqualero, 1983, 1986 and 1991
Discography (in selection)
As leader
1976: No Time for Time (Pan)
As sideman
With Yelena Eckemoff
2015: Everblue (L&H Production)
2020: Nocturnal Animals (L&H Production)
With George Russell
1967: The Essence of George Russell (Soul Note)
1969: Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature (Flying Dutchman)
1970: Trip to Prillarguri (Soul Note)
1971: Listen to the Silence (Soul Note)
With Lee Konitz, Pony Poindexter, Phil Woods and Leo Wright
1968: Alto Summit (MPS)
With Steve Kuhn
1968: Watch What Happens! (MPS)
With Jan Garbarek
1969: Esoteric Circle (Flying Dutchman)
1970: Afric Pepperbird (ECM)
1971: Sart (ECM)
1973: Witchi-Tai-To (ECM)
1975: Dansere (ECM)
1975: Ingentings Bjeller (Polydor)
1978: Photo with Blue Sky, White Cloud, Wires, Windows and a Red Roof (ECM)
1980: Paths, Prints (ECM)
With Jakob Bro
2015: Gefion (ECM)
2018: Returnings (ECM)
With Bobo Stenson
1971: Underwear (ECM)
1996: Reflections (ECM)
1997: War Orphans (ECM)
1999: Serenity (ECM)
With Terje Rypdal
1971: Terje Rypdal (ECM)
1973: What Comes After (ECM)
1974: Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away (ECM)
1995: Skywards (ECM)
2003: Vossabrygg (ECM)
With Ketil Bjørnstad
1973: Åpning (Philips)
1990: The Shadow (Kirkelig Kulturverksted)
1993: Water Stories (ECM)
1994: The Sea (ECM)
1996: The Sea II (ECM)
2009: Remembrance (ECM)
With Keith Jarrett
1974: Belonging (ECM)
1977: My Song (ECM)
1979: Personal Mountains (ECM)
1979: Nude Ants (ECM)
1979: Sleeper (ECM)
With Ralph Towner
1974: Solstice (ECM)
1977: Solstice/Sound and Shadows (ECM)
1995: Lost and Found (ECM)
With Karin Krog, Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow
1975: We Could Be Flying (Polydor, 1975)
With Eberhard Weber
1975: Yellow Fields (ECM, 1975)
With Enrico Rava
1975: The Pilgrim and the Stars (ECM, 1975)
1976: The Plot (ECM, 1976)
With Radka Toneff Quintet
1977: Winter Poem (Zarepta)
With Terje Rypdal and Palle Mikkelborg
1977: Waves (ECM)
1979: Descendre (ECM)
With Masqualero (Arild Andersen)
1983: Masqualero (Odin)
1986: Bande a Part (ECM)
1988: Aero (ECM)
1989: Re-Enter (ECM)
With Blow Out
1977: Blow Out (Compendium)
With Miroslav Vitous
1979: First Meeting (ECM)
1980: Miroslav Vitous Group (ECM)
1982: Journey's End (ECM)
With Rainer Brüninghaus
1980: Freigeweht (ECM)
With Mike Nock
1981: Ondas (ECM)
With John Clark, David Friedman and David Darling
1981: Faces (ECM)
With Harry Pepl and Herbert Joos
1988: Cracked Mirrors (ECM)
With Lillebjørn Nilsen, Arild Andersen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Erik Kongshaug
1988: Sanger (Grappa)
With John Abercrombie
1989: Animato (ECM)
With Charles Lloyd
1989: Fish Out of Water (ECM)
With L. Shankar
1989: M.R.C.S. (ECM)
With Sidsel Endresen
1990: So I Write (ECM)
With Knut Riisnæs
1992: Knut Riisnæs - Jon Christensen Featuring John Scofield - Palle Danielsson (Odin)
With Anouar Brahem
1994: Khomsa (ECM)
With Misha Alperin
1996: North Story (ECM)
With Lars Danielsson, David Liebman and Bobo Stenson
1997: Live at Visiones (Dragon)
With Tomasz Stańko
1997: Litania: Music of Krzysztof Komeda (ECM)
1998: From the Green Hill (ECM)
With Dino Saluzzi
2002: Senderos (ECM)
With Jacob Young
Evening Falls (ECM, 2004)
Sideways (ECM, 2008)
With Carsten Dahl and Arild Andersen
2006: Short Fairytales (EmArcy)
2012: Space Is the Place (Storyville)
With Carl Petter Opsahl and Tord Gustavsen
2008: Love, the Blues (Park Grammofon)
With Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Håkon Kornstad
2011: Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker – I Live at Oslo Jazzfestival (Compunctio)
2011: Mitt Hjerte Altid Vanker – II Live at Uppsala Sacred Music Festival (Compunctio)
References
External links
Jon Christensen Biography DrummerWorld.com
1943 births
2020 deaths
Musicians from Oslo
Avant-garde jazz musicians
ECM Records artists
20th-century Norwegian drummers
21st-century Norwegian drummers
Norwegian jazz drummers
Male drummers
Spellemannprisen winners
20th-century drummers
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
21st-century Norwegian male musicians
Male jazz musicians
1300 Oslo members
Petter Wettre Quartet members
Jacob Young Group members
Jazzpunkensemblet members
Masqualero members | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Christensen%20%28musician%29 |
NGC 5408 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by John Herschel on June 5, 1834.
Galaxy group information
NGC 5408 is located near the M83 Subgroup of the Centaurus A/M83 Group, a relatively nearby group of galaxies. However, it is unclear as to whether NGC 5408 is part of the group.
References
External links
Irregular galaxies
Dwarf irregular galaxies
Dwarf barred irregular galaxies
Centaurus
5408
50073
Virgo Supercluster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%205408 |
Round towers GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club based in Kildare in County Kildare, Ireland winner of 10 Kildare county senior football championships , six as Round Towers, three as Kildare and one as St Patrick's.
History
Round Towers' most recent Senior Football Championship wins came in 1996 defeating Johnstownbridge, in 1998 defeating Clane and in 2003 defeating Kilcock. Round Towers were relegated to Intermediate Football in 2012 after a defeat by one point to St Kevin's in the relegation play-off. Managed by Glenn Ryan, they won the Intermediate Championship in 2016 with a one-point victory over Two Mile House in a replay.
Notable persons
Glenn Ryan featured on the Kildare Football Team of the Millennium and was an All-Star winner in 1997 and 1998. Karl O'Dwyer (son of Kerry's Mick O'Dwyer) and Brian Lacey were All-Stars winners in 1998, and former Wexford hurler and 1989 All-Star Éamonn Cleary played for the team in the 1990s. Referee Seamus Aldridge played for the club.
A separate club, Naomh Bríd or St Brigid's organises hurling in the town. Three Naomh Bríd players, Tommy Burke, Jack O'Connell, and Pat White were chosen on the Kildare hurling team of the millennium. The Fitzpatrick family founded another club, Mooretown, in the district – its only honor was the Junior C Championship of 1982.
Honors
Kildare Senior Football Championship: Winners (10) 1927, 1929, 1930, 1938, 1954, 1959, 1961, 1996, 1998, 2003
Senior Committee 2022
Underage Club Officers 2022
Bibliography
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000– in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904–2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
References
External links
Round Towers Site
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare
Kildare (town) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%20Towers%20GAA%20%28Kildare%29 |
Hocine Soltani (December 1972 – March 2002) was an Algerian boxer, who won two Olympic medals. In 1992, the southpaw placed third in the featherweight division (54–57 kg), and at the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the lightweight division.
Early life
Hocine Soltani was born in the Algerian town of Thénia on 27 December 1972. He was introduced to boxing by his older brother Omar, who had already trained several other fighters. Omar later explained, "It is a school of life and discipline that allowed him not to drag, he quickly proved diligent and determined." Soltani fought right-handed in the southpaw stance, using his left hand as a low guard near his hip.
Boxing career
Amateur career
He came joint third with Arnaldo Mesa at the 1991 World Amateur Boxing Championships. Soltani was selected for the Olympics for the first time for the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain, competing in the featherweight division. He reached the semi-final, where he was defeated by eventual gold medallist Andreas Tews of Germany. Omar said that "By the end of the Barcelona Olympics, the goal was to come back to win the gold this time. For us it was an even higher level. Nothing to do with the World Championships or the African Championships which was Hocine was each time medalist."
Soltani returned to the Olympics at the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, United States, competing this time in the lightweight division. In the first round, he defeated Turkey's Vahdettin İşsever with a points decision of 14–2. The winning margin was slightly less in the second round, when he won 11–1 against Agnaldo Nunes of Brazil. From the quarter-finals onwards, the decisions were increasingly close. Against South Korea's Shin Eun-Chul, the score was 16–10, and Soltani won in the semi-final against favourite Leonard Doroftei of Romania by a score of only 9–6.
In the final of the Atlanta Games, Soltani faced Bulgarian Tontcho Tontchev. After leading the Bulgarian 2–1 in the final round, Soltani was penalised by the referee by both his points, but soon leveled the score. With the score level at the end of the match, the victory was given to Soltani following a count back (where each hit scored by the two boxers are counted). This was the first time any Algerian had won an Olympic gold medal in boxing.
Professional career
Hocine turned pro in 1998, and made his professional debut against Michael Jobert on 30 November 1998 at the Palais des Sports in Paris, France, winning by technical knockout. He fought twice more in France in 1999, winning against Aziz Makloufi with a points decision and then against David Sarraille with a knockout. Hocine fought for a final time on 27 January 2000, his only professional bout in Algeria, against Fabrice Colombel in a split decision. His nephew, Mebarek Soltani went on to compete for Algeria at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics in boxing, but did not match his uncle's success, being unable to win any medals.
Later life and death
Following his retirement from boxing following his four professional bouts, Soltani began working in the importing and exporting of cars in Marseille, where he had settled with his wife and child. On 1 March 2002, he left to meet with a man who wanted to have two cars exported to Algeria. It was the last time he would be seen alive by his family. During the course of the next two years, there were theories that he had relocated to the United States or Japan. When a body was found in September 2004, the idea that it could be Soltani was met with skepticism by his brother, but DNA tests demonstrated that it was the missing ex-boxer.
Soltani's mother travelled to France from Algeria to provide the investigators with a baseline with which to compare the DNA evidence. The body was repatriated to Algeria, and was buried in Boudouaou. The man with whom Soltani met that day was arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping and the subsequent death of the victim; however, rumours continued of an underworld connection.
Career
Olympic Games
Olympic Games 1996 (Atlanta, USA) (- 60 kg )
Olympic Games 1992 (Barcelona, Spain) (- 57 kg )
World Amateur Boxing Championships
World Amateur Boxing Championships 1991 (Sydney, Australia) (- 57 kg )
Quarter-finals World Amateur Boxing Championships 1993 (Tampere, Finland) (- 60 kg )
Preliminaries 1/16 World Amateur Boxing Championships 1995 (Berlin, Germany) (- 63,5 kg)
Quarter-finals World Cup 1994 (Bangkok, Thailand) (- 60 kg )
African Amateur Boxing Championships
African Amateur Boxing Championships 1994 (Johannesburg, South Africa) (- 60 kg )
African Olympic Qualifications 1996 (- 63,5 kg)
All-Africa Games
All-Africa Games 1991 (Cairo, Egypt) (- 57 kg )
Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games 1993 ( Narbonne, France) (- 60 kg )
International tournaments
Italia Junior ( Santa Teresa Gallura, Italy ) 1989 (-51 kg)
IItalia Junior( Alghero, Italy) 1990 (-51 kg)
Balaton Junior Cup (Siofok, Hungary) 1990 (-51 kg)
President's Cup ( Jakarta, Indonesia ) 1994 (- 60 kg )
Golden Belt Tournament ( Bucharest, Romania) 1994 (- 60 kg )
Trofeo Italia ( Mestre, Italy) 1995 (- 63,5 kg)
Quarterfinals Giraldo Cordova Cardin Tournament (Camaguey, Cuba) 1996 (- 63,5 kg)
Quarterfinals Giraldo Cordova Cardin Tournament (Cienfuegos, Cuba) 1994 (- 60 kg )
See also
List of solved missing person cases
References
1972 births
2000s missing person cases
2002 deaths
2002 murders in France
African Games gold medalists for Algeria
African Games medalists in boxing
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Algerian male boxers
Algerian people murdered abroad
Boxers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Competitors at the 1991 All-Africa Games
Competitors at the 1993 Mediterranean Games
Featherweight boxers
Formerly missing people
Lightweight boxers
Male murder victims
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Algeria
Missing person cases in France
Olympic boxers for Algeria
Olympic bronze medalists for Algeria
Olympic gold medalists for Algeria
Olympic medalists in boxing
People from Thénia
People murdered in France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hocine%20Soltani |
Naas is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of ten Kildare county senior football championships, ten senior hurling championships, four senior camogie championships and Kildare club of the year in 1981.
