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Nick Stone (born 1 October 1981) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn and St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL). Stone, originally from Wesley College, was recruited by Collingwood from the Prahran Dragons late in the 1999 AFL Draft. He never played a senior game for Collingwood and in 2001 he was rookie listed by Hawthorn. He only played 17 games for Hawthorn, largely on the bench, over two seasons, before he was again delisted, and again rookie listed, this time by St Kilda with the 2004 Rookie Draft. He played two games for St Kilda towards the end of the 2004 season, which saw him be elevated to their senior list for 2005, but after only played one game in 2005 he was delisted at the end of the year. Nick went on to move to New York City in 2010 and work in corporate finance. During that time he founded Bluestone Lane, a chain of Aussie-style coffee shops and cafes. As of 2017 Bluestone Lane had more than 30 locations and are expected to grow even larger. References External links Bluestone Lane website 1981 births Hawthorn Football Club players St Kilda Football Club players Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sandringham Dragons players People educated at Wesley College (Victoria) Australian company founders
Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) was an author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he stated was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Nibiru. He asserted that Sumerian mythology suggests that this hypothetical planet of Nibiru is in an elongated, 3,600-year-long elliptical orbit around the Sun. Sitchin's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 25 languages. Sitchin's ideas have been resoundingly rejected by scientists, academics, historians (including Sumerologists, Orientalists and Assyriologists) and anthropologists who dismiss his work as pseudoscience and pseudohistory. His work has been criticized for flawed methodology, ignoring archaeological and historical evidence, and mistranslations of ancient texts as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific claims. Early life Sitchin was born to a Jewish family in Baku, the capital of then Soviet Azerbaijan, and raised in Mandatory Palestine (which in 1948 became the modern state of Israel). He received a degree in economics from the University of London, and was an editor and journalist in Israel before moving to New York in 1952. While working as an executive for a shipping company, he taught himself Sumerian cuneiform and visited several archaeological sites Ideas and works Similar to earlier authors such as Immanuel Velikovsky and Erich von Däniken, Sitchin advocated hypotheses in which extraterrestrial events supposedly played a significant role in ancient human history. According to Sitchin's interpretation of Mesopotamian iconography and symbolism, outlined in his 1976 book The 12th Planet and its sequels, there is an undiscovered planet beyond Neptune that follows a long, elliptical orbit, reaching the Solar System roughly every 3,600 years. This planet is called Nibiru (although Jupiter was the planet associated with the god Marduk in Babylonian cosmology). According to Sitchin, Nibiru (whose name was replaced with MARDUK in original legends by the Babylonian ruler of the same name in an attempt to co-opt the creation for himself) collided catastrophically with Tiamat (a goddess in the Babylonian creation myth the Enûma Eliš), which he considers to be another planet once located between Mars and Jupiter. This collision supposedly formed the planet Earth, the asteroid belt, and the comets. Sitchin states that when struck by one of planet Nibiru's moons, Tiamat split in two, and then on a second pass Nibiru itself struck the broken fragments and one half of Tiamat became the asteroid belt. The second half, struck again by one of Nibiru's moons, was pushed into a new orbit and became today's planet Earth. Sitchin also speculated that Pluto (which he identifies as both Gaga and Isimud) was originally a satellite of Saturn but Nibiru's gravity perturbed it, sending it to the outer Solar System and giving the body its peculiar orbital path, intersecting the orbit of Neptune. According to Sitchin, Nibiru (called "the twelfth planet" because, Sitchin claimed, the Sumerians' gods-given conception of the Solar System counted all eight planets, plus Pluto, the Sun and the Moon) was the home of a technologically advanced human-like extraterrestrial race called the Anunnaki in Sumerian myth, who Sitchin states are called the Nephilim in Genesis. He wrote that they evolved after Nibiru entered the inner Solar System, and they first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals, especially gold, which they found and mined in Africa. Sitchin states that these "gods" were the rank-and-file workers of the colonial expedition to Earth from planet Nibiru. According to Sitchin, Enki (the Sumerian god of water and human culture) suggested that to relieve the Anunnaki, who had mutinied over their dissatisfaction with their working conditions, that primitive workers (Homo sapiens) be created by genetic engineering as slaves to replace them in the gold mines by crossing extraterrestrial genes with those of Homo erectus. According to Sitchin, ancient inscriptions report that the human civilization in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of these "gods", and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki (creating the "divine right of kings" doctrine). Sitchin believes that fallout from nuclear weapons, used during a war between factions of the extraterrestrials, is the "evil wind" described in the Lament for Ur that destroyed Ur around 2000 BC. Sitchin states the exact year is 2024 BC. Sitchin says that his research coincides with many biblical texts, and that biblical texts come originally from Sumerian writings. Influence Since the release of his first book The 12th Planet in 1976, Sitchin has written seven other books as part of his Earth Chronicles series, as well as six other companion books. Sitchin's books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been published in more than 25 languages. New York Times reporter Corey Kilgannon has noted that despite academic dismissal of his work, Sitchin has "a devoted following of readers". Critic Michael S. Heiser has called Sitchin "arguably the most important proponent of the ancient astronaut hypothesis over the last several decades". Sitchin was a frequent guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio show, which in 2010 presented Sitchin with a lifetime achievement award. Gods of the New Millennium author Alan F. Alford admits he initially became "infatuated" with Sitchin's hypotheses but later became a critic of Sitchin's interpretations of myth. According to some writers, Sitchin's ideas, along with those of Erich von Däniken, may have influenced the beliefs of the religious sect of Raëlism, and writer Mark Pilkington sees the mythology of Japan's Pana Wave religious group as rooted in Sitchin's The 12th Planet and its sequels. The 1994 movie Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich, and the 2009 video game The Conduit drew some conceptual inspiration from Sitchin's ideas, while screenwriter Roberto Orci says the villains of the film Cowboys & Aliens were inspired by Sitchin's conceptualization of the Anunnaki as gold-mining aliens. In 2000, Lorin Morgan-Richards' theatrical performance of ENKI, based on the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, premiered in Cleveland, Ohio under the choreography of Michael Medcalf. In 2016, Kazem Finjan, the Iraqi Minister of Transport, claimed at a press conference that Sumerians had built and used an airport in the Dhi Qar Governorate to launch spaceships 5000 years ago. He cited the work of Sitchin and others to support his assertion. Criticisms Criticism of Sitchin's work falls primarily into three categories: translations and interpretations of ancient texts, astronomical and scientific observations, and literalism of myth. Translations and interpretations When Sitchin wrote his books, only specialists could read the Sumerian language. However, sources such as the 2006 book Sumerian Lexicon have made the language more accessible to non-experts. American biblical scholar Michael S. Heiser states he has found many inaccuracies in Sitchin's translations and challenges interested parties to use this book to check their validity. Prof. Ronald H. Fritze, author of the book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions, mentions the example of Sitchin's claim that the Sumerian sign DIĜIR means "pure ones of the blazing rockets", adding that "Sitchin's assignment of meanings to ancient words is tendentious and frequently strained." Fritze also commented on Sitchin's methodology, writing that "When critics have checked Sitchin's references, they have found that he frequently quotes out of context or truncates his quotes in a way that distorts evidence in order to prove his contentions. Evidence is presented selectively and contradictory evidence is ignored." Sitchin bases his arguments on his personal interpretations of Egyptian and Sumerian texts, and the seal VA 243. Sitchin wrote that these ancient civilizations knew of a twelfth planet, when in fact they only knew five. Hundreds of Sumerian astronomical seals and calendars have been decoded and recorded, and the total count of planets on each seal has been five. Seal VA 243 has 12 dots that Sitchin identifies as planets. When translated, seal VA 243 reads "You're his Servant" which is now thought to be a message from a nobleman to a servant. According to Heiser, the so-called sun on Seal VA 243 is not the Sumerian symbol for the sun but is a star, and the dots are also stars. The symbol on seal VA 243 has no resemblance to the hundreds of documented Sumerian sun symbols. In a 1979 review of The Twelfth Planet, Roger W. Wescott, Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, noted Sitchin's amateurishness with respect to the primacy of the Sumerian language: Astronomical and scientific observations Sitchin's "planetary collision" hypothesis does superficially resemble one suggested by modern astronomers—the giant impact hypothesis of the Moon's formation about 4.5 billion years ago by a body impacting with the newly formed Earth. However, Sitchin's proposed series of rogue planetary collisions differ in both details and timing. As with Immanuel Velikovsky's earlier Worlds in Collision thesis, Sitchin states that he has found evidence of ancient human knowledge of rogue celestial motions in a variety of mythological accounts. In Velikovsky's case, these interplanetary collisions were supposed to have taken place within the span of human existence, whereas for Sitchin these occurred during the early stages of planetary formation, but entered the mythological account passed down via the alien race which purportedly evolved on Nibiru after these encounters. According to former Immanuel Velikovsky assistant turned prolific critic, C. Leroy Ellenberger, "[Sitchin states that] from an equal start, the Nephilim evolved on Nibiru 45 million years ahead of comparable development on Earth with its decidedly more favorable environment. Such an outcome is unlikely, to say the least, since Nibiru would spend over 99% of its time beyond Pluto. Sitchin's explanation that heat from radioactive decay and a thick atmosphere keep Nibiru warm is absurd and does not address the problem of darkness in deep space. Also unexplained is how the Nephilim, who evolved long after Nibiru arrived, knew what happened when Nibiru first entered the solar system." The scenario outlined by Sitchin, with Nibiru returning to the inner Solar System regularly every 3,600 years, ... implies an orbit with a semi-major axis of 235 astronomical units, extending from the asteroid belt to twelve times farther beyond the sun than Pluto. Elementary perturbation theory indicates that, under the most favorable circumstances of avoiding close encounters with other planets, no body with such an eccentric orbit would keep the same period for two consecutive passages. Within twelve orbits the object would be either ejected or converted to a short period object. Thus, the failed search for a trans-Plutonian planet by T.C. Van Flandern, of the U.S. Naval Observatory, which Sitchin uses to bolster his thesis, is no support at all. Sitchin in "the case of Adam's alien genes" states that 223 genes found by the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium are without the required predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree. Later researchers have argued that the conclusion from the Human Genome Sequencing Consortium cannot be drawn due to a lack of a comprehensive gene database for comparison. An analysis by Salzberg identified 40 potential genes laterally transferred into the genome from prokaryotic organisms. Salzberg also argues that gene loss combined with sample size effects and evolutionary rate variation provide an alternative, more biologically plausible explanation. Literalism of myth Peter James, co-author of the controversial book Centuries of Darkness, has criticized Sitchin both for ignoring the world outside Mesopotamia and more specifically for wholly misunderstanding Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian literature: William Irwin Thompson comments on what he calls Sitchin's 'literalism': Bibliography Earth Chronicles volumes The 12th Planet, 1976, Stein and Day, The Stairway to Heaven, 1980, St. Martin's Press, The Wars of Gods and Men, 1985, Avon Books, The Lost Realms, 1990, Avon Books, When Time Began, 1993, Avon Books, The Cosmic Code, 1998, Avon Books, The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return, 2007, William Morrow, Companion volumes Genesis Revisited: Is Modern Science Catching Up With Ancient Knowledge?, 1990, Avon Books, Divine Encounters: A Guide to Visions, Angels and Other Emissaries, 1995, Avon Books, The Earth Chronicles Handbook, 2009, Bear & Company, There Were Giants Upon the Earth: Gods, Demigods, and Human Ancestry: The Evidence of Alien DNA, 2010, Bear & Company, Earth Chronicles expeditions The Earth Chronicles Expeditions, 2004, Bear & Company, Journeys to the Mythical Past, 2007, Bear and Company, Novels The Lost Book of Enki: Memoirs and Prophecies of an Extraterrestrial god, 2001, Bear & Company, The King Who Refused to Die: The Anunnaki and The Search for Immortality, 2013, Bear & Company, Associated The Complete Earth Chronicles, 2014, Bear & Company, (Box set of first seven books) The Anunnaki Chronicles: A Zecharia Sitchin Reader, 2015, Bear & Company, (edited, Janet Sitchin) DVDs Are We Alone in the Universe? (based on Genesis Revisited), documentary, 1978 (2003 DVD release) An Evening with Zecharia Sitchin, lecture and slide presentation, 1997 A Talk From The Heart! lecture and slide presentation, 2006 Signs of the Return, lecture and slide presentation, 2009 2012—the End of Days? lecture and slide presentation, 2010 Zecharia at 90—Farewell Address, lecture, 2010 See also Erich von Däniken Extraterrestrial hypothesis Giorgio A. Tsoukalos Mauro Biglino Mesopotamian mythology Murry Hope Robert K. G. Temple Sumerian literature References External links Official Website Kilgannon, Corey. "Origin of Species, From an Alien View", The New York Times, January 10, 2010. p. MB4. Criticisms Ian Lawton's Mesopotamia Papers An Astronomer's View of the Akkadian Seal by Tom van Flandern SitchinIsWrong, Michael S. Heiser's web site devoted to debunking Sitchin's claims 1920 births 2010 deaths Writers from Baku Azerbaijani Jews 20th-century American writers 21st-century American writers Alumni of the London School of Economics Mandatory Palestine expatriates in the United Kingdom Ancient astronauts proponents Burials at New Montefiore Cemetery Esoteric anthropogenesis Israeli emigrants to the United States Pseudoarchaeologists Pseudohistorians Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Writers from New York City 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews
Santa Maria di Canepanova is a Renaissance style Roman Catholic church located in central Pavia, region of Lombardy, Italy. Although in the past the design was popularly attributed to Bramante, the church was designed by Giovanni Antonio Amadeo. History The construction works of the church began in 1500 and the first part was completed in 1507. The construction project is earlier if it is true that in 1492 the Confraternity of Santa Maria Immacolata di Canepanova was founded, which is responsible for raising the necessary funds for the construction of the church. The works were carried out under the direction of Giovanni Antonio Amadeo (although according to some scholars the project of the church is by Bramante). In the place where the church was built there was a house of the noble Canepanova family, on a wall of this house a Nursing Madonna was frescoed and, around 1492, several miracles were attributed to the fresco and it was therefore decided to incorporate it in the new church. The construction works were interrupted during the war periods, only being completed in the 16th century with the arrival in 1557 of the Barnabite fathers, who completed the construction with the erection of the dome. The church was consecrated in 1564 by Cardinal Ippolito de 'Rossi. Since 1915 the church has been entrusted to the Franciscan friars. Architecture The church is divided into a cubic volume set on a square plan, on which rest an octagonal dome and four small bell towers at the corners. Inside, the central plan space is generated by the eight sides of the dome projected within the square perimeter of the church; the figure thus inscribed creates a succession of niches for each of the faces of the octagon. The facade is unfinished and is plastered in the lower part. In the southern part there is a very particular decoration of circular shapes tangent to each other, enclosed by a terracotta frame. The internal decoration was made at the beginning of the seventeenth century by important painters of the Baroque school. The central hall has a square shape, on which an octagonal division is inserted in the upper part that follows that of the dome. The presbytery was built starting in 1564. In the sails in which the second dome that covers the main altar is set, eight sibyls arranged in pairs, painted by Guglielmo Caccia, are represented. To the side of the presbytery there are two chapels. On the left the chapel of the Crucifix which houses, in a niche in the east wall, the wooden complex of the Crucifix brought as a dowry by the brotherhood of Saint Sebastian. On the north wall there is the canvas of the Resurrection by Pietro Maggi, and on the west wall another canvas with the Assumption of the Virgin. To the right of the presbytery is the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception. On the east wall is the canvas with The Immaculate Conception by Bernardino Ciceri. Opposite, on the other hand, the canvas with the Coronation of the Virgin. In the thick wall that divides the hall from the presbytery, in two small rooms, are placed: on the left the canvas depicting St. Charles Borromeo in bishop's robes on the right, in front, the canvas with St. Alexander Sauli, both canvases were made by Guglielmo Caccia in 1614. In the side walls of the hall there are two chapels, on the left that of Saint Anne and on the right that of Saint Joseph. In the four corners the large canvases of the cycle of biblical heroines are exhibited in pairs. On the altar of the chapel of Saint Anne there is the canvas attributed to Gianbattista Tassinari, a painter from Pavia of the early seventeenth century. The painting depicts the Madonna with Child and, behind her standing, her mother Saint Anne with Saint Peter and Saint Paul on either side, who is also the patron saint of the Barnabites. In front of the kneeling Virgin are portraits of St. James and St. Margaret of Antioch. Originally the Pavese nobles Jacopo Menocchio and his nephew Enrico were buried in the chapel, as can be seen from the mural inscriptions on the side walls. Originally the chapel was dedicated to St. Alexander Sauli on the occasion of his beatification, as can be seen from the bishop's miter painted on the vault. The painting with the saint was moved to the sacristy with the advent of the Franciscans, while the chapel was rededicated to Saint Anne. On the altar of the chapel of St. Joseph there is the canvas by Simone Peterzano representing the Nativity with the Holy Family: there are figures of saints and other adoring figures (on the right St. Anthony of Padua). At the corners of the hall is a cycle of eight canvases depicting biblical heroines. The cycle intends to present, through the events of the female characters of the Old Testament, the virtues that are typical of the Madonna. The canvases were painted in the first quarter of the 17th century by four different painters: Camillo Procaccini, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Alessandro Tiarini and Guglielmo Caccia. Under each canvas there is a frame supported by two angels / cherubs who assume different postures. Behind the choir of the church, to the east of the same, a small building with a portico in the lower part and open above into a loggia is still preserved. The structure predates the church and, originally, the small monastery of the Convertite (later incorporated into the church). The building is divided into two orders: the first has a portico, covered by rib vaults, has columns and capitals of the late Gothic type in granite, while higher up there are figures of half-length angels, with large wings and hands intertwined on the chest. The cloister is dated between 1460 and 1480. References Roman Catholic churches completed in 1507 16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Maria Canepanova Renaissance architecture in Lombardy
Christopher Francis Higgins (born 24 June 1955) is a British molecular biologist, geneticist, academic and scientific advisor. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 2007 to 2014. He took early retirement on 30 September 2014, following a discussion at Senate on limiting the powers of the Vice Chancellor. He was previously the director of the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre and Head of Division in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London. Early life Higgins was born on 24 June 1955 in Cambridge, England. He studied botany at Grey College, Durham University, graduating with a first class degree in 1976. He was awarded a PhD in 1979 for his study of peptide transporters in the embryos of germinating Barley. Working at University of Dundee, his focus turned to genetics and cell biology. Career Higgins was appointed Nuffield Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. He has published over 200 papers in leading scientific journals like Nature Science and Cell. In April 2007, he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Durham University. He succeeded Sir Kenneth Calman and became the University's 23rd Vice-Chancellor. He took early retirement on 30 September 2014, following a discussion at Senate on limiting the powers of the Vice Chancellor. Higgins has been recognised by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a 'Most Highly Cited' author. Further awards have been the CIBA Medal, Fleming Prize, and a Howard Hughes International Scholarship along with election to Fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organization, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Medical Sciences. Alongside his academic success, Professor Higgins has also served as a scientific advisor for the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research and advisor to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology. At present Higgins is the chair of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, International Review Panel, DKFZ (German National Cancer Centre, Heidelberg) and a trustee of the Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology. Personal life Higgins is not currently married, although he has been married twice. He has five daughters, two from his first marriage and three from the second. References 1955 births Living people Alumni of Grey College, Durham Alumni of the Royal College of Music English geneticists Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Vice-Chancellors and Wardens of Durham University Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
The Arboretum Sainte-Anastasie is an arboretum located on the grounds of the École primaire publique de Sainte-Anastasie at 333, avenue du Général De Gaulle, Sainte-Anastasie, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. The arboretum was planted from 1993–1996, and contains about 120 labeled specimens of local trees including cherry, cedar, oak, and pine. It is open daily without charge. See also List of botanical gardens in France References École primaire publique de Sainte-Anastasie Sainte-Anastasie, Arboretum Sainte-Anastasie, Arboretum
Cerna may refer to: Populated places Cerna, Croatia, Vukovar-Syrmia County, Croatia Černá (Žďár nad Sázavou District), Czech Republic Černá, Semily District, Czech Republic Cerna, Tulcea, Romania A village in Vaideeni Commune, Vâlcea County, Romania Rivers Romania Cerna (Mureș), a tributary of the Mureș in Hunedoara County Cerna (Danube), a tributary of the Danube in southwestern Romania Cerna (Olteț), a tributary of the Olteț in Vâlcea County Cerna (Tulcea), a small tributary of the Danube in Tulcea County Cerna (Crasna), a tributary of the Crasna in Maramureș and Satu Mare Counties A tributary of the Mag river in Sibiu County Other rivers Černá (river), a river in the Czech Republic and Germany People Cerna (surname) Černá (surname) Other ceRNA, competing endogenous RNA, a function of microRNA Cerna (political organization), part of Anova-Nationalist Brotherhood See also Černá (disambiguation) Černá Hora (disambiguation) Crna (disambiguation) Cerny (disambiguation) Cernay (disambiguation) Cerney (disambiguation) Cernat (disambiguation)
Heuchera merriamii is a species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common name Merriam's alumroot. It is native to the Klamath Mountains of southern Oregon and northern California, where it grows on the rocky slopes. This is a rhizomatous perennial herb producing a patch of leaves which are rounded and have five to seven lobes along the edges. It produces an erect inflorescence up to about 23 centimeters tall with sparse clusters of pinkish, yellow, or cream flowers. The inflorescence is covered in glandular hairs. Each flower has small spoon-shaped petals and protruding stamens. References External links Jepson Manual Treatment Photo gallery merriamii Flora of California Flora of Oregon Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Eric Joyce (3 July 1924 – 1977) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half. Career Born in Durham, Joyce played for Eppleton CW, Bradford City and Consett. References 1924 births 1977 deaths English men's footballers Bradford City A.F.C. players Consett A.F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Durham, England
Ömer Halis Bıyıktay (1883; Erzincan - December 25, 1939; Istanbul) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army. During the Turkish War of Independence, he played a major role in the Turkish–Armenian War where he led his forces and captured huge territories from the Armenians. See also List of high-ranking commanders of the Turkish War of Independence Sources External links 1883 births 1939 deaths People from Erzincan Ottoman Military Academy alumni Ottoman Military College alumni Ottoman Army officers Ottoman military personnel of the Italo-Turkish War Ottoman military personnel of the Balkan Wars Ottoman military personnel of World War I Turkish military personnel of the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) Recipients of the Medal of Independence with Red Ribbon (Turkey) Turkish Army generals Burials at Turkish State Cemetery
Kupfergraben is the name given to the 400-metre-long northern part of the canal-like left arm of the Spree, the Spreekanal, along the Museum Island (Museumsinsel) from the Eiserne Bridge (Eiserne Brücke) to the Spree at kilometre 16.31 in Berlin's Mitte district. The Spreekanal (SpK) with a length of two kilometres belongs to the federal waterway Spree-Oder-Wasserstraße, for which the Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt Berlin is responsible. Am Kupfergraben is the name of a street running parallel on the west bank of the Kupfergraben, which is opposite the Museum Island (Museumsinsel). History of the Spreearm The name Kupfergraben probably refers to a foundry that existed here from the 16th century to 1875 and where, among other things, copper (Kupfer) was processed. From the middle of the 16th century, the Kupfergraben, then called the Cöllnischer Stadtgraben, formed part of the lower canal of the Berlin city lock. When this engineering structure was newly constructed in 1885, the Kupfergraben was widened. The lock has been unusable since 2000, next to it there is a weir. The Monbijou Bridge (Monbijoubrücke), a high-rise railway bridge, a nameless footbridge to the Museum Island (Museumsinsel) and the Eiserne Bridge (Eiserne Brücke) lead across the Kupfergraben. Design idea The design by the Berlin-based architects and artists group realities:united for the establishment of the Flussbad Berlin at Kupfergraben won the main prize for the European region in the 2011 regional competition for sustainable architecture and infrastructure projects organized by the Holcim Foundation. In 2012, the same design won the bronze prize in the global competition for the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction. It has not yet been decided when realization will be possible. References Canals in Berlin Spree basin Federal waterways in Germany
Adonijah is an unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States. References Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Clay County, West Virginia Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area
Qeshlaq-e Mehr Ali Kandi (, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Mehr ʿAlī Kandī) is a village in Qeshlaq-e Shomali Rural District, in the Central District of Parsabad County, Ardabil Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 28, in 7 families. References Towns and villages in Parsabad County
A French leave, sometimes French exit, Irish goodbye or Irish exit, is a departure from a location or event without informing others or without seeking approval. Examples include relatively innocuous acts such as leaving a party without bidding farewell in order to avoid disturbing or upsetting the host, or more problematic acts such as a soldier leaving his post without authorization. The phrase is first recorded in 1771 and was born at a time when the English and French cultures were heavily interlinked. In French, the equivalent phrase is filer à l'anglaise ("to leave English style") and seems to date from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. First usage The Oxford English Dictionary records: "the custom (in the 18th century prevalent in France and sometimes imitated in England) of going away from a reception, etc. without taking leave of the host or hostess. Hence, jocularly, to take French leave is to go away, or do anything, without permission or notice." OED states the first recorded usage as: 1771 SMOLLETT Humph. Cl. (1895) 238 "He stole away an Irishman's bride, and took a French leave of me and his master". James Boswell's journal for November 15, 1762 mentions his friend not seeing him off on his leaving Scotland "... as Cairnie told me that people never took leave in France, I made the thing sit pretty easy." In Canada and the United States, the expression Irish goodbye is also used. Military usage The term is especially used to mean the act of leisurely absence from a military unit. This comes from the rich history of Franco-English conflict; as Spain has a similar saying concerning the French (despedida a la francesa), it may have come from the Napoleonic campaign in the Iberian Peninsula which pitted the French against an Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish alliance. In other languages Czech: ("to leave English style") Dutch: ("to take the rat's taxi") French: ("to leave English style") German: , literally ("to take a French leave") or ("to take a Polish leave") Greek: ("to leave (with approval) by the Flag") Hungarian: ("to leave English style") Italian: ("to leave English style") Polish: ("to leave English style") Portuguese: ("to leave French style") Romanian: ("to leave English style") Russian: уйти по-английски () ("to leave English style") Spanish: ("goodbye in the French way", "French farewell") Ukrainian: піти по-англійськи () ("to leave English style") Walloon: ("to leave English style") References 7. Proust, “Time Regained,” pg. 205 translation by Stephen Hudson, “As taking French leave, she passed me, I bowed and she, taking my hand, fixed her round violet orbs upon me...” France–United Kingdom relations Military life Leave of absence English culture Culture of France
Actinolepis is the scientific name of two genera of organisms and may refer to: Actinolepis (plant), a genus of plants in the family Asteraceae, currently considered a synonym of Eriophyllum Actinolepis (placoderm), a genus of prehistoric fish in the family Actinolepidae
The following is a list of labor-management disputes that caused disruptions in television coverage in sports events. This doesn't include work stoppages of the sports themselves (such as the Major League Baseball in 1981 and 1994, the National Basketball Association in 1998-99 and 2011, the National Football League in 1982 and 1987, or the National Hockey League in 1994-95, 2004-05, and 2012-13) but coverage disruptions which caused interruption/cancellation of the telecast itself or substitute on-air talent. This can be on a network level or local level. 1960s In the spring of 1967, AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) was on strike against the then big three American networks that affected almost all programming; news, entertainment and sports, such as the commentator coverage of the Masters on CBS. On April 8, 1967, that aforementioned strike action by the AFTRA forced ABC Sports producer Chuck Howard and director Chet Forte to call Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers, as its regular announcing team were members of the union. Also on April 8, 1967, CBS was scheduled to broadcast the NHL game between the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens. However, the AFTRA strike forced cancellation of the telecast. The strike itself ultimately ended two days later. Canadian unions said they would not cover the game because of the AFTRA strike if the American network used it. CBS said a rebroadcast of that past January's Super Bowl football game between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs in Los Angeles would be substituted for the hockey game. A strike of engineers and technicians against ABC impacted the September 23, 1967 Penn State/Navy college football telecast. In support of the strikers, Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson refused to work the game. Therefore, Chuck Howard performed play-by-play with the SIDs of the two schools (Jim Tarman and Budd Thalman) providing color commentary. 1970s In 1970, the ITV colour strike resulted in many of ITV's sporting events including the weekly regional football highlights being broadcast in black and white. In , Hockey Night in Canada moved all playoff coverage from CBC to CTV to avoid conflict with the lengthy NABET strike against the CBC. Eventually, MacLaren Advertising, in conjunction with Molson Breweries and Imperial Oil/Esso, who actually owned the rights to Hockey Night in Canada (not CBC) decided to give the playoff telecast rights to CTV. Initially, it was on a game by game basis in the quarterfinals (Game 1 of the Boston-Toronto series was seen on CFTO Toronto in full while other CTV affiliates, but not all joined the game in progress. Game 1 of the New York Rangers-Montreal series was seen only on CFCF Montreal while Game 4 not televised due to a lockout of technicians at the Montreal Forum), and then the full semifinals and Stanley Cup Finals. Because CTV did not have 100% penetration in Canada at this time, they asked CBC (who ultimately refused) to allow whatever one of their affiliates were the sole network in that market to show the playoffs. As a result, the 1972 Stanley Cup playoffs were not seen in some of the smaller Canadian markets unless said markets were close enough to the United States border to pick up the signal of a CBS affiliate that carried Games, 1, 4, or 6 (Games 2, 3 and 5 were not nationally broadcast in the United States). A CBS technicians strike in 1972 disrupted coverage of numerous NFL games. Some games were covered by local TV crews, while some were not seen at all. The scheduled commentators for CBS did not cross the picket lines and instead CBS had to scramble to substitute announcers. Billy Joe Patton and even the head of CBS Sports, Bill MacPhail, were among those that filled in. According to the New York Times, the cut cables were discovered around noon. When CBS emergency crews (made up of supervisors) tried to bring other cables in from two trucks parked outside the stadium, a New York City cop saw a striking CBS technician trying to pry loose a cable that was hooked up to one of the trucks. At this point, the cop attempted to arrest the technician, but two of the latter's cohorts got involved, with a "scuffle" then breaking out. The first technician was arrested for criminal tampering, while the other two got hauled in on a host of other charges. CBS presumably figured it would be impossible to avoid having it happen again (although the strikers reportedly only numbered 25), so they just canceled the broadcast. Interestingly, the San Francisco-Green Bay game at Milwaukee also had nine TV cables cut, but the picture was only out for eight minutes at the start of the second half. Finally, in the Los Angeles-Atlanta game, there were no replays because they had two less cameras in use because of the strike. That Sunday, CBS was also forced to preempt Face the Nation because of the strike, which is notable because it came just two days before the Presidential election. There was a NABET/NBC strike in the spring of 1976 as was cited in Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad's backstage history book about Saturday Night Live. The 1977 NABET (National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians) strike of ABC affected the crew for the 1977 Indianapolis 500 broadcast. The on-air talent remained the same, but a number of technical workers were replaced. The 1979 Austrian Grand Prix went without a broadcast when the local cameramen for ORF, who was broadcasting went on strike. Since the local feed was also the world feed, a lot of people didn't get to see a race that day. A number of events were not covered in the United Kingdom in August/September 1979 due to the fact that ITV held the UK rights to these events due to the 11 week ITV strike among, these events were the Ebor Festival, St Leger, and 1979 Ryder Cup. 1980s Due to a NABET strike lasting from June–November 1987, NBC had management, supervisors and non-union workers filling technical roles on broadcasts out of 30 Rockefeller Plaza and Burbank. Meanwhile, NBC's news and sports departments set up a situation where they had replacement sports workers doing the NFL's replacement games during its own labor dispute. Around this same time period, there was an NBC Game of the Week at New York's Shea Stadium, where there was a lengthy loss of audio, as well as one or two video glitches. This was either during or just prior to the deadline for a strike by the crewmembers' union, and there was speculation that the 'mistakes' were deliberate. 1990s In November 1997, during the 3rd Round of the Tour Championship, ABC employees staged a one-day boycott due to an employee being disciplined for drawing an obscene cartoon of Disney chairman Michael Eisner. ABC showed final round coverage of the 1995 Tour Championship in the broadcast window. 2000s In 2002, there was a strike at SRC which resulted in there being no commentators for the Saturday NHL broadcasts of La Soirée du hockey from March 23 through to the final Saturday of the regular season on April 13. The strike then carried over into the NHL playoffs, which meant their coverage of the first two rounds of the playoffs (Montreal Canadiens vs. Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes) had no announcers. The strike was settled by the third round and the commentators returned to call the Eastern Conference final between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Hurricanes. CBC had to broadcast Canadian Football League games without commentators from mid-August until (Canadian) Thanksgiving in 2005. They even had to forfeit some games to TSN. The lockout was set to end just after Thanksgiving, but commentators were allowed to come back a bit early to do the opening Saturday night of the NHL season (the one after the lockout) and the Thanksgiving Day Classic CFL games. Also because of that particular labor stoppage, CBC had to give up rights of the Women's Rogers Cup to TSN/CTV. CBC was supposed to air both semis and the final, but TSN took over the afternoon semi and CTV took over the final, using TSN's production. One of the last events that CBC showed before the stoppage was the World Athletics Championships. Ron MacLean hosted it, and informed viewers of what was about to happen. References ABC Sports CBS Sports CBC Sports NBC Sports AFL–CIO The Sports Network CTV Sports ITV Sport Sports labor disputes in the United States ORF (broadcaster) SAG-AFTRA Communications Workers of America History of sports broadcasting Labour disputes in the United Kingdom Labour disputes in Canada
Franco Nahuel Ravizzoli (born 9 July 1997) is an Argentinian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL League One club Wycombe Wanderers. Club career Early career Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Ravizzoli played for the Independiente and Quilmes youth teams before joining the academy of River Plate towards the end of 2012 at the age of 15, where he progressed through the ranks eventually reaching the senior reserve team. After leaving the club in mid-2018, Ravizzoli played for Merlo and Morón, and trained with Spanish club Valencia. Eastbourne Borough In January 2022, Ravizzoli signed for English sixth-tier club Eastbourne Borough. He featured a total of 35 times for the club across the 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. Milton Keynes Dons On 16 June 2021, Ravizzoli signed a professional contract with League One club Milton Keynes Dons having spent the latter half of the 2020–21 season training with the team. On 31 July 2021, he made his debut in an EFL Cup first round 5–0 defeat away to AFC Bournemouth. On 11 January 2022, Ravizzoli made his first league start in a 1–0 home win over rivals AFC Wimbledon, keeping a clean sheet in the process. At the conclusion of the 2022–23 season, Ravizzoli was one of nine players released by Milton Keynes Dons following their relegation to EFL League Two. Wycombe Wanderers On 14 September 2023, Ravizzoli signed for League One side Wycombe Wanderers. Career statistics References 1997 births Living people Argentine men's footballers Club Atlético River Plate footballers Deportivo Merlo footballers Deportivo Morón footballers Eastbourne Borough F.C. players Milton Keynes Dons F.C. players Wycombe Wanderers F.C. players Men's association football goalkeepers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Argentine expatriates in England Expatriate men's footballers in England Club Atlético Independiente footballers Quilmes Atlético Club footballers English Football League players Footballers from Mar del Plata
The R350 road is a regional road in Ireland starting in Loughrea Main St and going north for 12 km before terminating at the R348. En route it passes through Bullaun and passes close to the Turoe stone. See also Roads in Ireland National primary road National secondary road References Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2006 – Department of Transport Regional roads in the Republic of Ireland Roads in County Galway
Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier competition, the A-League, under licence from The Australian Professional Leagues (APL). formerly under licence by the Football Federation Australia (FFA). The club had established itself as a major force in both Australia and Asia, having won one A-Leagues Premiership and an AFC Champions League title in its history. Formed in April 2012 by FFA, Wanderers was established with a strong community focus. A series of community forums across Western Sydney helped choose the club's name and colours, as well as its culture and playing style. The club's record-breaking inaugural season won them an A-League premiership and saw the club reach the 2013 A-League Grand Final. The club followed that up by contesting the 2014 A-League Grand Final and securing second place in their second season of the league. The club was also crowned Asian champions in their Champions League debut season, becoming the first, and so far only, Australian side to win the tournament. The club is run from a facility based in Blacktown, and currently plays matches at Western Sydney Stadium. Their foundation home ground of Parramatta Stadium was closed & demolished in 2017 as part of process for building the new stadium. An academy youth team competes in the National Youth League and the National Premier Leagues NSW. A women's team competes in the W-League. The youth and women's matches are played at various locations across Western Sydney, including Marconi Stadium, Campbelltown Stadium and Cook Park. The club also has a Powerchair Football team which competes in the NSW Western Division Powerchair Football League, with matches played at Football NSW Headquarters. History Origins The Western Sydney region was regarded as a potential location for one of the founding A-League clubs in 2005, originally intended to be the base for Sydney FC. When Sydney FC put forward their bid to participate in the inaugural A-League season, Football NSW (which backed the bid) desired for the club's home ground to be Parramatta Stadium in Western Sydney. Though after winning the A-League licence, Football Federation Australia (FFA) Chairman Frank Lowy forced a number of changes to the bid. The main of these were in moving the club to Sydney Football Stadium in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and simultaneously reducing Football NSW's involvement from 100 to 25 percent. Frank Lowy's son, David Lowy, was also installed as a major investor. In response, Football NSW made the decision to pull out its involvement with Sydney FC amid claims the A-League club had become a "plaything" for Frank Lowy and his family. Football NSW stated its dislike of Lowy's autocratic style in establishing the club and the perceived lack of consultation on key club issues. An unsuccessful bid named "Sydney Blues", which had proposed to play at the Sydney Football Stadium was the only other Sydney-based bid. Sydney FC entered the A-League with a five-year city exclusivity deal as part of the league's "one-city, one-team" policy, preventing the establishment of another Sydney-based club until the deal expired. By 2008, as the five-year deal wound to its conclusion, FFA announced its intention to expand the A-League, with a second Sydney-based club a favourable option. FFA received 10 expressions of interest, two of which from potential Western Sydney based teams. Despite the unsuccessful attempt to establish a Western Sydney-based team in the form of Sydney Rovers (due to financial and technical reasons), FFA were still strongly committed in pursuing a club in the region. Foundations The catalyst for the formation of the Western Sydney Wanderers was FFA revoking Gold Coast United's A-League licence on 29 February 2012. After a series of running battles between FFA and Clive Palmer – owner of Gold Coast United, over topics such as crowd control, stadium attendance capacities and breaches of A-League regulations. The loss of Gold Coast United brought the league down to nine clubs, one fewer than what FFA needed for their upcoming television rights negotiations. On 4 April 2012, then FFA CEO Ben Buckley announced the creation of "New Sydney Club" based in the city's west to play in the A-League. The new club would be set up to compete in the 2012–13 season, though despite several attempts by FFA to find a backer to own and run the club no individual owner or consortium of owners decided to take on the new Sydney club. With the October deadline approaching, FFA decided to push through the club by taking on the ownership role themselves. This was helped by securing $4 million from the Australian Government in a grant for the creation and ongoing costs of the club. As notable Australian soccer players Scott Chipperfield, Tim Cahill and Lucas Neill expressed their support for the Western Sydney-based club, so did the local soccer community, with FFA holding supporter forums in Mount Pritchard, Parramatta, Rooty Hill, Penrith, Castle Hill, Campbelltown and Bankstown, where community members discussed such topics as the club's values and culture, playing style, home ground, and proposed names and colours. Following the community forums, FFA launched an online survey to decide on various options for the new club. It covered similar aspects of culture, location, team colour and playing style. A final survey was later launched with a specific focus on the club's colours and name. Options for team colours were black and red, black and white, and red, white and black. Options for the team name were Athletic, Wanderers, Wolves, Strikers and Rangers. On 17 May 2012, former A-League head Lyall Gorman was appointed chairman of the as yet unnamed club. Tony Popovic was also announced as the inaugural head coach of the Western Sydney team. Popovic joined the club after requesting to be released from the final year of his contracted role as assistant coach of Crystal Palace, after ending talks with both A-League Sydney clubs and stating his desire to build a club from scratch as an opportunity he could not pass up. Popovic signed with the Western Sydney team to take the helm for four seasons. On 22 May 2012, Popovic's close friend Ante Milicic also joined the club as assistant coach. On 25 June 2012, the official club name, logo and colours were formally announced. The name "Western Sydney Wanderers FC" was officially released, as was the club logo, the home playing strip, the home ground (Parramatta Stadium) and the first three signed players: Aaron Mooy, Tarek Elrich and Kwabena Appiah. The name 'Wanderers' had been an overwhelming favourite among fans and community groups, with it also paying homage to Wanderers F.C., the first registered soccer club in Australia, who played in the area in 1880. Popovic era Inaugural season With the start of Western Sydney Wanderers' first season approaching, Tony Popovic was charged with putting together a competitive squad for the 2012–13 A-League, which would be the team's only competition of the season. The squad was made up of relative unknowns, though included former Japan international and Asian Footballer of the Year Shinji Ono, as well as Jérome Polenz, Mateo Poljak, Youssouf Hersi, Iacopo La Rocca and Dino Kresinger. On 6 October 2012, Western Sydney Wanderers played their first competitive match of any kind against reigning A-League Premiers Central Coast Mariners in the first round of the league. The match ended in a 0–0 draw. It took the team a further three weeks, until the fourth round of the league to win their first competitive match of any kind; after two consecutive losses, one of which the first Sydney Derby, the encounter against reigning A-League Champions Brisbane Roar ended 0–1 in favour of Wanderers, with Mark Bridge netting the club's first competitive goal after the team failed to score in their opening three games. A slow start into the team's first season soon turned positive as Western Sydney Wanderers quickly emerged as one of the leading soccer clubs in Australia. A historic record-breaking season in the league saw the club break an all-time Australian national league record and win their first A-League Premiership after topping the A-League table through a record-undefeated streak, which included 10 straight wins. This feat gained the club direct qualification into the 2014 AFC Champions League, as well as a place in the A-League finals series. A 2–0 win against Brisbane Roar in the semi-finals of the finals series lead the club to the 2013 A-League Grand Final, which on 21 April 2013, Wanderers eventually lost 0–2 to Central Coast Mariners at a sold out Sydney Football Stadium. The success of the club's first season was pitted on first-time coach Popovic who had built the team from its foundations in the space of only five months. Popovic was awarded A-League Coach of the Year and goalkeeper Ante Covic Goalkeeper of the Year. The club's inaugural success, both on and off the field, sparked much interest worldwide, though most notably within Australia, where soccer has often struggled to gain mainstream interest. 2013–14 season The club's second season saw Brendon Santalab and Australian international Matthew Špiranović join the team. Wanderers held second position behind Brisbane Roar throughout the majority of the season despite criticism over the team's squad rotation policy which Popovic implemented with consideration to the AFC Champions League and the short turnaround between matches. On 26 February 2014, the club made their Champions League debut against Ulsan Hyundai. A goal within the first minute of the match by Santalab was cancelled out as the South Korean side scored three unanswered goals to win the match. Nevertheless, the team eventually finished top in their group to progress to the Round of 16. After finishing runners-up in the 2013–14 A-League season, Wanderers secured direct qualification into the 2015 AFC Champions League, as well as a place in the A-League finals series. A 2–0 win against Central Coast Mariners in the semi-finals of the finals series on 26 April 2014, saw the team progress to their second A-League Grand Final in as many seasons. On 4 May 2014, Western Sydney Wanderers competed against Brisbane Roar in the 2014 A-League Grand Final at a sold out Lang Park. 10,000 Wanderers supporters travelled north for the occasion, but after taking the lead through a header from Špiranović the team failed to hold the lead late in the game, later letting slip the A-League Championship during extra time. Following the loss, the team was forced a quick turnaround for their home and final leg of the Champions League Round of 16 – a home and away series against Japanese side Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Despite being down 3–1 on aggregate, the team managed to overturn the result and win 2–0 to progress to the quarter-finals in what was Ono's, Hersi's, Polenz's and inaugural captain Michael Beauchamp's final match for the club. 2014–15 season Prior to the 2014–15 season, the club signed Brazilian midfielder Vítor Saba, as well as Seyi Adeleke, Dutch international Romeo Castelen and Australian international Nikita Rukavytsya. On 12 August 2014, Western Sydney Wanderers competed against Adelaide City in the first round of the inaugural season of the FFA Cup. The match ended 1–0 in favour to Adelaide City, with Wanderers becoming the first professional club to lose to a semi-professional side in the competition. Asian Champions League title The Cup loss was directly followed by Wanderers' continued campaign in the 2014 AFC Champions League; as due to the calendar format of the Asian tournament, the quarter-finals – a home and away series against Guangzhou Evergrande, resumed after a three-month break. The first match was won by Wanderers 1–0, and a 2–1 loss in the second leg was enough to see the club progress to the semi-finals, due to the away goals rule. The first leg of the semi-final clash against FC Seoul ended in a 0–0 draw. In the return leg, Wanderers defeated FC Seoul 2–0, courtesy to goals from Mateo Poljak and Shannon Cole, which advanced the club to the 2014 AFC Champions League Final. In the first leg of the Champions League final, Wanderers defeated Al-Hilal 1–0 at home, and on 1 November 2014, Western Sydney Wanderers won the AFC Champions League after managing a goalless draw in the second leg of the final against Al-Hilal, winning 1–0 on aggregate courtesy of Tomi Juric's goal. They became the first Australian team to be crowned Asian champions, an achievement they reached in only their first attempt in the Asian tournament. There were some controversial decisions from the Japanese referee Yuichi Nishimura, where Al-Hilal felt they deserved two clear penalties. Prior to the final match, Wanderers were criticised by the opposition coach in the media; after being crowned Asian champions, Tony Popovic responded by saying, "We were called a small club yesterday – today we are the biggest in Asia". At the 2014 AFC Annual Awards, Western Sydney Wanderers was named Asian Club of the Year, and Tony Popovic Asian Coach of the Year. The club's Asian success however, was not replicated in the beginning of the A-League season, with the team managing only three draws out of the first nine matches. The team's poor domestic run was put on hold while the team travelled to Morocco for the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup, where Wanderers faced Mexican side Cruz Azul in a quarter-finals clash on 13 December 2014. After going down to 9-men, Wanderers failed to hold onto the lead late into the match; an unfavourable 3–1 scoreline in extra-time saw Wanderers matched-up against ES Sétif of Algeria in a fifth place play-off. A 2–2 draw led to a penalty shoot-out which finished 5–4 in favour of the African champions, ending Wanderers' run in the tournament with the team finishing in sixth place. After returning home, the team finished the year with a loss in Wellington, in what was the team's 44th match in all competitions for the calendar year – a record for an Australian club. A short mid-season break gave Popovic the chance to organise the squad for the remainder of the season. This included the addition of Japanese internationals Yūsuke Tanaka and Yojiro Takahagi, as well as Australian-born Kerem Bulut among others as either injury replacements or squad replacements for Vítor Saba, Seyi Adeleke and foundation player Kwabena Appiah. As the season resumed, it became apparent that a heavy schedule would be the team's downfall. Wanderers had to manage entering into the 2015 AFC Champions League group-stage with the former season's rivals Guangzhou Evergrande and FC Seoul as well as rescheduled mid-week league fixtures. After a grueling three months the club ended their third season in the league in ninth position, whilst their Champions League season also ended unfavourably with the title-holders eliminated from the group stage, finishing third in their group. 2015–16 season The beginning of the 2015–16 season saw Popovic extended his initial contract with the club for a further three seasons. The effects from the 2014–15 season were felt by the players as Popovic released almost half the squad. In their place Popovic signed 3 Spanish foreign players and Italian striker Federico Piovaccari as a marquee. In the FFA Cup the Wanderers progressed with wins against Brisbane Roar & Palm Beach, then were beaten in a penalty shootout against Perth Glory in the quarter final. After a slow start to the 2015–16 A-League season, with only 1 point after three matches, Wanderers found their winning ways with a seven-game winning streak to see the team top the league table. The club was unable to stay on top of the league however, and after mixed results in the final half of the season they finished 2nd below Adelaide United, who the Wanderers had failed to beat in the last few weeks of the season. In their final series semi-final match, Wanderers hosted Brisbane Roar at Parramatta Stadium in the last game before the stadium was demolished. In front of a sold-out crowd of 20,084 Brisbane started the game strongly by racing to a 3–0 lead inside 23 minutes but the Wanderers responded with two goals to make it 3–2 at half time. Romeo Castelen scored an equaliser then put the Wanderers 4–3 in front, only for Brisbane to score again to take the game to extra time. In the 102nd minute substitute Dario Vidosic scored the decisive goal to send Wanderers to a third Grand Final in four years. In the 2016 A-League Grand Final Adelaide United defeat Wanderers 3–1 in front of a crowd of 50,119. 15 players left the club at the end of the season. 2016–17 season The 2016–17 A-League season began when Western Sydney Wanderers played home to Sydney FC at ANZ Stadium, with Sydney FC winning 4–0. After three years without a derby win, on the 18th of February, Western Sydney Wanderers, beat Sydney FC 1–0 at ANZ Stadium, Brendon Santalab scoring off a Mitch Nichols cross in the first-half. Three days after the Sydney Derby they started their Asian Champions League campaign by losing 4–0 to Urawa Reds, and subsequent results saw them fail to qualify from the Group Stage. After defeating Wellington Phoenix 3–1 they confirmed their place in the A-League finals, with Brendon Santalab scoring twice to make him the Wanderers all-time leading goal scorer. The team qualified for the A-League finals to play the 3rd place Brisbane Roar. The game ended 1–1 after extra time and Wanderers lost the penalty shoot-out, ending their domestic season. Gombau era 2017–18 season The Wanderers began this season with the FFA Cup. They started by defeating Wellington Phoenix 1–0 with new marquee signing Oriol Riera scoring in the 120th minute of the game. A routine 4–0 defeat of Bentleigh Greens followed in the Round of 16. The quarter final match against Blacktown City FC was an epic encounter. The Wanderers went out to an early 1–0 lead through an Oriol Riera penalty kick. Blacktown hit back in the second half and took the game to extra time, where substitute James Andrew scored to put Blacktown ahead. Riera popped up again in the 111th minute to equalise, and the Wanderers held their nerve in the shootout to win it 4–2. In a huge shock for the A-League and the Wanderers in particular, on 1 October 2017, foundation coach Tony Popovic quit the club to join Karabükspor in the Turkish Super Lig, taking with him assistant manager Andres Carrasco & goalkeeping coach Zeljko Kalac. The Wanderers installed Hayden Foxe as caretaker manager while they looked to appoint a full-time manager. After defeating Perth Glory in the opening round, they lost the FFA Cup Semi-Final against Adelaide United. Josep Gombau was announced as the new manager for the Wanderers on 1 November 2017. His first game in charge was a 1–1 home draw against Melbourne City. The team then lost 3 in a row against Adelaide, Brisbane and a 5–0 drubbing against city rivals Sydney FC. Gombau stabilised the team somewhat in the busy January new year period, where he went 4 games without loss between January 1 and January 18, but the team were unable to string together more than 2 wins in a row. A 3–0 win against Brisbane in the penultimate week of the season put them in the last play-off position, 1 point ahead of Brisbane and Perth, who were facing each other in the final week. While a win would have secured a finals berth as Brisbane defeated Perth 3–2, the Wanderers season fell apart in the second half. Having taken an early lead with an Oriol Riera goal, the Wanderers conceded two goals to Adelaide before Marcelo Carrusca levelled the game heading into half-time. The 62nd minute sending off of Keanu Baccus for kicking out at an opponent left them a man down and needing to attack. As they pushed players forward Adelaide kept breaking on the counter-attack, eventually scoring the winning goal in the 80th minute through Ryan Kitto. On the 19 April, after a disappointing season where the Wanderers failed to qualify for the 2017–18 A-League finals and players making problems with his management style known to reporters and the public, Gombau was fired. The Wanderers finished the season in 7th place on 33 points, two behind Brisbane, one ahead of Perth, having won 8 games, drew 9, lost 10, scoring 38 goals and conceding 47 against. Babbel era 2018–19 season After Gombau was sacked the Wanderers looked to Europe and appointed former German international player Markus Babbel to take over the side, on 19 May 2018. The team stumbled through to the Semi-Final of the FFA Cup with narrow victories over far inferior competition, requiring a 92nd-minute winner from Roly Bonevacia to defeat the amateur Darwin side Hellenic Athletic 4–3, before a 2–1 win against 3rd tier side Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC in the Round of 16. They faced A-League opposition in the Quarter Finals, defeating Melbourne City FC in a scrappy 2–1 game before bowing out of the competition in a comprehensive defeat by rival side Sydney FC in the first FFA Cup Sydney Derby. The A-League season began poorly for the Wanderers, winning just two games in the first half of the season in Rounds 3 and 7. That second win against the Central Coast Mariners was the last win for 10 games, and included losing 6 games in a row in the congested January period. Babbel made multiple signings in the January transfer window, bringing in Mitchell Duke, Kwame Yeboah and Giancarlo Gallifuoco as an injury replacement for Jordan O'Doherty who suffered an Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury. Performances improved in the second half of the season, winning games against the Mariners, Adelaide & Brisbane Roar as well as a shock 3–0 win against Melbourne City. Ultimately their early season form ensured that the 3–2 Round 24 loss against Newcastle Jets was the final blow in their hopes to play in the A-League finals series. The final Sydney Derby to be played at ANZ Stadium was a 1–1 draw, leaving games against the Central Coast and then Melbourne Victory to end their three-year nomadic existence away from their newly opened Western Sydney Stadium. 2019–20 season The Wanderers began the season, their first at the Western Sydney Stadium in Parramatta, with a stadium opening friendly against English EFL Championship side Leeds United on Saturday 20 July 2019. Leeds won 2–1. The Wanderers played their first A-league match at their new home Bankwest Stadium on 12 October 2019. They defeated the Central Coast Mariners 2–1. They then won their next 2 matches with a 2–1 win against Melbourne Victory and a 1–0 victory over Sydney FC in front of a record crowd of 28,519. On 16 January, striker Simon Cox joined the club after his departure from English, League One outfit, Southend United, replacing Alexander Meier. On 20 January, Babbel was sacked due to a run of poor performances, and Jean-Paul de Marigny was named as the caretaker. Jean-Paul de Marigny era Having taken over as interim coach from Round 17 of the 2019–20 season, the club played 7 games, winning 3, drawing 3 and losing 1 game. The 1–1 draw with Sydney FC during the final Sydney Derby of the season saw the Wanderers go through a season without losing a game to Sydney FC. When the league was suspended in March as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, the results did little to improve the club position on the competition ladder, although they had closed the gap on the position above from 2 points to 1 and improved their goal different deficit. They entered the suspension period in 8th place, four points behind the last finals position. On 14 July 2020, de Marigny was elevated to the full time position, with his contract to run until the end of the 2020–21 A-League season. The league resumed in July, with the club playing 5 games to finish the season. They drew the first game, won the second, lost two games that effectively ended their chances of making the finals series, including a heavy 5–3 loss against Western United and ended the season with a narrow win against Melbourne Victory. The club ended the season in 9th place with 33 points, coming from 9 wins, 6 draws and 11 losses from 26 games. The Wanderers unexpectedly sacked de Marigny on 12 October 2020, offering a short statement that they had 'parted ways' and were going to appoint a new coach in the coming days. Robinson era Three days after the sacking of de Marigny, the club appointed Carl Robinson on 15 October 2020 as the new head coach. Robinson, a Welsh ex-international was the current head coach of fellow A-League side the Newcastle Jets and had lost only a single game since his arrival at Newcastle earlier in the year. It was reported in the media that Robinson had a release clause in his contract that allowed him to leave the Jets due to the dire financial situation of Newcastle whose owner Martin Lee had not funded the club since October 2019 and was stripped of his license. 2020–21 season The Wanderers began the 2020–21 A-League season by releasing Radosław Majewski, Nicholas Suman, Mathieu Cordier, Nick Sullivan, Tristan Prendergast, Matthew Jurman and Mitchell Duke. Pirmin Schwegler also retired from professional soccer. Several youth players were promoted, including Jarrod Carluccio and 16 year old Allesandro Lopane while German winger Nicolai Muller earned a contract extension. Although Daniel Lopar had left Australia during the COVID lockdown which saw him miss the end of the previous season, he returned to Australia in late October, then left again as the cancellation of the league's TV rights deal caused a collapse in funding, requiring players to agree to new, lower paid contracts or to leave. Robinson bought in a raft of players to replace them, including Bernie Ibini, James Troisi and Jordon Mutch. Duke, a Wanderers talisman, also return to the club 8 games into the season on a short-term loan deal. Performances during the season were inconsistent but poor overall. With the fixture list impacted by COVID delays & cancellations, there was a brief period when the Wanderers were in first place on the A-League ladder, but they did so having played four games while the other clubs had played less, as low as 1 game in the case of Perth Glory & Melbourne Victory. After their 13th game and on a winning run of 3 games the Wanderers were in 2nd place on 22 points, 3 points behind the surprise package Central Coast Mariners. It was the high point of the season as the side failed to win any of the next 6 games. This included a dismal loss to the last placed Melbourne Victory, who leapt out to a 5–1 lead before three Wanderers goals late in the game, including a long range strike from Muller made the final score 5–4, as Bruce Kamau missed a glorious chance to level the game in the 95th minute. The other teams had begun to catch up the amount of games played and the Wanderers position on the ladder sank like a rock, falling to 9th place on 25 points, level with Wellington Phoenix but behind on goal difference. Winning the 2nd Sydney Derby by 3–2 was followed by a 5–0 win against Western United but the inconsistency reared up again, as the next match, an away trip to Perth saw the club lose 5–0, allowing Andy Keogh to go from having a scoreless season to four in a single game. Sydney FC finally overcame their 887-day wait for a Derby win as they completed a comfortable 1–0 win at the Sydney Cricket Ground, with the video review system ruling out a goal for each side. A 2–1 loss at Parramatta to Wellington Phoenix left the Wanderers requiring wins in their final two games and for a large number of other results to go their way. 2021–22 season Robinson was fired after 7 games of the 2021/22 A-League season with the Wanderers in 2nd last place after the side were defeated 3-0 by fellow cellar dwellers Brisbane Roar. The Wanderers had also been embarrassingly eliminated from the 2021 FFA Cup in a 2-1 Round of 16 loss to semi-professional side APIA Leichhardt FC where Robinson's team selection was criticised as a second string team in a competition the club had vowed to take seriously. He left the club on 30 January 2022. Rudan era 2021–22 season Mark Rudan was appointed as his replacement, with a contract lasting the remainder of the 2021/22 season. His first game in charge was a 1–0 win against Perth Glory, with Jack Rodwell scoring the winner in the 25th minute. Inconsistent results followed with the side unable to put together two wins in a row and they remained firmly in the bottom half of the table. The highlight of the season was defeating Sydney FC in a comprehensive 2–0 win on 5 March 2022, a day after the club announced they had given Rudan an extended contract through the 2021–22, 2022–23 and 2023–24 seasons. Starting with a 0–0 draw against Adelaide United the team began a 5-game run without a win followed by a win against Newcastle then a 1–0 loss to Wellington Phoenix that made qualification for the finals extremely unlikely and exposed the side to a potential 2022 Australia Cup qualifying play-off against another side in the bottom 4 A-League teams. A player exodus begun in earnest as Keanu Baccus, who was the club's second most capped player and Phillip Cancar signed for clubs in the Scottish Premier League. 2022–23 season Rudan's first full season came to be defined by the relationship with Sydney FC their Sydney Derby rival. Milos Ninkovic, a Sydney FC "talisman" who had made 221 appearances was not able to come to an agreement with Sydney FC and on the 3rd of July 2022 he joined the Wanderers. Former teammate and now media pundit Alex Brosque said the move was a "slap in the face" to both clubs and criticised all those involved in a transfer, saying it should never have happened. Calem Nieuwenhof, a young Sydney FC midfielder also joined the Wanderers as he looked for more playing time. English midfielder Jack Rodwell left to sign a 2-year contract with Sydney FC. The Wanderers won 4 of the first 6 games in outright 2nd place after a 1–0 away win at the new Allianz Stadium. The derby win was the last match before a month long break for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In the next 10 games they won just two games including a 1–0 loss in Parramatta to Sydney FC. The A-League's first ever 4–4 draw against Adelaide United saw new loan signing Amor Layouni scoring a stoppage time equaliser on debut to rescue a point. The Wanderers travelled away to Perth once more and lost 1-0 despite dominating the game after a 2nd minute red card to Jordan Elsey. Tomislav Mrcela was sent off with 10 minutes to play and in the 95th minute Aaron McEneff scored a lucky, deflected goal from the edge of the penalty area to send the home crowd into raptures. Western Sydney smashed in four goals in the 3rd derby of the season. The final match of the round had the Wanderers needing a draw against Melbourne City to secure 3rd place. Brandon Borrello opened the scoring & continued the sterling form since displayed since he replaced Sulejman Krpić at the point of the attack. Marco Tilio hit back after half-time before the first Wanderers goal for Nicolas Milanovic was responded to instantly by Jamie Maclaren. Lawrence Thomas saved a penalty from Andrew Nabbout to keep the game at 2-2. In stoppage time Western Sydney's players threw players forward but lost the ball in front of the Melbourne penalty area and City began a lightning counter-attack that ended with Tilio standing up Mrcela, sending the defender left and right before firing into the bottom corner past Thomas to win the game 3–2. Western Sydney finished on 41 points in 4th place, winning 11 games, drawing 8 and losing 7 with a +16 goal difference. The loss of 3rd placed proved decisive. Instead of playing the Wellington Phoenix it was first ever A-League finals Sydney Derby. Morgan Schneiderlin scored a 39th-minute penalty but outside that attack & goal the Wanderers were defensive and lacking fight. Sydney FC came out for the second half looking for blood and controlled the game. Mrcela went off hurt in the 61st minute, reminiscent of the Wanderers lost 2014 Grand Final when Topor-Stanley had to leave the game. Adama Traore made a brutal defensive error in the 69th minute. His defensive header back across goal was taken by Robert Mak who took a touch and fired in the equaliser. Rudan was unable to shift the game tactically and it seemed inevitable that Sydney would score again and Adam le Fondre scored, the shortest player on the field rose above the pack at a corner with a flick on 6 yards from goal past Thomas for a 2–1 scoreline. With 5 minutes to play Wanderers Captain Marcelo was found unmarked from a free kick and a player of his quality should have scored but the ball went flying over the bar to groans from the crowd. The last seconds played out with Thomas coming forward for a corner in a desperation attack but Sydney FC held on for a famous win. An exceptionally disappointing result from a season where a semi-final appearance looked like the minimum final result. After the game Ninkovic and Sydney FC coach Steve Corica were involved in a dressing room scuffle with Ninkovic entering the away side dressing room, getting into an argument with his former coach and being escorted out of the room by two Sydney FC staffers. 2023–24 season Marcelo signed a one-year extension to keep him at the Wanderers. Shortly after the finals loss Morgan Schneiderlin announced he would be leaving the Wanderers as the club balked at a reported 1 million AUD salary demand. Jack Clisby returned to his old club and was joined by new signings Dylan Pierias, Lachlan Brook, Joshua Brillante, Doni Grdić, Swedish attacker Marcus Antonsson and junior attacking sensation Marcus Younis was upgraded to a 2 year scholarship contract. Layouni, who had started brightly in his short-term loan spell began talks with both the Wanderers and Melbourne City to join on a transfer but elected instead to return to a European club. Daniel Wilmering left to join the Newcastle Jets. Adama Traore joined Melbourne Victory while Terry Antonis was released a year early and joined Melbourne City. Rhys Williams's severe hamstring rupture forced him into retirement. 17 year old Liam Bonetig moved to Scottish giants Celtic after the defender was scouted at the Wanderers Academy and the Australian School Boys tournament, with the Wanderers receiving FIFA training compensation worth ~$360,000. Jarrod Carluccio and Oliver Bozanic were moved on loan to Perth Glory. The Wanderers started the season well with strong performances in the early rounds of the Australia Cup main stage. The Round of 32 away trip to Perth against Floreat Athena FC resulted in a 6-1 demolition of the NPL WA club, with Lachlan Brook scoring 5 goals, a cup record for a main stage fixture. Adelaide United were up next and they were unable to hold back the striker duo of Marcus Antonsson and Brandon Borrello who scored two goals each with Miloš Ninković scoring his first goal for the Wanderers in a 5-1 rout. The team were knocked out of the Cup in the quarter final after a 4-2 loss away to Brisbane Roar. Colours and badge Western Sydney Wanderers club colours are red and black. The club's colours as well as its inaugural season kit was announced on 25 June 2012, at a press conference held at Parramatta Stadium. The kit featured a red and black hoop jersey, white shorts and black socks. The red and black colour scheme was popular during the supporter forums, and the 'hoop design' emerged along with vertical stripes as the two most popular style choices. The club's second kit, worn when playing away from home, has the same hoop design as the home kit. The first away kit included a red and white jersey, black shorts and white socks. The team's current away kit features white and gray hoops with white shorts and socks. The club badge incorporates the key elements of the Western Sydney landscape; the mountains, valleys and winding river system that runs throughout the region. The badge includes the name of the club in Futura typeface, with white writing and a stylised W, S and W pattern to represent the club's initials. Following their success at the 2014 AFC Champions League, the club announced that a star would be added to the top of the club's badge. The new addition was not yet worn by the team until a national standard regarding such symbols was introduced by FFA in January 2015. The new standard allowed the team to wear a gold star in perpetuity and in all competitions in recognition to the Asian title won. Sponsorship American manufacturer Nike signed a five-year partnership deal to start in the new club's first season. NRMA Insurance signed a three-year partnership as the major sponsor and Westfield a two-year partnership deal to start in Wanderers first season. Mitsubishi Electric signed a multi-year partnership deal for the 2013–14 season and onwards. Visy Industries was announced as the club's major corporate partner for the 2014 AFC Champions League. On 28 November 2014, the club confirmed that NRMA Insurance extended its initial three-year sponsorship for three more years. Pepper was announced as the major sponsor for the 2015 AFC Champions League title defence campaign. Aetos was announced as the main sponsor for the Wanderers in the 2017 AFC Champions League. Club facilities The club's office and training facilities are located in the one location, Blacktown International Sportspark. This was done to foster a sense of belonging for all members of the staff no matter what position they hold at the club. It was initially believed that the club's administration and training facilities would be based at Football New South Wales' headquarters at Valentine Park in Parklea but the facilities at the ground were not to the standard required. Parramatta Council as part of its bid to host the team in the city offered Council owned office space inside the Parramatta CBD but this was declined in favour of staying at Blacktown. In September 2015, the club announced the formation of a formal partnership with Blacktown City Council that made the Sportspark the long-term training and administrative home of the Wanderers. The club spent $15 million to create a high quality Wanderers Training & Administration Centre with a large number of football fields, parking and landscaping as well as a High Performance Centre providing aquatics recovery, an indoor hall, cutting edge sports science, analysis rooms, gym and hospitality facilities. Stadiums Locations On 26 July 2012, it was officially announced that Parramatta Stadium would be the home ground of the club for all its home games. Lyall Gorman, the club's Chairman, acknowledged that the feedback he had received from the fan forums was in favour of a single home ground and that the club must be based in the Greater Western Sydney. Parramatta Stadium was seen as ideal compared to other alternatives at Sydney Olympic Park, Penrith or Campbelltown as its rectangular size is better suited for games, and it has a capacity of over 20,000. The prospect of the club one day owning its own stadium was also initially brought up. During Western Sydney Wanderers home games, the stadium is commonly referred to as "Wanderland". Named after the team name and reference to former theme park in Western Sydney, Wonderland. Since 2010 plans to redevelop Parramatta Stadium were in the works, with some smaller expansion taking place. With soccer being played year-round at Parramatta Stadium by Western Sydney Wanderers and the Parramatta Eels rugby league club, the potential for an upgrade and expansion of the stadium was heightened. By mid-2015 a refurbishment of corporate facilities, player facilities and stadium amenities had been complete, while a decision to increase the capacity to the ground had stalled. In September 2015, the state government announced that the stadium would be demolished and replaced with the Western Sydney Stadium, a new 30,000 seat boutique venue on the same site. Construction was completed by 2019 with the official opening on 14 April 2019. During the construction period home games were shifted for three seasons to a combination of Sydney Showground Stadium, a 25,000 seat oval-configured stadium and Stadium Australia, an 83,000 seat rectangular venue, both of which are located in Sydney Olympic Park. Campbelltown Stadium is a sporadically used stadium for the Wanderers. The stadium has hosted two A-League games between the Wanderers & the Newcastle Jets, an FFA Cup game against Wellington Phoenix, and all 3 home matches of the 2017 AFC Champions League Group Stage. Penrith Stadium hosted a Wanderers pre-season game against Adelaide United in 2013, an A-League game against Wellington Phoenix & an FFA Cup game against Brisbane Roar in 2015, and also sees occasional use by the Women's W-League team. Marconi Stadium was another venue used for pre-season fixtures, Women & Youth team matches. The Blacktown International Sportspark is a regular venue for the W-League and Youth League teams, with the club sharing the boutique stadium with Blacktown Spartans FC. In 2019, the club opened the Wanderers Centre Of Football, a $15 million facility with a boutique stadium (Wanderers Football Park) that replicates the playing surface of the Western Sydney Stadium. The W-League team played its first game there on 2 January 2021, winning the match 2–1 against the Newcastle Jets. Support Western Sydney Wanderers is one of the A-League's better supported clubs. The main supporters' group for the club is the "Red and Black Bloc" (RBB). The independent group was established in June 2012, with its founding members connecting months before that on online forums and holding meetings at Parramatta's Woolpack Hotel. The group made its first appearance attending the club's first ever game on 25 July 2012, where Wanderers played Nepean FC at Cook Park. At the match, the group gathered at the northern end of the ground and were vocal in the support of the new team. The Daily Telegraph noted the impressive debut of the group, whilst The Sydney Morning Herald described the group as "a noisy bunch on the northern hill". The RBB have received much praise and attention for the atmosphere and passion they produce, most notably their call-and-response chant "Who do we sing for?". The RBB perform The Poznań at the 80 minute mark of matches, in recognition of the history associated with soccer in Parramatta as the first ever game of the sport in Australia was played there in the year 1880. The group is also active in local charitable causes. In the wake of the 2013 New South Wales bushfires disaster, the RBB raised $15,000 to assist the NSW Salvation Army Bushfire Appeal. On 2 October 2014, 5,000 Wanderers' supporters attended a live screening of the second leg of the 2014 AFC Champions League Final at Centenary Square, in the Parramatta CBD. The event was followed by thousands of fans turning up to welcome home the newly crowned champions of Asia at Sydney Airport. On 28 December 2013, supporters of Western Sydney Wanderers were involved in an altercation with a group of Melbourne Victory supporters in a Melbourne street before a league match. The incident was followed by the club's supporters igniting a flare during the match in Melbourne Rectangular Stadium. On 3 January 2014, FFA responded by charging both clubs with bringing the game into disrepute. Action was also taken against several individuals, with police later charging three supporters involved in the incident within the following months. On 19 April 2013 Australian rock-pop band Exit Row (Andrew Torrisi, Nick Ferreri, Raf Lavorato, Jeremy Azzopardi and Aaron Tarasiewicz) released their debut single "Welcome To Our Wanderland", a Western Sydney Wanderers-anthem. The song lyric was of the club, the RBB, and Western Sydney, with the RBB chant "Who do we sing for?" used in the chorus. The song reached 93 on the Australian iTunes chart. By the end of their inaugural season Western Sydney Wanderers had grown its membership base to 7,500 people, with the club's total match attendance at home reaching 174,520, with an average of 12,466. By the beginning of their second season, club membership had grown twofold to a set cap of 16,100 members, with over 2,000 in waiting. In addition the second season saw a rise to 193,178 total and 14,860 average attendances to home games. By their third season the club had risen to 18,706 ticketed season members. Some notable Wanderers fans include Ian "Dicko" Dickson, Laura Dundovic, Nicole da Silva, Lucy Zelic, Paul Croft, Montaigne, and Jamie Soward. Rivalries Western Sydney Wanderers vs. Sydney FC Western Sydney Wanderers' local rivals are Sydney FC. The rivalry, regarded as the biggest in the A-League, is largely based upon the historical, cultural and geographical "East" versus "West" mentality that takes place throughout sport and life in Sydney, though the rivalry between the two clubs also stems from the establishment and development of the A-League, which mirrored the pre-existing cultural and social divide of the city. The two clubs first met in Wanderers inaugural season during the third round of the league on 20 October 2012, with Wanderers losing the match 1–0 after a penalty scored by Alessandro Del Piero. On 15 December 2012, in the following derby, Wanderers defeated Sydney FC 2–0 away from home with goals by Youssouf Hersi and Michael Beauchamp. During their third encounter on 23 March 2012, the two teams went on to draw 1–1 at Wanderers' home ground. The match saw much drama with nine yellows and two red cards shown on the night. In recent years, the derby has been played in front of sold-out crowds, and the support in which both clubs receive has produced an "unrivalled atmosphere and sense of occasion for a club match" in Australia. Western Sydney Wanderers vs. Macarthur FC Another of the Western Sydney Wanderers' local rivals are Macarthur FC. The rivalry is largely based on geography, with both teams based in Greater Western Sydney. The two clubs first met in the opening round of the 2020–21 A-League season on 30 December 2020, with Wanderers losing the match 1–0 after a goal scored by Mark Milligan. On 6 February 2021, in the following derby, Wanderers drew 2–2 away from home with goals by Graham Dorrans and Simon Cox. Ownership Upon establishing Western Sydney Wanderers in April 2012, FFA attempted to find a backer to own and run the club. Despite several attempts by FFA, no individual owner or consortium of owners decided to take on the new Sydney-based club, thus FFA assumed ownership of the club, taking on the role first two years of the club's existence with Lyall Gorman appointed chairman. In May 2014, it was confirmed that FFA had sold the club to a consortium headed by Australian businessman Paul Lederer, who was also appointed the role of chairman, while John Tsatsimas took up the role of the club's first CEO following his role as General Manager since the club's inception. Along with Lederer, Jefferson Cheng, Glenn Duncan and David Slade were part of the consortium of owners. The new ownership became effective as of 30 June 2014. Players Australian squads are limited to 23 players in the league competition, five of whom may be without an Australian citizenship and three players must be under 23 years of age. The squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; some players on the squad have dual citizenship with another country. First-team squad Out on loan Youth Players to have been featured in a first-team matchday squad for Western Sydney Wanderers. Club officials Head coach record Captaincy history Wanderers captaincy history Records Mark Bridge currently holds the team record for total number of games played with 141 matches. Nikolai Topor-Stanley has the second most appearances for the club with 125 matches. Brendon Santalab is the third most capped player with 114 matches. Western Sydney Wanderers all-time highest goalscorer in all competitions is Brendon Santalab with 41 goals. The player with the second most goals scored for Wanderers is Mark Bridge, who has scored 38 goals for the club, followed by Oriol Riera with 31 goals scored in all competitions. Wanderers highest home A-League attendance at Parramatta Stadium is 19,627 for a Sydney Derby match on 16 January 2016, whilst the club's highest attendance in any competition at Parramatta Stadium is 20,053, set in the 2014 AFC Champions League Final first leg against Al-Hilal FC. The highest home attendance at any stadium for Western Sydney Wanderers is 61,880 for a Sydney Derby match at Stadium Australia on Saturday 9 October 2016. Team records Season-by-season record This is a partial list of the last five seasons the Wanderers have participated in. For the full season-by-season history, see List of Western Sydney Wanderers FC seasons. A-League Grand Finals * - Match was decided during extra time Continental record AFC Club Ranking Updated 14 May 2022 Honours Domestic A-League Men Championship Runners-up (3): 2013, 2014, 2016 A-League Men Premiership Winners (1): 2012–13 Runners-up (2): 2013–14, 2015–16 Continental AFC Champions League Champions (1): 2014 International FIFA Club World Cup Sixth-place (1): 2014 Award AFC Club of the Year: 2014 See also Expansion of the A-League Notes References External links Official website Official corporate website Supporters website Red and Black Block Western Sydney Wanderers results - Latest scores for Western Sydney Wanderers FC 2012 establishments in Australia Association football clubs established in 2012 Soccer clubs in Sydney A-League Men teams Expansion of the A-League Men AFC Champions League winning clubs
