Brita Kerstin Gunvor Borg (10 June 1926 – 4 May 2010) was a Swedish singer, actress, and variety show artist. Her variety show career spanned from 1943 into the 1970s, while her singing career trailed away at the end of the 1960s. However, she was still an active actress in the 1980s. Borg represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 in Cannes.

Biography
Borg was born on Södermalm in Stockholm and began her career in the Södermalm-based variety show group Vårat gäng ("Our Gang") after having won a song competition organised by the magazine Vecko-Revyn in 1943. In 1945, she formed the quartet Flickery Flies with Allan Johansson, whom she later married. In 1947, she began her long collaboration with famous Swedish variety performer and writer Povel Ramel. She participated in his radio program Fyra kring en flygel ("Four around a grand piano") and was the prima donna of several versions of the Knäppupp variety show between 1952 and 1962.

Amongst her most famous numbers were Fat Mammy Brown, where she played an African-American jazz/gospel singer in blackface and fat padding, the tango Banne mej from the variety musical Funny Boy, where she played the seductive Gypsy girl Zamora, and Ulliga krulliga gubbar, a satirical Dixieland ballad about the fashionableness of beards. When the prolific comedy duo Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson were writing for Knäppupp they provided her with songs such as Alla kan ju inte älska alla här i världen ("Everyone can't love everyone"), Aldrig har jag sett en rak banana ("I've Never Seen a Straight Banana"), and Du är min tekopp ("You are my teacup"). In 1962, she reached the peak of her career as a variety show artist with the number Die Borg, parodying Swedish singers who made a career by catering to German audiences.

From 1964 onwards Borg performed in several variety shows with Hagge Geigert in Uddevalla and Gothenburg, and a sojourn at Folkan with Kar de Mumma. In the 1970s, she moved to Arvidsjaur with her new husband, policeman Stig Salomonsson, and thereafter was most active as an actress, most often for the National Swedish Touring Theatre. She played in the musical Call Me Madam in 1967, and gave a celebrated performance as Annie Oakley in the musical Annie Get Your Gun in 1973. Henceforth she toured with the National Swedish Touring Theatre in performances of Christina Alexandra, Fiddler on the Roof, Ramel riket runt, and The Threepenny Opera. Among her more important dramatic performances was her turn alongside Halvar Björk in Richard Hobert's televised play Polskan och puckelryggen from 1983.

Singing career
In the 1950s, Borg was a Swedish pop-queen. She made many recordings, first for Sonora, then for Knäppupp. In 1959, it was decided that whichever song won in the Melodifestivalen she would travel to sing in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 in Cannes. In the final she reached a respectable 9th place. It was Augustin. In 1960, she performed as Hasse Alfredson's duet-partner in the comic Oj då kära nån and Märta Melin och Ture Tyrén and was awarded the honour of singing a duet with Evert Taube in two recordings of Invitation till Guatemala and Mary Strand. In 1961, an LP recording was made where she interpreted Århundradets melodier ("The tunes of the century"), including Hässelbysteppen, Min soldat and Sjösala vals. Her genre was traditional pop songs, with the, at the time, common leaning towards Italian (La strada dell'amore, Ciao ciao Bambina). She had attempted a more modern style with Frankenstein rock in 1957 but was eventually surpassed by younger, but less voice-strong singers, with greater appeal to a young audience. Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Benny Andersson gave her a final hit with the song Ljuva sextiotal, which stayed in the Swedish charts (Svensktoppen) for 20 weeks in 1969.

Acting career
Borg was musical, humorous, and conscientious, but ended up becoming an actress instead of a pop star. She did not make a major comeback similar to the comebacks by several other older Swedish pop stars such as Hanson, Carson, and Malmkvist, or had her pop song recordings re-released in anthologies and CDs, like Leander and Lindblom have. She has barely even become camp or a gay icon, as Git Gay, maybe because she, as a variety show prima donna, had been self-ironic from the beginning. The self-ironic undertones remained when Vårat gäng made a comeback in the 1980s and she was able to present herself as "En något överårig tonårsidol" (" A teen idol somewhat past her prime"), and in the anniversary Knäppup show Knäpp igen in 1992, when she sang Vi sätter P för primadonnan ("We stop the show for the prima donna").

Death
Borg died on 4 May 2010 at the age of 83 in Borgholm.

Other songs
"Tangerine" (1943)
"Alla säger att jag ser så ledsen ut" (first Ramel-song 1947)
"Jag ska ta morfar med mig ut i kväll" (a big hit in 1948)
"Sodom och Gomorra"
"Calypso Italiano" (1957)
"Kärlek livet ut" (1957)
"Sorglösa brunn" (duet with Ramel)
"Ge en fräknig och ful liten flicka en chans"
"Regn, regn, regn" (on EP-record "Brita i regnet")
"Utsikt från en bro" (lyrics by Karl Gerhard about a waiting sailor's wife)
"Gotländsk sommarnatt"
"Frysboxcalypso" (advertisement for Elektro-Helios on a rare EP with Alfredson)
"Res med mig till Skottland!"
"Ett rent undantag" (a small, comedic variety show song which to Ramel's disappointment didn't become a hit)
"Jan Öivind Swahn"
"Die Borg" (from the Knäppupp show Dax igen)

Filmography
Rymdinvasion i Lappland (1959)
 The Great Amateur (1958)
 Dance in the Smoke (1954)
I dur och skur (1953)
 Hidden in the Fog (1953)
Dårskapens hus (1951)
Med flyg till sjunde himlen (1949)
 The Street (1949)
Lilla Märta kommer tillbaka (1948)
Swing it, magistern! (1940) (uncredited)

References

Further reading
 Persson, Lennart K

External links

1926 births
2010 deaths
Singers from Stockholm
Swedish film actresses
Swedish women singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Sweden
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1959


Dharam Veer is an Indian period television drama. It is a fictional tale of two princes, named Dharam and Veer, and their adventures as they traverse the path of life. It is presented by Sagar Pictures.

Plot
The story begins by introducing the 13th-century kingdom of Aryanagar, where people are divided into the royalty (the Aryavarts) and the slaves (the Shramiks). While the Aryavarts are in charge of managing the affairs of the state and caring for the needs of the slaves, the Shramiks fulfill their duties by devoting their lives toward the welfare of the kingdom. King Aryavardhan believes that the system works for all. However, there is dissent and frustration amongst the slaves due to the humiliation and brutality they have to face at the hands Aryavardhan's older brother, Jaivardhan. A young slave named Soma dares to voice his dissent, and Aryavardhan gives Soma freedom by banishing him from the kingdom, but Jaivardhan makes a mockery of this decision by killing Soma.

Soma's son is born, believed by the slaves to be the messiah who will save them from the Aryavarts' tyranny. Jaivardhan sets the slave residences ablaze, killing all newborn children to ensure that their messiah does not survive. However, Soma's widow puts her son in a basket and throws it into the river; it is later discovered by Aryavardhan and Jaivardhan's widowed sister, Nivriti, who decides to adopt the foundling, telling everyone that the child is her son. He is named Veer, and grows up alongside the king's heir, Dharam. However, Jaivardhan aspires to make his son, Agni, the next king, and enlists a female dacoit (bandit) named Shera to kill Dharam. Shera follows the two rajkumars (non-ruling princes) to a mela (a gathering or fair) but miserably fails to kill Dharam. Dharam meets and falls in love with a princess named Sia, while Veer meets Shera who is pretending to be a princess named Ananya. When they return from the mela, Aryavardhan sends Dharam, Veer and Agni to Gurukula (residential school) to train themselves to become rajkumar.

At the gurukula, Dharam and Veer become competitors and a sense of rivalry turns their relationship bitter. Later, they reconcile and become inseparable. Toward the end of the training, Veer again meets Shera and this time they fall in love. Although Shera changes due to Veer's love, Veer condemns Shera when he learns her true identity and mission to kill Dharam. The cousins return to Aryanagar where Dharam announces that Veer deserves to be king, and Aryavardhan announces Veer's coronation ceremony. This angers the head of the Shramiks, Bhimsen, and Veer's birth mother and sister, Pari and Sakshi – who were all awaiting their messiah.

Veer discovers that he is not an Aryavrath. On the day of his coronation, he enters the palace as the messiah of the Shramiks, to everyone's surprise. The Rajya Sabha (parliament) jails Veer. Dharam is crowned instead, and asks Veer to return to the palace, but Veer asks for the Shramik's freedom and leaves to stay with his birth mother and sister.

Dharam and Veer become enemies. Dharam meets Sia again, and Veer meets and forgives Shera. Dharam and Veer are tricked by Jaivardhan and Agni, and decide to kill each other, but at the end of the drama the treachery is revealed and they reunite to kill the would-be usurpers. Veer returns to the palace to stay with Dharam and they are both crowned kings of Aryanagar, and Dharam announces the emancipation of the Shramiks.

Main characters
Dharam (played by Vikrant Massey) was brought up to believe in righteousness, follow his dharma as a prince and fulfill his responsibilities and duties towards the kingdom and its people. He is a year older than Veer, who is his best friend and (secretly adopted) cousin. Dharam loves and has complete faith in Veer and he is the one who usually uses his mind and his knowledge of the Aryanagar parampara over his feelings when faced with a situation. He has also developed some feelings for the princess of Awadhi, Rajkumari Sia.

Veer (played by Rajat Tokas) is Dharam's (secretly adopted) cousin and best friend, and he loves Dharam and believes it is his duty to protect him no matter what. He is instinctive and spontaneous, blessed with a natural wit and intelligence which he uses to help Dharam fulfill his princely duties and responsibilities.

Shera (played by Mugdha Chaphekar) is a thug, a strong lady who does whatever her father tells her to do, robbing people and accumulating treasure. She had been paid a ransom to kill Dharam, and feigns to be a princess named Ananya. Shera changes herself for her love of Veer, but her identity is revealed which leads to their breakup. She helps Veer in all possible ways, and finally reunites with Veer and helps Veer and Dharam succeed their throne.

