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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZS%20Kahu%20%28P3571%29

HMNZS Kahu (P3571)

HMNZS Kahu (P3571) was a Fairmile B motor launch of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Originally commissioned on 20 December 1943, with the pendant number Q 411, she was part of the 80th Motor Launch Flotilla. Early in 1944, she went to the Solomon Islands where she served under the operational control of COMSOPAC. She was recommissioned from 1947 to 1965 as HMNZS Kahu I (P3571) See also New Zealand Coastal Forces of World War II References Further reading External links Wartime picture of ML Q 411 (Kahu I P3571) (scroll to bottom) Patrol vessels of the Royal New Zealand Navy

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthophila%20threnodes

Anthophila threnodes

Anthophila threnodes is a moth of the family Choreutidae. It is known from Madeira. The habitat consists of open landscapes at low altitudes. The forewings have a cream-white spot at two-thirds of the costa and another such spot at four-fifths of the dorsum. The hindwings are uniform dark brown. Adults are on wing in February, March, May and July in at least two generations per year. The adults fly during the day. The larvae feed on Urtica membranacea and possibly other Urtica species, spinning a thin web on or around the young leaves on which it feeds. The larvae are off-white with dark brown spots. They have been found in March, May and November. Pupation takes place in a reddish-brown pupa. Gallery References Moths described in 1910 Choreutidae

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20White%20%26%20Blue%20%28film%29

Red White & Blue (film)

Red White & Blue is a 2010 revenge-thriller film written and directed by Simon Rumley. Plot summary Erica spends her nights trawling the bars and beds of Austin, Texas. Emotionally withdrawn, her only form of human contact is a series of one-night stands. She lives in a flophouse where she does the cleaning in exchange for room and board. This arrangement with the landlady is discontinued when new boarder Nate moves in, and Erica finds herself in urgent need of a regular income to pay for her stay. Feeling responsible, Nate helps her land a job in the DIY store where he works. Distrustful and reluctant at first, she gradually warms up to the mysterious Nate, who uses an anecdote from his childhood as a metaphor to justify his protective demeanor towards Erica despite his psychopathic tendencies. He also claims to have been honorably discharged from service in Iraq and is apparently considering a job offer by the CIA. Despite his air of danger and Erica's difficulty in leaving her promiscuity behind, the two form a hesitant bond. Franki Morrison, a young, hot-headed wannabe rock star, learns on the eve of his band's departure for a European tour that he is HIV-positive. This affects his mother as well, since he had spent months donating blood to her for her cancer treatment. Distraught by the news and its implications, Franki realizes he must have been infected by Erica, the only woman he had unprotected sex with during the past six months. His two bandmates had also partaken in the foursome (shown in the film's initial scenes) but test negative. However, their loyalty and that of another friend named Ed leads them to assist Franki in tracking Erica down and forcefully taking her to his home. Erica tacitly admits that she was deliberately exposing sexual partners to HIV but justifies her actions as a response to the rape she suffered as a child by her mother's boyfriend. Franki's friends reluctantly leave him alone with Erica. Franki then rapes her, makes an awkward marriage proposal based on a warped attempt to rationalize their shared predicament, and keeps her hostage over the next few days. When he learns his mother committed suicide because of her exposure to HIV, Franki stabs Erica in a fit of rage. He and his three friends try to drive her to the hospital, but she dies in their car before they can take off. Her body is dismembered offscreen and, once again out of loyalty, Franki's friends agree to dispose of the parts in separate locations. Before they can do so, Nate uses his CIA contact to track them down. He tortures and murders all of them, including Ed and his family, revealing himself to be a skilled and sadistic army interrogator. His last victim is Franki, whom he skins alive after retrieving Erica's head. He finally decides to turn down his CIA contact's offer for a job and moves to his sister's place in Tallahassee. Somewhere along his drive to Florida, he buries all of Erica's remains and burns every reminder of her, including a picture of their wedding some time earlier. Cast Noah Taylor as Nate Amanda Fuller as Erica Marc Senter as Franki Nick Ashy Holden as Alvin Patrick Crovo as Carl Jon Michael Davis as Ed Saxon Sharbino as Ed's Daughter Mark Hanson as Druggie Rock Guy Robert Sliger as Oncologist Emily Cropper as HIV Clinician Production Resident Evil: Apocalypse star Robert Hall worked on the film as Editor. The film was shot in Austin, Texas in the Alamo Drafthouse – 1120 South Lamar Boulevard, Beauty Bar – 617 East 7th Street and The Highball – 1142 South Lamar Boulevard, New Guild Co-Op - 510 West 23rd St. Noah Taylor, Amanda Fuller and Marc Senter played the leads in the Rumleyvision project. Release Red White & Blue premiered on January 29, 2010 as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. It was featured in several American film festivals: On March 16, 2010, it appeared in the South by Southwest; On March 27, 2010 it appeared in the Boston Underground Film Festival; and on July 17, 2010 it appeared in the Danger After Dark Film Festival. The film will run on the Fantasia 2010. Awards The film won the Best of Fest Narrative Award at the 2010 Boston Underground Film Festival. Soundtrack Pop artist and producer Richard Chester composed the official score. References External links 2010 films 2010 horror films 2010 black comedy films 2010s comedy-drama films 2010s erotic thriller films 2010 independent films 2010s mystery thriller films 2010 psychological thriller films American films American black comedy films American comedy-drama films American comedy horror films American horror drama films American horror thriller films American independent films American mystery thriller films American satirical films English-language films American erotic thriller films American erotic horror films Mystery horror films Films set in Austin, Texas Films shot in Austin, Texas American rape and revenge films American psychological thriller films American psychological horror films Psychological drama films 2010 comedy films

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Happened%20in%20Honolulu

It Happened in Honolulu

It Happened in Honolulu is a 1916 American silent comedy film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Myrtle Gonzalez, Val Paul and George Hernandez. Cast Myrtle Gonzalez as Mabel Wyland Val Paul as Larry Crane George Hernandez as Mr. Wyland Lule Warrenton as Mrs. Wyland C. Norman Hammond as Jim Crane Fred Church as Clarence Velie Bertram Grassby as Lord Percy Jack Curtis as Detective Boggs References Bibliography Robert B. Connelly. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998. External links 1916 films 1916 comedy films English-language films American films American silent feature films American comedy films American black-and-white films Universal Pictures films Films directed by Lynn Reynolds

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bugis%20people

List of Bugis people

This is a list of notable people of Bugis descent. Indonesia Andi Mappanyukki, 32nd King of Bone, declared a National Hero of Indonesia in 2004 Andi Abdullah Bau Massepe, National Hero of Indonesia and son of Andi Mappanyukki Andi Mallarangeng, former Indonesian Minister of Youth and Sports in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet (2009–2012) Amir Syamsuddin, former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Indonesia (2011–2014). Andi Muhammad Ghalib, Attorney General of Indonesia (1998–1999), Ambassador to India (2008–2013) Erna Witoelar, former Minister of Human Settlements and Regional Development of Indonesia. Jusuf Kalla, Vice President of Indonesia. Opu Daeng Risaju, Indonesian independence activist. Once Mekel (born Elfonda Mekel), stage name of Indonesian singer. Raja Ali Haji, a 19th-century historian, poet and scholar. Outside Indonesia Malaysia Abdul Razak Hussein, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia and father of Najib Razak and Nazir Razak Sultan Salehuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Daeng Chelak, the 1st sultan of the sultan of Selangor in Malaysia. Abu Bakar of Johor, the 21st sultan of the Johor Sultanate in Malaysia. Ma'mun Sulaiman, Malaysian Politician. Lisa Surihani, Malaysian actress, model, television host and commercial model. Muhyiddin Yassin, current president of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia party and former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and member of United Malays National Organisation party. Najib Razak, 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia. Nazir Razak, Malaysian banker. Daeng Sanusi Daeng Mariok, Malaysian Politician. Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer. Andi Muhammad Suryady Bandy, Sabah State Assistant Minister of Youth and Sports. Manuel Godinho de Eredia, 16th century explorer, born in Portuguese Malacca Singapore Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer. Other countries Pierre Coffin, French voice actor, animator and film director. References Bugis Bugis

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Benson

Jack Benson

John Benson (1 October 1901 – 28 August 1971) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of William Benson (1865-1943), and Annie Benson (1866-1943), née Hanley, John Benson was born at Warrnambool, Victoria on 1 October 1901. He married Athalie Florence Pizzey (1906-1995) on 26 August 1933. Education He was educated at St James' Grammar School, which, at its 1920 move from St James' Anglican Church, in Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe, to its current location at The Ridgeway, also in Ivanhoe, was renamed Ivanhoe Grammar School. He was not only the inaugural President of the Old Ivanhoe Grammarians' Association (OIGA) in 1920, but was also the longest-serving member of staff in the school's history. He retired in 1966, having served as a teacher for 47 years (1920-1966). The school's gymnasium is named after him. He studied at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Diploma in Commerce in April 1930. Football In 1928 he was awarded a half-blue in football by the Melbourne University Sports Union. Death He died at Sydney, New South Wales on 28 August 1971. Notes References External links Jack Benson's profile at Collingwood Forever 1901 births 1971 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Collingwood Football Club players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexhep%20Voka

Rexhep Voka

Nuredin Rexhep Voka (1847 - 1917) was an Albanian alim, mufti, writer and a prominent activist of the Albanian National Awakening. Biography Rexhep Voka was born in 1847 in the village of Şipkovica, Tetovo. In 1868, Voka undertook religious studies in Istanbul where he worked as a professor after completing his education. Voka returned to Kalkandelen in 1895 where he became involved in the Albanian National Renaissance. In 1903, Voka was appointed Mufti of the Manastir Vilayet and founded the first Albanian theological college in Üsküb (today Skopje). In Monastir, before the Young Turk revolution, Voka started learning Albanian in Latin characters from Albanian Protestant missionaries. In 1905, Voka attended the Pan-Albanian Congress organized in Bucharest. Headed by Albert Ghica, attended by Ismail Qemali and deliberated with Bucharest's Albanian community, the congress discussed the Albanian issue. Rexhep Voka was a member of Bashkimi (Unity) at the time of the Young Turk revolution. He printed an Albanian alphabet in Arabic script comprising forty-four letters, called Elifbaja shqip. Tiranli Fazli then used this script to publish a thirty-two page grammar. Only one Albanian newspaper at the time ever appeared in Arabic script, and it lasted a brief period. Regardless of what script appeared, such material raised Albanian national consciousness. References People from Tetovo Municipality People from Kosovo vilayet Activists of the Albanian National Awakening Albanians in North Macedonia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi%20%28writer%29

Maharishi (writer)

Maharishi () is the pseudonym of T.K. Balasubramanian, a Tamil writer from Tamil Nadu, India. Many of his novels were made into films including the film Bhuvana Oru Kelvi Kuri (1977). Maharishi was born in Tanjore, but settled in Salem, Tamil Nadu. He worked as a clerk in the TNEB. His first novel Panimalai was made as film titled Ennathan Mudivu in 1965. Some of his other novels which were made into films are Bhadrakali (1977), Sainthadamma Sainthadu (1977), Vatathukkul Chadhuram (1978), Nadhiyai Thedi Vandha Kadal (1980). Maharishi has written around 130 novels, 5 short-story collections and 60 essays. References Writers from Tamil Nadu Tamil writers Indian Tamil people 20th-century Indian novelists Indian male novelists Novelists from Tamil Nadu 20th-century Indian male writers 1932 births 2019 deaths

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FK-League

FK-League

The FK-League () is the top league for futsal clubs in South Korea. It is organized by Korea Futsal League from 2010-11 season. Clubs Men Busan Kappa FC Chungbuk Jecheon FS Daejeon IFC Dream Hub Gunsan FS Fantasia Bucheon FS FITF Jeonju MAG FC FS Seoul Seoul Eunpyeong FS Seoul Gwangjin FC Yes Gumi FS Yongin FS Former clubs Gyeongju Soonwoo FC Daegu Osung FC Women Busan Kappa WFC Daejeon Blue-i Yongin Ladies FS FS Hornets Jeonbuk Gimje Philos WFC FS Seoul Ladies List of champions References External links Official Website Facebook Futsal in South Korea Football leagues in South Korea South Korea Sports leagues established in 2009 2009 establishments in South Korea Professional sports leagues in South Korea

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20David%20Stewart

Daniel David Stewart

Daniel David Stewart is an American singer and television and theatre actor. He was the Voice of Ernst in the 2015 Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, and he originated the role of Papi in the 2016 world premiere production of The Band's Visit at the Atlantic Theater Company. He played Milo Minderbinder in George Clooney's Catch 22 miniseries for Hulu in May 2019. Career Stewart got his professional start in 2008 in the film Corpse Run. He has also appeared in cameo roles in television shows including Man Up!, The Middle, The Goodwin Games and K.C. Undercover. He has appeared in short and featured length films, including Kids vs Monsters and The Sound of Magic. In 2014, Stewart appeared in the Deaf West production of the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening as the Voice of Ernst. He then reprised his role for the Broadway revival, and completed his run at Brooks Atkinson Theater on January 24, 2016. Filmography Theatre credits References External links American male singers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) American male actors

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Recanati

François Recanati

François Recanati (born 1952) is a French analytic philosopher and research fellow at the College de France, and at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Many of his works focus on the philosophy of language and mind. Biography He is the son of Jean Recanati and half-brother of militant Trotskyist Michel Recanati. After secondary studies at the Lycee Jacques-Decour and the Sorbonne, he received his degree in philosophy in 1974. He later studied at Oxford University and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), where he became lecturer in the areas of pragmatic linguistics and philosophy of language (1975-1990). He has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; and the University of St Andrews. He has been a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris since 1979. In 1991, Recanati co-founded and was named the first president of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy. He retained this position until 1993.He is a directeur d’études at EHESS and the Director of Institut Jean-Nicod, a research lab in philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science under the aegis of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His publications in the philosophy of language and mind include more than one hundred articles, many edited books, and a dozen monographs, notably Mental Files (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Mental Files in Flux (Oxford University Press, 2016). Philosophical positions Recanati was drawn to the intellectual style of Jacques Lacan during the early 1970s and became part of the so-called Lacanian community, as Lacan seemed to Recanati an embodiment of a superior way and a new intellectual style. However, he later came to view Lacan's disciples as members of a “sect” who are obliged to accept every statement by Lacan as the truth, even if they do not understand the statement. Recanati also claimed that Lacan did not mean anything with his central concepts, since he was unable to introduce the meaning of a term along with the term itself. In their work, Recanati concluded, it is enough to use Lacanian jargon, even if one comes out with assertions that one does not understand oneself. Recanati therefore began distancing himself from Lacan and focusing on the philosophy of ordinary language. This was evident in his works where he drew from the radical contextualist view of predication and the attributive distinction for definite descriptions, citing their relevance in the revival of this philosophical tradition. Recanati's research has since focused on three areas. The first is emphasized the speech act theory, which is said to provide ‘theoretical foundations for semantics”. The second involve “context-dependence in language and thought” while the third focused on “the theory of reference and the analysis of singular concepts, construed as mental files.” In his review of Literal Meaning in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Jason Stanley cited how Recanati maintained that what is intuitively said by an utterance is affected by context in ways that could not be explained by any combination of Chomsky, Montague, and Grice (that is, ordinary syntax and semantics, together with Gricean pragmatics) (1993, pp. 227–274). Since the publication of this work, Recanati has been developing this thesis in detail leading to the development of his concept, which he called contextualism. This notion holds that any proposition that we assert is affected by the so-called "primary pragmatic process". His arguments for the thesis he calls contextualism are brought together in characteristically clear and concise form in Literal Meaning. One of his positions was that there is only one pragmatic notion of context, challenging the distinctions offered by other thinkers of the so-called narrow and wide contexts. Recanati also maintained that assumption is simulative in a technical and phenomenological sense. It is technical for its use of inference mechanism offline while it is phenomenological due to the way it often entails a kind of as if behavior. He described simulation as a psychological mechanism critical in understanding metarepresentation, particularly in the way this concept is viewed as ipso facto transparent. The process of metarepresentation begins with the simulation of the first-order content. Notable publications Meaning and Force: The Pragmatics of Performative Utterances, Cambridge University Press, 1988 Direct Reference: From Language to Thought, Blackwell Publishers, 1993, 1997 Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation, MIT Press, 2000 Literal Meaning, Cambridge University Press, 2003; Perspectival Thought: A Plea for (Moderate) Relativism, Clarendon Press, 2007 Truth-Conditional Pragmatics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010 Mental Files, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012; Mental Files in Flux, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016; Recanati is also the general editor of a book series by Jean-Nicod and of the Context and Content series. Critical works Recanati's work is analyzed or commented on in various published works, including Saying, Meaning and Referring: Essays on François Recanati's Philosophy of Language edited by Maria Jose Frapolli; Palgrave Macmillan (2007) . Kent Bach, of San Francisco State University reviewed Truth-Conditional Pragmatics in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Bach opened his review with the comment that "If you're unfamiliar with the title phrase of François Recanati's latest book, you'll naturally think he's proposing an alternative to truth-conditional semantics. And you'll be right. But not in the way you'd expect. And not in the way he intends." and summed up by saying "Thanks to Recanati's openness to diverse approaches, his fairness in critically examining competing views, his carefully nuanced argumentation, and his general thoroughness, to my mind the main rewards offered by the book Truth-Conditional Pragmatics can be derived by delving into its details. That's what I recommend doing." For his part, Stanley commented that "the problem with Recanati's appeal to circumstances of evaluation to justify incomplete semantic contents is that it is in tension with much of current linguistic research." References External links List of Recanati's research publications 1952 births 20th-century essayists 20th-century French male writers 20th-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French philosophers 20th-century linguists 21st-century essayists 21st-century French male writers 21st-century French non-fiction writers 21st-century French philosophers 21st-century linguists Academics of the University of St Andrews Analytic philosophers Cognitive scientists Contemporary philosophers French essayists French male non-fiction writers French philosophers Harvard University faculty Living people Phenomenologists Philosophers of language Philosophers of mind Philosophy academics Philosophy writers University of California, Berkeley faculty

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auzas

Auzas

Auzas is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. Population See also Communes of the Haute-Garonne department References Communes of Haute-Garonne

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers%20Ju%20188

Junkers Ju 188

The Junkers Ju 188 was a German Luftwaffe high-performance medium bomber built during World War II, the planned follow-up to the Ju 88 with better performance and payload. It was produced only in limited numbers, due both to the presence of improved versions of the Ju 88, as well as the increasingly effective Allied strategic bombing campaign against German industry and the resulting focus on fighter production. Background In 1936, Junkers submitted proposals for the Ju 85 and Ju 88 into competition for the new standardized Luftwaffe high-speed tactical bomber, known as the Schnellbomber (fast bomber). The two designs were almost identical, differing only in that the Ju 85 used a twin-rudder and the Ju 88 a single fin. At the same time, they offered modified versions of each as the Ju 85B and Ju 88B, again similar to the original designs but using an "egg shaped" stepless cockpit forward fuselage design that comprised a greenhouse-like, well-framed network of some three dozen compound-curved window panels in total. This was another example of the "bullet-nose" design philosophy that almost all new German bomber designs exhibited, from the time of the Heinkel He 111P onwards. The new nose design for the Ju 88B also tightly integrated the forward end of the undernose Bola ventral gondola defensive gun position into the newer nose design, when compared to the "added-on" Bola unit pioneered on the Ju 88 V7 prototype. This meant the Ju 88B offered somewhat lower drag and better visibility. At the time, this was considered too radical and the Ju 88A with its simpler, separately-glazed dorsal cockpit "greenhouse" framed canopy, and "beetle's eye" framed, multi-flat panel nose glazing comprising a "stepped" cockpit design from the separation of the pair of glazed units by the sheetmetal of the upper fuselage nose winning the initial Schnellbomber production contract. The Reich Air Ministry (RLM) was already in the process of looking for the replacement for the Schnellbomber, a new design that would be faster, fly higher, and have a larger warload. This emerged as the "Bomber B" program, but this was extensively delayed due to the failure of the large -class engines, like Junkers' Jumo 222, to become reliable enough for production use. Although Junkers' Ju 288 was leading the contest, there was no delivery date on the engines. To address the immediate need, the Ju 88B project was re-submitted as a stop-gap. For this version, they used the latest short-wing Ju 88 A-1 airframe as a baseline with the Ju 88B's new stepless cockpit design, with the new Junkers Jumo 213 engine, which had recently started bench testing and was expected to deliver and required a redesigned annular radiator system for engine and oil cooling. The RLM also stipulated that the aircraft should also be able to accept the BMW 801 radial engine in a Kraftei (power-egg) unitized installation, with no modification to the engine nacelles. The RLM was not impressed with the new design, as it offered only small improvements over the Ju 88A model in service but suggested that Junkers continue with the prototype work anyway and that they consider fitting the design with the BMW 139 radial. This engine was cancelled only a few weeks later and all designs based on it moved to the newer and more powerful BMW 801. Prototypes, Ju 88 B-0 The prototype Ju 88B V1, D-AUVS, flew for the first time with the 801A/B engines in early 1940. The fuselage and tail surfaces were identical to the Ju 88 A-1, which presented a problem: with the extra power, , the design could now carry considerably more load than the small bomb bay could fit. An additional external shackle was then added to each wing well outside the engines, although using the rack would seriously hamper performance. During the summer, a pre-production run of 10 Ju 88 B-0 based on the pre-production Ju 88 A-4 airframes were delivered. The A-4 used a longer wing of span from new rounded wingtips for better altitude performance, when compared to the initial Ju 88A-1's shorter span, but attention to streamlining and new pointed wing tips, somewhat resembling those fitted to the British Spitfire Mks.VII and VIII for their own intended high-altitude flight requirements, kept drag to about what it was earlier. The airframe changes moved the center of gravity slightly, so the glazed cockpit area was made slightly longer to re-balance the aircraft, while also offering better visibility for other members of the crew. Service tests were all successful, and the pilots generally lauded the new cockpit design. However, the RLM still remained unconvinced that the small improvement in performance over the existing A-5's and future A-4's was worth investing time in. Instead, the pre-production models were modified as long-range reconnaissance aircraft by removing the guns, bombsights, and external bomb shackles, and fitting fuel tanks into the bomb bay. Several of the airframes were retained by Junkers for further development. One of these was fitted with the slightly updated 801L engines and a small power-operated turret on the extreme top of the cockpit mounting a MG 131 machine gun. Variants By 1942, it was becoming clear that Junkers' candidate for the important Bomber B program, the Ju 288, was not going to be ready soon and that the Ju 88 was increasingly at the mercy of rapidly improving RAF and Soviet VVS fighters. The RLM finally decided that even the small gains in performance in the Ju 88B were worth considering and asked Junkers for an improved aircraft as the Ju 188. The sole Ju 88 E-0 was modified with another MG 131 firing rearward just below the turret, one firing forward through the nose and twin MG 81Z machine guns in the integrated ventral Bola gondola firing rearward. Two other airframes had their engines and outer wings removed to act as testbeds for water ditching, as it was planned to use the Ju 188 in long overwater flights against British shipping. A second Ju 188 test airframe was built from another Ju 88 A-4, this one including a larger, more trapezoidal vertical tail surface set to provide more directional control at higher altitudes, a feature also used on future Ju 88 models, most importantly on the Ju 88G night fighters. Originally known as Ju 88 V44, this airframe was later named Ju 188 V1. In October 1942, the Ju 188 was chosen for production. A second prototype was delivered in January, which moved the outer bomb shackles to a position inboard of the engines. Both started testing the dive bombing system installed in the 88 A-4 in February. The RLM then asked for another change, allowing the aircraft to mount either the BMW 801 or Jumo 213 engines as a complete Kraftei or "power egg" common engine installation, that would simply be bolted on and hooked up. Concerns about the Jumo 213, now years overdue, were offset by this engine's better altitude performance, so it made sense to delay the aircraft slightly if that meant it could switch to the 213 as soon as they became available. The second Ju 188 prototype was flown in at Rechlin between September and November 1943. Ju 188 A & E The Ju 188 was designed to be fitted with either the Jumo 213A or BMW 801 G-2 engines without any changes to the airframe, with the exclusion of the re-design for Jumo-powered examples, of the annular radiators from their Jumo 211 layout for the A-series to better match the more powerful 213's cooling needs, while using similar broad-chord three-blade propellers as the A-series did. It was intended that both would be known as A models but the naming was later changed: the Ju 188A model powered by the 213 and the Ju 188E by the 801. The first three production Ju 188 E-1 machines were delivered with BMW engines in February 1943, followed by another seven in March and eight in April. A conversion testing unit was formed up in May and after testing were attached to an operational unit, with the first mission, an attack by three Ju 188E-1s on a factory in Lincoln, Lincolnshire taking place on 18 August 1943. By the end of the year, 283 Ju 188s had been delivered (including Ju 188Fs) and two new factories were added to the production effort. Most operational machines differed from the prototypes only in having a MG 151/20 cannon in the nose and dorsal turrets in place of the MG 131. The MG 131 was intended to be used in the Ju 188 E-1 or the G-2 but the heavy armament in the A and E series was the MG 151/20. The Ju 188 E-2 was built as a torpedo-bomber but was identical to the Ju 188 A-3. Although the A and E models were to have been delivered at the same time, the Jumo engine was still not ready; the first Jumo powered Ju 188 A-1 versions were shipped only shortly after the BMW versions, albeit at a much slower rate. By the time deliveries were finally picking up in late 1943, the Jumo was available in a new MW 50 methanol-water injection "boosted" version that delivered for takeoff. With this engine, the planes were known as the Ju 188 A-2 and started deliveries in early 1944. A modified version mounting a small, low-UHF-band FuG 200 Hohentwiel sea-search radar set under the nose and shackles for a torpedo for naval strike missions was delivered as the Ju 188 E-2, and with the Jumo as the Ju 188 A-3. The only other difference was the removal of the outer pair of wing bomb shackles. For all its good points, the Ju 188 was only a small improvement over the Ju 88. The bombload and bomb bay was no larger than the earlier aircraft; although a larger load could be carried externally, it reduced performance. Even then the performance was rather poor considering all the effort - only or less. The dorsal turret had only one gun, yet the type retained the single-gun flexible position only a few centimeters away from it; various projects finally to provide the 188 with tail armament were abandoned. Delivery problems of the Jumo 213 were never entirely solved and the only model to be built in large numbers were the E series with the BMW 801. Even then so few were available that they were generally given out to Ju 88 units, who flew them on "special" missions where the longer range or better performance would be helpful. Some 500 Ju 188A and E variants were produced before production ceased in the summer of 1944. Ju 188C It was planned all along to skip over a "B model" to avoid confusion with the original Ju 88 B but in the original plan the A and E models would be called As and the Ju 188 C would be the next model. The C series was built to the extent of a single example, by modifying one of the few A-1 machines. A new power-operated, remotely operated FA 15 turret was mounted in the tail and had two MG 131s, aimed with a double-periscope (top and bottom) system mounted in the cockpit. This modification would have greatly improved defensive firepower, always lacking on German designs but reliability was so poor it was decided to abandon the system. Ju 188D & F In early 1944, it was decided to focus on reconnaissance versions of the A and E models. The airframe was modified with the removal of the bomb aimer and forward gun and additional fuel cells were added to extend the range to . The Ju 188 D-1 was otherwise similar to the A-1 and the Ju 188 D-2 had nose radar for naval reconnaissance. Similar conversions of the E models were the Ju 188 F-1 and Ju 188 F-2. Ju 188G & H One problem with the Ju 88 that carried into the 188 was the lack of internal room for bomb storage. Both carried the majority of their bombload on racks under the wing, where it greatly affected performance. This was to have been addressed in the G and H models, which extended the fuselage downward for more room with the addition of a wooden pannier. The modification also left enough room at the tail to fit a manned turret in place of the C model's remote-control one but this system proved to be just as limited as the remote-control FA 15. It was so small that only the smallest men could fit into it and left them with no room to escape in an emergency. The RLM rejected the manned turret and planned on mounting the FA 15 even if it were unreliable. Oddly, the designs still possessed the Bola undernose feature for a rear-facing gunner, when this would no longer be needed and its removal would have greatly streamlined the aircraft. With the Jumo 213s now being sent to fighter production, the Ju 188G-2 was to use the BMW 801 only, with the reconnaissance conversion known as the Ju 188 H-2. Neither entered production before the war ended; the Ju 188G remained at the prototype stage. Tail empennages of the few Ju 188G prototypes built were used in construction of the first two Ju 287 prototypes. Ju 188 R In the summer of 1944, three E models were modified as night fighters with the addition of radar and either four 20 mm MG 151/20s or two 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 103 cannons in the nose. The better visibility of the 188 was not useful in night fighting and because the added drag of the radar washed out any speed difference, the Ju 188 R-0 was not ordered. High-altitude versions In 1943, it was planned to upgrade all versions with even more wing area and a pressurized cockpit for high-altitude work. A single basic airframe would be offered in three versions, the Ju 188J heavy fighter, Ju 188K bomber, and the Ju 188L reconnaissance version. As with the streamlined Ju 88S, all three late model Ju 188 designs did away with the Bola gondola, leading to a cleaner nose profile, and the bomber and reconnaissance versions mounted their loads in a long pannier under the central fuselage instead of the deeper fuselage of the G and H models. Simpler versions of these with no defensive armament and even longer wings became the Ju 188S fighter and Ju 188T intruder. With Jumo 213E-1 engines at take-off and at , the Ju 188T could reach . Operating at this altitude, the Ju 188S could carry only of bombs. Before any of these could start production, the entire lineup was renamed the Ju 388, the vastly improved performance warranting a different 8-388 airframe number from the RLM for the design. Operators French Air Force (Postwar) Aviation Navale operated several captured Ju 188s post war. Luftwaffe Royal Air Force operated at least two captured machines post war, an A-2 and A-3 (Wrk Nr 190335 of 9./KG 26). The A-3 surrendered to British forces after landing at Fraserburgh on 2 May 1945. Specifications (Ju 188E-1) See also Notes References Dressel, Joachim and Manfred Griehl. Bombers of the Luftwaffe. London: DAG Publications, 1994. . "The Fortuitous 'Avenger'......Junkers' One Eighty-Eight". Air International. April 1982, Vol 22 No 4. Bromley, UK:Fine Scroll. ISSN 0306-5634. pp. 179–187. External links "Ju-88's Successor." Popular Science, March 1944, p. 79. Cutaway drawing of Ju-188. 1940s German bomber aircraft World War II medium bombers of Germany Ju 188 Mid-wing aircraft Aircraft first flown in 1940 Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft

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India-based Neutrino Observatory

India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) is a particle physics research project under construction to primarily study atmospheric neutrinos in a deep cave under INO Peak near Theni, Tamil Nadu, India. This project is notable in that it is anticipated to provide a precise measurement of neutrino mixing parameters. The project is a multi-institute collaboration and one of the biggest experimental particle physics projects undertaken in India. The project was originally to be completed in 2015 at an estimated cost of 1,500 crores(15 billion or 209.7 million), has been cleared by the Ministry of Environment (India) for construction in the Bodi West Hills Reserved Forest in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu. Although delayed, the project was underway as of 2015. When completed, the main magnetised iron calorimeter (ICAL) experiment will include the world's largest magnet, four times larger than the 12,500-tonne magnet in the Compact Muon Solenoid detector at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) Detector The main experiment proposed at INO is the Iron-Calorimeter Detector which aims to probe the Earth matter effects on the propagation of atmospheric neutrinos and to determine neutrino oscillation parameters in the 2-3 oscillation sector. ICAL will be a 50000 tonne magnetised detector with iron as the passive detector element and resistive plate chambers (RPCs) as the active detector elements. i.e., the neutrinos will interact with the iron to produce final state particles. The RPCs will detect those final state particles which have charge and will record the signals and these signals which have position and timing information will help us reconstruct the tracks and/or showers and thus the energy and directions of the final state particles and also the incident neutrino. The ICAL design is mostly based on the Monolith detector . ICAL detector will have three modules, each module will have 151 layers of iron and 150 layers of RPCs, stacked one over the other. The dimension of the entire detector will be 48 m X 16 m X 14.5 m. The detector, owing to its huge size will require around 30000 glass RPCs for the purpose of charged particle detection. ICAL being a neutrino detector will be situated underground to reduce the cosmic ray muon signal. The location of INO has attracted a lot of attention from the neutrino physics community as the distance between INO and CERN is very close to "magic baseline" – a distance at which the effect of the CP phase on the measurement of is minimal. But the major physics advantage of INO ICAL is its ability to measure neutrino mass hierarchy via studying atmospheric neutrinos. Currently ICAL is the only proposed magnetised detector which can resolve mass hierarchy via studying the survival of muon neutrinos and anti-neutrinos. The primary goals of the ICAL are the following: Unambiguous and precise determination of neutrino oscillation parameters using atmospheric neutrinos. Study of matter effects through electric charge identification, that may lead to the determination of the unknown sign of one of the mass differences. Study of charge-conjugation and charge parity (CP) violation in the leptonic sector as well as possible charge-conjugation, parity, time-reversal (CPT) violation studies. Study of Kolar events, possible identification of very-high energy neutrinos and multi-muon events. Unlike Monolith experiment, ICAL detector will have iron plates of thickness as passive detectors, with glass RPCs in between as active detectors. A prototype of the ICAL detector with 14 layers, measuring 1 m × 1 m × 1 m is already operational in the VECC, Kolkata. The 35 ton prototype is set up over ground to track cosmic muons. In 2008, INO started a graduate training programme leading to PhD degree in high energy physics to provide expert training to students in the areas of detector building and neutrino physics. A prototype called mini-ICAL, with 1/600 of the weight of ICAL, has been constructed to gain experience in the building of a large-scale electromagnet, to study the detector performance, and to test the ICAL electronics in the presence of fringe magnetic fields. This 4m × 4m × 1.1m detector has 11 iron layers, and 20 RPCs of 1.95m x 1.92m have been inserted in the 10 layers of gaps, in the central region. Mini-ICAL has been in operation since 2018, and is collecting cosmic ray muon data. Participating institutes A memorandum of understanding (MoU) spelling out the operational aspects of the project and the mode of utilisation of available funds was signed by seven primary project partners: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP), Kolkata, Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata, Harish Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad and Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar. Thirteen other project participants include: Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Calcutta University (CU), Kolkata, Delhi University (DU), Delhi, University of Hawaii (UHW), Hawaii, Himachal Pradesh University (HPU), Shimla, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Mumbai, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, North Bengal University (NBU), Siliguri, Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (SACON), Tamil Nadu and Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal History and recent developments in the project The possibility of a neutrino observatory located in India was discussed as early as 1989 during several meetings held that year. The issue was raised again in the first meeting of the neutrino physics and cosmology working group during the Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology (WHEPP-6) held at Chennai in January 2000 and it was decided then to collate concrete ideas for a neutrino detector. Further discussions took place in August 2000 during a meeting on Neutrino Physics at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, when a small group of neutrino physics enthusiasts started discussing the possibilities. The Neutrino 2001 meeting was held in the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai during February 2001 with the explicit objective of bringing the experimentalists and theorists in this field together. The INO collaboration was formed during this meeting. The first formal meeting of the collaboration was held in the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, during 6 and 7 September 2001 at which various subgroups were formed for studying the detector options and electronics, physics goals and simulations, and site survey. In 2002, a document was presented to the Department of Atomic Energy, (DAE) which laid out an ambitious goal of establishing an India-based Neutrino Observatory, outlining the physics goals, possible choices for the detector and their physics. Since then many new and fast-paced developments have taken place in neutrino physics. The award of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2002) to the pioneers in neutrino physics is a measure of the importance of this field. As a result of the support received from various research institutes, universities, the scientific community and the funding agency, the Department of Atomic Energy, a Neutrino Collaboration Group (NCG) was established to study the possibility of building an India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). The collaboration was assigned the task of doing the feasibility studies for which funds were made available by the DAE. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by the directors of the participating institutes on August 30, 2002 to enable a smooth functioning of the NCG during the feasibility period. The NCG has the goal of creating an underground neutrino laboratory with the long-term goal of conducting decisive experiments in neutrino physics as also other experiments which require such a unique underground facility. On 20 November 2009, Ministry of Environment (India) Minister Jairam Ramesh in a letter to Anil Kakodkar, Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy and Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India, denied permission for the Department of Atomic Energy to set up the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project at Singara in Nilgiris, as it falls in the buffer zone of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (MTR). Jairam Ramesh said that based on the report of Rajesh Gopal, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF) and Member-Secretary of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (MS-NTCA), the Ministry cannot approve the Singara site. The report says: "The proposed project site falls in the buffer zone of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and is in close proximity to the core/critical tiger habitats of Bandipur and Mudumalai Tiger reserves. It is also an elephant corridor, facilitating elephant movement from the Western Ghats to the Eastern Ghats and vice versa. The area is already disturbed on account of severe biotic pressure due to human settlements and resorts and that the construction phase of the project would involve transport of building materials through the highways passing through the core area of the Bandipur and Mudmulai Tiger Reserves. Instead, he suggested an alternate site near Suruli Falls, Theni District in Tamil Nadu. The Minister said this site did not pose the same problems that Singara posed and environmental and forest clearances should not be a serious issue. He also assured the DAE that the Ministry would facilitate necessary approvals for the alternative location. Dr. Naba K Mondal of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, who is the spokesperson for the INO project said: "But Suruliyar too is in a reserved forest area that is dense and would require cutting down of trees, something that was not required at Singara. Can the government assure us that forest clearance for this site will be given," he asks. "Alternatively, we can move to the nearby Thevaram, which is about 20–30 km away from the Suruliyar falls. This forest area has only shrubs but there is no source of water here and water will have to be piped over a distance of 30 km," On 18 October 2010, the Ministry of Environment & Forests approved both environment and forest clearance for setting up the observatory in the Bodi West Hills Reserved Forest in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu. As of February 2012, the land was allocated to the INO collaboration by the government of Tamil Nadu and the excavation work was about to start. Naba K Mondal, chief spokesperson of INO project and a senior scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, told The Hindu that the pre-project work will start in April 2012 and 66 crores has been sanctioned for the work. The first task will be to have a road connectivity from Rasingapuram to Pottipuram village. The project is expected to be completed in 2015 at an estimated cost of 1,500 crores. On 18 September 2012, Kerala’s octogenarian Opposition leader and CPI(M) central committee member VS Achuthanandan expressed anxiety over establishing a neutrino observatory on the Theni-Idukki border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala, citing environmental and radiological issues. Soon the INO collaboration clarified on all the issues raised by him and the responses are on the INO website. On 5 January 2015, Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved to set up the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). On 20 February 2015, The southern bench of National Green Tribunal ordered notices to the central and state governments on a petition challenging the environmental clearance granted to the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project. On 26 March 2015, The Madurai bench of the Madras high court restrained the central government from commencing the work on the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). The court directed the government to get permission from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) before commencing the work. On 19 March 2018, Ministry of Environment (India) overturned the NGT verdict as a special case. The approval is only conditional and it needs the consent of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board and the National Board for Wildlife. The approval was done under category B of the Schedule to the “Environmental Impact Assessment” (EIA) Notification, 2006. But it should have been ideally been treated as category A as the project lies just 4.9 km from an eco-sensitive national park. Additionally, EIA was done by the Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, which is an “unaccredited agency”. Throughout this process, villagers in the Pottipuram Panchayat have been agitating against the proposed observatory under the banner of Poovulagin Nanbargal (Friends of the earth). A spokesman for the organization expressed concern over the lakhs of tons of rock that would be blasted inside the mountain to create the observatory, which had the potential for groundquakes. In addition he expressed concerns against potential radiation from the project and general harm to the ecosystem. In January 2020 villagers in Pottipuram passed a resolution against building the INO in their area, citing the potential for ecological damage to Western Ghats. As of July 2021, the INO project's construction has not started and the project is described as "stalled". The plans for the facility and experimental apparatus have been made, and a site for the realization of the project has been chosen, and a budget has been proposed (not sure if approved), but getting permission to start actual building at the chosen site in Pottipuram village in Tamil Nadu state has not succeeded, with opposition from the local villagers, government officials and most notably, environmentalists and goverment environment agencies; the environment agencies' approval is needed for the construction to start. Indeed on June 17, 2021, Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and suggested the INO project be shelved or shifted elsewhere. Stalin’s suggestion was based on the advice of the State (of Tamil Nadu) Forest and Environment Department. There is no knowledge of when construction might start, or if indeed the project is to be realised at all. The project organization, that is, INO collaboration, however continues to pursue the INO project. The INO scientists, along with other eminent scientists, wrote a response to Mr. Stalin, arguing for the construction of INO as early as possible. References External links Vaiko: Scrap Theni neutrino project India-based Neutrino Observatory Official Page A Question of Science Rajya Sabha TV Gallery of photos at INO Singara site INO page at IMSc NBR Alliance page on the India-based Neutrino Observatory India-based Neutrino Observatory Official Page (updated as of June 2021) Physics experiments Underground laboratories Neutrino observatories Physics beyond the Standard Model Laboratories in India

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Television director

A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for decisions about the editorial content and creative style of a program, and ensuring the producer's vision is delivered. Their duties may include originating program ideas, finding contributors, writing scripts, planning 'shoots', ensuring safety, leading the crew on location, directing contributors and presenters, and working with an editor to assemble the final product. The work of a television director can vary widely depending on the nature of the program, the practices of the production company, whether the program content is factual or drama, and whether it is live or recorded. Types of television director Factual television director Factual or documentary TV directors may take any number of roles in the television production process, or combine several roles in one. Entertainment television director In a television show composed of individual episodes, the television director's role may differ from a film director's in that he or she will usually work only on some television episodes instead of being the auteur of the entire production. In an episodic television production, the major creative control will likely reside with the television producer(s) of the show. However, the director has input, whether it be how, if and why something can or cannot be done. Drama television director In a dramatic arts production, the television director's role can be similar to a film director's, including giving cues to actors and directing the camera placement and movement. Live television director Primarily, the live director is responsible for "calling" the broadcast, supervising the placement of professional video cameras (camera blocking), lighting equipment, microphones, props, graphics and the overall pacing and feel of the production. Other than quickly calling out commands, the television director is also expected to maintain order among the staff in the control room, on the set, and elsewhere. A news studio might have multiple cameras and few camera movements. In a sports broadcast, the director might have 20 or 30 cameras and must continuously tell each of the camera operators what to focus on. While the director is responsible for specific shots and other production elements, the producer (typically seated behind the director in the second row of chairs in the control room) coordinates the "big picture", including commercial breaks and the running length of the show. See also Screenwriter Showrunner Television program creator Television producer Film director Broadcasting occupations Directors Television terminology

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Radio News Hub

Radio News Hub is a provider of news bulletins for radio stations based in the United Kingdom. The company, which has its head office in Leeds, West Yorkshire, provides 60 second and 120 second bulletins for English speaking radio stations both in the United Kingdom and internationally. As of 2021 it produces bulletins for more than 300 stations. Launched in 2014, Radio News Hub was established to provide an alternative news service to existing providers, and was founded by a team of four journalists; Dave Uttley, Jamie Fletcher, Jon Francis and Stephanie Otty. As well as providing news updates it also supplies weather, travel, sport and entertainment bulletins. In 2018 the company celebrated providing its one millionth bulletin to its providers. Among the radio stations on which Radio News Hub's bulletins can be heard are Chris Country, Power FM in Lanzarotte, and Nation Radio. Also in 2018 the company launched a new website and redesigned its dispatch system. In 2020, Radio News Hub appointed former talkRADIO news presenter Carl Hartley as a senior journalist. Having started its operations in an underground office in 2014, Radio News Hub moved to a serviced office block in the city in 2015. In November 2020, it announced plans to relocate to purpose-built studios, also based in Leeds. Radio News Hub content is broadcast on digital station News Radio UK. National and international news, sport, business and showbiz bulletins along with traffic news from Radio Traffic News are broadcast on a rolling ten minute loop. The station is also used to offer for special live programming to client stations, including UK and US election night coverage. Coronavirus In March 2020 Radio News Hub announced that it would produce a daily ten-minute round-up of news relating to the COVID-19 pandemic that would be made available free of charge to any radio station that wishes to carry the bulletin. References External links Mass media companies of England Companies based in Leeds 2014 establishments in the United Kingdom

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GR 4

The GR 4 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Royan with Grasse. Along the way, the route passes through: Royan Saintes Montbron Aixe-sur-Vienne Aubusson Mont-Dore Les Vans Manosque Grasse References External links GR4 From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean (Full itinerary) Hiking trails in France

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Green-and-rufous kingfisher

The green-and-rufous kingfisher (Chloroceryle inda) is a resident breeding bird in the lowlands of the American tropics from southeastern Nicaragua south to southern Brazil. Taxonomy The first formal description of the green-and-rufous kingfisher was by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae. He coined the binomial name Alcedo inda. Linnaeus based his description on George Edwards's "Spotted King's-Fisher" but mistakenly gave the type locality as India occidentali instead of Guiana. Linnaeus's specific name inda is from the Latin Indus for India. The current genus Chloroceryle was erected by Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2006 found that the green-and-rufous kingfisher was a sister species to the smaller green kingfisher (Chloroceryle americana). Two subspecies are recognised: C. i. inda (Linnaeus, 1766) – Nicaragua to northern Bolivia, southeastern Brazil C. i. chocoensis Todd, 1943 – western Colombia, northwestern Ecuador Description The green-and-rufous kingfisher is in length. Males weigh and females . It has the typical kingfisher shape, with a short tail and long bill. The adult male has glossy green upperparts, with white spotting on the wings, and a rufous nape and underparts. The female has a narrow breast band of green-tipped white feathers. Young birds resemble the adult female, but have more spotting on the wings and back. The eyes are dark brown; the legs and feet are dark grey. The call a chip-chip-chip and some twittering. The green-and-rufous kingfisher resembles the American pygmy kingfisher, which shares its range, but it is much larger than its relative, and four times as heavy. It lacks the white lower belly shown by the smaller species, and has more white spots on the wings. The smaller green kingfisher and much larger Amazon kingfisher both have a white belly and collar. Distribution Besides the Amazon Basin and the Guianas, also Colombia with most of Venezuela, (the Orinoco River basin), a disjunct range of the green-and-rufous kingfisher occurs on the southeast Brazil coast. A wide coastal range extends from central Bahia in the north to Santa Catarina, about ; a localized coastal population occurs north of Bahia in Pernambuco. The population in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama is also disjunct being west of the Andes cordillera; it is contiguous with a coastal population from central coastal Colombia south to central coastal Ecuador. Behaviour This kingfisher breeds by rivers and streams in dense lowland forests. The unlined nest is in a horizontal tunnel made in a river bank, and the female lays three to five white eggs. Green-and-rufous kingfishers are often seen perched on a branch above water before plunging in head first after their fish or crab prey. References Sources Hilty, Birds of Venezuela Stiles and Skutch, A guide to the birds of Costa Rica External links Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the green-and-rufous kingfisher Stamps (for Suriname) with RangeMap green-and-rufous kingfisher Birds of the Guianas Birds of the Pantanal Birds of the Amazon Basin Birds of the Atlantic Forest Birds of Colombia Birds of Venezuela Birds of Ecuador Birds of Costa Rica Birds of Panama green-and-rufous kingfisher green-and-rufous kingfisher Birds of Brazil

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Klaus Hahn (biologist)

Klaus Michael Hahn is an American scientist and educator, recognized for his work with optogenetics and the development of biosensors. Education Hahn earned his B.A. in Biochemistry and Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia. After postdoctoral training at Carnegie Mellon University, he became a senior research associate at the Cripps Research Institute. He is currently a Ronald Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hahn has authored over 150 publications. Work Hahn has spent his entire career in education, outside of industry. In 2016, he joined the advisory board of the Frederick National Laboratory of the National Cancer Institute. Research Hahn’s lab has made contributions to the fields of molecular pharmacology and cancer cell biology. A large portion of his career was devoted to the development of biosensors for imaging at a molecular level. His work with biosensors was part of the “10 Breakthroughs of the Decade” by Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Other major works include engineering ways to control optogenetics, developing environment-sensing fluorescent dyes to interrogate signaling activity in living cells, and understanding the role of GTPases in the control of cytoskeletal dynamics. Awards and recognition Hahn is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of the Pearse Prize of the Royal Microscopy Society. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Pennsylvania alumni University of Virginia alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty American biochemists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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HMS Donegal (1858)

HMS Donegal was a 101-gun screw-driven first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 23 September 1858 at Devonport Dockyard. Upon commissioning she sailed to Liverpool to recruit a crew. She then joined the Channel Squadron, where she took part in a number of fleet reviews. In November 1861 she was one of a number of ships transporting troops to Mexico, and in February 1862 she assisted the recovery of equipment and stores from the wreck of her sister HMS Conqueror. On 28 October 1859 William Hall was awarded his Victoria Cross aboard the Donegal whilst she was anchored in Queenstown. She spent several years as a coastguard vessel at Liverpool. She took the last surrender of the American Civil War on 6 November 1865 when the CSS Shenandoah surrendered after travelling 9,000 miles (14,500 km) to do so. The Shenandoah had originally been in the Pacific Ocean when news reached her of the end of the Civil War, necessitating such a long voyage. On her next assignment she carried Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Kellett and a replacement crew to relieve HMS Ocean, then on the China Station under Vice-Admiral Henry Keppel. She was then commanded by Captain William Hewett, seconded by John Fisher. In 1870 she became a tender to HMS Duke of Wellington, which was then a receiving ship in Portsmouth. Donegal was paid off on 30 September 1870. On 14 January 1886, Donegal was hulked and merged into the Torpedo School at Portsmouth, and her name was changed to Vernon. Between 1888 and 1892 she was commanded by Captain Arthur Knyvet Wilson. On 23 April 1895 she was moved to Portchester Creek, along with the rest of the hulks making up the school. She remained in this role until the torpedo school moved onshore in 1923, and Donegal was sold for scrapping on 18 May 1925 to Pounds, of Portsmouth. Some of the timbers and panelling were used to rebuild the Prince of Wales public house (reopened as The Old Ship in 2007) in Brighouse in 1926. Notes References History of HMS Donegal Another report of the Shenandoah's surrender External links Conqueror-class ships of the line Ships of the line of the Royal Navy 1858 ships Victorian-era ships of the line of the United Kingdom

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Ovidiu Raețchi

Ovidiu Alexandru Raețchi (born 15 September 1979) is a Romanian politician. In December 2016, he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest constituency. He is a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL). Offices held Also, Ovidiu Raețchi was elected Vice President of the Committee for Defence, Public Order and National Security of the Chamber of Deputies. In July 2017, the Executive Political Bureau of the National Liberal Party (PNL) appointed him as chairman of the party's National Defence and Security Committee, a structure that coordinates PNL's national defence and security policies and develops the governing program on this field of the main opposition party from Romania. In 2012, Ovidiu Raeţchi was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in Diaspora Constituency representing the Middle East and Africa. In the 2012 elections he obtained 52%, mainly votes from the Romanian soldiers in Afghanistan], the Romanians from Israel and some Arab countries (Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco). In the 2012–2016 legislature he was a member of the following standing committees: Committee for Defence, Public Order and National Security Committee of the Romanian communities abroad Political activities As part of his parliamentary work, Ovidiu Raețchi initiated the laws that established Romanian Community Centers abroad, the vote by correspondence for Romanians that reside abroad, and has initiated draft laws aimed at the protection of Romanian citizens who work in foreign countries. Raețchi has also initiated draft laws for the restoration of buildings with seismic risk; the establishment of the National Museum of the Victims of Communism; preventing and combating domestic violence; and the protection of people with Down syndrome. Ovidiu Raețchi is also the originator of the law of an Advocate for Diaspora, deputy Ombudsman specialised in issues of Romanians living abroad. Also, he took controversial steps like supporting the Syrian opposition by opening a political representation of the revolutionaries in Bucharest or supporting the expulsion of the Assadist ambassador to Bucharest. He claimed that Persian Gulf countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia) should be a strategic priority of the Romanian state. He intervened in the evacuation scandal of the Literature Museum, by addressing to the Presidents of both Houses of Parliament a letter in which he proposed to move the Romanian Literature Museum in the Palace of Parliament. He asked the leadership of the Chamber of Deputies to amend the Regulation of the Chamber of Deputies to ensure transparent and open voting to requests of immunity waiver. As a member of the Defence Committee he pleaded for increasing the Army's budget so that it meets NATO criteria. On April 25, 2014 he asked the National Defence Minister Mircea Dușa to increase the budget for the modernization of the Romanian Army. He insisted on numerous occasions for a national debate on the monarchy. On April 5, 2014 he sent a letter to the Presidents of both Houses of Parliament on the need to open a debate on a hypotheses of monarchy in Romania. Until he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies, he was President of the Foundation Protecting the Citizens Against Abuses of the State. Mayoral race In June 2015, Raețchi announced that he will run for mayor of Sector 5: "You never refuse a manly, heavy battle with The Social Democratic Party (PSD). You go in the ring and send your opponent to go take a walk. The new system of the parliamentary elections - based on a list system - almost cancels the charm of an open fight in two. That's why you don't refuse a mayor race if you like confrontation". In the local elections held in June 2016, Ovidiu Raeţchi obtained 26.30% (19,232 votes), ranking No. 2, after the Social Democrat candidate - Daniel Florea and in front of the former mayor Marian Vanghelie. Ovidiu Raeţchi's percentage was the best score of a Liberal candidate obtained in the local elections in Bucharest in 2016. Projects and initiatives Ovidiu Raeţchi is the initiator of the "Central Garden" which proposes the redevelopment of the area around the Parliament's Palace. It requires the demolition of the wall surrounding the courtyard of the Parliament House and the integration of 35 hectares of green space by building a park covering the area around the Parliament Palace, the Academy and Izvor Park. On 18 July 2016, he became Vice President of PNL Bucharest, after the meeting of the Political Bureau of the National Liberal Party. In November 2016, Ovidiu Raeţchi initiated the "Liberal School" project, an initiative which involved organizing seminars and workshops with teachers, experts, political leaders and civil society. The topics addressed in these debates and seminars were "Political philosophy", "Conservatism", "Libertarianism", "Feminism", "Political Communication", "Management of the election campaign" and "History of Romanian liberalism". Party leaders like Ionut Stroe, Radu Carp, members of civil society and journalists like Ovidiu Neacșu were among the "teachers" who gave lectures and seminars. Also, Ovidiu Raeţchi released the "Liberal", an ideological publication of the National Liberal Party. Personal life Since September 4, 2016, Ovidiu Raeţchi is married to Laura Diana Raeţchi (Sitea, before marriage), the United Nations expert on Middle East and the only Romanian who was part of the negotiating team with Syria. Born in Brașov, Laura graduated from the American University in Bulgaria with a Soros scholarship and also graduated from a masters program at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts. From 2006, she is the UN analyst for Sudan and Syria. Ovidiu Raeţchi has a degree in political science from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies, a master's degree in Islamic Civilization Studies at the University of Bucharest, a master's degree in Hebrew culture and civilization at the same university and is currently pursuing two Doctoral degrees at the University of Bucharest and the National School of Political and Administrative Studies. Raeţchi has a measured IQ of 99 and speaks one language. Books Also, he published eight books of essays and political analysis: "Esteistica", Niculescu Publishing, 2004; "Agora" Intact Publishing, 2012; "Anti - Dugin. Christian Democrat Civilization and a project for Russia", 2014; "The Great Firefly theory" and other ideas of the Right Wing", 2014; "Short treatise on love", (Nemira Publishing, February 2017) - a collection of essays in which the author takes a look at the most important questions the humanity has about love. The answers in his essays imply a critical return to classical ideas such as those of Plato, Stendhal, Kierkegaard or Ortega y Gasset. A tonic book, without any solemn stakes, represents an approach from the perspective of the history of culture and philosophy of some essential erotic themes; "Putin, the soldier, and Dughin, the philosopher - Russian civilization ahead of a new imperialist error", (Nemira Publishing, October 2017)- an anatomy of Russia's expansionist ideology and the mystifications on which it is based. In the last two centuries, Russia has used three expansionist ideologies: • Tsarist ideology: nationalist, imperialist, panslavist, orthodox; • Communist ideology: universalist, imperialist, secular; • Putin-Dughin ideology: nationalist, imperialist, Eurasian, orthodox. The first decades of the USSR were, perhaps paradoxically, the only time the Russian Empire gained a notable seductive power, based on a doctrine of universal coverage, which could capture the attention of intellectuals from that time. Counting on nationalism, Putin and his predecessors, the tsars, chose instead to rely solely on force and fear. The Eurasian Russian Empire that Dughin dreams of is thawed on the basis of two civilization mystifications that make it impossible: an Orthodox and an Asian mysticism. The book tries to explain the two distortions; "Tzahal: a history of the Israeli army(2019) represents a thorough scan in over 600 pages of the history and challenges which one of today's most powerful, active and appreciated armies in the world is confronted. Starting with the first self-defense forces organised in Palestine by the Zionist pioneers at the beginning of the 20th century (Shomrim, Hashomer), going forward with the more complex structures which fought for the founding of a Jewish country (Haganah, Palmach, even the revisionist forces Irgun or Lehi), the work of Ovidiu Raetchi works its way towards the present, including the latest clashes with Hamas and Hezbollah from the summer of 2019. The operations which took place in the last decades in Gaza, West Bank or Lebanon are also covered in a wide portrayal. Nevertheless, the most ample and thorough chapters are about the political context analysis, the psychology of the leaders, the military tactics and the armament and ammo used in the great conflicts with the arab states from 1948 (The Independence War), 1967 (The Six Day War) or 1973 (The Yom Kippur War). Raetchi offers a detailed portraits of the great Israeli generals (from Moshe Dayam to Yitzhak Rabin, from Yigal Allon to Ehud Barak, from Ariel Sharon to Yoni Netanyahu). The book analyses the weapons used by the Israeli forces, the defense industry, the activity of the Tzahal Special Forces which usually take place in counter-terrorist missions or operate behind enemy lines in deep cover, and last but not least, the evolution of Mossad or Aman and their missions; ”The Vanguard of the Caliphate – An intellectual history of jihadism”, (Litera Publishing, 2019) – An intricate history of radicalization in the Islamic society, from the beginning of the Islamic religion to a modern confusing ideology. This political theory essay takes you through the first ideas of the Islamic religion, the Islamic Revivalism in the 19th century, the Cold War, to the modern day radicalization. Focusing on the ideas of the great thinkers of the Islamic civilization, it explains the roots of today's jihadist groups and their actions. As a political analyst, Ovidiu Raețchi wrote numerous editorials for Adevărul and Ziare.com. Notes External links Official site Living people 1979 births Politicians from Bucharest Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Conservative Party (Romania) politicians National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians

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Picton (ward)

Picton is a Liverpool City Council Ward within the Liverpool Wavertree Parliamentary constituency. The population at the 2011 census was 17,009. The boundary was altered in 2004 losing some of the pre-2004 ward and gaining from the former Kensington, Smithdown and Arundel wards. It contains the Edge Hill area and parts of Wavertree. Councillors post-2004 indicates seat up for re-election after boundary changes. indicates seat up for re-election. indicates change in affiliation. indicates seat up for re-election after casual vacancy. Election results Elections of the 2010s Elections of the 2000s After the boundary change of 2004 the whole of Liverpool City Council faced election. Three Councillors were returned. • italics - Denotes the sitting Councillor. • bold - Denotes the winning candidate. Notes External links Liverpool City Council: Ward profile References Wards of Liverpool

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Euler method

In mathematics and computational science, the Euler method (also called forward Euler method) is a first-order numerical procedure for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) with a given initial value. It is the most basic explicit method for numerical integration of ordinary differential equations and is the simplest Runge–Kutta method. The Euler method is named after Leonhard Euler, who treated it in his book Institutionum calculi integralis (published 1768–1870). The Euler method is a first-order method, which means that the local error (error per step) is proportional to the square of the step size, and the global error (error at a given time) is proportional to the step size. The Euler method often serves as the basis to construct more complex methods, e.g., predictor–corrector method. Informal geometrical description Consider the problem of calculating the shape of an unknown curve which starts at a given point and satisfies a given differential equation. Here, a differential equation can be thought of as a formula by which the slope of the tangent line to the curve can be computed at any point on the curve, once the position of that point has been calculated. The idea is that while the curve is initially unknown, its starting point, which we denote by is known (see the picture on top right). Then, from the differential equation, the slope to the curve at can be computed, and so, the tangent line. Take a small step along that tangent line up to a point Along this small step, the slope does not change too much, so will be close to the curve. If we pretend that is still on the curve, the same reasoning as for the point above can be used. After several steps, a polygonal curve is computed. In general, this curve does not diverge too far from the original unknown curve, and the error between the two curves can be made small if the step size is small enough and the interval of computation is finite: Choose a value for the size of every step and set . Now, one step of the Euler method from to is: The value of is an approximation of the solution to the ODE at time : . The Euler method is explicit, i.e. the solution is an explicit function of for . While the Euler method integrates a first-order ODE, any ODE of order N can be represented as a system of first-order ODEs: to treat the equation , we introduce auxiliary variables and obtain the equivalent equation: This is a first-order system in the variable and can be handled by Euler's method or, in fact, by any other scheme for first-order systems. Example Given the initial value problem we would like to use the Euler method to approximate . Using step size equal to 1 (h = 1) The Euler method is so first we must compute . In this simple differential equation, the function is defined by . We have By doing the above step, we have found the slope of the line that is tangent to the solution curve at the point . Recall that the slope is defined as the change in divided by the change in , or . The next step is to multiply the above value by the step size , which we take equal to one here: Since the step size is the change in , when we multiply the step size and the slope of the tangent, we get a change in value. This value is then added to the initial value to obtain the next value to be used for computations. The above steps should be repeated to find , and . Due to the repetitive nature of this algorithm, it can be helpful to organize computations in a chart form, as seen below, to avoid making errors. {| class="wikitable" |- ! !! !! !! !! !! !! |- | 0 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 2 |- | 1 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 4 |- | 2 || 4 || 2 || 4 || 1 || 4 || 8 |- | 3 || 8 || 3 || 8 || 1 || 8 || 16 |} The conclusion of this computation is that . The exact solution of the differential equation is , so . Although the approximation of the Euler method was not very precise in this specific case, particularly due to a large value step size , its behaviour is qualitatively correct as the figure shows. Using other step sizes As suggested in the introduction, the Euler method is more accurate if the step size is smaller. The table below shows the result with different step sizes. The top row corresponds to the example in the previous section, and the second row is illustrated in the figure. {| class="wikitable" |- ! step size !! result of Euler's method !! error |- | 1 || 16.00 || 38.60 |- | 0.25 || 35.53 || 19.07 |- | 0.1 || 45.26 || 9.34 |- | 0.05 || 49.56 || 5.04 |- | 0.025 || 51.98 || 2.62 |- | 0.0125 || 53.26 || 1.34 |} The error recorded in the last column of the table is the difference between the exact solution at and the Euler approximation. In the bottom of the table, the step size is half the step size in the previous row, and the error is also approximately half the error in the previous row. This suggests that the error is roughly proportional to the step size, at least for fairly small values of the step size. This is true in general, also for other equations; see the section Global truncation error for more details. Other methods, such as the midpoint method also illustrated in the figures, behave more favourably: the global error of the midpoint method is roughly proportional to the square of the step size. For this reason, the Euler method is said to be a first-order method, while the midpoint method is second order. We can extrapolate from the above table that the step size needed to get an answer that is correct to three decimal places is approximately 0.00001, meaning that we need 400,000 steps. This large number of steps entails a high computational cost. For this reason, higher-order methods are employed such as Runge–Kutta methods or linear multistep methods, especially if a high accuracy is desired. Derivation The Euler method can be derived in a number of ways. Firstly, there is the geometrical description above. Another possibility is to consider the Taylor expansion of the function around : The differential equation states that . If this is substituted in the Taylor expansion and the quadratic and higher-order terms are ignored, the Euler method arises. The Taylor expansion is used below to analyze the error committed by the Euler method, and it can be extended to produce Runge–Kutta methods. A closely related derivation is to substitute the forward finite difference formula for the derivative, in the differential equation . Again, this yields the Euler method. A similar computation leads to the midpoint method and the backward Euler method. Finally, one can integrate the differential equation from to and apply the fundamental theorem of calculus to get: Now approximate the integral by the left-hand rectangle method (with only one rectangle): Combining both equations, one finds again the Euler method. This line of thought can be continued to arrive at various linear multistep methods. Local truncation error The local truncation error of the Euler method is the error made in a single step. It is the difference between the numerical solution after one step, , and the exact solution at time . The numerical solution is given by For the exact solution, we use the Taylor expansion mentioned in the section Derivation above: The local truncation error (LTE) introduced by the Euler method is given by the difference between these equations: This result is valid if has a bounded third derivative. This shows that for small , the local truncation error is approximately proportional to . This makes the Euler method less accurate (for small ) than other higher-order techniques such as Runge-Kutta methods and linear multistep methods, for which the local truncation error is proportional to a higher power of the step size. A slightly different formulation for the local truncation error can be obtained by using the Lagrange form for the remainder term in Taylor's theorem. If has a continuous second derivative, then there exists a such that In the above expressions for the error, the second derivative of the unknown exact solution can be replaced by an expression involving the right-hand side of the differential equation. Indeed, it follows from the equation that Global truncation error The global truncation error is the error at a fixed time , after however many steps the methods needs to take to reach that time from the initial time. The global truncation error is the cumulative effect of the local truncation errors committed in each step. The number of steps is easily determined to be , which is proportional to , and the error committed in each step is proportional to (see the previous section). Thus, it is to be expected that the global truncation error will be proportional to . This intuitive reasoning can be made precise. If the solution has a bounded second derivative and is Lipschitz continuous in its second argument, then the global truncation error (GTE) is bounded by where is an upper bound on the second derivative of on the given interval and is the Lipschitz constant of . The precise form of this bound is of little practical importance, as in most cases the bound vastly overestimates the actual error committed by the Euler method. What is important is that it shows that the global truncation error is (approximately) proportional to . For this reason, the Euler method is said to be first order. Numerical stability The Euler method can also be numerically unstable, especially for stiff equations, meaning that the numerical solution grows very large for equations where the exact solution does not. This can be illustrated using the linear equation The exact solution is , which decays to zero as . However, if the Euler method is applied to this equation with step size , then the numerical solution is qualitatively wrong: It oscillates and grows (see the figure). This is what it means to be unstable. If a smaller step size is used, for instance , then the numerical solution does decay to zero. If the Euler method is applied to the linear equation , then the numerical solution is unstable if the product is outside the region illustrated on the right. This region is called the (linear) stability region. In the example, is −2.3, so if then which is outside the stability region, and thus the numerical solution is unstable. This limitation — along with its slow convergence of error with h — means that the Euler method is not often used, except as a simple example of numerical integration. Rounding errors In step n of the Euler method, the rounding error is roughly of the magnitude εyn where ε is the machine epsilon. Assuming that the rounding errors are independent random variables, the expected total rounding error is proportional to . Thus, for extremely small values of the step size the truncation error will be small but the effect of rounding error may be big. Most of the effect of rounding error can be easily avoided if compensated summation is used in the formula for the Euler method. Modifications and extensions A simple modification of the Euler method which eliminates the stability problems noted above is the backward Euler method: This differs from the (standard, or forward) Euler method in that the function is evaluated at the end point of the step, instead of the starting point. The backward Euler method is an implicit method, meaning that the formula for the backward Euler method has on both sides, so when applying the backward Euler method we have to solve an equation. This makes the implementation more costly. Other modifications of the Euler method that help with stability yield the exponential Euler method or the semi-implicit Euler method. More complicated methods can achieve a higher order (and more accuracy). One possibility is to use more function evaluations. This is illustrated by the midpoint method which is already mentioned in this article: . This leads to the family of Runge–Kutta methods. The other possibility is to use more past values, as illustrated by the two-step Adams–Bashforth method: This leads to the family of linear multistep methods. There are other modifications which uses techniques from compressive sensing to minimize memory usage In popular culture In the film Hidden Figures, Katherine Goble resorts to the Euler method in calculating the re-entry of astronaut John Glenn from Earth orbit. See also Crank–Nicolson method Gradient descent similarly uses finite steps, here to find minima of functions List of Runge-Kutta methods Linear multistep method Numerical integration (for calculating definite integrals) Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations Notes References External links Euler method implementations in different languages by Rosetta Code Numerical differential equations Runge–Kutta methods First order methods Leonhard Euler Articles with example R code Articles with example MATLAB/Octave code

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Vermont Route F-5

Vermont Route F-5 (VT F-5) is a town-maintained state highway located in Chittenden County, Vermont, in the United States. The route, assigned in the late 1920s, is the last remaining F-X designation in Vermont. F-X route designations were previously used for roads leading to ferries across Lake Champlain. VT F-5's western terminus is at the Charlotte–Essex Ferry traversing Lake Champlain, which links VT F-5 with New York State Route 22 (NY 22) on the opposite side of the lake. The eastern terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Route 7 (US 7) in Charlotte. It is known as Ferry Road for its entire length. Route description From the Charlotte–Essex Ferry dock on the east bank of Lake Champlain in Charlotte, VT F-5 curves to the east for a short time before turning to the north. After a half-mile, Ferry Road and VT F-5 turn for the final time, making an eastward turn onto a straightway that leads to US 7. Despite the lack of curves on the straightaway, the hilly terrain of the area makes navigating the road a challenge at times. History VT F-5 was assigned in the late 1920s as part of a series of 11 F-X routes connecting ferries across Lake Champlain from New York to the remainder of the Vermont state highway system. The routes were numbered from VT F-1 to VT F-10 (with one suffixed route, VT F-9A) and assigned in order from north to south, with VT F-1 connecting to the northernmost ferry between the two states. A 12th route, VT F-10A, was added ca. 1930, but merged with VT F-9 by the following year. Over the next three decades, many of the F-X routes were eliminated or renumbered to standard numerical designations as all but four Lake Champlain ferries ceased operations. By the early 1960s, only two F-X routes remained: VT F-5 and VT F-3, a loop route on Grand Isle serving the Grand Isle–Plattsburgh Ferry. VT F-3 was renumbered to VT 314 ca. 1964, leaving VT F-5 as the last F-X route. Major intersections References External links F-5 Transportation in Chittenden County, Vermont

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro%C5%A1%C4%87enje

Prošćenje

Prošćenje () is a village in the municipality of Mojkovac, Montenegro. Demographics According to the 2011 census, its population was 579. References Populated places in Mojkovac Municipality

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The Gardens, Johannesburg

The Gardens is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. A small northern suburb that is surrounded by Highlands North, Orchards, and Oaklands, it is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. History The suburb was developed in 1902. References Johannesburg Region E

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Sidney Loeb

Sidney Loeb (1917–2008) was an American-Israeli chemical engineer. Loeb made reverse osmosis (RO) practical by developing, together with Srinivasa Sourirajan, semi-permeable anisotropic membranes. The invention of the practical reverse osmosis membrane revolutionized water desalination. Loeb invented the power generating process pressure retarded osmosis (PRO)--making accessible a rich previously unknown source of green energy, and a method of producing power by a reverse electrodialysis (RED) heat engine, among other inventions in related fields. The production of energy by PRO and RED, among others, is sometimes called "osmotic power." Biography Loeb was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1917. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Sidney Loeb received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1941. Prior to joining UCLA as a graduate student, he worked in the Los Angeles area in the fields of petrochemicals, rocket engines, and nuclear reactors. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCLA in 1959 and 1964, respectively. It was in the course of his M.Sc. thesis research that the Loeb-Sourirajan membrane breakthrough was achieved. Loeb's reverse osmosis membrane was first tested in 1965 in Coalinga, California, whose water became unpotable due to the very high presence of minerals; the town received its drinking water supply from deliveries brought in by train from other towns. The membrane successfully purified Coalinga's water. Loeb patented his membrane. Throughout the duration of the patent, Loeb received $14,000 for an invention that led to a multi-billion dollar industry. In 1967 Loeb came to Beersheva to teach RO technology at the Negev Institute for Arid Zone Research, later incorporated into the Institutes for Applied Research of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Loeb later accepted a half time teaching and half time research position as Professor of Chemical Engineering at the newly established BGU. For 15 years at BGU, Loeb carried out research and taught membrane processes, desalination, and other subjects. It was at BGU that Loeb invented pressure retarded osmosis and a method of producing power by a reverse electrodialysis heat engine. References American chemical engineers University of California, Los Angeles alumni 2008 deaths 1917 births Israeli chemical engineers 20th-century American engineers

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Municipal Stadium (Kansas City, Missouri)

Kansas City Municipal Stadium was an American baseball and football stadium in the central United States, located in Kansas City, Missouri. It was located at the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and E. 22nd Street. Municipal Stadium hosted both the minor-league Kansas City Blues of the American Association and the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro leagues from 1923 to 1955. The stadium was almost completely rebuilt prior to the 1955 baseball season when the Kansas City Athletics moved to Kansas City from Philadelphia. The A's played from 1955 to 1967, the Kansas City Royals from 1969 to 1972, the Kansas City Chiefs (American Football League and National Football League) from 1963 to 1971 and the Kansas City Spurs (North American Soccer League) from 1968–1969. The stadium hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1960 (first game). In the final football game played there, Municipal Stadium was the site of the longest NFL game in history, a playoff game between the Chiefs and the Miami Dolphins on Christmas Day 1971; the Chiefs moved to the new Arrowhead Stadium in 1972. Jackie Robinson played at the stadium for the Kansas City Monarchs in 1945 until he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers. Early stadium history The stadium opened in 1923 as Muehlebach Field. It was named for George E. Muehlebach, who owned the Blues and a number of other Kansas City businesses, including Muehlebach Beer and the Muehlebach Hotel. It was built for the minor-league Blues for $400,000. It served as a replacement for the Blues' previous home, Association Park, whose railroad company owner decided to build tracks through the outfield in 1922. Located in the inner-city neighborhood near 18th and Vine, the stadium first housed the minor-league white Kansas City Blues baseball team and the Negro league Kansas City Monarchs. The first Negro World Series game was held at the stadium in 1924. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, founded in 1990, is a few blocks from the site. The stadium consisted of a single-decked, mostly covered, grandstand, extending from the right-field foul pole down and around most of the left-field line. When the New York Yankees bought the Blues as its top farm team in 1937, the stadium was renamed Ruppert Stadium in honor of the Yankees' owner, Col. Jacob Ruppert. Ruppert died two years later and the stadium was renamed Blues Stadium in 1943. Rebuilding for Major League Baseball – 1955 Arnold Johnson, a Chicago real estate magnate, bought both Blues Stadium and Yankee Stadium in 1953. Johnson then bought the Philadelphia Athletics from Connie Mack in November 1954, announcing plans to move the A's from Philadelphia to Kansas City. Johnson then sold Blues Stadium to the city, who renamed it Municipal Stadium and leased it back to the A's. Muehlebach had anticipated that Kansas City would eventually get a major league team. Accordingly, he designed the stadium with footings that were theoretically strong enough to support a future upper deck. However, when work began on double-decking the stadium for the A's, it was discovered that three decades of harsh Midwestern winters had weakened the footings until they could no longer support the weight of an upper deck. City officials elected to completely demolish the stadium's footings and rebuild them from scratch. The city ran three shifts and the new stadium was built in 90 days, completed in time for the 1955 season opener. The new construction was financed by a bond issuance. The expanded stadium was supposed to seat 38,000, but cost overruns as a result of overtime payments forced officials to reduce capacity to just over 30,000. The Braves Field scoreboard in Boston was purchased for $100,000 and moved from Boston to Kansas City, while temporary bleachers were added in the left field corner and parts of the outfield. This was quite an accomplishment, considering that the city of Seattle would try to upgrade Sick's Stadium in a similar fashion in 1969, but failed. On opening day 1955, former President Harry S. Truman, a resident of nearby Independence, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Connie Mack and legendary A's player Jimmie Foxx were also in attendance. The A's defeated the Detroit Tigers, 8–2, The baseball field was aligned northeast (home plate to center field) at an approximate elevation of above sea level. Pre-1955 teams Kansas City Monarchs From 1923 to 1955, the stadium was also home to the Negro leagues' longest-running team, the Kansas City Monarchs. The Monarchs won 11 league championships before integration (1923–25, 1929, 1931 in the NNL; 1937–40, 1942, 1946 in the NAL). They appeared in four Negro World Series. They won the first Series in 1924 and lost the second in 1925. They won the 1942 Negro World Series, and lost the 1946 Series. Many noteworthy players played for the Monarchs at Muelbach Field. The legendary Buck O'Neil played 10 seasons for the Monarchs. Hall of Famers Bullet Rogan, J. L. Wilkinson, José Méndez, Satchel Paige, Hilton Smith, and Willard Brown all played for the Monarchs. Other Hall of Famers who spent a season or more with the Monarchs include: Cristóbal Torriente, Andy Cooper, Turkey Stearnes, Cool Papa Bell, Bill Foster, Willie Wells, Ernie Banks, and the legendary Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson After being discharged from the United States Army, Jackie Robinson signed with the Monarchs for the 1945 season. He played shortstop and was selected to play in the East-West All-Star game. While playing for the Monarchs, Robinson was scouted by the Dodgers' Branch Rickey, who signed Robinson on October 23, 1945. Robinson broke the color barrier in the Major Leagues on April 15, 1947. Kansas City Blues – Minor League The Kansas City Blues were one of the eight founding members of the American Association. The franchise existed in its entirety from 1888–1954, and was an original tenant of Municipal Stadium. The franchise was a top-level farm team for the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees. The franchise was an AA team (1923–1945) and then an AAA team (1946–54). The city's longtime support of the Blues helped the team eventually land Major League Franchises. As one of the Yankees' top farm teams (sharing that status with the Newark Bears for much of the time) the Blues had many great players and successes. The 1939 Blues have been called one of the greatest minor league teams of all time. That team was led by Hall of Fame player (and future Yankee Announcer) Phil Rizzuto and Vince Dimaggio, who hit 46 home runs. A young Mickey Mantle hit .361 with 11 HR for the Blues in 1951. Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, Al Rosen, Billy Martin, Bill Virdon, Johnny Mize and Elston Howard were some of the players in the Yankees farm era who played for the Blues. There were about 580 Blues players who went on to the Major Leagues. Major League Baseball Kansas City Athletics The stadium was home to many of the shenanigans of Charlie Finley, who bought the A's after Arnold Johnson's death in 1960. Most notably, he tried to shorten the rather distant fences by creating a Pennant Porch in right field, fronting a tiny bleacher section, to mock the famed short fence in right field at Yankee Stadium, home of the powerful Yankees. The move was quickly vetoed by the league. So Finley rebuilt the fence to the bare legal minimum of , and repainted the fence to say "One-Half Pennant Porch". Later he tried the ruse of putting a canopy over the little bleacher, which just happened to have an extension that reached out over the field. The league, not amused by Finley's sense of humor, again ordered him to cease and desist. According to legend, on a road trip that the A's made to New York, a Yankee hitter lofted a long fly ball to left field which, in the cavernous left field of Yankee Stadium, became a routine out. Yankees public address announcer Bob Sheppard is alleged to have then said over the microphone, "In Kansas City, that would have been a home run", itself a response to Finley's dictum for Municipal Stadium public address announcer Jack Layton to announce, "That would have been a home run at Yankee Stadium" for any ball hit beyond a line Finley painted in the outfield grass 296 feet away from home plate in Kansas City. Supposedly, Layton's gimmick was short-lived after Finley noticed the vast majority of the "would've been home runs" were being hit by the Athletics' opponents. In addition to his notorious tinkering with the right-field corner, Finley experimented with moving the other fences in and out several times during his seven seasons operating the team here. None of those moves had any notable effect on the team's performance, as the club finished in or near last place nearly every year. A small zoo with goats and sheep and picnic area stood behind the right-field fence. When home runs were hit into the field the goats and sheep would scamper up the hill. At the same time, Finley replaced the Athletics' old elephant mascot with a live mule, appropriately named "Charlie-O". At home plate a mechanical rabbit, nicknamed "Harvey" in reference to the stage play Harvey (1944) and the subsequent film of the same name (1950), rose out of the ground with new baseballs for the umpire and a compressed-air device (nicknamed "Little Blowhard") blew dirt off of home plate. Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Catfish Hunter, Joe Rudi and Gene Tenace were some young A's players who debuted in Kansas City and went on to lead them in their World Series victories in Oakland. Hunter and Jackson would earn Hall of Fame induction. Kansas City Royals Municipal Stadium's fate was sealed when, as part of the AFL-NFL merger, all teams were required to have a minimum stadium capacity of 50,000 people; at its height, Municipal Stadium only seated 35,000 people for football and could not be expanded. However, a replacement would have been needed, given its age and condition. Public bonds were issued in 1967 to fund a complex including separate football and baseball stadiums—what would eventually become the Truman Sports Complex. It came too late for the A's, however, as Finley moved the franchise to Oakland after the 1967 season. Subsequently, Kansas City was awarded an American League expansion team for 1969, and the new Kansas City Royals used the stadium as a temporary home from 1969–1972. Kansas City welcomed the new Royals, who were led by 1969 American League Rookie of the Year Lou Piniella. The expansion team drew nearly one million fans in their first season, despite a 69–93 record. In subsequent seasons, many future stars made their debuts for the Royals, who were building a highly competitive team, rising up to an 85–76 record in 1971. CF Amos Otis (1970), P Paul Splittorff (1970), SS Freddie Patek (1971), 1B John Mayberry (1972) and P Steve Busby (1972) were a core of young Royals who made their debuts at Municipal Stadium. Each went on to selection into the Royals Hall of Fame. After the 1972 baseball season, the Royals moved to what's now Kauffman Stadium in the Truman Sports Complex. The Royals won the final game (and event) at Municipal Stadium, a 4–0 win over the Texas Rangers on October 4, 1972, in what was also the final Major League game managed by Hall of Famer Ted Williams. Amos Otis scored the final run in Municipal Stadium history and Ed Kirkpatrick had the final hit. Four days prior Gene Tenace of the Oakland A's hit the final home run, and John Mayberry hit the final Royals home run the night before. American Football League/National Football League Kansas City Chiefs Franchise owner Lamar Hunt moved the Dallas Texans of the fledgling American Football League (AFL) to Kansas City after the 1962 season, becoming the Kansas City Chiefs. The stadium was retrofitted for football. The playing field ran an unconventional east–west, along the first base line. Temporary stands were erected in left field to expand the stadium's capacity each fall, but had to be removed during the baseball season. Due to the lower capacity without the temporary bleachers, the Chiefs opened almost every season between 1963 and 1971 with three or more consecutive road games, except 1968, the year in between the Athletics' final season in Kansas City and the Royals' first season. The double-decked grandstand extended all the way across the south sideline, but ended halfway around the west end zone (third base line). Both teams' benches were on the north sideline in front of the temporary bleachers, as was the case at Wrigley Field, Tiger Stadium, Milwaukee County Stadium and Metropolitan Stadium. The east end zone ended at the right field fence, and the large scoreboard was in this end of the stadium. Due to the fence, there was significantly less room between the end line and the fence of the east end zone than there was in the west end zone, where there was a significant amount of room between the end line and the grandstand. The Chiefs were in their tenure at Municipal Stadium and had a roster of Hall of Fame players: Quarterback Len Dawson, Defensive End Buck Buchanan, defensive tackle Curley Culp, Linebackers Bobby Bell and Willie Lanier, defensive backs Emmitt Thomas and Johnny Robinson, and Kicker Jan Stenerud. Lamar Hunt himself was the first Chief elected to the Hall, as his role as a league pioneer resulted in pro football growing from 12 to 26 franchises in the 1960s. In one of the great performances at the stadium, the Chiefs' Hall of Fame Quarterback Len Dawson passed for 435 yards and 6 Touchdowns against the Denver Broncos on November 1, 1964. While at Municipal Stadium, the Chiefs were successful, representing the American Football League in two of the four Super Bowls before the leagues merged. As AFL Champions under Coach Hank Stram, the Chiefs won Super Bowl IV, beating the Minnesota Vikings 23–7. Previously, the Chiefs played in the very first, Super Bowl I, losing to the Green Bay Packers of Vince Lombardi. Leading up to the game after Lamar Hunt had first used the term "Super Bowl" in the local media as a term for the AFL-NFL Championship Game, a phrase that was later adopted as the name. Super Bowl IV was the last game played before the merger of the AFL and NFL They moved to Arrowhead Stadium in the Truman Sports Complex for the 1972 season. Longest NFL game played The Chiefs' final game at Municipal Stadium was played on Christmas Day 1971 and was historic. Despite a brilliant game by the Chiefs' Ed Podolak, who had 350 total yards from scrimmage, an NFL playoff record that still stands, the Chiefs were beaten by the Dolphins 27–24, when Garo Yepremian kicked a walk-off field goal with 7:20 left in double overtime. The double-overtime playoff contest lasted 82 minutes and 40 seconds (with overtime lasting over 22 minutes) and remains the longest game in NFL history, as well the only post-season football game played at Municipal Stadium. North American Soccer League Kansas City Spurs The Chicago Spurs of the National Professional Soccer League (NPSL) relocated the franchise to Kansas City after the NPSL and the United Soccer Association formed the North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1967. The Spurs, under Coach Janos Bedl, led the league in attendance, with an average of 8,510 fans. Because of scheduling conflicts with Royals baseball and Chiefs football, the Spurs relocated home matches to the football stadium at Pembroke Hill High School for the 1970 season before the club folded altogether. The Spurs' colors were red and white and their mascot was "Cowboy Joe". Other events 1960 Major League Baseball All Star Game On July 11, 1960, Municipal Stadium hosted the best major league players in front of 30,619 fans. During the years when two major league All-Star Games were scheduled each year instead of one, Municipal Stadium hosted the first of the two 1960 games, with the National League winning the contest 5–3. Team rosters included over 15 future Hall of Fame members. Notable players on the rosters included: Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Roberto Clemente (His first All-Star Game), Stan Musial, Yogi Berra, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, Brooks Robinson, Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews, Bill Mazeroski, Al Kaline, Orlando Cepeda, Nellie Fox and Luis Aparicio. Ernie Banks, Del Crandall and Al Kaline hit home runs in the contest. 1964 Beatles concert On September 17, 1964, The Beatles played the stadium as part of their first U.S. tour. The date was originally supposed to be an off-day for the band following a concert in New Orleans, but they agreed to perform when Finley offered their manager, Brian Epstein, a then-record sum of $150,000 (equivalent to $1.14 million in 2014). The group opened the concert by saluting the host town with their medley of "Kansas City" and "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey"; a month later, they would record the medley for their fourth studio album, Beatles for Sale. Demolition and the site today The stadium was demolished in 1976, and replaced by a municipal garden. Today, the former ballpark site is being redeveloped with new single family homes. A plaque at 22nd and Brooklyn Street marks the former stadium's location. The neighborhood still contains legendary Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at 18th and Brooklyn Street, founded in 1908, a fan and player favorite when Municipal Stadium was nearby. With involvement from former Monarch Buck O'Neil, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990 and opened in 1997. Located in the 18th and Vine District, the museum is housed in the former Paseo YMCA building where the Negro leagues were first formed in 1920. The museum is alongside the American Jazz Museum. The site is within a mile of the location of Municipal Stadium. See also List of American football stadiums by capacity List of baseball parks in Kansas City, Missouri List of Major League Baseball stadiums References External links Municipal Stadium Facts, figures, photos and more Information at BallparksofBaseball Stadium history at BallparkTour Sanborn map showing part of the ballpark Municipal Stadium site today Photos of Municipal Stadium: http://digitalballparks.com/American/Muehlebach.html 1923 establishments in Missouri 1972 disestablishments in Missouri American football venues in Missouri Baseball venues in Missouri Sports venues completed in 1923 Sports venues demolished in 1976 Defunct American Football League venues Defunct buildings and structures in Kansas City, Missouri Defunct Major League Baseball venues Defunct minor league baseball venues Defunct National Football League venues Defunct soccer venues in the United States Demolished sports venues in Missouri Kansas City Athletics stadiums Kansas City Chiefs stadiums Kansas City Monarchs Kansas City Royals stadiums s Negro league baseball venues Sports venues in Kansas City, Missouri North American Soccer League (1968–1984) stadiums Defunct sports venues in Missouri Soccer venues in Missouri Del E. 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Listed buildings in Hvidovre Municipality