History
Naas played the Curragh on 15 February 1885 to become one of eight clubs which share the distinction of being the first to play in a Gaelic football match. The GAA Naas Sunbursts and Naas Crom-A-Boo were listed as unaffiliated clubs in 1896 while nearby Thomastown was an affiliated club. Naas moved to Spooner's Field opposite the racecourse grandstand in 1913. Father Brennan park was opened in 1930. Naas GAA grounds are now situated on the Sallins Rd, the amenities include three new floodlight pitches, a cloths bank, one way traffic management system and a brand new clubhouse.
Hurling
Naas has won the Kildare senior hurling championship nine times. The first of these titles came in 1951 the team was captained by Big Noise Sheridan and Naas successfully defended the title the following year. The club then entered a barren spell and it was not until some 42 years later in 1994 that the Naas men, captained by Richie Coyle, reclaimed the crown by defeating Coill Dubh. This was the beginning of a golden spell for the club, with further titles following in 1997, 2000 and 2001. The Kildare team that won the Christy Ring Cup in 2018 was captained by Naas’ Brian Byrne. After a seventeen year gap, Naas reclaimed the senior hurling championship in 2019, successfully defended their title in 2020 and completed their first three in a row in 2021.
Notable players
Eamonn Callaghan, senior Kildare player and All Star Nominee 2010.
Eoin Doyle, senior Kildare player and Kildare captain for 2016.
Barry Reynolds, senior goalkeeper.
Dermot Hanifan Jnr, centre forward, does not know closer call. Senior club player of the year 2022, well known for the Dermination of the Sheilmaliers Gaa in Leinster semi-final 2021 and half the women in Naas that night.
Notable managers
Tom Mullally managed the club's hurling team.
Honours
Football
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (11) 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1990, 2021, 2022, 2023
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (2) 1984, 2004
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (4) 1913, 1919, 1952, 1981
Kildare Under 21 Football Championship: (3) 1984, 2016, 2019
Kildare Minor Football Championship: (7) 1934, 1953, 1981, 1983, 2016, 2018, 2019
All Ireland U-14 Féile Div 1: 2014
All Ireland U-14 Féile Div 2: 2006
Hurling
All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship: (1) 2021
Leinster Intermediate Hurling Championship: (1) 2021
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship: (11) 1951, 1952, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Kildare Junior Hurling Championship (7) 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1964, 1972, 1993, 2019
Kildare Under 21 Hurling Championship 1994, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Kildare Minor Hurling Championship: 1955, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1991, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
All Ireland U-14 Féile Div 2: 2014, 2018
All Ireland U-14 Féile Div 3: 2006
Camogie
Kildare Senior Camogie Championship (5) 1942, 1959, 1960, 2018, 2022
Kildare Senior Camogie League 1942, 1955, 1957
References
Bibliography
To Spooner's Lane And Beyond, Naas GAA 1887-1987 Céad Bliain Ag Fás by Liam McManus, Naas GAA 1987, 214pp.
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board. The Eoin Hughes remorial cup 1947-1994 The michael O'leary cup 1953-1999
External links
Naas GAA site
Naas GAA on Facebook
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Naas
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare
Hurling clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naas%20GAA |
This page is about theatre in Maryland.
List of theatres in Maryland.
Professional Theatres
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Centerstage
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Awards
Helen Hayes Awards
Greater Baltimore Theater Awards
The Cappies in Baltimore, Maryland
References
Regional theatre in the United States
Maryland
Theaters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20theaters%20in%20Maryland |
Delta College may refer to:
Delta College (Michigan), near Bay City
Delta Technical College, Horn Lake, Mississippi
Louisiana Delta Community College, Monroe, Louisiana
Mississippi Delta Community College, Moorhead, Mississippi
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, California
See also
KIPP: Delta Collegiate High School, in Helena-West Helena, Arkansas
Delta State (disambiguation)
Delta (disambiguation)
Delta University (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20College |
Cleonae or Cleonæ or Kleonai () was an ancient city on the Acte or Akte (Ακτή) peninsula (now Mount Athos), the easternmost of the three peninsulas forming the ancient Chalcidice, on its western coast, south of Thyssus (Thyssos). Thucydides says that among the cities of the aforementioned peninsula, Sane was colony of Andros, while Thyssus, Cleonae, Acrothoum, Olophyxus and Dium had a heterogeneous population of bilingual barbarians formed by a few Chalcidians and, the rest, Pelasgians, Bisaltians, Crestonians and Edoni. Strabo points out that its primitive populated was composed of Pelasgians from Lemnos. According to Strabo, it was colonized by Euboean colonists from Chalcis. Heraclides Lembus also writes that Chalcidians settled there.
It was a member of the Delian League as it appears on the tribute lists to Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
It is tentatively identified with a site near Daphne.
References
Populated places in ancient Macedonia
Euboean colonies
Ancient Athos
Greek colonies in Chalcidice
Former populated places in Greece
Members of the Delian League | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleonae%20%28Athos%29 |
Gdańsk Orunia railway station is a railway station serving the city of Gdańsk, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1852 and is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway. The train services are operated by Przewozy Regionalne.
The station used to be known as Danzig Ohra.
Modernisation
The station was modernised in 2012 which included rebuilding the platforms and building sound barriers.
Train services
The station is served by the following services:
Regional services (R) Gdynia - Sopot - Gdansk - Tczew - Malbork - Elblag - Ilawa - Olsztyn
Regional services (R) Gdynia - Sopot - Gdansk - Tczew - Laskowice - Bydgoszcz
References
This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as of October 2016.
External links
Orunia
Railway stations served by Przewozy Regionalne InterRegio
Railway stations in Poland opened in 1852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gda%C5%84sk%20Orunia%20railway%20station |
Mohamed Zaoui (born May 14, 1960) is a former middleweight boxer from Algeria. He won the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, becoming the first Algerian to ever win a medal at the Olympic Games.
Personal
Zaoui was born in the village of Zaouiet Yagoubi, near Nedroma, in the Tlemcen Province. When he was just five months old, he emigrated with his family to Évin-Malmaison, France.
Career
Zaoui won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He shared the podium with Puerto Rico's Arístides González.
Career
Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles, USA (75 kg)
Quarter-finals World Cup - Seoul, South Korea 1985 (75 kg)
International tournaments
24 Fevrier Tournament - Algiers, Algeria 1985 (75 kg)
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
Middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Algeria
Olympic bronze medalists for Algeria
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
People from Tlemcen Province
Algerian emigrants to France
Algerian male boxers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Zaoui |
Moorefield is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in the parish of Newbridge County Kildare, Ireland, winner of two Leinster Club Senior Football Championships, ten Senior County Football Championships and three Senior County Hurling Championships.
History
Folklore records that, in 1882, two brothers, John O'Kelly of Moorefield Road and James O'Kelly of Ballymany were instrumental in forming the first football team in Newbridge. Calling themselves the JJ O'Kellys they played matches against Mountrice, Eyrefield, Monasterevin, Kildare town and Milltown. In 1884, when the GAA was formed, the club changed its name from JJ O'Kelly's to Moorefield, the name of a townland in southern Newbridge.
Gaelic football
Moorefield beat Kilcullen in a one-sided county final in 1962, 2–11 to 0–2 to claim their first Kildare Senior Football Championship title. Carbury defeated Moorefield in the 1965 final.
Moorefield re-emerged in the 1990s. A run of success that started with the minor championship of 1989(Under the name Pollardstown) and two more Leinster Leader Cups in 1994 and 1996 culminated in three successive finals 2000–2002, two of which were won. In 2000 Moorefield beat Kilcock by 2–13 to 2–7 after goals from Cian O'Neill and gave them a 2–10 to 0–1 lead at half-time. Sarsfields overhauled Moorefield towards the end of the 2001 final in a closely contested decider to win 0–10 to 0–8. In 2002 Moorefield won their third title, beating near neighbours Sarsfields 1–8 to 0–6 thanks to a Ronan Sweeney penalty seconds into the second half. Moorefield were defeated in two Leinster club semi-final, by O'Hanrahan's 0–12 to 0–11 in 2000 and by Mattock Rangers by 3–13 to 2–10 in 2002.
The glory days of Moorefield, and indeed Newbridge football rose to a higher plane in 2006, when The Moors beat Allenwood in the Kildare Senior Football Championship final, which lead on to a first Leinster Senior Club Football Championship victory for the town, beating Rhode of Offaly on a wind-swept Sunday in December in the aptly named O'Moore Park, County Laois. They were decisive victors, on a day that all present hoped would lead to a clear-cut rather than a marginal victory. It proved to be so, with a final score of 3 goals and 6 points (15 points) to 8 points for Rhode.
Hurling
Moorefield's 1–10 to 0–3 victory over Broadford in the 1963 county final bridged a twenty-year gap for Moorefield. Davey Dennis captained the team, Mick Leahy scored 0–7 of the total, Billy Quinn came on as substitute to score the goal, and Ned Goff, Jim Barker, Harry Fay, Colm Ruffley, Paddy Moore, Tom O'Connell and Stephen Schwer all collected medals as a result of the victory over a much-changed Broadford team.
Moorefield won their third senior title in 1991 beating Coil Dubh in a replay, with the McMullen and Murray families making up six of the starting fifteen. Moorefield went on to represent Kildare in the Leinster Hurling Championship. They played Longford Slashers in the first round, which also went to a replay, then took on the mighty Birr in the next round.
Moorefield won the replayed 2010 Intermediate Hurling Championship against Naas, 1–13 to 0–11 in Celbridge. The replay was an entertaining and hard-fought game between both sides at St. Conleths park ending on a score of 1–11 a piece, leaving the title to be decided for a later date. On the day Moorefield dominated the majority of the game, Moorefield led 0–10 0–07 at the interval. A goal from a 21-yard free in front of the goal by Gavin Sunderland put the Moores 6 points in front midway through the 2nd half. Moorefield defended like their life depended on it in the last few moments to keep a tremendous fight back from Naas from scoring any inspirational goals. Moorefield will now contest in the Senior ranks for 2011.
Notable players
Cian O'Neill
Kevin O'Neill
Titles won
Leinster Senior Club Football Championship Winners 2006, 2017
Leinster Senior Club Football Championship: Semi-finalists 2000, 2002, 2007.
Kildare Senior Football Championship 1962, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship Winner 1943, 1963, 1991
Kildare Senior Football Championship: Finalists 1965
Senior Football League: 1958, 1959, 1960, 1994, 1996, 2008, 2010, 2011,2013, 2015, 2017.
Kildare Senior B Football Championship (6) 1994, 1995, 1997, 2012, 2014, 2016.
Kildare Intermediate B Football Championship (1) 1996
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship Winners (2) 1937, 1939
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (3) 1933, 1948, 2002.
Kildare Junior B Football Championship: (2) 2006. 2007
Jack Higgins Cup 1994, 2006, 2012
Kildare Junior C Football Championship: (3) 1992, 2000, 2001.