Zen Ties is a 2008 children's picture book by Jon J. Muth. The book is a follow-up to Zen Shorts (2005), and a third book, Zen Ghosts, was released in September 2010. Plot Stillwater, a panda, and his three-human friends, Karl, Addy and Michael are back in a new adventure. This time, Michael is faced with the daunting challenge of an upcoming spelling bee. The story also introduces Miss Whitaker, an elderly neighbor whose cantankerous nature frightens the children. Stillwater uses his quiet wisdom and insight to see past her bad temper to the lonely woman within. Stillwater also receives a visit from his young nephew Koo, who speaks in Haiku. American picture books 2008 children's books Fictional pandas Children's books about bears
Paki is a derogatory ethnic slur originating from the United Kingdom, typically directed towards people of Pakistani descent, though it has also been used against those of other South Asian descent, mainly in British slang. Etymology "Paki" is derived from the exonym Pakistan. The term Pak () means "purity" in Persian, Urdu and Pashto. There was no "Pak" or "Paki" ethnic group before the state was created. The name of Pakistan (initially as "Pakstan") was coined by the Cambridge University law student and Muslim nationalist Rahmat Ali, and was published on 28 January 1933 in the pamphlet Now or Never, which was the name adopted for the country after the partition of India and independence from the British Raj. History United Kingdom The use of the term "Paki" was first recorded in 1964, during a period of increased South Asian immigration to the United Kingdom. At this time, the term "Paki" was very much in mixed usage; it was often used as a slur. In addition to Pakistanis, it has also been directed at people of other South Asian backgrounds as well as people from other demographics who physically resemble South Asians. Starting in the late-1960s, and peaking in the 1970s and 1980s, violent gangs opposed to immigration took part in attacks known as "Paki-bashing", which targeted and assaulted South Asians and businesses owned by them, and occasionally other ethnic minorities. "Paki-bashing" became more common after Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968; polls at the time showed that Powell's anti-immigrant rhetoric held support amongst the majority of the white populace at the time. "Paki-bashing" peaked during the 1970s1980s, with the attackers often being supporters of far-right fascist, racist and anti-immigrant movements, including the white power skinheads, the National Front, and the British National Party. These attacks were usually referred to as either "Paki-bashing" or "skinhead terror", with the attackers usually called "Paki-bashers" or "skinheads". "Paki-bashing" was partly fuelled by the media's anti-immigrant and anti-Pakistani rhetoric at the time, and by systemic failures of state authorities, which included under-reporting racist attacks, the criminal justice system not taking racist violence seriously, constant racial harassment by police, and police involvement in racist violence. Asians were frequently stereotyped as "weak" and "passive" in the 1960s and 1970s, with Pakistanis viewed as "passive objects" and "unwilling to fight back", making them seen as easy targets by "Paki-bashers". The Joint Campaign Against Racism committee reported that there had been more than 20,000 racist attacks on British people of colour, including Britons of South Asian origin, during 1985. Drawing inspiration from the African-American civil rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the anti-apartheid movement, young British Asian activists began a number of anti-racist youth movements against "Paki-bashing", including the Bradford Youth Movement in 1977, the Bangladeshi Youth Movement following the murder of Altab Ali in 1978, and the Newham Youth Movement following the murder of Akhtar Ali Baig in 1980. The earliest groups to resist "Paki-bashing" date back to 19681970, with two distinct movements that emerged: the integrationist approach began by the Pakistani Welfare Association and National Federation of Pakistani Associations attempted to establish positive race relations while maintaining law and order, which was contrasted by the autonomous approach began by the Pakistani Progressive Party and the Pakistani Workers' Union which engaged in vigilantism as self-defence against racially motivated violence and police harassment in conjunction with the Black Power movement (often working with the British Black Panthers and Communist Workers League of Britain) while also seeking to replace the "weak" and "passive" stereotypes of Pakistanis and Asians. Divisions arose between the integrationist and autonomous movements by 1970, with integrationist leader Raja Mahmudabad criticising the vigilantism of the latter as "alien to the spirit and practice of Islam" whereas PPP/PWU leader Abdul Hye stated they "have no intention of fighting or killing anyone, but if it comes to us, we will hit back." It was not until the 1980s and 1990s that academics began to take racially motivated violence into serious focus, partly as a result of black and Asian people entering academic life. In the 21st century, some younger British Pakistanis and other British South Asians have attempted to reclaim the word, thus drawing parallels to the LGBT reclamation of the slur "queer" and the African American reclamation of the slur "nigger". Peterborough businessman Abdul Rahim, who produces merchandise reclaiming the word, equates it to more socially accepted terms such as "Aussie" and "Kiwi", saying that it is more similar to them than it is to "nigger", as it denotes a nationality and not a biological race. However, other British Pakistanis see use of the word as unacceptable even among members of their community, due to its historical usage in a negative way. In December 2000, the Advertising Standards Authority published research on attitudes of the British public to pejoratives. It ranked Paki as the tenth severest pejorative in the English language, up from seventeenth three years earlier. Several scholars have compared Islamophobic street violence in the 2000s and 2010s to that of Paki-bashing in the 1970s and 1980s. Robert Lambert notes that a key difference is that, whereas the National Front and BNP targeted all British South Asians (including Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs), the English Defence League (EDL) specifically target British Muslims. Lambert also compares the media's role in fuelling "Paki-bashing" in the late 20th century to its role in fuelling Islamophobic sentiment in the early 21st century. Geddes notes that variations of the "Paki" racial slur are occasionally used by members of the EDL. Canada The term is also used as a slur in Canada against South Asian Canadians The term migrated to Canada around the 1970s with increased Pakistani and south Asian immigration to Canada. In 2008, a campaign sign for an Alberta Liberal Party candidate in Edmonton was defaced when the slur was spray painted on it. Notable uses Americans generally are unfamiliar with the word "Paki" as a slur and U.S. leaders and public figures have occasionally had to apologise for using it. In January 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush said on India–Pakistan relations that "We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis that there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war." After a Pakistani American journalist complained, a White House spokesman made a statement that Bush had great respect for Pakistan. This followed an incident four years earlier, when Clinton White House adviser Sandy Berger had to apologise for referencing "Pakis" in public comments. Spike Milligan, who was white, played the lead role of Kevin O'Grady in the 1969 LWT sitcom Curry and Chips. O'Grady, half-Irish and half-Pakistani, was taunted with the name "Paki-Paddy"; the show intended to mock racism and bigotry. Following complaints, the BBC edited out use of the word in repeats of the 1980s sitcom Only Fools and Horses. Columnists have perceived this as a way of obscuring the historical truth that the use of such words was commonplace at the time. The word was used in Rita, Sue and Bob Too – set in Bradford, one of the first cities to have a large Pakistani community – and also in East is East – in which it is used by the mixed-race family as well as by racist characters. In the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, who was Indian Parsi, is often addressed derogatorily as a "Paki" when he worked as a baggage handler at London Heathrow Airport in 1970. In 2009, Prince Harry was publicly admonished and was made by the military to undergo sensitivity training when he was caught on video (taken years before) calling one of his fellow Army recruits "our little Paki friend." In 2015, the American film Jurassic World was mocked satirically by British Asian comedian Guz Khan for using "pachys" (pronounced "pakis") as shorthand for the genera Pachycephalosaurus. See also British Asians British Bangladeshis British Indians British Pakistanis British Sri Lankans References English profanity Ethnic and religious slurs Anti-Pakistan sentiment English words Anti–South Asian slurs Stereotypes of South Asian people
Borys Albinovych Yavorskyi (; born 3 October 1949, Tovstenke, Ternopil Oblast) is a Ukrainian artist. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1995). Biography Borys Yavorsky is born on 3 October 1949 in Tovstenke, now Kolyndiany Hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast. He graduated from the Kosiv School of Applied Arts (1969) and the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts (1979). He worked as an artist at the art and production workshops of the Mykolaiv Art Fund of Ukraine (1979—1981). Currently at the Lviv National Academy of Arts: lecturer (1981), senior lecturer (1988) at the Department of Drawing. He Yavorskyi improved his skills in drawing and painting at the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1989—1990; now St. Petersburg, Russia) and in drawing at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture (2011; Kyiv). He lives in Lviv. Creative works Works in easel and monumental painting. Since 1981, he has participated in Ukrainian and international exhibitions and plein airs. References 1949 births Living people People from Lviv Ukrainian male painters
Thomas John Joseph Paprocki (born August 5, 1952) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois since 2010. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago in Illinois from 2003 to 2010. Biography Early life The third of nine children, Thomas Paprocki was born August 5, 1952, in Chicago, Illinois; he has six brothers and two sisters. A lifelong fan of hockey—who is sometimes referred to in the media as the "Holy Goalie"—he began playing at a young age in the basement of his father's drugstore and supports the Chicago Blackhawks professional hockey team. He graduated from Quigley Preparatory Seminary South in Chicago in 1970, and then entered Niles College in Chicago, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974. From 1974 to 1979, Paprocki studied at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois, where he earned a Bachelor's in Sacred Theology (1976), Master's in Divinity (1978), and Licentiate in Sacred Theology (1979). Priesthood Paprocki was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Chicago by Cardinal John Cody on May 10, 1978. Paprocki then served as associate pastor at St. Michael's Parish in South Chicago until 1983. In 1981, he earned his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago and founded the Chicago Legal Clinic to assist the working poor and disadvantaged. Paprocki served as administrator of St. Joseph Parish in Chicago from 1983 to 1986 and as vice-chancellor of the archdiocese from 1985 to 1987. He then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where he obtained a Licentiate of Canon Law (1989) and a Doctor of Canon Law degree (1991). Upon his return to Chicago, Paprocki was named chancellor of the archdiocese in 1992 and later pastor of St. Constance Pastor in 2000. In 2013, he received an MBA from the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago On January 24, 2003, Paprocki was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago and titular bishop of Vulturaria by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on March 19, 2003, from Cardinal Francis George, with bishops Raymond E. Goedert and Ricardo Urquidi serving as co-consecrators. As an auxiliary bishop, Paprocki served as episcopal vicar for Vicariate IV, and as the cardinal's liaison for Polonia and for health and hospital affairs. Paprocki is also a board member of the Polish American Association and the Polish American Leadership Initiative. When Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, issued an executive order in 2005 requiring all pharmacists in the state to dispense prescription contraceptives, Paprocki condemned the order in Blagojevich's presence, saying, "I am dismayed that our secular society has reached the point that individuals are being required by law to violate their personal religious beliefs in order to accommodate the selfish demands of special interest groups."In November 2008, Paprocki said, "If Catholic hospitals were required by federal law to perform abortions, we'd have to close our hospitals." When remarking about who was responsible for the sexual abuse crises in the Catholic Church, Paprocki said that the devil was the principal force behind the lawsuits. Paprocki has shielded at least three priests from sexual assault investigations. Bishop of Springfield On April 20, 2010, Paprocki was appointed as bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois by Pope Benedict XVI. He was installed at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Springfield on June 22, 2010. In November 2010, he organized a conference on exorcism. In April 2012, Paprocki was named as part of a three-member board of American Catholic Bishops charged by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) with a multi-year investigation into the U.S. Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). He coined the name of the Fortnight for Freedom, a campaign of the American bishops on behalf of religious liberty. Paprocki is episcopal board chair for the Catholic Athletes for Christ, and is the author of Running for a Higher Purpose and Holy Goals for Body and Soul. Viewpoints Politics In September 2012, Paprocki wrote a column in his diocese's Catholic Times newspaper about the upcoming US presidential elections. He declared that voting for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are "intrinsically evil and gravely sinful" makes one "morally complicit" and places the eternal salvation of the soul in "serious jeopardy." His article went on at length discussing how in his view the Democratic Party embraced objectionable doctrines, such as abortion rights for women and same-sex marriage. Paprocki took notice of the Republican Party's support for capital punishment in murder cases, stating that this did not directly conflict with Church teaching. He also argued that party differences over caring for the poor and immigration were "prudential judgments about the most effective means of achieving morally desirable ends, not intrinsic evils." Ahead of the 2016 elections, Paprocki denounced the Democratic Party for its "aggressive pro-abortion stance and activist agenda expanding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights," adding that Republicans "have not fared very well in these same areas." He wrote that Democrats, who "articulate strong concern for the poor," have made little progress in fighting poverty. Paprocki said that Catholics could choose not to vote for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. Communion for politicians In February 2018, Paprocki officially upheld a previous decision to bar U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, a Catholic in his diocese, from receiving the Eucharist after Durbin voted against a 20-week abortion ban. He made the following statement: "In April 2004, Sen. Durbin's pastor, then Msgr. Kevin Vann (now Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange, CA), said that he would be reticent to give Sen. Durbin Holy Communion because his pro-abortion position put him outside of communion or unity with the Church's teachings on life. My predecessor, now Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha, said that he would support that decision. I have continued that position. The provision is intended not to punish, but to bring about a change of heart."On June 6, 2019, Paprocki issued a decree officially barring Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and Illinois Senate President John Cullerton, both Catholics, from presenting themselves to receive the Eucharist. Paprocki said the degree was on account of their role in passing the Reproductive Health Act, which removes spousal consent and waiting periods for abortions. While singling out Madigan and Cullerton specifically, Paprocki also asked that other legislators who voted for the bill not present themselves for communion either, stating that they had "cooperated in evil and committed grave sin." Madigan stated that Paprocki had informed him earlier that he would be forbidden from taking the sacrament if he permitted the House to debate and vote on the measure, but that he chose to do so. Same-sex marriage In November 2013, Paprocki said that Satan was behind recent Illinois legalization of same-sex marriage and held an exorcism ceremony, during which he read the exorcism rite "in reparation for the sin of same-sex marriage". On June 23, 2017 Paprocki instructed priests in his diocese to "deny Communion, last rites and funeral rites to people in same-sex marriages – unless they repent". He prohibited clergy and parish staff from either performing same-sex marriages or allowing wedding receptions to be hosted in any facilities or centres owned by the Catholic church. This was followed by strong criticism. Author Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter called for Paprocki to be "sacked." Christopher Pett, president of DignityUSA, described the decree as "mean-spirited and hurtful in the extreme." Paprocki defended his position as "a rather straightforward application of existing Church teaching and canon law." Paprocki has been critical of the Jesuit priest James Martin, whose outreach to the LGBT community has drawn opposition from conservative Catholics. According to Paprocki, Martin "correctly expresses God's love for all people, while on the other, he either encourages or fails to correct behavior that separates a person from that very love. This is deeply scandalous in the sense of leading people to believe that wrongful behavior is not sinful." In 2023 Bishop Paprocki, quoted Cardinal Robert W. McElroy as an example of a church leader whose public pronouncement contradicted a "truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith". Paprocki took issue with remarks made by McElroy in which he appeared to reject teaching that a person must be in a state of grace to receive Holy Communion. Paprocki also posed the question of an unnamed cardinal stating publicly that "homosexual acts are not sinful and same-sex unions should be blessed by the Church" as a further example of heterodox thought among Catholic leaders. "Until recently, it would be hard to imagine any successor of the apostles making such heterodox statements," wrote Bishop Paprocki in First Things. Worker's rights Paprocki dissented from the amicus brief filed by the USCCB in support of labor unions in the Janus case. The bishops had affirmed the Church's traditional teaching in support for unions, citing various Church documents. Paprocki disagreed with the amicus brief. He instead supported the mandatory open shop for public employers. Paprocki has not been a visitor or spiritual guide at union halls but has collaborated with Legatus, an organization of Catholic corporate executives. He has also preached for lawyers and MBA executives. Although Paprocki did support the Janus ruling and respectfully rejected an amicus brief by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Paprocki claimed he did so to defend the conscience of the Catholic worker. Paprocki asserts that some labor unions support anti-Catholic stances; therefore, his approach defends the right of the worker to not support these groups. This distinction makes his opposition merely conditional; unions that are not contrary to Catholic teaching are not ruled out Ipso facto. Paprocki cites Pope Leo XIII's critical encyclical Rerum novarum paragraph 57 to show that although the Church has supported unions, said support has never been unconditional:"To sum up, then, We may lay it down as a general and lasting law that working men's associations should be so organized and governed as to furnish the best and most suitable means for attaining what is aimed at, that is to say, for helping each individual member to better his condition to the utmost in body, soul, and property. It is clear that they must pay special and chief attention to the duties of religion and morality, and that social betterment should have this chiefly in view; otherwise they would lose wholly their special character, and end by becoming little better than those societies which take no account whatever of religion. What advantage can it be to a working man to obtain by means of a society material well-being, if he endangers his soul for lack of spiritual food?" Sexual abuse scandal In response to 2018 allegations by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò that Pope Francis covered up allegations of sexual abuse against former-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Paprocki called on all Vatican officials, including Francis, to "make public the pertinent files indicating who knew what and when...and provide the accountability that the Holy Father has promised." Paprocki criticized Pope Francis for declining to answer a question about whether or not the accusations were true, saying, "Frankly, but with all due respect, that response is not adequate." Paprocki called for "public prayers of repentance and acts of atonement" after reports of widespread sexual abuse and coverup in the Catholic Church. COVID-19 vaccines After the University of Notre Dame announced a vaccine requirement for students in April 2021, Paprocki and Notre Dame Law Professor Gerard Bradley spoke out against the requirement. In a letter to campus newspaper The Observer, Paprocki and Bradley cited a statement from the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith arguing that "persons may — not must — get vaccinated." They also requested, in light of vaccine testing on stem cell lines derived from aborted fetuses, that "Notre Dame should expand its understanding of 'religious' objectors to include those whose refusal to be vaccinated are rooted in moral considerations or other objections of conscience." As Bishop of Springfield, Paprocki subsequently rejected vaccine requirements for clergy and employees within his diocese. He did, however, emphasize that "each person has a moral duty to act responsibly out of concern for his or her neighbor by diligently following other safety measures," irrespective of vaccination status. Liturgy Paprocki criticized Traditionis custodes, a July 2021 motu proprio issued by Pope Francis which imposed restrictions on the Tridentine Mass, the Mass commonly offered before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s and which still takes place in some churches. "My assessment of this is that it was ill-advised," he said. "I don't know who was advising him. But to the extent he was trying to solve a problem here, the motu proprio stirred things up." Paprocki continued to allow parishes in his diocese to offer the older form of the Mass. Coat of arms See also Catholic Church hierarchy Catholic Church in the United States Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States List of Catholic bishops of the United States Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops References External links Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois — official site 1952 births Living people Clergy from Chicago Illinois lawyers Loyola University Chicago alumni University of Saint Mary of the Lake alumni Pontifical Gregorian University alumni American people of Polish descent 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Roman Catholic bishops of Springfield in Illinois Notre Dame Law School faculty
Gill Adarsh Matriculation Higher Secondary School is a co-educational matriculation school by the Punjab Association. It is located in Royapettah, Chennai, India. President Giani Zail Singh dedicated Gill Adarsh Matriculation Higher Secondary School to the founder, Lt Col G.S. Gill. The school has a student strength of around 3500 with over 110 class rooms. The school is based on State board's Samacheer Kalvi system. The school was established in 1980 and their motto is Duty, Devotion and Discipline. References Primary schools in Tamil Nadu High schools and secondary schools in Chennai Educational institutions established in 1980 1980 establishments in Tamil Nadu
David John Barrington Burrowes (born 12 June 1969) is a British politician. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate from 2005 to 2017, is the co-founder of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. He has been the Chairman of the Equity Release Council since 2017 Early life Burrowes was born in Cockfosters and was educated at Highgate School and the University of Exeter. Whilst at Exeter, in 1990, Burrowes and Tim Montgomerie founded the Conservative Christian Fellowship. Before entering parliament he worked for Enfield solicitors, Shepherd Harris and Co, specialising in criminal law and was an advocate in police stations and courts in Enfield, Haringey and Hertfordshire. He was an Enfield Borough Council councillor for 12 years. Parliamentary career Burrowes contested the safe Labour seat of Edmonton at the 2001 general election achieving a 1.0 swing away from sitting MP Andy Love who won by a majority of 9,772. He was elected MP for Enfield Southgate in May 2005, defeating Minister of State for Education and Skills Stephen Twigg with a majority of 1,747 votes and a swing of 8.7%. He made his maiden speech on 20 June 2005. Labour regained the seat in the 2017 general election on a substantial 9.7% swing. Select Committees and Interest groups 2005–2010 Burrowes has been a member of several Select Committees including: Public Administration Select Committee 2005–10, Armed Forces Bill 2005–06, Joint Committee on the Draft Legal Services Bill 2006, Joint Committee on the Draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill 2007. Based on the questions he asks, his main political topics of interest are Justice, Health, Home Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, International Development, though he includes family policy, drugs and alcohol policy and voluntary sector, umbilical cord blood banking, treatment and research in his Parliament biography. Burrowes was a member of a number of All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) including: Democracy in Burma, British-Cyprus All-Party Parliamentary Group (Chair), Asthma, Child and Youth Crime Group (Vice-Chair), Childcare, Christians in Parliament, Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis (Chair), Justice for Equitable Life Policy Holders, Fatherhood, Holy See, Human Trafficking, Interest Rate Swap Mis-selling, Legal Aid, Poverty, Prison Health, Pro-Life Group, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, Stem Cell Transplantation (Vice-Chair), Sustainable Relationships (Secretary), Voice UK and Youth Affairs. He is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. In 2005-6 he contributed to debates on Violent Crime, Fatherhood, Criminal Legal Aid, Council Tax Revaluation, and Equalities. In 2007-8 he contributed to debates on Chase Farm Hospital, Drugs and Alcohol Addiction, Cyprus, Criminal Justice, Prisons, Hospital Acquired Infections (C.diff), Embryo Research, Burma, Council Tax, Hit and Run fatalities and Fatherhood. In July 2007 he was appointed to the frontbench as Shadow Justice Minister. Shadow Justice Minister During the Conservative Party's social justice policy review headed by Iain Duncan Smith, Burrowes chaired the committee looking into addiction. Their 111-page report which dealt with "The nature and extend of social breakdown and poverty today" and "The causes of poverty" was designed to provide policy for an incoming government to tackle "Britain's most acute social problems". Post 2010 Election He was re-elected in 2010 with a majority of 7626, a swing of 7.2%. He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Francis Maude MP, Minister to the Cabinet Office and Oliver Letwin, Minister responsible for Government Policy. In September 2010, Burrowes was reappointed as PPS to Letwin, providing support to Letwin's policy role across government and in particular in relation to drugs and alcohol treatment reform and future policy development. In September 2012, Burrowes was made Parliamentary Private Secretary to Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He retained his advisory role with Oliver Letwin on the issue of drug and alcohol policy. In 2013, he called for the Attorney General to review the sentence passed on former Cabinet Minister Chris Huhne which he regarded as too lenient. He was a prominent opponent of the Government's proposals to introduce same-sex marriage into England and Wales, and helped establish the Coalition for Marriage against its adoption. He is reported as saying that it would risk leading to an "adulterer's charter", but his call for a referendum to be held on the issue was ignored. At the general election in 2015 Burrowes was elected for a third term and retained the same share of the vote won in 2010. He was Co-Chair of the Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis APPG (All-Party Parliamentary Group), Protection of Cultural Heritage APPG, and Stem Cell Transplantation. He was also an officer of the following APPGs – Cyprus, Human Trafficking, Religious Education, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia, Refugees and Ending Homelessness. He is Co-Chair of the Complex Needs and Dual Diagnosis APPG, Protection of Cultural Heritage APPG, and Stem Cell Transplantation. In 2015 Burrowes was elected to the Home Affairs Select Committee and re-elected as Executive Member of the Conservative MPs' backbench 1922 Committee and Chairman of its Justice Committee. He spoke on a number of issues which led to changes in Government policy and legislation: he called for more Syrian refugees to be accepted in the UK; he successfully led the cross party opposition to assisted suicide and the relaxation of Sunday Trading laws, and he supported the blanket ban on the supply of so-called 'legal highs'. Burrowes supported leaving the European Union in the 2016 referendum; his constituency voted Remain by 62.1%. Burrowes's registered members' interests are listed on Theyworkforyou.com, and local donations on Searchthemoney.com. Donors include Christian Action Research and Education. Constituency issues Burrowes became a "major focal point of the high profile campaign to stop computer hacker Gary McKinnon," a constituent, being extradited to the United States. The Home Secretary decided to stop the extradition order which Burrowes called "a victory for common sense and compassion". In February 2015 Burrowes was embarrassed to find himself canvassing for the 2015 United Kingdom general election on doorsteps in the home street of neighbouring MP Andrew Love after he and his campaign team accidentally strayed into the wrong constituency. Burrowes consistently opposed the Enfield "Mini Holland" scheme which was launched by the Council to promote cycling and safer streets in Enfield, but has given rise to many complaints by residents. 2017 Election Burrowes lost his seat in the 2017 general election to Labour's Bambos Charalambous with a 9.7% swing. 2019 Election Burrowes was reselected as prospective Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Enfield Southgate in December 2018. Labour held the seat with a slightly increased majority on election night. Post-Parliamentary career In May 2021 Burrowes co-authored an essay entitled "Family Matters – the Case for Strengthening Families" with Fiona Bruce MP, for inclusion in Common Sense: Conservative Thinking for a Post-Liberal Age published by the Common Sense Group, an informal group of Conservative MPs. Personal life A keen cricketer and footballer, Burrowes married Janet Coekin in January 1996 in Havering. They have six children, twins Barnaby and Harriet, Dougal, Dorothy, Noah and Toby. He is a supporter of Arsenal F.C. Burrowes serves as an LEA Governor at Broomfield School and St Paul's CE Primary School in Enfield. He is also a trustee and active participant in his local church. References External links David Burrowes MP official site David Burrowes MP biography at the site of the Conservative Party Enfield Southgate Conservatives BBC Politics page Enfield Southgate Watch – Monitoring Website 1969 births Living people UK MPs 2005–2010 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Councillors in the London Borough of Enfield People educated at Highgate School Alumni of the University of Exeter UK MPs 2010–2015 UK MPs 2015–2017 People from Southgate, London British Eurosceptics
Bresson () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. It is part of the Grenoble urban unit (agglomeration). Population See also Communes of the Isère department References Communes of Isère Isère communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
The 1973 NCAA Division I football season was the first for the NCAA's current three-division structure. Effective with the 1973–74 academic year, schools formerly in the NCAA "University Division" were classified as Division I (later subdivided for football only in 1978 (I-A and I-AA) and renamed in 2006 into today's Division I FBS and FCS). Schools in the former "College Division" were classified into Division II, which allowed fewer athletic scholarships than Division I, and Division III, in which athletic scholarships were prohibited. In its inaugural season, Division I had two NCAA-recognized national champions, and they faced each other at year's end in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Eve. The New Orleans game matched two unbeaten teams, the Alabama Crimson Tide ranked No. 1 by AP and UPI, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish ranked No. 3 by AP and No. 4 by UPI. While both wire services ranked Alabama first at the end of the regular season, the final AP poll was after the bowl games. By agreement with the American Football Coaches' Association, however, UPI bestowed its championship before the postseason bowl games, and Alabama was crowned champion by UPI on December 4. UPI ranked Notre Dame fourth: one coach had given the Irish a first place vote, compared to 21 for Alabama. (In the next season, the final coaches' poll was after the bowls.) In a game where the lead changed six times, Notre Dame won by a single point, 24–23, to claim the AP national championship. During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for major college football teams that would become Division I-A in 1978. The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an "unofficial national champion" based on the top ranked teams in the "wire service" (AP and UPI) polls. The "writers' poll" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the "coaches' poll" by United Press International) (UPI). In 1973, the UPI issued its final poll before the bowls, but the AP Trophy was withheld until the postseason was completed. The AP poll in 1973 consisted of the votes of as many as 63 sportswriters and broadcasters, though not all of them voted in every poll. UPI's voting was made by 34 coaches. Those who cast votes would give their opinion of the ten best teams. Under a point system of 20 points for first place, 19 for second, etc., the "overall" ranking was determined. Conference and program changes September In the preseason poll released on September 3, the defending champion USC Trojans were ranked first by 55 of the 63 voters, followed by Ohio State, Texas, Nebraska and Michigan. September 8: No. 4 Nebraska, led by new head coach Tom Osborne, beat No. 10 UCLA 40–13, but most other teams had not yet opened the season. The next poll featured No. 1 USC, No. 2 Nebraska, No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Texas, and No. 5 Michigan. September 15: No. 1 USC beat Arkansas 17–0. No. 2 Nebraska and No. 4 Texas were idle. No. 3 Ohio State beat Minnesota 56–7 and No. 5 Michigan beat Iowa 31–7. No. 6 Alabama, which beat California 66–0 in Birmingham, rose up in the next poll: No. 1 USC, No. 2 Nebraska, No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Alabama, and No. 5 Michigan. September 22: No. 1 USC beat Georgia Tech at Atlanta 23–6, and No. 2 Nebraska beat No. 14 North Carolina State 31–14. No. 3 Ohio State was idle. No. 4 Alabama won at Kentucky 28–14, while No. 5 Michigan beat Stanford 47–10. The next poll featured No. 1 USC, No. 2 Nebraska, No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Michigan, and No. 5 Alabama. September 29: No. 1 USC was tied by No. 8 Oklahoma, helmed by new coach Barry Switzer, 7–7. No. 2 Nebraska beat Wisconsin 20–16. No. 3 Ohio State beat TCU 37–3. No. 4 Michigan beat Navy 14–0. No. 5 Alabama won at Vanderbilt, 44–0. In the next poll, the Buckeyes rose to first place: No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Nebraska, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 USC, and No. 5 Michigan. October October 6: No. 1 Ohio State beat Washington State 27–3. No. 2 Nebraska won at Minnesota 48–7. No. 3 Alabama beat Georgia at home, 28–14. No. 4 USC won at Oregon State, 21–7. No. 5 Michigan beat Oregon 24–0. The top five remained the same. October 13: No. 1 Ohio State won at Wisconsin 24–0. No. 2 Nebraska lost at No. 12 Missouri 13–12. No. 3 Alabama won at Florida 35–14. No. 4 USC beat Washington State 46–35, but fell out of the top five. No. 5 Michigan won at Michigan State, 31–0. No. 6 Oklahoma beat No. 13 Texas 52–13 in Dallas. No. 7 Penn State beat visiting Army, 54–3. The next poll featured No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 Michigan, and No. 5 Penn State. October 20: No. 1 Ohio State won at Indiana 37–7. No. 2 Alabama beat No. 10 Tennessee at Birmingham, 42–21. No. 3 Oklahoma beat No. 16 Colorado 34–7. No. 4 Michigan beat Wisconsin 35–6. No. 5 Penn State won at Syracuse 49–6. The top five remained unchanged. October 27: No. 1 Ohio State beat Northwestern 60–0. No. 2 Alabama crushed Virginia Tech at home, 77–6. No. 3 Oklahoma won at Kansas State 56–14. No. 4 Michigan won at Minnesota 31–0. No. 5 Penn State crushed West Virginia 62–14 but still fell out of the top five when No. 8 Notre Dame won 23–14 over No. 6 USC. The next poll featured No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 Michigan, and No. 5 Notre Dame. November November 3: No. 1 Ohio State won at Illinois 30–0. No. 2 Alabama beat Mississippi State in Jackson, 35–0. No. 3 Oklahoma beat Iowa State 34–17. No. 4 Michigan beat Indiana 49–13. No. 5 Notre Dame beat Navy 44–7. The top five remained the same. November 10: No. 1 Ohio State recorded its third shutout, a 35–0 win over visiting Michigan State. No. 2 Alabama was idle. No. 3 Oklahoma won at No. 10 Missouri 31–3. No. 4 Michigan beat Illinois 21–6. No. 5 Notre Dame won at No. 20 Pittsburgh 31–10. The top five again remained the same. November 17: No. 1 Ohio State beat Iowa 55–13. No. 2 Alabama beat Miami (Florida) at home, 43–13. No. 3 Oklahoma beat No. 18 Kansas 48–20. No. 4 Michigan won at Purdue, 34–9. No. 5 Notre Dame was idle. Once again, the top five remained the same. November 22–24: On Thanksgiving Day, a pair of unbeaten teams played for the SEC title, with No. 2 Alabama beating No. 7 LSU 21–7. Meanwhile, No. 5 Notre Dame beat Air Force 48–15. The next day, No. 3 Oklahoma beat No. 10 Nebraska 27–0 to clinch the Big 8 championship. The big matchup was on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where No. 1 Ohio State (9–0) and No. 4 Michigan (10–0) continued "The Ten Year War" with a game for the Big Ten title and a Rose Bowl bid. The two teams played to a 10–10 tie. The next day, Big Ten Conference athletic directors voted to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl against No. 9 USC (which had just beaten No. 8 UCLA 23−13 to win the Pac-8 championship), due in large part to the broken clavicle suffered by Michigan quarterback Dennis Franklin in the game. Alabama, still unbeaten and untied, took over the top spot in the next poll: No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Oklahoma, No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Michigan, and No. 5 Notre Dame. December December 1: No. 1 Alabama shut out Auburn in Birmingham 35–0, avenging Auburn's shocking upset in the previous year, to close the regular season with an 11–0 record. No. 2 Oklahoma won at Oklahoma State 45–18 to finish 10–0–1. No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 Michigan had already finished their season, tied against each other but undefeated against all other opponents. No. 5 Notre Dame won at Miami (Florida) 44–0, ending the regular season at 10−0. Elsewhere, Bluebonnet Bowl-bound Tulane defeated No. 8 LSU 14–0 to end a 25–year winless drought in the Battle for the Rag in the final meeting at Tulane Stadium, leaving both the Green Wave and Bayou Bengals 9–2. Also, the 4–7 Navy Midshipmen trounced the Army Cadets 51–0. The Cadets completed one of their worst season in their football program history, with an imperfect 0–10 record. In the final regular season poll, the top six schools were unbeaten: No. 1 Alabama (11–0), No. 2 Oklahoma (10–0–1), No. 3 Notre Dame (10–0), No. 4 Ohio State (9–0–1), No. 5 Michigan (10–0–1), and No. 6 Penn State (11–0). The other major college unbeaten, Miami (Ohio) (10–0), was No. 15. Alabama and Notre Dame accepted invitations to play in the Sugar Bowl for the national championship. Oklahoma was on probation for having used an ineligible player (Kerry Jackson) in three 1972 games and was ineligible to play in a bowl game; therefore, the Orange Bowl featured independent Penn State and SEC runner-up LSU (No. 13 in the final poll) rather than a Big 8 team. Because Big Ten rules allowed only one team to participate in postseason play, Michigan was forced to stay home while Ohio State matched up against No. 7 USC in the Rose Bowl. No. 11 Texas Tech had an impressive 10−1 record, but an early-season loss to Texas cost the Red Raiders the SWC championship and the conference's automatic Cotton Bowl bid. The eighth-ranked Longhorns struggled in non-conference play but blew through their SWC opponents for their sixth straight title, with an incredible 40−2 conference record since 1968. They would play the Big 8 runner-up, No. 12 Nebraska, in the Cotton Bowl. Rule changes Each team may use its own legal ball when it is in possession. Free substitution is allowed, however substitutes both checking in and leaving the field of play must do so through their own team areas, and are not required to stay in or leave for one play. This change was rescinded in the 1974 season. The fair catch signal is standardized as waving one arm side to side before the ball is caught. Any other signal (including shielding of the eyes) is considered invalid, and players making a fair catch with either a valid or invalid signal are protected from being tackled or blocked. Previously, receivers making an invalid signal were not afforded any protection. All players are required to wear a mouth guard and a fully buckled chin strap. Violators must leave the field until the violation is corrected. If an illegal forward pass is completed in the end zone (whether to an eligible or ineligible receiver), the ball is dead and the penalty enforced. Conference standings Bowl games Major bowls Monday, December 31, 1973 Tuesday, January 1, 1974 Alabama and Notre Dame had never met in a college football game before their encounter in the Sugar Bowl, which was played on New Year's Eve at Tulane Stadium, with kickoff at 7:15 pm CST. Two legendary coaches, Bear Bryant and Ara Parseghian brought their teams to New Orleans, and the game was a thriller. The Irish scored first, but missed the extra point. After Alabama took a 7–6 lead, freshman Al Hunter returned the ensuing kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown, and a two-point conversion put Notre Dame up 14–7. Alabama went ahead 17–14 in the third, but a fumble on their own 12-yard line gave the Irish a chance to make it 21–17. In the fourth quarter, Bama got back the lead on a trick play, as quarterback Richard Todd handed off to running back, Mike Stock, who then fired a touchdown pass back to Todd; but Bill Davis, who had made 51 of 53 extra point attempts in his career, was wide right, and the score stayed 23–21. In the final minutes, Notre Dame's Bob Thomas (who had missed the earlier point after try) kicked a 19-yard field goal that gave the team the 24–23 win. Asked whether Notre Dame would be voted No. 1, Coach Parseghian replied, "Certainly. What was the final score?" The final AP writers' poll was split. Notre Dame received a majority of the first place votes, 33 out of 60, followed by No. 2 Ohio State (11 votes) and No. 3 Oklahoma (16 votes, but fewer points overall). The fourth spot (held by Notre Dame in the final UPI poll) went to Alabama. UPI, who crowned Alabama as national champion at the end of the regular season, would begin holding the coaches' poll after the bowl games beginning with the 1974 season. Other bowls Prior to the 1975 season, the Big Ten Conference and the Pacific-8 Conference allowed only one postseason participant each, for the Rose Bowl. Heisman Trophy Running back John Cappelletti had the third best year in Penn State history when he gained 1,117 yards rushing in 1972. As a senior in 1973, he had the second best year in school history rushing for 1,522 yards. In his two-year running career, he gained 100 yards in the thirteen games and had a career total of 2,639 yards and twenty-nine touchdowns for an average of 120 yards per game and 5.1 yards per carry. Cappelletti's acceptance speech on December 13 at the Heisman Dinner (with new Vice President Gerald Ford next to him on the dais) was considered the most moving ever given at these ceremonies, as he honored his 11-year-old brother Joey, a victim Source: See also 1973 NCAA Division I football rankings 1973 College Football All-America Team 1973 NCAA Division II football season 1973 NCAA Division III football season References