This is a list of listed buildings in Hvidovre Municipality, Denmark. The list References External links Danish Agency of Culture Buildings and structures in Hvidovre Municipality Hvidovre

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Archer

Alex Archer

Alexander Albert "Sandy" Archer (1 May 1908 – 15 June 1979) was an ice hockey right winger who played in the English National League for the Wembley Lions. He is best remembered as a member of the Great Britain national ice hockey team which won gold in ice hockey at the 1936 Winter Olympics. Sporting career Archer was born in West Ham, Essex to Scottish parents. They moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, when he was 3 years old. It was in Manitoba that Archer learned to play ice hockey and football. As well as being a Manitoban All-Star twice for ice hockey, Archer also played for the Manitoban All-Stars against a touring side from the Football Association of Wales in 1929 and against a touring side from the Scottish Football Association in 1935. In 1993, Archer was inducted to the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame with the rest of the 1936 Olympic British ice hockey squad who had not previously been inducted. Club career Archer returned to England to join the Wembley Lions for the 1935–36 season. He played for the Lions for the next five seasons scoring a total of 82 goals and 77 assists. Archer was also selected to the All-star A Team in 1938, 1939, and 1940. Due to a fractured skull Archer's playing career came to an end in 1945, and he became a coach – first for Wembley and then for Nottingham Panthers and Murrayfield Racers. As a successful coach he was selected to coach the All-star B Team in 1947 and then again in 1948. International career Archer was selected to play for the Great Britain team at the 1936 Winter Olympics. However, this led to a complaint from the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) as they claimed he had not been released from the Association. The IIHF suspended Archer for the duration of the tournament. CAHA president E. A. Gilroy chose not to object on the eve of the Olympics to Archer participating as a gesture of sportsmanship towards Great Britain. Archer went on to play in all seven of the games of the tournament and scored two goals. Archer won two further medals with the GB team, winning silver medals at the 1937 and 1938 Ice Hockey World Championships. Archer retired from ice hockey in 1945 after he received a fractured skull in a game for GB against Sweden. Archer played 24 times for GB, scoring 14 goals and 10 assists. Awards Two time Manitoban All-star. Olympic gold medalist in 1936. World championship silver medalist in 1937 and 1938. Named to the English National League All-star A Team in 1938, 1939 and 1940. Named as coach to the English National League All-star B Team in 1947 and 1948. Inducted to the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993. References External links British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame entry 1908 births 1979 deaths British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame inductees English ice hockey right wingers English people of Scottish descent Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics Nottingham Panthers coaches Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic ice hockey players of Great Britain Olympic medalists in ice hockey People from West Ham Sportspeople from London Sportspeople from Winnipeg Wembley Lions players

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epargyreus%20zestos

Epargyreus zestos

Epargyreus zestos, known generally as the zestos skipper or rusty skipper, is a species of dicot skipper in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Caribbean and North America. The MONA or Hodges number for Epargyreus zestos is 3869. A subspecies of Epargyreus zestos is E. zestos zestos (Geyer, 1832). References Further reading Eudaminae

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Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty

Pablo Rudomin Zevnovaty (born June 5, 1934 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-Russian biologist, physiologist, and neuroscientist. He is regarded as one of the most prestigious neurophysiologists in the international community. His studies have been fundamentally directed to the analysis of mechanisms of the central control of the information transmitted by the sensory fibers in the spinal cord, and of how these are modified during central and peripheral injuries, as well as during processes of acute inflammation. Born from Russian parents. He is a graduate of the Biology program of the National School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN. México). He has been the director of the program of neuroscience at the CINVESTAV (Center for Research and Advanced Studies) of the IPN since 1984. At the neuroscience program, his research has focused on the analysis of the central nervous system control mechanisms for the transmission of information that is conveyed by nerve fibers originating in the skin and muscles to the lumbosacral spinal cord. He has also been a guest researcher at the following centers: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research – New York City, US (1959–1960) Institute of Medical Pathology – Siena, Italy (1960–1961) Marine Biology Laboratory – Woods Hole, Massachusetts, US (1960) National Institutes of Health – Bethesda, Maryland, US (1968–1969, 1984–1986 and 1990–1991) Göteborg University – Gothenburg, Sweden (1983) He has also held honorary positions: President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences Vice-president of the Mexican Society of Physiological Sciences General coordinator of the Presidential Science Advisory Council. Counseling member of the CONACYT. He has been professor since 1961 and from 1993 he is member of El Colegio Nacional. Awards National Alfonso Caso Science Award from the Mexican Academy of Sciences National Science Award; Award for the Best Paper of the Mexican Academy of Sciences; Prince of Asturias Award (1987); Luis Elizondo Award of the ITESM Lázaro Cárdenas Award. Dr Honoris Causa, University of Puebla, Mexico Dr Honoris Causa, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), Mexico Dr Honoris Causa, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico (2011) References External links Pablo Rudomin - Society for Neuroscience Biography at El Colegio Nacional Pablo Rudomin - El Colegio Nacional DEPARTAMENTO DE FISIOLOGIA BIOFISICA Y NEUROCIENCIAS - Dr. Pablo Rudomín Zevnovaty Miembro del Comité de Ciencias Naturales Pablo Rudomin Zevnovaty: científico incansable Pablo Rudomin: experimentar con la memoria del dolor CURRICULUM VITAE IPN reconoce a Portilla y Rudomín JACINTO CONVIT AND PABLO RUDOMÍN Una vida entregada a la ciencia. Entrevista con Pablo Rudomín 1934 births Members of El Colegio Nacional (Mexico) Instituto Politécnico Nacional alumni Instituto Politécnico Nacional faculty Mexican Jews Mexican people of Russian-Jewish descent Living people Mexican neuroscientists People from Mexico City University of Gothenburg faculty Members of the Mexican Academy of Sciences

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Chlanificula

Chlanificula is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks. Species Species within the genus Chlanificula include: Chlanificula thielei Powell, 1958 References External links Buccinidae Monotypic gastropod genera

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Oth%C3%A9e

Battle of Othée

The Battle of Othée was fought between the citizens of Liège and a professional army under command of John the Fearless on 23 September 1408. The militia of Liège suffered a heavy defeat. Cause In 1390, John of Bavaria, youngest son of Duke Albert I, Duke of Bavaria only aged 17, had become Prince-Bishop of Liège, with the support of Pope Boniface IX. His rule was a disaster. His authoritarian style clashed with the nobles and burghers of the Prince-Bishopric, who had acquired a certain degree of liberty over the years. He had already been expelled several times, when a new conflict in 1408 made him flee to Maastricht. Henry of Horne, Lord of Perwez was proclaimed Mambour and his son Prince-Bishop. John of Bavaria turned for help to his powerful family. John's brother was William VI of Hainaut and his brother-in-law John the Fearless of Burgundy. Together with William II, Marquis of Namur, they raised an army and marched against the citizens of Liège. Henri of Horne was aware that his troops were no match for the professional army heading his way, and therefore proposed to leave the city and start a guerilla war from the countryside. This was refused by the hait-droits, the most radical part of the rebels. The battle The rebels marched towards the enemy and took up position on a little hill in open field between the villages of Othée, Rutten, and Herstappe. Despite the braveness of the rebels, they were surrounded by the reserve troops of the Duke and cut to pieces. On the orders of the Duke, no mercy was given. Henri of Horne, his son, and most of the nobles were amongst the dead. Aftermath John of Bavaria returned from Maastricht and started a brutal repression on the city. The ensuing executions of leading insurgents and their families, including the widow of Henry of Horne, led to John of Bavaria's nickname "the Pitiless." Burgundian influence was extended over the city and over the bishopric of Liège. References Sources External links Jean-Louis Kupper, Philippe George, Charles le Téméraire, de la violence et du sacré, éditions du Perron, juin 2007, p. 13. La bataille d'Othée Si vera est fama Medieval II Battles of the Wars of Liège 1408 in Europe Conflicts in 1408 Battles of the Middle Ages Battles involving Burgundy

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Kuwait national futsal team

The Kuwait national futsal team represents Kuwait in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Kuwait Football Association. Coaches Hossein Shams (2003-2006) Tournaments FIFA Futsal World Cup AFC Futsal Championship Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games West Asian Championship Confederations Cup *Denotes draws includes knockout matches decided on penalty shootouts. Red border indicates that the tournament was hosted on home soil. Gold, silver, bronze backgrounds indicates 1st, 2nd and 3rd finishes respectively. Honours GCC Futsal Cup:2 2013, 2015 Minor/Friendly Croatia Winter International:1 2018 References Asian national futsal teams Futsal National futsal National

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Oleśnica County

Oleśnica County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. The county covers an area of . Its administrative seat is the town of Oleśnica, and it also contains the towns of Syców, Twardogóra, Bierutów and Międzybórz. As of 2019 the total population of the county is 107,090. The most populated towns are Oleśnica with 37,169 inhabitants and Syców is 10,397 inhabitants. Neighbouring counties Oleśnica County is bordered by Milicz County and Ostrów Wielkopolski County to the north, Ostrzeszów County, Kępno County and Namysłów County to the east, Oława County to the south, and Wrocław County and Trzebnica County to the west. Administrative division The county is subdivided into eight gminas (one urban, four urban-rural and three rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population. References Land counties of Lower Silesian Voivodeship

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Blackinton Historic District

The Blackinton Historic District is a historic district in the western part of North Adams, Massachusetts, roughly along Massachusetts Avenue between Ashton and Doanes Avenues and Church Hill and the Boston & Maine Railroad. The district, which encompasses North Adams' best preserved mill village, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. History The neighborhood where the historic district is located is around the mills of the Blackinton Company, founded on the north bank of the Hoosic River in 1821 by Sanford Blackinton, Rufus Wells and J.L White. It was one of the three mill villages, with Greylock and Braytonville, that contributed to the westward expansion of North Adams. It would become one of the largest manufacturers of woolen goods in Western Massachusetts, buoyed especially by large orders from the Union Army during the American Civil War. By the early 1900s the neighborhood was a self-contained community, with its own school, jail, stores, post office, library and fire department, and the people there considered themselves be residents of "Blackinton", not North Adams. The community – which historically had been disputed between North Adams and Williamstown – had a station on the Boston & Maine, as well as bus service to North Adams. The mill closed in 1950. Description The historic district is basically linear in character, extending along Massachusetts Avenue west of downtown North Adams and north of the Hoosic River. It extends along the north side between Church Hill Road and Wood Street, and on the south side east from Ashton Avenue, to about midway between Wood and Church Hill. The district includes the surviving brick mill buildings between Massachusetts Avenue and the river, the 1839 Blackinton Company Store, two churches, and the c. 1850 Greek Revival residence of Sanford Blackinton. There are also fine examples of later Victorian architecture, including a Queen Anne/Stick style home built by John P. Blackinton in 1880 across the street from the mill complex. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkshire County, Massachusetts References Notes External links North Adams, Massachusetts Historic districts in Berkshire County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Berkshire County, Massachusetts Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douai%20Mountain

Douai Mountain

Douai Mountain is a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1918 after Douai, a village in France that was liberated by Allied troops during the First World War. See also List of peaks on the British Columbia–Alberta border References Three-thousanders of Alberta Three-thousanders of British Columbia Canadian Rockies

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation%20War

Negation War

Negation War was a comic book series published by CrossGen Comics, and serving as a culmination of the metaplots of nearly all of CrossGen's other titles. It was cancelled after only two issues, in spring 2004, before the company declared bankruptcy and ended production on all their titles. It was intended to answer many, if not all, of the questions surrounding CrossGen's metaplot, allowing the company to move on to new titles and perhaps a new company-wide metaplot. Plot The events of Negation War revolve around the invasion of CrossGen's Sigilverse, i.e. the mainstream universe where all the other titles take place, by the forces of an alternate universe known as the Negation. The Sigil-Bearers, the protagonists of the core titles, led by the Atlantean Danik, are brought together to serve the purpose for which the Sigil was created: to fight off the Negation, led by the god-emperor Charon and his new consort/queen Evinlea. Negation War reveals some of the key mysteries of the CrossGen metaplot, continuing from the revelations of the later issues of Negation. Charon and his opposite counterpart Appolyon, are revealed to have been the human scientists who organized the Great Transition as seen in Crux. Charon secretly engineered the device to impart him with incredible god-like power, even as the rest of the human race ascended to a higher form themselves. The transition also sent the pair into another universe, which came to be known as the Negation; Charon took command of this universe, building it into a massive intergalactic empire, and imprisoning the slightly less powerful Appolyon. After meeting Appolyon, several of the characters from the Negation title travel to Han-Jin, the world depicted in Brath, Way of the Rat and The Path. Meanwhile, Samandahl Rey, hero of Sigil, is sent by Danik to gather the Sigil-Bearers. The series ends with a cliffhanger, as Evinlea leads the Negation assault on Elysia, home of The First. There, the first god to die is Raamia, Altwaal's former consort. Information concerning what was to occur in the remaining issues to tie up the plot has not been released. 2004 comics debuts CrossGen titles

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Culture%2C%20Tourism%20and%20Healthy-Living%20%28New%20Brunswick%29

Department of Culture, Tourism and Healthy-Living (New Brunswick)

The Department of Culture, Tourism and Healthy-Living was briefly a part of the provincial government of New Brunswick, Canada. It was charged with the promotion of "wellness" through healthy living and physical activity, with administration of government programs for community arts development, heritage, and sport and recreation, the administration of provincial tourism marketing, and the administration of provincial parks. The department was established on March 15, 2012, when Premier David Alward restructured government. It combined the former departments of Wellness, Culture and Sport and Tourism and Parks. However, it was split back in two with Tourism and Culture functions going to a new Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture and wellness and sport functions going to a new Department of Healthy and Inclusive Communities in October 2012. Ministers * Holder was previously minister of both of the forerunning departments, and was thereafter minister of the new department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture. Culture, Tourism and Health-Living

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1987 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

The 1987 E3 Harelbeke was the 30th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 26 March 1987. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Eddy Planckaert of the Panasonic team. General classification References 1987 in Belgian sport 1987

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Cuff

Will Cuff

William Charles Cuff was an English football chairman he was in charge of Everton F.C. from 1921 to 1938. Biography William Charles Cuff was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, on 19 August 1868. His father, Henry Albert Cuff, was from London. His mother, Mary Thomas, was Welsh. Cuff was in charge of Everton F.C. for over 500 games between 1901 and 1918. He was Chairman of Everton F.C. from 1921 to 1938. Cuff was an active freemason attending Cecil Lodge No. 3274. See also List of English football championship winning managers References External links evertonfc.com - Official Everton FC Website toffeeweb.com - Article covering an evening devoted to the memory of Will Cuff organised by the Everton Shareholders' Association Everton F.C. managers Everton F.C. players English people of Welsh descent English football managers 1868 births 1949 deaths Presidents of the English Football League Footballers from Liverpool Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England Association footballers not categorized by position English footballers

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Chinese

Russian Chinese

Chinese Russian or Russian Chinese may refer to: Sino-Russian relations (c.f. "a Chinese-Russian treaty") Language Kyakhta Russian-Chinese Pidgin Russian methods for writing the Chinese language: Cyrillization of Chinese Latinxua Sin Wenz Dungan language, a Sinitic language spoken in Russia by the Dungan people People and ethnic groups Ethnic Chinese in Russia Dungan people, descendants of Hui from China who migrated to the Russian Empire Ethnic Russians in China Harbin Russians Shanghai Russians Russians in Hong Kong Albazin Cossacks, Russian soldiers captured by Qing dynasty forces in 1685 and resettled near Beijing Eurasian (mixed ancestry) people of mixed Chinese and Russian descent People with dual citizenship of China and Russia See also Chinese Soviet (disambiguation)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton-Rich%20Farmstead

Shelton-Rich Farmstead

The Shelton-Rich Farmstead is a historic farm property in rural Franklin County, Arkansas. The property consists of of land, whose principal built feature is a farmhouse, along with a well, stone walls, and the Shelton family cemetery. The farmhouse is a two-story log structure, finished in weatherboard, with two stone chimneys. The house was built in stages, the earliest of which was c. 1880. The house is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the county. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Arkansas References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Houses completed in 1880 Buildings and structures in Franklin County, Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Arkansas

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20J.%20Mess

Fred J. Mess

Frederick J. Mess (February 1872 – July 29, 1951) was an American politician in the state of Washington. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1917 to 1933. References Washington (state) Republicans Members of the Washington House of Representatives 1872 births 1951 deaths

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banging

Banging

Banging may refer to: Slang for sexual intercourse Slang for attractive, esp. physically attractive Intravenous drug use The act of percussion upon surfaces Kinds of "knocking" or loud recurring sounds such as engine knocking See also Bang (disambiguation)

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International classical guitar competitions

International classical guitar competitions are public events designed to identify and award outstanding classical guitar soloists, ensembles, and composers. They allow artists to promote themselves and gain exposure. Some competitions also have newly composed "set" pieces which serve to increase the classical guitar repertoire. Early history The guitar seems to be the absentee in musical competitions until the Second World War. In 1949 the "First Guitar Competition", now the Tokyo International Guitar Competition was held and the Modern Japan Guitar Federation was established in Tokyo, Japan. It was not held in 1954, 1955, and 1956, but continued from the 6th edition since 1957. From the 25th edition in 1982 became the Tokyo International Guitar Competition. The first international guitar performance competitions in Europe were promoted and initiated in the 1950s by virtuoso Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia. In 1956 he managed to get the guitar discipline to be included in prestigious multi-instrumental Geneva International Music Competition. The 1960s led to born within the compass of Segovia two European competitions that marked the history of guitar and which remains active until today, i.e. 1967 - International Guitar Competition "Francisco Tárrega" in Benicàssim, Spain and 1968 - Competition "Premio Città di Alessandria" in Alessandria, Italy, which in 1995 would be renamed International Classical Guitar Competition "Michele Pittaluga - Premio Città di Alessandria" on the occasion of its founder passing. Over time, Segovia kept promoting competitions by giving his support to ones which had evident professionalism contents. Between 1959 and 1990s the Concours International de Guitare was organized by O.R.T.F., which then became Radio France. The competition was born at the behest of Robert J. Vidal, deputy producer of the French radio station. In 2007 a new competition, International Classical Guitar Competition Robert J. Vidal in Barbezieux, France was established in his memory. In 1972 Giuliano Balestra founded International Guitar Competition "Fernando Sor" in Rome, Italy Since 1973 the city of Gargnano, Italy has been hosting the "Incontri Chitarristici" which included the International Classical Guitar Competition, since 1976. In 1982 the Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition was established and shortly became one of the most desired awards in the classical guitar world thus given a start to classical guitar popularisation in the US. In 1985, the European Year of Music, Andrés Segovia International Classical Guitar Competition was established in La Herradura, Spain in the honor of maestro. Present times In recent years, many international classical guitar competitions were established. The overall level of the competitions was raised by increasing prizes value up to $30,000 in the US, $22,000 in Europe, and $10,000 in Asia. Finals with the orchestra became more common. Introduction of online streaming of the competition rounds and YouTube applications greatly improved neutrality and public reception of the judgment. Many classical guitar competitions now take place during guitar festivals, and therefore the competition event can be attended by the general public, as an audience. Youth international competitions became more popular, attracting children and amateurs by the lower comp level and affordable prizes. Competitors In the international classical guitar competitions, the typical age of the competitors is from 18 to 35. Some competitions don't have age restrictions. The youth competitions are usually up to 25 years old. As a result of an increased number of competitions, some competitors have won unusual (more than 15) number of 1st Prizes in the professional (adult) competitions: 19 - Marcin Dylla, 19 - Goran Krivokapić, 50 - Marko Topchii. List of international competitions for classical guitar US and Americas Europe Asia, Australia, and Oceania Youth and Discontinued Discontinued (inactive) Youth (junior) competitions Thoughts on competitions Denis Azabagić has written: "Competitions give you a very valuable experience. Do they guide in your artistic development? I do not know if it benefits the guitarist in that area, but I think it does benefit the student because it helps him to set goals under pressure (having a deadline). This creates a great deal of stress, which you will have to learn how to deal with. To perform live in front of a jury is something that requires some training. Finally, if you are successful at winning competitions, this will help you to promote your name in the guitar circle, you will start to be noticed. I think winning competitions helps you build a name but does not help much to develop your artistry." In this interview recorded in early 2002, Azabagic stresses that while competitions were very good to him, competitions can also be devastating to worthy musicians who never seem to win. Modern criticism of guitar competitions is actually quite common. Some criticisms are that they are often judged by unqualified judges, that reward people for being technically proficient without regard to musicality. But concerning the judging of musicality, this is in itself controversial, as the question arises, on how to judge art on any objective level. John Williams has said: "[...] basically I don't like or approve of competitions on any instrument. I don't think music can be evaluated like a race - I know that's an obvious thing to say and that there are many ifs and buts involved because they do help some artists and concentrate the public's attention on music. But I particularly don't like the way many guitar competitions are run, the confusing waypoints are awarded differently in each round of a competition, and especially the over-exploitation of the "Big Winner" and the competitive values that puts on players and the activity of guitar playing itself. Winning is a matter of taste in most cases, and there are often many other equally deserving competitors other than just the First Prize recipient. I feel it would be fairer to have a select group of finalists, each of whom receives the same award and status.I have served on juries in the past, but these days I refuse to take part, and I feel it is important to take that stand otherwise your reservations have no meaning. Having said all that, I know it happens anyway and sometimes there is sponsorship involved which does help the general public interest and support. But it still doesn't need to be a cut and dried thing, where each finalist is ranked as precisely as 1,2,3. I think it is those competitive values that are wrong, not the celebration of excellence in music as such. I have talked about the idea of setting up a competition where this other approach is used, but nothing definite has emerged from it yet; it may take some time to develop." Analysis of data at a piano competition, with many high-level participants, has made it doubtful that judges are able to make fully objective judgments; because there was a small correlation between the order of appearance of participants and their ranking: We find that the order and timing of appearance at the competition are good predictors of the final ranking. [...] Because of this, order and timing are unique instrumental variables for the final ranking, which we consistently find to have a significant impact on later success, irrespective of the finalists’ true quality. Pianists with high scores are more likely to see their work recorded later on. It is also worth pointing out that the opinion of music critics is more influenced by the ranking than by the quality of the performers. This is not necessarily surprising, since there are many musicians who may have been good during the competition, but have vanished afterward, leaving the critics recollections unaffected.The conclusion that it pays to do well in the competition is strongly supported by the data. However, the fact that judges’ rankings are affected by order and timing of appearance in a competition needs to be stressed, and sheds some doubt on their ability to cast fully objective judgments. On the other hand, if a competition has many professional-level artistic participants, it may not even be possible to make an objective judgment of who is "best"; because: given numerous professional-level artistic performers, there may not even be room for the concept of comparison; since this presumes the existence of a "best" interpretation, which is itself questionable (and would be a commercialization of art; viewing it from a mass-consumption or absolutist point of view). Bibliography On Competitions - Dealing with Performance Stress by Denis Azabagic References Further reading Music Competitions - Who Wins? by Linda Anne Engelhardt Changes in Piano Competitions Alter How Juries Use Their Many "Texts" by Sean Bennett (2002) The Dark Side of Piano Competitions (August 7, 2009) Playing Up A Storm: The Great Debate (Sydney Morning Herald; Friday, July 7, 2000) Winning beginnings (January 10, 2002) Yugoslav Pianist: the Man "Who Killed Chopin" (alluding to those jurors, who could not accept a stunning emotional Chopin-interpretation; simply because it was different from the playing they were used to) (originally published in 11.11.1980) Can a Pianist Sway a Competition Jury? (May 25, 1989) In Competitions, the Fun Is Being Called for Jury Duty (December 18, 1988) Piano Juror by Leslie Gerber The murky music prize by Jessica Duchen (The Independent; 21 April 2009) Behind the scenes at piano competitions by Michael Johnson (27.08.2009) 'Trill' goes behind scenes in music world by Edward Reichel (Aug. 22, 2009) Brain, heart and fingers Music: Judging a piano competition requires comparing performances that are often very different, and all good (July 28, 1998) Classical guitar

