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Wólka Policka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Policzna, within Zwoleń County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Zwoleń and south-east of Warsaw.
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In number theory, an arithmetic, arithmetical, or number-theoretic function is for most authors any function f(n) whose domain is the positive integers and whose range is a subset of the complex numbers. Hardy & Wright include in their definition the requirement that an arithmetical function "expresses some arithmetical property of n".
An example of an arithmetic function is the divisor function whose value at a positive integer n is equal to the number of divisors of n.
There is a larger class of number-theoretic functions that do not fit the above definition, for example, the prime-counting functions. This article provides links to functions of both classes.
Arithmetic functions are often extremely irregular (see table), but some of them have series expansions in terms of Ramanujan's sum.
Multiplicative and additive functions
An arithmetic function a is
completely additive if a(mn) = a(m) + a(n) for all natural numbers m and n;
completely multiplicative if a(mn) = a(m)a(n) for all natural numbers m and n;
Two whole numbers m and n are called coprime if their greatest common divisor is 1, that is, if there is no prime number that divides both of them.
Then an arithmetic function a is
additive if a(mn) = a(m) + a(n) for all coprime natural numbers m and n;
multiplicative if a(mn) = a(m)a(n) for all coprime natural numbers m and n.
Notation
In this article, and mean that the sum or product is over all prime numbers:
and
Similarly, and mean that the sum or product is over all prime powers with strictly positive exponent (so is not included):
The notations and mean that the sum or product is over all positive divisors of n, including 1 and n. For example, if , then
The notations can be combined: and mean that the sum or product is over all prime divisors of n. For example, if n = 18, then
and similarly and mean that the sum or product is over all prime powers dividing n. For example, if n = 24, then
Ω(n), ω(n), νp(n) – prime power decomposition
The fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that any positive integer n can be represented uniquely as a product of powers of primes: where p1 < p2 < ... < pk are primes and the aj are positive integers. (1 is given by the empty product.)
It is often convenient to write this as an infinite product over all the primes, where all but a finite number have a zero exponent. Define the p-adic valuation νp(n) to be the exponent of the highest power of the prime p that divides n. That is, if p is one of the pi then νp(n) = ai, otherwise it is zero. Then
In terms of the above the prime omega functions ω and Ω are defined by
To avoid repetition, whenever possible formulas for the functions listed in this article are given in terms of n and the corresponding pi, ai, ω, and Ω.
Multiplicative functions
σk(n), τ(n), d(n) – divisor sums
σk(n) is the sum of the kth powers of the positive divisors of n, including 1 and n, where k is a complex number.
σ1(n), the sum of the (positive) divisors of n, is usually denoted by σ(n).
Since a positive number to the zero power is one, σ0(n) is therefore the number of (positive) divisors of n; it is usually denoted by d(n) or τ(n) (for the German Teiler = divisors).
Setting k = 0 in the second product gives
φ(n) – Euler totient function
φ(n), the Euler totient function, is the number of positive integers not greater than n that are coprime to n.
Jk(n) – Jordan totient function
Jk(n), the Jordan totient function, is the number of k-tuples of positive integers all less than or equal to n that form a coprime (k + 1)-tuple together with n. It is a generalization of Euler's totient, .
μ(n) – Möbius function
μ(n), the Möbius function, is important because of the Möbius inversion formula. See Dirichlet convolution, below.
This implies that μ(1) = 1. (Because Ω(1) = ω(1) = 0.)
τ(n) – Ramanujan tau function
τ(n), the Ramanujan tau function, is defined by its generating function identity:
Although it is hard to say exactly what "arithmetical property of n" it "expresses", (τ(n) is (2π)−12 times the nth Fourier coefficient in the q-expansion of the modular discriminant function) it is included among the arithmetical functions because it is multiplicative and it occurs in identities involving certain σk(n) and rk(n) functions (because these are also coefficients in the expansion of modular forms).
cq(n) – Ramanujan's sum
cq(n), Ramanujan's sum, is the sum of the nth powers of the primitive qth roots of unity:
Even though it is defined as a sum of complex numbers (irrational for most values of q), it is an integer. For a fixed value of n it is multiplicative in q:
If q and r are coprime, then
ψ(n) - Dedekind psi function
The Dedekind psi function, used in the theory of modular functions, is defined by the formula
Completely multiplicative functions
λ(n) – Liouville function
λ(n), the Liouville function, is defined by
χ(n) – characters
All Dirichlet characters χ(n) are completely multiplicative. Two characters have special notations:
The principal character (mod n) is denoted by χ0(a) (or χ1(a)). It is defined as
The quadratic character (mod n) is denoted by the Jacobi symbol for odd n (it is not defined for even n):
In this formula is the Legendre symbol, defined for all integers a and all odd primes p by
Following the normal convention for the empty product,
Additive functions
ω(n) – distinct prime divisors
ω(n), defined above as the number of distinct primes dividing n, is additive (see Prime omega function).
Completely additive functions
Ω(n) – prime divisors
Ω(n), defined above as the number of prime factors of n counted with multiplicities, is completely additive (see Prime omega function).
νp(n) – p-adic valuation of an integer n
For a fixed prime p, νp(n), defined above as the exponent of the largest power of p dividing n, is completely additive.
Logarithmic derivative
, where is the arithmetic derivative.
Neither multiplicative nor additive
(x), Π(x), θ(x), ψ(x) – prime-counting functions
These important functions (which are not arithmetic functions) are defined for non-negative real arguments, and are used in the various statements and proofs of the prime number theorem. They are summation functions (see the main section just below) of arithmetic functions which are neither multiplicative nor additive.
(x), the prime-counting function, is the number of primes not exceeding x. It is the summation function of the characteristic function of the prime numbers.
A related function counts prime powers with weight 1 for primes, 1/2 for their squares, 1/3 for cubes, ... It is the summation function of the arithmetic function which takes the value 1/k on integers which are the k-th power of some prime number, and the value 0 on other integers.
θ(x) and ψ(x), the Chebyshev functions, are defined as sums of the natural logarithms of the primes not exceeding x.
The Chebyshev function ψ(x) is the summation function of the von Mangoldt function just below.
Λ(n) – von Mangoldt function
Λ(n), the von Mangoldt function, is 0 unless the argument n is a prime power , in which case it is the natural log of the prime p:
p(n) – partition function
p(n), the partition function, is the number of ways of representing n as a sum of positive integers, where two representations with the same summands in a different order are not counted as being different:
λ(n) – Carmichael function
λ(n), the Carmichael function, is the smallest positive number such that for all a coprime to n. Equivalently, it is the least common multiple of the orders of the elements of the multiplicative group of integers modulo n.
For powers of odd primes and for 2 and 4, λ(n) is equal to the Euler totient function of n; for powers of 2 greater than 4 it is equal to one half of the Euler totient function of n:
and for general n it is the least common multiple of λ of each of the prime power factors of n:
h(n) – Class number
h(n), the class number function, is the order of the ideal class group of an algebraic extension of the rationals with discriminant n. The notation is ambiguous, as there are in general many extensions with the same discriminant. See quadratic field and cyclotomic field for classical examples.
rk(n) – Sum of k squares
rk(n) is the number of ways n can be represented as the sum of k squares, where representations that differ only in the order of the summands or in the signs of the square roots are counted as different.
D(n) – Arithmetic derivative
Using the Heaviside notation for the derivative, the arithmetic derivative D(n) is a function such that
if n prime, and
(the product rule)
Summation functions
Given an arithmetic function a(n), its summation function A(x) is defined by
A can be regarded as a function of a real variable. Given a positive integer m, A is constant along open intervals m < x < m + 1, and has a jump discontinuity at each integer for which a(m) ≠ 0.
Since such functions are often represented by series and integrals, to achieve pointwise convergence it is usual to define the value at the discontinuities as the average of the values to the left and right:
Individual values of arithmetic functions may fluctuate wildly – as in most of the above examples. Summation functions "smooth out" these fluctuations. In some cases it may be possible to find asymptotic behaviour for the summation function for large x.
A classical example of this phenomenon is given by the divisor summatory function, the summation function of d(n), the number of divisors of n:
An average order of an arithmetic function is some simpler or better-understood function which has the same summation function asymptotically, and hence takes the same values "on average". We say that g is an average order of f if
as x tends to infinity. The example above shows that d(n) has the average order log(n).
Dirichlet convolution
Given an arithmetic function a(n), let Fa(s), for complex s, be the function defined by the corresponding Dirichlet series (where it converges):
Fa(s) is called a generating function of a(n). The simplest such series, corresponding to the constant function a(n) = 1 for all n, is ζ(s) the Riemann zeta function.
The generating function of the Möbius function is the inverse of the zeta function:
Consider two arithmetic functions a and b and their respective generating functions Fa(s) and Fb(s). The product Fa(s)Fb(s) can be computed as follows:
It is a straightforward exercise to show that if c(n) is defined by
then
This function c is called the Dirichlet convolution of a and b, and is denoted by .
A particularly important case is convolution with the constant function a(n) = 1 for all n, corresponding to multiplying the generating function by the zeta function:
Multiplying by the inverse of the zeta function gives the Möbius inversion formula:
If f is multiplicative, then so is g. If f is completely multiplicative, then g is multiplicative, but may or may not be completely multiplicative.
Relations among the functions
There are a great many formulas connecting arithmetical functions with each other and with the functions of analysis, especially powers, roots, and the exponential and log functions. The page divisor sum identities contains many more generalized and related examples of identities involving arithmetic functions.
Here are a few examples:
Dirichlet convolutions
where λ is the Liouville function.
Möbius inversion
Möbius inversion
Möbius inversion
Möbius inversion
Möbius inversion
where λ is the Liouville function.
Möbius inversion
Sums of squares
For all (Lagrange's four-square theorem).
where the Kronecker symbol has the values
There is a formula for r3 in the section on class numbers below.
where .
where
Define the function as
That is, if n is odd, is the sum of the kth powers of the divisors of n, that is, and if n is even it is the sum of the kth powers of the even divisors of n minus the sum of the kth powers of the odd divisors of n.
Adopt the convention that Ramanujan's if x is not an integer.
Divisor sum convolutions
Here "convolution" does not mean "Dirichlet convolution" but instead refers to the formula for the coefficients of the product of two power series:
The sequence is called the convolution or the Cauchy product of the sequences an and bn.
These formulas may be proved analytically (see Eisenstein series) or by elementary methods.
where τ(n) is Ramanujan's function.
Since σk(n) (for natural number k) and τ(n) are integers, the above formulas can be used to prove congruences for the functions. See Ramanujan tau function for some examples.
Extend the domain of the partition function by setting
This recurrence can be used to compute p(n).
Class number related
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet discovered formulas that relate the class number h of quadratic number fields to the Jacobi symbol.
An integer D is called a fundamental discriminant if it is the discriminant of a quadratic number field. This is equivalent to D ≠ 1 and either a) D is squarefree and D ≡ 1 (mod 4) or b) D ≡ 0 (mod 4), D/4 is squarefree, and D/4 ≡ 2 or 3 (mod 4).
Extend the Jacobi symbol to accept even numbers in the "denominator" by defining the Kronecker symbol:
Then if D < −4 is a fundamental discriminant
There is also a formula relating r3 and h. Again, let D be a fundamental discriminant, D < −4. Then
Prime-count related
Let be the nth harmonic number. Then
is true for every natural number n if and only if the Riemann hypothesis is true.
The Riemann hypothesis is also equivalent to the statement that, for all n > 5040,
(where γ is the Euler–Mascheroni constant). This is Robin's theorem.
Menon's identity
In 1965 P Kesava Menon proved
This has been generalized by a number of mathematicians. For example,
B. Sury
N. Rao where a1, a2, ..., as are integers, gcd(a1, a2, ..., as, n) = 1.
László Fejes Tóth where m1 and m2 are odd, m = lcm(m1, m2).
In fact, if f is any arithmetical function
where stands for Dirichlet convolution.
Miscellaneous
Let m and n be distinct, odd, and positive. Then the Jacobi symbol satisfies the law of quadratic reciprocity:
Let D(n) be the arithmetic derivative. Then the logarithmic derivative See Arithmetic derivative for details.
Let λ(n) be Liouville's function. Then
and
Let λ(n) be Carmichael's function. Then
Further,
See Multiplicative group of integers modulo n and Primitive root modulo n.
Note that
Compare this with
where τ(n) is Ramanujan's function.
First 100 values of some arithmetic functions
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
Matthew Holden, Michael Orrison, Michael Varble Yet another Generalization of Euler's Totient Function
Huard, Ou, Spearman, and Williams. Elementary Evaluation of Certain Convolution Sums Involving Divisor Functions
Dineva, Rosica, The Euler Totient, the Möbius, and the Divisor Functions
László Tóth, Menon's Identity and arithmetical sums representing functions of several variables
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On May 18, 1926, Christian evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach, California, after going for a swim. She reappeared in Mexico five weeks later, stating she had escaped from kidnappers there. Her disappearance, reappearance, and subsequent court inquiries regarding the allegation that the kidnapping story was a hoax carried out to conceal a tryst with a lover precipitated a media frenzy that changed the course of McPherson's career.
Disappearance
On May 18, 1926, McPherson went with her secretary to Ocean Park Beach north of Venice Beach to swim. Soon after arriving, McPherson was nowhere to be found. It was thought she had drowned.
McPherson was scheduled to hold a service that day; her mother Minnie Kennedy preached the sermon instead, saying at the end, "Sister is with Jesus," sending parishioners into a tearful frenzy. Mourners crowded Venice Beach and the commotion sparked days-long media coverage fueled in part by William Randolph Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner and a stirring poem by Upton Sinclair. Daily updates appeared in newspapers across the country and parishioners held day-and-night seaside vigils. Two people died searching for McPherson's body.
Kenneth G. Ormiston, the engineer for radio station KFSG, had left his job at McPherson's Angelus Temple in December 1925. Newspapers later linked McPherson and Ormiston, who was seen driving up the coast with an unidentified woman. Some believed McPherson and Ormiston, who was married, had run off together.
McPherson's children, Roberta Star Semple and Rolf McPherson, were scrutinized for appropriate signs of grief. Rolf, who had been boarding in a remote farmhouse for some years, was besieged because of a rumor he had spoken to McPherson by telephone.
Many sightings of McPherson were reported. A Culver City detective thought he had seen her drive from the beach in her Angelus Temple uniform but this turned out to be a parishioner wearing clothes typical of those worn by female Temple members. On one particular day she was "seen" in 16 different cities.
A spiritualist said McPherson was bound in a cabin.
For a time Mildred Kennedy, McPherson's mother, offered a $25,000 () reward for information leading McPherson's return. During the period of her disappearance, while there were "various and voluminous claims," of McPherson sightings, none at all came from Carmel-by-the-Sea, a California town that would later dominate the headlines for such sightings. After the reward expired, on June 5, newspaper headlines announced McPherson had been found in Canada, as given by Inspector Middleton of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, which shook up Los Angeles. Upon receiving the news, Kennedy wanted her daughter returned to her as soon as possible.
Tracked by three detectives, a woman reported to have been the missing evangelist was found in Edmonton, Alberta; she had arrived there in a Studebaker via Calgary, followed by another car. The woman checked into the Corona hotel and was "positively identified" by the three operators as the revivalist. It was only after the woman was picked up by authorities, interviewed by the sister of Rev. Watson B; and gave proof of her identity as someone else, that the sighting report was rescinded on June 7. The Los Angeles police reiterated McPherson was dead though Kennedy held out hope and extended the $25,000 reward for another week only.
Several ransom demands were received but determined to be fraudulent.
One was a handwritten note by the "Revengers" who wanted $500,000 (). Another for $25,000 was conveyed by a blind lawyer, Russell A. McKinley, who claimed contact with the kidnappers. A lengthy and poorly typewritten ransom letter from the "Avengers" arrived around June 19 demanding $500,000 in return for not selling McPherson into "white slavery"; the "kidnappers" said McPherson annoyed them with her incessant preaching. Kennedy believed these demands to be hoaxes and McPherson dead.
Reappearance
Shortly thereafter, on June 23, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town across the border from Douglas, Arizona. The Mexican couple she approached there thought she had died when McPherson collapsed in front of them. She stirred and the couple brought her inside and covered her with blankets. She claimed she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack by two men and a woman, "Steve," "Rose," and another unnamed man. A fourth person, by the name of "Felipe" stopped by for a visit. An hour after reviving her, the husband, R. R. Gonzales, alerted the leader of Agua Prieta, Presidente Ernesto Boubion, to see her. Boubion stated she grasped his wrist, trembled violently, and asked where she was. She looked ill and appeared agitated, and declined both food and drink. She was transported across the border to the Douglas, Arizona, police station and then the Douglas hospital. Her shoes were white with desert dust and her hands were covered with grime. A nurse picked some cactus spines from her legs and rubbed some preparation on a blistered toe. McPherson went on about protection for her 16-year-old daughter and warned her assailants had plans to make off with Mary Pickford and other celebrities. At that time no one believed she was McPherson, the missing Angelus Temple pastor. A reporter heard the claims and visited the hospital. Though she was emaciated and barely recognizable, the journalist said he knew her from covering past revival meetings. Once properly identified, her family and some Los Angeles authorities took a train to see her.
Her statement taken in the Douglas Hospital explained that while on the beach near Los Angeles, a young couple approached and asked her to come pray for their sick child. When she went with them and looked in on the bundle in the back seat of an automobile, they shoved her into their car. At the same time a cloth was held over her face loaded with a sickly sweet substance, later speculated to be chloroform with an additive.
After awakening, she was no longer clothed in her bathing suit and was wearing a dress. A woman named "Rose," who displayed professional nursing skills, looked after her. Held for a time in what was a boarded up room in a house that appeared to be an urban area, she was later moved to the remote shack in Mexico. Trying to elicit some personal information to prove they had her, one of her captors burned McPherson's hand with his cigar, but felt bad about it and stopped. McPherson's statement gave details on how she escaped the desert shack while her assailants were out on errands. She cut her bonds on a metal can lid, a technique she later successfully demonstrated several times before skeptical reporters, and climbed out the shack's back window. Using a mountain to navigate, she made her way north. She told how she used her garments to shield herself from the afternoon sun and carefully stepped around any shaggy bushes in her path. In the evening, lights from a town guided her to its streets. Terrified by the unexpected savagery of nearby barking dogs behind a fence, she entered the yard of a Mexican couple, R. R. Gonzales and his wife. Her story was transmitted and transcribed across telegraph and phone lines becoming front-page international news.
On the way back to Los Angeles, the train was stopped and boarded by two men who claimed to have earlier seen McPherson during the time she stated she was kidnapped. One man, realizing a mistaken identity, apologized and excused himself after seeing her. However, in a much publicized scene, the other individual stated he had seen her at a Tucson, Arizona, street corner four weeks earlier, in May. By his own admission, he had never seen McPherson in person, only by photograph. The woman he saw in the street wore a tight, low fitting hat shading her eyes and walked with a different gait than McPherson used. Yet for him it was those obscured eyes that confirmed his identification. McPherson wrote he was her first experience with such "identifications," others of which were even "more absurd," and "all were flung to the world in newspaper headlines." Later, this witness was discarded as his sighting came at a time when McPherson was accused by Los Angeles prosecutors to have instead been in Carmel-by-the Sea, California.
Following her return to Los Angeles from Douglas, McPherson was greeted at the train station by 30,000–50,000 people, more than for almost any other personage. The parade back to the Temple even elicited a greater turnout than President Woodrow Wilson's visit to Los Angeles in 1919, attesting to her popularity and the growing influence of mass media coverage.
Already incensed over McPherson's influential public stance on evolution and the Bible, most of the Chamber of Commerce and some other civic leaders, however, saw the event as gaudy display, nationally embarrassing to the city. Many Los Angeles area churches were also annoyed. The divorcee McPherson had settled in their town and many of their parishioners were now attending her church, with its elaborate sermons that, in their view, diminished the dignity of the Gospel. The Chamber of Commerce, together with Reverend Robert P. Shuler leading the Los Angeles Church Federation, and assisted by the press and others, became an informal alliance to determine if her disappearance was caused by other than a kidnapping.
In response to an increasing undercurrent of doubt, the leadership of the Angelus Temple debated whether to let the matter drop or push for vindication. McPherson welcomed the opportunity for more publicity, since she saw it as a way to expose more people to her vision of Jesus Christ. Her mother, Mildred Kennedy, cynically thought the controversy might get away from them and become disruptive to the Temple's activities. Judge Carlos Hardy, an influential friend of the Temple and McPherson, decided to go to court to present their complaint, over the stern objections of Kennedy and lawyers hired for advice.
Grand jury inquiries
There were several phases of grand jury inquiries regarding McPherson, all conducted by Los Angeles District Attorney Asa Keyes. The first inquiry was about charging McPherson's kidnappers, with indictments against Steve Doe, Rose Doe, and John Doe, convening on July 8, 1926, and adjourning on July 20, 1926. However, it became immediately apparent McPherson was being interrogated from a viewpoint of hostile skepticism. Prosecutor Asa Keyes insinuated she was a charlatan who was run out of various cities during her revivals. McPherson offered to show news clippings to the contrary, attesting to the success of her work and requests for return visits. Annoyed, Keyes continued, focusing on the belief the disappearance was a plot to elicit money for a memorial fund commemorating McPherson's death or for promotional purposes. Her sanity was also questioned: perhaps she had simply wandered off suffering from amnesia. The first inquiry ended with a determination that there was not enough evidence to charge either alleged kidnappers or the McPherson group for fraud.
The second inquiry, amidst frenzied publicity, started on August 3 in response to new developments suggesting that rather than being held by kidnappers, McPherson was cohabiting with her former employee Kenneth Ormiston in the resort town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. The inquiry stalled due to lack of evidence and ended by mid-August. Later, when a defense witness, Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff, sided with the prosecution as a betrayed co-plotter, another grand jury inquiry was ordered to begin in late September. Testimony and evidence from Carmel-by-the Sea was reintroduced by the prosecution, together with their new witness. Their intent was to show proof of a conspiracy by the McPherson party to manufacture evidence in bolstering her kidnapping story. McPherson's defense team, previously overshadowed by publicity favoring the prosecution, was able to comprehensively explain their side of the case.
A jury trial was scheduled for January, 1927, to charge McPherson, her mother and several other defendants with criminal conspiracy, perjury and obstruction of justice. If convicted, the counts added up to a maximum prison time of 42 years. Further statements and information were taken from various witnesses ahead of the projected trial through early January 1927.
Escape through the desert
The first inquiry started on July 8, 1926, with reading McPherson's statement into the record. Mildred Kennedy broke down and sobbed during the reading, which took most of a day to enter. Testimony continued with what allegedly happened in Mexico, though the most comprehensive portions, especially from the defense, came later in October.
Mexican officials asserted that McPherson could not have been taken across the border against her will because it was patrolled with a "strict watch" by both nations,
that a special police had been assigned to all border towns immediately after McPherson's disappearance, and that McPherson could not have been anywhere in Lower California. One of the persons named in McPherson's statement, "Felipe," was described as "a huge hulking man." In another case the federal government was attempting to locate an "Old Felipe" of Mexico City, described as being in charge of a narcotics and human trafficking ring, corroborating part of McPherson's testimony and the typewritten ransom note received earlier which threatened to sell McPherson to "Old Felipe of Mexico City."
Initial, vigorous searches around Agua Prieta did not locate any kidnappers or even the shack where she was allegedly imprisoned. The Presidente of Agua Prieta, Mexico, (Mayor) Ernesto Boubion, after examining some foot tracks, expressed his belief she got out of a car from Agua Prieta. Boubion also considered it a "national insult" that a prominent American woman could be kidnapped into his territory.
However, it was later revealed by Boubion's translator that Boubion had solicited McPherson for a bribe. When McPherson returned to Mexico in early July 1926 to assist in looking for signs of her kidnappers, Boubion asked to see her. With his translator the only other person in the room, Boubion told McPherson that individuals had offered to pay him $5000 to cast doubt on her story, though he would back her statement if she paid him the same amount instead.
McPherson's attorneys brought a lawsuit against Boubion for extortion.
In criticism of McPherson's story, prosecutor Asa Keyes spoke of temperatures as high as the day she disappeared, and the impossibility of walking over that territory without water. It was being reported McPherson seemed in unusually good health for her alleged ordeal; her clothing showed no signs of what was expected of a long walk through the desert. Prosecutor Asa Keyes, while speaking to McPherson during a grand jury session, said; "don't you know it is practically an impossibility for anyone, particularly a woman, to walk over the desert in Mexico in the broiling sun from noon until practically midnight without water? The sheriff of Cochise County, James A. McDonald, and a police sergeant in Douglas, Alonzo B. Murchison, both expressed opinions about not crossing the expanse without severely damaging garments or footwear. Murchison also said “There is no woman that could make a trip like that and not be near complete exhaustion.”
In his affidavit in support of McPherson, R.R. Gonzales stated that around 1:50 am on June 23 he found an unknown woman "lying on the ground unconscious or fainted, in the gate, with her feet inside and her head out in the street. I thought she was dead at the time, she was cold." Gonzales and his wife picked her up and put her in bed. Police officer G.W. Cook stated that "in affiant’s opinion she was then in a state of complete physical exhaustion."
In the first grand jury inquiry, Keyes drew attention to a watch visible on McPherson's wrist in a photograph of her in the hospital bed; he asserted that she had not taken a wristwatch to the beach and the kidnappers were unlikely to let her have one. However, the couple who found her, the mayor of Agua Prieta, policemen, nurses and other persons she met with did not recall her having a wristwatch before she was in hospital. McPherson said she obtained the watch in the hospital.
The skepticism was disputed by most other Douglas, Arizona, area residents, including expert tracker C.E. Cross, who testified that McPherson's physical condition, shoes, and clothing were all consistent with an ordeal such as she described. Cross also noted tracks consistent with McPherson's shoes near an automobile's tire prints outside Agua Prieta, and determined they had nothing to do with each other. The temperature was only in the Sonora Desert on the day of McPherson's desert trek. Disgusted at what was happening in the Los Angeles court, Mayor A.E. Hinton, together with 22 representative citizens of Douglas, Arizona, signed a testimonial document affirming their belief in the statements McPherson made.
Several months later, Douglas Constable O. A. Ash elaborated on the prison shack that could not be located in earlier searches. He said the shack, a miner's cabin near an abandoned mine from Douglas, was found on August 18, 1926. Inside they saw the oil can which had been opened with a can opener, "and we could see that the rough edge had been used to cut the bed ticking strips which apparently had bound the woman’s wrists and ankles." He also said he saw the marks on McPherson's wrists made by these strips, that her ankles were swollen, and that there were holes in her stockings and a pocket was torn from her dress.
Carmel-by-the-Sea
The grand jury met a second time in late July after new evidence was received appearing to place McPherson at a northern California seaside resort town during the first part of her disappearance. The prosecution collected at least five witnesses who asserted they had seen McPherson two months earlier at the Benedict seaside cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea. The cottage was rented by Ormiston under an assumed name of "George E. McIntyre". While sightings of McPherson were reported as far away as Canada, no reports at the time came from Carmel.
Los Angeles authorities realized, however, that none of their witnesses had verifiably seen McPherson in person, only in photographs. The prosecution invited McPherson to visit Carmel, conveying that if she had nothing to hide, she should present herself to the witnesses for a proper identification. McPherson's lawyers, however, prevented her from going to Carmel-by-the Sea, as they were concerned the alleged witnesses would identify her from the photos they were given and not from the person they actually saw.
The list of persons who testified before the grand jury that they saw McPherson at Carmel included Jennette Parkes, who lived next-door to the cottage. She caught passing glimpses of the woman, wearing a cap and goggles at no closer than about ; with one sighting estimated as long as two minutes. Later, through the kitchen window, she said, she noticed that the woman had a mass of red hair piled high on her head. Mrs. McPherson was asked to remove her hat, exposing her hair. The witness laughed and said, "that's her." Parkes' husband Percy gave testimony he also saw the woman for an estimated total of perhaps 30 seconds. One time he saw her "rush into the cottage", without cap and goggles."
Another was Ernest Renkert, who delivered a load of wood to the cottage. He admitted, though, that he earlier told a judge she was not over 25 and still another judge that the woman he saw at the Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage was a blonde. McPherson was over 35 and had auburn hair. Renkert stated "When I see a woman I look at her," which elicited a laugh from McPherson and her mother, Mildred Kennedy. He had first read of the $25,000 reward offered for McPherson's return a week after he first saw the woman. With pictures of her prominently appearing in the newspapers, the unanswered question McPherson gave in response to all the witnesses was "why didn't they report the matter and secure the $25,000 reward that was offered for me?"
Another witness, stonemason William McMichaels, testified he saw "Miss X" more times than all other witnesses put together, as he had labored on the fence of the Carmel cottage throughout May 18–29 during its occupation by Ormiston and his feminine companion. He said he was within of the woman at the bungalow on several occasions. He said McPherson "is not the woman I saw."
McPherson wrote, "The prosecutor and his staff deflated with almost an audible bang,...their big gun had backfired. The long-heralded witness had become the champion of truth." Other persons also stated the woman seen at the Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage was not McPherson.
The landlord of the cottage, H. C. Benedict, wrote on the back of a photo of McPherson that there was nothing about it that reminded him of the woman who was with Ormiston. Benedict testified that Joseph Ryan, Deputy District Attorney, tried very hard to get him to identify the woman in his rented cottage as McPherson; however, he could not. When asked about the photos of McPherson, he answered, "he had a whole squad of them up there...and they been pulling these photographs and saying "do you recognize this" and another one "Do you recognize this?"
Some prosecution witnesses stated that when they saw McPherson in Carmel, she had short hair, and furor ensued she was currently wearing fake hair swatches piled up to give the impression of longer tresses. McPherson, as requested by her lawyer, stood up, unpinned her hair, which fell abundantly around her shoulders, shocking the witnesses and others into embarrassed silence. The prosecution witnesses in general did not get an unobstructed view of the woman staying in the cottage while most of those who saw her without the hat, scarf and "googles," with some speaking at length with her; could not identify "Miss X" as McPherson. August England, Carmel's town marshal, and tax collector of 10 years, for example, indicated he saw "Miss X" at a range of , at least three times between the May 19 and 29 and spoke with her. She was not wearing a hat and was without "goggles." Asked if McPherson was the woman he saw there, he said: "Positively not the woman." With his testimony, McPherson wrote of the prosecution, "Gone was the one great chance to bolster up the indefinite vagueness of the examination that had gone on before." A columnist for the San Bernardino Sun wrote on the selection of prosecution witnesses "without a doubt they are honest in their opinions, but that the sworn servants of the law should try to hang a woman's reputation on such hazy testimony passes understanding." The columnist further added:
A lawyer later noted the Carmel-by-the-Sea witnesses were being called to identify a woman they saw two months earlier when nothing of an unusual nature took place at the time which would help fix her image in their memory. Testimony concerning "Miss X," the unknown woman seen with Ormiston, varied widely. She was 40 or more, or a girl of not over 25; she had dark eyes, dark hair, and olive complexion or fair skin or blond.
Ormiston admitted to having rented the cottage but claimed that the woman who had been there with him – known in the press as "Mrs. X" – was not McPherson but another woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
The grand jury reconvened on August 3 and took further testimony along with documents from hotels, all said by various newspapers to be in McPherson's handwriting using assumed names. However, the collected paperwork could not link Ormiston to McPherson. Upon further investigation, amidst all the persons and their aliases listed in the case, the only individual showing no reluctance in signing her own name to any hotel register, reporters found, was McPherson.
The Carmel cottage was further checked for fingerprints, but none belonging to McPherson were recovered. Two grocery slips found in the yard of the cottage were studied by a police handwriting expert and determined to be McPherson's penmanship. While the original slips later mysteriously disappeared from the courtroom, photostat copies were available. The defense had a handwriting expert of their own and claimed to have a photograph of the well publicized slips which differed from the police photostat. They contended the reproduction "had been maliciously tampered with" to resemble McPherson's handwriting. The slips' suspicious origin was also questioned. The original slips would have been in the yard for two months, surviving dew, fog, and lawn maintenance before their discovery by deputy DA Ryan. Frustrated with his own witnesses and evidence, at the close of one of the day's sessions, prosecutor Keyes disgustedly threw a stool top after the departing courtroom crowd.
Prosecutor Keyes reasoned that without fingerprints conclusively placing McPherson at the scene, the case at Carmel-by-the-Sea "had blown up". Since not enough evidence from Carmel-by-the-Sea was obtained to proceed to trial, by mid-August the investigation appeared to be at an end. After a defense witness decided to instead testify for the prosecution, another grand jury investigation was formed starting in late September 1926.
Final grand jury inquiry phase and dismissal
With one of the critical defense witnesses, Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff, turning state's evidence, the prosecution submitted their file to the judge. On November 3, Judge Samuel R. Blake was to try McPherson, her mother and several other defendants in a jury trial case in Los Angeles, set for mid-January 1927. If convicted, the counts added up to maximum prison time of 42 years.
Since the bulk of the testimonies had taken place, the defense rested its case on October 29. However, new developments continued afterwards. The prosecution wanted to question H. C. Benedict about the contents of a blue steamer trunk purportedly belonging to Ormiston confiscated in September, but the landlord of the cottage died in mid-November. Apart from affidavits and messages, Ormiston still had not given testimony. More importantly, Wiseman-Sielaff appeared to be giving new information concerning the conspiracy implicating McPherson and her circle of friends and acquaintances.
