DJ Awards is a celebration of electronic music, and aims to recognise and honour DJs and individuals who have influenced electronic dance music worldwide.

Held annually in Ibiza at the end of the summer season, DJ Awards has retained the same ethos since its conception. The fundamental philosophy is not that of a competition, as we are dealing with an art form whose merits are purely subjective, and therefore who can say what is the best. Rather DJ Awards seeks to shine a light on key talents in the industry.

DJ Awards was formed in 1998 by José Pascual and Lenny Krarup.  The ceremony is held once a year at a well known venue in Ibiza. Since 2018 the event has been held at Heart Ibiza. Previous editions were held at the Pacha club in Ibiza, Spain. The awards ceremony takes place towards the end of the Ibiza season. The awards are known internationally in the electronic dance music community as the Oscars of the DJ industry. The event attracts a broad selection of international industry professionals and the awards reflect the wide range of creative talent of the DJs. The ethos behind the annual ceremony is for it "to be seen not as a competition, but instead, a celebration of the electronic dance music scene, that conveys the artistic ability of DJs to a global music audience". A different theme is chosen each year that is important to the organisers, which is then translated into an individual graphical and visual representation of that theme for each ceremony. The awards have managed to retain their status as one of the most important accolades that an artist can win or be honoured.

Past winners have included Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Roger Sanchez, Danny Tenaglia, Black Coffee, Solomun, Jamie Jones, Hernan Cattaneo, Stephan Bodzin, DJ Koze, Frankie Knuckles, Tiësto, Sasha, Tony De Vit, Deadmau5, and many more.

History
In the inaugural edition in 1998, the chosen theme was  “Alien Arrival”, due to the nature of the prize (a piece of kryptonite) and its extraterrestrial mascot "Snuffy". In this first year the winners were Erick Morillo for the "house" category, Daft Punk for the Best DJ Band category and Fernandisco for the "Radio DJ" category, with an honorific special award for the late Tony De Vit.

The second edition in 1999 explored the theme of ¨African Tribal Rhythms¨, as a source of inspiration for music producers. It emphasised the expansion of categories such as "Ambient /Experimental" or "International DJ" and winners such as Pete Tong, Roger Sanchez, Basement Jaxx all picked up awards. Frankie Knuckles and Joe T. Vanelli were the first winners in the categories of "Outstanding Dedication" and "Outstanding Contribution" respectively.

The year 2000 hosted the third ceremony, this time under the theme of the ¨Mythological Inspiration of the Muses¨ and under new categories, renaming the category formerly known as "Ambient/Experimental" as "Chill Out" due to the increasing flow of productions in this style. Other categories and winners featured that same year were Paul Oakenfold for "Trance", Sven Väth for "Techno" and the song "Lady" by Modjo for the category "Track of the season" amongst others.

For the fourth ceremony in 2001 technological advances happening in the industry did not go unnoticed in the direction of the awards, establishing the theme "Man and Machine" as a starting point. For the second time Erick Morillo won "House DJ" alongside other winners: Mixmaster Morris for "Eclectic" and Carl Cox for "Techno", and Superchumbo the winner in the category for best production. The category of Drum and Bass was won by Peshay.

In 2002, the fifth edition of the awards, the theme was "Vinyl".  It was created as a romantic example of the DJs' beginnings, at a time when the CD format was becoming the standard. Amongst winners that year were prominent names such as Pete Tong for "Outstanding Contribution", Mambo Cafe for "Best Ibiza Bar", "It Just Won't Do" by Tim Deluxe for "Track of the Season" or Wally Lopez as "Best Newcomer".

In 2003, the theme chosen for the sixth edition was "The Essence of the Universe"; winners included Steve Lawler for "Techhouse/Progressive", Junior Jack and Kid Crème for  "Best Newcomer" (also winners for the "Track of the Season" with "E-Samba") and the crowning of Manumission as the best promoter, which gave a joyful note to this gala.

In 2004, the seventh edition was "The Sense of Man"; awarded DJs were Trevor Nelson for "Urban DJ", Tania Vulcano as "Best Ibiza Resident" and Shapeshifters with their track "Lola's Theme" as "Track of the Season". The gala had started with the opening video of "Made in Dixland: Searching Krypto" realised by the Spanish DJ and producer Nando Dixkontrol; this video turned out to be one of the most memorable images of the ceremony.

The ceremony of 2005 (eighth edition) celebrated the centenary of the "Vacuum Tube" creation, one of the first aspects of primary electronics circuits. Ferry Corsten for "Trance", Steve Angello as "Best Newcomer" and Cut Killer for "Hip Hop" were some of the winners featured, with a new Honorary Award being presented to Argentine DJ Alfredo Fiorito for his historic career in the industry, one of the most special moments of that year.

In 2006 for the ninth edition ¨Nature¨ broke through as the theme and served as an excuse to reward twice over Bob Sinclar as best House DJ and best song of the year for "World Hold On" together with his vocalist Steve Edwards. Other special moments of that year would be, after three attempts, the "Best Ibiza Resident" to the Australian Sarah Main with the highest votes in history for this category, and also the "Outstanding Contribution" given to Brasilio de Oliveira creator, among other things, of the party "La Troya".

2007 saw the celebration of the Awards' tenth anniversary under the theme of "Time". Using the graphic reference belonging to the Salvador Dalís painting "The Persistence of Memory", the prizes were handed to the DJs Cristian Varela for "Techno", Mucho Muchacho for "Urban DJ", and David Guetta for "International DJ", amongst others.

The eleventh edition in 2008 celebrated the awards under the slogan "Do not change the climate, change yourself" with David Guetta as Best House DJ, Valentin Huedo as best Ibiza resident and crowning Mark Knight & Funkagenda with the "Track of the Season" for "Man with The Red Face".

2009 was the twelfth edition of the awards and used the theme of ¨Dreams¨ as its subject.  Once again the French king of DJ David Guetta won the "House" category, and Sven Väth for "Techno", Sasha for "Progressive House" and Michel Cleis for his tune "La Mezcla" as "Track of the Season" were some of the winners in a year that has included even more new categories.

For the thirteenth edition in 2010, the chosen theme was ¨Water¨, which urged everyone to join the onedrop organisation. Winners this year included the Swedish House Mafia boys - Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello  for the House category, Deadmau5 picked up best International DJ, International Festival was given to Kazantip amongst many others.

In 2011, the fourteenth edition of this ceremony, "fire" was the chosen theme, which represented the "discovery that changed the world". Among the winners were, axwell for "house", for Tech house, Luciano took the award, Deadmau5 for Electro house and Carl Cox for Techno.

The 2012, and the fifteenth edition, saw light as chosen as the theme, taking it right back to the beginning...Big Bang! Winners included Armin Van Buuren (Trance & International), Chase & Status (Dubstep/Bass), Maceo Plex (Deep House), Arty (Newcomer), plus in the Special awards collecting for (Ibiza DJ) Andy Baxter, Tomorrowland won (International Festival) and for Live Performance a new category Lenny Kravitz for his performance at the 2012 Ibiza 123 Festival.

In 2013, the sixteenth edition the theme was the element of Earth. Winners presented with the Kryptonite award included Luciano for Tech House; Deep House went to Solomun. And Hot Natured for Electronic Live Performance. Cristian Varela for Techno, and Newcomer went to Uner. Armin Van Buuren who again won two awards scooping Trance and International DJ and Electro House went to Hardwell. The Lifetime Achievement went to Jerry Greenberg, and Outstanding Contribution went to Kathy Sledge (Sister Sledge).

For the seventeenth edition in 2014 the chosen theme was Love and some of the winners included Carl Cox who picked up two awards for Best International DJ and Best Techno DJ, Skrillex picked up the award for Best Drum & Bass/Dubstep DJ, and Disclosure won Best Live Electronic Performance. Some of the Special Awards given on the night went to DJ Harvey for his Outstanding Contribution to EDM, Best Ibiza DJ to Iban Mendoza and Track of the Season went to Patrick Topping.

In 2015, the eighteenth edition was held and the theme for the year was “Meet on the Beat” among the winners were Spanish DJ, Cuartero took the best Newcomer award, Hardwell picked up two awards in the electro/progressive house, and international categories. South Africa was voted best dance nation and South African DJ Black Coffee won the best breakthrough award.

The 2016 ceremony was the 19th edition  of DJ Awards held on 3 October at Pacha Club the theme this year was “Let's Dance” (Tribute to David Bowie) among others the new winners this year were DJ Anna from Brazil,  Carl Cox, Black Coffee, Claptone,  The Martinez Brothers, Matador and Mihalis Safras.

For the twenty-first edition held in 2018, the best Deep House DJ was the South African Black Coffee, the best Techno DJ was Joseph Capriati, the best Tech House DJ was Patrick Topping, House Master was Roger Sanchez (United States), Best Trance DJ was Paul van Dyk (Germany), best Newcomer DJ was Alex Kennon, best Bass DJ was Andy C., best International DJ was Carl Cox (England), Best House Artist was the English CamelPhat, Best Progressive House DJ was the Argentine Hernan Cattaneo. Argentina was also elected Best Dance Nation of 2018.

In 2019, the 22nd edition, the theme chosen was "Plastic No More". the best Deep House DJ was Maya Jane Coles (England), the best House DJ was Kerri Chandler (United States), the best International DJ was Carl Cox (England), best Progressive House was Hernan Cattaneo (Argentina), best Tech House DJ was Michael Bibi, best Newcomer artist was ONYVAA, best Melodic House & Techno was Maceo Plex (United States), best Electronic Live Performer was Stephan Bodzin (Germany), best Afro House artist was Da Capo, best Deep Tech was Butch, and best Trance artist was Aly & Fila (Egypt).

Awards categories (competitive)

DJ Awards release every year online (via www.djawards.com) a list of categories and nominees which reflect the current electronic music industry. All nominees are recommended by a panel of 100 music industry professionals who are broadly representative of the International Dance Music sectors: music media specialists, DJs' managers, agents, promoters, technology manufacturers and DJs themselves. The panel changes annually, and it selects the nominees for each category within the DJ Awards. These are then announced publicly, and the public are then invited to vote through the organisation's website or via Social Media Networks to help decide the final winners at a gala event held in the world-famous club Pacha in Ibiza.

Current Best DJ categories

Big Room House
House
Electro House
Techno
Trance
Tech House
Deep House
Bass
Electronica
Newcomer
Breakthrough
International

Live Performance Category

Electronic

Award categories (non-competitive)

The Special Awards is in a non-competitive category where nominees and winners are selected by a specialist panel of judges it is not open to a public vote and they operate much in the same way as the BAFTA non-competitive accolades these awards alternate and are not always given every year.

