Pia Renate Haraldsen (born Pia Renate Strømsnes 1 August 1981) is a Norwegian TV personality, comedian and author, most known for her interviews on the Norwegian TV show Rikets Røst.

She is the daughter of Jasmin Haraldsen, who was married to the Queen of Norway's nephew.

Career

She started her public career in 2001 by going to Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway's wedding, which she was invited to because of her relation to the queen.  In the wedding she met Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg and they began dating in 2002. They became a high-profile couple, but the relationship ended after a year and a half. In 2004 she received a lot of attention for her dress at the baptism of Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway.
In the following years she has had numerous appearances in Norwegian media.

Her first occupation was as a columnist for Norway's biggest newspaper, VG. (2004), then she moved on to the Norwegian edition of the magazine Cosmopolitan as a Fashion & Entertainment Editor (2004/2005). In February 2005 she got a job as a jury member in the TV show Shopaholic at TV 3. Later that year she became the TV host of the shows Kjendisjakten (2005) and then Frokostquiz (2006) on TV 2, Norway's biggest commercial channel.

In February 2007 she started as Political Editor on one of TV 2's most popular shows Rikets Røst (translated as "The Nations Voice") hosted by comedian Otto Jespersen where she punked and provoked political interview subjects with dupe questions and her fake ignorance. She also covered the presidential election for the show from Norway in November 2008.

September 2007 she participated in Norway's Dancing with the Stars (Skal vi danse ) on TV2.

November 2007 she published her first book; Pias bekjennelser, shopping, sjekking, skikk og bruk.

Spring 2009 it was announced that Pia and her mother Jasmin Haraldsen, would search for love in their own dating reality show "Pia og Jasmin" on Norwegian TV3. The show was shot in South of France summer of 2009, and broadcast on TV the following fall.
Pia chose partner Vemund Aarstrand in the show finale, while mother Jasmin found love in contestant Jan Horn, whom she married February 2010.
Pia and Vemund broke up spring 2010, as documented in the Norwegian press.

In 2010, Pia designed her first womenswear collection for Norwegian fashion house Agape.
The collection was named Pia Haraldsen for Agape, and launched at Oslo Fashion Week in August 2010.

In 2011, Pia made her TV-comeback as host of a Travel Show on TV8, called "LuksusFri".
The same year Pia also hosted a fashion makeover show and was named the face of Passion Watches.

Interview with James Oddo

In the summer of 2007, Haraldsen filmed an interview with New York City politician James Oddo.  She asked how Barack Obama could run for president, as he is not a U.S. citizen (she said she read somewhere he was "African-American") and asked if Senator Clinton could be president after the "cigar incident?".  The councilman reacted to the questions and threw the crew out of his office.

After the interview was shown on Norwegian Television it was posted on YouTube and attracted attention. Haraldsen was interviewed by large American media outlets like USA Today, Inside Edition and Fox News.

In early October 2008, Haraldsen was denied a visa by US authorities. This came after the US Embassy in Oslo had sought a second opinion from the Department of Homeland Security. The refusal states that she does not appear to fulfil requirements for journalists, however, it states she may apply for an artist visa. Haraldsen wanted to cover the presidential election for TV 2 Entertainment. A tourist visa application takes about two weeks to process whereas a journalist visa only takes 3 days.

External links

Pia Haraldsen - Official Web Site"
Rikets Røst - Official website
Exploding New York City Councilman Refuses To Get 'Punked' (Fox News, 2007)
Oddo's reaction

References

1981 births
Living people
Norwegian television personalities
Norwegian columnists
Norwegian women comedians
Norwegian women columnists

Pia Haraldsen


Roger Henry Pocklington Senhouse (189931 August 1970) was an English publisher and translator, and a peripheral member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers, intellectuals, and artists. The private letters of writer and Bloomsbury Group member Lytton Strachey reveal that Senhouse was his (last) lover, and with whom in the late '20s and early 1930s he had a sado-masochistic sexual relationship.

Senhouse attended both Eton College and Oxford University, where he was friends with Michael Llewelyn Davies, one of the boys upon whom Peter Pan was based. J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan became legal guardian of the Llewellyn Davies boys on the death of their parents. Robert Boothby, who was a friend of Senhouse and Davies during that period and himself bisexual said in a 1976 interview that the relationship between Senhouse and Davies was "fleetingly" homosexual in nature.

In 1935, Senhouse became co-owner with Fredric Warburg of the publishing house which became Secker & Warburg, rescuing it from receivership. Senhouse translated several works by French novelist Colette, and collaborated on a translation of The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir - these were published by Secker, along with major works of the era including George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, and works by Theodore Roethke, Alberto Moravia, Günter Grass, Angus Wilson, Julian Gloag, and Melvyn Bragg.

See also
List of Bloomsbury Group people

References

External links
Archival Material at
Roger Senhouse Correspondence, 1919-1931 held by Princeton University Library Special Collections

1899 births
1970 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Publishers (people) from London
Gay businessmen
English gay men
English LGBT businesspeople
20th-century English businesspeople
20th-century English LGBT people

Roger Senhouse


Sodd is a traditional Norwegian soup  made with cooked  mutton and meatballs  made with  lamb or beef. Potatoes and  carrots  are included in a clear, fragrant broth. In what is considered the proper way of serving, both the potatoes and carrots should be boiled separately and then only included upon serving. This is done by the table, where people plate their own servings.

History
Sodd is described in Håkon the Good's saga from the 13th century, where Håkon the Good had to eat the sodd from the sacrificial animal during a feast at Lade. Sodd has been considered a festive food in large parts of Norway.

Background
The meatballs are commonly flavored with ginger and nutmeg.
It is traditional food most associated with the region of Trøndelag where it is customarily served on festive occasions, such as weddings and confirmation ceremonies.

See also
lobscouse

References

Norwegian cuisine
Soups
Meatballs
Meat and potatoes dishes

Sodd


The Landfair Apartments is a historic two-building multi-family complex located on the southwest corner of Landfair Avenue and Ophir Drive in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. They were colloquially known as The Glass House and was renamed Robison Hall after UCHA member Everett Robison was drafted and killed in action in World War II.

The building is a part of a collection of homes designed by Los Angeles based modernist architect, Richard Neutra, and built in North West Westwood Village, which includes the Strathmore Apartments, Elkay Apartments, and Kelton Apartments. Architectural historians Robert Winter and David Gebhard has said that the Landfair Apartments is Neutra's "most International Style designs...of the 1930s."

History
It was designed in 1937 by Neutra in the International style. It originally consisted of five townhouses and two apartments and was purchased in 1941 by the University Cooperative Housing Association. The balconies and exterior glazing were removed when the building was converted to dormitory-style living. It has been altered to meet seismic and accessibility standards. One unit was left unchanged to document Neutra's original townhouse design.

On May 20, 1987, the City of Los Angeles designated the building as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

See also
List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the Westside

References

Richard Neutra buildings
Apartment buildings in Los Angeles
Residential buildings completed in 1937
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Westwood, Los Angeles
International style architecture in California
Modernist architecture in California

Landfair Apartments


Dant is an unincorporated community in Wasco County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It lies along the west bank of the Deschutes River between the north border of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and the small city of Maupin, north of the Mutton Mountains. Dant is not on a paved or numbered highway.

Dant was named after Thomas Dant, president of Dant and Russell, a company that opened a perlite mine here in 1950. The Lady Frances, as the mine was called, had related infrastructure including a mill and a plant that made perlite acoustical tile. The mine was near a station named Frieda on the Oregon Trunk Railway, which ran through Deschutes Canyon. The station, dating to 1911, and a Frieda Post Office that opened in 1950, were renamed later in 1950 in honor of Dant. The mine has since closed.

The Oregon Trunk Railway, which extended  from the Columbia River to Bend, was used by the Great Northern Railway and the Union Pacific. In 1909, the competing companies started building simultaneously along opposite sides of the Deschutes but reached agreement to share the Great Northern tracks. Other stations in the vicinity included Nena, Cambrai, and Maupin to the north, and Dixon, Nathan and North Junction to the south.

References

Unincorporated communities in Wasco County, Oregon
Unincorporated communities in Oregon

Dant, Oregon


St Bartholomew's Church (German: St. Bartholomäuskirche) is a parish church. It is the town church of Themar in Thuringia. It is dedicated to St Bartholomew. It belongs to the most richly equipped churches of the upper valley of the Werra. It is one of the few buildings of the small town, first mentioned in 796, which outlasted all storms of the time. The Oberkirche (upper church) at the upper gate and the Unterkirche (lower church) at the Werra were the first places of worship in the place. Of the Roman Unterkirche there still exist some remainders in the vestry and in both lower floors of the church tower. Pope Sixtus IV gave permission for the restoration of the church on May 14, 1484 with countess Margaretha von Henneberg intermediating.

