Douglas Fergusson Roby  (March 24, 1898 – March 31, 1992) was an American sportsman and Olympics official. After playing football at Phillips University and the University of Michigan, he worked for American Metal Products Company, an automobile parts manufacturer, from 1923 to 1963. From 1951 to 1953, he was the president of the Amateur Athletic Union, then America's governing body for many amateur sports. He was vice president (1953–65) and president (1965–68) of the United States Olympic Committee and one of two American members of the International Olympic Committee (1952–84). As president of the USOC during the 1968 Summer Olympics, he expelled African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos after their raised-fist Black Power salute during a medal ceremony.

Early years
Roby was born in Port Tobacco, Maryland, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois where he attended Wendell Phillips High School. In 1916 he received a scholarship to the Michigan Military Academy at Brighton, Michigan, where he helped the football team to an undefeated season that fall.

Phillips University
While attending the academy, Roby became friends with John Maulbetsch, a star halfback at the University of Michigan. After graduating, Maulbetsch accepted the head football coaching job at Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. Phillips was a small, private school without a well-known athletic program. Roby was Maulbetsch's first recruit to play at Phillips. With Roby as team captain and future Pro Football Hall of Famer Steve Owen also on the team, Phillips lost only one game in 1918 and 1919, including a 10–0–1 record in 1919. The Phillips "Haymakers" defeated Oklahoma and the Texas Longhorns, gaining a reputation as "one of the strongest teams in the southwest." When Phillips defeated Texas 10-0 in Austin, Texas in October 1919, the Longhorns had not lost a game since 1917. One Texas newspaper reported that Phillips had "whitewashed the Longhorns in their own corral."

University of Michigan
In February 1920, Roby transferred to the University of Michigan, where he worked his way through college by racking balls in a billiards parlor six hours a day. He played for the Michigan Wolverines in 1921 and 1922 both as a left fielder in baseball and a fullback in football. He graduated in a degree in business administration in 1923.

Professional football and squash
Roby played professional football for one year with the Cleveland Indians in 1923. Roby was the starting tailback in all seven games for the Indians in 1923, scoring one touchdown and also kicking an extra point. Statistics are not available for his yardage gained. He later played squash for the Detroit team from 1928–1936, winning the national championship in 1932.

American Metal Products Company
Roby joined the American Metal Products Company, a Detroit-based automotive parts manufacturer in 1926, and retired as board chairman in 1963. Roby was the company's president in 1958 when a furnace being used to temper automobile seat springs exploded, collapsing the roof of the company's three-block-long plant, causing injury to several workers.

Amateur athletics official
Roby began a fifty-year career as an athletic official by serving several terms on the University of Michigan's Board in Control of Athletics. From 1951 to 1953, he was the president of the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union, then America's governing body for many amateur sports. And in 1952, he was selected to serve on the International Olympic Committee and was one of two American members on the IOC from 1952-1984. He also served as vice president of the United States Olympic Committee from 1953–1965 and as the president of the USOC from 1965-1968. Roby was also elected as the third president of the Pan American Sports Organisation for the 1955-1959 term.

Detroit's Olympic bids
From 1939 through the 1960s, Roby sought to bring the Olympics to Detroit. When Detroit was selected over Los Angeles as the USOC's proposed site for the 1968 Summer Olympics, IOC member John Garland from California declined to support the American bid. Roby noted: "John Garland of California -- I doubt if he will support us.  He was quite hurt that Detroit prevailed over Los Angeles in the competition before the American Olympic Committee for the right to bid for the games.  But I don't think that will hurt us.  On the contrary, the propaganda by people in California against us might help because it has been unsportsmanlike." Mexico City ultimately proceeded to win the right to host the 1968 Games.

Leadership at the 1968 Olympics
During the 1968 Olympics as the president of the USOC, Roby took disciplinary action against members of the U.S Olympic delegation due to their participation in an act of political protest during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The protest involved African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who raised black-gloved fists and bowed their heads while "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played during a medal ceremony. Initially inclined not to take action against Smith and Carlos, Roby faced considerable pressure from the International Olympic Committee and ultimately ordered the two to be removed from the Olympic village and sent home, though he did not strip them of their medals. Roby had called the USOC executive board into session immediately after the protest; they issued a two-page statement apologizing to the IOC and the Mexican hosts for the act, saying no action was planned but hinting that no further demonstrations would be tolerated. Hours later, the USOC was asked to withdraw its statement. Roby explained, "At 6 p.m. I had a call from the IOC to meet with them at 9 p.m.  When I got there, I found the committee was adamant that severe action be taken against the offending athletes.  I told them our committee was undecided.  I asked, 'What if we do nothing?'  They told me quite firmly that if the United States found that it could not control its athletes, then the IOC might be forced to firm action.  I was led to believe that there was a threat of throwing out the entire U.S. team."  Other accounts have confirmed that the USOC refused to ban the two but gave in when the IOC threatened to expel the entire US track team. The USOC went back into session after midnight and ordered the removal of Smith and Carlos. Roby later defended the decision in an interview with The New York Times, saying:
We suppressed the demonstrators because we felt if we let it go it would get progressively worse, it would become a tip-off to others, white as well as black.  We let a lot of things go by—berets, black socks, hands up and down—even though there are specific rules against changes in uniform in the competitor's handbook.  But we felt that would be flyspecking.  But we couldn't let a flagrant demonstration go by.  We considered that we might have a boycott on our hands but we had to take the chance.

At the 1968 Olympics, Roby also condemned  members of the rowing team from Harvard that publicly endorsed the demonstrations. Roby sent a letter to Harvard’s coach criticizing his alleged involvement. Roby wrote:
At one point, I personally was in favor of disqualifying you and your crew for acts grossly unbecoming to members of our Olympic team. I am now glad I did not encourage such a harsh action for I feel that the miserable performance of you and your crew at Mexico City will stand as a permanent record against you and the athletes which you led. As a boy I had great admiration and respect for Harvard and the men it produced. Certainly serious intellectual degeneration has taken place in this once great University if you and several members of your crew are examples of the type of men that are within its walls.

Controversies over China and South Africa
In 1979, Roby voted against the readmission of China to the Olympics, but China prevailed by a vote of 62-17. In 1984, he advocated the readmission of apartheid-era South Africa to the Olympics. Roby resigned from the IOC in 1985 and retired from the USOC in 1986.

Death
Roby died of heart failure at a nursing home in Ann Arbor. He was 94 years old at the time of his death in 1992, making him the oldest living U-M letterman. He was survived by a son, Douglas F. Roby Jr., two daughters, Hermine Roby Klingler, and Ruth Roby Glancy.

See also
 University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor
 1968 Olympics Black Power salute

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Tetsuya Kajiwara may refer to

Tetsuya Kajiwara (drummer), drummer with The Blue Hearts
Tetsuya Kajiwara (Fushigi Yūgi), a character in the manga Fushigi Yūgi


The Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as part of a set of six for Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia in 1789. It is often nicknamed "The Hunt" or "The Trumpet Sonata", for the hornlike opening. The sonata, having a typical performance duration of about 15 minutes, is Mozart's last. It was the only one of the intended set of six.

Date of the sonata

In a letter to a fellow Freemason Michael von Puchberg, dated 12 July 1789, Mozart wrote "meanwhile I am working on six easy piano sonatas for Princess Friederike and six quartets for the King". Hermann Abert believed K. 576 to be one of these sonatas; however, Wolfgang Plath and Wolfgang Rehm stated in the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe that they doubted this, as K. 576 is demanding to play, often considered one of Mozart's hardest sonatas, due to its technically difficult counterpoint passages. Charles Rosen offered a moderate viewpoint, considering that Mozart may have mistakenly believed that these passages were easy (as they are in two parts, one in each hand), even if they are not actually so in practice. The work was published posthumously in 1805.

Movements

As was typical of the time, the work is in three movements, in a standard fast, slow, fast order:

I. Allegro
In D major, the first movement is in sonata form and begins with both hands in unison, followed by some trills and a repeat in E minor. This material is used and varied for the first theme, finally cadencing to the dominant, where the second theme provides a more graceful contrast to the grandness of the first. The development section includes many different keys, but starts in the dominant, using counterpoint and harmonic imbalance and exploration. This gives a feeling of tension, which is then resolved before returning to the recapitulation in the home key. Tension and release was a key aspect of the classical era, as it provided composers with a chance to interrupt cadences and draw out tension in order to create an exciting piece. It also helped to extend melodies as a new theme could be made after the release, as is shown in this movement.

II. Adagio

The middle movement is in the dominant key of A major and includes many scale passages as well as counterpoint. Mozart uses harmonic exploration throughout the sonata such as suspensions and dissonances. There are some chromatic elements in this movement, as is common in many of Mozart's later works. Diminished chords are used to help modulate frequently and a series of keys are cadenced into. These harmonies can also allow more melodic techniques to be used.

III. Allegretto
The last movement has a playful mood and is light in texture, however the articulation is marked carefully and precisely to maintain clarity, as was common of the time. It is in sonata rondo form. The first theme is followed by a number of scale passages and a short series of arpeggios. The same material is used for the rest of the piece, although there are some differences towards the end.

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Parrish Glacier is a glacier on central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.

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Arctic Cordillera


Lakhish Regional Council (, Mo'atza Azorit Lakhish) is a regional council in the Southern District of Israel. It surrounds the ancient city of Lakhish and the modern city of Kiryat Gat. It was founded in 1955. Today it includes 15 moshavim and one village, as listed below.  As of 2008, three new communities are being built in eastern Lakhish, and some old communities are being expanded. Rabbis Shabtai Ben Hayyim and Ya'akov Alkabetz serve as rabbis of the council.