By late December, the prosecution determined their new star witness, Wiseman-Sielaff, could no longer be a considered a credible witness. Without her, District Attorney Asa Keyes considered other evidence insufficient to continue prosecuting the case. Keyes submitted a document to have the case dismissed, conveying that without Wiseman-Sielaff's testimony, the alleged conspiracy was impossible to prove. He added "Reputable witnesses have testified sufficiently concerning both the Carmel incident and the return of Mrs. McPherson from her so-called kidnapping adventure to enable her to be judged in the only court which has jurisdiction —the court of public opinion." The Examiner newspaper reported that Los Angeles district attorney Asa Keyes had dropped all charges against McPherson and associated parties on January 10, 1927.
Regardless of the court's decision, months of unfavorable press reports fixed in much of the public's mind a certainty of McPherson's wrongdoing. Many readers were unaware of prosecution evidence having become discredited because it was often placed in the back columns while some new accusation against McPherson held prominence on the headlines. In a letter he wrote to the Los Angeles Times a few months after the case was dropped, the Reverend Robert P. Shuler stated, "Perhaps the most serious thing about this whole situation is the seeming loyalty of thousands to this leader in the face of her evident and positively proven guilt."
Some supporters thought McPherson should have insisted on the jury trial to clear her name. The grand jury inquiry concluded that while enough evidence did not exist to try her, it did not indicate her story was true with its implication of kidnappers still at large. Therefore, anyone could still accuse her of a hoax without fear of slander charges and frequently did so. But McPherson had been treated harshly in many previous sessions at court, being verbally pressured to change her story or elicit some bit of incriminating information. Moreover, court costs to McPherson were estimated as high as US$100,000. A jury trial could take months. McPherson moved on to other projects. In 1927 she published a book about her version of the kidnapping: In the Service of the King: The Story of My Life.
Two prominent defendants
Several defendants were charged as a result of the 1926 grand jury inquiries, among them McPherson, Mildred Kennedy, Ormiston, and Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff. Dr. A. M. Waters, who was implicated by Wiseman-Sielaff as being involved in McPherson's alleged Carmel coverup, committed suicide when he learned of the grand jury's interest in him.
Ormiston and Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff stood out as being the least questioned and the most questioned persons by the grand jury inquiry, each nevertheless receiving headlines and huge amounts of publicity. Ormiston shunned the spotlight and Wiseman-Sielaff sought it out, inserting herself into the McPherson grand jury inquiry at a time when it stalled and prosecutor Asa Keyes was ready to drop it.
Kenneth Ormiston
As McPherson's accused lover who allegedly assisted in the kidnapping fraud, Ormiston was a prominent defendant in the 1926 grand jury inquiry. He had been McPherson's radio operator and was crucial in getting her programs on the air. He was described as about tall, bald, slender, and good-natured with a wonderful disposition. He also had a distinctive limp that frequently identified him more than any other feature. During the time of McPherson's disappearance, newspapers freely speculated about him and the Los Angeles DA office initiated various manhunts accompanied by front-page headlines, searching for the elusive radioman. Though the Los Angeles prosecution and two city newspapers spent lavishly to romantically connect McPherson with Ormiston, no conclusive evidence that they were lovers could be uncovered. To some law enforcement officials outside of Los Angeles, the pursuit of Ormiston was done for publicity.
McPherson appeared to be friendly with Ormiston and it was insisted their relationship was strictly professional. Marital problems with his jealous wife led to marriage counseling conducted by McPherson. Around late December 1925, he left his job at the Angelus Temple, then disappeared, prompting his wife to report him missing in January, 1926. Some rumors placed him in Europe with McPherson, however, during that time, he called the Angelus Temple from Washington State in March where he was employed as a car salesman. McPherson's daughter, Roberta, joined her there in Europe to prevent further gossip.
McPherson's May 18 disappearance coincided with Ormiston taking possession of a cottage he rented for three months in the seaside resort town of Carmel-by-the Sea. Rumors developed that his companion was the missing McPherson, and police sought Ormiston. He immediately turned himself in to authorities on May 27, denying that he "went into hiding," and stated that his name being connected to McPherson's was "a gross insult to a noble and sincere woman." Though he did not mention Carmel to head off unwanted attention there, he gave details of his previous movements. Since his name was now inserted into the McPherson case, Ormiston was worried about being followed around.
His concerns materialized two days later. On the evening of May 29, near Santa Barbara, a reporter tracked Ormiston's blue Chrysler sedan coupe, and flagged it down. After examining the driver and his female passenger, the reporter determined while the man was Ormiston, he could not identify the woman, "Miss X," as McPherson. As the result of the incident, a Santa Barbara Morning Press article headline later read: Road Watched for Ormiston and Evangelist.
To escape further media attention, Ormiston vacated his Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage and placed his blue sedan in a storage garage. After arguing with "Miss X," he left her in a hotel, abandoned California and traveled to Colorado, Illinois, New York, Philadelphia and other locations. The hotel operator and a garage employee were later able to identify Ormiston as the man who patronized their respective establishments. Both persons were certain the woman with him was not McPherson. The garage employee remarked the woman did, though, have a striking resemblance to McPherson.
In late July, reporters and police received information a person who fit Ormiston's description had rented a Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage in May. In response to the intense news coverage of a half a dozen or more witnesses suddenly alleging they saw McPherson there, Prosecutor Asa Keyes launched another manhunt for Ormiston. McPherson herself pleaded through the papers for Ormiston to clear the matter up. Annoyed, Ormiston sent a letter from New York to Asa Keyes denouncing the treatment received from newspapers and officials as “nasty publicity and subsequent persecution by self-styled investigators," and that he had no intention of appearing before the Los Angeles grand jury. He released a lengthy statement to the police and several newspapers. Affirming "Miss X" was not McPherson, he added his companion had "the same general build and brown hair color as the evangelist."
Along with insufficient evidence acquired at Carmel, Ormiston's affidavit was believed to have influenced the discontinuance of the second grand jury investigation of the McPherson case around August 11. However, developments occurred with a new prosecution witness, Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff; and renewed efforts were made by Los Angeles authorities to bring Ormiston back to Los Angeles.
On October 29, after the defense rested its case, District Attorney Asa Keyes announced the September discovery of a large blue steamer trunk allegedly owned by Ormiston and thought to be full of McPherson's clothing. On November 8, 1926, a Kansas City private detective, described as a "go between" for Ormiston, transmitting him money and messages, stated the trunk was a "fake." Ormiston, who was still eluding authorities to avoid being pressured to reveal Miss X's true name, said on November 19 "the trunk is bunk." Some of the clothing was found to be the wrong size for McPherson. The trunk became an object of jokes, in reference to anything unwanted, unknown, or lost as being laid away in that big blue trunk.
In December, Ormiston was found by newsmen, living quietly in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Papers described him being taken without resistance by police while sitting at a typewriter. A Harrisburg detective characterized the affair as a "publicity stunt," but declined to elaborate. Among Ormiston's personal effects were five diplomas from five radio schools and letters implying he had a wife in Brazil. He was escorted to Chicago, Illinois with intent to be transported to Los Angeles. Asa Keyes said he would “do everything in his power” to extradite Ormiston. However, he did not stop in Chicago to pick him up though he traveled near there on his way to and from Washington, D.C. The Chicago police chief denounced Keyes for "yelling to high heaven for his apprehension" but when the fugitive Ormiston was "within reach," Keyes called Ormiston of minimal importance. The Chicago police chief lacked proper documents for further action, and to the annoyance of Los Angeles officials, Ormiston was released. When the warrant was finally obtained, Chicago police were ready to transport their expected prisoner, Ormiston, to Los Angeles In the meantime, Ormiston appeared in Los Angeles surrounded by newsmen and was greeted by the entire prosecution staff. Affably, amidst the flashbulbs of photographers, Ormiston accepted his served warrant. His bond was set at $2,500.
Ormiston declined to answer any questions from the numerous reporters, stepped into Keyes's office and typed out his statement. He desired not to complicate the situation since "intrigue and hokum were as thick as San Francisco fog." He maintained he was not at Carmel-by-the-Sea with Mrs. McPherson, stated he violated no conspiracy laws and was not afraid to face trial. In early January 1927, Ormiston testified and gave the name of Elizabeth Tovey, a nurse from Seattle, Washington, as the person who was "Miss X" and his female companion and the woman who stayed with him at the seaside cottage on May 19–29 in Carmel-by-the Sea. A few days later, on January 10, 1926, all charges were dropped against Ormiston, McPherson and all remaining defendants.
Ormiston died in January 1937 at the age of 41 in Los Angeles from complications of an appendectomy.
Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff
Keyes was about to drop the inquiry in mid August when fingerprints belonging to McPherson could not be found at the Carmel-by-the Sea cottage. He determined other evidence at Carmel was too vague for a successful perjury prosecution against the defendants. An unexpected opportunity, though, invigorated the case when a defense witness appeared to flip. Keyes thought he now had a direct eyewitness account of the conspiracy conducted by McPherson, Kennedy, and Ormiston to defeat justice by manufacturing false evidence. The chief witness against McPherson was now Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff. Based on her testimony, Keyes ordered a new grand jury investigation.
Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff introduced herself to McPherson and declared she was in Carmel as a nurse for her twin sister who was Ormiston's mistress; because the twins somewhat physically resembled McPherson, they were being misidentified as McPherson. McPherson embraced Wiseman-Sielaff as an important witness who would exonerate her, and for a time she was a guest at the Angelus Temple parsonage. Ormiston also signed a letter around September 8 that his companion was a sister of Wiseman-Seilaff, confirming her initial story. Later, Wiseman-Sielaff was caught for passing bad checks and blamed it on her twin sister. When her story became untenable, she requested that the Angelus Temple post her bail, but they refused. Wiseman-Sielaff then said McPherson paid her to tell that story about what happened at Carmel-by-the-Sea and assist in hiring someone to pose as "Miss X." She was charged as a defendant in the case in November because she admitted her alleged role as an alibi for McPherson at Carmel and sided with the prosecution for immunity.
As the grand jury inquiry progressed, Wiseman-Sielaff implicated one of McPherson's lawyers, Roland Rich Woolley, for inappropriate conduct when they lived in another state where she said they went to school together. The accusations forced Woolley from the case. Eventually it was proven Wiseman-Sielaff lied about the relationship, and Woolley gave evidence he had not met Wiseman-Sielaff until August 15, 1926. According to Woolley, who was visiting a judge in his office at Salinas on August 15, Wiseman-Sielaff and Virla Kimball, her twin sister, voluntarily appeared there and signed an affidavit attesting that she and her sister were at Carmel-by-the-Sea with Ormiston. A cab driver confirmed the presence of the two women there. It was purported by the defense that Kimball might have been Ormiston's "Miss X." On May 19, the date Ormiston and the mystery woman appeared at the cottage, it was confirmed that Kimball was at nearby Alameda County filing for divorce. She also admitted to being in Salinas on August 15, but was not in the judge's office, stating she did not sign any such affidavit and threatened to sue McPherson if she were drawn into "this horrible case." Wiseman-Sielaff inserted yet another sister as "Miss X" into the inquiry, Rachel Wells of Philadelphia, as the person who actually signed the affidavit.
In the meantime, another woman came forward: Babe Daniels, 20, of Chicago, IL. Daniels stated that she was "Miss X" at Carmel, giving some the impression that the prosecution was now awash in "Miss X's." Later, she claimed to have been in on a McPherson plot, working with Wiseman-Sielaff with the promise of never having to worry about money again. Prosecutor Keyes rejected Daniels's story "as a tissue of lies" and cut her loose with a stern rebuke that anyone else attempting such a fraud would be exposed by his office." Criticism erupted and a news columnist wrote:
Wiseman-Sielaff declared that she made a note in her memorandum book regarding money sent, on behalf of McPherson, to Rachel Wells on August 4. However, when asked to produce the memorandum book for examination, Wiseman-Sielaff said she had destroyed the book. Her testimony became more inconsistent as she was further queried in December. It was revealed that Wiseman-Sielaff once spent time in a Utah mental institution.
Keyes, whose case relied totally on this witness to prove the alleged conspiracy, realized Wiseman-Sielaff was giving false testimony against Mrs. McPherson. Keyes briefly considered charging Lorraine Wiseman-Sielaff with perjury as her testimony kept the inquiry going for another six weeks, costing $100,000 and yielded nothing. However, for all defendants, he submitted to the judge for case dismissal.
Issues with the prosecution
The grand jury investigation against McPherson adversely affected the careers of several Los Angeles officials including District Attorney Asa Keyes, Assistant Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan, and Chief of Detectives Captain Cline. All three were already rumored to have inappropriate connections to the local underworld, with Ryan being accused by affidavit of helping to facilitate protection rackets by acquitting defendants.
Vice in general was readily flourishing under Keyes and he legalized slot machines, an act that was later rescinded by his successor. Keyes was also known as a "secret drinker" during Prohibition in Los Angeles, patronizing a back room in the tailor shop of Ben Getzoff who had a steady supply of liquor. Keyes also had other issues going on in the middle of the inquiry; in another case he was charged with, and cleared of, embezzlement. It has been suggested by sources within the Foursquare Gospel Church that McPherson's work ran contrary to corrupt police interests and in part may have been a motivating factor in the prosecution's unconventional handling of the grand jury inquiry.
Assistant Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan
In the Douglas hospital, as he helped to question the convalescing evangelist, Assistant Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan enthusiastically professed his faith in McPherson's story. He even said he could make the desert trip without scuffing or marking his commissary shoes. Later, however, in Los Angeles, Ryan testified that he knew that McPherson was a "fake and a hypocrite" the first time he saw her in the hospital. Ryan was assistant to District Attorney Asa Keyes, and did much of the legwork in building the case against McPherson. The defense contended that both Ryan and his father-in-law, Captain Herman Cline, neglected their duty by disregarding evidence unearthed by border authorities that substantiated McPherson's version of her re-appearance. The declaration by W. A. Gabrielson, chief of police of Monterey, said that "Mr. Ryan's conduct of this case was most unethical", referring to the methods Ryan used, among them entering the cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea without a warrant, and without any local official present. Of particular interest among the seized pieces of evidence was a medicine bottle, because it was dated May 25, 1926, within the timeframe Ormiston and "Miss X" occupied the cottage. Again without warrant, demands were then made of the druggist and prescribing doctor about the medicine's user. As it turned out, the bottle belonged to the landlord, H. C. Benedict, and contained a "commonplace preparation." Keyes thought that all the evidence obtained at Carmel-by-the-Sea was too vague for a successful prosecution for perjury and was ready to quit the case. Ryan met with Keyes and presented his "ace in the hole evidence" for continuance at Carmel-by-the-Sea. What Ryan offered was in the form of a receipt for a telegram said by him to be in McPherson's handwriting, signed by her at the Carmel cottage with two related witness identifications.
Without fingerprints, Keyes was unconvinced that there was sufficient evidence, and in early August ordered witness subpoenas to be suspended along with any further investigation at Carmel-by-the Sea. However, Ryan went over the head of his superior, and publicly announced the mystery solved and the case over, that the kidnapping was a ruse. It was then expected that more would be done with the inquiry. For that breach of procedure, Ryan also had the ire of Judge Keetch directed at him since such an accusation represented "a bald and sordid accusation against a woman who has insisted that a crime had been committed against her." Tension between Ryan and Keyes increased, and Ryan was released from the case, sent back to prosecute pickpockets and other common criminals. The two witnesses, the telegram messenger and a Salinas garage-man, contrary to what Ryan had contended, later denied that "Miss X" was McPherson.
Chief of Detectives Captain Herman Cline
A woman who ran an illegal bootlegging saloon boasted of being the sweetheart of Chief of Detectives Captain Herman Cline. Father-in-law to Deputy District Attorney Joseph Ryan, Captain Cline was in on the investigation from the time of McPherson's disappearance. Cline, like Ryan, initially professed faith in McPherson's account of abduction and escape, earning the headlines Cline Believes.
The description of the shoes when taken from McPherson reads that the "uppers showed slight wear and the soles were scuffed; leather in the insteps was bright and bore markings like grass stains." Cline, however, was quoted as stating to Ryan, "You saw those shoes, the grass stains on the instep, what is so rare as a blade of grass on the desert in June?" Lore developed of there being no grass in the desert and that McPherson's shoes and other garments from her desert trek were in pristine condition. However, McPherson had been photographed ankle deep in scrub grasses while looking for her tracks and the area was host to cattle drives. McPherson's statement, published in the papers, included approximate weight, height, age, eye and hair color, and complexion and mannerisms of each of her captors. In later remarks attributed to Cline, he expressed skepticism, for example claiming to have had only limited success in getting any details from her regarding the kidnappers' appearance.
In late July, Captain Cline, together with deputy DA Joseph Ryan, canvassed Carmel-by-the-Sea for witnesses alleging that they had seen McPherson there. On August 22, Cline was jailed for drunk driving after running into another car with his police vehicle. Considering his role in the grand jury inquiry, that he should be found in such a condition during Prohibition, was especially disconcerting to the Angelus Temple. Their complaints forced the Los Angeles police department to act and Cline was removed from the case. A period author scolded the Temple for their reaction. Nancy Barr Mavity, an early McPherson biographer, wrote of the drunk driving incident "an error not altogether unprecedented to members of the police departments as to other human beings."
District Attorney Asa Keyes
District Attorney Asa Keyes led the prosecution. He was once a featured speaker at the Angelus Temple and at the time Mildred Kennedy, McPherson's mother, considered him a fair and just man. Overall, McPherson enjoyed a favorable relationship with law enforcement and after the 1926 grand jury investigations were over, police were directing destitute people to the Angelus Temple's commissary for help. That she should have become a target, as she saw it, of such an intense legal smear puzzled her, and she framed it in the context that the Los Angeles prosecution was being controlled by diabolical forces seeking to bring herself and the Angelus Temple to ruin. Biographer Daniel Mark Epstein explained that Keyes was a public servant, responding to the pressures of many in the Los Angeles constituency who thought that McPherson was making their city a laughingstock.
Sources in the Temple as per Raymond Cox, in his own opinion and that of her lawyers, was that Keyes sought to elevate himself as an invincible prosecutor. Keyes conducted the grand jury inquiry in a manner that afforded McPherson the most detrimental public exposure possible, including releasing details of a prosecution witness's testimony to the press, while honoring the code of grand jury secrecy only when it came to the defense side. He was known for winning convictions, but six persons he sent to prison were found to be innocent and pardoned by California's state governor, Friend Richardson. The governor reminded prosecutor Keyes it was his duty to seek justice, not convictions, as currently the prosecution office seemed more interested in making a record than they were in acquitting the innocent. Richardson understood pardons for the same district attorney could occur once or even twice under an administration but six times was inconceivable.
After months of testimony and investigation Keyes lacked the evidence he so earnestly sought to successfully prosecute the McPherson party in a jury trial. Therefore, in January 1927, he asked for case dismissal. He said, referring to his own side, that he was through with perjured testimony, fake evidence and ...he had been duped and a (juried) trial against McPherson would be a futile persecution. After so much media buildup, it was wondered by some (who?) what McPherson did to force the abandonment of the "airtight" case against her. Keyes himself came under scrutiny.
Alternate theories circulated about the real reason for the dismissal. One story, purportedly from a secret FBI file, claimed that newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst was being blackmailed by McPherson, who threatened to publicize a story she heard about him murdering movie producer Thomas H. Ince in 1924, and for being in an adulterous affair with actress Marion Davies. Hearst, fearing that such stories could damage his reputation, then pressured Keyes to drop the case. These incidents, though, were previously part of the public record. Thomas Ince reportedly died of heart failure brought on by acute indigestion and already there was a run of news gossip concerning Hearst and speculated suspicious circumstances surrounding Ince's death. Davies was a companion to Hearst since 1917, previously enduring publicized scandals about it. Moreover, such scheming was contrary to McPherson's previously known behavior as attested to by others. Guido Orlando, a promoter who made Greta Garbo a legend, wrote of McPherson: "She was not a bigot, she did not pry into people's private lives,... She was in all the time I knew her incapable of malice toward anyone." Other rumors spread that she simply bribed Keyes to flush the case with "hush" monies amounting from $30,000 to as much as $800,000. Details and the sources of the various rumors were ambiguous, with little evidence forthcoming to establish credibility.
In late 1928, the Los Angeles County Grand Jury began looking into the possibility that Keyes had been bribed to drop charges against McPherson. An investigation was started and Keyes was acquitted. In another case where Asa Keyes appeared as a witness, he again was asked about the dismissal. Keyes reiterated that it was because of Lorraine Wiseman-Seilaff, stating that no prosecutor has the right "to defile the courts" with known perjured testimony so absolutely unreliable as Wiseman-Seilaff gave. Any further effort to prosecute "could not be done with honor or with any reasonable hope of success." Judge Albert Lee Stephens granted the request for case dismissal.
Asa Keyes went on, though, to be convicted of bribery in an entirely unrelated case. There were witnesses, diaries and ledgers with handoffs recorded, evidence Keyes could not defend against. Involving Ben Getzoff and his tailor shop backroom transactions, Asa Keyes was charged with accepting gifts and cash to secure acquittals for several individuals and was sentenced in 1929. McPherson later visited him in San Quentin Penitentiary to wish him well.
Other controversies with the inquiries
Misleading news coverage
In Los Angeles, ahead of any court date, McPherson noticed newspaper stories about her kidnapping becoming more and more sensationalized as the days passed. To maintain excited, continued public interest, she speculated, the newspapers let her original account give way to torrents of "new spice and thrill" stories about her being elsewhere "with that one or another one." It did not matter if the material was disproved or wildly contradictory. No correction or apology was given for the previous story as another, even more outrageous tale, took its place.
A newspaper editorial crossed the boundaries of publication decency for U.S. Postal Inspectors when 75-year-old Abraham. R. Sauer, of the San Diego Herald, wrote a lurid column about McPherson and her purported "ten days in a love shack." He was charged with sending obscene literature through the mails. Though acquitted, four newspaper vendors selling the banned publication paid fines. Another publisher who reprinted and mailed the July 29 edition of the Herald was sentenced to two years in Leavenworth Federal Prison.
A grocery delivery boy, Ralph Swanson, stated that McPherson answered the door when he delivered groceries to a home there. In a newspaper interview he stated seeing three physicians leaving the Carmel cottage at night; the news article created the impression an abortion had been carried out. The office records of a San Francisco physician suspected of providing abortions were also ransacked by reporters. The defense chided the witness as an inexperienced youth giving a thoughtless and false statement. McPherson's near death medical operation in 1914, which prevented her from having more children, was already part of the public record. When challenged about the abortion claim with a request to pay for the medical exam to prove it, the newspaper which printed the story backed down.
Prosecution witness and retired engineer Ralph Hershey was described in some papers as a star witness for the state. However, different testimony in court was given than what was reported he would give. As published in various papers, Hershey said he was driving along a narrow lane in Carmel-by-the-Sea when two persons, whom he recognized as Mrs McPherson and Ormiston, came along the path. He was forced to stop his machine until they walked around.
When he got to court in September, however, his story did not include Ormiston or stopping his car. Hershey explained while driving, he saw a woman approximately away near a street corner wearing a tight, low hat. He later visited a friend and they agreed that the woman was a local resident who sold that friend his house. Hershey spelled the name of the local woman for the lawyer cross-examining him. Two and a half months later, after a newsman interviewed him, Hersey decided instead that the woman was McPherson. To confirm his identification, on August 8, he traveled to the Angelus Temple and at a distance of around , he saw Mrs. McPherson. Hersey explained it was the large, open, brilliant eyes which clenched the identification for him. The lawyer asserted, without a demonstration, that he did not think that it was possible at that distance for Hershey "to have seen the shape of her eyes, little less their color, peculiar or otherwise."
Mollifying taxpayers over failure to bring the case to trial in spite of considerable expense, prosecutor Asa Keyes, in his closing statement, made it clear that the investigation was assisted and largely underwritten by the area newspapers. Though many thought the newspaper investigations showed that McPherson was in Ormiston's company at Carmel-by-the Sea during the period of her disappearance, Keyes stated that evidence collected there was too vague and inconclusive to pursue further action against anyone on a perjury charge.
Shortly after the dismissal of the case, on January 18, 1927, Constable O. A. Ash of Douglas, Arizona was interviewed by a special staff correspondent of the San Bernardino Dally Sun. Constable Ash maintained that the press withheld important facts from the public and even gave deliberate misinformation regarding McPherson's kidnapping story. The papers denied, he said, there being bind marks from the kidnapper's restraints on McPherson's wrists, though he saw the marks himself. The country where he back trailed McPherson's trip he described as grassy and ideal pasture land with plenty of springs of water. He said that the maximum temperature was around . The scorching sands, described in many papers, and brush that would tear clothes and scratch shoes, the constable said, were not present in the region McPherson traversed. He described the papers reporting alleged testimony by witnesses even before they took the stand. Ash stated he knew little concerning the pastor and her work and said she was a " victim of much misrepresentation."
Judge Arthur Keetch of the Los Angeles Superior Court, who presided over one of investigating grand jury bodies he later dissolved, stated on a later date that he thought that the papers "were running pretty wild at that time." He was annoyed that secret proceedings of his grand jury was being divulged to the public through the press. California grand jury members are bound by law not to discuss the case to protect the integrity of the process in determining whether there is sufficient cause for a formal juried trial. The Reverend Robert P. Shuler was told as much by a newspaper in response to an open demand he made for more disclosure in the ongoing inquiry.
Reflecting on that period in his memoirs, Former attorney general of California Robert W. Kenny stated "nothing ever sold more newspapers in Los Angeles than the Aimee affair" and Aimee's only real crime "was that of minding her own business, but that was more than our local bigots could bear."
Evidence lost
The 1926 grand jury inquiry was also known for catalogued evidence that was inexplicably lost. Among the pieces that came up missing:
A page-long handwritten ransom note demanding $500,000, signed "Revengers" and mailed on May 24 from San Francisco to the Angelus Temple. It was passed on to the police and later discovered to be missing from their locked evidence files in October. The district attorney's office claimed the missing note was written in "disguised handwriting" to help support the plot of McPherson being kidnapped. Because he was in San Francisco on May 24 and 25; and the handwriting and language were those of an "educated person," Ormiston was the purported author and this claim was passed on to the press. Photstats previously taken of the note were available to the state; though, nothing in court was presented actually tying Ormiston to the document.
On July 4, a typewriter placed in storage in a federal building could not be located when it was later sought to test its keys against a sampling of one of the ransom notes demanding $500,000 received by the Angelus Temple. Federal post office inspectors launched a thorough search in an attempt to locate the missing machine. Two different typewriters were used to produce the note in question. The missing typewriter was one of four being examined as possible devices used in the production of the note.
The much-published grocery slips, found at the Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage and asserted by the prosecution to be in McPherson's handwriting, mysteriously disappeared from the courtroom in early August. They were last seen being examined by a juror who left the courtroom on a break. Some speculated the juror was sympathetic to McPherson and dropped them down a toilet while in the restroom. The juror was investigated and determined to have no connection with the McPherson party and the loss of the grocery slips determined an accident. Mildred Kennedy purported assistant DA Ryan might have disposed of them himself. The defense made a serious accusation against the prosecution stating the police photostats of the grocery slips, as supported by several area photographers, did not match the photograph taken of them. Their contention was, the photostats, which were in police custody, were altered to look like McPherson's handwriting.
A big, blue steamer trunk purportedly belonging to Ormiston was confiscated in September from a New York hotel. Its contents were inventoried and the trunk sealed. Upon arrival in Los Angeles, Prosecutor Asa Keyes checked its contents against the inventory list, however, several articles of clothing were missing.
Publicized stories of evidence being lost in the case was so frequent that Rev. Robert P. Shuler was prompted to comment: "...that someone is lying and that Aimee won’t be the only one mixed up in the dirty mess."
H.L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken, who had been covering the case, also commented on the media, writing that since many of that town's residents acquired their ideas "of the true, the good and the beautiful" from the movies and newspapers, "Los Angeles will remember the testimony against her long after it forgets the testimony that cleared her."
In the McPherson case, Mencken observed the grand jury proceedings becoming quite public. A vocal critic of McPherson, Mencken wrote of her, "For years she toured the Bible Belt in a Ford, haranguing the morons nightly, under canvas. It was a depressing life, and its usufructs were scarcely more than three meals a day. The town [he refers to Los Angeles] has more morons in it than the whole State of Mississippi, and thousands of them had nothing to do save gape at the movie dignitaries and go to revivals". Mencken had been sent to cover the trial and there was every expectation that he would continue his searing critiques against McPherson. Instead, he came away impressed with McPherson and disdainful of the unseemly nature of the prosecution.
H. L. Mencken determined that McPherson was being persecuted by two powerful groups. The "town clergy" which included Rev. Robert P. Shuler, disliked her, for, among other things, poaching their "customers" and for the perceived sexual immorality associated with Pentecostalism. Her other category of enemies were "the Babbits", the power elite of California. McPherson's strong stand on Bible fundamentalism was not popular with them, especially after taking a stand during the 1925 Scopes trial which gave "science a bloody nose." In addition McPherson was working to put a Bible in every public school classroom and to forbid the teaching of evolution. The Argonaut, a San Francisco newspaper, warned these actions made her a threat to the entire state which could place "California on intellectual parity with Mississippi and Tennessee." Mencken later wrote: "The trial, indeed, was an orgy typical of the half-fabulous California courts. The very officers of justice denounced her riotously in the Hearst papers while it was in progress."
Theories and rebuttals
The Los Angeles prosecution office alleged that McPherson left the beach with Ormiston and stayed with him at Carmel-by-the-Sea for 10 days. Because they were almost identified by a reporter who stopped their car, the two fled California at the end of May, holed up somewhere for most of June, then made their way through Arizona to Mexico where she was dropped off outside of Agua Prieta.
Telegraph operator William Blevins supplanted this theory when he declared he identified McPherson from photographs. He compared handwriting from his logs to samples printed in the newspapers from the grocery slips found at the Carmel-by-the-Sea cottage yard. He said that she came into his office at Gila Bend, Arizona, on June 15 and sent a message to Tucson, Arizona, saying that an automobile had broken down and that she was taking a train. The prosecution confirmed his findings, subpoenaed two more local witnesses who claimed they saw the same woman, and announced it in the news.
The defense had a surprise witness, one the angry prosecution tried to prevent from appearing as she was presented out of turn at the inquiry. Stymied by objections from the prosecuting attorney, she was effectively silenced until Judge Samuel R. Blake intervened and allowed her to speak. The wife of an airman stationed in the Philippines, Mrs. Gail X. Koontz, said it was she, and not McPherson, who sent a telegram from Gila Bend to Tucson on June 15. After withdrawing their much publicized witnesses, the prosecution continued to offer theories. However, they had nothing to present in court to establish McPherson's whereabouts anytime during the three weeks prior to her reappearance at Douglas, Arizona.
A commentary published in an Ohio newspaper explored the situation. It did not help the prosecution's case in their claim that Ormiston and McPherson had been madly in love because Ormiston was absent from Los Angeles five months prior to McPherson's disappearance. Also, Ormiston was being divorced by his wife, so the pair could have gotten married. That she would choose to jeopardize her two-million-dollar establishment and undermine her career as a credible religious leader of 30,000 faithful followers to travel about the coast disguised in goggles and a cap made no sense. If such an excursion were desired, there were easier and alternative methods she could have used.
Other theories and innuendo were rampant about what actually occurred, and also without evidence: that she had run off with some other lover, had gone off to have an abortion, was taking time to heal from plastic surgery, or had staged a publicity stunt. Two-inch headlines called her a tart, a conspirator, and a home-wrecker. She had once enjoyed only favorable press, nicknamed "miracle woman" or "miracle worker" up until the time of the 1926 grand jury inquiry. Biographer Matthew Avery Sutton wrote that McPherson learned that in a celebrity crazed-culture fueled by mass media, a leading lady could become a villainess in the blink of an eye.
McPherson was heavily pressured to change her story; however, she never did and by demonstration, witness testimony and evidence, affirmed her story's plausibility. Even in later years, when McPherson had a falling-out with her mother, Mildred Kennedy, and daughter, Roberta Star Semple, with unkind remarks traded through the press, the latter two always insisted her 1926 disappearance was the result of a kidnapping.
Alleged kidnappers
The McPherson party, apart from McPherson's testimony, claimed actual contact with the kidnappers through attorney-at-law Russell A. McKinley, who was trusted by the kidnappers because he was blind. On two occasions May and June, two men calling themselves Miller and Wilson - aliases for "Steve" and the unnamed assailant of the McPherson complaint - allegedly approached him and made an offer to return McPherson for $25,000. They told him that a rubber mask was briefly used on McPherson when taking her and the drug was laced with one quarter grain (16 mg) of morphine, ensuring she was "doped" safely and quickly. They were given four questions, passed to McKinley from Kennedy, that only her daughter could answer, to prove that the men actually had her. Mildred Kennedy also gave McKinley $1,000 to assist him in his work. A ransom note was relayed and given to the police who, in disguise, visited a hotel lobby drop site as a precaution in case it was genuine. No results were forthcoming and the note was dismissed as fraudulent. Another ransom note demanding $500,000 was sent to the Angelus Temple with two of the questions correctly answered. McPherson later recalled an incident from her captivity when two of the kidnappers returned annoyed from an errand at a hotel, stating that they had recognized the detectives positioned there and left. She also said that they asked her personal questions and once she realized what they were doing, she refused to answer further. She thought that the $500,000 being asked for her return was way too much, because the Temple did not have it. One of them then burned her with his cigar in an attempt to get the other two questions answered. They threatened to take a finger if their ransom note did not work. Some days later, McPherson escaped.
