The Palestinian National Authority began in 1994 to issue stamps and operate postal services as authorized by the Oslo Accords.

Postal service
Starting in 1994–95, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) established post offices throughout the PNA, developed its own unique postmarks and issued stamps. In its first decade, the PNA expanded from 49 to 82 post offices (1994–2004). It provides a range of mailing services and issued its first stamp booklets in 2000.

In 1999, the PNA and Israel agreed that PNA mail could be sent directly to Egypt and Jordan. Earlier, the PNA had claimed that Israel had violated its agreements regarding postal service by impeding mail to Egypt and Jordan. When mail addressed to Arab countries could not be delivered, it was marked with a "no service" cachet because it could not be forwarded. The lack of forwarding has been due apparently to Israeli policy and the Arab boycott. At times, The PNA's Ministry of Telecom & Information Technology issued a critical report on postal services in areas under Israeli control. In 2002, the minister of PNA Post and Telecommunications, Imad al-Faluji, claimed that Israel had destroyed its post offices in Gaza.

Prior to 2021, the PNA did not have postcodes or addressing rules that would help automate and improve delivery services. A project to develop such a system started in 2010 with preliminary codes and a map being published in January 2011. In February 2021, the Palestinian Authority announced the implementation of its own postal codes, and that postal items not bearing a postal code would not be processed after April. This move came in part with an intent to assert Palestinian sovereignty, however, post in Palestine is still subject to seizure and blockades as it passes through Jordan and/or Israel prior to delivery. Palestinian postcodes begin with the capital letter 'P', followed by three digits which represent the governorate, postal sector, and zone respectively. Four characters may be appended to the postcode which indicate the final point of delivery.

Recognition of PNA postal authority

The PNA is authorized to manage postal operations, issue stamps and postal stationery, and set rates, under agreements signed between Israel and the PNA following the Oslo Accords. The agreements specifically regulate the wording that can be used on the stamps issued, specifying that they "shall include only the terms 'the Palestinian Council' or 'the Palestinian Authority.

The first PNA stamps, printed by German state printer Bundesdruckerei Berlin, used the currency designation mils (which was the currency of the British Mandate of Palestine between 1927 and 1948). Israel protested over this issue, and all early stamps issued in 1994 had to be overprinted with fils (1/1000 of a Jordanian dinar), as illustrated by the souvenir sheet shown. A Palestinian newspaper, The Jerusalem Times, broke the story of the mils mistake on the stamps.

Initially, PNA stamps were recognized only by Arab states, according to the PNA minister of post and telecommunications.

Israel approved of PNA postage, following disputes over the currency designation, in November 1995. Direct mail service with Jordan is said to have resumed in 2007.
Deliveries between the PNA and foreign countries are made through commercial agreements with Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. The Universal Postal Union and its member countries generally do not recognize stamps issued by entities that have not achieved full independence, such as the lands controlled in the Gaza Strip and West Bank by the PNA. Indeed, its accord with Israel (Article 29) stipulates that the PNA's lack of membership in the Universal Postal Union would not change, nor would the PNA seek to change its status. The UPU and PNA do maintain relations (see picture). Nonetheless, it has become clear that the stamps issued by the PNA were functioning for postal activities within Palestine and for international postal communications. According to the New York Times, the doubts of stamp collectors were removed by the listing of the PNA in philatelic catalogs. Accordingly, collectors are analyzing not only stamps but also such matters as Palestinian postmarks and tariffs.

Besides their postal role, Israeli post offices have played a pivotal role in political affairs for Palestinians in East Jerusalem. In 1996 and 2006, Israeli post offices in East Jerusalem served as voting stations for Palestinian elections.

Post-2009 situation
Due to the political split between the Fatah-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in 2009, there exist two separate postal administrations: The Ministry of Telecom & Information Technology in Gaza, and Palestine Post of the Palestinian Ministry of Telecom & IT in Ramallah/al-Bireh. Both are issuing stamps for their respective areas, although for international use only the PNA stamps issued in the West Bank are valid.

Postage stamps issued

The Scott Publishing Company began incorporating stamps issued by the PNA into its catalogue of worldwide stamps in 1999. The initial listing was for the 77 stamps issued between 1994 and July 1997 and appeared in the July issue of Scott Stamp Monthly, the company's magazine for collectors.

In 1994, the PNA's stamps featured the Palestinian flag, architectural scenes, and a souvenir sheet a commemorative of the Gaza–Jericho Agreement. It also issued a series of six official mail stamps.

In 1995, due to pressure from Israel, the 1994 designs were reissued with an overprint of fils as its currency; for an example, see the Gaza-Jericho souvenir sheet pictured.

PNA stamps have honored various individuals: Yasser Arafat (1996), the visiting Pope John Paul II (1996), German politician Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski (1997), Mother Teresa (1997), U.S. President Bill Clinton signing the Wye River Memorandum, French President Jacques Chirac, and artist Ibrahim Hazimeh, whose fours works appear on a souvenir sheet (2001).

The PNA also has commemorated anniversaries of the Arab League with a souvenir sheet, philatelic exhibitions with landscape photographs placed in gutter blocks honoring (1996), a series and sheet for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the return of Hong Kong to China (1997), the first elections within the PNA (a 1996 souvenir sheet), the opening of the Gaza airport, and the PNA's admission to the United Nations (1998). The PNA produced three stamps with inset reproductions of Mandate stamps.

The PNA also issues annual Christmas stamps, such as a nativity scene series on a souvenir sheet (1996).

Themes chosen for PNA stamps include: two series of Palestinian costumes (1997, 2002), local plants (1996), birds, photographs of 19th century Gaza and Hebron, the Canaanite god Baal, Byzantium era mosaics, butterflies,  horses,  tales of the Arabian nights, the airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, cacti (2003), Palestinian universities, folk art (2003). Along its nature themes, stamps were issued with the World Wildlife Fund (2001).

The PNA did not issue any new stamps in 2004 or 2007. In 2008 a set of for stamps commemorating the late poet Mahmoud Darwish has been released.

Forgeries
A number of forgeries of PNA stamps have been sold, for instance on eBay. These illegal stamps include a series on chessmasters Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov and Pope John Paul II, as pictured here. The authentic PNA stamp of the Pope is shown above it.

Philatelic Bureaux
Originally all philatelic services were based at the GPO in Gaza City, but since the political split between the Fatah-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in 2009 there exist two offices selling stamps, FDCs, etc., issued by their respective authorities to collectors:
 Ministry of Telecom & Information Technology (Gaza): General Post Office, Omer al-Mukhtar, Gaza City.
 Palestine Post (West Bank): Post Office al-Bireh

See also
 Postage stamps and postal history of Palestine

References and sources
References

Sources

 Wallach, Josef: The gradual termination of the Israeli postal services in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, May 4–17, 1994: an eye-witness report. Holy Land Postal History. Vol. 3, no. 59, 1994, pp. 1023–1036.
 Wallach, Josef: The transition period of the Palestinian Authority post : part 1 ; pen cancellation & provisional postmarks. Holy Land Postal History. Vol. 4, no. 65/66, 1996, pp. 149–157.
 Wallach, Josef: The transition period of the Palestinian Authority post : part 2 ; the external postal communications from the Palestinian Authority. Holy Land Postal History. Vol. 4, no. 73/74, 1997, pp. 418–429.
 Zywietz, Tobias: Registration marks and labels of the Palestinian National Authority. The Israel Philatelist. Vol. 58, 2007, no. 4, pp. 156–157; and The BAPIP Bulletin. Vol. 17, no. 156, 2007, pp. 1–6.
 Zywietz, Tobias: The postmarks of the Palestinian National Authority : part 1 : a classification of types. The Israel Philatelist. Vol. 60, 2009, no. 3, pp. 104–107; and The BAPIP Bulletin. Vol. 17, no. 159, 2009, pp. 19–23.

External links
 A Short Introduction To The Philately Of Palestine
 Forwarding, Underground Mail during Israeli Occupation
 Palestine Postcode Listing

Palestinian territories
National symbols of the Palestinian National Authority
Palestinian National Authority
Philately of Palestine


Lissotestella cookiana is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Zealand.

References

 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
 Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

cookiana
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1956


Brahim El Bahri (born March 26, 1986 in Taounate, Morocco) is a Moroccan football midfielder. He currently plays for CR Khemis Zemamra.

Career
El Bahri began his career by FAR Rabat was 2006 promoted to first team played here between June 2007, joined than to French Ligue 1 side Le Mans UC 72, who has played 14 games for the reserve team and in January 2008 was promoted to Le Mans.

On 28 January 2009, Le Mans has the 22-year-old Moroccan national team player El Bahri, until the end of the season to give FC Istres.

After playing four years in France, El Bahri returned to Morocco to play for hometown side FUS Rabat in 2011.

International
He made his first cap for Morocco in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Mauritania on 7 June 2008.

International goals
Scores and results list Morocco's goal tally first.

References

External links

Moroccan men's footballers
Morocco men's international footballers
Moroccan expatriate men's footballers
1986 births
Living people
Le Mans FC players
FC Istres players
Fath Union Sport players
CS Sfaxien players
Wydad AC players
Chabab Rif Al Hoceima players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
People from Taounate
Men's association football midfielders
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in France
Moroccan expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia
Morocco men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players


The Seven Pearls is a 1917 American silent action film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier and Donald MacKenzie. Fragments are held by the Library of Congress.

Cast
 Mollie King as Ilma Bay
 Creighton Hale as Harry Drake
 Léon Bary as Perry Mason
 John J. Dunn as Grady
 Henry G. Sell as Handsome Jack
 Floyd Buckley
 Walter P. Lewis

Chapter titles
 The Sultan's Necklace
 The Bowstring
 The Air Peril
 Amid the Clouds
 Between Fire and Water
 The Abandoned Mine
 The False Pearl
 The Man Trap
 The Message on the Wire
 The Hold-Up
 Gems of Jeopardy
 Buried Alive
 Over the Falls
 The Tower of Death
 The Seventh Pearl

Reception
Like many American films of the time, The Seven Pearls was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, in Chapter 5, a cut of the scenes where an airman threw two bombs at an automobile and of the shooting of a man in a ship; in Chapter 7, of the binding of the woman and man, in Chapter 10, the intertitle "Have $100,000 in the safe, etc.", setting fire to the waste paper basket, the holdup of the bank watchman, and all scenes showing detail of the attempt of the bank robbery; in Chapter 11, Reel 1, three scenes of the holdup of the young woman and her abduction, the pointing at woman's side as officer stops the machine, five holdup scenes in room, the holdup of the woman in the house, the binding of the woman, and Reel 2, the entire incident of the acid and candle burning nearby and the intertitle "It will not kill you – it will only spoil your beauty"; and, in Chapter 13, putting the bound and gagged young woman into a piano box; in Chapter 14, two scenes of choking young woman, blow to man's head, throwing man in front of train; in Chapter 15, the detailed method of a man fixing a gas bomb, drilling a safety deposit box, stealing pearls, and choking the young woman.