List of villages

The following villages are subject to the council. All are moshavim except Bnei Dekalim, Eliav and Neta.
Ahuzam
Amatzia
Bnei Dekalim
Haruv
Lakhish
Menuha
Nir Hen
Nehora
Neta
Noga
Otzem
Sde David
Sde Moshe
Shahar
Shekef
Tlamim
Yad Natan
Zohar

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The 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.  The primary elections were held on June 10 and the runoff elections were held two weeks later on June 24. The composition of the state delegation before the election was four Republicans and two Democrats.

All seats were considered safe for their incumbent parties except for districts 1 and 2. This was the last time that Democrats won more than one congressional district from South Carolina until 2018.

Overview

District 1

Incumbent Republican Congressman Henry E. Brown, Jr. defeated Democratic candidate Linda Ketner by a surprisingly thin margin to win a fifth term in Congress. Ketner's performance was the strongest performance by a Democrat that Brown had seen in his career and was made all the more surprising by the fact that she was openly lesbian and the 1st district, stretching across the coast of South Carolina, was strongly conservative.

District 2

Incumbent Republican Congressman Joe Wilson defeated Democrat and Iraq War Veteran Rob Miller by the thinnest margin of his electoral career. Miller's performance in this conservative district rooted in eastern and southern South Carolina was surprising, though ultimately was not strong enough to unseat Wilson in his bid for a fifth term.

District 3

Though two of his fellow Republican Congressman faced tougher-than-expected bids for re-election, incumbent Republican Congressman J. Gresham Barrett easily dispatched Democratic nominee Jane Ballard Dyer, a pilot, in this staunchly conservative district based in western South Carolina.

District 4

Incumbent Republican Congressman easily defeated Democratic candidate Paul Corden and Green Party candidate C. Faye Walters in this very conservative district rooted in Upstate South Carolina.

District 5

Long-serving incumbent Democratic Congressman John Spratt has been able to maintain popularity in this conservative district based in northern South Carolina, enabling to repeatedly win re-election despite the national mood. This year proved no different, with Spratt easily winning a fourteenth term over Republican challenger Albert Spencer and Constitution Party candidate Frank Waggoner.

District 6

Incumbent Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn, the House Majority Whip, easily won a ninth term in this very liberal, African-American majority district in central South Carolina. Clyburn won re-election over Republican Nancy Harrelson by the largest margin out of anyone in the South Carolina congressional delegation.

See also
United States House elections, 2008
United States Senate election in South Carolina, 2008

References

External links
South Carolina State Election Commission

U.S. Congress candidates for South Carolina at Project Vote Smart
Campaign contributions for South Carolina congressional races from OpenSecrets
South Carolina U.S. House of Representatives race from 2008 Race Tracker

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Nicopolis ad Nestum () or Nicopolis ad Mestum is a ruined Roman town in the province of Thracia (Thrace) near to the modern village of Garmen on the left bank of the Mesta river, in Garmen Municipality, Bulgaria. Although "ad Nestum" is the more commonly used alternative, "ad Mestum" (which is what appears, in Greek, on the coins of the city) is the correct form of the name during the Roman period.

Nicopolis
The town was one of two fortified towns founded to mark Emperor Trajan’s victory in 105-106 AD over the Dacians. The area had been inhabited for about 14 centuries and attained its peak in late antiquity (4th-6th centuries AD). The original town occupied about 25-30 decаres. The Slavs destroyed Nicopolis in the 6th-7th centuries but it re-emerged as a medieval settlement in the late 10th century.

Excavations have cleared 280 metres of fortress walls, administrative and religious buildings and tumuli. Several archaeological finds have been made, including a votive relief of the Thracian horseman, a statuette of Hermes, an old Christian tumulus, over 95 gold and 22 other coins, glass, bronze and ceramic vessels and a ritual table. Some of these findings can be seen in the historical museum at Gotse Delchev. Close to Nicopolis ad Mestum there are remains of two early Christian basilica (4th century AD), which are believed to be part of the same site. The basilicas have mosaic floors with geometric and natural motifs.

Nicopolis ad Mestum issued coins only once, under Caracalla and Geta, with heads of Caracalla, Geta and (more rarely) their mother Julia Domna on the obverses and mostly fairly standard reverse types of Tyche, Hygieia, Ares, Nemesis, etc. Coins of other rulers (e.g. Commodus) referred to in some catalogs are forgeries or misread coins of other cities. Battered coins of Nicopolis ad Istrum in Lower Moesia, perhaps the most prolific mint in the Roman Balkans in the early third century, are often mistaken for issues of Mestum.

The emission of coins from Nicopolis ad Mestum has been dated to the year 211, more precisely to the period between the death of Septimius Severus in February and the murder of Geta in December, by the German scholar Holger Komnick, author of the only comprehensive study of the coinage of this city (in the series Griechisches Münzwerk of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities).

This German-language publication has been reviewed by Francis Jarman in the March 2004 issue of The Celator. There is a listing of many of the types, with photographs, in Varbanov's  catalog of Roman provincial coins from the Balkans; however, the descriptions are often inaccurate, and Varbanov's estimates of rarity and value should be ignored. All the coins of Nicopolis ad Mestum are rare, and some extremely so. Komnick listed only 237 in his catalog, and Jarman refers to a "grand total of about 300 [known coins]".

In 2020, researchers reassembled and translated a Greek inscription on a fragmented stone stela discovered in the city in 1923. The inscription is a letter from the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla thanking the people of the city for a donation of 700,000 denarii. According to the archaeologists, the emperor treated the bribe as a gift from the people, who wanted to gain the ruler’s favor because they had supported one of his rivals in 193 A.D.

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The Boston Pizza Cup is the Alberta provincial championship for men's curling, run by Curling Alberta. The winner represents Team Alberta at the national men's championship, called the Tim Hortons Brier.  Currently sponsored by restaurant chain Boston Pizza, under former sponsors, the championship was known as the Alberta Kia Cup and the Safeway Select. Prior to obtaining a title sponsor, the tournament was called the Alberta Tankard.

Qualification
In the current format, twelve teams compete in the provincial tournament.  The following teams qualify:

The defending champion(s) automatically qualify(ies) – either or both the previous year's Boston Pizza Cup winner and/or an Albertan-based "Team Canada" that failed to defend a Brier title the previous year can be entered as a "defending champion." If for whatever reason no defending champion enters the tournament (for example, because they qualified automatically for the Brier as the defending national champion) then an additional Alberta Tour team qualifies as described below;
The top Albertan team as determined by the Canadian Team Ranking System qualifies – if this team is entered as the defending provincial champion and/or is the defending national champion (or otherwise does not participate) then the next ranked team qualifies, if that team is also qualified (or does not enter) then the next ranked team qualifies, and so on;
The team(s) with the most Alberta Tour points not already qualified also qualify(ies) – the number of teams that qualify by this method can be one, two or three depending on how many "defending champions" enter;
The remaining eight spots are determined through the "traditional" route, that is, through zone and district playdowns. As of 2020, four teams qualify from the Southern Zone, three from the Northern Zone and one from Peace River Country.

Past champions
Listed below are the provincial champion skips for each year. Alberta did not participate in the 1927 Brier.

Starting in 2015, teams that win the previous year's Brier have been automatically entered into the national championship as "Team Canada." Any such Albertan-based teams do not participate in that year's provincial championship. Such teams have the right to enter as a "defending champion" in the year following any failed defence of their Brier title, although as of 2020 both teams eligible to qualify in this way so far have declined to enter - Simmons' team disbanded after failing to win the 2016 Brier, while Koe qualified for the Olympics after failing to win the 2017 Brier.

Also, starting in 2018, the top two CTRS teams not otherwise qualified play a "Wild Card Game" for an additional main draw Brier entry.

Notes
  Koe assembled a new team following his 2014 Brier win, and won the 2015 Boston Pizza Cup after re-qualifying with his new team. His former team, skipped by Pat Simmons, competed in the 2015 and 2016 Briers as Team Canada.
  Qualified for the Brier as Team Canada.
  Qualified for the Brier as Wild Card.
  Due to World War II, the Brier was not held from 1943 through 1945.
  Since there was neither a Team Canada nor a Wild Card in the 2014 or prior Briers it was not possible for more than one Albertan team to play in those tournaments, therefore this column is left blank for 2014 and all prior years.

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West Pioneer Glacier is a glacier located on the central coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.

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Arctic Cordillera


Bezobrazov () was the name of the Russian noble family, whose members held significant positions within the Russian Empire.

History
The family first appeared in written documents in the 15th century. They had numerous noble untitled branches and the branch of the family that held the title of Count Chernyshev-Bezobrazov.

Notable members
 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bezobrazov (fl. 1914), army officer, aviator, aircraft designer
 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Bezobrazov (1783–1871), governor of St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl and Tambov
 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Bezobrazov (1855–1931), businessman and political adventurer
 Petr Bezobrazov (1845–1906), naval officer
 Vladimir Bezobrazov (1828–1889), economist


William Poul Jens Chievitz (1 January 1889 – 28 February 1965) was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he finished fourth with the Danish team in the team competition.

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1965 deaths
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Gorm W. Decem Jensen (2 January 1886 – 1 January 1968) was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he finished fourth with the Danish team in the team competition.

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1968 deaths
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Olympic gymnasts for Denmark
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Greenwich Park was a railway station opened in 1888 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) in Greenwich, south-east London. The station was originally called Greenwich and the LCDR intended it to rival a nearby station also named  which was owned by the South Eastern Railway (SER) and which had opened over 50 years earlier. The LCDR's station was the terminus of a branch line from .

Despite being in a prime location (on Stockwell Street) the LCDR station failed to attract sufficient passengers, possibly because the rival SER station offered a shorter journey time into central London. In 1899 the LCDR was amalgamated with the SER (as the South Eastern & Chatham Railway), and in 1900 the LCDR station was renamed Greenwich Park to distinguish it from the SER's original Greenwich station.