On May 3, 1488 the Chorherr (canon regular) of the Premonstratensian monastery Veßra and minister of Themar Antonius König founded the building of today's church. In 1502 the hall church was completed. It is in late Gothic style.

The Protestant Reformation was introduced to Themar on October 5, 1544 by the count Ernst von Henneberg. After the Reformation the church received several smaller carved altars from other churches.  Since 1541 the church building was frequently converted in the course of the next decades.

The barrel vault and the two matroneums were inserted, whose support beams were decorated with beautiful Bartmannsköpfe (sculptures). Similar sculptures can be found in the churches of Rohr and Herpf near Meiningen.

At the columns the matroneums were decorated with sculptures of saints and apostles, partially from older Gothic altar works and with famous verses from the bible.

The Marienaltar

In the choir area there is the valuable Marienaltar (altar of St Mary), which was created by Hans Nußbaum from Bamberg in about 1510.

The altar shows Maria with Jesus as a child in the center, archangel Michael to her side, killing the dragon with his lance, and St Bartholomew, the patron of church and town.

On the side panels of the altar there are stations from the life of St Mary: The announcement to the Virgin Mary, the birth of the Lord, the three Magi and the Lamentation of St. Mary by the apostles. At the back of the side panels there are paintings of St Barbara, St Dorothy, St Margaret, St Catherine. On the Predella of the altar is to be seen the Holy Kinship.

Apart from its artistic value the Marienaltar has also great importance for local history: It retained the town church in the Thirty Years' War of being burned down. After the defeat of Sweden in the battle of Nördlingen (1634) general Johann Ludwig Hektor of Isolani, "the commander of all Croats", plundered the countries of the Thuringian princes.

On October 16 (Saint Gall's Day) in 1634, Themar was burned down (on the same day as Suhl) after the plundering by the Croats. The town church would have been burned as well, but a pious Italian officer gave the order to extinguish the fire when it came near to the Marienaltar.

Further carvings and art treasures are: The shrine of the apostles (about 1500). This is called "Nasenaltar" (nose altar), and is popular because of the expressive faces of the apostles.

At the back of the side panels there is a painting of the Apostelabschied (Great Commission). At the north wall there is the Wallfahrtsaltar (altar of pilgrimage) one can see the "Hühnchenlegende" (miracle of the chicken) of Santo Domingo de la Calzada (on the way of St James) at the back of a side panel.

At the south wall there are a Pietà altar and a Gothic Mondsichelmadonna, and in the choir area an epitaph in the Renaissance style. Furthermore, a fresco painting representing St. Catherine, that was detected in 1934, then the richly decorated Schalldeckel (abat-voix, or sounding-board) of the pulpit that dates from 1644 and an Epistelstuhl (reading-desk) likewise from the center of the 17th century and some paintings.

About 1900 stained glass was donated for the windows in the choir area. The pictures show Biblical scenes: the prodigal or lost son, the Kindersegnung (benediction of children, St. Luke 18, 15-17), the Good Samaritan. 1972 The last renovation of the St Bartholomew's Church was in 1972.

The organ

Originally the organ of the town church was set up in 1851 at the east wall of the church nave by the organ-builders Johann Michel and Wilhelm Holland (from Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig). Three organ stops of the pedal division were taken over from the Weise-organ built in 1629. In 1866 the organ was moved to the extended second matroneum in the west and renewed and reorganized for the last time in the years 1999/2000 by the company Rösel and Hercher.

From 1668 to 1684 Georg Christoph Bach, the oldest uncle of Johann Sebastian Bach, worked as Kantor at the town church and as a teacher at the Latin school of Themar. In 1684 he was appointed to Schweinfurt and became the ancestor of the Schweinfurt branch of the Bach family.

The tower

The church tower in Renaissance style contains three bells. The oldest bell was cast in 1488, another in 1507. The Bartholomäus bell that was cast in 1520 had to be delivered in 1942. In 1955 a steel bell was put in instead. In the church tower there lived a family of tower guards called Rust up to the fifties of the last century. The three rooms of their flat and the winch which helped to wind up food, water and coal up to the flat are to be still seen there.

References

Buildings and structures in Thuringia
Churches in Germany
16th-century buildings and structures

St Bartholomew's Church, Themar


Michael Chikong Seto (; born 1967) is a Canadian forensic psychologist, sexologist, and author. He is director of Forensic Rehabilitation Research at the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group, where his research focuses on pedophilia, sexual offenses committed against children, child pornography, risk assessment, offenders with mental disorders, psychopathy, and program evaluation.

He is editor in chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, the official journal of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, and an associate editor of the Archives of Sexual Behavior, the official journal of the International Academy of Sex Research. He also serves on the editorial board for the journal Law and Human Behavior, the official journal of the American Psychology-Law Society, as well as the Journal of Sex Research. He is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and holds cross-appointments to Toronto Metropolitan University, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa.

Career
Seto received a B.Sc. (1989) in biopsychology from University of British Columbia, completed his M.A. (1992) and Ph.D. (1997) in clinical psychology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  He worked at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (and its predecessor, the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry) from 1994 to 2008, before moving to the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group in 2008, first as a consultant and then as the director of Forensic Rehabilitation Research.

He serves as Scientific Advisor to Thorn, a company that partners across the tech industry, government and NGOs and leverage technology to combat predatory behavior, rescue victims, and protect vulnerable children. Thorn is co-Founded by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore.

Research
Seto has been noted as "one of the foremost authorities" on adolescent sex offenders.

Views
In describing pedophiles, Seto emphasizes that there are few outward signs.  He told USA Today, "People would feel better if there was a profile, but there really isn't." "It can be a priest, a coach, or a teacher. It could be a person who is a trusted member of the community. They are employed. They have friends. It doesn't fit with the idea that this person is different in some way that we could notice and protect ourselves." Serial child molesters seek out vulnerable children and cultivate relationships with them, Seto said.  "They are not picking children at random." Rather, "They are seeking out children who will be more receptive to their approach—children who may be socially isolated, impoverished, lacking a father figure."

Seto described child pornography offenders as often being socially isolated, spending long stretches of time online, and being secretive about their online activities. "Several studies have suggested that child pornography offenders become increasingly involved online, sometimes spending hours every day searching for more content, as well as spending time on related sites" like youth-oriented forums or chat rooms, he said.  There also appears to be an age difference, according to Seto: "People on average under 35 are more familiar with the technology than those who are over 35, and the arrests reflect that."

In 2007, Seto's research team received a $66,000 (Canadian) research grant to study child pornography offenders, comparing those who do with those who do not go on to commit future offences. Ontario politician George Smitherman criticized the study and the Ontario Mental Health Foundation for funding the project, because the study subjects would receive money for agreeing to participate ($60 Canadian).
Seto responded that he was unsurprised the study has generated controversy.  He said "I do understand why people are concerned about this, but I hope they don't lose sight of the fact that we're doing this research to understand pedophilia and sexual offending," and that it is standard practice to pay people to take part in clinical studies.  According to OMHF, "The new knowledge to be gained from the proposed study would contribute to our theoretical understanding of the origins of sexual offending against children, because it would help identify factors that influence the likelihood that someone with a sexual attraction to children will act upon that attraction."

References

1967 births
Canadian sexologists
Canadian psychologists
Living people
University of British Columbia alumni
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Writers from Ottawa
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Toronto

Michael C. Seto


The Immaculata prayer is a Traditional Catholic Marian prayer composed by Saint Maximillian Kolbe.

It is a prayer of consecration to the Immaculata, i.e. the immaculately conceived Virgin Mary.

The consecration prayer is as follows:

A shorter version of the prayer can be used for the daily renewal of the consecration:

References

Bibliography
 University of Dayton Marian prayers
 Consecration.com
 Women for Faith and Family

Marian devotions

Immaculata prayer


Gay Uncles Day, also known as Guncles Day, is celebrated on the second Sunday in August. It was first celebrated in the US on a wide scale Sunday August 14, 2016.

The holiday was conceived and first promoted by Facebook user C.J. Hatter, but received visual attention online when the late former rugby player Simon Dunn posted on his Instagram asking people if they wanted to celebrate "Gay Uncles Day" on Sunday, August 14.

Dunn remarked that everyone had someone in their family who was always the voluntary bachelor, but that visibility could help celebrate those people and allow them the comfort to come out.

The holiday is mostly celebrated online with gay aunts, uncles, and other LGBT relatives, posting pictures of themselves with their nieces and nephews, and other close, young relatives. It is also celebrated by the parents celebrating their LGBT+ siblings and sharing gratitude for their presence in the children's lives.

Since 2016, the holiday has been celebrated on the second Sundays in August in 2018, and 2019, including by celebrities such as Simon Dunn and Anderson Cooper. The holiday has been featured on NBC, Advocate Mag, and Out Lifestyle.