Conorfone (INN; TR-5109), also known as conorphone and codorphone, as well as conorphone hydrochloride (USAN), is an opioid analgesic that was never marketed. It is an analogue of hydrocodone substituted with an 8-ethyl group and an group. It acts as a mixed agonist-antagonist at the μ-opioid receptor, and is slightly more potent than codeine in analgesic effects but associated with somewhat greater side effects. Synthesis Exposure of thebaine (1) to mild acid leads to hydrolysis of the enol ether function followed by migration of the double bond to yield the conjugated enone (2). Addition of lithium proceeds by 1,4-addition from the less hindered side to give the intermediate 3. Treatment of that with cyanogen bromide under von Braun reaction conditions leads to the isolable . This is the converted to the secondary amine (4) by treatment with aqueous base. Alkylation of that intermediate with affords the analgesic codorphone (5). See also Hydrocodone References Analgesics Cyclopropanes Ketones 4,5-Epoxymorphinans Mu-opioid receptor agonists Catechol ethers Semisynthetic opioids
Mohamed Mounir (28 October 1988, Salé, Morocco), known as Gnawi, L'Gnawi or Simo Gnawi is a Moroccan rapper. Gnawi was arrested on 1 November 2019 and later charged with "offending" public officials and public bodies over a video in which he insults the Moroccan police. His imprisonment has been criticized by the human right organisation Amnesty International. Career Mohamed Mounir was born and raised Salé, Morocco. In 2008, he started to rap with the band Larmy Sla (Army of Salé). The name of the band was inspired from Mounir's service in the Moroccan army. On 29 October 2019, Mounir released the track "3acha cha3b (Long Live the People)" together with Yahya Semlali (Lz3er) and Youssef Mahyout (Weld L'Griya). The song's music video received 13 million views on Youtube two weeks after its release. The song criticizes the Moroccan authorities and indirectly makes a derogatory reference to the Moroccan king. Arrest Two days after the release of 3acha cha3b song, on 1st of November 2019 Gnawi was arrested and sentenced to one year of prison for "insulting the police". Police says that the charges are unrelated to the song, pointing out the other two rappers involved have not been arrested. "This trial has nothing to do with freedom of expression. This is a penal code matter," police lawyer Abdelfattah Yatribi said in court. Amnesty International released a statement criticizing Gnawi's sentencing, stating: "The verdict is disgraceful, and there can be no justification for imprisoning the Moroccan rapper Gnawi for a year simply because he exercised his right to freedom of expression. Expressing peaceful criticism of the police or the authorities is not a crime. International law protects the right to freedom of expression – even when the opinions shared are shocking or offensive. This verdict sends a clear message that the Moroccan authorities will not hesitate to clamp down on people who freely speak their minds and indicates that those who dare to openly criticize the authorities will face punishment". Discography "Chti Dib" – Did you see the wolf? (May 2017) "Ta7arouch" – Harassment (December 2018) References Living people 1988 births Moroccan rappers People from Salé
Newall Green is a proposed tram stop in Newall Green, Greater Manchester. It would serve the area of Newall Green. It has been proposed since the early 2000s but was dropped in 2005 from the Manchester Airport Line on cost grounds. References Proposed Manchester Metrolink tram stops
Stanisławów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rzeczyca, within Tomaszów Mazowiecki County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Rzeczyca, north-east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, and east of the regional capital Łódź. References Villages in Tomaszów Mazowiecki County
Stari Bohorodchany (; ) is a village in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, located in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion. It is the administrative centre of Stari Bohorodchany rural hromada. History The first mention of Stari Bohorodchany is in a Polish government act dating to 16 January 1441, in which it was referred to as being owned by "Ivan of Buchach". Under the Second Polish Republic, the village was seat of . On 24 December 1945, Ukrainian Insurgent Army troops commanded by destroyed a Internal Troops garrison in the village. Notable residents , Ukrainian Basilian monk , Ukrainian Insurgent Army commander , Ukrainian mathematician , Ukrainian folklorist and philologist References Villages in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion
The Stockhorn () is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located to the southeast of the town of Zermatt. It lies on the range between the Findel and Gorner glaciers, east of the Gornergrat. The Stockhorn is part of the Zermatt ski area. A now-defunct cable car station at an altitude of is located west of the summit; the original aerial tramway connecting the Gornergrat to the Stockhorn via Hohtälli was dismantled in 2007. References External links Stockhorn on Hikr Mountains of the Alps Alpine three-thousanders Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of Valais ka:შტოკჰორნი
Louth United F.C. was a football club from Louth, Lincolnshire. They became defunct in 2007 after running into severe financial difficulties. Louth Town F.C. took over the running of all junior sides and no senior teams exist in the name of Louth United. Founded in 1947, from a merger of Louth Nats and Louth Town, they had been members of the Northern Counties East League and the Central Midlands League Premier Division, but in 2007 dropped down to the Lincolnshire League. Louth United were based at their new home, Marshlands, which was developed and opened in 2008. This facility is now the home of Louth Town F.C.. External links Sills & Betteridge Solicitors Lincolnshire Football League FA Website Defunct football clubs in England Defunct football clubs in Lincolnshire Association football clubs established in 1947 Association football clubs disestablished in 2007 1947 establishments in England 2007 disestablishments in England Louth, Lincolnshire Central Midlands Football League Northern Counties East Football League
Trude Raad (born 27 April 1990) is a deaf Norwegian track and field athlete. She generally competes in the discus throw and hammer throw events at the International competitions. Trude has represented Norway at the Deaflympics in 2009, 2013 and 2017 and has won 4 gold medals in her Deaflympic career. She was also a champion in the women's hammer throw event at the Deaflympics on 3 consecutive occasions (2009, 2013, 2017). She broke her own deaf world record in the women's hammer throw at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics with a distance of 66.35m, the previous best was 65.03m Trude Raad currently holds the Deaflympic records for the women's hammer throw and discus throw events. She was awarded the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2008 for her performances in deaf athletics including Junior deaf world records set by her in 2009 at the women's hammer throw and discus throw events. She was also nominated for the ICSD Deaf Sportswoman of the Year award in 2009. References External links Trude Raad at Deaflympics Profile at allathletics.com Profile at ICSD Profile at Deaflympics Deaflympic records for women's in Athletics 1990 births Living people People from Gloppen Norwegian female discus throwers Norwegian female hammer throwers Deaf competitors in athletics Deaflympic competitors for Norway Deaflympic athletes for Norway Deaflympic gold medalists for Norway Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Summer Deaflympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics Medalists at the 2009 Summer Deaflympics Medalists at the 2013 Summer Deaflympics Medalists at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics Sportspeople from Vestland
Superstroke is a term used for a contemporary art movement with its origins in South Africa. Superstroke is one of the influential art movements regarding African modernism and abstraction. The word "Superstroke" implies the super expressive brush stroke. The Superstroke art movement was initially founded as a reaction to the impact that the Superflat art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami had on modern contemporary art. Manifesto The manifesto for the Superstroke art movement was written in 2008 by the South African artist Conrad Bo and deals with various forms of how paintings in the movement should be executed. This includes the statement that paintings should be created by using very expressive brush strokes. The manifesto also deals with photography and states that expressionism is more important than photo-realism. Then the manifesto states that abstract and figurative art is allowed in Superstroke. It goes further and states that certain subject matters are encouraged, and also makes mention of an African theme. Finally the manifesto states that the concept of "art for the sake of art" does not apply, and that members of the movement must produce paintings with texture, and excessive brush or pencil strokes. Influences Although the concept of Superstroke was a reaction to Superflat, the paintings in the Superstroke art movement are heavily influenced by Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. Artwork Art in Superstroke, varies from realism to abstract, monochrome and full color. Different media such as collage, charcoal and plaster of paris are used. Paintings in Superstroke are also identifiable by the frequent use of mathematical signs such as plus, minus, and equal signs. Contributors Artists whose artworks are regarded as Superstroke are, Greg Simmonds, Diiezel, Mr. Sputnik, Menno Baars, John Zaverdino, May Wentworth, Conrad Bo, Jaco Erwee, Laetitia Lups. See also Superflat Abstract Expressionism References One Small Seed Magazine - The South African Pop Culture Magazine Peffer, J. 2009. Art at the end of apartheid. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. External links Information about the Superstroke art movement manifesto The Elements of Superstroke Superstroke Making waves Contemporary art movements South African art 21st century in art
The military history of Goguryeo involves wars with other Korean kingdoms, Chinese dynasties, nomadic states and tribes, and Wa Japan. Goguryeo was a highly militaristic state; it was a powerful empire and one of the great powers in East Asia, until it was defeated by a Silla–Tang alliance in 668 after prolonged exhaustion and internal strife caused by the death of Yeon Gaesomun. Conflicts with other Korean states Baekje Goguryeo and Baekje were two of the Three Kingdoms of Korea; both claimed descent from the ancient Korean kingdom of Buyeo. Onjo, the founder of Baekje, was said to be the second son of Jumong, the founder of Goguryeo. Despite the common ancestry, the relationship between Goguryeo and Baekje was often contentious. During the 4th century, Geunchogo expanded Baekje's territory to the north at the expense of Goguryeo. In 369, Gogukwon, the monarch of Goguryeo, attacked Baekje with 20,000 troops, but was defeated by Crown Prince Geungusu at the Battle of Chiyang. In 371, Geungusu led 30,000 troops and attacked the fortress of Pyongyang, slaying Gogukwon in battle. Baekje was a powerful maritime nation whose influence extended across the sea to Liaoxi and Shandong in China, taking advantage of the weakened state of Former Qin, and to Kyushu in the Japanese archipelago. Gogukyang, a son of Gogukwon, invaded Baekje in 386. In 392, Gwanggaeto the Great led an attack on Baekje with 40,000 troops, capturing 10 walled cities. In response, Asin, the monarch of Baekje, launched a counterattack on Goguryeo in 393 but was defeated. Asin invaded Goguryeo once more in 394, but was defeated again. After suffering multiple defeats against Goguryeo, Baekje's political stability began to crumble. In 395, Baekje was defeated once more by Goguryeo and was pushed south to its capital of Wiryeseong on the Han River. In the following year, in 396, Gwanggaeto led an assault on Wiryeseong by land and sea, using the Han River, and triumphed over Baekje. Gwanggaeto captured the Baekje capital and the defeated Asin submitted to him, surrendering a prince and 10 government ministers. Henceforth, Baekje lost its dominance in the central Korean peninsula and declined. In 400, Silla requested aid from Goguryeo in repelling an allied invasion by Baekje, Gaya, and Wa. Gwanggaeto dispatched 50,000 troops and annihilated the enemy coalition. In 433, Baekje and Silla formed an alliance (Hangul: 나제동맹, Hanja: 羅濟同盟) to balance the Goguryeo threat to the north. In 472, Gaero, the ruler of Baekje, requested a military alliance with Northern Wei against Goguryeo, but was unsuccessful. In 475, Jangsu, the son of Gwanggaeto, launched an invasion by land and sea against Baekje, and captured the capital of Wiryeseong and executed Gaero. Baekje had no choice but to move its capital to mountainous Ungjin (present-day Gongju), 80 miles to the south, which provided a natural protection for the devastated kingdom. In 479, Baekje and Silla reaffirmed their alliance through marriage, which was the primary reason why Goguryeo was unable to conquer the entire peninsula. In 551, a Baekje–Silla alliance attacked Goguryeo in order to capture the important Han River region from Goguryeo, planning to split it between them. In 553, Baekje gained the critical region after expending itself with a series of costly assaults on Goguryeo fortresses, but Silla troops, arriving on the pretense of offering assistance, attacked the exhausted Baekje troops and took possession of the entire Han River region, leading to a war between the two former allies in which the Baekje monarch was killed. Baekje attacked Silla in 612, 624, and 627. Goguryeo and Baekje formed an alliance (Hangul: 여제동맹, Hanja: 麗濟同盟) in 642 aimed toward territorial restoration against Silla. King Uija of Baekje attacked Silla and captured around 40 strongpoints in 642, and 7 more fortresses in 645. In 655, the Goguryeo–Baekje alliance captured 30 fortresses from Silla. Silla In 245, Dongcheon ordered an attack on Silla, but the two kingdoms entered into friendly relations in 248. Nulji, the king of Silla, who had been a vassal of Jangsu, broke off relations with Goguryeo in 454. Jangsu invaded Silla in 468, expanding his domain into parts of Gangwon Province, and again in 489, capturing 7 walled cities and expanding his domain into parts of North Gyeongsang Province. Silla emerged as a major player in the Korean Peninsula after its betrayal of Baekje and conquest of the Han River region from Goguryeo in 553, but Goguryeo and Baekje applied political, military, and economic pressure against Silla. In 643, under attack by the Goguryeo–Baekje alliance, the Silla court dispatched Kim Chunchu to the Tang dynasty to request military assistance, leading to Emperor Taizong's campaign against Goguryeo. In 660, Goguryeo's ally, Baekje, fell to the Silla–Tang alliance; the victorious allies continued their assault on Goguryeo for the next eight years but could not defeat Yeon Gaesomun. However, Yeon Gaesomun died of a natural cause and civil war ensued among his three sons, leading the Silla–Tang alliance to launch a fresh invasion. In November 668, King Bojang surrendered to the Silla–Tang alliance and Goguryeo finally fell. Conflicts with Chinese states Han dynasty Goguryeo became a significant independent kingdom in the first century, and began expanding its power in the region. Taejodae conquered neighboring Okjeo and Dongye, and made repeated attacks against the Chinese commanderies and incursions into Liaodong, which would be continued by his successors. Cao Wei In 244, Guanqiu Jian, a general of Han's successor state Cao Wei, defeated Dongcheon and briefly occupied and sacked Goguryeo's capital. Wei invaded again in 259 but was defeated at Yangmaenggok; according to the Samguk Sagi, Jungcheon assembled 5,000 elite cavalry and defeated the invading Wei troops, beheading 8,000 enemies. Lelang commandery As Goguryeo extended its reach into the Liaodong Peninsula, the last Chinese commandery at Lelang was conquered and annexed by Micheon in 313, bringing the remaining northern part of the Korean peninsula into the fold. This conquest resulted in the end of Chinese rule over territory in the northern Korean peninsula, which had spanned 400 years. Former Yan During the winter of 342, the Xianbei of Former Yan, ruled by the Murong clan, attacked and destroyed Goguryeo's capital, Hwando, capturing 50,000 Goguryeo men and women to use as slave labor in addition to taking the queen mother and queen prisoner and exhuming the body of Micheon, and forced Gogukwon to flee for a while. The Xianbei also devastated Buyeo in 346, accelerating Buyeo migration to the Korean peninsula. Later Yan In 385, Gogukyang, the son of Gogukwon, invaded and defeated Later Yan, the successor state of Former Yan. In 400, the Xianbei state of Later Yan, founded by the Murong clan in present-day Liaoning, attacked Goguryeo. Gwanggaeto the Great repulsed the enemy troops. In 402, Gwanggaeto retaliated and conquered the prominent fortress called 宿軍城 near the capital of Later Yan. In 405 and again in 406, Later Yan troops attacked Goguryeo fortresses in Liaodong (遼東城 in 405, and 木底城 in 406), but was defeated both times. Gwanggaeto conquered all of Liaodong. By conquering Liaodong, Gwanggaeto recovered the ancient domain of Gojoseon; Goguryeo controlled Liaodong until the mid-late 7th century. Sui dynasty In 589, the Northern and Southern dynasties period ended and the Sui dynasty unified China after four centuries of fragmentation. The Sui Empire reconquered Vietnam and defeated Champa, sacking its capital, and conquered important lands in northern China and Central Asia against Turks, Tibetans and proto-Mongolians. In 598, Goguryeo made a preemptive attack on Liaoxi, leading Emperor Wen to launch a counterattack by land and sea that ended in disaster for Sui. In 612, Emperor Yang mobilized a huge force said to number over a million men and invaded Goguryeo. Unable to overcome the defenses of Yodong (Liaodong) Fortress, Emperor Yang ordered 305,000 troops to attack the Goguryeo capital of Pyongyang. However, General Eulji Mundeok baited the Sui troops and annihilated them at the Battle of Salsu; according to Chinese historical records: of the 305,000 Sui troops, a mere 2,700 returned. Emperor Yang lifted his siege of the Korean fortress and withdrew his forces back to China. Emperor Yang was obsessed with defeating Goguryeo. He attacked Goguryeo again in 613 and 614, but failed against Goguryeo's defensive strategies, fierce resistance, and able leadership; furthermore, his campaign in 613 was cut short by internal discontent and floods back home. Emperor Yang's disastrous defeats in Korea greatly contributed to the collapse of the Sui dynasty. Tang dynasty Emperor Taizong ascended the Tang throne in 626, and led many successful military campaigns. In 630, Emperor Taizong defeated the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, an ally of Goguryeo, bringing much of Central Asia under Tang control; he then conquered the Tarim Basin, and defeated the Tibetan Empire in 640. In 643, Queen Seondeok of Silla requested military aid against the Goguryeo–Baekje alliance. Tang forged an alliance with Silla, and began preparations for a major campaign against Goguryeo in 644. In 645, Emperor Taizong personally led a campaign against Goguryeo by land and sea with 113,000 Tang troops plus an unspecified number of tribal auxiliaries. His noted army captured a number of Goguryeo border fortresses, including the potent Yodong (Liaodong) Fortress, which had repulsed Emperor Yang in 612 and 613. Arriving outside Ansi Fortress on July 18, Emperor Taizong prepared to meet an approaching relief army, said to number 150,000 men, in battle. Emperor Taizong ordered Li Shiji to bait the Koreans with 15,000 troops, while Zhangsun Wuji's concealed troops would ambush them from behind. On the following day, the two sides clashed and Emperor Taizong inflicted a crushing defeat on the confused Koreans, inflicting 20,000 casualties and capturing 36,800 prisoners. Emperor Taizong then laid siege to Ansi Fortress; his troops attacked the Korean fortress as many as six or seven times per day, but were repelled each time by the defenders. Unable to breach the adamant fortress despite months of siege, Tang eventually staked everything on the construction of a huge mound, designed to tower over the walls of the fortress; however, the defenders captured and successfully held the mound despite three days of frantic assaults by Tang troops. Furthermore, exacerbated by worsened conditions for the Tang army due to cold weather (and winter approaching) and diminishing provisions, Emperor Taizong was compelled to order a withdrawal from Goguryeo on October 13, but left behind an extravagant gift for Yang Manchun, the commander of Ansi Fortress. Emperor Taizong attacked Goguryeo again in 647 and 648, but was unsuccessful. Defeating Goguryeo had been an obsession with Emperor Taizong, and after his death in 649, his son Emperor Gaozong continued his ambition. Upon the suggestion of Kim Chunchu, the Silla–Tang alliance first conquered Baekje in 660 to break up the Goguryeo–Baekje alliance, and then turned its full attention to Goguryeo. However, Emperor Gaozong, too, was unable to defeat Goguryeo led by Yeon Gaesomun; one of Yeon Gaesomun's most notable victories came in 662 at the Battle of Sasu (蛇水), where he annihilated the Tang forces and killed the invading general Pang Xiaotai (龐孝泰) and all 13 of his sons. Hence, while Yeon Gaesomun was alive, Tang could not defeat Goguryeo. Fall and aftermath In 666 (though dates vary from 664–666), Yeon Gaesomun died of a natural cause and a civil war ensued among his three sons. His eldest son and immediate successor, Yeon Namsaeng, defected to Tang and provided the secrets and weaknesses of Goguryeo to Emperor Gaozong, and played a critical role in the next invasion and downfall of Goguryeo. Yeon Gaesomun's second son, Yeon Namgeon, resisted in the face of death, as opposed to his brother's treachery, and fought until the very end. Meanwhile, Yeon Gaesomun's younger brother, Yeon Jeongto, defected to the Silla side. The Tang–Silla alliance mounted a fresh invasion of Goguryeo in 667, aided by the defector Yeon Namsaeng, and in 668, finally vanquished the divided kingdom, which had been plagued by violent dissension, numerous defections, and widespread demoralization following the death of Yeon Gaesomun. Silla thus unified most of the Korean peninsula in 668, but the kingdom's reliance on Tang China had its price. Tang China attempted to impose its rule over the entire Korean peninsula, but Silla, aided by Goguryeo and Baekje refugees, forcibly resisted and expelled Tang. However, Silla's unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea was short-lived because the former Goguryeo general Dae Joyeong led remnants of Goguryeo, united with the Mohe people, and established Balhae, a successor of Goguryeo. Balhae eventually reconquered and retained much of Goguryeo's former territory. The Tang dynasty Goguryeo general Gao Juren ordered a mass slaughter of Sogdian Caucasians from West and Central Asia, identifying them through their big noses and lances were used to impale Caucasian children when he stormed Beijing (Jicheng (Beijing)) from An Lushan when he defeated An Lushan's rebels. Balhae became a powerful empire like its predecessor, but its eventual end came at the hands of the Khitan Empire in 926. Balhae's end was a decisive event in Northeast Asian history for it was the last Korean kingdom to hold territory in Manchuria. Goguryeo was revived once more in 918 by successor state Goryeo, founded by Wang Geon, a descendant of Goguryeo nobility. In 937, much of the ruling class and the last crown prince of collapsed Balhae fled to Goryeo, where he was warmly welcomed and included into the ruling family by Wang Geon, thus unifying the two successor nations of Goguryeo. Conflicts with nomadic states In 395, Gwanggaeto the Great invaded the Khitan Baili clan to the west on the Liao River, destroying 3 tribes and 600 to 700 camps. In 398, Gwanggaeto conquered the Sushen people to the northeast, who were Tungusic ancestors of the Jurchens and Manchus. In 479, Jangsu invaded the Khitans, and then attacked the Didouyu with his Rouran allies. Conflicts with Japanese states In 404, Gwanggaeto defeated an attack by the Wa from the Japanese archipelago on the southern border of what was once the Daifang commandery, inflicting enormous casualties on the enemy. See also History of Korea Military history of Korea References Further reading Military history of Korea
Milk Money is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris. The film is about three suburban 11-year-old boys who find themselves behind in "the battle of the sexes," believing they would regain the upper hand if they could just see a real, live naked lady. The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Plot Three junior high school boys — Brad (Adam LaVorgna), Frank (Michael Patrick Carter) and Kevin (Brian Christopher) — travel from their bedroom suburb of Middleton to the city, bringing money with hopes of seeing a woman naked. They find a prostitute named "V" (Melanie Griffith) who is willing to show her breasts. However, when they decide to head home, they find their bikes have been stolen, leaving them broke and stuck in the city. V speaks with her drug-dealing pimp named "Cash" (Casey Siemaszko), and another prostitute, Betty (Anne Heche). Cash has been skimming money that he sends to mob collector Waltzer (Malcolm McDowell), who in turn steals from his own boss, Jerry "The Pope" (Philip Bosco). V notices the boys outside in the rain and offers them a ride back home in Cash's car. After they arrive at Frank's house, the car V was using suddenly breaks down, so she goes inside to use the phone. Tom (Ed Harris), Frank's father, comes home and is surprised to find a woman in the house. Unbeknownst to V, Frank tells Tom that V is a math tutor and that she's giving lessons to Brad. Tom offers to repair her car in a few days when he is free from his science classes at school. With no other option, she accepts Frank's offer to stay in his tree house without Tom's knowledge. Frank begins a close friendship with V, hoping to set her up with his father. He tells her Tom has no problem with her "job", meaning the tutoring ruse, but she thinks he means her prostitution. V learns from television that Cash has been murdered by Waltzer. She phones Betty, only to discover that Waltzer is looking for her — Cash told him that she stole the money. She realizes that he is overhearing the conversation and hangs up. With V's car still broken down, she gets Tom's old bike from the garage and rushes to find him. He is on a field trip to the town's wetlands, undeveloped natural land that he is attempting to save from development. He is unable to repair her car any sooner, but she realizes that she is probably safer in Middleton, since Waltzer doesn't know where she is. At school, Frank flunks a biology test about sex education and must give his class an oral presentation. He decides to use V as a mannequin, and through a ruse distracts his teacher long enough to draw a relatively accurate female reproductive system on her skin-colored bodysuit. Tom and V go out on a date and both realize they are developing feelings for each other. While walking through town on their date, Tom and V run into Kevin's family. V recognizes Kevin's father, who is a client, but he initially says that she has him mixed up with someone else before admitting to remembering her and says that she was a dance teacher. Tom is impressed with how busy V is being a tutor and dance teacher; V then realizes that Frank had actually lied about Tom knowing about her prostitution. V explains herself to Tom and their relationship grows. She reveals that her real name is Eve, which she thought was too biblical, so she removed the Es. Kevin's father unwittingly calls her home phone number, which he had in his pocket notebook, in an attempt to purchase her services again. He talks to Betty; and Waltzer, who happens to be there also, learns from Betty about the trip to Middleton, thus finding out where V is hiding. V is terrified that Waltzer will find her, so she decides to leave town, but attends a school dance to say goodbye to Frank. Waltzer arrives and a chase ensues, with Waltzer finally being eliminated. Anxious about her status and afraid to return to her old job, V goes to Waltzer's boss and relates how he has been cheating him. She asks to be "forgotten" by them. The older crime boss tells her that he'll take care of things and allows her to walk away from prostitution for good. V finds the stolen money in a backpack and uses it to buy the wetlands in Tom's name; it is also revealed that she purchased the ice-cream parlor in town, so she can carry on with her new relationship. Cast Melanie Griffith as Eve "V" Ed Harris as Tom Wheeler Michael Patrick Carter as Frank Wheeler Malcolm McDowell as Waltzer Anne Heche as Betty Philip Bosco as Jerry "The Pope" Casey Siemaszko as "Cash" Brian Christopher as Kevin Adam LaVorgna as Brad Margaret Nagle as Mrs. Fetch Kevin Youkilis as Kid (uncredited) Production The screenplay written by John Mattson was sold to Paramount Pictures in 1992 for $1.1 million, a record for a romantic comedy spec script. Mattson was sued by Dino De Laurentiis (DDLC); the lawsuit alleged that Mattson's agent had made a verbal agreement to sell the script to DDLC for $1 million, before selling the script to Paramount for $1.1 million. The film was originally set up with Joe Dante to direct and his frequent partner, Michael Finnell, to produce, but they left the project over disputes regarding the budget and their fees. Paramount had wanted Dante to work for less than his normal directing fee, and to shoot the film in Canada using a non-union crew with a budget of $14 million. Shot in various locations in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Lebanon, Ohio, the story is set in a Pennsylvania suburb named "Middleton," outside an unnamed city (for which parts of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati were used). Reception On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 12% based on reviews from 42 critics with the consensus: "Ill-conceived and cheap when it comes to cleverness, Milk Money is a more than a few cents short of a good time." Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F. Siskel & Ebert speculated that it may have been made by Hollywood executives with an affinity for prostitutes. In print, Roger Ebert opted not for a conventional negative review, but to portray it as the result of a fictional conversation between two studio executives. Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave it a negative review and suggested "Milk Money may be the first brainless American comedy that deserves to be remade by the French." Maslin said Griffith "brings a certain irrepressible gusto to her role" and "Harris manages to be improbably charming." Variety called it "a misguided comedy with Hall of Shame pedigree" and "The film is obvious, loud, mean-spirited and has its mind in the gutter." At the 15th Golden Raspberry Awards, the film was nominated for Worst Screenplay, but it lost to The Flintstones. Year-end worst-of lists 2nd – Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News 4th – Dan Craft, The Pantagraph 6th – Janet Maslin, The New York Times 9th – Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News Top 10 (not ranked) – Betsy Pickle, Knoxville News-Sentinel Worst (not ranked) – Bob Ross, The Tampa Tribune Home media The film was released on VHS in March 1995 and DVD on September 9, 2003. It was presented in anamorphic widescreen in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio. References External links 1994 films 1990s crime comedy films 1994 romantic comedy films American crime comedy films American romantic comedy films 1990s coming-of-age comedy films American coming-of-age comedy films 1990s English-language films Films about children Films about prostitution in the United States Films about puberty Films directed by Richard Benjamin Films produced by Kathleen Kennedy Films produced by Frank Marshall Films scored by Michael Convertino Films set in Ohio Films shot in New York City Films shot in Ohio Films shot in Pittsburgh Paramount Pictures films The Kennedy/Marshall Company films 1990s American films
```javascript import { catchAll as catchAll1 } from "fixtures/catch-all1"; import { catchAll as catchAll2 } from "fixtures/catch-all2"; console.log(catchAll1, catchAll2); ```
