Mansoor Ijaz (born August 1961) is a Pakistani-American venture financier and hedge-fund manager. He is founder and chairman of Crescent Investment Management Ltd, a New York and London-based investment firm that operates CARAT, a proprietary trading system developed by Ijaz in the late 1980s. His venture investments included unsuccessful efforts in 2013 to acquire a stake in Lotus F1, a Formula One team. In the 1990s, Ijaz and his companies were contributors to Democratic Party institutions as well as the presidential candidacies of Bill Clinton.

During the first Clinton term, when the U.S. had severed official ties with Sudan, Ijaz opened informal communications links between Washington and Khartoum in an effort to gain access to Sudanese intelligence data on Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, who were then operating from Sudan. Ijaz was involved in efforts to broker a ceasefire in Kashmir in 2000–2001, and in the Memogate controversy, in which former Pakistani envoy Husain Haqqani allegedly used him to deliver a memorandum to senior U.S. officials in order to thwart an attempted coup by the Pakistani military after bin Laden was killed.

Personal life

Mansoor Ijaz was born in Tallahassee, Florida, and grew up on a farm in Montgomery County, Virginia. He has two brothers (Atif and Mujeeb) and a sister (Neelam Ijaz-Ahmad). His brother Farouk died in 2012.

His father, Mujaddid Ahmed Ijaz (June 12, 1937— July 9, 1992), was a Pakistani experimental physicist and professor of physics at Virginia Tech who was noted for his early role in the development of Pakistan's nuclear energy program and his discovery of numerous isotopes while working at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. His mother, Lubna Razia Ijaz, was a solar physicist who worked with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to develop renewable energy programs in Pakistan.

Ijaz received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Virginia in 1983 and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, where he was trained as a neural sciences engineer in the Harvard-MIT Medical Engineering Medical Physics Program (M.E.M.P.).

While attending the University of Virginia, Ijaz earned All-American status as a powerlifter in March 1982 with a combined lift total (squat, bench press and deadlift) of 960 lbs at the National Collegiate Powerlifting Championships held at Marshall University. Coached by John Gamble, he competed in the 56 kg class. Later that year, he competed at the U.S. National Powerlifting Championships in the 52 kg class and finished third. Ijaz was Virginia State Champion in the 52 kg and 56 kg classes and set more than 25 Virginia State powerlifting records during three years in the sport.

Professional life

Wall Street career

Mansoor Ijaz began his career on Wall Street in 1986, joining Van Eck Associates Corporation as a technology analyst. In 1990, Ijaz left Van Eck to start Crescent Investment Management LLC, where he developed a trading system, Computer-Aided Regression Analysis Techniques, to manage his first hedge fund. His mentor at Van Eck, Klaus Buescher, joined Crescent as president in 1991, and they together managed the company until Buescher's death in June 1997. Since that time, Ijaz has remained active as Crescent's owner, operating it as a quantitative investment adviser and venture investing firm.

In the early 2000s, Crescent transitioned from a traditional hedge-fund management firm to a focus on venture investments, initially in homeland security technologies after the September 11 attacks. Ijaz formed and listed Crescent Technology Ventures PLC on London's AIM Stock Exchange to raise venture capital for his projects, but changes in AIM Rules for small-cap investment companies forced the start-up to de-list a year later. In the 2000s, Ijaz also launched an effort to finance and build what would have been the world's first underwater hotel, Hydropolis. Construction of this Dubai resort was projected to cost US$500 million in 2007, but was shelved by local authorities after the financial crisis of 2008. Crescent Hydropolis Holdings LLC continues operations today under private ownership.

Crescent's venture investments included a bid together with its Abu Dhabi affiliate, Al Manhal International Group LLC, to acquire a stake in Formula One team Lotus F1. Quantum Motorsports Limited, a partnership between Crescent and Al Manhal, announced its intention to acquire 35% of Lotus F1 in June 2013. After several delays related to financing the deal, it did not take place.

Media commentator
Ijaz has also served as a media commentator and has written numerous opinion pieces for internationally known publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times in the United States and the Financial Times in the United Kingdom. On television, he has served as a guest commentator for U.S. networks CNN, ABC, and Fox News, as well as for the BBC in the United Kingdom. Hired as a Fox News contributor in late 2001, Ijaz appeared as a counterterrorism and foreign affairs analyst on various network programming. By 2007, his appearances on Fox were no longer exclusive to the network. He continued to appear periodically for various networks in Pakistan, India and the U.S. into early 2012 as Pakistan's Supreme Court-appointed Judicial Commission began the Memogate inquiry.

Political life

Through his opinion pieces and political fundraising, Ijaz has advocated for the integration of Muslims into the American political mainstream. He raised significant amounts for various Democratic Party causes during the 1990s when President Clinton had paved the way for minority communities to become more active in U.S. politics, encouraging fellow Pakistani and Muslim Americans to join his fundraising efforts along the way. In 1996, Ijaz raised or contributed more than $525,000 for the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, bringing Ijaz into close proximity with Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, Hillary Clinton as well as other Clinton administration national security officials with whom he would later engage on Sudan, Kashmir and Pakistan's nuclear program.

Ijaz also used his fundraising results to advance his causes in Congress, appearing as an expert witness in front of committees in the Senate on extremist threats faced by the United States  and in the House of Representatives to advocate for Washington to adopt a policy of "constructive engagement" with rogue Muslim countries affected by U.S. sanctions. As Ijaz' prominence in Democratic Party circles increased, allegations of conflicts with his business interests also surfaced, although they were never proven. In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Ijaz had a public falling out with senior Clinton-era officials, including the former president, Sandy Berger and Susan Rice, over what he deemed were failures in their counterterrorism policies during Clinton's two terms in office. In 2007, Nevada Republicans approached Ijaz to run against Sen. Harry Reid, in a bid to unseat the Senate Majority Leader, but Ijaz declined.

Ijaz was a member of the board of directors of the Atlantic Council from 2007 until 2009, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,

Philanthropic activities
Away from Crescent's daily affairs and former political and media engagements, Ijaz has served on the College Foundation Board of Trustees at the University of Virginia, and he serves on the advisory board of the Rebuilding Afghanistan Foundation. RAF raises funds for building education infrastructure and programs in Afghanistan, including the construction of schools such as Mayar Elementary School, which enrolled 400 boys and girls from Maidan Wardak Province upon opening in late 2005. During the mid-1990s, Ijaz supported Developments in Literacy, an initiative to build and operate elementary schools in rural Pakistan as alternatives to the religious schools in which many Pakistani children were being radicalized. The group did not seek to create a secularized school system; its goal was to teach the Qur'an as one of many subjects rather than as the only subject. Ijaz and his wife Valérie also serve as goodwill ambassadors for a British charity, Children of Peace, that works to reconcile differences between Palestinian and Israeli youth. In late 2011, while addressing the World Peace Festival, a peace conference held in Berlin, Ijaz announced an intention to donate 1% of his net worth to create a Humanitarian Relief Fund that would make an effort to alleviate the root causes of poverty. In noting his belief that governments have often failed to provide assistance to the poor in sufficient ways over the long term, Ijaz sought similar pledges for the proposed fund from other philanthropists.

International negotiations

Negotiations with Sudan
Mansoor Ijaz was involved in unofficial negotiations between the U.S. and Sudanese governments in 1996 and 1997 to obtain access to Sudan's intelligence files on Osama bin Laden and the early remnants of Al-Qaeda's network there after efforts to extradite bin Laden to the U.S. failed in early 1996. In the same year, the United States Congress imposed sanctions against Khartoum over allegations of harboring and abetting terrorist cells on its soil. In early 1996, CIA and State Department officials held secret meetings near Washington, D.C., with Sudan's then-defense minister, El Fatih Erwa. In May 1996, bin Laden left Sudan for Afghanistan under pressure from the United States when the meetings failed to reconcile U.S. demands made of Khartoum about its record in aiding, abetting and harboring known terrorist groups and individuals.

Ijaz first met Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and other Sudanese leaders in August 1996 and reported his findings back to U.S. government officials, including Lee Hamilton, ranking member of the House Committee on International Relations at the time, and Sandy Berger, then Clinton's deputy national security adviser, and Susan Rice, then director for African Affairs at the National Security Council. Initially, Khartoum sought U.S. sanctions relief, particularly for its growing oil sector, in return for access to its intelligence data on Al Qaeda's nascent network and bin Laden's activities there. However, the sanctions continued until U.S. officials exempted some in unrelated policy decisions that benefited U.S. oil companies. Ijaz then argued that Washington should adopt a policy of "constructive engagement" with Khartoum vis-a-vis economic development and political reconciliation in return for Sudanese counterterrorism cooperation.

In April 1997, Omar al-Bashir sent a letter to Hamilton, hand-carried by Ijaz from Khartoum to Washington, D.C., in which Sudan made an unconditional offer of counterterrorism assistance to the FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Madeleine Albright, then newly appointed secretary of state, decided to test the Sudanese government's moderating public stance, and on September 28, 1997, she announced that certain U.S. diplomats would return to Khartoum to pursue, among other objectives, obtaining Sudan's counterterrorism data. According to former U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Tim Carney and Ijaz, Susan Rice, then newly appointed as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke persuaded Berger to overrule Albright's overture to Khartoum. In early October 1997, the State Department abruptly reversed its diplomatic entendre and proceeded in early November to announce new, more comprehensive trade, economic, and financial sector sanctions against the Sudanese regime. Ijaz ended his efforts to reconcile U.S.–Sudan relations over counterterrorism issues in the summer of 1998 after the FBI declined Sudanese intelligence chief Gutbi Al-Mahdi's final unconditional offer of counterterrorism cooperation.

