Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic is a tertiary learning institution in Ikot Osurua, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1991. The institution is accredited by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) with the mandate to provide access to education in technology and commerce.

Courses
The polytechnic runs various courses under schools/faculties such as Applied Sciences, Communication Arts, Preliminary Studies, Business and Management, Engineering, Environmental Studies and Legal Studies.

School of Applied Sciences

 Department of Computer Science

 Department of Hotel and Catering Management

 Department of Science Technology

 Department of Statistics

School of Business Management

 Department of Accountancy

 Department of Business Administration

 Department of Office Technology & Management

 Department of Marketing

 Department of Public Administration

 Department of Legal Studies

School of Communication Arts

 Department of Arts and Design

 Department of General Studies

 Department of Mass Communication

School of Engineering

 Department of Civil Engineering

 Department of Electrical/ Electronic Engineering

 Department of Mechanical Engineering

School of environmental Studies

 Department of Architecture

 Department of Building Technology

 Department of Estate Management

 Department of Surveying and Geo-Informatics

 Department of Quantity Surveying

 Department of urban and regional planning

The polytechnic is owned by Akwa Ibom State. In 2019, the Governor of the State promised to give the institution a grant of One hundred million naira to ensure that all the courses they offer are fully accredited.

Notable alumni

See also
List of polytechnics in Nigeria

References

External links

 https://akwaibompoly.edu.ng/

Universities and colleges in Nigeria
Education in Akwa Ibom State
Educational institutions established in 1991
1991 establishments in Nigeria
Academic libraries in Nigeria

Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic


Shaq Roland (born December 27, 1993) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He played college football at South Carolina.

High school career
A native of Lexington, South Carolina, Roland graduated from Lexington High School in 2012. He was named to the annual PARADE magazine 53-man All-America team in his senior year, during which he recorded 24 touchdowns. As a college prospect, Roland was a four-star player, the highest score in the state and the tenth-best receiver in the nation. He was also ranked the 66th-best player overall by Rivals.com, the 40th-best player in the country by Scout.com, and a four-star recruit by ESPN.

Roland also played basketball, recording seven rebounds during his junior year.

College career
Roland became the fourth-straight South Carolina "Mr. Football" to sign with the South Carolina Gamecocks, following Stephon Gilmore, Marcus Lattimore and Jadeveon Clowney.

After leaving South Carolina in 2014, Roland enrolled at Prairie View A&M University but instead decided to return to Lexington. In 2016, Roland returned to school, attending Winston-Salem State University. Roland stated that he was, "very interested" in a return to the South Carolina football program to play out his final year of eligibility.

Professional career
Roland signed with the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent on May 10, 2018. He was waived by the Bears on June 7, 2018. On March 20, 2019, Roland was assigned to the Baltimore Brigade. On April 16, 2019, he was placed on recallable reassignment and became a free agent.

References

External links
ESPN
South Carolina Gamecocks bio
CBS Sports
Scout

1993 births
Living people
Players of American football from South Carolina
People from Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina
American football wide receivers
South Carolina Gamecocks football players
Prairie View A&M Panthers football players
Winston-Salem State Rams football players
West Georgia Wolves football players
Chicago Bears players
People from Lexington, South Carolina
Baltimore Brigade players

Shaq Roland


The Montbéliarde is a breed of red pied dairy cattle from the area of Montbéliard, in the département of Doubs, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France. It is used mainly for dairying and particularly for cheesemaking.

History
The name Montbéliarde was first used by Joseph Graber in 1872, when exhibiting a group of cattle at the Langres agricultural competition.  Before this the local stock from indigenous multipurpose breeds such as Fémeline and Tourache (later known as Comtoise) had been improved by Mennonite farmers from Switzerland, and named Franco-Swiss. In 1889, the breed was accepted officially, and a stud book was founded. Since 1980, the breed has been selected for good roughage conversion. After 1900, many cattle were sold to the Midi region and Algeria.

In the 1970s, Red Holstein was crossed into the breed. At the same time, they sporadically crossed with Fleckvieh bulls, but this was not very successful. In the 1990s, Montbéliarde cattle were used for crossing into the Danish Red cattle and Vorderwalder Cattle breeds.

Characteristics

The animals are red pied with white heads and short horns, and of dairy type. Mature cows weigh  and stand about  tall at the withers, and mature bulls weigh . The milk is particularly well suited to cheesemaking because of a high frequency of kappa casein BB variants, giving higher yields of cheese. Being of less extreme dairy type than modern Holsteins, the cows have lower milk yields, but better longevity and fertility and lower cell counts in the milk, indicating lower mastitis incidence.

Uses
Montbéliarde cattle are mainly a dairy breed, but have better beef characteristics than Holstein cattle. France has nearly 400,000 recorded Montbéliarde dairy cows, with an average adult annual lactation of  at 3.9% butterfat and 3.45% protein.  The milk protein is of a type well suited to cheesemaking, and some herds are fed a hay-based diet to produce milk specifically for this purpose. Cull cows and bull calves are worth more than Holsteins. The breed has spread to many countries and is becoming popular for crossing with Holsteins to give improved longevity and fertility.

Notes

External links
Montbéliarde
 Article on montbéliarde cattle.

Cattle breeds originating in France
Montbéliard

Montbéliarde


Edward "Tug" Wilson (1921-2009) was a British colonel. He started the Abu Dhabi Defense Force. He was also really good friends with Sheikh Zayed.

Early life

He was born on January 18, 1921 in West Hartlepool, Yorkshire in England. His birth name was Edward Bearby Wilson. Tug was a nickname. He attended Constantine College. In 1945 he was a wireless operator at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He liked to play rugby and cricket.

Military work

He started working in the Worcestershire Regiment. He then worked for the 1st Battalion of the British Army of the Rhine. Then he worked for the 2nd Division Signal Regiment. He was a part of the Berlin airlift and the Malayan Emergency. He went to Korea and in 1952 moved to Hara Mura, Japan to teach British soldiers at the Battle School. A grenade blew up while he was teaching soldiers and he hurt his shoulder.

He became a Major. In 1961 he started looking over a squadron of the Trucial Oman Scouts. He was working at the Buraimi Oasis, Al Ain. He became good friends with Sheikh Zayed after the Sheikh became ruler of the United Arab Emirates. During this time Wilson founded the Abu Dhabi Defense Force. He was leader of that force until 1968.

Retirement and death

He left Abu Dhabi in 1969. He started teaching at the Old Royal Naval College. Then he taught at the Staff College, Camberley. He retired from the Army in 1971. He started a trout fish farm. Wilson then moved back to Abu Dhabi, at the invitation of Sheikh Zayed, to run the royal stables. He ran the stables until the Sheikh died. He participated in the London To Peking Motor Challenge in 1990. He was awarded the Abu Dhabi Award. He died on January 2, 2009.

References

1921 births
2009 deaths
British Army people
People from County Durham
Abu Dhabi (emirate)

Edward "Tug" Wilson


The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2016.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

December 2016

1
Don Calfa, 76, American actor (The Return of the Living Dead, Weekend at Bernie's, Me, Myself and I).
Peter Corrigan, 75, Australian architect.
Inkulab, 72, Indian poet and political activist.
Joe McKnight, 28, American football player (New York Jets), shot.
Ljubo Sirc, 96, Slovene economist.

2
Coral Atkins, 80, English actress (A Family at War, Emmerdale), cancer.
Lyle Bouck, 92, American military officer and war veteran (Battle of the Bulge), pneumonia.
Billy Chapin, 72, American child actor (The Night of the Hunter).
Cherushii, 33, American electronic musician and radio host (KALX), injuries from fire.
Paul de Wispelaere, 88, Belgian writer.
Sammy Lee, 96, American diver, Olympic champion (1948, 1952), pneumonia.
Gisela May, 92, German actress and singer (Berliner Ensemble).

3
Susan Cummings, 86, German-born American actress (Union Pacific), problems caused by a heart attack.
Newman Darby, 88, American sailboard inventor.
Herbert Hardesty, 91, American jazz musician.
Brockway McMillan, 101, American government official and scientist, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (1963–1965).
Antonio Membrado, 81, Spanish classical guitarist.
Rémy Pflimlin, 62, French businessman, CEO of France Télévisions, cancer.
Bekal Utsahi, 92, Indian poet and politician, MP (1986–1992), brain haemorrhage.

4
Hiroshi Arakawa, 86, Japanese baseball player (Mainichi Orions), batting coach (Yomiuri Giants) and manager (Yakult Swallows), cardiac arrest.
Julia Gomelskaya, 52, Ukrainian composer, car crash.
Gotlib, 82, French comics artist (Gai-Luron, Les Dingodossiers, La Rubrique-à-Brac).
Ferreira Gullar, 86, Brazilian writer, essayist and art critic, pneumonia.
Radim Hladík, 69, Czech musician (Blue Effect), pulmonary fibrosis.
Stu Locklin, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
Patricia Robins, 95, British novelist, problems caused by a fall.
Margaret Whitton, 67, American actress (Major League, The Secret of My Success, Steaming), cancer.

5
Charles H. Belzile, 83, Canadian army general, Commander of the Canadian Army (1992–1996).
Mogens Camre, 80, Danish politician, MP (1968–1987) and MEP (1999–2009).
Geydar Dzhemal, 69, Russian Islamic revolutionist and activist.
Jayalalithaa, 68, Indian actress (Sri Krishna Satya, Galatta Kalyanam, Deiva Magan), Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1991–1996, 2001, 2002–2006, 2011–2014, since 2015), heart attack.
Rashaan Salaam, 42, American football player (Chicago Bears), Heisman Trophy winner (1994), suicide by gunshot.
Robert Sumner, 94, American Baptist pastor and author.

6
Adolf Burger, 99, Slovak-born Czech typographer, memoirist and Holocaust survivor.
Brittany CoxXx, 38, American trans woman and performer.
Charles B. Reed, 75, American educator, Chancellor of State University System of Florida (1985–1998) and California State University (1998–2012).
Peter Vaughan, 93, British actor (Game of Thrones, Brazil, The Remains of the Day), epilepsy.

7
Warren Allmand, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1965–1997) and Cabinet minister (1972–1979).
Paul Elvstrøm, 88, Danish yachtsman, Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960).
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, 95, German politician, 1994 presidential candidate.
Junaid Jamshed, 52, Pakistani musician, television personality and preacher, plane crash.
Alex Johnstone, 55, Scottish politician, MSP for North East Scotland (since 1999), cancer.
Mike Kelly, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (2005–2011), plane crash.
Greg Lake, 69, English singer and musician (King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer), cancer.
İsmet Sezgin, 88, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence (1997–1999), multiple organ failure.
Benny Woit, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).

