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Kingslee James McLean Daley (born 1 December 1983), known professionally as Akala, is a British rapper, journalist, author, activist and poet from Kentish Town, London. In 2006, he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards and has been included on the annual Powerlist of the 100 most influential Black British people in the UK, most recently making the 2021 edition.
Early life and education
Daley was born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1983 to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father who separated before he was born, and grew up with his mother in Kentish Town, north London. He has recalled the day he realised that his mother was white, and was embarrassed by her whiteness. His mother had educated him about black history and introduced him to radical black thinkers, yet there would always remain a racial dimension to those relationships. Daley's older sister is rapper Ms. Dynamite.
His stepfather was a stage manager at the Hackney Empire theatre, and he often visited it before his teens. His mother enrolled him in a pan-African Saturday school, about which he states "I benefited massively from a specifically black community-led self-education tradition that we don't talk about very much because it doesn't fit with the image [of black families]". When accepting honorary degrees, he thanked "the entire Caribbean pan-African community that helped me through school and encouraged an intellectual curiosity and self development from a very young age."
At age six, Daley's state primary school put him in a special needs group for pupils with learning difficulties and English as a second language. He attended Acland Burghley School for secondary education. Daley saw a friend attacked with a meat cleaver to the skull when he was 12, and carried a knife himself for a period. He went on to achieve ten GCSEs and took maths a year early. He has said he "was in the top 1 per cent of GCSEs in the country. [He] got 100 per cent in [his] English exam." As a teenager, Daley focused on football, being on the schoolboy books of both West Ham United and AFC Wimbledon, and dropped out of college. He is a fan of Arsenal. Daley did not attend university, but has said he often envies those who do.
Daley has two honorary degrees in recognition of his educational work. On 23 June 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University as a Doctor of Art. On 31 July 2018, he also received an honorary degree from Brighton University.
Musical career
2003–2009: Early years and breakthrough
Daley got his stage name from Acala, a Buddhist term for "immovable", and started releasing music in 2003 from his own independent music label, Illa State Records. He released his first mixtape, The War Mixtape, in 2004.
In 2006, he released his first album, It's Not a Rumour. This proved to be his breakthrough album, containing the single "Shakespeare" (a reference to his self-proclaimed title "The Black Shakespeare") which made the BBC Radio 1 playlist. His work was recognised with the MOBO Award for Best Hip Hop Act. Additionally in 2006, a mixtape, A Little Darker, was released under the name "Illa State", featuring Akala and his sister, Ms. Dynamite, as well as cameo appearances by many other artists.
Daley appeared for a live session on BBC Radio 1Xtra where he was challenged to come up with a rap containing as many Shakespeare play titles as he could manage, he wrote and performed a minute-long rap containing 27 different Shakespeare play titles in under half an hour and later recorded these lyrics in the studio and turned it into the single "Comedy Tragedy History".
In 2007, Daley released his second album, Freedom Lasso, containing the "Comedy Tragedy History" track. The song "Love in my Eyes" heavily sampled Siouxsie and the Banshees' song "Love in a void" with the voice of Siouxsie Sioux. In 2008, The War Mixtape Vol. 2 was released, along with an EP of acoustic remixes.
2010–present: Doublethink, Knowledge Is Power, and beyond
Daley's third studio album, DoubleThink, was released in 2010, and holds a strong theme of George Orwell's popular novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. DoubleThink contains tracks such as "Find No Enemy" and "Yours and My Children" detailing some of the sights he saw on his trip to Brazil. In November 2010, Daley headlined a live performance at the British Library, to launch the "Evolving English" exhibition and featured performances by British poet Zena Edwards, comedian Doc Brown and British rapper Lowkey which also included Daley taking part in a hip hop panel discussion alongside Saul Williams, U.S professor MK Asante and Lowkey. Daley appeared on Charlie Sloth's show on Radio 1Xtra on 18 July 2011, performing "Fire in the Booth", and after the great reception it received he returned again in May 2012 and provided "Part 2".
In May 2012, Daley released a two-part mixtape, Knowledge Is Power, containing "Fire in the Booth", and followed the release with a promotional tour in the autumn of 2012. In March 2013, Daley announced via his social media feeds that his fourth album would be released in May 2013, pushing back the future EP The Ruin of Empires to later in 2013. His fourth album, The Thieves Banquet, was released on 27 May 2013, including the songs "Malcolm Said It", "Maangamizi" and "Lose Myself" (feat. Josh Osho).
Live performances
In 2007, Daley was the first hip hop artist to perform his own headline concert in Vietnam. He has performed at various U.K. festivals, including V Festival, Wireless, Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Parklife, Secret Garden Party and Isle of Wight, and has supported artists such as Christina Aguilera, MIA, Richard Ashcroft, Audiobullys, DJ Shadow, The Gotan Project and Scratch Perverts on their U.K/European tours.
In 2008, Daley featured at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas and in 2010 he toured the UK with Nas and Damian Marley on the "Distant Relatives" tour, which included the British rapper Ty.
In November 2010, Daley embarked on his own headline tour of the UK, with 20 dates overall. He was present at the "One Love:No Borders Hip Hop" event held in Birmingham, England in April 2011, with Iron Braydz from London, Lowkey, Logic and other up-and-coming UK artists. In August 2012, he performed at the Outlook Festival and in November 2012, he performed at the second edition of NH7 Weekender music festival in Pune, India.
Writing
Natives
In May 2018, Daley published Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire. The book is part biography, and part polemic on race and class. The overall ideological framework of the book is a pragmatic, socialist-oriented Pan-Africanism that claims to seek the liberation of all humanity from oppression and exploitation. At the same time, Daley highlights what he believes are shared problems faced by African communities worldwide in what he describes as a global system of imperialism.
Daley attributes his escape from poverty not to personal exceptionalism but to the vagaries and chaotic injustice of race, class and privilege. Daley asserts that Britain is not a meritocracy where the barriers of race and class can be simply overcome through hard work and perseverance. He explains his success as the absurd and unexpected consequence of an unequal system that allows the rise of a few while leaving behind the many, no matter how brilliant they are. He claims several times in the book that some of his friends could have been academics or scientists if the obstacles of what he terms 'structural racism' and 'class oppression' had not been there.
Visions
Akala has published a graphic novel/comic book called Visions. Akala's own comic deals with his interests, and references. It is a semi-autobiographical journey into magical realism, which begins with him smashing a television with a teapot, then takes us through altered states of consciousness, reincarnation, hallucinations, and themes of indigenous spiritualities and ancestral memory.
Hip and Hop: You Can Do Anything
Community organising is core to Daley’s Akala characters identity and his attention is turned to raising a new generation of free-thinkers, activists and creatives. He has a children's book out, that introduces school kids to hip-hop, titled Hip and Hop: You Can Do Anything.
Political views
In June 2016, Daley supported Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn after mass resignations from his cabinet and a leadership challenge. He tweeted: "The way these dickhead Labour MP's [sic] are snaking @jeremycorbyn eediat ting."
In May 2017, he endorsed Corbyn in the 2017 UK general election. He wrote in The Guardian: "So why will I be voting now? Jeremy Corbyn. It's not that I am naïve enough to believe that one man (who is, of course, powerless without the people that support him) can fundamentally alter the nature of British politics, or that I think that if Labour wins that the UK will suddenly reflect his personal political convictions, or even that I believe that the prime minister actually runs the country. However, for the first time in my adult life, and perhaps for the first time in British history, someone I would consider to be a fundamentally decent human being has a chance of being elected."
In November 2019, along with 34 other musicians, Daley signed a letter endorsing Corbyn in the 2019 UK general election with a call to end austerity.
Lectures, speeches and interviews
Lectures
Daley has given guest lectures at East 15 Acting School, University of Essex, Manchester Metropolitan University, Sydney University, Sheffield Hallam University, Cardiff University, and the International Slavery Museum, as well as a workshop on songwriting at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has also spoken at the Oxford Union. He has also been involved in campaigns to "decolonise" the curriculum including giving a talk at the University of Leicester.
Institutionalised racism
Daley is a believer in institutionalised racism: "My analysis of institutionalised racism is not 'oh, this is an excuse to fail' – quite the opposite. The earlier you're aware of the hurdles, the easier they are to jump over."
Activism
The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company
Founded in 2009 by Daley, The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company (‘THSC’) is a music theatre production company aimed at exploring the social, cultural and linguistic parallels between the works of William Shakespeare and that of modern day hip-hop artists.
Discography
Albums
Compilation
EPs
Mixtapes
Singles
"Welcome to England" (2003)
"War" (2004)
"Roll Wid Us" (2005) – UK No. 72
"Bullshit" (2005)
"The Edge" (featuring Niara) (2006)
"Dat Boy Akala" (featuring Low Deep) (2006)
"Shakespeare" (2006)
"Doin' Nuffin" / "Hold Your Head Up" (2006)
"Bit By Bit" (2007)
"Freedom Lasso" (2007)
"Where I'm From" (2007)
"Comedy Tragedy History" (2008)
"XXL" (2010)
"Yours and My Children" (2010)
"Find No Enemy" (2011)
"Lose Myself" (featuring Josh Osho) (2013)
"Mr. Fire in the Booth" (2015)
"Giants" (featuring Kabaka Pyramid & Marshall) (2016)
Songs used in other media
The song "Roll Wid Us", was used in the 2006 British film Kidulthood.
The song "The Edge", from It's Not A Rumour, was used in the NBA 2K10 video game.
The song "Shakespeare" was used on a Channel 4 advert for their Street Summer.
References
External links
Official website
BBC Blast
"Akala's visit to Jamaica", BBC.
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire PDF
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire EPUB
1983 births
Living people
British anti-racism activists
Black British male rappers
English people of Jamaican descent
Labour Party (UK) people
People from Kentish Town
Political music artists
Rappers from London
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Kenly may refer to:
Places
Kenly, North Carolina, town in Johnston and Wilson counties, North Carolina, United States
People
Frank Kenly, American football coach
John Reese Kenly (1818–1891), American lawyer and Civil War general
William L. Kenly, American World War I general
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Robert Glenn Sherrill (December 24, 1924 – August 19, 2014) was an American investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Nation, Texas Observer, and many other magazines over the years including Playboy, the New Republic and the New York Times Magazine.
Early life
Sherrill was born in Frogtown, Georgia, and served on a merchant ship off Japan at the end of World War II. He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin.
Career
Sherrill taught English at schools including Texas A&M University. A lasting influence was the Syracuse University philosopher Thomas Vernor Smith who preached a commitment to public service.
Sherrill was a reporter for the Miami Herald, the Austin American-Statesman, and the weekly Texas Observer. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. As the Washington Correspondent and then Corporations Correspondent for The Nation, his efforts landed him on the master list of Nixon's political opponents. He also worked for I. F. Stone as a staff writer for his weekly, but soon parted ways.
The Secret Service banned him from the White House for "posing a physical threat to the president".
"During Lyndon Johnson’s presidency, the Secret Service denied clearance to Robert Sherrill, a reporter for The Nation who had gotten into physical fights with government officials."
In his later years, Sherrill principally wrote reviews of books about politics and corporate greed, and two reviews antagonized the gay community. In his review of Nicholas von Hoffman's biography of Roy Cohn, Citizen Cohn, he showed no sympathy for Cohn's death from AIDS and in his 1982 favorable review of God's Bullies, he said he preferred to call the author "queer" rather than use the author's own description of himself as "gay." That caused an outcry, Sherrill did not apologize and added "I grew up thinking the word [gay] meant happy. For a group to seize the word and apply it to themselves is somewhat grotesque."
Sherrill's 1987 article for The New York Times Magazine, "Can Miami Save Itself", caused a firestorm of factual challenges by Miami officials and Cuban Americans, prompting a 304-word Editor's Note from The New York Times.
Sherrill authored several books on politics and society, including his Hubert Humphrey biography The Drugstore Liberal (1968), Military Justice Is To Justice as Military Music Is To Music (1970), The Saturday Night Special (1973), The Last Kennedy (1976) and The Oil Follies of 1970-1980: How the Petroleum Industry Stole the Show (And Much More Besides) (1983). His biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Accidental President had a run on the best seller list. He also wrote Gothic Politics in the Deep South and the textbook Why They Call it Politics: A Guide to America's Government.
Court case
A decision in 1977 by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit with regard to a civil suit filed by Sherrill against the U.S. Secret Service said that to ensure due process the revocation of a White House press pass must be accompanied by a written decision. It reads, in part:
"[...D]enial of a White House press pass to a bona fide journalist violates the first amendment unless it furthers a compelling governmental interest identified by narrowly and specifically drawn standards. [....A]ppellants must publish or otherwise make publicly known the actual standard employed in determining whether an otherwise eligible journalist will obtain a White House press pass. [...N]otice, opportunity to rebut, and a written decision are required because the denial of a pass potentially infringes upon first amendment guarantees. Such impairment of this interest cannot be permitted to occur in the absence of adequate procedural due process."
Personal life and death
Sherrill resided in Washington, D.C., and he retired in Tallahassee, Florida. He died in Tallahassee on August 19, 2014.
References
External links
Robert Sherrill bio via The Nation
1924 births
2014 deaths
People from Georgia (U.S. state)
University of Texas at Austin alumni
American investigative journalists
American tax resisters
United States Free Speech Clause case law
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Nights Are Forever is the fourth album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley. It was the pair's breakthrough album. "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" became one of their biggest hits, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The follow-up single, "Nights Are Forever Without You," also proved successful, peaking at #10.
Production
The album was produced by Kyle Lehning. Both top ten singles were written by Parker McGee.
Critical reception
Joe Viglione write on Allmusic, "Nights Are Forever was the breakthrough album for Dan Seals and John Coley after some sincere and excellent work on A&M Records in the early '70s. Two of their biggest hits were the title track and the beautiful "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight." Those songs are a good indication of the fine performances this 1976 album contains. The duo's originals like "Long Way Home" and the Dan Fogelberg-ish "Westward Wind" could have been hits as well displaying superb musicianship and delicate vocals." He also praises the work of songwriter Parker McGee as well as producer Kyle Lehning.
The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that "these guys managed always to sound like oafish bores breaking their backs to be 'sensitive.'"
Track listing
"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" (Parker McGee) - 2:39
"I'll Stay" (Dan Seals) - 3:20
"Westward Wind" (Seals, Coley) - 3:17
"Long Way Home" (Seals, Coley) - 3:18
"There'll Never Be Another For Me" (Seals, McGee, Coley) - 2:50
"Nights Are Forever Without You" (McGee) - 2:52
"It's Not The Same" (Seals, Coley, Sunny Dalton) - 2:38
"Showboat Gambler" (Seals) - 2:37
"The Prisoner" (Seals, Coley) - 3:35
"Lady" (Seals, McGee, Coley, Kyle Lehning) - 3:58
"Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (Seals, Coley) - 3:08
Personnel
Dan Seals – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, soprano saxophone
John Ford Coley – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Jim Seals – acoustic guitar, banjo
Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar
Doyle Grisham – steel guitar
Shane Keister – keyboards
Kyle Lehning – bass
Joe Osborn – bass
Ted Reynolds – bass
Larrie Londin – drums, percussion
Dennis Good – trombone
George Cunningham – trumpet
Don Sheffield – trumpet
Billy Puett – woodwinds
Denis Solee – woodwinds
Warren Hartman – string arrangements (1, 7)
Bergen White – horn and string arrangements (4, 5, 6, 11)
The Shelly Kurland String Section – strings
Janie Frickie – backing vocals
Ginger Holiday – backing vocals
Sheri Kramer – backing vocals
Lisa Silver – backing vocals
Diane Tidwell – backing vocals
Production
Producer and Engineer – Kyle Lehning
Sound Consultant – Jon Yeaworth
Recorded and Mixed at Studio By The Pond (Hendersonville, TN).
Mastered by Mac Evans and Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics (Nashville, TN).
Photography – Slick Lawson
Chart singles
References
1976 albums
England Dan & John Ford Coley albums
Albums produced by Kyle Lehning
Big Tree Records albums
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Kenova may refer to:
Kenova, West Virginia, United States, a city
Operation Kenova, an investigation into the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland, concerning Stakeknife's killings
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Kensal refers to:
Kensal Green, also known as Kensal Rise, part of London, United Kingdom
Kensal Town, part of London, United Kingdom
Kensal, North Dakota, United States
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Davor Vugrinec (born 24 March 1975) is a Croatian former professional footballer. He primarily played as a striker, but also operated as an attacking midfielder or a second striker. He is all-time top scorer of the Croatian First Football League with 146 goals he has scored for five different clubs and also the oldest player to score a goal in the league, netting for Slaven Belupo 10 days before his 40th birthday.
Vugrinec is currently the vice-president of NK Varaždin, a different organization from the defunct (as of 2015) Varteks / Varaždin club he was with during his playing career.
Club career
Early years
Vugrinec started his professional career at local club NK Varteks in 1992, becoming a regular at the club from his second professional season onwards, and scoring in double digits in three of the following four campaigns. In 1995–96, he netted 17 goals in 31 games as the team finished in fourth position (third after the second stage), also appearing in the season's Croatian Cup final.
Turkey / Italy
In June 1997, Vugrinec moved abroad, joining Trabzonspor in Turkey, scoring 24 Süper Lig goals in his first two seasons combined. In the 2000 summer, he moved teams and countries again, signing with U.S. Lecce in Italy, his 11 successful strikes proving crucial as the Apulia outfit narrowly avoided relegation from Serie A; on 12 November 2000, he netted the game's only goal at the San Siro, in an historic win against F.C. Internazionale Milano.
2002–03 saw Lecce in Serie B, but Vugrinec returned to the top level in January 2003, joining Atalanta BC. The last of his five seasons in the country was spent in division two, with Calcio Catania (less than half of the league games, no promotion).
Return home
Subsequently, Vugrinec returned to Croatia and signed with NK Rijeka. Together with Ahmad Sharbini, he was the club's top goalscorer in 2005–06's top division (15 goals apiece), and also helped the team win the domestic cup by scoring the crucial goal in the second-leg match against former club Varteks (Rijeka lost 1–5 away after winning 4–0 in the first leg – with two goals from him – thus overcoming on away goals).
Vugrinec joined NK Dinamo Zagreb in early June 2006 and made his official debut for the club on 19 July, in the Croatian Supercup against his previous club Rijeka, assisting for two goals in a 4–1 win. He went on to score his first goals for Dinamo in the UEFA Champions League qualifier against FK Ekranas and the team's first domestic league match of the 2006–07 season, against NK Slaven Belupo. He suffered an injury in a home fixture against HNK Šibenik on 4 August, but managed to recover for the club's first-leg third-round Champions League clash against Arsenal four days later, only to be stretchered off 30 minutes into the game, missing the second match.
Vugrinec joined neighbouring NK Zagreb for the 2008–09 season, returning to Varteks, renamed NK Varaždin, two years later, at the age of 35. In March 2012, he terminated his contract with the team, ranking second best all-time goalscorer in the Croatian top division with a total of 124 goals scored. During the same month, Vugrinec joined Slaven Belupo and scored in his debut against Osijek.
International career
Vugrinec made his debut for Croatia on 10 April 1996, in a friendly match with Hungary played in Osijek, but had to wait two 1/2 years to win his second international cap, in the nation's second UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier away against Malta, on 10 October 1998; he entered the match as an early substitute after injury forced off Jurica Vučko in the 16th minute and went on to score two goals in the second half, as the national team came from behind to win it 4–1.
In 2000, Vugrinec became a regular in the main squad, and went on to appear in seven out of possible eight qualifying matches for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He scored two goals during the campaign, as he was on target against Latvia and San Marino respectively (both home fixtures), and was subsequently part of the final stages' squad, appearing in two games in an eventual group stage exit: he started the second match against Italy, but was replaced in the 57th minute, and also played in the final one against Ecuador as an early second-half substitute.
After the tournament in Japan and South Korea, Vugrinec only appeared in one friendly match and two Euro 2004 qualifiers before being uncapped for more than three years, until January 2006. He made his international comeback by appearing in two matches at the Carlsberg Cup in Hong Kong, thus applying for a spot in the final squad of 23 at the 2006 World Cup, especially after scoring a hat-trick in Rijeka's 4–0 league win at HNK Hajduk Split, but was eventually omitted. He earned a total of 28 caps, scoring 7 goals.
International appearances
International goals
Personal life
An art collector, he owns the Kolekcije Vugrinec in his gallery in Zagreb. He is married to curator and museum advisor Petra and they have one daughter together, while he also has three kids from his first marriage to Nina. Among them, his son Noa signed professional terms with NK Varaždin in 2021.
Career statistics
As a player
Honours
Varteks / Varaždin
Croatian Football Cup runner-up: 1995–96, 2010–11
Rijeka
Croatian Football Cup: 2005–06
Dinamo Zagreb
Prva HNL: 2006–07, 2007–08
Croatian Football Cup: 2006–07, 2007–08
Super Cup: 2006
Individual
Prva HNL Top Scorer: 2009–10
Prva HNL All-Time Top Scorer: 146 goals
Croatian Football Cup All-Time Top Scorer: 34 goals
Most hat-tricks in Prva HNL
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Varaždin
Men's association football forwards
Croatian men's footballers
Croatia men's youth international footballers
Croatia men's under-21 international footballers
Croatia men's B international footballers
Croatia men's international footballers
2002 FIFA World Cup players
NK Varaždin (1931–2015) players
Trabzonspor footballers
US Lecce players
Atalanta BC players
Catania FC players
HNK Rijeka players
GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
NK Zagreb players
NK Slaven Belupo players
Croatian Football League players
Süper Lig players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Croatian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Croatian art collectors
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Edward Parry Thomas (June 29, 1921 – August 26, 2016) was an American banker who helped finance the development of the casino industry of Las Vegas, Nevada. Along with his business partner, Jerome D. Mack, he is credited with building Las Vegas into what it is today.
Early life
Thomas was born on June 29, 1921, in Ogden, Utah. He was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). His father was a plumbing contractor who later became a banker. During World War II, he served in the United States Army as an intelligence operative.
Banking career
Thomas started his career at the Continental Bank & Trust Co. of Salt Lake City. It was owned by Walter E. Cosgriff, who also owned a stake in the Bank of Las Vegas, whose Chairman was Nate Mack. The Bank of Las Vegas was the first bank to lend money to casinos in Las Vegas. Its first loan was to Milton Prell, who used it to build the Sahara casino.
Later, Jerome D. Mack replaced his father as Chairman. Meanwhile, in 1961, shortly after Cosgriff's death, Thomas became its President. He facilitated loans from the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund to Las Vegas casinos. In 1968 the bank merged with Valley Bank of Reno and changed its name to the Valley Bank of Nevada. Thomas and Mack also invested in real estate in the Las Vegas area, with Thomas acting as a buyer for Howard Hughes. Later, they also lent money to Steve Wynn. The bank was eventually acquired by Bank of America for about $380.5 million in 1992.
Politics
Thomas was a Republican. With Jerry Mack, Thomas lobbied influential Nevada businessman Bill Harrah as well as former Governors Grant Sawyer and Paul Laxalt to pass two acts legalizing the corporate ownership of casinos. They were known as the Corporate Gaming Acts in 1967 and 1969. According to Mack's daughter Karen, these laws aimed to put an end to corruption in Las Vegas, as it enforced more regulations and disclosures for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Philanthropy
With Jerry Mack, Thomas donated 400 additional acres of land to expand the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). The two men also funded the construction of the basketball stadium at UNLV, which was named the Thomas & Mack Center in their honor. Later, the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic at the William S. Boyd School of Law as well as the Thomas & Mack Moot Court Building were also named after them. Thomas received an honorary Doctorate from UNLV in 1982.
Dressage
With his wife, Thomas sponsored dressage; both his wife and daughter Jane ride. Dressage trainer and competitor Debbie McDonald taught his daughter. He and his wife owned Brentina, a prize-winning, Olympic Bronze medalist dressage horse. They also sponsor Adrienne Lyle, a dressage competitor.
Personal life
Thomas was married to Peggy. They had four sons and one daughter. They summered at their dressage farm called River Grove Farm in Hailey, near Sun Valley, Idaho, and wintered in Las Vegas and Del Mar, California.
Two of his sons, Peter and Tom, manage Thomas & Mack, the family real estate development firm in Las Vegas. Another son, Roger Thomas is an interior designer; he has designed many casinos for Steve Wynn, both in the United States and in China. His son Dr. Steven Thomas is an orthopedic surgeon in Las Vegas and graduated from Johns Hopkins. One of his grandsons, David Peter Thomas, died of an undisclosed cause in Blaine County, Idaho, in 2003, at the age of 28. E. Parry died on August 26, 2016, at his ranch in Hailey, Idaho, at the age of 95.
References
1921 births
2016 deaths
Businesspeople from Ogden, Utah
Businesspeople from Las Vegas
People from Sun Valley, Idaho
People from Del Mar, California
American Latter Day Saints
American bankers
Dressage
American racehorse owners and breeders
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American philanthropists
United States Army personnel of World War II
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The organization SEKEM (Ancient Egyptian: 'vitality from the sun') was founded in 1977 by the Egyptian pharmacologist and social entrepreneur Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish in order to bring about cultural renewal in Egypt on a sustainable basis. Located northeast of Cairo, the organization now includes:
biodynamic farms;
trading companies for produce and processed foods (Hator and Libra), herbal teas and beauty products (ISIS Organic), medicinal herbs and medicines (ATOS Pharma), and organic cotton products (NatureTex);
a medical center;
a school based on the principles of Waldorf pedagogy open to pupils from any religious or ethnic background;
a community school catering specifically to the needs of children from disadvantaged groups;
a nursery
a vocational training center;
a college (Mahad Adult Education Training Institute) and research center (SEKEM Academy for Applied Art and Sciences);
Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development
SEKEM's goals are to "restore and maintain the vitality of the soil and food as well as the biodiversity of nature" through sustainable, organic agriculture and to support social and cultural development in Egypt. Revenue from the trading companies grew from 37 million Egyptian pounds in 2000 to 100 million in 2003. By 2005, the organization had established a network of more than 2,000 farmers and numerous partner organizations in Egypt and began increasingly to seek to extend its "experience and acquired knowledge" to other countries, including India, Palestine, Senegal, Turkey, and - in partnership with the Fountain Foundation - South Africa.
History
After a stay of 19 years in Austria, Dr. Abouleish returned to Egypt for a cultural trip in 1975. Touched by the deplorable economic and social situation of his country of origin, he decided to begin a project of cultural renewal on the basis of a synthesis of Islam and anthroposophy. Two years later he bought a plot of land in what was, at the time, desert bordering farmland of the Nile valley. The original goal was to develop the land and improve crop yields using biodynamic methods. A thick border of trees was planted to encircle the seventy hectares of land, and trees were planted along all the roads built; a forest was also planted on part of the land. (The initial planting included 120,000 casuarina, eucalyptus and Persian lilac seedlings.) The Bedouins who lived nearby, and sometimes on the land, were brought into the project, given work and helped with their living needs. Buildings were built using traditional adobe; some of these were designed by Hassan Fathy. The initial farm animals were Egyptian buffalo. The organization sold milk products produced from the buffalo milk and produce from the farm.
The first large economic venture of the community initiative was production of a medicinal compound, ammoidin, an extract of Ammi majus (laceflower). The manufacture of herbal teas and a company to market fresh biodynamic produce in Europe followed. The needs of these companies led to many farms throughout Egypt switching to biodynamic methods; the SEKEM organization began an active advisory service to aid these farms in the transition to and the maintenance of biodynamic standards. Sekem leased many of these lands.
Community projects began early in the initiative's history: a medical clinic using anthroposophic medicine, and a Society for Cultural Development sponsoring lectures, concerts and other cultural activities.
In 1987, the center for adult education (Mahad) began its work; children with handicaps are also educated in this center. In 1988, SEKEM opened a kindergarten also open to the local Bedouin community; this grew into the SEKEM school, educating children from kindergarten through twelfth grade (about 18 years of age) on the basis of Waldorf education. "The school serves Muslim and Christian children alike encouraging them to live in harmony and have respect for the other's religious practices." The school also operates a literacy center for illiterate children between ten and fourteen years of age.
In response to the use of child labor in Egypt, SEKEM founded the project Chamomile Children, which offers children between ten and fourteen an education, vocational training, meals, and medical care in conjunction with their work; the children's teachers look after the children the whole day. There is also a cooperative for employees to organize the social processes (the Cooperative of SEKEM Employees), an independent organization with members from all the businesses and cultural institutions associated with SEKEM.
In 1990, SEKEM founded the Centre of Organic Agriculture in Egypt (COAE), an independent organization that inspects organic farms in Egypt, Iran and Sudan.
Faced with pesticide residues in their products that came from aerial spraying on nearby farms, SEKEM took up an initiative to eliminate such spraying in Egypt. As cotton production depended upon the sprays, SEKEM explored organic cotton production on initially small fields. The experiments were successful and yields actually were better than non-organic production achieved. The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture sponsored further and more extensive tests. Within three years, the ministry agreed that organic pest suppression was superior for cotton farming and began converting the entire area of Egyptian cotton, 4,000 square kilometres, to organic methods for controlling pests; the conversion took two years. The conversion resulted in a reduction in the use of synthetic pesticides in Egypt by over 90% and an increase in the average yield of raw cotton of almost 30%. SEKEM then created a company to process organic cotton using mechanical rather than chemical methods, NatureTex.
In response to increasing publicity about the novel methods employed by the community in many realms, the association of Muslim sheiks in Egypt gave the community a plaque verifying that SEKEM is an Islamic initiative. This was the result of intensive meetings between SEKEM and Muslim religious leaders.
SEKEM's next initiative was the first private pharmaceutical company in Egypt, specializing in medicinal teas. The medical center had now grown to the point where it needed its own building; concurrently it considerably expanded its outreach into the Bedouin community, helping establish sanitary facilities and clean water supplies.
In 1997, SEKEM established a vocational training center offering trainings in metalwork, carpentry, mechanical work, electrical work, tailoring, biodynamic farming and trading. The vocational center also includes an art school. The German Society for Technical Cooperation helped establish this project. In 1999 the SEKEM Academy (now Sekem University) opened. Originally a center for agricultural, pharmaceutical and medical research, the University now also conducts studies and offers training in other areas.
In 2001, a holding company was established to administer the finances of all the SEKEM companies and to oversee developmental projects. The holding company includes a department to help each individual company with its developmental process, and is also responsible for the education and training programs for employees.
Social connections
All SEKEM companies have a policy of ensuring transparency in the production, distribution and consumption of their goods. They work to ensure fair and secure prices for the farmers supplying them, basing their operations on the principle that the health of the economy depends upon producers, distributors and consumers cooperating to generate stable businesses. SEKEM hosts a monthly gathering of all farmers working together with it; about 200 farmers attended these sessions as of 2004. It has created the following NGOs:
A Cooperative of SEKEM Employees that works to ensure equality, equity and dignity for all employees. In particular, the cooperative supports employee training, career development and health care provisions. Ten percent of SEKEM employees' working time is available for professional and personal development through social and cultural enrichment activities.
The SEKEM Developmental Foundation, with the goal of raising the quality of people's lives and supporting cultural and economic development in Egypt. The foundation provides education and literacy support for surrounding communities as well as programs for children with special needs. This includes a kindergarten, a "co-educational school with pupils from a diversity of cultural and social backgrounds, Muslim and Christian children learning together in a community where respect for all differences of gender, religion, class and ethnicity is cultivated", special education facilities and vocational trainings.
An adult education center, MAHAD, that offers professional trainings as well as continuing education programs in a variety of areas.
The Egyptian Biodynamic Association, established in 1990 as a research and training center in biodynamic methods. Approximately 800 farmers are now farming biodynamically in Egypt.
SEKEM and Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish received the Right Livelihood Award in 2003 for integrating the commercial success with promotion of the social and cultural development of society. The organization has been cited as a successful example of social entrepreneurship that has had a significant impact on Egyptian society both through its influence on the country's agricultural practices and through its educational and cultural institutions.
Furthermore, Dr. Ibrahim Abouleish and his Son Helmy were named Social Entrepreneurs of the year 2003 by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, and Well known business schools like IESE and CIDA City Campus use various case studies (e.g. Harvard Business Press to illustrate this novel approach to sustainable social entrepreneurship. Recent visitors included the first lady of Egypt, Suzanne Mubarak, a group from the Fulbright Commission in Egypt, the former Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany, Otto Schily and the founder of the Witten/Herdecke University Dr. Konrad Schily (a former member of the German Bundestag).
Motto
Yearly seminars to reflect on the aims and goals of SEKEM have evolved the following motto:
We aim towards living together according to social forms which reflect human dignity and further development, striving towards higher ideals. Our main goal is a developmental impulse for people, society and the earth. SEKEM wants to contribute to the comprehensive development of people, society and the earth, inspired by higher ideals. The cooperation of economic, social and cultural activities is stimulated by science, art and religion.
SEKEM has set itself the following goals for the economic sphere:
Healing the earth through biodynamic farming
Development and production of herbal remedies and any kind of product or service which relates to real consumer requirements and has standards of the highest quality.
Marketing in associative cooperation between farmers, producers, traders and consumers.
We aim to advance the individual development of the person through the cultural institutions. Education towards freedom is the goal of Sekem's educational institutions for children, adolescents and adults. Health care and therapies using natural healing remedies are provided by SEKEM. The SEKEM Academy for Applied Arts and Sciences researches and teaches solutions to pertinent questions from all areas of life.
Socially, SEKEM furthers a community of people from all over the world who recognize the dignity of the individual, enabling both learning to work and working to learn, and providing equal rights to all.
See also
Organic cotton
References
Books and articles about SEKEM
Abouleish, Ibrahim, SEKEM: A Sustainable Community in the Egyptian Desert,
"Respecting Human Nature" Al-Ahram Weekly
"Mephisto in Elysium" Al-Ahram Weekly
"Ibrahim Abouleish: Vision of Vitality, Engineering a Social Renaissance" Al-Ahram Weekly
Visscher, Marcus, "Miracle in the desert", Ode, November 2004
Plans for SEKEM University
Mair, Johanna; Schoen, Oliver; "Successful social entrepreneurial business models in the context of developing economies: An explorative study", International Journal of Emerging Markets, Volume 2, Number 1, 2007, pp. 54–68(15).
Mair, Johanna; Seelos, Christian; 2004 "The SEKEM Initiative" Case Study - Harvard Business School Publishing
Elkington,John; Hartigan, Pamela; Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World HBS Press Book, 2008
Amira El Ahl "Wie kommt die Eurythmie in die Wüste?" Spiegel (News Magazine) in German
UN Global Compact: SEKEM Corporate Responsibility
External links
blog about a German TV documentary
Visit SEKEM
Waldorf schools
Anthroposophy
1977 establishments in Egypt
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Maintenance of an organism is the collection of processes to stay alive, excluding production processes. The Dynamic Energy Budget theory delineates two classes
Somatic maintenance mainly comprises the turnover of structural mass (mainly proteins) and the maintenance of concentration gradients of metabolites across membranes (e.g., counteracting leakage). This is related to maintenance respiration.
Maturity maintenance concerns the maintenance of defence systems (such as the immune system), and the preparation of the body for reproduction.
The theory assumes that maturity maintenance costs can be reduced more easily during starvation than somatic maintenance costs. Under extreme starvation conditions, somatic maintenance costs are paid from structural mass, which causes shrinking. Some organism manage to switch to the torpor state under starvation conditions, and reduce their maintenance costs.
Developmental biology
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Richard Halworth Rovere (May 5, 1915 – November 23, 1979) was an American political journalist.
Biography
Rovere was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He graduated from the Stony Brook School in 1933 and Bard College, then a branch of Columbia University, in 1937. During the Great Depression, he joined the Communist movement and wrote for the New Masses. In 1939, as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, he broke with Stalinism and became an anticommunist liberal.
In the early 1940s, he was an assistant editor at The Nation. He joined The New Yorker in 1944 and wrote its "Letter from Washington" column from December 1948 until his death. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he periodically contributed to Esquire, Harper's, and The American Scholar; now and then he reported on American matters for Britain's Spectator. His reporting got him on the master list of Nixon political opponents.
He died of emphysema in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Blurbs
From the Rhinebeck Gazette (Rhinebeck, New York), June 18, 1959:
The Gazette received an advanced copy of Richard H. Rovere's book, "Senator Joe McCarthy," from Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. The book is both an analytical biography and a memoir, as well as a commentary on the American political scene. Mr Rovere, who was often an eyewitness observer of the events he describes, lives at 108 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck.
Legacy
His papers from 1931 to 1968 are housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
Bibliography
Books
Howe & Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History (1947)
The General and the President (with Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1951)
Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years (1956)
Senator Joe McCarthy (1959)
The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations (1962)
The Goldwater Caper (1965)
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy: Personal Reflections on 1968 (1968)
Arrivals and Departures: A Journalist's Memoirs (1976)
Final Reports: Personal Reflections on Politics and History in Our Time (1984, published posthumously, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
Essays and reporting
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Notes
References
Further reading
Allen, Frederick Lewis (April 1944). Personal & Otherwise: Honorable Mixed Fry. Harper's, pgs. 488–490.
Logan, Andy. (December 10, 1979). Obituary: Richard Rovere. The New Yorker, pgs. 218–219.