Kildare U-21 Football Championship Winners (4) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003
Kildare Minor Football Championship Winners (4)1989, 1997, 2003, 2015
Kildare Intermediate Hurling Championship (2) 1998, 2010
Kildare Junior Hurling Championship (6) 1941, 1961, 1979, 1987, 1997 & 2006
Kildare Junior Football League (1) 1936
Kildare Junior Hurling League (1) 1972
Kildare Senior B Camogie Championship (2) 1998, 1999
Kildare Intermediate Camogie Championship (1) 1994
Kildare Junior Camogie Championship (1) 1992
Bibliography
Curragh Moorefield GAA Club (1984).
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000– in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904–2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board
Our Club history book Moorefield GAA Club – Our Club, Our Town 1884- 2014
Current Panel
TBC
References
External links
Moorefield GAA site
Kildare GAA site
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Newbridge, County Kildare
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare
Hurling clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorefield%20GAA |
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) is a theatre company based in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 2002, by Ian Gallanar and Heidi Busch-Gallanar, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has grown into one of the twenty largest Shakespeare theaters in the United States under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Ian Gallanar and Managing Director Lesley Malin. The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has performance spaces in Baltimore and Elliott City, Maryland. Its main indoor space, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater opened in 2014 after a $7M renovation of the Mercantile Bank Building, a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, The Studio, is located next door on the fourth floor of the Merchants Club space and is used for educational programs, rehearsals and as an alternate performance space for CSC. They continue to perform outdoor every summer at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City, Maryland.
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is listed as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World by Marcus D. Gregio (Editor), 2004.
Notable projects over the years include participation as the only Maryland Company in 2007's international Shakespeare in Washington Festival with their productions of As You Like It and Henry V, a 2007 production of Macbeth that performed at the Patuxent Institution, a maximum security prison based in Jessup, Maryland, the 2014 Maryland debut of Shakespeare's Richard II, Wild Oats, a rare 18th Century play and their own Baltimore themed adaptation of A Christmas Carol (adapted by Founder and Artistic Director Ian Gallanar) running every December from 2014 - 2019. In 2017, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company hosted the international Shakespeare Theatre Association conference.
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's education programs include professional artist development, community education, innovative K-12 school programming, summer camps for kids, high school Shakespeare Festivals and workshops using methodologies created by CSC in cooperation with National and International Institutional Partners.
Production history
2002 Twelfth Night Directed by Ian Gallanar
2003 Romeo and Juliet Directed by Ian Gallanar
2003 The Comedy of Errors Directed by Christopher Marino
2004 Troilus & Cressida Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2004 Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Ian Gallanar
2004 Measure for Measure Directed by Christopher Niebling
2005 The Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega Directed by Isabelle Anderson
2005 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Ian Gallanar
2005 Coriolanus Directed by Ian Gallanar
2006 The Imaginary Invalid by Molière Directed by Ken Elston
2006 King Lear Directed by Ian Gallanar
2006 The Taming of the Shrew Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2006 Love's Labor's Lost Directed by Jenny Leopold
2007 The Front Page Directed by Ian Gallanar
2007 As You Like It Directed by Ian Gallanar
2007 Henry V Directed by James Ricks
2007 Macbeth Directed by Ian Gallanar
2008 A Doll's House by Henrick Ibsen Directed by Kevin Costa
2008 The Comedy of Errors Directed by Ian Gallanar
2008 The Tempest Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2008 Macbeth Directed by Ian Gallanar
2009 The Country Wife Directed by Heather Nathans
2009 Cyrano de Bergerac Directed by Ian Gallanar
2009 Twelfth Night Directed by Jenny Leopold
2009 Julius Caesar Directed by Frank Moorman
2010 Lysistrata Directed by Ian Gallanar
2010 Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Ryan Whinnem
2010 Hamlet Directed by Ian Gallanar
2010 Titus Andronicus Directed by Kevin Costa
2011 Cymbeline Directed by Ian Gallanar
2011 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Ian Gallanar
2011 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Directed by Scott Alan Small
2011 Our Town Directed by Ian Gallanar
2012 The Merchant of Venice Directed by Teresa Castracane
2012 Romeo and Juliet Directed by Jenny Leopold
2012 Pride and Prejudice Directed by Isabelle Anderson
2012 Richard III Directed by Ian Gallanar
2013 The Two Gentlemen of Verona Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2013 The Taming of the Shrew Directed by Ian Gallanar
2013 Antony and Cleopatra Directed by Ralph Alan Cohen
2013 Dracula Directed by Scott Alan Small
2014 As You Like It Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick
2014 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Ian Gallanar
2014 Richard II Directed by Kevin Costa
2014 A Christmas Carol Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 Uncle Vanya Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 The Importance of Being Earnest Directed by Erin Bone Steele
2015 Romeo and Juliet Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 The Comedy of Errors Directed by Scott Alan Small
2015 Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Matthew R. Wilson
2015 Titus Andronicus Directed by Ian Gallanar
2015 A Christmas Carol Directed by Ian Gallanar & Scott Alan Small
2016 Wild Oats Directed by Ian Gallanar
2016 Macbeth Directed by Paul Barnes
2016 The Three Musketeers Directed by Patrick Kilpatrick & Ian Gallanar
2016 Othello Directed by Ian Gallanar
2016 Anne of the Thousand Days Directed by Kasi Campbell
2016 A Christmas Carol By Ian Gallanar Directed by Scott Alan Small
2017 Richard III Directed by Ian Gallanar
2017 The Taming of the Shrew Directed by Ian Gallanar
2017 The Fantasticks! by Schmidt & Jones Directed by Curt Tofteland
2017 The Tempest Directed by Lizzi Albert
2017 Julius Caesar Directed by Michael Toylado
2017 A Christmas Carol By Ian Gallanar Directed by Scott Alan Small
2018 Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti Directed by Shirley Basfield-Dunlap
2018 The Winter's Tale Directed by Isabelle Anderson
2018 Alice in Wonderland by Florida Friebus & Eva Le Gallienne Directed by Ian Gallanar
2018 A Midsummer Night's Dream Directed by Gerrad Taylor
2018 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith Directed by Ian Gallanar
2018 A Christmas Carol By Ian Gallanar Directed by Gerrad Taylor
2019 Henry IV Part 1 Directed by Ian Gallanar
2019 Henry IV Part 2 Directed by Ian Gallanar and Gerrad Taylor
2019 The Diary of Anne Frank by Goodrich & Hackett Directed by Eve Muson
2019 Macbeth Directed by Ian Gallanar
2019 Love's Labour's Lost Directed by Erin Bone Steele
2019 Dracula by Steven Deitz Directed by Gerrad Taylor
2019 A Christmas Carol by Ian Gallanar Directed by Scott Alan Small
2020 Measure for Measure Directed by Lisa Bruneau
2020 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield Directed by Ian Gallanar
2021 Pericles Directed by Matthew Wilson
2021 A Christmas Carol by Ian Gallanar Directed by Erin Bone Steele and Lizzi Albert
2022 A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Reggie Phoenix
2022 Henry V Directed by Alec Wild
2022 Much Ado About Nothing Directed by Seamus Miller
2022 Twelfth Night Directed by Ian Gallanar
2023 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield Directed by Ian Gallanar
2023 Hamlet Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
2023 Macbeth Directed by Lauren Davis
2023 A Midsummer Night's Dream for Shakespeare Beyond Directed by Ian Gallanar
2023 As You Like It Directed by Ian Gallanar
See also
Theater in Maryland
Shakespeare in Washington Festival
References
External links
Official Website of Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare in Washington Festival
Ellicott City, Maryland
Theatres in Maryland
Theatre companies in Maryland
Tourist attractions in Howard County, Maryland
2002 establishments in Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chesapeake%20Shakespeare%20Company |
Athy GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Athy, County Kildare, Ireland. The club has won seven county senior football championships.
Gaelic Football
On 9 October 2011 in St Conleths Park Newbridge Michael Foley captained a young Athy side to victory against Carbury with a final score of 2.11 to 2.07. Athy scored 2–5 in the opening 15 minutes and two points in the closing four minutes but managed just four points in between, a period during which Carbury accumulated 2–4. Indeed, when Daryl O'Brien rasped home Carbury's second goal in the 57th minute to cut the deficit to two points, it looked as if they might have timed their run to perfection. The next score was crucial and it went Athy's way as Man of the Match Cian Reynolds held his nerve and calmly pointed a free.
"It was a crucial score because Carbury were going very well at that stage," said Athy manager Mark Brophy.
Reynolds added another point in stoppage time, sending the red-clad hordes in the 6,000 crowd into ecstasy as they began the celebrations after a job well done by a well-balanced squad.
Current Panel
David Hyland
Mark Hyland
Mick Foley
Kevin Feely
Paschal Connell
Darroch Mulhall
Liam McGovern
James Eaton
Niall Kelly
Titles
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship: (3) 1928, 1936, 1959
Kildare Intermediate Hurling Championship (5)1937, 1943, 1950, 1958, 1989
Kildare Junior Hurling Championship (3) 1982, 1998, 2007
Camogie
Athy advertised for a reunion of players in 1909. Clan Bridge and St Patrick's clubs from Athy affiliated separately in 1935. Athy beat Ballitore in the 1940 junior final. Ballyroe St Anne's was formed in 1959. Coached by Jimmy Hickey, they won the 1961 senior league, Brigid Moran scored seven goals as they won the 1961 county final and they went on to win four county titles in a row before disbanding suddenly in 1964. Ballyroe won the Senior League in 1960, 1961, 1963 and 1964.
Honours
. Kildare senior football league division 1: winners 2018
Kildare U-21 Football Championship: Winners 2010, 2011
Kildare Senior Football Championship: Winners (7) 1933, 1934, 1937, 1942, 1987, 2011, 2020
Kildare Minor Football Championship Winners, (7) 1956 1966, 1973, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship winners (1) 1959
Kildare Minor Hurling Championship Winners (1) 1970
Mick Carolan was chosen on the Kildare football team of the millennium and was a Cuchulainn All Stars Award winner in 1966.
Geraldine Dwyer was chosen on the Kildare camogie team of the century.
Cian Reynolds captained the 2009 Kildare minor team to a Leinster Final where they were beaten in extra-time of the replay by Dublin.
Honours Ballyroe
Kildare Senior Camogie Championship: (4)1961, 1962, 1963, 1964
Kildare Senior Camogie League (2) 1960, 1961
Bibliography
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000– in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904–2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
References
External links
Athy GFC Website
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare
Hurling clubs in County Kildare
Athy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athy%20GAA |
Te Tomairangi Marae is an Invercargill Marae on the same city block as St Josephs School and St. Mary's Basilica. In late 2005, the Marae was affected by vandals who set fire to the main building. Months previously a Warehouse within a few hundred metres was also burnt. The fire consumed much of the marae. As of March 2005 the marae is currently boarded up. After being destroyed by fire twice the building reopened in 2008 with a sprinkler system installed.
References
Buildings and structures in Invercargill
Southland, New Zealand
Marae in New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20Tomairangi%20Marae |
Kilcock is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Kilcock, County Kildare, Ireland. Located on the border with County Meath, Kilcock traditionally draws it players from the village itself as well as the surrounding rural areas of Laragh, Ballycaghan, Clonfert and Belgard. The club has won five Kildare Senior Football Championships (most recently in 1958) and was "Kildare club of the year" in 1982. Kilcock is the home club of Davy Dalton Jr., winner of the 1997 All Stars Award.
History
Kilcock GAA began life as Kilcock O’Connell's and was one of the strongest early GAA clubs in Kildare. Christy Rochfort was a prominent footballer and referee of the early years. Six Kilcock men have won All Ireland Senior Football Championships with Kildare (1905, 1919).
Kilcock won their first Senior Football Championship in 1914 beating Clane GAA 1–4 to 0–4. Kilcock repeated this success in 1917 beating Kilcullen GAA by 5–0 to 2–1.