Capturing bin Laden had been an objective of the U.S. government from the presidency of Bill Clinton until his death in 2011. Ijaz asserted that in 1996, prior to bin Laden's expulsion from Sudan, the Sudanese government allegedly offered to arrest and extradite him to the United States. Khartoum's offer included detailed intelligence about the growing militancy of Hezbollah, Hamas, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, among other groups operating in the region. Ijaz further asserted that U.S. authorities allegedly rejected each offer despite knowing of bin Laden's involvement in training terrorists in Somalia, some of whom were allegedly involved in supporting militia members that downed U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu in October 1993. Any evidence of bin Laden's involvement in criminal activity against U.S. interests, such as training militia members who attacked U.S. troops in 1993, could have been grounds for indicting him far before Sudan expelled the Saudi fugitive in May 1996.

However, the 9/11 Commission found that although "former Sudanese officials claim that Sudan offered to expel bin Laden to the United States", "... we have not found any reliable evidence to support the Sudanese claim." Amb. Carney reportedly had instructions only to press the Sudanese to expel bin Laden because the U.S. government had no legal basis (i.e., no indictment outstanding) to ask the Sudanese for further action. In August 1998, two years after the warnings, the U.S. launched cruise missile strikes against Khartoum in retaliation for the East Africa embassy bombings.

Ceasefire negotiations in Kashmir
In 2000 and 2001, Ijaz was involved in efforts to broker a ceasefire in Kashmir, the cause of multiple wars between India and Pakistan since independence. He held a series of meetings with senior Indian and Pakistani government officials as well as senior Kashmiri leaders in both Indian and Pakistani-held Kashmir from November 1999 until January 2001, traveling to India secretly on out-of-passport visas. Following months of clandestine negotiations between militant Kashmiri commander Abdul Majid Dar and A. S. Dulat, then-chief of India's intelligence directorate, Dar declared a unilateral ceasefire in the Himalayan enclave on July 25, 2000. The initial ceasefire was aborted by a hard-line militant faction within Dar's Hizbul Mujahideen, widely believed to have been supported by Pakistani intelligence. In order to gain Pakistani support for India's peace efforts in Kashmir, Ijaz met Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad in May 2000. Musharraf reluctantly agreed to back the ceasefire plan despite opposition from hardliners in the ranks of Pakistan's armed forces and intelligence services.

Ijaz carried Musharraf's message to senior Indian officials, including India's then-deputy intelligence chief, C. D. Sahay. Sahay and Ijaz worked together to develop a comprehensive blueprint for participation of a wider cross-section of Kashmiri resistance groups, particularly militant groups operating from Pakistan-held Kashmir. In late summer 2000, Ijaz traveled to Muzaffarabad to negotiate with Hizbul Mujahideen commander Syed Salahuddin. That meeting resulted in Salahuddin issuing a letter to President Clinton, hand-carried to the White House by Ijaz, in which the Kashmiri leader requested Clinton's support for Salahuddin's further steps in Kashmiri ceasefire negotiations.

The plan drafted by Sahay and Ijaz reportedly became the basis of a decision by India's prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to announce a unilateral ceasefire in Indian-held Kashmir in November 2000. To broaden support for the plan, Ijaz met with senior Indian government officials in New Delhi and leaders of Kashmiri resistance groups in Srinagar. He would later bring the two sides together for face-to-face negotiations. But Ijaz's efforts to build permanent peace ended in early 2001 when he shared his plans with Indian home minister L. K. Advani to bring Pakistan's radical Islamic groups on board in support of wider Indo-Pakistani peace. A resulting peace summit between India and Pakistan, held in Agra in June 2001, sought to forge an agreement on a permanent resolution to the Kashmir conflict, but Musharraf and Vajpayee ultimately failed to persuade their hardliners to allow signing of an accord.

Memogate

Mansoor Ijaz was one of the key protagonists in Pakistan's Memogate controversy. On October 10, 2011, Ijaz published an opinion piece about the interference of Pakistan's intelligence services in the function of its democratic institutions. In the opinion's prelude, Ijaz disclosed the existence of a memorandum that he had allegedly been asked to deliver to Admiral Mike Mullen, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on behalf of a senior Pakistani diplomat, later identified as Pakistani envoy Husain Haqqani, in the days following the Abbottabad raid. The memorandum sought the Obama administration's help to avert a military takeover of Pakistan's civilian government in the immediate aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death. It was delivered to Mullen at Ijaz's request by former U.S. national security adviser General James L. Jones.

Then-leader of the opposition, Nawaz Sharif (who would later become Pakistan's prime minister), lodged a petition with the Supreme Court of Pakistan to investigate the origins, credibility and purpose of the memorandum. His and other petitions lodged with the Supreme Court alleged that the memorandum had been drafted by Haqqani at the behest of Pakistan's then-president, Asif Ali Zardari, and delivered without knowledge of the country's powerful armed forces and intelligence services. On December 30, 2011, after reviewing Sharif's petition, the Supreme Court constituted a Judicial Commission to conduct a broad inquiry. Ijaz was among the key witnesses deposed, as were Pakistan's intelligence chief, Ahmad Shuja Pasha and Haqqani. Pakistan's army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani submitted written testimony to the Supreme Court, as did then-Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani on behalf of the Zardari government.

After nearly six months of investigations, the Judicial Commission reported its findings on June 12, 2012. It found that the memorandum was authentic and that Haqqani was its "originator and architect". The report said the former ambassador "orchestrated the possibility of an imminent coup to both persuade Mr. Ijaz to convey the message and also to give it (Memorandum) traction and credibility". The justices found further that one of Haqqani's purposes was to head a new national security team in Pakistan. In an unexpected turn of the investigation, a secret fund was discovered in Pakistan's Washington embassy that Haqqani allegedly had access to and had allegedly utilized, in "apparent violation of Article 84 of the Constitution of Pakistan". The commission's report exonerated President Zardari from any prior knowledge of the memorandum, although it noted that in the "considered view" of the justices, Haqqani had led Ijaz to believe the memorandum had the Pakistani president's approval. Following testimony by Ijaz, the commission deemed him a reliable witness whose credibility Haqqani had unsuccessfully sought to undermine.

The Supreme Court, upon hearing the commission's report in session, ordered Haqqani to appear before the bench. The former envoy, however, continued to reject the commission's findings while maintaining his innocence. As of July 2014, he remained in the United States.

References

External links

 Testimony to House Foreign Affairs Committee, May 9, 2009
 December 2011 interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria
 November 2011 interview with NDTV's Barkha Dutt (47:14), 11-20-2011
 Musawer Mansoor Ijaz – America's Secret Emissary

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The International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), founded in 1935, is a worldwide, non-profit, independent organisation of engineers and water specialists working in fields related to the hydro-environment and in particular with reference to hydraulics and its practical application. IAHR was called the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research until 2009.

Activities range from river and maritime hydraulics to water resources development, flood risk management and eco-hydraulics, through to ice engineering, hydroinformatics and continuing education and training. IAHR stimulates and promotes both research and its application, and by so doing strives to contribute to sustainable development, the optimisation of world water resources management and industrial flow processes. IAHR accomplishes its goals by a wide variety of member activities including: working groups, research agenda, congresses, specialty conferences, workshops and short courses; Journals, Monographs and Proceedings; by collaborating with international organisations such as UN Water, UNESCO, WMO, IDNDR, GWP, ICSU; and by co-operation with other water-related national and international organisations.

IAHR publishes several international scientific journals in collaboration with Taylor & Francis and Elsevier – the Journal of Hydraulic Research, the Journal of River Basin Management, the Journal of Water Engineering and Research, the Revista Iberoamericana del Agua RIBAGUA jointly with the World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE), the Journal of Ecohydraulics and theJournal of Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research with the Korean Water Resources Association. It also publishes Hydrolink, a quarterly magazine now FREE ACCESS.

The activities of IAHR are carried out by two full-time professional secretariats with offices in Madrid, Spain, which is hosted by the consortium Spain Water (CEDEX, Direccion General del Agua, Direccion General de Costas, MAPAMA, Spain), and in Beijing, China, hosted by IWHR.

The governing body of the association is a council elected by member ballot every two years. The current president is Prof. Joseph Hun-wei Lee (Hong Kong, China). The current vice-presidents are:  Prof. Silke Wieprecht (Germany), Dr. Robert Ettema (USA), and Prof Hyoseop Woo (South Korea). Dr. Ramon Gutierrez-Serret and Dr Peng Jing are Secretary Generals.

IAHR is a Scientific Associate of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and is a partner organisation of UN-Water.

The IAHR World Congress is one of the most important activities of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR) which typically attracts between 800 and 1500 participants from around the world. The forthcoming IAHR World Congress, under the overall theme "From Snow to Sea", will take place in Granada, Spain, in 2022.

Publications
IAHR publishes the Journal of Hydraulic Research in partnership with Taylor & Francis.

IAHR publishes the International Journal of River Basin Management together with the International Association of Hydrological Sciences and INBO and in partnership with Taylor & Francis.

IAHR publishes the International Journal of Applied Water Engineering and Research together with the World Council of Civil Engineers and in partnership with Taylor & Francis.

The IAHR Asia Pacific Division publishes the Journal of Hydro-Environment Research in collaboration with the KWRA, Korean Water Resources Association and Elsevier

The IAHR Latin America Division publishes the  Revista Iberoamericana del Agua  in collaboration with the World Council of Civil Engineers (WCCE)
http://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-ribagua-revista-iberoamericana-del-217

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Morgan Cryar is a contemporary Christian music vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Louisiana. He is especially noted for his creative lyric-writing.

Music career
Cryar's debut, Keep No Secrets, was released in 1984, and its singles "Holy Fire" and "Carried Away" received moderate airplay on Christian radio; but it was his 1986 album, Fuel on the Fire, featuring the chart-topping contemporary Christian single (also nominated for a Dove Award for best video), "Pray in the U.S.A.", that began his road to success. Collaborating with producer Roy Salmond and composers Ty Tabor and Doug Pinnick (later of King's X fame) and well-regarded CCM session player, John Andrew Schreiner, Fuel on the Fire contains some "foot-tapping ditties" and "tuneful ballads" that make up Mr. Cryar's vocal performance. In the 1980s, Cryar toured with big names in the CCM industry, such as Petra and DeGarmo and Key, promoting Fuel on the Fire and his 1989 follow up Like A River to receptive high school and college-age audiences.