8
Joop Braakhekke, 75, Dutch restaurateur and television presenter, pancreatic cancer.
Putsy Caballero, 89, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
John Glenn, 95, American astronaut (Mercury-Atlas 6) and politician, U.S. Senator from Ohio (1974–1999).
Joseph Mascolo, 87, American actor (Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, Jaws 2), problems caused by Alzheimer's disease.
Dame Sheila Quinn, 96, British nurse, President of the Royal College of Nursing (1982–1986).
Peter van Straaten, 81, Dutch comics artist and political cartoonist (Vader & Zoon).
Palani Vaughan, 72, American Hawaiian music singer.

9
Élcio Álvares, 84, Brazilian politician, Senator (1991–1994, 1995–1999), Minister of Defence (1999–2000), and Governor of Espírito Santo (1975–1979).
Nola Ochs, 105, American centenarian, world's oldest college graduate.
Rob Sherman, 63, American political activist, plane crash.
William N. Small, 89, American admiral.

10
Peter Brabrook, 79, English footballer (Chelsea, West Ham United).
Felix Browder, 89, American mathematician.
Bill Dineen, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings) and coach.
Wolfgang Eisenmenger, 86, German physicist.
Damião Experiença, 81, Brazilian outsider musician.
Étienne Fabre, 20, French racing cyclist, fall.
A. A. Gill, 62, British writer and restaurant critic (The Sunday Times), lung cancer.
Ken Hechler, 102, American politician, U. S. Representative from West Virginia's 4th congressional district (1959–1977) and Secretary of State of West Virginia (1985–2001), stroke.
Hans-Eric Hellberg, 89, Swedish author (Kram) and journalist.
George Klein, 91, Hungarian-Swedish biologist.
Miles Lord, 97, American federal judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1966–1985) and Attorney General of Minnesota (1955–1960).
John Montague, 87, Irish poet.
William Usery, Jr., 92, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1976–1977), heart failure.

11
Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, 82, Syrian philosopher and academician.
João Castelo, 79, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão (1979–1982), complications from surgery.
Marie Muhammad, 77, Indonesian politician, Finance Minister (1993–1998), brain cancer.
Marion Pritchard, 96, Dutch-born American social worker and Righteous Among the Nations, brain disease.
Esma Redžepova, 73, Macedonian Romani singer.
Thressa Stadtman, 96, American biochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences (since 1981).

12
E. R. Braithwaite, 104, Guyanese novelist (To Sir, With Love) and diplomat, heart failure.
Myron H. Bright, 97, American judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1968–2016).
Jean-Claude Deret, 95, French screenwriter (Thierry la Fronde).
Anne Deveson, 86, Australian writer and broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.
Jean Fisher, 74, British art critic and writer.
Shirley Hazzard, 85, Australian-born American writer (The Bay of Noon, The Great Fire).
Ratan Kumar, 75, Pakistani actor (Boot Polish, Jagriti, Do Bigha Zamin).
Jim Lowe, 93, American singer-songwriter ("Green Door").
Jim Prior, Baron Prior, 89, British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1981–1984) and Employment (1979–1981).
Konrad Reuland, 29, American football player (Baltimore Ravens), brain aneurysm.
Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, head of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (since 1994).
Leo Sharp, 92, American drug dealer.
Charles Mwando Simba, 80, Congolese politician, First Vice-President of the National Assembly (since 2012).

13
Roy Harrover, 88, American architect, emphysema.
Betsy Pecanins, 62, American-born Mexican singer, songwriter and record producer, stroke.
Thomas Schelling, 95, American economist and professor, Nobel Prize winner (2005), problems caused by a hip fracture.
David Strangway, 82, Canadian geophysicist.
Alan Thicke, 69, Canadian actor (Growing Pains, Not Quite Human), talk show host (The Alan Thicke Show), and songwriter, ruptured aorta.

14
Paulo Evaristo Arns, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal (since 1973) and Archbishop of São Paulo (1970–1998), pneumonia.
Bernard Fox, 89, Welsh actor (Titanic, Bewitched, The Mummy), heart failure.
Garrett K. Gomez, 44, American jockey, drug overdose.
Hurricane Run, 14, Irish racehorse, euthanized.
Karel Husa, 95, Czech-born American composer.
Halfdan T. Mahler, 93, Danish physician, Director-General of the World Health Organization (1973–1988).
Sadatoshi Ozato, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives (1979–2005) and Minister of Labour (1990–91).
Päivi Paunu, 70, Finnish singer, cancer.
Bunny Walters, 63, New Zealand singer ("Brandy").

15
Howard Bingham, 77, American photographer and biographer (Muhammad Ali).
Leanna Brown, 81, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1980–1984) and State Senate (1984–1993).
Shep Houghton, 102, American actor (The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Perry Mason).
Osiride Pevarello, 96, Italian actor (Caligula, Ator 2 - L'invincibile Orion).
Craig Sager, 65, American sportscaster (NBA on TNT), leukemia.
Bohdan Smoleń, 69, Polish comedian, singer and actor, lung infection.
Ron Ziel, 77, American railway historian.

16
Faina Melnik, 71, Ukrainian-born Russian discus thrower, Olympic champion (1972).
Jim Williams, 90, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Florida (1975–1979).

17
Eric Defoort, 73, Belgian politician, President of the European Free Alliance (since 2010).
Benjamin A. Gilman, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 20th, 22nd and 26th congressional districts (1973–2003), problems caused by hip surgery.
Bill Hanna, 86, American politician, Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana (1978–1982).
Henry Heimlich, 96, American physician, inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, problems caused by a heart attack.
Gordon Hunt, 87, American voice director (The Jetsons, Uncharted) and voice actor (Dilbert), Parkinson's disease.
Leanid Marakou, 58, Belarusian journalist, writer and historian, brain cancer.

18
Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, Hungarian-born American actress (Moulin Rouge, Touch of Evil, Lili) and socialite, heart attack.
William H. Hudnut III, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 11th congressional district (1973–1975), Mayor of Indianapolis (1976–1992) and Mayor of Chevy Chase, Maryland (2004–2006).
Gustavo Quintero, 76, Colombian singer-songwriter, stomach cancer.
Gordie Tapp, 94, Canadian country singer and entertainer (Hee Haw).

19
Ger Blok, 77, Dutch football manager (Honduras and Myanmar national teams).
Lionel Blue, 86, British rabbi, journalist and broadcaster, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Anne Borg, 80, Norwegian ballet dancer.
Phil Gagliano, 74, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox).
Hugh Iltis, 91, Czechoslovakian-born American botanist, complications of a vascular disease.
Andrei Karlov, 62, Russian politician, Ambassador to Turkey (since 2013), shot.
Dick Latessa, 87, American actor (Hairspray, Promises, Promises, Stigmata), heart failure.
Anupam Mishra, 68, Indian author, journalist and environmentalist.
Anique Poitras, 55, Canadian writer.
Kishori Sinha, 91, Indian politician, MP for Vaishali (1980–1989).
Fidel Uriarte, 71, Spanish footballer (Athletic Bilbao, national team).

20
Raymond Heacock, 88, American engineer.
El Hortelano, 62, Spanish painter.
Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, 90, British politician, Secretary of State for Social Services (1979–1981), Industry (1981–1983), and Environment (1983–1985).
Andrew Karpati Kennedy, 85, Hungarian-born British author and literary critic.
Michèle Morgan, 96, French actress (Port of Shadows, Passage to Marseille, La Symphonie pastorale).
Archie Norman, 104, British paediatrician.

21
Welington de Melo, 70, Brazilian mathematician.
Sidney Drell, 90, American physicist.
Abdul Gafur Hali, 87, Bangladeshi singer, composer and lyricist.
John Gwilliam, 93, Welsh rugby union player (national team).
Robert Leo Hulseman, 84, American entrepreneur, inventor of the red solo cup.
Jaan Klõšeiko, 77, Estonian printmaker and photographer.

22
Mocho Cota, 62, Mexican professional wrestler (CMLL).
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, 80, Russian-Georgian activist and politician.
Solomon Levy, 80, Gibraltarian politician, Mayor of Gibraltar (2008–2009).
Philip Saville, 86, British television director (A Night Out, Madhouse on Castle Street) and screenwriter.
Franca Sozzani, 66, Italian journalist, Editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia (since 1988).
Sir Dwight Venner, 70, Vincentian banker.
Lella Vignelli, 82, Italian designer, dementia.
Lillian Walker, 93, American politician.
Miruts Yifter, 72, Ethiopian long distance runner, Olympic champion (1980), respiratory failure.

23
John Aitchison, 90, Scottish statistician.
Anis Amri, 24, Tunisian terrorism suspect, shot.
Robert Hinde, 93, British zoologist, Master of St John's College, Cambridge (1989–1994).
Andrés Rivera, 88, Argentine writer.
Piers Sellers, 61, British astronaut and meteorologist, pancreatic cancer.
Luba Skořepová, 93, Czech actress (Arabela).
Vesna Vulović, 66, Serbian flight attendant, world record holder for longest fall and sole survivor of JAT Flight 367.

24
Edith Ackermann, 70, Swiss-born American psychologist.
Richard Adams, 96, British author (Watership Down, The Plague Dogs, Shardik), complications from a blood disorder.
Pape Badiane, 36, French basketball player (Chorale Roanne, Poitiers Basket 86, national team), car crash.
Jeffrey Hayden, 90, American television director and producer (Peyton Place, The Donna Reed Show).
Ted Meines, 95, Dutch military officer and veteran affairs activist.
Rick Parfitt, 68, British singer, songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo), sepsis caused by an infection.
Edwin Reinecke, 92, American politician, member of the U.S House of Representatives from California's 27th congressional district (1965–1969) and Lieutenant Governor of California (1969–1974).
Liz Smith, 95, English actress (The Royle Family, I Didn't Know You Cared, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

25
Karl Golser, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone (2008–2011).
George Michael, 53, British singer (Wham!) and songwriter ("Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Careless Whisper", "Faith"), Grammy winner (1987, 1989), cardiomyopathy.
Alphonse Mouzon, 68, American jazz drummer (Weather Report, The Eleventh House) and record label owner, neuroendocrine cancer.
Miriam Pirazzini, 98, Italian opera singer.
Vera Rubin, 88, American astronomer, innovator of dark matter theory, dementia.
 Notable Russian people killed in the Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash:
Elizaveta Glinka, 54, humanitarian worker and charity activist.
Anton Gubankov, 51, scholar and journalist, Director of the Department of Culture (since 2013).
Valery Khalilov, 64, military band conductor.

