The following is a list of nicknames of national association football teams.

FIFA teams

AFC (Asia)

CAF (Africa)

CONCACAF (North/Central America & Caribbean)

CONMEBOL (South America)

OFC (Oceania)

UEFA (Europe)

Non-FIFA and former teams

See also
 Glossary of association football terms
 List of men's national association football teams
 List of women's national association football teams

Nickname
National


Next is an album by Soulive that was released on March 12, 2002. It was produced by Jeff Krasno.

Next brought a new chapter into the history of Soulive, and it marked the first time that the band toured as a quartet (with saxophonist Sam Kininger). Next built upon the success of the previous year's release, Doin' Something, with heavy driving beats and harmonized melodies.  Next mirrored the great organ/guitar/sax era of the 60's, and built upon that 60's feel with reminiscent songs like "Tuesday Night's Squad" and "Alkime".  Next also depicted a substantial hip-hop influence with rappers like Black Thought, featured on "Clap!", and Talib Kweli, featured on "Bridge to 'Bama (Hi Tek Remix)".  Dave Matthews was also a guest on the track "Joyful Girl".

Track listing
"Tuesday Night's Squad"  – 7:23
"Flurries"  – 5:55
"Liquid"  – 6:38
"Joyful Girl" (featuring Dave Matthews)  – 6:16
"Kalen"  – 7:39
"Clap!" (featuring Black Thought) – 5:21
"Interlude"  – 1:10
"Ne-Ne"  – 8:06
"I Don't Know" (featuring Amel Larrieux) – 5:09
"Whatever It Is"  – 4:30
"Alkime"  – 7:01
"E.D. Hambone"  – 5:05
"Bridge to 'Bama (Hi Tek Remix)" (featuring Talib Kweli) – 4:36

2002 albums
Blue Note Records albums
Soulive albums


Thomas Boissy is a French singer and songwriter who mixes Acoustic, Folk, Pop and Rock music. He lives in Paris, France. He started singing in musicals in the Folies Bergère and on French TV. In October 2007, he signed up to Sellaband and in February 2008 he reached the goal of US$50,000 to produce his own CD.

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French male singer-songwriters
French singer-songwriters


AI2 may refer to:

 Adventure Island II
 Allen Institute for AI
 App Inventor 2


Bull–bear line is the index average line that indicates bull market or bear market in stock market.

Overview
The 250-day moving average line of certain index for previous 250 trading days is treated to be the bull–bear line, which provides reference value for mid-term and long-term investment. If the current index drops below the bull–bear line, some investors believe the market has turned bearish from bullish. If the current index rises above the line, some investors believe the market has turned bullish from bearish.

Financial analysts have different opinions on the bull–bear line. Some believed the 250-day moving average is not the "bull–bear line". According to Dow Theory by Charles Dow, an American journalist, bull market and bear market are defined by investors' mindset. Bull market develops under extremely optimistic situations, while bear market develops under extremely pessimistic situations. There is no limitation on the duration of either market. Investors should bear in mind the transition between bull and bear markets is unpredictable, and determined after the fact.

References

Stock market
Technical analysis


Cash or share option is a specialized form of warrant where the settlement is either cash or physical delivery of shares depending if the option expires in the money or out of the money.

Normally, the holder of the certificate receives the exercise price in cash when option is in the money, that is price of the underlying at expiry is equal or above the exercise price, and physical delivery of the underlying when the option is out of the money, that is the price of the underlying at expiry is below the exercise price. Then the holder is the one giving the option.

Options (finance)
Equity securities


Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie (29 May 1805, Place Dauphine, Paris – 5 August 1871, Balbins, Isère) was a French engineer. He was the son of Martin Pierre Gallocher de Lagalisserie and Marie Delphine Théodore Ménager.

Notable projects
 Pont de l'Alma (1856)
 Pont des Invalides (1856)
 Pont Saint-Michel (1857)
 Pont au Change (1860)
 Pont de Solférino (1861)

Sources
This page is a translation of its French equivalent.

1805 births
1871 deaths
French bridge engineers
Engineers from Paris


Paranapiacaba is a district of the municipality of Santo André in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is located approximately  by road southeast of the centre of the city of São Paulo, and about  east of Rio Grande da Serra. The word paranapiacaba means "where you will find the sea" in Tupi. There are about 1,200 residents.

Paranapiacaba was established as a company town for the employees of São Paulo Railway, a privately owned British railway company. A large industrial complex, which the district is known for, lies off the main road from Rio Grande da Serra, on the way into the main village. The growth of this centre was facilitated by the railway, transporting cargo and people from São Paulo Interior to the port of Santos. The village design has been characterized as being panoptic.

Geography

The village is located on a slope opposite Santo André, approximately  by road southeast of the centre of the city of São Paulo, and about  east of Rio Grande da Serra. The industrial complex, larger than the village itself, however, lies just several kilometres to the southeast of Rio Grande da Serra. The village is located amidst the Serra do Mar coastal forests, in the south coast, at the highest point of the area, and hence it came to be known as “a place to view the sea” in Tupi-Guarani language. The Mata Atlantica around the town provides ample opportunities for hiking into the forest of the Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar where orchids and bromelias are major attractions. Agriculture and grazing farms are situated to the west while the nearby mountains reach elevations of .

Rail connections can be made to Paranapiacaba from Estação da Luz, one of the four stations in São Paulo. The nearest international airport is the Cumbica at Guarulhos, outside São Paulo. MRS Logística used electric traction between Paranapiacaba and Raiz de Serra.

History

Vila de Paranapiacaba was established during the middle of the 19th century; it was designed according to the prison model style developed by Jeremy Bentham. It was founded by the British-owned São Paulo Railway Company. The construction of this zig-zag railway line in the hilly local terrain was considered a feat by the British engineers and workers at the time. The town was built when the company built the railway line to export coffee beans from the area through the port of Santos. The village prospered for 30 years, until automated machinery replaced the funicular, which was labor-intensive. The village's population suddenly declined and many of its buildings were abandoned. At one time, there were 4,000 workers, most of them British citizens. The last steam train in Paranapiacaba was deactivated for labor work in 1982.

City design

Paranapiacaba was designed in a special model style. Because of its remoteness, the town has been well preserved. The buildings were all of English style (even the large homes were of Victorian style) built with wood and bricks. The houses in the town are all made of timber and looks like a mofussil area of Surrey. The town was laid out in the 1890s in a grid pattern. Even though Brazil attained independence in 1822, its architectural styles were influenced by Portuguese colonizers and by the British. The town is stated as having more English architecture than perhaps anywhere else in the country.

Notable landmarks

The District of Paranapiacaba is known for its large industrial complex, which lies off the main road from Rio Grande da Serra, on the way into the main village, but is actually nearer Rio Grande da Serra. The growth of this industrial centre was facilitated by the railway, transporting goods to the port of Santos. The railway station's clock tower is based on Big Ben in London. The locomotive stations, old British carriages and steam engines, cable station (funicular type), and workers' cottages are all well preserved and form part of the museum which is open to the public.

On the hill top above the village is the old Victorian style Castilino, w
once the residence of the Chief Engineer of the Railways, which is now a museum known as the Centro Preservacao da Historia de Paranpiacaba, where old railway line maps and photographs are displayed. The museum has elegant furnishings and provides views of its surroundings. In the 1980s, a working steam engine from the turn of the 20th century ran several times a day, originally used to pull inclined trains from the coast. Visitors can view the working parts and watch them while the engine is running. Recivitas (Instituto pela Revitalização da Cidadania) created a free toy center and library here. The Funicular de Paranapiacaba railway museum was established in 1970, and today is one of the biggest attractions in the district. The Clube União Lira Serrano is also of note, and was founded in 1930 as a social club for the railway operators. The parish church, Capela do Alto da Serra or Igreja matriz de Paranapiacaba, opened for the first time on August 8, 1884.

Preservation

In order to preserve the heritage status of Paranapiacaba as a well-preserved railway town, the government of Brazil decreed it to be a historic district and initiated further steps to preserve its heritage status and encourage its development as a suburb of São Paulo and to promote tourism. The objective of this project is to preserve the natural, cultural, and industrial heritage and ensure economic progress of the town in particular and the region as a whole.

The site was included in the 2000 and 2002 World Monuments Watch (WMW) by the World Monuments Fund, calling for investments to revitalize the village. With funding from American Express the Fund helped local stakeholders implement this effort. By 2008, the conservation efforts of the WMW team were successful in restoring Casa Fox (the Archive), the Castelinho (now a museum), the Lyra Serrano Club, and the Old Market. Further restoration works are continuing. The town has witnessed a dramatic change in its environment with much improved facilities also resulting in economic progress of the area.

References

External links
 Reflexiones en torno a la conservación integrada, compartida y participativa del paisaje cultural. El caso de Paranapiacaba.

Neighbourhoods in São Paulo (state)
Company towns


Carl Barton Huffaker (September 30, 1914 in Monticello, Kentucky – October 10, 1995 in Lafayette, California) was an American biologist, ecologist and agricultural entomologist.

Huffaker graduated from the University of Tennessee (1938 B.S., 1939 M.S.) then gaining a PhD from Ohio State University in 1942. Huffaker was one of the first entomologists to study the use of DDT to control mosquito populations. After working as a medical entomologist in Colombia, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic he was recruited by Harry Scott Smith in 1946 to work as an assistant entomologist for the Division of Biological Control of the University of California. Huffaker's first assignment was the control of Klamath weed, particularly the use of Chrysolina quadrigemina. He remained at Berkeley until his retirement in 1984.

