Huntingdon County is an historical county in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is named after the town and county of the same name (Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire) in east central England.  It is situated in the Montreal South Shore region of Montérégie, one of the roughly 12 regions of Quebec.  The county was bounded entirely on its south by the Canada–US border (45° N for 88.75 km from 73°32′ W to 74°40′ W), along its northwestern flank by Lake St-Francis (Lac St-François) of the Saint Lawrence River to its most northern point on the river at 45°13′ N and 74°13′ W, to the east by Saint-Jean County, with its easternmost point at 45°5.5' N and 73°31′ W (this point forms the junction of the borders of Châteauguay County, Napierville County and Saint-Jean County) and to the north from east to west by Napierville County, Châteauguay County, and Beauharnois County. On the other side of the Saint Lawrence River is Soulanges County, Quebec, the Township of Lancaster and the Township of Charlottenburgh in Glengarry County, Ontario, and the Township of Cornwall in Stormont County, Ontario.

Huntingdon County is the only county in the St Lawrence Valley to be entirely and totally divided into townships, of which there are 7.  All these townships run in a straight line and have the Canada–US border as a common southern border.  From east to west they are the Township of Hemmingford, the Township of Havelock, the Franklin Township, the Township of Hinchinbrooke, the Township of Elgin, the Township of Godmanchester, and the Township of Dundee.  The county seat, Huntingdon, located at 45°5′ N and 74°10′ W, straddles the border between Hinchinbrooke and Godmanchester.  Except for Godmanchester, all the other townships have a community that takes the name of the township in which it is situated (Hemmingford, Havelock, Franklin, Hinchinbrooke, Elgin, Dundee).

A notable feature of Huntingdon County is the presence of the Saint Regis Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve at the westernmost point of the county in the Township of Dundee.  That area of the Saint Lawrence, like many along its length, contains many small islands.  The Reserve straddles the meeting point of the Quebec-Ontario-New York State borders at that point.  The American side of the Reserve is Franklin County, New York.

On 1 January 1982, the county was officially dissolved. Most of the County became part of the MRC de Le Haut-Saint-Laurent except for a small section in the far east (The Township of Hemmingford and the Village of Hemmingford) which became part of MRC de Les Jardins-de-Napierville.

Former counties of Quebec
Populated places disestablished in 1982

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Mathias Kagimu Kiwanuka (born March 8, 1983) is a former American football defensive end. He was originally drafted 32nd overall in the 2006 NFL draft. He played college football at Boston College. He earned two Super Bowl rings with the Giants in Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI, beating the New England Patriots twice.

Early life
Kiwanuka was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended St. Simon the Apostle elementary/middle school and Cathedral High School, where he led the team to 3 straight IHSAA state championships and a national #5 ranking. At Cathedral he played tight end and linebacker and played with future NFL player OT Jeremy Trueblood.

College career
Kiwanuka played in 49 games with 38 starts for Boston College and recorded 245 tackles (155 solo) and set school records with 37.5 sacks and 64.5 stops for losses. Also, he recovered 2 fumbles, including 1 for a 49-yard score, and had 3 forced fumbles. Also deflected 13 passes and intercepted 3 others, returning one 32 yards for a touchdown.  Kiwanuka, who was widely regarded as one of the best pass rushing defensive ends in college, led the Big East Conference in sacks during the 2003 and 2004 seasons with 11.5 each season. He was an All-American in 2005. He finished his senior season with 51 tackles (34 solo) with 9.5 sacks and 16.5 tackles for losses. In 2005, he was involved in an incident with Virginia offensive tackle Brad Butler, who hit Kiwanuka with a chop-block in the back of his leg several seconds after the whistle.  Butler was suspended by his own team for the following week's game because of his conduct on this play.  Kiwanuka was forced to miss Boston College's next game because of injury, and Butler received a one-game suspension. Kiwanuka was later ejected from the game for throwing a punch. He was a First-team All-American in 2004 and was named Big East Defensive Player of the Year in 2004, as he produced 11.5 sacks, 24.5 stops for losses and 67 tackles (36 solo). Kiwanuka also picked off 2 passes, returning one 32 yards for a touchdown.  In 2003, he earned All-Big East honors while leading the conference with 11.5 sacks. As a redshirt freshman in 2002, he appeared in every game, starting the first 2 at left defensive end. He made 44 tackles (27 solo) with 5 sacks and 7.5 stops for losses.

