Wes Suter is a retired American gymnast who competed in the 1988 Olympics.

Suter was a highly decorated high school gymnast in Virginia in the early 80s.  Describing Suter's intensity, his coach Bob Grauman remarked:

I have never in all of my years of coaching, and I coached for 32 years, have never met an individual with fire in the belly to perform at a high level.  Whether it was practice, warm-ups or a meet, he had that killer instinct and wanted to win.

Suter went on to compete at the University of Nebraska, where he was part of the 1983 National Champion team.  In 1985, he was the NCAA all-around champion and also won gold on high bar and floor.  Suter was awarded the Nissen Award (the "Heisman" of gymnastics) in 1986.

Suter's younger brother Richard was also a competitive gymnast.

References

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1964 births
Living people
American male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Nebraska Cornhuskers men's gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for the United States

Wes Suter


Otmaro Ruiz (born June 27, 1964, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan pianist, keyboardist, composer, arranger and educator. Son of Óscar Ruiz Beluche and Omaira Prado Hurtado, both medical doctors. He has a sister named Orlena, also a musician (violin, piano) and educator.

Career
Ruiz began his formal musical studies at the age of eight on piano, classical guitar, harmony, history and aesthetics. His formal musical studies were done in the Juan Manuel Olivares Music School in Caracas. In the meantime, he also was exposed to other artistic activities such as drawing and acting. At the same time, he studied organ and pursued a scientific career as a biologist at the Simón Bolívar University, but kept playing keyboards on the side, landing his first professional work in a pop group in 1980.

Decided to focus entirely on music, Ruiz dropped out of school in 1983 while playing in his native Venezuela, where he toured and recorded with local and visiting musicians, and also became a busy studio musician as a jingles composer and arranger.

In 1989 Ruiz moved to Los Angeles, California, where he finished his academic training at CalArts, obtaining a master's degree in jazz performance in 1993. In between, he was also playing with percussionist Alex Acuña, appearing in two albums during the early 1990s. and later recorded with Arturo Sandoval, which was followed by a world tour supporting Gino Vannelli in 1996.

Ruiz marked the transition into the new millennium performing on both  acoustic piano and electric keyboards with rock icons Jon Anderson and Robbie Robertson, Latin Crossings Project, featuring Latin legend Tito Puente, Steve Winwood and Arturo Sandoval, Herb Alpert and Fusion giant John McLaughlin, also taking part in recordings and multiple World tours with multi Grammy Award winner vocalist Dianne Reeves, Frank Gambale, Alain Caron and Lee Ritenour.

Ruiz also participated in an international jazz group named JB Project, along with American bassist Brian Bromberg and Japanese drummer Akira Jimbo. This group released three studio albums: Brombo (2003), Brombo II (2004) and Brombo III (2017). Additionally, he appeared on Akira Jimbo's CDs projects for eleven consecutive years as member of a Trio/Quartet format.

In 2012, the Cornel School of Contemporary Music of Shepherd University awarded Ruiz with an Honorary Doctorate in Music Arts. Then, in 2016, he was nominated for the Best Arrangement Instrumental & Vocals at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards for his version of the tune "Girl from Ipanema", which was part of his production Catina DeLuna and Lado B Brazilian Project, featuring Otmaro Ruiz. This CD also got raving international reviews, including four stars by DownBeat magazine and also was included in their issue Best of 2016.

Furthermore, Ruiz has conducted workshops and lectures worldwide and formed part of the faculty of USC Thornton School of Music for five years. Otmaro also worked as a member of the Cornell School of Contemporary Music based at Shepherd University faculty, as part of a team that includes long time friends and collaborators Abraham Laboriel and Jimmy Branly. In recent years, Otmaro Ruiz released his long dreamed "electric" CD in Trio format with famed musicians Jimmy Haslip and Jimmy Branly entitled "Elemental" to amazing international reviews, also became a member of Simon Phillips' influential Jazz Rock Fusion Band "Protocol" and Toured with SoulBop, a Modern Electric Jazz ensemble conducted by Randy Brecker and Bill Evans. Ruiz remains active up to the present day, generally recording and touring with L.A.-based groups and vocalists, as well as commanding his own projects.

Selected discography

As a leader
Otmaro Ruiz plays Ryuichi Sakamoto (MIDI Inc., 1991)
Nothing to Hide (MMP Records, 1996)
Distant Friends (MLP Records, 1997)
Latino featuring Alex Acuña and Abe Laboriel (Pony Canyon Inc, 2005)
Sojourn (Minina Music / Moondo Records, 2008)
Catina DeLuna and Lado B Brazilian Project Featuring Otmaro Ruiz (Independent, 2015)
Elemental featuring Jimmy Haslip and Jimmy Branly (Blue Canoe, 2018)

Other credits

En Vivo - Ilan Chester (1989)
En Concierto - Soledad Bravo (1989)
Thinking of You - Alex Acuña (1991)
Imagen Latina - Alberto Naranjo (1992)
Dream Come True - Arturo Sandoval (1993)
Deseo - Jon Anderson (1994)
Passages - Frank Gambale (1995)
The Latin Train - Arturo Sandoval (1995)
Si el Norte fuera el Sur - Ricardo Arjona (1996)
Passion Dance - Herb Alpert (1997)
Plomo Revienta - Desorden Público (1997)
Strive for Higher Realities - Pedro Eustache (1997)
Red Heat - Jimmy Haslip (2000)
The Heart of Things : Live in Paris - John McLaughlin (2000)
Call Me Al - Alain Caron (2001)
Baila Cinderella - Hubert Laws (2002)

TruANT - Alien Ant Farm (2003)
Brombo - Brian Bromberg / Akira Jimbo (2003)
Cancionero del Amor Puertorriqueño - Ilan Chester (2003)

Brombo II - Brian Bromberg / Akira Jimbo (2004)
Live in Montreal [DVD] - Dianne Reeves (2005)
Aneurythms - Jeff Berlin (2006)
Natural High - Frank Gambale (2006)
Industrial Zen - John McLaughlin (2006)
Music for Lovers - Dianne Reeves (2007)
Flying Over Bridges - Ashley Maher (2007)
Conversations - Alain Caron (2008) / Also with Oliver Jones, Lorraine Desmarais and François Bourassa, among others
Natural Selection - Frank Gambale (2010)

Born in the 80's - Hadrien Feraud (2015)
Brombo III - Brian Bromberg / Akira Jimbo (2017)

References

External links
Home Page
Audiophile Records
MMP/MOO Records
Sincopa
Verve Records

1964 births
Living people
Musicians from Caracas
Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) alumni
Venezuelan jazz pianists
Venezuelan musicians
21st-century pianists

Otmaro Ruíz


The portal vein or hepatic portal vein (HPV) is a blood vessel that carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, gallbladder, pancreas and spleen to the liver. This blood contains nutrients and toxins extracted from digested contents. Approximately 75% of total liver blood flow is through the portal vein, with the remainder coming from the hepatic artery proper. The blood leaves the liver to the heart in the hepatic veins.

The portal vein is not a true vein, because it conducts blood to capillary beds in the liver and not directly to the heart. It is a major component of the hepatic portal system, one of three portal venous systems in the human body; the others being the hypophyseal and renal portal systems.

The portal vein is usually formed by the confluence of the superior mesenteric, splenic veins, inferior mesenteric, left, right gastric veins and the pancreatic vein.

Conditions involving the portal vein cause considerable illness and death. An important example of such a condition is elevated blood pressure in the portal vein. This condition, called portal hypertension, is a major complication of cirrhosis. In abdominal obesity fats, inflammatory cytokines and other toxic substances are transported by the portal vein from visceral fat into the liver, leading to hepatic insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Structure
Measuring approximately 8 cm (3 inches) long in adults, the portal vein is located in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen, originating behind the neck of the pancreas.

In most individuals, the portal vein is formed by the union of the  superior mesenteric vein and the splenic vein. For this reason, the portal vein is occasionally called the splenic-mesenteric confluence. Occasionally, the portal vein also directly communicates with the inferior mesenteric vein, although this is highly variable. Other tributaries of the portal vein include the cystic and the left and right gastric veins. and also pararumbilical vein and prepyloric vein.

Immediately before reaching the liver, the portal vein divides into right and left. It ramifies further, forming smaller venous branches and ultimately portal venules. Each portal venule courses alongside a hepatic arteriole and the two vessels form the vascular components of the portal triad. These vessels ultimately empty into the hepatic sinusoids to supply blood to the liver.

Portacaval anastomoses
The portal venous system has several anastomoses with the systemic venous system. In cases of portal hypertension these anastomoses may become engorged, dilated, or varicosed and subsequently rupture.

Accessory hepatic portal veins
Accessory hepatic portal veins are those veins that drain directly into the liver without joining the hepatic portal vein. These include the paraumbilical veins as well as veins of the lesser omentum, falciform ligament, and those draining the gallbladder wall.

Function
The portal vein and hepatic arteries form the liver's dual blood supply. Approximately 75% of hepatic blood flow is derived from the portal vein, while the remainder is from the hepatic arteries.

Unlike most veins, the portal vein does not drain into the heart. Rather, it is part of a portal venous system that delivers venous blood into another capillary system, the hepatic sinusoids of the liver. In carrying venous blood from the gastrointestinal tract to the liver, the portal vein accomplishes two tasks: it supplies the liver with metabolic substrates and it ensures that substances ingested are first processed by the liver before reaching the systemic circulation. This accomplishes two things.  First, possible toxins that may be ingested can be detoxified by the hepatocytes before they are released into the systemic circulation.  Second, the liver is the first organ to absorb nutrients just taken in by the intestines. After draining into the liver sinusoids, blood from the liver is drained by the hepatic vein.

Clinical significance

Portal hypertension

Increased blood pressure in the portal vein, called portal hypertension, is a major complication of liver disease, most commonly cirrhosis. A dilated portal vein (diameter of greater than 13 or 15 mm) is a sign of portal hypertension, with a sensitivity estimated at 12.5% or 40%. On Doppler ultrasonography, the main portal vein (MPV) peak systolic velocity normally ranges between 20 cm/s and 40 cm/s. A slow velocity of <16 cm/s in addition to dilatation in the MPV are diagnostic of portal hypertension.

Clinical signs of portal hypertension include those of chronic liver disease: ascites, esophageal varices, spider nevi, caput medusae, and palmar erythema.

