José María Callejón Bueno (; born 11 February 1987) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for La Liga club Granada.

He began his career with the reserve teams of Real Madrid, but made a name for himself at Espanyol. In 2011 he returned to his previous club and, two years later, left for Napoli, where he won two Coppa Italia tournaments and the 2014 Supercoppa Italiana while appearing in 349 competitive matches (82 goals scored).

An under-21 international, Callejón made his senior debut for Spain in 2014.

Club career

Real Madrid
A product of Real Madrid youth ranks, Callejón was born in Motril, Granada, Andalusia. He made his professional debut for the reserves in May 2007, and played five games in that season's Segunda División without scoring a goal.

In the 2007–08 campaign, Callejón appeared in 37 matches and netted 21 times, finishing as team top scorer but in the Segunda División B.

Espanyol

At the end of the season, Callejón left Real Madrid (with twin brother Juanmi) and signed a four-year contract with RCD Espanyol. He made his La Liga debut on 20 September 2008, as a late substitute in a 1–1 home draw against Getafe CF.

On 15 March 2009, as Espanyol struggled immensely in the league – eventually ranking in tenth position – Callejón scored his first goal for the Catalans in a 3–3 home draw to RCD Mallorca. He continued to be an undisputed starter under Mauricio Pochettino the following campaigns, operating mainly as a winger.

On 15 January 2011, Callejón scored twice to help to a 2–1 away defeat of Sevilla FC. He only missed one league game and netted six times for the Pericos, who finished comfortably in mid-table.

Return to Real Madrid
On 23 May 2011, Callejón re-joined Real Madrid on a five-year deal effective as of 1 July, for a reported fee of €5.5 million. On 16 July, he played his first match for them in a 4–1 friendly victory over the Los Angeles Galaxy, scoring the first goal of the game in the 30th minute.

On 2 October 2011, Callejón netted his first official goal for Real Madrid after coming on midway through the second half of an away fixture against former club Espanyol; he scored from a Cristiano Ronaldo assist in an eventual 4–0 win but did not celebrate the goal, instead raising his arms in the air in a mark of respect for his former employer.

Profiting from the fact that his team had already qualified from the UEFA Champions League group stage as leaders, Callejón was handed a rare start by manager José Mourinho on 22 November 2011, and responded by scoring a brace in a 6–2 home rout of NK Dinamo Zagreb. He added another two in the last round, at AFC Ajax (3–0).

As a starter, Callejón continued with his impressive scoring form: he scored once in a 6–2 away win over Sevilla on 17 December 2011, and in the tie against SD Ponferradina for the season's Copa del Rey he netted three of his team's seven aggregate goals, one away and two at home.

On 14 January 2012, Callejón scored the winner in a 2–1 defeat of Mallorca, helping the visitors come from behind with his 84th-minute long-range strike. He added another the following matchday, closing the score in a 4–1 home victory against Athletic Bilbao.

Napoli

On 9 July 2013, Italian club SSC Napoli announced that they had reached an agreement for the transfer of Callejón for €10 million. The four-year deal was confirmed two days later.

Callejón scored in his Serie A debut on 25 August, netting the opener in a 3–0 home win over Bologna F.C. 1909, and went on to find the net a further seven times in his first 20 official appearances. On 22 October, he scored his first goal in Europe for his new team, grabbing his team's first in a 2–1 victory at Olympique de Marseille in the Champions League group stage.

On 3 May 2014, Callejón set up Dries Mertens for the third goal in a 3–1 win against ACF Fiorentina in the final of the Coppa Italia. He scored once in the final game of the season, a 5–1 home rout of Hellas Verona F.C. on 18 May; his strike after five minutes was Napoli's 100th goal in all competitions that season, and his 20th overall.

Callejón netted his first goal of 2014–15 on the opening day of the campaign, the opener in a 2–1 win over Genoa CFC. His second came on 24 September, as he scored at the stroke of half-time to put his side up 3–2 against U.S. Città di Palermo in an eventual 3–3 home draw. On 19 October, he scored twice in a 2–2 draw at Inter Milan, with all four of the game's goals coming in the last 11 minutes.

In the Derby del Sole match against A.S. Roma on 2 November 2014, Callejón hit the post and had a shot saved off the line before eventually finding the net late on in the 2–0 victory. The strike took his league goal tally to eight on the season, two more than his closest competitors, and he was included in the Serie A Team of the Week lineup.

On 17 September 2015, Callejón scored twice in Napoli's first game of the UEFA Europa League group stage, a 5–0 home rout of Club Brugge KV. For the same competition, away to FC Midtjylland on 22 October, he volleyed a long pass from Kalidou Koulibaly to open a 4–1 victory; UEFA dubbed the latter effort an "early contender for goal of the group stage".

Callejón marked his 200th appearance for the Azzurri with his 57th goal on 9 April 2017, in a 3–0 league win against S.S. Lazio. His 300th came on 28 April 2019, in the 2–0 away victory over Frosinone Calcio.

In August 2020, the 33-year-old Callejón left the Stadio San Paolo after his contract expired.

Fiorentina
On 5 October 2020, Callejón agreed to a deal with Fiorentina. He scored twice in competitive matches during his spell, once in the league against U.C. Sampdoria (3–1 home win) and once in the domestic cup to help beat Calcio Padova 2–1 also at home.

Granada
Callejón returned to Spain on 25 July 2022 after nine years away, signing a one-year contract with Granada CF with the option of an extension based on sporting performance. He won the second tier in his first season, appearing in all 42 games.

International career
Callejón made his debut for the Spain under-21 team on 25 March 2008 against Kazakhstan in a 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier; he entered the field in the 46th minute after replacing Bojan Krkić, and scored shortly after in a 5–0 win.

On 7 November 2014, Callejón was called up to the full side for the first time, being picked by Vicente del Bosque for matches against Belarus and Germany. He made his debut on the 15th against the former, coming on for Santi Cazorla in the 69th minute of the 3–0 triumph in Huelva for the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying phase.

Style of play
A versatile, tenacious and hard-working right-footed player, Callejón was capable of playing anywhere along the front line, and was used as a forward or a winger on either flank, in the centre as an attacking midfielder and as a supporting striker. Although he usually occupied a position in or behind the main attacking line, due to his personality and ability to provide balance to his teams by linking-up play between the forwards and midfielders, he was also capable of playing in the centre as a main striker, and was also occasionally deployed in deeper roles under Mourinho during his time at Real Madrid, as a central midfielder or even as an attacking full-back or wing-back.

A quick, mobile and creative player, with good technical ability, Callejón was capable of both creating and scoring goals due to his powerful shot and excellent offensive movement off the ball, as demonstrated by his ability to lose his markers by make attacking runs in behind the defensive line and into the area from deeper or wider areas. He was also a good header of the ball, in spite of his average stature.

Personal life
Callejón's twin brother Juanmi was also a footballer, and both were Real Madrid graduates.

On 6 November 2020, he tested positive for COVID-19.

Career statistics

Club

1Includes Supercopa de España and Supercoppa Italiana

International

Honours

Real Madrid
La Liga: 2011–12
Supercopa de España: 2012

Napoli
Coppa Italia: 2013–14, 2019–20
Supercoppa Italiana: 2014

Granada
Segunda División: 2022–23

Individual
Segunda División B top scorer: 2007–08
Coppa Italia top scorer: 2013–14
Serie A top assist provider: 2016–17

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
People from Motril
Spanish twins
Sportspeople from the Province of Granada
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Andalusia
Men's association football wingers
Men's association football forwards
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Real Madrid C footballers
Real Madrid Castilla footballers
RCD Espanyol footballers
Real Madrid CF players
Granada CF footballers
Serie A players
SSC Napoli players
ACF Fiorentina players
Spain men's under-21 international footballers
Spain men's international footballers
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Italy


The Desert Tech Stealth Recon Scout (SRS) is a bolt-action sniper rifle developed by the Utah-based firearm manufacturer Desert Tech (formerly Desert Tactical Arms). It was unveiled at the 2008 SHOT Show. It is known for its bullpup design.

A shorter variant of the SRS, called the SRS Covert, shares all the same features of the SRS, but uses shorter barrels and therefore a shorter handguard.

History
On 1 March 2021, Desert Tech issued a product recall of SRS rifles made between 8 December 2020 and 5 March, due to a mistake in heat treatment during manufacture, resulting in strikers that could be destroyed upon firing.

Design and features
The Stealth Recon Scout is notably unusual in that it is one of the few sniper rifles that is a bullpup bolt-action layout. This gives the rifle a relatively compact design, claimed to be 11 inches (280 mm) shorter than conventional sniper rifles. Because of the bullpup layout, the magazine and bolt are behind the pistol grip, and therefore the operation is slightly different from most other conventional designs. Its design is very similar to the German DSR-1, which preceded the DTA SRS. This layout also shifts more weight to the rear of the rifle; the manufacturer claims that this creates a central balancing point. The sling points are balanced with the centerline of the weapon to ensure it lies flat when slung. It features an adjustable cheekrest, and a raised, contoured buttpad helps to seat it more securely into the shooter's shoulder. The gun weighs 10.5 lbs at its lightest, which makes it easy to use with a bipod or large scope.

The Stealth Recon Scout was originally designed around the .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge, but is also available in many other calibers, including; .260 Remington, 6.5mm Creedmoor, 6.5×47mm Lapua, 7mm WSM, .308 Winchester, and .300 Winchester Magnum  — all of which can be changed in a quick conversion. The SRS is fed from a five-round box magazine, and uses a  match fluted, free floated barrel. While the barrel is standard with a muzzle brake, it can be removed to allow access to a threaded muzzle for the attachment of a suppressor. The rifle is guaranteed to have a standard 0.5 moa (0.15 mrad) accuracy and uses a 1-6 lbs (4-27 N) adjustable match trigger.