Professional career

Kiwanuka was drafted with the 32nd overall pick of the 2006 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. On July 25, 2006, he
signed a five-year $10 million contract with $5 million guaranteed. In his first season, he played defensive end and played in all 16 regular season games with 9 starts and finished the season with 55 tackles (41 solo), 4 sacks, 2 interceptions and 2 forced fumbles.  In 2007, he won the starting strongside linebacker position after spending the entire offseason learning the new position following a rookie year spent at defensive end. On September 30, 2007, Kiwanuka recorded 7 tackles and 3 sacks in a 16-3 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. Kiwanuka's season ended at Detroit on November 18, 2007, when he suffered a fractured left fibula. He had surgery to stabilize his leg and ankle the following morning and was placed on Injured Reserve, ending his 2007 season. He started all 10 games in which he played and finished the season with 47 tackles (24 solo), 4.5 sacks, 4 passes defensed, 1 forced fumble. Meanwhile, the Giants went on to win the Super Bowl.

In 2008, Kiwanuka entered training camp as the starting strongside linebacker, but returned to defensive end when Osi Umenyiora suffered a season-ending knee injury during the preseason. On December 14, 2008, Kiwanuka recorded a safety, recorded 5 tackles, and forced a fumble in a loss against the Dallas Cowboys.  He started all 16 games and the NFC Divisional Playoff game at right defensive end and finished the season with 59 tackles (28 solo), 8.0 sacks, 13 tackles for loss, 2 passes defensed, 2 forced fumbles and 2 fumble recoveries.

Through the 2008 season, Kiwanuka had played in 42 regular season games with 35 starts – 25 starts at defensive end and 10 starts at strongside linebacker.  He has also started 2 postseason games at defensive end. In 3 seasons, he has 161 tackles (93 solo), 16.5 sacks, 2 interceptions and 5 forced fumbles.

Kiwanuka was placed on injured reserve on October 28, 2010, due to a herniated disc.

On April 27, 2012, the Giants extended Kiwanuka's contract, giving him $16.5 million over 3 years with $10.5 million guaranteed.

While playing with the Giants, Kiwanuka was a resident of Hoboken, New Jersey.

On February 21, 2013, the Giants and Kiwanuka agreed on a restructured contract. The restructured deal, converted $1.5 million of Kiwanuka's 2013 guaranteed base salary into a signing bonus. The new deal saved the Giants approximately $1 million towards their 2013 salary cap, but slightly increased his cap number in both 2014 and 2015. On February 24, 2015, Kiwanuka was released.

Personal life
He is the grandson of Benedicto Kiwanuka, the first Prime Minister of Uganda. He is the youngest of three children. He is the younger brother of Ben Kiwanuka of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Mary Kiwanuka, a federal government attorney.

References

External links
 Boston College Eagles bio
 New York Giants bio

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A database is a computer system for storing and taking care of data (any kind of information).

When the software that runs a database is separate from the programs that use the database, it is called a database engine.

Information stored inside a database is usually stored in an organized way. Data about a person that would have been written on a piece of paper before databases would be stored in a record in a database. A collection of person records that would have been an address book before databases would be stored in a file or table.

Uses for database systems
Uses for database systems include:
 Storing data.
 Searching for specific information within the data.
 Allowing multiple people to look at and change the data at the same time.
 Managing who is allowed to see the data and who can change it.
 Managing rules about the data. A rule might say November has 30 days. This means if someone enters November 31 as a date, this date will be rejected.

Changing data
In most databases, data can change. This also means, that in many cases, changing the data needs to be done in several steps. This is because the data is often stored in more than one tables or files that need to work together to make sense. In many cases all the steps that are needed for a given change are grouped in what is called a transaction. If something goes wrong, all the steps are undone. Being undone is another way of saying the transaction was rolled back. If all the steps are successful, they can be made a permanent part of the database. People talk about a transaction being committed. Both rollback and commit affect all the steps in a transaction.