Pulsatility

Portal vein pulsatility can be measured by Doppler ultrasonography. An increased pulsatility may be caused by cirrhosis, as well as increased right atrial pressure (which in turn may be caused by right heart failure or tricuspid regurgitation). Portal vein pulsatility can be quantified by pulsatility indices (PI), where an index above a certain cutoff indicates pathology:

Infection

Pylephlebitis is infection of the portal vein, usually arising from an infectious intra-abdominal process such as diverticulitis.

Portal venous gas
Hepatic portal venous gas is a rare finding on radiological exams. Gas is shown to enter the portal venous system. It is most commonly caused by intestinal ischemia but has also been associated with colon cancer.

Additional images

References

External links
  - "Stomach, Spleen and Liver: The Visceral Surface of the Liver"

Veins of the torso

Portal vein


St. Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Gulberg, Pakistan. It was founded in 1961 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lahore.

The parish priest from 2000 to 2002 was Fr. Francis Nadeem, OFMCap The parish priest in 2020 is Fr. Patrick Samuel, OFMCap

Programs

The parish hosts five youth groups whose activities are Prayer, Bible Sharing, Promoting Awareness of Catechism, Education, Peace and Social Harmony.

The Parish is also home to the Family Fellowship Forum. The forum is attended by about 100 couples. It meets every two months to discuss issues such as tolerance in the family, children's formation, values and education. Father Morris Jalal started the forum after parishioners sought counselling from him about their family problems. The priest stressed the need to implement such programs in city parishes, where people do not even know their neighbours. St. Mary's Parish has about 2,200 families, 40 percent of which moved tere from areas outside Lahore.

The parish has a college scholarship fund. St. Mary's Church held its fourth annual fund-raising event, titled Deep Say Deep Jalao (lighting one lamp after another), during the evening of June 10, 2006.
That year, the parish raised 344,000 rupees (US$5,743).

The program helped three young parishioners to get nursing training at hospitals and four others who went to study at the Don Bosco Technical Institute, Lahore.

Another accomplishment was the opening of the Tarbiyat (training) Centre in the Parish in 2007, which had the aim of empowering parishioners through knowledge of their own and other religions. The centre's main resource base is its collection of 2,000 books in English and Urdu on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism. The library also contains books on culture, philosophy and sociology, as well as 200 compact discs. In addition, the centre has a computer with Internet access.

Capuchin Father Eubert Pollentier served in the archdiocese for 48 years.

References

Roman Catholic churches in Lahore
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1961
1961 establishments in Pakistan

St. Mary's Church, Gulberg


The Loy Kirksey House is a historic house in rural Clark County, Arkansas.  It is located on the south side of Still Creek Road (County Road 59) east of the hamlet of Fendley.  This single-story dog trot house was built in stages, beginning with a single log pen that probably predates the American Civil War.  Around 1895 this structure was expanded to form the dog-trot by William Kirksey.  The only significant alteration since then is the replacement of the original chimney in the mid-20th century with the present brick one.  The property also includes two single-story log barns built in the early decades of the 20th century.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Arkansas

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas
Houses completed in 1895
Houses in Clark County, Arkansas
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Arkansas

Loy Kirksey House


Constance Witherby Park is an historic park at 210 Pitman Street, Wayland, Providence, Rhode Island. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

The park was donated in 1929 by Mr. and Mrs. S. Foster Hunt in memory of Mrs. Hunt's daughter by her first marriage Constance Witherby (1913–1929). It was landscaped by then-Superintendent of Parks Ernest K. Thomas. The park occupies the space between Waterman Street and Pitman Avenue, across from the Salvation Army. It is a small, heavily wooded park (just over 100,000 square feet) with many trees and a few park benches.

The centerpiece of the park was once a bronze sculpture, called "A Memorial to Young Womanhood (or The Spirit of Youth)", by sculptor Gail Sherman Corbett (1871 – 1952). The sculpture depicted a young girl wearing a windblown dress, in homage to the spirit of young Constance who died of heart failure just before her 16th birthday while climbing in the Swiss Alps.

The statue was dedicated in 1933 and removed sometime "towards the end of the 20th Century". The sculpture was moved to its new home on Blackstone Boulevard near its intersection with Clarendon St.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island

References

External links

Witherby family papers

National Register of Historic Places in Providence, Rhode Island
Parks in Rhode Island

Constance Witherby Park


Exocet is a typeface designed by the British typographer Jonathan Barnbrook for the Emigre foundry in 1991. It was originally designed for the European annual series Illustration Now.

The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings, with geometric shapes used for the main construction. For example, its stylized Q is based on qoppa, an ancient form of Q. The O with a cross () is an early form of theta.

It is an all-capital font, but with different capital glyphs for both lowercase and capital letters. However, the only letter that has visually distinct forms is T, with the lowercase t being a cross.

Variants

It is available in "light" and "heavy" varieties. There is no italic.

A sans version of the font from the same designer, called Patriot, was released in 1997.

Notable uses

It was used extensively for product designs in the 1990s, most notably for the American tea company Tazo. It was also used on the album cover of Donald Fagen's 1993 album Kamakiriad. It can be seen in the 1993 movie Demolition Man where it is used extensively in the museum scene. It was also used in the film Dogma, the film Star Trek Nemesis, the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Planescape, the English translation of the Korean manhwa Priest, the Diablo computer game series, the Double Switch full motion video game, and the Sony PlayStation scrolling shooter game Einhänder.

See also
 Samples of display typefaces

References

Emigre typefaces
Incised typefaces
Display typefaces
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1991
Typefaces designed by Jonathan Barnbrook

Exocet (typeface)


Federico D'Incà (born 10 February 1976) is an Italian politician, who is member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Five Star Movement. On 5 September 2019, he was appointed as Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the Conte II Cabinet.

Early life and career
D'Incà graduated in economics and commerce from the University of Trento. He was an IT management systems analyst in a private company until 2013, and previously was a senior manager in a multinational large-scale retail trade and quality manager in a robotics and automation company. He is a managing director of the Italy–USA Foundation.

Politics
In the 2013 general elections he was elected deputy of the 17th legislature of the Italian Republic in the Veneto 2 constituency for the Five Star Movement. since 17 December 2013 he has been the group leader of the M5S in the Chamber of Deputies, taking over from Alessio Villarosa of which he was already deputy group leader. Riccardo Nuti, previously the group leader, however, remained officially president of the group for technical-bureaucratic reasons due to the parliamentary organization until 4 September 2014 when his predecessor Villarosa officially became one.

On 26 March 2015 he officially became president of the M5S parliamentary group, thus legally representing the group in administrative and bureaucratic areas.

In 2016 he held the role of vice president of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry for the digitization of the Public Administration.

Re-elected in 2018 again with the M5S, he was appointed quaestor of the Chamber of Deputies. He is a member of the Budget, Treasury and Planning Commission, the Communication and External Information Committee, the Supervisory Committee on Documentation Activities, the Personnel Affairs Committee, the Security Committee.

On 5 September 2019 he has been appointed Minister for Relations with the Parliament of the Conte II Government. On 3 October 2019 he also received the delegation for the Reforms.

He remained in office in the Draghi Cabinet.

On 30 July 2022, he left the M5S and on 1 August, alongside Member of the Chamber of Deputies Davide Crippa, he founded Environment 2050, a progressive and environmentalist political organization.

References

External links
 Official website

Politicians of Veneto
1976 births
Living people
21st-century Italian politicians
Conte II Cabinet
Draghi Cabinet
Five Star Movement politicians
University of Trento alumni
People from Belluno
Deputies of Legislature XVII of Italy
Deputies of Legislature XVIII of Italy
Government ministers of Italy
20th-century Italian people

Federico D'Incà


George Joseph O'Leary (born August 17, 1946) is a former American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets from 1994 to 2001 and the UCF Knights from 2004 to 2015. He was famously hired in 2001 to be the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish but resigned after five days for lying on his resume. O'Leary was an assistant coach for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) from 2002 to 2004, and an assistant coach for the Syracuse Orange and San Diego Chargers.

During his twelve-year tenure with the Knights, O'Leary guided the team to the fourth-best turnaround in NCAA history (2005), and led UCF to one of the biggest upsets of the BCS era in the 2014 Fiesta Bowl. Following an 0–8 start to the 2015 season, O'Leary resigned as UCF's head coach.

Personal life
O'Leary was born on August 17, 1946, in Central Islip, New York, and graduated from Central Islip High School in 1964. O'Leary is married to Sharon O'Leary (née Schnellenberger) and they have four children; two daughters, Chris and Trish, and two sons, Tim and Marty. Marty was a senior free safety on the 2001 Georgia Tech team that his father coached.

O'Leary earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from the University of New Hampshire in 1968.

When he wasn't coaching football or serving as a gym teacher, O'Leary taught drivers education classes.

Coaching career

Early years
He began his coaching career at Central Islip High School in New York, serving as their assistant coach from 1968 to 1974. From 1975 to 1976, he served as the head coach at Central Islip. He then became head coach at Liverpool High School in New York from 1977 to 1979. During his time at the two high schools, between 1975 and 1979, O'Leary amassed a 37–8–1 record, winning more than 82% of his games.

His initial collegiate coaching job was as the defensive line coach at Syracuse. He served in this capacity from 1980 to 1984. Between 1985 and 1986, O'Leary took on the added responsibility of being the Orange's assistant head coach. His next assignment was at Georgia Tech, serving as their defensive coordinator and defensive line coach from 1987 to 1991. During this tenure, the team finished 11–0–1 in 1990 and won the national championship, defeating Nebraska at the Florida Citrus Bowl. Following his initial stint with the Yellow Jackets, O'Leary received his first coaching job in the NFL with the San Diego Chargers, serving as their defensive line coach in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, O'Leary would return to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets as their defensive coordinator and defensive line coach, and eventual head coach.

Georgia Tech

In the 1994 season, O'Leary took over the program as interim head coach with three games remaining in the season, after then head coach Bill Lewis was fired for the team's 1–7 record after coaching for three years, with the Jackets having won the national championship as recently as 1990. He was later named the head coach prior to the 1995 season.  After two off years, O'Leary rebuilt the program into a consistent winner, leading the team to a victory in the 1997 Carquest Bowl in Miami. O'Leary's 1998 team went 10–2, defeating its archrival the University of Georgia for the first time in 7 years, as well as the University of Notre Dame in the 1999 Gator Bowl. For the remainder of his tenure at Georgia Tech, the team went to a bowl game every season.

O'Leary won the Bobby Dodd National Coach of the year in 2000 and the ACC Coach of the Year Award in 1998 and 2000.  During his seven-year stint at Georgia Tech, O'Leary guided the Yellow Jackets to a 52–33 (.612) record, including five bowl appearances. From 1995 to 2001, Georgia Tech recorded five winning seasons in six years, including the 1998 ACC Co-championship and an appearance in the Toyota Gator Bowl on New Year's Day. O'Leary's Georgia Tech teams won at least seven games four times during his tenure, including a 10-win season in 1998 and a nine-win campaign in 2000.