He published more than 200 scientific papers and edited and contributed to books "citation classics" in population ecology, biological control, and integrated pest management. Examples are Theory and Practice of Biological Control (1976) and Ecological Entomology (1984). He also conducted a notable experiment on predator–prey population dynamics in mites in 1958.

Huffaker was a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America served as its President and was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

He was awarded the Louis E. Levy Medal in 1976.

References

External links
Biography at National Academy Press. Includes biography.
 Citation Classic
Center for Biological Control
Leopoldo E. Caltagirone and Donald L. Dahlsten, "Carl Barton Huffaker", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (1998)

American entomologists
1914 births
1995 deaths
Wolf Prize in Agriculture laureates
People from Monticello, Kentucky
University of Tennessee alumni
Ohio State University alumni
20th-century American zoologists
Presidents of the Entomological Society of America


St. Sebastian’s Church
St. Sebastian's Church, Udayamperoor, Syro-Malabar Catholic Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church), is situated  south of Thripunithura, a historical and traditional place in Ernakulam District, Kerala state, South India and  north of Poothotta, the border of Ernakulam and Kottayam districts, near Vembanad lake.  Udayamperoor is a historically significant place, where the Synod of Diamper in 1599 held at All Saints Church, Udayamperoor (Old) is very near to this church.

The feast of Jesus, Mary and St. John the Baptist and St. Sebastian is celebrated every year on the first Sunday after the feast of Dhanaha(January 6). The Parish has the history of service in the field of education. An English Medium School started here in 2002 instead of Malayalam medium unaided school for the need of the people.

History
A Christian community called ‘Nazranis’ (the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth) was formed at Kodungaloor. A group of 72 families from Syria and Mesopotamia under the leadership of Knanayi Thoma, a disciple of Thomas the Apostle, migrated to Kodungaloor in 345 AD. Later they moved to different parts of Kerala like Udayamperoor, Kottayam, etc. St. Sebastian's Church was established in 1893, by a group of parishioners under the leadership of Fr. Yohannan Manickanamparambil. The parishioners separated themselves from St. John the Baptist Church, South Parur established in 802 AD.

In the beginning, the sacraments were administered in a school hall and later a new church was built here with the cooperation of the parishioners. Many renovations took place in different periods. The centenary was celebrated in 1993. A new church was built and consecrated on 6 January 2005 by Mar Thomas Chakkiath (Auxiliary bishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly). The relics of St. Sebastian, the martyr and Patron Saint of the parish, were brought from Rome by Mar Sebastian Adayantharath (Auxiliary bishop of Ernakulam- Angamaly).

References

External links
 Official Website
 Saint Sebastian
 History of udayamperoor

1893 establishments in India
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1893
Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly
Eastern Catholic churches in Kerala
Churches in Ernakulam district
Syro-Malabar Catholic church buildings
Saint Sebastian


The passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, formerly known as passerelle Solférino (or pont de Solférino), is a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.  It is served by the Metro station Assemblée Nationale.

The first bridges
For a century, a cast iron bridge inaugurated by Napoleon III in 1861 allowed vehicles to cross between quai Anatole-France and quai des Tuileries. Built by the engineers of the Pont des Invalides, Paul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie and Jules Savarin, it was named after the June 1859 French victory of the Battle of Solferino. Having weakened over time (particularly due to barges crashing into it), it was demolished and replaced in 1961 with a steel footbridge, which was demolished in 1992.

The present bridge

The new passerelle de Solférino linking the Musée d'Orsay and the Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Gardens) was built between 1997 and 1999 under the direction of the engineer and architect Marc Mimram.  Crossing the Seine with a single span and no piers, this metallic bridge is architecturally unique and covered in exotic woods (ipê, a Brazilian tree also used for outdoor flooring at the Bibliothèque nationale de France) which gives it a light and warm appearance.  Its solidity is, however, never in doubt - at either end, its foundations are in the form of concrete pillars extending 15m into the ground, and the structure itself is made up of six 150 tonne components built by the Eiffel engineering company, Eiffel Constructions métalliques.  Its innovative architecture brought Marc Mimram the award "Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent" for the year 1999.

The bridge also has benches and lampposts for promenaders who can reach the Jardin des Tuileries through a subterranean passage on the Rive Droite.

The bridge was renamed after Léopold Sédar Senghor on 9 October 2006 on the centenary of his birth.

References

External links

  Site of Marc Mimram
  Press communiqué on the inauguration in 1999
  Mmairie de Paris site
  Structurae: Passerelle Solférino
  Satellite view on Google Maps
  A Paris, Solférino s'efface au profit de Senghor, article on 20 minutes.

Bridges over the River Seine in Paris
Buildings and structures in the 7th arrondissement of Paris
Arch bridges
Pedestrian bridges in France
1861 establishments in France


James v Redcats (Brands) Ltd [2007] IRLR 296 is a  legal case in the United Kingdom on the definition of a worker under the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. The Employment Appeal Tribunal held that lack of "mutuality of obligation" does not affect the status of being an employee, and therefore coverage under the 1998 Act.

Facts
Ms James worked for Redcats (Brands) Ltd, a postal company, as a courier. She was making a claim that she was not being paid a minimum wage, and as a preliminary point, it needed to be determined whether she was a "worker" under s 54(3) of the 1998 Act. Redcats argued that she was "self-employed" and therefore not protected by the legislation.

Ms James used her own car to deliver parcels. Redcats set delivery deadlines and gave detailed instructions on how to carry out her duties. The first tribunal held there was only a contract for services (i.e. self-employed) not of service (i.e. not a 'worker') because there was no so called "mutuality of obligation". Redcats did not promise her any particular amount of work, said the tribunal and she could always decline it. At the Employment Appeal Tribunal Ms James argued this was simply untrue and there was an obligation to accept work.

Judgment
Elias J found in favour of Ms James. She was indeed a worker, and even if there was a lack of mutuality of obligation, this did not matter to the status of a person when work was being done. Even if a person is doing small contractual stints, and there was no overarching contract, there could still be an employment relationship (following McMeechan v Secretary of State for Employment [1997] ICR 549).

The case was remitted to the tribunal, on this guidance, to determine the case afresh.

See also

UK labour law

Notes

United Kingdom wages case law
Employment Appeal Tribunal cases
2007 in United Kingdom case law


Kurt Frederic Kaiser (December 17, 1934November 12, 2018) was an American contemporary church music composer and arranger.

Biography
Kurt Kaiser was born on December 17, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the third child born to Elizabeth (née Seumper) and Otto Kaiser who were committed Plymouth Brethren. His father was born in Rheinland, Germany, and his mother was born in Westfalen, Germany. Kaiser studied at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago while earning two degrees from Northwestern University. Kurt grew up performing throughout the city of Chicago. As early as 12 years of age, he was playing piano and organ for live radio on WMBI. At 15, Kurt spent more than a year in Billings, Montana, doing live radio on KGHL. While there he accompanied musicians, played for revivals and church events throughout the Northwest.

Kurt met his future bride, Patricia Anderson, during this period and married her in 1956. After his time in Billings, Kaiser spent a year and a half traveling with basso Bill Carle before entering the American Conservatory of Music at age eighteen.

Kaiser joined Word, Inc. in 1959 as Director of Artists and Repertoire, and later became Vice President and Director of Music. With more than 300 copyrighted songs, he arranged and produced albums for many national and international artists, among them George Beverly Shea, Jerome Hines, Burl Ives, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Ethel Waters, Ken Medema, Joni Eareckson Tada, Anne Martindale Williams, Christopher Adkins & Stephen Nielson, Christopher Parkening, and Kathleen Battle.

Kaiser led innumerable choral workshops, performed concerts, and recorded eighteen solo albums at the piano. He received a Dove Award for his piano album, Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs on the Sparrow label.

For over 50 years, Kaiser influenced modern day church music and helped usher in a new era in American Christian music. Crossing denominational boundaries, his compositions have found their way into many church hymnals. Kaiser and composer Ralph Carmichael co-wrote the first broadly popular youth musical, Tell It Like It Is, sparking an explosion of popularity in this new genre of contemporary Christian music. Several other Carmichael–Kaiser musicals followed as churches, colleges, and universities recognized their value in conveying the Christian faith to a new generation. Kaiser continued to achieve subtle trend changes by maintaining sensitivity to music already widely accepted by the church, while managing to move into new and unexplored areas that have broadened the realm of worshipful, sacred music. Best known for the songs "Pass It On" and "Oh How He Loves You and Me," Kaiser continued to compose traditional church music. His timeless compositions helped insure that music in its purest form will continue to be embraced in the church worship experience. "The Lost Art of Listening" project has been hailed as one of the finest recorded works available today. The melody of "Pass It On" was used for a popular German hymn of similar content, "Ins Wasser fällt ein Stein".

During the past five decades, Kaiser copyrighted more than 300 songs, one of the latest being a Christmas piece, "One Quiet Night," that was premiered by the Waco Symphony. In 1999, Kaiser traveled to Sweden at the request of the U.S. Ambassador to perform with a string quartet and soloist at a gala Christmas gathering of guests and dignitaries at the Museum of History in Stockholm.

In 1992, Kaiser was awarded a special Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for his contributions to the Christian music industry. In November 2001, he was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and received the Faithfulness in Service award in 2003. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Sacred Music degree from Trinity College in Illinois and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters degree from Baylor University. Baylor also presented him with the Pro Ecclesia award in 2017. Through the years, Kaiser enjoyed his associations with the Baylor University music programs and the five years he conducted the Baylor Religious Hour Choir.

