The Ukrainian Third League (, Tretia Liha), until 1994 known as the Transitional League (), was part of the Ukrainian semi-professional football clubs competitions. In 1994, it was renamed as Third League and granted the status of professionals, but during a winter break of 1995 it was decided to discontinue it and merge back with the Ukrainian Second League.

History
The League as the fourth tier (or third smaller tier) was created after the reorganization once the first championship was completed in 1993. In 1992, original Transitional League was created, which later was transformed into the Ukrainian Second League. The league was created from the pool of clubs of the third tier that did not perform well in the previous season as well as the best new amateur clubs that had won their respective regional competitions.

Throughout its history the League yielded at least four promotions each year. That in turn fueled the rise of the Ukrainian new football clubs, FC Arsenal Kyiv and FC Metalurh Donetsk. At the end of the 1995 season, the League was incorporated back into the Second League and the teams of both Leagues were then split into two groups.

Each season the league was admitting about 10 new clubs from the KFK competitions (8 in 1993, 10 in 1994, and 12 in 1995).

In 1992–93 Ukrainian Transitional League took place several strange nuances. The third placed team withdrew after being granted promotion, the fourth place which in mid-season was forcefully merged with another entity gave away its promotion in favor of the newly acquired entity, another club which was excluded from competitions due to sportsmanship conduct sanctions was reinstated for the next season, out of the last six team, the third from the bottom of the season's standing table was allowed to stay for the next season.

Third League winners

All-time table
Top-20. All names are shown as at the time of the last participation.

Notes

Note: Teams in bold earned promotion.

References

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Third
Sports leagues established in 1992
1992 establishments in Ukraine
Sports leagues disestablished in 1995
1995 disestablishments in Ukraine
Defunct fourth level football leagues in Europe


Task Force Argos is a branch of the Queensland Police Service, responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse. Founded in 1997, the unit's original charter was to investigate institutional child abuse allegations arising from the Forde Inquiry.

The unit's name was derived from Greek mythology, in which Argus Panoptes, or Argos, was a primordial "all seeing" giant with multiple eyes, guardian of the goddess Io.  As protector of the goddess, Argos was great and strong: sleep never fell upon his eyes, and he kept sure watch always.

Technological advances and wider access to the Internet led the unit in 2002 to explore avenues to address growing community concern over the proliferation of child exploitation across the internet.  Task Force Argos identified potential threats to children in online chat rooms, where sexual predators were grooming children and recruiting them to engage in sexual activity.

Notable cases
In March 2002, Argos began an undercover operation against a person whom they had discovered in a chat room seeking underage girls for sex. An Argos operative, posing as a 14-year-old girl, was asked to meet the offender in Brisbane so he could photograph her nude and have sex with her.  During the online conversations the offender claimed to have some 66,000 images of child exploitation.  Argos identified the offender, and a search of his computer identified contact offences involving multiple children. One child was 12 years of age at the time, and had been befriended by the offender on the internet.  The other child was aged five, and was made available to the offender by her father whom the offender had met in an internet chat room.

In 2004, a child pornography website, located in Belarus, was taken down by an international task force, involving the Australian Federal Police and the Australian High Tech Crime Centre under the codename Operation Auxin. The operation saw the arrest of 154 Australians, including 57 in Queensland. Officers of Task Force Argos identified seven children located in Brisbane from the child exploitation material and rescued them from further harm.

In 2006, a similar international operation was undertaken, codenamed Achilles. Task Force Argos formed an alliance with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a lengthy covert operation that smashed a sophisticated international network of online offenders responsible for distributing and creating on-demand graphic, child exploitation material. Operation Achilles began in January 2006 and closed in February 2008, with the execution of warrants and arrest of offenders in Australia, the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. Task Force Argos officers infiltrated the international child sex offender network who were trading images and videos depicting the violent sexual abuse of children.   The completion of Operation Achilles and its associated sub-operations around the world resulted in the removal of more than 60 children from sexually abusive situations, the arrest of 22 network members globally and the closure of four commercial child exploitation websites.

The work of Task Force Argos in raising community awareness to the dangers of online predatory behaviour has been recognised globally. The team was awarded the International Law Enforcement Cybercrime Award 2011 (Gold award) by The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), a Canadian-based organisation committed to enhancing partnerships in order to prevent and combat crimes in cyberspace.

Task Force Argos has also been responsible for partnering with software powerhouse Microsoft to develop the Australian National Victim Image Library aimed at reducing investigator exposure to child exploitation material and improve opportunity to identify children at risk.  Microsoft donated its technical development expertise to build this capability and the identification database is currently in national deployment.

Task Force Argos works closely with international counterparts to deliver positive outcomes for child victims, irrespective of where those children might be geographically located.  The unit relies on victim identification expertise and their specialist is also the chair of the Interpol Specialist Group on Crimes Against Children. By employing robust victim identification strategies that effectively identify and locate child victims then their offenders can be found and prosecuted.  One such operation involved the police taking over and running a dark web network for several months, resulting in the rescuing of 85 children and hundreds of arrests, including notorious British paedophile Richard Huckle and the site's operator Shannon McCoole.

Task Force Argos expends considerable effort to protect children on-line by researching contemporary technology to effectively target on-line predators.  Adopting the mantra to 'Leave No Stone Unturned' and the insignia of the scorpion (the natural predator of the 'rock spider') their focus is squarely on child protection to ensure exhaustive inquiries are conducted so that no child victim of sexual exploitation is ever overlooked.

During 2016-2017, Argos operated the darknet child pornography site Childs Play for eleven months.

Notable Abandoned Prosecutions
In December 2008, task force members arrested and charged a Maroochydore man with 'using the internet to access and publish child-abuse material' after he allegedly reposted on Liveleak a viral video of another man swinging a baby by its arms. Although the offender was successfully committed to the District Court for trial, on 9 September 2009 it was announced that the charges had been dropped by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions after reviewing the case. The poster has called for an inquiry into how he came to be charged in the first place.

References

External links
 Interview with Task Force Argos squad member
 Queensland Police service

Task forces
Law enforcement agencies of Queensland
Child abuse-related organizations
Child abuse in Queensland
Online child abuse
Organizations established in 1864


Wang Shi-Ting (; born 19 October 1973) is a retired tennis player from Taiwan.

She turned professional in 1991. In her career, she won six singles titles on the WTA Tour. She played 49 times over 11 years for Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team, earning a 51–25 overall record and setting many team records.

Wang retired from the tour in 2000. Since 2006, she has been the captain of the Chinese Taipei Fed Cup team.

WTA career finals

Singles: 7 (6 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 3 (3 runner-ups)

ITF finals

Singles (8–1)

Doubles (1–1)

External links

1973 births
Living people
Olympic tennis players for Taiwan
Taiwanese female tennis players
Tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Tainan
Asian Games medalists in tennis
Tennis players at the 1990 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 1994 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 1998 Asian Games
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in girls' doubles
Universiade medalists in tennis
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
FISU World University Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
Universiade silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
Universiade bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
French Open junior champions
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade
20th-century Taiwanese women


Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a media franchise owned by The Walt Disney Company and Amblin Entertainment, that began with the 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, itself based on a book titled Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf.

The original film was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner on June 22, 1988, and became a blockbuster hit. It brought a renewed interest in the Golden Age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. It won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its animation direction by Williams. In 2016, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

There's also media related to the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, including books, three animated shorts, comic books, and video games.

Books

Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf is the book on which the film is loosely based.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit by Martin Noble is the novelization of the film of the same name.

Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?
Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? is a humorous mystery novel written by Gary K. Wolf released in 1991 (). The book is inconsistent with and so is neither a sequel nor a prequel to Who Censored Roger Rabbit? or the film adaptation by Disney. It could be considered a reboot. The original novel was retconned as a dream of Jessica, in chapter 12.

The novel features the original main characters Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant, Jessica Rabbit, and Baby Herman. Their personalities conform to those established in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit film, such as Jessica's devotion to Roger and Roger's cartoony quirks such as his speech impediment.

The story starts out with Eddie Valiant at the front door of Roger Rabbit's house. Almost immediately after he is let inside the house, Roger tells him about the upcoming Gone with the Wind toon adaptation and how he has a chance to play the lead as Rhett Butler. However, the Telltale News, a newspaper that tends to toons, prints an article about Jessica Rabbit and her relationship with Clark Gable. Introduced in this novel is Jessica's diminutive twin sister, Joellyn, who becomes Eddie's main love interest as he has broken up with his girlfriend. We also meet Eddie's sister, who is in a mixed-race marriage with a toon, and has three children with her toon husband. From here, the story branches out to the murders of Kirk Enigman (another candidate for the part of Rhett Butler), Baby Herman, and Dodger Rabbit (Roger Rabbit's evil cousin).

Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?
Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? is a mystery-humor novel written by Gary K. Wolf released in 2013.

Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business
Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business is a novel written by Gary Wolf released in 2022 that details the origin story of Jessica Rabbit, who was originally a human named Jessica Krupnick before she became a Toon.

Children's picture books
Roger Rabbit: A Different Toon by Justine Korman
Roger Rabbit: Make the World Laugh by Justine Korman
Who Framed Roger Rabbit: The Movie Storybook by Justine Korman  (1988)

Films

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

Animated short films

Walt Disney Feature Animation produced a series of animated shorts featuring Roger Rabbit, following the release of the film. The three shorts (Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-Up), were presented in front of various Disney/Touchstone features in an attempt to revive short subject animation as a part of the movie-going experience. Of the 3 shorts, only the first is "complete", the other 2 films ending with Roger wrecking the sets.

