Eleven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Blonde:

  was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate. A British squadron under Captain John Elliot in  met a French squadron under Captain François Thurot in the Maréchal de Belle-Isle on 24 February 1760. In the action, the British captured Maréchal de Belle-Isle (after Thurot was killed), , and Blonde. The Royal Navy took the latter two into service; Blonde was wrecked in May 1782 off Nova Scotia.
  was a 32-gun fifth rate believed to have been launched in 1783.  Little is known of her, and she may have been cancelled or renamed.
  was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1787 and used as a troopship from 1798, before being sold in 1805. Because Blonde served in the navy's Egyptian campaign between 8 March 1801 and 2 September, her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants.
  was a French corvette launched in 1781 that  and  captured in 1793. The Royal Navy took her into service as the 28-gun sixth rate HMS Blonde. She was sold in 1794 and became a whaling ship that a French privateer captured in 1796.
 HMS Blonde was previously , a 38-gun fifth rate captured from the French in 1782.  She was renamed HMS Blonde in 1805 and was broken up in 1811.
 HMS Blonde was to have been a 36-gun fifth rate, but she was renamed  in 1812 before being launched in 1813.
  was a 46-gun fifth rate launched in 1819.  She was used for harbour service from 1850 and was renamed HMS Calypso in 1870, before being sold in 1895. She is mainly known for her 1824 trip to Hawaii, returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamāmalu, who both had died during a trip to London.
 HMS Blonde was to have been an  wooden screw frigate.  She was laid down in 1860 but was cancelled in 1863.
 HMS Blonde was to have been an armoured frigate, but she was renamed  in 1873 before being launched later that year.
  was a  third-class protected cruiser launched in 1889 and sold in 1905.
  was a  scout cruiser launched in 1910 and sold in 1920.
 The 'blonde' submarines of the 1950s,  and , acquired this nickname from their use of High-Test Peroxide as a fuel, and its related use as a hair bleach.

Citations

References

Royal Navy ship names


Lập Thạch is a rural district of Vĩnh Phúc province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. This district is located in the northwestern Vĩnh Phúc, at coordinates: 105°30′ to 105°45′ E and 21°10′ to 21°30′ N, bordering Tuyên Quang on the north, districts of Tam Đảo and Tam Dương on the east, Vĩnh Tường on the south and Sông Lô district and Phú Thọ province on the west.

Administrations
Lập Thạch is subdivided into eighteen communes (xã) and two townships (thị trấn).  The communes are Sơn Đông, Triệu Đề, Đình Chu, Xuân Lôi, Văn Quán, Tiên Lữ, Đồng Ích, Bàn Giản, Tử Du, Liên Hòa, Ngọc Mỹ, Xuân Hòa, Vân Trục, Liễn Sơn, Thái Hòa, Bắc Bình, Hợp Lý, Quang Sơn, and the townships are Lập Thạch, the district seat, and Hoa Sơn.

Demographics
 the district had a population of 123,664. The district covers an area of 173.1 km².

References

Districts of Vĩnh Phúc province


Mê Linh is a rural district (huyện) of Hanoi, formerly of Vĩnh Phúc province, in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam.

Mê Linh district is bordered by Đông Anh district to the east, Sóc Sơn district to the northeast, Đan Phượng district to the south, Vĩnh Phúc province to the west and north.

The district is subdivided to 18 commune-level subdivisions, including the townships of Quang Minh, Chi Đông and the rural communes of Đại Thịnh (district capital), Chu Phan, Hoàng Kim, Kim Hoa, Liên Mạc, Mê Linh, Tam Đồng, Thạch Đà, Thanh Lâm, Tiền Phong, Tiến Thắng, Tiến Thịnh, Tráng Việt, Tự Lập, Văn Khê, Vạn Yên.

Districts of Hanoi


Tam Đảo is a rural district (huyện) of Vĩnh Phúc province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 65,812. The district covers an area of 236 km². The district capital lies at Hợp Châu town.

Climate

References

Districts of Vĩnh Phúc province


Tam Dương is a rural district (huyện) of Vĩnh Phúc province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 94,124. The district covers an area of 107 km². The district capital lies at Hợp Hòa.

References

Districts of Vĩnh Phúc province


Vĩnh Tường is a rural district of Vĩnh Phúc province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 189,970.

Geography
The district covers an area of 142 km². The district capital lies at Vĩnh Tường. It borders Yên Lạc district (east), Lập Thạch district and Vĩnh Yên city (north), Việt Trì city of Phú Thọ Province (west), Ba Vì district of Hà Nội (west, separated by the Red River), Phúc Thọ district & Sơn Tây city of Hà Nội (south, separated by the Red River).

Vĩnh Tường includes 3 towns (thị trấn) and 26 communes (xã):

Towns

 Vĩnh Tường (main town, administrative center)
 Thổ Tang (Trade Center)
 Tứ Trưng

Communes

 Vĩnh Ninh
 Phú Đa
 Lũng Hoà
 Tân Cương
 Đại Đồng
 Cao Đại
 Tuân Chính
 Bồ Sao
 Vĩnh Sơn
 Bình Dương
 Vân Xuân
 Tam Phúc
 Phú Thịnh
 Lý Nhân
 An Tường
 Vĩnh Thịnh
 Yên Bình
 Tân Tiến
 Vũ Di
 Thượng Trưng
 Chấn Hưng
 Ngũ Kiên
 Kim Xá
 Yên Lập
 Việt Xuân
 Nghĩa Hưng

Economy
The district's main occupation is agriculture. The main products are rice, maize and soya. The district hosts many craft villages, such as Bích Chu and Thủ Độ (carpentry), Lý Nhân (blacksmith), and Thổ Tang (wholesale trade).

Notable residents
 Hồ Xuân Hương (1772–1822), poet
 Nguyễn Viết Xuân, artillery commander and revolutionary martyr
 Lê Xoay, revolutionary martyr)

Culture
Most residents have no religion, although ancestor worship is widespread. Traditional festivals are celebrated along with a regional festival. It includes 18 communes.

The two main dishes are Chưng cake (square or cylinder glutinous rice green cake, filled with green bean paste and fat pork) and Dày cake (round sticky rice white cake). They are made from glutinous rice. Many expatriates visit their homeland.

References

External links

 Vĩnh Phúc Portal

Districts of Vĩnh Phúc province


Yên Lạc is a rural district of Vĩnh Phúc province in the Red River Delta region of northern Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 145,316. The district covers an area of 107 km². The district capital lies at Yên Lạc.

References

Districts of Vĩnh Phúc province


S39 may refer to:

Aviation
 Blériot-SPAD S.39, a French reconnaissance aircraft
 Letov Š-39, a Czechoslovakian sport aircraft
 Prineville Airport, in Crook County, Oregon, United States
 Sikorsky S-39, an American flying boat

Other uses
 S39: Wear eye/face protection, a safety phrase
 New Jersey Route 68, designated Route S39 until 1953
 Sulfur-39, an isotope of sulfur
 , a submarine in the United States Navy


The Medgidia (also: Valea Medgidiei) is a small river in Constanța County, Romania. It discharges into the Danube–Black Sea Canal in Remus Opreanu. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Constanța County
Rivers of Romania


The EFDA Nations Cup, was a Country vs Country competition for Formula Opel cars between 1990 and 1998. It had always been Dan Partel's dream to stage a race that pitted drivers in equal cars racing for their country. The Formula Opel/Vauxhall one make racing series offered the best opportunity for such an event.

The 1998 EFDA Nations Cup (Nations Cup IX), was held at Zandvoort, Holland (3 October 1998).

Final positions

References

External links
 Fastlines International
 Driver Database

EFDA Nations Cup
EFDA Nations Cup seasons
EFDA Nations Cup


The Narooma Accretionary Complex or Narooma Terrane is a geological structural region on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia that is the remains of a subduction zone or an oceanic terrane.  It can be found on the surface around Narooma, Batemans Bay and down south into Victoria near Mallacoota.
It has attached itself to the Lachlan Fold Belt and has been considered as either an exotic terrane or as a part of the fold belt.  Rocks are turbidites, block in matrix mélange, chert, and volcanics.  The accretionary complex itself could either be the toe of a subduction zone, or an accretionary prism.
It was moved by the Pacific Plate westwards for about 2500 km until it encountered the east coast of Gondwana.
It is part of the Mallacoota Zone according to Willman, which in turn is part of the Eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, which is part of the Benambra Terrane.

Components

The complex is made up of an imbricate stack in a sequence that is the same both at Narooma and Murruna Point, Batemans Bay.  The top layer consists of turbidite sequence from the Early Ordovician.  Below this is a high strain zone full of broken fragments.  Special textures from the high strain zone include pressure solution, dilational veins and boudinage.  Some of the rock appears as mylonite.  Underneath the high strain is chert from the Late Cambrian to Late Ordovician.

The lowest part of the stack is block in mélange.  The blocks are mostly turbidite, but also includes chert, and some pillow lava basalt.  The blocks are at all different orientations, different sizes all mixed together.  The sediments were deformed into these blocks before they turned into stone.  Later deformation has developed a cleavage with lenses of chlorite, quartz and white mica.  The strike direction of the cleavage is 330°. The interpretation of the mélange is that it is either an olistostrome or an upwelling. The mélange was underplated beneath the chert layer.  Pockets of underplated material are expected to form low angle detachments.

The inland zone has a chevron folded structure with reverse faults.

Stratigraphy

From the stratigraphic point of view the terrane comprises the Wagonga Group.  This consists of the Narooma Chert overlain by the Bogolo Formation.

History

Formation
Deep sea chert (Narooma Chert) was deposited on the Pacific ocean floor over a period of 50 million years from Late Cambrian to Ordovician. Fossils from the chert include the conodonts Paracordylodus gracilis and Acodus cf. A. comptus. The terrane gradually approached the continental margin and began to include sediments derived from the continent, such as sandstone, siltstone, argillite and shale as well as chert bands.

