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Emily Atack

Emily Atack 2010-01-10T20:34:32Z Emily Atack (born 18th December 1989, Bedfordshire, London) is a British actress best known for her role as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the award winning E4 series - The Inbetweeners. She is the daughter of the actress Kate Robbins. She has also appeared in Heartbeat (2008) and Blue Murder (2007). Atack is currently starring in ITV's Dancing On Ice and is partnered with professional ice skater Fred Palascak. , Emily Atack 2011-12-29T21:14:20Z Emily Jane Atack (born 18 December 1989) is a British actress best known for her role as Charlotte Hinchcliffe in the award winning E4 series The Inbetweeners. She also appeared in Heartbeat (2008), Blue Murder (2007) and was featured in a number of lads' mags. Born in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, she is the daughter of actress Kate Robbins and musician Keith Atack. Atack was a contestant in ITV's Dancing on Ice in early 2010, partnered with professional ice skater Fred Palascak; they were voted off in the eighth week. In 2011, Atack presented a stylised public service announcement titled Ready, Steady, Drink, showing the dangers of drinking alcohol. Atack has two siblings, both born in Bedfordshire: Martha Elizabeth (born 1991) and George Timothy (born 1992). On Ice Series 5

Sam Miller

Sam Miller 2006-08-27T17:33:02Z 1] Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006) (TV) 2] "Tripping Over" (2006) TV Series (episodes 1-3) 3] The Quatermass Experiment (2005) (TV) 4] Quite Ugly One Morning (2004) (TV) 5] "Murder City" 6] "Spooks" (2002) TV Series (episodes 9 and 10) ... aka MI-5 (USA) 7] Elephant Juice (1999) 8] Among Giants (1998) 9] "This Life" (1996) TV Series 10] King Girl (1996) (TV) 1] Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)(TV) (voice) . ... Narrator 2] Murder East - Murder West (1990) (TV) . ... Christian 3] The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (1988) (TV) . ... Air Reconnaissance Officer 1] Elephant Juice (1999) (co-producer), Sam Miller 2007-11-23T20:25:02Z Sam Miller is a British television director. He is best known for his work on the BBC television dramas Cardiac Arrest and

2008_NASCAR_Sprint_All-Star_Race

2008_NASCAR_Sprint_All-Star_Race 2007-11-19T05:17:49Z Template:Future-sport Template:2008 Sprint Cup The 2008 Sprint All-Star Challenge is scheduled to be run on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, a suburb outside of Charlotte. The All-Star Challenge is an annual race that involves winners of the entire 2007 and 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup races through the Dodge Avenger 500, either as a driver or team owner, and also includes past winners of the Winston/NETXEL Cup series from 1998 through 2007, as well as past winners of The Winston/NEXTEL All-Star Challenge from said decade. These drivers are eligible to race through the end of the 2007 season: * Sam Hornish, Jr. would be eligible if Penske Racing transferred the #2 team to the #77 team ^ Michael Waltrip Racing could place Terry Labonte in the #55 Toyota as Labonte drove for 3 races in that car + Although Jarrett announced that he is retiring after the 2008 Goody's Cool Orange 500, he would still be eligible to run the #44 Toyota in the All-Star Challenge, 2008_NASCAR_Sprint_All-Star_Race 2008-09-20T16:18:08Z The Sprint Showdown and Sprint All-Star Race XXIV were run on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, a suburb outside of Charlotte. The events were telecast live at 7 PM US EDT on SPEED Channel with radio broadcast on MRN Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio beginning at 6:15 PM US EDT. The All-Star Race is an annual race that involves winners of the entire 2007 and 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races (known as the NEXTEL Cup Series in 2007) through the Dodge Challenger 500, either as a driver or team owner, and also includes past championship drivers of the Winston/NETXEL Cup series from 1998 through 2007, as well as winning drivers of Sprint All-Star Races XIV until XXIII, known through this period as either "The Winston" or the "NEXTEL All-Star Challenge". NOTE: Only the driver's first accomplishment is listed, as most of those drivers listed have attained more than one of the previously mentioned accomplishments to qualify. All former All-Star Race winners are referenced by the current use of the Roman Numeral designation. For example, Ryan Newman won All-Star Race XVIII, but he also won the 2008 Daytona 500. Sprint Cup champions of the past ten years, winners of Sprint All-Star Races XIV through XXIII, and all race winners (driver and owner) from the 2007 Daytona 500 through the 2008 Dodge Challenger 500 have exemptions into the race, as will the top two finishing drivers in the Sprint Showdown as well as the fan vote winner from said Showdown. The following drivers are eligible: + — Dale Jarrett is retiring after the 2008 Food City 500 marking his final driving appearance. § — Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is eligible as a past All-Star Race winner as a driver, while the #8 team is also eligible as Mark Martin, a past All-Star Race winner, is scheduled to drive in this race. ± — Kyle Busch and Casey Mears are eligible as both won races in 2007 for different teams. Kyle Busch won the 2007 Food City 500 as the driver of the #5 team, while Mears won the 2007 Coca-Cola 600 with the #25 team (now the #88 team). Kyle Busch's #18 team won the 2008 Kobalt Tools 500 and 2008 Aaron's 499 and is eligible for the 2009 race as well. ≠ — Sprint All-Star Race XXIII Champion. The teams that have not qualified for the All-Star Race were in a 40-lap race divided into two "halves" (two 20-lap segments) with a five-lap break to allow for teams to have the option to make a pit stop. The top two drivers from this race, along with a fan ballot that selected the third (from the internet, Sprint cellular phone subscribers, Sprint retail locations, and on-site fan voting up to that night) among those on the lead lap and in the Top 50 in driver points will qualify for the main event. The cell phone votes counted double those of the other methods. Qualifying was the standard NASCAR two-lap event, with the fastest lap counting, and Elliott Sadler winning said pole. However, during the first segment, Sadler was knocked out of the race when A. J. Allmendinger bumped him high into the Turn Two wall, and Allmendinger and Sam Hornish, Jr. automatically qualified, while Kasey Kahne won the fan vote. The race format of four "quarters" (like football or professional basketball) was slightly modified this season. In Sprint All-Star Race XXIII, the quarters were each 20 laps. This year, as announced at NASCAR's Media Tour, five laps were added to each segment to have a total of 100 laps (or four 25-lap quarters) in the race. The remainder of the race format, adopted last year, was unchanged. The qualifying for this race is a three-lap cumulative timed event with a mandatory four-tire pit stop arriving at the pit road speed of 45 MPH but leaving as full throttle after either the first or second qualifying lap. Kyle Busch took advantage of numerous miscues by others (including penalties for speed violations or loose lug nuts) to win the pole position. Kahne became the first to qualify from the fan vote to win, only taking a splash of gas to dominate the final quarter which, along with the rest of the race, went caution free.

Yoshio_Kodaira

Yoshio_Kodaira 2007-11-12T13:01:32Z Yoshio Kodaira (小平 義雄, Kodaira Yoshio, January 28, 1905 - October 5, 1949) was a Japanese serial killer and soldier. Kodaira joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1923. He worked on the ground in the Jinan Incident. He killed six Chinese soldiers in 1928 and was admired. He raped or murdered many Chinese women in China. In Taku Forts, he stuck a sword into the belly of an expectant mother and deprived her of her fetus. He married in 1932 after he returned to Japan. His wife ran away from him because he had a child by another woman. He became angry. On July 2, 1932, he killed his father-in-law and injured six others with an iron rod. He was arrested, and he was released in 1940. On August 20, 1946, he was arrested again. He admitted that he raped and murdered ten women between May 25, 1945 and August 6, 1946 in Japan. The court admitted seven of ten murders. At the fifth murder, he raped a dead woman. He was suspected of three other unproved murders. He was executed on October 5, 1949. Based on his case, David Peace published a novel Tokyo Year Zero in 2007. This article related to crime in Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This biographical article related to crime is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This biographical article related to the military of Japan is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Yoshio_Kodaira 2009-07-22T06:17:51Z Yoshio Kodaira (小平 義雄, Kodaira Yoshio, January 28, 1905 – October 5, 1949) was a Japanese rapist and serial killer. He was also one of the few ex-soldiers who admitted that the Japanese military had committed atrocities before the Second Sino-Japanese War. Kodaira suffered from stuttering during his childhood. He joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1923. He participated in the Jinan Incident. He killed six Chinese soldiers in 1928, and raped or murdered many women in China. In Taku Forts, he stuck a sword into the belly of a pregnant woman. The exact number of his victims in China is unknown. Kodaira married in 1932 after he returned to Japan. His wife eventually left him because he had a child by another woman. He became angry and attacked his wife's household, killing his father-in-law and injuring six others with an iron rod on July 2, 1932. He was arrested, and was released in 1940. He is believed to have raped and murdered ten women between May 25, 1945 and August 6, 1946 in Tochigi and Tokyo. After the fifth murder, he committed necrophilia with the corpse. His murder victims included teenagers. He also raped about 30 women in addition to his murder victims. On August 20, 1946, Kodaira was arrested. He denied responsibility for three murders in the court, and the district court tried him for seven of his ten suspected murders on June 18, 1947. One of the victims was never identified. The Supreme Court sentenced him to death on November 16, 1948. He was executed on October 5, 1949. On his final day, he said "I am fortunate to be able to die on such a calm and peaceful day. "He smoked a cigarette hikari and remained calm while he was being executed. Based on his case, David Peace published a novel Tokyo Year Zero in 2007.

Marion_Scott_(musicologist)

Marion_Scott_(musicologist) 2008-09-22T22:07:51Z Marion Margaret Scott (July 16, 1877 - December 24, 1953) was an English violinist, musicologist, writer, music critic, editor, composer, and poet. Marion M. Scott was the eldest of three daughters born in London to Sydney Charles Scott (1849-1936), a solicitor and gifted pianist, and Annie Prince Scott (1853-1942), an American who was born and reared in St. Petersburg, Russia, where her father George Prince managed William Ropes and Company, a Boston, Massachusetts-based family mercantile business. Born at Lewisham, Marion Scott was privately educated. She spent her childhood in Norwood where The Crystal Palace became central to her early life. Her liberal parents, who were social activists, valued the arts and enrolled Scott in the Crystal Palace School of Art when she was about four years old. Scott began piano lessons at an early age but found her teacher uninspiring. Eventually she abandoned the piano for the violin, an instrument she believed possessed a soul. By the age of 15, Scott was performing regularly around London with her father as accompanist, winning acclaim from audiences and critics. Her parents purchased a Guadagnini violin for her. Marion Scott entered the Royal College of Music in 1896 to study violin with Fernandez Arbos (1863-1939), piano with Marmaduke Barton (1865-1938), and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) and Walford Davies (1869-1941). She, not Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), was among Stanford’s first female pupils, who also included Mary Wurm (1860-1938) and Katharine Ramsay (later the Duchess of Athol). Scott gained her ARCM in 1900 but continued her student affiliation with the RCM until 1903. She returned to the college in 1906 when she along with Dr. Emily Daymond (1866-1949) and Aubrey Aiken Crawshaw founded the Royal College of Music Student Union. Scott became the Union secretary, a position equivalent to that of executive director. She developed the popular “At Homes” that offered students an opportunity to come together to perform their music and to socialize. These events were often held at the Scott family’s elegant home on Westbourne Terrace. Later Scott served as editor of the Royal College of Music Magazine (1939-1944), carrying it through the difficult war years from her temporary residence in Bridgwater, where she and her sister Stella had gone with their elderly mother. In 1908, Scott founded her own string quartet, The Marion Scott Quartet, mainly to introduce contemporary British music to London audiences. Their programs at Aeolian Hall featured new works by Stanford, Frank Bridge, James Friskin, C. Hubert Parry, William Hurlstone and others as well as occasional early music by Purcell and Arne and their contemporaries. In her innovative programming Scott featured trios, quintets, songs, and vocal ensembles to provide musical diversity. Although she was a gifted violinist, frequent ill health prevented Scott from pursuing a career as a solo concert artist, but she continued to work as a musician giving recitals and playing in orchestras, often serving as leader under conductors including Charles Stanford, Gustav Holst, Walter Parratt and Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Scott’s compositions, mainly her songs and chamber works, received occasional performances although none were published. She was among the earliest modern English composers to write for voice and string quartet. It was not as musician that Marion Scott was to achieve success but as a writer and musicologist. Writing came easily to Marion Scott as it did to all members of her family. As a child she produced a magazine for circulation among her young friends. She wrote verse and in 1905 published her only collection of poetry, Violin Verses (The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London). Some critics called the slim volume “charming”, the poems “exceedingly gracious, clever and withal philosophical” while others found it uneven in quality and weighed down by “too many adjectives”. In 1909, Scott began publishing occasional articles about music in London newspapers, including the Daily Express. 1910 was a busy and productive year for Scott. She had developed a series of lectures on music history and performance as well as separate teaching lectures on composition, harmony, orchestration and other technical aspects of music that she offered to organizations and clubs throughout London. Her lectures on topics such as “The Evolution of English Music”, “Folk Songs of the Four Races — England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland” and “English Music: The Inheritance of the Past”, featured pianists and singers who illustrated Scott’s talk with musical examples. She became a regular contributor to “The Chamber Music” supplement of The Music Student, often collaborating on articles with her with her friend the composer and pianist Katharine Eggar (1874-1961). Always an adventurous pioneer, Scott opened the field of music criticism to women when, in 1919, she became the London correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. Scott used this powerful position to introduce and promote the music of her friends and colleagues regularly in America. From 1919 on, her writing appeared in Music and Letters, The Music Student, Music and Youth, The Musical Quarterly, The Listener, The Music Review, Monthly Musical Record, Music Magazine, The Musical Times, Music Bulletin, Royal College of Music Magazine, Radio Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Christian Science Monitor. She ended her association with the Christian Science Monitor in 1933. In addition to her essays, articles and criticism, Marion Scott wrote programme notes for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Haydn Orchestra and for the Royal Philharmonic Society, delivered papers to the Musical Association (now the Royal Music Association), produced broadcasts for Music Magazine, and wrote entries for Cobbett’s Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, Cobbett’s Chamber Music Supplement, and Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In 1938, her brief study of Mendelssohn was added to the Novello series of Biographies of Great Musicians. Marion Scott was a champion of contemporary music and an advocate for women in music. She was the moving force behind the founding of the Society of Women Musicians (1911-1972) with her friends Katharine Eggar and Gertrude Eaton (1861-?), a singer, editor and prison reformer. As the women envisioned the society, it would promote a sense of cooperation among women in different fields of music, provide performance opportunities and advice and would even help women with the practical business aspects of their work. The founding women and their Provisional Council made it clear that the society would have no political agenda and that it would be open to men who could join as associate members. Singer and composer Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) served as the first SWM president. By 1918, the SWM had earned such an enviable reputation that music critic, editor and teacher Percy A. Scholes (1877-1958) regarded the organization as ‘a model for men’. Scott established herself as an international authority on Haydn, publishing dozens of articles and studies about him between 1930 and 1952. She published her own editions of Haydn’s music with Oxford University Press however her book about Haydn’s chamber music was left incomplete at the time of her death. Her massive Haydn Catalogue appeared in the Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians in 1954. Marion Scott published her only full-length book, Beethoven in 1934 under the J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. imprint as part of the Music Masters Series. This 343-page illustrated biography remains a classic study of the man and his music. The book met with both critical and public acclaim, the degree of its popularity underscored by the fact that it was reprinted numerous times. Her book is still in demand today and is often quoted by contemporary writers discussing the metaphysical perspectives of Beethoven’s life and work. Her brief study of Mendelssohn later appeared in the Novello series of Biographies of Great Musicians. In 1911, Marion Scott met composer-poet Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), who arrived at the Royal College of Music from Gloucester as a scholarship student. Despite the difference in the age and social position, they formed an enduring friendship. When Gurney began writing poetry during World War I, Scott encouraged him and acted as both his business manager and editor as he sent an increasing number of poems home from the Front. With the help of composer Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946) Scott found a publisher for Gurney’s first volume of poetry, Severn and Somme (1917). After the war she continued to champion both his music and his poetry. When Gurney was committed to the City of London Mental Hospital in 1922 suffering from severe bipolar illness, Scott remained close to him, dealing with his doctors, making decisions about his care, taking him on day trips and providing financial support. She persuaded Gurney’s family, particularly his younger brother Ronald to send her what they had of Ivor’s music, poems and letters for safekeeping. After Gurney’s death in 1937, she gained full control of Gurney estate through Letters of Administration. She continued championing his music and poetry until her death from colon cancer in 1953. Marion Scott was a significant force in reshaping women’s roles in classical music, in promoting and championing the work of several generations of British composers and musicians. Her pioneering work as a music critic and musicologist encouraged other women to work in fields previously closed to them. , Marion_Scott_(musicologist) 2010-10-22T18:39:24Z Marion Margaret Scott (16 July 1877 - 24 December 1953) was an English violinist, musicologist, writer, music critic, editor, composer, and poet. Marion M. Scott was the eldest of three daughters born in London to Sydney Charles Scott (1849-1936), a solicitor and gifted pianist, and Annie Prince Scott (1853-1942), an American who was born and reared in St. Petersburg, Russia, where her father George Prince managed William Ropes and Company, a Boston, Massachusetts-based family mercantile business. Born at Lewisham, Marion Scott was privately educated. She spent her childhood in Norwood where The Crystal Palace became central to her early life. Her liberal parents, who were social activists, valued the arts and enrolled Scott in the Crystal Palace School of Art when she was about four years old. Scott began piano lessons at an early age but found her teacher uninspiring. Eventually she abandoned the piano for the violin, an instrument she believed possessed a soul. By the age of 15, Scott was performing regularly around London with her father as accompanist, winning acclaim from audiences and critics. Her parents purchased a Guadagnini violin for her. Marion Scott entered the Royal College of Music in 1896 to study violin with Fernandez Arbos (1863-1939), piano with Marmaduke Barton (1865-1938), and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford(1852-1924) and Walford Davies (1869-1941). She, not Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), was among Stanford’s first female pupils, who also included Mary Wurm (1860-1938) and Katharine Ramsay (later the Duchess of Athol). Scott gained her ARCM in 1900 but continued her student affiliation with the RCM until 1903. She returned to the college in 1906 when she along with Dr. Emily Daymond (1866-1949) and Aubrey Aiken Crawshaw founded the Royal College of Music Student Union. Scott became the Union secretary, a position equivalent to that of executive director. She developed the popular “At Homes” that offered students an opportunity to come together to perform their music and to socialize. These events were often held at the Scott family’s elegant home on Westbourne Terrace. Later Scott served as editor of the Royal College of Music Magazine (1939-1944), carrying it through the difficult war years from her temporary residence in Bridgwater, where she and her sister Stella had gone with their elderly mother. In 1908, Scott founded her own string quartet, The Marion Scott Quartet, mainly to introduce contemporary British music to London audiences. Their programs at Aeolian Hall featured new works by Stanford, Frank Bridge, James Friskin, C. Hubert Parry, William Hurlstone and others as well as occasional early music by Purcell and Arne and their contemporaries. In her innovative programming Scott featured trios, quintets, songs, and vocal ensembles to provide musical diversity. Although she was a gifted violinist, frequent ill health prevented Scott from pursuing a career as a solo concert artist, but she continued to work as a musician giving recitals and playing in orchestras, often serving as leader under conductors including Charles Stanford, Gustav Holst, Walter Parratt and Samuel Coleridge Taylor. Scott’s compositions, mainly her songs and chamber works, received occasional performances although none were published. She was among the earliest modern English composers to write for voice and string quartet. It was not as musician that Marion Scott was to achieve success but as a writer and musicologist. Writing came easily to Marion Scott as it did to all members of her family. As a child she produced a magazine for circulation among her young friends. She wrote verse and in 1905 published her only collection of poetry, Violin Verses (The Walter Scott Publishing Company, London). Some critics called the slim volume “charming”, the poems “exceedingly gracious, clever and withal philosophical” while others found it uneven in quality and weighed down by “too many adjectives”. In 1909, Scott began publishing occasional articles about music in London newspapers, including the Daily Express. 1910 was a busy and productive year for Scott. She had developed a series of lectures on music history and performance as well as separate teaching lectures on composition, harmony, orchestration and other technical aspects of music that she offered to organizations and clubs throughout London. Her lectures on topics such as “The Evolution of English Music”, “Folk Songs of the Four Races — England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland” and “English Music: The Inheritance of the Past”, featured pianists and singers who illustrated Scott’s talk with musical examples. She became a regular contributor to “The Chamber Music” supplement of The Music Student, often collaborating on articles with her with her friend the composer and pianist Katharine Eggar (1874-1961). Always an adventurous pioneer, Scott opened the field of music criticism to women when, in 1919, she became the London correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. Scott used this powerful position to introduce and promote the music of her friends and colleagues regularly in America. From 1919 on, her writing appeared in Music and Letters, The Music Student, Music and Youth, The Musical Quarterly, The Listener, The Music Review, Monthly Musical Record, Music Magazine, The Musical Times, Music Bulletin, Royal College of Music Magazine, Radio Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Christian Science Monitor. She ended her association with the Christian Science Monitor in 1933. In addition to her essays, articles and criticism, Marion Scott wrote programme notes for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Haydn Orchestra and for the Royal Philharmonic Society, delivered papers to the Musical Association (now the Royal Music Association), produced broadcasts for Music Magazine, and wrote entries for Cobbett’s Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, Cobbett’s Chamber Music Supplement, and Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In 1938, her brief study of Mendelssohn was added to the Novello series of Biographies of Great Musicians. Marion Scott was a champion of contemporary music and an advocate for women in music. She was the moving force behind the founding of the Society of Women Musicians (1911-1972) with her friends Katherine Eggar and Gertrude Eaton (1861-?), a singer, editor and prison reformer. As the women envisioned the society, it would promote a sense of cooperation among women in different fields of music, provide performance opportunities and advice and would even help women with the practical business aspects of their work. The founding women and their Provisional Council made it clear that the society would have no political agenda and that it would be open to men who could join as associate members. Singer and composer Liza Lehmann (1862-1918) served as the first SWM president. By 1918, the SWM had earned such an enviable reputation that music critic, editor and teacher Percy A. Scholes (1877-1958) regarded the organization as ‘a model for men’. Scott established herself as an international authority on Haydn, publishing dozens of articles and studies about him between 1930 and 1952. She published her own editions of Haydn’s music with Oxford University Press however her book about Haydn’s chamber music was left incomplete at the time of her death. Her massive Haydn Catalogue appeared in the Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians in 1954. Marion Scott published her only full-length book, Beethoven in 1934 under the J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. imprint as part of the Music Masters Series. This 343-page illustrated biography remains a classic study of the man and his music. The book met with both critical and public acclaim, the degree of its popularity underscored by the fact that it was reprinted numerous times. Her book is still in demand today and is often quoted by contemporary writers discussing the metaphysical perspectives of Beethoven’s life and work. Her brief study of Mendelssohn later appeared in the Novello series of Biographies of Great Musicians. In 1911, Marion Scott met composer-poet Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), who arrived at the Royal College of Music from Gloucester as a scholarship student. Despite the difference in the age and social position, they formed an enduring friendship. When Gurney began writing poetry during World War I, Scott encouraged him and acted as both his business manager and editor as he sent an increasing number of poems home from the Front. With the help of composer Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946) Scott found a publisher for Gurney’s first volume of poetry, Severn and Somme (1917). After the war she continued to champion both his music and his poetry. When Gurney was committed to the City of London Mental Hospital in 1922 suffering from severe bipolar illness, Scott remained close to him, dealing with his doctors, making decisions about his care, taking him on day trips and providing financial support. She persuaded Gurney’s family, particularly his younger brother Ronald to send her what they had of Ivor’s music, poems and letters for safekeeping. After Gurney’s death in 1937, she gained full control of Gurney estate through Letters of Administration. She continued championing his music and poetry until her death from colon cancer in 1953. Marion Scott was a significant force in reshaping women’s roles in classical music, in promoting and championing the work of several generations of British composers and musicians. Her pioneering work as a music critic and musicologist encouraged other women to work in fields previously closed to them. Pamela Blevins, Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott: Song of Pain and Beauty, The Boydell Press,2008 -- the first biography of Gurney in 30 years and the only biography of Marion Scott.

Head Start (program)

Head Start (program) 2004-04-13T20:38:54Z Head Start is a program of the US government's Department of Health and Human Services which focuses on assisting low-income children, through five years of age; so that they are prepared for school. , Head Start (program) 2005-12-29T02:44:22Z Head Start is a program of the US government's Department of Health and Human Services which focuses on assisting three- and four-year-old children from low-income families. Created in 1965, Head Start is the longest-running national school readiness program in the United States. It provides comprehensive education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families. As of late 2005, more than 22 million pre-school aged children have participated in Head Start. The $6.8+ billion dollar budget for 2005 provided services to more than 905,000 children, 57% of whom were four years old or older, and 43% three years old or younger. Services were provided by 1,604 different programs operating more than 48,000 classrooms scattered across every state (and nearly every county) at an average cost of $7,222 per child. The paid staff of nearly 212,000 people is dwarfed by an army of volunteers six times as large. Head Start was started by the Federal Government in 1964 through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to help meet the needs of disadvantaged preschool children. A panel of child development experts drew up this progam at the request of the Federal Government, and the program became what became Project Head Start. The office of Economic Opportunity launched Project Head Start as an eight-week summer program in 1965. The project was designed to help end poverty by providing preschool children from low-income families with a program that would meet emotional, social, health, nutritional, and psychological needs. Head Start was then transferred to the Office of Child Development in the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (later the Department of Health and Human Services) by the Nixon Administration in 1969. Today it is a program within the Administration on Children, Youth and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services. Progams are administered locally by non-profit organizations and local education agencies such as school systems. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/

Kersten_Committee

Kersten_Committee 2009-02-22T23:14:06Z The Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U. S. S. R. , also known as the Kersten Committee after its chairman, Rep. Charles J. Kersten was established in 1953 to investigate the forced incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the Soviet Union. The committee terminated March 4, 1954 when it was replaced by the Select Committee on Communist Aggression. In 1940, in accordance with the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union directed the occupation and subsequent annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In each country, demands were made under threat of force from Moscow for puppet communist governments to be formed. Fraudulent elections were held in July 1940 electing solely communists to be represented in the parliament of each country's government, and those governments then were instructed by Moscow to petition the Soviet government to be added as constituent republics of the USSR. The United States, like other Western democratic powers such as the United Kingdom, Norway, France, and Denmark, never recognized this incorporation as valid and continued to accredit the legations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. On June 23, 1940, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles declared the United States' non-recognition policy on the principles of the Stimson Doctrine. This policy was maintained until the restoration of independence in all three countries in 1991. In 1953, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 346 calling for a special investigation into the incorporation of the Baltic States into the U. S. S. R. The House Select Baltic Committee was established July 27, 2953, to oversee the investigation which was chaired by Charles J. Kersten. The select committee held hearings between November 30 and December 11, 1953, and reported its findings in February 1954. During the investigation, the Baltic Committee interviewed approximately 100 witnesses including Johannes Klesment, a former Estonian government official, Jonas Cernius, the former prime minister of Lithuania, Juozas Brazaitis, the acting foreign minister of Lithuania, and former President of the United States Herbert Hoover, all of whom provided testimony and additional information about Soviet activities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1940. Among those accused of crimes during the Baltic occupation process were Soviet politicians Andrei Zhdanov and Andrey Vyshinsky. The significance of the Kersten Committee was primarily related to the United States' non-recognition policy of the Soviet incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. However, the investigation at the time was seen as a way for the United States Congress to better study the manner in which the Soviet Union was able to direct the seizure of power in foreign countries. Specifically, the investigation coincided with United States involvement in the Korean War and was seen by investigators as a way of studying communist methods that could be used in better articulating policy related to that conflict. Continued interest in the subject led the House of Representatives to replace the Baltic Committee with the Select Committee on Communist Aggression, which continued to operate until December 31, 1954. Baltic States Investigation, Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U. S. S. R. , 83rd Congress, First Session, Under Authority of H. Res. 346, Part I (1954), Kersten_Committee 2010-04-15T16:32:22Z The Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U. S. S. R. , also known as the Kersten Committee after its chairman, Rep. Charles J. Kersten was established in 1953 to investigate the forced incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the Soviet Union. The committee terminated March 4, 1954 when it was replaced by the Select Committee on Communist Aggression. In 1940, the U>S had a sudden change of heart. in accordance with the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union directed the occupation and subsequent annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In each country, demands were made under threat of force from Moscow for puppet communist governments to be formed. Fraudulent elections were held in July 1940 electing solely communists to be represented in the parliament of each country's government, and those governments then were instructed by Moscow to petition the Soviet government to be added as constituent republics of the USSR. The United States, like other Western democratic powers such as the United Kingdom, Norway, France, and Denmark, never recognized this incorporation as valid and continued to accredit the legations of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. On June 23, 1940, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles declared the United States' non-recognition policy on the principles of the Stimson Doctrine. This policy was maintained until the restoration of independence in all three countries in 1991. In 1953, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 346 calling for a special investigation into the incorporation of the Baltic States into the U. S. S. R. The House Select Baltic Committee was established July 27, 1953, to oversee the investigation which was chaired by Charles J. Kersten. The select committee held hearings between November 30 and December 11, 1953, and reported its findings in February 1954. During the investigation, the Baltic Committee interviewed approximately 100 witnesses including Johannes Klesment, a former Estonian government official, Jonas Černius, the former prime minister of Lithuania, Juozas Brazaitis, the acting foreign minister of Lithuania, and former President of the United States Herbert Hoover, all of whom provided testimony and additional information about Soviet activities in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in 1940. Among those accused of crimes during the Baltic occupation process were Soviet politicians Andrei Zhdanov and Andrey Vyshinsky. The significance of the Kersten Committee was primarily related to the United States' non-recognition policy of the Soviet incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. However, the investigation at the time was seen as a way for the United States Congress to better study the manner in which the Soviet Union was able to direct the seizure of power in foreign countries. Specifically, the investigation coincided with United States involvement in the Korean War and was seen by investigators as a way of studying communist methods that could be used in better articulating policy related to that conflict. Continued interest in the subject led the United States House of Representatives to replace the Baltic Committee with the Select Committee on Communist Aggression, which continued to operate until December 31, 1954. Baltic States Investigation, Hearings Before the Select Committee to Investigate the Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U. S. S. R. , 83rd United States Congress, First Session, Under Authority of H. Res. 346, Part I (1954)

Clonmacnoise_and_West_Offaly_Railway

Clonmacnoise_and_West_Offaly_Railway 2013-08-29T14:40:35Z The Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway is a narrow gauge railway and former tourist attraction in Ireland. Primarily built as an industrial line for hauling newly-cut peat, this 3 ft (or 914 mm) gauge railway was operated by Bord na Móna and conveys visitors over a 9 km rail journey through Blackwater Bog, near Shannonbridge, County Offaly. A small diesel locomotive hauled a single 53-seat passenger coach. The railway was an important tourist attraction in County Offaly. The Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway has been shut down at the end of 2008 and will not be operating for the foreseeable future. A different tourism concept in the area is in development by Bord na Mona. Somewhat confusingly, the railway was also sometimes known as (and described on roadsigns as) the Blackwater Railway, the Shannonbridge Bog Railway or the Bog Railway. Given the historic importance of peat as an indigenous Irish fuel, the railway and associated visitor services also aims to show visitors how milled peat is produced and transported to the Electricity Supply Board's West Offaly Power Generation Station. , Clonmacnoise_and_West_Offaly_Railway 2014-02-02T02:49:15Z The Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway was a narrow gauge railway and former tourist attraction in Ireland. Primarily built as an industrial line for hauling newly cut peat, this ] narrow gauge railway was operated by Bord na Móna and conveyed visitors over a 9 km rail journey through Blackwater Bog, near Shannonbridge, County Offaly. A small diesel locomotive hauled a single 53-seat passenger coach. The railway was an important tourist attraction in County Offaly. The Clonmacnoise and West Offaly Railway has been shut down at the end of 2008 and will not be operating for the foreseeable future. A different tourism concept in the area is in development by Bord na Mona. Somewhat confusingly, the railway was also sometimes known as (and described on roadsigns as) the Blackwater Railway, the Shannonbridge Bog Railway or the Bog Railway. Given the historic importance of peat as an indigenous Irish fuel, the railway and associated visitor services also aimed to show visitors how milled peat is produced and transported to the Electricity Supply Board's West Offaly Power Generation Station.

Adam Godley

Adam Godley 2007-01-08T17:04:31Z Adam Brody (born July 22 1964) is a British actor. He has displayed his acting abilities with a convincing American accent. Nevertheless, in out-of-character interviews, he has spoken with a normal British accent. (See, for example, DVD interview in Disc 2 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.) He played Kenneth Williams in the television movie Cor Blimey!, a role reprised from the stage play Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, for which Godley was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance. In 2005, he took the role of Jonathan in Mike Leigh's Two Thousand Years. His film roles have included Mr. Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and appearances in Love Actually and Nanny McPhee. According to BridgeToTheStars.net he will voice Pantalaimon in the upcoming His Dark Materials: Northern Lights movie. , Adam Godley 2008-12-21T20:16:21Z Adam Godley (born 22 July 1964) is a British actor. Godley was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England. He was critically lauded for his portrayal of the mentally retarded Michal in 2003's production of The Pillowman at the Royal National Theatre. He replaced Paul Rhys in the title role in Paul in 2005. Godley played Kenneth Williams in the television movie, Cor Blimey! His role was reprised from the stage play, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, for which Godley was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance. In 2005, he took the role of Jonathan in Mike Leigh's Two Thousand Years and in 2006 he played psychologist Gustave Gilbert in BBC docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial. Godley's film roles include Mr. Teavee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and appearances in Love Actually and Nanny McPhee. On December 12, 2007, it was announced he would be guest starring in The X-Files: I Want to Believe. The film was released on July 25, 2008. Godley played Raymond Babbit to much acclaim alongside Josh Hartnett in the theatre adaptation of Barry Morrow's Oscar-winning Rain Man at the Apollo Theatre in London's Shaftesbury Avenue. The play was directed by Terry Johnson.

Super-Sonic_Jazz

Super-Sonic_Jazz 2009-07-21T19:48:21Z Super-Sonic Jazz is an album by Sun Ra, recorded in 1956 at RCA Studios, Chicago. All songs are written and arranged by Sun Ra, except 'Soft Talk', written by Julian Priester. Super-Sonic Jazz was the first album to be released on Saturn records, the label run by Sun Ra and Alton Abraham, and was one of only three albums by Sun Ra to have been available in the 1950s. (The other two being Jazz by Sun Ra, also released in 1957, and Jazz in Silhouette, released May 1959. ) The album was retitled as Super-Sonic Sounds when it was reissued in 1974 by Impulse!, but reverted back to its original title when it was released on CD by Evidence records in 1992. Side A: Side B:, Super-Sonic_Jazz 2011-05-05T19:52:21Z Super-Sonic Jazz is an album by Sun Ra, recorded in 1956 at RCA Studios, Chicago. Super-Sonic Jazz was the first album to be released on Saturn records, the label run by Sun Ra and Alton Abraham, and was one of only three albums by Sun Ra to have been available in the 1950s. (The other two are Jazz by Sun Ra, also released in 1957, and Jazz in Silhouette, released May 1959. ) The album was retitled as Super-Sonic Sounds when it was reissued in 1974 by Impulse!, but reverted back to its original title when it was released on CD by Evidence records in 1992. Super-Sonic Jazz was the first album to be released on El Saturn Research, the label run by Sun Ra and his business partner Alton Abraham. Set up in 1955, they released their first singles, including a doo-wop group The Cosmic Rays and the Arkestra's Saturn, at the beginning of 1956, and had recorded the whole of their first album by the end of the year, to be released in March 1957. El Saturn is now considered, along with Charles Mingus and Max Roach’s Debut label and Harry Partch’s Gate 5 label, "one of the very first and most active artist-owned record labels. " Often pressed in editions of 75 — sometimes as few as 20 were made for specific concerts — the records would be manufactured using local black businesses, and often put together in Abraham's own home. As John F. Szwed described, El Saturn Records purchased no advertising, gave out no promotional copies for review, and no distribution channels except mail order, hand delivery to the record shops, and, in the southern tradition, sales from the bandstand after performances. An order to the El Saturn address might or might not get a response, and when a record came it might be a different one than ordered (a 1971 Saturn price list asked orderers to list five alternatives), or arrive months later. All songs written by Sun Ra except "Soft Talk", written by Julian Priester; Side A: Side B: On "Springtime in Chicago", recorded at Balkan Studios, Chicago, April 13, 1956 On "Super Blonde", "Soft Talk", "Medicine for a Nightmare", and "Advice to Medics", recorded at RCA studios, possibly June 16, 1956: On "Kingdom of Not", "Portrait of The Living Sky", "Blues at Midnight", "El Is A Sound of Joy", "India", and "Sunology" (both parts), probably recorded at Balkan Studios, Chicago, September or October 1956: Mixed at RCA studios, Chicago, February 14, 1957, and released in March with an initial pressing of 500.

Tarun Khanna (actor)

Tarun Khanna (actor) 2017-03-18T23:41:32Z Tarun Khanna is an Indian television and film actor. He made his debut with Star Plus's show Avinash Ips He was last seen in Life OK's show Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Ravan, Tarun Khanna (actor) 2018-12-22T19:21:42Z Tarun Khanna is an Indian television and film actor. He made his debut with Star Plus's show Avinash Ips He was last seen in Life OK's show Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev as Ravan. He will be featuring in the upcoming fantasy-based TV show Aarambh, a narration on the clash of Dravidian and Aryan civilizations, which is written by K. V. Vijayendra Prasad.

Dennis_Franklin

Dennis_Franklin 2007-12-31T15:49:20Z Dennis Franklin (born August 24, 1953) is a former professional American football player who was drafted by the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) in the 1975 NFL Draft. Prior to playing for in the NFL he played quarterback of the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1971-1974. He served as the starting quarterback from 1972-1974. He was recruited by Michigan after staring for the Massillon High School football team in Ohio. Franklin is known as Michigan’s first black quarterback. Before attending the University of Michigan, Franklin drew attention as the talented quarterback of the 1970 Massillon High School Tigers football team. With Franklin at quarterback, the Massillon Tigers outscored opponents, 412-29, and rushed for nearly 3,000 yards (including 363 yards by Franklin) in one season. Franklin also passed for 699 yards, 21. 2 yards per completion and 13 touchdowns. The team was blessed with major college football talent. He ran an offense that played eight future Division I college players including Steve Luke (Ohio State Buckeyes), Larry Harper (Miami Redskins, now RedHawks), Mike Mauger (Wisconsin Badgers, Kent State Golden Flashes) and Willie Spencer (World Football League). Franklin's older brothers, Walter and Ed, had won state championships with Massillon. In July 2007, he was inducted into the Stark County High School Football Hall of Fame. After graduating from Massillon, Franklin wore #9 for the Michigan Wolverines football program from 1972 to 1974, and he became known as "Michigan's first black quarterback" in mass media: "Every time I'd do an interview, they'd throw that tag on me. It became annoying," Franklin said. "Eventually, it went away. That's all I ever strived for. " He was a member of the Michigan teams coached by Bo Schembechler from 1971-1974 and was the starting quarterback from 1972-1974. Under Franklin’s leadership at quarterback, Michigan won three consecutive Big Ten titles from 1972 to 1974 and finished with 30 wins, 2 losses and 1 tie. Franklin was a First Team All Big Ten quarterback in 1974 and led the team in passing and total offense every year from 1972 to 1974, becoming the second player at Michigan since Tom Harmon to accomplish that feat for three consecutive years. Franklin was voted team captain in 1974, was an Honorable Mention All American and finished sixth in the 1974 Heisman Trophy balloting. Franklin also won the 1974 Meyer Morton award, given by the M Club of Chicago for the football player show shows the greatest development and most promise as a result of spring practice and the 1972 John Maulbetsch Award, which is given to the freshman football candidate after spring practice on the basis of desire, character, capacity for leadership and future success both on and off the gridiron. Franklin is remembered for his role in the classic 1973 Michigan vs. Ohio State football game. When the teams met, both teams were unbeaten with Ohio State ranked No. 1, and Michigan No. 4. Michigan had outscored its opponents 320-58, Ohio State by a margin of 361-33. After an epic struggle, the game ended in a 10-10 tie. Ohio State had gone to the Rose Bowl the year before, which normally would have given Michigan the tie-breaker edge. After some deliberation, the Big Ten athletic directors picked the Buckeyes. There were several explanations including that Franklin broke his collarbone in the game, that the Wolverines failed to win on their home field, and that Ohio State had entered the game as the higher ranked team. Drafted by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1975 NFL Draft, Franklin converted to wide receiver for the 1975 NFL season. While Franklin was with Detroit, Greg Landry and Bill Munson were the Lions' quarterbacks. Franklin had a brief NFL career that lasted nine games and that totaled six catches over two years. After retiring from football, Franklin rose to vice president at King World Productions in New York City, a television distributor that produced Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Oprah. He now lives in Template:City-state and sells real estate. Franklin's son Kenny followed his father to Michigan and has aspired toward acting with appearances in Cosmopolitan and S. W. A. T. . , Dennis_Franklin 2009-12-27T23:58:05Z Dennis Franklin (born August 24, 1953) is a former professional American football player who was drafted by the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) in the 1975 NFL Draft. Prior to playing for in the NFL he played quarterback of the University of Michigan Wolverines from 1971-1974. He served as the starting quarterback from 1972-1974. He was recruited by Michigan after starring for the Massillon High School football team in Ohio. Franklin is known as Michigan’s first black quarterback. Before attending the University of Michigan, Franklin drew attention as the talented quarterback of the 1970 Massillon High School Tigers football team. With Franklin at quarterback, the Massillon Tigers outscored opponents, 412-29, and rushed for nearly 3,000 yards (including 363 yards by Franklin) in one season. Franklin also passed for 699 yards, 21. 2 yards per completion and 13 touchdowns. The team was blessed with major college football talent. He ran an offense that played eight future Division I college players including Steve Luke (Ohio State Buckeyes), Larry Harper (Miami Redskins, now RedHawks), Mike Mauger (Wisconsin Badgers, Kent State Golden Flashes) and Willie Spencer (World Football League). Franklin's older brothers, Walter and Ed, had won state championships with Massillon. In July 2007, he was inducted into the Stark County High School Football Hall of Fame. After graduating from Massillon, Franklin wore #9 for the Michigan Wolverines football program from 1972 to 1974, and he became known as "Michigan's first black quarterback" in mass media: "Every time I'd do an interview, they'd throw that tag on me. It became annoying," Franklin said. "Eventually, it went away. That's all I ever strived for. " He was a member of the Michigan teams coached by Bo Schembechler from 1971-1974 and was the starting quarterback from 1972-1974. Under Franklin’s leadership at quarterback, Michigan tied with Ohio State for three consecutive Big Ten titles from 1972 to 1974 and finished with 30 wins, 2 losses and 1 tie. Franklin was a First Team All Big Ten quarterback in 1974 and led the team in passing and total offense every year from 1972 to 1974, becoming the second player at Michigan since Tom Harmon to accomplish that feat for three consecutive years. Franklin was voted team captain in 1974, was an Honorable Mention All American and finished sixth in the 1974 Heisman Trophy balloting. Franklin also won the 1974 Meyer Morton award, given by the M Club of Chicago for the football player show shows the greatest development and most promise as a result of spring practice and the 1972 John Maulbetsch Award, which is given to the freshman football candidate after spring practice on the basis of desire, character, capacity for leadership and future success both on and off the gridiron. Franklin is remembered for his role in the classic 1973 Michigan vs. Ohio State football game. When the teams met, both teams were unbeaten with Ohio State ranked No. 1, and Michigan No. 4. Michigan had outscored its opponents 320-58, Ohio State by a margin of 361-33. After an epic struggle, the game ended in a 10-10 tie. Ohio State had gone to the Rose Bowl the year before, which normally would have given Michigan the tie-breaker edge. After some deliberation, the Big Ten athletic directors picked the Buckeyes. There were several explanations including that Franklin broke his collarbone in the game, that the Wolverines failed to win on their home field, and that Ohio State had entered the game as the higher ranked team. Drafted by the Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1975 NFL Draft, Franklin converted to wide receiver for the 1975 NFL season. While Franklin was with Detroit, Greg Landry and Bill Munson were the Lions' quarterbacks. Franklin had a brief NFL career that lasted nine games and that totaled six catches over two years. After retiring from football, Franklin rose to vice president at King World Productions in New York City, a television distributor that produced Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Oprah. He now lives in Template:City-state and sells real estate. Franklin's son Kenny followed his father to Michigan and has aspired toward acting with appearances in Cosmopolitan and S. W. A. T. .

Negur

Negur 2008-10-24T20:24:02Z Negur (Persian: نگور) is a little town located at south eastern Iran, Sistan and Baluchistan province, Chabahar County, center of Dashtyari district. Negur is a Baluchi word meaning "foothill" and is the name of many other locations in Pakistani and Iranian part of Baluchistan. Aborigines of Negur were from the Baluchi tribe of Shaikhzadah and according to grave stone lithographies they inhabited there before the invasion of Mongolians to Iran. Existence of noticeable underground water resources seems to be the main reason of choosing Negur as a habitat. In 1969, after Negur became an independent municipality, many people including government staffs migrated from other part of the country to the town, but in recent years severe drought accelerated immigration of people from other part of Dashtyari district, that seems to be a serious threat to water resources. Today's population of Negur is about 8000 that is mainly from immigrants. , Negur 2010-03-04T13:35:53Z Negur (Persian: نگور Negūr) is a small town in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in south eastern Iran. It is the center of Dashtyari district in Chabahar County. Negur is a Baluchi word meaning "foothill" and is the name of many other locations in the Pakistani and Iranian parts of Baluchistan. The original inhabitants of Negur were from the Baluchi tribe of Shaikhzadah, who according to inscriptions on gravestones lived there before the invasion of theMongolians. The existence of considerable underground water resources seems to have been the main reason for settling in Negur. In 1969, after Negur became an independent municipality, many people including government staff migrated to the town from other parts of the country. In recent years severe drought accelerated the immigration of people from other parts of Dashtyari district, a serious threat to water resources. Today's population of Negur is about 8,000, mainly immigrants.

Texas_Monthly,_Inc._v._Bullock

Texas_Monthly,_Inc._v._Bullock 2008-07-04T00:22:55Z Texas Monthly v. Bullock 489 U. S. 1 (1989) was brought before the United States Supreme Court in November of 1988. It was to test the legality of a Texas Statute that exempted religious publications from paying state sales tax. The Court in an opinion written by Justice Brennan overturned the appellate courts decision. The state was ordered to refund the sales tax paid by the magazine, Texas Monthly Inc. , with interest. Justice Brennan along with Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Stevens based their opinion in the establishment clause of the U. S. Constitution which reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. " As had been decided in earlier cases (Wallace v. Jaffree and Welsh v United States) not only could congress not establish a religion, but they could not pass a law with the purpose of advancing religion in respect to non-religion. The lack of a sales tax on religious literature was in effect a subsidy to these religious writers. If they did not pay than someone else would have too. This would in essence force tax payers, whether religious or not to pay for a subsidy to religions. They held that had the statute been more broad, including charities for example, then it would have been constitutional. Brennan recognized the argument of the state that taxing the publications may inhibit their ability to function to some extent thereby going against the Free Exercise Clause which states continuing from the above clause "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. " However Brennan argued that if all people were required to pay the tax it did not unduly burden religion to pay the tax nor "prohibit" them from excersizing as they wished. The concurring opinion written by Justice Blackmun and joined by Justice O'Connor disagrees with both the court's opinion and the dissenting opinion. Blackmun argues that the opinion does not recognize enough the Free Exercise Clause and the dissent does not recognize the Establishment Clause. He argues that in order to understand the case you must see those two clauses along with the Press Clause which states "Congress shall make no law. . . abridging the freedom of speech. " When religious writings are given certain perks like a pass on sales tax the free speech of other writers is inhibited because they do have to pay the sales tax. The go on to say that free speech is not inhibited enough to be an issue and so one must decide where the line between the establishment clause and the free exercise clause lays. Blackmun argued that had the law been written to include other philosophical literature it that encouraged morality it may have stood, but when it expressly focused on religion the establishment clause had been violated. Blackmun wrote "In this cas, by confining the tax exemption exclusively to the sale of religious publications, Texas engaged in preferential support for the communication of religious messages. " Justice Scalia wrote the dissenting opinion being joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Kennedy refuting the arguments by Brennan and Blackmun. He extensively sites Walz v Tax Commission where the justices found a New York law allowing religions and other non-profit organizations to not pay property tax. Scalia argued that even though it included non-profit organizations they had ruled specifically in favor of the exemptions for religions stating in Walz "We find it unnecessary to justify the tax exemption of the social weldare services or 'good works' that some churches perform. " He goes on to say that though a tax exemption is similar economically to a subsidy when discussing the establishment clause they are different as found in Walz. Scalia also recognizes that a line must be drawn between the establishment clause and the free exercise clause but sees more room between them. He argues that just because a law is not necessary for the free exercise clause does not mean that it is unconstitutional on establishment grounds. Thirdly he says that it passes all three prongs of the Lemon test by not overly entangling the church and state. 1. The Constitution and Religion edited by Robert S. Ally Copyright 1999 by Robert S. Ally Published by Prometheus Books, Texas_Monthly,_Inc._v._Bullock 2009-12-14T20:53:05Z Texas Monthly v. Bullock 489 U. S. 1 (1989) was brought before the United States Supreme Court in November 1988. It was to test the legality of a Texas Statute that exempted religious publications from paying state sales tax. The Court in an opinion written by Justice Brennan overturned the appellate courts decision. The state was ordered to refund the sales tax paid by "Texas Monthly," with interest. Justice Brennan along with Justice Thurgood Marshall and Justice Stevens based their opinion in the establishment clause of the U. S. Constitution which reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. " As had been decided in earlier cases (Wallace v. Jaffree and Welsh v. United States) not only could congress not establish a religion, but they could not pass a law with the purpose of advancing religion in respect to non-religion. Using the Lemon Test from Lemon v. Kurtzman. The lack of a sales tax on religious literature was in effect a subsidy to these religious writers. If the religious writers did not pay a tax, then a secular writer would have to. This would in essence force tax payers, whether religious or not to pay for a subsidy to religions. They held that had the statute been more broad, including charities for example, then it would have been constitutional. Brennan recognized the argument of the state that taxing the publications may inhibit their ability to function to some extent thereby going against the Free Exercise Clause which states continuing from the above clause "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. " However Brennan argued that if all people were required to pay the tax it did not unduly burden religion to pay the tax nor "prohibit" them from excersizing as they wished. The concurring opinion written by Justice Blackmun and joined by Justice O'Connor disagrees with both the court's opinion and the dissenting opinion. Blackmun argues that the opinion does not recognize enough the Free Exercise Clause and the dissent does not recognize the Establishment Clause. He argues that in order to understand the case you must see those two clauses along with the Press Clause which states "Congress shall make no law. . . abridging the freedom of speech. " When religious writings are given certain perks like a pass on sales tax the free speech of other writers is inhibited because they do have to pay the sales tax. The go on to say that free speech is not inhibited enough to be an issue and so one must decide where the line between the establishment clause and the free exercise clause lays. Blackmun argued that had the law been written to include other philosophical literature it that encouraged morality it may have stood, but when it expressly focused on religion the establishment clause had been violated. Blackmun wrote "In this case, by confining the tax exemption exclusively to the sale of religious publications, Texas engaged in preferential support for the communication of religious messages. " Justice Scalia wrote the dissenting opinion being joined by Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Kennedy refuting the arguments by Brennan and Blackmun. He extensively cites Walz v Tax Commission where the justices found a New York law allowing religions and other non-profit organizations to not pay property tax. Scalia argued that even though it included non-profit organizations they had ruled specifically in favor of the exemptions for religions stating in Walz "We find it unnecessary to justify the tax exemption of the social welfare services or 'good works' that some churches perform. " He goes on to say that though a tax exemption is similar economically to a subsidy when discussing the establishment clause they are different as found in Walz. Scalia also recognizes that a line must be drawn between the establishment clause and the free exercise clause but sees more room between them. He argues that just because a law is not necessary for the free exercise clause does not mean that it is unconstitutional on establishment grounds. Thirdly he says that it passes all three prongs of the Lemon test by not overly entangling the church and state.