Cast and characters
 A dark gray cell indicates the character did not appear in that installment.
 A  indicates a character appears in an cameo appearance.
 An  indicates a performer stood in as their character's singing voice.
 A  indicates an actor or actress was not credited for their respective role.

Main characters
Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer): A crazy rabbit, main toon character in the film, and central character in the franchise.
Eddie Valiant (played by Bob Hoskins): A private detective, and main human character in the film.
Jessica Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner): Roger's attractive wife, and singer in The Ink and Paint Club.
Judge Doom (played by Christopher Lloyd): Judge of Toontown, and main antagonist in the film.

Other toons
Baby Herman (voiced by Lou Hirsch): Roger's co-star in short films. Although he has the appearance of a baby, he is really a middle-aged man. He acts as an innocent baby when acts with Roger in the cartoons (being voiced by April Winchell as an infant). When Roger is accused of killing Marvin Acme, he asks Eddie for help in proving his friend's innocence, though Eddie rejects his offer.
Toon Patrol: Five weasels who act as the Toontown police force, working under the orders of Judge Doom, acting as the film's secondary antagonists. They also appear as the main antagonists in the Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin attraction.
Smart Ass (voiced by David Lander): Leader of the Toon Patrol, and Judge Doom's right-hand man. He is the only one with constant dialogue in the film, unlike his companions, who only have brief phrases.
Greasy (voiced by Charles Fleischer): A weasel notable for wearing a 1930s-style green suit.
Psycho (voiced by Charles Fleischer): A weasel notable for having bulging eyes, spiky hair, and wearing a straitjacket.
Stupid (voiced by Fred Newman): A weasel who stands out for being obese, and wearing children's clothing such as a striped T-shirt, sneakers, and a hat with a propeller.
Wheezy (voiced by June Foray): A weasel who stands out for being gray (unlike his companions who are brown) and constantly smoking cigarettes that cause him to be surrounded by smoke.
Benny the Cab (voiced by Charles Fleischer): An anthropomorphic taxi cab that was imprisoned by the Toon Patrol until freed by Roger and Eddie, whom he helps escape from the weasels. He also appears in the Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin attraction as the vehicle used by Roger to rescue Jessica. Benny also has cameo appearances in the House of Mouse television series episodes "Max's New Car" and "Mickey vs. Shelby".
Mrs. Herman (voiced by Amy Irving): Is Baby Herman's mother in the cartoons starring Roger. She is seen only from the waist down.
Bongo the Gorilla (voiced by Morgan Deare in the film and Jeff Bergman in Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin): Is a big gorilla and the bouncer of The Ink and Paint Club.
Lenny the Cab: Benny's "twin cousin", who appears in the Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin attraction as the ride vehicle used by the guests.

Other humans
Dolores (played by Joanna Cassidy): Eddie's girlfriend. She works as a waitress at a bar, where she helps Eddie hide Roger. Later, after the incident between Roger and Doom at the bar, she mentions that her boss fired her.
Marvin Acme (played by Stubby Kaye): The wisecracking owner of the Acme Factory and Toontown, who is killed after a safe falls on his head. At the climax of the film, it is discovered that in his will he leaves the Toons as the owners of his property.
R.K. Maroon (played by Alan Tilvern): Owner of Maroon Cartoons and Roger's boss. He hires Eddie to find out about Jessica's infidelities. Later, Eddie discovers that it was all a planned ploy, but when Maroon is about to tell him the whole truth, he is killed by being shot by Judge Doom.
Lieutenant Santino (played by Richard LeParmentier): Police lieutenant and friend of Eddie, whom he takes to the Acme Factory to show him the scene of Marvin Acme's murder. At the climax of the film, he meets Eddie again at the Acme Factory, where Eddie reveals to him Doom's acts on the case.
Teddy Valiant: Eddie's deceased brother, with whom he worked as a private detective, until he was killed by a toon who dropped a piano on his head during a case.
Raoul J. Raoul (played by Joel Silver in the film and Sol Pavlosky in Tummy Trouble): Director of Roger's films, who ends up enraged due to Roger's clumsiness when it comes to acting.

Video games
 The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle – Released in 1989, featured on the Japanese FDS version under the title Roger Rabbit.
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Released in 1988 for MS-DOS, Amiga, Atari ST, Apple II and Commodore 64 by Buena Vista Software.
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Released in 1989 for Nintendo Entertainment System by LJN.
 Hare Raising Havoc – Released in 1991 for Amiga and MS-DOS by BlueSky Software.
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit – Released in 1991 for Game Boy by Capcom.

Comic books

Roger Rabbit
Roger Rabbit is a comic book series by Disney Comics starring characters from the 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as well as following continuity from the film. It spawned a spin-off series entitled Roger Rabbit's Toontown, which lasted five issues.

The series continues the adventures of Roger Rabbit, who has since returned to working for Maroon Cartoons, now under C.B. Maroon (a character introduced in the graphic novel, Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom). The comics are usually split into two stories, with one main feature focusing on Roger's adventures, and a back-up feature presented to look like an actual animated subject.

While characters such as Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman and Benny the Cab all appear in the stories, Eddie Valiant is seldom seen, replaced by a new detective character named Rick Flint. This is explained in the first issue. It is explained that when Roger went to Eddie with a new case, Eddie was too busy with new cases brought on by his new-found fame after defeating Judge Doom twice. Eddie then refers Roger to a "new kid" private detective, Rick Flint. The actual editorial reason for omitting Eddie Valiant from the comic was not having the likeness rights to make Eddie resemble Bob Hoskins. Two other new characters introduced were Lenny, a toon plane who is Benny's cousin, and Mel, who is Roger's sentient mailbox.

The series had a one-off 3D strip as part of the Disney's Comics in 3-D series, which reprints the back-up features of earlier comics and converted them into 3D. The comic-book line lasted 18 issues, and continued until the implosion of Disney Comics.

Roger Rabbit's Toontown
Roger Rabbit's Toontown was a comic book published by Disney Comics.  It features Roger and his supporting characters from Disney and Amblin Entertainment's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Every issue began with a Roger Rabbit story and his supporting characters such as his wife Jessica, his co star Baby and his taxi cab friend Benny round out the comic. This comic book lasted for five issues from May to August 1991.

This comic book is similar to the Roger Rabbit version of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

Graphic novels and trade paperbacks
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (based on the movie)
Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble (based on the animated short)
Roger Rabbit: Who Framed Rick Flint (trade paperback featuring a story line from the Roger Rabbit comic series)

Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom
Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom () is a graphic novel sequel that takes place between the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the Roger Rabbit short film Tummy Trouble. It also helped to set the scene for the Roger Rabbit comic-book series by Disney Comics.

Plot summary
The comic opens with a documentary about the origin of Judge Doom.  The documentary mentions the original character cel used to create Doom. Eddie Valiant is given credit for ending Doom's reign of terror by dissolving him in a puddle of Dip, stated as 'A victim of his own evil creation', and putting a stop to his plans to erase Toontown and build a freeway where it would have once stood.

A weasel, Slimy, is shown watching the documentary. He goes with two other weasels, Flasher and Ragtag, to find the original cel of Doom. They manipulate some animators to bring Doom back to life. With time, Doom remembers everything that happened to him, and now wants revenge against both Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit for ruining his plans.

Meanwhile, Eddie Valiant is called by C.B. Maroon, the late R.K. Maroon’s brother and new executive of Maroon Cartoons, who announces they are reopening the studio, and pays Valiant $500 to run a search on the background of Roger Rabbit. Valiant finds Roger's records clean as a whistle.

Meanwhile, Roger and Jessica Rabbit are enjoying life at home as much as possible, despite Roger's unemployment following the closing of Maroon Cartoon Studios. Roger gets a call from Maroon Cartoons, saying they are reopening the studio, and that they want Roger to come work for them. Roger accepts the offer, and the next day, Roger meets C.B. Maroon, who starts Roger off with a very low-budget film (depicted in a Hanna-Barbera-esque style). Roger angrily objects to his part in the film, and is fired ("Get me that other rabbit with the tiger for a buddy!").

The next day, Roger finds dozens of scandalous, untrue headlines centered on himself. He turns to Valiant to find out why this is happening. Valiant first meets with C.B. Maroon, and questions him about firing Roger. Maroon reveals himself as Doom, tells his plan to ruin Roger's reputation and then kill him. He and the weasels knock Valiant out and lock him up in a storage locker, where Valiant meets the real C.B. Maroon. Doom, as C.B. Maroon, puts Maroon Studios up for auction, and the studio will be officially sold at noon.

Meanwhile, Roger and Jessica are about to leave for Simi Valley, but first go to Valiant's office to say goodbye, only to find the office ransacked. Jessica finds indentations of the address Valiant wrote on the last piece of paper he used. Rushing to the address, they find and rescue Eddie Valiant and C.B. Maroon. They leave to save Maroon Studios. Valiant sprays him and his weasels with the Dip-filled gag squirt gun, and before dissolving, "Maroon" reveals himself to be Doom.

The real C.B. Maroon announces he is re-opening Maroon Cartoon Studios, and will be providing all the toon employees with work, including Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman with a line-up of new animated short films, starting with Tummy Trouble.

Attractions

Mickey's Toontown

Mickey's Toontown is a themed land located at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland (in this last being simply named Toontown), which is inspired on the city of Toontown from the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. A similar land also existed at the Magic Kingdom under the name Mickey's Toontown Fair, until it was closed in 2011.

Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin

Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin is a dark ride based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The first version opened at Disneyland on January 26, 1994, while another version at Tokyo Disneyland was opened on April 15, 1996.

