The term Gujarati Muslim is usually used to signify an Indian Muslim from the state of Gujarat in western coast of India. Most Gujarati Muslims have Gujarati language as their mother tongue, but some communities such as the Soomra & Sindhi have Kutchi other like Momin Ansari, Memons, Charotar Vahora & Vohra Gujarati Shaikh (Hansotis) and others, have Urdu as their mother tongue. The majority of Gujarati Muslims are Sunni, with a minority of Shi'ite groups.

The Gujarati Muslims are further sub-divided into groups, such as the Sunni Vohra/Bohra, Ismāʿīlī, Khoja, Dawoodi Bohra, Memon, Surti, Miyan Bhai, Pathan people/Hansotis, Khatri, Ghanchi and Chhipa each with their own customs and traditions.

Gujarati Muslim merchants played a pivotal role in establishing Islam in Indonesia, Malaysia and other parts of South East Asia.

Gujarati Muslims are very prominent in industry and medium-sized businesses and there is a very large Gujarati Muslim community in Mumbai. A very large number of this community migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and have settled in Sindh province especially in Karachi. Having earned a formidable accolade as some of India's greatest seafaring merchants, the centuries-old Gujarati diaspora is found scattered throughout the Near East, Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere regions everywhere in between Africa and Japan with a notable presence in: Hong Kong, Britain, Portugal, Canada, Réunion, Oman, Yemen, Mozambique, Zanzibar, United Arab Emirates, Burma, Madagascar, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Pakistan, Zambia and East Africa.

History
Located in the westernmost portion of India, Gujarat includes the region of Kutch, Saurashtra and the territories between the rivers Banas and Damanganga. Islam came early to Gujarat, with immigrant communities of Arab and Persian traders. Most came as traders as they did before Islam and built a masjid during the times of Muhammad and other parts of the western seacoast of India as early as the 8th century C.E, spreading Islam soon as the religion gained a foothold in the Arabian peninsula. They were later joined by Arab and Persian traders from the Middle East. Many of these early merchants were Ismaili Shia, both Mustaali and Nizari. They laid the foundation of the Bohra and Khoja communities. In the early era however Gujarat was ruled by the Valabhi dynasty. In the thirteenth century, the last Hindu ruler Karna, was defeated by Alauddin Khalji, the Turkic Sultan of Delhi. This episode ushered a period of five centuries of Muslim Turkic and Mughal rule, leading to a conversion of a number of Hindu Gujarati people to Islam and the creation of new communities such as the Molesalam and Miyana communities.

In the sixteenth century, the Memon community immigrated from Sindh and settled in Kutch and Kathiawar. While in Bharuch and Surat, a schism occurred among the Bohras and a new community of Sunni Bohras (also known as vohra e.g. surti sunni vhora) was created. Another Muslim sect, the Mahdawi also settled in Gujarat and led to the creation of the Tai community. In 1593, the Mughal Emperor Akbar conquered Gujarat and incorporated Gujarat in the Mughal Empire. This period led to the settlement of the Mughal community. A good many Sayyid and Shaikh families also are said to have arrived during the period of Mughal rule. With the establishment of the Sufi Suhrawardi and Chishti orders in Multan, Sind and Gujarat, pirs enjoyed state patronage. At the same time, the Muslims from various provinces such as Hyderabad Deccan, Kerala, Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab, Gujarat, Kashmir and other parts of South Asia also moved to capitals of Muslim empire in Delhi and Agra. After the death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, in 1707, Mughal rule began weaken after ruling for a century. Most of Gujarat fell to the Marathas, and this period saw the dispersal of further Pathans and Baluchis, who came as mercenaries and were destroyed or defeated by the Marathas. Gujarat fell to British in the late 19th century.

Gujarati Muslim merchants played an historically important role in facilitating the Portuguese discovery of "the East Indies", in spreading and propagating Islam to the Far East and in promoting the British discovery of Africa. In Southeast Asia, Malays referred to the Islamic elite among them by the noble title of adhirajas. The Sufi trader, Shaikh Randeri (Shaikh Raneri) was responsible for spreading Islam to Acheh in Indonesia.
Surti merchants in particular also pioneered the use of scientific concepts and invented structural and mechanical advances in technology for the nationbuilding of Mauritius, such as introducing hydro-electric power to the people of Mauritius.

Jamat Bandi
Gujarati speaking Muslim society has a unique custom known as Jamat Bandi, literally meaning communal solidarity. This system is the traditional expression of communal solidarity. It is designed to regulate the affairs of the community and apply sanctions against infractions of the communal code. Almost all the main Gujarat communities, such as the Ismāʿīlī, Khoja, Dawoodi Bohra, Chhipa and Sunni Bohra have caste associations, known as jamats. Social organization at the Jamat Bandi level varies from community to community. In some communities, the Jamat simply runs a mosque and attached rest house and a madrasah. Some larger communities, such as the Khoja and Memon have developed elaborate and highly formalized systems with written and registered constitutions. Their organizations own large properties, undertake housing projects and schools, dispensaries and weekly newspapers.

Communities
The region of Kutch has always been historically distinct, with the Muslims there accounting for about twenty percent of the population. This region is characterised by salt deserts, such as the Rann of Kutch. Because of this landscape, the Kutch Muslims are Maldhari pastoral nomads found in the Banni region of Kutch. Most of them are said to have originated in Sindh and speak a dialect of Kutchi which has many Sindhi loanwords. Major Maldhari communities include the Soomra, Sandhai Muslims, Jats, Halaypotra, Hingora, Hingorja, Juneja. The other important Muslim community is the Khatiawari Memon community, that migrated and resettled beyond Gujarat.

Coastal Gujarat is home to Urdu speaking communities such as those of Hansot and Olpad. Hansot Muslims are divergent genotypically in that their MtDNA is of greater foreign origins in comparison to the Y-DNA.
The Gujarat coastline is also home to significant numbers of Siddi, otherwise known as Zanji or Habshi, descendants of Africans e.g. Royal Habshis (Abyssinian aristocracy e.g. Siddi Sayyid) or Bantu peoples from Southeast Africa that were brought to the Indian subcontinent as slaves by the Portuguese and Arab merchants. Siddis are primarily Sufi Muslims, although some are Hindus and others Roman Catholic Christians. Malik Ambar, a prominent military figure in Indian history at large, remains a figure of veneration to the Siddis of Gujarat.

Bharuchi and Surti Muslims
There is historical evidence of Arabs and Persians settling along the Konkan-Gujarat coast as early as the 9th, 8th and perhaps 7th century. Arab traders landed at Ghogha (located just across the narrow Gulf of Cambay from Bharuch/Surat) around the early seventh century and built a masjid there facing Jeruselum. Thus Gujarat has the oldest mosque in India built between 624 and 626 C.E. by the Arabs who traded and stayed there. These Arabs and others who settled in Bharuch and Surat were sailors, merchants and nakhudas, who belonged to various South Arabian coastal tribes while others were from the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean, and large numbers married local women adopting the local Gujarati language and customs over time.

Over the course of history, a number of famous Arab travelers, scholars, Sufi-saints and geographers who visited India, have described the presence of thriving Arab Muslim communities scattered along the Konkan-Gujarat coast. Suleiman of Basra who reached Thana in 841 AD, observed that the Rashtrakuta empire which extended from Bharuch to Chaul during his time, was on friendly terms with the Arabs and Balhara kings appointed Arab merchant princes as governors and administrators in their vast kingdom. Ibn Hawqal, a 10th-century Muslim Arab geographer and chronicler while on his travels observed that mosques flourished in four cities of Gujarat that had Hindu kings, with mosques being found in Cambay, Kutch, Saymur and Patan, alluding to an atmosphere where Muslim foreigners were assimilated into the local milieu of medieval Gujarati societies. His well-known Iranian contemporary Estakhri, the Persian medieval geographer who traveled to Cambay and other regions of Gujarat during the same period, echoed the words spoken by his predecessors alongside his itineraries. Al-Masudi, an Arab historian from Baghdad who was a descendant of Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, a companion of Prophet Muhammad traveled to Gujarat in 918 C.E. and bore written witness account that more than 10,000 Arab Muslims from Siraf (Persia) Madha in Oman, Hadhramaut in Yemen, Basra, Baghdad, and other cities in the Middle East, had settled in the seaport of Chamoor, a port close to Bharuch.

Despite the medieval conquest of Gujarat by Alauddin Khalji and its annexation to the Delhi Sultanate in the 13th century, peaceful Islamic settlements appear to have continued under Hindu rule. Bi-lingual Indian inscriptions from Somnath in Sanskrit and Arabic, make reference to the Arab and Iranian shipowners who constructed mosques in Gujarat from the grants given to Muslims by the Vaghela rajput ruler, Arjunadeva.
 Similar epitaphs mention the arrival of pious Muslim nakhudas from Hormuz as well as families from Bam residing in Cambay, and from the discovery of tombstones of personages from Siraf, at the time one of the most important ports on the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf, suggests altogether that the Muslim community of Junagadh had a strong and established link with Iran through the commercial sea routes. The 19th century European Gazetteer by George Newenham Wright,  corroborates this cultural exchange through the ages as he points out that the Arab inhabitants of Mukalla, capital city of the Hadhramaut coastal region in Yemen, were known to intermarry with the Muslims of Kathiawar and those resident from other areas of Gujarat.

Arabic sources speak of the warm reception of the significant immigration of Hadhrami sāda (descendants of Muhammed) who settled in Surat during the Gujarat Sultanate. Prominent and well respected Sāda who claimed noble descent through Abu Bakr al-Aydarus ("Patron Saint of Aden"), were held in high esteem among the people and became established as Arab religious leaderships of local Muslims. Intermarriages with Indian Muslim women were highly sought which led to a creole Hadhrami-Indian community to flourish in Gujarat by the 17th century.

Early 14th-century Maghrebi adventurer, Ibn Batuta, who visited India with his entourage, recalls in his memoirs about Cambay, one of the great emporia of the Indian Ocean that indeed:

In the 17th century, the eminent city of Surat, famous for its cargo export of silk and diamonds had come on a par with contemporary Venice and Beijing which were some of the great mercantile cities of Europe and Asia, and earned the distinguished title, Bab al-Makkah (Gate of Mecca) because it is one of the great places of the subcontinent where ancient Hindus welcomed Islam and it flourished as time went on.