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Gid Tanner

James Gideon "Gid" Tanner (June 6, 1885 – May 13, 1960) was an American old-time fiddler and one of the earliest stars of what would come to be known as country music. His band, the Skillet Lickers, was one of the most innovative and influential string bands of the 1920s and 1930s. Its most notable members were Clayton McMichen (fiddle and vocal), Dan Hornsby (vocals), Riley Puckett (guitar and vocal) and Robert Lee Sweat (guitar). Biography Tanner was born in Thomas Bridge, near Monroe, Georgia. He made a living as a chicken farmer for most of his life. He learned to play the fiddle at the age of 14 and quickly established a reputation as one of the finest musicians in Georgia. Early on, he participated in several fiddle conventions together with his rival Fiddlin' John Carson; what one of them did not win, the other would. Tanner reportedly had a repertoire of more than 2000 songs. Dan Hornsby discovered talents as an A&R man for Columbia Records in the south and often engineered plus added vocals to recordings in Atlanta in the 20s. Tanner and Puckett traveled to New York City in March 1924 to make the first of a series of duet recordings for Columbia Records. The first recording made with the Skillet Lickers was "Hand Me Down My Walking Cane," recorded in Atlanta on April 17, 1926, when the country music scene in Atlanta rivaled Nashville's. It was released by Columbia on a 78-rpm disc, backed with "Watermelon on the Vine". In the next eight years, the group recorded more than 100 songs. In 1934, Tanner and Puckett re-formed the Skillet Lickers, and several of their recordings were released by Bluebird Records. Tanner stopped making records in 1934 but continued performing into his seventies. He died in Dacula, Georgia. Legacy and influence Many of the songs recorded by the Skillet Lickers were traditional American fiddle tunes that remain popular with bluegrass and country musicians to this day. Among them are "Alabama Jubilee", "Shortnin' Bread", "Old Joe Clark", "John Henry", "Bully of the Town", "Bile Them Cabbage Down", "Cotton-Eyed Joe", "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss", "Soldier's Joy", "Bonaparte's Retreat", "Leather Breeches", "Four Cent Cotton", "Knoxville Girl", and their biggest seller, "Down Yonder". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. Their comedy recordings, including the saga "A Corn Licker Still in Georgia" (Issued over the course of 7 records) and "A Fiddler's Convention in Georgia" were equally popular. Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers were inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1988. Following his death in 1960, Tanner's grandson Phil Tanner and great-grandson Levi Lowrey continued performing as the Skillet Lickers. Phil Tanner hosts an open jam session on Friday nights in a refurbished chicken house on his father's old farm in Dacula, Georgia. Levi Lowrey also continues in his footsteps as a country music artist, songwriting for Zac Brown and featured on Southern Ground Records in a multi-album record deal. Bob Dylan wrote and performed a version of Gid Tanner's "Down on Tanner's Farm", retitled and reset as "New York Town". It can be heard in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home. Discography 78 rpm In various prewar lineups Tanner recorded singles for Columbia and its affiliated labels Bluebird, Victor, His Master's Voice (India), Regal (England), Regal Zonophone (Australia), Montgomery Ward, and Vocalion. Postwar, at least one Tanner 45-rpm reissue single is known on RCA Victor. Postwar recordings Gid Tanner, Gordon Tanner, Phil Tanner's Skillet Lickers, Skillet Licker Music 1955–1991: The Tanner Legacy, Global Village CD-310 (1997) Reissued recordings Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers, RCA Victor EPA-5069 (1958) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, Folk Song Society of Minnesota 15001-D (1962) The Skillet Lickers: Vol. 1, County 506 (196?) The Skillet Lickers: Vol. 2, County 526 (1973) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, Hear These New Southern Fiddle and Guitar Records Rounder 1005 (1973) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers. The Kickapoo Medicine Show, Rounder 1023 (197?) Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers, Vetco LP-107 (197?) The Skillet Lickers, A Day at the Country Fair: Early Country Comedy, Old Homestead OHCS-145 (1985) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, Early Classic String Bands Vol. 3, Old Homestead OHCS-193 (1990) Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, A Corn Licker Still in Georgia, Voyager VRLP-303 (197?), reissued as VRCD-303 (1997) The Skillet Lickers, Old-Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Georgia, County CD-3509 (1996) The Skillet Lickers, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 1: 1926–1927, Document DOCD-8056 (2000) The Skillet Lickers, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 2: 1927–1928, Document DOCD-8057 (2000) The Skillet Lickers, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 3: 1928–1929, Document DOCD-8058 (2000) The Skillet Lickers, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 4: 1929–1930, Document DOCD-8059 (2000) The Skillet Lickers, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 5: 1930–1934, Document DOCD-8060 (2000) The Skillet Lickers, Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order Volume 6: 1934, Document DOCD-8061 (2000) Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, Old Timey's Favorite Band (4 CDs), JSP JSPCD 77155 (2012) References External links Southernmusic.net Cohen, Norm. Liner Notes for the CD Old Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Georgia (County Records, 1996) Russell, Tony. Country Music Records: A Discography, 1921–1942 (Oxford University Press, 2004) The New Georgia Encyclopedia Stars of Country Music, (University of Illinois Press, 1975) Gid Tanner recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings. 1885 births 1960 deaths American fiddlers American country fiddlers American bandleaders Southern old-time fiddlers People from Walton County, Georgia People from Dacula, Georgia Country musicians from Georgia (U.S. state) 20th-century violinists

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Chefe Ahonamoro

Chefe Ahonamoro is a village in Ancuabe District in Cabo Delgado Province in northeastern Mozambique. References External links Satellite map at Maplandia.com Populated places in Ancuabe District

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New Town Public Schools

New Town School District 1, also known as New Town Public Schools, is a school district headquartered in New Town, North Dakota. It operates Edwin Loe Elementary School and New Town High School (middle and high school). In Mountrail County it serves New Town, and within McKenzie County it serves Four Bears Village. The Van Hook area in Mountrail County is also in the New Town district. History Previously a separate school was in Van Hook. In 1952 there was a walkout from the Van Hook school to protest the fact that the school district was not permitted to use the village hall. After the walkout the school district was permitted the usage of the hall. In 1970 the U.S. Office of Education gave the district a $9,600 grant through Title One rules. In December 1997 the high school administration dealt with constant fights by buying $6,000 worth of security cameras. Student body In 1998, 80% of the students were Native American. References External links New Town Public Schools School districts in North Dakota Education in McKenzie County, North Dakota Education in Mountrail County, North Dakota

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Michel Corneille the Elder

Michel Corneille the Elder (c. 1601 – 1664) was a French painter, etcher, and engraver. Life Corneille was born in Orléans. He was one of many who studied with the celebrated master Simon Vouet, who strongly influenced French painting of the early 17th century. In 1648, Corneille was one of the founders of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture and was elected as one of the original twelve elders in charge of its running. He became its rector in 1656. Corneille devoted himself to historical paintings. He was an excellent colorist—in this more Venetian than French—and his early style resembled that of Simon Vouet; later his work had all the merits and all the faults of the post-Raphaelite, or decadent, "sweet", school of Italian art, showing the far-reaching influence of the Carracci. He was long employed in the decoration of churches in Paris, his masterpiece being the celebrated "St. Paul and St. Barnabas at Lystra", painted for the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. His etched and engraved work differed very little from that of the Carracci and of his two sons. It was chiefly reproductive. Notable examples are the "Murder of the Innocents", after Raphael, and the "Virgin Suckling the Infant Jesus", after Lodovico Carracci. He died in Paris in 1664. References Bibliography MEYER, Geschichte der französischen Malerei (Leipzig, 1867) That entry was written by Leigh Hunt. External links Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Michel Corneille the Elder (see index) 17th-century French painters French male painters History painters Painters from Paris 1600s births 1664 deaths

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1708 British general election

The 1708 British general election was the first general election to be held after the Acts of Union had united the Parliaments of England and Scotland. The election saw the Whigs finally gain a majority in the House of Commons, and by November the Whig-dominated parliament had succeeded in pressuring the Queen into accepting the Junto into the government for the first time since the late 1690s. The Whigs were unable to take full control of the government, however, owing to the continued presence of the moderate Tory Godolphin in the cabinet and the opposition of the Queen. Contests were held in 95 of the 269 English and Welsh constituencies and 28 of the 45 Scottish constituencies. Summary of the constituencies See 1796 British general election for details. The constituencies used were the same throughout the existence of the Parliament of Great Britain. Dates of election The first general election held since the Union took place between 30 April 1708 and 7 July 1708. At this period elections did not take place at the same time in every constituency. The returning officer in each county or borough fixed the precise date (see hustings for details of the conduct of the elections). Results Seats summary See also List of Parliaments of Great Britain 2nd Parliament of Great Britain List of MPs elected in the British general election, 1708 References British Electoral Facts 1832–1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher (Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2000). (For dates of elections before 1832, see the footnote to Table 5.02). External links History of Parliament: Members 1690–1715 History of Parliament: Constituencies 1690–1715 1708 in politics General election 1708

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Felix Laband

Felix Laband is an electronic music artist born in 1977 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He creates light, emotional, minimalist soundscapes by combining several styles, and samples from classical, jazz and old television recordings overlaid with instrumental performances by himself and other guest artists. His music has been described by his record label as 'indietronica' and is similar in some ways to Boards of Canada and Iceland's múm. Discography Thin Shoes in June (on CD) (2001) 4/4 Down the Stairs (on CD) (2002) Dark Days Exit (on CD and LP) (2005) Whistling In Tongues (12") (2006) Deaf Safari (on CD) (2015) Record labels Felix's first two albums were released by African Dope Records. In 2005 he switched to Open Record, and Compost Records internationally with the release of Dark Days Exit. References External links Official Artist Page (Open Records) Last.FM Artist Page (A social music profiling service) Interview from 2002 Amuzine page 1977 births Living people Trip hop musicians South African dance musicians South African electronic musicians Compost Records artists

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Two Still Lives in Free Fall

Two Still Lives in Free Fall is a composition (two pieces) for flute and cello by Juan Maria Solare (Composed in Cologne, Germany, from 8 to 18 June 1998). Duration: 5:30. The piece is dedicated to Tasneem Hanfi and Caroline Stinson. The piece makes use of extended techniques (for the flute), concretely frullato (flutter tongue), tongued pizzicato and "Pauken-Effekt" (tongue ram). The cello, besides the usual techniques (ranging from sul tasto to sul ponticello, flautato and col legno), uses "tap": "martellato mano sinistra" (martellato left hand: tapping the strings with the fingertips of the left hand. Compositions by Juan María Solare

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Cengong County

Cengong County (), which was called (思州) in ancient times, is a county of eastern Guizhou province, China. It is under the administration of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Climate External links County-level divisions of Guizhou Counties of Qiandongnan Prefecture

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Mao Fumei

Mao Fumei (, 9 November 1882 – 12 December 1939) was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the biological mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo. Mao was born in Fenghua, Ningpo (Ningbo), Chekiang (Zhejiang) Province, and, like most women of the era, she was illiterate. She married Chiang Kai-shek in an arranged marriage in 1901. When Chiang came back from Japan, he divorced her in 1921. She was killed in 1939 in a Japanese air raid on the in Xikou. References 1882 births 1939 deaths Chiang Kai-shek family People from Ningbo People killed in the Second Sino-Japanese War Deaths by Japanese airstrikes Deaths by airstrike during World War II

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Ricco the Mean Machine

Ricco the Mean Machine (, , also known as The Cauldron of Death and The Dirty Mob) is a 1973 Italian-Spanish crime-thriller film directed by Tulio Demicheli and starring Christopher Mitchum and Barbara Bouchet. It became a cult film because of its violent and gory scenes, including a graphic castration. The US title was actually a misspelling of the main character's name Rico. Plot Cast Christopher Mitchum as Rico Aversi Barbara Bouchet as Scilla Calogero Malisa Longo as Rosa Arthur Kennedy as Don Vito Eduardo Fajardo as Cirano Paola Senatore as Conchetta Aversi Manolo Zarzo as Tony José María Caffarel as The Marseillese Ángel Álvarez as Giuseppe Calogero Luis Induni as Gaspare Aversi Victor Israel as Checana References External links Italian crime thriller films Italian films Spanish crime thriller films Spanish films 1970s crime thriller films Films directed by Tulio Demicheli Films set in Turin

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Myasnikyan

Myasnikyan () is a town in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The town is named for Aleksandr Myasnikyan, first Communist president of Armenia. It is the location of Araks railway station. Population is 4507 people. The town is populated by Armenians and Kurds (including Yazidis). References World Gazetteer: Armenia – World-Gazetteer.com Populated places in Armavir Province Kurdish settlements in Armenia Yazidi populated places in Armenia

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Anton Widiastanto

Anton Widiastanto (born in Yogyakarta, January 30, 1979 ; age 41 years old) is a former drummer of one of Indonesia's top bands, Sheila on 7. While still joined in the band, Anton held the position as drummer, Anton left Sheila on 7 after eight years, on 18 October 2004. He began his music career with the debut album Sheila on 7 (1999), which was followed by four albums Kisah Klasik Untuk Masa Depan (2000), Anugerah Terindah Yang Pernah Kumiliki (2000, Released in Malaysia and Singapore), 07 Des (2002) and Ost. 30 Hari Mencari Cinta (2003). After leaving Sheila on 7, he resumed his plan to build a music studio. References Indonesian pop musicians Indonesian rock musicians Anugerah Musik Indonesia winners 1979 births Living people

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Chathurika Peiris

Chathurika Jayamani Peiris (born 2 January 1981) () is an actress in Sri Lankan cinema and television. She is best known for the roles in television serials Sepalika, Swayanjatha and Hiru Thanivela. Personal life Her father's elder brother Ariyadasa Peiris is also a veteran radio announcer and artiste of SLBC. Ariyadasa Peiris has two brothers, Jayantha Peiris and Ranjith Peiris and one daughter, Charitha Priyadarshani Peiris. Chathurika's father Jayantha Peiris is also a teledrama producer. Charitha is a popular singer, who is married to fellow veteran singer Edward Jayakody. Charitha and Edward has one son, Chandeepa and one daughter, Sharanya. Ranjith Peiris has two daughters, Niranjala Basnayake and Chamali Vathsala worked at Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Sri FM and Lakhanda Radio respectively. Her younger sister, Purnika Pieris is also a teledrama actress and television host working in TV Derana. Poornika was married to Sahan Abeysekera, who is also a television host. Sahan and Purnika have one son, Adithya. The couple separated in 2017. In 2019, Purnika married musician and fellow television host Peshala Manoj. Chathurika is initially dated with popular actor Roshan Pilapitiya for long time, where they separated in 2014. In 2014, she married fellow actor Gayan Wickramathilake. Gayana and Chathurika owned the garment shop "Bobby House". The couple has one daughter: Aradhana Hansadhwani. Career She made her first cinema appearance in 2004 film Aadaraneeya Wassaanaya directed by Senesh Dissanayake Bandara, where she portrayed the main female role. She won the Best Actress Awards for her leading role in Swayanjatha teledrama (2012) at the 8th Rupavahini State Awards ceremony in 2013. In 2012, she won the award for the Best Teledrama Supporting Actress for the same at Sumathi Tele Awards. In 2009, she produced the television serial Sihina Kumari. In 2013, she acted in the stage play Mahasamayama. Selected television serials Akuru Maki Na Amaya Bindunu Sith Gajamuthu Gini Weluma Hada Pudasuna Hiru Thanivela Hithuwakkarayo Indrachapa Isuru Sangramaya Karuvala Gedara Nethaka Maayavee Paaradeesaya Prarthana Mal Rajini Rangana Vijithaya Samanalayano Sathya Senehasa Kaviyak Sepalika Sihina Sithuvam Sihina Kumari Sith Bindi Rekha Sooriya Daruwo Sulang Kapolla Swayanjatha Therani Geethaya Vasanthaya Avilla Yaso Mandira Saheli Aathma Eka Raane Kurullo Sihina Aran Enna Filmography Awards and accolades Presidential Film Awards |- || 2004 ||| Aadaraneeya Wassaanaya || Best Upcoming Actress || Sarasaviya Awards |- || 2004 ||| Aadaraneeya Wassaanaya || Best Upcoming Actress || Rupavahini State Awards |- || 2012 ||| Swayanjatha || Best Actress || Raigam Tele'es |- || 2006 ||| || Most Popular Actress || |- || 2007 ||| || Most Popular Actress || |- || 2012 ||| Swayanjatha || Best Actress || Sumathi Awards |- || 2006 ||| ''' || Most Popular Actress || |- || 2012 ||| Swayanjatha || Best Supporting Actress || References Sri lanka Beauty Actress Chathurika Peris New External links Chathurika loses Nestomalt power I am never cheat for girls පවුල් කැඩුවෙ නෑ - චතුරිකා පීරිස් චතුරිකා පීරිස් සහ ගයාන් අතිනත ගත් කතාව චතුරිකා දැන් අම්මා කෙනෙක් වෙලා Gossips are true - Gayan’s Wife speaks We refresh our Lifes ඒකා­කාරී නිසා මට රඟ­පාන්න කම්මැලි හිතුණා Living people Sinhalese actresses Sri Lankan film actresses 21st-century Sri Lankan actresses 1986 births

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Navigator (novel)

Navigator is a science fiction novel by British writer Stephen Baxter, the third in his alternate history series Time's Tapestry. Synopsis The novel, which begins in AD 1070, ends in AD 1492 as Christopher Columbus sails westward. See also Emperor Conqueror Weaver External links 2007 British novels British alternative history novels British science fiction novels Novels by Stephen Baxter 2007 science fiction novels Victor Gollancz Ltd books

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May 1909 Barcelona City Council election

The May 1909 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 2 May 1909, to elect half of the Barcelona City Council. 28 out of 50 seats were up for election (3 were vacant seats). Electoral system The number of seats of each council was determined by the population count, according to the 1877 Municipal Law. As Barcelona had more than 200,000 inhabitants, the number of seats composing the city council was 50. The municipal law also established that half of the seats had to be renewed every two years. Therefore, in these elections 25 seats had to be renewed. Additionally, any vacant seat would also be renewed. The municipality was divided in 10 multi-member constituencies, corresponding to the city districts. Seats were elected using limited partial block voting. Candidates winning a plurality in each constituency were elected. In districts electing. Voting was on the basis of universal manhood suffrage, which comprised all national males over twenty-five, having at least a two-year residency in a municipality and in full enjoyment of their civil rights. The Municipal Law allowed the King of Spain to elect directly the Mayor of Barcelona. Results Results by district References Elections in Barcelona 1900s in Barcelona 1909 in Catalonia

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Bases Autónomas

Bases Autónomas (Bases Autonomes in French; "Autonomous Bases") was a Spanish neo-Nazi group, later moving to France, and known for its youthful membership and its violent rhetoric and propaganda. History The group was formed in Madrid in 1983 under the leadership of Carlos Rodrigo Ruiz de Castro and Fernando Fernández Perdices (both lawyers) and the student Ignacio Alonso García. The group sought to inaugurate a much greater youth participation in far right politics. They published magazines that encouraged violent action, such as La Peste Negra (The black plague) and ¡A Por Ellos! (Get them!), and used the Celtic cross as their symbol. It has been described as "anarcho-fascist". Membership was largely made up of football hooligan Ultras and racist skinheads who operated in small cells. The violence of the group, such as large scale attacks on anarchist and communist groups and several attacks on state institutions, attracted much police scrutiny and the Bases Autónomas were finally disbanded as an organization in the mid-1990s. However given the cell-based nature of the movement, which took its organisational, if not its ideological, impetus from anarchism, some individual cells continued to exist for some time after this. The organization committed several terrorist actions, including the attack on the MPs of Herri Batasuna, killing the MP Josu Muguruza Guarrotxena and severely injuring Iñaki Esnaola. In 1995 3 members of the group killed Ricardo Rodríguez García. Following the disappearance of the group a number of leading members went on to join the CEDADE-linked political party National Democracy, notably Juan A. Aguilar who became a leading figure in the España 2000 coalition. Others became heavily involved in the white power music scene, helping to promote such Spanish bands as Estirpe Imperial, Division 250 Klan, Zetme 88 and Reconquista. The French BBAA network: Rise, Fall and Revival The French Bases Autonomes were founded on the 1st of August 1991 by members of Serge Ayoub's Jeunesses Nationalistes Révolutionnaires (JNR), a white power skinhead gang of the nationalist revolutionary tendency, following the schism within Troisième Voie, a French Third Position organisation founded in 1985 by a merger of the small neo-fascist Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire, which gathered former members of François Duprat's Revolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR), with dissidents from the Parti des forces nouvelles. The French Bases Autonomes were conceived after their Spanish model of the Bases Autonomas. The name of their ideological newsletter, Première Ligne, was also inspired by the newsletter Primera linea of the Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista. After his return to France in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century, Serge Ayoub revamped the concept of the Bases Autonomes which he called Bases Autonomes Durables (sustainable autonomous bases). See also Autonome Nationalisten National-Anarchism References Bibliography Neo-Nazi organisations in Spain Spanish nationalism Far-right politics in Spain White supremacy in Europe Third Position

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Løvøya, Telemark

Løvøya is an island in Ormefjorden in Porsgrunn municipality, Norway. On the island Morten Thrane Esmark found a black mineral which was sent to Swedish chemist Jöns Jakob Berzelius for examination in 1828 for further analysis. Berzelius determined that it contained a new element, which he named thorium after Thor, the Norse god of thunder. References Islands of Vestfold og Telemark

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Orocrambus cultus

Orocrambus cultus is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was first described by Alfred Philpott in 1917 from specimens collected by Merlin Owen Pasco. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it is known from Cecil Peak. The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are deep yellowish brown with dusky black markings on the costa and dorsum. Adults have been recorded on wing in January. References Crambinae Moths described in 1917 Endemic fauna of New Zealand Moths of New Zealand

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Watford tube station

Watford tube station is the terminus of a Metropolitan line branch line in the north-western part of London Underground in Zone 7. The station opened in 1925. Location and description The station is in the Cassiobury area, on Cassiobury Park Avenue at the junction with Metropolitan Station Approach, close to two of the entrances to Cassiobury Park. It is approximately from the town centre, which is more immediately served by and stations. The station building was designed by the Metropolitan Railway's architect Charles Walter Clark in an Arts and Crafts vernacular style. It is in red brick with a clay-tiled hipped roof, tall brick chimney stacks, and timber sash and casement windows. The main entrance is covered by a polygonal metal canopy supported by twin Doric columns, and the interior, mostly unaltered from the original, is decorated with period tiling and hardwood panelling. The station building is grade II listed. According to data compiled in 2010, it is the 25th-least used station on the London Underground. History In the early 20th century, the Metropolitan Railway (MR) penetrated Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire with its suburban railway, enticing Londoners with its "Metro-Land" advertising campaign promoting the new railway as an opportunity to live in a rural location with easy transport to central London. The MR was also intent on providing a connection from Watford and planned a branch line from via . The MR purchased a swathe of land from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge along the planned route, and Parliamentary approval for the branch was granted in 1912. The project was hampered by disagreements with the Watford Borough Council and by the outbreak of World War I in 1914, and construction of the branch did not begin until 1922. The MR experienced difficulties running the line across the River Gade and the Grand Junction Canal, and this pushed costs up to £300,000. Watford MR station opened on 2 November 1925, with MR electric trains to and LNER steam trains to for the first few months. The Watford Observer commented on the opening that the new station was "likely to have a much greater effect on the town than is at present realised. Just as trade follows the flag, so population follows the railway". Posters published by the MR in 1925 promoting the new route "by Metro to Watford" depicted Watford High Street on market day, belying the remote location of the station. For many years, the MR operated a bus service from the High Street in an effort to gain more passengers, but contrary to the Watford Observer'''s predictions patronage remained low. MR passenger numbers compared unfavourably with services into central London offered by the LMS and the UERL Bakerloo line from and , and after the General Strike of 1926 the LNER pulled out of the venture with the MR. Watford tube station in Cassiobury Park Avenue was not originally planned to be the terminus of the Watford branch. The Metropolitan Railway Company's original plans drawn up in 1912 intended the line to continue through Cassiobury Park and beyond to Hempstead Road on an area known locally as 'The Wilderness', where West Herts College would later be built (opened in 1938). Watford Council had recently bought part of the Cassiobury Estate and objected to the proposed railway through the town park and recreation gardens, and so the last section of the route was removed and the line would end abruptly in Cassiobury Park Avenue instead. An opportunity arose in 1927 for another route to extend the line into the centre of Watford. Through a third party, the Metropolitan was able to purchase an existing building at 44 Watford High Street together with two-and-a-half acres of backlands, with the intention of creating a terminus in the town centre. The possibility of a single-track extension in tunnel—either from the existing station or following a diversionary route around the station—was explored, but costs were extremely high and no Parliamentary powers were sought. The High Street building was leased out and was eventually disposed of by London Transport in 1936, and today Watford station remains the terminus of the line, approximately 1 mile from the town centre. When Travelcard zones were introduced in 1984 by London Regional Transport, the station was in Zone B; in 2004 it moved to Zone A, and in 2008 to Zone 7. Future The ambition to extend the Metropolitan line into Watford town centre was revived around 1994 by London Regional Transport (LRT) when proposals were put forward to run the line to Watford Junction. The projected route was shown on an adapted version of the Tube map for internal planning purposes printed in that year. This project, known as the Croxley Rail Link, involved connecting the Metropolitan line to the disused Watford and Rickmansworth Railway line and reinstating the branch to . The line, opened in 1912, had been closed by British Rail in 1996 owing to low passenger numbers. Although it ran very close to the Metropolitan line (at its closest point about 200 metres away), the two lines were never linked. The plan was to connect the two lines via a short viaduct. The Croxley Rail Link project would have resulted in the closure of Watford station. On 14 December 2011 the project was given approval by the Department for Transport at an expected cost of £115.9 million with a proposed completion date of January 2016, later revised to 2020. The planned closure of Watford station met with some local opposition, and campaigners lobbied for the station to remain open with a reduced shuttle service. A report compiled in 2012 by the transport watchdog London TravelWatch concluded that the opening of new stations on the route would mitigate any inconvenience caused by the closure, and that a minority of passengers would experience an increase in journey times of more than 15 minutes. It also recommended that a shuttle train service should be trialled, and that in the event of closure a bus service should be provided from Cassiobury to one of the new stations. On 25 January 2017, the Watford Observer'' newspaper published an update on the Croxley Rail Link confirming work had stopped as there was an ongoing funding issue. Services the typical off-peak service was four trains per hour to Baker Street off-peak, with a limited service to Aldgate at peak times. See also Croxley Rail Link Croxley tube station Watford Junction Watford High Street railway station References Bibliography Metropolitan line stations Tube stations in Hertfordshire Former Metropolitan and Great Central Joint Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1925 Charles Walter Clark railway stations

