Sanford station is a railroad terminal in Sanford, Florida. It is the southern terminus for Amtrak's Auto Train, which runs between this station and Lorton, Virginia. Amtrak reported in its fiscal years 2021 and 2022 reports that the station is Amtrak's busiest station in Florida. It reported station ridership of 269,381 according to the 2022 report.

As of 2022, the Auto Train loads its passengers on two tracks in Sanford, as no single track is long enough for all of the passenger railcars. A railroad crossing runs through the middle of Sanford's rail yard, an unusual situation for a modern station and yard.

History
The station was opened in 1971 by the Auto-Train Corporation, a railroad that operated its rolling stock along tracks owned by other railroads. The station and the service closed when the railroad fell into bankruptcy in 1981.

The station was reopened in 1983 when Amtrak revived the Auto Train service. In 2004, hurricanes damaged the station building. The facility was also older and smaller than the terminal at Lorton.

On May 18, 2009, Amtrak broke ground on a new $10.5 million station designed by d+A design + Architecture of Yardley, Pennsylvania. The new building, which opened on October 18, 2010, has a waiting room for 600 travelers, a ticket counter, a café, restrooms, and a gift shop. The building incorporates energy-saving features such as energy-efficient HVAC, lighting, and glass coatings that minimize solar gain. A portion of the old station abutting the new structure was reconfigured into administrative offices.

Other train stations in Sanford
A second Amtrak station was located three-tenths of a mile south of the Auto Train terminal, which served the Silver Star, Silver Meteor, and Sunset Limited. The station was built by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in 1913 and rebuilt in 1953. Like most U.S. passenger stations, it was acquired by Amtrak upon its inception in 1971. Though Amtrak gave the address as 800 Persimmon Avenue, the station was actually located at the end of West 8th Street, about  west of Persimmon Avenue. Amtrak closed the station on August 1, 2005, and demolished it in 2009.

SunRail, the Central Florida commuter rail system, revived local passenger rail service to Sanford when it began operations in 2014. It built a new station on State Road 46 rather than on the site of the former Amtrak station.

References

External links

 Detailed station and Auto Train info
 Sanford Amtrak-Auto Train Station (USA Rail Guide -- TrainWeb)
Original Sanford Terminal images (Theme Trains.com)

Amtrak stations in Florida
Auto Train
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1971
Transportation buildings and structures in Seminole County, Florida
1971 establishments in Florida


The 2004 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented Ohio State University during the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season.  The team's head football coach was Jim Tressel.  The Buckeyes played their home games at Ohio Stadium. The team finished the season with a record of 8–4 and a Big Ten Conference record of 4–4.

Schedule

Roster

Coaching staff
 Jim Tressel – Head Coach (4th year)
 Jim Bollman – Offensive Line/OC (4th year)
 Bill Conley – Recruiting Coordinator (18th year)
 Joe Daniels – Quarterbacks / Passing Game Coordinator (4th year)
Ryan Smith- Co-Quarterbacks (1st year)
 Luke Fickell – Defensive Linebackers (4th year)
 Darrell Hazell – Wide Receivers (1st year)
 Jim Heacock – Defensive Line (9th year)
 Mark Snyder – Defensive Coordinator (4th year)
 Dick Tressel – Running Backs (4th year)
 Mel Tucker – Co-Defensive Coordinator / Defensive Backs (4th year)
 Bob Tucker – Director of Football Operations (10th year)

Depth chart

Q

2005 NFL draftees

Game summaries

Cincinnati

Marshall

Michigan

Source:

Alamo Bowl

Source:

Rankings

References

Ohio State
Ohio State Buckeyes football seasons
Alamo Bowl champion seasons
Ohio State Buckeyes football


WEMJ (1490 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Laconia, New Hampshire, United States, the station is owned by Binnie Media and licensed to WBIN Media Co., Inc. WEMJ features programming from ABC News Radio. WEMJ is known on-air as 107.3 WEMJ (after its translator frequency). It is part of the "Pulse of NH" trimulcast with 107.7 WTPL in the Manchester area and 98.1 WTSN in the Seacoast Region.

WEMJ, along with 16 other stations in northern New England formerly owned by Nassau Broadcasting Partners, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by WBIN Media Company, a company controlled by Bill Binnie, on May 22, 2012. Binnie already owned WBIN-TV in Derry and WYCN-CD in Nashua. The deal was completed on November 30, 2012. In March 2016, WEMJ began a simulcast on W297BS (107.3 FM, referred to as "WEMJ-FM" by the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters) and updated its branding to reflect this new over-the-air listening option.

WEMJ dropped its news/talk programming on May 23, 2019, becoming a Lakes Region simulcast of Binnie's contemporary hit radio station in Concord, WJYY (105.5 FM). In October 2020, coinciding with the launch of a late morning talk show hosted by former WGIR morning host Jack Heath (which airs on WEMJ, WTPL, and WTSN), WEMJ returned to a news/talk format.

Translators
In addition to the main station, WEMJ is relayed by an FM translator.

Previous logos

References

External links

EMJ
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Laconia, New Hampshire
Belknap County, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 1961
1961 establishments in New Hampshire


Phyllis Sellick, OBE (16 June 191126 May 2007) was a British pianist and teacher, best known for her partnership with her pianist husband Cyril Smith.

Biography
Born at Ilford, Essex, Phyllis Sellick started to play the piano by ear at the age of three and had her first music lesson on her fifth birthday. Four years later she won the Daily Mirror'''s "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred" contest for young musicians and was awarded two years' private tuition with Cuthbert Whitemore, subsequently winning an open scholarship to continue her study with him at the Royal Academy of Music. She later studied with Isidor Philipp in Paris. She specialised in French and English music.

She first met Cyril Smith at a concert in the Queen's Hall, London. They married in 1937 and had two children, a son, Graham, who predeceased his mother, and a daughter, Claire.

She and her husband performed together at The Proms in 1941, making many international tours and recordings as a duo.  Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams (Introduction and Fugue 'For Phyllis and Cyril') and Lennox Berkeley (Concerto for Two Pianos, premiered at the Albert Hall in December 1948) wrote music specially for them.

Their career continued even after Smith lost the use of his left hand following two strokes, when the couple would play specially devised material for three hands, including a concerto written for them in 1969 by Malcolm Arnold (Concerto for Piano 3 Hands and Orchestra, Op. 104, sometimes known as Concerto for Phyllis and Cyril).

She and Smith were awarded OBEs in 1971. After Smith's death in 1974, Sellick continued a long and successful career as a teacher at the Royal College of Music, where her husband had taught. She continued to work into her 90s, despite her failing eyesight and loss of her playing ability in her left hand following an accident.

In 2002 she appeared on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs. One of her choices was Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini to which she added "I would like Cyril to play it"''.

Phyllis Sellick continued to work into her 10th decade. She died at age 95 in 2007 and was survived by her daughter, Claire Sellick, a photographer.

References

1911 births
2007 deaths
Academics of the Royal College of Music
Piano pedagogues
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
English classical pianists
British music educators
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Musicians from Ilford
Musicians from Kingston upon Thames
Pupils of Isidor Philipp
20th-century classical pianists
20th-century English musicians
Women classical pianists


Jeanne Benameur (born 1952 in French Algeria) is a French woman writer.  Her father was Algerian and her mother was Italian. The family moved to La Rochelle when Benameur was 5 years old.

A professor of French until 2001, Benameur has published with various publishing houses, most notably Éditions Denoël and Éditions Thierry Magnier.  In spite of her multicultural origins (Algerian, Italian, and French), Benameur only writes in French.  In 2001, her novel Les Demeurées won the Unicef Prize.

Her autobiography, ça t'apprendra à vivre, was published in 2006.

Bibliography

 Jeanne Benameur (trans. Bill Johnston) The child who (Les Fugitives, 2022)

References

1952 births
Living people
French women writers
Algerian emigrants to France
French people of Italian descent


The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed.  It was perfected in 1866 by Robert Whitehead from a rough design conceived by Giovanni Luppis of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in Fiume. It was driven by a three-cylinder compressed-air engine invented, designed, and made by Peter Brotherhood. Many naval services procured the Whitehead torpedo during the 1870s, including the US Navy. This early torpedo proved itself in combat during the Russo-Turkish War when, on 16 January 1878, the Ottoman ship Intibah was sunk by Russian torpedo boats carrying Whiteheads, though this story has been disputed in one book.

The term "torpedo" comes from the torpedo fish, which is a type of ray that delivers an electric shock to stun its prey.

History

During the 19th century, an officer of the Austrian Marine Artillery conceived the idea of using a small boat laden with explosives, propelled by a steam or an air engine and steered by cables to be used against enemy ships; his papers came into the possession of Captain Giovanni Luppis upon his death. Luppis had a model of the device built; it was powered by a spring-driven clockwork mechanism and steered remotely by cables from land. Dissatisfied with the device, which he called the "coast-saver", Luppis turned to Robert Whitehead, who then worked for Stabilimento Tecnico Fiumano, a factory in Fiume. In about 1850 the Imperial Austrian Navy asked Whitehead to develop this design into a self-propelled underwater torpedo.

Whitehead developed what he called the Minenschiff (mine ship): an -long, -diameter torpedo propelled by compressed air and carrying an explosive warhead, with a speed of  and the ability to hit a target up to  away. In 1868, Whitehead introduced a solution to the stability problem for his torpedo: Pendulum-and-hydrostat control, contained in its Immersion Chamber. The Austrian Navy bought the manufacturing rights to the Whitehead torpedo in 1869. By 1870 Whitehead's torpedoes were running at . Still, there remained the problem of course correction: returning the torpedo to its correct course after it had deviated due to wind or wave action. The solution was in the form of the gyroscope gear, which was patented by Ludwig Obry, the rights to which was bought by Whitehead in 1896.

Design

In 1868, Whitehead offered two types of torpedoes to the world's navies: one was  in length with a diameter of . It weighed  and carried a  warhead. The other was  long with a  diameter. It weighed  and carried a  warhead. Both models could do  with a range of .