Sia (played by Geetu Bawa and Priyanka Mishra) is the princess of Avadhi. She has a sharp tongue and throws frequent tantrums, wanting everything to go her way. Her few encounters with Dharam leave her angry but she later falls for him, encouraged by a fortune-teller (who was actually Veer in disguise). When she speaks low of Shramiks in Aryanagar, Dharam indignantly tells her to leave his kingdom. Later she realizes her mistake and loves Dharam but receives no response from him.

References

External links
 NDTV Imagine – Dharam Veer synopsis
 NDTV Imagine – Dharam Veer characters

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2008 Indian television series debuts
2009 Indian television series endings
Imagine TV original programming
Indian television soap operas
Indian period television series


Vision Air can refer to one of several airlines

Vision Airlines of the United States
 Vision Air Ltd, the executive charter division of Western Air of the Bahamas


Roland Maywald  (born 1948) is a former German badminton player who won numerous (West) German national and other European titles from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.

Career
Though he won the German national singles title in 1974, Maywald was primarily a doubles specialist. He was particularly successful internationally in men's doubles with Willi Braun, whose fast forecourt racket complemented Maywald's steady all-court play. Braun and Maywald won the biennial European Championships consecutively in 1972 and 1974. They were thrice semifinalists at the prestigious All-England Championships (1971,1975 and 1976) and won the U.S. Open men's doubles in 1976. He also won two bronze medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games when badminton was played as a demonstration sport. Maywald also shared a number of mixed doubles titles in Europe with various partners. In 1975 he reached the final of mixed doubles at the All-England with Brigitte Steden.

References

External links

German male badminton players
1948 births
Living people
People from Emmerich am Rhein
Badminton players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Düsseldorf (region)


Augusta Holmes Clawson (June 23, 1903 – May 13, 1997) was an American civil servant, and writer of Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder, a diary about welding in World War II.

Clawson was a graduate of Vassar. In 1943, she was assigned by the United States Office of Education to work undercover as a welder at the Swan Island Shipyard in order to discover the difficulties faced by women workers and the reasons many women welders were leaving the job shortly after completing training. Her book based on her experiences there, Shipyard Diary of a Woman Welder, was published in 1944 by Penguin Books. She retired from government service in 1973.

Clawson gave a collection of items from her time as a welder, including her welding helmet, to the Smithsonian Institution.

References

1903 births
1997 deaths
20th-century American women writers
Vassar College alumni
Welders
American women civilians in World War II
20th-century United States government officials


Joseph Kiwánuka, MAfr (June 25, 1899—February 22, 1966) was a Ugandan prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Rubaga from 1960 until his death.

Biography
Joseph Kiwánuka was born in Nakirebe, Mpigi District, to Catholic parents, Victoro Katumba Munduekanika and Felicitas Nankya Ssabawebwa Namukasa. Each day, Victoro and his family walked eight miles to Mass at the nearest mission station. He was sent to Mitala Maria Mission School in 1910, after a missionary, who had seen him reading a book, was favorably impressed by this ability. He graduated in 1914, whence he entered the minor seminary in. Kiwánuka where he found his vocation greatly tested but persevered nonetheless. He then joined the Major Seminary of Katigondo, where he excelled in philosophy, and sought to enter the Missionaries of Africa, more commonly known as the White Fathers, in 1923. However, Bishop Henri Streicher, the Apostolic Vicar of Uganda and himself a White Father, was against his decision. The Superior General of the White Fathers at the time finally agreed to admit Kiwánuka after his ordination.

He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Streicher on May 26, 1929. Streicher then sent the young priest to Rome to study canon law, in an attempt to prevent him from entering the White Fathers' novitiate, which had invited Kiwánuka in July of that year. In Rome, Kiwánuka studied at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, from where he later obtained his doctorate in canon law, with a dissertation on marriage.

He finally entered the novitiate of the White Fathers in Algeria on October 8, 1932, becoming a full member of the congregation nearly a year later, on October 12, 1933. Upon his return to Uganda in 1933, he did pastoral work in Bikira and Bujuni, and taught at the Katigondo Seminary.

On May 25, 1939, a day before the tenth anniversary of his priestly ordination, Kiwánuka was appointed the first Apostolic Vicar of Masaka and Titular Bishop of Thibica by Pope Pius XII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following October 29 from Pope Pius himself, with Archbishops Celso Costantini and Henri Streicher, MAfr, serving as co-consecrators, in St. Peter's Basilica. Kiwánuka was thus made the first native African bishop. He visited the United States in 1950.

He was later given the title of Bishop upon his apostolic vicariate's elevation to a diocesan see on March 25, 1953. During his tenure, the Bishop faced challenges from Muslims, once saying, "Both African and Asian Muslims in the diocese accumulate wealth and slowly extend their influence. Their wealth, plus polygamy, enables them to win many young Catholic girls". He was opposed by African nationalists as well, many of whom viewed Christianity as belonging to Western culture.

Bishop Kiwanuka was active in public affairs, both as a behind-the-scenes advisor to political leaders and as an active participant.  in the early 1950s a major political crisis led to the exiling of the King of Buganda by the British colonial governor. The crisis was settled by the Namirembe Conference, in which Bishop Kiwanuka participated.  This conference negotiated a new constitutional monarchy for Buganda. (reference:  Must we lose Africa, by Colin Legum)

On December 20, 1960, Kiwánuka was promoted to Archbishop of Rubaga. He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, during the course of which he assisted Pope Paul VI in the canonization of the Uganda Martyrs on October 18, 1964. His last great act was issuing a pastoral letter on political leadership and democratic maturity during the governmental crisis of President Milton Obote. He was considered likely to have been elevated to a cardinal.

The Archbishop died shortly afterwards, at the age of 66. He is buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Rubaga.

References

External links

1899 births
1966 deaths
White Fathers priests
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Uganda
Ugandan expatriates in Italy
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
Expatriates in Algeria
Roman Catholic bishops of Masaka
Roman Catholic archbishops of Kampala


Arapaho-class tugboats were oceangoing tugboats designated fleet tugs by the United States Navy during their service in the early half of the 20th century. They were in service during World War I and World War II. Arapaho was built by the Seattle Construction and Drydock Company in Seattle, Washington.

Ships in class

Service history
The first vessel in the class Arapaho was classified as a fleet tug and initially designated Tug No. 14 by the United States Navy after it entered service on 2 December 1914. During World War I, the tug operated out of Mare Island Navy Yard in California. In 1918, the ship transited the Panama Canal and began operations with the United States Atlantic Fleet, home ported at Norfolk, Virginia. In 1920, the ship was re-designated AT-14 by the navy. The tugboat was taken out of service on 6 April 1922. While deactivated, the vessel was re-designated YT-121 in 1936. The ship was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 22 December 1936 and sold to A. S. Hughes' Sons of Philadelphia on 24 December.

The second ship, Mohave, entered service on 2 December 1914 and designated Tug No. 15. The tugboat was assigned to Puget Sound Navy Yard until 1918 when a need for more tugboats on the East Coast caused Mohave to be re-based to Norfolk via the Panama Canal. The tugboat completed two operations to Bermuda and was temporarily loaned to the National Overseas Transportation Service. In 1919, Mohave operated in the Caribbean Sea. The ship was re-designated AT-15 in 1920. On 18 March 1921, the tugboat was re-based to Boston, Massachusetts, towing barges and lighters along the coast. On 13 February 1928, while towing an empty lighter from Provincetown, Massachusetts to Boston, the tugboat ran aground in Massachusetts Bay in heavy waves. Damaged in the engine room, the tugboat was abandoned by its crew of which three were lost. Too damaged to be returned to service, the hulk was sold for scrap on 9 April 1928.

The third and final ship of the class, Tillamook, entered service soon after its launch on 15 August 1914. The vessel, designated Tug No. 16 was assigned to Mare Island Navy Yard in San Francisco, California. The vessel spent its entire career attached to the yard. In 1920, the tug was re-designated AT-16. In 1936 older fleet tugs were re-classified as yard craft and Tillamook was once again re-designated YT-122. During World War II, the vessel was re-classified again, this time as a medium harbor tug, and re-designated YTM-122 on 13 April 1944. Following the end of the war, the vessel was taken out of service and put up for disposal on 28 April 1947.

See also

 Type V ship - Tugs
 List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

References

External links
 navsource.org Arapaho-class fleet tug

Auxiliary ship classes of the United States Navy

Auxiliary tugboat classes


Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre XXXVII A.S. is a live double album by Finnish rock band HIM. The DVD was directed by Meiert Avis in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theater between 14 and 15 November 2007. The DVD features the live performance, as well as behind the scenes look at the show. Also featured on the DVD is the winner of HIM's biggest fans competition go to Seattle, Washington, to meet the band. A special edition was available for pre-order on 1 February 2008, which comes with a limited edition 6" X 4" hand-numbered flipbook limited to 3500 copies in North America and 500 in the UK. The imagery is from HIM's live performance of "Sleepwalking Past Hope" at that concert.

An unspecified delay occurred during the release of the product to the market, with the release date being changed from 31 March to 29 April, and further to 17 May for Australian listeners.

Track listing
All tracks by Ville Valo except where noted.