References

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1917 films
American silent serial films
American black-and-white films
Lost American action adventure films
Pathé Exchange film serials
Films directed by Louis J. Gasnier
1910s action adventure films
1917 lost films
1910s American films
Silent American action adventure films


Guillaume Loriot  (born 21 May 1986 in Le Mans) is a French football midfielder. He currently plays for FC Chambly.

References

External links

French men's footballers
1986 births
Living people
Le Mans FC players
Clermont Foot players
Valenciennes FC players
US Boulogne players
ÉFC Fréjus Saint-Raphaël players
US Orléans players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Footballers from Le Mans
Men's association football midfielders


"This Is the Right Time" is a song by English singer-songwriter and actress Lisa Stansfield from her debut solo studio album, Affection (1989). It was written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, and produced by Coldcut. The song was released as the album's first European single on 31 July 1989, by Arista Records and received positive reviews from music critics. One year later in North America, "This Is the Right Time" was released as the third single from Affection on 30 July 1990.

"This Is the Right Time" was commercially successful in several countries, reaching number eight in Italy, number 12 in Canada, number 13 in the United Kingdom, number 17 in West Germany and number 20 in Austria. In the United States, it peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, number one on the Dance Club Songs chart and number 13 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In 2003, the song was included on Stansfield's first greatest hits compilation album, Biography: The Greatest Hits. In 2014, the remixes of "This Is the Right Time" were included on the deluxe 2CD + DVD re-release of Affection and on her third remix album, People Hold On ... The Remix Anthology (also on The Collection 1989–2003).

Release
"This Is the Right Time" was released as the album's first European single on 31 July 1989, by Arista Records. It included "Affection", "Big Thing" (recorded by Stansfield's 1980s band Blue Zone) and remixes created by David Dorrell, CJ Mackintosh, Paul Witts and Eddie Gordon. One year later, on 30 July 1990, "This Is the Right Time" was issued as the third North American single from Affection. It included the previously unreleased track, "My Apple Heart", and new remixes created by Shep Pettibone and Yvonne Turner. In September 1990, just before Stansfield's European tour, the double A-side single "This Is the Right Time"/"You Can't Deny It" with new US remixes was released in selected European countries. In Japan, "This Is the Right Time" was released on 3 October 1990.

Chart performance
The song was commercially successful on several continents, reaching number eight in Italy, number 12 in Canada, number 13 in the United Kingdom, number 17 in West Germany and number 20 in Austria. In the United States, it peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100, number-one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart and number 13 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Critical reception
AllMusic editor Alex Henderson complimented the song as a "disco masterpiece" and a "love-and-togetherness anthem". Bill Coleman from Billboard commented, "Spirited NRG-etic highlight from Stansfield's debut is uplifting, both musically and lyrically." Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report felt the jazz/soul flavoring in her brand of pop "gives the music a distinctive sound polished off by the stunning vocal talent of this singer/songwriter. With songs this hot, Lisa and her partners Ian Devaney and Andy Morris should be getting lots of time—make that air time in the years ahead." Dennis Hunt from Los Angeles Times remarked that songs like "This Is the Right Time" "reflect the soulfulness of the old Philly sound." Pan-European magazine Music & Media described it as a commercial 70s sounding disco single "convincingly produced" by British electronic music duo Coldcut. David Giles from Music Week praised it as "a very effervescent, bouncy number", reminiscent of Yazz. He noted that "there are nods to Seventies soul in the vocals and the beat is house-influenced, so big bucks beckon."

Gene Sandbloom from The Network Forty stated that this latest single from her Rolling Stone four-star rated LP "maintains Stansfield's stunning soul licks while adding more tempo and house sounds than any of her previously released tracks. A great all-demo track that picks up where "All Around the World" left off, then digs a little deeper." A reviewer from Reading Eagle felt it "boasts an irresistible romantic lilt." Marisa Fox from Spin found that the track was "in a similar vein" like "People Hold On", declaring it as "perfect pop rollicking over a regal R&B rhythm. The tune bubbles up to your head, filled with inspiration and hope." John Nichols from Toledo Blade named "This Is the Right Time" one of the "standout" tracks on Affection, adding that it "has a infectious Latin beat." Joe Brown from The Washington Post also named it one of the best of the tunes, and a "can't-miss club-stormer", noting that it have "a giddy, instant familiarity."

Music video
Two different music videos were made to promote the single. The first version, made for the European market was directed by Big TV!. The second video was produced for the North American market and was directed by Jimmy Fletcher. It features Stansfield cutting off her kiss-curls and performing in front of a blue moon, wearing a black dress. This version was later published on Stansfield's official YouTube channel in December 2012, and had generated more than 7.5 million views as of January 2023.

Track listing and formats

 European 7" single / Japanese CD single
"This Is the Right Time" (Single Version) – 4:12
"Affection" (Edit) – 4:22

 European CD single
"This Is the Right Time" (Single Version) – 4:12
"This Is the Right Time" (Miles Ahead Mix Edit) – 5:25
"Affection" (Edit) – 4:22
"Big Thing" (Extended Edit) – 5:40

 European 12" single
"This Is the Right Time" (Extended Version) – 5:40
"Affection" – 5:52
"This Is the Right Time" (Miles Ahead Mix) – 7:45

 European 12" single (Kick Mix)
"This Is the Right Time" (Kick Mix) – 6:45
"This Is the Right Time" (Club Dub) – 6:15
"Affection" – 5:52

 UK 12" single (Kick Mix)
"This Is the Right Time" (Kick Mix) – 6:45
"This Is the Right Time" (Club Dub) – 6:15
"Big Thing" (Extended) – 6:40

 US 7" single
"This Is the Right Time" (Single Version) – 4:12
"My Apple Heart" – 5:17

 US 12" single
"This Is the Right Time" (Extended Remix) – 9:44
"This Is the Right Time" (Dub Mix) – 4:42
"This Is the Right Time" (The Rhythm Mix) – 7:51
"This Is the Right Time" (The Rhythm Dub) – 6:51
"This Is the Right Time" (The Rhythm Edit) – 4:30

 1990 European 7" single (US Mixes)
"This Is the Right Time" (US Mix) – 4:12
"You Can't Deny It" (US Mix) – 4:22

 1990 European CD single (US Mixes)
"This Is the Right Time" (US Mix) – 4:12
"You Can't Deny It" (Yvonne Turner Mix) – 6:08
"This Is the Right Time" (Shep Pettibone Mix) – 6:33

 1990 European 12" single (US Mixes)
"This Is the Right Time" (Shep Pettibone Mix) – 6:33
"This Is the Right Time" (Yvonne Turner Mix) – 7:51
"You Can't Deny It" (Yvonne Turner Mix) – 6:08

 1990 promotional single
"This Is the Right Time" (Dimitri from Paris Remix) – 5:56

 2006 US digital Dance Vault Mixes
"This Is the Right Time" (Kick Mix) – 6:45
"This Is the Right Time" (Club Dub) – 6:15
"This Is the Right Time" (Single Version) – 4:12
"This Is the Right Time" (Shep 12-inch) – 9:44
"This Is the Right Time" (Yvonne Turner Mix) – 4:30

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also
List of number-one dance singles of 1990 (U.S.)

References

1989 singles
1989 songs
Arista Records singles
Lisa Stansfield songs
Music videos directed by Big T.V.
Songs written by Andy Morris (musician)
Songs written by Ian Devaney
Songs written by Lisa Stansfield


The Diocese of Aveiro () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Portugal. It has existed since 1938. In that year it was formed as territories taken from the historical diocese of Coimbra, diocese of Porto and diocese of Viseu were combined. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Braga. In 2012, it had 274,400 baptized over 314,800 inhabitants.

Its see at Aveiro is also the capital of the district of Aveiro. The bishop is António Francisco dos Santos, appointed in 2006.

List of Bishops of Aveiro
 António Freire Gameiro de Sousa (1774–1799)
 António José Cordeiro (1801–1813)
 Manuel Pacheco de Resende (1815–1837)
 António de Santo Ilídio da Fonseca e Silva (1840
 António Mendes Bello (1881), Diocesan administrator
 João Evangelista de Lima Vidal (1940–1958)
 Domingos da Apresentação Fernandes (1958–1962)
 Manuel de Almeida Trindade (1962–1988)
 António Baltasar Marcelino (January 20, 1988 – September 21, 2006)
 António Francisco dos Santos (September 21, 2006 – February 21, 2014)
 António Manuel Moiterio Ramos (July 4, 2014- )

Territory
The territory covers 1,537 km² and is divided into 101 parishes, grouped into 10 archipresbiterati, corresponding to the 10 municipalities of the district.

Notes

Aveiro
Aveiro, Roman Catholic Diocese of


Modibo Maïga (born 3 September 1987) is a Malian professional footballer who plays as a striker.

A full international for Mali since 2007, he was part of their squads at the four Africa Cup of Nations tournaments, helping them to third place in the 2012 and 2013 editions.

Club career

Raja Casablanca
Born in Bamako, Maïga began his career with Stade Malien in his home country aged 15 in 2003, later moving to Moroccan club Raja CA Casablanca where he spent his late teenage years, winning several competitions, including the Arab Champions League and the Moroccan League.

Le Mans
Maïga made a move to French Ligue 1 side Le Mans aged 20 in 2007. Playing alongside Gervinho and Stéphane Sessègnon, Maïga established himself in French football. Despite Le Mans' relegation to Ligue 2, Maïga scored 15 goals in 88 games. He signed a four-year contract in 2010 with Sochaux and took the number 15 shirt.