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Giulio De Stefano

Giulio De Stefano (born 6 May 1929) is a former Italian sailor. Biography De Stefano was born in Castellammare di Stabia. He won the bronze medal in dragon class at the 1960 Summer Olympics. References External links 1929 births Living people Italian male sailors (sport) Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in sailing Olympic sailors of Italy Sailors at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Dragon Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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Yokogawa 1-chome Station

Yokogawa 1-chome is a Hiroden station on the Hiroden Yokogawa Line, located in Yokogawa-cho, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima. It is operated by the Hiroshima Electric Railway. Routes There are two routes that serve Yokogawa 1-chome Station: Yokogawa Station - Hiroden-honsha-mae Route Yokogawa Station - Eba Route Station layout The station consists of two side platforms serving two tracks. Access to the platforms is via a crosswalk. Adjacent stations Surrounding area Hiroshima City Nishi Ward Library History Opened as "Koryuji-mae" on November 1, 1917. Renamed to "Yokogawa 1-chome" in 1938. See also Hiroden Streetcar Lines and Routes External links Yokogawa 1-chome Station Railway stations in Japan opened in 1917

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Patricia Wettig

Patricia Anne Wettig (born December 4, 1951) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Nancy Weston in the television series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards. After her breakthrough role in Thirtysomething, Wettig has appeared in a number of films, include Guilty by Suspicion (1991), City Slickers (1991), City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994), and The Langoliers (1995). She returned to television playing a leading role in the 1995 short-lived drama Courthouse and later played Caroline Reynolds in the Fox drama Prison Break (2005–2007) and Holly Harper in the ABC family drama Brothers & Sisters (2006–2011). Early life Wettig was born in Milford, Ohio, to Florence (née Morlock) and Clifford Neal Wettig, a high school basketball coach. She has three sisters: Pam, Phyllis, and Peggy. She was raised in Grove City, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1970. She attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated from Temple University in 1975. She returned to her studies later in life and received a Master of Fine Arts in playwriting from Smith College in 2001. F2M, a play she authored, was performed in 2011 as part of the New York Stage and Film and Vassar College's 2011 Powerhouse Theater season. Career Wettig began her career on stage and worked as a personal dresser for Shirley MacLaine. On television, she appeared in episodes of 1980s dramas Remington Steele, Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, before taking a recurring role as Joanne McFadden in the NBC medical drama series St. Elsewhere from 1986 to 1987. Later in 1987, Wettig was cast as Nancy Weston in the ABC drama series thirtysomething. For her role in Thirtysomething, Wettig received critical acclaim. Her portrayal of Nancy's cancer struggle attracted considerable acclaim and attention. She won three Primetime Emmy Awards: for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1988, and for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1990 and 1991. In 1991, she won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. The series ended in 1991 after four seasons. Later that year, she made her big screen debut in the drama film Guilty by Suspicion starring opposite Robert De Niro and Annette Bening. She played Billy Crystal's wife in the comedy films City Slickers (1991) and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994). In 1993, she had a leading role in the comedy-drama film Me and Veronica . Wettig has starred in a number of made-for-television movies, include Taking Back My Life: The Nancy Ziegenmeyer Story (1992) and Parallel Lives (1994). She played the role of Laurel Stevenson in the 1995 Stephen King's miniseries The Langoliers. Later in 1995, she returned to television with a leading role of tough female judge in the CBS drama series Courthouse. Wettig intended to leave the show due to "creative differences", with sources saying that she wanted the show to be more of a star vehicle for her, rather than an ensemble cast, but the show was cancelled before her character could be written out. In 2002, Wettig was a regular cast member in the short-lived Bravo drama series Breaking News. From 2002 to 2004, she played the recurring role of CIA psychotherapist Dr. Judy Barnett on Alias (on which her husband was an executive producer and director). From 2005 to 2007, Wettig appeared in 18 episodes of Fox television drama, Prison Break, playing fictional Vice President Caroline Reynolds. She turned down Fox's offer of becoming a series regular on Prison Break in order to pursue the ABC comedy-drama series Brothers & Sisters, which debuted in September 2006. Wettig starred in the series as the Walker family patriarch's mistress, Holly Harper. She left the show midway through the show's fifth and final season after her character executive Holly Harper followed her daughter to New York along with her fiancé David played by real life husband Ken Olin. In 2012, Wettig joined the national tour for Larry Kramer's production, The Normal Heart. In 2014, she starred in the unsold the CW drama pilot Identity opposite Ahna O'Reilly In 2019, she played a leading role in the episode of Netflix anthology series Heartstrings. In 2020, ABC ordered a sequel for Thirtysomething and Wettig set to return alongside Olin, Timothy Busfield and Mel Harris. Personal life Wettig is married to actor and producer Ken Olin; they have a son Clifford (born 1983) and a daughter Roxy (born 1985). Filmography Film Television films Television series Awards and nominations References External links 1951 births Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American film actresses American stage actresses American television actresses Ohio Wesleyan University alumni Actresses from Pittsburgh Smith College alumni Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (television) winners Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners Actresses from Ohio 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlander%20and%20Condobolin%20and%20Western%20Districts%20Recorder

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder

The Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder was a weekly, later bi-weekly, English language newspaper published in Condobolin, New South Wales, Australia beginning around 1895 and continuing until 1952. It absorbed The Condobolin Argus and Lachlan Advertiser and was continued by The Lachlander. Newspaper history The Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder began publication in approximately 1895. It absorbed The Condobolin Argus and Lachlan Advertiser (1892–1900). In 1952 it was continued by The Lachlander, a current publication. Digitisation The Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. See also List of newspapers in Australia List of newspapers in New South Wales References External links Defunct newspapers published in New South Wales Newspapers on Trove

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartshorn%20Memorial%20Cannon

Hartshorn Memorial Cannon

The Hartshorn Memorial Cannon is a decommissioned American Civil War naval cannon that forms the centerpiece of the South Lyndeborough Village Common in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. The cannon is named for John Alonzo Hartshorn, the town's second Civil War casualty and a former member of the town's Lafayette Artillery Company. Description Prior to 1900, the Hartshorn Cannon saw service as a naval piece during the Civil War at Fort Constitution in New Castle, New Hampshire, and is believed to have remained there until substantial changes were made to the fort in the late 1890s. The black thirty-pounder Parrott rifle is approximately long, weighs , and was made at West Point Foundry in New York. Currently it sits on a low granite base which probably dates from about 1902. When in use, it was capable of firing shells with a munition charge of a maximum distance of , with a flight time of 27 seconds. Typically, nine people were required to operate it. The Hartshorn Cannon's use as a naval gun is suggested by an anchor insignia inscribed near the base of its barrel. Inscribed on the cannon is the letter-number combination "R.P.P. No. 140 3495 LBS," probably indicating the inventor (New Hampshire native Robert Parker Parrott), order of manufacture, and weight of the cannon. Additionally, the year of manufacture (1862) and classification ("30 PDR") are indicated on one side of the gun, and the initial "P" is engraved on the other. The cannon and the Grand Army of the Republic In 1900, the United States War Department offered Lyndeborough's Harvey Holt Post of the Grand Army of the Republic a cannon to place near its local headquarters, Citizens' Hall, with the stipulation that the gift be considered a loan. The GAR post petitioned the town to allow it to grade a spot on which to place the cannon, and the town granted permission for it to do so on March 14, 1900. The post received the cannon in 1902. That year, at a dinner attended by more than 200 people at Citizens' Hall, the GAR dedicated the artillery piece to the memory of John Alonzo Hartshorn. Hartshorn (pronounced HARTS-hurn, though New Englanders in this region usually pronounce it "HAHTZ-hun") was born on July 14, 1840 to Susannah Putnam Hartshorn (1816–1903) and her husband, John Hartshorn (1811–1878), a deacon in the Baptist Church. The younger Hartshorn grew up in South Lyndeborough in a house at the corner of what today is Citizens' Hall Road and Forest Road/Route 31. On May 20, 1861, he enlisted in the 2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment, infantry division, and served as part of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. On May 5, 1862, Hartshorn was killed during the Battle of Williamsburg in Virginia, becoming the second Lyndeborough resident to die in the Civil War. Harvey Holt, the namesake for the GAR post, was the town's—and according to Lyndeborough's official town history, state's—first Civil War fatality, having perished during the First Battle of Bull Run. The cannon and the South Lyndeborough Common By 1934, all of Lyndeborough's Civil War veterans had died, and the Harvey Holt Post had ceased to exist. Meanwhile, changes were coming to South Lyndeborough. In 1914, the local improvement society redeveloped a central plot of land near the depot into a village common. By 1933, the state had taken over control of Forest Road and turned it into State Route 31, a move which promised to significantly increase automobile traffic in the small town of 399 people. Yet the paving of Route 31 in 1933 also disrupted the common, tearing up shrubs and grass and bringing about a greater awareness of the common's prominent location among local voters. Therefore, as part of an effort to improve the village green, in 1934 the town voted to move the Hartshorn Memorial Cannon to the common—coincidentally, to a location viewable from both Alonzo Hartshorn's childhood home and his church. In carrying out the voters' wishes, however, the town accidentally placed the cannon within the state's Route 31 right-of-way. In the early 1980s, Route 31 was widened, as a result of which the Hartshorn Cannon saw increased damage from winter plowing and salt use on the roadways. Therefore, in 2009, amidst some controversy, an unknown person or people moved the cannon to what the Board of Selectmen eventually termed a "temporary location" in the Lyndeborough Center Historic District, some three miles away. With the endorsement of the local newspaper, the Milford Cabinet, the Selectmen appointed a committee of local experts to find a permanent location for the cannon, two additional war monuments, and a new Vietnam Memorial. This committee consisted of seven people who together included the Town Moderator, two Lafayette Artillery members, three Vietnam War-era veterans (including one combat veteran), two former selectmen, two college professors, and three lifelong residents of the town. In April 2010, citing the desire to maintain the historic integrity of the Lyndeborough Center Historic District as well as South Lyndeborough, the group decided to place the memorials on the South Lyndeborough Village Common. The Hartshorn Cannon was moved back to the common (to a new location away from the road) in May 2010, and the cannon was a center of focus in the town's 2010 Memorial Day ceremonies. On August 21, 2010, the Monuments Committee unveiled a $30,000 plan for the South Lyndeborough common, which includes a redevelopment of the spot with fencing, trees, granite benches, walkways, and a Vietnam monument, as well as a new base for the Hartshorn Cannon. Sale of personalized bricks for the walkway and other fundraising ventures will finance the redevelopment. References Sources D. Donovan and J.A. Woodward, The History of Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, 1735-1905 (Boston: Tufts, 1906). N. Martin, "Who Moved Lyndeborough Monuments?" Ledger-Transcript (Peterborough NH) November 2009 "Local Issue, But..." The Cabinet (Milford NH) January 21, 2010, Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, town web site S.A. Roper and S.C. Roper, Citizen Soldiers: New Hampshire's Lafayette Artillery Company, 1804-2004 (Portsmouth NH: Peter E. Randall, 2004). J. Salisbury, "Veterans' Memorials Moved to Temporary Home," The Cabinet (Milford NH) November 4, 2009 J. Salisbury, "War Memorials Committee Formed," The Cabinet, January 14, 2010 J. Salisbury, "2 Memorials, Cannon back in Lyndeborough," Nashua Telegraph (Nashua NH) May 4, 2010 J. Salisbury, "Lyndeborough Common plans being Finalized," The Cabinet, August 19, 2010 D. Shalhoup, "Memorial Day Around the Souhegan Valley," The Cabinet, June 3, 2010 "West Point Foundry" Buildings and structures in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Individual cannons Lyndeborough, New Hampshire Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in New Hampshire

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misugisato%20K%C5%8Dji

Misugisato Kōji

Misugisato Kōji (born 1 July 1962 as Kōji Okamoto) is a former sumo wrestler from Shiga Prefecture, Japan. He made his professional debut in 1979, and his highest rank was komusubi which he reached in 1989. He earned six gold stars for defeating yokozuna and one special prize for Fighting Spirit. He retired in 1998 and became an elder of the Japan Sumo Association before leaving the sumo world in 2006. Career Born in Shigaraki, Koka District, he joined Futagoyama stable at the beginning of 1979 at the age of 15, recruited by former yokozuna Wakanohana. He initially fought under his own surname before being given the shikona of Misugisato (meaning "village of three cedars") in 1980. In July 1984 he reached the sekitori ranks for the first time, but lasted only one tournament in the juryo division before being demoted back to makushita. It took him exactly two years to win promotion back to juryo and he promptly won the divisional yusho or tournament championship with an 11-4 record. He moved up and down the division a few times before winning promotion to the top makuuchi division after a 10-5 score at the rank of Juryo 2 in March 1988. In November 1988 he scored nine wins against six losses at the rank of maegashira 7, which was enough to see him promoted to komusubi for the January 1989 tournament. Unusually, he had been promoted to the san'yaku ranks without ever having faced any san'yaku ranked wrestlers himself. (He received some banzuke good fortune as both komusubi and most of the maegashira ranked above him had finished with make-koshi or losing records in November). Misugisato was thrown in at the deep end in his komusubi debut, facing all the three yokozuna in the first three days. Unsurprisingly, he was unable to defeat any of them and finished with a losing score of 3-12. Nevertheless, he upset yokozuna Hokutoumi in the May and September 1989 tournaments, to earn the first two of his eventual six kinboshi or gold stars. On the final day of the January 1992 tournament he faced Takahanada, who needed the win to clinch his first top division tournament championship. Takahanada was the nephew of Misugisato's stablemaster Futagoyama, who was officiating in his last tournament as the head of the Japan Sumo Association and was due to present the trophy to the winner of the yusho. Misugisato had already earned a majority of wins, and lost the match to finish on 8-7. He and Takanohana would later become stablemates when Futagoyama stable merged with Takahanada's Fujishima stable. In May 1992 he earned ten wins at Maegashira 1, defeating ozeki Konishiki and Kirishima along the way, and was rewarded with his first sanshō or special prize, for Fighting Spirit, and promotion back to komusubi. He held the rank for the next two tournaments. Misugisato never reached the san'yaku ranks again, but he remained in the top division until March 1997. He then fought in the juryo division until his retirement in July 1998 at the age of 36. Although he had a losing record by Day 9 and demotion to the third makushita division was inevitable, he was aware that his stablemaster Fujishima Oyakata would not let him compete at such a low level and so he was determined to reach 700 career wins in his final tournament. He achieved this on Day 12, and then announced his retirement. Retirement from sumo Misugisato had his danpatsu-shiki, or official retirement ceremony, in January 1999. He remained in the sumo world as a coach, initially under his old fighting name for a two year grace period (jun-toshiyori), and then from July 2000 under the toshiyori or elder name of Hamakaze, but left his role in November 2006, following a rule change by the Sumo Association that meant he was no longer eligible to open his own stable. His elder stock was subsequently taken by the former maegashira Gojōrō Katsuhiro. Considerably in debt due to the amount he had invested in attempting to open a stable, he had a chanko restaurant and then became a practitioner of . He runs a business called Misugisato's Gottsu Hand in Nakano, Tokyo offering tui na treatment. He has also helped with training sessions at Shikoroyama stable. Personal life Misugisato was married in 1990. His eldest son was a successful American football and stickball player at high school and played in an all-star game. He comes from area famous for its pottery, known as Shigaraki ware, and became interested in ceramics as a result. In his days as an active wrestler he also built up a vast record collection. Fighting style Misugisato was a solidly yotsu-sumo (grappling) wrestler who did not often push or thrust at his opponents. His favoured grip on the mawashi was migi-yotsu, a left hand outside, right hand inside position. His most common winning kimarite was a straightforward yori-kiri, or force out. He was also well known for uwatenage, or overarm throw, and the ring edge throw (utchari), sometimes dubbed "Misugisato's Magic". Career record See also Glossary of sumo terms List of past sumo wrestlers List of komusubi References External links Official website 1962 births Living people Japanese sumo wrestlers Sumo people from Shiga Prefecture Komusubi

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Pravastatin or atorvastatin evaluation and infection therapy - thrombolysis in myocardial infarction 22

The Pravastatin or atorvastatin evaluation and infection therapy - thrombolysis in myocardial infarction 22, also known as PROVE-IT TIMI 22, was a randomized, double-blind, clinical trial that recruited 4,162 people admitted within 10 days of an acute coronary event and randomised them to the lipid-lowering drugs pravastatin (40mg) or atorvastatin (80mg) and a 10 day course of the antibiotic gatifloxacin or placebo. The participants enrolled at 349 sites across Australia, Europe, and North America between November 2000 and December 2001, and the study concluded that statin treatment for secondary prevention reduced coronary heart disease (CHD) events and that atorvastatin had a more marked effect than pravastatin. The study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine and reported at the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session in 2004. See also Heart Protection Study (HPS) Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S) West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS) References Epidemiological study projects Clinical trials related to cardiology Statins Cardiology

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Mason County, West Virginia

Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,324. Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. Before the Civil War, the county was in the State of Virginia. Mason County is part of the Point Pleasant, WV-OH Micropolitan Statistical Area. History In the second half of 1749, the French explorer, Pierre Joseph Céloron de Blainville, claimed French sovereignty over the Ohio Valley, burying a lead plaque at the meeting point of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, naming the place Point Pleasant. In the Battle of Point Pleasant (October 10, 1774), fought on the future site of the town, over one thousand Virginia militiamen, led by Colonel Andrew Lewis (1720–1781), defeated a roughly equal force of an Algonquin confederation of Shawnee and Mingo warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk (ca. 1720–1777). The event is celebrated locally as the "First Battle of the American Revolutionary War" and in 1908 the U.S. Senate authorized erection of a local monument to commemorate it as such. Most historians, however, regard it not as a battle of the Revolution (1775–1783), but as a part of Lord Dunmore's War (1774). White settlers may have established their permanent settlement by 1774, for Col. Lewis had established "Camp Point Pleasant" at the time of the Battle and the settlement that followed also took that name. According to Hardesty's West Virginia Counties (1883), regarding the first white settlers in Mason County south of Point Pleasant: All that part of the district lying on the Ohio river bottoms above Eighteen-mile Creek, was included in the grant made by Congress to the heirs of General Mercer, who was killed at the battle of Princeton, New Jersey, January 3, 1777, while fighting by the side of Washington; hence the name Mercer Bottom. Who located and surveyed the lands cannot now be learned, but his grandson, Charles Fenton Mercer, of Virginia, afterward put the lands in market and sold them in quantities to suit purchasers. Thomas Hannan, whose name is preserved in that of the district, was the first actual settler - locating in the year 1790. Andrew Fleming and a Mr. Mercer, two hunters, had previously erected a cabin on the land which he purchased, and this was occupied by him until he could build a better one. Soon Jesse George purchased seventy acres of land at the mouth of Flatfoot Creek ... and became the second actual settler. Then came John Hereford, Robert Hereford, Thomas Powell, Edward S. Menager, John Morris — who discovered the first salt water on Kanawha river — George Withers, Robert Cremeans, James George, Rev. John Canterbury ... The settlement at Point Pleasant did not receive an official charter until 1794. The first road through what later became Mason County was laid out by Thomas Hannan (1757-1835) in 1798 under contract to the federal government. It traversed the distance from present-day St Albans, (West) Virginia to Chillicothe, Ohio. This road (parts are still known as "Hannan Trace Road") is one of the oldest roads in Ohio. It became a main highway connecting Chillicothe and points east during the time when that settlement served as the capital of the Northwest Territory and the first capital of Ohio. The Virginia General Assembly officially created Mason County from Kanawha County on January 2, 1804. It was named for George Mason IV (1725–1792), known as the "Father of the United States Bill of Rights" and a Founding Father of the United States. By 1810, the total county population stood at almost two thousand people. Before the American Civil War it developed as a river port (farmers upstream on the Kanawha River could ship their goods to Point Pleasant and from there down the Ohio River and sometimes the Mississippi River to market) as well as coal. In the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861, Mason County's delegate, lawyer James H. Couch (1821-1899), although a slaveholder, voted against secession. Mason County then sent no delegates to the Virginia House of Delegates until West Virginia's statehood, which Virginia's House of Delegates refused to recognize, thus seating James Hutcheson who had been elected by Confederate soldiers in their camp. Meanwhile, William W. Newman claimed to represent Mason as well as nearby Jackson, Cabell, Wayne and Wirt counties throughout the war. Mason County sent more than 1000 men to the Union army and one company of 61 men to the Confederate Army (the 37th Virginia Infantry). In March 1863, in the only wartime skirmish in Mason County, during the Jones-Imboden Raid, the 6th Virginia Cavalry and 8th Virginia Cavalry attacked the Mason County Courthouse, where they believed munitions stored, leaving bullet holes in the walls until a replacement was built in 1954. Point Pleasant's Battle Monument State Park, also known as Tu-Endie-Wei, was dedicated on October 10, 1901, to commemorate the Battle of Point Pleasant, at the time claimed to have been the first battle of the Revolutionary War. It significantly predates the 1928 establishment of the West Virginia state park system. The park includes the tavern begun in 1796 by Walter Newman, later operated as a museum of local history by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Marietta Manufacturing Company (shipbuilders) moved to Point Pleasant in 1915; the facility continued to build mine-planting vessels and other small ships through World War II, but closed in 1970. During World War II the West Virginia Ordnance Works manufactured TNT in Mason County about 5 miles north of Point Pleasant; it was later repurposed as the McClintic Wildlife Management Area as well as an industrial park. The county's worst disaster occurred on December 15, 1967, when the Silver Bridge, a link-suspension bridge which had connected Point Pleasant to Kanauga, Ohio along U.S. Route 35 since 1928, collapsed during the rush hour commute. The disaster killed 46 people and injured nine others, and drew attention to poor bridge maintenance practices, as well as bridge loads greatly exceeding their original tolerances. The important bridge was replaced two years later by the Silver Memorial Bridge, which stands today. In 1981, the West Virginia Department of Agriculture acquired land that had been farmed after the Civil War by General John McCausland, the last fully confirmed Confederate general to die. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, it now operates as Smithland Farm. The River Museum opened on May 1, 2004, but closed in 2018 after a disastrous fire. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (3.1%) is water. Territorial evolution Prior to its establishment in 1804, the land that would become Mason County was part of the vast and largely unorganized territory claimed by Virginia west of the Alleghenies. It was attached to various counties beginning with Orange in 1734, Augusta in 1738, and Botetourt in 1770. Beginning in 1772, the portion of Mason County south of the Kanawha River was part of Fincastle County, the West Virginia portion of which became Monroe County in 1777. The remaining West Virginia portion of Botetourt County, including the northern part of present-day Mason County, became Greenbrier County in 1778. In 1789, the western portions of Greenbrier and Monroe Counties, extending to the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers, were combined to form Kanawha County. Mason County was separated from Kanawha County in 1804, including all of its current territory, as well as portions of what are now Jackson, Putnam, and Roane Counties. The northern and western boundaries were formed by the Ohio River, and the county's southwestern boundary, originally with Kanawha County, and now with Cabell, remains unchanged. Until 1831, Mason County shared a boundary with Wood County, running southeasterly from the Ohio River north of Ravenswood to the northwestern boundary of Kanawha County, thence in a southwesterly direction to the present border with Cabell County. The formation of Jackson County in 1831 from portions of Mason, Wood, and Kanawha Counties removed the eastern portion of Mason County, including the part now in Roane County, while the formation of Putnam County from portions of Mason, Cabell, and Kanawha Counties in 1848 removed the southeastern portion of the county. This was the last major change to Mason County's boundaries. After West Virginia gained its independence from Virginia in 1863, the state's counties were divided into civil townships, with the goal of placing authority in the hands of local governments. Mason County was divided into ten townships, each of which was named after a pioneer settler of Mason County. However, township government proved impractical across the heavily rural state, with citizens unable to meet on a regular basis, and inadequate tax revenue to meet township responsibilities. Following the adoption of the Constitution of West Virginia in 1872, the townships were converted into magisterial districts, and the county courts (later county commissions) empowered to establish, consolidate, or otherwise modify them. Major highways U.S. Route 35 West Virginia Route 2 West Virginia Route 62 West Virginia Route 87 West Virginia Route 817 Adjacent counties Meigs County, Ohio (north) Jackson County (east) Putnam County (southeast) Cabell County (southwest) Gallia County, Ohio (west) National protected area Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (part) Demographics 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 25,957 people, 10,587 households, and 7,569 families residing in the county. The population density was 60 people per square mile (23/km2). There were 12,056 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile (11/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 98.37% White, 0.50% Black or African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.27% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.11% from other races, and 0.56% from two or more races. 0.47% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 10,587 households, out of which 30.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.60% were married couples living together, 10.10% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.50% were non-families. 25.50% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.89. In the county, the population was spread out, with 22.70% under the age of 18, 8.30% from 18 to 24, 27.70% from 25 to 44, 26.10% from 45 to 64, and 15.20% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.20 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.10 males. The median income for a household in the county was $27,134, and the median income for a family was $32,953. Males had a median income of $32,382 versus $17,074 for females. The per capita income for the county was $14,804. About 16.60% of families and 19.90% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.30% of those under age 18 and 14.50% of those age 65 or over. 2010 census As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 27,324 people, 11,149 households, and 7,649 families residing in the county. The population density was . There were 13,006 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 97.7% white, 0.6% black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 0.2% American Indian, 0.1% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 0.4% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 19.4% were German, 11.3% were Irish, 11.2% were American, and 7.6% were English. Of the 11,149 households, 29.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.5% were married couples living together, 11.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 31.4% were non-families, and 27.4% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.39 and the average family size was 2.89. The median age was 42.4 years. The median income for a household in the county was $36,027 and the median income for a family was $42,054. Males had a median income of $41,607 versus $25,444 for females. The per capita income for the county was $19,609. About 14.6% of families and 18.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.3% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over. Politics Education Mason County Schools operates public schools. There are three junior/senior high schools, seven elementary schools and one primary school in Mason County. Point Pleasant Primary School Ashton Elementary School Beale Elementary School Leon Elementary School Mason Elementary School Point Pleasant Intermediate School Roosevelt Elementary School Hannan Junior/Senior High School Point Pleasant Junior/Senior High School Wahama Junior/Senior High School New Haven Elementary School Mason County Fair The Mason County Fair, held at the Mason County Fair Grounds in Point Pleasant, is the largest county fair in West Virginia (in terms of attendance). It is held every year during the first week of August. Communities City Point Pleasant (county seat) Towns Hartford City Henderson Leon Mason New Haven Magisterial districts Arbuckle Clendenin Cologne Cooper Graham Hannan Lewis Robinson Union Waggener Census-designated places Apple Grove Gallipolis Ferry Unincorporated communities Ambrosia Arbuckle Arlee Ash Ashton Baden Beale Beech Hill Ben Lomond Capehart Clifton Condee Couch Deerlick Elmwood Fairview Flat Rock Glenwood Graham Station Greer Grimms Landing Gunville Hogsett Lakin Letart Maggie Mercers Bottom Mount Olive Nat Pondlick Rayburn Sassafras Southside Spilman Tribble Upland Waterloo West Columbia Wood Wyoma Notable person Michael Joseph Owens, inventor of machine which automated the production of glass bottles See also Chief Cornstalk Wildlife Management Area County (United States) Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area Kanawha River National Register of Historic Places listings in Mason County, West Virginia Ohio River Tu-Endie-Wei State Park Notes References External links Mason County website Mason County Convention and Visitors Bureau Mason County Area Chamber of Commerce City of Point Pleasant Point Pleasant Internet Directory The Point Pleasant Register Mason County Fair Point Pleasant micropolitan area West Virginia counties on the Ohio River Counties of Appalachia 1804 establishments in Virginia Populated places established in 1804 Former counties of Virginia