Current Special Awards

Ibiza DJ
Ibiza Club Night
Ibiza Live Performance
Track of the Season
Producer
Electronic Music Pioneer
Record label of the Year
International Festival
Dance Nation of the Year
Media
Cutting Edge Technology

Highest Special Awards

Honorific
Outstanding Dedication
Outstanding Contribution
Outstanding Achievement
Lifetime Achievement

Previous award categories

Previous Best DJ/Best of categories

Eclectic House
Progressive
Urban
Minimal
Innovator
Radio DJ
Band of the Year
Ambient Experimental
Drum 'n' bass Trip Hop
Remix of the Year
Leader of the New Breed
Chillout
Drum 'N' Bass & Beats
Psychedelic Trance
Drum 'n' bass& Dub Step

Category naming process
The organizers have renamed a number of awards that cover generally the same umbrella electronic music genre for example between 1998 and 1999 they introduced a category for Ambient Experimental DJ in 2000 the previous nominees from the former category then appeared in a new category for Chillout DJ, this category was dropped and a new one introduced for Best Eclectic/Experimental DJ until 2002 again some of the previous DJ's appeared in this category this then ceased and a similar new category begins called Best Downtempo and Eclectic in 2008. The confusion in the naming process selected by the organizers also appeared to happen for the musics genres Bass, Break Beat, Drum & Bass and Trip Hop.

Venue
Since its creation in 1998, up until 2017, the DJ Awards have been held every year at Pacha Ibiza. For the awards 20th anniversary, the ceremony was held at the newly opened Hï Ibiza nightclub. Since 2019, the awards have moved to Heart Ibiza.

Trophy

The DJ Awards trophy is a piece of green Kryptonite. The word Kryptonite descends from the Greek Kryptos (secret or hidden element), as the force hidden behind the complex language of the turntables which generate vibration and feeling, and which the DJ guides the crowd into a state of consciousness high.

In an interview in the September 2007 with Spanish music magazine "Deejay", José Pascual co-founder of the awards, was asked why he chose kryptonite as the model for the trophy, and he replied, "I would say that she chose us. We wanted the trophy to be something else, something with meaning. We liked the idea that it would be of natural crystal and after a survey of people around us, we chose this for its energetic component, for transparency, for ease of transport ... Somebody thought it was like Superman’s kryptonite, the alien element that removed his power to give it to the DJ. Furthermore, the etymology of the word tells us that 'Kryptos' comes from hidden message and "Nite" from night, a message closely related to DJ, so organically everything came together"

Mascot
The DJ Awards had a mascot named Snuffy, which is a cross between the famous symbol associated with acid house (the "bloodied" smiley) and an alien ("little green man").  Snuffy was retired in 2012 and the events have not had a mascot since then.

Winners and nominees

See also

DJ Magazine
International Dance Music Awards
Winter Music Conference

References

External links
DJ Awards Official website
http://djawards.com/past-editions/

DJing
Spanish music awards
International music awards


James Vincent (July 19, 1882 – July 12, 1957) was an American actor and film director of the silent era. He appeared in 23 films between 1910 and 1951, and directed 18 films from 1915 to 1931.

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Vincent studied drama and oratory before he became a leading man in stock theater productions. On Broadway, Vincent appeared in The Ragged Earl (1899), The Last of the Rohans (1899), From Broadway to the Bowery (1907), The Man Who Stood Still (1908), The Letter (1927), Insult (1930), Criminal at Large (1932), and Alien Corn (1933). He was stage manager for the Broadway plays The Age of Innocence (1928), Lucrece (1932), and Alien Corn (1933).

Film companies for which Vincent directed included Kalem, Sterling, Cort, and Pathe. He was president of the Motion Picture Directors Association in 1920. Immediately before he retired, he was a dialogue director.

Vincent died in Metropolitan Hospital in New York City on July 12, 1957, aged 74.

Selected filmography
 The Pursuit of the Smugglers (1913)
 In the Hands of a Brute (1914) - Walter Roberts
 A Mother of Men (1914)
 The Idle Rich (1914)
 The Melting Pot (1915), only director
 Nan O' the Backwoods (1915)
 The Ghost of Twisted Oaks (1915) - Jack Carlton
 The Taint (1915) - Arthur Easton
 Gold and the Woman (1916)
 Ambition (1916)
 Love and Hate (1916)
 The Hidden Hand (1917)
 Love Aflame (1917)
 Wrath of Love (1917)
 Sister Against Sister (1917)
 Stolen Moments (1920)

References

External links

1882 births
1957 deaths
American male film actors
American male silent film actors
Male actors from Massachusetts
Actors from Springfield, Massachusetts
20th-century American male actors
Film directors from Massachusetts
American male stage actors
Broadway theatre people


Daniel Evans (born 15 November 1988) is a Welsh rugby union player who plays as a full-back.

Career
Evans was part of the Scarlets U16 team that formed part of an age grade clean sweep for the region in the inaugural season of the Reebok Regional Championships, and was part of the Scarlets U18 team that lost to the Ospreys in the U18 Final the following season. During the 2006–07 season, Evans turned out for the Scarlets U20 at fullback as they finished third in the Championship.

Evans was a regular performer for Llanelli RFC scoring a try in the Welsh Cup quarter-final against Pontypridd as Llanelli knocked the holders out to make their way through to the semi-finals.

In the following season, he was man-of-the-match in the Scarlets' 26–24 defeat of London Irish away, scoring a try that many believed would put him in the frame for a Wales recall in the Autumn. However, he missed out on selection, and again in the 2010 Six Nations.

In May 2012 Evans joined Newport Gwent Dragons Evans joined the Ospreys for the 2014–15 season.

Evans is a fluent Welsh speaker.

International career
Evans was selected for Wales at U18 level, participating in the 2005–06 season's Home Four Nations Championship. The 2006–07 season saw Evans called up to the Wales U19 squad for their spring internationals and subsequent IRB U19 World Championship bid. He played in all five of Wales' tournament matches, slotting a conversion over in the opening pool game against New Zealand U19. During the 2007–08 season he was selected for the Wales U20 squad to play in the 2008 U20 Six Nations and the 2008 Junior World Championships, he scored his only U20 try against Scotland U20 in a 27–10 win. In May 2009, Evans was called up to the senior Wales squad for the summer tour of North America. Evans appeared in both tour matches and made his Wales debut in the 32–23 win over Canada on 30 May 2009.

References

External links
Profile at scarlets.co.uk
Profile at wru.co.uk

1988 births
Ammanford RFC players
Living people
Llanelli RFC players
Dragons RFC players
Rugby union players from Swansea
Rugby union fullbacks
Scarlets players
Wales international rugby union players
Welsh rugby union players
Ospreys (rugby union) players


Oliver Claude Allison  (28 May 1908 – 7 June 1989) was a Christian missionary and the Bishop of the Sudan for over 20 years in the second part of the 20th century.

Life
Educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham and Queens' College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1933 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Boscombe.

1932-36 Curate at Christ Church Fulwood (Sheffield) Also Scout Master of the 142nd Sheffield (Fulwood) Scout Troop for same dates.

1936-38 Youth Secretary to Winchester Diocese

1938 Accepted by Church Missionary Society (CMS) and left for Anglo Egyptian Sudan. He began what was to be along association with the Sudan by becoming a Missionary in Juba followed by a stint as Assistant Bishop of the diocese. Elevated to the Episcopate

1947 Became Mission Secretary for Sudan.

1948 Consecrated Bishop, to be the assistant Bishop to Rt Rev Morris Gelsthorpe who was the first Bishop of the new diocese of Sudan, no longer linked with Egypt, but still under the Archbishopric of Jerusalem.

1953 Became Diocesan Bishop on Gelsthorpe's retirement. His pastoral duties extended to oversight of Churches in Yemen, Aden, Eritrea, Ethiopia & Samaliland.

1955 Consecration of first Sudanese Assistant Bishop.

1956-1972 Unrest in Sudan.

1972 Peace talks culminated in the Addis Ababa Agreement in which the South was promised autonomy from the North. A few missionaries were allowed to return.

1974 Retired. When back in England he did a lot of work to help through the Sudan Church Association.

Returning to England he often preached about his eventful life at parishes who wanted to know more about the region

Allison died on 7 June 1989, at the age of 81.

Notes

1908 births
1989 deaths
People educated at Dean Close School
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Anglican bishops in Sudan
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire


This is a list of seasons completed by the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In its 75-year history, the franchise has represented the cities of Buffalo, New York (1946), Moline, Illinois (1946–51), Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1951–55), St. Louis, Missouri (1955–68) and Atlanta, Georgia (since 1968). The club played its first three seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL), which merged with the Basketball Association of America in 1949, creating the NBA.

In 71 completed NBA seasons (1949–2020), the Hawks have compiled an all-time record of 2,921–3,059 (.488), including 2,164–2,282 (.487) in Atlanta.

Table key

Seasons

All-time records
Note: Statistics are correct as of the conclusion of the 2022–23 NBA season.

NBA records

NBL records

Notes

References

Seasons


Renato Rafael Bondi (born 20 March 1981 in São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian former footballer. He played as a midfielder.

He arrived in Italy from Dom Pedro Bandeirante on 28 August 2002.

In June 2010 he completed his transfer from Perugia Calcio to US. Grosseto. In January 2011 he moved to the Italian 3rd tier club Alessandria.

References

External links
 CBF
 Profile at Arezzo

Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Londrina Esporte Clube players
Club Athletico Paranaense players
US Salernitana 1919 players
SSD Città di Teramo players
ACR Messina players
SS Arezzo players
AC Perugia Calcio players
Serie A players
Expatriate men's footballers in Peru
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Men's association football midfielders
People from São João de Meriti
1981 births
Living people
Juan Aurich footballers
US Alessandria Calcio 1912 players
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (state)


This is a list of seasons completed by the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association. The franchise was founded in 1941 as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons in the National Basketball League and as the Fort Wayne Pistons joined the Basketball Association of America, which was the precursor to the NBA. However, the games won and lost in the NBL are not included in the franchise total.

The Pistons have had three main periods of success. In the early years of the NBA the team reached the NBA Finals twice in consecutive years before falling to the Lakers and then to the St. Louis Hawks. Following an extended era of mediocrity the Pistons, led by the Hall of Fame backcourt of Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars and nicknamed the "Bad Boys" for their intimidating defence, posted winning records every seasons from 1983–84 to 1991–92, and after narrowly losing in 1988, ended the Lakers dynasty of the 1980s the following season and repeated the following year. The Pistons’ third period of success, with former on-court star Dumars serving as general manager and building a top team from other franchises’ discards, occurred between 2001–02 and 2007–08 when the team won fifty games or more during every season, including a third NBA title in 2003–04 and a franchise record total of wins two seasons later.