Due to wartime economy measures, Greenwich Park was closed in 1917. The section of the branch between Nunhead and  was reopened in 1929 by the Southern Railway with a new connecting spur to , providing another route into central London. The section between Lewisham Road and Greenwich Park was officially abandoned in 1929.

After 1929 the station was demolished and the cutting occupied by the trackbed and platforms was infilled. Today the site is occupied by a hotel and its car park. Nothing remains of the railway north-east of the closed Lewisham Road station except for a short section of embankment adjacent to .

Opening

The LCDR's branch line from  terminated initially at  (opened 1871) but in 1881 the company deposited a bill to extend it to Greenwich. The LCDR chairman explained to shareholders: "We should not have spent £450,000 to get to the bottom of Blackheath Hill. The raison d'etre was to get to the heart of Greenwich. Everybody knows what the Greenwich traffic is; it is an astounding traffic." The station opened on 1 October 1888 and was aligned to join the South Eastern Railway (SER) at a junction east of the existing SER Greenwich station.

Description

Greenwich station had three curved platforms and an engine release road. The platforms had awnings covering more or less their whole length. There were an engine siding and inspection pit behind the signal box, which was at the station throat. The station was below street-level in a cutting, as was most of the line from Blackheath Hill. The station building was a generous brick structure with a booking hall, refreshment room and first and second class ladies' rooms leading off it. Stairs led down to the concourse at the head of the platforms.

The stationmaster's house was situated in Burney Street.

Services

In January 1899 there were 43 arrivals and 55 departures on a weekday, 21 on a Sunday. Most terminated at Nunhead but some ran into St. Paul's (now called Blackfriars) or Victoria in central London. By 1913, the station now named Greenwich Park, there were 55 arrivals and 43 departures, 11 on a Sunday. The journey time from Nunhead was nine minutes. Through-trains to St. Paul's took around 30 minutes.

It is likely that most trains were formed of four-wheel carriages headed by a D class 0-4-2T engine. In 1913 a P class 0-6-0T with a bogie coach at each end appeared on the branch, and this ran the last passenger train, on 31 December 1916. Photographs show P class No. 325, D class No. 89 Hecate and coaching set 271 worked the line at some point.

After closure

Greenwich Park station was closed on 1 January 1917. In 1926 the London & Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee accepted Southern Railway's view that the branch line should be closed permanently. The site was cleared possibly just before the branch was severed in 1929 at  and diverted to : a 1928 picture of Blackheath Hill shows rails in situ, heavily overgrown.

The station building survived until the 1960s having been used as a billiard hall and builder's offices. Portions of bridge wall remain in Burney Street and Peyton Place. A short section of embankment survives between Brookmill Road and the South Eastern main line through St Johns station.

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Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist, a contralto, she is best known as one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille with her former husband Daryl Dragon; their signature song is "Love Will Keep Us Together".
Tennille also did musical work independently of Dragon, including solo albums and session work.

Early life
Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and has three younger sisters. Her father Frank owned a furniture store and also served in the Alabama Legislature from 1951 to 1954. He had been a singer with Bob Crosby's Bob-Cats. For five years, her mother, also named Cathryn (née Wright), hosted a daily television show in Montgomery.

Tennille graduated from Sidney Lanier High School and then for two years attended Auburn University in Alabama, where she studied classical piano and sang with a local big band, the Auburn Knights.

In 1959, after her father's furniture store failed, Tennille's family moved from Montgomery to Balboa, California, where she worked first as a file clerk and then as a statistical analyst for North American Rockwell Corporation.

Career

While living in Corona del Mar in Newport Beach, California, during the late 1960s, Tennille was a member of the South Coast Repertory. Ron Thronsen, one of the directors of the repertory, asked Tennille in 1969 to write the music for a new rock musical he was working on called Mother Earth. The musical was a success locally, went on the road to San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1971, and eventually made it to Broadway for a few dates at the Belasco Theatre in October 1972. Although Tennille was no longer associated with the musical by the time it reached Broadway, she was credited as the composer under her married name, Shearer.

In 1971, Tennille met her future husband Daryl Dragon in San Francisco during auditions for Mother Earth. Dragon had previously toured with The Beach Boys and had recorded with them as a studio musician. After Mother Earth ended, Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and introduced Tennille to the band. Tennille played electric piano with the band during their 1972 tour. In 1973, Tennille and Dragon left to form Captain & Tennille and began performing at local clubs. In September 1973, they released their self-financed debut single, "The Way I Want to Touch You", which was a local hit and helped them to get a record contract with A&M Records. The duo recorded a cover version of the Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield song "Love Will Keep Us Together" in 1975 that became a huge success and eventually went on to win the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

In 1974, Tennille sang background vocals on Elton John's Caribou album.

She made a guest appearance on "The Love Boat" Season 2 Episode 5, which aired on 10/20/1978.

In 1979, she sang backing vocals on Pink Floyd's The Wall.

On July 8, 1980, Tennille sang the national anthem at the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Following a December 1979 pilot, from September 1980 to February 1981 Tennille hosted her own syndicated television talk show, The Toni Tennille Show.

From September 1998 to June 1999, Tennille performed as "Victoria Grant/Count Victor Grazinski" in the national tour of the play Victor Victoria.

With her then-husband Daryl Dragon, as Captain & Tennille, she recorded the Christmas song "Saving Up Christmas" included in their DVD box set for 1976-1977's The Captain & Tennille Show; this was followed by a full-length Christmas album titled The Secret of Christmas, released in 2007.

In April 2016, Tennille released her memoir, Toni Tennille: A Memoir, and went on a book tour to promote it later that summer. An audiobook of the memoir was also released on the audiobook service Audible.

Personal life

Tennille married her first husband, former drummer Kenneth Shearer, in June 1962 at the age of 22. They divorced in late 1972. The divorce was civil and they remained on amicable terms.  She then married Daryl Dragon on February 14, 1974. Tennille stated that their accountant told them they would do "a lot better with taxes" if they were married. The couple moved from Reno, Nevada, to Prescott, Arizona, in 2007. They divorced in July 2014.

In 2015, Tennille moved to Florida at the suggestion of her sister Jane. During the promotion of her autobiography on The Today Show in the spring of 2016, Tennille said the reason for their divorce was Dragon's "inability to be affectionate". In her memoir Tennille revealed that despite their success and public image of a solid marriage, she was lonely and isolated. Dragon had been controlling and emotionally distant; throughout their relationship they slept in separate bedrooms. "I can say without exaggeration that he showed no physical affection for me during our very long marriage," she said. She reported that Dragon reacted positively to her memoir and the revelation by saying, "I saw you on The Today Show. I was proud of you."

Despite their divorce, Tennille and Dragon remained friends until his death from kidney failure on January 2, 2019. Dragon stated in a February 2017 interview with People that Tennille had returned to Arizona to assist him following a serious health-related incident he had experienced the previous year.

Discography

Studio albums
 More Than You Know (Mirage, 1984)
 Moonglow (Purebred, 1986)
 All of Me (Gaia, 1987)
 Do It Again (USA Music Group, 1988)
 Never Let Me Go (Bay Cities, 1991)
 Things Are Swingin (Purebred, 1994)
 Tennille Sings Big Band (Honest, 1996)
 Incurably Romantic (Varèse Sarabande, 2001)

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21st-century American women
Singer-songwriters from Alabama


Rancho de la Parita is a small unincorporated community in northwestern Jim Wells County, Texas, United States west of Owl Ranch-Amargosa.  It lies at  (28.0194596, -98.2191730), at an elevation of 351 feet (107 m). Rancho de la Parita appears on the Anna Rose U.S. Geological Survey Map.

References

Unincorporated communities in Jim Wells County, Texas
Unincorporated communities in Texas


The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 (c 20) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It seeks to assist victims of forced marriage, or those threatened with forced marriage, by providing civil remedies. It extends to England and Wales and Northern Ireland – it does not extend to Scotland, as this is a devolved competence.

Forced marriage protection order
The centrepiece of the Act is the forced marriage protection order (FMPO). A person threatened with forced marriage can apply to court for a forced marriage order can contain whatever provisions which the court finds would be appropriate to prevent the forced marriage from taking place, or to protect a victim of forced marriage from its effects, and may include such measures as confiscation of passport or restrictions on contact with the victim. The subject of a forced marriage order can be not just the person to whom the forced marriage will occur, but also any other person who aids, abets or encourages the forced marriage. A marriage can be considered forced not merely on the grounds of threats of physical violence to the victim, but also through threats of physical violence to third parties (e.g. the victim's family), or even self-violence (e.g. marriage procured through threat of suicide.) A person who violates a force marriage order is subject to contempt of court proceedings and may be arrested.

History
It was introduced as a private member's bill into the House of Lords by Lord Lester of Herne Hill on the 16 November 2006. It was passed by the House of Lords on 13 June 2007, passed by the House of Commons on the 17 July 2007, and received royal assent on 26 July 2007. Unusually, although this was a private member's bill, almost the entire contents of the bill was replaced by Government amendments in the Grand Committee, with the support of Lord Lester.

The Act modified practices heretofore governed by the Family Law Act 1996; punishment of FMPO offences is further detailed in Part 10 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

Prior to this the Children Act 1989 section 8 could be used by local authorities to issue a prohibited steps order to prevent parents from taking a child to get forcibly married.

References

External links
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007, as amended from the National Archives
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007, as originally enacted from the National Archives
Explanatory notes to the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 (Commencement No.1) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2779 (C.122))
The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008 (S.I. 2008/446 (C.26))
Forced Marriage Unit
House of Commons Library, Research Paper 07/56, Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Bill (HL), Bill 129 of 2006-07, 28 June 2007
Explanatory Notes to the Bill, prepared by the Ministry of Justice
UK Parliament website, summary of bill progress and links to debates

United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2007
Marriage law in the United Kingdom
Forced marriage


Nl'akapxm Eagle Motorplex was a ¼ mile IHRA-sanctioned dragstrip located near Ashcroft and Cache Creek, British Columbia.