References

External links
List of Roger Rabbit publications in the INDUCKS database

franchise
Touchstone Pictures franchises


Álvaro Tardáguila Silva (born  August 16, 1975) is a Uruguayan professional racing cyclist. Winner of the 2005 edition of his home tour, the Vuelta del Uruguay, Tardáguila is the son of Walter Tardáguila, a 1972 Olympian (cycling road race and team time trial) and also winner of the 1972 edition of the Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay.

Doping
Tardaguila served a two-year ban for doping after testing positive for EPO and an anabolic agent at the 2005 Great Downer Avenue Bike Race in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. While announced by USADA in February 2006, the suspension was retroactive to Oct. 17, 2005. Tardáguila last competed for the Club Ciclista Deportivo San Antonio.

Career highlights

 2003: 3rd in Mount Holly-Smithville (USA)
 2004: 1st in Stage 4 Tour de Korea, Yang Yang (KOR)
 2004: 1st in Murraysville Classic (USA)
 2005: 1st in Stage 5 Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado, O'Brien (ARG)
 2005: 1st in Stage 7 Clásica del Oeste-Doble Bragado, Caseros (ARG)
 2005: 1st in General Classification Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay (URU)
 2005: 2nd in Mount Holly-Smithville (USA) (officially removed from race results after testing positive)
 2005: 2nd in General Classification Tour of Christiana (USA)
 2005: 2nd in Univest GP, Criterium (USA)
 2006: 1st in Stage 6 Rutas de America, Tacuarembo (URU)
 2008: 3rd in General Classification Vuelta al Chana (URU)

See also
 List of doping cases in cycling

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Uruguayan male cyclists
Uruguayan people of Spanish descent
Uruguayan sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in cycling


White Rabbit is an album by George Benson. The title track is a cover of the famous Great Society/Jefferson Airplane song by Grace Slick.This album was George Benson's second CTI Records project produced by Creed Taylor and was recorded nine months after Beyond the Blue Horizon.

Background
"White Rabbit" was described at Billboard as "a dynamic pop-packed jazz LP with two extraordinary works "California Dreaming" and "White Rabbit"".  For this project Creed Taylor and  Don Sebesky used the formula that gave them good results in other recordings with Verve Records and A&M Records: two successful rock/pop songs covers from The Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane, music from a well-known soundtrack like "The Summer Knows" ("Theme from Summer of '42) of Michel Legrand, a jazzy version of a classical Brazilian song "Little train" from Heitor Villa-Lobos "Brachianas Basileiras No.2" and an original George Benson composition, "El Mar" . In all tracks featuring Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham, Airto Moreira, Jay Berliner, Hubert Laws plus nine studio musicians playing at different wind instruments and harp arrangements. This album was the recorded debut of a guitarist, Earl Klugh, only 17 years old by then, featuring on "El Mar".

Interviewed by Jeff Tamarkin at "Music & Musicians",  answering a question about the choice of Jefferson Airplane's song for this album, Benson said: «I had never heard of it before. I’d never even heard of the group! It sounded so bizarre, as opposed to what I wanted to do. But I have never run away from a challenge.» The track that named the album was Don Sebesky's initiative as he recognized to Marc Myers in an interview at "JazzWax", after listening to Jefferson Airplane's record Surrealistic Pillow, which was released by RCA Records in 1967 and he brought the proposal of the album to Creed Taylor: «I suggested we do White Rabbit in a Spanish mode. He agreed. George Benson doesn’t read music. He just heard the song and automatically fell into the groove. It shows you that music doesn’t exist on the page, only in the air.»

Benson told at the interview with Tamarkin that «The White Rabbit album was very exciting—it was an adventure. I really enjoyed doing that stuff», nevertheless Didier C. Deutsch cited at the booklet of the CD digitally remastered, released in 1987 by Epic (EPC 450555 2) that Benson didn't like the 'tracking' process followed by CTI for this album, by means of a studio technique where the soloist, rhythm section, and background ingredients are recorded separately with overdubbing made afterwards.

Reception and critics
The review of this record at Jazz Musical Archives "White Rabbit" is rated as a four stars album considered to be "a slick but interesting album from a great guitarist" where "the sound of guitar dominates, both acoustic and electric".
In the opinion of John Kelman in All About Jazz this album "was (and remains) an anomaly in Benson's prodigious catalogue» and to him "White Rabbit¨ is "a curiosity that transitions between his more mainstream efforts and the soulful jazz/pop star he was about to become".

"White Rabbit" was the first Grammy Award nomination to George Benson in 1972 at the category of  "Best Jazz Performance by a Group".

Album design
The original 1971 LP cover was designed by Bob Ciano and features Pete Turner's picture of Pondo tribeswoman that he photographed in South Africa in 1970. George Benson recognized in his autobiography in 2014 that the fact that Creed Taylor didn't put his photo on the cover «was a factor that played to the success of this album».

Track listing

Personnel
 George Benson – guitar
 Jay Berliner – Spanish guitar
 Earl Klugh – acoustic guitar (5)
 Herbie Hancock – electric piano
 Ron Carter – electric bass (1, 3), double bass (2, 4, 5)
 Billy Cobham – drums
 Airto Moreira – percussion, vocals
 Phil Kraus – vibraphone, percussion
 Gloria Agostini – harp
Woodwinds
 Phil Bodner – flute, alto flute, oboe, English horn
 Hubert Laws – flute, alto flute, piccolo, Flute solo (1)
 George Marge – flute, alto flute, clarinet, oboe, English horn
 Romeo Penque – English horn, oboe, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet
 Jane Taylor –  bassoon
Brass
 Wayne Andre – trombone, baritone horn
 Jim Buffington – French horn
 John Frosk – trumpet, flugelhorn, trumpet solo (1, 5)
 Alan Rubin – trumpet, flugelhorn

Production
 Creed Taylor – producer
 Didier C. Deutsch – producer (CD 1987)
 Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
 Frank Decker – engineer (CD 1987)
 Don Sebesky – arrangements
 Pete Turner – cover photography
 Bob Ciano –  album design

References

External links

 White Rabbit at Myspace (streamed copy where licensed)

1972 albums
George Benson albums
CTI Records albums
Albums arranged by Don Sebesky
Albums produced by Creed Taylor
Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio


Savino Guglielmetti (26 November 1911 – 23 January 2006) was an Italian gymnast. He competed at the 1932, 1936 and 1948 Olympics and won two gold medals in 1932.

Biography
A taxi ran over Guglielmetti when he was a child, but he escaped unharmed. He later fell from a four-story building, but managed to cling on power cables and survived. Originally a pole vaulter, he joined a gymnastics club in 1927, where he was coached by Mario Corrias. Three years later he became a member of the national team. Although he won two Olympic gold medals in 1932, he faced a strong competition in Italy, and won his first national all-around title only in 1934. He defended it in 1935, 1937, 1938 and 1939.

In 1998 Guglielmetti was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, and in 2000 received the Olympic Order in Silver.

References

1911 births
2006 deaths
Italian male artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts for Italy
Olympic gold medalists for Italy
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Gymnasts from Milan
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics


Vagner Giovani "Geovane" Fernández (born July 21, 1982 in Río Branco, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan racing cyclist. In 2015, Fernández won the Uruguayan National Road Race Championships.

Major results

2003
 1st Overall Volta Ciclistica de Porto Alegre
1st Stage 3
2005
 9th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
2006
 3rd Overall Vuelta al Chana
 7th Overall Vuelta Ciclista de Chile
2007
 1st Suarez
2008
 Vuelta al Chana
1st Stages 1 & 2
 2nd Overall Rutas del Este
1st Stage 2
 3rd Overall Día de las Americas
2009
 7th Overall Rutas de América
2010
 8th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
2015
 1st  Road race, National Road Championships

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
People from Río Branco, Uruguay
Uruguayan people of Spanish descent
Uruguayan male cyclists


Radian, in comics, may refer to:

 Radian (Morituri), a Marvel Comics character from Strikeforce Morituri
 Radian, a Marvel Comics character from New X-Men
 Radian, a Marvel Comics character from Doom 2099

See also
Radian (disambiguation)

References


Darband (دربند) is a tehsil (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It was created as a separate tehsil in late August 2017 out of three union councils until then part of Oghi Tehsil: Darband itself, Nika Pani and Shanaya.

Climate
Darband's climate is classified as warm and temperate. Darband has a significant amount of rainfall during the year. This is true even for the driest month. Köppen and Geiger classify this climate as Cfa. The average annual temperature in Darband is . Annually, approximately  of precipitation descends.

References

Union councils of Mansehra District
Populated places in Mansehra District

Darband used to called Amb state. Different Pashtun tribes live there. Famous personalities are Zar Gul, Zareen Gul, Raja Bashir(Late), Zulfiqar Khan, Raees Khan Tanoli (Columnist) and others


Lieutenant General Harbaksh Singh, VrC (1 October 1913 – 14 November 1999) was a senior General Officer in the Indian Army. As the Western Army Commander, Singh commanded the Indian Army forces and played a key role during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. For his role in the war, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1966.

Early life and education
Harbaksh Singh was born on 1 October 1913 in a wealthy Sikh family, the youngest of seven siblings, in Badrukhan village near Sangrur, the capital of the Jind State. His father, Dr Harnam Singh, was the first person from the village to become a Doctor. Dr Singh joined the Jind Infantry and participated in the Tirah campaign in 1897-98. He later served in the East African campaign during World War I. The Jind Infantry later was amalgamated into the Indian Army in 1952, into the Punjab Regiment.
Harbaksh attended the Ranbir High School in Sangrur before joining the Government College Lahore. Always good at sports, Singh was a part of the College Hockey team. As someone who belonged to a Princely state, he had to take the permission of the Governor of Punjab, Sir Geoffrey Montmorency. He then sat for the entrance examinations to enrol into the Indian Military Academy (IMA), which had been set up the previous year. In March 1933, Singh arrived at Dehradun and joined the IMA.