Cryar's level of recognition early on in his career paved the way for his fourth album, Kingdom Upside Down (1990), to reach No. 27 on the Billboard Christian charts, despite its criticism as a  "pleasantly forgettable album", and for its single, "Father", to hit number one on the Christian radio charts. Additionally in the 1990s, he had a No. 1 Christian radio hit with "If I Never See a Miracle" from 1995's Love Over Gold, and the single, "What Sin?" from the same album had its own moderate success on Christian radio. The album also contained a cover of Tom Petty's I Won't Back Down.

Years after its first release, his song, "See You On the Other Side", gained a special meaning when it was included in a multi-media presentation following the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 and subsequently played on mainstream radio stations across the nation; however, that wasn't Cryar's only song to have a second life. In 1998, the hit, "Pray in the U.S.A." was also resurrected from Cryar's back-catalog with a new recording and video shot in honor of the National Day of Prayer. The reprise features an all-star chorus, including CCM industry "well-knowns": John Schlitt, Bob Hartman, LuLu Roman, members from the Winans family, Rick Cua, Kenny Marks, Lisa Bevill, Randy Thomas and Andy Denton.

In the 2000s, Cryar used his experience on stage to energize a career behind the scenes as a record producer, mostly for independent artists, using his own label, Premier Records. He also was part of Christian Music Workshops, teaching songwriting, music business, and stage presence. As of 2007, Cryar was CEO of Singing Success, Inc. and resided in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and their seven children.

From 2005 - 2007, Cryar was CEO of Brett Manning's Singing Success, Inc. He currently resides in Nashville, TN with his wife and their seven children. Two of his children, daughters Callie and Phoebe, are also musicians. They play instruments and sing in the band The Vespers.

References

External links

CrossRhythms.co.uk: Morgan Cryar Artist Profile & Discography

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Two Down and One to Go was a short propaganda film produced in 1945 directed by Frank Capra; as its title might suggest, its overall message was that the first two Axis powers, Italy and Germany, had been defeated, but that one, Japan, still had to be dealt with.

Presented by the Secretary of War (Henry Stimson) and narrated by Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, the film is notable for its heavy use of animated graphics, spliced with stock footage. Opening with a fasces being splintered over Italy, and a swastika being exploded over Germany, the film cuts to an Arthur Szyk caricature of Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito, an X being superimposed on the respective dictators, then turning to Tojo. Gen. Marshall informs the audience why the United States had chosen a Europe first strategy for the war, noting the supply lines were far shorter for Europe, and that the US simply did not have the material, in the early stages of the war, to launch an invasion of Japan. He also notes that in the European theatre the US had strong fighting Allies and airbases in England which could help them launch an attack on Germany, while in the Pacific theatre we had "no airbases near Japan, and no strong allies, however brave".

The general ends the film by reminding the audience that the war cannot be won until Japanese military might is "completely crushed".

The Academy Film Archive preserved Two Down and One to Go in 2008. The film is part of the Academy War Film Collection, one of the largest collections of World War II era short films held outside government archives.

See also
List of Allied propaganda films of World War II

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A pedestrian scramble, or 'X' crossing is also known as a  diagonal crossing, Barnes dance (US), or scramble intersection / scramble corner (Canada).

It is a type of crossing which temporarily stops all  traffic. This lets pedestrians cross an intersection in every direction.

It was first used in Canada and the United States in the late 1940s. It fell out of favor with traffic engineers, because it gave priority to pedestrians over the flow of car traffic. Its safety and benefits to pedestrians has led to its being installed in many countries recently.

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Sir William Calthorpe KB (30 January 1410 – 15 November 1494) was an English knight and Lord of the Manors of Burnham Thorpe and Ludham in Norfolk. He is on record as High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1442, 1458 and 1464 and 1476.

Family

Sir William Calthorpe was born on 30 January 1410 at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, son of Sir John Calthorpe and Amy (Amice) Wythe.

Career

Calthorpe is recorded on 28 June 1443, when he released one of his villeins, from serfdom and set him free from all future services. He became locum tenens and Commissary-General to the late most noble and potent William, Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Pembroke, and Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Ireland and Aquitaine, during the minority of the Duke's son and heir, Henry, Earl of Exeter. In 1469, Sir William described himself as Sir William Calthorp of Ludham, a manor which he owned, as well as that of Burnham Thorpe. In 1479, he was Steward of the household of the Duke of Norfolk.

Calthorpe was made a Knight of the Bath in the Tower of London, by King Edward IV, on the Coronation of his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Ascension Day, 26 May 1465.

Calthorpe made Presentations to the Rectory of Beeston, Norfolk in 1460, 1481, 1492, and the Rectory of Hempstede in 1479 and 1485.

In the church of St Martin at Palace, Norwich, is a tablet showing that in 1550 Lady Calthorp (Sir William's daughter-in-law) gave a silver cup and a velvet carpet to that church. It appears that the Calthorpes had their townhouse in this parish for many years, and Sir William Calthorp certainly lived there in 1492, and probably long before then, for it is recorded that in 1447 the Executors of Joan Lady Bardolph, sold the old seat of the Erpinghams, in St.Martin's at the Palace, to William Calthorp, Esq., and the receivership of the Erpingham manor was vested in Sir Philip Calthorp (d. 1535 - grandson of Sir William) and his wife Joan (née Blennerhasset), in 1487.

Marriage and issue

Calthorpe's first wife was Elizabeth (1406-1437), daughter of Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn (1362-1440), by whom Sir William had a son and two daughters.

His second wife was Elizabeth (c. 1441-18 February 1505), eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Miles Stapleton, of Ingham, Norfolk, by his spouse, Katherine de la Pole (c. 1416-1488),  who settled the manor of Hempstead, Norfolk, upon Elizabeth. Sir William was subsequently found to be lord of three parts of it in 1491; his second surviving son, Sir Francis, died possessed of it in 1544, and his son William next inherited it, and sold it about 1573.  William was the elder brother of Charles Calthorpe, for many years Attorney General for Ireland.

One of Sir William's daughters by his second marriage, Anne (d. bef. March 1558), married Sir Robert Drury, of Thurston, and Hawstead, Suffolk. Another of Sir William's daughters by his second marriage, Elizabeth Calthorpe married Francis Hasilden on 31 May 1494. They had a daughter, Frances Hasilden who married Sir Robert Peyton, of Isleham in January 1516, becoming ancestors of the Peyton baronets. Sir Robert Peyton of Isleham was the son of Sir Robert Peyton, of Wicken by Elizabeth Clere.

Will and death

In Sir William's will, he mentions that many of his ancestors were buried in North Creake Church, Norfolk. This Will is given in full in East Anglian Notes & Queries (vol.ii, p. 210), as an interesting specimen of wills of that date. He mentions many of his family. He was buried in the Church of the White Friars, Norwich, beside his first wife.

References
Sources
Banks, Sir T. C., Bt., Baronia Anglica Concentrata; or Baronies in Fee, London, 1844.  Elizabeth Stapleton and her husband, Sir William Calthorpe, with their immediate successors, can be found in the summary pedigree of the Stapleton family on p. 267.
Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4 by William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, published London, 1881, p. 295 (outline pedigree of the Stapleton family)..
Burke, John, and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, London, 1851, vol. 2, pedigree CXVII.
Burke,  Sir Bernard, Ulster King of Arms, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London, 1883, p. 504, where Sir William is erroneously named as Sir Philip.
Shaw, William A., Litt.D., The Knights of England, London, 1906.
Carr-Calthorpe, Colonel Christopher William, C.B.E., R.I., Notes on the Families of Calthorpe and Calthrop, etc., 3rd edition, London, 1933, p. 38-9; 41-6.
Weis, Frederick Lewis, et al., (editor), The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Baltimore, 2002, p. 7.
Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, Maryland, 2004, p. 580 and 621.
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HMS Cambrian was a C-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was the name ship of her sub-class of four ships. Assigned to the Grand Fleet upon completion in 1916, the ship played only a small role during the war. Cambrian was assigned to the Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets during the 1920s and was sent to support British interests in Turkey during the Chanak Crisis of 1922–1923. The ship was placed in reserve in late 1929. She was sold for scrap in 1934.

Design and description
The C-class cruisers were intended to escort the fleet and defend it against enemy destroyers attempting to close within torpedo range. Ordered as part of the 1914–15 Naval Programme, the Cambrian sub-class were a slightly larger and improved version of the preceding Calliope sub-class; Cambrian, the last ship of her sub-class to be completed, differed from her sister ships as she had a more powerful armament. The ships were  long overall, with a beam of  and a mean draught of . Displacement was  at normal and  at deep load. Cambrian was powered by four direct-drive Parsons steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, which produced a total of . The turbines used steam generated by six Yarrow boilers which gave her a speed of . She carried  tons of fuel oil. The ship had a crew of 368 officers and ratings.

Cambrians main armament consisted of three BL 6-inch (152 mm) Mk XII guns that were mounted on the centreline. One gun was forward of the bridge and the last two were in the stern, with one gun superfiring over the rearmost gun. Her secondary armament consisted of six QF  Mk IV guns, three on each side, one pair abaft the bridge on the forecastle deck and the other two pairs one deck lower amidships. For anti-aircraft defence, she was fitted with one QF  Mk V gun. The ship also mounted two submerged  torpedo tubes, one on each broadside. The Cambrians were protected by a waterline belt amidships that ranged in thickness from  with a  deck. The walls of their conning tower were 6 inches thick.

Wartime modifications
During 1917–18, her pole foremast was replaced by a tripod mast that was fitted with a gunnery director. In January 1919, Cambrian had her 4-inch guns removed and an additional 6-inch gun added abaft the funnels. At the same time, her AA gun was replaced by a pair of QF  20-cwt anti-aircraft guns. Sometime between 1919 and 1924 the ship received a pair of 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk II "pom-pom" guns on single mounts.