Sochaux
During the 2010–11 campaign, Maïga struck up a 30-goal partnership with Brown Ideye, each scoring 15 goals. Between them, they scored over half of Sochaux's league goals. Maïga and Brown were assisted by playmaking duo Marvin Martin and Ryad Boudebouz as Sochaux qualified for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

On 12 August 2011, Maïga announced to his club that he would never again play for Sochaux because he wanted a transfer to Newcastle United. He refused to play against Caen and Nancy, but opted to play against Metalist Kharkiv and Lorient. He and teammate Kévin Anin were refused a move away from the club and were later criticised by supporters, who temporarily withdrew their support in response to poor performances and the attitude of Anin and Maïga.

On 18 October, several newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph and L'Equipe, reported that Maïga was close to a deal to move to Newcastle in the January 2012 transfer window and on 13 December, it was reported that he had passed a medical in London ahead of his move, with the transfer fee believed to be in the region of £7 million. On 16 December, however, L'Equipe reported that Maïga had failed his medical with Newcastle.

West Ham United

On 18 July 2012, after playing out the remainder of the 2011–12 season with Sochaux, Maïga signed on a four-year contract with an option for a further two years, at an undisclosed fee. Maïga made his debut for West Ham on 18 August 2012, coming on as an 81st-minute substitute for Carlton Cole in a 1–0 home win against Aston Villa.

On 28 August, Maïga scored on his full home debut against Crewe Alexandra in the second round of the League Cup to make the score 2–0 following Nicky Maynard's opening goal. He scored his first league goal on 20 October against Southampton in a 4–1 win at Upton Park. His only other league goals for West Ham in his first two seasons with the club came in a 3–1 win against Chelsea—West Ham's first against the club since 2003, on 1 December 2012—and in a 3–3 draw with West Bromwich Albion, with a 20-yard shot on 20 December 2013. On 18 December 2013, Maïga scored the winning goal for West Ham in a 2–1 away win against rivals Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup, marking his first goal in over a year for the club. His form brought criticism from some West Ham supporters but he was defended and praised for his most recent efforts by then-manager Sam Allardyce.

He returned to the West Ham squad from his season-long loan with Metz for the beginning of the 2015–16 season. He played in four of West Ham's six 2015–16 Europa League qualifying games, against Birkirkara and Astra Giurgiu, without scoring. On 9 August, he played in his first Premier League game of the season, coming on as a 90th-minute substitute for Diafra Sakho in a 2–0 away win against Arsenal. In the third Premier League game of the season, on 22 August against AFC Bournemouth, Maïga scored West Ham's third goal in a 3–4 defeat in what was to be his last game for the club.

Queens Park Rangers (loan)
On 31 January 2014, Maïga joined Queens Park Rangers on loan for the remainder of the 2013–14 season. He made his debut on 1 February in a draw against Burnley. Coming on as a 68th-minute substitute for Andrew Johnson, Maïga scored in the 79th minute to make the score 3–3, the final score. It was his only goal for QPR.

Metz (loan)
In August 2014, Maïga joined French club Metz on a season-long loan with an option to make the loan a permanent transfer in the summer of 2015. He scored his debut goals for Metz on 1 November, scoring twice in a 3–2 home win against Caen. On 4 April 2015, Maïga scored a hat-trick for Metz as they defeated Toulouse 3–2. Maïga scored nine league goals in 25 games for Metz whilst on loan, while they finished 19th in Ligue 1 and were relegated to Ligue 2.

Al-Nassr
In August 2015, Maïga signed a two-year contract for Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr for an undisclosed fee.

Al-Ittihad Kalba
In October 2016, Maïga signed for UAE Arabian Gulf League club Al-Ittihad Kalba after his release from Al-Nassr in July 2016.

Ajman Club
In September 2017, Maïga signed for UAE Arabian Gulf League club Ajman for a free transfer.

Hajer
On 3 September 2021, Maïga joined Saudi club Hajer. On 23 January 2023, Maïga was released from his contract.

Al-Jeel
On 24 January 2023, Maïga joined Saudi club Al-Jeel.

International career

Maïga plays for Mali, making his debut on 17 November 2007 in a 2–3 friendly defeat to Senegal at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes, France, as a 59th-minute substitute for Souleymane Dembélé. His first goal came on 21 June 2009 in World Cup qualification, equalising in a 3–1 victory over Benin at the Stade du 26 Mars in Bamako. He wore the number 10 shirt at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, playing all three games of a group stage elimination in Angola.

He was called up again to the Mali squad for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, but in February 2012 whilst in Gabon participating in the competition, he contracted malaria and was hospitalized in Libreville. He missed the remainder of the tournament, in which his nation came third. The following year, he again helped the team to the same position in the tournament.

At the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, Maïga headed the equaliser in a 1–1 draw against Guinea in the final Group D game, but the opponents advanced on draw of lots.

Career statistics

Club

International

As of match played 4 June 2016. Mali score listed first, score column indicates score after each Maïga goal.

Honours
Mali
Africa Cup of Nations bronze: 2013

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Footballers from Bamako
Malian men's footballers
Malian expatriate men's footballers
Mali men's international footballers
Stade Malien players
Raja CA players
Le Mans FC players
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
West Ham United F.C. players
Queens Park Rangers F.C. players
FC Metz players
Al Nassr FC players
Ittihad Kalba FC players
Ajman Club players
Modibo Maiga
Hajer FC players
Al-Jeel Club players
Ligue 1 players
Premier League players
Saudi Pro League players
UAE Pro League players
Modibo Maiga
Saudi First Division League players
Saudi Second Division players
2010 Africa Cup of Nations players
2012 Africa Cup of Nations players
2013 Africa Cup of Nations players
English Football League players
2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
Expatriate men's footballers in Morocco
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Morocco
Malian expatriate sportspeople in France
Malian expatriate sportspeople in England
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Malian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Thailand
Men's association football forwards
21st-century Malian people


The Michigan Railroad Commission was an agency in the state of Michigan which regulated the operations of railroads within the state. It was established by the Michigan Legislature in 1873; in 1919 it was abolished and its functions transferred to a new body, the Michigan Public Utilities Commission.

History
The office was established in 1873 as part of a general reform of the state's railroad laws. One requirement was that every common carrier railroad submit an annual report to the commission, which were then collected and published. These reports were published every year from 1873 until the abolition of the commission in 1919, and remain an important resource for historians. From 1905 onward the commissioner had some measure of control over the state police; this need was apparently prompted by a sharp increase in accidents involving the new electric interurbans.

In 1907 a revision of the law expanded the office; the single commissioner was replaced a group of three. This was prompted by the urging of then-Commissioner Chase Osborn, who believed the system of a single commissioner was antiquated that a "modern type" of commission with greater powers of intervention was necessary. To provide greater continuity in policy, the three commissioners would serve six-year terms at staggered intervals. The commission also received the power to enforce the state's rate regulations and to arbitrate disputes between companies concerning the application of those rates. The commission remained so structured until its replacement in 1919 by the Michigan Public Utilities Commission, which did not retain the title, nor did any of the sitting railroad commissioners serve on the new body.

Duties
The general railroad law of 1873 specified a number of rights and responsibilities for the "Commissioner of Railroads", including but not limited to:
Reporting: Every railroad company was required by law to furnish a report of its operations to the commissioner including disposition of capital stock, assets and liabilities, company officers, debt, the value and disposition of its physical plant (including roadbed, bridges, stations, rolling stock and track), the number of miles operated by its trains during the preceding year, earnings and expenses broken down by month and source, expenditures on improvements and investments, rates charged for passenger and freight traffic, accidents on its lines and operating agreements with other companies. In turn, the commissioner was required to publish these reports.
Investigation: the commissioner was empowered by the act to inquire into the affairs of railroad companies independent of the annual reports, and permitted to use subpoenas to compel testimony from company officials.
Inspection: the commissioner was empowered to inspect a company's physical plant, and to restrict the operation of passenger trains over sections of a line deemed unsafe. In 1886 and again in 1893, the commission closed the St. Joseph Valley Railway to passenger traffic because of the deterioration of the roadbed.

Railroad commissioners
From 1873 until 1907 a single commissioner was appointed by the Governor of Michigan. From 1907 until 1919 the governor appointed a body of three.

Notes

References

External links
GRAND TRUNK R. CO. OF CANADA v. MICHIGAN RAILROAD COMMISSION231 U.S. 457, a case heard by the United States Supreme Court which challenged the constitutionality of the commission.

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Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission


Lissotestella consobrina is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Zealand.

References

 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

consobrina
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1940


Cyriaque Louvion (born 24 July 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Championnat National 2 club Thonon Evian.

Club career
On 8 August 2019, Louvion left Tours to join Thonon Evian.

Honours
Thonon Evian

 Championnat National 3: 2021–22
 Régional 1 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: 2019–20

Notes

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
French men's footballers
French expatriate men's footballers
France men's youth international footballers
Olympique Lyonnais players
OGC Nice players
AS Cannes players
Le Mans FC players
Le Havre AC players
Ergotelis F.C. players
Tours FC players
Thonon Evian Grand Genève FC players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
Régional 1 players
Men's association football defenders
French expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Footballers from Toulouse


Elisabeth Auguste of Sulzbach (Elisabeth Auguste; 17 January 1721 – 17 August 1794) was the eldest granddaughter of the Elector of the Palatinate Charles III Philip, and by her marriage to Elector Palatine Charles IV Theodore, Electress Palatine and later Electress of Bavaria.

Biography

Elisabeth Auguste's parents were Joseph Charles of Sulzbach (1694–1729) and Elisabeth Auguste of Neuburg (1693–1728), the latter the daughter of Elector Charles III Philip. On 17 January 1742, she married her cousin Charles Theodore of Sulzbach, who became Elector of the Palatinate in 1742 and Elector of Bavaria in 1777.

The marriage was arranged to avoid a potential inheritance dispute within the different family branches. While Charles Theodore was described as learned and interested in the enlightenment, Elisabeth Augusta was described as vivacious, pleasure loving, uneducated and shallow. During the first half of their marriage, she is said to have dominated her spouse, and during the Seven Years' War, she exerted influence over the Palatine foreign policy. In 1760, however, it was reported that Charles Theodor was beginning to free himself from her dominance.

Elisabeth Auguste bore only one child, a son (christened Francis Louis Joseph) on 28 June 1762, twenty years after their marriage; but the long-awaited son and heir to the Palatinate died just one day after his birth.  The couple thereafter largely lived apart, each one taking lovers of their own. Divorce was never contemplated. Due to her not having a child and unable to have another legitimate child due to the discontinued marital sexual relations, she had no power base at court after she had lost her personal influence over her spouse. In 1764, Charles Theodor had an official mistress, the dancer Françoise Despres-Verneuil, who was succeeded by Josefa Seiffert in 1766, which was a humiliation for Elisabeth Auguste.