26
Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, Greek diplomat, Ambassador to Brazil, murdered.
Jaume Camprodon i Rovira, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Girona (1973–2001).
George S. Irving, 94, American actor (Underdog, Me and My Girl, The Year Without a Santa Claus), heart failure.
József Katona, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
Seth J. McKee, 100, American military officer.
Peter Nowell, 88, American cancer researcher.
Luciano Panetti, 87, Italian football player and manager.
Elvio Porta, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director (What if Gargiulo Finds Out?).
Martin Reagan, 92, English football player and manager (women's national team).
Barbara Tarbuck, 74, American actress (General Hospital, Short Circuit, American Horror Story), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

27
Maurice Failevic, 83, French film director.
Carrie Fisher, 60, American actress (Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally...), novelist and screenwriter (Postcards from the Edge), cardiac arrest.
Claude Gensac, 89, French actress (Scènes de ménages).
Hans Tietmeyer, 85, German economist, President of Deutsche Bundesbank (1993–1999).
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 83, Sri Lankan politician, Prime Minister (2000–2001, 2005–2010).
Chuck Wright, 97, American politician, Mayor of Topeka (1965–1969).

28
Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, 91, Uruguayan politician, President (1981–1985).
Pierre Barouh, 82, French actor (A Man and a Woman), writer and musician, heart attack.
Gilles Borrie, 91, Dutch politician and historian, Mayor of Sleen (1960–1968), Tiel (1968–1973), Rheden (1973–1979), and Eindhoven (1979–1987).
Michel Déon, 97, French novelist and literary columnist, pulmonary embolism.
Donya Fannizadeh, 49, Iranian puppeteer (Kolah Ghermezi), cancer.
Debbie Reynolds, 84, American actress (Singin' in the Rain, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Irene), dancer and singer ("Tammy"), stroke.
Edgar Robles, 39, Paraguayan footballer (Libertad).
Jean-Christophe Victor, 69, French political scientist, heart attack.

29
Raymond Burki, 67, Swiss cartoonist, cancer.
Kamal Mani Dixit, 87, Nepalese writer.
LaVell Edwards, 86, American football coach (BYU Cougars), problems caused by a broken hip.
Néstor Gonçalves, 80, Uruguayan footballer (Peñarol).
Santi Ibáñez, 58, Spanish actor (El Cor de la Ciutat), lung cancer.
Aleksander Koj, 81, Polish biochemist.
Ferdinand Kübler, 97, Swiss racing cyclist, Tour de France winner (1950).
Maurice M. Paul, 84, American judge.
William Salice, 83, Italian businessman and inventor (Kinder Surprise), stroke.
Peter Tamm, 88, German publishing manager (Axel Springer Verlag).
Olga Ulianova, 53, Russian-Chilean historian, cancer.
Philip Wolfe, 89, American mathematician.

30
Thomas Ludger Dupré, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts (1995–2004).
Judith Ortiz Cofer, 64, Puerto Rican-American writer, liver cancer.
Gopal Rath, 71, Indian poet.
Glen L. Rudd, 98, American general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Huston Smith, 97, American religious scholar and author (The World's Religions).
*Sutter Brown, 13, American Welsh Corgi belonging to Governor of California Jerry Brown.
Allan Williams, 86, English businessman and promoter (The Beatles).
Tyrus Wong, 106, Chinese-born American artist and movie production illustrator (Bambi, Around the World in 80 Days).

31
William Christopher, 84, American actor (M*A*S*H, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Smurfs), small-cell carcinoma.
Henning Christophersen, 77, Danish politician, Foreign Minister (1978–1979), Finance Minister (1982–1984), Vice-President of the European Commission (1985–1995).
Henk Koning, 83, Dutch politician, MP (1967–1977, 1981–1982, 1986, 1989–1991).
David Meltzer, 79, American poet and musician, stroke.
Shirley Neil Pettis, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 37th congressional district  (1975–1979).
Prince Dimitri Romanov, 90, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist, and author, claimant to the headship of the Imperial House of Russia.

Months
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References

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Deaths in December 2016


[[File:Tacquet Elementa.png|thumb|Title page of his Elementa Geometriae...]]André Tacquet (23 June 1612 Antwerp – 22 December 1660 Antwerp, also referred to by his Latinized name Andrea Tacquet''') was a Brabantian mathematician and Jesuit priest. Tacquet adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles.

Life
André Tacquet was born in Antwerp, and entered the Jesuit Order in 1629. From 1631 to 1635, he studied mathematics, physics and logic at Leuven. Two of his teachers were Grégoire de Saint-Vincent and Francois d'Aguilon.

Tacquet became a brilliant mathematician of international fame and his works were often reprinted and translated (into Italian and English). His most famous work, which influenced the thinking of Blaise Pascal and his contemporaries, is Cylindricorum et annularium (1651). In this book Tacquet presented how a moving point could generate a curve and the theories of area and volume.

He died in Antwerp.

In honor of André Tacquet, his name has been given to a small crater in the northeast part of the Moon, near the southern edge of Mare Serenitatis.

Opposition to the method of indivisibles
Tacquet claimed in his 1651 book Cylindricorum et annularium libri IV that
[the method of indivisibles] makes war upon geometry to such an extent, that if it is not to destroy it, it must itself be destroyed.
The Jesuat Stefano degli Angeli provided a detailed response, defending Cavalieri's method.

 Works

 1651: Cylindricorum et annularium libri IV (Antwerp) full text
 1654: Elementa geometriae (Antwerp)
 1656: Arithmeticae theoria et praxis (Louvain)
 1659: Cylindricorum et annularium liber V (Antwerp) full text
 1669:
 1725: Elementa Euclideae, geometriae'' (Amsterdam) full text

See also
List of Jesuit scientists
List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

References

1612 births
1660 deaths
Jesuits of the Spanish Netherlands
Mathematicians of the Spanish Netherlands
Jesuit scientists

André Tacquet


Freezer is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Mikael Salomon. The film stars Dylan McDermott, Yuliya Snigir and Peter Facinelli. The film was released on January 21, 2014.

Plot

Robert Saunders (Dylan McDermott) wakes up to find himself bound and locked inside a meat locker. After he is able to cut himself loose, two Russian mobsters Kiril and Stepan enter the freezer to question him. It becomes apparent that neither understand English, but before they leave they tell a confused Robert they want "money". Left alone, Robert finds a ventilation duct in the top of the ceiling that appears to lead to the fans inside the locker. Just then, he finds a ringing cell phone on the floor and speaks with Detective Al Dorian, who first addresses him as "Sam". Robert explains that he was having dinner in a restaurant with his girlfriend for his birthday before being knocked unconscious and thrown into the freezer. Before Dorian can complete a trace, the mobsters return and destroy the phone. They are accompanied this time by the bilingual Alisa (Yuliya Snigir), who accuses Robert of having stolen $8 million from them and demands its return; otherwise, he will freeze to death within four hours. He tries to convince them that he is innocent and this is a case of mistaken identity, but the Russians are undeterred and take his shoes before leaving.

After finding bags to wrap his bare feet, Robert tries to keep his body temperature up by exercising. While running around the room, he knocks over some boxes revealing a seriously wounded Detective Sam Gurov lying in a shelf. Sam tells Robert that he will not be allowed to leave the locker alive regardless if he is able to convince the mobsters he is innocent. Before passing out, he confesses that he was an undercover cop trying to bring down the mobsters' boss, Oleg. Robert hides Sam again and begins attempting to stop the fans by beating them with a fire extinguisher.

The Russians return and again Alisa demands to know where the money is. Robert maintains his ignorance of the matter and evades her questions, but a groan from Sam alerts Kiril. Robert takes advantage of the situation by grabbing Alisa as Kiril threatens to kill Sam. Sam shatters Robert's innocence by telling them Robert took the money despite his protests. Robert deduces that Alisa was supposed to be in charge of the lost money and she begs Robert to confess if not to save himself, then to save her. After the Russians leave again, Sam explains that after a failed hit, Oleg began moving his vast fortune around for protection; during the shuffle, the $8 million was lost. Sam volunteers to change clothes with Robert and pose as him in order to allow Robert a chance at escape. The plan fails, and Robert, in a bid to save Sam's life, confesses that the money is hidden in the restaurant where he was abducted. Despite this, he is knocked out and Sam is killed.

Upon waking up, Robert makes Alisa believe that Stepan is the real thief and Robert is being framed, since Stepan was responsible for both the death of Sam's informant and identifying Robert as the thief. Robert kills Kiril with a meat hook, but is incapacitated by Stepan before he can escape. Alisa, now clearly shaken, tells Stepan that Robert accused him of taking the money. Enraged by Kiril's death, Stepan drags Alisa out of the freezer and locks Robert inside once again. After he puts on Kiril's clothes, he continues to search for but fails to find any way out of the meat locker. When Stepan and Alisa return, Robert convinces them to let him contact Detective Dorian because, as Sam's partner, he will know where the money is. Stepan impatiently ends the call and throws a bucket of water on Robert before leaving.

With hypothermia setting in Robert again tries to disconnect the fan wires in ventilation shaft, but is unable due to his state. At that time, a well-dressed and bound Russian man is thrown into the room with Robert. The man, introducing himself as Danil, offers to help Robert escape in exchange for a portion of the money. Robert instructs Danil to cut the electrical wires in the shaft, but when the mobsters enter the room, Danil is electrocuted to death. Alisa reveals that Danil was merely a plant to get the truth from Robert and was in fact Vadim, Oleg's son.

When Oleg arrives, he finds Robert and identifies him as the assassin who previously failed to kill him. Once Robert drops his claimed innocence and acknowledges the truth, he and Oleg fight as Alisa and Stepan look on. Due to his weakened state, Oleg gains the upper hand but is killed by Alisa before he can finish off Robert. Alisa is in fact Robert's girlfriend and had been working on the inside for him. A wounded Stepan escapes and locks the two inside. Robert uses the severed electrical wires to cause the metal meat rack to give off enough heat to warm their hands. At this time, Detective Dorian arrives and demands to know where the money is after instructing the two to bind their hands to the rack. Alisa confesses that the money has been inside the meat locker the entire time, hidden inside the boxes of cuts. While Dorian is distracted with this, Alisa and Robert escape by burning through the zip ties binding their wrists together on the heated rack.

Robert and Alisa use a semi-truck to hook up to the freezer with the money and Dorian inside. After traveling to a port, they load the container onto a cargo ship. Alisa gives Robert a "birthday present" from Oleg, a box of cuts holding a large amount of money. They drive off planning a warm vacation, but not before knocking an injured Stepan into the bay.