"Passion's Killing Floor" – 5:14
"(Rip Out) the Wings of a Butterfly" – 3:31
"Buried Alive by Love" – 4:52
"Wicked Game" – 4:28 *
"The Kiss of Dawn" – 4:35
"Vampire Heart" – 4:25
"Poison Girl" – 5:05
"Dead Lovers' Lane" – 4:17
"Join Me in Death" – 3:30
"It's All Tears" – 4:21 **
"Sleepwalking Past Hope" – 10:41
"Killing Loneliness" – 4:30
"Soul on Fire" – 4:23
"Your Sweet Six Six Six" – 4:03
"Bleed Well" – 4:22
"Right Here in My Arms" – 5:26 1
"The Funeral of Hearts" – 4:43
"V.D.O. (Venus Doom Outro)" – 4:06 1

Notes
1 iTunes version only
* Written by Chris Isaac
** Features sample of Monster Magnet's song "Wall of Fire"

DVD
"Intro (Blood Theme)"
"Passion's Killing Floor"
"Wings of a Butterfly"
"Buried Alive By Love"
"Wicked Game"
"The Kiss of Dawn"
"Vampire Heart"
"Poison Girl"
"Dead Lovers' Lane"
"Join Me in Death"
"It's All Tears (Drown in This Love)"
"Sleepwalking Past Hope"
"Killing Loneliness"
"Soul On Fire"
"Your Sweet 666"
"Bleed Well"
"Right Here in My Arms"
"The Funeral of Hearts"
"V.D.O. (Venus Doom Outro)"

Bonus features
"Ville Valo Interview" – 44:43
"Fan Videos"
"Fan Club Photo Gallery"

Personnel
 Ville Hermanni Valo – lead vocals
 Mikko Viljami "Linde" Lindström – lead guitar
 Mikko Henrik Julius "Migé" Paananen – bass
 Janne Johannes "Emerson Burton" Puurtinen – keyboards
 Mika Kristian "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen – drums

In media
The intro, "Blood Theme", is used in the soundtrack and the closing credits for the television show Dexter.

Charts

References

HIM (Finnish band) albums
2008 live albums
Live video albums
2008 video albums
Sire Records live albums
Sire Records video albums


Crime in Iran is present in various forms, and may include the following offences: murder, kidnapping, theft, fraud, money laundering, drug trafficking, drug dealing, alcohol smuggling, oil smuggling, tax evasion, terrorism , not wearing "proper" hijab, eating and drinking during Ramadan, drinking alcohol , and many other crimes.

Drug trafficking and money laundering

Drug trafficking is a major and ongoing issue in Iran. Iran is a key transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin between Afghanistan and Europe. With 2.8 percent of the population addicted to drugs, Iran has one of the highest rates of drug addiction in the world, rivaling the 10 - 15% in Afghanistan. According to published figures, Iran has so far lost close to 3,500 police and security officers to the anti-drug campaign that annually costs the country almost $1 billion and inflicts an annual damage of about $8.5 billion on Iran's economy. Hundreds of drug smugglers have also been hanged.

It has been estimated by the government of Iran in 2015 that dirty money from drug trafficking in Iran amounts to 10 trillion toumans a year (1 touman equals 10 rials), some of which has been finding its way into "elections and the securing of votes" to influence the country's politics.

Opium

The majority of drug users in Iran use opium. Iran produces almost none of its own opium; the opium is brought into the country from neighboring Afghanistan. In 2006, over 53 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan left the country through Iran. Several measures have been taken by the Iranian authorities to combat drug trafficking. This includes increasing the number of police forces on the southeastern border of Iran and introducing severe laws and penalties for people found guilty of drug trafficking.

Iran has become a leading figure in combating drug trafficking; so far Iranian authorities have made over 85 percent of the world's total opium seizures. Between 2009 and 2010, the amount of illicit drugs seized by Iranian police totalled over 340 tons.

Tax evasion

Tax evaders typically are either involved in activities in the gray sector of economy or in the underground market which they do not divulge. Others are engaged in smuggling and the black market. The losses are equivalent to 20% to 25% of the country's gross domestic product revenue. In 2014, international medias reported Iranian nationals to be listed among the tax evaders in the HSBC scandal in Switzerland.

Human trafficking

According to the U.S. Department of State: "Iran is a source, transit, and destination for women trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. Iranian women are trafficked internally for the purpose of forced prostitution and for forced marriages to settle debts. Iranian children are trafficked internally and Afghan children are trafficked to Iran for the purpose of forced marriages, commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude as beggars or laborers. According to non-governmental sources, Iranian women and girls are also trafficked to Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for commercial sexual exploitation."

Alcohol smuggling

Iran began restricting alcohol production and consumption shortly after the Iranian Revolution. Even with this ban, alcohol smuggling is still popular in Iran today. It is reported that over 2.5 million dollars of alcohol is smuggled into Iran every day. Smugglers often have a hard time smuggling alcohol into Iran; border security forces repeatedly clash with smugglers and many die.

Oil smuggling

Oil smuggling has become more of an issue in Iran. Iranians pay an average price of 25 cents a liter for gasoline while neighboring countries pay more than a dollar per liter which makes oil smuggling a profitable business for smugglers. Every year in Iran, over 1.8 billion liters of refined oil products are smuggled to neighboring countries. These countries include Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey.

Honor killing

Terrorism

Punishment

Iran has one of the highest execution rates (second only to China). Adultery and homosexual sex are considered illegal acts under Iranian law and under certain circumstances may carry the death penalty. Punishment for drug use and trafficking can be severe; anyone convicted of having possession of, using or trafficking in illegal drugs can expect long jail sentences, heavy fines and even the death penalty.

See also

Smuggling in Iran
Corruption in Iran
Human trafficking
Illegal drug trade
Alcohol in Iran
Capital punishment in Iran
Economy of Iran

References

External links
Drug trafficking and other criminal markets in Iran


Karen Middleton (born February 24, 1966) is an American politician who served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2004 to 2008 and 2008 to 2011.

Background
Karen Middleton was born on February 24, 1966.

After a career as a development officer and project manager in the field of education, Middleton was appointed to the Colorado State Board of Education in 2004 and in 2006 won election to a two-year term.

In February 2008, Middleton was appointed as a state representative to fill the vacancy in Aurora, Colorado's District 42 left by the resignation of Rep. Michael Garcia from the Colorado House of Representatives. Middleton was elected to a full term in 2008. In the 2010 election, Middleton withdrew her candidacy to accept a position in San Francisco, CA as president of Emerge America, and was succeeded in office by Rhonda Fields.

In 2013, Middleton left her Emerge America position to accept an offer to become Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado, and state affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Education
B.A. in political science and women's studies, Mount Holyoke College (1988)
M.A. in political science, University of Colorado at Denver (1996)
M.A. in higher education, University of Denver (2007)

Professional career

1980s
Middleton earned her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1988, graduating with a B.A. in political science and women's studies. While in college, she served as president and vice-president of Mount Holyoke's Student Government Association and was elected baccalaureate speaker. After graduation, she worked for a year as the coordinator of regional activities at Dana Hall School, an all-girls school in Massachusetts, where she organized alumni events and groups. Afterwards, she joined the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington DC, as manager of development programs, raising funds for international programs.

1990s
In 1992, Middleton enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Colorado at Denver. There, she co-created and co-chaired the political science graduate student association and served on the campus-wide steering committee for the Auraria Women’s Network. Middleton graduated with an M.A. in political science in 1996, with a thesis titled An Analysis of State Campaign Finance Reform. While in graduate school, she also worked as director of development for the Montessori School of Denver (from 1992 to 1994), and then as director of operations for alumni and development at the University of Denver College of Law (from 1994 to 1996), developing and managing capital and giving campaigns.

Middleton joined the staff of the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies in April 1996, first as Director of Admissions and Student Affairs and rising to the post of Assistant Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs, overseeing graduate student recruitment, enrollment, and management. While working in higher education administration, Middleton co-chaired the Association of Professional Schools for International Affairs Admissions Officers, attended the National Association for Women in Education's Academy of Leadership in Higher Education, and received the Woman Leader of Excellence Award from the Colorado Women’s Leadership Coalition in 1997 and the University of Denver Excellence in Education Award in 1998.

In 1997, Middleton entered the graduate program in higher education policy at the University of Denver. She spent 10 years pursuing a doctoral degree, was ABD (all but dissertation), but ultimately took a second master's and ended her graduate career.

While Middleton served in her first legislative session, she was pregnant with her first child, Zoe Grace Middleton, who was born in August 2008.

2000s

Middleton worked full-time while pursuing her doctorate.  While a graduate student, she chaired the University of Denver's Graduate Women's Council from 2000 to 2002 and was a board member of the university's alumni association from 2003 to 2004. While in the School of Education, she received its Publication Award in 2003 and Service Award in 2006.

She was also hired as manager of program consulting at eCollege in 2000, and quickly promoted to director of the Center for Internet Technology in Education. At eCollege, an online learning company specializing in online course development, she managed public affairs, online learning conferences, and consulting operations. In 2000, Middleton graduated from the Colorado Institute for Leadership Training and earned certification from the Institute for Management of Distance Education.

In 2001, Middleton joined the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, a project of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, as a senior project coordinator, where she developed resources for online teaching and learning for use by K-12 schools and higher education institutions. While there, she helped create the North American Council for Online Learning.

From 2003 to 2004, Middleton was vice president for enrollment at Up with People, managing global recruitment and instigating partnerships with the University of Colorado at Denver, as well as communications and marketing for the WorldSmart Leadership Program.

In 2004, she spent several months in an interim position as policy director for the  House Minority Office at the Colorado General Assembly, where she was involved in setting policy direction for the Democratic caucus.

In addition to her professional activities, Middleton was a board member of  Colorado Women's Agenda from 1994 to 2004, serving as its president from 1995 to 1999, and was a member of the DU International Human Rights Institute/Advocacy Center Advisory Board from 1998 to 2003. She has also served on the boards of the Aurora Education Foundation (from 2003 to 2006) and the Adams 14 Education Foundation (from 2004 to 2006), on the State of Colorado's Consumer Insurance Council (from 2001 to 2003) and on the Citizen’s Advisory Committee on Housing and Community Development (in 2003).

While on the state board of education, from 2004 to 2007, Middleton ran a non-profit management firm, Karen Middleton & Associates, working with clients including the Institute of International Education, the Colorado Children’s Campaign and Up with People, focusing on education-related projects. She also taught political science part-time at Community College of Aurora, and completed a second master's degree, in higher education policy, from the University of Denver, in 2007.