The rifle is constructed of polymer (available in olive drab, tan, or black), aluminum, and steel. The handguard and upper receiver use a Picatinny rail system for attaching accessories such as a bipod or a telescopic sight. The safety can be operated without removing the user's hand from the pistol grip, and the magazine release can be operated with one hand.

A shorter variant of the SRS, called the SRS Covert, shares all the same features of the SRS, but uses shorter barrels and therefore a shorter handguard. The short barreled version of the rifle as stated by the manufacturer is to give users, (particularly military and law enforcement) a more compact and maneuverable for close quarters. It uses 16" and 18" barrels in some of the above-mentioned calibers.

Variants
 Stealth Recon Scout (SRS)
 SRS-A1
 SRS-A2 (replaced A1 version)
 Stealth Recon Scout Covert
 SRS-A1 Covert
 SRS-A2 Covert (replaced A1 version)
 SRS-M2

Users
: Czech Ministry of Defence; selected in 2015.
: Defense Forces of Georgia. Used also by law enforcement and state security agencies. Suppressors locally produced.
: Indonesian National Armed Forces. SRS-A2 Covert used by Combat Reconnaissance Platoon unit.
: Lithuanian Armed Forces; selected in 2015.
: Royal Thai Police; selected in 2012.
: Saudi Royal Guard Regiment; selected in 2013.
: Ukraine State Guard; selected in 2016.

Gallery

See also
 List of bullpup firearms
 List of sniper rifles
 Accuracy International AWM
 Barrett M95
 Barrett M98B
 Barrett M99
 DSR-Precision DSR-1
 Sako TRG
 Walther WA 2000

References

External links

 Desert Tech - Manufacturer's website

Videos
 Desert Tactical Arms, YouTube page
 YouTube video showing a quick caliber conversion

7.62×51mm NATO rifles
.338 firearms
Bolt-action rifles of the United States
Bullpup rifles
Sniper rifles of the United States


Avraham Naumovich Trahtman (Trakhtman) (; b. 1944, USSR) is a mathematician at Bar-Ilan University (Israel).  In 2007, Trahtman solved a problem in combinatorics that had been open for 37 years, the Road Coloring Conjecture posed in 1970.

Road coloring problem posed and solved
Trahtman's solution to the road coloring problem was accepted in 2007 and published in 2009 by the Israel Journal of Mathematics. The problem arose in the subfield of symbolic dynamics, an abstract part of the field of dynamical systems. The road coloring problem was raised by R. L. Adler and L. W. Goodwyn from the United States, and the Israeli mathematician B. Weiss. The proof used results from earlier work.

Černý conjecture
The problem of estimating the length of synchronizing word has a long history and was posed independently by several authors, but it is commonly known as the Černý conjecture. In 1964 Jan Černý conjectured that  is the upper bound for the length of the shortest synchronizing word for any n-state complete DFA (a DFA with complete state transition graph). If this is true, it would be tight: in his 1964 paper, Černý exhibited a class of automata (indexed by the number n of states) for which the shortest reset words have this length. In 2011 Trahtman published a proof of upper bound , but then he found an error in it. The conjecture holds in many partial cases, see for instance, Kari and Trahtman.

Other work
The finite basis problem for semigroups of order less than six in the theory of semigroups was posed by Alfred Tarski in 1966, and repeated by Anatoly Maltsev and L. N. Shevrin. In 1983, Trahtman solved this problem by proving that all semigroups of order less than six are finitely based.

In the theory of varieties of semigroups and universal algebras the problem of existence of covering elements in the lattice of varieties  was posed by Evans in 1971. The positive solution of the problem was found by Trahtman. He also found a six-element semigroup that generates a variety with a continuum of subvarieties, and varieties of semigroups having no irreducible base of identities.

The theory of locally testable automata can be based on the theory of varieties of locally testable semigroups. Trahtman found the precise estimation on the order of local testability of finite automata.

There are results in theoretical mechanics and in the promising area of extracting moisture from the air mentioned in "New Scientist".

References

External links
Trahtman's page at Bar-Ilan University's Website
Trahtman's Curriculum Vitae
Trahtman's paper (in PDF format)
"63-year-old solves riddle from 1970" on MSNBC
"Encyclopedia - Britannica Online Encyclopedia", article: Avraham Trahtman
"MacTutor History of Mathematics. Trahtman biography"
A Mathematical Medley Fifty Easy Pieces on Mathematics by George G. Szpiro

Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University
1944 births
Living people
Israeli Jews
21st-century Israeli mathematicians
Russian Jews
20th-century Israeli mathematicians
Ural State University alumni


Edelmiro A. Amante, Sr. (April 21, 1933 – March 10, 2013), was a Filipino politician.

Early life
Amante was born in Butuan. He attended Ampayon Elementary School, then Mindanao Institute, where he graduated from high school as a salutatorian. He then studied at Silliman University, where he received an Associate in Arts degree in 1954, then a Bachelor of Laws in 1958.

Career
Amante started his career as a barrio lieutenant in Ampayon, Butuan. He held that position for only one year, 1959, before becoming a Councilor, from 1960 to 1964. He represented Agusan del Norte at the 1973 Constitutional Convention. He had also represented Agusan del Norte as an Assemblyman of the defunct Batasang Pambansa from 1978 to 1984. Since 1984, he was elected to four terms to the House of Representatives representing the 2nd District of Agusan del Norte. He was most recently elected in 2007, succeeding his daughter Angelica.

Amante was a close ally of President Fidel Ramos, under whose administration he served as the Executive Secretary from 1992 to 1993 when he decided to return to Congress. Prior to his death, he was a member of the KAMPI party.

References

20th-century Filipino lawyers
People from Agusan del Norte
1933 births
2013 deaths
Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Agusan del Norte
Executive Secretaries of the Philippines
Ramos administration cabinet members
Silliman University alumni
Members of the Batasang Pambansa
Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Merit (Philippines)


The name Cork Constitution can refer to two different newspapers that were published in Cork city.

The Cork Advertiser, which was published from 1799 to 1824, called itself the Cork Constitution in 1823.

The Cork Morning Post, which started publication in 1822 and ceased in 1924 renamed itself the Cork Constitution in 1873. In 1892, the newspaper's staff founded the rugby club of the same name, which still exists.

In its second incarnation, the Cork Constitution supported the union of Ireland with Great Britain, was the paper favoured by the Protestant population and patronised by clergymen of the Church of Ireland as well by officers of the British Army who were stationed in the area.

The paper ceased publication shortly after Irish independence.

References

Defunct newspapers published in Ireland
Mass media in County Cork
Newspapers published in the Republic of Ireland
Organisations based in Cork (city)


The Alive 35 World Tour was a 2008–2009 concert tour by Kiss to celebrate their 35th anniversary. It was the band's first major tour since the Rock the Nation World Tour in 2004. On the tour, Kiss played in Europe for the first time since the Psycho Circus World Tour in 1999. Kiss wore Destroyer-themed costumes for the tour, but the majority of the songs played were on Alive!. The tour was highly successful and proved to be Kiss's biggest tour of Europe. This tour marked the first time Kiss visited Bulgaria, Greece, Latvia, Russia, Luxembourg, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela.

Three legs and 38 shows were announced. Kiss headlined the Download , Graspop Metal Meeting and Arrow Rock  festivals in Europe as part of the tour.

The tour began on May 9 in the König-Pilsener-Arena in Oberhausen, Germany. The South America leg started on April 3 in Chile. The tour ended on December 13, 2009, in Pittsburgh after the December 15, 2009 concert in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario was postponed until summer 2010 due to inclement weather. The tour went on to gross $30,500,000 and play to over 385,000 fans in sold-out arenas from October to December 2009. Gene Simmons stated that part of the tour's success could be attributed to the success of his hit television show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels.

In the tour program for the band's final tour, Stanley reflected on the tour:

Setlist

Alive 35 World Tour setlist

"Deuce"
"Strutter"
"Got to Choose"
"Hotter than Hell" (with fire breathing)
"Nothin' to Lose"
"C'mon and Love Me"
"Parasite"
"She" (with Tommy Thayer guitar solo)
"100,000 Years" (with drum solo)
"Cold Gin"
"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"
"Black Diamond"
"Rock and Roll All Nite"
Encore
"Shout It Out Loud"
"Lick It Up"
"I Love It Loud" (with bass solo)
"I Was Made for Lovin' You"
"Love Gun" (Paul Stanley flies out to the audience)
"Detroit Rock City"

"Firehouse" and "Rock Bottom" only played in Oberhausen (at the first show, May 9), Munich and Vienna.
"Watchin' You" only played in Oberhausen (at the first show, May 9), Munich, Vienna and South American shows.
"Cold Gin" not played in Konocti Harbor.
I Was Made for Lovin' You" not played at Konocti Harbor and Paso Robles.
I Love It Loud" replaced by "God of Thunder" (with Gene Simmons solo) in Athens.
"Forever" only played in Colombia.
"Love Gun" not played in Rio de Janeiro.

Sonic Boom Tour setlist
"Deuce"
"Strutter"
"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"
"Hotter than Hell" (with fire breathing)
"Shock Me"
"Modern Day Delilah"
"Calling Dr. Love"
"She" (with Tommy Thayer guitar solo)
"Parasite"
"100,000 Years" (with drum solo)
"I Love It Loud" (with bass solo)
"Black Diamond"
"Rock and Roll All Nite"
Encore
"Shout It Out Loud"
"Lick It Up"
"Cold Gin"
"Love Gun" (Paul Stanley flies out to the audience)
"Detroit Rock City"

European tour notes
During Tommy Thayer's solo after "She", rockets shot from his guitar neck as Ace Frehley had done previously.
 Kiss agreed to play double dates in Helsinki after the first show sold out the venue (13000 tickets) in under seven minutes. The extra show was scheduled for the previous day.
For several German shows, the Kiss logo on the tour program was censored due to the SS at the end of the word Kiss looking too similar to the Nazi symbol for the Schutzstaffel, which was also two angular S's. The S's were made to look more traditional and less angular.
In Bergen and Athens, Paul Stanley didn't fly out over the audience during "Love Gun".
In Verona, Kiss received from Music Empire Awards a 35 platinum Award for their career of 35 years.