The United States Navy started using the Whitehead torpedo in 1892 after an American company, E. W. Bliss, secured manufacturing rights. As manufactured for the US Navy, the Whitehead torpedo was divided into four sections: the head, the air flask, the after-body and the tail. The head contained the explosive charge of guncotton; the air flask contained compressed air at , or 90 atmospheres; the after-body contained the engine and the controlling mechanism, and the propellers and rudder were in the tail. The air flask was constructed from heavy forged steel. The other parts of the shell of the torpedo were made of thin sheet steel. The interior parts were generally constructed out of bronze. The torpedo was launched above or below the waterline from a tube, using air or gunpowder discharge.

Significance
In 1871, the Royal Navy bought manufacturing rights, and started producing the torpedo at the Royal Laboratories at Woolwich, England. The Royal Navy fitted the Whitehead torpedo on its earliest submarines, from  onwards. The French, German, Italian, Russian navies soon followed suit and began acquiring the Whitehead torpedo. By 1877, the Whitehead torpedo was attaining speeds of  with ranges of up to .

By the 1880s, more of the world's navies acquired the Whitehead and began deploying torpedo boats to carry them into battle and engineers began to envision submarines armed with Whitehead torpedoes. In 1904, British Admiral Henry John May commented, "but for Whitehead, the submarine would remain an interesting toy and little more".

The last known operational use of a Whitehead torpedo was during the Battle of Drøbak Sound on 9 April 1940. Two torpedoes were fired from a torpedo battery in the Oslofjord at the German cruiser . This finished the ship off after it had been severely damaged by cannon fire from Oscarsborg.

Operators

See also
American 18-inch torpedo
Schwartzkopff torpedo
Bliss-Leavitt torpedo
Howell torpedo
Holland Torpedo Boat Company
Holland Torpedo Boat Station

References

Explanatory notes

Citations

Bibliography

Unmanned underwater vehicles
Torpedoes of the United States
Whitehead torpedoes


WKBK (1290 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Keene, New Hampshire, United States, the station is owned by Saga Communications and licensed to Saga Communications of New England, LLC; it operates as part of Saga's Monadnock Broadcasting Group. WKBK features programming from CBS News Radio, NBC News Radio, Compass Media Networks, Salem Radio Network, and Westwood One.

History

WKBK originally signed on as WNBX on June 2, 1927, in Springfield, Vermont. The station operated at 1240kHz. In November 1928, the frequency was changed to 1260kHz. On December 25, 1940, WNBX signed on from its new location as WKNE. The move to Keene also brought an increase in power to 5,000 watts.  In 1941 as part of the NARBA shift, WKNE shifted to its permanent home on 1290 AM. In early 2002, WKNE was sold to Saga Communications, along with sister station WKNE-FM. In 2002, Saga Communications also purchased WKBK 1220 AM, the other AM signal in the Keene radio market, which began the steps for a change in for the impending format flips. In late 2002, Saga Communications moved the talk programming from weaker signaled WKBK to 1290, changing the call sign to WKBK. 1220 would pick up the call sign WZBK with the adult standards format (which was later dropped for a simulcast of WKVT in Brattleboro, Vermont).

Translator

WKBK began broadcasting on its FM translator, W281AU, on May 16, 2008, after a decision by the Federal Communications Commission.  In January 2009, the FM simulcast was dropped and 104.1 became "Keene Classics 104.1", playing a classic rock format.  WKBK was returned to the 104.1 FM frequency in May 2009. W281AU transmits 59 watts from the tower of sister station WZBK.

Until December 2018, WKBK was heard on FM translator W298BT (107.5 FM). This translator was converted to a soft adult contemporary station, fed via the HD2 channel of WKNE, after WKBK signed on a new translator, W231DV (94.1 FM); this translator was obtained in an FCC filing window that requires W231DV to permanently be associated with WKBK.

References

External links

Monadnock Broadcasting Group

KBK
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Keene, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 1927


Wangtang is the name of 3 villages in Hunan.

 Wangtang Village (), in Gaoyi Township () of Huitong County, located at , some 35 km east of the Huitong County seat and 20 km south of Hongjiang central city
 Wangtang Village (), in Shuping Township () of the county-level city of Hongjiang, located at , some 30 km east of Hongjiang central city and 40 km south-east of Huaihua central city
 Wangtang Village (), in Shuidongjiang Town () of Shaodong County, located at , about 60 km northwest of Hengyang. Until the mid-90s this was an actual Wangtang Township (), which was then merged into Shuidongjiang Township (which later became Shuidongjiang Town).

References

Geography of Hunan
Villages in China


Durack is an inner-city suburb of Palmerston. It is 22 km southeast of the Darwin CBD. Its local government area is the City of Palmerston. Durack is bound to the north by the Stuart Highway; to the west and south is University Avenue, and to the east is Roystonea Avenue. The suburb consists mostly of recent developments, beginning in the early 1990s, and includes three estates as designated by the developers of the area: Fairway Waters, The Mews, and The Heights.

The Durack area was left unnamed when Palmerston was divided into suburbs, as the space was originally set aside for the use of a university in the area. When urban development of this area began in 1996, it became necessary to give the area a name. The suburb is named after the Durack family, who were pastoral pioneers of the Northern Territory and the Kimberleys.

References

Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory


The Grahame-White Type X Charabanc or Aerobus was a 1910s British passenger-carrying biplane designed and built by the Grahame-White Aviation Company based at Hendon Aerodrome, North London.

Development
The Charabanc was built by the Grahame-White company to meet the demand for passenger-carrying flights, which could not be satisfied by the existing two-seat designs. Designed by J. D. North, it was an unequal-span pusher biplane, with ailerons on both upper and lower wings, and a biplane tail unit with three rudders mounted on booms. An elongated nacelle mounted on the lower wing housed the pilot in the front, plus four passengers in two rows of two seats behind.  The wing spars, tail booms and outer interplane struts were of hollow section spruce, and the nacelle and inner struts were of ash.

It first flew in 1913, powered by a 120 hp (89 kW) Austro-Daimler engine, and in this form was flown by Louis Noel with seven passengers aboard to set a British world record on 22 September 1913. On 2 October 1913, he set a world record in carrying nine passengers, staying aloft for nearly twenty minutes. To meet the entry requirements for the 1913 Michelin Cup, which required an all-British aircraft, this was replaced by a British-built 100 hp (75 kW) Green E.6 engine. The Charabanc went on to win the cup, covering a distance of over 300 miles on 9 November 1913, piloted by R.H. Carr.

The first parachute descent from an aircraft in Great Britain was made by W. Newell from the aircraft, at Hendon on 9 May 1914.

Specifications

Notes

References
 Lewis, Peter M. H. British Aircraft 1809-1914 London: Putnam, 1962 p. 284-285
 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 1998

External links
 The Grahame White Aero-Char-a-BancsFlight magazine 11 October 1913 p. 1113.

1910s British airliners
Grahame-White aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1913


Eugene Lawrence Roof (born January 13, 1958) is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder. He played during three seasons at the Major League level for the St. Louis Cardinals and Montreal Expos.

Playing career
He was drafted by the Cardinals in the 12th round of the 1976 amateur draft. Roof played his first professional season with their Rookie league Gulf Coast Cardinals and Johnson City Cardinals in , and his last with the Detroit Tigers' Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens in . He is the brother of Phil Roof and cousin of Eddie Haas. His brothers Adrian, Paul, and David Roof played in the minor leagues.

Coaching career
Since his retirement as a player in 1988, Roof has been a part of the Tigers organization as coach.  He served as manager with Fayetteville Generals in 1989, London Tigers in 1991, Toledo Mud Hens from 1997 to 1999, and the Jacksonville Suns in 2000.  He had also served as first base coach under Tigers manager Sparky Anderson from 1992 to 1995. Roof served as the Tigers minor league-wide outfield and base-running coordinator from 2001 until his retirement after the 2020 season.

Personal life
All three of Roof's sons have played professionally. Shawn and Eric were minor leaguers in the Tigers organization, while the youngest, Jonathan, was drafted by the Rangers in 2010. Shawn Roof became a Minor League Baseball manager. Eric Roof became a college baseball coach.

References

External links

Venezuelan Professional Baseball League

1958 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Arkansas Travelers players
Baseball coaches from Kentucky
Baseball players from Kentucky
Detroit Tigers coaches
Gulf Coast Cardinals players
Indianapolis Indians players
Johnson City Cardinals players
Leones del Caracas players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Louisville Redbirds players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Minor league baseball managers
Montreal Expos players
Nashville Sounds players
Richmond Braves players
St. Louis Cardinals players
St. Mary High School (Paducah, Kentucky) alumni
St. Petersburg Cardinals players
Sportspeople from Paducah, Kentucky
Springfield Redbirds players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Gastonia Cardinals players


Gaspar Makale (1960 circa. to December 2007, Tanzania) was one of the pioneers of solar electrification in the African Great Lakes. During the 1990s, he was the Chief Solar Technician at the KARADEA Solar Training Facility (KSTF) in Karagwe District, Kagera in Northern Tanzania, situated between Lake Victoria and Rwanda.

KSTF, the first dedicated training centre for solar energy technology in the African Great Lakes, was founded by Oswald Kasazi in 1993. During the following decade KSTF gave regular three-week-long training courses which were attended by people from all over the African Great Lakes region (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda), as well as from further afield. The courses were held in partnership with Alternative Energy Africa (EAA), run by Mark Hankins and Daniel Kithokoi, who were based in Nairobi, Kenya. Makale managed the practical sessions as well as arranging for the field-trips during which course participants installed solar electric domestic systems in the Karagwe district.

KSTF also ran a solar apprentice scheme for which Makale was responsible. He was also involved in other solar training courses in Tanzania, such as the one held at Wasso Hospital, situated in Maasailand, Tanzania. Course participants, many of whom later went on to set up solar businesses and work in the growing African Great Lakes solar industry, got their first hands-on experience of installing solar electric systems under Makale's experienced and expert guidance. He installed an Ampair Hawk 100 wind turbine at KSTF for charging batteries, the first wind turbine installed in that part of Tanzania. He also ran his own solar business.