External links
The American Establishment and Other Reports, Opinions, and Speculations from Archive.org
The Goldwater Caper from Archive.org
1915 births
1979 deaths
The New Yorker people
The Stony Brook School alumni
Writers from Jersey City, New Jersey
20th-century American writers
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
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Kerens may refer to:
Kerens, Texas, a city in Navarro County, Texas, United States
Kerens, West Virginia
Richard C. Kerens (1842-1916), an American politician and diplomat
See also
Keren (disambiguation)
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Nicolas Alnoudji (born 9 December 1979) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Between 2002 and 2002, he made 17 appearances for the Cameroon national team.
International career
Alnoudji played for Cameroon national team and was a participant at the 2000 Olympic Games (where he won a gold medal) and at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He was also part of the Cameroon team who won the 2002 African Cup of Nations.
Career statistics
References
1979 births
Living people
People from Garoua
Men's association football midfielders
Cameroonian men's footballers
Cameroon men's international footballers
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Olympic footballers for Cameroon
Olympic gold medalists for Cameroon
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2001 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2002 African Cup of Nations players
Çaykur Rizespor footballers
Süper Lig players
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
SC Bastia players
CS Sedan Ardennes players
R.A.E.C. Mons (1910) players
CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu players
US Créteil-Lusitanos players
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Al-Ahli Saudi FC players
Saudi Pro League players
Al Ain FC players
Al-Sailiya SC players
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Liga I players
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
Coton Sport FC de Garoua players
JS Saint-Pierroise players
S.C. Olhanense players
Expatriate men's footballers in Réunion
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Qatar
Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Qatar Stars League players
UAE Pro League players
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Inner West Magpies (formerly Western Suburbs AFC) is an Australian rules football club competing in the AFL Sydney league. The club is based in the inner west of Sydney, New South Wales, and its senior teams play their home games at their home ground of Picken Oval; having previously played out of Henson Park in 2009 and 2010. The Western Wolves AFC women's team fully integrated with the men's team before the 2019 AFL Sydney season; in conjunction with this integration the club changed its name in order to better represent its region and community.
History
The Magpies were formed in 1926 and re-formed in 1947. The club, which became the first licensed Australian rules football club in New South Wales in 1962, is located in Croydon Park, next to Picken Oval. During the 1960s and 1970s, Western Suburbs was by far the most successful club in the competition. They made every grand final from 1963 to 1969 and every grand final from 1971 to 1979 bar one.
In 2005, in the premier division Western Suburbs only lost one of the 16 minor round games and secured the minor premiership. However, they lost the grand final to old rivals North Shore. In 2009 and 2010, the club under the coaching tutelage of Craig Tognolini, made the preliminary final.
Many fine players have been recruited from the Magpies to the AFL including Paul Bevan (Sydney), Arthur Chilcott (Sydney), Terry Ingersoll (Hawthorn) and Greg Stafford (Sydney/Richmond) amongst others. Paul Bevan was a Sydney Swans premiership player in 2005. John Northey coached at the club before coaching at AFL Level.
Premierships
Senior men's premierships have been won in 1951, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1996.
References
External links
Full Points Footy Profile for Western Suburbs Magpies
Australian rules football clubs in Sydney
1926 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1926
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Dowdy Ferry Road is the fifth album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley. The album's single "It's Sad to Belong" was a moderate pop hit and a #1 smash on the Adult Contemporary chart. A second hit from the LP, "Gone Too Far," reached #23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Being from the Dallas, Texas area, England Dan and John Ford Coley named Dowdy Ferry Road after a street in the southeastern part of town. Dowdy Ferry (Exit #476) connects with Interstate 20 in Texas.
Cash Box said of the single "Gone Too Far" that "Coley's melody and lyric work perfectly with the slick harmonies and tasteful instrumentation."
Track listing
"Dowdy Ferry Road" (Dan Seals) – 3:23
"It's Sad to Belong" (Randy Goodrum) – 2:54
"Soldier in the Rain" (John Ford Coley, Sunny Dalton) – 4:45
"Love is the One Thing We Hide" (Seals) – 2:53
"Gone Too Far" (Coley) – 2:58
"Where Do I Go From Here" (Parker McGee) – 2:59
"Falling Stars" (Coley) – 2:56
"You Know We Belong Together" (Coley, Seals) – 3:01
"Don't Feel That Way No More" (Seals) – 3:07
"Holocaust" (Seals) – 3:09
Personnel
John Ford Coley – acoustic guitar, keyboards, lead and backing vocals,
England Dan Seals – acoustic guitar, lead and backing vocals
Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar
Doyle Grisham – steel guitar
Shane Keister – keyboards, Moog synthesizer
Kyle Lehning – keyboards
Joe Osborn – bass
Larrie Londin – drums, percussion
Dennis Good – trombone
George Tidwell – trumpet
Billy Puett – woodwinds
Buddy Skipper – woodwinds, horn arrangements (1), woodwind arrangements (6, 8)
Bergen White – string arrangements, woodwind arrangements (4, 10)
The Shelly Kurland String Section – strings
Sheri Kramer – backing vocals
Lisa Silver – backing vocals
Wendy Suits – backing vocals
Diane Tidwell – backing vocals
Production
Producer – Kyle Lehning
Engineers – Kyle Lehning and Marshall Morgan
Recorded and Mixed at Hazen’s Recording Studio (Hendersonville, TN).
Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics (Nashville, TN).
Art Direction – Bob Defrin
Photography – Jim Houghton and Earl Steinbecker
Management – Susan Joseph
References
1977 albums
England Dan & John Ford Coley albums
Albums produced by Kyle Lehning
Big Tree Records albums
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Last man standing (LMS) or last team standing (LTS) is a multiplayer deathmatch gameplay mode featured in some first-person shooter computer and video games, and is also the essence of battle royale games. The aim of a player in a last man standing match is to neutralize their opponents and remain the sole survivor; the basic rules followed are generally the same of the death-match game type, with an important difference: respawn is limited or not allowed at all. Each player is assigned a specific number of lives per match (or just one when there is no respawn); once these lives have been expended, the player will no longer be able to return to the current match and remain as an invisible spectator until there is a winner and the LMS round is over. Within several games players are called to buy or pick up items, while other titles will have the players spawned with full weapons and ammo and there are no powerups available on the map.
Several different variations of the last man standing mode exist, with the most common being team LMS. The rules are the same of the standard LMS and the winning team is the one able to eliminate all the members of the opposing teams and keep at least one of its components alive.
The first last-man-standing video game with a shrinking play zone was the 1983 action game Bomberman.
See also
Battle royale game
References
Esports terminology
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Kibler may refer to:
Kibler, Arkansas, a city in Crawford County, Arkansas, United States
Kibler Park, a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
Kibler High School, a historic high school building located at the city of Tonawanda in Erie County, New York
Kibler (surname)
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Joël Dieudonné Martin Epalle Newaka (born 20 February 1978) is a Cameroonian football manager and former player who manages Val d'Europe FC.
He mainly played as a right midfielder, but throughout his career he also played as a second striker, more noticeably during his first spell at Iraklis. He was born in Matomb, Cameroon and played youth football in Cameroonian club Union Douala, the team for which he made his senior debut. After his spell in Cameroon, in 1998, he moved to Greece where he played football for several clubs including Ethnikos, Panachaiki, Aris, Panathinaikos and Iraklis in a time span of nine and a half years. Subsequently, in January 2007, he moved to Bundesliga outfit VfL Bochum where he played for three and a half years. After a brief stay at Azerbaijani club FK Baku, in January 2011 he returned to Greece to have a second spell at Iraklis. Epalle was Iraklis' top-scorer for the 2005–06 season. Started at the end of March 2012, he made his first appearance and play for Sarawak FA alongside his fellow Cameroon friend, Guy Bwele.
Epalle won 31 caps for Cameroon. He was a member of the Cameroon side that won the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics football tournament. Epalle was also a member of the Cameroon squad that won the 2002 African Cup of Nations.
Club career
Early career
He began his career in his local team called Union Douala.
Ethnikos
Epalle signed for Greek club Ethnikos in December 1997. Until the end of the season Epalle played in 16 matches for the club of Piraeus. In his second season for the club, Epalle continued appearing regularly, totalling 23 matches, not managing to help his club avoid relegation. In the Beta Ethniki Epalle managed to score his first goal for Ethnikos, in a match against Apollon Kalamarias. He managed to score two more, before leaving the club during the winter transfer window for Panachaiki.
Panachaiki
During the winter transfer window of the 1999-00 season Epalle signed for Panachaiki. He signed a two-year contract on a free transfer, on 26 January 2000, after gaining his freedom from Ethnikos, due to the club's debt to him. Epalle debuted for Panachaiki on 29 January 2000, in a 0–2 home win against Olympiacos. In his first season in Patras Epalle featured in 15 league matches and scored two goals. Epalle played for Panachaiki for almost two years and totalled three goals out of 44 appearances.
Aris
Epalle left them for Aris Saloniki.
Panathinaikos
After being released from Aris, Epalle signed a four-year contract for Greek club Panathinaikos in July 2003, stating his ambition to win trophies for Panathinaikos. Epalle made his debut for Panathinaikos in the first round of the 2003–04 season, as he was in the starting lineup in Panathinaikos' 1–0 home win against Skoda Xanthi. He scored his first goal for Panathinaikos in a 6–3 home win against Panionios for the fifteenth round of the 2003–04 season. Until the end of the season Epalle appeared in 15 league matches scoring one goal. He also played his first match in a European competition as he came in at halftime of a 5–0 away defeat against Manchester United. In the next season Epalle did not get any chances in the league, and he only appeared in two Champions League matches. On 7 January 2005, Epalle was released by Panathinaikos, to empty a foreign player's spot, so the club would be able to sign Brazilian defensive midfielder Anderson de Lima Freitas.
Iraklis
Briefly after his release Iraklis decided to sign him.
VfL Bochum
In January 2007, Epalle signed a three and a half years contract with VfL Bochum. The transfer fee was 600,000 €. Epalle debuted for VfL Bochum in a home match against Mainz. He played in the whole match but Mainz managed to win the match by 0–1 in a close encounter. In the next match Epalle was once again a starter and he helped VfL Bochum to get an away 0–0 draw from German giants FC Bayern. Epalle's first major contribution to the team came in a match against Arminia Bielefeld. He dribbled in the centre of the field before passing the ball towards Gekas to help him score the second goal of their team in what was meant to be a 1–3 away win for VfL Bochum. In the match Epalle scored his first goal for VfL Bochum. A corner was taken by his teammate Misimović an Alemannia Aachen defender poorly cleared the ball and Epalle took advantage of the loose ball to score his team's second goal, in a match that finished 2–2. Epalle continued showing his scoring abilities, as he send the ball to settle in the net of Hannover 96, during a count-attack of his team, to make the score 2–0, that was also the final score of the match. He also proved himself to be highly effective in front of the goal in an away match against Eintracht Frankfurt by scoring twice. His first goal was a powerful effort from just outside the area in the 58th minute of the match and second was scored in the 69th minute after an assist by Gekas. In his first season for VfL Bochum Epalle played in all of 17 VfL's Bundesliga matches for the second round of the 2006–07 club's campaign (all as a starter), scored four goals and handed three assists to his teammates.
In the opening stages of the 2008–09 season Epalle was forced to miss several matches due to a toe injury. He was able to make his come back, in a 0–0 home draw against Werder Bremen, after replacing the injured Christian Fuchs in the 42nd minute.
On 11 June 2010, Bochum announced that the contract of Epalle would not be extended beyond its original expiry date on 30 June 2010. During his spell at Bochum he became a firm favorite amongst his teammates and the club's fans due to his hard-working style of play and the trademark back-flip celebration of his goals.
FK Baku
In the summer of 2010, Epalle signed a contract with Azerbaijan Premier League outfit FK Baku, to meet again with Winfried Schäfer, his former manager for the Indomitable Lions. His first game for FK Baku was on 15 July, for the Second Qualifying Round of UEFA Europa League, against Budućnost of Montenegro. Epalle was suspended for that match, as he was sent off in an Iraklis' match four years ago against Wisła Kraków, and due to this Budućnost gained a 3–0 default win, in a match they had originally lost 2–1. Epalle was handed a further two-match suspension. He made his league debut for his new club on 22 August in a 2–1 home win against Gabala. He was substituted in the 83rd minute of the match for Ibrahim Kargbo. The next match he featured, was a 1–1 home draw against Ganja on 12 September. In November his agent stated that Epalle was not happy with the lifestyle of Azerbaijan and with the situation in Azerbaijani football. The main reasons for that reaction was the low attendance of Azerbaijani Premier League and the fact that he could do nothing besides training and staying in his hotel room. His agent also declared Epalle's desire to return in the Greek Superleague for Iraklis. He played again on 13 November coming in as a substitute for Aleksandar Šolić in the 78th minute, in a match that FK Baku won 2–0. In the next match against MOIK Baku he came in as an 84th-minute substitute, and he managed to score a goal in the 88th minute, his first and only goal for FK Baku. In his short spell for FK Baku Epalle totally played in ten matches and scored one goal.
Iraklis
On 18 January 2011, Epalle signed a two and a half-year contract with Iraklis. He made his first appearance, in his second spell for the club, in a 0–0 home draw against Kerkyra, as he came in, to replace Javier Robles, in the 55th minute of the match.
Sarawak FA
On 2 April 2012, Epalle officially signed with Sarawak FA. On 24 March 2012, he made his first appearance with Sarawak FA against Malaysia national football team in a friendly match at State Stadium, Kuching. The match ended with draw 1–1. Epalle scored the equalizer. His official league debut, in the game against Kelantan FA on 7 April 2012, saw Epalle fouled and he received a free-kick in the 18th minute which led to a goal by Guy Bwele in the 1–1 draw. His first goal for Sarawak was scored against Kuala Lumpur FA, an equaliser in a 1–1 draw on 4 May 2012.
International career
Epalle was capped with Cameroon and was a participant at the 2000 Olympic Games and at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. So far, he gained 31 caps with Cameroon and scored two goals. His first ever cap for Cameroon was on 26 November 1995, in a match against Gabon in Libreville for Bellier Africa Tournament. His debut was made while aged 17 years and 283, making him the tenth youngest player to gain a full cap for Cameroon at that time (16th nowadays).
2000 Summer Olympics football tournament
Epalle played in the opening match of Cameroon, coming in as a substitute in the 78th minute for Serge Branco, in a match that his team won by a 3–2 scoreline. He started the next match against United States, a 1–1 draw, but he was substituted by Daniel Kome in the 65th minute, just after the United States team scored its goal. He was benched in the two next matches, a 1–1 draw against the Czech Republic. The situation did not change in the quarter-final match against Brazil, a match that Cameroon won 2–1 after extra time. He featured again in the semi-final, a 1–2 win over Chile, as he came in to replace Modeste Mbami in the 65th minute. In the final, against Spain he came in as a substitute in the 91st minute to replace Serge Branco for the extra-time. The score was 2–2 after extra-time and Cameroon finally won 5–3 in the penalty shoot-out to be named Olympic Gold Medallists.
2008 Africa Cup of Nations
Epalle was a starter in the opening match of the tournament for The Indomitable Lions,a 4–2 loss against defending champions Egypt. He was an unused substitute in Cameroon's 5–1 win against Zambia, but he reappeared in the final match of the group stage, a 3–0 win against Sudan. In the quarter-final against Tunisia he came in as a substitute in the 62nd minute for Emana to help his team win the match, as he assisted Mbia, with a flick-on, to score the match decider in extra time. In the semi-final, Epalle came in for Idrissou in the start of second half to help his team advance to the final. In the final Epalle was at the starting eleven, but he was substituted, in the 65th minute by M'bami, in a match that saw Egypt getting crowned Africa Cup of Nations champions for a sixth time.
Coaching career
Ahead of the 2014–15 season, Epalle was appointed manager of French Regional club Val d'Europe FC. In September 2018 it was confirmed, that Epalle beside his manager position at Val d'Europe FC, also had been appointed the assistant manager of Cameroon national football team under newly appointed manager Clarence Seedorf alongside Patrick Kluivert and Jean-Alain Boumsong.
Personal life
Epalle is married to Mari, with whom he has two daughters Marilyn and Zonti, both born in Greece and a son born in Paris. He is also a cousin of his fellow Cameroonian international Timothée Atouba.
Honours
Panathinaikos
Alpha Ethniki: 2003–04
Greek Cup: 2003–04
Aris
Greek Cup: runner-up 2002–03
Cameroon
Olympic Games: 2000
Africa Cup of Nations: 2002; runner-up 2008
FIFA Confederations Cup: runner-up 2003
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
People from Centre Region (Cameroon)
Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players
Aris Thessaloniki F.C. players
Panathinaikos F.C. players
Cameroonian men's footballers
Cameroon men's under-20 international footballers
Cameroon men's international footballers
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Olympic footballers for Cameroon
Olympic gold medalists for Cameroon
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2001 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2002 African Cup of Nations players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2008 Africa Cup of Nations players
VfL Bochum players
Panachaiki F.C. players
Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) players
Azerbaijan Premier League players
FC Baku players
Sarawak FA players
Super League Greece players
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Bundesliga players
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan
Olympic medalists in football
Union Douala players
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men's association football forwards
Men's association football midfielders
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Azerbaijan
Expatriate men's footballers in Malaysia
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Illawarra Lions is an Australian rules football club competing in the Sydney AFL league and based out of Wollongong. The club was formerly known as Wollongong Lions, but changed their name in 2011 in response to their designated pathway area being further afield than merely the city of Wollongong.
They play their home games at North Dalton Park in Towradgi, and following the installation of lighting during the summer of 2006–07 the club hosted 3 night matches during the 2007 season which attracted encouraging crowds.
Trevor Burnett was head coach from 2008 to 2011 seasons, replacing Jason Philp after the 2007 season. Former Sydney Swans player Neil Brunton is the assistant coach. Current player/coach is Ken Ewen-Chappell
History
The club formed in 1971 as the Swans and moved to the Sydney AFL in 1989, becoming the Lions.
After winning the First Division premiership in 2004, the Lions were promoted to Sydney AFL Premier Division in 2005. They won 3 games in 2005, 4 in 2006, 3 in 2007, 3 in 2008, 4 and a draw in 2009, and 2 in 2010.
References
External links
Profile for Illawarra Lions on Full Points Footy
Australian rules football clubs in New South Wales
Sports clubs and teams in Wollongong
1971 establishments in Australia
Australian rules football clubs established in 1971
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Marc Garlasco (born September 4, 1970) is an American military advisor for the Dutch non-governmental organization PAX. Early in his career, Garlasco served for seven years at the Pentagon, as a mid-level intelligence analyst, later becoming chief of high-value targeting. Garlasco left in 2003 and joined Human Rights Watch (HRW) as a senior military expert, where he investigated human rights issues in a number of different conflicts zones. He resigned from HRW in February 2010 and has since worked as a specialist on civilian protection, war crimes investigations, identification of weapons and civilian harm mitigation for – among others – the United Nations (UNAMA; COI on Libya; COI on Syria), the Center for Naval Analysis (CNA), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), before starting at PAX in 2020. Garlasco lives in New York.
Career
Garlasco has a B.A. in government from St. John's University 1988–1992 and an M.A. in international relations from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University(1992–1995) He lives in Pleasantville, New York. Garlasco was the senior military analyst in Human Rights Watch's (HRW) Emergencies Division. He specialized in battle damage assessment, military operations, and interrogations.
The Pentagon
He worked with a defense contractor before being hired as an intelligence professional at the Defense Intelligence Agency working in the Pentagon; he survived the 9/11 attack on the building. He claims he was Chief of High-value targeting in The Pentagon during the Second Gulf War where he claimed to lead the effort to track and target Saddam Hussein. The initial targets and attack, known as the "DECAP strike", was identified by the CIA and the actual attacks were planned by TLAM and F-117 (see:Dora Farms). Garlasco was a member of the Operation Desert Fox (Iraq) Battle Damage Assessment team in 1998, led a Pentagon Battle Damage Assessment team to Kosovo in 1999 and recommended several thousand aimpoints on targets during military operations in Iraq and Serbia. Later that year Garlasco debriefed Iraqi nationals to gather intelligence about Saddam Hussein. He described it as "contingency planning for a war that was probably never going to be fought." He also participated in over 50 interrogations as a subject matter expert. In total, Garlasco served for seven years in the Pentagon.
In 2003, Garlasco was responsible for dropping two, laser-guided, 500-kilogram bombs on a house in the Tuwaisi, neighborhood of Basra, Iraq, that he believed to contain Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, the man responsible for launching poison gas attacks on Kurds in Iraq beginning in 1988. Watching the attack via satellite form a room in the Pentagon, Garlasco threw his arms in the air and shouted: "I just blew up Chemical Ali!" However, Chemical Ali was not in the house; 17 other people were killed instead. Garlasco left his Pentagon job in 2003 two weeks after the failed attack to take a position as senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch.
Garlasco explained the calculus of civilian deaths in high-value targeting to the television news program 60 Minutes this way, "Our number was 30. So, for example, Saddam Hussein. If you're gonna kill up to 29 people in a strike against Saddam Hussein, that's not a problem. But once you hit that number 30, we actually had to go to either President Bush, or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld." Garlasco told the interviewer that prior to the invasion of Iraq, he personally recommended 50 high-value targets for air strikes, but, according to Garlasco, none of the targets on his list was actually killed. Rather, "a couple of hundred civilians at least" were killed in strikes he recommended. Garlasco defended the efforts made by the American military to minimize civilian casualties, "I don't think people really appreciate the gymnastics that the U.S. military goes through in order to make sure that they're not killing civilians". He responded to the question "If so much care is being taken why are so many civilians getting killed?" by stating "Because the Taliban are violating international law, and because the U.S. just doesn't have enough troops on the ground. You have the Taliban shielding in people's homes. And you have this small number of troops on the ground. And sometimes the only thing they can do is drop bombs."
Human Rights Watch
After leaving the Pentagon, Garlasco joined Human Rights Watch as a senior military analyst; his task was to document laws-of-war violations and other atrocities committed during significant conflicts around the world. In an interview he gave for The Washington Post Garlasco described the transition from targeter to human rights advocate: "I had been a part of it, so it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It really dawned on me that these aren't just nameless, faceless targets. This is a place where people are going to feel ramifications for a long time."
In December 2003, Garlasco co-authored the report Off Target – The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq after carrying out field work with two other HRW staff to investigate the effect of the air war, ground war, and the immediate post-combat environment on civilians after the fall of Baghdad to U.S. led Coalition forces in the Iraq War. Garlasco and colleagues focused on the main fighting areas in the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys where civilian deaths had been reported, visiting ten cities in total. The report focused on the identification and investigation of potential violations of international humanitarian law by both Coalition and Iraqi forces together with the identification of patterns of conflict which may have resulted in avoidable civilian casualties.
Garlasco and his co-author stated that Iraqi forces had committed various violations of international humanitarian law which may have resulted in significant civilian casualties and claimed that the widespread use of cluster munitions in populated areas by Coalition forces killed or wounded more than 1,000 civilians.
In October 2004, Garlasco co-authored the report 'Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip' after carrying out research with two other HRW staff in the Gaza Strip, Israel, and Egypt. The report documented what it described as a "pattern of illegal demolitions" by the IDF in Rafah, a refugee camp and city at the southern end of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt where sixteen thousand people lost their homes after the Israeli government approved a plan to expand the de facto "buffer zone" in May 2004. Garlasco and colleagues examined the background to and effects of the demolitions, the security situation in Rafah, the IDF's main stated rationales for the demolitions, responding to and preventing attacks on its forces and the suppression of weapons smuggling through tunnels from Egypt, and concluded that in most cases the demolitions were "carried out in the absence of military necessity" in violation of international law.
Garlasco has made it a personal objective to prevent the use of cluster munitions. He co-authored the 2006 Human Rights Watch report condemning Israel's use of such weapons in Lebanon and a report in 2008 documenting how civilians living in South Ossetia suffered the use of cluster munitions by both the Russian and Georgian armies. Colin Kahl, a professor of security studies at Georgetown University, said that Garlasco "knows more about airstrikes than anyone in the world who isn't in the military currently", adding that "when Marc says stuff is messed up, the military has to take it seriously. It's not some wing nut in a human rights group out to get the military".
According to Haaretz, Garlasco worked in the Pentagon for seven years and "was known over the last years of his career for his harsh condemnation of Israel".
John H. Richardson, a writer at Esquire, writes that Garlasco's work on torture scandals in Iraq resulted in testimony from American soldiers that led directly to John McCain's anti-torture amendment. Richardson also writes that Garlasco was one of the first foreigners to cross the border into Georgia during its war with Russia, and that during the Gaza War Garlasco lived in an apartment in the middle of the war zone and spent weeks visiting hospitals and bomb sites.
Garlasco has attracted some criticism for his reporting, with the Ottawa Citizen, for example, suggesting in an editorial that he "has made a career of painting Israel as a criminal state".
Garlasco appeared as an expert in the documentary film No End in Sight, which examined in detail some of the key decisions made by the US military and the Pentagon in the early days after the invasion of Iraq. He was also featured in a 60 Minutes story on US military targeting practices that aired October 28, 2007.
Exit from HRW over Nazi memorabilia
On September 14, 2009, Garlasco was suspended with pay after a controversy arose when it was publicized that he collects Nazi memorabilia. Criticism that had started to appear, posted by what The Guardian called pro-Israeli bloggers, had questioned the appropriateness of Garlasco's hobby. Garlasco has stated his hobby of collecting German and American World War memorabilia from the Second World War is because of his family history and his interest in military history.
Initial controversy
On September 9, 2009 The Jerusalem Post quoted blogger Omri Ceren saying that Garlasco is "obsessed with the color and pageantry of Nazism, has published a detailed 430-page book on Nazi war paraphernalia, and participates in forums for Nazi souvenir collectors". Other newspapers such as The Guardian and Haaretz covered the controversy in the following days.
The Guardian reported on what it described as "mounting internet attacks on Garlasco". Pro-Israeli bloggers had questioned the appropriateness of Garlasco's hobby and discovered one blogpost in which Garlasco wrote, "The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!"
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's policy director commented that Human Rights Watch's employment of "a man who trades and collects Nazi memorabilia" as its senior military expert is a "new low".
HRW response
Though Garlasco initially responded to the allegations under the pen name Flak88, writing: "I would reply, but I don't want to encourage them... Anyway, I doubt if they read my book. More than anything else, it is related to my work."
He subsequently apologized, writing on Huffington Post, "I deeply regret causing pain and offense with a handful of juvenile and tasteless postings I made on two websites that study Second World War artifacts". Garlasco added, "I've never hidden my hobby, because there's nothing shameful in it, however weird it might seem to those who aren't fascinated by military history". He also wrote that the allegations of Nazi sympathies were "defamatory nonsense, spread maliciously by people with an interest in trying to undermine Human Rights Watch's reporting," and that "I work to expose war crimes and the Nazis were the worst war criminals of all time". He added, "[p]recisely because it's so obvious that the Nazis were evil, I never realized that other people, including friends and colleagues, might wonder why I care about these things". He went on to say that "I told my daughters, as I wrote in my book, that "the war was horrible and cruel, that Germany lost and for that we should be thankful".
HRW Communications Director Emma Daly at first responded to the charge by saying, "Marc Garlasco is not pro-Nazi. These allegations are monstrous. He does not delve into Nazi memorabilia. Garlasco is a student of military history and he has an interest in military history". HRW later issued an official statement that the accusation against Garlasco "is demonstrably false and fits into a campaign to deflect attention from Human Rights Watch's rigorous and detailed reporting on violations of international human rights and humanitarian law by the Israeli government," adding that Garlasco "has never held or expressed Nazi or anti-Semitic views". HRW associate director Carroll Bogert accused The Guardian of "repeat[ing] defamatory nonsense unworthy of [the] newspaper," adding that "[t]he allegations of pro-Nazi sympathies are part of a larger campaign to smear non-governmental organisations which criticise the Israel Defense Forces' conduct of the Gaza offensive". Iain Levine, the watchdog's programme director responded by saying that "The Israeli government is trying to eliminate the space for legitimate criticism of the conduct of the IDF, and this is the latest salvo in that campaign".
In what has been described by Ed Pilkington of The Guardian as an "abrupt change of tact" (sic) for Human Rights Watch, Garlasco was "suspended with pay" from HRW pending an investigation. According to Bogert, "[W]e have questions as to whether we've learned everything we need to know". Regarding the suspension, HRW has indicated "This is not a disciplinary measure. Human Rights Watch stands behind Garlasco's research and analysis".
Other responses
Critics of Human Rights Watch have suggested that Garlasco's enthusiasm for Nazi-era badges and uniforms goes beyond historical interest and raises questions Nazi sympathy or anti-Semitism.
NGO Monitor, an Israeli NGO that monitors human rights organisations for perceived political bias, described Garlasco's hobby as "problematic" and "insensitive". John Richardson of Esquire magazine wrote that because Garlasco has criticized Israel for alleged human-rights violations, "NGO Monitor has decided to try to destroy Marc Garlasco — not to argue with him or dispute his statistics, but to destroy him personally."
Antony Lerman, former director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, wrote that Human Rights Watch failed to see Garlasco's hobby "could be used to discredit his role as author of highly critical reports of Israel's military conduct in Gaza". Lerman further wrote that Garlasco working "on reports critical of Hamas and Hezbollah was ignored", concluding that "as another excuse to attack HRW, and deflect attention from its reports' findings, the Garlasco affair was a gift".
Yaron Ezrahi, a professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said he did not believe that Mr. Garlasco's interest in memorabilia could support allegations of "premeditated bias," though he indicated it may hurt Human Rights Watch's credibility, and that the revelations had "armed the right-wing fanatics" who try to "demonize" anybody who questions the effects of Israeli military operations. A group of ten Israeli rights groups also protested that the Israeli government has been attempting to "instill fear and silence or alarm vital organizations" that were engaging in free public discourse.
In The Christian Science Monitor, Robert Marquand claimed Garlasco's critics were using him "to distract from or obfuscate findings that war crimes and crimes against humanity may have taken place in Gaza" and that a U.N. report by Richard Goldstone showed illegal white phosphorus use consistent with Garlasco's first hand testimony.
In Nazi scandal hits human rights group, Katie Engelhart in Maclean's magazine reported that "For HRW, the timing of the exposé could not be worse. The group has thrown its weight behind the UN-sponsored Goldstone report, which accuses both Israel and the Palestinians of committing war crimes in the Gaza strip earlier this year. Garlasco's actions will surely lead many to question the group's credibility".
According to The New York Times, HRW Middle East advisory committee member Helena Cobban questioned on her blog whether Garlasco's military collecting activities were "something an employer like Human Rights Watch ought to be worried about? After consideration, I say Yes". NGO Monitor head Gerald M. Steinberg, a professor of Political Science at Bar Ilan University, argued that Human Rights Watch's response to the matter was "too little, too late". Cobban says in suspending Garlasco Human Rights Watch is now "in a better position to take part in the public discussion in this country on what our government should be doing with regard to the Goldstone report".
Aftermath
Emma Daly confirmed in March 2010 that Garlasco resigned from Human Rights Watch in February 2010, and offered no elaboration. A reporter from The Sunday Times (London) attempted to contact Garlasco, who wouldn't comment. A friend of Garlasco's indicated he had "in effect" been fired, but had entered into a confidentiality agreement with HRW in which he would be paid for the remainder of his contract if he kept silent. In early March 2010, Garlasco's name was removed from the website.
United Nations
Beginning in 2011, Garlasco served as senior civilian protection officer for United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Heading the UN's Protection of Civilians office, Garlasco monitored civilian casualty rates, and admonished Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar to refrain from using mines. In early 2012, as the U.N. senior military advisor for the Human Rights Council's (HRC) Independent Commission of Inquiry on Libya, he investigated civilian casualties while leading a survey of NATO's activities in Libya.
Bibliography
Book
The Flak Badges of the Luftwaffe and Heer, 2008, B&D Publishing LLC. 462 pages
Human Rights Watch reports co-authored by Marc Garlasco
A Dying Practice: Use of Cluster Munitions by Russian and Georgia in August 2008
Rain of Fire: Israel's Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza
Troops in Contact: Airstrikes and Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Human Rights Watch, 2008,
Flooding South Lebanon: Israel's Use of Cluster Munitions in Lebanon in July and August 2006
No Blood No Foul": Soldier's Accounts of Detainee Abuse in Iraq
Leadership Failure: First Hand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division
Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip
Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq
References
External links
Human Rights Watch
In the Field with Marc Garlasco, Human Rights Watch (2008)
Assessing the Human Cost of Air Strikes in Iraq, NPR (April 8, 2008)
1970 births
American human rights activists
Elliott School of International Affairs alumni
Human Rights Watch people
Living people
People from Queens, New York
St. John's University (New York City) alumni
2009 controversies
Activists from New York (state)
People from Pleasantville, New York
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Robert M. Wald (; born June 29, 1947 in New York City) is an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Chicago. He studies general relativity, black holes, and quantum gravity and has written textbooks on these subjects.
Life and education
He is the son of the mathematician and statistician Abraham Wald and great-grandson of the chief rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner. Wald's parents died in a plane crash when he was three years old. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1968 and his PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1972, under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler. His doctoral dissertation was titled Nonspherical Gravitational Collapse and Black Hole Uniqueness.
Career and contributions
Between 1972 and 1974, Robert Wald worked as a research associate in physics at the University of Maryland. He then moved to the University of Chicago, spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow before joining the faculty in 1976. He wanted to move to Chicago in order to work with Robert Geroch and other specialists in gravitation.
In 1977, Wald published a popular-science book titled Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes explaining Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, and its implications in cosmology and astrophysics. The book also gives a survey of what was then ongoing research on gravitational collapse and black holes. This book grew out of a series of lectures Wald gave as part of the Compton Lectures at the University of Chicago in the spring of 1976. The Compton Lectures, given every Spring and Fall quarter, are intended to explain notable advances in the physical sciences to members of the general public.
He published the textbook General Relativity in 1984. Aimed at beginning graduate students, it covers spinors, the variational principles, the initial-value formulation, (exact) gravitational waves, singularities, Penrose diagrams, Hawking radiation, and black-hole thermodynamics.
Wald has taught first-year graduate courses covering a broad range of topics, including classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and electromagnetism. He has also taught courses on general relativity, his specialty, at both introductory and advanced levels. A particularly effective teacher, he received the Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Chicago in 1997.
Wald investigates black holes and their thermodynamics, and gravitational radiation-reaction (or self-force). Due to quantum-mechanical processes, black holes emit particles and therefore have a definite temperature and entropy. Wald has published over 100 research papers on general relativity and quantum field theory in curved spacetime, many of which have been cited by hundreds of subsequent papers. In 1993, he described the Wald entropy of a black hole, which is dependent simply on the area of the event horizon of the black hole.
He organized The Symposium on Black Holes and Relativistic Stars in 1996, in honor of the late Nobel Prize-winning theoretical astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Distinguished speakers of this event included Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose and Martin Rees. Although the event charged an entrance fee of $100, Wald made sure all University of Chicago students were admitted free of charge. Chandrasekhar founded a research group on general relativity at the University of Chicago, which includes Wald, James Hartle and Robert Geroch. Although Wald and Chandrasekhar never collaborated on any particular research projects, the two developed warm relations.
He became a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1996 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001. He received the Einstein Prize from the APS Division of Gravitational Physics in 2017 for "the discovery of the general formula for black hole entropy, and for developing a rigorous formulation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime."
Wald delivered a public lecture at the University of Alabama in October 27, 2015, titled "The Formulation of General Relativity," celebrating the centennial of Einstein's theory. Wald is a member of the LIGO group at the University of Chicago, headed by astrophysicist Daniel Holz. The Laser Interferometry Gravitational-wave Observatory detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015, one century after Einstein predicted their existence.
Books
See also
List of contributors to general relativity
List of books on general relativity
Bekenstein–Hawking entropy
References
External links
Robert M. Wald faculty page at the University of Chicago
Robert Wald research articles cited by INSPIRE-HEP
Robert Wald research articles cited by arXiv
Some properties of Noether charge and a proposal for dynamical black hole entropy, Vivek Iyer and Robert M. Wald, Phys. Rev., D 50 (1994) 846-864 (sample research paper; cited over 250 times)
Recorded Lectures Given by Robert Wald. Perimeter Institute.
Silver Screen - PSD faculty members discuss Hollywood's portrayal of science and scientists. The University of Chicago Magazine. Summer 2015.
The Formulation of General Relativity. Robert Wald. Physics Public Talk. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama. October 27, 2015.
1947 births
Living people
American relativity theorists
University of Chicago faculty
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
21st-century American physicists
American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Jewish American scientists
Jewish physicists
21st-century American Jews
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Princeton University alumni
Quantum gravity physicists
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In musical tuning and harmony, the (German for 'tone network') is a conceptual lattice diagram representing tonal space first described by Leonhard Euler in 1739. Various visual representations of the Tonnetz can be used to show traditional harmonic relationships in European classical music.
