The politics of Tianjin is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the mainland of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

The Mayor of Tianjin is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Tianjin. Since Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality, the mayor occupies the same level in the order of precedence as provincial governors. However, in the city's dual party-government governing system, the mayor has less power than the Tianjin Chinese Communist Party Municipal Committee Secretary, colloquially termed the "Tianjin CCP Party Chief".

List of secretaries of the Tianjin Communist Party Committee

List of chairmen of Tianjin People's Congress
Yan Dakai (阎达开): June 1980－April 1983
Zhang Zaiwang (张再旺): April 1983－May 1988
Wu Zhen (吴振): May 1988－June 1993
Nie Bichu (聂璧初): June 1993－May 1998
Zhang Lichang: May 1998－January 2003
Fang Fengyou (房凤友): January 2003－January 2006
Liu Shengyu (刘胜玉): January 2006－January 2011
Xiao Huaiyuan (肖怀远): January 2011－January 2018
Duan Chunhua (段春华): January 2018－January 2023
Yu Yunlin (喻云林): January 2023－present

List of mayors of Tianjin
Huang Jing (黄敬): January 1949-August 1952
Wu De (吴德): October 1952-January 1955
Huang Huoqing(黄火青): January 1955-June 1958
Li Gengtao (李耕涛): June 1958-September 1963
Hu Zhaoheng (胡昭衡): September 1963 – 1966
Xie Xuegong (解学恭): December 1967-June 1978
Lin Hujia (林乎加): June 1978-October 1978
Chen Weida (陈伟达): October 1978-June 1980
Hu Qili (胡启立): June 1980-April 1982
Li Ruihuan(李瑞环): May 1982-November 1989
Nie Bichu (聂璧初): November 1989-June 1993
Zhang Lichang (张立昌): June 1993-May 1998
Li Shenglin (李盛霖): May 1998-December 2002
Dai Xianglong (戴相龙): December 2002- December 2007
Huang Xingguo (黄兴国): December 2007- September 2016
Wang Dongfeng (王东峰): September 2016 - October 2017
Zhang Guoqing (张国清): January 2018 – September 2020
Liao Guoxun (廖国勋): September 2020 – April 2022
Zhang Gong (张工): May 2022 – present

List of chairmen of Tianjin CPPCC Tianjin Committee
Huang Huoqing (黄火青): March 1955－March 1960
Wan Xiaotang (万晓塘): March 1960－September 1966
Xie Xuegong (解学恭): December 1977－July 1979
Yan Dakai (阎达开): July 1979－June 1980
Huang Zhigang (黄志刚): June 1980－April 1983
Chen Bing (陈冰): April 1983－April 1987
Wu Zhen (吴振): April 1987－May 1988
Tan Shaowen: May 1988－April 1990
Liu Jinfeng (刘晋峰): April 1990－May 1998
Fang Fengyou (房凤友): May 1998－January 2003
Song Pingshun (宋平顺): January 2003－June 2007
Xing Yuanmin (邢元敏): January 2008－January 2013
He Lifeng: January 2013－May 2014
Zang Xianfu (臧献甫): May 2014－March 2018
Sheng Maolin (盛茂林): March 2018－January 2023
Wang Changsong (王常松): January 2023－present

List of chairmen of Tianjin Supervisory Committee

 Deng Xiuming (邓修明): January 2018－November 2021
 Chen Fukuan (陈辐宽): November 2021－present

Culture in Tianjin
Tianjin
Tianjin


The Cymothoidae are a family of isopods in the suborder Cymothoida  found in both marine and freshwater environments. Cymoithoids are ectoparasites, usually of fish, and they include the bizarre "tongue-biter" (Cymothoa exigua), which attaches to a fish's tongue, causing it to atrophy, and replaces the tongue with its own body.  Ceratothoa oestroides is one of the most devastating ectoparasites in Mediterranean aquaculture. Around 40 genera and more than 380 species of cymothoid are recognised. Species of the Cymothoidae are generally found in warmer waters and rarely in the cool
and cold climates.

Characteristics
Cymothoids exhibit various adaptations to their parasitic lifestyles. As juveniles, they are not specific in their requirements, and attach themselves temporarily to the skin of any fish. They produce anticoagulants and suck the fish's blood. They detach from their first host and later find another host. When they have found the correct species of fish for their adult development, they attach more permanently. As adults, most species require a particular host species, and are also site-specific. Locations for attachment chosen by different species of parasite include the skin, fins,  gills, and mouth, while some species bore into muscle.

Biology
Cymothoids are protandrous hermaphrodites; each juvenile develops first into a male, but if no females are nearby, the male later becomes a female and attaches permanently to the host. This female is able to secrete pheromones that prevent male cymothoids in the vicinity from becoming female. These parasites can cause serious damage to their hosts, ranging from slow growth rate, through tissue damage and anaemia, to death. Many host fish have mutualistic arrangements with certain shrimps such as Ancylomenes pedersoni, whereby the fish visits a "cleaning station" and the shrimps remove and feed on the cymothoid parasites.

Classification
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the family contains these genera:

Aegathoa Dana, 1853
Agarna Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Amblycephalon Pillai, 1954
Anilocra Leach, 1818
Anphira Thatcher, 1993
Artystone Schioedte, 1866
Asotana Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
Braga Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
Catoessa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Ceratothoa Dana, 1852
Cinusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Creniola Bruce, 1987
Cterissa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Cymothoa Fabricius, 1787
Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Emetha Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
Glossobius Schioedte & Meinert, 1883
Ichthyoxenus Herklots, 1870
Idusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Isonebula Taberner, 1977
Joryma Bowman & Tareen, 1983
Kuna Williams & Williams, 1986
Lathraena Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
Livoneca Leach, 1818
Lobothorax Bleeker, 1857
Mothocya Costa in Hope, 1851
Nerocila Leach, 1818
Norileca Bruce, 1990
Olencira Leach, 1818
Ourozeuktes H. Milne-Edwards, 1840
Paracymothoa Lemos de Castro, 1955
Philostomella Szidat & Schubart, 1960
Pleopodias Richardson, 1910
Plotor Schioedte & Meinert, 1881
Pseudoirona Pillai, 1964
Renocila Miers, 1880
Rhiothra Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Riggia Szidat, 1948
Ryukyua Williams & Bunkley-Williams, 1994
Smenispa Özdikmen, 2009
Telotha Schioedte & Meinert, 1884
Tetragonocephalon Avdeev, 1978

References

Further reading

External links

Cymothoida
Isopod families


Dalton Bell (born March 9, 1983) is a former Canadian football quarterback.. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He was later signed by the Seattle Seahawks. He signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2008 and was traded to the Toronto Argonauts in 2010. He played college football at West Texas A&M. Bell was also a member of the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks.

Early years
Bell attended Canyon High School in Canyon, Texas and was a student and a letterman in football and track. In football, he was named the Canyon H.S. Offensive M.V.P. and was an All-District Honorable Mention selection.

College career
Bell played in 40 games at West Texas A&M, with 21 starts. He guided the Buffaloes to back-to-back Lone Star Conference championships and a 20-4 record in two seasons as the team's starting quarterback. He threw for 7,841 yards and 63 touchdowns during his career at West Texas A&M, connecting on 699 of 1044 passes (66.9%).

As a senior, he completed 386 of 583 passes for 3,998 yards and 32 touchdowns. As a junior, he passed for 3,799 yards and 30 touchdowns, completing 311 of 454 passes, and threw for more than 400 yards in 4 of the 11 games he started.  As a sophomore, he completed just 1 of 5 passes for 8 yards, but ran for a 54-yard touchdown against Texas A&M-Kingsville.

Professional career

Carolina Panthers
Bell signed with the Carolina Panthers in 2007 as a rookie free agent was released on team's final roster cuts.

Green Bay Packers
Bell signed with the Green Bay Packers in 2007 spent time on the practice squad.

Seattle Seahawks
Bell signed with the Seattle Seahawks in 2008 and spent most of the time on the practice squad. He was released and subsequently signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the CFL.

Saskatchewan Roughriders
Bell signed a practice roster agreement with the Saskatchewan Roughriders on October 8, 2008 and spent the rest of the season as the fourth string quarterback. After former starter Michael Bishop was released, Bell was promoted to third-string quarterback for the 2009 season but did not see any touches that season.

Toronto Argonauts
On March 9, 2010 (his birthday), it was announced that Bell had been traded to the Toronto Argonauts for a 5th round pick in the 2010 CFL Draft. He got his first career professional start against his former team, the Roughriders, on Oct 2, 2010, a 27-16 loss. He entered free agency on February 15, 2012.

References

External links
Saskatchewan Roughriders bio
West Texas A&M Buffaloes bio

1983 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
American players of Canadian football
Canadian football quarterbacks
Green Bay Packers players
Players of American football from Amarillo, Texas
Players of Canadian football from Texas
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
Seattle Seahawks players
Toronto Argonauts players
West Texas A&M Buffaloes football players


Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Michigan's Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan. It was manufactured by Arrow Dynamics. Corkscrew was the park's first roller coaster during the Deer Park days.

Ride experience
Arrow Dynamics has built several Corkscrew coasters, including the one at Michigan's Adventure, and each has the two corkscrew loops that give this coaster type its name. The ride is 70 feet high and 1,250 feet long. It goes approximately 45 mph and lasts approximately 70 seconds.

Color scheme
Prior to the park being bought by Cedar Fair, Corkscrew had an all-white track with white supports. The trains were red, white, and blue. After the park was purchased by Cedar Fair, the track was painted orange and the corkscrew portion was painted yellow. The supports were also painted to a teal/green color. The trains were as well given new colors, they now sport a red and yellow paint job. The station was given a face lift as well, changing the wood and white portions to a teal and tan color.

History
The Corkscrew was added to the park when it was known as Deer Park by then owner Roger Jourden in 1979. It was the first inverting roller coaster in Michigan.

This is one of the oldest original Arrow coasters still in existence. It is the same model and layout as the original Corkscrew at Knott's Berry Farm.

References

External links
Official page

Roller coasters in Michigan
Roller coasters introduced in 1979
Michigan's Adventure


This article contains a list of viceroys in Barbados from its initial colonisation in 1627 by England until it achieved independence in 1966. From 1833 to 1885, Barbados was part of the colony of the Windward Islands, and the governor of Barbados represented the monarch in all the Windward Islands. In 1885 Barbados became an independent colony again.

