The Response Boat – Medium (RB-M) is a  utility boat used by the United States Coast Guard. It is a replacement for the Coast Guard's retired fleet of  utility boats (UTB), which had been in use by the Coast Guard since the 1970s. On June 21, 2006 the USCG awarded the RB-M contract to Marinette Marine of Marinette, Wisconsin and Kvichak Marine Industries of Seattle, Washington. The RB-M was designed by Camarc Design in the UK. Between June of 2006 and March of 2015 Marinette, in Green Bay Wisconsin and Kvichak in Kent, Washington partnered to build and deliver 174 RB-Ms to the USCG. Kvichak developed and delivered several police boat variants to several cities including Seattle and New York.

In the summer of 2017, the Canadian Coast Guard purchased a used 45 RBM from the United States Coast Guard. It is based in Vancouver British Columbia under the name CCGS Laredo Sound.

According to the US Coast Guard, "While primarily a search and rescue asset when the 41' UTB was first fielded, the evolution of missions has increased the requirement to perform many missions including recreational boating safety, marine environmental protection, enforcement of laws and treaties, ports, waterways, and coastal security, and defense operations, including those traditional missions associated with Homeland Security."

On March 17, 2015, the U.S. Coast Guard received the 174th and final RB-M into service.

General characteristics
The boat has a deep-V, double chine hull, which provides a balance of performance and stability. The vessel is self-righting if it capsizes in rough seas. Below the pilot house are six compartments:
 Lazarette
Auxiliary machinery compartment
Engine room
Survivors' Compartment
Forepeak
Head

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Electronics
 FLIR navigator thermal imager
 Furuno scalable integrated navigation system
 Furuno radios
 Gentex LVIS digital intercom system
 Taiyo TD-L1550A VHF Direction Finder
 Motorola 5000 digital mobile radio
 Mount for KY-99 makes RB-M ready for secure communications
 L3 Communications automatic identification system

Hull numbering
In keeping with standard USCG practice, boats of this size have hull numbers and are not named. This type of boat has a hull number beginning with the length of the boat (45′) and then a sequential number. In the case of the RB-M boats, the hull numbers begin with 601. Thus the first boat will be RB-M 45601.

Boats

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Media

RB-M 45771 at Station Destin, Florida was featured at Smarter Every Day channel

See also

Equipment of the United States Coast Guard

References

External links

Boats of the United States Coast Guard
Equipment of the United States Coast Guard


Jalan Bukit Fraser 2, or Jalan Baru Bukit Fraser and Jalan Pechah Batu, Federal Route 148, is a second federal road in Fraser's Hill, Pahang, Malaysia, designed as a downhill route to Federal Route 55. It is maintained by the Malaysian Public Works Department (JKR) and the Fraser's Hill Development Corporation (FHDC). The Kilometre Zero of the Federal Route 148 starts at the peak of Fraser's Hill.

Features

At most sections, the Federal Route 148 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing maximum speed limit of up to 90 km/h.

List of junctions

The entire route is located within the district of Raub, Pahang. All junctions listed are at-grade intersections unless stated otherwise.

References

Malaysian Federal Roads


Linghu Defen () (583–666), formally Duke Xian of Pengyang (), was a Chinese historian and politician. He was an official of the Chinese Sui and Tang dynasties. During the Tang era, he was a major proponent for the compilation of the histories of the Sui and its predecessor the Northern Zhou. He was eventually put in charge of compiling Northern Zhou's official history, Book of Zhou, which was completed in 636.

Background
Linghu Defen was born in 583, during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui. His ancestors had been from an aristocratic clan of Dunhuang, the Linghu clan of Dunhuang, but had later relocated to Yi Province (宜州, roughly modern Tongchuan, Shaanxi). His father Linghu Xi () served as an official during Emperor Wen's reign but died in anger after being imprisoned due to false accusations of corruption.  Late in the reign of Emperor Wen's son Emperor Yang, Linghu Defen was made the magistrate of Yaocheng County (藥城, in modern Bozhou, Anhui), but as by that time the Sui realm was had been thrown into a state of confusion due to agrarian rebellions, Linghu never took office.  In 617, after the general Li Yuan the Duke of Tang rose in rebellion against Emperor Yang's rule, Li Yuan's cousin Li Shentong () rose as well and made Linghu a member of his staff. In late 617, after Li Yuan captured the capital Chang'an and declared Emperor Yang's grandson Yang You the Prince of Dai emperor (as Emperor Gong), retaining power as regent, he invited Linghu to serve as a secretary on his staff.

During Emperor Gaozu's reign
In 618, after Li Yuan received news that Emperor Yang had been killed in a coup at Jiangdu (江都, in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu), he poisoned and killed Yang You and took the throne from him, establishing Tang Dynasty as its Emperor Gaozu. He made Linghu Defen an imperial attendant. In 622, Emperor Gaozu made Linghu Mishu Cheng (), the secretary general of the Palace Library, and had him participate on the compilation of the Yiwen Leiju, with the chancellor Chen Shuda.

At that time, after the great disturbance at the end of Sui, much of old book collections had been lost.  Linghu advocated, and Emperor Gaozu agreed, to seek out books and purchase them and, once they were bought, to have them copied as well.  After several years, the imperial collections were more comprehensive.  Linghu also pointed out that while the Southern Dynasties' histories were largely written, little have been formally compiled of Northern Zhou and Sui Dynasty's histories—and that the deeds of the great people of those two dynasties, including those of Emperor Gaozu's ancestors, would be lost.  Emperor Gaozu therefore issued an edict commissioning Xiao Yu, Wang Jingye (), and Yin Wenli () to compile the history of Northern Wei; Chen, Linghu, and Yu Jian () to compile the history of Northern Zhou; Feng Deyi and Yan Shigu to compile the history of Sui; Cui Shanwei (), Kong Shao'an (), and Xiao Deyan () to compile the history of Liang Dynasty; Pei Ju, Zu Xiaosun (), and Wei Zheng to compile the history of Southern Qi; and Dou Jin (), Ouyang Xun, and Yao Silian to compile the history of Chen Dynasty.  However, after the issuance of Emperor Gaozu's edict, not much actual historical compilation was carried out, and the projects stalled.