The reason why a transaction is rolled back could be that the user or program did not want to finish the change. It could also mean that there is a problem. The database system itself might have a problem during the change. The change might break the rules of the data.

Guarantees about the data
In order to be able to do this, many databases follow the ACID principle:
 All. Either all tasks of a given set (called a transaction) are done, or none of them is. This is known as Atomicity.
 Complete. The data in the database always makes sense. There is no half-done (invalid) data. This is known as Consistency.
 Independent. If many people work on the same data, they will not see (or impact) each other. Each of them has their own view of the database, which is independent of the others. This is known as Isolation.
 Done. Transactions must be committed, when they are done. Once the committed, they can not be undone. This is known as Durability.
Most relational databases follow the ACID principle. ACID is expensive, which means that it takes the system enough time and other things to do it that it that some systems might not be able to. Because it is expensive, many database systems that are not relational databases don't use the ACID principle.

Around the year 2000, Eric Brewer presented what he called the CAP theorem. It is not as strong as the ACID principle, but many larger, distributed databases use it. Eric Brewer states that any distributed data store can provide only two of the following three guarantees:
 Consistency: Every read gets the result of the most recent write.
 Availability: Every read gets a non-error response, but there is no guarantee that it is the most recent write.
 Partition tolerance: Even if messages are lost, the system continues to work.
When they talked about the CAP theorem, people also often mentioned the term eventual consistency. It means that sooner or later, the data will be consistent, if there's enough time without writes, or errors.

Database model
There are different ways how to represent the data.
 Simple files (called flat files): This is the most simple form of database system. All the data is stored in a simple file.
 Hierarchical model: The data is organized like a tree. Every piece of data relates to another piece of data that is closer to the root of the tree.
 Network model: This is similar to the hierarchical model, but has much more complex structure. Every piece of data relates to another piece of data, but there is no single root that everything relates to.
 Relational model: This is the most widely used kind of database in business. Data is organized in tables. The tables can be joined together as needed for queries. This model uses set theory and predicate logic.
 Object-oriented model: The data is represented in the form of objects. Software created using object-oriented programming can work easily with the data.
 Object–relational model: This uses parts of both the relational model and the object-oriented model.
 NoSQL model: This is a new kind of database model and is increasing being used in the industry in big data and real-time web applications. The data in this model is stored as key-value pairs without any strict hierarchy as in other models. NoSQL systems are also referred to as "Not only SQL" because they are often used without using SQL, but sometimes they can be used with SQL.

Ways to organize the data
Data can be looked at from different perspectives, and it can be organized in different ways.

Database Normalisation was developed to organize data. Currently there are six Normal forms. These are ways to make some databases faster and make the data take less space.

An example of database normalization is storing a person's address in one place, and linking that address to all the other records about that person. When the address is updated in the one place it is stored, all the other records will be linked to the new address automatically.

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Mark Lawrence Huismann (born May 11, 1958) is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher.

Early years
Huismann was born in Littleton, Colorado, and attended Colorado State University upon graduation from Thomas B. Doherty High School in Colorado Springs. Shortly after his 21st birthday, he was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 23rd round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, but did not sign. After going undrafted in the 1980 Major League Baseball Draft, he signed with the Kansas City Royals as an amateur free agent.

Kansas City Royals
After four seasons in the minors, in which he compiled a 20–15 record with 49 saves and a 2.29 earned run average, Huismann made his major league debut on  August 16, 1983 against the Detroit Tigers. Huismann drove his parents' car to the game, and almost didn't make it, as the car overheated three times on the way to Royals Stadium. He made it in time to enter the game in the fifth inning, and with runners on first and third and two outs, Huismann induced a fly ball to center from cleanup hitter Lance Parrish to end the threat. The Royals erupted for nine runs in the seventh to make a winner of Huismann in his debut.

Huismann began the  season with the Royals, but after going 0–2 with a 6.75 ERA in thirteen appearances, he was optioned back to triple A Omaha. He was far more effective when he returned in July, going 3–1 with a 2.79 ERA and three saves over the rest of the season. He made his only post season appearance in game one of the 1984 American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers.