Governors of Barbados (1627–1833)
 Henry Powell, 17 February 1627 – 1628
 William Deane, 1628 – June 1628
 Charles Wolferstone, June 1628 – 26 February 1629
 John Powell, 26 February 1629 – 29 August 1629
 Robert Wheatley, 29 August 1629 – September 1629, acting
 Sir William Tufton, 21 December 1629 – 16 July 1630
 Henry Hawley, 1630 – June 1640
 Richard Peers, 1633–1634, acting for Hawley
 William Hawley, 1638–1639, acting for Henry Hawley
 Sir Henry Huncks, June 1640 – 1641
 Philip Bell, 1641–1650
 Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, May 1650 – 1651, in dissidence to January 1652
 Sir George Ayscue, October 1651 – 1652
 Daniel Searle, 1652 – July 1660, acting
 Thomas Modyford, July 1660–1660, acting
 Humphrey Walrond, 1660 – August 1663, acting
 Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, August 1663 – 23 July 1666, restored
 Henry Willoughby, 1664, acting for the Lord Willoughby of Parham
 Henry Willoughby, July 1666–1667, acting, second time
 William Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham, 1667, acting
 Samuel Barwick, 1667, acting
 Henry Hawley, 1667 – April 1667, acting, second time
 William Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham, April 1667 – 1673
 Christopher Codrington, 1668–1669, acting for Lord Willoughby of Parham
 Sir Peter Colleton, 1673–1674, acting
 Sir Jonathan Atkins, 1674–1679
 Sir John Witham, 1680–1683, acting
 Sir Richard Dutton, 1683–1685
 Edwyn Stede, 1685–1690, acting
 James Kendall, 1690–1694
 Francis Russell, 1694–1696
 Francis Bond, 1696 – December 1697, acting
 Ralph Grey, December 1697 – 1701
 John Farmer, 1701–1703, acting
 Sir Bevil Granville, 1703–1706
 Mitford Crowe, 1707–1710
 George Lillington, 1710–1711, acting
 Robert Lowther, 1711–1720
 William Sharpe, January 1714–1715, acting for Lowther
 John Frere, 1720–1721, acting
 Samuel Cox, 1721–1722, acting
 Henry Worsley, 1722–1727
 Thomas Catesby Paget, 1727–1731
 James Dotin, 1731, acting, first time
 Walter Chetwynd, 1731–1732
 The Viscount Howe, 1733–29 March 1735
 James Dotin, 1735–1737, acting, second time
 Orlando Bridgeman, 1737–1738
 Humphrey Howarth, 1738
 The Viscount Gage, 1738–1739
 Robert Byng, May 1739 – 1740
 James Dotin, 1740, acting, third time
 Sir Thomas Robinson, 1742–1747
 Henry Grenville, 1747–1756
 Charles Pinfold, 1756–1766
 Samuel Rous, 1766–1768, acting, first time
 William Spry, 1768–1772
 Samuel Rous, 1772, acting, second time
 Edward Hay, 1772–1779
 John Dotin, 1779–1780, acting, first time
 James Cunninghame, 1780–1782
 John Dotin, 1783–1784, acting, second time
 David Parry, 1784–1793
 William Bishop, 1793–1794, acting, first time
 George Poyntz Ricketts, 1794–1800
 William Bishop, 1800–1801, acting, second time
 Francis Humberstone Mackenzie, 1802–1806
 John Spooner, 1806–1810, acting
 Sir George Beckwith, 1810–1815
 Sir James Leith, 10 May 1815 – 16 October 1816
 John Foster Alleyne, 1817, acting
 The Lord Combermere, 1817–1820
 John Brathwaite Skeete, 1820, acting
 Samuel Hinds, 1821, acting
 Sir Henry Warde, 1821–1829
 Sir James Frederick Lyon, 1829–1833

Governors of Barbados and the Windward Islands (1833–1885)
In 1833, Barbados became part of the newly formed colony of the Windward Islands, and the Governor of Barbados became viceroy over the new colony as well.

 Sir Lionel Smith, 1833–1836
 Sir Evan John Murray MacGregor, 1836–1841
 Charles Henry Darling, 1841
 Sir Charles Edward Grey, 1841–1846
 William Reid, 1846–1848
 William MacBean George Colebrooke, 1848–1856
 Francis Hincks, 1856–4 January 1862
 James Walker, 4 January 1862 – 1868
 Rawson William Rawson, 1868–1875
 Sanford Freeling, 1875, acting
 Sir John Pope Hennessy, 1875–1876
 George Cumine Strahan, 1876–1880
 D. J. Gamble, 1880, acting
 William Robinson, 1880–1885

Governors of Barbados (1885–1966)
In 1885, Barbados's oversight of the Windward Islands was ended, and a separate Governor of the Windward Islands was installed in Grenada.

 Sir Charles Cameron Lees, 1885–1889
 Sir Walter Joseph Sendall, 1889–1891
 Sir James Shaw Hay, 1891–1900
 Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, November 1900 – 1904
 Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter, 14 October 1904 – 1911
 Sir Leslie Probyn, 13 February 1911 – 1918
 Sir Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, 27 September 1918 – 1925
 Sir William Charles Fleming Robertson, 31 December 1925 – 21 January 1933
 Harry Scott Newlands, 21 January 1933 – 12 March 1933
 Sir Mark Aitchison Young, 5 August 1933 – March 1938
 Sir Eubule John Waddington, 6 August 1938 – 1941
 Sir Henry Grattan Bushe, 23 October 1941 – 1947
 Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood, 5 February 1947 – 1949
 Sir Alfred Savage, 1 November 1949 – 1953
 Brigadier Sir Robert Arundell, 14 May 1953 – 1959
 Sir John Montague Stow, 8 October 1959 – 29 November 1966

On 30 November 1966, Barbados achieved independence from the United Kingdom. For a list of viceroys in Barbados after independence, see Governor-General of Barbados.

See also

 List of colonial secretaries of Barbados
 List of governors of the Windward Islands
 Governor-General of the West Indies Federation

Notes

References
http://www.rulers.org/rulb1.html#barbados
http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Barbados.html

Colonial government in Barbados

Governors
Barbados


Ouvrage Bois- Karre is located in the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line, facing the France - Luxembourg border. The petit ouvrage is situated in the Cattenom Forest between the gros ouvrages Soetrich and Kobenbusch, just south of Boust. It is unusual for a Maginot fortification in its construction as a single blockhouse, with no underground gallery system or remotely located entries. Bois-Karre has been preserved and is maintained as a museum.

Design and construction
Bois-Karre was surveyed by CORF (Commission d'Organisation des Régions Fortifiées), the Maginot Line's design and construction agency, in 1930. Work by the contractor Degaine-Dubois began in 1931, and the position became operational in 1935, at a cost of 10 million francs.

Bois-Karre was planned as an anchor point for a fortified line of retreat from the Cattenom salient formed by Kobenbusch and Oberheid. A firing chamber is arranged to cover the reinforcing line  (bretelle de Cattenom), which was to be anchored at its other end by Block 2 of Ouvrage Galgenberg. The reinforcing line was never built.

Description
The single two-level combat block comprises two firing chambers and one machine gun turret.  The west firing chamber was armed with a machine gun embrasure and a machine gun/47 mm anti-tank gun embrasure (JM/AC47).  The east firing chamber was equipped with two JM/AC47 embrasures and a JM embrasure.  Three automatic rifle cloches (GFM) on the surface provided spotting for ouvrage Métrich, along with a machine gun turret.  The integral usine was equipped with two  Renault engines.

Several casemates, observatories and infantry shelters are located around Bois-Karre, including
 Casemate de Basse-Parthe Ouest: Single classmate flanking to the west with one JM/AC37 embrasure, one JM embrasure and one GFM cloche.
 Casemate de Basse-Parthe Est: Single classmate flanking to the east with one JM/AC37 embrasure, one JM embrasure and one GFM cloche.
 Abri du Bois-Karre: Surface shelter for one infantry section, with  two GFM cloches.
 Abri du Rippert: Subsurface shelter for two infantry sections and the quarter command post, two GFM cloches.
 Abri du Bois-de-Cattenom: Surface shelter for one infantry section, two GFM cloches.
None of these are connected to the ouvrage or to each other. All were built by CORF. The Casernement de Cattenom provided peacetime above-ground barracks and support services to Bois-Karre and other ouvrages in the area.

Manning
The garrison comprised 91 men and two officers of the 168th Fortress Infantry Regiment under Sub-Lieutenant Boulay.

History
See Fortified Sector of Thionville for a broader discussion of the events of 1940 in the Thionville sector of the Maginot Line.

Current condition
The ouvrage which retains a large portion of its equipment, has been restored and may be visited.

See also
 List of all works on Maginot Line
 Siegfried Line
 Atlantic Wall
 Czechoslovak border fortifications

Notes

References

Bibliography
Allcorn, William. The Maginot Line 1928–45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Degon, André; Zylberyng, Didier, La Ligne Maginot: Guide des Forts à Visiter, Editions Ouest-France, 2014.
Kaufmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, Stackpole Books, 2006.
Kaufmann, J.E., Kaufmann, H.W., Jancovič-Potočnik, A. and Lang, P. The Maginot Line: History and Guide, Pen and Sword, 2011.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 1. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2001.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 2. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2003.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 3. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2003.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 5. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.

External links
 Ouvrage Bois-Karre official site
 Bois Karre at fortiff.be
 L'ouvrage du Bois-Karre at alsacemaginot.com
 ouvrage du Bois Karre at lignemaginot.com
 Petit Ouvrage du Bois Karre at mablehome.com
 Ouvrage d'infanterie du Bois Karre at wikimaginot.eu

BOIS
Maginot Line
World War II museums in France


Utricularia sect. Foliosa is a section in the genus Utricularia. The species in this section are small or medium-sized terrestrial carnivorous plants native to North and South America.

See also
 List of Utricularia species

References

Utricularia
Plant sections


The Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP) is an open source, Windows-based computer program created by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that estimates the health benefits from improvements in air quality. State, local and international users have used BenMAP to estimate the health benefits of improved air quality. BenMAP includes information users need to start performing a benefits analysis; advanced users can customize the program to meet their needs. Because BenMAP is based on a GIS, the results can be mapped for ease of presentation.

BenMAP can be used for:
Generation of population/community level ambient pollution exposure maps;
Comparison of benefits across multiple regulatory programs;
Estimation of health impacts associated with exposure to existing air pollution concentrations;
Estimation of health benefits of alternative ambient air quality standards;
Performance of sensitivity analyses of health or valuation functions, or of other inputs; and
Hypothetical, or “what-if,” type analyses.

A United Nations case study concluded that it had "proven to be a remarkable tool in helping decision-makers understand the health and economic implications of possible air pollution control policies."

In December 2013, the proprietary BenMAP 4 was rewritten as an open-source program and issued as BenMAP-Community Edition.

Information

BenMAP is intended as a tool for estimating the health impacts, and associated economic values, associated with changes in ambient air pollution. It accomplishes this by running health impact functions, which relate a change in the concentration of a pollutant with a change in the incidence of a health endpoint.