In March 2007, Middleton joined ScholarCentric, an educational publishing company, as Vice President of Development. In June 2007, she was promoted to Vice President of Sales and Development.

State Board of Education
Middleton first sought elected office in 2002, campaigning for an elected post on the University of Colorado Board of Regents. She lost the race to represent Colorado's 7th Congressional district to Republican Patricia Hayes, earning 49% of the popular vote.

In November 2004, following the resignation of Colorado State Board of Education member Christine Baca, a Democratic Party vacancy committee appointed Middleton to the board's 7th district seat
She was elected to serve for the final two years of the unexpired term in November 2006, defeating Republican Lee Kunz with 55 percent of the popular vote.

After having criticized Colorado Education Commissioner William Moloney, chastising him as "ineffective," and calling for his resignation, in 2006,  Middleton was involved in the selection of his replacement, Fountain, Colorado School Superintendent Dwight Jones, in 2007.  While on the board, she also cast votes against the use of quotas as a means of fostering diversity in charter schools, advocated for the creation of a state online education coordinator, and proposed a motion to allow state funding for "fifth year" high school programs designed to help students earn associate's degrees.

In 2005, Middleton was appointed to the board of the Alliance for Quality Teaching, the advisory board of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, and the Colorado General Assembly's Interim School Finance Task Force. In 2006, she was named to the State Advisory Committee for Gifted and Talented Education. Middleton also served on the Government Affairs Committee for the National Association for State Boards of Education in 2007.

Increasingly prominent in Democratic Party circles, Middleton received the "Rising Star" Award from the Colorado Democratic Party in 2006 and was named one of The Colorado Statesman's "Movers and Shakers" in 2007.

Legislative career

2008 appointment and election

In October 2007, Middleton launched her campaign for the Colorado State House of Representatives seat being vacated by term-limited Representative Michael Garcia, centering her campaign on her experience in education issues. Following the resignation of Rep. Michael Garcia in February 2008, v Middleton announced her intention to seek a Democratic Party vacancy committee's nomination for the open seat, and was quickly viewed as the leading contender for the appointment. On February 10, the vacancy committee voted 24-3 to name Middleton to replace Garcia in the state house. She was sworn into the legislature on the morning of February 13, after having submitted her resignation from the Colorado State Board of Education, effective that same day.

Middleton stood for a full term in November 2008; she faced opposition from Libertarian Jim Frye and Republican George Carouthers. Middleton's re-election bid was endorsed by the Denver Post and the Aurora Sentinel. She ultimately won with 68% of the popular vote.

After winning a full term in November 2008, Middleton was elected Majority Caucus Chair by state house Democrats.

2008 legislative session

After joining the Colorado General Assembly in the midst of the 2008 legislative session, Middleton was named to seats on the House Education Committee and the House State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee.
 She has named economic growth, education, and health care as her top legislative priorities for the legislative session.
She has sponsored legislation to increase training standards for Colorado's Witness Protection Program and legislation signed into law to provide $5 million in funding in "Colorado Counselor Corps" funding for additional guidance counselors in struggling public schools.
Middleton has also supported renaming the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus to add "in Aurora," reflecting the campus's physical location. After unsuccessfully lobbying the University of Colorado Board of Regents to change the name, Middleton plans to offer a bill to change the name legislatively during the 2009 session.

In September 2008, following an Aurora murder, Middleton joined with other Aurora legislators in September to call for a state investigation into how the accused perpetrator, suspected of being an illegal immigrant, was allowed to remain in the United States under current law, with an eye toward revising state laws that may have contributed to the situation.

In November 2008, Middleton received the Charter Friends Award from the Colorado League of Charter Schools.

2009 legislative session

For the 2009 legislative session, Middleton was named to seats on the House Education Committee and the House Transportation and Energy Committee. She planned on sponsoring legislation to create a state investment fund to support services for people with developmental disabilities, a move prompted by the failure of a statewide ballot measure to raise sales taxes to fund the same services; however, Middleton later announced that she would not pursue the measure because of poor state revenue projections.

2010 withdrawal from reelection campaign
In August 2010, Middleton withdrew from her campaign for reelection to accept a position in San Francisco, CA leading Emerge America, an organization whose mission is to recruit and train female Democratic political candidates. Because Colorado's 2010 Democratic primary already occurred, a Democratic vacancy committee met and nominated Rhonda Fields to take Middleton's place on the November ballot.

Post-Legislature activity
While continuing to lead Emerge America, Middleton moved back from California to Colorado, returning to Aurora, Colorado. In January 2013, Middleton considered challenging Andrew Romanoff for the Democratic nomination for Colorado's 6th congressional district, but ultimately demurred.

In May 2013, Middleton left Emerge America to accept the Executive Director position for NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado.

See also
 NARAL Pro-Choice America

References

External links
 Karen Middleton for Colorado State House District 42 - campaign site
 Colorado State Board of Education Member Karen Middleton - SBOE profile
 Emerge America
 NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado

Living people
Democratic Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives
Mount Holyoke College alumni
Women state legislators in Colorado
Colorado city council members
University of Colorado Denver alumni
1966 births
University of Denver alumni
American abortion-rights activists
Women city councillors in Colorado
21st-century American women


Harry R. Dinnel Jr. (October 9, 1940August 26, 2017) was an American basketball player and coach.

Dinnel was born and died in Los Angeles, California.

Dinnel played basketball at Pepperdine University.

Dinnel was drafted in the 8th round of the 1963 NBA draft by the San Francisco Warriors.

Dinnel later played for, and then coached, the Anaheim Amigos of the American Basketball Association.

In 1981 Dinnel was inducted into the Pepperdine Athletics Hall of Fame.

References

External links
basketball-reference.com page on Harry Dinnel
DatabaseBasketball.com reference page on Harry Dinnel

1940 births
2017 deaths
Anaheim Amigos coaches
Anaheim Amigos players
El Camino College alumni
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Pepperdine Waves men's basketball players
Player-coaches
San Francisco Warriors draft picks
American men's basketball players
Forwards (basketball)
Guards (basketball)
People from Venice, Los Angeles


Goathland Bank Top was a short lived, early, railway station in Goathland, North Yorkshire, England.  The station at the top of the Beckhole Incline (sometimes referred to as the Goathland Incline) was opened with the opening throughout of the Whitby and Pickering Railway (W&P) on Thursday 26 May 1836. The station closed with the opening of the NER's Deviation line (which bypassed the by then anachronistic cable worked incline) on 1 July 1865. Thus the station had a life of less than thirty years.
A new Goathland station (initially called Goathland Mill to distinguish it from the earlier station) was opened on the deviation line.

Whitby and Pickering Railway (1836-45)

Little is known about what facilities the horse-worked W&P provided at Goathland, they did build an 'overseers cottage' at the head of the incline, that cottage survives, now known as 'Ash Tree Cottage', it is probably the only surviving inhabited W&P structure which is now a grade II listed building that passed into private ownership in 1913.

The incline was built with a 1-in-15 gradient to the design of the W&P's Engineer George Stephenson and was self-acting with the descending traffic hauling up the ascending traffic. The descending coach or wagons was given additional weight by means of  a wheeled water butt, which was filled before descending, then drained at the bottom and returned to the top with the next ascending load. The machinery for working the inclined plane was obtained from Robert Stephenson at a cost of £135 14s 6d.  The original rope for the incline manufactured by Mr. Henry Simpson was 1,500 yards long and 5.5 inches in circumference.

The W&P built a stable 'at the top of Goathland Inclined Plane', the directors accepting a tender from a Mr. Langdale of £230. The York & North Midland Railway (Y&NM) replaced the water gravity system with a stationary steam engine in 1846.

What can be seen today
At a first glance the unattuned observer would hardly realise that there had been a railway, never mind a station on the site of Goathland's first station. However the presence of a 'Historic Rail Trail' following the original alignment gives away the one-time presence of a railway.  In the adjacent image the worn track on the grass roughly follows the track alignment.  In the distance can be seen the Y&NM terrace (with three distinctive chimney stacks), one (modern) house beyond that stands 'Ash Tree Cottage', the W&P's cottage at the head of the incline. The incline itself starts just out of sight, about where the path disappears.

References

Disused railway stations in the Borough of Scarborough
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1836
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1865
Former York and North Midland Railway stations
George Townsend Andrews railway stations


European Parliament election, 1996 may refer to:
1996 European Parliament election in Austria
1996 European Parliament election in Finland


Labudova pesma (trans. Swan Song) is the eleventh studio album from Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, released in 1992.

Recording and reception
As Yugoslav wars broke out in 1991, the band intended to release Labudova pesma as their last album (and named the album according to their decision), but eventually changed their decision to disband. Album was recorded in Vienna at the end the first year of the wars. On the album recording, the band cooperated with Oliver Mandić. The intention was for Mandić to become an official band member (as the keyboardist), however, due to the fight between Mandić and the band's frontman Bora Đorđević, the cooperation ended and the songs "Vukovar", "Prodavnica snova", "Zbogom pameti", "Šta još možeš da mi daš" and "Na pola puta do sreće" written by and recorded with Mandić were not released on the album. The album was released through the independent record label Samy.

Although Đorđević would soon become an active supporter of the Serbian troops in Republika Srpska and Republika Srpska Krajina, the album included a number of anti-war songs: A cappella "Dok padaju glave", prayer "Amin", and "Rat je završen". Nevertheless, the album's only hit was "Kad sam bio mlad", a cover of Eric Burdon's song "When I Was Young".

Album cover
The album cover was designed by Jugoslav Vlahović.

Track listing

2001 One Records reissue bonus track

Personnel
Bora Đorđević - vocals
Vidoja Božinović - guitar
Zoran Ilić - guitar
Miša Aleksić - bass guitar
Vicko Milatović - drums

Additional personnel
Štefan - keyboards
Fred - guitar, recorded by

References

Labudova pesma at Discogs
 EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006,  Janjatović Petar;
 Riblja čorba,  Jakovljević Mirko;

External links
Labudova pesma at Discogs

Riblja Čorba albums
1992 albums


The 1890–91 Football Alliance was the second season of the Football Alliance, an association football league which was set up in England as an alternative to the Football League, which had begun in the 1888–89 season.