Despite this progress, he did not make the Royals' roster for 1985. Instead, he compiled an American Association record 33 saves for the Omaha Royals to earn the league's Most Valuable Pitcher Award. He received a call-up to the majors when rosters expanded that September, and was 1–0 with a 1.93 ERA in nine games, but was not part of the Royals' post season roster.

Seattle Mariners
With Dan Quisenberry in his prime, there was little room for a closer on the Royals. On May 21, 1986, he was traded to the Seattle Mariners for catcher Terry Bell. He made his only career start for the M's on July 21 against the Toronto Blue Jays. He was pulled in the fourth inning after having surrendered six runs (5 earned), and took the loss. Otherwise, he spent the rest of the season in a lefty/righty platoon with Matt Young closing games for Seattle. Huismann finished fourteen games, picking up four saves.

Cleveland Indians
He appeared in just six games for the Mariners in  before being dealt to the Cleveland Indians for outfielder Dave Gallagher. He was 2–3 with two saves and a 5.09 ERA for the Indians when he was optioned down to the triple A Buffalo Bisons on July 15.

The Indians released Huismann during Spring training the following season. Shortly afterwards, he signed with the Detroit Tigers.

Huismann pitched in all or part of nine seasons in the majors for six different teams from 1983 until 1991. Despite spending parts of nine seasons in the major leagues, Huismann pitched in more than 20 games in the majors just three times, spending more time at the minor league level than the majors in nearly every season (1986 being the only season during that stretch that he did not spend any time in the minors). In 1992 he played his final season of baseball for the Omaha Royals.

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Lego Harry Potter was a LEGO series. It was based on the Harry Potter movies. Models of important scenes, vehicles and people were made for the first five movies. It was created in the year 2001. This was the same time the first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was released.

In May 2009, LEGO said that a video game called LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is being developed. They also said it would be released in 2010.

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Longchengpterus, sometimes misspelled as "Lonchengopterus", is a genus of istiodactylid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Barremian-Aptian-age Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang, Liaoning, China. Its fossil remains dated back about 120 million years ago.

Etymology
The genus was named in 2006 by Wang Li, Li Li, Duan Ye and Cheng Shao-li. The genus name is derived from the old name of Chaoyang City, Longcheng, and a Latinized Greek pteron, "wing". The specific name honors Zhao Dayu, the president of Shenyang Normal University and a contributor to the founding of the Western Liaoning Institute of Mesozoic Paleontology.

Description
Longchengpterus is based on holotype LPM 00023, found at Yuanjiawa near Dapingfanga, a compressed incomplete skeleton and partial skull on a single plate. The posterior part of the skull has been damaged. It is elongated with a length of . The large skull opening, the fenestra nasantorbitalis, is triangular in form and occupies much of the snout. The teeth in the upper jaw are concentrated in the front part and spaced far apart; their number is uncertain. The lower jaws have been well preserved. They are  long and their symphysis is short. Twelve teeth are present in the dentary. They have a sharp point but are laterally compressed, curving slightly inwards.

The humerus,  long, has a low deltopectoral crest and no pneumatic foramen. The fourth metacarpal is longer than the first phalanx of the wing finger. The wingspan was about . The pelvis has been heavily damaged. Part of a femur is present, its estimated length was .

Classification
Longchengpterus has been assigned to the Istiodactylidae sharing with Istiodactylus tooth form and count as well as a large skull opening. A notable difference is the lack of a broad snout. It was the second istiodactylid named and the first from China, adding to the known pterosaur diversity from Early Cretaceous layers of China.

The cladogram below follows Witton's 2012 analysis, wherein he found Istiodactylidae to consist of five taxa (the first three species listed are outgroup or reference taxa):

See also
 List of pterosaur genera
 Timeline of pterosaur research

References

Pteranodontoids
Early Cretaceous pterosaurs of Asia
Fossil taxa described in 2006

Longchengpterus


María Fernanda Raverta (born 25 November 1976) is an Argentine politician. She is currently the Executive Director of ANSES, appointed by President Alberto Fernández. She previously was Community Development of Buenos Aires Province.