Elisabeth Auguste moved to her own residence, Schloss Oggersheim, where she lived permanently with her own court from 1768, only making formal visits to the court of her spouse in winter: after 1781, she discontinued also with these visits. She did not like the Bavarian court, which she regarded to be too spartan for her taste. She was quite popular in the Palatinate, especially since Charles Theodor moved to Bavaria in 1777.

At the end of 1793, in the face of advancing French troops, Elisabeth Auguste fled to Weinheim, where she died in 1794.  Her husband subsequently married Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este.

Honours
 : First Sovereign of the Order of Saint Elizabeth (feminine order)

Issue

Count Palatine Franz Ludwig Joseph of Sulzbach (28 June 1762 – 29 June 1762) died in infancy.

Ancestry

Bibliography

 Lebenslust und Frömmigkeit, Kurfürst Carl Theodor zwischen Barock und Aufklärung, Handbuch  und Ausstellungskatalog
 Karl Kreuter, Kurfüstin Elisabeth Auguste von Pfalz-Bayern 1727 - 1794, Oggersheim 1919

Electresses of the Palatinate
1721 births
1794 deaths
House of Wittelsbach
Countesses Palatine of Sulzbach
Electresses of Bavaria
Electoral Princesses of Bavaria
Duchesses of Jülich
Duchesses of Berg
Electoral Princesses of the Palatinate
Burials at St. Michael's Church, Munich


Rodolphe Roche  (born 14 June 1979) is a French former professional football who played as a goalkeeper. During his 18-year playing career, he represented Montluçon, Châteauroux, Le Mans, Saint-Louis Neuweg, Chamois Niortais and Châteauroux.

Career statistics

References

1979 births
Living people
People from Montluçon
Footballers from Allier
French men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Montluçon Football players
LB Châteauroux players
Le Mans FC players
FC Saint-Louis Neuweg players
Chamois Niortais F.C. players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players


Trixis californica , the American threefold or American trixis, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the southwestern United States in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and in Mexico in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.

Trixis californica is one of 22 species in Trixis, a genus that occurs in North America, Central America, the West Indies, northern Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil.

Description
Trixis californica is a sprawling shrub or subshrub with flower heads with about 15 bright yellow flowers each. The inflorescence is terminal, usually a panicle or corymb, but sometimes the heads are borne singly at the tips of branches. Leaves are lance-shaped (lanceolate), dark green, 2–11 cm long, and 0.5–3 cm wide. This species occurs from sea level to 5000 feet in elevation. Its habitat types include rocky hillsides, thorn scrub, and desert washes and brush. In the western Sonoran Desert it is exclusive to washes and only grows amongst other plants. In the Colorado Desert it grows in creosote scrub. It grows in scrub in the Yuma Desert, east of the Colorado River. Though it usually flowers between February and October, it may bloom nearly year-round depending on winter weather conditions.

Uses
The leaves of this species were smoked for pleasure by the Seri of Mexico.  Other uses include administration as an aid to childbirth.

Images

References

 Anderson, C. 1972. A monograph of the Mexican and Central American species of Trixis (Compositae). Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 22(3): 1–68.
 C. M. Hogan, ed. 2010.  Trixis californica . Encyclopedia of Life.

External links

Trixis californica treatment. The Jepson Manual.
Trixis californica. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Trixis californica. Northern Arizona Flora.
Trixis californica photo gallery. CalPhotos.

californica
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Flora of Arizona
Flora of New Mexico
Flora of Texas
Flora of Baja California
Flora of Chihuahua (state)
Flora of Coahuila
Flora of Durango
Flora of Nuevo León
Flora of Sinaloa
Flora of Sonora
Flora of Tamaulipas
Flora of Zacatecas
Flora of the Chihuahuan Desert
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Flora of the Rio Grande valleys
Least concern flora of North America
Least concern flora of the United States
Plants described in 1862


Lajos Winkler (May 21, 1863 – April 14, 1939) was a Hungarian analytical chemist.  He is best known  today for his discovery of the Winkler method for the measurement of oxygen dissolved in water.

Life

Relatively little is in print in English concerning the life of Lajos Winkler. Winkler studied science at the Budapest University of Science, receiving his doctorate there in 1890, while working with Carl von Than.  He stayed on to work as a lecturer, among other positions, and directed the Institute of Chemistry, starting in 1909, for more than 25 years.  He is said to have published several hundred papers, to have helped found the Hungarian Journal of Chemistry, and to have been a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.  See also the study of Vamos for more information and references.

Dissolved oxygen

Natural water contains molecular oxygen (O2), necessary for life in ponds, rivers, and so on.  A common nineteenth-century test for determining dissolved oxygen, as described by Alfred Wanklyn, involved boiling the water sample and collecting, over mercury, the gases released, for subsequent analysis.

In 1888, while still a doctoral student, Lajos Winkler discovered a much safer, and more precise, method of dissolved-oxygen analysis, which is still widely used today.   The Winkler method uses the dissolved oxygen to convert manganese(II) hydroxide into manganese(III) species, and then analyzing for the latter by titration.

See also

 Winkler bottle

Further reading

References

External links
 Brief biographical material
 Picture of Winkler (text in Hungarian)

 - See also the complete on-line copy here.

 - Uses a modified Winkler method and shows a Winkler bottle

1863 births
1939 deaths
Hungarian chemists
Chemists from Austria-Hungary


Hassan Yebda (; born 14 May 1984) is a former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

During his professional career, he played in France, Portugal, England, Italy and Spain, representing a host of clubs.

Yebda appeared for France at youth level, but opted to play for Algeria as a senior in August 2009, taking advantage of FIFA's new ruling which allowed him to change his national allegiance despite being older than 21 years of age. He represented the latter national team in two World Cups and the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.

Club career

France
Born in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, Yebda emerged through AJ Auxerre's youth system, but made no appearances for the first team during his stint, playing regularly for the reserves in the Championnat de France amateur.

In January 2006, he was loaned to Ligue 2's Stade Lavallois. In the same month of the following year, Yebda was definitely released and moved to Le Mans UC72, making his Ligue 1 debut on 17 February 2007 in a 2–0 away loss against Sochaux. Brought on in the 70th minute, he scored an own goal ten minutes later, in his only appearance of the season.

Benfica
In 2007–08, Yebda appeared regularly for Le Mans, helping the team achieve a comfortable ninth place in the league. On 29 May 2008, he signed a four-year contract with S.L. Benfica on a free transfer. A constant midfield fixture, he was voted the Primeira Liga's Player of the Month in September and, in February 2009, he netted his first league goal for the Lisbon club in a 1–1 league draw at FC Porto.

Yebda made a move to Premier League side Portsmouth on 1 September 2009, on a season-long loan. He scored his first goal on 3 October, against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux Stadium, which was the winner in their first victory of the campaign; his second came in a 2–1 away win against Burnley on 27 February 2010, with Pompey being eventually relegated. That season Portsmouth also reached the FA Cup final although Yebda himself did not play in the final due to injury.

On 27 August 2010, Yebda was again loaned, joining S.S.C. Napoli in a season-long move. He netted his first goal the following 18 January, in a 2–1 home win against Bologna for the Coppa Italia; on 4 July 2011, the player announced that he would not be returning to the Serie A team.

Granada
On 22 August 2011, Yebda joined Granada CF in Spain, signing a three-year contract. He made his official debut five days later, coming as a second-half substitute in a 1–0 La Liga home loss against Real Betis.

Yebda's spell in Andalusia was greatly undermined by injury problems.

Later years
On 15 August 2014, Yebda signed a one-year deal with UAE Arabian Gulf League side Fujairah FC. On 2 July 2016, after one year without a club, the 32-year-old returned to Portugal and joined C.F. Os Belenenses for one season.

International career
Yebda represented France at youth levels, being part of the squad at the victorious 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship tournament held in Trinidad and Tobago. As a senior, however, he switched allegiances to Algeria, first being picked for a match against Zambia in September 2009, where he did not play; he finally made his debut on 11 October, in a 3–1 win over Rwanda for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Yebda was summoned for the Algerian squad at the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, playing (and starting) all the matches for the eventual semi-finalists. In June, he was selected to the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, again playing all the games: during the tournament he partnered Mehdi Lacen (another defensive midfielder) as the national team failed to score a goal, earning one point.

On 27 March 2011, Yebda scored his first goal for Algeria, in a 1–0 win against Morocco for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier where he netted in the sixth minute from a penalty kick. He was also selected to the 2014 World Cup by coach Vahid Halilhodžić, and featured 19 minutes in the last group stage match against Russia to help his team hold on to the 1–1 draw and reach the last 16.

Personal life
Yebda was born to a family from the village of Taourirt Adène in the Tizi Ouzou Province in the Kabylie region of Algeria. He understands both Kabyle and Arabic, but does not speak either language fluently.

Career statistics

Club

International
Scores and results list Algeria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Yebda goal.

Honours
Benfica
Taça da Liga: 2008–09

Portsmouth
FA Cup runner-up: 2009–10

France U 17
FIFA U-17 World Cup: 2001

Individual
SJPF Player of the Month: September 2008

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
People from Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne
Footballers from Val-de-Marne
French sportspeople of Algerian descent
French people of Kabyle descent
Kabyle people
French men's footballers
Algerian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
AJ Auxerre players
Stade Lavallois players
Le Mans FC players
Primeira Liga players
S.L. Benfica footballers
C.F. Os Belenenses players
Premier League players
Portsmouth F.C. players
Serie A players
SSC Napoli players
Udinese Calcio players
La Liga players
Granada CF footballers
UAE Pro League players
Fujairah FC players
France men's youth international footballers
Algeria men's international footballers
2010 Africa Cup of Nations players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
2014 FIFA World Cup players
Algerian expatriate men's footballers
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
French expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in England
French expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
French expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
French expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Algerian expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
French expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates
Expatriate men's footballers in the United Arab Emirates


Scott Baker (born May 18, 1970) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played one game in Major League Baseball (MLB) and one season in the Korea Baseball Organization.