Stoke joined the Alliance in this season after dropping out of the Football League at the end of the previous season and were crowned champions after the penultimate round of fixtures on 4 April. Last season's champions The Wednesday finished bottom after losing thirteen games in a dreadful season.  Even a 4–2 win (3–0 at half time) at home to runners up Sunderland Albion on the last day of the season failed to lift Wednesday off the foot of the table.

At the end of the season, Stoke were elected back to the Football League along with sixth-placed Darwen, while Sunderland Albion left to join the Northern League.

Final league table

Results

Election to the Football League
The number of clubs in the Football League was to be increased by two for the 1891–92 season. In addition to the four League sides seeking re-election, six non-league clubs (five of them from the Football Alliance) also sought League membership. The voting went as follows:

See also
 1890–91 in English football
 1890 in association football
 1891 in association football

References

1890-91
2


Lyndon Township may refer to the following places in the United States:

 Lyndon Township, Whiteside County, Illinois
 Lyndon Township, Michigan

Township name disambiguation pages


was a senior retainer of the Toyotomi clan throughout the latter Sengoku period of feudal Japan.
Hidemoto was the eldest son of Mōri Motokiyo and initially began service under the Toyotomi as a military commander under his cousin Terumoto, the head of the Mōri clan.

Service under Hideyoshi
In 1597, Hidemoto became a highly esteemed figure beneath the Mōri, and, by variable means, was chosen specifically by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to lead the Army of the Right in the Second Invasion of Korea, where he commanded 30,000 soldiers. Hidemoto was additionally backed by six generals that were assigned to his right wing: Katō Kiyomasa, who possessed 10,000; Kuroda Nagamasa, who wielded 5,000; Nabeshima Naoshige with 12,000; Ikeda Hideuji tasked with 2,800; Chōsokabe Motochika, who wielded 3,000; and Nakagawa Hidenari, who respectively possessed 2,500. With these preparations thus made, Hidemoto and his supporters led the initial Japanese offensive within the Korean province of Gyeongsang. They marched towards Jeonju after assaulting Busan, taking both Sacheon and Changpyong. Following this campaign, Hidemoto obtained a far greater power when he was made the governor of Suō and Nagato Provinces, which he held up until the decisive Sekigahara Campaign of 1600. He married daughter of Toyotomi Hidenaga later Daizen-in.

Battle of Sekigahara
At the outset of this campaign, Hidemoto was determined to support the forces of Ishida Mitsunari, dubbed the "Western Forces". Since his cousin, Terumoto, possessed 128,000 soldiers that he would use to back the Western forces of Mitsunari, Hidemoto intended to assist the Western forces of Mitsunari. He gathered his armaments with great immediacy, equipped himself with 15,000 soldiers and stationed his entire army on Mt. Nangu, with his generals distributed along the eastern borders of the mountain. However, to make the circumstances go from detrimental to entirely beneficial, Kikkawa Hiroie, a general of Hidemoto, refused to move against the Eastern forces at the start of the battle. As Hiroie was the leading general of the army, Hidemoto was prevented from reaching the frontlines, placing him with little other choice than to resentfully retreat without offering his support to the Mitsunari.

Later, as a general resolution to such an event, Hidemoto's original fief was dropped from 200,000 to a modest 50,000 out of sympathetic consideration to Terumoto's service, causing Hidemoto a proper level of humiliation.

Service under Ieyasu
Hidemoto has been believed a surpassing leader unlike his below-average father-in-law, Mōri Terumoto. He used to be one of the most Jacobinical objectors to Ieyasu, but he turned to a supporter of Ieyasu after Battle of Sekigahara.

Hidemoto apparently remained as first commander under Ieyasu throughout the Edo period. He more than likely assisted in the Sieges of Osaka and the later Shimabara Rebellion before he eventually died in 1650.

References

Daimyo
People of the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
Samurai
1579 births
1650 deaths
Mōri clan
Hidemoto


John Korty (June 22, 1936 – March 9, 2022) was an American film director and animator, best known for the television film The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the documentary Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, as well as the theatrical animated feature Twice Upon a Time. He has won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (for Who Are the DeBolts?) and several other major awards. He is described by the film critic Leonard Maltin as "a principled filmmaker who has worked both outside and within the mainstream, attempting to find projects that support his humanistic beliefs".

Early life and career
Born in Lafayette, Indiana, he began making amateur films while still in his teens. He took a liberal arts education at Antioch College in Ohio and obtained work as an animator for television commercials while still in school. He graduated in 1959. In a 1963 article he wrote for the Bolex Reporter, he notes that he first took an interest in animation during his second year at Antioch. He developed a cut-out technique and also used various other imaging methods including scratching the film stock, painting, and using objects such as photographs, string, cloth and scissors. He would continue to develop these techniques in projects through his career, culminating in his 1983 animated feature Twice Upon a Time. Using a Bolex H-16 camera, his television commercial work amounted to more than 30 spots, which he made with four other students at Antioch.

His 1964 short Breaking the Habit was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject.

Film
While most of his later work has been for television, he actually started in film before moving to the small screen. In 1964, he moved to Stinson Beach in Marin County, north of San Francisco. There he made three feature films in four years. They were successful, low-budget projects. His first was the little-seen drama The Crazy-Quilt (1966), with narration by Burgess Meredith. The others were Riverrun and Funnyman, featuring performances by the comedy troupe The Committee Theatre. His barn was his studio (Korty Films), and it would become an inspiration for George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola who also established studios in the San Francisco Bay Area. Korty Films would become part of what was later called the "New Hollywood". Korty actually became a tenant at Coppola's Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco, though he later moved out when Coppola raised the rents. The company finally settled in Point Reyes Station, California.

Other feature films directed or produced by Korty included such well-known titles as Oliver's Story (1978) and Twice Upon a Time, a George Lucas-produced animated fantasy originally released theatrically by Warner Bros. in August 1983 and later aired as an HBO feature in June 1984. The film lost money, and Korty would not return to animated productions for more than twenty years. He also served as a cinematographer for a few films including the Robert Redford feature The Candidate.

Television
His most highly lauded work was in television. He was active in the medium from the early 1970s until the late 1990s. He became known in the field in 1972 as director of The People. The film starred Kim Darby and William Shatner, was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and was based on the science-fiction novel The Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson. In 1974, Korty won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and a Directors Guild of America award for his filmed adaptation of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Four years later, the Directors Guild of America gave him an award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for his documentary feature Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?. The film had previously won an Academy Award in the documentary category.

Other films included Go Ask Alice (1973); an adaptation of Farewell to Manzanar (1976); and A Christmas Without Snow (1980). He also made the Star Wars spin-off adventure Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984). In 1993 he adapted the Rudyard Kipling story "They" into the film They Watch.

Sesame Street shorts
In the mid-1970s and late-1980s, several Korty animated shorts were featured on the PBS children's programs The Electric Company and Sesame Street. These segments featured moral tales including at least one adaptation of Aesop's Fables. There was a recurring character known as Thelma Thumb, and all of the films (some as short as 18 seconds) used Korty's backlit cut-out technique which he called Lumage (Luminous Image). He tended to use a synthetic fabric called Pellon for the Sesame Street animations, which lent a consistent style to the work. Improv actors often ad-libbed the dialogue, and child performers were sometimes used. Among the children was the sister of David Fincher. David Fincher worked for Korty and would later gain recognition as a director himself. John Korty also produced animated shorts for the first season of Vegetable Soup with the assistance of Drew Takahashi and Gary Gutierrez.

Internet
In 2006, inspired by the state of political debate in America at the time, Korty produced two short animated pieces which he posted to the World Wide Web. They feature two characters, Brock & Throck, in discussions about the political landscape. Korty was quoted in a news release, "This summer, I found some sketches from my very first experiments. One in particular was perfect for a dialogue between two characters - a single zigzag line that can function as the profile for either face. I had put it away, waiting for the right subject matter. The wait was fifty years."

Fog City Mavericks
He was one of several San Francisco film veterans profiled in the 2007 documentary film Fog City Mavericks.

Personal life
During his long life, Korty married three times. His marriages to Carol Tweedie and designer Beulah Chang ended in divorce, but he remained married to Jane Silvia for 32 years. She survived him. They had one son, Gabriel Korty. Korty had two sons from his second marriage to Chang: Jonathan and David Korty. He also had three grandchildren.

Major awards
Emmy for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974).
Oscar (documentary) (1977) for Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary (1978) for Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Program (1979) for Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
Humanitas Prize for Farewell to Manzanar and Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (Special Awards Category, 1979)

Filmography

Films

Television series

Television films

Executive producer only

References

Footnotes

Bibliography
Pollock, Dale (May 31, 1999). Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas. Da Capo Press. .

External links
John Korty's Website

AllMovie bio

Blog featuring several Sesame Street shorts

1936 births
2022 deaths
American documentary filmmakers
American animators
American animated film directors
American television directors
Antioch College alumni
Directors Guild of America Award winners
People from Lafayette, Indiana
People from Point Reyes, California
Film directors from California
Film directors from Indiana
Directors of Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
People from Stinson Beach, California


Live at the Palladium is the second live album by the American music duo The Carpenters. It was recorded during a week of live concerts at the London Palladium in November 1976. No singles were released from the album, although it reached number 28 on the UK Albums Chart. On the cover of the record, Karen is wearing the same dress as in The Carpenters' Very First Television Special. The album was remastered and reissued in the 1980s on the budget Pickwick music label and went Gold in the UK. This album was not released in the U.S. but was widely available as an import.