The daughter of the Montoneros militants Mario Montoto and María Inés Raverta (disappeared), Raverta was the founder of H.I.J.O.S. Regional Mar del Plata. She was a provincial deputy for the fifth electoral section between 2011 and 2015 and a national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires between 2015 and 2019. She also held the position of deputy secretary of the Provincial Council of the Justicialist Party. In 2019, she ran as a candidate for mayor of General Pueyrredón district through the Frente de Todos coalition, in the PASO she became the winner but in the general elections she was defeated by the Juntos por el Cambio candidate, Guillermo Montenegro. On 30 April 2020, she was appointed by President Fernández as director of the National Social Security Administration.

Early life
Fernanda Raverta was born in Buenos Aires on 25 November 1976. Her mother was María Inés Raverta, a member of Montoneros who was 24 years old, and was abducted by the Argentine Army and held in Lima, Peru, as part of an operation to try to capture the Montonero leader Roberto Perdia; who was then in the Peruvian capital. María Inés was never seen again, and continues to be regarded as one of the "disappeared." Between 1980 and 1982, Raverta lived in Cuba, where she spent her childhood in exile. In the mid-1980s, her father began a relationship with fellow Montonero Adela Segarra, and Fernanda lived with her for many years, even after Segarra left her father.

At the Colegio Nacional 2 in Mar del Plata, Raverta began to participate in the Student Center and in the FES (Federation of Secondary Students). Already at the National University of Mar del Plata, she participated in student struggles to resist the implementation of the Higher Education Law (Law No. 24,521) during the government of Carlos Menem. In 1995, she founded HIJOS Regional Mar del Plata, from where she supported the Memory, Truth and Justice movement together with the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Raverta graduated from the Bachelor of Social Work at the National University of Mar del Plata.

Raverta worked on issues related to social issues and vulnerable childhood; she was part of technical, professional and interdisciplinary teams. She had a career in the Mar del Plata Departmental Minors Delegation; in the Secretary of Social Development of the neighbouring General Alvarado Partido; "Chescotta" Containment Center, Undersecretary of Minority of the Ministry of Human Development of the province of Bs. As; Socio-educational Institute of Mar del Plata, Undersecretary of Children and Adolescents of the Ministry of Social Development of the province of Bs.As. Region V Delegation, Undersecretary of Operational Coordination, Ministry of Social Development of the province of Buenos Aires. In 2010, Raverta was appointed to the position of Head of UDAI Puerto Mar del Plata, National Administration of Social Security (ANSES).

Political career

Provincial deputy (2011–2015)
Raverta began her political life early and in the last years she was a member of La Cámpora.

She was head of the Comprehensive Care Unit (UDAI) of the Anses in Puerto Mar del Plata, in 2010. But before reaching the public function, she held two legislative seats, one as a Buenos Aires deputy, between 2011 and 2015 and during which She was president of the Culture and Human Rights commissions. In 2011, Raverta was elected provincial deputy by the fifth electoral section for the Front for Victory, and from that bench she was a member of the Social Action and Public Health and Tourism commissions, and also focused her action on the work of SMEs and cooperatives. During her term as provincial deputy, Raverta had extensive legislative work, focusing on the area of Production, Labor, and Social Development. She was the author of Law No. 14650 for the Creation of the Regime for the Promotion and Development of the Social and Solidarity Economy and the project for Youth Employment, Provincial Regime for the Promotion of Youth Employment (Expt. 917/14-15). Raverta was vice president of the Culture Commission (2012–2013) and president of the Human Rights Commission of the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of the province of Buenos Aires. As a candidate for mayor of General Pueyrredón, last year she achieved an epic : lost by less than 10,000 votes and was the narrowest margin of difference between two applicants since 1983.

National deputy (2015–2019)
In 2015, Raverta was elected national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires representing the Front for Victory. During her tenure, she was an active opponent of the government of Mauricio Macri. She was a member of the Social Action and Public Health, Tourism commissions – in both she held the position of Secretary – and also Culture, Sports, Human Rights and Maritime Guarantees and Interests. She is part of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with the Italian Republic and of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with the United Mexican States.