Construction and career
Cambrian, the fourth ship of her name in the Royal Navy, was laid down by Pembroke Dockyard in Pembroke Dock, Wales, on 8 December 1914, launched on 3 March 1916, and completed in May 1916. She was commissioned into service that same month and was assigned to the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet in which she served through the end of World War I and until 1919. The squadron was generally tasked with screening the battleships of the Grand Fleet during the war. The ship did not participate in the inconclusive Action of 19 August 1916 with the rest of her squadron. The squadron was briefly detached from the Grand Fleet in March 1917 to fruitlessly patrol off the Norwegian coast when news of a blockade runner was received by the Admiralty.

At the beginning of 1919, Cambrian was refitted in Rosyth before she sailed for Devonport where she was visited by the Edward, Prince of Wales on 13 June. The ship was assigned to the North American and West Indies Station the following month, where she served until 1922. Cambrians crew spent several days in August trying to tow off the schooner Bella Scott after she had run aground near Kingston, Jamaica and received a brief refit in Bermuda in March–April 1920. The Prince of Wales again visited the ship on 26 September in Dominica. On 25 January 1921, she was inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir William Pakenham at Bermuda and again on 17 June. The ship arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts to participate in the Pilgrim Tercentenary celebrations on 31 July.

She was part of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet from August 1922 until June 1924, and was detached to support British interests during the Chanak Crisis of 1922–23. She escorted the seaplane carrier  from the UK to Turkey from 27 September to 8 October and was later guard ship at Smyrna in December.

The ship was decommissioned in June 1924 and began a refit that lasted into 1926, during which her aft control tower and searchlight platform was removed, when she was recommissioned to serve in the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet where she participated in a fleet exercise in March 1929. After transporting troops to China in 1929, she was decommissioned in November 1929 and assigned to the Nore Reserve. She was recommissioned as the flagship of the Nore Reserve in March 1931 and was then decommissioned in July 1933 at Sheerness and listed for sale. Cambrian was sold for scrap on 28 July 1934.

Notes

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Ships of the Cambrian class

C-class cruisers
Ships built in Pembroke Dock
1916 ships
World War I cruisers of the United Kingdom

HMS Cambrian (1916)


The oblique order, also called the oblique attack is a military tactic to bring a larger force against one of the enemy's flanks. At the same time the remainder of the force is used to distract and keep the enemy line in place. This is a good tactic if the attacking force is larger in size. Frederick the Great is credited with inventing the oblique order. He would use a large number of troops on one of the flanks to destroy that section, then drive into the enemy from two directions. The word oblique comes from the Middle English word oblike, which comes from the Latin word oblīquus meaning "slanted". In military usage, oblique usually means at an angle, often 45 degrees.

History

Frederick the Great was not the first battlefield commander to put more forces on one side of his battle lines. But in the past the maneuver had to be done at night or out of sight of the enemy. If a commander put more troops on one flank (or "wing"), the opposing commander seeing this, would simply move his forces to counter the move. Shifting forces during a battle took time. There was also the risk of the enemy attacking while forces were being moved around. Frederick overcame these problems. The most important thing he did was train his soldiers to march quickly. When his Prussian army reached the battlefield, they would form the standard (for the time) two lines parallel to the enemy's two lines. But Frederick's army had been trained to "quarter-wheel" (turn at an angle) by sections, then in a fluid movement, quickly form into columns. Each unit of the Prussian army did this at the same moment which allowed his entire force to perform such a movement in under two minutes.

Frederick described his technique: "a commander should strengthen one wing of his army and employ it to attack the enemy flank, while holding back another, smaller wing to threaten the enemy's main force and keep it from changing position." The other army was already in place and could not switch their troops around fast enough before the Prussians attacked. Frederick went on to say: "an army of 30,000 could beat an army of 100,000 using this method."

There are other versions of what exactly the oblique order is. One version says that all preparation done on the night before or the day of the battle to reinforce its flanks or center could be considered part of the oblique order. If that were true then Cyrus the Great used it at the Battle of Thymbra in 547 BC. Other commanders in history, ancient and modern, have also prepared in much the same way. This version would be like Frederick claiming he invented war itself. Reinforcing a flank at night or out of sight of the enemy is not so much a tactical maneuver as depending on surprise. Many Austrian, French, and English officers of this time thought the oblique order was moving an entire army around. They never understood that Frederick the Great never did this. He maneuvered by lines and by flanks, never by army.

Related pages

 Flanking maneuver
 Turning movement
 Pincer movement (also called a double-envelopment)
 Attrition warfare
 Feigned retreat
 Shock tactics
 Envelopment
 Rearguard
 Ambush

References

Other websites
 Top 5 Ancient Military Tactics (#4 Oblique Order); YouTube

Military terminology
Military tactics

Oblique order


A data storage device is a device for recording (storing) information (data). Recording can be done using virtually any form of energy. People have been storing data for thousands of years, by pictures and writing. Modern storage device may hold information, process information, or both. Most often the term is used with computers. Data storage devices can permanently hold data, like files.

Electronic data storage is storage which requires electricity to store and get back that data. Most storage devices that do not require visual optics to read data fall into this category.  Electronic data may be stored in either an analog or digital signal format.

Terminology
An organic brain may or may not be considered a data storage device.

All information is data. However, not all data is information.

Data storage equipment
Any input/output equipment may be considered data storage equipment if it writes to and reads from a data storage medium. Data storage equipment uses either:
 portable methods (easily replaced),
 semi-portable methods requiring mechanical disassembly tools and/or opening a chassis, or
 inseparable methods meaning loss of memory if disconnected from the unit.
The following are examples of those methods:

Portable methods
Hand crafting
Flat surface
Printmaking
Photographic
 Fabrication
Textile
 Cylindrical accessing
 Memory card reader/drive
 Tape drive
Mono reel or reel-to-reel
Compact Cassette player/recorder
 Disk accessing
Disk drive
Floppy disk
 Cartridge accessing/connecting (tape/disk/circuitry)
 Peripheral networking
 Flash memory devices

Semi-portable methods
 Hard disk drive
 non-volatile RAM

Inseparable methods
 Volatile RAM
 Neurons

Recording medium
A recording medium is a physical material that holds data expressed in any of the existing recording formats. With electronic media, the data and the recording medium is sometimes referred to as "software" despite the more common use of the word to describe computer software.

Ancient and timeless examples

 Optical
 Any object visible to the eye, used to mark a location such as a, stone, flag or skull.
 Any crafting material used to form shapes such as clay, wood, metal, glass, wax.
 Quipu
 Any branding surface that would scar under intense heat (chiefly for livestock or humans).
 Any marking substance such as paint, ink or chalk.
 Any item that would hold a marking substance such as, papyrus, paper, skin.
 Chemical
 RNA
 DNA
 Pheromone

Modern examples by energy used

Chemical
Dipstick
Thermodynamic
Thermometer
Photochemical
Photographic film
 Mechanical
Pins and holes
 Punch card
 Paper tape
Music roll
 Music box cylinder or disk
Grooves  (See also Audio Data)
 Phonograph cylinder
 Gramophone record
 DictaBelt (groove on plastic belt)
 Capacitance Electronic Disc
Magnetic storage
Wire recording (stainless steel wire)
Magnetic tape
Drum memory (magnetic drum)
Floppy disk
Optical storage
 Photo paper
 X-ray
 Hologram
 Projected transparency
 Optical disc
 Magneto-optical disc
 Holographic versatile disc
 3D optical data storage
Electrical
Semiconductor used in volatile RAM microchips
Floating-gate transistor used in  non-volatile memory cards

Modern examples by shape
A typical way to classify data storage media is to consider its shape and type of movement (or non-movement) relative to the read/write device(s) of the storage apparatus as listed:
 Paper card storage
 Punched card (mechanical)
 Tape storage (long, thin, flexible, linearly moving bands)
 Paper tape (mechanical)
 Magnetic tape (a tape passing one or more read/write/erase heads)
 Disk storage (flat, round, rotating object)
 Gramophone record (used for distributing some 1980s home computer programs) (mechanical)
 Floppy disk, ZIP disk (removable) (magnetic)
 Holographic
 Optical disc such as CD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc
 Minidisc
 Hard disk drive (magnetic)
 Magnetic bubble memory
 Flash memory/memory card (solid state semiconductor memory)
 xD-Picture Card
 MultiMediaCard
 USB flash drive (also known as a "thumb drive" or "keydrive")
 SmartMedia
 CompactFlash I and II
 Secure Digital
 Sony Memory Stick (Std/Duo/PRO/MagicGate versions)
 Solid-state drive

Related pages
Archive
Computer data storage
Data vault
Library
Multimedia

References
Bekenstein, Jacob D. (2003, August). Information in the holographic universe. Scientific American.

Bibliography

Other websites
Historical Notes about the Cost of Hard Drive Storage Space

Data storage device


Active Lancer is a 2D shoot 'em up video game created by Freeverse for Mac OS 9 and macOS. It plays in the style of many old school computer games and features little plot line or story development. The demo is downloadable from macgamefiles.com. There are several levels the player is required to complete. It lacks a multiplayer mode but two players can play together on the same computer.  It was much less successful than Freeverse's popular WingNuts Series.

It was re-released as part of a 'Best of Original Mac Games' bundle from Freeverse.

Storyline
In the game the player is cast as a member of the "Active Lancer Corps". He is the lone survivor of a failed attack on the home world of an alien race known as the "cherries" where he has to face fast unending attacks by the aliens.

References

2003 video games
MacOS games
Classic Mac OS games
Shoot 'em ups
Video games developed in the United States
Freeverse Inc. games

Active Lancer


Eric Allyn Thames ( ; born November 10, 1986) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and outfielder. He played in  Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee Brewers, and Washington Nationals, in the KBO League for the NC Dinos, and in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants.

Thames played college baseball for the Pepperdine Waves, and was chosen by the Blue Jays in the 2008 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut for Toronto in 2011, and was traded to the Mariners in 2012. After spending the 2013 season in Minor League Baseball, he signed with the Dinos for the 2014 season. He won the KBO League Most Valuable Player Award in 2015, and signed with the Brewers before the 2017 season.