Australia national rugby union team

Australia national rugby union team 2018-01-03T19:28:21Z The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, represents Australia in international rugby union and is controlled by the Australian Rugby Union. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team. Australia have competed in all eight Rugby World Cups, winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice. In 1991 Australia beat England in the final at Twickenham and won again in 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents in the final were France. The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations), along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations. More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. In 1882 the Southern Rugby Football Union (renamed the New South Wales Rugby Union in 1892) toured New Zealand. The New Zealand national team toured New South Wales in 1884 – defeating New South Wales in all three matches, and winning all nine matches on tour. The first tour by a British team took place in 1888. A British Isles team toured Australia and New Zealand, though no Test matches were played. Although they had representatives from all four home nations, the players were drawn mainly from England and the Scottish borders. The tour was not sanctioned by the Rugby Football Union as it was organised by entrepreneurs and thus contravened the union's strict regulations pertaining to professionalism. In 1899 the first officially sanctioned British Isles team toured Australia. Four Tests were played between Australia and the British Isles (three in Sydney and one in Brisbane). The Australian team for the first Test match consisted of six players from Queensland and nine from New South Wales. The team wore the blue of New South Wales when playing in Sydney and the maroon of Queensland when playing in Brisbane, but with an Australian Coat of Arms in place of the usual emblems of each colony. The first Test was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground and won 13–3 by Australia, but the tourists won the remaining three Tests. The first Test between Australia and New Zealand was played on 15 August 1903 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Despite Australia losing 22–3, this tour improved rugby's popularity in Australia and helped to increase attendances at club matches in Sydney and Brisbane. In 1907 the New South Wales Rugby League was formed and star player Dally Messenger left the Rugby union for the rival code. The next year the first Australian team to tour the British Isles left Sydney. Newspapers in England initially gave the team the name 'Rabbits'. The Australian players thought this nickname derogatory and replaced it with 'Wallabies'. In 1909, when the new "Northern Union" code was still in its infancy in Australia, a match between the Kangaroos and the Wallabies was played before a crowd of around 20,000, with the Rugby League side winning 29–26. Australia's last Test before First World War was against New Zealand in July 1914. The war had a very negative effect on rugby union in Australia. All rugby union competitions in New South Wales and Queensland ceased during the War after the state bodies decided it was inappropriate to play football when so many young men were fighting overseas. This resulted in competitions all but closed down in New South Wales and Queensland. In Queensland regular competitions did not commence again until 1928. This caused many players to switch to rugby league – which did not cease playing during the war. War hero Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop also played for Australia before World War II. He played on the side that was the first to win the Bledisloe Cup. The first Test to following World War Two was played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between Australia and New Zealand in 1946, which New Zealand won 31–8. Australia did not win on the three match tour; beaten 20–0 by New Zealand Maori, and then losing 14–10 to the All Blacks the following week. Australia embarked on a tour of the home nations in 1947–48. The successful tour fell short of an undefeated run when the Australia lost to France in their last match, in Paris. Players on the rise included Trevor Allan, Cyril Burke and Nicholas Shehadie. After returning from the successful European tour, Australia hosted the New Zealand Maori in a three match series in 1949; both sides winning once, with one draw. In September of that year, Australia played the All Blacks twice in New Zealand, winning both games and taking back the Bledisloe Cup for the first time on New Zealand soil. The 'Number 1' All Black side was touring South Africa at the time and the wins by Australia against the B-team have sometimes been downgraded. However, in deference to the apartheid system then in operation in South Africa, the NZRU did not select any Maori players for the tour. Many of those regular All Black Maori played against Australia instead and it could be said that the New Zealand team that played Australia was at least as good as the one on tour in South Africa. The British Isles toured Australia in 1950, and won both of the Tests against Australia. The following year Australia fell to a three Test whitewash to the All Blacks. Australia won in July 1952, defeating Fiji at the Sydney Cricket Ground – they then lost the second Test to Fiji by two points. Australia managed to beat the All Blacks at Lancaster Park after the Fijian series; however they lost the second Test. On this tour they also drew against Rhodesia in Kitwe 8–8. The first match of the new decade was the win over Fiji at the SCG in the first match of a three Test series during 1961. This was followed by a second win, but Fiji grabbed a draw in the third Test. Australia then headed to South Africa, where they lost to the Springboks in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. After returning home, they faced France at the SCG, who beat them 15–8. In 1962, Australia played the All Blacks five times and lost all but a 9-all draw at Athletic Park. After defeating England 18–9 in 1963 in Sydney, Australia beat the Springboks in consecutive Tests in South Africa; the first team to do so since the 1896 British team. Fewer tests were played throughout the mid-1960s, with Australia only playing a three Test series against All Blacks in 1964. They won the third Test after losing the first two. The following year Australia hosted the Springboks for two Tests, winning 18–11 and 12–8. This was their first ever series win over South Africa and first over a major nation since 1934. The British Isles came the following year, beating Australia 11–8 at the SCG, before hammering them 31–0 in Brisbane. Australia left for Europe in that December where a 14–11 victory over Wales was followed by a slim 11–5 defeat of Scotland. The tour continued into the following year where Australia beat England 23–11 before losing to Ireland 15–8 and France 20–14. Australia then hosted Ireland, who beat them again in Sydney. This was followed by a 20-point loss to the All Blacks. The following year, Australia lost to the All Blacks by just one point, and defeated France by the same margin for their last win of the decade. After losing to Ireland and Scotland on tour, Australia hosted Wales who also beat them. Australia played Scotland in 1970 and won by 20 points. The 1971 South African tour of Australia took place the next season. Protests were held around Australia and in Queensland a state of emergency was issued in advance of one of the Tests. Australia toured France in November of that year; defeating France in Toulouse, but losing the second Test in Paris. France then visited Australia in June 1972 and played a two Test series where they won one and drew one. Australia then played three Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand—losing all three. They then stopped over in Suva to play Fiji on their return, where they won their only Test of the year. The following year, Australia hosted Tonga, and after winning the first Test, they lost 11–16 at Ballymore in their second. Australia also had a short tour of the United Kingdom in November 1973 where they lost 24–0 to Wales, and 20–3 to England. In 1974, Australia hosted the All Blacks for a three Test series—losing two, but drawing in Brisbane. In 1975 Australia defeated England in a two Test series at home. Australia then played Japan for the first time; beating them by 30 points in the first of two matches, and then winning 50 to 25 in the second. They then travelled to the Northern hemisphere for matches against Scotland and Wales where they were not able to score a try in either of their losses. The tour of Britain and Ireland continued into 1976, and Australia lost to England at Twickenham, but were able to defeat Ireland at Lansdowne Road. On their way home Australia played one more match—in Los Angeles against the United States. Australia won 24–12. In June of that year, Australia hosted Fiji for a three Test series and won all three. Australia finished the year with their tour of Europe where the team played two Tests against France in France, but lost both of them. There were no Wallaby tests played in 1977. Wales toured Australia in 1978, and Australia beat them 18–8 at Ballymore, and then again by two points at the SCG. This was followed by a three match series with the All Blacks. Although New Zealand won the first two, Australia defeated them in the last Test at Eden Park with Greg Cornelsen scoring four tries. The following year Ireland visited Australia and defeated Australia in two Tests. Following this Australia hosted the All Blacks for a single Test at the SCG which Australia won 12–6. Australia then left for Argentina for two Tests. After going down 24–13 in the first, Australia finished the decade by beating Argentina 17–12 in Buenos Aires. In 1980 Australia won the Bledisloe Cup for only the fourth time—defeating New Zealand 2–1 in a three match series in Australia. This was the start of a successful era for Australia. In 1984 Australia toured the Home nations with a young side and new coach Alan Jones. The 1984 Wallabies became the first team from Australia to achieve a Grand Slam by defeating all four Home Nations: England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and a strong Barbarians side. The tour signalled the emergence of Australia as a serious force on the world stage. Many records were established on the tour including; 100 points being scored in the four Tests—the most scored by a touring team to the United Kingdom and Ireland, the first ever push-over try conceded by Wales in Cardiff, Mark Ella scoring a try in each match – a feat never before achieved. In 1986 Australia toured New Zealand in a three match series for the Bledisloe Cup. New Zealand rugby was in turmoil as an unofficial team named The Cavaliers that contained the bulk of the All Blacks players toured South Africa. On return those All Blacks who had toured with The Cavaliers were banned from selection for the first Bledisloe Test. Australia went on to win the first match by 13–12. The ban on players was lifted for the second Test which was played on 23 August 1986 at Carisbrook. New Zealand squared the series 1–1 by winning the match 13–12. The match included controversy when Welsh referee Derek Bevan disallowed a try by Australia number eight Steve Tuynman. The final match was played on 6 September 1986 at Eden Park. Australia beat a full strength New Zealand team 22–9 to secure their first series win on New Zealand soil. Australia went into the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 confident. However, the semi-final against France at Sydney's Concord Oval, was lost 30–26. Australia then lost the third-fourth play-off match against Wales. While Australia's performances over the three years under coach Alan Jones were of a high standard, Jones had a polarising effect on the team with many players unhappy with his management style. Mark Ella, who retired after the 1984 season, stated that he might not have retired had Jones not been coach. Notably, there were deep ructions between coach Alan Jones and influential half-back Nick Farr-Jones. Before and during the 1987 World Cup Alan Jones increased his activities outside coaching Australia, including radio broadcasting. Following the World Cup Jones was removed as coach and Bob Dwyer—who had coached Australia in 1982 and 1983—returned to coach in 1988. In 1989 the British and Irish Lions toured Australia for the first time since 1966. After winning the first Test, Australia lost the second and third matches to lose the series 1–2. Bob Dwyer identified a lack of forward dominance as a major factor contributing to the loss and entered the 1990s with an aim to improve this facet of the Wallaby game. John Moulton was the Wallabies team doctor during the 1986 Bledisloe Cup win in New Zealand and the Rugby World Cup in 1987 and the Rugby World Cup victory in 1991. The team regrouped and then went into the 1991 World Cup with a renewed attitude. In the pool games they beat Argentina, cruised to a 38–3 win over Wales, and beat Samoa 9–3 in a rain soaked game. During the quarter-final match against Ireland, Australia were never able to pull away from them. With literally seconds remaining on the clock, Ireland were up 18–15 before Michael Lynagh scored in the corner to break the hearts of the Irish and qualify for the semi-final against New Zealand. In the first half they raced to a 13–3 lead and then showed they could defend as the All Blacks pounded their line. They faced England in the final at Twickenham. England changed their usually forward-dominated game plan and attempted to play more of a running game. It was unsuccessful and Australia battled out a 12–6 win. David Campese was named player of the tournament having scored six tries in a series of outstanding performances. Victory parades were held back in Australia for their national team. The decade was one of the most important in the creation of the modern game. Australia's defence of the World Cup in South Africa in 1995 opened with defeat by the home side. Pool play was followed by an exit in the quarter-final against England courtesy of a long-range drop-goal from the boot of Rob Andrew. This was Australia's worst ever World Cup result, on a par with Australia's unexpected exit from the 2007 campaign at the quarter-final stage, also against England. The Tri-Nations and Super 12 tournaments were established that year, and started in 1996. This pushed the game into professionalism. In response to rugby's move to professionalism, the Rugby Union Players Association (RUPA) was established in October 1995 to safeguard the interests of Australia's professional rugby players. Greg Smith was national coach in 1996 and 1997 when Australia only won two of their eight Tri-Nations Tests, both over South Africa in Australia, and suffered record-margin Test defeats by the All Blacks and Springboks. Rod Macqueen was appointed as Smith's successor and in 1998 Australia won both their Tests over the All Blacks to gain the Bledisloe Cup. They retained the Bledisloe in 1999 when they defeated the All Blacks by a record 28–7 in Sydney. In the 1999 World Cup Australia won their pool and conceded only 31 points before facing Wales in their quarter final. They won 24–9 before winning the semi-final 27–21 against defending champions South Africa. The semi-final was won after a memorable drop goal in extra time by fly-half Stephen Larkham (his first drop goal attempt in a Test match). The final against France at Millennium Stadium was easily won by 35–12; with the majority of points courtesy of fullback and goal-kicker Matt Burke. In 1999, five Australian players won their second Rugby World Cup: Phil Kearns, John Eales, Tim Horan, Jason Little and Dan Crowley. In 2000 Australia retained the Bledisloe Cup, and won the Tri Nations for the first time. They repeated this in 2001 and also achieved their first ever series win over the British and Irish Lions. MacQueen, and captain John Eales both retired soon after this. They were replaced by coach Eddie Jones and captain George Gregan. This period also saw big-money signings of top-level Rugby league players Mat Rogers, Wendell Sailor, and Lote Tuqiri—all of whom went on to represent Australia. This was a contrast to much of the previous century where many Rugby union players were lured to league with large salaries. After not retaining the Tri-Nations in 2002, and losing the Bledisloe Cup in 2003 Australia made a strong start to their 2003 World Cup campaign with a 24–8 win over Argentina, and two large victories over Namibia and Romania. They then narrowly defeated Ireland 17–16 and Scotland 33–16, in the quarter-final. They claimed one of their greatest victories over New Zealand when they upset them in the semi-final winning 22–10, prompting George Gregan to taunt the New Zealanders with the words "Four more years boys, four more years". They played England in a thrilling final and were finally beaten after England's Jonny Wilkinson kicked a drop goal in extra time. In 2005 to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the professionalism of rugby union the Wallaby Team of the Decade was announced. John Eales being named captain by a selection panel of 30. Following the 2005 European tour, media outlets such as the Daily Telegraph called for the sacking of both Eddie Jones and George Gregan. Former coach Alan Jones also called for their sacking. The record of eight losses from their last nine Tests resulted in Jones being fired by the Australian Rugby Union. John Connolly was named as the head-coach of Australia in early 2006. Australia won both of two Tests against England in 2006, as well as a subsequent win over Ireland. Australia lost by 20 points in their opening Tri-Nations fixture against the All Blacks. They then beat South Africa in Brisbane by 49–0. They won one of their remaining four matches of the tournament. Following defeat by England in the Quarter-Finals of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Connolly announced he was resigning as head-coach. Robbie Deans was appointed head coach in early 2008 as the Wallabies began their preparations for the 2008 Tri-Nations series. After the retirement of George Gregan and Stephen Larkham after the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Deans had the task of choosing a squad minus some of its most experienced players. The Wallabies had mixed results in the 2008 Tri Nations Series, defeating New Zealand in Sydney and beating South Africa twice, in both Perth and Durban. However, the Wallabies suffered the worst defeat in their history, going down 53–8 to South Africa in Johannesburg. 2009 was not a good year for the Wallabies. It was a good start for them as they defeated the Barbarians 55 – 7 and then beat Italy in both tests and finishing off the Mid year test series with a 22 – 6 win over France. It went downhill from there as they finished 3rd in the Tri Nations with 3 losses to the All Blacks (22 – 16, 19 – 18 and 33 – 6) and 2 losses to the World Champion Springboks (29 – 17 and 32 – 25). Their only win in the Tri Nations was a 21 – 6 win over the Springboks. In the Autumn Internationals of 2009, they lost to All Blacks 32 – 19, they beat England 18 – 9 on Jonny Wilkinson's return in the English jersey. The Wallabies then drew with Ireland 20-all after Brian O'Driscoll's last minute try to give Ronan O'Gara a relatively easy conversion to draw level. They then lost to Scotland for the first time in 27 years. The final score was 9 – 8 despite the 3 – 3 score at half time. The Wallabies only won 7 out of their 14 games in 2009 but were still ranked 3rd in the world. 2010 saw improved results in the Tri-Nations series, with a very rare away win against South Africa awarding Australia the Mandela Plate and ensuring they retained second place both in the 2010 Tri-Nations competition as well as the IRB World Rankings. However, they suffered their tenth consecutive defeat at the hands the All Blacks, an all-time record. Later that year however, Australia finally beat New Zealand in a thrilling game that was played in Hong Kong. It was their first win against the All Blacks in close to three years. However they suffered losses against England and Munster on their end of year European tour. Australia's 2011 season began with a shock loss to Manu Samoa in Sydney, (23-32) but they would go on to win that year's Tri-Nations series; a tournament which they had not won in ten years since the 2001. They however failed the following season in their attempt to win the expanded version of the competition in 2012 called The Rugby Championship. Australia also won their first match against Italy in the 2011 Rugby World Cup, but lost their second 2011 World Cup match, 6–15 against Ireland. Injuries to crucial players Digby Ioane and Stephen Moore influenced the results, alongside poor line-out throwing. In their third Pool C match, against the United States, the Wallabies eventually won 67–5, with Rob Horne, Rocky Elsom, Kurtley Beale, Drew Mitchell, Pat McCabe and Radike Samo all scoring a try, while Anthony Fainga'a scored 2 and Adam Ashley-Cooper scored three. The Wallabies won their last pool match against Russia, 68–22. The Wallabies beat the Springboks 11–9 to progress into the semi-finals. However a week later the Wallabies were knocked out of the 2011 World Cup after being defeated 6–20 by the All Blacks in the second Semi Final match. They then faced Wales in the bronze medal final, narrowly winning 18-21. Following the Wallabies defeat to the British and Irish Lions in their 2013 tour, and with a winning rate of 58.1%, a poor 3-15 record against the All Blacks, Deans came under increasing pressure to keep his coaching position. On July 2013, Deans resigned, ending his six-year tenure as head coach of the Wallabies. During his tenure, Deans coached the Wallabies on 74 occasions winning 43 times, losing 29 and drawing twice. He had won just 3 times against their main rivals, the All Blacks, with 1 draw in 2012. However, he left with a good record against the Springboks, with 9 wins from 14. Highlights during his tenure as coach included leading the Wallabies to a Tri Nations championship in 2011 and to a 3rd-place finish in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. On 9 July 2013, Queensland Reds coach Ewen McKenzie was officially named Wallabies coach to replace Robbie Deans. McKenzie's first match in charge was a 47–29 loss to New Zealand in the opening fixture of the 2013 Rugby Championship. In this match he gave 5 debutants their first cap. The 27–16 loss a week later, meant the Bledisloe Cup would stay with New Zealand for the 11th year in a row. In addition to this, McKenzie led to team to a 38–12 loss to South Africa, the biggest ever winning margin by South Africa over Australia in Australia. The 14–13 win over Argentina was McKenzie's first victory as an international coach, but the scoreless second half was the first time Australia had failed to score points in the second half since the home test v New Zealand in 2005. Australia's poor form in the Championship continued against South Africa, where Australia lost 28–8 in Cape Town. However, Australia's final fixture of the Championship saw the Wallabies earn their first bonus point win in the Championship and saw them score the most points in either the Rugby Championship / Tri Nations. During the Championship, McKenzie made several bold moves as a coach. He dropped star player Will Genia for Nic White, who at the time had only 3 caps, and named Ben Mowen as captain in his first year as a test player. During the Bledisloe 3, New Zealand won 41–33 to win the Bledisloe series 3–0. During their 2013 end of year tour, McKenzie led the team to 4 consecutive wins (50–20 win over Italy, 32–15 win over Ireland, 21–15 win over Scotland and a 30–26 win over Wales) which was the first time Australia has done this since 2008. But Australia lost 20–13 to England in the opening match of the tour. However, during the tour Australia did retain the Lansdowne Cup, reclaimed the Hopetoun Cup and claimed the James Bevan Trophy for the 6th time in a row. In 2014, their 4 consecutive wins were increased to 7 for the first time since 2000. They earned a 3–0 test series win over France during the June International Window, which included a 50–23 win in Brisbane, a 6–0 win in Melbourne and a 39–13 win in Sydney. The series win meant Australia reclaimed the Trophée des Bicentenaires for the first time since 2010, after losing it in 2012. The Wallabies's unbeaten run stretched to 8 matches with a 12-all draw with New Zealand, prompting optimism that Australia could finally reclaim the Bledisloe Cup for the first time since 2002, in addition to ending their 28-year winless run at Eden Park. However, Australia came crashing back to earth, suffering a 51-20 defeat during the second Bledisloe test, staged at the venue, stretching Australia's Bledisloe Cup drought to a 12th year. Australia managed to bounce back from that defeat, with hard fought 24-23 and 32-25 wins over South Africa and Argentina, with the latter win ensuring that Australia retained the Puma Trophy. However, Australia was unable to reclaim the Mandela Challenge Plate, suffering a 28-11 loss to South Africa, after conceding 3 tries and a drop goal in the final 11 minutes of the match. A week later, Australia suffered a 21-17 loss to Argentina, their first loss to Argentina in 17 years. This loss meant that Australia became the first country to lose to Argentina in the Rugby Championship since Argentina's admittance in 2012. For the second consecutive year, Australia finished in third place in the Rugby Championship. On 18 October 2014, McKenzie resigned as the head coach of Australia. He left the Wallabies with 11 wins in 22 tests coached, for a winning percentage of just 50%. McKenzie left with a good winning record against European opposition, winning 7 of 8 tests played, the lone loss coming against England in November 2013. He also left with a good winning record against Argentina, with a 3-1 win-loss record. However, he left with a poor record against Rugby Championship opponents, failing to win a match against New Zealand and leaving with a 1-3 win-loss record against South Africa. On 22 October 2014, New South Wales Waratahs head coach Michael Cheika was appointed the new head coach of Australia, becoming Australia's third head coach in 2 years. In his first match as coach of Australia, Australia defeated the Barbarians 40-36 at Twickenham Stadium. On the 2014 end of year tour, Australia defeated Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff 33-28, delivering the Wallabies a 10th straight victory over the hosts in Michael Cheika's first Test as coach. The Wallabies, though, were outscored by four tries to three, with fly half Bernard Foley slotting a late drop goal and three second-half penalties. The Wallabies lost the other three test matches on the tour against France, Ireland and England which dropped them to sixth place on the world rankings. In 2015 it was time for the Rugby World Cup. Australia was in the death pool up against Wales, Fiji, England and Uruguay, the Wallabies first match was up against Fiji which Australia won 28 - 13. Then Australia slaughtered Uruguay 65 - 3, next Australia defeated England at Twickenham 33 - 13. In the last pool match Australia luckily defeated Wales 15 - 6. Then they went to the Quarter finals defeating Scotland 35 - 34, and then they defeated Argentina in the Semi finals which took them to the grand final against New Zealand which they lost 34 - 17. The Wallabies play in Australia's traditional sporting colours of green and gold. Before there was a national jersey in place, the Wallabies would play in the jersey of the state the game was being held. The Australian Coat of Arms would often replace the state logo on the jersey, and a variety of these colours were used in a number of matches in the early 1900s. In 1928 governing bodies agreed that "the Australian amateur representative colours of green and gold, should be adopted". The following year the All Blacks came to Australia, and the jersey worn was emerald green with the Australian Coat of Arms; with green socks with bars on the top. The jersey remained mainly the same, with a few variations, throughout the 1930s. The away jersey usually is green or white, although in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, the Wallabies wore in the match against Romania a green and gold hooped jersey, with green shorts and socks. Canterbury's design for Australia's 2007 World cup jersey was controversial, featuring a curved tan-coloured panel across the chest resembling the shape of a bra. This led the Sydney Morning Herald's chief rugby correspondent to include a satirical piece in his column comparing it to Kramer and Frank Costanza's infamous man bra from Seinfeld. In 2010, KooGa became the apparel sponsor. The first KooGa jersey for the Wallabies under KooGa was used from 2010 through to the conclusion of the 2012 season, however, a different set of shorts and socks were made for the 2012 season. A new kit designed by KooGa was revealed in 2013 for the series against the British and Irish Lions. BLK Sport, previously the Australian subdivision of KooGa, became the apparel sponsor after that tour, with the BLK logo replacing the KooGa logo on the kit for the 2013 Spring Tour. In October 2013, the ARU announced that Asics would be the apparel sponsor beginning in 2014. ^a Sponsored logos appear on jerseys for matches other than the Rugby World Cup where branding, except for logos of equipment manufacturers, is not allowed. ^b BLK brand apparel was supplied for the 2013 end-of-year tour. The nickname "Wallabies" is in reference to the wallaby—a marsupial that is widely distributed throughout Australia. The name has its origins during first United Kingdom and North America tour by the Australian team in 1908. New Zealand had just completed a tour and the English press dubbed their team the "All Blacks". It was suggested that Australia should too have a nickname, and Rabbits was one of the names suggested by the English newspapers. The Australians rejected this, and did not want the national team to be represented by an imported pest. They opted for the native Wallaby instead. At first it was only touring parties that were nicknamed the Wallabies; when Australia played domestically, they were referred to as internationals. The team mascot is known as Wally. Australia's only annual tournament was the Tri Nations (now The Rugby Championship played against Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa contested since 1996. They have won the Tri Nations competition three times in 16 years; in 2000, 2001 and 2011. Australia considers the All Blacks (New Zealand) to be their greatest rivals, with whom they have contested the Bledisloe Cup since 1932 with the Wallabies having won one in four of their encounters against their trans-Tasman opponents. {{}} The Bledisloe Cup is now contested during the Tri Nations. The longest period that Australia held the Bledisloe is five years, between 1998 and 2002. The Mandela Challenge Plate is also contested between South Africa and Australia during the Tri Nations. Bonus points given by T – 4W − 2D, for T table points, W games won and D games drawn. Australia has appeared at every Rugby World Cup since the first tournament in 1987. Australia was the first nation to win two World Cups, with victories in 1991 and 1999. They have progressed to four Rugby Union World Cup finals, a record jointly held with New Zealand. Australia co-hosted the 1987 event with New Zealand. They were grouped with England, the United States and Japan in Pool A. In their first ever World Cup match, Australia defeated England 19–6 at Concord Oval in Sydney then went on to beat their other pool opponents to finish the top of their group and advance to the quarter finals where they defeated Ireland 33–15. They were knocked out by France in the semi-finals, and then lost the third place match against Wales. Australia automatically qualified for the 1991 World Cup in Europe. Australia again finished at the top of their pool, defeating Western Samoa, Wales and Argentina during the group stages. They met Ireland yet again in the quarter finals, beating them by one point to go through to the semi-finals, where they defeated the All Blacks 16–6 to qualify for their first World Cup final. Australia beat England 12–6 at Twickenham in the 1991 Rugby World Cup Final to become world champions. Australia were again automatically qualified for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa. Australia finished second in their pool, losing one game to hosts South Africa. They were then knocked out in the quarter finals by England. Australia finished at the top of their group at the 1999 World Cup in Wales, defeating Ireland, Romania and the United States during the group stages. After beating hosts Wales in the quarter-finals, they defeated defending champions South Africa 27–21 to make it to the final. There they defeated France 35 to 12, in the 1999 Rugby World Cup Final and becoming the first nation to win the World Cup more than once. Australia solely hosted the tournament in 2003, and went undefeated in Pool A, beating Ireland, Argentina, Romania and Namibia. Australia defeated Scotland in the quarter finals, and then the All Blacks in what was regarded as an upset in the semi-finals, to go to the final. England won the final in extra time with a Jonny Wilkinson drop goal. Australia again finished first in their group at the 2007 World Cup in France, after recording wins over Japan, Wales, Fiji and Canada. They were at the time the 2nd ranked team in the World, and the only team to have beaten the favourites New Zealand that year. However, they only progressed to the quarter finals, thus equalling their worst finish at the World Cup finals. They were eliminated once again by England 12–10, largely thanks again to Jonny Wilkinson's successful attempts at penalties. The loss was widely regarded as an upset, especially as England had only finished 2nd in their pool and were ranked 7th. Nevertheless, England went on to beat another favourite, France, and advanced to the final where they were beaten by South Africa. In one of the scenes of the feature film, Invictus, Australia can be seen playing South Africa in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. Champions    Runners-up    Third place Australia have won 316 of 618 matches played, a win record of approximately 51%. When the World Rankings were introduced by the IRB in 2003 Australia were ranked fourth. Since then, the highest ranking Australia has achieved is second, and the lowest is sixth. Australia contests a number of other trophies outside The Rugby Championship, Bledisloe Cup and World Cup. Since 1997 the winner of England-Australia encounters have been awarded the Cook Cup, and since 1999 the winner of Ireland-Australia Tests have won the Lansdowne Cup, with France since 1989, the Trophée des Bicentenaires is contested, and against Wales since 2007, the James Bevan Trophy is contested, and with Scotland since 1998, the Hopetoun Cup is awarded. Below is a table of the representative rugby matches played by an Australia national XV at test level up until 25 November 2017: Up until 2015, to be selected for the Wallabies, eligible players had to play for an Australian Super Rugby franchise, and eligible players playing outside of Australia were not able to be selected. On 16 April 2015, it was announced that the ARU would tweak their selection policy, so that certain players could ply their trade in the Japanese Top League competition from August to February, as long as they continued to play for a Super Rugby franchise from February to August, making them eligible for Wallaby selection as they would also be still playing in Australia. However, this "flexible contract" would only be given to a select number of players considered by the head coach and the ARU board, which means not all players playing or transferring to Japan would be allowed to play in the Top League and the Super Rugby. As the Top League competition clashes with some Wallaby test matches, Wallaby selectors would use World Rugby's regulation 9 (clubs must release players within international windows) to select these players when the Top League clashes with the Rugby Championship in August through to October, and the end-of-year tour in November. At this point, players playing in Europe were not considered for the flexible contract, as too much of the European season clashes with Wallaby test matches. However, on 22 April 2015, further changes were made to the original selection policy in order for some European based players to be selected. In addition to the flexible contract, Australian players playing anywhere in the world can be selected for the Wallabies as long as they fit a certain criteria - A player must have held a professional contract with Australian rugby for at least seven years, and have played 60 tests or more for an overseas based player to be selected. Further more, if a player does not fit this criteria and plays overseas, but chooses to return to Australia, they become immediately eligible for selection as long as they have signed at least 2 years with the Australian Super Rugby franchise for the following season. Like the flexible contract, Wallaby selectors would use World Rugby's regulation 9 to select overseas based players anywhere in the world. On 29 October, Michael Cheika named a 32-man squad for the Wallabies end-of-year tests against Japan, Wales, England and Scotland. Jack Maddocks and Liam Wright were named as development players. Taniela Tupou joined the squad following the NRC final ahead of eligibility before the Scottish test. Head Coach: Michael Cheika As of November 2016, the Wallabies have thirteen former players (and two former coaches) in the World Rugby Hall of Fame, which was previously known as the IRB Hall of Fame prior to 2015. Wallabies in the World Rugby Hall of Fame (year of induction in brackets): The two World Cup-winning captains, John Eales and Nick Farr-Jones, were among the first Australians to be inducted. Eales received this honour in 2007. Farr-Jones and another former Wallaby captain, Nick Shehadie, were inducted in 2011. Shehadie was not honoured as a player but instead recognised, together with fellow Australian Rugby administrator Roger Vanderfield as one of four key figures in the creation of the Rugby World Cup. World Cup-winning coaches Bob Dwyer and Rod Macqueen were also inducted in 2011. Six former Wallaby greats with combined playing careers spanning almost nine decades – Tom Lawton Snr, John Thornett, Ken Catchpole, Mark Ella, David Campese and George Gregan – were added to the list of Australians in the IRB Hall of Fame in 2013. Lawton, a fly-half whose international career spanned from 1920 to 1932, was noted for his ball-handling and kicking skills, and most notably led Australia to their first-ever clean sweep of the Bledisloe Cup series, in 1929. Thornett, a forward who played in four different positions for the Wallabies, made his international debut in 1955. He earned 35 caps in a 12-year Test career, and captained the Wallabies 15 times. During Australia's drawn 1963 Test series against South Africa, in which he served as captain, the Wallabies became the first team in the 20th century to win consecutive Tests over the Springboks. Gregan, a World Cup-winning scrum-half whose Test career spanned the amateur and professional eras of the sport (1994–2007), is notable as having been the all-time caps leader in international rugby union, with 139 in all (a record since surpassed by Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll). He also captained the Wallabies in 59 Tests. A further two World Cup winners, Michael Lynagh and Tim Horan, were inducted in 2014 and 2015 respectively when the separate New Zealand-based International Rugby Hall of Fame was merged with the IRB's Hall of Fame. Wallabies and Olympic gold medallists from the 1908 tour of the United Kingdom, Tom Richards and Daniel Carroll, were honoured with inductions in 2015 and 2016. Both of these men went on to become dual internationals in rugby with Richards playing for the 1910 British Lions and Carroll winning further Olympic gold playing for United States in 1920. Both men also received awards for gallantry during their military service in World War I. Former captain George Gregan is Australia's most capped player with 139 Test caps. Gregan was also the world's most capped player until being surpassed by Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll in 2014. Gregan also equalled the record for the most caps as captain with Will Carling, 59 caps (a record later to be broken by John Smit of South Africa). David Campese scored 64 Test tries in his career, which was a world record until Daisuke Ohata of Japan overtook him with 69 tries, and Michael Lynagh was the highest Test points scorer in world rugby with 911 until Neil Jenkins of Wales overtook him with 1037 points. Rocky Elsom scored the fastest forward hat-trick in World Cup history. Australia's most-capped forward is lock Nathan Sharpe, who retired from international rugby after the 2012 end-of-year Tests with 116 caps. The longest winning streak by Australia was produced in the early 1990s, and started at the 1991 World Cup in England, with three pool wins, and subsequent quarter-final and semi-final victories over Ireland and the All Blacks respectively. This was followed by the win over England in the final. The streak continued into the following year, for two matches against Scotland and the All Blacks, lasting in total, 10 games. Similarly, the Australian record for losses in a row is also 10 games, which was sustained from a period from 1899 to 1907, including two British Isles tours, and losses to the All Blacks. The largest winning margin for Australia was produced at the 2003 World Cup, in which they defeated Namibia 142 points to nil during the pool stages, the match is also the largest number of points scored by Australia. The largest loss was against South Africa, who beat Australia 53 points to 8 in 2008. The current head coach is Michael Cheika who was appointed on 22 October 2014, following Ewen McKenzie's shock resignation. He is assisted by former Wallabies Nathan Grey - Defence coach, and Stephen Larkham - Attack coach. Former Argentina hooker Mario Ledesma is the forwards and set-piece coach. Prior to 1962, Australia did not select coaches as long-term appointments. Managers were appointed to handle the logistics of overseas tours and the assistant manager often doubled as the coach for the duration of the trip. Sometimes the team captain filled the Australian coaching role, particularly for home tests since the IRB had ruled that home teams could not be assembled until three days before a test match. The Wallabies play at a variety of stadiums around Australia. Some of these include Stadium Australia in Sydney, Lang Park in Brisbane, Subiaco Oval in Perth, and the MCG and Docklands Stadium in Melbourne. A variety of venues were used around Australia for the 2003 Rugby World Cup matches. Some of the earlier stadiums that were traditionally used for Wallabies matches, included Sydney's Concord Oval and the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) and Sports Ground, as well as Ballymore and the Exhibition Ground in Brisbane. It was the SCG that hosted the first ever Australian international, against Great Britain, in 1899. The Wallabies rugby internationals and spring tour were televised by Network Ten between 1992 and 1995. Since 1996, Fox Sports have televised them. They jointly televised them with Seven Network between 1996 and 2010, Nine Network in 2011 and 2012 and Network Ten since their 2012 spring tour and their 2013 rugby internationals. Wallabies internationals are protected by Australia's anti-siphoning laws, meaning that all Wallabies matches must be offered to a free-to-air network. In April 2015, BMW Australia became the official partner of the Australian Rugby Union (ARU). Signed as the official vehicle partner, two-year deal that extends until the end of 2016 establishes BMW Australia as sponsors for the Wallabies and the ARU. The partnership agreement extends BMW’s involvement with the game globally, having an established relationship with the English Rugby Football Union as a vehicle partner since 2012., Australia national rugby union team 2019-12-10T00:34:53Z The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team. Australia have competed in all eight Rugby World Cups, winning the final on two occasions and also finishing as runner-up twice. Australia beat England at Twickenham in the final of the 1991 Rugby World Cup and won again in 1999 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff when their opponents in the final were France. The Wallabies also compete annually in The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations), along with southern hemisphere counterparts Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations. More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. Australia's first international match was played against the touring British Isles team in 1899. The first Test was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground and won 13–3 by Australia, but the tourists won the remaining three Tests. The Australian team for the first match consisted of six players from Queensland and nine from New South Wales. The team wore the blue of New South Wales when playing in Sydney and the maroon of Queensland when playing in Brisbane, but with an Australian Coat of Arms in place of the usual emblems of each colony. The first Test between Australia and New Zealand was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1903, with New Zealand winning 22–3. This tour improved rugby's popularity in Sydney and Brisbane and helped to boost club match attendances. In 1907 the New South Wales Rugby League was formed and star player Dally Messenger left rugby union for the rival code. The next year the first Australian rugby team to tour the British Isles left Sydney. Newspapers in England initially gave the team the name 'Rabbits'. The Australian players thought this nickname derogatory and replaced it with 'Wallabies'. In 1909, when the new "Northern Union" code was still in its infancy in Australia, a match between the Kangaroos and the Wallabies was played before a crowd of around 20,000, with the Rugby League side winning 29–26. The First World War had a very negative effect on rugby union in Australia. All rugby union competitions in New South Wales and Queensland ceased after the state bodies decided it was inappropriate to play football when so many young men were fighting overseas. The sport of rugby union was all but closed down causing many players to switch to rugby league – which did not cease playing during the war. In Queensland regular competitions did not commence again until 1929, and there was no official Australian team selected through most of the 1920s before the 1929 All Blacks tour. The New South Wales Waratahs were re-formed in 1920, however, and played regularly throughout the decade including a series of matches against New Zealand and South Africa before their 1927–28 tour of the British Isles, France and Canada. Because these Waratahs teams were Australia's only representatives at the time, all international matches they played during this period were accorded retrospective Wallaby status. War hero Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop also played for Australia before World War II. He played on the side that was the first to win the Bledisloe Cup. The first Test to following World War Two was played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between Australia and New Zealand in 1946, which New Zealand won 31–8. Australia did not win on the three match tour; beaten 20–0 by New Zealand Maori, and then losing 14–10 to the All Blacks the following week. Australia embarked on a tour of the home nations in 1947–48. The successful tour fell short of an undefeated run when the Australia lost to France in their last match, in Paris. Players on the rise included Trevor Allan, Cyril Burke and Nicholas Shehadie. After returning from the successful European tour, Australia hosted the New Zealand Maori in a three match series in 1949; both sides winning once, with one draw. In September of that year, Australia played the All Blacks twice in New Zealand, winning both games and taking back the Bledisloe Cup for the first time on New Zealand soil. The 'Number 1' All Black side was touring South Africa at the time and the wins by Australia against the B-team have sometimes been downgraded. However, in deference to the apartheid system then in operation in South Africa, the NZRU did not select any Maori players for the tour. Many of those regular All Black Maori played against Australia instead and it could be said that the New Zealand team that played Australia was at least as good as the one on tour in South Africa. The British Isles toured Australia in 1950, and won both of the Tests against Australia. The following year Australia fell to a three Test whitewash to the All Blacks. Australia won in July 1952, defeating Fiji at the Sydney Cricket Ground – they then lost the second Test to Fiji by two points. Australia managed to beat the All Blacks at Lancaster Park after the Fijian series; however they lost the second Test. On this tour they also drew against Rhodesia in Kitwe 8–8. The first match of the new decade was the win over Fiji at the SCG in the first match of a three Test series during 1961. This was followed by a second win, but Fiji grabbed a draw in the third Test. Australia then headed to South Africa, where they lost to the Springboks in Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. After returning home, they faced France at the SCG, who beat them 15–8. In 1962, Australia played the All Blacks five times and lost all but a 9–9 draw at Athletic Park. After defeating England 18–9 in 1963 in Sydney, Australia beat the Springboks in consecutive Tests in South Africa; the first team to do so since the 1896 British team. Fewer tests were played throughout the mid-1960s, with Australia only playing a three Test series against All Blacks in 1964. They won the third Test after losing the first two. The following year Australia hosted the Springboks for two Tests, winning 18–11 and 12–8. This was their first ever series win over South Africa and first over a major nation since 1934. The British Isles came the following year, beating Australia 11–8 at the SCG, before hammering them 31–0 in Brisbane. Australia left for Europe in that December where a 14–11 victory over Wales was followed by a slim 11–5 defeat of Scotland. The tour continued into the following year where Australia beat England 23–11 before losing to Ireland 15–8 and France 20–14. Australia then hosted Ireland, who beat them again in Sydney. This was followed by a 20-point loss to the All Blacks. The following year, Australia lost to the All Blacks by just one point, and defeated France by the same margin for their last win of the decade. After losing to Ireland and Scotland on tour, Australia hosted Wales who also beat them. Australia played Scotland in 1970 and won by 20 points. The 1971 South African tour of Australia took place the next season. Protests were held around Australia and in Queensland a state of emergency was issued in advance of one of the Tests. Australia toured France in November of that year; defeating France in Toulouse, but losing the second Test in Paris. France then visited Australia in June 1972 and played a two Test series where they won one and drew one. Australia then played three Test series against the All Blacks in New Zealand—losing all three. They then stopped over in Suva to play Fiji on their return, where they won their only Test of the year. The following year, Australia hosted Tonga, and after winning the first Test, they lost 11–16 at Ballymore in their second. Australia also had a short tour of the United Kingdom in November 1973 where they lost 24–0 to Wales, and 20–3 to England. In 1974, Australia hosted the All Blacks for a three Test series—losing two, but drawing in Brisbane. In 1974, former Wallaby Dick Marks was appointed as the inaugural National Director of Coaching, commencing a period of systematic improvement of Australian rugby coach and player development under the National Coaching Scheme. A turn around in performance of the national side soon followed, leading to outstanding international successes through the 1980s and 1990s. In 1975 Australia defeated England in a two Test series at home. Australia then played Japan for the first time; beating them by 30 points in the first of two matches, and then winning 50–25 in the second. They then travelled to the Northern hemisphere for matches against Scotland and Wales where they were not able to score a try in either of their losses. The tour of Britain and Ireland continued into 1976, and Australia lost to England at Twickenham, but were able to defeat Ireland at Lansdowne Road. On their way home Australia played one more match—in Los Angeles against the United States. Australia won 24–12. In June of that year, Australia hosted Fiji for a three Test series and won all three. Australia finished the year with their tour of Europe where the team played two Tests against France in France, but lost both of them. There were no Wallaby tests played in 1977. Wales toured Australia in 1978, and Australia beat them 18–8 at Ballymore, and then again by two points at the SCG. This was followed by a three match series with the All Blacks. Although New Zealand won the first two, Australia defeated them in the last Test at Eden Park with Greg Cornelsen scoring four tries. The following year Ireland visited Australia and defeated Australia in two Tests. Following this Australia hosted the All Blacks for a single Test at the SCG which Australia won 12–6. Australia then left for Argentina for two Tests. After going down 24–13 in the first, Australia finished the decade by beating Argentina 17–12 in Buenos Aires. In 1980 Australia won the Bledisloe Cup for only the fourth time—defeating New Zealand 2–1 in a three match series in Australia. This was the start of a successful era for Australia. In 1984 Australia toured the Home nations with a young side and new coach Alan Jones. The 1984 Wallabies became the first team from Australia to achieve a Grand Slam by defeating all four Home Nations: England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and a strong Barbarians side. The tour signalled the emergence of Australia as a serious force on the world stage. Many records were established on the tour including; 100 points being scored in the four Tests—the most scored by a touring team to the United Kingdom and Ireland, the first ever push-over try conceded by Wales in Cardiff, Mark Ella scoring a try in each match – a feat never before achieved. In 1986 Australia toured New Zealand in a three match series for the Bledisloe Cup. New Zealand rugby was in turmoil as an unofficial team named The Cavaliers that contained the bulk of the All Blacks players toured South Africa. On return those All Blacks who had toured with The Cavaliers were banned from selection for the first Bledisloe Test. Australia went on to win the first match by 13–12. The ban on players was lifted for the second Test which was played on 23 August 1986 at Carisbrook. New Zealand squared the series 1–1 by winning the match 13–12. The match included controversy when Welsh referee Derek Bevan disallowed a try by Australia number eight Steve Tuynman. The final match was played on 6 September 1986 at Eden Park. Australia beat a full strength New Zealand team 22–9 to secure their first series win on New Zealand soil. Australia went into the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 confident. However, the semi-final against France at Sydney's Concord Oval, was lost 30–26. Australia then lost the 3rd/4th play-off match against Wales. While Australia's performances over the three years under coach Alan Jones were of a high standard, Jones had a polarising effect on the team with many players unhappy with his management style. Mark Ella, who retired after the 1984 season, stated that he might not have retired had Jones not been coach. Notably, there were deep ructions between coach Alan Jones and influential half-back Nick Farr-Jones. Before and during the 1987 World Cup Alan Jones increased his activities outside coaching Australia, including radio broadcasting. Following the World Cup Jones was removed as coach and Bob Dwyer—who had coached Australia in 1982 and 1983—returned to coach in 1988. In 1989 the British and Irish Lions toured Australia for the first time since 1966. After winning the first Test, Australia lost the second and third matches to lose the series 1–2. Bob Dwyer identified a lack of forward dominance as a major factor contributing to the loss and entered the 1990s with an aim to improve this facet of the Wallaby game. John Moulton was the Wallabies team doctor during the 1986 Bledisloe Cup win in New Zealand and the Rugby World Cup in 1987 and the Rugby World Cup victory in 1991. The team regrouped and then went into the 1991 World Cup with a renewed attitude. In the pool games they beat Argentina, cruised to a 38–3 win over Wales, and beat Samoa 9–3 in a rain soaked game. During the quarter-final match against Ireland, Australia were never able to pull away from them. With literally seconds remaining on the clock, Ireland were up 18–15 before Michael Lynagh scored in the corner to break the hearts of the Irish and qualify for the semi-final against New Zealand. In the first half they raced to a 13–3 lead and then showed they could defend as the All Blacks pounded their line. They faced England in the final at Twickenham. England changed their usually forward-dominated game plan and attempted to play more of a running game. It was unsuccessful and Australia battled out a 12–6 win. David Campese was named player of the tournament having scored six tries in a series of outstanding performances. Victory parades were held back in Australia for their national team. The decade was one of the most important in the creation of the modern game. Australia's defence of the World Cup in South Africa in 1995 opened with defeat by the home side. Pool play was followed by an exit in the quarter-final against England courtesy of a long-range drop-goal from the boot of Rob Andrew. This was Australia's worst ever World Cup result, on a par with Australia's unexpected exit from the 2007 campaign at the quarter-final stage, also against England. The Tri-Nations and Super 12 tournaments were established that year, and started in 1996. This pushed the game into professionalism. In response to rugby's move to professionalism, the Rugby Union Players Association (RUPA) was established in October 1995 to safeguard the interests of Australia's professional rugby players. Greg Smith was national coach in 1996 and 1997 when Australia only won two of their eight Tri-Nations Tests, both over South Africa in Australia, and suffered record-margin Test defeats by the All Blacks and Springboks. Rod Macqueen was appointed as Smith's successor and in 1998 Australia won both their Tests over the All Blacks to gain the Bledisloe Cup. They retained the Bledisloe in 1999 when they defeated the All Blacks by a record 28–7 in Sydney. In the 1999 World Cup Australia won their pool and conceded only 31 points before facing Wales in their quarter-final. They won 24–9 before winning the semi-final 27–21 against defending champions South Africa. The semi-final was won after a memorable drop goal in extra time by fly-half Stephen Larkham (his first drop goal scored in a Test match). The final against France at Millennium Stadium was easily won by 35–12; with the majority of points courtesy of fullback and goal-kicker Matt Burke. In 1999, five Australian players won their second Rugby World Cup: Phil Kearns, John Eales, Tim Horan, Jason Little and Dan Crowley. In 2000 Australia retained the Bledisloe Cup, and won the Tri Nations for the first time. They repeated this in 2001 and also achieved their first ever series win over the British and Irish Lions. MacQueen, and captain John Eales both retired soon after this. They were replaced by coach Eddie Jones and captain George Gregan. This period also saw big-money signings of top-level rugby league footballers Mat Rogers, Wendell Sailor, and Lote Tuqiri—all of whom went on to represent Australia. This was a contrast to much of the previous century where many Rugby union players were lured to league with large salaries. After not retaining the Tri-Nations in 2002, and losing the Bledisloe Cup in 2003 Australia made a strong start to their 2003 World Cup campaign with a 24–8 win over Argentina, and two large victories over Namibia and Romania. They then narrowly defeated Ireland 17–16 and Scotland 33–16, in the quarter-final. They claimed one of their greatest victories over New Zealand when they upset them in the semi-final winning 22–10, prompting George Gregan to taunt the New Zealanders with the words "Four more years boys, four more years". They played England in a thrilling final and were finally beaten after England's Jonny Wilkinson kicked a drop goal in extra time. In 2005 to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the professionalism of rugby union the Wallaby Team of the Decade was announced. John Eales being named captain by a selection panel of 30. Following the 2005 European tour, media outlets such as the Daily Telegraph called for the sacking of both Eddie Jones and George Gregan. Former coach Alan Jones also called for their sacking. The record of eight losses from their last nine Tests resulted in Jones being fired by the Australian Rugby Union. John Connolly was named as the head coach of Australia in early 2006. Australia won both of two Tests against England in 2006, as well as a subsequent win over Ireland. Australia lost by 20 points in their opening Tri-Nations fixture against the All Blacks. They then beat South Africa in Brisbane by 49–0. They won one of their remaining four matches of the tournament. Following defeat by England in the quarter-finals of the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Connolly announced he was resigning as head coach. Robbie Deans was appointed head coach in early 2008 as the Wallabies began their preparations for the 2008 Tri-Nations series. After the retirement of George Gregan and Stephen Larkham after the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Deans had the task of choosing a squad minus some of its most experienced players. The Wallabies had mixed results in the 2008 Tri Nations Series, defeating New Zealand in Sydney and beating South Africa twice, in both Perth and Durban. However, the Wallabies suffered the worst defeat in their history, going down 53–8 to South Africa in Johannesburg. 2009 was not a good year for the Wallabies. It was a good start for them as they defeated the Barbarians 55–7 and then beat Italy in both tests and finishing off the Mid year test series with a 22–6 win over France. It went downhill from there as they finished 3rd in the Tri Nations with three losses to the All Blacks (22–16, 19–18 and 33–6) and two losses to the World Champion Springboks (29–17 and 32–25). Their only win in the Tri Nations was a 21–6 win over South Africa. In the Autumn Internationals of 2009, they lost to New Zealand 32–19, they beat England 18–9 on Jonny Wilkinson's return in the English jersey. The Wallabies then drew with Ireland 20–20 after Brian O'Driscoll's last minute try to give Ronan O'Gara a relatively easy conversion to draw level. They then lost to Scotland for the first time in 27 years. The final score was 9–8 despite the 3–3 score at half time. The Wallabies only won 7 out of their 14 games in 2009 but were still ranked 3rd in the world. 2010 saw improved results in the Tri Nations series, with a very rare away win against South Africa awarding Australia the Mandela Plate and ensuring they retained second place both in the 2010 Tri Nations competition as well as the IRB World Rankings. However, they suffered their tenth consecutive defeat at the hands of New Zealand, an all-time record. Later that year however, Australia finally beat the All Blacks in a thrilling game that was played in Hong Kong. It was their first win against New Zealand in close to three years. However they suffered losses against England and Munster on their end of year European tour. Australia's 2011 season began with a shock loss to Samoa in Sydney, (23–32) but they would go on to win that year's Tri Nations series; a tournament which they had not won in ten years since the 2001. They however failed the following season in their attempt to win the expanded version of the competition in 2012 called The Rugby Championship. Australia also won their first match against Italy in the 2011 Rugby World Cup, but lost their second 2011 World Cup match, 6–15 against Ireland. Injuries to crucial players Digby Ioane and Stephen Moore influenced the results, alongside poor line-out throwing. In their third Pool C match, against the United States, the Wallabies eventually won 67–5, with Rob Horne, Rocky Elsom, Kurtley Beale, Drew Mitchell, Pat McCabe and Radike Samo all scoring a try, while Anthony Fainga'a scored two tries and Adam Ashley-Cooper scored three. The Wallabies won their last pool match against Russia, 68–22. The Wallabies beat the Springboks 11–9 to progress into the semi-finals. However a week later the Wallabies were knocked out of the 2011 World Cup after being defeated 6–20 by the All Blacks in the second semi-final match. They then faced Wales in the bronze medal final, narrowly winning 18–21. Following the Wallabies' defeat to the British and Irish Lions in their 2013 tour, and with a winning rate of 58.1%, a poor 3–15 record against the All Blacks, Deans came under increasing pressure to keep his coaching position. Deans resigned in July 2013, ending his six-year tenure as head coach of the Wallabies. During his tenure, Deans coached the Wallabies on 74 occasions winning 43 times, losing 29 and drawing twice. He had won just three times against their main rivals, the All Blacks, with one draw in 2012. However, he left with a good record against the Springboks, with 9 wins from 14. Highlights during his tenure as coach included leading the Wallabies to a Tri Nations championship in 2011 and to a 3rd-place finish in the 2011 Rugby World Cup. On 9 July 2013, Queensland Reds coach Ewen McKenzie was officially named Wallabies coach to replace Robbie Deans. McKenzie's first match in charge was a 47–29 loss to New Zealand in the opening fixture of the 2013 Rugby Championship. In this match he gave five debutants their first cap. The 27–16 loss a week later, meant the Bledisloe Cup would stay with New Zealand for the 11th year in a row. In addition to this, McKenzie led to team to a 38–12 loss to South Africa, the biggest ever winning margin by South Africa over Australia in Australia. The 14–13 win over Argentina was McKenzie's first victory as an international coach, but the scoreless second half was the first time Australia had failed to score points in the second half since the home test v New Zealand in 2005. Australia's poor form in the Championship continued against South Africa, where Australia lost 28–8 in Cape Town. However, Australia's final fixture of the Championship saw the Wallabies earn their first bonus point win in the Championship and saw them score the most points in either the Rugby Championship / Tri Nations. During the Championship, McKenzie made several bold moves as a coach. He dropped star player Will Genia for Nic White, who at the time had only three caps, and named Ben Mowen as captain in his first year as a test player. During the Bledisloe 3, New Zealand won 41–33 to win the Bledisloe series 3–0. During their 2013 end of year tour, McKenzie led the team to four consecutive wins (50–20 win over Italy, 32–15 win over Ireland, 21–15 win over Scotland and a 30–26 win over Wales) which was the first time Australia has done this since 2008. But Australia lost 20–13 to England in the opening match of the tour. However, during the tour Australia did retain the Lansdowne Cup, reclaimed the Hopetoun Cup and claimed the James Bevan Trophy for the 6th time in a row. In 2014, their four consecutive wins were increased to seven for the first time since 2000. They earned a 3–0 test series win over France during the June International Window, which included a 50–23 win in Brisbane, a 6–0 win in Melbourne and a 39–13 win in Sydney. The series win meant Australia reclaimed the Trophée des Bicentenaires for the first time since 2010, after losing it in 2012. The Wallabies' unbeaten run stretched to eight matches with a 12–12 draw with New Zealand, prompting optimism that Australia could finally reclaim the Bledisloe Cup for the first time since 2002, in addition to ending their 28-year winless run at Eden Park. However, Australia came crashing back to earth, suffering a 51–20 defeat during the second Bledisloe test, staged at the venue, stretching Australia's Bledisloe Cup drought to a 12th year. Australia managed to bounce back from that defeat, with hard fought 24–23 and 32–25 wins over South Africa and Argentina, with the latter win ensuring that Australia retained the Puma Trophy. However, Australia was unable to reclaim the Mandela Challenge Plate, suffering a 28–11 loss to South Africa, after conceding three tries and a drop goal in the final 11 minutes of the match. A week later, Australia suffered a 21–17 loss to Argentina, their first loss to Argentina in 17 years. This loss meant that Australia became the first country to lose to Argentina in the Rugby Championship since Argentina's admittance in 2012. For the second consecutive year, Australia finished in third place in the Rugby Championship. On 18 October 2014, McKenzie resigned as the head coach of Australia. He left the Wallabies with 11 wins in 22 tests coached, for a winning percentage of just 50%. McKenzie left with a good winning record against European opposition, winning seven of eight tests played, the sole loss coming against England in November 2013. He also left with a good winning record against Argentina, with a 3–1 win/loss record. However, he left with a poor record against Rugby Championship opponents, failing to win a match against New Zealand and leaving with a 1–3 win/loss record against South Africa. On 22 October 2014, New South Wales Waratahs head coach Michael Cheika was appointed the new head coach of Australia, becoming Australia's third head coach in two years. In his first match as coach of Australia, Australia defeated the Barbarians 40–36 at Twickenham Stadium. On the 2014 end of year tour, Australia defeated Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff 33–28, delivering the Wallabies a 10th straight victory over the hosts in Michael Cheika's first Test as coach. The Wallabies, though, were outscored by four tries to three, with fly half Bernard Foley slotting a late drop goal and three second-half penalties. The Wallabies lost the other three test matches on the tour against France, Ireland and England which dropped them to sixth place on the world rankings. In 2015 it was time for the Rugby World Cup. Australia was in "the pool of death" alongside Wales, Fiji, England and Uruguay. The Wallabies first match was against Fiji which Australia won 28–13. Then Australia slaughtered Uruguay 65–3. In the third round Australia defeated England at Twickenham 33–13, eliminating the host nation from their own World Cup. In the last pool match Australia luckily defeated Wales 15–6. In the quarter-finals they scraped a "controversial" win over Scotland by 35–34. They then defeated Argentina in the semi-finals which took them to the Grand Final against New Zealand, which they lost 34–17. 2016 went badly for the Wallabies, the beginning of a severe downward trend in their results. In June the Australians hosted a three-test series against Six Nations winners England, coached by former Wallabies overseer Eddie Jones. England won all three games, by 39–28, 23–7 and 44–40 respectively. Although they finally finished in 2nd place, with two wins over Argentina and one over South Africa, they lost both games against New Zealand in the Rugby Championship plus the third Bledisloe test that year, continuing a miserable run against their trans-Tasman rivals. In the end of year internationals, Australia managed wins against Wales (32–8), Scotland (23–22) and France (25–23), but lost to Ireland 27–24 before losing a fourth game against England by 37–21. The following year saw little improvement. In the 2017 June internationals Australia secured wins against Fiji (37–14) and Italy (40–27), but lost against a Scotland side missing a number of players on duty for the British and Irish Lions. Their form continued into the 2017 Rugby Championship where, despite again finishing 2nd in the table, they only won their two games against Argentina, lost both matches against New Zealand and struggled to two draws against a poor South Africa. Although they pulled off a surprise 23–18 win in the third Bledisloe test that year, in their autumn test season they only achieved wins against Japan (63–30) and Wales (29–21) before suffering a fifth straight defeat to England 30–6 and a crushing, record-setting loss to Scotland by 53–24. 2018 was one of the worst years ever for Australian rugby. In the June series against Ireland, Australia won the first test 18–9, but lost the remaining matches 21–26 and 20–16 despite outscoring the Six Nations Grand Slam holders by five tries to three. The home series loss to Ireland was Australia's first since 1979. In that year's Rugby Championship Australia again lost both matches against arch-rivals New Zealand. Although they secured a hard-fought 23–18 victory against South Africa in Round 2, they subsequently lost to Argentina at home for the first time since 1983, as well as the return fixture to South Africa 23–12. Their third win of the year was against Argentina where, despite losing the first half 31–7, the Wallabies pulled off an astonishing second-half comeback to win the match 45–34. In the final Bledisloe test, played at Yokohama stadium in Japan, the Wallabies were again trounced by New Zealand 37–20. That autumn, Australia suffered their first defeat to Wales in 10 years by 9–6. The scoreline of the Welsh game, as well as the result, exactly mirrored that of the first meeting between the sides 110 years earlier. They defeated Italy 26–7 the following week, before falling to a sixth defeat to England by 37–18 the week after. The Wallabies finished 2018 having won only four games from thirteen tests played, marking that year as their direst run of results in the professional era, and their worst calendar year since 1958. In 2019 Australia beat New Zealand in a smashing 47–26 win in Perth which equalled the largest margin of defeat for the All Blacks in a test match, tied with Australia's 28–7 victory in 1999. New Zealand reversed the tide with the return match in Auckland, however, with a comprehensive 36–0 win to retain the Bledisloe Cup. At the 2019 Rugby World Cup Australia won three of their four pool matches but a close loss to Wales led to a quarter-final fixture with England. A defeat by 40–16 in that match ended the Australian campaign and the following day Cheika announced that he would resign as head coach by the end of the year. His contract had been due to expire following the World Cup. The Wallabies play in Australia's traditional sporting colours of green and gold. Before there was a national jersey in place, the Wallabies would play in the jersey of the state the game was being held. The Australian Coat of Arms would often replace the state logo on the jersey, and a variety of these colours were used in a number of matches in the early 1900s. In 1928 governing bodies agreed that "the Australian amateur representative colours of green and gold, should be adopted". The following year the All Blacks came to Australia, and the jersey worn was emerald green with the Australian Coat of Arms; with green socks with bars on the top. The jersey remained mainly the same, with a few variations, throughout the 1930s. The away jersey usually is green or white, although in the 1995 Rugby World Cup, the Wallabies wore in the match against Romania a green and gold hooped jersey, with green shorts and socks. Canterbury's design for Australia's 2007 World cup jersey was controversial, featuring a curved tan-coloured panel across the chest resembling the shape of a bra. This led the Sydney Morning Herald's chief rugby correspondent to include a satirical piece in his column comparing it to Kramer and Frank Costanza's infamous man bra from Seinfeld. In 2010, KooGa became the apparel sponsor. The first KooGa jersey for the Wallabies under KooGa was used from 2010 through to the conclusion of the 2012 season, however, a different set of shorts and socks were made for the 2012 season. A new kit designed by KooGa was revealed in 2013 for the series against the British and Irish Lions. BLK Sport, previously the Australian subdivision of KooGa, became the apparel sponsor after that tour, with the BLK logo replacing the KooGa logo on the kit for the 2013 Spring Tour. In October 2013, the ARU announced that Asics would be the apparel sponsor beginning in 2014. In the third 2017 Bledisloe Cup test, for the first time, the Wallabies played with an indigenous jersey. Australia kit evolution as follows: The nickname "Wallabies" is in reference to the wallaby—a marsupial that is widely distributed throughout Australia. The name has its origins during first United Kingdom and North America tour by the Australian team in 1908. New Zealand had just completed a tour and the English press dubbed their team the "All Blacks". It was suggested that Australia should too have a nickname, and Rabbits was one of the names suggested by the English newspapers. The Australians rejected this, and did not want the national team to be represented by an imported pest. They opted for the native Wallaby instead. At first it was only touring parties that were nicknamed the Wallabies; when Australia played domestically, they were referred to as internationals. The team mascot is known as Wally. When the World Rankings were introduced in 2003, Australia was ranked fourth. Since then, the highest ranking Australia has achieved is second, and the lowest is seventh. Australia has appeared at every Rugby World Cup since the first tournament in 1987. Australia was the first nation to win two World Cups, with victories in 1991 and 1999. They have progressed to four Rugby Union World Cup finals, a record jointly held with New Zealand and England. In 1987, Australia co-hosted the inaugural Rugby World Cup with New Zealand. They were grouped with England, the United States and Japan in Pool A. In their first ever World Cup match, Australia defeated England 19–6 at Concord Oval in Sydney then went on to beat their other pool opponents to finish the top of their group and advance to the quarter-finals where they defeated Ireland 33–15. They were knocked out by France in the semi-finals, and then lost the third place match against Wales. Coached by Bob Dwyer for the 1991 World Cup in Europe, Australia again finished at the top of their pool, defeating Western Samoa, Wales and Argentina during the group stages. They met Ireland in the quarter-finals, beating them by one point to go through to the semi-finals, where they defeated the All Blacks 16–6 to qualify for their first World Cup final. Australia beat England 12–6 at Twickenham in the 1991 Rugby World Cup Final to become world champions. Australia were again automatically qualified for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa and finished second in their pool, losing one game to hosts South Africa. They were then knocked out in the quarter-finals by England. In the 2009 feature film Invictus based on the story of the 1995 tournament, Australia can be seen playing South Africa in one of the scenes. Rod Macqueen was the Australian head coach for the 1999 World Cup in Wales. The team beat Ireland, Romania and the United States during the group stages and, after defeated hosts Wales in the quarter-finals, they turned the tables on defending champions South Africa, beating them 27–21 to make it to the final. There they defeated France 35 to 12, in the 1999 Rugby World Cup Final and becoming the first nation to win the World Cup more than once. Australia were the sole hosts of the tournament in 2003, and went undefeated in Pool A, beating Ireland, Argentina, Romania and Namibia. Australia defeated Scotland in the quarter-finals, and then the All Blacks in what was regarded as an upset in the semi-finals, to go to the final. England won the final in Sydney during extra time with a Jonny Wilkinson drop goal. The 2007 World Cup in France was not a successful tournament for the Wallabies. While they finished on top of their group in the pool stages, Australia was knocked out by England 12–10 in their quarter-final, again largely due to Jonny Wilkinson's goal-kicking prowess. This loss was widely regarded as an upset, given England had only finished 2nd in their pool and were ranked 7th. Nevertheless, England went on to upset hosts France in their semi-final match, and advanced to the final where they were beaten by South Africa. Australia's main annual tournament is The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations from 1996 to 2011), competing with New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina who joined in 2012. Australia has won the tournament four times; in 2000, 2001, 2011 and 2015. Within the Rugby Championship, Australia also competes for the Bledisloe Cup with New Zealand, the Mandela Challenge Plate with South Africa, and the Puma Trophy with Argentina. Bonus points given by T – 4W − 2D, for T table points, W games won and D games drawn. Australia contests a number of other trophies against tier one teams from the Northern Hemisphere. The Trophée des Bicentenaires has been contested with France since 1989; the Cook Cup with England since 1997; the Hopetoun Cup with Scotland since 1998; the Lansdowne Cup with Ireland since 1999; and the James Bevan Trophy with Wales since 2007. Below is a summary of the Test matches played by Australia up until 6 October 2019: Up until 2015, to be selected for the Wallabies, eligible players had to play for an Australian Super Rugby franchise, and eligible players playing outside of Australia were not able to be selected. On 16 April 2015, it was announced that the ARU would tweak their selection policy, so that certain players could ply their trade in the Japanese Top League competition from August to February, as long as they continued to play for a Super Rugby franchise from February to August, making them eligible for Wallaby selection as they would also be still playing in Australia. However, this "flexible contract" would only be given to a select number of players considered by the head coach and the ARU board, which means not all players playing or transferring to Japan would be allowed to play in the Top League and the Super Rugby. As the Top League competition clashes with some Wallaby test matches, Wallaby selectors would use World Rugby's regulation 9 (clubs must release players within international windows) to select these players when the Top League clashes with the Rugby Championship in August through to October, and the end-of-year tour in November. At this point, players playing in Europe were not considered for the flexible contract, as too much of the European season clashes with Wallaby test matches. However, on 22 April 2015, further changes were made to the original selection policy in order for some European based players to be selected. In addition to the flexible contract, Australian players playing anywhere in the world can be selected for the Wallabies as long as they fit a certain criteria - A player must have held a professional contract with Australian rugby for at least seven years, and have played 60 tests or more for an overseas based player to be selected. Further more, if a player does not fit this criteria and plays overseas, but chooses to return to Australia, they become immediately eligible for selection as long as they have signed at least two years with the Australian Super Rugby franchise for the following season. Like the flexible contract, Wallaby selectors would use World Rugby's regulation 9 to select overseas based players anywhere in the world. On 23 August, Micheal Cheika named the 31-man squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup: Head Coach: Dave Rennie As of August 2018, the Wallabies have fourteen former players (and two former coaches) in the World Rugby Hall of Fame, which was previously known as the IRB Hall of Fame prior to 2015. Australians in the World Rugby Hall of Fame (year of induction in brackets): The templates listed here are not interchangeable. For example, using {{col-float}} with {{col-end}} instead of {{col-float-end}} would leave a ... open, potentially harming any subsequent formatting. † Can template handle the basic wiki markup {| | || |- |} used to create tables? If not, special templates that produce these elements (such as {{(!}}, {{!}}, {{!!}}, {{!-}}, {{!)}})—or HTML tags (..., ..., etc.)—need to be used instead. The two World Cup-winning captains, John Eales and Nick Farr-Jones, were among the first Australians to be inducted. Eales received this honour in 2007. Farr-Jones and another former Wallaby captain, Nick Shehadie, were inducted in 2011. Shehadie was honoured not as a player but recognised, together with fellow Australian Rugby administrator Roger Vanderfield, as one of four key figures in the creation of the Rugby World Cup. World Cup-winning coaches Bob Dwyer and Rod Macqueen were also inducted in 2011. Six former Wallaby greats with combined playing careers spanning almost nine decades – Tom Lawton Snr, John Thornett, Ken Catchpole, Mark Ella, David Campese and George Gregan – were added to the list of Australians in the IRB Hall of Fame in 2013. Lawton, a fly-half whose international career spanned from 1920 to 1932, was noted for his ball-handling and kicking skills, and most notably led Australia to their first-ever clean sweep of the Bledisloe Cup series, in 1929. Thornett, a forward who played in four different positions for the Wallabies, made his international debut in 1955. He earned 35 caps in a 12-year Test career, and captained the Wallabies 15 times. During Australia's drawn 1963 Test series against South Africa, in which he served as captain, the Wallabies became the first team in the 20th century to win consecutive Tests over the Springboks. Gregan, a World Cup-winning scrum-half whose Test career spanned the amateur and professional eras of the sport (1994–2007), is notable as having been the all-time caps leader in international rugby union, with 139 in all (a record since surpassed by Brian O'Driscoll of Ireland). He also captained the Wallabies in 59 Tests. A further two World Cup winners, Michael Lynagh and Tim Horan, were inducted in 2014 and 2015 respectively when the separate New Zealand-based International Rugby Hall of Fame was merged with the IRB's Hall of Fame. Wallabies and Olympic gold medallists from the 1908 tour of the United Kingdom, Tom Richards and Daniel Carroll, were honoured with inductions in 2015 and 2016. Both of these men went on to become dual internationals in rugby with Richards playing for the 1910 British Lions and Carroll winning further Olympic gold playing for United States in 1920. Both men also received awards for gallantry during their military service in World War I. Fly-half Stephen Larkham, a World Cup winner in 1999 and renowned for his drop goal to beat South Africa in the semi-final of that tournament, was admitted to the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2018. Former captain George Gregan is Australia's most capped player with 139 Test caps. Gregan was also the world's most capped player until being surpassed by Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll in 2014. Gregan also equalled the record for the most caps as captain with Will Carling, 59 caps (a record later to be broken by John Smit of South Africa). David Campese scored 64 Test tries in his career, which was a world record until Daisuke Ohata of Japan overtook him with 69 tries, and Michael Lynagh was the highest Test points scorer in world rugby with 911 until Neil Jenkins of Wales overtook him with 1037 points. Rocky Elsom scored the fastest forward hat-trick in World Cup history. Australia's most-capped forward is lock Nathan Sharpe, who retired from international rugby after the 2012 end-of-year Tests with 116 caps. The longest winning streak by Australia was produced in the early 1990s, and started at the 1991 World Cup in England, with three pool wins, and subsequent quarter-final and semi-final victories over Ireland and the All Blacks respectively. This was followed by the win over England in the final. The streak continued into the following year, for two matches against Scotland and the All Blacks, lasting in total, 10 games. Similarly, the Australian record for losses in a row is also 10 games, which was sustained from a period from 1899 to 1907, including two British Isles tours, and losses to the All Blacks. The largest winning margin for Australia was produced at the 2003 World Cup, in which they defeated Namibia 142 points to nil during the pool stages, the match is also the largest number of points scored by Australia. The largest loss was against South Africa, who beat Australia 53–8 in 2008. The current head coach is Dave Rennie who was appointed on 19 November 2019, following Michael Cheika's resignation after his side were knocked out of the 2019 Rugby World Cup. He is assisted by former Wallaby Nathan Grey as defence coach, former Fijian international Simon Raiwalui as forwards coach, former New South Wales Waratah Shaun Berne as attack coach and former Australian Rules footballer Mick Byrne as National Skills Coach. Updated: 21 November 2019 Prior to 1982, Australia did not select coaches as long-term appointments. Managers were appointed to handle the logistics of overseas tours and the assistant manager often doubled as the coach for the duration of the trip. Sometimes the team captain filled the Australian coaching role, particularly for home tests since the IRB had ruled that home teams could not be assembled until three days before a test match. The Wallabies play at a variety of stadiums around Australia. Some of these include Stadium Australia in Sydney, Lang Park in Brisbane, AAMI Park and Docklands Stadium in Melbourne, and Optus Stadium and nib Stadium in Perth. A variety of venues were used around Australia for the 2003 Rugby World Cup matches. Some of the earlier stadiums that were traditionally used for Wallabies matches, included Sydney's Concord Oval and the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) and Sports Ground, as well as Ballymore and the Exhibition Ground in Brisbane. It was the SCG that hosted the first ever Australian international, against Great Britain, in 1899. The Wallabies rugby internationals and spring tour were televised by Network Ten between 1992-1995 and since 2013. They jointly televised them with Seven Network between 1996–2010, Nine Network in 2011–2012. Fox Sports has also televised the team since 1996. Wallabies internationals held in Australia and New Zealand, as well as at the Rugby World Cup, are protected by Australia's anti-siphoning laws, meaning that all Wallabies matches must be offered to a free-to-air network. In April 2015, BMW Australia became the official partner of the Australian Rugby Union (ARU). Signed as the official vehicle partner, two-year deal that extends until the end of 2016 establishes BMW Australia as sponsors for the Wallabies and the ARU. The partnership agreement extends BMW's involvement with the game globally, having an established relationship with the English Rugby Football Union as a vehicle partner since 2012.