Notable Gujarati Muslims
Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera of the UK who is a prominent Islamic Scholar once listed as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world, Ismail ibn Musa Menk, another prominent Islamic Scholar also of Gujarati descent, Azim Premji Chairman of Wipro Limited, South African cricketer Hashim Amla, South African Quran - Bible Scholar Ahmed Deedat, Caribbean eschatologist and Islamic scholar Imran N. Hosein, Badruddin Tyabji, a Congress president and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan. Bollywood is represented by Asha Parekh who is half Gujarati Muslim, Farooq Shaikh, Nushrat Bharucha , and Sanjeeda Sheikh. Famous Indian film score composers include Salim–Sulaiman Merchant who are Ismaili Shia and Taher Saifuddin, who was the 51st Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras, a sect within Shia Islam. Famous political activists such as Ahmed Timol, Yusuf Dadoo, Ahmed Kathrada, Ebrahim Aswat and his daughters Zainab Asvat and Amina Cachalia played a leading role in the anti-apartheid movement of South Africa.

See also
 Sayyid of Gujarat
 Khoja
 Memon
 Ismailis
 Alavi Bohras
 Dawoodi Bohras
Khatiawari Memon
 Muslim Rajputs
 Islam in India
 Gujarat Sultanate
 Nakhuda
 Jats of Kutch
 Pathans of Gujarat
 Arabs in India
 Al Masudi
 Ibn Batuta
 Nuruddin ar-Raniri from Rander
 Abu Bakr al-Aydarus, Hadhrami religious scholar of sufism
 Ba 'Alawi sada
 Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
 Shah e Alam
 Wajihuddin Alvi
 List of ziyarat locations

References

Islam in India by location
Social groups of Pakistan

Social groups of Gujarat


Instrumentals was released September 13, 2005 by Delicious Vinyl Records. It contains the instrumental tracks of songs by The Pharcyde found in their debut album Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde and its follow up release Labcabincalifornia.

Track listing
 "Oh Shit"
 "4 Better or 4 Worse"
 "I’m That Type of Nigga"
 "On the DL"
 "Officer"
 "Ya Mama"
 "Passin’ Me By"
 "Otha Fish"
 "Return of the B-Boy"
 "Bullshit"
 "Pharcyde"
 "Groupie Therapy"
 "Runnin’"
 "Somethin’ That Means Somethin’"
 "Drop"
 "Devil Music"
 "The E. N. D."

2005 albums
The Pharcyde albums


Robert X. Golphin (born Robert Bennett Xavier Golphin), is an American actor, writer/director, author, speaker and journalist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his role as Dunbar Reed in The Great Debaters.

Education
Golphin holds an MFA in screenwriting from Spalding University,  a B.A. in theater and film (magna cum laude) from St. Augustine's University and a diploma in creative writing from the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Career

Golphin's film roles include Remember the Daze, "Rounding First", Punch Me, "The Underground Kings" and "Essential". His television and new media credits include the HBO series The Wire, the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008), and "The Counterparts". Among his theatrical credits are "The Storm: An Original Pop-Rock Musical" (2012), "Englewood Boys: A Play on Portraiture"(2015), and "Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues" (2019).

In 2020, Golphin made his feature length directorial debut with "Freshman Friday", which was released on Amazon Prime Video. He has also written, produced, and/or directed several award-winning short films that have screened at national and international film festivals. During his final semester of undergraduate studies at St. Augustine's University, he directed and produced an authorized stage medley of Spike Lee's School Daze.

Golphin's journalism background includes a four-year stint as an on-air correspondent for Reelblack TV, and published credits in The Philadelphia Inquirer 'First Take' Newspaper, The Philadelphia Sunday Sun, SCOOP USA Newspaper, The Manning Times, The Campbell Times, and Teen People Magazine among others.

He is also the author of the novellas, "Cold Night In A Warm Season" (2021) and "Abandoning Adam: Confessions of an HBCU Scholar" (2006).

Filmography

Acting (Film & TV)

Film/TV (Crew)

Theatre (Crew)

Books

Awards

Acting

Filmmaking

References

1. Philadelphia Tribune
2.Philadelphia Tribune (Metro Edition)
3.
4.Philadelphia Tribune's "Entertainment Now"
5.Variety
6.Scoop USA Newspaper
7.Philly AD Club
8.Movie Bytes
9."Rounding First" official website
10.Entertainment Now:Philadelphia Tribune
11. Robert X. Golphin ("Punch Me") Featured In The HBCU Digest
12. Atlantic City CineFest List Of Nominations for 2011
13. Blog Talk Radio Interview With Robert X. Golphin on The Joy Keys Morning Show
14. Blog Talk Radio Interview with Robert X. Golphin on Solutions Radio with S. Denice Newton
15. Blog Talk Radio Interview with Robert X. Golphin on AfterThoughts Radio with S. Denice Newton
16. Blog Talk Radio Interview with Robert X. Golphin on Urban Film Radio
17. Philadelphia Tribune Feature Story About Robert X. Golphin and "Punch Me"
18. List of Competition Finalist Screenplays
19. Indiewire/Shadow & Act
20. "J Blair Presents" Radio Show Interview w/ Robert X. Golphin (2013)
21. Reelblack Presents Monthly Showcase Sneak Preview of "The Counterparts"
22. NBA All Star Executive Produces Gritty Police Drama The Underground Kings
23. Gritty Police Drama The Underground Kings Slated To Premiere in January

External links

 Official Twitter Profile
 Official Fan Page on Facebook

American male actors
Living people
1982 births
St. Augustine's University (North Carolina) alumni
Spalding University alumni
Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts alumni


Eccellenza Apulia () is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Apulia, Italy. It is competed among 18 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also have the chance to gain promotion, they are entered into a national play-off which consists of two rounds.

Champions
Here are the past champions of the Apulia Eccellenza, organised into their respective seasons.

1991–92 Noci
1992–93 Toma Maglie
1993–94 San Severo
1994–95 Massafra
1995–96 Martina
1996–97 Noicattaro
1997–98 Aradeo
1998–99 Virtus Locorotondo
1999–00 Ostuni
2000–01 Grottaglie
2001–02 Fortis Trani
2002–03 Bitonto
2003–04 Gallipoli
2004–05 Monopoli
2005–06 Barletta
2006–07 Fasano
2007–08 Francavilla
2008–09 Casarano
2009–10 Nardò
2010–11 Martina
2011–12 Monopoli
2012–13 San Severo
2013–14 Gallipoli
2014–15 Virtus Francavilla
2015–16 Gravina
2016–17 Audace Cerignola
2017–18 Fasano
2018–19 Casarano
2019–20 Molfetta Calcio
2020–21 Virtus Matino
2021–22 Barletta
2022–23 Manfredonia

References

External links
Some Club Histories In the League

Sport in Apulia
Apulia
Sports leagues established in 1991
1991 establishments in Italy
Football clubs in Italy
Association football clubs established in 1991


Faith branding is the concept of branding religious organizations, leaders, or media programming, in the hope of penetrating a media-driven, consumer-oriented culture more effectively. Faith branding treats faith as a product and attempts to apply the principles of marketing in order to "sell" the product. Faith branding is a response to the challenge that religious organizations and leaders face regarding how to express their faith in a media-dominated culture.

References

Sources
Ministry Today: The Art of Branding

Further reading

Types of branding


The 1966 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 11 to October 9, 1966. The Braves played their inaugural season in Atlanta, following their relocation from Milwaukee.  Three teams played the 1966 season in new stadiums.  On April 12, the Braves ushered in Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium with the Pittsburgh Pirates taking a 3–2 win in 13 innings.  One week later, Anaheim Stadium opened with the California Angels losing to the Chicago White Sox, 3–1 in the Angels' debut following their move from Los Angeles to nearby Orange County.  On May 8, the St. Louis Cardinals closed out old Sportsman's Park/Busch Stadium I with a 10–5 loss to the San Francisco Giants before opening the new Busch Memorial Stadium four days later with a 4–3 win in 12 innings over the Atlanta Braves.

In the World Series the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 4 games to 0.

Awards and honors
Baseball Hall of Fame
Casey Stengel
Ted Williams
Most Valuable Player
Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles, OF (AL)
Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates, OF (NL)
Cy Young Award
Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers
Rookie of the Year
Tommie Agee, Chicago White Sox, OF (AL)
Tommy Helms, Cincinnati Reds, 2B (NL)
The Sporting News Player of the Year Award
Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles
The Sporting News American League Pitcher of the Year
Jim Kaat, Minnesota Twins
The Sporting News National League Pitcher of the Year
Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers
Gold Glove Award
Joe Pepitone (1B) (AL)
Bobby Knoop (2B) (AL)
Brooks Robinson (3B) (AL)
Luis Aparicio (SS) (AL)
Tommie Agee (OF) (AL)
Al Kaline (OF) (AL)
Tony Oliva (OF) (AL)
Bill Freehan (C) (AL)
Jim Kaat (P) (AL)