Cast
 Dylan McDermott as Robert Saunders
 Yuliya Snigir as Alisa
 Peter Facinelli as Detective Sam Gurov
 Andrey Ivchenko as Kirill
 Pascal Petardi as Vadim
 David McNally as Detective Al Dorian
 Markus Parilo as Oleg
 Milan Malisic as Stepan

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 33% based on reviews from 6 critics.
On Metacritic it has a score of 40% based on reviews from 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Home media
The film was released on Blu-ray, DVD, and as a combo pack on January 21, 2014.

References

External links

2014 films
American thriller films
Films directed by Mikael Salomon
2014 thriller films
Films shot in Alberta
2010s English-language films
2010s American films

Freezer (film)


The Parish Church of Our Lady of the Basse Œuvre of Beauvais (French Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Basse-Œuvre de Beauvais), is a church at the west end of Beauvais Cathedral. Dating to the 10th century, it represents the Western end .  It is the western end of a much longer church which had been Beauvais's cathedral, and was built in the form of a Roman basilica, a style which still characterized the Carolingian era.

The name Basse Œuvre ("Lower Work") dates from the 13th century, and distinguishes it from the Nouvel-Œuvre ("New Work"), the present 13th century Gothic cathedral.

It was classed as a historic monument in the list of 1840. The 21 archaeological digs of Émile Chami highlighted this monument.

History

The Basse Oeuvre was built in the second half of the tenth century, and dedicated to St. Peter, the Virgin and St. John the Baptist.

Few sources allow an exact dating of the building. A text taken from an obituary in the cathedral dating from about 1635 indicate as master of works bishop Hervé, who died in 998 AD. However, Emile Shami, based on another anonymous manuscript source of the 17th century, suggested a date in the time of Bishop Hugh, predecessor of Hervé. Excavations and stratigraphic record support this second hypothesis.

Several fires over the centuries have ravaged the church, including two at the end of the eleventh century, one in the late twelfth century, and another in the early twelfth century. These fires caused premature aging of the monument. After the 1225 fire, the Basse Oeuvre's east end was cut off for construction of the new cathedral's chancel, completed in 1272. In 1510, more of its east end was cut off during building of the Gothic transept of the new cathedral, destroying the remains of the old Carolingian transept and its nave's three eastern bays. Finally, in the 16th century and early 17th century, three more bays were sacrificed to make room for two buttresses that support the west side of the cathedral transept under architect Martin Chambiges.

In the 12th century, the cathedral school was famous under Ralph of Beauvais.

The building was restored in 1864 to 1867, but this restoration is often deemed too severe on the south side by art historians. The north side was free from restoration, and overlooks the cloister of the bishopric, whose west wing is dated to the eleventh century.

The small device in re-used stone came from the ancient Gallic ramparts of the city. The wall window keystones are alternately bricks and tiles.

Excavations showed a rebuilding of the facade of the Basse Oeuvre and additions resulting from fires in the eleventh century.

Bibliography
Carol Heitz, France pré-romane, éd. Errance, 1987.
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, 1856.
E-J. Woillez, Archéologie des Monuments religieux de l'ancien Beauvoisis pendant la métamorphose romane, 1839.
L'Art du Haut Moyen-Age dans le nord-ouest de la France, éd. Reineke-Verlag Greifswald, 1993.
Histoire générale de l'art. L'art Médiéval, t. 2, A.V., éd. Librairie Aristide Quillet, 1938.
Jean Hubert, Jean Porcher et W.F. Wolbach, L'Univers des formes. L'Empire carolingien, éd. Gallimard, 1968.
Picardie gothique, réédition commentée d'extraits de La Bible de Pierre, de John Ruskin, traduction de Marcel Proust, éd. Casterman / Les Provinciales, A.V., 1995.
San Bellet et Michel Marcq, Floraison gothique en Picardie, éd. du Quesne, 1992.
La Cathédrale Saint Pierre de Beauvais (Oise). Itinéraire du Patrimoine, Numéro 139 [Guide touristique], éd. par l'Association pour la Généralisation de l'Inventaire Régional en Picardie (AGIR-Pic.), 1997.
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse (t.IV-D), éd. Robert Laffont.
Gérard Denizeau (dir.), Histoire visuelle des Monuments de France, éd. Larousse, 2003.
Anne Prache, Île-de-France romane, éd. Zodiaque, 1983.
Philippe Araguas, Architecture religieuse gothique. Diversités régionales, éd. Rempart.
Jean Favier (dir.), Dictionnaire de la France Médiévale, éd. Fayard, 1993.
Martine Plouvier, La Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Beauvais : architecture, mobilier et trésor
Marie-Claude Vernat Chami, L'Art roman dans l'Oise et ses environs [Basse-Œuvre de Beauvais]

References

External links
Google Earth view of Basse Oeuvre and Beauvais Cathedral

Churches in Oise
10th-century churches in France
Monuments historiques of Hauts-de-France

Basse Oeuvre


John (Johnny) August Emanuel Roosval (29 August 1879 – 18 October 1965) was a Swedish art historian, Medieval ecclesiastical art specialist, and university professor.

Biography
Johnny Roosval was born in a bourgeois family in Kalmar, but grew up in Stockholm from the age of five and went to school there.

Education
He studied at Uppsala University from 1897, and finished his kandidat degree in philosophy, Latin, French, and Æsthetics with the history of literature and art, and Scandinavian philology in two years.

In 1899 he went to Berlin as a tutor for the son of the Swedish military attaché there, Henrik de Maré. The son, Rolf de Maré, later became known as an art collector and as the owner of the Ballets Suédois. Henrik de Maré's wife, sculptor Ellen von Hallwyl, would later divorce him and married Johnny Roosval in 1907.
At the same time, he enrolled at the University of Berlin, where he was a student of Heinrich Wölfflin and Adolph Goldschmidt, two of the founders of art history as an academic discipline. Roosval joined Goldschmidt on bicycle tours of rural churches in the vicinities of Berlin, a method for art historical exploration he would later introduce to his Swedish students. He was awarded his Berlin Dr. phil. degree in 1903 for a dissertation on Flemish altarpieces in Sweden.

Work
Returning from Berlin to Sweden, he worked at the Nordiska museet in Stockholm and also trained as a reserve officer, later teaching at Uppsala University as a docent of art history, newly established as an independent discipline, having previously counted as part of the study of Æsthetics.

He remained in Uppsala until 1914, when he moved to the University of Stockholm. There, he received a titular professorship in 1918, was appointed to the Anders Zorn professorship of Scandinavian and comparative art history in 1920, in accordance with the wishes of the donor, the painter Anders Zorn, but transferred to the J. A. Berg professorship of art history and theory in 1930, becoming an emeritus in 1946.

He also held the Kahn lectures at Princeton University in 1929 and the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard University 1936–1937. In 1933 he presided over the International Congress of the History of Art held in Stockholm.

Medieval ecclesiastical art
Roosval is known in particular for his studies of the medieval ecclesiastical art of Gotland, which he described in his Die Kirchen Gotlands: ein Beitrag zur mittelalterlichen Kunstgeschichte Schwedens (Stockholm: Norstedt, 1911) and Die Steinmeister Gottlands (Stockholm: Fritze, 1918).

He also wrote extensively on the Saint George statue in the Stockholm Church of Saint Nicholas (Storkyrkan) and was the first to attribute it to the Lübeck master Bernt Notke. With Sigurd Curman, he co-founded the Sveriges Kyrkor (The Churches of Sweden) documentation project, of which the first volume was published in 1912.

Personal life
Villa Muramaris
In 1917 the architect Arre Essén designed a country home for him, Villa Muramaris, near of Visby on the island of Gotland in Sweden. It was a salon of art, with a sculpture garden. Visiting artists included Post-Impressionist painter Nils von Dardel. The Swedish Cultural Heritage Monument was destroyed by fire in January, 2013.

Johnny Roosval died on 18 October 1965, in Stockholm.

References

Bibliography
Svanberg, Jan: "Roosval, John (Johnny) August Emanuel", Svenskt biografiskt lexikon 30, pp. 360–368.

External links

Swedish art historians
Swedish non-fiction writers
Writers from Stockholm
Uppsala University alumni
Academic staff of Stockholm University
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1965 deaths

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Patricia Murphy Derian ( Murphy; August 12, 1929 – May 20, 2016) was an American civil rights and human rights activist who fought racism in Mississippi and went on to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs from 1977 to 1981. She was, remembered The Times of London, "a courageous champion of civil rights who took on some of the world's most brutal dictators in her role as a senior American diplomat."

Biography
Patricia Murphy was born in New York City and grew up in Danville, Virginia. She was educated at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, graduating in 1952. She married Paul Derian following graduation, and worked as a nurse. She was a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement.

in 1959, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi. There, she volunteered in Head Start and supported public school desegregation. Derian helped organize the Loyalist Democrats (not to be confused with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) as a challenge to the state's all-white official delegation and was elected as one of Mississippi's delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. She remained active in civil rights in the 1970s, serving as president of the Southern Regional Council and was a member of the executive committee of the American Civil Liberties Union.

During the 1976 U.S. presidential election, Derian was deputy director of the Carter-Mondale campaign. After Jimmy Carter won that election, he nominated Derian to be Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. President Carter, however, had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs effective August 17, 1977, and Derian served in that capacity for the remainder of the Carter administration. In this post and as head of the new Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the United States Department of State, she worked to improve policy coordination on humanitarian issues such as human rights, refugees, and prisoners of war.

In 1978, Derian married Hodding Carter III, who was then Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.

Derian was a vocal critic of Jeane Kirkpatrick and of the so-called Kirkpatrick Doctrine during the 1980s, which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they went along with Washington's aims —believing they could be led into democracy by example. Kirkpatrick wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies." Derian objected to Kirkpatrick's characterization of some governments as only "moderately repressive", arguing that this line of thinking allowed the U.S. to support "a little bit of torture" or "moderate" prison sentences for political dissenters. Derian ceaselessly pointed out that, when it comes to human rights, in terms of morality, credibility and effectiveness, "you always have to play it straight."

Amongst those Derian believed the United States should not support was the Shah of Iran arguing in the lead up to the Iranian Revolution that the US should not be offering any assistance to the Shah "regardless of what cause those opponents might serve."