Deformation
After formation the terrane was accreted to the Lachlan Fold Belt in the early Silurian. The rock was deformed in the Benambran Orogeny in early Silurian. A low angle oblique imbrication formed.
Rocks have become more deformed closer to the coast as the trench is approached.  The country here was shortened between middle Silurian to Middle Devonian in the east–west direction, with many folds and thrust faults.  Inland the rocks have developed a scaly cleavage.  The chert on the coast has developed a dextral shear.

References

Geology of New South Wales
Terranes


is a Japanese former competitive figure skater. She is the 2000 Japanese national champion, a four-time medalist on the ISU Junior Grand Prix, and placed as high as 6th at the World Junior Championships (1998).

Career
Chisato competed in three seasons of the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, winning three bronze medals and one silver. She qualified twice for the JGP Final. At the World Junior Championships, she placed 6th at the 1998 Junior Worlds, 11th in 1999, and 24th in 2000.

She competed once on the senior Grand Prix, placing 9th at the 2000 Skate America, and once at the Four Continents Championships, placing 14th in 2000.

She is currently touring with Disney on Ice in their "100 Years of Magic" show.

Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

References

 Skatabase: 1990s Junior Worlds

External links
 Tracings.net profile

Japanese female single skaters
1982 births
Living people
Competitors at the 2003 Winter Universiade


Décryptage is a 2003 documentary written by Jacques Tarnero and directed by Philippe Bensoussan.  The French film (with English subtitles) examines media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict in the media of France, and concludes that the media's presentation of the Arab–Israeli conflict in France is consistently skewed against Israel and may be responsible for exacerbating antisemitism.

See also

 Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict
 Pallywood
 Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land
 Relentless: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East
 Deception: Betraying the Peace Process

References

External links

Film Review by CAMERA

French documentary films
2003 films
2000s French-language films
2003 documentary films
Documentary films about journalism
Documentary films about the Arab–Israeli conflict
Documentary films about racism
Documentary films about Jews and Judaism
Antisemitism in France
2000s French films


KBIJ (99.5 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Guymon, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Oralia Cowan, through licensee OMI Oilfield Investments, LLC. It airs a Regional Mexican format to the far northern Perryton, Texas.

History
In December 2004, Todd Deneui applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station. The FCC granted this permit on March 2, 2005, with a scheduled expiration date of March 2, 2008.

In June 2006, permit holder Todd Deneui applied to the FCC to sell the construction permit to Grace Community Church of Amarillo for $95,000. The FCC approved the move on July 31, 2006, and the transaction was formally consummated on August 16, 2006.

With new ownership in place, the new station was assigned call sign "KRBG" on October 11, 2006. After construction and testing were completed in February 2008, the station was granted its broadcast license on March 10, 2008. On October 1, 2008, the station changed to the current call sign of "KBIJ".

Grace Community Church of Amarillo sold the station to Oralia Cowan's OMI Oilfield Investments, LLC for $421,000; the sale was consummated on July 23, 2013.

References

External links
KBIJ Facebook

BIJ
Radio stations established in 2008
Regional Mexican radio stations in the United States
BIJ
Guymon, Oklahoma


Hdif or HDIF may refer to:

How Does It Feel to Be Loved?, a London night club
How does it feel to be loved, which has numerous meanings
Human Development Innovation Fund, a DFID challenge fund


The Nisipari is a small river in Constanța County, Romania. It discharges into the Danube–Black Sea Canal near the village Nisipari. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Constanța County
Rivers of Romania


Radoslav Metodiev Zdravkov (; born 30 July 1956) is a Bulgarian retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

Club career
Zdravkov was born in Sofia. During his professional career, which spanned nearly 20 years, he represented Lokomotiv Sofia, CSKA Sofia, Portugal's G.D. Chaves, S.C. Braga, F.C. Paços de Ferreira and F.C. Felgueiras – after he had left the Iron Curtain at the age of 30 – FC Yantra and PFC Litex Lovech.

During his stay abroad he was known as Radi, and he was instrumental in lowly Chaves' first ever qualification to the UEFA Cup in the 1986–87 season, as fifth. From 1992 onwards he worked as a full-time manager, going on to be in charge of several clubs including PFC Spartak Varna on three occasions.

International career
Zdravkov earned 67 caps and scored ten goals for the Bulgaria national team during 13 years, and played at the 1986 FIFA World Cup finals.

References

External links

1956 births
Living people
Footballers from Sofia
Bulgarian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players
PFC CSKA Sofia players
PFC Litex Lovech players
Primeira Liga players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Segunda Divisão players
G.D. Chaves players
S.C. Braga players
F.C. Paços de Ferreira players
F.C. Felgueiras players
Bulgaria men's international footballers
1986 FIFA World Cup players
Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Bulgarian football managers
PFC Litex Lovech managers
FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia managers
PFC Slavia Sofia managers
PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv managers
FC Spartak Varna managers
PFC Cherno More Varna managers
PFC Beroe Stara Zagora managers


Nghĩa Lộ is a town in Yên Bái Province, in the north-east region of Vietnam. It is bordered by Văn Chấn District and Trạm Tấu District.

In 1951, the Viet Minh 312 Division fought French forces in the area as part of the First Indochina War.

As of 2020, the district had a population of 68,206. The district covers an area of 107.78 km2.

Administrative divisions
Nghĩa Lộ is divided into 14 commune-level sub-divisions, including 4 wards (Cầu Thia, Pú Trạng, Tân An, Trung Tâm) and 10 rural communes (Hạnh Sơn, Nghĩa An, Nghĩa Lộ, Nghĩa Lợi, Nghĩa Phúc, Phù Nham, Phúc Sơn, Sơn A, Thạch Lương, Thanh Lương).

References

Districts of Yên Bái province
Populated places in Yên Bái province
County-level towns in Vietnam
Yên Bái province


Lục Yên is a rural district of Yên Bái province, in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the district had a population of 108,817. The district covers an area of 811 km2. The district capital lies at Yên Thế. Numerous quarries in the district produce gemstones such as rubies, spinel, and tourmaline.

Administrative divisions
Lục Yên is divided into 24 commune-level sub-divisions, including the township of Yên Thế and 23 rural communes (An Lạc, An Phú, Động Quan, Khai Trung, Khánh Hòa, Khánh Thiện, Lâm Thượng, Liễu Đô, Mai Sơn, Minh Chuẩn, Mường Lai, Minh Tiến, Phan Thanh, Phúc Lợi, Tân Lập, Tân Lĩnh, Tân Phượng, Tô Mậu, Trúc Lâu, Trung Tâm, Vĩnh Lạc, Minh Xuân, Yên Thắng).

Climate

References

Districts of Yên Bái province
Yên Bái province


Mù Cang Chải is a rural district of Yên Bái province, in the Northwest region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the district had a population of 63,961, covering an area of 1199 km2. The district capital lies at Mù Cang Chải.

Mù Cang Chải is a landlocked district that borders Van Ban district of Lao Cai province to the north, Muong La district of Son La province to the south, Than Uyen of Lai Chau province to the west, and Van Chan district of Yen Bai province to the east. The district is located at the foot of Hoang Lien Son mountain range, at an altitude of 1,000 m above sea level. To get to Mù Cang Chải district, travellers must pass through Khau Phạ Pass, which is one of four imposing passes in northwest Vietnam.

Rice terrace fields
The rice terrace fields in La Pan Tan, Che Cu Nha (Tsev Kub Nyiab) and Ze Xu Phinh have been recognized as national landscapes by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In 2007, this zone was designated a "National Site Heritage”.  Local festivals in Yên Bái have featured the Mù Cang Chải rice terrace fields as attractions for both domestic and international tourists. Although this region of northwest Vietnam is poor and relatively undeveloped, it has a rich natural environment. In recent years, Mù Cang Chải has been a popular place to visit in northern Vietnam, particularly when the rice harvest starts around the beginning of October.

Local farmers needed to develop special water distribution channels to deal with the lack of water and the high altitude topography. In response to this challenge, the Hmong people developed a way to retain water by levelling the land on the mountain in layers, resulting in the rice terrace fields' distinctive look. The terraces stretch across 2,200 hectares of the mountainside as narrow layers of terraces ranging from between 1 m and 1.5 m wide.

The water source of the fields comes from the upper streams and waterfalls. At low points in the mountain, water must be moved from higher places. Bamboo is cut in half and used as a tool to transfer water into the fields using gravity. The water is moved into the first terrace, and then a gate is opened to make the water flow into the next terrace. This process avoids flooding the fields and retains the soil fertility. To create the contour of each piece of land, the Hmong people balance each terrace by water that people will point out a high place that is moved up on the coast and moved down to the low land so the fields surrounding hills are water level and the same height, creating the rice terraces of the mountain.

Administrative divisions
Mù Cang Chải is divided into 14 commune-level sub-divisions, including the township of Mù Cang Chải and 13 rural communes (Cao Phạ, Chế Cu Nha, Chế Tạo, Dế Xu Phình, Hồ Bốn, Khao Mang, Kim Nọi, La Pán Tẩn, Lao Chải, Mồ Dề, Nậm Có, Nậm Khắt, Púng Luông).

Climate

Gallery

References

External links

Districts of Yên Bái province
Yên Bái province


Trạm Tấu is a rural district of Yên Bái province, in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 21,887. The district covers an area of 742 km². The district capital lies at Trạm Tấu.

References

Districts of Yên Bái province
Yên Bái province


Trấn Yên is a rural district of Yên Bái province, in the northeastern region of Vietnam.

As of 2003 the district had a population of 96,949. The district covers an area of 691 km². The district capital lies at Cổ Phúc.