After McPherson's return to Los Angeles, McKinley promised to obtain information which would prove to the court that kidnappers had indeed held her during the disappearance. Since McKinley had a good reputation, Kennedy, McPherson, and Judge Carlos Hardy continued to work with him. A car accident in August, though, claimed his life. McKinley's sudden death, Mildred Kennedy thought, was peculiar, occurring as it did just before he was ready to reveal some important piece of evidence. His death was considered a serious blow to McPherson's case. His secretary, Miss Bernice Morris, however, testified for the prosecution, stating that she did not believe that there were any alleged kidnappers. She had respect for her late boss, Mr. McKinley, though on the stand she was forced to consider whether he was either in on the plot to manufacture evidence or an unwitting dupe. The prosecution purported that the McPherson party sent at least two persons posing as the kidnappers to fool McKinley and secure his testimony, lending credibility to the kidnapping story. This theory, as one biographer, Nancy Barr Mavity, pointed out, had serious issues because it introduced two extra persons into the scam, increasing the likelihood of exposure.
Bernice Morris also stated that she had a photo made up of persons posing as the kidnappers and disguised them based on McPherson's description. McPherson was shown the image represented to her as an actual photo of her assailants. Allegedly, McPherson's reaction to it was as a genuine identification. Since only actors were in the image, Morris took it as proof that McPherson was penetrating a fraud by identifying them as her captors. McPherson denied Morris' contention; the subjects in the photo were in heavy shadow and the expletive Morris claimed she used when seeing the photo was one not known to have been said by McPherson in times of surprise. Bernice Morris continued with other damaging testimony; however, the defense was only allowed by the judge to minimally cross examine her. To check her credibility, McPherson lawyers asked for the release of McKinley's transcribed statement, which was earlier given to the DA's office before his death. The lawyers wanted to determine whether any of it confirmed his secretary's story, or even whether his testimony matched what McKinley was telling the Temple about his work. Of particular interest to the defense was what the transcripts in question said about a trip McKinley and his secretary, Bernice Morris, made to San Francisco in mid-August to meet with one of the alleged kidnappers. The prosecution refused, stating that those documents were irrelevant and the judge, Samuel R. Blake, said it was outside his power to compel their release.
Another person, an employee of the Southern Pacific Engineering Department, on September 26 made a statement that Miss Morris was actually Mrs. Bernice Morris Allcorn Simpson and implying that she was involved in a homosexual relationship. Living with Morris and passed off as her sister was an 18 year old teenager. A McPherson lawyer told of an anonymous call coming into his office about Morris being pressured by a Los Angeles detective. Unless she gave testimony disparaging of McPherson, Morris's lesbian relationship would be publicly exposed. McPherson and her mother jointly declared their faith in McKinley's work and that Miss Morris was being coerced to say things she knew that were not true.
According to Judge Carlos Hardy, the police were doing little in looking for kidnappers, instead treating her story as false. Mildred Kennedy, therefore, hired the Burns Detective Agency to look for evidence supporting their side of the story.
Since the manager of the agency, J.W. Buchanan, did not want to report to a woman, Judge Hardy handled the details of the investigation. Rumors about several sets of "Steves" and "Roses" associated in criminal activities quickly turned up. One initially promising lead came from a convict who overheard fellow prisoners talk about the kidnapping as an actual event and involving a specific Steve, Rose and Frank who indicated that a lot of money could be made kidnapping and ransoming McPherson. However, that particular Rose was discovered to have been dead and Steve in prison prior to McPherson's disappearance. "Frank" was still at large.
On June 29, 1926, an El Paso Herald reporter asked Emil Lewis Holmdahl, an American infantryman turned soldier of fortune, whether he had been involved in the alleged kidnapping of famous California evangelist McPherson. Holmdahl, who fought extensively in earlier Latin American turmoil wars and was cleared by a Mexican judge as a suspect in the February 6, 1926 theft of Pancho Villa's head, enigmatically replied regarding McPherson, "Well, maybe I did and maybe I didn't." In contrast, unless intoxicated, he always emphatically denied participating in a grave robbery that stole Villa's head.
On October 8, police sergeant Alonzo B. Murchison of Douglas, Arizona, was questioned by the defense counsel about a report he submitted tending to substantiate the existence of "Steve" and "Rose," two of the alleged kidnappers McPherson described. The couple had registered frequently under the name of Mr. and Mrs. J. Stone at the Gladstone Hotel, in Douglas. "Steve" placed a car in a Douglas garage on June 16. The woman was identified as Rose McBridge, a nurse. A Los Angeles special investigator later believed Steve to be H. M. Hughes; and found a couple of their description staying at a ranch in Wellton, Arizona.
Aftermath
The 1926 grand jury case, the largest of its kind in California, had hundreds of reporters and agencies looking for discrediting evidence against McPherson. Almost $500,000 () was spent (most by newspapers assisting in the investigation), and 3,600 pages of transcripts generated. The Record stated "the McPherson sensation has sold millions of newspapers, generated fat fees for lawyers, stirred up religious antagonism ... advertised Los Angeles in a ridiculous way." H. L. Mencken said McPherson was not responsible for the controversy and called it a "dirty shame." Officials and others continued to investigate, even years later, but were unable to prove her kidnapping story false. In 1929, after a failed request by the state senate to reopen the older 1926 case, Journalist Morrow Mayo noted it was the last chance in California to "ruin that red-headed sorceress", and "she is free to serve the Lord until the Marines are called out."
The tale was later satirized in a song performed by Pete Seeger called "The Ballad of Aimee McPherson," with lyrics claiming the kidnapping had been unlikely because a hotel love nest revealed "the dents in the mattress fitted Aimee's caboose."
The Court of Historical Review and Appeal in San Francisco, which holds no legal authority, is made up of members of the bench who examine and retry historical cases and controversies. In April 1990, a decision was handed down regarding the matter of McPherson's kidnapping story. George T. Choppelas, the then presiding judge of the San Francisco Municipal Court, ruling for the Court of Historical Review, found the issues involved both serious and fascinating. He concluded that "there was never any substantial evidence to show that her story was untrue. She may not have been a saint, but she certainly was no sinner, either."
See also
List of kidnappings
List of solved missing person cases
References
1920s kidnappings in the United States
1920s missing person cases
Aimee Semple McPherson
Formerly missing people
Grand juries in the United States
Kidnapped American people
Kidnappings in the United States
Missing person cases in California
Temporary disappearances
History of women in California |
House Full: Live at the L.A. Troubadour not to be confused with its earlier counterpart Live at the L.A. Troubadour is the only currently available live Fairport Convention album to feature Richard Thompson as a band member.
Track listing
Side 1
"Sir Patrick Spens" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 3'06"
"Banks of the Sweet Primroses" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 4'28"
"The Lark in the Morning Medley" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 3'46"
"Sloth" (Richard Thompson / Dave Swarbrick) 11'56"
Side 2
"Staines Morris" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 3'42"
"Matty Groves" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 8'42"
"Jenny's Chickens / The Mason's Apron" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 4'36"
"Battle of the Somme" (Pipe Major Robertson) 5'02"
Notes-
This LP contains some tracks recorded at the same time as those issued on " Live at the L.A. Troubadour" and some that were actually released on that LP.
Track 2 is re-edited and remixed and is longer than the original version
Tracks 3 is re-mastered and listed wrongly as " Toss the Feathers"
Track 4 is a different take from that released on the earlier LP
Track 6 is re-mastered
Track 7 is re-edited and remixed and is shorter than the original version and is just listed as " Mason's Apron"
2001 reissue
"Sir Patrick Spens" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 3'28"
"Banks of the Sweet Primroses" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 4'37"
"The Lark in the Morning Medley" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 3'53"
"Sloth" (Richard Thompson / Dave Swarbrick) 12'18"
"Staines Morris" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 3'44"
"Matty Groves" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 8'43"
"Jenny's Chickens / The Mason's Apron" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention) 4'41"
"Battle of the Somme" (Pipe Major Robertson) 5'01"
"Bonnie Kate / Sir B. McKenzies" (Trad. Arr. Fairport Convention / Dave Swarbrick) 4'56"
"Yellow Bird" (Marilyn Keith / Alan Bergman / Norman Luboff) 2'17"
Tracks, 1-8 are from " House Full" (Hannibal Records HNBL 1319)
Tracks 9-10 are from " Live at the L.A. Troubadour" (Island Records HELP 28)
Personnel
Richard Thompson - electric guitar, vocals
Dave Swarbrick - vocals, fiddle, viola
Simon Nicol - rhythm guitar, vocals, mandolin (5), electric dulcimer (8)
Dave Pegg - bass guitar, vocals
Dave Mattacks - drums, percussion
Recording
All tracks recorded 4–6 September 1970 at the L.A. Troubadour, Los Angeles.
Release history
UK (LP) Hannibal Records HNBL 1319 (June 1986)
UK (CD) Hannibal Records HNCD 1319 (March 1990)
UK (CD) Island Records IMCD 289/586376-2 (8 October 2001) Remastered reissue with bonus tracks
USA (CD) Hannibal Records HNCD 1319 (July 1990)
AUSTRALIA (CD) Hannibal Records D41251 (1992) (imported CD with sticker on back containing Australian catalogue number
JAPAN (CD) MIDI MDC6-1110 (August 1990)
References
External links
- LP Entry from Expletive Delighted (Fairport Convention Fansite)
- CD Entry from Expletive Delighted
Albums produced by Joe Boyd
Fairport Convention live albums
1986 live albums
Hannibal Records albums
Albums recorded at the Troubadour |
Royal Alexandra may refer to:
Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto, Ontario
Royal Alexandra Hospital, the name of various facilities in the United Kingdom and Canada
Alexandra Bridge, (officially the "Royal Alexandra Interprovincial Bridge"), between Ottawa, Ontario, and Gatineau, Quebec
Royal Yacht Alexandra |
Twen was a West German magazine that was published from 1959 to 1971, and known for its innovative design and typography.
History and profile
Twen was launched in 1959 as a bimonthly magazine and the first issue appeared in April 1959. The founders were Hans A. Nikel and Hans Hermann. However, there is another report citing the founders as Adolf Theobald and Stephen Wolf.
In September 1961, the magazine became a monthly publication. Willy Fleckhaus was Twen'''s art director throughout its existence. Notable photographers included Christa Peters. Twen was pitched at "people in their twenties, from 15 to 30", thus its name, Twen''. It was read in both West and East Germany. The magazine folded with the June 1971 issue.
References
1959 establishments in West Germany
1971 disestablishments in West Germany
Bi-monthly magazines published in Germany
Defunct magazines published in Germany
German-language magazines
Monthly magazines published in Germany
Magazines established in 1959
Magazines disestablished in 1971
Visual arts magazines published in Germany
Teen magazines |
Protein MPV17 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MPV17 gene. It is a mitochondrial inner membrane protein, which has a so far largely unknown role in mtDNA maintenance. Protein MPV17 is expressed in human pancreas, kidney, muscle, liver, lung, placenta, brain and heart. Human MPV17 is the orthologue of the mouse kidney disease gene, Mpv17. Loss of function has been shown to cause hepatocerebral mtDNA depletion syndromes (MDS) with oxidative phosphorylation failure and mtDNA depletion both in affected individuals and in Mpv17−/− mice.
Function
This protein was first thought to be a peroxisomal protein, but in 2006, Spinazzola et al. demonstrated that it is a mitochondrial inner membrane protein that is implicated in the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Restoration of Mpv17 expression in Mpv17-/- mice restores mtDNA copy number, suggesting MPV17 is involved in mtDNA copy number, and in mtDNA maintenance.
MPV17 seems to be also involved in apoptosis in podocytes, and involved in ROS.
Structure
Gene
The human MPV17 gene is located on chromosome 2 at p21-23, comprising eight exons encoding 176 amino acids.
Protein
MPV17 belongs to a family of integral membrane proteins consisting of four members (PXMP2, MPV17, MP-L, and FKSG24 (MPV17L2)) in mammals and two members (Sym1 and Yor292) in yeast. The amino acid sequence of MPV17 (176 amino acids) contains four cysteine residues and three putative phosphorylation sites implies that this protein may act as a redox- and ATP-sensitive channel.
Clinical significance
Mutations in this gene have been associated with the hepatocerebral form of mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDS), a mutation in this protein leads to an mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) copy number decrease. By 2013, MDS caused by MPV17 mutations had been reported in 32 patients with the clinical manifestations including early progressive liver failure, neurological abnormalities, hypoglycaemia and raised blood lactate. In addition, MPV17 mutations have also been associated with autosomal recessive adult-onset neuropathy and leukoencephalopathy with multiple mtDNA deletions in skeletal muscle. Thus, MPV17 mutations can lead to recessive MDS or recessive multiple mtDNA deletion disorders.
Interactions
MPV17 has been shown to interact with Prkdc protein during Adriamycin-induced nephropathy in mice.
See also
Navajo neurohepatopathy
References
Further reading |
Andrew McQualter (born 9 June 1986) is an Australian rules footballer who played 89 games for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was also on the Gold Coast Football Club rookie list. He served as the caretaker senior coach at the Richmond Football Club, since Damien Hardwick stepped down in May 2023.
Early years and junior football
McQualter was raised in Traralgon, Victoria, and attended Gippsland Grammar School and later Caulfield Grammar School as a boarder along with future St Kilda teammate Brendon Goddard. McQualter and Goddard both captained the school's First XVIII football team and played in the First XI cricket side.
McQualter captained the Victorian Country Under-16 and Under-18 teams at the National Football Championships.
Playing career
St Kilda
McQualter was drafted by with a first round selection, number 17th overall in the 2004 AFL Draft.
McQualter debuted for St Kilda in Round 8 of the 2005 season against the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco in Perth, with 16 possessions. He averaged 13 possessions per game over seven senior games in the 2005 season. He appeared in 10 games in the 2006 season.
At the end of the 2007 season, McQualter had played 23 games, earning 137 kicks and 121 handballs, for a total of 258 disposals (an average of 11.2 possessions per game).
McQualter was officially delisted by the Saints at the end of the 2007 season, despite having another year to run on a two-year contract. He was reported as saying that he felt he had "stagnated" in his third year of football. He was then redrafted by the St Kilda Football Club onto the club's rookie list in the 2007 Draft and returned to the team.
McQualter began the 2008 season quietly on 's rookie list, but began to turn in several solid performances with St Kilda's affiliate in the Victoria Football League (VFL). With his continued good form McQualter was temporarily elevated off the rookie list and selected to play against Sydney in Round 12. He cemented his place in the senior team after several tagging jobs and played nine consecutive games, a personal best for McQualter at the time. He played his first AFL final in the 2008 1st Qualifying Final against Geelong. McQualter was promoted back onto St Kilda's primary list at the end of the 2008 season.
McQualter played in 21 of 22 matches in the 2009 season in which St Kilda qualified in first position for the 2009 finals series, winning the club’s third minor premiership. St Kilda won through to the 2009 grand final after qualifying and preliminary final wins. McQualter played in the 2009 AFL Grand Final in which St Kilda were defeated by 12 points. McQualter averaged 14.4 possessions per game and kicked 22 goals in 24 matches during the 2009 season. As of the end of the 2009 season, McQualter had played in six finals matches, including one grand final.
McQualter played 25 games in 2010, including four finals matches. As of the end of the 2010 season, McQualter had played in 10 AFL finals matches, including three grand finals. He was delisted at the end of the 2011 season following the Saints' elimination final loss to the Sydney Swans.
McQualter played for St Kilda from 2005 until 2011 for a total of 89 games and kicked a total of 37 goals.
Gold Coast Suns
McQualter joined the Gold Coast Suns' rookie list in 2012 and began playing in the Suns' North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) reserves team. He was part of the Suns' leadership group and played in Round 8 of the AFL season.
McQualter played for Gold Coast Suns in his only one season at the club in 2012 for a total of 5 games and 2 goals.
Playing statistics
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| 32 || 10 || 2 || 1 || 59 || 53 || 112 || 47 || 29 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 5.9 || 5.3 || 11.2 || 4.7 || 2.9
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| 32 || 12 || 2 || 1 || 65 || 70 || 135 || 39|| 41 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 5.4 || 5.8 || 11.3 || 3.3 || 3.4
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2009
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 32 || 24 || 22 || 7 || 123 || 222 || 345 || 61 || 112|| 0.9 || 0.3 || 5.1 || 9.3 || 14.4 || 2.5 || 4.7
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2010
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 32 || 25 || 8 || 7 || 134 || 200 || 334 || 103 || 104 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 5.4 || 8.0 || 13.4 || 4.1 || 4.2
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2011
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 32 || 5 || 0 || 2 || 25 || 29 || 54 || 12 || 12 || 0.0 || 0.4 || 5.0 || 5.8 || 10.8 || 2.4 || 2.4
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2012
|style="text-align:center;"|
| 51 || 5 || 2 || 1 || 45 || 39 || 84 || 23 || 11 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 9.0 || 7.8 || 16.8 || 4.6 || 2.2
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 94
! 39
! 21
! 529
! 681
! 1210
! 317
! 340
! 0.4
! 0.2
! 5.6
! 7.2
! 12.9
! 3.4
! 3.6
|}
Coaching career
Richmond Football Club
McQualter joined the Richmond Football Club in 2014, serving as a VFL player and in an assistant coaching role as development coach under senior coach Damien Hardwick. He became a midfield assistant coach in 2016.
On May 25, 2023, McQualter was appointed as caretaker senior coach of Richmond for the remainder of the 2023 season, after senior coach Damien Hardwick stepped down at the conclusion of Round 10. McQaulter then coached Richmond for a total of 13 games with seven wins and six losses and then the club finished thirteenth on the ladder and did not make the finals. McQualter was not retained as senior coach of Richmond at the end of the 2023 season and was replaced by Adem Yze. McQualter then left the Richmond Football Club at the end of the 2023 season.
Melbourne Football Club
On 3 October 2023, it was announced that McQualter joined the Melbourne Football Club as an assistant coach under senior coach Simon Goodwin.
Coaching statistics
Statistics are correct to the end of Round 24, 2023.
|-
! scope="row" style="font-weight:normal"|2023
|
| 13 || 7 || 6 || 0 || 53.85% || 13 || 18
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=2| Career totals
! 13
! 7
! 6
! 0
! 53.85%
! colspan=2|
|}
See also
List of Caulfield Grammar School people
References
External links
Gold Coast Football Club profile
1986 births
Living people
St Kilda Football Club players
People educated at Caulfield Grammar School
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Gippsland Power players
Gold Coast Football Club players
Sandringham Football Club players
People from Traralgon |
Stranded II is a German 3D action-adventure survival video game released in June 2007 by German developer Unreal Software as a sequel to the original Stranded game. Just like in its predecessor, the main goal of the game is to survive on a desert island environment, ultimately escaping and returning home. The game can be downloaded for free on its official website and on the developer's website.
History and development
Just like the original, Stranded 2 was developed in Blitz3D. Because of the unexpected success of Stranded, Peter Schauß started work on the sequel Stranded II in late 2003. Development entered public alpha stage in December 2005. But still, the release of the final version didn't happen until June 2007. He supplied an additional update in 2008, but then development on Stranded II was abandoned in favor of work on Counter-Strike 2D. After some time, the source code of Stranded II was released under the GNU General Public License, but some days later, Peter Schauß changed the license of the source code to Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA.
Gameplay
In comparison to its precursor, Stranded II features improved graphics and more items, tools and weapons, as well as new features such as taming animals and burning down certain world objects. Also, Stranded II now has a campaign with a story spanning over a travel to several islands. The fundamental gameplay principles remained the same.
In addition, Stranded II has scripting capabilities and therefore allows the creation of scripted maps. This enables map creators to incorporate narratives into their stories by use of character dialogues, quests, scripted events or cut scenes.
One goal of Stranded II was to allow an easy creation of modifications by use of these scripts and editable object definition files. The community-created mods either extend the range of available items ("Extension Mod", "Massive Mod") or take the game scenario to other places ("Lost in Space"). The new items, and the new possibilities to combine these allow the player to discover the game mechanics anew, increasing the replay rate.
Reception
Stranded 2 was well received by the critics and a success with the public. Games Finder gave the game a 7.5/10 rating, saying "As a free to play survival experience that is both simple and incredibly fun, you can’t look past Stranded 2."
References
External links
Official website
Developer's website
2007 video games
Action-adventure games
Freeware games
Video games set on islands
Windows-only freeware games
Survival video games
Creative Commons-licensed video games
Video games with available source code
Open-source video games
Video games developed in Germany
Windows games
Windows-only games |
The 1986 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first year under head coach Mike Knoll, the Aggies compiled a 1–10 record. The team played its home games at Aggie Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Schedule
References
New Mexico State
New Mexico State Aggies football seasons
New Mexico State Aggies football |
Ian Riddoch is a former CEO of the Glasgow Warriors, a professional Scottish rugby union club playing in the Pro14.
On leaving Leeds Beckett University in 1994 Riddoch got a job with Leeds City Council in Promotions and Tourism. This evolved into being a co-ordinator for Leeds becoming a host city for the football tournament Euro 96.
This gave a natural progression into the sporting world; first as an account manager working on football sponsorship accounts between 1995 and 1998; then as head of sales and marketing for Super League (Europe) marketing rugby league. Staying with rugby league he became the commercial director of Wigan Warriors in 2000.
Moving to football, he was the head of sales and marketing at Aberdeen FC for five years from 2001. He stepped down from this role to become a consultant in May 2006. He briefly worked with Milton Keynes Dons to develop a programme for their new stadium plan.
A move to rugby union saw him become the Commercial Director for Edinburgh Rugby. He moved to the Edinburgh club in August 2006.
He was made interim General Manager of the Glasgow Warriors in June 2007. This move to Glasgow was made permanent by Riddoch accepting the post of Chief Executive Officer in July 2007. The new CEO was keen on new sponsorship deals and together with Edinburgh Rugby they announced a sponsorship deal for the 2008-09 season's 1872 Cup with the backing of the fitness operator David Lloyd Leisure.
Riddoch stepped down as CEO in July 2009. This seemed to be following a review by the SRU of its commercial operation. It was hinted that this review took back the commercial activities from the professional clubs to the SRU and was accompanied by a drop in salary for both Edinburgh Rugby and Glasgow Warriors CEOs. Riddoch refused the new deal. After a short caretaker stint by Colin Thomson, the Warriors replaced Riddoch as CEO by Kenny Baillie in October 2009.
In 2010 it was announced that he was the new Commercial Director of football club Southend Utd. The post lasted last than a year and he became a consultant again in 2011.
From 2011 he has been consulting in Doha, Qatar developing football's commerciality there ahead of the 2022 World Cup. He is presently the Acting Director of Sales for the Qatar Stars League.
External links
Riddoch parts company with Glasgow
Chief Executive Ian Riddoch quits Glasgow
References
Scottish chief executives
Living people
Glasgow Warriors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Berto Pisano (13 October 1928 – 29 January 2002) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician.
Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Pisano started his career as a contrabassist in the jazz groups Quartetto Astor and Asternovas. He is best known as composer of pop songs, for, among others, Mina, and a composer of musical scores for films and TV-series; his major hit was "A blue shadow", the theme song of the RAI TV-series Ho incontrato un'ombra, which ranked first at the Italian hit parade in 1974.
Selected filmography
References
External links
Berto Pisano at Discogs
1928 births
2002 deaths
Italian film score composers
Italian male film score composers
People from Cagliari
Italian male conductors (music)
Italian music arrangers
Italian jazz musicians
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians
Male jazz musicians |
Student Hosteling Program is a Conway, Massachusetts based bicycle touring company offering trips in the United States and Europe. In 2010 it was 39 years old. Recording artist David Wilcox was a trip leader during his college years. A summer camp alternative, programs have been offered for 7th through 12th graders. Trips offer touring experiences in various areas.
References
Travel and holiday companies of the United States |
Paul A. Sieving is a former director of the National Eye Institute, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the NIH in 2001, he served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School as the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics. He also was the founding director of the Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration in the university's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
Sieving is recognized for translational medicine studies of human progressive, blinding, inherited retinal and macular neurodegeneration diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa and Stargardt disease. His laboratory studies the conditions in transgenic animal models in pursuit of pharmacological approaches to slowing degeneration in people with the disorders. His group conducted the first human clinical trial of ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) as a rescue factor for retinitis pigmentosa.
His lab studies potential treatments for a juvenile form of macular degeneration termed X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS). The lab developed a mouse model of XLRS and successfully treated the condition by gene therapy in mouse and rabbit models. Sieving's team, in coordination with the clinical staff at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, is conducting a phase 1 clinical trial to test the therapy in XLRS patients. He maintains a small clinical practice at NEI for patients with these and other genetic retinal diseases, including Stargardt juvenile macular degeneration.
Sieving established the NEI Audacious Goals Initiative (AGI) for Regenerative Medicine, a major program to develop treatments for eye diseases. The AGI is a strategic research effort to restore function of critical nerve cells in the eye and visual system even after they are damaged by disease. Success will mean new approaches to prevent and even reverse vision loss in diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma.
Education
As an undergraduate student at Valparaiso University, Sieving majored in history and physics. He then studied nuclear physics at Yale Graduate School in 1970-73 under D. Allan Bromley, and attended Yale Law School from 1973 - 1974. He received his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1978 and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Illinois Graduate College in 1981. Sieving completed an ophthalmology residency at the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary in Chicago. He performed post-doctoral studies of retinal electrophysiology with Roy H. Steinberg at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1982–84. He then did a clinical fellowship in genetic retinal degenerations with Eliot Berson in 1984–85 at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Awards and honors
Sieving has been named among the “Best Doctors in America” for many years and was honored with the Research to Prevent Blindness Senior Scientific Investigator Award in 1998, the Alcon Research Institute Award in 2000, the Pisart Award in Vision Science from the Lighthouse Guild in 2005, and the Società Oftalmologica Italiana Honorary Award in Ophthalmology in 2016. He serves as a jury member for the António Champalimaud Vision Award of the €1 million presented yearly in Lisbon, Portugal. He is an elected member of many organizations, including the American Ophthalmological Society (1993), the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis (2005), the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (2006), and the German National Academy of Sciences (2014).
References
National Institutes of Health faculty
University of Michigan faculty
American ophthalmologists
Valparaiso University alumni
Yale Law School alumni
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the National Academy of Medicine |
Hellraiser is a 1987 British horror film.
Hellraiser or Hell Raiser may also refer to:
Hellraiser (franchise), comprising the 1987 film, its sequels, print media, and merchandise
Music
Hellraiser Series, a line of guitars manufactured by Schecter Guitar Research
Hellraiser (album) or the title song, by Krokus, 2006
Hellraiser: Best of the Epic Years, an album by Motörhead, 2003
"Hellraiser" (Ozzy Osbourne and Motörhead song), a song written by Ozzy Osbourne, Zakk Wylde, and Lemmy; recorded by Osbourne (1991) and Motörhead (1992)
"Hellraiser" (The Beatnuts song), 1994
"Hellraiser", a song by Entombed from Hollowman, 1993
"Hell Raiser", a song by Suicide Commando from Mindstrip, 2000
"Hell Raiser", a song by Sweet from The Sweet, 1973
Professional wrestling
The Hell Raisers, a 1992–1995 incarnation of The Road Warriors, a tag team
Jerry Tuite (1966–2003), nicknamed Hell Raiser, American professional wrestler
See also
Hellblazer, a horror comic book series that was originally to have been called Hellraiser |
The Nokia 6070 is a mobile phone made by Nokia. It operates on GSM tri band frequency 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz (850 and 1900 MHz in the US model), with automatic switching between frequencies. It is small in size with dimensions of 105.4 x 44.3 x 18.6 mm and weights 88 grams. It was released in the second quarter of 2006. The phone runs using Nokia S40 second edition. The features include a VGA camera, FM radio and voice recording.
Key features
128x160 CSTN display
MMS (max. 150 kb)
SMS
GPRS and WAP 2.0 services
EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) compatibility
Address book, calendar, and reminders
Java ME
Push-to-talk
xHTML web browser
E-mail support for POP3 and IMAP4 networks
Integrated VGA camera for taking videos and still images
FM radio (with headset)
Infrared
Nokia Series 40 Theme compatibility
Loud speaker (can be used for calls)
Pop-port connector
Synchronisation support
Instant messaging
Next G Networking
Supported media formats
Images: .bmp, .jpg, .gif, .png, .tiff
Tones: .nrt (Nokia Ringing Tune), .mid, .mp3, .amr
Video: .3gp
Themes: .nth (Nokia Themes)
Applications: .jar
Web pages: XHTML, HTML
Known issues
When installing applications whose size is 130-150kb using the Nokia PC suite, an error message appears saying that the file is too large to be installed on the phone although the maximum size that can be installed on the Nokia 6070 is 150kb. Applications which have a size of 130-150kb can be installed via OTA (over-the-air) download using GPRS.
Sometimes, when the phone is using GPRS and the memory is about to become full (due to the internet cache being enabled), the phone crashes and White Screen of Death appears.
When accessing the text message inbox whilst receiving a text message at the same time, the phone crashes and the White Screen of Death appears.
Some users reported that they got a Nickel allergy because of too much exposure of the user's fingers to the navigation key which is made from nickel although, it is documented in the user's manual that users must avoid too much exposure to nickel which may lead to an allergic reaction. Several new Nokia phones in the market use the same navigation key as in Nokia 6070 to presumably cut cost.
Related phones
Nokia 5070
Nokia 6080
External links
Nokia Europe - Nokia 6070
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_6070-1433.php
6070
Mobile phones introduced in 2006
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter |
The 2009 UAE International Cup was held in Al Ain City with the participation of four teams. They were UAE, Czech Republic, Iraq and Azerbaijan. The first games were on 15 November 2009. On that day, Iraq played Azerbaijan, and that game was followed by the match between UAE and Czech Republic. The final was played on 18 November 2009 between Iraq and UAE. The third-placed match was also played on that day featuring Azerbaijan and Czech Republic. Iraq were the only team not to concede a goal in the tournament.
Knockout stage
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Awards
Scorers
1 goals
Mahdi Karim
Ruslan Abishov
Vagif Javadov
Bassim Abbas
External links
UAE International Cup 2009 on GOALZZ.com
2009
Inter
2009–10 in Iraqi football
2009–10 in Czech football
2009–10 in Azerbaijani football |
Thysanodonta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Calliostomatidae.
Distribution
Species of this marine genus can be found off New Zealand and New Caledonia.
Species
Species within the genus Thysanodonta include:
Thysanodonta aucklandica Marshall, 1988
Thysanodonta boucheti Marshall, 1988
Thysanodonta cassis Vilvens & Maestrati, 2006
Thysanodonta chesterfieldensis Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta diadema Vilvens & Maestrati, 2006
Thysanodonta eucosmia Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta festiva Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta opima Marshall, 1995
Thysanodonta pileum Vilvens & Maestrati, 2006
Thysanodonta wairua Marshall, 1988
References
Marshall B.A. (1988) Thysanodontinae: A new subfamily of the Trochidae (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies 54: 215–229. page(s): 217
Marshall, B. A. (1998). Food and feeding mode of Thysanodontinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae. Molluscan Research. 19 (1): 69–72.
External links
Calliostomatidae |
The 2002 AFF U-20 Youth Championship was the inaugural edition of the tournament. It took place from 23 January to 3 February 2002 and was co-hosted by Thailand and Cambodia with all ten member nations of the ASEAN Football Federation taking part.
Teams
Tournament
All times are Indochina Time (ICT) - UTC+7
Group stage
Group A
All matches in Bangkok, Thailand
Group B
All matches in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Knockout stage
All matches in Bangkok, Thailand
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third place play-off
Final
Winner
Notes
References
Stokkermans, Karel. "ASEAN U-20 Championship 2002" RSSSF.
"Tournaments 2002" ThaiFootball.com.
U-20 Youth Championship, 2002
Aff U-20 Youth Championship, 2002
2002
2002
2002 in youth association football |
Nebulous is a British comedy-sci-fi broadcast on BBC Radio 4, starring Mark Gatiss as the title character, and also starring and written by Graham Duff. Set in 2099 AD, the series covers the work Professor Nebulous, head of K.E.N.T. (The Key Environmental Non-Judgmental Taskforce), an organisation designed to solve the problems the Earth's ruined environment.
Currently, three series of six episodes each have been broadcast. The first series was broadcast between 6 January and 10 February 2005. The second was broadcast between 5 April and 10 May 2006. The third and most recent series was broadcast between 15 May and 19 June 2008. All of the episodes have been written by Duff, have been produced by Ted Dowd and directed by Nicholas Briggs. So far, only the first series has been released on CD, but it has been announced that the BBC plans to release the second and third series at an unknown date.
First series
Second series
Third series
"Missing" Episodes
In the sleeve notes of the Series One audiobook, written in 2006, series writer Graham Duff asks for assistance in finding episodes "currently missing from the BBC archive". The article is a parody of when television and radio stations such as the BBC used to "wipe" episodes of TV and radio programmes, and record over them, especially the loss of many early Doctor Who and Dad's Army episodes. In the notes, Duff claims that as a result of wiping, "many classic Nebulous episodes were destroyed, along with editions of iconic Radio 4 shows such as Gardeners' Question Time and Money Box Live."
According to Duff, even after the discovery of two episodes from Season 6 "The Man Who Kissed His Own Brain" and "Tomorrow is a Tunnel" which were apparently found in the basement of a LDS Church near Chorley in September 2005, there are still a further 23 episodes officially missing from the BBC archive, including the entirety of Season 10.
Duff describes the "Missing" Season 10 episodes as follows:
Duff also claims that in October 2005, a 49-second segment of the otherwise "missing" Season 8 episode "The Flesh Eating Cushions" was discovered in a locked BBC cupboard.
Notes
Duff, Graham, "Can You Help?" and "Those Missing Episodes". Nebulous: Series 1 Sleeve Notes. Published by BBC Audiobooks and Baby Cow Productions. Written in 2006 and published on 2007-02-05.