In 1950, Kilcock won the Junior A and overall Junior championship. The club later secured promotion to the senior ranks in 1953 and won the Leader Cup (Division One League) the same year. This was followed by Senior Football Championship titles in 1955, 1957 and 1958.
Kilcock last won the Kildare Senior Football Championship in 1958 when they defeated Round Towers GAA (Kildare) on a scoreline of 3–12 to 3–8.
The 1960s saw Kilcock decline as a senior power. In 1968, the club was relegated to intermediate level. However, the spell at intermediate level was short-lived as the club went on to win the Intermediate Championship in 1969.
1970 saw the formal unification of Kilcock and Cappagh GAA as a senior team. As both clubs come from the same parish and often draw players from the same areas it was felt that such an amalgamation would benefit all within the parish of Kilcock & Newtown. However this amalgamation did not last long and when Cappagh acquired their own field in Ballyvoneen in May 1971, both clubs went their separate ways. After the break-up, Kilcock was re-graded to Junior A and football was to play at this level for the rest of the decade.
The highlight of the 1970s was a Junior B championship final appearance in 1979. Also in 1979, the club moved from the Bawnog to Branganstown. After nearly 90 years playing at the Bawnog, the club played its final game there and later moved to on better land in Branganstown.
In 1981 the club won both Junior B and Junior C and defeated Naas to claim the Jack Higgins cup. In 1982, Kilcock won the Intermediate championship. Kilcock competed at the senior level for 18 years before finally, in 2000, making it to the SFC Final. However, the team second against a Cian O'Neill-inspired Moorefield GAA. In 2003, the senior footballers captured the SFL Division 1 title, while also reaching the SFC final again, losing to Round Towers GAA (Kildare).
The recession hit the town of Kilcock hard and between 2009 and 2011 there was an exodus of footballers from the club. This, combined with a number of years where underage success was a rarity led to Kilcock being relegated back to the Intermediate level in 2011.
Hurling and camogie have had something of a resurgence in Kilcock in recent years with success at both underage and adult level in both sports. Kilcock won the Kildare Junior Hurling Championship in 2018 and a week later, won the promotion/relegation playoff against Celbridge to seal Intermediate status for 2019. Kilcock's camogie team won back-to-back Kildare Junior Camogie titles is 2017 and 2018, and reached the Kildare Intermediate final in their first year playing at the level in 2019, where they fell to neighbours Cappagh GAA by a single point.
Kilcock returned to the Senior Ranks of Kildare Club football in 2022 after a replay win over Ballymore Eustace the full time score ending Kilcock 1-16 to 0-7 for Ballymore Eustace in the 2021 IFC Final. In the same year, both the Kilcock Ladies Football and Camogie teams won their respective Kildare Intermediate Championships, with the footballers beating Kilcullen by 4-06 to 1-13 and the camogie team defeating St. Laurences by a scoreline of 0-06 to 0-05.
Notable players
Tommy Kelly (1905 All Ireland Snr Football Championship winner)
Tom Crowley (1905 All Ireland Snr Football Championship winner)
James 'Ginger' Moran (1919 All Ireland Snr Football Championship winner)
Kit Flynn (1919 All Ireland Snr Football Championship winner)
Joe Connor (1919 All Ireland Snr Football Championship winner)
George Magan (1919 All Ireland Snr Football Championship winner)
Davy Dalton Sr (1956 Leinster Snr Football Championship winner)
Larry McCormack (1956 Leinster Snr Football Championship winner)
Paddy Gibbons (1956 Leinster Snr Football Championship winner)
Noel Moran (1956 Leinster Snr Football Championship winner)
Davy Dalton Jr (1998 Leinster Snr Football Championship winner)
Honors
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (5) 1914, 1917, 1955, 1957, 1958
Kildare Senior Football League Division 1: (2) 1953, 2003
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (4)1938, 1969, 1982, 2021
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (2) 1937, 1950
Kildare Under 21 Football Championship: (1) 1999
Kildare Intermediate Football League: (2) 1950, 1982,
Kildare Junior B Football Championship: (1) 1981
Kildare Junior C Football Championship: (1) 1981
Aldridge Cup: (1) 2006
Jack Higgins Cup: (1) 1981
Kildare Under-21 Football Division 2 Championship: (1) 2015
Kildare Minor Football Division 1 Championship: (1) 1995
Kildare Minor Football Division 1 League: (2) 1956, 2016
Kildare Minor Football Division 2 Championship: (1) 2011
Kildare Minor Football Division 2 League: (2) 1980, 1981
References
External links
Kilcock GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites (archived 2006)
Kilcock Facebook page
Kilcock
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Hurling clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcock%20GAA |
Mustapha Moussa (; born February 2, 1962, in Oran) is an Algerian former boxer who fought in the light heavyweight division. He won the first-ever Olympic medal for Algeria, winning a bronze at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He shared the podium with American boxer Evander Holyfield.
Career
Mustapha Moussa started boxing in his native city Oran with .
Pro career
Moussa turned pro in 1988 and had little success. He lost his pro debut to future titlist Mauro Galvano, as well as his other fight in 1988. He fought once in 1992 and 2004, losing both fights. His career record is 0-4-0.
Olympic results
1st round bye
Defeated Drake Thadzi (Malawi) 5-0
Defeated Tony Wilson (Great Britain) 5-0
Lost to Anton Josipović (Yugoslavia) 0-5
Career
Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles, USA (81 kg )
CISM Championships - Algiers, Algeria 1982 (81 kg )
Mediterranean Games Casablanca, Morocco 1983 (81 kg )
Pan Arab Games Rabat, Morocco 1985 (81 kg )
All-Africa Games ( Nairobi, Kenya) 1987 (- 81 kg )
Quarter-finals World Cup - Seoul, South Korea 1985 (- 81 kg )
Tournament
President's Cup ( Jakarta, Indonesia ) 1981 (75 kg)
French Open ( Perigueux, France ) 1981 (81 kg )
Feliks Stamm Memorial ( Warsaw, Poland) 1983 (81 kg )
Giraldo Cordova Cardin Tournament - Santiago de Cuba 1983 (81 kg )
24 Fevrier Tournament ( Algiers, Algeria ) 1985 (81 kg )
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Light-heavyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Algeria
Olympic bronze medalists for Algeria
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Oran
Algerian male boxers
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Algeria
Competitors at the 1983 Mediterranean Games
African Games silver medalists for Algeria
African Games medalists in boxing
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 1987 All-Africa Games
21st-century Algerian people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustapha%20Moussa |
Ellistown is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland, winner of four county senior football championships, including two under their former name of "Mountrice Blunts". They also played as Knavinstown for a period and combined with Ballykelly to form an area team, St. Brigids. Jack Donnelly was a member of the Kildare football team of the millennium.
History
Founded on 29 January 1888, by the time they were four years in existence, Wilfred Scawen Blunts of Mountrice had won two fierce local derby county finals with Kildare reached the Leinster final, and started a football tradition in the area that continues. RIC records from 1890 show that the club named after English liberal supporter of Home Rule, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, had 50 members with officers listed as Terence Byrne, JJ Malone, William Curry and John Corry. Patrick Kelly and James Cooney attended the 1889 convention. They gave a walkover to Dublin Young Irelands in the 1891 Leinster final and just four months after the Blunts had qualified for the Leinster final, club secretary Terence Byrne wrote to the 1892 county convention to say the club had broken up. Their successors Knavinstown were involved in the reconstitution of Kildare GAA in 1901. They were succeeded by Umerus, a second Mountrice club, Springfield (a 1927 amalgamation between Rathangan and Ellistown), and finally Ellistown.
Gaelic football
Of the 1891 Mountrice team, Pat Martin was grandfather of 1960s ace scorer Jack Donnelly, while Jim was father of Bob and Paddy - All Ireland medallist, inter-provincial, and Tailteann Games international in the 1920s. Ellistown were promoted in 1935, went to the semi-final in 1936, losing to Curragh having beaten Sarsfields on the way, lost the 1937 first round to Sarsfields, and eventually reached the 1938 county final. The first of two successive Ellistown v Kildare St. Patrick's finals never took place because six Ellistown players were ill, and they were surprised when a walkover rather than a refixture was given. They won the title the following year, Ellistown won revenge, 3-2 to 1-3. Ned Cullen put a shot through the net, while Michael "Butt" Donnelly got a goal for Ellistown. Ellistown won their second and last title in 1944, when opponents Carbury had a player sent off and struck the posts. Four Ellistown players were almost left behind when the bus on which they were travelling broke down. Davey Graham arrived just as the teams were lining up behind the band. Ellistown won 1-4 to 0-4. Ellistown, now with many of the sons of former stars on the side, returned to senior ranks in 1964 having come straight from junior B in two years. It was 1968 before Ellistown, now with Jack Donnelly breaking scoring records, made a real impact on the senior championship, when they beat Maynooth and Sarsfields and qualified for a semi-final against Carbury that went to two matches and saw punches thrown freely before Carbury qualified by five points. In 1972 eight points from Jack Donnelly helped Ellistown to a 2-12 to 1-11 victory over Sarsfields and a place in the county final. Tom Moore got two Carbury goals within ten minutes of the restart, and Carbury cantered home 3-14 to 1-7. Six Ellistown players survived for their junior championship win nine years earlier.
Notable players
Jack Donnelly - Former Kildare U21 All Ireland champion 1965 & Team of the millennium member.
Phil Noons - Former Kildare U21 All Ireland champion 1965.
Paddy Martin - Former Kildare, Rathangan and Ellistown great.
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (2) 1939, 1944
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (4) 1935, 1951, 1964, 2000
Kildare Junior Football Championship (3) 1922, 1963, 1999
Kildare Junior B Football Championship: (1) 1963
Under 14 All Ireland feile Champions (August) 2008
2018 Senior football league division 4 champions
Mountrice Blunts Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (2) 1889, 1891.
Kildare Team Of the Millennium Jack Donnelly
Bibliography
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
External links
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Ellistown GAA
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellistown%20GFC |
Johnstownbridge is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland, Winner of three county senior football championships and Kildare club of the year in 1983.
Football
Johnstownbridge field a number of teams at all levels. They were the Kildare Intermediate Champions of 2013. Underage teams field as the parish of Balyna. Paul Cribbin and Daniel Flynn are currently part of the Kildare Senior squad for 2022.
Achievements
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (3) 1983, 1988, 1989
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: 2013
Kildare Senior Football League Division 2: 2010
Camogie
Johnstownbridge has seen a rejuvenation of Camogie in the last number of years and they now field teams at all levels.
Titles
All-Ireland Junior Club Camogie Championship Winner 2015
Bibliography
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
References
External links
Johnstownbridge GAA
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstownbridge%20GAA |
Caragh GFC, Prosperous is a Gaelic football club in Prosperous, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of three county senior football championships and the only club to play in five successive county finals, club of the year 1978 and home club of Larry Stanley, All Ireland medalist in 1919, Olympic athlete in 1924, first winner of the All-Time All-Star award for Gaelic Football and a member of the Kildare team of the millennium. Two of Kildare's winning All Ireland captains came from the club, Larry Stanley and Mick Buckley. Mick's grandson Niall played on the 1998 Kildare All Ireland team. Another county senior football title was lost on objection over a player that was "on the run" during the Civil War. Caragh and Raheens share a parish and while the Raheens grounds are in Caragh village, the Caragh grounds are in Prosperous.