Edinson Cavani

Edinson Cavani 2020-01-01T01:03:50Z name Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 14 February 1987) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Paris Saint-Germain and the Uruguay national team. Cavani began his career playing for Danubio in Montevideo, where he played for two years, before moving to Italian side Palermo in 2007. He spent four seasons at the club, scoring 34 goals in 109 league appearances. In 2010, Cavani signed for Napoli, who signed him on an initial loan deal before buying him for a total fee of €17 million. In the 2011–12 season, he won his first club honour, the Coppa Italia, in which he was top scorer with five goals. With Napoli, Cavani went on to score 33 goals each in his first two seasons, followed by 38 goals in his third season, where he also finished as Serie A top scorer with 29 league goals. On 16 July 2013, Cavani was transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for a reported €64 million, at the time the most expensive signing in French football history. In January 2018, he became the club's all-time top scorer with his 157th goal. With PSG, Cavani has won five Ligue 1 championships, five Coupes de la Ligue and four Coupes de France. He was named Ligue 1 Player of the Year for the 2016–17 season. Cavani scored on his Uruguay debut against Colombia on 6 February 2008, and has since then earned 116 caps and scored 50 international goals, only less than strike partner Luis Suárez among Uruguayan internationals. He has participated in eight major international tournaments: the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 2011 Copa América, the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, the 2014 World Cup, the 2015 Copa América, the Copa América Centenario, the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 Copa América. He scored once at the 2010 World Cup to help Uruguay to fourth place in the tournament, and in 2011 was part of the Uruguay squad that won a record 15th Copa América title. He finished as the CONMEBOL 2018 World Cup qualification top scorer with 10 goals. To this day. Batistuta wasn't a typical striker. A powerful footballer who was incredibly effective in front of goal. I always tried to copy him. —Cavani on his idol growing up, Gabriel Batistuta. After his breakthrough at the 2007 South American Youth Championship, several big teams were reportedly interested in signing Cavani, including Juventus and Milan. On 29 January 2007, however, Palermo chairman Maurizio Zamparini announced the signing of the promising Uruguayan. The bid was officially confirmed on 31 January for €4.475 million. Cavani made his debut on 11 March 2007 in a home league match against Fiorentina, coming on in the 55th minute with his team 0–1 down and scoring an impressive equaliser only 15 minutes later, a goal reminiscent of Marco van Basten's strike in the 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final. In his second season with the Rosanero, Cavani found himself fighting for a first team place with Fabrizio Miccoli and Amauri. After Amauri's departure to Juventus in June 2008, Cavani cemented his place in the starting lineup, forming a striking partnership with Fabrizio Miccoli and scoring a total 14 goals in the 2008–09 season, earning the nickname "El Matador" due to his composure in front of goal. He retained his place for the 2009–10 season under new boss Walter Zenga, and also under successor Delio Rossi, being instrumental in the team's successful run in Serie A which took Palermo to European qualification and potential qualification to the UEFA Champions League with two games remaining. In April 2010, he signed a new contract with Palermo valid to June 2014. In July 2010, Cavani signed for Napoli. The transfer, however, was a loan of €5 million plus an option/obligation to buy outright for €12 million, which made the total fee €17 million. After debuting for Napoli as a substitute in the previous game, Cavani scored twice in his first start, as Napoli beat Elfsborg in the UEFA Europa League 2–0 and qualified for the main tournament. He then started his Serie A tenure with Napoli in spectacular fashion, scoring a controversial goal against Fiorentina after just seven minutes, with replays showing the ball hardly crossing the line. Cavani also scored on his home debut against Bari before adding a late winner against Sampdoria, meaning he had scored in his first four competitive matches with Napoli. On 26 September, Cavani came on as a late replacement with 30 minutes left in a game against Cesena which Napoli were losing 1–0. After assisting the equalizing goal, he went on to score two more, with the scoreline finishing at 4–1. That meant Cavani shared the lead as top scorer in the league alongside Internazionale's Samuel Eto'o. Cavani's partnership with fellow forwards Ezequiel Lavezzi and Marek Hamšík led the Italian sporting media to dub them "The Three Tenors" after the famous singing group of the same name. On 15 December, Cavani netted a 92nd-minute goal against Steaua București to help his team to a 1–0 win and progress beyond the group stage of the Europa League. In the first match, which was held on Romanian soil, he had scored an equalizing goal in the 97th minute. On 9 January 2011, Cavani scored a hat-trick during a 3–0 win over Juventus, the third goal coming by way of a scorpion kick. On 30 January, Cavani scored another hat-trick, this time in a 4–0 win over Sampdoria. Cavani continued his fine form scoring a brace against Roma, with Napoli winning 2–0. On 20 March, Cavani scored another brace against Cagliari in a 2–1 win. This win kept them within three points of leaders Milan with eight games left. On 3 April, Cavani scored yet another hat-trick in a 4–3 comeback win over Lazio, having been 2–0 and 3–2 down during the game. He also became the highest league goalscorer in a single season in Napoli's history, netting 25 goals in Serie A. On 8 May, in a 2–1 away loss against Lecce, he received a red card for having two booked offenses. He sarcastically applauded the referee after the decision and was handed a two-match ban for the action. As Napoli only had two more games of the season, it meant that his season was over and that he would not be able to regain his top position in the Serie A scoring charts, as Antonio Di Natale had surpassed him with 26 goals. Cavani signed a new five-year contract on 19 May, keeping him at Napoli until 2016. On 14 September, Cavani scored the opener in Napoli's first game of their Champions League campaign, a 1–1 away draw at Manchester City. Four days later, on 18 September, he scored a hat-trick against Milan in Napoli's 3–1 home win. On 22 November, Cavani scored both goals in the match winning brace 2–1 at home against Manchester City in the Champions League, leaving Napoli in pole position to follow Bayern Munich into the knockout stage. On 26 November, Cavani scored a 94th-minute equaliser against Atalanta after Napoli went a goal down in the 64th minute through on-loan Napoli striker Germán Denis. On 21 December, Cavani netted a brace in Napoli's 6–1 thrashing of Genoa, helping the Azzurri finish 2011 strong and end the first half of the season in sixth place. On 17 February 2012, Cavani scored two goals against Fiorentina, helping Napoli go in fifth place ahead of Internazionale. On 21 February, Cavani scored the second goal against Chelsea in the Champions League round of 16 first leg in Naples. He also provided the assists for both of Ezequiel Lavezzi's goals that game. Napoli subsequently went on to win this game 3–1. Following Napoli's exit from the Champions League at the hands of Chelsea, Cavani scored two goals against Udinese in the last ten minutes to earn a much-needed draw to keep Napoli in the hunt for the last Champions League qualifying spot. A few days later, he converted a fantastic counter-attack against Siena to book Napoli a place in the Coppa Italia final. On 21 April, he celebrated his 200th career league appearance by scoring in a 2–0 win against Novara. Cavani finished the league season with 23 goals, tied for third on the goal scoring charts with Udinese striker Antonio Di Natale. On 20 May, Cavani scored a penalty against Juventus in the 2012 Coppa Italia final at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome, which Napoli won 2–0. Cavani finished the tournament as the top goalscorer, with five goals. Cavani's first goal of the Serie A season came on 26 August, netting the final goal of Napoli's 3–0 defeat of former club Palermo. A month later, on 26 September, Cavani scored a mesmerizing hat-trick against Lazio to maintain Napoli's undefeated start to the Serie A season in a 3–0 win. On 8 November, Cavani scored all four goals, including a half-volley from outside the box and a tremendous free kick, as Napoli came back from 2–1 down to defeat Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4–2 in the group stage of the Europa League. Cavani scored a late penalty in the 94th minute to secure a 2–1 victory over Swedish side AIK on 22 November, sending Napoli through to the next round of the Europa League. Cavani was the last player ever to score on the Råsunda Stadium which was the stadium that hosted the 1958 FIFA World Cup final. On 6 January 2013, Cavani netted a perfect hat-trick as Napoli thumped Roma 4–1, gaining ground in the race for the league title as champions Juventus fell to a shock win. Cavani finished the season as leading Serie A goalscorer, with 29 goals, six ahead of Udinese striker Antonio Di Natale in second. Towards the end of the season, reports emerged that Cavani would leave Napoli, with Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid all believed to be interested. On 27 May 2013, however, he told that he was not thinking of moving, saying, "Real Madrid, Chelsea and City are interested in me? I just think about Napoli." Nonetheless, he continued, "If an important offer were to come in, I will talk with president De Laurentiis." He then paid tribute to his time in Italy, saying, "I'm fine in Italy, I have grown as a man there and as a player with the Serie A experience." Cavani was asked about the interest Chelsea and Manchester City took in him, saying, "I don't know if they made an offer for me, I just know that to be coached by someone like Manuel Pellegrini or José Mourinho would always be a pleasure." On 23 June, Napoli club president Aurelio De Laurentiis revealed that Cavani's reported £53 million "buyout clause expires" on 10 August 2013, although he went on to say that he does not "think Cavani will leave on August 10th", as he felt Cavani "won't make a joke of" him. On 16 July 2013, Cavani joined French champions Paris Saint-Germain on a five-year contract, for a fee believed to be around €64 million, making it the sixth largest transfer in history. The reported sum made Cavani the record signing in French football, breaking Radamel Falcao's €60 million move to Monaco earlier in the summer, and saw him link up with former Napoli teammate Ezequiel Lavezzi in Paris. Cavani debuted for PSG on 9 August, coming on as 72nd-minute substitute for Lavezzi in a league match against Montpellier. He started the following game on 18 August and scored his first goal for the club, a late equaliser against Ajaccio. Cavani scored his first Champions League goal for the club in their European season opener against Olympiacos on 17 September. He ended the group stage with four goals from five matches as PSG qualified with a 100% win record. On 22 January 2014, Cavani scored his 20th goal of the season in PSG's 2–1 Coupe de France defeat at home to Montpellier. On 2 March, after missing a month of the season with a thigh injury, Cavani scored on his return to the team in a 2–0 win over Le Classique rivals Marseille at the Parc des Princes. On 19 April, he scored both goals for PSG as they beat Lyon 2–1 in the 2014 Coupe de la Ligue Final. He finished his first season with 25 goals in 43 games across all competitions, including 16 in 30 league games. Cavani scored a penalty to secure a 3–1 win at Lens on 17 October 2014, and celebrated by shooting an imaginary gun. Referee Nicolas Rainville booked him for this, and sent him off for dissent after Cavani complained about it. PSG club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said to Canal+, "Why did he get the yellow card before? He always celebrates the same way." On 5 November 2014, it took Cavani 56 seconds to score the only goal of the game against Cypriot club APOEL, a result which put PSG into the Champions League knock-out stage with two games to spare. In January 2015, Cavani and Ezequiel Lavezzi were fined and suspended for two matches by PSG manager Laurent Blanc for missing a mid-season training camp in Morocco and the first training session after the winter break. On 11 April, he scored two goals as a second-half substitute for Lavezzi as PSG defeated Bastia 4–0 to win the 2015 Coupe de la Ligue Final. On 8 May, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–0 defeat of Guingamp, which gave PSG a six-point lead in Ligue 1 with two matches remaining. With the title retained, PSG sealed a domestic treble on 30 May when Cavani headed the only goal of the game – his 31st in all competitions that season – to defeat Auxerre in the Coupe de France final. Cavani and PSG kicked off the season against Lyon for the 2015 Trophée des Champions on 1 August, with him scoring the second goal of a 2–0 victory. On 21 May 2016, Cavani scored the decisive third goal of PSG's 4–2 2016 Coupe de France Final win over Marseille to record a second consecutive Ligue 1–Coupe de France–Coupe de la Ligue domestic treble for the club. On 13 September 2016, in the opening 2016–17 Champions League Group A match against Arsenal at the Parc des Princes, Cavani scored after just 44 seconds had elapsed in the first half by heading in Serge Aurier's cross from the right for PSG's fastest-ever Champions League goal. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On 16 September, Cavani scored four times (his first ever four-goal haul with PSG) in the first half as PSG trounced Caen 6–0 away in a Ligue 1 match to end PSG's streak of three competitive matches without victory, two of them in Ligue 1. On 30 November, he scored a penalty in a 2–0 home win against Angers to take his Ligue 1 tally to 14 goals in 14 matches, which also saw him become only the fourth player in PSG history to score 100 competitive goals for the club. Cavani scored one goal in each leg of PSG's 6–5 aggregate loss to FC Barcelona in their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie, taking him to eight goals from eight matches in the season's competition. On 1 April 2017, he scored two-second-half goals in PSG's 4–1 win over AS Monaco in the 2017 Coupe de la Ligue Final. On 15 May 2017, he was named Ligue 1 Player of the Year for scoring 35 goals. Prior to the 2017–18 season, Cavani was joined at the club by Brazilian forward Neymar, who moved to PSG in a transaction worth €222 million making him the world's most expensive player, and 18-year-old French prodigy Kylian Mbappé, a loan signing with the club having an option to sign him for €180 million. Cavani, Neymar and Mbappé immediately formed a formidable attacking trio, with Cavani scoring in each of PSG's opening three games of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage, twice in the team's 5–0 win at Celtic, once in the 3–0 win at home to Bayern Munich, and once in the 4–0 win at Anderlecht. On 22 October, Cavani scored a curling free kick off the crossbar to earn PSG a 2–2 draw in Le Classique away to Olympique de Marseille. The following month, he scored twice in the return leg against Celtic in a 7–1 win. The result saw PSG break the record for the most goals scored by a club in the group stages of the Champions League, with 24. On 4 November, Cavani's goals in a 5–0 win at Angers made him only the third player to score 100 times in two of Europe's five best leagues, after Ibrahimović and Gonzalo Higuaín. Cavani became PSG's all-time top scorer on 27 January 2018 with a goal in a 4–0 home win over Montpellier. He surpassed Zlatan Ibrahimović's record with his 157th goal in his 229th match. On 8 May 2018, he scored as PSG won 2–0 against Les Herbiers VF to clinch the 2017–18 Coupe de France. On 25 August 2018, Cavani played his first game of the season after missing PSG's first three games following his injury at the 2018 World Cup. The front three of Cavani, Neymar and Mbappé all scored in a 3–1 league win over Angers at home, with Cavani scoring the opener from Neymar's assist. On 11 November 2018, Cavani scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win over AS Monaco in a Ligue 1 match. On 18 December, Cavani scored in PSG's 2–1 win over US Orléans in the Coupe de La Ligue; this was his 15th goal all-time in the competition, tying Pauleta's record for most goals in the tournament. In January 2007, Cavani was selected to join the Uruguay national under-20 team to play in the 2007 South American Youth Championship in Paraguay. Cavani finished the tournament as top scorer with seven goals in nine games, helping Uruguay to finish in third place, thereby earning them a place in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. On 6 February 2008, Cavani made his first senior appearance for the Uruguayan senior team, scoring in a 2–2 draw with Colombia. He scored from his own area on the counterattack from a corner. On 22 June 2010, in the final match of the group stage of the 2010 World Cup, Cavani set-up a goal for Luis Suárez in a 1–0 win over Mexico. Uruguay won Group A and advanced to the knockout stage. On 10 July 2010, he scored against Germany in the third place match to make the score 1–1; Germany went on to win 3–2. On 8 October 2010, he scored his first international hat-trick in a friendly match against Indonesia, a 7–1 win in Jakarta in which Luis Suárez also scored a hat-trick. Cavani was included in the Uruguayan squad at the 2011 Copa América in Argentina. He started the first two group games, but a knee injury in the second game against Chile ruled him out until the final. In the final, he replaced Álvaro Pereira after 63 minutes, and was involved in his team's final goal as Uruguay won a record 15th title by beating Paraguay 3–0. Cavani was one of the three over-age players selected by Uruguay for the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, Cavani equalised in the semi-final against the hosts and eventual champions Brazil, who eventually won 2–1. In the match for third place, he equalised twice against Italy, his second goal coming from a free kick, taking the game to penalties. Although Cavani scored his spot kick, Uruguay lost; he was named man of the match for his performance. On 13 November 2013, Cavani scored the last goal in Uruguay's 5–0 away win over Jordan in a play-off for the 2014 World Cup. In their first group game of the finals, against Costa Rica in Fortaleza, Cavani opened the scoring with a penalty after Diego Lugano had been pulled down. Uruguay, however, eventually lost 3–1. Uruguay were eliminated by Colombia, following a 2–0 defeat in the round of 16 on 28 June 2014. With Suárez suspended for the entire tournament, Cavani was an undisputed starter for Uruguay at the 2015 Copa América in Chile. In the quarter-finals against the hosts at the Estadio Nacional, Cavani was sent off for two bookings: the first for a foul on Arturo Vidal, the second for flicking at Gonzalo Jara's face after Jara had poked him in the buttocks. The incident received almost immediate and prominent international coverage from newspapers and the internet, mostly in defense of Cavani. Massive coverage included articles, columns, blogs, memes and cartoons. Press in Australia drew comparisons to what the press referred to as "Hopoate", comparing it to a similar infamous onfield anus-poking incident from rugby. Other massive international coverage of the incident came from China, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Internet coverage included Goal.com, Business Insider, ESPNFC, Bleacher Report The World Game, The Huffington Post, and Dirty Tackle. Teammate Jorge Fucile was later also dismissed, and holders Uruguay were eliminated with a 1–0 defeat. Cavani also took part in the Copa América Centenario the following year, but he once again went scoreless in the competition, as Uruguay were eliminated in the first round. Cavani finished as the top scorer in the CONMEBOL 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, with 10 goals. In March 2018, Cavani was part of the Uruguay squad that won the China Cup. He scored in the 2–0 semi-final win over the Czech Republic, and in the final he scored the only goal against Wales, his 100th cap. In his nation's final group game of the 2018 FIFA World Cup on 25 June, Cavani scored Uruguay's final goal in a 3–0 win over hosts Russia. Cavani then went on to score both of Uruguay's goals against Portugal in a 2–1 victory in the Round of 16 on 30 June, though he was withdrawn in the second-half with an apparent hamstring injury. Because of his injury, he was ruled out of Uruguay's 2–0 defeat to France in the quarter-finals on 6 July. In March 2019, manager Óscar Tabárez included Cavani in the final 23-man Uruguay squad for the 2019 Copa América in Brazil. On 16 June, Cavani scored "an acrobatic bicycle-kick" in a 4–0 win over Ecuador in the team's opening group match of the tournament; this was his first goal ever in the Copa América. In the quarter-finals against Peru on 29 June, he had a goal disallowed by VAR for offside in regulation time; following a 0–0 draw, the match went to a penalty shoot-out. Although Cavani was able to convert his spot-kick, Peru won the shoot-out 5–4, which saw Uruguay eliminated from the competition. A quick, strong, opportunistic and prolific forward with good technique, Cavani has been described as a "modern striker." He is known for his ability to score impressive goals, both in the air and with his feet, and for his tireless work-rate; he is also an accurate set-piece taker, and is generally a competent penalty taker, even though his record from the spot has been inconsistent at times throughout his career. Although he primarily plays as a centre forward, he is capable of playing in several offensive positions, and has also been deployed as a supporting striker or as a winger. Writing for The Guardian in 2018, Jorge Valdano remarked upon "the generous endeavour of Cavani, a striker who covers the entire pitch". Cavani was born in Salto, Uruguay, on 14 February 1987 to Berta Gómez and Luis Cavani. His elder brothers, striker Walter Guglielmone and Christian Cavani, are also professional footballers. Cavani was married to Maria Soledad Cabris Yarrús, with whom he has two sons, Bautista (born 22 March 2011) and Lucas (born 8 March 2013) He is a devout Evangelical Christian. As a child, Cavani idolised Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta. In 2013, Cavani announced that he and his wife were to get a divorce, following a split between the two the year before. Notes, Edinson Cavani 2021-12-31T09:27:23Z Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 14 February 1987) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester United and the Uruguay national team. He is widely considered one of the best strikers of his generation, known for his clinical finishing. Cavani began his career playing for Danubio in Montevideo, where he played for two years, before moving to Italian side Palermo in 2007. He spent four seasons at the club, scoring 34 goals in 109 league appearances. In 2010, Cavani signed for Napoli, who signed him on an initial loan deal before buying him for a total fee of €17 million. In the 2011–12 season, he won his first club honour, the Coppa Italia, in which he was top scorer with five goals. With Napoli, Cavani went on to score 33 goals each in his first two seasons, followed by 38 goals in his third season, where he also finished as Serie A top scorer with 29 league goals. On 16 July 2013, Cavani was transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for a reported €64 million, at the time the most expensive signing in French football history. With PSG, Cavani won six Ligue 1 titles, five Coupes de la Ligue and four Coupes de France. He won Ligue 1 Player of the Year for the 2016–17 season, and was the league's top scorer in the 2016–17 and 2017–18 seasons. He also ranks as the club's all-time top goalscorer. In 2020, Cavani signed with Manchester United. Cavani scored on his Uruguay debut against Colombia on 6 February 2008, and has since then earned 125 caps and scored 53 international goals, only behind strike partner Luis Suárez among Uruguayan internationals. He has participated in nine major international tournaments: the FIFA World Cup in 2010, 2014 and 2018, the Copa América in 2011, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2021, and the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2013. He scored once at the 2010 World Cup to help Uruguay to fourth place in the tournament, and in 2011 was part of the Uruguay squad that won a record fifteenth Copa América title. He finished as the CONMEBOL 2018 World Cup qualification top scorer with ten goals. To this day. Batistuta wasn't a typical striker. A powerful footballer who was incredibly effective in front of goal. I always tried to copy him. —Cavani on his idol growing up, Gabriel Batistuta. After his breakthrough at the 2007 South American Youth Championship, several big teams were reportedly interested in signing Cavani, including Juventus and Milan. On 29 January 2007, however, Palermo chairman Maurizio Zamparini announced the signing of the promising Uruguayan. The bid was officially confirmed on 31 January for €4.475 million. Cavani made his debut on 11 March 2007 in a home league match against Fiorentina, coming on in the 55th minute with his team 1–0 down and scoring an impressive equaliser only 15 minutes later, a goal reminiscent of Marco van Basten's strike in the 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final. In his second season with the Rosanero, Cavani found himself fighting for a first team place with Fabrizio Miccoli and Amauri. After Amauri's departure to Juventus in June 2008, Cavani cemented his place in the starting line-up, forming a striking partnership with Fabrizio Miccoli and scoring a total 14 goals in the 2008–09 season, earning the nickname "El Matador" due to his composure in front of goal. He retained his place for the 2009–10 season under new boss Walter Zenga, and also under successor Delio Rossi, being instrumental in the team's successful run in Serie A which took Palermo to European qualification and potential qualification to the UEFA Champions League with two games remaining. In April 2010, he signed a new contract with Palermo valid to June 2014. In July 2010, Cavani signed for Napoli. The transfer, however, was a loan of €5 million plus an option/obligation to buy outright for €12 million, which made the total fee €17 million. After debuting for Napoli as a substitute in the previous game, Cavani scored twice in his first start, as Napoli beat Elfsborg in the UEFA Europa League 2–0 and qualified for the main tournament. He then started his Serie A tenure with Napoli scoring a controversial goal against Fiorentina after just seven minutes, with replays showing the ball landing on the line. Cavani also scored on his home debut against Bari before adding a late winner against Sampdoria, meaning he had scored in his first four competitive matches with Napoli. On 26 September, Cavani came on as a late replacement with 30 minutes left in a game against Cesena which Napoli were losing 1–0. After assisting the equalising goal, he went on to score two more, with the scoreline finishing at 4–1. That meant Cavani shared the lead as top scorer in the league alongside Internazionale's Samuel Eto'o. Cavani's partnership with fellow forwards Ezequiel Lavezzi and Marek Hamšík led the Italian sporting media to dub them "The Three Tenors" after the famous singing group of the same name. On 15 December, Cavani netted a 92nd-minute goal against Steaua București to help his team to a 1–0 win and progress beyond the group stage of the Europa League. In the first match, which was held on Romanian soil, he had scored an equalising goal in the 97th minute. On 9 January 2011, Cavani scored a hat-trick during a 3–0 win over Juventus, the third goal coming by way of a diving header. On 30 January, Cavani scored another hat-trick, this time in a 4–0 win over Sampdoria. Cavani continued his fine form scoring a brace against Roma, with Napoli winning 2–0. On 20 March, Cavani scored another brace against Cagliari in a 2–1 win. This win kept them within three points of leaders Milan with eight games left. On 3 April, Cavani scored yet another hat-trick in a 4–3 comeback win over Lazio, having been 2–0 and 3–2 down during the game. He also became the highest league goalscorer in a single season in Napoli's history, netting 25 goals in Serie A. On 8 May, in a 2–1 away loss against Lecce, he received a red card for two bookable offences. He sarcastically applauded the referee after the decision and was handed a two-match ban for the action. As Napoli only had two more games of the season, it meant that his season was over and that he would not be able to regain his top position in the Serie A scoring charts, as Antonio Di Natale had surpassed him with 26 goals. Cavani signed a new five-year contract on 19 May, keeping him at Napoli until 2016. On 14 September, Cavani scored the opener in Napoli's first game of their Champions League campaign, a 1–1 away draw at Manchester City. Four days later, on 18 September, he scored a hat-trick against Milan in Napoli's 3–1 home win. On 22 November, Cavani scored both goals in the match winning brace 2–1 at home against Manchester City in the Champions League, leaving Napoli in pole position to follow Bayern Munich into the knockout stage. On 26 November, Cavani scored a 94th-minute equaliser against Atalanta after Napoli went a goal down in the 64th minute through on-loan Napoli striker Germán Denis. On 21 December, Cavani netted a brace in Napoli's 6–1 thrashing of Genoa, helping the Azzurri finish 2011 strong and end the first half of the season in sixth place. On 17 February 2012, Cavani scored two goals against Fiorentina, helping Napoli go in fifth place ahead of Internazionale. On 21 February, Cavani scored the second goal against Chelsea in the Champions League round of 16 first leg in Naples. He also provided the assists for both of Ezequiel Lavezzi's goals that game. Napoli subsequently went on to win this game 3–1. Following Napoli's exit from the Champions League at the hands of Chelsea, Cavani scored two goals against Udinese in the last ten minutes to earn a much-needed draw to keep Napoli in the hunt for the last Champions League qualifying spot. A few days later, he converted a fantastic counter-attack against Siena to book Napoli a place in the Coppa Italia final. On 21 April, he celebrated his 200th career league appearance by scoring in a 2–0 win against Novara. Cavani finished the league season with 23 goals, tied for third on the goal scoring charts with Udinese striker Antonio Di Natale. On 20 May, Cavani scored a penalty against Juventus in the 2012 Coppa Italia final at the Stadio Olimpico, Rome, which Napoli won 2–0. Cavani finished the tournament as the top goalscorer, with five goals. Cavani's first goal of the Serie A season came on 26 August, netting the final goal of Napoli's 3–0 defeat of former club Palermo. A month later, on 26 September, Cavani scored a mesmerising hat-trick against Lazio to maintain Napoli's undefeated start to the Serie A season in a 3–0 win. On 8 November, Cavani scored all four goals, including a half-volley from outside the box and a tremendous free kick, as Napoli came back from 2–1 down to defeat Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4–2 in the group stage of the Europa League. Cavani scored a late penalty in the 94th minute to secure a 2–1 victory over Swedish side AIK on 22 November, sending Napoli through to the next round of the Europa League. Cavani was the last player ever to score on the Råsunda Stadium which was the stadium that hosted the 1958 FIFA World Cup final. On 6 January 2013, Cavani netted a perfect hat-trick as Napoli thumped Roma 4–1, gaining ground in the race for the league title as champions Juventus fell to a shock win. Cavani finished the season as leading Serie A goalscorer, with 29 goals, six ahead of Udinese striker Antonio Di Natale in second. Towards the end of the season, reports emerged that Cavani would leave Napoli, with Chelsea, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid all believed to be interested. On 27 May 2013, however, he told that he was not thinking of moving, saying, "Real Madrid, Chelsea and City are interested in me? I just think about Napoli." Nonetheless, he continued, "If an important offer were to come in, I will talk with president De Laurentiis." He then paid tribute to his time in Italy, saying, "I'm fine in Italy, I have grown as a man there and as a player with the Serie A experience." Cavani was asked about the interest Chelsea and Manchester City took in him, saying, "I don't know if they made an offer for me, I just know that to be coached by someone like Manuel Pellegrini or José Mourinho would always be a pleasure." On 23 June, Napoli club president Aurelio De Laurentiis revealed that Cavani's reported £53 million "buyout clause expires" on 10 August 2013. On 16 July 2013, Cavani joined French champions Paris Saint-Germain on a five-year contract, for a fee believed to be around €64 million, making it the sixth largest transfer in history. The reported sum made Cavani the record signing in French football, breaking Radamel Falcao's €60 million move to Monaco earlier in the summer, and saw him link up with former Napoli teammate Ezequiel Lavezzi in Paris. Cavani debuted for PSG on 9 August, coming on as 72nd-minute substitute for Lavezzi in a league match against Montpellier. He started the following game on 18 August and scored his first goal for the club, a late equaliser against Ajaccio. Cavani scored his first Champions League goal for the club in their European season opener against Olympiacos on 17 September. He ended the group stage with four goals from five matches as PSG qualified with a 100% win record. On 22 January 2014, Cavani scored his 20th goal of the season in PSG's 2–1 Coupe de France defeat at home to Montpellier. On 2 March, after missing a month of the season with a thigh injury, Cavani scored on his return to the team in a 2–0 win over Le Classique rivals Marseille at the Parc des Princes. On 19 April, he scored both goals for PSG as they beat Lyon 2–1 in the 2014 Coupe de la Ligue Final. He finished his first season with 25 goals in 43 games across all competitions, including 16 in 30 league games. Cavani scored a penalty to secure a 3–1 win at Lens on 17 October 2014, and celebrated by shooting an imaginary gun. Referee Nicolas Rainville booked him for this, and sent him off for dissent after Cavani complained about it. PSG club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said to Canal+, "Why did he get the yellow card before? He always celebrates the same way." On 5 November 2014, it took Cavani 56 seconds to score the only goal of the game against Cypriot club APOEL, a result which put PSG into the Champions League knock-out stage with two games to spare. In January 2015, Cavani and Ezequiel Lavezzi were fined and suspended for two matches by PSG manager Laurent Blanc for missing a mid-season training camp in Morocco and the first training session after the winter break. On 11 April, he scored two goals as a second-half substitute for Lavezzi as PSG defeated Bastia 4–0 to win the 2015 Coupe de la Ligue Final. On 8 May, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–0 defeat of Guingamp, which gave PSG a six-point lead in Ligue 1 with two matches remaining. With the title retained, PSG sealed a domestic treble on 30 May when Cavani headed the only goal of the game – his 31st in all competitions that season – to defeat Auxerre in the Coupe de France final. Cavani and PSG kicked off the season against Lyon for the 2015 Trophée des Champions on 1 August, with him scoring the second goal of a 2–0 victory. On 21 May 2016, Cavani scored the decisive third goal of PSG's 4–2 2016 Coupe de France Final win over Marseille to record a second consecutive Ligue 1–Coupe de France–Coupe de la Ligue domestic treble for the club. On 13 September 2016, in the opening 2016–17 Champions League Group A match against Arsenal at the Parc des Princes, Cavani scored after just 44 seconds had elapsed in the first half by heading in Serge Aurier's cross from the right for PSG's fastest-ever Champions League goal. The match ended in a 1–1 draw. On 16 September, Cavani scored four times (his first ever four-goal haul with PSG) in the first half as PSG trounced Caen 6–0 away in a Ligue 1 match to end PSG's streak of three competitive matches without victory, two of them in Ligue 1. On 30 November, he scored a penalty in a 2–0 home win against Angers to take his Ligue 1 tally to 14 goals in 14 matches, which also saw him become only the fourth player in PSG history to score 100 competitive goals for the club. Cavani scored one goal in each leg of PSG's 6–5 aggregate loss to FC Barcelona in their UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie, taking him to eight goals from eight matches in the season's competition. On 1 April 2017, he scored two-second-half goals in PSG's 4–1 win over Monaco in the 2017 Coupe de la Ligue Final. On 15 May 2017, he was named Ligue 1 Player of the Year for scoring 35 goals. Prior to the 2017–18 season, Cavani was joined at the club by Brazilian forward Neymar, who moved to PSG in a transaction worth €222 million making him the world's most expensive player, and 18-year-old French prodigy Kylian Mbappé, a loan signing with the club having an option to sign him for €180 million. Cavani, Neymar and Mbappé immediately formed a formidable attacking trio, with Cavani scoring in each of PSG's opening three games of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League group stage, twice in the team's 5–0 win at Celtic, once in the 3–0 win at home to Bayern Munich, and once in the 4–0 win at Anderlecht. On 22 October, Cavani scored a curling free kick off the crossbar to earn PSG a 2–2 draw in Le Classique away to Marseille. The following month, he scored twice in the return leg against Celtic in a 7–1 win. The result saw PSG break the record for the most goals scored by a club in the group stages of the Champions League, with 24. On 4 November, Cavani's goals in a 5–0 win at Angers made him only the third player to score 100 times in two of Europe's five best leagues, after Ibrahimović and Gonzalo Higuaín. Cavani became PSG's all-time top scorer on 27 January 2018 with a goal in a 4–0 home win over Montpellier. He surpassed Zlatan Ibrahimović's record with his 157th goal in his 229th match. On 8 May 2018, he scored as PSG won 2–0 against Les Herbiers VF to clinch the 2017–18 Coupe de France. On 25 August 2018, Cavani played his first game of the season after missing PSG's first three games following his injury at the 2018 World Cup. The front three of Cavani, Neymar and Mbappé all scored in a 3–1 league win over Angers at home, with Cavani scoring the opener from Neymar's assist. On 11 November 2018, Cavani scored a hat-trick in a 4–0 win over Monaco. On 18 December, Cavani scored in PSG's 2–1 win over Orléans in the Coupe de La Ligue; this was his 15th goal all-time in the competition, tying Pauleta's record for most goals in the tournament. In April 2020, PSG were assigned the 2019–20 Ligue 1 title after the season was ended prematurely due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic; at the time of the League's suspension, PSG were in first place, with a twelve–point lead over second-placed Marseille. On 13 June, PSG's sporting director Leonardo revealed that Cavani would be leaving the club at the end of the Champions League campaign in August, alongside his teammate Thiago Silva. On 5 October 2020, Cavani joined Premier League club Manchester United on a one-year deal with an option to extend for a further year. He was given the prestigious number 7 shirt. On 24 October 2020, he made his Premier League debut from the bench in a 0–0 draw against Chelsea. On 7 November, Cavani scored his first goal in the Premier League in a 3–1 away win against Everton. On 29 November, Cavani scored twice, including the winning goal in added time, in a 3–2 comeback win against Southampton after coming on as a half time substitute. On 2 February 2021, he scored the fourth goal in United's Premier League record-equalling 9–0 win against Southampton. On 29 April, he scored twice and assisted two more goals in a 6–2 home win over Roma in the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals; he scored another two in a 3–2 defeat in the return leg, which allowed United to advance to the final 8–5 on aggregate. Across April, Cavani scored five goals and collected three man of the match award from four starts which lead to him winning his first Manchester United player of the month award. On 10 May 2021, Cavani officially extended his stay for another season. On 18 May, in an eventual 1–1 home draw against Fulham, Cavani scored the first goal at Old Trafford with fans in attendance since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a 40-yard lob. He was later awarded Premier League Goal of the Month for his effort. On 26 May, he scored the equalising goal in a 1–1 draw against Villarreal in the Europa League Final; however, Manchester United lost eventually on penalties, despite Cavani netting his spot kick in the shoot-out. Even though Cavani played his first match of the 2021–22 season against Wolves in the number 7 shirt, upon the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo, he agreed to switch to the number 21 shirt, the same number he wears for the Uruguay national team. He scored his first goal of the season, in a 3–0 away win on 30 October against Tottenham Hotspur, assisted by Cristiano Ronaldo. In January 2007, Cavani was selected to join the Uruguay national under-20 team to play in the 2007 South American Youth Championship in Paraguay. He finished the tournament as top scorer with seven goals in nine games, helping Uruguay to finish in third place, thereby earning them a place in the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup. On 6 February 2008, Cavani made his first senior appearance for the Uruguayan senior team, scoring in a 2–2 draw with Colombia. He scored from his own area on the counterattack from a corner. On 22 June 2010, in the final match of the group stage of the 2010 World Cup, Cavani set-up a goal for Luis Suárez in a 1–0 win over Mexico. Uruguay won Group A and advanced to the knockout stage. On 10 July 2010, he scored against Germany in the third place match to make the score 1–1; Germany went on to win 3–2. On 8 October 2010, he scored his first international hat-trick in a friendly match against Indonesia, a 7–1 win in Jakarta in which Luis Suárez also scored a hat-trick. Cavani was included in the Uruguayan squad at the 2011 Copa América in Argentina. He started the first two group games, but a knee injury in the second game against Chile ruled him out until the final. In the final, he replaced Álvaro Pereira after 63 minutes, and was involved in his team's final goal as Uruguay beat Paraguay 3–0 won a record 15th title. Cavani was one of the three over-age players selected by Uruguay for the 2012 Summer Olympics. At the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, Cavani equalised in the semi-final against the hosts and eventual champions Brazil, who eventually won 2–1. In the match for third place, he equalised twice against Italy, his second goal coming from a free kick, taking the game to penalties. Although Cavani scored his spot kick, Uruguay lost; he was named man of the match for his performance. On 13 November 2013, Cavani scored the last goal in Uruguay's 5–0 away win over Jordan in a play-off for the 2014 World Cup. In their first group game of the finals, against Costa Rica in Fortaleza, Cavani opened the scoring with a penalty after Diego Lugano had been pulled down. Uruguay, however, eventually lost 3–1. Uruguay were eliminated by Colombia, following a 2–0 defeat in the round of 16 on 28 June 2014. With Suárez suspended for the entire tournament, Cavani was an undisputed starter for Uruguay at the 2015 Copa América in Chile. In the quarter-finals against the hosts at the Estadio Nacional, Cavani was sent off for two bookings: the first for a foul on Arturo Vidal, the second for flicking at Gonzalo Jara's face after Jara had poked him in the buttocks. The incident received almost immediate and prominent international coverage from newspapers and the internet, mostly in defence of Cavani. Massive coverage included articles, columns, blogs, memes and cartoons. Press in Australia drew comparisons to what the press referred to as "Hopoate", comparing it to a similar infamous onfield anus-poking incident from rugby. Other massive international coverage of the incident came from China, the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Internet coverage included Goal.com, Business Insider, ESPNFC, Bleacher Report The World Game, The Huffington Post, and Dirty Tackle. Teammate Jorge Fucile was later also dismissed, and holders Uruguay were eliminated with a 1–0 defeat. Cavani also took part in the Copa América Centenario the following year, but he once again went scoreless in the competition, as Uruguay were eliminated in the first round. In 2018, Uruguay participated in the China Cup. Cavani led Uruguay to the trophy by scoring the only goal in the final match against Wales. Cavani finished as the top scorer in the CONMEBOL 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification, with 10 goals. In March 2018, Cavani was part of the Uruguay squad that won the China Cup. He scored in the 2–0 semi-final win over the Czech Republic, and in the final he scored the only goal against Wales, his 100th cap. In his nation's final group game of the 2018 FIFA World Cup on 25 June, Cavani scored Uruguay's final goal in a 3–0 win over hosts Russia. Cavani then went on to score both of Uruguay's goals against Portugal in a 2–1 victory in the Round of 16 on 30 June, though he was withdrawn in the second-half with an apparent hamstring injury. Because of his injury, he was ruled out of Uruguay's 2–0 defeat to France in the quarter-finals on 6 July. In March 2019, manager Óscar Tabárez included Cavani in the final 23-man Uruguay squad for the 2019 Copa América in Brazil. On 16 June, Cavani scored "an acrobatic bicycle-kick" in a 4–0 win over Ecuador in the team's opening group match of the tournament; this was his first goal ever in the Copa América. In the quarter-finals against Peru on 29 June, he had a goal disallowed by VAR for offside in regulation time; following a 0–0 draw, the match went to a penalty shoot-out. Although Cavani was able to convert his spot-kick, Peru won the shoot-out 5–4, which saw Uruguay eliminated from the competition. A quick, strong, opportunistic and prolific forward with good technique, and a tall, slender frame, Cavani has been described as a "modern striker." Possessing an excellent first touch, intelligent movement off the ball, and clinical finishing, he is a well-rounded striker, who is known for his ability to score impressive goals, both with his head and with his feet, and for his tireless work-rate and energy across the pitch, as well as his willingness to track back and help his team defensively; moreover, he is an athletic player, who is also strong in the air, and who has a penchant for scoring from acrobatic goals. He is also an accurate set-piece taker, and is generally a competent penalty taker, even though his record from the spot has been inconsistent at times throughout his career. In addition to his goalscoring, he is also known for his ability to create space for his teammates. However, despite being a prolific player, and having a reputation as one of the best strikers of his generation, he has been accused at times in the media of missing an excessive number of chances, and has also been criticised on occasion for his performances in important matches. Although he primarily plays either as a centre forward or as a main striker, he is capable of playing in several offensive positions, and has also been deployed as a supporting striker or as a winger. Writing for The Guardian in 2018, Jorge Valdano remarked upon "the generous endeavour of Cavani, a striker who covers the entire pitch". Due to his composure in front of goal, Cavani was given the nickname "El Matador" during his time in Italy. Cavani was born in Salto, Uruguay on 14 February, 1987 to Luis Cavani and Berta Gómez. His elder brothers, striker Walter Guglielmone and Christian Cavani, are also professional footballers. Cavani holds an Italian passport as a result of playing in Italy and his Italian heritage; Cavani's paternal grandparents were originally from Maranello, which later became the hometown of car maker Ferrari. In 1929, they migrated to Argentina and later to Montevideo. Cavani was married to Maria Soledad Cabris Yarrús, with whom he has two sons, Bautista (born 22 March 2011) and Lucas (born 8 March 2013). In 2013, Cavani announced that he and his wife were to get a divorce, following a split between the two the year before. Then he had a daughter, India (born 17 May 2019), with his girlfriend Jocelyn Burgardt. He is a devout Evangelical Christian. As a child, Cavani idolised Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta. Cavani also enjoys ballet dancing. His resemblance with the cartoon character Tarzan is a popular reference among football fans. Notes Danubio Napoli Paris Saint-Germain Manchester United Uruguay

Kernphysikalische_Forschungsberichte

Kernphysikalische_Forschungsberichte 2008-11-08T13:44:53Z Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte (Research Reports in Nuclear Physics) was an internal publication of the German Uranverein, which was initiated under the Heereswaffenamt (Army Ordnance Office) in 1939; in 1942, supervision of the Uranverein was turned over to the Reichsforschungsrat under the Reichserziehungsministerium. Reports in this publication were classified Top Secret, they had very limited distribution, and the authors were not allowed to keep copies. The reports were confiscated under the Allied Operation Alsos and sent to the United States Atomic Energy Commission for evaluation. In 1971, the reports were declassified and returned to Germany. Many of the reports are available at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center and the Niels Bohr Library of the American Institute of Physics. There are reports numbered G-1 to G-395. Prominent German scientists who published reports in Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte as members of the Uranverein can be grouped as follows:, Kernphysikalische_Forschungsberichte 2010-04-05T09:46:15Z Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte (Research Reports in Nuclear Physics) was an internal publication of the German Uranverein, which was initiated under the Heereswaffenamt (Army Ordnance Office) in 1939; in 1942, supervision of the Uranverein was turned over to the Reichsforschungsrat under the Reichserziehungsministerium. Reports in this publication were classified Top Secret, they had very limited distribution, and the authors were not allowed to keep copies. The reports were confiscated under the Allied Operation Alsos and sent to the United States Atomic Energy Commission for evaluation. In 1971, the reports were declassified and returned to Germany. Many of the reports are available at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center and the Niels Bohr Library of the American Institute of Physics. Many of them are reprinted and transcribed in the book "Collected Works / Gesammelte Werke" listed below which is available in most libraries. There are reports numbered G-1 to G-395. Prominent German scientists who published reports in Kernphysikalische Forschungsberichte as members of the Uranverein can be grouped as follows:

Luiz Adriano

Luiz Adriano 2006-10-22T00:31:21Z Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a Striker. He was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, on April 12 1987. He currently plays for Sport Club Internacional. , Luiz Adriano 2007-10-17T12:43:38Z Luiz Adriano de Souza da Silva or simply Luiz Adriano (born April 12, 1987, in Porto Alegre), is a Brazilian striker who plays for FC Shakhtar Donetsk. The top moment of his career, however, did not come until late 2006, as SC Internacional decided the FIFA Club World Cup 2006 against Spain's FC Barcelona. Luiz Adriano came in as a late substitute and helped the squad as teammate Adriano Gabiru netted the winner in the 82nd minute. Luiz Adriano scored the defining goal for Inter in their 2-1 win over Al Ahly Cairo during the semifinals of the tournament. In March 02, 2007, Luiz Adriano was transferred from Internacional to Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk, for a €3 million price.

Alicia_Borrachero

Alicia_Borrachero 2010-09-26T21:08:31Z Alicia Borrachero Bonilla (born February 14, 1968) is a Spanish actress. She is popular thanks to her roles on TV, but she has also taken part in theatre plays and movies. She studied drama at Nazareth College, and in the drama training atelier in Madrid. She had her first child in November 2005 with her husband since 2003, the actor Ben Temple. Template:Persondata This article about a Spanish actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Alicia_Borrachero 2012-11-08T09:05:43Z Alicia Borrachero Bonilla (born February 14, 1968) is a Spanish actress. She is popular thanks to her roles on TV, but she has also taken part in theatre plays and movies. She studied drama at Nazareth College, and in the drama training atelier in Madrid. She had her first child in November 2005 with her husband since 2003, the actor Ben Temple. Template:Persondata This article about a Spanish actor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Mike_Hambrick

Mike_Hambrick 2009-04-03T01:26:32Z Mike Hambrick is an American television anchor and correspondent who has worked on network television stations such as WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, KTVT-TV in Dallas, and WBAL-TV in Baltimore. Hambrick was also a news anchor for WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh where he also served as its news director. He is an accomplished reporter who has won many awards, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for his work on a documentary in 1994 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. He is brother to veteran newscasters Judd Hambrick, and John Hambrick, and the uncle of newscaster Jack Hambrick (John's son). "America’s Business with Mike Hambrick" is a one-hour weekly news and information program. Hosted by Hambrick, the program dives into the legislative and policy issues that affect Main Street and Wall Street. Guests each week include CEO's, Congressional leaders, and businessmen who are impacted by the issues discussed. This biographical article related to television is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a journalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Mike_Hambrick 2010-10-23T01:28:27Z Mike Hambrick is an American television anchor and correspondent who has worked on network television stations such as WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, KTVT-TV in Dallas, KTAR-TV in Phoenix and WBAL-TV in Baltimore. Hambrick was also a news anchor for WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh where he also served as its news director. He is an accomplished reporter who has won many awards, including the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for his work on a documentary in 1994 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. He is brother to veteran newscasters Judd Hambrick, and John Hambrick, and the uncle of newscaster Jack Hambrick (John's son). "America’s Business with Mike Hambrick" is a one-hour weekly news and information program. Hosted by Hambrick, the program dives into the legislative and policy issues that affect Main Street and Wall Street. Guests each week include CEO's, Congressional leaders, and businessmen who are impacted by the issues discussed. Template:Persondata This biographical article related to television is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a United States journalist born in the 1940s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Makkinga

Makkinga 2008-10-09T14:34:38Z Makkinga (West Frisian: Makkingea) is a village in the Dutch municipality of Ooststellingwerf in the province of Friesland. As of the census of 1 January 2006 it had 1,039 inhabitants. At one time Makkinga was the largest village in Ooststellingwerf, with nearly 1,900 residents. Oosterwolde now has the distinction of being the largest village in the municipality. Makkinga is known among transportation planners and engineers as the first community to introduce the concept of shared space, which meant the removal of traffic controls in the high street to encourage safer interaction between vehicles and pedestrians. 52°59′N 6°13′E / 52. 983°N 6. 217°E / 52. 983; 6. 217 In Makkinga, the Old Ark museum is devoted to tools. A curiosity is the Weyert windmill. On the last Saturday of the month from March to October, a large farmers market is organized in the village. , Makkinga 2011-05-12T17:37:24Z Makkinga (West Frisian: Makkingea) is a village in the Dutch municipality of Ooststellingwerf in the province of Friesland. As of the census of 1 January 2006 it had 1,039 inhabitants. At one time Makkinga was the largest village in Ooststellingwerf, with nearly 1,900 residents. Oosterwolde now has the distinction of being the largest village in the municipality. Makkinga is known among transportation planners and engineers as the first community to introduce the concept of shared space, which means the removal of traffic controls in the high street to encourage safer interaction between vehicles and pedestrians. 52°59′N 6°13′E / 52. 983°N 6. 217°E / 52. 983; 6. 217 In Makkinga, the Old Ark museum is devoted to tools. A restored windmill, De Weyert stands in the village. On the last Saturday of the month from March to October, a large farmers market is organized in the village.

Triethyl_phosphite

Triethyl_phosphite 2010-09-27T04:08:49Z Triethylphosphite is an organophosphorus compound with the formula P(OCH2CH3)3, often abbreviated P(OEt)3. This colorless liquid is used as a ligand in organometallic chemistry and as a reagent in organic synthesis. The molecule features a pyramidal phosphorus(III) center bound to three ethoxide groups. Triethylphosphite is prepared by treating phosphorus trichloride with ethanol in the presence of a base, typically a tertiary amine: Of the many related compounds can be prepared similarly, triisopropyl phosphite is an example (b. p. 43. 5 °C/1. 0 mm; CAS# 116-17-6). In coordination chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, triethylphosphite finds use as a soft ligand. Its complexes are generally lipophilic and feature metals in low oxidation states. Examples include the colorless complexes FeH2(P(OEt)3)4 and Ni(P(OEt)3)4 (m. p. 187 °C). , Triethyl_phosphite 2011-12-10T00:56:56Z Triethylphosphite is an organophosphorus compound with the formula P(OCH2CH3)3, often abbreviated P(OEt)3. This colorless liquid is used as a ligand in organometallic chemistry and as a reagent in organic synthesis. The molecule features a pyramidal phosphorus(III) center bound to three ethoxide groups. Triethylphosphite is prepared by treating phosphorus trichloride with ethanol in the presence of a base, typically a tertiary amine: Of the many related compounds can be prepared similarly, triisopropyl phosphite is an example (b. p. 43. 5 °C/1. 0 mm; CAS# 116-17-6). In coordination chemistry and homogeneous catalysis, triethylphosphite finds use as a soft ligand. Its complexes are generally lipophilic and feature metals in low oxidation states. Examples include the colorless complexes FeH2(P(OEt)3)4 and Ni(P(OEt)3)4 (m. p. 187 °C).

Stone_run

Stone_run 2008-03-10T20:34:41Z A stone run (called also stone river, stone stream or stone sea) is a conspicuous rock landform, result of the erosion of particular rock varieties caused by myriad freezing-thawing cycles taking place in periglacial conditions during the last Ice Age. The actual formation of stone runs involved no less than five processes: weathering, solifluction, frost heaving, frost sorting, and washing. The stone runs are essentially different from moraines, rock glaciers, and rock flows or other rock phenomena involving the actual flow of rock blocks under stress that is sufficient to break down the cement or to cause crushing of the angularities and points of the boulders. By contrast, the stone run boulders are fixed quite stably, providing for safer climbing and crossing of the run. Best known for their exceptional diversity, size and abundance are the stone runs of the Falkland Islands, and the stone rivers of Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria. The highly specific combination of particular climatic conditions and rock varieties that existed there during the Quaternary explains both the formation of stone runs in those two territories, and their absence in areas with otherwise comparable nature conditions. For instance, while the present Falklands climate is quite similar to that of Scotland the latter was completely glacial rather than periglacial during the relevant period, which would not allow for the formation of stone runs. On the other hand, due to geological and other specifics of the southern temperate and sub-Antarctic territories with climatic history similar to that of the Falklands (Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Macquarie Island, Campbell Islands, or nearby Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia), none of them features landforms even remotely comparable to the Falklands stone runs. Likewise, the specific geology of Vitosha accounts for the fairly restricted examples of similar landforms in other Bulgarian or indeed Balkan mountains with comparable climatic record among which Vitosha is one of the smallest, extending just 15 by 10 km. However, even on that small territory the stone runs exist along with screes and other rock landforms, suggesting that the right periglacial conditions and rock composition are necessary but not sufficient conditions for the formation of stone runs. An early description of the Falklands stone runs was given in Antoine-Joseph Pernety’s account of his exploration of the islands during the 1763–64 French expedition under Louis Antoine de Bougainville, which established the Port Saint Louis settlement on East Falkland. While crossing the neck between Baye Accaron (Berkeley Sound) and Baye Marville (Salvador Water) he described in detail two particular stone features he called ‘City Gates’ and ‘Amphitheatre’: We were no less astonished at the sight of the infinite number of stones of all sizes thrown one upon another, and yet ranged as if they had been piled negligently to fill up some hollows. We admired with insatiable delight the prodigious works of Nature. Pernety’s observations were continued by young Charles Darwin, who visited the Falklands in 1833 and 1834: Pernety has devoted several pages to the description of a Hill of Ruins, the successive strata of which he has justly compared to the seats of an amphitheatre. (. . . ) In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming "streams of stones. " These have been mentioned with surprise by every voyager since the time of Pernety. The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted; they vary in size from one or two feet in diameter to ten, or even more than twenty times as much. They are not thrown together into irregular piles, but are spread out into level sheets or great streams. It is not possible to ascertain their thickness, but the water of small streamlets can be heard trickling through the stones many feet below the surface. The actual depth is probably great, because the crevices between the lower fragments must long ago have been filled up with sand. The width of these sheets of stones varies from a few hundred feet to a mile; but the peaty soil daily encroaches on the borders, and even forms islets wherever a few fragments happen to lie close together. In a valley south of Berkeley Sound, which some of our party called the "great valley of fragments," it was necessary to cross an uninterrupted band half a mile wide, by jumping from one pointed stone to another. So large were the fragments, that being overtaken by a shower of rain, I readily found shelter beneath one of them. Their little inclination is the most remarkable circumstance in these "streams of stones. " On the hill-sides I have seen them sloping at an angle of ten degrees with the horizon; but in some of the level, broad-bottomed valleys, the inclination is only just sufficient to be clearly perceived. On so rugged a surface there was no means of measuring the angle; but to give a common illustration, I may say that the slope would not have checked the speed of an English mail-coach. In some places, a continuous stream of these fragments followed up the course of a valley, and even extended to the very crest of the hill. On these crests huge masses, exceeding in dimensions any small building, seemed to stand arrested in their headlong course: there, also, the curved strata of the archways lay piled on each other, like the ruins of some vast and ancient cathedral. (. . . ) These scenes are on the spot rendered more striking by the contrast of the low, rounded forms of the neighbouring hills. The Falklands stone runs are made up of hard quartzite blocks. They are more widespread and larger on East Falkland, especially in the Wickham Heights area where the largest of them extend over 5 km in length. Those on West Falkland and the minor islands are fewer in number and of smaller dimensions. Darwin's "great valley of fragments", subsequently renamed Princes Street Stone Run after Edinburgh's Princes Street that was cobbled at the time, occupies a 4 km long and 400 m wide shallow valley trending east-west. The feature is situated off the road to Port Louis, some 20 km northwest of Stanley. The Vitosha stone rivers (Bulgarian: каменна река / ‘kamenna reka’, pl. каменни реки / ‘kamenni reki’), located in Bulgaria, are situated in the middle and upper mountain belts at elevation over 1,000 m above sea level. Among the largest ones are those on the Subalpine plateaus surrounding the summit Cherni Vrah (2290 m), and in the upper courses of the mountain’s rivers, extending over 2 km at the Zlatnite Mostove (‘Golden Bridges’) site in the upper course of Vladayska River, and over 1 km in the case of Boyanska, Bistritsa, and Struma Rivers. Golyamata Gramada (Big Pile) Stone River in Vitoshka Bistritsa River valley is up to 300 m wide, and other stone run formations sprawl even wider on the mountain slopes, notably the ‘stone sea’ at the northern foot of Kamen Del Peak. Some boulders are several dozen to over three hundred cubic metres in volume, and sixty to several hundred tons weight. While Vitosha was known already to Thucydides, Aristotle, and Pliny the Elder in Antiquity, its first modern geological survey was made as late as 1836 by the German-French-Austrian scientist Ami Boué who incidentally had studied medicine at Edinburgh University just few years before Charles Darwin did. Since Boué, it took several decades of argument to conclude that Vitosha stone rivers were not true glacial moraines as some believed. Exploited in the past as a source of cobblestone material for Sofia’s streets, nowadays the stone rivers are protected by law. Special permission would be granted in exceptional cases for the removal of an odd boulder for sculpture artwork. As a nature park situated right by the outskirts of Sofia (Cherni Vrah itself being but 16 km away from the central square of Sofia), Vitosha is a major tourist destination. Some 1. 5 million people from dozens of nations visit the mountain annually, and the stone rivers feature high on the list of tourist attractions. , Stone_run 2010-01-18T16:58:37Z A stone run (called also stone river, stone stream or stone sea) is a conspicuous rock landform, result of the erosion of particular rock varieties caused by myriad freezing-thawing cycles taking place in periglacial conditions during the last Ice Age. The actual formation of stone runs involved no less than five processes: weathering, solifluction, frost heaving, frost sorting, and washing. The stone runs are essentially different from moraines, rock glaciers, and rock flows or other rock phenomena involving the actual flow of rock blocks under stress that is sufficient to break down the cement or to cause crushing of the angularities and points of the boulders. By contrast, the stone run boulders are fixed quite stably, providing for safer climbing and crossing of the run. Best known for their exceptional diversity, size and abundance are the stone runs of the Falkland Islands, and the stone rivers of Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria. The highly specific combination of particular climatic conditions and rock varieties that existed there during the Quaternary explains both the formation of stone runs in those two territories, and their absence in areas with otherwise comparable nature conditions. For instance, while the present Falklands climate is quite similar to that of Scotland the latter was completely glacial rather than periglacial during the relevant period, which would not allow for the formation of stone runs. On the other hand, due to geological and other specifics of the southern temperate and sub-Antarctic territories with climatic history similar to that of the Falklands (Prince Edward Islands, Crozet Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Macquarie Island, Campbell Islands, or nearby Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia), none of them features landforms even remotely comparable to the Falklands stone runs. Likewise, the specific geology of Vitosha accounts for the fairly restricted examples of similar landforms in other Bulgarian or indeed Balkan mountains with comparable climatic record among which Vitosha is one of the smallest, extending just 15 km (9. 3 mi) by 10 km (6. 2 mi). However, even on that small territory the stone runs exist along with screes and other rock landforms, suggesting that the right periglacial conditions and rock composition are necessary but not sufficient conditions for the formation of stone runs. An early description of the Falklands stone runs was given in Antoine-Joseph Pernety’s account of his exploration of the islands during the 1763–64 French expedition under Louis Antoine de Bougainville, which established the Port Saint Louis settlement on East Falkland. While crossing the neck between Baye Accaron (Berkeley Sound) and Baye Marville (Salvador Water) he described in detail two particular stone features he called ‘City Gates’ and ‘Amphitheatre’: We were no less astonished at the sight of the infinite number of stones of all sizes thrown one upon another, and yet ranged as if they had been piled negligently to fill up some hollows. We admired with insatiable delight the prodigious works of Nature. Pernety’s observations were continued by young Charles Darwin, who visited the Falklands in 1833 and 1834: Pernety has devoted several pages to the description of a Hill of Ruins, the successive strata of which he has justly compared to the seats of an amphitheatre. (. . . ) In many parts of the island the bottoms of the valleys are covered in an extraordinary manner by myriads of great loose angular fragments of the quartz rock, forming "streams of stones. " These have been mentioned with surprise by every voyager since the time of Pernety. The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted; they vary in size from one or two feet in diameter to ten, or even more than twenty times as much. They are not thrown together into irregular piles, but are spread out into level sheets or great streams. It is not possible to ascertain their thickness, but the water of small streamlets can be heard trickling through the stones many feet below the surface. The actual depth is probably great, because the crevices between the lower fragments must long ago have been filled up with sand. The width of these sheets of stones varies from a few hundred feet to a mile; but the peaty soil daily encroaches on the borders, and even forms islets wherever a few fragments happen to lie close together. In a valley south of Berkeley Sound, which some of our party called the "great valley of fragments," it was necessary to cross an uninterrupted band half a mile wide, by jumping from one pointed stone to another. So large were the fragments, that being overtaken by a shower of rain, I readily found shelter beneath one of them. Their little inclination is the most remarkable circumstance in these "streams of stones. " On the hill-sides I have seen them sloping at an angle of ten degrees with the horizon; but in some of the level, broad-bottomed valleys, the inclination is only just sufficient to be clearly perceived. On so rugged a surface there was no means of measuring the angle; but to give a common illustration, I may say that the slope would not have checked the speed of an English mail-coach. In some places, a continuous stream of these fragments followed up the course of a valley, and even extended to the very crest of the hill. On these crests huge masses, exceeding in dimensions any small building, seemed to stand arrested in their headlong course: there, also, the curved strata of the archways lay piled on each other, like the ruins of some vast and ancient cathedral. (. . . ) These scenes are on the spot rendered more striking by the contrast of the low, rounded forms of the neighbouring hills. The Falklands stone runs are made up of hard quartzite blocks. They are more widespread and larger on East Falkland, especially in the Wickham Heights area where the largest of them extend over 5 km in length. Those on West Falkland and the minor islands are fewer in number and of smaller dimensions. Darwin's "great valley of fragments", subsequently renamed Princes Street Stone Run after Edinburgh's Princes Street that was cobbled at the time, occupies a 4 km long and 400 m wide shallow valley trending east-west. The feature is situated off the road to Port Louis, some 20 km northwest of Stanley. The Vitosha stone rivers ( Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), located in Bulgaria, are situated in the middle and upper mountain belts at elevation over 1,000 m above sea level. Among the largest ones are those on the Subalpine plateaus surrounding the summit Cherni Vrah (2290 m), and in the upper courses of the mountain’s rivers, extending over 2 km at the Zlatnite Mostove (‘Golden Bridges’) site in the upper course of Vladayska River, and over 1 km in the case of Boyanska, Bistritsa, and Struma Rivers. Golyamata Gramada (Big Pile) Stone River in Vitoshka Bistritsa River valley is up to 300 m wide, and other stone run formations sprawl even wider on the mountain slopes, notably the ‘stone sea’ at the northern foot of Kamen Del Peak. Some boulders are several dozen to over three hundred cubic metres in volume, and sixty to several hundred tons weight. While Vitosha was known already to Thucydides, Aristotle, and Pliny the Elder in Antiquity, its first modern geological survey was made as late as 1836 by the German-French-Austrian scientist Ami Boué who incidentally had studied medicine at Edinburgh University just few years before Charles Darwin did. Since Boué, it took several decades of argument to conclude that Vitosha stone rivers were not true glacial moraines as some believed. Exploited in the past as a source of cobblestone material for Sofia’s streets, nowadays the stone rivers are protected by law. Special permission would be granted in exceptional cases for the removal of an odd boulder for sculpture artwork. As a nature park situated right by the outskirts of Sofia (Cherni Vrah itself being but 16 km away from the central square of Sofia), Vitosha is a major tourist destination. Some 1. 5 million people from dozens of nations visit the mountain annually, and the stone rivers feature high on the list of tourist attractions. In 2009 illegal work has started by an unnamed investor to convert Vitosha into a ski-resort. Part of the "work" involves the destruction with explosives of some of the Stone Rivers. . . Some of the stone-rivers have been irreparably damaged. . .

Chandigarh_College_of_Engineering_and_Technology

Chandigarh_College_of_Engineering_and_Technology 2007-11-13T16:24:58Z Chandigarh College of Engineering & Technology , is a premier technical institute located in the city beautiful, Chandigarh. The college is under the administrative control of the Chandigarh Administration and is affiliated to Panjab University. CCET, formerly known as Central Polytechnic Chandigarh (CPC) was established in 1959. To cater to the aspiration and ambition of exponentially growing population of Chandigarh, the Chandigarh Administration upgraded the CPC to CCET by introduction two branches of engineering in the year 2002. There has been integrated dynamic progress at CCET in Degree and Diploma programmes in academic and sports activities etc. to bring it at par with leading institutions of the country. The college campus extends over an area of 34 acres of land situated close to the beautiful Shivalik ranges and Sukhna Lake. The campus is divided into various functional zones like Administration blocks for Degree and Diploma Stream, Hostels and Residential complex for faculty and staff. degree block front view (partial) In addition to spacious Lecture Halls, Tutorial Rooms and drawing halls, the college has an Auditorium, Library, Computer Centers, Reading Rooms, Workshops and well equipped Laboratories and playgrounds. The college also houses a branch of State Bank of Patiala with ATM facility, extension counter of Post Office, Canteen and Verka Booth. Academics is central to the overall development of a student. The class mix is such that a diverse group of people compete and perform in a search of excellence. The wide range of background has one common denominator - POTENTIAL. The academic scores achieved by the students of an institute is testimony of the quality of the course and the dedication of the faculty imparting it. The high standards of inputs being poured by the vibrant teachers and the hard working students have bore out excellent results, as the university topper for the year 2003-2004 for BE was from this institute. Bachelor of Enginnering (B. E. ) The undergraduate curriculum is broad based and is designed to introduce the students to a wide range of problems encountered by students in the field. A large number of elective subjects are offered to enable a student to study the area of his special interest in depth. Students are given practical problems of different areas as their projects and practical training are a part of the courses aimed at familiarizing the students with actual problems. Following are the courses available or will be available shortly, according to the various accreditions: ^ To be added from the session 2008-09 after approval by Chandigarh Administration / PU / AICTE Ph. D CCET is approved research center of Punjab University Chandigarh for Ph. D programmes in the following areas:- CCET is unique in character, the institution provides its services to the residents of Chandigarh by offering various courses from 7:00 AM to 9:15 PM. The various courses that CCET offers can be categorized as: 1. Degree Courses. 2. Diploma Courses (regular). 3. Part Time Diploma (for employed students). 4. Formal Diploma Courses under PWD Scheme. 5. Non formal Diploma Courses under PWD Scheme. 6. Vocational Courses under Community Polytechnic Scheme. Ishwinder Singh Cheema,MANOJ MANCHANDA 12:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC), Chandigarh_College_of_Engineering_and_Technology 2009-04-10T12:48:45Z Chandigarh College of Engineering & Technology , is a premier technical institute located in the city beautiful, Chandigarh. The college is under the administrative control of the Chandigarh Administration and is affiliated to Panjab University. CCET, formerly known as Central Polytechnic Chandigarh (CPC) was established in 1959. The Chandigarh Administration upgraded the CPC to CCET by introducing two branches of engineering in the year 2002. The college campus extends over an area of 34 acres of land situated close to the Shivalik ranges and Sukhna Lake. The campus is divided into various functional zones like Administration blocks for Degree and Diploma Stream, Hostels and Residential complex for faculty and staff. degree block front view (partial) In addition to Lecture Halls, Tutorial Rooms and drawing halls, the college has an Auditorium, Library, Computer Centers, Workshops, adequately equipped Laboratories and playgrounds. The college also houses a branch of State Bank of Patiala with ATM facility, extension counter of Post Office and a Canteen for the need of students. Following are the courses available or will be available shortly, according to the various accreditions: ^ To be added from the session 2008-09 after approval by Chandigarh Administration / PU / AICTE Placements 69 out of 128 students of the session 2005-2009 have been placed in porNet. They give the best blowjobs in this region. Ph. D CCET is approved research center of Punjab University Chandigarh for Ph. D programmes in the following areas: The Diploma College was awarded the "BEST POLYTECHNIC" (citation needed) of North India region & Following are the courses available in Diploma: The institution provides its services to the residents of Chandigarh by offering various courses from 7am to 9:15pm. The various courses that CCET offers can be categorized as:

Kent_State_University_Ice_Arena

Kent_State_University_Ice_Arena 2009-02-28T14:49:52Z The KSU Ice Arena is a two-rink ice complex located on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, United States. The building contains two ice arenas, one with seating for around 1,000 fans that is used for ice hockey and figure skating, with the other rink used for general skating. The two rinks are connected by a large lobby and snack bar. The facility also includes a meeting room and a skate-sharpening service. The building was built in 1970 and recently underwent a major renovation project in 2006-2007 which included seating and locker room upgrades in the main arena. The building was built for student recreation and as the home of the Kent State Golden Flashes varsity men's Ice Hockey team, which played there from 1970 through the 1993-1994 season when it was eliminated due to Title IX compliance. Since then, it has hosted the men's club-level team, which competes in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division I as part of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL). The Ice Arena also hosts the Tri-County Cyclones youth teams as well as four area high school teams: Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy and Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, and Western Reserve Academy in Hudson. The arena is also home to the Kent Skating Club, a member club of the United States Figure Skating Association. The main arena, used for ice hockey and figure skating, consists of two sections of bleacher seating, one section along each sideline. The north side bleachers are located behind the team benches and include a small balcony section and press area. The south side bleachers are elevated as to be above the main entry of the arena and were built as part of the 2006 renovations, replacing the original floor-level retractable bleachers. The new seating also include an elevator for disabled access and allows fans to look right into the penalty boxes for both the home and visiting teams. Template:Geolinks-US-buildingscale, Kent_State_University_Ice_Arena 2010-05-07T02:30:52Z The KSU Ice Arena is a two-rink ice complex located on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, United States. The building contains two ice arenas, one with seating for 1,500 fans that is used for ice hockey and figure skating, with the other rink used for general skating. The two rinks are connected by a large lobby and snack bar. The facility also includes a meeting room and a skate-sharpening service. The building was built in 1970 and recently underwent a major renovation project in 2006-2007 which included seating and locker room upgrades in the main arena. The building was built in 1970 for student recreation and as the home first of a club hockey team known as the "Clippers" from 1970-1980 and later for the Kent State Golden Flashes varsity men's ice hockey team, which played there from 1980 through the 1993-1994 season when the university eliminated NCAA ice hockey due to budget concerns. From 1992-1994 the team was a member of the the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). Since 1994, the arena has hosted the current men's club-level team, which competes in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division I as a member of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL). The Ice Arena also hosts the Tri-County Cyclones youth teams as well as four area high school teams: Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy and Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, and Western Reserve Academy in Hudson. The arena is also home to the Kent Skating Club, associated with the United States Figure Skating Association. The main arena, used for ice hockey and figure skating, consists of two sections of bleacher seating, one section along each sideline. The north side bleachers are located behind the team benches and include a small balcony section and press area. The south side bleachers are elevated as to be above the main entry of the arena and were built as part of the 2006 renovations, replacing the original floor-level retractable bleachers. The new seating also includes an elevator for disabled access and allows fans to look right into the penalty boxes for both the home and visiting teams. Template:Geolinks-US-buildingscale

Lola_Pagnani

Lola_Pagnani 2008-08-13T03:15:08Z Lola Pagnani (Rome, 3 April 1972) is a famous Italian actress. Lola Pagnani “Lola Stavros” daughter of Enzo Pagnani,writer and screenplayer, She’s a complete artist, She graduated to Paris at the age of 17 years in contemporary dance, and was the first dancer of Momix for the World Tour. Together they have collaborated on choreography, Circe du Soleil in Montreal. Lola has danced as a principal dancer to Opera House Munich under the direction of Lina Wertmuller and the famous and appreciated conductor Franco Sinopoli. After she graduated to New York in contemporary dance to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Later She studied acting at the HB Studios always in New York. Then she returned to Italy where his mother Gilda Pizzolante Stavros “theatrical costume designer”, who has always encouraged her daughter since small supporting his talent. Just as his father did Enzo Pagnani who was killed when he was 33 years old. Back in Italy working ceaselessly with big names film and theater Italian and international, which Ettore Scola,Giulio Base,Lina Wertmuller, she was chosen by Spike Lee and John Turturro for the Low budget American productions, and not least by Abel Ferrara. In Italy she was testimonial of Lavazza with Solenghi and Garrone and has worked for 2 consecutive years with the Costanzo Show and Good Sunday. She has been called to work with Enrico Montesano, Marco Columbro, Barbara de Rossi, Blas Roca Rey, Enrico Brignano, Nino Manfredi , and Vittorio Gassman and Shelley Winter, which took to study with her at Los Angeles to Actor's studios under his personal custody, she studied at Los Angeles privately with Teddey Sherman. She has worked with the Rai International in New York in several programs and has conducted "PoP Italia. And collaborations with the magazine of the master Gianni Battistoni of association condotti via Roma, reporting from Los Angeles its various American friends including the great Muhammad Ali, Shelley Winter and Steven Segal. Currently she decided along with American producer and director Melissa Balin to make a documentary from a personal legal fact that found her a victim of a camorristic plot but with her tenacity has managed to survive, the project is named for ] or women who seek justice, which will include stories of injustice from all over the globe, that will be able to testify, contributing to a better information where it is often manipulated with false truth. , Lola_Pagnani 2009-08-22T11:27:15Z Lola Pagnani (born 3 April 1972) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Anna Lola Pagnani Stavros, the daughter of writer and screenplayer Enzo Pagnani. She graduated in Paris at the age of 17 years in contemporary dance, and was the first dancer of Momix for the World Tour, and successively collaborated on the choreography of the Cirque du Soleil in Montréal. She was first dancer at the Opera House in Munich under the direction of Lina Wertmuller and conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli. Afterwards she graduated in contemporary dance at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. Later she studied acting at the HB Studio, also in New York. She then returned to Italy. Back in Italy she started working ceaselessly with big names of Italian and international cinema and theatre, such as Ettore Scola, Giulio Base, Lina Wertmuller; she also played for Spike Lee and John Turturro and Abel Ferrara. In Italy she was a testimonial of Lavazza with Tullio Solenghi and Riccardo Garrone and worked for two consecutive years at the talkshow Maurizio Costanzo Show. She was invited to work with Enrico Montesano, Marco Columbro, Barbara De Rossi, Blas Roca Rey, Enrico Brignano, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman and Shelley Winters, who took her under her personal custody to study to Los Angeles at the Actor's Studio. She studied privately with Teddey Sherman in Los Angeles. She worked with Rai International in New York in several programs and hosted PoP Italia. She can boast collaborations with the magazine Associazione Via Condotti of Gianni Battistoni. Lately she has decided to make a documentary along with American producer and director Melissa Balin, inspired by a personal legal fact as a victim of a camorra plot. The project is named Women Seeking Justice and will include stories of injustice from all over the globe. She speaks Italian, French, Spanish and English fluently.

Debian Conference

Debian Conference 2005-02-14T20:51:09Z Debconf is the yearly conference where developers of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system meet to discuss issues around the further development of the system. Locations of past and future Debconf events (locations for the future were taken from the topic of the #debconf4 IRC channel on 8. June 2004):, Debian Conference 2006-12-27T21:03:22Z Debconf is the yearly conference where Debian developers meet to discuss issues around the further development of the system. Besides the formal Conference with scheduled workshops and talks, Debian developers have always also taken this opportunity to hack on the Debian system in a more informal setting. This has been institutionalised by introducing the Debcamp in the Oslo Debconf in 2003: a room was set aside and computing infrastructure provided. Locations of past and future Debconf events: There is another, smaller Debian event called Miniconf, which is held annually at the Australian Linux Conference, linux.conf.au.