During an NCAA investigation after he had left Georgia Tech and Chan Gailey was the head coach, it was revealed that the Georgia Tech football program used ineligible players while O'Leary was head coach. These infractions were due to the deficiencies in the school's academic administration who had incorrectly accounted for student-athletes' credit hours and were not attributed to O'Leary or his staff.  The initial requirement that Georgia Tech vacate the performances of the football team for games in which these ineligible players participated was overturned on appeal. Further, Georgia Tech was placed on probation and lost scholarships because of the violations.

Notre Dame scandal

In 2001, O'Leary left Georgia Tech to take over as the head coach for the University of Notre Dame.

However, a few days after he was hired, inaccuracies were discovered in his published biographical sketch. The biography, which had remained more or less unchanged for two decades, stated that O'Leary had earned three letters in football at the University of New Hampshire, but when The (Manchester) Union Leader called The University of New Hampshire to research a feature story on him, the school informed the paper he had not even played in one game.

When this came to light, O'Leary offered his immediate resignation, which Notre Dame athletic director Kevin White turned down, but then asked if there were any other inaccuracies. He then admitted that he had not earned a master's degree from "NYU-Stony Brook University": this was a non-existent institution named after two separate schools over 50 miles apart (he had taken only two courses at Stony Brook, and never graduated). When this inaccuracy came to light, Notre Dame promptly forced O'Leary to resign.

O'Leary said in a statement released that day, "Due to a selfish and thoughtless act many years ago, I have personally embarrassed Notre Dame, its alumni and fans."

O'Leary blamed these inaccuracies on resume padding that had followed him through his career, and admitted: "In seeking employment I prepared a resume that contained inaccuracies regarding my completion of course work for a master's degree and also my level of participation in football at my alma mater. These misstatements were never stricken from my resume or biographical sketch in later years."

Minnesota Vikings
In 2002, O'Leary was hired as the defensive line coach for the Minnesota Vikings by head coach Mike Tice, who played for O'Leary at Central Islip High School in the 1970s. O'Leary was promoted to defensive coordinator in 2003. He was credited with improving the 2002 Vikings defense to 10th in the NFL, after it was ranked 30th in 2001.

UCF

Program building

O'Leary left the Vikings in 2004 to become the head coach at the University of Central Florida.  In his first season, the Knights posted their worst season in school history with an 0–11 record.

The team rebounded in 2005 after joining Conference USA. The team finished the season with an 8–3 record (7–1 in C-USA).  UCF defeated Rice to clinch the C-USA East Division and earned the right to host the first-ever C-USA Championship Game, a loss to Tulsa that was played in front of more than 51,000 people. The team would then go on to play in the Hawaii Bowl, barely losing to Nevada after UCF kicker Matt Prater missed an extra point in overtime.  The Knights were just the sixth team in NCAA history to go to a bowl a year after going winless.  O'Leary was named Conference USA Coach of the Year in addition to being named National Coach of the Year by CBSSportsLine.com and SportsIllustrated.com. Facing an 11-game schedule with just four home games, O'Leary's UCF squad became just the fourth team in NCAA history to earn a bowl berth while playing seven road games in an 11-game schedule.

During O'Leary's leadership, UCF made an effort to improve the athletic facilities on campus.  On September 15, 2007, it opened its 45,000 seat on-campus football facility, Bright House Networks Stadium with a 3-point loss to the Texas Longhorns on ESPN.  O'Leary was instrumental in getting state-of-the-art practice fields and an indoor football practice facility.  UCF had opened the 2007 season on the road with a 25–23 victory against ACC team NC State.  This was the first victory over a BCS conference team in the O'Leary era. After a 64–12 loss to cross-state rival USF, UCF successfully finished the season leading the C-USA East Division, and again earned the right to host the C-USA Championship. In a rematch of the 2005 Conference Championship game, the Knights would again face the University of Tulsa in the title game. This time, however, O'Leary would lead the Knights to their first ever Conference Championship, a feat that would land the Knights a bid to the 2007 Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN. This was the second bowl berth in school history (the first coming in 2005 also under O'Leary) and the second one in three years.

On March 18, 2008, running back Ereck Plancher died after conditioning drills. According to four UCF football players interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel, Coach O'Leary verbally abused Plancher throughout the workout, and continued to push the young man to perform despite what they reported to be obvious physical signs that Plancher was in no shape to continue.  According to the four unnamed players, O'Leary cursed at Plancher in a post-workout huddle.  Plancher collapsed shortly after the workout and was immediately attended by UCF athletic trainers.  He was then transported to a nearby hospital where he died approximately one hour later. Subsequent to the Orlando Sentinel article, ESPN's "Outside The Lines" program on November 2, 2008, interviewed players who were at the training session at which Plancher became ill and after which he died; they stated that the session was longer and far more rigorous than O'Leary and other UCF Athletics officials have admitted to publicly. They also alleged that O'Leary and other coaches had initially warned players against providing assistance to Plancher when he became visibly distressed. UCF medical records indicate that UCF coaches and trainers knew that Plancher had a sickle-cell trait which could lead to problems, and even death, during high-intensity workouts. After a 14-day trial in 2011, a jury found the UCF Athletics Association guilty of negligence in the death of Plancher. The jury awarded each of his parents $5 million. The award was subsequently reduced to $200,000 by the Fifth District Court of Appeals, which ruled that the UCF Athletics Association is subject to sovereign immunity under Florida law.

O'Leary led the Knights to an eight-loss season in 2008. The losing season, in conjunction with the controversy surrounding the death of Ereck Plancher, led many to question whether O'Leary's tenure at UCF was coming to a close. O'Leary remained and made significant changes to his coaching staff for the 2009 season. O'Leary once again led UCF to bowl eligibility during the 2009 season, and on November 14, 2009, Coach O'Leary led the Knights to their first win in program history against a nationally ranked opponent, defeating No. 13 Houston 37–32 at Bright House Networks Stadium. For the third time in five years the Knights were bowl eligible and faced the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in the 2009 St. Petersburg Bowl, losing 45–24.

National success
In 2010, for the first time in school history, the Knights were ranked following a nationally televised 40–33 road victory against Houston. After winning 5 straight games, and posting an 11-game conference winning streak, UCF was ranked in all three major college polls released on November 7, 2010. The Knights were ranked 25 in the AP Poll, 23 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and 25 in the Harris Poll. UCF fell just short of garnering a BCS ranking, placing 27th. UCF finished the 2010 regular season with a 10–3 record, after winning the Conference USA Championship over the SMU Mustangs, 17–7, and earning the Knights' second invitation to the Liberty Bowl. The Knights ranked 25th in the final BCS standings, marking the first time UCF has ever been ranked in the BCS standings. UCF also ranked 24th in Coaches Poll, 25th in Harris Poll, and were unofficially ranked 26th in the AP Poll. For the third time in his tenure at UCF, George O'Leary won C-USA Coach of the Year honors. He then led the Knights to a 10–6 Liberty Bowl victory over the SEC's Georgia Bulldogs and final rankings of 20 and 21 in the Coaches and AP Polls, respectively. The bowl win and 11 total wins were two more firsts for the Knights, capping off the most successful year in team history.

2011 proved to be a disappointing season as UCF finished with a losing record, and were not bowl eligible for the first time since 2008. Following an investigation into recruiting violations in the men's basketball and football programs in 2011, on July 31, 2012, the NCAA announced sanctions – in addition to penalties UCF had already self-imposed. The NCAA imposed a one-year postseason football ban for the 2012 season, in addition to a $50,000 fine, five years' probation, reduction of football scholarships, and tighter limits of football recruiting visiting days. UCF appealed the postseason ban, and in April 2013 the ban was lifted.

In 2013, O'Leary led the Knights – in their first season in the American Athletic Conference – to the program's first win over a Big Ten opponent, defeating Penn State in front of 92,855 in Happy Valley. Three games later, UCF upset No. 6 Louisville on-the-road. Following the homecoming upset of the Cardinals, UCF won contests against UConn and Houston, and earned their first Top–15 ranking in school history. After an 11–1 finish to the regular season, O'Leary and the Knights earned a berth to the 2014 Fiesta Bowl against No. 6 Baylor Bears, the first BCS berth for both schools and the first major-bowl appearance of any sort for the Knights. Going into the game, UCF was the biggest BCS Bowl underdog in history. Despite this, the Knights upset Baylor by a score of 52–42, led by Junior quarterback Blake Bortles, who threw for 301 yards and 3 touchdowns, plus 93 rushing yards and another score. The following season O'Leary signed a four-year contract extension and UCF again won the American Athletic Conference, this time sharing the title with Cincinnati and Memphis. After beginning the 2015 season with an 0–8 record and briefly taking on the role of interim athletic director of the university, O'Leary resigned as UCF's head coach.

Academic success
O'Leary reshaped the UCF football program in regard to improved academic results in the classroom and overall team discipline on and off the football field. After O'Leary's arrival, UCF posted its top two fall semester team grade point averages. The Knights set a new school Division I-A history record with a 2.78 team GPA in 2004, only to break that mark with a 2.808 team GPA in the fall of 2005. In 2005, UCF placed 39 student-athletes on the Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll, the most of any football squad in the conference. 82 percent of O'Leary's first recruiting class received academic honor roll accolades. 40 percent of the team earned a 3.0 GPA or higher during the fall 2004 semester.

The Knights' academic success continued during the Fall 2007 semester, when the Knights had an in-season team GPA of 2.753.  This brought the cumulative GPA of the Knights' roster to 2.838.  Furthermore, 44 members of the roster posted a GPA of 3.0 or higher. For the fall 2008 semester the Knights combined cumulative grade point average was 2.969, and was as high as 3.035 following the 2007 summer semester. The overall team cumulative GPA for the fall 2009 semester was 2.99. According to UCF's associate director of Academic Services for Student-Athletes, UCF football players are required to attend 10 hours of study hall a week, with at least two hours completed each and every night.

Head coaching record

*The Seattle bowl was coached by Mac McWhorter.