Career
A graduate of Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada, Baker played his only major league game for the Oakland Athletics on July 17, 1995. He played with the Akron Aeros in . In , he played for the KBO's Samsung Lions. He returned to play for the Mexican League's Guerreros de Oaxaca in , then played for various teams in the independent Western Baseball League until .

External links

Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization

1970 births
Living people
Akron Aeros players
Algodoneros de Unión Laguna players
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
American expatriate baseball players in South Korea
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Baseball players from San Jose, California
Chico Heat players
Diablos Rojos del México players
Edmonton Trappers players
Grays Harbor Gulls players
Guerreros de Oaxaca players
Huntsville Stars players
Johnson City Cardinals players
KBO League pitchers
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mexican League baseball pitchers
Oakland Athletics players
Samsung Lions players
Savannah Cardinals players
Solano Steelheads players
St. Petersburg Cardinals players
Taft Cougars baseball players
Tri-City Posse players


Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz (October 22, 1798 – November 6, 1857) was a prominent Peruvian scientist, geologist, mineralogist, chemist, archaeologist, politician and diplomat. His publications about his discovery of Humboldtine (an iron-oxalate), demonstrating the existence of organic-minerals; about deposits of copper and sodium nitrate (saltpeter) near Tarapacá in the Atacama Desert; about bird-guano and coal in Peru and their possibilities of industrialization as well were forward-looking and made him a pioneer of mining education in South America and the most notable Peruvian scientist of the 19th century.

Biographical highlights
Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz was born in Arequipa, Peru. His parents were Antonio Salvador de Rivero y Araníbar, captain in the Spanish Royal Army in the viceroyalty of Peru, and Maria Brígida de Ustariz y Zúñiga.

Rivero was born in a liberal Creole family in southern Peru at the end of the colonial period. He was first educated at the Seminary of San Jerónimo in Arequipa. After noticing his aptitudes and qualifications, his family sent him to Europe and, at the age of twelve in 1810, he started his European education in England, a major rival of Spain at the dawn of the wars of independence. He attended a Catholic School directed by Dr. Dowling in London. There, he focused on mathematics, physics, and languages (English, French, and German). Once he completed secondary school and some advanced classes in 1817, he moved to France, where he studied at the École Polytechnique and then the École des Mines (Mines ParisTech), both in Paris. At the École des Mines, he learned from many of the most prominent scientists of that time and specialized in mineralogy and chemistry. Among his professors, there were Joseph Louis Proust, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Alexandre Brongniart, Pierre Berthier, and René Just Haüy. A major event in Rivero's life was his encounter with Alexander von Humboldt. The German savant provided him with letters of recommendation that opened to him the doors of several European academic circles. Among them, Rivero completed his mineralogical training at the Freiberg School of Mines, Humboldt's alma mater, where he conducted his first fieldwork. During this long trip throughout Europe, he also visited mines in France and Spain, where he further improved his knowledge of mining techniques.

His return to the Americas also occurred under the tutelage of Humboldt. In 1822, Francisco Antonio Zea delivered a Simon Bolívar's letter to Humboldt. There Bolívar asked Humboldt to send a scientific mission to both investigate the natural resources of the new Republic of the Gran Colombia and to establish a museum of natural history as well as a mining school. The German scholar, who saw Rivero as a prominent disciple, named him head of the mission. After three years in which he maintained a constant correspondence with his European colleagues, Rivero left Colombia because of a lack of economic and political support. Bolívar then recommended his recruitment to the Peruvian government for the development of similar projects. From 1826 onwards, Rivero undertook several enterprises in his home country: he fostered a scientific journal, founded the first National Museum, created the School of Mines, served as prefect in mining regions, published extensively on mineral resources, and wrote the first antiquarian study of postcolonial Peru: Antigüedades peruanas. This book was published in Vienna in 1851 upon his return to Europe and was translated into English, French, and German soon after. Reinserted in the European academic world, he gave several talks on Peruvian resources and antiquities until he died in Paris in 1857, directly after publishing a collection of his scientific memoirs in Brussels.

Mariano Eduardo married on February 18, 1840, with Agueda Escolástica Pacheco de Salas y Salazar. They had four children, but only their daughters Candelaria and Francisca Guillermina survived childhood.

Scientific career
He discovered a new mineral originated in Bohemia (now Czech Republic) and called it Humboldtine (an iron-oxalate), in honor to Alexander von Humboldt, his mentor and friend. He published his first scientific works about that issue among others in 1821 in France.

The president of Gran-Colombia, the liberator Simón Bolívar, decided to contract European scientists to investigate the available sources of his new formed nation, and to push with that the development of natural sciences and mining technology in South America at all. Bolivar's main target of that project was to develop the economy of the young nation. The minister of Gran-Colombia in Paris, Francisco Antonio Zea, contracted Mariano Eduardo in May 1822, who had been highly recommended by Alexander von Humboldt, to found and to manage a mining school in Bogotá together with a group of young European scientists. Therefore, Mariano Eduardo made the necessary trip preparation. He bought some laboratory equipment and ordered constructions of precisions instruments for certain measurements.

Mariano Eduardo returned to South America and arrived in November 1822 at La Guaira, Venezuela with the French chemist Jean Baptiste Boussingault. They studied in Venezuela the thermal springs of Mariara and Onoto, the exploitation of mineral salts in Urao Lake and the secretion of the cow-tree (this tree produces drinkable milk) and he also made barometric observations. They left Venezuela and arrived in Bogotá, Colombia, in May 1823 where encountered with general Bolivar. He inaugurated in Bogotá a museum of natural history and a mining school in November 1823 as its first director. Mariano Eduardo and his scientific group did expeditions to the orient plain of Colombia. He published the report Itinerario de los Llanos de San Martín y del río Meta in his Colección de memorias científicas …, printed in 1857.

Simón Bolívar (president of Gran-Colombia 1819-1830 and also president of Peru 1824-1827) enabled Manuel Eduardo's return to his home country Peru. Mariano Eduardo left Bogotá and arrived in Lima at the end of 1825. The government of Peru appointed him in March 1826 as general director of mining, agriculture, public instruction and museum. He founded in 1828 the first Mining School of Lima (today Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería) and the first National Museum of Natural History, Antiquities and History of Peru (today Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú).

Mariano Eduardo made scientific studies, traveled through Peru and founded in Lima with Nicolas Fernandez de Piérola a journal of natural sciences (Memorial de Ciencias Naturales y de Industria Nacional y Extranjera), where he published between 1827 and 1829 a lot of scientific articles and papers about amalgamation of silver, exploitation of guano, analysis of the mineral water from the thermal springs of Yura and other locations in Arequipa, reports of the visited mine areas in Peru and description of gold, silver and ceramic idols.

In 1829 general Antonio Gutiérrez de la Fuente made a revolt against the government and became the new president of Peru. He cut the position of the direction of mining, because of actual economic crisis. This and the unstable political situation in Peru induced Mariano Eduardo to leave Peru and to immigrate to Chile, where he made studies about meteorology, mineralogy and geology.

Political career
He returned to Peru in 1832 and got back to his previous position, continued his scientific activities and started in addition a political career. He had been elected in 1832 as a deputy to the congress for the province of Caylloma (department of Arequipa). General Felipe Santiago Salaverry, president of Peru (1835–1836), appointed him in 1835 to become his counselor.
Under the presidency of general Agustín Gamarra (1838–1841) Mariano Eduardo was appointed as inspector of public works. In 1839 he was custom chief officer of Arica (today Chile). During the presidency of marshal Ramón Castilla (1844–1851 and 1855–1862) Mariano Eduardo was appointed in 1845 to become governor of Junín Region (central Peru) and in 1848 governor of the department of Moquegua (south Peru). As governor of Junin he founded the city of San Ramón and a central mining school in Huánuco as well.

Diplomatic career
The president of Peru, marshal Ramón Castilla, appointed him in 1851 as General Consul in Belgium. He was awarded by the king of Belgium with the Leopold Order and by the king of Denmark with the Dannebrog Order in appreciation his diplomatic performance.

He published in Vienna 1851 with Johann Jakob von Tschudi, acting as co-author, their common publication Antigüedades Peruanas about the Inca Empire. That book was a profound work about the Inca Empire, its history, origin, government system, scientific knowledge, language, religion, customs and monuments.
He published in Brussels 1857 his work Colección de memorias científicas, agrícolas e industriales publicadas en distintas épocas, etc.. That work, a book in 2 volumes, was a collection of his already published articles about natural science, geology, mineralogy, mining and agriculture.
Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz died in Paris on November 22, 1857.

Published works
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de /1821/ "Note sur une combinaison de l'acide oxalique avec le fer trouve a Kolowsereux, prés Belin, en Bohême". Annales de chimie et de physique, Paris, 18 : 207-210
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de /1821/ "Note sur le cuivre muriate du Pérou, et sur le nitrate de soude trouve dans le district d’Atacama, prés du port de Iquique". Annales de chimie et de physique, Paris, 18 : 442-443
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de /1821/ "Note sur le nitrate de soude découvert dans le district de Tarapacá au Pérou". Annales de Mines, Paris, 6 : 596
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de and Boussingault, J.B. /1824/ "Mémoire sur différentes masses de Fer qui ont trouvés sur la Cordillère orientale des Andes". Annales de chimie et de physique, 25:438-443
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de and Boussingault, J.B. /1825/ "Mémoire sur le fait vénéneux de l’hura crépitant". Annales de chimie et de physique, 28: 430-435
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de /1825/ "Mémoire sur l'urao (carbonate de soude)". Annales de chimie et de physique, Paris, 29: 110-111
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de /1827/ Memoria sobre las aguas minerales de Yura y de otras partes cercanas a Arequipa, con aplicaciones médicas por los ss Vargas, J.M. y Adriazola Arve, J.M,  Lima
Rivero y Ustariz, Mariano Eduardo de and Fernández de Piérola, Nicolás / 1827-1829/ Memorial de Ciencias Naturales y de Industria Nacional y Extranjera. Imprenta de Instrucción Primaria, Lima (12 Journals published between 1827 and 1829)
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de /1836/ "Notice géologique sur Santiago de Chile". Annales des mines, Paris, 10: 279-288
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de / 1841/ Antigüedades Peruanas, Lima, Imp. de José Masias.
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de / 1848/ Memoria sobre el rico mineral de azogue de Huancavelica, Lima, Imp. de José Masias
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de and Tschudi, Johann Jakob von / 1851/ Antigüedades Peruanas, Viena, Imprenta Imperial de la Corte y Estado
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de / 1853/ Peruvian Antiquities … translated into English from the original by F. L. Hawks, etc., New York
Rivero y Ustariz, M. de / 1857/ Colección de memorias científicas, agrícolas e industriales publicadas en distintas épocas, etc., Brussels, Printer. H. Goemaere, 2 volume

Bibliography

External links
 Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustariz, Pioneer

1798 births
1857 deaths
Peruvian people of Spanish descent
Peruvian archaeologists
Peruvian diplomats
Peruvian scientists
Peruvian chemists
Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Peru
Mines Paris - PSL alumni


Robert Francis Patrick Cronin FRCPC FACP FRCP (1 September 1926 – 13 January 2007) was a cardiologist, researcher, professor, and healthcare consultant, who served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University from 1972 to 1977.