Derian, who had headed an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights delegation in 1979 to investigate reports of widespread human rights abuses in Argentina, returned to Buenos Aires in 1985 to testify in the historic Trial of the Juntas. She was quoted in documents in the National Security Archive openly accusing military leaders of torture of prisoners at a meeting in Argentina in 1977. An Argentinian journalist, Jacobo Timerman, who was tortured by the junta, credited Derian with saving him from execution. She supported Philippine leader Benigno Aquino Jr. and the South Korean dissident Kim Dae-jung. (When Kim was elected president she was invited as a special guest to his inauguration.) In December 2016, it was revealed that Derian eliminated her State Department files shortly before the January 20, 1981, inauguration of Ronald Reagan (who lampooned Derian, saying that she should "walk a mile in the moccasins" of the military despots before she criticized them) for fear that his political appointees "might share those names and their information with the oppressive foreign governments which would put her informants in greater peril."

As the principal source of an October 1987 exposé published in The Nation, Derian revealed that in June 1976 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had secretly given a "green light" of approval to Argentina's new far-right military rulers for state terrorist policies against a purposely overblown left-wing guerrilla threat. "It sickened me", said Derian upon revealing that in 1977, then-U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Robert C. Hill reported to her Kissinger's real role, "that with an imperial wave of his hand, an American could sentence people to death on the basis of a cheap whim. As time went on I saw Kissinger's footprints in a lot of countries. It was the repression of a democratic ideal."

She died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on May 20, 2016, after suffering Alzheimer's disease. The same day, former President Carter issued the following statement: "Rosalynn and I are deeply saddened by the passing of Patricia Derian. As the senior State Department official in charge of human rights during my administration, Patt spent hundreds of hours meeting with victims and their families. She became a champion of oppressed people around the world, helping me exert pressure on dictatorships from Argentina to South Korea. Because of her determination and effective advocacy, countless human rights and democracy activists survived that period, going on to plant the seeds of freedom in Latin America, Asia, and beyond. We send our deepest condolences to her husband, Hodding Carter, and their extended family."

Publications
Human Rights: A World Perspective (1978)
Human Rights: The Role of Law and Lawyers: March 16, 1978, Washington, D.C
coauthored with Warren Christopher, Four Treaties on Human Rights (1979)
Human Rights in Latin America (1979)
Human Rights in Jeopardy (1980)
Review of Human Rights in Latin America (1980)
Human Rights in South Africa (1980)
U.S. Commitment to Human Rights (1980)

References

Further reading
 John Kelly Damico, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Career of Patricia M. Derian (Ph.D. dissertation, Mississippi State University, 1999).
 Martin Edwin Andersen (March 4, 2016). "How Much Did the US Know About the Kidnapping, Torture, and Murder of Over 20,000 People in Argentina?"
 Martin Edwin Andersen (October 31, 1987). "Kissinger and the 'Dirty War. The Nation.
 February 19, 1988 letter from Kissinger to Victor Navasky, Editor of The Nation, protesting publication of a Memorandum of Conversation between Ambassador Hill and Patricia Derian.
 Martin Edwin Andersen, "Patricia Derian: Healing Crusader for Human and Civil Rights"

1929 births
2016 deaths
Activists from New York City
University of Virginia School of Nursing alumni
American nurses
American women nurses
American civil rights activists
United States Assistant Secretaries of State
Carter administration personnel
Women human rights activists
American foreign policy writers
Recipients of the Order of the Liberator General San Martin

Patricia M. Derian


Ptaeroxylon obliquum is the botanical name for the sneezewood tree. It is native to Southern Africa, including South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. It is the only species in the genus Ptaeroxylon.

Background
Ptaeroxylon obliquum is a species from the family Rutaceae which are most abundant in South Africa and Australia. The term ptaeroxylon is Greek for sneeze and wood, while obliquum denotes the oblique shape of the leaflets. The wood produces oils containing nieshoutol, which causes violent sneeze attacks by workers who are exposed to the tree. Though sneezewood is not poisonous, it has been known to cause respiratory complications. It has been linked to asthma, rhinitis and mucosal inflammation.

Description

Ptaeroxylon obliquum is a shrub or medium deciduous tree that stands up to  tall.
The bark is whitish-grey and smooth when young, but fissured with age. Leaflets are 2.5 x 1.3 cm marked asymmetrically. They are blue-green to dark green in color and crowd near the ends of the rachis in three to seven pairs of leaflets. The flowers on the tree are white to creamy yellow and fragrant.

Sneezewood is very dense having a specific gravity of 1040 kg/m3

Uses

Lumber
Sneezewood is an extremely hard and durable timber wood. It often lasts longer than brass or iron when used for machine bearings.

In the past, sneezewood was used extensively for railway sleepers. It can also be used to make furniture. In Mozambique it is used to make xylophone keys.

Sneezewood is a very attractive wood with golden heartwood with light orange figures and is a favorite amongst woodturners.

Its scarcity today is due in part of its past use as fuel for steam tugs.
It has been used extensively for fence and telegraph poles as well.

Medicinal
Sneezewood is used for medicinal and ritual purposes. The bark can be used to repel moths or as snuff. The resin has been used to get rid of warts and cattle ticks.

The Xhosa have traditionally made snuff from sneeze-wood to relieve headaches.

See also
Southern African Sand Forest

References

Cneoroideae
Monotypic Rutaceae genera
Flora of Southern Africa
Flora of South Africa
Flora of Zimbabwe
Flora of Mozambique
Trees of Africa
Wood

Ptaeroxylon


Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi was the Ruler of Ajman, one of the Trucial States which today form the United Arab Emirates (UAE), from 1838 to 1841, when he was deposed by his brother, Abdelaziz bin Rashid Al Nuaimi. Humaid ruled from Abdelaziz' death in 1848 until his own death in 1864.

Accession
Humaid acceded following the death of his father, Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi. Rashid's eldest son, Ali, was a businessman and had removed himself from day to day involvement in the majlis and had no interest in becoming Ruler. The family nominated Humaid to take the position. He married a daughter of Sheikh Sultan bin Saqr Al Qasimi who was, at the time, Ruler of Sharjah and with whom Humaid was closely allied. In 1841, his brother Abdelaziz took possession of Ajman fort and declared himself Ruler. In 1848  Abdelaziz was killed in a fight with Hamriyah and Humaid, who was also wounded in the conflict, became Ruler once again.

Humaid was signatory to the Perpetual Maritime Truce with the British, signed on 4 May 1853.

Sheikh Humaid died in 1864 and was succeeded by Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi II.

References

1864 deaths
Sheikhs of the Emirate of Ajman
19th-century monarchs in the Middle East
History of the United Arab Emirates
19th-century Arab people

Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi


Sidik Mia (1965 – 12 January 2021) was a Malawian businessman and politician. He was a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. From 2004 to 2014, he was a member of the National Assembly. From 2009 to 2010, he was Minister of Defence and from 2020 until his death, Mia was Minister of Transport and Public Works.

In the 2019 general election, Mia was the running mate of Lazarus Chakwera.

Mia died on 12 January 2021 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi, aged 56.

References

1965 births
2021 deaths
Malawian politicians
African businesspeople
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic

Sidik Mia


Ranmore Common, also known as Ranmore Commons, is an area of wooded former common land on the North Downs, immediately northwest of Dorking in the English county of Surrey. Its civil parish is Wotton, a geographically large village with a small population west of Dorking. Ranmore Common is within the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and part of it is Ranmore Common SSSI, a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Features

George Cubitt, owner and resident of the estate abutting to the east, Denbies Vineyard Estate, commissioned George Gilbert Scott to design St. Barnabas Church, which was completed in 1859. The church is designated with a Grade II* listing; Cubitt is buried to the east of the chancel. It has several other notable burials including Sir Harry Hylton-Foster, who died in 1965.

The north and south sides are wooded and sloped. Its central belt is a road separating a very long, natural grass and wildflower meadow. On its northern edge are Tanners Hatch Youth Hostel and further, across a wooded vale, Polesden Lacey.

The North Downs Way National Trail, a long-distance path that runs from Farnham to Dover, via Canterbury, crosses the common.

For fifty years the route of the Tanners Hatch Marathon, a thirty-mile challenge walk, crossed the common. It began in 1960, and was so-called because the first few marathons started and finished at Tanner's Hatch Youth Hostel.

References

External links

Surreycc.gov.uk

Hamlets in Surrey
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Surrey

Ranmore Common


David Matthew Murdoch  (born 17 April 1978) is a retired Scottish curler from Stirling. As the Scotland skip, he and his former team of Ewan MacDonald, Warwick Smith, Euan Byers and Peter Smith are the 2006 and 2009 World Curling Champions. Representing Great Britain, he has been skip at three Winter Olympics, Torino 2006, finishing fourth, Vancouver 2010, finishing fifth and Sochi 2014, where he won an Olympic silver medal. He served as national and Olympic coach for British Curling since September 2018, before being named Curling Canada's high-performance director in early 2023.

Sporting career

Junior
Murdoch is a two time World Junior Curling Champion – in 1995, as an alternate for Tom Brewster, Jr., and in 1996 as a lead for James Dryburgh. In 1998 he won a silver medal at the World Juniors as a third for Garry MacKay. By 1999, Murdoch had moved up to the position of skip, and led Scotland to a 6–3 record and fifth place at that year's world juniors. Four years later, he led Scotland to the European Championship title, beating Peja Lindholm's formidable Sweden team in the final.

Men's
In 2005, Murdoch went to his first ever World Championships. At the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship his Scotland rink won the silver medal after losing to Canada's Randy Ferbey in the final.  The team's fine run of form ensured all four members a place in the Great Britain men's squad for the 2006 Winter Olympics, with Murdoch in the position of skip. At the Olympics, Murdoch and his team lost in the bronze medal match to Pete Fenson of the United States. Two months later, Murdoch would avenge his defeat in 2005 by winning the gold medal at the 2006 World Men's Curling Championship. Murdoch defeated Canada (skipped by Jean-Michel Ménard) in the final. In December 2006 he won the silver medal in the European Championships in Basel, Switzerland, and followed that up with gold in 2007. He successfully defended his title at the European Curling Championships 2008 against Norway's Thomas Ulsrud.

Murdoch and his team represented Scotland again at the 2008 World Men's Curling Championship, where he lost to Canada in the final.

In 2009, Murdoch once again won a gold medal for Scotland at the World Men's Curling Championship, which was held in Moncton, New Brunswick.

On 17 January 2010, Murdoch's rink became the first non-Canadian team to win the TSN Skins Game. His team won $70,500 (£43,000) for the win.

After the 2009–10 season, Murdoch's Olympic team broke up.