The motorplex was begun in 1980 on the Ashcroft/Cache Creek Aero Club's old airstrip by Les Edmonds, the leader of the Ashcroft Indian Band. Racing began in 1987 and the track has been under NHRA sanctioning throughout until the 2010 season when it became AHRA sanctioned. In 2011, the track has been under IHRA sanctioning. The name of the track, Nl'akapxm, is pronounced IN-clap-cappum; this is the local dialect variant of the native name for the Thompson nation whose territory extends from Cache Creek south to just north of Seattle.

The motorplex won the NHRA Division 6 Track Of The Year Award in 1990, 1991, and 2003.

On April 27 2016, the operators of the Nl'akapxm Eagle Motorplex announced that after more than 28 years in business it was immediately ceasing operations. Reasons included a declining car count and numerous technical and mechanical issues that led to not only expensive repairs but difficulties in finding qualified personnel able to repair the facility.

Track Information
Dragstrip:
 1700' elevation, dry climate
 Roll-down staging area
 330' concrete launch pad
 60' track width
 Uphill shutdown
 Paved Return Roads
 Compulink timing with auto-start
 Wireless public address at 99.3 FM and 530 AM

External links
Official Website

References

Drag racing venues in Canada
NHRA Division 6 drag racing venues
Thompson Country
Nlaka'pamux
1987 establishments in British Columbia
2016 disestablishments in British Columbia
Sports venues completed in 1987


Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bezobrazov was an army officer and aviator of the Imperial Russian Air Force who constructed an experimental fighter aircraft design in 1914.  The type was a single-seat triplane on which the wings had an extreme stagger—the upper wing was well forward of the fuselage while the middle set was centrally located and the bottom set nearly under the tail section.  Initial power plant was a 60 hp Anzani, but this was later upgraded to an 80 hp Gnome-Rhone.  First flight was on 2 October 1914 at the hands of Bezobrazov's assistant, F. E. Moska, and the aircraft was flown later in Sevastopol, but it was never put into production.

References

Aircraft manufacturers of Russia
20th-century Russian inventors
Russian aerospace engineers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing


Graeci may refer to:
the Latin name of the Ancient Greeks
the Modern Latin name of the (modern) Greeks
the tribe of the Graecians, one of the Boeotian tribes which established colonies in southern Italy

See also
Names of the Greeks
Graia
Graecus


is a Japanese drummer who has performed with The Blue Hearts and The 3Peace.

Personal History
Kajiwara was born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from Oita Uenogaoka High School in Oita, Oita Prefecture. He then moved to Tokyo's Suginami ward to study at Takachiho University. During university, he lived in student dormitories and was part of a group of musicians for other universities, including Waseda and Meiji, forming a few different bands as a student.

He first met The Blue Hearts while working at a club. When he heard that the band's original drummer had quit in April 1986, he phoned Hiroto Kōmoto, the band's lead vocalist, and received an audition. During his audition, his loud count of "One, two, three, four!" impressed the band members and was later told by the manager that he was chosen because of that.

After his time with The Blue Hearts, Kajiwara was a member of The 3peace and of the band that played backup to Ai Otsuka, after which he began performing with The Big Hip. Most recently, he has started up a record label and is producing music.

References

The Blue Hearts members
Japanese rock drummers
Punk rock drummers
Japanese punk rock musicians
Musicians from Fukuoka
1963 births
Living people


The NZR RM class Westinghouse railcar was an experimental railcar built by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) in 1914.  Although not the first railcar to operate in New Zealand, it was the first to enter revenue service.

Development

In the early 20th century, NZR sought a means of providing economic services on lines with low traffic, including some suburban routes and to provide a faster alternative to mixed trains on rural lines.  It aimed to develop a light  self-powered vehicle that could operate economically even with low passenger levels.  The MacEwan Pratt petrol railcar of 1912 did not pass its tests and never entered revenue service.  It was dismantled in May 1913; the next experiment with railcar technology did not take place until 1914, when the Westinghouse railcar was developed.  It re-used the classification of RM 1 that had been given to the MacEwan-Pratt railcar.

Technical specifications

RM 1 was the solitary example of its type.  The traction equipment, underframe, and bogies were provided by British Westinghouse and were fitted to a wooden body that had been built by NZR at the Petone Workshops.  The wooden body largely resembled a railway passenger carriage, though the driving compartments fitted at each end had an appearance similar to contemporary trams.  The six-cylinder petrol engine and  generator were housed in a compartment at one end of the railcar, and the current produced was fed to two  electric traction motors, one fitted to each bogie.  This allowed the  long,  railcar to travel at speeds up to , although a contemporary account claimed 40 mph.  In its gas-illuminated passenger compartment, it had provisions for 48 passengers.

Operation

The railcar was placed in service on the steep Wellington - Johnsonville section of what was then the North Island Main Trunk Railway and now known as the Johnsonville Branch. NZR intended that it also haul a passenger carriage, to boost its capacity further.  However, on steep grades, the railcar was wholly incapable of hauling a carriage: not even small carriages such as those of the  long B class variety were within its capabilities.  Even without a carriage attached, the railcar continued to face  frequent breakdowns and other difficulties.  In 1916 it was joined by another experimental vehicle, the Thomas Transmission railcar, and in 1917 it was withdrawn from service.  It lay derelict at the back of the Wellington car yard at the Thorndon station that preceded the present Wellington railway station and was eventually destroyed.

References

Railcars of New Zealand
Rail transport in New Zealand
Petrol railcars


Blue square may refer to:

 Blue SQ, a gambling company originally owned by The Rank Group but sold to Betfair in 2013.
 Piste#Ratings, a rating for ski trails
 Alon Blue Square, an Israeli holding company


Stenen (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of Clayton No. 333 and Census Division No. 9.

History
Stenen incorporated as a village on August 14, 1912.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Stenen had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of Stenen recorded a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

Attractions
The Stone
 Rawhides Bistro & Saloon Inc. http://rawhides.ca

Notable people
Wilson Parasiuk
Peter Beskowiney

See also
 List of communities in Saskatchewan
 Villages of Saskatchewan

Footnotes

External links

Villages in Saskatchewan
Clayton No. 333, Saskatchewan
Division No. 9, Saskatchewan


The 2008 Open 13 was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the Open 13, and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour. It took place at the Palais des Sports in Marseille, France, from 11 February through 17 February 2008.

The field featured World No. 3 and Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic, ATP No. 7 and 2007 Paris Masters semifinalist Richard Gasquet, and ATP No. 8 and Australian Open quarterfinalist Mikhail Youzhny. Among other top players were Doha titlist Andy Murray, Auckland runner-up Juan Carlos Ferrero, Marcos Baghdatis, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Paul-Henri Mathieu.

Finals

Singles

 Andy Murray defeated  Mario Ančić, 6–3, 6–4
 It was Murray's 2nd title of the year, and his 5th overall.

Doubles

 Martin Damm /  Pavel Vízner defeated  Yves Allegro /  Jeff Coetzee, 7–6(7–0), 7–5

References

External links
 Official website
 ITF tournament edition details
 Singles draw
 Doubles draw

Open 13


Rasheed Saleem "Joseph" Malouf (December 20, 1893 – March 5, 1968) was the Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Baalbek, Lebanon. Born in Zabbougha, Lebanon, Malouf was ordained a Melkite priest on July 20, 1925. He was appointed bishop of the Eparchy of Baalbek on October 20, 1937, replacing Malitios Abou-Assaleh. "Joseph" was his priestly name. Malouf was consecrated bishop and installed in his episcopal see on October 26, 1937. He was elevated to archbishop on November 18, 1964. Malouf died in 1968 and was succeeded as archbishop by Elias Zoghby.

References

Melkite Greek Catholic bishops
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
1893 births
1968 deaths
Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholics


Lakhish () is a moshav in the northern Negev in south-central Israel. Located south-east of Kiryat Gat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Lakhish Regional Council. In  it had a population of .

The moshav was named after Lachish, the ancient town of the same name, which is now an archaeological tell, just north of the moshav.

History

Ancient Lachish
Modern Lakhish is located just beneath Tel Lachish, a tell (archaeological mound) that was once the site of an ancient biblical city sharing the same name. This location has seen habitation since the Neolithic, with numerous remnants discovered dating back to the Bronze Age, when the city found mention in various ancient Egyptian texts.

In the Iron Age, Lachish transformed into a fortified city of great significance within the Kingdom of Judah, ranking second only to the capital, Jerusalem. As such, the city was mentioned multiple times in the Hebrew Bible. The city gained international attention due to the unveiling of large reliefs discovered at Sennacherib's palace in Nineveh. These reliefs vividly portray the siege and conquest of Lachish by the Assyrian army. Both historical records and archaeological findings provide insight into the lives of the ancient Jewish inhabitants of Lachish, revealing their involvement in cultivating grapevines as a means of sustenance, a practice that continues in the present day.

Today, Tel Lachish is an Israeli National Park.

The modern moshav
The moshav was founded as a Nahal settlement in 1955 on the land of the depopulated Palestinian village of al-Qubayba.

Economy
The economy of Lakhish is based on the cultivation and sale of grapes. In 2006, the moshav built a large reservoir with a capacity of 1.25 million cubic meters
to irrigate its 6,000 dunams of vineyards.