Early life and career
Thames grew up in the San Jose-Santa Clara area.  He attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. As a freshman, he was the junior varsity baseball team's third string shortstop. He became the starting shortstop as a sophomore, and then joined the varsity team in his junior year. He was an All-League player for two years and a team MVP as a senior in 2004.

Thames then attended West Valley Community College after sitting a year at Cabrillo College in 2005.  During the 2006 season Thames made the Northern California all-state team, and he also made the first team all conference squad.  From there, Thames transferred to Pepperdine University to play for the Pepperdine Waves. The New York Yankees of Major League Baseball selected Thames in the 39th round of the 2007 MLB draft, with the 1,191st overall selection. He returned to Pepperdine for the 2008 season. In 2008, Thames batted .407 with 13 home runs for the Waves, and was named the West Coast Conference's most valuable player. Towards the end of the season, he tore a quadriceps muscle during a game.

Professional career

Toronto Blue Jays
Due to his quadriceps injury, Thames fell in the 2008 MLB draft. Initially projected to be selected in the first three rounds, the Toronto Blue Jays selected him in the seventh round, with the 219th overall selection. Thames signed with the Blue Jays and had surgery to repair the torn muscle. He began his professional career with the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in 2009, where he hit .313 with three home runs and 38 runs batted in (RBIs) in 52 games. His playing time was limited by recurring difficulty with the quadriceps injury, and he also played rehab games for the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League later that year. Thames spent the 2010 season with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Class AA Eastern League. He hit 27 home runs for the Fisher Cats with 104 RBIs. He began the 2011 season with the Las Vegas 51s of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League (PCL). In 32 games for Las Vegas, Thames batted .342 with six home runs and 30 RBIs.

Thames made his MLB debut on May 18, 2011, against the Tampa Bay Rays, recording his first career hit and RBI, driving in second baseman Aaron Hill. Thames also recorded his first career walk and run scored in that game. Thames hit his first career double against the Houston Astros on May 21. On June 3, Thames was optioned to Las Vegas to make room for the return of Adam Lind. On June 23, he was recalled to Toronto. On June 29, Thames hit his first career home run off Pittsburgh Pirates starter Paul Maholm. Thames played 95 games for the Blue Jays in 2011, finishing with a .262 batting average, 12 home runs, and 37 RBIs.

The Blue Jays had Thames and Travis Snider compete for a role on their roster in spring training in 2012. Thames made the Blue Jays Opening Day roster and appeared in 46 games for the Blue Jays, in which he hit .243 with three home runs and 11 RBIs. The Blue Jays then sent Thames to Las Vegas. He batted .330 for Las Vegas after the demotion.

Seattle Mariners

On July 31, 2012, the Blue Jays traded Thames to the Seattle Mariners for pitcher Steve Delabar. He batted .220 in 40 games for the Mariners.

Before the 2013 season, the Mariners signed outfielders Raúl Ibañez and Jason Bay. The team optioned Thames to the Tacoma Rainiers of the PCL during spring training. He batted .295 in 57 games for Tacoma. On June 22, the Mariners designated Thames for assignment in order to clear room on the 40-man roster for the return of Franklin Gutiérrez from the 60-day disabled list.

Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros
The Mariners traded Thames to the Baltimore Orioles for minor league infielder Ty Kelly on June 30, 2013.  Thames was immediately optioned to the Norfolk Tides of the Class AAA International League. He batted .252 with three homers and 13 RBIs for the Tides, and was designated for assignment on September 1.

The Houston Astros claimed Thames off waivers on September 5. He played for the Oklahoma City Redhawks of the PCL the next day. He had two hits (including a home run) in four at-bats as Oklahoma City lost and was eliminated from the playoffs.

NC Dinos
After the 2013 season, Thames played in the Venezuelan Winter League, where he was scouted by the NC Dinos of the KBO League. The Astros released Thames so that he could sign with the Dinos. He signed a one-year contract for $800,000.

In the 2014 season, Thames batted .343 with 37 home runs, 121 RBIs, and an on-base plus slugging of 1.111.

During the 2015 season, Thames became the first player in KBO history to hit for the cycle twice in one season. Thames then signed a two-year contract to remain with the Dinos. He batted .381 with 47 home runs and 40 stolen bases in 2015, becoming the first KBO player to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a season. On November 24, 2015, Thames won the KBO League Most Valuable Player Award. He became the third foreign-born player to win the award, joining Tyrone Woods and Danny Rios. Also, Thames won the 2015 KBO Golden Glove Award for first basemen. Thames hit .321 in the 2016 season, adding 40 home runs and 121 RBIs.

Milwaukee Brewers

On November 29, 2016, Thames signed a three-year, $16 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers, with a $7.5 million club option for a fourth year.

On April 3, 2017, Thames was the starting first baseman, making his Brewer debut on Opening Day against the Colorado Rockies. He went 1-4, hitting a two-run double in the fifth inning, striking out twice, being walked once, and scoring a run.  He set the Brewers club record for home runs in the month of April, with his 11th on April 25, in a 9−1 win versus the Cincinnati Reds.

In April 2018, the Brewers won back to back games against the Cincinnati Reds, with both games being decided by a two-run home run by Thames. In his first 22 games, Thames hit seven home runs. On April 25, he wound up on the disabled list due to a torn UCL in the thumb on his left hand. Thames returned to the Brewers' active roster on June 11, but due to the surge of fellow first baseman Jesús Aguilar, Thames was primarily used as an outfielder upon his return.

Thames started 2019 as a bench player for the Brewers. He reclaimed the starting first base job from Aguilar, and batted .247 with 25 home runs in 149 games. In the 2019 National League Wild Card Game, Thames went 2-4 with a 2nd inning solo home run off of Max Scherzer, but the Brewers would lose the game and get eliminated from the 2019 postseason. The Brewers declined his $7.5 million option for the 2020 season, making Thames a free agent.

Washington Nationals
On January 8, 2020, Thames signed with the Washington Nationals for the 2020 season, agreeing to a one-year deal with a mutual option for the 2021 season.

With Ryan Zimmerman opting out of the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Thames became the team's starting first baseman. Thames struggled in the role, hitting .203 with only three home runs and posting an OPS+ of 65, well below average.

Yomiuri Giants
On December 30, 2020, Thames signed with the Yomiuri Giants of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). On April 27, 2021, he left a game in the third inning after suffering a leg injury trying to field a fly ball. He was later diagnosed with a ruptured Achilles tendon. He returned to the U.S. and underwent surgery on May 4. On August 23, the Giants released him.

Oakland Athletics
On February 18, 2022, Thames signed a minor league deal with the Oakland Athletics. Thames appeared in 22 games for the Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators, slashing .274/.337/.452 with 3 home runs and 16 RBI. On May 10, he was released by Oakland.

On February 15, 2023, Thames announced his retirement from professional baseball.

Personal life
In April 2016, Changwon city awarded honorary citizenship to Thames.

In February 2017, Thames won the James B. Pirtle Memorial Golf Classic tournament in Palm Springs, Florida, beating actor Dylan McDermott in the final round.

In January 2019, Thames appeared on the Korean television show King of Mask Singer, singing Isn't She Lovely and the K-pop song Americano. Many were impressed by his legitimate vocal talent.

References

External links

Pepperdine Waves bio
Career statistics and player information from KBO League

 Career statistics - NPB.jp

1986 births
Living people
African-American baseball players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
American expatriate baseball players in South Korea
Baseball players from California
Cabrillo Seahawks baseball players
Dunedin Blue Jays players
Gulf Coast Blue Jays players
Gulf Coast Orioles players
KBO League first basemen
Las Vegas 51s players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball outfielders
Milwaukee Brewers players
NC Dinos players
New Hampshire Fisher Cats players
Norfolk Tides players
Sportspeople from Santa Clara, California
Peoria Javelinas players
Pepperdine Waves baseball players
Seattle Mariners players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Toronto Blue Jays players
Washington Nationals players
West Valley Vikings baseball players
Yomiuri Giants players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people
La Crosse Loggers players
Bellarmine College Preparatory alumni

Eric Thames


The (oceanic) water column is a concept used in oceanography to describe the physical (temperature, salinity, light penetration) and chemical (pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrient salts) characteristics of seawater at different depths for a defined geographical point. Generally, vertical profiles are made of temperature, salinity, chemical parameters at a defined point along the water column. The water column is the largest, yet one of the most under-explored, habitats on the planet; it is explored to better understand the ocean as a whole, including the huge biomass that lives there and its importance to the global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles. Studying the water column also provides understanding on the links between living organisms and environmental parameters, large-scale water circulation and the transfer of matter between water masses.

Water columns are used chiefly for environmental studies evaluating the stratification or mixing of thermal or chemically stratified layers in a lake, stream or ocean. Some of the common parameters analyzed in the water column are pH, turbidity, temperature, hydrostatic pressure, salinity, total dissolved solids, various pesticides, pathogens and a wide variety of chemicals and biota.

Descriptively, the deep sea water column is divided into five parts—pelagic zones (from Greek πέλαγος (pélagos), 'open sea')—from the surface to below the floor.

The term water column is also commonly used in scuba diving to describe the vertical space through which divers ascend and descend.

See also
Hydrological transport model

References

External links
Water column ecology

Environmental science
Hydrology
Fisheries science

Water column


Jenkem is an alleged drug that was supposedly invented in poor parts of Africa.

Appearance
When it is ready to be used, it is a gas. It is created from feces left in a container to ferment for a long time.

Effects
When breathed in, Jenkem makes the person see crazy things. It is like a crazy dream, the person imagines things happening that are not really happening. The person may also hear sounds that are not really there. This is called a hallucination. Jenkem is also used to make a person happy. Because it is made out of fermented waste (or old feces), it is also very stinky.

Some say it is as if you have a curtain in front of you.

Dangers
Because Jenkem is human waste and is inhaled (huffing), the person can get an infection because of the dirt and germs in the waste.
Jenkem also contains methane, which is explosive and flammable.