South American tour notes
Paul Stanley teased Buenos Aires', Lima's, Bogotá's and Caracas' audience with fragments of "Guantanamera" and "Cucurrucucú Paloma" (both sung in Spanish) before playing "Rock and Roll All Nite".
"Love Gun" was not played at the Rio de Janeiro show due to rain conditions.
Paul Stanley salutes the audience with "Yo no hablo muy bien español, pero conozco tus sentimientos y mi corazón es suyo" (I don't speak much Spanish, but I know your feelings and my heart is yours). He used the same phrase in their 1994 and 1997 visits.
A day before the performance in Peru, the band were seen sightseeing and learning about the Peruvian culture.
 In Buenos Aires, Argentina the cable that was rising Simmons failed. Simmons said shortly after, "We put our lives on the line on a nightly basis all for you!", which was met with cheers from the crowd. Simmons also saluted the audience saying "Santiago" instead of "Buenos Aires". You can notice this on the Sonic Boom Bonus DVD.

North American tour notes
"Cold Gin", "I Was Made for Lovin' You", and Gene Simmons' bass solo in "I Love It Loud" were not performed at the Konocti Harbor show on August 31 due to wind conditions.
In Milwaukee on June 27, 2009, and in Paso Robles, California on July 28, 2009, Paul Stanley talked about Kiss' new album after "Hotter Than Hell" and he didn't fly over the audience during "Love Gun".
In Sarnia on July 10, 2009, on Kiss sets a Bayfest attendance record of over 22,000.
At the Bluesfest on July 15, 2009, in Ottawa, Kiss played to over 42,000.
In Quebec City on July 16, 2009, Kiss played to a crowd of over 90,000.
In Paso Robles on July 28, 2009, and in Montreal on October 1, 2009, Paul Stanley didn't fly over the audience.
In Toronto on October 2, 2009, during the opening song "King of the Night Time World" the power went out in the Air Canada Centre, although they did finish the show.
In Greenville, South Carolina on October 17, "Shock Me" and "Calling Dr. Love" were played for the first time on the American leg of the tour.
In Philadelphia, on October 12, during Gene's bass solo, he spat blood AFTER he flew up onto the platform above. He also brought back the clock bell and the white light that hadn't been used since the Creatures of the Night Tour/10th Anniversary Tour which adds a more frightening effect to his performance.
In Atlanta, on October 26, Kiss performed "Say Yeah" off the Sonic Boom album for the first time ever live.
In Winnipeg on November 9, a concussion bomb (explosive) caught fire after "Black Diamond" and continued to burn for several minutes. To kill time, Kiss improvised and Simmons began to play the bassline for "Firehouse": the other members eventually joined in. The song was sung by drummer Eric Singer as the others could not access their mics while the crew dropped down the row of lights to extinguish the flame.
On November 25, 2009, the show at the Staples Center was aired online live. The show got over 200,000 viewers.
On November 28, 2009, in Las Vegas, Paul Stanley did not fly over the audience during "Love Gun".
On December 4, 2009, in Austin, Texas, Kiss did not play "Shout It Out Loud" being the only date they didn't play it.

Regulars of the Alive 35 tour:

During the Reunion Tour in 96, Ace Frehley fired rockets into the light truss during his solo. When the rocket reached the lights, there would be an explosion and a piece of the light rigging would fall. It's all part of the act. On this 2009 tour Tommy Thayer has adopted the same effect during his guitar solo.
Paul Stanley teasing the crowd with "Stairway to Heaven" became a regular in the Alive 35 Shows.
Tommy Thayer's Gibson Explorer was used in all encores of the Alive 35 tour, stating "I've been playing this guitar during our encores as a change of pace from my workhorse Les Pauls".
During "Lick It Up" the band broke out "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who with Paul Stanley doing Roger Daltrey's yell.
Songs such as "King of the Night time World", "Shock Me", "Cold Gin", "I Stole Your Love", "Strutter", "Calling Dr. Love" and "Nothin' to Lose"'' were songs that varied throughout the tour.

Tour dates

Top 50 Worldwide Tours 2009: KISS, #33
Total Gross: US $36 million
Total Attendance: 564,617
No. of shows: 59

Personnel

Kiss
 Paul Stanley – vocals, rhythm guitar
 Gene Simmons – vocals, bass
 Tommy Thayer – lead guitar, vocals
 Eric Singer – drums, vocals

References

 Kiss FAQ

2008 concert tours
2009 concert tours
Kiss (band) concert tours


These are the official results of the Men's Pole Vault event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 27 participating athletes. The qualification round was stopped and later canceled due to heavy rain and strong winds and eventually a straight final was held on 14 August, the last day of the championships.

Medalists

Records
Serguei Bubka in Helsinki, 1983.

Results

Final

See also
 1980 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Moscow)
 1982 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Athens)
 1984 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Los Angeles)
 1984 Men's Friendship Games Pole Vault (Moscow)
 1986 Men's European Championships Pole Vault (Stuttgart)
 1987 Men's World Championships Pole Vault (Rome)
 1988 Men's Olympic Pole Vault (Seoul)

References
 Results

P
Pole vault at the World Athletics Championships


Carlos García Quesada (born April 18, 1978 in La Zubia) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist. He turned professional with Kelme in 2001, and stayed with them until the end of 2005. In 2006, he moved to Unibet.com. However, in 2006, his name was linked to the Operación Puerto doping case and was sidelined by his team. In early 2007, García Quesada came to a mutual agreement with Unibet.com to leave the team, following several months having not been paid.

His brother Adolfo is also a former professional cyclist.

External links

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1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the Province of Granada
Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners
Cyclists from Andalusia


Scott Michael Elrod (born February 10, 1975) is an American actor.

Early life
Elrod was born into an American military family in Bitburg, Germany. After moving around the Philippines with his family, he was raised in Parker, Colorado. His father was an F-16 pilot and Elrod wanted to become a pilot himself. He earned his pilot license after graduation and became an air traffic controller.

Career

After seeing the film Top Gun, Elrod decided to become an actor. He relocated to Los Angeles, in April 2004, to pursue a career in acting. Eventually, his performances in small parts in CSI: NY, Days of Our Lives, and the “Nothing In This World” music video by Paris Hilton, brought him to the attention of the casting crew of Men in Trees, in which he played the part of Anne Heche's friend, occasional roommate, and sometimes love interest "Cash". In 2013, he starred in the films Home Run and Lone Survivor. In 2016 he played Meredith's new man in Grey's Anatomy. On August 1, 2016, he was cast as celebrity Travis Brenner in Chicago Fire.

Personal life
In December 2015, Elrod announced he and fiancée, Vanessa Vazart, were expecting a child together. Their son, Easton, was born in June 2016.

Filmography

References

External links
 Scott Elrod Official Website
 Scott Elrod Online Official Fansite

1975 births
American male television actors
21st-century American male actors
Living people
Male actors from Colorado
People from Parker, Colorado
Air traffic controllers


Anders Martinus Petersen (13 July 1876 – 8 December 1968) was a Danish sport shooter who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he won the gold medal as member of the Danish team in the team 300 metre military rifle, standing event. In the individual 300 metre military rifle, standing event he finished seventh.

References

External links
profile

1968 deaths
1876 births
Danish male sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
Olympic shooters for Denmark
Shooters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Denmark
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics


Mehammad Henedi Ahmad Abdelgawwad  () is an Egyptian comedian actor born in Giza, Egypt, on 1 February 1965, and has gained a cinematic bachelor's degree. Henedi started his career in 1991 in short appearances in theaters and cinemas, and he achieved huge success in his two films Esma'eleya Rayeh Gaii and Sa'ede Fel Gam'a Al Amrekya. He later starred in the movies Hamam fi Amsterdam, Belya we Demagho el Alya, Saheb Sahbo and Andaleeb Al Dokki. Mohamed Henedi also dubbed the voices of Timon, Mike Wazowski and Homer Simpson for the Egyptian versions of The Lion King, Monsters, Inc., and The Simpsons respectively.

Yasmin Elrashidi of The Wall Street Journal said that Henedi was "considered the Robert De Niro of the Middle East."

Filmography
Eskendreyya Kaman w Kaman (Alexandria Again  and Forever) (1990)
Amir el Behar(Prince of the Seas) (2009)
Andalib el Do'i (2008)
Antar ebn ebn ebn ebn Shaddad (2017)
Askar fi el Mo'askar (2003)
Belya W Demagho el 'Alya (2000)
Ga'ana El Bayan El Tali (2001)
Great Beans of China (2004)
Hamam fi Amsterdam (1999)
Esmailiyya Rayeh Gai (1997)
Mesyu Ramadan Mabruk (2011) (Mister  Ramadan Mabruk)
Ramadan Mabruk Abel'alamen Hamoda  (2008)
Se'idi Fi el Gam'a el Amrikiyya  (1998)
Saheb Sahbo (2002)
Samaka W Arba Orush (1997)
Sare' el-Farah (1994)
Teta Rahiba (2012) (Rauf)
Trust! (2013) (T.V Show)
Weshsh Egram (2006)
Ya Ana Ya Khalti (2005)
Yom Morr w Yom Helw (1988)
Ziyaret El-Sayed El-Ra'is (1994)

Bekhit w Adila(Bekhit and Adila) (1995)
Bekhit w Adila 2(Bekhit and Adila)(1997)

References

External links

Henedy World

Egyptian comedians
1965 births
Living people
Egyptian male film actors
Egyptian male voice actors
People from Giza
Egyptian male television actors
20th-century Egyptian male actors
21st-century Egyptian male actors
African comedians


The Tap o' Noth is a hill and fort, 8 miles south of Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at grid reference NJ485293. It is the second highest fort in Scotland and its main feature is its well-preserved vitrified wall which encloses an area of approximately 100 m by 30 m, 0.3 hectares. Archaeological finds from the site include a stone axe head dated to between c. 2000 BC– c.800 BC, and a decorated bronze rein-ring dated to the 1st–3rd century AD. The site has been designated a scheduled ancient monument.