Raverta is characterized by defending the work of SMEs and cooperatives. She also worked on projects related to tourism and the Port. In 2017, Raverta presented the bill on thrombophilia, which is the product of the work of the Collective for the Thrombophilia Law, a group that fights for a law that guarantees early diagnosis and the timely treatment necessary to achieve a full-term pregnancy has the support of actresses such as Florencia Peña, Laura Franco "Panam", Romina Pereiro. In 2018, Raverta presented the project known as the National Law of Pharmacies that seeks to recover the spirit of article 14 of the original regulation, which was repealed by the decree of economic deregulation of the former Minister of Economy Domingo Cavallo in the 1990s, which established who could install pharmacies.

Minister of Community Development and Executive Director of ANSES (2019–present)
In December 2019, Raverta was appointed Minister of Community Development of Buenos Aires Province by Governor Axel Kicillof. On 30 April 2020, she was appointed by President Alberto Fernández as executive director of ANSES. Her appointment was backed by Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The ANSES, which is responsible for the public pensions system (pay as you go) has traditionally been used by many administrations as a source of funding for subsidies, and political propaganda,  instead of securing the retirement promise.

Personal life
Raverta has two daughters as a result of her relationship with Pablo Obeid (whom she appointed as Regional Director of ANSES Mar del Plata), a sister named Ana María Montoto Raverta (Ani), who is a pediatrician, and two other siblings as a result of her father's last marriage.

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Angelo Beccaria (May 1820 in Turin – 1897) was an Italian landscape painter active in the Piedmont.

Since the age of 18, he trained in the Accademia Albertina under Giovanni Battista Biscarra. As a young man he had a bout of visual loss, but continued to paint; the malady convinced him to abandon figure painting. A mentor in landscape painting was Massimo d' Azeglio.  He was a colleague of Carlo Piacenza and Edoardo Perotti, and would travel to the mountains to paint outdoors. He served as a tutor for the Royal Family, including princes Amedeo and Oddone, and princesses Clotilde and Maria Pia. One of his pupils was Giuseppe Camino.

Among his works are Il mattino; La vita rustica; Passeggiata nel parco; Le Fienaiole di Val Sesia; Il approssimarsi del temporale; Il Guado; Il Crepuscolo; Betulle; and a number of watercolors.

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1897 deaths
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19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
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Henry Smith Van Eaton (September 14, 1826 – May 30, 1898) was an attorney, politician and military officer, reaching the rank of captain in the Confederate Army. He was elected from Mississippi's 6th congressional district as U.S. Representative, serving 1883 to 1887.

Early life and education
Van Eaton was born and raised in Anderson Township, Ohio. In 1848, he graduated from Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, where he studied law. During this time, he became a founding member of Phi Alpha Literary Society.  While an active member, he served as president and recording secretary.

In 1848, at 22 years, Van Eaton moved to Woodville, Mississippi, where he taught school. In 1855, he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Woodville, Wilkinson County.

In 1857, Van Eaton was elected district attorney. In 1859, he served as a member of the State House of Representatives.

When the American Civil War broke out, he enlisted in the Confederate States Army and served throughout the country, earning the rank of captain.
In 1865, following his service in the war, he resumed the practice of law in Woodville.

In 1880, he was appointed chancellor of the tenth Mississippi district. Defeating the fusion candidate, he was elected in 1882 as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887).

In 1887, Van Eaton was appointed to the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis by President Grover Cleveland. He was appointed to another patronage position in 1888, serving as a member of a commission to examine and report upon the last completed portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Van Eaton returned to Mississippi and practiced law. He died in Woodville, on May 30, 1898. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

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Buddleja tubiflora is endemic to much of northern Argentina, southern Paraguay, and southern Brazil, where it grows at the edge of woodlands, thickets, and in old fields, at low elevations. The species was first named and described by George Bentham in 1846.

Description
Buddleja tubiflora grows to < 2 m  in height, with the typically lax habit creating a spread of < 3 m. The shrub is chiefly distinguished by its striking orange flowers, the corollas 25 mm long by 6 mm wide at the throat, borne in axillary clusters towards the ends of the branches. The branchlets, like the corolla tubes, are covered in a dense reddish indumentum. The leaves are mostly subsessile, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 8 – 18 cm long by 2 – 6 cm wide, membranaceous, tomentulose above, tomentose below. Pollination is by hummingbirds which feed on the sweet nectar at the base of the corolla. Ploidy: 2n = 38.