He was a brother of Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army Lieutenant Colonel Gurbaksh Singh (also spelled Gurbux Singh, not to be confused with other INA General Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon).

Military career
Singh was commissioned on 15 July 1935 and started his career with a year's post-commission attachment with the 2nd battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, then stationed at Rawalpindi. It was standard practice for newly commissioned Indian officers to be initially attached to a British regiment before being sent to an Indian unit. He saw service on the North West Frontier during the Mohmand campaign of 1935. After a year's attachment with the Highlanders, Singh joined the 5th battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment (previously 47th Sikhs) at Aurangabad, on 19 August 1936. By 1937, Singh was commanding a Signal platoon, in the headquarter company of the battalion. In September 1938, the battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ford moved to Razmak in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP). Singh took over command of Alpha company of the battalion at Razmak.

World War II
In April 1939, the battalion received orders to move out of Razmak and prepare to move abroad, the final destination was not known. Moving to Quetta by road, via Bannu, the battalion made its way to Madras on a special troops train. Embarking on passenger ship, they made their way to British Malaya, reaching Singapore after a few days. They then moved to the town of Ipoh, which was their interim station, before reaching Kuantan.

During the withdrawal from Kuantan on 5 January 1942, Singh drove into a Japanese ambush and was seriously injured. He was evacuated to Alexandra Hospital in Singapore where he remained until the Fall of Singapore.

Prisoner of war

Harbaksh Singh was taken Prisoner of war (POW) on 15 February 1942. He was among the POWs in attendance at the Farrer Park address by Gen Mohan Singh of the First Indian National Army. Singh was to be moved to the Island of Rabaul, but the ship never turned up. He was subsequently slated to be sent to the Death Railway but was sent to the Kluang airfield and handed over to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service instead. His brother, Lt Col Gurbaksh Singh and his battalion of the Jind Infantry was with him in the same camp. Singh spent the remaining years of the war as a POW in the Kluang camp. he suffered from a bad bout of Typhoid as well as a bad case of Beriberi, a disease he carried all his life. He was repatriated only in September 1945 after cessation of hostilities.  He then recuperated at the Military Hospital in Ambala.

During the Indian National Army in Singapore between 1943 and 1945, his brother Lieutenant Colonel Gurbaksh Singh (not to be confused with another INA General Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon) became commander of the INA force housed at Tyersall Park, one of the seven INA military camps, constituted from the POWs of Jind State force, who were jats and other troops mainly from Haryana and Punjab.

By the end of year, Harbaksh Singh joined the Unit's Commanders' Course in Dehradun and in April 1945, was posted as the Second-in-command of the 4th battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment (4/11 Sikh) at Campbellpur (now Attock). In February 1947, he was selected to join the first long course at Staff College, Quetta.

Post-Independence
After completing the Staff Course at the Staff College, he was posted as GSO-1 (operations and training), Eastern Command.
In October 1947, when Lieutenant Colonel Dewan Ranjit Rai, the Commanding Officer of 1st battalion, Sikh Regiment (1 Sikh) was killed during the Kashmir operations in 1948, he volunteered to command the battalion. However, he was posted as Deputy Commander of the 161 Infantry Brigade.
He conducted the main battle against the raiders at Shelatang Bridge on 7 November 1947. This decisive battle, involving 1st battalion Sikh Regiment and 4th battalion Kumaon Regiment, proved to be a turning point in the war.

On 12 December 1947, on hearing about the heavy casualties suffered by 1st battalion Sikh, he proceeded to Uri and took over the command of the battalion voluntarily, dropping a star from his rank. He brought back the battalion to Srinagar and began to rehabilitate it.
However, even before the rehabilitation was complete, the battalion was called out to fight the enemy who had crossed the snow-clad Pharikian ki Gali and had occupied Handwara.

He led the truncated battalion, in a daring operations in which, after a series of battles, the battalion drove out the enemy from the valley.

In 1948, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier and took over the command of 163 Infantry Brigade and began to advance to Tithwal. The movement forward started on 12 May 1948, and after six days, Tithwal was captured. Brigadier Harbaksh Singh was awarded a Vir Chakra for his bravery.

The citation for the Vir Chakra reads as follows:

After the Kashmir operations, he went on to serve as the Deputy Commandant of the Indian Military Academy, at the western command headquarters, director of infantry at the Army headquarters, and in 1957 attended a course at the Imperial Defence College (now Royal College of Defence Studies) in the United Kingdom. In January 1959, he became the first foreign officer to go on attachment with German Army's first division to be raised after their disbandment at the end of World War II.

He returned to India to take over as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) the 27 Infantry Division, and later as the GOC 5 Infantry Division. From July 1961 to October 1962, he was the Chief of Staff at the Western Command headquarters.

When the Chinese invaded NEFA and Ladakh, he was moved from Shimla to take over the command of IV Corps. He later he moved as the GOC XXXIII Corps.

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

In 1964, he was promoted to Army Commander and took over as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of the Western Command whose area of responsibility spanned from Ladakh to Punjab. He led the Western Command successfully against the Pakistan Army along the entire border in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

Around May 12, 1965, Brigade Commander, Vijey Ghai in Kargil convened a conference at HQ. The agenda was not revealed but it started with him reading out the contents of Lt. Gen Harbaksh Singh GOC-in-C Western Command,  DO (demi official note) to the forces. The Army Commander had reviewed recent skirmishes in Rann of Kutch and commented that the Pakistanis were continuing with their  belligerent attitude and spoke about cultivating a more aggressive spirit in out troops. He also remarked pointedly “has the martial blood in the veins of the Indian Army soldiers dried up” or words to the similar effect.
The operations that followed including the Taking of Point 13620 and Black Rocks was a major boost for the Indian forces. Per the official account of the War, this was the first counter-offensive undertaken by Indian troops in years. Its success had a good effect on the morale of the troops in J&K and the Army as a whole. Politically it bolstered the image of the country. The outstanding leadership of Lt Gen Harbaksh Singh had played a key role in boosting the morale of a defeated army turning it into a striking force within just three years of the Chinese encounter.

After serving as the General-Officer-Commanding-in-Chief of the Western Army Command from 1964 to 1969, the General retired in September 1969. Captain Amarinder Singh (later Chief Minister of Punjab) of Patiala served him as his ADC.

Later life and death
Harbaksh Singh died on 14 November 1999.

Awards and decorations

See also
 Dewan Ranjit Rai
 Captain Amarinder Singh

References

External links
 Profile on bharat-rakshak.com
 Article on General Harbaksh Singh

Indian Military Academy alumni
1910s births
1999 deaths
Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies
Graduates of the Staff College, Quetta
Military personnel of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indian generals
Indian Sikhs
Sikh warriors
Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in civil service
Military personnel from Punjab, India
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in civil service
People from Sangrur
Recipients of the Vir Chakra
Indian Army personnel of World War II
British Indian Army officers
Indian prisoners of war
World War II prisoners of war held by Japan
Generals of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965


José Antonio Díez Arriola (born August 13, 1982) is a Spanish professional racing cyclist. He won several nation cyclo-cross races. On the international level he competed between 2011 and 2013 five times in a UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup race, with 34th place as best result.

Career highlights

 2003: 1st in Zeberio, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2004: 1st in Camp de Mirra, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2005: 1st in Medina de Pomar, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2005: 1st in Polanco, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2006: 1st in Rasines, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2006: 1st in Asterria, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2006: 1st in Treto, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2006: 1st in Ermua, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2006: 1st in Rada, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2006: 1st in Solares, Cyclo-cross (ESP)
 2006: 1st in Ramales, Cyclo-cross (ESP)

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Spanish male cyclists
Cyclo-cross cyclists
People from Castro Urdiales
Cyclists from Cantabria


Brittany Lynnette Spears (born September 27, 1988) is a basketball player and former guard for the University of Colorado women's basketball team.  At 6'1", Spears averaged 18 points and eight rebounds in her senior season for the Buffaloes. During her four years at Colorado, Spears scored 2,185 points and averaged 17 points per game for her career, which is seventh-best in the history of the Big 12. Spears ranks first at CU in career field goals made, scoring average, 3-point attempts and minutes in game.

On April 11, 2011, the Phoenix Mercury chose Brittany Spears as their second round pick in the WNBA draft. The all-Big 12 Conference forward was taken with the 19th pick overall. Spears is the fourth CU women's basketball player to be drafted by the WNBA.

Colorado statistics
Source

References

1988 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Israel
American expatriate basketball people in Poland
American expatriate basketball people in Spain
American women's basketball players
Colorado Buffaloes women's basketball players
Forwards (basketball)
Pasadena High School (California) alumni
Phoenix Mercury draft picks
Basketball players from Pasadena, California


And the Violins Stopped Playing  () (1988) is a Polish/American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Alexander Ramati and based upon his biographical novel about an actual group of Romani people who were forced to flee from persecution by the Nazi regime at the height of the Porajmos (Romani holocaust), during World War II.