References

2016 establishments in the United States
Gay events
LGBT-related observances

Gay Uncles Day


The Public Security Intelligence Agency (公安調査庁, kōanchōsa-chō) is the national intelligence agency of Japan. It is administered by the Ministry of Justice in the government of Japan.

Organization
The PSIA is formed with the current organization:

 Internal Departments
 General Affairs Department
 Trial Office
 Planning and Coordination Office
 Information Management Office
 Public Relations and Communications Office
 Human Resources Section
 Work Promotion Office
 First Intelligence Department (Domestic Intelligence, headed by career police officer)
 Section 1 (Domestic security issues - Citizen group/s investigation, electoral information)
 Section 2 (Kakurōkyō/Revolutionary Communist League, National Committee investigation)
 Third Division (Japanese Communist Party investigation)
 Fourth Division (Right Wing group/s investigation)
 Fifth Division (Other domestic pro-left group/s investigations such as Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary Marxist Faction))
 Aum Special Research Office
 Second Intelligence Department (Foreign Intelligence, headed by career/non-career person)
 Section 1 (Japanese Red Army and international terrorism investigation)
 Section 2 (Foreign intelligence investigation, including liaising with foreign agents stationed in Japan)
 Third Division (North Korean investigation)
 Fourth Division (China/Southeast Asia/Russia/Europe/United States investigation)
 Institute
 Training Institute (Located in Akishima)
 Regional Bureaus
 Hokkaido (Hokkaido Bureau), Miyagi (Tohoku Bureau), Tokyo (Kanto Bureau), Aichi (Chubu Bureau), Osaka (Kinki Bureau), Hiroshima (Chugoku Bureau), Kagawa (Shikoku Bureau) and Fukuoka (Kyushu Bureau)
 Public Security Intelligence Offices (Hokkaido, Iwate, Niigata, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, Ishikawa, Kyoto, Hyogo, Okayama, Kumamoto and Okinawa.)

Intelligence agencies
Government of Japan

Public Security Intelligence Agency


Neck pain is a common problem, and two thirds of people will experience neck pain at some point in their lifetimes. Although neck pain is felt in the neck, it can also be caused by many other spinal problems.

Neck pain may be caused by tight muscles in the neck and upper back or compression of the spinal nerves in the neck. Injuries to the joints of the neck and upper back can also cause pain.

Neck
Pain

Neck pain


Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, KNH (9 December 1909 – 28 June 1999) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. His son, Lester Bryant Bird, succeeded him as Prime Minister. In 1994, he was declared a "National Hero".

He was an officer in the Salvation Army for 2 years. In 1943, he became the president of the Antigua Trades and Labour Union. He achieved national acclaim politically for the first time when he was elected to the colonial legislature in 1945. He formed the Antigua Labour Party and became the first and only chief minister, first and last premier, and first prime minister from 1981 to 1994. His resignation was due to failing health and internal issues within the government.

In 1985 Antigua's international airport, which was first named Coolidge International Airport, was renamed V.C. Bird International Airport in his honour.

Early life and education

Bird was born in a poor area of St John's, the capital. Unlike most of his political contemporaries – such as Norman Manley of Jamaica and Sir Grantley Herbert Adams of Barbados, who were distinguished lawyers, and Trinidadian Eric Williams, a scholar – Bird had little formal education except primary schooling. He attended St John's Boys School, now known as the T.N. Kirnon Primary School.

Political career

Positions in Antigua
Bird was an officer in the Salvation Army for two years interspersing his interests in trade unionism and politics.  He gave up the Salvation Army because he saw the way the landowners were treating the local black Antiguans and Barbudans, so he decided to leave his post to fight for the freedom of his people.

When the Antigua Trades and Labour Union (ATLU) was formed in 1939, Bird was an executive member. By 1943 he had become president of the union and was leading a battle for better working conditions and increased pay against the white sugar barons. The union entered electoral politics for the first time in 1946 and Bird won, in a by-election, a seat in the legislature and was appointed a member of the Executive Council.

When universal adult suffrage was introduced here in 1951, the ATLU, under the banner of the Antigua Labour Party, won all seats in the legislature, a feat it repeated until 1967, making Antigua a country with a multi-party system but with freely voted one-party control. The ministerial system was introduced in 1956 and the Governor gave Bird the trade and production portfolio, and when further constitutional advancement came in 1960, he was named Chief Minister.

In 1967, Antigua became the first Eastern Caribbean island to receive the associated statehood constitution from Britain that gave internal self-government but with London remaining responsible for foreign policy and defence.

Bird, radical in his younger days, had been shifting to the right, and in the face of severe social unrest that forced a split in the ATLU in 1967 and rioting in 1968, the ATLU lost its tight hold of Antigua and Barbuda politics. Out of the split, the Antigua Workers Union was formed and later the Progressive Labour Movement (PLM), and Bird decided to resign because he felt it was not right to hold both positions.

In 1968 the PLM won four seats in a by-election and by 1971 Bird was out of power, having not only lost the government to the PLM but also the parliamentary seat he had held for 25 years. A former Lieutenant, the PLM's George Walter, became the island's new premier.

Bird's political exile was to last for only five years and by 1976, he regained the government, having campaigned against independence on the grounds that Antigua was not yet psychologically ready. He won the election again in 1980, this time with independence being a major campaign plank. With his powerful family, he ruled Antigua and Barbuda up to 1994, when he quit politics, having paved the way for one of his sons, Lester, to take over as Prime Minister.

 Chief Minister of Antigua from 1 January 1960 to 27 February 1967
 Premier of Antigua from 27 February 1967 to 14 February 1971
 Premier of Antigua from 1 February 1976 to 1 November 1981
 Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1 November 1981 to 9 March 1994.

Criticism and praise
A common criticism from the Antiguan public is the corruption and cronyism within the Labour Party, with many claiming the government is essentially a "family business" with the continuance of the Bird dynasty in control of political power as unquestioned.

Bird's supporters reject these accusations and say that his actions were justified to throw off the institution of colonial sugar planters and the British colonial overlords. The Antiguan author Jamaica Kincaid compared the Bird government to the François Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti in her politically charged narrative A Small Place.

Bird was a member of an elite group of militant trade unionists who blazed a trail through colonial times up to or near the political independence of the Caribbean countries. The group included Alexander Bustamante and Norman Manley of Jamaica, Robert Bradshaw of St Kitts and Nevis, Grantley Adams of Barbados, Cheddi Jagan of Guyana, Ebenezer Joshua of St Vincent and the Grenadines and Eric Gairy of Grenada. Bird was among the early organizers of labour in colonial Antigua and Barbuda of the 1930s and 1940s. His biggest battles were fought in the sugar industry, where he achieved better wages for workers and recognition of the right of workers to have annual holidays with pay.

Bird, an imposing figure (standing at 7 feet tall) even in his last years, was astute enough to recognise that those benefits would be limited as long as the big landowners held control of the government. Therefore, he actively encouraged the top executive of his union – the Antigua Trades and Labour Union – to run for legislative office. He agitated for a change in the qualification of candidates for the parliamentary elections since up to that time, only property owners could run for election.

Bird won a seat to parliament in the late 1940s and his party went on to dominate electoral politics in Antigua and Barbuda for several years. He was eventually to lead the islands into political independence from Britain. Bird left his mark on the labour movement, education and the Caribbean integration movement. One of Bird's dreams was a Caribbean that was united politically and economically. Bird ardently supported the West Indies Federation and when that collapsed in 1962, negotiated hard for a federation of the "Little Eight" countries.

In 1965, together with premiers Errol Barrow of Barbados and Forbes Burnham of Guyana, Bird brought the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) into being. That Association later led to the Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom), comprising 12 of the English-speaking Caribbean countries, two more than were members of the West Indies Federation.

On 1 November 1981, he became the first Prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Since then, in a rare case in modern-day Caribbean politics, he led his party to an election victory in 1984 in which the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) won all the Antiguan seats in the Legislature.

Awards and death
In 1994, Bird was made a Knight of the Order of the National Hero (KNH) by his native country Antigua and Barbuda.

Death
Bird died in St. John's on 28 June 1999, aged 88.

See also
List of foreign ministers in 1991

References

External links
 The Political Accomplishments of Bird
 Antiguan Political Parties

1909 births
1999 deaths
Prime Ministers of Antigua and Barbuda
Finance ministers of Antigua and Barbuda
Foreign ministers of Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda Salvationists
Leaders of political parties
Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party politicians
Vere
British Leeward Islands people of World War II
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Recipients of the Order of the National Hero (Antigua and Barbuda)
Bird, Vere
Recipients of the Order of the Caribbean Community

Vere Bird


Denis "Dinny" Lutge (26 November 1879 – 18 February 1953) was a pioneer Australian rugby league and rugby union player, a dual-code international. He was the second ever captain of the Australian national rugby league team and the first to lead the side to victory.