Administrative districts
Tran Yen district has 21 commune-level administrative units, including Cổ Phúc town (district capital) and 20 communes: Báo Đáp, Bảo Hưng, Cường Thịnh, Đào Thịnh, Hòa Cuông, Hồng Ca, Hưng Khánh, Hưng Thịnh, Kiên Thành, Lương Thịnh, Minh Quán, Minh Quân, Nga Quán, Quy Mông, Tân Đồng, Vân Hội, Việt Cường, Việt Hồng, Việt Thành, Y Can.

References

Districts of Yên Bái province
Yên Bái province


Văn Chấn is a rural district of Yên Bái province, in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2020, the district had a population of 116,804. The district covers an area of 1,129.90 km2. The district capital lies at Sơn Thịnh.

Administrative divisions
Văn Chấn is divided into 24 commune-level sub-divisions, including 3 townships (Nông trường Liên Sơn, Nông trường Trần Phú, Sơn Thịnh) and 21 rural communes (An Lương, Bình Thuận, Cát Thịnh, Chấn Thịnh, Đại Lịch, Đồng Khê, Gia Hội, Minh An, Nậm Búng, Nậm Lành, Nậm Mười, Nghĩa Sơn, Nghĩa Tâm, Sơn Lương, Sùng Đô, Suối Bu, Suối Giàng, Suối Quyền, Tân Thịnh, Thượng Bằng La, Tú Lệ).

Climate

References

Districts of Yên Bái province
Yên Bái province


Văn Yên is a district of Yên Bái province, in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the district had a population of 129,679. The district covers an area of 1389.0 km2. The district capital lies at Mậu A.

Administrative divisions
Văn Yên is divided into 25 commune-level sub-divisions, including the township of Mậu A and 24 rural communes (An Bình, An Thịnh, Châu Quế Hạ, Châu Quế Thượng, Đại Phác, Đại Sơn, Đông An, Đông Cuông, Lâm Giang, Lang Thíp, Mậu Đông, Mỏ Vàng, Nà Hẩu, Ngòi A, Phong Dụ Hạ, Phong Dụ Thượng, Quang Minh, Tân Hợp, Viễn Sơn, Xuân Ái, Xuân Tầm, Yên Hợp, Yên Phú, Yên Thái).

References

Districts of Yên Bái province
Yên Bái province


Yên Bình is a rural district of Yên Bái province, in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the district had a population of 112,046. The district covers an area of 773.20 km2.

Administrative divisions
Yên Bình is divided into 24 commune-level sub-divisions, including 2 townships (Yên Bình, Thác Bà) and 22 rural communes (Bạch Hà, Bảo Ái, Cảm Ân, Cảm Nhân, Đại Đồng, Đại Minh, Hán Đà, Mông Sơn, Mỹ Gia, Ngọc Chấn, Phú Thịnh, Phúc An, Phúc Ninh, Tân Hương, Tân Nguyên, Thịnh Hưng, Vĩnh Kiên, Vũ Linh, Xuân Lai, Xuân Long, Yên Bình, Yên Thành).

References

Districts of Yên Bái province
Yên Bái province


Anatoli Mikhaylovich Ilyin (; 27 June 1931 – 10 February 2016) was a Soviet Russian footballer.

Honours
 Olympic champion: 1956.
 Soviet Top League winner: 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962.
 Soviet Top League runner-up: 1954, 1955.
 Soviet Top League bronze: 1957, 1961.
 Soviet Cup winner: 1958.
 Soviet Top League top scorer: 1954 (11 goals), 1958 (20 goals).
 Grigory Fedotov club member.

International career
He earned 31 caps and scored 16 goals for the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1959. He earned an Olympic gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, scoring the game-winning goal of the Gold Medal match, and also participated in the 1958 FIFA World Cup.

Also was the author of the first goal in the history of Cups and European Championships, scoring a goal 4 minutes into the game against Hungary.

References

External links
Profile (in Russian)

1931 births
2016 deaths
Footballers from Moscow
Russian men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
Soviet Union men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
1958 FIFA World Cup players
Soviet Top League players
FC Spartak Moscow players
Olympic medalists in football
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Soviet football managers
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Men's association football forwards


The C.E.I.P.P., or the Centre (formerly Cercle) d'Etudes sur l'île de Pâques et la Polynésie ("Study Centre (formerly "Circle") on Easter Island and Polynesia") is a geographic and anthropological group created by André Valenta and Michel-Alain Jumeau.

The CEIPP is notable for its members' publications on Easter Island. These include:
Nouveau Regard sur l'île de Pâques, a collective work published by Moana Editions, Saintry-sur-Seine, 1982
Les Mystères Résolus de l'île de Pâques, a collective work published by Editions Step, Évry, 1993.
Michel-Alain Jumeau and Yves Pioger's Bibliographie de l'île de Pâques. Publications de la Société des Océanistes, nº46, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 1997. .

The CEIPP also houses the Thomas Barthel archives of rongorongo, making the data available in digitized format, cross-checking his line drawings of the rongorongo corpus with available photographs and the rubbings he used, and expanding his list of glyphs and his glyph-referencing system.

They publish the Bulletin du Centre d'études sur l'île de Pâques et la Polynésie.

External links
CEIPP website

Easter Island
Organisations based in Chile
Polynesian culture
Geographic societies
Geography organizations


David Stenhouse (born 23 May 1932, in Sutton, Surrey, England. He proposed the "4-factor" theory of evolutionary intelligence and was active in ethology, education, evolutionary biology and philosophy of science in Australia and New Zealand.

He died after a short illness on 27 August 2013 in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Early life and family
Stenhouse spent his childhood on the outskirts of London and in South-West Scotland, where his parents were from. His paternal grandfather, also called David, was the headmaster of the Sandbank school. The son of J.F.M. & M.M. Stenhouse, he has one sister, Joyce. His parents moved to New Zealand when he was in his teens.
He has 7 children from 2 marriages. His eldest son, Dr. John Stenhouse, was a lecturer in History at Massey University, and is currently Associate Professor in History at the University of Otago.

Work
After taking degrees in both Philosophy (under John Passmore) and Zoology at the University of Otago, he lectured at universities in New Zealand and Australia – in the Department of Zoology at The University of Queensland, the Department of Education at Massey University, and the Department of Psychology at Massey University. He is the author of a number of books and articles.

Selected publications

Books
 Crisis in Abundance, published in 1966 (Heinemann).
 Unstated assumptions in education : a cross-cultural investigation, published in 1972 ().
 The Evolution of Intelligence : A general theory and some of its implications, published in 1974 (Allen and Unwin,  and ) (Japanese edition: "Chino no shinka : chiteki kodo no ippan riron"; Italian edition).
 Active Philosophy in Education and Science: Paradigms and Language-Games, published in 1985 (Cambridge, MA: Allen and Unwin.  and ).

Articles

D Stenhouse, MJR Gaffikin (1976), "Behavioural accounting and the changing nature of the human behavioural/social sciences : some implications of the ethological revolution", Occasional Paper, Massey University, New Zealand.

Stenhouse, David (1979), "The Wittgensteinian Revolution and Linguistic Philosophy: Some Implications for Education and Educational Philosophy", PhD Thesis, Massey University, New Zealand.

References

1932 births
2013 deaths
Evolutionary biologists
Philosophers of science
Ethologists
New Zealand non-fiction writers
University of Otago alumni
Massey University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Queensland
Academic staff of Massey University
People from the London Borough of Sutton
Academic staff of the University of Otago
Plant cognition


KDLS may refer to:

 The ICAO code for Columbia Gorge Regional Airport
 KDLS (AM), a radio station (1310 AM) licensed to Perry, Iowa, United States
 KDLS-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Perry, Iowa, United States


François-Eugène Mathieu (March 11, 1908 – June 13, 1992) was a Canadian politician and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

Mathieu was born on March 11, 1908, in L'Ange-Gardien in the Greater Quebec City Area and became an accountant. He was married to Lucienne Laberge in 1934.

Mathieu served as Mayor of Charlesbourg from 1950 to 1953 and of Charlesbourg-Ouest from 1953 to 1969. He ran as a Union Nationale candidate to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the provincial district of Chauveau in the 1966 election. He was appointed to the Cabinet in the same year and served as Minister without Portfolio until his defeat against Liberal candidate André Harvey in the 1970 election.

Mathieu died on June 13, 1992, in Sillery.

References

1908 births
1992 deaths
Mayors of places in Quebec
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs


Frank Løke (born 6 February 1980) is a Norwegian team handball player. He was voted into the All Star Team (as Pivot) at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship. Løke plays for the Norwegian team Runar Sandefjord.

In August 2018 he participated in a charity boxing match against professional boxer Hadi Srour.

Family
His younger  sister Heidi Løke is also a team handball player, playing on the Norwegian national team.

References

1980 births
Expatriate handball players
Living people
Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Norwegian male handball players
RK Zagreb players
Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Germany


35S or 35-S may refer to:

 Wasco State Airport (FAA identifier: 35S), an airport in Sherman County, Oregon, U.S.
 35th parallel south, a geographical latitude
 Rollei 35 S, a 35 mm camera
 Sulfur-35 (35S), the most stable radioactive isotope of sulfur, used in biochemical research to radioactively label proteins
 HP 35s, a scientific calculator
 the 35S promoter from the cauliflower mosaic virus, used for constitutive expression in plants

See also
 S35 (disambiguation)


Ossi-Petteri Grönholm (born September 17, 1981 in Kotka, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. After playing for Pelicans and SaiPa of the Finnish SM-liiga and Frölunda HC of the Swedish Elite League, he signed with Oulun Kärpät for two years in spring 2008.