While working with KSTF, Makale installed numerous solar systems in local schools, hospitals, clinic refrigeration systems, two-way radio systems, domestic lighting systems. He also installed systems in the refugee camps that sprung up in Karagwe after the Rwanda genocide in 1994. He made one trip to the USA where he attended solar and wind energy courses at Solar Energy International in Colorado, USA. He also ran a solar-powered disco in his own village where he lived with his family on a small farm.

Makale also worked closely with Harold Burris of Solar Shamba, one of the first people to see the potential of solar electricity in the African Great Lakes, and with Frank Jackson from APSO (the Irish state overseas development agency), who worked at KSTF during the 1990s.

See also

Renewable energy in developing countries
Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology
Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
Energy for All
International Renewable Energy Agency
Renewable energy in Africa
Renewable energy in China
Solar for all
Solar power in South Asia
Solar powered refrigerator
SolarAid
UN-Energy
Wind power in Asia
Fabio Rosa

References

1960 births
2007 deaths
Electrical engineers
Tanzanian engineers
People associated with renewable energy
20th-century engineers


David Mitchell (born March 12, 1984 in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian lacrosse player who plays for the Philadelphia Wings in the National Lacrosse League.

College career
Mitchell is a graduate of Cornell University.  As a senior he was awarded with second All-American team honors, and named to the first All-Ivy League team while leading the Big Red to the 2007 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship Final Four.

Professional career

Major League Lacrosse
Mitchell was selected by the Boston Cannons as a first round selection (8th overall) in the 2007 MLL  Draft Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft. On July 14, 2007, he netted a rookie season-high four goals against the Chicago Machine. Prior to the 2008 MLL season, Mitchell was traded to the San Francisco Dragons. He was picked up in late July 2008 by the Chicago Machine after being waived by the Dragons.

National Lacrosse League
The Philadelphia Wings drafted Mitchell in the Second Round (25th overall) in the 2007 National Lacrosse League Entry Draft.

Statistics

MLL

NLL

NCAA

References

1984 births
Canadian expatriate lacrosse people in the United States
Canadian lacrosse players
Cornell Big Red men's lacrosse players
Lacrosse forwards
Living people
Major League Lacrosse players
Philadelphia Wings players
Sportspeople from Moose Jaw


George Carter ( – ) was one of New Zealand's first-ever rugby union representatives, playing for the All Blacks. Representing New Zealand in 7 Matches in 1884.  Carter won praise from team manager Samuel Sleigh who wrote: "No amount of knocking seemed to have the slightest effect on this hard-working forward." He came into the New Zealand team for the Australian tour after Bob Whiteside and then Frank Clayton withdrew.

George Carter had a first-class record: Auckland 187577,80,82,83 (Auckland). "George Carter's association with rugby dates back to the codes earliest days in Auckland".

Rugby career
Rugby was originally played in Auckland under mainly Victorian Rules since 1866.

Following a successful tour of New Zealand in 1882 by a New South Wales team, an invitation was issued by the Southern Rugby Football Union (later renamed the New South Wales RFU) for a New Zealand team to visit that colony.  In the absence of a national body controlling rugby, the arranging of the tour fell to Dunedin businessman Samuel Sleigh, who became the team's manager, and the secretary of the Canterbury Rugby Union, William Millton.  The latter, a barrister and a brilliant all-round sportsman, had captained the Canterbury side since 1878 and was to lead the first-ever New Zealand rugby team.

Originally the Southern RFU had offered the New Zealand team all the profits from the tour, plus hotel and traveling expenses from Wellington to the return to the same port for 17 men, with the team playing six matches.  Subsequent negotiation extended the offer to all 19 men and included the coastal fares, with the number of matches increased to eight.  The original nominations for the team had members who could not compete due to expenses and unavailability to leave their job the replacements included J G Lecky & rugby veteran George Carter.  George Carter had a lengthy career in Rugby by this time, having played since he was 18 years old.

It was generally agreed that the team was a very judicious selection, considering the difficulties associated in getting a first-class team from one colony to another.  Four uneventful days at sea saw the tourists amuse themselves by participating in quoits, wrestling, boxing & similar pastimes.  When seas were calm enough a type of football was played and on the final day a North Island vs South Island tug-of-war resulted in a win for the North Island by two pulls to one.

Paramatta presented a crowd of 600 to watch the game & It was soon apparent that the local combination would be no match for the visitors.  The visitors maintained great pressure the score at half time 17–0.  during the 10-minute interval some of the local team removed their boots for the second spell, which did little to aid their team whose play was described as 'crude'.  The New Zealanders continued to dominate their opponents the final score being 33–0.

New South Wales presented a crowd of 4000 people to watch the match, with 'delightful' weather, NSW in Olive Green & New Zealand in Dark Blue with a Gold Fern on the left breast ran out before the large crowd.  two-halves of 50 Minutes would be played.  from the kick-off play was fast and furious with the tourists forcing a touch-down after 3 minutes.  halftime score 4–0 to the NZ'ers, after 10-minute adjournment NZ resumed attack with the home team defending.  The match played in the best of spirits had resulted in a clear-cut 11–10 victory to the New Zealanders. the Sydney Morning Herald commented, "The home team played pluckily enough but were simply overmatched."

In 1874 rugby had become the preferred code, and clubs were forming, there were at least six in 1874.

The team was picked from players in Auckland clubs and called Auckland Combined Clubs. This team is now known as the first first-class side in New Zealand rugby history. The match they played with Dunedin Clubs in Dunedin was also known as the first representative match in this country. Auckland's results were not good, suffering five heavy defeats in as many matches. Carter had been a member of the touring team and was among the first 30 players to appear in New Zealand representative rugby.

Although normally a forward, he was one of Auckland's three fullbacks in that first representative match. He represented Auckland for nearly a decade, although matches were few and far between. He was normally one of the first men picked and played in the second New South Wales match in 1882, when Auckland gave the tourists a hiding, 18–4. In 1883, when the newly formed Auckland union played its first matches, Carter was playing.

George Carter played all three games that season at halfback. New Zealand rugby men had had good results against New South Wales in 1882 and in 1884 they returned. As the four unions then in existence all supported the venture, each was invited to nominate players to make up the team. Carter wasn't among the original choices, but was one of two men invited to replace other Aucklanders (Bob Whiteside, Frank Clayton, and J.C. Webster), who withdrew after selection.

George Carter played at wing forward in the match against Wellington and is therefore among the original 15 New Zealand representatives.  He appeared in six of the eight matches in Australia, including two of the three against New South Wales (Australia).

Recorded in the Te Aroha News 24 September 1888 A match between Tauranga vs Katikati Katikati having a powerful contingent of Auckland Players including T O'connor, O Wells, G Carter & Hobson.  The Tauranga players showed a great improvement on their play against the Auckland team having taken to heart the lessons they were taught on that occasion

Ponsonby
George Carter's name appears on the Ponsonby Rugby Football Club Honours Board as one of New Zealand's Earliest All Blacks and First ever rugby union representatives.  A letter was presented from the "Ponsonby Rugby Football Old Boys' Association" Hon. Secretary to the daughter of George Carter, Mrs Harris on her 102nd Birthday 27 August 1981 stating " We were interested to learn that you are a daughter of George Carter who was the Ponsonby Clubs' first All Black when he was selected to represent New Zealand in 1884".

References

External links

Auckland Rugby Union Team

1854 births
1922 deaths
New Zealand international rugby union players
New Zealand rugby union players
Rugby union wing-forwards
Rugby union players from Auckland


Gina Sicilia (born March 6, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Her album, Heard the Lie, peaked in the Top 10 on Billboard charts blues music charts in September, 2018 as well as Sunset Avenue peaking at #15 in September, 2016.
She was nominated for a Blues Music Award for Best New Artist in 2008 and has shared the stage with such artists as Beth Hart, Joan Osborne, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joe Bonamassa, Shemekia Copeland, and Johnny Winter amongst others.

Early life
Sicilia was born in Newtown, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, United States, to parents Giovanni Sicilia, an Italian immigrant, born in the southern Italian regione of Calabria who emigrated to the United States in the 1960s, and Patricia Sicilia, born in Philadelphia.  She is fluent in Italian and English. Sicilia attended the Council Rock School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Sicilia began singing at 6 years old performing at local talent shows and by the age of 12 she began writing songs. At 14 years old she became interested in blues and classic soul music and decided to pursue singing in that genre. During her sophomore year of college, Sicilia began attending the weekly blues jam at Warmdaddy's in Philadelphia. It was there she got her first performing experience and met a large group of local musicians who would help her to record her first demo. In 2007 she recorded and released her debut album, Allow Me To Confess which was posted on her myspace page which caught the attention of Richard Rosenblatt who was the president at the then-new record label, VizzTone Label Group, who signed her to the label.

Albums

 2007 - Allow Me To Confess
In 2006 Sicilia recorded her debut album, Allow Me To Confess, which was produced by Dave Gross and consisted of eight original songs. Musicians on the album included harmonica player Dennis Gruenling and Arthur Neilson. The album was released in early 2007 to received favorable reviews.

A few months after the album's release, Sicilia signed with the VizzTone Label Group. Sicilia was nominated for a 2008 Blues Music Award in the category of 'Best New Artist Debut'. She also performed at the ceremony alongside the blues pianist, David Maxwell.

 2008 - Hey Sugar
In October 2008, Sicilia released her second album, Hey Sugar, which debuted at #10 on the Living Blues Radio chart and consisted of nine original compositions.  Hey Sugar helped to further establish Sicilia as a formidable singer, songwriter, and performer who could easily cross over from Blues to Americana. Sicilia toured the United States extensively in 2008-2009 and in 2011, took part in the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise. There, she performed alongside such artists as Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Joan Osborne, and The Holmes Brothers.