History through 1900
The Tonnetz originally appeared in Leonhard Euler's 1739 . Euler's Tonnetz, pictured at left, shows the triadic relationships of the perfect fifth and the major third: at the top of the image is the note F, and to the left underneath is C (a perfect fifth above F), and to the right is A (a major third above F). The Tonnetz was rediscovered in 1858 by Ernst Naumann, and was disseminated in an 1866 treatise of Arthur von Oettingen. Oettingen and the influential musicologist Hugo Riemann (not to be confused with the mathematician Bernhard Riemann) explored the capacity of the space to chart harmonic motion between chords and modulation between keys. Similar understandings of the Tonnetz appeared in the work of many late-19th century German music theorists.
Oettingen and Riemann both conceived of the relationships in the chart being defined through just intonation, which uses pure intervals. One can extend out one of the horizontal rows of the Tonnetz indefinitely, to form a never-ending sequence of perfect fifths: F-C-G-D-A-E-B-F♯-C♯-G♯-D♯-A♯-E♯-B♯-F𝄪-C𝄪-G𝄪- (etc.) Starting with F, after 12 perfect fifths, one reaches E♯. Perfect fifths in just intonation are slightly larger than the compromised fifths used in equal temperament tuning systems more common in the present. This means that when one stacks 12 fifths starting from F, the E♯ we arrive at will not be seven octaves above the F we started with. Oettingen and Riemann's Tonnetz thus extended on infinitely in every direction without actually repeating any pitches. In the twentieth century, composer-theorists such as Ben Johnston and James Tenney continued to developed theories and applications involving just-intoned Tonnetze.
The appeal of the Tonnetz to 19th-century German theorists was that it allows spatial representations of tonal distance and tonal relationships. For example, looking at the dark blue A minor triad in the graphic at the beginning of the article, its parallel major triad (A-C♯-E) is the triangle right below, sharing the vertices A and E. The relative major of A minor, C major (C-E-G) is the upper-right adjacent triangle, sharing the C and the E vertices. The dominant triad of A minor, E major (E-G♯-B) is diagonally across the E vertex, and shares no other vertices. One important point is that every shared vertex between a pair of triangles is a shared pitch between chords - the more shared vertices, the more shared pitches the chord will have. This provides a visualization of the principle of parsimonious voice-leading, in which motions between chords are considered smoother when fewer pitches change. This principle is especially important in analyzing the music of late-19th century composers like Wagner, who frequently avoided traditional tonal relationships.
Twentieth-century reinterpretation
Recent research by Neo-Riemannian music theorists David Lewin, Brian Hyer, and others, have revived the Tonnetz to further explore properties of pitch structures. Modern music theorists generally construct the Tonnetz using equal temperament, and using pitch-classes, which make no distinction between octave transpositions of a pitch. Under equal temperament, the never-ending series of ascending fifths mentioned earlier becomes a cycle. Neo-Riemannian theorists typically assume enharmonic equivalence (in other words, A♭ = G♯), and so the two-dimensional plane of the 19th-century Tonnetz cycles in on itself in two different directions, and is mathematically isomorphic to a torus. Theorists have studied the structure of this new cyclical version using mathematical group theory.
Neo-Riemannian theorists have also used the Tonnetz to visualize non-tonal triadic relationships. For example, the diagonal going up and to the left from C in the diagram at the beginning of the article forms a division of the octave in three major thirds: C-A♭-E-C (the E is actually an F♭, and the final C a D♭♭). Richard Cohn argues that while a sequence of triads built on these three pitches (C major, A♭ major, and E major) cannot be adequately described using traditional concepts of functional harmony, this cycle has smooth voice leading and other important group properties which can be easily observed on the Tonnetz.
Similarities to other graphical systems
The harmonic table note layout is a note layout that is topologically equivalent to the Tonnetz, and is used on several music instruments that allow playing major and minor chords with a single finger.
The Tonnetz can be overlayed on the Wicki–Hayden note layout, where the major second can be found half way the major third.
The Tonnetz is the dual graph of Schoenberg's chart of the regions, and of course vice versa. Research into music cognition has demonstrated that the human brain uses a "chart of the regions" to process tonal relationships.
See also
Neo-Riemannian theory
Musical set-theory
Riemannian theory
Transformational theory
Tuning theory
Treatise on Harmony
References
Further reading
Johnston, Ben (2006). "Rational Structure in Music", "Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music, edited by Bob Gilmore. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. .
Wannamaker, Robert, The Music of James Tenney, Volume 1: Contexts and Paradigms (University of Illinois Press, 2021), 155-65.</ref>
External links
Music harmony and donuts by Paul Dysart
Charting Enharmonicism on the Just-Intonation Tonnetz by Robert T. Kelley
Midi-Instrument based on Tonnetz (Melodic Table) by The Shape of Music
Midi-Instrument based on Tonnetz (Harmonic Table) by C-Thru-Music
TonnetzViz (interactive visualization) by Ondřej Cífka; a modified version by Anton Salikhmetov
Diagrams
Lattice theory
Pitch space
Topology
Music theory
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Raymond Koned Kalla Nkongo (born 22 April 1975), known as Kalla, is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
His main asset was a powerful physique, and he had already been picked by the Cameroonian national team for three World Cups – and started – in his mid-20s.
Club career
Kalla was born in Douala. After starting professionally at Canon Sportif de Yaoundé, he went on to play in four countries: first Panachaiki F.C. in Greece then Spain's CF Extremadura, where he competed in both major divisions.
In 2002, after Extremadura dropped another category to the third level, Kalla signed with VfL Bochum in Germany– he scored five times in his last season, second-best in the squad – but the club was relegated from the Bundesliga. He also received a three-match ban for anti-doping rules breaching, in late 2003.
Subsequently, Kalla joined Turkish side Sivasspor for the 2005–06 campaign, returning home for two final years at Union Douala and retiring at age 33.
International career
Kalla won 63 caps for Cameroon, and was a participant at three consecutive FIFA World Cups: 1994, 1998 and 2002. In the first he (aged 19) played all the matches and minutes, often being partnered by another youngster, Rigobert Song (17), in an eventual group stage exit. He was part of the victorious 2000 and 2002 African Cup of Nations squads.
After the 2002 World Cup, Kalla announced to retire from the national team due to conflicts with the Federation structure, which he accused of poor organization, but eventually changed his mind.
Initially summoned for the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations, Kalla was forced to withdraw due to injury, and retired for the second and definitive time.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Douala
Cameroonian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Canon Yaoundé players
Union Douala players
Super League Greece players
Panachaiki F.C. players
La Liga players
Segunda División players
CF Extremadura footballers
Bundesliga players
VfL Bochum players
Süper Lig players
Sivasspor footballers
Cameroon men's international footballers
1994 FIFA World Cup players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
2001 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2002 FIFA World Cup players
1998 African Cup of Nations players
2000 African Cup of Nations players
2002 African Cup of Nations players
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
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Stephen "The Fight Professor" Quadros (born November 9, 1952, in Santa Cruz, California, United States) is an American broadcaster, specializing in play-by-play and color commentary, as well as interviews for the combat sports genre on cable, pay-per-view and DVD. His resume encompasses over 100 international mixed martial arts events since 1997.
A long time martial arts practitioner and devotee, Quadros was the original host and play-by-play commentator for the PRIDE Fighting Championships alongside Bas Rutten (iN Demand PPV, Fox Sports Net, DVD, Japan) and has done play-by-play and color commentary for events such as the International Fight League (Fox Sports Net, USA), Cage Rage (SKY Sports, DVD, England), Hardcore Championship Fighting (BELL ExpressVU, DVD, Canada), World Extreme Cagefighting (HDNet, DVD, USA), K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 (ESPN, DVD, Japan), Rumble on the Rock (iN Demand PPV, USA), Too Hot To Handle (DVD, Netherlands), Kuwait Shidokan Jitsu Warriors War 1 (DVD, Kuwait), APEX Championship Fighting (TSN, DVD, Canada) and King of the Cage (DVD, USA).
From 2007 to 2011, Stephen worked for Showtime Sports (premium cable, USA) where he called the action for Strikeforce, Strikeforce Challengers, as well as ShoXC and EliteXC.
Quadros was reunited with his PRIDE broadcasting partner Bas Rutten as part of the UFC Undisputed 3 video game (PlayStation, Xbox). When the game is played in "PRIDE Mode", Quadros and Rutten provide the commentary duties.
Additionally Quadros was the host, along with San Diego sports radio personality Jeff Dotseth, of Clinch Gear Radio, a mixed martial arts (MMA) related program, that was broadcast weekly on Sirius XM (2010–2012). Clinch Gear Radio was also the voice of mixed martial arts for AFN, American Forces Network.
He was also the host for the 2005 and 2006 Black Belt Hall of Fame Awards at Universal Studios.
Working alongside his longtime Showtime cohort Mauro Ranallo, Quadros served as an analyst-color commentator and interviewer for GLORY World Series on CBS Sports Network, Spike TV, ESPN 2 (2012-2015). GLORY showcased the talents of the world's greatest kickboxers, such as four time K-1 World Grand Prix champion Semmy Schilt, three time K-1 World Grand Prix champion Peter Aerts, three time K-1 World Grand Prix champion Remy Bonjasky and two time K-1 World MAX champion Giorgio Petrosyan.
Quadros also called the action on ShinZo: Fight Sport in Guatemala City, Guatemala with UFC Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar.
On August 1, 2014, Quadros was inducted into the Masters Hall of Fame for "Outstanding Contributions To The Martial Arts". The award ceremony was held in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Long Beach International Karate Championships, Ed Parker's tournament that previously showcased Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Joe Lewis, Mike Stone, Benny Urquidez, Bill Wallace and many more. Then on November 16, 2014, Quadros was inducted into the Legends of MMA Hall of Fame along with Art Davie, Big John McCarthy, Pat Miletich, Fedor Emelianenko and Rickson Gracie.
After working practically non-stop for 15 years as a broadcaster-fight commentator, Quadros is very enthusiastic about resuming his acting career in Southern California. He has studied acting with William Alderson, Stella Adler, Milton Justice, Mark Haining (of Peggy Feury's "Loft" studio), Arthur Mendoza, Scott Bernstein's Comedy Plus and Michelle Danner (Larry Moss Studio).
Music
Quadros was the drummer for SNOW (1978–1981), a heavy metal band that included Quiet Riot guitarist Carlos Cavazo. SNOW opened for Iron Butterfly, Quiet Riot and Johnny Winter and headlined musical venues such as The Troubadour, The Starwood, Whisky a Go Go, Pasadena Civic Auditorium and Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The group independently released its only record in 1980, which included popular SNOW songs "Crack The Whip" and "No Way To Treat A Lady", and received airplay on Southern California radio stations KROQ and KLOS.
Upon the departure of drummer Peter Criss, Gene Simmons spotted Quadros, while he was still a member of SNOW, in "Carmine Appice's 1st Annual Drum-off" video and invited him to audition for KISS, though Quadros did not land the position.
Quadros also drummed for the Los Angeles-based rock bands Orange (1976–1977) and Dangerface (1982–1983).
In 2004, Quadros appeared as a founding member of Sacred Cowboys, performing with the group at Los Angeles-area clubs such as the Knitting Factory, House of Blues (Hollywood) and the Cat Club. Fronted by W. Earl Brown of the HBO series Deadwood, Sacred Cowboys’ single, "Gear Grinding Daddy", is featured on the soundtrack of Dunsmore, an independent film in which Brown starred.
Quadros is also a member of 7th Sun, along with JT Curtis (lead guitar, vocals), Adam Kury (bass, vocals) and Mike Russeck (keyboards, vocals), who released their debut album "From The Beginning" in 2008 (iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody). Quadros, Curtis and Kury also compose the trio that is Whipped Cream, a Los Angeles-based Cream tribute band.
Quadros and the Cavazo brothers, Carlos and Tony, have reformed SNOW, along with vocalist Andrew Freeman. The group played its first live gig in over three decades at The Key Club on the Sunset Strip on December 10, 2011.
Film and television
When tendonitis interrupted Quadros’ musical career in the early 1980s, he transitioned into acting, broadcasting and journalism.
Quadros has either starred, guest-starred or co-starred in more than 75 films and TV shows since 1988. His on-screen credits include Dr Caligari (1989), "Never Back Down: No Surrender" (2016) which was directed by action star Michael Jai White; "Demon Wind" (1990) as Chuck, The Kung Fu Magician; Cradle 2 the Grave (Jet Li, DMX) (2003); The Last Run (2004); Sworn to Justice (Cynthia Rothrock) (1996); CSI: Miami; Numb3rs; Without A Trace; Pacific Blue; Murder, She Wrote; and Walker, Texas Ranger (versus Chuck Norris). Quadros also played "Angel Martin" alongside Traci Lords in the (1991) movie Shock 'Em Dead. He was in CIA Code Name: Alexa (1993) as Max Mahler, where he went toe-to-toe in a fight scene with O. J. Simpson.
Combining his theatrical training with an extensive martial arts background in Tae Kwon Do, Shotokan, WingTsun, boxing, kickboxing and submission grappling, Quadros also became a Hollywood fight choreographer. He served as fight coordinator for The Perfect Sleep (2006) and Skeleton Man (2004); fight technical advisor for Cradle 2 the Grave and Exit Wounds (Steven Seagal) (2001); and fight choreographer and 2nd unit director for Pit Fighter (2005).
Journalism
Quadros contributed to Bas Rutten's Big Books of Combat and to UFC's Ultimate Warriors: The Top Ten and The Ultimate Martial Arts Q&A Book. He also served as a judge for the Ultimate Fighting Championship 8.
Stephen was the founding editor of Black Belt Presents: FIGHTSPORT with Stephen Quadros (2001–2002), a full-color glossy magazine with newsstand distribution published by Black Belt Magazine. Prior to that, Quadros was a contributing editor/columnist for Black Belt (1998–2001) and Fighters Only (2005–2006), editor-in-chief of Kickboxing Ring Report (1993–1998) and was published in popular combat sport publications such as Inside Kung Fu, Karate/Kung Fu Illustrated, Grappling Magazine and Full Contact Fighter.
Quadros was the host of the eponymously titled Stephen Quadros Show on the Sherdog Radio Network, which debuted on June 12, 2007. It was a weekly, one-hour program that aired live on Tuesdays at 12:00 PM PST, featuring commentary by Quadros and co-host Aaron Crecy, listener calls and interviews. The show featured live segments with mixed martial arts stars such as Dan Henderson, Randy Couture, Quinton Jackson, Renzo Gracie, Frank Shamrock, Ken Shamrock, Bas Rutten, B.J. Penn, Rashad Evans, Matt Lindland, Matt Serra, Ian Freeman and Don Frye. Quadros left Sherdog Radio Network in 2008, citing his schedule could no longer accommodate it.
During Quadros' career as a broadcaster, he has been known for his creative descriptions of fighters and fights, occasionally giving nicknames, or coining terms or phrases. Case is point is "lay and pray," a frequently used mixed martial arts (MMA) term coined by Quadros during the televised broadcast of the PRIDE Fighting Championships event titled "Cold Fury", which was held at the Saitama Super Arena in Japan on December 9, 2000.
The phrase (‘lay and pray’) refers to a situation where a wrestler or grappler keeps another fighter, who is perceived to have the better striking skills, pinned or controlled on the mat to avoid a stand up, boxing, kickboxing or Muay Thai style fight, yet exhibiting little or no urgency to finish the grounded opponent with a knockout or a submission. The inference is that the wrestler/grappler takes the striker down, lies on him to neutralize the opponent's striking weapons, and prays that they don't return to the standing position.
At the PRIDE "Cold Fury" show in 2000, in the 7th fight of the evening, former Japan national Greco-Roman wrestling champion Kazuyuki Fujita faced Dutch Muay Thai stylist Gilbert Yvel, in a classic wrestler versus striker mixed martial arts (MMA) matchup. The result a relatively slow-paced fight that ended in a decision, where Fujita took Yvel to the floor repeatedly and mostly just held him in the downed position, which lead PRIDE play-by-play announcer Stephen Quadros to utter the following passage in the final round during the broadcast:
"There’s ground and pound, that’s when a wrestler, primarily, is on top and throws punches downward. But there’s also Bas (Rutten, Quadros's PRIDE broadcasting partner), can I coin a phrase tonight? Can you call it ‘lay and pray’ that they don’t stand up?"
References
External links
Stephen Quadros Home Page
1952 births
American color commentators
Kickboxing commentators
Living people
Mixed martial arts broadcasters
People from Santa Cruz, California
Pride Fighting Championships
Strikeforce (mixed martial arts)
Television personalities from California
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Lucas Scott "Luke" Woolmer (born 25 January 1965) is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1995 to 1998, representing the electorate of Springwood.
Early career
Prior to 1995 Springwood was held by Molly Robson of the Labor Party, who held the seat in the 1992 election with a majority of 10%. Woolmer, who worked in the Information Technology sector prior to running for parliament, entered the election on the tail of the so-called "koala tollway" controversy, in which the Labor government had planned to build a tollway through a koala sanctuary. Woolmer won the election by 18.5%, having received a swing of 19.4% on the back of the preferences from the minor parties.
Parliament
While in parliament Woolmer served as an undersecretary with a focus on IT issues. He helped to establish the government's Ministerial Council for IT & T, and he had hoped to become the state's first IT minister after the 1998 election. This, however, was not to be, as a swing back to Labor saw Woolmer lose his seat to Labor's Grant Musgrove by a narrow margin.
Later years
After his 1998 loss, Woolmer ran unsuccessfully for pre-selection in the Federal seat of McPherson, before returning to work in the IT sector.
References
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland
1965 births
Living people
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
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Keren may refer to:
Places
Inhabited places
Keren, Eritrea, a city in Eritrea, formerly called Cheren
Keren Subregion, Anseba region, Eritrea
Other places
House of Keren, a historical house in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia
Keren, a crater on Mars
Other uses
Battle of Keren, part of the East African Campaign in World War II
Keren (given name)
Keren (kabuki), Kabuki stagecraft
Keren – Vocational Rehabilitation Centers in Israel, an Israeli public trust organization dedicated to vocational rehabilitation
Keren-happuch, the youngest daughter of Job (biblical figure)
Keren, a composition for solo trombone by Greek composer Iannis Xenakis
Keren Kayemet, or the Jewish National Fund
See also
Kerens (disambiguation)
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Maturation is the process of becoming mature; the emergence of individual and behavioral characteristics through growth processes over time.
Maturation may refer to:
Science
Developmental psychology
Foetal development
Maturity (geology), in petroleum geology
Maturation, as a threat to internal validity of an experiment
Tissue maturation, an aspect of developmental biology
The final stages of cellular differentiation of cells, tissues, or organs
See also
Expiration (disambiguation)
Maturity (disambiguation)
Mature (disambiguation)
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Kidder may refer to:
Places
In the United States:
Kidder, Kentucky
Kidder, Missouri
Kidder, South Dakota
Kidder Township, Pennsylvania
Kidder Mountain, a summit in New Hampshire
Other uses
Kidder (surname)
USS Kidder (DD-319), United States Navy destroyer
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Jouan Patrice Abanda Etong (born 3 August 1978) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a central defender.
He played for Apollon Kalamarias in Greece and Sparta Prague in the Czech Republic.
He played for Cameroon and participated at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and the 2000 Summer Olympics where Cameroon won the gold medal.
External links
Profile at weltfussball.de
1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Yaoundé
Men's association football central defenders
Czech First League players
AC Sparta Prague players
PAOK FC players
Apollon Pontou F.C. players
1. FK Drnovice players
FK Teplice players
KF Besa Kavajë players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
Cameroon men's international footballers
Cameroonian expatriate men's footballers
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Cameroonian men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Albania
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers for Cameroon
Olympic gold medalists for Cameroon
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Albania
Olympic medalists in football
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Kategoria Superiore players
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First Eastern Counties is a bus operator providing services in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern England. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup.
It has seven depots which are part of five operating areas spread out across East Anglia. The five operating areas are Norwich, Ipswich, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and King's Lynn.
History
In July 1931 the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company was formed. It was a combination of the four existing bus companies in East Anglia. Eastern Counties Road Car Company of Ipswich, Ortona Motor Company of Cambridge and Peterborough Electric Traction Company all owned by Tilling & British Automobile Traction and United Automobile Services' East Anglia services and commenced with 534 buses.
Upon completion the major shareholders were United Automobile Services (43%), Tilling & British Automobile Traction (28%), London & North Eastern Railway (24%) and London Midland & Scottish Railway (3%). Also included was the Eastern Coach Works in Lowestoft. By the end of the 1930s the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company purchased another 50 operators.
In September 1942 Tilling & British Automobile Traction was placed in administration and its Eastern Counties Omnibus Company shareholding transferred to Tilling Group. In November 1948 it was nationalised and placed under the control of the British Transport Commission and in January 1969 became part of the National Bus Company.
In preparation for bus deregulation, in September 1984 the company's operations in Cambridgeshire were transferred to a separate company, Cambus Limited. The company's coaching operations were also transferred to Ambassador Travel, Great Yarmouth.
In February 1987 the company was privatised in a management buyout. In July 1994 it was sold to the GRT Group who in June 1995 merged with Badgerline to form FirstBus. In September 1996 the Great Yarmouth Transport business was purchased.
In April 2011 the King's Lynn based services were sold to Norfolk Green.
Divisions
First operates out of five main depots. Each division provides services to the area around its depot.
Network Norwich
First Eastern Counties operates services branded as the Network Norwich within the city centre of Norwich and to towns and villages within approximately a radius. Their fleet consists of Volvo B7TL and Dennis Trident 2 double deck buses with Plaxton President bodies, Volvo B9TL double deckers with Wright Eclipse Gemini bodies, some new Wright StreetDecks, Wrightbus Streetlites, and Volvo B7L and Volvo B7RLE single deckers with Wright Eclipse bodywork.
On 23 September 2012, First Norwich relaunched its bus network with new colour branding for its routes. Most buses in the fleet have now been painted in a colour at the front to reflect the line that they work.
On 22 March 2017, First announced that they are to introduce a direct bus service between Norwich and Bungay in Suffolk. The new service will be numbered X41 and will be part of the Charcoal colour line, alongside service 40 to Poringland, which the new service will also call at.
First Great Yarmouth
First Great Yarmouth operates services within the towns of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston as well as dedicated routes to Norwich and Lowestoft (CoastLink). The Great Yarmouth services operate out of the old Blue Bus depot on Caister Road which still retains its original frontage and is a listed building which dates back to the mid 1900s.
The fleet consists of Alexander Dennis Enviro 400s that work the CoastLink services, Volvo B7TL deckers with Plaxton President bodies accompanied by some Alexander ALX400 examples and Wright Eclipse Geminis, both on Volvo's B7TL chassis and the 2008 B9TL versions which work the Coastal Clipper services, The 2009 B9TL version and The 2012 B9TL Versions. Single deckers in the fleet, like Norwich, are Wright StreetLites.
First Great Yarmouth also operates 6 open-top buses. One is a Volvo Eclipse B9TL Gemini 2 painted in the Coastal Clipper Cabriolet livery,3 Semi Open top Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B7TLS in Coastal Clipper Cabriolet livery and a Fully
open Top Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B7TL in Coastal Clipper Cabriolet livery
The Plaxton President-bodied Dennis Trident was scrapped by Ensignbus in 2023
First Lowestoft
First Lowestoft operates services within the town of Lowestoft as well as dedicated routes to Great Yarmouth, Beccles and Norwich. The Lowestoft services operate out of Britain's most easterly bus depot, situated on Gordon Road, just a few hundred meters away from Ness Point.
The double deck fleet consists of Volvo B7TLs with Alexander ALX400 bodies and Volvo B9TLs with Wright Eclipse-Gemini bodywork. The single deck fleet is made up of Dennis Dart SLF Alexander Pointer 2s and Alexander Dennis Enviro200s.
First Ipswich
First Ipswich operates within and around the town of Ipswich to a radius of about . The Ipswich services operate out of one depot situated on Star Lane, just a few minutes walk from the Old cattle market bus station.
Their double deck fleet only consists of Volvo B7TL Alexander ALX400 and Wright StreetDeck due to the height of their garage. Their single deck fleet is slightly more varied though with a couple of Alexander Dennis Enviro200s, Alexander Dennis Enviro300 ,some Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban and some Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse 2. Having operated Ipswich's park & ride service from 2008 until November 2013, in July 2017 First Ipswich resumed operating the service. In 2019, First rebranded their Ipswich operation to 'Ipswich Reds' and introduced a new red livery for Ipswich's services.
Excel
A number of services are operated under the Excel brand, most notably the excel itself between Peterborough, King's Lynn and Norwich and the X1 between Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Prior to July 2014, the excel and X1 operated as a single service straight through from Peterborough to Lowestoft, end-to-end. The excel is operated by King's Lynn outstation - the only service operated by here - whilst Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft depots operate the X1 and related services, branded as CoastLink, all using 2013 Alexander Dennis Enviro400s with older Wright Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B9TLs as spares.
Heritage buses
First Eastern Counties celebrate their heritage with three specially liveried Volvo B7TL and one Volvo B9TL buses. Those at Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft commemorate the former municipal operators in each town, while the one usually based at Ipswich carries the Eastern Counties post-National Bus Company scheme of Post Office Red with orange and cream bands.
Another three vehicles, this time two Volvo B7Ls and a B7RLE on Wright Eclipse bodywork were all painted in variations of the post-National Bus Company scheme. All three of these vehicles operate in Norwich.
Coastlink services
First Eastern Counties currently provide a number of Coastlink branded feeder routes at the eastern end of the main Excel service, operated using the ADL Enviro400s formerly used on the core route. Prior to February 2018, the Excel ran all the way from Peterborough to Lowestoft. Coastlink services replaced the Excel between Norwich and Lowestoft after this time.
The X2 operates between Norwich bus station and Lowestoft bus station, as with the X1; however, it stops more frequently and is routed via Gillingham, Beccles, Worlingham and Carlton Colville rather than via Acle and Great Yarmouth as with the X1. The X2 operates every 30 minutes from Monday to Saturday daytimes. Minor variations of the route of the X2, known as the X21 and X22, operate somewhat more infrequently to serve surrounding villages along the route of the X2, including North Cove and Whitton; the X21 three journeys in the morning peak and five in the evening peak, while the X22 runs every hour from Monday to Saturday daytimes.
The X11 operates as a variation of the X1, shadowing the route of the X1 between Norwich and Gorleston-on-Sea via Great Yarmouth, before diverging at James Paget University Hospital to serve and terminate in Belton rather than continuing onwards to Lowestoft. The X11 operates every 30 minutes from Monday to Saturday daytimes.
References
External links
Company website
Bus operators in Norfolk
Bus operators in Suffolk
FirstGroup bus operators in England
Former nationalised industries of the United Kingdom
Transport companies established in 1931
1931 establishments in England
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Mark Aiston is an Australian sports journalist and sports presenter.
He was previously a sport presenter on Ten Eyewitness News and breakfast radio presenter on Mix 102.3 and 1395 FIVEaa.
Career
Aiston began his career in 1982 as a race announcer for 5DN before becoming sports host for ABC News in Adelaide. He joined Network Ten in 1996 as chief Australian rules football reporter, before being made sports presenter in late 1997. He has also worked for FIVEaa, and SEN 1116 (SEN 1323 in Adelaide).
Aiston has covered many sporting events at Network Ten, including: Sydney to Hobart, AFL, Melbourne Cup, Bathurst 1000, Indy Car, Moto GP, the Australian Grand Prix, the Adelaide 500, World Netball Championships and Australia Day celebrations.
In May 2014, Aiston resigned from Network Ten due to stress.
Aiston also plays a Kayfabe, National Wrestling Alliance liaison officer, at professional wrestling shows promoted by Zero1 Pro Wrestling Australia.
References
External links
Media Insider: Aiston's Website
Aiston's Blog
10 News First presenters
Living people
Mass media people from Adelaide
Australian sports journalists
Journalists from South Australia
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Goran Sankovič (18 June 1979 – 4 June 2022) was a Slovenian professional footballer who played as a defender for Slovenian team Celje, Czech team Slavia Prague, and Greek teams Akratitos and Panionios.
Career
Sankovič made 21 appearances for Slavia Prague in the Czech Republic. He joined Greek Superleague side Panionios in July 2003.
He played five full internationals for Slovenia, and was a member of the Slovenia squad at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, but was an unused substitute.
References
External links
Goran Sankovič at NZS
1979 births
2022 deaths
Slovenian people of Croatian descent
Footballers from Celje
Slovenian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Slovenia men's international footballers
Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers
Slovenia men's youth international footballers
2002 FIFA World Cup players
NK Celje players
SK Slavia Prague players
A.P.O. Akratitos Ano Liosia players
Panionios F.C. players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Czech First League players
Super League Greece players
Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
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Samuel Chandanappally (13 May 1940 – 3 July 2000), who was born C. D. Samuel, was an Indian writer, college professor and orator.
In his lifetime, he wrote around 30 books in Malayalam. His book titled Malankara Sabha Pithakkanmar, contains the study about the writings of the holy fathers of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church community and is considered a reference text.
Dr. Samuel Chandanappally collected most of the writings of Saint Gregorios of Parumala after a long period of research and published them with the title Holy writings (Pavithra Rachanakal) in 1980.
External links
Distinct Faith and Unique Visions of St. Gregorios of Parumala
Articles remembering Dr. Samuel Chandanappally
1940 births
2000 deaths
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church Christians
Malayalam-language writers
People from Pathanamthitta district
20th-century Oriental Orthodox Christians
Writers from Kerala
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Rugby union in Fiji is a popular team sport and is considered to be the national sport of the country. The sport was introduced to Fiji in the 1880s. Fiji is defined as a tier two rugby nation by World Rugby. The national team has competed at the Rugby World Cup and made it as far as the quarter-finals. Their sevens team is also noted for their success, winning multiple Olympic gold medals, World Rugby Sevens Series and Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Governing body
Fiji Rugby Union (FRU) is the governing body for the sport. It was founded in 1913, and joined the IRB in 1987. It is divided into over 30 provincial unions. The Fiji Rugby Union is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA) along with Samoa and Tonga. The FRU was originally established as the Fiji Rugby Football Union, with the change in title coming about in 1963. The FRFU was formed in 1913 as the sport begun to grow. Fiji were awarded 'second tier' status by the International Rugby Board.
By 1976, the union contained 750 clubs.
For a number of years, Fiji rugby suffered from a degree of racial segregation - the Native Rugby Union was formed in 1915, but did not merge with the national union until 1945.
History
Early history
Rugby football was introduced into Fiji in the 1884 if not earlier, by Britons and New Zealanders, and Fijian soldiers of the Native Constabulary at Ba, on Viti Levu. By the early 1890s, the sport had started to draw attention from media outlets, such as newspaper and other print, and the game started to establish itself as a sport in the country.
In its early years, it faced off strong competition from association football, but by 1904, rugby had won out as the stronger code in Fiji, and remains so today.
At the turn of the twentieth century, a lot of the regular players were expatriates, however, by 1904, a domestic club competition had been organised; in the early years, there were racially segregated leagues with whites and native Fijians playing separately.
The first formally organised club, Pacific, was formed in 1913 by New Zealander PJ Sheehan, a tradesman. The idea to form a rugby club came about from Sheehan and his co-workers, most who were New Zealand or Australian expatriates, and had no organised sporting club or competition. The club was founded with around 40 members.
These matches became popular with the locals, as well as the European population in Fiji. Sheehan was approached by a European to consider the formation of a governing body. Thus, the Fiji Rugby Football Union was soon formed. The Cadets club and the United Services club were also established in this period. Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott, the governor of the colony at the time, donated the Escott Shield, with the purpose for competitive club competition. The first championship was won by the Pacific club. During this period, Sheehan arranged for the All Blacks to stop in Fiji on their way home from a tour of California in the United States. A match was organised between the All Blacks and a Fijian representative side. The All Blacks won 67 to 3, with Sheehan, the captain-coach getting the only points for the Fijian representative side.
The Fijian team was made up of Europeans, as were most of the clubs at this point, though by now the locals had taken an enthusiastic interest in the game. Several Fijian locals approached Sheehan and asked him to teach the sport to the locals. Sheehan subsequently organised a match between two sides, all made up of local players. The game was played on a rainy afternoon, that, along with different interpretations of the rules, made the game difficult. By the following year, locals had formulated their own competition, and the clubs Taipou, Tarirere, Hill and Ofisa (police) had been established. Local businessman J Davies presented the Davies Cup for competition in 1915, which was first won by Tarirere. A governing body for the competition was established through the main Rugby union.
On 18 August 1924, the national team played their first ever test, playing Western Samoa. The match was played in Samoa at 7 in the morning, so the Fijians could later continue onto Tonga that same day, as well, so the Samoans could work after the game. Fiji won the match 6 to nil, and continued on to a nine match tour of Tonga. The team actually wore black jerseys, as opposed to their now-traditional white ones. Spectators at their first game praised the visiting Fijians for their speed and agility.
In 1926, two overseas sides visited Fiji, being the Auckland University College and the national team of Tonga. This became the first time that the national side of Fiji would wear their now traditional white jerseys and black shorts. Two years later, a domestic schools competition was started.
The toured Fiji in 1938.
It was in 1939 that Fiji Schools Union was established to govern school rugby. Also that year, Fiji embarked on a tour of New Zealand. The team became famous for becoming the first side to leave New Zealand without losing a match - winning seven and drawing one of their eight fixtures. The Fijians impressed the New Zealand crowds with their unpredictable and free-flowing style of rugby. After their final match against the New Zealand Maori, a newspaper wrote that "Fiji is destined to play a big part in world rugby".
1950s and 60s
Fiji toured New Zealand again in 1951, and were successful with most of their fixtures, winning eight of their games, losing five and drawing twice.
As early as the 1950s, the Fijians toured Australia twice. The 1952 tour was notable for its record crowds in Australia: in the 1952 game at the Sydney Cricket Ground, a crowd of 42,000 turned up to watch. Fiji held the Wallabies to a one-a-piece drawn two-test series.
The Farebrother-Sullivan Trophy, started in 1961 was for competition between Fijian sub-unions.
Fiji returned two years later, achieving the same test series result, and breaking further crowd records. In 1963 the Fiji Rugby Football Union became the Fiji Rugby Union (FRU).
's first tour to Europe came in 1964. and they played and and a variety of local teams. Their first match in Europe was against France in Paris, where they lost 21 to 3. They went on to play another five matches against various French teams. They then played a test against Wales XV at Cardiff Arms Park, where they lost only 28 to 22. Fiji then continued on to play another three Welsh sides.
1970s, 80s and 90s
The Hong Kong Sevens tournament for rugby sevens was introduced in 1976 and the Fiji sevens team won the title in its second year of competition, in 1977. Fiji went on to win in 1978 and again in 1980 as well as the 1984 tournament. Fiji won the tournament another five times during the 1990s making themselves one of the most dominant sevens sides in the world. However, some commentators have blamed Fijians' love of rugby sevens as being to the detriment of the XV-a-side game.
Despite its isolation and small population, Fiji has regularly punched above its weight, and threatened to challenge the "Big Eight" - one of the most recent examples of this was in the 2007 Rugby World Cup. From 1982 through to 1984, Fiji completed a 15 match winning streak. The national side were invited by the International Rugby Football Board to participate in the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 that was to be hosted by Australia and New Zealand. In their first World Cup match, Fiji defeated Argentina 28 to 9 in Hamilton. They were subsequently defeated by the All Blacks, 74 to 13, and Italy, 18 to 15, but they still finished second in their group, which allowed them to go through to the quarter-finals where they lost to France, 16 to 31.
However, they have often been challenged by their South Pacific neighbours, Tonga and Samoa, who are the other two parts of the Pacific Championship. In the 1987 Rugby World Cup, which was invitation only, Tonga and Fiji were invited, with Fiji making it to the quarter-finals where they lost to France, which ended their World Cup campaign. In the 1991 Rugby World Cup, they lost all three of their games, and they did not even qualify for the 1995 tournament. However, the Fiji sevens team won the Rugby World Cup Sevens three years later. Fiji found itself increasingly excluded from the Tri-Nation group - Australia, New Zealand and South Africa - which denied them entry to the Super 12, and hindered development of the game internationally.
Professionalisation was a mixed blessing for the Fijian game. On the one hand, it meant that the Fiji team could call on professional talent, and on the other, it meant a "brawn drain", as players such as Serevi, Rosari, Bale and Vidiri were drawn out of Fiji, and into the leagues of Japan and New Zealand, which diminished the domestic competition.
Fiji qualified for the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales and were grouped in pool C. After strong pool victories over Namibia and Canada, they lost their last game against France. Their pool wins saw them finish second in their pool behind France, and move through to the finals. They lost to England at Twickenham, 45 to 24. Political unrest in Fiji during 2000 forced the FRU to accept the cost of hosting international meets in Samoa, instead of Fiji.
Present day
Fiji qualified for the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia and were grouped in pool B. They lost their opening match to France 61 to 18, won a subsequent close game over the United States 19 to 18, defeated Japan but lost their last pool game to Scotland by two points. They finished third in their pool, which did not take them to the finals.
In the 2007 Rugby World Cup Fiji were grouped in pool B with Australia, Wales, Japan and Canada. In their final group game they beat Wales 38-34 and went through to the next round, sending Wales home.
They were beaten by eventual champions South Africa in the knockout stage.