During Emperor Taizong's reign
In 629, during the reign of Emperor Gaozu's son Emperor Taizong, Emperor Taizong was interested in the compilation of the histories, and he therefore issued an edict commissioning Linghu Defen and Cen Wenben to compile the history of Northern Zhou (Book of Zhou); Li Baiyao to compile the history of Northern Qi (Book of Northern Qi); Yao Silian to compile the histories of Liang (Book of Liang) and Chen (Book of Chen); and Wei Zheng to compile the history of Sui (Book of Sui), and to oversee the overall compilation project with Fang Xuanling.  These officials also convened to discuss the issue of the history of Northern Wei, but concluded that as Northern Wei's history has already been compiled in the past by Wei Shou (now known as the Book of Wei) and Wei Dan (魏澹, Wei Shou's cousin, who compiled a separate Book of Wei now no longer extant), it was no longer necessary to have a new compilation.  At Linghu's suggestion, the imperial censor Cui Renshi was also invited to join the Northern Zhou project, and Linghu himself also contributed to the compilation of the histories of Liang, Chen, Northern Qi, and Sui.  Later historians praised Linghu for spearheading the overall project.

In 632, Linghu was made the deputy minister of rites (), but continued to serve as an imperial historian.  He was also created the Baron of Pengyang.

In 636, the Book of Zhou was completed, and Linghu was awarded silk.

In 637, another work by Linghu, the New Rites (), was completed, and his title was promoted to Viscount of Pengyang.  Also that year, another project that Linghu participated in, the Records of Clans (), was completed as well, and he was awarded silk again.

In 641, Linghu was made a member of the staff of Emperor Taizong's son Li Chengqian the Crown Prince.  In 643, after Li Chengqian was deposed, Linghu was relieved of his duties.

In 644, Linghu was recalled to civil service and made the prefect of Ya Prefecture (雅州, roughly modern Ya'an, Sichuan), but was later removed from office due to his acts there.  Soon, however, when Fang was put in charge of compiling the history of Jin Dynasty (266–420) (Book of Jin), Linghu was made the lead editor on the project, which involved 118 editors, and the other editors largely followed Linghu's lead.  After the work was completed in 648, Linghu was made Mishu Jian (), the head of the archival bureau.

During Emperor Gaozong's reign
Emperor Taizong died in 639 and was succeeded by his son Li Zhi the Crown Prince (as Emperor Gaozong).  In 640, Emperor Gaozong put Linghu Defen in charge of editing the laws, and made him the deputy minister of rites again, as well as an imperial scholar at Hongwen Pavilion ().  He was soon made the minister of worship (太常卿, Taichang Qing) and continued to serve as imperial scholar as well.

In 643, Linghu was made Guozi Jijiu (), the principal of the imperial university.  As Linghu had compiled the records of Emperor Taizong's reign after 639, he was awarded silk and made an imperial scholar at Chongxian Pavilion ().  He was later put in charge of compiling the records of Emperor Gaozong's reign as well, and his title was promoted to Duke of Pengyang.  In 662, he requested retirement and was allowed to retire with the honorific title of Jinzi Guanglu Daifu ().  He died in 666.  It was said that in his late years he was particularly diligent in writing, and whenever there were major compilation projects, he would participate.

References

 Old Book of Tang, vol. 73.
 New Book of Tang, vol. 102.

582 births
666 deaths
7th-century Chinese historians
Historians from Shaanxi
Linghu clan of Dunhuang
Politicians from Tongchuan
Sui dynasty government officials
Tang dynasty historians
Tang dynasty government officials
Writers from Tongchuan


Sergio Salvador Aguirre Anguiano (1 February 1943 – 21 June 2020) was a Mexican jurist and Associate Justice (ministro) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Aguirre Anguiano studied law at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara (UAG). He served as a notary public and taught law at the university level. The only member of the Supreme Court with a party-political background, he was a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for the National Action Party (PAN) and served as a member of the Guadalajara municipal council in 1985 and 1986.

He was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Ernesto Zedillo and confirmed by the Senate in January 1995; he took office on 1 February 1995 and served until 30 November 2012. He was perceived as belonging to the Court's conservative wing.

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External links
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Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation justices
1943 births
2020 deaths
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Coronach can refer to:
Coronach, a Highland dirge
Coronach, Saskatchewan
Coronach (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse


Scottsdale Reserve is a  nature reserve on the Murrumbidgee River in south-central New South Wales, Australia.  It is  south of Canberra, and  north of Bredbo.  It is owned and managed by Bush Heritage Australia (BHA), which purchased it in 2006. The purchase was supportive of projects aiming to connect existing fragmented remnant habitat such as K2C (Kosciuszko to Coast). Since the 1870s up until 2006, the land was used for agriculture – primarily sheep grazing with some minor cropping. A significant component of the Reserve (around 25%) has been cleared of native vegetation (~300 Ha).

The reserve is within lands historically attributed to the Ngunawal people. Aboriginal presence in the area was likely due to the availability of resources such as the Bogong moth (Argotis infusa)  and the daisy yam (Microseris lanceolata). The Murrumbidgee River would have been a good source of fish including the trout cod (Maccullochhella macquariensis)  – currently listed as endangered under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999. The river would have provided water for many species of terrestrial fauna the Aborigines are known to have utilised for food including the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula), eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus gigantus) and the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor).