Rugby union career
A Mosman, New South Wales stevedore, Lutge commenced his rugby career with the Mosman Juniors in 1893, before playing for Sydney's Northern Suburbs club from 1901 until 1907. He made his international début as a lock-forward in the first ever rugby union test match played between the Australian team and the All Blacks in Sydney, on 15 August 1903. He went on to appear in all three of Australia's Test losses in 1904 against the visiting British Lions.

Rugby league career
Lutge was named foundation captain of the North Sydney District Rugby League Football Club in 1908. Lutge represented New South Wales that year and in May, along with two other of the five inaugural selectors (Hennessy & Dore), Lutge picked himself for the first international rugby league matches against the visiting New Zealand team, drawing some press criticism in the process.

Along with Dally Messenger, Micky Dore, Doug McLean snr and Johnny Rosewell, Lutge was one of the inaugural five Australian dual code rugby internationals who débuted in international rugby league in Sydney on 9 May 1908 in the first Australian league Test against New Zealand.

Lutge enjoys the distinction of having played in each of Australia's inaugural rugby league and rugby union Test matches against New Zealand.

He was selected as captain for the 3rd Test in June 1908 and, playing at lock, led Australia to their first international rugby league victory after they had lost the earlier two Tests under Arthur Hennessy.

Lutge was selected by the playing squad as tour captain for the nine-month inaugural Kangaroo tour of 1908–09, but broke his arm before he had the opportunity to captain Australia against Great Britain. After Lutge's injury, the Australian test team was captained by Dally Messenger.

Upon returning to Australia he retired from football but continued working as a selector. He coached a visiting New Zealand Māori rugby league team against teams he was selecting in 1909. In 1915 he was selected as the North Sydney club's first ever coach, pioneering the concept of mid-week night training.

Lutge worked for more than fifty years for the Mosman council as a beach inspector and cleaner at Balmoral.

Accolades

Lutge was awarded Life Membership of the New South Wales Rugby League in 1914.

Dinny Lutge is Kangaroo player #8 on the Australian Players Register (2005).

Playing records
 Club: North Sydney "Shoremen" (1908) 3 games, 1 try
 Representative: Australia (1908), New South Wales (1908)

Published sources
  Whiticker, Alan (2004) Captaining the Kangaroos, New Holland, Sydney
 Whiticker, Alan & Hudson, Glen (2006) The Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, Gavin Allen Publishing, Sydney

References

1879 births
1953 deaths
Australia international rugby union players
Australia national rugby league team captains
Australia national rugby league team players
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Denis Lutge


George Louis Motola (November 15, 1919 – February 15, 1991) was an American record producer, songwriter and sound engineer from the 1950s until his death.

Early life and career
Motola, whose last name is often misspelled as Mottola, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, one of five brothers and three sisters born to parents who had migrated to the USA from Italy. He started his business career as a used car dealer, but soon found out that music was his real interest. By the mid-1950s he was working as a producer at Modern Records in Los Angeles, where he supervised acts like Jesse Belvin, Young Jessie and Jimmy Beasley.

His most famous composition is "Goodnight My Love", which was originally recorded by Jesse Belvin in 1956 (# 7 R&B). Subsequent versions by the McGuire Sisters (1957), Ray Peterson (1959), The Fleetwoods (1963), Ben E. King (1966), Paul Anka (1969), The Four Seasons (1963), and Paula Abdul (1991), all made the Billboard Top 100. Paul Anka reached no. 27 on Billboard in 1969 with his recording. The song was written by George Motola with John Marascalco.

Motola was instrumental in the creation of The Shields, a group he formed with the sole purpose of covering "You Cheated" by The Slades for his own Tender label. The group included Frankie Ervin (lead singer), Jesse Belvin and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. Sold to Randy Wood's Dot Records label, "You Cheated" became a # 12 pop hit; the B-side, "That's the Way It's Gonna Be", was co-written by Motola.

In 1960, Motola produced one of the wildest rock 'n' roll recordings ever made, "Rockin' This Joint Tonight" by Kid Thomas (real name Tommy Louis). Motola himself was too busy to do anything with the record, but he pointed the Kid in the direction of one Brat Atwood, who promptly took one-half writer's credit and issued it on his TRC label. Just as Thomas was set to do television appearances and start promoting the record, Atwood got into some unspecified problems and the label folded.

Motola was a prolific songwriter, with 120 entries in the BMI database. Among his compositions is "Shattered Dreams", recorded by the Johnny Burnette Trio, and he co-wrote "Here Comes Henry" for Young Jessie (with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), both sides of the Ernie Fields 1958 single "Annie's Rock"/"Strollin' After School"(Jamie 1102) and "Lou Be Doo" for Sanford Clark.

Co-writing
He started off writing with his brother, Joe Motola.

Most of his co-writing was with his wife, Rickie Page, their best-known composition being "Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie" (Eddie Cochran and others). Page was a recording star in her own right, with releases on Liberty, Dot, Zephyr and Rendezvous. Her 1957 recording of "Wee Willie" (Liberty 55094, co-written by Motola and Hal Winn) was included on the CD Liberty Rock & Roll; Eddie Cochran may be playing guitar on this track, according to Tapio. The vocal group The Georgettes, which included Page, was named after George Motola. Their record "Love Like A Fool"/ "Oh Tonight" (Ebb 125, both sides Motola-Page compositions) was released in the UK on London HL 8548. Page was also involved in several other groups (sometimes with other female members of her musical family): The Bermudas (who recorded for Era), Joanne & the Triangles, The Majorettes and Beverly and the Motorscooters. Motola and Page also ran Troy Records, the original 1964 outlet for "He's My Boyfriend" by Becky and the Lollipops, yet another name used by the Page clan.

Death
George Motola died in 1991, survived by his wife and children. From a chartered boat filled with friends, business associates and family, the ashes of Motola were scattered at sea, and his greatest hit was sung, a cappella, by Gretchen Christopher of The Fleetwoods (for whom "Goodnight My Love" had been their 11th Billboard Hit).

References

1919 births
1991 deaths
Musicians from Hartford, Connecticut
Songwriters from Connecticut
20th-century American musicians
Songwriters from New York (state)

George Motola


Stewart Smith (c. 1907 – October 27, 1993) was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1930s and 1940s.

Life and career
Smith was the son of Reverend A. E. Smith, a social gospel minister who became a leading figure in the Communist Party. Stewart Smith was one of the main figures in the faction, led by Tim Buck, that took over the party leadership in 1929. Smith was elected to the party's Central Committee and continued to serve on it (and the party's Political Bureau) for decades. He supported the expulsion of Trotskyist and Right Opposition factions from the party. In 1934, Smith wrote the pamphlet Socialism and the C.C.F. which promoted the Communist Party's view that the newly formed democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was an obstacle to socialism which served as a buffer between the working class and the capitalist class that needed to be defeated.

In 1935, Smith led the Canadian delegation to the world congress of the Communist International held in Moscow. When he returned, he echoed the Comintern's new line rejecting the previous Third Period sectarianism of the party and advocating class unity and ultimately Popular Frontism in its stead resulting in the dissolution of the party's red union, the Workers' Unity League into the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Smith was elected to Toronto City Council as an alderman beginning in 1937 and, in the 1945 municipal election, was elected to the powerful Toronto Board of Control and was elected again in 1946 before being defeated in 1947 as the result of a strong anti-Communist campaign.

Smith, Stanley Ryerson and Leslie Morris were propelled into the leadership of the party in 1940 when the Communist Party was banned and Tim Buck, Sam Carr and Charles Simms fled to New York City to escape arrest. Smith, Ryerson and Morris were made leaders of the party's "operations centre" and effectively led the party until Buck, Carr and Simms returned from exile when the German invasion of the Soviet Union brought the USSR into World War II as an Allied Power.

Smith remained a prominent member of the Labor-Progressive Party (as the Communists were known), and leader of the Labor-Progressive Party of Ontario, until the crisis that hit the international Communist movement in 1956. The combined shock of Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet invasion of Hungary led Smith to join the exodus from the party, led by the resignations of Smith, J.B. Salsberg, Harry Binder and Sam Lipshitz, that reduced the LPP to a small rump. He was subsequently written out of the party's history.

After leaving the party, Smith found success as an entrepreneur in the pharmaceutical industry. He built a chain of discount drugstores, selling his  business to Shoppers Drug Mart in 1978.

In the 1990s, he authored his autobiography Comrades and Komsomolkas, My Years in the Communist Party of Canada  .

References

External links
Stewart Smith's obituary; unavailable 5 May 2021.

1900s births
1993 deaths
Toronto city councillors
Leaders of the Communist Party of Canada (Ontario)
Communist Party of Canada candidates in the 1940 Canadian federal election
Labor-Progressive Party candidates in the 1953 Canadian federal election

Stewart Smith (politician)


Baikonur (kaz. Baıqonyr/Байқоныр; rus. Байконур) formerly known as Leninsk (also, see Tyuratam), is a city of republic significance in Kazakhstan on the northern bank of the Syr Darya river, rented and administered by the Russian Federation. It was constructed to service the Baikonur Cosmodrome and was officially renamed Baikonur by Russian president Boris Yeltsin on December 20, 1995. During the Soviet period, it was sometimes referred to as Звездоград (Zvezdograd), Russian for 'Star City'.