 2011 - Can't Control Myself
On March 1, 2011, Sicilia released her third studio album, Can't Control Myself, once again produced by Dave Gross.

The album was met by rave reviews. The Boston Globe praised her voice as "Earthy and voluptuous" while About.com said she "delivers a vocal and lyrical performance that rates alongside the titans of early-1960s soul." In March 2011, to promote the new album, Sicilia performed on Philadelphia's NBC "10! Show" and interviewed and performed on BB King's Bluesville, channel 74 on Sirius/XM Radio
with DJ Bill Wax. The album debuted at # 11 on the Living Blues Radio Charts on April 1, 2011 and was added to over 150 AAA radio stations in May 2011. In the summer of 2011 Can't Control Myself was included in About.com's list of the "Top Ten Best Blues Album's of 2011...So Far".

 2013 - It Wasn't Real
On April 30, 2013, Sicilia released her fourth studio album, It Wasn't Real, on the VizzTone label. The CD was produced and engineered by Grammy winning producer Glenn Barratt at Morning Star Studios in Amber, Pennsylvania. The recording contained an array of Philadelphia studio musicians and included nine of Sicilia's original songs, as well as an early 1960s Etta James hit, "Don't Cry Baby"

 2014 - The Alabama Sessions

In 2014 Sicilia traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama where she recorded and produced her fifth studio album of all original material, The Alabama Sessions, a 5-song EP.
The album was recorded at The NuttHouse Studio and the project was overseen by studio owner Jimmy Nutt.
It was released during the summer of 2014 by the VizzTone Label Group along with a music video for one of the album's five original songs, "I'm In Trouble"

 2016 - Sunset Avenue

In August 2016 Sicilia released her sixth studio album on Blue Élan Records, located in Los Angeles, California.
The five-song EP was met with international critical acclaim and received airplay across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia.
The music zine Friday Blues Fix called Sicilia "One of the finest vocalists currently practicing in the Blues Field"

 2017 - Tug of War
Tug of War was recorded in Philadelphia and Sicilia toured the US and Canada to promote the album and performed at SXSW in 2018.

 2018 - Heard the Lie
Produced by Grammy nominated producer, Dave Darling in Los Angeles and featuring a duet with label-mate, Grammy nominated Janiva Magness.  The album featured a cover of Bad Company's Ready For Love.  She toured the US extensively also opening several shows for Paul Thorn. Heard the Lie debuted on Billboard Blues music charts at #10.

Awards and recognitions
 2008 - Nominated - Blues Music Award - Best New Artist
 2008 - Nominated - Blues Blast Music Award - Best New Artist Debut Recording
 2011 - Nominated - Blues Blast Music Award - Sean Costello Rising Star
 2017 - Winner - LA Music Critics Awards - Best Blues Artist

Personal life
From 2005 to 2013, Sicilia was in a relationship with guitarist/producer Dave Gross. Gross is the owner of Fat Rabbit Studios located in New Jersey.

In 2013, Sicilia relocated from Newtown to Nashville, Tennessee.

References

External links
 Gina Sicilia official website
 Blue Élan Records
 VizzTone Label Group
 Artist Connection Podcast Interview

1985 births
Living people
American blues singers
Musicians from Bucks County, Pennsylvania
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
American people of Italian descent


Utricularia hintonii is a small terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. hintonii is an annual lithophyte that is endemic to Mexico and is only known from the type location about  west-southwest of Mexico City. It was originally collected by G. B. Hinton on June 10, 1933, and described as a new species by Peter Taylor in 1986, who named it in honor of Hinton.

See also
 List of Utricularia species

References

Carnivorous plants of North America
Endemic flora of Mexico
Flora of the State of Mexico
hintonii


Becca Bernstein (born in 1977) is an American artist. She lives and works in Oregon and Scotland.

Life and work
Bernstein was born in 1977 in Utah. She graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and studied at University of Glasgow. She interned at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Artistic work

In the summer of 2000, she survived two near-fatal car accidents. She recovered fully from spinal and internal injuries. The accident motivated her to make a tangible difference in the world and she combined her art work with working in care homes.

Much of her art addresses issues of community and human interdependence. Her work as activities director in senior care homes in Oregon and Scotland has led her to explore human relationships in the contemporary age.

Bernstein is best known for her paintings, particularly of elderly subjects. Her work focuses on human relationships, family, and ageing. She is noted for using unconventional materials like patchwork quilts and slate tiles. She explores issues of human fragility and strength. In her 2008 artist's statement for an installation she wrote:
"I am witness to the modern anomaly of dividing the tribe - of the separation of generations from one another, each to their respective institutions. As an artist, my interest in this subject has led me to seek out communities of all kinds for my work, both traditional and uniquely present-day, exploring the relationships we have developed or abandoned in this contemporary age."

Her work can be found in the public collections of the City of Lake Oswego, Oregon, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, the Northwest Business for Culture and the Arts, the Oregon Ballet Theater, and the Grace Institute, New York. She is represented by galleries in Portland, Oregon, Park City, Utah, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Aberdeen, Scotland. She also earned a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council for her 2008 conceptual installation in Portland.

Awards
Bernstein won the Kimberley Gales Emerging Artist Award in 2005. She also won the Lake Oswego Public Art Award in 2007, and The George Sugarman Foundation Grant in 2007 for socially conscious artists.

In 2008, SouthWest Art named her as one of their 21 emerging artists.

See also
List of artists and art institutions in Portland, Oregon

References

Lewis & Clark College alumni
American women painters
Living people
1977 births
Painters from Oregon
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists


The Hamilton White House is a historic home in Syracuse, New York. The house, Greek Revival in design, was built by and for Hamilton White, circa 1840/42, and occupied by his family in 1842/43. Many believe based on similarities in structure and style that the unknown architect and builder was the same person who designed and built the Moses Burnett House, completed in early 1842, later to become the Syracuse Century Club building. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 due to its significance in the area of architecture and its relationship, through Hamilton White, to the commerce and politics of Syracuse.

Hamilton White

Hamilton White (1807—1865) lived at the White House until his death; his family retained ownership until 1911/12, although the building briefly housed the Kanatenah Club. The house is the last of a number of National Register of Historic Places-listed residential structures, in original construction and exterior, remaining in the immediate vicinity of downtown, along the city's Fayette (later, Fireman's) Park. In 1976 it was purchased by an investment group and converted into business offices. In 2002, it was sold to a private environmental firm, but remains offices for lawyers and other small businesses.

Family background
The White family was prominent in central New York. Hamilton White was the third son of John (also referred to as 'Asa') White, a farmer and gristmill owner in Homer. Hamilton White became a lawyer, farmer, investor and businessman, and moved to Syracuse after a legal apprenticeship in Buffalo, with his wife Sarah Randolf Rich. Together, they raised five children. White co-founded the Syracuse Bank, the Syracuse Coarse Salt Company (Syracuse was a principal supplier of salt in America), and became trustee for and investor in both the Erie Canal and the New York Central Railroad, as well as numerous commercial businesses, some that he founded.

He was active in numerous community leadership roles, especially religious and social-welfare issues. He was a leading philanthropist, he, his family and descendants supporting many community, religious and civic organizations, including founding or co-founding Syracuse University's Crouse College, Cornell University, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, the Orphan's Home, now Elmcrest Children's Home, and the Syracuse Home Association, originally a multi-faith consortium to provide community and social services, especially for the poor, now a provider of long-term healthcare and elder-care services.

The family supported the abolishment of slavery, quietly funding black churches and the underground railroad and recruited national speakers to visit Syracuse during the 1850s. He also supported the efforts of Dr. Samuel May, the founder of May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church.

The local United Way leadership campaign, the Hamilton White Society, is named for the family's philanthropy and community development support. Created in 1988, The Hamilton White Society is the United Way's national model for leadership in small and medium-sized communities.

The most prominent of his five children, Hamilton Salisbury White (1853–1899), was also a lawyer, real estate owner, investor, businessman, who dedicated his life to be a professional firefighter, and later became a city fire commissioner.  He funded his own fire company becoming the first paid and professional firehouse in the world. Among White's many contributions to safety and equipment design, White is also acknowledged for first initiating the concept of "response time" into firefighting and life-saving techniques.

Early life
Hamilton White's interest in firefighting started at an early age.  As early as age four, he boarded his pony cart in the stables behind the house and rushed out to watch the volunteer firefighters of the city; watching their efforts shaped his future life.  Later, as a student at Cornell, he stabled a horse outside his dorm room, so he could visit fires and watch the volunteer firemen in Ithaca, NY.

Firefighting
After graduation from Cornell University, Hamilton S. White returned to Syracuse, developed the city's first public, mechanical and electric fire alarm systems, copied after Ithaca's mechanical system, and built his firehouse at the former 400 Genesee Street, close to the family house. Here, he boarded and trained his fire company, provided all the firefighters' equipment and support, paid the men's salaries, and educated the company in science and techniques of building construction/structural design, fire science and basic chemistry, since many fires were chemically based. He continually focused on the firefighters' education and improvement in what he regarded as a "science of firefighting."  His company worked seven days on, seven off.

He is credited with re-designing the firefighter's "turnout suit," creating the first second-floor dormitory with the "fireman's pole" for fast access to the engine from the dormitory sleeping quarters, integrating the world's first electric/mechanical alarm system into the firehouse, as well as numerous other safety inventions.

He integrated the alarm system into the door-gate using counterweights to lower the horse collars,  also counter-weighting the sheets and blankets into the dormitory fly-space (the reason early firehouses had high ceilings), lined horse stalls with plush carpeting, and provided a library as well as a custom carved pool table for the men's recreation.

White is credited with the first practical use of the concept of "response time".  Others have also taken credit with the original idea, but White challenged his company (who were mostly second sons of farmers) to arrive at a reported fire site before he could ride from his home or a community event to the fire's location, usually under five minutes. The normal arrival period for volunteers was 20 or more minutes.  White, himself, would arrive at a fire, dressed in his turnout and equipment, before his company, coming from his home or a community function.  He had realized the importance of early arrival in saving lives and property.  That he recognized this imperative and used his firehouse as a training center for fire fighting technique and sciences resulted in his being characterized as the first "gentleman fireman" and the "world's first professional firefighter".