Notable residents
Yoav Bruck

References

Moshavim
Nahal settlements
Populated places established in 1955
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
1955 establishments in Israel
Tel Lachish


DeWitt Godfrey (born 1960) is an American sculptor, best known for his large abstract constructions of banded steel installed in public sites.  Godfrey was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan; he earned a B.A. in art from Yale University in 1982 and an M.F.A. in sculpture from the Edinburgh College of Art as a Fulbright Scholar in 1996. Godfrey is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Henry Luce Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Japan Foundation, among others.  From 2008 to 2016 he served on the board of the College Art Association and was formerly the director of the Institute for Creative and Performing Arts at Colgate University, where he is a professor in the Department of Art and Art History.  He lives in Central New York and New Orleans.

Godfrey was elected president of the CAA board of directors for a two-year term, beginning May 2014

References

 Atiya, Alexandra N., Godfrey Takes Art to the Streets: Pamplona Sculpture Only the Beginning, Harvard Crimson, February 9, 2006.
 Heuer, Megan, The Incredible Lightness of Steel, ARTnews, July 2005.
 Kimmelman, Michael, Profiles Both Abstract and Real, The New York Times, May 20, 1988.
 Rubin, David S., Selections from the Edward Albee Collection: Farrell Brickhouse, Stephen Buckley, DeWitt Godfrey, David Hacker, Stanislav Kolibal, Chris Martin, Max Miller, Maud Morgan, Vladimír Novák, Jeff Price, Frank Schroder, Kishio Suga, Jonathan Thomas, Vladimir Urban, Tad Wiley, Reading, Pa., Albright College, 1988.

20th-century American sculptors
21st-century American sculptors

Modern sculptors

People from Kalamazoo, Michigan
Yale University alumni
Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
Colgate University faculty
1960 births
Living people


Little Dracula is a British series of children's books and an American animated television series that originally aired on Fox. Little Dracula revolves around a green-skinned child vampire who aspires to be like his father, Big Dracula, yet also enjoys rock 'n roll and surfing. Little Dracula also has a monstrous friend named Werebunny, and his Transylvanian family of strange characters is often threatened by the villainous Garlic Man.

Book series
The Little Dracula book series, originally published by Walker Books and later reissued in the US through Candlewick Press, debuted in 1986. It was penned by writer Martin Waddell and illustrated by Joseph Wright; although, a joke book was written by Alan Durant with illustration by Paul Tempest. The paperback stories, recommended for ages 4–8, rely heavily on Wright's gory yet humorous illustrations. They detail Little Dracula's spooky lifestyle which includes bowling with skulls and drinking a glass of blood before sleeping in his miniature coffin. Other morbid scenes include Mrs. Dracula emptying the brain from a severed head into a frying pan for breakfast and children playing tennis with rackets strung with cat guts. Dubbed "too silly to be truly spooky," the series received praise by Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal particularly for its meticulous illustrations which were also regarded as "not for the squeamish."

While the majority of Little Dracula books were released during the 1980s and early 1990s, some were reissued in the US as recently October 2001. This may have been to capitalize on the brief revitalization of the animated series the prior year.

Animated series

References

External links
 Little Dracula World
 Hayley B's Little Dracula Information Vault
 X-Entertainment's Halloween Countdown! October 27, 2003: Little Dracula Action Figures!
 Little Dracula Fan Page on Facebook

Series of children's books
British picture books
Black comedy books
Dracula in written fiction
1986 children's books
1992 in comics
Harvey Comics titles
Bandai brands
Bandai Namco franchises
Action figures
1990s toys
Parallel literature
Walker Books books
Children's books about vampires


Gilles Simon was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Paul-Henri Mathieu.

Fourth-seeded Andy Murray won in the final 6–3, 6–4, against unseeded Mario Ančić.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

External links
 Main draw
 Qualifying draw

Singles


The Woolsey Finnell Bridge is a four-lane, girder bridge spanning the Black Warrior River along U.S. Route 82 (McFarland Boulevard) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that opened in 1961. The bridge takes its name from the former state director of highways for Alabama, Woolsey Finnell.  This is one of only four vehicular bridges spanning the Black Warrior in Tuscaloosa.

Due to both the age of the structure as well as the bridge operating well above its designed capacity by the 1990s, calls for a new span across the river to alleviate some of the congestion were proposed. Both the Warrior Loop and the Paul Bryant Bridge are expected to absorb some of the 55,000 daily trips made across the bridge upon their respective completions.

See also
 List of crossings of the Black Warrior River

References

Bridges completed in 1961
Transportation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Woolsey Finnell Bridge
Buildings and structures in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Road bridges in Alabama
U.S. Route 82
Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System
Girder bridges in the United States
Transportation buildings and structures in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
1961 establishments in Alabama


Eli Young Band is an American country music band composed of members who met while students at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas: Mike Eli (lead vocals, guitar), James Young (guitar), Jon Jones (bass guitar), and Chris Thompson (drums). They released their self-titled debut album in 2002, followed by the Carnival records release Level in 2005. Their third album, Jet Black & Jealous, was released in 2008 by Universal South Records. A second major-label album, Life at Best, was released in 2011 by Republic Nashville, with 10,000 Towns following in early 2014. The band has charted eight times on the Billboard country charts, with four of their singles having reached No. 1: "Crazy Girl", which was the top country song of 2011 according to Billboard Year-End, along with "Even If It Breaks Your Heart", "Drunk Last Night", and "Love Ain't".

Biography
Mike Eli and James Young met at the University of North Texas where they became dorm roommates their freshman year. They played guitar and eventually began writing and singing songs together; they formed the acoustic duo, Eli & Young, while attending the University of North Texas and played locally at Rockin Rodeo before they got their big start. Chris Thompson and Jon Jones joined them later on and they became the Eli Young Band.

They released Level on Carnival Records on April 5, 2005, and opened shows for Miranda Lambert. Level is their last Texas country album before becoming a Nashville act. Many of these songs can still be heard in their live shows today, such as "Small Town Kid" and "Everything Is You".

Jet Black & Jealous
While touring, they were also making songwriting a top priority and made time for writing trips and retreats at the Young family ranch.  Energized with new songs, they were ready to begin working on a new album in late 2007. Working with producers Frank Liddell and Mike Wrucke (who have also produced for Lambert), they took time off from touring to record at Omni Studios in Nashville. Their third album, Jet Black & Jealous, was released in 2008. Its lead-off single, "When It Rains", spent 37 weeks on the country charts and peaked at No. 34. A second chart single, "Always the Love Songs" (co-written by David Lee Murphy and George Ducas), peaked at number 11 on Billboard. After it came "Radio Waves" and "Guinevere".

Life at Best
In 2011, the Eli Young Band moved to Republic Nashville and released their fifth overall single, "Crazy Girl" as the lead single off Life at Best. It became the band's first platinum-selling digital single, as well as their first No. 1 single, and also was the number 1 song on that year's Billboard Year-End charts.

The band received three nominations for the 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards: Song of the Year, Top Vocal Group of the Year, and Single Record of the Year. On April 1, 2012, the band won the Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year.

In January 2012, the band released its second single from the album, "Even If It Breaks Your Heart", which was originally recorded by co-writer Will Hoge. Their version of the song reached the No. 1 spot as well. "Even It If Breaks Your Heart" is certified platinum by the RIAA. In the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, the band was nominated for Best Duo/Group Performance for "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" and "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" was nominated for Best Country Song. The band is nominated in the 48th ACM Awards for Vocal Group of the Year and "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" is nominated for Single Record of the Year and Song of the Year. "Say Goodnight" was the third and final single, peaking at number 22.

10,000 Towns
"Drunk Last Night", the first single from Eli Young Band's fifth studio album, 10,000 Towns, was released to country radio on July 1, 2013. On August 16, 2013, the band announced they would be headlining a "Drunk Last Night" Fall/Winter Tour. On September 10, 2013, they were nominated for Vocal Group of the Year in the CMA Awards. "Drunk Last Night" hit number 1 on the Country Airplay chart in December 2013. On January 7, 2014, Eli Young Band announced the release date, the album cover, and the track listing for 10,000 Towns, which was released on March 4, 2014. The album debuted #1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums Chart. The album's second single, "Dust", was released to country radio on February 3, 2014. On April 2, 2014, Eli Young Band performed "Dust" on CONAN. The band was also nominated for Vocal Group of the Year in the 2014 Academy of Country Music Awards.

Also in late 2013-early 2014, Mike Eli sang guest vocals on The Cadillac Three's debut single "The South", along with Dierks Bentley and Florida Georgia Line.

Turn It On EP
"Turn It On", the first single from Eli Young Band's Turn It On EP, was released to country radio on March 9, 2015. "Turn It On" was the most added song at radio on that date. The Turn It On EP was released on March 10, 2015, via Apple Music and other digital outlets. The official music video for "Turn It On" premiered on VEVO on Monday, May 4.

Honey, I'm Good
"Honey, I'm Good", a duet with pop artist Andy Grammer, was released to country radio on Tuesday, July 14, 2015, as well as being made available via Apple Music and other digital outlets.

Winter Tour 2015/2016
Eli Young Band announced their Winter Tour 2015/2016 on Monday, September 21, 2015, which includes concerts in Philadelphia, Orlando, Las Vegas, and Washington D.C. Tickets and VIP packages for the 14 tour dates went on sale on Friday, September 25, 2015.

Fingerprints
The album's first single, "Saltwater Gospel" released to country radio in mid-2016. A full album, Fingerprints, followed on June 16, 2017.

This Is Eli Young Band: Greatest Hits
After a nearly three-year chart hiatus, the band announced a greatest hits package, This Is Eli Young Band: Greatest Hits in 2019. The album's lead single is "Love Ain't".

Discography

 Level (2005)
 Jet Black & Jealous (2008)
 Life at Best (2011)
 10,000 Towns (2014)
 Fingerprints (2017)
Love Talking (2022)

References

External links
Official website

Musical groups established in 2000
Country music groups from Texas
Show Dog-Universal Music artists
Republic Records artists
Musical groups from Denton, Texas
Big Machine Records artists


The Agassiz Ice Cap formerly Agassiz Glacier is an ice cap on the central eastern side of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. The Agassiz ice cap is about  in area.  It is located between the North Ellesmere ice field to the north and the Prince of Wales Icefield to the south.