The vitrified fort is the centre of a settlement within another rampart which encloses a much larger area of some 7 hectares. This outer rampart was constructed in the fifth to sixth centuries AD; large scale settlement within the area may date back as far as the third century AD, contemporary with the Pictish culture.

Drone photographs and lidar surveys suggest that there may have been as many as 800 huts, many in groups with a larger hut at the centre of the group. It has been described as the largest known settlement in early-Medieval (post-Roman) Britain.

In the nearby valley, the Pictish image of Rhynie Man on a standing stone has been found on Barflat farm. A post-Roman settlement has been discovered in the valley, with evidence for the consumption of wine from the Mediterranean, the use of glass vessels from western France, and intensive metalwork production. This is interpreted as signs of high social status, possibly with royal connections.

See also

References

External links

Archaeological sites in Aberdeenshire
Hill forts in Scotland
Pictish sites in Scotland
Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Aberdeenshire
Marilyns of Scotland
Mountains and hills of Aberdeenshire


Whispering Smith Rides is a 1927 American silent Western film serial directed by Ray Taylor. The screenplay was written by Arthur Henry Gooden, based on a novel by Frank H. Spearman. The film is considered to be lost, but a trailer is held for this serial at the Library of Congress.

Cast
 Wallace MacDonald as Whispering Smith
 Rose Blossom
 J. P. McGowan
 Clark Comstock
 Henry Hebert
 Merrill McCormick (as W.M. McCormick)
 Harry Todd
 Willie Fung
 Frank Ellis

Chapter titles
Lawless Men
Caught in the Crash
Trapped
The Ambush
Railroad Gold
The Interrupted Wedding
A Coward of Conscience
The Bandit’s Bargain
The Trail of Sacrifice
A Call of the Hear
Source:

See also
 List of film serials
 List of film serials by studio

References

External links

1927 films
1927 lost films
1927 Western (genre) films
American silent serial films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Ray Taylor
Lost American Western (genre) films
English-language Western (genre) films
Silent American Western (genre) films
Universal Pictures film serials
1920s American films
1920s English-language films


The Spinning Dancer, also known as the Silhouette Illusion, is a kinetic, bistable, animated optical illusion originally distributed as a GIF animation showing a silhouette of a pirouetting female dancer. The illusion, created in 2003 by Japanese web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara, involves the apparent direction of motion of the figure. Some observers initially see the figure as spinning clockwise (as viewed from above) and some counterclockwise. Additionally, some may see the figure suddenly spin in the opposite direction.

Effect
The illusion derives from the lack of visual cues for depth. For instance, as the dancer's arms move from viewer's left to right, it is possible to view her arms passing between her body and the viewer (that is, in the foreground of the picture, in which case she would be circling counterclockwise on her right foot) and it is also possible to view her arms as passing behind the dancer's body (that is, in the background of the picture, in which case she is seen circling clockwise on her left foot).

When she is facing to the left or to the right, the breasts and ponytail clearly define the direction she is facing, although there is ambiguity in which leg is which.  However, as she moves away from facing to the left (or from facing to the right), the dancer can be seen facing in either of two directions. At first, these two directions are fairly close to each other (both left, say, but one facing slightly forward, the other facing slightly backward) but they become further away from each other until they reach a position where her ponytail and breasts are in line with the viewer (so that neither the breasts nor the ponytail are seen so readily). In this position, she could be facing either away from the viewer or towards the viewer, so that the two possible positions are 180 degrees apart.

Another aspect of this illusion can be triggered by placing a mirror vertically beside the image. The natural expectation would be for the normal image and its reflection to spin in opposite directions. This does not necessarily happen, and provides a paradoxical situation where both dancers appear to spin in the same direction.

Psychology of visual perception
It has been established that the silhouette is more often seen rotating clockwise than counterclockwise. According to an online survey of over 1600 participants, approximately two thirds of observers initially perceived the silhouette to be rotating clockwise. In addition, observers who initially perceived a clockwise rotation had more difficulty experiencing the alternative.

These results can be explained by a psychological study providing evidence for a viewing-from-above bias that influences observers' perceptions of the silhouette. Kayahara's dancer is presented with a camera elevation slightly above the horizontal plane. Consequently, the dancer may also be seen from above or below in addition to spinning clockwise or counterclockwise, and facing toward or away from the observer. Upon inspection, one may notice that in Kayahara's original illusion, seeing the dancer spin clockwise is paired with constantly holding an elevated viewpoint and seeing the dancer from above.

The opposite is also true; an observer maintaining a counterclockwise perception has assumed a viewpoint below the dancer. If observers report perceiving Kayahara's original silhouette as spinning clockwise more often than counterclockwise, there are two chief possibilities. They may have a bias to see her spinning clockwise, or they may have a bias to assume a viewpoint from above.

To tease these two possibilities apart, the researchers created their own versions of Kayahara's silhouette illusion by recreating the dancer and varying the camera elevations. This allowed for clockwise-from-above (like Kayahara's original) and clockwise-from-below pairings. The results indicated that there was no clockwise bias, but rather a viewing-from-above bias. Furthermore, this bias was dependent upon camera elevation. In other words, the greater the camera elevation, the more often an observer saw the dancer from above.

In popular psychology, the illusion has been incorrectly identified as a personality test that supposedly reveals which hemisphere of the brain is dominant in the observer. Under this wrong interpretation, it has been popularly called the "right brain–left brain test, and was widely circulated on the Internet during late 2007 to early 2008.

A 2014 paper describes the brain activation related to the switching of perception. Utilizing fMRI in a volunteer capable of switching at will the direction of rotation, it was found that a part of the right parietal lobe is responsible for the switching. The authors relate this brain activation to the above described spontaneous brain fluctuations.

Bistable perception

There are other optical illusions that depend on the same or a similar kind of visual ambiguity known as multistable, in that case bistable, perception. One example is the Necker cube.

Depending on the perception of the observer, the apparent direction of spin may change any number of times, a typical feature of so-called bistable percepts such as the Necker cube which may be perceived from time to time as seen from above or below. These alternations are spontaneous and may randomly occur without any change in the stimulus or intention by the observer. However some observers may have difficulty perceiving a change in motion at all.

One way of changing the direction perceived is to use averted vision and mentally look for an arm going behind instead of in front, then carefully move the eyes back. Some may perceive a change in direction more easily by narrowing visual focus to a specific region of the image, such as the spinning foot or the shadow below the dancer and gradually looking upwards. One can also try to tilt one's head to perceive a change in direction. Another way is to watch the base shadow foot, and perceive it as the toes always pointing away from oneself and it can help with direction change. One can also close one's eyes and try and envision the dancer going in a direction then reopen them and the dancer should change directions. Still another way is to wait for the dancer's legs to cross in the projection and then try to perceive a change in the direction in what follows. One can also try using one's peripheral vision to distract the dominant part of the brain, slowly look away from the ballerina and one may begin to see her spin in the other direction.

Perhaps the easiest method is to blink rapidly (slightly varying the rate if necessary) until consecutive images are going in the "new" direction.  Then one can open one's eyes and the new rotational direction is maintained. It is even possible to see the illusion in a way that the dancer is not spinning at all, but simply rotating back and forth 180 degrees.

Slightly altered versions of the animation have been created with an additional visual cue to assist viewers who have difficulty seeing one rotation direction or the other. Labels and white edges have been added to the legs, to make it clear which leg is passing in front of the other. First looking at one of these modified images can then sometimes make the original dancer image spin in the corresponding direction.

Further analysis

References

Dance animation
Optical illusions
Perception
Silhouettes
2003 in art


The Sandon School is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive academy school of approximately 1250 students. It serves a rural area on the outskirts of Chelmsford, Essex, England, and previously specialised in Maths and Computing.

History
The Sandon School opened in 1955 and became an academy in 2011.

The school has also had multiple sex offenders over time.

In March 2018 an Ofsted inspection found it to be a good      school.

The school has a 25-hour teaching week. Jo Wincott, headmaster since 2004, retired in the summer of 2018. He has been succeeded by Andrew Weaver (2018–Present)

Facilities
Fully equipped fitness gym;

Two 4G astroturf pitches (This facility is operated for private evening and weekend bookings by Sandon Soccer Ltd.);

Two sports halls;

A gym;

A dance studio;

An all-weather long jump pit playing fields;

science laboratories.

Notable former pupils
 Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb
 James Graham, singer and member of the boyband Stereo Kicks
 George "Frederick James" Taylor, Record Producer and Head of Data at Warp Records.

House System
The school also has a house system, in which the students take part in events and in-school activities in order to earn 'House points' for their houses.

House motto: "Many Branches, One Root"

The 4 houses conceive of:

Blake

Glennie

Thompson

Russel

References

Academies in Essex
Secondary schools in Essex
Schools in Chelmsford
Educational institutions established in 1955
1955 establishments in England


Common-use self-service or CUSS is a shared kiosk offering airport check-in to passengers without the need for ground staff. The CUSS can be used by several participating airlines in a single terminal.

The first major installation of CUSS for multiple airlines was launched in 2003 in a cooperative project between LAS McCarran Airport, ARINC and twelve participating airlines. British Airways, Singapore Airlines, Royal Dutch KLM and Lufthansa By the end of 2008, CUSS had been implemented at more than 100 airports globally.

Benefits

Passengers
CUSS can provide easier and faster passenger passage through the airport, due to less queues. CUSS kiosks can be shared by multiple airlines and are located throughout the airport, ranging from car parks to transit areas, thus cutting down airport crowds.