MLB statistical leaders

1 American League Triple Crown Batting Winner
2 National League Triple Crown Pitching

Standings

American League

National League

Postseason

Bracket

Managers

American League

National League

Home field attendance

Events
January 20 – The Baseball Writers' Association of America voters elect Ted Williams to the Hall of Fame. Williams receives 282 of a possible 302 votes.
February 28 – Seeking an unprecedented 3-year $1.05 million to be divided evenly, the Dodgers' Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout.
March 5 – In what will prove to be one of the more influential off-the-field events in Major League history, representatives of the players elect Marvin Miller to the post of executive director of the Major League Players Association (MLPA).
March 8 – The Special Veterans Committee waives Hall of Fame election rules and inducts Casey Stengel, recently retired manager of the New York Mets.
March 17 – Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale escalate their threat of retirement by signing movie contracts.
March 30 – Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale end their 32-day holdout, signing for $130,000 and $105,000 respectively.
April 3 – USC pitcher Tom Seaver signs with the New York Mets.  He had been drafted by the Atlanta Braves, but they had signed him to a minor league contract while he was still in college.  This voided Seaver's remaining eligibility, and voided the contract.  The Mets won a special lottery over Cleveland and Philadelphia to win the right to sign him.
April 11 – Emmett Ashford takes the field in Washington to officiate a 5–2 Washington Senators win over the Cleveland Indians.  He is the first African-American umpire in Major League history.
April 12 – Over 50,000 fans show up at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium to watch the Braves' first home game in Atlanta.  The Braves fall to the Pittsburgh Pirates 3–2 in 13 innings, however.
May 8 – The visiting San Francisco Giants defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 10–5 in the final game at Busch Stadium I.
May 12 – Four days after the closing of Busch Stadium I, the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the visiting Atlanta Braves 4–3 in 12 innings, in front of 46,048 fans in attendance, in the first game at Busch Memorial Stadium.
May 14 – The San Francisco Giants' Willie Mays hits his then National League record 512th home run – topping another Giant, Mel Ott.  The Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6–1 at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
June 7 – The Kansas City Athletics use the second overall pick to draft Arizona State outfielder Reggie Jackson.
June 10 – Sonny Siebert of the Cleveland Indians no-hits the Washington Senators 2–0 at Cleveland Stadium. The no-hitter is the first by an Indian since Bob Feller's third career no-hitter, in 1951.
July 3 – Atlanta pitcher Tony Cloninger hits two grand slams in a game against the Giants, the first National League player and first pitcher in history to do so.  His nine RBI in a game is a record for pitchers.
July 12 – At St. Louis, Maury Wills' 10th-inning single scores Tim McCarver, as the National League wins 2–1 over the American League in the All-Star Game, but AL Brooks Robinson's stellar game (three hits, eight fielding chances) earns him the MVP honors.
July 25 – During his Hall of Fame induction speech, Ted Williams publicly calls on baseball to induct former great players from the Negro leagues.  He specifically calls for the induction of Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige.
September 22 – The Baltimore Orioles beat the host Kansas City Athletics 6–1 to clinch their first American League pennant since moving to Baltimore. Both Brooks Robinson and Frank Robinson have two RBIs. Frank Robinson will end the year as the Triple Crown winner, the first to achieve the feat since Mickey Mantle in 1956. He clinches with a batting average of .316, 49 home runs and 122 RBIs.
September 22 – In a one-game series delayed two days by rain, the New York Yankees lost to the Chicago White Sox 4-1.  The game was played in front of just 413 fans in Yankee Stadium I, the smallest crowd in the history of any version of Yankee Stadium and the fifth-smallest crowd in Major League Baseball history.  Four days after this game was played (September 26, 1966), Red Barber, long considered a pioneer in broadcasting baseball was told his contract would not be renewed by then-Yankees owner CBS.  This has been disproven since but the belief still was (and according to him, was the case) that he was fired for reporting the small crowd of that infamous game on television   (the game aired locally on WPIX-TV, Channel 11 that was the Yankees TV home at that time and continued to be for many years after).  Barber would never broadcast another game (he was allowed to finish his contract for 1966, however, what were to be his final three games for the Yankees in Washington against the Senators were all rained out and he was not scheduled to work the season-ending series in Chicago against the White Sox).
September 26 – Willie McCovey hits his 200th career home run, helping the San Francisco Giants beat the Atlanta Braves 8–2.
October 9 – In Game Four of the World Series, Dave McNally wraps up a brilliant pitching display, and the first World Championship for the Baltimore Orioles, with a four-hit, 1–0 shutout against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Series MVP Frank Robinson hits a home run off Don Drysdale for the only run of the game and gave Baltimore a surprising sweep of the defending World Champion Dodgers. The shutout completes a World Series record  scoreless innings pitched by Orioles pitchers, beginning with Moe Drabowsky pitching 6 innings in relief of McNally in Game One, followed by shutouts by Jim Palmer and Wally Bunker.  The Orioles are the last of the original eight American League franchises to win their first World Series.

Television coverage
For the first time, NBC became exclusive national TV broadcaster of MLB. The network replaced ABC as the holder of the Games of the Week package. The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies, which had instead sold their TV rights to CBS in prior seasons, also joined NBC's package. The new package under NBC called for 28 games, as compared to the 123 combined among three networks during the 1960s. NBC also continued to air the All-Star Game and World Series.

See also
1966 Nippon Professional Baseball season

References

External links
1966 Major League Baseball season schedule

Major League Baseball seasons


The Suppliant Maidens may refer to:
 The Suppliants (Aeschylus) by Aeschylus, an ancient Greek play where the Danaides seek protection from King Pelasgus
 The Suppliants (Euripides) by Euripides, an ancient Greek play where the mothers of the Seven Against Thebes seek help from Theseus to bury their sons


New Maldives began as a group of young ministers who supported the dictatorship of President Gayoom and claimed to be working to usher in liberal democracy to the Maldives. Its most public proponent is Ahmed Shaheed, supported by  Hassan Saeed and Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, who were serving as Foreign Minister, Attorney-General and Justice Minister, respectively. The New Maldives was launched in December 2005 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and was initially used by the media as a pejorative term.

Origins
New Maldives developed out of the close relationship between Hassan Saeed, who became the Attorney-General in November 2003, and Ahmed Shaheed when the latter was appointed as Chief Government Spokesman in May 2004. Both Saeed and Shaheed are alumni of the University of Queensland where they obtained their PhDs. They used their positions as Chief Legal Adviser to the President and Director of Communications respectively to dismantle the autocratic regime of Gayoom.

The public widely believed Saeed and Shaheed engineered the dismissal of the bulk of the Old Guard from the Cabinet of President Gayoom in May 2005. Shaheed became the Foreign Minister in the new Cabinet line-up, replacing Fathulla Jameel, who had served 28 years as Foreign Minister.

Shaheed claims to have coined the term New Maldives in November 2005 as a vision of the political reforms that were being implemented by President Gayoom in his sixth term in office. The concept was unveiled to the public in December 2005 at a press conference hosted by the Maldives High Commission in Colombo. The ministers in the panel were Foreign Minister Shaheed, Attorney General Saeed, Justice Minister Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, and Information Minister Mohamed Nasheed. Media reports of the event labeled the participating ministers as New Maldives.

Political Take-Off
As a ginger group, the New Maldives reached their high point when they produced the Roadmap for the Reform Agenda in March 2006, through which they tied the president to time-bound steps to create a new political order in the Maldives. The campaign to produce the Roadmap, January – March 2006, saw the New Maldives ministers clash openly with the Old Guard, especially over the insertion of provisions in the Roadmap to combat corruption and to subscribe to international human rights norms. The New Maldives claims credit for having acceded to all the major international human rights treaties.

By April 2006, the Old Guard led by the President's half-brother, Abdulla Yameen, clashed openly with the New Maldives ministers during the elections for the DRP Council. Saeed and Shaheed were joined by other new ministers: Youth Minister Hussain Hilmy, Atolls Minister Waheed Deen, Construction Minister Mauroof Jameel, Housing Minister Ibrahim Rafeeg, Gender Minister Ayesha Didi and other young politicians such as Imad Solih and Lubna Zahir Hussain. In the elections that followed, the New Maldives faction gained a majority of the seats in the council. In the process, the New Maldives effectively destroyed the careers of both Ilyas Ibrahim and Abdulla Yameen, who had been the leading contenders to succeed President Gayoom.

Saeed was elected as one of the four Deputy Leaders and became the rising star of Maldivian politics.

Westminster House Talks
Shortly after the election victory, Shaheed and Saeed engineered the Westminster House process, through which they pardoned and released a number of high-profile dissidents who were languishing in jail or facing politically motivated prosecutions. These were steps towards a multiparty dialogue process supervised by the British Government designed to speed up the stalled constitutional reforms. However, both Gayoom and Yameen, who feared that British mediation would mean that the Gayoom might not be able to run for a seventh term in office, derailed the process.

Open Clash with Gayoom
The breach between Gayoom and the New Maldives began to become visible by 10 December 2006, when the Attorney-General declared that the Roadmap was being used to introduce only paper reforms. This breach became wider when he further called on the Chief Justice to choose between executive functions and judicial functions in a speech given in January 2007. The breach between the New Maldives and Gayoom intensified as the date for the referendum on a future system of government approached. New Maldives favoured a presidential system with two-term limitation and clear separation of powers while Gayoom and Yameen favoured a prime ministerial system that would enable Gayoom to seek re-election. Finally, by July 2007, Shaheed openly accused Gayoom of manipulating and corrupting the parliament for his personal gain while Saeed and Jameel resigned to protest over Gayoom's attempts to obstruct the reform roadmap.

Launching of the New Maldives Movement
Having left the Cabinet, the trio launched the New Maldives Movement on 29 August 2007 in Colombo, and traveled to London and Brussels to generate international support for the project. Upon return to the Maldives, the group encouraged the formation of a united front of pro-democracy groups as the National Unity Alliance. The New Maldives Movement became an important actor within the Alliance.

Banning of New Maldives
In early January, the official newspaper of the governing DRP, Hamaroalhi, accused New Maldives of fostering terrorism. On 18 January 2008, the Minister for Legal Reform and Government Spokesman Mohamed Nasheed declared that New Maldives Movement had not sought registration with the Home Minister and was therefore an illegal movement. Ten days later, the Home Minister officially banned the New Maldives Movement led by the three ex-ministers and granted a licence to two members of the DRP to operate an NGO by the name of New Maldives Movement. The Home Minister also warned that the ex-ministers would face two years in prison if they used the tag of New Maldives Movement.

Leadership Challenge
Hassan Saeed, with Shaheed as his running mate, contested the first-ever multi-party presidential elections held in the Maldives in October 2008 on an independent ticket. At the start of the campaign, Saeed successfully overcame attempts to disqualify his candidature on the basis of his age (he was 38 at that time) and on the grounds of the nationality of his wife. Immediately afterward, the government banned, as un-Islamic, an academic book that Saeed had published four years previously on freedom of religion. The New Maldives team were blacked out from the state media for much of the campaign, until they threatened to take legal action against the government under the new Constitution that came into force a few weeks ahead of the election. In the first round, Saeed and Shaheed polled nearly 17% of the popular vote and having come third in the race, just failed to qualify for the second round run-off. However they pledged immediate and unconditional support to the contender, Mohamed Nasheed, and formed a coalition that defeated the 30-year-old regime on 28 October 2008.

In the government that was formed on 11 November 2008, Shaheed became the Foreign Minister, Jameel the Science and Technology Minister and Saeed Special Adviser to the President. Saeed quit as Adviser on 18 February 2009, alleging that the new president had betrayed the trust the people had placed in him by violating the Constitution and abusing power.

Entry into Parliament
On 27 January 2009, the New Maldives Movement was formally registered as the Dhivehi Qawmee Party, and in the elections for the parliament held on 9 May, the Dhivehi Qawmee Party secured 3 seats.

External links
Longest Serving Leader
New Maldives Letter
FM Quits
Threat to Democracy
New Maldives

References

Organisations based in the Maldives
Politics of the Maldives


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Live preview in digital cameras
Sony Ericsson LiveView


Medinilla beamanii is a species in the genus Medinilla of the family Melastomataceae.

Etymology
Medinilla is named for José de Medinilla y Pineda, who was governor of Mauritius (then known as the Marianne Islands) in 1820.
The species is named after John H. Beaman who first collected it in flower.

Description
Medinilla beamanii is a large evergreen shrub. The bright pink small flowers are produced in large panicles on pendant reddish stems. Fruits are rounded pink berries turning  reddish when ripe.

Distribution
This plant is native to the island of Borneo.

Habitat
This species is typical of the shaded mountain rainforests and prefers moist, well-draining soils, at an altitude  of  above sea level.

References

Medinilla beamanii; J.C. Regalado; in Blumea 35: 29. 1990
 Catalogue of Life
 Zipcodezoo

External links
 Nature Love You

beamanii
Flora of Borneo
Plants described in 1990


The Professional is the debut studio album by American record producer DJ Clue?. It was released on December 15, 1998, via Roc-A-Fella Records.