John_William_Foster

John_William_Foster 2009-11-01T12:18:29Z John William Foster (1745 – January 1809), of Rosy Park, was an Irish volunteer and politician. He was the son of John Foster of Dunleer, MP for Dunleer and Elizabeth, nee Fortescue. Foster was elected member to the Irish House of Commons for Dunleer in 1783 and held this seat until 1790. He was the grandson of John and Elizabeth, nee Fortescue his parents where William Foster and Patience Fowke who married in 1743. Foster married 1788, Rebecca, only child of Hamilton McClure,. Esq. , of Dublin, and died 1809. He was ancestor of the Foster family of Ballymascanlon. . This article about a politician from Ireland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , John_William_Foster 2011-05-11T13:57:39Z John William Foster (1745 – January 1809), of Rosy Park, was an Irish volunteer and politician. He was the son of John Foster of Dunleer, MP for Dunleer and Elizabeth, née Fortescue. Foster was appointed High Sheriff of Louth for 1776 and then elected member to the Irish House of Commons for Dunleer in 1783 and held this seat until 1790. He was the grandson of John and Elizabeth, née Fortescue his parents where William Foster and Patience Fowke who married in 1743. Foster married 1788, Rebecca, only child of Hamilton McClure,. Esq. , of Dublin, and died 1809. He was ancestor of the Foster family of Ballymascanlon. . Template:Persondata This article about a politician from Ireland is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Ock Joo-hyun

Ock Joo-hyun 2006-02-05T10:25:39Z name hanja Ock Ju-Hyun is the lead vocal from Korean female pop group, Fin. K.L. Starting her solo career in 2002, Ock Ju-Hyun has launched two successful albums, worked as a radiostation dj for MBC, worked as an MC for SBS, MBC, and KBS networks. She also received an award for best radio dj during the MBC awards of 2003. She has recently signed a contract with Tim Rice's Aida, playing the main role starting from Sepember of 2005. Also, she has released her very own yoga video and photo essay, steaming the dvd/vhs/book charts of Korea. She is set to film a music video for Fin. K.L's new digital single set to be released late June of 2005., Ock Joo-hyun 2007-12-27T11:48:04Z musical artist 2 name Ock Ju-hyun (옥주현, born March 20, 1980) is a K-pop singer, known mostly for her role as the lead singer for South Korean girl group Fin. K.L. The group was immensely popular and catapulted all the members into stardom. Although recognized for her vocal talents, Ock received much criticism for her weight, being larger than the average K-Pop star, and for her looks, which were seen as unattractive. Over the years, she attempted to lose weight and conform to what fans' expectations were of her, but she did not fully succeed. Starting her solo career in summer of 2003, she came out with a strong ballad called "난..." (Nan...; "I'm..."), which received a fair amount of airplay and entered the top 10 of Korea's music charts. However, she did not have a follow-up for this single, and promotions for the album were quickly dropped. By her second album, which came out in the fall of 2004, the public was startled by the sudden change in look, as she had dramatic weight loss; Ock attributed to her intense yoga training. Although her second album succumbed to the decline in Korea's music sales, this new look raised her popularity and she was able to perform on various music shows for a lengthy period with her singles "Catch" and "Sweet Rainyday". In addition to launching two successful albums, Ock has worked as a radiostation DJ for MBC, and as an MC for Korean networks SBS, MBC, and KBS. She has also received an award for "Best Radio DJ" during the MBC awards of 2003. She obtained the main role in the Korean version of Tim Rice's musical Aida, starting in September of 2005. Also, she has released her own yoga video and photo essay, steaming South Korean DVD/VHS/book charts. Ock also took part in Fin. K.L's digital single Fine Killing Liberty in fall of 2005, which was a sexy dance/R&B number; she also participated in the video shoot. Unfortunately, this last single was not promoted, as each Fin. K.L member was busy with their own projects. Ock has continued to further her "yoga celebrity" career, even helping to open up a yoga studio. In addition to her music career, Ock has also done television work as a permanent member on various variety shows. In addition to being one of the main girls on Heroine 5 (now Heroine 6), she has also become part of Gold Fish, an MBC variety/acting show that she is still part of. Ock has been educated at Kyunghee University. She is currently signed with M-Net Entertainment, an affiliate of CJ. Recently, Ock has admitted on a talk show that she is currently dating a Korean man in Los Angeles since April.

Hiram_Scott_College

Hiram_Scott_College 2009-03-01T00:29:26Z Hiram Scott College was a private liberal arts college that operated from 1965 to 1970 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Hiram Scott was one of several Midwestern colleges established by local civic leaders with the support and encouragement of Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. These Parsons "satellite schools" were by-products of the strong growth and apparent success of Parsons during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and all followed the "Parsons Plan" academic model developed at that school. None of the schools, however, were ultimately successful. The "Parsons Plan" academic model employed at Hiram Scott was the brainchild of Millard Roberts, who was the president of Parsons College from 1955 to 1967; the multi-faceted plan featured innovative teaching and administrative techniques, and emphasized the recruitment of a geographically and academically diverse student body. Among other characteristics, the "Parsons Plan" schools welcomed unconventional students who had not seen success at other colleges. In the 1960s, the schools were also attended by a substantial number of young men seeking draft deferments that would allow them to avoid military service during the Vietnam War. Strapped for cash from its inception, to survive Hiram Scott had to keep enrollment at capacity. Each semester 30% of the student body dropped out, dissatisfied with the school's limited curriculum. Instead of looking for ways to keep the students it had, Hiram Scott expanded its recruiting staff to the point that it cost $700 to recruit a student who would pay $2,500 in yearly fees. In December 1970, the trustees declared bankruptcy. In 1974, the buildings and grounds were acquired by the University of Nebraska and converted to their present use. The college’s main academic building, now known as the J. G. Elliott Building, was converted for use by the University of Nebraska Panhandle Research and Extension Center, while Hiram Scott’s student services building became the State Office Complex. Four large dormitories that flanked the student center have since been removed. Despite its financial problems and the Parsons non-traditional academic approach, Hiram Scott produced many graduates who have contributed greatly in society since the school closed. Graduates have served with honor in the army, navy, marines, and airforce; with many of them doing tours in Vietnam. Althea Kireilis (US Army Lieutenant Colonel retired) and Charles Lappan (US Army Lietenant Colonel retired) are prime examples of distinguished military service by former Hiram Scott students. The noted poet, Craig Czury (God's Shiny Glass Eye, and the Northeast Pennsylvania Prison Poetry Project) is a Hiram Scott alum; as is Clear Channel Radio broadcaster, Ira Mellman. Scott students who went on to careers in professional sports include Bill Meyer with the New York Knicks, Richie Moore with the San Diego Rockets, and Nelson Muncie with the Baltimore Colts. Hiram Scott Alums have run successful businesses, contributed in important legal roles, and served as educators (e. g. , Wayne Driscoll who was a school superintendent in Ohio for many years). And Scott graduates have gone on to higher education degrees (e. g. , JoNel Mundt, PhD from the University of Oklahoma; Nick Mann, PhD from Howard University; David Caesar, JD from St. Johns Law School; Louis Tripodi, PhD from the University of Pittsburg; Peter Bielinski, JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center; Paul Schwartz, PhD from the University of Iowa; Gus Scully, PhD from the University of South Dakota) . . . and Hiram Scott grad Ken Nickels, PhD has served as Dean of Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. , Hiram_Scott_College 2011-05-31T21:35:43Z Hiram Scott College was a private liberal arts college that operated from 1965 to 1970 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Hiram Scott was one of several Midwestern colleges established by local civic leaders with the support and encouragement of Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. These Parsons "satellite schools" were by-products of the strong growth and apparent success of Parsons during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and all followed the "Parsons Plan" academic model developed at that school. None of the schools, however, were ultimately successful. The "Parsons Plan" academic model employed at Hiram Scott was the brainchild of Millard Roberts, who was the president of Parsons College from 1955 to 1967; the multi-faceted plan featured innovative teaching and administrative techniques, and emphasized the recruitment of a geographically and academically diverse student body. Among other characteristics, the "Parsons Plan" schools welcomed unconventional students who had not seen success at other colleges. In the 1960s, the schools were also attended by a substantial number of young men seeking draft deferments that would allow them to avoid military service during the Vietnam War. Strapped for cash from its inception, to survive Hiram Scott had to keep enrollment at capacity. Each semester 30% of the student body dropped out, dissatisfied with the school's limited curriculum. Instead of looking for ways to keep the students it had, Hiram Scott expanded its recruiting staff to the point that it cost $700 to recruit a student who would pay $2,500 in yearly fees. In December 1970, the trustees declared bankruptcy. In 1974, the buildings and grounds were acquired by the University of Nebraska and converted to their present use. The college’s main academic building, now known as the J. G. Elliott Building, was converted for use by the University of Nebraska Panhandle Research and Extension Center, while Hiram Scott’s student services building became the State Office Complex. Four large dormitories that flanked the student center have since been removed. Despite its financial problems and the Parsons non-traditional academic approach, Hiram Scott produced many graduates who have contributed greatly in society since the school closed. Graduates have served with honor in the army, navy, marines, and airforce; with many of them doing tours in Vietnam. Althea Kireilis (US Army Lieutenant Colonel retired) and Charles Lappan (US Army Lietenant Colonel retired) are prime examples of distinguished military service by former Hiram Scott students. The noted poet, Craig Czury (God's Shiny Glass Eye, and the Northeast Pennsylvania Prison Poetry Project) is a Hiram Scott alum; as is Clear Channel Radio broadcaster, Ira Mellman. Scott students who went on to careers in professional sports include Bill Meyer with the New York Knicks, Richie Moore with the San Diego Rockets, and Nelson Muncie with the Baltimore Colts. Hiram Scott Alums have run successful businesses,(e. g. David Brock Who's Who in business 2004) contributed in important legal roles, and served as educators (e. g. , Wayne Driscoll who was a school superintendent in Ohio for many years). And Scott graduates have gone on to higher education degrees (e. g. , JoNel Mundt, PhD from the University of Oklahoma; Nick Mann, PhD from Howard University; David Caesar, JD from St. Johns Law School; Louis Tripodi, PhD from the University of Pittsburg; Peter Bielinski, JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center; Paul Schwartz, PhD from the University of Iowa; Gus Scully, PhD from the University of South Dakota). Hiram Scott grad Ken Nickels, PhD has served as Dean of Graduate Studies & Research at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Ohio's 25th senatorial district

Ohio's 25th senatorial district 2014-09-15T04:49:38Z Ohio's 25th senatorial district has always been based in the Cleveland metro. It comprises the eastern portion of Cuyahoga County as well as the western portion of Lake County. It encompasses Ohio House districts 8, 12 and 60. It has a Cook PVI of D+20. Its current Ohio Senator is Democrat Nina Turner. She resides in Cleveland, a city located in Cuyahoga County. , Ohio's 25th senatorial district 2015-11-09T00:00:01Z Ohio's 25th senatorial district has always been based in the Cleveland metro. It comprises the eastern portion of Cuyahoga County and the western portion of Lake County. It encompasses Ohio House districts 8, 12 and 60. It has a Cook PVI of D+20. Its Ohio Senator is Democrat Nina Turner. She resides in Cleveland, a city located in Cuyahoga County.

Orsk,_Lower_Silesian_Voivodeship

Orsk,_Lower_Silesian_Voivodeship 2010-06-12T10:09:19Z Template:Otherplaces2 Orsk (German: Urschkau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudna, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany. It lies approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) north-east of Lubin, and 70 kilometres (43 mi) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław. , Orsk,_Lower_Silesian_Voivodeship 2021-04-16T18:18:35Z Orsk (German: Urschkau) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudna, within Lubin County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) north-east of Lubin, and 70 kilometres (43 mi) north-west of the regional capital Wrocław.

MT-ATP6

MT-ATP6 2008-06-09T21:29:55Z Template:PBB Controls 450817705ENSG00000198899ENSMUSG00000064357P00846P00848n/an/an/aNP_904333ATP synthase F0 subunit 6 (or subunit/chain A) (human gene name ATP6) is a subunit of F0 complex of transmembrane F-type ATP synthase. , MT-ATP6 2009-05-10T19:45:22Z Template:FixBunching Template:FixBunching Template:PBB Template:FixBunching ATP synthase F0 subunit 6 (or subunit/chain A) (human mitochondrial gene name ATP6) is a subunit of F0 complex of transmembrane F-type ATP synthase. This subunit is a key component of the proton channel, and may play a direct role in the translocation of protons across the membrane. Catalysis in the F1 complex depends upon the rotation of the central stalk and F0 c-ring, which in turn is driven by the flux of protons through the membrane via the interface between the F0 c-ring and subunit A. The peripheral stalk links subunit A to the external surface of the F1 domain, and is thought to act as a stator to counter the tendency of subunit A and the F1alpha(3)beta(3) catalytic portion to rotate with the central rotary element. 3D structure of E. coli homologue of this subunit was modelled based on electron microscopy data (chain M of PDB: 1c17​). It forms a transmembrane 4-α-bundle. ATP6 is a gene associated with neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa. Template:PBB Further reading Template:PBB Controls

Charalambos Kyriakou (footballer, born 1989)

Charalambos Kyriakou (footballer, born 1989) 2022-02-09T12:11:46Z Charalambos "Charis" Kyriakou (Greek: Χαράλαμπος "Χάρης" Κυριάκου; born 15 October 1989) is a Cypriot footballer who plays as a right-back for Cyprus national team. Kyriakou is an product of the youth academy of Omonia. After spending a short period on loan in Doxa Katokopias in 2011, he returned to Omonia. On 6 July 2014 he became the new captain of Omonia. In 2009, Kyriakou represented Cyprus at the under-21 level. On 8 June 2013, he made his first appearance for the Cyprus national team in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Switzerland. AC Omonia, Charalambos Kyriakou (footballer, born 1989) 2023-10-03T15:29:23Z Charalambos "Charis" Kyriakou (Greek: Χαράλαμπος "Χάρης" Κυριάκου; born 15 October 1989) is a Cypriot professional footballer who plays as a defender for Doxa Katokopias and the Cyprus national team. Kyriakou is an product of the youth academy of Omonia. After spending a short period on loan in Doxa Katokopias in 2011, he returned to Omonia. On 6 July 2014 he became the new captain of Omonia. In August 2022, Kyriakou was announced as one of the five foreigners signed by East Bengal for the upcoming season. On 25 August, he made his debut against Rajasthan United in the Durand Cup, which ended in a 0–0 stalemate. In October 2023, Kyriakou returned for a third spell with Doxa Katokopias. In 2009, Kyriakou represented Cyprus at the under-21 level. On 8 June 2013, he made his first appearance for the Cyprus national team in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Switzerland. AC Omonia

Russell Peters

Russell Peters 2005-07-05T19:45:00Z Russell Peters is a Canadian stand-up comic of Indian descent. His routine focuses primarily on the culture and lifestyle of Indians growing up and adapting to a western world. , Russell Peters 2006-12-31T22:52:40Z Russell Dominic Peters (born 1970) is a Canadian stand-up comic from Brampton, Ontario and of Anglo-Indian descent. His parents, Eric and Maureen, are originally from Calcutta, India and later moved to Brampton, Ontario in Canada in 1975 . Russell Peters focuses primarily on his cultural background, but also on cultural and racial stereotypes of Asians, Indians in particular, as well as other ethnic groups. Peters began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has performed in the UK, Australia, China, Singapore, Denmark, South Africa, the Caribbean, Vietnam, Malaysia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka and the United States. He has been nominated for four Gemini Awards, the Canadian television awards. He has also been nominated for Best Male Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards. Peters has been featured at such shows as Montreal's Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival. He hosted the Canada Day Comedy Festival 2006. Peters' comedy focuses largely around his Indian upbringing and racial stereotypes, as he often parodies his parents and South Asian culture. Much of his material explores the cultural divides between many different ethnicities and upbringings in a way that includes many impressions. He is popular as he engages the audiance at his shows, by talking to individuals and making some sort of remark at them, or about them. His most recent comedy special Russell Peters: Outsourced, aired on Comedy Central on August 26, 2006. Outsourced was also made available on DVD and CD in stores on August 29, 2006. The DVD version features his "Outsourced" performance including an uncensored version of the Comedy Central broadcast. The DVD was extremely popular, especially in Canada, selling over 50,000 copies. Outsourced brought a whole new stage act for Russell who introduced lots of new material, ranging from different types of Asians, the English accent, terrorists, Indians, and his adventures with Chinese people in Beijing's KFC. Two of his most popular catchphrases are "be a man" and "somebody gonna get a hurt real bad." were used in the stage act(from previous shows)and were greeted warmly by cheers and applauses, as these are seen as his "trademark" jokes. However, Russell told the audience that he will retire the "somebody gonna get a hurt real bad" joke after the DVD. It was not known why until after the credits of the DVD which shows that his father died. It is speculated that Russell retired the joke due to it being about his father and his views on white people's actions on parenting.

Nexon

Nexon 2009-01-04T18:43:13Z Nexon Corporation (Korean: 넥슨) is a Korean gaming corporation and developer of online games and MMORPGs. Its headquarters are located in Seoul, South Korea. Nexon Corp. published their first title, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, in 1990. In 1998 Nexon released Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying which was loosely based on the Korean game Legend of Darkness, using the same server technology. The North American version of Dark Ages was developed by David Kennerly Nexon Corp. has also released a few unsuccessful games to the North American audience in beta form which have since been dropped. They include Elemental Saga, QuizQuiz and Elancia. QuizQuiz never left beta stage in North America but was later released through the Japanese division of Nexon, Nexon Japan, in a Japanese version. QuizQuiz has since evolved into the exclusively Korean and Japanese online game Q-Play, while Elemental Saga was eventually cancelled. Nexon has several games exclusively available to Korean players such as Elancia and Crazy Arcade. In 2001, Nexon Inc. released Shattered Galaxy, published through TriSynergy. Though it had previously won the Seamus McNally Grand Prize at the 2001 Independent Games Festival, hosted through the Game Developers Conference, the game floundered when it was released to retail. It was subsequently maintained exclusively through KRU Interactive. Shattered Galaxy itself was a heavily localised and customised version of its Korean parent game, Tactical Commanders. In 2003, Wizet created a hugely successful game called MapleStory, which eventually had clients in South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Southeast Asia, North America and Europe and many other places. Nexon then merged with Wizet and jointly control MapleStory. It has produced several online video games, primarily MMORPGs and online action games. Most games have used a 2D perspective, including side-scrolling, top-down, and isometric perspectives. Newer 3D titles are currently being published. Although most games are available for free, various gameplay enhancements can be purchased. Nexon is one of the pioneers of the Free to Play model using Virtual Asset Sales to generate revenue. Of a reported $230M in revenue for 2005, 85% was said to be from the sale of virtual items. NEXON announced that they have made a partnership with Nintendo, though they will continue games for the computer as well. Together, they are currently working on MapleStory DS for Nintendo's handheld console, Nintendo DS. Commonly referred to as 'NX Cash' or just 'NX', the NEXON Cash system was one of the first systems to use the Virtual Asset Sales(VAS) model. The Nexon Cash system was first introduced in the Korean version of MapleStory. The NEXON Cash system allows users to purchase NEXON cash with real money. The NX cash can be used to obtain virtual game items that other users normally wouldn't have. You can buy cards with 5, 10, 25 or 50 dollar values. Players can use this virtual cash to buy items for their characters in games that support a "Cash Shop." The NEXON Cash system has appeared in other games to generate additional funds for their company and keep their games free to play. On January 11, 2007, NEXON America announced the release of NEXON Prepaid Cards. The prepaid cards contain amounts of 10,000 ($10 USD) or 25,000 ($25 USD) NX currency that can be redeemed for NX Cash. As of 15 October, 2008 the prepaid cards are available in North American Target stores, 7-Eleven stores, Duane Reade, CVS/pharmacy, Best Buy, Rite Aid, Longs Drugs, and Blockbuster stores in the US. In Canada, the cards are available at Future Shop, Shoppers Drug Mart, and 7-Eleven. Recently MapleStory's Trade Shop was established, in which users can buy game items with real Nexon Cash. However, only Nexon Cash from the prepaid cards can be used in this. In the Trade Shop, players can request items for others to sell and even put up their own items for a certain amount of cash depending on the item's rarity and benefits. NEXON America first started as NXGames in October 2005. By partnering with Wizet, NEXON America cosigned and acquired publishing rights of MapleStory in North America. On November 2, 2006, NXGames began marketing their business as NEXON America and dropping the NXGames name. On November 9, 2006, NEXON America had announced its partnership with MTV Networks to promote NEXON games and enhance the Neopets services. NEXON has also announced that they will market MapleStory, Kartrider (Currently closed for full release), Mabinogi, Combat Arms, Audition Online and Sugar Rush with MTV Networks. NEXON Europe is one of the new online game portals in Europe. NEXON Europe first opened on April 9, 2007, when NEXON Europe released the Open Beta of MapleStory Europe. On May 31, 2007, NEXON Europe officially released MapleStory Europe and opened the cash shop. The release also marked the official grand opening of MapleStory Europe and the game will be removed from its beta stages. The addition of Combat Arms to the Nexon Europe game line was announced by Nexon America on August 8, 2008. On the 25 September 2008, Nexon Europe launched the Combat Arms Europe Teaser Website. On 28th October 2008, Nexon Europe started the Combat Arms Europe Closed Beta testing phase, which finished on the 11th November 2008. Combat Arms Europe Open Beta testing began on 16th December 2008 and will finish on January 15th 2009. Nexon Europe also opened the brand new Nexon Europe Portal Website on 16th December 2008. NEXON Japan is one of the most successful online gaming companies in Japan. NEXON Japan was first started with MapleStory, which turned into a synonymous online game. NEXON Korea is one of the South Korea's gaming industry's larger companies. NEXON Korea started with Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds in their lineup. NEXON Korea received a large influx of users migrating to the Korean version because of the Tespia Test Server and their more up-to-date patching. To combat this, NEXON Korea now requires a Korean Social Security Number to register. Even with Korean Social Security Number, a number of OBTG(old existing forum) members were able to get into Nexon Korea's games. , Nexon 2010-12-29T13:22:10Z NEXON Corporation (Korean: 넥슨) is a Korean video game developer and publisher of online games and MMORPGs. Its headquarters is located in Seoul, South Korea. NEXON Corp. published its first title, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, in 1996. Known as Baramue Nara in Korea, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds is the world's first graphic MMORPG. In 1998 NEXON released Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying which was loosely based on the Korean game Legend of Darkness, using the same server technology. The North American version of Dark Ages was developed by David Ethan Kennerly. NEXON Corp. also released a few unsuccessful games to the North American audience in beta form which have since been dropped. They include Elemental Saga, QuizQuiz, KartRider and Elancia. QuizQuiz never left beta stage in North America but was later released through the Japanese division of NEXON, NEXON Japan, in a Japanese version. QuizQuiz has since evolved into the exclusively Korean and Japanese. Online game Q-Play, while Elemental Saga was eventually cancelled. NEXON has eight games exclusively available to Korean players such as Elancia, and Crazy Arcade. In 2001, NEXON Inc. released Shattered Galaxy, published through TriSynergy. Though it had previously won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the 2001 Independent Games Festival, hosted through the Game Developers Conference, the game floundered when it was released to retail. It was subsequently maintained exclusively through KRU Interactive. Shattered Galaxy itself was a heavily localised and customised version of its Korean parent game, Tactical Commanders. In 2003, Wizet created a hugely successful game called MapleStory, which eventually had clients in South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Southeast Asia, North America, Europe, Brazil, Vietnam and players from many other places. NEXON then merged with Wizet and jointly controlled MapleStory. More than 95 million people are playing MapleStory today. It has produced several online video games, primarily MMORPGs and online action games. Most games have used a 2D perspective, including side-scrolling, top-down, and isometric perspectives. Newer 3D titles are currently being published. Although most games are available for free, various gameplay enhancements can be purchased. NEXON is one of the pioneers of the Free to Play model using Virtual Asset Sales to generate revenue. Of a reported $230M in revenue for 2005, 85% was said to be from the sale of virtual items. NEXON announced that they have made a partnership with Nintendo, though they will continue games for the computer as well. Together, they developed MapleStory DS for Nintendo's handheld console, Nintendo DS. MapleStory DS was released on April 15, 2010 in Korea, 3 months later than the original date: January 2010. On July 27, 2007, NEXON and Valve made a partnership and announced Counter-Strike Online, a new online version of the world's most popular first person shooting multiplayer game that will be tailored for Asia. Under the terms of the agreement between two studios, NEXON developed and became the exclusive publisher for Counter-Strike Online in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and China. After the release of Counter-Strike Online, Nexon released numerous updates for their own FPS game called "Combat Arms". It was announced by Nexon on May 4, 2010, that they had acquired NDOORS. The amount that Nexon paid for 67% of Ndoors' equity was undisclosed, but is speculated to be close to 200 billion Won (US$ 153.9 million dollars), which was the original 'wish-price' from Ndoors. From this acquisition, Nexon will take over IPs of Goonzu Online, Atlantica Online, Corum Online, two upcoming MMORPG titles, as well as publishing rights of Perfect World's Battle of the Immortals in Korea. On May 27, 2010 Nexon acquired bought a controlling stake in GameHi for US$59.8 million. Nexon bought 29.3 percent of the company's shares as well as management rights for control of GameHi from Gun-Il Kim, the largest shareholder in GameHi. The announcement was made in October 2010 that Nexon has invested in Spanish game developer BoomBang Games by purchasing 32 percent of the developer's stake. With the help of Nexon, BoomBang Games can now expand their first game developed, BoomBang, into many other countries around the world via Nexon’s giant oversees network and publishing partners servicing over 70 countries in every corner of the world. Nexon Japan will lead the investment as they look to expand their social game portfolio. Nclipse was acquired by Nexon Corporation in December 2010. Nclipse is the developer of cartoon styled EverPlanet. With this acquisition Nexon has secured the excellent development team of Nclipse and Nclipse has had a door to the global market being opened. “We are pleased to be a family with Nclipse who has been in good relationship as a developer and a publisher. We will provide better environment for the developers to focus on their job and will guarantee the opportunity to reinforce their value in Nexon,” said Min Seo the CEO of Nexon. The Virtual currency is known as NX through Nexon America and Nexon Cash elsewhere. The NEXON Cash system was one of the first systems to use the Virtual Asset Sales(VAS) model. The NEXON Cash system was first introduced in the Korean service of Crazy Arcade. The NEXON Cash system allows users to purchase NX with real money. The NX can be used to obtain virtual game items that other users normally wouldn't have. Players can use this virtual cash to buy items for their characters in games that support a "Cash Shop." The NEXON Cash system has appeared in other games to generate additional funds for their company and keep their games free to play. On January 11, 2007, NEXON America announced the release of NEXON Prepaid Cards. The prepaid cards contain amounts of 10,000 ($10 USD) or 25,000 ($25 USD) NX currency that can be redeemed for NX Cash. As of October 2010, NEXON Game Cards are available at the following retailers: On October 7, 2009, NEXON America announced a name change for their virtual cash, NX , instead of NEXON Cash. They have split the NX into two areas, NX Credit (such as PayPal), which is limited to some items which can not be purchased, or can be purchased at a later level, and NX Prepaid, which has no limitations. As well as the name change, the logo has been replaced, instead of the regular NEXON Cash, there is a new symbol, to represent it which is similar to the RX logo, except the letters are NX. MapleStory has a cash trading system, the MTS, in which users can buy game items with real NX and sell items for NX. However, only NX from the prepaid cards may be used in the MTS. Inside the Trade System, players can request items for others to sell and even put up their own items for a certain amount of cash depending on the item's rarity and benefits. You can also redeem Nexon Cash via survey, however this is not NX Prepaid, it is NX Credit. NEXON America first started as NXGames in October 2005. By partnering with Wizet, NEXON America cosigned and acquired publishing rights of MapleStory in North America. On November 2, 2006, NXGames began marketing their business as NEXON America and dropping the NXGames name. On November 9, 2006, NEXON America announced its partnership with MTV Networks to promote NEXON games and enhance the Neopets services. NEXON has also announced that they will market MapleStory, Mabinogi, Combat Arms, Audition Online and Sugar Rush, Vindictus, and also Dungeon Fighter Online with MTV Networks. Audition Online (which has been discontinued of service on Nexon America's server) has been transferred over to the game hosting service RedBana Corp. On April 2, 2009, NEXON America made an announcement that South American support for Combat Arms would end on April 9, 2009. Sugar Rush has been taken back by Klei entertainment as of August 5. NEXON America will soon replace their current portal, Nexon with their new game portal BlockParty to offer more services including a social network service. In January 2010, Nexon America announced Pop Tag!, the American version of the successful Crazy Arcade. The open beta for Pop Tag! was opened on January 26, and the official release took place on February 9. NEXON America will be launching their new gaming portal, BlockParty in the spring of 2011 according to an article. NEXON America has announced that Dragon Nest will be the first game to be launched through BlockParty. They also announced that PopTag and Vindictus would be released through their original portal. Vindictus was launched into open beta on October 6, 2010 with an official release scheduled for October 27, 2010. Dragon Nest is expected to be released in spring 2011. In October 2010 Nexon America announced that they had surpassed 12 million users, their quarter 3 of 2010 revenues had increased 28% over quarter 3 of 2009, and September 2010 revenues increased 23% over September 2009. NEXON Europe first opened on April 9, 2007, when NEXON Europe released the Open Beta of MapleStory Europe. On May 31, 2007, NEXON Europe officially released MapleStory Europe and opened the cash shop. The release also marked the official grand opening of MapleStory Europe and the game will be removed from its beta stages. The addition of Combat Arms to the NEXON Europe game line was announced by NEXON America on August 8, 2008. On the 25 September 2008, NEXON Europe launched the Combat Arms Europe Teaser Website. On 28 October 2008, NEXON Europe started the Combat Arms Europe Closed Beta testing phase, which finished on the 11th November 2008. Combat Arms Europe Open Beta testing began on 16 December 2008 and finished on January 15, 2009. NEXON Europe also opened the brand new NEXON Europe Portal Website on 16 December 2008. Combat Arms was fully launched by NEXON Europe in January 2009, servicing Europe and the Middle East. Mabinogi Europe was released in Q1 2010, the official release started players off in Generation 3, instead of Generation 1. The Uncharted Lands update was added in September 2010, and took Mabinogi Europe to Generation 11, including all Generations before. NEXON Europe has announced that Vindictus (Mabinogi Heroes), is due to be released at Q4 2010. NEXON Japan is the most successful and recognized online gaming company/portal in Japan. It started in 2004 with the release of MapleStory. Since then, NEXON Japan has shown tremendous growth, with their revenue increasing 56% from Q4 2008 to Q4 2009. NEXON Japan currently services many extremely successful games including Arad Senki, Atlantica Online, Counter-Strike Online, MapleStory and Mabinogi. NEXON Korea is Korea's largest online gaming company/portal by revenue. NEXON Korea started with Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds in their lineup. NEXON Korea received a large influx of users migrating to the Korean version because of the Tespia Test Server and their more up-to-date patching. To combat this, NEXON Korea now requires a Korean resident registration number to register. Even with a Korean resident registration number (KSSN), a number of OBTG (old existing forum) members of that forum were still able to get into NEXON's games.

André André

André André 2012-01-05T02:43:40Z André Filipe Brás André (born 26 August 1989 in Vila do Conde) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Varzim S.C. as a midfielder. André was brought up at F.C. Porto and Varzim SC. He made his senior debuts with the latter in 2008, scoring six goals in 49 second division games in two seasons combined. In the second half of the 2010–11 season, André joined Deportivo de La Coruña B in Spain, suffering relegation from the third division (only three matches played), a fate which also befell his previous team. He returned to Varzim in June 2011. André's father, António, was also a footballer and a midfielder. He represented Porto for more than one decade, and appeared with Portugal at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. , André André 2013-09-25T14:30:55Z André Filipe Brás André (born 26 August 1989 in Vila do Conde) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Vitória S.C. as a midfielder. André was brought up at F.C. Porto and Varzim SC. He made his senior debuts with the latter in 2008, scoring six goals in 49 second division games in two seasons combined. In the first half of the 2010–11 season, André joined Deportivo de La Coruña B in Spain on a 2+2 contract, suffering relegation from the third level (only three matches played), a fate which also befell his previous team. He returned to Varzim in January 2011. In the 2011–12 campaign, André netted 12 goals from his midfield position to help Varzim return to division two after just one year, even though the team could not eventually promote due to irregularities. In the off-season, he signed with Vitória S.C. in the top division. André's father, António, was also a footballer and a midfielder. He represented Porto for more than one decade, and appeared with Portugal at the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Hugo_Strauß

Hugo_Strauß 2017-05-25T00:45:56Z Hugo Strauß (June 25, 1907 – November 1, 1941) was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal with his partner Willi Eichhorn in the coxless pairs competition. Hugo Strauß was 29 at the time he won, it was also the only time he was in the Olympics. Also in 1936 Germany went on to win the Olympics that year. He was killed during WWII while serving on the Eastern Front. This article about a rowing Olympic medalist for Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Hugo_Strauß 2018-05-08T19:15:21Z Hugo Strauß (25 June 1907 – 1 November 1941) was a German rower who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal with his partner Willi Eichhorn in the coxless pairs competition. Strauß was 29 at the time he won, it was also the only time he was in the Olympics. Also in 1936 Germany went on to win the Olympics that year. He was killed during WWII while serving on the Eastern Front. This article about a rowing Olympic medalist for Germany is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Keith_Alexander_(engineer)

Keith_Alexander_(engineer) 2008-06-01T06:21:55Z Dr. Keith Vivian Alexander, a New Zealand inventor, is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. . His most notable invention is the springfree trampoline Alexander began his professional life as a primary school teacher. After 4 years of teaching he returned to university to complete a degree in engineering, conducting research on an invention of his own to gain his PhD. Post graduation, Alexander worked for an engineering consultancy for a period of 6 years, in which time he lead a team in developing advanced heavy presses for the New Zealand wool industry. Following this, Alexander moved to Hamilton Jet, a New Zealand company which pioneered the jet boat, where he worked on a number of projects including waterjet development which resulted in patented innovations. 1996 saw Alexander take up a position at the University of Canterbury where he still teaches Mechanical Engineering Design & Product Innovation. Whilst at the university he has been responsible for several patented inventions including the Springfree Trampoline. Alexander is currently a member of the ASTM Standards Committee on Trampolines. . , Keith_Alexander_(engineer) 2009-06-28T16:46:23Z Dr. Keith Vivian Alexander, a New Zealand inventor, is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. His most notable invention is the springfree trampoline. Alexander began his professional life as a primary school teacher. After 4 years of teaching he returned to university to complete a degree in engineering, conducting research on an invention of his own to gain his PhD. Post graduation, Alexander worked for an engineering consultancy for a period of 6 years, in which time he lead a team in developing advanced heavy presses for the New Zealand wool industry. Following this, Alexander moved to Hamilton Jet, a New Zealand company which pioneered the jet boat, where he worked on a number of projects including waterjet development which resulted in patented innovations. 1996 saw Alexander take up a position at the University of Canterbury where he still teaches Mechanical Engineering Design & Product Innovation. Whilst at the university he has been responsible for several patented inventions including the Springfree Trampoline. Alexander is currently a member of the ASTM Standards Committee on Trampolines.

André Ayew

André Ayew 2019-01-02T16:11:43Z André Morgan Rami Ayew (/ˈɑːjuː/ ⓘ; born 17 December 1989), also known as Dede Ayew in Ghana, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe, on loan from Championship club Swansea City. Ayew plays internationally for the Ghana national team. He is the second-born son of three-time African Footballer of the Year and FIFA 100 member Abedi "Pele" Ayew and has two brothers, Ibrahim and Jordan, who also are professional footballers. In 2011 Ayew was named the BBC African Footballer of the Year and Ghanaian Footballer of the Year. Ayew began his career in Ghana, playing for Nania, while debuting for the club at age 14. In 2005, he signed with his father's former club, Marseille, and spent two seasons in the club's youth academy before making his debut in the 2007–08 season. Ayew spent the following two seasons on loan with Lorient and Arles-Avignon, helping the latter team earn promotion to Ligue 1 for the first time. In 2010, he returned to Marseille and became an integral part of the first team under manager Didier Deschamps, making over 200 appearances and winning consecutive Trophée des champions and Coupe de la Ligues in both 2010 and 2011. Ayew has been a full international for Ghana since 2008 and has earned over 65 caps. At youth level, he starred for and captained the under-20 team that won both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He has played in two FIFA World Cups (2010 and 2014), as well as five Africa Cup of Nations (2008, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017), helping them finish runner-up in 2010 and 2015, and was Top Goalscorer at the latter. Ayew began his career with 1860 München, when his father played. At the age of ten, Ayew was playing for Nania, where his father is club chairman, in Accra, Ghana. After four years of plying his trade in the club's youth academy, he was promoted to the team's senior squad at the age of 14. Despite being on the senior team, he still participated in youth-sanctioned events, such as the 2004 edition of the Altstetten U-19 Tournament, in which he was named one of the tournament's most famous players. Ayew played professional football at Nania for two seasons before departing the club and returning to France to play for his father's former club Marseille. Ayew joined the club on an aspirant ("trainee") contract and, upon his arrival, was put into the club's youth system and placed onto Marseille's first professional contract, agreeing to a three-year deal. He was officially promoted to the senior team and assigned the squad number 29 shirt. Ayew made his professional debut for Marseille on 15 August 2007 in a league match against Valenciennes, coming on as a substitute for Modeste M'bami in the 89th minute. Marseille lost the match 2–1. On 6 November, he made his UEFA Champions League debut against Portuguese champions Porto at the Estádio do Dragão, playing on the left wing in place of Bolo Zenden. Ayew played 77 minutes before being substituted out as Marseille were defeated 2–1. Ayew earned praise from the media for his performance of containing Porto right back José Bosingwa. Five days later, Ayew earned his first league start against Lyon at the Stade de Gerland. Ayew again featured in the team as Marseille pulled off a 2–1 victory. Ayew finished the season with 13 total appearances, nine in league play and two in cup play, in addition to two Champions League appearances. Ayew's first season with the club drew the attention of Premier League club Arsenal, who reportedly offered Marseille €6 million for the player. Marseille, however, denied the offer. For the 2008–09 season, Ayew switched to the squad number 8 shirt, though due to the arrival of attackers Hatem Ben Arfa, Sylvain Wiltord, Bakari Koné and Mamadou Samassa, he was deemed surplus to requirements for the season and was loaned out to fellow first division club Lorient for the season. Ayew was used by manager Christian Gourcuff as one of the team's focal points of the attack alongside Fabrice Abriel, Kevin Gameiro and Rafik Saïfi and made his debut on 16 August 2008, coming on as a substitute in a 0–0 draw against Lyon. On 27 September 2008, he scored his first professional goal after netting the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Sochaux. A month later, he scored his second career goal in a 4–1 rout of Saint-Étienne. Despite the initial success, Ayew was limited throughout the league campaign to just appearing as a substitute. He finished the season with 22 league appearances and three goals and, on 30 June 2009, returned to Marseille. Two months later, on 31 August 2009, the last day of the transfer window, new manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be joining newly promoted Ligue 2 club Arles-Avignon on loan for the 2009–10 season. Ayew was given the number 10 shirt and his favorable right wing position. He made his debut with the club on 11 September, appearing as a substitute in a 1–1 draw with Angers. The following week, he scored his first goal for the club in a 4–2 defeat to Tours. He was ever present in the team's fall campaign, but due to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, he missed the month of January. Ayew returned to the team on 5 February 2010 and appeared as a starter in all of the team's matches for the rest of the campaign. On 9 April, with the team in the midst of a promotion battle, Ayew scored a double in the team's 2–1 victory over Le Havre. The following week, he struck again scoring the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Guingamp. On 14 May, Arles-Avignon secured promotion to Ligue 1 following the team's 1–0 win over Clermont. Ayew started and played the entire match. He finished the campaign with Arles-Avignon appearing in 26 total matches and scoring four goals. After the successful league campaign with Arles-Avignon, on 16 May 2010, Marseille manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be returning to the team and that he will be earning some significant playing time with the club for the 2010–11 season. On 5 August, Ayew signed a three-year contract extension with Marseille. The new deal kept him at the club until June 2014. Despite the arrival of Loïc Rémy, Ayew was inserted as a starter by Deschamps and scored his first goal in the second league match of the season against Valenciennes in a 3–2 defeat. Following the international break in September, he scored a double against his former club Arles-Avignon in a 3–0 win. In the Coupe de la Ligue, Ayew scored goals in victories over Guingamp and Monaco in the Round of 16 and quarter-finals, respectively. On 20 November, he scored the only goal in a victory over Toulouse. Ayew scored the goal two minutes from time. On 27 April 2011, Ayew scored his first professional hat-trick in a 4–2 victory over Nice. His younger brother, Jordan, converted the other goal for Marseille in the win. Because of his outstanding performances throughout the season, Ayew was nominated for Ligue 1 Young Player of the Season, along with Marvin Martin and Yann M'Vila. He was voted Marseille's Best Player for the Season for 2010–11. Ayew was named in the squad for the 2011 Trophée des Champions match against Lille held on 27 July 2011 at the Stade de Tanger in Morocco. He scored a hat-trick, including two 90th minute penalties, ensuring Marseille a 5–4 victory. In December 2011, Ayew signed a one-year contract extension until 2015 with a release clause of €18 million. On 4 April 2014, Ayew scored only his second hat-trick of his Marseille career, inspiring his club to a 3–1 league victory, their first in seven outings, over bottom club Ajaccio. On 10 June 2015, Premier League side Swansea City announced that Ayew had joined the club on a free transfer, signing a four-year contract with the Swans pending Premier League and international clearance. Ayew scored his first goal for the club on his debut against Chelsea on 8 August 2015 in a 2–2 draw. On 15 August 2015, Ayew scored his second goal in his second game for Swansea in their 2–0 victory against Newcastle United. He continued his form in the next league fixture against Manchester United, where he scored and created an assist. Ayew was named Premier League Player of the Month for August 2015 and also received Swansea's monthly award the GWFX Player of the Month for August after making an immediate impact, scoring three goals in his first four league appearances. On 8 August 2016, Ayew signed for West Ham United for a then club record fee of £20.5 million on a three-year contract, with the option of an extra two years. Ayew's debut game for West Ham, on 15 August 2016, against Chelsea, lasted 35 minutes before he was substituted after sustaining a thigh injury. He returned to first team action on 26 October 2016 in a 2–1 home win against Chelsea in the EFL Cup. On 26 December 2016 Ayew scored his first West Ham goal. Playing away at his former club, Swansea City, Ayew scored the first goal in a 4–1 West Ham win. Ayew left West Ham in January 2018 having scored 12 goals in 50 games in all competitions. On 31 January 2018, Ayew completed a deadline day return to former club Swansea City for a reported £18 million rising to £20 million with add-ons. In July 2018, Ayew joined Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe on a season-long loan. The deal reportedly included an option for the club to sign Ayew permanently at the end of the loan period. Due to having dual French and Ghanaian citizenship, Ayew was eligible for France and Ghana. He initially chose to represent France, citing the failed inquiries of the Ghana Football Association to contact him as his reason why, but declared Ghana to be his first option, citing his father. Ayew was subsequently called up and participated in a training camp with the France under-18 team. In 2007, he turned down several offers to play for the country's under-21 team. Ayew later warned the Ghana Football Association that he was on the verge of representing France at international level, stating, "At this moment there is only one choice to make because I have only received an invitation from one country and that is France." At the youth level, Ayew represented Ghana at under-20 level and captained the team to victory at both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. At the African Youth Championship, Ayew scored two goals against Cameroon in the group stage and South Africa in the semi-finals. The 4–3 semi-final result progressed Ghana to the final where the team defeated group stage opponents Cameroon 2–0. The championship victory resulted in the team qualifying for the ensuing U-20 World Cup. In the tournament, Ayew scored twice against England in a 4–0 rout and the equalizing goal against South Africa in the round of 16. Ghana later won the match in extra time through a goal from Dominic Adiyiah. Ayew then captained the team to victories over the South Korea and Hungary in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, to reach the final where they faced Brazil. In the final, Ghana defeated the Brazilians 4–3 on penalties to win the U-20 World Cup. Ayew converted Ghana's first penalty in the shootout. On 7 August 2007, Ayew was called up for the first time by Ghana coach Claude Le Roy for the team's friendly match against Senegal on 21 August. He made his international debut in the match, appearing as a late-match substitute. On 11 January 2008, Ayew was named to the Ghana squad to play in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. Ayew made his second major international tournament appearance by appearing at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. On 19 January 2010, in the team's final group stage match against Burkina Faso, he scored his first international goal in 30th minute with a header. Ghana won the match 1–0 and reached the final where they were defeated 1–0 by Egypt. Ayew appeared in all five matches the team contested. On 7 May 2010, Ayew was named to coach Milovan Rajevac's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was later named to the 23-man team to compete in the competition alongside his brother Ibrahim. On 12 June, Ayew made his FIFA World Cup debut in the team's opening group stage match against Serbia, starting ahead of the more experienced Sulley Muntari. He later started in the team's ensuing group stage matches against Australia and Germany. In the team's round of 16 match against the United States, Ayew assisted on the game-winning goal scored by Asamoah Gyan after sending a lob–pass into the United States defense, which Gyan collected and then converted. For his performance in the match, Ayew was named Man of the Match by FIFA. Ayew missed the team's quarter-final defeat on penalties to Uruguay due to yellow card accumulation. He went on to play in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring against Mali and Tunisia, as the Black Stars finished in fourth place. In February 2013, Ayew retired from international football after a dispute with the Ghana Football Association. However, he returned to the team for a World Cup qualifier against Zambia on 6 September. He then went on to start in both legs of Ghana's 7–3 aggregate play-off defeat of Egypt to secure qualification to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. On 2 June 2014, Ayew was named in Ghana's squad for the World Cup. In the team's opening match, he scored an 82nd minute equalising goal against the United States in an eventual 2–1 defeat. He then scored the Black Stars' first goal in a 2–2 draw with Germany in their second group match. On 19 January 2015, Ayew scored Ghana's first goal of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in a 2–1 loss to Senegal. Ayew was born in Seclin, a commune in the arrondissement of Lille, to a Ghanaian mother and father. Ayew comes from a family of footballers. His father, Abedi Pele, was a professional footballer and was playing for Lille at the time of his birth. He is the nephew of Kwame Ayew and Sola Ayew, both of whom are former international footballers. Ayew also has two brothers who are professional footballers; Ibrahim and Jordan, and a sister, Imani. Jordan currently plays for Crystal Palace and Ibrahim currently plays for Europa in Gibraltar. André Ayew is a practising Muslim. Marseille Ghana, André Ayew 2020-12-30T22:00:07Z André Morgan Rami Ayew (/ˈɑːjuː/ ⓘ; born 17 December 1989), also known as Dede Ayew in Ghana, is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Championship club Swansea City and captains the Ghana national team. He is the second-born son of three-time African Footballer of the Year and FIFA 100 member Abedi "Pele" Ayew and has two brothers, Ibrahim and Jordan, who also are professional footballers. In 2011 Ayew was named the BBC African Footballer of the Year and Ghanaian Footballer of the Year. Ayew began his career in Ghana, playing for Nania, while debuting for the club at age 14. In 2005, he signed with his father's former club, Marseille, and spent two seasons in the club's youth academy before making his debut in the 2007–08 season. Ayew spent the following two seasons on loan with Lorient and Arles-Avignon, helping the latter team earn promotion to Ligue 1 for the first time. In 2010, he returned to Marseille and became an integral part of the first team under manager Didier Deschamps, making over 200 appearances and winning consecutive Trophée des champions and Coupe de la Ligues in both 2010 and 2011. Ayew has been a full international for Ghana since 2008 and has earned over 90 caps. At youth level, he starred for and captained the under-20 team that won both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He has played in two FIFA World Cups (2010 and 2014), as well as six Africa Cup of Nations (2008, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2019), helping them finish runner-up in 2010 and 2015, and was top goalscorer at the latter tournament. Ayew began his career with 1860 München, where his father played. At the age of ten, Ayew was playing for Nania, where his father is club chairman, in Accra, Ghana. After four years of plying his trade in the club's youth academy, he was promoted to the team's senior squad at the age of 14. Despite being on the senior team, he still participated in youth-sanctioned events, such as the 2004 edition of the Altstetten U-19 Tournament, in which he was named one of the tournament's most famous players. Ayew played professional football at Nania for two seasons before departing the club and returning to France to play for his father's former club Marseille. Ayew joined the club on an aspirant ("trainee") contract and, upon his arrival, was put into the club's youth system and placed onto Marseille's first professional contract, agreeing to a three-year deal. He was officially promoted to the senior team and assigned the squad number 29 shirt. Ayew made his professional debut for Marseille on 15 August 2007 in a league match against Valenciennes, coming on as a substitute for Modeste M'bami in the 89th minute. Marseille lost the match 2–1. On 6 November, he made his UEFA Champions League debut against Portuguese champions Porto at the Estádio do Dragão, playing on the left wing in place of Bolo Zenden. Ayew played 77 minutes before being substituted out as Marseille were defeated 2–1. Ayew earned praise from the media for his performance of containing Porto right back José Bosingwa. Five days later, Ayew earned his first league start against Lyon at the Stade de Gerland. Ayew again featured in the team as Marseille pulled off a 2–1 victory. Ayew finished the season with 13 total appearances, nine in league play and two in cup play, in addition to two Champions League appearances. Ayew's first season with the club drew the attention of Premier League club Arsenal, who reportedly offered Marseille €6 million for the player. Marseille, however, denied the offer. For the 2008–09 season, Ayew switched to the squad number 8 shirt, though due to the arrival of attackers Hatem Ben Arfa, Sylvain Wiltord, Bakari Koné and Mamadou Samassa, he was deemed surplus to requirements for the season and was loaned out to fellow first division club Lorient for the season. Ayew was used by manager Christian Gourcuff as one of the team's focal points of the attack alongside Fabrice Abriel, Kevin Gameiro and Rafik Saïfi and made his debut on 16 August 2008, coming on as a substitute in a 0–0 draw against Lyon. On 27 September 2008, he scored his first professional goal after netting the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Sochaux. A month later, he scored his second career goal in a 4–1 rout of Saint-Étienne. Despite the initial success, Ayew was limited throughout the league campaign to just appearing as a substitute. He finished the season with 22 league appearances and three goals and, on 30 June 2009, returned to Marseille. Two months later, on 31 August 2009, the last day of the transfer window, new manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be joining newly promoted Ligue 2 club Arles-Avignon on loan for the 2009–10 season. Ayew was given the number 10 shirt and his favorable right wing position. He made his debut with the club on 11 September, appearing as a substitute in a 1–1 draw with Angers. The following week, he scored his first goal for the club in a 4–2 defeat to Tours. He was ever present in the team's fall campaign, but due to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, he missed the month of January. Ayew returned to the team on 5 February 2010 and appeared as a starter in all of the team's matches for the rest of the campaign. On 9 April, with the team in the midst of a promotion battle, Ayew scored a double in the team's 2–1 victory over Le Havre. The following week, he struck again scoring the opener in the team's 1–1 draw with Guingamp. On 14 May, Arles-Avignon secured promotion to Ligue 1 following the team's 1–0 win over Clermont. Ayew started and played the entire match. He finished the campaign with Arles-Avignon appearing in 26 total matches and scoring four goals. After the successful league campaign with Arles-Avignon, on 16 May 2010, Marseille manager Didier Deschamps confirmed that Ayew would be returning to the team and that he will be earning some significant playing time with the club for the 2010–11 season. On 5 August, Ayew signed a three-year contract extension with Marseille. The new deal kept him at the club until June 2014. Despite the arrival of Loïc Rémy, Ayew was inserted as a starter by Deschamps and scored his first goal in the second league match of the season against Valenciennes in a 3–2 defeat. Following the international break in September, he scored a double against his former club Arles-Avignon in a 3–0 win. In the Coupe de la Ligue, Ayew scored goals in victories over Guingamp and Monaco in the Round of 16 and quarter-finals, respectively. On 20 November, he scored the only goal in a victory over Toulouse. Ayew scored the goal two minutes from time. On 27 April 2011, Ayew scored his first professional hat-trick in a 4–2 victory over Nice. His younger brother, Jordan, converted the other goal for Marseille in the win. Because of his outstanding performances throughout the season, Ayew was nominated for Ligue 1 Young Player of the Season, along with Marvin Martin and Yann M'Vila. He was voted Marseille's Best Player for the Season for 2010–11. Ayew was named in the squad for the 2011 Trophée des Champions match against Lille held on 27 July 2011 at the Stade de Tanger in Morocco. He scored a hat-trick, including two 90th minute penalties, ensuring Marseille a 5–4 victory. In December 2011, Ayew signed a one-year contract extension until 2015 with a release clause of €18 million. On 22 February 2012, Ayew scored a goal in the 93rd minute, in a 1–0 victory over Inter Milan in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg. However, Marseille managed to qualify to the quarter-finals by winning on away goals rule, after drawing 2–2 on aggregate. On 4 April 2014, Ayew scored only his second hat-trick of his Marseille career, inspiring his club to a 3–1 league victory, their first in seven outings, over bottom club Ajaccio. On 10 June 2015, Premier League side Swansea City announced that Ayew had joined the club on a free transfer, signing a four-year contract with the Swans pending Premier League and international clearance. Ayew scored his first goal for the club on his debut against Chelsea on 8 August 2015 in a 2–2 draw. On 15 August 2015, Ayew scored his second goal in his second game for Swansea in their 2–0 victory against Newcastle United. He continued his form in the next league fixture against Manchester United, where he scored and created an assist. Ayew was named Premier League Player of the Month for August 2015 and also received Swansea's monthly award the GWFX Player of the Month for August after making an immediate impact, scoring three goals in his first four league appearances. On 8 August 2016, Ayew signed for West Ham United for a then club record fee of £20.5 million on a three-year contract, with the option of an extra two years. Ayew's debut game for West Ham, on 15 August 2016, against Chelsea, lasted 35 minutes before he was substituted after sustaining a thigh injury. He returned to first team action on 26 October 2016 in a 2–1 home win against Chelsea in the EFL Cup. On 26 December 2016 Ayew scored his first West Ham goal. Playing away at his former club, Swansea City, Ayew scored the first goal in a 4–1 West Ham win. Ayew left West Ham in January 2018 having scored 12 goals in 50 games in all competitions. On 31 January 2018, Ayew completed a deadline day return to former club Swansea City for a reported £18 million rising to £20 million with add-ons until the end of the 2020–21 season. In July 2018, Ayew joined Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe on a season-long loan. The deal reportedly included an option for the club to sign Ayew permanently at the end of the loan period. Ayew made his first appearance for Swansea since 2018, scoring two goals in a 3–1 win against Northampton Town in the EFL Cup on 13 August 2019. He was made deputy captain for the side on the first of November 2019. Due to having dual French and Ghanaian citizenship, Ayew was eligible for France and Ghana. He initially chose to represent France, citing the failed inquiries of the Ghana Football Association to contact him as his reason why, but declared Ghana to be his first option, citing his father. Ayew was subsequently called up and participated in a training camp with the France under-18 team. In 2007, he turned down several offers to play for the country's under-21 team. Ayew later warned the Ghana Football Association that he was on the verge of representing France at international level, stating, "At this moment there is only one choice to make because I have only received an invitation from one country and that is France." At the youth level, Ayew represented Ghana at under-20 level and captained the team to victory at both the 2009 African Youth Championship and the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. At the African Youth Championship, Ayew scored two goals against Cameroon in the group stage and South Africa in the semi-finals. The 4–3 semi-final result progressed Ghana to the final where the team defeated group stage opponents Cameroon 2–0. The championship victory resulted in the team qualifying for the ensuing U-20 World Cup. In the tournament, Ayew scored twice against England in a 4–0 rout and the equalizing goal against South Africa in the round of 16. Ghana later won the match in extra time through a goal from Dominic Adiyiah. Ayew then captained the team to victories over the South Korea and Hungary in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, to reach the final where they faced Brazil. In the final, Ghana defeated the Brazilians 4–3 on penalties to win the U-20 World Cup. Ayew converted Ghana's first penalty in the shootout. On 7 August 2007, Ayew was called up for the first time by Ghana coach Claude Le Roy for the team's friendly match against Senegal on 21 August. He made his international debut in the match, appearing as a late-match substitute. On 11 January 2008, Ayew was named to the Ghana squad to play in the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. Ayew made his second major international tournament appearance by appearing at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations. On 19 January 2010, in the team's final group stage match against Burkina Faso, he scored his first international goal in 30th minute with a header. Ghana won the match 1–0 and reached the final where they were defeated 1–0 by Egypt. Ayew appeared in all five matches the team contested. On 7 May 2010, Ayew was named to coach Milovan Rajevac's 30-man preliminary squad to participate in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He was later named to the 23-man team to compete in the competition alongside his brother Ibrahim. On 12 June, Ayew made his FIFA World Cup debut in the team's opening group stage match against Serbia, starting ahead of the more experienced Sulley Muntari. He later started in the team's ensuing group stage matches against Australia and Germany. In the team's round of 16 match against the United States, Ayew assisted on the game-winning goal scored by Asamoah Gyan after sending a lob–pass into the United States defense, which Gyan collected and then converted. For his performance in the match, Ayew was named Man of the Match by FIFA. Ayew missed the team's quarter-final defeat on penalties to Uruguay due to yellow card accumulation. He went on to play in the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, scoring against Mali and Tunisia, as the Black Stars finished in fourth place. In February 2013, Ayew retired from international football after a dispute with the Ghana Football Association. However, he returned to the team for a World Cup qualifier against Zambia on 6 September. He then went on to start in both legs of Ghana's 7–3 aggregate play-off defeat of Egypt to secure qualification to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. On 2 June 2014, Ayew was named in Ghana's squad for the World Cup. In the team's opening match, he scored an 82nd minute equalising goal against the United States in an eventual 2–1 defeat. He then scored the Black Stars' first goal in a 2–2 draw with Germany in their second group match. On 19 January 2015, Ayew scored Ghana's first goal of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in a 2–1 loss to Senegal. Ayew was born in Seclin, a commune in the arrondissement of Lille, to Ghanaian parents. Ayew comes from a family of footballers. His father, Abedi Pele, was a professional footballer and was playing for Lille at the time of his birth. He is the nephew of Kwame Ayew and Sola Ayew, both of whom are former international footballers. Ayew also has two brothers who are professional footballers; Ibrahim and Jordan, and a sister, Imani. Jordan currently plays for Crystal Palace and Ibrahim currently plays for Europa in Gibraltar. He is a practicing Muslim. On 26 July 2019, Ayew made donations to the Ghana under-20 team, which he captained to victory 10 years earlier. This was a move that was made to encourage and motivate the team ahead of the Africa games slated for the following month in Rabat, Morocco. Marseille Ghana U20 Ghana Individual

Santiago González (tennis)

Santiago González (tennis) 2021-01-04T17:06:45Z Santiago González Torre (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional tennis player. He is 6'3" (1.91 m). He turned professional in 2001. His highest ATP singles ranking in singles is World No. 155, achieved in May 2006, and World No. 23 in doubles, reached in June 2013. González represents Mexico at the Davis Cup competition; currently his record is 22–16. In 2017, he reached the French Open final in doubles along with his partner Donald Young. Additionally, he has reached the finals of three other Grand Slam tournaments in the Mixed category: the 2013 French Open and the 2014 and 2015 US Open. González qualified for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. He lost at his first match in Wimbledon against Israeli Dudi Sela. Along with American Scott Lipsky, he won an ATP World Tour 500 title in April 2011, the Barcelona Open. They defeated the Bryan brothers 5–7, 6–2, , breaking their 10-match winning streak. They also defeated doubles teams Jürgen Melzer & Nenad Zimonjić 6–3, 6–2, and Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor 7–6, 6–4. In 2017 he reached his first grand slam final partnering Donald Young of the USA at the French Open. Current through the 2020 Auckland Open. ten Latin American male doubles tennis players, Santiago González (tennis) 2022-10-31T23:14:13Z Santiago González Torre (Spanish pronunciation: ; born 24 February 1983) is a Mexican professional tennis player. His career-high ATP ranking is World No. 155 in singles, achieved in May 2006, and World No. 22 in doubles, achieved in March 2022. He has won 18 ATP doubles titles. In 2017, he reached the French Open final in doubles along with his partner Donald Young. Additionally, he has reached the finals of three other Grand Slam tournaments in the Mixed category: the 2013 French Open and the 2014 and 2015 US Open. González represents Mexico at the Davis Cup competition; currently his record is 22–16. González qualified at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships to make his Grand Slam debut. He lost his first round main draw match in Wimbledon against Israeli Dudi Sela. He also made his Grand Slam debut in qualifications in singles at the 2009 Australian Open. He made his top 100 doubles debut on 12 October 2009. He won his first ATP title at the 2010 Serbia Open partnering American Travis Rettenmaier. In April 2011, partnering with American Scott Lipsky, he won the ATP World Tour 500 title of the Barcelona Open. They defeated the Bryan brothers 5–7, 6–2, , breaking their 10-match winning streak. They also defeated doubles teams Jürgen Melzer & Nenad Zimonjić 6–3, 6–2, and Max Mirnyi & Daniel Nestor 7–6, 6–4. He reached the top 25 on 30 January 2012. He won a total of seven titles with Lipsky between 2011 and 2014. In June 2017, he reached his first Grand Slam final partnering Donald Young of the USA at the French Open. In 2021, González and his current partner Marcelo Demoliner took the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at the 2021 Serbia Open. During the grass season, he won his fourteenth ATP title at Stuttgart Open defeating Uruguayan Ariel Behar and Gonzalo Escobar from Ecuador with Demoliner. In September, González won his fifteenth ATP doubles title at the 2021 Astana Open partnering Andres Molteni. In November he won the 2021 Stockholm Open his sixteenth title also with Molteni. In 2022, he won two more clay titles with Molteni at the 2022 Córdoba Open and 2022 Argentina Open. He made his maiden Masters final at the 2022 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with Édouard Roger-Vasselin using a protected ranking after defeating reigning US Open Champions and 2nd seeded pair of Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram. They lost in the final to American duo Isner/Sock. As a result he reached a new doubles career-high of No. 22 on 21 March 2022. Current through the 2022 Mexican Open.

Connacht Rugby

Connacht Rugby 2004-09-14T21:18:40Z Connacht Rugby is one of four provincial teams in Ireland, Leinster, Munster and Ulster being the others. It is based on the historic Irish province of Connacht in the Republic of Ireland. Coach Michael Bradley Captain Tim Allnutt Founded 1885 Ground Galway Sportsground Capacity 5,000, Connacht Rugby 2005-11-21T12:24:15Z The Irish Rugby Football Union Connacht Branch (also known as Connacht Rugby) is one of four branches of the IRFU, and is responsible for rugby union in the Irish province of Connacht. The branch is also responsible for the Connacht team, which plays in national and international competitions. The team plays its home games at the Galway Sportsgrounds, which can hold 5,000 spectators. (Expandable to 7,000 for important games) Connacht has a much smaller base of rugby union players to choose from than the other three provinces due in part to its small population and the relative popularity of GAA sports such as hurling and Gaelic football. Connacht has only 7% of the total number of Irish rugby union players. However rugby union in Connacht has expanded and in recent years, with a growing number of players involved and an increasing number of schools now playing the game. Today it rivals soccer as the province's third most popular support. Galwegians and Buccaneers are two Connacht based teams playing in the Irish league. Unlike the other provinces many of its players are brought in as youngsters from the rest of Ireland. The Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) has designated Connacht as a development team, which means that it receives half the budget of the other teams. It has often been discussed whether they should be closed down as happened to the Scottish super district Caledonia and the Welsh region Celtic Warriors. Until the 2005-06 season, the IRFU automatically entered Connacht in the European Challenge Cup each year rather than the Heineken Cup, regardless of its result in the Celtic League. Starting with the 2004-05 season, the IRFU agreed to use the Celtic League table as its sole criterion for determining which Irish teams would enter the next season's Heineken Cup. In that season, Connacht finished last among the competition's four Irish sides, which placed them in the 2005-06 European Challenge Cup. The Connacht Branch of the IRFU was founded in 1885. Connacht was the first ever Irish provincial team to win in France and England in 1997. Connacht were quarterfinalists in the European Challenge Cup in 1997/98. In 2001/02, Connacht made it to the semifinals of the Celtic League, but only reached the quarters in 2002/2003. The 2003/04 season will live long in the memory of all Connacht fans. Their efforts in the Parker Pen Challenge Cup took them to within touching distance of the final. Only a try from Harlequins' Will Greenwood 12 minutes from time in the second leg of the semi-final denied them of a place in the final. The 2004/05 season saw Connacht continue their form in the European Challenge cup, reaching the semi-finals where they were knocked out again by the eventual winners, Sale Sharks. Connacht have won the Inter-provincial Championship twice.

Yoo_Sang-joon

Yoo_Sang-joon 2011-09-08T05:03:25Z Yoo Sang-joon is a North Korean defector with South Korean citizenship. He is sometimes known under his pseudonym Nam Hong-chul, which he used to maintain his anonymity while in northeast China working to help fellow defectors reach South Korea. Yoo lived in North Korea with his wife and two sons. After the death of his wife and younger son due to the ongoing North Korean famine, during which they ate nothing but grass for months, he chose to leave the country in 1998 with his remaining son Yoo Chul-min. While in China, he worked at odd jobs in construction and manual labour; eventually, he grew weary of living in fear of arrest and deportation to North Korea by Chinese police, and gave up his son to the custody of a family of ethnic Koreans with Chinese citizenship, hoping to give him a better life. He then smuggled himself out of the country. After his arrival in South Korea, he worked for a manufacturing company. His initial attempts to locate his son Chul-min failed, as Chul-min had changed his name and date of birth on his documents. With the assistance of defector aid organisation Durihana, he was able to locate his son, and make arrangements for people smugglers to bring him out of China to Mongolia and from there to Korea. Yoo's son died of exhaustion during the journey through the desert. Yoo's grief led him to convert to Christianity, and also to pledge to help smuggle fellow defectors out of China. He made it his first priority to help orphans travelling without their parents. In October 2007, he was arrested in a Chinese police operation aimed at dismantling the escape network, and threatened with repatriation to North Korea, despite his South Korean citizenship. He was released and deported to South Korea on 16 December. , Yoo_Sang-joon 2013-05-14T15:58:43Z Yoo Sang-joon is a North Korean defector with South Korean citizenship. He is sometimes known under his pseudonym Nam Hong-chul, which he used to maintain his anonymity while in northeast China working to help fellow defectors reach South Korea. Yoo lived in North Korea with his wife and two sons. After the death of his wife and younger son due to the ongoing North Korean famine, during which they ate nothing but grass for months, he chose to leave the country in 1998 with his remaining son Yoo Chul-min. While in China, he worked at odd jobs in construction and manual labour; eventually, he grew weary of living in fear of arrest and deportation to North Korea by Chinese police, and gave up his son to the custody of a family of ethnic Koreans with Chinese citizenship, hoping to give him a better life. He then smuggled himself out of the country. After his arrival in South Korea, he worked for a manufacturing company. His initial attempts to locate his son Chul-min failed, as Chul-min had changed his name and date of birth on his documents. With the assistance of defector aid organisation Durihana, he was able to locate his son, and make arrangements for people smugglers to bring him out of China to Mongolia and from there to Korea. Yoo's son died of exhaustion during the journey through the desert. Yoo's grief led him to convert to Christianity, and also to pledge to help smuggle fellow defectors out of China. He made it his first priority to help orphans travelling without their parents. In October 2007, he was arrested in a Chinese police operation aimed at dismantling the escape network, and threatened with repatriation to North Korea, despite his South Korean citizenship. He was released and deported to South Korea on 16 December. Template:Persondata

Desi Lydic

Desi Lydic 2014-01-28T15:51:10Z Lani Desmonet "Desi" Lydic (born June 30, 1981) is an American actress who currently stars as guidance counselor Valerie Marks on the MTV comedy-drama series Awkward. . She got her start in the 2001 parody film Not Another Teen Movie. She has also starred in the Spike mini-series Invasion Iowa alongside William Shatner, and the parody series The Real Wedding Crashers. She starred as Shea Seger in the 2011 film We Bought a Zoo alongside Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, and in the 2013 film The Babymakers with Olivia Munn. Lydic was born in Summit, New Jersey and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. As a child, she enrolled in the Young Actors Institute at the Youth Performing Arts School and starred in a Kroger commercial. She later moved to Los Angeles, California and became an improvisational actor, performing at The Groundlings and Improv Olympic. , Desi Lydic 2015-10-03T16:05:31Z Lani Desmonet "Desi" Lydic (born June 30, 1981) is an American actress who currently stars as guidance counselor Valerie Marks on the MTV comedy-drama series Awkward. She got her start in the 2001 parody film Not Another Teen Movie. She has also starred in the Spike mini-series Invasion Iowa alongside William Shatner, and the parody series The Real Wedding Crashers. She appeared as Shea Seger in the 2011 film We Bought a Zoo alongside Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson, and in the 2013 film The Babymakers with Olivia Munn. Lydic also made headlines for appearing as one half of a lesbian couple on an episode of the Disney Channel series Good Luck Charlie in 2014. Lydic joined Trevor Noah's lineup of correspondents for The Daily Show on September 29, 2015. Lydic was born in Summit, New Jersey and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. As a child, she enrolled in the Young Actors Institute at the Youth Performing Arts School and starred in a Kroger commercial. She later moved to Los Angeles, California and became an improvisational actor, performing at The Groundlings and Improv Olympic.