Airline and airports
Economically, CUSS reduces the labour cost of ground staff required by manual check-in. With the introduction of CUSS, the check-in area at the airport can be reduced to enable more retail outlets, or entertainment facilities. Based on IATA studies, a 40% market penetration of self-service check-in will save $US1 billion per year. CUSS can be implemented in the cloud, optimising resource usage and support overheads, that eliminates the need for servers, core computing space and costly technical manpower.

References

External links
 IATA CUSS project page
 Latest CUSS News and Implementation
 IATA Annual Report 2008

Kiosks


Liang Jinrong (; born May 21, 1960) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster.

In 1997, he became China's 7th Grandmaster.

He has played for Shandong chess club in the China Chess League.

Career

He gained the GM title in 1997. He was National Chess Champion twice in 1995 and 2000.

He competed for the China national chess team for a total of seven times at the Chess Olympiads (1978–1986, 1990–1992) with an overall record of 70 games played (+23, =30, -17); one World Men's Team Chess Championship (1989) with an overall record of 3 games played (+0, =2, -1); and eight Men's Asian Team Chess Championships (1979–1983, 1987, 1991–1999) with an overall record of 41 games played (+25, =13, -3).

He reached his highest FIDE rating of 2536 in January 2000.

See also
Chess in China

References

External links
Liang Jinrong - New In Chess. NICBase Online.
FIDE Chess Player card - Individual Calculations

Chessmetrics Career Ratings for Liang Jinrong
Elo rating with world rankings and historical development since 1990 (benoni.de/schach/elo) for Liang Jinrong

1960 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess players from Guangzhou


VK (short for its original name VKontakte; , meaning InContact) is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Russian speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, edit these messages, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games.

, VK had at least 500 million accounts. As of November 2022, it was the sixth most popular website in Russia. The network was also popular in Ukraine until it was banned by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017.

According to SimilarWeb, VK is the 16th most visited website in the world.

History

VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian private limited company. Founder Pavel Durov launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The following month, the domain name vkontakte.ru was registered. User registration was initially limited to within university circles exclusively by invitation, but the site still grew quickly.

In February 2007 the site reached a user base of over 100,000 and was recognized as the second largest company in Russia's nascent social network market. In the same month, the site was subjected to a severe DDoS attack, which briefly put it offline. The user base reached 1 million in July 2007, and 10 million in April 2008. In December 2008 VK overtook rival Odnoklassniki as Russia's most popular social networking service.

Website

As with most social networks, the site's core functionality is based on private messaging and sharing photos, status updates, and links with friends. VK also has tools for managing online communities and celebrity pages. The site allows its users to upload, search and stream media content, such as videos and music. VK features an advanced search engine, that allows complex queries for finding friends, as well as a real-time news search. VK updated its features and design in April 2016.

Features

 Messaging. VK Private Messages can be exchanged between groups of 2 to 500 people. An email address can also be specified as the recipient. Each message may contain up to 10 attachments: Photos, Videos, Audio Files, Maps (an embedded map with a manually placed marker), and Documents.
 News. VK users can post on their profile walls, each post may contain up to 10 attachments – media files, maps, and documents (see above). User mentions and hashtags are supported. In the case of multiple photo attachments, the previews are automatically scaled and arranged in a magazine-style layout. The news feed can be switched between all news (default) and most interesting modes. The site features a news-recommendation engine, global real-time search, and individual search for posts and comments on specific users' walls.
 Communities. VK features three types of communities. Groups are better suited for decentralized communities (discussion boards, wiki-style articles, editable by all members, etc.). Public pages is a news feed-orientated broadcasting tool for celebrities and businesses. The two types are largely interchangeable, the main difference being in the default settings. The third type of community is called Events, which are used for appropriately organizing concerts and events in an appropriate way.

 Like buttons. VK like buttons for posts, comments, media, and external sites operate differently from Facebook. Liked content doesn't get automatically pushed to the user's wall, but is saved in the private Favorites section instead. The user has to press a second 'share with friends' button to share an item on their wall or send it via private message to a friend.
 Privacy. Users can control the availability of their content within the network and on the Internet. Blanket and granular privacy settings are available for pages and individual content.
 Synchronization  with other social networks. Any news published on the VK wall will appear on Facebook or Twitter. Certain news may not be published by clicking on the logo next to the "Send" button. Editing a post in VK does not change the post in Facebook or Twitter and vice versa. However, removing the news in VK will remove it from other social networks.
 SMS service. Russian users can receive and reply to a private message or leave a comment for community news using SMS.
 Music. Users have access to the audio files uploaded by other users. In addition, users can upload the audio files themselves, create playlists and share audios with others by attaching to messages and wall posts. The uploaded audio files cannot violate copyright laws.

Popularity
As of May 2017, according to Alexa Internet ranking, VK is one of the most visited websites in some Eurasian countries. It is:

 4th most visited in Russia;
 3rd most visited in Belarus;
 6th most visited in Kazakhstan;
8th most visited in Kyrgyzstan and Moldova;
 12th most visited in Latvia.

It was the fourth most viewed site in Ukraine until, in May 2017, the Ukrainian government banned the use of VK in Ukraine. According to a study for May 2018 conducted by Factum Group Ukraine VK remained the fourth most viewed site in Ukraine, but Facebook was twice as much visited. For 2019, VK appeared as the most visited social network in Ukraine according to Alexa. According to the Internet Association of Ukraine the share of Ukrainian Internet users who visit VK daily had fallen from 54% to 10% from September 2016 to September 2019. They also claimed in November 2019 that Facebook was the most popular social network.

VK was expected to gain most of the users lost by Facebook and Instagram after they were blocked in Russia in 2022, according to a Calltouch poll.

Ownership

Initially, founder and CEO Pavel Durov owned 20% of shares (although he had majority voting power through proxy votes), and a trio of Russian-Israeli investors Yitzchak Mirilashvili, his father Mikhael Mirilashvili's and Lev Leviev owned 60%, 10%, and 10% respectively. The original founders then sold a stake of 39.99% to Mail.ru Group (formerly Digital Sky Technologies).

On 29 May 2012, Mail.ru Group announced its decision to yield control of the company to Durov by offering him the voting rights on its shares. Combined with Durov's personal 12% stake, this gave him 52% of the votes.

In April 2013, the Mirilashvili family sold its 40% share in VK to United Capital Partners for $1.12 billion, while Lev Leviev sold his 8% share in the same deal, giving United Capital Partners 48% ownership. In January 2014, VK's founder Pavel Durov sold his 12% stake in the company to Ivan Tavrin, the CEO of MegaFon, which is controlled by Alisher Usmanov. Following the deal, Usmanov and his allies controlled around 52% of the company. Shortly thereafter, the CEO of Megafon, sold his 12% stake to Mail.ru, thus allowing Mail.ru to consolidate its controlling stake of 52% in VK.

On 1 April 2014, Durov submitted his resignation to the board; at first, due to the fact the company confirmed he had resigned, it was believed to be related to the Russo-Ukrainian War which began in the previous February. However, Durov himself claimed it was an April Fool's Joke on 3 April 2014. On 21 April 2014, Durov was dismissed as CEO, claiming he failed to withdraw his letter of resignation a month earlier. Durov then claimed the company had been effectively taken over by Vladimir Putin's political faction, suggesting his dismissal was the result of both his refusal to hand over personal details of users to federal law enforcement and his refusal to hand over the personal details of people who were members of a VKontakte group dedicated to the Euromaidan protest movement. Durov then left Russia and stated that he had "no plans to go back" and that "the country is incompatible with Internet business at the moment".

On 16 September 2014, the Mail.ru group bought the remaining 48% stake of VK from United Capital Partners (UCP) for $1.5 billion, thus becoming the sole proprietor of the social network.

In December 2021, Russian state-owned bank Gazprombank and insurance company Sogaz bought out 57.3% of VK shares, thus becoming the holders of the company's controlling interest.

Controversies

Copyright issues

Litigation
In 2008, the leading Russian television channel TV Russia (TV channel name RTR used in 1991–2002, then Russia 1) and television company VGTRK sued VKontakte (then VK) over unlicensed copies of two of its films which had been uploaded by VK users. In 2010, this dispute was settled by the Russian Supreme Arbitration Court in favour of the social network. The court ruled that VK is not responsible for its users’ copyright violations, taking into account that both parties agreed with the technical possibility to identify the user who posted illegal content and who, consequently, must incur the liability. Another ruling early in 2012 went partially in favor of Gala Records (now Warner Music Russia), a recording studio, when the same court ordered VK to pay $7000 for not being active enough in regard to copyrighted materials.

Efforts against copyright infringement
VK offers a content removal tool for copyright holders. Large-scale copyright holders may gain access to bulk content removal tools.

Since 2010, VK has also entered several partnerships with legal content providers such as television networks. and streaming providers. Most notably, the Video on Demand provider Ivi.ru that has secured licensing rights with all Hollywood majors in 2012. These partnerships allow providers to remove user-uploaded content from VK and substitute it with legal embedded copies from the provider's site. This legal content can be either ad-sponsored, subscription-based, or free, depending on the provider's choices. VK does not display its own advertising in the site's music or video sections, nor in the videos themselves. In October 2013, VKontakte was cleared of copyright infringement charges by a court in Saint Petersburg. The judge ruled that the social network is not responsible for the content uploaded by its users.

In November 2014, the head of the Roskomnadzor, Maxim Ksenzov, said that VKontakte would complete the process of legalization of the content at the beginning of 2015. At that time (November 2014), negotiations between major label companies and the social network VKontakte were ongoing.

DDoS attacks on sites
Because the social network is one of the most popular and visited sites in runet, its visits can be used to make DDoS attacks on smaller sites.
VK performed DDOS attacks on certain sites, making users' browsers send multiple requests to the target site without their consent. The targets were the Runet Prize voting page in 2008 and the CAPTCHA-solving service antigate.com in 2012. It was done by inserting an iframe and a piece of JavaScript code which periodically reloaded the iframe. As a countermeasure, antigate was detecting whether iframe was loaded from VK and if it were antigate had redirected request to xHamster, a pornography website. VK needed to cease the attack due to the site's use by children. VK tried to use XMLHttpRequest to solve this problem, but had forgotten about the same-origin policy. They succeeded in stopping the attack, though there were many ways to solve the problem with redirect.