In 2012, Murdoch teamed up with Tom Brewster's rink. The 2012–13 season saw them win the Edinburgh Invitational in late 2012 and the German Masters in Hamburg in January 2013. With Murdoch as skip, they won bronze at the 2013 World Championships. The team took bronze at the 2013 European Championships.
In October 2013, he was selected to skip the Great Britain squad at the 2014 Winter Olympics. where he won a silver medal, losing to Canada's Brad Jacobs in the final. His 12 curling matches as skip of the Team GB men at the Sochi Olympics saw his last stones win crucial games including a vital play off against Norway in which his shot was dubbed by national press as 'shot of the century' to make the semi-finals and then a last shot against Sweden to secure a silver medal and Olympic final place. The silver medal was the first for Team GB men's curling since the 1924 games. Curling coverage at Sochi was seen for 30 hours and was the most talked about sport on social media.

However, Murdoch's rink endured what he described as "a difficult year" following the 2014 Olympics: they lost in the final of the Scottish Championships in February 2015 to defending champion and former team-mate Ewan MacDonald's team, denying Team Murdoch a place at the 2015 Ford World Men's Curling Championship, before finishing third in the Scottish qualifying tournament held in October of that year for the 2015 European Curling Championships behind Kyle Smith and former team-mate Tom Brewster's rinks, thus failing to secure selection. In 2016 Team Murdoch were runners-up to Team Brewster in both the Scottish championships in February and the European Playdowns in October. Murdoch's rink were selected to compete for Scotland at the 2017 World Curling Championship, where they secured qualification for Team GB to the 2018 Winter Olympics by finishing sixth: however in June 2017 it was announced that Kyle Smith's team had been chosen to compete at the 2018 Games over Team Murdoch and Team Brewster. On 13 July 2017 Murdoch announced his retirement from his playing career, and will begin coaching.

Murdoch has commentated and taken part in studio analysis on curling for Eurosport for many years and Channel 4 for the 2014 Winter Paralympics. He has appeared recently on many TV & Radio shows including: Sport Relief 2014, Daybreak, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Sky Sports, Sky 1's Game Changers, BT Sport's Panel with Tim Lovejoy and Matt Dawson, BBC Radio 2 with Anneka Rice, BBC Radio 5 Live with Danny Baker and Shelagh Fogarty, Talksport and recently being a winning panellist on A Question of Sport. As a lottery funded athlete, he has also officially released the National Lottery draw live on BBC alongside Kate Garraway to over 10 million viewers. He has also featured alongside the rest of the GB curling team on Eggheads for BBC2, as broadcast in February 2015.
The team won the Daily Record 'Team of the year' award at the recent Our Heroes ceremony.
David is a keen supporter of many charities and good causes, his charity work includes giving out Duke of Edinburgh awards regularly, most recently at Holyrood in the presence of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He and his King Charles spaniel also recently supported the PDSA at a charity campaign photo shoot. He has also taken part in a charity curling calendar featuring as one of the world's elite curlers. Recently David and the team supported Sport Relief at a special night televised by the BBC in London with Sebastian Coe and many summer Olympic legends at the Olympic park and later flew up to Glasgow to launch the Sport Relief mile.

Personal
David Murdoch is from a talented curling family being the brother of Olympic coach Nancy Murdoch and former European Champion Neil Murdoch. The siblings' mother, Marion Murdoch, is a curling coach who was given a lifetime achievement award by Sportscotland in 2015 for her coaching work. She has been credited by David as "a big part of how (he) ended up being a competitive player", and she also helped develop fellow Olympic medallists Claire Hamilton and Anna Sloan.

As a ten-year-old boy, Murdoch was an eyewitness to the crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, the town where he grew up.

Murdoch's father, former Scottish curling champion Matthew Murdoch, 70, died 12 days after watching his son win silver at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

He is married and has a daughter.

Murdoch was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to curling.

Teams

Awards
WJCC All-star lead:
WJCC All-star third:

Grand Slam record

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Curlers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
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World curling champions
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Continental Cup of Curling participants
Sportspeople from Dumfries
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Scottish curling coaches
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David Murdoch


George Fielden MacLeod, Baron MacLeod of Fuinary,  (17 June 1895 – 27 June 1991) was a Scottish soldier and clergyman; he was one of the best known, most influential and unconventional Church of Scotland ministers of the 20th century. He was the founder of the Iona Community on the island of Iona and served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1957).

Early life
He was born in Glasgow in 1895. His father (Sir John MacLeod) was a successful businessman before entering politics as a Unionist MP; his mother Edith was from a wealthy Lancastrian family (owning cotton mills). From this background and heir to a baronetcy, George MacLeod was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. His paternal grandfather was the highly respected Revd Norman MacLeod of the Barony Church, Glasgow, a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Chaplain to Queen Victoria.

First World War service
Upon the outbreak of the First World War, and having been a cadet in the Officers Training Corps, MacLeod was commissioned in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, British Army, as a temporary second lieutenant on 19 September 1914. He first saw active service in Greece. After falling ill with dysentery, he was sent back to Scotland to recuperate, after which he was posted to Flanders. On 24 June 1917, he was made an adjutant and promoted to acting captain. He saw action at Ypres and Passchendaele. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) in October 1917, and the French Croix de Guerre with palm for bravery in 1918.

Ministry
His experience of this total war profoundly affected MacLeod, leading him to train for the ministry. He studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a year at Union Theological Seminary, New York City (1921-1922). Upon return to Scotland he was invited to become Assistant at St Giles' Cathedral. During this period he became increasingly concerned over the issue of social inequality in Scotland. In 1924 he was ordained as a Church of Scotland minister, to be Padre of Toc H (Talbot House) in Scotland. Such non-parochial appointments were extremely unusual at the time. Following a disagreement, he resigned from Toc H in 1926, but was invited to become associate minister at St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh.

His wartime experiences, combined with a profound disillusionment by post-World War I political rhetoric of "a land fit for heroes," deeply affected him. Confronted by the realities of the depression and unemployment faced by those less privileged than he, MacLeod gradually moved towards supporting socialism and pacifism. From 1937 he became actively involved with the Peace Pledge Union (PPU), and from 1958 with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

Meanwhile, in 1930, to considerable surprise, he decided to leave St Cuthbert's Church to become minister at Govan Old Parish Church—encountering the considerable social problems caused by poverty in this part of Glasgow. The pace of work took its toll and in 1932 he suffered a breakdown. He spent some time recuperating in Jerusalem in early 1933. While worshipping in an Eastern Orthodox Church on Easter Day he felt a profound spiritual experience, feeling a sense of recovery of the Church as the corporate Body of Christ. This would strongly influence the rest of his life.

He resigned (giving up the financial security of a parish minister's stipend) to become the full-time leader of the Iona Community, which he founded in 1938. His efforts started in the early 1930s when he bought Fingleton Mill as a refuge for Glasgow's poor. The idea of rebuilding Iona Abbey using ministers, students and unemployed labourers working together influenced his thinking; the Iona Community developed as an international ecumenical community, with offices in Govan and a presence on the island of Iona. Underpinning the fellowship of the Community were four emphases: mission, political involvement, a ministry of healing, and worship, by which MacLeod and the Community sought a way to connect the Church with an industrial age. He led a series of parish missions (sometimes known as a 'Message of Friendship') in Scottish parishes associated with the Community, and supported the 1950 Glasgow Churches' Campaign and the 1950s Tell Scotland Movement. However, he opposed the invitation promoted by Rev. Tom Allan to Dr Billy Graham that led to the 1955 All-Scotland Crusade.

Global policy
He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution. As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

Later life
During World War II, he served as locum minister at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh—a parish also then afflicted by poverty.

In 1948 (aged 53) he married Lorna; immediately after the wedding they travelled to Australia for a preaching tour. The 1940s and early 1950s were a difficult period professionally. MacLeod was involved in what became known as the "Govan Case." He was invited by the congregation to return to Govan Old Parish Church in 1948, but the Presbytery of Glasgow refused to approve his appointment, given his wish to continue his active leadership of the Iona Community. The case was referred to the General Assembly; ultimately he was refused permission to combine the two posts.

Despite a feeling of hurt and rejection over the "Govan Case", MacLeod remained one of the highest-profile figures in the Church of Scotland. In 1957 he was elected Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, following one Commissioner standing up and asking whether it was appropriate that a man who had been described as being "half way to Rome and half way to Moscow" should be Moderator.

On 6 February 1967, MacLeod was awarded a peerage, becoming Baron MacLeod of Fuinary, of Fuinary in Morven in the County of Argyll; the only Church of Scotland minister to have been thus honoured. He was introduced to the House on 15 February 1967. He later became the first peer to represent the Green Party.

From 1968 to 1971, he was Rector of the University of Glasgow. The rector is one of the most senior posts at the University of Glasgow and is elected by the students.

George MacLeod's influence on the Church of Scotland was considerable. His initial emphasis on parish mission was generally welcomed and favourably compared to the campaigns of his contemporary, D.P. Thomson. Although dismissed by some as a maverick, he helped to raise awareness of pacificism, ecumenism and social justice issues, and inspired many to become involved with such questions. Through the creation of the Iona Community, he was a pioneer of new forms of ministry (outside more conventional parish or chaplaincy structures).

In 1989 MacLeod received the Templeton Prize.

Arms

References

George MacLeod. Founder of the Iona Community. by Ron Ferguson, Wild Goose Publications (Glasgow). New edition 2001.
Daily Readings with George MacLeod. ed Ron Ferguson, Wild Goose Publications (Glasgow). New edition 2001.
The Whole Earth Shall Cry Glory: Iona prayers. by George MacLeod, Wild Goose Publications (Glasgow). New edition 2007.

1895 births
1991 deaths
Scottish anti-war activists
Recipients of the Military Cross
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People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officers
British Army personnel of World War I
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Scottish socialists
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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Rectors of the University of Glasgow
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Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
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George MacLeod


John Denver Hore (19 July 1944 – 27 July 2022), better known by his stage name of John Grenell, was a New Zealand country singer and songwriter.

Career
Grenell had his first professional engagement in 1962, the year he finished high school, after placing third in a nationwide TV contest "Have a Shot". He originally sang as John Hore, his stepfather's surname, but later changed to the family surname of Grenell. He recorded his first record album for Joe Brown in 1963, and made a further 16 albums between 1963 and 1974, some of which reached gold. He was the New Zealand representative to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee in 1966 and 1974. He sang in America, Australia, Canada, England, and South Africa, and at various TV series, special events and a Royal Command performance. He wrote the New Zealand version of "I've Been Everywhere" with local place names in 1966.

He returned to entertainment in 1989–90 with the album "Welcome to our World" which was a single (a cover of Welcome to My World) and album best-seller in February 1990, see List of number-one singles. He received Country music recording industry awards, Male Vocalist of the year, a Gold Tribute award plus Best Country single and Country Record of the year.  In 1990 he received a Scroll of Honour from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand for his contribution to New Zealand entertainment.