Recording sessions took place at Alien Flyers, at Platinum Island Studios, at Desert Storm Studios, at Soundtrack Studios, at The Hit Factory, at Sound On Sound Studios and at D&D Studios in New York City, at Krosswire Studios in Atlanta, and at Source Sound Labs in Canton, Massachusetts. Production was handled by Ken "Duro" Ifill, Buckwild, DJ Scratch, Hangmen 3, Laze-E-Laze, M.O.P., Self, V.I.C., Swizz Beatz and Clue himself.

It features guest appearances from DMX, Fabolous, Big Noyd, Big Pun, Boot Camp Clik, Cam'ron, Canibus, Drag-On, EPMD, Eve, Flipmode Squad, Foxy Brown, Ja Rule, Jadakiss, Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, Keith Murray, Lord Tariq, Made Men, Ma$e, Memphis Bleek, Missy Elliott, Mobb Deep, Mocha, M.O.P., Nas, Nature, Nicole Wray, N.O.R.E., Puff Daddy, Raekwon, Redman, R.O.C. and Styles P.

The album peaked at number twenty-six on the Billboard 200 chart, and number three on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on January 27, 1999, and then went platinum on August 20, 2001, indicating US sales of over one million units.

Its sequels, The Professional 2 and The Professional 3, were released in 2001 and 2006, respectively.

Track listing
 "Intro" (featuring Sean "Puffy" Combs) 1:02
 "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" (Remix) (featuring DMX, Drag-On, Eve, Jadakiss and Styles P) (produced by Swizz Beatz, remixed by DURO) 3:52
 "It's On" (featuring DMX) 3:25
 "Fantastic 4" (featuring Cam'ron, Big Pun, N.O.R.E. and Canibus) 5:09
 "Queensfinest" (featuring Nas) (produced by Self) 3:26
 "Exclusive New Shit" (featuring Nature) 3:08
 "Gangsta Shit" (featuring Jay-Z and Ja Rule) 4:38
 "Thugged Out Shit" (featuring Memphis Bleek) 3:54
 "It's My Thang '99" (featuring EPMD, Keith Murray and Redman) 3:00
 "Mariah Carey" (Skit) 0:21
 "Whatever You Want" (featuring Flipmode Squad) (produced by DJ Scratch) 4:06
 "That's The Way" (featuring Fabolous, Foxy Brown and Ma$e) 4:31
 "I Like Control" (featuring Missy Elliott, Mocha and Nicole Wray) 3:48
 "Bitch Be a Ho" (featuring Jermaine Dupri and R.O.C.) 3:23
 "If They Want It" (featuring Fabolous) 4:02
 "Pain in da Ass" (Skit) 0:28
 "The Professional" (featuring Mobb Deep and Big Noyd) (produced by V.I.C.) 3:39
 "Brown Paper Bag Thoughts" (featuring Raekwon) 3:15
 "Cops & Robbers" (featuring Paul Cain and Lord Tariq)  3:26
 "Made Men" (featuring Made Men) 2:41
 "No Love" (featuring M.O.P.) 4:12
 "Come On" (featuring Boot Camp Clik) 4:31

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

DJ Clue? albums
1998 debut albums
Roc-A-Fella Records albums
Albums produced by Buckwild
Albums produced by DJ Clue?
Albums produced by DJ Scratch
Albums produced by Swizz Beatz


The 1967 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 10 to October 12, 1967. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox four games to three in the World Series, which was the first World Series appearance for the Red Sox in 21 years.  Following the season, the Kansas City Athletics relocated to Oakland.

The season was filled with historic seasons from multiple players. Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox had tied for the most home runs in MLB with Harmon Killebrew, giving him the elusive triple crown. He led the American League in batting average (.326), home runs due to the tie with Killebrew (44) and runs batted in (121) (This feat would not be accomplished again until Miguel Cabrera earned the triple crown in 2012 with the Detroit Tigers). Yastrzemski also won the AL MVP and led the Red Sox to the AL pennant for the first time in two decades. They would ultimately lose to the St. Louis Cardinals 7–2 in Game 7 of the World Series.

The Cardinals had standout players as well, with first baseman Orlando Cepeda becoming the first unanimously voted NL MVP. Cepeda finished the season with 25 home runs, 111 RBIs and a .325 batting average. He did however, struggle in the World Series, hitting only .103 with one RBI.

Awards and honors

Baseball Hall of Fame
Branch Rickey
Red Ruffing
Lloyd Waner
Most Valuable Player
Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox, OF (AL)
Orlando Cepeda, St. Louis Cardinals, 1B (NL)
Cy Young Award
Jim Lonborg, Boston Red Sox
Mike McCormick, San Francisco Giants
Rookie of the Year
Rod Carew, Minnesota Twins, 2B (AL)
Tom Seaver, New York Mets, SP (NL)
Gold Glove Award
George Scott (1B) (AL)
Bobby Knoop (2B) (AL)
Brooks Robinson (3B) (AL)
Jim Fregosi (SS) (AL)
Paul Blair (OF) (AL)
Al Kaline (OF) (AL)
Carl Yastrzemski (OF) (AL)
Bill Freehan (C) (AL)
Jim Kaat (P) (AL)

MLB statistical leaders

1 American League Triple Crown Batting Winner

Standings

American League

National League

Postseason

Bracket

Home field attendance

Other
April 21 – The Los Angeles Dodgers run of 737 consecutive games without a game being rained out ends.
May 14 - Mickey Mantle hit his 500th home run at Yankee Stadium.
October 18, 1967: City officials from Kansas City, Oakland and Seattle were invited by Joe Cronin to discuss the A's relocation plans. United States Senator Stuart Symington attended the meeting and discussed the possibility of revoking baseball's antitrust exemption if the A's were allowed to leave Kansas City. The owners began deliberation and after the first ballot, only six owners were in favor of relocation. The owner of Baltimore voted against, while the ownership for Cleveland, New York and Washington had abstained. In the second ballot, the New York Yankees voted in favor of the Athletics relocation to Oakland. To appease all interested parties, the Athletics announced that MLB would expand to Kansas City and Seattle no later than the 1971 MLB season. MLB owners, bowing to Symington's threat, awarded Kansas City and Seattle expansion American League franchises for the 1969 season.

Television coverage
NBC was the exclusive national TV broadcaster of MLB, airing the weekend Game of the Week, the All-Star Game, and the World Series.

See also
1967 Nippon Professional Baseball season

References

External links
1967 Major League Baseball season schedule

Major League Baseball seasons


Luca Castiglia (born 17 March 1989) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for  club Arezzo.

Club career

Early career
 within the youth setup of the Piedmont-based club, Castiglia transferred to city rivals, Juventus Football Club in 2005. Torino bankrupted in 2005 despite winning the promotion back to Serie A; their players were allowed to leave the club for free, although some players were remained for the newly formed entity "Torino FC SpA" for 2005–06 Serie B.

Juventus
After joining Juventus, Castiglia registered with the club's youth sector at the start of the 2005–06 season, having spent some of his formative years in the under-17 team in 2005–06 season, under-18 team in 2006–07 season and the under-20 team for the last 2 seasons of his youth career (2007–08 & 2008–09). He also played once in the Campionato Nazionale Primavera for their under-20 team in 2006–07 season.

Castiglia began to earn first-team call-ups during the 2007–08 Serie A campaign, by then coach, Claudio Ranieri. His senior debut came on 27 January 2008, when he came on as a substitute in a 1–3 away victory over Livorno in Serie A league match. He made one other senior appearance in Serie A for the club, coming on as an 89th minute substitute in a 3–3 draw at Sampdoria on the final matchday of the 2007–08 Serie A season. He also made his debut in the UEFA Champions League during the 2008–09 edition, coming on a substitute in a 0–0 draw with BATE Borisov. In February 2009, he helped guide the Juventus Primavera team to win the Viareggio Cup.

In July 2009, Castiglia was sent out on loan to Serie B club, A.C. Cesena, but he was limited to just two first team appearances. Re-called by Juventus in January 2010, he was immediately loaned to Lega Pro Prima Divisione club Reggiana, making 8 league appearances. He made a return to Juventus once more on 30 June 2010, following the expiration of the loan deal, though he was again sent out on loan to the Lega Pro Prima Divisione with F.C. Esperia Viareggio thereafter.

With Viareggio, Castiglia made 30 league appearances and 4 appearances in the 2010–11 Coppa Italia Lega Pro, and on 30 June 2011, he returned to Juventus. Castiglia represented the reserve team during the 2011 pre-season as overage player, along with fellow first team players Albin Ekdal and Oussama Essabr.

Co-ownership with SPAL & Vicenza
On 29 August 2011, he was sold to SPAL 1907 in the Lega Pro Prima Divisione in a co-ownership deal. He made his debut for the club on 11 September 2011 in a 1–0 away loss to Taranto. He went on to score 2 goals in 22 league matches for the club during the 2011–12 Lega Pro Prima Divisione season. On 20 June 2012, however, he returned to Juventus after the co-ownership deal was not renewed.

On 3 August 2012, Juventus sold Castiiglia to Serie B side, Vicenza Calcio on another co-ownership deal for a nominal fee of €500. Castiglia was a regular performer for the club during the 2012–13 Serie B, making 33 league appearances and scoring 5 goals, though his efforts were not enough to save the club from being relegated to the Lega Pro Prima Divisione for the 2013–14 Lega Pro Prima Divisione.

Juventus return
Despite the co-ownership deal being renewed in June 2013, Juventus bought back Castiglia on 21 August 2013 for €350,000 in order to finalize another transfer for Castiiglia. On 2 September 2013 he joined Serie B outfit Empoli on a season-long loan agreement. With 19 appearances in the league, Castiglia helped the club gain promotion back to Serie A for the first time since 2008 after their 2nd-place finish in the 2013–14 Serie B campaign. He returned to Juventus on 30 June 2014.

Pro Vercelli
In summer 2014 Castiglia was signed by Pro Vercelli in a temporary deal. In 2014–15 winter transfer window, Castiglia and Giuseppe Ruggiero joined Pro Vercelli outright, for €1.5 million and €250,000 respectively, with Cristian Bunino moved to Turin, for €1.75 million.

Salernitana

Loan to Ternana
On 31 January 2019, he joined Ternana on loan.

Loan to Padova
On 6 August 2019, he joined Padova on loan with a purchase option.

Loan to Modena
On 22 August 2020 he moved on loan to Modena.

Piacenza
On 21 January 2021, he signed a contract with Piacenza until 30 June 2023.

Arezzo
Castiglia signed with Arezzo in June 2022.