1950s establishments in Kazakhstan
Cities and towns in Kazakhstan

Baikonur


Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer. He wrote horror stories and poems.

Early life

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809. His parents were two touring vaudeville actors, David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins. David left the family under unknown circumstances while Poe was an infant. When Poe was two his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving Edgar an orphan. The wealthy John Allan took Edgar into his home in Richmond, Virginia. In 1815, the Allan family moved to England. Young Poe went to an English private school. After five years, the family moved back to Richmond, Virginia.

After moving back to Virginia, Poe entered the University of Virginia in 1826. While there, he gambled, lost money, and went into debt. John Allan became angry, and cut off all contact with Poe. In 1827, Poe published his first work, a collection of poetry titled, Tamerlane and Other Poems. Poe did not have his name published in the book; it was attributed to "a Bostonian."

Military life
Poe enlisted in the army. He used the name Edgar A. Perry and lied about his age. He was successful as a soldier and quickly became a sergeant major. While in the army his foster-mother Frances Allan died. Poe attempted to mend his relationship with John Allan. Poe soon left the army and enrolled at West Point in New York state.

Poe did not enjoy his time at West Point and got very bored. He was expelled in March 1831. At this point, John Allan disowned him. Poe was well-liked by other cadets. They contributed money to pay for Poe to publish a book of his poems called Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. He soon moved to Baltimore, Maryland.

Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York
In Baltimore, Poe lived with his aunt, Maria Poe Clemm. She was the sister of Edgar's real father. Clemm also had a daughter named Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe. Virginia admired Poe very much. In 1836, when Virginia was thirteen, she and Poe married.

Poe was writing a lot by this time. He sold his first short story in 1832. His writing did not earn very much money. He also worked as an editor for various magazines over the years, becoming very well known for his literary criticism. Poe also was drinking off and on during these years.

In 1842, while Poe was living with Clemm and Virginia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Virginia became sick with tuberculosis. The family moved to New York City. They later settled in The Bronx. On 29 January 1845, Poe published his most famous poem, "The Raven", making him very popular. Virginia died a few years later, on 30 January 1847, due to pulmonary tuberculosis. Poe was devastated  after her death.

Death
On September 27, 1849, Poe left Richmond after a short visit. It is not known what happened to him until October 3; On that day, he was discovered outside of Gunner's Hall by Joseph W. Walker in Baltimore. He was taken to Washington College Hospital. While in the hospital. he became delirious and started seeing hallucinations. He died on October 7, 1849, in the hospital. It is not known what his cause of death was. There are several possible theories. They include congestion of the brain, alcoholism withdrawal, tuberculosis and rabies.

Poe was buried in the grounds of the Westminster Church and Burying Ground after a small funeral with only a few people. On May 17, 1875, Poe was reburied at the front of the churchyard after a city-wide campaign to raise money to build a large monument. He is buried there alongside his wife Virginia, and Virginia's mother Maria Clemm.

Selected works

Short stories
 "Berenice" (1835) Horror story about obsession
 "The Black Cat" (1845) Horror story about a cat
 "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846) A story of revenge
 "A Descent Into The Maelström" (1845) Man vs. Nature, Adventure Story
 "Eleonora" (1841) A love story
 "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" (1845) Talking with a dead man
 "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) An old house and its secrets
 "The Gold Bug" (1843) A search for pirate treasure
 "Hop-Frog" (1845) A dwarf seeks revenge
 "The Imp of the Perverse" (1845) Procrastination and confession
 "Ligeia" (1838) A haunting supernatural tale
 "The Man of the Crowd" (1845) How to follow someone
 "Manuscript Found in a Bottle" (1833) Adventure at sea
 "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842) The horror of the plague
 "Mesmeric Revelation" (1849) Conversation with a hypnotized dying man
 "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841) A detective story
 "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" (1841) A comedy with a moral
 "The Oval Portrait" (1842) A tragic love story
 "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1842) A torture chamber
 "The Premature Burial" (1844) About being buried alive
 "The Purloined Letter" (1845) A detective story
 "Silence - A Fable" (1838) A dream
 "Some Words With a Mummy" (1845) A mummy speaks
 "The Spectacles" (1844) A comedy about love at first sight
 "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether" (1845) Inside an insane asylum
 "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843) A murderer's guilt
 "William Wilson" (1839) A doppelganger story

Poems
 "The Conqueror Worm"
 "The Raven"
 "To Helen"
 "The Bells"
 "Annabel Lee"
 "A Dream Within A Dream"
 "To Ulalume: A Ballad"
 "For Annie"

Related pages
 Lycée Edgar-Poe

Other websites

 Poe's resting place
 Poe's life, poems, works
 Poe Museum
 Best Edgar Allan Poe Poems

1809 births
1849 deaths
19th-century American poets

Unexplained deaths
Writers from Baltimore
Writers from Virginia
People from the Bronx

Edgar Allan Poe


Pedorthic Association of Canada (PAC) is a national non-profit organization whose mandate is to develop and promote the study, practice and knowledge of Pedorthics in Canada. Currently the Pedorthic Association of Canada has almost 600 members nationwide.  The association headquarters is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

The Pedorthic Association of Canada's membership consists of Certified members, who hold professional designations through The College of Pedorthics of Canada, as well as industry professionals. Certified members can hold designations of Certified Pedorthist (Canada), Certified Pedorthic Technician (Canada) or Certified Master Craftsman (Canada). All certified members must complete post graduate courses in the Diploma in Pedorthics program offered across Canada through Western University.

Canadian Certified Pedorthists are orthotic and footwear experts. Pedorthists (C. Ped (C)) are one of the few healthcare professionals trained in the assessment of lower limb anatomy and biomechanics. With specialized education and training in the design, manufacture, fit and modification of foot orthotics and footwear, Pedorthists help to alleviate pain, abnormalities and debilitating conditions of the lower limbs and feet that if left untreated could result in limited mobility.

References

External links

 The College of Pedorthics of Canada

Medical and health organizations based in Manitoba
Podiatry organizations

Pedorthic Association of Canada


Hagar was an Egyptian woman who was given as a servant to Abraham. When Abraham's wife Sarah couldn't have children, Sarah told Abraham to marry Hagar. Then Abraham married Hagar and she became pregnant and then became arrogant so Sarah treated her badly and then she ran away but an angel told Hagar to go back to Abraham because the Almighty would be with her, help her and protect her. Hagar came back and gave birth to a son, Ishmael. After Sarah gave birth to Isaac, she told Abraham to banish both Hagar and her son. Then the Almighty told Abraham to listen to his wife Sarah, so Abraham sent Hagar and Ishmael away with water that they could use to survive.  When Ishmael got sick, Hagar gave him all the water she had and when she needed more for him, an angel gave it to her so she could save Ishmael. Ishmael then became the ancestor of the Ishmaelites.

Old Testament people

Hagar


Atonaltzin (Nahuatl name), also referred to as Atonal II (Nahuatl reverential form) or Dzawindanda (Mixtec name), was a 15th-century ruler of the Mixtec kingdom of Coixtlahuaca.

Atonal was executed after Coixtlahuaca was conquered by the Aztecs under Moctezuma I, ostensibly to avenge the deaths of 160 pochteca. Different sources give the year in which this occurred as 1453, 1458, 1461 or 1468.

References

15th-century deaths
Executed monarchs
Mixtec people
Mexican people of indigenous peoples descent
Year of birth unknown

Ātōnaltzin


Nathan ben Isaac ha-Kohen ha-Babli was a Babylonian Jewish historian of the 10th century. He was the author of a history of the exilarchate that gives many interesting details in regard to the exilarchs, particularly his contemporary Mar Ukba. Extracts from this history were published by Samuel Shullam in his edition of Zacuto's Yuḥasin (Constantinople, 1546), as well as by A. Neubauer (M. J. C. ii. 83 et seq.). Shullam's work is the only surviving source for Nathan's history other than an Arabic fragment published by Israel Friedlander.

Since Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome, the author of the Arukh, is quoted in Zacuto's Yuḥasin (ed. Filipowski, p. 174, London, 1856) as "Nathan ha-Babli of Narbonne," H. Grätz (Gesch. 3d ed., v. 288, 469-471) mistook the latter for Nathan ben Isaac ha-Kohen ha-Babli and ascribed to him an Arukh similar to that written by Nathan b. Jehiel. Grätz even went so far as to identify Nathan ben Isaac with the fourth of the four prisoners captured by Ibn Rumaḥis (see Ḥushiel ben Elhanan), assuming that he settled afterward at Narbonne.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography
 A. Geiger, in Hebr. Bibl. iii.4;
 Henri Gross, Gallia Judaica, p. 409.