Personal life
Born in Ranfurly, Grenell grew up in Central Otago and Dunedin, and was educated at Kyeburn School and Otago Boys' High School. During his early years, he worked as a farmhand on the Glenrown farm in Kyeburn that was, and still is today, owned by the Greer Family. Later in 1971 He married Deidre Bruton; they had three sons and a daughter, all of whom are all musical. Daughter Amiria won a NZ Music Award for Best Folk Album of the year in 2012 for her album Three Feathers. They lived in Whitecliffs, on a Canterbury foothills farm, and bred Appaloosa horses. He was interested in the outdoor environment, particularly high country tussock and watershed areas.

Discography
 Introducing John Hore (Joe Brown, 1964)
 Encore (Joe Brown, 1965)
 My World (Joe Brown, 1965)
 Together (Joe Brown, 1966)
 Country Gentleman (Joe Brown, 1966)
 The Town & Country Sound Of John Hore U.S.A. (Joe Brown, 1966)
 Hit The Trail (Joe Brown, 1966)
 Take Ten (Joe Brown, 1967)
 My Kind Of Songs (Joe Brown, 1967)
 Country Style (Joe Brown, 1968)
 New Zealand Songs  (Joe Brown, 1968)
 Sings Great Country Hits (Joe Brown, 1969)
 Great Country Songs By John Hore (Joe Brown, 1969)
 We Should Be Together (Joe Brown, 1972)
 Travellin' Singin' Man (Joe Brown, 1972)
 The Mountains Of Home (Joe Brown, 1973)
 Silver (Ode Records, 1988)
 Born In The West (Playa Sound, 1990)
 Welcome To Our World (CBS, 1990)
 Windstar - Aotearoa (Manu, 1991)

References

External links
AudioCulture profile

1944 births
2022 deaths
New Zealand country singers
New Zealand male singer-songwriters
New Zealand singer-songwriters
People educated at Otago Boys' High School
Musicians from Dunedin
People from North Canterbury
People from Ranfurly, New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand male singers
New Zealand country guitarists
Deaths from coronary artery disease

John Grenell


Guillaume Pepy (born 26 May 1958) is a high-ranking French civil servant who currently serves as president of the SNCF, the French national rail authority. He is also Chairman of Eurostar and Deputy-Chairman of the Keolis Group.

President Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Pepy to run the state-owned enterprise on 27 February 2008 for a term of five years. In his Letter of Engagement, the Head of State asked him to make the development and modernisation of the enterprise the priorities of his mandate and that SNCF should enter, body and soul, into the era of development and competition. He was re-appointed for a new term by François Hollande in 2013.

Early life and education
Pepy attended the École alsacienne high school in Paris. He is a graduate of Sciences Po and a former alumnus of École nationale d'administration, in the Louise Michel year (1984).

Career in the public sector
An Auditor and then Master of Requests at the Conseil d'État ("Council of State", the highest French Administrative Court - 1987), Pepy worked in a number of ministerial private offices, was a technical advisor to Budget Minister Michel Charasse (1988), and Chief of Staff for the Minister for Public Service Michel Durafour and the Minister of Labour Martine Aubry.

Career in the private sector
In 1995, Pepy was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Sofres group with special responsibility for business development.

Pepy joined SNCF for the first time in 1988 as Chief of Staff to the then Chairman, Jacques Fournier. After a stint in various ministerial private offices (1990–1993), he came back as Head of Investment, Economy and Strategy.

In 1997, he was put in charge of Mainline Services and in 1998, became Deputy Chief Executive Officer with responsibility for all passenger activities (TER regional, Transilien Greater Paris suburban services, mainline services, rolling stock and operations). He instituted a new low fares policy designed to boost train occupancy rates using "yield management" flexible pricing techniques. He was also the driving force behind the creation of Voyages-sncf.com, of which he was Chairman from 1998 to 2006, and of iDTGV.

In 2003, Louis Gallois appointed him Group Chief Operating Officer. Anne-Marie Idrac, Chairman in the last 20 months of the term begun by Louis Gallois (July 2006- February 2008), confirmed him in this position.

He was also the prime mover in the launch of the Railteam European high-speed rail operator alliance.

On 11 February 2014, Pepy was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honor of President François Hollande at the White House.

Other activities
 Emlyon Business School, Chairman of the supervisory board (since 2022)
 Salesforce, Member of the Advisory Board on Europe, the Middle East and Africa (since 2020)
 Lagardère Group, Member of the Supervisory Board (since 2020)
 Suez, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2008)
 SYSTRA, Member of the Supervisory Board
 Eurostar, Member of the Board of Directors (2002-2009)
 Keolis, Member of the Board of Directors (-2009)

Personal life
From 1986 until 2004, Pepy shared a relationship with Richard Descoings. Due to fear of stigma, their relationship was kept secret until it was acknowledged at Descoing's funeral in 2012.

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1958 births
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French LGBT businesspeople

Guillaume Pepy


Robert Morris "Bob" Rosencrans (March 26, 1927 – August 3, 2016) was a cable television industry pioneer who helped create C-SPAN, an American public affairs television network. In addition, he helped launch the television networks  BET and  MSG, a predecessor of the USA Network.

Early life and education
Rosencrans was born on March 26, 1927, in New York City. His parents were Alvin, an Austrian immigrant who imported ornaments for women's hats, and Eva Greene, a Russian immigrant who was a fashion designer for Alvin's sister, Nettie Rosenstein. Rosencrans was raised in Woodmere, New York.

He had plans to attend Dartmouth College until his older brother died in combat during World War II. Rosencrans enlisted and served in the United States Army Air Forces, then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Columbia University in 1949.

Career

After several jobs in retailing, Rosencrans joined Box Office Television (BOT), which produced programming for hotels and wanted to offer closed-circuit programming, such as sports games and live theater, to movie theaters. Rosencrans conceived the idea of a cable system after BOT purchased TelePrompTer in 1956 with the goal of expanding its closed-circuit programming. In 1961, he and other investors began acquiring cable systems in smaller towns. In 1975, Rosencrans' Columbia Cable Systems (which later became UA-Columbia Cablevision) invested nearly $100,000 to become the first cable operator to install a satellite receiving station. The company did so in order to broadcast "Thrilla in Manila", the third and final boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, to its subscribers in Florida.

Rosencrans is credited for persuading Madison Square Garden to launch the television network MSG. He and Kay Koplovitz helped create this as a sports channel, which later expanded its programming to become USA Network, the first basic cable channel distributed via satellite. Rosencrans offered Robert L. Johnson air time on Friday evenings, which led to the creation of BET, a basic cable and satellite television channel targeting African American audiences.

He was an early financial backer and founding board chair of C-SPAN, an American public affairs television network. In 1977, while serving as president of UA-Columbia, Rosencrans and his partner Ken Gunter contributed $25,000 and convinced other industry leaders to contribute an additional $450,000 to launch the network. C-SPAN began broadcasting on March 19, 1979, with additional funding from UA-Columbia and several other cable television companies. Rosencrans served on the C-SPAN board for nearly 40 years and was designated its chairman emeritus until his death.

Rosencrans' role at UA-Columbia was eliminated when the company split in 1984. He started the cable multiple system operator Columbia International, which sold in 1995 for an estimated $600 million.

In 2000, Rosencrans was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame, which recognizes "ground-breaking leaders who have shaped and advanced" the cable telecommunications industry. The honor was bestowed by The Cable Center, a nonprofit, educational organization serving the industry.

In addition to his work in cable television, Rosencrans was an early investor in PublicAffairs, a publishing company established in 1997 by Peter Osnos. He was also an investor in the video discussion website Bloggingheads.tv in 2007.

Personal life
Rosencrans was Jewish and described by The New York Times as a "political liberal".

As of May 2012, Rosencrans was retired and living in Connecticut. Rosencrans died at a hospital from stroke complications on August 3, 2016, in Greenwich, Connecticut, at the age of 89. He and his wife of 59 years, Marjorie Meyers, had four children.

References

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1927 births
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Columbia College (New York) alumni
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C-SPAN people
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Robert Rosencrans


USS Monterey (CVL-26) was an  light aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, in service during World War II and used in training for several years thereafter.

Originally laid down as light cruiser Dayton (CL-78) on 29 December 1941 by New York Shipbuilding, Camden, New Jersey, the ship was reclassified CV-26 on 27 March 1942 and renamed Monterey four days later, launched on 28 February 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Patrick N. L. Bellinger, and commissioned on 17 June 1943, Captain Lestor T. Hundt in command. It was the third US Navy vessel to be named after the Battle of Monterey. Future U.S. President Gerald R. Ford served aboard the ship during World War II.

Service history

World War II

Monterey was reclassified CVL-26 on 15 July 1943, shortly before commissioning, and after shakedown, departed Philadelphia for the western Pacific. She reached the Gilbert Islands on 19 November 1943, in time to help secure Makin Island. She took part in strikes on Kavieng, New Ireland on 25 December, as part of Task Group 37.2 (TG 37.2), and supported the landings at Kwajalein and Eniwetok until 8 February 1944. The light carrier then operated with Task Force 58 (TF 58) during raids in the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, northern New Guinea, and the Bonin Islands from February–July 1944. During this time she was also involved in the Battle of the Philippine Sea on 19–20 June.

Monterey then sailed to Pearl Harbor for overhaul, departing once again on 29 August. She launched strikes against Wake Island on 3 September, then joined TF 38 and participated in strikes in the southern Philippines and the Ryukyus. October through December 1944 were spent in the Philippines, supporting first the Leyte, and then the Mindoro landings.

Though enemy planes had been unable to damage Monterey, she did not complete her first full year of service unscathed. In December, she steamed into the path of Typhoon Cobra, with winds over . At the height of the storm, which lasted two days, several planes tore loose from their cables, causing several fires on the hangar deck. During the storm future US President Gerald Ford, who served on board the ship, was almost swept overboard. Ford, serving as General Quarters Officer of the Deck, was ordered to go below to assess the raging fire. He did so safely, and reported his findings back to the ship's commanding officer, Captain Stuart Ingersoll. The ship's crew was able to contain the fire, and the ship got underway again.

Monterey arrived Bremerton, Washington, for overhaul in January 1945. She rejoined TF 58 and supported Okinawa operations by launching strikes against Nansei Shoto and Kyūshū from 9 May to 1 June. She rejoined TF 38 for the final strike against Honshū and Hokkaidō from 1 July to 15 August.