The Pistons have experienced two major periods of failure. Between 1956–57 and 1982–83, the Pistons had just three winning seasons and overall had a winning percentage of , culminating in a combined record of 37–127 (win percent ) in the 1979–80 and 1980–81 seasons, after which the drafting of Isiah Thomas completely revitalized the franchise. Since 2009–10, the Pistons have only once finished out of the bottom two in their division or had a winning record.

Seasons

All-time records

NBA records

NBL records

References

seasons


Utah Jazz joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) as New Orleans Jazz, an expansion team that began play in the 1974–75 season. The Jazz relocated from New Orleans to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the 1979–80 season. As of the 2019–20 season, the Utah Jazz are the last franchise to not record a 60-loss season.

Seasons

Notes:

A: In this season, each division winner was automatically seeded no worse than 4th  place. Jazz was the Northwest Division winner (51-31), but had a worse record than the Spurs (58-24) who were seeded 3rd and the Jazz was seeded 4th. In the first round, the 5th seed Rockets (52-30) had a better record than the 4th seed Jazz, so the Rockets were awarded home-court advantage even with a lower seed.

B: In this season, the division winner can automatically award the top-4 place. Jazz was the Northwest division winner(54-28), below 3rd place team Spurs(56-26), so Jazz was the worst division winner so as in Western Conference 4th place. While the Rockets were 55-27, tie with the Suns 55-27(neither of the two teams were a division winner), so though Jazz was awarded 4th place, in the first round faced with Rockets(Rockets higher than Suns due to higher records in versus with rest of Western Conference teams) with no home court advantage.

Footnotes

seasons


This is a list of seasons completed by the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). They have played for 56 seasons, 47 in the NBA and nine in the American Basketball Association (ABA). As of the 2022–23 season, they have reached the NBA Finals and won the NBA championship once (2023).

Seasons

References

seasons


The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. They are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Pacers were founded in 1967, originally as members of the American Basketball Association, where they were crowned league champions three times and made the playoffs in all of the nine seasons they participated in the league. The Pacers were led during the ABA days by two-time MVP Mel Daniels and by head coach Bobby Leonard.

The 1976–77 season marked the first season of NBA play for the Pacers and the team struggled early, compared to their ABA success. The Pacers only made it to the NBA playoffs three times in their first 13 seasons. The Pacers would not win their first playoff series until the 1993–94 season, which came against the Orlando Magic. It was during this time that the Pacers were led by 1987 draft pick, Reggie Miller, who entered the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. Miller would play for the Pacers until the 2005 season and with his help, the Pacers would go on to win one Eastern Conference championship, four Central Division championships, and make 15 playoff appearances.

Over the Pacers' 53 seasons of play they have made the playoffs 36 times (27 in the NBA and 9 in the ABA). The Pacers have appeared in the NBA Eastern Conference finals eight times (1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2013, 2014)  The Pacers are one of 11 franchises to have never won an NBA championship and the only Central Division team without at least one title.

Table key

Seasons

All-time records

Notes

References

seasons


The New Orleans Pelicans are a professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana.  They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  The franchise began play during the 2002–03 NBA season as the New Orleans Hornets following the relocation of the Charlotte Hornets, based in Charlotte, North Carolina. After three seasons in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina forced the franchise to temporarily relocate to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where they spent two seasons as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.  The Hornets returned to New Orleans full-time for the 2007–08 season.  The team changed its name to the New Orleans Pelicans at the conclusion of the 2012–13 season.

Led by All-Star Baron Davis, the New Orleans Hornets qualified for their first post-season appearance during the 2002–03 season. They lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round.  The team earned their first division title during the 2007–08 season, behind the play of All-Stars Chris Paul and David West. Finishing with a franchise-best record of 56 wins and 26 losses, the Hornets won the Southwest Division title over the defending champion San Antonio Spurs. They advanced to the conference semifinals, where they were defeated by the Spurs in seven games.

In 20 seasons, the Pelicans have compiled an overall record of 740–864 all-time. They have qualified the playoffs eight times, winning two series, and posted seven seasons of 41 wins or more.

Seasons

All-time records

Note: statistics are correct as of April 12, 2023

Notes
 Due to the catastrophic devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina upon the communities of southeastern Louisiana, the Hornets franchise temporarily relocated their base of operations to Oklahoma City in 2005–06 and 2006–07. During this time, the franchise was known as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.
 Due to a lockout, the 2011–12 season did not start until December 25, 2011, and all 30 teams played a shortened 66-game regular season schedule.
 Earned 8th seed after beating the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA play-in tournament.
 Fell to the 9th seed after losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA play-in tournament.

References

Seasons


Alexander Wolf (born 21 December 1978) is a former German biathlete. At the 2008 World Championships in Östersund, he won bronze medals in the 12.5 km pursuit and the 4 × 7.5 km relay.

Biathlon results
All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.

Olympic Games

*Mass start was added as an event in 2006.

World Championships
2 medals (2 bronze)

*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.
**The mixed relay was added as an event in 2005.

Individual victories
3 victories (3 Sp)

*Results are from UIPMB and IBU races which include the Biathlon World Cup, Biathlon World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games.

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
People from Schmalkalden
Sportspeople from Thuringia
German male biathletes
Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Olympic biathletes for Germany
Biathlon World Championships medalists
21st-century German people
People from Bezirk Suhl


In geometry, a homothetic center (also called a center of similarity or a center of similitude) is a point from which at least two geometrically similar figures can be seen as a dilation or contraction of one another. If the center is external, the two figures are directly similar to one another; their angles have the same rotational sense. If the center is internal, the two figures are scaled mirror images of one another; their angles have the opposite sense.

General polygons

If two geometric figures possess a homothetic center, they are similar to one another; in other words they must have the same angles at corresponding points and differ only in their relative scaling.  The homothetic center and the two figures need not lie in the same plane; they can be related by a projection from the homothetic center.

Homothetic centers may be external or internal.  If the center is internal, the two geometric figures are scaled mirror images of one another; in technical language, they have opposite chirality.   A clockwise angle in one figure would correspond to a counterclockwise angle in the other.  Conversely, if the center is external, the two figures are directly similar to one another; their angles have the same sense.

Circles

Circles are geometrically similar to one another and mirror symmetric.  Hence, a pair of circles has both types of homothetic centers, internal and external, unless the centers are equal or the radii are equal; these exceptional cases are treated after general position. These two homothetic centers lie on the line joining the centers of the two given circles, which is called the line of centers (Figure 3). Circles with radius zero can also be included (see exceptional cases), and negative radius can also be used, switching external and internal.

Computing homothetic centers

For a given pair of circles, the internal and external homothetic centers may be found in various ways. In analytic geometry, the internal homothetic center is the weighted average of the centers of the circles, weighted by the opposite circle's radius – distance from center of circle to inner center is proportional to that radius, so weighting is proportional to the opposite radius. Denoting the centers of the circles  by  and their radii by  and denoting the center by , this is:

The external center can be computed by the same equation, but considering one of the radii as negative; either one yields the same equation, which is:

More generally, taking both radii with the same sign (both positive or both negative) yields the inner center, while taking the radii with opposite signs (one positive and the other negative) yields the outer center. Note that the equation for the inner center is valid for any values (unless both radii zero or one is the negative of the other), but the equation for the external center requires that the radii be different, otherwise it involves division by zero.

In synthetic geometry, two parallel diameters are drawn, one for each circle; these make the same angle  with the line of centers. The lines   drawn through corresponding endpoints of those radii, which are homologous points, intersect each other and the line of centers at the external homothetic center.  Conversely, the lines  drawn through one endpoint and the opposite endpoint of its counterpart intersects each other and the line of centers at the internal homothetic center.

As a limiting case of this construction, a line tangent to both circles (a bitangent line)  passes through one of the homothetic centers, as it forms right angles with both the corresponding diameters, which are thus parallel; see tangent lines to two circles for details. If the circles fall on opposite sides of the line, it passes through the internal homothetic center, as in  in the figure above. Conversely, if the circles fall on the same side of the line, it passes through the external homothetic center (not pictured).

Special cases
If the circles have the same radius (but different centers), they have no external homothetic center in the affine plane: in analytic geometry this results in division by zero, while in synthetic geometry the lines   are parallel to the line of centers (both for secant lines and the bitangent lines) and thus have no intersection. An external center can be defined in the projective plane to be the point at infinity corresponding to the slope of this line. This is also the limit of the external center if the centers of the circles are fixed and the radii are varied until they are equal.

If the circles have the same center but different radii, both the external and internal coincide with the common center of the circles. This can be seen from the analytic formula, and is also the limit of the two homothetic centers as the centers of the two circles are varied until they coincide, holding the radii equal. There is no line of centers, however, and the synthetic construction fails as the two parallel lines coincide.

If one radius is zero but the other is non-zero (a point and a circle), both the external and internal center coincide with the point (center of the radius zero circle).

If the two circles are identical (same center, same radius), the internal center is their common center, but there is no well-defined external center – properly, the function from the parameter space of two circles in the plane to the external center has a non-removable discontinuity on the locus of identical circles. In the limit of two circles with the same radius but distinct centers moving to having the same center, the external center is the point at infinity corresponding to the slope of the line of centers, which can be anything, so no limit exists for all possible pairs of such circles.

Conversely, if both radii are zero (two points) but the points are distinct, the external center can be defined as the point at infinity corresponding to the slope of the line of centers, but there is no well-defined internal center.

Homologous and antihomologous points

In general, a line passing through a homothetic center intersects each of its circles in two places.  Of these four points, two are said to be homologous if radii drawn to them make the same angle with the line connecting the centers; for example, the points  in Figure 4. Points which are collinear with respect to the homothetic center but are not homologous are said to be antihomologous; for example, points  in Figure 4.

Pairs of antihomologous points lie on a circle
When two rays from the same homothetic center intersect the circles, each set of antihomologous points lie on a circle.