Kaiser served as president of the Waco Symphony Association and was a board member for the Christian Music Publishers Association as well as the Gospel Music Association. From 1959 until his death, Kurt and his wife Pat resided in Waco, Texas. They had four children, ten grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.

Death
Kaiser died on November 12, 2018 in Waco after struggling with ongoing health problems.

Discography
1959: Kurt Kaiser Piano (Word  W 3093-LP/WST 8035-LP)
1962: Preludes to Faith (Word W-3157-LP/WST-8095-LP)
1963: Hymntime Sing-Along (Word W-3176-LP/ WST 8110-LP)
1965: From London...Kurt Kaiser's Sweeping Strings (Word W-3301-LP/WST-8301-LP)
1965: Master Designer (Word W 3322-LP/ WST 8322-LP)
1966: Hymns of Prayer (Word W-3227/ WST-8327-LP)
1972: Kurt Kaiser: Pass it On (Word WST-8562-LP)
1975: An Offering (Word WST-8679-LP)
1979: Just For You: Loving Adventure with God (Word WSB-8728 LP)
1987: Alone with the Music (Word 701-90460196 CD)
1990: "Come Away" with Jenni Till (Kurt Kaiser Music)
1991: The Lost Art of Listening (Word 701-9329-609-CD)
1993: Christmas Favorites (Sparrow)
1994: Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Sparrow)
2005: Kaiser: Emmanuel, Fantasie for Violin and Orchestra (Kurt Kaiser Music)
2013  ''Legacy (Kurt Kaiser Music)

References

 Callaham, Mike : David Ewards: Patrice Eyries  "Word Album Discographies"
 Hall, John  "The Baptist Standard"
 Kurt Kaiser website
 Smith Creek Music
 Word Label Group
 Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
 Alliance Music
 FredBock.com
 Carianne
 Bill Pearce interview
 Kurt Kaiser interview
 GMA Hall of Fame
 Article about Kurt Kaiser
 Kurt Kaiser Dove Award Source
 Scholarship set up in the name of Kurt & Pat Kaiser
 Credit to Bach Cantatas and Baylor University for much of this writing

External links
Kurt Kaiser Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2014)

2018 deaths
1934 births
American gospel singers
American people of German descent
Singers from Chicago
American male singer-songwriters
20th-century American singer-songwriters
Northwestern University alumni
American Conservatory of Music alumni
20th-century American male singers
Singer-songwriters from Illinois


Hugo Palma-Ibarra (June 11, 1942) is a Nicaraguan artist.

Biography
Palma-Ibarra was born in Managua, Nicaragua in 1942. His father, Idelfonso Palma Martínez, a doctor, and his mother, Inés Ibarra de Palma, from Bluefields; he has 4 sisters and 2 brothers. His younger brother, Ricardo Palma, is a guitarist and composer. He attended the "La Salle" Pedagogical Institute in Managua where he studied for Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate. Palma-Ibarra later spent 1960-1977 in Italy where he attended and studied medicine at the University of Florence, studied painting at the  in Via San Giacomo, Rome, and took art and history courses at the Academy of San Marcos.

Palma-Ibarra has exhibited his works in the Italo-Latin American Institute in Rome, at Galleria Magenta 52 in Milan, the 49th edition Venice Biennale, and the 10th Quadriennale in Rome.

In 1992 Palma-Ibarra inaugurated the Galería El Aguila, and the Museo Fundación Hugo Palma-Ibarra in 2004, both in Managua, Nicaragua.

His most recent exhibition in 2016 was staged at the Casa Derbyshire del Centro de Arte de la Fundación Ortiz Gurdián de León in Nicaragua in 2016.

Awards and recognition

Sinigaglia-Unitá Awards in Florence, Italy, 1967.
Silver Medal, Prize of the City in Lucca, Italy, 1970.
Silver Medal, Prize of the City in Florence, Italy, 1971.
Special Award, Silver Cup, City of Colleferro in Rome, Italy, 1973.
Gold Medal, Viareggio Award in Pisa, Italy, 1974.
First Prize- Naturaleza 96 in Managua, Nicaragua, 1996.
Second Prize, First Biennale of Nicaraguan Art in Managua, Nicaragua, 1997.
Recognized as "Citizen of the 20th Century" by the Comisión 2000 in Managua, Nicaragua.

References

Further reading

 Hugo Palma Ibarra
 Clásico y moderno- Hugo Palma-Ibarra
 De la espátula al texto; Pintura de Hugo Palma-Ibarra
 Sensibilidad y Oficio
 Armonía de caprichos en Hugo Palma-Ibarra
 Semblanza mística de Hugo Palma Ibarra

Nicaraguan artists
People from Managua
1942 births
Living people


Harry Ernest Wilson (28 May 1896 – 11 August 1979) was a New Zealand hurdler who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and at the 1919 Inter-Allied Games in Paris. In 1920 he finished fourth in the 110 metre hurdles competition. He was the Olympic flag bearer for New Zealand in 1920.

Early life and family
Wilson was born in Wellington on 28 May 1896, the son of Thomas and Ann Maria Wilson. He was educated at Berhampore School, and then at Wellington College between 1911 and 1912. On 20 September 1920 he married Sybil Elizabeth Hippsley at Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, England, and the couple went on to have four children.

Military service
After the outbreak of World War I, Wilson travelled to England as a civilian and worked on munitions. Between 1917 and 1919, he served with the New Zealand Field Artillery (NZFA) and, after the Armistice, in the Pay Corps in London. During World War II he was a second lieutenant in the New Zealand Territorial Force.

Athletics
In all, Wilson won nine New Zealand national athletics titles between 1915 and 1923: the 100 yards and 220 yards titles in 1922; the 120 yards hurdles in 1920, 1921 and 1923; and the 440 yards hurdles in 1915, 1920, 1921 and 1923.

While serving with the NZFA in France, Wilson competed at a meet at the base in Étaples, winning the 100 yards, 220 yards, 120 yards hurdles, long jump, high jump, and cricket ball throw. In 1919 he was a member of the New Zealand team that competed in the Inter-Allied Games in Paris, and finished third in the 120 yards hurdles behind the Americans Robert Simpson and Fred Kelly. Later in 1919, Wilson won the 120 yards hurdles at the British Army championship meeting at Aldershot, and went on to win the British national championship over the same distance at Stamford Bridge, London.

After winning the 120 yards hurdles at the 1920 Australasian athletics championship, Wilson was one of four members of the New Zealand team at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, and was the team's flagbearer. Competing in the 110 m hurdles, Wilson finished fourth in the final, 0.5 m behind the bronze medal winner.

Wilson broke his leg while competing at the Australasian championship meeting at Hobart in 1924.

References

External links

1896 births
1979 deaths
People educated at Wellington College (New Zealand)
Athletes from Wellington City
New Zealand male hurdlers
Olympic athletes for New Zealand
Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics
New Zealand military personnel of World War I
New Zealand military personnel of World War II


July Days is the 16th Our Gang short subject comedy released. The Our Gang series (later known as "The Little Rascals") was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944.

Plot
A new family moves into town. Mickey immediately falls in love with the family's daughter, Mary, and tries whatever he can to gain her affections. He tries taking her for a ride on his goat-powered wagon, and later dresses up as a knight. In the interim, the village blacksmith, "Dad" Anderson, receives a lucrative contract to produce a creation of his: a sail-propelled scooter. The gang is lucky enough to get a hold of a few of these scooters, and happily sail down the city streets.

Production notes
In July Days, Mary and Jackie are siblings while Jack is the neighborhood bully.

When the television rights for the original silent Pathé Exchange Our Gang comedies were sold to National Telepix and other distributors, several episodes were retitled. This film was released into TV syndication as Mischief Makers in 1960 under the title Puppy Love. Two-thirds of the original film was included.

Cast

The Gang
 Joe Cobb as Joe
 Jackie Condon as Jackie
 Mickey Daniels as Mickey
 Jack Davis as Jack
 Allen Hoskins as Farina
 Mary Kornman as Mary
 Ernie Morrison as Ernie
 Dinah the Mule as Herself

Additional cast
 Julia Brown as Girl with freckles
 Richard Daniels as Dad Anderson
 William Gillespie as Businessman
 Leona Levin as Playmate of bullied girl

External links

1923 films
1923 comedy films
Hal Roach Studios short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Robert F. McGowan
Our Gang films
1923 short films
1920s American films
Silent American comedy films


The Bío Bío Canal (Canal del Bío Bío) is one of the largest irrigation canals in Chile. It is located in Bío Bío Province and takes water from Bío Bío river south to the area of Mulchén for use in agriculture.

Buildings and structures in Biobío Region
Canals in Chile
Irrigation canals
Irrigation in Chile


The Royal Teens were an American rock and roll band that formed in New Jersey in 1956 and originally consisted of Bob Gaudio on piano, Tom Austin on drums, Billy Dalton on guitar, and Billy Crandall on saxophone. The group is best known for its single "Short Shorts", which was a number 3 hit in the United States in 1958. The follow-up single, 1959's "Believe Me", hit number 26. They never recorded an album, and broke up in 1965.

History
The term "Short Shorts" in the song referred specifically to very short cutoff jeans as worn by teenage girls. The term appears to have originated with Bob Gaudio and Tom Austin. According to the group's website, they coined the term in 1957, and hit on using it as a song theme and title that summer when they saw two girls in cutoffs leaving a local teen spot.