Post-War
Monterey departed Japanese waters on 7 September, having embarked troops at Tokyo, and steamed home, arriving in New York City on 17 October. Monterey left behind an impressive and enviable war record. Her planes sank five enemy warships, and damaged others. She was responsible for the destruction of thousands of tons of Japanese shipping, hundreds of planes, and vital industrial complexes. She was assigned "Magic Carpet" duty, and made several voyages between Naples and Norfolk. She was decommissioned on 11 February 1947, and was assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Philadelphia Group.

Korea
With the outbreak of hostilities in the Korean War, Monterey was recommissioned on 15 September 1950. She departed Norfolk on 3 January 1951, and proceeded to Pensacola, Florida, where she operated for the next four years under Naval Training Command, training thousands of naval aviation cadets, student pilots, and helicopter trainees. Monterey was relieved as a training carrier by , which had previously served at Pensacola as a training carrier between 1946 and 1947. From 1 to 11 October 1954, she took part in a flood rescue mission in Honduras. She departed Pensacola on 9 June 1955 and steamed to rejoin the reserve fleet. She was decommissioned on 16 January 1956. Reclassified AVT-2 on 15 May 1959, she remained berthed at Philadelphia until she was sold for scrapping in May 1971.

Awards
Monterey received 11 battle stars for World War II service.

References

External links

Navy photographs of Monterey
USS Monterey at Nine Sisters Light Carrier Historical Documentary Project

Independence-class aircraft carriers
Ships built by New York Shipbuilding Corporation
1943 ships
World War II escort aircraft carriers of the United States
World War II aircraft carriers of the United States
Cold War aircraft carriers of the United States
Gerald Ford

USS Monterey (CVL-26)


Homerton College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge, England. Its name comes from the area of Homerton in London. It was first formed there in 1850 from a group of students who wanted to change the way pedagogy (how people teach) was studied. They moved to Cambridge in 1894, but the college only became part of the University in 1976. Only in 2010 it was given the full status.

Homerton College is the biggest in Cambridge: it has 1200 students. Many of them study Education because the department is there. The college is not in the city centre of Cambridge but on Hills Road.

Other websites
Official website

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

Homerton College, Cambridge


Mstyora or Mstera () is an urban locality (a settlement) in Vyaznikovsky District of Vladimir Oblast, Russia.  Municipally, it is a part of Mstyora Urban Settlement, of which it is the administrative center.  Population:

It grew up as a settlement attached to the nearby monastery of the Epiphany (), on land belonging to the Romodanovskys, in the early 17th century. After the abolition of the monastery in 1764, it became a village, named after the Mstyora River (then known as Mstyorka); the name is probably from Merya Mustajarvi (compare Finnish musta, meaning "black", and järvi, meaning "lake"). Like the nearby villages of Kholuy and Palekh, it was a center of icon production in the traditional style, but in contrast to the opulence of Palekh icons, those of Mstyora "sought to emulate the fifteenth and sixteenth century austerity" and "were greatly favored by Russia's Old Believers' sect."

By the beginning of the 18th century it became an important trading post, with 182 houses and 57 shops; during the 19th century lithographed lubok prints were produced in large numbers until competition from book publishers in Moscow and St. Petersburg proved too great. The 19th century also saw the development of textiles, market gardening, boat building, carpentry, and other industries. "By 1897 Mstyora was a town with over four thousand inhabitants, and the site of periodic fairs at which books and prints were sold. 'The inhabitants of Mstyora are only peasants in name,' wrote [Alexander] Prugavin. 'In essence these are real city folk.'"

Meanwhile, Mstyora's icon makers had turned to the restoration and imitation of icons in all styles, which led to fakery as well; V. N. Ovchinnikov, an icon painter himself, observed: "Mstyora craftsmen were so good at copying old icons, that quite often, the dating of a newly painted one would baffle the expert."  After the October Revolution, "Mstyora craftsmen switched to making painted, turned wooden toys and the painting of oilcloth, kerchiefs, tea caddies, and sugar bowls"; eventually they turned to the production of the miniatures for which Mstyora has become famous.

In 1863, Mstyora was administratively a part of Bogoyavlenskaya Volost of Vyaznikovsky Uyezd.  At that time, its population comprised 2,615 inhabitants (1,205 male and 1,410 female) living in 307 homesteads.  At that time, there were three Russian Orthodox Churches, one Edinoverie church, two colleges, an almshouse, a lithography shop, a market, a pier, and three factories in Mstyora.

Urban-type settlement status was granted to Mstyora in 1935.

References

External links
Official website of Vyaznikovsky District. Information about Mstyora Urban Settlement
Photographs

Urban-type settlements in Vladimir Oblast
Vyaznikovsky Uyezd
Populated places established in the 1600s
17th-century establishments in Russia

Mstyora (urban locality)


Penelope is a 1966 American comedy caper film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, and Dick Shawn. George Wells' screenplay was based on the 1965 novel of the same title, written by Howard Melvin Fast under the pseudonym E.V. Cunningham.

Plot
Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) is the wife of wealthy banker James Elcott (Ian Bannen). Penelope decides to disguise herself as an old woman and rob her husband's bank. While the police, including Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee (Peter Falk), rush to get to the bank, Penelope escapes in a red wig and yellow suit. She donates some of the stolen money to a Salvation Army worker and donates the suit to a second-hand thrift shop. Con artists Sabada (Lila Kedrova) and Ducky (Lou Jacobi) immediately recognize the suit as an original designer outfit from Paris, and purchase it for a mere $7.

Penelope visits her psychiatrist Gregory (Dick Shawn) and tells him all about her criminal activities. She says it began in college when a professor (Jonathan Winters) lured her into his laboratory and attempted to rape her, but she escaped, leaving her dress ripped off in the process. During the chase, she stole the watch fob of the professor. She next stole on her wedding day. When she caught her maid of honor Mildred Halliday (Norma Crane) kissing James, she swiped Mildred's earrings and necklace. Gregory suggests she is stealing to attract attention from her distant husband.

A young woman, Honeysuckle Rose, is accused of being the thief. Gregory wants to return the stolen money to the bank, but panics when he hears police cars arriving. Penelope confesses and tries to clear the innocent Honeysuckle, but Horatio the cop and husband James do not believe her. Ducky and Sabada pay a visit, trying to blackmail her, but Penelope foils their blackmail attempt.

Penelope hosts a dinner party, having stolen from all the invited guests. She tries to return the stolen items, but all claim that they never have seen them before. Penelope, confused and frightened, runs away. She again robs James' bank, but unlike the previous time, she is crying. James begs Horatio to find her. Penelope goes to Horatio with the stolen money, but the cop knows James would not press charges against his own wife.

The psychiatrist explains the dinner guests denied recognizing the stolen items because they would lose the fraudulently inflated insurance claims they collected. Gregory breaks down and begs Penelope to run away with him. She refuses, telling him she is cured. James realizes that he has neglected Penelope and starts seeing her face everywhere he turns. He goes to the psychiatrist's office, where James and Penelope happily reunite.

Cast
 Natalie Wood as Penelope Elcott
 Ian Bannen as James B. Elcott
 Dick Shawn as Dr. Gregory Mannix
 Peter Falk as Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee
 Lila Kedrova as Princess Sadaba
 Lou Jacobi as Ducky
 Jonathan Winters as Professor Klobb
 Norma Crane as Mildred Halliday
 Arthur Malet as Salvation Army Major Higgins
 Jerome Cowan as Bank Manager
 Arlene Golonka as Honeysuckle Rose
 Amzie Strickland as Miss Serena
 Bill Gunn as Sergeant Rothschild
 Carl Ballantine as Boom Boom
 Iggie Wolfington as Store Owner

Production
The novel was published in 1965. The Los Angeles Times called it "that rare addition to whodunnit fiction, an original and unusual plot told with wit and intelligence".

Edith Head provided Wood with a $250,000 wardrobe for the film.

Filming started in New York in May 1966.

Wood later said making the film was difficult for her. "I broke out in hives and suffered anguish that was very real pain every day we shot", she recalled. "Arthur Hiller, the director, kept saying, 'Natalie, I think you're resisting this film', while I rolled around the floor in agony."

Reception
The film was a box-office disappointment. Wood did not make another movie for three years. Film critic Leonard Maltin dismissed the film as "this quite unfunny comedy", awarding it 1½ of 4 stars.

See also
 List of American films of 1966

References

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1960s crime comedy films
1966 films
American crime comedy films
Films scored by John Williams
Films about bank robbery
Films directed by Arthur Hiller
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Films with screenplays by George Wells
1966 comedy films
1960s English-language films
1960s American films
English-language crime comedy films

Penelope (1966 film)


The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), formerly known as the National Naval Medical Center and also known as Bethesda Naval Hospital,  Walter Reed,  or Navy Med, is a United States' tri-service military medical center, located in the community of Bethesda, Maryland, near the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health.

It is one of the most well known U.S. military medical centers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and the United States, having served numerous U.S. presidents since the 20th century.

Ronald Reagan, on July 13, 1985, underwent surgery to remove polyps from his colon. In May 2018, First Lady Melania Trump successfully underwent cyst-removal surgery of the kidney at the hospital.

In October 2020, President Donald Trump was hospitalized with COVID-19 at Walter Reed.

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Marcel Beaubien (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003 and unsuccessfully sought election to the House of Commons of Canada as the Conservative candidate in the federal riding of Sarnia-Lambton in 2004.

Background
Beaubien was an insurance broker in private life, and served as President of the Sarnia United Way.

Politics
He began his political career at the municipal level, serving as a councillor in Petrolia, of which he later became mayor. He also served as a regional councillor for Lambton County.

He was elected to the Ontario legislature for the provincial riding of Lambton in the provincial election of 1995, defeating Liberal candidate Larry O'Neill by over 4,000 votes.  The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Beaubien served as a government backbencher for the next four years. In 1995, Beaubien put pressure on the newly elected provincial government to intervene in the native protest at Ipperwash which culminated in the Ipperwash Crisis. From July 1995 to April 1997, Premier Mike Harris assigned him as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. In 1998, he was responsible for a spearheading a government decision to deny Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) coverage to patients seeking sex-change operations.

In the provincial election of 1999, Beaubien defeated O'Neill again by fewer than 1,000 votes in the redistributed riding of Lambton—Kent—Middlesex.  As before, he was not appointed to cabinet and served as a government backbencher.  On April 25, 2002, newly minted Premier Ernie Eves appointed him to the position of parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Finance, Janet Ecker.

The Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the provincial election of 2003, and Beaubien lost his seat to Liberal Maria Van Bommel by over 3,500 votes.  The following year, he challenged long-serving Liberal MP Roger Gallaway in the federal riding of Sarnia—Lambton, and lost by over 5,000 votes.

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