Consider triangles  (Figure 4).
They are similar because

since  is the homothetic center.
From that similarity, it follows that

By the inscribed angle theorem,

Because  is supplementary to ,

In the quadrilateral ,

which means it can be inscribed in a circle.
From the secant theorem, it follows that

In the same way, it can be shown that  can be inscribed in a circle and

The proof is similar for the internal homothetic center :

Segment  is seen in the same angle from  and , which means  lie on a circle.
Then from the intersecting chords theorem,

Similarly  can be inscribed in a circle and

Relation with the radical axis
Two circles have a radical axis, which is the line of points from which tangents to both circles have equal length.  More generally, every point on the radical axis has the property that its powers relative to the circles are equal.  The radical axis is always perpendicular to the line of centers, and if two circles intersect, their radical axis is the line joining their points of intersection.  For three circles, three radical axes can be defined, one for each pair of circles (); remarkably, these three radical axes intersect at a single point, the radical center.  Tangents drawn from the radical center to the three circles would all have equal length.

Any two pairs of antihomologous points can be used to find a point on the radical axis.  Consider the two rays emanating from the external homothetic center  in Figure 4.  These rays intersect the two given circles (green and blue in Figure 4) in two pairs of antihomologous points,  for the first ray, and  for the second ray.  These four points lie on a single circle, that intersects both given circles.  By definition, the line  is the radical axis of the new circle with the green given circle, whereas the line  is the radical axis of the new circle with the blue given circle.  These two lines intersect at the point , which is the radical center of the new circle and the two given circles.  Therefore, the point  also lies on the radical axis of the two given circles.

Tangent circles and antihomologous points
For each pair of antihomologous points of two circles exists a third circle which is tangent to the given ones and touches them at the antihomologous points.
The opposite is also true — every circle which is tangent to two other circles touches them at a pair of antihomologous points.

Let our two circles have centers  (Figure 5).  is their external homothetic center.
We construct an arbitrary ray from  which intersects the two circles in  and .
Extend  until they intersect in .
It is easily proven that triangles  are similar because of the homothety. They are also isosceles because  (radius), therefore

Thus  is also isosceles and a circle can be constructed with center  and radius

This circle is tangent to the two given circles in points .

The proof for the other pair of antihomologous points (), as well as in the case of the internal homothetic center  is analogous.

If we construct the tangent circles for every possible pair of antihomologous points we get two families of circles - one for each homothetic center. The family of circles of the external homothetic center is such that every tangent circle either contains both given circles or none (Figure 6). On the other hand, the circles from the other family always contain only one of the given circles (Figure 7).

All circles from a tangent family have a common radical center and it coincides with the homothetic center.
To show this, consider two rays from the homothetic center, intersecting the given circles (Figure 8). Two tangent circles   exist which touch the given circles at the antihomologous points. As we've already shown these points lie on a circle  and thus the two rays are radical axes for . Then the intersecting point of the two radical axes must also belong to the radical axis of . This point of intersection is the homothetic center .

If the two tangent circle touch collinear pairs of antihomologous point — as in Figure 5 — then because of the homothety

Thus the powers of  with respect to the two tangent circles are equal which means that  belongs to the radical axis.

Homothetic centers of three circles

Any pair of circles has two centers of similarity, therefore, three circles would have six centers of similarity, two for each distinct pair of given circles. Remarkably, these six points lie on four lines, three points on each line. Here is one way to show this.

Consider the plane of the three circles (Figure 9). Offset each center point perpendicularly to the plane by a distance equal to the corresponding radius. The centers can be offset to either side of the plane. The three offset points define a single plane. In that plane we build three lines through each pair of points. The lines pierce the plane of circles in the points . Since the locus of points which are common to two distinct and non-parallel planes is a line then necessarily these three points lie on such line. From the similarity of triangles  we see that

(where  are the radii of the circles) and thus  is in fact the homothetic center of the corresponding two circles. We can do the same for  and .

Repeating the above procedure for different combinations of homothetic centers (in our method this is determined by the side to which we offset the centers of the circles) would yield a total of four lines — three homothetic centers on each line (Figure 10).

Here is yet another way to prove this.

Let  be a conjugate pair of circles tangent to all three given circles (Figure 11). By conjugate we imply that both tangent circles belong to the same family with respect to any one of the given pairs of circles. As we've already seen, the radical axis of any two tangent circles from the same family passes through the homothetic center of the two given circles. Since the tangent circles are common for all three pairs of given circles then their homothetic centers all belong to the radical axis of  e.g., they lie on a single line.

This property is exploited in Joseph Diaz Gergonne's general solution to Apollonius' problem. Given the three circles, the homothetic centers can be found and thus the radical axis of a pair of solution circles. Of course, there are infinitely many circles with the same radical axis, so additional work is done to find out exactly which two circles are the solution.

See also
 Intercept theorem
 Similarity (geometry)
 Homothetic transformation
 Radical axis, radical center
 Apollonius' problem

References

Euclidean geometry
Circles
Geometric centers


Mithqāl () is a unit of mass equal to  which is mostly used for measuring precious metals, such as gold, and other commodities, like saffron.

The name was also applied as an alternative term for the gold dinar, a coin that was used throughout much of the Islamic world from the 8th century onward and survived in parts of Africa until the 19th century.  The name of Mozambique's currency since 1980, the metical, is derived from mithqāl.

Etymology
The word mithqāl (; “weight, unit of weight”) comes from the Arabic thaqala (), meaning “to weigh”. Other variants of the unit in English include miskal (from Persian or Urdu ; misqāl), mithkal, mitkal and mitqal.

Indian mithqaal
In India, the measurement is known as mithqaal. It contains 4  and 3½  (rata'ii; مثقال).

It is equivalent to 4.25 grams when measuring gold, or 4.5 grams when measuring commodities. It may be more or less than this.

Nikki mithqal
A gold coin minted in Nikki, Benin and known as the mithqal was in wide circulation in West Africa in the 18th century, particularly the Niger bend. It was useable in the trans-Saharan trade and coexisted with the use of cowries as shell money.

Conversion factors

The mithqāl in another more modern calculation is as follows:

Nakhud is a Baháʼí unit of mass used by Bahá'u'lláh. The mithqāl had originally consisted of 24 nakhuds, but in the Bayán, the collective works of the Báb, this was reduced to 19.

See also
 Nisab

References

Units of mass
Measurement
Ottoman units of measurement
Islamic banking
Arabic words and phrases
Islamic banking and finance terminology


SAS Norge may refer to:

 Norwegian Air Lines changed its name to SAS Norge in 1996
 SAS Braathens was briefly known as SAS Norge
 Scandinavian Airlines previously had a division known as SAS Norge


Events from the year 2002 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government
President: Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister: Zafarullah Khan Jamali (starting 21 November)
Chief Justice:
 until 6 January: Irshad Hasan Khan
 6 January-31 January: Bashir Jehangiri
 starting 1 February: Sheikh Riaz Ahmad

Governors
Governor of Balochistan – Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal
Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Iftikhar Hussain Shah
Governor of Punjab – Khalid Maqbool
Governor of Sindh – Muhammad Mian Soomro (until 26 December); Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan (starting 26 December)

Events

January
1 January – an earthquake strikes northern Pakistan.
12 January – President Musharraf declares a war on extremism.
18 January – President Musharraf, in an interview with CNN, says he believes that Osama bin Laden is dead.

March
 India shuns Pakistan's offer of talks.

June
22 June – A wedding feast in Pakistan's tribal areas ends in tragedy after an error during the celebratory firing of a mortar shell; fourteen people are killed.

October
 10 October - General elections were held to elect the National Assembly of Pakistan and the provincial assemblies.

November
 21 November - A 6.3  earthquake strikes northern Pakistan, leaving sixteen dead, forty injured, and more than 1,000 buildings damaged.
 26 November - The Pakistan army has to use helicopters to evacuate thousands of people following the earthquake, as roads are blocked and the temperature is falling due to the onset of winter.

Deaths
 5 August - Bashir Niaz, film screenwriter

References

Pakistan
Pakistan
2000s in Pakistan
Years of the 21st century in Pakistan


This is a list of seasons completed by the Washington Wizards, a professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards are a member of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and currently play their home games at the Capital One Arena, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Table key

Seasons

All-time records
Note: Statistics are correct as of the conclusion of the 2022–23 NBA season.

Notes

References

Seasons
Events in Washington, D.C.


This is a list of seasons completed by the Orlando Magic. The Orlando Magic are an American professional basketball team based in Orlando, Florida. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team was established in 1989. The Magic have not won an NBA title, but have appeared in the NBA Finals twice, in 1995 and 2009. The best record posted by the Magic was 60–22, in the 1995–96 season, and their worst record was 18–64, in the team's inaugural season.

Table key

Seasons

All-time records
Note: statistics are correct as of the conclusion of the 2022–23 NBA season

Notes
 Due to a lockout, the 1998–99 season did not start until February 5, 1999, and all 29 teams played a shortened regular season schedule of 50 games. The Magic finished tied with the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers for the best record in the Eastern Conference; based on tiebreakers, the Heat won the Atlantic Division and earned the top seed, while the Pacers won the Central Division and earned the #2 seed.
 Due to a lockout, the 2011–12 season did not start until December 25, 2011, and all 30 teams played a shortened regular season schedule of 66 games.
 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2019–20 season was suspended from March 11 to July 30, 2020, and the regular season was shortened to 73 games for the Magic.
 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 season did not start until December 22, 2020, and all 30 teams played a shortened regular season schedule of 72 games.

References

External links
Orlando Magic at Basketball Reference
Orlando Magic at Land of Basketball

seasons
Events in Orlando, Florida


A morphological pattern is a set of associations and/or operations that build the various forms of a lexeme, possibly by inflection, agglutination, compounding or derivation.

Context
The term is used in the domain of lexicons and morphology.

Note
It is important to distinguish the paradigm of a lexeme from a morphological pattern. In the context of an inflecting language, an inflectional morphological pattern is not the explicit list of inflected forms. A morphological pattern usually references a prototypical class of inflectional forms, e.g. ring as per sing. In contrast, the paradigm of a lexeme is the explicit list of the inflected forms of the given lexeme (e.g. to ring, rang, rung). Said in other terms, this is the difference between a description in intension (a morphological pattern) and a description in extension (a paradigm).

See also
 lexical markup framework
 morphology (linguistics)
 Word formation

Sources
 Aronoff, Mark (1993). "Morphology by Itself". Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
 Comrie, Bernard. (1989). Language Universals and Linguistic Typology; 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.  (pbk).
 Matthews, Peter. (1991). Morphology; 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  (hb).  (pbk).
 Mel'čuk, Igor A. (1993-2000). Cours de morphologie générale, vol. 1-5. Montreal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal.
 Stump, Gregory T. (2001). Inflectional Morphology: a theory of paradigm structure. (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; no. 93.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  (hbk).