Originally, the group's name was simply "The Royals", but they were persuaded to add the word "Teens" in order to avoid having the same name as an existing band. The performers on the 1957 Bell Sound Studios recording were Bob Gaudio (piano), Tom Austin (drums and whistle effect), Billy Dalton (guitar), Billy Crandall (sax and vocal effect), and Diana Lee (a female vocalist working for Leo Rogers). The record was originally released on a private label, Power Records. The song's instant popularity led the label owner to license the production to ABC-Paramount Records. It reached number 3 on the list later known as the Billboard Hot 100.

The group undertook a tour. The sax player, Billy Crandall, age 14, was not allowed by his parents to tour with the group, and was replaced by Larry Qualiano. One of the other members had already graduated, and the other two took time off from high school. Some of their touring companions included Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Frankie Avalon.

The group performed the song in the 1958 jukebox musical Let's Rock which also featured Danny and the Juniors, Paul Anka, and Julius LaRosa.

Legacy
Keyboardist Bob Gaudio later became a member of the Four Seasons. Fourteen-year-old member Al Kooper sometimes appeared with the Royal Teens on the road in 1959, and later founded the groups The Blues Project and Blood Sweat & Tears. Kooper also performed as a session musician on several of Bob Dylan's albums in the mid-1960s. Vocalist Joe Francavilla (also known as Joey Villa) joined the group in late 1958. He previously sang with the Three Friends, which had a minor hit with "Blanche". With several briefly tenured members of the Royal Teens, he went on to form Joey and the Twisters, which released a few minor hits ("Do You Want to Dance", "Bony Maronie") in 1961–1962 and frequently played the Peppermint Lounge in New York City as contemporaries of Joey Dee and the Starliters. Billy Crandall joined the Knickerbockers in 1964, using the name Buddy Randell, and sang lead vocal on the group's top-20 hit "Lies" in 1966. Crandall later performed with the contemporary Messianic group, Jerusalem Rivers, before dying in 1998.

The song "Short Shorts" was used in commercials for Nair in the 1970s, sparking interest in the group, and was used in Japan for the opening tune of Tamori Club on TV Asahi Corporation until April 2023.

It also featured in an episode of The Simpsons - Season 8 ‘The Mysterious Voyage of Homer’ where the episode ends with a shot of Springfield residents wearing short shorts and dancing to the song.

When the show Jersey Boys came to Broadway, Bob Gaudio told Tommy that "Short Shorts" was being featured in the show. When the two original Royal Teens reunited at the August Wilson Theater the night of the premiere of Jersey Boys, Austin said he was so proud to have traveled the first leg of Gaudio's historical musical journey with him.

Billy Dalton died of an apparent heart attack on Saturday, October 8, 2011. After his funeral Mass, he was interred in St. Patrick Cemetery in Rochelle, Illinois, on October 13, 2011 — which would have been his 71st birthday.

Discography

ABC Paramount Records
 1958: "Short Shorts" / "Planet Rock" (originally issued on the tiny Power Records label)
 1958: "Big Name Button" / "Sham Rock"
 1958: "Harvey's Got A Girlfriend" / "Hangin' Around"
 1958: "Open The Door" / "My Kind of Dream"

Power Records
 1959: "Sittin With My Baby" / "Mad Gass"

Mighty Records
 1959: "Leotards" / "Royal Blue"

Capitol Records
 1959: "Believe Me" / "Little Cricket"
 1960: "The Moon's Not Meant For Lovers (Anymore)" / "Was It A Dream?"
 1960: "It's The Talk of the Town" / "With You"

See also
1956 in music
Shorts#Styles

References

External links
 Official website
 Doo-wop.blogg.org

Rock music groups from New Jersey
Royal Teens, The
Musical groups established in 1956
Musical groups disestablished in 1965
Capitol Records artists
RCA Records artists
Epic Records artists
Rock and roll music groups
1956 establishments in New Jersey


Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family is a 1985 non-fiction book by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi that chronicles the life of Henry Hill, a Mafia associate turned informant. The book is the basis for the 1990 Academy Award–winning film Goodfellas directed by Martin Scorsese.

Summary
Henry Hill began his life of crime at age 11 in 1955, by working as a go-fer for Paul Vario, the local boss of Hill's working-class Irish/Italian neighborhood. Vario quickly "promoted" Hill to selling loose cigarettes and other stolen goods on his behalf. In 1959, Hill was arrested for the first time for using stolen credit cards. Hill refused to cooperate with the police, earning the respect of Vario and Vario's close associate, Irish hijacker and fence Jimmy Burke.

In 1960, when Hill was 17, he enlisted in the United States Army, to the surprise of his peers. When questioned about his decision by Vario, Hill explained that he wanted to please his father, who disapproved of his son's association with the Mafia. While stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, however, Hill continued his criminal activities, which led to his dishonorable discharge in 1963. He returned to the streets of New York, where he was happily welcomed back by Vario and Burke.

In 1964, Hill met Tommy DeSimone, aka "Two Gun Tommy," a young aspiring gangster with psychopathic tendencies, and both worked as stick-up men for Vario, hijacking trucks and stealing their contents for resale. In 1965, Hill reluctantly joined Vario's son on a double date, where he met Karen Friedman, a young Jewish woman from the Five Towns section of New York. Hill and Friedman continued to date, and they eloped only four months after meeting. They had their first child, Gregg, in 1966, and a second, Gina, in 1968.

In 1969, Hill began an affair with Linda Coppociano behind Karen's back and invested the profits of his crimes into purchasing a restaurant/lounge called The Suite. It was there that, on June 11, 1970, Burke and DeSimone murdered William Bentvena (also known as William "Billy Batts" Devino), a made man with the Gambino crime family and a close friend of Gambino family captain John Gotti.

In 1978, Burke masterminded a robbery of the Lufthansa cargo terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport after being tipped off to the lax security by an inside man. The heist was carried out by DeSimone and Burke's associates Robert "Frenchy" McMahon and Montague Montemurro in December of that year.

In 1980, Hill got arrested for heroin trafficking, and, knowing that he was facing a long sentence and also that Burke and Vario were planning to kill him, decided to become an informant and entered the Witness Protection Program.

References

External links

1985 non-fiction books
Non-fiction books adapted into films
Non-fiction books about Italian-American organized crime
Works about the American Mafia


The xirula (, spelled chiroula in French, also pronounced txirula, (t)xülüla in Zuberoan Basque; Gascon: flabuta; French: galoubet) is a small three holed woodwind instrument or flute usually made of wood akin to the Basque txistu or three-hole pipe, but more high pitched and strident, tuned to D/G and an octave higher than the silbote. The sound that flows from the flute has often been perceived as a metaphor for the tweet cadences of bird songs. Some scholars point out that flutes found in the Caverns of Isturitz and Oxozelaia going back to a period spanning 35,000 to 10,000 years ago bear witness to the early presence of the instrument's forerunner in the region, while this view has been disputed.

Extent

It is an instrument characteristic of the Pyrenees, and it is played on the French side of the Basque Country (the extent of its use has shrunk over the years, having long been supplanted in Labourd and Basse-Navarre by the txistu), where it provides along with the atabal (a tabor-like instrument played with drumsticks) the musical background for various traditional dances. Besides performing the music for dances, in the former viscounty of Soule (Zuberoa in Basque) it may enliven accompanied on both the ttun-ttun and the atabal the traditional carnival-time performances called maskaradak as well as the pastorals, age-old region-specific theatre plays popular in the area.

Similar variants have been used to the west and east of the Basque Country up to the 1950s, with some examples occasionally jumping to the spotlight in special events, e.g. the so-called "gigantillos" (dancing characters with magnified masks and costumes) dancing to the tunes of the "chirola" in Burgos (Spain). The "silbu" and "chiflo" from Cantabria and Aragón show similar features.  The instrument is still used in the vallée d'Ossau in Béarn, and has undergone a revival in parts of Les Landes.

Players

Main xirula activity focuses in Soule, where xirula's musical revival is led by Jean-Mixel Bedaxagar (1953) along with Mixel Etxekopar (1963).

References

Basque musical instruments
Internal fipple flutes


Constantin Viorel Gărgălie (born 20 May 1979) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a right-back.

External links

1979 births
Living people
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin players
FC U Craiova 1948 players
Place of birth missing (living people)


Paul Curteanu (born 27 July 1983 in Craiova) is a Romanian football player, currently under contract with FC Drobeta.

See also
Football in Romania
List of football clubs in Romania

References

External links

1983 births
Living people
Romanian men's footballers
FC U Craiova 1948 players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Craiova


Nicușor Răzvan Bănică (born 7 January 1984) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for teams such as FC U Craiova, Poiana Câmpina, FC Drobeta Turnu-Severin or Metalurgistul Cugir, among others. In 2010, for a short period, he was the assistant manager of Pandurii II Târgu Jiu.

Honours
CSO Cugir
Liga III: 2020–21

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
People from Balș
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Liga I players
Liga II players
Liga III players
FC U Craiova 1948 players
FCM Câmpina players
CS Viitorul Minerul Lupeni players
FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin players
CS Pandurii Târgu Jiu players
CS Minerul Motru players
Romanian expatriate men's footballers
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Footballers from Olt County


The 300th Guards Mechanized Regiment () was a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The full name of the regiment is the 300th Separate Guards Mechanized Budapest Regiment.