Bent Viscaal

Bent Viscaal 2020-02-21T12:30:02Z Bent Viscaal (born 18 September 1999 in Albergen) is a racing driver from the Netherlands. He currently competes in the FIA Formula 3 Championship with MP Motorsport having previously raced with HWA Racelab in 2019. *Season still in progress. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. , Bent Viscaal 2021-12-14T09:19:26Z Bent Viscaal (born 18 September 1999 in Albergen) is a Dutch racing driver competing in the 2021 Formula 2 Championship driving for Trident Racing having previously raced in the FIA Formula 3 Championship for MP Motorsport. He is the runner-up of the 2018 Euroformula Open Championship as well as the 2017 F4 Spanish Championship. Viscaal made his motor racing debut in karting in 2010 in the Dutch Mini Juniors Championship. In 2011, he became champion in the Mini Juniors class of the Euro Wintercup, and in 2012 he finished second in the Dutch KF3 Championship. From that season he also participated in foreign races, especially in Germany. In 2014 he made his debut in international karting in the European KF Junior Championship. In 2015 he became champion in the German Junior Championship. In 2016, he drove his last season in karts, in which he finished sixth in the OK class of the European Championship. In 2017, Viscaal made the switch to formula racing and made his debut in Formula 4 in both the SMP and Spanish Formula 4 Championships for MP Motorsport. In the SMP championship, he won four races at the Ahvenisto Race Circuit, the Auto24ring and the TT Circuit Assen (twice), finishing second in the final standings with 218 points behind Christian Lundgaard. In the Spanish championship, he won five races at the Circuito de Navarra, the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the Circuit Paul Armagnac (twice) and the Autódromo do Estoril, yet again finishing second in this championship behind Lundgaard with a 266 points deficit. In 2018, Viscaal switched to the Euroformula Open Championship to make his Formula 3 debut for the Teo Martín Motorsport team. In a season dominated by Felipe Drugovich, he won a race at Silverstone and finished on the podium in eleven other races, finishing second behind Drugovich with 246 points. He did win the rookie championship with fourteen wins, one second place and one retirement in sixteen races. The Euroformula Open also hosted the Spanish Formula 3 championship, in which Viscaal was also second behind Drugovich with five second places. In 2019, Viscaal switched to the new FIA Formula 3 Championship, where he raced for the HWA Racelab team. He had a reasonable debut season, but only managed to score a fifth place at the Circuit Paul Ricard. With 10 points, he finished fifteenth in the championship. At the end of the year, he drove in a race weekend of the MRF Challenge at the Bahrain International Circuit, winning two of the four races and finishing on the podium in another. In 2020, Viscaal remained in FIA F3, but this time with MP Motorsport. At the Hungaroring he earned his first podium finish after a time penalty from Logan Sargeant. In the second race of this weekend, he originally took victory, but after two time penalties of five seconds each and a late safety car phase, he was classified seventeenth in the final results. At Silverstone Viscaal scored his first victory after a last-lap battle with Lirim Zendeli. With 40 points, the Dutchman finished thirteenth in the final standings. In 2021, Viscaal switched to the Formula 2 Championship with Trident, partnering Marino Sato. He scored his first points in round three at the Baku Street Circuit where he finished fourth, giving Trident their best race finish in the modern F2 era. Following a point-less round at Silverstone Viscaal finished seventh after having started from 18th in a chaotic first sprint race at Monza, thus propelling him to fourth on the starting grid for the second race. He managed to move up to second by the checkered flag and scored his first ever Formula 2 podium, which was also Trident's first in the FIA Formula 2 era. The following round at the Sochi Autodrom Viscaal was forced to retire in both races after collisions in the opening laps. After a two-month break Viscaal returned to race in the final two rounds of the series. Having stated that the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, which hosted the penultimate round of the season, was " one of the best tracks ever driven", Viscaal finished the sprint race in ninth place and ended race 2 in second place. * Season still in progress. (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers) (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers) † Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance. * Season still in progress.

Edgar_Philip_Prindle_Wadhams

Edgar_Philip_Prindle_Wadhams 2010-09-03T02:05:46Z Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg. Born in 1817 at Lewis in Essex County. He was a deacon in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, later convert to Roman Catholicism. He was rector of the cathedral and Vicar-General of Albany, when called to organize Northern New York into a new diocese. He was consecrated at Albany on 5 May 1872, by Archbishop John McCloskey. Bishop Wadhams increased the number of parishes and priests and introduced several religious communities; he founded Catholic schools and erected an orphan asylum, a hospital, and an aged people's home. At his death, 5 December 1891, the churches and chapels had increased from 65 to 125; priests from 42 to 81; nuns from 23 to 129 and Catholic schools from 7 to 20; the Catholic population had risen from 50,000 to 65,000. Bishop Wadhams attended the New York Provincial Council of 1883 and the Plenary Council of Baltimore of 1884, and held three diocesan synods. His remains are buried in the crypt of St. Mary's Cathedral which he had enlarged and embellished. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Ogdensburg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. , Edgar_Philip_Prindle_Wadhams 2012-02-01T18:58:41Z Right Reverend Edgar Philip Prindle Wadhams (May 17, 1917 – December 5, 1891) was the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg. Born on May 17, 1817 at Lewis, Essex County. He was a deacon in the Episcopalian Church, who later converted to Roman Catholicism. He was rector of the cathedral and Vicar-General of Albany, when called to organize Northern New York into a new diocese. He was consecrated at Albany on May 5, 1872, by Archbishop John McCloskey. Bishop Wadhams increased the number of parishes and priests and introduced several religious communities; he founded Catholic schools and erected an orphan asylum, a hospital, and an aged people's home. At his death on December 5, 1891, at the age of 74, the number of churches had increased from 65 to 125; priests from 42 to 81; nuns from 23 to 129 and Catholic schools from 7 to 20; the Catholic population had risen from 50,000 to 65,000. He attended the New York Provincial Council of 1883 and the Plenary Council of Baltimore of 1884, and held three diocesan synods. His remains are buried in the crypt of St. Mary's Cathedral, which he had enlarged and embellished. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Ogdensburg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Template:Persondata

Syrgiannes_Palaiologos

Syrgiannes_Palaiologos 2010-01-06T22:20:40Z Syrgiannes Palaiologos Philanthropenos (Greek: Συργιάννης Παλαιολόγος Φιλανθρωπηνός, ca. 1290–1334) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general of mixed Cuman and Greek descent, who was involved in the civil war between Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (r. 1282–1328) and his grandson Andronikos III (r. 1328–1341). Loyal only to himself and his own ambitions, he switched sides several times, and ended up conquering much of Macedonia for the Serbian ruler Stefan Dušan before being assassinated by the Byzantines. Syrgiannes was born about 1290. He was named after his father or possibly grandfather, a Cuman leader who was settled in the Empire, along with many others of his tribe, during the reign of John III Doukas Vatatzes (r. 1221–1254). The elder Syrgiannes' original name was Sytzigan (from Cuman-Turkic Sïčğan, "mouse"); it was hellenized to Syrgiannes ("master John") when he was baptized. The elder Syrgiannes rose in the hierarchy of the Byzantine army, eventually reaching the supreme rank of megas domestikos. The younger Syrgiannes' mother was Eugenia Palaiologina, a member of the ruling Palaiologos family and niece of the emperor Michael VIII (r. 1259–1282). Conscious of the prestige of his mother's family name, young Syrgiannes chose to use that in order to advance himself in the imperial hierarchy. Syrgiannes also had a sister, Theodora, who married Guy de Lusignan, later King of Armenian Cilicia as Constantine II. Syrgiannes makes his appearance in history in 1315, when he was placed as military governor of a Macedonian province near the Serbian border. Despite the existing treaties, and against his instructions, he resolved to attack both Serbia and Epirus. Relieved of his post, he rebelled, was captured and imprisoned. Sometime before 1320 however he was eventually pardoned and appointed to a command in Thrace. In 1320, following the death of Michael IX Palaiologos (eldest son of Andronikos II and co-emperor from 1295 on), his son Andronikos III was crowned as co-emperor by Andronikos II. Although initially popular with his grandfather, the younger Andronikos and his entourage of young nobles, to which Syrgiannes belonged, had by that time caused the elder emperor's displeasure by their extravagance. Their excesses culminated in the mistaken-identity murder of the young emperor's younger brother, Manuel; enraged, the elder Andronikos annulled his grandson's titles, and a deep personal rift was opened between the two. At that time, Syrgiannes and John Kantakouzenos bought for themselves governorships in Thrace, where discontent with the old emperor was rife, and they quickly mobilized support for the younger Andronikos. Together with Alexios Apokaukos and Theodore Synadenos, they prepared to overthrow the aged Andronikos II in favour of his grandson. In Easter 1321, the younger Andronikos came to Adrianople, and the uprising broke out. Syrgiannes led a large army towards the capital, forcing the old emperor to negotiate. Consequently, on 6 June 1321, an agreement was reached which partitioned the empire. Young Andronikos III was recognized as co-emperor and given Thrace to govern as a quasi-appanage, setting up his court at Adrianople, while Andronikos II continued to rule from the capital, Constantinople, as senior emperor. Syrgiannes was dissatisfied with the new arrangements, feeling that he had not been sufficiently rewarded for his support of Andronikos III. He also resented the greater favour shown by the young emperor to Kantakouzenos, and developed a fierce rivalry with the latter. Furthermore, chroniclers also report a story whereby Andronikos III attempted to seduce Syrgiannes' wife. In December 1321 Syrgiannes switched sides, fleeing to Constantinople. Rewarded with the lofty title of megas doux, he convinced Andronikos II to resume the war against his grandson. In July 1322 however, another agreement was reached between the two Andronikoi, which left Syrgiannes in an awkward position. His own schemes having failed, he began plotting to murder the aged Andronikos II and seize the throne for himself. The plot was foiled however, and Syrgiannes was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1328, Andronikos III finally overthrew his grandfather and established himself as sole emperor. Syrgiannes was freed, and was able to restore himself to Andronikos' favour, to the extent that in late 1329 he was entrusted with the important governorship of Thessalonica, the Empire's second-largest city, and of western Macedonia and Albania. There, he was again suspected of plotting against Kantakouzenos, this time with the emperor's mother, Empress Maria. She lived in Thessalonica, and was supposed to keep an eye on Syrgiannes; instead, she became so infatuated with him that she had him adopted. Following the death of the Empress in late 1333 the plot was uncovered, and Syrgiannes was arrested and brought to Constantinople to face charges of treason. Syrgiannes however managed to escape and flee to the court of the Serbian ruler Stefan Dušan. Dušan put Syrgiannes at the head of a large Serbian force, with which he invaded Byzantine Macedonia in 1334. Syrgiannes' abilities as a general, his knowledge of the Byzantine army's dispositions and the friendships he had maintained with several local Byzantine officers resulted in the swift capture of many important Byzantine cities, including Ohrid, Prilep, Strumica, and Kastoria. The road was open for an advance towards Thessalonica, and Syrgiannes' army encamped before the walls of the city, facing a Byzantine relief force. Both sides remained encamped confronting each other for several days, but on 23 August 1334, Syrgiannes was lured away from his camp with only a few retainers and murdered by Sphrantzes Palaiologos, a Byzantine general who had defected on purpose to the Serbian camp a few days earlier. With the loss of their principal military leader, the Serbs settled for a negotiated peace with the Byzantines, which however was very advantageous for them as they were left in possession of most of the cities won by Syrgiannes in northern Macedonia. Syrgiannes' ambition, inveterate plotting and multiple betrayals made him one of the darkest figures of the era in the eyes of both contemporary and later historians: thus Nikephoros Gregoras compared his flight to Serbia with Themistocles' flight to the Persians, Donald Nicol likened him to Alcibiades, and Angeliki Laiou called him "the most evil presence" of the civil war. , Syrgiannes_Palaiologos 2011-05-25T16:43:39Z Syrgiannes Palaiologos Philanthropenos (Greek: Συργιάννης Παλαιολόγος Φιλανθρωπηνός, ca. 1290–1334) was a Byzantine aristocrat and general of mixed Cuman and Greek descent, who was involved in the civil war between Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (r. 1282–1328) and his grandson Andronikos III (r. 1328–1341). Loyal only to himself and his own ambitions, he switched sides several times, and ended up conquering much of Macedonia for the Serbian ruler Stefan Dušan before being assassinated by the Byzantines. Syrgiannes was born about 1290. He was named after his father or possibly grandfather, a Cuman leader who was settled in the Empire, along with many others of his tribe, during the reign of John III Doukas Vatatzes (r. 1221–1254). The elder Syrgiannes' original name was Sytzigan (from Cuman-Turkic Sïčğan, "mouse"); it was hellenized to Syrgiannes ("master John") when he was baptized. The elder Syrgiannes rose in the hierarchy of the Byzantine army, eventually reaching the supreme rank of megas domestikos. The younger Syrgiannes' mother was Eugenia Palaiologina, a member of the ruling Palaiologos family and niece of the emperor Michael VIII (r. 1259–1282). Conscious of the prestige of his mother's family name, young Syrgiannes chose to use that in order to advance himself in the imperial hierarchy. Syrgiannes also had a sister, Theodora, who married Guy de Lusignan, later King of Armenian Cilicia as Constantine II. Syrgiannes makes his appearance in history in 1315, when he was placed as military governor of a Macedonian province near the Serbian border. Despite the existing treaties, and against his instructions, he resolved to attack both Serbia and Epirus. Relieved of his post, he rebelled, was captured and imprisoned. Sometime before 1320 however he was eventually pardoned and appointed to a command in Thrace. In 1320, following the death of Michael IX Palaiologos (eldest son of Andronikos II and co-emperor from 1295 on), his son Andronikos III was crowned as co-emperor by Andronikos II. Although initially popular with his grandfather, the younger Andronikos and his entourage of young nobles, to which Syrgiannes belonged, had by that time caused the elder emperor's displeasure by their extravagance. Their excesses culminated in the mistaken-identity murder of the young emperor's younger brother, Manuel; enraged, the elder Andronikos annulled his grandson's titles, and a deep personal rift was opened between the two. At that time, Syrgiannes and John Kantakouzenos bought for themselves governorships in Thrace, where discontent with the old emperor was rife, and they quickly mobilized support for the younger Andronikos. Together with Alexios Apokaukos and Theodore Synadenos, they prepared to overthrow the aged Andronikos II in favour of his grandson. In Easter 1321, the younger Andronikos came to Adrianople, and the uprising broke out. Syrgiannes led a large army towards the capital, forcing the old emperor to negotiate. Consequently, on 6 June 1321, an agreement was reached which partitioned the empire. Young Andronikos III was recognized as co-emperor and given Thrace to govern as a quasi-appanage, setting up his court at Adrianople, while Andronikos II continued to rule from the capital, Constantinople, as senior emperor. Syrgiannes was dissatisfied with the new arrangements, feeling that he had not been sufficiently rewarded for his support of Andronikos III. He also resented the greater favour shown by the young emperor to Kantakouzenos, and developed a fierce rivalry with the latter. Furthermore, chroniclers also report a story whereby Andronikos III attempted to seduce Syrgiannes' wife. In December 1321 Syrgiannes switched sides, fleeing to Constantinople. Rewarded with the lofty title of megas doux, he convinced Andronikos II to resume the war against his grandson. In July 1322 however, another agreement was reached between the two Andronikoi, which left Syrgiannes in an awkward position. His own schemes having failed, he began plotting to murder the aged Andronikos II and seize the throne for himself. The plot was foiled however, and Syrgiannes was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1328, Andronikos III finally overthrew his grandfather and established himself as sole emperor. Syrgiannes was freed, and was able to restore himself to Andronikos' favour, to the extent that in late 1329 he was entrusted with the important governorship of Thessalonica, the Empire's second-largest city, and of western Macedonia and Albania. There, he was again suspected of plotting against Kantakouzenos, this time with the emperor's mother, Empress Maria. She lived in Thessalonica, and was supposed to keep an eye on Syrgiannes; instead, she became so infatuated with him that she had him adopted. Following the death of the Empress in late 1333 the plot was uncovered, and Syrgiannes was arrested and brought to Constantinople to face charges of treason. Syrgiannes however managed to escape and flee to the court of the Serbian ruler Stefan Dušan. Dušan put Syrgiannes at the head of a large Serbian force, with which he invaded Byzantine Macedonia in 1334. Syrgiannes' abilities as a general, his knowledge of the Byzantine army's dispositions and the friendships he had maintained with several local Byzantine officers resulted in the swift capture of many important Byzantine cities, including Ohrid, Prilep, Strumica, and Kastoria. The road was open for an advance towards Thessalonica, and Syrgiannes' army encamped before the walls of the city, facing a Byzantine relief force. Both sides remained encamped confronting each other for several days, but on 23 August 1334, Syrgiannes was lured away from his camp with only a few retainers and murdered by Sphrantzes Palaiologos, a Byzantine general who had defected on purpose to the Serbian camp a few days earlier. With the loss of their principal military leader, the Serbs settled for a negotiated peace with the Byzantines, which however was very advantageous for them as they were left in possession of most of the cities won by Syrgiannes in northern Macedonia. Syrgiannes' ambition, inveterate plotting and multiple betrayals made him one of the darkest figures of the era in the eyes of both contemporary and later historians: thus Nikephoros Gregoras compared his flight to Serbia with Themistocles' flight to the Persians, Donald Nicol likened him to Alcibiades, and Angeliki Laiou called him "the most evil presence" of the civil war. Template:Persondata

Adam_Blackwood_(actor)

Adam_Blackwood_(actor) 2008-11-04T18:05:55Z Adam Blackwood (born 1959) is an actor who has appeared in several films and television programs, mostly in the United Kingdom. He played Balazar in the first four episodes of 1986 Doctor Who story 'The Trial of a Time Lord' and also appears on the commentary for the DVD release. He has also provided the voice of James Bond in three video games, The World Is Not Enough, 007: Agent Under Fire and Tomorrow Never Dies. , Adam_Blackwood_(actor) 2010-11-07T23:33:46Z Adam Blackwood (born 1959) is an actor who has appeared in several films and television programs, mostly in the United Kingdom. He played Balazar in the first four episodes of 1986 Doctor Who story 'The Trial of a Time Lord' and also appears on the commentary for the DVD release. He has also provided the voice of James Bond in three video games, The World Is Not Enough, 007: Agent Under Fire and Tomorrow Never Dies. Template:Persondata

Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea F.C. 2005-01-02T20:52:48Z Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously also known as the Pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in west London. Despite the club's name, it is not based in the Chelsea neighborhood, or even in the Chelsea borough, but instead lies in nearby Hammersmith and Fulham. In early 2003, Gianfranco Zola was voted as the best ever player of the team by the Chelsea fans. Chelsea currently have the seventh longest unbroken membership of the top division, having being there since the 1989-90 season. Before that, the club had spent 15 years sliding between the top two divisions without threatening to achieve any real success. In 1989-90, Chelsea finished fourth under Bobby Campbell but were denied a place in the UEFA Cup because only the runners-up (Aston Villa) qualified for the competition. Campbell quit as manager the following season to be replaced by Reading manager Ian Porterfield, a former Chelsea player. Chelsea finished 11th in the inaugural Premier League (1992-93), but in the January of that season Porterfield had resigned to be replaced by Southend's David Webb, who like Porterfield had once been a Chelsea player. Webb lasted until the end of the season when he made way for 35-year-old player-manager Glenn Hoddle. Hoddle, a former England international, had just won the Division One playoffs at the end of his second season as Swindon Town manager. In Hoddle's first season their league form dipped slightly and they finished 14th as well as losing 4-0 to Manchester United in the F.A Cup final. But as Manchester United had won the Premiership/F.A Cup double, Chelsea would be England's representatives (along with holders Arsenal) in the 1994-95 Cup Winners Cup. Chelsea lost by a single goal in the Cup Winners Cup semi final and were thus denied a chance to take on London rivals Arsenal in the final. Their Premiership finish of 11th place was not brilliant but it was acceptable by Chelsea standards. The 1995-96 season brought Chelsea's third 11th place league finish in four seasons. At the end of June, Hoddle left Chelsea to manage the England team. He was replaced by 33-year-old Ruud Gullit, the legendary Dutch midfielder who had joined the club a year earlier on a free transfer from Sampdoria. Ruud Gullit made history in 1996-97 when his Chelsea side beat Middlesbrough 2-0 in the F.A Cup final, and he became the first foreign manager to win the F.A Cup. Chelsea's league form also improved, their sixth place finish was their best yet in the Premiership. In February 1998, Gullit was suddenly sacked as manager following a dispute with the board of directors over transfer funds. Italian striker Gianluca Vialli took over as player-manager and quickly established himself by winning two major competitions - the League Cup and the Cup Winners Cup. By now the Chelsea squad was mostly made up of foreign players. The likes of Gareth Hall, Mark Stein, Paul Furlong, David Rocastle and John Spencer had been transferred to other clubs. In their place were the likes of Dutch goalkeeper Ed de Goey, Nigerian defender Celestine Babayaro, Italian striker Gianfranco Zola and French midfielder Bernard Lambourde. A few English players remained in the side, including defender Graeme le Saux and midfielder Dennis Wise. Chelsea lifted the European Super Cup at the start of 1998-99, by beating European Cup Winners Real Madrid - who had ironically been their opponents in their Cup Winners Cup triumph of 1971. Vialli guided Chelsea to success in the 2000 F.A Cup (the last at Wembley before its redevelopment) and the following August's Charity Shield, before he was suddenly sacked in September 2000. Another Italian, Claudio Ranieri, was drafted in as his replacement. Claudio Ranieri was Chelsea manager for four years. In 2000-01 and 2001-02, they achieved UEFA Cup qualification and were on the losing side to Arsenal in the 2002 F.A Cup final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. Chelsea finally qualified for the Champions League after navigating the qualifying stages of the 2003-04 competition. In the quarter finals they overcame neighbours Arsenal but lost in the semi finals. Chelsea also finished runners-up to Arsenal in the Premiership - their highest league finish for half a century. Despite this, Ranieri was sacked by the club's new owner Roman Abramovich - who had already ploughed almost £300million into the club. His successor was Jose Mourinho, who had just quit as coach of Portugese champions FC Porto despite winning the European Cup. In July 2003, Chelsea was acquired by Roman Abramovich, a Russian billionaire. British tabloids immediately dubbed the club Chelski. Abramovich used his fortune to wipe out the club's substantial debts at a stroke, and then directed funds towards the acquisition of new players. New signings for the start of the 2003/04 season included the Irish left winger Damien Duff, the Cameroon international right-sided midfielder Njitap Geremi, French midfielder Claude Makelele who joined from Real Madrid the Argentinian striker Hernán Crespo, promising English youngsters Wayne Bridge, Glen Johnson and Joe Cole and the Argentinian midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron, who was out of favour at Manchester United. During the christmas transfer period the young English midfielder Scott Parker joined after having impressed during the first half of the season at Charlton Athletic. Despite finishing runners-up in Premier League during the 2003-2004 season, and reaching the semi finals of the Champions League, manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked on 31 May 2004. José Mourinho was appointed as Manager and Coach on 2 June 2004, one week after managing FC Porto to the Champions League title. With the recent signings of Didier Drogba, Mateja Kezman, Paulo Ferreira, Ricardo Carvalho, Arjen Robben, Petr Cech and Tiago, among others, Abramovich's spending on players since purchasing the club has now exceeded £200 million. As of this writing (17 December 2004), Chelsea are top of the Premier League and are ahead of the English champions, Arsenal, by 5 points. They have also advanced to the knockout phase (round of 16 teams) of the UEFA Champions League where they have drawn the highley rated FC Barcelona. 1900s: William 'Fatty' Foulke, George 'Gatling Gun' Hilsdon, Robert McRoberts, John Tait Robertson, Ben Warren 1910s: Jack Harrow, Nils Middelboe, Robert Whittingham 1920s: Ben Howard Baker, Jack Cock, Tommy Law, Tommy Meehan, GR Mills, Jack Townrow, Bob Turnbull, Andrew Wilson 1930s: Hughie Gallacher, Sam Weaver, Vic Woodley, George Mills 1940s: John Harris, Tommy Lawton, Willi Steffen 1950s: Ken Armstrong,Roy Bentley, Jimmy Greaves 1960s: Frank Blunstone, Peter Bonetti, Eddie McCreadie, Ken Shellito, Bobby Tambling, Terry Venables 1970s: Charlie Cooke, Ron Harris, John Hollins, Alan Hudson, Ian Hutchinson, Peter Osgood, Ray Wilkins 1980s: Paul Canoville, Kerry Dixon, Pat Nevin, Nigel Spackman, David Speedie, Clive Walker 1990s: Steve Clarke, Roberto Di Matteo, Ruud Gullit, Glenn Hoddle, Mark Hughes, Frank Leboeuf, Graeme Le Saux, Dan Petrescu, Gianluca Vialli, Dennis Wise, Ed de Goey, Dimitri Kharine, Tore Andre Flo, Gianfranco Zola 2000s: Marcel Desailly, Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Carlo Cudicini, Damien Duff, Arjen Robben, Chelsea F.C. 2006-12-30T09:03:01Z Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues or previously as The Pensioners), founded in 1905, are an English Premier League football team. The club's home ground is the 42,360 capacity Stamford Bridge football ground in Fulham, West London, where they have played since foundation. Despite their name, the club is based just outside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It is on the Fulham Road, which runs between Fulham and Chelsea. In 2003, the club were bought by Russian oil tycoon, Roman Abramovich. Chelsea have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football, and have had two broad periods of success: first during the 1960s and early 1970s, and then again from the late 1990s to the present day. In total, they have won three league titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups. During the 2005-06 season, they became Premier League champions for the second consecutive year. Chelsea F.C. was founded on March 14, 1905 at The Rising Sun pub (now The Butcher's Hook), opposite today's main entrance to the ground on the Fulham Road, and were elected to the Football League shortly afterwards. The club began with established players recruited from other teams and promotion to the top flight was swift, but their early years saw little success, save for an FA Cup final in 1915, where they lost to Sheffield United. Chelsea gained a reputation for signing big-name players and for being entertainers, but made little impact on the English game in the inter-war years. Former England centre-forward Ted Drake became manager in 1952 and proceeded to modernise the club. He removed the club's Chelsea pensioner crest, improved the youth set-up and training regime, re-built the side, and led Chelsea to their first major trophy success - the League championship - in 1954–55. The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started. Tommy Docherty became manager in 1961 with the club facing relegation, which he was unable to prevent. In his first full season as manager, Docherty led Chelsea to promotion again with an impressive new, youth-oriented team. The new Chelsea side, epitomised by cult hero Peter Osgood - talented, stylish and occasionally self-destructive - oozed charisma and class and soon built up a major following, but ultimately failed to match its swagger with on-field triumphs, and endured several near-misses. The League Cup was won in 1965, but in three seasons the side were beaten in three semi-finals and were FA Cup runners-up. They also narrowly missed out on winning the league title in 1964-65. In 1970 Chelsea ran out FA Cup winners, beating Leeds United 2–1 in a pulsating final replay. A UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph was added to the haul the following year - Chelsea's first European honour - with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens. Following that high, the team declined dramatically. Disciplinary issues saw key players transferred while an over-ambitious redevelopment of the stadium (which only got as far as the pioneering East Stand, which retains its place even in the modern stadium) threatened the financial stability of the club, leading to the sale of more players and later the sale of the Stamford Bridge freehold. The team were relegated and various managers came and went, all of whom were hamstrung by the club's financial woes. Further problems were caused by a fearsome reputation for violence amongst a section of the supporters (the boundary between passion and hooliganism being dangerously narrow in those days) and the club started to fall apart both on and off the field. Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by businessman Ken Bates for the sum of £1, and Bates proved to be a real fighter as the new Chairman, although his opponents included supporters (who did not take kindly to his suggestion of electrified fences to keep them off the pitch) as well as the property developers who now owned the freehold. On the pitch, the team had fared little better, finishing 18th in the Second Division in 1982–83. But in the summer of 1983 manager John Neal put together an impressive new team for less than £500,000. The new-look Chelsea won the Second Division in 1983–84 and then secured two successive 6th place finishes. Following that, the club declined again and were relegated in 1988, before bouncing back immediately by emphatically winning the Second Division championship. Chelsea were unconvincing in the new Premier League, but off the pitch and after a decade-long legal battle, Bates finally reunited the stadium freehold with the club by doing a deal with the banks of the property developers, who had been bankrupted by a market crash. Glenn Hoddle was appointed player-manager for the 1993–94 season, and led the club to the final of the FA Cup in 1994. In a move significant for the club's future, Hoddle also signed former European Footballer of the Year, Ruud Gullit in the summer of 1995, before leaving to take charge of the English national side in 1996. Gullit became player–manager and added several top-class international players to the side, particularly Gianfranco Zola, as the club won the FA Cup and established itself as one of England's top sides again, earning a reputation for playing Sexy Football. Gullit was then sacked after a dispute with Bates and Gianluca Vialli was installed as player-manager. Vialli led the team to victory in the League Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup in 1998, a near-miss in the Premier League title race in 1998-99 and the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2000. In 2000, Chelsea were again FA Cup winners with a 1-0 win over Aston Villa. A disappointing start to the 2000–01 season saw Vialli sacked in favour of another Italian, Claudio Ranieri. Ranieri guided Chelsea to the 2002 FA Cup final and Champions League qualification in 2002–03. In June 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £60 million, thus completing the biggest-ever sale of an English football club. Owing to Abramovich's Russian heritage, the club were soon popularly dubbed "Chelski" in the British media. Over £100 million was spent on new players. The spending saw an upturn in the club's form, but they had to settle for 2nd place in the Premiership, and reaching the Champions League semi-finals. Ranieri was sacked and replaced by successful Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, who had just guided FC Porto to victory in the UEFA Champions League. 2005 was Chelsea's centenary year. Led by captain John Terry and high-scoring midfielder Frank Lampard, they celebrated it in style by becoming Premiership champions in a record-breaking season (most clean sheets, fewest goals conceded, most victories, most points earned), League Cup winners with a 3–2 win over Liverpool at the Millennium Stadium and reaching the Champions League semi-finals. The following year, they were again League Champions, equalling their own Premiership record of 29 wins set the previous season. They also became the fifth team to win back-to-back championships since the Second World War and the only London club to do so since the 1930s. For main article see Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have only ever had one home ground, Stamford Bridge, where they have played since foundation. It was officially opened on 28 April 1877. For the first 28 years of its existence it was used almost exclusively by the London Athletic Club as an arena for athletics meetings and not at all for football. In 1904 the ground was acquired by H A (Gus) Mears and his brother, J T Mears, who had previously acquired additional land (formerly a large market garden) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12.5 acre (51,000 m²) site. The Mears family remained the owners of the ground (and subsequently the Club) until the 1970s. Stamford Bridge was designed for the Mears family by the noted football architect Archibald Leitch. They offered the stadium to Fulham Football Club, but the offer was turned down. As a consequence, the owners decided to form their own football club to occupy their new ground. Most football clubs were founded first, and then sought grounds in which to play, but Chelsea were founded for Stamford Bridge. Since there was already a football club named Fulham in the borough, the founders decided to adopt the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea for the new club, having rejected names such as Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC. Starting with an open bowl-like design and one covered terrace, Stamford Bridge had an original capacity of around 100,000. The early 1930s saw the construction of a terrace on the southern part of the ground with a roof that covered around 1/5th of the stand. It eventually became known as the "Shed end", the home of Chelsea's most loyal and vocal supporters, and particularly came into its own during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The exact origins of the name are unclear, but the fact that the roof looked like a corrugated iron shed roof played a part. During the 1960s, the club's owners embarked on a modernisation of Stamford Bridge with plans for a 60,000 all-seater stadium. Work was begun on the East Stand in the early 1970s but the cost almost brought the club to its knees, which led to the sale of the freehold to property developers. Following a long legal battle, it wasn't until the mid-1990s that Chelsea's future at the stadium was secured and renovation work resumed. The north, west and southern parts of the ground were converted into all-seater stands and moved closer to the pitch, and the current legal capacity of Stamford Bridge is 42,360. Due to its location in a built-up part of London on a main road and next to a railway line, there are obvious constraints on further expansion, something deemed as necessary for Chelsea to compete with their rivals. As a result the club have been linked with a move away from Stamford Bridge. The pitch is now owned by Chelsea Pitch Owners, an organisation that took out a loan to purchase the stadium and also the rights to the Chelsea FC name. This was done to ensure the stadium could never again be sold to developers. It also means that if someone tries to move the football club to a new stadium they could not use the name. Since the club's foundation, Chelsea have had four main crests, though all underwent minor variations. In 1905, Chelsea adopted as its first crest the image of a Chelsea pensioner, which obviously contributed to the pensioner nickname, and remained for the next half-century, though it never appeared on the shirts. As part of new manager Ted Drake's modernisation of the club from 1952, he insisted that the pensioner badge be removed from the match day programme in order to change the club's image and that a new crest be adopted. As a stop-gap, a temporary emblem comprising simply the initials C.F.C. was adopted for one year. In 1953, the club adopted what is arguably its most famous crest - that of an upright blue lion looking backwards and holding a staff - which was to endure for the next three decades. The crest was based on elements in the coat of arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea (discussed and illustrated on this website) with the "lion rampant regardant" taken from the arms of then club president Viscount Chelsea and the staff from the Abbots of Westminster, former Lords of the Manor of Chelsea. This was also the first club badge to appear on shirts, since the policy of putting the crest on the shirts was only adopted in the early 1960s. In 1986, with new owners now at the club, Chelsea's crest was changed again as part of another attempt to modernise and to capitalise on new marketing opportunities, because new Chairman Ken Bates was advised he had not acquired any copyright in the existing crest. The new badge featured a more naturalistic non-heraldic lion, yellow and not blue, standing over the C.F.C. initials. It lasted for the next 19 years, though with some modifications such as the use of different colours. With new ownership, and the club's centenary approaching, combined with demands from fans for the club's traditional badge to be restored, it was decided that the crest should be changed again in 2004. The new crest was officially adopted for the start of the 2005-06 season and marks a return to the older design of the blue heraldic lion holding a staff. Chelsea have always worn blue shirts, though they initially adopted a lighter shade than the current version, and unlike today wore white shorts and dark blue socks. The lighter blue was taken from the racing colours of then club president, Earl Cadogan (Lord Chelsea). This light blue shirts were short-lived, however, and replaced by a royal blue version in around 1912. When Tommy Docherty became manager in the early 1960s he changed the kit again, adding blue shorts (which have remained ever since) and white socks, believing it made the club's colours more distinctive, since no other major side used that combination. Chelsea's traditional away colours are all yellow or all white with blue trim but, as with most teams, they have had some more unusual ones. The first away strip consisted of black and white stripes and for one game in the 1960s the team wore Inter Milan-style blue and black stripes, again at Docherty's behest. Other memorable away kits include a mint green strip in the 1980s, a red and white checked one in the early 90s and a graphite and tangerine addition in the mid-1990s, which is widely seen by fans as one of the worst ever. All kits are discussed on Chelsea's official site. The current Chelsea away strip consists of a white shirt with two thin blue lines running up to the collar. It is worn with white shorts and white socks (though the socks can be worn as blue depending on the oppositions kit). Chelsea also launched a European kit which is of a black shirt, shorts, and socks. The crest is in black and white. Although it launched as a European kit the white is continually worn during UEFA competitions and the black is sometimes worn in domestic fixtures. Chelsea's kit is currently manufactured by Adidas, which is contracted to supply the club's kit from 2006 to 2011. Their previous kit manufacturer was Umbro. Chelsea's first shirt sponsor was Gulf Air, agreed midway through the 1983-84 season. Following that, the club were sponsored by Grange Farms, Bai Lin tea and Italian company Simod before a long-term deal was signed with computer manufacturer Commodore International in 1989 (Amiga, an off-shoot of Commodore, also appeared on the shirts). Chelsea were subsequently sponsored by Coors beer (1995-97), Autoglass (1997-2001) and Emirates Airline (2001-05). Chelsea's current shirt sponsor is Samsung Mobile. Chelsea are generally a well-supported club. They have the fifth highest average all-time attendance in English football and regularly attract over 40,000 fans to Stamford Bridge; they were the 5th best-supported Premiership team in the 2005-06 season, with an average gate of 41,870. Chelsea's traditional fanbase comes from working-class parts of West London, such as Hammersmith and Battersea, from wealthier areas like Chelsea and Kensington, and also from the Home Counties. The club estimates its UK fanbase at around 4 million. In addition to the standard football chants, Chelsea fans sing songs like Carefree, "We all follow the Chelsea" (to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory), "Ten Men Went to Mow" and the celebratory "Celery", with the latter often resulting in fans ritually throwing celery. Chelsea fans have a strong rivalry with various clubs. The club's nearest neighbours are Fulham (Chelsea FC is itself based in the Hammersmith and Fulham borough), but they are generally not seen as big rivals by Chelsea fans, because the clubs have spent the greater part of the last 40 years in separate divisions. However, the West London derby may have been rekindled somewhat following crowd trouble after a recent match between the sides. The club Chelsea fans regard as their biggest rival is partially a generational issue. A strong rivalry with Leeds United dates back to their heated and controversial FA Cup final in 1970, which coloured all future matches between the sides, especially during the 1970s and 1980s. Chelsea are rivals with numerous London clubs such as West Ham United and Millwall (east and south London), with matches against those two always passionate and in the past often marred by crowd trouble. However, as neither side regularly challenge Chelsea in the league, they may be discounted. Chelsea also enjoy a fierce and longstanding rivalry with North London clubs Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, which have both been exacerbated by some memorable matches between the sides. In recent years, the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United could be added to the list, with Chelsea challenging for major honours in direct competition with those clubs and, again, having been involved in some contentious matches with them. In European competition, Chelsea's most bitter rivalry would appear to be with F.C. Barcelona, with the two competing to be among the best sides in Europe and having played in some highly controversial matches in the UEFA Champions League in recent seasons. The club established a special page on their website to dedicate celebrity fans . Chelsea's highest appearance-maker is ex-captain Ron Harris, who played in 795 first-class games for the club between 1961 and 1980. This record is unlikely to be broken in the near future; Chelsea's current highest appearance-maker is Frank Lampard with 296. The record for a Chelsea goalkeeper is held by Harris' contemporary, Peter Bonetti, who made 729 appearances (1959-79). With 116 caps (67 while at the club), Marcel Desailly of France is Chelsea's most capped international player. Bobby Tambling is Chelsea's all-time top goalscorer, with 202 goals in 370 games (1959-70). Six other players have also scored over 100 goals for Chelsea: George Hilsdon (1906-12), George Mills (1929-39), Roy Bentley (1948-56), Jimmy Greaves (1957-61), Peter Osgood (1964-74 & 1978-79), and Kerry Dixon (1983-92) who is the only player in the club's recent history to have come close to matching Tambling's record, with 193 goals. Greaves holds the record for the most goals scored in one season (43 in 1960-61). Chelsea's current top-scorer is Frank Lampard with 78. Lampard's 16 goals in the 2005-2006 season is a record for a midfielder in the English Premier League. Officially, Chelsea's highest home attendance is 82,905 for a First Division match against Arsenal on 12 October 1935. However, an estimated crowd of over 100,000 attended a friendly match against Soviet team Dynamo Moscow on 13 November, 1945. The modernisation of Stamford Bridge during the 1990s and the introduction of all-seater stands mean that neither record will be broken for the foreseeable future. The current legal capacity of Stamford Bridge is 42,360. Chelsea hold numerous records in English and European football. They hold the record for the highest points total for a league season (95), the fewest goals conceded during a league season (15), the most consecutive clean sheets during a league season (10), the highest number of Premier League victories in a season (29), the highest number of clean sheets overall in a Premier League season (25) (all set during the 2004-05 season), and the most consecutive clean sheets from the start of a league season (6) (2005-06). Their 21–0 aggregate victory over Jeunesse Hautcharage in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1971 remains a record in European competition. Chelsea may also hold the British transfer record, but the fee for Andriy Shevchenko, estimated at around £30m, remains unconfirmed. Chelsea have recorded several "firsts" in English football. Along with Arsenal, they were the first club to play with shirt numbers on 25 August 1928 in their match against Swansea Town. Chelsea were the first English side to travel by aeroplane to an away match, when they visited Newcastle United on 19 April 1957, and the first First Division side to play a match on a Sunday, when they faced Stoke City on 27 January 1974. On Boxing Day 1999, Chelsea became the first British side to field an entirely foreign (non-UK) starting line-up in a Premier League match against Southampton. In 1930, Chelsea featured in one of the earliest football films, The Great Game. One-time Chelsea centre forward, Jack Cock, who by then was playing for Millwall, was the star of the film and several scenes were shot at Stamford Bridge, including the pitch, the boardroom and the dressing rooms. It featured non-speaking guest appearances by then-Chelsea players Andrew Wilson, George Mills and Sam Millington. Owing to the notoriety of the Chelsea Headhunters, a football firm associated with the club, Chelsea have also featured in films about football hooliganism, most recently The Football Factory. Up until the 1950s, the club a long-running association with the music halls, with their underachievement often providing material for comedians such as George Robey. It culminated in comedian Norman Long's release of a comic song in 1933, ironically titled "On The Day That Chelsea Went and Won The Cup", the lyrics of which described a series of bizarre and improbable occurrences on the hypothetical day when Chelsea finally won the cup. Chelsea became synonymous with glitz and showbusiness during the 1960s and 1970s; the cultural revolution in Britain placed the Kings Road as the epicentre of Swinging London, and Chelsea as the football club closest to it. It coincided with the emergence of a young, stylish and glamorous Chelsea team during the 1960s, and the club thus became a magnet for celebrities and trend-setters of the era, including Steve McQueen, Raquel Welch, Michael Caine and Richard Attenborough, who openly mingled and associated with the players, and were frequently seen at Stamford Bridge. The song "Blue is the Colour" was released as a single in the build-up to the 1972 League Cup final, with all members of Chelsea's first team squad singing; it reached number five in the UK Singles Chart. The song was later adapted to "White is the Colour" and adopted as an anthem by the Vancouver Whitecaps. In the build-up to the 1997 FA Cup final, the song "Blue Day", performed by Suggs and members of Chelsea's squad, reached number 22 in the UK charts. Bryan Adams, a fan of Chelsea, dedicated the song "We're Gonna Win" from the album 18 Til I Die to the club. Chelsea also featured in Anthony Horowitz's 2005 spy novel, Ark Angel, with the principal character, Alex Rider, attending a match. Chelsea will also feature in the Hindi film, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. blank column For recent transfers, see 2006-07 in English football. Main article: Chelsea F.C. Reserves Source: start League 2006-07 end

Late_Fragment

Late_Fragment 2009-03-11T11:44:00Z Late Fragment is an Canadian interactive cinema production, written and directed by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez. It is North America's first interactive feature film. The project is a co-production of Canadian Film Centre and the National Film Board of Canada. Three strangers lives are fractured by thoughts and acts of seething violence. In this interactive feature film, viewers unravel their interlocked stories with a simple click. Late Fragment had its world premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and screened next at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. This article related to Canadian film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Late_Fragment 2012-05-22T14:54:36Z Late Fragment is a Canadian interactive cinema production, written and directed by Daryl Cloran, Anita Doron and Mateo Guez. It is North America's first interactive feature film. The project is a co-production of Canadian Film Centre and the National Film Board of Canada. Three strangers lives are fractured by thoughts and acts of seething violence. In this interactive feature film, viewers unravel their interlocked stories with a simple click. Late Fragment had its world premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and screened next at Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. This article related to Canadian film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

1977_Atlanta_Braves_season

1977_Atlanta_Braves_season 2008-12-07T19:23:07Z The 1977 season was the Braves 107th season. Braves owner Ted Turner hired himself as manager for a game in 1977. Infielders Outfielders Manager Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In; Avg. = Batting Average; SB = Stolen Bases This article relating to an Atlanta Braves season is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , 1977_Atlanta_Braves_season 2011-04-12T17:26:01Z The 1977 Atlanta Braves season was the 107th season for the franchise. The team finished in last place in the six-team National League West, 37 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers. Braves owner Ted Turner hired himself as manager for a game in 1977. Infielders Other batters Coaches Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts This article relating to an Atlanta Braves season is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Liz Bonnin

Liz Bonnin 2015-01-01T11:24:42Z Elizabeth Bonnin (born 16 September 1976) is a French-born Irish television presenter who has worked on television in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. She works for the BBC, presenting Bang Goes the Theory and for ITV, presenting Countrywise. Bonnin was born in France to a Trinidadian mother and a French father who is a dentist. Her mother is of Indian Portuguese descent. The family moved to Ireland when she was nine years old. She has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin and also holds a master's degree in Wild Animal Biology from the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Veterinary College (2008), for which she tracked tigers in Nepal. She continues to work on big cat conservation programmes at the Zoological Society. Bonnin began her career by joining an Irish girl pop group named Chill, who signed to Polydor but broke up before recording. The band had performed on Dustin the Turkey's third album Faith of Our Feathers, duetting on We Are Family. She was offered a job hosting the IRMA Awards which led to presenting roles on RTÉ Television in Ireland, on The Den, Telly Bingo, Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 and for two years, Off the Rails. In 2002 she moved to London to present on a number of TV channels. In 2002 she became one of the presenters of the Channel 4 morning show RI:SE, specialising in reporting on entertainment-related stories. In the same year she became a regular presenter on Top of the Pops in the UK. In 2004 Bonnin was locked in a giant kennel along with MPs Paul Burstow, Evan Harris and Ivan Henderson and actress Liza Goddard, BBC Newsround presenter Lizzie Greenwood and DJ Becky Jago in a stunt to launch the annual RSPCA Week to raise awareness and funds. Since 2005, Bonnin has been involved in science broadcasting. She presented the show Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets (2005–) and co-presents the BBC science series Bang Goes The Theory, which started on BBC1 in July 2009. In 2008, Bonnin presented a documentary series Science Friction on RTÉ ONE which looked at taboos in discussions of scientific topics (such as paedophilia and nuclear power) in Ireland. She also contributed to BBC2's series on the work of the London Natural History Museum, Museum of Life. In October 2010, she joined the cast of Autumnwatch and in January 2011, she presented segments of BBC Two's Stargazing Live from various areas of Hawaii including atop Mauna Kea. In May 2011, she co-presented BBC One's Egypt's Lost Cities. She was a guest presenter from the Pitsea landfill site in Essex, England for June 2011's Springwatch on the BBC. Her new programme on animal intelligence, Super Smart Animals, was filmed in mid-2011 in Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Australia and Germany, and broadcast in February 2012. On 11 April 2013, Bonnin presented a Horizon special on BBC Two that looked at technology of the future. In June 2013, she presented the two-part documentary Operation Snow Tiger, working alongside Russian and other scientists in the Ussuriysk Reserve in the Russian Far East. Since 2013, Bonnin has been a presenter of the ITV series Countrywise, alongside Paul Heiney and Ben Fogle. In November 2013 she presented Animal Odd Couples on BBC One. She was a co-presenter along with Martin Pepper on the premier episode of How the Earth Works – Can Krakatoa Stop Time that aired on The Discovery Channel in the USA on 10 September 2013. In October 2014 she presented a 3 part Horizon series looking into the life of cats. , Liz Bonnin 2016-12-19T06:54:12Z Elizabeth "Liz" Bonnin (born 16 September 1972) is an Irish television presenter and former pop singer, who has worked on television in both Ireland and the United Kingdom. She is also a Biochemist and Wild Animal Biologist. She presented music shows RI:SE and Top of the Pops in the early 2000s. But is probably best known for presenting wildlife and science programmes like How the Earth Works, Animals in Love, Stargazing Live, Big Blue Live, Cats v Dogs: Which is Best? and Should We Close Our Zoos? . She co-presented the BBC factual series Bang Goes the Theory from 2009 to 2014. Since 2013, has co-hosted Countrywise for ITV. Bonnin was born in Paris to a Trinidadian mother of Indian and Portuguese descent, and a French-Martinquan father who was a dentist. The family moved to Ireland when she was nine years old. She has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Trinity College, Dublin, and also holds a master's degree in Wild Animal Biology from the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Veterinary College (2008), for which she tracked tigers in Nepal. She continues to work on big cat conservation programmes at the Zoological Society. Bonnin began her career by joining an Irish girl pop group named Chill, who signed to Polydor but broke up before recording. The band had performed on Dustin the Turkey's third album Faith of Our Feathers, duetting on "We Are Family". She was offered a job hosting the IRMA Awards which led to presenting roles on RTÉ Television in Ireland, on The Den, Telly Bingo, Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 and for two years, Off the Rails. In 2002 she moved to London to present on a number of TV channels. In 2002 she became one of the presenters of the Channel 4 morning show RI:SE, specialising in reporting on entertainment-related stories. In the same year she became a regular presenter on Top of the Pops in the UK. In 2004 Bonnin was locked in a giant kennel along with MPs Paul Burstow, Evan Harris and Ivan Henderson and actress Liza Goddard, BBC Newsround presenter Lizzie Greenwood and DJ Becky Jago in a stunt to launch the annual RSPCA Week to raise awareness and funds. Since 2005 Bonnin has been involved in science broadcasting. She presented the show Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets (2005–) and co-presented the BBC science series Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1 (2009–2014). In 2008, Bonnin presented a documentary series Science Friction on RTÉ ONE which looked at taboos in discussions of scientific topics (such as paedophilia and nuclear power) in Ireland. She also contributed to BBC2's series on the work of the London Natural History Museum, Museum of Life. In October 2010 she joined the cast of Autumnwatch and in January 2011, she presented segments of BBC Two's Stargazing Live from various areas of Hawaii including atop Mauna Kea. In May 2011, she co-presented BBC One's Egypt's Lost Cities. She was a guest presenter from the Pitsea landfill site in Essex, England for June 2011's Springwatch on the BBC. Her programme on animal intelligence, Super Smart Animals, was filmed in mid-2011 in Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Australia and Germany, and broadcast in February 2012. On 11 April 2013 Bonnin presented a Horizon special on BBC Two that looked at technology of the future. In June 2013 she presented the two-part documentary Operation Snow Tiger, working alongside Russian and other scientists in the Ussuriysk Reserve in the Russian Far East. Since 2013 Bonnin has been a presenter of the ITV series Countrywise, alongside Paul Heiney and Ben Fogle. In November 2013 she presented Animal Odd Couples on BBC One. She was a co-presenter along with Martin Pepper on the premiere episode of How the Earth Works – Can Krakatoa Stop Time that aired on The Discovery Channel in the USA on 10 September 2013. In October 2014 she presented a three-part Horizon series looking into the life of cats. In February 2015 she presented a two-part documentary series called Animals in Love on BBC One, looking at the emotional lives of animals including elephants, monkeys, geese and alligators. In March 2015, Bonnin presented episodes of Stargazing Live on BBC Two. In August 2015, alongside Matt Baker and Steve Backshall, she co-hosted a series of three programmes for BBC One, Big Blue Live, featuring marine life in Monterey Bay, California. Early 2016 saw Bonnin return to Stargazing Live, where she reported from the European Space Agency's astronaut training centre. She also co-presented the BBC Two series Cats v Dogs: Which is Best? with Chris Packham. On 17 April 2016 Bonnin presented a BBC Two Horizon programme Should We Close Our Zoos? in which she reported on issues concerning zoos and their keeping of large mammals and their role in preserving endangered species. Bonnin featured on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? on 8 December 2016. In the programme she traced the ancestry of both her parents on the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Martinique. Bonnin grew up with her older sister Benni, while she said that "I was extremely close to my granny, who passed away in 2003". She has moved back to London and said in 2015 "It's a big culture shock when I come back to London after a month away in somewhere like Botswana. I love walking in Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens just to look at the trees and breathe a little before adjusting to life back in the big city." Liz is a role model for EDF Energy's Pretty Curious programme, which is aimed at encouraging teenage girls to study science-based subjects at school. She has said in a 2016 interview "FHM offered me a spread but I said no"

Sascha Mölders

Sascha Mölders 2015-04-30T20:52:45Z Sascha Mölders (born 20 March 1985) is a German footballer who plays for FC Augsburg. After spells with various amateur clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia, including Schwarz-Weiß Essen, Mölders was signed by MSV Duisburg in 2006. In his first season playing for Duisburg's reserve team, he scored 24 goals, making him the top goalscorer in the Oberliga Nordrhein. , Sascha Mölders 2016-12-20T11:03:48Z Sascha Mölders (born 20 March 1985) is a German footballer who plays for 1860 München on loan from FC Augsburg. After spells with various amateur clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia, including Schwarz-Weiß Essen, Mölders was signed by MSV Duisburg in 2006. In his first season playing for Duisburg's reserve team, he scored 24 goals, making him the top goalscorer in the Oberliga Nordrhein.

SYSTRA

SYSTRA 2009-04-16T17:14:49Z SYSTRA is an international engineering and consulting group specializing in rail (passenger and freight) and public transport. SYSTRA is known worldwide for its work in transport modes that offer a sustainable alternative to cars and trucks. With more than 2,000 employees worldwide, SYSTRA has undertaken projects in 150 different countries. SYSTRA was created by the fusion of two engineering firms, Sofrerail (Société Française d’Etudes et de Réalisations Ferroviaires – French Rail Studies and Realizations Company) and Sofretu (Société Française d’Etudes et de réalisations de Transports Urbains – French Urban Transport Studies and Realizations Company). Sofrerail, a subsidiary of the French National Rail Company (en francais, SNCF), was created in 1957 in the context of work on the Indian railway. Sofrerail, a subsidiary of the Paris Transport Authority (Régie autonome des transports parisiens, RATP), was created in 1961 in the context of work carried out for the Metro of Montreal. Sofretu and Sofrerail fused at the end of 1995 and became SYSTRA (Systèmes de transport, Transport Systems) in 1997. A selection of key studies in the history of SYSTRA: SYSTRA is made up of the following divisions: SYSTRA also has numerous subsidiaries, making up the SYSTRA Group. , SYSTRA 2010-08-09T20:16:38Z SYSTRA is an international engineering and consulting group specializing in rail (passenger and freight) and public transport. SYSTRA is known worldwide for its work in transport modes that offer a sustainable alternative to cars and trucks. With more than 2,500 employees worldwide, SYSTRA has undertaken projects in 130 different countries. SYSTRA was created by the fusion of two engineering firms, Sofrerail (Société Française d’Etudes et de Réalisations Ferroviaires – French Rail Studies and Realizations Company) and Sofretu (Société Française d’Etudes et de réalisations de Transports Urbains – French Urban Transport Studies and Realizations Company). Sofrerail, a subsidiary of the French National Rail Company (in French, SNCF), was created in 1957 in the context of work on the Indian railway. Sofrerail, a subsidiary of the Paris Transport Authority (Régie autonome des transports parisiens, RATP), was created in 1961 in the context of work carried out for the Metro of Montreal. Sofretu and Sofrerail fused at the end of 1995 and became SYSTRA (SYStèmes de TRAnsport, Transport Systems) in 1997. A selection of key studies in the history of SYSTRA: SYSTRA is made up of the following divisions: SYSTRA also has numerous subsidiaries, making up the SYSTRA Group. The division SYSTRA Conseil was created March 1, 2009. Its staff of 80 engineers, architects, rail operation experts, economists and cartographers is largely drawn from the former Transport Planning Department and the GSM-R Department, which were disbanded with the creation of SYSTRA Conseil. SYSTRA Conseil offers services in transportation planning, project management and oversight and operating assistance for the freight, passenger and urban transport rail sectors. SYSTRA Conseil’s activities include: The Engineering Division is made up of 3 departments: Civil Engineering, Transportation Systems and equipment, and Project Management. Each of the four sales divisions (France, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa-Americas-Middle East) is responsible for a large geographic area, including the activities of the Group’s subsidiaries. Additional departments include : Financial and Legal Division, Human Resources, Quality Assurance, and Communication and Marketing. Below a selection of SYSTRA projects throughout the world. The U-shaped viaduct was developed by SYSTRA as an economical structure combining all the components of an elevated rail system as a practical solution for both installation and maintenance. SYSTRA has taken out an international patent to protect the U-shaped viaduct. The design is intended to provide: reduction of visual impact in the urban environment, integrated sound protection, integrated components that keep the train on the viaduct in the case of a derailment as well as rapid construction cost reduction. The U-shaped viaduct was used for the construction of the automatic subway systems in Taipei (Taiwan) and Dubai (UAE), as well as for line 2 of the Canton (China) subway, line 3 of the Delhi (India) subway and lines 4 and 5 of the Santiago (Chile) subway. On October 2, 2008, Daniel Dutoit received the Grand prix national de l’ingénierie - French national engineering award, for the conception and the project management of the Dubai subway.

Laura_Whitehorn

Laura_Whitehorn 2007-11-20T19:49:24Z Laura Whitehorn was born in 1945 to Lenore and Nathaniel Whitehorn of Brooklyn, New York, growing up during an era that she refers to as the rise and victory of national liberation struggles. As a college student in the 1960s, she channeled her own hatred of oppression, injustice, racism and sexism in a productive direction by organizing and participating in civil rights and anti-war movements La Manana, Izando. After her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1966, she went on to receive her master’s from Brandeis University. Day, Susan ===The early days:=== Having worked as an organizer for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Whitehorn became a member of the Weathermen/The Weather Underground Organization in 1969. She traveled with them to Havana, Cuba as part of the organization’s instruction in the ideology of Marxism and urban warfare, visiting one of the camps established by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine. Whitehorn, Laura ===“The Days of Rage”:=== On October 6, of that same year, the Weathermen blew up America’s only monument to policemen, a statue located in Haymarket Square in Chicago, igniting several days of violence. Whitehorn, Laura According to FBI records, “The “Days of Rage” or the “National Action” rapidly degenerated into destructive riots and open confrontations with Chicago Police, leaving a vast amount of public property destroyed including 100 shattered windows in the vicinity. The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) made a number of demands, primarily related to the Vietnam War. Whitehorn, Laura Whitehorn, along with approximately 55 other people, was arrested for her participation in the violence. FBI Files A Federal Grand Jury in Chicago later returned a number of indictments charging WUO members with violation of Federal Antiriot Laws. The Antiriot Law charges were dropped in January 1974. FBI Files ===The Townhouse Explosion:=== The March 6, 1970 accidental explosion in a Greenwich Village safe house was a tragic and dramatic culmination of the grim political direction in which Weatherman had been headed, according to Whitehorn. “We were out of touch with what was going on, and we lost sight of the fact that if you’re a revolutionary, the first thing you have to try to do is preserve human life. Berger, Dan While Whitehorn continues to claim that great care was taken (during the numerous bombings), to insure that no one would be hurt, including the janitorial staff, critics are quick to point out that when a bomb goes off, there is always the potential of endangering the lives of innocent victims, especially the emergency agencies responding to the scene, who are at risk by the very nature of such an intrinsically dangerous situation. Critical Mass ===Feminist education===: In 1971, Laura Whitehorn helped organize and lead a militant takeover and occupation of a Harvard University building by nearly 400 women to protest the war in Vietnam and demand a women’s center. One of the founders of the Boston/Cambridge Women’s School, Whitehorn helped establish the school as an alternative source of feminist education. Operated and taught by a collective of female volunteers until it closed in 1992, Boston/Cambridge Women’s School had gained the reputation as the longest running women’s school in the United States at the time. Women’s School Records ===The Climate of Militancy===: “The dead end of militancy and violence for their own sake was obvious” after the townhouse explosion, says WhitehornBerger,Dan. . Events at the 1972 Republican National Convention protest led Whitehorn to question once more the need for militancy, confirming her belief that they should allow for militancy when guided by a political framework, but not militancy for militancy’s sake. Berger,Dan ===The Battle of Boston===: During the Boston busing crisis, which the WUO referred to as “the Battle of Boston,”Berger, Dan Whitehorn was among a small group of PFOC activists in the Boston area who sat with baseball bats in people’s homes, protecting families from local white supremacists who tried to attack with bats, Molotov cocktails and spray-paintBerger,Dan. While Whitehorn and other members of the aboveground cadre carried out their vigilance for two years, the WUO engaged in only minor confrontational tactics in response to the Boston crisis. Berger, Dan ===The Praire Fire Organizing Committee===, of which Whitehorn was a member, planned the Hard Times Conference (with WUO support and leadership) as a way to build a national multiracial coalition. The goal was to bring together a multiracial crowd of more than 2,000 people at the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, from January 30 to February 1, 1976. Berger,Dan The slogan for the conference was “Hard Times are Fighting Times. ” Even through attendance far surpassed what the WUO and PFOC had anticipated, the conference became a political disasterBerger,Dan. So nauseated by the politics of the conference was Whitehorn, that she became physically ill in the middle of it. “I hated it more than anything else I’ve every done, she told Nicole Kief in an interview on October 20, 2002. She began to pull away from the WUO. Berger,Dan ===The May 19 Communist Organization===: Also referred to as the May 19 Communist Coalition, this U. S. -based, self-described revolutionary organization formed by splintered-off members of the Weather Underground was active from 1978 to 1985. Originally known as the New York Chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), they were devoted to promoting the causes of the Weather Underground through lawful meansWikipedia. By the early 1980’s, Laura Whitehorn was active in a variety of radical organizations, besides the May 19 Communist Coalition, including the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, a radical art group. During this time, Laura worked in solidarity with the liberation movements in Zimbabwe and Azania/South Africa and Palestine. Anarchist Black Cross Federation From 1982 to 1985, a series of bombings were attributed to the May 19 Communist Organization, including bombings of the National War College, the Washington Navy Yard Computing Center, the Israeli Aircraft Industries Building, New York City's South African Consulate, the Washington Navy Yard Officers' Club, New York City's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, and the United States Capitol Building. Wikipedia By May 23, 1985, all members of the May 19 Communist Coalition had been arrested, with the exception of Elizabeth Duke. Whitehorn became a defendant in the Resistance Conspiracy Case upon her arrest in 1985. She was charged with “conspiracy to oppose, protest and change the policies and practices of the United States government in domestic and international matters by violence and illegal means. ”Whitehorn, Laura Other charges included participating in a string of property bombings, including the U. S. Capitol (in which no one was injured), that protested police brutality and U. S. foreign policy. Her original sentence was thirty-three years, which was eventually reduced to twenty-three years. On August 6, 1999 Laura Whithorn was released on parole after serving just over 14 years in prison. Day, Susan ===The years in prison:=== During the 14 years Whitehorn completed in prison, she directed AIDS education and wrote numerous publications. When asked if her political work ended once she was in prison, she replied that it had consisted basically of three areas: being a political prisoner, organizing and being part of the struggles for justice inside the prisons, and being part of the fight against HIV and AIDS. Whitehorn, Laura Laura Whitehorn lost many dear friends while she was in prison during some of the worst years of the AIDS epidemic. Day, Susan While Laura Whitehorn served time in a Federal women’s prison at Lexington, Kentucky, Whitehorn’s father, Nathaniel, “Tanny” Whitehorn passed away on January 3, 1992New York Times. Whitehorn identifies many consequences of being behind bars for fourteen years, including losing someone you love. She notes that not being with them while they are dying, or being able to go to the memorial service afterwards, is just one way families are destroyed by prison. Day, Susan Fortunately a chaplain had allowed Whitehorn to call her father twice while he was in the intensive care unit. Since her release from prison in August 1999, Laura Whitehorn has been involved in a wide range of progressive causes, including the release of political prisonersGreen & Siegel. She has contributed writings and art work to numerous books and articles, and has been a controversial guest speaker at several universities, including an official guest of the African American Studies Department at Duke University in 2003, where she was presented as a human rights activist by Duke facultyThe Professors. Currently a Senior Editor with POZ Magazine in New York City, much of her writing has to do with supporting AIDS healthcare providers and empowering patients through publications. Whitehorn is a member of the NY State taskforce on political prisoners, a group dedicated to supporting New York State political prisoners from the black liberation movement and anti-imperialist solidarity movement. Abel,Sherly You can see Laura Whitehorn in the documentary film, “OUT” The Making of a Revolutionary,” the story of Whitehorn’s life and our times, directed by Sonja DeVries DeVries, Sonja, or THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, a documentary film made in 2002, directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, which includes a cast of former Weather Underground Organization members; Bill Ayers, Kathleen Cleaver, Bernardine Dohrn, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert, Todd Gitlin, Naomi Jaffe, Mark Rudd, and Laura Whitehorn. 2 Day, Susan. (2001) Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U. S. 3 Laura Whitehorn. www. discoverthenetworks. org/printindividualprofile. asp? indid=1541. 4 Laura Whitehorn. www. discoverthenetworks. org/printindividualprofile. asp? indid=1541. 5 Laura Whitehorn. www. discoverthenetworks. org/printindividualprofile. asp? indid=1541. 6 FBI Files. Information from the Statistical Section of the Records Division of the 7 FBI Files. Weatherman Underground Historical Files. Section VI. Page 31. 8 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 130 9 Critical Mass. (2003). More on Whitehorn’s Whitewashing. 10 Women’s School (Cambridge, Mass. ) records. (1971-1992). Archives and Special 11 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 129. 12 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 283. 13 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 217. 14 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 218. 15 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 218. 16 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 226. 17 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 227. 18 Berger, Dan. (2006). Outlaws of America. AK Press, Oakland, CA. Pg. 229. 19 May 19th Communist Movement from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 21 Anarchist Black Cross Federation, http://burn. ucsd. edu 22 May 19th Communist Movement from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 23 Whitehorn, Laura. (2003). Fighting to Get Them Out. Article in Social Justice, 24 Day, Susan. (2001) Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U. S. 25 Day, Susan. (2001) Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U. S. 26 Whitehorn, Laura. (1996 and 1997). Enemies of the State. Interview with Meg 27 Day, Susan. (2001) Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U. S. 28 New York Times Obituary. January 4, 1992. pg. 27. ProQuest Historical 29 Day, Susan. (2001) Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U. S. 30 Green, Sam & Siegel, Bill (2002) The Weather Underground. 31 Horowitz, David. (2006) The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in 31 Abel, Sheryl. (1997). Interview. 32 DeVries, Sonja. (2000). OUT: The making of a Revolutionary. Third World, Laura_Whitehorn 2009-03-10T04:04:18Z Laura Jane Whitehorn was born in April 1945 to Lenore and Nathaniel Whitehorn of Brooklyn, New York. As a college student in the 1960s, she organized and participated in civil rights and anti-war movements. . After her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1966, she went on to receive her master’s from Brandeis University. Having worked as an organizer for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Whitehorn became a member of the Weathermen/The Weather Underground organization in 1969. She traveled with them to Havana, Cuba as part of the organization’s instruction in the ideology of Marxism and urban warfare, visiting one of the camps established by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine. On October 6, of that same year, the Weathermen blew up an 1889 commemorative nine-foot bronze statue of a Chicago policeman located in Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, preceding several days of street fighting between protesters and police. According to FBI records, the “Days of Rage” or the “National Action” rapidly degenerated into destructive riots and open confrontations with Chicago Police, leaving a vast amount of public property destroyed, including 100 shattered windows in the vicinity. The Weather Underground Organization (WUO) made a number of demands, primarily related to the Vietnam War. Whitehorn, along with approximately 55 other people, was arrested for her participation in the violence. A Federal Grand Jury in Chicago later returned a number of indictments charging WUO members with violation of Federal Antiriot Laws. The Antiriot Law charges were dropped in January 1974. The March 6, 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion was a culmination of the political direction in which Weatherman had been headed, according to Whitehorn. “We were out of touch with what was going on, and we lost sight of the fact that if you’re a revolutionary, the first thing you have to try to do is preserve human life. " Three Weathermen died in the explosion, Terry Robbins, Diana Oughton, and Ted Gold. While Whitehorn continues to claim that great care was taken (during the numerous bombings), to ensure that no one would be hurt, including the janitorial staff, critics have pointed out that when a bomb goes off, there is always the potential for endangering lives, especially those of the emergency agencies responding to the scene, who are at risk by the very nature of such an intrinsically dangerous situation. In 1971, Laura Whitehorn helped organize and lead a militant takeover and occupation of a Harvard University building by nearly 400 women to protest the war in Vietnam and demand a women’s center. One of the founders of the Boston/Cambridge Women’s School, Whitehorn helped establish the school as an alternative source of feminist education. Operated and taught by a collective of female volunteers until it closed in 1992, Boston/Cambridge Women’s School had gained the reputation as the longest running women’s school in the United States at the time. The dead end of militancy and violence for their own sake was obvious after the townhouse explosion, says Whitehorn. Events at the 1972 Republican National Convention protest led Whitehorn to question once more the need for militancy, confirming her belief that they should allow for militancy when guided by a political framework, but not militancy for militancy’s sake. During the Boston busing crisis, which the WUO referred to as “the Battle of Boston,” Whitehorn was among a small group of the Praire Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) activists in the Boston area who sat with baseball bats in people’s homes, protecting families from local white supremacists who tried to attack with bats, Molotov cocktails and spray-paint. While Whitehorn and other members of the aboveground cadre carried out their vigilance for two years, the WUO engaged in only minor confrontational tactics in response to the Boston crisis. The Praire Fire Organizing Committee, of which Whitehorn was a member, planned the Hard Times Conference (with WUO support and leadership) as a way to build a national multiracial coalition. The goal was to bring together a multiracial crowd of more than 2,000 people at the University of Illinois Circle Campus in Chicago, from January 30 to February 1, 1976. The slogan for the conference was “Hard Times are Fighting Times. ” Even though attendance far surpassed what the WUO and PFOC had anticipated, the conference became a political disaster. Whitehorn was so nauseated by the politics of the conference that she became physically ill in the middle of it. “I hated it more than anything else I’ve ever done, she told Nicole Kief in an interview on October 20, 2002. She began to pull away from the WUO. By the early 1980’s, Whitehorn was active in a variety of radical organizations, in addition to the May 19 Communist Organization, including the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, a radical art group named for Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong's lead negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks. During this time, Whitehorn worked with liberation movements in Zimbabwe and Azania/South Africa and Palestine. The May 19 Communist Organization, also known as the May 19th Coalition and the May 19 Communist Movement, was a self-described revolutionary organization formed by splintered-off members of the Weather Underground. Originally known as the New York Chapter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), the group was active from 1978 to 1985. Between 1983 and 1985, the group bombed the United States Capitol Building as well as three military installations in the Washington D. C. area and four sites in New York City. On May 11 1985 group members Marilyn Jean Buck, wanted for her role in the 1981 Brinks armored car robbery, and Linda Sue Evans were arrested in Dobbs Ferry, New York by FBI agents who had trailed them in the hope the pair would lead them to other fugitives. Whitehorn was arrested the same day in a Baltimore apartment rented by Buck and Evans. At the time of the arrests, group members Susan Rosenberg and Timothy Blunk were already under arrest, Rosenberg for explosives and weapons charges connected with the Brinks robbery, Blunk for similar charges. Fugitive group members Alan Berkman and Elizabeth Ann Duke were captured by the FBI 12 days later near Philadelphia, however Duke jumped bail and disappeared before trial. The case became known as the Resistance Conspiracy Case. On May 12, 1988, the seven members of the group under arrest were indicted. The indictment described the goal of the conspiracy as being "to influence, change and protest policies and practices of the United States Government concerning various international and domestic matters through the use of violent and illegal means" and charged the seven with bombing the United States Capitol Building, three military installations in the Washington D. C. area, and four sites in New York City. The military sites bombed were the National War College at Fort McNair, the Washington Navy Yard Computer Center, and the Washington Navy Yard Officers Club. In New York City, the sites bombed were the Staten Island Federal Building, the Israeli Aircraft Industries Building, the South African consulate, and the offices of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. On September 6, 1990 The New York Times reported that Whitehorn, Evans and Buck had agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and destruction of Government property. Prosecutors agreed to drop bombing charges against Rosenberg, Blunk and Berkman, who were already serving long prison terms (Rosenberg and Blunk 58 years, Berkman 10) for possession of explosives and weapons. Whitehorn also agreed to plead guilty to fraud in the possession of false identification documents found by the FBI in the Baltimore apartment. At the December 6 1990 sentencing of Whitehorn and Evans by Federal District Judge Harold H. Greene, in a courtroom packed with supporters, Whitehorn was sentenced to 20 years in prison and Evans to an additional five years after completing a 35-year sentence being served for illegally buying guns. Buck was already serving 17 years on other convictions, and was later sentenced to a 50-year term for the Brinks holdup and other armed robberies. On August 6, 1999 Whitehorn was released on parole after serving just over 14 years. During the 14 years Whitehorn served in prison, she directed AIDS education and wrote numerous publications. When asked if her political work ended once she was in prison, she replied that it had consisted basically of three areas: being a political prisoner, organizing and being part of the struggles for justice inside the prisons, and being part of the fight against HIV and AIDS. Whitehorn lost many friends while she was in prison during some of the worst years of the AIDS epidemic. While Whitehorn served time in a Federal women’s prison at Lexington, Kentucky, her father, Nathaniel, “Tanny” Whitehorn died on January 3, 1992. Whitehorn identifies many consequences of being behind bars for fourteen years, including losing someone you love. She notes that not being with them while they are dying, or being able to go to the memorial service afterwards, is just one way families are destroyed by prison. Since her release from prison in August 1999, Laura Whitehorn has been involved in a wide range of causes, including the release of political prisoners. She has contributed writings and art work to numerous books and articles, and has been a controversial guest speaker at several universities, including an official guest of the African American Studies Department at Duke University in 2003, where she was presented as a human rights activist by Duke faculty Currently a Senior Editor with POZ Magazine in New York City, much of her writing has to do with supporting AIDS healthcare providers and empowering patients through publications. Whitehorn is a member of the NY State taskforce on political prisoners, a group dedicated to supporting New York State political prisoners from the black liberation movement and anti-imperialist solidarity movement. Laura Whitehorn appears in the documentary films, OUT: The Making of a Revolutionary, directed by Sonja DeVries, and The Weather Underground , (2002), directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, which includes a cast of former Weather Underground Organization members; Bill Ayers, Kathleen Cleaver, Bernardine Dohrn, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert, Naomi Jaffe, and Mark Rudd.