Cronin was born in London, the son of the celebrated Scottish writer and doctor, A.J. Cronin, and May Gibson, also a physician. His family moved to the United States at the outbreak of World War II, eventually moving to Greenwich, Connecticut. He had been a boarder at Ampleforth College in England, and upon moving to the U.S., he attended Portsmouth Abbey School.  One of his classmates there was Robert F. Kennedy, and Cronin later dated Ethel Skakel before her marriage to Kennedy.

Having skipped a few grades, he enrolled at Princeton University at the age of sixteen, though he interrupted his study when he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943, training as a tail gunner at the Borden Base.  He transferred to the British Army between 1945 and 1947, where he helped with demilitarization and reconstruction in England. In January 1948, Cronin re-enrolled at Princeton and finished two more years before attending medical school at McGill and earning his MD in 1953.  He received his MRCP in 1955 and went to London to train at Hammersmith Hospital and the Brompton Hospital. Upon his return to Canada, he worked at the Montreal General Hospital as a cardiologist, an internist, and a researcher.

Cronin became widely recognized for his work in developing countries.  In the early 1960s, he initiated an exchange program between McGill and local doctors in Nairobi, Kenya, and he later worked for the Osler Medical Aid Foundation, now known as the McGill International Health Initiative. Additionally, he collaborated with the Canadian International Development Agency to set up student exchange programs with Kenya, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Ethiopia, Pakistan and Tunisia. Known for his eye for logistics, Cronin was recruited by the Aga Khan in 1976, in an advisory capacity, to help set up a teaching hospital in Karachi.  For the next fifteen years, he continued to work for the Aga Khan Health Services, overseeing the construction and operation of hospitals and healthcare facilities in Tanzania, Pakistan, and Nairobi, as well as setting up their curriculum for educating medical personnel.

Cronin later learned that he had not received his wartime equivalency degree at Princeton, as these were only conferred upon American students. Not having his undergraduate degree always bothered him, so in 1999, at the age of seventy-three, he enrolled once again at Princeton in order to resume the Bachelor of Arts degree which he had begun fifty years earlier. He took three courses, wrote his senior thesis, and was finally awarded his degree on 30 May 2000. He received an A.B. in history after completing a 73-page long senior thesis, titled "Tainted Blood: A Brief History of Blood Transfusion from the 17th Century Onwards", under the supervision of Angela Creager. In 2005, having taken 52 years and 111 days to earn this degree, he received a citation in the Guinness Book of World Records as the student who had spent the longest time in an undergraduate program.

In 1954, Cronin married a Canadian, Sis Robertson, and they had three children. He died of pneumonia on 13 January 2007, in Territet, Montreux, Switzerland.

References

External links
McGill Reporter

1926 births
2007 deaths
20th-century English medical doctors
British Army personnel of World War II
British cardiologists
Canadian university and college faculty deans
Deaths from pneumonia in Switzerland
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
McGill University Faculty of Medicine alumni
Academic staff of McGill University
Medical doctors from London
Physicians from Montreal
Princeton University alumni
British emigrants to the United States
Portsmouth Abbey School alumni
Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II
People educated at Ampleforth College


The GSG-5 is a semi-automatic rimfire rifle chambered for the .22 Long Rifle cartridge. It is built by German Sport Guns GmbH, an airsoft wholesaler located in Ense-Höingen, Germany. It was unveiled at the IWA & Outdoor Classics trade show in March 2007 following the legalization of previously forbidden military-style weapons in Germany.

This rifle externally resembles the Heckler & Koch MP5 style submachine gun. German Sport Guns produces its own line of accessories, including retractable stocks and railed handguards. Many airsoft MP5 style accessories may also be used on the GSG-5. Magazines for the GSG-5 are available in 2-round, 10-round, 15-round, 22-round and 110-round drum configurations.

The GSG-5 utilizes the H&K style drum sight that is adjustable for windage. German Sport Guns provides a weaver rail attachment that slides onto the top of the frame, allowing other sighting systems to be added.

Lawsuit

In 2009, Heckler & Koch instituted a lawsuit against German Sport Guns and American Tactical Imports, Inc. over "trade dress infringements." The suit was settled on October 16, 2009, the outcome being that GSG will stop manufacturing the guns and ATI, Inc., will stop importing them. Support will continue for all previously sold rifles. (Heckler and Koch has instituted a spate of lawsuits lately against anyone copying any of the weapons they developed from the CETME, which is itself an outgrowth of the StG 45 assault rifle developed by the Wehrmacht in World War II.)

Fake Suppressor Reclassified

In January 2010, in the United States; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives  ruled that the previously approved barrel shroud included with the GSG 5 SD to give the cosmetic appearance of a real suppressor (or "silencer") is a true suppressor, despite it being incapable of functioning as a suppressor, and therefore is regulated under the National Firearms Act. ATI, Inc. instituted a recall of the item.

Owners can check to see if their firearm is affected by the recall via this web site

Variants
The GSG-5 is produced in several different versions:

GSG-5 A: With a  barrel.
GSG-5 L: Equipped with a  barrel, designed to meet the legal requirements for minimum barrel length and overall length in several countries (including the United States). The longer barrel is covered with a barrel shroud (mock suppressor) for aesthetic purposes.
GSG-5 SD:Similar to GSG-5 L but with both a larger fore grip and mock suppressor, similar in look to a MP5-SD.  the GSG-5 SD is the subject of the above-mentioned ATF ruling, and owners can check to see if their GSG-5 is affected via this web site.
GSG-5 P: Pistol variant with an endcap instead of a buttstock. Barrel length is identical to the "A" version.
GSG-5 PK: Similar to the GSG-5 P, but with a  barrel and shorter handguard.

References

External links
German Sports Guns GMBH GSG-5 (Owners Manual)
The GSG fun gun: a rimfire clone of the HK MP-5 - Guns Magazine
Photos of German Sport Guns GSG-5PK

.22 LR semi-automatic rifles


Mathieu Coutadeur  (born 20 March 1986) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Le Mans.

Club career
Coutadeur played for his hometown club Le Mans between 2005 and 2009. He played an important role in Le Mans' 2007–08 season, helping them finish in the top half of Ligue 1. He played over 100 games for the club before changing clubs.

On 31 August 2009, Coutadeur signed a four-year contract with Monaco for €4 million.

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Footballers from Le Mans
Men's association football midfielders
French men's footballers
France men's youth international footballers
France men's under-21 international footballers
Ligue 1 players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
Cypriot First Division players
Ligue 2 players
Le Mans FC players
AS Monaco FC players
FC Lorient players
AEL Limassol players
Stade Lavallois players
AC Ajaccio players
French expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
French expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus


Hands Up is a lost 1918 American adventure film serial directed by Louis J. Gasnier and James W. Horne. The serial was Ruth Roland's breakthrough role.

Plot

A newspaperwoman finds trouble aplenty when an Inca tribe believes her to be the reincarnation of their long-lost princess.

Cast
 Ruth Roland as Echo Delane.
 George Larkin as Hands Up
 George Chesebro as Hands Up
 Easter Walters as Judith Strange
 William A. Carroll as Sam Killman / Omar the High Priest
 George Gebhardt as The Grand Envoy
 W. E. Lawrence as Prince Pampas (as William E. Lawrence)
 Thomas Jefferson
 Monte Blue

Chapter titles
The serial consisted of fifteen episodes, released from August 18 to November 24, 1918:
 Bride of the Sun
 The Missing Prince
 The Phantom and the Girl
 The Phantom's Trail
 The Runaway Bride
 Flames of Vengeance
 Tossed Into the Torrent
 The Fatal Jewels
 A Leap Through Space
 The Sun Message
 Stranger from the Sea
 The Silver Book
 The Last Warning
 The Oracle's Decree
 The Celestial Messenger

Censorship
Like many American films of the time, the film serial Hands Up was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required a cut in Chapter 1, Reel 3, of the slugging of a man; in Chapter 2, Reel 4, slugging man; in Chapter 3, Reel 1, Indian slugging man, masked man shooting Indian at barred window, Reel 2, shooting scene in which man falls, taking belt from ground, near view of man aiming gun at horseman and his falling off horse; Chapter 5, Reel 1, the two intertitles "I won her fair. She belongs to me now" and "She's mine again", the stabbing of the man, two scenes of Indian bending young woman back on table, Reel 2, slugging the engineer; Chapter 6, Reel 1, binding an Indian woman to telegraph pole and the young woman sitting on a bar; Chapter 8, Reel 1, slugging the man in the cabin, Reel 2, stabbing the man, binding the young woman, two scenes of tying the woman to the horse, and two scenes of dragging the woman; Chapter 9, Reel 1, first hula dance scene, young woman sitting at bar, young woman at table with arm around Mexican man's neck, four saloon fight scenes, Reel 2, first and third scene of man choking woman in bedroom; Chapter 11, Reel 1, the shooting of the old man and, Reel 2, binding of the young woman and old man; Chapter 12, Reel 2, two scenes of shooting and men falling; Chapter 13, Reel 1, the slugging of the guard at the door, and, Reel 2, the slugging of the man on the coach; and, Chapter 14, Reel 2, the shooting by Killman, the shooting of Killman, and the closeup of a choking scene.

References

External links

1918 films
1918 lost films
1918 adventure films
American silent serial films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Louis J. Gasnier
Films directed by James W. Horne
Lost American adventure films
Pathé Exchange film serials
Silent American adventure films
1910s American films


Jean Calvé (born 30 April 1984) is a French former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

Career
Calvé was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise.