Plot
The story opens in 1941 in Warsaw, Poland, with Dymitr Mirga (Horst Buchholz), a prominent Romani violin player, entertaining a group of Germans—German military and SS officers—in a restaurant. The Germans enjoy the entertainment and assure the musicians that the ongoing removal of the region's Jews has nothing to do with the Romani because they are "Aryan" just like the Germans. Dymitr takes his family by train to Brest Litovsk as he is warned by an escapee from a concentration camp as to what is happening to Warsaw's Jews.  The family joins a band of Romani on the outskirts of Brest-Litovsk. The local German commander visits the camp and tells the Romani that he is giving them the houses where the Jews lived who have been "re-located" (a euphemism for sending them to concentration camps). Dymitr immediately realizes the truth, and asks the head of the Romani community to lead its evacuation into Hungary, which at that time was still independent. The leader is reluctant to comply, and the community's council eventually forces him to resign, giving his position instead to Dymitr Mirga.  The son of the deposed leader had been betrothed to a beautiful Romani named Zoya Natkin (Maya Ramati), who instead chose to marry Dymitr's son, Roman (Piotr Polk).

On their journey to Hungary, some of the Romani desert the group and are killed by the Nazis. Others voluntarily split off, in hopes that by having smaller numbers they will appear to be merchants rather than Romani. Dymitr's small company eventually performs the sacrifice of selling their jewels to buy horses from another Romani community, allowing their group to move more quickly. Many are nevertheless killed by the Nazis. The sympathetic population gives them burials and provides a chance for their comrades to meet and mourn their loss. In time, the resolute Dymitr reaches Hungary with his much-diminished group of followers, including his wife Wala (Didi Ramati), his son Roman and daughter-in-law Zoya, Zoya's family and Roman's "rival," the son of the former leader, who was killed by Nazis. All Dymitr's efforts prove futile when the Germans overthrow the Hungarian government in Hungary in 1944.

A Nazi column takes the captive Romani to Auschwitz, where the infamous Dr Mengele (Marcin Tronski) has been conducting medical experiments on prisoners. Before their arrival, Dymitr's daughter escapes out through the window of one of the cattle trucks. At the camp, Dymitr is forced to play for the Nazis, whilst his son Roman receives minor privileges because of his skill as a translator. However, when Roman's wife Zoya dies, the young man begins to consider his father's urging that he escape. Roman approaches his friend and former rival, and recognizing that their families are marked for death, the two agree to make an attempt. The attempt succeeds, and they manage to reconnect with Roman's younger sister who escaped from the cattle truck.

The film ends with the war over. As three Romani carriages head off into a sunset, carrying—presumably—Roman, his friend and his younger sister, the narrator concludes that the "Gypsy nation has yet to receive any compensation."

Cast

 Horst Buchholz as Dymitr Mirga
 Piotr Polk as Roman Mirga
 Marne Maitland as Sandu Mirga
 Jan Machulski as Col. Krüger
 Aleksander Bardini as Greczko Szura
 Jerzy Nowak as DoctorProfessor Epstein
 Wladyslaw Komar as Dombrowski
 Wiktor Zborowski as Tomasz
 Aleksander Ford as Zenon
 Didi Ramati as Wala Mirga
 Maya Ramati as Zoya Natkin/Mirga
 Kasia Siwak as  Mara Mirga

 Bettine Milne as Rosa Mirga
 Aldona Grochal as Wala's Sister
 Wiesław Wójcik as Bora Natkin
 Ernestyna Winnicka as Zoya's mother
 Marcin Tronski as Dr. Josef Mengele
 Zitto Kazann as Mikita
 Wojciech Pastuszko as Koro
 Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski as Pawel
 Marek Barbasiewicz as Count Paszkowski
 Krzysztof Swietochowski as Franko
 Judy Hecht Dumontet as Zenon's wife
 Ewa Telega as Ira

Production
The film was shot on Polish locations in Łańcut, Łódź, and Kraków.

Releases
The film had 1988 theatrical release in Poland under its original title of I Skrzypce Przestaly Grac and in the United States as And the Violins Stopped Playing, followed by release in Finnish theaters as Salahanke and Finnish television as Ja viulut vaikenivat, and in West Germany as Ja viulut vaikenivat.
DVD release in 2003 included DVD extras of Orion trailers, video clips speaking about the film and its history, and clips about the film's stars.  The film was exhibited in 2008 as part of a retrospective of the works of cinematographer Edward Klosinski.  In Łódź the film was centerpoint and focus of a 2009 exhibition celebrating the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto.

References

External links

1988 films
1980s war drama films
Polish war drama films
Holocaust films
Films directed by Alexander Ramati
Romani genocide
Films about Romani people
Films based on biographical novels
Fiction set in 1941
Films set in Warsaw
Films set in Hungary
Cultural depictions of Josef Mengele
American war drama films
1988 drama films
American World War II films
Polish World War II films
1980s English-language films
1980s American films


Bim Bam Boom was a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television between November 18, 1955 and January 13, 1956. The show featured three clowns, named Bim, Bam and Boom, who told fairy tales and performed. The clown Boom was a human actor played by John Allen. Bim and Bam were puppets controlled by Kitty Dutcher and voiced by Rosemary Malkin and Sam Payne.

External links
 Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series (Bim Bam Boom archived listing link via archive.org)
 Bim Bam Boom at the Canadian Communications Foundation

1955 Canadian television series debuts
1956 Canadian television series endings
CBC Television original programming
1950s Canadian children's television series
Canadian television shows featuring puppetry
Black-and-white Canadian television shows
Television shows filmed in Vancouver
Television shows about clowns


Darband is a town of Balochistan, Pakistan. It is located at 26°19'0N 62°40'0E It is close to the Pakistani border with Iran. It is the center of Makran region

References

http://www.balochistan.gov.pk

Populated places in Kech District


This is a list of chapters of the manga Wild Adapter, written by Kazuya Minekura and published by Tokuma Shoten in the Chara bimonthly magazine. The first chapter appeared in April, 2000 and it is an ongoing series. There are currently six volumes released. The bimonthly release of new chapters as well as the author's various health-related hiatus  have led to the relatively slow release rate of the manga. Other companies have been slow to pick up Wild Adapter, such as Taiwan's Sharp Point Press in February 2006, Singapore's Chuang Yi in April 2004, and America's Tokyopop in January 2007, leading to accelerated release of subsequent volumes to catch up with Japan.

Volume list

References

Wild Adapter


Wharekahika or Hicks Bay (officially Wharekahika / Hicks Bay) is a bay and coastal area in the Gisborne District of the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated 150 km east of Opotiki and 186 km north of Gisborne city, along State Highway 35 between Potaka and Te Araroa.

The area is named after Zachary Hickes, second-in-command of James Cook's Endeavour, which sailed along the East Cape on 31 October 1769. On 10 June 2019, the name of the bay was officially changed to Wharekahika / Hicks Bay.

Demographics
Statistics New Zealand describes Hicks Bay as a rural settlement, which covers  and had an estimated population of  as of  with a population density of  people per km2. It is part of the wider East Cape statistical area.

Hicks Bay had a population of 162 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 9 people (5.9%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 15 people (10.2%) since the 2006 census. There were 54 households, comprising 75 males and 87 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.86 males per female. The median age was 26.6 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 57 people (35.2%) aged under 15 years, 30 (18.5%) aged 15 to 29, 57 (35.2%) aged 30 to 64, and 18 (11.1%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 14.8% European/Pākehā, 96.3% Māori, and 1.9% Pacific peoples. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 50.0% had no religion, 37.0% were Christian, 1.9% had Māori religious beliefs and 1.9% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 15 (14.3%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 27 (25.7%) people had no formal qualifications. The median income was $20,000, compared with $31,800 nationally. 9 people (8.6%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 39 (37.1%) people were employed full-time, 15 (14.3%) were part-time, and 9 (8.6%) were unemployed.

Climate
Hicks Bay experiences a mild, temperate climate, with warm summers and mild winters. The area is known for its frequent rainfall, which helps to keep the landscape lush and green throughout the year.

Marae

The local Hinemaurea ki Wharekahika Marae is a meeting place for the Ngāti Porou hapū of Ngāti Tuere, Te Whānau a Te Aotakī and Te Whānau a Tuwhakairiora. It includes the Tūwhakairiora meeting house.

In October 2020, the Government committed $520,760 from the Provincial Growth Fund to upgrade Hinemaurea ki Wharekahika Marae and Pōtaka Marae, creating 12 jobs.

Education

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kawakawa Mai Tawhiti is a Year 1–13 Māori language immersion school. It had a roll of  as of

References

Bays of the Gisborne District
Populated places in the Gisborne District


Greater Bridgeport Transit (GBT) is a transit service serving the Greater Bridgeport region of the U.S. state of Connecticut. GBT provides local bus service to the cities/towns of Bridgeport, Trumbull, Stratford, Milford, Fairfield, Westport, Shelton, and Monroe. The fleet is composed of mainly  New Flyer Xcelsior and New Flyer Low Floor, as well as Gillig Low Floor and two Proterra Catalyst BE40 models.

Ticketing

GBT uses a system called ZipTrip for fare collection. This acts as any other pass or transfer would, permitting free, unlimited rides in any direction until expiration. It was first introduced in 2007, prior to which payment was made in cash or tokens. Tokens may still be purchased at the GBT hub adjacent to the Bridgeport Metro North Railroad station.

Coastal Link (Route 2)
The Coastal Link, formerly Route 2, provides service from Connecticut Post Mall in Milford, Connecticut,  to the Wheels Hub in Norwalk, Connecticut. The service runs in conjunction with Norwalk Transit District and Milford Transit District, using their buses as well. Frequency is roughly every 30 minutes, and makes short turns to destinations midway through the route during late nights.