Patricia Belcher

Patricia Belcher 2008-01-14T19:58:30Z {{Infobox actor | name = Patricia Belcher | image = | caption = | birthdate = September 20, ? ??? (aged ??) | birthplace = Helena, Montana, U.S.A. | occupation = Actress | yearsactive = 1990-present | website = http://www.patriciabelcher.com/ Patricia Belcher (born September 20, ????) is an American film and television actress. Belcher was born in Helena, Montana to an African American father and an Afro-Scottish Canadian mother. Belcher has made numerous appearances in films including The Number 23, Unknown, Jeepers Creepers, and Heartbreakers. And also has made appearances in television series including Bones, Boston Legal, The Jake Effect, Twins, The Proud Family and Still Standing. Belcher is currently producing her 2008 role in the film Lower Learning as 'Colette'. , Patricia Belcher 2009-12-15T23:01:30Z Patricia Belcher is an American film and television actress. Belcher was born in Helena, Montana. Belcher has made numerous appearances in films including The Number 23, Unknown, Jeepers Creepers, and Heartbreakers. And also has made appearances in television series including Bones, Boston Legal, The Jake Effect, Twins, The Proud Family and Still Standing. Belcher is currently producing her 2008 role in the film Lower Learning as 'Colette'. She had a cameo role in the television series Community as a cafeteria worker. Belcher has also done TV commercials for products including for Staples and Time Warner and the American Cancer Association. File:072be20cb08dc16637baf30758082245.jpg

USS_Key_West_(1862)

USS_Key_West_(1862) 2009-12-27T14:25:37Z USS Key West (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a convoy and patrol vessel on Confederate waterways, only to be sunk, along with Elfin and Tawah by Confederate shore batteries. Key West was built in 1862 at California, Pennsylvania, as Key West No. 8; purchased by the Navy from W. S. Evans et al. at Cairo, Illinois, 16 April 1863; and commissioned 26 May, Acting Master E. M. King in command. The wooden stern-wheel steamer departed Cairo that day for patrol duty in the Tennessee River, supporting Union Army efforts and protecting Federal positions in the Tennessee Valley from Confederate Cavalry raids. Frequently, as she patrolled the river and escorted transports and supply ships, her guns engaged hit-and-run batteries and bands of riflemen. On 10 October 1864, as troops debarked at Eastport, Mississippi, from three transports Key West and Undine had escorted from Clifton, Tennessee, a hidden Confederate 6-gun battery at Eastport and a 3-gun battery near Chickasaw opened fire on the Union ships. After the Southern guns had set two of the transports on fire and damaged Key West with two rifle shots, the Union ships reluctantly retired downstream out-of-range. On 2 November at Johnsonville, Tennessee, Key West assisted Tawah in recapturing transport Venus, taken along with Undine and Cheeseman by the Confederates there 30 October. On 4 November Key West, Tawah, and Elfin were caught in a narrow, shallow section of the river near Johnsonville by a Confederate force under General Nathan B. Forrest. After a vigorous action in which Key West was hit 19 times by rifled artillery, the 3 Union gunboats, riddled and almost out of ammunition, were set afire and scuttled. , USS_Key_West_(1862) 2011-12-24T12:17:36Z USS Key West (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a convoy and patrol vessel on Confederate waterways, only to be sunk, along with Elfin and Tawah by Confederate shore batteries. Key West was built in 1862 at California, Pennsylvania, as Key West No. 8; purchased by the Navy from W. S. Evans et al. at Cairo, Illinois, 16 April 1863; and commissioned 26 May, Acting Master E. M. King in command. The wooden stern-wheel steamer departed Cairo that day for patrol duty in the Tennessee River, supporting Union Army efforts and protecting Federal positions in the Tennessee Valley from Confederate Cavalry raids. Frequently, as she patrolled the river and escorted transports and supply ships, her guns engaged hit-and-run batteries and bands of riflemen. On 10 October 1864, as troops debarked at Eastport, Mississippi, from three transports Key West and Undine had escorted from Clifton, Tennessee, a hidden Confederate 6-gun battery at Eastport and a 3-gun battery near Chickasaw opened fire on the Union ships. After the Southern guns had set two of the transports on fire and damaged Key West with two rifle shots, the Union ships reluctantly retired downstream out-of-range. On 2 November at Johnsonville, Tennessee, Key West assisted Tawah in recapturing transport Venus, taken along with Undine and Cheeseman by the Confederates there 30 October. On 4 November Key West, Tawah, and Elfin were caught in a narrow, shallow section of the river near Johnsonville by a Confederate force under General Nathan B. Forrest. After a vigorous action in which Key West was hit 19 times by rifled artillery, the 3 Union gunboats, riddled and almost out of ammunition, were set afire and scuttled.

Puttaparthi_Narayanacharyulu

Puttaparthi_Narayanacharyulu 2009-09-17T06:13:18Z Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu (Telugu: పుట్టపర్తి నారాయణాచార్యులు) (March 28, 1915 - September 1, 1990) was a front-ranking classical poet, literary critic, composer, musicologist, translator and polyglot. Narayanacharyulu was born in a Vaikhanasa Brahmin family in Penugonda of Anantapur district. His father Sreenivasacharyulu and mother Lakshmidevi were great Sanskrit-Andhra pundits. He served as a teacher at Ramakrishna High School at Kadapa and Government College at Anantapuram. He studied many epics including Bhaaratam, Bhaagavatam, Puraanas, Kavyas and music at a very young age. He studied Sanskrit literature at Tirupati Sanskrit College. He learned grammar, meter, figures of speech etc. from great Sanskrit teachers like Kapilasthalam Krishnamacharyulu and D. T. Tatacharyulu. He learned Bharatanatyam under the guidance of dancer Ranjakam Mahalakshmamma. He has about 50 works of poetry to his credit. Considered an authority on the history and literature of the Vijaynagar period, he has written in Telugu extensively on Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam literatures. He has about 3,000 musical compositions in Telugu and Sanskrit to his credit and 200 of them have been notated by himself. He had the unique and ironic experience of having written a poetic work called Penugonda Lakshmi at the age of 14, prescribed as a text when he took the Vidwan examination in his thirtees. Shivathandavam (The Cosmic Dance of Shiva), the most representative of his genius, was composed in Agasteswara Temple in Proddatur. His Pandari Bhagavatam won national literary award. He was a polyglot and pundit in many languages. He was fluent in 14 languages, including French and Persian. His life size bronze statue was installed in Proddatur town by Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu Sahithi Peetham in 2007., Puttaparthi_Narayanacharyulu 2011-03-13T01:51:44Z Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu (Telugu: పుట్టపర్తి నారాయణాచార్యులు) (March 28, 1914 - September 1, 1990) was a front-ranking classical poet, literary critic, composer, musicologist, translator and polyglot. Narayanacharyulu was born in a SriVaishnava Brahmin family in Chiyyedu Village in Penugonda taluq of Anantapur district. His father Sreenivasacharyulu and mother Lakshmidevi were great Sanskrit-Andhra pundits. He served as a teacher at Ramakrishna High School at Kadapa and Government College at Anantapuram. He studied many epics including Bhaaratam, Bhaagavatam, Puraanas, Kavyas and music at a very young age. He studied Sanskrit literature upto Siromani at Tirupati Sanskrit College. He learned grammar, meter, figures of speech etc. from great Sanskrit teachers like Kapilasthalam Krishnamacharyulu and D. T. Tatacharyulu. He learned Bharatanatyam under the guidance of dancer Ranjakam Mahalakshmamma. He learnt classical music from Pakka Hanumanthacharyulu. He has about 50 works of poetry to his credit. Considered an authority on the history and literature of the Vijaynagar period, he has written in Telugu extensively on Sanskrit, Prakrit, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam literatures. He has about 7,000 musical compositions in Telugu and Sanskrit to his credit and 200 of them have been notated by himself. He had the unique and ironic experience of having written a poetic work called Penugonda Lakshmi at the age of 14, prescribed as a text when he took the Vidwan examination in his thirtees. Shivathandavam (The Cosmic Dance of Shiva), the most representative of his genius, was composed in Agasteswara Temple in Proddatur. His Janapriya Ramayanam won Central sahitya Akademi literary award in the year 1979 . He got the award of Bharateeya Bhasha Parshath Kolkatta for his epic 'Sreenivasa Prabandham'in 1988. His English work "Leaves in the Wind" written at the age of 20 was appeciated by well-known Indo-Anglican poet Sri Harindranath Chattopadyaya. Further, he wrote a playlet named 'The Hero'(with the influence of Milton), Duryodhana as the hero and this work was also critically acclaimed. He was a polyglot and pundit in many languages. He was fluent in 14 languages, including French and Persian. His life size bronze statue was installed in Proddatur town by Puttaparthi Narayanacharyulu Sahithi Peetham in 2007. Template:Persondata [[File: ]]

Inkigayo

Inkigayo 2012-01-01T08:10:58Z The Music Trend (Korean: SBS 인기가요; previously Popular Song, romanized as Inkigayo) is a South Korean music program broadcast by SBS. It airs live every Sunday at 3:50 PM KST. The show features some of the latest and most popular artists who perform on stage. It is currently hosted by Goo Ha-ra, IU and Nicole. The Music Trend debuted as SBS Popular Song in 1991 as a chart show, but was canceled in Autumn 1993. It was later revived in 1998 with its original title and format. In 2003, the chart format was removed and was replaced by Take 7, where seven of the most popular artists from the week are featured and the most popular artist receives the award for Mutizen Song. In Spring 2007, the program changed from a recorded broadcast to a live broadcast in an effort to boost ratings, as well as changing the English name to The Music Trend. On November 2, 2008, the program moved from 3:20 PM to 4:10 PM Sunday afternoons, airing before Good Sunday, also to boost ratings. In Spring 2010, the program expanded to 70 minutes beginning at 3:50 PM every Sunday. Every week, a "rookie" artist or group performs live on stage. At the end of the month, a "Super Rookie" is chosen, through votes from The Music Trend homepage, and is featured that month. 2008 2009 2010 Formerly known as Mobile Ranking, the Digital Music Charts takes into consideration the popularity of songs through downloads on mobile phones as well as downloads on music sites. Every week, it features 5 ranks with a special guest(s) to host the segment. Take 7 is the representative segment of The Music Trend. Every week, 7 of the most popular songs of that week are featured, where most artists will perform. At the end of the show, the Mutizen Song (뮤티즌송) which is the most popular song of the week receives the award. This has replaced the regular countdown charts format seen in most music programs and eliminates the need to rank artists. February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September Ocotber November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January Triple Crown is a song that has received Mutizen Song (뮤티즌송) 3 times. After that, the song is removed from Take 7. 2000 & 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Most No.1/Mutizen Song winners Most Triple Crowns winners, Inkigayo 2013-12-30T14:44:45Z The Music Trend (Korean: SBS 인기가요; previously Popular Song, romanized as Inkigayo) is a South Korean music program broadcast by SBS. It airs live every Sunday at 3:30 PM KST. The show features some of the latest and most popular artists who perform on stage. As of August 4, 2013, it is hosted by Hwang Kwang-hee, Lee Hyun-woo and Minah. It is broadcast from the SBS Open Hall in Deungchon-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul. The Music Trend debuted as SBS Popular Song in 1991 as a chart show, but was canceled in Autumn 1993. It was later revived in 1998 with its original title and format. In 2003, the chart format was removed and was replaced by Take 7, where seven of the most popular artists from the week are featured and the most popular artist receives the award for Mutizen Song. In Spring 2007, the program changed from a recorded broadcast to a live broadcast in an effort to boost ratings, as well as changing the English name to The Music Trend. On November 2, 2008, the program moved from 3:20 PM to 4:10 PM Sunday afternoons, airing before Good Sunday, also to boost ratings. In Spring 2010, the program expanded to 70 minutes beginning at 3:50 PM every Sunday. On July 10, 2012, SBS announced revamping the show removing the Take 7 system and Mutizen Song award, explaining that "We believe that rather than the ranking system, the most important thing is the genre K-Pop being recognized worldwide. Therefore, we have decided to abolish the system after much discussion. There’s really no meaning behind a ranking system. We have decided to undergo this change in hopes that viewers can just enjoy the music. There are a lot of K-Pop stars in the music industry that have talent. We wanted to break free from the repetitive system, in which artists release new songs and perform, so we plan on redesiging our system by having the concept of more special stages. For viewers to enjoy the music, we will have more collaboration stages and much more." The revamped show, without Take 7 and Mutizen Song award, began July 15, 2012. On March 3, 2013, the program announced the revival of the chart system with Inkigayo Chart. The new chart will be in collaboration with the Music Industry Association of Korea's Gaon Chart, and began March 17, 2013. Every week, a "rookie" artist or group performs live on stage. At the end of the month, a "Super Rookie" is chosen, through votes from The Music Trend homepage, and is featured that month. This segment ended at the end of 2010. 2008 2009 2010 Formerly known as Mobile Ranking, the Digital Music Charts takes into consideration the popularity of songs through downloads on mobile phones as well as downloads on music sites. Every week, it features five ranks with a special guest(s) to host the segment. This segment was abandoned mid-2009. Throughout each episode, various artists are featured in campaign songs that raise awareness for certain topics or issues. Such campaigns include: safe driving, drinking milk, piracy, and various local events. Take 7 is the representative segment of The Music Trend. Every week, seven of the most popular songs of that week are featured, where most artists will perform. At the end of the show, the Mutizen Song ("Mutizen" is a portmanteau of "music" and "netizen", symbolizing a song chosen by netizens) which is the most popular song of the week, receives the award. This has replaced the regular countdown charts format seen in most music programs and eliminates the need to rank artists. One song can only receive the award a maximum of three times. The following week, it is removed from the Take 7 list. This system was abolished on July 10, 2012. February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July August September October November December January February March April May June July Triple Crown is a song that has received Mutizen Song three times. After that, the song is removed from Take 7 and ineligible to win again. 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Viewers can ask a designated artist of the week questions through SBS mobile app Soty. During this interview segment, selected questions are asked and those users receive prizes for their participation. This segment began on February 17, 2013. A new stage to showcase talented indie and new artists who are hard to see on television each week. This segment began along with Inkigayo Chart on March 17, 2013. After abolishing Take 7 in July 2012, a new chart system was implemented on March 17, 2013. The revived chart will feature fifty songs for viewers to vote on (like the previous Take 7 chart) through SBS mobile app Soty, combined with Digital Song Chart and Offline Album Chart in collaboration with the Music Industry Association of Korea's Gaon Chart to create the Inkigayo Chart. The chart is calculated by combining Digital Sales Points (60%) from Gaon Chart, SNS Points (35%) from YouTube views and Twitter mentions (provided by Gaon Chart), and Advance Viewers Vote Points (5%) from votes on SBS mobile app Soty. The Top 50 songs of the chart are featured on the show, where the Top 11-50 songs are shown via marquee and the Top 4-10 songs are featured by the hosts. The top three artists of the chart become First Place Nominees, who go through live SMS and mobile app M& TV talk voting by viewers (10%), which will be combined with the existing scores to determine the First Place winner, known as the Top Artist of the week. March April May June July August September October November December Triple Crown is a song that has received First Place three times. After that, the song is removed from the chart and ineligible to win again. 2013 Most No.1/Mutizen Song winners Most Triple Crown winners Top 10 Highest Scores March 24, 2013 – Present Scoring System: Digital Single Sales (60%), SNS (35%), Advance Viewer Vote (5%), Live Vote (10%) A Nipslip scandal involved Ryu Hwayoung, ex-member of T-ara, in the January 29, 2012 episode of The Music Trend in which she accidentally exposed her breast during her dance solo. A screencap made its rounds online through Korean media portals and SNS services. JoongAng Ilbo said that the show was airing live when the incident occurred. Core Contents Media issued an official statement about the nipslip saying: “T-ara’s stage was done completely live, and it was a live broadcast accident. There weren’t any problems during their rehearsal . Before the fact that she’s a celebrity, she’s still a minor, so we hope that people will remember that she’s a young girl.” SBS issued an apology statement. Programs

Basketligaen

Basketligaen 2014-03-21T08:16:45Z The Danish Basketball League is the highest professional basketball league in Denmark. Statistics in the several leagues, including play-off games. , Basketligaen 2015-09-18T03:53:34Z The Danish Basketball League is the highest professional basketball league in Denmark. The league is officially known as Basketligaen and was founded in 1998. But, the original men's first division was founded in 1957. All-time record holder in league titles is Bakken Bears, which has captured 14 titles in its history. The main TV partner of the league is TV2 Sport. The team consists of 10 teams, with no relegation rules.

Annie_Dutton

Annie_Dutton 2008-05-13T18:42:31Z Annie Dutton (formerly Annie Dutton-Lewis) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light. Cynthia Watros is most identified in the role, she played Annie from November 29, 1994 until February 23, 1998. The role was later recast, after Watros left for other career ventures, with Signy Coleman, who portrayed Annie from July 30, 1998 until July 20, 1999. Coleman also briefly reprised the role in 2003. Annie is often considered one of Guiding Light's greatest villains and one of their more exciting characters. Annie has also been the main rival to Guiding Light heroine, Reva Shayne. The two have long fought over the affections of Reva's then husband, Josh Lewis. Watros won a Daytime Emmy in 1998 for Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Annie Dutton came to Springfield from Chicago in December 1994 and began working as a nurse on staff at Cedars Hospital in Springfield. In January 1995, she began treating Joshua Lewis, who had broken his leg in the 5th Street fire, and the pair quickly fell in love. However, Annie had a secret, she was married to Rick Bauer, but the marriage fell apart because of Annie's alcoholism and her affair with a married man. Annie hid the secret from Josh and the two became engaged, but not long after, Annie told Josh her secrets. After initial resentment, Josh forgave Annie and the two married. Soon after though, Joshs thought to be dead wife, Reva Shayne was found to be alive and well, but Josh remained committed to Annie. The pair married legally and Reva married Buzz Cooper, because Josh's children wanted him to stay with Annie. Annie knew that Josh was still in love with his ex-wife Reva and it infuriated her. Annie started drinking again and became addicted to painkillers. With Josh's help Annie entered rehab to get off the pills, which she did. She then began working as Alan Spaulding's physical therapist, who Alan grew to like, but Annie was still in love with Josh and was determined to keep him. She was so determined that she was artificially inseminated, but after a while Annie miscarried. Annie though had a plan, she picked a fight with Reva at the top of the stairs at the Spaulding mansion and made it look like Reva pushed her down the stairs and thus caused her to miscarry. Reva was then charged with murder, but during Reva's trial it was revealed by Annie's doctor that she was artificially inseminated and had miscarried the child before she had fallen down the stairs. With Josh out of the picture Annie moved on with Alan, the two planned to marry, but Reva learned Annie was married to another man, Eddie Banks, from her days in Chicago. Eddie helped Annie steal drugs from the hospital where they worked when she lied to him about needing drugs to pay for her mother's operation. When they got caught, Annie faked her own death so Eddie would take the rap for the drug charge. He went to jail mourning the loss of his beloved Annie, but when he found out from Reva that she was still alive, he signed an affidavit stating the truth about Annie and their still-legal marriage. Just as Annie and Alan were about to marry Eddie entered and told everyone the truth, they were still married. Alan broke it off with Annie and she was then carted off to jail. Annie would escape but was soon thought to be dead by everyone after trying to kill Reva. Annie was not dead after all and after a few months she returned to Springfield as Det. Teri DeMarco , to investigate a case there. Annie had plastic surgery to look like the real Teri, who was in a coma. Annie, as Teri, began druggin Josh, in hopes of getting him back. Reva meanwhile grew more suspicous about "Teri" and soon learned Teri was actually Annie Dutton. Annie after trying to kidnap Lizzie Spaulding fled town. In 2003, Annie was found to be living in a mental institution believing that she was married to Josh and still hating Reva. , Annie_Dutton 2010-04-23T17:51:09Z Annie Dutton (formerly Lewis) is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light. Cynthia Watros is most identified in the role; she played Annie from November 29, 1994 until February 23, 1998. The role was later recast, after Watros left for other career ventures, with Signy Coleman, who portrayed Annie from July 30, 1998 until July 20, 1999. Coleman also briefly reprised the role in 2003. Annie is often considered one of Guiding Light's greatest villains and one of its more exciting characters. Annie has also been the main rival to Guiding Light heroine Reva Shayne. The two have long fought over the affections of Reva's then-husband, Josh Lewis. Watros won a Daytime Emmy in 1998 for Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Annie Dutton came to Springfield from Chicago in November 1994 and began working as a nurse on staff at Cedars Hospital in Springfield. In January 1995, she began treating Joshua Lewis, who had broken his leg in the 5th Street fire, and the pair quickly fell in love. However, Annie had a secret: she was married to Rick Bauer. The marriage fell apart, however, because of Annie's alcoholism and her affair with a married man. Annie hid the secret from Josh and the two became engaged, but not long after, Annie told Josh her secrets. After initial resentment, Josh forgave Annie and the two married. Soon after, though, In April 1995, Josh's thought-to-be-dead wife, Reva Shayne was found to be alive and well, but Josh remained committed to Annie. The pair married legally and Reva married Buzz Cooper, because Josh's children wanted him to stay with Annie. Annie knew that Josh was still in love with his ex-wife Reva and it infuriated her. Annie started drinking again and became addicted to painkillers. With Josh's help Annie entered rehab to get off the pills, which she did. She then began working as Alan Spaulding's physical therapist, who Alan grew to like, but Annie was still in love with Josh and was determined to keep him. She was so determined that she was artificially inseminated, but after a while Annie miscarried. Annie though had a plan, she picked a fight with Reva at the top of the stairs at the Spaulding mansion and made it look like Reva pushed her down the stairs and thus caused her to miscarry. Reva was then charged with murder, but during Reva's trial it was revealed by Annie's doctor that she was artificially inseminated and had miscarried the child before she had fallen down the stairs. With Josh out of the picture Annie moved on with Alan, the two planned to marry, but Reva learned Annie was married to another man, Eddie Banks, from her days in Chicago. Eddie helped Annie steal drugs from the hospital where they worked when she lied to him about needing drugs to pay for her mother's operation. When they got caught, Annie faked her own death so Eddie would take the rap for the drug charge. He went to jail mourning the loss of his beloved Annie, but when he found out from Reva that she was still alive, he signed an affidavit stating the truth about Annie and their still-legal marriage. Just as Annie and Alan were about to marry Eddie entered and told everyone the truth, they were still married. Alan broke it off with Annie and she was then carted off to jail. Annie would escape but was soon thought to be dead by everyone after trying to kill Reva. Annie was not dead after all and after a few months she returned to Springfield as Det. Teri DeMarco , to investigate a case there. Annie had plastic surgery to look like the real Teri, who was in a coma. Annie, as Teri, began druggin Josh, in hopes of getting him back. Reva meanwhile grew more suspicious about "Teri" and soon learned Teri was actually Annie Dutton. Annie after trying to kidnap Lizzie Spaulding fled town. In 2003, Annie was found to be living in a mental institution believing that she was married to Josh and still hating Reva.

GOES_14

GOES_14 2009-08-06T19:53:14Z Template:Infobox Spacecraft GOES 14, known as GOES-O prior to reaching its operational orbit, is an American weather satellite, which is part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system. It was launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV-M+(4,2) rocket at 22:51 GMT on 27 June 2009, from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The first attempt to launch GOES-O was made on On 26 June 2009, during a launch window running from 22:14-23:14 GMT (18:14-19:14 EDT). Due to rain and lightning at the launch site, the launch was delayed from the start of the window to 22:44, and once this passed, it was reset to the end of the window. At 22:59, the launch was scrubbed after field mills detected an unacceptably strong electical field in the atmosphere, and fifteen minutes would have been required from this clearing in order to launch - longer than remained of the launch window. The weather satellite was eventually launched on 27 June. The spacecraft was built by Boeing, and is based on the BSS-601 bus. It is the second of three GOES satellites to use the BSS-601 bus, after GOES 13, which was launched in May 2006. Upon reaching geostationary orbit, on 7 July, it was redesignated GOES 14. It will undergo a 6-month series of post-launch tests before completing its "check-out" phase and then placed into "orbital storage mode" or stand-by. Its first full disk image was sent on 27 July 2009 Template:Space portal , GOES_14 2010-09-12T16:49:55Z Template:Infobox Spacecraft GOES 14, known as GOES-O prior to reaching its operational orbit, is an American weather satellite, which is part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system. The spacecraft was built by Boeing and is based on the BSS-601 bus. It is the second of three GOES satellites to use the BSS-601 bus, after GOES 13, which was launched in May 2006. It was launched by United Launch Alliance aboard a Delta IV-M+(4,2) rocket at 22:51 GMT on 27 June 2009, from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Upon reaching geostationary orbit, on 7 July, it was redesignated GOES 14. It underwent a 6-month series of post-launch tests before completing its "check-out" phase and then was placed into "orbital storage mode" or stand-by. Its first full disk image was sent on 27 July 2009 The first attempt to launch GOES-O was made on On 26 June 2009, during a launch window running from 22:14-23:14 GMT (18:14-19:14 EDT). Due to rain and lightning at the launch site, the launch was delayed from the start of the window to 22:44 GMT, and once this passed, it was reset to the end of the window. At 22:59 GMT, the launch was scrubbed after field mills detected an unacceptably strong electrical field in the atmosphere, and fifteen minutes would have been required from this clearing in order to launch - longer than remained of the launch window. The weather satellite was eventually launched on 27 June 2009.

Anika Noni Rose

Anika Noni Rose 2020-01-07T23:31:24Z Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American actress and singer known for her Tony Award-winning performance in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change and her starring role as Lorrell Robinson in the 2006 Academy Award winning film Dreamgirls. She also voiced Tiana, Disney's first African-American princess in Walt Disney Pictures' 2009 animated fantasy film The Princess and the Frog. In 2014, Rose played the role of Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She was named a Disney Legend in 2011. Rose was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, the daughter of Claudia and John Rose; her father was a corporate counsel. She began her acting career in high school, appearing in a school production during her freshman year. She then attended Florida A&M University where she earned a Bachelor's Degree in theatre, and started studying drama at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California. Rose moved to New York without a job. After three months, she secured the role of Rusty in Broadway's Footloose. She followed Footloose with numerous workshops and two musicals using pre-existing song catalogs, Eli's Comin' Off-Broadway and Me and Mrs. Jones with Lou Rawls in Philadelphia. Both of the full-scale tuners were rumored for transfers, but neither made it anywhere after their limited engagements ended. Rose's big Broadway break was getting cast as Emmie Thibodeaux in Caroline, or Change. In 2004, she was awarded the Theatre World Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress, and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Caroline, or Change. In 2014, Rose returned to Broadway in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun, receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. After her film debut, King of the Bingo Game, she played the role of Kaya in From Justin to Kelly in 2003 and she performed in Temptation in 2004, followed by Surviving Christmas as a singer in the choir. In 2006, Rose starred in Dreamgirls as Lorrell Robinson with Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Eddie Murphy. Rose appeared in the films Just Add Water, Razor, and Disney's 2009 animated feature The Princess and the Frog, as the voice of the lead character Tiana; the character is Disney's first African-American princess. Rose hosted a hometown screening of The Princess and the Frog for children from the Charter Oak Cultural Center, a non-profit multi-cultural arts center that provides free after-school programs in Hartford, Connecticut. Rose also stars alongside Jill Scott in The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency directed by Anthony Minghella. In 2010, she played the role of Yasmine in the movie For Colored Girls. One critic described Rose's performance as "especially fierce". From 2010 to 2013, Rose had a guest-starring role in the legal TV drama The Good Wife. She played the role of Sara Tidwell in the A&E miniseries Bag of Bones in 2011, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. Rose was named a Disney Legend on August 19, 2011. In 2012, she guest-starred in "Gone Abie Gone", episode 3, season 24 of The Simpsons, voicing Abe Simpson's second wife, Rita LaFleur. The episode originally aired November 11 of that year. Rose played the adult "Kizzy" in two episodes of television's Roots, an adaptation of the novel by Alex Haley and remake of the ground-breaking 1977 miniseries. Critic Alan Sepinwall, in suggesting Emmy nominees to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, called her "one of the best parts of the outstanding Roots ensemble." She has a role in the Starz series Power and the leading role in the 2017 BET drama The Quad. , Anika Noni Rose 2021-12-31T16:00:09Z Anika Noni Rose (born September 6, 1972) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for voicing Tiana, Disney's first African-American movie protagonist, as seen in The Princess and the Frog (2009). She was named a Disney Legend in 2011. She is also known for her starring role as Lorrell Robinson in the Academy Award-winning film Dreamgirls (2006) and for playing LaVerne "Jukebox" Ganner in the Starz hit series Power. She is also known for her performances in theatre, particularly for her starring roles as Emmie Thibodeaux in the Broadway production of Caroline, or Change (2004), for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Beneatha Younger in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun (2014), for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. The most recent film Anika has starred in is the limited series on Netflix Maid as the character Regina. Rose was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut to Claudia and John Rose, a corporate counsel. She began her acting career in Bloomfield high school, appearing in a school production during her freshman year. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in theatre from Florida A&M University, then studied drama at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California. Rose moved to New York without a job. After three months, she played the role of Rusty in Broadway's Footloose. She followed Footloose with numerous workshops and two musicals using pre-existing song catalogs, Eli's Comin' Off-Broadway and Me and Mrs. Jones with Lou Rawls in Philadelphia. Both of the full-scale tuners were rumored for transfers, but neither made it anywhere after their limited engagements ended. Rose's big Broadway break was getting cast as Emmie Thibodeaux in Caroline, or Change. In 2004, she was awarded the Theatre World Award, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress, and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Caroline, or Change. In 2010 she starred in Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls with Phylicia Rashad and Janet Jackson. In 2014, Rose returned to Broadway in a revival of A Raisin in the Sun, receiving a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. After her film debut, King of the Bingo Game, she played the role of Kaya in From Justin to Kelly in 2003 and she performed in Temptation in 2004, followed by Surviving Christmas as a singer in the choir. In 2006, Rose starred in Dreamgirls as Lorrell Robinson with Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Eddie Murphy. Rose appeared in the films Just Add Water and Razor. Rose also starred alongside Jill Scott in The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency directed by Anthony Minghella. Anika Noni Rose is best known for her role in Disney's 2009 animated feature The Princess and the Frog, as the voice of the lead character Tiana; the character is Disney's first African-American princess. Rose also said at the time, “Not only is the first black princess, she’s the first American princess. So, the scope and the significance is larger than people even realize.” Rose added that she hoped her role in the film would help affirm young brown-skinned children by seeing someone who looks like them in a Disney film. The film being released in 2009, the same year that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama entered the White House was completely coincidental, according to the creators. But several commentators noted how the coincidence reinforced the positive portrayal of African-Americans. Rose hosted a hometown screening of The Princess and the Frog for children from the Charter Oak Cultural Center, a non-profit multi-cultural arts center that provides free after-school programs in Hartford, Connecticut. Rose's performance in the film garnered one nomination for an NAACP Image Award and three nominations for the Black Reel Awards. She won the Black Reel Award for Best Outstanding Voice Performance. Rose was named a Disney Legend on August 19, 2011. Rose said of the honor, "I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, but even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess... I feel like what an honor that this is and how the dream comes true, bigger and stronger than I had even imagined it." In June 2020, Disney announced that they would be reworking their flume ride Splash Mountain with characters from The Princess and the Frog. Anika Noni Rose said, "It's thrilling. People are amped and ready. I think it's awesome, particularly now, to be reinvigorating her story." Disney said the ride will take place immediately after the end of the film, and it will feature a Mardi Gras party. Rose also added that she would love for Disney to create a Tiana's Palace Restaurant at the theme parks. "I've been looking forward to a Tiana's Palace for years... I have dreams of them partnering with Café du Monde on some real deal beignets, having some fantastic shrimp and grits and king cake during Mardi Gras season. And the occasional second line through the joint. Basically all the things I love!" In 2010, she played the role of Yasmine in the movie For Colored Girls. One critic described Rose's performance as "especially fierce". From 2010 to 2013, Rose had a guest-starring role in the legal TV drama The Good Wife. She played the role of Sara Tidwell in the A&E miniseries Bag of Bones in 2011, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. In 2012, she guest-starred in "Gone Abie Gone", episode 3, season 24 of The Simpsons, voicing Abe Simpson's second wife, Rita LaFleur. The episode originally aired November 11 of that year. Rose played the adult "Kizzy" in two episodes of television's Roots, an adaptation of the novel by Alex Haley and remake of the 1977 miniseries. Critic Alan Sepinwall, in suggesting Emmy nominees to the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, called her "one of the best parts of the outstanding Roots ensemble." She has a role in the Starz series Power and the leading role in the 2017 BET drama The Quad. During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020, Rose created a weekly series, where she read bedtime stories to small children in order to help ease their fear during the lockdown. Rose said, "I love reading to kids, and I wanted to give our little people something soft and soothing in this very jarring moment in time. I thought a bedtime story would be the perfect way. I can give my voice to the ones who know it best, without anyone leaving home." She also said that she wanted to help children act silly, use their imaginations, and find a love of books that Rose said she had as a child. As one of the stories in the series, Rose chose the Princess and the Frog book "Tiana's Growing Experiment." In 2020, Anika Noni Rose starred in the Netflix musical Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey playing Jessica Jangle. Noni Rose applauded the film's portrayal of black and brown professionals in an English Victorian setting. In 2021, she played an affluent but unhappy lawyer who employs a young mother fleeing an abusive relationship in the Netflix limited series Maid.

Charles_Rouleau

Charles_Rouleau 2009-12-07T00:55:07Z Charles Borromée Rouleau (born: December 16, 1840 Isle Verte, Lower Canada- died: August 25, 1901 Rouleauville, Northwest Territories) was a 19th-century Canadian politician, lawyer, judge and writer. He served as Stipendiary Magistrate and Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, as well as Legal Advisor to the Northwest Territories Legislature. Rouleau began his legal career when he was called to the bar in Quebec on December 16, 1868. He later became an inspector for the Ottawa and Pontiac Counties Catholic School Districts. Rouleau first ran for public office on the municipal level in the County of Ottawa in 1874. He was unsuccessful. Rouleau then made his career through political appointments as magistrate and judge at increasingly higher levels of government. On July 12, 1876 he was appointed District Magistrate in Ottawa County and held that position until 1883. On September 28, 1883, Rouleau was appointed to the Northwest Territories Council where he replaced Matthew Ryan. He served his first term on the Council with the title of Stipendiary magistrate. The territories then included what became the provinces of Yukon, Alberta and Saskatchewan. On February 18, 1888, Rouleau vacated that position to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, where he sat for cases in the Northern Alberta District. After the 1888 Northwest Territories general election, Lt. Governor Joseph Royal reappointed Rouleau as Legal Advisor to the Northwest Territories Legislature. He held that position until dissolution of the Assembly in 1891. With his appointment to the Supreme Court, Rouleau moved just outside Calgary to a mission parish founded by French-Canadian priests in the 1870s. There he and his brother founded Rouleauville, which they intended to be a French-speaking community. The village was later annexed by Calgary and was renamed the Mission District. Rouleau's house, built before 1896, stood until 1940, when it was replaced by an apartment building. Although an 1892 assembly vote made English the only official language in the territories, French was reintroduced as an official language in the late 1980s. By the Northwest Territories' Official Languages Act (1988), nine native languages were also recognized as official for certain purposes, including in the territorial court. This article about a Northwest Territories politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Charles_Rouleau 2012-06-16T17:56:56Z Charles Borromée Rouleau (born: December 16, 1840 Isle Verte, Lower Canada- died: August 25, 1901 Rouleauville, Northwest Territories) was a 19th-century Canadian politician, lawyer, judge and writer. He served as Stipendiary Magistrate and Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, as well as Legal Advisor to the Northwest Territories Legislature. Rouleau began his legal career when he was called to the bar in Quebec on December 16, 1868. He later became an inspector for the Ottawa and Pontiac Counties Catholic School Districts. Rouleau first ran for public office on the municipal level in the County of Ottawa in 1874. He was unsuccessful. Rouleau then made his career through political appointments as magistrate and judge at increasingly higher levels of government. On July 12, 1876 he was appointed District Magistrate in Ottawa County and held that position until 1883. On September 28, 1883, Rouleau was appointed to the Northwest Territories Council where he replaced Matthew Ryan. He served his first term on the Council with the title of Stipendiary magistrate. The territories then included what became the provinces of Yukon, Alberta and Saskatchewan. On February 18, 1888, Rouleau vacated that position to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, where he sat for cases in the Northern Alberta District. After the 1888 Northwest Territories general election, Lt. Governor Joseph Royal reappointed Rouleau as Legal Advisor to the Northwest Territories Legislature. He held that position until dissolution of the Assembly in 1891. With his appointment to the Supreme Court, Rouleau moved just outside Calgary to a mission parish founded by French-Canadian priests in the 1870s. There he and his brother founded Rouleauville, which they intended to be a French-speaking community. The village was later annexed by Calgary and was renamed the Mission District. Rouleau's house, built before 1896, stood until 1940, when it was replaced by an apartment building. Although an 1892 assembly vote made English the only official language in the territories, French was reintroduced as an official language in the late 1980s. By the Northwest Territories' Official Languages Act (1988), nine native languages were also recognized as official for certain purposes, including in the territorial court. Template:Persondata This article about a Northwest Territories politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

KDUV

KDUV 2009-03-06T20:46:07Z KDUV (88. 9 FM, "K-Dove FM") is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian music format. Licensed to Visalia, California, USA, it serves the Visalia-Tulare area. The station is currently owned by Community Educational Broadcastng, Inc. The station was assigned the KDUV call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 1, 1991. KDUV is also broadcast on K261CO on 100. 1 MHz in Bakersfield, California. The current weekday lineup includes Cari and Dale in the morning with host Cari Kates, and Dale Best, who just recently moved to California from Oklahoma. Former program director and morning show host Joe Croft is on mid-days, the station's program director/music director Shannon Steele is on during the afternoons and Tim Collins is on during the evening. Weekend and fill-in hosts include Morgan Smith, Jeff Connell and Jolie Littlefield. This article about a radio station in California is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , KDUV 2010-09-07T06:56:27Z KDUV (88. 9 FM, "K-Dove FM") is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian music format. Licensed to Visalia, California, USA, it serves the Visalia-Tulare, Fresno and Bakersfield areas. The station is currently owned by Community Educational Broadcastng, Inc. The station was assigned the KDUV call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on February 1, 1991. KDUV is also broadcast on K261CO on 100. 1 MHz in Bakersfield, California. The current weekday lineup includes Mornings with Jeremy with program director Jeremy Morris, Donna Cruz is on mid-days. Former program director and morning show host Joe Croft is on during the afternoons, and Tim Collins is on during the evening. Weekend and fill-in hosts include Tim Collins and Morgan Smith. Former morning show co- host Dale Best is also on weekends and is currently the stations Listener Engagement Director and new media director. This article about a radio station in California is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Málaga_(Congress_of_Deputies_constituency)

Málaga_(Congress_of_Deputies_constituency) 2007-11-21T09:57:13Z Málaga is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciónes) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It was first contested in modern times in the 1977 General Election. It is the sixth largest district in terms of electorate. Under Article 68 of the Spanish constitution the boundaries must be the same as the province of Málaga and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which poll 3% or more of all valid votes cast, including votes "en blanco" i. e. for "none of the above" can be considered for seats. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18. Article 67. 3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from Regional Assemblies if successfully elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible. In the general elections of 1977, 1979 and 1982 Málaga returned 8 members. That figure was increased to 9 members for the 1986 election and it gained a tenth seat for the 1989 election. It has stayed at that figure since then. Under Spanish electoral law, all provinces are entitled to a minimum of 2 seats with a remaining 248 seats apportioned according to population. These laws are laid out in detail in the 1985 electoral law. (Ley Orgánica del Régimen Electoral General) The practical effect of this law has been to overrepresent smaller provinces at the expense of larger provinces. In 2004 Spain had 34,571,831 voters giving an average of 98,777 voters per deputy . In Málaga the ratio was slightly above that at 103,341. Source:, Málaga_(Congress_of_Deputies_constituency) 2009-11-05T01:34:44Z Málaga is one of the 52 electoral districts (circunscripciones) used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It was first contested in modern times in the 1977 General Election. It is the sixth largest district in terms of electorate. Under Article 68 of the Spanish constitution the boundaries must be the same as the province of Málaga and under Article 140 this can only be altered with the approval of congress. Voting is on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The electoral system used is closed list proportional representation with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only lists which poll 3% or more of all valid votes cast, including votes "en blanco" i. e. for "none of the above" can be considered for seats. Under article 12 of the constitution, the minimum voting age is 18. Article 67. 3 of the Spanish Constitution prohibits dual membership of the Cortes and regional assemblies, meaning that candidates must resign from Regional Assemblies if successfully elected. Article 70 also makes active judges, magistrates, public defenders, serving military personnel, active police officers and members of constitutional and electoral tribunals ineligible. In the general elections of 1977, 1979 and 1982 Málaga returned 8 members. That figure was increased to 9 members for the 1986 election and it gained a tenth seat for the 1989 election. It has stayed at that figure since then. Under Spanish electoral law, all provinces are entitled to a minimum of 2 seats with a remaining 248 seats apportioned according to population. These laws are laid out in detail in the 1985 electoral law. (Ley Orgánica del Régimen Electoral General) The practical effect of this law has been to overrepresent smaller provinces at the expense of larger provinces. In 2004 Spain had 34,571,831 voters giving an average of 98,777 voters per deputy . In Málaga the ratio was slightly above that at 103,341. Seats shown for the People's Party include seats won by their predecessors, the Popular Alliance and the Popular Coalition before 1989. Seats shown for United Left include seats won by the Communist Party of Spain before 1986. Source:

Jeff_Grant

Jeff_Grant 2011-09-21T08:29:30Z Jeff Grant (born 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He represented the Southland electorate of Awarua in Parliament from 1987 to 1993, when he was replaced by Eric Roy. He attended Otago Boys' High School, and Lincoln College where he got a Diploma in Agriculture. Template:Persondata This article about a New Zealand National Party politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Jeff_Grant 2012-11-26T12:12:36Z Jeff Grant (born 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He attended Otago Boys' High School, and Lincoln College where he got a Diploma in Agriculture. He represented the Southland electorate of Awarua in Parliament from 1987 to 1993, when he was replaced by Eric Roy. Template:Persondata This article about a New Zealand National Party politician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Political_Council_for_the_Iraqi_Resistance

Political_Council_for_the_Iraqi_Resistance 2015-05-29T18:02:52Z Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance (PCIR), or the Political Council of Iraqi Resistance, is an Iraqi insurgent political coalition of six major Sunni militant groups operating inside Iraq. The formation of the umbrella organization was announced on October 11, 2007 by a group spokesman in a speech broadcast on the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera. The announcemnet was also published on several jihadist websites. The council's formation is unique in that it is one of the first times Iraq's Sunni insurgent groups have united in an attempt to form a political faction as opposed to a strictly militant one. The Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance is made up of the three members of the previously announced Jihad and Reform Front along with two other known groups: In its formation statement, the PCIR described itself as a "political program to liberate Iraq" and laid out a 14-point mission statement as a way of achieving its goals:, Political_Council_for_the_Iraqi_Resistance 2016-09-06T17:51:07Z Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance (PCIR), or the Political Council of Iraqi Resistance, is an Iraqi insurgent political coalition of six major Sunni militant groups operating inside Iraq. The formation of the umbrella organization was announced on October 11, 2007 by a group spokesman in a speech broadcast on the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera. The announcement was also published on several jihadist websites. The council's formation is unique in that it is one of the first times Iraq's Sunni insurgent groups have united in an attempt to form a political faction as opposed to a strictly militant one. The Political Council for the Iraqi Resistance is made up of the three members of the previously announced Jihad and Reform Front along with two other known groups: In its formation statement, the PCIR described itself as a "political program to liberate Iraq" and laid out a 14-point mission statement as a way of achieving its goals:

Drew Pinsky

Drew Pinsky 2022-01-27T00:04:46Z David Drew Pinsky (born September 4, 1958), commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show's inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. In addition, he served as producer and starred in the VH1 show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, and its spinoffs Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House. Pinsky currently hosts several podcasts, including The Dr. Drew Podcast, This Life with Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew After Dark on the Your Mom's House network, and The Adam and Drew Show with his former Loveline co-host Adam Carolla. Pinsky is a former staff member at the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, and Huntington Memorial Hospital. He currently maintains a private internal medicine practice in South Pasadena. Pinsky was born to a Jewish family in Pasadena, California. His father, Morton Pinsky (1926–2009), was a physician whose parents emigrated from Ukraine. His mother, Helene Stanton (née Eleanor Mae Stansbury; 1925–2017), was a singer and actress who came from a "highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia". Pinsky attended Polytechnic School. He majored in biology at Amherst College, graduating in 1980, and earned his M.D. at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in 1984. He served his residency in internal medicine at USC County Hospital and became chief resident at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, and later moved into private practice. My goal was always to be part of pop culture and relevant to young people, to interact with the people they hold in high esteem. As The New York Times described it in February 2008, Pinsky's dual career in medicine and the mass media has required him to "navigat a precarious balance of professionalism and salaciousness." In 1984, while still a medical student, Pinsky started appearing in "Ask a Surgeon", a segment of a Sunday night KROQ-FM show hosted by Jim "Poorman" Trenton and "Swedish" Egil Aalvik. "Ask the Surgeon" soon combined with "Loveline", another Sunday night segment, into a show of its own, co-hosted by Trenton and Pinsky. Loveline went national in 1995, and the television version launched on MTV the following year, hosted by Pinsky and Adam Carolla. The exposure on both radio and television made Pinsky the "Gen-X answer to Ruth Westheimer , with an AIDS-era, pro-safe-sex message." The MTV show ran for four years, while the radio show continued until April 2016 with cohost Mike Catherwood. On November 27, 2007, Pinsky began Dr. Drew Live, another nationally syndicated talk radio show where he focused on a wider range of health issues. It originated from KGIL in Los Angeles, originally airing weekdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT The show was canceled in December 2008. On January 5, 2015, Pinsky launched a new weekday program, "Dr. Drew Midday Live with Mike Catherwood," on KABC in Los Angeles. Leeann Tweeden became the co-host of the show starting on January 7, 2019. On April 21, 2016, Pinsky announced Loveline would wrap up on April 28, 2016. Adam Carolla re-joined him as co-host for the final show. Pinsky's first television appearance was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune in 1984, though he did not win. He also served as "health and human relations expert" on the first season of the U.S. TV series Big Brother in 2000. He has also hosted several shorter educational television series, starting with Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, which ran for 10 episodes on the Discovery Health Channel, followed by Strictly Dr. Drew which addressed everyday health issues. He later hosted the MTV series Sex...with Mom and Dad (2008–2009). In 2008, Pinsky starred in Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, a reality television show which involves celebrities in a drug rehabilitation facility. The show was filmed at Pasadena Recovery Center, with Pinsky serving as the resident medical expert. The series premiered January 10, 2008 on VH-1 and was renewed for multiple seasons. A follow-up show to Celebrity Rehab with many of the same celebrities was Sober House, which began its first season in January 2009, and included celebrities from the first two seasons of Celebrity Rehab continuing their recovery in a sober living facility. In November 2009, Pinsky starred in a spinoff of Celebrity Rehab, Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, which depicted celebrities being treated for sexual addiction over the course of three weeks at the Pasadena Recovery Center. Pinsky makes guest appearances on various news programs where he usually gives his observations on the relationship between controlled substances and high-profile individuals. He has frequently given his views on the deaths of people such as Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson, arguing that their fates should set examples of the seriousness of misusing drugs. Pinsky has acted in several TV appearances (either portraying himself or a fictional character), Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Dawson's Creek, Family Guy. The Adam Carolla Project, Minoriteam, Robot Chicken, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Code Monkeys, and The Midnight Gospel. Pinsky also appeared in the films New York Minute and Wild Hogs. In early 2011, Pinsky began hosting his own show, Dr. Drew On Call on HLN that focuses on news involving health and addiction topics. On August 26, 2016, HLN and Pinsky announced that the show's last episode would be September 22 of that year. On October 9, 2019, Pinsky competed in season two of The Masked Singer as "Eagle". Between February to March 2020, Pinsky made a series of statements concerning the COVID-19 outbreak where he downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic, stating that it was not as bad as the flu, and suggested that it was a "press-induced panic". Pinsky apologized in April 2020, and he urged people to follow the advice of Anthony Fauci. Pinsky has raised concerns for several years regarding homelessness in Los Angeles County and has been critical of how the government has handled it, stating, "For some reason, the government has taken the position that this is a housing problem, which, of course, housing is a piece of this, but for most—and by most I mean the vast majority of people on the streets—their condition makes them unwilling or unwanting to go indoors. So, even when they correct the housing issue, they’re still going to have the same problem on the streets." He has also been critical of certain aspects of the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act, in that it limits the ability of authorities to intervene when mentally ill persons are at risk of death due to being unable to care for their own needs. Pinsky said in an interview that he had correctly predicted a typhus outbreak in 2019 that occurred in the county as a result of rodents attracted to homeless encampments. Pinsky was nominated to a local Los Angeles homeless commission by Kathryn Barger, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in April 2021. He faced criticism from local homeless right advocates and a Twitter campaign. While supervisor appointments to local boards are rarely controversial, more than 100 people submitted public comments asking supervisors not to approve Pinsky. The board received less than five public comments in support of his nomination. Critics claimed that Pinsky had overreported the number of homeless people with mental illnesses or substance abuse disorders. Others, such as homeless advocate and charity leader Rev. Andy Bales, defended Pinsky and called the hashtag campaign and public commenting an "echo chamber". Pinsky's nomination was ultimately withdrawn. In 1999, Pinsky co-founded an Internet-based community and advice site for teenagers called DrDrew.com with Curtis Giesen. Among their early backers was Garage.com. DrDrew.com soon ran out of funding, and the company was sold to Sherwood Partners Inc., a corporate restructuring firm, which sold the remnants to DrKoop.com in November 2000. Pinsky re-acquired the site circa 2013 and began using it for general information about his books, radio and TV shows, as well as hosting his independent podcast, The Dr. Drew Podcast. In September 2012, Pinsky announced on The Adam Carolla Show that he will be doing a podcast on the Carolla Digital network. In 2003, Pinsky authored Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again, recounting his experiences as the medical director of the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at the Las Encinas Hospital drug rehabilitation clinic in Pasadena, California. He also contributed to the book When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs, published in 2004. In addition to his media appearances, Pinsky speaks at college campuses and other public venues. When Adam Carolla and Pinsky were teamed as hosts of Loveline, Carolla and Pinsky spoke at colleges. Pinsky was the voice of 1-800-GET-THIN, advocating lap band surgery on radio ads and in a recording played for those who called 1-800-GET-THIN. He also appeared with his dogs in a PETA ad campaign promoting the spaying and neutering of pets. Pinsky also narrated for the 2014 documentary "Divorce Corp" and "Teen Species". In early 2019, Pinsky started an online podcast "Dr Drew after Dark”. The podcast is hosted at Tom Segura's studio "Studio Jeans". Pinsky was featured in the first episode Netflix series "The Midnight Gospel". On September 10, 2020, it was announced that Dr. Drew Pinsky joined Aditx Therapeutics as Senior Advisor to AditxtScore for Scoring the Immune System. In October, he first appeared on the Frenemies podcast, and appeared on the podcast again in December. Dr. Drew has his own website (https://drdrew.com) and YouTube channel. Asteroid 4536 Drewpinsky is named in his honor. Pinsky was honored with the Larry Stewart Leadership and Inspiration Award at the 12th Annual PRISM Awards in 2008. Pinsky married on July 21, 1991, and he and his wife, Susan Sailer, had triplets Douglas, Jordan, and Paulina in November 1992. Pinsky lives in Pasadena, California. Interested in fitness since his early teens, he goes running and does weight training regularly. In addition to his hobby of traveling, he also enjoys singing opera, as his mother was a professional singer. Pinsky stated on the June 24, 2009, episode of Loveline that at one point, he was torn between practicing medicine and becoming a professional opera singer. Pinsky stated that he auditioned for a celebrity singing show, but that the show passed on his appearance when he made it clear to producers that he could not sing pop songs but did perform an aria on Turn Ben Stein On. Pinsky's father, Morton, died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 27, 2009. A title card at the end of the season 3 finale of Celebrity Rehab dedicated the episode to him. Pinsky's mother, Helene, died on June 7, 2017, at age 91. Pinsky is a nonobservant Jew; he admits to abandoning most Jewish practices but claims to retain a continued desire to learn about the religion. He explains that religious as well as philosophical studies affect his medical practice and his speeches, and that his background places "an indirect coloring on every answer. " In September 2013, Pinsky stated that he had recovered from prostate cancer surgery performed earlier that June and July, after which Pinsky did not require chemotherapy or radiation. During episode 119 of his podcast Dr. Drew After Dark, aired on June 10, 2021, Pinsky said that his prostate cancer has recurred after it was discovered during routine bloodwork that his PSA (Prostate-specific antigen) level is elevated. He will go through Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) in July 2021. In a 2011 interview on Kevin and Bean, Pinsky stated he would speak to any media outlet including TMZ and The National Enquirer but would not speak to the Los Angeles Times, explaining "They distort, and they mislead, and they take things out of context. I really am stunned at how shoddy their journalism is, so I stopped talking to them. " Politically, Pinsky has increasingly spoken of the 'tyranny' of governmental overreach and the need for a “Liberty Party”. Pinsky told Ryan Holiday he was studying philosopher Epictetus and recommended it to him. Holiday says this sparked his interest in stoic philosophy, later becoming a New York Times best-selling author on the subject. Notable productions in which Pinsky has appeared include: Film Television Masked Singer (American TV series), Drew Pinsky 2023-12-27T01:55:09Z David Drew Pinsky (born September 4, 1958), commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show's inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. In addition, he served as producer and starred in the VH1 show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, and its spinoffs Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House. Pinsky currently hosts several podcasts, including The Dr. Drew Podcast, This Life with Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew After Dark on the Your Mom's House network, and The Adam and Drew Show with his former Loveline co-host Adam Carolla. Pinsky is a former staff member at the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California, and Huntington Memorial Hospital. He currently maintains a private internal medicine practice in South Pasadena. Pinsky was born in 1958 in Pasadena, California, to a Jewish family. His father, Morton Pinsky (1926–2009), was a physician whose parents immigrated to the United States from Ukraine. His mother, Helene Stanton (née Eleanor Mae Stansbury; 1925–2017), was a singer and actress who came from a "highly Victorian upper-middle-class family in Philadelphia". After graduating from Polytechnic School in 1976, Pinsky studied biology at Amherst College, graduating in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science. He then attended the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, graduating in 1984 with a Doctor of Medicine degree. He served his residency in internal medicine at USC County Hospital and became chief resident at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, and later moved into private practice. My goal was always to be part of pop culture and relevant to young people, to interact with the people they hold in high esteem. As The New York Times described it in February 2008, Pinsky's dual career in medicine and the mass media has required him to "navigat a precarious balance of professionalism and salaciousness. " In 1984, while still a medical student, Pinsky started appearing in "Ask a Surgeon", a segment of a Sunday night KROQ-FM show hosted by Jim "Poorman" Trenton and "Swedish" Egil Aalvik. "Ask the Surgeon" soon combined with "Loveline", another Sunday night segment, into a show of its own, co-hosted by Trenton and Pinsky. Loveline went national in 1995, and the television version launched on MTV the following year, hosted by Pinsky and Adam Carolla. The exposure on both radio and television made Pinsky the "Gen-X answer to Ruth Westheimer , with an AIDS-era, pro-safe-sex message. " The MTV show ran for four years, while the radio show continued until April 2016 with cohost Mike Catherwood. On November 27, 2007, Pinsky began Dr. Drew Live, another nationally syndicated talk radio show where he focused on a wider range of health issues. It originated from KGIL in Los Angeles, originally airing weekdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm PT The show was canceled in December 2008. On January 5, 2015, Pinsky launched a new weekday program, "Dr. Drew Midday Live with Mike Catherwood," on KABC in Los Angeles. Leeann Tweeden became the co-host of the show starting on January 7, 2019. On April 21, 2016, Pinsky announced Loveline would wrap up on April 28, 2016. Adam Carolla re-joined him as co-host for the final show. Pinsky's first television appearance was as a contestant on Wheel of Fortune in 1984, though he did not win. He also served as "health and human relations expert" on the first season of the U.S. TV series Big Brother in 2000. He has also hosted several shorter educational television series, starting with Strictly Sex with Dr. Drew, which ran for 10 episodes on the Discovery Health Channel, followed by Strictly Dr. Drew which addressed everyday health concerns. He later hosted the MTV series Sex...with Mom and Dad (2008–2009). In 2008, Pinsky starred in Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, a reality television show which involves celebrities in a drug rehabilitation facility. The show was filmed at Pasadena Recovery Center, with Pinsky serving as the resident medical expert. The series premiered January 10, 2008 on VH-1 and was renewed for multiple seasons. A follow-up show to Celebrity Rehab with many of the same celebrities was Sober House, which began its first season in January 2009, and included celebrities from the first two seasons of Celebrity Rehab continuing their recovery in a sober living facility. In November 2009, Pinsky starred in a spinoff of Celebrity Rehab, Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew, which depicted celebrities being treated for sexual addiction over the course of three weeks at the Pasadena Recovery Center. In a 2011 episode of Lifechangers, Dr. Drew brought on a 16 year old Courtney Stodden and conducted an on-air ultrasound of her breasts to prove Stodden's claim she didn't have plastic surgery. The ultrasound was conducted by Dr. John Diaz, a plastic surgeon. Pinsky makes guest appearances on various news programs where he usually gives his observations on the relationship between controlled substances and high-profile individuals. He has frequently given his views on the deaths of people such as Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger and Michael Jackson, arguing that their fates should set examples of the seriousness of misusing drugs. Pinsky has acted in several TV appearances (either portraying himself or a fictional character), Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Dawson's Creek, Family Guy. The Adam Carolla Project, Minoriteam, Robot Chicken, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Code Monkeys, and The Midnight Gospel. Pinsky also appeared in the films New York Minute and Wild Hogs. In early 2011, Pinsky began hosting his own show, Dr. Drew On Call on HLN that focuses on news involving health and addiction topics. On August 26, 2016, HLN and Pinsky announced that the show's last episode would be September 22 of that year. On October 9, 2019, Pinsky competed in season two of The Masked Singer as "Eagle". In 2023, Pinsky appeared on the reality TV series Special Forces: World's Toughest Test. He was eliminated in the first episode due to a medical problem. Between February and March 2020, Pinsky made a series of statements concerning the COVID-19 outbreak where he downplayed the seriousness of the pandemic, stating that it was not as bad as the flu, and suggested that it was a "press-induced panic". Pinsky apologized in April 2020, and he urged people to follow the advice of Anthony Fauci. Pinsky has raised concerns for several years regarding homelessness in Los Angeles County and has been critical of how the government has handled it, stating, "For some reason, the government has taken the position that this is a housing problem, which, of course, housing is a piece of this, but for most—and by most I mean the vast majority of people on the streets—their condition makes them unwilling or unwanting to go indoors. So, even when they correct the housing problem, they're still going to have the same problem on the streets. " He has also been critical of certain aspects of the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act, in that it limits the ability of authorities to intervene when mentally ill persons are at risk of death due to being unable to care for their own needs. Pinsky said in an interview that he had correctly predicted a typhus outbreak in 2019 that occurred in the county as a result of rodents attracted to homeless encampments. Pinsky was nominated to a local Los Angeles homeless commission by Kathryn Barger, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in April 2021. He faced criticism from local homeless right advocates and a Twitter campaign. While supervisor appointments to local boards are rarely controversial, more than 100 people submitted public comments asking supervisors not to approve Pinsky. The board received less than five public comments in support of his nomination. Critics claimed that Pinsky had overreported the number of homeless people with mental illnesses or substance abuse disorders. Others, such as homeless advocate and charity leader Rev. Andy Bales, defended Pinsky and called the hashtag campaign and public commenting an "echo chamber". Pinsky's nomination was ultimately withdrawn. Pinsky has received criticism from several sources for alleged conflict of interest in his promotion of the drug Wellbutrin. According to an October 2011 government complaint against GlaxoSmithKline, Pinsky was the recipient in 1999 of two payments totaling $275,000 from Glaxo Wellcome (a company that would later merge into GlaxoSmithKline) to promote the company's drug Wellbutrin. Among other events, Pinsky made a 1999 appearance on the radio program 'David Essel - Alive!', discussing the sexual side effects of common SSRI medications and mentioned Wellbutrin as an example of depression medications that lack these side effects, (along with Serzone and Remeron, two medications from different manufacturers). A transcript of this appearance and the invoice of the payment to Pinksy were later presented publicly as evidence during the criminal and civil actions against GlaxoSmithKline in 2012. In response to an inquiry from the Wall Street Journal about the case and specific physicians including Pinsky, the company declined to comment on their financial relationship with specific doctors, but acknowledged that "during the period from January 1999 to December 2003, there were some occasions on which certain GSK sales representatives, speakers, and consultants promoted its antidepressant Wellbutrin to physicians for uses which were not FDA-approved in violation of federal law. " Pinsky himself was not mentioned in the statement, and was never charged with wrongdoing by any court or medical ethics board. When asked about the topic, Pinsky stated: In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2-year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational grant by Glaxo Wellcome…Services for the non-branded campaign included town hall meetings, writings and multimedia activities in conjunction with the patient advocacy group the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (NDMDA). My comments were consistent with my clinical experience. In 1999, Pinsky co-founded an Internet-based community and advice site for teenagers called DrDrew.com with Curtis Giesen. Among their early backers was Garage.com. DrDrew.com soon ran out of funding, and the company was sold to Sherwood Partners Inc., a corporate restructuring firm, which sold the remnants to DrKoop.com in November 2000. Pinsky re-acquired the site circa 2013 and began using it for general information about his books, radio and TV shows, as well as hosting his independent podcast, The Dr. Drew Podcast. In September 2012, Pinsky announced on The Adam Carolla Show that he will be doing a podcast on the Carolla Digital network. In 2003, Pinsky authored Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again, recounting his experiences as the medical director of the Department of Chemical Dependency Services at the Las Encinas Hospital drug rehabilitation clinic in Pasadena, California. He also contributed to the book When Painkillers Become Dangerous: What Everyone Needs to Know About OxyContin and Other Prescription Drugs, published in 2004. In addition to his media appearances, Pinsky speaks at college campuses and other public venues. When Adam Carolla and Pinsky were teamed as hosts of Loveline, Carolla and Pinsky spoke at colleges. Pinsky was the voice of 1-800-GET-THIN, advocating lap band surgery on radio ads and in a recording played for those who called 1-800-GET-THIN. He also appeared with his dogs in a PETA ad campaign promoting the spaying and neutering of pets. Pinsky also narrated for the 2014 documentary "Divorce Corp" and "Teen Species". In early 2019, Pinsky started an online podcast "Dr Drew after Dark". The podcast is hosted at Tom Segura's studio "Studio Jeans". Pinsky was featured in the first episode Netflix series "The Midnight Gospel". On September 10, 2020, it was announced that Dr. Drew Pinsky joined Aditx Therapeutics as Senior Advisor to AditxtScore for Scoring the Immune System. In October, he first appeared on the Frenemies podcast, and appeared on the podcast again in December. Asteroid 4536 Drewpinsky is named in his honor. Pinsky was honored with the Larry Stewart Leadership and Inspiration Award at the 12th Annual PRISM Awards in 2008. Pinsky married on July 21, 1991. He and his wife, Susan Sailer, had triplets Douglas, Jordan, and Paulina in November 1992. Pinsky lives in Pasadena, California. Interested in fitness since his early teens, he goes running and does weight training regularly. In addition to his hobby of traveling, he also enjoys singing opera, as his mother was a professional singer. Pinsky stated on the June 24, 2009, episode of Loveline that at one point, he was torn between practicing medicine and becoming a professional opera singer. Pinsky stated that he auditioned for a celebrity singing show, but that the show passed on his appearance when he made it clear to producers that he could not sing pop songs but did perform an aria on Turn Ben Stein On. Pinsky's father, Morton, died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage on October 27, 2009. A title card at the end of the season 3 finale of Celebrity Rehab dedicated the episode to him. Pinsky's mother, Helene, died on June 7, 2017, at age 91. Pinsky is a nonobservant Jew; he admits to abandoning most Jewish practices but claims to retain a continued desire to learn about the religion. He explains that religious as well as philosophical studies affect his medical practice and his speeches, and that his background places "an indirect coloring on every answer. " In September 2013, Pinsky stated that he had recovered from prostate cancer surgery performed earlier that June and July, after which Pinsky did not require chemotherapy or radiation. During episode 119 of his podcast Dr. Drew After Dark, aired on June 10, 2021, Pinsky said that his prostate cancer has recurred after it was discovered during routine bloodwork that his PSA (Prostate-specific antigen) level is elevated. He will go through Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) in July 2021. In a 2011 interview on Kevin and Bean, Pinsky stated he would speak to any media outlet including TMZ and The National Enquirer but would not speak to the Los Angeles Times, explaining "They distort, and they mislead, and they take things out of context. I really am stunned at how shoddy their journalism is, so I stopped talking to them. " Politically, Pinsky considers himself libertarian, and has espoused more traditionally conservative views in recent years, such as the 'tyranny' of governmental overreach and the need for a "Liberty Party. " Pinsky told Ryan Holiday he was studying philosopher Epictetus and recommended it to him. Holiday says this sparked his interest in stoic philosophy, later becoming a New York Times best-selling author on the subject.