Computational linguistics
Natural language processing
pattern


The 2008 Auto Club 500 was the second race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and started on February 24, 2008, at Auto Club Speedway of Southern California in Fontana, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. The race was telecast on Fox starting at 3:30 PM US EST/12:30 PM PST, with MRN and Sirius Satellite Radio's broadcast starting at 2:45 PM EST/11:45 AM PST.  Rain stopped the race on Lap 87 and the race would continue  on Monday, February 25 at 1 PM US EST/10 AM PDT.

This race was the first time that the Car of Tomorrow raced at Fontana, as many people (since the shift from the North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina following the Ferko lawsuit in 2004) claim that it is the first "real race" of the season, following the running of the Daytona 500 with its restrictor plates in use.

Pre-Race News
Boris Said was an early entry, but withdrew.  Mike Skinner was to have replaced Jacques Villeneuve in the #27 Bill Davis Racing Toyota, while Nationwide Series regular Burney Lamar was to replace Carl Long in the #08 Dodge, however, with the cancellation of qualifying due to rain, neither made the field. Villeneuve will look for a ride (and sponsorship) in both Sprint Cup and Nationwide series.
Kurt Busch was docked 25 points and fined $25,000 after saying a profanity on live television during qualifying. This was the same penalty handed out when Tony Stewart uttered the same profanity after winning the 2007 Allstate 400 at The Brickyard the previous year.

Qualifying
For the first time in the Sprint Cup Series, a new qualifying system was to have been introduced for this race and the rest of the 2008 season.

The new qualifying format is being divided into two groups, that has been called by many as "The Boris Said Rule" after what happened prior to the 2007 Pepsi 400, when Said was on the provisional pole when qualifying was canceled, and the field was set by the rulebook. The format debuted in the Nationwide and Craftsman Truck series at Daytona.

In the first group, the Top 35 Exempt teams will go onto the track first and set their positions in the time trials.  The second group will involve those outside said Top 35, and will fill the remaining eight spots.  However, rain canceled the scheduled qualifying session, and the field was set by the NASCAR rulebook.  The first time that the new qualifying session format was used was at the UAW-Dodge 400 the following week in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Race
The outset of the race was plagued with rain, which was an ongoing theme throughout the weekend, delaying the start by 2½ hours, but weeping in the banked turns from all the inclement weather that fell throughout the weekend because of poor drainage caused the first two cautions. On Lap 14, Denny Hamlin hit the wall in Turn 3, causing the first caution of the day. After just two more laps of green, Casey Mears crashed into Dale Earnhardt Jr., and Sam Hornish Jr., who was blinded from the upraised hood who then hit Reed Sorenson and then turned Mears' car 270 degrees, setting Hornish's car ablaze and causing the first red flag of the race on Lap 21. Track dryers were brought out to clear the track, and concrete saws were used to create pathways for the water to flow off Turns 1 and 2, which was not draining properly. After hour and seven minute delay, racing continued on Lap 25 before a caution was called on Lap 39 due to rain in Turn 4. After drying finished, racing began again on
Lap 47 before a yellow flag was shown on Lap 56 due to Jeremy Mayfield's flat tire. Another yellow flag was shown when Joe Nemechek spins out due to a flat tire on Lap 62. Eight laps afterward, the sixth caution flag was shown when Elliott Sadler hit the wall after attempting to avoid Robby Gordon. The seventh caution flag was displayed on Lap 81 when rain began to fall, and was finally called off officially on Lap 87 with a red flag, over five hours after the scheduled start of the race.

NASCAR continued to dry the track and scheduled a night restart at 9 PM PST. That time was postponed twice by an hour to 11 PM local time, when they felt that track drying was inadequate. Ultimately at the time the race was to have restarted, NASCAR officials suspended activities for the evening.  When action resumed on Monday morning, Jimmie Johnson led the race when on Lap 132, Jeff Burton brushed the wall on Turn 3 to force the eighth caution period.  Three more cautions would follow, ultimately letting Carl Edwards win the race under caution when Dale Jarrett spun in Turn 3 on the last lap.  Mark Martin made his 800th career Winston/NEXTEL/Sprint Cup start in this race.

Timeline
Formation Laps: start delayed as M. Waltrip #55 spills oil onto racetrack.
Lap 14: 1st CAUTION - D. Hamlin #11 hits wall after slipping on damp part of racetrack. Harvick gets longest line penalty for pitting when pits were closed under caution
Lap 21: RED FLAG - C. Mears #5 hits wall, collects D. Earnhardt Jr. #88, R. Sorenson #41 hits S. Hornish #77, S. Hornish turns C. Mears onto roof. 1 hour 7 min delay for track preparations
Lap 39: 3rd CAUTION - rain
Lap 35: J. Gordon #24 sacrifices dominant lead to slot in behind J. Johnson #48 to suck débris from Gordon's car
Lap 56: 4th CAUTION - J. Mayfield #70 has flat tire
Lap 60: J. Gordon #24 dominates, leading 45 of 60 laps
Lap 62: 5th CAUTION - J. Nemechek #78 has flat tire and crashes
Lap 70: 6th CAUTION - E. Sadler #19 crashes taking evasive action to avoid R. Gordon #7 who got loose, striking the wall, but saves it from spinning
Lap 81: 7th CAUTION - rain
Lap 87: RED FLAG - rain, race abandoned for day, delay of 15 hours, 49 minutes
Lap 123: Green flag pitstops start
Lap 134: 8th CAUTION - J. Burton #31 hits wall
Lap 150: 9th CAUTION - M. Waltrip #55 crashes
Lap 167: 10th CAUTION - D. Jarrett #44 loses tire tread, caution for débris
Lap 208: Green flag pitstops start
Lap 219: 11th CAUTION - J. Mayfield #70 hits wall
Lap 237: C. Edwards #99 gains lead from J. Johnson #48
Lap 250: 12th CAUTION - D. Jarrett #44 crashes on white flag lap, so race finishes under yellow.

Failed to make the race as a result of qualifying being canceled due to rain: A. J. Allmendinger (#84), Ken Schrader (#49), Mike Skinner (#27), Burney Lamar (#08), Patrick Carpentier (#10).

References

External links
Complete race results
Complete points standings

Auto Club 500
Auto Club 500
NASCAR races at Auto Club Speedway
February 2008 sports events in the United States


Abby Denson is an American cartoonist, writer, and musician, known for her gay young-adult comics series Tough Love and her comics travel guides to Tokyo and Japan.

Personal life
Abby Denson was born in Illinois, but grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut. She received a degree in Cultural Studies from Eugene Lang College and a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design. She lives in Brooklyn, New York City, and is the creator of City Sweet Tooth, her online blog that reviews the city's best sweets and treats in comic book form.

Comics
Abby Denson initially self-published Tough Love, a minicomic about two gay teenagers in high school. She sent a copy to XY Magazine for review, which serialized it over a number of years, while Denson completed the story. She was the illustrator for the cover of the special Survival Guide edition of XY. In 2006, the series was reprinted as a graphic novel by Manic D Press. Denson won the '2007 Lulu of the Year' Award from the comics organization Friends of Lulu, and was nominated for a Stonewall Award from the American Library Association.

Denson has worked on several newsstand comics, such as Amazing Spider-Man Family, Josie and the Pussycats, The Powerpuff Girls, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and Kim Possible. At the same time, she has continued to release her own self-published comics, including Night Club, Jamie Starr Teen Drag Queen, Deadsy Cat & Kissy Kitty, Cute Boys of the 80's, and others.

Denson was a contributor to the Friends of Lulu anthology The Girls' Guide To Guy's Stuff, Robert Kirby and David Kelly's anthology The Book of Boy Trouble 2, and Tim Fish's anthology Young Bottoms In Love.

Denson's graphic novel Dolltopia was published in 2009 by Green Candy Press. It garnered a silver Moonbeam Children's Book Award and a Bronze Award at the 4th International Manga Awards.

In 2014 and 2018, she published two illustrated travel guides. Her Cool Japan Guide: Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen (2014) is summarized as a "...hip and handy travel guide with her expertise as a frequent visitor to Japan and her bright and vibrant illustrations". Then came Cool Tokyo Guide: Adventures in the City of Kawaii Fashion, Train Sushi and Godzilla (2018), noted as a practical guide for Japan's metropolis, which despite with its "lighthearted,.. manga-style" targeting teen readership, was deemed sufficiently amenable to use by adults as well and was a 2019 recipient of an IPPY award.

She collaborated with artist Utomaru on the 2021 book Kitty Sweet Tooth‘s Tasteorama from First Second Books. Reviews of this book included "A sugar-sweet burst of sunshine for new readers"  and "Denson’s sweet adventure will please movie and dessert lovers alike. Bold line art and vivid colors by Utomaru enhance this candy-coated comedy".

Music
Denson has been in a number of bands including the all-women band Mz. Pakman, Let's Audio, Abbymatic and, most recently, The Saturday Night Things.  She also collaborated with Rodney Greenblat on the album Let's Audio.

Publications

Books
Tough Love: High School Confidential, Manic D Press, 2006
Dolltopia, Green Candy Press, 2009
Cool Japan Guide: Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen. Tuttle Publishing, 2014
Cool Tokyo Guide: Adventures in the City of Kawaii Fashion, Train Sushi and Godzilla. Tuttle Publishing, 2018
Kitty Sweet Tooth, illustrated by Utomaru. First Second, 2021. ISBN 9781250196774
Kitty Sweet Tooth Makes a Movie, illustrated by Utomaru. First Second, 2022. ISBN 9781250196781

Contributions
The Book of Boy Trouble 2: Born to Trouble, edited by Robert Kirby and David Kelly, Green Candy Press, 2008
The Girls' Guide to Guy's Stuff, Friends of Lulu, 2007
Young Bottoms In Love, edited by Tim Fish, Poison Press, 2007

References

External links
Abby Denson's website, Abbycomix

21st-century American novelists
American female comics artists
American comics writers
Female comics writers
American graphic novelists
LGBT comics creators
Living people
People from West Hartford, Connecticut
American women novelists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers


is a Japanese keyboardist who was born in Tokyo's Minato ward.

Personal History
In the late 1980s and early '90s, he worked as a support member for The Blue Hearts and played the keyboard for them on their tours. After The Blue Hearts broke up, Shirai joined with the band's two lead members, Hiroto Kōmoto and Masatoshi Mashima, to form a new group, The High-Lows, in 1995.

Shirai left The High-Lows in 2003. While embarking on a solo career, he also joined with a third former member of The Blue Hearts, Tetsuya Kajiwara, to form another band, The Big Hip.