There are over 600 clubs in Fiji.
Notable players
Some notable Fijian players include -
Waisale Serevi, a mercurial fly-half.
Mesake Rasari, a giant second rower.
Paula Bale
Joeli Vidiri
Two Fijian players were chosen for the President's Overseas XV squad, selected to play England at the anniversary of the English Rugby Football Union:
Jona Qoro
George Barley
Competition
Skipper Cup
This is the top tier domestic competition in Fiji. Involves 8 semi-professional clubs from around Fiji including (Suva, Nadroga, Naitasiri, and Namosi. Another competition that runs parallel to this competition is prestigious Farebrother-Sullivan Trophy, one of Fiji's oldest competition and garners national interest. The Players are picked from this competition for representative honors to the Fiji Warriors and then to higher honors with the Fijian Drua, Fiji's only professional club playing in the Super Rugby as well as being selected for Flying Fijians.
Colonial Cup - defunct
The Colonial Cup was introduced by the Fiji Rugby Union to identify and prepare local players for the international stage. The national side and 'A' team were selected from Colonial Cup players, as well as including overseas players. In 2007 a new team entered the competition leading to six teams in the competition.
Pacific Rugby Cup
The IRB Pacific Rugby Cup started in 2006 and involves representative teams from the three Pacific rugby unions, Fiji along with Samoa and Tonga. Fiji has two sides in the tournament, the Fiji Warriors and the Fiji Barbarians. The aim of the tournament is to improve the quality of rugby in the Pacific Islands.
Representative teams
National
Fiji have competed at seven World Cups since the tournament was first held in 1987. They made the quarter-finals in 1987 and in 1999. Fiji also compete in the Pacific Tri-Nations alongside Samoa and Tonga. Fiji also participate in the IRB Pacific 5 Nations, again with Samoa and Tonga, as well as Japan and the Junior All Blacks. Fiji perform the cibi as part of their pre-match traditional. The Fiji kit is made up of white jerseys with black shorts. Fiji also participate in the Pacific Tri-Nations series between Tonga, Fiji and Samoa which has been played since 1982. The Pacific Nations Cup is a competition which involves Fiji, Samoa, Tonga as ell as the Junior All Blacks and the Japan and Australia A.
National (sevens)
Fiji are one of the most successful sevens nations. They won the Hong Kong Sevens tournament in 1977, and have since won it another eight times. They are also the only side to have won the Rugby World Cup Sevens on two occasions; in 1997 (defeating South Africa in the final) and in 2005 (defeating New Zealand in the final). The World Sevens Series was introduced in 2000, and New Zealand won the first six series in a row. However, at the 2006 event, Fiji put an end to their winning streak, becoming the 2006 World Sevens Series champions. They also won a gold medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016, the first Olympic medal in the country's history, when they defeated Great Britain in the final.
See also
Sport in Fiji
Sukuna Bowl
Colonial Cup
Digicel Cup
Rugby union in Rotuma
References
Bath, Richard (ed.) The Complete Book of Rugby (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 )
Jones, J.R. Encyclopedia of Rugby Union Football (Robert Hale, London, 1976 )
Richards, Huw A Game for Hooligans: The History of Rugby Union (Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 2007, )
External links
Fijirugbyunion.com
Teivovo.com
Fiji on Planet-rugby.com
Fijilive rugby
Fiji times sport
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Some Things Don't Come Easy is the sixth album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.
Track listing
"Some Things Don't Come Easy" (Dan Seals) - 4:22
"If The World Ran Out Of Love Tonight" (Michael Garvin, Blake Mevis, Admiral S. Clay Wilson, Kelly Wilson) - 3:03
"You Can't Dance" (Tim Ryan, Bob Yeomans) - 2:56
"Who's Lonely Now" (John Ford Coley, Seals) - 3:19
"Hold Me" (Coley, Bob Gundry, Simon Waltzer) - 3:32
"We'll Never Have to Say Goodbye Again" (Jeffrey Comanor) - 2:49
"Lovin' Somebody on a Rainy Night" (Dave Loggins) - 3:24
"Beyond the Tears" (Comanor, Gundry) - 3:45
"Calling For You Again" (Coley, Gundry) - 2:44
"Wanting You Desperately" (Seals) - 3:55
"Just the Two of Us" (Coley, Seals) - 2:20
Personnel
Dan Seals – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
John Ford Coley – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Johnny Christopher – acoustic guitar
Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar
Doyle Grisham – steel guitar
Shane Keister – keyboards
Bobby Emmons – organ
Joe Osborn – bass
Jack Williams – bass
Larrie Londin – drums
Farrell Morris – percussion
Gove Scrivenor – autoharp
Cindy Reynolds – harp
Harvey Thompson – saxophone solo
Muscle Shoals Horns – horns
Billy Puett – woodwinds
Bergen White – string arrangements
The Shelly Kurland Strings – strings
Sheri Kramer – backing vocals
Lisa Silver – backing vocals
Diane Tidwell – backing vocals
Vicki Lehning – backing vocals (11)
Production
Producer – Kyle Lehning
Engineers – Kyle Lehning and Marshall Morgan
Assistant Engineer – Tom Knox
Recorded at Studio By The Pond (Hendersonville, TN).
Mixed by Elliot Scheiner at A&R Studios (New York, NY), assisted by Ed Rak.
Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics (Nashville, TN).
Photography – Alan Bergman
Management – Susan Joseph
Charts
References
1978 albums
England Dan & John Ford Coley albums
Albums produced by Kyle Lehning
Big Tree Records albums
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Kings Mountain may refer to:
Places
Kings Mountain (Alaska), a summit in Alaska
Kings Mountain, California, an unincorporated community in San Mateo County
Kings Mountain, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, a city in North Carolina
Kings Pinnacle, a mountain in North Carolina near the city of Kings Mountain
Kings Mountain National Military Park near Blacksburg, South Carolina
Kings Mountain State Park, a state park in South Carolina that is adjacent to the National Military Park
Other uses
Battle of Kings Mountain, a battle of the American Revolutionary War
Kings Mountain Railroad, a former shortline railroad that served South Carolina
Kings Mountain manzanita or Arctostaphylos regismontana, a shrub
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Egon Ferdinand Ranshofen-Wertheimer (September 4, 1894 – December 27, 1957) was a diplomat, journalist and doctor of laws.
Early life
Egon Ferdinand Ranshofen-Wertheimer was born as the son of the Catholic land owner and member of the Upper Austrian parliament Julius Wertheimer in near Braunau am Inn, Austria. His family had Jewish roots, so they fled Austria in 1938 because of the growing threat of the Nazi government. His town of birth, Braunau am Inn, was also the birthplace of Adolf Hitler.
During World War I, he was introduced to Marxist ideology and studied in Vienna, Munich, and Heidelberg after the war. He later developed a more and more pragmatic attitude and became a social democrat. He started to work as an editor in Hamburg and until 1930 as a foreign correspondent for the social-democratic newspaper Forward in London. In this period, he wrote his first book, Portrait of the British Labour Party, which became a bestseller and he made first contact with Leopold Kohr, a young journalist and economist from Salzburg, later author of The Breakdown of Nations.
His book raised the awareness of the British government, which had an important influence on the League of Nations. Therefore, he was able to work as a diplomat and supervisor of the League of Nations for 10 years in Geneva, beginning in 1930.
United States
Because of the deteriorating situation in Europe, he emigrated to the United States, where he worked at American University in Washington, D.C., as a professor. In addition, he was employed as a consultant of the United States State Department and supported the US government in the struggle against Hitler. There, he and his younger colleague Leopold Kohr began to criticize Nazi Germany through media such as The New York Times.
Post-war period
Shortly after the Second World War, Egon Ranshofen began to work as an executive, supervisor, and diplomat for the UN. His book A Great Experiment in International Administration had a substantial influence on the development of the UN.
Ranshofen-Wertheimer and Kohr also lobbied for an independent Austria. That the young second republic of Austria became a member of the UN rather quickly can be attributed to the engagement of Ranshofen-Wertheimer.
Ranshofen-Wertheimer died in New York City and is buried in his family grave in the cemetery of the castle of Ranshofen.
Reception
Braunau Contemporary History Days 16 September 2007, with the title “Peacemakers manual”, focused on the life of Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer.
The Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer Award (ERWA) was founded by the Society for Contemporary History in Braunau am Inn in the beginning of 2007.
Publications
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Victory is not enough. The strategy for a lasting peace. W.W. Norton & Company Publishers W.w. norton, New York,1942.
Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, The International Secretariat - A Great Experiment in International Administration. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington 1945
1894 births
1957 deaths
People from Braunau am Inn
Austrian political scientists
20th-century Austrian historians
Austrian diplomats
International relations scholars
Jewish emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss to the United States
American people of Austrian-Jewish descent
20th-century Austrian journalists
20th-century political scientists
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Martin Ellerby (1957, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England) is an English composer. He was educated at the Royal College of Music, London, where he was taught by Joseph Horovitz.
His catalogue features works for orchestra, chorus, concert band, brass band, ballet and various instrumental ensembles. Performances include the BBC Proms, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and many international festivals. Among his students was Daniel Giorgetti.
Ellerby's 2007 piece Elgar Variations, honoring British composer Sir Edward Elgar, was used as the test piece for the Championship section of the 2013 North American Brass Band Association competition.
Works
Paris Sketches (1994) for wiestra
Elgar Variations (2007) for Brass Band
Sinfonia Aqua (2015) for woodwind orchestra
Terra Australis (2005) for Brass Band
References
External links
Official homepage
1957 births
Living people
20th-century English composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century British male musicians
21st-century classical composers
21st-century British male musicians
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Brass band composers
English classical composers
English male classical composers
People from Worksop
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Vena Sera is the fourth studio album by American rock band Chevelle, released on April 3, 2007, through Epic Records. Many of the tracks on this album were based on material from unreleased songs the band had previously recorded. The term "Vena Sera" is ungrammatical Latin for "vein liquids".
Vena Sera is the first Chevelle album with bassist Dean Bernardini, the brother-in-law of fellow members Pete and Sam Loeffler. It would also be the second and final album produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette, marking the first time Chevelle maintained the same producer for a second record.
The first single, "Well Enough Alone", was released to radio stations on February 13, 2007, but a CD single would not be available until March 6.
The album debuted at number 12 in the United States with sales of approximately 62,000. This was less than their previous album, This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In). On May 28, 2020, it was certified gold with sales of over 500,000 units sold.
Composition
Vena Seras genre has been described as alternative metal and hard rock. The working title for "Saturdays" was "Saturdays of Our Youth".
Reception
According to Blake Solomon of AbsolutePunk, "Vena Sera will not stun anyone with its creative approach to rock or metal or alternative music (depending which song you hear or who you ask). But what the album will do is have you coming back more than a few times to engulf yourself in the heavy riffs and manly baritone of Pete Loeffler." Corey Apar writing for AllMusic called the album "good enough, but too much of it simply sounds like rewrites of songs from the band's past." Blabbermouth.net felt that the album "is a showcase for this band's tight, punchy sound, Peter Loeffler's fluid vocals...even if the tunes don't have the staying power of truly great rock music."
Michael Endelman of Entertainment Weekly stated that the album "begins to bore" because of the band's "reliance on a formula — chugging intro, choppy verses, clouds-parting choruses." Johan Wippsson of Melodic described the album as "[the band's] best album so far with a little cleaner and more varied sound." According to Vince Neilstein of MetalSucks, "There are a couple of solid tunes here, but... [the] album... mostly blends together from song to song." Sputnikmusic felt that the album was "[a] significant step in the right direction" and praised the addition of Dean Bernardini on bass, stating that "[he] breathes an astonishing amount of life into...the rhythm section."
Track listing
Personnel
Pete Loeffler – guitars, vocals
Sam Loeffler – drums
Dean Bernardini – bass, drums
Michael "Elvis" Baskette – producer, mixing
Ted Jensen – mastering
Dave Holdredge – engineer
Jef Moll – digital editing and programmingBonus tracks'
Jef Moll – coproducer, engineer, editor, and mixer
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
References
2007 albums
Albums produced by Michael Baskette
Chevelle (band) albums
Epic Records albums
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Tom Egeland (born 8 July 1959 in Oslo) is a Norwegian author. His great-grandfather was Jon Flatabø from Kvam in Hardanger, one of the pioneer authors of popular literature in Norway. Egeland's novels are published in Norwegian and translated into 25 languages. His most famous novel is Sirkelens ende (Circle's End), published in English with the title Relic, which deals with several of the same topics as The Da Vinci Code. Egeland's book was published in 2001, two years before The Da Vinci Code.
European readers and critics quickly noted some striking similarities between the Da Vinci Code and Circle's End. Like The Da Vinci Code, Circle's End involves an ancient mystery and a worldwide conspiracy, the discovery that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and an albino as one of the main characters. In both novels, the main female character is revealed to be the last living descendant of Christ and Mary Magdalene, and the daughter/granddaughter of the last grandmaster of a secret order.
Many European readers have speculated that Dan Brown had plagiarized Tom Egeland's book. Since the Norwegian novel had not yet been translated into English when The Da Vinci Code was first published, it is generally assumed now that the similarities between the two books, although striking, are coincidental.
The author himself, Tom Egeland, has been in numerous interviews in European media, and on his own website, dismissed the claim of Brown's novel plagiarizing his own novel, stating that the similarities just show that he and Brown more or less have done the same research and found the same sources.
Egeland's novel Guardians of the Covenant has been translated into 17 languages. Both Guardians of the Covenant and the 2001 bestseller Relic have been acquired by the British publishing house John Murray.
The thriller Night of the Wolf (2005) - about Chechen terrorists taking control of a live television debate show - as also been made into a feature-length movie and a television mini-series. Egeland wrote the script himself.
In 2007 Tom Egeland published two books: The Girl in the Mirror (for young adults) and Guardians of the Covenant, a thriller with the same main character as Relic: The albino archaeologist Bjørn Beltø.
Egeland's thriller The Gospel Of Lucifer was published in Norwegian in May 2009 and has been translated into 12 languages. The novel was awarded the Norwegian Riverton Prize for best crime novel 2009.
According to IMDB, he was an extra in The Empire Strikes Back, portraying one of the rebel soldiers fighting in the Battle of Hoth.
During the autumn of 2016, Egeland became the topic of controversy after he was banned by Facebook for publishing the famous war photograph of "the Napalm girl" Phan Thị Kim Phúc on his personal Facebook page. Facebook eventually reconsidered its opinion concerning this picture and republished it, recognizing "the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time".
Egeland has been president of the Norwegian Crime Writers' Association (Rivertonklubben) since 2015 and has been a board member of the Norwegian Authors' Union (Den norske Forfatterforening) since 2010. He is a book critic for the Norwegian newspaper VG (Verdens Gang).
Bibliography
Stien mot fortiden (Path To The Past) (1988)
Skyggelandet (Shadowland) (1993)
Trollspeilet (Troll-Mirror) (1997)
Sirkelens ende (Circle's End) (2001) Translated to English as Relic.
Åndebrettet (Ouija Board) (2004)
Ulvenatten (Wolf's Night) (2005)
Piken i speilet (Girl In Mirror) (2007) A children's book.
Paktens voktere (Covenant's Guardians) (2007)
Lucifers Evangelium (Lucifer's Gospel) (2009)
Fedrenes løgner (The Fathers' Lies) (2010)
Nostradamus' testamente (Nostradamus's Testament) (2012)
Katakombens hemmelighet (Catacomb's Secret) (2013) Young adult.
Den 13. disippel (The 13th Disciple) (2014)
Skatten fra Miklagard (Treasure From Miklagard) (2014) Young adult.
Mumiens mysterium (Mummy's Mystery) (2015) Young adult.
Den store spøkelsesboka (Great Ghost-Book) (2015) A children's book.
Djevelmasken (Devil's Mask) (2016)
Lasaruseffekten (The Lazarus Effect) (2017)
Codex (Codex) (2018)
Falken (Falcon) (2019)
Kongen (The King) (2020)
Awards and honors
2009 – Riverton Prize for "Lucifer's Gospel"
2013 – ARK Children's Book Prize for "The Secret of the Catacombs"
2016 – Norwegian Language Society's Literature Prize for "The Devil's Mask"
References
External links
Official Tom Egeland Site
Tom Egeland at Aschehoug Agency
Tom Egeland at Aschehoug
1959 births
Living people
Norwegian crime fiction writers
Writers from Oslo
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Abderrahim Ouakili (; born 12 December 1970) is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played for several German teams, including 1. FSV Mainz 05, TSV 1860 Munich, Tennis Borussia Berlin and Karlsruher SC while also having a spell with Skoda Xanthi F.C. in the Greek Super League.
He played for Morocco national football team and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
References
External links
1970 births
Living people
Moroccan men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Rabat
Morocco men's international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
1998 African Cup of Nations players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Super League Greece players
TGM SV Jügesheim players
1. FSV Mainz 05 players
TSV 1860 Munich players
Tennis Borussia Berlin players
Xanthi F.C. players
Karlsruher SC players
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Moroccan expatriate men's footballers
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Greece
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Synchronistic Wanderings is a compilation album by American rock singer Pat Benatar. Spanning three discs, it is a box set chronicling her career from 1979 to 1999—twenty years. Included are soundtrack contributions, b-sides, studio outtakes, previously unreleased songs, and rarities, as well as well-known singles—overall, it adds up to fifty-three tracks total. The accompanying booklet chronicles her career, discussing her ups and downs and giving additional commentary and background on most of the included songs from Benatar and husband Neil Giraldo.
Among the previously unreleased tracks are a cover of Roy Orbison's "Crying", a demo of "Love Is a Battlefield", a live version of "I Need a Lover", part 1 of "Rise" (from her 1993 album Gravity's Rainbow), a live performance of "Run Between the Raindrops" (from Seven the Hard Way), and a remix of "Every Time I Fall Back" (also from Gravity's Rainbow).
Track listing
Personnel
Evren Göknar - Mastering Engineer
David Tedds - Catalog Producer
References
External links
[ Pat Benatar on Billboard.com]
Official Site
1999 compilation albums
Pat Benatar albums
Chrysalis Records compilation albums
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Ian Holbourn (5 November 1872 – 14 September 1935), born John Bernard Stoughton Holbourn, was laird of Foula, a professor and lecturer for the University of Oxford, and a writer.
Education and career
Holbourn was educated at the Slade School of Art and Merton College at Oxford. As a young man he became fond of the remote Scottish island of Foula, which he succeeded in purchasing around 1900, thus becoming its laird.
He was a co-founder of Ruskin College, and served on the college's correspondence and examining staff for many years. He was also appointed professor of the University of California art and architecture extension program, and was instrumental to the expansion of the art department of Carleton College in Minnesota, where he served part-time as a professor of art and archaeology.
RMS Lusitania
Holbourn was a second-class passenger on the RMS Lusitania on her last voyage in May 1915. During the voyage, Holbourn befriended 12-year-old Avis Dolphin, who was being escorted to school and family in England by two nurses, Hilda Ellis and Sarah Smith.
With his insights into the largely hushed-up events surrounding the wreck of the RMS Oceanic off Foula, Professor Holbourn was aware of the imminent dangers presented to ocean liners during the First World War, and as a passenger on Lusitania was prepared to face the worst. Holbourn attempted to insist that Captain William Thomas Turner should take the precautions of ordering lifeboat drills and instructing passengers on how to wear lifejackets. His efforts to stimulate safety awareness during a time of war were unwelcome, and he was asked to keep quiet. When the ship was torpedoed, Holbourn guided Avis Dolphin and her nurses to his cabin where he fitted them with life belts, even offering up his own; he then steered them through the tilting passageways to the decks above and into a lifeboat. This lifeboat capsized while being lowered into the water. Nevertheless, Avis was saved, though her nurses were not.
Holbourn himself dived into the ocean to find himself surrounded by a mass of bodies and wreckage. His hope of reaching the nearest boat was interrupted when he stopped to help a man who was floating helplessly nearby. By the time Holbourn found his way to a boat, the man he had pulled along with him was dead.
Holbourn was picked up by the fishing boat Wanderer of Peel and later transferred to the Stormcock. He was one of over 750 rescued from the Lusitania to arrive at Queenstown in Ireland that night.
Writings
Holbourn continued to write and remained lifelong friends with Avis Dolphin. One of his books, The Child of the Moat (1916), was written for Avis because she had complained that books for girls were uninteresting.
On most of his written works, Holbourn is identified as Ian Bernard Stoughton Holbourn. His published works include:
Jacopo Robusti, Called Tintoretto. (1903,). London: G. Bell.
Children of Fancy (Poems). (1915). New York: G. Arnold Shaw.
The Need for Art in Life. (1915). Haldeman-Julius Company.
The Child of the Moat, A Story for Girls, 1557 A.D. (1916).
The Isle of Foula. (Edited by Mrs. Marion Constance Archer-Shepherd Stoughton Holbourn). (1938). Johnson and Greig.
An Introduction to the Architectures of European Religions (1909).
Personal life
He was married to Marion Constance Archer-Shepherd, and together they had three sons.
References
Sources
External links
Finding Aid: Ian S. Holbourn Lectures, circa 1920-circa 1930, Carleton College Archives
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Oxford
British writers
Carleton College faculty
Foula
1872 births
1935 deaths
Shipwreck survivors
Lairds of Foula
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A World XV is a rugby union team organised on an unofficial, ad hoc basis and typically composed of invited players from various countries. Several World XVs have been arranged by various bodies, often to take part in celebration and testimonial games, usually against national teams, but these are not considered test matches by most nations.
Examples
Argentina
In 1980 and 1983, Argentina played World XVs. The first match was played at Ferrocarril Oeste Stadium, Buenos Aires. Argentina went into half time ahead by 16 points to nil and despite an excellent display in the second half by the World XV Argentina were able to secure a 36–22 win. The second match was played in Atlanta Stadium, Buenos Aires, where Argentina secured a second victory 28–20.
Australia
In March 2019, a World XV captained by Andrew Ellis and coached by Robbie Deans played the Western Force, who won 26–16 as the opener of the 2019 Global Rapid Rugby season in HBF Park, Perth.
New Zealand
In 1992, the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, played three matches against a World XV in New Zealand, to mark the centenary of the New Zealand Rugby Union. The first encounter ended in a 24–14 win for the World XV. New Zealand won the second match 54–26, and the third match 26–15.
South Africa
South Africa first played a World XV in Pretoria on 27 August 1977, to celebrate the opening of the Loftus Versfeld stadium. The World side included Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, Willie John McBride, and Sandy Carmichael. A crowd of 65,000 watched as Morné du Plessis' South Africans led by 22–14 at half-time to eventually defeat the World XV by 45–24. During the match Argentinian flyhalf Hugo Porta came on as a replacement. Flank Theuns Stofberg added two tries to one each by Gerrie Germishuys, Hermanus Potgieter, Dawie Snyman, and Barry Wolmarans (on debut) for the Springboks. Four days later, the World XV played Western Province at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town. This time Porta started alongside Williams, McBride, and Carmichael, with Alan Sutherland facing off against Du Plessis. At 3.30pm coloured player Errol Tobias, representing the South African Federation, was on the reserve bench for the World XV, as he had been for the 2pm match between a Presidents' XV and Western Province B.
In 1989 a World XV, sanctioned by the IRB and funded by South African Breweries, played two tests against South Africa in celebration of the centenary of the South African Rugby Board (SARB). The Springboks won both, by 20–19 at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town and the second by 22–16 on 2 September at Ellis Park in Johannesburg.
In May and June 2006 a World XV, sponsored by South African company Steinhoff Holdings and coached by Bob Dwyer, played three games – against Saracens in London, then against South Africa at Ellis Park and Western Province XV at Newlands. The latter match was a testimonial for former South Africa captain Corné Krige, who led the Western Province side. In December 2006, again coached by Dwyer, a Steinhoff-backed World XV played a South Africa XV at Walkers Stadium in Leicester, losing 32–7. This game was to mark the centenary of South Africa's overseas tours.
In 2014, a World XV captained by Matt Giteau and coached by Nick Mallett played a South Africa XV, who won 45–24.
Tonga
In 2008, a World XV played a Coronation Tongan XV side, in a game to celebrate the coronation of Tonga's King, [Kev O’Neill]. Tonga won the match 60–26, beating the Colin Charvis-captained side that included players from Australia, England, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa and Wales.
Wales
In 2008, a Wales XV side played a World XV, as a testimonial match for Welsh player Shane Williams. There were 19 tries scored in the match, which was played at the Millennium Stadium, with Williams scoring the match-winning try as Wales won 65–57.
Team details
References
International rugby union teams
Multinational rugby union teams
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Kirwin may refer to:
People
Dominick Kirwin (fl. 1642-1653?), an Irish Confederate
John J. Kirwin (1918–1943), a United States Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient
Places
Kirwin, Kansas, a town in Phillips County, Kansas, in the United States
Kirwin National Wildlife Refuge, a nature conservation area near Kirwin, Kansas, in the United States
Kirwin, Wyoming, a ghost town in Wyoming
Ships
USS Kirwin (DE-229), a United States Navy destroyer escort converted during construction into the high-speed transport USS Kirwin (APD-90)
USS Kirwin (APD-90), a United States Navy high-speed transport (later "amphibious transport, small", LPR-90) in commission from 1945 to 1946 and from 1965 to 1969
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Kiron may refer to:
Kiron, Iowa, small city in Crawford County, Iowa, United States
Kiron Lenses
Kiron, Alberta, a locality in Camrose County, Alberta, Canada
Kiron Skinner (born 1961), American political writer
Old Kiron, Iowa, ghost town, United States
See also
Chiron (disambiguation)
Chyron (disambiguation)
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Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive is the seventh and final studio album by the pop rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley. The single "Love Is the Answer" was an American hit, reaching number ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Two other songs on the album later became country and pop hits for other artists: "Broken Hearted Me" was a success for Anne Murray in 1979, and Michael Martin Murphey scored a hit with "What's Forever For" in 1982.
Track listing
"Hollywood Heckle and Jive" (John Ford Coley, Dan Seals) - 4:05
"What Can I Do With This Broken Heart" (John Ford Coley, Bob Gundry, Dan Seals) - 3:12
"Another Golden Oldie Night For Wendy" (Dennis Linde) - 3:43
"Broken Hearted Me" (Randy Goodrum) - 3:55
"Children of the Half-Light" (John Ford Coley, Bob Gundry) - 3:45
"Rolling Fever" (Dan Seals) - 3:24
"Love Is the Answer" (Todd Rundgren) - 4:41
"Only A Matter of Time" (John Ford Coley, Bob Gundry) - 3:16
"Caught Up In The Middle" (John Ford Coley, Bob Gundry) - 4:06
"Running After You" (Kelly Bulkin, Leslie Bulkin, John Ford Coley) - 3:07
"What's Forever For" (Rafe Van Hoy) - 3:25
Charts
Personnel
Dan Seals – lead vocals, 12 string acoustic guitar (1), backing vocals (8, 10), acoustic guitar (11)
John Ford Coley – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 5, 8, 10), organ (1, 5), acoustic piano (5, 8–11), acoustic guitar (11)
Dan Ferguson – acoustic guitar (1, 3, 5)
Steve Gibson – 12 string electric guitar (1), electric guitar (7, 11)
Steve Lukather – electric guitar (1, 3, 9, 11), arrangements (3), guitar (5, 7)
Lee Ritenour – guitar (2, 7)
Wah Wah Watson – guitar (2)
Richie Zito – guitar (2, 4), electric guitar (8, 9, 11)
Ovid Stevens – guitar (6), electric guitar (10)
Gary Torps – electric guitar (6)
Jai Winding – acoustic piano (1, 3), clavinet (3)
Bill Payne – synthesizer (2)
Greg Phillinganes – acoustic piano (2), electric piano (4, 7)
Michael Boddicker – synthesizer (3)
Steve Porcaro – synthesizer (5, 9)
Shane Keister – electric piano (8, 11)
Joey Carbone – electric piano (9)
Michael Vernacchio – synthesizer (10)
Leland Sklar – bass (1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 11)
Wilton Felder – bass (2, 7)
John Leland – bass (6, 10)
Dee Murray – bass (9)
Jeff Porcaro – drums (1, 4)
Ed Greene – drums (2, 7)
Gary Mallaber – drums (3, 9)
Ralph Humphrey – drums (5, 8, 11)
Danny Gorman – drums (6, 10)
Steve Forman – percussion (2, 7, 9)
Bubba Keith – harmonica
Ernie Watts – soprano saxophone (7), tenor saxophone (9), baritone saxophone (10)
Gene Page – arrangements (2, 7), string arrangements (4)
Bergen White – string arrangements (8)
Kelly Bulkin – backing vocals (1, 5, 8, 10)
Leslie Bulkin – backing vocals (1, 5, 8, 10)
The Jim Gilstrap Singers – choir (7)
Production
Producer – Kyle Lehning
Engineers – Kyle Lehning, Marshall Morgan and Bobby Schaper.
Assistant Engineers – Chris Desmond, Sherry Klein, James Simick and Patrick Von Wiegandt.
Recorded at Davlen Sound Studios (North Hollywood, CA).
Overdubbed at The Pasha Music House and Larrabee Sound Studios (Hollywood, CA); Wally Heider Studios (Los Angeles, CA); Studio By The Pond (Hendersonville, TN); Audio Media (Nashville, TN).
Tracks 1, 2, 3 & 7 mixed by Bill Schnee at Cherokee Studios (Los Angeles, CA), assisted by John Weaver.
Tracks 4, 5, 6 & 8-11 mixed by Elliot Scheiner at A&R Studios (New York, NY), assisted by K.C. Green.
Mastered by Mike Reese at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, CA).
Design and Photography – Norman Seeff
Illustration – Jim Evans
References
1979 albums
England Dan & John Ford Coley albums
Albums produced by Kyle Lehning
Big Tree Records albums
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Abdelilah Saber (; born 21 April 1974) is a Moroccan retired footballer who played as a right back.
Club career
Born in Casablanca, Saber played his first professional years with local Wydad Athletic Club. In January 1997, he began playing in Europe, signing with Sporting Clube de Portugal.
With the Lisbon side, Saber struggled initially, but eventually became first-choice. In January 2000, however, he lost his place to newly arrived César Prates, as the Lions eventually won the national championship, the first in 18 years – he still contributed to the feat with 18 matches.
Saber would play the next four years in Italy, initially being loaned to S.S.C. Napoli, moving to that club alongside Sporting teammates Facundo Quiroga and Luís Vidigal. The move was made permanent at the end of the season, as Napoli relegated from the Serie A, and the player played the remainder of his career in the country in the Serie B – two more years at Naples and one with Torino FC – retiring at only 30.
International career
Saber gained 39 caps for Morocco, the first arriving in 1997. In the following year's FIFA World Cup, he started in all three group stage matches as the national team exited with one win, one loss and one draw.
Coaching career
In the summer 2016, Saber started his coaching career with Botola club Union Aït Melloul, where he was hired as a head coach.
In mid-december 2019, Saber returned to Wydad Casablanca as assistant coach to head coach Zoran Manojlović. After Manojlović was fired on 13 January 2020, Saber took charge of the team as an interim head coach. However, he was replaced on 21 January, and continued as assistant for the new head coach Sébastien Desabre.
International goals
Scores and results list Morocco's goal tally first.
References
External links
1974 births
Living people
Footballers from Casablanca
Moroccan men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Botola players
Wydad AC players
Primeira Liga players
Sporting CP footballers
Serie A players
Serie B players
SSC Napoli players
Torino FC players
Morocco men's international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
1998 African Cup of Nations players
2000 African Cup of Nations players
Moroccan expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Moroccan football managers
Botola managers
Wydad AC managers
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The statue of Margaret Thatcher in the Guildhall, London, is a marble sculpture of Margaret Thatcher. It was commissioned in 1998 from the sculptor Neil Simmons by the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art; paid for by an anonymous donor, it was intended for a plinth among statues of former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in the Members' Lobby of the House of Commons. However, as the House did not permit a statue to be erected there during its subject's lifetime, the work had been temporarily housed in Guildhall. It was unveiled there by Lady Thatcher in February 2002.
Decapitation
On 3 July 2002, theatre producer Paul Kelleher decapitated the statue while it was on display at Guildhall Art Gallery. Having unsuccessfully taken a swing at the statue with a Slazenger V600 cricket bat concealed in his trousers, Kelleher picked up a metal pole from a nearby rope cordon and used it to decapitate the £150,000 statue. After the vandalism he waited to be arrested by the police who arrived minutes later. He joked on capture: "I think it looks better like that."
Following the loss of its head, the statue was removed from display. Although it was estimated that the work could be repaired for about £10,000, statue experts worried that it would never be the same.
At his first trial, Kelleher said in his defence that the attack involved his "artistic expression and my right to interact with this broken world". The jury, despite nearly four hours of deliberation and a direction from the judge that it could decide by majority, failed to agree on whether or not he had "lawful excuse". He was retried in January 2003, found guilty of criminal damage and sentenced to three months in jail.
On 21 February 2007, a new statue of Thatcher was commissioned in 2003 from sculptor Antony Dufort and this time in tougher silicon bronze. It was erected on the reserved plinth in the Members' Lobby. The rule against living subjects had been relaxed by this stage and Thatcher unveiled the statue. By then, the marble statue had been repaired, but it remains in Guildhall. After several years in the Guildhall Art Gallery, the statue was moved to a corridor location elsewhere in the Guildhall building.
In popular culture
"I Did It for Alfie", a song on the 2004 album Un by Chumbawamba that was directly inspired by the incident
References
1998 sculptures
2002 crimes in the United Kingdom
Buildings and structures in the City of London
July 2002 events in the United Kingdom
Marble sculptures in the United Kingdom
Monuments and memorials in London
Monuments and memorials to women
Thatcher, Margaret
Statues in London
London, Guildhall
Vandalized works of art in the United Kingdom
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Carbonel: the King of the Cats is a children's book by Barbara Sleigh published in 1955 by Max Parrish in England and Bobbs-Merrill in the US. It is based on a folk tale from the British Isles "The King of the Cats" has two sequels, The Kingdom of Carbonel (Puffin, 1961) and Carbonel and Calidor: Being the Further Adventures of a Royal Cat (Kestrel Books, 1978), making up the Carbonel series. The first edition of Carbonel was illustrated by V. H. Drummond, and of Kingdom by D. M. Leonard.
Plot summary
A girl named Rosemary buys a broom and a cat from Mrs Cantrip, an untidy woman in the market place. When to Rosemary's surprise the cat starts talking to her, she learns that the woman is a witch, selling her possessions to start a new career.
Moreover, the cat, Carbonel, just happens to be King of the Cats, presumed missing by his subjects since the witch abducted him. Unfortunately, he cannot return to his throne until the enslavement spell Mrs Cantrip cast on him is undone. Rosemary, together with a new friend John, have to learn a little witchcraft themselves before tracking down Mrs Cantrip to obtain her at best ambivalent help.
Main characters
Rosemary Brown – who buys Carbonel
Carbonel – the cat protagonist
Rosemary's mother – a poor widow and seamstress
Mrs Cantrip – kidnapper of Carbonel and a (semi-retired) witch
John – Rosemary's friend, and the nephew of Mrs Brown's employer
Release details
1955, UK, Max Parrish ISBN ?, publication date 1955, paperback (first edition)
1957, UK, Atheneum , publication date January 1957, hardback
1970, UK, Puffin Books , publication date 29 January 1970, paperback
1975, UK, Viking Children's Books , publication date 31 December 1975, hardback
2004, US, New York Review of Books , publication date Nov 2004, hardback
2005, UK, Puffin Books , publication date 25 August 2005
Carbonel (the first book) is currently () in print in hardback in the US as part of the New York Review Children's Collection. The UK paperback was reprinted in August 2005 by Puffin.
References
1955 British novels
1955 fantasy novels
1955 children's books
British children's books
British children's novels
Children's fantasy novels
Children's novels about cats
Novels by Barbara Sleigh
Puffin Books books
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Francesco Barberini may refer to:
Francesco Barberini (d. 1600), uncle of Pope Urban VIII and the subject of the Bust of Francesco Barberini
Francesco Barberini (1597–1679), Cardinal-nephew of Pope Urban VIII from 1623
Francesco Barberini (1662–1738), Cardinal from 1690
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Kistler may refer to:
Places
Kistler, Pennsylvania, a borough in Mifflin County
Kistler Creek, a tributary of Maiden Creek in Berks County, Pennsylvania
Kistler Valley, two locations; Antarctica and Pennsylvania
Kistler Vineyards, in Sonoma Valley, California
Other
Kistler Group, sensors and sensor electronics for measuring pressure, force, torque and acceleration
Kistler Aerospace, former name of Rocketplane Kistler, company attempting to develop fully reusable vehicles
See also
Kistler (surname)
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Dal Bati Churma is the most popular dish in Rajasthani cuisine. It is made of three components of bati, dal, and churma. Dal is lentils, bati is a baked wheat ball, and churma is powdered sweetened cereal. Churma is a popular delicacy usually served with baatis and dal. It is coarsely ground wheat crushed and cooked with ghee and sugar. Traditionally it is made by mashing up wheat flour baatis or left over rotis in ghee and jaggery.