Inputs to health impact functions typically include:
the change in ambient air pollution level,
health effect estimate,
the baseline incidence rate of the health endpoint, and
the exposed population.
 Air Pollution Change. The air quality change is calculated as the difference between the starting air pollution level, also called the baseline, and the air pollution level after some change, such as that caused by a regulation. In the case of particulate matter, this is typically estimated in micrograms per meter cubed (μg/m3).
 Mortality Effect Estimate. The mortality effect estimate is an estimate of the percentage change in mortality due to a one unit change in ambient air pollution. Epidemiological studies provide a source for effect estimates.
 Mortality Incidence. The mortality incidence rate is an estimate of the average number of people that die in a given population over a given period of time. For example, the mortality incidence rate might be the probability that a person will die in a given year. Mortality incidence rates and other health data are typically collected each country’s government. The World Health Organization is a good source for data.
 Exposed Population. The exposed population is the number of people affected by the air pollution reduction. The government census office is a source for this information. Private companies may collect this information and offer it for sale.

BenMAP also calculates the economic value of health impacts. After the calculation of the mortality change, these premature deaths can be valued by multiplying the change in mortality reduction by an estimate of the value of a statistical life:

Value of Statistical Life: The value of a statistical life is the economic value placed on eliminating the risk of one premature death.

BenMAP also serves as a Geographic Information System (GIS), allowing users to create, utilize, and visualize maps of air pollution, population, incidence rates, incidence rate changes, economic valuations, and other types of data.

Users
Users may include scientists, policy analysts, and decision makers. Advanced users can explore options such as using the map querying features and exploring the impacts of different health impact and valuation functions.

References

External links
 BenMAP, U.S. EPA

Health software
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Free software


Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung  (; born 17 June 1964) is a barrister who served as the third Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 2012 to 2018.

He was the chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association from 2007 to 2010, as well as a member of the Guangdong Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, prior to his appointment as Secretary for Justice.  His time in office coincided with various political controversies in which he played a central role. They include: the 2014–15 electoral reform which triggered the Occupy Central movement, the Legislative Council oath-taking saga which resulted in the disqualifications of six legislators, the 2017 imprisonment of Hong Kong democracy activists, and the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link project which is the subject of an ongoing judicial review challenge. He currently practices from Temple Chambers in Hong Kong.

He was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal (GBM) by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.

Education and early career
Yuen was born into a grassroots family in 1964. He lived in Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate during his early life. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth School and the University of Hong Kong. He was called to Bar in 1987 after serving pupillage under Mohan Tarachand Bharwaney and Lawrence Lok QC.

In 1995 he joined Temple Chambers, one of the largest barristers' chambers in Hong Kong, on the invitation of former Attorney General Michael Thomas QC and Ronny Tong QC. He specialised in civil litigation, especially commercial disputes including advisory and court works relating to contract disputes, shareholders and partners disputes, corporate and personal insolvency, trusts, banking and financial products disputes, international trade and arbitration. In 1997, he earned an LLM at the City University of Hong Kong, studying Chinese laws under Wang Guiguo and Priscilla Leung.

In 2003 he was appointed Senior Counsel after 15 years of practice. As a silk, his practice expanded to include regulatory matters and judicial reviews. He also served as an arbitrator in international arbitrations and a mediator in commercial disputes.

In 2006 Yuen was appointed a Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court, in which capacity he handled various civil litigations. He also became increasingly involved in public service: he served as a member of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission, Non-Official Member of the Independent Commission Against Corruption Advisory Committee on Corruption, the Chairman of the Transport Advisory Committee, and a Non-executive Director of Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority and Council Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

Bar Association chairman
In 2007, Rimsky Yuen was elected chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association. When he was re-elected in 2008, it was revealed that he was a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Guangdong Committee. Democratic Party chairman Albert Ho and Civic Party member Audrey Eu, called for Yuen to step down. Ronny Tong, who had declined a similar offer of appointment to the Guangdong CPPCC during his tenure as Bar Association chairman, also expressed his disappointment in Yuen and expressed his concerns over the potential for conflicts of interest.

In contrast, legislator Kwong Chi-kin of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions supported Yuen's appointment, stating that it would promote cooperation with mainland authorities; an editorial of Wen Wei Po also argued that no conflict of interest arose by Yuen's appointment. On 17 January 2008, he was re-elected unopposed.

Secretary for Justice
In 2012, Yuen was appointed by the Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying as the Secretary for Justice.

On 25 September 2015, Yuen was elected as an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple.

2014 electoral reform and Occupy protests

In December 2013, Yuen was appointed by Leung Chun-ying as one of the three-member Task Force on Constitutional Development, alongside Chief Secretary for Administration Carrie Lam and Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Raymond Tam, in relation to the consultation on the Methods for Selecting the Chief Executive in 2017 and for Forming the Legislative Council in 2016. Yuen provided the legal opinion on the proposed constitutional reform. He opposed the "civil nomination" proposal advanced by pro-democrats, arguing that it might bypass the nominating committee and "turn it into a plastic stamp"

On 21 October 2014 during the Occupy Central movement triggered by the NPCSC's August 31 Decision, the government and the HKFS held the first round of talks in a televised open debate in which Yuen took part as one of the five government representatives. During the talks, government representatives suggested the possibility of writing a new report on the students' concerns to supplement the government's last report on political reform to Beijing, but stressed that civil nomination, as proposed by the students, fell outside the framework of the Basic Law and the NPCSC decision. The government described the talks as "candid and meaningful" in a press release, while the students expressed their disappointment at the lack of concrete results.

After the final legislative bill came out in January 2015, Yuen continued to lobby for support for the proposal. On 25 April 2015 Yuen participated in a territory-wide bus parade to appeal for public support for the city's constitutional reform package on an open-top double-decker bus. The bill was eventually defeated in the Legislative Council on 18 June.

Legislative Council oath-taking controversy
In October 2016, after the Legislative Council elections resulted in the election of certain pro-Hong Kong independence legislators to the Legislative Council, Yuen and Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took an unprecedented move to launch a legal challenge against the Legislative Council President Andrew Leung in order to seek the disqualification of two pro-independence Youngspiration legislators-elect Baggio Leung and Yau Wai-ching over the duo's controversial behaviour during the oath-taking ceremony at the inaugural meeting. Despite Yuen repeated statement of not seeking for the NPCSC interpretation of the Basic Law, in November NPCSC interpreted the Basic Law Article 104 and set a framework on how to take the oath and the consequences of not fulfilling it. Yuen refused to resign and defended the NPSCSC interpretation, arguing that both judicial independence and interpretation of Basic Law could co-exist, adding the ruling by Beijing was not targeting the two legislators but instead setting out the general example as an aid to understanding Article 104. On 8 November, hundreds of lawyers joined a silent march against Beijing's interpretation of the Basic Law, claiming it harms judicial independence. As a result, the two legislators were ousted from the Legislative Council by the court on 15 November.

In December 2016 Leung Chun-ying and Rimsky Yuen pursuing after other pro-democrat legislators by lodging another judicial review against four more pro-democracy legislators over their oaths, Lau Siu-lai, Nathan Law, Leung Kwok-hung and Yiu Chung-yim, who were already under legal challenge filed by pro-Beijing supporters. In July 2017, the court ruled the four pro-democracy legislators were to lose their seats.

Prosecution against democracy activists
Yuen received criticism from activists for his prosecution against protesters and activists, including the Department of Justice’s sentence review applications of 16 activists involved in two 2014 protests. In August 2017, Demosisto party chairman Nathan Law, secretary-general Joshua Wong and former Hong Kong Federation of Students secretary-general Alex Chow were jailed by the Court of Appeal of the High Court, the student leaders who stormed the government’s headquarters in 2014 in the which triggered the Occupy pro-democracy sit-ins. They were originally given community service orders and a suspended jail term in August 2016 by the Court of First Instance, but the Department of Justice decided for pursuing after stiffer penalties by applying for a review. It was reported that Yuen had overruled recommendations by top prosecutors that the government should not seek stiffer sentences. He declined to confirm or deny reports but rejected speculation about "political prosecutions".

The League of Social Democrats held a rally against the decision outside the Lai Chi Kok Reception Centre on the evening of 18 August 2017. Several different organisations held a public protest march on 20 August 2017, which started at the Southorn Playground and ended with a rally at the Court of Final Appeal Building. Protesters focused their criticism on Yuen, following reports that he ignored the advice of top prosecutors in pursuing the appeal. On 1 October 2017, thousands of people joined a rally demanding Yuen to resign, accusing him of damaging the city's human rights by pursuing sentencing reviews of activists.

Yuen approval rating plunged 18 percentage points in August according to a survey conducted by the University of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme. Yuen’s support rating stood at 46.4 marks, with an approval rate of 31 per cent and a disapproval rate of 33 per cent. His net popularity plunged to negative 3 percentage points. It was speculated that this was "perhaps related to recent events including the sentence review and jailing of some activists." In September 2017, Hong Kong slipped five places in the judicial independence category of the latest global competitiveness ranking compiled by the Geneva-based non-profit organisation World Economic Forum.

Express Rail joint checkpoint controversy
Despite citing his ill health and wish for retirement after serving a full term, Yuen was listed in the line-up of Chief Executive-elect Carrie Lam's team in June 2017. However there were reports suggesting he would leave in 2018 after sorting out law enforcement issues dogging the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link project.

In July 2017, Yuen unveiled the proposal to resolve the border control conundrum by setting up joint immigration and customs facilities with mainland authorities in which travellers will have to abide by mainland laws within a designated area to be leased to the mainland for the creation of a port inside the terminal where mainland police officers can enforce mainland laws. The pro-democracy camp and some legal experts argued that the measures would violate the Basic Law as the Articles 18 and 22 prohibit national laws from being applied in Hong Kong (with the exception of matters relating to defence and foreign affairs) and forbid Chinese authorities from interfering in the special administrative region’s affairs. Yuen countered the argument by claiming that the designated areas, once leased to the central government, will no longer be part of Hong Kong’s territory and therefore outside the jurisdiction of the Basic Law. He also invoked Article 20 of the Basic Law, which allows the Hong Kong government to enjoy new powers conferred to it by the NPCSC which the SAR government can seek a "new power" from the NPCSC, so that it can in turn authorise the mainland authorities to enforce national laws in the designated areas.

Yuen stepped down on 6 January 2018 amid the National People's Congress Standing Committee's resolution on the joint checkpoint. Chief Executive Carrie Lam praised him for his "outstanding performance" and being "a pillar of strength in upholding the rule of law in Hong Kong", as well as for his "commitment to the country" and passion for his work. His position was replaced by barrister Teresa Cheng.

Post Secretary of Justice

Jimmy Lai
In November 2022, Yuen represented Paul Lam on behalf of the Department of Justice, with the argument that Jimmy Lai should not be able to hire a UK lawyer. Yuen argued that overseas lawyers would have "limited if not negligible" contribution to cases relating to the national security law. However, the court disagreed with Yuen's arguments, and said they go "against the grain of guiding principles for the exercise of judicial discretion" and "It is an untenable proposition and not reasonably arguable."