References

External links
Mikio Shirai Official Site

1950 births
Living people
Japanese keyboardists
The Blue Hearts members
Musicians from Tokyo


The United States ambassador to Senegal is the official representative of the president of the United States to the head of state of Senegal. The ambassador is concurrently the ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, while residing in Dakar, Senegal.

Ambassadors and chiefs of mission

See also
Senegal – United States relations
Foreign relations of Senegal
Ambassadors of the United States

References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Senegal

Specific

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Senegal
 United States Department of State: Senegal
 United States Embassy in Dakar

Senegal
United States


"Burn: Fumetsu no Face" is the forty-fifth single by B'z, released on April 16, 2008. The song was used in a commercial for the Kose Esprique Precious company. This is one of the many number-one singles by B'z at Oricon Singles Chart, as well first number one on the newly established Billboard Japan Hot 100 and the Top Singles Sales chart.

It is their first single since "Lady-Go-Round" (1990) not to sell over 200,000 copies.

Track listing
 - 3:51
The full music video for the song first premiered on the official fanclub site, B'z Party, marking only the second time this was the case—the first being Ai no Bakudan. Similarly, it was the second music video by the band to employ extensive CG—the first being Super Love Song. The song made its album debut when it was later featured on the band's second anniversary collection, B'z The Best "Ultra Treasure", as the thirteenth track on the second disc.
Yokohama - 4:02
The song was completed and recorded during the Monster sessions, but was first heard with this single's release. Before the single went on sale, the track as played on "FM yokohama 84.7". Additionally, Inaba also attended college in Yokohama.
Kibo no Uta (希望の歌) - 2:50
Also recorded as part of the Monster sessions, the song was first made publicly available with this release. It had been heard by fans prior to this at the March 9th performance during their 2008 tour promoting their latest release, Action, when the song was played to the audience as the band left the stage.

Certifications

References

External links
 B'z official website
 Burn at Barks News

2008 singles
B'z songs
Oricon Weekly number-one singles
Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one singles
Songs written by Tak Matsumoto
Songs written by Koshi Inaba
2008 songs


The 21st Pau Grand Prix was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 3 April 1961 at Pau Circuit, the street circuit in Pau. The race was run over 100 laps of the circuit, and was won by Jim Clark in a Lotus 18. This was Clark's first Formula One victory.

The cars entered by Scuderia Centro Sud were fitted with engines that were bigger than the 1.5 litres allowed by the regulations. Lorenzo Bandini had a 2.5-litre engine, and Mário Cabral a 2-litre.

Results

References

 "The Formula One Record Book", John Thompson, 1974.
 Results at www.silhouet.com

External links
Full results details at formula2.net

Pau Grand Prix
Pau Grand Prix
1961 in French motorsport


Ian Kennedy (born 1984) is a baseball player.

Ian Kennedy or Iain Kennedy may also refer to:

Ian Kennedy (comics) (19322022), UK comic artist
Ian Kennedy (legal scholar) (born 1941), British academic lawyer

Iain Kennedy (born 1985), Scottish rugby union player
Iain Kennedy (cricketer) (born 1960), Scottish cricketer
Iain Kennedy (rower) (born 1950), Irish rower


Kate Henshaw, also known as Kate Henshaw-Nuttall (born 19 July 1971), is a Nigerian actress. In 2008 she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in the movie Stronger than Pain.

Early life
Kate Henshaw was born in Cross River State, the oldest of four children. She attended St. Mary private school in Ajele, Lagos for her primary education. Later, she was admitted to the Federal Government Girl College, Calabar for her secondary school education. She spent one year at the University of Calabar studying remedial studies and then majored in Medical Microbiology at the School of Medical Lab Science afterward, LUTH (Lagos University Teaching Hospital) in Lagos. Henshaw worked at the Bauchi State General hospital.
Before becoming an actress, Henshaw worked as a model, featuring in various commercials including a print and television advert for Shield deodorant.

Career
In 1993, Henshaw auditioned for the lead role in the movie When the Sun Sets and was chosen for the role. This was her first appearance in a major Nollywood movie. Henshaw has starred in over 45 Nollywood movies.

In 2008, she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film Stronger than Pain.

She was nominated for "Best Actress in a Leading Role" at the African Movie Academy Award in 2018, for her performance in the movie "Roti".

Politics

On 19 July 2014, Henshaw officially unveiled her campaign website as she was aspiring to represent the Calabar Municipal/Odukpani Federal constituency under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party. Henshaw lost the primary election to Rt. Hon Essien Ayi but was appointed as Special Adviser Liaison Lagos by the Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade in December 2015.

Endorsement

In 2012, Henshaw was made the brand ambassador for a UK perfumes line, Blessing perfumes. She is a brand ambassador for "Onga" seasoning produced by Promasidor Nigeria Limited. In September 2012, Henshaw along with Dan Foster was selected as a judge in the reality show Nigeria Got Talent. In 2013, Henshaw along with Banky W was made the brand ambassador for Samsung Mobile Division. In January 2019, Kate Henshaw was selected to be among the 50 judges that will take part in the CBS International Talent Show called The World's Best. Henshaw was an ambassador for the giant telecommunication company Glo.

Philanthropy

In 2016, a Twitter user posted the picture of a two-year-old boy, Michael Alvez, who was born with an ulcerous growth in the face and tagged Henshaw who subsequently developed an interest in the case. She and several others contributed the sum of 8 million Naira for the boy for his treatment. However, the money was returned as per the family's request, who rejected all help.

Personal life
Henshaw married British-born Roderick James Nuttal in 1999, and they have a child together. Henshaw and Nuttal divorced in 2011.

Honors
In 2011, Henshaw was honored by the Nigerian federal government as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR).

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Domitilla (1996)
Faces (1996)
Above Death: In God We Trust (2003)
A Million Tears (2006)
My Little Secret (2006)
Stronger Than Pain (2007)
Show Me Heaven (2007)
Aremu The Principal (2015)
Chief Daddy (2018)
New Money (2018)
The Ghost and the House of Truth (2019)
4th Republic (2019)
The Women (2018)
Blood Sisters  (2022)

References

External links

 Official website

1971 births
Living people
Lagos University Teaching Hospital alumni
Best Actress Africa Movie Academy Award winners
Actresses from Cross River State
20th-century Nigerian actresses
21st-century Nigerian actresses
Nigerian actor-politicians
Nigerian actresses
University of Calabar alumni
Members of the Order of the Federal Republic


Sara Campbell is a British freediver.

She is the former world record holder in free immersion (FIM) (diving to a depth of 81 m), constant weight (CWT) (96 m) and constant without fins (56 m). She is the "freediving face" of The Underwater Channel.

Campbell was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire to Barbara and Rob Campbell. She was educated at Bancroft's School from 1983-1990 and studied German and Italian at Bristol University. Campbell was working in public relations in London, and combining this with part-time aerobics instructing, when she decided to move to Dahab in 2005 and set up a yoga holiday business. Campbell stumbled upon freediving when one of her yoga students noticed she was very good at holding her breath.

On 2 April 2009, Sara Campbell set a new women's freediving world record in the Bahamas by diving to 96 m in constant weight.

As of 2018, Sara lives in Dahab, Egypt, a place noteworthy for freediving. She teaches freediving and Kundalini yoga in the South Sinai town.

References

External links
 Sara Campbell - personal website
 Sara Campbell - older personal website
 Sara Campbell at The Underwater Channel
 Current Freediving World Records
 http://www.freedivecentral.com/f-sara--campbell-611
 Times interview

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British freedivers
People educated at Bancroft's School


Harper's Bible Dictionary is a scholarly reference book of the Bible, containing the texts of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament.  It is written by 180 members of the Society of Biblical Literature, edited by Paul J. Achtemeier, and containing 3500 articles and 400 photographs.

It has a LCC of BS 440.H237.

Footnotes

1985 non-fiction books
Bible dictionaries


SDW may refer to:
Sandwich railway station, station code
Seven dirty words
South Downs Way
Spin density wave
Static discharge wick, a device attached to the trailing edge of an aircraft's wing to deflect lightning
.sdw is a file extension used by StarOffice Writer
 SDW (TV station), a digital television station in Western Australia, part of the West Digital Television network
 Six-Day War
 Swedich Drunken Wikings


Monico Ogtong Puentevella (born 2 July 1946 in Bacolod, Negros Occidental) is a Filipino politician. Formerly a member of Lakas-Kampi-CMD, he was elected to three terms as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, representing the Legislative district of Bacolod City. He was first elected to Congress in 2001, and was re-elected in 2004 and 2007. He was also the mayor of Bacolod from 2013 to 2016. He finished both his elementary and secondary education at the De La Salle Bacolod in 1962 and 1965, respectively. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science degree from De La Salle University Manila in 1960. He further pursued Professional Management Development Program study at the Asian Institute of Management in 1994.

Media career
Puentevella had been a contributing writer for Manila Bulletin newspaper and Sports Weekly Magazine and Program host for West Negros Radio Station in 1967. He also became part of the television world when he hosted "Monico and Friends" and "Awit ng Tanghalan" in ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, and "Monico" (he also produced) in RPN TV 8.

Sports career
Prior to his election to Congress, Puentevella served as a Commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission from 1996 to 2001.

Puentevella served as the president of the Philippine Weightlifting Association (PWA) until 2013, when he resigned from the post upon becoming Mayor of Bacolod. He then held the title president emeritus after his resignation until he was re-elected again to the post in October 2016. He succeeded Roger Dullano, who irrevocably resigned to go to the United States due to concerns related family related issues.

He is set to be induced to the IWF Hall of Fame on June 25, 2022 for his contribution as a sport official.

Political career
'Newks’ as he is fondly called by his contemporaries is not new to public service as he had represented the Lone District of Bacolod in Congress from 2001 to 2010. As a three-term Congressman, Mayor Monico authored thirteen National Laws including the Quarantine Act of 2004, the Cheaper Medicines Law, the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines Law and the Alternative Fuel Act of 2004, among others. He also helped authored and co-authored at least 586 house bills and resolutions of Local and National importance. Mayor Monico's name is also synonymous with sports; the former De La Salle Manila stalwart was once voted Chairman of the Philippine Olympic Committee, Commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission and the current Marketing and Television Committee Director of the Federation International de Football Association (FIFA).

Helping him in his administration will be a consortium of past, present and future "servant-leaders" of the City that follows Mayor Puentevella’ s philosophy to "work as a team and succeed as one." In as such, Bacolod is assured that she is in good hands, ready and willing to upraise her name as one of the prime cities and the top tourist hub of the country.