External links
Rajasthan Cuisine
Recipe for Churma Ladoo
Rajasthani cuisine
Legume dishes
gu:દાલ બાટી
hi:दाल बाटी चूरमा
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Talorc son of Aniel was a king of the Picts from 452 to 456.
The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for four or two years between Drest son of Erp and his brother Nechtan.
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
Pictish Chronicle
456 deaths
Pictish monarchs
5th-century Scottish monarchs
6th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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Katydid is the common name for insects of the family Tettigoniidae, including
Pseudophyllinae, a subfamily of Tettigoniidae
Pterophylla camellifolia - a katydid species with the common name of "common true katydid"
Katydid may also refer to:
Katydids (band), an English pop and rock band
USS Katydid (SP-95), a United States navy patrol boat
McDonnell TD2D Katydid, a United States navy target drone
Denison Katydids, a minor league baseball team
A pseudonym used by Kate Slaughter McKinney
See also
Katydid sequence, a number sequence
Katydid Books, a publisher
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Żyrardów County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Żyrardów, which lies south-west of Warsaw. The only other town in the county is Mszczonów, lying south-east of Żyrardów.
The county covers an area of . As of 2019 its total population is 75,787, out of which the population of Żyrardów is 39,896, that of Mszczonów is 6,376, and the rural population is 29,515.
Neighbouring counties
Żyrardów County is bordered by Grodzisk Mazowiecki County to the east, Grójec County to the south-east, Rawa County to the south, Skierniewice County to the west and Sochaczew County to the north-west.
Administrative division
The county is subdivided into five gminas (one urban, one urban-rural and three rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.
References
Land counties of Masovian Voivodeship
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Klemme is a German family name, and may refer to:
People
Dominic Klemme (born 1986), professional road bicycle racer
Göran Klemme (born 1964), darts player
Ralph Klemme, American politician
Randy Klemme, (born 1960), American professional wrestler (1998-2008)
Places
Klemme, Iowa, United States
Klemmes Corner, Indiana, United States
See also
Klem (disambiguation)
Klemm, a surname
German-language surnames
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Francesco Barberini (23 September 1597 – 10 December 1679) was an Italian Catholic Cardinal. The nephew of Pope Urban VIII (reigned 1623–1644), he benefited immensely from the nepotism practiced by his uncle. He was given various roles within the Vatican administration but his personal cultural interests, particularly in literature and the arts, meant that he became a highly significant patron. His secretary was the antiquarian Cassiano dal Pozzo who was also a discerning patron of the arts. Francesco was the elder brother of Cardinal Antonio Barberini and Taddeo Barberini who became Prince of Palestrina.
Career
He was born in Florence to Carlo Barberini and Costanza Magalotti, and studied at the University of Pisa, graduating in canon and civil law in 1623. His uncle, Maffeo Barberini, newly elected as Pope Urban VIII, made him archpriest of S. Giovanni in Laterano, and two months later, cardinal deacon of Sant'Onofrio, which was exchanged the following year for Sant'Agata de' Goti. At the age of twenty six, he was appointed secretary of state and papal legate to Avignon.
In 1625, he went to Paris as special legate and from March to September, undertook various negotiations with Cardinal Richelieu including discussions in advance of the Treaty of Monçon. Overall, the negotiations were not a political success for the papacy but as a ‘sweetener’ he received a gift of six tapestries from King Louis XIII, designed by Peter Paul Rubens. In 1625 he travelled to Spain as papal legate and this mission was also unsuccessful. He returned to Rome the following year. From 1628 he effectively led the foreign diplomacy of the Papal States, showing a clear stance favoring France in the war of succession for the Marquisate of Montferrat and during the Thirty Years' War.
In July 1626 he was appointed Bibliothecarius of the Vatican Library, a position he held until December 1633. In 1632 he was named papal Vice-Chancellor. In 1627 he was named commendatory abbot of Farfa Abbey.
As the Grand Inquisitor of the Roman Inquisition, a post he held from 1633 until his death, he was part of the Inquisition tribunal investigating Galileo; he was one of three members of the tribunal who refused to condemn Galileo.
Hostilities between the papacy and the Farnese Duchy of Parma and Piacenza resulted in the War of Castro in 1641, from which the papacy did not emerge well, and peace was only concluded months before the death of Urban in 1644. Once it had become clear that the Barberini candidate for his successor, Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, was not going to be elected by the papal conclave of 1644, Francesco and Antonio Barberini switched their vote to support Giovanni Battista Pamphili in the hope that he might look more favorably upon them. They were wrong. Pamphili, who took the name of Innocent X (1644–1655) instigated investigation into their handling of the finances in the War of Castro forcing first Antonio to flee to Paris in 1645, to be followed by Francesco and his brother Taddeo Barberini in 1646. Here they remained under the protection of Cardinal Mazarin. Two years later, Francesco was pardoned by the pope who restored confiscated properties to him.
On his return to Rome, Francesco resumed his role as a patron of arts although on a reduced scale. The cardinal refused to meet with Bargrave (despite a number of requests over some 11 months) on the basis that he held letters of introduction addressed to cardinals Capponi and Panciroli but not to him, suggesting Bargrave had met with others first.
In 1666 he became Dean of the College of Cardinals, taking part in the conclaves of 1667, 1669–1670 and 1676. At the 1669 conclave, Barberini opposed the nomination of Cardinal Pietro Vidoni because his opinion about Vidoni's candidacy had not been solicited.
He died in Rome in 10 December 1679.
Patronage
"Barberini's vast income from his many benefices was estimated at 100,000 scudi, allowing him to fully indulge in his collecting passions." He was active as a patron of the arts both as a private patron and within broader spheres. He was a member of several learned and literary associations, including the Accademia dei Lincei. In 1623 he became a member of the Conregazione della Reverenda Fabbrica di San Pietro and was able to secure altarpiece commissions for St Peter’s by artists such as Giovanni Lanfranco, Andrea Sacchi, Pietro da Cortona, Nicolas Poussin, Simon Vouet and Valentin. Privately, he bought several paintings by Poussin during the artist's early years in Rome.
Palazzo Barberini
In 1625, he acquired the Sforza palace on the Quirinal Hill in Rome and a year later gave it to his brother Taddeo. After buying further land around the palace, the architect Carlo Maderno was engaged to transform the site into a much larger and grander palace which became the Palazzo Barberini and effectively the family palace with Taddeo and his family living in one wing and Francesco in the other. Francesco and Urban were on hand to advise on its decoration. An iconographic programme celebrating the Barberini family, devised by the Tuscan poet Francesco Bracciolini for the vast coved vault of the main salone, was carried out by Pietro da Cortona in an exuberant display of illusionism, colour, movement and ornamentation that marked a new departure for secular Baroque interior decoration.
Also at the Palazzo Barberini, Francesco established the Arazzia Barberini or Barberini Tapestry works in 1627 which remained open until 1679, Its production included six tapestries designed by Cortona on the theme of the ‘Story of Constantine’ to complement those the Cardinal had received from the French king in 1625, designed by Rubens. With Cortona busy with the Barberini vault, Francesco began to engage Cortona’s pupil Giovan Francesco Romanelli to carry out other paintings and altarpieces, and also made him Supervisor of the Tapestry works
In February 1634, a revised version of Il Sant'Alessio, was performed at the Cardinal's private theater in the Palazzo. The Cardinal had written the libretto and Stefano Landi the music.
He founded a rich library at the Palazzo Barberini which included ancient Greek and Roman manuscripts, and he supported numerous European intellectuals, scholars, scientists and artists, including Athanasius Kircher, Jean Morin, Gabriel Naudé, Gerhard Johann Vossius, Heinsius and John Milton. Also at the Palazzo Barberini, he initiated a small natural science museum and botanical garden and his collections attested to his interests in ancient sculpture, numismatics and inscriptions. The Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis, sometimes referred to as the Codex Barberini, was named in his honour. The Palazzo Barberini now houses part of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.
Churches
Cardinal Francesco Barberini contributed financially to churches in Rome. As protector of the Academy of Saint Luke, the artists guild in Rome, he dedicated funds for the construction of the Academy's church of Santi Luca e Martina, designed by Cortona. He built the church of San Bonaventura al Palatino, rebuilt San Giacomo alla Lungara and San Salvatore in Campo, restored the church of Santa Maria in Palmis (also called Domine Quo Vadis) and San Sebastiano al Palatino, had the choir of San Lorenzo in Damaso remodelled, and paid for the wooden ceiling of Sant'Agata dei Goti.
In 1627 Cardinal Barberini was named abbot in commendam of Grottaferrata, and subsequently commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to provide the high altar.
Although initially he made funds available for the construction of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane designed by Francesco Borromini, these were not sustained. He also commissioned various monuments for church interiors, including ones to G. Aleandro and B. Guglielmi who had been his teachers, in San Lorenzo fuori le Mura and designed by Cortona.
Episcopal succession
Notes
References
Combaluzier, F. "Sacres épiscopaux à Rome de 1565 à 1662. Analyse intégrale du Ms. «Miscellanea XIII, 33» des Archives Vaticanes" Sacris Eruduri, XVIII (1967–1968), p. 229.
Further reading
Ketty Gottardo, 'Cardinal Francesco Barberini and the Specula Principum Tradition,' Print Quarterly, XXVIII, 2011, pp. 292–97
External links
Francesco Barberini seniore at The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church: a digital resource created and produced by Salvador Miranda
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Hassans International Law Firm Limited is the largest law firm in Gibraltar. It has approximately 90 lawyers and was established in 1939 by Sir Joshua Hassan GBE, KCMG, LVO, GMH, KC. The firm's current senior partner is James Levy CBE KC, nephew of Sir Joshua. Former Hassans' partner Fabian Picardo KC is the current Chief Minister of Gibraltar.
Practice
The firm specialises in Corporate and commercial, financial services, tax, funds, legislative drafting, private client and trust law, property, shipping and company and trust management.
The firm operates out of its head office in Gibraltar and also has an office in Sotogrande, Spain.
Accreditation
Hassans is ranked as Tier 1 by Chambers and Partners legal directory, and is rated as tier 1 in every category by the Legal 500 directory. At present the senior partner is James Levy CBE KC (nephew of the founding partner Sir Joshua Hassan) he was awarded a lifetime achievement award in the Chambers & Partners European Awards 2008.
Independent legal directories have consistently ranked Hassans as a Tier 1 law firm in Gibraltar and say "Gibraltar's largest law firm, receives praise all round for being the country's most highly reputed law firm". In February 2014, The Lawyer magazine ranked Hassans ninth in its annual list of Top 30 offshore law firms, often described as the offshore magic circle.
Offices
Gibraltar
Sotogrande, Spain
List of MPs who worked at Hassans
Line Group
Hassans also has its own Company and Trust Management corporations, Line Trust Corporation Limited and Line Management Services Limited.
References
External links
GibraltarLaw.com (official website)
Chambers and Partners Firm Profile
1939 establishments in Gibraltar
Law of Gibraltar
Law firms established in 1939
Law firms of Gibraltar
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Drest Gurthinmoch was a king of the Picts from 480 to 510.
The Pictish Chronicle king lists all give him a reign of 30 years between Nechtan and Galan. The meaning of the epithet Gurthinmoch is unknown, but the first part may be related to the Welsh gwrdd, meaning great, and perhaps moch in this case correlates with the same word in Welsh which means pig.
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
Pictish Chronicle
510 deaths
Pictish monarchs
6th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
5th-century Scottish monarchs
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Ipa-Nima is a designer fashion brand founded in 1997 by former Hong Kong litigator Christina Yu. It includes accessories and shoes. She moved to Hanoi, Vietnam in 1995 and briefly worked for other designers before launching her own band in 1997.
Among the clients who buy these designer items are Hillary Rodham-Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bai Ling, Yasmin Le Bon, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Maggie Cheung and Faye Wong.
References
External links
Ipa-Nima Boutique website
Clothing brands of Hong Kong
Clothing companies established in 1997
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Manila Water Company, Inc. has the exclusive right to provide water and used water (wastewater) services to over six million people in the East Zone of Metro Manila. It is a subsidiary of the country's oldest conglomerate, Ayala Corporation.
Incorporated on January 6, 1997, Manila Water became a publicly listed company on March 18, 2005. It is the east concessionaire of Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System during its privatization on August 1, 1997, with its counterpart Maynilad Water Services, Inc. as the west concessionaire. The 25-year water concession agreement inked with MWSS was expected to terminate in 2022. In 2009, its concession agreement with the MWSS was extended by another 15 years up to 2037.
History
Manila Water Company, a publicly listed company and a subsidiary of Ayala Corporation, holds the exclusive right to provide water and used water services to over six million people in the Manila Water Concession, particularly the East Zone of Metro Manila and Rizal Province consisting of 23 cities and municipalities.
The National Water Crisis Act enacted by the Philippine government paved the way for government-run Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) to turn over the operation of water utilities in the East Zone concession to Ayala-led Manila Water, and the West Zone of Metro Manila to Maynilad Water Services, Inc. in August 1997. This was brought about by the various water supply problems when only 26 percent of the area's population had access to round-the-clock water supply due to high system losses caused by illegal connections, meter tampering, and leaking pipelines. This Concession Agreement was originally for a period of 25 years, due to expire in 2022. In 2009, it was extended by another 15 years by MWSS and the Philippine government, extending the concession until 2037.
As the agent and concessionaire of MWSS, the Concession Agreement gives Manila Water the right to the use the land and operational fixed assets, and the exclusive right to extract and treat raw water, distribute and sell water, and collect, transport, treat and dispose used water discharged by the sewerage system in the East Zone.
Service area
Since 1997, the Company has been significantly improving its water and used water services by expanding its distribution lines and eliminating system losses in its coverage areas, resulting in increased water availability from 26% in 1997 to 99% of the central distribution system to date.
Manila Water provides water treatment, water distribution, sewerage and sanitation services to over six million people in the East Zone to a broad range of residential, semi-business, commercial, and industrial customers in 23 cities and municipalities :
East Zone of Metro Manila
Makati (Eastern part)
Mandaluyong
Manila (Santa Ana and San Andres area)
Marikina
Pasig
Pateros
Quezon City (Eastern part)
San Juan
Taguig
Rizal
Angono
Antipolo
Baras
Binangonan
Cainta
Cardona
Jalajala
Morong
Pililla
Rodriguez (Montalban)
San Mateo
Tanay
Taytay
Teresa
Manila Concession Water Sources
Manila Water gets its water from Angat Dam at the Angat River in Norzagaray, Bulacan, which is 38 kilometers north of Metro Manila. It is a rockfill dam with a spillway equipped with three gates at a spilling level of 217 meters. Angat Dam supplies 96% of Metro Manila's water needs with a storage capacity of about 850 million cubic meters. Five auxiliary turbines release water from Angat Dam, where it is diverted to the two tunnels going to Ipo Dam.
Ipo Dam is a gravity-concrete dam located about 7.5 kilometers downstream of the Angat Dam in Bulacan. Primarily a diversion dam, its elevation is maintained at 101 meters as it delivers water into tunnels that lead to La Mesa reservoir and Balara Filtration plants through three tunnels leading to three settling basins in Bicti, Norzagaray, Bulacan. Five aqueducts connected to these settling basins will then deliver a maximum of 4,000 million liters of water daily at the Novaliches Portal, which will then be conveyed through three open channels going to the Balara Treatment Plant.
La Mesa Dam is an earth dam located in Novaliches, Quezon City and it serves as a primary sedimentation basin prior to water treatment in the Balara and East La Mesa Treatment Plants. Its maximum level is at 80.15 meters. During dry months, La Mesa Dam may be used as a buffer or reliability dam to provide supply. It can store water that is good for 19 days of Manila Water's supply requirements. Its critical dam level is at 69 meters above sea level.
Manila Water has also begun drawing water from the Laguna Lake, which is treated in and distributed from the Cardona Water Treatment Plant located in Brgy. Del Remedio, Cardona, Rizal. Commencing operations on March 14, 2019, the water treatment plant is now providing up to 100 million liters of potable water per day to several towns in Rizal, augmenting water supply to Manila Water's concession area while alternative major water sources are being developed.
Water Treatment Facilities
Manila Water operates four water treatment plants: Balara Filter 1, Balara Filter 2, and East La Mesa, all located in Quezon City, as well as the Cardona Water Treatment Plant in Rizal.
The Balara Treatment Plants filter the equivalent of 6.5 billion glasses of water every day. The Balara Filter 1, operational since 1935, has a treatment capacity of 470 million liters per day. On the other hand, Balara Filter 2 has been operational since 1958 and treats 1,130 million liters of water daily. Both treatment plants deliver water to Metro Manila's eastern area.
The East La Mesa Treatment Plant, located in Payatas, Quezon City, has a capacity of treating 150 million liters of water per day. Since 2012, it supplies water to far-flung expansion areas in the Rizal Province, improving the supply balance of the entire network.
The Cardona plant, with a capacity of treating 100 million liters of water per day, employs a more rigorous and complex treatment process and types of equipment compared to other existing water treatment plants because of the diverse quality of water from Laguna Lake. The process includes treatment for suspended solids, organic matter, algae, and dissolved solids. The treatment plant is complemented by 45 kilometers of transmission lines plus 61 kilometers of distribution lines.
Water Distribution
Manila Water's distribution system consists of transmission and distribution lines, pumping stations, and reservoirs to ensure that potable water is delivered to all customers. Pipelines laid and maintained across the East Zone since 1997 have spanned over 5,000 kilometers, serving 99 percent of the Company's concession area with a water supply pressure of 7 bar and above.
Water Sampling and Laboratory Analysis
On a regular basis, Manila Water's Laboratory Services processes an average of around 900 water samples from the distribution network monthly. This is to ensure that water to be delivered to the customers passes not only the regulatory standards on quality, but also to 100% comply with the Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water (PNSDW).
Used Water Services
Manila Water also provides sewerage and sanitation services.
Sewerage services of Manila Water include the operation and maintenance of sewer pipeline networks that collect and convey sewage to a Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) which cleans the used water before safely returning the treated water to rivers.
To address the sewage and sanitation needs of its service areas, Manila Water constructed compact or “package” sewage treatment plants to serve specific areas or communities. Manila Water also utilizes a Combined Sewer-Drainage System in the collection of used water from households, utilizing the existing municipal drainage system for used water conveyance. This minimizes the laying of separate sewer lines.
Manila Water has laid over 300 kilometers of sewer pipelines that goes to 38 sewage treatment plants with a combined treatment capacity of 310 million liters daily.
Sanitation
Around 85 percent of Metro Manila's East Zone are not yet covered by a sewer system. These households still utilize their own septic tanks that contains used water called septage. Since septic tanks only get partial treatment, these will eventually leak into the environment if not maintained properly. To address the possible leakage of septic tanks into the rivers and other water systems, Manila Water offers a sanitation service that collects the sludge from septic tanks. Siphoned sludge is then brought to Septage Treatment Plants where it is treated and returned to the environment safely. Manila Water manages two septage treatment plants that treats collected sludge to safely return the used water back to the environment. This sanitation program is carried out through barangay officials.
Subsidiaries
A subsidiary of Manila Water Company, Inc., Manila Water Philippine Ventures (MWPV) covers the country's key metropolitan areas including Cebu, Laguna, Tanauan City in Batangas, Clark in Pampanga, Zamboanga City, Tagum City in Davao and key locations in Bulacan, Pangasinan, Isabela, Nueva Ecija, Iloilo and Samar.
Manila Water Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (MWAP) currently provides half of the bulk water requirements of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and leakage reduction programs in Bandung, Indonesia and Yangon, Myanmar. Recently, the company has acquired a stake in East Water, a publicly listed water supply and distribution company in Thailand and in PT Sarana Tirta Ungaran in Indonesia.
Under MWAP are two affiliated companies in Vietnam, namely Thu Duc Water B.O.O Corporation and Kenh Dong Water Supply Joint Stock Company, both supplying treated water to Saigon Water Corporation (SAWACO) under a take-or-pay arrangement. Also under MWAP are Saigon Water Infrastructure Corporation (Saigon Water), a holding company listed in the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, Cu Chi Water Supply Sewerage Company, Ltd. (Cu Chi Water) and another company tasked to pursue non-revenue water reduction projects in Vietnam called Asia Water Network Solutions (Asia Water).
Lastly, Manila Water Total Solutions Corporation (MWTS), a wholly owned subsidiary, handles after-the-meter products and services. Its current offerings include environmental services like waste-to-energy.
Ownership
Ayala Corporation - 41.99%
Public/Officers/Employees - 33.23%
PCD Nominee Corporation (Non-Filipino) - 24.73%
Public - 0.06%
See also
Ayala Corporation
Water privatization in the Philippines
Water supply and sanitation in the Philippines
References
External links
Water companies of the Philippines
Companies listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange
Companies based in Quezon City
Companies established in 1997
Water supply and sanitation in Metro Manila
Ayala Corporation subsidiaries
Philippine companies established in 1997
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Dynamic reserve, in the context of the dynamic energy budget theory, refers to the set of metabolites (mostly polymers and lipids) that an organism can use for metabolic purposes. These chemical compounds can have active metabolic functions, however. They are not just "set apart for later use." Reserve differs from structure in the first place by its dynamics. Reserve has an implied turnover, because it is synthesized from food (or other substrates in the environment) and used by metabolic processes occurring in cells. The turnover of structure depends on the maintenance of an organism. Maintenance is not required for reserve. A freshly laid egg consists almost exclusively of reserve, and hardly respires. The chemical compounds in the reserve have the same turnover, while that in the structure can have a different turnover, and so it depends on the compound.
Functionality
Reserves are synthesized from environmental substrates (food) for use by the metabolism for the purpose of somatic maintenance (including protein turnover, maintenance of concentration gradients across membranes, activity and other types of work), growth (increase of structural mass), maturity maintenance (installation of regulation systems, preparation for reproduction, maintenance of defense systems, such as the immune system), maturation (increase of the state of maturity) and reproduction. This organizational position of reserve creates a rather constant internal chemical environment, with only an indirect coupling with the extra-organismal environment. Reserves as well as structure are taken to be generalised compounds, i.e. mixtures of a large number of compounds, which do not change in composition. The latter requirement is called the strong homeostasis assumption. Polymers (carbohydrates, proteins, ribosomal RNA) and lipids form the main bulk of reserves and of structure.
Some reasons for including reserve are to give an explanation for (from ):
the metabolic memory; changes in food (substrate) availability affect production (growth or reproduction) with some delay. Growth continues for some time during starvation; embryo development is fueled by reserves
the composition of biomass depends on growth rate. With two components (reserves and structure) particular changes in composition can be captured. More complex changes require several reserves, as is required for autotrophs.
the body size scaling of life history parameters. The specific respiration rate decreases with (maximum) body size between species because large bodied species have relatively more reserve. Many other life history parameters directly or indirectly relate to respiration.
the observed respiration patterns, which reflect the use of energy. Freshly laid eggs hardly respire, but their respiratory rates increase during development while egg weight decreases. After hatching, however, the respiration rate further increases, while the weight now also increases
all mass fluxes are linear combinations of assimilation, dissipation and growth. If reserves are omitted, there is not enough flexibility to capture product formation and explain indirect calorimetry.
References
Metabolism
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Bush cricket may refer to:
Tettigoniidae, an insect family known in British English as bush crickets
Eneopterinae, a subfamily known in American English as bush crickets
See also
"The bush", "bush cricket"
Animal common name disambiguation pages
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Simon Michael Brainin (July 15, 1854 – March 31, 1911) was a Latvian-American physician.
Brainin graduated from the gymnasium in his native Riga; studied medicine at the universities of Dorpat and Berlin; held the position of physician of the Jewish community of Riga; and was one of the directors of the community, the last independent Jewish kahal in Russia, until this institution was abolished by the government. He was a member of the committee of the government to investigate the rights of the Jews of the city of Riga, 1885; delegate from the government of Poltava to the rabbinical conference at St. Petersburg, 1892; and a member of the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia. In 1895, he immigrated to New York City, where he became (1902) a practicing physician, and member of the county medical and German medical societies, of the Harlem Medical Association, and of the New York Historical Society. He died in New York City.
Literary works
Brainin is the author of:
"Oraḥ la-Ḥayyim", a work on popular medicine, in Hebrew, Wilna, 1883
"Der Aerztliche Führer", Riga, 1885
"Ueber Kefyr," Vienna, 1886
and many articles in various periodicals.
See also
Brainin
References
External links
1854 births
1911 deaths
Physicians from Riga
People from Kreis Riga
Latvian Jews
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
American people of Latvian-Jewish descent
Physicians from New York City
20th-century Latvian physicians
19th-century Latvian physicians
20th-century American physicians
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Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew is a non-fiction book by English writer Bernard Hare. It is an account of Britain's dispossessed youth and inner city wastelands.
Hare was on society's margins, living on a rough estate in Leeds, England and with a liking for drink and drugs – so he knew what life in the underclass was like in 1990s Britain. However, even he was shocked when he met Urban Grimshaw, an illiterate, drug-using 12-year-old.
"If it's one of the functions of art to take you places and show you things you wouldn't otherwise have access to, then Urban Grimshaw is a masterpiece."
A British drama film, Urban and the Shed Crew starring Richard Armitage and Anna Friel is to be released.
Editions
Hardback 2005, Sceptre
Paperback 2006, Sceptre
Notes
External links
National Literacy Trust UK author interview
politicsphilosophyandsociety
bernardhare
English non-fiction books
2005 non-fiction books
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State Route 320 (SR 320) is a state highway in Lincoln County, Nevada, United States. Known as the Caselton Mine Loop, the highway is a loop route of U.S. Route 93 (US 93) near Pioche serving the Caselton Mining District.
Major intersections
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References
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Transportation in Lincoln County, Nevada
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Aldershot & District Traction Company Limited was a major bus company operating services in East Hampshire, West Surrey and parts of adjoining counties for sixty years during the 20th century, from 1912 until 1972 when it became part of Alder Valley.
History
Aldershot & District was inaugurated on 24 July 1912 when the British Automobile Traction Company Limited (a subsidiary of British Electric Traction Company - BET) bought the pioneering Aldershot & Farnborough Motor Omnibus Company Ltd, whose 5 buses had operated services between those two towns since 1906. The initial livery was dark green and white, with the upper deck of double-deckers being a lighter green. Variations on a theme of two-tone green continued, later with cream relief replacing the white. The familiar looped fleetname was introduced in 1923 and lasted until 1968. In its early years, the company was also a general haulage contractor, operating a fleet of Foden steam lorries. In common with many other rural bus companies, it also carried parcels on its buses until the 1970s.
There was increasingly close co-operation between British Automobile Traction and rivals Thomas Tilling in the 1920s and, in 1928 BAT was reconstructed with the new title, Tilling & British Automobile Traction Ltd but, in 1942 the company was wound up and A&D's ownership reverted to the parent company BET.
Aldershot & District expanded during the pre-World War II period, taking over a number of smaller concerns and establishing depots at Guildford, Woking, Hindhead, Haslemere, and Alton, with smaller "outstations" elsewhere. World War II provided a challenge to the company – conscription meant that fewer men were available to serve as bus crews, service engineers and administrators, which meant recruitment and training of a great number of women, and maintenance of the vehicles was difficult; requisition of vehicles to replace destroyed vehicles in London or for conversion to military ambulances caused shortages locally and being based in Aldershot (the "Home of the British Army") meant that the company's vehicles were in continuous demand for transport of troops.
Following the war the company invested in new vehicles, mainly AEC single-deckers and Dennis double-deckers and services returned to pre-war levels for a while, until the increase in car-ownership brought about significant loss of custom from the mid-1950s onwards. A&D sought to minimise the impact by taking over routes from other operators, for instance Yellow Bus Services, Guildford. Large peaks in traffic levels occurred on a regular basis to meet the special demands of the Aldershot Military Tattoo and the Farnborough Airshow. Passenger numbers had peaked in 1950 at almost 52,000,000 journeys. At its peak services based in Aldershot and Guildford reached as far as Reading, Egham, London, Horsham, Bognor Regis, Petersfield and Winchester. Seasonal services operated to coastal towns such as Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton, Worthing, Portsmouth and Southsea. Summer excursions ran to many destinations including Cheddar Caves, Longleat Safari Park, Hampton Court and race meetings such as Goodwood and Ascot. Demand for services to local beauty spot Frensham Ponds on summer Sundays sometimes necessitated running an extra double-decker for that part of route 19 in addition to the usual single-decker. Buses and coaches were also available for private hire, often being used by works' social clubs and public houses for outings. Some services were operated jointly with other companies, such as the service to Reading (jointly with the Thames Valley Traction Company. Through tickets were available on many routes, allowing the traveller to transfer from the A&D bus to another company's vehicle to complete the journey (e.g. Aldershot to Southampton, changing at Winchester to a Hants and Dorset vehicle). On some routes return tickets were valid for use by bus or train, both in Southern Railway and British Rail periods. The company absorbed the private hire and excursion coach company of Gudge's of Lower Bourne (trading as "Comfy Coaches") during the 1960s, which also gave them a booking and enquiry office in Farnham.
Although BET had campaigned vigorously against the proposed compulsory nationalisation of the UK bus industry, the company's policy changed and it sold its bus interests to the government's Transport Holding Company on 14 March 1968. The Transport Act 1968 formed the National Bus Company, which came into existence on 1 January 1969, amalgamating the interests of The Tilling Group (BET's main competitor) with the recently acquired BET Group. From that point the company's independence was lost, as exemplified by the immediate change in purchasing policy, with centrally-specified Bristol buses coming in instead of the locally sourced Dennis and AEC vehicles. The company continued to trade as Aldershot and District under nationalised ownership until it was merged with the former Tilling Group company, Thames Valley Traction Company Limited on 1 January 1972 to form the Thames Valley and Aldershot Omnibus Company, which traded under the contrived fleet name of Alder Valley.
Trivia
The Aldershot & District company had a play-on-words used by some user groups, "Have a shot and risk it".
In 2012 to mark the centenary of the former longstanding company's incorporation, Stagecoach briefly repainted some of its local vehicles as A&D.
See also
List of bus operators of the United Kingdom
Further reading
Aldershot's Buses by Peter Holmes, (Waterfront Publications, 1992)
The Best of British Buses no. 4 - 75 Years of Aldershot and District by Alan Townsin (Transport Publishing Company, 1981)
Glory Days - Aldershot & District by John Hillier & John Sherwin (Ian Allan, 2004)
References
Aldershot
Transport companies established in 1912
Transport companies disestablished in 1972
1912 establishments in England
1972 disestablishments in England
Former bus operators in Hampshire
Former bus operators in Surrey
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Last Man Standing may refer to:
Film
Last Man Standing (1987 film), a film directed by Damian Lee
Last Man Standing (1996 film), a film starring Bruce Willis
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing, a 2006 sequel to the action film Undisputed
Literature
Last Man Standing (novel), a novel by David Baldacci
Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter, a graphic novel series
Last Man Standing, a biography of Jamie Dimon, by Duff McDonald
Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy, a biography of Mort Sahl by James Curtis
Music
Albums
Last Man Standing (E-type album), 1998
Last Man Standing (Jerry Lee Lewis album), 2006
Last Man Standing Live, by Jerry Lee Lewis
Last Man Standing (MC Eiht album), 1997
Last Man Standing (Ryan Shupe & The RubberBand album)
Last Man Standing (Willie Nelson album), 2018
Last Man Standing, by Mr. Capone-E
Last Man Standing, by RBL Posse member Black C
Songs
"Last Man Standing" (Pop Evil song), 2010
"Last Man Standing" (Some & Any song), 2009
"Last Man Standing", by Asher Roth & Akon from the Madden NFL 12 video game soundtrack
"Last Man Standing", by Bon Jovi from Have a Nice Day
"Last Man Standing", by Duran Duran from Red Carpet Massacre
"Last Man Standing", by Eric Martin for Pride FC
"Last Man Standing", by HammerFall from Steel Meets Steel: Ten Years of Glory
"Last Man Standing", by Hybrid from I Choose Noise
"Last Man Standing", by Kompany and Virus Syndicate from Metropolis
"Last Man Standing", by People in Planes from Beyond the Horizon
"Last Man Standing", by Satyricon from The Age of Nero
"Last Man Standing", by Bruce Springsteen from Letter to You
"Last Man Standing", by Victoria Justice, 2023
Television
Last Man Standing (Australian TV series), a 2005 drama series
Last Man Standing (British TV series), a 2007–2008 reality series
Last Man Standing (American TV series), a 2011–2017, 2018-2021 sitcom starring Tim Allen and Nancy Travis
Making the Cut: Last Man Standing, a Canadian reality television series featuring ice hockey
Last Man Standing: Politics, Texas Style, a 2004 documentary film aired as an installment of the TV series POV
Episodes
"Last Man Standing" (1 vs. 100)
"Last Man Standing" (The Biggest Loser Asia)
"Last Man Standing" (Casualty)
"The Last Man Standing" (Cosby)
"Last Man Standing" (Desire)
"Last Man Standing" (I'm Alive)
"Last Man Standing" (Jake 2.0)
"Last Man Standing" (Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too)
"Last Man Standing" (NCIS)
"Last Man Standing" (NY Ink)
"Last Man Standing" (The Naked Archaeologist)
"Last Man Standing" (The Net)
"Last Man Standing" (A Scare at Bedtime)
"Last Man Standing" (She Spies)
"Last Man Standing" (Solved)
"Last Man Standing", an episode of City Homicide
Video games
Last man standing (gaming), a gametype featured in several computer and video games
Last Man Standing Coop, a Doom 3 cooperative-play modification
Other
Last Man Standing (motorcycle race), an annual event in Bulcher, Texas, US
Last Man Standing match, a type of specialty match in professional wrestling
See also
The Last Women Standing, 2015 romantic drama film
Last One Standing (disambiguation)
The Last Man (disambiguation)
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Cains is a law firm based in Douglas, Isle of Man.
It was founded in 1899. It reached its largest size in 2008, just before the Great Recession, when it had more than 30 lawyers and a similar number of support and fiduciary staff in its head office in and its branch offices in London and Singapore.
Prior to the Great Recession, the firm concentrated on high-value capital markets, principally the AIM listing of Indian businesses. Following a series of ad hoc redundancies in 2008 and 2009, it presently has 24 lawyers, of whom 6 are directors (partners).
It is rated as tier 1 by both Legal 500 and Chambers legal directories
Cains won the 2007 Legal Week award and the 2008 Lawyer award for top offshore law firm.
The firm is regulated by the Isle of Man Law Society.
References
External links
Chambers and Partners Firm Profile
Offshore law firms
Law of the Isle of Man
Law firms established in 1899
Organisations based in the Isle of Man
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Peter Kolosimo, pseudonym of Pier Domenico Colosimo (15 December 1922 – 23 March 1984), was an Italian journalist and writer. He is ranked amongst the founders of pseudoarchaeology (in Italian: fantarcheologia), a controversial topic in which interpretations of the past are made that are not accepted by the archaeological science community, which rejects the accepted data-gathering and analytical methods of the discipline. He also popularised ancient astronaut theories of contact between extraterrestrial beings and ancient human civilizations.
During the late 1950s and the 1960s, he was published in some of the first Italian science fiction magazines, such as Romanzi del Cosmo ("Cosmic Novels"), and his articles were regularly featured in the science/science fiction magazine Oltre il Cielo ("Beyond the Sky"). He published many more books, all widely popular and translated in 60 countries, including Russia, Japan, and China. In the 1970s and early 1980s until his death, he was the editor of many magazines, including Pi Kappa, a "fantarchaeologia" magazine covering the same topics that Kolosimo did in his books. In later life, he wrote a few books with his wife, Caterina, by whom he had a daughter, Alessandra (born 1970).
Kolosimo also founded and coordinated the Italian Association for Prehistoric Studies (ASP).
He died in Milan in 1984.
Reception
Kolosimo's claims about ancient astronauts influencing human civilizations are considered to be pseudohistory.
In a review of Kolosimo's Not of This World, Jason Colavito has alleged that the book fabricates evidence, mistranslates sources and conflates science fiction and fact.
Wu Ming, an Italy-based collective of writers, considered Kolosimo a "fellow novelist" and wrote about him on several occasions, including a story published in GQ (Italian edition), where they stated, "we like to think he just left the planet, and is still travelling across the universe." He is remembered lovingly as well by the writer Massimo Pietroselli in Fantascienza.com, an Italian science fiction online magazine, as a dreamer who was writing for the people, and encouraging the Soviet alternative to regular, conservative science, and did so successfully. Pagine 70, another Italian magazine, described Non è terrestre as his "first official revenge on the academic world" that tended to reject his ideas. The author goes on to describe Kolosimo as "an affable man, perhaps a great conversationalist, certainly an uncommon man." He describes Kolosimo’s work as undeterred against the repeated "snobbery of the academic world" and argues that it demonstrates that "imagination is a social weapon, which can break down regimes, give birth to states, and think … even manage to land on the moon."