Environmental studies
Several studies have been conducted which involve the analysis of ice cores extracted from the Agassiz Ice cap. Many of these studies are focused around climate change.

References

Bodies of ice of Qikiqtaaluk Region
Ellesmere Island
Arctic Cordillera
Ice caps of Canada


Battle of the Bands is a video game published by THQ and developed by Planet Moon Studios for the Wii console. It is a rhythm game.

The game features 30 licensed songs with 5 cover versions done in completely different styles. The five main genres of music are Rock/Metal, Funk/Hip-Hop, Country Western, Latin, and Marching Band. There are also three tracks performed with an orchestra, making a total of 153 tracks.

Gameplay
The game features two of the eleven bands in the game playing the song head-to-head against one another. Notes will roll up from the bottom of the screen (as opposed to from the top like similar games) and the player must move the remote in sync like a conducting baton. The game also features various power-ups including electrifying the other player's board, shrinking notes, replace notes as landmines, or flipping the notes around and can be activated if played a certain amount of notes in a chain while one of the members attack the enemy band with their instruments formed as guns. However, certain instances allow the other player to block the effects from taking place with synced button presses. The music of the player playing the best will have their music playing dominantly, with the others being less audible. When there is a face off verse, one band attacks while the opposing band defend and vice versa. At the end of the song, the band with the most points will destroy the losing band, then do their winning animation.

Soundtrack

The game features cover versions of thirty licensed songs, each presented in five different musical styles. The songs include:

Gorillaz - "Feel Good Inc."
Tag Team - "Whoomp! (There It Is)"
Tenacious D - "Master Exploder"
The Ramones - "Blitzkrieg Bop"
The Commodores - "Brick House"
KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)"
Texas Tornados - "Adios Mexico"
The Black Eyed Peas - "Dum Diddly"
Cypress Hill - "Insane in the Brain"
Kool & the Gang - "Jungle Boogie"
LL Cool J - "Mama Said Knock You Out"
The Fixx - "One Thing Leads to Another"
Soundgarden - "Spoonman"
Def Leppard - "Photograph"
The Soggy Bottom Boys - "Man of Constant Sorrow"
B-Real - "Fistful of Dollars"
Ram Jam - "Black Betty"
Korn - "Coming Undone"
Electric Six - "Danger! High Voltage"
Rick James - "Give It To Me Baby"
Wet Willie - "Dixie Rock"
Keane - "Is It Any Wonder?"
AFI - "Miss Murder"
 TV on the Radio - "Wolf Like Me"
 Texas Tornados - "Una Mas Cerveza"
 The Georgia Satellites - "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"
 Audioslave - "Original Fire"
 Texas Tornados - "Hey Baby Que Paso"
 Latin Soul Syndicate - "Shake It"
 Ziroq - "Tierra del Sur"

Reception

Battle of the Bands received "mixed" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

References

External links

2008 video games
Band-playing video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Planet Moon Studios games
THQ games
Video games developed in the United States
Wii games
Wii-only games


In the mathematical discipline of set theory, ramified forcing is the original form of forcing introduced by   to prove the independence of the continuum hypothesis from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Ramified forcing starts with a model  of set theory in which the axiom of constructibility, , holds, and then builds up a larger model  of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory by adding a generic subset  of a partially ordered set to , imitating Kurt Gödel's constructible hierarchy.

Dana Scott and Robert Solovay realized that the use of constructible sets was an unnecessary complication, and could be replaced by a simpler construction similar to John von Neumann's construction of the universe as a union of sets  for ordinals . Their simplification was originally called "unramified forcing" , but is now usually just called "forcing". As a result, ramified forcing is only rarely used.

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Forcing (mathematics)


The Fiend or The Vampire (Russian: Упырь Upyr) is a Russian fairy tale, collected by Alexander Afanasyev as his number 363. The tale was translated and published by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston.

Plot synopsis
A young woman named Marusia goes to a feast where she meets a kind, handsome and apparently wealthy man. They fall in love with each other and Marusia agrees to marry him. She also consents to her mother's directive that she follow the boy to discover where he lives and more about him. She follows him to the church where she sees him eating a corpse. Later the fiend asks her if she saw him at the church. When Marusia denies having followed him, he tells her that her father will die the next day. Thereafter, he continually poses the question and with each denial he causes another of her family members to die. Finally he tells her that she herself will die. At this point Marusia asks her grandmother what to do. Her grandmother explains a way by which Marusia can come back to life after she dies (a condition of which is that she cannot enter a church afterwards). On coming back to life she meets a good man whom she marries, however he does not like the fact that she will not go to church and eventually forces her to do so. Thus the Fiend discovers that she is alive and kills her husband and her son, but with the help of her grandmother, the water of life, and holy water she brings them back and kills the fiend.

Analysis

Tale type
The tale is classified in the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 363, "The Vampire" or "The Corpse-Eater", while in the East Slavic Folktale Classification () it is indexed as type SUS 363, . These stories are about a girl who marries a mysterious man. During their way home, they stop by a church and the man enters it. Worried about his long absence, the woman follows him and sees him devouring a corpse.

The original name of the tale, Упырь, is the word for "vampire" in Slavic languages.

Variants
Scholarship states that the tale type appears in Europe and Turkey. In Turkish variants, the heroine triumphs in the end over the dervish, while in Europe the fate of the heroine may differ between regions (a Scandinavian and Baltic version, a West Slavic and Ukrainian one).

References

External links
The original text, in Russian in Wikisource
 Project Gutenberg Russian Fairy Tales by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden, 1828-1889.
 Russian Fairy Tale Stories, Zeluna.net.

Russian fairy tales
ATU 300-399


The Trouble with Cali is an American drama film directed by Paul Sorvino and written by his daughter Amanda Sorvino. It stars Laurence Leboeuf, Glynnis O'Connor, Raviv Ullman and RZA.

The film will not be released in theaters as a distribution deal was not able to be successfully negotiated spurring contention with Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, residents as $500,000 in tax payer funds was used to finance the film. Subsequently, the Scranton Cultural Center hosted a free premiere of the film on July 9, 2015, with additional showings on July 10, 2015 and July 11, 2015.

Plot

Cast
 Laurence Leboeuf as Cali Bluejones
 Paul Sorvino as Ivan Bluejones
 Glynnis O'Connor as Avie Bluejones
 Chris Meyer as Vail Bosenthall
 Joanne Baron as Zelda Hirschorn
 Frank Adonis as Uncle Vito
 Annie Golden as Mrs. Katie Saperstein
 Mira Sorvino as The Ballet Master
 Raviv Ullman as Lois
 Peyton List as Young Cali Bluejones
 RZA as himself
 Bill Sorvino as Jimmy Lamberchin
 Michael Sorvino as Young Guido

References

External links

2012 films
2012 drama films
American drama films
2010s English-language films
2010s American films
English-language drama films


Nemo Agodi (10 January 1888 – 20 January 1940) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he finished sixth with the Italian team in the team competition.

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1888 births
1940 deaths
Italian male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Italy
Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics


Tito Collevati (born February 4, 1891, date of death unknown) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he finished sixth with the Italian team in the team competition.

References

External links

1891 births
Year of death missing
Italian male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Italy
Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics


Stanislao Di Chiara (December 24, 1891 – September 10, 1973) was an Italian gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born in Montegranaro, Ferrara. In 1908 he finished sixth with the Italian team in the team competition.

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External links

1891 births
1973 deaths
Italian male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts for Italy
Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics


The Potomac primary (named after the river that splits the region),  also called Chesapeake Tuesday, the Beltway primary, and the Crabcake primary, is the confluence of three Democratic presidential primaries and three Republican presidential primaries that takes place after Super Tuesday in the states of Maryland and Virginia as well as in the District of Columbia.

2008

Republican primaries
2008 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary
2008 Maryland Republican presidential primary
2008 Virginia Republican presidential primary

Democratic primaries
2008 District of Columbia Democratic presidential primary
2008 Maryland Democratic presidential primary
2008 Virginia Democratic presidential primary

Results
The results on both sides were fairly unsurprising according to opinion polling, with both John McCain and Barack Obama winning by substantial margins. For Obama, however, the race had been significant as a major source of delegates in the close Democratic race, with him garnering a net gain of 50 delegates.

2012

Republican primaries
2012 District of Columbia Republican presidential primary
2012 United States presidential election in Maryland

Democratic primaries
President Barack Obama ran unopposed.

Results

2016
In the 2016 election, on both the Republican and Democratic sides, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia held their primaries on three separate days. Virginia's 2016 primaries were part of Super Tuesday, while Maryland's took place on April 26. The Democrats of the District of Columbia held their primary on June 14, while the District's Republicans instead opted for a caucus, which took place on March 12.

References

External links
Reuters FACTBOX-The Feb. 12 "Potomac Primary" presidential contest

United States presidential primaries
Washington, D.C., presidential primaries
Maryland presidential primaries
Virginia presidential primaries


Rocky Balboa is a 2007 video game based on the movie of the same name for the PlayStation Portable, which is similar in style and content to Rocky Legends. The game includes footage from each Rocky film, showing the buildup to the major fights of the film series. There are also some flashback videos of the training footage from the films (this is used in the Mickey's Corner section of the game, which is a tutorial aimed to teach new players how to play). It is also the last video game released by MGM Interactive before the company became defunct in late 2007.

Gameplay
The game contains a variety of different modes. Historical Fights is the main game mode, which pits Rocky against all of his various opponents throughout the franchise, from Spider Rico (Rocky) to Mason Dixon (Rocky Balboa). Once Rocky has beaten all of his opponents, the story mode then flips so that the first fight becomes "Spider Rico VS Rocky" and the last fight becomes "Mason Dixon VS Rocky Balboa".