Biology and ecology

Scottsdale Reserve contains a diverse range of species including more than 217 plant species and 142 animal species including 113 bird species, primarily within two threatened communities:
 Yellow box grassy woodlands (nationally critically endangered under the EPBC Act 1999); and
 Natural temperate grassland (nationally critically endangered under the EPBC Act 1999).
Other vegetation communities found on the reserve include:
 Scribbly gum-black cypress pine forest; and
 Tablelands frost hollow grassy woodlands.

Flora

An extensive ecosystem restoration program is underway at Scottsdale with a nursery on site propagating plants including grasses such as river tussock (Poa labillardierei), shrubs such as the silver wattle (Acacia dealbata) and trees including yellowbox (Eucalyptus melliodora). In addition to propagating the more common species expected to be present in the vegetation communities mentioned above, Scottsdale is host to the silver-leafed mountain gum (Eucalyptus pulverulenta). Only ten natural populations of the silver-leafed mountain gum are thought to still exist in Australia and it has been listed as vulnerable to extinction. The Scottsdale team have obtained licenses and intend to propagate this species while in the process of identifying suitable sites.

Natural temperate grassland

The southern tablelands of the ACT and NSW contained around 480,000 hectares of native grasslands prior to European settlement. There is less than 3% of that original area today unaffected by the changes settlers brought including land clearing, grazing and invasive plants. Other impacts that graziers have had on natural grasslands include changes to soil chemistry resulting from the use of fertilisers, habitat fragmentation and changes in microbial processes.

Natural temperate grassland is characterised by native perennial tussock grasses such as kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra syn. T. australis), snowgrass (Poa sieberiana) and river tussock grass (Poa labillardierei), together with speargrass species (Austrostipa sp.), wallaby grasses (Austrodanthonia sp.) and wild sorghum (Sorghum leiocladum).

Approximately 90 Hectares of Scottsdale Reserve originally contained natural temperate grassland. The original grassland was found beside the Gungoandra Creek along a chain of ponds and frost hollows. Managing the weeds prior to restoration is a challenge, with techniques including the application of herbicide, soil scraping and burning being utilised to reduce the seedbank prior to seeding. In April 2014, 11 different native grasses and 30 different wildflowers were direct seeded into isolated trial areas. After 7 months, surveys showed that desirable plants were germinating at an average of 80 plants per square metre and seed was spreading into adjoining areas of Scottsdale Reserve.

Yellow box grassy woodlands

In New South Wales, grassy box woodlands are characterised in the over-storey by distinct Eucalypt species that change with diminishing rainfall the further one travels from the coast. In the tablelands where Scottsdale Reserve is situated, the dominant eucalypts in grassy box woodlands are yellow box (Eucalyptus melliodora) and red gum (Eucalyptus blakelyi).  The mid-storey consists of sparse shrubs from the Grevillea, Acacia and Cassinia families while the ground layer consists of grasses and herbaceous plants.

Prior to European arrival, millions of hectares in NSW was covered in grassy box woodlands, today less than 10% remains. The impacts of clearing for agriculture have resulted in fragmentation of the remnant vegetation, leading to efforts in conservation focussing on providing corridors linking these fragments.

A large amount of cleared former yellow box grassy woodland is now covered in african lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula) throughout the Monaro. The team at Scottsdale and a host of volunteers have planted 20,000 tube-stock plants from the critically endangered vegetation community in a trial to shade out the lovegrass. The team are trialling different methods of restoration ecology in an attempt to understand methods that will best suit the Reserve.

Natural tree regeneration in Australian agricultural landscapes of species such as Eucalyptus and Allocasuarina has historically been low. Higher historical levels of agricultural activity such as cultivation, grazing and degraded land being invaded by weeds tend to lead to less natural regeneration of eucalypt species and other desired vegetation from the threatened communities. Grazing intensity appears to be the primary determinant of Eucalyptus regenerative success as changes to the seedbed occur due to pasture grass introductions and seedlings are often browsed by either stock or pests reducing their survival rate. In areas without stock access, the abundance of young eucalypt plants can be up to three orders of magnitude greater than sites where stock have regular access.  In the 18 months up to April 2015, more than 4,000 yellow and white box eucalypt plantings at Scottsdale were experiencing survival rates of 96.5%. This level of success can be attributed to the absence of stock in paddocks where the plantings have been implemented and the use of sturdy tree guards to help reduce pest browsing by animals such as the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) and rabbits.

Murrumbidgee riparian corridor

Scottsdale in conjunction with the Upper Murrumbidgee Demonstration Reach have planted a 6km habitat corridor between Bredbo and the Colinton Gorge. This corridor will improve the habitat for the threatened murray cod, macquarie perch and trout cod. Trials of long-stem planting in the riparian verge of species such as Eucalyptus viminalis, in conjunction with 17,000 Poa labillardierei are underway. Areas along the riparian corridor that have been less intensively grazed host a greater abundance and variety of shrubs from the grassy box woodlands community. Increasing the abundance of shrubs is an important component of creating a more complex vegetation structure that will support a wider variety and abundance of bird species.

Most of the riparian zone along the Murrumbidgee is privately owned land. Stock access to water along the Murrumbidgee has had a particularly severe impact on the vegetation and habitat through trampling, grazing and erosion. While fencing can be erected in an attempt to control stock access, native herbivores such as kangaroos and wallabies cause as much damage as stock and are relatively unaffected by fencing.

Fauna
Scottsdale Reserve is home to a number of different animals – some native and some exotic. Threatened species include rosenberg’s monitor (Varanus rosenbergi''), the speckled warbler (Pyrrholaemus sagittatus), brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus), macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) and striped legless lizard (Delma impar). The latter two species have specific conservation programs underway at Scottsdale.

 Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica)

The macquarie perch is one of three threatened fish species found in the Upper Murrumbidgee RiverLintermans, M. 2002. Fish in the Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment: A review of current knowledge. Environment ACT alongside murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) and trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis). This Australian native freshwater fish is endemic to the south eastern component of the Murray-Darling River System and prefers clear, flowing water. In the 1970s the species was observed to be declining in abundance with a contracting range and this eventually led to a listing of nationally endangered under the EPBC Act 1999. Today, physical barriers such as dams and the distance between small populations that are geographically dispersed increase the extinction threat.

Researchers from the University of Canberra are currently working to protect this species together with the team at Scottsdale through the identification of spawning areas (utilising underwater listening posts and acoustic tags) which can then be analysed to help understand factors affecting recruitment. Fishing is a factor often attributed to the decline in the macquarie perch fish stocks, however evidence suggests that environmental factors such as altered hydrological flows and predation by carp have a far greater influence.

 Striped legless lizard (Delma impar)

The striped legless lizard prefers undisturbed primary native grasslands with dense cover of tussock grasses such as kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra). Suburban development leading to habitat fragmentation and extensive agricultural impact on both native vegetation and soils have contributed to the decline of suitable habitat for Delma impar. Only around 3% of undisturbed temperate grasslands (suitable habitat for Delma impar) are estimated to remain in south eastern Australia. Delma impar seeks cover from tussock grasses to help maintain its body temperature and moisture requirements. Habitat selection is also driven by predator avoidance (such as raptors) and the abundance of invertebrate food sources. A key conservation challenge in managing populations of this threatened lizard has been maintaining genetic diversity, as the habitat is highly fragmented and populations are relatively small.

One of the management actions at Scottsdale is supporting the relocation of a number of vulnerable striped legless lizards (Delmar impar) from development sites in Canberra. Trial areas were fenced prior to relocating the lizards whose original habitat prior to the advent of agriculture was natural treeless grasslands. Following human disturbance, the threatened lizard has a restricted range existing in fragmented secondary grasslands (where trees have been removed) in temperate areas of south eastern Australia.

 Trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis)
Trout cod have been grown in a hatchery and introduced to the Murrumbidgee River near Narrandera in an attempt to build stocks of this threatened fish. While this is a common approach to increasing the stock of threatened fish species, survival rates can often be low due to the fish displaying domesticated behavioural traits. Greater success was experienced with the translocation of wild trout cod where greater numbers of individuals were present (tracked using radio telemetry) after 12 months (more than 60% of the wild fish survived while less than 10% of the hatchery fish were present).

 Environmental threats

Management actions at Scottsdale are directed at reducing environmental threats in order to help protect the threatened ecosystems and species mentioned above.
Threats include:
 Feral grazing and predation from pigs, deer, rabbits, cats, carp and foxes. Management actions include trapping and baiting.
 Invasive weeds such as African lovegrass, serrated tussock, st johns wort and briar rose – management actions have historically utilised herbicide, although new methods are currently being trialled.
 Erosion – management actions include the construction of leaky weirs, flumes and establishing vegetative ground cover.

 European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

European rabbits were introduced to Australia in 1788 as part of the settlement associated with the First Fleet and rapidly established themselves as a serious vertebrate pest. Rabbits create warrens, or a series of burrows in the soil that leads to extensive soil disturbance in the near vicinity. Weeds tend to flourish in the disturbed soils associated with warren diggings at the expense of native vegetation. Rabbits will graze extensively, removing native vegetation and degrading the landscape. They have a significant impact on shrub recruitment unless suitable guards are in place which can be an expensive means of protecting new growth.

Scottsdale maintains an active program to help reduce the threat of rabbits. Since volunteers at Scottsdale have been inspecting and baiting warrens every 3 months, active rabbit sites have reduced from nearly 60% of 320 identified warrens to around 20%.

 African lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula)
The most serious environmental weed on the property is African lovegrass – which has invaded much of the previously cleared pasture land and forms monocultures in many similar locations in the Kosciuszko to Coast management areas in south eastern NSW. This weed is highly invasive, choking out native growth in degraded soils and changing the fire behaviour of an area potentially transforming the ecosystem. In addition, the subdivision of large rural lands into smaller properties that are often bought by people with little weed knowledge is exacerbating an already severe problem through their lack of effective action.

 Carp (Cyprinus carpio)

The common carp (Cyprinus carpio'') was introduced to Australia around 150 years ago and has since become the dominant fish in the Murray Darling Basin, forming up to 90% of the fish biomass. The carp is highly invasive, and is considered a pest in most Australian states due to a vast appetite for predation and its ability to recruit in hydrologically altered waterways where native fish often have a need for greater current variability. Bush Heritage Australia, together with the Upper Murrumbidgee Demonstration Reach is conducting research in an attempt to better deal with this pest. The research includes tracking the carp using acoustic telemetry and trapping – to remove the carp but also to help estimate population numbers and identify breeding and gathering locations.

Management
BHA maintain 5 main management objectives for the ecosystems on Reserve:
 Cleared box woodland areas – restored with yellow box and associated species by 2030;
 Valley floor – increase native grassland by 20% by 2030, while protecting remnant vegetation;
 Restore habitat in the Murrumbidgee riparian and in-stream zones by 2020;
 Stabilise Gungoandra Creek  and tributary gullies by 2030; and
 Dry sclerophyll forest areas – will support priority species of flora and fauna by 2030.

In order to deliver against these objectives, Scottsdale Reserve hosts a large number of volunteers who under-take activities such as large scale planting in the previously cleared valley, propagation in the in-house nursery and weed control in remnant vegetation.

References

External links
 Bush Heritage Australia

Bush Heritage Australia reserves
Nature reserves in New South Wales
2006 establishments in Australia


Azyumardi Azra  (4 March 1955 – 18 September 2022) was an Indonesian public intellectual, Muslim scholar and Rector of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta. He graduated from Department of History, Columbia University in 1992. He was known as a prolific books writer; member of advisory board of a number of international organizations such as UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF), International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA). After serving as Rector at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, he was the Director of Graduate School.