Selected bibliography
Books
Il pianeta sconosciuto (1957)
Terra senza tempo (1964; translated into English as Timeless Earth)
Ombre sulle stelle (1966)
Psicologia dell'eros (1967)
Non è terrestre (1968; translated as Not of this World)
Guida al mondo dei sogni (1968)
Il comportamento erotico degli europei (1970)
Cittadini delle tenebre (1971)
Astronavi sulla preistoria (1972; translated as Spaceships in Prehistory)
Odissea stellare (1974)
Fratelli dell'infinito (1975)
Polvere d'inferno (1975)
Italia mistero cosmico (1977)
Civiltà del silenzio (1978)
Fiori di luna (1979)
Io e l'indiano (1979)
Viaggiatori del tempo (1981)
I misteri dell'universo (1982, with Caterina Kolosimo)
Novels
Fronte del sole or I cavalieri delle stelle (From Outer Space; 1979, with Caterina Kolosimo)
Missione uomo (1982, with Oscar Warner)
Editor
Pi Kappa, rivista di mistero, archeologia ed esobiologia (director), I-II, (1972-1973)
Dimensione X, enciclopedia del mistero (coordinator), 1-10, (1982)
Italia misteriosa (editor, 1984)
Scrutando nel futuro (editor, 1984)
References
External links
UFOs and Revolution, an article on Kolosimo by Wu Ming, published on GQ magazine (Italian edition), July 2009.
Review of Kolosimo's works
1922 births
1984 deaths
Writers from Modena
Italian non-fiction writers
Italian male journalists
Ancient astronauts proponents
Pseudoarchaeologists
Pseudohistorians
20th-century Italian writers
20th-century Italian male writers
20th-century Italian journalists
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Reuben ben Mordecai Brainin (; March 16, 1862 – November 30, 1939) was a Russian Jewish publicist, biographer and literary critic.
Biography
Reuben Brainin was born in (now in Dubroŭna Raion, Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus) in 1862 to Mordechai Brainin, the son of Azriel Brainin and had moved to Berlin by 1901.
Brainin contributed to the periodicals Ha-Meliẓ, Ha-Toren, Ha-Ẓefirah, Ha-Maggid, and Ha-Shiloaḥ. In 1895 he issued a periodical under the title "Mi-Mizraḥ u-Mi-Ma-arav" (From East and West), of which only four numbers appeared.
Brainin was the author of several pamphlets, the most important of which were his sketch of Pereẓ Smolenskin's life and works (Warsaw, 1896); and a translation of M. Lazarus' essay on Jeremiah (Warsaw, 1897). He also wrote about one hundred biographical sketches of modern Jewish scholars and writers. He was the first biographer of Theodor Herzl
He died in New York City.
Published works
To "Aḥiasaf" Brainin contributed the following articles:
"Ilane Sraḳ" (Barren Trees) (i. 32)
"Bar Ḥalafta" (ii. 71)
"Dappim Meḳuṭṭa'im" (Loose Leaves) (v. 120).
He also contributed to the same periodical the following biographical sketches:
Moritz Lazarus (iv. 214)
Rabbi Moritz Güdemann (iv. 219)
Theodor Herzl (v. 222)
Israel Zangwill (v. 233)
Max Nordau (v. 247)
References
Further reading
Chaim David Lippe, Bibliographisches Lexicon s.v.;
Moïse Schwab, Répertoire des Articles d'Histoire et de Littérature Juive, part i, s.v.
Simon Rawidowicz, BRAININ, RUBEN, Jüdisches Lexikon, Berlin 1927, vol. 1, col. 1134-1135
1882 births
1939 deaths
People from Dubrowna District
People from Goretsky Uyezd
Belarusian Jews
Jewish Canadian writers
Hebrew-language writers
Belarusian public relations people
German people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Canada
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
Belarusian biographers
German male writers
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Kerbside collection or curbside collection is a service provided to households, typically in urban and suburban areas, of collecting and disposing of household waste and recyclables. It is usually accomplished by personnel using specially built vehicles to pick up household waste in containers that are acceptable to, or prescribed by, the municipality and are placed on the kerb.
History
Before the 20th century, the amount of waste produced by a household was relatively small. Household waste was often simply thrown out of an open window, buried in the garden or deposited in outhouses (see more at urban archaeology). When human concentrations became more dense, waste collectors, called nightmen or gong farmers were hired to collect the night soil from pail closets, performing their duties only at night (hence the name). Meanwhile, disposing of refuse became a problem wherever cities grew. Often refuse was placed in unusable areas just outside the city, such as wetlands and tidal zones. One example is London, which from Roman times disposed of its refuse outside the London Wall beside the River Thames. Another example is 1830s Manhattan, where thousands of hogs were permitted to roam the streets and eat garbage. A small industry developed as "swill children" collected kitchen refuse to sell for pig feed and the rag and bone man traded goods for bones (used for glue) and rags (essential for paper manufacture prior to the invention of wood pulping). Later, in the late nineteenth century, trash was fed to swine in industrial.
As sanitation engineering came to be practised beginning in the mid-19th century and human waste was conveyed from the home in pipes, the gong farmer was replaced by the municipal rubbish collector as there remained growing amounts of household refuse, including fly ash from coal, which was burnt for home heating. In Paris, the rag and bone man worked side by side with the municipal bin man, though reluctantly: in 1884, Eugène Poubelle introduced the first integrated kerbside collection and recycling system, requiring residents to separate their waste into perishable items, paper and cloth, and crockery and shells. He also established rules for how private collectors and city workers should cooperate and he developed standard dimensions for refuse containers: his name in France is now synonymous with the garbage can. Under Poubelle, food waste and other organics collected in Paris were transported to nearby Saint Ouen where they were composted. This continued well into the 20th century when plastics began to contaminate the waste stream.
From the late-19th century to the mid-20th century, more or less consistent with the rise of consumables and disposable products municipalities began to pass anti-dumping ordinances and introduce kerbside collection. Residents were required to use a variety of refuse containers to facilitate kerbside collection but the main type was a variation of Poubelle's metal garbage container. It was not until the late 1960s that the green bin bag was introduced by Glad. Later, as waste management practices were introduced with the aim of reducing landfill impacts, a range of container types, mostly made of durable plastic, came to be introduced to facilitate the proper diversion of the waste stream. Such containers include blue boxes, green bins and wheelie bins or dumpsters.
Over time, waste collection vehicles gradually increased in size from the hand pushed tip cart or English dust cart, a name by which these vehicles are still referred, to large compactor trucks.
Waste management and resource recovery
Kerbside collection is today often referred to as a strategy of local authorities to collect recyclable items from the consumer. Kerbside collection is considered a low-risk strategy to reduce waste volumes and increase the recycling rates. Recyclable materials are typically collected in large wheelie bins, plastic bags, or small open, coloured plastic boxes, specifically designated for content.
Recyclable materials that may be separately collected from municipal waste include:
Biodegradable waste component
Green waste
Kitchen and food waste
Christmas trees
Recyclable materials, depending on location
Office paper
Newsprint
Paperboard
Cardboard
Corrugated fiberboard
Plastics (#1 PET, #2 HDPE natural and coloured, #3 PVC narrow-necked containers, #4 LDPE, #5 PP, #6 Polystyrene (but not expanded polystyrene), #7 other mixed resin plastics)
Glass
Copper
Aluminium
Steel and Tinplate
Co-mingled recyclables- can be sorted by a clean materials recovery facility
Kerbside collection of recyclable resources is aimed to recover purer waste streams with higher market value than by other collection methods. If the household residents incorrectly separate the recyclable materials, or put the wrong items in the recycling bin, the whole vehicle load of recycling will have to be rejected and sent to landfill or incineration if it is deemed to be contaminated.
Kerbside collection and household recycling schemes are also being used as tools by many local authorities to increase the public's awareness of their waste production.
New and emerging waste treatment technologies such as mechanical biological treatment may offer an alternative to kerbside collection through automated separation of waste in recycling factories.
Recycling variants
Kerbside collection encompasses many subtly different systems, which differ mostly on where in the process the recyclates are sorted and cleaned. The main categories are 1) mixed waste collection, 2) commingled recyclables, and 3) source separation. A waste collection vehicle generally picks up the waste.
Source separation used to be the preferred method due to the high cost of sorting commingled (mixed waste) collection. However, advances in sorting technology have substantially lowered this overhead, and many areas that had developed source separation programs have switched to what is called co-mingled collection.
Usage by country
Australia
Residential kerbside collection is carried out by local governments, with some exceptions, e.g. some large apartment complexes may have their own separate arrangements with commercial providers. Available services and details vary from council to council. Councils generally provide residents with wheelie bins for kerbside collection of normal waste which is collected weekly or fortnightly. Many councils also have less frequent kerbside collection of bulkier waste ("hard rubbish") collected once or twice a year.
Councils provide their residents with two or three wheelie bins, depending on the council, with some councils having different options for different properties. The two-bin system consists of a recycling bin (usually 240 litre) for co-mingled recyclables, and a general waste bin which is often smaller (e.g. 140 litre, 120 litre or 80 litre). The three-bin system consists of the above two bins plus a green waste bin (usually 240 litre). Not all councils have a green waste bin collection service. Many councils provide the option of larger bins, smaller bins, or additional bins.
A wide variety of hard plastics, glass bottles and jars, steel cans, aluminium cans, paper and cardboard can be put in the recycling bin. The green waste bin can be used for garden organics (e.g. small branches, leaves, grass clippings), and councils are increasingly allowing food scraps, used paper towels and tissues and other biodegradable organics to be placed in the green waste bin. The council may turn the green waste into mulch (garden waste collection only) or compost and extract energy (food organics and garden organics). Details of what can and cannot be placed into each bin vary by council.
Most councils follow a standard colour scheme for their wheelie bins, specified in Australian standard AS4123. According to the standard, general waste bins have a red lid, recycling bins have a yellow lid, green waste bins have a lime green lid, and all these bins have a dark green or black body. Not all councils follow this colour scheme. For example, recycling bins in some councils have a blue body and yellow lid.
Bins are emptied according to one of several patterns. Generally speaking, general waste bins are emptied weekly while recycling bins and green waste bins are emptied fortnightly on alternate weeks. Many councils with food waste recycling have switched to emptying green waste bins weekly and general waste bins and recycling bins fortnightly on alternate weeks. Some councils empty recycling bins weekly, while others do so only during a certain period like the Christmas and summer holiday period, switching to fortnightly at other times.
Recycling bins are provided at no additional cost, while the general waste bin is either at no additional cost or at an annual cost. The green waste bin, where available, is either provided to all residents, or available as an option to residents, either at an additional annual cost, a one-off cost or no additional cost, depending on the council. Some councils limit the availability of green waste bins (e.g. the City of Cockburn limits them to properties over a certain land size). Many councils provide the option of larger bins than the standard ones provided (even larger than 240 litres in some cases) or additional bins at additional annual cost. Some provide the option of a smaller general waste bin at a reduced cost.
Many councils also have kerbside collection of bulky waste. There may be different kinds of collection, e.g.:
Large branches
E-waste (e.g. TVs, computers) which the council may recycle
Hard rubbish (anything else too big or too heavy for the wheelie bin)
For bulky waste, residents are asked to place items directly on the kerbside. There may be other rules, e.g. what can and cannot be collected, limits on the amount of rubbish that will be collected, etc. that vary from council to council. Collections may occur once or a few times a year on specific dates or date ranges, or on demand with a limit to the number of times per year, depending on the council.
Austria
Kerbside collection is universal in Austria. The service is provided by the municipality. A fee applies for non-recyclable general waste, while recyclables are collected for free, being mainly financed by companies selling packaged goods via a mandatory fee. Different waste containers are used for general waste (black), paper (red), plastics (yellow), organic waste (green or brown), metal (blue) and glass (white for clear glass, green for coloured glass). In some rural areas, appropriately coloured plastic bags are used instead of bins.
In many areas, a collection service for Christmas trees is provided in early January.
Canada
Calgary, Alberta has adopted "Curbside" Recycling and uses blue bins. The blue cart programme accepts all types of recyclables, including plastics 1–7. It is picked up weekly for the cost of $8.00 per month. This programme is mandatory.
In 1981 Resource Integration Systems (RIS) in collaboration with Laidlaw International tested the first blue box recycling system on 1500 homes in Kitchener, Ontario. Due to the success of the project the City of Kitchener put out a contract for public bid in 1984 for a recycling system citywide. Laidlaw won the bid and continued with the popular blue box recycling system. Today hundreds of cities around the world use the blue box system or a similar variation.
Many Canadian municipalities use "green bins" for curbside recycling. Others, such as Moncton, use wet/dry waste separation and recovery programmes.
New Zealand
In New Zealand, kerbside collection of general refuse and recycling, and in some areas organic waste, is the responsibility of the local city or district council, or private contractors. Practices and collection methods vary widely from council to council and company to company. Some examples of collection are:
Auckland Council: Two 240-litre wheelie bins are supplied: a red-lidded bin for general refuse, collected weekly, and a blue-lidded bin for recyclables, collected fortnightly.
Christchurch City Council: Three wheelie bins are supplied: a 140-litre red-lidded bin for general refuse, a 240-litre yellow-lidded bin for recyclables, and an 80-litre green-lidded bin for organic waste. The organic waste bins are collected weekly, while the recyclables and general refuse bins are collected on alternating weeks.
Hamilton City Council and Hutt City Council: A 45-litre bin is supplies for recyclables, collected weekly. General refuse is collected weekly using user-pays official council bags.
Dunedin City Council, Palmerston North City Council and Wellington City Council: Two bins are supplied: a 45-litre or 70-litre bin for glass, and an 80-litre or 240-litre wheelie bin for non-glass recyclables. These two bins are collected on alternating weeks. General refuse is collected weekly using user-pays official council bags.
Rodney District Council: A 45-litre bin is supplies for recyclables, collected weekly. There is no council collection of general waste, and all general waste collection is carried out by independent companies.
Taupō District Council: A 45-litre bin is supplies for recyclables, collected weekly. General refuse is collected weekly using user-pays system of orange tags - one orange tag is to be placed on a standard rubbish bag up to 60 litres capacity, or half an orange sticker can be placed on two supermarket bags tied together.
Upper Hutt City Council: Recycling is to be placed in plastic bags, with paper and cardboard collected in the first week, and plastic, metal and glass in the second week. General refuse is collected weekly using user-pays official council bags.
Waitakere City Council: A 140-litre wheelie bin is provided for recyclables, collected fortnightly. General refuse is collected weekly using user-pays official council bags.
By 1996 the New Zealand cities of Auckland, Waitakere, North Shore and Lower Hutt had kerbside recycling bins available. In New Plymouth, Wanganui and Upper Hutt recyclable material was collected if placed in suitable bags. By 2007 73% of New Zealanders had access to kerbside recycling.
Kerbside collection of organic waste is carried out by the Mackenzie District Council and the Timaru District Council. Christchurch City Council is introducing the system to their kerbside collection. Other councils are carrying out trials.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the Household Waste Recycling Act 2003 requires local authorities to provide every household with a separate collection of at least two types of recyclable materials by 2010.
There has been criticism in the difference of schemes used in the country such as the colour of bins, whether the recycling is collected from wheelie bins, coloured plastic boxes or plastic bags, and also the fact that the bins, boxes and bags obstruct the roads and pavements, and how the additional collection vehicles and waste collection services needed also contribute to traffic congestion and produce carbon dioxide emissions. Some find the colour differences confusing, and some people want a national scheme. A typical example is to compare two neighbouring councils in Greater Manchester; Bury Council and Salford City Council. Bury uses blue for cans, plastic and glass, green for paper and cardboard and brown for garden waste. Salford uses blue for paper and card, brown for cans, plastic and glass, and pink for garden waste. Most councils use grey or black bins for general waste, with a few exceptions such as Liverpool, which uses a purple bin for general waste, a colour that is used by no other council.
Another controversial issue in the UK is the frequency of the waste collections. To save money, many councils are reducing the frequency of both general waste and recycling collections. This has caused problems from larger households, and has led to an increase of overflowing bins and fly tipping. For example, previously, Bury Council collected general waste once a week and recyclables fortnightly. This has now changed to fortnightly for general waste and monthly (every 4 weeks) collection of recyclables.
A few councils are using "forced" recycling, by replacing the large, 240 litre general waste bin with a smaller 180 litre or 140 litre bin, and using the old 240 litre one for recyclables. This may be made worse by fortnightly collections of the "small" bin, and strict rules such as "No extra waste will be collected" and "Bin lids must be fully closed". Stockport Council is a notable user of this scheme. Their recycling rates have substantially increased as a result, but there are usually complaints from household residents. Trafford Council also use a similar scheme, but the small grey bin is emptied every week. In addition, the two named councils, and more, collect food waste together with garden waste, by sending out kitchen caddies and compostable bin liners. These prevent food waste (including meat and fish) from going to landfill or incineration, and to increase the council's recycling rate. The food and garden waste is usually collected weekly or fortnightly, and is taken to an in-vessel composting facility or an anaerobic digestion plant, where the biodegradable waste is organically recycled into soil fertiliser to be used on local farms.
In North West England, all the glass collected for recycling is used within the UK, around half of the plastics and cans are used in the UK; the rest is sent further afield to continental Europe or China to be made into new products, and paper and cardboard collected is sent to local paper mills to be reprocessed into newspapers, tissues and paper towels, cardboard and office paper. Once again, some of the paper will be sent further afield.
Some councils only use three bins, i.e. general waste, food and garden waste and mixed recyclables. This means that a single-stream recycling system is used, so plastics, cans and glass go into the same bin as paper and cardboard. Although this is much easier for the residents, there is more sorting required, and the paper quality is sometimes of a low grade due to food waste or liquid contamination or shards of glass in the paper, and so this scheme has been criticised.
Also, most councils require residents to remove all plastic caps and lids from plastic bottles, and thoroughly rinse them out to avoid unpleasant smells or liquid contamination. This is because the caps and lids are made from a different type of plastic (PP) from the bottle (PET/HDPE); if the bottles are squashed down and folded over like toothpaste tubes and caps are screwed back on, the size and volume of bottles is greatly reduced, so that more bottles can be contained inside the recycling bins. In fact many bottlers, especially bottled water companies, have now designed their bottles to be collapsible; though this message has not been effectively disseminated to the consumer. A collapsible bottle takes between 25% and 33% of the space a non-collapsed bottle.
Labels and neck rings can, however, be left on the bottles and they do not need to be removed. This also means that only plastic bottles can be recycled. Many councils are still trying to remind residents that plastic pots, tubs and trays (yoghurts, desserts and spreads), plastic carrier bags, crisp packets and cling film cannot be recycled via the kerbside economically. If too many incorrect, unsuitable or unsafe materials are put into the recycling bin, this means that the whole vehicle load of recycling will have to be rejected and sent directly to landfill or incineration at a high cost. Contamination is normally a problem if recyclables are collected from wheelie bins, as the bin collection workers can only look at the top; there may be a small amount of contamination 'hidden' at the bottom. Councils that use many bags and boxes (Edinburgh) suffer from less contamination but are complicated and the loose paper and cardboard, and plastic recycling bags are blown around by the wind, and paper can become wet due to rain or snow, or contaminated with food residue, dirt, oil or grease.
Spain
Basque Country
In the province of Gipuzkoa, this system is implanted in many towns as Usurbil, Hernani, Oiartzun, Antzuola, Legorreta, Itsasondo, Zaldibia, Anoeta, Alegia, Irura, Zizurkil, Astigarraga, Ordizia, Oñati and Lezo, where the common used name in Basque is "atez-atekoa", which means door-by-door. Due to the big success in these towns, with more than 80% of the waste recycled, 34 towns in Gipuzkoa are considering setting this system up in 2013, like Arrasate, Bergara, Aretxabaleta, Eskoriatza, Legazpi, Tolosa or Pasaia.
The "atez-ate" system consists in hanging each kind of rubbish in a hanger outside the house a certain day or days in a week. For example, in Hernani, they have three days to hang their organic rubbish, two days for plastics and metallics, one for paper and one for rejects residuals.
This system started in the town of Usurbil in the year 2009, due to the incinerator of the region of Gipuzkoa which was going to be built in this town, exactly in the neighborhood of Zubieta. Three years after, the construction of the incinerator was stopped by the government of the region, suggesting that the incinerator was a source of contamination and the high cost of the building.
Criticism
This type of collection service is subject to criticism:
The large (wheelie bin) container encourages the "out of sight" rubbish mentality and invites more rubbish to be disposed of.
The bins and collection trucks are not suited to narrow roads or houses with steep driveways or steps.
They lock local authorities into capital intensive equipment programmes and multi-national providers.
Co-mingled recyclables are sometimes not being successfully managed by automated sorting stations and the rates of diversion are low. In some cases, this results in mountains of unsorted recyclables.
In the UK especially, some councils are sending out at least 4 large bins - residents of smaller houses with no gardens have little space to put them; not everybody lives in a house, some live in blocks of apartments
Many use small plastic boxes, bags and lockable outdoor food waste 'caddies' which get blown around and lost, bad for recycling participation.
See also
History of waste management
Materials recovery facility
Mechanical biological treatment
Recycling
Composting
Waste management
References
External links
RecycleNow - Learn how to Recycle from Home in the UK
The Recycling Center - Find a curbside recycling service provider in the US
Waste collection
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Starkers in Tokyo is a live acoustic album by English rock band Whitesnake, released only in Japan on 9 September 1997. It is performed in the style of the Unplugged series and simply features David Coverdale on vocals and Adrian Vandenberg on acoustic guitar. The performance was recorded at the EMI studios in Japan for a small audience of fans in support of the most recent album "Restless Heart". This recording was also released on VHS and Laserdisc in Japan only. This CD was released outside Japan almost a year later in June 1998.
The album includes an acoustic version of Whitesnake's biggest hit "Here I Go Again".
The album subsequently appeared on the second disc of Whitesnake's 2018 acoustic complication album, Unzipped.
Track listing
"Sailing Ships" (David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg) – 4:37
"Too Many Tears" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:13
"The Deeper the Love" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:09
"Love Ain't No Stranger" (Coverdale, Mel Galley) – 3:15
"Can't Go On" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 3:50
"Give Me All Your Love" (Coverdale, John Sykes) – 3:21
"Don't Fade Away" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:26
"Is This Love" (Coverdale, Sykes) – 3:09
"Here I Go Again" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden) – 4:46
"Soldier of Fortune" (Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore) – 4:22
Track listing DVD version
"Sailing Ships" (David Coverdale, Adrian Vandenberg) – 4:37
"Too Many Tears" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:13
"The Deeper the Love" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:09
"Can't Go On" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 3:50
"Is This Love" (Coverdale, Sykes) – 3:09
"Give Me All Your Love" (Coverdale, John Sykes) – 3:21
"Here I Go Again" (Coverdale, Bernie Marsden) – 4:46
"Soldier of Fortune" (Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore) – 4:22
"Love Ain't No Stranger" (Coverdale, Mel Galley) – 3:15
"Don't Fade Away" (Coverdale, Vandenberg) – 4:26
Songs left off the album
"Burning Heart" (Vandenberg)
"Fool for Your Loving" (Coverdale, Micky Moody, Marsden)
"Only My Soul" (Coverdale)
The songs “Only My Soul” and “Fool for Your Loving” appears on the 2018 Acoustic compilation album, Unzipped, leaving out “Burning Heart” as the only track to be left off from the whole album.
Personnel
David Coverdale - vocals
Adrian Vandenberg - acoustic guitar
Charts
References
External links
Official website
Whitesnake live albums
1997 live albums
Whitesnake video albums
1997 video albums
Live video albums
EMI Records live albums
Universal Music Group video albums
Rock albums by English artists
Live rock albums
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Quincy High School (QHS) is a public secondary school located on Coddington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. It doubles as one of two high schools in the city of Quincy and as the vocational center. Quincy's mascot is known as the 'Presidents' and their school colors are Blue & White.
History
Quincy High School was founded in 1854 about a half-mile down Hancock Street (marked by the current High School Avenue) and moved to the former Central Middle School in 1894. It moved to Coddington Street in 1924. North Quincy High School was established at a separate location in 1926.
Construction of the new high school building was completed in 2010.
Athletics
Quincy is part of the Patriot League, and previously competed in the Atlantic Coast and Old Colony Leagues.
As of 2018, Quincy High School has had consistent success recently in both boys' and girls' volleyball and basketball. The track teams at Quincy High have presented some of the top competing high school athletes in the state in recent years.
Its rival is North Quincy High School, which faces Quincy in the annual Thanksgiving football game at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Despite the rivalry, Quincy High's track, crew, girls' hockey, swimming, rugby, sailing teams, and school band are joined with North Quincy's.
Notable alumni
Priscilla Chan - philanthropist and wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
John Cheever - author
Dick Dale - surf guitarist, attended Quincy High School through the 11th grade.
Ruth Gordon - actress
Huntington "Tack" Hardwick - All-American college football star and original owner of the NHL Chicago Blackhawks
Paul Reardon - Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Robert Burns Woodward - awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1965.
References
External links
Official website
Quincy Public Schools
Education in Quincy, Massachusetts
High schools in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Public high schools in Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Quincy, Massachusetts
1924 establishments in Massachusetts
School buildings completed in 1924
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Knapp may refer to:
People
Knapp (surname)
Places
Knapp, Hampshire, England, a village in the parish of Ampfield
Knapp, Perthshire, Scotland
Knapp, Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States, a village
Knapp, Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States, a town
Knapp Creek (West Virginia), United States
Knapp's Castle, Santa Barbara County, California, United States
Companies
Bill Knapp's, a defunct restaurant chain in Michigan
Knapp's, a defunct department store chain in Michigan
Other uses
Knapp Commission, an investigation into corruption in the New York Police Department from 1970 to 1972
USS Knapp (DD-653), United States Navy destroyer
Komitet Narodowy Amerykanów Polskiego Pochodzenia (KNAPP), the National Committee of Americans of Polish Extraction (1942-1959)
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Supra Corporation was best known as a manufacturer of modems for personal computers, but also produced a range of hardware for the Amiga and Atari ST, including hard drives, SCSI controllers, memory boards, and processor accelerators.
They were purchased by Diamond Multimedia in 1995.
Early history
The company was founded by John Wiley and Alan Ackerman as Microbits Peripheral Products (MPP), a provider of interface products for the Atari 8-bit family. The two of them were friends in high school when they developed various computer hardware for the school computers, and were best known for a 300 baud modem and a printer interface. The company was successful for some time, but a number of factors led to its bankruptcy around 1986, and its reformation as Supra, initially selling hard drives for the Atari ST. Originally from Albany, Oregon, they later moved to Vancouver, Washington.
SupraFAXModem 14400
In 1991 the company arranged a deal with Rockwell International to use their new V.32bis 14,400 bit/s modem chips with an exclusivity arrangement. Their SupraFAXModem 14400 was sold at prices points about half that of the slower 9600 V.32 models of the same era, and its introduction led to a rapid downward spiral in modem pricing.
Notable Dates
1986 - Supra introduces a 10 MB hard drive for the Atari ST.
1987 - Supra introduces the Supra Modem 2400 at $179.
1991 - Supra introduces the SupraFAXModem 14400 at $399 and the SupraFAXModem V.32 at $299.
1994 - Supra purchases PSI Integration
1994 - Supra ships First 28.8 Modem
1994 - Supra ships First Voice Modem
1995 - Supra purchased by Diamond Multimedia
1999 - S3 Graphics purchases Diamond Multimedia
Products
Supra Modems
Supra Voice Modems
Software
FAXCilitate
Supra VoiceMail
References
External links
List of Supra products for the Amiga
Defunct computer hardware companies
Companies based in Albany, Oregon
Defunct computer companies of the United States
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The Rodley was a British microcar designed by Henry Brown and built by the Rodley Automobile Company in Rodley, West Yorkshire between 1954 and 1956. Henry Brown also designed the Scootacar microcar (built between 1957 and 1964).
The body was of steel construction, rather than the more usual glass fibre, and was mounted on a steel chassis. The engine was a rear-mounted, direct driven impeller air-cooled 750 cc twin-cylinder unit made by JAP driving the rear wheels through a three-speed gearbox and chain to the axle which had a friction differential. The suspension was by independent coil springs at the front and underslung semi elliptic at the rear. Steering was by a chain system.
Although the car was advertised as a four-seater and fitted with four seats, the rear ones, as might be expected in a microcar, were rather small and cramped. The fabric roof panel could be rolled forwards to give an opening roof.
Although the production target was 50 cars a week, only 65 were ever built, and only one is believed to survive. It was at the time the cheapest four-wheel car available on the British market but rapidly acquired a very poor reputation, especially for overheating to the extent of catching fire.
See also
List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
References
A-Z of Cars 1945-1970. Michael Sedwick and Mark Gillies. Bay View Books 1993.
External links
Rodley pictures and specification
Information about the location of the former Rodley Automobile Company premises, between "The Owl" pub and the former "Rialto" cinema, in the village of Rodley, on the outskirts of Leeds
Microcars
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Defunct companies based in Leeds
Cars introduced in 1954
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State Route 321 (SR 321) is a state highway in Lincoln County, Nevada, serving the town of Pioche.
Route description
This loop route connects to U.S. Route 93 (US 93) on both sides via the town of Pioche. Another nearby loop route of US 93, State Route 320, bypasses Pioche altogether and instead serves the Caselton Mine. Within Pioche, State Route 321 serves as the terminus for State Route 322.
Major intersections
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321
Transportation in Lincoln County, Nevada
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Paul, William (Bill), and Ernest Schweizer were three brothers who started building gliders in 1930. In 1937, they formed the Schweizer Metal Aircraft Company. Their first commercial glider sale was an SGU 1-7 glider to Harvard University's Altosaurus Glider Club. At that time, Eliot Noyes was a sailplane pilot in the Harvard soaring club. That glider was later restored and currently resides at the National Soaring Museum in Elmira, New York.
In 1939, the Schweizer brothers relocated to Elmira, New York, and incorporated as Schweizer Aircraft. Best known internationally for their gliders, they also remembered the importance of the folks who worked with them and for them. Over their nearly 70 years, they enabled creation of various flying machines; from gliders to crop dusters to helicopters, while contributing to the aircraft industry as a whole, and the Southern Tier of New York in particular.
According to a recent editorial in the Elmira Star-Gazette, when it came time to sell the company, the brothers wanted to find a buyer who respected their values and their folks, and chose the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (a UTC subsidiary) in Connecticut. The sale was completed successfully in 2004, providing growth opportunities for Schweizer.
All three brothers have been inducted to the U.S. Soaring Hall of Fame; Paul and Ernest in its second year, 1955 (along with the Wright Brothers), and later William in 1984. Paul and Ernest also won the 1953 Warren E. Eaton Memorial Trophy, considered Soaring Society of America's highest award.
References
External links
November 2005 issue of SKYLINES [reference photo & caption on page 2]
Schweizer corporate history page
photo of the SGU1-7 glider with its new owner, the "Altosaurus Soaring Club"
Article about Paul Schweizer at Soaring Museum website
Article about Bill Schweizer at Soaring Museum website
Article about Ernest Schweizer at Soaring Museum website
People from Elmira, New York
American aerospace engineers
Businesspeople in aviation
Aviation pioneers
Glider pilots
Sibling trios
Engineers from New York (state)
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Established in 2005, Level Comics is a division of Elex Media Komputindo that publishes seinen, shonen with a strong violence, and also josei manga in Indonesia. Elex Media Komputindo has been publishing manga in Indonesia since 1990. As the readers of manga became more mature, Elex Media decided to start a new division that was more suitable and enjoyable for older manga readers. The first releases of Level Comics were Homunculus, by Hideo Yamamoto, Vagabond, by Takehiko Inoue, 20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa and X, by Clamp.