History
The Regiment was formed as 145th Guards Training Motor-Rifle Budapest Regiment. 145 Guards TMRR was previously 145th Guards Rifle Regiment, part of 66th Guards Motor Rifle Training Division, the former 66th Guards Rifle Division. After October 30, 2000, by the order of the President of Ukraine, the name of the Regiment was changed to 300th Separate Guards Mechanized Budapest Regiment.

The regiment was disbanded on 30 October 2013. The  of the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade was later established on the remains of the regiment.

Traditions

Past Commanders

 (2001 – 2005) Lieutenant Colonel Ruslan Khomchak
 (2005) Lieutenant Colonel Supryhan Valery Anatoliyovych
 (2005 – 2007) Lieutenant Colonel Volodymyr Yuriyovych Trunovsky
 (2007 – 2008) Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Mykolayovych Bida
 (2008 – 2013) Lieutenant Colonel Zabolotny Viktor
 (2013) Colonel Serhiy Shaptala

References

Further reading
Information about one of 66th Guards Rifle Division's regiments

Regiments of Ukraine
Military units and formations established in 1992
Military units and formations disestablished in 2013


Hudson High School is a public secondary school serving grades 9 through 12 in Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. Hudson High School is located on the St. Croix River on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. For the 2015-16 school year, the enrollment was 1,749.

History
A 2014 referendum requesting $100 million for a new building failed.

Curriculum
The Hudson High School offers both common core classes (English, social studies, science, math, music, and physical education) and electives (business, agriculture, computer science, art, family consumer). Many AP classes are also offered.

In 2014, Hudson High School began STEM+ and healthcare academy programs.

Extracurricular activities

Athletics
Hudson High School offers football, baseball, softball, track, golf, tennis, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, swimming and diving, hockey, wrestling, floor hockey, volleyball, cheerleading, danceline, "trap" clay target shooting, marching band, and cross country. Students may also participate in intramural sports.

Organizations
Student organizations include:

 Athletes Making Progress or H Club
 Anime/Asian Culture Club
 Author's Anonymous
 Bands
 DECA
 Destination Imagination
 Diversity Club
 Dungeons and Dragons Club
 Civil Discourse (Defunct)
 Drama Club - One Act Play
 FCCLA
 Future Farmers of America
 Forensics
 German Club
 Gender and Sexuality Alliance
 Health Occupation Students of America
 Hudson Trap Shooting Club
 Magik Club
 Make A Change - MAC
 Minecraft Club
 Musicals, Plays & Hudson High Harmony
 National Art Honor Society
 National Honor Society Sr. & Jr.
 Orchestra Music
 Outdoor Club
 Peer Helpers
 Prom Committee
 Quiz Bowl
 SADD - Students Against Destructive Decisions
 Science Olympiad
 Space Club
 Spanish Club
 STS - Student to Student Mentors
 Student Council
 Trickery Club
 Young Republicans Club

Notable alumni
 Jim Bertelsen - professional football player
 Davis Drewiske - professional hockey player
 Arthur D. Kelly - Wisconsin State Representative
 Kraig Urbik - professional football player
 Dale Weiler- professional soccer player
John Huot- Minnesota State  legislator

References

External links
 Official website
 Sport Schedule

Public high schools in Wisconsin
Schools in St. Croix County, Wisconsin


No Noise is the 17th Our Gang short subject comedy released. The Our Gang series (later known as "The Little Rascals") was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944.

Plot
Mickey is in the hospital to have his tonsils removed. The gang decide to visit him, and end up causing all sorts of disasters. They manage to work their way into both the x-ray and operating rooms, and become subdued after inhaling some powerful laughing gas. The kids want to get in on the free ice cream given to patients getting their tonsils removed, and decide to switch places with some boys headed to the hospital. But the doctors catch onto the gang's scheme, and a chase through the hospital ensues.

Notes
When the television rights for the original silent Pathé Our Gang comedies were sold to National Telepix and other distributors, several episodes were retitled. This film was released into TV syndication as Mischief Makers in 1960 under the title "Operation Tonsils". About two-thirds of the original film was included. About two minutes of this film was edited with a film from the Hey Fellas! (a rival Our Gang series) into another Mischief Makers episode under the title "Rival Clinic".

Cast

The Gang
 Joe Cobb as Joe
 Jackie Condon as Jackie
 Mickey Daniels as Mickey
 Jack Davis as Jack
 Allen Hoskins as Farina
 Mary Kornman as Mary
 Ernie Morrison as Ernie
 Dinah the Mule as Herself

Additional cast
 Andy Samuel as Lewis De Vore, hospital patient
 Charles A. Bachman as Officer
 Beth Darlington as Mickey's Nurse
 Helen Gilmore as Nurse
 Clara Guiol as Nurse
 Lincoln Stedman as Doctor
 Charles Stevenson as Doctor
 Charley Young as Doctor

External links

1923 films
1923 comedy films
Hal Roach Studios short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Robert F. McGowan
Our Gang films
1923 short films
1920s American films
Silent American comedy films


Shilong railway station (, formerly Shek Lung) is located in Shilong, Dongguan, Guangdong province, China.

The station was a stop on the Guangshen railway.

The station is split into 2 levels and has 4 platforms. Platforms 1-2 are on the low-level section serving the slow tracks of the Guangshen mainline and were served by pu kuai (local) train services between Shenzhen and Zhaoqing (via Guangzhou East) whilst high-speed CRH services between Guangzhou East and Shenzhen serve the high-level platforms 3 and 4. Unlike other stations on the Guangshen line, there is no waiting room and passengers wait on the platform. Platforms 3 and 4 feature a glass screen with automatic doors which prevents passengers from standing on the platform edge, particularly when non-stopping trains pass through at speeds of 200kmh, and are only opened when the train is in the platform. The station is unusual as platforms 3 and 4 are of a non-standard height and there is a considerable step down from the train to the platform (as well as a considerable gap because of the tight curve through the station) - as a result the CRH1 units serving the line feature an additional lower retracting step for use at Shilong Station.

Shilong station is closer to the downtown areas of Dongguan than the main Dongguan station - therefore many people visiting Dongguan would get off at Shilong. There is a taxi rank and a bus station serving both Shilong town services and Dongguan city buses.

There were approx. 4 trains per hour in each direction between Guangzhou / Guangzhou East and Shenzhen. On January 8, 2014, Shilong railway station was closed for passenger train services; all passenger train services were moved to Dongguan railway station.

References

Railway stations in Guangdong
Railway stations closed in 2014
Stations on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway


Hendrikus (Hennie) Johannes Maria Stamsnijder (born 21 July 1954 in Enter, Overijssel) is a Dutch former professional cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist.

Stamsnijder was military cyclo-cross world champion in 1975. In 1976 he took part in the Olympic Games. In 1979 he won the Essen cyclo-cross and the amateur Dutch road race championship. In 1980 he turned professional for DAF Trucks, finishing third in the cyclo-cross world championship.

Stamsnijder's greatest success was becoming cyclo-cross world champion in 1981 in Tolosa in the Basque Country. On a muddy course he left the Belgian Roland Liboton and the Swiss champion Albert Zweifel behind him to take the title. Stamsnijder was the first Dutch world cyclo-cross champion and that year he was named sportsman of the year.

Stamsnijder rode the Tour de France in 1980 and 1981, but it was cyclo-cross that brought his greatest victories, winning the Superprestige classification in 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1989 with 14 wins in Superprestige races.

In 1989 Stamsnijder ended his career when his son fell ill. He became the coach of the Dutch cyclo-cross team and is now a manager of Shimano sports marketing. His son, Tom Stamsnijder, is a professional for Argos-Shimano.

References

1954 births
Living people
People from Wierden
Cyclo-cross cyclists
Dutch male cyclists
UCI Cyclo-cross World Champions (men)
Cyclists from Overijssel


Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan, which premiered in 2008 on the cable network AMC. The story is about Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a 50-year-old high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After White is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he uses his chemistry expertise to cook crystal meth, assisted by his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to secure his family's (played by Anna Gunn and RJ Mitte) inheritance before he dies.

 The pilot episode was first aired on January 20, 2008, and the series finale, was broadcast on September 29, 2013. Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes, which consisted of several one- to five-minute clips, released 17 short episodes over the course of three years throughout Breaking Bads run.

On October 11, 2019, Netflix released El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a feature film continuation of Breaking Bad, written and directed by Gilligan. An additional short film Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short was released on February 17, 2020.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2008)

Season 2 (2009)

Season 3 (2010)

Season 4 (2011)

Season 5 (2012–13)

Film

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is a film written and directed by series creator Vince Gilligan that serves as a continuation of the television series. It was released on October 11, 2019, on Netflix and was broadcast on AMC on February 16, 2020. The film centers around Jesse Pinkman, and takes place both during his captivity at the hands of the Aryan Brotherhood and after his escape in the Breaking Bad series finale.

Other media

Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes (2009–2011)
Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes is a web series based on the television series Breaking Bad. A total of 17 "minisodes", which are more comedy-oriented than most full episodes, were released over the course of three years.

Season 1 (2009)
On February 17, 2009, five "mini-episodes" were made available online before the premiere of the show's second season. These five were eventually included with Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season.

Season 2 (2010)
Before Breaking Bads third season, ten more webisodes were released, each mostly focused on Saul Goodman.

Season 3 (2011)
Additional minisodes were produced before the premiere of Breaking Bads fourth season; two would eventually be released.

Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short (2020)

In conjunction with the television premiere of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie on AMC, the network released a three-minute short film Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short on its official YouTube account on February 17, 2020.