Death
Ironically, White died in 1899 fighting a downtown chemical fire - most probably from a heart attack induced by toxic fumes from burning chemicals stored in the rear of the structure. He died at the nearby Dawson's Pharmacy in downtown Syracuse.

Later history
The White family remained in the house until 1911; the property was sold out of family ownership in 1912 and later belonged to a neighboring church and various businesses.  Detailed information on both the house and White family is available in the Onondaga Historic Association.

The park across from the house (Fireman's Park, but known by its original name of Fayette Park) was used to fence in farm animals for the several park-side residences. It was later converted to a city park and today is the site of a number of statues and monuments to fallen firefighters, including the Hamilton White Monument, designed by Gail Sherman Corbett and built in 1904.  Sherman, a native Syracusean, was one of the first independent female architects and designers in the US.

The White family
Other prominent family members included: Horace K White (banking, salt industry), Horace White, II (NYS Senator, Lt. Governor, Governor), Howard Ganson White (Syracuse Standard newspaper founder/publisher), Adelaide, wife of Hamilton S. (singer, inventor), Jane Antoinette White Swift Sherman (patron of arts, music, founder of Morning Musicals), Hamilton Howard White (founder of Hamilton White Insurance Company, real estate), Kathrine Cook White (pioneer radio broadcaster), Andrew Dickson White (diplomat, ambassador, Cornell University's co-founder and first president), Andrew White Swift (painter), Hamilton Swift (editor Syracuse Journal), Andrew White Swift II (news critic), Ernest I White, an attorney and Syracuse University Law School sponsor/funding, Hamilton White Wright (travel writer, playwright, US/European amateur golf champion), Hamilton S White, Esq (Syracuse law firm Hancock & Estabrook) and Hamilton S White, Jr. (banking, law, corporate governance, enterprise risk management).

The family owned a number of historic landmark buildings: The Hamilton and Horace White Memorial Building (1876), the original property at the current Chimes Building, the White House/Farm (later, Onondaga Golf and Country Club and the Lyndon Golf Courses), five historic mansions, three along Syracuse's prestigious James Street and two more in the nearby village of Fayetteville, New York, and various commercial properties throughout downtown Syracuse.

At his death in 1899, Hamilton Salisbury White also left his widow, Adelaide, 46 residential properties designed or rebuilt by renowned architect Ward Wellington Ward, plus other homes built by other well known local architects.  White bought these properties from fire victims, rebuilt them at his personal cost, and allowed the victim families rent-free use, until those former owners could in turn repurchase them at cost, or chose to move to other quarters.

References

External links

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state)
Houses in Syracuse, New York
Houses on the Underground Railroad
National Register of Historic Places in Syracuse, New York
Underground Railroad in New York (state)


Luis Rosado Robles (born December 6, 1955 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a retired Major League Baseball first baseman. He played during two seasons at the major league level for the New York Mets. He signed as an amateur free agent by the Mets in . Rosado played his first professional season with their Rookie league Marion Mets in , and his last with the Baltimore Orioles' Triple-A Rochester Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers' Double-A Birmingham Barons and Triple-A Nashville Sounds in . He had been traded from the Orioles to the Tigers for Tom O'Malley on May 23, 1985.

References

External links
"Luis Rosado Statistics". The Baseball Cube. 24 January 2008.
"Luis Rosado Statistics". Baseball-Reference. 24 January 2008.

1955 births
Living people
New York Mets players
Major League Baseball first basemen
Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico
Marion Mets players
Anderson Mets players
Visalia Mets players
Jackson Mets players
Tidewater Tides players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Hagerstown Suns players
Rochester Red Wings players
Birmingham Barons players
Nashville Sounds players
Sportspeople from Santurce, Puerto Rico
Baseball players from San Juan, Puerto Rico


The Reverend Edward Lee Roy Elson (December 23, 1906 – August 25, 1993) was a Presbyterian minister and Chaplain of the United States Senate.

Life
Edward Lee Roy Elson, the first of nine children, was born in Ohio, to Leroy Elson, a locomotive engineer, and his wife, Pearl. Early on he was encouraged to study music and gave concerts in the Pittsburgh area on the cornet with his sister Hazel playing the piano.  One of his favorite memories of high school was the time he and his sister gave a concert in the very early days of radio on KDKA, the pioneer radio station.

Dr. Elson had his education a

at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, and then went to University of Southern California for a master's in theology.  He married Frances Sandys, a fellow Asbury College student in 1929.  At about the time of his ordination in 1930, he learned that his young wife had a very serious illness, and owing largely to this, he chose to go and serve at the La Jolla Presbyterian Church because of its proximity to the  Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.  His wife died three years later on his birthday.

Having been invited to join the American Seminar in Europe and Russia, Elson took an eye-opening trip to Europe in the summer of 1936. Shortly after returning from Europe,  Elson married Helen Chittick, a member of his church.

After having been in the chaplain reserves for ten years, he resigned his position with the church and went on active duty with the Army in 1941, arriving in France in December 1944.  Not long after, General Frank Wilburn requested that Elson be his personal representative at the execution by firing squad of a soldier for desertion.  This soldier, Eddie Slovik, was the first to be so executed by the American military since the American Civil War.  Another of his wartime assignments was to interview members of the clergy who had been imprisoned at Dachau.  After the German surrender, he was asked to represent Dwight D. Eisenhower before the Consistory, a ruling body of the German Protestant church, in order to determine how the German Church would be rebuilt.

Upon returning to the U.S. from the war, he soon learned that he was a candidate for the pastorate of the Covenant-First Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. and ultimately became its pastor in 1946.  One of his first duties there was to oversee the transition of the Covenant-First Presbyterian Church to the National Presbyterian Church, a move that had been in the works for many years. Eisenhower attended a pre-inaugural service at the church.  A few days later, on February 1, 1953, Dr. Elson baptized the president and admitted him to formal membership of the church.  The baptism came after the president's brother, Milton, confirmed that though Ike had regularly attended the River Brethren Church in Abilene, Kansas, he had never officially joined the church nor had he been baptized.  In the 1960s, Elson oversaw, along with the building committee, the construction of a large new church, which was dedicated in 1967 on Eisenhower's birthday, October 14.

In 1967, he was named to a special committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly to study the Vietnam War. In September 1967, while he and his wife were still at their summer home in Cape Breton Island, he received a phone call from the White House asking him to be on a team to observe the upcoming elections in South Viet Nam.

Dr. Elson was elected to the position of Chaplain of the United States Senate in 1969, retiring from that position after having served for a little over twelve years in February, 1981.  During his tenure at the Senate, he invited the first woman, Wilmina Rowland, to offer the opening prayer.

Elson and his wife Helen Chittick (1915–2007) are buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Works
 America's Spiritual Recovery, 1954
 And Still He speaks, The words of the Risen Christ, 1960
 Inevitable encounter, 1962
 Prayers offered by the chaplain of the Senate of the United States/ Edward L.R. Elson, at the opening of the daily sessions of the United States Senate during the 96th and 97th congresses, 1979–1981, 1980
 Prayers offered by the chaplain of the Senate of the United States/ Edward L.R. Elson, during the Ninety-second Congress, 1971–72, 1973
 Wide was His Parish, An Autobiography, 1986

Bibliography
 Wide was His Parish, An Autobiography, Tyndale Press, 1986,

References

External links
 History of National Presbyterian Church
 Senate Chaplains on Senate Website
 Obituary for Helen C. Elson

1906 births
1993 deaths
People from Monongahela, Pennsylvania
American Presbyterian ministers
Chaplains of the United States Senate
Asbury University alumni
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
20th-century American clergy


Driver is an inner-city suburb of Palmerston. It is 23 km SE of the Darwin CBD. Its Local Government Area is the City of Palmerston. Durack is bounded to the north by University Ave, to the west Elrundie Avenue, to the east Temple Terrace and to the south Tilston Avenue. The suburb is mostly composed of developments from the early 1980s.

History

Driver was named after Arthur Driver, an engineer who came from Western Australia and was appointed by the Australian government as Administrator of the Northern Territory in 1946. The highlights of his five-year term include the rescue in 1947 of Bas Wie upon his stowaway arrival in Darwin from Indonesia and his term as the first President of the Legislative Council which begun in 1948. By this time, Driver had embarked on the decentralisation process of establishing Elliott as the focal point between Darwin and Alice Springs in the centre of the Territory.

Fry Court in Driver was named after Mr Charles Fry, a teamster who arrived with George Goyder's survey expedition in 1869 to found the colony of Port Darwin. His wife and family arrived with the first European women in January 1870. Fry drowned off the north Queensland coast when the SS Gothenburg sank in February 1875, after striking a section of the Great Barrier Reef in cyclonic conditions.

References

External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080123190745/http://www.nt.gov.au/lands/lis/placenames/origins/greaterdarwin.shtml#d

Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory


The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1953 is a 1953 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty.  An abridged edition was published in the UK by Grayson in 1955 under the title The Best Science Fiction Stories: Fourth Series. The stories had originally appeared in 1952 in the magazines Fantasy and Science Fiction, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction and Astounding.

Contents

 Trematode, a Critique of Modern Science-Fiction, by Alfred Bester
 "The Fly", by Arthur Porges
 "Ararat", by Zenna Henderson
 "Counter-Transference", by William F. Temple
 "The Conqueror", by Mark Clifton
 "Machine", by John W. Jakes
 "The Middle of the Week After Next", by Murray Leinster
 "The Dreamer", by Alfred Coppel
 "The Moon Is Green", by Fritz Leiber
 "I Am Nothing", by Eric Frank Russell
 "Command Performance", by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
 "Survival", by John Wyndham
 "Game for Blondes", by John D. MacDonald
 "The Girls from Earth", by Frank M. Robinson
 "Lover, When You’re Near Me", by Richard Matheson
 "Fast Falls the Eventide", by Eric Frank Russell
 About the Authors

Reception
P. Schuyler Miller reviewed the anthology as "especially good", the best in the series at that time.