Cultivation
Buddleja tubiflora is cultivated in the UK, most if not all specimens derived from a long-lost example grown at the Hanbury Gardens at Mortola, Italy. A specimen is grown under glass as part of the NCCPG national collection at Longstock Park Nursery, near Stockbridge. The shrub can be grown on a south-facing wall in coastal areas of the UK, with added protection against frost, although waterlogging overwinter is considered a greater danger to the plant.  Hardiness: USDA zones 9–10.

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Flora of Brazil
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Lenten Rites (Mal a Aldo) (March/April)
(City of San Fernando, Pampanga). A re-enactment of Christ's crucifixion and the parade of flagellants has become a tourist drawing activity during the Lenten season in Barangay Cutud, San Pedro, City of San Fernando, Pampanga. The "crucifixion" is done by nailing a devotee on a wooden cross.

San Pedro Cutud Lenten Rites


Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg (October 5, 1921–March 19, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and university professor. He wrote seven textbooks and numerous scientific publications.

Early life and education
Van Valkenburg was born in Union, Utah. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1943 with a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1952, under advisor Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.

Career
Van Valkenburg was a professor at the University of Illinois from 1955 to 1966, then joined Princeton University as professor and head of electrical engineering until 1974, when he returned to UIUC. He received an endowed position, the W. W. Grainger Professorship, in 1982, and became Dean of the College of Engineering in 1984.

Van Valkenburg was author of seven textbooks and numerous scientific publications. He died in Orem, Utah at the age of 75.

Awards and memberships
 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
 The Lamme Medal, the highest honor of the American Society for Engineering Education
 The IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984
 The ASEE George Westinghouse Award (1963)
 The IEEE Education Medal (1972)
 Halliburton Engineering Education Leadership Award of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois.

The IEEE Education Society offers an annual Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award. UIUC established the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award in 1990.

His Ph.D. students have included:
 Leon O. Chua ('64; IEEE Fellow and Professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, considered to be the father of nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural networks)
 Prof. VGK Murthi (Prof. and Dean at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
 Franklin Kuo ('58; Prof. at the University of Hawaii), who was instrumental in the development of the Aloha protocol
 Jose B. Cruz Jr. ('59; control theorist and Prof. at Ohio State University)
 King-Sun Fu ('59; founding president of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and Prof. at Purdue University)
 S. L. Hakimi ('59; mathematician at Northwestern University)
 Shlomo Karni ('60; Prof. at the University of New Mexico, founding dean of engineering at Tel Aviv University '70)
 Steven B. Sample ('65; President of University of Southern California).

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Lawrence Whitaker is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career
Lawrence Whitaker had worked on Chaosium fanzines. Whitaker worked with RuneQuest'''s Basic Role-Playing system on Chaosium's Eternal Champion games in the 1990s. In 2007, Whitaker was brought in to Mongoose Publishing, where he became the author of their fourth RuneQuest setting, Elric of Melniboné (2007). Whitaker was able to take a hand in the authorship of many critical books in Mongoose's RuneQuest line, mainly spread across their universal, Second Age and Elric lines.

Whitaker and Pete Nash decided to revamp Mongoose's RuneQuest game and thus they released RuneQuest II. Whitaker decided to leave Mongoose later in 2010 after a four-year run with the company. After Mongoose's license to RuneQuest expired, Mongoose kept the game in print under the title Legend. Meanwhile, Whitaker and Nash formed a company, The Design Mechanism, to pick up the RuneQuest license and publish a sixth edition of the game in 2012. That edition remained in print until 2016, when it was retitled Mythras''.

Whitaker has also worked for Alephtar Games.

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Hohenschönhausen Castle (German: Schloss Hohenschönhausen or Bürgerschloss Hohenschönhausen) is a manor house in the borough Alt-Hohenschönhausen in Berlin, Germany. It is owned by the Association Hohenschönhausen Castle and listed in the heritage registers of Berlin.