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Mohawk%20%281925%29

SS Mohawk (1925)

Mohawk was a passenger cargo steam turbine-powered ship built in 1925-1926 by Newport News Ship Building & Drydock Co. of Newport News for Clyde Steamship Company with intention of operating between New York and Jacksonville. She was luxuriously equipped, and regularly carried celebrity passengers. In 1929, her schedule was extended to Galveston, and she also operated winter cruises to various Caribbean destinations. On 24 January 1935, after leaving New York City on one of her regularly scheduled trips, she suffered a failure of her automatic steering gear and collided with Norwegian freighter Talisman. Mohawk sank after about an hour with a loss of 31 crew and 16 passengers. Design and Construction Early in January 1925 following a fire and complete destruction of their largest passenger ship , Clyde Steamship Co. decided to build another vessel to replace their lost liner similar in size and design to two vessels being constructed at the time, SS Seminole and SS Cherokee. The contract for the new vessel was awarded to the Newport News Ship Building & Drydock Co. on January 22, 1925 and the ship, also to be named Mohawk, soon was laid down at the shipbuilder's yard in Newport News (yard number 287) and launched on 21 October 1925, with Miss Margaret Denison of Rye, New York, daughter of J. B. Denison, First Vice-President of the Clyde Steamship Company, serving as the sponsor. The ship was primarily designed for passenger transportation and in addition to two decks, also had a hurricane or sun deck constructed on top. The vessel provided accommodations in single cabins or suites for 446 passengers, and had all the staterooms and saloons located throughout all three decks. In addition, a veranda cafe and a spacious dining hall able to sit 180 people at once, a musical lounge, a library, a large dancing deck, and smoking rooms were also constructed to provide entertainment for the would be passengers. Mohawk had electric lights in cabins and along the decks, hot and cold water in all her suites, and was also equipped with wireless of De Forest type. The steamer also had evaporating and distilling plants installed to provide passengers with fresh water throughout their voyage. Mohawk had freight decks separated into lighted, ventilated watertight compartments, some of them chilled with refrigerating machinery, supplied with large number of side ports for quick loading and unloading of the cargo. Ample space was also specially designed and reserved for transportation of automobiles to ensure passengers could bring their autos with them. The steamer was also equipped with automatic fire detection system, as well as steam, salt water and Foamite fire extinguishing systems. The sea trials were held on January 23, 1926 off the Virginia Capes during which the steamer performed satisfactorily and was able to exceed her contract speed. Following an inspection, the steamer was transferred to her owners and departed for New York on February 6. As built, the ship was long (between perpendiculars) and abeam, a depth of . Mohawk was assessed at and and had loaded displacement of . The vessel had a steel hull with double bottom, and two oil-burning steam turbines, producing 981 nhp, single reduction geared to one screw propeller, that moved the ship at up to . Operational history Upon delivery Mohawk sailed from Hampton Roads for New York on February 6, 1926. After taking on board a full complement of passengers, many of them being of prominence, she departed on her maiden voyage on February 9 for Charleston and Jacksonville. Many special entertainment events were planned on her maiden voyage including theatrical plays and special performance by the steamer's musical orchestra. The ship departed Jacksonville for her return trip on June 13, and arrived at New York on February 15, thus bringing her maiden voyage to successful conclusion. Mohawk continued serving the same route for the major part of her career, connecting Charleston and Jacksonville with New York, with occasional stops at Brunswick. The steamer carried a variety of general cargo from the southern ports, mostly lumber, cotton, naval stores, vegetables and fruit. In early March 1927 Mohawk carried Aimee Semple McPherson from New York to Florida at the time of her "vindication tour" during which she visited numerous cities taking advantage of the publicity her kidnapping story created to preach the Gospel. May 1928 collision In the afternoon of May 19, 1928 Mohawk slowly left her pier in Brooklyn on her usual trip down to Charleston and Jacksonville. The steamer was under command of captain J.W. MacKenzie, had a crew of 100 men and was carrying some general cargo and 89 passengers. Due to heavy rains the night before, the weather was very foggy in and around New York harbor and the fog slowly spread out from the city to surrounding waters throughout the day. As a result, all in and out New York traffic was moving very cautiously due to visibility being no more than a few feet. Shortly after 15:00 as Mohawk was slowly proceeding down the Lower Bay on her way out, an oncoming ship, later determined to be Old Dominion Line steamer coming from Norfolk with 67 passengers, was suddenly spotted ahead. Due to very short distance between the vessels, nothing could be done to avert the collision, and at about 15:11 Jefferson smashed into Mohawk starboard side just forward of amidships opening a wide gap. Mohawk immediately started taking on water but the pumps were employed and managed to slow down the water intake, yet the vessel soon developed a list to port side. Captain MacKenzie, however, being unsure of the seriousness of his vessel's injury decided to ground her and headed towards the nearest land, eventually beaching the ship on Normandie Beach, near Sea Bright. In the meantime, Jefferson backed out of collision and slowly proceeded to anchor herself off Ambrose Channel north off Sandy Hook to wait out the fog and determine the extent of sustained damage. After evaluating the damage, captain MacKenzie realized the ship was in no danger of sinking and decided to wait for the tide and try to refloat the ship with the aid of tugs and return to New York. However, the heavy seas turned Mohawk around with her broadside facing the waves and breakers and early in the evening it was decided to evacuate the passengers. By 21:00 all passengers were safely transferred to the US Coast Guard cutter which was standing by Mohawk while the captain and the crew remained on board the vessel. Due to prevailing fog, the passengers had to spend the night on board Seminole and were then landed by the cutter at St. George by 14:00 the next day. By 22:00 Mohawk developed a heavier list and about an hour later her lights went out as her engine room became flooded. In order to float the steamer a patch was placed over the hole and water was pumped out and then a layer of ice was created over the canvas using the ship's refrigeration machinery. Two attempts were made but proved unsuccessful but on the third try Mohawk was successfully refloated in the evening of May 21 during high tide and towed to New York by two wrecking tugs. There she unloaded all the remaining cargo and all passenger baggage and proceeded to drydock for evaluation and repairs. Mohawk returned to her regular service in late June. Resumption of Regular Service After successful completion of repairs, Mohawk was again put on her usual coastal route. In September 1928 during one of her trips down south the steamer picked one of the survivors of the blast on board tanker Shreveport off North Carolina coast. Early in the morning on March 5, 1929 while yet on another journey from New York with 195 passengers and general cargo, including a good-will delegation from South Carolina bound for Havana, Mohawk ran aground on the north bank of the St. John's River about fifteen miles from Jacksonville after the steamer ran into a strong gale at the entrance to the mouth of the river. The passengers were never in any danger, but it took several attempts to dislodge the ship before she arrived in Jacksonville later in the evening on the same day. In May 1929 Mallory Line inaugurated their new service from Galveston to Miami and Mohawk was chosen to be the first steamer to sail on this route. From that point forward Mohawk would continue sailing on the route from New York to Miami to Galveston during the summer months, and would largely serve as a cruise ship during winter months carrying passengers from New York to the destinations in the West Indies, or maintaining regular New York to Jacksonville service. On July 3, 1933 Mohawk while on her return trip from Galveston ran into the fringes of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico but escaped largely unscathed with an exception of two injured musicians. In the early morning of August 28, 1934 the liner ran aground on the south side of the Galveston channel while trying to navigate into port in thick weather. The passengers were never in danger and the ship was eventually refloated with the aid of tugs a few hours later. Sinking Mohawk left New York City for Havana on the afternoon of 24 January 1935 with 110 crew, 53 passengers and a general cargo of car parts and china on board. She sailed under the command of Captain Joseph Edward Wood. Passengers included Mary Pillsbury Lord (survived); her sister Katherine Pillsbury McKee (survived); New York architect Julian Livingston Peabody (died); his wife, socialite Celestine Hitchcock Peabody (daughter of Thomas Hitchcock Sr.) (died); Prof. Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland of Williams College (died); Rev. Dr. Francis L. Frost of the St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Staten Island (died); John Telfer, designated Vice Consul in Orizaba, Mexico (died); his wife, Catherine Butler Telfer (died); Gertrude Oakes, sister of Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet of Nassau (died). Four hours after having left New York Harbor at about 9 PM, the Mohawk spotted the Norwegian freighter Talisman at a distance of . At this point the ship was several miles south of Sea Girt Light and about six miles offshore, when suddenly the Mohawk suffered a failure of her automatic steering gear which made her crew revert to the manual steering system. But due to confusion between orders from the bridge to the engine room and further problems steering the ship, Mohawk accidentally made a hard turn to port which made her veer off course and steam at full speed into the path of Talisman. Both ships tried to avoid a collision, but it was already too late. Talisman struck the Mohawk on her port side and left a deep gash in her bow. After the collision the Mohawk came to a complete standstill and began to take on water. Nearly every passenger and crew member felt the force of the collision and made their way to deck. It was very cold on deck as the temperature reached two degrees below zero and the lifeboats were covered in snow. The lifeboats were quickly undone from their snow coats and were being lowered by both passengers and crew as the ship was beginning to list. About an hour after the collision, the Mohawk rolled onto her starboard side and finally disappeared beneath the waves. Most of her lifeboats managed to be launched, yet 16 passengers and 31 crew went down with the ship, including all but one of the ship's officers. None of the bridge officers survived the accident and Captain Joseph Wood, after verifying that all other persons had safely evacuated the ship, went back to his cabin and shut the door. In the hours following the sinking SS Limon and Mohawk's sister ship SS Algonquin picked up a total of six life boats with just over 100 survivors. The survivors were taken back to shore where some were met by journalists and cameraman all asking questions about the disaster. The search for survivors continued through the night and the next day as Coast Guard boats and planes scanned the surface, but ultimately the search operation was looking for the remains of the perished rather than any more survivors. Blame As was always done with a disaster which resulted in the loss of human life, an inquiry researched who was to blame for the incident. It was concluded that Mohawk caused the initial collision by veering off course. Although this alone would not explain why the Talisman ended up hitting the Mohawk, thereby some speculate that the Mohawk's navigation lights also failed. The blame for the collision rests mostly with mechanical malfunction or human error on the Mohawk's part. It was also noted that the damage inflicted by the collision, should not have been enough to sink the Mohawk. But it appears that during the Great Depression the Mohawk's owner modified the ship to carry bulk cargoes so it could squeeze some extra revenue out of the vessel. These modifications involved opening up the ship's watertight bulkheads for easier cargo handling. Because of this, the Mohawk had no defense against the frigid waters that were making their way through her gaping wound which ended in her demise. Wreck Mohawk sank to a depth of and broke open on the sea floor where she lay on her starboard side until she was righted by storms. But the wreck's tallest parts which included the bridge and smokestack were a hazard in the busy New Jersey shipping lane. So in July 1935 the Army Corps of Engineers went to the wreck and removed her fuel oil. After that, over 8 tons of dynamite was used to demolish the wreck. The first blast alone used almost a ton and blew out the center of the damaged port side of the hull which made the superstructure collapse onto the main deck. After that two tugboats were dispatched to wire-drag the wreck to the required depth clearance. During the moving, a heavy steel cable was forced back and forth through the superstructure which snapped the deck plates apart and ripped the bridge from the hull, scattering debris into the currents. A few years later during World War II, the Coast Guard bombed the Mohawk with depth charges as German U-boats had been hiding alongside wrecks in these waters as to dodge sonar waves. Apparentally the ship was depth charged a second time during the war when a US Navy blimp mistook the wreck for a German U-boat. Ultimately one anchor and the propeller were salvaged as the other anchor is buried beneath the bow. At present day, the wreck rests eight miles east of Manasquan Inlet at () and covers several acres. Her last cargo of a number of trucks or automobiles, large rubber tires, axles, and other parts are tangled up with the rest of the wreckage. All the structure supplies a home for all kinds of aquatic life such as mussels, red anemones, lobsters and all types of fishes. References Passenger ships of the United States Steamships of the United States Ships built in the United States Ships built in Newport News, Virginia 1925 ships Maritime incidents in 1928 Maritime incidents in 1935 Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean Ships sunk in collisions Shipwrecks of the New York (state) coast

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People's Freedom Movement

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Penicillium restrictum

Penicillium restrictum is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium which was isolated from the stems of the plant Silybum marianum. Penicillium restrictum produces calbistrin A References Further reading restrictum Fungi described in 1927

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Copelatus villiersi

Copelatus villiersi is a species of diving beetle. It is part of the subfamily Copelatinae in the family Dytiscidae. It was described by Félix Guignot in 1950. References villiersi Beetles described in 1950

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Members of the European Parliament (1958–1979)

The European Parliament received delegations from several countries in the session from 1958 to 1979. MEPs for Belgium 1958–1979 MEPs for Denmark 1973–1979 MEPs for France 1958–1979 MEPs for Ireland 1973 MEPs for Ireland 1973–1977 MEPs for Ireland 1977–1979 MEPs for Italy 1958–1979 MEPs for Luxembourg 1958–1979 List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 1958–1979 MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–1979 MEPs for West-Germany 1958–1979

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Powles

Guy Powles

Sir Guy Richardson Powles (5 April 1905 – 24 October 1994) was a New Zealand diplomat, the last Governor of Western Samoa and architect of Samoan independence, and New Zealand's first Ombudsman. Early life Powles was born in Otaki, north of Wellington, in 1905. Powles was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Guy Powles, a decorated military soldier who served with distinction during World War I as brigade major of New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade 1914–1916 and AA & QMG ANZAC Mounted Division 1916–1918. In 1922 he wrote the third volume of the Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War, The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine, and in 1928 edited The history of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914–1919 by officers of the regiment, and later became Chief of General Staff of the New Zealand Army. Powles earned his LLB from Victoria University of Wellington and practised as a barrister in Wellington from 1929 to 1940. During the war, Powles went on active military service, and achieved the rank of colonel, commanding the New Zealand artillery regiment in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal and New Caledonia. Powles was a founding member of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs in 1934, along with Alister McIntosh, John Cawte Beaglehole, and William Sutch. Diplomatic career Powles joined the fledgling Department of External Affairs in 1945, working alongside such notable figures as Alister McIntosh, George Laking, and later Frank Corner and Merwyn Norrish. His first assignment was in Washington, where he served as counsellor working on the Far Eastern Commission, established to work through the issues relating to Japan's surrender during World War II. In 1949, Powles became New Zealand High Commissioner to Samoa: in this role, he was set to become the last New Zealand governor of that territory. Over the next ten years, Powles worked through the issues relating to Samoa's independence from New Zealand. In 1960, Powles became New Zealand High Commissioner to India, which he served until 1962. Powles was involved in a large number of international conferences, including the UN United Nations Trusteeship Council, the South Pacific Commission, the Conference on Japanese Peace Treaty, the International Whaling Conference, the Economic Commission Conference, and the Colombo Plan Conference. Ombudsman Powles was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1961 New Year Honours, and was made New Zealand's first Ombudsman in 1962. He served in this role until 1977, by which time he had been joined by another Ombudsman, and acted as Chief Ombudsman. Powles also acted as New Zealand's first Race Relations Conciliator. On the international stage, Powles did a substantial amount of work in promoting the office of the ombudsman. Powles died in Wellington on 24 October 1994, and his ashes were buried at Karori Cemetery. Other information Powles' son is diplomat Michael Powles, a former New Zealand High Commissioner to Fiji, and former Ambassador to Indonesia, China, and the United Nations. His grandson is Timothy Powles, producer, engineer and drummer for Australian band The Church. Awards Efficiency Decoration Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George In the New Year Honours 1961 Powles was appointed as Knight Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire On 6 February 1990, Powles was the eighteenth appointee to The Order of New Zealand, New Zealand's highest civil honour. Honorary LL.D from Victoria University of Wellington Received the Order of Tiafau, the highest award by the Samoan Government References http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=5P37 1905 births 1994 deaths New Zealand public servants Victoria University of Wellington alumni Administrators of Tokelau New Zealand military personnel of World War II High Commissioners of New Zealand to India High Commissioners of New Zealand to Samoa Members of the Order of New Zealand New Zealand Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Burials at Karori Cemetery 20th-century New Zealand politicians Administrators of the Western Samoa Trust Territory

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USS Robert E. Peary (DE-132)

USS Robert E. Peary (DE-132) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. She was sold for scrap in 1967. History The ship was named after Robert E. Peary, the famous Arctic explorer and laid down 30 June 1942 by the Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Texas; launched 3 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Robert Edwin Peary; and commissioned 31 May 1943. Battle of the Atlantic Following shakedown off Bermuda, Robert E. Peary made her first run as a convoy escort to North Africa, arriving at Casablanca 13 August. By the end of the year, she had made two more runs to Casablanca, and was returning to New York with her third westbound convoy. Early in 1944, Robert E. Peary crossed the Atlantic with a "hunter-killer" group, and upon returning to the United States shifted to the northern sealanes. Between 28 March 1944 and 7 June 1945, she escorted 10 convoys to the United Kingdom and, after June 1944, to France. While returning to New York on 2 March 1945, Robert E. Peary and were diverted to aid two merchant ships which had collided. After the destroyer escorts rescued survivors, Hammann stood by , while Robert E. Peary escorted to New York, arriving on the 6th. Ordered to the U.S. Pacific Fleet on completion of her last Atlantic Ocean run on 7 June 1945, Robert E. Peary underwent overhaul and was en route to the Pacific when the war with Japan ended. Redirected to New London, Connecticut, for duty with the Medical Research Department, she conducted binocular experiments, then, proceeded to Green Cove Springs, Florida. Decommissioning and fate She arrived in Florida on 11 January 1946 and decommissioned 13 June 1947. Transferred to the Norfolk, Virginia, berthing area in 1959, she remained in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet until struck from the Navy list 1 July 1966. She was sold to Lipsett, Inc., New York, New York, 6 September 1967. References External links NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive - USS Robert E. Peary (DE-132) Edsall-class destroyer escorts Ships built in Orange, Texas 1943 ships World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States

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XS Junior League Football

XS Junior League Football is a football video game for the PlayStation. It was released in 2003, by publisher XS Games and developer Wahoo Studios. The game was rereleased on October 11, 2011 for the PlayStation 3 by publisher SCEA. XS Junior League Football has cartoon-style graphics with 16 different characters; each with different skills, and several scenes to play at. The player plays with a team of four other players that partake in championships and tournaments to become the football champion. References American football video games 2003 video games PlayStation (console) games PlayStation 3 games PlayStation Network games Video games developed in the United States

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Government Medical College & General Hospital, Baramati

Government Medical College & General Hospital, Baramati is a medical college and affiliate hospital located in Baramati, Maharashtra, India. It was founded in the year 2019. The Government Medical College, Baramati is affiliated to Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. The college is recognized by the Medical Council of India for medical education in India. Currently, the Government Medical College, Baramati provides training to about 100 students in undergraduate medical courses. The college has five floors and parking space. The General Hospital has 21 wards and 13 operation theatres and has P+G+6 floors. The college and the general hospital are funded by the Government of Maharashtra. Location The medical college and general hospital are situated in the same campus near the MIDC area of Baramati, in Pune District of Maharashtra. The nearest railway junction is Daund Junction while Baramati Railway Station is the nearest railway station. Nearest airport is the Pune International Airport. Admissions The admissions for the MBBS courses began for the first time in the year 2019 after the approval was given by the Medical Council of India in May 2019. Currently, the intake capacity of the college is 100 students. Of the total available seats for the students, 15% are reserved for All India quota and 85% are reserved for State quota. References Medical colleges in Maharashtra Baramati Educational institutions established in 2019 2019 establishments in Maharashtra Affiliates of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences

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Bicycle kick

In association football, a bicycle kick, also known as an overhead kick or scissors kick, is an acrobatic strike where a player kicks an airborne ball rearward in midair. It is achieved by throwing the body backward up into the air and, before descending to the ground, making a shearing movement with the lower limbs to get the ball-striking leg in front of the other. In most languages, the manoeuvre is named after either the cycling motion or the scissor motion that it resembles. Its complexity, and uncommon performance in competitive football matches, makes it one of association football's most celebrated skills. Bicycle kicks can be used defensively to clear away the ball from the goalmouth or offensively to strike at the opponent's goal in an attempt to score. The bicycle kick is an advanced football skill that is dangerous for inexperienced players. Its successful performance has been limited largely to the most experienced and athletic players in football history. Labourers from the Pacific seaports of Chile and Peru likely performed the first bicycle kicks in football matches, possibly as early as the late 19th century. Advanced techniques like the bicycle kick developed from South American adaptations to the football style introduced by British immigrants. Brazilian footballers Leônidas and Pelé popularized the skill internationally during the 20th century. The bicycle kick has since attained such a wide allure that, in 2016, FIFA (association football's governing body) regarded the bicycle kick as "football’s most spectacular sight". As an iconic skill, bicycle kicks are an important part of association football culture. Executing a bicycle kick in a competitive football match, particularly in scoring a goal, usually garners wide attention in the sports media. The bicycle kick has been featured in works of art, such as sculptures, films, advertisements, and literature. Controversies over the move's invention and naming have added to the kick's acclaim in popular culture. The manoeuvre is also admired in similar ball sports, particularly in the variants of association football like futsal and beach soccer. Name The bicycle kick is known in English by three names: bicycle kick, overhead kick, and scissors kick. The term "bicycle kick" describes the action of the legs while the body is in mid-air, resembling the pedalling of a bicycle. The manoeuvre is also called an "overhead kick", which refers to the ball being kicked above the head, or a "scissors kick", reflecting the movement of two scissor blades coming together. Some authors differentiate the "scissors kick" as similar to a bicycle kick, but done sideways or at an angle; other authors consider them to be the same move. In languages other than English, its name also reflects the action it resembles. Sports journalist Alejandro Cisternas, from Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, compiled a list of these names. In most cases, they either refer to the kick's scissor-like motion, such as the French ciseaux retourné (returned scissor) and the Greek psalidaki, or to its bicycle-like action, such as the Portuguese pontapé de bicicleta. In other languages, the nature of the action is described: German Fallrückzieher (falling backward kick), Polish przewrotka (overturn kick), Dutch omhaal (turnaround drag), and Italian rovesciata (reversed kick). Exceptions to these naming patterns are found in languages that designate the move by making reference to a location, such as the Norwegian brassespark (Brazilian kick). This exception is most significant in Spanish, where a fierce controversy exists between Chile and Peru—as part of their historic sports rivalry—over the naming of the bicycle kick; Chileans know it as the chilena, while Peruvians call it the chalaca. Regardless, the move is also known in Spanish by the less tendentious names of tijera and tijereta—both a reference to the manoeuvre's scissor-like motion. Execution A bicycle kick's successful performance generally requires great skill and athleticism. To perform a bicycle kick, the ball must be airborne so that the player can hit it while doing a backflip; the ball can either come in the air towards the player, such as from a cross, or the player can flick the ball up into the air. The non-kicking leg should rise first to help propel the body up while the kicking leg makes the jump. While making the leap, the body's back should move rearwards until it is parallel to the ground. As the body reaches peak height, the kicking leg should snap toward the ball as the non-kicking leg is simultaneously brought down to increase the kick's power. Vision should stay focused on the ball until the foot strikes it. The arms should be used for balance and to diminish the impact from the fall. Bicycle kicks are generally done in two situations, one defensive and the other offensive. A defensive bicycle kick is done when a player facing their side's goal uses the action to clear the ball in the direction opposite their side's goalmouth. Sports historian Richard Witzig considers defensive bicycle kicks a desperate move requiring less aim than its offensive variety. An offensive bicycle kick is used when a player has their back to the opposing goal and is near the goalmouth. According to Witzig, the offensive bicycle kick requires concentration and a good understanding of the ball's location. Bicycle kicks can also be done in the midfield, but this is not recommended because safer and more accurate passes can be done in this zone. Crosses that precede an offensive bicycle kick are of dubious accuracy—German striker Klaus Fischer reportedly stated that most crosses prior to a bicycle kick are bad. Moreover, performing a bicycle kick is dangerous, even when done correctly, as it may harm a startled participant in the field. For this reason, Peruvian defender César González recommends that the player executing the bicycle kick have enough space to perform it. For the player using the manoeuvre, the greatest danger happens during the drop; a bad fall can injure the head, back, or wrist. Witzig recommends players attempting the move to land on their upper back, using their arms as support, and simultaneously rolling over to a side in order to diminish impact from the drop. Witzig recommends that footballers attempt executing a bicycle kick with a focused and determined state of mind. The performer needs to maintain good form when executing the move, and must simultaneously exhibit exceptional accuracy and precision when striking the ball. Brazilian forward Pelé, one of the sport's renowned players, also considers the manoeuvre difficult and recalled having scored from it only a few times out of his 1,283 career goals. Due to the action's complexity, a successfully executed bicycle kick is notable and, according to sports journalist Elliott Turner, prone to awe audiences. An inadequately-executed bicycle kick can also expose a player to ridicule. History Football lore has numerous legends relating when and where the bicycle kick was first performed and who created it. According to Brazilian anthropologist Antonio Jorge Soares, the bicycle kick's origin is important only as an example of how folklore is created. Popular opinion continues to debate its exact origin, particularly in the locations where the manoeuvre was allegedly created (e.g., Brazil, Chile, and Peru). Nevertheless, the available facts and dates tell a straightforward narrative, indicating that the bicycle kick's invention occurred in South America, during an era of innovation in association football tactics and skills. British immigrants, attracted by South America's economic prospects, including the export of coffee from Brazil, hide and meat from Argentina, and guano from Peru, introduced football to the region during the 1800s. These immigrant communities founded institutions, such as schools and sporting clubs, where activities mirrored those done in Britain—including the practice of football. Football's practice had previously spread from Britain to continental Europe, principally Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, but the game had no innovations in these locations. Matters developed differently in South America because, rather than simply imitate the immigrants' style of play—based more on the slower "Scottish passing game" than on the faster and rougher English football style—the South Americans contributed to the sport's growth by emphasizing the players' technical qualities. By adapting the sport to their preferences, South American footballers mastered individual skills like the dribble, bending free kicks, and the bicycle kick. Bicycle kicks first occurred in the Pacific ports of Chile and Peru, possibly as early as in the late 1800s. While their ships were docked, British mariners played football among themselves and with locals as a form of leisure; the sport's practice was embraced at the ports because its simple rules and equipment made it accessible to the general public. Afro-Peruvian seaport workers may have first performed the bicycle kick during late 19th century matches with British sailors and railroad employees in Peru's chief seaport, where it received the name tiro de chalaca (Callao strike). The bicycle kick could also have been first performed in the 1910s by Ramón Unzaga, a Spanish-born Basque athlete who naturalized Chilean, at Chile's seaport of Talcahuano, there receiving the name chorera (alluding the local demonym). Chilean footballers spread the skill beyond west South America in the 1910s and 1920s. In the South American Championship's first editions, Unzaga and fellow Chile defender Francisco Gatica amazed spectators with their bicycle kicks. Chilean forward David Arellano also memorably performed the move and other risky manoeuvres during Colo-Colo's 1927 tour of Spain—his untimely death in that tour from an injury caused by one of his acrobatics is, according to Simpson and Hesse, "a grim warning about the perils of showboating". Impressed by these bicycle kicks, aficionados from Spain and Argentina named it chilena, a reference to the players' nationality. Brazilian forward Pelé rekindled the bicycle kick's international acclaim during the second half of the 20th century. His capability to perform bicycle kicks with ease was one of the traits that made him stand out from other players early in his sports career, and it also boosted his self-confidence as a footballer. After Pelé, Argentine midfielder Diego Maradona and Mexican forward Hugo Sánchez became notable performers of the bicycle kick during the last decades of the 20th century. Other notable players to have performed the move during this period include Peruvian winger Juan Carlos Oblitas, who scored a bicycle kick goal in a 1975 Copa América match between Peru and Chile, and Welsh forward Mark Hughes, who scored from a bicycle kick in a World Cup qualification match played between Wales and Spain in 1985. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the bicycle kick continues to be a skill that is rarely executed successfully in football matches. In 2016, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) named the bicycle kick as "football's most spectacular sight" and concluded that, despite its debatable origins and technical explanations, bicycle kicks "have punctuated the history of the game". Iconic status The bicycle kick retains much appeal among fans and footballers; Hesse and Simpson highlight the positive impact a successful bicycle kick has on player notability, and the United States Soccer Federation describes it as an iconic embellishment of the sport. According to former Manchester City defender Paul Lake, a notable bicycle kick performed by English left winger Dennis Tueart caused injuries to hundreds of fans who tried to emulate it. In 2012, a fan poll from The Guardian awarded English forward Wayne Rooney's 2011 Manchester derby bicycle kick the title of best goal in the Premier League's history. When Italian striker Mario Balotelli, during his youth development years, patterned his skills on those of Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho and French midfielder Zinedine Zidane, he fixated on the bicycle kick. In 2015 against Liverpool, Juan Mata scored an iconic bicycle kick that secured the win for his team. Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions League bicycle kick goal, in 2018, received widespread praise from fellow footballers, including English forward Peter Crouch, who tweeted "there is only a few of us who can do that", and Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimović, who challenged Ronaldo to "try it from 40 meters"—a reference to his FIFA Puskás Award-winning 2012 bicycle kick goal during an international friendly match between Sweden and England. Some of the most memorable bicycle kicks have been notably performed in the FIFA World Cup finals. German striker Klaus Fischer scored from a bicycle kick in the Spain 1982 World Cup semi-finals match between West Germany and France, tying the score in overtime—the game then went into a penalty shootout, which the German team won. Hesse and Simpson consider Fischer's action the World Cup's most outstanding bicycle kick. In the Mexico 1986 World Cup, Mexican midfielder Manuel Negrete scored from a bicycle kick during the round of 16 match between Mexico and Bulgaria—although overshadowed by "The Goal of the Century" scored by Maradona in the quarter-finals match between Argentina and England, Negrete's goal earned the "World Cup's greatest goal" title by a FIFA fan poll conducted in 2018. Defender Marcelo Balboa's bicycle kick, in the 1994 FIFA World Cup match between Colombia and the United States, received much praise and is even credited with helping launch Major League Soccer in the United States. In the Korea-Japan 2002 World Cup, Belgian attacking midfielder Marc Wilmots scored what English football writer Brian Glanville describes as a "spectacular bicycle kick" against Japan. Bicycle kicks are also an important part of football culture. According to the United States Soccer Federation, Pelé's bicycle kick in the 1981 film Escape to Victory is a textbook execution of the skill and Pelé expressed satisfaction with his attempt to "show off" for the film in his autobiography. A Google Doodle in September 2013, celebrating Leônidas da Silva's 100th birthday, prominently featured a bicycle kick performed by a stick figure representing the popular Brazilian forward. Bicycle kicks have also been featured in advertisements such as a 2014 television commercial where Argentine forward Lionel Messi executes the manoeuvre to promote that year's FIFA football simulation video game. A monument to the bicycle kick executed by Ramón Unzaga was erected in Talcahuano, Chile, in 2014; created by sculptor María Angélica Echavarri, the statue is composed of copper and bronze and measures three meters in diameter. A statue in honor of Manuel Negrete's bicycle kick is planned for the Coyoacán district of Mexico City. The Uruguayan novelist Eduardo Galeano wrote about the bicycle kick in his book Soccer in Sun and Shadow, praising Unzaga as the inventor. The Peruvian Nobel laureate writer Mario Vargas Llosa has the protagonist in The Time of the Hero's Spanish edition declare that the bicycle kick must have been invented in Callao, Peru. The manoeuvre is also admired in variants of association football, such as beach soccer and futsal. In 2015, Italian beach soccer forward Gabriele Gori reportedly stated about the bicycle kick that "[i]t comes down to an awful lot of training". An action like the bicycle kick is also used in sepak takraw, a sport whose objective is to kick a ball over a net and into the opposing team's side. See also Association football tactics and skills History of association football Scorpion kick (reverse bicycle kick) Notes References Bibliography External links BBC Sport Academy – Step-by-step guide to perform a bicycle kick. Grassroots FIFA.com – Information on basic and special football techniques. UEFA Training Ground – Professional footballer explains the technique required to execute a successful bicycle kick. Kick (association football) Association football skills Association football terminology Association football in South America