Durov's dismissal
Durov was dismissed as CEO in April 2014 after he had failed to retract a letter of resignation. Durov contended that the resignation letter was an April fools prank. Durov then claimed Vladimir Putin's allies had, in effect, taken over the company, and suggested his ousting was the result of his refusal to hand over personal details of users to the Russian Federal Security Service and his refusal to shut down a VK group dedicated to anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny.

Censorship
On 24 May 2013, it was reported in the media that the site had been mistakenly put on a list of websites banned by the Russian government. Some critics have accused the blacklist as the latest in a series of suspicious incidents to have happened to the website in recent months as a way for the Russian government to increase their stake in, and control of the site.

On 18 November 2013, following an order from the Court of Rome, VK was blocked in Italy after a complaint from Medusa Film stating that it was hosting an illegal copy of one of its films. However, in April 2015, the site was reopened for Italian users and its mobile app is available on both the App Store and Google Play.

In January 2016, China banned VKontakte, claiming that it was manipulating web content and cooperating with the Kremlin. According to Russia's media watchdog, the network estimates around 300,000 users based in China. As of 14 February 2018, China authorities unblocked VKontakte and it was fully accessible in the country.

In May 2017, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to impose a ban on Mail.ru and its widely used social networks including VKontakte and Odnoklassniki as part of its continued sanctions on Russia for its annexation of Crimea and involvement in the war in Donbas. Reporters Without Borders condemned the ban, calling it a "disproportionate measure that seriously undermines the Ukrainian people's right to information and freedom of expression." VK closed its office in Ukraine's capital Kyiv in June 2017.

In December 2021, VKontakte's CEO, Boris Dobrodeev resigned from his post. Reuters linked Dobrodeev's resignation to the acquisition of VK's majority interest by two state-owned companies that happened the same month. According to one analyst, the state consolidation of VKontakte would cause greater censorship by the government.

On 12 May 2022, in connection with the sanctions imposed by the European Union (EU), NEPLP decided to limit the activity of "Vkontakte" ("vk.com"), "Odnoklassniki" ("ok.ru") and "Moi mail" ("my.mail.ru") in Latvia. The decision was made because NEPLP has evidence that the platforms are owned and controlled by Yuriy Kovalchuk and Vladimir Kiriyenko. The mentioned persons are subject to EU sanctions in connection with undermining the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.

After Russian military invasion of Ukraine, on September 26, 2022, the VK application (as well as other applications of the holding services) was removed from the Apple App Store due to international sanctions. On September 28, the Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor issued a statement demanding an explanation for the removal of the VK application from the App Store. CEO Vladimir Kiriyenko was sanctioned by the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, Australia and various countries.

Prosecution of users in Russia
In July 2012, VKontakte was accused of close cooperation with the Centre for Combating Extremism (Centre E), a unit within the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs heavily criticized for repressing opposition activists. For publications, reposts, comments and likes posted on their VKontakte pages, dozens of Russian citizens were sentenced to fines, suspended sentences and imprisonment. Most of the cases against users are qualified as propaganda of extremism, xenophobia and Nazism. Statistically, among all the social networking services available in Russia, the users of VKontakte were targeted by police almost exclusively.

Events and projects

Automated workplace of a civil servant
By 2023, on the basis of VK, the “Automated workplace of a civil servant” (АРМ ГС in Russian) was developed, to which it is planned to transfer all Russian civil servants. AWP includes mail, calendar, cloud storage, instant messenger, supports audio and video calls. It should replace Telegram, WhatsApp, Gmail, Google Docs, Zoom and Skype widely used in Russia. Thus, the Russian government intends to exclude foreign services from the public administration system. Officials were supposed to switch to "Automated workplace" from May 1, 2023.

In June 2023, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media announced a competition for software developers to "scale" the workspace and provide the necessary level of cryptographic protection. It is planned to spend 9 million rubles on the project.

Hackathons
VK organized their first 24-hour Hackathon in 2015 from 31 October to 1 November. The participants were invited to develop projects united by a common idea: “Make it Simple!” (Russian: «Упрощайте!»). 34 teams took part in the competition. A prize pool of 300 thousand rubles was split among the winners.

The second VK Hackathon took place from 26 to 27 November 2016. The participants developed projects for the community app platform. The “Search for Lost Cats” (Russian: «Поиск пропавших котиков») app won the “Developers’ Choice” category. The prize pool for the event was 300 thousand rubles.

The third VK Hackathon took place from 20 to 22 October 2017 with 320 participants competing in the event. The prize pool was one million rubles. An application designed to help users navigate the State Hermitage Museum won the “Culture” category.

Start Fellows
In 2011, Pavel Durov and Yuri Milner created Start Fellows, a grant program founded to support projects in the field of technology. In 2014, VK took over the Start Fellows program and made it more systematic. The grant was provided to 3 companies each month and included project consultation from VK along with 25 thousand rubles a month for advertisement on the VK platform. Winners of the grant include “University Schedules” (Russian: «Расписание вузов»), a scheduling app, LiveCamDroid, a mobile streaming service, HTML Academy, an educational project, and others.

VK re-launched the project in 2017. Only active projects with an earnings model could submit applications. 327 grant applications were received but only 67 of them passed the initial screening. The total prize pool was 2.5 million rubles.

VK Cup
The first VK Cup, a programming championship for young programmers aged 13–23, was held on 16 July 2012 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

VK and Codeforces co-organized the second VK Cup programming championship, which took place from 24 to 27 July 2015. The winners received a total of 1,048,576 rubles (an amount related to round binary numbers).

The third VK Cup took place from 1 to 4 July 2016 and had a prize pool of 2.5 million rubles.

VK and Codeforces co-organized the fourth VK Cup which took place from 8 to 9 July 2017. Teams from 52 countries applied to take part in the competition. The prize pool for the competition was 2.5 million rubles.

VK Music Awards
The first VK Music Awards ceremony took place on 25 December 2017. The VK Music Awards were produced by Timur Bekmambetov and the Bazelevs Company with Pavel Volya hosting the event. The awards ceremony was held in the form of an online live stream. Any VK user could watch the broadcast live. After the ceremony, a private concert was held in the Vegas City Hall in Moscow. Tickets to the event could be won through a contest held in the VK Music community. VK Music Awards winners were determined by the number of plays an artist's song got on VK and the BOOM app. The names of the 30 award winners were published on the official VK Music Awards community page and on the BOOM app website. “Rosé Wine” (Allj and Feduk), “Lambada” ( and Scriptonite), and “My Half” () topped the list of most listened to songs. The official pages of all award winners have been marked with a special symbol.

VK Fest
Since 2015, VK has held a yearly 2-day open-air music and entertainment festival. This festival traditionally takes place on a weekend in July at the  (Russian: Парк имени 300-летия Санкт-Петербурга) in St. Petersburg, Russia. According to data from the organizer, 70 thousand people attended the festival in 2016, with the number rising to 85 thousand attendees in 2017. In 2017, around 40 artists and groups performed on 3 stages, including Little Big, The Hatters, and others. Bloggers and other famous individuals, such as Dmitry Grishin, Timur Bekmambetov, and Mikhail Piotrovsky (speakers at the 2017 festival), are also an important part of the festival. More than 1.5 million people watched the festival's official live stream.

See also

 Ambient awareness
 Cyworld
 Facebook
 Internet in Russia
 Myspace
 Qzone
 List of social networking websites

References

Literature

External links

Companies based in Saint Petersburg
Russian social networking websites
2006 establishments in Russia
Internet properties established in 2006
Notorious markets
Russian brands
Internet censorship in Ukraine
Social media
Russian websites


The British Mark V Composite tank, a development of the Tank Mark I saw service with the Estonian Army in the Estonian War of Independence from 1919 to 1920.

Design and development
The Mark V was intended to be built as completely new design. However, in December 1917, when the desired new engine and transmission became available, this design was abandoned and the designation switched to an improved version of the Mark IV, in fact a Mark IV as it was originally intended: more power (150 bhp) with a new Ricardo engine, improved steering mechanism and epicyclical transmission, only one driver was needed. A second cupola, with hinged sides, was added, towards the rear of the tank, so that the crew could attach the unditching gear without leaving the vehicle. Four hundred Mk V were built, 200 each of Males and Females. Several were converted to Hermaphrodites by swapping sponsons to give a single 6-pounder gun and extra machine gun.

History
The first Mark V Composite tanks reached Estonia at the end of 1919. Although Estonia previously requested tanks from the Entente, their request was originally refused, as the Allies feared Estonia might be defeated by the Soviets. An unexpected opportunity to obtain such tanks came when the Northwestern Army under Yudenich was overpowered by the Soviets and retreated towards Estonia. During the dissolution of the Northwestern Army, the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces Johan Laidoner received permission to take custody of the Northwestern Army's tanks. This action brought four Mark V and two Renault FT tanks to Estonia. According to the Commander-in-Chief's daily order nr. 770 on 26 November 1919, Captain Hans Vanaveski was ordered to organize a training unit under the name of Tank Class. This unit was placed under the direct orders of the Reserve Forces commander. This act was previously approved on 23 November by the Minister of War.

During the Soviet occupation
The heavy tank company was taken over by the Red Army in February 1941. The tanks were in a very poor condition and hardly able to move by their own power. As the Red Army did not have tank transport platforms for the railway, the tanks were left behind in a warehouse near Tallinn, which was soon after forgotten. The tanks were relocated again in August the same year when they were used to cover the Soviet retreat from Tallinn. Mark Vs were dug into the soil along the Pirita River coastal line in order to create stationary gun platforms for the defence line. There are no records however of the usage or success of this plan, yet it is certain that it was tried out.