List of shonen comics published by Level Comics
Akame ga Kill!, by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro (ongoing)
Attack on Titan, by Hajime Isayama (ongoing)
Attack on Titan: Before the Fall, by Ryō Suzukaze and Satoshi Shiki (ongoing)
Attack on Titan: Junior High School, by Saki Nakagawa (completed)
Deadman Wonderland, by Kazuma Kondou and Jinsei Kataoka (completed)
Fight!! Ippo, by George Morikawa (ongoing)
Future Diary, by Sakae Esuno (ongoing)
Highschool of the Dead, by Daisuke Sato and Shoji Sato (completed)
Rent a Girlfriend, by Reiji Miyajima (ongoing)
Tokyo Revengers, by Ken Wakui (ongoing)
List of seinen comics published by Level Comics
1 or W, by Rumiko Takahashi (one-shot)
20th Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (completed)
21st Century Boys, by Naoki Urasawa (completed)
3×3 Eyes, by Yuzo Takada (ongoing)
A Spirit of the Sun, by Kaiji Kawaguchi (ongoing)
Aflame Inferno, by Lim Dall-young and Kim Kwang-hyun (ongoing)
Ai Kora, by Kazurou Inoue (completed)
Air Gear, by Oh! great (completed)
Akihabara@Deep, by Ira Ishida and Makoto Akane (completed)
Aku/Boku, by Yasuhito Yamamoto (completed)
All Rounder Meguru, by Hiroki Endo (ongoing)
Angel Heart, by Tsukasa Hojo (ongoing)
Shoot!, by Tsukasa Oshima (ongoing)
Bambino!, by Tetsuji Sekiya (ongoing)
Basu Hashiru, by Mizu Sahara (one-shot)
Black Lagoon, by Rei Hiroe (ongoing)
Blade of the Immortal, by Hiroaki Samura (ongoing)
Blade of the Phantom Master, by Youn In-wan and Yang Kyung-il (completed)
Blame!, by Tsutomu Nihei (completed)
Bloody Monday, by Ryō Ryūmon and Megumi Kouji (ongoing)
Bōken Shōnen, by Mitsuru Adachi (one-shot)
Brave Story, by Miyuki Miyabe and Yoichiro Ono (completed)
Cesare, by Fuyumi Soryo (ongoing)
Cherry, by Eisaku Kubonouchi (ongoing)
Chocolat, by Eisaku Kubonouchi (ongoing)
Cruise, by Yajima Masao and Kikuta Hiroyuki (completed)
Dandelion, by Naoyuki Ochiai (completed)
Dark Edge, by Yu Aikawa (completed)
Devil Devil, by Miyoshi Yuuki (completed)
Death's Notice by Motoro Mase (completed)
Doubt, by Yoshiki Tonogai (completed)
E' Dash/e', by Ashita Morimi (one-shot)
Eagle: The Making of an Asian-American President, by Kaiji Kawaguchi (completed)
Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker, by Manglobe and Yumiko Harao (completed)
ES (Eternal Sabbath), by Fuyumi Soryo (ongoing)
Fighting Spirit, by George Morikawa (ongoing)
Fire Investigator Nanase/Kasai Chousakan Nanase, by Izo Hashimoto and Tomoshige Ichikawa (ongoing)
Fist of the Blue Sky, by Tetsuo Hara and Buronson (ongoing)
Fly, Daddy, Fly, by Kazuki Kaneshiro and Manabu Akishige (completed)
G -Gokudo Girl-, by Hidenori Hara and Buronson (completed)
Genzo Hitogata Kiwa, by Yuzo Takada
Go Go Hanasaki Detective Office/Go Go Kochira Shiritsu Hanasaki Tantei Jimusho, by Watanaru Watanabe (ongoing)
Great Teacher Onizuka, by Tooru Fujisawa (completed)
GTO Shonan 14 Days, by Tooru Fujisawa (completed)
Giant Killing, by Masaya Tsunamoto and Tsujitomo (ongoing)
Great Edo City Report, by Yu Nakahara Yu and Enshu Takahashi (one-shot)
Gunsmith Cats, by Kenichi Sonoda (completed)
Gunsmith Cats Burst, by Kenichi Sonoda (completed)
Gurren Lagann, by Kazuki Nakashima and Kotaro Mori (ongoing)
Happy Hello Work at Age 21!/Takunabi, by Katsumi Yamaguchi (ongoing)
Haruka Seventeen, by Sayaka Yamazaki (ongoing)
Hataraki Man, by Moyoko Anno (ongoing)
Hellsing, by Kouta Hirano (completed)
Historie, by Hitoshi Iwaaki (ongoing)
Homunculus, by Hideo Yamamoto (completed)
Hoshi no Furumachi, by Hidenori Hara (completed)
Hunt for the Thumb/Oyayubi Sagashi, by Yamada Yusuke and Ayamura Kirihito (one-shot)
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit, by Motoro Mase (ongoing)
Iliad, by Uoto Osamu and Toshusai Garaku (ongoing)
Japan Sinks, by Sakyo Komatsu and Tokihiko Isshiki (ongoing)
Jinbē, by Mitsuru Adachi (one-shot)
Jormungand, by Keitarou Takahashi (completed)
K2, by Kazou Mafune (ongoing)
Kamisama Dolls, by Hajime Yamamura (completed)
Kamiyadori, by Kei Sanbe (completed)
Karakuri Circus, by Kazuhiro Fujita (ongoing)
Karasuma Kyouko no Jikenbo, by Oji Hiroi and Yusuke Kozaki (ongoing)
Kowloons Seekers, by Tomo Aoki (completed)
Kurosagi, by Takeshi Natsuhara and Kuromaru (completed)
Last Inning, by Ryu Kamio and Yu Nakahara (ongoing)
Les Gouttes de Dieu, by Tadashi Agi and Shu Okimoto (ongoing)
Line, by Yua Kotegawa (one-shot)
Little Jumper, by Yuzo Takada (completed)
Lost Man, by Kusaba Michiteru (ongoing)
Maison Ikkoku, by Rumiko Takahashi (completed)
Master of Sea/Waga na wa Umishi, by Yuji Takemura and Yoichi Komiri (completed)
Ministry of Finance/Genzaikan Ryoukei Mofu, by Yoshio Nabeta and Hiromi Namiki (completed)
Moon, by Soda Masahito and Tomiyama Kuro (ongoing)
My Favorite Bike, by Katsumi Yamaguchi (completed)
Negima! Magister Negi Magi, by Ken Akamatsu (ongoing)
NOiSE, by Tsutomu Nihei (one-shot)
Nurse Aoi/Ns' Aoi, by Ryo Koshino (ongoing)
O-Parts Hunter, by Seishi Kishimoto (completed)
Officer Monju/Seigi Keikan Monju, by Hiroki Miyashita (ongoing)
Ole!, by Nohda Tatsuki (completed)
Onsen Paradise/Kirikiritei no Buraun Sensei, by Shota Kikuchi (ongoing)
Over Rev!, by Katsumi Yamaguchi and Team39 (completed)
Pandemic, by Masasumi Kakizaki (one-shot)
Priest, by Hyung Min-woo (ongoing)
Project ARMS, by Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Ryōji Minagawa (completed)
Psycho Trader Chinami, by Akihiro Kimura (completed)
Psychometrer Eiji, by Yuma Ando and Masashi Asaki (ongoing)
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin, by George Abe and Masasumi Kakizaki (completed)
RED, by Kenichi Muraeda (completed)
Red Eyes, by Jun Shindo (completed)
Regatta Kimi to Ita Eien, by Hidenori Hara (completed)
Restore Garage 251, by Ryuji Tsugihara (ongoing)
Revolution No. 3, by Kazuki Kaneshiro and Manabu Akishige (completed)
RRR, by Jun Watanabe (ongoing)
Rumic World, by Rumiko Takahashi (ongoing)
Sayonara Papa, by Shin Takahashi
Seizon Life, by Nobuyuki Fukumoto and Kaiji Kawaguchi (completed)
Shadow Skill, by Megumu Okada (ongoing)
Shin Hoero Pen, by Kazuhiko Shimamoto (ongoing)
Show Me The Money/Qiang Qian Nue Shen, by Lin Xin Ying (completed)
SORA! -Flight Attendant Monogatari-, by Yajima Masao and Hikino Shinji (completed)
Soul Eater, by Atsushi Ōkubo (ongoing)
Speed, by Kazuki Kaneshiro and Manabu Akishige (completed)
Subaru, by Masahito Soda (completed)
Suna-ku Gari, by Miyuki Miyabe and Ohishi Hiroto (completed)
Team Medical Dragon, by Akira Nagai and Taro Nogizaka (completed)
Tetsuzin, by Toshihiko Yahagi and Naoyuki Ochiai (completed)
The Ravages of Time, by Chan Mou (ongoing)
Togari, by Yoshinori Natsume (completed)
Tokei Ibun, by Fuyumi Ono and Kajiwara Niki (completed)
Tokyo 23, by Takeshi Arashida and Eiji Hashim (completed)
Tomo'o/Danchi Tomoo, by Oda Tobira (ongoing)
Toubou Bengoshi Narita Makoto, by Yu Takada Yu and Hideki Go (ongoing)
Trafficker, by Yatsunaga Mitsunori (completed)
Train Man: Densha Otoko, by Hidenori Hara (completed)
Under the Rose - Haru no Sanka, by Akari Funato (ongoing)
Until Death Do Us Part, by Hiroshi Takashige and DOUBLE-S (ongoing)
Vagabond, by Takehiko Inoue (ongoing)
Wilderness, by Akihiro Ito (ongoing)
X-Blade, by Ida Tatsuhiko (completed)
xxxHolic, by Clamp (completed)
Yokohama China Town Fantasy/Kachuu Hana, by Yuuji Nishi and Shinji Hikino (completed)
Yugo, by Shinji Makari and Shuu Akana (completed)
Zenith, by Yoshida Satoshi (completed)
Zipang, by Kaiji Kawaguchi (ongoing)
List of josei comics published by Level Comics
16 Engage, by Kaho Miyasaka (completed)
16-sai Kiss, by Kaho Miyasaka (one-shot)
17 Sai No Real/My Real 17, by Yukari Kawachi
A Bride's Story, by Kaoru Mori (ongoing)
A Perfect Day for Love Letters, by George Asakura (completed)
Anata ga Ireba, by Akemi Yoshimura (completed)
Ao no Fūin, by Chie Shinohara
Baby Pop, by Yayoi Ogawa (completed)
Baby-Sitter Gin!, by Waki Yamato (ongoing)
Basara, by Yumi Tamura (ongoing)
Binetsu Shōjo, by Kaho Miyasaka (completed)
Blue Seal, by Chie Shinohara (ongoing)
Bokutachi wa Shitte Shimatta, by Kaho Miyasaka (ongoing)
Bond/Kizuna, by Reiko Momochi (completed)
Bronze Angel, by Chiho Saito (ongoing)
Dawn of The Arcana, by Rei Toma (ongoing)
Daydreaming, by Yoshimura Akemi (ongoing)
Descendants of Darkness, by Yoko Matsushita (ongoing)
Desert Love, by Sachimi Riho (one-shot)
Diamond Life, by Akira Fujiwara (completed)
Duke and I/Koushaku to Watashi, by Chieko Hara (one-shot)
Escape Express, by Chie Shinohara (one-shot)
Exit, by Takami Fujita (ongoing)
Forgive Me Cinnamon/Gomen ne Cinnamon, by Natsuko Hamaguchi (one-shot)
Fullmoon Honeymoon, by Chieko Hara (one-shot)
Ghost Mum Investigator, by Sato Tomokazu (ongoing)
Glass Chair/Garasu no Isu, by Mariko Nakamura (ongoing)
Gokusen, by Kozueko Morimoto (completed)
Grass Crown/Kusakanmuri no Namae, by Akemi Yoshimura (one-shot)
Hagoromo Mishin, by Yuki Kodama (one-shot)
Half an Apple/1/2 no Ringo, by Koyama Yukari (ongoing)
Hana-Kimi, by Hisaya Nakajo (completed)
Honey Hunt, by Miki Aihara (ongoing)
Honoka ni Purple, by Chiho Saito (ongoing)
Hotaru no Hikari, by Satoru Hiura (ongoing)
Ice Forest, by Chiho Saito (ongoing)
Imademo Yume ni Miru, by Akemi Yoshimura (one-shot)
Kare First Love, by Kaho Miyasaka (completed)
Kiss in the Blue, by Kaho Miyasaka (completed)
Life, by Keiko Suenobu (completed)
Little Devil Cafe/Koakuma Cafe, by Oda Aya (completed)
Love of Sue St. Mary, by Kyoko Fumizuki (one-shot)
Misaki 1 No. 01, by Fujisaki Masato (ongoing)
Miso-Com/30 Kon Miso-com, by Rika Yonezawa (ongoing)
My Lovely Honey/Barairo My Honey, by Tomu Ohmi (completed)
Oboreru Knife, by George Asakura (ongoing)
Oh Butterfly Oh Flower/Chou yo Hana yo, by Yuki Yoshihara (ongoing)
Othello, by Satomi Ikezawa (completed)
Pet Shop of Horrors, by Matsuri Akino (ongoing)
Red River, by Chie Shinohara (completed)
Rumour, by Reiko Momochi
Second Engage, by Aikawa Momoko (one-shot)
Secret, by Reiko Momochi
Shinayaka ni Kizutsuite, by Miyuki Kitagawa (completed)
Shōnen Shōjo Romance, by George Asakura (completed)
Sky of Love, by Ibuki Haneda (ongoing)
Sweet Life, by Kyoko Fumizuki
Tensai Family Company, by Tomoko Ninomiya (completed)
The Strange Florist, by Yohna (one-shot)
The Tale of Genji, by Waki Yamato (ongoing)
The Wallflower, by Tomoko Hayakawa (ongoing)
Though I Can't See You/Kimi ga Mienakutemo, by Masami Nagareda (ongoing)
To Be Beautiful/Kirei ni Naritai!, by Miyuki Yorita (completed)
Tobira, by Reiko Momochi
Tokyo Juliet, by Miyuki Kitagawa (completed)
Triple Kiss/Shimaki Ako (completed)
Umi Yori mo Fukaku, by Akemi Yoshimura (ongoing)
Under the Rain/Ame ni Nurete mo, by Honda Keiko (one-shot)
Warui Otoko, by Akemi Yoshimura (one-shot)
X, by Clamp (ongoing)
List of Harlequin comics published by Level Comics
In 2006, Level Comics published Harlequin Comics, which are comics that are adapted from Harlequin novels by Japanese manga artists. The titles that have been published in this line are:
A Business Engagement, by Jessica Steele and Junko Matsufuji
A Flawed Marriage, by Penny Jordan and atomu
An Honorable Thief, by Anne Gracie and Yōko Hanabusa
An Impossible Dream, by Emma Darcy
Dark Heritage, by Emma Darcy and Maki Ohsawa
Emma and the Earl, by Paula Marshall and Chieko Hara
Free Spirit, by Penny Jordan and Ao Chimura
Knight to the Rescue, by Miranda Lee and Yoko Hanabusa
Lady Linford's Return, by Anne Ashley and Yoko Hanabusa
Marriage Without Love, by Penny Jordan and Ayako Shibata
On the Way to a Wedding, by Inggrid Weaver and Mao Karino
The Case of Mesmerizing Boss, by Diana Palmer and Harumo Sanasaki
The Case of the Confirmed Bachelor, by Diana Palmer and Harumo Sanasaki
The Case of the Missing Secretary, by Diana Palmer and Harumo Sanasaki
The Patient Nurse, by Diana Palmer and Misao Hoshiai
The Power and the Passion, by Emma Darcy and Yoko Hanabusa
The Sheikh's Seduction, by Emma Darcy and Hiroko Miura
Wedding Fever, by Lee Wilkinson and Atomu
Wrong Mirror, by Emma Darcy and Takako Hashimoto
Comic book publishing companies of Indonesia
Manga distributors
Book publishing company imprints
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Kenneth Charles Howard (born 26 December 1939) is an English songwriter, lyricist, author and television director.
Life and career
Early years
Howard was born in Worthing, West Sussex. From 1947 to 1956, he attended University College School (UCS) in London, where he became friends with Alan Blaikley, and from 1956 to 1957 he attended Aiglon College in Villars, Switzerland. After a year working with Granada Television in London, he went to Edinburgh University where he read Social Anthropology. Cast vocally together with fellow London student Eva Hermann in Varsity Vanities of 1959, they became known as the vocal duo "Eva and Ken", winning a weekly slot in Scottish Television's musical show Jigtime, singing songs from around the world, and recording for Fontana Records. Howard graduated with an MA degree and began working with BBC Television's drama department in White City.
He also joined forces with two old UCS friends, Alan Blaikley and Paul Overy, with whom, between 1962 and 1963, he ran and edited four issues of a magazine, Axle Quarterly, publishing early work by Melvyn Bragg, Ray Gosling, Alexis Lykiard, Gillian Freeman and Simon Raven amongst others. An offshoot of the Quarterly was a series of five booklets on controversial topics commissioned by Blaikley, Howard and Overy, named Axle Spokes (Axle Publications, 1963). These included Peter Graham's The Abortive Renaissance, a critical examination of British New Wave cinema; John Gale's Sex – Is it easy?, the emergence of the permissive society; Gavin Millar's Pop! – Hit or miss?, the British hit-parade in the early days of the Beatles; Anthony Rowley's Another Kind of Loving, homosexuality in the years when it was still a criminal offence in the UK; and Melville Hardiment's Hooked, an enquiry into the extent and nature of drug addiction in the early 1960s.
International hits in the 1960s and 1970s
In the 1960s and 1970s, in collaboration with Alan Blaikley, Ken Howard composed the music and words for many international top 10 hits, including two UK number ones, "Have I the Right?" (The Honeycombs) and "The Legend of Xanadu" (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich).
Among other performers for whom they wrote were The Herd, Petula Clark, Phil Collins, Sacha Distel, Rolf Harris, Frankie Howerd (the theme song for his film Up Pompeii), Engelbert Humperdinck, Horst Jankowski, Eartha Kitt, Little Eva, Lulu and Matthews Southern Comfort.
Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley were the first British composers to write for Elvis Presley, including the hit "I've Lost You" (1970), which he later performed in the film That's The Way It Is. Their collaboration with the maverick psychiatrist R. D. Laing led to the release of the cult album Life Before Death.
Howard and Blaikley's concept album, Ark 2 (1969), performed by Flaming Youth, drew the comment that Blaikley and Howard "have a wit, gaiety, dignity and melodic flair reminiscent of Leonard Bernstein...which suggest that pop is becoming the serious music – in the proper sense – of the age"
TV themes
Howard and Blaikley were responsible for theme and incidental music for several television drama series including The Flame Trees of Thika (1981) and By the Sword Divided (1983–1985), both subsequently aired in the US on Alistair Cooke’s Masterpiece Theatre, and the BBC's long-running series of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (1984–1992). Howard also scored BBC TV's BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning Shadowlands with Claire Bloom and Joss Ackland in 1985, Mervyn Peake's Mr Pye with Derek Jacobi and Judy Parfitt, and Ronald Neame's last film, Foreign Body in 1986, plus BBC TV's The Black and Blue Lamp (1988) and The Angry Earth in 1989.
Musicals
Howard and Blaikley wrote two West End musicals, Mardi Gras (Prince of Wales Theatre, 1976) and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Wyndham's Theatre, 1984–1986), and two BBC TV musicals Orion (1977) and Ain't Many Angels (1978). They also wrote music and lyrics for the 1990 UK tour of Roald Dahl's Matilda.
Film career
As a British film maker Howard has worked extensively in drama, music and documentary films. These have included (for the BBC) A Penny for Your Dreams, John Lennon – A Journey in the Life, The Miracle of Intervale Avenue, Open Mind, Mr Abbott's Broadway and Sunny Stories; (for ITV) South Bank Show profiles of the New World Symphony Orchestra, Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, Hakan Hardenberger, Johnnie Ray and Maxim Vengerov, EK-OK, and Will Apples Grow on Mars?. The BBC drama A Penny for Your Dreams which he co-wrote, composed and directed won the Festival Award at the Celtic Media Festival in Caernarfon in 1988. His BBC films, Braveheart and Today I am A Man, both won the Royal Television Society Best Children's Factual Award. His EMI DVD Maxim Vengerov: Living the Dream won the BBC Music Magazine Award for Best Music DVD in 2008.
He was a director of Landseer Productions Ltd in London until 2019.
Other activities
His first novel, The Young Chieftain, aimed at a teenage audience, was published by Tamarind Books, a division of Random House, in September 2010. His second novel, Follow Me – A Quest in Two Worlds, was published by Venture Press in November 2017.
Howard is Chairman of The Casey Trust, aiding children worldwide.
References
External links
Website about Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, including a biography and audio of some of their hits
1939 births
Living people
English male songwriters
English film score composers
English male film score composers
English television directors
English music managers
People from Worthing
Alumni of Aiglon College
People educated at University College School
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Tri-campus refer to a collection of three campuses of a university.
Campuses of the University of Toronto
Campuses of the University of Washington
Campuses of the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, and Holy Cross College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
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The horizontal situation indicator (commonly called the HSI) is an aircraft flight instrument normally mounted below the artificial horizon in place of a conventional heading indicator. It combines a heading indicator with a VHF omnidirectional range-instrument landing system (VOR-ILS) display. This reduces pilot workload by lessening the number of elements in the pilot's instrument scan to the six basic flight instruments. Among other advantages, the HSI offers freedom from the confusion of reverse sensing on an instrument landing system localizer back course approach. As long as the needle is set to the localizer front course, the instrument will indicate whether to fly left or right, in either direction of travel.
On the HSI, the aircraft is represented by a schematic figure in the centre of the instrument – the VOR-ILS display is shown in relation to this figure. The heading indicator is usually slaved to a remote compass and the HSI is frequently interconnected with an autopilot capable of following the heading select bug and of executing an ILS approach by following the localizer and glide slope.
On a conventional VOR indicator, left–right and to–from must be interpreted in the context of the selected course. When an HSI is tuned to a VOR station, left and right always mean left and right and TO/FROM is indicated by a simple triangular arrowhead pointing to the VOR. If the arrowhead points to the same side as the course selector arrow, it means TO, and if it points behind to the side opposite the course selector, it means FROM. The HSI illustrated here is a type designed for smaller airplanes and is the size of a standard 3 ¼-inch instrument. Airline and jet aircraft HSIs are larger and may include more display elements.
The most modern HSI displays are electronic and often integrated with electronic flight instrument systems into so-called "glass cockpit" systems.
HSI is part of a remote indicating compass system, which was developed to compensate for the errors and limitations of the older type of heading indicators. The two panel-mounted components of a typical system include the HSI and a slaving control and compensator unit, which pilots can set to auto-correct the gyro error using readings from a remotely mounted magnetic slaving transmitter when the system is set to "slave gyro" mode. In a "free gyro" mode, pilots have to manually adjust their HSI.
See also
Acronyms and abbreviations in avionics
Flight instruments
Notes
Aircraft instruments
Avionics
Radio navigation
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Cwmdonkin Park is an urban park situated in the Uplands area of Swansea, Wales. It has a children's play area, water gardens, tennis courts, and a bowling green. The park is known for its associations with Dylan Thomas, and is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
History
Cwmdonkin Park is a well-preserved urban park from the Victorian era. It sits on 13-acres of land which, at the time of the park's opening, was on the western edge of the town of Swansea. However, the park is now situated within in the residential area of Uplands to the west of the city centre.
The use of the land for public recreation originated with the creation of Cwmdonkin reservoir around 1850 by William Henry Smith and the Swansea Waterworks Company. The records of the Borough of Swansea and The Cambrian newspaper detail the somewhat controversial use of public funds to take over and run "the destructive pit at Cwmdonkin, euphemistically called a reservoir".
The first suggestion to landscape the grounds around the reservoir was raised in 1853, but it was not until 1874 that Swansea Council purchased two fields from Mr James Walters for £4,650 to create the park, which was opened on 24 July 1874. There was some criticism that the park was in an essentially wealthy, middle-class area of town: this led to the emergence of the "Open Spaces Movement" led by William Thomas of Lan, which campaigned for more parks for deprived working class areas.
Cwmdonkin's reservoir was filled in with rubble in the 1950s and landscaped to become a children's play area. The park's octagonal bandstand has also been removed. However, although their surfaces have been replaced by tarmac, the narrow winding paths at the west end of the park that were shown on an Ordnance Survey map in 1878 are largely unchanged.
Associations with Dylan Thomas
Poet Dylan Thomas grew up near the park at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive. This semi-detached house, in which Thomas was born and lived until he was 23, is where he created two-thirds of his published work. The house had been bought by his parents in August 1914 when it was newly-built, and Dylan was born in the front bedroom later that year on 27 October.
Cwmdonkin Park features heavily in Thomas's radio broadcasts, Return Journey and Reminiscences of Childhood, and is the setting for his poem 'The Hunchback in the Park'. In the poem, Thomas mentions 'the fountain basin where I sailed my ship' – a reference to the park's cast-iron drinking fountain, which is still in place today (though the 'chained cup' has been removed).
In addition to the eponymous character of 'the hunchback', the poem also features a park keeper who is widely thought to be John Smallcoombe. Smallcoombe, or 'Old Smally', was Cwmdonkin's first park keeper, and was said to have been terrorised by the young Thomas and his friends. A portrait of a much younger Smallcoombe in high-ranking Salvation Army uniform, painted around 1900, is on display as part of the 'Love the Words' exhibition at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre.
Both Smallcoombe and Cwmdonkin Park also feature in the radio broadcast Return Journey, written by Thomas after Swansea was partially destroyed by the Three Night Blitz in February 1941. The broadcast concludes with Thomas attempting to find the younger version of himself in the park of his childhood, and asking the park keeper if he remembered the young boy who used to taunt him.
Dylan Thomas died in New York on 9 November 1953, aged 39. A memorial stone, inscribed with lines from his poem 'Fern Hill', was placed in Cwmdonkin Park to mark the ten-year anniversary of his death on 9 November 1963. The stone originally came from Cwmrhydyceirw Quarry in the north of the city, where it was picked out by Dylan's friend Vernon Watkins and the sculptor Ronald Cour. Watkins wrote two poems inspired by the choosing of his friend's memorial stone: 'At Cwmrhydyceirw Quarry' and 'Cwmrhydyceirw Elegaics'. The inscription on the stone later became obscured by moss and erosion, before being restored in 2018.
Cwmdonkin Park also features as one of the places mentioned in Watkins' poem 'Ode to Swansea', published in The Atlantic in April 1953.
Other notable people
In addition to the poets Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins, Cwmdonkin Park also has links with several other notable people. In the early 1950s, Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis and Sally Amis lived at 24 The Grove, close to the southern entrance to the park. In 2015, a blue plaque honouring the older Amis was unveiled on the house.
From the age of 11, the professional tennis player Mike Davies learnt to play on the park's courts. Davies enjoyed a sixty-year career in tennis, first as a player (including a period as the number one ranked player in Great Britain and a member of the British Davis Cup team), then later as an entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of the professional game.
Refurbishment
On 7 September 2013, after an extensive £1.39m refurbishment, the park reopened in time to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dylan Thomas's birth. The park is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
References
Parks in Swansea
Registered historic parks and gardens in Swansea
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"Drive (For Daddy Gene)" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Alan Jackson. It was released in January 2002 as the second single from his album, Drive. It reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks in May 2002 and also peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Content
The song is dedicated to Alan's father, Eugene Jackson, who died on January 31, 2000. In the song, Alan recalls as a child he and his father driving around the countryside in an old beat up truck that they fixed up together, as well as a boat they would drive around the lake. In the final verse, Alan talks about sharing his childhood experiences with his daughters and letting them drive his Jeep around their pasture.
Critical reception
Chuck Taylor, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that it's "a heartfelt lyric that allows listeners to share a stroll down memory lane with Jackson and appreciate a kinder, simpler time". Taylor also says that Jackson delivers the song with "the same honesty, integrity, and emotional warmth that has always made listeners powerfully connect to his work".
Music video
The music video, directed by Steven Goldmann and animated by The Illusion Factory, follows the plot of the story by showing scenes of a boy and his father driving around in a speedboat and later in his truck. The scene for the final verse shows Jackson driving around in a Jeep with his three daughters. The whole video is presented as animated pictures in a story coming to life out of a book. The music video was nominated for Music Video of the Year in the top award shows and won the award for Best Music Video in the Country Music Awards.
Cover versions
When Jackson was honored by "CMT Giants," country singer Taylor Swift sang "Drive" as a tribute.
Chart positions
"Drive (For Daddy Gene)" debuted at number 53 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of February 2, 2002.
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
2002 singles
2002 songs
Alan Jackson songs
Songs written by Alan Jackson
Commemoration songs
Music videos directed by Steven Goldmann
Song recordings produced by Keith Stegall
Arista Nashville singles
Songs about fathers
Songs about cars
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A Gun to the Head: A Selection from the Ace of Hearts Era is a compilation album by Mission of Burma, released in 2004.
Track listing
"Academy Fight Song" – 3:09
"(That's When I Reach for My) Revolver" – 3:53
"Fame & Fortune" – 3:35
"(This Is Not A) Photograph" – 1:57
"All World Cowboy Romance" – 5:12
"Trem Two" – 4:11
"Learn How" – 3:57
"Dead Pool" – 4:06
"Mica" – 3:31
"Weatherbox" – 3:28
"Fun World" – 3:41
"That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate" – 2:04
"Einstein's Day" – 4:36
"The Ballad of Johnny Burma" – 2:00
"Peking Spring" (Live) – 3:51
"Go Fun Burn Man" (Live) – 1:56
References
2004 compilation albums
Mission of Burma albums
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Sequencing batch reactors (SBR) or sequential batch reactors are a type of activated sludge process for the treatment of wastewater. SBR reactors treat wastewater such as sewage or output from anaerobic digesters or mechanical biological treatment facilities in batches. Oxygen is bubbled through the mixture of wastewater and activated sludge to reduce the organic matter (measured as biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD)). The treated effluent may be suitable for discharge to surface waters or possibly for use on land.
Overview
While there are several configurations of SBRs, the basic process is similar. The installation consists of one or more tanks that can be operated as plug flow or completely mixed reactors. The tanks have a “flow through” system, with raw wastewater (influent) coming in at one end and treated water (effluent) flowing out the other. In systems with multiple tanks, while one tank is in settle/decant mode the other is aerating and filling. In some systems, tanks contain a section known as the bio-selector, which consists of a series of walls or baffles which direct the flow either from side to side of the tank or under and over consecutive baffles. This helps to mix the incoming Influent and the returned activated sludge (RAS), beginning the biological digestion process before the liquor enters the main part of the tank.
Treatment stages
There are five stages in the treatment process:
Fill
React
Settle
Decant
Idle
First, the inlet valve is opened and the tank is filled, while mixing is provided by mechanical means, but no air is added yet. This stage is also called the anoxic stage. During the second stage, aeration of the mixed liquor is performed by the use of fixed or floating mechanical pumps or by transferring air into fine bubble diffusers fixed to the floor of the tank. No aeration or mixing is provided in the third stage and the settling of suspended solids starts. During the fourth stage the outlet valve opens and the "clean" supernatant liquor exits the tank.
Removal of constituents
Aeration times vary according to the plant size and the composition/quantity of the incoming liquor, but are typically 60 to 90 minutes. The addition of oxygen to the liquor encourages the multiplication of aerobic bacteria and they consume the nutrients. This process encourages the conversion of nitrogen from its reduced ammonia form to oxidized nitrite and nitrate forms, a process known as nitrification.
To remove phosphorus compounds from the liquor, aluminium sulfate (alum) is often added during this period. It reacts to form non-soluble compounds, which settle into the sludge in the next stage.
The settling stage is usually the same length in time as the aeration. During this stage the sludge formed by the bacteria is allowed to settle to the bottom of the tank. The aerobic bacteria continue to multiply until the dissolved oxygen is all but used up. Conditions in the tank, especially near the bottom are now more suitable for the anaerobic bacteria to flourish. Many of these, and some of the bacteria which would prefer an oxygen environment, now start to use oxidized nitrogen instead of oxygen gas (as an alternate terminal electron acceptor) and convert the nitrogen to a gaseous state, as nitrogen oxides or, ideally, molecular nitrogen (dinitrogen, N2) gas. This is known as denitrification.
An anoxic SBR can be used for anaerobic processes, such as the removal of ammonia via Anammox, or the study of slow-growing microorganisms. In this case, the reactors are purged of oxygen by flushing with inert gas and there is no aeration.
As the bacteria multiply and die, the sludge within the tank increases over time and a waste activated sludge (WAS) pump removes some of the sludge during the settling stage to a digester for further treatment. The quantity or “age” of sludge within the tank is closely monitored, as this can have a marked effect on the treatment process.
The sludge is allowed to settle until clear water is on the top 20 to 30 percent of the tank contents.
The decanting stage most commonly involves the slow lowering of a scoop or “trough” into the basin. This has a piped connection to a lagoon where the final effluent is stored for disposal to a wetland, tree plantation, ocean outfall, or to be further treated for use on parks, golf courses etc.
Conversion
In some situations in which a traditional treatment plant cannot fulfill required treatment (due to higher loading rates, stringent treatment requirements, etc.), the owner might opt to convert their traditional system into a multi-SBR plant. Conversion to SBR will create a longer sludge age, minimizing sludge handling requirements downstream of the SBR.
The reverse can also be done, in which SBR Systems would be converted into extended aeration (EA) systems. SBR treatment systems that cannot cope up with a sudden constant increase of influent may easily be converted into EA plants. Extended aeration plants are more flexible in flow rate, eliminating restrictions presented by pumps located throughout the SBR systems. Clarifiers can be retrofitted in the equalization tanks of the SBR.
See also
Aerobic granulation
Diffuser (sewage)
List of waste-water treatment technologies
Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket digestion
References
Environmental engineering
Sewerage
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The Children's Newspaper was a long-running newspaper published by the Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications) aimed at pre-teenage children founded by Arthur Mee in 1919. It ran for 2,397 weekly issues before being merged with Look and Learn in 1965.
Background
Following the successful publication of The Children's Encyclopædia as a part-work between 1908 and 1910, the title was immediately relaunched as The New Children's Encyclopædia. This new edition, published in monthly parts from March 1910, added a supplement in September 1910 entitled The Little Paper which carried news stories of interest to children. This idea was expanded by Mee into the 12-page, tabloid-sized Children's Newspaper which debuted on 22 March 1919, priced 1½d.
Subtitled The Story of the World Today for the Men and Women of Tomorrow, the paper epitomised Mee's values and reflected the editor's twin faiths of Christian ethics and the British Empire. Mee believed that children could be guided to better, more creative lives through education. His aim for the Encyclopaedia was to give the nation's children a firm grasp of subjects such as history and geography and practical. The Children's Newspaper was designed to keep young people up to date with the latest in world news and science.
At its peak, The Children's Newspaper sold 500,000 copies a week. Following Mee's death in 1943, Hugo Tyerman took over the editorial reins. Sales began to fall after the Second World War as rival publications, notably the Eagle, Junior Mirror and Junior Express, began to appear. It was not until the mid-1950s that The Children's Newspaper began to modernise, adding features on television and sports and including interviews with popular sporting personalities.
In January 1962, Fleetway Publications launched the educational weekly entitled Look and Learn. The black and white Children's Newspaper suffered by comparison and despite attempts to attract a teenage audience by adding a column for girls and a 'Pop Spot' featuring photos of popular singers and groups, sales continued to slip. The Children's Newspaper came to an end on 1 May 1965 after 2,397 issues.
In November 2004, the rights to the magazine were purchased by Look and Learn Magazine Ltd. who began posting issues for viewing or downloading on their website in April 2007.
References
External links
History of The Children's Newspaper
Children's magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1919
Magazines disestablished in 1965
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
1919 establishments in the United Kingdom
1965 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
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Talorc son of Muircholach was a king of the Picts from 538 to 549.
The Pictish Chronicle king lists have him reign for eleven years between Cailtram and Drest V. There are many variants of his father's name, including Mordeleg, Murtholoic and Mordeleth.
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History A.D 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
External links
Pictish Chronicle
549 deaths
Pictish monarchs
6th-century Scottish monarchs
Year of birth unknown
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State Route 322 (SR 322) is a state highway in Lincoln County, Nevada. From State Route 321 in Pioche, State Route 322 passes by U.S. Route 93 and heads to the entrance of Spring Valley State Park via the community of Ursine. The route was previously known as State Route 85.
Route description
The route begins with an intersection with State Route 321. SR 322 heads northward through town as Main Street. Upon intersecting U.S. Route 93, the route becomes Eagle Valley Road, heading eastward. SR 322 then turns northward, passing briefly through the town of Ursine before meeting its terminus at Spring Valley State Park.
History
The route was the second highway in the state to be known as State Route 85, established in the 1970s. This designation was removed in favor of SR 322 in the 1976 renumbering of Nevada's state highways.
Major intersections
References
322
Transportation in Lincoln County, Nevada
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Louis Matthew "Sonny" Lubick (born March 12, 1937) is a retired American football coach. He was the 15th head football coach at Colorado State University from 1993 to 2007. Lubick won or shared six Western Athletic Conference or Mountain West Conference titles, guided the program to nine bowl games and was named National Coach of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 1994.
Lubick's success has made him one of the most recognizable figures in the CSU and Fort Collins community, so much so that when Pat Stryker, head of the Bohemian Foundation, decided to donate $15.2 million toward extensive renovations of Hughes Stadium, she did so with the stipulation that the playing surface be named after Lubick. The stadium was then known as Sonny Lubick Field at Hughes Stadium until its closure after the 2016 season. As a result of the donation, CSU added 4,400 new seats and a video scoreboard in 2004, a new press box and suites in 2005, and a new FieldTurf surface in 2006. In 2016, the university announced that the playing surface at its new football stadium, which opened in 2017 as Colorado State Stadium and is now known as Canvas Stadium, would also be known as "Sonny Lubick Field", following an anonymous $20 million donation for that specific purpose.
Montana State
A native of Butte, Montana, and a graduate from Western Montana in 1960, Lubick coached football at Butte High School for eight years, the last two as head coach. His collegiate coaching career began in Bozeman as an assistant at Montana State in 1970 under head coach Tom Parac. Sonny Holland became the head coach in 1971 and led the program for seven seasons, which included a Big Sky Conference title and the Division II national title in 1976. Following Holland's retirement announcement a year later, Lubick was named head coach at MSU in
Lubick's first season in 1978 was wildly successful, as the Bobcats finished overall in the new Division I-AA and second place in the Big Sky at The following year, the Bobcats won the Big Sky with a league record, but were overall and not invited to the four-team playoffs.
The following two years saw decline. In 1980, Montana State plummeted from first to sixth place in the Big Sky, finishing at and in league play. The Bobcats fell to in 1981, and despite his popularity in Bozeman, Lubick was fired.
Assistant coach
Lubick moved on to the Division I-A ranks as an assistant coach. His first stop was at Colorado State as offensive coordinator for Leon Fuller from 1982 to 1984. At the time, the CSU program generally regarded as one of the worst programs in college football. The Rams had been to just one bowl game in their history, and were coming off a winless season in 1981. CSU wasn't overly successful in Lubick's three years as offensive coordinator, winning only 12 games total and only once getting to .500 in WAC play. Nonetheless, Lubick was a popular and likable figure in the Fort Collins and university community, something that would ultimately benefit him later in life.
In 1985, Lubick was hired by Jack Elway at Stanford University as an assistant coach. In 1989, Lubick joined Dennis Erickson's coaching staff at the University of Miami as the Hurricanes' defensive coordinator. While at Miami, Lubick molded a tough and physical Hurricane defense that featured the likes of Cortez Kennedy and Russell Maryland. Miami won two national championships in Lubick's four years there.
Colorado State
1993–1994
Lubick returned to Colorado State in 1993 as head coach. Little had changed at CSU since Lubick had left the program a decade earlier. There had been a brief period of success under Lubick's predecessor, Earle Bruce, that featured the school's first-ever bowl win (32–31 over Oregon in the 1990 Freedom Bowl), but CSU was still considered a graveyard for college football. Since 1960, the program had recorded just seven winning seasons, and in that same span, the program had three winless seasons. Considering it a challenge, Lubick accepted the head coaching position at Colorado State prior to the 1993 season. Faced with a culture of losing, Lubick assembled a staff of assistants that included eventual Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer and began aggressively recruiting and attempting to change CSU's image.
Considering the dreadful state of the program he'd inherited, Lubick made the Rams respectable fairly quickly. After starting 1–4 in his first season, the Rams won three consecutive games to finish the season 5–6, providing hope that the program was headed in the right direction.
However, not even the most optimistic Rams fan anticipated what happened in 1994. Led by a defense that featured future NFL players Sean Moran and Brady Smith, Colorado State flew out of the gate 6–0 heading into a key game on October 8 against the #4 Arizona Wildcats in Tucson, Arizona. Known for their vaunted "Desert Swarm" defense, Arizona had been picked by several publications, including Sports Illustrated, to win the national championship, but it was CSU that took a stunning 14–6 lead. With Arizona driving to the CSU 21 in the second half, Garrett Sand forced a fumble that Moran recovered and ran back 79 yards for a touchdown. Regarded simply as "The Play" in CSU football history, the return ended up being the game-winning score, as Lubick and the Rams went on to win 21–16–at the time, the biggest upset in school history. Near-rioting broke out in Fort Collins as a result of celebrations from students and fans.
A victory the following week over UTEP set up a nationally televised showdown with Utah, also undefeated, at Hughes Stadium. With extra bleachers brought into the 30,000 seat facility, a crowd of 39,107, the largest in Hughes Stadium history, witnessed a heartbreaking 45–31 shootout loss. Despite the setback, the Rams recovered to win their final three games, including a dramatic 44–42 comeback win at Fresno State that sealed CSU's first-ever WAC championship , and their first conference title of any sort since winning the 1955 Skyline Conference title. The victory earned Colorado State their first-ever trip to the Holiday Bowl in San Diego, where the Rams lost a hard-fought 24–14 affair to Michigan. Though the season ended on a down note, the Rams' 10 wins were a program record for victories in a single season. The 10–2 campaign was the start of 10 straight winning seasons under Lubick, and also earned him National Coach of the Year honors from Sports Illustrated.
1995–1999
Lubick's Rams followed up their breakout campaign in 1994 with a strong 1995 season. With Smith earning WAC defensive player of the year honors, and safety Greg Myers earning All American honors for a second straight year, CSU finished the 1995 season with an 8–4 mark and a share of the WAC title. The Rams were once again invited to the Holiday Bowl, but this time they were downed by the Kansas State Wildcats by a score of 54–21. In 1996, the Rams posted another winning season, finishing 7–5 and tied for second place in the WAC. However, a lack of quality wins, and losses to Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, and Wyoming kept the Rams out of a bowl game.