History
Early History 18th-19th centuries
Caragh GAA club is one of the county Kildare oldest GAA clubs. Gaelic football has been played in the area as far back as the 18th century with teams from Landenstown, Donore, Blackwood and the village of Prosperous. However many of these teams went out of existence in the 19th century and Caragh Gaelic Football Club was founded. The birth of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884 and the introduction of County committees in 1886 reignited the games of Gaelic football and hurling. The inaugural meeting of Prosperous & Blackwood Sir T Esmondes attracted 140 members in February 1888 under the patronage of local parish priest Father Kinsella and a British army veteran, Captain Fitzpatrick. Their rivals, Tim Healys were set up at Digby Bridge who reached the Kildare senior football semi-final in 1890. Digby Bridge Tim Healys officers John Dunne and Thomas Malone were listed as attending the 1889 convention. RIC records from 1890 show that Clongorey Campaigners had 38 members with Dan Kelly, John Murphy, Pat Fullam and James Kelly listed as officers. Clongorey reached the Senior Hurling Championship final in 1891 and but were defeated by Maynooth. In 1897 there were three clubs from the Parish in the county championship - Caragh, Digby Bridge and Prosperous.
1900-1929
Dick Radley of Prosperous spearheaded the GAA revival in Kildare and Prosperous. Prosperous contested the County Senior Championship in 1901 and 1903 losing on both occasions to Clane GAA. Caragh did win the Junior Championship in 1907 defeating Athy GAA. Blacktrench who were formed in 1915 won the junior championship of 1916 with Larry Stanley as a key member of the side. In 1917 Caragh won the Junior Championship after three matches defeating Maddenstown 2–3 to 1–8. Caragh and Blacktrench amalgamated in 1918 and Raheens was also formed. 1918 was also the same year that Caragh won their first Senior championship captained by Larry Stanley who also lead Kildare to Leinster and All Ireland success. Caragh reached the Senior finals of 1919 defeating Kilcock GAA 2–4 to 2–1. They were defeated by Naas GAA in 1920 1–6 to 0–8. In 1921 Caragh drew with St. Conleths 1-12 each. The match was played during Irish Civil War and St. Conleth's were awarded title on objection because one of the Caragh players called C. McCarthy gave a false name as he was 'on the run' from Free State troops at the time. They were defeated by Naas in the Senior Championship final of 1922. Caragh are the only club to have played in five successive county finals from 1918 to 1923, winning two of them losing a third on objection and a fourth to a Naas goal scored before the backs had returned to their positions. Caragh qualified for the 1925 county final having lost two and drawn one of the three matches they played, losing a replay against Athy by 2–3 to 1-3 and the semifinal against Roseberry by 12 points. They won both matches on objections and qualified. They won their third county title in 1926. Caragh were the first winners of the Leinster Leader cup when it was presented in 1920. Larry and Jim Stanley, Mick Buckley and Jack Dunne, a veteran of Kildare’s 1903 All Ireland team, backboned the team.
1930-1959
It wasn't until 1931 that the club was to enjoy further success winning the Intermediate Championship defeating Athy in the final. A combined Raheens/Caragh selection, entered the 1932 championship as St. Peter's losing to Carbury GAA. Their next success came in 1949 defeating Ballymore Eustace GAA in the Junior Championship 4–9 to 2–7. The club opened their current home ground St. Farnans Park in 1951. An official opening ceremony was held and the grounds blessed by Father Mark Minma C.C.. Kildare GAA chairman Liam Geraghty and club Secretary Tim Clarke oversaw the event. Raheens and Caragh again agreed to amalgamate in 1953 under the name Young Emmets. In 1954 Young Emmets won the Intermediate Championship and were promoted to Senior status. However, the partnership only lasted two more years and in 1956 Caragh and Raheens became a separate entities again. Camogie was introduced in 1955. The team was registered in the colours grey and red. Caragh won the county championship in 1958 but were not able to field a team again until 1962
1960-1989
In 1962 the Camogie team was reorganised by Betty Garry. They won the senior league in 1964 and senior championship in 1965. They also won the Senior Camogie League in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967. They were defeated in the 1967 camogie county championship by Geraldines 5–0 to 4–2. In the mid seventies the club commenced an underage policy and hurling was also introduced at the club. The club's next success was in 1978 and again at Junior level, winning the championship having been previously defeated in the Junior Championship finals of 1976 and 1977. 1978 was a particularly successful year at the club with a new playing pitch opened as well as the club winning Club of the Year and Richie Whelan winning Club Secretary of the Year. The Under 10 and Under 14 teams won their respective Championships however the club's Senior football team were defeated in the Championship final. The hurling team won its first league title in 1983 and in 1984 won their first championship and were successful in retaining their league title. In 1989 the under-16 team both league and championship while the minor team made the championship final. A significant portion of the club's players were members of Clane Community School's All Ireland colleges victory team. A Ladies committee was formed in the early 80s and played a large part in fundraising for the club's Clubhouse which was opened in the mid 80s. The club's centenary year was in 1988.
1990–2012
Caragh won the Junior Championship and the Jack Higgins Cup in 1993 and Intermediate Championship titles in 1995. Caragh and St. Kevins minor teams amalgamated for the 2000 season and won the Minor B league beating Balyna in the final. In 2005 Caragh won the Junior B Championship defeating Kildangan GAA The club's minor team were defeated in extra time in the 2007 league final. The Minor team did win the Minor C Championship in 2008 defeating Suncroft 4–8 to 3–9. The Caragh team managed by Donnacha Hayden won the 2010 Junior Championship defeating local rivals Robertstown in the final. The team contested the postponed 2010 Jack Higgins Cup Final in late 2011 defeating Sarsfields. In 2012 Mark Shaw took the helm and the team currently play in division 2 of the county league and the intermediate championship.
2013 – present Day
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship Winners (3) 1918, 1919, 1926
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship (2) 1931, 1995
Kildare Junior Football Championship 1917, 1949, 1993, 2010
Kildare Junior Football Championship Runners Up 2017
Leinster Leader Cup 1920
Kildare Intermediate Football League 1942, 1944.
Kildare Senior Camogie Championship 1958, 1965, 1966
Kildare Senior Camogie League 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967
Jack Higgins Cup 1993, 2010
Kildare Minor Football "C" Championship 2008, 2009
Club of the century award.
Bibliography
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
Prosperous A Village of Vision Printed by Cardinal Press Limited, Maynooth
Caragh GFC Official Website
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caragh%20GFC |
Albany Creek Excelsior Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club from Albany Creek, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The club was formed in 1963, and currently play in Brisbane Premier League.
History
Albany Creek Excelsior was founded in 1963 by Hec Wolter, the headmaster of Albany Creek Primary School. The early years of the club focussed on providing teams for Brisbane's junior soccer competitions, with an emphasis on the development of local junior players.
The club is first recorded as competing in senior competition in 1977 when it played in Brisbane's Division Seven. The club slowly rose up the ranks and was promoted to Division Two after winning the 1995 Division Three Grand Final against Capalaba. For the next 14 seasons from 1996 to 2009, Albany Creek Excelsior remained at the second tier of Brisbane competition, just one level below the Brisbane Premier League.
In 2007, Albany Creek Excelsior was the largest football club on Brisbane's northside with 63 junior teams, 5 senior squads and over 760 male and female players spanning the junior and senior ranks.
After relegation in 2009, a season when the club failed to win a game, Albany Creek Excelsior bounced back and narrowly missed promotion in 2010 Premier League Two, and achieved the best cup run in their history by reaching the semi-finals of the 2010 Brisbane Premier Cup before being knocked out by Rochedale Rovers.
Between 2007 and 2011, the club was able to invest heavily in infrastructure at Wolter Park and the South Pine Sports Complex, thanks to generous donations from supporters of the club together with government financial support. These investments contributed to the club being promoted to the Brisbane Premier League for the first time in 2013, and its associated club Moreton Bay United FC being selected into the National Premier Leagues Queensland.
Albany Creek secured their first Brisbane Premier League Premiership in 2018. They would fall short of the Championship to Grange Thistle losing 5–1 in the grand final. In 2019, Albany Creek would complete the double winning both the Brisbane Premier League Premiership with 52 points and the Championship beating Toowong FC 2–0 in the grand final. In 2022, Albany Creek were promoted to FQPL 2 after winning the 2021 FQPL 3 - Metro Premiership.
Current squad
Youth
Players from the U23s who have been featured in a first-team matchday squad for ACE in a competitive match
Recent Seasons
Source:
* Shortened season due to COVID-19 pandemic
The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system
Honours
FQPL 3 − Metro / Brisbane Premier League
Premiership
Winners (3): 2018, 2019, 2021
Championship
Winners (1): 2019
Brisbane Premier Division 1
Premiership
Winners (1): 2012
Brisbane Premier Division 2
Championship
Winners (1): 2011
Brisbane Division 1 North
Championship
Winners (1): 1998
Brisbane Division 3
Championship
Winners (1): 1995
Brisbane Division 4
Premiership
Winners (1): 1990
References
External links
Soccer clubs in Brisbane
Brisbane Premier League teams
Association football clubs established in 1963
1963 establishments in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany%20Creek%20Excelsior%20FC |
Monasterevan G.F.C. is a Gaelic football club based in Monasterevin, County Kildare, Ireland. The club competes in the County Kildare GAA board league and cup system. They were Kildare "club of the year" in 1977. In 2012, Monasterevan G.F.C. won their first Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship, beating Raheens in the county final on a scoreline of 1-10 to 0-07 and O’Connells of Louth 0-04 to 0-03 in the Leinster.
Monasterevan were the first club in Ireland to win a football and hurling double, defeating Clane by 1-3 to 1-2, in the 1890 Kildare football final, and defeating Moorefield in the Kildare hurling final the same year.
Rosglas
Rosglas (Irish for Rosegreen, sometimes written as "Ros Glas") GAA club was founded in 1974 as a juvenile club. It currently serves as a hurling club. It has won five minor championship and league titles and won county championships at under-12, under-14 and under-16 level.
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (3) 1890, 1911, 1977 Runners-up: 1907, 1910, 1912, 1973, 1976
Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship: 2012
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (4) 1959, 1971, 2012, 2019
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (4) 1906, 1910, 1935, 1954 Runners-up: 1930, 1945
Kildare Senior B Football Championship: Runners-up: 1992
Kildare Reserve "B" Football Championship: (1) 2013
Kildare Junior C Football Championship: (1) 1998
Kildare Under-21 B Football Shield Winners (2) 2011, 2013
Kildare Minor Football Championship: (1) 1928 Runners-up: 1992
Leinster Leader Cup: (2) 1973, 1974 Runners-up: 1975
Kildare Junior Football League: (2) 1945, 1954 Runners-up: 1933, 1948;
Kildare Junior Football League (Div 2): (2) 1993, 1995 Runners-up: 1973, 1996
Kildare Junior Football League (Div 3B): (1) 1998
Kildare Junior Football League (Div 4 South): (1) 2013
Kildare Minor Football League (Div l): Runners-up: 1993
Kildare Minor Football League (Div 2): (1) 1992
Kildare Minor Football League (Div 3): (3) 1990, 2011, 2013 Runners-up: 2010
Kildare Minor Football League (Div 4): (1) 2008
Keogh Cup: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2023
Kildare Under 21 Champions: 2016
Notable players
Hugh Hyland
Bibliography
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000 (in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000)
References
External links
Official Monasterevan GFC site
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterevin%20G.F.C. |
Westerland is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Hollands Kroon, and lies about 13 km southeast of Den Helder.
The village was first mentioned in 1343 or 1344 as "van Westenlande", and means "western land". It was located on the former island of Wieringen. Wester (western) has been added to distinguish from Oosterland.
The Dutch Reformed church is a single aisled church. The tower dates from around 1500. The current roof was probably added during the 1913 restoration.
Gallery
References
Populated places in North Holland
Hollands Kroon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerland%2C%20Netherlands |
Eisenberg is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the north-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest, approx. 20 km south-west of Worms.