Drugs

Jenkem


Yaseen Anwar (born March 31, 1951) is a Pakistani-American banker who had been the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan from 20 October 2011 to 31 January 2014. He previously also acted as deputy governor and has 33 years of experience in international banking. Anwar holds a dual Pakistan and US citizenship. He is a graduate of the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Before that Yaseen Anwar acted as Deputy Governor from 2007 to 2011. During this tenure as Deputy Governor, he served as Acting Governor for 3 months each in 2010 and 2011 prior to being confirmed as Governor. After the State Bank, he served as Senior Advisor to the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China out of Singapore and Pakistan from 2014 to 2020.  In 2020 he was the founding Chairman of Yaseen Anwar & Associates, a management consultancy based in Karachi, Pakistan. He is also Senior Advisor in Pakistan to the International Finance Corporation  for Sustainable Banking, a member of the World Bank Group. Prior to his joining the State Bank of Pakistan, he had a long international banking career in New York, Paris, London, and Egypt with JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Merrill Lynch.

Early life and education
Yaseen Anwar was born in Karachi, Pakistan, the son of Ismat and Commodore Sheikh M. Anwar, a decorated Pakistan Naval War hero. At the age of seven, his father was posted in Newport, Rhode Island to attend the Naval War College and thereafter as the Naval Attache in Washington D.C. until December 1964 where Yaseen attended the Rose Lee Hardy elementary School and was elected President of the Student Council. Yaseen then attended Ascension Academy in Alexandria, Virginia until the ninth grade before moving back to Karachi when he joined the Karachi American School His father, as the Naval Attache, was decorated with the Legion of Merit by the President of the United States for forging strong ties between the two countries.

At the Karachi American School, Yaseen was elected President of the Student Council, Captain of the Varsity Basketball team, and was the Editor of the school newspaper. After graduation, he attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a BSc degree in economics and a B.A. in political science in 1972. During his undergraduate years, he was a Varsity Letterman on the University Squash team. He is often invited to speak at the Wharton School's Global Economic Forums on Central Banking, most recently in Singapore March 10, 2023 and has also been spotlighted in the Wharton School's Magazine.

Career
In 1973, Yaseen joined the Credit training program at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York where he spent 2 ½ years that included the International Department before joining the Bank of America in Paris in January 1976. In the Paris regional office, he worked with senior officers by honing his skills in Syndications & Private Placements. He then moved in 1977 to London to join the Middle East Regional office where he looked after Corporate & Institutional relationships in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region. In 1979, he was transferred to Bank of America Cairo as Assistant Manager and a senior lending officer for local and multinational businesses. In 1982 he moved to Bank of America New York where he managed the Middle East Financial institutions and concurrently the Global Export Finance Group that included relationship management of US EXIM Bank, USDA, OPIC, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, EBRD, and others.

In 1992, Yaseen joined the original Merrill Lynch (pre-Bank of America merger) in New York and switched to focus on Wealth Management, Asset Management, Alternative Investments, and Capital Markets. He spent almost 10 years at Merrill, being transferred to the London office in 1996. After leaving Merrill in London, he spent some time with Kraken, a boutique UK investment firm, where he structured M&A transactions in the Power Sector before joining the State Bank of Pakistan.

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)
Joining SBP in 2007, during his initial 4 years as Deputy Governor, he was tasked to upgrade the country's Payment System by establishing Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) that he successfully implemented in 2008. This led to a monumental change in the country's landscape towards instant Interbank Funds Transfers (IBFT), Mobile/Digital banking, internet banking, and other banking products that enabled 80% of the previously unbanked Adult population, immediate access to financial services and products. This access to financial services has been a boon to the country's Financial Inclusion program that continues to grow today on the foundation of RTGS.

During 2010 and 2011, he served as Acting Governor State Bank twice for 3-month periods before he was confirmed as Governor in 2011. During his tenure, he negotiated and signed the country's first Currency Swap Agreements (CSA) with China and Turkey and in 2012 became the 7th Central Bank to sign an Agency Agreement with the Peoples Bank of China to invest in local Government Bonds. As Governor, he had oversight of over 40 banks, impacted Monetary Policy, and elevated the Branch-less Banking model/ strategy for Financial Inclusion, the success of which was recognized globally.  Notwithstanding the Global Financial Crisis post 2008, not one bank failed in Pakistan during his tenure due to vigilant liquidity management and restructuring of marginally capitalized banks.

Pakistan in 2013 also witnessed serious balance of payments stress with a Current Account deficit of 2% that was managed meticulously by securing over $2.5 Billion from the CSA with China, the Peoples Bank of China and Industrial & Commercial Bank of China. This $2.5 Billion plugged up the Current Account gap thereby maintaining the PKR Currency stable throughout the year. In August 2013, he successfully negotiated and signed the $6.7 Billion IMF facility that elevated the country's Reserves, restored confidence in the economy with the Capital Markets, and elevated Pakistan's International ratings to a Positive outlook. In 2020, he was interviewed on the IMF Program as according to the IMF, the $6.7 Billion facility is the only one Pakistan has competed satisfactorily without suspension.

During his stint as Governor of the Central Bank, he was a member of the Board of Governors of the IMF, and served on the Financial Stability Board of Asia when it was first formed in 2012 under the Chairmanship of the BOE Governor.

In 2014 he left the State Bank and from 2014 – 2020, he was Senior Advisor to the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in Singapore and is currently the founding chairman of management consultants, 'Yaseen Anwar & Associates' in Pakistan. Concurrently, in December 2020, the World Bank/IFC appointed him Senior Banking Policy Advisor for Pakistan Sustainable Banking. In 2021, he was also appointed by China as chairman of the first overseas chapter of Green Investment Principles for Central Asia & Pakistan in support of the Belt & Road Initiative. He also serves on the International Advisory Boards of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum in the UK., the International Monetary Institute of Renmin University, Beijing,  and Zhejiang University International Business School (ZIBS) China. He is often invited to speak at various International Forums in Asia and the U.S.

Notable Appointments/Achievements

 Only Central Bank Governor in the history of the State Bank of Pakistan to have successfully negotiated and signed Currency Swap Agreements with China and Turkey.
 As Governor, negotiated and signed the $6.7 Billion IMF agreement with the IMF in August 2013, the only one completed satisfactorily (without suspension) in Pakistan's history according to the IMF.
 A Pioneer in the launching of the Chinese Yuan in 2013 as an International Reserve Currency in the SDR basket of the IMF, officially inducted by IMF in 2015/2016.
 As governor of the Central Bank, actively promoted and elevated the branchless banking model in Pakistan for inclusive banking targeting the 80% of the unbanked market. Recognized as one of three countries for its success by the Economic Intelligence Unit of the Economist magazine.
 Recognized as a 'Notable' graduate to have become a Central Bank Governor in the history of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
 In March 2020, Spotlighted in an interview on the global economy by the Wharton School of Business magazine, University of Pennsylvania.
 Invited to speak in New York at the United Nations (UNCTAD) on Pakistan's Branchless banking model with numerous Heads of State. Also spoke at the World Affairs Council in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. in 2013.
 Internationally recognized former Central Bank Governor quoted by publications released by the Bank of International Settlements and leading Business Schools i.e. Wharton, INSEAD.
 Advisory Boards of the International Monetary Institute of Renmin University, Beijing, the Official Monetary & Financial Institutions Forum U.K. and Zhejiang University International Business School China.
 Chairman, Green Investment Principles for Central Asia & Pakistan in support of the Belt Road Initiative.
 As Sr. Advisor to the IFC/World Bank, aided IFC in upgrading the State Bank of Pakistan and the banking system in launching of the ESRM manual in 2022 on Green Banking Guidelines.

References

Pakistani emigrants to the United States
Governors of the State Bank of Pakistan
Living people
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Businesspeople from Karachi
1951 births
American expatriates in Pakistan
People with acquired American citizenship
Karachi Grammar School alumni
Aitchison College alumni
Karachi American School alumni

Yaseen Anwar


Key Stage 5 is a label used to describe the two years of education for students aged 16–18 and at sixth form or college. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, it is aligned with previous Key Stages in the National Curriculum.

Key Stage 5 is also the stage of education where students go through more intense and challenging courses in very specific subjects like media studies and physics. This stage is the last stage of secondary education for members of the sixth form. When A levels are achieved, the students will be able to apply for university.

See also
Key Stage
Key Stage 1
Key Stage 2
Key Stage 3
Key Stage 4
GCE Advanced Level

School terminology
Educational stages
Secondary education in England
Secondary education in Wales
Secondary education in Northern Ireland

Key Stage 5


Ivan Bushko (born March 10, 1969, in Vynohradiv  Zakarpattia Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician, MP of Ukraine of the VII convocation from the Party of Regions. He is also the president of the football club "Sevliush" of Vynohradiv, and the head of the Council of Transcarpathian football clubs presidents.

Education
In 2005, Bushko received a degree in accounting and auditing from Transcarpathian State University.

Working career
In 1986 Busko became a worker of the vinicultural brigade, a vehicle fleet driver for the 8th of March sovkhoz in Zakarpattia Oblast, where he worked until May 1987. From May 1987 until June 1989, he served his military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army in the Sambir district of Lviv Oblast.

Upon return from military service, he worked from 1989 until 1991 at the Vynohradiv plant "Electron". After two years of temporary unemployment, he worked as a commodity expert in the incorporated industrial and commercial company in Zakarpattia. He served as the deputy director of the company starting in 1994. During the following thirteen years, he worked as a private entrepreneur.

In April 2010, he became the first deputy head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration (RSA), supervising capital construction; property management and privatization; industrial policy and infrastructure development; regional development, urban planning, and architecture; energy; transport; communications; and emergencies. He also served as the advisor to the Governor.

Bushko is a member of the Party of Regions. He was elected to the post of deputy of the Vynohradiv City Council of the third convocation, and to the posts of deputy of the Transcarpathian Regional Council of the fourth, fifth, and sixth convocations. He led the faction of the Party of Regions in the regional council of the fifth convocation.