Sheffield United
Following his various loan spells in France, Calvé arrived at Bramall Lane on trial in July 2010.  Having played one pre-season game, then Blades boss Kevin Blackwell opted not to sign him.  However, following Blackwell's departure a few weeks later, incoming boss Gary Speed quickly revived the move and Calvé signed a one-year loan deal with the Yorkshire club and suggested a desire to remain with Sheffield United following the completion of his loan spell.

Calvé scored his first ever career goal in his début game for the Blades against Preston North End at the end of August, smashing a 35-yard shot into the top corner.  Despite an impressive start to his Blades career Calvé failed to cement himself in the first team, making only eighteen appearances that season.  With the arrival of yet another new manager, Micky Adams, he was deemed surplus to requirements and was eventually released from his contract at the start of April 2011.

Caen
On 22 May 2012, Calvé joined Ligue 2 side Stade Malherbe Caen on a free transfer.

Honours
 Ligue 2 team of the season: 2012–13

References

External links
Sheffield United club profile

1984 births
Living people
People from Cormeilles-en-Parisis
Footballers from Val-d'Oise
Men's association football defenders
French men's footballers
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
English Football League players
Segunda División B players
Belgian Pro League players
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
Le Mans FC players
FC Lorient players
AS Nancy Lorraine players
Grenoble Foot 38 players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Stade Malherbe Caen players
Amiens SC players
Oud-Heverlee Leuven players
CD El Ejido players
French expatriate men's footballers
French expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England
French expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
French expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain


Franco Ariel Sosa Portela (born on 12 August 1983 in Tacuarembó) is a Uruguayan footballer.

External links
 Player profile

1983 births
Living people
Footballers from Tacuarembó Department
Uruguayan men's footballers
Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Tacuarembó F.C. players
C.D. Marathón players
FBC Melgar footballers
Club Xelajú MC players
Cerro Largo F.C. players
Deportivo La Guaira players
Deportivo Mictlán players
Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players
Peruvian Primera División players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Uruguayan Segunda División players
Venezuelan Primera División players
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Honduras
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Peru
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Guatemala
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Venezuela
Expatriate men's footballers in Honduras
Expatriate men's footballers in Peru
Expatriate men's footballers in Guatemala
Expatriate men's footballers in Venezuela


John Paul Kissock (born 2 December 1989) is an English association footballer who last appeared as player-assistant manager at Whitehawk. He plays as a midfielder.

Born in the north Liverpool suburb of Fazakerley, Kissock joined Premier League club Everton's youth system aged seven; progressing quickly, he began playing for England's under-16 team in November 2004, aged only 14. He appeared for England's under-18 side in September 2006, aged 16, and signed professionally for Everton on 12 December 2006. He became a regular player for the club's under-18 and reserve teams and was an unused substitute for the first team on numerous occasions. Following loan spells at Scottish Premier League club Gretna – for whom he made his professional debut on 9 February 2008 – and English fourth-tier side Accrington Stanley the following year, he was released by Everton at the end of the 2008–09 season.

Kissock briefly returned to Scotland at the start of the next season, joining Hamilton Academical in August 2009 but was let go by the club after three appearances in four months. He trialled at various English Football League clubs during the 2010–11 pre-season but failed to win a contract, leading him to begin the season playing for amateur side Newton in the eleventh-tier West Cheshire League. He transferred to ninth-level Formby in October 2010 and only two months after that moved up another four levels when he signed for Southport of the Conference Premier, having impressed the club's manager, Liam Watson. Kissock performed well for Southport during the second half of 2010–11, and after playing four matches in the 2011–12 season signed for Luton Town on 26 August 2011.

Career

Early career
Born in Fazakerley, Liverpool, Kissock played for youth side Key Ways from the age of six and joined the academy of Premier League club Everton, his favourite team, a year later. At Key Ways he had played alongside Lee Molyneux, who joined Kissock in Everton's youth system in 2000, and Charlie Barnett, later an apprentice with Liverpool. While studying at Archbishop Beck High School, Kissock was first picked for the England under-16 team in November 2004, when he was aged 14, for a match against the under-16s' Scottish counterparts. He played for England under-16s three more times during 2005 and in April that year was voted Liverpool Young Sports Personality of the Year.

Over the following year Kissock became a regular player for Everton's under-18 and reserve sides. In the process he broke Wayne Rooney's record as the youngest ever player to play for Everton's reserve team and played for the England under-18 team against France in September 2006. He was called up to the first team for a UEFA Cup game against AZ in December 2007 but failed to make the final match day squad. During the 2007–08 season he joined the first-team squad for twelve Premier League games, but did not play. In January 2008 he joined Scottish Premier League club Gretna on loan until the end of the season, and it was for them that he made his professional debut in Gretna's 2–0 away defeat against Heart of Midlothian on 9 February 2008. He finished the season with 11 league appearances.

After returning to Everton, he appeared on the substitutes' bench regularly during the first half of the 2008–09 season, and was once again sent on loan in January 2009, this time for a month-long spell at English League Two club Accrington Stanley, where he made five appearances. After his release from Everton at the end of the season, Kissock returned to Scotland on 14 August 2009, when he signed for Scottish Premier League club Hamilton Academical. After joining Hamilton, Kissock says his departure from Everton left him in tears, having support Everton and spending twelve at the club and that Hamilton saved his football career However, only four months and three matches for Hamilton, he was released on 3 December 2009.

Into non-League

During the 2010–11 pre-season, Kissock had trials with League One clubs Brighton & Hove Albion and Milton Keynes Dons but failed to win a contract with either. He started the season playing for his brother's team Newton F.C. in the eleventh-tier West Cheshire League, before swiftly moving up two divisions with a transfer to North West Counties League club Formby in October 2010. He immediately showed prowess, scoring in each of his first two games, one with a shot from inside his own half; these goals drew the attention of Liam Watson, manager of Conference Premier club Southport, who brought Kissock to his club in December 2010. The new signing made his first appearance for Southport on 28 December in a match against Fleetwood Town, and scored his first goal for the club in their 5–1 victory over Gateshead on 3 January 2011, also winning the man-of-the-match award. In the words of Liverpool Echo journalist Philip Kirkbride, Kissock was an "instant hit", performing well throughout the rest of the season while the team struggled while battling relegation. Despite their improvement since the addition of Kissock, Southport ended the season in the relegation zone; however, they remained in the division as a result of Rushden & Diamonds' expulsion in June 2011 for financial reasons. Having finished 21st out of the 24 teams, in the highest of the four relegation spots, they were retained in Rushden's place.

Kissock started the 2011–12 season with four appearances for Southport and scored the team's first goal of the season in their first match of the season, against Lincoln City on 13 August 2011. A week later he set up Jonathan Brown for the opening goal in the team's 5–1 away loss against Luton Town, and on 24 August he was called up to the England C team, a national squad made up of non-League players. Two days later he joined Luton, signing a two-year contract. As well as paying an undisclosed transfer fee, his new team loaned two players to Southport as part of the deal, lending them midfielder Godfrey Poku and forward Dan Walker until January 2012. Kissock first appeared for his new club on 27 August as a substitute in a 3–1 win over Braintree Town, and made his first start on 2 September in a 1–1 draw away against Stockport County. He played well, especially in the latter, and received a strongly positive reception from Luton fans.

Having already scored against Lincoln for Southport on the opening day of the season, Kissock appeared against them for the second time in two months on 17 September when Luton were pitted against them at Kenilworth Road. Kissock came off the bench after 67 minutes with the game goalless and was instrumental in Luton's eventual victory. With six minutes left to play, standing near the left-hand corner of the penalty area and the goal line, he received a short corner from Adam Watkins. Kissock twisted past a Lincoln defender, and turning quickly, ran towards the net along the byline; from a tight angle he crossed the ball low for forward Stuart Fleetwood, who was waiting in the middle of the six-yard box. In the words of the official club match report, Fleetwood "couldn't miss" from such short range; he prodded the ball home to score the only goal of the game. Mark Wood's match report for The Luton News called Kissock's assist "a moment of magic"; "wonderfully inventive".

Kissock was called into the England C team once again in November 2011 and made his debut in a 3–1 loss to Gibraltar.

On 21 January 2012 Kissock returned to Southport for the first time since leaving them for the Hatters, making his first league start since late September for Luton Town. Kissock was substituted after 63 minutes, he reacted badly to the manager's intervention and the pair conducted an altercation in the dugout. Luton Town manager Gary Brabin explained after the match that his decision to substitute Kissock was tactical and he also felt John looked a little jaded from his excellent performance in the Hatters previous game. Gary Brabin went on to say that Kissock's behaviour was "Disrespectful to me, to his team mates, also to the fans and the club"

On 9 July 2012, Kissock joined Conference Premier newcomers Macclesfield Town on loan until January 2013. His transfer was then made permanent in January for cash plus Arnaud Mendy deal.

Oldham Athletic (loan)
On 30 January 2014, Oldham Athletic signed Kissock on loan until the end of the season with a view to a permanent move. Upon arrival, Oldham Athletic manager Lee Johnson stated "JP is an interesting one, he is someone I have followed for a long time I have always thought he was a really good player. It may appear to be an unfashionable signing, but sometimes as a manager you have to weigh up the value, age, pedigree and talent and take a chance. This is such an occasion". Kissock was delighted with the move and said "It's an unbelievable opportunity that the gaffer has offered me. To be back in the Football League after a few years in non-league is something I have worked hard for. I am delighted to be given this chance and I am really looking forward to being part of the squad".

Upon the end of his loan at the end of the season, Kissock had made 4 appearances for the club during an injury-ravaged spell.

Whitehawk
Kissock left Macclesfield by mutual consent on 1 August 2014. Seven days later, he joined Conference South side Whitehawk.

Ebbsfleet United
He played for Ebbsfleet United before being released by the club in June 2017.

Southport (second spell)
In July 2017 he re-joined Southport for his second spell with the club.

Welling United
In June 2018 he joined Welling United.

Whitehawk (second spell)
In January 2019 he re-signed for Whitehawk of the Isthmian League Premier Division and was appointed player assistant manager for the start of the following season. Kissock continued to commute from Liverpool and after the 2019-20 season ended prematurely, he returned permanently to the north to concentrate on his business.