Eisenberg is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") Eisenberg.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the city
Georg Fischer (1888-1963), politician (SPD)
Josef Diehl (1898-1971), politician (SPD), long-time mayor of Eisenberg
Walter Blankenheim (1926-2007) was a German pianist and teacher, born in Eisenberg, died in Saarbrücken (see Wikipedia page)
People who have worked in the city
Winfried Hirschberger (born 1945), from 1982 to 1985 city mayor
Jaqueline Rauschkolb (born 1987), politician (SPD), parliamentary deputy since 2014, grew up in Eisenberg
References
Palatinate Forest
Donnersbergkreis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenberg%2C%20Rhineland-Palatinate |
Westerland may refer to:
Westerland, Germany, a town on the island Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Westerland, Netherlands, a village in North Holland, Netherlands
"Westerland" (song), by Die Ärzte
pt:Westerland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerland |
Rugby Ralph Lauren was an American clothing brand launched in 2004 under the management of parent company Polo Ralph Lauren, the line has been retired. The brand specialised in Preppy/Rugby inspired lifestyle apparel for male and female clientele ages 16 through 25. Rugby also encompassed Rugby Food & Spirits, a small café modeled after the brand and offering dining inspired by the Rugby theme. Rugby merchandise was available at twelve stores throughout the United States, as well as one in Covent Garden in London, UK. By August, 2008 merchandise was also available online at Rugby.com.
In November 2012, it was announced that Ralph Lauren would be ending the Rugby line by February 2013. On February 5, the Rugby.com website was closed with only links to Ralph Lauren.com remaining.
Brand history and identity
Rugby Ralph Lauren was a concept created by luxury lifestyle apparel designer, Ralph Lauren. The brand's first location opened at 342 Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts on October 23, 2004. Rugby's lower price point and edgier styling catered to a younger shopper than Lauren's other luxury clothing brands. Though the company experimented with logos, most of the clothing either carried a small embroidered rugby player, "R.L.F.C", or a skull and crossbones motif. Similarly, the brand adopted its signature colours of yellow and navy stripes on its shopping bags, tags and other promotional material.
Tying in with the brand name, the staple of the concept was the rugby shirt. Originally, these rugby shirts were created in the school colors in the college towns that the Rugby stores resided. Rugby also had a full book of patches that customers could purchase to personalize their rugby shirt in-store.
The full brand lineup consisted of rugby shirts, polos, jackets, suits, dresses, outerwear and accessories, all with a distressed or embellished flair, as well as Rugby Ralph Lauren signature Rugby Football shirts that could be customized by buying patches in-store. Typically, there were also multiple luxury items in each line such as leather jackets and blazers.
Store locations
Rugby was available through its network of stores or on its website RUGBY.com. The brand held eleven stores and one flagship. Stock was also available in limited quantities in Ralph Lauren Outlet stores.
Store locations
342 Newbury Street in Boston, Massachusetts - Rugby Ralph Lauren flagship.
43 King Street, Covent Garden in London, United Kingdom—First European Rugby Ralph Lauren store (Opened September 3, 2011)
1065 Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. - The only store to include Rugby Food & Spirits.
Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California—Closed January 2010
2071 Union Street in San Francisco, California
115 Elm Street in New Canaan, Connecticut
195 Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut
1000 West Armitage in Chicago, Illinois
1123 Emmet St N in Charlottesville, Virginia
99 University Place in New York City, New York
380 & 390 Bleecker St. in New York City, New York
Highland Park Village in Dallas, Texas
University Village in Seattle, Washington—Closed January 2009
Main Street in East Hampton, New York
Natick Collection in Natick, Massachusetts (now closed)
Omotesando, Shibuya-Ku in Tokyo, Japan
The Mall at Short Hills in Short Hills, New Jersey
Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, NC
All of these locations were closed by February 2013, when the brand ceased trading.
A promotional rugby football was produced and used as a display in the stores. On it was written on the blue side, Ralph Lauren, the other blue side ESTABD 2004 and on both yellow sides of the football RUGBY. This football was located at the Boston store on Newbury Street, Boston, MA.
External links
www.rugby.com - Rugby Ralph Lauren official site
Clothing brands of the United States
Sportswear brands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby%20Ralph%20Lauren |
Maynooth GAA (Irish: Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Máigh Núad) is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It caters for the sporting and social needs of residential areas adjacent to its location for all ages through the promotion of Gaelic games — Gaelic football, hurling, camogie and handball.
Maynooth are the winners of two county senior football championships in 1896 and 1913 and two senior hurling championships in 1937 and 1939.
History
Maynooth is one of the oldest clubs in the country and hurling was first played as far back as 1875, nine years before the founding of the GAA in 1884. Maynooth traditionally wearing green, orange and black, were recorded as playing Straffan on 13 March 1887, a game that may not have been the first between the teams. Maynooth were semi-finalists in the very first championship, and won their first Kildare Championship in 1896. The team captain that year was Domhnall ua Buachalla, who subsequently took part in the 1916 rising and afterwards was sent to Knitsford Jail and Frangoch Camp. He was elected to the first Dail in 1918 and he was the last Governor-General of Ireland.
The Maynooth club jersey (black with a white sash) originated from a tragic accident in 1889. A young Maynooth player, Thomas Cullen died after an accidental blow to the head playing against Monastrevin. At the time Maynooth had played 70 matches against teams from Dublin, Louth, Meath, and Kildare, and lost only ten of them.
The motto Crom Abú originated from the war cry of the Fitzgerald family. Croom is a castle in Co. Limerick which formerly belonged to the FitzGeralds. "Abfi" means 'to victory', 'for ever' or literally 'defying' . This is one of the many Irish gathering cries, the use of which was forbidden by repeated Acts of Parliament. The Geraldines of Maynooth retained the motto but were forced by an Act of Parliament to change the motto to "Si Dieu plet Crom Abu". Maynooth GAA have retained the original version which means:- Maynooth to Victory.
Gaelic Football
The men's football Team currently compete in the Kildare Senior Football Championship and in Division Two of the Senior League.
Maynooth won the Intermediate Championship in 1999 with a replayed victory over St Kevins. Following one season in Senior Football Maynooth defeated St Kevins again in 2005 (1–11 to 0–04) to win the Intermediate Championship in Newbridge.
The Club's Senior 'B' Team won the Division 4 League Title in 2008, adding to the Senior 'B' Championship win in 2007.
2009 was a successful year as Maynooth reclaimed their Senior status with victory in the Intermediate championship final over Kilcullen. The team continued their winning ways and claimed a first ever provincial title by defeating Tubberclair (Westmeath) in the same year.
Hurling
Maynooth won the Intermediate Hurling Championship in 1999, a double championship winning year, as the club's footballer's also won the Intermediate Championship. 2009 was another successful year for the club's hurlers as they regained senior status by winning the Intermediate Championship in October, setting up the chance of a double championship year for the club. The Junior Hurlers won the double in 2012 beating Sallins in the League Final in Maynooth and Clane in the Championship Final held in Sallins. Further Intermediate Championships were won in 2011, 2012, 2016, 2020 & 2021. The Junior Hurlers won the League in 2018 beating Broadford in the Final played in Newbridge. Maynooth won their first Minor A Hurling Championship in 2020 defeating Naas 1–19 to 1–9. In 2022 Maynooth, after being promoted from Intermediate the year before, qualified for their first Senior Championship Hurling Final in 81 years where they lost to Naas 0-20 to 0-12.
Honours
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship: (6) 1891, 1896, 1913, 1924, 1937, 1939
Kildare Senior Football Championship (2) 1896, 1913
Kildare Senior Hurling Championship: Finalist 2022
Kildare Senior Football League (1) 1934
Kildare Under 23A Hurling Championship (1) 2022
Kildare Under 23A Football Championship (1) 2022
Leinster Senior Football Championship Finalists 1896
Kildare Minor A Hurling Championship(1) 2020
Kildare Minor A Hurling Championship Finalists 2019, 2021, 2023
Kildare Minor A Football League (2) 2009, 2021
Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship: (1) 2009
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: (4) 1948, 1999, 2005, 2009
Kildare Intermediate B Football Championship (1) 1999
Kildare Intermediate Hurling Championship (6) 1999, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2021
Kildare Junior Hurling Championship (1) 2012
Kildare Junior Hurling League (2) 2012, 2018
Kildare Intermediate Football League (2) 1954, 1955
Kildare Senior B Football Championship (1) 2007
Kildare Junior Football Championship: (3) 1912, 1947, 1995
Leinster Senior Hurling League Division 3 2015
Leinster Senior Hurling League Division 4 2016
All Ireland finalists Scor na nÓg 2006 (Rince Foirne)
Leinster Champions Scor na nÓg 2006 (Rince Foirne)
All Ireland finalists Scor na nÓg 2009 (Rince Foirne)
Leinster Champions Scor na nÓg 2009 (Rince Foirne)
All-Ireland winners Scor Sinsear 2009 (Rince Foirne)
Leinster Champions Scor Sinsear 2009 (Rince Foirne)
Leinster Champions Scor na nÓg 2013 (Tráth na gceist)
Leinster Champions Scor na nÓg 2013 (Rince Foirne)
Bibliography
Maynooth GAA Club History, 1966.
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000– in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904–2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
References
External links
Maynooth GAA site
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Maynooth GAA
Maynooth
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Hurling clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynooth%20GAA |
Daniel James Cullen (born 10 April 1984) is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played for South Australia and Somerset in a career that lasted from 2004 to 2009. He was a right-arm off break bowler who appeared six times for Australia, and was touted as a promising prospect to replace Shane Warne. However, a number of unproductive seasons meant that he lost his national contract in 2008, and was dropped by South Australia in 2010, ending his first-class career. Cullen was a member of the Australian team that won the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
He first appeared for South Australia in 2004, and after two strong seasons for South Australia, he was selected to tour Bangladesh with the national team in April 2006. He made his Test debut when other players were rested, and subsequently played the three ODIs on the tour. The following season, after a string of poor performances, he was replaced in South Australia's first-class team, and although he performed better in 2007–08, his bowling figures continued to wane, and he was eventually dropped from the state side, resulting in the loss of his South Australian contract at the end of the 2009–10 season.
Cricket career
Cullen made his first-class cricket debut in 2004 for South Australia, appearing against Victoria. He claimed four wickets in the match, which South Australia won. His debut season drew the plaudits of Shane Warne, who claimed that Cullen would be "a certainty to play for Australia." He took 43 wickets at an average of 30.37 that year, and the following season he was named as the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year, despite breaking his finger. After the conclusion of the Australian domestic season, Cullen was selected as part of the Australian squad to face Bangladesh. He did not play in the first Test match, but was called up for the second, as several members of the team were rested due to fatigue. He took one wicket in the match, in which Australia's other two spinners, Warne and Stuart MacGill, took 15 wickets between them. He played in all three of the One Day Internationals (ODIs) on the tour, taking two wickets at an average of 49.
Along with Cameron White, he played for Somerset as their overseas player for the 2006 English cricket season. He had a relatively unproductive spell with the county, taking seven wickets in four matches at an average over 50. He left Somerset early to play in the Top End series for Australia A. He subsequently played in two ODIs during the 2006–07 DLF Cup, but remained wicket-less in both. Despite his early promise, and the positive comments made by Warne and Ricky Ponting, these were Cullen's final appearances for Australia, ending his international career with one Test wicket and two ODI wickets in six matches.
He struggled in 2006–07, and after only taking 13 wickets in the Pura Cup, he was replaced in South Australia's first-class team by Cullen Bailey. He travelled to Pakistan with Australia A in September of that year, and in three List A matches against Pakistan A, he claimed three wickets: the best by any Australian, as they lost all three games. In the first unofficial Test between the sides, Cullen took five wickets in the match to help Australia A to an innings victory. Cullen once again had poor bowling figures during the 2007–08 domestic season in Australia, but he blamed the pitches, claiming that "I compare myself against the spinners in every game and I've pretty much out-bowled the majority." Cricket Australia disagreed, and he lost his national contract at the end of the season. In the 2008–09 season, Cullen took ten first-class wickets at an average of 77.70, The following 2009–10 season, his only appearance came in the Ford Ranger Cup, in which he played against Queensland, bowling six overs without taking a wicket. That was his final appearance for South Australia, ending his career with 130 first-class wickets at an average of 44.28, and 56 List A wickets at 35.39. He lost his contract with South Australia at the end of that season.