There are 27 different boxer selections possible. There are separate versions of Rocky which vary in age, weight (depending on the film) and clothes (black/gold, white/red variations). There are alternative versions of Apollo Creed and Tommy Gunn has two different selectable outfits. The player can choose from 18 different arenas to fight in, including many of the film franchise's major boxing arenas, such as the Philadelphia arena and Las Vegas.

Fast Lane is designed for quick-play, where a player picks a challenge and then tries to complete it by knocking out the other fighter in the time available. The different time limits are; 1 minute, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 5 minutes and 10 minutes. Each section has 18 matches, making for a total of 90 matches. At the start of the game, only 10% of these are available. Each extra match is unlocked in sequential order, so completing "Facing Clubber 1" will unlock "Facing Clubber 2". This game supports local ad hoc multiplayer and has an auto-save feature.

Unlike a number of previous Rocky games, the player cannot participate in any interactive training sessions to build up their character's power.

Reception

Critical response

The game was met with a mixed reception, as GameRankings gave it a score of 57.75%, while Metacritic gave it 58 out of 100.

References

External links

2007 video games
MGM Interactive games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
Balboa
Ubisoft games
Video games developed in Canada
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games set in the Soviet Union


Maurice Lesemann (28 November 1899 – 2 October 1981) was a United States poet.

Lesemann was born in Chicago, the son of a Methodist clergyman.  He studied at the University of Chicago where he served as president of the Poetry Club, several of whose members — including Lesemann — were published in early numbers of the magazine Poetry. Before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, he travelled to New Mexico to visit Yvor Winters and Glenway Wescott, and spent some time in teaching in the town of Cerrillos. After graduating he went into advertising. He married in 1926.

Prizes
 1920: Poetry Chicago's Young Poet's Prize
 Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
 1927: Levinson Prize

1899 births
1981 deaths
American male poets
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
University of Chicago alumni


A flask is a type of tooling used to contain a mold in metal casting.  A flask has only sides, and no top or bottom, and forms a frame around the mold, which is typically made of molding sand.  The shape of a flask may be square, rectangular, round or any convenient shape.  A flask can have any size so long as it is larger than the pattern being used to make the sand mold.  Flasks are commonly made of steel, aluminum or even wood. A simple flask has two parts: the cope and the drag. More elaborate flasks may have three or even four parts.

Flask design
Flasks are often designed with bars that extend to span two opposite sides.  The bars act as reinforcement to the molding sand, which is relatively weak in tensile strength.  The bars help support the sand through the molding and pouring operation.

Flasks are designed with an alignment or registration feature, so that the two flasks can be aligned to one another to ensure a casting can be more dimensionally accurate and also in small flasks, so that they cannot be fitted together the wrong way.

Flasks usually have handles or trunnions designed into their construction, which assist in handling the flasks with cranes or other lifting machinery.

Some flasks are used to form a mold and are removed before pouring the casting, so another mold can be made.  Other flasks are designed to contain the mold through the pouring operation, and then the casting is shaken out of the mold.  The flasks are then used again and again.

Flasks are usually (though not always) the property of the foundry making the casting.  The number of available flasks of a given size can be a limiting factor in the overall production rate.

References
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Casting (manufacturing)


St. Gregor (2016 population: ) is a village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan within the Rural Municipality of St. Peter No. 369 and Census Division No. 15. It is approximately 20 km west of the Town of Watson on Highway 5.

History
St. Gregor incorporated as a village on March 26, 1920.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St. Gregor had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

In the 2016 Census of Population, the Village of St. Gregor recorded a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a  change from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

See also
 List of communities in Saskatchewan
 Villages of Saskatchewan

References

External links
Municipal Directory Saskatchewan - Village of St. Gregor
Saskatchewan City & Town Maps
Saskatchewan Gen Web - One Room School Project
Post Offices and Postmasters - ArchiviaNet - Library and Archives Canada
Saskatchewan Gen Web Region
Online Historical Map Digitization Project
GeoNames Query
2001 Community Profiles

Villages in Saskatchewan
St. Peter No. 369, Saskatchewan
Division No. 15, Saskatchewan


Vitino () is an oil port on the White Sea in Russia. It is located near Beloye More railway station, 28 kilometers by road south of Kandalaksha, Murmansk Oblast, on the western shore of Kandalaksha Gulf.

The port started operations in 1995, and since 2001 has been operating year-round. Its principal activity is transfer of oil and oil products arriving by rail from Russia's oil refineries to seagoing oil tankers for export.

In 2004, 3.7 million tons of oil and oil products were handled by the port. Its full capacity at the time was 8 million tons a year.

The port can handle seagoing tankers with displacement up to 40,000 and with the dimensions up to:
 Length: 230 m,
 Beam – 32 m,
 Draft – 10.9 m.
There are also two piers for handling smaller sea-and-river going boats.

References

External links
 Port of Vitino

Buildings and structures in Murmansk Oblast
White Sea
Vitino


The Puff model is a volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It requires windfield data on a geographic grid covering the area over which ash may be dispersed. Representative ash particles are initiated at the volcano's location and then allowed to advect, diffuse, and settle within the atmosphere. The location of the particles at any time after the eruption can be viewed using the post-processing software included with the model. Output data is in netCDF format and can also be viewed with a variety of software.

History

Puff was initially conceived and developed by Prof. H. Tanaka as a novel method for simulating ash cloud trajectories during the eruption of Mt. Redoubt, 1989. Dr. Craig Searcy rewrote and modified the Puff code in C++, and created the initial GUI so the program could be used operationally for volcano monitoring in the early and mid-1990s. His version of the program is running at the National Weather Service (NWS), Anchorage, Alaska, although updated versions of Puff are also available at the NWS.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) provided support for Puff through a post doctorate position (Drs. Mark Servilla and Jon Dehn) during the late 1990s to support analysis of volcanic clouds during eruptions.

In a joint program called University Partnering for Operational Support (UPOS) between the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (early 2000s), Puff was integrated into the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) volcano monitoring system by Rorik Peterson and David Tillman. UPOS support resulted in the testing of the sensitivity of Puff and the development of WebPuff, and new modules including the capability to model stratospheric eruptions, non-point source events (e.g. fires) and tracking of volcanic clouds from multiple eruptions simultaneously by Dr. Rorik Peterson. The utility of the multiple eruption capability became evident during the 13 January 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano where the movement of six volcanic clouds across the Gulf of Alaska were tracked simultaneously.

Starting in 2006, the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) provided support for Puff through a Post Doctorate position occupied by Dr. Peter Webley. Puff is now in use at AVO, Anchorage Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC), AFWA, and other national agencies worldwide as well as at other universities. Professor Ken Dean has been the principal scientist leading the development of Puff since Professor Tanaka returned to Japan in the early 1990s.

See also

List of atmospheric dispersion models

References

Casadevall, T. J. (1994). The 1989/1990 eruption of Redoubt Volcano Alaska: impacts on aircraft operations. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 62 (30). pp. 301–316.
Keith, T. E. C., (ed.), 1995. The 1992 eruptions of Crater Peak Vent, Mount Spurr volcano, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin. 2139 p. 220
Miller, T. P., and Chouet, B. A., 1994, The 1989-1990 eruptions of Redoubt volcano: an introduction in: Miller, T. P. and Chouet, B. A., (eds.), The 1989-1990 eruptions of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska, Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.  (1), p. 10.
Searcy, C., Dean, K. and Stringer, W. (1998). PUFF: A high-resolution volcanic ash tracking model. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 80. p. 1-16.

External links
Puff website
Anchorage Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC)
Washington VAAC

Atmospheric dispersion modeling


The Benjamin West Birthplace, also known as Benjamin West House, is a historic home located on the campus of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.  It was the birthplace of artist Benjamin West (1738-1820), who was an influential mentor to a generation of American painters, including Gilbert Stuart and Charles Willson Peale.  His birthplace was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.  It presently houses the dispatch and offices for the college's campus police, along with a visitor information center.

Description and history
The Benjamin West Birthplace stands on the east side of the Swarthmore campus, just west of North Chester Road off Visitor Center Road.  It is a -story stone structure, with a gabled roof pierced by two gabled dormers on each side.  The main facade is five bays wide, with a centered entrance sheltered by a gabled portico.  The interior does not have any original 18th-century features, the building having been gutted by fire in 1874.  At that time its interior was rebuilt, and an ell added to the rear.

The house was reportedly built about 1724, when the area was still part of Springfield Township.  Benjamin West was born in this house in 1738 into a Quaker family, but was himself an Anglican for most of his life.  He was one of the first American-born artists to be trained in Italy, and settled in England in 1763, where he embarked on a successful career as a painter, working primarily on commission to King George III.  He is important in the history of American art for his role in supporting the early careers of a number of Americans who achieved great success, including Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, Rembrandt Peale, and Charles Willson Peale, all of whom he supported both financially and logistically in their development.

See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

References

External links

"Birthplace of Benjamin West, Artist, 1845" at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Birthplaces of individual people
Houses completed in 1724
Houses in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Swarthmore College


Dana Turner Coons Thiele (born September 27, 1978 in Fairfax County, Virginia) is an American long distance runner.  She is a two-time qualifier for the US Olympic Trials (10,000m in 2004, marathon in 2008), and in 2007 was ranked 16th in the country for the marathon with a time of 2:38:18.  In the 2008 Olympic Marathon trials in Boston, Coons finished 30th in a time of 2:41:31.  Her twin brother, Jason Turner Coons, played club lacrosse at James Madison University.