```php <?php /** * Tests for block rendering functions. * * @package WordPress * @subpackage Blocks * @since 5.0.0 * * @group blocks / class Tests_Blocks_Render extends WP_UnitTestCase { /* * The location of the fixtures to test with. * * @since 5.0.0 * @var string / protected static $fixtures_dir; /* * Test block instance number. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @var int / protected $test_block_instance_number = 0; /* * Tear down after each test. * * @since 5.0.0 / public function tear_down() { $this->test_block_instance_number = 0; $registry = WP_Block_Type_Registry::get_instance(); if ( $registry->is_registered( 'core/test' ) ) { $registry->unregister( 'core/test' ); } if ( $registry->is_registered( 'core/dynamic' ) ) { $registry->unregister( 'core/dynamic' ); } if ( $registry->is_registered( 'tests/notice' ) ) { $registry->unregister( 'tests/notice' ); } parent::tear_down(); } /* * @ticket 45109 / public function test_do_blocks_removes_comments() { $original_html = file_get_contents( DIR_TESTDATA . '/blocks/do-blocks-original.html' ); $expected_html = file_get_contents( DIR_TESTDATA . '/blocks/do-blocks-expected.html' ); $actual_html = do_blocks( $original_html ); $this->assertSameIgnoreEOL( $expected_html, $actual_html ); } /* * @ticket 45109 / public function test_the_content() { add_shortcode( 'someshortcode', array( $this, 'handle_shortcode' ) ); $classic_content = "Foo\n\n[someshortcode]\n\nBar\n\n[/someshortcode]\n\nBaz"; $block_content = "<!-- wp:core/paragraph -->\n<p>Foo</p>\n<!-- /wp:core/paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:core/shortcode -->[someshortcode]\n\nBar\n\n[/someshortcode]<!-- /wp:core/shortcode -->\n\n<!-- wp:core/paragraph -->\n<p>Baz</p>\n<!-- /wp:core/paragraph -->"; $classic_filtered_content = apply_filters( 'the_content', $classic_content ); $block_filtered_content = apply_filters( 'the_content', $block_content ); // Block rendering add some extra blank lines, but we're not worried about them. $block_filtered_content = preg_replace( "/\n{2,}/", "\n", $block_filtered_content ); remove_shortcode( 'someshortcode' ); $this->assertSame( trim( $classic_filtered_content ), trim( $block_filtered_content ) ); } public function handle_shortcode( $atts, $content ) { return $content; } /* * @ticket 45495 / public function test_nested_calls_to_the_content() { register_block_type( 'core/test', array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'dynamic_the_content_call', ), ) ); $content = "foo\n\nbar"; $the_content = apply_filters( 'the_content', '<!-- wp:core/test -->' . $content . '<!-- /wp:core/test -->' ); $this->assertSame( $content, $the_content ); } public function dynamic_the_content_call( $attrs, $content ) { apply_filters( 'the_content', '' ); return $content; } public function test_can_nest_at_least_so_deep() { $minimum_depth = 99; $content = 'deep inside'; for ( $i = 0; $i < $minimum_depth; $i++ ) { $content = '<!-- wp:core/test -->' . $content . '<!-- /wp:core/test -->'; } $this->assertSame( 'deep inside', do_blocks( $content ) ); } public function test_can_nest_at_least_so_deep_with_dynamic_blocks() { $minimum_depth = 99; $content = '0'; for ( $i = 0; $i < $minimum_depth; $i++ ) { $content = '<!-- wp:core/test -->' . $content . '<!-- /wp:core/test -->'; } register_block_type( 'core/test', array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_dynamic_incrementer', ), ) ); $this->assertSame( $minimum_depth, (int) do_blocks( $content ) ); } public function render_dynamic_incrementer( $attrs, $content ) { return (string) ( 1 + (int) $content ); } /* * @ticket 45290 / public function test_blocks_arent_autopeed() { $expected_content = 'test'; $test_content = "<!-- wp:fake/block -->\n$expected_content\n<!-- /wp:fake/block -->"; $current_priority = has_action( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ); $filtered_content = trim( apply_filters( 'the_content', $test_content ) ); $this->assertSame( $expected_content, $filtered_content ); // Check that wpautop() is still defined in the same place. $this->assertSame( $current_priority, has_action( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ) ); // ... and that the restore function has removed itself. $this->assertFalse( has_action( 'the_content', '_restore_wpautop_hook' ) ); $test_content = 'test'; $expected_content = "<p>$test_content</p>"; $current_priority = has_action( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ); $filtered_content = trim( apply_filters( 'the_content', $test_content ) ); $this->assertSame( $expected_content, $filtered_content ); $this->assertSame( $current_priority, has_action( 'the_content', 'wpautop' ) ); $this->assertFalse( has_action( 'the_content', '_restore_wpautop_hook' ) ); } /* * @ticket 45109 / public function data_do_block_test_filenames() { self::$fixtures_dir = DIR_TESTDATA . '/blocks/fixtures'; $fixture_filenames = array_merge( glob( self::$fixtures_dir . '/.json' ), glob( self::$fixtures_dir . '/.html' ) ); $fixture_filenames = array_values( array_unique( array_map( array( $this, 'clean_fixture_filename' ), $fixture_filenames ) ) ); return array_map( array( $this, 'pass_parser_fixture_filenames' ), $fixture_filenames ); } /* * @dataProvider data_do_block_test_filenames * @ticket 45109 / public function test_do_block_output( $html_filename, $server_html_filename ) { $html_path = self::$fixtures_dir . '/' . $html_filename; $server_html_path = self::$fixtures_dir . '/' . $server_html_filename; foreach ( array( $html_path, $server_html_path ) as $filename ) { if ( ! file_exists( $filename ) ) { throw new Exception( "Missing fixture file: '$filename'" ); } } $html = do_blocks( self::strip_r( file_get_contents( $html_path ) ) ); // If blocks opt into Gutenberg's layout implementation // the container will receive an additional, unique classname based on "wp-container-[blockname]-layout" // so we need to normalize the random id. $normalized_html = preg_replace( '/wp-container-[a-z-]+\d+/', 'wp-container-1', $html ); // The gallery block uses a unique class name of `wp_unique_id( 'wp-block-gallery-' )` // so we need to normalize the random id. $normalized_html = preg_replace( '/wp-block-gallery-\d+/', 'wp-block-gallery-1', $normalized_html ); $expected_html = self::strip_r( file_get_contents( $server_html_path ) ); // Convert HTML to be white space insensitive. $normalized_html = preg_replace( '/(\s+$)/m', '', $normalized_html ); $expected_html = preg_replace( '/(\s+$)/m', '', $expected_html ); $this->assertSame( $expected_html, $normalized_html, "File '$html_path' does not match expected value" ); } /* * @ticket 53148 / public function test_render_field_in_block_json() { $result = register_block_type( DIR_TESTDATA . '/blocks/notice' ); $actual_content = do_blocks( '<!-- wp:tests/notice {"message":"Hello from the test"} --><!-- /wp:tests/notice -->' ); $this->assertSame( '<p class="wp-block-tests-notice">Hello from the test</p>', trim( $actual_content ) ); } /* * @ticket 45109 / public function test_dynamic_block_rendering() { $settings = array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_test_block', ), ); register_block_type( 'core/test', $settings ); // The duplicated dynamic blocks below are there to ensure that do_blocks() replaces each one-by-one. $post_content = 'before' . '<!-- wp:core/test {"value":"b1"} --><!-- /wp:core/test -->' . '<!-- wp:core/test {"value":"b1"} --><!-- /wp:core/test -->' . 'between' . '<!-- wp:core/test {"value":"b2"} /-->' . '<!-- wp:core/test {"value":"b2"} /-->' . 'after'; $updated_post_content = do_blocks( $post_content ); $this->assertSame( $updated_post_content, 'before' . '1:b1' . '2:b1' . 'between' . '3:b2' . '4:b2' . 'after' ); } /* * @ticket 45109 / public function test_global_post_persistence() { global $post; register_block_type( 'core/test', array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_test_block_wp_query', ), ) ); $posts = self::factory()->post->create_many( 5 ); $post = get_post( end( $posts ) ); $global_post = $post; do_blocks( '<!-- wp:core/test /-->' ); $this->assertSame( $global_post, $post ); } public function test_render_latest_comments_on_password_protected_post() { $post_id = self::factory()->post->create( array( 'post_password' => 'password', ) ); $comment_text = wp_generate_password( 10, false ); self::factory()->comment->create( array( 'comment_post_ID' => $post_id, 'comment_content' => $comment_text, ) ); $comments = do_blocks( '<!-- wp:latest-comments {"commentsToShow":1,"displayExcerpt":true} /-->' ); $this->assertStringNotContainsString( $comment_text, $comments ); } /* * @ticket 45109 / public function test_dynamic_block_renders_string() { $settings = array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_test_block_numeric', ), ); register_block_type( 'core/test', $settings ); $block_type = new WP_Block_Type( 'core/test', $settings ); $rendered = $block_type->render(); $this->assertSame( '10', $rendered ); $this->assertIsString( $rendered ); } public function test_dynamic_block_gets_inner_html() { register_block_type( 'core/dynamic', array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_serialize_dynamic_block', ), ) ); $output = do_blocks( '<!-- wp:dynamic -->inner<!-- /wp:dynamic -->' ); $data = unserialize( base64_decode( $output ) ); $this->assertSame( 'inner', $data[1] ); } public function test_dynamic_block_gets_rendered_inner_blocks() { register_block_type( 'core/test', array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_test_block_numeric', ), ) ); register_block_type( 'core/dynamic', array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_serialize_dynamic_block', ), ) ); $output = do_blocks( '<!-- wp:dynamic -->before<!-- wp:test /-->after<!-- /wp:dynamic -->' ); $data = unserialize( base64_decode( $output ) ); $this->assertSame( 'before10after', $data[1] ); } public function test_dynamic_block_gets_rendered_inner_dynamic_blocks() { register_block_type( 'core/dynamic', array( 'render_callback' => array( $this, 'render_serialize_dynamic_block', ), ) ); $output = do_blocks( '<!-- wp:dynamic -->before<!-- wp:dynamic -->deep inner<!-- /wp:dynamic -->after<!-- /wp:dynamic -->' ); $data = unserialize( base64_decode( $output ) ); $inner = $this->render_serialize_dynamic_block( array(), 'deep inner' ); $this->assertSame( $data[1], 'before' . $inner . 'after' ); } /* * Helper function to remove relative paths and extension from a filename, leaving just the fixture name. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @param string $filename The filename to clean. * @return string The cleaned fixture name. / protected function clean_fixture_filename( $filename ) { $filename = wp_basename( $filename ); $filename = preg_replace( '/\..+$/', '', $filename ); return $filename; } /* * Helper function to return the filenames needed to test the parser output. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @param string $filename The cleaned fixture name. * @return array The input and expected output filenames for that fixture. / protected function pass_parser_fixture_filenames( $filename ) { return array( "$filename.html", "$filename.server.html", ); } /* * Helper function to remove '\r' characters from a string. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @param string $input The string to remove '\r' from. * @return string The input string, with '\r' characters removed. / protected function strip_r( $input ) { return str_replace( "\r", '', $input ); } /* * Test block rendering function. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @param array $attributes Block attributes. * @return string Block output. / public function render_test_block( $attributes ) { $this->test_block_instance_number += 1; return $this->test_block_instance_number . ':' . $attributes['value']; } /* * Test block rendering function, returning numeric value. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @return int Block output. / public function render_test_block_numeric() { return 10; } /* * Test block rendering function, returning base64 encoded serialised value. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @return string Block output. / public function render_serialize_dynamic_block( $attributes, $content ) { return base64_encode( serialize( array( $attributes, $content ) ) ); } /* * Test block rendering function, creating a new WP_Query instance. * * @since 5.0.0 * * @return string Block output. */ public function render_test_block_wp_query() { $content = ''; $recent = new WP_Query( array( 'numberposts' => 10, 'orderby' => 'ID', 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_type' => 'post', 'post_status' => 'draft, publish, future, pending, private', 'suppress_filters' => true, ) ); while ( $recent->have_posts() ) { $recent->the_post(); $content .= get_the_title(); } wp_reset_postdata(); return $content; } } ```
Spert Island is an island lying off the west extremity of Trinity Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. Charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold, 1901–04. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Sir Thomas Spert, Controller of the King's Ships in the time of Henry VIII, founder and first Master of the Mariners of England, which later became the Corporation of Trinity House. See also Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S SCAR Territorial claims in Antarctica References External links Islands of the Palmer Archipelago
Nişankaya is a village in the Kovancılar District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Its population is 81 (2021). References Villages in Kovancılar District Kurdish settlements in Elazığ Province
Jörg Streli (26 March 1940 – 13 February 2019) was an Austrian architect and academic teacher at the Innsbruck University. With two colleagues, as the firm Heinz & Mathoi & Streli, he built private homes in the alpine landscape of Tyrol, schools, offices and public buildings, among others. He was also president of the architecture section of the Ingenieur- und Architektenkammer für Tirol und Vorarlberg. Life and career Streli was born in Innsbruck. He studied architecture at the Technische Hochschule Wien from 1958 to 1964. After several years of practice, he became assistant at the Innsbruck University in 1969, a post he held until 1976. He lectured at the university from 1992 to 1997. From 1973, Streli collaborated with two colleagues, Karl Heinz and Dieter Mathoi, as the firm Heinz & Mathoi & Streli. While they created many buildings jointly, each architect also pursued his own projects. Together, they built a chapel in 1982, the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle in Innerberg, which rises like a tower on a circular floor. They built a home for homeless children as a Gruppenwohnheim (group home) with four separate units, completed in Jagdberg, Vorarlberg, in 1984. Streli focused on one-family homes, with respect for the owners' wishes and the natural surroundings. Inspired by models such as Clemens Holzmeister, , , and Frank Lloyd Wright, he found his own style. He departed from his love of nature and of traditional building in rural landscape, with wood as a preferred material, but changed toward urban environments. He renovated the interior of the old parish church in Hötting in 1989, and built a new parish hall there in 1994. The joint extension of the University Hospital in Innsbruck, created by adding a technical and a clinical floor for gynecology and neurology on top, built from 2006 to 2008, was nominated for the award of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in 2009. In 2008, Springer published a monograph of their works, both group and individual projects, titled Heinz-Mathoi-Streli / Architekten / Bauten und Projekte / Buildings and Projects, with evaluations by Friedrich Achleitner and . The same year, the architects dissolved their firm. In 2015, Streli built a home for drug addicts in Innsbruck, called Mentlvilla, designed in reference to Welzenbacher's Adambräu, which is now the home of the Architecture Centre of Tyrol. The house (Haus für Suchtkranke), run by the Caritas, offers housing and medical treatment. It was nominated for the architecture prize of Tyrol in 2016. From 1983 to 1994, Streli was also president of the architecture section of the Ingenieur- und Architektenkammer für Tirol und Vorarlberg. He served on an advisory board for the city development of Linz from 1993 to 1995. Works by Streli were part of the exhibition Autochtone Architektur in Tirol presenting the architecture of Tyrol with respect for the alpine landscape, in Munich in 1994. He served on juries for architectural competitions, such as for a new University Square in Bolzano in 2014. Jörg Streli died in Innsbruck on 13 February 2019. Buildings The joint projects for Heinz & Mathoi & Streli include feasibility studies, city planning, homes for one family and larger units, preschools, schools and buildings for higher education, sports facilities, stores, offices, industrial buildings and traffic buildings. Examples include: 1978: Hauptschule in Fulpmes (school) 1978: Fremdenverkehrsfachschule in Zell am Ziller 1980: Landesberufsschule Feldkirch in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg 1981: Kapelle Innerberg in Finkenberg (chapel) 1982: Modegeschäft Einwaller Anna in Innsbruck (fashion store) 1983: Doppelhaus Knofler/Mikuz, Innsbruck (private homes) 1984: Landesjugendheim Jagdberg in Schlins (group housing, with Norbert Schweitzer) 1987: Krankenpflegeschule in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg (school) 1987: Seilbahn Brixen im Thale in Brixen 1989: Volksschule in Igls 1990: Porsche Interauto Verkaufscenter in Innsbruck (car dealer) 1993: Barwies in Mieming (grocery store chain) 1993: Bürohaus EBB in Innsbruck (office building) 1994: Eisenbahnumfahrung Innsbruck in Mils (traffic) 1995: Autohaus Vowa in Innsbruck (car dealer) 1996: Mehrzweckgebäude mit Rasthaus at the Europe Bridge (highway restaurant) 1996: Wohnanlage und Bürohaus in Innsbruck (housing and office building) 1999: Hotelfachschule Villa Blanka in Innsbruck 2001: Landesfeuerwehrschule Tirol in Telfs (firemen's school) 2004: HTBL und VA Mödling in Mödling 2004: Geschäftshaus Einwaller Moden in Innsbruck 2005: MPreis Bramberg in Bramberg 2008: Aufstockung Frauen- und Kopfklinik in Innsbruck (hospital extension) References External links Gespräche zur Baukultur / Jörg Streli: Architektur (interview, in German) Cultural Broadcasting Archive, 10 June 2014 Architecture in Tyrol : individual figures of Tyrolean architecture in the collective framework of the reception of the Alpine landscape (exhibition catalogue) catalog.hathitrust.org Fußballakademie Innsbruck / Planung: Arch DI Jörg Streli steiner-holzbau.at Jörg Streli nextroom.at Bauherrenpreise zv-architekten.at Bürohaus Innsbruck architektur-heinz.at Pfarrsaal Hötting nextroom.at 1940 births 2019 deaths Austrian architects TU Wien alumni Modernist architects Academic staff of the University of Innsbruck
Goran Gajić (; born 1962) is a Serbian film, television and theater director. He has directed media in English and Serbo-Croatian. His wife was actress Mira Furlan, and they have one son, Marko Lav. In 1998, he directed his wife (playing Delenn) in And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder, an episode of Babylon 5. They were married until her death on 20 January 2021. In 1995 he directed an award-winning adaptation of Antigone. The play was performed at Hudson Guild Theatre in Los Angeles. He has also worked as a writer (The Seventh Day), and actor (Strangler vs. Strangler). In the 1980s he also directed Plavi Orkestar music videos for their tracks "Kad mi kažeš paša" (When You Tell Me Pasha) and "Suada" (Suada). Filmography As director: The Storks Will Return (2007–2008) – 25 episodes Theater in the House – 1 episode: "Taj prokleti kutnjak" (2007) The Inner Circle (2003) Sheena – 2 episodes: "Treasure of Sienna Mende" (2001), "Return of the Native" (2002) Oz – 2 episodes: "The Bill of Wrongs" (2000), "Revenge Is Sweet" (2001) Level 9 – 1 episode: "Wetware" (2001) The Beat – 1 episode: "Dark End of the Street" Babylon 5 – 1 episode: "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" (1998) Dear Video (1991) There Are No Unfortunate Tourists Here (1990) The Fall of Rock'n'Roll / How Rock'n'Roll was Ruined (1989) – segment "Ne šalji mi pisma" Laibach: Victory Under the Sun (1988) The Seventh Day (1987) References External links 1962 births Living people Film people from Zagreb Serbs of Croatia Serbian film directors Serbian television directors
Autovía LE-30 is an autovía in the city of León, Castile and León, Spain. Designed as a beltway or orbital road, it is the outer ring and runs around the south edge of the city. Starting in the east at the A-60/N-601/LE20 junction, it runs west for a distance of and becomes the Autopista AP-71 at the Autovía A-66/Autopista AP-66 interchange. The highway was constructed in two sections: from N-601 to N-630 (exit 4, Avenida de Antibióticos); and then the remainder to the Virgen del Camino interchange (exits 9A/B). External links Autopistas and autovías in Spain Transport in Castile and León
Barnsley is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district of Gloucestershire, England, northeast of Cirencester. It is (geodesically) west of London. History Barnsley's history dates to the Iron Age settlement in Barnsley Park, later occupied in the 2nd century by a Roman villa. But by 577, after the capture of Cirencester, a Saxon village called Bearmodeslea (Bearmod's glade) existed here. The main building was erected 350-60 AD, but the walls enclosure had been completed by 330 AD. Significant Romano-British occupation took place during the reign of Emperor Trajan. The 'Celtic Fields' so-called covered parkland of about 120 acres. There was a Roman road running through extensive earthwork fortifications northwards to Cadmoor. The Domesday Book recorded total heads of house or slaves as 24. It was granted to Magaret de Bohun, daughter of the Earl of Hereford by 1180, which she assigned to the monks of Llanthony Priory. After becoming known as Bardesley in 1197. It became part of a Knights fee during the Scottish Wars of Edward I. From 1403 the demesne land was farmed; the large tenanted fields became common pasture, and were later known as Barnsley Wold of for cow-grazing. The village became royal property under the reign of Henry VIII three hundred years later. Henry was known to let each of his wives solely enjoy the village by turns. During the time of the village's status as royal property, many of its inhabitants earned their living through agriculture, grazing sheep on the 'yardlands' of common mead, helping make the Cotswolds the centre of the wool trade. During the Reformation the old Barnsley Park was dismantled, the parker dismissed: the Bourchier family became the owners of the village in 1548, thanks to a reversionary grant, and held it for the next two hundred years. The family is responsible for building the village's Barnsley House, Church Cottage and parts of the Church farm. They lived in the centre of the village on the site of the former Nether Court. But in 1700 William married the daughter of the Duke of Chandos, and with the dowry built a new mansion called Barnsley Park. Built in the Baroque style by Henry Perrot and Charles Stanley after Canons, Great Stanmore. Henry Perrot owned the parish in 1762 and enclosed it by private treaty, dividing the land into three farms. By 1778 there were 1,100 sheep on the land and, in season 460 lambs. Further road building took place in 18th century driving trade to the south of the village. In 1794 the Ablington Road was diverted: the original road went over Wayboll Hill. The Oxford Turpike from 1753 represented a connection with the Welsh Way on the same road to London. Cattle Drovers rested their herds overnight along this route in Barnsley House's field called Ten Acres. But sheep-rearing dominated this part of the Cotswolds. During the 20th century the emphasis gradually shifted to grass and then arable, which came to predominate by 1975. The village architecture was expanded during 1810-1820 when new cottages were built along the Cirencester-Bibury road when Brereton Bourchier was lord of the manor. Trade such as blacksmith, carpenter and shoemaker thrived with wheelwrights, a butcher and, a village Greyhound Inn. Barnsley's population peaked in 1821 at 318, yet agriculture continued to be the main occupation in 1831 for the 57 families. At that time the Poole family arrived to work as stonemasons. During the First World War, the village had an estimated 200 inhabitants, of which six lost their lives during the war years of 1914–18. In 2019, the village hit the headlines after Australian snooker player Neil Robertson had to withdraw from qualifying for the World Open due to following sat nav directions to Barnsley instead of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. World Snooker later poked fun at Robertson by sending him a map for the next tournament, the English Open. Robertson's error gave Ian Burns an automatic bye into the next round. St Mary's Church The Church of England parish church, dedicated to St Mary, is a Grade II* listed building, of Norman origin but “with subsequent alterations of every century, including substantial restoration of 1843-1847”. An authoritative modern source comments approvingly that, “The Elizabethan tower with its simple gables and finials look pretty by any standard, and the standard at Barnsley is high”. Governance Barnsley has a Parish meeting. The current chair is local resident Michael Gledhill. As of May 2015 the village became part of 'The Ampneys and Hampton Ward' on Cotswold District Council. The current District Councillor is Liberal Democrat Lisa Spivey who was elected in the 2019 United Kingdom local elections. Ampney Crucis is part of the wider South Cerney electoral division for elections to Gloucestershire County Council, the current County Councillor is Conservative Shaun Parsons who was elected in the 2017 United Kingdom local elections. Community According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 162, increasing to 209 at the 2011 census. One of the village's significant features is Barnsley House, with a garden designed by its former resident Rosemary Verey. Barnsley House was built in 1667 by Brereton Bourchier. On the owner's death, her estate was sold and the residential dwelling is now The Barnsley House Hotel. Brereton Bourchier also built the village's Church Cottage and the oldest part of what is now called the Church farm. By the 1660s, with the village's population at about 100, there was also a village inn. The village today has its own church and pub. Since 2009 the inn has become renowned in the Cotswolds for its quality cuisine. The Barnsley Village Garden Festival was inaugurated in 1998 and has since played host to many horticultural experts. It celebrated its 20th anniversary on 17 May 2008. Saturday, 19 May 2018 will mark the 30th anniversary. It is held in the grounds of the present Lord Faringdon's home of Barnsley Park. One notable resident is mountaineer Kenton Cool and his family. As of summer 2017, Kenton has reached the summit of Mount Everest twelve times. References Further reading Gloucestershire: the Cotswolds, The Buildings of England edited by Nikolaus Pevsner, 2nd ed. (1979) , pp. 96–100 External links Barnsley Village, residents' site Barnsley House Garden Villages in Gloucestershire Cotswold District
Miller Court House was the first post office located in what is now Oklahoma, United States. It was located in what was then Miller County, Arkansas Territory. The post office opened September 5, 1824, and was closed December 28, 1839. Miller Court House (or Miller Courthouse) was the county seat of old Miller County. On January 20, 1825, the land was ceded by treaty to the Choctaw Nation, and non-Native Americans were forced to leave. Before leaving in November 1828, they burned the courthouse and records in protest. The exact site is unknown, but it was in what is now McCurtain County, Oklahoma. On April 1, 1820, Governor James Miller signed an act of the Arkansas Territorial Legislature that established the "County of Miller" in the southwestern part of what was then known as Arkansas Territory. This Miller County contained the western halves of present-day Little River, Sevier and Polk Counties in modern Arkansas, all of McCurtain, Choctaw, Pushmataha, and the southern one-third of both Latimer and Le Flore Counties in present-day Oklahoma. It also included a large area in northeast Texas. The Arkansas Territory Legislative Council officially ceded the portion of Miller County north of the Red River to the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory on October 17, 1828. Miller Court House continued to be used as a station for the registration for Choctaw Indians relocated from the East over the "trail of tears and death". Old Miller Court House was also used as a depot for the storage of corn and supplies destined for distribution to the Choctaws for many years. On October 23, 1832, the Arkansas Territory commissioners moved the county seat to Jonesborough Plantation, and the Miller Court House post office relocated there. Texas, however, annexed all of Miller County, Arkansas remaining south and west of the Red River and the old post office was discontinued December 28, 1838. During the period of the Texas Republic (1836 - 1846), most residents of the disputed territory considered themselves to be citizens of Texas. Texas organized Red River County in 1837 and Fannin County, Texas in 1838. Ultimately, the former Arkansas Territory land south and west of the Red River became the present day Bowie, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Hunt, Lamar, Morris and Titus County, Texas Counties. The remaining piece of Old Miller County north and east of the Red River was attached to Lafayette County, Arkansas and Texarkana became its county seat. Notes References Further reading Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987: . Wright, Murial H.; George H. Shirk; Kenny A. Franks. Mark of Heritage. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976. External links Geography of McCurtain County, Oklahoma Pre-statehood history of Oklahoma Pre-statehood history of Arkansas Pre-statehood history of Texas Ghost towns in Oklahoma Populated places established in 1820 Populated places disestablished in the 19th century
Barry Lambert (born 1981) is an Irish former hurler. At club level he played with St. Martin's and was also a member of the Wexford senior hurling team. He usually lined out as a forward. Career Lambert first played at juvenile and underage levels with the St. Martin's club. He later joined the club's top adult team and won County Championship titles in 1999 and 2008. He also lined out with St. Peter's College at colleges level and with Dublin Institute of Technology in the Fitzgibbon Cup. Lambert first appeared on the inter-county scene at minor level with Wexford before lining out in the 2001 All-Ireland under-21 final defeat by Limerick. His underage performances saw him drafted onto the Wexford senior hurling team in 2001. Over the course of the following decade Lambert was a regular on the team and won a Leinster Championship medal in 2004. A shoulder injury brought his inter-county career to an end in 2009. Career statistics Honours St. Martin's Wexford Senior Hurling Championship: 1999, 2008 Wexford Leinster Senior Hurling Championship: 2004 Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship: 2001 References 1981 births Living people St Martin's (Wexford) hurlers Wexford inter-county hurlers
is a computer game developed and released in Japan by Wolf Team. Narumi Kakinouchi, co-creator of Vampire Princess Miyu, was the art director for this game. The music for the game was composed by Masaaki Uno, Motoi Sakuraba, and Yasunori Shiono. See also Arcus Odyssey References External links 1989 video games Adventure games Arcus (video game series) Japan-exclusive video games MSX2 games Telenet Japan games X68000 games NEC PC-8801 games NEC PC-9801 games Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Motoi Sakuraba
Karl Dodd (born 13 November 1980, in Southport, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian former professional soccer player, who is currently head coach at NPL Queensland club Brisbane City. Club career He played for the Brisbane Strikers before being recruited by the Queensland Roar for the revamped A-League competition. After half a season with the Queensland Roar he signed for Romanian club FC Universitatea Craiova in January 2006. However, after failing to settle with the club he quickly moved on, joining Falkirk on a short-term contract in March 2006. After impressing manager John Hughes, it was announced on 15 May 2006 that Dodd had agreed a new one-year deal to stay at the club. On 19 May 2007, after turning down a contract extension at Falkrik, he signed a two-year contract with new A-League franchise Wellington Phoenix. He scored his first professional goal for Phoenix on 19 October 2008. After two years at Wellington. Dodd turned down a three-year contract, and an offer from Newcastle Jets to try his luck in South Korea, "Karl's been an integral member of the Phoenix," Pignata said. "It's disappointing that we're parting company but we wish him all the best for the future." A cartilage problem in his knee prevented his fortune and returned to Australia for surgery and on return from injury signed for the remainder of the 2008–09 season with NSW Premier League team Sydney United FC. After a strong pre-season he signed with A-League newcomer North Queensland Fury and made his debut against Sydney FC. On 3 September 2011, Hong Kong First Division League side TSW Pegasus signed Dodd, who was given number 5 in the following season. Post playing career On 5 June 2013, Dodd became the strength and conditioning coach of the Newcastle Jets FC. In October 2014, Dodd accepted the position of Head Coach of the Western Pride FC Senior Men's Team in the National Premier League (Qld) however in June 2015 he left the club and joined Brisbane Roar FC to take up a position as the High Performance Manager. Karl resigned from his role as the High Performance Manager at Brisbane Roar FC on 25 March 2017, stating that he was seeking something that "aligns with my professional and personal values" The Guam Football Association announced that Dodd had signed on as national team manager on 26 December 2017, starting in the next month. Dodd resigned from the post on 16 April 2021, to return home to Australia in order to deal with a family emergency. On August 30, 2022, Brisbane City announced it had signed Dodd to coach its senior NPL Queensland men's team for the 2023 season. Managerial statistics References External links North Queensland Fury profile Oz Football profile Karl Dodd Interview Karl Dodd: The man behind the Matao 1980 births Living people Soccer players from Queensland Australian men's soccer players Australian expatriate men's soccer players Scottish Premier League players Liga I players Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Expatriate men's association footballers in New Zealand Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland A-League Men players National Soccer League (Australia) players Brisbane Strikers FC players Falkirk F.C. players Brisbane Roar FC players Wellington Phoenix FC players Northern Fury FC players Sydney United 58 FC players FC U Craiova 1948 players Hong Kong Pegasus FC players National Premier Leagues players Expatriate men's footballers in Hong Kong Hong Kong First Division League players Men's association football central defenders Australian soccer managers Australian expatriate soccer managers Sportspeople from the Gold Coast, Queensland Australian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Australian expatriate sportspeople in New Zealand Australian expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Australian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
The M-68 was a 155 mm L33 caliber towed gun howitzer manufactured by Soltam Systems of Israel, and used by the Israeli Defense Force. Design The M-68 is based on the Finnish designed 122 K 60 and 155 K 68 cannon series, first developed in the mid-1960s by the company Tampella Oy. Twelve Finnish cannons were built between 1970 and 1975, with more guns later built of later designs. These Tampella guns formed the basis for Soltam's production of the M-68 and later "Tampella series" guns. Before the 155 K 68 (Tampella), the 155HX prototype was shipped to Soltam for trials. The first prototype was completed in 1968 for trials and evaluations by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), who were satisfied with the performance of the howitzer. Subsequently, an order was placed with Soltam and a production line was initiated in 1970. The gun entered IDF service in time to serve IDF artillery corps during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. In addition to Israel, the M-68 has also been exported to Singapore and Thailand. Description The barrel of the M-68 was fitted with a simple muzzle brake while the recoil mechanism with its two pneumatic cylinder jacks are positioned on the back-end of the barrel. The gun mount chassis, breech and recoil system were to see further use in the next development of this gun — the Soltam M-71, which has a slightly longer barrel (39 calibers versus 33 calibers of the M-68) and a compressed air-driven rammer to ease loading. Variants In the mid-1970s, the Israeli Defense Forces engineered an improvised self-propelled gun known as the Ro'em / L-33 to complement the towed M-68. It mated an M-68 to a large, enclosed, turret atop the chassis and drive train of an M4 Sherman tank. Operators : 36 howitzers acquired by the Chilean Army in the late 1970s. Later upgraded to Soltam M-71 standard. : 48 : 44 See also 155 K 83 Soltam M-71 References External links Israeli-weapons.com Singapore Artillery Pieces Weapons of the Arab-Israeli Wars 155 mm artillery Artillery of Israel Military equipment introduced in the 1970s
Nanhai Experimental High School, the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University (; French: Lycée Expérimental de Nanhai, École secondaire affiliée à l'Université Normale de la Chine du Sud) is a campus in Nanhai District of the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University. It is a Chinese public School located in the Nanhai District of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China. There is some evidence that there has been a school founded by Andrew Patton Happer on the site since 1888, but the Affiliated High School of South China Normal University of today was officially founded by the Chinese government in 1952. Democratic organisations Students' Union Students' Congress Dormitories Self-Management Committee for Students Teachers' Congress References Schools in China High schools in Guangdong
Hill is a town in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,017 at the 2020 census. It is home to William Thomas State Forest. History Originally granted as "New Chester" in 1753, the town took the name "Hill" in 1837 in honor of Isaac Hill, governor of New Hampshire from 1836 to 1839. To accommodate the construction of the Franklin Falls Dam, the village of Hill was relocated in 1941. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which are land and are water, comprising 0.66% of the town. The Pemigewasset River forms the eastern boundary of the town, and its tributary the Smith River forms two portions of the northern boundary. The southwest corner of the town drains south via Mountain Brook to the Blackwater River in neighboring Andover, a tributary of the Contoocook River. Via the Pemigewasset and Contoocook rivers, Hill lies fully within the Merrimack River watershed. The highest point in town is Dickinson Hill, with an approximate elevation of above sea level. Adjacent municipalities Bristol (north) New Hampton (northeast) Sanbornton (east) Franklin (southeast) Andover (south) Danbury (west) Alexandria (northwest) Demographics At the 2000 census there were 992 people, 382 households, and 271 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 436 housing units at an average density of 16.3 per square mile (6.3/km). The racial makeup of the town was 98.99% White, 0.10% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.40% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, and 0.30% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.20%. Of the 382 households 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.9% were married couples living together, 8.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.8% were non-families. 21.2% of households were one person and 8.1% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.01. The age distribution was 26.7% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 25.7% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% 65 or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males. The median household income was $48,333 and the median family income was $50,000. Males had a median income of $32,120 versus $24,313 for females. The per capita income for the town was $21,004. About 2.9% of families and 4.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.2% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. Schools Hill has one school, Jennie D. Blake Elementary School, which serves students in kindergarten through sixth grade. The school was named for Jennie Lind Dickerson Blake, a Hill resident who was born on July 16, 1878. As of 2017, 68 students were enrolled in the school. References External links New Hampshire Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau Profile Hill (N.H.: Town) Records, 1765–1880 at Dartmouth College Library Towns in Merrimack County, New Hampshire Populated places established in 1778 Towns in New Hampshire
The Unexplained Channel was an entertainment TV channel broadcast in the UK on the Sky Digital platform. The channel claimed to be the first TV channel in the world dedicated to the paranormal, and aimed to be ground breaking in its investigation of the subject. The channel was backed by UK television personality Yvette Fielding and her husband Karl Beattie through their Monster Pictures production company. The channel was launched as The Paranormal Channel on 9 June 2008, and was rebranded as The Unexplained Channel on 10 August 2009. The Unexplained Channel was aimed at fans of the paranormal, and broadcast documentaries, dramas and films on the subject. Previous programming included Arthur C. Clarke's mysterious world and Strange, but true? as well as original programming presented by Karl Beattie, Yvette Fielding and Paul Ross. The Unexplained Channel's EPG slot on Sky Digital was purchased by Information TV Limited, who on 21 April 2010 moved Showcase to channel 201 and launched Showcase 2 on channel 216. Showcase now broadcasts Irish TV so the slot was removed. Original programmes Ghosts of the asylum Paul Ross's Big Black Book of Horror Phantom photos Sexy spirits with David Nunn Whines and spirits Yvette's screaming banshees References Television channels in the United Kingdom Paranormal television Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 2008 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2010
Bruised Music, Volume 1 is a compilation album by Appleton, Wisconsin rock group Tenement, released by Grave Mistake Records and Toxic Pop Records. It is composed of singles and rarities from the band's first four years. The album was ranked #1170 by The Village Voice on their 2015 Pazz & Jop critics poll. Reception Punknews: "Sounding like a darker, more depressed Midwestern version of the Descendents, Tenement’s brand of pop punk is heavier, harder and better than most of their ilk." Rock Freaks: "...Given the compilation nature of the album, the quality of song varies quite significantly from the more anonymous tracks to the quality songs that make Tenement worth following and checking out especially live. Those on the second half of the record are arguably catchier than on the first half, but it's still mostly a fan release and probably not suitable as the starting point to the band." Ahead of Bruised Music, Volume 1 's release, Stereogum wrote, "Though the album cover's stark binary palette and vampire-like outstretched claws might bring to mind a Bauhaus coldness, the music owes more to Black Flag than anything remotely post-punk," calling the song Spaghetti Midwestern "a riotous portrait of suburban disillusionment, the American Dream gone awry" and Morning Mouth "a spiraling two and a half minutes of theatrical frustration". Track listing All compositions by Amos Pitsch except where noted. "Sitcom Moms" "Spaghetti Midwestern" "The Fire Is Out" "Summer Street, Parts 1 and 2" "Best And Worst Of Times" (Hart Miller/Amos Pitsch) "Pauline" "Icepick" "Goodnight, Rosendale" "Morning Mouth" "Do You Think About Him?" References External links Bruised Music, Volume 1 at Bandcamp 2015 compilation albums Tenement (band) albums
"Careless" is a song by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Messengers, released in October 1989 as the second single from their 1989 studio album, So Much Water So Close to Home. The song was written by Kelly and co-produced with Scott Litt. The single was released in October 1989 on the Mushroom Records label. It peaked at number 116 on the ARIA singles chart. The song was later covered by Renée Geyer on Difficult Woman (1994), Angie Hart on Women at the Well (2002), and Ozi Batla (MC for The Herd) on Before Too Long (2010). Background Paul Kelly had formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls in 1985, named from a line in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side". The Coloured Girls were Michael Barclay on drums and backing vocals, Peter Bull on keyboards, Steve Connolly on lead guitar and Jon Schofield on bass guitar. For international releases from 1987 they used the name Paul Kelly and the Messengers to avoid possible racist interpretations. In August 1989 after two albums the group issued, So Much Water So Close to Home under the band name Paul Kelly and the Messengers in all markets. The album peaked at No. 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was recorded in the United States with Scott Litt, best known for his work with R.E.M., co-producing with Kelly. Litt had re-mixed some of Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls' earlier tracks for their US releases as by Paul Kelly and the Messengers. So Much Water So Close to Home was released on Mushroom/White Records in Australia and A&M Records in the US and Europe. "Sweet Guy" was the first single from the album and peaked at number 53 on the ARIA singles chart. "Careless" was the second single from the album, but failed to chart on the ARIA top 100 singles chart. It peaked at number 92, however, on the Kent Music Report chart The video for "Careless" was directed by Kimble Rendall (XL Capris, Hoodoo Gurus, The Angels, Cold Chisel) and features Kelly and his band performing the song around an open fire, interdispersed with film from a wedding video. In May 1992 Kelly recorded a live version for his solo concert performance at the Athenaeum Theatre for the VHS album Paul Kelly Live at the Athenaeum, May 1992 (1992). It was directed and produced by Mat Humphrey. A related 2× CD album Live, May 1992 also included "Careless". In 2004 Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions performed the track for the DVD, Ways & Means, in the section subtitled Live in Boston. Kelly and his nephew Dan Kelly recorded the song as part of Kelly's A – Z Tours from 2004 to 2010, it was issued on the 8× CD album, The A – Z Recordings (2010). Since its release, it has been covered by Renée Geyer on Difficult Woman (1994) – Kelly produced her album, also wrote the title song, "Sweet Guy" and "Foggy Highway". In 2002, Angie Hart (ex-Frente!) performed it on Women at the Well, a Kelly tribute album by female artists. Ozi Batla (MC for The Herd) sang both "Careless" and "Sydney From a 727" for the Kelly tribute show and related album, Before Too Long (2010). The song also appeared on the soundtrack to the 1990 Australian film, Weekend with Kate. Composition "Careless" is a song with a length of two minutes and fifty-four seconds. The song is set in the key of G major and has a medium tempo with a piano range of G2–B4 and a vocal range of F4–B4. Kelly is credited with both lyrics and music. Kelly adjusted the chords for The Go-Betweens' track, "Apology Accepted", from Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (1986) and "came up with the tune... [It's] a circle song, with a progression of chords cycling in the same order... The melody may change for the chorus but the chords don't. There is no 'new bit', no change-up via a bridge or middle eight, no modulation". He also acknowledges that the chorus to the song uses the same two notes as the closing refrain on The Go-Between's "Cattle and Cane". "Special Treatment" is a protest song that Kelly wrote highlighting the oppression of Australian Aborigines. "Special Treatment" was composed in response to claims by a Western Australian pastoralist that Aborigines receive better treatment than other Australians. "'Special Treatment' is another one like that, a specific situation and write to it..." Kelly's song wryly spells out what that the special treatment has actually meant. Reception Allmusic's Mike DeGagne liked "Everything's Turning to White" and "Sweet Guy" from So Much Water So Close to Home, he observed they were "[t]wo of Paul Kelly's best written tunes ... nestled in amongst the others here... some of the other tunes seem a little weak in the content department". Although not specifically mentioned, "Careless" is one of the other tracks on the album. Track listing "Careless" (Paul Kelly) – 2:54 "Special Treatment" (Kelly) – 3:11 Personnel Paul Kelly and the Messengers Michael Barclay – drums, backing vocals Peter Bull – keyboards Steve Connolly – lead guitar Paul Kelly – guitar, vocals, harmonica Jon Schofield – bass guitar Recording details – "Careless" Producer – Scott Litt, Paul Kelly Engineer – Scott Litt Assistant – Clif Norrell, Jim Dineen Studio – Ocean Way Studios, Los Angeles Mastered – Precision Lacquer Mixed – The Grey Room Recording details – "Special Treatment" Producer – Neale Sandbach Engineer – Neale Sandbach Studio – ABC Studio 22 for Blah Blah Blah Charts References General Note: Archived [online] copy has limited functionality. Specific 1989 singles Paul Kelly (Australian musician) songs Song recordings produced by Scott Litt 1989 songs Mushroom Records singles Songs written by Paul Kelly (Australian musician)