See also
 List of University of New Hampshire alumni

References

External links
 UCF profile

1946 births
Living people
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football coaches
Minnesota Vikings coaches
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football coaches
UCF Knights athletic directors
UCF Knights football coaches
High school football coaches in New York (state)
University of New Hampshire alumni
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People from Central Islip, New York
Sportspeople from Suffolk County, New York
Coaches of American football from New York (state)

George O'Leary


Greenstone is a common generic term for valuable, green-hued minerals and metamorphosed igneous rocks and stones which early cultures used in the fashioning of hardstone carvings such as jewelry, statuettes, ritual tools, and various other artifacts.  Greenstone artifacts may be made of greenschist, chlorastrolite, serpentine, omphacite, chrysoprase, olivine, nephrite, chloromelanite among other green-hued minerals.  The term also includes jade and jadeite, although these are perhaps more frequently identified by these latter terms. The greenish hue of these rocks generally derives from the presence of minerals such as chlorite, hornblende, or epidote.

Greenstone minerals were presumably selected for their color rather than their chemical composition. In archaeology therefore, having a loosely applied general term is at least partially influenced by the observation that ancient cultures often used and considered these various green-hued materials as interchangeable.  Greenstone objects are often found very considerable distances from the source of the rock, indicating early travel or trading networks. A polished jadeite axe head in the British Museum (4000-2000 BCE) was found in Canterbury, Kent but uses stone from the Alps of Northern Italy, and objects from other parts of the world had travelled comparable distances to their findspots.

Ancient China and Mesoamerica have special reputations for the prevalence and significance of greenstone (particularly jade) usage. Greenstones also figure prominently in the indigenous cultures of southeastern Australia, and among the Māori of New Zealand (who knew greenstone as pounamu).  Neolithic Europe also used greenstone, especially for prestige versions of axe tools, not made for use; comparable jade versions of tools and weapons also appeared in the Olmec and other Pre-Columbian cultures and in early Chinese civilization.

Gallery of greenstone versions of tools or weapons

Notes

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Beji Caid Essebsi (or es-Sebsi; , ; 29 November 1926 – 25 July 2019) was a Tunisian politician who served as the 6th president of Tunisia from 31 December 2014 until his death on 25 July 2019. Previously, he served as the minister of foreign affairs from 1981 to 1986 and as the prime minister from February 2011 to December 2011.

Essebsi's political career spanned six decades, culminating in his leadership of Tunisia in its transition to democracy. Essebsi was the founder of the Nidaa Tounes political party, which won a plurality in the 2014 parliamentary election. In December 2014, he won the first regular presidential election following the Tunisian Revolution, becoming Tunisia's first democratically elected president.

Early life

Born in 1926, in Sidi Bou Said to an elite family originally from Sardinia (Italy), he was the great-grandson of Ismail Caïd Essebsi, a Sardinian kidnapped by Barbary corsairs in the Beylik of Tunis along the coasts of the island at the beginning of the nineteenth century, who then became a mamluk leader (he was raised with the ruling family after converting to Islam and was later recognized as a free man when he became an important member of the government).

Political career

Essebsi's first involvement in politics came in 1941, when he joined the Neo Destour youth organization in Hammam-Lif. He went to France in 1950 to study law in Paris. He began his career as a lawyer defending Neo-Destour activists.  Essebsi later joined Tunisia's leader Habib Bourguiba as a supporter of the Tunisian separatist movement and later as his adviser following the country's independence from France in 1956.

Essebsi, a protégé of Bourguiba, held various posts under Bourguiba from 1957 to 1971, including chief of the regional administration, general director of the Sûreté nationale, Interior Minister in 1965, Minister-Delegate to the Prime Minister, Defense Minister in 1969, and then Ambassador to Paris.

From October 1971 to January 1972, he advocated greater democracy in Tunisia and resigned his function, then returning to Tunis.

In April 1981, he came back to the government under Mohamed Mzali as Minister of Foreign Affairs, serving until September 1986. In 1987, he switched allegiance following Ben Ali's removal of Bourguiba from power. He was appointed as Ambassador to West Germany. From 1990 to 1991, he was the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.

Interim Prime Minister in 2011

On 27 February 2011, in the aftermath of the Tunisian Revolution that ousted long-serving leader Ben Ali, Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi then resigned following a day of clashes in Tunis with five protesters being killed. On the same day, acting President Fouad Mebazaa appointed Caïd Essebsi as the new Prime Minister, describing him as "a person with an impeccable political and private life, known for his profound patriotism, his loyalty and his self-sacrifice in serving his country." The mostly young protesters continued taking their discontent to the streets, criticizing the unilateral appointment of Essebsi without further consultation. Essesbi nevertheless has been described as someone who had "remained at a distance from Ben Ali" since his leaving politics in 1991, a move significant for "contribut[ing] to his credibility and acceptance" in the years following the 2011 revolution, the post-Ben Ali era.

On 5 May accusations of the former Interior Minister Farhat Rajhi that a coup d'etat was being prepared against the possibility of the Islamist Ennahda Party winning the Constituent Assembly election in October. This, again, led to several days of fierce anti-Government protests and clashes on the streets. In the interview disseminated on Facebook, Rajhi called Caïd Essebsi a "liar", whose government had been manipulated by the old Ben Ali circles. Caïd Essebsi strongly rejected Rajhi's accusations as "dangerous and irresponsible lies, [aimed at spreading] chaos in the country" and also dismissed him from his post as director of the High Commission for Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which he had retained after being dismissed from the office as Interior Minister already on 8 March. Nevertheless, Ennahda's president Rached Ghannouchi further fueled the suspicions, stating that "Tunisians doubt the credibility of the Transitional Government."

After the elections in October, Caïd Essebsi left office on 24 December 2011 when the new Interim President Moncef Marzouki appointed Hamadi Jebali of the Islamist Ennahda, which had become the largest parliamentary group.

2014 elections

Following his departure from office, Caïd Essebsi founded the secular Nidaa Tounes party, which won a plurality of the seats in the October 2014 parliamentary election. He was also the party's candidate in the country's first free presidential elections, in November 2014.

On 22 December 2014, official election results showed that Essebsi had defeated incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the second round of voting, receiving 55.68% of the vote. After the polls closed the previous day, Essebsi said on local television that he dedicated his victory to "the martyrs of Tunisia".

President of Tunisia

Essebsi was sworn in as President on 31 December 2014 at the age of 88, he was the first freely elected president of modern Tunisia. He played a vital role in helping ensure that, more than any other Arab state, the North African country preserved many of the essential gains of the Arab spring movement, which began in Tunisia originally. He vowed on the occasion of his swearing-in to "be president of all Tunisian men and women without exclusion" and stressed the importance of "consensus among all parties and social movements".

On 3 August 2016, Essebsi appointed Youssef Chahed as a prime minister as the parliament withdrew confidence from Habib Essid's government.

In 2017, he called for legal amendments to the inheritance law to ensure equal rights for men and women, and he called for Tunisian women to be able to marry non-Muslims, which he believed to be not in direct conflict with Sharia nor with the Tunisian constitution.

In 2018, he proposed a revision of Tunisian electoral law, which he felt contained many shortcomings going against the principles of the 2011 revolution.

On 13 August 2018, he promised also to submit a bill to parliament soon which would aim to give women equal inheritance rights with men, as debate over the controversial topic of inheritance reverberated then throughout the Muslim world.

Not long before his death, concerning the economic crisis of Tunisia (widely believed to be the foremost political problem in the country in the post-revolutionary era), he declared that the year 2018 would be difficult, but that the hope of economic revival was still possible.

In April 2019, Essebsi announced he would not seek a second term in that year's presidential election, saying it was time to "open the door to the youth."

Beji Caid Essebsi was recognized for his role in reinforcing democratic advances in the face of economic hardship and terrorism.

Illness and death

On 27 June 2019, Essebsi was hospitalized at a military hospital in Tunis due to a serious illness. The following day his condition stabilized.

He was re-admitted to hospital on 24 July 2019, and died the following day, 25 July 2019 (which coincided with the 62nd anniversary of the abolition of the Tunisian monarchy), five months before his term was due to end. In addition to Tunisia, which declared mourning for seven days, eight other countries announced official mourning periods of three days after the death of Essebsi, namely Libya, Algeria, Mauritania, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and Cuba. Likewise, the United Nations stood for a minute of silence and flew flags for a day after Essebsi's death.

The electoral commission subsequently announced that Essebsi's successor would be elected sooner than the original date of 17 November, due to the constitutional provision that in the event of the president's death, a permanent successor must be in office within 90 days. The president of the Assembly of Representatives of the People, Mohamed Ennaceur, served as acting president in the meantime. Ultimately, the election was pushed up to 15 September.

His state funeral took place on 27 July in Carthage in the presence of dignitaries such as :
 Mohamed Ennaceur (President of Tunisia)
 Emmanuel Macron (President of France)
 Felipe VI (King of Spain)
 Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (President of Portugal)
 George Vella (President of Malta)
 Albert II (Prince of Monaco)
 Joachim Gauck (Former President of Germany)
 Simonetta Sommaruga (Former President of Switzerland)
 Abdelkader Bensalah (President of Algeria)
 Mahmoud Abbas (President of Palestine)
 Fayez al-Sarraj (Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya)
 Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (Emir of Qatar)
 Ghassan Salame (Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations)
 Ahmed Aboul Gheit (Secretary General of the Arab League)
 Taïeb Baccouche (Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union)
 Moulay Rachid (Prince of Morocco)
 Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi (Emir of Fujairah)
 Fuat Oktay (Vice President of Turkey)
 Stephane Dion (Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of Canada)
 Ulrich Brechbuhl (Counselor of the United States Department of State).

A procession took place from the Carthage Palace to Jellaz Cemetery, where he was buried. Abdullah II (King of Jordan) also came to Tunisia on 29 July to offer condolences to the President of Tunisia Mohamed Ennaceur and to the family of President Beji Caid Essebsi.

Personal life
Essebsi married Chadlia Saïda Farhat on 8 February 1958. The couple had four children: two daughters, Amel and Salwa, and two sons, Mohamed Hafedh and Khélil.

His wife died on 15 September 2019, aged 83, nearly two months after her husband.