Appearance in World War II
The ultimate fate of these four Estonian Mark V Composite tanks is believed to have been being melted down somewhere in the Third Reich into armour steel for the German total war effort.

Gallery

See also
 Military history of Estonia

References

External links

History of the tank
Military equipment of Estonia


K15 or K-15 may refer to:

 K-15 (Kansas highway)
 K-15 (television series), a Macedonian comedy program
 K-15 Sagarika, an Indian submarine-launched ballistic missile
 , a submarine of the Royal Navy
 , a corvette of the Royal Navy
 Kalinin K-15, a planned Soviet rocket fighter aircraft
 Keratin 15
 Sonata in B flat, K. 15, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

See also


Rodolfo "Ompong" Galido Plaza (born March 13, 1958) is a Filipino politician. A member of the Nationalist People's Coalition, he has been elected to three terms as a Member of the House of Representatives, representing the Lone District of Agusan del Sur, first in 2001 and most recently in 2007.

Personal life
He is the son of former governors Democrito O. Plaza and Valentina G. Plaza and brother of former governor Adolph Edward Plaza and governor Maria Valentina Plaza.

Notes

References

External links

1958 births
Living people
People from Agusan del Sur
Nationalist People's Coalition politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Agusan del Sur


Diana Gordon, previously known by her stage name Wynter Gordon (born August 25, 1985), is an American singer and songwriter. She began her career writing music for other artists, later signing with Atlantic Records where she started to work on her own album. Her debut album With the Music I Die was released in 2011, with its lead single "Dirty Talk" receiving triple platinum and gold certifications in Australia and the United Kingdom. She began going by her birth name in 2016, and released the extended plays Pure (2018) and Wasted Youth (2020)

Gordon has performed backing vocals in the studio and continues to collaborate on writing, with "Sorry" by Beyoncé, "Electricity" by Silk City and Dua Lipa, "Bad Habit" by Steve Lacy and various tracks on Lil Yachty's 2023 studio album Let's Start Here, among her best-known co-credits.

Early life
Gordon was born in Queens, New York City, and was brought up in South Jamaica, where she was the middle child of six siblings.

Gordon began singing at a young age. She and her siblings would perform together in church. It was during high school that Gordon decided that she was going to pursue a music career. She was later accepted to the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and interned at a record company. Gordon wrote her first complete song, "Daddy's Song", at the age of 15. She has described song writing as an "escape from poverty"

Career

2004–2010: Career beginnings
Gordon worked closely with the producer D'Mile since 2004; her first track to fame, "Gonna Breakthrough", written by Gordon and produced by D'Mile, was used as the title track to Mary J. Blige's 2005 album The Breakthrough. Soon after, Wynter was given an opportunity to sign with Atlantic Records, through Don Pooh Music Group, where she began work on her debut album in 2004.

In 2008, Gordon wrote two tracks for Danity Kane's second album Welcome to the Dollhouse, "2 of You" and "Do Me Good". She co-wrote the single "Sugar", a track that she was featured on with rapper Flo Rida on his album R.O.O.T.S. (2009) after laying down a reference vocal. The track became an international hit and peaked at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100. Gordon also co-wrote and sang on the dance track "Toyfriend" from French DJ David Guetta's album One Love (2009). She worked closely with Jennifer Lopez, writing four tracks including "What Is Love", "What Is Love Part II", "Starting Over" and "Everybody's Girl" for her seventh studio album Love? (2011).

2011–2013: With the Music I Die and Human Condition EPs
Gordon released her debut album, With the Music I Die, on June 17, 2011. The lead single from the album, "Dirty Talk", topped the US Hot Dance Club Songs. "Dirty Talk" also topped the charts in Australia, where it was certified 3× Platinum. The song was released in the UK and Ireland on February 18, 2011, where it peaked at No. 25 in the UK and No. 8 in Ireland. The song spent a total of eleven weeks inside the UK Top 40. The second single, "Til Death", peaked at No. 3 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart, and No. 16 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The album later produced a further two singles, "Buy My Love" and "Still Getting Younger". In August 2011, Wynter began a two-month stint as the supporting act for Patrick Stump's second US tour.

On June 20, 2012, she premiered a new song, "Stimela", the first promotional single from her collection of Human Condition extended plays, which she decided to self-release to avoid label control. The first EP, Human Condition: Doleo, was released on July 9, 2012. The second EP, Human Condition: Sanguine, was released on January 15, 2013.

2011–2015: The Righteous Young and Five Needle EP
In early 2014, Gordon formed a quintet called The Righteous Young, of which she is the lead singer. However, she clarified in a Q&A on Facebook that The Righteous Young does not mean the end of Wynter Gordon as a solo act, but is rather an extension of her own music. "The Righteous Young is my band ... My music, WYNTER and THE RIGHTEOUS YOUNG". She released her first single with The Righteous Young, "Everything Burns", on June 3, 2014. The music video, directed by Harrison Boyce, was exclusively released on Idolator and Vevo on the same day. Wynter embarked on a tour with the band in July 2014, and they were revealed to have been working on their first album alongside producer Mike Elizondo, however, no further music ever eventuated. On July 29, a new solo Wynter track, "The Hard Way", was released on Kitty Cash's "Love the Free Vol. II" mixtape. The song was later released as a promotional single from the mixtape, with a music video being released on April 23, 2015. On May 5, 2015, Wynter released "Bleeding Out", the lead single from her Five Needle EP. The EP itself was later released on June 2, 2015.

2016: Co-writing and producing with Beyoncé
On April 23, 2016, Beyoncé released her sixth album Lemonade featuring several tracks where Diana Gordon (credited with her real name, and not her stage name) received a writing and producing credit, including "Don't Hurt Yourself" (which also samples Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks"), "Sorry", and "Daddy Lessons". A few months after the release of Lemonade, on July 22, 2016, Gordon announced that she was no longer using her stage name Wynter Gordon. Instead, she decided to be going by her birth name, Diana Gordon. On July 25, 2016, Diana Gordon shared her first single under her own name, "The Legend Of". Her first EP released under her own name and titled, Pure, was released on August 3, 2018. In a capsule review for Vice, Robert Christgau gave the EP a three-star honorable mention () and summed it up as "five proofs of a Beyoncé cowriter's hard-won, unembittered self-reliance—too modest to be 'inspirational,' and stronger for it"; the tracks "Wolverine" and "Too Young" were cited as highlights. On April 3, 2020, Gordon released a new eight track EP called Wasted Youth featuring acoustic versions of "Rollin" and "Once A Friend."

Discography

Studio albums
 With the Music I Die (2011)

Extended plays
 The First Dance (2010)
 Human Condition: Doleo (2012)
 Human Condition: Sanguine (2013)
 Five Needle (2015)
 Pure (2018)
 Wasted Youth (2020)

Awards and nominations

References

Living people
21st-century American singer-songwriters
21st-century American women singers
African-American women singer-songwriters
American dance musicians
American women pop singers
American hip hop singers
American house musicians
American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters
American women in electronic music
Singers from New York City
Musicians from Jamaica, Queens
Atlantic Records artists
1985 births
21st-century African-American women singers
20th-century African-American people
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
20th-century African-American women


Jason Simon (born March 21, 1969) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Simon, who is from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation near Sarnia, Ontario, played five games in the National Hockey League for the Phoenix Coyotes and New York Islanders between 1994 and 1996. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1989 to 2009, was spent in various minor leagues.

Career
Simon was recalled by the New York Islanders on January 6, 1994 and made his NHL debut with the New York Islanders on January 7, 1994. He shared his debut with forwards Dan Plante, Ziggy Palffy, and goaltender Jamie McLennan. Missing from Simon's debut and tenure with the team was Islanders' coach Al Arbour, who was serving a five-game suspension due to Islanders' forward Mick Vukota leaving the bench and participating in an on-ice brawl that occurred during the Islanders' previous game played on January 4, 1994.

The following season, Simon signed with the Winnipeg Jets and played several exhibition games with the team. Simon was involved in a kneeing incident on September 18, 1995, where he was kneed by Bryan Marchment. Marchment later received a five-game suspension without pay due to the incident.

In addition to his four-game tenure with the Islanders, Simon was later recalled to the NHL one more time. He was recalled by the Phoenix (now Arizona) Coyotes on October 30, 1997, playing one game with the team before being returned to Las Vegas the following day.

The following season, Simon was signed by the Colorado Avalanche on August 20, 1997 and briefly attended their training camp. While in training camp, Simon fought enforcer Wade Belak and Wade's brother Graham Belak.

Simon eventually played for thirty-one teams in his twenty-year career before retiring from hockey in 2009.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Awards and accomplishments
 1994–95: Turner Cup champion (Denver Grizzlies)
 2007–08: Allan Cup champion (Brantford Blast)

References

External links

1969 births
Living people
Anchorage Aces players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Colorado Gold Kings players
Denver Grizzlies players
Detroit Falcons (CoHL) players
Flint Bulldogs players
Hamilton Steelhawks players
Hershey Bears players
Huntsville Havoc players
Jacksonville Barracudas (SPHL) players
Johnstown Chiefs players
Kingston Raiders players
Las Vegas Thunder players
London Knights players
Louisville Panthers players
Memphis RiverKings players
Nashville Knights players
New Jersey Devils draft picks
New York Islanders players
Port Huron Beacons players
Port Huron Border Cats players
Phoenix Coyotes players
Quebec Rafales players
Salt Lake Golden Eagles (IHL) players
San Diego Gulls (IHL) players
Ice hockey people from Sarnia
Springfield Falcons players
Sudbury Wolves players
Utica Devils players
Windsor Spitfires players
First Nations sportspeople


The North Infirmary () was the first general hospital to be opened in Cork. Originally holding only 24 beds, it eventually expanded to 115 beds. It was used as a fever hospital during the famine, housed Irish soldiers wounded in the First World War and covertly treated wounded Republicans during the War of Independence. The infirmary closed its doors on 26 November 1987, and is now a hotel.