John Evan Richards (July 7, 1856 – June 25, 1932) was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from 1924 until 1932. Biography Richards was born on July 7, 1856, to Richard Evan Richards and Mary Hamilton in San Jose, California, where he attended the public schools. He obtained his undergraduate degree from University of the Pacific in 1877 and his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1879. After graduation, Richards practiced law in San Francisco and San Jose with the firm of Moore, Lane & Leib, where future Justice William Langdon was later employed as a law clerk. In January 1904, Richards was elected a trustee of the newly formed Santa Clara Bar Association. In September 1907, Governor James Gillett appointed Richards as judge of the Santa Clara Superior Court to fill the vacancy from the resignation due to age of Augustus Rhodes. In October 1913, Governor Hiram Johnson elevated Richards to the First District Court of Appeal, replacing Samuel P. Hall who died in office. In October 1914, Richards won election to the remainder of Hall's unexpired term. From 1913 to 1916, he lectured at Santa Clara University School of Law. On February 11, 1924, Governor Friend Richardson appointed Richards as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court to fill the vacant seat of Frank H. Kerrigan. In November 1924, Richards won election to the remainder of Kerrigan's unexpired term. His last opinion, Parra v. Traeger (1931) was filed on December 31, 1931. He died in office on June 25, 1932. Governor James Rolph appointed Ira F. Thompson to take the vacant seat. Honors and activities Richards served as a trustee of the University of the Pacific, which in 1914 awarded him an honorary Master of Arts. In 1924, the University of Michigan conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In his spare time, he wrote editorials, essays and poetry. Personal life On November 3, 1881, Richards married Mary Westphal in San Jose, California. They had two sons: John P. Richards and Donald W. Richards. See also List of justices of the Supreme Court of California References External links John E. Richards In Memoriam. 215 Cal. Rpts. 777 (1932). California Supreme Court Historical Society. Retrieved July 18, 2017. Past & Present Justices. California State Courts. Retrieved July 19, 2017. Past & Present Justices. California Court of Appeal, First District. Retrieved July 25, 2017. 1856 births 1932 deaths University of the Pacific (United States) alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni Lawyers from San Jose, California Justices of the Supreme Court of California People from Alameda County, California California State University alumni Superior court judges in the United States Lawyers from San Francisco 20th-century American judges 20th-century American lawyers California Republicans
Provincial elections were held in Vojvodina on 21 June 2020. Initially organised for 26 April 2020, they were postponed by a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. Electoral system The 120 members of the Assembly are elected by closed-list proportional representation from a single provincial constituency. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 3% of all votes cast (lowered from 5% at the previous elections) although the threshold is waived for ethnic minority parties. Electoral lists Results Just like on the national level, many opposition parties boycotted the elections, leading to the ruling SNS-led For Our Children alliance winning over 60% of both votes and seats. References Elections in Vojvodina Vojvodina 21st century in Vojvodina Vojvodina Vojvodina
Wayne City is a village in Wayne County, Illinois, United States. The population was 994 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the 2010 census, Wayne City has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,089 people, 479 households, and 314 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 551 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 99.36% White, 0.09% Native American, 0.09% from other races, and 0.46% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.55% of the population. There were 479 households, out of which 30.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.4% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.4% were non-families. 33.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.27 and the average family size was 2.86. In the village, the population was spread out, with 25.3% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 24.2% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.1 males. The median income for a household in the village was $27,009, and the median income for a family was $33,750. Males had a median income of $28,269 versus $21,842 for females. The per capita income for the village was $13,333. About 13.6% of families and 18.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.0% of those under age 18 and 17.7% of those age 65 or over. Culture The town hosts an annual festival called Bean Days which typically involves a parade, a pageant, and a rodeo, as well as a free ham and bean dinner with corn bread. The local 4-H club, Wayne City 4-H Club, is also responsible for setting up and serving the communal dinner. The Wayne City School District's original school facility was originally built in the 1930s, but was torn down after the 2015-2016 school year to make room for a new facility. The new school's construction began in 2015 and ended in the middle of 2016 before the start of the school year. References External links Village of Wayne City Wayne City Bean Days Wayne City Baptist Church Wayne City Church of God First Christian Church of Wayne City Church of the Harvest Villages in Wayne County, Illinois Villages in Illinois
Chris Wright (born September 30, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the University of Dayton. Previously, Wright played in the NBA for the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks. High school and college career Wright attended Trotwood-Madison High School and, after graduating, he attended the University of Dayton from 2007 to 2011. While at Dayton, Wright was considered the "greatest above-the-rim player" in Flyers history upon graduating in May 2011. He holds school records for dunks and blocked shots in a career and was named to the all-Atlantic 10 team three times in his career, a first for a Dayton Flyer. Professional career 2011–12 season Wright went undrafted in the 2011 NBA draft and subsequently chose not to play outside of the United States during the 2011 NBA lockout. On November 3, 2011, he was selected with the 3rd overall pick by the Maine Red Claws in the 2011 NBA Development League Draft. He appeared in four games with the Red Claws, averaging 17 points, 10.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in 31.3 minutes. On December 10, 2011, Wright signed with the Golden State Warriors. On April 26, 2012, Wright made his first and only start of the season in the last game of the season. In 46 minutes of action, he recorded 25 points, 8 rebounds, 2 blocks and 1 steal in a 101-107 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. During his rookie season, Wright was assigned to the Dakota Wizards of the NBA D-League three times. 2012–13 season In July 2012, Wright joined the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors for the 2012 Las Vegas Summer League. On September 21, 2012, Wright signed with the Raptors. However, he was later waived by the Raptors on October 22, 2012. On November 1, 2012, Wright was re-acquired by the Maine Red Claws. On February 4, 2013, Wright was named to the Futures All-Star roster for the 2013 NBA D-League All-Star Game. 2013–14 season In July 2013, Wright joined the Indiana Pacers for the Orlando Summer League and the Toronto Raptors for the Las Vegas Summer League. On September 19, 2013, Wright signed with the Toronto Raptors. However, he was later waived by the Raptors on October 26, 2013. On October 31, 2013, he was re-acquired by the Maine Red Claws. On February 3, 2014, Wright was named to the Futures All-Star roster for the 2014 NBA D-League All-Star Game. On March 14, 2014, Wright signed a 10-day contract with the Milwaukee Bucks. On March 24, 2014, he was not offered a second 10-day contract after his first 10-day contract expired. The next day, he was re-acquired by the Red Claws. On April 5, 2014, he signed another 10-day contract with the Bucks. On April 15, 2014, he signed a multi-year deal with the Bucks. 2014–15 season In July 2014, Wright joined the Milwaukee Bucks for the 2014 NBA Summer League. On October 16, 2014, he was waived by the Bucks. On October 26, 2014, he signed with Turów Zgorzelec of Poland for the 2014–15 season. 2015–16 season On August 8, 2015, Wright signed with Maccabi Rishon LeZion of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He helped Maccabi Rishon LeZion win their first ever Israeli League championship during the 2015–16 season. 2016–17 season On September 23, 2016, Wright signed with the Oklahoma City Thunder. However, he was later waived by the Thunder on October 24 after appearing in one preseason game. On November 3, he was acquired by the Oklahoma City Blue of the NBA Development League. 2017–18 season On October 11, 2017, Wright signed a training camp contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder. He was waived on October 14 as one of the team's final preseason roster cuts and nine days later, he re-signed with the Oklahoma City Blue. On March 23, 2018, he was waived by the Blue after a season-ending injury. He played 16 games that season. 2018–19 season Wright was added to the Oklahoma City Blue training camp roster on October 23, 2018. Career statistics NBA Regular season \|- \| align="left" \| \| align="left" \| Golden State \| 24 \|\| 1 \|\| 7.8 \|\| .511 \|\| .000 \|\| .774 \|\| 1.9 \|\| .2 \|\| .3 \|\| .5 \|\| 2.9 \|- \| align="left" \| \| align="left" \| Milwaukee \| 8 \|\| 0 \|\| 15.8 \|\| .600 \|\| .000 \|\| .400 \|\| 2.5 \|\| .6 \|\| .9 \|\| .6 \|\| 6.0 \|-class="sortbottom" \| align="left" \| Career \| align="left" \| \| 32 \|\| 1 \|\| 9.7 \|\| .550 \|\| .000 \|\| .652 \|\| 2.0 \|\| .3 \|\| .4 \|\| .6 \|\| 3.7 References External links Chris Wright at euroleague.net Chris Wright at nbadleague.com 1988 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Israel American expatriate basketball people in Poland American men's basketball players Basketball players from Ohio Dakota Wizards players Dayton Flyers men's basketball players Golden State Warriors players Maccabi Rishon LeZion basketball players Maine Red Claws players Milwaukee Bucks players Oklahoma City Blue players People from Trotwood, Ohio Sportspeople from Montgomery County, Ohio Power forwards (basketball) Small forwards Turów Zgorzelec players Undrafted National Basketball Association players
Frogner stadion is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway, which has artificial ice in the winter for speed skating and bandy. The artificial grass is used in the summer for soccer and American football. It is located close to the Frogner Park, between the park and Majorstuen. One match, Norway-Belarus, was played here at the 2013 Bandy World Championship. History It opened in 1901, and was built by the speed skating club Kristiania Skøiteklub. In 1914, the stadium was moved to its current position, due to the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition. At the inaugural race in 1914, two speed skating world records were set by Oscar Mathisen, in 500 m and 1,500 m. In 1928, Oslo Municipality took over responsibility for the stadium. Frogner stadion was one of the most important ice skating venues in Norway until 1940. A long series of championships were held at Frogner stadion, both in figure skating and in speed skating. A total of 23 speed skating world records have been set at the stadium (including some not officially listed). Seventeen of the records from Frogner are listed among the official ISU world records in speed skating. Outside the stadium are statues of Oscar Mathisen and Sonja Henie. Frogner stadion has been the venue for international matches both in football and bandy, as well as international track and field athletics competitions. The venue hosted the Norwegian Athletics Championships in 1906, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922 and 1924. After the rebuild in 2010 it also became the homefield of the Oslo Vikings American football, currently the second best team in Norway. Speed skating world records at Frogner stadion Men's records World records at the old stadium (before 1914) In 1911, Nikolay Strunnikov skated the 5,000 m distance in a world record time of 8:37.2. This record was originally not approved by ISU, but is now listed among the world records. Oscar Mathisen set two records on 17 and 18 February 1912. The 500 m time was 44.2, while the 10,000 m record was 17:46.3. He improved his own record twice in 1913, first in Trondhjem and later at Frogner, and the new record was 17:22.6. World records at the new stadium from 1914 Oscar Mathisen set two world records at the opening of the new stadium on 10 January 1914. The time was 43.7 over 500 m and 2:19.4 over 1,500 m. In 1916, Oscar Mathisen set a world record over 5,000 m, with the time 8:36.3. In 1921, Harald Strøm set the record 8:27.7, and in 1922 he improved his own record to 8:26.5, both at Frogner stadion. Strøm's 5,000 m record from 1922 lasted seven years, the longest lasting of all world records set at Frogner, until it was beaten by Ivar Ballangrud in Davos in 1929. In 1932, Clas Thunberg skated the 1,000 m distance in 1:27.4, better than the world record, but this time is not registered as an official record. In 1936, Allan Potts set a world record over 500 m, with the time 42.4, improving on Hans Engnestangen's time from Davos three years earlier. This record lasted only 12 days, when Engnestangen set another world record in Davos. Ivar Ballangrud set a world record at Frogner over 5,000 m in 1936, with the time 8:17.2, and this record lasted five years. Women's records Several records from Frogner stadion from the 1930s are not listed as official world records. Those that are listed are Synnøve Lie's 50.3 over 500 m in 1934, and Laila Schou Nilsen's 49.3 in 1935. Verné Lesche set a world record over 1,000 m in 1934, with 1:45.7. For the 1,500 m distance, three world records set at Frogner stadium are listed: Synnøve Lie's 3:08.1 in 1932, Undis Blikken's 2:40.0 in 1934, and Laila Schou Nilsen's 2:38.1 in 1937. Transport The stadium is served by a nearby light rail station on the Frogner Line; the station is named Frogner stadion. The station is served by line 12, which uses high-floor SL79 Trams. References Sports venues in Oslo Football venues in Norway Norwegian Cup Final venues Speed skating venues in Norway Bandy venues in Norway 1914 establishments in Norway SFK Lyn Norway national football team Frigg Oslo FK Frogner Park
WLAD (800 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Danbury, Connecticut. It broadcasts a talk format. WLAD is owned by Berkshire Broadcasting. The studios and offices are located on Mill Plain Road in Danbury and the transmitter is off Brushy Hill Road, also in Danbury. WLAD operates at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna; but because 800 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Mexico, WLAD must reduce power at night to 286 watts. In early 2017, WLAD began simulcasting on an FM translator, W231DJ at 94.1 MHz. History On June 17, 1947, the Berkshire Broadcasting Corporation received a construction permit to build a new radio station in Danbury. It was the second attempt by the company to secure a radio station; it had lost out on an application for 1490 kHz when the FCC assigned it to a group from Torrington. WLAD first signed on the air on October 5, 1947. At first, the station broadcast with only 250 watts of power as a daytime-only station. One of the founding members of the company, John Previdi, later served as mayor of Danbury. It was approved to increase its power to 1,000 watts by day in 1965, but it took until the 1980s for it to get nighttime authorization. Its first day as a 24-hour AM station was August 25, 1986. In 1953, the station signed on an FM sister station, 98.3 WLAD-FM, which is today WDAQ. WLAD's studios and offices were located at the Hotel Green building (renamed Ives Manor in 1975) within the Main Street Historic District in downtown Danbury from 1962 until July 2012. After moving, WLAD upgraded their equipment from analog to digital. Harold "Hal" Brundage's local 15-minute Yankee Farmer show was aired daily in the late 1940s. In 1948, WLAD ran 10 weeks of Talent Scout Shows, a series of contests that culminated in awards being given to the best performer. Virginia Cassidy hosted her daily local talk show The Virginia Wren Show from the 1950s through 1978. On the show, she interviewed many celebrities including actor Van Johnson, pianist Victor Borge and, in 1955, singer Marian Anderson. She also discussed books and local events on the show and had segments where she sang and played the piano. Cassidy hosted programs from the Danbury Fair every October. During the 1980s, she had a new Sunday show on which she interviewed writers of novels and plays, among other people. Victor Gilbert also hosted a celebrity interview show on WLAD, Sunday at Stonehenge, as of 1959-1962 with interviewees including the actresses Ruth Chatterton and Judy Garland. Abraham "Abe" Najamy worked as a news presenter and sports game announcer at the station from the 1950s through the 1970s. These included Danbury High School basketball games. He co-hosted many of the news and sports shows with Paul Baker, who was at the station from 1947 until 1977, but whose Saturday Sports Spotlight program became the longest-running sports show in the United States until it ended in 1987. Najamy also hosted the station's Personality Profiles interview show. The Polish Eagles Radio Show, a weekly program of Polish language and Polish instrumental music, including polka, aired on Sundays on WLAD during the 1950s well into the 1990s. It was hosted by Connecticut bandleader Victor Zembruski (1912–1976) until he had a debilitating stroke in 1968, then taken over by his wife Sofie Zembruski (1918-2010). The Lebanon Hour, hosted by Kamil Saffi, began its four decades of weekly shows on WLAD in 1951 filled with entertainment and information tailored to the local residents of Lebanese descent. James Rasmussen presented 30-minute country and western music shows on Saturday afternoons as of 1962. For much of its history, WLAD broadcast a full service middle of the road music format, playing compact discs, tape cartridges, and vinyl records. It continued to do so into the 1990s and was still seeing ratings success. But in the late 1990s, WLAD shifted to its current format of full-time talk radio on weekdays. Disc jockeys during WLAD's contemporary music era from the 1970s to the 1990s included Mike Piazza, Dan Stevens, Pete Summers, and Dave Rinelli. Some oldies music was added by 1989. Jay Fink joined WLAD in December 1988 and became the disc jockey for the Boomer Oldies Show featuring music of the 1950s through early 1970s. George Repko, who began working at WLAD in 1965, acquired the moniker "Big George" and as of 1995 served as the disc jockey of an oldies show on WLAD on Saturday mornings. The local call-in talk show Dialogue 80 was hosted by Rhoda Daum from 1978-1988 and taken over by Summers in 1989. Summers left the station in December 2005 after 20 years on the job; Danbury's mayor at the time, Mark Boughton, dubbed Summers "the voice of Danbury". The replacement for Summers' morning show, the radio veteran and comedian Larry Caringer, began his stint in January 2006 and ended it in 2008. Rinelli, who joined WLAD in 1986, started his long-time morning talk show on May 5, 2008. As of 1990-1991, Thom Foulks' nationally syndicated show Computing Success! was aired every Sunday on WLAD. Dr. Dean Edell's nationally syndicated medical talk show was carried as of 2001. For five years in the 1990s, WLAD broadcast baseball games featuring the Boston Red Sox; it switched to New York Yankees games in 1997, citing higher fan interest. They later switched back to Red Sox games. As of 2017, New York Mets games were broadcast instead. The station also broadcast Hartford Whalers hockey games, New England Patriots football games, and UConn Huskies basketball games. Melvin "Mel" Goldstein preceded Gary Lessor as the station's weathercaster from the mid-1970s through January 13, 2012. However, Lessor also did some weather broadcasts on WLAD prior to 2012. From 1998 until February 26, 2021, WLAD aired Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated talk show in the time slot from noon to 3 p.m., but due to Limbaugh's death, the station replaced it with the Markley, Van Camp and Robbins Show starting on March 1, 2021. The latter show had been aired from 6 to 8 p.m. since April 2020. WLAD began airing the nationally syndicated Glenn Beck Radio Program in 2008 but dropped it in 2012 in favor of Brian Kilmeade's show. Laura Schlessinger's syndicated talk show aired on WLAD until 2010. WLAD has also carried Lars Larson's syndicated talk show. In the late 2010s and early 2020s, programming on Saturdays and Sundays largely consisted of oldies music shows, including American Top 40 hosted by Casey Kasem and many others, but the station dropped all of them by March 2022 in favor of talk shows about politics and news, a home improvement show, a legal advice show, and a gun talk show. Current programming WLAD airs a local morning news and information show on weekdays, hosted by Dave Rinelli and Bart Busterna, with newscaster Jillian Mauro and weathercaster Gary Lessor. They are followed by nationally syndicated talk shows the rest of the day, including Brian Kilmeade, Markley, Van Camp & Robbins, Armstrong & Getty, Joe Pags, Dave Ramsey, Jim Bohannon, Red Eye Radio, and America in The Morning. WLAD also broadcasts New York Giants football games. The entertainment show Hollywood 360 hosted by Carl Amari airs on Sunday mornings. Sunday morning's informational programs include This Morning: America's First News and Motley Fool Money. Translator References External links Radio Station Moves off Main Street LAD News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1947 Fairfield County, Connecticut 1947 establishments in Connecticut
Jagannath Temple is dedicated to the Hindu god Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra, and sister Subhadra. The temple is located on Sarjapur Road in Agara in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Its main festival is the annual Rath Yatra, which sees more than fifteen thousand devotees. The temple is maintained by the Shree Jagannath Temple Trust of Bangalore. References Hindu temples in Bangalore Temples dedicated to Jagannath
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as Female circumcision or Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Nigeria accounts for the most female genital cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) cases worldwide. The practice is customarily a family tradition that the young female of the age 0-15 would experience. It is a procedure that involves partial or completely removing the external females genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whenever for non-medical reasons. The practice is considered harmful to girls and women and a violation of human rights. FGM causes infertility, maternal death, infections, and the loss of sexual pleasure. Nationally, 27% of Nigerian women between the ages of 15 and 49 were victims of FGM, as of 2012. In the last 30 years, prevalence of the practice has decreased by half in some parts of Nigeria. Female genital mutilation is on the rise among Nigerian girls aged 0-14 and Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone FGM worldwide UNICEF. In May 2015, then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan signed a federal law banning FGM. Opponents of the practice cite this move as an important step forward in Africa, as Nigeria is the most populous country and has set an important precedent. Though the practice has declined, activists and scholars say a cultural shift is necessary to abolish the practice, as the new law will not singularly change the wider violence against women in Nigeria. Cultural perception The practice is mostly carried out by traditional circumcisers, without proper knowledge of human anatomy and medicine. Despite the graveness of the issue, the practicing societies look on it as an integral part of their tradition and cultural identity. In the communities that follow excision of female genitalia, FGM/C is associated with ethnicity, culture, prevailing social norms, and sometimes as religious obligations. In majority of the cases it has been documented that their own family members such as parents mainly mothers, grandparents, and grandmothers of the girls are the perpetrators of this act. Ensuring daughter's virginity is a required task for them to arrange for her marriage, receive proper bride price, and for family honor. There is also a misconception belief that is still present in Nigeria that women believe that female circumcision increases sexual pleasure among men. Another belief is that FGM/C increases women's fertility, ability to procreate, and child's survival. Due to immense social pressure and fear of exclusion from the community, families conform to the tradition. In Nigeria and other societies, girls who have not gone through FGM/C are considered as unmarriageable, unclean and it is a social taboo. Girls who remain uncut may be teased or looked down upon in the society. Most times, the girls themselves desire to conform to peer as well as societal pressure out of the fear of stigmatization and rejection by their own community. They accept the practice as a necessary and normal part of life. In many communities this particular practice is upheld as a religious requirement. FGM/C is performed by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. However, it is carried out in some Muslim communities with the belief that it is demanded by Islamic faith. In reality, though, there is no documentation of this practice in the holy texts of these religions. Moreover, the historical origin of the practice asserts that it predates the advent of all major religions of the world including Islam. Often older women become the moral gatekeepers in favor of this ritual to justify their own experience of genital cutting and they tend to see any effort to eliminate the practice as a threat to their culture. Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) but In Nigeria, it faces many problems due to many different resolutions not being in line with the religious and cultural beliefs of most of the Nigerian population and thus, unworthy to be enacted as a Nigerian law. Data shows that the majority of people believe female genital cutting should end, but they cite social pressures to continue the practice with their daughters. Men especially do not favor female genital mutilation and will not like it to continue. People's opinion on whether female genital mutilation should continue or end depends a lot on the socio-economic status of the person. While the poor and uneducated men will want female genital mutilation to continue, the economically well-to-do and educated people will like it to end. Among women aged 15 to 49 polled between 2004–2015, 64% want to end the practice. Influence on other African nations Human rights activists believe the 2015 federal ban in Nigeria will influence other African countries—a region in which the practice is highly prevalent—because of Nigeria's economic and political strength within the continent. Types practiced Nigerians practice the following forms of female genital cutting/mutilation: Type I, clitoridectomy: Removing the clitoral hood and at least part of the clitoris Type II, sunna: Removing the full clitoris and part of the labia minora Type III, infibulation: Removing the clitoris, labia minora, and labia majora. This also involves stitching the vaginal opening with a minuscule hole for urination and menstrual bleeding. Type IV: Other unclassified forms of FGM may involve pricking, stretching, cauterization, or inserting herbs into the vagina. Clitoridectomies are more common in the south of the country, and the more extreme methods, like infibulation, are prevalent in the north. Activism Organizations seeking to end FGC/M in Nigeria include the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, African Union, Devatop Centre for Africa Development, the Economic Commission for Africa, the Coalition of Advocates against Violence and the Population Council. as well as Justice, Development and Peace Movement (JDPM) of the Catholic diocese of Oyo. The Circumcision Descendants Association of Nigeria (CDAN)—a group whose members perform FGM in Nigeria, has advocated to end the practice by creating new government programs and economic opportunities for those who perform female genital mutilation. In 2018, an event organized by UN Women, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Nigerian Mission to the UN, with other partners to help promote change of perceptions for the women in Africa. Highlighting themes such as human trafficking, suicide bombing, female genital mutilation/cutting and sexism and sexual harassment at the United Nations, Ms. Itua, one of the presenters of the UN showcase the importance of women taking an active role in their nations said "As an African woman, I believe that my goal is to work with other women in creating awareness. Together we are stronger. Working together to be stronger to change the narrative coming out of Africa." See also Women in Nigeria Gender inequality in Nigeria References Nigeria Nigerian culture Women in Nigeria Women's rights in Nigeria Human rights abuses in Nigeria
Nancy Ilizabeth Lieberman (born July 1, 1958), nicknamed "Lady Magic", is an American former professional basketball player and coach in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) who is currently a broadcaster for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA) as well as the head coach of Power, a team in the BIG3 which she led to its 2018 Championship. Lieberman is regarded as one of the greatest figures in American women's basketball. In 2000, she was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame. Lieberman is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the St. Louis Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. Early life Lieberman was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jerome and Renee Lieberman. She is Jewish (and described herself as "just a poor, skinny, redheaded Jewish girl from Queens"). Her family lived in Brooklyn when she was born, but soon moved to Far Rockaway, Queens, where she grew up with her older brother Clifford. She lost great-grandparents in the Holocaust, and her paternal grandparents, who survived, had concentration camp numbers on their wrists. Her mother brought up the children after a separation and divorce. While growing up, she was interested in a variety of sports, playing baseball, softball and football with boys, before settling on basketball as her primary sport. She played basketball primarily on pickup teams with boys, not playing on a girls' team until she was a high school sophomore. Lieberman's mother Renee was not supportive of her daughter's interest in basketball. Once, when Lieberman was practicing dribbling techniques indoors because it was cold outside, her mother demanded she stop dribbling because of all the noise. When she did not stop, her mother punctured the basketball with a screwdriver. Lieberman found another ball and continued, but her mother punctured that one as well. This continued until five balls were ruined. Lieberman then decided she had better go outside before she ran out of basketballs. Playing career High school career While attending Far Rockaway High School in Queens, she established herself as one of the top women's basketball players in the country by earning one of the 12 coveted slots on the USA's National Team. In 1975, while still in her teens, Lieberman was named to the USA Team designated to play in the World Championships and Pan American Games, where the team won a gold medal. During the school year, she played for her high school team, but in the summer, played with an Amateur Athletic Union team in Harlem, the New York Chuckles. She told former Knick Walt Frazier that he was her hero and that it was because of him that she wore No. 10, saying: "You might not even know this, but you thought you were affecting young guys but you were affecting young, white Jewish women, not just boys." College career From 1976 to 1980, Lieberman attended Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and played on the women's basketball team there. During that time, she and her team won two consecutive AIAW National Championships (1979, 1980) and one WNIT (Women's National Invitation Tournament) Championship in 1978. She was the first two-time winner of the prestigious Wade Trophy, a national player of the year award in college women's basketball, and was selected as the Broderick Award winner for basketball as the top women's player in America. Lieberman also won three consecutive Kodak All-America awards (1978, '79, '80). Lieberman was one of six young adults to win the Young American Award from the Boy Scouts of America in 1980. Lieberman earned the nickname "Lady Magic," a nod to Earvin "Magic" Johnson of NBA fame. Lieberman set a school record for career assists (961) that still stands today. She led the team in assists each of the four years she was on the team—in her sophomore year she averaged 8.9 per game. Lieberman amassed 2,430 points along with 1,167 rebounds in her collegiate career, producing an average of 18.1 points per game. Lieberman achieved a triple double (40 points, 15 rebounds, 11 assists) against Norfolk State in her sophomore year. Lieberman stole the ball 562 times and assisted a basket 961 times in her college career, believed to be modern records. She is the holder of several single-game and single-season records, including best free-throw shooting percentage in her freshman and sophomore years. Lieberman earned her degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Old Dominion University on May 6, 1980. She was inducted into the ODU Sports Hall of Fame in 1985. Professional career In 1980 she was selected with the first pick in the Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) draft by the Dallas Diamonds. She helped Dallas to the 1981 WBL finals, where they lost to the Nebraska Wranglers in five games. She was named the "rookie of the year", after averaging 26.3 points per game. Lieberman's WBL career is featured in the book Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978–1981. In 1981, she played for the Los Angeles Lakers Summer Pro League team. In 1984, she once again suited up for the Dallas Diamonds, signing a three-year, $250,000 contract with the team to play in the Women's American Basketball Association (WABA). Averaging 27 points per game and voted the league's Most Valuable Player, she helped Dallas win the 1984 WABA championship, but the league folded after the season. The final game played was between the Diamonds and the WABA All-Stars, where Lieberman scored 19 points and was named the game's MVP in the Diamonds' 101-94 victory. In 1986, Lieberman signed with the Springfield Fame of the men's professional United States Basketball League (USBL) where she went on to average 1.7 points in 11 minutes per game. She remained in the league the following season, playing for the Long Island Knights. Later, she toured with the Washington Generals, who served as the regular opponent of the Harlem Globetrotters, where she met her future husband, teammate Tim Cline. She was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1996 and to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999. In the newly formed WNBA's inaugural year in 1997, Lieberman played for the Phoenix Mercury. At the age of 39, she was the WNBA's oldest player. On July 24, 2008, at 50 years old, Lieberman signed a seven-day contract with the eventual WNBA Champion Detroit Shock, breaking her own previous record as the oldest player in league history and returning to the franchise she coached a decade prior. That same day, the Shock played a game against the Houston Comets where Lieberman saw playing time. Lieberman recorded two assists in nine minutes of playing time, but Detroit lost the game 79-61. This ended up being her final WNBA game, as she was waived the next day on July 25, 2008. National team career At age 17, Lieberman was named to the USA Basketball team roster. She played for the team in the 1975 USA Women's Pan American Team, three years younger than the next youngest teammates. The games were held in Mexico City, Mexico in October. The Pan Am team had failed to win the gold in 1967 and 1971. In 1975, the team was more successful, compiling a 7–0 record, and winning the gold medal for the first time since 1963. Lieberman continued with the USA team to the 1976 Olympics in Montreal in the first women's Olympic basketball team competition. Shortly after turning 18, Lieberman became the youngest basketball player in Olympic history to win a medal, when the United States captured the silver medal. Lieberman was named to the team representing the US at the 1979 William Jones Cup competition in Taipei. The USA team won all six games on the way to the gold medal. Lieberman earned a spot on the Jones Cup All-Tournament Team Lieberman played with the team at the 1979 Pan American games in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Although the team easily won most of their games, they lost to Cuba, 91–86, and received the silver medal. In 1980, Lieberman earned a slot on the 1980 Olympic team, but withdrew from the squad in support of U.S. President Jimmy Carter's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She failed to make the final roster for the 1990 Goodwill Games and the 1992 Olympics. Coaching career WNBA In 1998, Lieberman was hired as general manager and head coach of the Detroit Shock. She coached for three seasons, leading the team to a winning record (17-13) in their inaugural season. After being fired after the 2000 season, Lieberman worked as a women's basketball analyst for ESPN. NBA G League In November 2009, Lieberman became the coach of the Texas Legends in the NBA Development League (now NBA G League), an affiliate of the Dallas Mavericks, thus becoming the first woman to coach a professional men's basketball team. The team began play in November 2010. She later moved to a front office position with the Legends before joining Fox Sports Oklahoma as an analyst for the Oklahoma City Thunder studio show, Thunder Live. NBA In July 2015, she was hired by the Sacramento Kings as an assistant coach, becoming the second female assistant coach in NBA history. She took two leaves of absence to care for her ailing mother before leaving the Kings in 2017. After the Kings, she became a broadcaster with the New Orleans Pelicans. BIG3 On March 21, 2018, it was announced that Lieberman was hired as a head coach of Power in the BIG3 league, replacing Clyde Drexler. In her first season as head coach, she led her team to the 2018 Championship, defeating 3's Company to become the first ever female coach in the BIG3 to win a championship. Career statistics College Source WNBA Regular season Source \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| 1997 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Phoenix \| 25 \|\| 0 \|\| 11.2 \|\| .325 \|\| .231 \|\| .800 \|\| 1.3 \|\| 1.6 \|\| 0.6 \|\| 0.1 \|\| 1.6 \|\| 2.6 \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| 2008 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Detroit \| 1 \|\| 0 \|\| 9.0 \|\| .000 \|\| – \|\| – \|\| 0.0 \|\| 2.0 \|\| 0.0 \|\| 0.0 \|\| 2.0 \|\| 0.0 \|- \| align="left" \| Career \| 2 years, 2 teams \| 26 \|\| 0 \|\| 11.1 \|\| .321 \|\| .231 \|\| .800 \|\| 1.2 \|\| 1.6 \|\| 0.5 \|\| 0.1 \|\| 1.6 \|\| 2.5 \|} Playoffs \|- \| style="text-align:left;"\| 1997 \| style="text-align:left;"\| Phoenix \| 1 \|\| 0 \|\| 1.0 \|\| – \|\| – \|\| – \|\| 0.0 \|\| 0.0 \|\| 0.0 \|\| 1.0 \|\| 0.0 \|\| 0.0 \|} Awards and honors 1979-Winner of the Honda Sports Award for basketball 1979-The Honda-Broderick Cup winner for all sports. 1980-Winner of the Honda Sports Award for basketball 1999-Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame 2000-Nancy Lieberman Award created 2022-Statue of her unveiled at Old Dominion University; the first statue of a former ODU athlete at the university Personal life Lieberman lived with tennis star Martina Navratilova for several years beginning in 1981 and she also served as her physical trainer, contributing to Navratilova’s return to the number one ranking in 1982. In 1988, Lieberman married one of her teammates with the Generals, Tim Cline, taking the surname Lieberman-Cline until the couple's divorce on March 15, 2001. Their son T. J. Cline, played college basketball for the Richmond Spiders, and in November 2017 signed to play for Israeli team Hapoel Holon, which plays in the Ligat HaAl, the top division of Israeli basketball. In regard to religious matters, despite her Jewish upbringing, Lieberman became a Christian late in her life and was described as having embraced born-again Christianity in a 2015 Jerusalem Post article. Nonetheless, she said in an interview in 2010, "I am 100% Jewish. My father's parents were deeply religious, we had two sets of silverware when we went and ate over there. My mother's side observed the major holidays. It was more relaxed. I went to Hebrew school as well." In 2011, she visited Israel with her mother, saying "It has changed my outlook of Israel. I know as a Jewish woman how important it is for me to be connected to this culture and to this community." Lieberman was a contestant on the season 4 Gold Medal Challenge of Champions special of American Gladiators. She was eliminated after the third event with the lowest score of the three female competitors. On August 13, 2008, she was part of the inaugural class to be inducted into the Hampton Roads Sports Hall of Fame, honoring athletes, coaches and administrators who made contributions to sports in Southeastern Virginia. See also List of female NBA coaches Nancy Lieberman Award List of select Jewish basketball players WBCBL Professional Basketball Trailblazer Award Notes References External links Official website Biography on Jewish Women Encyclopedia Lieberman articles on ESPN.com Profile on Women's basketball Hall of Fame Profile on Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame 1958 births Living people 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women All-American college women's basketball players American evangelicals American Gladiators contestants American men's basketball coaches American women's basketball coaches American women's basketball players Basketball coaches from New York (state) Basketball players at the 1975 Pan American Games Basketball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1979 Pan American Games Big3 coaches Christians from New York (state) Converts to evangelical Christianity Detroit Shock head coaches Detroit Shock players Far Rockaway High School alumni Jewish American sportspeople Jewish women's basketball players Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees National Basketball Association broadcasters Old Dominion Monarchs women's basketball players Olympic silver medalists for the United States in basketball Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in basketball Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States People from Far Rockaway, Queens Phoenix Mercury draft picks Phoenix Mercury players Point guards Sacramento Kings assistant coaches Basketball players from Brooklyn Basketball players from Queens, New York Texas Legends coaches United States Basketball League players United States women's national basketball team players Washington Generals players Women sports announcers Women's National Basketball Association executives Women's National Basketball Association general managers Women's Professional Basketball League players Women's Sports Foundation executives