References

Sources

1953 anthologies
Best Science Fiction Stories 1953


David Elson (born August 26, 1971) is an American football coach. He is the defensive analyst at Wake Forest University, a position he has held since 2023. Elson served as head football coach at Western Kentucky University (WKU) from  2003 to 2009.  He oversaw the transition of Western Kentucky  from a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA) to a Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) program, the highest division in college football; in his final season, the Hilltoppers joined the Sun Belt Conference.

Coaching career
Elson joined the Hilltoppers staff as a defensive backs coach in 1996. He served as defensive coordinator for the 2001 and 2002 season before he was promoted to head coach.  The rise to college football's highest level was difficult for the program, and Hilltoppers went 2-20 in Elson's final two seasons.

On November 9, 2009 Elson was fired by the university, finishing out the 2009 season. WKU alumnus and Stanford running backs coach Willie Taggart replaced him.

In March 2010, Indiana University head football coach Bill Lynch announced that Elson will be a defensive quality control coach. Coach Lynch noted this would mainly be an administrative role, but that he would be involved in coaching decisions. The Hoosiers made their first road trip of the year to play Elson's former team, the WKU Hilltoppers in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Elson spent the 2011 football season as defensive coordinator for KHSAA state finalist Franklin-Simpson High School in Franklin, Kentucky.

On January 4, 2012, Elson was announced as the defensive coordinator at New Mexico State University.

On January 13, 2013, Elson was announced as the new secondary coach for the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he was a graduate assistant from 94 to 95.  On January 20, 2016, after two years at Southern Illinois, Elson accepted the position as defensive coordinator at Western Illinois under new head coach Charlie Fisher.

Personal life
Elson and his wife, Kathy, have three daughters.

Head coaching record

References

External links
 Purdue profile

1971 births
Living people
American football safeties
Ball State Cardinals football coaches
Butler Bulldogs football players
Indiana Hoosiers football coaches
Marian Knights football coaches
New Mexico State Aggies football coaches
Purdue Boilermakers football coaches
Southern Illinois Salukis football coaches
Wake Forest Demon Deacons football coaches
Western Illinois Leathernecks football coaches
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football coaches
High school football coaches in Kentucky
Coaches of American football from Indiana
Players of American football from Indianapolis


The White Memorial Building is a Gothic-style building prominently located on the main downtown street of Syracuse, New York.  It was designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee.

Description
It is built primarily of Ohio sandstone blocks and red brick, plus Onondaga limestone along the base.  Lines of cement were black, and there are occasional lines of black brick, providing "sharp dissimilatudes" which are "yet exceedingly pleasant to the eye", according to an 1876 review.  The style is Gothic overall, though the roof is termed French.

The White family
The Whites were a prominent local family which included financier and railroad magnate Horace White (1802-1860), his wife Clara Dickson White, and their sons Andrew Dickson White, co-founder of Cornell University, and Horace Keep White. The White family owned the Syracuse National Bank, whose building was the largest in Syracuse at the time, and also designed by Silsbee.

The White Memorial Building was commissioned by Horace K. and Andrew Dickson White and dedicated to the family patriarch Asa White (b.1774). Andrew in particular had a keen interest in architecture and worked closely with Silsbee on the building, modeling it after buildings in Manchester, England.

Gallery

References

External links

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Historic American Buildings Survey in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Syracuse, New York
Onondaga limestone
National Register of Historic Places in Syracuse, New York
1876 establishments in New York (state)
Buildings and structures completed in 1876


Scott Williams was an American football coach.  He served as the first head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, coaching for one season in 1890 and compiling a record of 1–2.

Head coaching record

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930. Acquired by Éditions Gallimard in 1951, it publishes collections spanning fiction, non-fiction and comic books. It published some of the most important French authors of the interwar period, including Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Louis Aragon and Antonin Artaud.

History
In 1930 the Belgian Robert Denoël and the American Bernard Steele (1902–1979), founded Éditions Denoël-Steele, later shortened to Éditions Denoël.:228 It had its first success in 1932 with Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit. Other early success include Louis Aragon's Les Cloches de Bâle (1934), Antonin Artaud's Héliogabale ou l'anarchiste couronné (1934) and Céline's Mort à crédit (1936).

Denoël can be considered unusual with respect to its diverse choice of publications. Until May 1940, for example, it published an Anti-German political magazine as well as the anti-Semitic pamphlets of Céline and Lucien Rebatet. Bernard Steele left the company because of Céline's pamphlet Mea culpa (1936). Robert Denoël was "openly supportive of Nazi Germany" and the company was known for its collaborationism during the German occupation of Paris. The company received capital from the Germans and published pro-Nazi books, including "anti-Semitic manuals [ . . . ], a collection of Hitler's speeches, and the two most famous anti-Semitic literary works of the time: a new edition of Céline's Bagatelles pour un massacre (1937) and Lucien Rebatet's Les Déscombres".:161 During those same years, however, they also advertised "well-known authors of the left" and published the works of the Jewish author Elsa Triolet.:161

Denoël was murdered on 2 December 1945 while changing a wheel on his car.:xi The circumstances surrounding his death were mysterious, and it was "possible that he was assassinated for political reasons"; the police officially listed it as a "random crime of violence".:xi Following his death, Denoël's mistress, Jeanne Loviton, became the legal owner of the company.:37 In 1951 she sold a 90 percent stake of the company to Gaston Gallimard, "Denoël's arch enemy and publishing rival".:301

Nowadays, Éditions Denoël publishes around one hundred titles per year. Among the most famous authors published by Éditions Denoël are Sébastien Japrisot, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock and Jeanne Benameur. In 2004, Denoël published Suite française, which became a publishing sensation. The novel won the Prix Renaudot in 2004, the first time the prize was awarded posthumously. From 2006, then editor Olivier Rubinstein also published the literary review Le Meilleur des mondes.

References

External links
 Official site
 Site for Le Meilleur des Mondes

Book publishing companies of France
French speculative fiction publishers


Louis Henry Nicolas Thiry (15 February 1935 – 27 June 2019) was a French concert organist, composer and pedagogue. He was professor of organ at the Regional Conservatoire in Rouen and played in concerts internationally. His many recordings include the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in 1972, which received several awards and led the composer to describe him as "an extraordinary organist". Thiry was blind.

Biography
Born in Fléville-devant-Nancy, Thiry, who was blind, studied music first at the , where he received a first prize in organ (organ class of Jeanne Demessieux) in 1952, followed by studies with André Marchal at Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris. From 1956, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Rolande Falcinelli, graduating in 1958 with a first prize in organ playing and improvisation.

He was titular organist of the 1732 Lefebvre organ at the chapel of the Charles Nicole Hospital, part of the University Hospital in Rouen. He was professor of organ in Metz where one of his students was Bernard-Marie Koltès, and held the same position at the  where his students included Alain Mabit, Céline Frisch and Benjamin Alard.

He took part in many international festivals, including Lille, the Besançon Festival, the Festival of Paris, Haarlem, Venice and the 1982 Messiaen Festival in Moscow.

Thiry died on 27 June 2019 in Mont-Saint-Aignan.

Recordings
Thiry recorded the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in 1972 at St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva for Calliope. The composer Olivier Messiaen wrote about him:

The recording was awarded the Prize of the Président of the Republic, the Shock of Le Monde de la musique and the Grand Prix du Disque of l'Académie Charles Cros). It was reissued in 2018. In Thiry's obituary in Le Monde, Marie-Aude Roux described the recording as "still considered one of the great achievements in the history of records" ("toujours considéré comme l'une des grandes réalisations de l'histoire du disque").

Thiry also recorded works by Bach, the Well Tempered Clavier at the Église Réformée d’Auteuil in 1975, and in 1993 The Art of Fugue at the organ of the Église Saint-Thomas in Strasbourg, built by Johann Andreas Silbermann in 1741. In 2004, he recorded arrangements for organ of medieval and Renaissance music by Guillaume de Machaut, Guillaume Dufay and Josquin Des Pres on the Lefebvre organ in Rouen. A reviewer noted that it was successful due to "the quality of the instrument on one hand, and Thiry's intelligent use of it."

References

External links
 Louis Thiry (Organ) Bach Cantatas Website 2008
 Louis Thiry's discography

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Paul Manns (born 15 April 1961, Great Haywood, Staffordshire) was an English professional footballer who played in The Football League for Notts County and Chester City.

Playing career
Manns began his career with Cardiff City, but left for Notts County in August 1979 without making a league appearance. He spent three and a half years with County, making seven league appearances (four of them coming in the club's promotion season from Division Two in 1980–81).

In March 1983, Manns joined Division Four side Chester City on non-contract terms. Manns made his Chester debut in a 3–2 win at Swindon Town on 12 March 1983 and played in the club's final 12 games of the season, scoring three times. He impressed sufficiently to win a full contract for the following season, playing regularly in the first half of the campaign. However, he did not play again after being substituted against Bury on 3 December 1983 .

Manns' current whereabouts are not known in football circles.

References

External links
Article on Notts County promotion squad from 1981.

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Ismaikel "Mike" Perez (born 20 October 1985) is a Cuban-Irish professional boxer who holds the WBA Intercontinental Cruiserweight title and challenged once for the WBC cruiserweight title in 2017.

Background
Perez was a successful amateur boxer in Cuba. In 2005, while competing with the Cuban team at a tournament in Liverpool, he caught the eye of Irish boxing promoter Gary Hyde. Hyde later expressed his desire to turn Perez professional, and to do that he had to arrange his defection from Cuba. In December 2007, under cover of darkness, Perez swam offshore from Cuba, to a boat manned by a Mexican cartel. After transferring through two other boats, enduring storms and depleted food and water supplies, Perez eventually reached Mexican soil nine days later. The Cartel then held him there, until they secured final payment from organizer, Gary Hyde. Upon receiving it, Perez was released, allowing him to board a flight to his new home. On 10 January 2008, Perez touched down in Ireland, where he settled in Cork along with fellow Cubans Alexei Acosta and Luis García. Today, he fights under the nickname Mike "The Rebel" Perez, in reference to Cork which is known as the "Rebel County".