On 25 November 2022, Yuen argued and said that the DoJ's position was that except for "exceptional circumstances," all national security cases should ban the use of foreign lawyers.

In April 2023, Yuen urged the court to reject Lai's legal bid as soon as possible.

China Concrete
In January 2023, Yuen, representing China Concrete, lost a case where he was fighting against the government's Environmental Protection Department. In February 2023, a protest was held at the company's site, which continued to illegally operate.

Personal life
He is unmarried and has two sisters. His father, a carpenter for the government, died in 2014.

In December 2015, he spent three days in hospital with severe abdominal pain. In 2016, Yuen was admitted to hospital with intestinal discomfort and was on leave for a few days.

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, also known as Funky Forest: The First Encounter or simply Funky Forest, is a 2005 Japanese surrealist anthology comedy film co-written and co-directed by Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine and Shunichiro Miki. It is composed of several storylines, some of which coincide, most of which are comical.

Cast
 Tadanobu Asano
 Susumu Terajima
 Ryō Kase as Takefumi
 Rinko Kikuchi
 Mariko Takahashi
 Hideaki Anno
 Moyoco Anno
 Kazue Fukiishi
 Chiduru Ikewaki
 Shihori Kanjiya

Release
The film was released on Region 1 DVD in March 2008.

The film was released on Region Free Blu Ray by Error 4444 together with Third Window Films United States, Canada and Europe in 2021.

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Rimsky is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

 Alexander Rimsky-Korsakov (1753–1840), Russian general
 Ivan Rimsky-Korsakov (1754–1831), Russian courtier and lover of Catherine the Great
 Voin Rimsky-Korsakov (1822–1871), Russian navigator, hydrographer, and geographer
 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908), Russian composer
 Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919), Russian pianist and composer, wife of Nikolai
 Andrey Rimsky-Korsakov (1878–1940), Russian musicologist and son of Nikolai

 Nicolas Rimsky (1886–1941), Russian-born French film director and actor

 Rimsky Yuen (b. 1964), current Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong


Rod Serling's Devils and Demons is an anthology of fantasy and horror stories credited to Rod Serling and ghost edited by Gordon R. Dickson.  It was first published by Bantam Books in 1967.  Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, The English Review, New Budget, Worlds of Tomorrow (magazine), New York Herald, Routledge’s Christmas Annual, The Smart Set and The Civil and Military Gazette.

Contents

 Introduction, by Rod Serling
 "The Montavarde Camera", by Avram Davidson
 "The Coach", by Violet Hunt
 "Adapted", by Carol Emshwiller
 "Death Cannot Wither", by Judith Merril
 "The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton", by Charles Dickens
 "Pollock and the Porroh Man", by H. G. Wells
 "Stars, Won’t You Hide Me?", by Ben Bova
 "The Bottle Imp", by Robert Louis Stevenson
 "The Adventure of the German Student", by Washington Irving
 "The Four-Fifteen Express", by Amelia B. Edwards
 "The Blue Sphere", by Theodore Dreiser
 "The Bisara of Pooree", by Rudyard Kipling
 "A Time to Keep", by Kate Wilhelm
 "Brother Coelestin", by Emil Frida

Notes

References

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Fantasy anthologies
Horror anthologies


A.J. Simeon Stadium is a 15,000-capacity multi-use stadium in High Point, North Carolina. It is named after Anthony James Simeon (1910–2004), a former North Carolina Athletic Director of the Year. Simeon Stadium is the home of the High Point Central High School and T. Wingate Andrews High School football and soccer events. The stadium was also the home of the Carolina Dynamo professional soccer team of the USL Premier Development League from 1996 to 1999, and the Carolina Phoenix women's football team at various times. Currently, the stadium is home to the John Wesley University men's and women's soccer teams.

Simeon Stadium is the largest of the four facilities that make up the High Point Athletic Complex. In addition to Simeon Stadium the complex contains Aderholdt Stadium, a 1,500-capacity multi-use facility used for football and track and field; Ray Correll - John Morris Field, a smaller soccer stadium; and Ed Price Field, a 650-seat baseball stadium.

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Grahame Edwin King (23 February 1915 – 11 October 2008) was a master Australian printmaker, who has been called the "patron saint of contemporary Australian printmaking". He was responsible for the revival of print making in Australia in the 1960s. He helped set up the Print Council of Australia, of which he was the first Honorary Secretary and was later President. He taught printmaking at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) from 1966 to 1988. In 1991, he was awarded an Order of Australia for his services to education. As well as teaching, King produced his own art work, concentrating on lithographs and monotypes. He was also a skilled photographer and used his photography both in his teaching and in his practice.

Life
Grahame Edwin King was born in Melbourne on 23 February 1915. He left school when he was about fifteen and went to work. In 1934, he started studying commercial art at night at the Working Men's College of Melbourne (which became Melbourne Technical College and later the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)). Later he went to the Elton Fox Academy, which taught traditional painting. In the late 1930s, King helped pioneer the new art of  chromo-photolithography which transformed colour advertising in the print industry. He was able to make use of this expertise for the rest of his career. In 1939, the year of the highly influential exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art in Melbourne sponsored by the Melbourne Herald, King started attending night classes at the art school of the National Gallery of Victoria, which he continued for three years.

King was in the army from 1942 until 1946. He was based in Melbourne, so he was also able to attend Saturday afternoon art classes with George Bell. Bell had recently returned from overseas and had brought back news of European Modernism and enthusiasm for artists such as Modigliani, Derain, Braque, Matisse and Picasso. King later said that Bell "opened our eyes to modern art and it was a tremendous experience". King's painting at this time shows the influence of George Bell's style of early modernism. While he was in the army, King met the artist John Brack, who remained a friend until the latter's death in 1999. In 1945, King joined the Victorian Artists Society and soon became its secretary and exhibitions manager.

In late 1947, like many young Australians at that time, King went to Europe. He based himself in England at The Abbey Arts Centre in Hertfordshire. Other Australian artists resident at The Abbey at that time included the painters Leonard French, Helen Marshall, James Gleeson and Noel Counihan, the sculptor Robert Klippel, and the art historian Bernard Smith. King studied drawing with Bernard Meninsky and attended print-making classes at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. Later he toured Britain and Europe, producing many drawings and water-colours of buildings and scenery. These works showed him to be an "astute observer", with a "keen visual eye and [a] mature sense of design, composition and colour" They are now held by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. In Europe, King saw the work of Cubists, Surrealists and other abstract artists such as Paul Klee. He responded to the "modernist modes involving the flattening and fragmentation of the image and the use of free-flowing line to express movement and rhythm" and particularly to the work of Georges Braque. This experience defined the direction of King's own work, which became increasingly abstract from then on.

While he was at The Abbey, King met his future wife, the Berlin-born sculptor, Inge Neufeld (Inge King), whom he married in 1950. She had been trained in Berlin and Glasgow, but had spent some time in New York City, where she encountered American Abstract Expressionism. Her own work was also tending towards abstraction. The compatibility of their artistic interests and their support for each other influenced the later development of their art for both of them.

The couple moved back to Melbourne in early 1951. They held their first joint exhibition in Melbourne later that year, with paintings and drawings by Grahame and sculptures and jewellery by Inge, and took part in other exhibitions during the following years. But, for the decade after their return, most of Grahame King's time and energy was taken up with earning a living and with building their house at Warrandyte on the outskirts of Melbourne. This house, designed by the architect Robin Boyd, now has a State Heritage classification. During this time, King had no access to a printing press, but he continued to paint.

In 1961, Vic Greenhouse, head of the art department at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) invited King to join the group of printmakers, which included Fred Williams and Hertha Kluge-Pott, who were allowed to use its printing facilities on one day per week. The following year (1962), RMIT bought a lithography press. King was one of the few able to use it. From then on King concentrated on producing lithographs and creative monotypes. In 1965, he acquired a small off-set litho press (12 ins x 15 ins or about 30.5 x 38.1 cm) for his studio at Warrandyte. Although this press was "a bit on the small side", by designing for its limitations King could make larger prints. Some years later, he acquired a larger press which "gave him scope to wield a longer, wider brush-mark on the lithographic plate".

The standing of printmaking as an art form in Australia had been improving for some time. At the National Gallery of Victoria, Dr Ursula Hoff had established a serious collection of prints and drawings and was actively collecting Australian prints. An important exhibition, the Australian Print Survey, curated by Daniel Thomas of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, was shown in all the major Australian cities in 1963–4. By the mid 1960s, King was recognised as one of Australia's foremost printmakers. In 1965, Dr Hoff convened a meeting of printmakers which led to the establishment of the Print Council of Australia (PCA). King was on the inaugural committee. He continued to work with the Print Council for many years, becoming one of the most prominent and active promoters of printing as an art. During his time with the PCA, he was involved with organising its annual programmes, and with preparing and presenting exhibitions, which toured to the state capitals and to many regional towns. The PCA also hosted a number of international exhibitions. King was also associated with the Australian Print Workshop from its inception in 1981.

In 1966, King was appointed Lecturer in Painting, Drawing and Lithography at RMIT. He worked there until he retired in 1988. He was an important influence on two generations of Melbourne's printmakers.

In 1969, King received a British Council grant for a study tour of printmaking facilities in England. He also visited France, Switzerland, Italy and America, where he visited the Pratt Graphics Centre in New York. Later, in 1974, the Kings visited Europe and also Japan, where one of their daughters was studying. King was able to study Japanese printmaking and papermaking techniques. King noted later that this experience had been important for his work. In 1976, the Kings again went to Europe, visiting Germany, the Netherlands and Norway and returned via Japan. There were further study trips to Europe and Japan in 1982 and to America in 1990.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, King made several trips to the Northern Territory and Arnhem Land and later to the Great Barrier Reef. These provided another important influence on his work. Images inspired by the scenery and the aboriginal rock art that he saw there were incorporated into his lithographs from this time. During the 1980s, he started to paint again and also to work in mixed media. In 1991, King was awarded an AM (Member of the Order of Australia) for services to art education. He continued to exhibit until a few years before his death in 2008. His work is represented in a number of major collections including that of the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

King and his work

King was able to draw well, and continued to draw throughout his life. Vincent Alessi notes of King's European drawings that "the drawings are not merely documentary sketches of places visited. Rather they quietly scratch the surface, capturing the rhythm, heart and sensibilities of a location and its people. It is this aspect that best reveals King’s humanity". Jane Eckett says that: "For Grahame King drawing represented much more than simply a means of describing the world. It was his way of learning about the world, synthesizing observation, thought, feeling and intuition".