History

13th to 20th century

The first buildings in today's castle area were erected between the 13th and 15th century and inhabited by a Schultheiss family. At the end of the 15th century the noble family von Röbel built a manor house in the area, which was bought by the merchant Adam Ebersbach on July 2, 1736. In 1817 it was bought by the Prussian Friedrich Scharnweber, a close employee of Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg, in 1890 it was sold to the banker Henry Suermondt and parceled out. In 1893 the manor house and its area were bought by the merchant Gerhard Puchmüller, who changed the structure of the building. Moreover, the vestibule was decorated with paintings during that time. From 1910 to 1929 the German entrepreneur and inventor Paul Schmidt was the last private owner of the castle. In 1930 the manor house became the property of the city and was first used by social institutions. From 1945 to 1989 a maternity hospital was housed in it. In 1993/94 the city wanted to open a local museum in the castle, but the plan failed due to financial difficulties.

21st century: Cultural use

In 1998 the Association Hohenschönhausen Castle was founded, which bought the whole area in February 2008 and since then cares for the restoration and cultural revitalization of the manor house. The Association regularly organizes different events in the castle, such as exhibitions, readings, and concerts. Among the known personalities who give performances at Hohenschönhausen Castle are, inter alia, the former figure skating world champion Christine Errath and the Austrian classical guitarist Johanna Beisteiner, who is also an Honorary member of the  Association Hohenschönhausen Castle.

Literature
 Ruben, Bärbel: Manor house Hohenschönhausen – An endless story of a castle / Das Gutshaus Hohenschönhausen – Eine unendliche Schloßgeschichte (German). Decent Editions. Blumberg, 1998. .
 Meyerhöfer, Rolf: Hohenschönhausen Castle in the eyes of the local press / Das Schloss Hohenschönhausen im Spiegel der Lokalzeitungen (German). Hohenschönhausener Kalenderblätter, No. 9, (2nd edition). Berlin, September 2001.

References

External links

 Cultural heritage registers Berlin. January 14, 2011. (No. 09045463)
 Official Website of the Association Hohenschönhausen Castle
Hohenschönhausen Castle in the German museum directory.

Houses completed in the 19th century
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Pyrkivä Turku, Finnish Turun Pyrkivä, earlier Maarian Pyrkivä (pyrkivä meaning "endeavouring") is a sports club from Turku, Finland, which was founded in 1906 by sportsmen who represented artistic gymnastics.

The club was founded as a section of the Työväenyhdistys Tarmo ('Workers Association Vigour' or 'Stamina' of Raunistula, Maaria. In 1912 the club became independent of its parent organisation, and green was chosen as its colour.

In the early years the most popular sports were athletics and wrestling, but perhaps surprisingly, drama was also popular, and at best the club presented 16 different plays per year, and it also arranged screenings of movies.

Today the main sports of the club are association football, rink bandy, basketball, artistic gymnastics, badminton, table tennis, and athletics.

The gymnasts of Pyrkivä Turku have had considerable success both on the national and the international level: Kaino Lempinen was a member of the team that won gold in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. The most recent successful gymnast from Pyrkivä has been Annukka Almenoksa, who won 18 Finnish championships (1998–2004) and is still the only Finnish woman who has reached the finals in a major international competition (2002 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships).

In rink bandy Pyrkivä played in top flight, in the Finnish Rink Bandy League, until the end of the 2007–2008 season. The club is also active in bandy proper and ice hockey. In the former sport the club holds 11 championships in the competitions of the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation. The club played in the Finnish Bandy Championship Series in 1945. During the years 1948–1952 the club played in a Championship challenge against the bandy champion of the series governed by the Football Association of Finland, but they lost each time.

Pyrkivä has played two spells in the top flight of Finnish football, the Mestaruussarja, during 1952—1956 and during 1978—1979. In 1954 the club won the championship, and in 1952 it achieved bronze. In addition to this, the club has played 17 seasons on the second level, in Division I.

Season to season

7 seasons in Veikkausliiga
17 seasons in Ykkönen
5 seasons in Kakkonen
4 season in Kolmonen
2 season in Nelonen

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Pyrkivä Turku homepages

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