Honours and awards

National honours

Foreign honours

  Medal of Honor of the Republic of Algeria (3 January 2013)
  Collar of the Order of Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa (Bahrain; 27 January 2016)
  Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance (Jordan; 20 October 2015)
  Collar of the Order of King Abdulaziz (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 29 March 2019)
  Knight Grand Cross with Collar of Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (8 January 2017)
  Honorary Companions of Honour with Collar of the National Order of Merit (Malta; 5 February 2019)
  Grand Collar of the State of Palestine (6 July 2017)
  Second Class of the Order of the Republic of Serbia (2016)
  Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (Spain; 28 October 1969)
  Knight of the Order of the Seraphim (Sweden; 4 November 2015)
  Collar of the Order of the State of Republic of Turkey (27 December 2017)

Awards
 Honorary Degree from Paris-Sorbonne University (2015)
 Founder's Award of International Crisis Group (2015)
 Freedom of the City of Amman (2015)
 Medal of Arab tourism (2017)
 Tunisian Politician of the Year (2017)
 Leadership Award of Global Hope Coalition (2018)

Publications
 Bourguiba : le bon grain et l'ivraie, éd. Sud Éditions, Tunis, 2009,
 La Tunisie : la démocratie en terre d'islam (with Arlette Chabot), éd. Plon, Paris, 2016

Gallery

References

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Ambassadors of Tunisia to France
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Lowell Airport  is a privately owned, public use airport located five nautical miles (9 km) southwest of the central business district of Lowell, a town in Lake County, Indiana, United States.

Facilities and aircraft
Lowell Airport covers an area of 19 acres (8 ha) at an elevation of 675 feet (206 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 18/36 with a turf surface measuring 3,041 by 100 feet (927 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2008, the airport had 4,176 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 11 per day. At that time there were 11 single-engine aircraft based at this airport.

See also
 List of airports in Indiana

References

External links
 Aerial image as of April 1998 from USGS The National Map

Airports in Lake County, Indiana
1980 establishments in Indiana
Airports established in 1980

Lowell Airport (Indiana)


Cristina del Valle (born 1 August 1960) is a Spanish singer and activist.

Biography
Cristina del Valle was born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.

In 1980, she went to Madrid to study criminology and since 1978, she has worked in several social action groups, NGOs (Ayora, Solidarios, Apram, and others) and left-wing political parties which worked in support of human rights, for the Sahrawi people or against domestic violence.

As a singer, she started with the band Vodebil, but she released her first solo-album in 1989, Cris. In 1991, after meeting her sentimental partner Alberto Comesaña, the couple decided to launch the musical duo Amistades Peligrosas, which grew to great success. The group split in 1996, but returned in 2003 with the album La larga espera. She has also collaborated in several musical projects like Tatuaje, where she played María de la O. Hevia was as well her sentimental partner.

Prizes
Mujer del año 1998, Valdés (Asturias)
Premio Comadre de oro de [Antroxu] 1999
Premio Vaqueira, 1999
Premio Flor de Manzana, Villaviciosa (Asturias)
Premio Racimo de oro 1999, Jerez
Premio Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) "Mujer 99"
Premio Luarca 1999
Premio T de Tarde a la Tolerancia 2000
Premio radio Gorbea 2001
Premio Nosotras 2001

Discography

Solo career
Cris, 1989
Siempre te metes en líos,1990
El Dios de las Pequeñas cosas, 1999
Apuntes generales del mundo, 2001
Tiempos Rotos 2009

With Alberto Comesaña in Amistades Peligrosas
Relatos de una intriga, 1991
La última Tentación, 1993
La Profecía, 1995
Nueva Era, 1997
La larga espera, 2003
Recopilatorio Amistades Peligrosas
El arte de amar (2013)

External links
Biografía

People from Oviedo
Living people
Spanish women singers
1960 births

Cristina del Valle


Tony Moulai (born 17 January 1976 in Saint-Nazaire) is a triathlete from France. Moulai has won three silver medals in his entire sporting career, including one for mixed team relay, and is currently ranked no. 13 in the world by the International Triathlon Union. He is also a member of the Poissy Triathlon team.

Moulai started out as a football player for seven years, until he began with triathlon in 1992. He first competed at both local and national elite championships within a span of ten years in his career, and eventually reached into the international level at his first ITU Triathlon World Cup in Cancun, Mexico in 2004. During the course of his career, Moulay has further improved on his athletic abilities and physical training after he performed poorly in his first few competitions, and in 2006, he finished astoundingly in twenty-fourth place at the ITU World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland. Following his success, he was able to achieve four top ten finishes at the ITU World Triathlon Cup, including his third-place finish in New Plymouth, New Zealand, and eventually placed into the top twenty world ranking.

Moulai was selected to the French team for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; however, he did not finish the entire run in the men's event. Despite his disappointing finish at the Olympics, Moulai continued to win other triathlon events, by capturing the silver medal at the ITU European Championships in Lisbon, Portugal, and receiving his best result at the ITU World Championships, when he finished eighth overall in Vancouver.

Moulai retired in 2014 and works now as a sports teacher.

References

External links
ITU Profile
Official site

1976 births
Living people
French male triathletes
Olympic triathletes for France
Triathletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics
21st-century French people
20th-century French people

Tony Moulai


The Begoniaceae are a family of flowering plants with about 1400-1500 species occurring in the subtropics and tropics of both the New World and Old World. All but one of the species are in the genus Begonia. The only other genus in the family, Hillebrandia, is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and has only one species.

Many varieties (or cultivars) of some species and hybrids of the genus Begonia are used as ornamental plants.

Description

Plant and leaves
Most of the plants in this family are perennial herbaceous plants and very few are shrubs o subshrubs; they are from only a few centimetres to 3 metres tall. Their leaves and stems are succulents, that is, leaves and stems are juicy and store water.

Stems are upright (vertical) and many species form rhizomes or tubers (fleshy, thickened underground stems). In some cases, the stems are very short and the leaves are in a group close to the soil.

The leaves of most species are simple, undivided and with sides more or less unequal; in very few cases they are compound (divided). They are alternate or, when the stem is very short, they are all in a group.

Flowers and fruits
Begoniaceae plants are mostly monoecious, so there are male and female flowers on the same plant; very few are dioecious, with only one kind of flower so the plants are either male or female. Flowers are grouped in inflorescences.

The fruits are capsules (simple, dry fruits) and sometimes berries; they have many very small seeds.

Chromosome number
The chromosome number is variable, n=10-21 or more.

Genera
The family Begoniaceae was named in 1820 as Begoniae by the Bohemian scientists Friedrich Graf von Berchtold and Jan Svatopluk Presl in Prirozenosti Rostlin, 1:270, and then in 1824 as Begoniaceae by the Swedish botanist Carl Adolph Agardh, published in Aphorismi Botanici.

There are two genera in this family:
 Begonia, with approximately 1400 species that are widely distributed in the tropics.
 Hillebrandia, with one species that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and the only member of the Begoniaceae native to those islands.

The New Guinean genus Symbegonia Warb. has recently been reduced to a section of Begonia.

Where they grow
The species of this family are found abundantly in all moist tropical countries, absent only from the Australian tropical forests.

One species, B. grandis grows in the temperate zone, growing as far north as near Beijing (China).

Uses
Some species, hybrids and cultivars of the genus Begonia are used worldwide as ornamental plants in parks, gardens, balconies and as houseplants because they have beautiful leaves and flowers.

References

Other websites

 American Begonia Society
 Begonia - Gardenology.org
A Phylogeny of Begonia Using Nuclear Ribosomal Sequence Data and Morphological Characters
 A recircumscription of Begonia based on nuclear ribosomal sequences
Notes on the geography of South-East Asian Begonia and species diversity in montane forests
Phylogenetic position and biogeography of Hillebrandia sandwicensis (Begoniaceae): a rare Hawaiian relict
Phylogenetic Relationships of the Afro-Malagasy Members of the Large Genus Begonia Inferred from trnL Intron Sequences

Cucurbitales
Plant families

Begoniaceae


Big Bay de Noc is a bay in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The bay, which opens into Lake Michigan's Green Bay, is enclosed by Delta County. The Garden Peninsula is on the east side of the bay and the Stonington Peninsula is on the west side. The small Delta County settlements of Garden and Nahma are harbors on the shore of the bay.

As with the more thickly-settled Little Bay de Noc, the bay's name comes from the Noquet (or Noc) Native American people (thought to have been related to the Menominee of the Algonquian language group), who once lived along the shores.

The bay is historically important for its 19th-century use as a center of the Lake Michigan iron smelting industry.  A former smelting complex has been preserved as Fayette State Park.  The state park's Snail Shell Harbor, off Big Bay de Noc, offers a harbor of refuge for small boats and yachts.

A lighthouse, the Peninsula Point Light, marks the entrance of the bay.

Climate

References

External links
Bays de Noc Convention and Visitors Bureau

Bodies of water of Delta County, Michigan
Bays of Michigan
Bays of Lake Michigan

Big Bay de Noc


Edward John Dunn (1 November 1844 – 20 April 1937) was an English-born Australian geologist, winner of the 1905 Murchison Medal.

Early life
Dunn was born at Bedminster near Bristol, England, the son of Edward Herbert Dunn and Betsy Robinson Dunn. The family emigrated to New South Wales in 1849, initially living near Goulburn, New South Wales then in Beechworth, Victoria from 1856. Dunn was educated at the Beechworth Church of England school and later by a tutor. Dunn was a collector of rocks and minerals from boyhood.

Geological career
Dunn entered the Beechworth land survey office and had experience in surveying. In 1864 he joined the geological survey under Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn and was trained in geological work by Georg Heinrich Friedrich Ulrich. He remained with the survey until it was abolished in 1869; in that year he became qualified as a mining surveyor.

In 1871 Dunn returned to England, via South Africa, where he was government geologist for the Cape Colony reporting on mines. He prepared the first geological map of South Africa and had a part in the discovery of diamonds. In 1872 Dunn travelled through Bushmanland accompanied by 15 troopers of the Northern Border police. He gathered much information about the Bushmen which he embodied in his work on The Bushman, which, however, was not published until nearly 60 years later. In 1873 he went to London, studied at the school of mines, Jermyn Street, and obtained his certificate for assaying. In 1883 he predicted that the Transvaal would become an infinitely richer gold-bearing country than any yet discovered.

Dunn returned to Victoria in 1886 and went into private practice. As a result of one of his reports the coalfield at Korumburra, Victoria, was developed. Dunn was appointed director of the geological survey of Victoria in 1904, and in 1905 was awarded the Murchison Medal by the Geological Society of London. Dunn used the award money to publish his monograph on Pebbles, which appeared in 1911. Dunn was elected President of the Royal Society of Victoria in 1906. He retired from the Geological Survey of Victoria in 1912, but kept up his interest in his subject through an energetic old age.

During his lifetime Dunn built up a substantial library of books. As well as Australiana, he had many books on geology, anthropology and natural history.

Late life
At age 84, Dunn published a comprehensive work on the Geology of Gold (1929); his book on The Bushman, based on his South Africa experience, came out two years later. Dunn died on 20 April 1937. He married in 1875 Elizabeth Julie Perchard who survived him with a son and two daughters. A list of his publications can be found in In Memory of Edward John Dunn, Melbourne, 1937. His collection of Bushmen objects was given to the Pitt Rivers museum at Oxford, his australites and pebbles went to the British Museum, and his collection of Victorian stones were bequeathed to the mines department museum, Melbourne.