In 2010, he received the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire, an honorary order from the United Kingdom.

Bibliography
 Jaringan Ulama (1994)
 Pergolakan Politik Islam (1996)
 Islam Reformis (1999)
 Konteks Berteologi di Indonesia (1999)
 Pendidikan Islam : Tradisi dan Modernisasi Menuju Milenium Baru (1999)
 Esei-Esei Pendidikan Islam, dan Cendikiawan Muslim (1999)
 Renaisans Islam di Asia Tenggara (1999)
 Islam Substantif (2000)
 Historiografi Islam Kontemporer (2002)
 Paradigma Baru Pendidikan Nasional (2002)
 Reposisi Hubungan Agama dan Negara (2002)
 Menggapai Solidaritas (2002)
 Konflik Baru Antar Peradaban (2003)
 Islam Nusantara, Jaringan Global dan Lokal (2003)
 Surau, Pendidikan Islam Tradisional Dalam Transisi dan Modernisasi (2003)
 Shari'a and Politics (2004)
 The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern 'Ulama' in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (2004)
 Islam in the Indonesian World: An Account of Institutional Formation (2006)
 Indonesia, Islam, and Democracy: Dynamics in a Global Context (2006)
 Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory (2008)
 Varieties of Religious Authority: Changes and Challenges in 20th Century Indonesian Islam (2010)

Honours

References

External links

 http://azyumardiazra.lec.uinjkt.ac.id/
 Professor Azyumardi Azra - Melbourne Law School

1955 births
2022 deaths
People from Padang Pariaman Regency
Indonesian Muslims
Minangkabau people
20th-century Indonesian historians
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta alumni
Columbia University alumni
21st-century Indonesian historians


The Corund is a left tributary of the river Târnava Mică in Romania. It discharges into the Târnava Mică in Praid. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Harghita County


Sir Josiah Francis (28 March 1890 – 22 February 1964) was an Australian politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1922 to 1955. He was a minister in the Lyons and Menzies governments, serving as Minister in charge of War Service Homes (1932–34), Minister for the Army (1949–55), and Minister for the Navy (1949–51; 1954–55). He held his defence portfolios during Australia's involvement in the Korean War.

Early life

Francis was born on 28 March 1890 in Ipswich, Queensland. He was the son of Ada Florence (née Hooper) and Henry Alfred Francis. His grandfather Josiah Francis was a prominent businessman in Ipswich, serving as the town's mayor and representing the seat of Ipswich in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Francis was educated at Christian Brothers' College, Ipswich, before joining the Queensland Department of Justice as a clerk in 1908. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in 1916. He served with the 15th Battalion in France from April 1917 and was wounded in the shoulder in March 1918, rejoining his unit in September after several months in hospital. He was promoted captain in November before being discharged in Australia in September 1919. Francis became prominent in the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, serving as president of the Ipswich sub-branch and Moreton district division.

Political career
Francis was elected to the Australian House of Representatives from the Brisbane-area seat of Moreton at the 1922 election as a member of the Nationalist Party of Australia. He continued to hold the seat until his retirement in November 1955 as a member of the main centre-right party—Nationalist (1922-1931), UAP (1931-1945) and Liberal (1945-1955). In April 1927, he married Edna Clarke Cribb—they had no children.

He was Minister in charge of War Service Homes from 1932 to 1934. He had been a member of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia since 1920 and supported returned servicemen's issues. In 1943, while in opposition, he moved an amendment to allow the payment of full pensions to returned servicemen who were suffering from tuberculosis regardless of whether or not it could be shown to be caused by war service. Unusually in Australia, his amendment was passed without dissent. With the election of the Menzies government at the December 1949 election, he was appointed Minister for the Army and Minister for the Navy. He held the army portfolio until his retirement and the navy portfolio until May 1951; he was also Minister for the Navy from July 1954 until his retirement.

Later life
In 1956, Francis was appointed Australian consul general to New York. He was knighted in 1957 and retired to Brisbane in 1961. In 1962 he represented Australia at Uganda's independence celebrations. He also chaired the fundraising appeal for the Anzac Memorial Chapel at the Royal Military College, Duntroon.

Personal life
In 1927, Francis married Edna Clarke Cribb, the daughter of state MP James Clarke Cribb. The couple had no children. He collapsed and died on 22 February 1964 while watching a regatta on the Brisbane River at Toowong. He was granted a state funeral which was held at the Albert Street Methodist Church and attended by former prime ministers Arthur Fadden and Frank Forde.

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Place Émilie-Gamelin (known informally as Berri Square, ) is a city square in central Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was created to mark the 350th anniversary of the city. Bordered by Berri Street, Saint Hubert Street, Sainte Catherine Street, and De Maisonneuve Boulevard, the square is adjacent to the entrances of transportation hubs Berri-UQAM Metro Station and the former Station centrale d'autobus, as well as the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec.

For years Place Émilie-Gamelin and the surrounding area held a bad reputation for drug sales and homelessness, something the city has tried to progressively change.

History
The park is named for Roman Catholic nun Émilie Gamelin, founder of the Sisters of Providence religious community, which had operated a convent on the land. Émilie Gamelin and her sisters were known for running a soup kitchen (l'Œuvre de la Soupe) for the homeless community, as well as other needy people, of Montreal, until the demolition of the Asile of Providence building on August 14, 1963 for the construction of the Montreal Metro. Once the construction of the metro station was completed, the roof formed the newly formed place, then called Berri Square (at that time the metro station was named Berri-de-Montigny station), which was nothing more than a patch of concrete. Due to its history, for a long time many homeless people camped on this square.

Allegedly, the city of Montreal created a public municipal park on the square to be able to drive out the homeless people with the park regulations which don't allow access during the night. Ironically, the city named the park after Émilie Gamelin, which might contribute to the fact that the park still attracts homeless people.