Wolf, Ian: Nebulous Episode Guide. British Comedy Guide. Retrieved on 2009-01-30.
Episode Synopsis. Nebulous City. Retrieved on 2009-01-30.
References
External links
Nebulous on the BBC Radio 4 website.
Nebulous
Post-apocalyptic fiction |
is a Japanese actor.
Personal life
Kubota and actress Asami Mizukawa's agency jointly announced that the two were engaged. They registered their marriage on 21 September 2019.
Filmography
Films
Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu (2009)
Kyōretsu! Mōretsu!! Kodai Shōjo Doguchan Matsuri Special Movie Edition (2010), Makoto Sugihara
Gachiban Series (2010–2014), Yūto Kuronaga
13 Assassins (2010), Shōjirō Kokura
We Can't Change the World. But, We Wanna Build a School in Cambodia. (2011), Masayuki Yano
Hasami (2012), Yōhei Hayama
Rurouni Kenshin (2012), Akira Kiyosato
The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012), Ryōta Fukuda
Suzuki Sensei (2013), Yoshio Shirai
Jellyfish Eyes (2013), Yoninshū Seiryū
Goddotan Kiss Gaman Senshuken The Movie (2013), Michael
Tobe Dakota (2013), Kenichi Kimura
The Liar and His Lover (2013), Shinya Shinohara
Dakishimetai: Shinjitsu no Monogatari (2014), Junpei
Yamikin Ushijima-kun Part 2 (2014), Rei Kanzaki
Naniwa Sendō (2014)
Eiga ST Aka to Shiro no Sōsa File (2015), Yūji Kurosaki
April Fools (2015), Matsuda
Prophecy (2015), Yūichi Aoyama
Romance (2015), Naoki
64: Part I (2016), Kōichirō Hiyoshi
64: Part II (2016), Kōichirō Hiyoshi
Maniac Hero (2016), Makoto Toshida
Mars (2016)
Tokyo Ghoul (2017), Ken Kaneki
The Last Cop (2017), Ryōta Mochizuki
Thicker Than Water (2018), Kazunari
Gintama 2 (2018), Bansai Kawakami
Tokyo Ghoul S (2019), Ken Kaneki
First Love (2019), Leo
Diner (2019)
Fancy (2020)
Poupelle of Chimney Town (2020), Poupelle (voice)
The Sunday Runoff (2022), Tanimura
A Man (2022), Daisuke Taniguchi
Radiation House: The Movie (2022), Iori Igarashi
My Broken Mariko (2022), Makio
Yudō (2023)
Home Sweet Home (2023), Kenji
One Last Bloom (2023), Toshio Nakanishi
Masked Hearts (2023)
Television
Chekeraccho!! in Tokyo (Fuji TV, 2006), Takumi Aoba
Jikuu Keisatsu Wecker Signa (Tokyo MX, 2007), Ēichi Karasuma
Mop Girl Episode 7 (TV Asahi, 2007), Jun
K-tai Investigator 7 (TV Tokyo, 2008–2009), Keita Amishima
Naniwa no Hana: Ogata Kōan Jikenchō (NHK, 2009), Akira Ogata
Mama wa Mukashi Papa Datta (WOWOW, 2009), Shinichirō Kayama(Miwako)
The Ancient Dogoo Girl (MBS, 2009), Makoto Sugihara
Xmas no Kiseki (Tōkai TV, 2009), Ken Hayashida
Boku ga Celeb to Kekkon Shita Hōhō (NHK 1seg 2, 2010), Shinnosuke Sawada
GeGeGe no Nyōbō (NHK, 2010), Kēichi Kurata
Joker: Yurusarezaru Sōsakan Episode 4 (Fuji TV, 2010), Takahiro Shiina
Koisuru Nihongo (NHK, 2011), Akira
Misaki Number One!! Episode 3 (NTV, 2011), Nakatsu
Honboshi: Shinri Tokusō Jikenbo Episode 4 (TV Asahi, 2011), Keita Minobe
Karyū no Utage (NHK, 2011), Shō Fukuhara
Aishiteru: Kaiyō (NTV, 2011)
QP (NTV, 2011), Eiji
Nazotoki wa Dinner no Atode Episode 4 (Fuji TV, 2011), Miura
Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou (NTV, 2012), Hakamatsuka
Legal High Episode 2 (Fuji TV, 2012), Jango Jango Higashi Kurume
Taira no Kiyomori (NHK, 2012), Taira no Shigemori
Sōmatō Kabushikigaisha Episode 1 (TBS, 2012), Takahiro Seki
Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi Natsu no Tokubetsu-hen 2012 (Fuji TV, 2012), Kenta Yamada
Perfect Blue Episode 1 (TBS, 2012), Takashi Inami
Ōoku: Tanjō (Arikoto Iemitsu-hen) (TBS, 2012), Sutezō
Saikō no Rikon (Fuji TV, 2013), Junnosuke Hatsushima
ST Keishichō Kagaku Sōsahan (NTV, 2013), Yūji Kurosaki
Summer Nude (Fuji TV, 2013), Hikaru Kirihata
Limit (TV Tokyo, 2013), Wataru Igarashi
Sabishii Karyūdo (Fuji TV, 2013), Masato Noro
Keiji no Manazashi Episodes 10–11 (TBS, 2013), Shingo Yamanouchi
Urero Mitaiken Shōjo Episode 5 (TV Tokyo, 2014), Shō Saionji
Kamen Teacher (NTV, 2014), Atsushi Amakawa
Hanako to Anne (NHK, 2014), Asaichi Kiba
Asaichi no Yomesan (NHK BS Premium, 2014)
ST Aka to Shiro no Sōsa File (NTV, 2014), Yūji Kurosaki
N no Tame ni (TBS, 2014), Shinji Naruse
Algernon ni Hanataba o (TBS, 2015), Ryūichi Yanagawa
The Last Cop (NTV, 2015), Ryōta Mochizuki
Eien no Bokura: Sea Side Blue (NTV, 2015), Kōta Yamauchi
Death Note (NTV, 2015), Light Yagami
High&Low: The Story of S.W.O.R.D. (NTV, 2015), Smoky
Mars (NTV, 2016), Kirishima Makio
Rinshō Hanzai Gakusha Himura Hideo no Suiri (NTV, 2016), Arisu Arisugawa
Hitoya no Toge (Wowow, 2017), Ryota
Fugitive Boys (Fuji TV, 2017), Tobio
Unnatural (TBS, 2018), Rokuro Kube
Radiation House (Fuji TV, 2019–2021), Iori Igarashi
Yell (NHK, 2020), Yūichi Koyama
Modern Love Tokyo (Amazon Prime Video, 2022), Rin (voice)
Awards
2012
The 34th Yokohama Film Festival: Best Newcomer for Fugainai Boku wa Sora o Mita and Hasami
The 27th Takasaki Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor for Fugainai Boku wa Sora o Mita
2014
The 83rd The Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for N no Tame ni
The 24th TV Life Annual Drama Awards: Best Supporting Actor and Best Newcomer for N no Tame ni and Hanako to Anne
2015
The 86th The Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actor for Death Note
2021
The 45th Elan d'or Awards: Newcomer of the Year
The 14th Tokyo Drama Awards: Best Actor for Yell
2023
The 77th Mainichi Film Awards: Best Supporting Actor
The 46th Japan Academy Film Prize: Best Supporting Actor
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Male actors from Kanagawa Prefecture
Japanese male television actors
Stardust Promotion artists
21st-century Japanese male actors
Asadora lead actors |
"Shut Up" is a pop song written by Suggs and Chris Foreman. It was recorded by British pop/ska band Madness, and was featured on the band's third album 7. It was released as a single on 11 September 1981, spending 10 weeks in the UK Singles Chart. It reached a high position of number 7.
The song tells a story of a criminal who, despite obvious evidence, tries to convince people he is not guilty. Even though the song is called "Shut Up", the two words do not appear in the lyrics at all. However, they were the final words of an additional verse which was part of an early version of the song.
Music video
The promotional video for the single released featured the band dressed as a group of criminals, then later as police officers, working for and later chasing, lead singer Suggs. Suggs is presented as a used car salesman/criminal (with mask, bowler hat and black suit/horizontally striped shirt). The video implies that Suggs' character has his friends steal cars for his business, though at the start of the video it is implied that he has been caught for his crimes by the police (with the song being him pleading his innocence).
In one sequence, the costumed band gather round as Chris Foreman (in police uniform) plays the song's guitar solo on the "Super Yob" guitar, previously owned by Dave Hill of Slade.
Appearances
In addition to its single release and appearance on the album 7, "Shut Up" also appears on the Madness collections Complete Madness, It's... Madness Too, The Business, Divine Madness (a.k.a. The Heavy Heavy Hits) and Our House. It also features on two US Madness compilations, Madness and Total Madness.
Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Shut Up".
7" Single
"Shut Up" (McPherson/Foreman) - 3:23
"A Town With No Name" (Foreman) - 2:52
12" Single
"Shut Up (full length version)" (McPherson/Foreman) - 4:05
"Never Ask Twice" (McPherson/Barson) - 3:03
"A Town With No Name" (Foreman) - 2:52
Dutch 12" Single (STIFF BUY-IT 126, released with "12 INCH" a title)
"Shut Up" (McPherson/Foreman) - 3:55
"Day On The Town" (McPherson/Foreman) - 2:50
"Never Ask Twice" (McPherson/Barson) - 2:55
"A Town With No Name" (Foreman) - 2:45
Charts
Certifications and sales
References
External links
1981 singles
Madness (band) songs
Songs written by Suggs (singer)
Songs written by Chris Foreman
1981 songs
Stiff Records singles
Song recordings produced by Clive Langer
Song recordings produced by Alan Winstanley |
Impatiens sodenii is a species of flowering plant in the family Balsaminaceae known by the common names poor man's rhododendron, Oliver's touch-me-not, and shrub balsam. It is native to Kenya and Tanzania, and widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.
Description
This plant is a subshrub growing up to 1.5 meters tall. The stems are succulent, and woody toward the bases. It is hairless, with leaves in whorls of up to 12, especially near the ends of the branches. The leaves are widely lance-shaped, or occasionally more oblong, with toothed edges. They are up to 18 centimeters long.
Flowers occur year-round, singly or in pairs. They are white or pink, sometimes with darker markings, and measure up to 5 centimeters in width. The lowest sepal behind the corolla tapers into a long, thin spur up to 8 centimeters long. The greenish fruit capsule is up to 2.4 centimeters long and undergoes explosive dehiscence when mature.
Cultivation
This plant is used as an ornamental garden shrub, and is a recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Several cultivars have been bred, including the white-flowered 'Madonna'. 'Flash' has white flowers with pink markings, and 'La Vida Rosa' has flowers marked with a deeper pink.
Weed
This is the most commonly grown impatiens in New Zealand, where it has escaped cultivation and become a weed. It is cultivated in Australia, where it has naturalized in a few areas in Western Australia and New South Wales. It is documented as an introduced species in the Canary Islands, Hawaii, and Colombia.
References
sodenii
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Tanzania
Taxa named by Adolf Engler
Taxa named by Otto Warburg |
Thomas F. Kinslow (January 12, 1866 – February 22, 1901) was a professional baseball player who played catcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1886 until 1898. He played for eight teams in his ten-season career. Four of those seasons were with Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the National League (NL). During his playing days, his height was listed at , his weight as , he batted and threw right-handed, and had blonde hair.
He was a member of the Washington Light Infantry, a local Washington, D.C. militia, and played in many of their amateur baseball games throughout his life. When not playing, he tended to his bar. Noted for being a genial, friendly individual, he was quick to make friends, and was a fan-favorite in his hometown of Washington, D.C. Kinslow was a heavy drinker however, which caused him to miss games and team movements on occasion. Late into his career, these alcohol issues were much less tolerated, eventually hastening his exit from the game. He died at the age of 35, after a year-long battle with tuberculosis.
Early life
Thomas Kinslow was born on January 12, 1866 in Washington, D.C.; his father Michael worked as a laborer and an ice dealer, later working in the oyster business. He began playing amateur baseball in the city's first ward on a team known as the "Quicks", as well as a team named the Falcons. He later became a member of the Washington Light Infantry, Company C, a local militia, and played as their catcher against the 5th Maryland Regiment on June 29, 1885; a game won by Washington 11–7.
Baseball career
Early career
Kinslow made his MLB debut with the Washington Nationals of the NL on June 4, 1886 as their starting catcher. He injured his finger in the third inning trying to catch a bad pitch thrown by Bob Barr, and had to leave the game. On June 15, he was again injured by a Barr pitch, and forced to leave the game with a dislocated finger. He played in three games for the Nationals in 1886, collecting two hits in eight at bats.
In 1887, he was signed by the Peanut Eaters of the Pennsylvania State Association, and played in 36 games before being sold to the Detroit Wolverines of the NL, along with Ed Beatin for $1,000 on July 27. Soon, the deal was put on hold by the NL, as the Cincinnati Red Stockings of the American Association (AA) also claimed they had a deal in place for these players. On September 6, an arbitration board for the NL and AA leagues convened to render their findings. They found that Detroit's contract with the players was dated on July 20, which superseded Cincinnati's contract that was signed on July 27, and awarded Detroit the players. Detroit then sold their contracts with the players to the London Tecumsehs of the International Association. Though he did not play for London in 1887, he did play in two games for the New York Metropolitans of the AA, going hitless in eight at bats.
Brooklyn
Kinslow played the next two seasons for the Tecumsehs, and had a batting average of .200 in 1888, but improved it to .343 in 1889. In 1890, a new league was created, the Players' League (PL), and he signed with Ward's Wonders of Brooklyn. During the season, he had a batting average of .264, and caught 64 games. On June 28, he hit the first home run of his career in a game against Henry Gruber and the Cleveland Infants. Later, on July 11, he hit two home runs in the same game off of George Keefe of the Buffalo Bisons, the only time Kinslow would achieve this feat.
The PL folded following the 1890 season, and Kinslow stayed in Brooklyn by signing with the Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the NL. He followed John Montgomery Ward, who was hired as team's new manager. Shortly afterwards, Kinslow's services were kept exclusive as the team listed him among those players covered under the reserve clause. During the game on July 8, Kinslow was benched by Ward for what was described as insubordination. Kinslow played in 61 games for Brooklyn in 1891, being platooned primarily at catcher with Con Daily, and had a .237 batting average.
In 1892, he continued to platoon with Daily and played in 66 games. He improved his batting average to .305, and hit two home runs. With a third catcher, Tom Daly, no longer with the team in 1893, Kinslow's playing time increased slightly to 78 games. His batting average dropped to .244, but he tied his career-high with four home runs. Although he was a popular player during his time in Brooklyn, Kinslow had caused trouble with the team at some point in the season, and had been restricted from playing in home games by owner Charles Byrne. Upon signing his contract with Brooklyn in 1894, Kinslow wrote a letter to the owner apologizing for his conduct during the previous season, and vowed to improve significantly going forward. His batting average improved to .305 during the 1894 season while playing in 62 games, sharing time with Daily once again.
Late career
On January 26, 1895, Kinslow was traded by Brooklyn to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Ad Gumbert. The Red Stockings quickly disputed the deal however, claiming that they had an earlier agreement with Pittsburgh's manager Connie Mack that would have brought them Gumbert and Buck Weaver in exchange for Billy Merritt. Despite the dispute, the Brooklyn deal went forward, and Kinslow joined the Pirates. With the catching duties being split between Merritt and Joe Sugden, there was little playing time allotted for Kinslow; Kinslow's behavior had become a problem for Mack and the Pirates. Once, he was fined for missing a game due to drinking, and in late May, he was suspended for failing to show up for a game in Washington, D.C. On June 22, he failed to be ready for a road series, and was released from the team for disorderly conduct. Kinslow expressed sorrow and shock over getting released, claiming that while he drank too much, Brooklyn would issue fines for his behavior instead. In 19 games played for Pittsburgh, he had a .226 batting average, Though he had received interest from Cincinnati and the Washington Senators, he claimed that he wanted to take the remainder the year off to be ready for the next season.
During the off-season, Kinslow tended to the bar he owned in Washington, D.C., mainly passing time opening oysters and clams, and playing games for the Washington Light Infantry. On May 21, it was reported that he had agreed to play for the Louisville Colonels of the NL. In eight games for the Colonels, Kinslow collected seven hits in 25 at bats for a .280 batting average. After playing very little in 1896, and not at all in 1897, he signed with the Senators for the 1898 season. He admitted that his weight had increased to 225 lbs during the time off from the game, but would quickly drop his weight to 160 once he began playing. He appeared in three games for Washington until he was sold to the St. Louis Browns on August 18. He played in an additional 14 games for St. Louis, and was released from the team at the conclusion of the season. In his 380 career games played, he had a .266 batting average, 12 home runs, and 222 runs batted in.
Personal life
Kinslow was known to have a genial, sunny disposition, and was quick to make friends. In the 1900 United States Census, he was living with his father and working as an oyster dealer. He is listed as being married for ten years, but his wife was not living in the same home. He died in his hometown of Washington, D.C. after a year-long battle with consumption (tuberculosis), and is interred at Congressional Cemetery.
References
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1866 births
1901 deaths
Major League Baseball catchers
19th-century baseball players
Baseball players from Washington, D.C.
Brooklyn Grooms players
Brooklyn Ward's Wonders players
Louisville Colonels players
New York Metropolitans players
Pittsburgh Pirates players
St. Louis Browns (NL) players
Washington Nationals (1886–1889) players
Washington Senators (1891–1899) players
Allentown Peanut Eaters players
London Tecumsehs (baseball) players
Burials at the Congressional Cemetery
20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis deaths in Washington, D.C. |
Trochozonites is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocyclidae.
Species
Species within the genus Trochozonites include:
Trochozonites adansoniae (Morelet, 1848)
Trochozonites adoxus Connolly, 1925
Trochozonites aillyi Pilsbry, 1919
Trochozonites bellula (E. von Martens, 1892)
Trochozonites buhambaensis Preston, 1914
Trochozonites crenulata (Germain, 1905)
Trochozonites dioryx (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)
Trochozonites expatriata Preston, 1914
Trochozonites kempi Preston, 1914
Trochozonites leptalea E. A. Smith, 1909
Trochozonites medjensis Pilsbry, 1919
Trochozonites percostulata Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901
Trochozonites plumaticostata Pilsbry, 1919
Trochozonites prestoni Connolly, 1925
Trochozonites trifilaris Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901
Trochozonites usambarensis Verdcourt, 1982
Species brought into synonymy
† Trochozonites arabica Neubert & Van Damme, 2012 : synonym of † Sagdellina arabica (Neubert & Van Damme, 2012) (new combination)
References
Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 40: 1-370, pls I-XXIII.
Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017
Urocyclidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
Maria Cecilia Christina Östling (born 17 January 1978) is a former breaststroke swimmer from Sweden, who twice won a gold medal at the European Championships. She competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, in the women's 100 m breaststroke (23rd place) and the women's 200 m breaststroke (21st place). Östling also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing in 17th place in the women's 100 m breaststroke.
Clubs
SS Mora 1991–1996
Södertörns SS 1996–present
References
1978 births
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Sweden
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
People from Gnesta Municipality
Living people
SS Mora swimmers
Södertörns SS swimmers
Swedish female breaststroke swimmers
Sportspeople from Södermanland County
20th-century Swedish women
21st-century Swedish women |
Gelsenwasser AG is a German utilities company that supplies natural gas and fresh water to residents in Germany. Areas of service include Ruhr, Lower Rhine, Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Münster, and Saxony-Anhalt. The company also provides wastewater filtration services.
External links
What is Gelsenwasser AG?
References
Natural gas companies of Germany
Water companies of Germany
Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Companies based in Gelsenkirchen |
WMTN may refer to:
WMTN (AM), a radio station (1300 AM) licensed to Morristown, Tennessee, United States
WMTN-LP, a low-power radio station (94.1 FM) licensed to Sewanee, Tennessee, United States |
Poiseul () is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.
See also
Communes of the Haute-Marne department
References
Communes of Haute-Marne |
Wizard's Holiday is the seventh book in the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. It is the sequel to A Wizard Alone.
Plot summary
When Nita's sister Dairine signs up for an intragalactic exchange program without permission, their local advisors transfer the mission to Nita and Kit. The destination seems to be an ideal planet, and they are hoping for a vacation. Meanwhile, the aliens who arrive at Dairine's house appear to be very "alien". However, Nita's dreams become nightmarish and the planet Alaalu turns out to be hiding a dark secret: an avatar of the Lone Power has been trapped in this dystopia since their people refused Its gift of entropy. While this may have prevented deterioration to war, crime and natural disasters, among other things, it also prevented such change as evolution, and the Alaalu people are trapped in their current stage of existence when they have the potential to be free of it. It becomes the young wizards' job to convince the Alaalu wizard and her people to accept this change, inevitably setting the Lone Power free.
On Earth, the wizards at Dairine's place have become aware that their Sun is in danger of flaring up to the point of scorching their planet. However, one of the visitors comes from a planet where he is a guardian against the recurrence of such a disaster, and recognizes it in time for them to save the Earth.
Characters
Nita Juanita Louise Callahan, as Nita goes on the program, she notices how everything is just too peaceful and calm, thinking that something is wrong.
Kit a.k.a. Christopher R. Rodriguez, Nita's partner, joins Nita on this intragalactic exchange program to Alaalu.
Ponch, Kit's dog, joins Kit and Nita on the cultural exchange program to Alaalu, and leads them to the paradise planet's shadowy secret.
Quelt, Alaalu's only wizard (not that Alaalu even needs any other wizards) and is who Nita and Kit stays with.
Dairine E. Callahan, Nita's sister, gets banned from transporting anywhere out of Earth's solar system and must stay at home to help out her dad on the other wizards.
Filif a.k.a. Filifermanhathhumneits'elhhessaifnith, an alien wizard shaped like a Christmas tree, who is one of the exchange students.
Sker'ret, an exchange student who resembles of a giant metal centipede and could eat just about anything. His species are called the Rirhait.
Roshaun a.k.a. Roshaun ke Nelaid am Seriv am Teliuyve am Meseph am Veliz am Teriaunist am det Nuiiliat, (sometimes am det Wellahit) a humanoid alien wizard prince from Wellakhit and a 'kind of' love interest for Dairine and Carmela.
Minor characters
Carmela Rodriguez, Kit's older sister, helps Dairine with the exchange wizards.
Harold Edward Callahan a.k.a. Harry, Dairine and Nita's dad, deals with the aliens comfortably.
Tom B. Swale & Carl J. Romeo, Kit's, Nita's, and Dairine's advisors/ Senior Wizards 'ground' Dairine.
External links
Young Wizards Website
2003 fantasy novels
2003 American novels
Young adult fantasy novels
American young adult novels
American fantasy novels
Children's science fiction novels
2003 children's books |
Saint-Hippolyte is a municipality within La Rivière-du-Nord Regional County Municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian mountains about 45 km north of Montreal. The name comes from Saint Hippolytus.
Part of the town was formerly known as Abercrombie-Est.
Police services are provided by the Régie intermunicipale de police de la Rivière-du-Nord, which also serves Piedmont, Prévost and some other communities in the Laurentians.
Origin of the name
The municipality of Saint-Hippolyte's original name was Abercrombie. The name was pick to honor James Abercrombie, british commander-in-chief of forces in North America during the French and Indian War, best known for the disastrous British losses in the 1758 Battle of Carillon. The municipality changed its name to the current Saint-Hippolyte in 1951. The name was chosen to honor Hippolyte Moreau, titular canon of the Cathedral of Montreal (1854-1880) and vicar general (1873-1880). It was his responsibility to choose the location of the church in the name of Monsignor Ignace Bourget in 1864. The name is a reference to Hippolytus of Rome, one of the most important second-third century Christian theologians.
Demographics
Population trend:
Population in 2021: 10,669 (2016 to 2021 population change: 17.1%)
Population in 2016: 9,113
Population in 2011: 8,083
Population in 2006: 7,219
Population in 2001: 6,039
Population in 1996: 5,672
Population in 1991: 4,697
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 4,683 (total dwellings: 5,597)
Mother tongue:
French as first language: 92.5%
English as first language: 3.6%
English and French as first language: 1.3%
Other as first language: 2.4%
Climate
St Hippolyte has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfb) with long, very cold winters, and short, mild summers. Days with temperatures below all day are very frequent from November to March, with an average 95.7 days per year. Days with maximum temperatures over are not infrequent during summer, with an average of 3.3 days per year. The highest temperature on record in St Hippolyte is set on 1 August 1975 and the lowest is set on 23 February 1972.
Precipitation is heavy throughout the year. Heavy snow is commonplace throughout the winter, with heavy rain in the summer. The highest daily rainfall on record is on 1 July 1979 and the record daily snowfall is on 3 February 1972, with the greatest measured snow depth being on 9 March 2008. On average, of snow will be lying on 154.1 days per year, with a significant accumulation of over lying on an average of 119.1 days per year. On average, of rain falls on 179.0 days per year, with falling on 6.7 days. Days of snowfall greater than average at 20.3 days per year with days of snowfall greater than average 0.79 days per year. In March, the average snow depth is .
The average frost-free period is short, averaging only 138 days per year. The last frost, on average, occurs on 15 May and the first frost of the new season occurs on 30 September.
Education
The Commission scolaire de la Rivière-du-Nord operates French-language public schools.
École primaire des Hauteurs
The primary school École des Hautbois in Saint-Colomban, Jean-Moreau in Sainte-Sophie and Sacré-Coeur in Saint-Jérôme serve sections
École secondaire Cap-Jeunesse and École secondaire des Hauts-Sommets in Saint-Jérôme
Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates English-language public schools. Schools serving the town:
Morin Heights Elementary School in Morin-Heights serves a portion of the town
Laurentia Elementary School in Saint-Jérôme serves a portion of the town
Ste-Adèle Elementary School in Saint-Adèle serves a portion of the town
Laurentian Regional High School in Lachute
References
Commission de toponymie du Quebec : Saint-Hippolyte
Statistics Canada
External links
Municipalities in Quebec
Incorporated places in Laurentides |
Georgetown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wilkes-Barre Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States, adjacent to the city of Wilkes-Barre. The CDP population was 1,640 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Georgetown is located at .
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. Georgetown occupies most of the southwestern half of Wilkes-Barre Township and is bisected by I-81/PA 309. Exit 165 of I-81 is located at the southwestern edge of the CDP. The city of Wilkes-Barre is to the northwest.
References
Census-designated places in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania |
Stuffed melon () are made of melon stuffed with meat (lamb) and rice.
See also
List of melon dishes
List of stuffed dishes
References
Balkan cuisine
Stuffed vegetable dishes
Turkish cuisine dolmas and sarmas
Melon dishes |
Hubert Deltour (23 March 1911 – 20 December 1993) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1937 Tour de France.
References
1911 births
1993 deaths
Belgian male cyclists
Place of birth missing |
The 2021–22 Qatar Women's Football League, was the X edition of top-level women's football championship in Qatar. The league kicked off on 27 December 2021 and ended on 27 March 2022.
Al-Khor won the league. All matches were played at Qatar Women's sports committee stadium.
Teams
Personnel and kits
League Table
Matches
See also
2020–21 Qatar Stars League
References
External links
Qatar Football Association
W1
Qatar Women's Football League |
Enterprise release management (ERM) is a multi-disciplinary IT governance framework for managing software delivery and software change across multiple departments in a large organization. ERM builds upon release management and combines it with other aspects of IT management including Business-IT alignment, IT service management, IT Governance, and Configuration management. ERM places considerable emphasis on project management and IT portfolio management supporting the orchestration of people, process, and technology across multiple departments and application development teams to deliver large, highly integrated software changes within the context of an IT portfolio.
Managing Multiple Releases
Just as traditional release management packages changes together for execution and delivery, so an enterprise release is a mechanism for integrating and managing multiple, independent programs and projects that impact the enterprise. ERM takes an end-to-end life cycle perspective addressing the (strategic) planning, execution and delivery of an organization's entire change portfolio, even though in reality it is often confined to the latter integration, test and implementation stages of delivery.
An enterprise release consolidates and integrates the deliverables of multiple projects (or more generally, change initiatives) that have to be time-boxed or synchronised so they can be tested and released as a whole. By stressing the need for a cohesive release architecture, ERM aims to supplement portfolio prioritization with greater design governance that serves to improve productivity and reduce change disruption by executing related features together.
While traditional release management addresses fine-grained changes and provides technical support for the project, ERM supports enterprise portfolio/project management (PPM) and brings a pragmatic architectural and execution perspective to the selection and planning to an enterprise release.
Influence of Continuous Delivery and DevOps
Organizations practicing Enterprise Release Management often support software projects across a wide spectrum of software development methodology. An IT portfolio often incorporates more traditional Waterfall model projects alongside more iterative projects using Agile software development. With the increasing popularity of agile development a new approach to software releases known as Continuous delivery is starting to influence how software transitions from development to release. With continuous delivery, transitions from development to release are continuously automated. Changes are committed to code repositories, builds and tests are run immediately in a continuous integration system, and changes can be released to production without the ceremony that accompanies the traditional Software release life cycle.
While continuous delivery and agile software development provide for faster execution on a project level, the accelerated pace made possible by continuous delivery creates challenges for less-agile components in an IT portfolio. ERM provides organizations with a comprehensive view of software change across a large collection of related systems allowing project managers and IT managers to coordinate projects that have adopted more continuous approaches to software delivery with projects that require a slower, more sequential approach for application development.
Enterprise Release Management provides enterprises with a model that can adopt the localized effects of both DevOps and Continuous delivery to the larger IT department.
References
Taborda, L.J. (2011). Enterprise Release Management: Agile Delivery of a Strategic Change Portfolio, Artech House.
Change management |
Francisco Sarrión (June 18, 1937 – 1996) was a Spanish-born Maoist, mostly known as the leader of a small, short lived Maoist sect in Sweden in 1968. In Sweden, Sarrión sometimes used the pseudonym Fredrik Svensson.
Sarrión lived in the People's Republic of China for a while in the 1960s where he came in contact with group of Swedish Maoists visiting China. He decided to move to Sweden, where he in 1968 became the indisputable leader of a small extremist Maoist sect, called Rebellerna ("The Rebels"). The Rebels rebelled against the broader Leftist and Maoists movement, which they considered corrupted. They even went to the Chinese embassy in Stockholm where they demanded to become members of the Communist Party of China. When they were denied membership, because they were not Chinese citizens, Francisco Sarrión declared that the embassy was under the control of reactionary bureaucrats who had betrayed Mao Zedong.
Francisco Sarrión was a charismatic leader who could gather and control a group of young, dedicated followers around him. Witnesses have described Sarrión acting more like a fanatic religious preacher than a politician.
The Rebel Movement only lasted for a couple of months, but during this time, its members rapidly broke off all contact with the rest of society, including their families. The group of approximately 100 members was divided into smaller cells, living isolated in 7 apartments in Stockholm and one apartment in Uppsala, where they were to study the works of Mao and prepare for the coming World Revolution. Only the leadership, the Central Committee, with Sarrión as chairman, knew were the different cells were located.
Eventually the sect imploded and Francisco Sarrión, after having failed to obtain a Swedish citizenship, moved back to Spain and lived the last years of his life in the Canary Islands, working in the tourist industry until his death.
References
External links
Rebellerna radio broadcast by Bosse Lindquist (in Swedish)
Maoists
Spanish communists
1996 deaths
1937 births |
The Federal Office for Approvals in Telecommunications (German: , BZT) was a federal agency in Germany responsible for approving telecommunication devices. It was seated in Saarbrücken.
History
The BZT was founded in 1982.
Criticism
Because cheap modems from the United States were banned, the Chaos Computer Club published schematics of modems. The became well known.
References
German federal agencies
Government agencies established in 1982
Government agencies disestablished in 1997
1982 establishments in Germany
1997 disestablishments in Germany
History of telecommunications in Germany
Organisations based in Saarland
Saarbrücken
Telecommunications regulatory authorities |
Zhu Mo (; 1 September 1380 – 11 June 1431) was a prince of the Ming dynasty. He was the 21st son of the Hongwu Emperor and was made the Prince of Shen (瀋王).
Family
Consorts and Issue:
Princess consort of Shen, of the Zhang clan (瀋王妃 张氏;d.1406), daughter of Zhang Wenjie (张文傑)
Lady, of the Zhang clan (章氏; d. 1451)
Zhu Jiabao, Prince Kang of Shen (瀋康王 朱佶焞; 7 December 1407 – 7 October 1457), first son
Lady, of the Wu clan (吴氏)
Zhu Jikui, Prince Kangsu of Lingchun (陵川康肅王 朱佶煃), second son
Zhu Jiyun, Prince Daohuai of Qinshu (沁水悼懷王 朱佶熅), sixth son
Lady, of the Xi clan (席氏)
Zhu Jiwei, Prince Xijing of Pingyao (平遙僖靖王 朱佶煟), third son
Lady, of the Pang clan (庞氏)
Zhu Jijuan, Prince Daojing of Jishan (稷山悼靖王 朱佶焆), fifth son
Unknown
Zhu Jiyu, Prince Zhaoxi of Lincheng (黎城昭僖王 朱佶燏), fourth son
Zhu Jitong (朱佶炵), seventh son
Zhu Jifu, Prince Gongding of Qinyuan (沁源恭定王 朱佶㷆), eight son
First daughter
Princess Hunyuan (浑源郡主), second daughter
Princess Yicheng (翼城郡主), third daughter
Fourth daughter
Princess Hejing (河津郡主), fifth daughter
Princess Jiexiu (介休郡主), sixth daughter
Ancestry
See also
List of vassals prince peerages of Ming dynasty
References
1380 births
1431 deaths
Ming dynasty imperial princes
Sons of emperors |
Cláudio Mendes Prates (born 18 September 1965), known as Cláudio Prates or just Claudinho, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a forward, and is the current assistant manager of Bahia.