Ratings

See also
 List of Better Call Saul episodes

Notes

References

External links

Lists of American crime drama television series episodes


Frank Samia (born 9 October 1981) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who represented Lebanon. His position of choice was at centre.

Samia played in the lower grades for the St George Illawarra Dragons.

References

1981 births
Living people
Australian rugby league players
Australian people of Lebanese descent
Lebanon national rugby league team players
Rugby league centres
Place of birth missing (living people)


A referendum to confirm the presidential candidate Joseph Saidu Momoh was held in Sierra Leone on 1 October 1985. It was the country's first direct vote for president. At the time, the country was a one-party state with the All People's Congress as the only legal party.

Momoh was named as the APC's presidential candidate after retiring president Siaka Stevens persuaded several other hopefuls to stand down. Voters only had the option of approving or rejecting his candidacy. Momoh's candidacy was approved by 99.85% of the votes, with just over 4,000 people voting no.

Results

References

Presidential elections in Sierra Leone
Single-candidate elections
One-party elections
Sierra Leone
1985 in Sierra Leone
Election and referendum articles with incomplete results


The huge moth family Noctuidae contains the following genera:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Valeria
Valerietta
Valeriodes
Vallagyris
Vandana
Vapara
Varia
Varicosia
Varina
Veia
Velazconia
Vescisa
Vespola
Vestura
Via
Victrix
Vietteania
Viettentia
Villosa
Viminia
Violaphotia
Virgo
Viridemas
Vittappressa
Vogia
Volazaha
Vulcanica

References

 Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Noctuid genera V


is a Japanese screenwriter. He has written several anime series for Sunrise, including My-HiME and My-Otome.

Biography
Yoshino graduated from Waseda University's school of literature and later joined the staff of Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine as a writer. It was here that the Sunrise producer Naotake Furusato offered him a position in the studio as screenwriter. After joining Sunrise, his first project as the head writer responsible for series composition was Mai-HiME, whose follow-ups Mai-Otome and Mai-Otome Zwei he also went on to supervise. He authored the manga adaptation of Mai-Otome (along with Tatsuhito Higuchi) and went on to write numerous other manga series. Yoshino served as the assistant to main series composer Ichiro Okouchi, during both seasons of the Code Geass TV series. Among other projects for different animation studios, he has written Macross Frontier, Denpa teki na Kanojo, Sound of the Sky, Dance in the Vampire Bund and Guilty Crown.

Screenwriting
 series head writer denoted in bold

Anime television series
Gear Fighter Dendoh (2000–2001)
Crush Gear Turbo (2001–2003)
 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed (2002–2003)
Machine Robo Rescue (2003)
My-HiME (2004–2005)
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (2005)
My-Otome (2005–2006)
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (2006–2007): assistant head writer
Idolmaster: Xenoglossia (2007)
Macross Frontier (2008)
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008): assistant head writer
 Black Butler  (2008–2009)
Darker than Black (2009)
Sound of the Sky (2010)
Dance in the Vampire Bund (2010)
Fractale (2010–2011)
Guilty Crown (2011–2012)
Accel World (2012)
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic (2012–2013)
Vividred Operation (2013)
 A Certain Scientific Railgun S (2013)
Strike the Blood (2013–2014)
Magi: The Kingdom of Magic (2013–2014)
 Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea (2013–2014)
Black Butler: Book of Circus (2014)
Trinity Seven (2014)
World Trigger (2014–2016, 2021–2022)
Kantai Collection (2015)
 Rin-ne (2015–2016)
Heavy Object (2015–2016)
Izetta: The Last Witch (2016)
 Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (2016–2017)
 Chain Chronicle (2017)
 Chronos Ruler (2017)
 MARGINAL #4 (2017)
A Certain Magical Index III (2018–2019)
 Tsurune (2018–2019)
 GeGeGe no Kitarō 6th series (2018–2020)
 The Magnificent Kotobuki (2019)
 Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure (2021–present)
Black Butler: Public School Arc (2024)
Bye Bye, Earth (2024)

Anime films
 Macross Frontier: Itsuwari no Utahime (2009)
 Macross Frontier: Sayonara no Tsubasa (2011)
 A Certain Magical Index: The Movie – The Miracle of Endymion (2013)
 Black Butler: Book of the Atlantic (2017)
 Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (2023)

OVAs
 My-Otome Zwei (2006-2007)
 Denpa teki na Kanojo (2009)
 Black Butler: Book of Murder (2015)
 Exodus! Exit Tokyo (2015)
 The Third Girls Aerial Squad: Falling Angel (2015)
 Strike the Blood: Kingdom of the Valkyria (2015)
 Strike the Blood II (2016–2017)
 Strike the Blood III (2018–2019)
 Strike the Blood IV (2020–2021)
 Strike the Blood Final (2022)

Manga
My-Otome (Co-authoring with Tatsuhito Higuchi; Art by Kenetsu Satō; 2005)
The Qwaser of Stigmata (Art by Kenetsu Satō; 2006)
VITA Sexualis (Art by Kenetsu Satō; 2007)
Shinju No Nectar (Co-authoring with Satou Kenetsu; 2016)
Sources:

References

External links

1970 births
Anime screenwriters
Japanese screenwriters
Living people
Sunrise (company) people
Writers from Chiba Prefecture


Sara M. Roy is an American political economist and scholar. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Roy's research and over 100 publications focus on the economy of Gaza and more recently on Hamas.  Reviewing her 2007 Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, Bruce Lawrence writes that "Roy is the leading researcher and most widely respected academic authority on Gaza today," and she considers the Gaza Strip her second home. She has also studied Palestinian politics and the broader Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Biography
Roy was born and raised in West Hartford, where she attended Hall High School. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

She is the daughter of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaust. In a lecture she stated that "the Holocaust has been the defining feature of my life" as part of the Second Annual Holocaust Remembrance Lecture, which she delivered at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. Roy had been invited by Center for American and Jewish Studies founding director Marc H. Ellis to connect her family's experience in the Holocaust to her academic work on the Palestinian people. Roy explained that both her parents had survived the Holocaust, but that 100 members of her extended family, who had resided in the Jewish shtetls of Poland, had been killed. Her father, Abraham, was one of the seven known survivors of the Chelmno extermination camp, while her mother, Taube, survived Halbstadt (Gross Rosen) and Auschwitz. In an article in CounterPunch, Roy wrote that while her mother was confined in the Lodz ghetto she endeavoured to hide children destined for deportation to the Nazi extermination camps, but they were seized and despatched to Auschwitz.

Roy earned an Ed.D. with a specialization in International Development from Harvard University's Graduate School of Education in 1988.

Having visited Israel many times when she was growing up, she added, "[i]t was perhaps inevitable that I would follow a path that would lead me to the Arab-Israeli issue", providing several examples of parallels between Nazi treatment of Jews and Israeli soldiers' treatment of Palestinians which, in her opinion, "were absolutely equivalent in principle, intent, and impact: to humiliate and dehumanize."

She further developed these themes in the 2008 Edward Said Memorial Lecture at Adelaide University, in which she commented that "Israel's occupation of the Palestinians is not the moral equivalent of the Nazi genocide of the Jews. It does not have to be. The fact that it is not in no way tempers the brutality of the repression, which has become frighteningly normal. Occupation is about the domination and dispossession of one people by another. It is about the destruction of their property and the destruction of their soul. At its core, occupation aims to deny Palestinians their humanity by denying them the right to determine their existence, to live normal lives in their own homes. And just as there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the Holocaust and the occupation, so there is no moral equivalence or symmetry between the occupier and the occupied, no matter how much we as Jews regard ourselves as victims."

Career
Roy spent time doing dissertation fieldwork in Israel and in the Gaza Strip as a research assistant to the third West Bank Data Base Project. She was part of a non-official survey led by Meron Benvenisti, whose goal was to examine the impact of Israel's national unity coalition government on the West Bank and to a lesser extent the Gaza Strip. Roy prepared a background paper about the Gaza Strip for the Project in 1986, before submitting, in 1988, her doctoral thesis entitled Development under occupation: a study of United States government economic development assistance to the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1975-1985.

Roy is also the author of The Gaza Strip Survey (1986) and The Gaza Strip:  The Political Economy of De‐development (1995, 2001, 2016).  She is the editor of The Economics of Middle East Peace: A Reassessment (1999). Her 2011 study of Hamas, political Islam and the Islamic social sector in Gaza won a 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies.

Roy's work has appeared in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Current History, Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, International Journal of Middle East Studies, American Political Science Review, Critique, Chicago Journal of International Law, Index on Censorship, La Vanguardia, Le Monde Diplomatique, the London Review of Books, and The Lancet.

In March 2012 she authored "Gaza: Treading on Shards" in The Nation.

Roy has served on the Advisory Boards of American Near East Refugee Aid and the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University and on the Board of Directors of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program - U.S. branch.

In addition to her academic work, Roy has served as a consultant to international organizations, the U.S. government, human rights organizations, private voluntary organizations, and private business groups working in the Middle East.

Roy features in New Zealand filmmaker Sarah Cordery's 2016 documentary feature film notes to eternity, in which she addresses her Jewish heritage and long-standing work on the Israel-Palestine conflict. notes to eternity screened at the Belfast Film Festival in 2017.