References

A. W. Beasley, 'Dunn, Edward John (1844 - 1937)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, MUP, 1981, pp 372–373. Retrieved 5 October 2008

Dunn, Edward John (1844 - 1937) Bright Sparcs, University of Melbourne. Retrieved 5 October 2008

1844 births
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Australian geologists
Australian people of English descent
Australian book and manuscript collectors

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Bernard von Brentano (15 October 1901, in Offenbach am Main – 29 December 1964, in Wiesbaden) was a German writer, poet, playwright, storyteller, novelist, essayist and journalist.

Life

Brentano was a son of the Hessian Interior and Justice Minister Otto Rudolf von Brentano di Tremezzo and a brother of Clemens and Heinrich von Brentano. His mother, Lilla Beata née Schwerdt maternally stems from the Frankfurt line of the Brentano family. In contrast to his brothers, Bernard von Brentano hardly used the full name of his family, Brentano di Tremezzo.

Brentano studied philosophy in Freiburg, Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin. In Frankfurt, he became an active member of the catholic student association Bavaria. In Munich he was a member of the K. St. V. Rheno-Bavaria. Brentano became a member of the PEN-Club in 1920. From 1925 to 1930 he worked in the Berlin office of the Frankfurter Zeitung, where he became the successor of Joseph Roth. He was also involved in the Association of proletarian revolutionary writers and worked for the Communist literary magazine Die Linkskurve. A KPD member, he later left the party and distanced himself from politics after some trips to Moscow and because of the party's Stalinist tendencies.

Together with Berthold Brecht and Herbert Ihering he planned to edit the magazine "Krisis und Kritik", which, however, never appeared. In 1933, he emigrated to Switzerland and his family lived in Küsnacht in Zurich. In 1949, he returned from exile back to Germany. He lived with his family in Wiesbaden.

Works
Über den Ernst des Lebens, 1929
Kapitalismus und schöne Literatur, 1930
Der Beginn der Barbarei in Deutschland, 1932
Berliner Novellen, 1934
Theodor Chindler, 1936
Prozess ohne Richter, 1937
Die ewigen Gefühle, 1939
Une Famille Allemande, 1939
Phädra. Drama, 1939
Tagebuch mit Büchern, 1943
August Wilhelm Schlegel, 1944
Goethe und Marianne von Willemer, 1945
Franziska Scheler, 1945
Martha und Maria, 1946
Streifzüge, 1947
Die Schwestern Usedom, 1948
Sophie Charlotte und Danckelmann, 1949
Du Land der Liebe, 1952

References

Further reading
 Konrad Feilchenfeldt:Afterword, in: Bernard von Brentano:Three prelates. Essays. Limes, Wiesbaden 1974th (Important for the Assessment of Brentano's later work)
 Ulrike Hessler:Bernard von Brentano. A German writer without Germany. Tendencies of the novel between the Weimar Republic and in exile. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a.m. e.g. 1984th (= European university studies. I. 778th series)
 Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag (ed.), Handbook of the German Empire, Volume 1, Berlin, 1931

1901 births
1964 deaths
People from Offenbach am Main
People from the Grand Duchy of Hesse
German people of Italian descent
Writers from Hesse
German untitled nobility
Exiles from Nazi Germany
20th-century German novelists
German male novelists
20th-century German poets
20th-century German dramatists and playwrights
German male poets
German male dramatists and playwrights
German essayists
German male essayists
German male journalists
20th-century essayists
20th-century German male writers
People from Küsnacht
20th-century German journalists

Bernard von Brentano


Melaleuca lateralis is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a showy shrub, well suited to horticulture, distinguished by its very small leaves and small clusters of pink flowers along the older stems.

Description
Melaleuca lateralis is a bushy shrub growing to about  tall. Except on the youngest growth, the leaves and branches are glabrous. The leaves are arranged alternately around the stem and are  long and  wide, linear to narrow oval in shape, roughly semi-circular in cross section and usually have a blunt end.

This species flowers profusely with deep pink flowers in clusters along the stems. The clusters contain between 4 and 15 individual flowers and are up to  in diameter. The petals are   long  and fall off soon after the flower opens. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle containing 4 to 12 stamens. Flowering occurs in early spring and is followed by the fruit which are woody capsules  long in loose clusters along the stem.

Taxonomy and naming
This species was first described in 1852 by the Russian botanist Nikolai Turczaninow in Bulletin de la classe physico-mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des sciences de Saint-Petersburg. The specific epithet (lateralis) is "in reference to the inflorescence being inserted on the branchlets and branches below the leaves".

Distribution and habitat
Melaleuca lateralis occurs in and between the Stirling Range and Lake King districts in the Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee biogeographic regions. It grows in sandy gravel on floodplains.

Conservation status
Melaleuca lateralis is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.

References

lateralis
Myrtales of Australia
Rosids of Western Australia
Plants described in 1852
Endemic flora of Western Australia
Taxa named by Nikolai Turczaninow

Melaleuca lateralis


The Cookeville Railroad Depot is a railroad depot in Cookeville, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.  Built by the Tennessee Central Railway in 1909, the depot served Cookeville until the 1950s when passenger train service to the city was phased out.  The depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and is home to the Cookeville Depot Museum.

Although it was often wrought with financial difficulties and struggled in the face of competition from the larger L&N and Southern railroads, the construction of the Tennessee Central line was an important political and economic milestone for late-19th century Middle Tennessee.  The railroad connected the residents of the Upper Cumberland region to the outside world, and gave the region's farmers access to major markets in Nashville and Knoxville.  The railroad also brought urbanization and modern development to Cookeville and other cities in the Upper Cumberland and Cumberland Plateau regions.

Construction of the Tennessee Central

After the Civil War, large-scale railroad construction occurred in East Tennessee and the Nashville and Memphis areas, but the difficult terrain of the Highland Rim and the Cumberland Plateau stalled the railroad's advance into the Upper Cumberland region.  In the 1870s, the Tennessee and Pacific Railroad built a line connecting Nashville and Lebanon (this line was purchased by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway in 1877).  Politicians and newspaper reporters across the Upper Cumberland region initiated a massive publicity campaign in the early 1880s calling for the railroad to be extended across Middle Tennessee.

In 1884, mining entrepreneur Alexander Crawford, believing the Upper Cumberland region to be endowed with vast deposits of high-quality coal, chartered the Nashville & Knoxville Railroad with plans to extend the railroad across the Cumberland Plateau and allow shipment of coal to markets in Nashville and Knoxville.  Although a particularly difficult stretch between Watertown and Silver Point— requiring the building of several trestles across the Caney Fork— slowed the railroad's construction, the Nashville & Knoxville's tracks nevertheless reached Cookeville in July 1890.  Although Crawford died shortly thereafter, his sons continued his work, and managed to extend the tracks to Monterey, at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.

In 1893, Middle Tennessee businessman Jere Baxter (1852–1904) chartered the Tennessee Central Railroad with plans to continue what Crawford had started.  Like Crawford, Baxter faced major economic obstacles.  He raised funds by selling bonds to Cumberland and Roane counties, and saved money by using convict labor.  He also had to overcome legal maneuvering by the L&N and Southern railroads, who feared the Tennessee Central's competition.  In 1898, the Tennessee Central completed its eastern section, connecting Monterey with the Southern tracks at Harriman.  Baxter purchased the Nashville & Knoxville Railroad in 1902, and two years later the Tennessee Central completed a line from Nashville to the Illinois Central tracks at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, thus connecting Middle Tennessee to the rest of the country.  Cookeville residents could now travel all the way to Minnesota via 10-hour train ride.

After Baxter's death in 1904, the Tennessee Central continued to struggle with financing.  It attempted lease arrangements with both the Illinois Central and Southern Railroad, but by 1908 these arrangements had been abandoned.  In 1912, the Tennessee Central was placed in receivership, and in subsequent years was reorganized with more of a focus on freight traffic.  By the mid-20th century, the rise of automobile and bus travel brought about the decline of passenger trains.  The last passenger train left Cookeville on July 31, 1955.

Cookeville Depot

The Nashville & Knoxville Railroad constructed the first railroad depot at Cookeville in the 1890s.  The mere announcement of the company's plans for the depot "one half-mile west of the courthouse" caused property values in the western section of town to skyrocket.  Along with the depot, N&K built a two-story office building, a reservoir, and several repair shops.  The Tennessee Central replaced the N&K depot with the present pagoda-like structure in 1909, although it moved the service facilities to Monterey.

The presence of the railroad depot led to a boom in housing construction in Cookeville.  Residences were built along or near the tracks, and a shanty town known as "Boxtown" developed in the vicinity of what is now Cookeville Regional Medical Center.  Shops lined the road between the depot and the courthouse square, culminating in a large shopping mall known as "The Arcade," which was located across the street from the Putnam County Courthouse.  The railroad also made possible the establishment of Dixie College and Tennessee Polytechnic Institute— the forerunners of Tennessee Technological University.

Cookeville Depot Museum

The City of Cookeville, with help from the nonprofit group Friends of the Depot, maintains the Cookeville Depot as a museum.  Along with the depot, the museum maintains a collection of train cars and railroad memorabilia.  Engine #509, a 4-6-0 ten-wheeler built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1913, originally used by the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, was acquired by the museum in 2002 from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and its appearance modified to match contemporary Tennessee Central engines.  The museum acquired an L&N bay window caboose (with a newer gray-and-yellow paint scheme, as opposed to the traditional red) in 1985, and in 2005 restored a red cupola-style caboose to its original appearance.

References

External links
Cookeville Depot Museum — official site
City of Cookeville information about the museum

Museums in Putnam County, Tennessee
Railroad museums in Tennessee
Railway stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee
Buildings and structures in Putnam County, Tennessee
National Register of Historic Places in Putnam County, Tennessee
Former railway stations in Tennessee

Cookeville Railroad Depot


Dartmouth is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The area was the first part of South Eastern Massachusetts settled by Europeans. Dartmouth is the third largest town in Massachusetts. As of 2020 the towns population was 33,728. The town borders Westport, Freetown, Fall River, Buzzards Bay, and New Bedford.

Towns in Massachusetts

Dartmouth, Massachusetts


Paul Morris (born June 20, 1938) is the former public address announcer for the Toronto Maple Leafs and sound engineer at Maple Leaf Gardens. He held the announcing job for 38 seasons, from October 14, 1961 to May 31, 1999 and was the PA announcer for 1,585 consecutive Leaf games. Morris was known for his dispassionate, monotone voice, instantly recognizable to two generations of Leaf fans.