KVCY

KVCY 2012-07-17T23:54:04Z KVCY (104. 7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian format. Licensed to Fort Scott, Kansas, USA, it serves the Pittsburg area. The station is currently owned by VCY America, Inc. . KVCY is also heard in the Joplin, Missouri area on 106. 3 FM, through translator station K292FX. This article about a radio station in Kansas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a Christian radio station is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , KVCY 2013-01-31T16:59:20Z KVCY (104. 7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian format. Licensed to Fort Scott, Kansas, USA, it serves the Pittsburg area. The station is currently owned by VCY America, Inc. . KVCY is also heard in the Joplin, Missouri area on 106. 3 FM, through translator station K292FX. KVCY's programming includes Christian Talk and Teaching programming including; Crosstalk hosted by Vic Eliason, Worldview Weekend with Brannon Howse, Grace to You with John MacArthur, Back to the Bible, In Touch with Charles Stanley, Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers, Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Leigh DeMoss, The Alternative with Tony Evans, Liberty Council's Faith and Freedom Report, Back to Genesis by the Institute for Creation Research, Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, The Listener's Bible narrated by Max McLean, Joni and Friends, Unshackled!, and Moody Radio's Stories of Great Christians. KVCY also airs a variety of vocal and instrumental traditional Christian Music, as well as children's programming such as Jonathan Park and Ranger Bill. This article about a radio station in Kansas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article about a Christian radio station is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Hybanthus

Hybanthus 2010-07-06T05:09:08Z See text. Hybanthus is a genus of the family Violaceae. This genus name is Greek for "humpback flower", referring to the drooping pedicels of plants that are part of this genus. Hybanthus contains the following species: http://plants. usda. gov/java/ClassificationServlet? source=profile&symbol=HYBAN&display=63, Hybanthus 2011-08-31T20:29:13Z See text. Hybanthus is a genus of the family Violaceae.

George_Scott_Robertson

George_Scott_Robertson 2009-08-12T19:21:12Z Sir George Scott Robertson (October 22, 1852 - January 1, 1916) was a British soldier, author, and administrator who was best known for his arduous journey to the remote and rugged region of Kafiristan in what is now northeastern Afghanistan. He chronicled his Kafiristan experience in the book The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush. Some have suggested that Robertson's year-long expedition and subsequent book (originally published in 1896) provided background and inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Man Who Would Be King". However, Kipling's work was originally published in 1888, predating Robertson's travels to the region. Robertson was born in London, England, and received his education at the Westminster Hospital Medical School (now Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London). In 1878 he entered the Indian Medical Service and served throughout the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-80. In 1888, he was attached to the Indian Foreign Office and assigned as agency surgeon in Gilgit, in northern Pakistan. According to his book, it was around this time that Robertson, having encountered several interesting Kafirs (people from Kafiristan) during the war and while in Gilgit, he became curious about their land and way of life. He asked the Government of India for permission to attempt the journey, and by October 1889 was on his way, departing from Chitral in northwest Pakistan in the company of several Kafir headmen of the Kam tribe. His journey lasted just over a year, ending in 1891, and providing Robertson with first-hand experience of the strange customs and colorful people of Kafiristan. In 1893, after his travels in Kafiristan, Surgeon Major Robertson was assigned to the then-independent State of Chitral once again, this time as a political agent. In 1895 he brought a force of around 400 soldiers, under the direct command of Captain Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, from Gilgit to oversee the transfer of power in Chitral following the murder of its ruler. After his arrival, Robertson engaged in a series of complex political and military maneuvers, including an unsuccessful sortie on March 3rd, 1895, from his base in Chitral Castle. The British forces took heavy losses during this sortie and retreated to the castle, where they endured a month-long siege from hostile factions. The siege was raised on the 19th of April when a relief force, under Colonel Kelly, arrived and dispersed the hostile tribesmen. For his service during the famous "Siege of Chitral" Robertson was made a Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India (K. C. S. A. )and appointed British agent in Gilgit. Robertson continued in the Indian Service until his retirement in 1899. He then returned to England where he made an unsuccessful bid for political office in Sterlingshire in 1900, but later was elected in Central Bradford in 1906. He died on New Year's Day, 1916. This detailed account of Robertson's tour throughout Kafiristan was originally published in London in 1896 by Lawrence & Bullen, LTD. It contains illustrations by A. D. McCormic, and was dedicated to Robertson's wife. This book exists in reprint edition (28 Feb 1999) from Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers (ISBN 8121508843/ ISBN 978-8121508841). An online version of Robertson's book was scanned from an original from Stanford Library, but this electronic version is missing pages 656 and 657., George_Scott_Robertson 2010-11-15T04:59:48Z Sir George Scott Robertson KCSI (October 22, 1852 - January 1, 1916) was a British soldier, author, and administrator who was best known for his arduous journey to the remote and rugged region of Kafiristan in what is now northeastern Afghanistan. He chronicled his Kafiristan experience in the book The Kafirs of the Hindu-Kush. Some have suggested that Robertson's year-long expedition and subsequent book (originally published in 1896) provided background and inspiration for Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Man Who Would Be King". However, Kipling's work was originally published in 1888, predating Robertson's travels to the region. Robertson was born in London, England, and received his education at the Westminster Hospital Medical School (now Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London). In 1878 he entered the Indian Medical Service and served throughout the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878-80. In 1888, he was attached to the Indian Foreign Office and assigned as agency surgeon in Gilgit, in northern Pakistan. According to his book, it was around this time that Robertson, having encountered several interesting Kafirs (people from Kafiristan) during the war and while in Gilgit, he became curious about their land and way of life. He asked the Government of India for permission to attempt the journey, and by October 1889 was on his way, departing from Chitral in northwest Pakistan in the company of several Kafir headmen of the Kam tribe. His journey lasted just over a year, ending in 1891, and providing Robertson with first-hand experience of the strange customs and colorful people of Kafiristan. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1892. In 1893, after his travels in Kafiristan, Surgeon Major Robertson was assigned to the then-independent State of Chitral once again, this time as a political agent. In 1895 he brought a force of around 400 soldiers, under the direct command of Captain Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, from Gilgit to oversee the transfer of power in Chitral following the murder of its ruler. After his arrival, Robertson engaged in a series of complex political and military maneuvers, including an unsuccessful sortie on March 3, 1895, from his base in Chitral Castle. The British forces took heavy losses during this sortie and retreated to the castle, where they endured a month-long siege from hostile factions. The siege was raised on the 19th of April when a relief force, under Colonel Kelly, arrived and dispersed the hostile tribesmen. For his service during the famous "Siege of Chitral" Robertson was made a Knight Commander in the Order of the Star of India (K. C. S. I. ) and appointed British agent in Gilgit. Robertson continued in the Indian Service until his retirement in 1899. He then returned to England where he made an unsuccessful bid for political office as a Liberal party candidate in Stirlingshire at the 1900 general election, but later was elected in Central Bradford in 1906. He held his seat in the House of Commons until his death on New Year's Day, 1916. This detailed account of Robertson's tour throughout Kafiristan was originally published in London in 1896 by Lawrence & Bullen, LTD. Although its descriptions of the kafirs of the Hindukush are written in an outdated and colonial (and, from the perspective of modern sensibilities, discriminatory) style, it also contains some of the only accounts of the region from that time period. The book is accompanied by illustrations by A. D. McCormic and was dedicated to Robertson's wife. This book exists in reprint edition (28 Feb 1999) from Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers (ISBN 8121508843/ ISBN 978-8121508841). Online scanned versions are available at the Internet Archives and Google Books. Template:Persondata

Paul_Nischal

Paul_Nischal 2007-12-29T20:00:54Z Paul Nischal, is the chairman of the NRI International Club based in the UK. He joined the Conservative Party in 1965 and subsquently became the first Indian Member of British Parliament Candidate for the British Conservative Party for the 1983 and 1987 General Elections, contesting the Birmingham Small Heath Constituency. His membership was especially valued for his strong influence in the Asian Business Community of Birmingham. Following the 2nd consecutive UK general election defeat by the Conservative party as the party moved more towards the right of the political spectrum, Paul Nischal joined the Labour Party. Paul Nischal acted as a political aid to Rajiv Gandhi the 7th Prime Minister of India in the 1991 campaign. He continues a distinguished role for the City of Birmingham UK in Education as well as performing a role as a Foundation Governor for the Grammar School King Edward VI Five Ways . He has also been heavily active over for the last 30 years for many Indian Charities supporting the educational needs of underprivileged children. , Paul_Nischal 2009-05-01T17:39:49Z Paul Nischal, is the Founder President and Chief Executive of N. R. I. Club International and Internatinal Overseas Indian Club based in the UK. He joined the Conservative Party in 1965 and subsequently became the first Indian Member of British Parliament Candidate for the British Conservative Party for the 1983 and 1987 General Elections, contesting the Birmingham Small Heath Constituency. His membership was especially valued for his strong influence in the Asian Business Community of Birmingham. Following the 2nd consecutive UK general election defeat by the Conservative party as the party moved more towards the right of the political spectrum, Paul Nischal joined the Labour Party. Paul Nischal acted as a political aid to Rajiv Gandhi the 7th Prime Minister of India in the 1991 campaign. He continues a distinguished role for the City of Birmingham UK in Education as well as performing a role as a Foundation Governor for the Grammar School King Edward VI Five Ways . He has also been heavily active over for the last 35 years for many Indian Charities supporting the educational needs of underprivileged children. Paul Nischal is also National Chairman of Asian Peoples Welfare Society (UK) to lookafter the old and disabled people.

Mbanga,_Cameroon

Mbanga,_Cameroon 2010-04-23T00:34:25Z Mbanga is a town in western Cameroon It is a junction station on the western network of Camrail. 04°30′33″N 09°34′05″E / 4. 50917°N 9. 56806°E / 4. 50917; 9. 56806 , Mbanga,_Cameroon 2010-12-29T17:35:44Z Mbanga is a town in western Cameroon It is a junction station on the western network of Camrail. 04°30′33″N 09°34′05″E / 4. 50917°N 9. 56806°E / 4. 50917; 9. 56806

David Rundblad

David Rundblad 2012-01-30T05:39:33Z David Rundblad (born October 8, 1990 in Lycksele) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is currently a member of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Rundblad was drafted 17th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He began his NHL career with the Ottawa Senators before being traded to the Phoenix Coyotes. Rundblad scored his first Elitserien goal on March 14, 2009, in a playoff game against Linköpings HC. NHL Central Scouting ranked Rundblad sixth among European skaters for the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, one spot behind Skellefteå AIK teammate Tim Erixon. The following season, Rundblad remained with Skellefteå and scored his first regular season goal on January 30, 2010 against Mattias Modig of Luleå HF, a goal that ended up being the game-winner. On June 10, 2010, it was announced that Rundblad had signed an entry-level contract with St. Louis. On June 25, 2010, he was acquired by the Ottawa Senators in exchange for the 16th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, which the Blues used to select Vladimir Tarasenko. Rundblad finished the 2010–11 season with 50 points in 55 games. That is the second highest point total of any defenseman in league history, after David Petrasek who had 53 points (in 52 games) in 2009–10. Rundblad attended his first Senators camp in 2011, and remained on the roster into the season. Rundblad made his NHL debut on October 11, 2011 against the Minnesota Wild. Rundblad's first NHL point was an assist on a goal by Peter Regin on October 15 in a game against the Washington Capitals. His first NHL goal came on November 27, 2011 against Cam Ward of the Carolina Hurricanes. On December 17th, 2011, Rundblad was traded to the Phoenix Coyotes (along with a second round draft pick) for forward Kyle Turris. Rundblad represented Sweden at the 2009 World Junior Championships and 2010 World Junior Championships. During the 2010 tournament, Rundblad was an alternate captain for the Swedish team. , David Rundblad 2013-10-13T15:36:32Z David Rundblad (born October 8, 1990 in Lycksele, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is currently a member of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). Rundblad was drafted 17th overall by the St. Louis Blues in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He began his NHL career with the Ottawa Senators before being traded to the Phoenix Coyotes. Rundblad scored his first Elitserien goal on March 14, 2009, in a playoff game against Linköpings HC. NHL Central Scouting ranked Rundblad sixth among European skaters for the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, one spot behind Skellefteå AIK teammate Tim Erixon. The following season, Rundblad remained with Skellefteå and scored his first regular season goal on January 30, 2010 against Mattias Modig of Luleå HF, a goal that ended up being the game-winner. On June 10, 2010, it was announced that Rundblad had signed an entry-level contract with St. Louis. On June 25, 2010, he was acquired by the Ottawa Senators in exchange for the 16th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, which the Blues used to select Vladimir Tarasenko. Rundblad finished the 2010–11 season with 50 points in 55 games. That is the second highest point total of any defenseman in league history, after David Petrasek who had 53 points (in 52 games) in 2009–10. Rundblad attended his first Senators camp in 2011, and remained on the roster into the season. Rundblad made his NHL debut on October 11, 2011 against the Minnesota Wild. Rundblad's first NHL point was an assist on a goal by Peter Regin on October 15 in a game against the Washington Capitals. His first NHL goal came on November 27, 2011 against Cam Ward of the Carolina Hurricanes. On December 17, 2011, Rundblad was traded to the Phoenix Coyotes (along with a second round draft pick) for forward Kyle Turris. David Rundblad participated in the AHL All-Star Classic in Providence, RI on January 28, 2013. Rundblad scored 6 goals and had 17 assists for 23 points in 32 games before the break. Rundblad represented Sweden at the 2009 World Junior Championships and 2010 World Junior Championships. During the 2010 tournament, Rundblad was an alternate captain for the Swedish team.

Marcus Krüger

Marcus Krüger 2012-02-04T20:23:12Z Marcus Krüger (born 27 May 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. He is currently a centre for Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League. Krüger previously played for Stockholm-based Djurgårdens IF He was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 5th round, 149th overall, in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. Krüger was the announced as the first of four nominees for the 2009–10 Elitserien Rookie of the Year on 18 October 2009 after starting the season with five goals and eleven assists in just 13 games. Krüger signed a three-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in June 2010 but decided to stay with Djurgården during the first year of the contract He was recalled from Djurgården for Chicago on 23 March 2011., Marcus Krüger 2013-12-26T20:37:36Z Marcus Krüger (born May 27. 1990) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player, currently playing for the Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Blackhawks in the 5th round (149th overall) in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. Before joining the Blackhawks, Krüger previously played for Stockholm-based Djurgårdens IF of the Swedish Elite League. He helped the Blackhawks capture a Stanley Cup in 2013. Krüger represents Sweden in international play, helping his country capture a bronze medal at the junior level and a silver medal in senior international play. Krüger was announced as the first of four nominees for the 2009–10 Elitserien Rookie of the Year on 18 October 2009 after starting the season with five goals and eleven assists in just 13 games. Kruger signed a three-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks in June 2010 but decided to stay with Djurgarden during the first year of the contract He was recalled from Djurgården for Chicago on 23 March 2011. Kruger's first full season with the Blackhawks was in 2011–2012, when he played in 71 games with the club, scoring 9 goals and adding 17 asssists. On April 9, 2013, in game five of the Western Conference Quarterfinal Kruger scored his first playoff goal which happened to be the game winner against Minnesota Wild goalie Josh Harding. The Blackhawks won the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals, and Kruger contributed three goals during the team's playoff run. After his playoff success with the team, Krüger signed a two year extension with the Blackhawks on July 12, 2013. Kruger has represented Sweden three times in international play. At the junior level, he helped his country capture a bronze medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships. After graduating to the senior level, Kruger has played for Sweden twice, in 2011 (finishing with a silver medal) and 2012. Kruger is considered a possibility to be named to Sweden's team for the 2014 Winter Olympics, head coach Par Marts has been quoted as saying "He could be perhaps our fourth centerman in the Olympics".

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi

Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi 2005-05-12T03:27:33Z HJK Helsinki is a Finnish football club, playing at the Finnair Stadium in the capital, Helsinki. , Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi 2006-12-20T16:38:00Z Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi (or HJK), internationally known as HJK Helsinki, is a Finnish football club, based in the capital Helsinki. Generally considered Finland's biggest club, HJK Helsinki is also the most successful Finnish club in terms of league championships with 21. The club has also won eight Finnish Cups and four Finnish League Cups. Many of Finland's internationally most successful players have played for HJK Helsinki before moving abroad. HJK Helsinki is the only Finnish club to have played in the UEFA Champions League group stage. They did so in the 1998–1999 season, triumphing over FC Metz in the second qualifying round. The club also managed a respectable five points in their group, beating Benfica at home and earning draws at home to Kaiserslautern and away to Benfica. They lost to PSV Eindhoven twice and to Kaiserslautern away.

Christopher Lloyd

Christopher Lloyd 2016-01-02T05:03:32Z Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor best known for his roles as Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Jim Ignatowski in the television series Taxi, Uncle Fester in The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values, and Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Lloyd has won three Primetime Emmy Awards and an Independent Spirit Award, along with being nominated for two Saturn Awards and two Daytime Emmy Awards. He has also done voiceover work in animation, usually cast as villains due to his distinctive voice. Lloyd was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on October 22, 1938, the son of Samuel R. Lloyd, a lawyer, and his wife Ruth (née Lapham), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham. He is the youngest of four girls and three boys, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyd's maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company, and Lloyd is also a descendant of Mayflower passengers, including John Howland. Lloyd was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, and Hyannis, Massachusetts. He took acting classes in New York City at age 19—some at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with Sanford Meisner—and he recalled making his New York theater debut in Fernando Arrabal's play And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, saying, "I was a replacement and it was my first sort of job in New York." He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived Red, White and Maddox (1969), and went on to Off-Broadway roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Kaspar, The Harlot and the Hunted, The Seagull, Total Eclipse, Macbeth, In the Boom Boom Room, Cracks, Professional Resident Company, What Every Woman Knows, The Father, King Lear, and Power Failure. He returned to Broadway for the musical Happy End. He performed in Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed at Yale Repertory Theater, and in Jay Broad's premiere of White Pelican at the P.A.F. Playhouse in Huntington Station, New York, on Long Island. In 1977, he said of his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Meisner, "My work up to then had been very uneven. I would be good one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer. But I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage." His first movie role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He is perhaps best known for his roles as "Reverend" Jim Ignatowski, the ex-hippie cabbie on the TV sitcom Taxi, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series; and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy of science-fiction films, for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award. In 1986, he played the reviled Professor B.O. Beanes in the television series Amazing Stories. Other roles include Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (on suggestion of fellow actor and friend Leonard Nimoy), Professor Plum in Clue, Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series); the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit; a wacky sound-effects man named Zoltan in Radioland Murders; and Uncle Fester in the movie adaptations of The Addams Family. Lloyd portrayed the star character in the point-and-click adventure game Toonstruck, released in November 1996. In 1999, he was reunited onscreen with Michael J. Fox in an episode of Spin City entitled "Back to the Future IV — Judgment Day", in which Lloyd plays Owen Kingston—the former mentor of Fox's character, Mike Flaherty's—who stops by City Hall to see him, only to proclaim himself God. That same year, Lloyd starred in the movie remake of the 1960s series My Favorite Martian. He starred in the television series Deadly Games in the mid-1990s, and was a regular in the TV series Stacked in the mid-2000s. In 2003 he guest starred in three of the 13 produced episodes of Tremors: The Series as the character Cletus Poffenburger. In November 2007, Lloyd was reunited onscreen with his former Taxi co-star Judd Hirsch in the season-four episode "Graphic" of the TV series Numb3rs. He played Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theatre with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In 2009, he appeared in a comedic trailer for a faux horror film entitled Gobstopper, in which he played Willy Wonka as a horror-movie-style villain. In October 2009, he did a two-man show with comic performer Joe Gallois in several Midwest cities. In the summer of 2010, he starred as Willy Loman in a Weston Playhouse production of Death of a Salesman. That September, he reprised his role as Doctor Emmett Brown in Back to the Future: The Game, an episodic adventure game series developed by Telltale Games. On January 21, 2011, he appeared in the episode "The Firefly" of the J. J. Abrams television series Fringe. That August, he reprised the role of Dr. Emmett Brown (from Back to the Future) as part of an advertising campaign for Garbarino, an Argentine appliance company, and also as part of the Nike Company's "Back For the Future" campaign for the benefit of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. In 2012 and 2013, Lloyd reprised the role of Brown in two episodes of the stopmotion series Robot Chicken. He was a guest star on the 100th episode of the USA Network sitcom Psych as Martin Khan in 2013. In May 2013, Lloyd appeared as the narrator and the character Azdak in the Bertold Brecht play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, produced by the Classic Stage Company in New York. Lloyd has been married four times, first to Catharine Dallas Dixon Boyd on June 6, 1959. The couple divorced in 1971 after 12 years of marriage. He next was married to actress Kay Tornborg, from 1974 to 1987. Lloyd's third marriage, to Carol Ann Vanek, lasted from the late 1980s to 1991. His fourth marriage, to screenwriter Jane Walker Wood, lasted from 1992 to 2005. After his divorce from Wood, in Montecito, California, Lloyd bought a smaller house on March 23, 2007, and that May listed his 8.07-acre old estate for over $11 million; although the price was later dropped to $6.5 million. Wood and he had bought the house in 1997 for $1.6 million. This home, which was on the market at the time, was destroyed in the Tea Fire of November 2008 in Montecito, California. Lloyd's philanthropist mother, Ruth Lapham Lloyd, died in 1984 at age 88. Her surviving children at the time aside from Christopher were Donald L. Mygatt, Antoinette L. Mygatt Lucas, Samuel Lloyd III, Ruth Lloyd Scott Ax, and Adele L. Kinney. Lloyd's nephew, Sam Lloyd, is best known for playing Ted Buckland, the lawyer on Scrubs. , Christopher Lloyd 2017-12-30T18:36:30Z Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Merlock the Magician in DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990), Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993), and Grigori Rasputin in Anastasia (1997). Lloyd has an equally prominent television profile, having won two Primetime Emmy Awards for playing Jim Ignatowski on the comedy series Taxi (1978–1983). He earned a third Emmy for his 1992 guest appearance on Road to Avonlea. He has also done extensive voiceover work for animated programs, most notably voicing The Hacker on the PBS Kids series Cyberchase (2002–present), and as The Woodsman in the Cartoon Network mini-series Over The Garden Wall (2015). The former role earned him two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Lloyd was born on October 22, 1938, in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Samuel R. Lloyd, Jr, a lawyer, and his wife Ruth (née Lapham; 1896–1984), a singer and sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham. He is the youngest of four girls and three boys, one of whom, Samuel Lloyd, was an actor in the 1950s and 1960s. Lloyd's maternal grandfather, Lewis Henry Lapham, was one of the founders of the Texaco oil company, and Lloyd is also a descendant of Mayflower passengers, including John Howland. Lloyd was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. Lloyd began his career apprenticing at summer theaters in Mount Kisco, New York, and Hyannis, Massachusetts. He took acting classes in New York City at age 19—some at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with Sanford Meisner—and he recalled making his New York theater debut in Fernando Arrabal's play And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, saying, "I was a replacement and it was my first sort of job in New York." He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived Red, White and Maddox (1969), and went on to Off-Broadway roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Kaspar (February 1973), The Harlot and the Hunted, The Seagull (January 1974), Total Eclipse (February 1974), Macbeth, In the Boom Boom Room, Cracks, Professional Resident Company, What Every Woman Knows, The Father, King Lear. Power Failure, and, in mid-1972, appeared in a Jean Cocteau double bill, Orphee and The Human Voice, at the Jean Cocteau Theater at 43 Bond Street. Lloyd returned to Broadway for the musical Happy End. He performed in Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed at Yale Repertory Theater, and in Jay Broad's premiere of White Pelican at the P.A.F. Playhouse in Huntington Station, New York, on Long Island. In 1977, he said of his training at the Neighborhood Playhouse under Meisner, "My work up to then had been very uneven. I would be good one night, dull the next. Meisner made me aware of how to be consistent in using the best that I have to offer. But I guess nobody can teach you the knack, or whatever it is, that helps you come to life on stage." His first movie role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He is best known for his roles as "Reverend" Jim Ignatowski, the ex-hippie cabbie on the sitcom Taxi, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series; and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy for which he was nominated for a Saturn Award. In 1985, he appeared in the pilot episode of Street Hawk. In 1986, he played the reviled Professor B.O. Beanes on the television series Amazing Stories. Other roles include Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) (on suggestion of fellow actor and friend Leonard Nimoy), Professor Plum in Clue (1985), Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series); the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988); a wacky sound effects man named Zoltan in Radioland Murders (1994); and Uncle Fester in the movie adaptations of The Addams Family (1991). Lloyd portrayed the star character in the adventure game Toonstruck, released in November 1996. In 1999, he was reunited onscreen with Michael J. Fox in an episode of Spin City entitled "Back to the Future IV — Judgment Day", in which Lloyd plays Owen Kingston, the former mentor of Fox's character, Mike Flaherty's who stopped by City Hall to see him, only to proclaim himself God. That same year, Lloyd starred in the movie remake of the 1960s series My Favorite Martian. He starred on the television series Deadly Games in the mid-1990s and was a regular on the sitcom Stacked in the mid-2000s. In 2003, he guest-starred in three of the 13 produced episodes of Tremors: The Series as the character Cletus Poffenburger. In November 2007, Lloyd was reunited onscreen with his former Taxi co-star Judd Hirsch in the season-four episode "Graphic" of the television series Numb3rs. He played Ebenezer Scrooge in a 2008 production of A Christmas Carol at the Kodak Theatre with John Goodman and Jane Leeves. In 2009, he appeared in a comedic trailer for a faux horror film entitled Gobstopper, in which he played Willy Wonka as a horror-movie-style villain. In October 2009, he did a two-man show with comic performer Joe Gallois in several Midwest cities. In the summer of 2010, he starred as Willy Loman in a Weston Playhouse production of Death of a Salesman. That September, he reprised his role as Doctor Emmett Brown in Back to the Future: The Game, an episodic adventure game series developed by Telltale Games. On January 21, 2011, he appeared in "The Firefly" episode of the J. J. Abrams television series Fringe. That August, he reprised the role of Dr. Emmett Brown (from Back to the Future) as part of an advertising campaign for Garbarino, an Argentine appliance company, and also as part of the Nike Company's "Back For the Future" campaign for the benefit of The Michael J. Fox Foundation. In 2012 and 2013, Lloyd reprised the role of Brown in two episodes of the stop-motion series Robot Chicken. He was a guest star on the 100th episode of the USA Network sitcom Psych as Martin Khan in 2013. In May 2013, Lloyd appeared as the narrator and the character Azdak in the Bertold Brecht play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, produced by the Classic Stage Company in New York. On the October 21, 2015, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lloyd and Michael J. Fox appeared in a Back to the Future skit to commemorate the date in the second installment of the movie trilogy. Lloyd has been married five times but has never had any children. He was first married to Catharine Dallas Dixon Boyd on June 6, 1959. The couple divorced in 1971 after 12 years of marriage. He was next married to actress Kay Tornborg, from 1974 to 1987. Lloyd's third marriage, to Carol Ann Vanek, lasted from 1988 to 1991. His fourth marriage, to screenwriter Jane Walker Wood, lasted from 1992 to 2005. After his divorce from Wood, in Montecito, California, Lloyd bought a smaller house on March 23, 2007, and that May listed his 8.07-acre old estate for over $11 million; although the price was later dropped to $6.5 million. Wood and he had bought the house in 1997 for $1.6 million. This home, which was on the market at the time, was destroyed in the Tea Fire of November 2008 in Montecito, California. By August 5, 2016, Lloyd was engaged to Lisa Loiacono, a real estate broker. Lloyd married Loiacono in November of 2016 witnessed by Tony Danza. Lloyd's philanthropist mother, Ruth Lapham Lloyd, died in 1984 at age 88. Her surviving children at the time aside from Christopher were Donald L. Mygatt, Antoinette L. Mygatt Lucas, Samuel Lloyd III, Ruth Lloyd Scott Ax and Adele L. Kinney. Lloyd's nephew, Sam Lloyd, is best known for playing Ted Buckland, the lawyer on Scrubs.

Spiraea_thunbergii

Spiraea_thunbergii 2008-06-16T16:35:51Z Spiraea thunbergii (Thunberg's meadowsweet) is a plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. Spiraea thunbergii (common names : baby's breath spirea, Thunberg spirea; Japanese common name : yuki-yanigi) is a small, long-lived shrub with thin, flexible stems. It is native to Japan and China. It is also a popular landscape shrub in southeastern U. S. The flowers are white, borne in early spring (late March to early April) and late fall. It reaches a height of 1. 5-1. 8 meter and is about as wide. The alternate, simple, almost linear leaves are semideciduous. This plant produces phytotoxic cis-cinnamoyl glucosides and cis-cinnamic acid The plant-growth inhibition characteristics can be used against diverse species as lettuce (Lactuca saliva), pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus), red clover (Trifolium pratense), timothy (Phleum pratense), and bok choy (Brassica rapa var chinensis). The characteristics of these natural chemicals indicate a potential role of cis-cinnamic acid and its glucosides as allelochemicals (chemicals, released from plants, that cause an interaction between plants and other living organisms) for use as plant growth regulators and weed suppression in agricultural fields and in natural ecosystems. This species forms an interspecific hybrid with Spiraea japonica L. fil. In the horticultural trade one can obtain several varieties of Spiraea thunbergii, such as 'Mt Fuji' (white flowers), 'Ogon' (bright yellow flowers), 'Mellow yellow' and 'Fugino pink', Spiraea_thunbergii 2010-07-10T03:07:39Z Spiraea thunbergii (Thunberg's meadowsweet) is a plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. Spiraea thunbergii (common names : baby's breath spirea, Thunberg spirea; Japanese common name : yuki-yanagi) is a small, long-lived shrub with thin, flexible stems. It is native to Japan and China. It is also a popular landscape shrub in southeastern U. S. The flowers are white, borne in early spring (late March to early April) and late fall. It reaches a height of 1. 5-1. 8 meter and is about as wide. The alternate, simple, almost linear leaves are semideciduous. This plant produces phytotoxic cis-cinnamoyl glucosides and cis-cinnamic acid The plant-growth inhibition characteristics can be used against diverse species as lettuce (Lactuca saliva), pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus), red clover (Trifolium pratense), timothy (Phleum pratense), and bok choy (Brassica rapa var chinensis). The characteristics of these natural chemicals indicate a potential role of cis-cinnamic acid and its glucosides as allelochemicals (chemicals, released from plants, that cause an interaction between plants and other living organisms) for use as plant growth regulators and weed suppression in agricultural fields and in natural ecosystems. This species forms an interspecific hybrid with Spiraea japonica L. fil. In the horticultural trade one can obtain several varieties of Spiraea thunbergii, such as 'Mt Fuji' (white flowers), 'Ogon' (bright yellow flowers), 'Mellow yellow' and 'Fugino pink'

Mori_clan_(Genji)

Mori_clan_(Genji) 2009-08-13T16:51:26Z The Mori clan (森氏, Mori-shi) was a family of Japanese people descended from the Seiwa Genji. Their line descended from Minamoto no Yoshiie (also known as Hachimantaro) through his seventh son, Minamoto no Yoshitaka, proprietor of Mori-no-shō in Sagami Province. His son, Minamoto no Yoritaka, took Mori as his surname when he retired, and Yoritaka's son Yorisada continued to use the surname. During the Sengoku period, the Mori served under Oda Nobunaga. Mori Yoshinari fought with Nobunaga for Kiyosu Castle, and with his son Mori Yoshitaka joined the campaigns against the Saitō, Azai, and Asakura. Father and son died in the battle against the Azai-Asakura armies, and Mori Nagayoshi, second son of Yoshinari, became head of the house. Yoshinari's son Nagasada, known as Mori Ranmaru, died with Nobunaga in the Incident at Honnō-ji. The family became daimyo under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and for five generations headed the Tsuyama Domain in Mimasaka Province as tozama daimyo. Their descendants became viscounts in the Meiji peerage. This article is based on 森氏 (Mori-shi) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on November 28, 2007., Mori_clan_(Genji) 2013-01-17T12:47:06Z The Mori clan (森氏, Mori-shi) was a family of Japanese people descended from the Seiwa Genji. Their line descended from Minamoto no Yoshiie (also known as Hachimantaro) through his seventh son, Minamoto no Yoshitaka, proprietor of Mori-no-shō in Sagami Province. His son, Minamoto no Yoritaka, took Mori as his surname when he retired, and Yoritaka's son Yorisada continued to use the surname. During the Sengoku period, the Mori served under Oda Nobunaga. Mori Yoshinari fought with Nobunaga for Kiyosu Castle, and with his son Mori Yoshitaka joined the campaigns against the Saitō, Azai, and Asakura. Father and son died in the battle against the Azai-Asakura armies, and Mori Nagayoshi, second son of Yoshinari, became head of the house. Yoshinari's son Nagasada, known as Mori Ranmaru, died with Nobunaga in the Incident at Honnō-ji. The family became daimyo under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and for five generations headed the Tsuyama Domain in Mimasaka Province as tozama daimyo. Nagayoshi had lost his life in the battle of Komaki Nagakute. Their descendants became viscounts in the Meiji peerage. This article is based on 森氏 (Mori-shi) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on November 28, 2007.

Linfield F.C.

Linfield F.C. 2006-01-17T09:08:17Z Linfield F.C. (the Blues) are a Northern Irish football team, founded in March 1886 in south Belfast, who play at Windsor Park, the 'home' of the Northern Ireland international team. Its fan base mainly comes from the Protestant or Unionist population in and around Belfast. The governing body of Northern Ireland football, the Irish Football Association, leases the ground for use by the national team. The club, which has the biggest fan base in Northern Ireland, has a playing record unsurpassed in Northern Irish soccer, winning the Premiership title 45 times, and the Irish F.A. Cup 36 times. It has won 17 domestic doubles as of 2004, tying them with Scottish power Rangers on the top of the all-time world list. In 2005, Linfield won the first ever Setanta Cup, a competition between the top teams of both the Republic of Ireland's and Northern Ireland's premier leagues. Linfield are one the biggest and have been one of the most successful club in Northern Ireland, their nearest rivals are Glentoran, who trail in both stakes Italics – Linfield won the league and the Irish Cup. In 1993/94, Linfield added its League Cup for a domestic treble. , Linfield F.C. 2007-12-31T16:19:57Z Linfield F.C. are a football club playing in the Irish Premier League in Northern Ireland. Founded in March 1886 in south Belfast, Linfield play at Windsor Park, which is also the 'home' of the Northern Ireland international team. Linfield Football club was founded in March 1886 as the Linfield Athletic Club by workers of the Linfield Spinning Mill. Initially the club played its home fixtures on ground at the back of the mill known as 'The Meadow.' In 1889 the club's growth resulted in a move to Ulsterville Avenue. During their time there the club played Nottingham Forest in the first round of the English FA Cup (at that time the competition was open to clubs in all 4 parts of the UK) achieving a 2-2 draw in Nottingham, however they withdrew from the replay. The move to Ulsterville proved short lived as the ground was sold to housing developers and the club was forced to play their home games at opponents' grounds. Eventually Robert Gibson, the club president managed to secure the lease of a ground at Myrtlefield, in South Belfast. These three ground changes resulted in a desire to have a proper home ground and consequently a piece of land known as the 'bog meadows' just off lower Windsor Avenue was bought in 1904. The first game to take place at what later became Windsor Park was on September 2, 1905 against Glentoran. There have been many developments to 'Windsor Park' over the years. The training area and reserve team ground 'Midgeley Park' was purchased in 1951, the current office and boardroom complex completed in 1968, and the social club in 1970. The 6800 capacity North Stand, officially opened by the FIFA president João Havelange on October 20 1984 was a joint venture with the government and the Irish Football Association and the most recent 4000 capacity Kop Stand was completed in the late 1990s. The club have been seen as traditionally Protestant for much of their history. However in recent years the club has signed more Catholic players and sectarian singing has decreased. In 2006 the club launched a "True Blue" scheme, aimed at eradicating sectarianism. During the 2006-2007 season, Linfield also signed Northern Ireland Under 21 international Thomas Stewart, on a full-time contract after he was released by Wolverhampton Wanderers and Conor Downey from local rivals Cliftonville. Linfield retained their Irish League title on 21 April 2007, winning the championship for the 48th time. The club retained the Irish Cup on 5 May 2007 with a win over Dungannon Swifts on a penalty shoot-out following a 2-2 draw, making them the first club in over 70 years to win the league and cup 'double' in successive seasons, and the first Linfield side to do so since 1922-23. One week later, the club narrowly missed out on a remarkable 'treble' when they were themselves defeated in a penalty shoot out in the Setanta Sports Cup Final to reigning champions Drogheda United following a 1-1 draw. Linfield's home ground is Windsor Park, which is located in south Belfast. The governing body of Northern Irish football, the Irish Football Association, leases the ground for use by the Northern Ireland national football team. The club currently receives 15% of Northern Ireland international gate receipts. However due to health and safety and capacity concerns, the IFA no longer consider Windsor Park a suitable international venue. There are controversial plans to develop a multi-sports stadium for Northern Ireland at the disused Maze prison outside Lisburn for the use of Rugby, Gaelic games and football. As one of the province's dominant club sides, Linfield have been regular campaigners in European football. Their most notable achievement was reaching the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 1967. After beating FC Aris Bonnevoie of Luxembourg and Valerenga of Norway, they faced CSKA Sofia in the final eight. This resulted in a 2-2 draw at home and 1-0 defeat away. In the 1984/85 season, after overcoming Shamrock Rovers on away goals, Linfield faced eventual semi-finalists Panathinaikos in the second round. After a 2-1 defeat away, Linfield went 3-0 up in the return leg at Windsor Park only to draw 3-3. In the 1987/88 campaign Linfield's home game against Lillestrom was marred by hooliganism, resulting in UEFA sanctions which meant that the club had to play their next two home games in European competitions at Welsh club Wrexham A.F.C. in the 1988/9 and 1989/90 seasons. The 1993/94 campaign saw Linfield drawn with Dynamo Tbilisi of Georgia. After losing 3-2 on aggregate, they were reinstated when their opponents were expelled from the competition. Linfield faced FC Copenhagen in the first round proper. They won the first leg 3-0, and lost the second leg 4-0 after extra time. This proved costly, as victory would have meant a lucrative financial tie against eventual champions AC Milan in the next round. The club,which has the biggest fan base of any Irish League side, has a playing record unsurpassed in domestic football, winning the Premiership title 47 times (the 47th time on the 23 April, 2007), and the Irish F.A. Cup 37 times. In 2005-2006 they won a clean sweep winning all four trophies available in the Irish league, the league, the Irish cup, cis cup and co.antrim shield. [[The double in 2006, their 18th, which broke a tie with Scottish team Rangers for the top spot on the all-time world list. They added a second consecutive 'double' in 2007, the first team to achieve this feat in over seventy years. In 2005, Linfield won the first ever Setanta Cup, a competition between the top teams of both the Republic of Ireland's and Northern Ireland's premier leagues when they beat strong favourites Shelbourne. Despite winning the first ever Setanta Cup competition, Linfield Football Club failed to reach the same feat in the tournament the following year, losing to eventual winners, Drogheda United, at the semi-final stage. In 2006-2007 they topped their group for the third successive season, becoming the only side to progress beyond the group stages in every year of the competition, and reached the final where they were again defeated by Drogheda United. Linfield are the most successful club in the world in terms of trophy count, having officially passed the 200 mark with their league title win in 2004. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. see also Category:Linfield F.C. players http://www.linfieldfc.co.uk/hnh Hatchets and Hammers. start end

Penang F.C.

Penang F.C. 2013-01-07T11:28:21Z The Football Association of Penang enters a team in Malaysian football competitions to represent the state of Penang. The team currently plays in the third-level division in Malaysian football, the Malaysia FAM League. Their home stadiums are the Penang City Stadium at George Town and the Negeri Pulau Pinang Stadium at Batu Kawan. The club has won four Malaysia Cup, two Super League, one FA Cup and one Malaysia Charity Shield. For the 2012 Malaysia FAM League season, Penang FA will be renamed into Penang AUCMS due to the sponsorship of Allianze University College of Medical Sciences (AUCMS). Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Player 2012 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. For recent transfers, see List of Malaysian football transfers 2012 Local players Import players Senior Officials, Penang F.C. 2014-12-31T06:18:26Z Penang Football Association is a Malaysian professional football club based in Georgetown that plays in the Malaysia Premier League. Founded in 1921, the club represent the Penang state in football competitions. The team has traditionallly worn a blue home kit. They have a long standing rivalry with Kedah, the two northern region teams collectively known as the Northern Region Derby. The team play their home matches at the 20,000 capacity Bandaraya Stadium in Georgetown. Penang established itself as a major force in Malaysian football between the 1950s to the 1970s. Domestically, Penang has won a record of 3 Division 1 titles, 4 Malaysia Cup titles, 5 Malaysia FAM League titles, 1 Malaysia FA Cup title and 1 Malaysia Charity Shield. The club was founded in 1920 as Penang Football Association (Malay: Persatuan Bola Sepak Pulau Pinang). Penang FA is the second oldest football team in Malaysia. The team is based in the state of Penang in the north of Malaysia. Penang have consistently been a decent team throughout their history, producing players such as the country's first Olympian. Penang is the fifth most successful team in Malaysian football history with 14 champions. In 21 October 1921, the club was founded. Almost all the big matches were played at Victoria Green, home of the Chinese Recreation Club. The team enter into the final of the Malaysia most prestigious football tournament, Malaysia Cup's final in 1934, but the team lost to Singapore FA with a heartbreaking score of 1-2. Penang enter into the final of the last edition of Malaysia Cup before World War II and they lost to the same opponent in 1934 with the same score. During the World War II, football competitions were stopped. An era spanning the 1950s to the 70s when Penang was among the top teams in inter-state football. The 1950s saw Penang producing players such as the country's first Olympian, Yeap Cheng Eng, Yeang Kah Chong, Tan Swee Hock, Wong Kam Poh, Yap Hin Hean, Liew Fee Yuen, Lee Ah Loke, the Pang brothers and more. Since the early 1950s, Aziz Ahmad was Penang's top goal-getter in 1953 and 1954. He scored the winning goal when Penang defeated Singapore 3-2 in the 1953 Malaya Cup final in Ipoh. Penang won 3 Malaysia Cup champions (1953, 1954 and 1958) and 4 FAM Cup champions (1952, 1955, 1956 and 1957). Some of the well-known FAP officials then were Loh Hoot Yeang, who was president for many years, A.S. Mohamad Mydin, Tan Cheng Hoe, Yaakob Syed and Haris Hussain. Datuk David Choong was president in 1962 when Penang made the FAM Cup final, but lost 3-4 to Selangor in a pulsating contest on May 12 before a capacity crowd at the City Stadium. In October 1963, Penang trounced Perlis 13-0 in a Malaysia Cup tie at the City Stadium. Aziz took over as captain when Cheng Eng retired. The early 1960s also saw a glittering array of "stars". By 1965, veterans such as Siang Teik and Aziz made way as Penang rebuilt. M. Kuppan took over as captain with Yeap Kim Hock, James Raju and Ibrahim Mydin the only other survivors. For the first time, Penang also preferred the services of four Australians from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) which participated in the local league. They were John Leather, Clive Warren, Vic Probert and Alan Peacock. The late 60s saw the emergence of Aziz's nephews, the Abdullah brothers -- Namat and Shaharuddin. At his peak, Shaharuddin was a prolific goal-getter. Penang made the Malaysia Cup final in 1968 to face mighty Selangor but nobody expected it to be a massacre. Selangor romped home 8-1 in one of the most one-sided finals ever. In 1974, Penang heroically knocked Singapore out in the semifinal to face northern rival Perak in the final. Namat Abdullah led Penang to a 2-1 victory in what was to be the state's last Malaysia Cup final victory. Penang stepped into the final of Malaysia Cup on 1977 as they lost the match to Singapore. Football Association of Malaysia introduced the Malaysia First Division League on 1982. Penang was one of the founding members of the league. The first edition of the league saw Penang become the champion. On year 1983, Penang was the first runner-up of the league. After that, the team faced stagnation until mid 1990s because failed to win any major trophy. The glory days came after the team faced the stagnation period for more than 15 years. Penang enter into the FA Cup final for the first time in the team history on 1997 and they lost to Selangor. After the disappointment, Penang won the 1998 Malaysia Super League. The team failed to defend the champion as they only manage to get runner-up on 1999. The 2000 FA Cup saw Penang lost to Terengganu after a nail-biting penalty shootouts. Penang was the runner-up of the top division league on 2000. After two consecutive years as the runner-up of Malaysia Super League, Penang become the champion of the league on 2001. Penang FA historically won the FA Cup for the first time on 2002 thanks to the goal scored by Gustavo Romero on the 65 minutes. Penang first attempt into the Charity Shield saw the team won the trophy after they beat Selangor. Although the team got a good start by winning the Charity Shield, but the team only finished mid table in the league and in round two of the FA Cup. Penang finished third in the group stage of the Malaysia Cup and failed to qualify for the second round. In 2004, Penang ranked fifth out of 8 in the league and eliminated in the second round of FA Cup. Yunus Alif's boys won the group stage of Malaysia Cup but lost in second round. The league performance in 2006 is worse than 2005 as the team only ranked sixth. Penang won the first round of FA Cup, but they faild to qualify for the third round. They top the group of Malaysia Cup for two consecutive years but still can't advanced for the third round after losing the second round matches. The next season saw Penang ranked sixth again in the league and lost the first round match of FA Cup. The team lost the quarter final matches of Malaysia Cup. In 2006/07 season of Malaysia Super League, the team ranked tenth throughout the league. Penang finished the journey of FA Cup in round one. Penang finished fifth out of six in the Malaysia Cup group stage. New coach, Mohd Bakar was appointed to replace Josef Herel in the 07/08 season. The Panthers finished 12nd in the league, round two in FA Cup and last in the Malaysia Cup group stage. For the same season until 2012, the club was facing a critical financial condition. The state’s footballers had not been paid for four months, and called on the current administration to honour the contracts signed with players. In 2009, Penang FA finished third from the last in the top division league. Penang was knocked out from the FA Cup in round two for two consecutive years. Penang was eliminated from the Malaysia Cup tournament after finished third in the group stage. In 2010, the darkest period ever in the team history has came. Reduan Abdullah's squad had only collected 10 points and finished at the bottom of the league. Penang was relegated from the top flight after 18 consecutive spells in the top flight of Malaysian football. The club continued to decline and in 2011 the worst fears were reached when they were relegated to FAM League after the team struggled in the second division with only collected 4 points after 22 matches. Janos Krecska was appointed as coach in 2012. The team finished mid table in the third tier end of the year. Penang FA's legend, Merzagua Abderrazak take over as the club head coach in 2013. The aim of the club which was to promote to Premier League achieved successfully under the tactician. Penang won a silverware after an 11 years long wait. However, they may have to leave their talismanic Moroccan coach Merzagua Abderrazzak because he needs to obtain an A-level coaching licence in his home country to be able to continue coaching. Due to the problem, the club appointed K. Devan as the new head coach. Under his guidance Penang claimed the third spot of the Premier League and qualified into Malaysia Cup after absent for four years. Penang finished last place in the group stage with four points after six matches. K. Devan's contract has not renewed and he was signed by Negeri Sembilan. (*inaugural winners) Since the club's foundation on year 1921, the club have had only one main crest. The backgrounds colours of the club crest are blue and white. Penang FA's traditional home colours are sky blue and yellow which are taken from the colours of the Penang state flag. Ultramarine have also been used severally. Traditional away kit colours have been either yellow or white. However, in recent years several different colours have been used, such as: green, pink and orange. The Bandaraya Stadium is the home stadium of Penang FA. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people. It was built in 1957, the oldest stadium in Malaysia and initially aims to provide a venue for sports activities from Georgetown, especially as a football pitch. Previously, Penang FA also use Penang State Stadium in Batu Kawan. The USM Athletics Stadium is the training ground of Penang FA located in the campus of University of Science, Malaysia in Penang. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. 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Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Rennes,_Dol_and_Saint-Malo 2008-09-25T10:57:50Z The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes (Lat:Archdiocesis Rhedonensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese is coextensive with the department of Ille et Vilaine. The Archdiocese has 8 suffragans: Diocese of Angers, Diocese of Laval, Diocese of Le Mans, Diocese of Luçon, Diocese of Nantes, Diocese of Quimper, and the Diocese of Saint-Brieuc. In the Middle Ages the Bishop of Rennes had the privilege of crowning the dukes of Brittany in his cathedral. On the occasion of his first entry into Rennes it was customary for him to be borne on the shoulders of four Breton barons. The Concordat of 1802 re-established the Diocese of Rennes which since then has included: the ancient Diocese of Rennes with the exception of three parishes given to the diocese of Nantes; the greater part of the ancient Diocese of Dol; the greater part of the ancient Diocese of St. Malo; ten parishes that had formed part of the ancient Diocese of Vannes and Nantes. On 3 January, 1859, the See of Rennes, which the French Revolution had desired to make a metropolitan, became an archiepiscopal see, with the Diocese of Quimper, Diocese of Vannes, and Diocese of St. Brieuc as suffragans. Cardinal Place obtained from Pope Leo XIII permission for the Archbishop of Rennes to add the titles of Dol and St. Malo to that of Rennes. Tradition names as first apostles of the future Diocese of Rennes, missionaries of the Latin race, but of an uncertain date: Saint Maximinus, Saint Clarus, Saint Justus. On the other hand, when in the fifth and sixth centuries bands of Christian Britons emigrated from Great Britain to Armorica and formed on its northern coast the small Kingdom of Domnonée, the Gospel was preached for the first time in the future Diocese of Dol and Diocese of Aleth. Among these missionaries were St. Armel, who, according to the legend, founded in the sixth century the town of Ploermel in the Diocese of Vannes and then retired into the forests of Chateaugiron and Janzé and attacked Druidism on the very site of the Dolmen of the Fairy Rocks (La Roche aux Fées); St. Méen (Mevennus) who retired to the solitudes around Pontrecoët and founded the monastery of Gael (550), known afterwards as St. Méen's; St. Lunarius and St. Suliacus who dwelt in the woods along the banks of the Rance, and St. Samson and St. Malo. The earliest historical mention of the See of Rennes dates from 453. One of the four prelates, Sarmatio, Chariato, Rumoridus, and Viventius, who in that year took part in the Council of Angers, was Bishop of Rennes. Athenius, Bishop of Rennes, took part in the Council of Tours in 461. Louis Duchesne is of opinion that the St. Amandus reckoned among the bishops of Rennes at the end of the fifth century is the same as St. Amand of Rodez. Among other bishops are the famous St. Melanius (Melaine) who in 511 assisted at the Council of Orléans and had a widespread reputation for sanctity. He gave his name to a well-known abbey, which in the twelfth century possessed no less than seventy parish churches. Famous among the annals of Rennes are: St. Desiderius (Didier) whose episcopate is questioned by Duchesne (c. 682); St. Moderamnus (Moran) who died about 730 in the monastery of Berceto near Lucca; Marbodus, the hymnographer (1096-1123); the Dominican Yves Mayeuc (1507-41); Arnaud d'Ossat (1596-1600), cardinal in 1599, and prominent in the conversion of Henry IV of France; Godefroy Brossais Saint Marc (1848-78), cardinal in 1875; Charles Place (1878-93), cardinal in 1886; Guillaume Labouré (1893-1906), cardinal in 1897. Le Coz (1760-1815) during the Revolution was constitutional Archbishop of Rennes. Under the Concordat he became Archbishop of Besançon. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help), Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Rennes,_Dol_and_Saint-Malo 2010-04-13T11:31:09Z The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes (Lat:Archdiocesis Rhedonensis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. The diocese is coextensive with the department of Ille et Vilaine. The Archdiocese has 8 suffragans: Diocese of Angers, Diocese of Laval, Diocese of Le Mans, Diocese of Luçon, Diocese of Nantes, Diocese of Quimper, and the Diocese of Saint-Brieuc. In the Middle Ages the Bishop of Rennes had the privilege of crowning the dukes of Brittany in his cathedral. On the occasion of his first entry into Rennes it was customary for him to be borne on the shoulders of four Breton barons. The Concordat of 1802 re-established the Diocese of Rennes which since then has included: the ancient Diocese of Rennes with the exception of three parishes given to the diocese of Nantes; the greater part of the ancient Diocese of Dol; the greater part of the ancient Diocese of St. Malo; ten parishes that had formed part of the ancient Diocese of Vannes and Nantes. On 3 January, 1859, the See of Rennes, which the French Revolution had desired to make a metropolitan, became an archiepiscopal see, with the Diocese of Quimper, Diocese of Vannes, and Diocese of St. Brieuc as suffragans. Cardinal Place obtained from Pope Leo XIII permission for the Archbishop of Rennes to add the titles of Dol and St. Malo to that of Rennes. Tradition names as first apostles of the future Diocese of Rennes, missionaries of the Latin race, but of an uncertain date: Saint Maximinus, Saint Clarus, Saint Justus. On the other hand, when in the fifth and sixth centuries bands of Christian Britons emigrated from Great Britain to Armorica and formed on its northern coast the small Kingdom of Domnonée, the Gospel was preached for the first time in the future Diocese of Dol and Diocese of Aleth. Among these missionaries were St. Armel, who, according to the legend, founded in the sixth century the town of Ploermel in the Diocese of Vannes and then retired into the forests of Chateaugiron and Janzé and attacked Druidism on the very site of the Dolmen of the Fairy Rocks (La Roche aux Fées); St. Méen (Mevennus) who retired to the solitudes around Pontrecoët and founded the monastery of Gael (550), known afterwards as St. Méen's; St. Lunarius and St. Suliacus who dwelt in the woods along the banks of the Rance, and St. Samson and St. Malo. The earliest historical mention of the See of Rennes dates from 453. One of the four prelates, Sarmatio, Chariato, Rumoridus, and Viventius, who in that year took part in the Council of Angers, was Bishop of Rennes. Athenius, Bishop of Rennes, took part in the Council of Tours in 461. Louis Duchesne is of opinion that the St. Amandus reckoned among the bishops of Rennes at the end of the fifth century is the same as St. Amand of Rodez. Among other bishops are the famous St. Melanius (Melaine) who in 511 assisted at the Council of Orléans and had a widespread reputation for sanctity. He gave his name to a well-known abbey, which in the twelfth century possessed no less than seventy parish churches. Famous among the annals of Rennes are: St. Desiderius (Didier) whose episcopate is questioned by Duchesne (c. 682); St. Moderamnus (Moran) who died about 730 in the monastery of Berceto near Lucca; Marbodus, the hymnographer (1035-1123); the Dominican Yves Mayeuc (1507-41); Arnaud d'Ossat (1596-1600), cardinal in 1599, and prominent in the conversion of Henry IV of France; Godefroy Brossais Saint Marc (1848-78), cardinal in 1875; Charles Place (1878-93), cardinal in 1886; Guillaume Labouré (1893-1906), cardinal in 1897. Le Coz (1760-1815) during the Revolution was constitutional Archbishop of Rennes. Under the Concordat he became Archbishop of Besançon. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza 2017-01-04T14:26:31Z Aubrey plaza is very hot Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress and comedian. She portrayed April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation, and after appearing in supporting roles in several films, had her first leading role in the 2012 comedy Safety Not Guaranteed. Plaza began her career as an intern. After performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, she appeared in the web series The Jeannie Tate Show. She later appeared in films such as Funny People, 10 Years, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Plaza was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Bernadette, an attorney, and David Plaza, a financial advisor. She has two younger sisters, Renee and Natalie; the latter has inspired a number of Aubrey's comedic characters. Plaza was named after the song "Aubrey" by Bread. Her father is Puerto Rican and her mother is Irish–English. Plaza has stated: "I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico." She participated in productions with the Wilmington Drama League. Plaza attended an all-girls Catholic school from grades four to 12. She graduated from Ursuline Academy in 2002, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2006. In high school she was student council president. While at NYU in 2004, Plaza suffered a stroke that caused temporary paralysis and expressive aphasia, but she has fully recovered. Plaza has had many internships, including an "intern for Samba Post-Its"; one day, her job at Samba Post-Its was to "literally wallpaper a bathroom with Post-Its". She also worked as an NBC page. She served as a director's assistant to writer/producer/director Bennett Davlin during the making of his award-winning short film, TC3. Plaza has performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2004. She also performed stand-up and has appeared at the Laugh Factory and The Improv. In 2008, she participated in the Improv Everywhere prank "Mobile Desktop", in which she and two other people brought desktop PCs, including a CRT monitor, tower computer, keyboard and mouse into a Starbucks and used them as people use laptops there. Plaza starred in the online series The Jeannie Tate Show, and stars as Robin Gibney in ESPN's Mayne Street. She appeared in the first episode of "Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz" on Funny or Die. She played Seth Rogen's love interest, Daisy, in 2009's Funny People directed by Judd Apatow. She appeared in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Derrick Comedy's Mystery Team, which debuted at 2009 Sundance. She appeared in a CollegeHumor short alongside Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. She played April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation. For her performance as the deadpan employee, she received universal praise throughout the entire show, being referred to as one of the show's breakout characters. She also has a recurring role as "the Princess" in the comedic sci-fi web series Troopers on CollegeHumor. On March 12, 2010, Plaza performed at "A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweetathon for Haiti", produced by Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Ben Stiller, and Mike Rosenstein, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2011 she appeared on Portlandia. Plaza appeared as a guest judge during a roast segment on The Next Food Network Star in 2011. She appeared in Episode 199 of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. In 2012, she was featured in Father John Misty's music video for the song "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings" from the album Fear Fun and in 2014 she was in Cassorla's "Bona Fide" video where she also made her saxophone-playing debut. In 2012 Plaza earned her first starring role in a major film, alongside Mark Duplass, in the comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed. Plaza played Darius, a jaded intern who answers a curious want ad "seeking a companion for a time travelling adventure". Her performance in the film was critically acclaimed, and Gary Thompson of the Philadelphia Inquirer questioned whether this role was out of her usual "pretty slacker" range but found her performance "compelling". At the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, Plaza "jumped onstage and tried to wrestle the (Golden Popcorn Award) statue from Will Ferrell's hand" during his acceptance speech; Ferrell integrated the interaction into his monologue as a planned moment, but the unscripted interruption led to Plaza's ejection from the event. At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in January 2014, Plaza's film, Life After Beth, which was written and directed by her boyfriend Jeff Baena, premiered. On September 17, 2014, Lifetime Network announced that Plaza would do the speaking voice of Grumpy Cat in their upcoming original movie Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever. The film premiered on November 29, 2014 and received generally negative reviews. She starred in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates alongside Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick and Adam DeVine. The film was released on July 8, 2016. Her role as the rebellious Tatiana earned her critical praise. In 2016, she has the only speaking line in a commercial for the Apple iPhone 6s, demonstrating "I'm peeking my flight. I'm not peeking my flight. I'm peeking my . . . wait, I missed my flight." She was a guest star on HarmonQuest in 2016, an animated Pathfinder show that enlists a new star guest each episode and then usually kills off their guest in the end. She played a gnome named "Hawaiian Coffee" who helps the heroes escape from jails using magic, alchemy, and even bomb potions. Plaza has said her "first love" was actor and musician John Gallagher, Jr., whom she grew up with. He asked her out at age 13 with a song he wrote and sung it to her in an Irish pub. Plaza previously dated fellow actor Michael Cera for a year and a half after the two met on the set of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Aubrey said that in 2010, the two nearly got married in Vegas. Plaza has been dating writer/director Jeff Baena since 2011. They live together and work together often. Plaza was a founding member of the Los Angeles-based basketball team the Pistol Shrimps, alongside actresses Molly Hawkey and Angela Trimbur. After a torn ACL, she decided to take her talents to the rival team The Spice Sqirls. Regarding her sexuality, Plaza told The Advocate in 2016, "I fall in love with girls and guys. I can't help it.", Aubrey Plaza 2018-12-27T18:52:21Z Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress and comedian. She is best known for her role as April Ludgate on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. After appearing in supporting roles in several feature films, Plaza had her first leading role as Darius Britt in the 2012 film Safety Not Guaranteed. Since 2017, she has starred as Lenny Busker in the FX drama series Legion. Plaza began her career performing improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She later appeared in films such as Mystery Team (2008), Funny People (2009), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), Monsters University (2013), Life After Beth (2014), Dirty Grandpa (2016), Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016), The Little Hours (2017), and Ingrid Goes West (2017), the latter two of which she also produced. Plaza was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Bernadette, an attorney, and David Plaza, a financial advisor. She has two younger sisters, Renee and Natalie. Plaza was named after the song "Aubrey" by Bread. Her father is Puerto Rican and her mother is of Irish–English descent. Plaza has stated: "I was like the only diverse kid in my high school, and I'm half-Puerto Rican. But yeah, I have a huge family and tons of cousins in Puerto Rico." Plaza graduated from Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic school, in 2002, and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2006. In high school she was student council president and participated in productions with the Wilmington Drama League. During her second year of college in 2004, Plaza suffered a stroke that caused temporary paralysis and expressive aphasia. Since then she has fully recovered. Plaza has had many internships, and worked as an NBC page. Plaza has performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater since 2004. She also performed stand-up and has appeared at the Laugh Factory and The Improv. Plaza starred in the online series The Jeannie Tate Show, and starred as Robin Gibney in ESPN's Mayne Street. She appeared in the first episode of "Terrible Decisions with Ben Schwartz" on Funny or Die. She played Seth Rogen's love interest, Daisy, in 2009's Funny People directed by Judd Apatow. She appeared in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and Derrick Comedy's Mystery Team, which debuted at 2009 Sundance. She appeared in a CollegeHumor short alongside Jason Bateman and Will Arnett. She played April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation from 2009 to 2015. For her performance as the deadpan employee, she received universal praise throughout the entire show, being referred to as one of the show's breakout characters. On March 12, 2010, Plaza performed at "A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweetathon for Haiti", produced by Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer, Ben Stiller, and Mike Rosenstein, at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. In 2011 she appeared on Portlandia. Plaza appeared as a guest judge during a roast segment on The Next Food Network Star in 2011. She appeared in Episode 199 of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. She also had a recurring role as "the Princess" in the comedic sci-fi web series Troopers on CollegeHumor. In 2012, she was featured in Father John Misty's music video for the song "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings" from the album Fear Fun and in 2014 she was in Cassorla's "Bona Fide" video where she also made her saxophone-playing debut. In 2012 Plaza earned her first starring role in a major film, alongside Mark Duplass, in the comedy, Safety Not Guaranteed. Plaza played Darius, a jaded intern who answers a curious want ad "seeking a companion for a time traveling adventure". Her performance in the film was critically acclaimed, and Gary Thompson of The Philadelphia Inquirer questioned whether this role was out of her usual "pretty slacker" range but found her performance "compelling". At the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in January 2014, Plaza's film, Life After Beth, which was written and directed by her boyfriend Jeff Baena, premiered. On September 17, 2014, Lifetime Network announced that Plaza would do the speaking voice of Grumpy Cat in their upcoming original movie Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever. She starred in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates alongside Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick and Adam DeVine. The film was released on July 8, 2016. Her role as the rebellious Tatiana earned her critical praise. She was a guest star on HarmonQuest in 2016, as a gnome named "Hawaiian Coffee". In 2016, she portrayed Aaron Burr in the "Hamilton" episode of Drunk History. In 2017, it was announced that Plaza would star in indie comedy An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn. She first played the role of Cat Adams in Season 11 of the CBS television show Criminal Minds. She returned to the role in Season 12. Plaza has been starring in the FX series Legion since 2017. Plaza has been dating writer and director Jeff Baena since 2011. They live together in Los Angeles, California and work together often. In a July 2016 interview with The Advocate, Plaza stated that she " in love with girls and guys". Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Villain (2018)Nominated—Imagen Award for Best Actress—Television (2018)

Capital_note

Capital_note 2012-06-06T21:01:57Z Capital notes are a form of convertible security exercisable into shares. They are equity vehicles. Capital notes are similar to warrants, except that they often do not have an expiration date or an exercise price (hence, the entire consideration the company expects to receive, for its future issue of shares, is paid when the capital note is issued). Many times, capital notes are issued in connection with a debt-for-equity swap restructuring: instead of issuing the shares (that replace debt) in the present, the company gives creditors convertible securities – capital notes – so the dilution will occur later. Alternately, a capital note is a bond with a very long maturity horizon, reaching several decades (sometimes as much as 50 or 100 years). Unlike equity securities, these capital notes do mature at some point; therefore, they form part of the company's liabilities and not part of equity. However, since their maturity is so far in the future, they are treated as equity for practical purposes – the company does not have to redeem them for a very long time and the money received against them will stay inside the company during that time. Banks and other financial institutions issue these bonds to satisfy regulatory demands regarding capital requirements, specifically under the Basel Accords. In the "tiers" system, capital notes are treated as close to equity, as both reinforce the bank's "capital". Additionally, bank capital notes are not collateralized (form no secured debt) and are contractually subordinated to become a junior class of debt. Similar terms might be found in redeemable preferred shares. Contrary to the warrant-like capital notes described above, these capital notes are usually not convertible and represent no current or future stake in the corporation's equity (share capital). In structured finance, the capital note is the most junior security issued by a structured investment vehicle. It is comparable to the equity tranche of a CDO. Investors who buy the capital notes are the first in line to bear risk if the cash flows from the SIV's assets are insufficient to cover promised payments to all investors. See securitization transaction for more details on how the process of slicing up risk (or "tranching") works. , Capital_note 2013-11-15T09:55:34Z Capital notes are several types of securities. "Capital note" has a number of meanings, as it can be either an equity security, a debt security or a form of security used in structured finance. In all cases, the use of the term "capital" is to denote that the security is relatively junior in the issuing corporation's order of priorities in claims for its assets. Capital notes are a form of convertible security exercisable into shares. They are equity vehicles. Capital notes are similar to warrants, except that they often do not have an expiration date or an exercise price (hence, the entire consideration the company expects to receive, for its future issue of shares, is paid when the capital note is issued). Capital notes may be issued in connection with a debt-for-equity swap restructuring: instead of promptly issuing the debt-replacing shares, the company issues convertible securities, in order to postpone the event of share dilution. Alternately, a capital note is a bond with a very long maturity horizon, reaching several decades (sometimes as much as 50 or 100 years). Unlike equity securities, these capital notes do mature at some point; therefore, they form part of the company's liabilities and not part of equity. However, since their maturity is so far in the future, they are treated as equity for practical purposes; the company keeps the money raised through them inside its balance sheet for a very long time. Banks and other financial institutions issue these bonds to satisfy regulatory demands regarding capital requirements, specifically under the Basel Accords. In the Basel "tiers" system, capital notes are treated as close to equity, as both reinforce the bank's "capital". Additionally, bank capital notes are usually not collateralized and are contractually subordinated, forming a junior class of debt. Similar terms might be found in redeemable preferred shares. Contrary to the warrant-like capital notes described above, these capital notes are usually not convertible, so they represent no current or future stake in the corporation's equity (share capital). In structured finance, the capital note is the most junior security issued by a structured investment vehicle. It is comparable to the equity tranche of a CDO. Investors who buy the capital notes are the first in line to bear risk if the cash flows from the SIV's assets are insufficient to cover promised payments to all investors. See securitization transaction for more details on how the process of slicing up risk (or "tranching") works.