Career statistics

External links

1981 births
Brynäs IF players
Finnish ice hockey defencemen
Frölunda HC players
HPK players
KooKoo players
Lahti Pelicans players
Living people
Malmö Redhawks players
Oulun Kärpät players
Sportspeople from Kotka
SaiPa players


Riverdance was a roll-on/roll-off ferry in service with Seatruck Ferries on the Irish Sea. On 31 January 2008 she was hit by a wave that caused her cargo to shift and she beached at Blackpool, very close to the boundary with Cleveleys. Large amounts of the ship's cargo was spilled overboard after the ship ran aground, resulting in much of it being salvaged by members of the public. Attempts to refloat her failed, and she was scrapped on site during 2008.

Her normal route was Heysham – Warrenpoint. A cargo vessel, she was permitted under UK maritime law to carry up to 12 passengers.

History
Built as Mashala in 1977, renamed Halla in 1987, Tikal in 1988 and Schiaffino in 1989, she operated at first in the Mediterranean and then the Caribbean. In 1993 she was operating in the Irish Sea, renamed Sally Eurobridge. In 1994 she was operating in the North Sea under the name Eurobridge, returning to Sally Eurobridge when the charter ended. In 1995–96 she was on charter to Norfolk Line under the name Eurobridge again, then chartered to Seatruck and renamed Riverdance, being bought outright in 1997.

Shipwreck
On 31 January 2008 at 19:30 she was "broadsided" by a wave, causing the cargo to shift. At 19:45 the captain sent a Mayday call. The ship was listing at 60 degrees. At 20:00 the rescue crew at RAF Valley on Anglesey was put on standby, being scrambled at 20:20. Liverpool Coastguard co-ordinated assistance. Helicopters from the Irish Coast Guard, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force attended, along with lifeboats from Lytham and Fleetwood. The Steersman assisted with communications and the support vessels Clwyd Supporter and Highland Sprite were reported to be on their way to assist. Before he was rescued, one of the passengers made an emotional, and what he thought at the time final, mobile phone call home to his wife. Starting at 21:00, eight people were airlifted from the ship, which lost one engine and drifted aground on Cleveleys's North Beach opposite Anchorsholme Lane at around 22:50 (grid ref SD 309,424 ), very close to the remains of the Abana.
The passengers and crew lifted off the ship arrived at Blackpool Airport at 22:00, and two of them were taken to hospital suffering from mild hypothermia, but were not admitted. The passenger who had called his wife was able to call her at 22:30 to say that he was safe. Six crew members were taken off the vessel after it had run aground.

The decision to evacuate the remaining nine crew members was made in the early hours of 1 February. The remaining crew were airlifted off the ship at 04:00 on 1 February. The rescued crew and passengers were accommodated at a hotel in Lancaster or provided with a taxi home.

The rescue
Rescue crews involved in the incident described the weather as "some of the worst we've ever seen". The crew of the helicopter from RAF Valley said the wind was gusting between . The safest position on board the ship was also the position which was most difficult for the helicopter crew to reach.

Lifeboats from Lytham and Fleetwood attended and were ready to recover any casualties from the sea. They also illuminated the ship with their searchlights.

Aftermath

Like the Athina B at Brighton in 1980, Riverdance was a temporary tourist attraction, with local traders reporting that they were as busy as they would normally be during the Blackpool Illuminations. The boom lasted for over ten weeks, with the refloating at one time being scheduled to take place in the week commencing 18 February, coinciding with the half-term holiday. Large crowds were expected to view the refloating. The ship was also expected to bring extra visitors to Blackpool over the Easter weekend. The Tourist Information Centre at Cleveleys reported a large increase in enquiries in the weeks after Riverdance grounded. Local residents complained that the influx of visitors "made their lives hell", raising parking, traffic and litter issues. By early April, the number of visitors had begun to drop.

The owner of an ice-cream parlour in Cleveleys prepared a display of photographs of the stricken ferry and used them to raise funds for the local Fleetwood branch of the RNLI, in appreciation of their work in rescuing the passengers and crew. Blackpool Council was reported to be studying the effect that the shipwreck had on tourism, and looking to learn lessons that could help boost tourism. It was estimated that over 100,000 people came to see the Riverdance.

Awards
The crew of the helicopter from RAF Valley involved in the rescue were given the 2008 Defence Helicopter SAR award for their part in the rescue: Flight Lieutenant Lee Turner, Flight Lieutenant Giles Ratcliffe, Sergeant John Stevens and MACR Rich Taylor.  Flt Lt Lee Turner was also awarded the Air Force Cross by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Chief Coastguard Commendation for Meritorious Service was awarded to the 5 members of the watch at Liverpool Coastguard who were on duty for the grounding on the MV Riverdance, presented in 2013.

Salvage
It had initially been hoped to recover the vessel and return her to service, but she was scrapped on site in 2008.

Preparation
The coastguard monitored the ship, which was carrying 150 tonnes of fuel oil. An attempt to refloat her was to have been made at high tide at 18:00 on 1 February, but it was later announced that no attempt would be made to refloat her that day. A salvage team from Smit International assessed the ship on 2 February, and a  exclusion zone was set up. Liverpool Coastguard warned that refloating the ship would take another two or three days, depending on weather and tide conditions, although another source stated the salvage operation could take weeks. It was estimated that refloating would take place in the second week of February, but this proved to be over optimistic. The salvage team assembled the equipment needed to refloat the ship, including a rigid inflatable boat suitable for use in shallow water. They planned to reduce the list of the ship and pump out the fuel on board. Riverdance was reported to be "intact".

It was reported that salvage teams had made "good progress" on 4 February. A crane travelled from York on 5 February and lifted equipment onto the ship. The salvage team aimed to reduce the list of the ship and make it more stable. On 4 February, around 50 members of the public ignored the exclusion zone to get close to the ship. Police and Coastguard admitted they were powerless to prevent the breach of the Government-imposed exclusion zone and vowed to step up security to prevent a recurrence. The imposition of the exclusion zone on grounds of public safety was proved to be correct when several trucks fell off on the afternoon of 5 February, caused by the ship moving at high tide. The exclusion zone was enforced on 6 February, with police, coastguard and security patrols being used. More of the ship's cargo fell overboard on 6 February. It was reported on 7 February that the salvage operation was going well, and about half of the equipment required for the operation was aboard. On 8 February, shackles holding the remaining trailers were released, allowing the vehicles on the top deck to fall overboard. The wreckage was cleared by a specialist demolition contractor.

The salvage team removed fuel from the ship by drilling a hole in the hull and pumping the fuel out. The process, known as "hot tapping", was expected to take up to a week. A boom was placed around the ship, and defuelling commenced. 18 tonnes of fuel was removed on 11 February and 29 tonnes on 12 February. Temporary repairs were made to the hull in preparation for refloating. Sightseers continued to breach the exclusion zone, including two jet skiers who approached the ship from the sea. The refloating of the ship was scheduled to take place in the week commencing 18 February. Large crowds were expected to witness the event, which would have coincided with the half-term holiday. It was later estimated that the ship would not be refloated for at least another two weeks. All fuel was removed from the tanks, and work was done to ensure the hull was watertight and to reduce the list. Over the weekend of 23–24 February, the ship settled further onto its side, listing at 85 degrees. Officials had to prevent people from trying to board the ship. It was revealed that the operation to refloat the vessel could take weeks, although speculation that she would be cut up on site was denied by Smit International, who said they needed only   of water to refloat the ship. A  diameter accommodation box fell from the ship between 24 and 27 February.

It was reported that Smit International still intended to refloat the ship. There was a two-week period ending 13 March in which to refloat the ship, with the refloating being most likely to take place towards the end of that period. Efforts to salvage the ship were hampered by the weather and the position the ship was in. The plan was to put the ship on an even keel on 13 or 14 March, seven weeks after the grounding. However, storms with winds of  meant that plan was abandoned. Refloating was expected to take place about a week after the ship was righted.

Recovery attempts
A trench was dug in the sand alongside the ship, which had been made watertight. Four 20-tonne containers were placed on the port side, and water was to be pumped from the starboard to port tanks in an effort to right the ship. No date was set for the operation, due to the strong winds at the time. Once the ship was righted, it was expected to take several weeks to refloat her. Attempts to right her were abandoned on 12 March after storms battered her with  winds, causing her to sink further into the sand and the list to increase to 100 degrees. The salvage plan was re-evaluated early in the week commencing 17 March. Meanwhile, work continued to reduce the threat of pollution from the vessel and clearing up any wreckage that was deposited from the vessel. A meeting between the salvors, insurers and owners of the ship took place on 20 March to discuss options for salvage. One option considered was to scrap her on site. On 21 March 2008, it was revealed that she had been declared a "constructive total loss" due to further damage inflicted by the storms earlier in the month. The preferred option was to refloat her and remove her by sea, but she would be cut up on site if the refloating operation failed. The plan was to use mechanical winches to haul her upright, rather than relying upon flotation devices.

On 10 April 2008, it was announced that attempts to refloat her had been abandoned and that she was to be scrapped in situ. The contract to dismantle her was awarded to Hancock's Contractors, of Heysham. The work was expected to take about 12 to 14 weeks. One of the reasons for that decision was that Riverdance had suffered further structural damage during the storms on 12 March 2008. The damage included damaged propellers and engine, loss of a rudder, the bulwarks destroyed on her starboard side, and a lifeboat destroyed.

Scrapping
The scrapping of Riverdance was carried out by Hancock's, with initial work to remove the remaining fuel, oil and cargo from the vessel. Hancock's took control of the site on 14 April 2008. Contractors inspected the Moondance, her sister ship, to get an idea of the general construction of the vessel. Dismantling plans included some night working, to the dismay of some local residents. Work commenced in the week beginning 29 April 2008, with an estimated completion date of "the end of June". By early May the work was underway, with the removal of handrails and the funnel to enable easier access to the interior. The initial phase of the demolition was expected to take four or five weeks. On 17 May 2008, a fire broke out on two lorries at about 4:20am, causing 30 workers to be evacuated from the vessel. The local fire brigade attended with five appliances and a mobile fire station, but withdrew shortly after due to the rising tide, leaving the fire to burn itself out. The scrapping resumed on 19 May 2008 with the wreck reduced to the level of the beach by 10 October 2008.