Place Émilie-Gamelin was the starting point of many student protests, such as a series of nightly protests (les manifs du soir), beginning April 24, 2012.

Since 2014, it hosts the Jardins Gamelin in the summer, home to public gardens, outdoor concerts, food trucks and street performers. In the winter, Place Émilie-Gamelin also hosts Noël dans le Parc, a Christmas village.

These are part of an ongoing series of effort by the city to revitalize the area, making it more family friendly and appealing to tourists.

Art at Place Émilie-Gamelin
The north end of the square features the metal sculpture Skyscraper, Waterfall, Roads, Brooks... a Construction () by artist Melvin Charney.

Inside the metro entrance on the south-west corner of the park (corner rue Sainte-Catherine and rue Berri) is a bronze statue of Gamelin, called Mère Émilie Gamelin (Mother Émilie Gamelin). The 1,9m high work of art, made by sculptor Raoul Hunter in 1999, was inaugurated on May 25, 2000 commemorating both the 200th anniversary of her birth and the renovation of the rue Sainte-Catherine kiosk, located in the Place Émilie-Gamelin where the shelter she founded once stood. The bronze on her right hand, which is symbolically stretched out toward people in need, is slowly fading because of all the people that shake her hand for fun. The statue is owned by the City of Montreal.

See also
List of urban squares in Montreal.

References

External links
Jardins Gamelin
Noël dans le Parc

Emilie-Gamelin, Place
Quartier Latin, Montreal
Homelessness in Canada
Drugs in Canada
Skid rows
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Outdoor sculptures in Montreal
Public art in Montreal


JP Houston is an Canada-born American singer-songwriter, producer, storyteller, and host.

Career
Houston has a large catalogue of songs composed for television, theater, film and record. One of his first credits, while still in high school, was composing the theme song to the PBS/YTV children's series The Big Comfy Couch. With hundreds of credits, he was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy) in 2001. His work has appeared on The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Funny or Die Presents, and countless other national and international productions. A song co-written by Houston was featured in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He has written for PBS, BBC, HBO, CBC, and many others.

Houston performs and records constantly. He has toured and recorded all over North America and Europe. Most recently, as a member of Brian Bell's Weezer side project The Relationship. Houston did a two-year stint leading the house band at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown, California. He has shared the stage or studio with artists including Leon Russell, Kyuss, Victoria Williams, Band Of Horses, M Ward, Tim Easton, and a host of other notable acts.

In 2013, Houston began his weekly syndicated NPR variety show American Parlor Songbook. The program originates from its home station of KVCR (FM) in Southern California, with rebroadcasts on a growing number of stations around the country. The show features Houston's original songs and stories every episode.

References

External links
jphouston.net
americanparlorsongbook.com
npr.org

American male singers
American male songwriters
American radio personalities
Living people
Canadian emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Vețca is a left tributary of the river Târnava Mică in Romania. It discharges into the Târnava Mică in Fântânele. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Mureș County


This is a list of students' associations in Quebec, Canada.

Federations
 Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec (FECQ)
 Union étudiante du Québec (UEQ)

Universities

CEGEPs
 Association générale étudiante de Bois-de-Boulogne (AGEBdeB)
Société générale des étudiantes et étudiants du Collège de Maisonneuve (SOGEECOM)
Dawson Student Union (Syndicat des étudiantes et étudiants du Collège Dawson)
Vanier College Students' Association (Association des Étudiantes et Étudiants du College Vanier; VCSA)

See also
List of Canadian students' associations

Quebec
Students' associations
Students' associations
Students' associations
Canada education-related lists


The Tasmanian Grey is a polled beef breed of silver grey, grey or dun cattle developed in Tasmania, Australia, in the 1930s.

Bill Reed of Parknook crossed an Angus bull with a white Shorthorn milking cow that produced grey offspring. Having observed the superior milking qualities, docility, hardiness, and the ability of the grey colour to dominate after 20 years of breeding to Angus bulls it was decided to retain a bull calf in 1960.  The bull, Parknook Thomas was mated to Angus heifers to form the nucleus of the breed. More cattlemen began breeding the Greys before the Tasmanian Grey cattle breed Society was formed.

In 1963 negotiations were made to have the Tasmanian Grey cattle accepted into the Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society, but it was not until 1981 the two organizations combined.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20070819112029/http://www.woodbournstud.com.au/history.html

Cattle breeds originating in Australia


The Sebeș is a left tributary of the river Sovata in Romania. It discharges into the Sovata in the town Sovata. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Mureș County


Geraea is a genus of the family Asteraceae from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, commonly called the desert sunflower.

 Species
 Geraea canescens Torr. & A.Gray - California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah
 Geraea viscida (A.Gray) S.F.Blake - California (San Diego + Imperial Counties), Baja California

References

External links
 Jepson Manual Treatment
 USDA Plants Profile

Heliantheae
Asteraceae genera
Flora of Northern America


Lester Brown (born January 5, 1957) is a former American football running back in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Concordes, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He played college football at Clemson University.

Early years
Brown attended Myrtle Beach High School, where he played at running back. He accepted a football scholarship from Clemson University. As a sophomore, he was a backup behind Warren Ratchford, registering 416 rushing yards (second on the team) and 9 touchdowns (led the team).

He became a starter as a junior, helping the team finish with an 11–1 record and a #6 ranking in the nation. He tallied 1,022 rushing yards, a 5.1-yard average, 17 touchdowns (school record) and ranked fourth in the nation in scoring.

As a senior, he missed 3 games with cracked ribs and his production fell to 605 rushing yards and 6 touchdowns. He finished his career with 2,228 rushing yards, a 4.5-yard average, 245 receiving yards and a school record 32 touchdowns.

In 2007, he was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame.