Claim of censorship
Roy drew public attention when a book review she had written of Mathew Levitt's book Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad was rejected by Tufts University’s The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. After the editor-in-chief accepted the piece, he wrote to inform Roy that the article had been reviewed for "objectivity," and that "all reviewers found the piece one-sided" and then rejected it, but apologized "for the way in which this process was carried out." Middle East Policy later published the review with Roy's note on the affair which described the rejection as a "blatant . . . case of censorship."

Publications

Books

Articles

References

Living people
American Jews
Harvard University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women political scientists
American political scientists
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
Harvard College alumni
Hall High School (Connecticut) alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women


The  was a two-ship class of pre-dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. As Japan lacked the industrial capacity to build such warships herself, they were designed and built in the UK. The ships participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war. Hatsuse sank after striking two mines off Port Arthur in May 1904. Shikishima fought in the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima and was lightly damaged in the latter action, although shells prematurely exploded in the barrels of her main guns in each battle. The ship was reclassified as a coast defence ship in 1921 and served as a training ship for the rest of her career. She was disarmed and hulked in 1923 and finally broken up for scrap in 1948.

Design and description
Combat experience in the First Sino-Japanese War convinced the Imperial Japanese Navy of weaknesses in the Jeune Ecole naval philosophy, and Japan embarked on a program to modernize and expand its fleet. As with the earlier Fuji-class battleships, Japan lacked the technology and capability to construct its own battleships, and turned again to the United Kingdom. They were ordered as part of the Ten Year Naval Expansion Programme and paid for from the £30,000,000 indemnity paid by China after losing the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895.

The design of the Shikishima class was a modified and improved version of the s of the Royal Navy. They had the same armament and similar machinery as the Fuji class which was intended to allow them to work together as a homogenous group. The Shikishima-class ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a normal draught of . They displaced  at normal load. The hull had a double bottom and was subdivided into 261 watertight compartments. The crew numbered about 741 officers and ratings, although this increased to 849 when serving as a flagship.

Propulsion
The ships were powered by two Humphrys Tennant vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller, using steam generated by 25 Belleville boilers. The engines were rated at , using forced draught, and designed to reach a top speed of  although they proved to be faster during their sea trials. Shikishima reached a speed of  using . The ships carried a maximum of  of coal which allowed them to steam for  at a speed of .

Armament

The main battery of the Shikishima class consisted of the same four Elswick Ordnance Company 40-calibre twelve-inch guns as used in the Fuji class. They were mounted in twin-gun barbettes fore and aft of the superstructure that had armoured hoods to protect the guns and were usually called gun turrets. The hydraulically powered mountings could be loaded at all angles of traverse while the guns were loaded at a fixed angle of +13.5°. They fired  projectiles at a muzzle velocity of .

Secondary armament of the Shikishima class consisted of fourteen 40-calibre Type 41 six-inch quick-firing guns mounted in casemates. Eight of these guns were positioned on the main deck on the side of the ship's hull and the other six guns were placed in the superstructure. They fired  shells at a muzzle velocity of . Protection against torpedo boat attacks was provided by twenty QF 12-pounder 12 cwt guns and four  2.5-pounder Hotchkiss guns. The 12-pounders fired ,  projectiles at a muzzle velocity of . The ships were also equipped with four submerged 18-inch torpedo tubes, two on each broadside.

Armour
The waterline main belt of the Shikishima-class vessels consisted of Harvey armour  high,  of which was above the waterline at normal load, and had a maximum thickness of  for the middle  of the ship. It was only  thick at the ends of the ship and was surmounted by a six-inch strake of armor that ran between the barbettes for 220 feet. The barbettes were  thick, but reduced to  at the level of the lower deck. The armour of the barbette hoods had a maximum thickness of  while their roofs were three inches thick. Diagonal bulkheads  thick connected the barbettes to the side armor, but the bulkheads were only six inches thick at the lower deck level. The casemates protecting the secondary armament were also six inches thick. The flat portion of the deck armour was  thick and four inches thick where it sloped down to the bottom of the armour belt. This significantly improved the ships' protection as any shell that penetrated their vertical armour also had to penetrate the sloping deck before it could reach the machinery compartments or magazines. Outside the central armoured citadel, the sloped deck had a thickness of . The forward conning tower was protected by 14 inches of armour, but the aft conning tower only had three inches of armour.

Ships

At the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Hatsuse and Shikishima were assigned to the 1st Division of the 1st Fleet. They participated in the Battle of Port Arthur on 9 February 1904 when Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō led the 1st Fleet in an attack on the Russian ships of the Pacific Squadron anchored just outside Port Arthur. Tōgō chose to attack the Russian coastal defences with his main armament and engage the Russian ships with his secondary guns. Splitting his fire proved to be a bad idea as the Japanese  and six-inch guns inflicted very little damage on the Russian ships who concentrated all their fire on the Japanese ships with some effect. Hatsuse was hit twice during the battle, 10 men being killed and 17 wounded, but Shikishima was only hit once with 17 men wounded.

Both ships participated in the action of 13 April when Tōgō successfully lured out two battleships of the Pacific Squadron. When the Russians spotted the five battleships of the 1st Division, they turned back for Port Arthur and the battleship  struck a minefield laid by the Japanese the previous night. It sank in less than two minutes after one of her magazines exploded. Emboldened by his success, Tōgō resumed long-range bombardment missions, which prompted the Russians to lay more minefields.

On 14 May, Hatsuse, Shikishima, and the battleship , the protected cruiser Kasagi, and the dispatch boat  put to sea to relieve the Japanese blockading force off Port Arthur. On the following morning, the squadron encountered a newly laid Russian minefield. Hatsuse struck one mine that disabled her steering and Yashima struck another when moving to assist Hatsuse. Hatsuse struck another mine while drifting about a half-hour later that detonated one of her magazines and the ship sank in a little over a minute. The catastrophe claimed 496 crewmen although the escorting ships were able to rescue 336 men.

Shikishima was not hit during the Battle of the Yellow Sea in August, although a shell exploded prematurely in one of her 12-inch guns, disabling it. During the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905, she was hit nine times; the most serious of which penetrated beneath a six-inch gun, killing or wounding the entire gun crew. Again the ship had another 12-inch shell prematurely detonate in one of the forward guns, wrecking it completely. Shikishima was reclassified as a first-class coast defence ship in September 1921, and was used for training duties in various capacities until disarmed and reclassified as a transport in 1923. Her hulk continued to be used as a training ship until she was scrapped in 1948.

Notes

Footnotes

References

External links

 Global Security site

Battleship classes

Ships with Belleville boilers


Lachezar Manchev () (born on 23 January 1989 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian footballer currently playing for Akademik Sofia as a midfielder.

Career

Youth career
Manchev comes directly from Levski Sofia's. Anyway, after the creating of the second team of Levski, he became a part of the new-formed PFC Levski Sofia B. During the first season of the 'B' league, Levski became a champion.

The road to Czech Republic
Bulgaria Under-19 Team started the campaign leading to the 2008 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship in October 2007. First, they've played in Group 9 against Turkey (0-2), Denmark (1-0, goal by Mihail Aleksandrov) and the Faroe Islands (0-0). Then the team was seeded in the Group 3, with Island, Norway and Israel being the other participants in the group. Bulgaria finished at the top of the Group 3, after three wins against Island (2-0 on 2 May, goals by Momchil Cvetanov and Zehirov), Norway (2-0 on 29 April, goals by Mihail Aleksandrov and Ismail Isa Mustafa) and Israel (1-0 on 27 April, goal by Momchil Cvetanov).

External links
 Manchev at Levski's site

1989 births
Living people
Bulgarian men's footballers
PFC Levski Sofia players
PFC Akademik Sofia players
Men's association football midfielders
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players


Gulden Draak (Dutch for Golden Dragon) is a dark Belgian beer with high alcohol by volume (10.5%), brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders. It is named after the golden dragon at the top of the belfry in Ghent.

There are several variants, including Gulden Draak 9000 Quadruple.

Aroma and taste
Gulden Draak has a strong scent of alcohol, which hampers the ability to easily define its aroma. Still, there is a powerful fragrance of barley, ripe plums, and cherries. Different testers worldwide mention a sweet coffee aroma. Compared to the aroma, the taste is influenced somewhat less by the alcohol. It hints at sour cherries and brown sugar. The aftertaste is somewhat bitter. Gulden Draak also has a high alcohol content for a beer at 10.5%. Gulden Draak was awarded the best-tasting beer in the world in 1998 by the American Tasting Institute (now ChefsBest).

Color
Dark with caramel-colored foam head.

Process
Akin to the other special beers of the Brewery Van Steenberge, Gulden Draak is a high fermentation beer with secondary fermentation. For the secondary fermentation, a wine yeast is used. Fermentation happens both in the bottle as in the barrel, which ensures a preservation for years.

Packaging
Gulden Draak is packaged in 33, 75, and 150 centilitre bottles with a white plastic coating, and in kegs of 30 litres.

Name Origin
The legend of the golden dragon (Gulden Draak) says that it was first featured on the prow of the ship with which the Norwegian king Sigurd Magnusson (Sigurd Jorsalfar) sailed in 1111 to go on a crusade. Sigurd offered the statue to the emperor of Constantinople (the current Istanbul) to put it on the cupola of the Hagia Sophia. Over a hundred years later, the Flemish count Baldwin IX had transported the show-piece to the Belgium regions. The Norwegian dragon ended up in the hands of Bruges. After the battle on the field of Beverhout in 1382, the inhabitants of Ghent took their spoils of war, including the dragon and put it on top of their Belfry, where all communal charters were kept. The dragon had to protect these documents and it was also the symbol of the freedom and might of the city. The brew-master gazed upon this statue and was founded with inspiration to create and thus name the ale. Dragon has no feet, don't ask why because a 5th generation brewery owner will not have a good answer.