Investigation
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch conducted an enquiry into the incident, and the final report was published on 3 September 2009.

Culture and media
Riverdance featured in the video for the song Explosion by the German band Fotos.

'Riverdance' appears in the 2006 film 'Ghosts', directed by Nick Broomfield, based on the 2004 Morecambe Bay cockling disaster. Chinese immigrant Ai Qin is smuggled from Calais to Dover hidden inside a van aboard the ship.

The salvage operation was the subject of an episode of Salvage: Code Red, a National Geographic Channel documentary series.

References

External links
Visit Cleveleys Story and photos.
Fortunes de Mer Webpage dedicated to this casualty.
Yahoo news report
M/S Mashala in Swedish.
BBC News Image gallery
Exploring the wreck Photos and story
Blackpool Gazette – rescue crews story
Gallery Blackpool Gazette pictures
BBC Lancashire Photos of stranded ship.
Miramar Ship Index: Riverdance
Blackpool Gazette Shipwreck feature.
Blackpool Gazette Photo gallery.
Ships Nostalgia thread about the Riverdnce
Riverdance, 17 April 2008.
complete ship details

Ship grounding
Ships of Seatruck Ferries
Shipwrecks in the Irish Sea
Maritime incidents in 2008
Ferries of England
History of Blackpool
2008 in the United Kingdom
Merchant ships of the Bahamas
1977 ships
Ships built in Bremen (state)


Miconia subseriata is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is a shrub or tree which ranges from Oaxaca and Chiapas in southern Mexico through Central America to Colombia, Ecuador, and northwestern Venezuela.

References

Flora of Southwestern Mexico
Flora of Southeastern Mexico
Flora of Central America
Flora of Colombia
Flora of Ecuador
Flora of Venezuela
Plants described in 1852
Taxa named by Charles Victor Naudin
subseriata


Events from the year 1592 in Ireland.

Incumbent
Monarch: Elizabeth I

Events
 January – Hugh Roe O'Donnell and the brothers Art and Henry O'Neill escape from Dublin Castle, the only prisoners ever to do so successfully. With the assistance of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, O'Donnell reaches  refuge in the stronghold of Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne at Glenmalure in the Wicklow Mountains, but loses both big toes to frostbite, while Art O'Neill dies of exposure. Hugh's father, Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill, abdicates as An Ó Domhnaill (The O'Donnell) and King of Tír Chonaill in his son's favour at the instance of his second wife (Hugh's mother) Iníon Dubh.
 3 March – Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university, is founded by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth.
 3 November – Sir John Perrot, former Lord Deputy of Ireland, dies in the Tower of London awaiting sentence for a conviction for high treason.
 December – Edmund MacGauran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh arrives at Drogheda from Bilbao (having escaped attack by pirates) with a promise from King Philip II of Spain to send troops to support a rebellion in Ireland next summer. At Christmas, he holds a conference of seven northern bishops in the Franciscan friary in Donegal which proposes formation of a Catholic confederacy or league among the nobility and clergy of Ulster and Connacht under the leadership of Tyrconnell.

Births
 Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount Barnewall, landowner (d. 1663)
 Bishop Robert Ussher, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (d. 1642)

Deaths
 Sir Lucas Dillon, lawyer (b. c.1530)
 Sir Nicholas White, lawyer (b. c.1532)

References

1590s in Ireland
Years of the 16th century in Ireland


Running Fence was an installation art piece by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, which was completed on September 10, 1976.  The art installation was first conceived in 1972, but the actual project took more than four years to plan and build. After it was installed, the builders removed it 14 days later, leaving no visible trace behind.

Installation
The art installation consisted of a veiled fence  long extending across the hills of Sonoma and Marin counties in northern California, United States.  The  high fence was made of 200,000 square meters (2,222,222 square feet) of heavy woven white nylon fabric, which created 2,050 panels, and was hung from steel cables by means of 350,000 hooks.  The cables were supported by 2,050 steel poles (each: 6.4 meters / 21 feet long or 9 centimeters / 3.5 inches in diameter) embedded 1 meter (3 feet) into the ground, braced by steel guy wires (145 kilometers / 90 miles of steel cable), 14,000 earth anchors, and without any concrete.

The route of the fence began near U.S. Highway 101 and crossed 14 roads and the private property of 59 ranchers to reach the Pacific Ocean south of Bodega Bay. The fence entered the Pacific Ocean at a point about midway between the Estero Americano and the Estero de San Antonio, in northwestern Marin County. The art project required 42 months of collaborative efforts, 18 public hearings, 3 sessions at the Superior Courts of California, and the drafting of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR); the required EIR for the piece was 450 pages long.

All expenses for the temporary work of art were paid by Christo and Jeanne-Claude through the sale of studies, preparatory drawings and collages, scale models and original lithographs.

Originally conceived in 1972 as Curtains for West Berlin to block the view of the Berlin Wall, the project relocated to rural Sonoma and Marin Counties just south of the historic Russian settlements of Fort Ross and Port Rumyantsev at Bodega Bay in the Mexican bulwark of Rancho Americano. It is also said to have been partly inspired by fences demarcating the Continental Divide in Colorado.  Christo emphasized that he considered Running Fence to encompass its social, legal, and technical dimensions.

Legacy
The piece is commemorated by historic markers at Watson School near Bodega, California and at State Route 1 in Valley Ford, California.  In December 1976, the County Landmarks Commission, County of Sonoma designated the Valley Ford site (pole #7-33) as History Landmark #24.

The largest remaining intact and continuous section of the Running Fence hangs below the ceiling of the Rio Theater in Monte Rio, California.

Between April 1, 2010 through September 25, 2010, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence was on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The exhibition comprised over 350 archival and related works and photographs, and visitors could touch the actual nylon fabric panels and steel poles from the original work of art.

The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa has a permanent exhibit on Christo featuring a portion of fabric from the Running Fence.  Schulz's Peanuts comic strip featured Christo's art and the Running Fence in 1978.

Documentary
The piece was the subject of a 1978 documentary film Running Fence by Albert and David Maysles. The film includes scenes showing the local response to the project, which ranged from excitement to resentment and active protest. Several Californians including Expressionist painter Byron Randall protested the piece on the grounds of both land infringement and lack of artistic merit; however others appreciated the beauty of the work and in the end the project was completed.

Gallery

See also
Site-specific art
Land art
Public art
List of Sonoma County Regional Parks facilities
Sonoma County Historic Landmarks and Districts

References

Further reading

External links

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Running Fence
Photo of Running Fence section in Rio Theater auditorium
Gallery of 24 historic photos from the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat newspaper archives
50th Anniversary of the 1972 beginning of Christo's Running Fence project - Panel Discussion

Installation art works
Outdoor sculptures in California
1976 sculptures
History of Sonoma County, California
History of the San Francisco Bay Area
History of Marin County, California
Parks in Sonoma County, California
West Marin
Fabric sculptures
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area
Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude


Xu Zhiyong (; born March 2, 1973) is a Chinese civil rights activist and formerly a lecturer at the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications. He was one of the founders of the NGO Open Constitution Initiative and an active rights lawyer in China who campaigned against corruption and helped those underprivileged. He is the main founder and icon of the New Citizens' Movement in China.  In January 2014 he was sentenced to four years in prison for "gathering crowds to disrupt public order". He was detained again on February 15, 2020, in the southern city of Guangzhou after two months in hiding, for his participation in a meeting of rights activists and lawyers in Xiamen in December 2019 in which "democratic transition in China" was discussed. He was sentenced for subversion to 14 years in jail on April 10, 2023.

Personal life
Xu was born in Minquan County, Henan Province in 1973. He was married to Cui Zheng (), a journalist. Their daughter was born on January 13, 2014, while Xu was in a detention center facing trial. He had been in hiding since late 2019 and was detained by Chinese police on February 15, 2020. In March of 2021, his partner Li Qiaochu was reported to have been arrested for tweeting that Xu and another activist had been tortured while in detention.

Career and activism
Xu received his Bachelor of Law degree from Lanzhou University in 1994 and Doctor of Law degree from Peking University in 2002.

The Gongmeng era
In 2003, he was elected to the Haidian District People's Congress as an independent. He won the re-election in 2006. In the 2011 election, Xu's name was pulled off the candidate list, but he still gathered more than 3,500 votes out of 22,000 voters in his district.

Xu helped found the public interest group Gongmeng, also known as the Open Constitution Initiative.

Unlike other human rights activists, Xu firmly and carefully pushed his calls for political change and social justice in existing laws, and his group has been regarded as relatively cautious and conservative. In his recent interview before his arrest, he described his dream as follows:

Xu's final remarks post trial also made rounds within Chinese dissident communities abroad in which he described goal of the New Citizens' Movement as follows:

The 2009 Gongmeng incident
On July 29, 2009, he was arrested at his home, and detained by Chinese authorities on charges of tax evasion. At the same time Xu's colleague Zhuang Lu was also arrested by authorities.

The Open Constitution Initiative was fined 1.46 million RMB on July 14, 2009 for 'dodging taxes' and was shut down by the authorities by declaring it "illegal".

Xu Zhiyong was released on bail on August 23, 2009. The Australian newspaper The Age reported that the release of Xu, Zhuang and another Chinese dissident, Ilham Tohti, was in part due to pressure on Beijing from the administration of American President Barack Obama.