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians
Karen Carpenter – drums, percussion, vocals
Richard Carpenter – keyboards, vocals
Bob Messenger – bass, keyboards, tenor saxophone, flute
Cubby O'Brien – drums
Doug Strawn – keyboards, clarinet, vocals
Tony Peluso – guitar, keyboards, bass
Dan Woodhams – bass, vocals
Dick Palombi – orchestra conductor

Production
Richard Carpenter – producer, arranger, orchestrations
Karen Carpenter – associate producer
Frank Owen – engineer
Jon Kelly – engineer
Malcolm Davies – engineer
Ray Gerhardt – engineer
Jerry Weintraub – management

Design
Roland Young – art director
Chuck Beeson – art designer

References

The Carpenters albums
1976 live albums
A&M Records live albums
Albums recorded at the London Palladium


Basinger is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Barbara Fugger (1419–1497), born Barbara Basinger, German businessperson and banker
 David Basinger (fl. from 1986), American academic
 Jeanine Basinger (born 1936), American film historian
 Kim Basinger (born 1953), American actress
 Michael Basinger (born 1951), American football player
 Simon Basinger (born 1957), French musicologist and essayist
 William Starr Basinger (1827–1910), American lawyer and scholar

See also

German-language surnames


The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) provide nutritional advice for Americans who are healthy or who are at risk for chronic disease but do not currently have chronic disease. The Guidelines are published every five years by the US Department of Agriculture, together with the US Department of Health and Human Services. Notably, the most recent ninth edition for 2020–25 includes dietary guidelines for children from birth to 23 months. In addition to the Dietary Guidelines per se, there are additional tools for assessing diet and nutrition, including the Healthy Eating Index (HEI), which can be used to assess the quality of a given selection of foods in the context of the Dietary Guidelines. Also provided are additional explanations regarding customization of the Guidelines to individual eating preferences, application of the Guidelines during pregnancy and infancy, the USDA Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review, information about the Nutrition Communicators Network and the MyPlate initiative, information from the National Academies about redesigning the process by which the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are created, and information about dietary guidelines from other nations.

The nominal purpose of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans is to help health professionals and policymakers to advise Americans about healthy choices for their diet. In formulating the Dietary Guidelines for 2020–2025, the US Federal government rejected the advice of the expert scientific panel that the guidelines set new low targets for consumption of sugar and alcoholic beverages.

History

The efforts of the US Federal Government to establish a scientific basis for human nutrition began with Wilbur Olin Atwater, who published the first dietary recommendations for Americans in 1894, notably stating that, "We live not upon what we eat, but upon what we digest."

In 1977, despite limited and contradictory input from nutrition experts, the United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, chaired by Senator George McGovern, published the Dietary Goals for the United States, recommending that Americans avoid becoming obese by consuming only as much energy as was expended and to reverse obesity by decreasing energy intake and increasing energy expenditure. The Dietary Goals also recommended increasing complex carbohydrates and naturally occurring sugars from 28% to 48% of energy intake, reducing refined and processed sugars to about 10% of energy intake, reducing fat from 40% to 30% of energy intake, reducing eating saturated fat to 10% of energy intake, reducing cholesterol consumption to 300 milligrams daily, and reducing salt intake to 5 grams daily. The 1977 Dietary Goals for the United States were not based on a consensus among scientists and for this reason were criticized by agriculture and food manufacturing interests, and also by some scientists. A second version of the report was published in 1980, with less stringent changes from the standard American diet.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been published every five years beginning in 1980, producing nine guidelines to date. One consistent recommendation of these nine guidelines has been that Americans reduce their dietary consumption of fat and animal products, including meat, dairy, and eggs and to increase their dietary consumption of carbohydrates and plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, and grains.

Purpose
The Guidelines were established so as to provide dietary advice that would improve the health of Americans and reduce their risk for chronic conditions, such as cancer, atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and renal disease. The Dietary Guidelines have the purpose of guiding the development of Federal policies and programs related to food, nutrition, and health. The guidelines influence and guide policymakers for Federally-financed food and dietary education programs. They also influence clinicians in the United States and in other countries.

The intended audience for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are policymakers, nutrition scientists, and dieticians and other health professionals. The Guidelines themselves are not intended to directly inform the general public, but instead to serve as an authoritative, evidence-based information source that policymakers and health professionals can use to advise Americans about making healthy choices in their daily lives so as to enjoy a healthy diet that also prevents chronic disease. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide an evidence base that is used by the Federal government to develop nutrition education materials for Americans.

Federal law and regulation require that Federal government publications provide dietary guidance consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. For the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) the guidelines provide the scientific rationale for the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program, feeding 30 million children every school day, and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, which has 8 million beneficiaries. For the United States Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Aging, the guidelines provide the rationale for the Older Americans Act Nutrition Services programs which include more than 5,000 community-based nutrition service providers (e.g., Meals on Wheels), serving more than 900,000 meals a day across the United States. The Department of Defense uses the guidelines as the rationale for meal rations for military personnel and the Department of Veterans Affairs uses the guidelines to inform nutrition education for veterans who are patients of the VA Hospital System. In addition to these governmental audiences, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are widely used by state and local governments, schools, commercial enterprises, community groups, the media, and the food industry to inform policy and program development intended to serve the general public.

Current guidelines

Principles for Current Guidelines
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2020–2025) outline four principles for healthy eating habits:
 Dietary patterns should shift with each stage of life
 Enjoy nutrient-rich food and beverages that adhere to one's budget and reflect one's personal preferences and cultural traditions
 Meet food group needs and stay within calorie limits
 Limit added sugars, saturated fat, sodium, and alcoholic beverages

How dietary patterns should shift with each stage of life
Healthy dietary patterns shift after the first 6 and 12 months of life. The Guidelines recommend:
 In about the first 6 months, infants should only be fed human milk, and this should continue through at least the first year of life, if not longer. If human milk is unavailable, infants should be fed iron-fortified infant formula. In addition, infants, soon after they're born, should begin receiving supplemental vitamin D.
 At about 6 months, infants should be introduced to nutrient-dense, complementary (and perhaps allergenic) foods. Infants and toddlers should be encouraged to consume foods across all food groups, and their food should be rich in iron and zinc.
 From 12 months through adulthood, one should continue to consume nutrient-dense foods across all food groups. Examples of nutrient-dense foods listed in the 2020-2025 Guidelines are the same as those listed in the 2015–2020 Guidelines, with the addition of oils, such as vegetable oils and oils in food (i.e., seafood and nuts).

Recommended diet limitations
 Added sugars--Avoid before age 2. Starting at age 2, less than 10% of calories per day
 Saturated fat--Starting at age 2, less than 10% of calories per day
 Sodium--Less than 2,300 milligrams per day, and even less for children younger than age 14
 Alcoholic beverages--Adults of legal drinking age can choose not to drink or to limit their alcoholic intake to 2 drinks or less in a day for men and 1 drink or less in a day for women. It is better for your health to drink less. Some adults should not drink alcohol at all, such as pregnant women.

Background
The Trump Administration had proposed a budget of more than $12 million for the 2020-2025 guidelines for the evaluation of scientific evidence, development of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and dissemination of the new edition to its target audience of policymakers, nutrition experts, and clinicians; this budget request has been supported by multiple organizations.

In June, 2020, a letter was sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from The Nutrition Coalition, describing serious problems observed by one or more whistleblowers. According to this letter, these whistleblowers, who were members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), reported that there had been inadequate time to complete scientific reviews, that some reviews were deleted and some were added by the DGAC without giving the required public notice, that there were inconsistencies in how scientific evidence was evaluated across the various DGAC subcommittees. Also noted was that the DGAC had rejected the reforms that had been recommended by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), that important scientific evidence had been excluded from consideration by the DGAC, including studies of weight loss and also studies of low-carbohydrate diets, and that communication restrictions had been in place among members of the DGAC.

2015–2020 guidelines

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2015–2020) were developed in three stages, beginning with a review of scientific evidence, followed by development of the guidelines, and finally with implementation of the guidelines. Compared to previous guidelines, the 2015–2020 guidelines emphasized replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats, particularly polyunsaturated fats, with the goal of preventing heart attack and stroke (see lipid hypothesis).

The guidelines provide a general recommendation that people follow a healthy eating pattern with appropriate calories, and that the evaluation of one's eating pattern accounts for all foods and beverages, including snacks. The recommended healthy eating pattern includes:

Include these in diet:
 A broad selection of vegetables, including dark green, red and orange, legumes (beans and peas), starches (potatoes, squash, etc.), and others
 An emphasis on whole fruits
 An emphasis on whole grains
Dairy products that are either fat-free or low fat, including milk, yogurt, cheese, and fortified soy beverages
 Protein foods to include seafood, lean meats, poultry, eggs, legumes (beans and peas), and nuts, seeds, and soy products

Limit these in diet:
Trans fats
 Saturated fats to less than 10% of calories
 Added sugars to less than 10% of calories
 Sodium to less than 2.3 g/day (5.8 g of salt/day), including both added table salt and salt in foods
 If consumed, use alcohol in moderation and only for adults — up to 1 drink daily for women and 2 drinks daily for men.

The Dietary Guidelines also include a key recommendation to meet the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.

The MyPlate initiative, based on the recommendations of the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and produced by the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, is a nutrition education program directed at the general public, providing a guide to "finding healthy eating solutions to fit your lifestyle."

Criticisms of the 2015–2020 Guidelines

Each edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has had attendant controversy, with objections particularly from scientists whose point-of-view was not reflected in the guidelines and from commercial interests negatively affected by the recommendations therein. The response to the 2015–2020 guidelines was particularly contentious, resulting in action by Congress mandating the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to evaluate the process used to update the DGA. This review by the National Academies resulted in two reports. The first report, entitled "Optimizing the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans: The Selection Process", identified opportunities for improving the process for selecting members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. In September 2018, the USDA issued an official response to the first report of the National Academies committee. The second report from National Academies of Sciences, entitled "Redesigning the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans", offers an exhaustive review and provides recommendations for improving the process of revising the Dietary Guidelines so as to best identify, analyze, and present the scientific evidence.