References

External links

 Football.it profile

Italian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Juventus FC players
ASD Viareggio Calcio players
SPAL players
LR Vicenza players
Empoli FC players
FC Pro Vercelli 1892 players
US Salernitana 1919 players
Ternana Calcio players
Calcio Padova players
Modena FC 2018 players
Piacenza Calcio 1919 players
SS Arezzo players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Sportspeople from the Province of Cuneo
Footballers from Piedmont
1989 births
Living people


Eccellenza Basilicata is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, Italy. It is competed among 16 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also have the chance to gain promotion, they are entered into a national play-off which consists of two rounds.

Champions
Here are the past champions of the Basilicata Eccellenza, organised into their respective seasons.

1991–92 Vultur Rionero
1992–93 Melfi
1993–94 Invicta Potenza
1994–95 Melfi
1995–96 Sporting Villa D'Agri
1996–97 Lagonegro
1997–98 Policoro
1998–99 Ferrandina
1999–2000 Materasassi
2000–01 Pisticci
2001–02 ASC Potenza
2002–03 Bernalda
2003–04 Lavello
2004–05 Francavilla sul Sinni
2005–06 Sporting Genzano
2006–07 Horatiana Venosa
2007–08 Sporting Genzano
2008–09 Pisticci
2009–10 Fortis Murgia
2010–11 Angelo Cristofaro
2011–12 Atletico Potenza
2012–13 Real Metapontino
2013–14 Rossoblu Potenza
2014–15 AZ Picerno
2015–16 Vultur Rionero
2016–17 Real Metapontino
2017–18 Rotonda
2018–19 Grumentum Val d'Agri
2019–20 Lavello
2020–21 Not assigned
2021–22 Matera Grumentum
2022–23 Rotonda

References

External links
Some Club Histories In the League

Sport in Basilicata
Bas
Sports leagues established in 1991
1991 establishments in Italy
Football clubs in Italy
Association football clubs established in 1991


Fanny Mallette (born September 5, 1975) is a Canadian actress.

Biography
She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil). She has twice been nominated for a Jutra Award for Best Actress in The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines) and A Girl at the Window (Une jeune fille à la fenêtre). Her other credits include Nos étés, Cheech, The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles), 7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion) and Scoop.

She won "Best Actress" at the film festival Pacific Meridian in 2011.

Selected filmography
The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit) - 2001
The Broken Line (La ligne brisée) - 2008
7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion) - 2010
Vertige - 2012
Arwad - 2013
You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) - 2014
Chorus - 2015
With Love (L'Amour) - 2019
Apapacho - 2019
Wars (Guerres) - 2021
Virage - 2021

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Actresses from Montreal
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
Best Supporting Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners


The International Federation for Family Development (IFFD) is a non-governmental organization that aims to provide training in parenting. It has General Consultative Status with the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

It arose from the La Fondation Internationale de la Famille, founded at the III International Family Congress held in Rome in October, 1978. The IFFD itself was founded at the 14th International Family Congress held in Orlando, Florida in 1998.

The chairman is Jim Morgan of the United States, and the president is Marina Robben of Belgium.

References

External links
 International Federation for Family Development
 Family Perspective

International organisations based in Spain


Eccellenza Lazio is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in Lazio, Italy. It is competed amongst 36 teams, in two different groups (A and B). The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also have the chance to gain promotion, they are entered into a national play-off which consists of two rounds.

Champions
Here are the past champions of the Lazio Eccellenza, organised into their respective group.

Group A

1991–92 Civita Castellana
1992–93 Fiumicino
1993–94 Civitavecchia Calcio
1994–95 Guidonia
1995–96 Fiumicino
1996–97 Ladispoli
1997–98 Fregene
1998–99 Fortitudo Nepi
1999–2000 Monterotondo
2000–01 Albalonga
2001–02 Cisco Collatino
2002–03 Ostia Mare
2003–04 Sorianese
2004–05 Pisoniano
2005–06 Anziolavinio
2006–07 Bassano Romano
2007–08 Civitavecchia Calcio
2008–09 Pomezia Calcio
2009–10 Fidene
2010–11 Palestrina
2011–12 Ostia Mare
2012–13 Santa Maria delle Mole
2013–14 Viterbese
2014–15 Albalonga
2015–16 Monterosi
2016–17 S.F.F. Atletico
2017–18 Vis Artena
2018–19 Team Nuova Florida
2019–20 Montespaccato
2020–21 Real Monterotondo Scalo
2021–22 Pomezia
2022–23 Anzio

Group B

1991–92 Cynthia Genzano
1992–93 Ferentino
1993–94 Ceccano
1994–95 Vis Velletri
1995–96 Terracina
1996–97 Real Piedimonte
1997–98 La Setina Sezze
1998–99 Lanuvio Campoleone
1999–2000 Aprilia
2000–01 Ferentino
2001–02 Anagni Fontana
2002–03 Frascati Lupa G.I.O.C.
2003–04 Ferentino
2004–05 Cassino
2005–06 Morolo
2006–07 Lupa Frascati
2007–08 Pol. Gaeta
2008–09 Virtus Latina
2009–10 Zagarolo
2010–11 Sora
2011–12 San Cesareo
2012–13 Monterotondo Lupa
2013–14 Lupa Castelli Romani
2014–15 Trastevere
2015–16 Città di Ciampino
2016–17 Cassino
2017–18 Città di Anagni
2018–19 Pro Calcio Tor Sapienza
2019–20 Insieme Ausonia
2020–21 Unipomezia
2021–22 Tivoli
2022–23 Sora

Group C
2020–21 Tivoli
2021–22 Lupa Frascati A.S.D.

References

External links
Some Club Histories In the League

Sport in Lazio
Lazio
Sports leagues established in 1991
1991 establishments in Italy
Football clubs in Italy
Association football clubs established in 1991


Bussdor United is a Nigerian football club formerly based in Port Harcourt but are now playing in Owerri. It is one of the few clubs in the country owned by a private entity and not a state government.

History
The club was founded by Oscar Igbokwe, President of Bussdor Group of Companies, an oil and gas conglomerate.

The club rose from the amateur ranks to the professional first division in the first four years of their founding. However, their most "famous" moment was when they missed out on promotion to the Premier League in 2006. On August 12, the last day of the season, Akwa United F.C. beat Calabar Rovers 13–0 after scoring only 12 goals all season. Thus, Akwa won promotion over Bussdor by one goal. Bussdor filed an appeal to have the game investigated, but to no avail.

At the end of the 2010 season, they were relegated to the Nigeria Amateur League with a record of four wins, five ties and twenty-one losses, setting a new record in losses since the Professional League went to a two-division format.

Current squad

External links
Home Page
  Details of Bussdor appeal to NFA
Division 1 roundup

Football clubs in Nigeria
Imo State
Association football clubs established in 2001
2001 establishments in Nigeria
Sports clubs and teams in Nigeria


The 2008 Swiss Open Super Series was the fourth tournament of 2008 BWF Super Series badminton tournament. It was held from March 11 to March 16, 2008 in Basel, Switzerland.

Seeds

Men's singles
 Lin Dan
 Lee Chong Wei
 Bao Chunlai
 Chen Jin
 Kenneth Jonassen
 Sony Dwi Kuncoro
 Taufik Hidayat
 Peter Gade

Women's singles
 Xie Xingfang
 Zhang Ning
 Lu Lan
 Zhu Lin
 Pi Hongyan
 Wang Chen
 Xu Huaiwen
 Wong Mew Choo

Men's doubles
 Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng
 Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan
 Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong
 Choong Tan Fook / Lee Wan Wah
 Tony Gunawan /  Candra Wijaya
 Jung Jae-sung / Lee Yong-dae
 Jens Eriksen / Martin Lundgaard Hansen
 Luluk Hadiyanto / Alvent Yulianto

Women's doubles
 Wei Yili / Zhang Yawen
 Yang Wei / Zhang Jiewen
 Du Jing / Yu Yang
 Lee Hyo-jung / Lee Kyung-won
 Gao Ling / Zhao Tingting
 Cheng Wen-hsing / Chien Yu-chin
 Kumiko Ogura / Reiko Shiota
 Gail Emms	/ Donna Kellogg

Mixed doubles
 Zheng Bo / Gao Ling
 Nova Widianto / Liliyana Natsir
 Flandy Limpele / Vita Marissa
 Xie Zhongbo / Zhang Yawen
 He Hanbin	/ Yu Yang
 Lee Yong-dae / Lee Hyo-jung
 Sudket Prapakamol / Saralee Thungthongkam
 Nathan Robertson / Gail Emms

Results

Men's singles

Others

Semi-finals

Finals

External links
Badminton Swiss Open at tournamentsoftware.com

Swiss Open (badminton)
Open Super Series
Swiss Open
Sports competitions in Basel
Münchenstein


An electric gate is a type of gate that can be opened and closed using an electrically powered mechanism.

Electric Gate Options

Driveway gate openers can be the rollback (sliding) type that retracks a gate along the fence or wall on wheels or bearing, or the swing type that draws the gate open or closed on hinges. They are usually operated by a remote controller or a sensor

Articulated
Articulated gate openers can be used for gates with wide posts allowing opening in small spaces. An easy system for DIY installers as they are simple to install but not as aesthetically pleasing as other motor designs. Also known as Crank arm operators, they are the main type of automation system sold in France, where low aluminium gates are often used.

Underground
Under-gate Jack operators usually control the gate by directly moving the pivot point of each gate leaf. This makes the unit ideal cosmetically and also allows for up to 180 degrees of leaf swing as required. However controlling the pivot point of the gate, is like opening a door by twisting the hinge, and as so is very difficult due to the loads needed at that point. This is highlighted with snap, as the gate has to change direct, as soon as it can. For this reason they are recommend as only suitable for ‘Domestic’ systems in a low risk of abuse environment. Another major consideration with the use of under-gate units is that of water immersion/ingress and warranty voidance. If the water table is high or the drainage of the unit’s foundation box inadequate throughout the systems life, then water ingress and unit failure is increased.

Ram or link arm units are usually simpler to install and maintain, they are visible to otherwise ignorant abuse and as they fix down along each gate leaf, they also have an obvious and sometimes major, mechanical advantage over Jacks. Therefore, Rams are far more suitable on Multi-user & commercial systems. Also the manual release is always above ground, making it often more user friendly in operation.

Sliding
If space is an issue or the driveway behind the gates is on a steep incline, a better option would be a sliding gate. Sliding gates are also very popular in a commercial environment. Sliding gates are also used for cantilever gate systems.

Electric Gate History
One of the first electric gates was invented by a Canadian Fred W. Watson in 1881. It was designed to be used for railway systems. In 1884, a number of American newspapers reported that the French railway companies were about to adopt an electric gate opener. “A catch connected with an electro-magnet keeps a gate closed,” reported The National Tribune on October 9, 1884. One of the early demonstrations of such gates in the United States was arranged by the short-lived Toulmin Electric Railway Gate Company in 1887, in Baltimore. At the end of the 19th century, electric gates were also used at horse racing tracks.