Post-Gongmeng era, New Citizens' Movement, 2013 arrest
After Gongmeng was shut down, Xu Zhiyong and supporters adopted the name "Citizens" to continue their cause. In May 2012, Xu formally established the "New Citizens' Movement" and "New Citizens' Spirit" as the high-level concept of their activism.

In 2013, Xu was placed under house arrest for more than three months, before being formally arrested on August 22. His trial started on January 22, 2014. Xu and his lawyer Zhang Qingfang remained silent throughout the trial (except for his closing statement) to protest the violation of basic legal procedure. Xu's closing statement was cut short by the judge, but the text was circulated on the internet  and raised tremendous support. On January 26, Xu was sentenced to four years in prison for "gathering crowds to disrupt public order". Prior to the verdict, whose date had been expected, lawyer Zhang said about the case: "We can say it was decided even before the trial." He was released in 2017.

2020 arrest
Xu and other human rights activists were wanted by police for their participation in a meeting in Xiamen on December 13, 2019 where "democratic transition in China" was discussed. In February 2020, while in hiding, through postings on social media, Xu publicly asked Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping to resign, for what he described as an obvious inability to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. He was arrested in Guangzhou on February 15, 2020, according to two fellow activists.

In November 2021, Liang Xiaojun, the lawyer of Xu, had his license cancelled by authorities, with the notification letter citing his online support for  Falun Gong and "vilifying" the Chinese constitution and laws. Liang said he had spoken a day earlier via video chat with Xu, who according to Liang was in good health and unshaken in his dissident convictions.

On June 13, 2022, the Intermediate People’s Court of Linyi issued a notice of a pretrial meeting scheduled for June 17. Lawyers and a rights group said on June 17 that Xu would stand trial for "subversion" on June 22. He had been indicted on that charge in August 2021, and there had been no information about him since. On April 10, 2023, Xu was sentenced after a closed trial to 14 years in prison.

Prominent writings and speeches
 Xu Zhiyong's closing statement in court (January 22, 2014) Chinese English (translated by ChinaChange.org)
 The Last Ten Years, China's rights movement through the work of Gong Meng. Chinese English (translated by ChinaChange.org)
 A trip to Ngaba, (the Tibetan prefecture in Northern Sichuan province where many Tibetans have self-immolated over the last four years or so. A shorter version of the essay was published in the New York Times in December 2012). Chinese English (translated by ChinaChange.org)
 New Citizens' Movement, a "manifesto" published on May 29, 2012. Chinese English(translated by ChinaChange.org)
 To Build a Free China: A Citizen's Journey, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, 2017.
 In an open letter addressed to Chinese Paramount leader Xi Jinping, published on 4 February 2020 while Xu was sought by authorities, he accused the Xiong'an project to be "political" and cited it as an instance in which Xi had allegedly shown lack of capability in office. Xu was arrested later that month.

Awards
 Foreign Policy – Top 100 Global Thinkers, 2013
 PEN America – PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, 2020. Xu's partner Li Qiaochu, also an activist, accepted the award on his behalf in December 2020.

See also
Weiquan movement
New Citizens' Movement (China)

References

External links

1973 births
Living people
People from Shangqiu
Independent politicians in the People's Republic of China
Chinese human rights activists
Chinese dissidents
Weiquan movement
Chinese prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of the People's Republic of China
Lanzhou University alumni
Peking University alumni


Hilton is a former village, now a neighbourhood, located just north of Rosehill in Aberdeen.

References

Areas of Aberdeen


Dignam & Goff was the project of Christy Dignam, the lead singer of the band Aslan, and the guitarist Conor Goff in the early 1990s before Aslan reunited in 1993.

Goff was the guitarist of Fast Boys and his project called Conor Goff and The Crash had a top 20 hit in Ireland in 1987 with "America". Dignam & Goff made a number of recordings including "Hand Of Love", "Martin", "Rain", "Feel It In My Heart", "Sacrianna Falls" and "Walk On Water".

No official Dignam and Goff CD was released due to Aslan overshadowing popularity over the duo's short-lived career. However, a CD titled Christy Dignam: The Singles 1984-1991 was released on Solid Records in 1991. This is still available in Irish record stores and contains many Dignam & Goff singles as well as Aslan's earlier singles. Their unreleased album is known as Dead Blue Fish.

Dignam went on front Aslan again. Goff is believed to be involved in the building industry in the Monkstown area of Dublin.

Further reading
& Goff @ Cybertechz.com

Rock music duos
Dignam, Christy


Events from the year 1522 in art.

Works
 Antonio da Correggio completes the frescoes of the Vision of St. John on Patmos in the church of San Giovanni Evangelista (Parma).
 Benedikt Dreyer completes a Gothic altar called the "Antonius altar" for the Burg church in Lübeck.
 Titian completes the Averoldi Polyptych for the Santi Nazaro e Celso (Brescia).
 Bernard van Orley completes a triptych for the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in a chapel of the Saint Walburga church in Veurne.

Painting

 Hans Baldung – The Stoning of Saint Stephen
 Hans Holbein – The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb
 Ludovico Mazzolino
 Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
 Madonna and Child with St. Joseph
 Ortolano Ferrarese – Mourning the Dead Christ (Galleria Borghese, Rome)
 Lucas van Leyden – Virgin and Child with the Magdalene and a Donor

Births
 Antonio Campi, Italian painter (died 1587)
 Bernardino Campi, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1591)
 Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer, engraver, philosopher, translator, politician and theologian (died 1590)
 Federico Brandani, Italian sculptor and stuccoist who worked in an urbane Mannerist style as a court artist (died 1575)
 Jean Cousin the Younger, French painter, sculptor (died 1595)
 Pietro Marescalchi, Italian Renaissance painter (died 1589)
 Ludger Tom Ring the Younger, German painter and draughtsman (died 1584)

Deaths
 Giovanni Antonio Amadeo, Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect and engineer (born c. 1447)
 Paolo Moranda Cavazzola, Italian painter active mainly in his hometown of Verona (born 1486)
 Piero di Cosimo, Florentine painter (born 1462)
 Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Italian painter of the Umbrian school (born 1440)
 (died 1522-1532): Colijn de Coter, early Netherlandish painter who produced mainly altarpieces (born 1440/1445)

References

Years of the 16th century in art


Betão Ronca Ferro is a 1970 Brazilian comedy film directed by Mazzaropi and Geraldo Afonso Miranda.

Cast
Mazzaropi - Betão
Dilma Lóes
Roberto Pirillo
Geny Prado
Araken Saldanha
Tony Vieira
Diná Lisboa
Cláudio Roberto Mecchi
Gilmara Sanches
Milton Pereira
Yaratan Lauretta
Carlos Garcia
Henricão
Judith Barbosa
Rogério Câmara

External links

1970 films
Brazilian comedy films
1970s Portuguese-language films
1970 comedy films


Seattle Girls' School is an all-girls middle school located in the central district of Seattle at South Jackson Street and MLK Way S. between 26th AVE S and 28th AVE S.  Seattle Girls' School (also known as SGS) is an accredited member of the Northwest Association of Independent Schools and a full member of the National Association of Independent Schools.

In the 2011–2012 academic year, SGS enrolled 105 students. The student-teacher ratio is currently about 10:1, and the average class size 15. Tuition was $2,389 a school month in 2011-2012 totaling $21,500 for the school year.

History
Seattle Girls' School was founded by the board of trustees, a group of Seattle residents, in fall 2001. The school's current location at the corner of S. Jackson Street and MLK Way S was not completely finished when students for that year were being admitted, and the first open house was held in a gymnasium.

From the founding in 2001 to 2005 SGS accepted students through 6th and 7th grade. In the 2005-2006 year 5th grade and 8th grade was added.

References

External links
Seattle Girls' School

Schools in Seattle
Girls' schools in Washington (state)
Private middle schools in Washington (state)
Educational institutions established in 2001
2001 establishments in Washington (state)


Bangasternus fausti is a species of true weevil known as the broad-nosed seed head weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against noxious knapweeds, particularly spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa), squarrose knapweed (Centaurea virgata ssp. squarrosa), and diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa).

The adult weevil is dark gray and hairy and about 4 millimeters long. The female lays eggs on the flower heads at an early stage of development and stem tips. Upon emergence the larva burrows into the flower head or makes its way there by tunneling through the stem. It feeds upon the developing seeds, often consuming them entirely. If any other insects invade the flower head, the larva attacks them. It pupates inside the seed head.

This weevil is native to southern Europe and the Middle East. It was first released as a knapweed biocontrol in the 1980s in Oregon, and it is currently established in the Pacific Northwest. It is host-specific to invasive knapweeds and has not been known to attack any native plants.

References

 Coombs, E. M., et al., Eds. (2004). Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United States. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 209.

External links
 Cornell Biocontrol Profile

Molytinae
Insects used for control of invasive plants
Biological pest control beetles
Beetles described in 1890


The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA),  is a network to educate, empower, and inspire its members to advance the evolution of the profession and better serve users in a continuously changing information society.  It is a Division of the American Library Association.

RUSA recognizes outstanding professional contributions in reference librarianship and its many specialties with annual achievement awards.

It also recognizes books and media with major annual awards.  Awards are selected by RUSA's Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) Committees.

These include "Notable Books for Adults," selected by the RUSA Notable Books Council since 1944.

Recent RUSA Achievement Awards

2023 Awards

Division Level
Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award to an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to reference librarianship. Jennifer C. Boettcher.
John Sessions Memorial Award recognizes a library or library system which has made a significant effort to work with the labor community. Princeton University Industrial Relations Library.
RUSA Award for Excellence in Reference and Adult Library Services. Rebecca Clarke.
Gail Schlachter Memorial Research Grant. Christina Plakas.
Exceptional Service Award to patients, home bound, people in group homes, inmates. Willetta M. Grady.

Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS)
Excellence in Business Librarianship. Hal P. Kirkwood.

Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES)
Louis Shores Award recognizes an individual reviewer, group, editor, review medium, or organization for excellence in book reviewing and other media for libraries. Diana Tixier Herald.

Emerging Technologies Section (ETS)
ETS Achievement Award. Shannon Jones.

History Section (HS)
History Research and Innovation Award. Whitney Thompson.

Reference Services Section (RSS)

Sharing and Transforming Access to Resources Section (STARS)
Virginia Boucher Distinguished ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Librarian Award. Jalesia Horton.

Recent RUSA Book and Media Awards

2023 Awards

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is administered by the American Library Association. The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) and  Booklist cosponsor the awards. Selection is by three former members of the RUSA CODES Notable Books Council and editors from Booklist.

Fiction. Julie Otsuka. The Swimmers. (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC).
Non-Fiction. Ed Yong. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. (Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC)

Notable Books Fiction
Bhanoo, Sindya. Seeking Fortune Elsewhere. (Catapult).
Brooks, Geraldine. Horse. (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC).
Diaz, Hernan. Trust. (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
Fofana, Sidik. Stories From The Tenants Downstairs. (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.).
Gunty, Tess, The Rabbit Hutch. (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC).
Kochai, Jamil Jan. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak: And Other Stories. (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi. What We Fed to the Manticore.(Tin House).
Osunde, Eloghosa. Vagabonds. (Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
Otsuka, Julie. The Swimmers. (Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC).
Schaitkin, Alexis. Elsewhere. (Celadon books, a division of Macmillan Publishers).
Serpell, Namwali. The Furrows. (Hogarth, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC).

Notable Books Non-Fiction
Calhoun, Ada. Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, And Me. (Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic)
Carney, Scott and Jason Miklian. The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, An Unspeakable War and Liberation. (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).
Cooke, Lucy, Bitch: On the Female of The Species. (Basic books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group).
Freedland, Jonathan. The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World. (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers).
Goetsch, Diana. This Body I Wore: A Memoir. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Jamail, Dahr and Stan Rushworth. We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (The New Press).
Jones, Chloe Cooper. Easy Beauty (Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.)
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human. (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.) .
Samuels, Robert and Toluse Olorunnipa. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life And The Struggle For Racial Justice. (Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC).
Villarosa, Linda. Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation. (Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC).
Yong, Ed. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. (Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC).

Notable Books Poetry
Chen, Chen. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency. (BOA Editions, Ltd.).
Jones, Saeed. Alive At the End Of the World. (Coffee House Press).
Shire, Warson. Bless the Daughter Raised by A Voice in Her Head (Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC).
Xie, Jenny. The Rupture Tense. (Graywolf Press).

Dartmouth Medal
The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth’s Forest Ecosystems.  by Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, and Jérôme Chave, (Princeton University Press).

Sophie Brody Medal
The Sophie Brody Award is an annual award of the Reference and User Services Association RUSA. It is given for outstanding achievement in Jewish literature, for works published the previous year, in the U.S.

The award is named after Sophie Brody and was established by her husband, Arthur Brody, and the Brodart Foundation.
In 2023 the award went to Michael Frank. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World. Art by Maira Kalman.(Avid Reader Press, a division of Simon & Schuster).

Outstanding Reference Sources Awards

2019 Awards

 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List. James Mustich. Workman Publishing Co.
 American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Spencer C. Tucker (ed). ABC-CLIO.
 Americans at War: Eyewitness Accounts from the American Revolution to the 21st Century. James R. Arnold (ed). ABC-CLIO.
 Black Power Encyclopedia: From ‘Black is Beautiful’ to Urban Uprisings. Akinyele Umoja, Karin L. Stanford, and Jasmin A. Young (ed). Greenwood.
 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Films. Salvador Jimenez Murguia and Alex Pinar (eds). Rowman & Littlefield.
 The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films. Salvador Jimenez Murguia (ed). Rowman & Littlefield.
 The Kurds: An Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society. Sebastian Maisel (ed). ABC-CLIO.
 The Mythology Book. DK.
 Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants. Maarten J.M. Christenhusz, Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase. Kew Publishing and The University of Chicago Press.

2018 Awards
 Defining Documents in American History: Immigration and Immigrant Communities (1790-2016). James S. Pula (ed). Salem Press.
 A Dictionary for the Modern Percussionist Drummer. James A. Strain. Rowman & Littlefield.
 Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts. Timothy J. Stapleton (ed). ABC-CLIO.
 Encyclopedia of Black Comics. Sheena C. Howard. Fulcrum Publishing.
 End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions. Wendell G. Johnson (ed). ABC-CLIO.
 The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Paul R. Bartrop and Michael Dickerman (eds). ABC-CLIO.
 Horses of the World. Elise Rousseau. Princeton University Press.
 The Last Superpower Summits: Reagan, Gorbachev, and Bush at the End of the Cold War. Sventlana Savranskya and Thomas Blanton. Central University Press.
 Musicals in Film: A Guide to the Genre. Thomas S. Hischak. Greenwood.
 War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict. Jeffrey M. Shaw and Timothy J. Demy (eds). Greenwood (ABC-CLIO).
 Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Peg A. Lamphier and Rosanne Welch. ABC-CLIO.

2017 Awards
 The 21st-Century Voter: Who Votes, How They Vote, and Why They Vote. Guido H. Stempel III and Thomas K. Hargrove, editors. ABC-CLIO.
 “Gun Politics in America: Historical and Modern Documents in Context.” Harry L. Wilson. ABC-CLIO.
 “Youth Cultures in America.” Simon J. Bronner and Cindy Dell Clark, editors. Greenwood.
 “Miracles: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Supernatural Events from Antiquity to the Present.” Patrick J. Hayes, editor. ABC-CLIO.
 “American Governance.” Stephen Schechter, Thomas S. Vontz, Thomas A. Birkland, Mark A. Graber, John J. Patrick, editors. Macmillan Reference USA.
 “Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967.” Mitzi M. Brunsdale. McFarland & Company, Inc.
 “Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe.” Jose Blanco F., Mary D. Doering, Patricia Hunt-Hurst, and Heather Vaughan Lee, editors. ABC-CLIO.
 “The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation.” Bryan A. Garner. The University of Chicago Press.
 “Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction.” Alan Burton. Rowman & Littlefield.
 “Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.” Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr., editors. Oxford University Press.
 “Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society.” Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques, editors. ABC-CLIO.

2016 Awards
Black Stereotypes in Popular Series Fiction, 1851-1955: Jim Crow Era Authors and Their Characters by Bernard A. Drew. McFarland & Company, Inc.
Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters: 956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials,
Steamboat Pilots and Others by Myron J. Smith Jr. McFarland & Company, Inc.
The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature Dino Franco Felluga, editor. Wiley Blackwell.
Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection by Paul R. Bartrop and Steven Leonard Jacobs, editors. ABC-CLIO.
The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary by David and Ben Crystal. Oxford University Press.
The Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by Scott Weidensaul. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Alcohol: Social, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives Scott C. Martin, editor. SAGE.
Weird Sports and Wacky Games Around the World: From Buzkashi to Zorbin by Victoria Williams. ABC-CLIO.
Women’s Rights in the United States: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Issues, Events, and People Tiffany K. Wayne, editor. ABC-CLIO.
Worldmark Global Business and Economy Issues Thomas Riggs, editor. Gale.

2015 Awards
American Indians at Risk, Jeffrey Ian Ross, editor. Greenwood
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century, by Monique W. Morris. The New Press.
Bumblebees of North America, by Paul Williams, Robin Thorp, Leif Richardson & Shelia Colla. Princeton University Press.
Consumer Healthcare, Brigham Narins, editor. Gale Cengage Learning.
Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon. Barbara Cassin, editor. Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jaques Lezra, and Michael Wood. Princeton University Press
The Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Jay S. Albanese, editor. Wiley Blackwell.
The Encyclopedia of Deception. Timothy R. Levine, editor. SAGE Publishing.
The Encyclopedia of Humor Studies. Salvatore Attardo, editor. SAGE Publishing.
The Encyclopedia of the Wars of The Early American Republic, 1783-1812. Spencer C Tucker, editor. ABC-CLIO.
Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God. Coeli Fitzpatrick and Adam Hani Walker, editors. ABC-CLIO.

2014 Awards
American Civil War: Definitive Encyclopedia and Document collection. Spencer C Tucker, Editor; ABC-CLIO
Literature of Propaganda, Thomas Riggs, editor. St. James Press/Gale Cengage
Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture. Jacqueline Edmondson, Editor. Greenwood.
Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidency: A Historical Reference. Nancy Beck Young, editor. Facts on File
History of Jewish-Muslim Relations from Origins to Present Day. Abdelwahab Meddeb and Benjamin Stora, editors. Princeton University Press
Frogs of United States and Canada, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. author. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Encyclopedia of Mind, Harold Pashler, editor. SAGE Reference.
Almanac of American Military History. Spencer C Tucker, editor. ABC-CLIO.
Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions. Patrick Taylor and Frederick I. Case, editors. University of Illinois Press.
 Special acknowledgement to ProQuest,  for continuing publication of Statistical Abstracts of the United States

2013 Awards
Biotechnology: In Context, edited by Brenda Wilmoth Lerner & K. Lee Lerner, Gale Cengage
Dictionary of African Biography, edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates Jr., Oxford University Press
Encyclopedia of Housing, Second Edition, edited by Andrew T. Carswell, SAGE Publications
Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology, edited by Daniel J. Christie, Wiley-Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Trauma: An Interdisciplinary Guide, edited by Charles R. Figley, SAGE Publications
Enslaved Women In America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Deleso A. Alford, Greenwood
Japanese Philosophy: A Source Book, edited by James W. Heisig, et al., University of Hawaii Press
Literature of War, edited by Thomas Riggs, St. James Press/Gale Cengage
Presidents and Black America: A Documentary History, by Stephen A. Jones and Eric Freedman, Sage/CQ Press
Typography Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to Language, History, and Practice of Typography, edited by Allan Haley et al., Rockport Publishers
Women in American Politics: History and Milestones, by Doris Weatherford, Sage/CQ Press