Amateur career
Perez had over 400 amateur bouts. In 2004, he won gold at the World Junior Championships in Jeju City, South Korea. The southpaw beat Englishman Danny Price in the semifinals, before defeating Russian fighter Nikolay Pavlyukov 38-16 in the final. Perez later beat fighters such as Kenneth Egan and Constantin Bejenaru, but moved up to 201 lbs and initially struggled against world class competition like Luis Ortiz, who beat him in 2006 to become the Cuban national champion. Perez avenged that loss in the 2007 championships, but lost to Osmay Acosta in that year's final.

Professional career

Early career
In 2008, Perez turned professional under Cuban coach Nicholas Cruz Hernández, who had also moved to Ireland in 1988.

On 7 May 2011, Perez won the International Prizefighter tournament, held in London, England. Perez faced Kertson Manswell and Grégory Tony, before defeating American Tye Fields in the final to take home the £32,000 prize. After the fight, Perez stated the victory would earn him a world title shot in the near future.

He then fought and won against American journeyman Zack Page in a rematch on 9 November 2011, in York Hall, Bethnal Green, London.

Perez made his United States debut on 30 December 2011, against the Nigerian heavyweight Friday Ahunanya. The location for the fight was Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa, Cabazon, California. Perez won by unanimous decision, winning every round on the judges' scorecards.

After a hiatus in 2012, Perez returned to the ring on 4 May 2013, winning a 10-round unanimous decision against American Travis Walker on the undercard of Wladimir Klitschko vs. Francesco Pianeta.

Perez vs. Abdusalomov and aftermath
On 2 November 2013, he made his HBO debut against hard-hitting prospect Magomed Abdusalomov (18-0 18 KOs) at Madison Square Garden. In a rare southpaw vs. southpaw heaveyweight match, Perez won by unanimous decision after a brutally-fought 10 rounds. The fight left Abdusalamov permanently and severely injured after suffering a stroke during surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain. Abdusalamov's family later sued the New York State Athletic Commission due to negligence. The lawsuit ended with a $22 million settlement. Perez's form dipped after the tragic incident, as he drew and lost many of his next fights. He would later reveal that he struggled with alcoholism during this time, to the point of getting into the ring drunk a few times.

Perez returned on 18 January 2014 to fight Carlos Takam at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Takam and Perez fought to a majority draw. The fight was shown on HBO on the Jean Pascal vs Lucian Bute under card.

Perez then lost a narrow split decision to Bryant Jennings on 26 July 2014, with the judges’ scorecards reading 114-113 and 115-112 for Jennings, and 114-113 for Perez. Referee Harvey Dock controversially deducted a point from Perez in the final round for hitting Jennings on the break.

On 22 May 2015 Perez was brutally knocked out by Alexander Povetkin 91 seconds into a WBC heavyweight title eliminator. Following the loss to Povetkin, Perez spent over two years away from the ring, before returning in 2017 as a cruiserweight.

World Boxing Super Series

On 6 July, Perez was announced as the final entrant to the cruiserweight World Boxing Super Series (WBSS).

Perez vs. Briedis
At the Draft Gala, which took place on 8 July in Monte Carlo, Perez was chosen by WBC champion Mairis Briedis as his quarter final opponent. On 22 July, the WBSS announced the fight would take place in Briedis' home country of Latvia at the Riga Arena, Riga, on 30 September 2017. This would be the 8th time Briedis would fight at his hometown arena.

Briedis won a scrappy fight, beating Perez by unanimous decision after 12 rounds (116-110, 115-111, 114-112). Perez was deducted a point in round 3 following an accidental clash of heads. Briedis was also docked a point during round 10 for excessive holding. With the win, Briedis moved on to the semi-finals to face the eventual winner Oleksandr Usyk.

Perez vs. Salam
In his next bout, Perez fought Tony Salam. Perez won the fight via third round TKO.

Personal life
Perez resides in Cork, Ireland with his wife Camille.

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|30
|Win
|26–3–1
|align=left| Jose Gregorio Ulrich
|TKO
|6 (10),
|13 Nov 2021
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|29
|Win
|25–3–1
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|KO
|4 (12),
|13 Aug 2021
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|28
|Win
|24–3–1
|align=left| Keith Tapia
|UD
|10
|20 Oct 2018
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|27
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|23–3–1
|align=left| Pablo Matias Magrini
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|1 (8),
|17 Feb 2018
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|22–3–1
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|UD
|12
|30 Sep 2017
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|25
|Win
|22–2–1
|align=left| Viktor Biscak
|KO
|1 (6),
|10 Jun 2017
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|24
|Loss
|21–2–1
|align=left| Alexander Povetkin
|KO
|1 (12),
|22 May 2015
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|23
|Win
|21–1–1
|align=left| Darnell Wilson
|TKO
|2 (8),
|5 Feb 2015
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|22
|Loss
|20–1–1
|align=left| Bryant Jennings
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|12
|26 Jul 2014
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|21
|Draw
|20–0–1
|align=left| Carlos Takam
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|10
|18 Jan 2014
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|20
|Win
|20–0
|align=left| Magomed Abdusalamov
|UD
|10
|2 Nov 2013
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|19
|Win
|19–0
|align=left| Travis Walker
|UD
|10
|4 May 2013
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|18
|Win
|18–0
|align=left| Friday Ahunanya
|UD
|10
|30 Dec 2011
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|17
|Win
|17–0
|align=left| Zack Page
|PTS
|8
|9 Nov 2011
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|16
|Win
|16–0
|align=left| Tye Fields
|TKO
|1 (3),
|7 May 2011
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|15
|Win
|15–0
|align=left| Grégory Tony
|TKO
|1 (3),
|7 May 2011
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|14
|Win
|14–0
|align=left| Kertson Manswell
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|3
|7 May 2011
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|13
|Win
|13–0
|align=left| Ismail Abdoul
|PTS
|8
|4 Mar 2011
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|12
|Win
|12–0
|align=left| Pāvels Dolgovs
|TKO
|1 (6),
|6 Nov 2010
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|11
|Win
|11–0
|align=left| Jason Barnett
|KO
|1 (8),
|26 Jun 2010
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|10
|Win
|10–0
|align=left| Tomas Mrazek
|TKO
|3 (4),
|15 May 2010
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|9
|Win
|9–0
|align=left| Edgars Kalnārs
|TKO
|1 (4),
|15 May 2010
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|8
|Win
|8–0
|align=left| Zack Page
|PTS
|8
|28 Feb 2009
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|7
|Win
|7–0
|align=left| Harry Duiven Jr
|KO
|2 (6),
|17 Jan 2009
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|6
|Win
|6–0
|align=left| Luis Oscar Ricail
|TKO
|1 (6),
|26 Oct 2008
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|5
|Win
|5–0
|align=left| Claudemir Dias
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|1 (8),
|13 Sep 2008
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|4
|Win
|4–0
|align=left| Howard Daley
|TKO
|1 (4),
|12 Apr 2008
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|3
|Win
|3–0
|align=left| Tomasz Zeprzalka
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|6
|22 Mar 2008
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|2
|Win
|2–0
|align=left| Sándor Balogh
|TKO
|1 (4),
|2 Feb 2008
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|1
|Win
|1–0
|align=left| Jevgēņijs Stamburskis
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|1 (4),
|26 Jan 2008
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References

External links

Bleacher Report - The Top 10 Heavyweight Prospects in the World
Mike Perez - Profile, News Archive & Current Rankings at Box.Live

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Greg Beales (born 1977) is Director of Communications, Policy & Campaigns at the homelessness charity Shelter and a former Downing Street advisor to Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, and formerly Director of Strategy and Planning for the Labour Party

Political career
Beales served as Senior Advisor for Health and Social Care issues to the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown after Brown became Prime Minister in 2007.

Initially a Senior Civil Servant, in 2010 Beales was made a political appointment and was listed on the Cabinet Office website as a Policy Advisor assigned to the Downing Street Policy Directorate. In 2010, Beales became Labour Party Director of Policy as the party become the official opposition. Following a reorganisation of the party in 2012, Beales served as the Labour Party's Executive Director, responsible for strategy and the keeper of party polling for Ed Miliband.

Patrick Wintour of the Guardian described Ed Miliband's leadership as an evolution from Stewart Wood's demands for a bodily ideological break from "New Labour" to Beales' apparently more pragmatic approach. From an electoral perspective these viewpoints might arguably characterised as targeting frustrated Lib Dems in Wood's case and soft Conservatives in Beales'. Beales was a member of the "quarterly look-ahead" group composed of Senior Miliband advisers who were tasked with the winning the 2015 general election for Labour. Nevertheless, Beales was considered by the Spectator to be a 'second tier adviser' who felt the polling he commissioned was frustratingly under-considered in strategic decision-making. In 2012-2013 Beales was cited in numerous sources as the architect of Labour's focus on living standards and what the party dubbed a "cost of living crisis". In 2013 he was nicknamed Mr Freeze by the Financial Times and identified as "personality of the year" after being seen to be responsible for the Labour party's proposals to cap energy bills.

One Labour MP quoted in the spectator described Beales' Role; ‘Greg manages the feedback from the focus groups and the polling. And that means he’s actually the guy with the widest interface with the voters. Greg’s always trying to pull Ed’s people back towards that swath of former Labour voters the party lost under Blair. While every-one else is banging on about how to hang on to former Lib Dems, Greg’s popping up and saying, “Fine, but remember that if we want to win, there’s a few blue-collar, small-c conservatives we’re going to need to pull across as well.”’

Geoffrey Robinson, Labour MP for Coventry North West was rumoured to have told party activists he would step down in 2015 to allow Beales to contest his seat; an email seen by the Coventry Telegraph's Simon Gilbert appeared to show Beales and Robinson discussing introductions to prominent members of the local labour party. However Robinson subsequently contested and won Coventry North West.