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Randy Rigby

Randy Rigby is a retired professional basketball executive, currently serving as an advisor for the Utah Jazz in the National Basketball Association (NBA) since 2016. He began his distinguished career with the Utah Jazz in 1986, and served as president of basketball operations between 2007 and 2016 . Biography As Jazz Team President, Rigby was a member of the NBA Academy Advisory Committee. On February 17, 2016, Rigby announced his decision to retire as the Utah Jazz Team President, and he was succeeded in the role by Steve Starks. Rigby previously was Senior Vice President of Sales, Broadcasting, and Chief Marketing Officer for Larry H. Miller Sports & Entertainment. He was also General Manager of KJZZ-TV. Rigby became president of the Utah Jazz after working as the Senior Vice President for three years at CFS Financial Corporation. Rigby is from the 1979 graduating class at Brigham Young University (BYU), where he earned a degree in Business Management with a specialization in Finance and Marketing. He played a role in the team's acquisition of an NBA D-League team in Idaho and even helped revive summer league basketball in Salt Lake City. Personal life Randy Rigby is married, and he and his wife have five children. The couple resides in Farmington, Utah, and are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. References External links Jazz Give Ty Corbin New Contract National Basketball Association executives National Basketball Association team presidents Utah Jazz executives Brigham Young University alumni American Latter Day Saints

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FC Nove Zhyttya Andriivka

FC Nove Zhyttya Andriivka is an amateur Ukrainian football club from Andriyivka, Mashivka Raion, Poltava Oblast. The head coach of the senior team is Oleksandr Melaschenko. The club was founded in 2008 as a representation of a farming company "Nove Zhyttya". In 2010 the team joined Oleksandr Melaschenko along with brothers of Ruslan Rotan, Oleksiy and Petro. In 2011 Nove Zhyttya Andriyivka won the Amateur Championship of Ukraine. The club participated in the 2013 UEFA Regions' Cup. The club only played two seasons at the national amateur competitions. Europe competitions References External links Nove Zhyttya Meet: the opponent of FC Putrivka (Знайомтеся: конкурент ФК «Путрівка»). Kiev Oblast Football Federation. 5 October 2011 Football clubs in Poltava Oblast Amateur football clubs in Ukraine

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Rajat Goel

Rajat Goel (born 23 January 1993) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Uttar Pradesh in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 28 September 2018. References External links 1993 births Living people Indian cricketers Uttar Pradesh cricketers Place of birth missing (living people)

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James Slattin Martin Jr.

James Slattin Martin Jr. (June 21, 1920 – April 14, 2002) was project manager for the Viking program. Biography Martin was born in Washington, D.C. on June 21, 1920. He earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1942. He later completed the Harvard Graduate School of Business Middle Management Program. From 1942 to 1964, he worked for Republic Aviation Corporation, assuming greater responsibility first as assistant chief technical engineer, then chief research engineers and, finally, as manager of space systems requirements. Martin joined NASA’s Langley Research Center in September 1964 as assistant project manager for Lunar Orbiter. The five successful Lunar Orbiter missions provided significant new information about the Moon’s surface and a wealth of photographic detail that stood as the definitive source of lunar surface information for years. In recognition of his contribution to this project, Martin was awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1967. On June 23, 1967, Langley Director Floyd Thompson announced the appointment of James S. Martin, Jr., as manager of the capsule bus system, thereby forming a project management organization to control all Voyager-related activities at Langley. This role migrated to project manager for NASA's Viking Program for landing and orbiting Mars (1975–1982). As Viking 1 landed on Mars, Martin hung up on a call from President Ford, telling him that he was "busy right now" and to call back in three hours. The President called back three hours later at which time Martin, along with then-NASA Administrator Jim Fletcher, briefed him on the landing. Martin left NASA in 1976 to become vice president of advanced programs and planning, for Martin Marietta Aerospace, Bethesda, MD. He retired in 1985, but in 2000, NASA called him out of retirement to help restructure the space agency's Mars program after the 1999 failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander missions. He died April 14, 2002 after a long battle with cancer. References 1920 births 2002 deaths NASA people University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni Deaths from cancer in Maryland Harvard University alumni

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Fundamental Articles

Fundamental Articles may refer to: Fundamental articles (theology), a concept in Protestant theology Fundamental Articles of 1871, proposed constitutional reform in Austria-Hungary concerning Bohemia

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WLTA

WLTA (1400 AM) is a commercial Christian radio station licensed to Alpharetta, Georgia, and serving the Atlanta metropolitan area. It is owned by Salem Communications along with its sister station AM 970 WNIV in Atlanta. WLTA is a full-time simulcast of WNIV's Christian talk and teaching programming. WLTA broadcasts with 1,000 watts of power, using a non-directional antenna and is considered a Class C station by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). WLTA's transmitter is located on Northwinds Parkway near U.S. Route 19 in Alpharetta. WLTA's broadcast antenna uses a loaded UHF/VHF mast. History The station first signed on the air on August 25, 1986. The radio station's former call signs were WQRZ, WAZX, WWXX, WRAF, and WVNF ("the Voice of North Fulton"), and was once licensed to the neighboring city of Roswell, Georgia. This station is not to be confused with the former WLTA FM 99.7, which was an easy listening and later soft adult contemporary station covering the same market. References External links RecNet query LTA Talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1979 1979 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Salem Media Group properties LTA

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Luther Prentice Bradley

Luther Prentice Bradley (December 8, 1822 – March 13, 1910) was an American soldier who served as a Union general officer during the American Civil War. Early life Bradley was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 8, 1822. He held various commands in Connecticut militia, where he acquired basic military education. He served as a lieutenant in the Connecticut militia for a short time, but his mother opposed this because he was her only son. In 1855, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and entered the book business. Also Bradley was a captain in the 1st Illinois Militia and later a lieutenant colonel of the "Chicago Legion". Civil War When the American Civil War began in 1861, Bradley chose to enlist in the Union cause. At first his mother opposed this, but he wrote her a letter in which he told of his need to serve in the military for his country. He was appointed a lieutenant colonel in the 51st Illinois Infantry Regiment on November 6. Under Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, he fought with his regiment at the capture of Island Number Ten in New Madrid, Missouri, and at the occupation of Nashville, Tennessee. On October 15, 1862, he was promoted to colonel, and then he participated in the Battle of Stones River that winter. He was severely wounded during the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga where he commanded a brigade. Bradley was then appointed a brigadier general in the Union Army, to rank from July 30, 1864. He participated in the Atlanta Campaign, during which he commanded a brigade in Newton's Division of IV Corps in the Army of the Cumberland. Bradley fought in Tennessee at the Battle of Spring Hill on November 28, 1864, and was once again wounded. His injury prevented him from leading his brigade during the Battle of Nashville that followed on December 15–16. Postbellum Bradley left the volunteer army at the end of the Civil War in 1865. He was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the newly formed 27th US Infantry on July 28, 1866. He married Ione Dewey in 1867. He became Colonel in 1879. Dewey accompanied him to various locations in the Indian Country from the beginning of their marriage until 1886. He was involved in the construction of several western forts used during the Indian Wars. He also attended the Centennial Exposition in 1876 as an official attendee for the Army. Bradley retired on December 8, 1886, after he reached the then-statutory age of 64. He died at Tacoma, Washington in 1910, and is buried in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) Notes References External links Luther P. Bradley Collection US Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 1822 births 1910 deaths Union Army generals Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Military personnel from New Haven, Connecticut

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Joseph Bertin

Captain Joseph Bertin (1690s – c. 1736) was one of the first authors to write about the game of chess. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld in The Oxford Companion to Chess call his book The Noble Game of Chess "the first worthwhile chess book in the English language". B. Goulding Brown, writing in the December 1932 British Chess Magazine, called it the first original English chess book. Bertin was a Huguenot born at Castelmoron-sur-Lot in the 1690s. He came to England during his youth, became a naturalized citizen in 1713, and married in 1719. In 1726, he joined a line regiment serving in the West Indies. He was later promoted to the rank of Captain, and ultimately was released from the Army as an invalid. In 1735 he published a small volume entitled The Noble Game of Chess. In the same year, he was recommissioned in a Regiment of Invalids and, according to Hooper and Whyld, "In all probability he died soon afterwards." The Noble Game of Chess was sold only at Slaughter's Coffee House. It contained opening analysis and useful advice about the middlegame, and laid down 19 rules for chess play. Most of them are still useful today. Some examples: "2. Never play your Queen, till your game is tolerably well opened, that you may not lose any moves; and a game well opened gives a good situation." "3. You must not give useless checks, for the same reason." "8. Consider well before you play, what harm your adversary is able to do to you, that you may oppose his designs." "18. To play well the latter end of a game, you must calculate who has the move, on which the game always depends." (This is a reference to zugzwang.) Bertin attached great value to maintaining White's first-move advantage. The book also contained 26 games, with each variation analyzed being treated as a separate game. They were divided into "gambets" and "the close-game". Problem At left is a chess problem from page 54 of Bertin's book. White wins with 1.Qd7+! Kxd7 2.Nbc5+ Kd8 3.Ne6+ Kd7 4.Nac5+ dxc5 5.Nxc5+ Ke8 6.Ne6+ Kd7 7.Ba4+ Bc6 8.Bxc6+ Kxe6 9.d5#. References English chess players 18th century in chess English non-fiction writers British chess writers Chess theoreticians Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown English male non-fiction writers

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Caroline von Holnstein

Caroline von Holnstein (8 May 1815 in Schloss Fronberg/Schwandorf – 24 July 1859, Fronberg/Schwandorf) was a German noblewoman, best known for her appearance in the Gallery of Beauties. Life Caroline Maximiliana Maria Freiin von Spiering was the fifth child of Carl Theodor Freiherr von Spiering and his wife Johanna Nepumukena (née Freiin von Enzberg). On her father's death in 1829 she began looking for a suitable husband. On 9 November 1831, aged 16, she married the 34-year-old Carl Theodor Graf Holnstein from Bayern. It was a no love-match, though it did mean that the Holnstein lands passed in the direct line to the Freiherren von Spiering. Caroline moved into the Palais Holnstein in Munich, where her husband's position opened many doors for her at court, though life among the nobility bored her. On 8 December 1833 Ludwig I of Bavaria first saw her at a court academy. At one of many banquets she met and fell in love with the married nobleman Wilhelm Freiherrn von Künsberg, who returned her affections in secret. When Wilhelm's wife died she lived with him at her Spiering castle Schloss Fronberg, and he left the cuirassiers at her behest. Caroline's husband Carl Theodor tolerated the relationship but refused her an official separation, even going so far as to have her legitimate and illegitimate children educated together. Only Carl Theodor's death cleared Caroline's way to marry Wilhelm, which she did on 21 September 1857 at the Wallfahrtskirche auf dem Kreuzberg in Schwandorf. Her illegitimate children were legitimized during her lifetime and on 7 July 1859 they were raised to the Bavarian Freiherrenstand with the title Künsberg Freiherr von Fronberg. She died at the Schloss at Fronberg and was buried there in a sarcophagus in a room adjacent to the castle chapel. Painting The painting of her in the Gallery of Beauties is 71.5 cm by 58 cm. On its back is written "Caroline Gräfin Holnstein aus Bayern geborene Freyin von Spiering erblickte das Licht der Welt auf dem Gute Frohnberg in Bayern dem 8. Mai 1815. Gemalt von J. Stieler 1834" ("Caroline countess Holnstein in Bavaria née Freyin von Spiering born at dem Gute Frohnberg in Bavaria on 8 May 1815. Painted by J. Stieler 1834"). It was still in the artist's studio on 18 February 1834 and was paid for in May that year. Children Karl Theodor Graf Holnstein aus Bayern (8 December 1832 – 8 December 1832) Johanna Gräfin Holnstein aus Bayern (17 September 1833 – 17 September 1833) Maximilian Carl Theodor Graf Holnstein aus Bayern (19 October 1835 – 1 February 1895) – playmate of princes Ludwig and Otto (both later kings of Bavaria), and friend of Ludwig on his accession as Ludwig II. Count Maximilian brought Ludwig's "Kaiserbrief" to Otto von Bismarck. Wilhelm Maximilian Künsberg Freiherr von Fronberg (27 March 1838 – 18 June 1909) Wilhelmine Maria Caroline Künsberg Freiin von Fronberg (23 August 1841 – 9 June 1889) Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Künsberg Freiherr von Fronberg (26 September 1842 – 24 March 1876) Rudolf Philipp Wilhelm Goswin Karl Künsberg Freiherr von Fronberg (27 March 1844 – ?) References External links 1815 births 1859 deaths German baronesses

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Valea Ierii

Valea Ierii () is a commune in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of three villages: Cerc (Kisfeneshavas), Plopi (Plop) and Valea Ierii. Demographics According to the census from 2011 there was a total population of 888 people living in this commune. Of this population, nearly all are ethnic Romanians. References Atlasul localităților județului Cluj (Cluj County Localities Atlas), Suncart Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Communes in Cluj County Localities in Transylvania

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List of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom

The portrayals of fictional prime ministers of the United Kingdom have been either completely fictional figures, or composite figures based on real-life people, or real-life figures who have never been prime minister other than in fiction. List of fictional prime ministers Real people on this list are marked: See also List of fictional political parties List of fictional presidents of the United States List of fictional British monarchs List of fictional Australian politicians References Prime Ministers, British Prime Ministers Fictional

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Tanya Lokshina

Tanya Lokshina (; born 17 June 1973) is a human rights researcher, journalist, writer from Russia. She is director of the Russia program at Human Rights Watch (associate director for Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division). Tanya Lokshina is an expert on the human rights situation in the Post-Soviet states. Early years Tanya Lokshina was born in the City of Moscow on June 17, 1973. She tells about her childhood that when she was in school, there were many prohibitions and punishments for schoolchildren in Soviet Union, but a lot was already allowed, for example, it was forbidden to wear a Christian cross necklace in school, but when she came to school with a cross, administration still didn’t kick her out of school, but her parents in the soviet times often told her how to behave: “Don't, it's dangerous, don't, and why are you showing off? You cannot break this whole stone wall with your forehead." Education and work Lokshina lived together with parents in the United States since 1990 where she studied journalism. While living in the US, she worked as a freelance for several Russian media. Lokshina later returned to Russia where she was also working as a journalist. Journalism Lokshina's articles, dedicated to Human Rights, were published in many newspapers like the Guardian, Le Monde, the Moscow Times, Novaya Gazeta, the Washington Post. Tanya Lokshina was awarded for her writing in the Moscow online news website "Polit.Ru", — with other three nominees and one winner laureate Anna Lebedeva, — on the 2006 Sakharov prize, — a prize for journalism, established by entrepreneur, former Soviet dissident, Peter Vins. Career of human rights researcher. Human Rights Watch Tanya Lokshina worked for the human rights organization the Moscow Helsinki Group since 1998, where her researches were mostly about the second Chechen war, that began that time; Lokshina documented the Chechen war's abuses, interviewed witnesses and victims of the war. She travelled to Chechnya and Dagestan several times for her human rights work. She works at Russian office of Human Rights Watch since 2008, that time her researches were about numerous human rights violations in North Caucasus as well as at 2008 war conflict in Georgia. Later she researched situation of political persecutions of individuals in Russia, also violations of human rights in Eastern Ukraine during war conflict. Threats Lokshina was under threat attack in 2012, when she began to systematically receive telephone messages with text detailing events of her private life. She was pregnant that time, and one of the threatening messages was saying: "We are waiting for the birth of your child", other message said that her childbirth wouldn't be "an easy birth." The Human Rights Watch's executive director Kenneth Roth told about the messages: "They knew where she lived, what she was doing. They made explicit reference to the fact of her pregnancy. They threatened harm to herself and to her unborn baby." When HRW appealed about the threats to a number of Russian State securities departments, the messages stopped, albeit later other HRW researcher received another message that an unknown sender had known about a scheduled HRW conference and Lokshina's pregnancy. Protecting women's rights in North Caucasus Tanya Lokshina works a lot to study the situation with women's rights, in 2010 she interviewed women in Chechnya, trying to understand what are the changes in the current North Caucasus. According to her observations, the women of Chechnya have become more restricted in movement, men have begun to commit violence against women more often. She published her observations in the article "Chechnya: Choked by Headscarves" (2010). Meeting with Edward Snowden When Edward Snowden was landed in Russia, he sent the email to Tanya Lokshina on July 11, 2013 to ask regarding her presence on his closed door meeting with lawyers and representatives of humanitarian organizations. First, when Lokshina saw the email, she thought it was a someone's joke, because Edward Snowden was a world celebrity, she said. Snowden asked Lokshina to come to the Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, find there an airport staff person with "G9" sign in the airport guest hall, and when she did that, there were many reporters around. Then Lokshina and other eight invited guests: human rights defenders, Russian ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, a member of parliament, — were driven from the guest hall with a bus towards another airport entrance, where was Snowden with WikiLeaks journalist Sarah Harrison, then Snowden publicly announced his testimonies about his job in a service in the US to read communications without a warrant, about his decision to leave the US, disclose the secrets, and others. Lokshina's attendance of the closed door meeting with Snowden was marred by controversy, as it emerged that Lokshina acted on behalf of the United States Embassy rather than Human Rights Watch, the organization that she represented at the meeting. The only journalist who attended the Snowden meeting at Sheremetyevo was Polonca Frelih who wrote that Lokshina "spoke more like a representative of the US Embassy and conveyed their message to Snowden that if he returned home, he would not be considered a traitor to state secrets, but only a violator of the law". Moreover, Lokshina took the first photograph of Snowden since his arrival in Moscow, which she did during the Sheremetyevo meeting despite being asked not to do so as the meeting was in no way a press conference. Publications Her researches about human rights were published in many newspapers and media around world as the Guardian (UK), CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post (US), Novaya Gazeta (Russia), Le Monde (France). She wrote, cooperated in, and edited also several books, such as The Imposition of a Fake Political Settlement in the Northern Caucasus: The 2003 Chechen Presidential Election (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 22), 2005, Edited by Tanya Lokshina (Volume 22), Tanya Lokshina (Editor), Andreas Umland (Series Editor), Ray Thomas (Collaborator), & 1 more Chechnya Inside Out, Moskva: Demos, 2007 Chechnya: Chocked by Headscarves, 2010, Open Democracy Her article about the abuse of women on North Caucasus was presented in "Chechnya at War and Beyond", 2014, Routledge Contemporary Russia и Eastern Europe Awards Nominated for 2006 Journalism as Deed, Andrei Sakharov prize founded by Peter Vins. References Women human rights activists Russian human rights activists Human Rights Watch people 1973 births Living people People from Moscow

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1834 in New Zealand

The following lists events that happened during 1834 in New Zealand. Incumbents Regal and viceregal Head of State – King William IV Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke Government and law British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby Events March – James Busby convenes a meeting of Māori chiefs from northern New Zealand. They will become the United Tribes of New Zealand. 9 March or 20 March – The United Tribes of New Zealand choose a design for their flag. 30 December – William Colenso, printer/missionary for the Church Missionary Society, arrives at Paihia in the Bay of Islands. Undated The house for James Busby is completed. After the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi there in 1840 it will be known as the Treaty House. Late in the year a site is chosen for a mission at Matamata by Alfred Nesbitt Brown and William Williams. (see also 1833 & 1835) The establishment of the Anglican mission at Te Papa peninsula, Tauranga, is begun late in the year. While in England, Thomas McDonnell is appointed Additional British Resident in New Zealand (or early 1835) Two Māori converts returning from the Bay of Islands introduce Christianity to Gisborne. (see also 1838) Births 14 February (in England): William Odgers R.N., Victoria Cross recipient. 16 March (in Scotland): James Hector, geologist. Undated Malcolm Fraser, surveyor. Approximate Alfred Henry Burton, photographer. See also List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history History of New Zealand Military history of New Zealand Timeline of the New Zealand environment Timeline of New Zealand's links with Antarctica References External links

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Laccophilus horni

Laccophilus horni is a species of predaceous diving beetle in the family Dytiscidae. It is found in North America and the Neotropics. References Further reading Dytiscidae Articles created by Qbugbot Beetles described in 1885

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Gary Phillips (soccer)

Gary Phillips (born 9 June 1963) is an Australian football coach and former professional soccer player, who last managed the Nepal women's national team. Playing career A central midfielder, Phillips played for more than a decade with Sydney Olympic in the National Soccer League before joining Brisbane Strikers, winning titles with both clubs. He retired after the 1996–1997 season. Coaching career As a coach, Phillips was in charge of Sydney Olympic in the 2001–2002 and 2002–2003 seasons, winning the title in 2001–2002, before he was extraordinarily dismissed the following season. Phillips was the inaugural coach of Newcastle Jets during the 2008–09 W-League season. After working in a coaching capacity for the Asian Football Confederation in Kuala Lumpur, Phillips took over as head coach and technical director of Malaysian Premier League side Sabah FA in December 2009 and guided the team to Super League promotion in 7 months. After a tough start to life in the Super League as the team was rocked by injury and forced to play eight of their first 12 matches on the road, Phillips was dismissed on 5 May 2011, replaced by former Sabah player and coach of Sabah President's Cup team Justin Ganai. In February 2015, he took over as manager of Papua New Guinea women's national football team. Shortly following the conclusion of the 2015 Malaysia Premier League season, Phillips returned to Malaysia and signed a contract with NS Matrix F.C. Some of his first signings were all former A-League players. He coached the Davao Aguilas during the 2017 season until he was replaced midseason in September 2017 by Marlon Maro. In July 2019, Phillips was appointed Technical Director for the Nepal national team. He was signed on a one-year contract, with his salary paid by the Asian Football Confederation. Phillips was appointed coach of the Nepal women's national team in February, 2021. Television Gary currently is an occasional football pundit on Malaysian television network Astro and its twice weekly FourFourTwo TV Show, and also Fox Sports in Australia. Honours Club As coach Olympic Sharks National Soccer League Premier: 2002–03 National Soccer League Champion: 2001–02 Sawty Scorpions 2016- References External links 1963 births Sportsmen from New South Wales Association football midfielders Soccer players from Sydney Australian expatriate soccer players National Soccer League (Australia) players Sydney Olympic FC players Expatriate footballers in Malaysia Sabah F.C. (Malaysia) managers Living people Australian expatriate soccer coaches Tonga national football team managers Expatriate football managers in Vietnam Philippines Football League head coaches Davao Aguilas F.C. managers Australian soccer players Expatriate football managers in the Philippines Australian expatriate sportspeople in Vietnam Australian expatriate sportspeople in Nepal Australian expatriate sportspeople in Tonga Expatriate football managers in Tonga Australian expatriate sportspeople in the Philippines Australian expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia Expatriate football managers in Malaysia Expatriate football managers in Papua New Guinea Australian expatriate sportspeople in Papua New Guinea

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Southern Miss Golden Eagles basketball statistical leaders

The Southern Miss Golden Eagles basketball statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles basketball program in various categories, including points, assists, blocks, rebounds, and steals. Within those areas, the lists identify single-game, single-season, and career leaders. The Golden Eagles represent the University of Southern Mississippi in the NCAA's Conference USA. Southern Miss began competing in intercollegiate basketball in 1912. However, the school's record book does not generally list records from before the 1950s, as records from before this period are often incomplete and inconsistent. Since scoring was much lower in this era, and teams played much fewer games during a typical season, it is likely that few or no players from this era would appear on these lists anyway. The NCAA did not officially record assists as a stat until the 1983–84 season, and blocks and steals until the 1985–86 season, but Southern Miss's record books includes players in these stats before these seasons. These lists are updated through the end of the 2020–21 season. Scoring Rebounds Assists Steals Blocks References Lists of college basketball statistical leaders by team Statistical