The Mack Granite is a series of heavy duty (Class 8) and severe service trucks built by Mack Trucks. It has a long, low-profile hood and a high-visibility cab. Designed as straight trucks for local construction, waste removal, and other vocational jobs, it is also available as a semi-tractor. Introduced in 2001, it remains in production as of today. Design The Granite is a long-hood conventional. It measures 117.5 from the bumper to the back of the cab. Designed for local use it usually has a day-cab but a 36" integral sleeper is available. Commonly a 6x4 (3 axles, 2 powered) there are packages from 4x2 (2 axles, 1 powered) to 8x6 (4 axles, 3 powered) and can be fitted with driven front, tandem-steer, lift, and extended trailing axles. Total loaded weight can be up to on four axles. Advanced electronics are used for engine, chassis, and body controls, as well as maintenance. All trucks have ABS. In 2019 a new generation Bendix Wingman Fusion was available in the Anthem. It uses radar and cameras to provide emergency braking, lane departure, and blind spot warnings. Mack builds their own major components (engines, transmissions, axles, and suspensions) and the Granite has specific packages for different applications. Most vendor components are also available but engine choice is very limited. Engines The Granite is available with two Mack diesels, a Cummins diesel, and a Cummins Westport natural gas engine. Between 2001 and 2005 an earlier generation Mack diesel was used. The Mack MP7 is the base engine in the Granite. It is a overhead cam turbocharged inline six-cylinder diesel engine. It develops and of torque. It was introduced in December 2006. The Mack MP8 is the largest engine in the Granite. It is a overhead cam turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine. It develops and of torque. It has been in production since 2007. The Cummins ISL9 used in the Granite MHD when lower overall weight is more important than power. It is a turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine. It develops and of torque. The Cummins Westport L9N is a turbocharged inline six-cylinder natural gas engine. It develops and of torque. The Mack E7 AMI series was used in the Granite between 2001 and 2005. It is a turbocharged inline six-cylinder engine. It develops and of torque. Transmissions Both Mack and Eaton-Fuller have manual and automated shifting models. Manual transmissions have five or six main gears, extra ratios are made with different combinations of ranges. Allison transmissions are fully automatic. Mack mDRIVE automated manual is the Granite's base transmission. It has no clutch pedal and shifts itself on demand. The driver can override it but it is normally driven in "D". It can have 12, 13, or 14-speeds. Other Mack manual transmissions have from 8- to 18-speeds. Eaton-Fuller UltraShift automated shifting systems are available on all of their transmissions from 9- to 18-speeds. Allison RDS series 5- or 6-speed transmissions are available. The RDS is a fully automatic planetary gear transmission with a lock-up torque converter. Frame A ladder frame with beam axles is used. Normally there is a single undriven front axle on semi-elliptical leaf springs, but driven and tandem steer (popular in Canada) axles are available. The base rear suspension is a Mack tandem (two powered axles). Granites are also available with single and tridem (three driven) axles, different axle/suspension combination types. Lift axles can be installed by either Mack or bodybuilders. Up to three axles can be driven. Wheelbases are from A set-forward or set-back front axle is offered. A set forward axle, with the tires immediately behind a straight bumper, is used when overall length is limited or when wheelbase has to be as long as possible for bridge-formula laws. Set back axles, where the hood extends in front of the axle, are used when maneuverability is more important than length or weight distribution. In 2020 Mack introduced the Command Steer system. An additional on-demand electric power steering pump is operated electronically. This allows easier steering, will help dampen steering feedback, steady driving, and can compensate for side-winds, uneven pavement, and braking on different surfaces. A very light feel and automatic return-to-center feature are useful off-road, at slow speed, and in backing. Dana-Spicer and Meritor supply air brakes, driveshafts, and other components. Axles and suspensions Front axles are available from , Dana-Spicer and Meritor driven axles up to are also available. Multi-leaf leaf springs are base, tapered leaves are optional. Mack powered axles have the drive carrier on top of the housing. This lets the driveshafts be in line from the transmission to and between the axles at a higher level above the ground. With the higher level above the ground the driveshafts and u-joints are less prone to dirt and damage, important in on/off road construction. Other powered axles are available from Dana-Spicer and Meritor. These have front mounted carriers and in tandems the two axle housings are different. Single rear axles rated at are available from Mack and Meritor. The Camelback tandem is the base rear suspension. The Camelback has multiple leaves that rock above the bogey pivot then curve down and under the axles. It is strong in on/off-road service. It is available in ratings of . The mRIDE tandem has tapered leaves that rock above the bogey pivot then go out and above the axles. Struts go from the bottom of the bogey pivot out and under the axle. They have more wheel travel and ground clearance than the camelback. They are rated at . The Twin Y air suspension has trailing arms that fork to the rear and attach to both the top and bottom of the axle. There is an air bag behind the axle on each side and each axle is sprung individually. They are rated at . Walking beams have low bogie pivots with a balance beam going out and under the axles. Any suspension is above the bogey pivot. They can have leaf springs, rubber load cushions, air bags, or be solidly mounted. Walking beams are very stable at low speeds and when stopped. Mack and Hendrickson models are available. Vendor tandems from Chalmers, Hendrickson, Meritor, and RAYCO are rated at up to . Meritor tridems (three powered axles) rated at are needed for maximum weight trucks regardless of any other extra axles. Applications Mack has standard packages for dump, concrete mixer, roll-off(hooklift), and rear loader bodies, as well as semi-tractor. Other packages can be special ordered. Construction The Granite, with its extra heavy-duty chassis, high ground clearance, and high-visibility cab, was designed to be operated on construction" job sites". Dump trucks are the first standard packages. Typically 6x4 (three axles, two driven) lift axles are available. Body builders can add lift axles and extended trailing axles for higher weights. Concrete mixers are operated on/off-road locally at high weights. Available driven front axles are often used on mixers. Mixers often can benefit from a set forward front axle and extended trailing axle for increased bridge formula weights. Other types like flatbeds, including those that self-unload by dumping or with their own crane, Volumetric concrete mixers, and cranes can use the strong chassis. Refuse Refuse is largely on-road use and doesn't need as much power as off-road use. Mack suggests that the Granite MHD with the lighter and less-powerful Cummins ISL9 engines be used. Roll-off container trucks have a container that is raised in the front and slides off the back of the truck onto the ground. When a loaded box is carried it can be unloaded like a dump truck. They commonly haul construction debris but refuse containers are also left at commercial sites. Rear-loading compactor bodies have a large hopper on the rear end. Typically a rear crew can load loose material, bins with assist, oversize pieces, and small containers. They are used for residential and light commercial pickup. Semi-tractor There are semi-tractor packages but the Granite was designed primarily as a straight truck. Snow plowing In the northern United States snow-plowing is a severe service that the Granite is suited for. The Granite has high ground clearances as designed, Mack has an increased frame height option to give under-truck blades even more clearance. Reinforced front frame rail extensions are available. A number of cold-weather options include heated windshield, windows, mirrors, and mechanical components. Other uses The Granite can also be built to custom designs for most local heavy-duty applications. Vocational, utility, heavy delivery, any application that needs a strong chassis. Gallery References External links Mack index page with links at TrucksPlanet.com Mack Granite product page Granite Class 8 trucks Vehicles introduced in 2001
Calluga is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. Species Calluga cissocosma (Turner, 1904) Calluga costalis (Moore, 1887) Calluga crassitibia (Warren 1901) Calluga grammophora Prout, 1958 Calluga longispinata (Warren, 1907) Calluga lophoceras Prout, 1931 Calluga miantosoma (Warren, 1907) Calluga pallidipunctata (Warren, 1907) Calluga psaphara Prout, 1929 Calluga punctinervis (Holloway, 1976) Calluga purpureoviridis (Warren, 1903) Calluga semirasata (Warren, 1903) Calluga variotincta (Warren, 1907) References External links Gunathilagaraj Kandasamy (2016). Checklist of Indian Geometridae with FBI number.docx. - Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Eupitheciini Geometridae genera
Kristen Rohlfs (13 May 1930 in Humptrup – 10 December 2017) was a professor for astrophysics. He taught astronomy at the University of Bochum from 1974 to 1995. Literature Tools of Radio Astronomy. 1986 References 1930 births 2017 deaths 20th-century German astronomers Academic staff of Ruhr University Bochum People from Nordfriesland
The Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Eastern Europe is an Ordinariate (quasi-diocese) of the Armenian Catholic Church (Eastern Catholic, Armenian Rite in Armenian language) for its faithful in certain Eastern European ex-Soviet countries without proper Ordinary for their particular church sui iuris. It is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See (notably the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches), not part of any ecclesiastical province. History Between 1720 and 1760 large communities of Armenian Catholic refugees from Turkey and Persia settled in the territory of the North Caucasus. The flow of Armenian immigrants to Christian Russia increased with the Armenian genocide executed by the Turkish authorities, especially since the late nineteenth century. Some of the faithful were able to take refuge in southern Armenia and Georgia. From 1907 in Krasnodar there was a special vicar for priests of the Armenian Catholic rite. In 1760 the Catholics in Astrakhan were 1/5 of the population of the city and they had a parish. Armenian Catholic communities were established in Astrakhan, Voronezh, Penza, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Samara and Tsaritsyn. Another region of mass residence of Armenian Catholics was Georgia, in Ajaltsije, Ajalkalaki, Bogdanovsky and Chirac. In 1848 the Diocese of Tiraspol was created with headquarters in Saratov, to which the Armenian Catholic parishes were added in Russian territory as a dean. In 1850 Pope Pius IX established an Armenian eparchy of Artvin for the Catholic Armenian faithful of the Ottoman Empire and Russia. In 1878 Russia occupied all the territory of this eparchy and, by decision of the authorities, subjected its parishes to the Latin eparchy of Tiraspol. However, this situation was not recognized by Rome until 1912, but the eparchy of Artvin formally continued to exist until 1972. In 1909 the pope appointed Sarkis Der Aprahamian as apostolic administrator for Armenian Catholics, as a formal part of Artvin's non-existent eparchy. In the 7 ecclesiastical districts of the administration there were 86 parishes: Alexandropol or Gyumri (16 parishes), Lori (6 parishes), Ajalkalaki (12 parishes), Ajaltsije (17 parishes), Artvin (17 parishes), Karin (12 parishes) and Crimea (6 parishes). The current Armenian Catholic community in the Caucasus and southern Russia and Ukraine arose during the Armenian emigration from Turkey after the peace treaties at the end of the First World War. With the fall of the communist regime, which had almost suppressed the Armenian Catholic Church in the Soviet Union, on 13 July 1991, Pope John Paul II established the Ordinariate for the faithful of the Armenian rite who live in countries of Eastern Europe (except Poland, Romania and Greece) for Armenian Catholics in the former Soviet republics of Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. The priest of the Mekhitarist Order, Nerses Der Nersessian, was appointed first ordinary and consecrated bishop on 17 November 1992. Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Lviv and its incorporation to ordinariate In 1630 in Lviv the Armenian Apostolic Archbishop Mikołaj Torosowicz united his Church with the Catholic Church and received the Metropolitan title of Archbishop of Poland, Moldavia and Wallachia of the Armenian Archdiocese of Lviv. It existed until its suppression by the Soviet communist authorities in 1945 in the areas of western Ukraine that had belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and were annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of the Second World War. The faithful were transferred to Siberia or took refuge in Poland and the bishop died in prison. After the end of communism the archeparchy was not revived - although it was not suppressed, its cathedral of the Assumption of Mary was delivered by the Government to the Armenian Apostolic Church and its territory incorporated into the Ordinariate. Territory and statistics The ordinariate includes the jurisdiction over all Armenian Catholics in Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. The Cathedral of the Holy Martyrs in Gyumri, northwest of Armenia, is the cathedral episcopal see of the ordinariate. In Russia, the faithful of the Armenian Catholic Church live mainly in the southern regions of the country and in large cities: Pskov, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar, Sochi, Irkutsk, Omsk, Ulan Ude and Chita. Because of the lack of their own Armenian Catholic hierarchy and clergymen, the faithful of the Armenian Catholic Church mostly visit the Latin parishes. In every Latin eparchies of Russia, there are clergymen (mostly Armenians) who are ordained by the Ordinariate of Eastern Europe with jurisdiction over the faithful of the Armenian Catholic Church residing in these Latin dioceses. In Moscow there is the "Parish of St. Grigor the Illuminator", whose services are performed in the Latin Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. Also in Ukraine, due to the smallness of the Armenian clergy, the communities are often entrusted to the Latin-rite clergy. In Georgia there is the parish of Saint Gregory the Illuminator in Tbilisi. In 2016, there were 618,000 believers in 44 parishes. Especially in Russia and Ukraine, the faithful are entrusted to the Latin priests because of their small number. Ordinaries Ordinaries of East Europe (Armenian Rite) Nerses Der Nersessian, C.A.M. (1991.07.13 – 2005.04.02), Archbishop ad personam (1991.07.13 – 1992.07.09), then (also emeritate) Titular Archbishop of Sebaste of the Armenians (1992.07.09 – death 2006.12.24) Coadjutor Ordinary Vartan Kechichian, C.A.M. (2001.02.17 – 2005.04.02) Neshan Karakéhéyan, I.C.P.B. (2005.04.02 – 2010.01.06), Titular Archbishop of Adana of the Armenians (2005.04.02 – death 2021.02.15) Apostolic Administrator Father Vahan Ohanian, C.A.M. (2010.01.06 – 2011.06.24) Raphaël François Minassian, I.C.P.B. (2011.06.24 – 2021.09.23), Titular Archbishop of Cesarea in Cappadocia of the Armenians (2011.06.24 – 2021.09.23) Apostolic Administrator Father Mikael Bassalé, I.C.P.B. (since 2022.05.17) See also List of Catholic dioceses (structured view) References Sources and external links Official website Older site GCatholic with incumbent bio links Catholic-hierarchy.org armeniancatholic.org Armenian Catholics of Russia Eastern Europe Catholic Church in Armenia Catholic Church in Ukraine Catholic Church in Russia Eastern Catholicism in Armenia Catholic Church in Georgia (country) Eastern Catholicism in Russia Eastern Catholicism in Ukraine Ordinariates for Eastern Catholic faithful Shirak Province
Taiye Lake or Taiye Pond was an artificial lake in imperial City, Beijing during the Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties of China. The beauty and utility of the lake was responsible for the siting of Kublai Khan's palace and the position of modern Beijing. It continues to exist but it is now known separately as the North, Central, and South Seas, the three interconnected lakes just west of the Forbidden City in downtown Beijing. The northern lake makes up the public Beihai Park while the southern two are grouped together as Zhongnanhai, the headquarters for the Communist leadership of the People's Republic of China. Taiye Lake was immortalized in the early 1410s when the Yongle Emperor commissioned The Eight Views of Beijing (), recording the capital's chief sites in poetry and painting in order to legitimize his removal of the imperial capital away from Nanking. It is best remembered in China today from the scene of "Clear Waves at Taiye Lake" (, Tàiyè Qíngbō). Name The literal meaning of the Chinese characters is "Great Liquid Pool" or "Great Liquid Pond". Prior to the Taiye Lake watershed system in Beijing that still exists today known as North, Central and South Seas, the name "Taiye" had honored several lakes in imperial gardens or palaces in various locations that once served as capital cities of imperial China. An early example of Taiye Lake is located in the city of Xi'an. Two lakes named Taiye existed in Xi'an (known as Chang'an). The earlier Taiye Lake was excavated in the Han dynasty by the Emperor Wu in the 1st century BC as part of his Jianzhang Palace (, Jiànzhānggōng). This lake, along with the Kunming Lake, was a necessary addition to the city's water supply after the expansion of the capital city under Emperor Wu's reign. The second Taiye Lake in Xi'an was excavated in the Tang dynasty by the Emperor Taizong next to his father's Daming Palace, after the capital had been relocated several miles northward due to the growing salinity of the water source at the original site. There are older Taiye Lakes in Beijing, too. In 1151, Beijing (known as Zhongdu) became the capital city of the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty. The emperor Wanyan Liang ordered to rebuild Beijing in style of Kaifeng, the former capital city of Song dynasty in the south. During the reconstruction of Beijing, a Taiye Lake was built near the palace of Jurchens. The relic of this Taiye Lake is in today's Xicheng district outside of the southwestern second ring road and roughly near the Guang'an Gate of Beijing in later dynasties. The still-existing Taiye Lakes in Beijing were first created in the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty when Beijing was reconstructed as Khanbaliq (Dadu) after the previous Beijing city had been seriously damaged during the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty. History The lake was first constructed as part of the Jinshui River canal system under the Emperor Zhangzong of Jin. Although still within the limits of modern Beijing, the Jin capital of Zhongdu was located well south of the site, in a separate watershed. Zhangzong constructed the Daning Palace (t , s , Dànínggōng, lit. "Palace of Great Peace") beside the new lake in 1179. During the Yuan dynasty, the ruined site of Zhongdu and its more meager water sources were abandoned in favor of the Gaoliang watershed. The imperial engineers Liu Bingzhong and Guo Shoujing directed the construction of the new Imperial City of Khanbaliq (Marco Polo's Cambaluc & the Chinese Dadu) around Zhangzong's former palace and Lake Taiye, which was an important part of the capital's water supply. The lake was expanded until it covered the area of the present northern and central "seas" and three palaces were built around it. The purity of the reservoir was protected by law: from its source at a spring on Yuquan Mountain to Lake Taiye, the Jinshui was given separate passes where it crossed other streams and commoners were forbidden to bathe, wash clothes, water livestock, or dump trash along its course. Under the Ming dynasty, construction on the present-day Forbidden City began in AD 1406 as part of the Yongle Emperor's relocation of the capital away from Nanjing. The new palace was south of the former Yuan one and the Taiye was expanded south along with it. The soil excavated from the lake and the fortress's moat were piled up to the palace's north to form the Mountain of Long Life (now known as Jingshan), burying the former Yuan site and improving the fengshui of the new one. The lake now comprised the three present-day "seas", which were divided by bridges, but continued to be known collectively as Taiye. The grounds were known as the Xiyuan or (, Xīyuàn) and the Jiajing Emperor and others retreated to it to escape life at court. After the establishment of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in the 17th century, the new government reduced the extensive Ming-era parks around the lake, enclosed the smaller present-day area within walls attached to the imperial palace, and began calling the separate sections by their modern names. Successive emperors built pavilions and houses along the lake shore, where they held court during the summer. See also Beihai Park Zhongnanhai History of Beijing Chinese gardening References Chinese architectural history Parks in Beijing Lakes of China Bodies of water of Beijing
Radamel Enrique García King (16 April 1957 – 3 January 2019) was a Colombian footballer who played as a defender. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He was the father of Colombian international, Radamel Falcao García. He died on 3 January 2019, aged 61. References External links 1957 births 2019 deaths Men's association football central defenders Colombian men's footballers Colombia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Colombia Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Footballers from Santa Marta Footballers from Magdalena Department Falcao Garcia family
Jargalan may refer to: Jargalan Rural District, in Iran Jargalant, Bayankhongor, in Mongolia Jargal (disambiguation) Jargalant (disambiguation)
Ernest Moutoussamy, born 7 November 1941 at Saint-François (Guadeloupe), is a French politician from a family of Indian origin with ancestral roots from the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Political career The literature teacher was elected to the Communist Party of Guadeloupe (PCG) in 1981, and re-elected in 1986 and the French legislative elections of 1988. In 1991, he left in office to establish the PCR with other dissidents, remaining member of the Democratic Progressive Party of Guadeloupe (PPDG) for which he was elected in 1993 and the French legislative elections of 1997. In 2002 and 2007, he was defeated by Gabrielle Louis-Carabin (UMP). Ernest Moutoussamy was also mayor of Saint-François from 1989 to 2008 and was Vice President of Regional Council of Guadeloupe. In the 1994 European elections in France, he was the head of a list of the Rally of Outremer. Publications Essays and Studies Guadeloupe – The communist movement and its members under the Fourth Republic, L'Harmattan, 1986, Guadeloupe and its Indianness, Caribbean Publishing Collection bias, 1987, DOM-TOM geopolitical issue, economically and strategically, L'Harmattan, 1988, A danger to the overseas territories: the integration to the European market in 1992, L'Harmattan, 1988, Aimé Cesaire, a member of the National Assembly 1945–1993, L'Harmattan, 1993, The overseas under the presidency of François Mitterrand, L'Harmattan, 1996, Inventing employment overseas, L'Harmattan, 1997, Members of French India in the National Assembly under the Fourth Republic, L'Harmattan, 2003, (overview) , (Meaning of the Indian names of Guadeloupe), L'Harmattan, 2009, , (India-Guadeloupe: Tribute to memory), Éditions Jasor, 2016, , Poetry Scars, Caribbean Publishing, Presence African Book, 1985 In search of India lost, L'Harmattan, 2004, Islands, kisses the earth god, L'Harmattan, 2006, Novels He cries in my country, Desormeaux, 1979 Aurore, L'Harmattan, 1987 Chacha and Sosso, L'Harmattan, 1994 , (In the light of the alphabet: or the fight of the children of the sugar cane fields), L'Harmattan, 2016, , External links Official website of Ernest Moutoussamy Ernest MOUTOUSSAMY Ernest Moutoussamy’s Aurore and the Construction of a Split-level Home The Indian achiever from Guadeloupe 1941 births Guadeloupean communists Guadeloupean people of Indian descent Guadeloupean people of Tamil descent Guadeloupean politicians Living people French people of Indian descent
Belsize Wood is a 0.7 hectare Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade II, in Belsize Park in the London Borough of Camden. It is a steeply sloping site divided into a northern half, which is always open to the public and is of lesser ecological value, and a southern part which is in a better state of conservation, and which is only open at weekends. The two halves are separated by a public footpath between Lawn Road and Aspern Grove. The site is owned and managed by Camden Council. History A railway tunnel runs under the site, built by the Midland Railway Company, which owned the site in the 1860s, and there is a railway ventilation shaft in the north west corner. From 1948 British Railways leased the land for various uses, including tennis courts and nursery gardens. In 1971 Camden Council acquired the land, and in the 1980s built the Russell Nurseries housing estate on the western part, leaving the eastern part undeveloped to become the nature reserve. The Grade I listed 1934 modernist Isokon Flats is adjacent to the site in Lawn Road. In 1938, the modernist landscape architect Christopher Tunnard developed the part closest to the building into a path and added plants. Wildlife The site is deeply shaded and has a rich variety of species, especially of insects. The understorey is dominated hawthorn and elder, and the most common canopy trees are ash, sycamore and Swedish whitebeam. Ground level plants include butcher's-broom, enchanter's-nightshade and nettles. A number of common birds nest there. See also List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Greater London References Nature reserves in the London Borough of Camden Local nature reserves in Greater London Belsize Park
Klank, also stylized as kLaNk or KLANK, is an American industrial metal band that originated out of Long Island, New York in December 1993. The project began after Daren Diolosa, the brainchild of Klank, departed from the fellow industrial band Circle of Dust. Diolosa carried the project as a solo project until around 1997, when he began performing live. Following the live performances, Pat Servedio joined as a full-time member, with Diolosa and Servedio joining as a team. The band would go through many members, eventually settling on the lineup of Diolosa, Servedio, and former Every Day Life drummer Eric Wilkins. History Klank began in December 1993, following Circle of Dust's Klayton disbanding the live lineup of the band, which included Daren Diolosa, nicknamed Klank. Klank began writing his own solo material from there, eventually debuting with "Animosity". The song would be released via R.E.X. Records on two compilations. In 1995, Klank signed with Tooth & Nail Records and began to work on the project's debut album, Still Suffering. To prove his dedication to working hard, Diolosa signed his contract in his own blood. With the production of the album, Diolosa reunited with his former Circle of Dust bandmate Klayton, as well as Buka of Argyle Park. Diolosa had been featured on Argyle Park's debut album, Misguided, which also featured Mark Salomon (ex-The Crucified, Stavesacre), Jeff Bellew (ex-The Crucified, Stavesacre, Chatterbox), Tommy Victor (Prong), Jyro Xhan (Mortal), Dirk Lemmenes (ex-Focused, Stavesacre), and several others. The album came out through the label and by 1997, the project began to tour with a lineup of Diolosa on vocals, guitars, and keyboards, with Every Day Life members Mike Niosea on guitars, Carl Weaver on guitars, and Eric Wilkins on drums. In 1999, the band recorded their sophomore album, Numb, which featured an entirely new lineup, including Danny "Ducci" Owsley on guitars, John Zaletel on drums, and Pat Servedio on guitars, bass, and programming. The album was the first release under Klank's new label, SmokeDogg Productions, and was also released on Progressive Arts Music. The album would later be re-released under the title of NUMB...Reborn. According to Klank, "Ducci" joined the band by recommendation of Bryan Gray, who had filled in with the band who Diolosa had worked with in The Blamed and Six Feet Deep. Diolosa met Ducci by Gray and would ask him to join. Ducci would just graduate from school before going on tour the next day. By the end of 2001, the band would embark on hiatus. Diolosa would go to work for Ringling Brothers Circus as a transportation manager. In 2007, In Memory Of..., was released via SmokeDogg Productions, once more. The EP featured six new songs and several older songs. With the release of the EP, the band was revitalized, consisting of Diolosa, Servedio, Owsley, Zaletel, and new bassist Charlie Parker. However, by 2010, the band consisted of Diolosa, Servedio, and a returning Eric Wilkins. The same year, Numb was re-released as Numb...Reborn, which featured several new songs, featuring Mike Phillips (ex-Deliverance, ex-The Sacrificed) Larry Farkas (Vengeance Rising, Die Happy, Once Dead) and Jim Chaffin (ex-The Crucified, Deliverance, the Blamed). In 2012, the band released Urban Warfare. The album featured a guest spot for Doug Pinnick of King's X, who Diolosa had been friends with for many years. V13.net gave the album a review, stating that "At the end of the day I feel Urban Warfare is the best Klank effort to date; they have virtually perfected their brand of infectiously-catchy, insanely groovy metal." In 2017, Klank released their fifth studio album, Rise. The album was very well received, with Ilker Yücel of Regen Magazine writing "For this, RISE may be KLANK's most arresting album to date, and one that this writer imagines will be very difficult for the band to top in the future." and Bruce Moore of V13.net writing "All things considered, I think this is my favorite Klank release since their debut, Still Suffering. All nine tracks flow well and I really enjoyed listening to the entire package. No fillers to be found here, just good, honest, groove-infused industrial metal." During that same year, Klank would also record the score for a documentary created by Bruce Moore, who apparently was a longtime friend of his, titled Metal Missionaries, which would feature bands in the Christian metal genre, including Vials of Wrath, A Hill to Die Upon, Frost Like Ashes, BoughtXBlood, and Antidemon. Members Current Daren "Klank" Diolosa – vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, programming (1993–2001, 2007–present) Pat Servedio – guitars, bass, keyboards, programming (1997–2001, 2007–present) Former Eric Wilkins – drums (1997 [live], 2010–2018) Danny "Ducci" Owsley – guitars (1997–2001, 2007–2010) Charlie Parker – bass (2007–2010) John Zaletel – drums (1997–2001, 2007–2010) Ray Scheuring - drums (1999 [live]) Bryan Gray – guitars (1997) Live Mike Nicosia – guitars (1997) Carl Weaver - guitars (1997) Discography Studio albums Still Suffering (1995) Numb (1999) In Memory Of... (2007) Numb...Reborn (2010) Urban Warfare (2012) Rise (2017) Between Unholy and Divine, Vol. 1 (2022) Between Unholy and Divine, Vol. 2 (2023) EPs Downside (1997) Musical Scores Metal Missionaries (The Score) (2017) Metal Health: An Instrumental Musical Journey (2019) Compilation appearances Demo-lition II (1994, R.E.X. Records) – "Animosity (demo)" Can You Dig It? III (1994, R.E.X. Records) – "Animosity (demo)" Sweet Family Music: A Tribute to Stryper (1996, Flying Tart Records) – "The Way" (cover of Stryper) Tooth & Nail Records Sampler Vol. 3 (1996, Tooth & Nail Records) - "Downside" Songs from the Penalty Box (1997, Tooth & Nail Records) - "Downside" 4th Anniversary Box Set (1997, Tooth & Nail Records) - "Downside" Audiomata 1.0 (1999, Flaming Fish Music) - "Blind" Runnin' With the Devil - a Tribute to Van Halen (2000, Progressive Arts Music) – "I'll Wait" (cover of Van Halen) The Classics Hard (2004, Tooth & Nail Records) - "Downside" References External links Musical groups established in 1993 Musical groups disestablished in 2001 Musical groups reestablished in 2007 Tooth & Nail Records artists Heavy metal musical groups from New York (state) American industrial metal musical groups American groove metal musical groups
Ten Mile Creek is a stream in Macon and Shelby counties of Missouri. It is a tributary of the North Fork Salt River. The headwaters of the stream are at and the confluence with the North Fork Salt River is at . The source area for the stream is in eastern Macon County east of Missouri Route K between Ten Mile and Redman. The stream flows east-southeast and is impounded in western Shelby County as Daniel Boone Lake north of Clarence on U.S. Route 36. The stream passes under Missouri Route 151 below the dam and continues to the east for about five miles to its confluence with the North Fork. Ten Mile Creek was so named on account of its length, approximately . See also List of rivers of Missouri References Rivers of Macon County, Missouri Rivers of Shelby County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri
The 1937 Washington and Lee Generals football team was an American football team that represented Washington and Lee University during the 1937 college football season as a member of the Southern Conference. In their fifth year under head coach Warren E. Tilson, the team compiled an overall record of 4–5, with a mark of 2–3 in conference play. Schedule References Washington and Lee Washington and Lee Generals football seasons Washington and Lee Generals football
The Coleman-Franklin-Cannon Mill is a historic industrial complex at 625 Main Street SW in Concord, North Carolina. The recognized complex consists of ten buildings on , about west of downtown Concord. Another 4.4 acres are not included. The oldest portion of the mill, now its eastern section, is a brick two-story structure 14 bays long and 9 deep. The historic site also includes some worker housing. The mill was built in 1898 by the Coleman Manufacturing Company, owned by Warren Clay Coleman, an African-American businessman of Concord, with a nine-man board made up of seven other African-American partners and one white. He needed more investment when nationwide subscriptions to purchase stock fell short. Washington Duke, a white tobacco magnate from Durham, contributed $1000, and made two $10,000 loans, which aided the company in constructing the mill and beginning operations. Coleman hired white contractors and African-American crews. Builder Adolphus Henry Propst and brick maker and mason Rufus A. Brown led these crews in the construction. At one point Coleman paid the workers in stock in the company, but they demanded cash to finish the project. Coleman announced that he would hire only African-American workers, and sparked a national discussion. The New York Times suggested that he might open the door for the hiring of more African Americans in the textile industry, where mill workers were generally restricted to whites. Some people worried that this would depress wages for whites, as blacks were paid less. Others were more worried about potential child labor laws under discussion. Coleman was under-capitalized and struggled financially in an economic depression, at a time when all mill owners faced rising prices of cotton. Coleman's death in 1904 further weakened his company. Benjamin Duke initially bought the mill because of outstanding debt. Later it was sold and used by other textile companies. Franklin Cotton Mills made changes and additions in 1912 that doubled it in size, adding on to the west side and removing the west 1898 wall to make interior passage unimpeded. Other alterations and additions were made through the 1960s, sometimes for structural reasons. In the late 20th century, the mill was owned by Fieldcrest-Cannon, the last textile company to own it. During this period, major textile companies moved their jobs offshore to get cheaper labor costs, and the textile industry in the South virtually disappeared. In the 21st century the mill was sold; it has been adapted as a production facility for moonshine. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. The building housed North Carolina distillery Southern Grace Distillers, Inc., from 2014 to 2016. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Cabarrus County, North Carolina References Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Industrial buildings completed in 1898 Buildings and structures in Cabarrus County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Cabarrus County, North Carolina Cotton mills in the United States
This is a comparison of digital video recorder (DVR), also known as personal video recorder (PVR), software packages. Note: this is may be considered a comparison of DVB software, not all listed packages have recording capabilities. General information Basic general information for popular DVR software packages - not all actually record. Features Information about what common and prominent DVR features are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons unless stated otherwise): Video format support Information about what video codecs are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons) in the PVRs. Information about what video codecs are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons) in the PVRs. Network support Each features is in context of computer-to-computer interaction. All features must be available after the default install otherwise the feature needs a footnote. 1 Yes with registry change 2 Yes with retail third-party plugin 3 Yes with free supported third-party plugin 4 Yes with free unsupported third-party plugin 5 Yes with free third-party software Web Guide 4 6 Yes with add-on software called DVBLink Server 7 Yes with using symlinks, or just adding folders in settings TV tuner hardware TV gateway network tuner TV servers DVRs require TV tuner cards to receive signals. Many DVRs, as seen above, can use multiple tuners. HdHomerun has CableCARD Models (HDHomeRun Prime) and OTA Models (HDHomeRun Connect) that are networked TV Tuners See also List of free television software Comparison of video player software Home cinema Home theater PC (HTPC) Digital video recorder Hard disk recorder DVD recorder Quiet PC Media server Notes External links FLOSS Media Centers Comparison Chart PVR software packages Television technology Television time shifting technology
Sidneioides is a genus of colonial sea squirts, tunicates in the family Polyclinidae. Species The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species: Sidneioides ivicense Pérès, 1957 Sidneioides japonense Redikorzev, 1913 Sidneioides peregrinus Kremer et al., 2011 Sidneioides snamoti (Oka, 1927) Sidneioides tamaramae Kesteven, 1909 References Aplousobranchia Tunicate genera
Caribbean Spring also known as Bean (foaled 4 March 2013) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and social media sensation. Caribbean Spring is a bay gelding with a white star and was bred in Ireland. His dam Bogini won four races in Ireland and Britain as a two and three-year-old. His sire is Dark Angel, making him a half-brother to sprinter Battaash. He went into training with Dermot Weld on the Curragh and ran seven times in Ireland as a two-year-old. He was ridden on six occasions by Pat Smullen and once by Leigh Roche. His best placing was a fourth at Cork in October 2015. After his two-year-old season, Caribbean Spring was sold by owner Ronan Lambe at Tattersalls. Bought by a syndicate for 9,000 guineas, he joined the yard of trainer George Margarson at Graham Lodge in Newmarket. The syndicate disappeared without paying for him, but the Margarson family decided to keep him. His first race in Britain was at Yarmouth in June 2016, where he was ridden by apprentice jockey Jane Elliott. His first win came on 3 May 2017 when, ridden by Elliott, he beat the favourite by a short head to win an apprentice handicap on the all-weather track at Wolverhampton. The pair went on to win another two races back-to-back at Wolverhampton the following season, with trainer George Margarson saying: "We thought we were going to win two or three with him last year, but he has probably taken a bit more time to develop mentally – Jane has learned how to ride him though". Trainer's daughter and amateur jockey Rosie Margarson secured a win with Caribbean Spring on the all-weather track at Southwell in November 2018. Four days earlier they had won a charity race (not under rules) at Ascot in aid of The Prince's Countryside Fund. Caribbean Spring ran only three times in 2020, winning at Chelmsford City with apprentice Georgia Dobie, and then coming second at Wolverhampton with Rosie Margarson and second at Chelmsford City with apprentice Georgia Cox. The following two years, 2021 and 2022, were disappointing, with Caribbean Spring only being placed once in thirteen starts. In October 2022 it was announced that he would be retiring from racing as he was developing arthritis in his legs, but would stay in training at Graham Lodge as a lead horse for the Margarson string. On 29 October 2022 he appeared for a farewell racecourse gallop with Rosie Margarson on Newmarket Racecourse at the end of the day's racing, accompanied by Tom Queally on stable-mate Ropey Guest (known as Chubby). Rosie Margarson rides Caribbean Spring out on Newmarket Heath and captures his antics on camera, posting them to Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. As of September 2021 they had nearly 6,000 followers on Twitter under the handle "@LifeOfBean", 25,000 on Instagram and 163,000 on TikTok. On the Newmarket gallops, Caribbean Spring is often accompanied by Ropey Guest (Chubby), 40/1 winner of the 2023 Clipper Handicap at York. During National Racehorse Week 2021 Caribbean Spring was selected to feature in the Racing Post in an article about the daily life of a veteran racehorse. He was described as "something of a social media sensation". References External links Caribbean Spring on Twitter Caribbean Spring on Instagram Caribbean Spring on TikTok George Margarson Racing 2013 racehorse births Thoroughbred racehorses Racehorses trained in the United Kingdom Racehorses trained in Ireland Racehorses bred in Ireland Animals on the Internet Irish Internet celebrities
Academy of Tucson is a public charter school in Tucson, Arizona. In 1986, it was founded as a private high school. It became a charter school in 1999 and added the elementary and middle schools in 2003. The school has three campuses; elementary, middle, and high school located on the East side of Tucson. Wendi Allardice is the district Superintendent. Academy of Tucson High School is consistently ranked as one of the best public high schools in the city by U.S. News & World Report. Academy of Tucson has an approximately 14:1 student to teacher ratio and a 100% graduation rate. References Public high schools in Arizona Charter schools in Arizona Public elementary schools in Arizona Public middle schools in Arizona Schools in Tucson, Arizona 1986 establishments in Arizona
The 2011 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship was the 38th edition of the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association's premier inter-county Ladies' Gaelic football tournament. It was known for sponsorship reasons as the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship. were the winners, defeating Monaghan in the final. Structure Sixteen teams compete. The top four teams from 2010 receive byes to the quarter-finals. The quarter-finalists from 2010 receive byes to the second round. The other eight teams play in the first round. All games are knockout matches, drawn games being replayed. The first-round losers playoff, with one team being relegated to the intermediate championship for 2012. Teams must spend two years as a senior team before they are eligible for relegation; teams that have not done so are exempt from relegation. Fixtures and results Early stages Final stages References !