He was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in October 2012 as the candidate of the Party of Regions in a single-mandate majoritarian election district number 73. Bushko won his district with 41,22% of the vote. He ceased his activity as the deputy head of the RSA due to a transfer to another appointment in the Parliament as the head of the inter-factional parliamentary group "Zakarpattia". On December 12, 2012, Bushko received a mandate of the people's deputy of Ukraine. He is a member of the Committee for Family, Youth Affairs, Sports, and Tourism. He is also Chairman of the Subcommittee on the issues of tourism, resorts, and recreational activity of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Family, Youth Affairs, Sports, and Tourism.

Public activity
Bushko advocates radical reforms in the economic and social spheres, and overcoming corruption in power structures and law enforcement. He promotes European integration in Ukraine. He is a supporter of non-political rusynism. On July 13, 2013, he participated in the XII World Congress of Rusyns in Uzhgorod, where he stated his willingness to raise the issue of recognition of Rusyns as nationality in the Parliament of Ukraine.

Family
Bushko is married with two children – a daughter and a son.

Notes

Sources and references
 Ivan Bushko's Facebook Page
 MP's page on the official portal of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
 Bills submitted by the subject with the right of legislative initiative.
 Ivan Bushko-Parliament Page

Articles in the media (Ukrainian)
 Ivan Bushko: «Ivan Bushko: AntiBaloha — Interview»
 Ivan Bushko: «Interethnic agreement  is a continuous dialogue»
 Ivan Bushko: «This year's overpayment for gas will be 51 billion UAH, while we could upgrade housing and utility sector»
 I. Bushko: The first Ukrainian M6 motorway will be started to be built from Transcarpathia
 Muzhievo gold mine restores its operation?
 Ivan Bushko: «We do not plan to resettle anyone anywhere so far …»
 Ivan Bushko: «According to the President's program housing should become much more affordable»
 Bushko created "Zakarpattyia" group in the Parliament
 Korolevo parking may become an open-air museum
 Other publications about Ivan Bushko

1969 births
Living people
People from Vynohradiv
Party of Regions politicians
Seventh convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada

Ivan Bushko


Thomas George Bradley (13 April 1926 – 9 September 2002) was a British politician for Labour and the SDP.

Kettering-born, Tom Bradley was educated at Kettering Central School and worked in the mines during World War II.  Bradley joined the London, Midland and Scottish Railway as a junior clerk in the Goods Depot at Kettering in 1941. He became a railway clerk at Oundle and was national treasurer of the clerks' union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association from 1961, its president from 1964 to 1977, and was its acting General Secretary for four months in 1977 after the retirement of the previous General Secretary (David MacKenzie) on health grounds. He served as a councillor on Northamptonshire County Council from 1952 and as an alderman from 1961.

Bradley contested Rutland and Stamford as a Labour candidate in 1950, 1951 and 1955, and Preston South in 1959. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester North East at a 1962 by-election, representing Leicester East from 1974. He served as parliamentary private secretary to the Home Secretary from 1966.

On 20 February 1981 Bradley announced he would not seek to contest his seat again as a Labour Candidate. He claimed that the Party's National Executive Committee and the Party Conference were "knocking the living daylights out of decent, well established party practices" and said he would be morally compelled to join any new party formed by the Council for Social Democracy which had been created by the Gang of Four the previous month. The same day three other supporters of the Council for Social Democracy resigned the Labour whip. Unsurprisingly Bradley was among the Labour MPs who defected to the new Social Democratic Party which emerged from the Council for Social Democracy in March 1981.

In 1983, he stood for re-election in Leicester East but came third with 21% of the vote.  This however may have had the effect of helping the Conservative candidate Peter Bruinvels beat the future Labour minister Patricia Hewitt by 933 votes. He died in Kettering in September 2002, at the age of 76.

References

Sources
Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1950, 1966 and 1983

External links

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2002 deaths
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Social Democratic Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
General Secretaries of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association
People from Kettering
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Transport Salaried Staffs' Association-sponsored MPs
UK MPs 1959–1964
UK MPs 1964–1966
UK MPs 1966–1970
UK MPs 1970–1974
UK MPs 1974
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UK MPs 1979–1983
Members of Northamptonshire County Council
Chairs of the Labour Party (UK)
English miners

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The Highland cattle (; ) is a Scottish cattle breed. They have long horns and long, wavy, woolly coats. The long oily outer hair covers a downy undercoat. This makes them well suited to conditions in the Highlands, which have a high annual rainfall and sometimes very strong winds.

Highlands are raised primarily for their meat. They originated in the Scottish Highlands and the Outer Hebrides. They were first mentioned in the 6th century AD.  They have since been exported worldwide.

They are a hardy breed. Their long hair gives them the ability to overwinter in the valleys. Bulls can weigh up to 800 kilograms (1,800 pounds) and cows can up to 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds). Their milk generally has a high butterfat content.  Their meat, which is of the highest quality, is lower in cholesterol than other varieties of beef.

References

Cattle breeds

Highland cattle


Luc Mesadieu is a Haitian political figure and member of the political party New Christian Movement for a New Haiti (Mochrena).  Mesadieu has been a political opponent of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He has been attacked in his home in December 2003 by thugs associated with Aristide, among them  Amiot Métayer. His assistant, Ramy Daran, was burned to death that day.

Early life
Mesadieu is a dentist by profession. He worked for Jean-Claude Duvalier as his personal dentist. Mesadieu is an Evangelical pastor with two churches in the city of Gonaives. He has four children. He claimed to have been called to run for president by the voice of God in 2000.

On the issues
Mesadieu ran for president in the 2005 elections.  Among his major issues was the economy.  Mesadieu claims he wants to fix the Haitian economy with greater regional ties with the United States and bodies such as the Organization of American States.  Mesadieu has stated he is as a pro-business politician.

References

Living people
Christian Movement for a New Haiti politicians
Candidates for President of Haiti
Year of birth missing (living people)

Luc Mesadieu


Gray aliens, or just Grays, are a type of alien in Popular culture. They have big, black, almond-shaped eyes and gray skin that gives them their name. They appear in stories told by people who say they actually met aliens, as well as Science fiction. The emoji 👽 (or U+1F47D in Unicode) is usually rendered as a gray alien.

Extraterrestrial life
Science fiction

Grey alien


Yamuna is sacred river in Hinduism and the main tributary of the Ganges River. The river is also worshipped as a Hindu goddess called Yamuna. Yamuna is known as Yami

in early texts, while in later she is also the twin sister of Yama, God of death. She is associated with the deity Krishna

Hindu gods and goddesses
Rivers of India

Yamuna in Hinduism


Devery Vaughn Henderson Jr. (born March 26, 1982) is a former American football wide receiver who spent 9 seasons with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL).  The Louisiana-born Henderson played for Louisiana State University (LSU) where he and the Tigers won the 2004 BCS National Championship Game for the 2003 NCAA Division I-A football season. A few months later, the New Orleans Saints selected Henderson in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft.

Henderson was part of the Saints' 2009 team that won Super Bowl XLIV against the Indianapolis Colts.

Early years
Henderson grew up in Opelousas, Louisiana, and attended Opelousas High School where he was a star for their highly rated track team. He attended LSU on a track and football scholarship.

College career
The highlight of his career at LSU came on November 9, 2002. Henderson caught the famed "Bluegrass Miracle" deep pass from Marcus Randall to help defeat the Kentucky Wildcats, 33–30. This play was also especially noteworthy as the Kentucky coach Guy Morriss had already received the famed "Gatorade shower" prior to the touchdown.  The "Bluegrass Miracle" also won an ESPY award the following year for "Best Play."  Henderson accepted the award on behalf of the LSU Tigers.

In 2002, Henderson recorded 23 catches for 447 yards with 8 touchdowns, carving out a role as a deep threat. Henderson was part of LSU's 2003 BCS National Championship team during his senior season. That year, he was named on the All-SEC Second-team after racking up 11 touchdowns and 861 yards on 53 receptions.

Henderson was also a track star at Louisiana State University, where he was member of LSU's national champion track, member of LSU's NCAA-qualifying 4 × 100 metres relay team and also a member of LSU's 2001 National Champion Indoor Track and Field team. In his sophomore season, he ran the second-fastest 60-meter time in school history, with a time of 6.72 seconds.

Professional career

New Orleans Saints

Henderson was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the second round with the 50th pick of the 2004 NFL Draft.

Henderson benefited from the regime change in New Orleans after his rookie year, as the 2006 season saw Aaron Brooks give way to Drew Brees at quarterback and Sean Payton replace Jim Haslett as head coach. His statistics improved over those of his rookie season — most notably in receptions (22 vs. 32), total yards (343 vs. 745), yards per catch (15.6 vs. 23.3), longest catch (66 vs. 76), and touchdowns (3 vs. 5).

On November 5, 2006, Devery had his best day as a professional in a game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, catching 3 passes for 111 yards and 2 touchdowns. Henderson had 158 receiving yards on 5 catches, including a 76-yard touchdown, against the Atlanta Falcons on November 26, 2006. On December 10, 2006, Henderson caught two passes from Drew Brees for 92 yards and one touchdown, as the Saints defeated the Dallas Cowboys 42–17 on NBC Sunday Night Football.

On March 2, 2009, Henderson re-signed with the Saints. The Saints went to the Super Bowl that year and Henderson had 7 catches for 63 yards en route to the Saints defeating the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLIV.

On September 18, 2011, Henderson had a touchdown catch for 79 yards. On October 8, 2012, he caught a touchdown pass from Drew Brees to break Johnny Unitas's record of 47 straight games with a touchdown pass in the Saints' 31–24 win over the San Diego Chargers.

As of week 17 of the 2012 NFL season, Henderson averages nearly 18 yards per catch (17.9625), which is the highest among all active receivers for yards per catch with 200+ catches.

After the Saints' 2012 season, Henderson became a free agent.

As of 2019 he is still the #6 All-Time career Receiving Yards Leader in Saints Franchise History with 4377 yards.

Washington Redskins
Henderson signed with the Washington Redskins on June 12, 2013. He was released by the team on August 14, 2013.