Playing career
Known as Claudinho during his playing days, he was an Internacional de Santa Maria youth graduate. In 1986 he joined Vasco da Gama, and went on to feature sparingly for the club during his three-year spell, split by loans to América-SP, Bragantino, Juventus-SP and Primeira Liga side S.C. Farense.
Claudinho subsequently represented Vitória, Caxias, Figueirense, Košice and ABC before moving to Arabic football. He retired in 2004, with Al Khaleej.
Managerial career
Shortly after retiring, Prates began his career with former club Vitória, being an assistant of the youth setup. In 2006 he was promoted to the first team, remaining as an assistant until the arrival of Givanildo Oliveira as manager.
Prates subsequently followed Givanildo at Brasiliense, Paysandu, Vila Nova, Mogi Mirim, América Mineiro, Sport, Santa Cruz, Ponte Preta and Remo before parting ways in 2011 to become Joinville's assistant. Late in that year he returned to América, being an assistant but also interim manager on some occasions.
On 19 October 2016 Prates left Coelho, and was named Palmeiras' assistant the following 10 January. In April 2018, he joined Bahia; initially an assistant, he was appointed interim manager after the dismissal of Guto Ferreira.
Honours
Player
Vasco da Gama
Taça Guanabara: 1986
Bragantino
Campeonato Paulista Série A2: 1988
Vitória
Campeonato Baiano: 1990, 1992
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B runner up: 1992
ABC
Campeonato Potiguar: 1997
Al Arabi
Kuwait Emir Cup: 1999, 2000
Kuwait Crown Prince Cup: 1999, 2000
Al Kurafi Cup: 1999
References
External links
1965 births
Living people
Footballers from Rio Grande do Sul
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Saudi Pro League players
Qatar Stars League players
UAE Pro League players
UAE First Division League players
CR Vasco da Gama players
América Futebol Clube (SP) players
Clube Atlético Bragantino players
Clube Atlético Juventus players
Esporte Clube Vitória players
Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul players
Figueirense FC players
ABC Futebol Clube players
Primeira Liga players
S.C. Farense players
FC VSS Košice players
Al-Arabi SC (Qatar) players
Al-Shamal SC players
Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) players
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Catephia melanica is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Nepal and India (Sikkim).
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Philip Varone (born December 4, 1990) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who is currently playing with Düsseldorfer EG in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Varone was selected by the San Jose Sharks in the fifth round (147th overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
Playing career
Amateur
Varone played major junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) from 2006–07 to 2010–11, collecting 78 goals and 152 assists for 230 points in 228 games.
Professional
Varone attended the San Jose Sharks training camp in 2010, but was sent down to London for the season. By July 2011, the Sharks had not signed Varone to a contract, making him a free agent. Varone attended the Buffalo Sabres training camp in 2011, but did not make the team. He instead signed a one-year AHL contract with the Sabres' affiliate Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL). He led Rochester in scoring with 11 goals and 41 assists.
On March 19, 2012, the Buffalo Sabres signed Varone to a three-year entry level contract. Varone was recalled to the Sabres' active roster on January 22, 2014, and scored his first career point with an assist on a goal by Brian Flynn the next night against the Carolina Hurricanes. Varone scored his first goal in his fourth career game, against Braden Holtby of the Washington Capitals on January 28, 2014. During the 2013-2014 season, Varone also played for the Rochester Americans in the 2013 Spengler Cup, scoring 1 goal and 3 assists.
Following the 2014–15 season, Varone became a restricted free agent under the NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement. The Buffalo Sabres made him a qualifying offer to retain his NHL rights and, on July 5, 2015, Varone filed for salary arbitration. The two sides reached an agreement on a one-year, two-way contract on July 13.
In the 2015–16 season, Varone played in a further five games with the Sabres, but was on assignment with the Rochester Americans when on February 27, 2016, he was traded to the Ottawa Senators as part of a seven-player deal. Varone was called up to Ottawa for the final game of the season, April 9, 2016 and recorded an assist. In the following 2016–17 season, Varone split between Ottawa and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Binghamton Senators. Serving as an alternate captain he appeared in 65 regular season games for Binghamton, where he recorded 36 assists and 51 points. He was scoreless over 7 games in the NHL with Ottawa.
On July 1, 2017, having left the Senators as a free agent, Varone signed a two-year, two-way contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. At the end of the 2017–18 regular season, Varone was named the AHL's Most Valuable Player.
On December 7, 2018, Varone was recalled by the Flyers. He made his Flyers debut on December 8 against the Buffalo Sabres. He scored his first goal as a member of the Flyers on December 22 in a 4–3 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
As a free agent Varone left the Flyers to sign a one-year, two-way contract with the Montreal Canadiens on July 3, 2019. Assigned to AHL affiliate, the Laval Rocket, to begin the 2019–20 season, Varone although limited through injury contributed with 14 points in 27 games. On February 20, 2020, Varone was traded by the Canadiens along with Riley Barber to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Joseph Blandisi and Jake Lucchini. He was immediately assigned to join affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Varone registered 5 assists in just 6 games before the remainder of the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With the following North American season delayed due to the pandemic, Varone as a free agent opted to sign abroad for the first time in his career, joining Kazahstani based club, Barys Nur-Sultan of the KHL on October 26, 2020.
On July 7, 2021, Varone joined Lausanne HC of the National League (NL) on a one-year deal. On November 17, 2021, Varone was shipped to SC Bern for the remainder of his contract.
As a free agent from Bern, Varone returned to the KHL in agreeing to a one-year deal with HC Spartak Moscow on July 21, 2022. In the 2022–23 season, Varone eclipsed his previous league high offensive totals in contributing with 15 goals and 30 points through 57 regular season games.
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Pawai Assembly constituency is one of the 230 Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) constituencies of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. This constituency came into existence in 1951 as one of the 48 Vidhan Sabha constituencies of the erstwhile Vindhya Pradesh state.
Overview
Pawai (constituency number 58) is one of the 3 Vidhan Sabha constituencies located in Panna district. This constituency covers the entire Pawai and Shahnagar tehsils of the district.
Pawai is part of Khajuraho Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Gunnaor and Panna in this district, Chandla and Rajnagar in Chhatarpur district and Vijayraghavgarh, Murwara and Bahoriband in Katni district.
Members of Legislative Assembly
As a constituency of Madhya Bharat
1951: Bhura, Indian National Congress / Narendra Singh, Indian National Congress
As a constituency of Madhya Pradesh
Election results
2013
2018
See also
Pawai
References
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The Little Phatty is a monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 2006 to 2013, preceded by the Voyager and succeeded by Voyager Old School. Its design was conceived, in part, by Robert Moog himself, and is the last instrument to have that distinction, although the primary engineer was Cyril Lance. It is also the first Moog product to be produced following his death. Jordan Rudess of the band Dream Theater also assisted with the design of the product.
It is one of the few Moog synthesizers to utilize MIDI from the factory (the others being the Minimoog Voyager and the earlier Memorymoog+). This allows for better integration in the modern studio and for live performance.
On 9 September 2013, Moog Music announced the discontinuation of the Little Phatty analog synthesizer.
Versions
There are currently four versions of the Little Phatty. Aside from a few cosmetic differences (and price), all units have nearly identical sound generation circuitry.
Tribute Edition
The earlier 'Tribute Edition', a limited run of 1200 units, featured blue LED lighting, wooden side panels and Bob Moog's signature decaled onto the convex back panel.
Stage Edition
The later 'Stage Edition' featured orange and red lighting, grey rubberized panels and the classic Moog logo replacing the signature.
Stage II
The third version, called the Stage II, had some minor mechanical and electrical tweaks as well as adding a USB interface, a new arpeggiator and tap tempo.
Limited Edition
There is also a rare limited edition with blue LED lighting that came in a purple aluminum case. This version also has the USB interface. It has the regular Moog logo on the back panel and shipped in a custom flight case with the Moog logo on the case. This was a limited run of 100 units.
References
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Moog Announces Discontinuation of Little Phatty Analog Synthesizer
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Sandyville is a city in Warren County, Iowa, United States. The population was 58 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Sandyville was laid out in 1851. It was named for its founder, J. Moorman Sandy.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 51 people, 23 households, and 16 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 28 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.0% White and 2.0% African American.
There were 23 households, of which 17.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% were married couples living together, 8.7% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.4% were non-families. 26.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.63.
The median age in the city was 47.4 years. 11.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.6% were from 25 to 44; 39.1% were from 45 to 64; and 17.6% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 47.1% male and 52.9% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 61 people, 27 households, and 18 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 28 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 95.08% White, and 4.92% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.92% of the population.
There were 27 households, out of which 25.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.6% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.26 and the average family size was 2.89.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 16.4% under the age of 18, 16.4% from 18 to 24, 27.9% from 25 to 44, 34.4% from 45 to 64, and 4.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 134.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 155.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $31,667, and the median income for a family was $34,375. Males had a median income of $27,500 versus $13,750 for females. The per capita income for the city was $20,028. None of the population and none of the families were below the poverty line.
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The 1959–60 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1959–60 NCAA University Division college basketball season. Tom Nolan coached them in his fourth and final season as head coach. The team was an independent and played its home games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C. The team finished with a record of 11-12 and had no post-season play.
Season recap
Diminutive junior guard Brian "Puddy" Sheehan, the teams point guard and a dominant player throughout his college career, had emerged the previous season as Georgetowns top scorer on an undersized team. He continued as such this season among taller teammates, averaging 21.3 points per game in his first six games, including a 29-point performance against Saint Peter's and 27 against Niagara. In the ninth game of the year, he scored 23 points against Providence in the championship game of the Providence Invitational Tournament. Despite usually playing against opponents who were six inches (15 cm) taller, he was Georgetowns top scorer for the second straight year, averaging 15.6 points per game for the season.
Either Sheehan or junior center Tom Coleman led the team in scoring in 15 games. In addition to providing a strong defensive presence, Coleman scored in double figures ten times, with 24 against Fordham and a season-high 26 versus Boston College.
Sophomore guard Jim Carrino joined the varsity team this year after a season on the freshman team. As reserve during the year, he nonetheless provided welcome assistance to Sheehan in the backcourt, coming off the bench to average 12.2 points per game and score in 12 games, including 18 points against Brown, 24 against Fordham, and 26 against Boston College. An injury cut his season short and he appeared in only 15 games, but his performance earned him a starting spot on the next year's team.
Sophomore forward Paul "Tag" Tagliabue also joined the varsity team this season after a year on the freshman team. He scored in double figures in eight of his last ten games and demonstrated a willingness to fight for rebounds under the basket; he led the Hoyas in rebounding for the season, and, as a three-year starter, was destined to become one of the top rebounders in school history.
Another sophomore, center Bob Sharpenter, had been a high school standout and a top scorer on the freshman team the previous season, but he struggled with the transition to the varsity this year. Playing in only 12 games, he averaged only 4.5 points per game and shot only 34% from the field, and also showed defensive weaknesses. He would correct his shooting and defense the following season, and by his senior year would emerge as one of Georgetowns great players.
Junior forward Tom Matan had been a standout the previous season, but with taller players like Tagliabue and Sharpenter now on the team, he moved to a swing role in which he was not as productive. Nonetheless, he scored in double figures six times and had a season-high 21 points against Fairfield.
The 1959-60 team finished with a record of 11-12 and had no post-season play. The last Georgetown men's basketball team with a losing record until the 1967-68 season, it was not ranked in the Top 20 in the Associated Press Poll or Coaches' Poll at any time.
Nolan left the head coaching position after the end of the season to focus on coaching the Georgetown baseball team, which he did through the 1978 season. He departed with a 40-49 record during his four-season tenure, with no winning seasons and no post-season tournament appearances. Georgetown hired assistant coach and former Georgetown and National Basketball Association (NBA) player Tommy O'Keefe as his replacement.
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From the 1958-59 season through the 1967-68 season, Georgetown players wore even-numbered jerseys for home games and odd-numbered ones for away games; for example, a player would wear No. 10 at home and No. 11 on the road. Players are listed below by the even numbers they wore at home.
Senior guard and team captain Ed Hargaden Jr., was the first second-generation Georgetown mens basketball player, his father, guard Ed Hargaden, having been a standout guard on the 1932-33, 1933-34, and 1934-35 teams. He also was the only second-generation player in school history until center Patrick Ewings son, forward Patrick Ewing Jr., joined the team in the 2006-07 season.
Sophomore forward Paul Tagliabue later became Commissioner of the National Football League.
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Protestantism () is one of the six approved religions in Indonesia, the others being Islam, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. It constitutes the bulk of Christianity in Indonesia, which is the second largest religion in the country after Islam.
According to CIA statistics, in 2000 5.7% of the population of Indonesia were Protestant. A nationwide census of 2018 noted that 7.6% (20,250,000) of the population considering themselves Protestant, largest in Southeast Asia.
Protestantism in Indonesia is largely a result of Calvinist (Reformed) and Lutheran missionary efforts during the country's colonial period. The Dutch East India Company regulated the missionary work so it could serve its own interests and restricted it to the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago. Although these two branches are the most common, a multitude of other denominations can be found elsewhere in Indonesia. The Batak Protestant Christian Church, founded in 1861 by German Lutheran missionary Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen, is the largest one.
History
Protestantism arrived in Indonesia during the Dutch East Indies colonization. By the mid-1700s a significant Lutheran presence was found in Jakarta, with a Lutheran church built by the Lutheran Governor General Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff in 1749. In 1817, the Dutch founded the Protestantsche Kerk in Nederlandsch-Indie ("Indische Kerk") as a union of Reformed, Lutheran, Baptists, Arminian and Mennonite denominations. In 1835, the Dutch king decreed that one church council would fuse and oversee the Protestant denominations in the Dutch colony.
Demographics
In 2018, Protestants made up 7.43% of the population.
On the island of Sulawesi, 17% of the citizens are Protestants, particularly in Tana Toraja and North Sulawesi. Up to 65% of the Torajan population are Protestant. In some parts of the country, entire villages belong to a distinct denomination, such as Adventist, Lutheran, Presbyterian or Salvation Army. Two provinces have Protestant majorities: North Sulawesi (64%) and Papua (60%). Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa is the largest Protestant church in North Sulawesi. Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa is a Mennonite-related denomination. Huria Kristen Batak Protestant is a Lutheran denomination founded by Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen. It is the largest Protestant denomination in Indonesia and has over 4 million congregants. The relatively large number of "denominations" per capita in Indonesia may be due to the significant number of different ethnic groups in Indonesia. Many Indonesian Protestants tend to congregate based more on ethnicity than liturgical differences.
Reformed denominations
The Reformed faith brought by Dutch missionaries in the 17th century. Many of these churches are members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches:
Christian Evangelical Church in Sangihe-Talaud (GMIST)
Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa (GMIM)
Christian Church in East Timor
Christian Church in Luwuk Banggai
Christian Church in Central Sulawesi
Christian Church of Southern Sumatra
Christian Church of Sumba
Church of Toraja Mamasa
East Java Christian Church
Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera
Evangelical Christian Church in Papua
Evangelical Church in Bolaang Mongondow
Evangelical Church in Kalimantan
Indonesian Christian Church
Indonesian Protestant Church in Buol Toli-Toli
Indonesian Protestant Church in Donggala
Indonesian Protestant Church in Gorontalo
Javanese Christian Church (Sinode Gereja-gereja Kristen Jawa, GKJ)
Karo Batak Protestant Church
Pasundan Christian Church
Protestant Christian Church in Bali
Protestant Church in Indonesia
Protestant Church of Maluku
Protestant Church in Southeast Sulawesi
Protestant Church in West Indonesia
Protestant Evangelical Church in Timor
Toraja Church
Members of the International Conference of Reformed Churches
Gereja-Gereja Reformasi Calvinis
Gereja-Gereja Reformasi di Indonesia
Members of World Reformed Fellowship
Reformed Evangelical Church in Indonesia
Lutheran denominations
Indonesian churches recognized by the Lutheran World Federation as Lutheran or affiliated with Lutheran are:
Banua Niha Keriso Protestan (BNKP) – The Protestant Church in Nias Island
Gereja Angowuloa Masehi Indonesia Nias (AMIN) – Christian Communion of Indonesia in Nias
Gereja Kristen Luther Indonesia (GKLI) – Indonesian Christian Lutheran Church
Gereja Kristen Protestan Angkola (GKPA) – Christian Protestant Angkola Church
Gereja Kristen Protestan di Mentawai (GKPM) – Protestant Christian Church in Mentawai
Gereja Kristen Protestan Indonesia (GKPI) – Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia
Gereja Kristen Protestan Pakpak Dairi (GKPPD) – Pakpak Dairi Protestant Christian Church
Gereja Kristen Protestan Simalungun (GKPS) – Simalungun Protestant Christian Church
Gereja Punguan Kristen Batak (GPKB) – Batak Christian Community Church
Gereja Protestan Persekutuan (GPP) – The United Protestant Church
Huria Kristen Batak Protestan (HKBP) – Protestant Christian Batak Church
Huria Kristen Indonesia (HKI) – The Indonesian Christian Church
Orahua Niha Keriso Protestan (ONKP) - Communion of Protestant Christian Church
HKI, GMB, GKPS, GKPI, GKLI, GKPA, GPP, and GKPPD all split from HKBP. GKLI maintains a strong relationship with the Norwegian Lutheran Church. GKPM was founded by HKBP missionaries. Although the BNKP and HKBP have historically cooperated, no official relationship exists between those entities. AMIN split from BNKP and retains more of a Lutheran identity.
Gereja Lutheran Indonesia (GLI) is affiliated with the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference. GLI is closely associated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the United States. GLI has offices in Jakarta and operates a seminary, Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Lutheran (STTL), in Yogyakarta. GLI has large congregations on Java and in West Timor, as well as posts in Papua and Kalimantan.
See also
Christianity in Indonesia
Religion in Indonesia
Christianity among the Batak
Pentecostal Church in Indonesia
Protestantism by country
References
Further reading
External links
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Héctor Manuel Valdez Albizu (born November 10, 1947) is the current Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, a position he first held from 31 August 1994 through 16 August 2000, and again since 17 August 2004. He is also a well known economist and author of numerous works relating to economics.
Early life and family
Valdez Albizu is the son of Ana Rita Albizu Reyes and Héctor Manuel Valdez Guerrero.
Education
In 1971 Valdez received his bachelor's degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Afterwards, he did post graduate work at the Institute of Social Studies, Universidad Católica de Chile in the center for Student Movements Relations Organization. His area of study was primarily related to the Social Aspects of Economic Development, Latin American University Reforms, and Landholding-Agrarian Reform from 1966 to 1967.
He then left for Washington, D.C. to continue work at the International Monetary Fund Institute of Specialized Studies as a specialist in monetary policy, public finance and the design of monetary and financial Programs from 1974 to 1977. He finally returned to the Dominican Republic for further study and research at the Organization of American States, in the Central Bank and Advanced Studies Investigation Center.
Career at BCRD
Valdez began his career at the Dominican Central Bank (BCRD) in 1970 as a Technical Assistant in the Economic Research Department, occupying the position of Director of that department from 1984 through 1986. He then held increasingly influential positions in the BCRD, including: Assistant Manager, Monetary and Exchange Policy (1986–1990); Advisor to the Monetary Board (1987–1989); Representative of the Central Bank before the Administrative Board of the Banco de Reservas (1991–1992); and Assistant General Manager (1991–1993).
On January 4, 1993, he was designated General Administrator of the Banco de Reservas, a position he occupied until August 31, 1994, when he was designated Governor of the BCRD. He was reconfirmed in that position in August 1996 by President Leonel Fernández, and was granted the rank of Cabinet Minister, occupying that position until August 16, 2000. Again, on August 16, 2004, President Fernández appointed him Governor of the BCRD. As a governor of the Central Bank, he has been Titular Member of numerous commissions established by Executive Order.
Research projects and academic publications
During his outstanding career as an economist he has worked on numerous research projects, among which are:
"Study of the Parallel Exchange Market"
"Investment Alternatives in Financial Activities"
"Importance of the Financial Market on the Exchange System"
"Financial Programs for the Dominican Republic, 1976-1990"
"Dimensions of the National Banking System and its Enhancement Possibilities", 1976
"Exchange Emergency Regime", 1985
"Reform of the Financial System, a Proposal", in 1985.
In 1996 he published Un camino hacia el desarrollo (A Road toward Development), Conferences and Addresses, and, in 2000, Un camino hacia el desarrollo II. He also taught at the Universidad Central del Este from 1975 to 1977, and at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores (APEC), from 1978 to 1989.
International meetings
On behalf of the Dominican Central Bank, he has participated in various international meetings as an official representative. Among the most important are the meetings of Latin American Integration Association of the Monetary and Financial Affairs Board (CFM), of Latin America Central Banks Governors' meetings held in Canada, Spain and the Philippines; the Inter-American Development Bank Governors' Assemblies and the Inter-American Investment Corporation, Dominican Republic, 1992.
He participated in the foreign debt renegotiations with commercial banks during 1992 and with the member governments of the Paris Club between 1992 and 1993. He also attended a working lunch with the U.S. Treasury Secretary in 1994 and is a signatory to the 1995 Constituent Agreement for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA). He also represented the Dominican Republic at the 35th Meeting of Central Bank Governors of the American Continent held in Hong Kong during 1997.
Awards
In addition to being a leading member of the Dominican Association of Economists (CODECO), Valdez Albizu has received numerous awards for his many years of service towards the economic development of not only the Dominican Republic, but Latin America in general. During 1996 he was awarded the Public Servant Medal of Merit in the Dominican Republic and the Gaucho Rioplatense award from Dirigencia Magazine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was voted Economist of the Year 1997 by the Dominican Association of Economists, and during 1998 he was given the title of Distinguished Visitor by the city of Barahona and voted Banker of the Year by Listín Diario Newspaper. In 1999 he was named Boss of the Year by the Dominican Association of Secretaries and listed among the 500 Personalities of the Financial World by Who's Who United States. Valdez Albizu was selected by British magazine The Banker as governor of the year for 2005, in the Latin American region. The magazine granted the prize acknowledging Valdez Albizu's contributions to recuperating the Dominican economy achieved during President Leonel Fernández's current administration. Valdez Albizu is the first Dominican Central Bank governor to receive such an honor. In the comments on the award, The Banker stated that "the Dominican Republic recuperated during 2005, vigorously expanding the economy and ending the year with a single-digit inflation rate."
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Emporia is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, surrounded by Greensville County, United States. Emporia and a predecessor town have been the county seat of Greensville County since 1791. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,766, making it the third-least populous city in Virginia. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Emporia with surrounding Greensville County for statistical purposes.
History
Emporia has long been a transportation crossroads. The Meherrin River, like the Nottoway River and the Blackwater River, empties to the southeast into Albemarle Sound. The Town of Hicksford (originally Hicks' Ford) was settled by Captain Robert Hicks (1658-1739) in the Virginia Colony, where the Fort Road of eastern Virginia crossed the Meherrin River en route to Fort Christanna. The road was a major north–south trail used by native peoples and sometimes called the "Halifax road". Captain Hicks was an Indian trader who resided in Prince George Co. prior to moving his family to Hicksford upon becoming the Commander of Fort Christanna. (His surname is spelled both "Hicks" and "Hix" in colonial records.) In 1709, Hicks purchased a land tract of 1280 acres along the northside of the Meherrin River that has been previously surveyed by Arthur Kavanaugh.
Greensville County separated from Brunswick County in 1781 and Hicksford became the county seat (court convening monthly at a nearby tavern). In May 1781, British Col. Banastre Tarleton's cavalry crossed at Hicksford while raiding Greensville and Southampton counties.
After statehood, the Virginia General Assembly recognized the Town of Belfield on the river's northern bank in 1798, and Hicksford on the southern bank the next year.
In the following decades, the surrounding area remained rural, and development in Hicksford exceeded that of Belfield. An 1847 account documented 12-20 dwellings in Hicksford worth about $10,025 and Belfield's buildings worth $3050; in 1865 Hicksford's buildings were valued at $20,700 and Belfield's at $3650. However, by 1885 Hicksford had only grown to $22,915 while Belfield had grown to $7300.
During the American Civil War, the Petersburg Railroad (to Weldon), built in 1830, was a tactical prize as Union troops sought to isolate the confederate capital. In 1857, Belfield was a stop on the Petersburg Railroad. Two battles for the control of the Weldon Railroad were fought near Petersburg during the Siege of Petersburg in June 1864 and September 1864. On December 7, 1864, 28,000 Union troops led by Major General Gouverneur K. Warren tried to sever that key supply route further south by uprooting tracks, and managed to stop Confederate troops under Major General Wade Hampton from destroying the Meherrin river bridge. However, when they retreated, Confederates rebuilt the railway line. After the war, the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad was leased to the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, which went bankrupt in 1878.
Greensville County native and delegate Benjamin D. Tillar Jr. (1855-1887) received a charter for the Atlantic and Danville Railway, which he planned would go from Portsmouth as had the Weldon railroad, but more westward through the Meherrin river towns. In 1887, Hicksford and Belfield merged, forming the newly incorporated town of Emporia. It was named after the town of Emporia, Kansas, home town of Tillar's friend U.S. Senator Preston B. Plumb of Kansas. However, the railroad boom proved short-lived, as poor farm conditions and the Panic of 1893 caused the county's population to decrease between 1880 and 1890. The Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad also ran through Emporia.
Emporia was re-chartered in 1892, and the town issued its first bonds (to establish a water plant, lighting and street improvements) in 1900. It hosted an agricultural fair in 1906, and brick buildings replaced frame structures. Banks were chartered, followed by land improvement companies and insurance companies, then various stores, automobile companies and cola bottlers.
The Virginia General Assembly re-chartered the Town of Emporia as an independent city in 1967, five years after the Norfolk and Western Railway purchased and reorganized the Atlantic and Danville Railway. Now, a major north–south CSX railway line crosses a Norfolk Southern east–west line in Emporia. Also, U.S. Route 58 crosses Emporia east-west and Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 301 crosses north–south, so providing services for travelers continues to be important in modern Emporia.
Historic buildings in Emporia include the Belfield-Emporia Historic District, Hicksford-Emporia Historic District, Greensville County Courthouse Complex, Greensville County Training School, H. T. Klugel Architectural Sheet Metal Work Building, Old Merchants and Farmers Bank Building, and Village View, all of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Geography
Emporia is located at (36.693018, -77.53809).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (1.1%) is water. The city is located about 65 miles south of Richmond, about 80 miles west of Norfolk and about 60 miles north of Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Governance
The City of Emporia is governed by a council/manager system. There are seven members of city council elected from districts and a weak mayor elected at large. City council and the mayor are elected to four year terms, in federal election years. Their terms are staggered so that not all members are elected at once.
The City of Emporia is also served by its own Treasurer, Commissioner of the Revenue, Sheriff and General Registrar. The courts system, Greensville County Sheriff, Commonwealth's Attorney and the Public Schools are shared with Greensville County.
Emporia is the location of several voting houses that serve as polling places for Greensville County's Election District I.
Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Emporia has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.
Demographics
2020 Census
2010 Census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 5,927 people living in the city. 62.5% were Black or African American, 32.7% White, 0.7% Asian, 0.3% Native American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 2.1% of some other race and 1.5% of two or more races. 4.4% were Hispanic or Latino (of any race).
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,665 people, 2,226 households, and 1,406 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 2,412 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 56.15% Black or African American, 42.45% White, 0.07% Native American, 0.53% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 0.42% from two or more races. 1.48% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There were 2,226 households, out of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.5% were married couples living together, 21.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.8% were non-families. 32.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.43 and the average family size was 3.05.
By percentage of counties or independent cities, Emporia has the highest population of Muslims in the United States as of the 2010 census, with 28.99% of the independent city being adhering Muslims.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 25.2% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 20.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 78.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $30,333, and the median income for a family was $35,743. Males had a median income of $27,772 versus $21,657 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,377. About 11.4% of families and 16.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.5% of those under age 18 and 14.5% of those age 65 or over.
Festivals
The Emporia Bicycling Club hosts regular group rides, including the annual Great Peanut ride which attracts hundreds of bicyclists who ride to visit a peanut farm and are treated to hearty meals and live entertainment at camp.
The Virginia Pork Festival was held each second Wednesday in June. Over 40,000 pounds of pork is served alongside alcoholic beverages, hushpuppies and sweet potato french fries. The festival is currently on hold due to lack of funding.
Education
Greensville County Public Schools serves both Emporia and Greensville County. Its high school is Greensville County High School.
Circa 1972 there was an effort by Emporia residents to create a separate school division. On June 22, 1972, the United States Supreme Court denied the creation of the district on a 5-4 basis, with the four dissenters having been appointed by U.S. president Richard Nixon.
Notable people
John N. Dalton, Governor of Virginia
Willie Gillus, former NFL quarterback
Benjamin S. Griffin, retired U.S. Army General
June Harding, actress, artist
Maurice Hicks, former NFL running back
Henry Jordan, NFL player in Pro Football Hall of Fame
Wynne LeGrow, Democratic politician
Lawrence Lucie, musician
Sharon Manning, pro basketball player; now coaches the Greensvile County Highschool's basketball team
John Y. Mason (1799-1859), U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Congressman, U.S. Attorney General
Theresa Merritt, actress
Vern Morgan, baseball player and coach
Elliott Sadler, NASCAR racecar driver
Hermie Sadler, NASCAR racecar driver
Raynor Scheine, actor
Bryant Stith, basketball player, University of Virginia and NBA
E. J. Wilson, NFL defensive lineman for Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Larry D. Wyche, retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Emporia, Virginia
References
External links
City of Emporia
Cities in Virginia
County seats in Virginia
Populated places established in 1887
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Jim Wells County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 38,891. The county was founded in 1911 and is named for James B. Wells Jr. (1850–1923), for three decades a judge and Democratic Party political boss in South Texas.
Jim Wells County comprises the Alice, Texas micropolitan statistical area, which is included in the Corpus Christi-Kingsville-Alice combined statistical area.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which (0.4%) are covered by water.
Major highways
U.S. Highway 281
Interstate 69C is currently under construction and will follow the current route of U.S. 281 in most places.
State Highway 44
State Highway 141
State Highway 359
Farm to Market Road 624
Farm to Market Road 665
Farm to Market Road 716
Farm to Market Road 2295
Adjacent counties
Live Oak County (north)
San Patricio County (northeast)
Nueces County (east)
Kleberg County (east)
Brooks County (south)
Duval County (west)
Demographics
Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.
At the 2000 census, 39,326 people, 12,961 households and 10,096 families were residing in the county. The population density was . The 14,819 housing units had an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 77.90% White, 0.60% African American, 0.62% Native American, 0.43% Asian, 118.83% from other races, and 2.43% from two or more races. About 75.71% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos of any race.
Of the 12,961 households, 40.2% had children under 18 living with them, 58.0% were married couples living together, 15.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.1% were not families. About 19.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.50% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.99, and the average family size was 3.45.
Age distribution was 31.4% under 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.4% who were 65 or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.20 males. For every 100 females aged 18 and over, there were 91.40 males.
The median household income was $28,843, and the median family income was $32,616. Males had a median income of $30,266 versus $17,190 for females. The per capita income for the county was $12,252. About 20.1% of families and 24.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.8% of those under age 18 and 21.3% of those aged 65 or over.
Government and politics
Located in South Texas, Jim Wells County is part of the oldest Democratic stronghold in the entire United States, a region that has consistently voted for Democrats since the days of Woodrow Wilson. The Jim Wells County Democratic Party has maintained its influence in the county despite massive demographic changes due to civil rights, the collapse of Jim Crow and poll taxes, and mass immigration from Mexico. The only Republicans to win the county in presidential elections since its creation are Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956, Richard Nixon in his 1972 landslide and Donald Trump in 2020. Since 2004, Jim Wells County has become slightly less Democratic than it was during the late twentieth century. Despite this shift, the Democratic nominee won at least 53.77 percent of the county's vote in every presidential election from 1976 through 2016. In 2020, the county ended its streak of Democratic victories when it was won by Donald Trump by a 10% margin.
In the 2018 gubernatorial election, Republican Greg Abbott won 52.04% of the vote in Jim Wells County, becoming the first member of his party to win the county in a race for a state office. In the same election, Democrat Beto O'Rourke won the county in the Senate contest with 53.85% of the vote.
1948 U.S. Senate election
Jim Wells County is known as the home of the "Box 13 scandal", the infamous ballot box that gave Lyndon Baines Johnson an 87-vote edge out of 988,295 cast over popular former governor Coke Stevenson in the Democratic primary election. It was later demonstrated that 200 votes, for Johnson, were "stuffed" into the ballot box after the polls closed. Johnson went on to win the election.
Communities
Cities
Alice (county seat)
Orange Grove
Premont
San Diego (mostly in Duval County)
Village
Pernitas Point (mostly in Live Oak County)
Census-designated places
Alfred
Alice Acres
Amargosa
Ben Bolt
Coyote Acres
K-Bar Ranch
Loma Linda East
Owl Ranch
Rancho Alegre
Sandia
South La Paloma
Westdale
Unincorporated communities
Bentonville
Casa Blanca
La Gloria
Palito Blanco
Rancho de la Parita
Springfield
Education
School districts in the county include:
Agua Dulce Independent School District
Alice Independent School District
Ben Bolt-Palito Blanco Independent School District
La Gloria Independent School District
Orange Grove Independent School District
Premont Independent School District
San Diego Independent School District
Coastal Bend College (formerly Bee County College) is the designated community college for the county.