King made two significant decisions about his art. The first was in the late 1940s, when he decided to focus on Abstract Expressionism. The second was in the early 1960s, when he decided to concentrate on print-making, particularly lithography. Sacha Grishin notes of King's prints at this time that:

King's earliest lithographs of 1962 were simply brilliant, not only in context of his own work, but within the broader context of the art of lithography. The use of lithographic crayons, the watery film of touche and the scraping back of surfaces to produce stark contrasts in the surface textures were all properties which were unique to lithography and which King exploited with unerring skill.

King did not do detailed preliminary drawings for his lithographs. Nor did he make an artist's print when printing them. Rather, he printed the whole edition in one colour, then added other colours in subsequent print runs until "the print says it is finished ... At some stage, the work of art takes over and I have to understand it".

Jenny Zimmer noted King's "life-long habit of making drawings and taking photographs of [natural] phenomena before returning to the studio to compose his 'abstractions'. The latter process sometimes evolves over a number of years, only to be resolved after considerable struggle. A print may go through several stages of production and sometimes these stages are years apart and the result of considerable contemplation. This is the mark of an abstractionist who is not prepared to allow pure intuition, emotion or improvisation to determine the end result."

An important influence on King's work were his trips to Japan in 1974 and subsequently. He said of his first trip: "Looking back I realise it was tremendously important for my work, although unconscious, it somehow removed some inhibitions" Later he said: "I wish I had met the East twenty years earlier - I would have learned something positive about calligraphy. I love the calligraphic mark."

The landscape and the aboriginal art of northern Australia were another important influence on King's work after his trips there in the 1980s. Zimmer notes that his first prints:  "described the giant ant-hills, sparse vegetation and rock formations", but later he "focused his attention on the interiors of caves and rock formations and, using highly sophisticated lithographic techniques, produced his fleeting impressions of ancient Aboriginal markings. ...  a result of what for King was the awesome experience of witnessing such ancient and significant human mark-making".

Grahame King usually did his own printing. But in 1998, the Australian Print Workshop(APW) invited King to produce a set of lithographs, which were then printed by the APW printer, Martin King (no relation). Martin King summed up his experience of making this prints for Grahame King: "I now know why Grahame has long been an inspiration and mentor to artists and printmakers. His art, his knowledge and his passion for printmaking have all been shared in his most distinguished way".

In the mid-1990s, King produced some large, computer-assisted, experimental paintings. King said of this work that: "These paintings have evolved from a lifetime’s response to the study of form and colour in nature and are an attempt to express the perpetual excitement of new visual experience".

External links
 Images of Grahame Kings prints using Art Search at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
 Images of Grahame King's prints at Prints and Printmaking.
   'Patron saint' of printmaking, Jenny Zimmer, An obituary in The Age, 22 October 2008
 A Modern Grand Tour - Grahame King's European Drawings, 1947- 1949. La Trobe University Art Museum 24 February, to 10 April 2009 .
 A more comprehensive version of this article may be found at igking.info

Bibliography

Alessi, Vincent. Catalogue essay for A Modern Grand Tour: Grahame King’s European Drawings 1947-1949, exhibition at La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 24 February - 10 April 2009.

Bright, Libby. "The Lithographs of Grahame King". In The Art of Grahame King by Sasha Grishin, 59–75.

Eckett, Jane. Grahame King, Macmillan Art Publishing, South Yarra, Vic., 2011.

Field, Caroline. "The Perpetual Excitement of New Visual Experiences". In The Art of Grahame King by Sasha Grishin, 145–151.

Gleeson, James. Transcript of interview with Grahame King on 18 October 1979,.

Grishin, Sasha. The Art of Grahame King, with a foreword by Roger Butler and contributions by Libby Bright, Diana Davis, Caroline Field, Martin King, Anne Virgo and Jenny Zimmer, Macmillan Art Publishing, South Yarra, Vic, 2005.

King, Grahame and Jim Allen. An Australian Bird Watchers' Pocket Book, with drawings by Grahame King and verse by Jim Allen, Macmillan Art Publishing, South Yarra, Vic., 2001.

King,Martin. "A Coat of Many Colours: A Personal Reflection on Working with Grahame King". In The Art of Grahame King by Sasha Grishin, 87.

Zimmer, Jenny. "Grahame King: Dualities". In The Art of Grahame King by Sasha Grishin, 77–85.

Zimmer, Jenny. "Grahame King: A Melbourne Story". In The Art of Grahame King by Sasha Grishin, 89-143.

Zimmer, Jenny. "Grahame King: Prints and Paintings", catalogue essay for Grahame King: Lithographs and Paintings, an exhibition at the Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, 4 July - 11 August 2002.

Zimmer, Jenny. “'Patron saint' of printmaking", obituary for Grahame King, AM, The Age, Melbourne, 22 October 2008.

References

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Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design
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Australian Army personnel of World War II
Military personnel from Melbourne
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Academic staff of RMIT University
People from Warrandyte, Victoria
Australian expatriates in England


Richard Ross Eyer (born May 6, 1945) is an American former child actor who worked during the 1950s and 1960s. He then became a teacher and taught at elementary schools in Bishop, California until he retired in 2006. He is the older brother of Robert Eyer (1948-2005), another child actor of the period.

Career
Eyer played a war orphan in "Homeward Borne", an episode of Playhouse 90, August 22, 1957, on CBS.

In 1956, he played a boy named Chuck in Canyon River which starred George Montgomery and Peter Graves. He had the starring role in The Invisible Boy, producer Nicholas Nayfack's independent sequel to MGM's Forbidden Planet.

In The Desperate Hours (1955), Eyer played Fredric March's dangerously impulsive son. He also starred in the 1958 western Fort Dobbs, with Clint Walker and Virginia Mayo and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in 1958, in which he portrayed the metallic-voiced Barani the Genie.

In a 1995 interview, Eyer credited his mother for the promotion of his acting career. "It was all her work that did it. I had curly hair, freckles, and people would say what a cute kid he was and all that; so my mother entered me in some children's personality contests, and I won one of these which had been held at the Hollywood Bowl, and I guess that one was the springboard in getting me started. After that, I was hired for some television commercials and some modeling jobs, and this led into other things ... I was around fourteen when I did Stagecoach West ... My last role was at age 21, appearing in an episode of [ABC's] Combat!"

He appeared in more than one hundred episodes of various television programs, including Rod Cameron's syndicated City Detective, when he was eight years of age. Other appearances include Arrest and Trial, Stoney Burke, Mr. Novak, Wagon Train, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Father Knows Best, Gunsmoke, Lassie, Rawhide and General Electric Theater.

Personal life
Eyer is divorced. He is the father of Samantha Rae Eyer, and twin sons, Benjamin Adam Eyer and Andrew Z. Eyer.

Filmography

References

Bibliography

 Holmstrom, John (1996). The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich: Michael Russell, p. 253.

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20th-century American male actors
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American male television actors
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Male actors from Santa Monica, California
People from Bishop, California


West Albury is a suburb of the city of Albury, New South Wales, located  west of the Albury Central Business District. At the , West Albury had a population of 3,851.

West Albury covers the slopes of Nail Can Hill on the Murray River floodplain, and is bordered by Central Albury to the east, Splitters Creek to the west, Glenroy to the north, and the Murray River and Victoria to the south.
West Albury is mostly residential, and features include the Albury Wodonga Private Hospital, Padman Park and Albury West Public School.

History
Like the rest of Albury, the area is part of traditional Wiradjuri country, and was known as Bungambrawatha.
The first European settlement was in the late 19th century in Padman Park. The small (19 house) settlement were on mining licences for the Monument Hill quarry. Padman Park was cleared, the area on the river known as McKenzies flat was grazed and several fruit orchards were grown. The houses were eventually abandoned, the last one being bulldozed in the 1970s.
At the same time, most of modern West Albury was partially cleared. Well after many of the other suburbs had been established, the area slowly began to be residentialised from the east. By the 1990s Pemberton Park, a housing estate on the east side of West Albury, was begun.
The Private Hospital was built in 1979, at the time well away from the rest of the suburb. Albury West Public School and also been built by then, only taking around 100 students.

Geography
West Albury is located on slopes between Nail Can Hill, Pemberton Hill, Monument Hill and the Murray River. The southern parts (Horseshoe Lagoon and Padman Park) are mostly wetlands and riparian bushland, and Nail Can Hill & Monument Hill are both dry bushland. Many bike trails have been built through Padman Park, Monument Hill, and Nail Can Hill (as part of the annual Nail Can Hill Run).
Native plant life includes the River Red Gum and Red Box eucalypts, which dominate. Blackberry is a major problem in Horseshoe Lagoon/Padman Park, as are introduced grasses and other weeds.
Nail Can Hill is home to a rare orchid species called the Crimson Spider Orchid, and is the only place in New South Wales where it can be found.
On Monument Hill is the War Memorial, Albury's most visible landmark.
The War Memorial was built at the end of Dean Street on Monument Hill on Anzac Day, 1925, and remains the most visible landmark in the city. It was designed by architect Louis Harrison.
Monument Hill remains a nature reserve, linking to Nail Can Hill via the Roper Street Wildlife Corridor.

Residents
At the 2016 Census, the population of West Albury was 3,851, a significant drop from 2006 when the population was 4115. The most common religion was no religion, followed by Catholic, and the average weekly household income was $1,138, below the Australian average of $1,438. The median age was 47 above the national average of 38.

References

Suburbs of Albury, New South Wales


Indian Head Mountain is a  mountain located in the southeast corner of Greene County, New York.
The mountain, named for the appearance of its profile, is part of the Devil's Path range of the Catskill Mountains.
To the northwest, Indian Head is separated from Twin Mountain by Jimmy Dolan Notch; to the southeast, Indian Head is flanked by Plattekill Mountain.

Indian Head Mountain stands within the watershed of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay.
The north side of Indian Head drains into the headwaters of Schoharie Creek, thence into the Mohawk River, and the Hudson River.
The southwest and south sides of Indian Head drain into Saw Kill, thence into Esopus Creek, and the Hudson River.
The east end of Indian Head is drained by Plattekill Creek in Plattekill Clove, which runs down the Catskill Escarpment, and into Esopus Creek just above Glenerie Falls.

Indian Head Mountain is contained within New York's Catskill State Park.
The mountain is the easternmost summit on the Devil's Path hiking trail.
The Long Path, a  long-distance hiking trail through southeastern New York, is contiguous with this stretch of the Devil's Path.

See also
 List of mountains in New York

Notes

External links
 Indian Head Mountain Hiking Info Catskill 3500 Club

Mountains of Greene County, New York
Catskill High Peaks
Mountains of New York (state)


Eriogonum apricum is a rare species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Ione buckwheat. It is endemic to Amador County, California, in the United States.