References

Jews from the Abbasid Caliphate
10th-century Jews
10th-century historians from the Abbasid Caliphate
Jewish historians
Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature
Babylonian people
Year of death unknown
Year of birth unknown

Nathan ben Isaac HaBabli


John Seibel (born 1970) is an American broadcaster.  He is the former host of KDKA's afternoon drive show Seibel, Starkey and Miller in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on 93.7 The Fan from 2-6 PM. Seibel is currently the evening news anchor at WDTN, the NBC affiliate in Dayton, Ohio.

Before Seibel, Starkey and Miller
Prior to moving to Pittsburgh in January 2010, Seibel was at ESPN for nine years.  One of the more versatile commentators at the Worldwide Leader, Seibel anchored ESPNews from October 2000 until his departure in November 2009 while assuming many roles on ESPN Radio.

Seibel served as ESPN Radio's weekend host of GameNight in the summer of 2002 before joining ESPN Radio full-time.  During his seven years of radio, Seibel hosted NFL on ESPN Radio, The Baseball Show, GameNight, The SportsBash, The Huddle with Mike Ditka, SportsNation, Football Tonight and Baseball Tonight.  In 2007 and 2008, Seibel was the emcee for an ESPN/NFL joint effort Monday Night Football Chalk Talk Luncheon Series, anchoring a panel of former football greats.

Life before ESPN
Seibel made the big leap to ESPN from KIMO-TV in Anchorage, Alaska.  He was the sports director of the ABC affiliate for three years winning numerous awards during his short tenure.  Seibel won Alaska Broadcasters Association Goldie awards for Best Play-by-Play and Best Live Event all three years and Best Entertainment Program in 2000.  Seibel was also named the NSSA's Sportscaster of the Year in 1997.

Before Alaska
Seibel is a 1997 Graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University, walking with honors as the schools Outstanding Graduate.  Prior to ASU, Seibel served in the U.S. Air Force from January 1989-September 1991 as part of the Early Warning Missile Defense systems for NORAD at Falcon Air Force Station.  He then served in the Hawaii Air National Guard from September 1991-May 1994 in a communications mobility unit.  While in Hawaii, Seibel was also a television uplinker for Vision Accomplished.

Personal
Seibel is from Englewood, Ohio.  He and his wife, Heather, have three children born in 2007, 2009 and 2011.  The Seibels met at ESPN.  Their story and wedding was chronicled on TLC's A Wedding Story.

References
 ASU Magazine: Early Risers

1970 births
American radio journalists
American sports radio personalities
American television sports announcers
Arizona State University alumni
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication alumni
ESPN Radio
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
People from Anchorage, Alaska
People from El Paso County, Colorado
Mass media people from Hawaii
People from Montgomery County, Ohio
Radio personalities from Pittsburgh
United States Air Force airmen

John Seibel


Robert J. Fredrickson (born May 13, 1971) is a former National Football League (NFL) linebacker who played 9 seasons for the Los Angeles / Oakland Raiders, Detroit Lions, and Arizona Cardinals. He attended Michigan State University and was a 4-time Academic All-Big Ten recipient and earned All-American honors.  He was drafted in the first round of the 1994 NFL Draft by the Raiders.  Fredrickson was selected to the NFL All-Rookie 1st Team in 1994.  He played linebacker for the Lions in 1998 and signed as a free agent with the Cardinals in 1999. He holds the modern-era Cardinals record for most tackles in a game with 22 vs. the New York Jets in 1999.  He retired from the NFL in 2003.

Fredrickson continues to be active in the Phoenix community and is a member of the Phoenix charitable volunteer group, The Thunderbirds.  As hosts of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, The Thunderbirds raised a record $13.2 million ($13,254,334) for local charities through proceeds from the 2019 tournament.  The Thunderbirds and the Waste Management Phoenix Open have raised more than $81 million ($81,672,224) for local charities since 2010 when Waste Management became title sponsor. In its history, dating back to 1932, The Thunderbirds and the Phoenix Open have raised more than $147 million ($147,718,790) for charities in Arizona.

References

1971 births
Living people
American football outside linebackers
Los Angeles Raiders players
Oakland Raiders players
Detroit Lions players
Arizona Cardinals players
Michigan State Spartans football players
Players of American football from Michigan
People from St. Joseph, Michigan

Rob Fredrickson


Bow Bridge is a small town in the Great Southern of Western Australia. It is located between Denmark and Walpole on the South Coast Highway. It also situated on the Bow River.

Farms were established in the area prior to 1917.

The townsite now consists primarily of the roadhouse that overlooks the bridge. The roadhouse was established prior to 1960 and operates as a fuel station, post office, grocery store and cafe.

References

Great Southern (Western Australia)

Bow Bridge, Western Australia


10 Hygiea is the fourth biggest object in the asteroid belt. It is somewhat non-spherical in shape, with diameters of 350 – 500 km. Its mass is estimated to be 3% of the total mass of the asteroid belt.

It is the biggest of the class of dark C-type asteroids with a carbonaceous surface that are dominant in the farther part main belt, which lies beyond the Kirkwood gap at 2.82 AU, and is also the biggest body in this region. Its dark surface and bigger than average distance from the Sun makes it very dim for such a big asteroid when seen from Earth. In fact it is the third dimmest of the first twenty-three asteroids discovered, with only 13 Egeria and the quite small 17 Thetis having lower mean opposition magnitudes.

At most oppositions, Hygiea has a magnitude of around +10.2, which is as much as four orders fainter than Vesta, and will need at least a 4-inch telescope to resolve. At a perihelic opposition, however, Hygiea can reach +9.1 and may just be resolvable with 10x50 binoculars, unlike the fifth and sixth biggest asteroids 704 Interamnia and 511 Davida which are always beyond binocular visibility.

Discovery
Hygiea was found by Annibale de Gasparis on April 12, 1849 in Naples, Italy. It was the first of his nine asteroid discoveries. It is named after Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health, daughter of Asclepius (Aesculapius for the Romans).

The asteroid was named by the director of the Naples observatory, Ernesto Capocci. He called it Igea Borbonica ("Bourbon Hygieia") in honor of the ruling family of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies where Naples was located. However, by 1852, John Russell Hind wrote that "it is universally termed Hygeia, the unnecessary appendage 'Borbonica' being dropped."

The name was often spelled Hygeia in the nineteenth century, for example in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Characteristics

Hygiea's surface is made of primitive carbonaceous material similar to the chondrite meteorites.
It is the main member of the Hygiea family and contains almost all the mass in this family (well over 90%).

Generally Hygiea's properties are the least known out of the "big four" objects in the main belt. Its orbit is much closer to the plane of the ecliptic than those of Ceres, Pallas or Interamnia, but is less circular than Ceres or Vesta with an eccentricity of around 12%. Its perihelion is at a quite similar longitude to those of Vesta and Ceres, though its ascending and descending nodes are opposite the corresponding ones for those objects. Although its perihelion is extremely close to the mean distance of Ceres and Pallas, a collision between Hygiea and its bigger companions is impossible because at that distance they are always on opposite sides of the ecliptic. At aphelion Hygiea reaches out to the extreme edge of the asteroid belt at the perihelia of the Hilda family which is in 3:2 resonance with Jupiter.

It spins unusually slow, taking 27 hours and 37 minutes to complete one rotation, whereas 6 to 12 hours are more typical for big asteroids.

At least 5 stellar occultations by Hygiea were tracked by Earth-based observers, but all with few seeing independent measurements so that much was not learned of its shape. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to resolve the asteroid, and to rule out the presence of any orbiting companions bigger than about 16 km in diameter

References

Other websites
 shape model deduced from lightcurve
 A simulation of the orbit of Hygiea
  — Horizons can be used to obtain a current ephemeris.

Asteroids

10 Hygiea


The Ashfield Plain Historic District is a historic district roughly, along Main and South Streets and adjacent parts of Buckland and Norton Hill Roads in Ashfield, Massachusetts.  It encompasses the village center of the town, which has acted as a civic and commercial center since the late 18th century.  Its architectural heritage dates back to that time, but is now dominated by buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Description and history
The town of Ashfield was settled in 1736 and incorporated in 1765.  Its early town center was located at the northeast fringe of the present town center, but migrated toward "The Plain" where it is now later in the 18th century.  This area, set on a relatively large level area (in otherwise hilly terrain) along the main road leading east toward the Connecticut River valley, was a natural place for taverns and other businesses to congregate.  The town was economically dominated by agriculture, but small water-powered industries developed along the South River, which runs to the north of Main Street and was impounded by a dam in the early 19th century (forming Ashfield Great Pond) to facilitate those uses.