2012 Awards
Encyclopedia of Political Science, George T Kurian editor-in-chief. CQ Press, 9781933116440
Civil War Naval Encyclopedia, edited by Spencer Tucker. ABC-CLIO, 9781598843385
Competing Voices from Russian Revolution: Fighting Words, edited by Michael Hickey. Greenwood, 9780313385230
Oxford Encyclopedia of Books of Bible, edited by Michael D. Coogan. Oxford University Press, 9780195377378
Concise Encyclopedia of Amish, Brethren, Hutterites, and Mennonites, by Donald B. Kraybill. Johns Hopkins University Press, 9780801896576
Polish American Encyclopedia, edited by James S. Pula. McFarland & Company, Inc., 9780786433087
Green’s Dictionary of Slang, by Jonathon Green. Oxford University Press, 9780550104403
Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine, edited by Lyle J. Micheli. SAGE Publications, 9781412961158
Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory, Michael Ryan, general editor. Wiley-Blackwell, 9781405183123
Homer Encyclopedia, edited by Margalit Finkelberg. Wiley-Blackwell,  9781405177689
Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, edited by Joan D. Marter. Oxford University Press, 9780195335798

2011 Awards
Oxford Companion to the Book. Michael F. Suarez, S.J. and H.R. Woudhuysen, eds. 2 vols. Oxford, 2010. 9780198606536
Encyclopedia of Identity. Ronald L. Jackson II, ed. 2 vols. Sage, 2010. 9781412951531
Encyclopedia of Geography. Barney Warf, ed. 6 vols. Sage, 2010. 9781412956970
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Michael Gagarin, ed. 7 vols. Oxford, 2010. 9780195170726
Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, eds. 4 vols. CQ Press, 2010. 9780872895805
Off Broadway Musicals, 1910 – 2007: Casts, Credits, Songs, Critical Reception and Performance Data of More Than 1,800 Shows. Dan Dietz, ed. 1 vol. McFarland. 2010. 9780786433995
Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. Joanne B. Eicher, ed. 10 vols. Oxford, 2010. 9780195377330 Berg Fashion Library. Oxford, 2010.
Chronology of Evolution-Creationism Controversy. Randy Moore, ed., et al. 1 vol. Greenwood. 2009. 9780313362873
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace. Nigel Young, ed. 4. vols. Oxford. 2010. 9780195334685
21st Century Economics A Reference Handbook. Rhona C. Free, ed. 2 vols. Sage. 2010. 9781412961424
Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Mark Bevir, ed. 3 vols. Sage. 2010. 9781412958653
Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. John M. Levine and Michael A. Hogg, eds. 2 vols. Sage. 2010. 9781412942089

2010 Awards
Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia Greenwood Press, Francis P. McManamon
Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to Present Oxford University Press, Paul Finkelman
Encyclopedia of Modern China Charles Scribner’s Sons, David Pong
Encyclopedia of Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars ABC-CLIO, Spencer Tucker
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy Gale Cengage, J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman
Encyclopedia of Human Rights Oxford, David Forsythe
Social Explorer, an online reference resource   location
Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts McFarland & Company Publishers, Thomas S. Hischak
American Countercultures Sharp, Gina Misiroglu
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society Sage, Jodi O’Brien
Encyclopedia of Marine Science Facts on File, Nichols C. Reid and Robert G. Williams

2009 Awards
Dartmouth Medal: Greenwood Publishing, Pop Culture Universe. Honorable mention: Gershon David Hundert, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe.

Books and Beyond: Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading. Kenneth Womack, ed. 4 vols. Greenwood, 2008. 9780313337383.
Encyclopedia of Taoism. Fabrizio Pregadio, ed. 2 vols. Routledge, 2008. 9780700712007.
Encyclopedia of First Amendment. John R. Vile, David L. Hudson Jr. and David Schultz, eds. 2 vols. CQ Press, 2009. 9780872893115.
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales. Donald Haase, ed. 3 vols. Greenwood, 2008. 9780313334412.
Encyclopedia of Education Law. Charles J. Russo, ed. 2 vols. Sage, 2008. 9781412940795.
Climate Change: In Context. Brenda Wilmoth Lerner and K. Lee Lerner, eds. 2 vols. Gale Cengage, 2008. 9781414436142.
Gale Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition. Jacqueline L. Longe, ed. Gale Cengage, 2008. 9781414429915.
New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation. Isobyl la Croix. Timber Press, 2008. 9780881928761.
Encyclopedia of Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social and Military History. Spencer C. Tucker, ed. 4 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2008. 9781851098415.
African American National Biography. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks-Higginbotham, eds. 8 vols. Oxford University Press, 2008. 9780195160192.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Bonnie G. Smith, ed. 4 vols. Oxford University Press, 2008. 9780195148909.

2008 Awards
APA dictionary of psychology. ed. by Gary R. VandenBos. American Psychological Association, 2007. 1591473802.
Encyclopaedia Judaica. ed. by Staff, Macmillan Reference U. S. A. 22 vols. Rev. ed. Gale, 2006. 0028659287.
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. ed. by George Ritzer. 11 vols. Blackwell, 2007. 1405124334.
Encyclopedia of Body Adornment. by Margo Demello. Greenwood, 2007. 313336954.
Encyclopedia of Race & Racism. ed. by John Hartwell Moore. 4 vols. Gale, 2008. 9780028660202.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History. ed by John B. Hattendorf. 4 vols. Oxford, 2007. 9780195130751.
Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. ed. by Barry Keith Grant. 4 vols. Gale, 2006. 0028657912.
Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre. ed. by Samuel L. Leiter. 2 vols. Greenwood, 2007. 03133529x.
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction. ed. by Jeff Prucher. Oxford, 2007. 0195305671.
Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural and Economic History. by James Ciment. 4 vols. ME Sharpe, 2007. 079568067x.
Oxford companion to world exploration. ed. by David Buisseret. 2 vols. Oxford, 2007. 019514922X.

2007 Awards
Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. ed. James Ciment. M. E. Sharpe, 2005. 0765680653.
Crusades: An Encyclopedia. 4 vols. ed. Alan V. Murray. ABC-Clio, 2006. 1576078620. $385
Encyclopedia of Swearing: Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in English-Speaking World. Geoffrey Hughes. M. E. Sharpe, 2006. 0765612311.
Encyclopedia of American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History. eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard Ryerson. ABC-Clio, 2006. 1851094083.
Encyclopedia of Developing World. 3 vols. ed. Thomas M. Leonard. Routledge, 2005. 1579583881.
Encyclopedia of US Labor and Working Class History. 3 vols. ed. Eric Arnesen. Routledge, 2006. 0415968267.
Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450. 3 vols. ed. Thomas Benjamin. Macmillan, 2007. 0028658434.
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. 3 vols. ed. Rosemary Skinner Keller. Indiana, 2006.
Historical Statistics of United States: Earliest Times to Present. 5 vols. eds. Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, et al. Cambridge, 2006. 0521817919.
Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity. Stephen A. Marshall. Firefly, 2006. 1552979008.
Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. 5 vols. ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford, 2006. 0195169212.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. 4 vols. ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford, 2006. 01951146561.
Qu'ran: An Encyclopedia. ed. Oliver Leaman. Routledge, 2005. 0415326397.
Right, Wrong, and Risky: A Dictionary of Today's American English Usage. Norton, 2005. 0393061191.

References

Citations

Sources

 RUSA on ALA website
 RUSA Update: News, Events, Awards
 Reference & User Services Assn. (RUSA): Book & Media Award for Outstanding Reference Sources

External links
RUSA Book and Media Awards award site, containing list of recent and earlier awards

American literary awards
Mass media awards
American Library Association awards


Ryan Nicholson (1971 – October 8, 2019) was a Canadian special effects makeup artist and filmmaker.

Biography
Nicholson was born in 1971 in Victoria, British Columbia. He was a self-taught artist who ran special-effects shop Flesh & Fantasy for a number of years before he began directing and producing his own independent films through his production company Plotdigger Films.

He was married to Megan Nicholson and had one son.

Television
Nicholson worked in the makeup department on many television shows including The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Stargate and Andromeda for which he was nominated for the Gemini Award three times for Best Achievement in Make-Up, with a win in 2002.

Film
Nicholson contributed to Scary Movie and Final Destination films, in addition to Elf, Blade: Trinity and The Chronicles of Riddick.

Nicholson also wrote, produced, and directed several films under the banner of his production company Plotdigger Films, including Torched, Gutterballs, Live Feed, Hanger, Nature and others.

Death
Nicholson died from brain cancer at age 47 on October 8, 2019.

Filmography

References

External links

Plotdigger Films Inc. - The independent horror and grindhouse films of Ryan Nicholson
Official web site for "Star Vehicle"

1971 births
2019 deaths
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Canadian make-up artists
Canadian male screenwriters
Film producers from British Columbia
Place of death missing
Canadian Screen Award winners
Deaths from brain tumor
Film directors from Victoria, British Columbia
Special effects people
Writers from Victoria, British Columbia


The EFDA Nations Cup, was a Country vs Country competition for Formula Opel cars between 1990 and 1998. It had always been Dan Partel's dream to stage a race that pitted drivers in equal cars racing for their country. The Formula Opel/Vauxhall one make racing series offered the best opportunity for such an event.

The 1991 EFDA Nations Cup (Nations Cup II), was held at Zandvoort, Holland (15 September 1991).

Final positions

References

External links
 Fastlines International
 Driver Database

EFDA Nations Cup
EFDA Nations Cup seasons
EFDA Nations Cup
EFDA Nations Cup