See also
List of museums in South Texas
National Register of Historic Places listings in Jim Wells County, Texas
Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Jim Wells County
References
External links
Jim Wells County in Handbook of Texas Online at the University of Texas
1911 establishments in Texas
Populated places established in 1911
Majority-minority counties in Texas
Hispanic and Latino American culture in Texas |
David Huebner (born 1960) is an international arbitrator based in Southern California. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He was the first openly gay ambassador in the Obama administration and the third openly gay ambassador in United States history. His tenure was marked by significant improvement in bilateral relations, with commentators observing that relations are stronger and closer than they have been in decades. Called an “excellent public face for the United States,” he has been widely praised as a successful Ambassador including for his accessible, inclusive approach, his emphasis on students and future leaders, and the innovative restructuring of his Embassies around social media and other nontraditional tools and approaches of diplomacy. Before being appointed Ambassador he worked as an international lawyer in Los Angeles, Shanghai, and New York City, specializing in international arbitration and mediation. He is licensed as an attorney in California, New York, and in the District of Columbia, and as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Early life
Huebner was born in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, a small coal mining town in Schuylkill County. He attended Mahanoy Area High School after which he earned an A.B. degree summa cum laude from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. While at Princeton he was named a David Lawrence Scholar, served as president of Quadrangle Club, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Juris Doctor degree at Yale Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation, was director of the Street Law Project (which taught civics and basic law classes in local high schools), and was a member of the Yale AIDS Law Project, a student group that assisted with the publication of AIDS and the Law. From 1984 to 1985, Huebner was on leave of absence from Yale as a Henry Luce Scholar, serving as a special assistant to the Hon. Koji Kakizawa, a member of the lower house of Japan's Diet.
Legal career
After graduating from law school in 1986, Huebner moved to Los Angeles, California as a Fellow at the Center for Law in the Public Interest. A year later, he began his career in private legal practice at Irell & Manella. In 1992, Huebner joined the international law firm Coudert Brothers where he specialized in international arbitration and corporate compliance work and served as managing partner of the Los Angeles office, on the global executive board, and for a term as global chairman and chief executive officer. In September 2005, he joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, moving to Shanghai to open the firm's first overseas office. He served as the firm's chief representative in China and managing partner of the Shanghai office, where he specialized in international arbitration, corporate compliance, and trade until leaving to become Ambassador.
In April 2014, Huebner joined the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP as a partner in its international arbitration, public international law, energy, and national security practices. He represented governments and corporations in international disputes, trade, and investment matters with an emphasis on intellectual property-intensive sectors as well as energy, infrastructure, and construction projects. He also handled cross-border regulatory, corporate compliance, and cyber and supply chain security matters. In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed him to the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The White House press release announcing the designation mentioned that the key administration appointment is for a six-year term. In early 2017 he left private law practice to become an independent arbitrator and mediator, and he affiliated with the arbitration institution JAMS International.
He is admitted as a Fellow of the London-based Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, serves on the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce's Commission on Arbitration and ADR, and serves on the panels or lists of arbitrators of several arbitration institutions, including the International Center for Dispute Resolution, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Shanghai International Arbitration Center, Kuala Lumpur Regional Center for Arbitration, World Intellectual Property Organization, American Arbitration Association, China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, and JAMS.
He is the chairman of the Southern California chapter of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
In 1999 Huebner was appointed to the California Law Revision Commission by Governor Gray Davis and was reappointed in 2005 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. From 1999 to 2007 he taught full-semester courses in international law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He has also served as an arbitrator for more than a decade at the annual Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competitions in Hong Kong and Vienna.
Diplomatic career
In October 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Huebner as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, a post held by William McCormick until January 2009. Huebner was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 20, 2009. Huebner, a Democrat, was the first openly gay ambassador in the Obama administration, and the third openly gay ambassador in U.S. history. He was the first LGBT ambassador in American history knowingly confirmed by the U.S. Senate. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Huebner introduced his partner of 20 years, Duane McWaine; the hearing was held on the couple's 20th wedding anniversary, which Huebner acknowledged in his remarks. Huebner was sworn in as ambassador at the White House by Vice President Joseph Biden on December 4, 2009.
Separately accredited to New Zealand and Samoa, he has responsibility as well for U.S. relations with the small island nations of Cook Islands and Niue. During his time as ambassador, Huebner reengineered his two embassies around youth outreach, whole-of-society engagement, expanding exchange programs, developing new approaches and tools of “21st Century Statecraft,” and identifying practical, mutually beneficial opportunities for bilateral and multilateral cooperation on economic, science/technology, political, security, and civil society projects. In February 2013, The Sosaiete o Fa’afafine in American Samoa (S.O.I.F.A.S) hosted a welcoming event for Ambassador Huebner as a way of recognizing the role of human rights in the region raise awareness on "organizational issues" (in Samoan culture, transgenderism has traditionally been tolerated and celebrated, while homosexuality is illegal). During this visit, Ambassador Huebner was given an official shirt embroidered with the S.O.I.F.A.S logo that is currently available in the LGBT Collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The U.S. State Department and outside commentators have suggested that current relations between the United States and New Zealand are the best they have been in decades.
Bilateral relations
Huebner hosted an unusually large number of visits by senior officials during his tenure as ambassador, including visits to New Zealand by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010 (the first such visit to Wellington in a quarter century), Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano in 2012, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in 2012 (the first visit by a Secretary of Defense in more than 30 years), and Attorney General Eric Holder in 2013, as well as a visit to Cook Islands by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012. During her 2010 visit to Wellington, Secretary Clinton and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully signed the Wellington Declaration, reaffirming the historical ties between the U.S. and New Zealand and establishing a framework for renewed strategic partnership and practical cooperation. During a visit to Washington in 2012, New Zealand Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta signed the Washington Declaration, reaffirming the two countries historical cooperation on security matters and setting a framework for renewed dialogue and practical collaboration in areas such as humanitarian and disaster relief and maritime security.
Huebner successfully advocated for a Shiprider Joint Maritime Law Enforcement Agreement between Samoa and the United States to assist Apia in enforcing its rights within its Exclusive Economic Zone. He also hosted the Pacific Partnership mission in 2013, restructured Embassy Apia around civil society capacity building and economic development, and facilitated construction of a district medical center near Faleolo Airport by the U.S. Pacific Command.
Youth outreach
Upon his arrival Huebner began forming student adviser groups at each university in New Zealand with whom he meets regularly. All of the adviser groups are brought together annually for a three-day Connecting Young Leaders Conference focused on leadership training, policy discussions, and networking. His student adviser program has been replicated in other jurisdictions. In 2013 he launched a similar annual Future Leaders of the Pacific Conference (FLP) to engage with young leaders under age 25 from the 17 nations of the Pacific Islands Forum. The first FLP was held in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The second FLP is scheduled for 2014 in Apia, Samoa.
Other youth programs included establishing annual travel awards for top science students and social entrepreneurs, adding Samoa to the Fulbright scholarship program, supporting the Vex Robotics competitions in New Zealand, frequently teaching in local secondary schools, regularly lecturing in universities, sponsoring sports exchanges, adding students to the periodic U.S./N.Z. Partnership Forum, and hosting NASA's annual mobile apps competition (NASA Space Apps Challenge). Under his leadership the Embassy organized and hosted in 2013 the inaugural USA Universities Expo in Auckland which drew representatives from 35 American institutions of higher education and more than 2,600 local attendees.
Public diplomacy
Huebner restructured his Embassies to focus on whole-of-society and digital outreach. He launched new programs to engage indigenous peoples, the Pacific diaspora, faith communities, the LGBT community, veterans, and social entrepreneurs, and he revised Embassy invitation lists and events to reflect and include the full community.
Huebner also retooled Embassy Wellington into a test for the State Department's cyber-diplomacy and 21st Century Statecraft initiatives. In 2010 he launched one of the first ambassador blogs and significantly expanded his Embassies’ social media platforms. In 2013 he built a digital recording and broadcast studio in Embassy Wellington. Under his leadership, Embassy Wellington in 2012 conceived and then partnered with the Auckland University of Technology and Social Media NZ to host the inaugural Project (R)evolution conference, which drew more than 200 digital thinkers from New Zealand, the United States, and elsewhere to discuss the status and future of digital communications and internet-driven change. The next Project conference is scheduled for May 2014.
Civic and volunteer activities
Huebner has been a generous benefactor of youth literacy and education programs including the Mahanoy City Public Library. He currently sits as honorary chairperson of Fulbright New Zealand, a trustee of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust, and patron for the American Chamber of Commerce. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Committee on Foreign Relations and was active in the Los Angeles World Affairs Council and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He served as a founding national board member, co-chair, and general counsel of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and as a member of the board of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center.
In 1994 he was appointed by the City Council to the Los Angeles Quality & Productivity Commission, where he served as president. In 1999 Huebner was appointed to the California Law Revision Commission by Governor Gray Davis and was reappointed in 2005 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, serving several terms as chairman. He served as a staff counsel to the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, formed after the Rodney King incident. He served on California Governor Gray Davis’ Judicial Selection Advisory Committee.
He has a particular interest in education and literacy efforts. For many years he has supported the public library in his hometown of Mahanoy City, and he was recently awarded the key to the City in recognition of his efforts. From 1999 to 2007 he taught full-semester courses in international law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and has lectured and led seminars in other universities in China, New Zealand, and the United States.
Huebner was elected to life membership in the Council on Foreign Relations in 2015.
He currently serves on the board of the Pacific Council on International Policy, Founder Council of the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, the executive committee of the Asia Society of Southern California, and the boards of the Swiss International Law School, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, Princeton AlumniCorps, USC Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Foundation.
Honors and awards
The communications industry professional association Public Affairs Asia awarded him and his team the Gold Standard Award for Social Media Communications at its annual awards event in Singapore in 2012.
On August 24, 2013, Huebner served as Grand Marshal at celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the founding of his hometown of Mahanoy City. For his public service and his support of the public library he was awarded the key to the city by the Mayor.
On October 20, 2013, Huebner and his spouse Dr. Duane McWaine were honored by GABA (Gay Auckland Business Association) at a black-tie dinner in recognition of their whole-of-society engagement and contributions to the LGBT community in New Zealand.
On October 25, 2013, the Royal Society of New Zealand awarded him an Illuminated Scroll for his efforts in promoting science and technology collaboration and education.
On October 30, 2013, Huebner was made a Fellow of the Auckland University of Technology Faculty of Business and Law in recognition of his commitment to higher education and student achievement. AUT's Vice-Chancellor, Derek McCormack, presented the award at a reception held at Auckland's Mackelvie Gallery.
On August 19, 2014, Huebner's diplomatic passport, his spouse Dr. McWaine's diplomatic passport, and other artifacts of his time as ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa were taken by the Smithsonian Institution into its permanent collection of American history.
In 2015 he was invited to deliver the 7th Annual Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Lecture at Harvard's Adams House and the 10th Annual Robert I. Weil Lecture by the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
In 2016 the Secretary of the Navy awarded Huebner the U.S. Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award for his humanitarian and security work as ambassador.
See also
Embassy of the United States in Wellington
List of LGBT ambassadors of the United States
References
External links
David Huebner's biography, by the U.S. State Department
David Huebner's blog , via newzealand.usembassy.gov
Embassy of the United States – New Zealand official website
Embassy of the United States – Samoa official website
Written Statement of David Huebner , testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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Bryan Anderson Scott (born April 13, 1981) is a former American football linebacker and safety. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Penn State University. He was also a member of the New Orleans Saints, Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills.
Early years
Scott was a three-sport standout at Central Bucks East High School in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was a consensus first-team All-American and was named the Associated Press Pennsylvania Big School Player of the Year and the USA Today Pennsylvania Player of the Year his senior year, rushing for more than 3,000 career yards and 53 tackles with three interceptions as a senior defensive back.
He averaged nearly 20 points per game in basketball as a senior and was a Pennsylvania state prep medalist in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.
College career
He was a three-year starter at Penn State, playing in all 48 career games, and finished his career with 202 tackles, five interceptions, a fumble recovery and a forced fumble. Bryan played for head coach Joe Paterno. He played in the 2003 Senior Bowl. During his NFL Pro Day workout, Bryan ran a 4.34 40-yard dash.
He graduated from Penn State in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Recreation and Parks Management. He participated in the university's study abroad program in Fiji.
Professional career
Atlanta Falcons
Scott was drafted in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft (55th overall) by the Atlanta Falcons.
In his rookie season, Scott led all defensive backs with 63 tackles despite only starting six contests in 15 total games; he finished that season tied for the team lead among special-teams players with 13 tackles.
In 2004, he started all 16 games at strong safety and ranked third on the team with 85 tackles and 2.5 sacks, and one interception, including 7 tackles in the NFC Championship Game against the Philadelphia Eagles. He registered 54 tackles, a sack and an interception in 16 games during the 2005 season.
New Orleans Saints
On April 6, 2006, Scott was traded to the New Orleans Saints for OT Wayne Gandy and a 2007 conditional late round draft choice.
Tennessee Titans
On March 26, 2007, Scott signed with the Titans. On September 1, 2007 the Titans released him.
Buffalo Bills
He signed with the Buffalo Bills on September 12, 2007. A free agent in the 2008 offseason, the Bills re-signed Scott on March 18. Following injuries to Kawika Mitchell and Keith Ellison in the middle of the 2009 season, Scott was moved to outside linebacker. Scott responded with 10 solo tackles and a sack against Kansas City in week 14. On March 7, 2013, Scott re-signed with the Bills. Scott was released by the Bills during team cuts on August 31, 2013. He later retired after his release.
NFL statistics
Personal
Bryan is married to Maisha Scott. The two were married in Atlanta, Georgia. Bryan is also the Entrepreneur who appeared on the famous CNBC tv show, Sharktank, to pitch his Noene shoe insoles. Daymond John and Mark Cuban gave him $200,00 in exchange for 30% of his company.
Music and acting
Aside from his athletic pursuits, Scott is an accomplished musician. He sings and plays the piano, drums and saxophone. He participated in the ABC Monday Night Football's musical competition called "Monday Night at the Mic" in 2003 paired with Grammy Award winning artist Michelle Branch. The duo lost to Doug Flutie and Barenaked Ladies in the finals after competing against a host of other NFL players and recording artists in a round-robin competition. Bryan also had a major role in the feature film White Men Can't Rap(), where he played the drummer Tater in the rap group Cocoa Bean Mogul.
Scott sang a song he wrote at the funeral service for Kevin Dare, the Penn State pole vaulter who died while competing at the Big Ten Indoor Track and Field Championships in February 2002.
Giving back
Scott created a non-profit foundation, which he called the Pick Your Passion Foundation for the Arts, to encourage youth participation in music, visual and performing arts in underserved communities. To launch the foundation, Bryan recorded a music single Dedicated, written and produced by his brother Brandon Scott.
In other popular culture
His brother, Brandon Scott, is a digital marketing executive with Ten Adams in Evansville, Indiana.
His cousin, Ryan Stewart, is a former defensive back with the Detroit Lions (1996–99) and current radio personality in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is the inspiration for the Twitter hashtag #allhedoesismakeplays, for his knack of making key plays during his playing time for the Buffalo Bills.
After football, Bryan became co-owner of Noene America, a company that manufactures and sells insoles. He appeared on the April 24, 2015, episode of the television show Shark Tank, and made a deal with Mark Cuban and Daymond John for them to become involved in the company. They offered and Scott accepted $200,000 for 30% equity in Noene USA.
Bryan is the owner of TITLE Boxing Club in Alpharetta, Georgia.
References
External links
Bryan Scott on Instagram
Bryan Scott on LinkedIn
Team BScott
Buffalo Bills bio
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The 1958–59 season was Colchester United's 17th season in their history and their ninth season in the third tier of English football, the newly formed national Third Division. Alongside competing in the Third Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup. Colchester reached the fourth round of the FA Cup, beating Bath City, Yeovil Town and Chesterfield on their way to meeting Arsenal. Drawn at home, Colchester held Arsenal to a 2–2 Layer Road draw, but were defeated 4–0 at Highbury in the replay. Colchester finished fifth in the Third Division, nine points shy of promotion.
Season overview
In the new national Third Division, Colchester excelled against their northern counterparts, winning 21 games, more than half of which were clubs previously in the Third Division North. Colchester finished the season in fifth position, just nine points away from Hull City in second place, and ten behind champions Plymouth Argyle. They also earned a club record win when they beat Stockport County 8–2 on 4 October, and a club record away win when they beat Yeovil Town 7–1.
The club's main highlight during the campaign was their FA Cup run, their first venture outside of the first round in six seasons. Colchester defeated old Southern League rivals Bath City and Yeovil Town in the first and second rounds, before seeing off Chesterfield to set up a fourth round tie with Arsenal. For the first time local police set a limit on crowd numbers at Layer Road for the Arsenal game with 16,000 witnessing the 2–2 draw. 62,686 people watched the replay at Highbury in thick fog as the Gunners ran out 4–0 winners.
Both big-money signings from last season, Neil Langman and John Evans, helped repay their transfer fees by scoring 27 and 16 goals respectively. Meanwhile, the proceeds from the Arsenal fixture meant that floodlighting could be installed at Layer Road for the first time.
Players
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In
Out
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Third Division
Results round by round
League table
Matches
FA Cup
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Appearances and goals
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Goalscorers
Clean sheets
Number of games goalkeepers kept a clean sheet.
Player debuts
Players making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.
See also
List of Colchester United F.C. seasons
References
General
Books
Websites
Specific
1958-59
English football clubs 1958–59 season |
Novodevichye () is a rural locality (a village) in Lipovskoye Rural Settlement, Kirillovsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 38 as of 2002.
Geography
Novodevichye is located 21 km northwest of Kirillov (the district's administrative centre) by road. Alexeyevskaya is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Kirillovsky District |
Andrew Merchant (born February 10, 1978), is a former American college baseball coach.
Head coaching record
Junior college
College
References
External links
Olivet profile
1978 births
Living people
Baseball pitchers
Alma Scots baseball players
Olivet Comets baseball coaches
Lansing Stars baseball coaches
Baseball players from Michigan |
The Pillory of Lisbon () is a pillory situated in the municipal square of the Portuguese capital (in the civil parish of Santa Maria Maior in the municipality of Lisbon), classified as a National Monument (Monumento Nacional).
History
The date of construction of Lisbon's first pillory is unknown, but was probably in or before 1179 following the granting of a charter to Lisbon by Afonso I of Portugal. The earliest written records date for that structure date to late 14th century. Later records place the pillory at various places in the city; but all traces of this and many other structures were destroyed in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.
On 31 August 1470, royal ordinance referred to affixing (notices) on the "local" pillory. The earliest record of this structure may have referred to a pillory located at the port customs house, referenced in documents during the reign of King John II.
By the 16th century, the primitive pillory (Pelourinho Velho) was situated in the Praça do Pelourinho, alongside the Rua Bela da Rainha (today the Rua da Prata). The probable construction of the new pillory occurred in 1619, in the Praça do Pelourinho Novo, alongside the river. In the urban plans of João Nunes Tinoco, dated to 1650, included the Praça do Pelourinho Velho and Praça do Pelourinho Novo.
On 8 April 1633, the municipal government debated the construction of a spring in the Praça do Pelourinho Velho, in order to improve the quantity and quality of water in the city. Sometime in the 17th century, the Senate approved the demolition of the pillory. The municipality later (1690) authorized (by the monarch) to construct homes along the river. On 16 December 1705, D. Luís Baltazar da Silveira solicited authorization to build a home on the site of the old pillory, in which he would pay 50$000 réis annually and donation to the city of 600$000 réis. The King approved the rental on 4 February 1706. On 20 November 1738, the municipal council consulted the King to afix the pillory, with the usual locals debated: the Ribeira, Terreiro do Paço, Remolares, Boavista and Confeitaria. Before the earthquake of 1755, the Largo do Pelourinho was located at the place where the last block of the Rua do Comércio is located, between the streets of Fanqueiros and Madalena. This border was delimited to the south by the Fernandine Wall and gave passage to the landfill of the Ribeira, through the Portas da Ribeira. Flanking this stood the customs house and "house of weights and measures", and the buildings that housed the Senate.
On 1 November 1755, the Lisbon earthquake destroyed both pillory and square. During the course of the reconstruction, by 1783, the Largo do Pelourinho was constructed (along the old Largo da Tanoaria, delineated by Eugénio dos Santos. The only local execution at the site occurred in 1790, when a cadet was executed for murdering his brother.
In 1808, during the course of the sack by French forces during the Peninsular War, Jean-Andoche Junot left the structure behind (although the General was interested in taking the structure) when they were expelled in 1808. The structure was vandalized in 1834, when the iron hooks (in the form of crosses) were removed (and had figured in early drawings of the structure in 1832). Civil authorities looked to an iron grate around the monument to protect the structure.
On 24 March 1886, the square became known as the Praça do Município.
In 1910, the Pillory of Lisbon was decreed to be a national monument of Portugal.
In 1968, a study was issued to analyze the protection of the pillory and establish a protection zone. This interest in preservation lead to an initiative by the DRCLisboa on 22 August 2006, to define a Special Protection Zone (ZPE) along with the Saint George's Castle and its fortifications, the Pombaline Downtown and several other properties surrounding the lower quarter. The National Council for Culture () proposed archiving the ZPE on 10 October 2011, which was supported on 18 October by IGESPAR which agreed that the area required better definition.
In the second half of the 20th century, the structure was cleaned and consolidated with iron framework.
Architecture
The pillory is located in the Pombeline urban area, implanted in the centre of a rectangular square, comprising a level platform decorated in triangular-shaped Portuguese pavement, circled by four roadways and buildings to the north and west (including the municipal council of Lisbon, the Church of São Julião and the Navy Arsenal.
It consists of an octagonal platform of five steps of limestone, which support a sculpted pillar of marble, which supports a metal armillary sphere. The pillar is monolithic; that is, it is carved from a single piece of stone. It consists of a quadrangular base, an elaborate onion-shaped portion, an open threefold stone helix, and an upper octagonal platform. At one time, it had an iron crosspiece with hooks, and was surrounded by an iron railing.
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Lieutenant General Jean Jacques Paradis CMM, CD (7 November 1928 – 31 August 2007) was the Commander, Mobile Command of the Canadian Forces.
Military career
Educated at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and the Université de Montréal, Paradis was commissioned the Royal 22e Régiment in 1950. He served in Korea and Germany and then became Commanding Officer of the 3e Bataillon in 1966.
He was made a Director at the Canadian Army Staff College in 1968 and appointed Commander of the 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group at Valcartier in 1972. He became Chief of Personnel in 1975 and Commander, Mobile Command in 1977.
In retirement he became Overseas Marketing Director at Industries Valcartier, a munitions business, and a Director of The Arches Foundation of Quebec, an organisation supporting the development of L'Arche communities in Quebec.
He died after a long illness on 31 August 2007.
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Charlestown () is a town in County Mayo, Ireland, on the N17 road near its junction with the N5.
History
Charlestown was built in the mid-19th century on the initiative of Lord Dillon's agent, Charles Strickland, adjoining Bellaghy in County Sligo. Including Bellaghy, the town has a population of approximately 1000.
There are two schools in Charlestown, St. Attracta's National School and St.Joseph's Community College.
The village was the subject of a serialised social commentary in The Irish Times by John Healy. This was later published as Death Of An Irish Town, and later republished as No One Shouted Stop! Written in 1967, it was highly critical of government policies towards rural areas, and took Charlestown as an example solely because it was the town of the author's birth.
Sport
Gaelic Football team Charlestown Sarsfields reached the All-Ireland club semi-final in 2001, losing out on a final spot by two points.
In 2012 the town's sporting offering was further complemented with the formation of Charlestown Amateur Boxing Club. The IABA affiliated club has since acquired numerous National and Provincial titles. Based in the old Cloonfane National School, Charlestown's boxers have been selected to represent Ireland internationally and County Mayo in inter-county competition.
Transport
Trains ran through Charlestown from 1895 to 1963. The village had a station on the GS&W line from Claremorris to Collooney, part of the Western Railway Corridor. Charlestown station opened on 1 October 1895, closed for passenger traffic on 17 June 1963, and finally closed altogether on 3 November 1975. But if the Western Rail Corridor reopens from Galway onto Sligo the train service could be restored in future.
Knock Airport is 5.6 miles southwest of Charlestown.
People
Charlestown was the home town of Irish Times and Western People journalist John Healy, who wrote a series of articles about the town which were later turned into a book, No One Shouted Stop. The owner of the Freeman's Journal, Irish Senator Martin FitzGerald, was born on Main Street, Charlestown. Michael O'Doherty, Archbishop of Manila, was born in Charlestown.
Charlestown is also the hometown of Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, which is tasked with the international containment and treatment of COVID-19.
Notable people
See also
List of towns and villages in Ireland
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N5 bypass opened November 2007
Charlestown Photo Archive
Towns and villages in County Mayo
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NNP may refer to:
Net National Product
New Nationalist Party, UK
New National Party of Grenada
New National Party (Netherlands)
New National Party (South Africa)
New Nationalist Party (Fiji) |
Tony Bartelme, an American journalist and author, is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. He has been a finalist for four Pulitzer Prizes.
Biography
Bartelme was born in 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Joe Bartelme, was an executive with NBC News until his death in 1991. Bartelme's mother, Margaret, is a teacher. Bartelme's son, Luke, played the character "TJ" on Lifetime's drama "Army Wives" for four seasons.
Bartelme began his journalism career at The Greenville (South Carolina) News-Piedmont after earning a bachelor of science degree in 1984 from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He has been with The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1990.
While with The Post and Courier, Bartelme was recognized for combining investigative reporting with magazine-style narratives on complex issues ranging from pension abuse to toxic algae blooms. In 2018, judges for the Society of Environmental Journalists award for beat reporting, said his “skill is evident as he dives deep time and again to deliver deftly-crafted, enterprising features on serious topics.”
Awards
In 2021, Columbia Journalism School awarded Bartelme its John Chancellor Award for Journalism Excellence, an honor presented to a journalist for his or her cumulative accomplishments. Judges cited a career of ground-breaking environmental and investigative stories that stretched the limits of what local newspapers offer their readers.
In 2020, Bartelme was part of a team of reporters that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for a climate change project called Rising Waters.
In 2019, Bartelme won the inaugural Victor K. McElheny Knight Science Journalism Award for a story about climate change and the Gulf Stream.
In 2018, Bartelme won the Gerald Loeb Award for Feature business journalism and American Society of News Editors Deborah Howell Award for a story about the demise of the Piggly Wiggly Carolina grocery chain.
In 2017, the American Geophysical Union awarded Bartelme its Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for "Every Other Breath," a series about climate change issues.
In 2017, the National Press Foundation awarded its Technology in Journalism Award for "Chasing Carbon," a story that was part of the "Every Other Breath" series.
In 2016, Bartelme was part of a reporting team that won a Scripps Howard Foundation award for community journalism about an investigation into police shootings in South Carolina.
In 2016, Bartelme was a member of a reporting team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for stories about the fatal shooting of Walter Scott.
In 2013, Bartelme's series about high insurance rates was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory writing and winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for non-deadline reporting for papers with circulations between 50,000 and 150,000.
In 2011, Bartelme was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for in Feature Writing, for his series about a neurosurgeon's work to teach brain surgery in Tanzania.
In 2011, Bartelme was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
In 2009, Bartelme won the National Press Association's Stokes Award for Best Energy Writing.
In 2008, Bartelme won the Gerald Loeb Award for Small Newspapers for a story about the effect of China's growth on local economies.
Bartelme won the 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors award for international perspective for newspapers under 150,000 circulation. Bartelme has won more than 50 South Carolina Press Association Awards, including Journalist of the Year.
Author
Bartelme has written or co-written four books:
A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa, 2017, Beacon Press. Title in Canada: Send Forth the Healing Sun: The Unexpected True Story About Teaching Brain Surgery in the African Bush, 2016, HarperCollins/Canada.
Second Chance: The Mark Sanford Story, 2013.
The Bridge Builders and Charleston's Grand New Span, with Jessica VanEgeren, 2005.
Into the Wind: The story of the world's longest race, with Brian Hicks, 1999.
He wrote the screenplay for Born to the Wind, a documentary narrated by Peter Fonda on the 1998-1999 Around Alone sailing race. The documentary won a Telly and Moscow Festival Special Award.
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Gerald Loeb Award winners for Feature
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A pack rat or packrat, also called a woodrat or trade rat, are any species in the North and Central American rodent genus Neotoma. Pack rats have a rat-like appearance, with long tails, large ears, and large, black eyes. Pack rats are noticeably larger than deer mice, harvest mice, and grasshopper mice, and are usually somewhat larger than cotton rats.
Species
Neotoma includes three subgenera:
Subgenus Neotoma
Neotoma albigula - white-throated woodrat
Neotoma albigula varia - Turner Island woodrat
Neotoma angustapalata - Tamaulipan woodrat
Neotoma bryanti - Bryant's woodrat
Neotoma bryanti anthonyi - Anthony's woodrat †
Neotoma bryanti bunkeri - Bunker's woodrat †
Neotoma bryanti martinensis - San Martín Island woodrat †
Neotoma chrysomelas - Nicaraguan woodrat
Neotoma devia - Arizona woodrat
Neotoma findleyi - Findley's woodrat †
Neotoma floridana - eastern woodrat (Florida woodrat)
Neotoma floridana smalli - Key Largo woodrat
Neotoma fuscipes - dusky-footed woodrat
Neotoma goldmani - Goldman's woodrat
Neotoma insularis - Angel de la Guarda woodrat
Neotoma lepida - desert woodrat
Neotoma leucodon - white-toothed woodrat
Neotoma macrotis - big-eared woodrat
Neotoma magister - Allegheny woodrat
Neotoma melanura
Neotoma mexicana - Mexican woodrat
Neotoma micropus - Southern Plains woodrat
Neotoma nelsoni - Nelson's woodrat
Neotoma palatina - Bolaños woodrat
Neotoma stephensi - Stephens' woodrat
Subgenus Teanopus
Neotoma phenax - Sonoran woodrat
Subgenus Teonoma
Neotoma cinerea - bushy-tailed woodrat
Daggers mark extinct species.
Physical Appearance
Packrats typically have wide eyes accompanied with long whiskers. They have large ears that extend outwards. In terms of size, they resemble Norway rats. They grow to be approximately 30 cm long, with their tails making up about 50% of their size. Long-haired pack rats specifically have tails that are adequately furry and are physically compared to the tails of short-haired squirrels. In general, Pack Rats backs are notably a hybrid hue of brown and grey, but their underbelly tends to be a lighter shade.
Range and distribution
Woodrats reach their greatest diversity in the deserts of the western United States and northern Mexico. Several species are also found in the deciduous forest of the east coast, juniper woodlands in the southwest, oak woodlands along the coastal western United States and in the Sonoran Desert, and in the forest and rocky habitats of the western United States and western Canada.
Habitat
Each species of pack rat is generally restricted to a given type of habitat within its range. Pack rats live anywhere from low, hot, dry deserts to cold, rocky slopes above timberline.
Pack rats build complex houses or dens made of twigs, cactus joints, and other materials. These contain several nest chambers, food caches, and debris piles. Dens are often built in small caves or rocky crevices, but when close by human habitations, woodrats will opportunistically move into the attics and walls of houses. Some Neotoma species, such as the white-throated woodrat (N. albigula), use the bases of prickly pear or cholla cactus as the sites for their homes, using the cactus' spines for protection from predators. Others, like the desert woodrat (N. lepida) will build dens around the base of a yucca or cactus, such as jumping and teddy-bear chollas. The largest species, Neotoma cinerea, has a bushy, almost squirrel-like tail.
Bushy-tailed woodrats Neotoma cinerea occupy a range of habitats from boreal woodlands to deserts. They are cliff-dwellers and are often found on isolated, high-elevation exposed boulder areas under a variety of temperature and moisture conditions. They require adequate shelter among the rocks, though they are occasionally found inhabiting abandoned buildings as well.
Characteristics
Behavior
Pack rats are nest builders. They use plant material such as twigs, sticks, and other available debris. They are particularly fond of shiny objects. A peculiar characteristic is that if they find something they want, they will drop what they are currently carrying—for example, a piece of cactus—and "trade" it for the new item. They can also be quite vocal and boisterous. Getting into everything from attics to car engines, stealing their treasures from humans, damaging electrical wiring, and creating general noisy havoc can easily cause them to become a nuisance.
Diet
Bushy-tailed woodrats feed primarily on green vegetation, twigs, and shoots. Mexican woodrats eat seeds, fruits, acorns, and cactus. The pack rat microbiome has symbiotic roles in digestion, recycling endogenous nitrogen, and the detoxification of dietary toxins. The bacterial composition of the pack rat’s gut microbiome is affected by what it eats, and by association, the geography of where the animal is from. However, while the bacterial composition of the pack rat microbiome is influenced by diet and geography, it is the animals’ genetics that has the most influential role on bacterial composition.
Size
Adult bushy-tailed woodrat males usually weigh , with an average of , and adult females usually weigh , with an average of . These ranges are relatively large because this species occupies a large geographic range, and its body size is closely correlated with climate. Average males range in size from , with the average being , and average females range from , with the average being .
Reproduction and life history
Reproductive habits of rodents are variable in the wild. Offspring are born naked and helpless and must be cared for in nests called middens. Some female pack rats have been known to deliver up to five litters per year with each litter having as many as five young. The offspring may open their eyes between 10 and 12 days after being born and are usually weaned between 14 and 42 days. After around 60 days, most become sexually mature. Populations may cycle approximately every 8 years due to variation in reproduction and juvenile survival. Female annual survival rates vary by age from 0.42 for juveniles to 0.71 for 1–2 year olds, and very few females (less than 5%) live beyond 3 years of age.