NFL career statistics

References

External links
LSU Tigers bio
New Orleans Saints bio

1982 births
Living people
Players of American football from Lafayette, Louisiana
African-American players of American football
American football wide receivers
LSU Tigers football players
New Orleans Saints players
Washington Redskins players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people

Devery Henderson


Marcus Crouch (12 February 1913 – 24 April 1996) was an English librarian,  and an influential commentator on and reviewer of children's books.

Life and works

Marcus Crouch was born at Tottenham in Middlessex and educated at the Grammar School there and at London University, where he trained as a Chartered Librarian at the School of Librarianship, University College.

He worked as a librarian in the Middlesex, Lancashire and Kent County Libraries. He was chairman, and later Honorary Secretary, of the Youth Libraries Group (established) of the Library Association, and Chairman of the Kent Branch of the School Library Association. He was Deputy County Librarian for Kent.

He is best known for two surveys of British children's literature: Treasure Seekers and Borrowers: Children's Books in Britain 1900-1960 and The Nesbit Tradition: The Children's Novel 1945-1970. For the Library Association he compiled an account of those books that were awarded the Carnegie Medal in its first thirty years 1936–1957 in Chosen for Children: an account of the books which have been awarded the Library Association Carnegie Medal, 1936-1965.

He was noted for his Bodley Head monograph on Beatrix Potter.

He compiled and edited several collections of folk tales for children.

He created several nonfiction books on southeastern England including some illustrated with his own photographs.

Crouch contributed numerous reviews of children's books to Junior Bookshelf, the Times Literary Supplement, and School Librarian.

He died at home in North Wales aged 83. He is commemorated by the Kent Arts and Libraries "Marcus Crouch Collection" of approximately 1,500 children's books that were published in the United Kingdom between 1830 and 1930.

See also

Notes

References

English children's writers
English literary critics
English librarians
People from Tottenham
1913 births
1996 deaths
Alumni of the University of London

Marcus Crouch


The South Asia Union Catalogue, a component of the Digital South Asia Library, is a bibliography of books and periodicals published in the Indian subcontinent from 1556 through the present.  It is at present based on the holding of the Library of Congress and British Library, supplemented by records from the South Asia Microform Project at the Center for Research Libraries, the University of Chicago Library, the Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL), the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, and other South Asian libraries. It is planned to include all known library holdings of the materials along with information about publications for which no holding library is known to create a definitive statement on publishing in the South Asian subcontinent.

The four phases of the project cover different geographic regions. Phase I covers south India and Sri Lanka, with most of the works in the Dravidian languages and Sinhala. Phase II covers eastern South Asia and colonial Burma, with the works being in Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, and Austroasiatic languages of the area. Phase III covers north central South Asia, including Nepal, with most of the material being in Nepali, Marathi, Gujarati, and Hindi. Phase IV covers western South Asia, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northwestern India, with the corresponding Indo-Iranian and western Indo-Aryan languages, most of which are written in Perso-Arabic script.

The Southern Asia Department at the University of Chicago Library is the lead partner.

Notes

External links
South Asia Union Catalogue (SAUC) website

Bibliographic databases and indexes

South Asia Union Catalogue


Festival in Cannes is a 2001 film directed by Henry Jaglom.

The plot is an entertainment industry farce about filmmakers trying to make deals during the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.

Plot summary
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?

In Cannes, actress Alice Palmer wants to have her debut in the cinema industry as director and her two friends have written a screenplay for Gena Rowlands. However they are approached by the counterfeit crasher Kaz Naiman who convinces them to rewrite the scrip for the famous French actress Millie Marquand currently at the festival. In return he will sponsor the feature with three million dollars. Millie loves the screenplay and promises to make the film. However, the powerful producer Rick Yorkin is producing a blockbuster with Tom Hanks and Simone Duvall and needs Millie Marquand to perform the role of Tom Hanks' mother. Millie's former husband, the director Viktor Kovner is in Cannes and Rick manipulates him to convince Millie to accept the part. Meanwhile, the promising debutant star Blue becomes a hit in the festival but is divided between her lover and her career.

Cast
Anouk Aimée – Millie Marquand
Greta Scacchi – Alice Palmer
Maximilian Schell – Viktor Kovner
Ron Silver – Rick Yorkin
Jenny Gabrielle – Blue
Zack Norman – Kaz Naiman
Peter Bogdanovich – Milo

Cameos:
Faye Dunaway
Jeff Goldblum
Holly Hunter
William Shatner

External links

2001 films
2001 comedy films
Films directed by Henry Jaglom
American comedy films
Films set in 1999
Films set in Cannes
Films about film directors and producers
2000s English-language films
2000s American films

Festival in Cannes


Unlawful Killing is a 2011 British documentary film about the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed on 31 August 1997 directed by Keith Allen and financed by Dodi's father Mohamed Al-Fayed at a reported cost of £2.5m. It had a single trade screening during the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

The film argues that the British and French authorities covered up uncomfortable facts about the crash, accuses Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret of being "gangsters in tiaras", and alleges that Prince Philip was a psychopath, in the mould of British serial killer Fred West, who orchestrated the murder of Diana and Dodi. It also alleges that Diana's life could have been saved had she been taken to hospital quickly and efficiently, and condemns the inquest into her death for failing to investigate why this action was not taken. It perpetuates the long-standing allegation by Al-Fayed that the Royal Family was opposed to Diana's relationship with Dodi due to his Muslim faith. Allen screened the film to invited journalists in Cannes during May 2011. He told a press conference: "I didn't want to make a sensationalist film, I don't believe it is a sensationalist film. I think it is a very forensic analysis of a process, a British legal process, and I think it reveals things that, I'm sorry, don't add up."

Martyn Gregory, author of a book on the Princess of Wales's last days, has described the film as "ludicrous". He said: "It simply regurgitates everything Mohamed Fayed has been saying since the year 2000. It is rehearsing the Planet Fayed view."

Lawyers asked to advise on the film by the producers said it would need 87 cuts before the film could be certified for release in the United Kingdom. It was not shown there. However, Allen believed that it would make money in the US, where conspiracy theories about the Princess of Wales' death still have a following. Despite this optimism, it proved impossible to gain insurance against possible litigation in the United States, and the film was withdrawn.

References

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2011 films
2011 documentary films
British documentary films
Documentary films about conspiracy theories
Films about Diana, Princess of Wales
Film controversies in the United Kingdom
Film controversies in the United States
Political controversies in film
2010s English-language films
2010s British films

Unlawful Killing (film)


Fyodor Yurevich (died 1237) was the son of prince Yuri of Ryazan according to The Tale of the Destruction of Ryazan (recorded in the 16th century).

According to the semi-legendary narrative, Fyodor  led the Ryazan embassy sent to the Mongol headquarters on the banks of the river Voronezh. He is killed for his refusal to give his wife Eupraxia as a concubine to Batu Khan:
"It is not good for us Christians to lead our wives to you, the impious king, for fornication. When you overcome us, then you will own our wives. "
Upon receiving news of his death and facing capture by the Mongols, his wife Eupraxia throws herself from the fortress walls, falling to her death together with her infant son Ivan-Postnik.

1237 deaths
People from the Principality of Ryazan

ru:Фёдор Юрьевич

Fyodor Yurevich of Ryazan


Igor, or sometimes Ygor, is a stock character, a sometimes hunch-backed laboratory assistant to many types of Gothic villains or as a fiendish character who assists only himself, the latter most prominently portrayed by Bela Lugosi in Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942). He is familiar from many horror films and horror film parodies. He is traditionally associated with mad scientists, particularly Victor Frankenstein, although Frankenstein has neither a lab assistant nor any association with a character named Igor in the original Mary Shelley novel. The Igor of popular parlance is a composite character, based on characters created for the Universal Studios film franchise. In the first Frankenstein film (1931), Fritz served the role; in subsequent sequels, a different physically deformed character, Ygor, is featured, though Ygor is not an assistant in those films.

Origins
Dwight Frye's hunchbacked lab assistant in the first film of the Frankenstein series (1931) is the main source for the "Igor" of public imagination, though this character was actually named Fritz. Fritz did not originate from the Frankenstein novel, but instead originated from the earliest recorded play adaptation Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein where he was played by Robert Keeley.

The third and fourth sequel films Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) featured a character named Ygor portrayed by Bela Lugosi. This character is neither a hunchback nor a lab assistant, but a blacksmith with a broken neck and twisted back as the result of a botched hanging. He reanimates the Monster as an instrument of vengeance against the townspeople who attempted to hang him for grave robbing. He survives a near-fatal gunshot and appears in the next film in which his brain is placed in the Monster's body, but the body is rendered blind because Ygor's blood is not compatible with the Monster's blood and it is caught in a chateau fire. Still, the Monster returns with it's original brain in the next few movies: Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula, and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, burning to death in that one as well.

Universal Studios actively cemented the idea of the hunchbacked assistant to the "mad scientist" in the Frankenstein film series' The House of Frankenstein (1944) with J. Carrol Naish playing a hunchbacked lab assistant named Daniel.

In the horror film Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), Ivan Igor is the name of the mad wax museum curator. The film was remade as House of Wax (1953), but the name Igor was given to the curator's henchman (Charles Bronson) rather than the curator himself. This character is deaf and mute, rather than a hunchback.

The film Igor features an assortment of Igors who are assistants to different mad scientists of the fictional country Malaria. The titular Igor (voiced by John Cusack) was the assistant of Dr. Glickenstein (voiced by John Cleese).

The film Victor Frankenstein features it's version of Igor (portrayed by Danielle Radcliffe) whose abnormality is caused by a cyst on his back that Victor Frankenstein drains.

See also
 Universal Monsters

References

External links
 Discussion of the popular 'Igor' idea

 The writing studio the art of writing and making films original innovation Van Helsing

Bela Lugosi
Film characters introduced in 1939
Fictional henchmen
Fictional hunchbacks
Fictional Serbian people
Frankenstein (Universal film series) characters
Male horror film villains
Male stock characters

Igor (character)