His son Claudio Jesus Raymundo "Kalaw" A. Puentevella is an incumbent councilor in Bacolod. His other son Monico “Nicky” A. Puentevella, Jr. was appointed as Director of John Hay Management Corporation in 2017.

Mayor of Bacolod
He was elected as mayor of Bacolod in 2013.

In 2015, Puentevella was suspended for 90-days which started on November 16 and was charged with violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act (Republic Act 3019) for the alleged overpriced purchase of IT packages worth P26 million using his Priority Development Assistance Funds when he was congressman from 2002 to 2007. These IT packages were for public elementary and secondary schools in Bacolod. Also charged with Puentevella were the late Victorino Tirol, former Department of Education Western Visayas director; and Merryland Publishing chairman Jessie Garcia, supplier of the IT packages. Puentevella denied the accusations and questioned the validity of the information filed against him, however he willfully accepted the suspension with no reported hesitation. As a result, while Puentevella served his suspension, Bacolod Vice Mayor Greg Gasataya sat as acting mayor and Councilor El Cid Familiaran as vice mayor.

The Sandiganbayan’s 90-day preventive suspension of Puentevella over graft charges ended on February 14, 2016 and Puentevella was able to return to his previous post as Bacolod City Mayor. Puentevella ran for Mayoralty re-election on the 2016 Philippine local elections but lost to Evelio "Bing" Leonardia.

It was reported on June 23, 2016 that the Ombudsman ordered a one-month suspension against Puentevella due to failure to immediately suspend two Bacolod City building officials. In July 2014, the Ombudsman ordered the suspension of two building officials after finding them guilty of "conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service". Puentevella received a directive from the Ombudsman calling for the implementation of the suspension but issued a reply that the officials concerned are to be suspended on January 1, 2015 citing the unilateral move as in line with "the spirit of Christmas". The Ombudsman emphasized on its ruling suspending Puentevella that the earlier suspension order is "immediately effective and executory" and that "there is nothing vague or ambiguous with this wording". The Ombudsman also said that Puentevella has no authority to move the suspension to a different date. Puentevella said that the one-month suspension is "moot and academic" since he is already stepping down from his post as mayor eight days from the date of the report.

Other involvements
Monico also worked as company officer for IPC-Sugar Trading Co., Philsugar, Sugar Planters, RH Fabricators and Designs Inc., and JOSMON Management Co. Inc. He also was an employee at Philippine National Bank.

In 1994, he became the President of Cebu Rolling Hills Memorial Chapels and Rolling Hills Foundation.

References

People from Bacolod
1946 births
Living people
Lakas–CMD politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Bacolod
Mayors of Bacolod
De La Salle University alumni
Asian Institute of Management alumni


The following is a list of United States ambassadors to Nigeria.

Ambassadors

Notes

See also
Nigeria – United States relations
Foreign relations of Nigeria
Ambassadors of the United States

References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Nigeria

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Nigeria
 United States Department of State: Nigeria
 United States Embassy in Abuja

Nigeria

United States


This is a list of United States ambassadors to Haiti.

See also
 Haiti – United States relations
 Foreign relations of Haiti
 Ambassadors of the United States

References

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Haiti
 United States Department of State: Haiti
 United States Embassy in Port-au-Prince
 United States Department of State: Background notes on Haiti

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United States
Haiti
Haiti


The United States ambassador to Qatar is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Qatar.

Ambassadors

See also
Qatar – United States relations
Foreign relations of Qatar
Ambassadors of the United States

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on Qatar

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Qatar
 United States Department of State: Qatar
 United States Embassy in Doha

Qatar
United States


Events from the year 2003 in Pakistan.

Incumbents

Federal government
President: Pervez Musharraf
Prime Minister: Zafarullah Khan Jamali
Chief Justice: Sheikh Riaz Ahmad (until 31 December), Nazim Hussain Siddiqui

Governors
Governor of Balochistan –
 until 29 January: Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal
 29 January-11 August: Abdul Qadir Baloch
 starting 11 August: Owais Ahmed Ghani
Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Iftikhar Hussain Shah
Governor of Punjab – Khalid Maqbool
Governor of Sindh – Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan

Events

January
 An NGO launches a pilot mine clearance project in the Bajaur Agency.

March
 The Pakistan cricket team are not happy following their poor performance at the world cup, which led to them being knocked out in the first round. They were fined for their poor performance.

August
 Floods in Sindh province result in tens of thousands of people fleeing to relief camps and a food crisis. Badin District is the worst affected area.

September
 President Pervez Musharraf at the UN General Assembly in New York says that Pakistan would be willing to send troops to Iraq.

November
 The National Assembly of Pakistan meets for the first time since the 1999 coup.

Births
 15 February – Naseem Shah, cricketer
 11 October – Arisha Razi, actress

References

Pakistan
Pakistan
2000s in Pakistan
Years of the 21st century in Pakistan


The United States ambassador to Guinea is the official representative of the government of the United States to the government of Guinea. This is a list of the United States ambassadors to Guinea

Ambassadors

See also
Guinea – United States relations
Foreign relations of Guinea
Ambassadors of the United States

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on Guinea

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Guinea
 United States Department of State: Guinea
 United States Embassy in Conakry

Guinea

United States


This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Chad.

9 Jan 1961 – 28 May 1961 W. Wendell Blancke (Resident at Republic of Congo)
Jan 1961 - May 1961 Frederic L. Chapin (Interim)
28 May 1961 – 1 Apr 1963 John A. Calhoun
12 Aug 1963 – 20 Jan 1967 Brewster H. Morris
23 Sep 1967 – 9 May 1969 Sheldon B. Vance
21 Aug 1969 – 29 Jun 1972 Terence A. Todman
6 Dec 1972 – 23 Jun 1974 Edward W. Mulcahy
7 Dec 1974 – 23 Feb 1976 Edward S. Little
15 Oct 1976 – 19 Jun 1979 William G. Bradford
17 Nov 1979 – 24 Mar 1980 Donald R. Norland (Embassy closed 24 Mar 1980)
15 Jan 1982 – 27 May 1983 John Blane (Reopened embassy 15 Jan 1982, as Principal Officer and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim)
27 May 1983 – 23 Jul 1985 Jay P. Moffat
2 Sep 1985 – 4 Oct 1988 John Blane
15 Oct 1988 – 15 Nov 1989 Robert L. Pugh
4 Aug 1990 – 21 Jul 1993 Richard Wayne Bogosian
3 Sep 1993 – 26  Jun 1996 Laurence Everett Pope II
12 Sep 1996 – 6 Aug 1999 David C. Halsted
10 Oct 1999 – 16 Jan 2004 Christopher E. Goldthwait
16 Jun 2004 – 7 Jul 2007  Marc M. Wall
16 Nov 2007 – Sep 2010 Louis J. Nigro, Jr.
10 Nov 2010 – 25 July 2013 Mark M. Boulware
6 Sep 2013 – 11 Aug 2016 James Knight
9 Sep 2016 – 20 Sep 2018 Geeta Pasi
 18 Aug 2022 - Present Alexander Laskaris

See also
Chad – United States relations
Foreign relations of Chad

References

United States Department of State: Background notes on Chad

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Chad
 United States Department of State: Chad
 United States Embassy in N'Djamena

Chad

United States


The 5th Annual Tony Awards were held on March 25, 1951, at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom and broadcast on radio station WOR and the Mutual Network. The Master of Ceremonies was James Sauter and the presenters were Mrs. Martin Beck and Ilka Chase.

Performers: Barbara Ashley, Arthur Blake, Eugene Conley, Nancy Donovan, Joan Edwards, Dorothy Greener, Juanita Hall, Celeste Holm, Lois Hunt, Anne Jeffreys, Lucy Monroe, Herb Shriner.

Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.

Award winners
Source:Infoplease

Nominees are not shown

Production

Performance

Craft

Special Award
Ruth Green, for her services as a volunteer in arranging reservation and seating for the five Tony Awards.

Multiple nominations and awards

The following productions received multiple awards.

5 wins: Guys and Dolls
4 wins: The Rose Tattoo
3 wins: Call Me Madam
2 wins: The Country Girl

References

External links
Official Site

Tony Awards ceremonies
1951 in theatre
1951 awards
1951 in New York City


The following is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Ghana. The embassy in Accra was established March 6, 1957, with Donald W. Lamm in charge as chargé d'affaires. President Joe Biden nominated career U.S. diplomat and Acting Assistant Secretary/Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Energy Resources Virginia E. Palmer for the position on June 2, 2021.

Ambassadors

See also
 Embassy of the United States, Accra

Notes

References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Ghana

Senior  Staff Of Travel Relations  Peter Asante Smith

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Ghana
 United States Department of State: Ghana
 United States Embassy in Accra

Ghana
United States Ambassadors


"Life" (known as "Life (Everybody Needs Somebody to Love)" in the US) is a song by Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway. Written and produced by Dee Dee Halligan (Tony Hendrik) and Junior Torello, the song was released on 30 July 1993 as the second single from Haddaway's debut album, The Album (1993), and the follow-up to his successful debut single, "What Is Love". The song peaked at number one in Finland, Israel, Spain and Sweden. And within the top 5 in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Switzerland. On the Eurochart Hot 100, "Life" reached the top spot. Another CD maxi were produced at the end of that year containing new remixes (one of them was made by Bass Bumpers). By March 1994, "Life" had sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.

Critical reception
AllMusic editor Jose F. Promis complimented Haddaway's "passionate, urgent delivery" on the song. Larry Flick from Billboard felt that "although there is no denying the stylistic similarity to Haddaway's huge "What Is Love", this single gains its own strength through a fun, sing-along chorus and warmly upbeat lyrics. Added pleasure comes from Haddaway's assured voice." He also wrote that it "does have a chorus that instantly sticks to the brain". Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report noted that the singer "delivers an early Christmas present. "Life..." comes complete with a melody as compelling as his debut smash". A reviewer from Kingston Informer viewed it as "brilliant". In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton said, "The new track aims to repeat this same formula and does so just about." Pan-European magazine Music & Media stated that "variations on a theme have always been bona fide recording tricks and subsequently "Life" will be "What Is Love?" Part II."