Description
This is a small perennial herb growing in patches no more than 25 centimeters wide and tall. Its straggly erect stems are mostly naked and reddish or brown in color, and they have a few tiny, round, fuzzy leaves toward the base. Atop each thin branch of the stem is an inflorescence with minute flowers each only a few millimeters wide. There are two varieties of this plant; var. prostratum is sometimes called Irish Hill buckwheat.

Distribution
This rare plant is endemic to the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, where it is known from fewer than ten occurrences in Amador County. It is named after Apricum Hill, one of its few known locations between Ione and Buena Vista. It is a state and federally listed endangered species.

Ecology
This plant grows on and is named for the Ione Formation, a local geologic formation of the iron-rich oxisol soil type. It is a member of a plant community known as the Ione Manzanita Series, where it is commonly associated with the Ione manzanita (Arctostaphylos myrtifolia), another rare plant.

Conservation
Threats to the survival of this endangered species include agriculture, development, and erosion. Habitat destruction from the mining of common sand, silica sand, clay, and lignite is a major threat.

References

External links
  Calflora Database: Eriogonum apricum (Ione buckwheat)
Jepson Manual Treatment
UC Photos gallery

apricum
Endemic flora of California
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Natural history of Amador County, California
Taxa named by John Thomas Howell


Vladimir Vladimirovich Vdovichenkov (; born 13 August 1971) is a Russian theater and screen actor known for his roles in Brigada (2002) Leviathan (2014), Bummer (2003) and Salyut 7 (2017).

Early life and education
Vdovichenkov was born in Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian RSFSR, Soviet Union. He pursued boxing while at school.  After graduating from 42nd Kronstadt Nautical School in 1989, he served four years in the Northern Fleet and the Baltic Fleet. He worked as a waiter while taking preparatory acting courses. As a student he appeared in music videos and commercials.

Career
In 2000, While Vdovichenkov was a fourth-year student at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, director Alexey Sidorov cast him in a main role in the crime television series Brigada. This brought him fame in Russia and other Russian-speaking countries.
In 2001, Vdovichenkov graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. He has performed at the Vakhtangov State Academic Theater since 2002.

In 2015, he married Elena Lyadova – his co-star in Leviathan (2014).

Filmography
Film and television work

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
People from Gusev
Russian male film actors
Russian male television actors
Russian male stage actors
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
Honored Artists of the Russian Federation


Cordier, De Cordier is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Andrew W. Cordier (1901–1975), American administrator
 Balthasar Cordier (1592–1650), Belgian theologian
 Baude Cordier (c. 1380–before 1440), French composer
 Charles Henri Joseph Cordier (1827–1905), French sculptor
 David Cordier (born 1959), English countertenor
 Douglas Cordier (born 1953), American politician
 Henri Cordier (1849–1925), French historian, author of comments on Travels of Marco Polo
 Henri Cordier (mountaineer) (1856–1877), French mountaineer
 Jacques Cordier ( – 1653), French dancing master and violinist
 John Cordier (1942–2002), Belgian businessman
 Joseph Cordier (1773–?), Acting Governor General of Pondicherry
 Louis Cordier (1777–1861), French geologist and mineralogist
 Mathurin Cordier (1480–1564) (pen name Corderius), French pedagogue
 Michaël Cordier (born 1984), Belgian footballer
 Nicolas Cordier (1567–1612), sculptor from Lorraine working in Rome
 Noëlle Cordier (born 1944), French singer
 Patrick Cordier (alpinist)
 Patrick Cordier (mineralogist)
 Pierre Cordier (born 1933), Belgian artist
 Thierry De Cordier

French-language surnames
Occupational surnames


Boucher is a French surname.

List of people with surname Boucher

A–G
Adrian Boucher (c. 1760–1804), French architect
Alexandre Boucher (1770–1861), French violinist
Alfred Boucher (1850–1934), French sculptor
Andrée Boucher (1937–2007), Canadian municipal politician
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher (born 1984), Canadian Olympic speed skater
Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), American fiction author
Arthur Boucher (1870–1948), Wales international rugby union player
Billy Boucher (1899–1958), Canadian professional ice hockey player
Brian Boucher (born 1977), American professional ice hockey player
Butterfly Boucher (born 1979), Australian singer-songwriter
Candice Boucher (born 1983), South African model
Céline Boucher (born 1945), Canadian artist
Charles Boucher (disambiguation), multiple people
Charles Boucher de Boucherville (1822–1915), Canadian provincial politician, third Premier of Quebec
Charles Hamilton Boucher (1898–1951), Knighted Major-General in the British Indian Army during World War II
Chris Boucher (writer) (1943–2022), British writer
Chris Boucher (basketball) (born 1993), Saint Lucia-born Canadian basketball player
Claire Boucher (born 1988), Canadian artist; better known as Grimes
Claude Boucher (politician) (born 1942), former member of the Quebec National Assembly
Daniel Boucher (musician) (born 1971), Canadian musician
Daniel Boucher (politician), Canadian municipal politician
David Boucher (born 1980), French road cyclist
Dillon Boucher (born 1975), New Zealand professional basketball player
Donovan Boucher (born 1961), Jamaican/Canadian boxer of the 1980s, '90s and 2000s
Eric Reed Boucher (born 1958), American punk musician, better known as Jello Biafra
Étienne-Alexis Boucher, current member of the Quebec National Assembly, son of Claude Boucher (politician)
Frank Boucher (1902–1977), Canadian professional ice hockey player
François Boucher (1703–1770), French painter
Gaétan Boucher (born 1958), Canadian Olympic speed skater
Gene Boucher (1933–1994), American operatic baritone
Georges Boucher (1896–1960), Canadian professional ice hockey player
Grayson Boucher (born 1984), American professional streetball (basketball variant) entertainer
Guy Boucher (born 1971), Canadian professional ice hockey coach

H–Z
H. A. Boucher (1921–2009), American politician
Hélène Boucher (1908–1934), French pilot
Jack Boucher (1931–2012), American photographer
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868), French geologist and antiquary
James Boucher (disambiguation), multiple people
Jean Boucher (artist) (1870–1939), French sculptor
Jean Boucher (politician) (1926–2011), member of the Canadian house of Commons
Jonathan Boucher (1738–1804), English clergyman, teacher and philologist
Juan Boucher(1984)South African Afrikaans singer and songwriter, founder of BOUCH clothing line.
Judy Boucher (born 1938), Caribbean-English singer
Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville (1825–1869), Canadian lawyer and national politician
Lydia Boucher (1890-1971), Canadian composer
Marcel Boucher (1898–1965), French-American entrepreneur
Marin Boucher (c. 1587 – 1671), French colonist of Quebec, Canada; ancestor to most Bouchers in North America, particularly in Quebec
Mark Boucher (born 1976), South African cricketer
Maurice Boucher (1953–2022), Canadian convicted criminal
Maurice Le Boucher (1882–1964), French organist, composer, and pedagogue
Merle Boucher (born 1946), American state politician
Nick Boucher (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player
Philippe Boucher (born 1973), Canadian professional ice hockey player
Pierre Boucher de la Bruère (1837–1917), Canadian lawyer, journalist, author and provincial politician
Pierre Boucher (1622–1717), French-Canadian clergyman and governor of New France
Richard Boucher (born 1951), American government official
Rick Boucher (born 1946), American national politician
Robert Boucher (disambiguation), multiple people
Ron Boucher, Australian rules footballer
Sandy Boucher (born 1936), American author, Buddhist and feminist
Savannah Smith Boucher (born 1943), American actress
Sebastien Boucher (born 1981), Canadian minor league baseball player
Sherry Boucher (born 1945), American actress
Sylvie Boucher (born 1962), Canadian national politician
Tom Boucher (1873–unknown), English footballer
Zacharie Boucher (born 1992), French footballer

Fictional characters
Bobby Boucher (portrayed by Adam Sandler), protagonist of the 1997 comedy film The Waterboy

See also
Boucher (disambiguation)

French-language surnames
Occupational surnames


Marko Sakari Liias (born July 17, 1981) is an American politician serving as a member of the Washington State Senate, representing the 21st district since 2014. The district, located entirely within Snohomish County, includes portions of Lynnwood and Everett, as well as his hometown of Mukilteo and his native Edmonds. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 2008 to 2014.

Early life and education
Liias graduated from Kamiak High School in Mukilteo before attending Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he served as the president of the Georgetown University College Democrats. While in university, he spent a semester studying in Prague, Czech Republic, during which time he traveled extensively through central Europe. He has also taken graduate courses in public administration at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 2009, Liias completed a John F. Kennedy School of Government program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a David Bohnett LGBTQ Victory Institute Leadership Fellow.

Career

Mukilteo City Council
At the age of 24, Liias was elected to Mukilteo City Council in November 2005, running unopposed. He had previously served on the Snohomish County Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board from 2003 to 2004, and as a member of the Snohomish County Board of Equalization from 2004 to 2006. As a city councilman, he also served as an alternate board member for Community Transit, and as a representative to the Puget Sound Regional Council.

State House
When Rep. Brian Sullivan was elected to Snohomish County Council in November 2007, he resigned his seat in the Washington State Legislature. The Democratic precinct committee officers (PCOs) from the 21st district had the opportunity of selecting his successor, subject to the county council's ratification. With 21 votes, Liias was their first choice, defeating Lynnwood city councilman Mark Smith (16 votes) and Snohomish County Labor Council president Darrell Chapman (15 votes). The council voted unanimously to confirm the choice of the PCOs and appointed Liias to the seat.

After being elected to his first full term in 2008, Liias was selected as the Vice Chair of the House Transportation Committee, one of three budget-writing committees in the House of Representatives. He was also selected to serve on the influential Rules Committee, which plays a critical gatekeeping role in the legislative process. Liias served on three other committees: Education, Agriculture & Natural Resources, and Community & Economic Development & Trade. In January 2011, Liias was reappointed as Vice Chair of the House Transportation Committee, and he was appointed to the Education Committee and the Technology, Energy and Communications Committee.

State Senate
In January 2014, the district state senator, Paull Shin, resigned due in part to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. The Democratic precinct committee officers (PCOs) from the 21st district selected then- Rep. Liias as their sole nominee for the seat. Their choice was confirmed unanimously by the Snohomish County Council and Liias was sworn in as state senator on January 22, 2014.

Congressional candidate
On August 2, 2011, Liias announced he would be a candidate in 2012 for the 1st district seat in the U.S. House held by Congressman Jay Inslee, who retired to mount a successful bid for governor.

As a result of Washington's decennial redistricting process (and the addition of a tenth congressional district), Liias's home was moved out of the 1st congressional district. Liias responded by dropping his congressional campaign on December 29, 2011, and announcing he would seek re-election to the legislature in 2012.