References

External links

 Official website
 RFP for new buses

Bus transportation in Connecticut
Government agencies established in 1971
Transportation in Fairfield County, Connecticut
Bridgeport
Transportation in Bridgeport, Connecticut


Kato Melpeia () is a village and a community located in the municipal unit of Andania in Messenia, Greece. The community, which includes the small settlement of Vrachos, has a population of 283 (2011 census).

The village has a local reputation for fishing trout and a mountain spring known as Koube.

References

Populated places in Messenia
Oichalia, Messenia


Langkawi Ring Road, Federal Route, is a major highway around Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia. The 46 km (28.6 mi) road consists of Jalan Air Hangat, Jalan Padang Matsirat and Jalan Ulu Melaka.

Federal Route 112 is the main circular trunk road that circles through Langkawi Island. Both its starting terminal (Kilometre Zero) and the ending terminal are located at Kuah town.

History
In 2007, the stretch of Jalan Padang Matsirat (Kuah – Padang Matsirat) was upgraded from two-lane single carriageway into four lane dual-carriageway.

Features
Most sections of Federal Route 122 were built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing a maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h.

List of junctions and town

Jalan Padang Matsirat sections (Kuah – Padang Matsirat)

Jalan Ulu Melaka sections (Padang Matsirat – Ayer Hangat)

Jalan Ayer Hangat sections (Ayer Hangat – Kuah)

References

Malaysian Federal Roads
Highways in Malaysia
Ring roads in Malaysia


Jan Pieter Veth  (18 May 1864, Dordrecht – 1 July 1925, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university lecturer. He is especially noted as a portrait painter. Amongst his sitters were Max Liebermann, Lambertus Zijl, Frank van der Goes, Antoon Derkinderen and other contemporaries including various fellow painters.

Biography
Jan Veth was the son of Gerradus Huibert Veth, a Dordrecht iron merchant and liberal politician, and Anna Cornelia Giltay. On his mother's side he descended from the Dordrecht painter family of Van Strij (his mother was a granddaughter of Jacob van Strij). He married Anna Dorothea Dirks on 10 August 1888, from which marriage came five children.

Veth received his art education at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He was living in the area, called de Pijp. With several of his fellow students  he founded the St. Luke group. From 1885 he worked with the painter Anton Mauve in Laren. After his marriage he settled in Bussum. In addition he was a well-known poet, belonging to The Movement of 1880 and publishing work in the De Nieuwe Gids. He designed the cover for "De Kleine Johannes", a book written by his friend, Frederik van Eeden, contributing to the development of book-art in the Netherlands. He was involved in the founding of "Genootschap Amstelodamum" and "Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser". As Professor Extraordinary in History of Art and Aesthetics (1906), he was associated with the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

Veth was member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1923. In 1923 he moved back to Amsterdam and lived at Keizersgracht 327. Veth died in a hospital.

Selected works by Jan Veth

Arnold Aletrino
Christiaan Eijkman
Jacobus Kapteyn
Diederik Johannes Korteweg
Abraham Kuyper
Willem Johannes Leyds (1859–1940)
Max Liebermann
Hendrik Lorentz
Johannes Messchaert (1857–1922)
Rudolph Peter Johann Tutein Nolthenius (1851–1939)
Alieda Maria Tutein Nolthenius (1855–1910)
Rosy Wertheim
Pieter Zeeman

Biography
Prof. dr. J. Huizinga, Leven en werken van Jan Veth, Haarlem 1927.

Sources

De Navorscher 1950/1951
Museum of Dordrecht
Biographical Dictionary

External links

1864 births
1925 deaths
Dutch portrait painters
19th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
20th-century Dutch painters
Artists from Dordrecht
Dutch academics
Dutch art critics
Dutch art historians
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20th-century Dutch male artists


The  or  are an archipelago in the Seto Inland Sea, between the larger Japanese islands of Honshu and Shikoku.

The group is situated between Okayama Prefecture and Kagawa Prefecture in the western Bisan Seto and consists of 28 islands of various sizes. On the Okayama side lie the Kasaoka Islands. The name derives from  or  both meaning boiling seawater to get salt. However, the name may also refer to rough water created by the confluence of tides that mix around the islands.

Honjima
Hiroshima
Ushijima
Yoshima
Teshima
Oteshima
Takamijima
Shishijima
Sanagishima
Awashima

History
Since ancient times, the islands have been an important point for maritime transport.

Islands

Awashima
粟島, part of Mitoyo, populated. In Meiji 30 (1897), the National Mercantile Marine School was established here and subsequently many talented men were sent into the shipping industry.

Bentenjima
弁天島, part of Marugame, unpopulated.

Budojima
歩渡島, This island is connected to Hitsuishi-jima. The name (歩 = walk, 渡 = cross) derives from the fact that it is possible to cross between the islands.

[Sanuki] Hiroshima
広島, part of Marugame and one of the seven "salt boiling islands". area: 11.66 km², circumference: 18.5 km. Hiroshima is the largest of the Shiwaku Islands and is sometimes called Sanuki-Hiroshima to differentiate it from Hiroshima Prefecture on the main Japanese island Honshu. The China Sea Directory from 1873 contains a description of the island and recommends Enoura Bay (referred to as Ino Ura) as an anchorage:

‘The outline of Hiroshima is very irregular, and its sharp rocky ridges are very conspicuous. The summit of the island, which presents southward the appearance of an almost perpendicular cliff, is 990 feet above the sea. On the south shore is Ino Ura, a small bay, on the shores of which are several small villages, the valleys around which are cultivated. The eastern hills are covered with brushwood, but the western ridges are thickly wooded. In the ravines, the sides of which are rocky precipices, numerous deer are found.

Ino Ura is a convenient anchorage for vessels passing through the Seto Inland Sea, and is generally chosen as a night anchorage, especially when bound from Hiogo to the westward, it being within convenient distance, and can be arrived at before nightfall.
Care must be taken not to approach the shore too closely, as the head of the bay shoals very suddenly but good holding ground will be found here out of the strength of the tides.’

On the island is the grave of Frank Toovey Lake, a Victorian sailor who died here in 1868 while part of Richard Henry Brunton's survey party.

Hitsuishijima
櫃石島, The island takes its name from a megalith in the shape of a chest (jap: 櫃) at its southern part. area: 0.85 km², circumference: 5.4 km, part of Sakaide.

The principal industry on the island is collection of shellfish by diving and trawl fishing.

In mid January the yearly peach festival is held on the compounds of the

Honjima
本島, part of Marugame, situated in the center of the Shiwaku Island group. area: 6.74 km², circumference: 16.4 km.
It is still the most populous place within the Shiwaku Islands.

Famous places and historic spots
 - designated as  of Japan
preservation centre of stores and houses on the street ()
contact house ()
document house ()
 - 年寄り吉田彦右衛門の墓は日本国指定の史跡（史跡「塩飽勤番所」の附指定）
Kasajima castle ruins - historical landmark of Kagawa prefecture
 - wooden sedentary statues of Amitābha, Sakyamuni, an image of , 500-year-old Japanese Ternstroemia (Ternstroemia gymnanthera) tree, roof tiles from the Tenbun era inscribed with letters and pictures which have been designated as cultural asset of Marugame

 - build in 1798, reconstructed in 1862, historical site of Japan
 - small theater built in 1862, situated on the grounds of the
 - The wooden statue of Kannon boddisattva, the Acala statue, Vaisravana statue and the line carved Jūichimen Kannon mirror image are all Important Cultural Properties of Japan.
 - The wooden sedentary statue of the Bhaisajyaguru Buddha is an important cultural property of Japan.
 - designated Cultural Property of the city, double warehouse constructed at the end of the Edo period.
Honjima Tomari swimming area - designated by the Ministry of the Environment as one of the 100 pleasant bathing areas, specially selected part of the island
 - location for the movie

Iwakurojima
岩黒島, part of Sakaide, Kagawa, populated. The Great Seto Bridge passes across this island. area: 0.16 km², circumference: 1.6 km.

The Iwakurojima Interchange on the down-line (away from Tokyo) of the Seto-Chuo Expressway can be used exclusively by islanders by means of a card to unlock the gate.

There is also an emergency phone. Tourists and other people can use an elevator from the bus stop on top of the bridge to access the island.

Kamimashima
上真島, part of Marugame, unpopulated.

Karashima
唐島, part of Mitoyo, unpopulated.

Karasugojima
烏小島, part of Marugame, unpopulated.

Kohadakajima
小裸島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated.

Koseijima
小瀬居島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated.

Koyoshima
小与島, part of Sakaide, populated. area: 0.24 km², circumference: 1.3 km.

Mitsugojima
三つ子島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated. The Great Seto Bridge passes across this island.

Murokijima
室木島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated.

Nabeshima
鍋島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated. The island is connected to Yoshima via a mole. In 1872 a lighthouse constructed by Richard Henry Brunton was erected on the island. The lighthouse is now unused and is open to the public generally once a year. However, it is possible to reach the lighthouse and view the exterior.

Nagashima
長島, part of Marugame, unpopulated.

Nizurajima
二面島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated.

Ōhadakajima
大裸島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated.

Oteshima
小手島, part of Marugame. Popular place for catching Japanese amberjack or Sand lance (Ammodytes personatus).area: 0.6 km², circumference: 3.8 km.

Sanagishima
佐柳島, part of Tadotsu. area: 1.83 km², circumference: 6.6 km.