Running career

High school
Coons attended James Madison High School, where she graduated in 1997. While running during high school she was a two-time district champion in the 1,600 meters (as a sophomore and as a junior) as well as district champion in cross country and on the track in the 3,200 meters as a junior.

Collegiate
Coons went to college at the University of Virginia, where she was a fine arts major.  During her fourth and final year, she won the ACC title at 10,000m, and was an NCAA qualifier at that distance.  Upon graduating from UVA, Coons spent two years in Charlottesville, VA as an assistant coach at UVA, and during that time she lowered her 10,000m personal best to 33:07 (Cardinal Invitational, 2003).

Post-collegiate
In September 2003, Coons moved to Minneapolis, MN to train with Team USA Minnesota, where she trained under coach Dennis Barker with Carrie Tollefson, Katie McGregor, and other elite athletes.  It was during this time that she moved up to the marathon - she debuted in the Twin Cities Marathon, running 2:46:54 in October, 2005.  After spending two years with Team USA Minnesota, she then moved back to Charlottesville. One year later, she lowered her personal best to 2:38:18, at the 2006 Chicago Marathon. She helped found, and coaches for Ragged Mountain Racing, a post-collegiate training team based in Charlottesville, Virginia and modeled after Team USA Minnesota.

Personal life
Coons was married to Dr. Robert Thiele on June 7, 2008 in Madison County, Virginia.  Thiele is a former runner at the University of Virginia.  Thiele is also a former neurosurgery resident who recently switched into anesthesiology.  The couple resides in Charlottesville, VA.

References

1978 births
American female long-distance runners
Living people
Virginia Cavaliers women's track and field athletes
21st-century American women


Sir Gooroodas Banerjee (also Gurudas Bandyopadhyay, ; 26 January 1844 – 2 December 1918) was a Bengali Indian judge of the Calcutta High Court. In 1890, he also became the first Indian Vice-Chancellor of University of Calcutta.

Education

He received his early education at the Oriental Seminary, and the Hare School at the Presidency College in Kolkata. the General Assembly's Institution (now Scottish Church College), the University of Calcutta. He obtained an M.A. with a focus on Mathematics in 1865, winning a University medal for attaining first place in his examinations, and passed the B.L. examination in 1866. in 1877, he obtained a Doctorate in Law.

Career
Banerjee briefly taught as an Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics, before joining the General Assembly's Institution, now known as the Scottish Church College, as a Professor of Mathematics.

Banerjee began his legal practice in Berhampore, simultaneously teaching law and mathematics on a part-time basis at Berhmapore College. In 1872, he moved his legal practice to Kolkata, representing clients such as the erstwhile Nawab of Murshidabad at the Calcutta High Court. In 1878, he was appointed to the Tagore Professorship of Law, and delivered the Tagore Law Lectures in the same year, on 'The Hindu Laws of Marriage and Stridhan'. The Tagore Law Lectures were later published as a legal text on Hindu marriage laws.

In 1888, Banerjee was appointed as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, retiring in 1904 from the Bench. In addition to serving as a judge, he was the first Indian to be appointed as the vice-chancellor of the University of Calcutta, serving in that capacity from 1 January 1890 to 31 December 1892.  He was knighted by the British government on 22 July 1904. He was also the President of the Board of Mathematics and Sanskrit during this time.

He also became one of the teachers of Bengal National College of which the great freedom fighter, Aurobindo Ghosh, was the principal. He made notable contributions to the spread of education by making sure that Narkeldanga High School got raised to secondary standard.

Legacy

There is a prestigious post in the Department of English of the University of Calcutta named after Sir Gooroodas Banerjee. The professor who holds this post comes to be known as Sir Gooroodas Banerjee Professor. There are two undergraduate colleges in Kolkata that commemorate his name, the Gurudas College and the Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya. In memoirs of him, Sir Gurudas Banerjee Halt railway station was established in sub urban railway of Kolkata.

Banerjee was quite well known for his devotion to his mother who was very orthodox in her ways of life. Every day, he would bring the sacred Ganges water for her mother. She, on her deathbed, ordered her son Sir Gurudas to invite Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar to her obsequies. Vidyasagar had by this time become an object of attack by the orthodox Brahmins owing to his introduction of widow remarriage. Defying all social obstacles, Sir Gurudas invited Vidyasagar to her mother's funeral to fulfill her last wish.

References

External links
Sri Chinmoy Library
rediff Q and A
reference in Henry Scholberg's Encyclopedias of India
Sir Gurudas Bandyopadhyay's great contribution to the development of Narkeldanga High School

Judges of the Calcutta High Court
Oriental Seminary alumni
Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
Scottish Church College alumni
University of Calcutta alumni
Academic staff of Scottish Church College
Academic staff of the University of Calcutta
Vice Chancellors of the University of Calcutta
Knights Bachelor
Indian Knights Bachelor
1844 births
1918 deaths
19th-century Indian judges
20th-century Indian judges
19th-century Indian educational theorists
Scholars from West Bengal


Incheon Bus Terminal, not far from Incheon City Hall, is the busiest bus station in Incheon, South Korea and the main gateway for intranational buses connecting Incheon city. It is operated by Incheon Transit Corporation which was founded by the city government.

The terminal serves national routes operated by companies such as , as well as local and intercity buses.

The eponymous subway station of Incheon Subway line 1 (Incheon Bus Terminal Station) and a Lotte department store are located by the terminal. The area in front of the terminal is one of the most congested in Incheon.

Bus stations in South Korea
Buildings and structures in Incheon


Kathleen Foster Campbell was an Irish-born American poet. She was an early member of the University of Chicago Poetry Club.

Life
Kathleen Foster was born in Larne, Ireland, and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She attended the University of Chicago to study poetry. Through the newly formed Poetry Club, Campbell became a close friend of Janet Lewis, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Gladys Campbell.  She married Gladys' brother, Donald Campbell, an attorney. The couple lived in Chicago until Donald Campbell's retirement, when they moved to Carmel, California.

Published work
 1940: Poetry: 'Not Fragments', 'Wake'
 1941: Poetry: Reviews 'The Gap of Brightness' by F. R. Higgins and New Zealand Poems by Eileen Duggan, Androscoggin by Marsden Hartley, Angle of Earth and Sky by David Morton, 'Two Islands', 'Time and Low Tide'
 1949: Poetry: 'Old Letters'.

Footnotes

External links
 Kathleen Foster Campbell Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

20th-century American poets
American women poets
Irish emigrants to the United States
University of Chicago alumni
20th-century American women writers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing


John William Ryan (August 12, 1929 – August 6, 2011) was an American academic administrator who most notably served as the President of Indiana University for sixteen years.

Early life and career

Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois and earned a B.A. from the University of Utah in 1951, where he was a 1950 initiate of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He earned master's and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University in 1958 and 1959, respectively.  While in graduate school, Ryan served in two professional roles:  first as a research analyst in the Kentucky Department of Revenue, then in establishing the graduate public administration program at Thammasat University.  After graduating, he taught political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1962, he became executive assistant to the president of the University of Massachusetts Amherst before moving to Arizona State University at Tempe to assume the vice presidency for academic affairs.  He returned East to serve as the first chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1965 to 1968.

Indiana University
In July 1968, Ryan returned to Indiana University to become vice president for regional campuses and became its fourteenth president on January 26, 1971. His 16 years of service to the university saw the establishment of two new IU campuses in New Albany (Indiana University Southeast) and in Richmond  (Indiana University East), the formation of various cultural centers on the Bloomington campus, and the creation of the School of Journalism, the School of Continuing Studies, the School of Optometry, and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
Ryan served as chairman of the NCAA Presidents Commission in the mid-1980s during the battle for control of college sports.

Ryan retired in 1987 and was immediately appointed president emeritus of Indiana University. He remained an active figure within the university, both as a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and as a member of several boards and committees.

In one of his first official acts, Ryan hired legendary men's basketball coach Bob Knight on behalf of the IU Board of Trustees in 1971.

In the 1979 film Breaking Away, he played himself as president of the university, lecturing students on their behavior at the dining hall where they fought the Cutters (a reference to stonecutters who worked in the limestone quarries in southern Indiana).

On September 4, 2009, John Ryan was awarded the University Medal, IU's highest nonacademic award. According to an IU press release, "The University Medal honors individuals for singular or noteworthy contributions, including service to the university and achievement in arts, letters, science and law. It is the only medal that requires approval by the IU Board of Trustees.
The presentation was a particularly special occasion, because it was Ryan who, as president, created the University Medal in 1982, bestowing it first on Thomas T. Solley, director of the IU Art Museum. Ryan is only the tenth person to receive the medal."

The State University of New York
After retiring from Indiana University, Ryan took on temporary administrative roles, acting as interim president at the University of Maryland at Baltimore and at Florida Atlantic University, and advising the Papua New Guinea Commission for Higher Education.

In 1996, Ryan stepped in to fill the Chancellorship of the State University of New York after his predecessor abruptly resigned.  He was asked to assume the full Chancellorship in 1997  and stepped down at the end of 1999.

References

1929 births
2011 deaths
American political scientists
Presidents of the Florida Atlantic University
Educators from Chicago
University of Utah alumni
Chancellors of the State University of New York
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Presidents of Indiana University


Fedor Ivanovich Bylinkin was an aircraft designer and builder in Russia before World War I.  He designed and built a monoplane in 1910 similar to the Antoinette VI which succeeded in reaching 200 m of flight.  A later biplane design proved a failure.

Bylinkin had earlier joined with Igor Sikorsky to design a biplane featuring a 15 hp Anzani engine in pusher configuration.  This design was later rebuilt to address a lack of power, installing a 25 hp Anzani in a tractor configuration.  This design, dubbed the BIS-2, was flown for the first time by Sikorsky on 3 June 1910.  Maximum distance achieved by this design was 600 m and maximum flight time was 42 seconds.

References

Aircraft manufacturers of Russia