Post-retirement life
Dan Cullen now works as a fireman.
References
1984 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Australia Test cricketers
Australia One Day International cricketers
People educated at Westminster School, Adelaide
Somerset cricketers
South Australia cricketers
Cricketers from Adelaide | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Cullen |
Allenwood G.F.C. is a Gaelic football club based in Allenwood, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Because it is located in County Kildare, the club competes in the County Kildare GAA board league and cup system. Allenwood was the winner of the Kildare Senior Football Championship in 2004 and Club of the Year in 1974. It was the home club of former Kildare Player of the Year Johnny Doyle.
Players
Johnny Byrne
Johnny Doyle
Timmy Dowling
Ken Doyle
David Earley
Mark Hogarty
David Hughes
Shane McCormack
Johnny Wiltshire
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship: Winners (1) 2004
Finalists 1971, 1999, 2006
Senior League Champions Winners (4) 1964, 1993, 2002, 2004
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship: Winners (2)1962, 1990
Kildare Junior Football Championship: Winners 1961.
Bibliography
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000- in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904-2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
External links
Allenwood GFC Club Website
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allenwood%20G.F.C. |
Ariestides González Ortíz (born January 12, 1961) is a boxer from Puerto Rico, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He shared the podium with Algeria's Mohamed Zaoui. Although Juan Evangelista Venegas was the first Puerto Rican to win an olympic medal (boxing, 1948) González was the second to win a medal representing Puerto Rico under the Puerto Rican flag, after Orlando Maldonado became the first at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
References
1961 births
Living people
People from Añasco, Puerto Rico
Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Puerto Rico
Olympic bronze medalists for Puerto Rico
Olympic medalists in boxing
Puerto Rican male boxers
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Middleweight boxers
20th-century Puerto Rican people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar%C3%ADstides%20Gonz%C3%A1lez |
Ballymore Eustace GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland, winner of the county senior football championships in 1953, completing the remarkable achievement of winning junior, intermediate and senior titles in successive years.
History
RIC records from 1890 show that Ballymore Irish Brigade had 34 members with officers listed as Revd J McCarthy, John Byrne, Laurence Morrissey and Pat Keenan. The club affiliated 1887–1926. James Doyle and Anthony Corrigan attended the 1889 convention. Kilmoney near Baltinglass was also recorded as affiliated to Kildare GAA in a Leinster Leader of 1890. Ballymore participated in the first Kildare junior championship in 1906. In 1916 it left the GAA altogether over a dispute with the County Board over the right to appeal a decision, resulting from a dispute over the Junior Football final with Kilcullen. After that, Ballymore was a soccer town. One of its most famous sons was Jack Byrne of Bohemians and Shamrock Rovers.
Gaelic Football
Ballymore reformed in 1928 and won the county minor championship in 1943. That team came from Junior B in 1949 to win the Junior Championship in 1951, Intermediate Championship in 1952 and the Senior Championship in 1953. Larry Stanley trained the team that won the senior championship in 1953, his nephew Jim Clarke scored the winning goal. Clarke, Kevin Burke and Myles Doyle went on to star on Kildare football teams. Ten of the team had been on the side that won the Junior B championship five years earlier. No other club has won the junior, intermediate and senior championships in successive seasons in Kildare. They reached the 1956 county final and lost 1–6 to 0–4 against a Military College team that did not have a single Kildareman, and suffered the abuse of the press and the County Board after a rough match in which one Ballymore player was sent off, two players were expelled from the Association, and another was suspended for two months. Other achievements include a spectacular 6–3 to 0–3 victory over Kilcock in the Intermediate League final of 1951 which place in February 1953, when both were senior teams. There was an echo of the past when Ballymore won junior and intermediate championships in successive years 1985–1986. In 1985 Ballymore overcame the challenge of a strong Ballyteague side, while in 1986 they defeated hot favourites Suncroft in the final. They also defeated Castledermot in 1994 to regain the Intermediate Championship crown and Senior status. Ballymore have since been regraded and contest the Intermediate Championship. On 16 October 2010 Ballymore once more won the Intermediate Championship defeating Confey in a closely contested final.
On 16 January 2011 Ballymore won the 2010 Leinster Intermediate Football Championship defeating Nobber (Meath) by 0–12 to 0–10 in the delayed final played on their home pitch
Handball
Ballymore Eustace court was constructed during the First World War. A roof and gallery was added in the 1920s, in 1953 the walls were raised and lighting was installed in 1962. The club was affiliated to the Irish Amateur Handball Union until it ceased in 1935. Tommy Leahy was the leading IAHU player of the 1920s while Jack Byrne, Jack Byrne, Mick Dowling and Jim Dolan also won titles. When Ballymore affiliated to the GAA handball body in 1940, Mick Dowling came out of retirement to win junior and senior hardball titles within three years. Although softballs had been introduced in 1915 the leather hardball game was the prestige event of handball until the 1950s, winning five hardball titles. In 1979 Tom O'Rourke brought the first softball title to Ballymore when he beat Packie Ryan of Dublin. All of Kildare's top handballers of that era, Tom O'Rourke, Cecil and Pius Winders, Matt Purcell, Greg Lawlor and Michael Dowling (son of the old IAHU and IAHA champions) came from Ballymore.
Camogie
A Ballymore team applied to the Kildare GAA board for recognition in 1921. Camogie was revived in the 1950s when the registered colours were maroon and again in 1980, when the registered colours were green and white.
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship Winners 1953
Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship Winners 2010
Kildare Intermediate Football Championship Winners (4) 1952, 1986, 1994, 2010
Kildare Junior A Championship: (3) 1951, 1985, 2017
Kildare Junior B Football Championship 1949, 1968
Kildare Intermediate Football League 1951
Kildare Div 3 Football League 1999
Kildare Division 2 Football League 2003
Kildare Junior Football League 1913
Kildare Minor Football Championship 1943
Kildare Ladies Division 4 League Runners-up 2007 Ballymore-Eustace Ladies
Kildare Ladies Junior D County Championship 2008 Ballymore-Eustace Ladies
Kildare Ladies Division 5 Winners 2018 Ballymore Eustace Ladies
Bibliography
Ballymore: Official Opening Of Ballymore GAA Grounds (September 1994)
Kildare GAA: A Centenary History, by Eoghan Corry, CLG Chill Dara, 1984, hb pb
Kildare GAA yearbook, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1980 and 2000– in sequence especially the Millennium yearbook of 2000
Soaring Sliothars: Centenary of Kildare Camogie 1904–2004 by Joan O'Flynn Kildare County Camogie Board.
Handball, The Game The Players, The History by Tom McElligott, Wolfhound, 1984 .
From Leahy’s Field to Bishoplane, A History of Ballymore Eustace GAA (1887-2016] by Henry Murphy.
External links
Ballymore Facebook page
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com.
Ballymore Eustace
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymore%20Eustace%20GAA |
Germknödel ( in Austrian German) is a fluffy yeast dough dumpling (knödel), filled with spiced plum jam and served with melted butter and a mix of poppy seeds and sugar on top. It is occasionally – even though less traditional – served with vanilla cream sauce instead. It is a culinary specialty of Austria and Bavaria. The dish is served both as a dessert and as a main course.
Germknödel is usually a spherical or bun-shaped dessert. The dessert's main ingredient is a yeast dough enriched with sugar and fat, usually butter. The dumpling is filled with Powidl, a sweet plum jam flavoured with cloves and cinnamon. The dumpling is steamed and then served while still hot with either melted butter or vanilla sauce, and topped with crushed poppy seeds and sugar.
Differences between Austrian ( being the exclusively Austrian word for yeast) and the very similar German and Alsacian dish, Dampfnudel, are that Dampfnudeln are the unfilled variant and can in some regions also be steamed or boiled in salt water and served with savoury side dishes, whereas Bavarian Dampfnudeln and Austrian Germknödel are steamed (and in the end of the cooking process, as the milk has evaporated, become lightly fried) in a small amount of a mixture of milk and butter and always served as a sweet meal.
See also
List of steamed foods
References
Erhard Spacek, Neue böhmische Küche: ...und Weine aus Böhmen und Mähren. 2005.
External links
Traditional Austrian Germknödel with Powidl
Austrian desserts
Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine
Jewish desserts
Jewish baked goods
Sweet breads
Yeast breads
Poppy seeds
Dumplings
Plum dishes
Steamed foods
Stuffed desserts
Foods with jam | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germkn%C3%B6del |
Syed Hussain Shah () (born August 14, 1964) is a retired Pakistani boxer from Lyari, Karachi Pakistan, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. This was the country's first ever Olympic boxing medal. He remains the only Pakistani sportsperson to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games in the last fifty-plus years. Only other Pakistani to ever win an individual Olympic medal is the wrestler Muhammad Bashir, who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Shah was born in Lyari, Karachi. As a child Shah used to live on streets due to being homeless, he used to work as labor to earn money. Shah trained himself for boxing on streets using garbage bags as a replacement for punching bag.
Career
Shah won his first gold medal at 1984 South Asian Games in Dhaka, along with Asghar Ali, Ilyas Ahmed and Muhammad Yousaf. At the 1987 edition of the Games in Kolkata, he was adjudged the 'best boxer'.
At the 1988 Olympics he shared the podium with Kenya's Chris Sande. He was Pakistan's first boxer to win any medal in olympic boxing. In 1989, Lyari born boxer received Sitara-i-Imtiaz medal from Government of Pakistan.
Shah, who has also to his credit five gold in the South Asian Games history, remained the best boxer of Asia from 1980 to 1988, a rare prominence achieved by any Pakistani pugilist so far.
He later moved to Japan, where his son Shah Hussain Shah learned judo and went on to represent Pakistan at the international level.
Popular culture
A biopic called Shah was released in Pakistan on 14 August 2015. The film chronicles Hussain Shah's poverty stricken childhood, his rise to fame as the Asian Boxing Champion and Olympic Bronze Medalist, his subsequent return to poverty and finally his migration to Japan to coach Japanese boxers. The movie is directed and written by Adnan Sarwar with music by Adnan Sarwar and Farhan Albert.
Olympic results
1st round bye
Defeated Martín Amarillas 3-2
Defeated Serge Kabongo 5-0
Defeated Zoltán Füzesy 3-2
Lost to Egerton Marcus 1-4
References
External links
Biography at Pakistan Sports Board
1964 births
Living people
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Pakistan
Olympic bronze medalists for Pakistan
Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz
Pakistani expatriates in Japan
Sindhi people
Olympic medalists in boxing
Martial artists from Karachi
Asian Games medalists in boxing
Boxers at the 1986 Asian Games
Pakistani male boxers
Boxers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Pakistan
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
People from Lyari Town
Asian Games silver medalists for Pakistan
Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games
South Asian Games gold medalists for Pakistan
South Asian Games medalists in boxing
Middleweight boxers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussain%20Shah |
Curragh Camp were prominent participants in County Kildare GAA championships, significant in Kildare GAA history. They won the Kildare Senior Hurling Championship seven times in 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1944, 1948 and 1955. They also won the Kildare Senior Football Championship in 1948.
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curragh%20Camp%20GAA |
St. Mary's Basilica is a Catholic Church in Invercargill, New Zealand. It was designed by the celebrated New Zealand architect, Francis Petre and was opened in 1905.
The basilica, named as such because of its style of architecture, rises above the ground and is one of the most prominent landmarks in Invercargill. It has been described as the "prettiest church in Australasia". In Roman Catholic ecclesiastical terms, St Mary's Basilica is not a minor basilica. The building is located in Tyne Street, near St Josephs School, the Otepuni Gardens and Te Tomairangi Marae, and is listed as a Category I Historic Place.