The first commercial electric gate systems were hydraulic and designed for reliability and ease of use. The cost of the hydraulic systems however meant that other companies started producing more affordable electromechanical alternatives. Hydraulic motors are the preferred choice on large and heavy gates as they can generate high levels of torque, electromechanical systems designed for lower usage domestic installations because they can be produced more cost effectively.

The Electric Gate Motor
The backbone of any electric gate, whether automatic or not, is the electric gate motor, two distinct motor types exist hydraulic, or electromechanical. This is the electric device which actually enables the electric gate to open and close without having to manually push the gate.

Electric Gate Safety
The safety of an automated gate is an important consideration, in the European Union, automated gate safety is specified by a series of European Normalisations. An automated gate that has not been fitted with safety in mind can potentially become a major hazard particularly to untrained users. Various safety devices are available to make sure that your gates meet the highest of European or American safety standards.

Gate and Security
Since electric gates operate slowly, they are susceptible to "tailgating" threats, in which a person or vehicle sneaks in behind an authorized user. If security is a concern, a video surveillance camera should be installed.

Electric gates alone, however solid and imposing they may be, cannot guarantee a completely secure environment electric locks, are often needed to boost the locking effectiveness of the gate motors. Electric gates are recommended to be used in combination with other security features to install a full security system. A few of these features are closed circuits with security cameras, additional gates in conjunction with the main gate, electronic keycards and keypads, security guards.

Aside from the additional security features that should go with parking barrier gates, electric security gates often offer safety features like sensors that determine when there is an obstruction to prevent the electronic gate from swinging into a vehicle or closing on somebody's hands. To prevent the electronic gates from being damaged by irresponsible drivers driving fast speed bumps are also commonly placed before gate entrances to slow down vehicles.

Safety Regulations

In the United States all the electric gate installations must meet Underwriters Laboratories 325 (UL 325) standard while in Europe installations must meet with the Machinery directive 2006/42/EC with EN13241-1 being the regulations concerning gates.

The installer of the gate is responsible for the conformity to regulation, not the manufacturer. The two main EN regulations that then apply are EN 12453 which describes the safety levels that should be observed when installing a gate and EN12445 which describes the testing method that must be undertaken.

The major points are the maximum amount of force at certain test points. Example - a maximum of 400N of force can be applied in the last 50, 300 and 500 mm of travel of a gate, after the initial impact the force must drop to 150N within 0.75 of a second and reduce to 25N within 5 seconds.  During the mid travel of a gate the allowable force is 1400N.
A full risk assessment of the gates must take place with all crush, cutting points shown to the client with appropriate protection devices offered, a recommended maintenance program should also be provided. Finally the installer must confirm that all electrical equipment fitted has the European CE mark all the time.

To conform to these regulations the gate system must be checked with a calibrated force tester and the full results kept in a technical file for 7 years. If the gate is not tested it does not comply.

Most gate kits can be fitted with safety equipment so that these limits are achieved and so cover that part of EN13241-1.

In September 2010, following two incidents in Bridgend and Manchester, when children were killed by sliding gates, the UK Health and Safety Executive issued 2 safety notices aimed at gate manufacturers and installers, demanding them to comply with the Annex A of BS EN 12453:2001 standard.

Types of Gates
In recent years, aluminium has emerged as the material of choice for driveway gates in the UK, and for good reason. One of the key reasons for this shift is the ease with which aluminium gates can meet force limitation guidance. Force limitation refers to the maximum amount of force that a gate can exert on an object or person, ensuring safety and minimizing the risk of accidents or injuries. With lightweight aluminium gates, meeting these force limitation guidelines becomes much more achievable, as they require less force to open and close compared to heavier materials such as wrought iron or steel.

Another advantage of aluminium gates is their compatibility with brushless motor operators. Brushless motors offer numerous benefits over traditional brushed motors, including higher efficiency, longer lifespan, and reduced maintenance requirements. Aluminium gates, being lightweight, work well with brushless motor operators, as the motors do not have to work as hard to maneuver the gates. This not only enhances the overall performance and reliability of the gate system but also contributes to energy efficiency, leading to cost savings in the long run.

Furthermore, aluminium gates provide additional advantages such as resistance to rust and corrosion, making them a durable and low-maintenance option. They are also highly customizable, allowing homeowners to choose from a wide range of designs, colors, and finishes to match their aesthetic preferences. Additionally, aluminium is a sustainable material as it can be recycled, aligning with the growing trend of eco-consciousness in the construction and home improvement industries.

Overall, the combination of meeting force limitation guidance more easily, compatibility with brushless motor operators, durability, low maintenance, and customizability has made aluminium the material of choice for driveway gates in the UK. With its numerous benefits, it offers homeowners a reliable, safe, and aesthetically pleasing option for enhancing the security and curb appeal of their properties.

References

Types of gates
Door automation
Fences
Perimeter security


In the United States, with regard to automobiles, a glider is a vehicle without a powertrain (especially without an engine). Gliders are generally sold as unused car bodies, but a second-hand car may also be stripped of its powertrain and sold as a glider. The purpose of such a vehicle is to be used as a base for a non-standard powertrain, to create a novel variation of a conventional vehicle, custom car, exotic vehicle, or homemade electric vehicle conversion. The term is analogous to an aircraft with no engine being a glider.

Glider kit
A glider kit is a term for a kit used to restore or reconstruct a wrecked or dismantled truck or tractor unit. All glider kits include a frame, front axle, and body (cab). The kit may also contain other optional components.

A motor vehicle constructed from a glider kit is titled as a new vehicle in the United States. An exception to this is the state of Georgia where, when issued, for a tractor cab restored with a glider kit will always be branded "Rebuilt".

Glider truck
A glider truck is manufactured in the United States using a new frame from an original equipment manufacturer and a glider kit. A "pre-emissions" engine which does not meet current EPA emissions standards for a new tractor trailer may be installed. The required exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) technology is replaced by an older engine which doesn't have it, called a "pre-EGR engine."

Production of heavy duty glider trucks was estimated to be 10,000 in 2015, 4% of all sales. An Obama-era limit on production of 300 units yearly was lifted by the Trump administration. This change by the EPA was widely condemned by environmental groups and was withdrawn by Scott Pruitt's interim replacement facing the prospect of a likely loss in court.

Used glider
One can obtain a glider by modifying a used car. Parts removed from the vehicle include:

A/C & A/C condenser
Air intake/cleaner
Alternator
Battery
Brakes/Master cylinder
Clutch
Computer(s)
Engine
Flywheel
Gas tank, with fuel pipe and pumps and sensors
Heat panels
Heater core
Ignition
Mount brackets
Muffler system
Power steering
Radiator
Radiator fan
Radiator reservoirs
Radio
Spare tire
Starter
Suspension
Transmission
Warning lights and gauges
Wiper fluid reservoir
Wire

See also
Electric vehicle conversion
Kit car
Rolling chassis

References

Modified vehicles


Martin De Prycker (b. Sint-Niklaas, 16 January 1955) is a Belgian engineer and businessman. He was until December 2008 the CEO of Barco, a Belgian display hardware manufacturer. He currently serves as CEO of Caliopa, a spin-off of Ghent University and IMEC and is managing partner at Qbic fund.

Education
He graduated as a MSc in electrical engineering (1979) and holds a PhD in computer sciences (1982) from Ghent University. In addition, he obtained an MBA at the University of Antwerp in 1992.

Career
He started his career at Alcatel in 1982, at that time ITT. During his career at Alcatel, he held various key positions in Alcatel's research center in Antwerp. In 1985, he started research on ATM, which resulted in a first world prototype in Telecom Geneva in 1991. In 1996, as head of the Access Business Unit, he led Alcatel's ADSL virtual company for the development of ADSL. In 2000, he became Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and a member of the executive committee of Alcatel in Paris. In February 2002, he became the CEO of Barco, where he succeeded Hugo Vandamme.

Martin De Prycker was teaching at Boston University from 1988 to 1992 and at Ghent University from 1994 to 1999.

He is a member of the board of Agoria and of VOKA. In addition he is a member of the committee  of the Flemish Council for Science Policy and of the board of advice of the GIMV.

Bibliography
 Martin De Prycker, Asynchronous Transfer Mode: Solution for the Broadband ISDN, Prentice Hall PTR; 3Rev Ed edition (23 August 1995),

Sources

 Martin De Prycker wordt nieuwe CEO van BARCO (press release)
 Martin De Prycker wordt nieuwe CEO van BARCO

1955 births
Living people
Belgian businesspeople
Ghent University alumni
People from Sint-Niklaas


The Żyrafa Group (Polish: Zgrupowanie Żyrafa (i.e. Giraffe Group)) was a group of military units of Armia Krajowa, which fought during the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in the Sub district II of Żoliborz (of Armia Krajowa), which included the Żoliborz district of Warsaw.

Composition and command

 Commander - sec. lieutenant Lt Ryszard “Tatar” Wołczyński,
 227th Scout Battalion - sec. Liaison officer Ewa Ponińska

Home Army - sec. Commander Gen Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski
1st company - commanded by sec. lieutenant Marian Mehrenhole pseudonym "Wiktor",

2nd company - commanded by sec. lieutenant Jan Zaliwski pseudonym "Jan";
3rd company - commanded by sec. lieutenant Kazimierz Woyde pseudonym "Sikora".

Course of combat in the Warsaw Uprising 1944
During the last days the last days Żyrafa’s command was located in the buildings on Krasińskiego 20 and 29, and the Resurrectionist convent. The Germans were attacking first artillery drum fire, then tanks and troops. The group fought in Aleje Wojska Polskiego, in Stołeczna street, in Plac Henkla, in the Monastery of Zmartwychwstanki Sisters (the so-called "Zmartwychwstanki Fortress") in Krasińskiego street, where savage and bloody fights were waged. In the crossing of Krasińkiego and Stołeczna streets there was an access hatch into the sewer, by which communication with the Old Town was kept.

Among others, Rajmund Kazimierz Łaszczyński fought in the group.

See also
 Żubr Group (Polish: Zgrupowanie Żubr)
 Żmija Group (Polish: Zgrupowanie Żmija)
 Żaglowiec Group (Polish: Zgrupowanie Żaglowiec)
 Żniwiarz Group (Polish: Zgrupowanie Żniwiarz)
 Żbik Group (Polish: Zgrupowanie Żbik)
 Sub-district II of Żoliborz (of Armia Krajowa)
 Military description of the Warsaw Uprising

References

Units and formations of the Home Army
Warsaw Uprising


Robert Lussier (December 31, 1924 – March 19, 1994) was a Canadian politician and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

Background

He was born on December 31, 1924, in Richmond, Eastern Townships and became a physician.  He was married to Ginette Bruneau in 1952.