Morris's father, Doug Morris, was an electrician at Maple Leaf Gardens from its opening in 1931. Paul Morris began working at the Gardens in the summer of 1958 while a student at the Ryerson Institute of Technology. He quit school and stayed at the Gardens, becoming PA announcer three years later when Red Barber was fired.

During his tenure at the Gardens, Morris, along with Bob Wood, designed and assembled the modern four-sided scoreboard that was used between 1966 and 1982.

When the team moved from the Gardens to the Air Canada Centre in February 1999, Morris was not given a full-time job at the new building. Instead, he was offered $300 a game to continue as announcer. He finished the season and then retired at age 61. Andy Frost was hired as his successor in September.

At the Leafs' 1999-2000 home-opener on October 4, 1999, Morris was honoured during a pre-game ceremony and in the third period announced "last minute of play in this period" one last time. Since then Morris's "last minute of play" is played on occasion at Leafs home games. Paul is considered the standard by which most PA announcers are judged and has been widely known as the most memorable of his position.

References

1938 births
Living people
Canadian sports announcers
National Hockey League public address announcers

Paul Morris (PA announcer)


Kraśnik  is a town in southeastern Poland with 35,602 inhabitants (2012), situated in the Lublin Voivodeship, historic Lesser Poland. It is the seat of Kraśnik County. The town of Kraśnik as it is known today was created in 1975, after the merger of its two districts - Kraśnik Lubelski, and Kraśnik Fabryczny.

Location and districts

Kraśnik is located in Lesser Poland, among the hills of Lublin Upland, 49 kilometers south-west of Lublin. The town is divided into two major parts, which are a few kilometers apart: Kraśnik Fabryczny and Kraśnik Lubelski (or Kraśnik Stary, Old Kraśnik). The town has an area of 25.28 square kilometers, of which arable land makes up 45%, and forests 17%.

Kraśnik Lubelski
Kraśnik Lubelski is the original part of the town where all historic buildings are located. It is made of several districts, such as Old Town, Bojanówka, Koszary, Góry, Zarzecze, Kwiatkowice, and Osiedle Kolejowe. Kraśnik Lubelski has old churches and the oldest cemetery of the town, as well as a rail station, a bus station and main administrative offices of the county. It is also a major road junction, where future Expressway S19 (current National Road No. 19) meets National Road No. 74. Until 2010, the Road 74 went through the center of Kraśnik, but now there is a by-pass.

Kraśnik Fabryczny
Kraśnik Fabryczny was founded in the late 1930s, as a settlement for State Ammunition Factory No. 2 (Panstwowe Fabryka Amunicji nr. 2), one of the enterprises built as part of the Central Industrial Region. Previously, in the location of Kraśnik Fabryczny there was the village of Dąbrowa Bór, placed a few kilometers northwest of Kraśnik, in a forest between Kraśnik and Urzędów. The government of the Second Polish Republic planned a new settlement, built from scratch, for 6,000 people around the new Ammunition Factory No. 2, FLT-Kraśnik. After the war, the settlement of Dąbrowa Bór was expanded, and in 1954 its name was changed to Kraśnik Fabryczny. In the 1960s, a number of single-family houses was built, later on, several blocks of flats were constructed. On October 1, 1975, Kraśnik Fabryczny merged with Kraśnik Lubelski, and the villages of Budzyń and Piaski, creating the town of Kraśnik. Currently, Kraśnik Fabryczny has some 20,000 inhabitants.

History

The area of Kraśnik was first settled in the 13th century, and the town received its city charter in 1377, by King Louis I of Hungary. At that time it belonged to Sandomierz Voivodeship, one of two voivodeships of Lesser Poland (Lublin Voivodeship was created in 1474, out of parts of Sandomierz Voivodeship). Located on a busy merchant road from Silesia to Kyiv, Kraśnik in the 14th century belonged to the Gorajski family. In 1403, it had a parish church of Saint Paul, and in 1410, as a dowry of Anna of Goraj, it passed into the hands of the Tęczyński family. Later on, it belonged to other families, such as the Radziwiłłs, and in 1604, the town was purchased by hetman Jan Zamoyski. Until 1866, Kraśnik belonged to the Zamoyski family. The town frequently suffered from fires, it was also destroyed by the Swedes in 1657, during the Deluge.

Since the 14th century, Kraśnik was surrounded by a rampart, and ca. 1465, stone-brick walls were built on initiative of Jan Tęczyński, with two gates - Lublin Gate and Sandomierz Gate. The walls were demolished in the second half of the 19th century. Kraśnik also had a defensive church, surrounded with a high wall, and a castle, built in the 14th century on a hill surrounded by swamps. By 1646, the castle was already neglected. In 1657, it was completely destroyed by the Swedes.

Until the Third Partition of Poland (1795), Kraśnik belonged to Lublin Voivodeship, then passed into Austrian hands. In 1807 it was included in the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, and from 1815 until 1915 the town was in the Russian Empire (Congress Poland). In August 1914, the town and surrounding area were a focal point of Battle of Kraśnik, an opening battle of the World War I struggle between Russia and Central Powers over control of Galicia. During the war, the town gained its first railway connection, as a line was built through it by the Russians in 1914 in order to deliver supplies to the front. Later on, the line was expanded, and now it joins Lublin with Stalowa Wola.

In 1938 Kraśnik was selected as the location for an ammunition factory (see Central Industrial Region). The factory was not finished by the time World War II broke out in 1939, and during the German occupation it was used to manufacture parts for Heinkel planes and other purposes. After the war, in 1948, the factory was started up again, this time to produce ball bearings (the first factory to do that in Poland).

Jews in Kraśnik
As with much of the Lublin district, Kraśnik was a major center of Judaism, with 5,000 Jews (almost 50% of the population) prior to World War II. Historical accounts place Jews in the area in 1531, but the official right to settle there was granted to Jews in 1584. In 1654, Jewish residence was officially limited to the area near the synagogue, but in practice this was not rigidly enforced.Following the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in World War II, Kraśnik was taken over by the Soviets in 1939 and later by the Nazis during Operation Barbarossa. It was the site of the Budzyń concentration camp, where the prisoners worked for the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke factory on aircraft production. This camp, with around 3,000 Jews, became a subcamp of Majdanek.
There was another labor camp in Kraśnik called the WIFO Labor Camp, or the Kraśnik Labor Camp (also called ZwangsArbeitslager Skret), located in the ghetto at Szkolna and Bóżnicza streets. It had a similar number of people in it (around 3,000), most of whom were murdered. From a population of more than 5,000 Kraśnik Jews, only an estimated 350 survived the Holocaust; most or all of these survivors left Poland.

Local attractions

 Ruins of the 17th-century Zamoyski castle,
 The 18th-century Baroque former Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit (1758–1761) and hospital,
 The Lateran Canons, containing St Mary's Ascension church (ca 1469) with paintings by T. Dolabella, gravestones of the Teczynski family, and the monastery (15th-18th centuries),
 An unusual double synagogue from the 17th century, partially renovated but now in disrepair
 2nd SOS Children's Village in Poland, established in 1991,
 Tsubaki-Hoover Polska Limited Liability Company, a subsidiary of Tsubaki Nakashima, which manufactures ball and roller bearings

Sports
Kraśnik has a sports club Stal, which was founded in 1948.

International relations

Twin towns
Kraśnik is twinned with:
  Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary
  Ruiselede, Belgium
  Šilalė, Lithuania
  Korosten, Ukraine
  Turiisk, Ukraine
  Trogir, Croatia

Former twin towns:
  Nogent-sur-Oise, France (In February 2020, the French commune suspended its partnership with Kraśnik as a reaction to the passing of an anti-LGBT resolution by the Kraśnik local authorities.)

Controversies

LGBT-free zone (2019-2021)

In 2019, Kraśnik's city council has adopted an LGBT-free zone resolution, which led to the city's budget losing 10 million euros from EEA and Norway Grants, getting expelled from a European Union twin town cooperation program and losing twin town status with Nogent-sur-Oise. In 2021, an appeal to repeal the vote by the mayor was rejected by the town council. The resolution was finally overturned on April 29, 2021.

5G-free zone

On 24 September 2020, Kraśnik councilors voted to consider the ban on 5G mobile telephony in the city. Support was given to the petition of the "Poland Free from 5G Coalition Association" (pl: Stowarzyszenie Koalicja Polska Wolna od 5G), which also provides for an order to dismantle Wi-Fi networks in schools.

See also
 Jelita Coat of Arms

References

External links
 Official home page
 Remember Jewish Krasnik
 Places in Lubelskie Kraśnik page, with pictures
 Compilation of Jewish family names appearing one or more times in the vital records of Kraśnik
 A list of those from the town of Kraśnik who were murdered in the Holocaust, taken from Sefer Krasnik (Book of Krasnik)
 Adam Mickiewicz Institute - Jewish History in Kraśnik

Cities and towns in Lublin Voivodeship
Kraśnik County
Lesser Poland
Lublin Governorate
Lublin Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Holocaust locations in Poland

Kraśnik


Microcotyle guanabarensis a species of monogenean, parasitic on the gills of a marine fish. It belongs to the family Microcotylidae.

Systematics
Microcotyle guanabarensis was first described by Bravo-Hollis and Kohn in 1990 from the gills of Eucinostomus argenteus (Gerreidae) off Brasil.

Morphology
Microcotyle guanabarensis has the general morphology of all species of Microcotyle, with a symmetrical body, comprising an anterior part which contains most organs and a posterior part called the haptor. The haptor is symmetrical, and bears numerous clamps, arranged as two rows, one on each side. The clamps of the haptor attach the animal to the gill of the fish. There are also two buccal suckers at the anterior extremity. The digestive organs include an anterior, terminal mouth, a  pharynx, an oesophagus and a posterior intestine with two lateral branches provided with numerous secondary branches. Each adult contains male and female reproductive organs. The reproductive organs include an anterior  genital atrium, armed with numerous very spines, a medio-dorsal vagina , a single ovary and a number of testes which are posterior to the ovary.

Etymology
The specific name guanabarensis is derived from the type locality, Guanabara Bay.

Hosts and localities
The type-host of Microcotyle guanabarensis is  Eucinostomus argenteus (Gerreidae). The type-locality is off Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Microcotyle guanabarensis was reported again from the type-host and locality.