The church serves the Catholic community in the Invercargill area, part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin.
References
Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic places in Southland, New Zealand
Buildings and structures in Invercargill
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in New Zealand
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1905
Francis Petre church buildings
Church buildings with domes
Basilica churches in New Zealand
Tourist attractions in Southland, New Zealand
Listed churches in New Zealand
1910s architecture in New Zealand
1905 establishments in New Zealand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Mary%27s%20Basilica%2C%20Invercargill |
Christopher Joseph Sande (born 10 February 1964) is a Kenyan former professional boxer. As an amateur, he won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He shared the podium with Pakistan's Hussain Shah Syed.
Olympic results
1st round bye
Defeated Juan Montiel (Uruguay) KO 3
Defeated Paul Kamela (Cameroon) 5–0
Defeated Francis Wanyama (Uganda) 5–0
Lost to Henry Maske (East Germany) 0–5
Professional career
Sande turned pro in 1989 and had limited success. He was a journeyman fighter best known for his losses against Robert Allen, Chris Johnson, Tim Littles, Luis Ramon Campas, and Alejandro Garcia. Sande retired in 2001 with a record of 19–19–2.
Professional boxing record
|-
|align="center" colspan=8|19 Wins (7 knockouts, 12 decisions), 19 Losses (9 knockouts, 10 decision), 2 Draws, 1 No Contest
|-
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Result
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Record
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponent
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Round
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes
|-align=center
|Loss
|
|align=left| Alejandro Garcia
|TKO
|4
|6 July 2001
|align=left| Jai Alai Fronton, Tijuana, Baja California
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Luis Ramon Campas
|UD
|10
|16 June 2001
|align=left| Centro de Usos Multiples, Hermosillo, Sonora
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Rito Ruvalcaba
|KO
|6
|15 February 1999
|align=left| Tijuana, Baja California
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Ramon Pedro Moyano
|PTS
|12
|17 October 1998
|align=left| Conrad Hotel & Casino, Punta del Este
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Nicholas Martinez
|UD
|6
|11 July 1998
|align=left| Long Beach, California
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Tim Shocks
|TKO
|1
|4 March 1998
|align=left| Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, Washington
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Manny Sobral
|UD
|10
|1 October 1997
|align=left| Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, Washington
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Luis Ramon Campas
|UD
|10
|2 June 1997
|align=left| Tijuana, Baja California
|align=left|
|-
|Draw
|
|align=left| Julio "Cuban Lover" Garcia
|PTS
|8
|5 March 1997
|align=left| Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, Washington
|align=left|
|-
|Draw
|
|align=left| Justin Racine
|PTS
|6
|30 October 1996
|align=left| Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, Washington
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Joseph Laryea
|UD
|8
|23 April 1996
|align=left| The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Tim Littles
|TKO
|3
|9 March 1996
|align=left| Green Glens Arena, Millstreet
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Chris Johnson
|TKO
|2
|22 April 1995
|align=left| MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Robert Allen
|KO
|7
|2 November 1994
|align=left| Woodland Hills, California
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Clarence White
|PTS
|6
|2 July 1994
|align=left| Harveys Lake Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Art Serwano
|UD
|4
|13 June 1994
|align=left| Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Ray McElroy
|TKO
|4
|2 April 1994
|align=left| Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| David Mendez
|KO
|5
|10 January 1994
|align=left| Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Guillermo Chavez
|TKO
|4
|29 October 1993
|align=left| Ouagadougou
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Alberto MaChong
|KO
|5
|28 May 1993
|align=left| Bobo-Dioulasso
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Nicky Piper
|TKO
|9
|10 April 1993
|align=left| Swansea
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Rodney Toney
|PTS
|8
|30 March 1993
|align=left| San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Otis Pimpleton
|PTS
|8
|4 November 1992
|align=left| Reseda Country Club, Los Angeles, California
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| James Rivas
|PTS
|6
|4 September 1992
|align=left| Reseda Country Club, Los Angeles, California
|align=left|
|-
|No Contest
|
|align=left| James Rivas
|ND
|1
|28 July 1992
|align=left| Reseda Country Club, Los Angeles, California
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Warren Williams
|UD
|8
|9 April 1992
|align=left| Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Earl Jackson
|TKO
|6
|14 February 1992
|align=left| Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Sonny Brennan
|UD
|6
|10 October 1991
|align=left| Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Vinson Durham
|PTS
|10
|12 August 1991
|align=left| Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| James G. Mason
|PTS
|6
|26 March 1991
|align=left| Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Daniel "Pit Bull" Perez
|UD
|6
|26 October 1990
|align=left| Lujan Building at Expo New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Roger Orlaineta
|UD
|6
|17 August 1990
|align=left| Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Steve Langley
|UD
|6
|15 June 1990
|align=left| Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Lamar Parks
|TKO
|5
|29 April 1990
|align=left| Caesars Atlantic City, Atlantic City, New Jersey
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Richard Jarvis
|TKO
|1
|1 April 1990
|align=left| Caesars Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Robert Waymon Jackson
|UD
|6
|16 February 1990
|align=left| Hacienda Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Willie L. Kemp
|SD
|4
|15 January 1990
|align=left| Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| James Patterson
|UD
|4
|26 December 1989
|align=left| Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Ricky Rios
|TKO
|1
|1 December 1989
|align=left| Hacienda Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Juan G. Sanchez
|TKO
|4
|31 October 1989
|align=left| Showboat Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| John Tunstall
|UD
|4
|10 October 1989
|align=left| Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
|align=left|
|}
References
External links
1964 births
Living people
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Kenya
Olympic bronze medalists for Kenya
Olympic medalists in boxing
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Kenyan male boxers
Middleweight boxers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Sande |
Eadestown is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in County Kildare, Ireland based in the smallest parish in the diocese of Dublin. Previously, Ballymore Eustace and Eadestown combined for minor purposes under the name Oliver Plunkett's. However, since 2012, Eadestown have fielded their own minor team.
History
Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) records from 1890 show that Eadestown Seaghan O'Neills had 40 members. Between 1910 and 1912 the name of the team was changed from Rathmore Rovers to Eadestown.
2005 saw the installation of floodlights, nets behind goals, pitch drainage system and a path around the pitch. In 2006, wooden railings, a large advertising hoarding, a sign at the entrance and a digital scoreboard were added.
Honours
Kildare Senior Football Championship: (1) 1970
All-Ireland Junior Ladies Club Football Championship (1) 2006
Notable players
Larry Tompkins, member of the Kildare Gaelic Football team of the millennium
Emmet Bolton
Larry Coughlan, Offaly All-Ireland winning player
References
External links
Official Eadestown GAA site
Kildare GAA site
Kildare GAA club sites
Kildare on Hoganstand.com
Gaelic games clubs in County Kildare
Gaelic football clubs in County Kildare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadestown%20GAA |
Logan Lightning FC is a semi-professional football (soccer) club based in Shailer Park, a suburb of Logan City, Queensland, Australia. The club's history commenced in 1979, the year of establishment for both the Beenleigh and Loganholme soccer clubs which merged in late 2011 to form the current club. The club currently competes in the National Premier League Queensland. In May 2017, Football Queensland announced Logan Lightning FC were among the 14 clubs accepted to form the Football Queensland Premier League for its initial season in 2018. In November 2020, Logan Lightning FC were crowned Champions and Grand Final winners of the Football Queensland Premier League, guaranteeing promotion for the club to play their 2021 season in the National Premier League Queensland for the first time in club history.
History
Beenleigh FC
The Beenleigh Soccer Club was founded in 1979 initially as a component of the Beenleigh Police-Citizens Youth Club. In 1980 it became an autonomous body in its own rights. In 1982 the club entered the senior men's competition for the first time, finishing as Queensland Soccer Federation Division 6 champions and premiers in their first season. Beenleigh quickly progressed up the divisions, finishing 1983 Division 5 premiers, then winning the 1984 Division 3 grand final to win the championship and further promotion.
In 1986, the Beenleigh Soccer Club was incorporated. Beenleigh won promotion in second place in Division 2 (Tier 5 nationally) in 1986, but due to a renaming of the divisions by the QSF appeared in Division 3 (Tier 4) in 1987. The club finished premiers of Division 3 in 1992 and were then promoted to the Brisbane Premier League for the first time after a top two finish in 1995 Division 2.
Beenleigh remained in the Brisbane Premier League for three seasons until finishing last in 1998 and being relegated. From 1999 until amalgamation with Loganholme FC in 2011, the club mainly competed at the division below the BPL, but did reach the top division for a single season in 2010 after winning consecutive Premier Division 1 grand finals in 2008 and 2009.
The club was renamed Beenleigh FC in 2009 to conform with Football Brisbane policy.
Beenleigh FC's home ground was Chris Green Park, Beenleigh. Although Logan Lightning FC has used Cornubia Park as its home ground for BPL games since 2013, the club played its first two home games of the 2017 season at Chris Green Park.
Loganholme FC
Loganholme Soccer Club was formed in 1979, coincidentally the same year Beenleigh was formed. The club was based at Cornubia Park, the current home of Logan Lightning FC. The club mainly focussed on the development of junior players in its early years, and prior to 2008 only competed in the Brisbane Men's senior competition between 1988 and 1995 at the lower divisions.
In 2008 the club re-entered senior men's football, commencing in the Brisbane Metropolitan League Division 2. After two successive promotions the club had reached Premier Division 2. In 2011 Loganholme FC finished premiers and won promotion to Premier Division 1, and would have been in the same division as Beenleigh FC for the first time in 2012 had the clubs not merged their senior teams in late 2011 to form Logan Lightning FC.
Logan Lightning FC
In late 2011, the respective committees of Loganholme FC and Beenleigh FC agreed that the best course of action for the betterment of football in the area was for the two clubs to join forces under a united banner. This decision was instigated by the new criteria for inclusion in the post-2013 Brisbane Premier League announced by Football Brisbane, plus Loganholme's lack of space to accommodate its existing member base. A joint venture covering only senior football was put in place for 2012 season under the Logan Lightning FC banner.
Season 2012 proved to be extremely successful. While Beenleigh had a long history of competing in the BPL, XXXX League and Division 1, it was the first time Loganholme had competed in senior football at this level. Despite the challenges of integrating two squads into one, the side made it to the Premier Division 1 grand final, which it lost 3–1 to Pine Rivers United.
The success of the 2012 senior joint venture and a successful application from Logan Lightning FC to join the BPL for the 2013 season led to the Loganholme FC and Beenleigh FC formally merging in December 2013. In 2013 Logan Lightning finished mid-table in the league, and had their best cup run to date reaching the final of the Canale Cup which it lost 2–0 to Peninsula Power.
In May 2017, Football Queensland announced Logan Lightning FC were among the 14 clubs accepted to form the Football Queensland Premier League for its initial season in 2018. With the club receiving a formal offer to compete in August 2017.
Logan Lightning FC were crowned Champions and Grand Final winners of the Football Queensland Premier League in November 2020, guaranteeing promotion for the club to play their 2021 season in the National Premier League Queensland.
Recent seasons
Source:
The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system
Honours
Logan Lightning
Football Queensland Premier League - Premiers & Champions: 2020
Premier Division 1 – Finalists: 2012
Canale Cup – Runners-up: 2013
Beenleigh
Brisbane Division 6 – Premiers & Champions: 1982
Brisbane Division 5 – Premiers: 1983
Brisbane Division 3 – Champions: 1984
Brisbane Division 3 – Premiers: 1992
Premier Division 1 – Champions: 2008, 2009
Premier Division 1 – Runners-up: 2005, 2009
Premier Division 1 – Finalists: 2007
Loganholme
Brisbane Division 5 – Champions: 1994
Premier Division 2 – Premiers: 2011
Source:
Current squad
References
External links
Logan Lightning FC Official Website
Soccer clubs in Brisbane
Brisbane Premier League teams
Association football clubs established in 1979
1979 establishments in Australia
Logan City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%20Lightning%20FC |
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