History
The North Infirmary was built on the site of the St Mary’s Church that was destroyed during the Siege of Cork in 1690. Construction began in 1719 with the 70 feet long by 24 feet wide building, containing 24 beds, completed the following year. Most of its patients during the early years were from the poor and mostly Catholic segments of society.
The infirmary’s initial funding came from donations from the community, but population growth in Cork quickly outpaced this funding. In 1744 members of a musical society used their surplus funds to help expand the infirmary to allow 11 physicians and five surgeons to practice there.

In 1836 the infirmary was redesigned by architect William Hill with an increased capacity of 90 beds. During the Great Famine it was used as a fever hospital for most of 1847. In 1867 management of the infirmary was taken over by Daughters of Charity nuns, led by Sr Teresa.  In 1883 construction began on a new north wing with funds donated by Lady Combermere, daughter of Dr Gibbings, a physician at the infirmary. The wing, which opened in 1886 with an extra 36 beds, was named in honour of Dr Gibbings.

By the time Sr Teresa died in 1909, the infirmary had increased its capacity to 115 beds; it contained a modern operating room, spacious wards and highly trained nurses. In 1917 the infirmary was used by military authorities to treat wounded soldiers sent home from the front lines during the First World War. During the War of Independence, injured Republicans were covertly treated at the infirmary. In the 1980s, due to cutbacks in funding, the infirmary was slated for closure by the Irish government. Though over 5,000 staff from 14 different hospitals marched in protest against the closure, the infirmary closed its doors at 4.46 pm on 26 November 1987.

Over the next years the site remained derelict, being vandalised and partially burned. It was purchased in 1996 and redeveloped into the Shandon Court Hotel. After a few years it was taken over by the Choice Hotel Group and extended to 101 rooms. In 2008 it became the Maldron Hotel which is still in operation today.

References

1744 establishments in Ireland
Hospitals established in the 1740s
1987 disestablishments in Ireland
Hospitals in County Cork
Buildings and structures in Cork (city)
Hospitals disestablished in 1987
Defunct hospitals in the Republic of Ireland


The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent. It is played every two years. In chess, this tournament and the Chess Olympiads are the most important international tournaments for teams.

The strongest national teams in the world participate, and also some teams represent an entire continent. A full round is played by the teams, meaning that each team plays against every other team. At the first tournament, in 1985, teams consisted of six players; since then, teams have been reduced to four players. Reserve players are permitted.

From 1985, the championship was held every four years; since 2011, it has been held every two years. Since 2007, there has been a separate championship for women teams, which is also held every two years.
Since 2007, the final scores depend on the team results; before 2007, the individual scores determined the final ranking.

Summary of results

All data from OlimpBase World Team Chess Championship.

Open section team medals

Women's team medals
The next edition is played in Poland in September of 2023.

Total team ranking

Open section total ranking
The table contains the men's teams ranked by the medals won at the World Team Championships.

Women's section total ranking
The table contains the women's teams ranked by the medals won at the World Team Championships.

See also

Chess Olympiad
European Team Chess Championship
Russia (USSR) vs Rest of the World
Women's Chess Olympiad
European Chess Club Cup
World Chess Championship
World Mind Sports Games
Mind Sports Organisation
Correspondence Chess Olympiad

References

OlimpBase World Team Chess Championship

Team


Erik Sætter-Lassen (15 July 1892 – 24 December 1966) was a Danish sport shooter who competed at the 1920, 1924, 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics.

1920 Antwerp
In 1920 he won the gold medal as member of the Danish team in the team 300 metre military rifle, standing event.

In the Summer Olympics he also participated in the following events:
 300 metre military rifle, standing - fourth place
 Team 50 metre small-bore rifle - fourth place
 50 metre small-bore rifle - place unknown
 300 metre military rifle, prone - result unknown

1924 Paris
In the 1924 Summer Olympics he participated in the following events:
 50 metre rifle, prone - fourth place
 Team free rifle - sixth place
 600 metre free rifle - 46th place

1936 Berlin
In 1936, he finished 15th in the 50 metre rifle, prone event and 22nd in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol competition.

References

1966 deaths
1892 births
Danish male sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
ISSF pistol shooters
Olympic shooters for Denmark
Shooters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Denmark
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics


Florencio Tumbocon Miraflores (born July 1, 1951) is a Filipino politician. "Joeben" was born in Ibajay, Aklan to parents Dr. Jose Conlu Miraflores and Eusebia Tumbocon. He is married to Ma. Lourdes Villanueva Martin. He graduated valedictorian at St. Clement's College, Iloilo and finished Industrial and Management Engineering at De La Salle University. He was Mayor of Ibajay from 1988 to 1995, and Governor of Aklan from 1995 to 2004 and from 2013 to 2022

A member of the KAMPI party, he has been elected to two terms as a Member of the House of Representatives, representing the Lone District of Aklan. First elected in 2004, he was re-elected in 2007 and 2010.

On June 29, 2008, Miraflores was rushed to a hospital in Kalibo, Aklan after complaining of chest pains and difficulty in breathing; initial tests indicated that his heartbeat was irregular. At the time he was stricken ill, Miraflores had been engaged in relief operations for his province, which had been devastated by Typhoon Fengshen.

References

He voted in favor of the Constitutional Assembly which was strongly opposed by majority of the Philippine population.

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1951 births
Living people
Governors of Aklan
Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino politicians
Liberal Party (Philippines) politicians
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Aklan
Mayors of places in Aklan
Lakas–CMD politicians
People from Aklan
De La Salle University alumni
PDP–Laban politicians


Frank Birney Ellis (February 26, 1897 – February 23, 1969) was an American actor in silent and sound films and serials. He appeared in more than 480 films between 1917 and 1954. He was born in Oklahoma and died in Los Angeles, California. He appeared as a townsman in uncredited roles in the TV Western series Gunsmoke – S7E27's ”Wagon Girls” (1962); and S9E8's “Carter Caper” (1963).

Partial filmography

 When a Man Sees Red (1917)
 Elmo the Fearless (1920)
 Bringin' Home the Bacon (1924)
 The Outlaw Express (1926)
 The Desert Demon (1925)
 Ace of Action (1926)
 The Road Agent (1926)
 Whispering Smith Rides (1927)
 The Valley of Hunted Men (1928)
 Yellow Contraband (1928)
 The Viking (1928)
 Two Tars (1928)
 Law of the Mounted (1928)
 Westward Bound (1930)
 Breed of the West (1930)
 Trails of Danger (1931)
 Quick Trigger Lee (1931)
 Forbidden Trail (1932)
 Treason (1933)
 Unknown Valley (1933)
 Lawless Range (1935)
 Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937)
 Two-Fisted Sheriff (1937)
 The Marshal of Mesa City (1939)
 Roll Wagons Roll (1940)
 Covered Wagon Trails (1940)
 The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio (1941)
 The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941)
 The Lone Rider Fights Back (1941)
 The Kid's Last Ride (1941)
 Wrangler's Roost (1941)
 Billy the Kid in Santa Fe (1941)
 Billy the Kid Wanted (1941)
 Outlaws of Boulder Pass (1942)
 Thundering Hoofs (1942)
 Rock River Renegades (1942)
 Texas Trouble Shooters (1942)
 Arizona Stage Coach (1942)
 Texas to Bataan (1942)
 Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942)
 Wild Horse Rustlers (1943)
 Law of the Saddle (1943)
 Raiders of Red Gap (1943)
 Two Fisted Justice (1943)
 Cowboy Commandos (1943)
 Black Market Rustlers (1943)
 Fugitive of the Plains (1943)
 Cattle Stampede (1943)
 Blazing Frontier (1943)
 The Underdog (1943)
 Wild Horse Phantom (1944)
 Oath of Vengeance (1944)
 Gun Smoke (1945)
 Shadows of Death (1945)
 Overland Riders (1946)
 Gentlemen with Guns (1946)
 Swing, Cowboy, Swing (1946)
 Prairie Badmen (1946)
 Out West (1947)
 Stage to Mesa City (1947)
 Deadline (1948)
 Mysterious Island (1951)
 Captain Video (1951)
 King of the Congo (1952)
 Son of Geronimo (1952)
 Pals and Gals (1954)

References

External links

1897 births
1969 deaths
Male actors from Oklahoma
American male film actors
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors
Male Western (genre) film actors


Deerhead Township is a township in Barber County, Kansas, USA.  As of the 2000 census, its population was 11.

Geography
Deerhead Township covers an area of  and contains no incorporated settlements.

The stream of Inman Creek runs through this township.

References
 USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

External links
 City-Data.com

Townships in Barber County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Eagle Township is a township in Barber County, Kansas, USA.  As of the 2000 census, its population was 42.

Geography
Eagle Township covers an area of  and contains no incorporated settlements.  According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Lodi.

The streams of East Cedar Creek, Pump Creek, Salt Fork Arkansas River, Salty Creek and West Cedar Creek run through this township.

References
 USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

External links
Lodi, Eagle Township, Barber County, Kansas
The Oak Creek Ranch History, photographs, geology, maps, wildlife and flowers of a ranch in Eagle Township, Barber County, Kansas.
 US-Counties.com
 City-Data.com

Townships in Barber County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Elm Mills Township is a township in Barber County, Kansas, USA.  As of the 2000 census, its population was 106.

Geography
Elm Mills Township covers an area of  and contains no incorporated settlements.  According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Isabel.

The streams of Crooked Creek, North Elm Creek and South Elm Creek run through this township.

References
 USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

External links
 City-Data.com

Townships in Barber County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


John Roberton is the name of two Scottish physicians and social reformers:

John Roberton (born 1776), died 1840
John Roberton (born 1797), died 1876

See also
John Robertson (disambiguation)