Methodology

There is compelling evidence that food frequency questionnaires and other methods that rely on human memory do not accurately measure dietary intake. An analysis of the validity of the methods used by the USDA to estimate per capita calorie consumption found that these methods lack validity and the authors of this study recommend that these methods not be used to inform public policy. A systematic review found that only a few studies have measured the accuracy or reliability of dietary assessment methods in schoolchildren. The few studies that have been done found that schoolchildren did not accurately report foods consumed but that they did accurately report total calories consumed. The 2015 Guidelines were based on the Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which did not rely on actual measurements of dietary intake but instead relied on memory-based dietary assessments, including interviews and surveys despite clear evidence that such methods markedly underestimate actual calorie consumption and nutrient intake. Thus, the conclusions expressed in the Scientific Report have been criticized, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans are considered invalid by some experts, as the DGAs rely on invalid methods and draw conclusions that do not agree with the available scientific literature.

Dietary salt restriction
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans have been criticized for recommending a diet that contains less than 2.3  grams of sodium (5.8 grams of salt/day). Notably, 95% of the world's populations have a mean intake of salt that is between 6g and 12g daily and evidence on the health effects of salt does not support such a severe restriction on salt intake. An analysis of dietary guidelines found that this recommendation for restriction of salt intake is not supported by evidence from randomized controlled trials nor is it supported by evidence from prospective observational studies. The authors of this analysis suggest a redesign of the dietary guidelines for salt intake is needed.

A Committee of the National Academies Institute of Medicine evaluated the evidence about dietary salt intake and health. Overall, the committee found evidence that higher salt intake was associate with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, the committee also found that the evidence did not support the claim that lowering sodium intake in the general population to less than 2,300 mg/day was associated with a lower risk of death nor with a higher risk of death.

Alcoholic beverage consumption
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting alcoholic beverages consumption to no more than 1 drink daily for women and no more than 2 drinks daily for men. The 2015–2020 Scientific Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee asserts that most studies show that moderate consumption of alcohol has been shown to be part of a beneficial dietary pattern. However, a systematic review and meta-analysis of scientific studies of alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality found that consumption of up to 2 alcoholic beverages per day had no net mortality benefit compared with lifetime abstention from alcohol. A systematic analysis of data from the Global Burden of Disease study found that consumption of ethanol increases the risk of cancer and increases the risk of all-cause mortality, and that the level of ethanol consumption that minimizes disease is zero consumption.

The Guidelines recommend that people not mix alcohol and beverages containing caffeine, as this combined intake may result in greater alcohol consumption, with a greater risk of alcohol-related injury.

Classification of honey and maple syrup as "added sugars"
Producers of honey and maple syrup have objected to the proposed Federal regulatory requirement that honey and maple syrup include the term "added sugar" on product labeling, despite the fact that no additional sugar is added to these products. This regulatory requirement follows from the recommendation in the 2015–2020 Guidelines that added sugars be limited to less than 10% of calories and that honey and maple syrup are themselves considered by federal regulators to be added sugars.

2020–2025 guidelines

The current edition (2020–2025) gives four overarching guidelines: Follow a healthy dietary pattern throughout life; use nutrient-dense food and beverages to reflect personal preferences, cultural traditions, and budgetary considerations; meet dietary food group needs with nutrient-dense foods and beverages within calorie limits; and limit foods and beverages with higher added sugars, saturated fat, and sodium, and limit alcoholic beverages. In support of these four guidelines, the key recommendations are: avoid added sugars for infants and toddlers and limit added sugars to less than 10% of calories for those 2 years old and older; limit saturated fat to less than 10% of calories starting at age 2; limit sodium to less than 2,300 mg per day (or even less if younger than 14) and limit alcoholic beverages (if consumed) to 2 drinks or less daily for men and 1 drink or less a daily for women.

In 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a new "mid-course correction" report evaluating how well the USDA has followed their 2016 recommendations. Six of the seven recommendations made by the NASEM in 2017 have not been fully adopted; one recommendation could not be assessed by the NASEM.

Future guidelines
The USDA has invited interested parties, including members of the general public, to participate and follow the development of the 2025–2030 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. As mandated by the Agriculture Act of 2014, this next edition of the guidelines will cover the full life-span of Americans from birth, including recommendations for pregnant women, infants, and children younger than two years old.

See also

 Food pyramid (nutrition)
 List of nutrition guides

References

External links

Nutrition guides
Health education in the United States


St John the Evangelist's Church lies to the southeast of the village of Chelford, Cheshire, England.  The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.  It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Knutsford.  Its benefice is combined with that of St Peter, Lower Withington.

History

The original church on the site was probably a medieval timber-framed chapel.  This was replaced in 1774–76 with a church that was little more than a "plain brick box with slightly pointed windows".  The west tower was added in 1840, and the chancel was extended in 1902.

Architecture

Exterior
The church is constructed in brick with stone dressings and has a slate roof.  Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a west gallery, a two-bay chancel and a west tower with a recessed spire.  The tower is in three stages with diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet.  The spire is octagonal, covered with diamond-shaped slates and crowned by a weather vane.  The west front of the tower has an arched doorway and a clock face.

Interior
In the church are 18th-century box pews.  The gallery has been boxed in and converted into a meeting room.  The walls contain paintings in Art Nouveau style.  Also in Art Nouveau style are the pulpit, the altar rails and the choir stalls which were designed by Percy Worthington and which date from 1903.  The chancel has a stone-mosaic floor.  The stained glass includes war memorials of 1920 and 1921, designed by J. H. Dearle, and made by Morris & Co.  In the porch is a memorial window of 2009 by Samantha Land.  In the church is a painted memorial board dated 1654 inscribed with a poem.  There is a ring of six bells dated 1885 by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

External features
The churchyard contains the war grave of a First World War soldier of the Cheshire Regiment.

See also

Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire East
Listed buildings in Chelford

References

Church of England church buildings in Cheshire
Grade II* listed churches in Cheshire
Churches completed in 1776
18th-century Church of England church buildings
Diocese of Chester
St John the Evangelist's Church, Chelford
Art Nouveau church buildings in the United Kingdom


Johannes Hjalmar Giersing  (18 November 1872, Odense – 11 November 1954, Copenhagen) was a Danish chess master.

At the beginning of his career, he tied for 4-5th in Copenhagen 1895 (Andreas Rosendahl won). Giersing played several times in Nordic Chess Championship, and won at Kristiania (now Oslo) 1903 (4th Nord-ch). He also took 6th at Copenhagen 1899 (2nd Nord-ch, Jörgen Möller won); tied for 5-6th at Göteborg 1901 (3rd Nord-ch, Möller won); took 10th at Stockholm 1906 (Ossip Bernstein and Carl Schlechter won), took 10th at Stockholm 1912 (8th Nord-ch, Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 6-7th at Copenhagen 1916 (9th Nord-ch, Paul Johner won), took 5th at Kristiania 1917 (10th Nord-ch, Gustaf Nyholm won), and took 11th at Copenhagen 1924 (12th Nord-ch, Aron Nimzowitsch won).

Giersing won the Danish Championship at Horsens 1915, won at Copenhagen 1918, and took 3rd at Aarhus 1925 (DEN-ch, Erik Andersen won).

References

External links
The chess games of Johannes Giersing

1872 births
1954 deaths
Danish chess players


Voice of Jamaica is the third studio album by Jamaican dancehall reggae artist Buju Banton. It was released on August 3, 1993 via Mercury Records/PolyGram and was his international debut. Its remastered and expanded edition was released in 2002 with additional tracks. Recorded in Kingston and New York City, the album is considered to be the one that introduced Banton to the world outside Jamaica, also bringing dancehall to the wider world.

Production was handled by Donovan Germain, Steely & Clevie, Dave Kelly, Bobby "Digital" Dixon, Busta Rhymes, Mikey Bennett and Sly Dunbar. It features guest appearances from Beres Hammond, Brian and Tony Gold, Busta Rhymes, Terry Ganzie, Tony Rebel and Wayne Wonder. The album peaked at number 159 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States.

Music and lyrics

Musically the album shows a wide range of reggae music, with rhythms that vary from mainly hardcore dancehall, to roots reggae, R&B and ragga hip hop.

Lyrically it faces various personal, political, and cultural themes, including love, war, violence, police brutality, safe sex, poverty and spirituality.

Critical reception

Jo-Ann Greene of AllMusic said that "This is the kind of album that leaves the listener breathless with amazement", also stating that "It's a superb album, and deserved every accolade it received.

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

1993 albums
PolyGram albums
Buju Banton albums
Mercury Records albums
Albums produced by Donovan Germain
Albums produced by Steely & Clevie
Albums produced by Dave Kelly (producer)
Albums produced by Bobby Digital (Jamaican producer)


Raymond W. Alden III is the current Provost of Touro University Nevada.

Alden attended the Stetson University for his bachelor's degree in biology, and he received his Doctorate in Zoology from the University of Florida.  He began his academic career on the faculty at Old Dominion University, spending 21 years there.  Later Alden went to the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and served for 10 years as the Provost.  In January 2006, Alden accepted the position as Provost at Northern Illinois University. In April 2015, Alden left NIU and joined Touro University Nevada as Provost.