Variations

The 10.5% abv Gulden Draak 9000 Quadruple is a pale quadrupel variant of the dark brown Gulden Draak. It is named after the postal code (9000) of the city of Ghent, Belgium.  Three different kinds of malt are used in brewing; for secondary fermentation a wine yeast is used. Gulden Draak is packaged in a black bottle in volumes of 33, 75, and 150 centilitre, and in kegs of 30 litres.

There is also Gulden Draak The Brewmasters Edition, where the regular Gulden Draak is left for a period in a used whiskey barrel. In addition, there is a 7.5% abv Gulden Draak Vintage.

References

External links
http://www.vansteenberge.com/
http://belgium.beertourism.com/belgian-beers/gulden-draak

Gulden Draak
Beer brands


Lahoo Ke Do Rang  is a 1997 Hindi suspense-action film directed by Mehul Kumar, starring Akshay Kumar, Karishma Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, and Suresh Oberoi. This was Akshay Kumar and Naseeruddin Shah's second film together; the first being the 1994 film Mohra.

Plot

Customs Officer, Bharat Srivastav lives a mediocre life with his sister Rajni, wife Sangita, and his son. Rajni is to be married to Inspector Gautam who is known for his unorthodox methods of apprehending smugglers. These methods land him in trouble with the Shikari brothers (Tejaa, Dharma, Tinnu, Chinnu and Pappu). Bharat decides to oppose the brothers, and as a result, the three recruit false eyewitnesses, pay them to give false testimonies, and get the complaint discharged. When Bharat persists, his family is kidnapped and subsequently killed. Bharat manages to kill some of the culprits, but is arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison. On the way to the prison facility, a vehicle carrying Bharat is involved in an accident, killing everyone on board. Relieved at the death of their nemesis, the Shikari brothers celebrate – only to find out that they now face an unknown enemy who proceeds to kill them all.

Cast
Naseeruddin Shah as Bharat Srivastav
Akshay Kumar as Sikandar Davai
Karishma Kapoor as Hina
Farah Naaz as Sangita Srivastav
Mukesh Rawal as Doctor
Alok Nath as Abu Baba
Farida Jalal as Halima
Suresh Oberoi as Dharma Shikari
Mukesh Rishi as Teja Shikari
Mahesh Anand as Tinnu Shikari
Tej Sapru as Chinnu Shikari
Mushtaq Khan as Pappu Shikari
Avtaar Gill as Advocate Hassubhai Shah
K. K. Raj as Sampath, custom officer
Mulraj Rajda as Judge in Court
Navin Nischol as DCP A.A. Khan, father of Sikander.
Aparajita as Mrs. A.A. Khan, mother of Sikander.
ShashiKala as Chachi
Dinesh Hingoo as Chandu Tolani
Tiku Talsania as Kaalu/Kalyendar Swami
Vishwajeet Pradhan as Inspector Gautam
Shiva Rindani as Salim Surti

Soundtrack

Music: Anand-Milind | Lyrics: Sameer

External links

[./Https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php%3Fmovieid%3D2698 Lahu Ke Do Rang] at India

1997 films
1990s Hindi-language films
Films scored by Anand–Milind
Films directed by Mehul Kumar


The huge moth family Noctuidae contains the following genera:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Walterella
Weymeria
Wilemaniella
Wilkara

References

 Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Noctuid genera W


Theodore Wesley Jennings Jr. (born 1942–2020), also known as Ted Jennings, was an American theologian and Methodist minister. He was Professor of Biblical and Constructive Theology at the United Church of Christ's Chicago Theological Seminary, where he had previously served as Acting Academic Dean. Jennings gained a notoriety for his work on ritual studies, the Messianic politics of Pauline discourse, and theological engagement with the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Jacques Derrida.

Jennings' theology related to LGBT matters was welcomed in progressive circles, but was cast as outright heretical by conservative theologians such as R. Albert Mohler, a Southern Baptist theologian and minister. This opprobrium also appeared when he published across ecumenical aisles, such as when he was called a heretic by Charlotte Allen of the non-denominational Institute on Religion and Public Life on account of his collaborations with Tat-siong Benny Liew of the College of the Holy Cross.

Biography
Jennings was born on October 24, 1942. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1964 and his Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Emory University in 1967 and 1971 respectively.  He taught for three years at Seminario Metodista (Methodist Seminary) in Mexico City and is an ordained Methodist minister. His scholarly work and publications have focused on a broad array of topics, such as Methodism, ritual studies, biblical hermeneutics, liberation theology, LGBT rights and queer theology, the politics of Pauline Messianism, and the work of Jacques Derrida.

Following a serious stroke on March 5, 2020, at his second home near Acapulco, Mexico, Jennings was transported by ambulance to Hospital Angeles Roma in Mexico City where he passed away almost three weeks later on March 25, 2020.

Works by Jennings

 An Ethic of Queer Sex: Principles and Improvisations. Exploration Press, Chicago, Illinois 2013,
 Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross. Fortress Press, Minneapolis 2009.
 Plato or Paul? The Origins of Western Homophobia. Pilgrim Press, Cleveland 2009,
 Jacob's Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel. Continuum, New York 2005,
 Reading Derrida, Thinking Paul: On Justice. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California 2005,
 Mistaken Identities but Model Faith: Rereading the Centurion, the Chap, and the Christ in Matthew 8:5-13. Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. and Tat-Siong Benny Liew. Journal of Biblical Literature Vol. 123, No. 3 (Autumn, 2004), pp. 467–494
 The Insurrection of the Crucified: The ‘Gospel of Mark’ as Theological Manifesto. Exploration Press, Chicago, Illinois 2003,
 The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament. Pilgrim Press, Cleveland 2003,
 Santidad bìblica (Seminario Metodista de Mexico), 2002
 Loyalty to God: The Apostles Creed in Life and Liturgy. Abingdon Press, Nashville 1992,
 Good News to the Poor: John Wesley’s Evangelical Economics. Abingdon Press, Nashville 1990,
 Beyond Theism: A Grammar of God-Language. Oxford University Press, New York 1985,

References

External links

 Chicago Theological Seminary
 "Reading Derrida/ Thinking Paul" from Stanford University Press, 2005.Archived.
 "International Seminars of the LGBTQ Religious Studies Centers" A compilation of several international seminars with Dr. Ted Jennings on behalf of the Queer Center at CTS.
 "Outlaw Justice: The Messianic Politics of Paul" from Stanford University Press, 2013.
 "What The Bible Really Says About Homosexuality" Lecture presented on March 24, 2009 at Hanshin Theological Seminary in Korea

1942 births
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American theologians
20th-century Methodist ministers
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American theologians
21st-century Methodist ministers
American biblical scholars
American Christian theologians
American male non-fiction writers
American United Methodist clergy
Candler School of Theology alumni
Chicago Theological Seminary faculty
Duke University alumni
Living people
Methodist theologians


Return of the Mack is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Mark Morrison. It was first released through his Mack Life Records imprint in the United Kingdom and then released by Atlantic Records in the United States, with distribution via Warner Music Group on April 22, 1996. The album includes a well-known popular song "Return of the Mack", which stayed for a remarkable 41 weeks on the US Billboard charts. Upon its release, Return of the Mack received mixed reviews from music critics, who praised Morrison's strong voice and entertaining songs, but described the album as having weak production. The album stayed for 38 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, where it debuted and peaked at number 4, and became a certified platinum by British Phonographic Industry (BPI). On the US Billboard 200, the album reached a peak of a number 76. The album has since sold over three million copies worldwide.

The album made Morrison the first artist in British pop history to have five top ten singles from a debut album to chart on the UK Singles Chart. These singles included "Let's Get Down", "Return of the Mack", "Crazy (Remix)", "Trippin'", "Horny" and "Moan and Groan". The first single "Crazy" became a top twenty hit in the United Kingdom, a remix was also released, which peaked at number 6 in the United Kingdom. The single, "Return of the Mack" has become an international hit for spending two weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart, and one week at number 2 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was listed at number 8 on the Billboard 200 year-end chart for 1997 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Morrison became the first black male solo artist to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart in the 1990s. In 1997, he received four Brit Awards nominations, a Mercury Prize nomination, a MTV's Europe Music Awards nomination, and five Music of Black Origin Awards (MOBO) nominations. He would win the Best R&B song in the 1996's MOBO Awards for "Return of the Mack".

Background
The album was released on  through his own record label, Mack Life Records. The album was largely self-produced by Morrison, and was recorded over a two-year period. The album's release was preceded by the release of three singles.

Release and promotion
At the 1997 BRIT Awards held on 24 February 1997, he performed "Return of the Mack".

Singles

The debut song "Crazy" became a top 20 hit in the UK. It was later featured in the 1997 film Speed 2: Cruise Control and appeared on the film's soundtrack album. The second single was "Let's Get Down".

Critical reception

Return of the Mack received mixed reviews from music critics. Entertainment Weekly writer Matt Diehl wrote "its title, "Return of the Mack" sounds like another rap tale of gangsta paradise; instead, Mark Morrison comes off more like a funked-up Seal, promising revenge to a deceitful lover in a warbly croon." He goes onto add, "the end result is an odd but infectious new-jack-swing variation on Hey Joe, buoyed by bubbly beats and the insistent title refrain."

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

1996 debut albums
Mark Morrison albums