State Treasurer race

On May 19, 2016, Liias announced he was running for State Treasurer. In the primary election held on August 2, 2016, the two Republican candidates placed first and second, with the three Democratic candidates placing third, fourth and fifth. Liias placed third, earning 20% of the vote.

Lieutenant Governor race

Liias ran for Lieutenant Governor of Washington in 2020. He came in second in the primary but was defeated by Denny Heck in the general election.

Elections

Liias was elected to a full term in November 2008. He did not face a Democratic primary challenge but was challenged by a Republican, 18-year-old Andrew Funk, in the general election. Liias prevailed easily, receiving nearly 64% of the vote.

In 2010, Liias was challenged by Republican Elizabeth Scott from Edmonds and won re-election with 54% of the vote. In the 2012 election, Liias won 60% of the vote to defeat Republican challenger Kevin Morrison, a candidate who entered the primary as a write-in but whose name appeared on the general election ballot. He served in the state house until he was appointed and duly sworn in as the district's state senator on January 22, 2014.

Political Positions

LGBTQIA+ rights
Liias supports transgender rights and supports gender-affirming care for youth that identify as transgender. He was the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 5599, which allowed "organizations providing services to unsheltered youth to delay notifying a parent or guardian" if the youth is pursuing gender-affirming health care.

Personal life
Liias is openly gay. He is of Finnish American descent and speaks Finnish.

References

External links
House of Representatives homepage
Campaign website

1981 births
21st-century American politicians
American people of Finnish descent
Democratic Party members of the Washington House of Representatives
Democratic Party Washington (state) state senators
Gay politicians
Georgetown University alumni
LGBT state legislators in Washington (state)
Living people
People from Edmonds, Washington
People from Mukilteo, Washington
Politicians from Everett, Washington
Washington (state) city council members


Amyzon () in Caria (now Mazin, Aydın Province between the villages of Akmescit and Gaffarlar, in Aegean Turkey) was an ancient city 30 km south of modern Koçarlı.

History
The city was in the Athenian alliance in 405 BC.

Under the Seleucids, Amyzon was one of the cities in the  Chrysaorian League of Carian cities that lasted at least until 203 BC, when Antiochus III confirmed the privileges of Amyzon.  The League had a form of reciprocal citizenship whereby a citizen of a member city was entitled to certain rights and privileges in any other member city.

The city was dismissed by Strabo as a mere  ('suburb' or 'township') of Alabanda; Amyzon was mentioned by Pliny, Ptolemy and Hierocles. In the wars among the successors of Alexander, in the 3rd century BC, the city allied with the less immediately threatening power, first with the Ptolemies, then with the Seleucids. In the second city it concluded an alliance with Heracleia under Latmos. On one occasion it sent a delegation to the oracle of Apollo at Clarus. The few coins identified as from the mint at Amyzon are Hellenistic and Imperial Roman.

Remains
A stretch of the city wall stands 6 m high (in fact, the terrace wall of the shrine); inside it are a few ruined and unidentifiable buildings, as well as a row of a dozen large vaulted underground chambers, apparently storerooms. There are also Byzantine structures. Outside the city a series of ruined terraces mark the site of the Doric temple of Artemis, which dates from the time of the Hecatomnids: an architrave block has been found bearing a dedication by Idrieus. Numerous other inscriptions abound.

Amyzon was excavated by Louis Robert. Amyzon was mentioned in the Byzantine lists of bishops. No longer a residential diocese, it is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

Bishopric
Amyzon is a titular see In the province of Caria; a suffragan to Stauropolis. It was a neighbour to the bishopric of Alinda.

Ancient bishops

Philetus fl451

Titular Roman Bishops
Jean Baptiste Gillis (3 Aug 1729 Appointed – 1 Dec 1736 Died)
Charles Alexandre d'Arberg et de Valengin (31 Aug 1767 Appointed – 19 Dec 1785 Confirmed, Bishop of Ypres (Ieper))
Godefroid Philippe Joseph de La Porte,  (29 Nov 1790 Appointed – 9 Aug 1796 Succeeded, Archbishop of Naxos)
Miguel Joaquín Matías Suárez,  (20 Dec 1802 Appointed – 2 May 1831 Died)
Franz Großmann (Grossmann)  (17 Jun 1844 Appointed – 5 May 1852 Died)
Ireneus Frederic Baraga (29 Jul 1853 Appointed – 9 Jan 1857 Appointed, Bishop of Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan)
Józef Twarowski  (3 Aug 1857 Appointed – 19 Jan 1868 Died)
Ildefonso Giovanni Battista Borgna, (24 May 1871 Appointed – 14 Dec 1886 Appointed, Titular Archbishop of Marcianopolis)
Heinrich Feiten  (20 Sep 1887 Appointed – 17 Feb 1892 Died)
Ignacio Ibáñez,  (4 May 1893 Appointed – 14 Oct 1893 Died)
Pio Gaetano Secondo Stella  (22 Dec 1893 Appointed – 21 Sep 1927 Died)
Gabriele Perlo,  (22 Dec 1927 Appointed – 26 Sep 1948 Died)
Charles Dauvin,  (9 Dec 1948 Appointed – 28 Dec 1948 Died)
Baltasar Álvarez Restrepo † (7 May 1949 Appointed – 18 Dec 1952 Appointed, Bishop of Pereira)
Luigi Cicuttini (6 Apr 1953 Appointed – 30 Nov 1956 Appointed, Bishop of Città di Castello)
Antonin Fishta,  (17 Dec 1956 Appointed – 12 Jan 1980 Died)

Notes

Archaeological sites in the Aegean Region
Hellenistic colonies in Anatolia
Ruins in Turkey
Catholic titular sees in Asia
Former populated places in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Aydın Province
History of Aydın Province
Members of the Delian League
Populated places in ancient Caria
Koçarlı District


Ouvrage Oberheid, also called Ouvrage Oberheide, forms a portion of the Fortified Sector of Thionville of the Maginot Line in northeast France. The petit ouvrage d'infanterie is located on a salient point of the Cattenom Forest between the gros ouvrages Kobenbusch (to the north) and Galgenberg (to the south), which provided covering fire during June 1940, when Oberheid faced daily bombardments and infiltrations. Oberheid has been abandoned and after extensive vandalism has been sealed.

Design and construction
Oberheid was surveyed by CORF (Commission d'Organisation des Régions Fortifiées), the Maginot Line's design and construction agency, in 1930. and the position became operational in 1935, at a cost of 8 million francs. It was built by the contractor Verdun-Fortifications.

Description
The single combat block has two firing chambers and a central barracks surmounted by a machine gun turret.  Each firing chamber has a mixed armament of a machine gun and a 37mm anti-tank gun at one embrasure and a machine gun at the other. The ouvrage is surmounted by a machine gun turret and four automatic rifle cloches (GFMs), which provided artillery spotting for the ouvrage Métrich.  The small usine is equipped with two  Baudouin engines.

Manning

The ouvrage possessed a garrison of 78 men of the 168th Fortress Infantry Regiment, under the orders of Lieutenant Pobeau and his assistant, Lieutenant Sépulchre.

History
See Fortified Sector of Thionville for a broader discussion of the events of 1940 in the Thionville sector of the Maginot Line.
Oberheid did not see significant action in  the Battle of France in 1940, nor in the Lorraine Campaign of 1944. In 1940 German infiltrators occupied the surface of Oberheid, requiring suppressing fire to be directed from neighboring Kobenbusch. The Germans largely bypassed the area, advancing along the valley of the Meuse and Saar rivers, threatening the rear of the Thionville sector. The garrison therefore remained in place. Following negotiations, the positions on the left bank of the Moselle finally surrendered to the Germans on 30 June 1940.

Current condition
The French Army continues to control Oberheid.  After extensive vandalism, the entrances have been  buried to prevent access.

See also
 List of all works on Maginot Line
 Siegfried Line
 Atlantic Wall
 Czechoslovak border fortifications

Notes

References

Bibliography
Allcorn, William. The Maginot Line 1928-45. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2003.
Kaufmann, J.E. and Kaufmann, H.W. Fortress France: The Maginot Line and French Defenses in World War II, Stackpole Books, 2006.
Kaufmann, J.E., Kaufmann, H.W., Jancovič-Potočnik, A. and Lang, P. The Maginot Line: History and Guide, Pen and Sword, 2011.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 1. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2001.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 2. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2003.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 3. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2003.
Mary, Jean-Yves; Hohnadel, Alain; Sicard, Jacques. Hommes et Ouvrages de la Ligne Maginot, Tome 5. Paris, Histoire & Collections, 2009.

External links
 Ligne Maginot de Cattenom et environs official site
 Ligne Maginot - Petit Ouvrage Oberheid
 Oberheid at fortiff.be
 Ouvrage de l'Oberheide at wikimaginot.eu
 L'ouvrage de l'Oberheid at alsacemaginot.com
 Petit ouvrage de l'Oberheide at lignemaginot.com

OBEr
Maginot Line


Woodbine Municipal Airport  is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of the central business district of Woodbine, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The airport is owned by the Woodbine Port Authority. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.

Although many U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned OBI by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned OBI to an airport in Óbidos, Pará, Brazil).

Facilities and aircraft
Woodbine Municipal Airport covers an area of 700 acres (283 ha) at an elevation of 42 feet (13 m) above mean sea level. It has two runways with asphalt surfaces: 1/19 is 3,304 by 75 feet (1,007 x 23 m) and 13/31 is 3,073 by 75 feet (937 x 23 m).

For the 12-month period ending January 1, 2011, the airport had 12,375 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 33 per day. At that time there were 68 aircraft based at this airport: 95.6% single-engine, 2.9% ultralight, and 1.5% helicopter.

Med-Trans Corp has a Medevac helicopter based at the airport.

Incidents

On Tuesday October 23, 2018, a Mooney M20C aircraft crashed on the airport field. The pilot, Wayne Rumble of Marmora, was fatally injured. Rumble was an experienced pilot and a certificated flight instructor. He was also the Woodbine airport manager for many years. The FAA and NTSB are conducting an investigation to determine the cause of the accident.

On November 14, 2009, a Piper PA-28R-200, N4499T, was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain about 10 minutes after takeoff from Woodbine Airport. The certificated, private pilot Thaddeus Lasowski, 53, and the passenger Thaddeus Lasowski, 12, both of Dennis Township, were fatally injured.

On June 20, 2008, an amateur-built F1 Rocket, N623BL, which took off from the Woodbine Airport was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain while maneuvering near Belleplain, NJ. The certificated private pilot Dennis McGurk Jr., 37 and passenger Oksana McGurk, 34, both of Mays Landing, NJ, were fatally injured.

On February 7, 2005, an unregistered, amateur built Air Creation Clipper 912 which took off from the Woodbine Airport was destroyed when it impacted terrain near the airfield. The pilot, Gerard Workman, 49, of Tuckahoe, NJ, and Harry Boulden, 52, of Brooklawn, were fatally injured.