Alan Jones from Music Week gave it four out of five, describing it as "a bouncy, commercial Euro-house track which will have little appeal to club cognoscenti but will delight the mainstream audience." He added, "It won't be as big as "What Is Love?" (few records are) but should safely reach the Top 10." John Kilgo from The Network Forty found that it is "familiar in sound" to his debut single, noting further that "this tune will research phenomenally, following in the heels of its predecessor." Reading Evening Posts reviewer felt it "provides strong evidence to suggest that Haddaway won't be a one-hit wonder", adding that "he sounds like Seal". James Hamilton from the RM Dance Update deemed it a "simple Teutonic pop bounder". Tom Doyle from Smash Hits gave it one out of five, calling it "an uninspired plodder which recycles the synth tune from Snap's "Rhythm Is a Dancer" and ponders the notion that "Life will never be the same/Life is changing"."

Chart performance
"Life" peaked at number one in Finland, Spain and Sweden as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100. In addition, the single reached number two in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. It was a top-five hit also in Belgium, France, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Norway. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number six on 3 October 1993, after three weeks on the UK Singles Chart. It stayed at that position for two weeks. On the UK Dance Singles Chart, it reached number two. Outside Europe, "Life" reached number one in Israel and on the Canadian RPM Dance chart, number five on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, number 14 in Zimbabwe, number 15 on the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart and number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was awarded with a gold record in Austria and Sweden, while in Germany, it received a platinum record for 500,000 units sold.

Music video
The accompanying music video of "Life" was partly inspired by the German 1927 movie Metropolis by Fritz Lang. Haddaway plays a scientist and inventor, like Rotwang in the movie. He designs a dancing robot, the Maschinenmensch, shaped like a woman. He tries to give life to it and manages to transform it into a real woman. They then dance to the rhythm, with the woman following Haddaway's movements. In the end, he takes off her helmet. She opens her eyes and he kisses her. The video received heavy rotation on MTV Europe.

Track listings
 CD maxi "Life" (Radio Edit) — 4:18
 "Life" (12" Mix) — 6:00
 "Life" (Club Life) — 6:13

 Cassette single "Life" — 4:18
 "Life" (Instrumental) — 4:18

 CD maxi – Remixes'
 "Life / Remix" (Mission Control Mix) — 7:00
 "Life" (Bass Bumpers Remix) — 5:55
 "Life" (Radio Edit) — 4:15

Charts

Weekly charts

1 Remix version

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

1993 singles
1993 songs
English-language German songs
Eurodance songs
European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles
Haddaway songs
House music songs
Number-one singles in Finland
Number-one singles in Israel
Number-one singles in Spain
Number-one singles in Sweden
Songs written by Tony Hendrik


St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, is a Grade II* listed Anglican church of the Anglo-Catholic tradition located at 32a Wilton Place in Knightsbridge, London.

History and architecture
The church was founded in 1843, the first in London to champion the ideals of the Oxford Movement, during the incumbency of the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett. The architect was Thomas Cundy the younger.

After the building's consecration in 1843, the chancel with its rood screen and striking reredos was added in 1892 by the noted church architect George Frederick Bodley, who also decorated St Luke's chapel, which stands in the place of a lady chapel to the south of the sanctuary, the lady chapel of St Paul's having traditionally been seen as being the church of St Mary's, Bourne Street.

The tiled panels around the walls of the nave, created in the 1870s by Daniel Bell, depict scenes from the life of Jesus. The stations of the cross that intersperse the tiled panels, painted in the early 1920s by Gerald Moira, show scenes from the crucifixion story. The font dates from 1842 and is carved with biblical scenes from both the Old and New Testaments. There are statues of the Virgin and Child (1896) above the entrance to the chapel, and of St Paul (1902) above the lectern.

A memorial in the church commemorates 52 members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry who died on active service during the Second World War while carrying out secret intelligence work for the Special Operations Executive in occupied countries in addition to providing transport drivers for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Among the names on the memorial are three holders of the George Cross.

St Paul's sister parish is the Church of St. Paul's, K street, in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

Notable events

Weddings

15 January 1857: Sir Edward Colebrooke, 4th Baronet, and Elizabeth Richardson
28 November 1865: Rev. Basil Wilberforce and Charlotte Langford
13 February 1884: George Osborne (later 10th Duke of Leeds) and Katherine Lambton
9 February 1886: Ailwyn Fellowes (later 1st Baron Ailwyn) and Agatha Joliffe
19 October 1886: Evelyn Boscawen (later 7th Viscount Falmouth) and Kathleen Douglas-Pennant
1 November 1894: James Hamilton (later 3rd Duke of Abercorn) and Rosalind Bingham
28 July 1900: George Cornwallis-West and Jennie Churchill (née Jerome; mother of Winston Churchill)
30 April 1902: Julian Byng (later 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy) and Evelyn Moreton
25 July 1905: George Montagu (later 9th Earl of Sandwich) and Alberta Sturges
29 November 1909: Charles Beresford Fulke Greville, 3rd Baron Greville and Olive Kerr
19 January 1916: Lieutenant (later Admiral) Frederic Wake-Walker and Muriel Elsie Hughes
2 January 1946: Bruce Shand and Rosalind Cubitt (parents of Queen Camilla)
3 February 1977: Charles Wellesley (later 9th Duke of Wellington) and Princess Antonia of Prussia

Funerals and memorial services
1937: J. Bruce Ismay
1985: Rev. Walter Hussey
2007: Mark Birley
2012: Angharad Rees
 2017: The Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Gallery

References

External links

Diocese of London
A Church Near You

1843 establishments in England
19th-century Church of England church buildings
Anglo-Catholic church buildings in London
Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge
Churches completed in 1843
Diocese of London
Grade II* listed churches in the City of Westminster
Knightsbridge
Thomas Cundy (junior) church buildings


The Professor's Commencement is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in New England Magazine in June 1902

Plot introduction
A Pittsburgh high school teacher spends his last day at work before retiring.

Plot summary
Early in the morning, the Professor wakes up and reads; his sister tells him she wishes he had been more ambitious with his life. On his way to the high school where he teaches, he is unnerved by the grimness and ugliness of industrialisation. Similarly, when he asks one of the students to read aloud, he is annoyed at the noise from the nearby factory that mars the reading. He then proceeds to pick up his stuff and join his colleagues for a retirement party. However, he bungles up the speech he gives there; his sister says it doesn't matter.

Characters
Emerson, the professor. He went to Harvard and worked at a high school for thirty years.
Miss Agatha Graves, Emerson's widowed sister.
Mr Fairbrother, a friend of Agatha's.
Dr Maitland, a colleague of Emerson's.

Allusions to other works
Painting is mentioned with Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Fra Angelico, and Elihu Vedder.
Emerson mentions Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Great Stone Face, Tristan and Iseult, John Bunyan's The Holy War, Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Rostam and Sohrab, and The Bible, with Mammon and Samson.
Greek mythology is also alluded to, with Ulysses and Hector.

Literary significance and criticism
It has been suggested that the story was spurred by Cather's own experience as a high school teacher in Pittsburgh in 1901.

It has been noted that the professor is more feminine, whilst his sister is more masculine.

Moreover, it has been argued that the story follows in the wake of the "pedagogic eros of the Greeks", with Emerson's affection for his "pupil with the gentle eyes and manner of a girl".

References

External links
Full Text at the Willa Cather Archive

1902 short stories
Short stories by Willa Cather
Works originally published in The New England Magazine


Czarnia may refer to:

 Czarnia (comics), a fictional home-planet of DC Comics character Lobo
 Czarnia, Gmina Czarnia in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)
 Czarnia, Gmina Kadzidło in Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)


Frank–Ter Haar syndrome (FTHS), also known as Ter Haar-syndrome, is a rare disease characterized by abnormalities that affect bone, heart, and eye development. Children born with the disease usually die very young.

Presentations
The primary characteristics of FTHS are brachycephaly (flat head), wide fontanelle (soft spot on a baby's head), prominent forehead, hypertelorism (abnormally wide distance between the eyes), prominent eyes, macrocornea (large corneas), optic disc edema, full cheeks, small chin, bowing of the long bones in the arms or legs, and finger deformities. Protruding, simple ears and a prominent coccyx (tailbone) are also regarded as important diagnostic signs of FTHS.

Genetic
Genetic mapping in several families with FTHS linked the disease to an inherited mutation in the gene that codes for the protein Tks4. Tks4 was already known for its role in the formation of cellular projections known as podosomes, which allow cells to migrate. A mouse model that lacks the Tks4 gene shows all the symptoms of FTHS confirmed the hypothesis that Tks4 mutation is responsible for the disease.

Diagnosis

Treatment
There is no treatment for FTHS, though identification of TKS4 mutation as a causative factor may eventually provide new opportunities for neonatal screening in high-risk families.

History
In 1973, researchers led by Yitzchak Frank, most recently at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, described an 18-month-old Bedouin girl, born to consanguineous parents, who presented with enlarged corneas, multiple bone abnormalities, and developmental delay. In 1982, Dutch pediatrician Ben ter Haar reported on three similar patients thought to have Melnick–Needles syndrome. Over the next twenty years, several more similar cases were identified and eventually attributed to a new disorder, now called Frank–Ter Haar syndrome. FTHS is distinguished from other similar conditions based on its pattern of inheritance and association with congenital glaucoma and congenital heart disease.

References

External links

Syndromes affecting the eye
Rare syndromes
Syndromes with craniofacial abnormalities


Albert Raymond "Abet" Sandejas Garcia (born February 1, 1970) is a Filipino politician. He currently serves as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Bataan since 2022. He served as the 24th provincial Governor of Bataan from 2013 to 2022 under the National Unity Party, which also he is the president of the political party. He has previously been elected to two terms as a Member of the House of Representatives, representing the 2nd District of Bataan. He first won election to Congress in 2004 and was re-elected in 2007. Prior to his election to Congress, Garcia served two terms as mayor of Balanga from 1998 to 2004.

See also
 Tau Gamma Phi

References

Notes

External links

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1970 births
Living people
Governors of Bataan
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Bataan
Mayors of places in Bataan
People from Balanga, Bataan
De La Salle University alumni
Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino politicians
National Unity Party (Philippines) politicians
Lakas–CMD politicians


Jesús Manzaneque Sánchez (born 1 January 1943) is a Spanish former road racing cyclist. He is the younger brother of Fernando Manzaneque.

Palmarès

1969
 Trofeo Elola
1971
Vuelta a La Rioja
1972
 1st, Stage 9b, Vuelta a España
1973
Volta a Portugal
Vuelta a La Rioja
1974
Vuelta a La Rioja
Trofeo Elola
1975
Trofeo Elola
 1st, Stage 19b, Vuelta a España
 1st, Stage 4, Vuelta a Andalucía

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1943 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the Province of Ciudad Real
Spanish male cyclists
Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners
Volta a Portugal winners
Cyclists from Castilla-La Mancha

Vuelta a Asturias winners