The historic district is essentially linear in character, extending along Main Street (Massachusetts Route 116) between Ashfield Great Pond in the west and Bishop Corner Road in the east, and then northward along Bishop Corner Road.  It extends for short distances along some side roads, and along those two roads beyond their intersection to the east and south.  It is  in size, and is composed mainly of one and two-story wood frame residences.  The central core of the village includes a number of commercial buildings, all also of wood-frame construction, as well as most of the town's civic buildings.  Among the buildings included in the district is Ashfield's Town Hall, which was built in the 1810s to house the First Congregational Church.  While still in use by the congregation the building was moved  down a steep hill to its present location.  In 1870 the building was sold to the town, and adapted for use as town hall.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Massachusetts

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Massachusetts
Ashfield, Massachusetts

Ashfield Plain Historic District


Silicones () are polymers that include any inert, synthetic compound made up of repeating units of siloxane. This is a functional group of two silicon atoms and one oxygen atom frequently combined with carbon and/ or hydrogen.  They are typically heat-resistant and rubber-like. Silicones are used in sealants, adhesives, lubricants, medicine, cooking utensils, and thermal and electrical insulation. Some common forms include silicone oil, silicone grease, silicone rubber, silicone resin, and silicone caulk. Silicone is also used for cosmetics. Silicone has very little to do with the element silicon ().

References

Cosmetics
Thermoplastics

Silicone


Terraforming is changing a planet or large natural satellite that we cannot live on at present without spacesuits and similar technology. The idea is to change it so some life from Earth could exist there. It would need a suitable atmosphere (air), heat, and water. "Paraterraforming" or "worldhousing" is a variant of terraforming that would involve building domes over the majority of a planet or moon.

Some think it is possible to terraform Mercury, Venus, Mars, Ceres, Pluto, our Moon, Titan, Callisto.

It is arguable that we have already succeeded in terraforming right here on Earth. Thanks to modern technology, humans can now thrive in places that should be impossible to live in such as deserts and the Arctic.

A related concept is paraterraforming or worldhousing which would involve constructing greenhouse-style geodesic domes and similar structures to cover most of, if not the entire surface of the planet or moon.

References

Space colonization

Terraforming


An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth, display resolution, and color profile.

Although one may use a full-featured raster graphics editor (such as Photoshop or GIMP) as an image viewer, these have many editing functionalities which are not needed for just viewing images, and therefore usually start rather slowly. Also, most viewers have functionalities that editors usually lack, such as stepping through all the images in a directory (possibly as a slideshow).

Image viewers give maximal flexibility to the user by providing a direct view of the directory structure available on a hard disk.  Most image viewers do not provide any kind of automatic organization of pictures and therefore the burden remains on the user to create and maintain their folder structure (using tag- or folder-based methods). However, some image viewers also have features for organizing images, especially an image database, and hence can also be used as image organizer.

Some image viewers, such as Windows Photo Viewer that come with Windows operating systems, change a JPEG image if it is rotated, resulting in loss of image quality; others offer lossless rotation.

Features
Typical features of image viewers are:
 basic viewing operations such as zooming and rotation
 fullscreen display
 slideshow
 thumbnail display
 printing
 screen capture
 photo editor (if installed)
 The ability to jump to a random file in the folder to facilitate searching.

Advanced features are:
 decode next image in advance and keep previous decoded image in memory for fast image changes
 display (and edit) metadata such as XMP, IPTC Information Interchange Model and Exif
 batch conversion (image format, image dimensions, etc.) and renaming
 create contact sheets
 create HTML thumbnail pages
 different transition effects for slideshows

See also
Comparison of image viewers
Comparison of CAD, CAM and CAE file viewers
Desktop organizer
Image organizer

Electronic document
Media player
Text editor
Web browser

Graphics software

Image viewer


Kirkcaldy (: [kɪrˈkɔːdi], whyls spelt Kirkcaudy an kent as the Lang Toun anaw) (Scots Gaelic: Cathair Challdainn) is a toun in Fife wi aboot fiftie thousan indwallers.

Tradeitional industrie is dwynin but the makkin o linoleum yit gaes on.

Adam Smith, writer o The Wealth of Nations wis born in the toun. Monie ither weil-kent fowk wis born in this toun forby. Amang thaim wis Mairjorie Fleemin the poet (Marjorie Fleming in Inglis), Robert Aidam the airchitect (his faither William an brither James forby). Gordon Broun's faither wis the meinister o St Brycedale kirk an Broun hissel bade in the Lang Toun whyl he wis a bairn.

The toun haes monie things til interest veisitors. The Airt Gailerie an Museum has weil-kent pentins bi airtists o the Glesca Boys an Scottis Colourist skuils. Ower the street is the Aidam Smith Theater. The toun hauds the Links Mercat ilka yeir an locals wad sey that it's Europe's langest street fair (but that's doutfu).

The toun's senior fitba team is the Raith Rovers, promotit til the Scots First Diveision in 2009.

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Erin Isabelle Burnett (born July 2, 1976) is an American news anchor, currently the anchor of Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN. She previously worked for CNBC as co-anchor of Squawk on the Street and the host of Street Signs. Burnett has also appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, Today, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and NBC Nightly News as well as making occasional appearances on The Celebrity Apprentice.

Burnett has hosted Erin Burnett OutFront live from the border of Mali, Afghanistan, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates, and Israel. She has also reported from China, Ukraine, and Pakistan for the program.

While working at NBC, Joe Scarborough dubbed Burnett "the International Superstar" for her work on a number of documentaries filmed outside the United States. Her reports and documentaries were filmed inside Libya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and India.

In her career, she has focused extensively on reporting in the Middle East and has filed reports from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen, in addition to Pakistan.

Early life and education
Burnett was born and raised in Mardela Springs, Maryland. She is the youngest daughter of Esther Margaret (née Stewart) and Kenneth King Burnett, a corporate attorney. She is of Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry. Burnett attended The Salisbury School, a private, independent elementary and middle school in Salisbury, MD prior to attending St. Andrew's School, a private co-educational college preparatory boarding school in Middletown, Delaware, graduating in 1994. She returned to the school in 2009 to deliver the commencement speech. She attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she studied political science and economics, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy. She played lacrosse and field hockey.

Career
Burnett began her career as a financial analyst for Goldman Sachs in their investment banking division, where she worked on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. While working as an investment-banking analyst, Burnett was offered a position at CNN as a writer and booker for CNN's Moneyline with Stuart Varney, Willow Bay, and Lou Dobbs. She left the position to serve as vice president of Citigroup's digital media group, CitiMedia.

Following Citigroup, Burnett joined Bloomberg Television as Stocks Editor and anchor. From 2005 to 2011 Burnett was the host of CNBC's Street Signs and co-anchor of Squawk on the Street with Mark Haines.

On August 5, 2009, Burnett used the term "serial killer" in a discussion with her host Jim Cramer regarding a report about the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plans to spend millions of dollars on aerial shooting to cull Australian feral camels in the outback. Cramer referred to the reported plan as "camelcide". The next day on the show, Burnett said her comment was meant as a joke.

On December 7, 2010, Burnett presented an investigative report on chemical giant Transammonia doing business in Iran. She reported that a wholly owned subsidiary of Transammonia in the United States purchased ammonia from Iran. On December 13, 2010, as a result of the CNBC report, Transammonia sent a press release to congressional leaders stating that Transammonia's Swiss subsidiary would not enter into new contracts with Iranian companies and would wind down its business with Iran "as soon as possible." The following year, the investigative report was nominated for an Emmy.

Following more than five years with CNBC, Burnett left the network on May 6, 2011, and joined rival news outlet CNN beginning October 3, 2011. There she began headlining her own prime-time news program, called Erin Burnett OutFront, which films at CNN's New York City studios.

Shortly after joining CNN, Burnett aired an October 4, 2011 segment on the Occupy Wall Street protests titled "Seriously?" She was accused by journalism watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) of misrepresenting facts about protesters. Journalist Glenn Greenwald reacted in a Salon article detailing bias in Burnett's reporting, which he attributed to her previous work experience on Wall Street as well as her partner's employment with Citigroup. In response to the criticism, CNN issued a statement saying, "We support Erin and the OutFront team and we respect that there will be a range of opinions on any given story."

Burnett stated that President Trump's proposal under the Insurrection Act to use military forces to remove protestors from Lafayette Square would constitute "invoking an act not invoked since 1807 to deploy U.S. military troops on American soil." She later issued a correction, noting that the act has been invoked previously, the last time in 1992.

Hosted programs
 Bloomberg on the Markets (2003–05)
 Street Signs (2006–11)
 Squawk on the Street (2005–11)
 Erin Burnett OutFront (2011–present)

Documentaries
 City of Money & Mystery (2008)
 India Rising: The New Empire (2008)
 The Russian Gamble (2008)
 Dollars & Danger: Africa, The Final Investment Frontier (2009)
 On Assignment: Iraq (2010)
 Big Money in the Middle East (2010)

Film
 Edge of Tomorrow as CNN news anchor (herself)

Personal life
Burnett met executive David Rubulotta on a blind date in 2003. Rubulotta was previously a trader for Lehman Brothers. They became engaged in September 2011. Burnett and Rubulotta were married on December 21, 2012.