Midden
A pack rat midden is a debris pile constructed by a woodrat. A midden may preserve the materials incorporated into it for up to 50,000 years, thus may be analyzed to reconstruct their original environment, and comparisons between middens allow a record of vegetative and climate change to be built. Examinations and comparisons of pack rat middens have largely supplanted pollen records as a method of study in the regions where they are available.
In the absence of rock crevices or caves, the dens are often built under trees or bushes. The pack rats will also use plant fragments, animal dung, and small rocks in building the den. The vast majority of the materials will be from a radius of several dozen yards of the nest. Woodrats often urinate on the debris piles; sugar and other substances in the urine crystallize as it dries out, creating a material known as amberat, which under some conditions can cement the midden together, and can encase plant fragments, pellets and other debris in an amber-like matrix. The resilience of the middens is aided by three factors. The crystallized urine dramatically slows the decay of the materials in the midden; the dry climate of the American Southwest further slows the decay; and middens protected from the elements under rock overhangs or in caves survive longer.
Climate indicators
Zoologists examine the remains of animals in middens to get a sense of the fauna in the neighborhood of the midden, while paleobotanists can reconstruct the vegetation that grew nearby. Middens are considered reliable "time capsules" of natural life, centuries and millennia after they occurred. Woodrat middens are composed of many things, including plants, macrofossils, and fecal pellets.
Paleo-ecologists have used a variety of techniques to analyze the plant and animal material in pack rat middens describe paleo-communities and infer paleo-climate. For example, the plant species present in middens, and the carbon isotope ratios on material in middens have been widely studied. The analysis of middens was key in understanding the biota around Pueblo Bonito, thus helping to explain its history.
One form of midden analysis examined the size of fecal pellets in pack rat middens. The size of woodrat pellet is proportional to the size of the woodrat. By measuring the pellets, the approximate size of the woodrat was determined based on data from a study of field-trapped woodrats. From Bergmann’s rule, differences in climate then can be determined. According to Bergmann’s rule, the body size of vertebrates is closely related to the average ambient air temperature in the region in which the vertebrate lives, so organisms in warmer regions are typically smaller than members of the same species in colder regions.
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Further reading
Betancourt, Julio L., Thomas R. Van Devender, and Paul S. Martin, eds. Packrat Middens: The Last 40,000 Years of Biotic Change, University of Arizona Press, 1990, .
Duff, A. and A. Lawson. 2004. Mammals of the World A Checklist. New Haven, Yale University Press.
Kays, R. W., and D. E. Wilson. 2002. Mammals of North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 240 pp.
Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Ord, G., 1815. Zoology of North America, in Guthrie's Geography, 2nd American edition, pp. 291–361. [reprint Rhoads, S.N. Philadelphia, 1894], p. 292.
Ulev, Elena 2007. Neotoma cinerea. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). Available: http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/ [2011, February 25].
Linsdale, J. M., and L. P. Tevis. 1951. The dusky-footed wood rat. Records made on Hastings Natural History Reservation. Berkeley, California. pp 675 .
Burt, W. H., and R. P. Grossenheider. 1976. A field guide to the mammals, 3d ed. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. pp 289.
Schwartz, C. W., and E. R. Schwartz. 1981. The wild mammals of Missouri, rev. ed. Univ. Missouri Press, Columbia. pp 356.
External links
"Desert Woodrats" at DesertUSA.com
"Packrat Piles: Rodent rubbish provides ice age thermometer", Science News, 24 September 2005
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Taxa named by George Ord |
Khasia ("from Antin Khasa") is a fossil genus of marsupial in the family Microbiotheriidae. It contains one known species, Khasia cordillerensis, which is known from teeth found in the Santa Lucia Formation of Mizque, Bolivia, where it lived alongside the sparassodonts Allqokirus, Mayulestes and Pucadelphys.
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Danian genera
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Vauhini Vara is a Canadian and American journalist and author. She has written and edited for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. Her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Early life and education
Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Vauhini Vara was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, and in Edmond, Oklahoma and Seattle, Washington in the United States. After graduating from Stanford University in 2004, she became a technology reporter for the The Wall Street Journal. In 2008 she took a leave of absence from the WSJ to attend the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She graduated with her MFA in 2010 and then returned to the WSJ for the next three years.
Career
Vara was a technology reporter at the Wall Street Journal for almost ten years, covering Silicon Valley and California politics. In 2013, she left the Wall Street Journal to work at the New Yorker’s website. She has also published articles in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, Fast Company, Businessweek, WIRED, and elsewhere.
Vara is a recipient of the O. Henry Award for her fiction writing, and has published stories in Tin House, ZYZZYVA, and other publications. In 2021, she wrote the viral piece "Ghosts," a nine-part essay about losing her older sister to cancer, using an early model of the AI that would become Chat GPT. Her novel, The Immortal King Rao, was published in 2022.
Vara is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University for 2023-24.
In 2015, Vara received the O. Henry Award for her story I, Buffalo. Her fiction writing has also received honors from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo.
Her debut novel, The Immortal King Rao, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics’ Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. In India, the novel won the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize and the Times of India AutHer Award.
Personal life
Vara is on the board of the Krishna D. Vara Foundation. She lives in Colorado with her husband Andrew Foster Altschul. They have one son.
Bibliography
The Immortal King Rao (2022)
This is Salvaged (2023)
References
External links
Official website
http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/vauhini-vara
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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The Wall Street Journal people
American reporters and correspondents
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Qeshlaq-e Quinak (, also Romanized as Qeshlāq-e Qū’īnak; also known as Qū’īnak) is a village in Behnampazuki-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Varamin County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,653, in 631 families.
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Populated places in Varamin County |
Azadeh Elmizadeh (born 1987) is a visual artist currently based in Toronto.
Career
Elmizadeh's practice focuses on painting and collage, drawing inspiration from Sufi cosmologies and Persian miniature painting. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art in Visual Communication and Graphic Design from the University of Tehran (2010), a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ontario College of Art and Design in Drawing and Painting (2016), and a Master of Fine Art from the University of Guelph (2020). Elmizadeh has exhibited in solo and two-person exhibitions at the Tube Culture Hall in Milan, Italy (2023), the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge, Canada (2022), and the Franz Kaka in Toronto, Canada (2022). Notable group shows include Now I am a lake at Public Gallery in London, United Kingdom (2022), Crossings: Itineraries of Encounter at The Blackwood in Mississauga, Canada (2022), and Holding a line in your hand at Kamloops Art Gallery in Kamloops, Canada (2021). She was also awarded the Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting in 2020.
Selected exhibitions
Solo and two-person exhibitions
Madame, Madame (w. Laura Berger), Tube Culture Hall, Milan, IT (curated by Domenico de Chirico) (2023)
Sister Seeds, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (2023)
Soft Smoke (w. Ella Gonzales) Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, CA (2022)
Subtle Bodies, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (2020)
Group exhibitions
Forward from wherever you are, Europa, New York, NY (2023)
Crossings: Itineraries of Encounter, The Blackwood, Mississauga, CA (curated by Noor Bhangu) (2022)
Now I am a lake, Public Gallery, London, UK (curated by Rose Nestler) (2022)
Halcyon and On and On, Franz Kaka, Toronto, CA (2021)
Holding a line in your hand, Kamloops Art Gallery, CA (curated by Charo Neville) (2021)
Preface, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, CA (2019)
Cognizance, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, CA (2019)
New Energy, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, CA (2018)
Faraway, So Close, 26 Art Space, Toronto, CA (2017)
Why the &%#! Do You Paint? All the Colour, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CA (2017)
Why the &%#! Do You Paint? Go Figure, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CA (2016)
Walnut Studios, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto, CA (2016)
OCADU 101TH GradeEx, Toronto, CA (2016)
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1987 births
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Major Nicolae Dabija (born April 13 or 18, 1907; died October 28, 1949), knight of Order of Michael the Brave, was an officer of the Romanian Royal Army and a member of the anticommunist armed resistance in Romania. He was the leader of the "National Defense Front–The Haiduc Corps" resistance group in the Apuseni Mountains.
Early life
Nicolae Dabija was born in April 1907 in Galați, in the historical region of Moldavia, eastern Romania. (Some sources claim he was a cousin of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.) His father, a carpenter, died when he was 9 years old, and he was raised in poverty. After starting his studies at Vasile Alecsandri High School, he dropped out at age 15 and became employed at a local bank. In 1926 he voluntarily enlisted into the Romanian Army, at the 13th Dorobanți Regiment in Iași. Encouraged by his superiors, he enrolled in the local Military High School for a year, after which he went to the Military School for Infantry Officers in Sibiu, graduating in 1929.
Service in World War II
In May 1941 he was awarded the Order of the Crown, Knight rank. Soon after, on June 22, Romania joined Operation Barbarossa in order to reclaim the lost territories of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, which had been annexed by the Soviet Union in June 1940. Dabija served as an officer in the Romanian Land Forces, participating in the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. On October 15, 1941, Captain Dabija was sent to the Eastern Front in command of the 5th Company/38th Infantry Regiment from the 10th Infantry Division. In February 1942 he took part in the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, where his company helped stop a Soviet landing at Ossereyka; for his actions in this battle he was awarded the Order of Michael the Brave, 3rd class with spades, and the German Cross in Gold. He further distinguished himself at the Battle of the Caucasus and during the Crimean offensive in 1943–44. Promoted to Major, he was wounded twice, and finally evacuated back to Romania. In October 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Officer rank for feats of arms on the battlefield.
The National Defense Front
At the end of the war, in June 1945, Dabija was awarded by royal decree for a second time the Order of Michael the Brave, 3rd class. In July 1946 he retired from the army. In view of the royal awards he had earned, Dabija was given of land near Aradul Nou, where he settled together with his wife. According to historian Dorin Dobrincu, he went into hiding, fearing arrest as the Soviets occupying Romania deemed him a war criminal for his participation in the war against the Soviet Union. Liviu Pleșa, however, notes that his decision to join the anti-communist movement was prompted by the arrest of his brother (who was incarcerated at Jilava Prison) and his denunciation by local communists after a dispute over statements he had made in opposition to the regime.
In February 1948, Dabija met the brothers Traian, Alexandru, Viorel, and Nicolae Macavei, the nephews of Ștefan Cicio Pop. The Macaveis were wanted for gold smuggling, having killed two gendarmes and wounded four others. Together with them, he formed and armed group called the "National Defense Front", sometimes also known as the "Haiduc Corps". He issued a proclamation against the “Jewish–Communist clique”, calling for freedom, independence, and respect for human rights. Convinced that a new world war would soon break out between the Americans and the Soviets (Vin americanii!), Dabija reached out in May 1948 to the United States authorities through several intermediaries, offering help with military actions to liberate Romania, only to be rebuffed. He developed a plan aiming at an armed insurrection in 1949, when the US–Soviet war was expected to begin. The goal was to occupy government institutions, armament and ammunition depots, as well as strategic points, such as the defiles of the rivers Mureș, Someș, Olt, Prahova, and Dorna. Dabija's group created and spread anticommunist fliers and set up an information network in Bucharest.
The National Defense Front started recruiting sympathizers in the Apuseni Mountains, in the Roșia Montană–Zlatna gold-mining area. The organization operated on the eastern flank of the Apuseni Mountains, around (the "Great Mountain"), near Bistra and Câmpeni. In the fall of 1948, a resistance group settled on the mountain, where they built a fortified shelter (a "casemate"); supporting groups were set up, with a network of sympathizers providing information about the authorities’ actions. On December 22, 1948, resistants from this group, armed with a rifle and handguns, robbed the Tax Office in Teiuș of some 300,000 leis, from which they later procured more arms and a typewriter.
Arrest and execution
The Romanian authorities learned about the location of Dabija after arresting a partisan fighter, Traian Ihuț, who revealed the location of his group on Muntele Mare and their strength. Immediately after, on March 4, 1949, a detachment of 80 Securitate troops from Cluj led by Colonel Mihai Patriciu charged the peak where the fighters were located, with a gunfight and later hand-to-hand combat occurring. Eleven anticommunist fighters were killed, but Dabija and two others managed to escape; the Securitate forces suffered three deaths and three others wounded. His wife, Flavia, was reportedly killed during the firefight. By some accounts, this was the biggest battle between an anti-communist resistance group and the Securitate.
Dabija was arrested on March 22, 1949 in Gârde, after a local villager, whose barn he was sleeping in, notified the communist authorities of his presence. All partisans and their aides were captured. They were subject to interrogation in Turda, Bucharest, and Sibiu. Later they were tried and convicted through sentence no. 816 of October 4, 1949 of the Military Tribunal of Sibiu. In the early hours October 28, 1949, seven members of the group (Titus Onea, Ioan Scridon, Gheorghe Oprița, Traian Mihălțan, Augustin Rațiu, Silvestru Bolfea, and Nicolae Dabija) were executed at the Reformed cemetery in Sibiu by firing squad. Just before being shot, Dabija exclaimed, "Long Live Romania!" The bodies of the executed were thrown in a common grave in Dumbrava Sibiului. The execution was supervised by the director of the Sibiu branch of the Securitate, lieutenant colonel ; he sent a report the next day to colonel Mișu Dulgheru, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs's penal investigation unit.
In 2004, the remains of Dabija and the 6 other executed partisans were identified and properly re-buried at the Sibiu Municipal Cemetery, and a monument dedicated to the "Anti-communist fighters – Major Nicolae Dabija group" was erected on the spot. In 2010, a team of investigators from the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania led by Marius Oprea found the casemate built by Dabija's partisans on Muntele Mare, as well as the remains of 5 of the fighters killed by the Securitate troops who stormed their compound in 1949.
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People from Galați
Romanian military personnel of World War II
Knights of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
Officers of the Order of the Star of Romania
Recipients of the Order of Michael the Brave
Recipients of the Gold German Cross
Members of the Romanian anti-communist resistance movement
Romanian dissidents
Romanian outlaws
Romanian guerrillas
Robberies in Romania
People executed by the Socialist Republic of Romania
People executed by Romania by firing squad
Executed Romanian collaborators with Nazi Germany
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Nafi Tuitavake (born 21 January 1989) is a New Zealand Rugby union player who plays for the Vodacom Blue Bulls in the Super rugby competition. He is the younger brother of former All Black winger Anthony Tuitavake.
He was named in the Crusaders five-man wider training group for 2014.
On 21 September 2016, Nafi sign professional contract with English club Northampton Saints in the Aviva Premiership from the 2016–17 season.
Tuitavake made some good appearances in Saints' second side the Northampton Wanderers, before being drafted into the first team as the wider squad suffered with injuries. The Tonga centre thrived and secured a place in the first team quickly and most recently helped his side secure European Champions Cup rugby for the 2017/18 season as the side beat Stade Francais by just one point.
Tuitavake will travel with Tonga for their 2017 summer internationals, battling with fellow Pacific Island nations, and Saints teammates, for a Rugby World Cup qualification for the 2019 competition. At the end of the 2018/19 season, Tuitivake was released by the Northampton Saints.
He gained selection to the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan and made just one appearance, against England, before being sent home with a fractured arm.
Career highlights
North Harbour ITM CUP 2010
New Zealand U20 2009
New Zealand Sevens 2008
North Harbour U21 2007
North Harbour U19 2006
North Harbour U16 2005
References
New Zealand sportspeople of Tongan descent
New Zealand rugby union players
North Harbour rugby union players
SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne players
Crusaders (rugby union) players
1989 births
Living people
People educated at Massey High School
Rugby union players from Auckland
Rugby union wings
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New Zealand expatriates in France
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Tonga international rugby union players
Northampton Saints players
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2019 Rugby World Cup players |
The Pacuneiro River is a river of Mato Grosso state in western Brazil.
See also
List of rivers of Mato Grosso
References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport
Rivers of Mato Grosso |
The Peugeot Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour that was played in Spain from 2004 to 2006.
Winners
References
External links
Coverage on the Challenge Tour's official site
Former Challenge Tour events
Golf tournaments in Spain |
James Hadley Snyder, known professionally as Dan Green, is an American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter. He is best known for being the voice of Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, the anime series version of Yu-Gi-Oh!, as well as all of the character's U.S. series appearances.
Early life
Green attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Career
Green is best known as the voice of Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Trudge in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, and Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic X and the Sonic the Hedgehog video games (2005–2010). He has worked for 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video, NYAV Post, TAJ Productions and Central Park Media. He has also worked on script adaptations of Kurokami: The Animation and Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, and teaches voice acting at Edge Studio in New York City.
Personal life
Green married singer and voice actress Michal Lura Friedman, better known as Michal the Girl, in 2008. While giving birth to twins (a son named Jackson and a daughter named Reverie) on November 25, 2011, Friedman died from complications following a C-section. Fans began charity efforts to provide financial support for the twins.
Filmography
Anime film
Anime
Akudama Drive - Headmaster (ep. 7)
Descendants of Darkness - Asato Tsuzuki
Dinosaur King - Jonathan
G.I. Joe Sigma 6 - Lt. Stone
Patlbor: The TV Series - Fujioka, Asuma Shinohara
The King of Braves GaoGaiGar - Koutaro Taiga
Kirby: Right Back at Ya! - N.M.E. Sales Guy, Whispy Woods
The Legend of Snow White - Prince Richard (episodes 17-52)
One Piece - Johnny, Mr. 4, Nezumi, Narrator (4Kids)
Pokémon - Professor Birch, Treecko, Lombre, Spiritomb
Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns - Mewtwo
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time & Darkness - Grovyle
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky - Beyond Time & Darkness - Grovyle
Revolutionary Girl Utena - Soji Mikage
Shaman King (2001) - Silva, Lee Pai-Long, Zen, Ramiro, Savage Dan
Shaman King (2021) - Lee Pyron, Silva, Patch Hao
Sonic X - Knuckles the Echidna
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds - Tetsu Trudge, Guard Robot
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL - Tombo Tillbitty
Animation
Angel's Friends - Gas
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted - Colossus
The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Bear - Father Bear
Chaotic - Mezzmarr, Tangath Toborn, Codemaster Imthor and Tartarek
Huntik: Secrets & Seekers - Montehue, Clease, Zan-Tanos, Lord Casterwill, The Oracle
GoGoRiki - Pogoriki (4Kids dub)
Hammerboy - Moonk
The Incredible Crash Dummies - Crash (4Kids dub)
Kappa Mikey - Additional Voices
Pat & Stan - Pat
Polar Krush - PK The Polar Bear, Gordon the Gorilla, Maurice the Mammoth
Robotomy - Additional Voices
Stickin' Around - Additional Voices
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) - Mortu, Commander Mozar, Mephos, The Professor
Thumb Wrestling Federation - Ring Announcer, Corbata, Tom Cat, Snagglefangs, Sick Vick
Viva Piñata - Hudson Horstachio, King Roario
Vampirina - Boris
Winx Club - Sky, Pegataur elder (4Kids dub), Ice Guardian/Spirit
Animation film
Gladiformers - Patrion Tokal
The Little Panda Fighter - Pancada
Ratatoing - Carlos
Turtles Forever - Leonardo (1987)
Doraemon: The Record of Nobita's Spaceblazer - Uno (2009)
Live-action
Beautiful Hunter - Man 7
The Bondage Master - Shiro
Cutie Honey - Black Claw
Close Your Eyes and Hold Me - Amane
Exte: Hair Extensions - Kiyomi's Boyfriend
The Machine Girl - Yusuke
Magic in the Water - Radar
Naughty Guide to Tokyo Nightlife - Tsuruta
Scorpion's Revenge - Jimmy Yoshioka
Zero Woman: The Accused - Detective
Video games
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale - Professor
Shaman King video games - Silva, Lee Pai-Long
Shaman King: Power of Spirit - Ashcroft, Homunculus, Mysterious Mask
Shaman King: Master of Spirits - Store Clerk
Shaman King: Master of Spirits 2 - Store Clerk
Sonic the Hedgehog series – Knuckles the Echidna (2005–10)
Shadow the Hedgehog Sonic Riders Sonic '06 - also played Mephiles the Dark
Sonic Rivals Sonic and the Secret Rings - Sinbad the Sailor
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Sonic Rivals 2 Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity Sonic and the Black Knight - Sir Gawain
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video games - Mortu, Commander Mozar (uncredited)
Battle Nexus Mutant Nightmare The Bureau: XCOM Declassified - Dr. Scott, Major Nigrosh
Ultimate Muscle: Legends vs. New Generation - Robin Mask, Buffaloman, Warsman
Yu-Gi-Oh! video games - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters Coliseum - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Duel Terminals - Trudge
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi, Officer Tetsu Trudge
Power of Chaos: Yugi the Destiny Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction - Yugi Muto/Yami Yugi
Production credits
Dubbing director
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted Iron Man: Extremis Jungle Emperor Leo (co-directed with Michael Sinterniklaas)
Knight Hunters Eternity Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (co-directed with Michael Sinterniklaas and Marc Diraison)
Phoenix Samurai Deeper Kyo Shura no Toki: Age of Chaos The GokusenScript adaptation
Domain of Murder Knight Hunters Eternity Kurokami: The Animation (co-written with Marc Diraison)
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (co-written with Michael Sinterniklaas and Stephanie Sheh)
Phoenix Queen's Blade Revolutionary Girl Utena Seven of Seven Shura no Toki: Age of ChaosMiscellaneous crew
G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 (co-executive producer)
Iron Man: Extremis'' (casting director, audio producer)
Notes
References
External links
Living people
American casting directors
American male screenwriters
American male television writers
American male video game actors
American male voice actors
American television writers
Juilliard School alumni
People from San Rafael, California
Rutgers University alumni
Screenwriters from California
American voice directors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
Knud Gleerup (1 December 1884 – 17 October 1960) was a Danish sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
References
1884 births
1960 deaths
20th-century Danish sculptors
Male sculptors
Olympic competitors in art competitions
Sculptors from Copenhagen
Danish male artists
20th-century Danish male artists |
Bland Shire is a local government area in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. it covers an area of . As at the the population was 5,995. It is a member of the League of Extraordinary Communities which was established by Dull, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK and Boring, Oregon, USA.
The major economic activities of the shire are agriculture, mining, transport, tourism and wholesale distribution.
History
The farm community of Bland Shire was a former gold prospecting site in the Riverina region, centred on West Wyalong.
The shire was named in honour of William Bland.
Location and settlements
Bland Shire is located on the boundary between the central west and Riverina regions. The area is adjacent to the Newell and Mid-Western highways.
The largest town and council seat is West Wyalong. The region also includes the towns of Wyalong, Barmedman, Tallimba, Ungarie, Weethalle and Mirrool. The major economic activities of the shire are agriculture, mining, transport, tourism and wholesale distribution.
Twin towns
In 2013, the community joined Dull in Perthshire, Scotland and Boring in Oregon, USA to create a "League of Extraordinary Communities" to group Dull, Boring and Bland as a means of encouraging travel, promoting all three communities.
Climate
Average annual rainfall is . Average temperature are: maximum , minimum . The prevailing wind direction is north east in the morning and south west in the afternoon and evening, with predominantly calm conditions.
Topography, flora and fauna, and geology
Topography is generally undulating or flat, with the altitude ranging from .
Main tree species include: kurrajong, cypress pine, mallee, box, ironbark, belah and wilga. Native pasture plants include: wallaby grasses, Queensland blue grass and plains and wire grass. Native fauna include: water fowl, red and grey kangaroos, echidnas, goannas, possums, bats and mallee fowls.
Soil are predominantly clay with some granite soil and red brown earth, mostly neutral in pH.
Council
Current composition and election method
Bland Shire Council is composed of nine councillors elected proportionally as a single ward. All councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is elected by the councillors at the first meeting of the council. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and the make-up of the council is as follows:
The current Council, elected in 2021, in order of election, is:
Demographics
References
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Local government areas of New South Wales
Newell Highway |
In Greek mythology, Asbolus (Ancient Greek: Ἄσβολον or Ἄσβόλη means "sooty" or "carbon dust") was a centaur. He was a seer and Hesiod calls him an augur (oionistes οἰωνιστής) who read omens in the flight of birds.
Mythology
Asbolus foresaw the Centaurs' battle against the Lapiths at Pirithous' wedding, and unsuccessfully attempted to prevent them from attending.
The above is mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses,
He appears again when Heracles came to visit the centaur Pholus. Pholus opened a jug of wine for him which belonged to all the Centaurs; Asbolus saw Pholus do this and brought the other Centaurs, who, as it was proved by Pirithous' wedding, were unused to the drink. It resulted in a bloodbath in which Pholus and Chiron, as well as Nessus, met their deaths at Heracles' hands. It is said that Asbolus himself was crucified by Heracles' arrows.
Namesake
Asbolus' name was given to 8405 Asbolus, a minor planet in the outer Solar System. It belongs to the class of centaurs, whose orbits lie between Jupiter and Neptune.
Notes
References
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book V-VI translated by Konstantinos Ramiotis from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com.
Centaurs
Characters in Greek mythology |
The 1937 Grand Prix season was the fifth AIACR European Championship season. The championship was won by Rudolf Caracciola, driving for the Mercedes-Benz team. Caracciola won three of the five events that counted towards the championship.
This season saw the most powerful Grand Prix cars so far, Mercedes-Benz supercharged 5.6L inline-8 engines boasting nearly 650 bhp. Considering that an average saloon car produced around 25 bhp at the time, the performance of these single-seaters was extremely high compared with any other season in modern motorsport; so much so that for the first time ever, regulations were put in force for the following year to limit the engines' size capacity to reduce their power and to add weight to the cars to make them slower. Mercedes-Benz's development of their technology was thanks almost entirely to the state-subsidies that they were receiving from the Nazi German government at the time. The amount of power the supercharged Mercedes-Benz W125's had was not equaled in racing cars until American Can-Am cars in the late 1960s, and European Grand Prix cars did not have this kind of power again until the early 1980s (a span of nearly 45 years), when Grand Prix racing had long since become Formula One.
Season review
European Championship Grands Prix
Non-championship Grands Prix
Championship final standings
References
Grand Prix seasons |
Hermann Weiland (born 16 November 1949) is a German born Olympic equestrian of Croatia. He competed for Croatia at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the individual jumping event with horse Dufy 2. He finished 72nd with 52 jumping penalties.
References
Equestrians at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Croatian male equestrians
1949 births
Olympic equestrians for Croatia
Living people |
The 2015 season was Stabæk's second season back in the Tippeligaen following their relegation in 2012, their 19th season in the top flight of Norwegian football and their second season with Bob Bradley as their manager. Stabæk finished the season in third place, qualifying for the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round. Stabæk also reached the Semifinals of the Norwegian Cup, where they were defeated by Rosenborg in extra time.
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Out on loan
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Transfers
Winter
In:
Out:
Summer
In:
Out:
Friendlies
Simple Invitational
Competitions
Tippeligaen
Results summary
Results by round
Results
Table
Norwegian Cup
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Appearances and goals
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Disciplinary record
References
Stabæk Fotball seasons
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Robert Derrell Griffith (born December 12, 1943) is an American former professional baseball player. The outfielder and third baseman appeared in 124 games played in Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers over parts of four seasons (–). Griffith was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as tall and .
Griffith graduated from high school in his hometown and attended Southwestern Oklahoma State University. He signed with the Dodgers before the season and posted solid offensive statistics in levels from Class B to Triple-A. After a one-game stint with Los Angeles in September , he was recalled by the Dodgers for an extended stay in MLB in June . He started 35 games at third base and another 27 in the outfield for the 1964 Dodgers and batted .290 with five three-hit games. His 69 total hits included 16 doubles and four home runs.
But 1964 was Griffith's only sustained service and period of success in the majors. In , he was moved to left field in May when regular Tommy Davis broke an ankle. Griffith was batting .133 in nine games started when he lost the regular job to Lou Johnson and he returned to Triple-A for the heart of the regular season. Then, in , he sustained a shoulder injury that hindered him for the rest of his career. Griffith kept the injury a secret for almost 50 years until revealing it in an interview on an Oklahoma City television station in May 2015. He collected only one more major league hit in 1966 before returning to the minors.
The Dodgers then packaged Griffith (with Tommy Davis) in a four-player trade to the New York Mets after the 1966 season, but he failed to stick with the Mets, and spent 1967, his last year in pro ball, in the minors in the Houston Astros' and Atlanta Braves' organizations.
As a major leaguer, Griffith collected 77 career hits, batting .260 with five homers and 33 runs batted in. As of 2015, he owned and operated a liquor store in Anadarko.
References
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1943 births
Living people
Albuquerque Dukes players
Arizona Instructional League Dodgers players
Austin Braves players
Baseball players from Oklahoma
Great Falls Electrics players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Major League Baseball third basemen
Oklahoma City 89ers players
People from Anadarko, Oklahoma
Richmond Braves players
Spokane Indians players |
Vitautis Casimirus Tamulis (July 11, 1911 – May 5, 1974) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies and Brooklyn Dodgers from 1934 to 1941.
Biography
A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts of Lithuanian descent, Tamulis attended The English High School, where he led the school's baseball team to the 1930 Boston city championship. While still in high school in 1929, he played for the Osterville and Hyannis teams in the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Tamulis was signed by the New York Yankees as an 18-year-old, and began his professional baseball career in 1930 with the Chambersburg Young Yanks of the Blue Ridge League. He worked his way through the minor league system, and was called up by New York late in the 1934 season. Tamulis made his major league debut on September 25, getting the start on the mound for the Yankees against the Philadelphia A's at Shibe Park. The A's countered with hurler Joe Cascarella, and featured a lineup that included Baseball Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx batting cleanup. Tamulis pitched brilliantly, tossing a complete-game shutout, scattering seven hits (two to Foxx), and striking out five. Yankees Hall of Fame slugger Lou Gehrig homered, and Tamulis himself singled and scored on Red Rolfe's triple. New York came away with a 5–0 win in Tamulis' only appearance of the season.
Tamulis became a Yankee regular in 1935, posting a 10–5 record with a 4.09 ERA over 160.2 innings. Highlights of his 1935 season included a complete-game shutout of the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium on May 16, and a 10-inning complete game performance in a hard-luck 2–1 loss to the St. Louis Browns in the second game of a doubleheader in the Bronx on July 21, with Tamulis yielding the game-winning homer to Moose Solters in the 10th. Tamulis himself clouted his only major league four-bagger on June 11, a two-run homer off Browns hurler Russ Van Atta at Sportsman's Park. Tamulis had three RBI on the day, and went the distance on the mound in the Yankees' 9–3 victory.
After the 1935 season, Tamulis was weakened by a prolonged bout of pleurisy, and as a result spent the 1936 and 1937 seasons with the Newark Bears of the International League. After the 1937 season, he was traded to the St. Louis Browns for Harry Davis. Tamulis appeared in only three games for the Browns early in their 1938 season, taking losses in all three appearances with a 7.63 ERA.
He was claimed off waivers by the Brooklyn Dodgers, and turned his season around, posting a 12–6 record in 159.2 innings with a 3.83 ERA for the 1938 Dodgers. He appeared in 39 games for Brooklyn in 1939, and 41 games in 1940. After the 1940 season, the Dodgers traded Tamulis to the Philadelphia Phillies, who traded him back to the Dodgers after six lackluster performances early in the 1941 season. He appeared in 12 more games for the Dodgers that season, before being shipped off to the Nashville Volunteers of the Southern Association in July. He never made another big-league appearance.
Tamulis posted an impressive 20–8 record for Nashville in 1942, and entered military service after the season. With World War II over, Tamulis returned to Nashville for the 1946 season, and in 1948 became player-manager of the Hopkinsville Hoppers of the Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League, posting a 17–3 record on the mound in 1948. His last playing season for the Hoppers was 1951. At Hopkinsville, Tamulis was particularly renowned for his Eephus pitch, which he had used with success in the big leagues against sluggers such as Johnny Mize.
Tamulis remained in the Nashville area after his baseball career, and died there in 1974 at age 62.
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1911 births
1974 deaths
Albany Senators players
American people of Lithuanian descent
Binghamton Triplets players
Brooklyn Dodgers players
Cape Cod Baseball League players (pre-modern era)
Chambersburg Young Yanks players
Cumberland Colts players
English High School of Boston alumni
Hopkinsville Hoppers players
Hyannis Harbor Hawks players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Minor league baseball managers
Nashville Vols players
Newark Bears (International League) players
New York Yankees players
Philadelphia Phillies players
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Holy See-Papua New Guinea relations of diplomatic character were established in 1973 when an Apostolic Delegation of Papua New Guinea (from the Apostolic Delegation of Australia and Papua New Guinea) were created. In 1976, this delegation was created as the Apostolic Delegation of Papua New Guinea and The Solomon Islands. In 1977, the Vatican established the Apostolic Nunciature of Papua New Guinea and Apostolic Delegation of Solomon Islands). The Holy See established its Apostolic Nunciature in Port Moresby the capital and largest city in Papua New Guinea.
In May 1984, Pope John Paul II made a visit of pilgrimage to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
The current Nuncio to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands is Archbishop Kurian Mathew Vayalunkal who was appointed in 2016 to replace Archbishop Michael Banach.
See also
Foreign relations of the Holy See
External links
Diplomatic Relations of the Holy See
References |
The 2000 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships were the 26th annual Junior World Championships for track cycling held in Fiorenzuola d'Arda, Italy in August 2000.
The Championships had six events for men (1 kilometre time trial, Points race, Individual pursuit, Team pursuit, Sprint and Team sprint) and four for women (500 metre time trial, Points race, Individual pursuit and Sprint).
Events
Medal table
References
UCI Juniors Track World Championships
2000 in track cycling
2000 in Italian sport |
Dacetuzumab (also known as SGN-40 or huS2C6) is a humanized monoclonal antibody being developed for the treatment of CD40-positive cancers like non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and hematological malignancies.
This drug was developed by Seattle Genetics, Inc.