Homelessness
Beales is currently the Director of Campaigns, Communications and Policy of the homelessness charity Shelter, a role which he took up in September 2017 after leaving his position as Senior Director of the multinational advertising agency WPP. In January 2019, he led the publication of the landmark independent Shelter report on the future of social housing  and he has led campaigns to challenge discrimination against benefit recipients in the housing sector. He was previously involved in the development of the Living Wage campaign

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Air Vice Marshal Felton Vesey Holt,  (23 February 1886 – 23 April 1931) was a squadron and wing commander in the Royal Flying Corps who became a brigadier general in the newly established Royal Air Force (RAF) just before the end of the First World War. During the inter-war years Holt remained in the RAF, serving in several staff appointments before becoming Air Officer Commanding Fighting Area.

Holt was killed in a flying accident not long after taking up his final appointment. He was flying in a de Havilland DH.60M Moth from RAF Tangmere to take him back to RAF Uxbridge when it crashed at Seahurst Park near Chichester, following a collision with an Armstrong Whitworth Siskin. Holt managed to get out of the aircraft, but his parachute did not open in time.

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Robert Lackey was an American football coach.  He served as the second head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, coaching for one season in 1891 and compiling a record of 6–0.

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Louis De Pui "Bucker" Vail (September 18, 1870 – December 16, 1948) was an American football player and coach. Vail played football and graduated from Germantown Academy.  He attended the University of Pennsylvania, receiving both his A.B. and his LL.B. He was a member of Delta Phi Fraternity.  Vail played football at Penn as a quarterback from 1889 to 1893. Vail also played baseball at Penn in 1891 and 1892.

Coaching career

Vail served as the fourth head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, coaching for one season in 1894 and compiling a record of 4–4. Vail coached at Case School of Applied Science for one game in 1895 before the season was cancelled.

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George A. Huff, Jr. (June 11, 1872 – October 1, 1936) was an American football and baseball player, coach, and college athletics administrator.  Huff served as the head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1895 to 1899, compiling a record of 21–16–3.  He was also the head baseball coach at Illinois from 1896 to 1919, tallying a mark of 317–97–4, and the athletic director at Illinois from 1901 to 1935.  Huff Hall at the University of Illinois in Champaign is named in his honor.

Huff was briefly a manager for the Boston Americans at the start of the 1907 Major League Baseball season following the sudden suicide of Chick Stahl.  Cy Young started out as the player/manager, but after six games stepped down in favor of Huff.  Huff managed only eight games, finishing with a career 2–6 managerial record, before resigning on May 1, 1907 to return to his old job.  Bob Unglaub replaced him.  The Americans had a total of four managers in the 1907 season.  The team was renamed as the Boston Red Sox the following season.

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Frederick Lorenzo Smith was an American football and baseball coach. He served as the head coach of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1900 and at Fordham University in 1901, 1904, and from 1906 to 1907, compiling a career college football record of 24–9–5.  Smith was also the head baseball coach at Fordham from 1901 to 1905, tallying a mark of 213–66.

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Edgar Garrison Holt (July 2, 1874 – April 19, 1924) was an American college football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1901 to 1902, compiling a record of 18–4–1. Holt was born on July 2, 1874, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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Fred Lowenthal (November 22, 1878 – October 4, 1931) was an American football player, coach, sportswriter, and attorney. He served as head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1904, along with Arthur R. Hall, Justa Lindgren, and Clyde Matthews, and alone in 1905, compiling a record of 14–6–1. Lowenthal played football at Illinois as a center from 1898 to 1901.

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Justa Morris Lindgren (July 28, 1878 – May 29, 1951) was an American college football player and coach. He served as head football coach at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa from 1902 to 1903 and the University of Illinois in 1904—along with Arthur R. Hall, Fred Lowenthal, and Clyde Matthews—and alone in 1906, compiling a career coaching record of 14–16–2. Lindgren played football at Illinois from 1898 to 1901 and was the captain of the 1901 team. In addition to his two stints as a head coach, he served a line coach for the team until 1943.

Lindgren was also a chemist. He served on the chemistry staff at the University of Illinois and was an analyst for the Illinois Geological Survey and the State Water Survey.

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James Joseph Valek (January 25, 1928 – September 4, 2005) was an American football player, coach, and executive.  He served as the head football coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1967 to 1970, compiling a record of 8–32. Valek also coached the New York Knights, of the Arena Football League, to a 2–10 record in 1988.

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New Stevenston is a village situated between Motherwell and Bellshill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Most local amenities are shared with the adjacent villages of Carfin, Holytown and Newarthill which have a combined population of around 20,000 across the four localities.

History
The settlement first formed as part of the parish of Holytown when substantial coal workings were being exploited during the 19th century. The village prospered and so when the Church of Scotland suffered Disruption in 1843 the new Free Church was constructed in New Stevenston or Wrangholm to serve the mining community.

With the decline of coal mining and the rise of the steel and heavy engineering industries, the bulk of the population were employed until the serious industrial decline of the late 20th century, culminating in the closure of the Ravenscraig steelworks in 1992.

Employment has shifted towards more diverse occupations and housing development has continued.  There has been significant redevelopment since the late-1960s when the bulk of the late 19th-century tenement flats were demolished.

Schools
The village is served by two primary schools: St. Patrick's Primary School & New Stevenston Primary School which share a joint campus incorporating New Stevenston Library. Formerly the two were on separate sites until the present campus was constructed.

Secondary education is provided at the Roman Catholic Taylor High School which is situated in the village and at the nearby non-denominational Brannock High School, Newarthill.

Originally the schools of the village were New Stevenston Public School, originally adjacent to the Free Kirk and then located further west in Clydesdale St. in 1896. It had both primary and junior secondary departments (New Stevenston Junior Secondary School) and became New Stevenston Primary School on the introduction of comprehensive education. St Patrick's RC school retained junior secondary status for longer but also became a primary school when sufficient provision of RC high schools for the area was finally made by Strathclyde Region. The two primary schools have a new joint campus on the site of the former St Patrick's buildings on Park St, opposite to the War Memorial, in 2006. The old 1896 Public School has now been demolished. The co-existence of non-denominational and Roman Catholic schools in this area, even to the extent of a joint campus is a legacy of the 1918 Education act, its origins and its continuing unfortunate aftermath.

Places of worship
Ethnic and cultural diversity has broadened and there is now a purpose-built mosque on the site of the former apprentices' training school of the old Stewarts & Lloyds tube works.
The coal mining past is still significant; the area has suffered widespread undermining, which was a serious limit to new construction until relatively recently.  The local church has cracked walls, garden depressions and tie bars as evidence for this.

St. John Bosco's R.C. Church: the church building was opened in 1959, but the original Parish was founded in 1946. Between then and the building of the current church, services were held in a makeshift chapel affectionately called 'the Hut', which stood adjacent to the burn, and 'Garvey's building', at the corner of Shirrel Road. Well remembered priests who served in the Parish in the 1950s and 60s include Fr. McGlynn, Fr. Barry, Dr. Cahill, Fr. O'Regan, Fr. Cordless, Fr. O'Donaghue, Fr. O'Hare, and Fr. Devanney.
New Stevenston Methodist Church
Wrangholm Kirk (Church of Scotland): This is the successor to the Free Church built in the 1840s and is the longest continuously worshipping group in the village as well as the oldest place of worship.  The congregation share a minister with the neighbouring parish of Holytown and are part of the presbytery of Hamilton.  Its longest-serving minister was the Rev Alexander Dale (from 1910 to 1944).  A plaque in the church commemorates his service and it is rumoured that Dale Drive (on the north side of the Legbrannock Burn) was named in his honour.
Assembly Hall (Christian Brethren)
Lanarkshire Mosque is also on the boundary between New Stevenston and Mossend.

Services and shops
New Stevenston is well supplied with shops and services for a village its size. These include: *tattoo studio (Fat Buddha Tattoo) opened 2014 by local respected artist Jason Lau, which has gained a very good reputation for such a small village competitive prices and provides full-day bookings;
Co-operative Store (with ATM outside). This was opened around December 1968 as part of Dalziel Cooperative Society, to replace their original store on Clydesdale Street, near to the Public school. Dalziel Cooperative also operated milk vans, a coal van, baker and butcher vans, which came round the streets most days
New Stevenston pharmacy;
Lidl supermarket;
Day Today (more commonly known as Londis before a name change);
New Stevenston Community Centre

In the past, there were also shops opposite St. John Bosco's church: The Dairy (Fyfe's?) and McIvor's shops where the monumental sculptor now operates. Also, there was Cochrane's shop at the corner of Jerviston St. and Woodside St. where there is now a hairdresser. There was also a John Menzies shop in the railway station.

The village also has a local amateur Sunday league football team who play in the Carluke and district league and won the 2015 divisional league trophy by beating local league rivals Forgewood by 4–5 after penalties.

Transportation
New Stevenston is served by Holytown railway station, which is in fact in the village bounds, offering services to all stations towards Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. This permits connections to all Great Britain railway stations from Wick to Penzance.

The village is also accessible by the A723 road, leading to places such as Motherwell and the M8 motorway accessing Glasgow and Edinburgh and linking to the motorway network for easy access to other parts of Scotland.

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Farrar is an outer eastern suburb of Palmerston. It is 21 km SE of the Darwin CBD. Its Local Government Area is the City of Palmerston. Farrar is bounded to the north and east by the Stuart Highway, to the west Roystonea Avenue. Farrar was originally part of Gunn when Palmerston was divided into suburbs in 1984.

The development of Palmerston's eastern suburbs did not start in the 1990s as designed in 1984 and the suburb of Gunn of 1998 was larger. It was decided in 1999 to allocate a new name to the area of Gunn between the old and new Stuart Highway alignments.

The suburb is named after John Farrar, a pastoral pioneer of the Northern Territory.

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Suburbs of Darwin, Northern Territory