Professional career

Dallas Cowboys
Brown was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the seventh round (189th overall) of the 1980 NFL Draft, with the intention of converting him into a cornerback, because he was considered undersized to play at running back. He was released on August 4.

Canadian Football League
In 1980, he was signed as a free agent by the Saskatchewan Roughriders to play as a running back. In seven games he posted 590 rushing yards and 23 receptions for 185 yards. In 1981, he played a full season, registering 804 rushing yards rushing and 32 receptions for 211 yards.

In 1982, he was traded to the Montreal Concordes in exchange for cash. He was used as a receiver out of the backfield, setting career highs with 61 receptions for 654 yards, while rushing for 388 yards on 87 attempts. In 1983, Brown was used more as a running back with 48 catches for 792 yards and 37 catches.

In June 1984, he was traded to the Toronto Argonauts in exchange for linebacker Gord Elser. He received his first Eastern All-Star selection, after rushing for 594 yards, making 53 receptions for 780 yards, 10 rushing touchdowns and 8 receiving touchdowns . He was released 3 games into the 1985 season.

In 1985, he was signed as a free agent by the Ottawa Rough Riders. Between the two team's, he recorded 537 rushing yards and 31 receptions in only 11 games, to earn his second straight Eastern All-Star selection. In 1986, after playing in 9 games and rushing for 411 yards, he was traded to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Brown remained in Winnipeg for two seasons (1986–1987), but only played in nine games. He finished his career with 4,586 rushing yards, 275 receptions for 2,861 yards and 48 total touchdowns.

Personal life
His son Corey was a sprinter on Clemson's men's track & field team.

References

External links
CFL bio

1958 births
Living people
People from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Players of American football from South Carolina
Players of Canadian football from South Carolina
Canadian football running backs
Clemson Tigers football players
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
Montreal Concordes players
Toronto Argonauts players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Winnipeg Blue Bombers players


Dmytro Serhiyovych Lyopa (; born 23 November 1988) is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder plays for Mladost Ždralovi.

Career
In February 2023 he moved to Mladost Ždralovi.

Honours
Puskás Akadémia
 Nemzeti Bajnokság II: 2016–17

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Kremenchuk
Ukrainian men's footballers
Ukraine men's youth international footballers
Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Dnipro players
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players
FC Karpaty Lviv players
FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia players
FC Metalist Kharkiv players
Puskás Akadémia FC players
NK Osijek players
FC VPK-Ahro Shevchenkivka players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Croatian Football League players
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Hungary
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
21st-century Ukrainian people


Rene Alexander Acosta (born January 16, 1969) is an American attorney and politician, who served as the 27th United States Secretary of Labor from 2017 to 2019. President Donald Trump nominated Acosta to be Labor Secretary on , and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on .

A member of the Republican Party, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Labor Relations Board, and later served as the assistant attorney general for civil rights and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. He is a former dean of Florida International University College of Law. He has twice been named on the ‘50 most important Hispanics’ list by Hispanic Business Magazine.

In 2007–2008, as U.S. attorney, Acosta approved a plea deal that allowed child-trafficking ring-leader Jeffrey Epstein to plead guilty to a single state charge of solicitation, in exchange for a federal non-prosecution agreement. After Epstein's arrest in July 2019 on sex trafficking charges, Acosta faced renewed and harsher criticism for his role in the 2008 non-prosecution agreement, as well as criticism and calls for his resignation; he resigned on July 19 and was replaced by Eugene Scalia.

Background
Acosta is the only son of Cuban immigrants. He is a native of Miami, Florida, where he attended the Gulliver Schools. Acosta received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Harvard College in 1990, and received a Juris Doctor degree cum laude from Harvard Law School 1994. He is the first member of his family to graduate from college.

Early career

Following law school, Acosta served as a law clerk to Samuel Alito, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 1994 to 1995. Acosta then worked at the office of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in employment and labor issues. While in Washington, Acosta taught classes on employment law, disability-based discrimination law, and civil rights law at the George Mason University School of Law.

On December 31, 2013, Acosta became the new chairman of U.S. Century Bank, the largest domestically owned Hispanic community bank in Florida and one of the 15 largest Hispanic community banks in the country. During his tenure as chairman, U.S. Century Bank had its first year-end profit since the start of the Great Recession. Acosta was a member of the Board of Trustees of Gulliver Schools, where he served a past term as board chairman.

George W. Bush administration
Acosta served in four presidentially appointed, U.S. Senate-confirmed positions in the George W. Bush administration. From December 2001 to December 2002, he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. From December 2002 to August 2003, he was a member of the National Labor Relations Board for which he participated in or authored more than 125 opinions.

Then, he became Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division on August 22, 2003, where he was known for increasing federal prosecutions against human trafficking. Acosta authorized federal intervention in an Oklahoma religious liberties case to help assure the right to wear hijab in public school, and worked with Mississippi authorities to reopen the investigation of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black youth whose abduction and murder helped spark the civil rights movement. He was the first Hispanic to serve as Assistant Attorney General.

While leading the Civil Rights division, Acosta allowed his predecessor, Bradley Schlozman, to continue to make decisions on hiring. A report by the inspector general and the Office of Professional Responsibility later found that Schlozman illegally gave preferential treatment to conservatives and made false statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Those findings were relayed to the office of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, but Schlozman was not prosecuted. While it put the primary responsibility on Schlozman, the report also concluded that Acosta "did not sufficiently supervise Schlozman" and that "in light of indications [he and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Sheldon Bradshaw] had about Schlozman's conduct and judgment, they failed to ensure that Schlozman's hiring and personnel decisions were based on proper considerations."

U.S. attorney for Southern District of Florida
In 2005, Acosta was appointed as the U.S. attorney for Southern District of Florida, where his office successfully prosecuted the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the terrorism suspect José Padilla, the founders of the Cali Cartel, and Charles McArther Emmanuel, the son of Liberia's former leader.