The 1997 season also got off to a difficult start. Colorado State blew a halftime lead against arch-rival Colorado in their second game to lose 31–21. Two weeks later, the Rams suffered a 24–0 shutout loss at home against Air Force to fall to 2–2. It would be the last game Lubick's Rams lost for the rest of the season. Led by quarterback Moses Moreno, the WAC Offensive Player of the Year, running back Kevin McDougal, and future Pittsburgh Steelers linebackers Joey Porter and Clark Haggans, Colorado State stormed through the rest of league play, with a 14–7 victory at Wyoming October 18 the closest they came to defeat. After defeating New Mexico in the WAC Championship Game, the Rams once again went to the Holiday Bowl, this time facing the Missouri Tigers. Down three at halftime, CSU scored 21 second-half points to defeat the Tigers 35–24, netting Lubick his first-ever bowl victory, extending a school record nine-game winning streak (the streak would end at ten in 1998), and finishing what is still the greatest season in school history at 11–2. During this period of success, Lubick reportedly received interest and coaching offers from several other high-profile programs, including Miami and USC. But the commitment to his program, and intense efforts from fans to keep the lovable coach in Fort Collins, lead to Lubick staying at CSU each time. In 1998, Lubick's Rams finished 8–4 and third in the WAC but were not invited to a postseason bowl.
Prior to the 1999 season, eight member schools of the WAC (Air Force, Colorado State, BYU, Utah, San Diego State, Wyoming, New Mexico, UNLV), upset over conference expansion that threatened to balloon travel costs and break up longstanding regional rivalries, broke away from the conference and formed a new league, the Mountain West Conference. But 1999 would be memorable for Ram fans for another reason. Since the day they began playing football, CSU had more often than not failed to beat their in-state rivals, the Colorado Buffaloes. With superior resources and (since moving to the Big Eight in 1947) playing in a superior league, Colorado often overshadowed Colorado State. Lubick had gone 0–3 in his first three games against Colorado. On September 4 the game, dubbed the Rocky Mountain Showdown, was played at a neutral site, Mile High Stadium in Denver for the second straight year, and the Rams were once again considered underdogs against the ranked Buffaloes. However, behind 189 rushing yards and two touchdowns from McDougal, the Rams blew out the Buffaloes 41–14, marking the first time in 13 years that CSU had beaten their in-state rivals. The victory was seen by many as the final step in CSU's ascension to legitimacy. Victories over Wyoming and Air Force also completed the "Front Range" sweep, and the Rams finished 8–4 again, this time tying for the Mountain West title. CSU was invited to the Liberty Bowl, but lost to Southern Miss 23–17.
2000–2005
In 2000 Lubick's Rams, led primarily by Mountain West Conference Offensive Player of the Year Matt Newton, defeated Colorado for the second straight season 28–24. The victory was the catalyst for a 10–2 season that included an outright Mountain West title and a 22–17 Liberty Bowl victory over Louisville. With the graduation of several key seniors and the preseason loss of starting running back Cecil Sapp to injury, Lubick faced a rebuilding year in 2001. The Rams still managed a 7–5 finish and a 45–20 New Orleans Bowl victory over North Texas.
2001 was also notable for the emergence of quarterback Bradlee Van Pelt. A transfer from Michigan State, Van Pelt's dual-threat capability as a running and passing quarterback would make him a two-time conference player of the year. But it was his game in 2002 against Colorado that made Van Pelt a cult hero in Fort Collins. After losing to CU in 2001, Van Pelt and the Rams, bolstered by the return of Sapp, went into their Rocky Mountain Showdown heavy underdogs against a Buffaloes team ranked sixth in the nation. Trailing 14–13 late in the fourth quarter, Van Pelt broke loose on a 26-yard touchdown run. As he neared the goal line, Van Pelt turned and spiked the football off of CU cornerback Roderick Sneed's helmet as he scored what would be the game-winning touchdown. Following the game, Van Pelt called CU "the sorriest sixth-ranked team in the nation he had ever faced". It was the second biggest upset in school history, and further added to Van Pelt's following in Fort Collins. Though the outspoken quarterback occasionally gave Lubick problems, the 2002 season would be another banner season. With Sapp setting the school single-season rushing record, the Rams finished 2002 with a 10–4 record and another Mountain West Conference title.
The 2003 Ram football team was considered by many to be the best team in Lubick's tenure, if not all of CSU history, prior to the season. Though Sapp was gone, Van Pelt and many other seniors returned, and high-profile Colorado transfer Marcus Houston was added to the mix. The Rams entered the season ranked 24th in the nation and with hopes of cracking the Bowl Championship Series. Those hopes were quickly dashed when the Rams were upset in their opener by CU 42–35. Though CSU did make a bowl game for the fifth straight season, the Rams' 7–6 finish was the start of a down period for Lubick and his program. With Van Pelt gone, CSU faced another rebuilding year in 2004. A particularly devastating loss at Folsom Field against Colorado on September 4, in which Lubick later admitted to mismanaging CSU's final series that ended in the Rams failing in three plays from CU's one-yard line to score what would have been a game-winning touchdown in a 27–24 loss, led to a 4–7 finish, the worst year in Lubick's tenure.
The 2005 season started once again with another devastating loss at Colorado on September 3. Leading 21–10 after three quarters, three interceptions allowed CU to tie the game, and Mason Crosby kicked a game-winning 47-yard field goal with five seconds left to give the Buffs a 31–28 win. This time the Rams regrouped. Behind school record-setting wide receiver David Anderson, and buoyed by the surprising emergence of thousand yard sophomore running back Kyle Bell, CSU finished the regular season 6–5 and tied for second place in the Mountain West. One of the highlights of the 2005 season was the Rams maintaining the Bronze Boot with a 39–31 victory over Wyoming in Fort Collins. However, a blowout 51–30 loss to Navy in the Poinsettia Bowl seemed to be another setback.
2006–2008
Following the 2005 season, Lubick signed a three-year contract extension that would have made him CSU's coach through the 2009 season. Unfortunately, the Lubick family was dealt a difficult blow in the offseason. In February, Lubick's youngest son, Marc, was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma cancer. The younger Lubick had just finished his first season as Colorado State's wide receivers coach, a position he took over after his brother Matt left the program in 2005 after spending the previous four seasons coaching that position under his father. Marc Lubick underwent chemotherapy and coached during the 2006 season.
The Rams entered the 2006 season with high hopes, but on and off-field problems quickly beset the program. Just three days prior to the season-opening game against Weber State on September 2, preseason all-conference back Kyle Bell was lost for the season with a torn ACL during a practice. A sophomore in 2005, Bell had run for over 1,000 yards and figured to be the centerpiece of CSU's offense. The Rams defeated Weber State 30–6 but lost another starter prior to their game against archrival Colorado on September 9, this time due to a scandal. Several players, including preseason All-MWC cornerback Robert Herbert, were suspended indefinitely from the program after being charged with fraud in a campus check-cashing scandal. Herbert had arguably been the team's best defender in 2005.
Despite these losses, however, the Rams started the 2006 season strong. On September 9, after three years of frustratingly close losses, the Rams defeated their in-state rival CU 14–10 at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium. After dropping a 28–10 decision at Nevada the following week, CSU rebounded with a road win at Fresno State and homecoming win against UNLV to go to 4–1. Playing at in-state rival Air Force on October 12, the Rams opened up a 21–3 halftime lead and appeared to be well on their way to a fifth victory. However, the Falcons rallied for 21 unanswered points and came back to defeat CSU 24–21. The loss was the beginning of one of the worst slides in Lubick's tenure. The following week Colorado State was shut out 24–0 at Wyoming in the annual Border War series. Home losses to New Mexico and BYU followed, and the Rams ultimately never recovered. Losses to Utah, TCU, and San Diego State concluded a season-ending, seven-game losing streak, leaving CSU 4–8 and tied for last place in the Mountain West, by far the worst year in Lubick's tenure and leading some fans and followers to question whether Lubick should be retained or released.
Lubick's 14th season got an immediate boost with the return of Bell. With their all-conference halfback in the fold, as well as the most seniors returning in Lubick's tenure, the Rams had a team that figured to rebound from the dismal 2006 season. But a difficult early schedule challenged CSU. Opening against Colorado at Invesco Field at Mile High, the Rams had a familiar finish against their in-state rival. Despite big games from Bell and Kory Sperry, CSU squandered an 11-point 3rd quarter lead and went into overtime. On their possession, Caleb Hanie threw an interception in the end zone. CU would win in overtime, 31–28.
Following the CU loss, Colorado State faced one of its most daunting home games ever against then-10th ranked California. The Bears were heavily favored but Colorado State, playing in its home opener, was game. CSU lost a thriller 34–28, their 9th straight loss dating back to 2006. Even worse, the bizarre chain of season-ending ACL injuries to key players continued when Sperry was lost with a torn ACL during the game. It was the 3rd straight season a key player for the Rams had been lost to the injury. Losses continued to mount. Dating back to 2006, CSU lost 11 straight games before defeating UNLV at midseason. Colorado State finished the season 3–9, a new low in the Lubick tenure. The lone bright spot of the year came at the end of the season when the Rams regained the Bronze Boot with a 36–28 win over Wyoming at Hughes Stadium. It would end up being the final game in Lubick's tenure at CSU.
On November 26, 2007, just 3 days after the Wyoming win, it was announced that Lubick was being relieved of his duties as head coach. Colorado State University Athletic Director Paul Kowalczyk announced that Lubick has been offered a public relations position as senior associate athletic director, focused on fundraising and serving as a goodwill ambassador for Rams athletics. Lubick was replaced by Steve Fairchild, a former Lubick assistant who returned after serving as offensive coordinator for the NFL's Buffalo Bills.
Lubick's tenure at Colorado State was one of the most successful rebuilding projects in college football history. When he arrived in 1993, he inherited a program that had been to only two bowl games in its entire history and had only cracked the eight-win barrier six times. He left it as a regional powerhouse with six conference titles (four outright, two shared). He also led the Rams to nine bowl games (winning three) and four 10-win seasons.
On February 2, 2008, the Rocky Mountain News reported that Lubick had declined the university's offer to remain in a fundraising role. The paper quoted a source as saying Lubick, 70, had talked with Florida coach Urban Meyer about joining the Gators' staff. Meyer was an assistant under Lubick in the early 1990s. The job was reported to involve breaking down film and helping with recruiting. However, Lubick did not take that job, and remained in Fort Collins, working with several local businesses, and opening a restaurant (Sonny Lubick Steakhouse) in downtown Fort Collins.
Personal life
Lubick was born to mother Francis and Doc Lubick in Butte, Montana. He grew up with older sister Elizabeth, and younger siblings Donna and Jimmy.
Lubick is married to wife Carol Jo and has three children: daughter Michelle, and sons Matt and Marc, both of whom have been assistant coaches under their father. In fact, his son, Matt Lubick was the offensive coordinator for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. There is a steakhouse in Downtown Fort Collins named after Lubick – Sonny Lubick Steakhouse.
In Butte, Lubick was a friend and classmate of Evel Knievel.
Head coaching record
College
References
1937 births
Living people
Colorado State Rams football coaches
Miami Hurricanes football coaches
Montana State Bobcats football coaches
Stanford Cardinal football coaches
Coaches of American football from Montana
Sportspeople from Butte, Montana
American people of Croatian descent
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Moshe Theumim () is one of Israel's advertising pioneers. He is the CEO of the Gitam / BBDO advertising agency in Tel Aviv. He has served as an advisor to numerous Israeli politicians and businessmen, including Israel former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other cabinet ministers, notably Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Haim Ramon.
Moshe Theumin is also on the board of the Jewish Agency and the Peres Center for Peace. His Israel advertising firm Gitam represents several of Israel's top ten companies, including Teva, Bank Hapoalim, IDB, and Tnuva. International clients include L'Oréal, Nestlé, Sony, Pepsi, Kimberly Clark, Wrigley, Microsoft, and Nokia. He is also a business and media advisor to several Jewish billionaires including Charles Bronfman, Canada Gerry Schwartz, of France, Russia - Israel Arkadi Gaydamak, Los Angeles Haim Saban and Frank Lowy from Australia.
References
Israeli advertising executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Border Crossings is a live, all-request, music-oriented radio show that is broadcast worldwide by the US government-operated Voice of America. Premiering on October 13, 1996, with Judy Massa as host, it is one of VOA's longest-running music programs, surpassed only by Willis Conover's jazz program (1955-1996), and "Country Hits USA" (airing continuously since 1984 and also originally hosted by Massa). Following Massa's retirement in 2001, Border Crossings was hosted by Ray Freeman until his retirement in 2004. The program is currently hosted by Larry London.
References
External links
Border Crossings homepage http://www.voanews.com/archive/border-crossings/latest/706/1441.html
American music radio programs
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Sretensky Monastery () is an Orthodox monastery in Moscow, founded by Grand Prince Vasili I in 1397. It used to be located close to the present-day Red Square, but in the early 16th century it was moved northeast to what is now Bolshaya Lubyanka Street. The Sretensky Monastery gave its name to adjacent streets and byways, namely Sretenka Street, Sretensky Boulevard, Sretensky Lane, Sretensky Deadend, and Sretensky Gates Square. Sretensky Theological Academy is subordinated to the monastery.
History
Unlike most other Russian Orthodox churches of the same name the monastery is not, as might be expected, named after one of the twelve Great Feasts of Russian Orthodox Church Sretenie Gospodne (Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple), with Sretenie being a Church Slavonic word for "meeting".
The origin of the monastery's name comes from the fact that it was built on the spot where the muscovites and the ruling Prince had met the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir on August 26, 1395. It was being moved from Vladimir to Moscow to protect the capital from the imminent invasion of Tamerlane. Soon thereafter, the armies of Tamerlane retreated and the grateful monarch founded the monastery to commemorate the miracle. In 1552, the Muscovites gathered at the walls of the monastery to meet the Russian army returning after the conquest of Kazan.
In 1925, the monastery was closed down. In 1928–1930, most of its buildings were dismantled by the Soviets, including the Church of Mary of Egypt (14th-16th century) and Church of Saint Nicholas (16th century). Only the Cathedral of the Meeting of the Icon of Our Lady of Vladimir (собор Сретения Владимирской иконы Богоматери) with a side chapel to the Nativity of John the Forerunner (built in 1679 by the order of tsar Fyodor Alexeyevich) survived to this day.
Services in the Vladimirsky Cathedral resumed in 1991. The cathedral was transferred to the authority of the Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery in 1994, but nowadays it is a separate monastic establishment, with Patriarch Kirill as its archimandrite. Since 1998 the Monastery is headed by Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) as the Patriarch's representative (namestnik).
The new church
In November 2013, an official body that oversees construction on heritage sites approved the construction of a large "church on blood" dedicated to the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church. The 61-metre-high building, fittingly situated next door to the infamous Lubyanka Prison, was completed in early 2017, in time for the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution when attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church had begun. Architectural preservationists voiced their concern that the outsize building would irrevocably alter the surrounding cityscape.
References
External links
English web-site of Sretensky monastery
Official website
Monasteries in Moscow
Russian Orthodox monasteries in Russia
1397 establishments in Europe
14th-century churches in Russia
Christian monasteries established in the 14th century
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow
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Charles Noland is an American actor, appearing in many TV shows and films, including Blow and Wayne's World. He was a supporting character on ER for 2 seasons and The West Wing for 7 seasons.
Noland also has a lengthy stage career in both acting and directing, including work at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT Theatre, the Kern Shakespeare Festival, Fort Worth Shakespeare Festival, and Incline, The Theatre Group.
Nolan studied drama at the University of California, Davis and University of California, Santa Cruz.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
American male television actors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of California, Davis alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
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Florian Kringe (born 18 August 1982) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
Born in Siegen, Kringe started his career with TSV Weißtal and Sportfreunde Siegen. From 1994 to 2002 he played for Borussia Dortmund at various levels, before joining 1. FC Köln on loan for two years. In 2004, he rejoined his parent club and became a regular in the first team for a number of years. On 31 August 2009, he joined Hertha BSC on a one-year loan, before returning to BVB again.
He left Borussia Dortmund at the end of the 2011–12 season and signed a one-year contract with FC St. Pauli on 24 July 2012.
Honours
Borussia Dortmund
Bundesliga: 2001–02, 2010–11, 2011–12
DFB-Pokal: 2011–12
UEFA Cup Runners Up: 2002
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Siegen
Footballers from Arnsberg (region)
German men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Germany men's B international footballers
Germany men's under-21 international footballers
Germany men's youth international footballers
Sportfreunde Siegen players
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Borussia Dortmund players
Borussia Dortmund II players
1. FC Köln players
Hertha BSC players
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Markus Brzenska (born 25 May 1984) is a German football coach and former player.
Early life
Markus Brzenska's parents, Joachim and Halina, and his older brothers, Sebastian and Marcin, were originally from the Upper Silesian town of Bytom (German Beuthen). They immigrated to Germany as ethnic Germans (Aussiedler), settling in Lünen near Dortmund, where Markus was born a few weeks after their arrival.
Club career
Borussia Dortmund
Without any top level match experience, he was included in the starting line-up by coach Matthias Sammer in Borussia Dortmund's match against Bayern Munich on 9 November 2003. His debut ended in a send-off during the first half.
In 2004, when coach Bert van Marwijk arrived, such like some other players with whom the coach was less familiar, Brzenska's ability was overlooked. Eventually, his effort turned things around. He returned to the first team squad during the first half of the 2004–05 season and established his place in the starting line-up since then.
Energie Cottbus
During the 2008–09 season, he was loaned to 2. Bundesliga club MSV Duisburg. At the end of the loan, Duisburg were unable to pay the transfer fee that Dortmund were asking for, so he returned to Borussia Dortmund who then sold him to Energie Cottbus.
International career
His family comes from Poland so he is eligible to play for Poland. In October 2010 he declared his intention to play for the Poland national team. He played 15 games for the Germany U21 national team.
References
External links
1984 births
Living people
People from Lünen
Footballers from Arnsberg (region)
German men's footballers
German people of Polish descent
Germany men's under-21 international footballers
Borussia Dortmund players
Borussia Dortmund II players
MSV Duisburg players
FC Energie Cottbus players
FC Viktoria Köln players
Men's association football defenders
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Regionalliga players
FC Viktoria Köln managers
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The de Havilland DH.60 Moth is a 1920s British two-seat touring and training aircraft that was developed into a series of aircraft by the de Havilland Aircraft Company.
Development
The DH.60 was developed from the larger DH.51 biplane. The first flight of the ADC Cirrus-powered prototype DH.60 Moth (registration G-EBKT) was carried out by Geoffrey de Havilland at the works airfield at Stag Lane on 22 February 1925. The Moth was a two-seat biplane of wooden construction, it had a plywood covered fuselage and fabric covered surfaces, a standard tailplane with a single tailplane and fin. A useful feature of the design was its folding wings which allowed owners to hangar the aircraft in much smaller spaces. The then Secretary of State for Air Sir Samuel Hoare became interested in the aircraft and the Air Ministry subsidised five flying clubs and equipped them with Moths.
The prototype was modified with a horn-balanced rudder, as used on the production aircraft, and was entered into the 1925 King's Cup Race flown by Alan Cobham. Deliveries commenced to flying schools in England. One of the early aircraft was fitted with an all-metal twin-float landing gear to become the first Moth seaplane. The original production Moths were later known as Cirrus I Moths.
Three aircraft were modified for the 1927 King's Cup Race with internal modifications and a Cirrus II engine on a lowered engine mounting. The original designation of DH.60X (for experimental) was soon changed to Cirrus II Moth; the DH.60X designation was re-used in 1928 for the Gipsy I powered version with a split axle. The production run for the DH.60X Cirrus Moth was replaced by later Gipsy powered variants, but it was still available to special order.
Gipsy engine
Although the Cirrus engine was reliable, its manufacture was not. It depended on components salvaged from World War I–era 8-cylinder Renault engines and therefore its numbers were limited by the stockpiles of surplus Renaults. de Havilland therefore decided to replace the Cirrus with a new engine designed by Frank Halford built by his own factory. In 1928 when the new de Havilland Gipsy I engine was available a company DH.60 Moth G-EBQH was re-engined as the prototype of the DH.60G Gipsy Moth.
Next to the increase in power, the main advantage of this update was that the Gipsy was a completely new engine available in as great a number as the manufacture of Moths necessitated. The new Gipsy engines could simply be built in-house on a production-line side by side with the Moth airframes. This also enabled de Havilland to control the complete process of building a Moth airframe, engine and all, streamline productivity and in the end lower manufacturing costs. While the original DH.60 was offered for a relatively modest £650, by 1930 the price of a new Gipsy-powered Moth was still £650, this in spite of its state-of-the-art engine.
A metal-fuselage version of the Gipsy Moth was designated the DH.60M Moth and was originally developed for overseas customers, particularly Canada. The DH.60M was also licence-built in Australia, Canada, the United States and Norway. Also in 1931 a variant of the DH.60M was marketed for military training as the DH.60T Moth Trainer.
In 1931 with the upgrade of the Gipsy engine as the Gipsy II, de Havilland inverted the engine and re-designated it the Gipsy III. The engine was fitted into a Moth aircraft, which was re-designated the DH.60G-III Moth Major. This sub-type was intended for the military trainer market and some of the first aircraft were supplied to the Swedish Air Force.
The DH.60T Moth was re-engined with the Gipsy III and was initially re-designated the DH.60T Tiger Moth. The DH.60T Tiger Moth was further modified with swept back mainplanes and the cabane struts were moved forward to improve egress from the front cockpit in case of emergency. The changes were great enough that the aircraft was again re-designated, becoming the DH.82 Tiger Moth.
Design
Apart from the engine, the new Gipsy Moth was still a standard DH.60. Except for changes to accommodate the engine the fuselage remained the same as before, the exhaust still ran alongside the left side of the cockpits and the logo on the right side still read 'De Havilland Moth'. The fuel tank was still housed in the bulging airfoil that formed the centre section of the upper wing. The wings could still be folded alongside the fuselage and still had de Havilland's patented differential ailerons on the bottom mainplanes and no ailerons on the top ones. Colour options still remained as simple as before: wings and tail in "Moth silver", fuselage in the colour the buyer chose.
Operational history
As there was no real comparison between the original DH.60 and the new DH.60G, the Gipsy Moth quickly became the mainstay of British flying clubs as the only real recreational aircraft in the UK. By 1929 it was estimated that of every 100 aeroplanes in Britain, 85 were Moths of one type or another, most of them Gipsy Moths. This was in spite of the fact that with de Havilland having switched from the Cirrus engine to its own Gipsy engine, surplus Cirruses were now pouring into the market and a trove of Cirrus-powered aircraft like the Avro Avian, the Klemm Swallow, and the Miles Hawk started fighting for the flying club and private market.
Although replaced in production by the DH.82 Tiger Moth, the Gipsy Moth remained the mainstay of the British flying scene up to the start of WWII. The war however marked the end of the Gipsy Moth and post-war it was quickly replaced by ex-RAF Tiger Moths pouring into the civilian market.
DH.60 Moth in flying clubs
The DH.60 arrived at the right spot at the right time. Next to the Moth's maiden flight, 1925 also marked the birth of the first five Royal Aero Club flying schools and clubs and with its simplicity and performance, the Moth was the aircraft of choice to equip the clubs. De Havilland then used this income to concentrate on developing the Moth further into a mass-produced, mass-market aircraft. The Moth made the aero clubs at least just as much as the aero clubs made the Moth. The Moth remained the mainstay of the clubs even long after more modern aircraft became available.
With de Havilland's habit of painting the wings and tailplane of the Moth in silver also came the clubs' habit of distinguishing their aircraft by painting their fuselage in one distinctive club colour. Aircraft of the London Aero Club had a yellow fuselage (plus yellow struts and wheel caps); those of Newcastle a red one. Green stood for the Midlands and blue for Lancashire. Registration letters were black on the wings and, depending on the club colour, either black or white on the fuselage.
As the Royal Aero Club marketed the idea of flying clubs to other members of the Commonwealth, the de Havilland Aircraft Company followed suit and soon established subsidiaries in Australia and Canada to stock the local flying clubs there with Gipsy Moths. Canadian Moths were offered with a detachable canopy for winter flying. Other factories to licence-build the Gipsy Moth were the Larkin Aircraft Supply Company in Australia (which built 32 DH60 Cirrus Moths for the RAAF), the Munitions Supply Board built 6 DH60M's and Commonwealth Dockyards (Codock) built 1 DH60G also for the RAAF, while Genairco built 3 DH60X, and de Havillands own factory in Australia locally built 7 DH60G Gipsy Moths.
Other manufacturers of the DH60 were Morane-Saulnier in France (40 built), the Moth Aircraft Corporation in the U.S. (18 DH60G built and 161 DH60M built) in the United States. A further 40 built were by de Havilland Canada and 10 built by the Norwegian Army Aircraft Factory in Norway.
(Note that the General Aircraft Company, (Genairco) in Australia, after overhauling and repairing 6 DH60 Cirrus Moths for the RAAF and then building 3 local examples of the DH60X Cirrus II Moth, also went on to design and build their own derivative "Aussie Moth" biplane. This Genairco design was strongly influenced and based on the DH60 fuselage layout but with intended improvements including a wider fuselage able to seat 2 in the front cockpit, deeper cockpit doors and with a different wing and rudder profile. While initially called a "Genairco Moth" and now more correctly called a "Genairco Biplane", these later 9 aircraft (with 2 built as cabin bi-planes) are not variants of the DH60 Moth despite some DH production lists including them.)
DH.60 Moth in private use
Most Gipsy Moths belonged to flying clubs, but after the Prince of Wales purchased a Gipsy Moth (G-AALG) for his own private flying, the aircraft became popular with high society. In addition the Moth was used for many record flights. The 'Lonely Flyer' Sir Francis Chichester flew his Gipsy Moth from England to Australia, on to New Zealand and then across the Pacific to Japan. Although he originally planned to fly around the world, a crash in Japan convinced him to switch to sailing. (Chichester subsequently named his yachts 'Gipsy Moth II', 'Gipsy Moth III', and most famously, 'Gipsy Moth IV'.)
Of the aviatrixes, London secretary Amy Johnson flew her Gipsy Moth (G-AAAH "Jason") 11,000 mi (17,703 km) to Australia in 1930, and Jean Batten used a Gipsy Moth for her flights from England to India and England to Australia (the aircraft used to fly to India was G-AALG borrowed from Victor Dorée, who then owned the plane. In March 1928 Mary Bailey flew her Cirrus Moth solo from Croydon to Cape Town, a trip of three weeks, and returned the following year.
DH.60 Moth in military service
Although the DH.60T was aggressively marketed as a military trainer, response was rather lukewarm. In particular the RAF initially purchased only a handful of aircraft for testing and found that many aspects of the Moth did not suit their method of military flight training. However, by 1931 the RAF had acquired 124 DH.60M Moths and these were used by the Central Flying School and other training units until 1939.
Moth trainers were however ordered by a number of foreign air forces including those of Argentina, Australia (as noted above), Austria, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the flying arm of the Danish Navy. Finnish Valtion lentokonetehdas licence-built 21 Moth trainers of which 18 were purchased by Finnish Air Force. First examples were equipped with Cirrus engine while 11 later ones had Hermes engine, X-type landing gear struts and a locally built engine cover which earned these the name "Härkä-Moth" ("Bull Moth").
Two Gipsy Moths were purchased by the Paraguayan government during the Chaco War. They were used as liaison aircraft. One was lost in a fatal accident at Ñu-Guazú Air Force Base and the other survived the war. It was transferred to the Paraguayan Aeroclub in 1936.
The bulk of military Moths however were civilian sport aircraft impressed by their countries air forces and used as trainers and liaison aircraft. Like this, civilian Moths ended up flying for both the Nationalist and Republican air forces during the Spanish Civil War. This was repeated on a larger scale during the Second World War where Moths ended up flying, amongst others, for the air forces of Egypt, China (with several captured ex-Chinese aircraft flying for the Japanese), Ireland, Italy, Iraq, Belgian Congo, Dutch East Indies (later taken over by the Indonesian AF), South Africa, New Zealand and the U.S. Navy.
Variants
(Variants are listed in chronological order)
DH.60 Moth, (later known as the Cirrus Moth or Cirrus I Moth)
Prototype and early production aircraft powered by a ADC Cirrus engine. (later described as a Cirrus Mk I Engine). 8 pre-production and 31 production aircraft built.
DH.60X Cirrus II Moth (initially known as the Moth Type X or Experimental Moth)
Introduced in 1927 this variant had a slightly larger wingspan by 1 foot, increased length by 2.5 inches and decreased distance between the upper and lower wings. Powered by an uprated ADC Cirrus Mark II engine, 333 built. (many were later upgraded to Cirrus Mk III or Cirrus Hermes engines, and eventually to Gipsy engines)
DH.60 Genet Moth
A small number of DH.60 Moths were fitted with the Armstrong Siddeley Genet radial engine. The type was used by the Royal Air Force Central Flying School for display purposes, six built.
DH.60G Gipsy Moth
First major overhaul of the design: Cirrus engine replaced by a 100 hp (75 kW) de Havilland Gipsy I engine.
DH.60GII Gipsy II Moth
Powered by a Gipsy II engine. Commonly referred to as a "Gipsy Moth" just like the version.
DH.60X Gipsy Moth
re-use of the DH60X designation to describe the initially optional 'X' braced undercarriage version of the early Gipsy Moth. (X-style undercarriage became standard for the DH.60M and all subsequent models)
(Production for all Gipsy Moth I and Gipsy Moth II variants: 595 built by de Havilland at Stag Lane Aerodrome, 40 built by Morane-Saulnier in France, 18 built by the Moth Corporation in the United States, and 32 built by Larkin Aircraft Supply Company (LASCO), 3 by General Aircraft Company (Genairco), 1 by Codock (Cockadoo Island Dockyard and Engineering Co Ltd), and 7 by de Havilland Aircraft Pty Ltd (DHA) in Australia.)
DH.60M Moth (Metal Moth)
The original plywood box fuselage replaced with a construction of metal stringers covered with doped fabric. Although overall weight increased, maintenance became easier and metal fuselages became standard for all later versions. Four pre-production aircraft, 536 built by de Havilland at Stag Lane, 40 built by de Havilland Canada, 161 built by the Moth Corporation in the United States, 10 built by the Norwegian Army Aircraft Factory in Norway, and 6 by the Munitions Supply Board in Australia.
DH.60T (Moth Trainer)
Trainer variant of the Metal-Gipsy Moth. Rearranging of the inner wing bracing wires allowed for easier access to the front cockpit, a necessity for military pilots wearing parachutes. Two prototypes and 47 production aircraft were built.
DH.60G III Moth
In 1931 the company took a de Havilland Gipsy II engine and turned it upside down and re-designated it the Gipsy III, this engine was then fitted to the Moth to create the DG.60G III Moth, 57 built including 10 as fuselages for the Royal Air Force as 'Queen Bee' target drones.
DH.60G III Moth Major
In 1934 from the 58th DH.60G III onwards, the engine name was changed to Gipsy Major and the resulting variant was renamed the DH.60G III Moth Major. 96 were built including 10 as fuselages for the Royal Air Force as 'Queen Bee' target drones, production ending in May 1935. A final Moth Major was built by the de Havilland Technical School, giving total production of the DH.60G III of 154.
DH.60T (Tiger Moth Prototypes)
Eight prototypes with swept wings for a proposed RAF trainer. Because of the substantial changes, the aircraft entered production as the DH.82 Tiger Moth.
Note: Variant information taken from Bransom.
Operators
Military operators
Royal Australian Air Force
Austrian Air Force (1927–1938)
Belgium Air Force – Postwar, one aircraft.
Force Publique
Burma
Burma Volunteer Air Force – One aircraft only.
Brazilian Air Force
Brazilian Army
Brazilian Naval Aviation
Royal Canadian Air Force
Chinese Nationalist Air Force
Chilean Air Force
Cuban Navy
Danish Army Flying Corps
Danish Naval Air Service
Royal Egyptian Air Force
Imperial Ethiopian Air Force
Finnish Air Force: 23 total, including 18 Finnish license-built versions and 5 former civilian aircraft. In use between 1929 and 1944, registrations MO-93, MO-94, MO-96–104, MO-106–116.
Luftwaffe (small numbers)
Hellenic Air Force
Hungarian Air Force
Irish Air Corps
Iraqi Air Force
(captured from China)
Norwegian Army Air Service
New Zealand Permanent Air Force
Royal New Zealand Air Force
No. 4 Squadron RNZAF
Paraguayan Air Arm
Transport Squadron during the Chaco War
Polish Air Force
Portuguese Navy
Royal Romanian Air Force
South African Air Force
Spanish Republican Air Force
Spanish Air Force
Swedish Air Force
Royal Air Force
Central Flying School
Royal Air Force College
No.5 Flying Training School
No. 24 Squadron RAF
No. 173 Squadron RAF
No. 510 Squadron RAF
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
United States Navy – One DH.60 purchased for use by the US Naval attaché in London.
Royal Yugoslav Air Force
Yugoslav Royal Navy
Surviving aircraft
There are currently 31 de Havilland DH.60 Moths on the UK aircraft register (as of August 2017).
There are currently 19 DH.60 Moths on the Australian aircraft register (as of 7 May 2023).
There are also currently 7 static display DH60's in Australia (a DH60X, 3 DH60G's and 2 DH60M's.)
There is one DH.60M at Kjeller Aerodrome outside Oslo, Norway. Built by de Havilland in March 1929, it was shipped to Australia, registered as VH-UKC and won the air race between Sydney and Perth that same year. Crashed in May 1930 and subsequently stored. Remains bought by Kjeller Flyhistoriske Forening in Norway in 2007, and rebuilt to as new standard over a ten-year period. Airworthy, with new registration LN-KFM.
The oldest surviving DH.60 Moth (G-EBLV built in 1925, 8th example built), remains airworthy as of 2023, and although previously was owned and operated by the BAe Systems Heritage Flight in the UK, it has now been donated to the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden Aerodrome where it has been based and operated for many years.
A 1928 DH.60X Moth (G-EBWD) has been based at a single aerodrome (Old Warden) for longer than any other aeroplane in aviation history. This Moth was originally Richard Shuttleworth's own private aircraft in which he learnt to fly and during its career was extensively modified with an original Cirrus Hermes engine but an X-legged undercarriage and different windshields on the front and rear cockpit. It remains airworthy as of August 2017 and is displayed at British airshows during the summer months.
VH-UAE is the world's second oldest DH.60 still airworthy (serial number 192, constructed in 1925, 12th example built), the first DH60 to be exported, and was first registered in Australia as G-AUAE on 5 November 1925, and later updated to the current VH- registration markings, making it the longest registered, airworthy aircraft in Australia. It was impressed into RAAF for training service during WW2 (A7-88), and disposed of in 1945. The original 'VH' registration was re-issued. Other than a brief restoration time during 2000, the aircraft has been airworthy and registered since 1925.
A 1928 built DH.60X Moth coded G-EXBU, but with Spanish registration EC-KCY, is kept in flying condition and takes part regularly on the monthly air show held by the Fundación Infante de Orleans in the aerodrome of Cuatro Vientos, in Madrid.
Aircraft on display
The following DH.60 Moth aircraft are on public display in museums:
DH.60G Gipsy Moth, G-AAAH, Jason used by Amy Johnson is on static display at the London Science Museum.
DH.60G Gipsy Moth, formerly CC-FNG, now marked as 'LAN 32' at Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio de Chile, Chile.
DH 60G Gipsy Moth, formerly VH-ULJ, c/n 1074, on static display at The South Australian Aviation Museum, Port Adelaide, South Australia.
DH 60G Gipsy Moth, formerly VH-UKV, "Diana" c/n 1066 on static display at the Australian National Aviation Museum,(Moorabbin Air Museum) Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia.
DH60G Gipsy Moth, OH-VKM on static display at Malmö Museums, Sweden.
DH60X Cirrus Moth, OH-EJA, ”Jurre”, on static display at Finnish Air Force Museum, Finland
Specifications (DH.60G Gipsy Moth)
See also
References
Notes
Bibliography
Bransom, Alan. The Tiger Moth Story, Fourth Edition. Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1991. .
External links
Amy Johnson exhibit at Science Museum (archived)
DH.60 Gipsy Moth displayed at the Royal Air Force Museum (archived)
DH.60X Cirrus Moth, G-EBWD at the Shuttleworth Collection
The de Havilland Moth Club
Details of Chilean preserved DH.60G at Chile's Aviation Museum (archived)
DH.60G aircraft on the UK aircraft register
1920s British civil utility aircraft
1920s British sport aircraft
DH.060 Moth
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1925
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Kosi Saka (born 4 February 1986) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for German Oberliga side Sportfreunde Baumberg. He made three appearances for the DR Congo national team in 2008.
Club career
In the 2006–07 season, Saka played for FC Carl Zeiss Jena on loan from Hamburger SV. After being released by Hamburger SV in July 2009, he spent a half year without a club, and on 10 January 2010, he signed for KFC Uerdingen.
International career
Born in Zaire, Saka earned three caps for the DR Congo national team.
References
External links
Living people
1986 births
Democratic Republic of the Congo men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Democratic Republic of the Congo men's international footballers
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
Hamburger SV players
Hamburger SV II players
Borussia Dortmund players
Borussia Dortmund II players
FC Carl Zeiss Jena players
KFC Uerdingen 05 players
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate men's footballers
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
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