On November 29, 2013, Burnett gave birth to a son. On July 18, 2015, she gave birth to a daughter. The couple welcomed their third child, a boy, on August 20, 2018.

Burnett is Catholic.

See also
 New Yorkers in journalism

References

External links

 Erin Burnett biography at CNN
 Erin Burnett's OutFront

1976 births
Living people
American business and financial journalists
American financial analysts
American television news anchors
American television reporters and correspondents
American women in business
Bloomberg L.P. people
Citigroup people
CNBC people
CNN people
Goldman Sachs people
Women in finance
Women financial analysts
American women television journalists
Participants in American reality television series
Journalists from Maryland
Businesspeople from Maryland
Businesspeople from New York City
Williams College alumni
People from Wicomico County, Maryland
American people of English descent
American people of Irish descent
American people of Scottish descent
Catholics from Maryland
Catholics from New York (state)
Women business and financial journalists
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The Power Station is a not-for-profit contemporary art space in Exposition Park, Dallas. It is housed in a former Dallas Power & Light building which was constructed in 1920, and hosts large scale exhibitions which complement the building's raw architecture. For each of its international exhibitions, The Power Station works with the artists to produce a publication in conjunction with their project. Its programming also includes a summer exhibition and additional events each year. The building includes an apartment where artists can live as they create and build their installations.  "The building and garden relate to one another gently through the careful manipulation of crisp architectural elements that are then intentionally eroded by more informal, lush plant material."

History
The Power Station was founded by Janelle and Alden Pinnell in 2011.  The first exhibitor was American artist Oscar Tuazon.

Publications

The Power Station produces a publication in conjunction with each of its international exhibitions, and prints a first edition of 1000 copies.  For the Drip Event exhibit, they also produced Solar Lice, a double LP by Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti, and Stefan Tcherepnin, recorded at Issue Project Room by the band formed for the exhibit.

Summer program

The Power Station runs a summer program of research, discussions and displays about art and culture. Past programming has included Four Nights, Four Decades: A Survey of Video Art from the 1970s to the 2000s, which screened works presented by four experts over four nights, and Amarillo Entropy, an exhibition of artworks, artifacts, ephemera, screenings, and discussions, with Amarillo, Texas, at its center.

Exhibitions
Fredrik Værslev, East Bound and Down (2014)
Michael E. Smith (2014)
Walead Beshty, Fair Use (2013)
Amarillo Entropy (2013)
Tobias Madison, Emmanuel Rossetti, and Stefan Tcherepnin, Drip Event (2013)
Charles Mayton, Two-Step (2013)
Nikolas Gambaroff, I Am Real Estate (2012)
Four Nights, Four Decades (2012)
Jacob Kassay, No Goal (2012)
Virginia Overton, Deluxe (2012)
Matias Faldbakken, Oslo, Texas (2011)
Oscar Tuazon, Die (2011)

References

Art museums and galleries in Texas
Buildings and structures in Dallas
Tourist attractions in Dallas
Arts in Dallas

The Power Station (art space)


John Michael King (May 13, 1926 – August 17, 2008) was an American actor most often associated with his roles in musical theatre.

Biography
The son of actor Dennis King, John Michael King was born in New York City.  He made his Broadway debut in a revival of The Red Mill in 1945. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the original production of My Fair Lady, notable for his rendition of "On The Street Where You Live".

Additional credits include Of Thee I Sing (1952), Me and Juliet (1953), Anya (1965), The King and I (1977), and Carmelina (1979). He also toured as 'Edward Moncrieff,' dropping the John from his name, in the revised version of Lerner and Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, starring Van Johnson and Linda Lavin. He later appeared with Harrison. Claudette Colbert, George Rose and Lynn Redgrave, in "Aren't We All?" on Broadway in the 80s.

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American male stage actors
Male actors from New York City
1926 births
2008 deaths

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A macroscopic traffic flow model is a mathematical traffic model that formulates the relationships among traffic flow characteristics like density, flow, mean speed of a traffic stream, etc.. Such models are conventionally arrived at by integrating microscopic traffic flow models and converting the single-entity level characteristics to comparable system level characteristics. An example is the two-fluid model.

The method of modeling traffic flow at macroscopic level originated under an assumption that traffic streams as a whole are comparable to fluid streams. The first major step in macroscopic modeling of traffic was taken by Lighthill and Whitham in 1955, when they indexed the comparability of 'traffic flow on long crowded roads' with 'flood movements in long rivers'. A year later, Richards (1956) complemented the idea with the introduction of 'shock-waves on the highway', completing the so-called LWR model. Macroscopic modeling may be primarily classified according to the type of traffic as homogeneous and heterogeneous, and further with respect to the order of the mathematical model.

References

 M.J.Lighthill, G.B.Whitham, On kinematic waves II: A theory of traffic flow on long, crowded roads. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A 229, 317–345, 1955
 P.I.Richards, Shock waves on the highway, Operations Research 4, 42–51., 1956
 M.Papageorgiou, Some remarks on macroscopic traffic flow modeling,Elsevier Science Ltd., Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 323 to 329, 1998
 C.F.Daganzo, Fundamentals of transportation and traffic operations, Elsevier Science Ltd., 1997
 M.Di Francesco, M.D.Rosini, Rigorous Derivation of Nonlinear Scalar Conservation Laws from Follow-the-Leader Type Models via Many Particle Limit, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2015

Road traffic management
Mathematical modeling
Traffic flow

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Dalet (, also spelled Daleth or Daled) is the fourth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician dālt 𐤃, Hebrew dālet ד, Aramaic dālaṯ 𐡃, Syriac  dālaṯ ܕ, and Arabic dāl د (in abjadi order; 8th in modern order). Its sound value is the voiced alveolar plosive ().

The letter is based on a glyph of the Proto-Sinaitic script, probably called  dalt "door" (door in Modern Hebrew is  delet), ultimately based on a hieroglyph depicting a door: O31

Phoenician

The Phoenician dālet gave rise to the Greek delta (Δ), Latin D, and the Cyrillic letter Д.

Aramaic

Hebrew dalet

Hebrew spelling:

The letter is dalet in the modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciation (see Tav (letter). Dales is still used by many Ashkenazi Jews and daleth by some Jews of Middle-Eastern background, especially in the Jewish diaspora. In some academic circles, it is called daleth, following the Tiberian Hebrew pronunciation.  It is also called daled. The ד like the English D represents a voiced alveolar stop. Just as in English, there may be subtle varieties of the sound that are created when it is spoken.

Variations
Dalet can receive a dagesh, being one of the six letters that can receive Dagesh Kal (see Gimel).
There are minor variations to this letter's pronunciation, such as
 ד   ( among Teimanim, Mizrachim and some Sephardim;  among some Ashkenazim.) or
 דּ  .
In addition, in modern Hebrew, the combination ד׳ (dalet followed by a geresh) is used when transcribing foreign names to denote .

Significance
In gematria, dalet symbolizes the number four.

The letter dalet, along with the He (and very rarely Gimel) is used to represent the Names of God in Judaism. The letter He is used commonly, and the dalet is rarer. A good example is the keter (crown) of a tallit, which has the blessing for donning the tallit, and has the name of God usually represented by a dalet. A reason for this is that He is used as an abbreviation for HaShem "The Name" and the dalet is used as a non-sacred way of referring to God.

Dalet as a prefix in Aramaic (the language of the Talmud) is a preposition meaning "that", or "which", or also "from" or "of"; since many Talmudic terms have found their way into Hebrew, one can hear dalet as a prefix in many phrases (as in Mitzvah Doraitah; a mitzvah from the Torah.)

In modern Hebrew the frequency of the usage of dalet, out of all the letters, is 2.59%.

Syriac daled/dolath

In the Syriac alphabet, the fourth letter is  —  in western pronunciation,  and  in eastern pronunciation (). It is one of six letters that represents two associated sounds (the others are bet, gimel, kaph, pe and taw). When daled/dolath has a hard pronunciation (qûššāyâ) it is a . When it has a soft pronunciation (rûkkāḵâ) it is traditionally pronounced as a . The letter is very common in Syriac as it is often attached to the beginning of words as the relative pronoun.

Daled/dolath is always written with a point below it to distinguish it from the letter resh (), which is identical apart from having a point above. As a numeral, dalad/dolath stands for the number four. With various systems of dots and dashes, it can also stand for 4,000 and 40,000.

Arabic dāl

The letter is named dāl دَالْ, and is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:

The letter represents a  sound.

Character encodings

See also

 Proto-Sinaitic script

References

External links

Hebrew letters
Phoenician alphabet
Arabic letters

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