References
Monoclonal antibodies for tumors
Experimental drugs |
The Freeman-Brewer-Sawyer House is a historic house in Hillsboro, Illinois. The Greek Revival house was built in 1840, during the height of the style's popularity in the United States. The two-story house features six-over-six windows and a front entrance framed by pilasters, sidelights, and a transom; in addition, it originally had a portico supported by Doric columns. In 1904, the portico was replaced by a Classical Revival porch; the rounded, projecting porch features a balustrade along its roof, egg-and-dart molding, dentillation, and urn-shaped finials.
The house was originally owned by Sally Freeman and her family. In 1849, Judge William Brewer purchased the house, which has remained in his family through at least the 1990s. Brewer's daughter Sarah and her husband A. A. K. Sawyer were responsible for the Classical porch.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 5, 1992.
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Greek Revival houses in Illinois
Neoclassical architecture in Illinois
Houses in Montgomery County, Illinois
Houses completed in 1840
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In epidemiology, a virgin soil epidemic is an epidemic in which populations that previously were in isolation from a pathogen are immunologically unprepared upon contact with the novel pathogen. Virgin soil epidemics have occurred with European colonization, particularly when European explorers and colonists brought diseases to lands they conquered in the Americas, Australia and Pacific Islands.
When a population has been isolated from a particular pathogen without any contact, individuals in that population have not built up any immunity to that organism and also have not received immunity passed from mother to child. The epidemiologist Francis Black has suggested that some isolated populations may not have mixed enough to become as genetically heterogeneous as their colonizers, which would also have affected their natural immunity, due to the potential benefits to immune system function due to genetic diversity. That can happen also when such a considerable amount of time has passed between disease outbreaks that no one in a particular community has ever experienced the disease to gain immunity. Consequently, when a previously unknown disease is introduced to such a population, there is an increase in the morbidity and mortality rates. Historically, that increase has been often devastating and always noticeable.
Diseases introduced to the Americas by Europeans and Africans include smallpox, yellow fever, measles and malaria as well as new strains of typhus and influenza.
Virgin soil epidemics also occurred in other regions. For example, the Roman Empire spread smallpox to new populations in Europe and the Middle East in the 2nd century AD, and the Mongol Empire brought the bubonic plague to Europe and the Middle East in the 14th century.
History of the term
The term was coined by Alfred Crosby as an epidemic "in which the populations at risk have had no previous contact with the diseases that strike them and are therefore immunologically almost defenseless." His concept is related to that developed by William McNeill, who connected the development of agriculture and more sedentary life with the emergence of new diseases as microbes moved from domestic animals to humans.
The concept would later be adopted wholesale by Jared Diamond as a central theme in his popular book Guns, Germs and Steel as an explanation for successful European expansion.
Historical instances
Native American epidemics
Due to limited interaction between communities and more limited instances of zoonosis, the spread of infectious diseases was generally hampered in Native American communities. This contrasted with Eurasia, where a large number domesticated animals in close contact with large human populations would lead to more frequent zoonotic diseases, which would then in turn spread between human populations more easily due to trade and warfare. Native Americans were not exposed to this latent pool of circulating Eurasian diseases until the European colonization of the Americas, which then led to frequent virgin soil epidemics among Native Americans.
Cocoliztli epidemics
A series of epidemics of unknown origin caused major population collapses in Central America in the 16th century, possibly due to little immunological protection from previous exposures. While the pathogenic agents of these so-called Cocoliztli epidemics are unidentified, suspected pathogenic agents include endemic viral agents, Salmonella, or smallpox.
Australian Aboriginal epidemics
The European colonization of Australia led to major epidemics among Australian Aboriginies, primarily due to smallpox, influenzas, tuberculosis, measles, and potentially chickenpox.
Other instances
With malaria spreading in the Caribbean islands after European-African contact, the immunological resistance of African slaves to malaria in contrast to the immunologically defenseless locals might have contributed to African slave trade.
Novel and rapid-spreading pandemics such as the Spanish flu are occasionally referred to as virgin soil pandemics.
Debate
Research over the last few decades has questioned some aspects of the notion of virgin soil epidemics. David S. Jones has argued that the term "virgin soil" is often used to describe a genetic predisposition to disease infection and that it obscures the more complex social, environmental, and biological factors that can enhance or reduce a population's susceptibility.
Paul Kelton has argued that the slave trade in indigenous people by Europeans exacerbated the spread and virulence of smallpox and that a virgin soil model alone cannot account for the widespread disaster of the epidemic.
The debate, as regards smallpox (Variola major or Variola minor), is sometimes complicated by problems in distinguishing its effects from those of other diseases that could prove fatal to virgin soil populations, most notably chickenpox. Thus, the famous virologist Frank Fenner, who played a major role in the worldwide elimination of smallpox, remarked in 1985,
"Retrospective diagnosis of cases or outbreaks of disease in the distant past is always difficult and to some extent speculative."
Cristobal Silva has re-examined accounts by colonists of 17th-century New England epidemics and has interpreted and argued that they were products of particular historical circumstances, rather than universal or genetically inevitable processes.
Historian Gregory T. Cushman claims that virgin soil epidemics were not the major cause of deaths due to disease among Pacific Island populations. Rather, diseases like tuberculosis and dysentery were able to take hold in Pacific Island populations that had weakened immune systems because of overworking and exploitation by European colonizers.
Historian Christopher R. Browning writes that "Disease, colonization, and irreversible demographic decline were intertwined and mutually reinforcing" in reference to virgin soil epidemics during the European colonisation of the Americas. He contrasts the rebound of the European population following the Black Death with the lack of such a rebound across most Native American populations, attributing this differing demographic trend to the fact that Europeans were not exploited, enslaved, and massacred in the aftermath of the Black Death like the indigenous inhabitants of the New World were. "Disease as the chief killing agent," he writes, "does not remove settler colonialism from the rubric of genocide".
Following this work, historian Jeffrey Ostler has argued that, in relation to European colonization of the Americas, "virgin soil epidemics did not occur everywhere and ... Native populations did not inevitably crash as a result of contact. Most Indigenous communities were eventually afflicted by a variety of diseases, but in many cases this happened long after Europeans first arrived. When severe epidemics did hit, it was often less because Native bodies lacked immunity than because European colonialism disrupted Native communities and damaged their resources, making them more vulnerable to pathogens."
See also
Columbian Exchange
Ecological imperialism
Influx of disease in the Caribbean
Seasoning (colonialism)
Native American disease and epidemics
Millenarianism in colonial societies
Cocoliztli epidemics
References
Footnotes
Bibliography
Epidemics
History of colonialism |
Brees is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Drew Brees (born 1979), American football player
Herbert J. Brees (1877–1958), American lieutenant general
Orlo M. Brees (1896–1980), American newspaper editor, author, and politician
Samuel Brees (c.1810–1865), New Zealand artist, surveyor and engineer |
Mark Allen Boggs (born May 7, 1964) is a former American football offensive tackle who played one game for the Indianapolis Colts. He was a replacement player.
References
Living people
1964 births
Indianapolis Colts players
American football offensive tackles
Ball State Cardinals football players
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Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck (1637–1723), was a Swedish countess and landowner.
She was the daughter of Hans Christoff von Königsmarck and Barbara von Leist: through her brother, she was thereby the paternal aunt of Carl Johan von Königsmarck, Amalia von Königsmarck, Aurora von Königsmarck and Philip Christoph von Königsmarck. In 1655, she married count Pontus Fredrik De la Gardie (1630-1692), younger brother of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, and became the mother of Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie and Ebba Maria De la Gardie.
Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck belonged to the elite of the Swedish aristocracy, often attended court, and had a wide net of powerful contacts. She used these contacts for political purposes, and was commissioned as an agent by France through its ambassador in Sweden, D'Avaux.
Between 1697 and 1699, there was a Danish policy to create an alliance with Sweden through a double wedding between Charles XII of Sweden and Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark, and Prince Charles of Denmark and Hedvig Sophia of Sweden (after the marriage of Hedvig Sophia in 1698, she was replaced by Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden).
The plan was supported by France, who also wished for an alliance between Sweden and Denmark. Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck was commissioned by the Danish Jens Juel (diplomat) to use her net of contacts at court to create support for the marriage alliances with the Swedish royal court and monarch. Ultimately, however, the plan failed. Both Denmark and France described her as among their most valued agents in service of the Dano-France policy of a Danish-Swedish alliance. A proposed reason for her pro-Danish policy has been suggested to be the fact that several of her estates was situated in Scania, and that she wished to protect her interests, as her Scanian estates had been sacked during the Scanian War in 1675-79.
Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck belonged to a very wealthy family and brought a fortune of her own in to her marriage. Despite the fact that she was, as a married woman, legally a minor and under the guardianship of her husband, she still managed her own fortune by herself as her separate property, without any interference of her spouse. The marriage was unhappy, and reportedly, her husband was forced to rely on his rich sister, Maria Sofia De la Gardie, to be able to finance his drinking habits and interest in prostitutes, as his wife refused to do so. During the Reduction (Sweden) of 1680, her husband's fortune was confiscated by the crown, and he resided in his own estate, while she resided on hers.
In 1661, her husband bought Skarhult Castle with her money. As she was legally a minor, being a married woman, she was not listed as its owner until after she was widowed (and thereby no longer a minor) in 1692. In reality, however, she managed the estate from the beginning until her death, as well as the estate Marsvinsholm Castle, without any interference from him.
References
Notes
Sources
Norrhem, Svante (2007). Kvinnor vid maktens sida : 1632-1772. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Libris 10428618.
Peter Lindstrom Svante Norrhem: Flattering Alliances: Scandinavia, Diplomacy and the Austrian-French Balance of power, 1648-1740 (2013)
Von Königsmarck nr 14. Från Biografiska anteckningar
Anderps ättartavlor
Pontus Fredrik De la Gardie, urn:sbl:17385, Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (art av G-. Jacobson.), hämtad 2015-04-26.
1637 births
1723 deaths
Swedish countesses
18th-century women landowners
17th-century Swedish landowners
18th-century Swedish landowners
17th-century Swedish nobility
17th-century women landowners |
The 1991 Chattanooga Moccasins football team represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) in the 1991 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Moccasins were led by eighth-year head coach Buddy Nix and played their home games at Chamberlain Field. Southern Conference. They finished the season 7–4 overall and 4–3 in SoCon play to tie for fourth place.
Schedule
References
Chattanooga
Chattanooga Mocs football seasons
Chattanooga Moccasins football |
The southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus), or African masked weaver, is a resident breeding bird species common throughout southern Africa.
This weaver is very widespread and found in a wide range of habitats, including shrubland, savanna, grassland, open woodland, inland wetlands and semi-desert areas. It also occurs in suburban gardens and parks.
Description
The southern masked weaver is long with a short, strong, conical bill and pinkish brown legs. The adult male in breeding plumage has a black face, throat and beak, red eye, bright yellow head and underparts, and a plain yellowish-green back,
The female has a pinkish-brown bill, brown or red-brown eye and is dull greenish-yellow, streaked darker on the upper back. The throat is yellowish, fading to off-white on the belly. The non-breeding male resembles the female but retains the red eye. The juvenile of this species is like the female.
The call is a harsh swizzling, similar to other weavers. It also utters a sharp chuk alarm note.
Behaviour and ecology
Nest building and breeding
The southern masked weaver nests in colonies, mainly from September to January. Males have several female partners, and build a succession of nests, typically 25 each season. The nests, like those of other weavers, are woven from reed, palm or grass. A female will line a selected nest with soft grass and feathers. The nest is built in a tree, often over water, but sometimes in suburbia. This weaver also nests in reeds.
The southern masked weaver lays eggs of a various colour and this helps it to evade parasitisation by cuckoos because the cuckoo has no way of knowing what kind of eggs are inside the weaver's nest until it has entered the nest to attempt to lay one itself. Eggs of the wrong colouration are ejected by the nest owners.
Feeding
The southern masked weaver is usually seen singly or in small groups. It may also form larger flocks, alone or with other seed eating species. It eats insects, seeds and nectar, and will come to feeding tables.
Gallery
References
General references
Ian Sinclair, Phil Hockey and Warwick Tarboton, SASOL Birds of Southern Africa (Struik 2002)
SASOL e-guide
Citations
External links
Southern Masked Weaver Ploceus velatus in Weaver Watch
Masked Weaver Swartkeelgeelvink Ploceus velatus in the Southern African Bird Atlas
Birds described in 1819
Birds of Southern Africa
Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot
Ploceus |
Brain Damage is a French Dub band, from Saint-Etienne. The band was founded in 1999 by Martin Nathan and Raphael Talis. It is considered one of the pioneering dub bands in France.
History
Soon after its creation Brain Damage was to be composed solely of its frontman, Martin Nathan.
In the early 2000s the band released various albums based on collaborations with Jamaican artists, such as Horace Andy and Winston Mc Anuff.
In 2021 Brain Damage produced Brain Damage meets Big Youth-Beyond the Blue, with Big Youth and in 2023 Groundation meets Brain Damage-Dreaming From An Iron Gate with Groundation.
Discography
EPs
Bipolar Disorder (Bangarang) – 1999
Brain Damage Dub Sessions meets Sir Jean (Jarring Effects) – 2012
Studio albums
Always greener (on the other side) (Bangarang/Hammerbass) – 2002
Ashes to ashes / Dub to dub (Bangarang/Hammerbass/Sounds Around) – 2004
Spoken dub manifesto vol.1 (Bangarang/Jarring Effects) – 2006
Short Cuts (Bangarang/Jarring Effects) – 2008
Burning before Sunset (Jarring Effects/Discograph) – 2010
Burning before sunset featuring Black Sifichi (Jarring Effects) – 2010
High Damage by High Tone meets Brain Damage (Jarring Effects) – 2012
What you gonna do? (Jarring Effects) – 2012
Empire Soldiers by Brain Damage meets Vibronics (Jarring Effects) – 2013
Walk The Walk (Jarring Effects) – 2015
Talk The Talk (Jarring Effects) – 2016
Liberation Times by Brain Damage meets Harrison Stafford (Jarring Effects) – 2017
Ya no mas ! (Jarring Effects) – 2018
Beyond the Blue by Brain Damage meets Big Youth (Jarring Effects) – 2021
Dreaming From an Iron Gate by Groundation meets Brain Damage (Baco Records) – 2023
Live albums
Short Cuts Live (Jarring Effects/Discograph) – 2009
Empire Soldiers Live (Jarring Effects / L'Autre Distribution) – 2015
References
External links
Official site
Jarring Effects, Dub/Electro/HipHop indie Label
Musical groups established in 1999
French electronic music groups
Dub musical groups
Organizations based in Saint-Étienne |
Robert Norman "Punk" Berryman (May 18, 1892 – May 18, 1966) was an American football player and coach. He played as a halfback at Pennsylvania State University and was selected as third-team All-American in 1915, his senior year. Berryman served as the head football coach at Gettysburg College in 1916 and at Lafayette College in 1917. He was subsequently an assistant football coach at the University of Iowa and Dickinson College. Berryman served as the head basketball coach at Iowa State University during the 1919–20 season; his team finished the season with an overall record of 6–12, placing seventh in the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association with a conference mark of 2–10. In 1922 and 1923 Berryman was an assistant coach at Colgate University under fellow Penn State alumnus, Dick Harlow. In 1924, he coached the Frankford Yellow Jackets, newly enfranchised to the National Football League (NFL), to a record of 11–2–1, good enough for only a third-place finish. The following season, Berryman coached the Millville Football & Athletic Club. In 1926, he coached the Brooklyn Lions to a record of 3–8 in their only season with the NFL. Berryman was born on May 18, 1892. He attended the Northeast Manual Training School in Philadelphia. He died in May 1966.
Head coaching record
College football
College basketball
NFL
References
External links
Punk Berryman at Pro-Football-Reference.com
1892 births
1966 deaths
American football halfbacks
Basketball coaches from Pennsylvania
Colgate Raiders football coaches
Dickinson Red Devils football coaches
Frankford Yellow Jackets coaches
Gettysburg Bullets football coaches
Iowa Hawkeyes football coaches
Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball coaches
Lafayette Leopards football coaches
Millville Football & Athletic Club players
Penn State Nittany Lions football players
Players of American football from Philadelphia
Educators from New York (state)
Educators from Pennsylvania
Coaches of American football from Pennsylvania |
Musical anhedonia is a neurological condition characterized by an inability to derive pleasure from music. People with this condition, unlike those suffering from music agnosia, can recognize and understand music but fail to enjoy it.
Research has shown that people with this condition have reduced functional connectivity between the cortical regions responsible for processing sound and the subcortical regions related to reward.
History
Case studies of musical anhedonia and its symptoms date from 1993.
The term "musical anhedonia" was first used in 2011. It was originally used to describe the selective loss in emotional responses to music following damage to the brain. It has now come to mean, more generally, a selective lack of pleasurable responses to music in individuals with or without brain damage. This has led to the recognition of two different types of musical anhedonia.
The first type, known as "musical anhedonia without brain damage", manifests itself in individuals that do not present any neurological damage. Its incidence in the general population is low: between 3% and 5%. The second type is known as "acquired musical anhedonia". It is this form that develops as a result of brain damage. The incidence of this second form is even lower, and most studies of it focus on individual cases.
Research
A 2014 study correlated participants' reported enjoyment of music with neurological activity, as measured by Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). It found that those who reported stronger emotional reactions to music had greater neurological activity linking the auditory cortex and mesolimbic pathway of the brain. This suggests that specific musical anhedonia exists as a discrete neurological condition, rather than a symptom of general anhedonia.
Music therapy may be ineffective for people with musical anhedonia, as is the case with certain other diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. A 2019 study found that specific music-based treatments may alleviate anhedonia and other depression symptoms.
Social stigma
Music is often considered to be a universal language, and individuals with musical anhedonia may find it difficult to understand why they do not gain pleasure from it. Two core societal benefits have emerged from the new empirical research into the condition: it has helped people with the condition to better understand why they are affected by it; and it has helped to demonstrate to the rest of the population that it is a genuine condition that impacts the lives of many people.
Northeastern University professors investigated whether the correlation between music and the brain can impair "social bonding". They could link similar images of the brain of an autistic person with the images of the brain of a person with musical anhedonia.
See also
Amusia
Auditory agnosia
Neuroscience of music
References
Music psychology |
The 1986 Lilian Cup was the 5th season of the competition. The four top placed teams for the previous season took part in the competition.
The format of the competition was changed from including a group stage prior to the final to a straight knock-out competition. The competition was held between 2 and 10 September 1986.
The competition was won by Maccabi Tel Aviv, who had beaten Maccabi Haifa 2–1 in the final.
Results
Semi-finals
3rd-4th Place Match
Final
References
Lilian 1986
Lilian Cup |
Lionheart is the second studio album by English art rock singer Kate Bush. It was released in November 1978, just nine months after Bush's successful debut album The Kick Inside. Lionheart reached no. 6 on the UK Albums Chart (her only album not to make the top 5) and has been certified Platinum by the BPI.
The first single taken from the album, "Hammer Horror", missed the UK Top 40. However, the follow-up single, "Wow", was released on the back of Bush's UK tour and became a UK Top 20 hit.
Overview
Background
Following the success of her debut album, Kate Bush's record company EMI were eager to get another out. Bush had composed many songs throughout her teens (she was at this time 19 years old) and the majority of the tracks used for Lionheart were compositions from before her debut. Bush, however, was unhappy with the short length of time she had in which to produce the album. Recorded entirely at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes on the French Riviera, this was to be her only album recorded outside the UK. Of the ten tracks, only "Symphony in Blue", "Fullhouse" and "Coffee Homeground" were newly composed songs, although the other songs had been reworked by Bush in preparation for the recording. The album was produced, like her first, by Andrew Powell, with Bush feeling that she was at this stage too inexperienced to produce it herself (she would go on to produce all her following albums). Since the album's release, Bush has many times said that she was unhappy with this album because of the restrictions imposed on it. In a 1989 interview she remarked: "Considering how quickly we made it it's a bloody good album, but I'm not really happy with it".
Literary references include J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan in "In Search of Peter Pan" (a song which also quotes "When You Wish Upon a Star" from the Disney film Pinocchio), as well as a nod towards Arsenic and Old Lace in the song "Coffee Homeground", which despite being similar in plot to the play, was inspired by a taxi driver who drove Bush once. Film references include "Hammer Horror", while although taking its name from the Hammer Film studios, is actually about a production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The British television show The Sweeney, a popular police drama from the 1970s, was mentioned in the lyrics of the song "Wow", which is a song about the music business and show business in general. "Kashka from Baghdad", inspired by American detective series, is about the inhabitants of a town wondering about a couple living in an old house.
Lionheart was the first Kate Bush album to feature Del Palmer, who played bass and had previously been in the KT Bush Band. Palmer went on to play bass, or to engineer and record on every subsequent Kate Bush album up to and including 50 Words for Snow (2011). He and Bush also had a long-term relationship between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Release
The album was released in November 1978, the title being taken from side one's closing track "Oh England My Lionheart". The front cover shot depicts Bush in an attic wearing a lion outfit, which she described as being "slightly comical". The photographer was Gered Mankowitz. The lead single chosen was "Hammer Horror", which peaked at a low 44 in the UK (although fared better in many other countries). The album however performed well in the UK, peaking at No. 6. It remained on the chart well into 1979, its promotion being continued by the second single and Bush's UK tour. In total it spent 36 weeks on the chart and was certified Platinum by the BPI for sales of over 300,000, making it one of Bush's better-selling albums. The second single from the album was "Wow", which was released in early 1979. This fared better than the first, peaking at No. 14 in the UK and performing well in many other countries also. In some territories, "Symphony in Blue" was released instead. Around this time, Bush embarked on her first tour, which featured a number of songs from Lionheart – one of these ("Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake") was included on the On Stage EP in September 1979.
In the US, the album was initially unreleased following the failure of her debut. As Bush gained a cult following over the coming years however, Lionheart was belatedly released in 1984 following the entry into the charts of her fourth album The Dreaming.
Critical reception
Reception to the album was average, with the album almost universally being looked upon as an inferior version of her debut. NMEs Ian Penman wrote: "'Mature' lyrics sung in that twee irritating schoolgirl-siren voice [...] Actually most of the time she's nearer a vague British lineage – Barbara Dickson to Lynsey de Paul – than a Joni/Janis wonderland". Record Mirror was not convinced and wrote about the performance between the musicians: "The feel is often bland and soulless". Reviewer Chris Westwood concluded: "A product which is at best moderate, lacking and often severely irritating... This is flat conceived silliness." The American magazine Trouser Press rated it well, in particular the songs "Symphony in Blue", "In the Warm Room" and "Don't Push Your Foot on the Heartbrake".
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Mike DeGagne feels that the album lacks substance, while noting that Bush was capable of much better work. In a Guardian poll of Bush's best albums, Lionheart placed lowly with just 2% of the vote. While Bush herself has said that she was unhappy with the finished album, she has mentioned satisfaction with the track "Wow".
Track listing
All tracks written by Kate Bush.Notes:"In Search of Peter Pan" contains an excerpt of "When You Wish Upon a Star", written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington.
Personnel
Kate Bush – vocals, piano, assistant arranger, harmony vocals (4, 5)
Andrew Powell – arranger, joanna strumentum (8), harmonium (10)
Duncan Mackay – Fender Rhodes (1, 2, 4), synthesizer (3, 9, 10)
4B – synthesizer (3)
Francis Monkman – harpsichord (4, 5), Hammond organ (6)
Richard Harvey – recorders (5)
Ian Bairnson – electric guitar (1–4, 6, 10), acoustic guitar (2, 10), rhythm guitar (9)
Paddy Bush – mandolins (3), harmony vocals (4, 5, 8), slide guitar (4), strumento de porco (pig's-head psaltery), mandocello and pan flute (8)
Brian Bath – guitars (3)
David Paton – bass guitar (1, 2, 4, 6, 9)
Del Palmer – bass guitar (3, 8, 10)
Stuart Elliott – drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10), percussion (1, 8, 9)
Charlie Morgan – drums (3, 8)
David Katz – orchestral contractor (for unnamed session orchestra: 9, 10)Production'
Andrew Powell – producer
Kate Bush – assistant producer
Jon Kelly – recording engineer, mixing
Patrick Jaunead – assistant engineer
Nigel Walker – mixing assistant
Gered Mankowitz – art direction, photography
Richard Gray – sleeve design
John Carder Bush – front cover concept
Charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
References
Kate Bush albums
1978 albums
Albums produced by Andrew Powell
EMI Records albums
EMI America Records albums
Harvest Records albums
LGBT-related albums |
In the Scottish secondary education system, the Certificate of Sixth Year Studies (CSYS) was the highest level of qualification available to pupils from 1968 until circa 2000.
Overseen by the Scottish Examination Board (SEB), it was taken by students in their sixth year (final year) of secondary education (ages 16–18) and was available for a range of different subjects. Examinations were administered by the SEB (and latterly by its successor, the Scottish Qualifications Authority, which absorbed and replaced it eventually). Unlike the Standard and Higher Grade examinations, it was not a part of the Scottish Certificate of Education.
The CSYS followed on from Higher Grade examinations and was considered broadly equivalent to the English A-Level qualification. However, it never quite gained the same level of universal recognition as the Higher or A-Level. In particular, universities (at least in Scotland) rarely used it when considering potential students. The academic demands placed on students by these examinations were the highest of the Scottish secondary school examination system at that time. One important and distinguishing feature of the CSYS examinations (for some subjects) was the inclusion of a dissertation and/or viva examination conducted by a visiting external examiner.
The CSYS was replaced by the Advanced Higher examinations in 2000.
See also
Education in Scotland
Higher
Scottish Qualifications Authority
References
Educational qualifications in Scotland
Secondary school qualifications |
Edenvale is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, in South San Jose.
History
Edenvale was once a town, named with reference to the Garden of Eden, because of the beauty and fertility of the place.
One of the oldest buildings in the area is Hayes Mansion. The Union Pacific Railroad and historic Monterey Road runs through the area, which is also known as El Camino Real. The railroad line carries Amtrak's "Coast Starlight."
The most popular recent history of the neighborhood includes Frontier Village, which was an amusement park operated from 1961 to 1980. Most of the land was redeveloped into residential housing.
Geography
Edenvale is located in South San Jose. It is bound by Seven Trees to its north, Blossom Valley to its south/west, Santa Teresa to its south/east, and the Silver Creek Hills to its east.
It is one of the neighborhoods inside San Jose district 2.
Parks
Parks, libraries, and other public areas of interest include:
Hayes Mansion
Edenvale Garden Park
Great Oaks Park
Danna Rock Park
Coyote Creek Park
Hellyer Lake Park
Martial Cottle Park
Education
The following are schools located in the Edenvale area:
Valley Christian High School
Caroline Davis Intermediate School
Christopher Elementary School
Stipe Elementary School
Edenvale Elementary School
Hayes Elementary School
Andrew P. Hill High School
The public schools are in the Oak Grove School District (San Jose, California) and the East Side Union High School District.
References
External links
San Jose Strong Neighborhood Initiative for Edenvale
Edenvale Roundtable Community Association
Edenvale Branch Library
External links
Neighborhoods in San Jose, California |
The BILBY Awards are organised annually by the Queensland Branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia. The name of the award, BILBY, is an acronym of 'Books I Love Best Yearly'.
These awards are children's choice awards. Each year Queensland children are asked to nominate their favourite book that they have read in the past year; only the winners from the previous two years are excluded from nomination. The nominations are made in three readership categories (see below). The nomination process is the first phase of the awards.
In each category, around five of the most popularly nominated books are grouped into shortlists. In the second phase of the awards students are encouraged to read the books from the list in their readership category and vote for their favourite title. The book receiving the most votes is declared the winner in its category.
Award category and description
Prior to 1997 there were three Awards categories for primary school readers – Read Alone, Read Aloud and Read Australian – and one category for Secondary. In 1997 a readership format was introduced, though the Early Readers category was first called the Picture Book category, then the Early Childhood category [see below].
Currently there are three categories:
Early Readers – for books for readers under 8 years old
Younger Readers – for books for readers between 8 and 12 years old
Older Readers – for books for readers over 12 years old.
List of BILBY Award winners
Early Readers Award
Note: Before 2001, this award was called the "Early Childhood" (1990–1999), "Picture Book" (1998–1997) and "Read Alone" (1996–1990) awards.
Younger Readers Award
Note: Before 1997, this award was called the "Read Aloud Award".
Older Readers Award
Read Australia Award
See also
List of Australian literary awards
List of CBCA Awards
Notes
References
Bilby Award website
Bilby Award website - Previous Winners
CBCA Awards
Children's Book Council of Australia
Australian literary awards |
Galstyan is the surname of the following people:
Aharon Galstyan (born 1970), Russian serial killer
Arsen Galstyan (born 1989), American judoka
Haykaz Galstyan (born 1977), Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
Hovhannes Galstyan (born 1969), American film director
Katya Galstyan (born 1993), Armenian cross-country skier
Lilit Galstyan (born 1962), Armenian politician
Poghos Galstyan (born 1961), American footballer
Slavik Galstyan (born 1996), Armenian sport wrestler
Vaghinak Galstyan (born 1973), Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
Vilen Galstyan (1941–2021), American ballet dancer
Vruir Galstyan (1924–1996), Armenian painter
Zorapet Ghukas Galstyan (1902–?), Armenian Soviet politician |
Victor Dwanyne Scott II (born February 12, 2001) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals organization.
Scott attended McEachern High School in Powder Springs, Georgia, and West Virginia University, and played college baseball for the West Virginia Mountaineers. The St. Louis Cardinals selected Scott in the fifth round of the 2022 MLB draft.
The Cardinals assigned Scott to the Palm Beach Cardinals of the Class A Florida State League in 2022. Scott began the 2023 season with the Peoria Chiefs of the High-A Midwest League and was promoted to the Springfield Cardinals of the Double-A Texas League in June. Scott was chosen to represent the Cardinals at the 2023 All-Star Futures Game.
Scott's parents, Victor and Mary, ran track. His father is a member of the Morris Brown College Hall of Fame.
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2001 births |
Audra is an Arizona-based post-punk band formed in 1991 in Mesa, Arizona by brothers Bret and Bart Helm. Audra broke out onto the national scene in 2000 when they signed with indie label Projekt Records. They have since released four full-length albums (two via Projekt), with the most recent released in 2019.
Audra has toured and performed alongside the likes of The Mission UK, Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus), AFI, Johnette Napolitano (of Concrete Blonde), Nitzer Ebb, She Wants Revenge, Gene Loves Jezebel, Lycia, Steve Roach, The Wonderstuff, Esben and the Witch, New Model Army and many others.
History
Audra's first release, Unhappy Till the End, was issued on cassette in 1996 on their Audra Art Sex Religion label, followed by the self-released Silver Music CD EP in 1999.
In 2000, Audra signed with indie label Projekt Records, which released their first two studio albums, Audra (2000) and Going to the Theatre (2002).
On May 19, 2009, Audra released Everything Changes, their first album in seven years, on their own Audra Music label.
In 2017, the band reissued their first two albums as limited edition cassettes.
On July 16, 2018, Audra announced that they had begun recording their fourth album, and first since 2009. On October 15, the band launched a 30-day Indiegogo campaign to assist in funding the release. The album, titled Dear Tired Friends, was released on August 23, 2019, and includes a guest appearance from Mike VanPortfleet from Lycia on the track "Planet of Me".
Other projects
Bret Helm is also known for his blog, "Life on This Planet", and its accompanying YouTube channel, "Bret Helm's Life on This Planet Blog". The name for his blog is taken from a song on Everything Changes. Bret is also an active member of Unto Ashes, appearing on their most recent album, 2019's Pretty Haunted Things. Bret was also a member of Black Tape for a Blue Girl from 2001 to 2007, contributing to 2002's The Scavenger Bride and 2004's Halo Star.
In April 2020, in response to the SARS-CoV-2 isolation, Bret Helm began hosting weekly live-streamed events on Facebook that included original material, stories behind Audra songs, and cover songs.
Discography
Studio albums
Audra (2000, Projekt Records)
Going to the Theatre (2002, Projekt Records)
Everything Changes (2009, Audra Music)
Dear Tired Friends (2019, Audra Music)
Singles and EPs
Unhappy Till the End cassette EP (1996, Audra Art Sex Religion)
Silver Music CD EP (1999, self-released)
"Midnight Moon Swing" promo CD single (2002, Projekt Records)
"Let the Reindeer Live on My Roof" digital single (2010, Audra Music)
Bonus Track EP digital EP (2018, Audra Music)
"Wish No Harm" digital single (2019, Audra Music)
"Sliding Under Cars" digital single (2019, Audra Music)
Compilation appearances
Orphee (2000, Projekt Records)
Within This Infinite Ocean (2001, Projekt Records)
Excelsis 3: A Prelude (2001, Projekt Records)
Excelsis Box Set (2001, Projekt Records)
Kiss the Night (2002, Cleopatra Records)
A Dark Noel (2002, Projekt Records)
Projekt: Gothic (2002, Projekt Records)
Romantic Sounds 4 (2002, Zillo Magazine)
Unquiet Grave Vol. 4 (2003, Cleopatra Records)
Dark Awakening Vol. 3 (2003, Cop International)
The Tongue Achieves the Dialect: Tribute to Rozz Williams (2003, Dark Vinyl)
The New Face of Goth (2003, Projekt Records)
Love's Shattered Pride: Tribute to Joy Division - Walked in Line (2005, Failure to Communicate Records)
A Dark Cabaret – Cabaret Fortune Teller (2005, Projekt Records)
Projekt 200 (2007, Projekt Records)
References
External links
Official website
Facebook
YouTube
Rock music groups from Arizona
American dark wave musical groups
Musicians from Mesa, Arizona
Projekt Records artists |
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