Seijima
瀬居島,

Shamijima
沙弥島. Due to land reclamation of the Sakaide  industrial area in December 1967, the island became connected to the adjacent land.
Adjoining, the island services the Seto Ohashi Memorial Park. In summer the island is crowded by guests who come to bathe in the sea. From the Jōmon period on, a salt making culture developed. At  earthenware and other finds from that time have been excavated.

The Man'yōshū poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro paid a visit to the island and composed a tanka and tanka appendage.
According to the novelist  from Sakaide, Kakinomoto no Hitomaro had a temple/monument erected on Nakanda beach which in 1936 was moved to its present location on  at .

On 9 April 2005 the Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Art Museum, housing the collection of Kaii Higashiyama was opened.

Shimomashima
下真島, part of Marugame, unpopulated.

Shiraishi
白石, part of Marugame, unpopulated.

Shishijima
志々島, part of Mitoyo. area: 0.74 km², circumference: 3.4 km.

Takamijima
高見島, part of Tadotsu, populated. area: 2.33 km², circumference: 6.4 km.

Teshima
手島, part of Marugame, populated. area: 3.41 km², circumference: 10.9 km.

Ushijima
牛島, part of Marugame, populated. One of seven islands on which salt is extracted from seawater. area: 0.7 km², circumference: 4.2 km.

Wasashima
羽佐島, part of Sakaide, unpopulated.

Yoshima
与島, part of Sakaide and one of the seven "salt boiling islands".
area: 1.10 km², circumference: 6.9 km.
The island is crossed by the Great Seto Bridge and a rest area ("Yoshima parking area") has been built along the highway.

There are in total two parking lots at the rest area. From there the harbour  in the northern part of the island can be reached. At Yoshima-kō there is a Fisherman's Wharf with restaurants and places selling seafood and souvenirs. It is also possible to go with the Japanese warship Kanrin Maru on a sightseeing pleasure cruise of the Great Seto Bridge.

Public-transit buses and authorized islanders can access the island road 274, "Yoshima line", via a personal card. Non-islanders with car may only get as far as the two parking lots as the gate is closed for them. The southern part of the island can be reached by public bus.

References

Islands of Kagawa Prefecture
Islands of Okayama Prefecture
Archipelagoes of Japan
Islands of the Seto Inland Sea
Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean


Federal Route 167, or Jalan Bukit Malut, is a major federal road in Langkawi Island, Kedah, Malaysia.

Features

At most sections, the Federal Route 167 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h.

List of junctions and town

References

Malaysian Federal Roads
Roads in Langkawi


Timm Sharp (born 1978) is an American actor and writer. He is known for his role as Marshall Nesbitt in the Fox sitcom Undeclared, Doug Von Stuessen in the Fox sitcom 'Til Death, and Jim in the Starz comedy Blunt Talk.

Early life and education
Sharp is a native of Fargo, North Dakota, and throughout high school, he attended Trollwood Performing Arts School in North Fargo. Shortly after graduating high school, he moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Career
Sharp portrayed Marshall Nesbitt on the 2001 Fox sitcom, Undeclared, starring alongside Seth Rogen, Charlie Hunnam, Jay Baruchel, Carla Gallo, and Monica Keena. He had a recurring role on HBO's Six Feet Under, and the Fox series 'Til Death. Sharp then played Dougie in the HBO series Enlightened, created by Laura Dern and Mike White. Sharp replaced rapper-actor Mos Def in the comedy series shortly before filming began in 2010. Sharp was also a regular on the Starz cable network series Blunt Talk.

Sharp is very active in the improv community in Los Angeles and has performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male screenwriters
American male television actors
Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
Screenwriters from North Dakota
Male actors from North Dakota
People from Fargo, North Dakota
21st-century American male actors
21st-century American comedians
21st-century American screenwriters
21st-century American male writers


Neptune's Daughter is a 1914 American silent fantasy film featuring the first collaboration between actress Annette Kellerman and director Herbert Brenon. It was based on Kellerman's idea of "a water fantasy movie with beautiful mermaids in King Neptune's garden together with a good love story." It was filmed by Universal in Bermuda during January and February, cost approximately $50,000, and grossed one million dollars at the box office.

Plot
The daughter of the king of the water, King Neptune, takes on human form to avenge the death of her young sister, who was caught in a fishing net. However, she falls in love with the king of the land, King William, the man she holds responsible.

Cast

Reception
George Blaisdell, writing for The Moving Picture World after seeing a pre-release screening, gave the film a positive review, noting that "There is a wealth of incident in 'Neptune's Daughter.' The story of intrigue at court is convincing and well portrayed. The transition of Annette from the dominions of Father Neptune to the world of mortals and vice versa is so skillfully treated that it seems the perfectly natural course of events".

The film received renewed interest after 1916 when the popular A Daughter of the Gods was released, which also starred Kellerman and included a brief nudity scene.

Preservation
One reel of Neptune's Daughter footage is currently held in two archives, the National Film and Sound Archive and Gosfilmofond of Russia.

See also
 List of incomplete or partially lost films

References

External links

1914 films
Silent American fantasy films
American black-and-white films
American romantic drama films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Herbert Brenon
Films about mermaids
Universal Pictures films
1910s fantasy films
1910s American films
Silent romantic drama films
Silent horror films
Silent American drama films
Films shot in Bermuda


There have been two railways within the state territories of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency comprising six inhabited islands.

 The Guernsey Railway operated from 1879 to 1934 on the principal island, Guernsey.
 The Alderney Railway opened in 1847 and continues to operate on the second largest island of the bailiwick, Alderney.
 During World War II, German engineers built, modified and extended rail lines on both Alderney and Guernsey

Guernsey
There are currently no railway services on the island of Guernsey.

Early tramways

The earlier transport system was worked by steam, and was named the Guernsey Steam Tramway. It began service on 6 June 1879 with six locomotives. The Guernsey Railway, which was virtually an electric tramway, and which began working on 20 February 1892, was abandoned on 9 June 1934.

Second World War

During the German occupation of the Channel Islands in the Second World War,  light railways were built by German engineers and the Organisation Todt in Guernsey in 1941 and 1942 to help build and supply coastal fortifications, such as Fort Hommet. The line ran from Saint Peter Port to L'Eree via St Sampson and L'Ancresse. This included railway sidings at L'Islet.

There were spurs of . No attempt was made to take the lines to the higher parishes in the south of the island. All the surface laid tracks were dismantled after the occupation.

Alderney

The Alderney Railway provides a rail link of approximately , with a regular timetabled service during the summer months and at seasonal festivals including Easter and Christmas. It is now the only working railway on the Channel Islands to provide a public transport link. It is also one of the oldest railways in the British Isles, dating from 1847, and carried Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as the first 'official' passengers in 1857.

During World War II, the Germans lifted part of the  line and replaced it with a  line, worked by two Feldbahn 0-4-0 diesel locomotives.

There is also a  gauge miniature railway on Alderney, which operates during the summer months.

See also

 Transport in Guernsey

References

Transport in Guernsey
Rail transport in the Channel Islands


Kalvin McRae (born August 30, 1985) is a former American football running back. He was released by the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League prior to the beginning of training camp. He was originally signed by the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent on April 27, 2008. He played college football for the Bobcats of Ohio University.

Early years
McRae is the son of Willie and Cheral. McRae attended Avondale High School in Avondale Estates, Georgia and was a student and a letterman in football, wrestling, and track. In football, he was named the teams' Most Valuable Player four times, was a three-time All-County selection, and as a senior, he was also a first team All-Region selection. In wrestling, McRae placed sixth at the State Tournament as a senior. Kelvin McRae graduated from Avondale High School in 2003.

College career
As a player for the Ohio Bobcats, McRae finished his career as the school's leader in rushing yards (4,398), 100-yard rushing games (21), rush attempts (909), rushing yards per game (91.6), all-purpose yards (5,248) and tied for the total touchdowns mark (49). During his junior season, he helped lead the Bobcats to a MAC East Division title, a MAC Championship Game appearance, and a 2007 GMAC Bowl appearance. In 2007, he set single-season school records with 1,434 rushing yards, 19 rushing touchdowns, 294 rush attempts and 119.5 rushing yards per game.

McRae led Ohio in rushing each year he was there, starting with his freshman year.

Statistics

~includes bowl game

References

External links
Ohio Bobcats bio

1985 births
Living people
Players of American football from Decatur, Georgia
American football running backs
African-American players of American football
Ohio Bobcats football players
Ohio University alumni
People from Avondale Estates, Georgia
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people


The Splasher is the name given to one or more street artists operating in New York City starting in late 2006 and continuing until June 2007. The Splasher was a serial vandal who splattered other works of street art with paint, thus earning the title of "Splasher." The Splasher also left manifestos pasted alongside their graffiti.

During the time The Splasher was active, it sparked considerable debate about the identity and motives of vandal or vandals involved, along with the merit and status of graffiti art itself. The myth and legend of The Splasher gained considerable notoriety nationwide.

In June 2007, two men were caught trying to set off a stink bomb at an art opening in the Dumbo district of Brooklyn, New York. One escaped and the other was arrested. The arrestee, James Cooper, was alleged to be affiliated with the group behind The Splasher.

History
In January 2007, multiple works of street art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn were defaced with splattered paint. Several of the defacings had a wheat-pasted document next to them, entitled AVANT-GARDE: ADVANCE SCOUTS FOR CAPITAL and “Art: The Excrement of Action. The documents consisted of a revolutionary manifesto decrying the hypocrisy of street art. The edicts also contained a warning at the end, stating that they were booby-trapped with glass shards, making removal difficult.