References

University of Florida alumni
Touro College faculty
Northern Illinois University people
Stetson University alumni
Old Dominion University faculty
University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Donald Smith may refer to:
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (1820–1914), Canadian railway financier and diplomat
Donald Smith (politician) (1905–1985), Canadian politician
Donald Smith (tenor) (1920–1998), Australian tenor
Donald MacKeen Smith (1923–1998), Canadian politician in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
Donald Smith (cricketer, born 1923) (1923–2021), English cricketer
Donald J. Smith (1924–2013), Canadian business leader, entrepreneur, and philanthropist
Donald R. Smith (1926–1982), American politician in Illinois
Donald Smith (priest) (1926–2014), British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Sudbury
Donald Smith (Lancashire cricketer) (1929–2004), English cricketer
Donald Smith (cricketer, born 1933) (1933–2015), English cricketer
Donald N. Smith (born 1940), American restaurant executive
Robin Donald (Donald Robin Smith, born 1942), Australian operatic tenor, son of the older tenor
John Gohorry (1943-2021), British poet, born Donald Smith
Zaid Abdul-Aziz (born 1946), American basketball player, born Donald Smith
Donald B. Smith (born 1947), U.S. Army brigadier general and Sheriff of Putnam County, New York
Donald Smith (American football coach) (born 1967), head college football coach at Kentucky State University, 2001–2003
Donald Smith (defensive back) (born 1968), Canadian football player
Donald Smith (academic) (born 1946), specialist of Québec literature and singer-songwriters

See also
Don Smith (disambiguation)
Donald Wood-Smith, professor of clinical surgery
Helen Donald-Smith, English Victorian artist


Meryl is a given name, and may refer to:

In people:
 Meryl Cassie (born 1984), New Zealand actress
 Meryl Davis (born 1987), American ice dancer
 Meryl Fernandes (born 1983), British actress
 Meryl Fernando (1923-2007), Sri Lankan Sinhala teacher, trade unionist, and politician
 Meryl Getline (1953–2019), American pilot, author, and columnist
 Meryl Streep (born 1949), American actress
 Meryl Swanson (born 1970), Australian politician
 Meryl Tankard (born 1955), Australian dancer and choreographer
 Meryl Vladimer (21st century), artist, theatrical producer, and political activist
 Maryla Rodowicz (born 1945), Polish pop singer

In fiction:
 Meryl Burbank, a character "played" by Hannah Gill in The Truman Show
 Meryl Silverburgh, a character who appears in Policenauts and in the Metal Gear series.
 Meryl Stryfe, a character who appears in Trigun.


Burnfoot () is a small village on the Inishowen peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland. It lies within the townland of Ballyderowen. It has a few local shops and a pub. , the population was 450.

There is a small industrial estate which, among other firms, houses E&I Engineering, a major local employer with over 300 employees. Burnfoot is also home to Wild Ireland, an animal sanctuary that includes Irish bears, wolves and monkeys.

References

Towns and villages in County Donegal


Reginald Hollis was the 9th Anglican bishop of Montreal from 1975 to 1990.

Born on 18 July 1932 in Bedworth, UK, he died in Victoria, British Columbia, on November 9, 2010. He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War before he enrolled in theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and McGill University before studying for ordination and embarking  on an academic ecclesiastical career with chaplaincies at the Montreal Diocese Theological College (where he also lectured) and McGill. Pastoral posts in Quebec led to an administrative role as director of parish and diocesan services back in Montreal and in the mid-1970s elevation to that  see's bishopric. In 1989, he was appointed as Metropolitan of the Province of Canada.

On his retirement to Florida in 1990, he became the episcopal director of the Anglican Fellowship of Prayer and an honorary assistant bishop within the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida.

See also
List of Anglican Bishops of Montreal

References

1932 births
2010 deaths
20th-century Anglican Church of Canada bishops
Alumni of Selwyn College, Cambridge
McGill University alumni
Anglican bishops of Montreal
Metropolitans of Canada
People from Bedworth


Christian Ramota (born 14 April 1973) is a former German team handball player (goalkeeper). He received a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with the German national team. He is also European champion from 2004, and received a silver medal at the 2003 World Championship.

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
German male handball players
Olympic handball players for Germany
Olympic silver medalists for Germany
Olympic medalists in handball
Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics


Misterton is a village and civil parish  south-east of Crewkerne, Somerset, England.

History

The village was previously known as Minsterton as a result of its links with the "mother church" in Crewkerne.

The parish was part of the hundred of Crewkerne.

Governance

The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

The village falls within the Non-metropolitan district of South Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Chard Rural District. The district council is responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.

Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.

It is also part of the Yeovil county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Transport

The village is the site of Crewkerne railway station on the Exeter- London Waterloo line served by South West Trains. It also lies at the crossroads of the A356 and A3066 roads. The village is served by the Taunton-Chard-Crewkerne-Misterton-Yeovil bus service operated by Stagecoach and Bridport-Beaminster-Broadwindsor-Misterton-Crewkerne-Yeovil bus service operated by Damory. Both services operate Monday to Saturday.

Landmarks

The manor house dates from the 18th century and was part of a major house which formerly incorporated Little Manor and West Manor.

The Old Court and Court Close, with Court Place and Old Court Cottage date from the 16th century and were two houses which were subsequently linked to form one and have now been extended and then subdivided again.

The Globe Inn dates from the 17th century.

Religious sites

The Church of St Leonard was built of hamstone in 1840 by Sampson Kempthorne. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.

Notable residents

 Ellen Buckingham Mathews (1853 - 1920) an English novelist under the pen name Helen Mathers was born in the village.

References

External links

Villages in South Somerset
Civil parishes in Somerset


Euphorbia corollata is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Euphorbiaceae that is native to North America. A common name for the species is flowering spurge. It has a milky sap that can cause skin and eye irritation in some people. It grows up to 1 m (3 ft) tall, with smooth stems and light green leaves arranged alternately or in whorls. Leaves are about 10 mm (1/2 in) wide and 75 mm (3 in) long. Each stem terminates in a panicle 20 to 25 mm (3/4 to 1 in) across. Flowers are about 6 mm (1/4 in) across and consist of one pistillate and several staminate flowers surrounded by five white bracts - not petals but formed from the involucre at the base of the flowers. Flowering spurge blooms from June to September.

Range and habitat
Flowering spurge grows in most soil types as long as they are well-drained. It is usually found in prairies, pastures, glades, and along roads and train tracks. It has excellent drought tolerance and  develops a deep taproot. It is difficult to transplant once established.

Flowering spurge is native from Texas north to South Dakota and east to the Atlantic coast.

Faunal associations
The flowers are pollinated by a variety of insects including bees, wasps, flies, and butterflies. Other insects feed on foliage, stems, and other parts of the plant, although mammals avoid it because of its toxic sap. Seeds are fed on by wild turkey, greater prairie chicken, bobwhite quail, mourning dove, and horned lark.

Uses
The plant can be used as a laxative, but is poisonous if eaten in quantity.

References

corollata
Flora of Northern America
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus


The Mixed Wood Plains Ecozone is an ecozone of North America that was defined by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation to reconcile the American and Canadian land classification systems. According to the CEC, the Mixed Wood Plains of North America is a Level II Ecoregion 8.1, which includes the Mixedwood Plains of Canada, and the adjoining areas of the United States such as the Eastern Great Lakes and Hudson Lowlands ecoregion. However, the CEC atlas also includes areas of Wisconsin, Maine and New Brunswick in the Mixed Wood Plain ecoregion.

The United States uses a different terminology to Canada; the corresponding Level I ecoregion of the United States Environmental Protection Agency system is the Eastern Temperate Forest ecoregion. To deal with the differences in names between Canada and the United States, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation has produced a continental atlas, in which the Mixed Wood Plains is a Level II Ecoregion 8.1; this includes the above areas within Canada, as well as adjoining parts of the United States.

References

Ecozones of Canada
Forests of Ontario
Forests of Quebec


Noetics is a fringe branch of parapsychology concerned with the study of mind as well as the intellect.

Philosophy

The term itself means “the proper exercise of nous” whereas nous (“mind, understanding, intellect”) is described as “the highest faculty in man, through which - provided it is purified - he knows God or the inner essences or principles of created things through direct apprehension or spiritual perception”. In ancient Greek and medieval philosophy, noetic topics included the doctrine of the active intellect (Aristotle, Averroes) and the doctrine of the Divine Intellect (Plotinus).

The entire philosophy of noetics, which include the notions by Immanuel Kant, John Locke, René Descartes, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others is involved with thinking of intellection by analogy with vision.

Other uses
Late modern philosopher and phenomenologist Franz Brentano introduced a distinction between sensory and noetic consciousness: the former describes presentations of sensory objects or intuitions, while the latter describes the thinking of concepts. (See also Noesis (phenomenology).)

Thinkers like Lawrence Krader consider noetics as a science, an empirical discipline that concerns itself with the processes, states, and events in the real world of space and time.

Noetics is also useful in psychology such as the way it overlaps with Jamesian psychology, which deals with a range of phenomena (including emotions and feelings) that influence our thinking and knowing.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (founded in 1973) describes noetic sciences as "how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world". Since the 1970s and the foundation of the Institute of Noetic Sciences by NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell and others, the term "noetics" has been adopted by several authors such as Christian de Quincey in Deep Spirit: Cracking the Noetic Code (2008) and Dan Brown in The Lost Symbol (2009), who write about consciousness and spirituality.

Controversy
Noetics overlaps heavily with conventional concepts of mysticism, espousing various effects on the physical world via psychic capability.

Quackwatch lists the Institute of Noetic Science on its Questionable Organizations list.

See also
Philosophy
 Neoplatonism
 Medieval Christian philosophy of intellect
 Panpsychism
 Noology, another term for the same field

Contemporary philosophy
Noesis
Philosophy of mind

Alternative philosophy and parapsychology
 Integral thought and Ken Wilber
 Institute of Noetic Sciences and Christian de Quincey
 New Thought
 Noosphere

Cybernetics
 Technoetic

Classical psychology
 Logotherapy and Viktor Frankl

Eastern Orthodox Christianity
 Philokalia by St. Philotheos of Sinai, Volume 3, 1986, p. 16

References

Sources
 Davidson, H. A., Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect, New York-Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992.
 de Quincey, C., Radical Knowing: Understanding Consciousness through Relationship, Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2005.
 Kenny, Anthony, Aquinas on Mind, Routledge, 1994.

Further reading
 Zarkadakis, G. (2001), "Noetics: A Proposal for a theoretical approach to consciousness", Proceedings of International Conference "Toward a Science of Consciousness: Sweden 2001; Consciousness and its place in Nature", University of Skovde, Sweden, 7–11 August 2001.

External links

Parapsychology
Pseudoscience