Style of play
Kissock primarily plays as an attacking midfielder, though he has been known to play just behind the forward in the 'hole', acting as the offensive pivot to teams. Described by Kirkbride in April 2011 as Southport's "creative spark", club manager Liam Watson based his team's tactics around the Liverpudlian; the Southport Visiter wrote soon after Kissock's move to Luton that he had been "the creative force Southport looked to". Kissock's strengths lie in his technical ability, passing, always available for a pass and proficiency with both feet. Kissock's footballing inspirations are Argentine players Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi, the latter of whom he is compared to by Luton and Macclesfield supporters due to his skilful play and similar appearance.

Career statistics

Footnotes

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Footballers from Liverpool
Men's association football midfielders
English men's footballers
Everton F.C. players
Gretna F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Hamilton Academical F.C. players
Newton F.C. (West Cheshire) players
Formby F.C. players
Southport F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Macclesfield Town F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Whitehawk F.C. players
Ebbsfleet United F.C. players
Welling United F.C. players
England men's youth international footballers
England men's semi-pro international footballers
Scottish Premier League players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players


Alphousseyni Keita  (born 3 November 1985) is a Malian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career
Born in Bamako, Keita began his career by Cercle Olympique de Bamako, in January 2007 joined to Djoliba AC. After six months he left Djoliba and moved to French side Le Mans, where he played 8 games for the reserve and was promoted to first team in January 2008.

On 28 January 2009, the midfielder joined Nîmes Olympique on loan from Le Mans until the end of the season. One year later, on 7 January 2010, Nîmes signed him permanently until June 2012.

On 29 April 2012, while due to play a game for his new temporary team U.D. Leiria against Feirense, he was accused of running out of the dressing room with a money box containing approximately €6000, and vanished. Later the club stated that the accusation was false. The player agreed not to press charges against the club for defamation.

International career
Keita played his first international game for Mali, on 3 September 2005 against Congo DR national football team.

References

External links

 Foot Mali Profile

1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Bamako
Men's association football midfielders
Malian men's footballers
Mali men's international footballers
Malian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Malian expatriate sportspeople in France
Malian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Le Mans FC players
Nîmes Olympique players
Ligue 1 players
Djoliba AC players
Ligue 2 players
U.D. Leiria players
Académica de Coimbra (football) players
Gil Vicente F.C. players
Primeira Liga players
CO Bamako players
21st-century Malian people


After winning the 1992 and 1993 contests with female soloists, Ireland selected Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan to represent them in 1994.

Before Eurovision

National final
The national final was held in the University Concert Hall in Limerick on 13 March 1994. TV broadcaster and Eurovision Song Contest 1988 co-presenter Pat Kenny hosted the event. The eight songs presented were then voted on by ten regional juries.

Charlie McGettigan had previously competed in Ireland's national final selection in 1984 and 1987, placing third both times.

At Eurovision
"Rock 'n' Roll Kids" was performed third in the running order on the night of the contest, following Finland and preceding Cyprus. The song went on to win the contest with 226 points, a 60-point lead over runner-up Poland. This was Ireland's third win in a row, and sixth overall. Both were Eurovision records - no country had previously managed to win three years in a row.

Voting

References

1994
Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994
Eurovision
Eurovision


Unión Fenosa, S.A. was, until its acquisition by Gas Natural in 2009, a large Spanish company dedicated to the production and distribution of gas and electricity.

It installed capacity of 11,120 megawatts of power and 8.9 million customers. The headquarters were in Madrid and the chairman was Pedro López Jiménez. Formerly a constituent of the IBEX 35 index, the company is a part of the Naturgy Energy Group.

History

The company was founded in 1912 as Unión Eléctrica Madrileña and it traded under that name until 1970 when the name was changed to Unión Eléctrica. In 1982 it merged with Fuerza Eléctrica de Noroeste, S.A. (Fenosa) to form Unión Eléctrica Fenosa. In 2000 the name was shortened to Unión Fenosa. In 2008 the company was acquired by the Gas Natural group.

Carbon intensity

Structure
The company had the following businesses:
 Domestic generation and marketing
 Domestic distribution
 Gas
 International electrical business
 Other interests
 Indra (11%)

Shareholders
Prior to 2008 around 45% of the shares were owned by Grupo ACS. In July 2008, Gas Natural agreed to buy Grupo ACS's stake worth €7.6 billion.

References

External links
 Unión Fenosa website— (company defunct in 2009).
 :Union Fenosa Investing in India" (2008)
 "Union Fenosa´s ongoing dispute in Guatemala" (2010)

Public utilities of Spain
Defunct electric power companies of Spain
Defunct energy companies of Spain
Companies based in the Community of Madrid
Energy companies established in 1982
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1982
Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 2009
Spanish companies established in 1982
Spanish companies disestablished in 2009


Lissotestella rissoaformis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc, unassigned in the superfamily Seguenzioidea.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Zealand.

References

 Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979

rissoaformis
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1931


Alexander Crombie FRS (1760–1840) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister, schoolmaster and philosopher.

Biography
He was born in Aberdeen on 17 July 1760, the son of Thomas Crombie. He studied at Marischal College. There he was taught divinity by James Beattie, gaining a M.A. in 1778. In 1794 his college awarded him an honorary doctorate (LL.D.).

Crombie was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Aberdeen, but instead became a teacher. He moved by 1790 to London, where he ran an academy in Highgate, identified as a Unitarian school. Charles Jerram was an assistant there.

From 1796 to 1798, Crombie officiated at the Presbyterian Meeting House at Southwood Lane. The congregation had diminished in the time of Joseph Towers, who left in 1778. The meetings ceased in 1798.

Crombie then moved to be principal of a school in Greenwich, Kent. Among his pupils was William Wentworth.

Crombie died in York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, on 11 June 1840. He was buried at St Marylebone Church.

Publications

Philosophy and theology
 A Defence of Philosophical Necessity (1793). This work defends determinism, and makes reference to David Hume.
 Letters from Dr. James Gregory...with Replies (1819)
 Natural Theology; or Essays on the Existence of the Deity, and of Providence, on the Immateriality of the Soul, and a Future State, 2 vols (1829)

In the preface to the Defence, Crombie states that personal freedom was discussed in his divinity course under Beattie, who followed Thomas Reid and the commonsense philosophy, and supported libertarian free will. He changed his view in the direction of necessitarianism after reading Joseph Priestley's Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated (1777). He was spurred into print by reasoning from James Gregory's Philosophical and Literary Essays (1792), and his 1793 work draws heavily on Priestley's arguments. It adds to them, when he rebuts Reid's Essays on the Active Powers of the Human Mind (1788). There was a 1799 reply from John Golledge, addressed to Thomas Twining.

Educational
 The Etymology and Syntax of the English Language Explained and Illustrated, 2 vols. (1802). It drew on the works of James Harris, Robert Lowth, Priestley and Lindley Murray, and ran to nine editions (to 1865). Crombie was of his time in holding a narrow view of the possibilities of education in "correct" English. William Hazlitt sent William Godwin a copy of the work in 1809.
 Gymnasium sive, symbola critica, 2 vols (1812)
 A Few Cursory Observations, in Reply to the Strictures of the Reverend Mr. Gilchrist in his Rational Grammar on a Treatise on English Etymology and Syntax. (1817). Addressed to the General Baptist minister James Gilchrist (1783–1835).
 Clavis Gymnasii. Editioni tertiae accomodata, sive Exercitationes in symbolam criticam, partim, sicut in veteribus extant, datae, et partim a Rev. Alex. Crombie latine redditae. (1828)

Other
 Letters on the Present State of the Agricultural Interest Addressed to Charles Forbes, Esq. M.P. London (1816)
 A Letter to D. Ricardo, Esq. Containing an Analysis of his Pamphlet on the Depreciation of Bank Notes (1817)
 A Letter to Lieut. Col. Torrens, M.P. in answer to his Address to the Farmers of the United Kingdom (1832)
 The Strike, or, A Dialogue between Andrew Plowman and John Treadle. (1834)
 A Letter to Henry William Tancred, Esq, MP, on the Ballot (1837)
 A Letter to George Grote, Esq., M.P. on the Ballot (1838)
 Letters to W. E Gladstone (British Library Add 44356 ff 233, 237) (1839)

Associations
An obituary of Crombie was written by John Grant A.M (c.1770–1846), "philologist and critic" of Crouch End, who had published a Latin grammar in 1808. It stated that in early life, Crombie was acquainted with Joseph Priestley, Richard Price and Alexander Geddes. Grant himself was a school principal in Hornsey, for 40 years from 1802; his 1813 English grammar praised Crombie's.

Property
In Greenwich, Crombie lived in Maize Hill, a large mansion. It had been built by Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet. Sir Walter James, 1st Baronet resided there, and Crombie bought it from him. It was demolished in 1822, and the site was occupied by Maize Hill Chapel, among other buildings. Crombie disposed of the site by dividing it into lots sold piecemeal. By that time, he was living in the Regent's Park area of London.

Crombie then in 1832 inherited a substantial property in Scotland from his cousin Alexander Crombie of Phesdo, Thornton Castle, Marykirk, Aberdeenshire. The hamlet of Phesdo was sold on after his death, around 1845, to Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet.

Family
Crombie was married at least twice:

By his first marriage, he had a son:
 Alexander Crombie (1784– ), called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1822.

He remarried, on 6 March 1798, at Cluny, Aberdeenshire, to Jane Nory (c. 1773–1859); the couple had children including:

 Lewis Crombie (1800–1880), a solicitor
 Mary Crombie (born 1802)
 Jane Crombie (1804–1846); married on 1 February 1823 at St George's, Hanover Square to Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Henry Algernon Eliot (son of Francis Perceval Eliot)
 Thomas Crombie (born 31 December 1806), a major in the 60th Regiment of Foot
 William Crombie (born 1808)
 Peter Crombie (born 2 January 1809)

References

1762 births
1840 deaths
People from Aberdeen
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Fellows of the Royal Society
Scottish philologists
Scottish philosophers
Scottish schoolteachers
18th-century Ministers of the Church of Scotland


John Eric Briscoe (born September 22, 1967) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Briscoe played for the Oakland Athletics of  Major League Baseball (MLB) from  to .

Career
Briscoe attended Lloyd V. Berkner High School and Texas Christian University. In 1987, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Briscoe pitched for the Somerset Patriots of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball from 1998 through 2002. In 2001, he compiled a 5–1 win-loss record with 22 saves and an earned-run average of 2.70 as the Patriots won the league championship.

References

External links

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