Mayor

Lussier served as Mayor of Repentigny, Lanaudière from 1960 to 1968.

Member of the Provincial Legislature

He ran as a Union Nationale candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the provincial district of L'Assomption in the 1966 election and won against Liberal incumbent Frédéric Coiteux.  He served as a parliamentary assistant in 1967 and was appointed to the Cabinet in the same year.  He served as Minister of Municipal Affairs until his defeat against Liberal candidate  in the 1970 election.

Parti Québécois Supporter

In the 1970s, Lussier became a Parti Québécois activist and held executive jobs within the party structure.  He was a mayoral candidate in Repentigny in 1977, but was defeated.

Death

He died on March 19, 1994.

References

1924 births
1994 deaths
Mayors of places in Quebec
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs


Eccellenza Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol () is the regional Eccellenza football division for clubs in the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy. It is competed amongst 16 teams, in one group. The winners of the Groups are promoted to Serie D. The club who finishes second also have the chance to gain promotion, they are entered into a national play-off which consists of two rounds.

Champions
Here are the past champions of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Eccellenza, organised into their respective seasons.

1991–92 Passirio Merano
1992–93 Rovereto
1993–94 Arco
1994–95 Settaurense
1995–96 Arco
1996–97 Südtirol
1997–98 Rovereto
1998–99 Mezzocorona
1999–2000 Condinese
2000–01 Rovereto
2001–02 Mezzocorona
2002–03 Bolzano
2003–04 Arco
2004–05 Vallagarina
2005–06 Porfido Albiano
2006–07 Alta Vallagarina
2007–08 Bolzano
2008–09 Porfido Albiano
2009–10 Trento
2010–11 St. Georgen
2011–12 Fersina Perginese
2012–13 Dro
2013–14 Mori Santo Stefano
2014–15 Levico Terme
2015–16 Virtus Bolzano
2016–17 Trento
2017–18 Virtus Bolzano
2018–19 Dro
2019–20 Trento
2020–21 Levico
2021–22 Virtus Bolzano
2022–23 Mori Santo Stefano

References

External links
Some Club Histories In the League

Sport in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Tren
Football clubs in Italy
Association football clubs established in 1991
1991 establishments in Italy
Sports leagues established in 1991


There are about 500 New Caledonians of Indian descent. They were known as Malabars and orinignally arrived in the 19th century from other French Territories, namely Réunion.

New Caledonia has several descendants of Tamils, whose parents intermarried with the local population already in the 20th century. New Caledonia requires a special study since many Tamils went there as labourers and a report in a book published about 1919 states that of the Chinese, Indians and Javanese who colonised new Caledonia, the Indians gave satisfaction. In Tahiti in August 1967, about twenty families who had descended from Tamils were found. Neither the parents nor the children had any knowledge of their ancestry, but the parents remembered their own parents and how when their parents and Indian friends met they spoke 'la langue' and often sang and cried remembering their homeland. The family name was the only clue to their Indian origin e.g. Pavalacoddy, Mariasoosay, Rayappan, Saminathan, Thivy and Veerasamy.

References
Tamil Diaspora of New Caledonia

New Caledonia
Indian diaspora in Oceania


Herpetological society is a commonly used term for a club or organized group of reptile and amphibian enthusiasts. The term is derived from herpetology - the branch of zoology dealing with the study of those organisms.

Herpetological societies are typically non-profit, private organizations in which members pay dues for the benefit of the group. In general they are geographically focused around a specific state, province, or region, but most groups accept members from anywhere in the world.

A few groups devote their endeavors to the most technical and scientific aspects of herpetology as a science, and therefore require academic or professional credentials of their members. However, most clubs are open to the public, having been founded by hobbyists and non-professionals to promote education and conservation while often sharing knowledge related to husbandry and breeding.

Herpetological Societies
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
British Herpetological Society
Herpetologists' League
Herpetological Society of Singapore
Madras Crocodile Bank Trust
Philadelphia Herpetological Society
The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
International Society for the History and Bibliography of Herpetology

External links to Herpetological Societies around the world

Australia

New South Wales
Australian Herpetological Society founded in 1949
Macarthur Herpetological Society
Frog and Tadpole Study GroupdfjjdZdf of NSW
Hawkesbury Herpetological Society
Illawarra Reptile Society
Orana Herpetological Society

Queensland
The Herpetological Society of Queensland
North Queensland Herpetological Society founded in 2003
Queensland Frog Society Society founded in 1990
Cape York Herpetological Society founded in 1982

Victoria
Amphibian Research Center
Victorian Frog Group
Victorian Herpetological Society

Austria
Austrian Herpetological Society (English and German language pages)

Belgium
Belgian Herpetological Society founded in 2010

Bangladesh
Herpetology Laboratory' Bangladesh founded in 2011

Brazil
Sociedade Brasileira de Herpetologia founded in 1984 (Portuguese language pages)

Canada
Newfoundland & Labrador Herpetological Society founded in 2013

China
Asiatic Herpetological Research Society founded in 1972

Croatia
Croatian Herpetological Society (Croatian language pages)

Czech Republic
Czech Society for Herpetoloculture and Herpetology (Czech and English language pages)
The Czech Herpetological Society (CHS) founded in 1973 (Czech and English language pages)

Estonia
Baltic Herpetological Society founded in 2005 (English language pages)

Europe (General)
Societas Europaea Herpetologica

Finland
Herpetological Society of Finland founded in 1992 (Finnish and English language pages)

France
Herpetological Society of France founded in 1971 (French language pages)

Germany
The German Chelonia Group (German and English language pages)
German Herpetological Society (German language pages)

Greece
Greek Herpetological Society (Greek and English language pages)

Hong Kong
Hong Kong Society of Herpetology (Chinese and English language pages)

Italy
Societas Herpetologica Italica (Italian herpetological association) founded in 1993(Italian language pages)
Sicilian Herpetological Society founded in 1994 (Italian language pages)

Iran
Pars Herpetologists Institute founded in 2006 (English language pages)

Ireland
The Herpetological Society of Ireland

Japan
Herpetological Society of Japan  founded in 1962 (Japanese and English language pages)

Malaysia
Amphibian and Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia (English and Malay language pages)

Netherlands
Lacerta - The Netherlands Association for Herpetoculture (Dutch language pages)

New Zealand
New Zealand Herpetological Society founded in 1969
The Society for Research on Amphibians and Reptiles in New Zealand founded in 1987

Norway
Norwegian Herpetological Association (Norwegian language pages)

Philippines
Herpetological Society of the Philippines founded in 2002

Russia
Nikolsky's Herpetological Society (Russian language pages)

Spain
Spanish Herpetological Society founded in 1984 (Spanish language pages)

Valencian Herpetological Society (SOHEVA) founded in 1981 (Spanish language pages)

Sweden
Swedish Herpetological Association founded in 1971 (Swedish language pages)

Turkey
Turkish Herpetological Society founded in 2002 (Turkish language pages)

United Kingdom
The Amphibian and Reptile Group of North Lancashire founded in 2011
The British Herpetological Society founded in 1947
International Herpetological Society founded in 1969
Gloucestershire Amphibian and Reptile Group founded in 2012
Northern Ireland Herpetological Society
Three Counties Tortoises Society

United States
American Society of Ichthyologists & Herpetologists founded in 1913
Green Iguana Society
The Herpetologists' League founded in 1946
Partners in Reptile and Amphibian Conservation
Society for the Study of Amphibians & Reptiles founded in 1958

Alabama
Alabama Herpetological Society founded in 2005
Auburn Herpetological Society (Auburn University) founded in 1999
Southwest Alabama Herpetological Society founded in 2010

Alaska
The Alaska Herpetological Society (Auburn University) founded in 2012

Arizona
Arizona Herpetological Association
Huachuca Area Herpetological Association
Phoenix Herpetological Society
Tucson Herpetological Society founded in 1987

Arkansas
Arkansas Herpetological Society founded in 2004

California
Bay Area Amphibian & Reptile Society founded in 2000
California Turtle & Tortoise Club founded in 1964
Central Valley Herpetological Society founded in 2011
Humboldt County Herpetological Society founded in 2007
North Bay Herpetological Society founded in 1993
Northern California Herpetological Society
San Diego Herp Society
San Diego Turtle & Tortoise Society
Southwestern Herpetologists Society founded in 1954
Central Coast Herpetological Society founded in 2012

Colorado
Colorado Herpetological Society founded in 1972
The Herpetological Society at CSU (Colorado State University) founded in 2011
Northern Colorado Herpetological Society founded in 2013
Pikes Peak Herp Society founded in 2011

Connecticut
UConn Herpetological Society

Florida
Calusa Herpetological Society founded in 1997.
Central Florida Herpetological Society
Jacksonville Herpetological Society founded in 1987 Specializing in reptile rescues and education.
Miami Herpetological Society
Northwest Florida Herpetological Society founded in 2012
Sandalwood Herpetology Club Sandalwood High School
Sawgrass Herpetological Society
South Florida Herpetological Society
Suncoast Herpetological Society

Georgia
Atlanta Herpetology Club founded in 2006
Georgia Herpetological Society founded in 1968
Georgia Reptile Society
The Orianne Society founded in 2008
Southeastern Hot Herp Society founded in 1998

Idaho
Idaho Herpetological Society

Illinois
Central Illinois Herpetological Society
Chicago Herpetological Society founded in 1968
SIU Herpetology Club (Southern Illinois University) founded in 2013

Iowa
Iowa Herpetological Society founded in 1978

Indiana
Hoosier Herpetological Society
Wabash Valley Herpetological Society
Tri-State Herpetological Society founded in 2010

Kansas
Kansas Herpetological Society founded in 1974

Kentucky
Kentucky Herpetological Society founded in 1998

Louisiana
Louisiana Gulf Coast Herpetological Society

Maine
Maine Herpetological Society

Maryland
Mid-Atlantic Turtle & Tortoise Society founded in 1997

Massachusetts
New England Herpetological Society founded in 1972

Michigan
Michigan Society of Herpetologists

Minnesota
Minnesota Herpetological Society

Missouri
Kansas City Herpetological Society
Missouri Herpetological Association founded in 1987
Southwest Missouri Herpetological Society
St. Louis Herpetological Society founded in 1974

Nebraska
Nebraska Herpetological Society

Nevada
Great Basin Herpetological Society
Southern Nevada Herpetological Society founded in 1993

New Mexico
Rio Grande Turtle & Tortoise Club founded in 1998

New York
Cornell Herpetological Society (Cornell University) founded in 1993
Long Island Herpetological Society founded in 1987
New York Turtle & Tortoise Society
Staten Island Herpetological Society
Upstate Herpetological Association