Hugh_Boyd_Casey

Hugh_Boyd_Casey 2009-11-28T23:22:05Z Major Hugh Boyd Casey (November 30, 1925-January 11, 1952) is the son of General Hugh John Casey and was killed after surviving combat for almost two years with the 7th Infantry, in a non-hostile airplane crash during the Korean War while in the position of aide-de-camp to the 3d Infantry Division Commander. He enlisted in the Army during World War II and served in several South Pacific campaigns. After the war, he was commissioned as a regular Army officer. Major Casey was a veteran of World War II. In Korea, he was a member of the 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He was commended for his actions at the Hungman Beachhead. He was killed in the crash of a light Army aircraft near Tong Du Chon, South Korea on January 11, 1952. For his leadership and valor, Major Casey was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Korean Service Medal and the United Nations Service Medal. Major Casey's sister, Patricia Adams Casey, married Frank Butner Clay, who retired from the Army as a Major General in 1973. Major General Hugh John Casey served on the personal staff of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur as his chief engineer during World War II. Major Casey is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Camp Casey, South Korea is named for Major H. B. Casey. This biographical article related to the United States Army is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. , Hugh_Boyd_Casey 2011-04-05T06:46:54Z Major Hugh Boyd Casey (November 30, 1925-January 11, 1952) is the namesake of the U. S. Army 3,500-acre (14 km2) Camp Casey installation in South Korea, named and officially dedicated in 1952 in his memory. Major Casey was the son of General Hugh John Casey and was killed after surviving combat for almost two years with the 7th Infantry, in a non-hostile airplane crash during the Korean War while serving in the position of aide-de-camp to the 3d Infantry Division Commander. He enlisted in the Army during World War II and served in several South Pacific campaigns. After the war, he was commissioned as a regular Army officer. Major Casey was a veteran of World War II. In Korea, he was a member of the 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. He was commended for his actions at the Hungman Beachhead. He was killed in the crash of a light Army aircraft near Tong Du Chon, South Korea on January 11, 1952. For his leadership and valor, Major Casey was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal and the United Nations Service Medal. Major Casey's sister, Patricia Adams Casey, married Frank Butner Clay, who retired from the Army as a Major General in 1973. Major General Hugh John Casey served on the personal staff of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur as his chief engineer during World War II. Major Casey is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Template:Persondata This biographical article related to World War II United States Army personnel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

University of Sydney Students' Representative Council

University of Sydney Students' Representative Council 2006-01-01T04:54:08Z The University of Sydney Students' Representative Council (SRC) is the representative body for undergraduate students at the University of Sydney. The SRC is governed by the Council, which consists of 45 Representatives elected annually by undergraduate students. The Council meets once a month. While it is the supreme decision-making body in the SRC, it's large size and the length of time before meetings means that most decisions are made by others. The Council often struggles to reach a quorum, with many meetings failing to take place. The Executive of the SRC is elected annually by the Council, and consists of the President, Vice-President, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Secretary, and four general members, elected proportionally out of Council. Meeting weekly, the Executive makes most significant decisions regarding the SRC. The day-to-day operation of the SRC is generally conducted by paid staff and paid office-bearers, being the President (directly elected by students), the Education Officer, Women's Officer, and Communications Officer. Annual elections are held in September each year, to elect the Council, the President, 7 NUS delegates, and the editors of Honi Soit, the student newspaper. Unlike most student organisations, other office-bearers are elected by the Council, and not directly by students. All undergraduate students have a right to vote in annual elections. The SRC was founded in the late 1920s, and is one of the oldest student organisations in Australia. The SRC was prominent in student campaigns against the war in Vietnam and numerous other political issues. The SRC was also deeply involved in the campaign to create the separate Political Economy department within the School of Economics in the late 1970s. ¹Adair Durie was removed from office following the 1997 election. ²Luke Whitington was elected in the 1998 by-election following the removal of Adair Durie, and was elected again at the 1998 general election to serve in 1999. Former Presidents of NUS have gone on to many notable achievements. Cabinet ministers Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey were President in 1979 and 1987 respectively. James Spigelman, Chief Justice of New South Wales, was also a former President. Other prominent personalities formerly involved in the SRC include Members of Parliament Anthony Albanese and Malcolm Turnbull and Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia. Presidents of the SRC have regularly gone on to become President of the National Union of Students, with the 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005 Presidents being immediately elected to the peak office in NUS. The last three Undergraduate fellows of the University of Sydney Senate, Moksha Watts, Jo Haylen and Rose Jackson, were all former Presidents of the SRC. The SRC focuses its work on representation of students, rather than the provision of services. This sets it apart from the University of Sydney Union, which provides services such as Clubs and Societies and food services, and the Manning, Holme and Wentworth buildings. The SRC is more involved in broad political campaigns and has been central to the VSU campaign. Its collectives in the areas of Education, Women's, Queer, Environment, Global Solidarity and Anti-Racism provide a focal point for campus activism, and are deeply linked with their respective SRC departments. The SRC also publishes Honi Soit, Australia's only remaining weekly student newspaper, as well as Growing Strong, the Women's handbook; and the Orientation Handbook. The SRC runs a second-hand bookshop, as well as providing free advice on legal issues, Centrelink and conflicts between students and university administration. The SRC has a long history of being at the centre of student politics and student activism in Australia. Most political groupings in Australian student politics have a presence at Sydney University, such as Labor Left, Grassroots Left, Labor Right, Socialist Alternative and Liberals. Since the end of 2000, the SRC has been controlled by the National Organisation of Labor Students, which is centred around its Sydney University membership. Prior to that, from the late 1980s until 1997, the SRC was controlled by Left Alliance, a former NUS faction made up of students to the left of Labor. The second largest grouping, behind NOLS, is Keep Left, predominantly made up of members of the Grassroots Left and Socialist Alternative. There is also a substantial presence of Student Unity members, as well as Liberals, who were only able to gain 11% of the vote in a strong campaign in the 2005 annual election. , University of Sydney Students' Representative Council 2007-12-26T10:00:07Z The University of Sydney Students' Representative Council (SRC) is the representative body for undergraduate students at the University of Sydney. The SRC is governed by the Council, which consists of 45 Representatives elected annually by undergraduate students. The Council meets once a month. It is the supreme decision-making body in the SRC. The Executive of the SRC is elected annually by the Council, and consists of the President, Vice-President, Honorary Treasurer, Honorary Secretary, and four general members, elected proportionally out of Council. Meeting weekly, the Executive makes most significant decisions regarding the SRC. The day-to-day operation of the SRC is generally conducted by paid staff and paid office-bearers, being the President (directly elected by students), the Education Officer, and Women's Officer. Annual elections are held in September each year, to elect the Council, the President, 7 NUS delegates, and the editors of Honi Soit, the student newspaper. Unlike most student organisations, other office-bearers are elected by the Council, and not directly by students. All undergraduate students have a right to vote in annual elections. The SRC was founded in the late 1920s, and is one of the oldest student organisations in Australia. The SRC was prominent in student campaigns against the war in Vietnam and numerous other political issues. The SRC was also deeply involved in the campaign to create the separate Political Economy department within the School of Economics in the late 1970s. Former Presidents of the SRC have gone on to many notable achievements. Cabinet ministers Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey were President in 1979 and 1987 respectively. Jim Spigelman, Chief Justice of New South Wales and Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia, were also President. Other prominent personalities formerly involved in the SRC include Members of Parliament Anthony Albanese and Malcolm Turnbull. Presidents of the SRC have regularly gone on to become President of the National Union of Students, with the 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2007 Presidents being immediately elected to the peak office in NUS. The last three Undergraduate fellows of the University of Sydney Senate, Moksha Watts, Jo Haylen and Rose Jackson, were all former Presidents of the SRC. The SRC focuses its work on representation of students, rather than the provision of services. This sets it apart from the University of Sydney Union, which provides services such as Clubs and Societies and food services, and the Manning, Holme and Wentworth buildings. The SRC is also highly involved in broad political campaigns and has been central to the campaign against Voluntary Student Unionism. It has collectives in the areas of Education, Women's, Queer, Environment, Global Solidarity and Anti-Racism. The SRC also publishes Honi Soit, Australia's only remaining weekly student newspaper, as well as Growing Strong, the Women's handbook; and the Orientation Handbook. The SRC runs a second-hand bookshop, as well as providing free advice on legal issues, Centrelink and conflicts between students and university administration. The SRC has a long history of being at the centre of student politics and student activism in Australia. Most political groupings in Australian student politics have a presence at Sydney University, such as Labor Left, Grassroots Left, Labor Right, Socialist Alternative and Liberals. Since the end of 2000, the SRC has been controlled by the National Organisation of Labor Students, the student Labor Left faction. Prior to that, from the late 1980s until 1997, the SRC was controlled by Left Alliance, a former NUS faction made up of students to the left of Labor.

Gippy Grewal

Gippy Grewal 2021-03-09T05:55:00Z Rupinder Singh "Gippy" Grewal (born 2 January 1983), is an Indian actor, singer, film director and producer whose works span over Punjabi and Hindi film industry. His single "Phulkari" was very successful in the Punjabi music industry. He made his acting debut in the 2010 movie, Mel Karade Rabba, and which he followed with Carry On Jatta, Lucky Di Unlucky Story, Bhaji in Problem and Jatt James Bond. He revived "PTC Best Actor Award" in 2011 for his performance in the 2011 film Jihne Mera Dil Luteya. He received the "PIFAA Best Actor Award" in 2012 along with Diljit Dosanjh and received "PTC Best Actor Award" in 2015 for Jatt James Bond along with Diljit Dosanjh. Grewal was born in Ludhiana and his hometown is Koom Kalan, Ludhiana. He did his schooling from Nankana Sahib Public School, Kot Gangu Rai and studied at North India Institute of Hotel Management, Panchkula. His brother Sippy Grewal is a distributor based in Australia. Grewal is married to Ravneet Kaur and has three sons. Grewal made his debut with the album Chakkh Lai was produced by Aman Hayer. He followed with the albums Nasha, Phulkari, Phulkari 2 Just Hits and Gangster. His 2012 song "Angreji Beat", featured in the Bollywood film Cocktail. The video for his 2013 single "Hello Hello" was shot in Las Vegas, Nevada. He performed at the Sandwell and Birmingham Mela in 2014. Before his fame though he was a wedding singer. He frequently performed at weddings in Punjab, India. Grewal made his film debut in a supporting role in 2010 Punjabi-language film Mel Karade Rabba. He followed that up with a lead role in Jihne Mera Dil Luteya which became the biggest hit in Punjabi cinema when it released. In April 2012 his film Mirza – The Untold Story released with the highest opening for a Punjabi film at the time. His next movie Carry On Jatta released in July 2012 and had the second highest opening and total collections for Punjabi film. In 2013, Grewal released the action film Singh vs Kaur, comedy film Lucky Di Unlucky Story and Best of Luck and the comedy movie Bhaji in Problem. In 2014, he appeared in the dramatic thriller Jatt James Bond. His second film of 2014 was the comedy film Double Di Trouble. He dubbed a voice in the Punjabi version of A Good Day to Die Hard which was the first Hollywood movie to be dubbed in Punjabi. In 2015, Grewal entered Bollywood with a guest appearance in the comedy-drama film Dharam Sankat Mein. He then made his full acting debut in Bollywood with the romantic-comedy film Second Hand Husband. In September 2017 Gippy Grewal starred in his most recent Hindi movie, Lucknow Central, along with Farhan Akhtar. Carry on Jatta 2 released on 1 June 2018., Gippy Grewal 2022-12-06T17:48:24Z Rupinder Singh "Gippy" Grewal (born 2 January 1983), is an Indian actor, singer, film director and producer whose works span over Punjabi and Hindi film industry. His single "Phulkari" was very successful in the Punjabi music industry. He made his acting debut in the 2010 movie, Mel Karade Rabba, and which he followed with Carry On Jatta, Lucky Di Unlucky Story, Bhaji in Problem and Jatt James Bond. He revived "PTC Best Actor Award" in 2011 for his performance in the 2011 film Jihne Mera Dil Luteya. He received the "PIFAA Best Actor Award" in 2012 along with Diljit Dosanjh and received "PTC Best Actor Award" in 2015 for Jatt James Bond along with Diljit Dosanjh. He is owner of production houses Humble Motion Pictures and Big Daddy Films along with his brother Sippy Grewal. Grewal was born in Ludhiana and his hometown is Koom Kalan, Ludhiana. He did his schooling from Nankana Sahib Public School, Kot Gangu Rai and studied at North India Institute of Hotel Management, Panchkula. His brother Sippy Grewal is a distributor based in Australia. Grewal is married to Ravneet Kaur and has three sons. Like many other Indians his ancestors roots are found in Pakistan. In Jan 2020, he visited Nankana sahib, his village in Lahore and after 2 days he went back to India. His travel started from wagah border and then ended there. Grewal made his debut with the album Chakkh Lai was produced by Atul Sharma. He followed with the albums Aaja Ve Mitraa,Mele Mitraan De, Phulkari 2 and many more. He become a famous name in Punjabi Music among the audience. In 2021, his eighth album "Desi Rockstar" produced by Aman Hayer was a huge hit and was very much loved by Audience. After the album he released song " Angreji Beat" with Yo Yo Honey Singh which proved to be the biggest song of his career. He enjoyed his prime time of stardom during 2010-2014 making him leading artist in Punjabi Music Industry . In 2012 his song "Angreji Beat", featured in the Bollywood film Cocktail. The video for his 2013 single "Hello Hello" was shot in Las Vegas, Nevada. He performed at the Sandwell and Birmingham Mela in 2014. Before his fame though he was a wedding singer. He frequently performed at weddings in Punjab, India. Grewal made his film debut in a supporting role in 2010 Punjabi-language film Mel Karade Rabba. He followed that up with a lead role in Jihne Mera Dil Luteya which became the biggest hit in Punjabi cinema when it released. In April 2012 his film Mirza – The Untold Story released with the highest opening for a Punjabi film at the time. His next movie Carry On Jatta released in July 2012 and had the second highest opening and total collections for Punjabi film. In 2013, Grewal released the action film Singh vs Kaur, comedy film Lucky Di Unlucky Story and Best of Luck and the comedy movie Bhaji in Problem. In 2014, he appeared in the dramatic thriller Jatt James Bond. His second film of 2014 was the comedy film Double Di Trouble. He dubbed a voice in the Punjabi version of A Good Day to Die Hard which was the first Hollywood movie to be dubbed in Punjabi. In 2015, Grewal entered Bollywood with a guest appearance, portraying pop star Manjeet Manchala in the comedy-drama film Dharam Sankat Mein. He then made his full acting debut in Bollywood with the romantic-comedy film Second Hand Husband. In 2016, he launched own production house Humble Motion Pictures with his first directional debut Ardaas. In September 2017 Gippy Grewal starred in his most recent Hindi movie, Lucknow Central, along with Farhan Akhtar. Carry on Jatta 2 released on 1 June 2018. In 2022, he launched a new production house "Big Daddy Films". Studio albums

Ron_Healey

Ron_Healey 2017-07-12T18:27:03Z Ronald "Ron" Healey (born 30 August 1952) is a former Republic of Ireland international footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Healey was a goalkeeper who began his career with Manchester City. Following an apprenticeship with City, he signed professional forms for the club in October 1969 and he made his debut at 17. As he was the understudy to the English international goalkeeper Joe Corrigan, he only played 30 times for City between 1970 and 1974 before moving to Cardiff City in March 1974, making his debut in a 2–2 draw with West Bromwich Albion. On his arrival he shared the no. 1 spot with Bill Irwin before eventually managing to claim the spot as his own. During the 1975–76 season he helped the club to win promotion to Division Two. During his time at Cardiff, Ron, when asked to find a young new goalkeeper, discovered a 12-year-old Andy Dibble. After a spell with Bangor City, he retired from the game through injury. He also played international football twice for the Republic of Ireland national football team. He kept a clean sheet on his international debut, a 0–0 draw with Poland on 24 April 1977 and made his only other appearance as a substitute for Gerry Peyton in a World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley Stadium in 1980. Healey currently coaches goalkeepers, along with his son Scott, for coaching company Just 4 Keepers. , Ron_Healey 2019-07-21T10:00:38Z Ronald "Ron" Healey (30 August 1952 – 18 June 2018) was an Irish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in England, Healey played for Cardiff City and Manchester City during his career and earned two caps for the Republic of Ireland national football team. Healey was a goalkeeper who began his career with Manchester City. Following an apprenticeship with City, he signed professional forms for the club in October 1969 and he made his debut at 17. As he was the understudy to the English international goalkeeper Joe Corrigan, he only played 30 times for City between 1970 and 1974 before moving to Cardiff City in March 1974, making his debut in a 2–2 draw with West Bromwich Albion. On his arrival he shared the no. 1 spot with Bill Irwin before eventually managing to claim the spot as his own. During the 1975–76 season he helped the club to win promotion to Division Two. After a spell with Bangor City, he retired from the game through injury. He also played international football twice for the Republic of Ireland national football team. He kept a clean sheet on his international debut, a 0–0 draw with Poland on 24 April 1977 and made his only other appearance as a substitute for Gerry Peyton in a World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley Stadium in 1980. On 18 June 2018, Healey died after collapsing on a cycle ride.

St._Mary's_Hospital_(Richmond)

St._Mary's_Hospital_(Richmond) 2007-05-21T15:06:47Z St. Mary's Hospital is a private hospital in the west end of Richmond, Virginia owned by Bon Secours. It counts bariatric surgery among its specialties. As of 2005, approximately 600 weight loss surgeries were performed per year at the hospital. St. Mary's is listed as one of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence. In early 2006, the hospital clashed with local residents over plans to create a small parking lot adjacent to the hospital. The lot was approved by the planning commission for Henrico County on March 9, 2006. As a condition of approval, Bon Secours committed to a permanent western boundary for the hospital property that constitutes the parking lot location on Maple Avenue. Volunteers The number of volunteers at St. Mary's is notable as there are over 150 current volunteers at the hospital. , St._Mary's_Hospital_(Richmond) 2008-10-09T14:40:21Z St. Mary's Hospital is a private hospital in the west end of Richmond, Virginia owned by Bon Secours. It counts bariatric surgery among its specialties. As of 2005, approximately 600 weight loss surgeries were performed per year at the hospital. St. Mary's is listed as one of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence. In early 2006, the hospital clashed with local residents over plans to create a small parking lot adjacent to the hospital. The lot was approved by the planning commission for Henrico County on March 9, 2006. As a condition of approval, Bon Secours committed to a permanent western boundary for the hospital property that constitutes the parking lot location on Maple Avenue.

Andromeda_Spaceways_Inflight_Magazine

Andromeda_Spaceways_Inflight_Magazine 2007-11-22T06:41:08Z Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine or ASIM is science fiction and fantasy magazine and webzine published out of New South Wales Austraila. According to the editors of ASIM it is "Australia's Pulpiest SF Magazine". The magazine is curently edited by Robbie Matthews and is published every other month. Although originaly sold only in Australia subschriptions for ASIM are now sold world wide through Amazon. com and other online vendors. The first issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine was released in June 2002. In Apr 2006 ASIM announded that in addition to the print magazine it would be releasing an electronic PDF version of the magazine beginning with issue #22. In june 2007 ASIM announced the reliece of their best of anthology series to be reliced in the PDF format. To date Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine has issued a total of 31. Issues #32 was released in September 2007. See tips for writing articles about magazines. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. , Andromeda_Spaceways_Inflight_Magazine 2008-07-27T23:01:05Z Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine or ASIM is a fantasy and science fiction magazine and webzine published out of Glenn Innes, New South Wales, Australia. The publishers of ASIM describe it as "Australia's Pulpiest SF Magazine". The magazine is currently edited by Robbie Matthews and is published every other month. Although originally sold only in Australia, subscriptions for ASIM are now available worldwide through Amazon. com and other online vendors. The first issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine was released in June 2002 as a slightly larger than digest size print magazine. Although the publishers of ASIM continue to offer it as a print magazine, in April 2006 they began releasing an electronic PDF version of the magazine beginning with issue #22. In June 2007 ASIM released a series of "best of" anthologies in the PDF format. There are a total of three anthologies in the series; one for science fiction, one for fantasy and one for horror. As of September 2007, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine has published a total of 32 issues. The launch of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine won a Ditmar Award in 2003 as the "Best Australian Production", and two stories published in the magazine tied for the Sir Julius Vogel Award in 2004 as "Best Short Story". In addition the magazine and works published in it have been nominated for twelve Ditmar and five Aurealis Award. In 2008 ASIM won a special Sir Julius Vogel Award for services to New Zealand science fiction.

Lee_Valley_Reservoir_Chain

Lee_Valley_Reservoir_Chain 2008-09-13T15:32:44Z Lee Valley Reservoir Chain are located in the Lee Valley,and comprise of 13 reservoirs which supply drinking water to London. The following waters are located in the London Borough of Enfield and are known collectively as the Chingford Reservoirs The following waters are located in the London Borough of Waltham Forest The reservoirs are fed by the following waters Afer being stored in the above reservoirs the water is piped to the Coppermills Water Treatment Works, Lee_Valley_Reservoir_Chain 2010-04-20T00:38:50Z The Lee Valley Reservoir Chain is located in the Lee Valley, and comprises 13 reservoirs that supply drinking water to London. The following waters are located in the London Borough of Enfield and are known collectively as the Chingford Reservoirs The following waters are located in the London Borough of Waltham Forest The reservoirs are fed by the following waters After being stored in the above reservoirs the water is piped to the Coppermills Water Treatment Works 51°35′N 0°3′W / 51. 583°N 0. 050°W / 51. 583; -0. 050

Ron Underwood

Ron Underwood 2007-03-27T03:26:59Z Ronald Brian Underwood, (born November 6 1953), is an American film director. Despite early cult success with Tremors and commercial success with City Slickers, perhaps his best known films, Mighty Joe Young and The Adventures of Pluto Nash, were both box-office disasters. Underwood was born in Glendale, California but spent some of his teenage years living as an exchange student in Sri Lanka. After graduating from high school he briefly attended medical school, but dropped out after finding the courses too dull. After this he decided to follow a career in the film industry; film having been a passion of his since childhood. He enrolled at University of Southern California's prestigious film school, and upon graduation began working as a staff director and cameraman for Barr films, a company specializing in the production of educational films. One of the first motion pictures Underwood worked on was Futureworld (1976) as a Production Assistant. The film starred Blythe Danner and Peter Fonda, actors he would later direct himself in 2004. During the filming of Futureworld, one of his tasks was to babysit a young Gwyneth Paltrow. Another early job was acting as an Assistant Director to first-time director David Schmoeller on Tourist Trap, a low-budget horror film. However, after this he continued to produce educational films for the next seven years. In 1986 Underwood established himself as a director when he won a Peabody Award for his animated special The Mouse and the Motorcycle, which was followed two years later by the sequel Runaway Ralph, for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination. Following his critically acclaimed venture into television, Underwood decided to have a go at directing a feature film. His first effort was Tremors, released in 1990, which was well received by the critics and later established itself as a cult classic. He received his first taste of commercial success with 1991's City Slickers, which starred Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern and Jack Palance, who won an Academy Award for his performance. The film made $179m worldwide from a budget of only $27m. It was the tenth most successful film released in 1991 (the fifth most successful in the US). City Slickers was to prove the pinnacle of Underwood's commercial and critical career as a director. His next film, Heart and Souls (1993), was again well-received by critics but struggled at the box office (making a total of $16m). He followed this with Speechless (1994), which made just over $20m over the Christmas period. Underwood was given his first opportunity to direct a big-budget film by Walt Disney Pictures in 1998 when he was asked to direct a remake of Mighty Joe Young. The film, starring Charlize Theron in her first lead role, was nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects and featured some of the most sophisticated and expensive special effects seen in film up to that point, paving the way for later ape films like Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005). The special effects drove production costs to around $90m, and ultimately global box-office takings fell short by about $20m before marketing costs. Following Mighty Joe Young, Underwood began work on Eddie Murphy fronted The Adventures of Pluto Nash. The film also starred Rosario Dawson and was filmed in Montreal Canada. Unfortunately for Underwood, the film was to prove an even larger box-office failure than Mighty Joe Young. The film cost over $120m to produce and market, took only $7m from the global box office and was quickly pulled from theaters. To date this is the second-largest financial loss of any film ever made, topped only by Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Underwood has recently returned to his roots, directing low-budget films. Since the release of The Adventures of Pluto Nash he has directed Stealing Sinatra (2003) for Showtime, Back When We Were Grownups (2004) for Hallmark Hall of Fame and In the Mix (2005), starring R&B singer Usher. He has also ventured into television drama, directing episodes of Monk and Boston Legal. He is currently in post production on Mary Christmas, a TV movie for ABC Family Channel and directing a live-action version of The Year Without A Santa Claus, based on the 1974 ABC special. , Ron Underwood 2008-11-11T11:10:24Z Ron Underwood is an American film director. Underwood was born in Glendale, California but spent some of his teenage years living as an exchange student in Sri Lanka. After graduating from high school he briefly attended medical school, but dropped out after finding the courses too dull. After this he decided to follow a career in the film industry; film having been a passion of his since childhood. He enrolled at University of Southern California's prestigious film school, and upon graduation began working as a staff director and cameraman for Barr films, a company specializing in the production of educational films. One of the first motion pictures Underwood worked on was Futureworld (1976) as a Production Assistant. The film starred Blythe Danner and Peter Fonda, actors he would later direct himself in 2004. During the filming of Futureworld, one of his tasks was to babysit a young Gwyneth Paltrow. Another early job was acting as an Assistant Director to first-time director David Schmoeller on Tourist Trap, a low-budget horror film. However, after this he continued to produce educational films for the next seven years. In 1986 Underwood established himself as a director when he won a Peabody Award for his animated special The Mouse and the Motorcycle, which was followed two years later by the sequel Runaway Ralph, for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination. Following his critically acclaimed venture into television, Underwood decided to have a go at directing feature films. His first effort was Tremors starring Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward and Reba McEntire in her acting debut. Written by his friends Brent Maddock & S. S. Wilson, it was released by Universal Studios in 1990. The film was well received by the critics and later established itself as a cult classic. Underwood received his first taste of commercial success with 1991's City Slickers, which starred Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern and Jack Palance, who won an Academy Award for his performance. The film made $179m worldwide with a budget of only $27m. It was the tenth most successful film released in 1991 (the fifth most successful in the US). His next film, Heart and Souls (1993), was again well-received by critics but struggled at the box office (making a total of $16m). He followed this with Speechless (1994), which made just over $20m over the Christmas period. Given the opportunity to direct a big-budget film by Walt Disney Pictures in 1998, he was asked to direct Mighty Joe Young, a remake of the 1949 RKO film. The film, starring Charlize Theron in her first lead role, was nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects and featured some of the most sophisticated and expensive special effects seen in film up to that point, paving the way for later ape films like Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005). The special effects drove production costs to around $90m, and ultimately global box-office takings fell short by about $20m. Following Mighty Joe Young, Underwood began work on Eddie Murphy fronted The Adventures of Pluto Nash. The film also starred Rosario Dawson and was filmed in Montreal Canada. Unfortunately for Underwood, the film was to prove an even larger box-office failure than Mighty Joe Young. The film cost over $120m to produce and market, took only $7m from the global box office and was quickly pulled from theaters. Underwood has recently returned to his roots, directing both low-budget films and television. He has directed "Stealing Sinatra" (2003) for Showtime, "Back When We Were Grownups" (2004) for Hallmark Hall of Fame which garnered star Blythe Danner nominations for the Golden Globe and the Emmy, and In the Mix (2005), starring R&B singer Usher and Emmanuelle Chriqui for Lions Gate Entertainment. His past three films have been holiday themed: "Santa Baby," a TV movie for ABC Family Channel, a live-action version of "The Year Without a Santa Claus," based on the 1974 ABC special, and another TV movie for ABC Family, "Holiday In Handcuffs," which was the most watched show in ABC Family history. He has also ventured into television drama, directing episodes of "Monk," "Boston Legal," "Reaper," "Ugly Betty" and "Eli Stone."

Sino-Third_World_relations

Sino-Third_World_relations 2008-05-06T18:04:38Z Sino-Third World relations refers to the general relationship between the People's Republic of China and the Third World, and its history from the Chinese perspective. Next in importance to its relations with the superpowers — Soviet Union and the United States — during the Cold War were China's relations with the Third World. Chinese leaders have tended to view the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America as a major force in international affairs, and they have considered China an integral part of this major Third World force. As has been the case with China's foreign relations in general, policy toward the countries of the developing world has fluctuated over time. It has been affected by China's alternating involvement in and isolation from world affairs and by the militancy or peacefulness of Beijing's views. In addition, China's relations with the Third World have been affected by China's ambiguous position as a developing country that nevertheless has certain attributes more befiting a major power. China has been variously viewed by the Third World as a friend and ally, a competitor for markets and loans, a source of economic and military assistance, a regional power intent on dominating Asia, and a "candidate superpower" with such privileges as a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. China's relations with the Third World have developed through several phases: the Bandung Line of the mid-1950s (named for a 1955 conference of Asian and African nations held in Bandung, Indonesia), support for liberation and world revolution in the 1960s, the pronouncement of the Theory of the Three Worlds and support for a "new international economic order" in the 1970s, and a renewed emphasis on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in the 1980s. In the first years after the founding of the People's Republic, Chinese statements echoed the Soviet view that the world was divided into two camps, the forces of socialism and those of imperialism, with "no third road" possible. By 1953 China began reasserting its belief that the newly independent developing countries could play an important intermediary role in world affairs. In 1954 Zhou Enlai and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India agreed on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence as the underlying basis for conducting foreign relations. China's success in promoting these principles at the 1955 Bandung Conference helped China emerge from diplomatic isolation. By the end of the 1950s, however, China's foreign policy stance had become more militant. Statements promoting the Chinese revolution as a model and Beijing's actions in the Taiwan Strait (1958) (see Second Taiwan Strait Crisis) and in border conflicts with India (1962) (see Sino-Indian War) and Vietnam (1979) (see Sino-Vietnamese War), for example, alarmed many Third World nations. During the 1960s China cultivated ties with Third World countries and insurgent groups in an attempt to encourage "wars of national liberation" and revolution and to forge an international united front against both superpowers. China offered economic, technical, and sometimes military assistance to other countries and liberation movements, which, although small in comparison with Soviet and United States aid, was significant considering China's own needs. Third World appreciation for Chinese assistance coexisted, however, with growing suspicions of China's militancy. Such suspicions were fed, for example, by Zhou Enlai's statement in the early 1960s that the potential for revolution in Africa was "excellent" and by the publication of Lin Biao's essay "Long Live the Victory of People's War!" in 1965. Discord between China and many Third World countries continued to grow. In some cases, as with Indonesia's charge of Chinese complicity in the 1965 coup attempt in Jakarta and claims by several African nations of Chinese subversion during the Cultural Revolution, bilateral disputes led to the breaking off of diplomatic relations. Although the Third World was not a primary focus of the Cultural Revolution, it was not immune to the chaos this period wrought upon Chinese foreign relations. In the 1970s China began to redefine its foreign policy after the isolation and militancy of the late 1960s. China reestablished those of its diplomatic missions that had been recalled during the Cultural Revolution and began the process of rapprochement with the United States. The People's Republic was admitted into the United Nations in 1971 and was recognized diplomatically by an increasing number of nations. China's major foreign policy statement during this time was Mao's Theory of the Three Worlds, which was presented publicly by Deng Xiaoping at the UN in 1974. According to this theory, the First World consisted of the two superpowers—the Soviet Union and the United States—both "imperialist aggressors" whose rivalry was the greatest cause of impending world war. The Third World was the main force in international affairs. Its growing opposition to superpower hegemony was exemplified by such world events as the Arab nations' control of oil prices, Egypt's expulsion of Soviet aid personnel in l972, and the United States withdrawal from Vietnam. The Second World, comprising the developed countries of Europe plus Japan, could either oppress the Third World or join in opposing the superpowers. By the second half of the 1970s, China perceived an increased threat from the Soviet Union, and the theory was modified to emphasize that the Soviet Union was the more dangerous of the two superpowers. The other primary component of China's Third World policy in the early 1970s was a call for radical change in the world power structure and particularly a call for a "new international economic order. " Until the late 1970s, the Chinese principles of sovereignty, opposition to hegemony, and self-reliance coincided with the goals of the movement for a new international economic order. Chinese statements in support of the new order diminished as China began to implement the opening up policy, allow foreign investment, and seek technical assistance and foreign loans. China's critical opinion of international financial institutions appeared to change abruptly as Beijing prepared to join the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in 1980. Chinese support for changes in the economic order stressed the role of collective self-reliance among the countries of the Third World, or "South-South cooperation," in the 1980s. Also in the 1980s, China reasserted its Third World credentials and placed a renewed emphasis on its relations with Third World countries as part of its independent foreign policy. China stressed that it would develop friendly relations with other nations regardless of their social systems or ideologies and would conduct its relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. Beijing exchanged delegations with Third World countries regularly, and it made diplomatic use of cultural ties, for example, by promoting friendly links between Chinese Muslims and Islamic countries. Officially, China denied that it sought a leadership role in the Third World, although some foreign observers argued to the contrary. Beijing increasingly based its foreign economic relations with the Third World on equality and mutual benefit, expressed by a shift toward trade and joint ventures and away from grants and interest-free loans. By the second half of the 1980s, China's relations with Third World nations covered the spectrum from friendly to inimical. Bilateral relations ranged from a formal alliance with North Korea, to a near-alliance with Pakistan, to hostile relations with Vietnam marked by sporadic border conflict. Many relationships have changed dramatically over time: for example, China previously had close relations with Vietnam; its ties with India were friendly during the 1950s but were strained thereafter by border tensions. Particularly in Southeast Asia, a legacy of suspicion concerning China's ultimate intentions affected Chinese relations with many countries. As of 2007 only a few countries in the world lacked diplomatic ties with Beijing; among them were Honduras, and Paraguay. Some of these, including six in the Pacific, had formal ties with Taiwan instead (see Political status of Taiwan). China's growing interest in trade and technical exchanges, however, meant that in some cases substantial unofficial relations existed despite the absence of diplomatic recognition. , Sino-Third_World_relations 2009-08-05T12:01:14Z Sino-Third World relations refers to the general relationship between the People's Republic of China and the rest of the Third World, and its history from the Chinese perspective. Next in importance to its relations with the superpowers — Soviet Union and the United States — during the Cold War were China's relations with the rest of the Third World. Chinese leaders have tended to view the developing nations of Asia, Africa, and Latin America as a major force in international affairs, and they have considered China an integral part of this major Third World force. As has been the case with China's foreign relations in general, policy toward the countries of the developing world has fluctuated over time. It has been affected by China's alternating involvement in and isolation from world affairs and by the militancy or peacefulness of Beijing's views. In addition, China's relations with the Third World have been affected by China's ambiguous position as a developing country that nevertheless has certain attributes more befiting a major power. China has been variously viewed by the Third World as a friend and ally, a competitor for markets and loans, a source of economic and military assistance, a regional power intent on dominating Asia, and a "candidate superpower" with such privileges as a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. China's relations with the Third World have developed through several phases: the Bandung Line of the mid-1950s (named for a 1955 conference of Asian and African nations held in Bandung, Indonesia), support for liberation and world revolution in the 1960s, the pronouncement of the Theory of the Three Worlds and support for a "new international economic order" in the 1970s, and a renewed emphasis on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in the 1980s. In the first years after the founding of the People's Republic, Chinese statements echoed the Soviet view that the world was divided into two camps, the forces of socialism and those of imperialism, with "no third road" possible. By 1953 China began reasserting its belief that the newly independent developing countries could play an important intermediary role in world affairs. In 1954 Zhou Enlai and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India agreed on the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence as the underlying basis for conducting foreign relations. China's success in promoting these principles at the 1955 Bandung Conference helped China emerge from diplomatic isolation. By the end of the 1950s, however, China's foreign policy stance had become more militant. Statements promoting the Chinese revolution as a model and Beijing's actions in the Taiwan Strait (1958) (see Second Taiwan Strait Crisis) and in border conflicts with India (1962) (see Sino-Indian War) and Vietnam (1979) (see Sino-Vietnamese War), for example, alarmed many Third World nations. During the 1960s China cultivated ties with Third World countries and insurgent groups in an attempt to encourage "wars of national liberation" and revolution and to forge an international united front against both superpowers. China offered economic, technical, and sometimes military assistance to other countries and liberation movements, which, although small in comparison with Soviet and United States aid, was significant considering China's own needs. Third World appreciation for Chinese assistance coexisted, however, with growing suspicions of China's militancy. Such suspicions were fed, for example, by Zhou Enlai's statement in the early 1960s that the potential for revolution in Africa was "excellent" and by the publication of Lin Biao's essay "Long Live the Victory of People's War!" in 1965. Discord between China and many Third World countries continued to grow. In some cases, as with Indonesia's charge of Chinese complicity in the 1965 coup attempt in Jakarta and claims by several African nations of Chinese subversion during the Cultural Revolution, bilateral disputes led to the breaking off of diplomatic relations. Although the Third World was not a primary focus of the Cultural Revolution, it was not immune to the chaos this period wrought upon Chinese foreign relations. In the 1970s China began to redefine its foreign policy after the isolation and militancy of the late 1960s. China reestablished those of its diplomatic missions that had been recalled during the Cultural Revolution and began the process of rapprochement with the United States. The People's Republic was admitted into the United Nations in 1971 and was recognized diplomatically by an increasing number of nations. China's major foreign policy statement during this time was Mao's Theory of the Three Worlds, which was presented publicly by Deng Xiaoping at the UN in 1974. According to this theory, the First World consisted of the two superpowers—the Soviet Union and the United States—both "imperialist aggressors" whose rivalry was the greatest cause of impending world war. The Third World was the main force in international affairs. Its growing opposition to superpower hegemony was exemplified by such world events as the Arab nations' control of oil prices, Egypt's expulsion of Soviet aid personnel in 1972, and the United States withdrawal from Vietnam. The Second World, comprising the developed countries of Europe plus Japan, could either oppress the Third World or join in opposing the superpowers. By the second half of the 1970s, China perceived an increased threat from the Soviet Union, and the theory was modified to emphasize that the Soviet Union was the more dangerous of the two superpowers. The other primary component of China's Third World policy in the early 1970s was a call for radical change in the world power structure and particularly a call for a "new international economic order. " Until the late 1970s, the Chinese principles of sovereignty, opposition to hegemony, and self-reliance coincided with the goals of the movement for a new international economic order. Chinese statements in support of the new order diminished as China began to implement the opening up policy, allow foreign investment, and seek technical assistance and foreign loans. China's critical opinion of international financial institutions appeared to change abruptly as Beijing prepared to join the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in 1980. Chinese support for changes in the economic order stressed the role of collective self-reliance among the countries of the Third World, or "South-South Cooperation," in the 1980s. Also in the 1980s, China reasserted its Third World credentials and placed a renewed emphasis on its relations with Third World countries as part of its independent foreign policy. China stressed that it would develop friendly relations with other nations regardless of their social systems or ideologies and would conduct its relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. Beijing exchanged delegations with Third World countries regularly, and it made diplomatic use of cultural ties, for example, by promoting friendly links between Chinese Muslims and Islamic countries. Officially, China denied that it sought a leadership role in the Third World, although some foreign observers argued to the contrary. Beijing increasingly based its foreign economic relations with the Third World on equality and mutual benefit, expressed by a shift toward trade and joint ventures and away from grants and interest-free loans. By the second half of the 1980s, China's relations with Third World nations covered the spectrum from friendly to inimical. Bilateral relations ranged from a formal alliance with North Korea, to a near-alliance with Pakistan, to hostile relations with Vietnam marked by sporadic border conflict. Many relationships have changed dramatically over time: for example, China previously had close relations with Vietnam; its ties with India were friendly during the 1950s but were strained thereafter by border tensions. Particularly in Southeast Asia, a legacy of suspicion concerning China's ultimate intentions affected Chinese relations with many countries. As of 2007 only a few countries in the world lacked diplomatic ties with Beijing; among them were Honduras, and Paraguay. Some of these, including six in the Pacific, had formal ties with Taiwan instead (see Political status of Taiwan). China's growing interest in trade and technical exchanges, however, meant that in some cases substantial unofficial relations existed despite the absence of diplomatic recognition.

Margaret_Murnane

Margaret_Murnane 2010-05-30T19:54:21Z Dr. Margaret Murnane is a current professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has been since 1999. Her interests are Atomic & Molecular Physics, Nanoscience, and Optical Physics. Her work with lasers has earned her multiple rewards including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000. Born and raised in the countryside of Ireland, Murname became interested in physics through her father who was an elementary school teacher. She received her BA and BS overseas until moving to the US to study at the University of California at Berkeley where she earned her Ph. D in 1989. She is married to Prof. Henry Kapteyn, an avid physicist in his own right. They work together and operate their own lab in Duane Laboratories at the University of Colorado. Murnane has written or co-written approximately 130 publications in peer reviewed journals, with an average of 42 citations per paper. She built a laser that flashed for ten quadrillionths of a second - the fastest that any human being has ever created. In their lab, Murnane, Kapteyn, and their students make lasers whose beams flash like a strobe light - except that each flash is a trillion times faster. These lasers, like camera flashes, shine a light that lets them record the motions of atoms in chemical reactions. Her newest laser flashes for less than ten femtoseconds. , Margaret_Murnane 2012-03-13T00:15:54Z Margaret Mary Murnane (born 1959) is an Irish physicist. She is a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1999. Her interests are Atomic & Molecular Physics, Nanoscience, and Optical Physics. Her work with lasers has earned her multiple awards including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000. Born and raised in County Limerick, Ireland, Murnane became interested in physics through her father who was an elementary school teacher. She received her B. A. and B. S. from University College, Cork. She moved to the United States to study at the University of California at Berkeley where she earned her Ph. D in 1989. She is married to Prof. Henry Kapteyn, a physicist in his own right. They work together and operate their own lab at JILA at the University of Colorado. Murnane has written or co-written approximately 130 publications in peer reviewed journals, with an average of 42 citations per paper. She built a laser that flashed for ten quadrillionths of a second - the fastest that any human being has ever created. In their lab, Murnane, Kapteyn, and their students make lasers whose beams flash like a strobe light - except that each flash is a trillion times faster. These lasers, like camera flashes, shine a light that lets them record the motions of atoms in chemical reactions. Her newest laser flashes for less than ten femtoseconds. Template:Persondata

Mark Birighitti

Mark Birighitti 2021-01-01T04:10:35Z Mark Romano Birighitti (born 17 April 1991) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for A-League side Central Coast Mariners. Born in Perth, Birighitti played youth football at the Australian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Adelaide United. In 2012, he moved to Newcastle Jets and spent time on loan to Italian club Varese in 2015. Birighitti has played once for the Australian national team, in 2013. He has also represented Australia's youth teams on many occasions, including at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup and winning the 2010 AFF U-19 Youth Championship. Birighitti started his career at the AIS before moving to Adelaide United in 2008. He made his first team debut against Queensland Roar on 17 October 2008 helping Adelaide to a 1–0 win. Aurelio Vidmar praised the young goalkeeper after the match saying "I think Birighitti played well he's got a really good future, he had big shoes to fill and I think he did an outstanding job tonight." His second successive A-League start came against Perth Glory at Hindmarsh Stadium after Adelaide's number one goalkeeper, 28-year-old Eugene Galekovic, was injured during the Asian Champions League match against FC Bunyodkor. Despite conceding the match's first goal at the near post, Birighitti played his part in the 2–1 win taking Adelaide to the top of the league table. With Galekovic again ruled out with injury Birighitti started the second leg of the 2008 AFC Champions League Final against Gamba Osaka on 12 November 2008; Adelaide lost the match 2–0. He injured his ankle after falling awkwardly in a training session on 17 December 2008 ruling him out of the remaining A-League 2008-09 season. On 17 January 2012 it was announced he had signed a two-year contract with A-League club Newcastle Jets starting post the 2012 AFC Champions League group stage. He quickly became the first choice goalkeeper for the Newcastle Jets, edging out Ben Kennedy and Jack Duncan. In late 2013 he signed a contract extension with the Jets until the end of the 2015–16 season. On 24 March 2014, Birighitti flew to Germany to discuss a possible transfer to Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. After failing to secure a contract with Bayer Leverkusen he then came back to the Jets for the 2014–15 season. In October 2015, Birighitti was involved in an on-field collision with Sydney FC striker Shane Smeltz. Birightitti suffered multiple broken teeth and required facial surgery after the incident. He returned to action within weeks, missing only one A-League game. On 27 January 2015, Birighitti joined Serie B club Varese on a six-month loan deal. He made his league debut for Varese in a 1–0 away loss to Vicenza on 25 April 2015. On 18 July 2016, Birighitti joined Premier League side Swansea City on a two-year deal. After the 2016–17 season, Birighitti went on trial at Dutch side Willem II, following a lack of opportunities at Swansea. On 1 September 2017, Birighitti joined Eredivisie side NAC Breda on a two-year deal. On 11 September 2018, Birighitti joined Australian A-League side Melbourne City on a three-year deal. After a year in which he didn't play at all, Birighitti negotiated a mutual release from the remainder of his contract. In August 2019, Birighitti joined Central Coast Mariners on a one-year contract. Birighitti was selected to represent the Australian under-20 squad at the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship. He made his debut for the senior Australian side in their final match of the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup against China, a 4–3 loss. Australia U19, Mark Birighitti 2022-12-31T14:20:31Z Mark Romano Birighitti (born 17 April 1991) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Scottish Premiership side Dundee United. Born in Perth, Birighitti played youth football at the Australian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Adelaide United. In 2012, he moved to Newcastle Jets and spent time on loan to Italian club Varese in 2015. In 2016, Birighitti left Newcastle to again move to Europe, firstly with Swansea City and then NAC Breda. He returned to the A-League in 2018 with Melbourne City before moving to Central Coast Mariners a year later. He then signed for Dundee United in 2022. Birighitti has played once for the Australian national team, at the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup. He has also represented Australia's youth teams on many occasions, including at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup and winning the 2010 AFF U-19 Youth Championship. Birighitti started his career at the AIS before moving to Adelaide United in 2008. He made his first team debut against Queensland Roar on 17 October 2008 helping Adelaide to a 1–0 win. Aurelio Vidmar praised the young goalkeeper after the match saying "I think Birighitti played well he's got a really good future, he had big shoes to fill and I think he did an outstanding job tonight." His second successive A-League start came against Perth Glory at Hindmarsh Stadium after Adelaide's number one goalkeeper, 28-year-old Eugene Galekovic, was injured during the Asian Champions League match against FC Bunyodkor. Despite conceding the match's first goal at the near post, Birighitti played his part in the 2–1 win taking Adelaide to the top of the league table. With Galekovic again ruled out with injury Birighitti started the second leg of the 2008 AFC Champions League Final against Gamba Osaka on 12 November 2008; Adelaide lost the match 2–0. He injured his ankle after falling awkwardly in a training session on 17 December 2008 ruling him out of the remaining A-League 2008-09 season. On 17 January 2012 it was announced he had signed a two-year contract with A-League club Newcastle Jets starting post the 2012 AFC Champions League group stage. He quickly became the first choice goalkeeper for the Newcastle Jets, edging out Ben Kennedy and Jack Duncan. In late 2013 he signed a contract extension with the Jets until the end of the 2015–16 season. On 24 March 2014, Birighitti flew to Germany to discuss a possible transfer to Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. After failing to secure a contract with Bayer Leverkusen he then came back to the Jets for the 2014–15 season. In October 2015, Birighitti was involved in an on-field collision with Sydney FC striker Shane Smeltz. Birightitti suffered multiple broken teeth and required facial surgery after the incident. He returned to action within weeks, missing only one A-League game. On 27 January 2015, Birighitti joined Serie B club Varese on a six-month loan deal. He made his league debut for Varese in a 1–0 away loss to Vicenza on 25 April 2015. On 18 July 2016, Birighitti joined Premier League side Swansea City on a two-year deal. After the 2016–17 season, Birighitti went on trial at Dutch side Willem II, following a lack of opportunities at Swansea. On 1 September 2017, Birighitti joined Eredivisie side NAC Breda on a two-year deal. On 11 September 2018, Birighitti joined Australian A-League side Melbourne City on a three-year deal. He again found himself as second-choice goalkeeper behind Eugene Galekovic - the same situation to his time at Adelaide United. After a year in which he didn't play at all, Birighitti negotiated a mutual release from the remainder of his contract. In August 2019, Birighitti joined Central Coast Mariners on a one-year contract. On 21 July 2022, it was announced that Birighitti had signed a two-year contract with Dundee United, subject to international clearance. He made his first competitive start for his new club in their opening Scottish Premiership match against Kilmarnock which resulted in a 1–1 draw. Birighitti made his European debut in a 1–0 win against AZ Alkmaar, however, the second leg of the tie ended in a 7–0 Dundee United loss, knocking them out the competition. Birighitti was selected to represent the Australian under-20 squad at the 2010 AFC U-19 Championship. He made his debut for the senior Australian side in their final match of the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup against China, a 4–3 loss. Australia U20

Nico Prost

Nico Prost 2007-03-28T07:37:59Z Nicolas Jean Prost (born 18 August 1981, Saint-Chamond, France) is a racing driver currently racing in the Spanish Formula Three Championship for the Racing Engineering team. Prost is the oldest son of four-time Formula One champion, Alain Prost. Prost is currently fifth in the driver's standings with 41 points, 17 points behind current championship leader, Ricardo Risatti. Besides racing, Nicolas Prost is working part-time for a Swiss bank in Geneva. In early 2007, it was confirmed that Prost would be racing for Team Oreca in the GT1 class, driving a Saleen S7R. , Nico Prost 2008-12-12T04:27:11Z Nicolas Jean Prost (born 18 August 1981, Saint-Chamond, France) is a racing driver currently racing in the Euroseries 3000 Championship for the ELK Motorsport team. Despite being the oldest son of four-time Formula One World Drivers' champion Alain Prost, he started his career at the late age of 22 in Formula Campus. In 2007, he finished third in the Spanish Formula Three Championship. Besides racing, Nicolas Prost is working part-time for a Swiss bank as a Teller in Geneva. In early 2007, it was confirmed that Prost would be racing for Team Oreca in the GT1 class of the 2007 Le Mans 24 hour race, driving a Saleen S7R. On August 29, 2007 A1 Team France confirmed Prost as their rookie driver for the 2007/08 A1GP season. He competed in his first A1GP race the following season. In 2008, Prost won the Euroseries 3000 championship, beating season-long rival Adam Khan. * Season in progress.

Behemotops

Behemotops 2013-06-09T15:56:11Z Behemotops (Greek for "hippopotamus-looking") is an extinct genus of herbivorous marine mammal of the family Desmostylidae living from the Rupelian stage of the Early Oligocene subepoch through the Late Oligocene subepoch (33. 9 mya—23 Mya) and in existence for approximately 10. 9 million years. Behemotops was discovered on the northern Oregon coast in the early 1970s by fossil collector Douglas Emlong, and described by Domning, Ray & McKenna 1986. Fossils representing this genus have been found in Oregon, Washington and west to Hokkaidō. Behemotops had more elephant-like tooth and jaw features than other known desmostylians from later periods. It had cusped molars that more resembled those of mastodons or other land ungulates than those of later Desmostylus, which exhibited odd "bound-pillar" shaped molars which may have evolved in response to the grit from a diet of sea-grass. Discovery of Behemotops helped place desmostylians as more closely related to proboscideans than sirenians, although relationships of this group are still poorly resolved. , Behemotops 2015-01-20T17:04:06Z Behemotops (from the Biblical monster Behemoth, by Linnaeus and others believed to be a hippo) is an extinct genus of herbivorous marine mammal. It lived from the Early Oligocene (Rupelian) through the Late Oligocene (33. 9 mya—23 Mya), existing for approximately 10. 9 million years. It is the most primitive known desmostylian, believed to be close to the ancestry of all other desmostylians. The first specimen of Behemotops — USNM 186889, a massive tusk in fragments of a mandible — was found in Lincoln County, Oregon (44°29′50″N 124°05′00″W / 44. 49722°N 124. 08333°W / 44. 49722; -124. 08333) in 1969. In 1977, at the same location, fossil collector Douglas Emlong discovered a poorly preserved half right mandible — USNM 244033 — matching the first specimen. This mandible became the holotype of B. emlongi when described by Domning, Ray & McKenna 1986. B. emlongi was however made a synonymy of B. proteus in 1994. In 1976, Emlong discovered a juvenile mandible — USNM 244035 — on Olympic Peninsula, Clallam County, Washington (48°12′N 123°54′W / 48. 2°N 123. 9°W / 48. 2; -123. 9, paleocoordinates 47°48′N 115°00′W / 47. 8°N 115. 0°W / 47. 8; -115. 0) which Domning, Ray & McKenna 1986 made the holotype of B. proteus. Teeth of a young adult — LACM 124106 – was found in the same rock unit in 1986. More complete material of B. proteus was found on Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 2007: the left side of an entire skull with several teeth, a partial scapula, an almost complete humerus, and several ribs and vertebrae. The cranial features of this specimen were similar to those of Cornwallius, from which Cockburn & Beatty 2009 concluded that Desmostylidae and Paleoparadoxiidae probably diverged earlier than previously believed. Cockburn and Beatty also noted that, in their specimen, all teeth have erupted but the epiphyses of the bones are unfused and that it probably was an subadult; from which they concluded that the adult dentition was not delayed in Behemotops, unlike Desmostylus and other Afrotheria, and that delayed dentition can not be the most primitive state of Desmostylia. Skeletons of several individuals were found on western Hokkaido Island in Japan (43°18′N 143°48′E / 43. 3°N 143. 8°E / 43. 3; 143. 8: paleocoordinates 44°36′N 141°24′E / 44. 6°N 141. 4°E / 44. 6; 141. 4) in 1976, but this material remained unknown outside Japan until they were described in 1987. They were first assumed to be early Miocene in age, but a new analysis of the site in the mid-1980s revised their age to the Oligocene; making them the oldest found on the Japanese island, ancestral to all other desmostylians. They were later included into the genus Behemotops proposed by Domning et al. 1986. Behemotops had more elephant-like tooth and jaw features than other known desmostylians from later periods. It had cusped molars that more resembled those of mastodons or other land ungulates than those of later Desmostylus, which exhibited odd "bound-pillar" shaped molars which may have evolved in response to the grit from a diet of sea-grass. Discovery of Behemotops helped place desmostylians as more closely related to proboscideans than sirenians, although relationships of this group are still poorly resolved. B. katsuiei had an estimated body length of 290 cm (110 in), making it the smaller of the two species.

Lynard_Stewart

Lynard_Stewart 2012-03-04T16:56:27Z Lynard Stewart (born May 12, 1976, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is a professional basketball player currently starring for the Newcastle Eagles of the British Basketball League. The 6'8" Forward/Centre was educated at Temple University, where he graduated in 1998, before signing a professional contract in China with the Baijing Ducks. The following season saw him move to Europe to play in the Czech Republic with Mlekarna Kunin and then moved back to his hometown to play for Philadelphia Force in 2000. Further ventures with Maccabi Karmiel (Israel), Siouxland Bombers, and Potros de Villa Francisca (Dominican Republic) followed before he eventualled settled with Sheffield Sharks in 2001. After three seasons with the Sharks, he moved south to play for their title-rivals in the British Basketball League, London Towers, where he spent two more seasons. After a one season hiatus in Belgium, with Euphony Bree, Stewart moved back to England in 2007, to sign for Playoff Champions Newcastle Eagles. Lynard is the younger brother of former NBA player, Larry Stewart (basketball), and current University of Delaware men's basketball assistant, Stephen Stewart. He played high school basketball at Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, where he was a teammate of Rasheed Wallace. Template:Persondata, Lynard_Stewart 2013-03-03T04:31:29Z Lynard Stewart (born May 12, 1976, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American former professional basketball player. The 6'8" forward/center was educated at Temple University, where he graduated in 1998, before signing a professional contract in China with the Beijing Ducks. The following season saw him move to Europe to play in the Czech Republic with Mlekarna Kunin and then moved back to his hometown to play for Philadelphia Force in 2000. Further ventures with Maccabi Karmiel (Israel), Siouxland Bombers, and Potros de Villa Francisca (Dominican Republic) followed before he eventually settled with Sheffield Sharks in 2001. After three seasons with the Sharks, he moved south to play for their title-rivals in the British Basketball League, London Towers, where he spent two more seasons. After a one season hiatus in Belgium, with Euphony Bree, Stewart moved back to England in 2007, to sign for league champions Newcastle Eagles. Lynard is the younger brother of former NBA player Larry Stewart, and former University of Delaware men's basketball assistant Stephen Stewart. He played high school basketball at Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, where he was a teammate of Rasheed Wallace. Lynard is currently a high school basketball coach in Philadelphia. Template:Persondata

William Baldwin

William Baldwin 2010-01-12T14:50:55Z William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor, known for his starring roles in such films as Backdraft (1991) and Flatliners (1990). Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (née Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr., a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach. He is the brother of notable actors Alec, Daniel and Stephen, sometimes collectively known as the Baldwin brothers. Baldwin was raised in a Catholic family of Irish, English and French descent. A graduate of Berner High School and Binghamton University, he has a degree in political science and is known for his support and contributions to Binghamton's wrestling team. Before starting his acting career, he was a fashion model. Baldwin starred alongside Cindy Crawford in the 1995 film Fair Game, and has continued to act in films and on television, but he has not taken many leading roles. He was well-received in a supporting role in the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale. He also co-starred as Donald Sutherland's oldest son, Patrick Darling IV, on Dirty Sexy Money, for ABC for the entire duration of the show until April 2009. Baldwin will be featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute scheduled for release in 2010. The documentary is being made by actress Namrata Singh Gujral and will feature breast cancer suriviors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Namrata Singh Gujral, Mumtaz and Jaclyn Smith as well as William Baldwin, Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt. The feature is narrated by Kelly McGillis. Since 1995, Baldwin has been married to singer Chynna Phillips (of the music group Wilson Phillips and her new group Chynna & Vaughan), who is the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of the '60s group, The Mamas & the Papas. They have three children: daughter Jamison (born 2000), son Vance Alexander (born 2001) and daughter Brooke (born 2004). He lives in Santa Barbara, California. Baldwin is also a big fan of the New York Yankees and a member of Yankees Universe., William Baldwin 2011-12-08T08:55:41Z William Joseph "Billy" Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (1991), Sliver (1993), Fair Game (1995), Virus (1999), Double Bang (2001), as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom (2004–2007), Art Heist (2004), The Squid and the Whale (2005), as himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as Senator Patrick Darling in the TV drama Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009) on ABC, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010), and now Baldwin is currently a regular guest on Gossip Girl as William van der Woodsen and Parenthood as Gordon Flint. Baldwin appeared as lead detective Brian Albert in the Lifetime Original Movie The Craigslist Killer. Baldwin appeared in 2011 as a dirty cop, former homicide detective Frank Delano, on Hawaii Five-0. His character is to appear on the second season of the CBS show as a recurring role. Baldwin was born in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (née Martineau) and Alexander Rae Baldwin, Jr. His father was a high school history/social studies teacher and football coach. He is the brother of actors Alec, Daniel, and Stephen, sometimes collectively known as the Baldwin brothers. Baldwin was raised in a Catholic family of Irish, English, and French descent. A graduate of Berner High School and Binghamton University, where he was a varsity wrestler, he has a degree in political science. Before starting his acting career, Baldwin was a fashion model for Calvin Klein. His first starring role was in a TV movie as Robert Chambers, alongside Lara Flynn Boyle in The Preppie Murder, which aired on ABC in 1989. Baldwin was also cast in the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July starring Tom Cruise, and brothers Stephen and Daniel where he played in a minor role as a U.S Marine during the Vietnam War. Baldwin then starred in hit movies like Flatliners with Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon. He portrayed Chicago firefighter Brian McCaffrey in Backdraft. Baldwin starred alongside Cindy Crawford in the 1995 film Fair Game, then in 1996 starred in a low-budget film by Miramax Films titled Curdled, and was paid US$150,000 for his performance compared to the $1.7 million he received for his role in Sliver with Sharon Stone in 1993. In 1999, Baldwin teamed up with Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland for the science fiction thriller "Virus", and alongside Peter Gallagher in the Showtime original movie, Brotherhood of Murder. In 2001, Baldwin played a leading role in the television film Double Bang which aired on HBO. Since then, Baldwin has played in other projects such as Red Rover in 2003, Art Heist in 2004, "Park", Feel and Lenexa, 1 Mile in 2006, Adrift in Manhattan, A Plumm Summer, Noise, and Humble Pie in 2007. Baldwin has continued to act in films and on television, but has not taken many leading roles. He was well-received in a supporting role in the 2005 film The Squid and the Whale. He also co-starred in ABC's Dirty Sexy Money as Donald Sutherland's oldest son, Patrick Darling IV, for the duration of the show until April 2009. Among other diverse characters he has played in his career, Baldwin was on Joel Schumacher's shortlist for Batman Forever to play the caped crusader. His four diverse choices were Daniel Day-Lewis, Ralph Fiennes, Val Kilmer and Baldwin. Audiences got to hear his first time playing Batman in February 2010 in Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, a loose adaptation of Grant Morrison's JLA: Earth 2 story. In 2010, Baldwin portrayed Dr. Willam van der Woodsen, father of Serena and Eric van der Woodsen, on the third and fourth seasons of Gossip Girl. Baldwin was also featured in UniGlobe Entertainment's breast cancer docu-drama titled 1 a Minute along with brother Daniel Baldwin. The documentary was made by actress Namrata Singh Gujral and will feature breast cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Namrata Singh Gujral, Mumtaz and Jaclyn Smith as well as Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt. Baldwin was cast in the second season of Parenthood to play a boss and love interest for several episodes. Baldwin joined Parenthood for a multi-episode arc this fall as Gordon Flint, the "wealthy, charismatic" boss of Adam (Peter Krause), a bachelor who also has eyes for Adam's sister Sarah (Lauren Graham). In 2011, Baldwin starred in the Lifetime Original Movie, The Craigslist Killer which aired January 3, 2011. He plays the lead detective on the case of the killer, Philip Markoff, who connected with victims through Craigslist ads placed in Boston, MA. On June 1, 2011 Baldwin joined Sobini Films' Indie Film 'Sexy Evil Genius' along with Seth Green, Harold Perrineau Jr., Katee Sackhoff, and Michelle Trachtenberg. The film is to be directed by Shawn Piller. In July 2011, Baldwin joined the CBS drama Hawaii Five-0 for a multi-episode arc. In 1995 Baldwin married singer Chynna Phillips of the music group Wilson Phillips and 'Chynna & Vaughan'. Chynna is the daughter of John and Michelle Phillips of the '60s group, The Mamas & the Papas. Together, they have three children. Baldwin has two estates, one in Santa Barbara, California and another one in Bedford Corners, New York, just 30 minutes away from his brother Stephen's estate in Nyack, New York.