See also
 List of airports in New Jersey

References

External links
Woodbine Port Authority
 Woodbine Municipal Airport (OBI) from New Jersey DOT Airport Directory
 Aerial image as of March 1991 from USGS The National Map

Airports in New Jersey
Transportation buildings and structures in Cape May County, New Jersey


The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education is the state's legal structure for providing public education at the collegiate level. It is a coordinated system of colleges and universities located throughout the state.

State System overview
With a current enrollment of more than 247,000 students, the State System consists of 25 colleges and universities (including 2 research universities, 11 regional universities, and 12 community colleges), 11 constituent agencies, and one higher education center. The State System is coordinated by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, and each institution is governed by a board of regents. There are currently three constitutional boards of regents that govern a majority of colleges and universities in the state: the OSU/A&M Board of Regents, the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, and the Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO). In addition, there are 12 statutory boards of regents that govern specific community colleges in the state.

Research universities

Research universities governed by the OSU/A&M Board of Regents
 Oklahoma State University
Research universities governed by the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents
 University of Oklahoma

Regional universities

Regional universities governed by the Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
 Langston University
 Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Regional universities governed by the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents
 Cameron University
 Rogers State University
Regional universities governed by the Regional University System of Oklahoma
 East Central University
 Northeastern State University
 Northwestern Oklahoma State University
 Southeastern Oklahoma State University
 Southwestern Oklahoma State University
 University of Central Oklahoma
Regional university governed by the Board of Regents of the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma
 University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Community colleges

Community colleges governed by OSU/A&M Board of Regents
 Connors State College
 Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College
Community colleges governed by a college-specific statutory governing board
 Carl Albert State College
 Eastern Oklahoma State College
 Murray State College
 Northern Oklahoma College
 Oklahoma City Community College
 Redlands Community College
 Rose State College
 Seminole State College
 Tulsa Community College
 Western Oklahoma State College

Constituent agencies

Constituent agencies of Oklahoma State University
 OSU-Oklahoma City
 OSU-Tulsa
OSU Agricultural Experiment Station
 OSU Center for Health Sciences
 OSU College of Veterinary Medicine
 OSU Cooperative Extension Service
 OSU Institute of Technology, Okmulgee
Constituent agencies of the University of Oklahoma
 OU - Tulsa
OU Geological Survey
 OU Health Sciences Center
 OU Law Center

Higher education programs/sites

 Greater Oklahoma City Downtown Consortium
 Langston University, Oklahoma City
 Northern Oklahoma College, Stillwater
 University Center at Ponca City
University Center of Southern Oklahoma

References

Public education in Oklahoma
1941 establishments in Oklahoma


Harem pants or harem trousers are baggy, long pants caught in at the ankle. Early on, the style was also called a harem skirt. The original so-called 'harem pants/skirts' were introduced to Western fashion by designers such as Paul Poiret around 1910, although they themselves were inspired by Middle East styles, and by şalvar (Turkish trousers). The term 'harem pants' subsequently became popular in the West as a generic term for baggy trousers caught in at the ankle that suggest the Turkish style, or similar styles such as bloomers, the South Asian shalwar and patiala salwar; the Bosnian dimije; sirwal (as worn by Zouaves); and the Ukrainian sharovary.

Early 20th century

In 1911 the Paris couturier Paul Poiret introduced harem pants as part of his efforts to reinvent and 'liberate' Western female fashion. His "Style Sultane" included the jupe-culotte or harem pant, made with full legs tied in at the ankle. Alternative names for the harem skirt/pants included jupe-sultane (sultan skirt), and jupe-pantalon (trouser-skirt). These designs were seen as controversial as Western women typically did not wear trousers. Poiret's explicit exoticism and references to Middle Eastern styles, using the imagery of harems and sultans to establish his Orientalist style, was widely regarded as immoral and inappropriately sexualised. Poiret himself insisted that he designed harem pants for the chic woman to show off "the harmony of her form and all the freedom of her native suppleness." Adam Geczy suggests that harem pants, as a direct cultural appropriation, represent the point at which Western fashion began seriously challenging traditional cultural claims to their own styles. Despite the fierce criticism from other designers such as Jeanne Paquin who specifically criticised how harem pants slumped rather than tapered at the ankle (unlike the hobble skirt), it was noted that Paquin's own collections showed signs of having been influenced by the new styles. Although Poiret is often credited with single-handedly inventing trousers for Western women, the couturier Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix presented wide-legged trousers in 1910, and a fellow couturier, Bourniche, is also credited with designing such styles at the time.

Late 20th century

Harem pants came back into fashion in the 1980s, when they were remembered for being 'costumey.' A version of harem pants popularized in the late 1980s by M. C. Hammer became known as Hammer pants.

Contemporary harem pants
Harem pants are commonly worn with a pleated skirt—a short skirt that covers the top portion of the harem pants. Both harem pants and pleated skirts are commonly used in belly dancing. Harem pants are also used as a look alike for a dhoti in India.

See also
 Bloomers
 Hakama
 Parachute pants

References

External links

 Stylish HAREM PANTS – DIY pattern to sew them, wwwe.sewguide.ocm

Trousers and shorts
1910s fashion
1980s fashion
2010s fashion

de:Haremshose
ru:Шаровары


This is a list of state prisons in Texas.

The list includes only those facilities under the supervision of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and includes some facilities operated under contract by private entities to TDCJ.  It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.

Facilities operated by the TDCJ

Prisons
Region I

Eastham Unit
Ellis Unit
W.J. Estelle Unit
Ferguson Unit
Thomas Goree Unit
Huntsville Unit – Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville
Gib Lewis Unit
Allan B. Polunsky Unit
Wynne Unit

Region II
George Beto Unit
William R. Boyd Unit
Coffield Unit
Mark W. Michael Unit
Louie C. Powledge Unit
Barry Telford Unit

Region III
Clemens Unit
Darrington Unit
L.V. Hightower Unit
Jester III Unit (formerly Harlem III)
Ramsey Unit (formerly W. F. Ramsey I Unit)
Mark W. Stiles Unit
Richard P. LeBlanc Unit
Stringfellow Unit (formerly W. F. Ramsey II Unit)
Terrell Unit (formerly W. F. Ramsey III Unit)
Carol Vance Unit (formerly Harlem II and Jester II)

Region IV
Dolph Briscoe Unit
John B. Connally Unit
James Lynaugh Unit
William G. McConnell Unit
Clarence N. Stevenson Unit
Ruben M. Torres Unit

Region V
James V. Allred Unit
William P. "Bill" Clements Unit
Dalhart Unit
Price Daniel Unit
Rufe Jordan Unit
Nathaniel J. Neal Unit
It was previously the only unit for women in West Texas. In 1997 the TDCJ proposed changing it into a men's unit.
T.L. Roach, Jr. Unit (Includes a Boot Camp)
Preston E. Smith Unit
Daniel Webster Wallace Unit

Region VI
Crain Unit (Female) (Formerly the Gatesville Unit)
Hilltop Unit (Female)
William P. Hobby Unit (Female)
Alfred D. Hughes Unit
O.L. Luther Unit
Mountain View Unit (Female)
Dr. Lane Murray Unit (Female)
Wallace Pack Unit
French M. Robertson Unit

State jails

Region II
 Buster Cole State Jail
 Hutchins State Jail
Region III
 Larry Gist State Jail
 Dempsie Henley State Jail (Female)
 Pam Lychner State Jail (originally Atascocita Unit)
 Lucille G. Plane State Jail (Female)
Region IV
 Fabian Dale Dominguez State Jail
 Renaldo V. Lopez State Jail
 Joe Ney State Jail (originally the Hondo Unit)
 Rogelio Sanchez State Jail
Region V
 Marshall Formby State Jail
 J.B. Wheeler State Jail
Region VI
 Travis County State Jail
 Linda Woodman State Jail (Female)

Transfer facilities
Region I
 Glen Ray Goodman Unit
 Joe F. Gurney Unit
 Reverend C.A. Holliday Unit
Region II
 Choice Moore Unit
Region III
 Cotulla Unit
 Fort Stockton Unit
 Garza East Unit (Originally Chase Field East Unit)
 Garza West Unit (Originally Chase Field West Unit)
Region V
 Jim Rudd Unit, named for former State Representative Jim Rudd of Brownfield
 Tulia Unit
 Dick Ware Unit
Region VI
 Marlin Unit
 John W. Middleton Unit
 San Saba Unit

Medical facilities

Region III
 Hospital Galveston (Co-gender)
 Carole S. Young Medical Facility Complex (Female) (formerly Texas City Regional Medical Unit)

Pre-release facilities

Region III
 Richard J. LeBlanc Unit
Region IV
 Manuel A. Segovia Unit
Region VI
 Hamilton Unit
 Thomas Havins Unit

Substance abuse felony punishment facilities

Region II
 Clyde M. Johnston Unit
Region III
 Jester I Unit
Region IV
 Ernestine Glossbrenner Unit
Region VI
 Ellen Halbert Unit (Female)
 Walker Sayle Unit

Psychiatric facilities

Region II
 Skyview Unit (Co-gender)
Region III
 Wayne Scott Unit (formerly Beauford H. Jester IV Unit), renamed in 2021
Region V
 Montford Psychiatric Unit

Geriatric facilities

Region I
 Rufus H. Duncan Geriatric Facility

Mentally challenged offender program
Region II
 Jerry H. Hodge Unit

Privately operated facilities

Private prisons
 Bridgeport Unit
 Cleveland Unit
 Diboll Unit
 Estes Unit (Previously the Venus Unit)
 Kyle Unit (previously known as the Kyle New Vision Unit)
 Lockhart Unit (female only)
 Billy Moore Unit

Private state jails
 Bartlett State Jail (closed)
 Bradshaw State Jail
 Jesse R. Dawson Unit (Co-gender; closed)
 John R. Lindsey Unit
 Willacy County State Jail

Private pre-parole transfer facilities
 Bridgeport Unit
 Mineral Wells Unit

Private work programs
 Lockhart Unit

Private multi-use facilities
 East Texas Multi-Use Facility (Co-gender)

Parole confinement facilities
Region III
Joe Kegans State Jail
Region V
 William P. "Bill" Baten Unit
Private
 Burnet Unit (Co-gender)
 South Texas Unit (Closed)
 West Texas Unit

Former facilities
 Bowie County Unit
 Central Unit (Closed 2011)
 Dickens County Unit
 Don Hutto Unit
 Jefferson County Unit
 Gregg County Unit
 Limestone County Unit
 North Texas Intermediate Sanctions Facility (closed 2011)
 Retrieve Unit (later Wayne Scott Unit) - Main prison closed in 2020
 Western Regional Medical Unit

References

External links
 Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Texas

Prisons