Tiffany Monique Ryan is an American singer, songwriter, and background vocalist. She has performed as a background vocalist for Beyoncé as one of "The Mamas" since 2007. She is currently the Vocal Director and Lead Background Vocalist for the Renaissance World Tour and a member of Beyonce's background vocalist quartet, "Pure Honey". Tiffany released an EP, Nemesis in June 2010 and followed with various single releases in 2011 and 2016. She is an 8-year esophageal cancer survivor. Early life Monique was born to Martha Ann Marshall (née Johnson) and Jerry Lee Marshall in Hermitage, Tennessee. She was musically influenced at an early age by her aunt, Beverly, who was a singer, musician and a former backing vocalist for Chaka Khan. At the age of three, Monique sang her first church solo, "Soon and Very Soon", while still living in Tennessee. Following the divorce of her parents, Monique and her mother moved to Newark, New Jersey, to stay with her maternal grandparents. Shortly after arriving to New Jersey, Monique began attending Tabernacle Baptist Church in Newark and joined the children's choir. Monique attended Immaculate Conception High School in Montclair, New Jersey. There, she was an honor student, as well as a cheerleader, member of the track team and founder of the school's gospel choir. She graduated from Immaculate in 1995. After high school, Monique was awarded a full scholarship to Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, where she majored in music education. After a brief hiatus, Monique transferred to William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, in 2000, where she changed her major to Journalism and graduated in 2004. Background vocalist While attending Morgan State University, Monique was approached by a friend to join a local singing group, OnPoint. After agreeing to join the group, Monique performed with OnPoint from 1997 to 1999. OnPoint was featured on K-Ci & JoJo's "Fee Fie Foe Fum" Remix on MCA Records in 1998. The group disbanded in 1999 citing creative differences. Monique worked as an administrative assistant from 2002 to 2006 at a pharmaceutical company, while continuing to pursue music part time. During that period, she expanded her resume as a professional singer by performing as a backing vocalist for Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Regina Belle, and Jeff Fox. In March 2007, while working at the pharmaceutical company, Monique was contacted by Beyoncé's music director and asked to join the band for Beyoncé's upcoming tour, The Beyoncé Experience. Monique immediately resigned from the pharmaceutical company and joined the band. She has performed with Beyoncé & The Mamas for a total of seven tours, including the Beyoncé Experience Tour (2007), I Am...Sasha Fierce Tour (2009), the I Am... Yours performance in Las Vegas, Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, On The Run Tour and The Formation World Tour. She also performed with her for the 2013 Super Bowl halftime show and several other iconic performances. Monique became the assistant vocal arranger and lead background vocalist for Beyoncé in 2018. Since her promotion, she trained and arranged the choir that was assembled for Beyoncé's Coachella "Beychella" performances in Palm Springs, CA. She was also the lead background vocalist for Beyonce and Jay-Z's "On The Run 2" World Tour and performed as lead background vocalist and assistant vocal arranger with the singer for Kobe Bryant's memorial at the Staple Center in 2020. Tiffany was elevated to Vocal Director for the Renaissance World Tour in 2023 and performed as one of Beyonce's background vocalists, Pure Honey. As a veteran background vocalist for many recording artist, Tiffany's story as a background vocalist was highlighted in in 20 Feet From Stardom, which won Best Music Film in 2014 for the Grammy Awards and an Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature. Solo career Following the I Am...Sasha Fierce Tour, Monique began her career as a solo recording artist. She released the EP Nemesis" in June 2010, which featured five songs written by her and produced by her then friend and producer, Kwiz. In July of that same year, Monique released her first music video, "Nemesis", via YouTube and social media. She released her second single and video, "Anytime", the following year. Tiffany underwent a dramatic brand overhaul following the release of her debut EP, including an almost 100-lb weight loss. She became a spokespoerson for Sparkpeople and was also featured in the book Beyond Sugar Shock by Connie Bennett, which focused on persons who experienced improved health and fitness after conquering sugar addiction. In March 2016, in celebration of her 1-year cancer treatment anniversary, Monique released "Braving The Storm", with proceeds from the song being donated to the American Cancer Society. In September 2016, Tiffany's husband, producer/composer Kwiz, released a socially-charged album entitled Blacklight Chronicles, which featured Monique on two of its best performing songs: "Pushin' On" and "After Amen". In 2019, Monique's song "Nemesis", from her debut EP of the same title, regained success after being featured by the NBA during a James Harden highlight reel in March. Personal life Monique married Jeffery Riddick Jr. in July 2000 and they had a son together in 2005. They divorced in 2010. In September 2016, Monique married Kevin "Kwiz" Ryan, a music producer and composer, in Riviera Maya, Mexico. They are also joint owners of Rhythm 252 Music Group. She has spoken extensively about weight discrimination and obstacles she's encountered in the music industry as a plus-sized artist. In 2011, following some health concerns, she lost almost 100 pounds. In 2015, she was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and underwent extensive surgery as part of her treatment. She made a full recovery and celebrated five years cancer free on March 4, 2020. Discography Nemesis (EP) (2010) "I Feel A Spark" (single) (2011) "Braving The Storm" (single) (2016) Filmography References External links Tiffany Monique Official Website Tiffany Monique Instagram African-American women singer-songwriters American contemporary R&B singers 1977 births Living people Morgan State University alumni Singers from Nashville, Tennessee Singer-songwriters from New Jersey Singers from Newark, New Jersey 21st-century African-American women singers Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
Luxor 3 is an action-puzzle computer game released by MumboJumbo. It is a sequel to Luxor and Luxor 2. As with the other Luxor games, it maintains an Egyptian theme and revolves around Egyptian deities involving a main gameplay goal of removing spheres in various lines of spheres on a set track by exploding groups of three or more spheres. Gameplay The game remains similar to that in previous editions of Luxor: the main objective is to remove spheres of many different colors (ranging from four to nine different colors) from a track of spheres before they enter the pyramid at the end of a track. The lines of colored spheres are held by a scarab at the back end, and a set number of these sets must be cleared. Luxor 3 features canopic jars that show up in the middle of the game: they will show up multiple times in each level until it is collected by being shot at by a sphere. Collecting all of these in the first four classic mode levels of each stage will unlock a bonus level at the end of the stage. After a jar is collected in a level or if all four jars are collected for a stage, then the remainder of the level or stage, respectively, will have golden scarabs show up to be exploded as with the jars. The golden scarabs drop from three to six ankh coins depending on the game's difficulty level (Easy, Medium, Hard, Insane). At the bottom of the screen is a bar displaying the current statistics and active power-ups for a level. The Easy level does not have any scoring bonus, but the Medium, Hard, and Insane have the scoring bonus respectively (1.5X scoring bonus = Medium), (2X scoring bonus = Hard), (2.5X scoring bonus = Insane). Power-ups can be upgraded (in the length of time or size of impact) by purchasing such upgrades in the store. The unit of currency is Ankh coins, earned by collecting these coins as they fall in the middle of the game from large sphere explosions. Many power-ups can be upgraded up to four levels such as (Lightning Bolt, Fireball, Net, Slow, Speed Shot, Reverse, Stop, Color Cloud, Scorpion, Match Highlighter, and Pyramid Blocker). However, the power-ups like (Wild, Color Bomb, and more...) cannot be upgraded. The sphere sets can be selected from the default set to other threes; glass, wooden, and energy sphere sets. However, choosing different sphere sets will not change the appearance of the wild ball. Also, the ball shooter (winged scarab) can be changed too; there are three models from which to choose. The name of the wings are SCI-FI, Xtreme! and default selection. There are multiple gameplay modes available from the main menu: Adventure, Classic, Survival, Puzzle, and Onslaught modes. In Adventure mode, the main plot revolves around the evil Set wreaking havoc amongst the many Egyptian gods and goddesses. Each stage revolves around protecting a particular god or goddess and their power. The adventure mode is a total of 99 levels plus additional bonus levels. There are four difficulty levels. They are Easy, Medium, Hard, and Insane. Playing on harder difficulties earns more points. Sphere types There are ten sphere types in total (nine regular balls, plus a wild ball), each of which drops different power-ups (e.g., teal spheres always drop Color Sort) on third consecutive matches, but other than that, behaves the same for each other; they all spawn on the sphere shooter, they make a match and attracts to matching spheres. Wild spheres are the only special sphere in the game (but it does not spawn on the sphere train and is obtained after catching a Wild power-up; however, the game can be modded to spawn this sphere type) since it does not appear on the shooter. It matches and attracts to anything (and can destroy both sphere types at once). In addition, it can be destroyed by a Color Bomb of any color, and when hit with a Color Replacer, it replaces everything with the replacer's color. References External links 2007 video games Video games based on Egyptian mythology Video games developed in the United States Video games set in Egypt MacOS games Windows games Wii games MumboJumbo games Tile-matching video games
Cymothoe caprina is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Republic of the Congo and the south-central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. References Butterflies described in 1897 Cymothoe (butterfly) Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius
Croglio is a former municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. On 18 April 2021 the municipalities of Croglio, Monteggio, Ponte Tresa and Sessa merged to form Tresa. History Croglio is first mentioned in 1335 as burgus de Crolio. Geography Croglio had an area, , of . Of this area, or 20.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 70.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 1.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.5% of the area Out of the forested land, 63.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 6.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 8.7% is used for growing crops, while 4.6% is used for orchards or vine crops and 7.1% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Lugano district in the middle Malcantone valley. It consists of the settlements of Croglio, Castelrotto, Ronco, Madonna del Piano, Barico, Purasca and Biogno-Beride. Biogno and Beride were originally two independent municipalities with a shared administration. In 1907, they merged into a single municipality. In 1976 this municipality merged into Croglio. Between 1953-76 the municipality of Croglio was known as Croglio-Castelrotto. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a doorless castle gules and in chief a hazel branch with two hazels vert fruited or. Demographics Croglio had a population (as of 2019) of 849. , 15.3% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1997–2007) the population has changed at a rate of 4.9%. Most of the population () speaks Italian (80.7%), with German being second most common (14.1%) and French being third (2.3%). Of the Swiss national languages (), 122 speak German, 20 people speak French, 698 people speak Italian. The remainder (25 people) speak another language. , the gender distribution of the population was 47.5% male and 52.5% female. The population was made up of 341 Swiss men (40.1% of the population), and 63 (7.4%) non-Swiss men. There were 384 Swiss women (45.1%), and 63 (7.4%) non-Swiss women. In there were 8 live births to Swiss citizens and 3 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 10 deaths of Swiss citizens. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 2 while the foreign population increased by 3. There were 2 Swiss men who emigrated from Switzerland and 2 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 6 non-Swiss men and 2 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources, including moves across municipal borders) was an increase of 13 and the non-Swiss population change was a decrease of 4 people. This represents a population growth rate of 1.1%. The age distribution, , in Croglio is; 85 children or 10.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 74 teenagers or 8.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 77 people or 9.0% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 122 people or 14.3% are between 30 and 39, 126 people or 14.8% are between 40 and 49, and 96 people or 11.3% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 140 people or 16.5% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 88 people or 10.3% are between 70 and 79, there are 43 people or 5.1% who are over 80. , there were 372 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.2 persons per household. there were 278 single family homes (or 72.4% of the total) out of a total of 384 inhabited buildings. There were 60 two family buildings (15.6%) and 15 multi-family buildings (3.9%). There were also 31 buildings in the municipality that were multipurpose buildings (used for both housing and commercial or another purpose). The vacancy rate for the municipality, , was 0.39%. there were 479 apartments in the municipality. The most common apartment size was the 5 room apartment of which there were 153. There were 26 single room apartments and 153 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 371 apartments (77.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 102 apartments (21.3%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (1.3%) were empty. , the construction rate of new housing units was 1.2 new units per 1000 residents. The historical population is given in the following chart: Notable people Helmut Horten (1909 – 1987 in Croglio) a German entrepreneur who built up and owned the fourth-largest chain of department stores in Germany - Horten AG. Lived in Croglio from 1968 Sights The entire village of Castelrotto is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites Politics In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 30.42% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (22.46%), the SP (21.74%) and the Ticino League (9.78%). In the federal election, a total of 249 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 38.9%. In the Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 634 registered voters in Croglio, of which 315 or 49.7% voted. 1 blank ballot was cast, leaving 314 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PLRT which received 93 or 29.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the SSI (with 59 or 18.8%), the PPD+GenGiova (with 52 or 16.6%) and the PS (with 51 or 16.2%). In the Consiglio di Stato election, 2 null ballots were cast, leaving 313 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PLRT which received 86 or 27.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the PS (with 56 or 17.9%), the SSI (with 54 or 17.3%) and the PPD (with 51 or 16.3%). Economy , Croglio had an unemployment rate of 3.15%. , there were 30 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 331 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 23 businesses in this sector. 563 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 33 businesses in this sector. There were 426 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.1% of the workforce. , there were 764 workers who commuted into the municipality and 275 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 2.8 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving. About 38.6% of the workforce coming into Croglio are coming from outside Switzerland, while 0.7% of the locals commute out of Switzerland for work. Of the working population, 8% used public transportation to get to work, and 63.6% used a private car. , there were 2 hotels in Croglio. Religion From the , 623 or 72.0% were Roman Catholic, while 80 or 9.2% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. There are 129 individuals (or about 14.91% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), and 33 individuals (or about 3.82% of the population) did not answer the question. Education The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Croglio about 78.3% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either University or a Fachhochschule). In Croglio there were a total of 123 students (). The Ticino education system provides up to three years of non-mandatory kindergarten and in Croglio there were 26 children in kindergarten. The primary school program lasts for five years. In the municipality, 43 students attended the standard primary schools. In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education. There were 26 students in the two-year middle school, while 11 students were in the four-year advanced program. The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college. In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student). There were 8 vocational students who were attending school full-time and 7 who attend part-time. The professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields. There were 2 students in the professional program. , there were 6 students in Croglio who came from another municipality, while 81 residents attended schools outside the municipality. References External links Official website Cities in Switzerland Former municipalities of Ticino
Korakhai is a traditional Odia food, mainly served as a prasad in temples. It is a common food in the state of Odisha.Pilgrims offers Korakhai as a form of prasad to lord Lingaraj. It is also a form of caramelized Lia. Khai is also known by the name of Leeaa in western Odisha. Ingredients Khai Jaggery or Sugar Coconut Cardamom Preparation Caramelization: For caramelization add sugar or jaggery to water and let it melt for 10-15 minutes. Add Coconut pieces and cinnamon to it. Preparation of Kora: Add puffed rice to the caramelized solution and make balls for Muan or cut it into pieces for Khai. See also Chhena Poda Rasabali Rasagolla Chhena Gaja Kheersagar Chhena Kheeri Chhena jalebi List of Indian sweets and desserts Oriya cuisine References Odia cuisine Indian cuisine Foods containing coconut Rice dishes
The 1966–67 Egyptian Premier League, was the 17th season of the Egyptian Premier League, the top Egyptian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948. The season started on 30 September 1966 and concluded on 7 May 1967. Ismaily managed to win the league for the first time in the club's history. League table (C)= Champion, (R)= Relegated, Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; ± = Goal difference; Pts = Points. Top goalscorers Teams References External links All Egyptian Competitions Info 6 1966–67 in African association football leagues 1966–67 in Egyptian football
The Battle of Lopate () took place in 1796 between Montenegro and the Ottoman Empire near Lopate. Using Mahmut-pasha Bushatli's attack on Montenegro (see Battle of Krusi), Ottoman forces from Nikšić, Kolašin, Bihor, Bijelo Polje, Gusinje; likewise from Foča, Gacko, Stolac, Blagaj, Nevesinje, Trebinje and Korjenići; began advancing to the Montenegrin border. In early October 1796, when the Battle of Krusi occurred, a unit was organized, consisting of the soldiers from the mentioned towns. This unit attacked the mountains of Morača (Mount Lopatice, near Lopate) against the tribespeople of Trebjesa, Morača and Rovci. The unit suffered noticeable casualties. According to available sources, both sides lost about forty people. See also Battle of Martinići Battle of Krusi References Lopate Lopeta Lopate Lopate 1796 in Europe 1796 in the Ottoman Empire Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro Lopate
Zyryanka () is the name of several places in Russia. Urban localities Zyryanka, an urban-type settlement in the Verkhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic Rural localities Zyryanka, Kemerovo Oblast, a village in Akatsiyevskaya Rural Territory of Tyazhinsky District of Kemerovo Oblast Zyryanka, Krasnoyarsk Krai, a village in Kurbatovsky Selsoviet of Kazachinsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai Zyryanka, Kataysky District, Kurgan Oblast, a selo in Zyryansky Selsoviet of Kataysky District of Kurgan Oblast Zyryanka, Yurgamyshsky District, Kurgan Oblast, a settlement in Chineyevsky Selsoviet of Yurgamyshsky District of Kurgan Oblast Zyryanka, Novosibirsk Oblast, a settlement in Chulymsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast Zyryanka, Ishimsky District, Tyumen Oblast, a village in Strekhninsky Rural Okrug of Ishimsky District of Tyumen Oblast Zyryanka, Tyumensky District, Tyumen Oblast, a village in Uspensky Rural Okrug of Tyumensky District of Tyumen Oblast Rivers Zyryanka (river), a tributary of the Kolyma in Sakha
```java /* * * * path_to_url * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the / package org.hongxi.whatsmars.netty.discard; import io.netty.bootstrap.ServerBootstrap; import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture; import io.netty.channel.ChannelInitializer; import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline; import io.netty.channel.EventLoopGroup; import io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoopGroup; import io.netty.channel.socket.SocketChannel; import io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioServerSocketChannel; import io.netty.handler.logging.LogLevel; import io.netty.handler.logging.LoggingHandler; import io.netty.handler.ssl.SslContext; import io.netty.handler.ssl.SslContextBuilder; import io.netty.handler.ssl.util.SelfSignedCertificate; /* * Discards any incoming data. */ public final class DiscardServer { static final boolean SSL = System.getProperty("ssl") != null; static final int PORT = Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty("port", "8009")); public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { // Configure SSL. final SslContext sslCtx; if (SSL) { SelfSignedCertificate ssc = new SelfSignedCertificate(); sslCtx = SslContextBuilder.forServer(ssc.certificate(), ssc.privateKey()).build(); } else { sslCtx = null; } EventLoopGroup bossGroup = new NioEventLoopGroup(1); EventLoopGroup workerGroup = new NioEventLoopGroup(); try { ServerBootstrap b = new ServerBootstrap(); b.group(bossGroup, workerGroup) .channel(NioServerSocketChannel.class) .handler(new LoggingHandler(LogLevel.INFO)) .childHandler(new ChannelInitializer<SocketChannel>() { @Override public void initChannel(SocketChannel ch) { ChannelPipeline p = ch.pipeline(); if (sslCtx != null) { p.addLast(sslCtx.newHandler(ch.alloc())); } p.addLast(new DiscardServerHandler()); } }); // Bind and start to accept incoming connections. ChannelFuture f = b.bind(PORT).sync(); // Wait until the server socket is closed. // In this example, this does not happen, but you can do that to gracefully // shut down your server. f.channel().closeFuture().sync(); } finally { workerGroup.shutdownGracefully(); bossGroup.shutdownGracefully(); } } } ```
India competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Archery In India's second appearance in Olympic archery, the nation was represented by three men. Athletics Badminton Boxing Field Hockey Team Roster (01.) Anjaparavanda Subbaiah (gk) (02.) Cheppudira Poonacha (03.) Jagdaev Rai (04.) Harpeet Singh (05.) Sukhjit Singh (06.) Shakeel Ahmed (07.) Mukesh Kumar (08.) Jude Felix (09.) Jagbir Singh (10.) Dhanraj Pillay (11.) Didar Singh (12.) Ashish Ballal (gk) (13.) Pargat Singh (captain) (14.) Ravi Nayakar (15.) Darryl d’Souza (16.) Ajit Lakra Preliminary round Group A Classification matches 5–8th place semi-finals 7th Place Game Judo Sailing Shooting Table Tennis Tennis Weightlifting Wrestling 4 wrestlers in Men's Freestyle and 2 in Men's Greco Roman has represented India in the 1992 Summer Olympics. References Nations at the 1992 Summer Olympics 1992
The Perth Track Classic is an annual outdoor track and field meeting held in February or March at the Western Australian Athletics Stadium in Perth, Western Australia. It is part of the national Australian Athletics Tour. Meet Records Men Women References Annual track and field meetings Athletics competitions in Australia
Lead! Heat! Beat! (stylized as LEAD! HEAT! BEAT!) is the third studio album by Japanese hip-hop group Lead. The album ranked No. 15 on Oricon and remained on the charts for four weeks. The album was released on August 10, 2005, nearly a year since their previous album, Brand New Era, and held three preceding singles: Tenohira wo Taiyou ni/Delighted, Atarashii Kisetsu e and Baby Running Wild. Information Lead! Heat! Beat! is the third studio album by four member Japanese hip-hop dance group Lead. The album took the No. 15 spot on the weekly Oricon Albums Charts and remained on the charts for four consecutive weeks. It was released a year after their previous album, Brand New Era, which had been released at the end of August 2004. Prior to its release, the album garnered three singles: the double a-side Tenohira wo Taiyou ni/Delighted, the spring ballad Atarashii Kisetsu e and the summer pop song Baby Running Wild. As with their previous albums, the album was only released as a standard CD, not carrying a CD+DVD counterpart. Instead, the music videos were later placed on their third compilation DVD Movies 3, which was released three years later on August 6, 2008. Unlike their previous albums, Lead! Heat! Beat! was not given a limited edition version. It became their first album to contain both a prelude and an outro, which were different renditions of "Rock the House!!". Along with the new tracks on the album, it also included a remix of "Baby Running Wild" as track #15. On December 7, 2005, they would release their second concert DVD, which corresponding with the album: Lead Live Tour Upturn 2005. Track listing Charts References External links Lead Official 2005 albums Pony Canyon albums Lead (band) albums Lead (band) songs
René Mangold (born 7 December 1963) is a Swiss track and field athlete and bobsledder. Track and field Active since 1972, Mangold's peak performances came in 1988, when he became Swiss champion in the 100 metre and 200 metre sprint competitions and finished second in the long jump competition. He won the 100m competition with a time of 10.58sec, and the 200 metres in 21.46sec. Bobsleigh He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1989 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo. References Living people Swiss male sprinters Swiss male long jumpers Swiss male bobsledders 1963 births
Events from the year 1759 in Russia Incumbents Monarch – Elizabeth Events Page Corps Births Deaths References 1759 in Russia Years of the 18th century in the Russian Empire 1759 by country
"May the Force Be with You Always" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall. It was released in November 1977 as the lead single from the album, New Train Same Rider. The song peaked at number 13 on the U.S. country singles chart and at number 5 on the Canadian country singles chart. Chart performance References 1977 singles Tom T. Hall songs Songs written by Tom T. Hall 1977 songs RCA Records singles
· The 2017 Social Democratic Party of Finland leadership election was held on 4 February 2017. 495 voting attendees of the 45th Social Democratic party convention, held in Lahti, elected the incumbent chair Antti Rinne for a second term as the chair of Social Democratic Party. MP Timo Harakka finished second and MP Tytti Tuppurainen finished third. Results References Political party leadership elections in Finland 2017 in Finland Social Democratic Party of Finland leadership election
Mueller is a Planned Unit Development (PUD) in the east-central portion of the city of Austin, Texas, United States. The project is in the process of long-term development on the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, which was closed in 1999 upon the opening of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in southeast Austin, itself a civilian adaptation of Bergstrom Air Force Base after its closure in the early 1990s. Mueller is intended to be a pedestrian-oriented, interactive mixed-use community and a model for responsible urban planning and development. About The community is being developed by Catellus, whose parent company was ProLogis. Per the developer, the value of the Mueller development upon completion will be $1.3 billion, and will comprise 4.2 million square feet of non-residential development, 650,000 square feet of retail space, 4,600 homes, and 140 acres of open space. An estimated 10,000 permanent jobs within the development will have been created by the time it is complete. The Mueller Master Plan includes a mix of residential, commercial and retail developments, along with designated parks and green space, with many of the elements completed and many more in the planning stages. On Mueller's northwest edge, bordering I-35, the Mueller Retail Center has been completed, and is anchored by The Home Depot, Best Buy, Old Navy, and PetSmart. Adjacent to it is the Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, a 32-acre campus with 248 patient beds and a total of 1,400 employees. In keeping with Mueller's best-practices ethos regarding environmentally friendly development, the Center is the first acute-care facility in the world to achieve LEED Platinum certification. Its 30-room Ronald McDonald House serves patients from both within the Dell facility as well as other children's hospitals in the region. The Center was expanded in 2011 to add a new patient wing. To the Dell Center's immediate north, the 14-acre University of Texas Health Research Campus is under development. Its first building, the Dell Pediatric Research Institute, is already open, and next door a Residence Inn by Marriott is scheduled to open in early 2014. East of the Research Campus is a new Performing Arts Center designed to serve the entire Austin Independent School District. Upon completion in late 2014, it will incorporate a 1,200-seat auditorium as well as a 250-person capacity "black box theater." In Mueller's north-center area, at the intersection of East 51st St. and Berkman Drive, the Mueller Market District made its debut in mid-2013, anchored by a state-of-the-art H-E-B Grocery Store. The 83,000 square foot store was designed to consume a full 80% less electricity than a standard grocery store, as well as 50% less water, and H-E-B officials plan to seek LEED Silver Certification for the project. The store features Cafe Mueller, which includes a stage for band performances; dedicated stations for making guacamole and sushi on-site; two recharging stations for electric vehicles; and the only gas station in Central Austin that sells ethanol-based E85 car fuel. A number of other facilities have been completed inside Mueller as well. The Austin Children's Museum—rebranded as The Thinkery—and Austin Playhouse were among the first tenants of the Mueller Town Center, and a 279-unit AMLI Residential apartment community is under construction next door. It will join two already completed luxury apartment complexes inside Mueller: Mosaic and Elements. Finally, Wildflower Terrace, an upscale apartment community, with 201 units, for seniors 65 and up, is open and located at Mueller's southern edge, near the intersection of Berkman Drive and Manor Road. In December 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy awarded Pecan Street, Inc. $10.4 Million in federal stimulus funds to develop an advanced smart grid demonstration project at Mueller, which included a demonstration house—known as the Pike Powers Commercialization Lab—that made its debut in 2013. Numerous eco-friendly green spaces have debuted in Mueller as well. At the center of it all is Lake Park, a 30-acre landscape featuring a duck-filled lake, hike and bike trails, and Browning Hangar, a historic airport hangar originally constructed in the 1940s and retroconverted into an open-air amphitheater. The Hangar currently houses Mueller's weekly Sunday Farmers' Market, and is periodically used for special events as well. Next door to the Hangar is Mueller Central, a former airport administration building that now houses an information center for Mueller as a whole. A block away from Mueller Central and Lake Park, Mueller's Northwest Greenway meanders its way along the area's border all the way to its termination point at I-35. South of Lake Park is the Southwest Greenway, where native plants and outdoor art installations share space with walking trails and water features. Here, Mueller officials have partnered with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on a restoration project for the endangered Blackland Prairie. Finally, Ella Wooten Neighborhood Park is a three-acre green space located roughly in the center of Mueller's residential section. It houses a Junior Olympic-sized swimming pool, open seasonally, as well as a playscape and basketball court. The Mueller Community also has more electric cars per capita than any other neighborhood in the United States - a fact partially attributable to an incentive program. Home builders Home construction companies that are active in the area include David Weekley Homes, Meritage Homes Corporation, CalAtlantic Homes, Streetman Homes, Saldaña Homes, Wes Peoples, Centerra, Homes By Avi, and Muskin Homes. Affordability Approximately 25% of the planned residential homes are to be part of the Mueller Affordable Program, available under a shared equity or fixed appreciation scheme (fixed appreciation was implemented during July 2012 and applies to all affordable housing entered into subsequent to the implementation date). The affordable program has a purchase component which is available to households earning less than 80% of the city's mean family income (MFI), and a rental program available to those earning less than 60% of the Austin MFI. Community Members of the Mueller community formed the Mueller Neighborhood Association to foment strong ties among neighbors, as well as awareness of new developments in the area. The neighborhood association has its own website muellerneighborhood.org. Other neighborhood social tools include a closed Mueller Neighbors Facebook group, a closed Next Door group, and the POA-sponsored community Web site Education Residents are zoned to the Austin Independent School District. The first half of the community is zoned to Maplewood Elementary School, Kealing Middle School, and McCallum High School, although Reagan High School is only 1.5 miles away from the development. The community includes a site for a future middle school. The second part of the development tracks to Blanton Elementary School, Bertha Sadler Means and Gus Garcia Middle Schools and Reagan High School. References External links Mueller Development Mueller Community City of Austin Mueller Site Neighborhoods in Austin, Texas
This list covers famous or notable people or groups who were born or raised in Glasgow, Scotland or have been connected with it. Arts Architecture David Hamilton – architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – architect and designer Alexander "Greek" Thomson – architect Film Bill Forsyth – film director May Miles Thomas – screenwriter, filmmaker Journalism Lawrence Donegan – journalist Johann Hari – journalist Jack House – journalist, writer and broadcaster Andrew Marr – journalist, writer and television presenter Jack Webster – journalist Literature Freddie Anderson – socialist playwright and poet originally from Ireland James Bridie – playwright Catherine Carswell – novelist and biographer of the Scottish renaissance A. J. Cronin – doctor and novelist Ivor Cutler – poet, songwriter, humourist Lavinia Derwent – children's writer Alasdair Gray – artist, novelist and essayist Pearse Hutchinson – poet James Kelman – novelist Tom Leonard – poet Liz Lochhead – poet and playwright Peter May – crime writer Edwin Morgan – poet and translator Grant Morrison – comic book author Tony Roper – actor, television writer, author Suhayl Saadi – physician, novelist, playwright, anthologist; co-editor of A Fictional Guide to Scotland J David Simons – author Alan Spence – novelist and poet Nigel Tranter – historical novelist Performing arts Moyo Akandé – actress John Barrowman – singer and actor (The Producers, Torchwood) Sean Biggerstaff – actor (Harry Potter) Billy Boyd – actor (The Lord of the Rings) Frankie Boyle – comedian Kevin Bridges – comedian John Cairney – actor Peter Capaldi – actor (The Thick of It, In The Loop, Doctor Who) Robert Carlyle – actor (Trainspotting, The World Is Not Enough) Lawrence Chaney – drag queen and winner of the second series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK Morven Christie – actress Robbie Coltrane – actor (Harry Potter, Cracker) Billy Connolly – comedian (The Man Who Sued God) Kate Copstick – actress and director Tony Curran – actor Iain De Caestecker – actor (The Fades, Young James Herriot, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Craig Ferguson – actor and writer Gregor Fisher – comedian Laura Fraser – actress Rikki Fulton – comedian Michelle Gomez – actress (Doctor Who, Green Wing) Greg Hemphill – actor Olaf Hytten – actor Ford Kiernan – actor Gary Lewis – actor Brian Limond – comedian and actor Marie Loftus – music hall entertainer Kelly Macdonald – actress (Trainspotting, Boardwalk Empire) Angus Macfadyen – actor Freya Mavor – actress (Skins) James McAvoy – actor David McCallum – actor, first noted for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin Rory McCann – actor Jane McCarry – actress Joe McFadden – actor (Holby City, Heartbeat) Des McLean - comedian and actor Graham McTavish – actor David O'Hara – actor Daniel Portman – actor Richard Rankin – actor Maurice Roëves – actor Jerry Sadowitz – comedian John Gordon Sinclair – actor Dawn Steele – actress Brian Vernel – actor Susan Calman – comedian and actor Jonathan Watson – actor Visual arts Jacqueline Donachie – artist Hannah Frank – artist and sculptor John Glashan – cartoonist Bud Neill – cartoonist (Lobey Dosser) Cordelia Oliver – artist, writer and art critic Frank Quitely – comic book artist Business William Beardmore – Beardmores, Parkhead Forge, Arrol-Johnston motor company George Bogle of Daldowie – wealthy tobacco merchant Sir William Burrell – shipping magnate and philanthropist William Cunninghame – tobacco merchant John Glassford – wealthy tobacco merchant, partner in Thistle Bank Sir Thomas Lipton – entrepreneur, Lipton Tea Norman Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden – entrepreneur James McAlpin – merchant tailor James McGill – businessman and philanthropist Robert Napier – co-founder of Cunard Line Reo Stakis – entrepreneur Charles Tennant – St. Rollox Chemicals Works Civic Founder Saint Mungo – traditional founder of the city Campaigners Mary Barbour Ian Dunn, gay and paedophile rights activist Crime and punishment Ian Brady – violent criminal Archibald Hall – murderer Allan Pinkerton – detective Edward William Pritchard – murderer who was publicly executed in Glasgow and was the last person to be publicly executed in Scotland Law Madge Easton Anderson, lawyer Provosts George Elphinstone (died 1634) – Lord Provost and courtier Education Mary Ellen Bews, New Zealand school principal and educationalist, born in Glasgow Humanities David Stow Adam, theologian C. A. Campbell – metaphysical philosopher William Purdie Dickson – scholar Niall Ferguson – historian and writer William MacAskill – philosopher and ethicist Fictional figures Scrooge McDuck – fictional multi-billionaire cartoon duck Desmond Hume, fictional character in the TV series Lost. Military William Anderson – recipient of the Victoria Cross Andrew Bogle – recipient of the Victoria Cross Robert Downie – recipient of the Victoria Cross Francis Farquharson – recipient of the Victoria Cross Herbert Henderson – recipient of the Victoria Cross John Knox – recipient of the Victoria Cross Donald MacKintosh – recipient of the Victoria Cross Henry May – recipient of the Victoria Cross John McAulay – recipient of the Victoria Cross John McDermond – recipient of the Victoria Cross Hugh McInnes – recipient of the Victoria Cross James Miller – recipient of the Victoria Cross Sir John Moore – British military officer James Park – recipient of the Victoria Cross Harry Ranken – recipient of the Victoria Cross William Reid – recipient of the Victoria Cross Walter Ritchie – recipient of the Victoria Cross George Rodgers – recipient of the Victoria Cross John Skinner – recipient of the Victoria Cross James Stokes – recipient of the Victoria Cross James Turnbull – recipient of the Victoria Cross William Young – recipient of the Victoria Cross Musicians and bands Politics Bashir Ahmad – first Asian MSP Mhairi Black – youngest ever Member of Parliament (MP) elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom since at least the Reform Act of 1832 Sir Menzies Campbell – Leader of the Liberal Democrats (2006-2007) Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman – British prime minister Roseanna Cunningham – Scottish National Party MP, MSP Donald Dewar – Secretary of State for Scotland, First Minister Pearse Doherty – Sinn Féin politician Winnie Ewing – Scottish National Party MP, MEP and MSP Margaret Ferrier – Scottish National Party MP George Galloway – MP for Glasgow Hillhead (1987–97) and Glasgow Kelvin (1997–2005) Nigel Griffiths – Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South James Keir Hardie – co-founder and Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party Arthur Henderson – Chairman of the Labour Party Bonar Law – British prime minister John MacCormick – Scottish National Party Sir John A. Macdonald – first Prime Minister of Canada John Maclean – Socialist Michael Martin – Speaker of the House of Commons James Maxton – Independent Labour Party MP Tommy Sheridan – Scottish Socialist Party MSP Manny Shinwell – Labour MP Nicola Sturgeon – Scottish First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (2014-2023) Humza Yousaf – Scottish First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party Sports Athletics Angela Bridgeman, sprinter Baseball Mac MacArthur – Major League Baseball player Jim McCormick – baseball player Bobby Thomson – baseball player Boxing Scott Harrison – boxer Benny Lynch – boxer Jim Watt – boxer Cricket James Stewart Carrick (1855–1923) – holder of the world record for the highest score William Foster (born 1934) – first-class cricketer David Livingstone (1927–2011) – international cricketer for Scotland Cycling Philippa York – cyclist Football Jen Beattie - footballer Tom Boyd – footballer Jim Craig – footballer Graeme Churchill – footballer Pat Crerand – footballer Sir Kenny Dalglish – former football player and manager Tommy Docherty – football manager Sir Alex Ferguson – former Manchester United manager Alexander Watson Hutton – "Father of Argentine football" Mo Johnston – footballer Ruesha Littlejohn – footballer Ross McCormack – footballer James McFadden – footballer Frank McGarvey – footballer Aiden McGeady – footballer Danny McGrain – footballer and manager Jimmy McGrory - footballer and manager Bobby Murdoch – footballer Andrew Robertson – footballer Peter Sermanni – Scottish former professional footballer Robert Snodgrass – footballer Jock Stein – football manager David Templeton – footballer John Wark – international footballer Gordon Wilson - retired footballer Golf Martin Laird – golfer Colin Montgomerie – golfer Ice hockey Andy Aitkenhead Gordie Clark James Foster Alex Gray Frank Jardine Colin Shields Steve Smith Rugby union Adam Ashe Johnnie Beattie Magnus Bradbury Alan Bulloch Gordon Bulloch Thomas Chalmers Scott Cummings James Eddie Jonny Gray Richie Gray Rory Hughes Alastair Kellock James Malcolm Euan Murray Max Simmers Duncan Weir Jon Welsh Snooker Marcus Campbell – professional snooker player Stephen Maguire – professional snooker player Anthony McGill – professional snooker player Alan McManus – professional snooker player Swimming Michael Jamieson Duncan Scott Tennis Andy Murray Olympic and professional tennis player Wrestling Nikki Cross Joe Coffey Mark Coffey Wolfgang Isla Dawn Science and engineering June Almeida – virologist Joseph Black – physicist and chemist Phillip Clancey – ornithologist Thomas Hopkirk – botanist Ronald David Laing – psychiatrist Joseph Lister – surgeon Elizabeth Janet MacGregor – medical doctor Ailsa McKay – economist David Napier – marine engineer Robert Napier – marine engineer, co-founder of Cunard Line James Beaumont Neilson – inventor Sir William Ramsay – chemist E.S. Russell – zoologist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin – mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer James Watt – engineer Nora Wattie – public health pioneer John Scott Russell – naval engineer Charles Macintosh – inventor William Wright Virtue – engineer References Glaswegians Gla Glaswegians

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