The street art vandalism spread to Manhattan as well. By March 2007, the story had been picked up by The New York Times, and The Splasher, whose name had not yet been popularly coined, began to gain a high profile.

The splashings continued until June 2007, when James Cooper, 24, was arrested at an art opening in Brooklyn for trying to set off a stink bomb from a coffee can at an art opening for Shepard Fairey. Cooper was charged with third-degree arson, reckless endangerment, placing a false bomb, criminal possession of a weapon, harassment and disorderly conduct. Two days after his release, a group of individuals distributed a 16-page manifesto at another Fairey art opening entitled If we did it this is how it would’ve happened. The manifesto stated the motives of the group behind The Splasher:

By challenging what the experts term 'street art', our actions have, in turn, uncovered an alliance between the coercive force of the state and the "creative class" of the artist.

The authors linked the street art movement to furthering gentrification in New York neighborhoods.

Cultural impact
The works of The Splasher raised questions about the validity and status of street art as art, and the unwritten "rules" of the field. Francesca Gavin of The Guardian commented:

In the more rule-laden graffiti scene, lining someone else's work (crossing it out with spray paint) is the ultimate insult. But street art hasn't developed with those parameters. The transitory nature of street art is what gives it its impact. Many people creating work don't expect longevity – no wall stays the same for long in a city. Arguably The Splasher's Dadaist political cries are just another form of street art in themselves.

Prior to arrest of Cooper, the motives of The Splasher were speculated as possibly being, among other things, a guerrilla marketing campaign or a cry for attention. David Segal, of the Washington Post, came up with a theory that The Splasher was actually advertising for American Apparel, based on appearances of American Apparel ads alongside pasted Splasher manifestos.

When Mr. Cooper was arrested at Fairey's gallery. Fairey spoke with him, seeking an apology, though said that Cooper "tried to turn it around and say that he is the victim and that I should feel bad for him."

The Manifesto was compared with works by Jeanette Winterson, Guy Debord, and Amiri Baraka. Michael Kimmelman, art critic for The New York Times, compared The Splasher's actions with the Situationists, and disagreed with the manifesto's claims of gentrification:

Does street art gentrify neighborhoods? Graffiti didn’t gentrify SoHo. Wall Street did. It didn’t gentrify subways. From West Philadelphia to East Los Angeles, much of the best street painting is in poor neighborhoods that have resisted change. It’s hard to feel sympathetic with vandals splashing paint on posters or stenciled pictures, notwithstanding that some of the splashes look kind of aesthetic.

All that said, public space and civic justice are difficult issues to which the brouhaha returns our attention. New York neighborhoods are indeed changing, not all for the better, as the city becomes more affluent and homogeneous, and art shouldn’t exist in it simply as a symbol of wealth and privilege. It should seize public spaces where it can, to make itself more part of daily life, more relevant in the world, and to become a source of serendipity, pleasure, trouble, controversy and interest to people outside the art world, not just inside it.

Notes

External links
The 16-Page Splasher Manifesto—The New York Times, June 27, 2007
Gothamist: Against Streetart
Gothamist: The Splasher Speaks
The New York Post: Art Attack Bust

American graffiti artists
Graffiti in the United States
Public art in New York City


War Zone D was the area in South Vietnam around the Dong Nai River, north of Bien Hoa which served as a Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) base area and infiltration route during the Vietnam War.

Geography
War Zone D, located in the area designated as III Corps, began approximately 10km north of Bien Hoa. It comprised southern Phước Long Province, northern Long Khánh Province, northwest Bình Dương Province and northeast Biên Hòa Province. Its northern boundary was Route 14, its western boundary was Route 13 and its southern and eastern boundaries were the Dong Nai River.

Unlike other PAVN/VC bases it was located away from the Cambodian border making it more difficult to supply and lacking the protection afforded by Cambodian neutrality.

Actions
War Zone D was the target of a number of early actions by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War as they sought to extend their control out from the greater Saigon area. Shortly after their arrival in South Vietnam, the 173rd Airborne Brigade began their first combat operation on 27 June 1965 with an incursion with Army of Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces into War Zone D. On 7 July troops of Company A, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment walked into an L-shaped ambush in the zone and killed an estimated 50 VC. From 5-8 November the 173rd Airborne and 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment conducted Operation Hump in the zone.

From 11 February to 2 March 1966 the U.S. 1st Infantry Division conducted Operation Rolling Stone to create a road linking Route 13 with Route 16 and isolate the zone from War Zone C to the west.

The main supply route into the zone was named the Adams Trail which began at Base Area 351 on the Cambodian side of the Phước Long Province border, tunneled its way south through a triple-canopy rainforest, skirted the eastern edge of Sông Bé Province and then passed through the western half of War Zone D. Operated by the 70th Rear Service Group, the trail terminated in northern Biên Hòa Province at a base area known to the Americans as the Catcher's Mitt ().

From 4 December 1967 to 17 February 1968 the U.S. 199th Infantry Brigade conducted Operation Manchester to interdict PAVN/VC supply routes into the zone and keep the PAVN/VC away from Tân Uyên town and the Đồng Nai river hamlets and prevent rocket attacks on Long Binh Post and Bien Hoa Air Base.

A multi-division operation was planned against the zone in 1968, but following the Tet Offensive this was deferred in favor of Operation Quyet Thang. Operation Toan Thang I and its subsequent operations eventually expanded to cover most of III Corps including the zone.

References

Base areas of the Viet Cong
Battlefields in Vietnam
Vietnam War


Okla is an abbreviation of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

It can also refer to:

 Okla, Saskatchewan, an organized hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada
 Okla, Hitchiti language for Tribal town


Scott Sunderland (born 16 March 1988) is an Australian professional racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team .

Sunderland has represented Australia at the World Cup events including at Los Angeles in 2008, where he won the 1 km time trial and at Manchester in 2009. He is an Australian Institute of Sport and Western Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. His aunt, Jenny Sunderland, competed at the 1972 Munich Olympics in gymnastics.

Career
At the 2012 Summer Olympics he was part of the Australian men's sprint team that finished 4th. In August 2013 it was announced that Sunderland would switch from the Australian track cycling team's sprint programme to the endurance squad. He won the men's 1000 m time trial at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

In November 2014 Sunderland was announced as part of the Team Budget Forklifts line-up for 2015 alongside fellow members of the Australian endurance track squad Luke Davison, Glenn O'Shea, Jack Bobridge and Mitchel Mulhearn, riding a domestic programme with a focus on achieving success on the track at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In December 2016 he was announced as part of the  squad for the 2017 season.

In April 2022 Sunderland became a step-up supervisor for the Rio Tinto operated minesite Hope Downs 4. He fulfilled this task admirably.

Major results

Track

2003
 National Novice Track Championships
1st  500m time trial
2nd Flying 200m
2nd Sprint
3rd Scratch
3rd Team pursuit
2004
 Oceania Junior Track Championships
1st  Kilo
1st  Sprint
1st  Team sprint
 National Novice Track Championships
1st  500m time trial
1st  Flying 200m
1st  Sprint
1st  Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
2005
 Oceania Junior Track Championships
1st  Keirin
1st  Kilo
1st  Team sprint
 National Junior Track Championships
1st  Flying 200m
2nd Kilo
2nd Sprint
3rd Team sprint
 Australian Youth Olympic Festival
1st Sprint
1st Team sprint
1st Time trial
 UCI Juniors World Championships
3rd Kilo
3rd Team sprint
2006
 UCI Juniors World Championships
1st  Kilo
2nd Sprint
2nd Team sprint
 Oceania Track Championships
1st  Kilo
1st  Team sprint
 National Junior Track Championships
1st  Kilo
1st  Sprint
1st  Team sprint
3rd Keirin
2007
 Oceania Track Championships
1st  Kilo
3rd Team sprint
 National Track Championships
3rd Kilo
3rd Team sprint
 3rd Team sprint, 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Manchester
2008
 1st Kilo, 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Los Angeles
 2008–09 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne
1st Team sprint
2nd Kilo
 2nd Team sprint, National Track Championships
2009
 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Melbourne
1st Kilo
1st Team sprint
 National Track Championships
2nd Keirin
3rd Kilo
2010
 Commonwealth Games
1st Kilo
2nd Sprint
 Oceania Track Championships
1st  Kilo
1st  Team sprint
 National Track Championships
1st  Keirin
2nd Sprint
 2nd Team sprint, 2009–10 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Beijing
2011
 2nd Team sprint, 2011–12 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Astana
 2nd Keirin, National Track Championships
2012
 1st  Team sprint, UCI Track Cycling World Championships
2013
 2nd Keirin, National Track Championships
2014
 1st Kilo, Commonwealth Games
 2013–14 UCI Track Cycling World Cup, Guadalajara
1st Kilo
1st Team pursuit
 3rd Kilo, National Track Championships

Road

2003
 3rd Criterium, National Novice Road Championships
2004
 National Novice Road Championships
1st  Road race
1st  Time trial
1st  Criterium
2nd Team time trial
2014
 1st St. Kilda, Shimano Super Criterium Series
2015
 1st Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic
 3rd Criterium, National Road Championships
2017
 1st Stage 1 Tour de Langkawi
 1st Stage 3 Tour de Korea
 Tour de Hongrie
1st  Points classification
1st Prologue & Stage 5
 1st Stage 2 Tour of China II
 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Australian male cyclists
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Cyclists from Western Australia
Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Sportsmen from Western Australia
People from Busselton
Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Australia
Western Australian Institute of Sport alumni
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
Australian track cyclists
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games