North Carolina
Lake Norman Herpetological Society
North Carolina Herpetological Society founded in 1978
Southern Appalachian Herpetological Society founded in 2009

North Dakota
Fargo Herpetological Society founded in 2012
Bismarck Herpetological Society

Ohio
Greater Cincinnati Herpetological Society founded in 1977
Toledo Herpetological Society founded in 2012

Oregon
Oregon Herpetological Society
South West Oregon Herpetological Society founded in 2012

Pennsylvania
Lancaster Herpetological Society founded in 2012
Philadelphia Herpetological Society founded in 1952

South Carolina
The Turtle and Tortoise Society of Charleston

Tennessee
Tennessee Herpetological Society founded in 1992

Texas
Austin Herpetological Society
Dallas-Ft. Worth Herpetological Society
East Texas Herpetological Society founded in 1989
Gulf Coast Turtle & Tortoise Society founded in 1994
Houston Herpetological Society founded in 2011
South Texas Herpetology Association
Southwestern Center for Herpetological Research founded in 2007
Texas Herpetological Society founded in 1939
West Texas Herpetological Society

Virginia
Virginia Herpetological Society founded in 1958

Washington
Pacific Northwest Herpetological Society
West Virginia

 West Virginia Herpetological Society founded in 2016

Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point Herpetology Society
Madison Area Herpetological Society founded in 2010

Herpetology organizations


Apocalypso is the second studio album by Australian electronic dance music duo The Presets. The album was released by record label Modular on 12 April 2008 in Australia, on 13 May in the United States, and 2 June in the United Kingdom. The album features the singles "My People", "This Boy's in Love", "Talk Like That", "Yippiyo-Ay", "If I Know You" and "Kicking and Screaming".

At the J Awards of 2008, the album won Australian Album of the Year.

Production

After two years of non-stop touring, The Presets began production of Apocalypso in early 2007 by going to a farm in Byron Bay for two weeks. The duo had no songs written or any idea what the album would sound like before hitting the farm. Basing themselves in Berlin, the band continued work on the album while touring in Europe. The majority of the album was recorded by the band themselves at their own individual home studios. The songs were finished at a friend's studio and the album was mixed at BJB Studios in Sydney and at Seedy Underbelly in Los Angeles. The album was mastered at The Exchange in London.

Kim Moyes, describing the album, said "There is a few songs on Apocalypso that have been informed by our live shows in terms of their energy, after two-and-a-bit years of touring we really found out what we liked playing and what works well live, but the album as a whole however is not all bangers, there are some very delicate moments too." The group also wanted Apocalypso to be far more song-focused. Moyes told Rolling Stone Australia: "With [previous album] Beams, we didn't think too much about it. The more fucked up it was, the better. But now the vision’s been refined and instead of instrumentals, now we're like 'fuck, let’s just have killer songs.'"

In an interview with Australian national radio station Triple J, the band members discussed how they came up with the album's title, stating that it evolved from "Apocalypse Wow", a suggestion by Hamilton. "Y'know the idea of the apocalypse and a calypso together. Something very dark, very intense, you can't get much worse than an apocalypse. And then a calypso which is just super fun, like mojitos, steel drums."

Reception

Apocalypso was the album that brought the Presets to mainstream audiences. The album debuted at number one on the ARIA charts, and achieved gold certification within two weeks. The album has since gone platinum. In October 2008, the album won the 2008 ARIA Awards for Best Dance Release and Album of the Year. By winning the ARIA for Album of the Year, Apocalypso became the first dance album to win the award. It also won the Artisan Awards for Best Cover Art (Jonathan Zawada) and Producer of the Year (The Presets), missing out on the award for Engineer of the Year (Scott Horscroft). It was also nominated for the Highest Selling Album in 2009. In December, the album won the J Award. In October 2010, it was listed in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.

Track listing

Singles
 "My People"
 The first single released in late 2007. The song continued to climb the ARIA Singles Chart after successful performances, and heavy radio airplay. It peaked at number 14 on the ARIA Singles Chart, and certified Platinum despite never reaching the top 10.
 "This Boy's in Love"
 Released as the second single in early 2008, it peaked at number 23 early on, and continuous climbing and falling the single maintained sales. After the band's win at the 2008 ARIA Awards the song re-entered the top 50, and was certified Gold.
 "Talk Like That"
 Released as the official third single in September 2008, the song was a club hit, spending several weeks outside the top 20. When the band won at the ARIAs the song re-entered and climbed the charts to a new peak of number 19. A few weeks before falling out of the singles chart completely it was certified Gold.
 "Yippiyo-Ay"
 Released as a digital-only single, the song gained airplay week-by-week. It debuted at number 94 on the singles chart based on downloads alone, re-entering several times before peaking at number 72.
 "If I Know You"
 Speculated as the album's third single when it received substantial airplay, the official third single was announced as "Talk Like That". Peaking at number 57 on the singles chart in May 2009, the song charted on downloads alone. The song became the fifth single from Apocalypso, and was officially released on 27 March 2009.
 "Kicking and Screaming"
 Announced as the sixth single in late May 2009, a live video was released to accompany the radio release. Cover art then surfaced, but a physical release did not eventuate, making it the second digital-only single from the album.

"Anywhere" was also released in 2008 as a promotional single from the album.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Personnel

 Julian Hamilton – vocals, keyboards
 Kim Moyes – drums, keyboards
 Scott Horscroft – mixing
 John Fields – mixing
 Nilesh Patel – mastering
 Lyn Balzer – photography
 Anthony Perkins – photography
 Jonathan Zawada – art direction

References

External links

2008 albums
ARIA Award-winning albums
Modular Recordings albums
The Presets albums


Padma Tiruponithura Venkatraman (born 13 November 1969), also known as T. V. Padma, is an Indian-American author and scientist.

Early life
Venkatraman was born in Chennai on 13 November 1969, and studied at The School KFI. One of the poems she wrote as a child was published in the inaugural issue of the Delhi London Poetry Quarterly.

Venkatraman graduated from St. Michael's Academy in Chennai in 1986. She completed her undergraduate studies at St. Joseph's College, Bangalore in 1989, receiving Bachelor's degrees in Environmental  Science,  Chemistry and Botany.

Scientific career
Before writing, Venkatraman worked as a scientist. She moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies. She obtained a Master's degree (1990-1994) and a Doctorate (1996-2001) from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), part of the College of William and Mary.  She conducted postdoctoral research in Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and later worked in Germany (at an institute formerly called Ifm and now known as Geomar), served as head of Inwoods Small School, and taught oceanography in addition to directing directed diversity efforts at the University of Rhode Island.

Writing career

Venkatraman's debut novel, Climbing the Stairs, was released to starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA). The Providence Journal's Sam Coale called it a "fine, often heartbreaking first novel". The novel also received positive reviews in Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, India New England News and India Currents. Climbing the Stairs won the 2009 Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers and the ASTAL (Alliance for the Study and Teaching of Adolescent Literature) RI Book of the Year Award and several other honors (ALA/YALSA BBYA; Amelia Bloomer List selection; Bank Street College of Education Best Book; Booklinks Best New Book; Booklist Editor's Choice Best Book; Booksense Notable; Capitol Choice; CCBC choice; CLN Top 25; National Council of Social Studies/Children's Book Center (NCSS/CBC) Notable; NYPL Best Book; PASLA Top 40; PW Flying Start) and was shortlisted for Reading Across Rhode Island, the Cybil awards, and state awards in Maine, Utah, South Carolina, and New Jersey.

Venkatraman's second novel, Island' End, was released to starred reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. It went on to win the international South Asia Book Award, and the Paterson Prize, as well as several honors (Kirkus BBYA; ALA/YALSA BBYA; Booklist Editor's Choice BBYA; CCBC choice, and ALA/Amelia Bloomer selection) and was a finalist for the BAC award and NE-SCBWI's Crystal Kite Award.

Venkatraman's novel in verse, A Time to Dance, was released in May 2014 by Nancy Paulsen Books to starred reviews in five journals (Kirkus, Booklist, Voices of Youth Advocates, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and School Library Journal); received positive reviews in newspapers (such as the Denver Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday and Providence Journal); as well as other honors (e.g. American Library Association (ALA) Notable; ALA/Young Adult Library Association (YALSA) Best Book for Young Adults (BBYA), Booklist Top 10 art book for youth; Booklist Editor's Choice BBYA; Bookworm Central Top 40; Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) choice; Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature (CSML) Best Book; Eliot Rosewater Award (IN) finalist;  Forever Literary Top 10 Character Driven Books; International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Outstanding Book for Young People with Disabilities; International Reading Association (IRA) Notable Books for a Global Society; IndieBound selection; Kirkus BBYA; Mighty Girl Best Books of the year; New York Public Library (NYPL) Top 25).

In 2019, Venkatraman's The Bridge Home fourth novel for young people was released by Nancy Paulsen Books  to starred reviews in School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and School Library Connection. She also narrated the audiobook herself, and later narrated the audiobook version of A Time To Dance. The Bridge Home Audiobook was a Junior Library Guild selection and won Audiophile Magazine's Earphone Award.

Additional awards and honors
In 2009, Padma Venkatraman was a finalist for India New England's Woman of the Year Award. In 2008, she won the SCBWI Magazine Merit Award for Nonfiction. Prior to that, one of her earliest published works, The Cleverest Thief, published by August House, was awarded a Storytelling World Honor.

References

External links

1969 births
Living people
American children's writers
Writers from Rhode Island
St. Joseph's College, Bangalore alumni
College of William & Mary alumni


Ian King (27 May 1937 — 24 July 2016) was a Scottish footballer. He spent the majority of his career at Leicester City, making up one third of the legendary half-back line with Colin Appleton and Frank McLintock. He made appearances in 244 Leicester City games, including 27 appearances in the FA Cup, and 22 appearances in the League Cup, and 4 in the Cup Winners Cup.

He made his first appearance for Leicester City on 11 September 1957, away against Sheffield Wednesday. King played as a defender, scoring a total of seven goals (including 1 goal in the Football League Cup).

King died on 24 July 2016.

References

External links

1937 births
2016 deaths
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Men's association football central defenders
Leicester City F.C. players
Scottish men's footballers
English Football League players
People from Loanhead
Arniston Rangers F.C. players
Burton Albion F.C. players
Footballers from Midlothian


William Gaines (1922–1992) was an American publisher, notably of Mad magazine.

William Gaines may also refer to:
William E. Gaines (1844–1912), U.S. Representative from Virginia
William Gaines (professor) (1933–2016), American journalist and professor
William Gaines (American football) (born 1971), American footballer
Bill Gaines (basketball) (born 1946), retired basketball guard
William Gaines (minister and community leader), a freed slave who was a minister and community representative during the Reconstruction Era in Georgia