References

Microcotylidae
Animals described in 1990
Parasites of fish
Fauna of Brazil

Microcotyle guanabarensis


Achille Silvestrini (25 October 1923 – 29 August 2019) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served in the Vatican diplomatic corps, either in Rome or abroad, from 1953 to 1990. He was Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches from 1991 to 2000. He was born in Brisighella, Italy.

Silvestrini was ordained a priest on 13 July 1946 in the cathedral of Faenza by Giuseppe Battaglia, Bishop of Faenza. He earned a doctorate at the University of Bologna in 1948 and a doctorate in canon and civil law at the Pontifical Lateran University.

As of 2016, Silvestrini was chair of the Collegio universitario Fondazione Comunità Domenico Tardini, which was founded in 1946 to support war orphans.

In the 1990s, Silvestrini was mentioned as a successor to Pope John Paul II in the secular press, though Vatican observers noted that his advanced age made his election unlikely.

Silvestrini died in Vatican City on 29 August 2019 at the age of 95.

References

Other websites
 Biography: Silvestrini Card. Achille, Press Office of the Holy See
 Silvestrini, Achille, Catholic News Agency
 Biography , Florida International University Libraries

1923 births
2019 deaths
Ambassadors
Italian cardinals
Humanitarians
Italian Roman Catholic bishops

Achille Silvestrini


Steven Henry Scheuer ( ) (January 9, 1926 – May 31, 2014) was a film and television historian and critic. He edited all seventeen editions of Movies on TV published between 1958 and 1993 and wrote The Movie Book (1974), subtitled A Comprehensive, Authoritative, Omnibus Volume on Motion Pictures and the Cinema World. He was moderator of the syndicated television series All About TV from 1969 to 1990. In 2002, he hosted and produced a 13-program series for public television, Television in America: An Autobiography.

Life
Scheuer was born in New York City in 1926. His brothers (all deceased) were 13-term New York Congressman James H. Scheuer, Walter Scheuer, an investor and film producer, and Richard Scheuer, a scholar and philanthropist. He also had a sister, Amy Scheuer Cohen. His wife was author and feminist social critic Alida Brill.

Scheuer died on May 31, 2014, in New York of congestive heart failure.

The Movies on TV series
Movies on TV was the first guide of its kind, preceding Leonard Maltin's similarly titled TV Movies book series (later rebranded Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide) by ten years. It contained capsule reviews and ratings of movies, videos and TV movies using a four star rating system. It was renamed Movies on TV and Videocassette in 1989. Scheuer's book differed from Maltin's in that it featured a greater number of made-for-television productions, including aired television pilots that Maltin's book omitted.

Selected works
 Movies on TV (17 editions, 1958–1993)
 The Movie Book (1974).
 The Television Annual 1978-79 (1979).
 Movie Blockbusters (ghostwritten by Jim Beaver (1982, revised 1983)
 Who's Who in Television and Cable (1983).
 Box Office Champions: The Biggest Movie Blockbusters of All Time (1984)
 The Complete Guide to Videocassette Movies (1987).
 The Pocket Guide to Collecting Movies on DVD (2003) (by Steven Scheuer and Alida Brill-Scheuer).

External links (archival material)
 Steven H. Scheuer Collection of Television Program Scripts, Yale University, "contains approximately five thousand American television scripts dating from about 1953 to 1963."
 Steven H. Scheuer Papers, Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center
 Steven H. Scheuer Television History Interviews, Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

References

1926 births
American film critics
American people of German-Jewish descent
20th-century American Jews
2014 deaths
21st-century American Jews

Steven H. Scheuer


Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd () was an administrative subdivision (an uyezd) of Volhynian Governorate in the Russian Empire. It was created in 1795 as Vladimirsky Uyezd within Volhynian Viceroyalty soon after the annexation of eastern Poland by Russia. Its seat was located in Volodymyr (Vladimir-Volynsky).

The uyezd was located at the western end of the governorate. To its south and southwest it bordered the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of Austria-Hungary, to the west - Lublin Governorate of Congress Poland (Russian Empire), to the northwest the uyezd bordered Siedlce Governorate, to the north - Grodno Governorate. Its eastern borders were mutual with three other uyezds of the Volhynian Governorate - Kovelsky Uyezd (northeast), Lutsky Uyezd (east), Dubnovsky Uyezd - southeast.

The uyezd was subdivided into 23 volosts which were further subdivided into 337 obshchinas (communes).

Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd had a population of 277,265. Of these, 72.1% spoke Ukrainian, 10.4% Yiddish, 8.4% Polish, 5.7% German, 2.8% Russian and 0.6% Czech as their native language.

References

Uezds of Volhynian Governorate
Volhynian Governorate
States and territories established in 1795
1790s establishments in the Russian Empire
Historical regions in Ukraine

Vladimir-Volynsky Uyezd


In linguistics, inversion is when the words in a sentence are in a different order than normal. The most common kind of inversion in English is subject–auxiliary inversion, which happens when an auxiliary verb (like do) changes places with its subject. It usually happens in questions like Are you coming?. In this example, the subject you is switched with the verb are. In many other languages, like languages with a freer word order than English, inversion can also happen with more verbs (not just auxiliaries) and other kinds of words.
Linguistics

Inversion (linguistics)


This is a list of universities in Bulgaria. As of February 15, 2023, there are 52 accredited higher education institutions in the country - universities, academies, colleges, etc.

Universities
 Academy of the Ministry of Interior - Sofia
 Agricultural University of Plovdiv
 American University in Bulgaria
 Bulgarian Virtual University
 Burgas Free University
 D. A. Tsenov Academy of Economics
 European Polytechnical University
 Georgi Rakovski Military Academy
 Higher School of Insurance and Finance
 National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
 Lyuben Karavelov Civil Engineering University
 Medical University Pleven
 Medical University - Plovdiv
 Medical University of Varna
 National Academy of Arts
 National Military University
 National Sports Academy
 New Bulgarian University
 "Nikola Vaptsarov" Naval Academy
 Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music
 Plovdiv University
 Ruse University
 Specialized Higher School of Librarian Knowledge and Information Technology - Sofia
 Sofia Medical University
 Sofia University
 South-West University "Neofit Rilski"
 Technical University of Gabrovo
 Technical University of Sofia
 Technical University of Sofia - Branch Plovdiv
 Technical University of Varna
 Todor Kableshkov Higher School of Transport
 Trakia University - Stara Zagora
 University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
 University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy
 University of Economics Varna
 University of Food Technology
 University of Forestry
 University of Mining and Geology
 University of National and World Economy
 University of Shumen "Episkop Konstantin Preslavski"
 University "Prof. Asen Zlatarov" - Burgas
 Varna Free University
 Varna University of Management
 Vasil Levski National Military University
 Veliko Tarnovo University

See also
 Education in Bulgaria
 List of schools in Bulgaria

References

Universities
Bulgaria
Bulgaria

List of universities and colleges in Bulgaria


In 2015, there were two outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in the Bronx, New York City, United States. Between January and August 2015, one hundred and thirty people in New York City were infected with Legionnaires', but the majority of them were in the Bronx.

Legionnaires Disease is an acute type of pneumonia that is caused by the inhalation of aerosolized water containing the Legionella bacteria. Forty-two Legionella species have been classified to date, and these bacteria can grow in areas where there is warm water, such as cooling towers.

January 2015
In January 2015, Legionnaires' disease sickened 8 people near Co-op City's cooling towers in the northeast Bronx. Twelve people were diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease between December 2014 and the end of the outbreak in January 2015.

August 2015

In an unrelated July and August 2015 outbreak, the disease affected at least 120 people and caused at least twelve deaths in the South Bronx area. The cause of the outbreak was traced back to the Opera House Hotel on July 10, 2015, and was declared as over as of August 20. Following the Morrisania outbreak, city officials stated that they would be pursuing new regulations for cooling towers. Affected buildings were also ordered to be decontaminated within 14 days, under the threat of misdemeanor charges.

September 2015
On September 21, 2015, 13 more cases of Legionnaires Disease were identified and were said to be unrelated to the outbreaks from previous months. 35 cooling towers were inspected and 15 of these tested positive for the Legionella bacteria. After the cases surfaced, city officials put legislative programs into effect that require building owners to perform quarterly inspections and to verify that the cooling towers have been tested and are free of the Legionnella bacteria.

References

Legionellosis
2010s in the Bronx
2015 in New York City
Co-op City, Bronx
Morrisania, Bronx
2015 disasters in the United States
2015 disease outbreaks
Disease outbreaks in the United States
Disasters in New York City
Infectious disease deaths in New York (state)

2015 Bronx Legionnaires' disease outbreaks


In grammar, the term verbal case has been used with various meanings.

It may simply indicate the noun-case system of core arguments of the verb, such as nominative, accusative, ergative, absolutive, and sometimes core dative or benefactive. That is, the cases of those nouns most closely associated with the verb, and which may trigger verbal agreement or may be affected by the voice of a clause, rather than the cases of the more peripheral oblique arguments. A verbal case system may thus be synonymous with morphosyntactic alignment.
'Verbal case' may also mean those noun cases governed by the relationship of the noun to the verb, in contrast with 'nominal case', where the case of a noun is determined by another noun (for example, the genitive). In this use, 'verbal case' is nearly synonymous with 'case', as in most languages with case, all cases but the genitive are governed by the verb.
It may also be used for noun inflections which confer verbal properties to the noun. When a noun takes certain cases, it may also agree with the verb in tense–aspect–mood, for example, and so not behave as a typical noun.
It may refer to inflections of the verb which are argued to behave semantically like case on nouns. Traditionally, case is defined as a morphological inflection of the noun, not the verb, and it is controversial whether verbal inflections can truly behave like a case system.

Verbal case vs. nominal case
It is frequently remarked that the genitive case behaves differently than other cases: Most cases (sometimes 'verbal' cases) are governed by their role in the clause relative to the verb, whereas the genitive (a 'nominal' case) is governed by another noun. For instance, the difference in English between nominative "I" and oblique "me" is governed by its relationship to the verb (at least according to prescriptive grammars), whereas the genitive form "my" is associated with a noun: I see the dog, the dog sees me, but my dog.

There are other situations where a case has been argued to be nominal rather than verbal. For instance, in Latin, a noun may be inflected for case according to its role with an infinitive, which is arguably as much a noun as a verb, and this has been called nominal case:

Similarly, when a verb is nominalized, its arguments may remain with their original cases:
She likes me → (I don't like) her liking me
Here, as the verb 'likes' is changed to the gerund 'liking', and the nominative 'she' changes to genitive 'her', but the oblique case of 'me' remains. Such situations are very common in subordinate clauses.

References

Grammar
Grammatical cases

Verbal case