The district also targeted white collar crime, prosecuting several bank-related cases, including one against Swiss bank UBS. The case resulted in UBS paying $780 million in fines, and for the first time in history, the bank provided the United States with the names of individuals who were using secret Swiss bank accounts to avoid U.S. federal income taxes.

Other notable cases during his tenure include the corruption prosecution of Palm Beach County Commission chairman Tony Masilotti, Palm Beach County commissioner Warren Newell, Palm Beach County commissioner Mary McCarty, and Broward sheriff Ken Jenne; the conviction of Cali Cartel founders Miguel and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, for the importation of 200,000 kilos of cocaine, which resulted in a $2.1 billion forfeiture; and the white-collar crime prosecutions of executives connected to Hamilton Bank.

Acosta also emphasized health care fraud prosecutions. Under Acosta's leadership the district prosecuted more than 700 individuals, responsible for a total of more than $2 billion in Medicare fraud.

Jeffrey Epstein case
In 2008, U.S. attorney Acosta approved a federal non-prosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein. That secret agreement, conducted without consulting the victims, was later ruled illegal by a federal judge for violating the Crime Victims' Rights Act.

Background

Epstein, ostensibly a wealthy hedge fund manager, was known to have a number of highly influential connections, including British Royal Prince Andrew, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, future president Donald Trump, Tom Barrack, Leon Black, and Wilbur Ross, among others.

In March 2005, the Palm Beach Police Department received reports that Epstein had been engaged in sexually-inappropriate behavior with a minor. Police began a 13-month undercover investigation of Epstein, including a search of his home. The police search of Epstein's home found two hidden cameras and large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom the police had interviewed in the course of their investigation. Details from the investigation included allegations that 12-year-old triplets were flown in from France for Epstein's birthday, to be sexually abused by the financier.

After the Palm Beach Chief of Police requested assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), agents identified at least "34 confirmed minors" whose allegations of sexual abuse by Epstein included corroborating details. The FBI investigation resulted in a 53-page indictment in June 2007.

Non-prosecution agreement
Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal, to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators". That agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment.

The Miami Herald reported: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims." The plea deal was later described as a "sweetheart deal". Epstein would go on to serve only 13 months in a private wing of the county jail, permitted to leave for 12 hours a day as 'work release'.

Acosta has variously stated that he was not directly involved in the unusual agreement, that prosecutors determined it to be the best available solution, and that he "was unduly pressured by Epstein's heavy-hitting lawyers." He also has argued the prosecution team believed conviction by trial in federal court was unlikely, and an agreement would therefore be the best way to put an end to Epstein's exploitation of underage girls.

According to the Miami Herald, Acosta took the unusual step of meeting with Epstein's attorney at a hotel 70 miles from the U.S. Attorney's office in Miami, and it was Acosta who finalized the agreement. According to the article: "In email after email, Acosta... acquiesced to Epstein's legal team's demands, which often focused on ways to limit the scandal by shutting out his victims and the media, including suggesting that the charges be filed in Miami, instead of Palm Beach, where Epstein's victims lived."

According to a source in a Daily Beast article, Acosta informed the Trump presidential transition team that he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence", was "above his pay grade", and to "leave it alone".

Responses
The federal agreement and Epstein's subsequent lenient treatment while incarcerated by the State of Florida have been the subject of criticism, with the Miami Herald calling the agreement "the deal of a lifetime." The fact that the agreement with Epstein also protected unnamed "potential co-conspirators" from federal prosecution drew speculation that perhaps the deal was intended to protect influential people in Epstein's orbit. However, others have described that clause as intended to protect those of Epstein's victims who had been enticed to help him recruit other victims for abuse.

A federal judge later found that the prosecutors had violated the victims' rights in that they had concealed the agreement from the victims and instead urged them to have "patience".

The federal agreement with Epstein was not a typical criminal law plea bargain, but instead employed a structure commonly used in regulatory settlements with corporations. In an op-ed, the approach was described by a member of the prosecution team as a method to address the state of Florida's prior decision not to bring felony charges against Epstein for the same activities.

Jeffrey Sloman, one of the prosecutors in the case, defended the agreement in a February 2019 op-ed piece in the Miami Herald: "Our priorities were to make sure Epstein could not hurt anyone else and to compensate Epstein's victims without retraumatizing them. Our team worked diligently to build a federal case against Epstein. Throughout the investigation, we took care to be respectful of the pain Epstein's victims had endured. As we continued, however, it became clear that most of Epstein's victims were terrified to cooperate against him. Some hired lawyers to avoid appearing before a grand jury. One of the key witnesses moved to Australia and refused to return calls from us. We also researched and discussed significant legal impediments to prosecuting [in federal court] what was, at heart, a local sex abuse case. Given the obstacles we faced in fashioning a robust federal prosecution, we decided to negotiate a resolution.... You can disagree with the result we reached, but our whole team — from Alex [Acosta] on down the chain of command — always acted with integrity and in good faith."

Renewed interest
In 2017, Acosta was nominated for Secretary of Labor. His handling of the Epstein case was discussed as part of his confirmation hearing.

On November 28, 2018, as rumors circulated that Acosta was being considered as a possible successor to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Miami Herald published an investigation detailing Acosta's role in the Epstein case. That story revealed the extent of collaboration between federal prosecutors and Epstein's attorneys in their efforts to keep victims from learning of the plea deal.

The Miami Herald describes an email from Epstein's attorney after his off-site meeting with Acosta: "'Thank you for the commitment you made to me during our Oct. 12 meeting,' Lefkowitz wrote in a letter to Acosta after their breakfast meeting in West Palm Beach. He added that he was hopeful that Acosta would abide by a promise to keep the deal confidential. 'You ... assured me that your office would not ... contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses or potential civil claimants and the respective counsel in this matter,' Lefkowitz wrote."

The Miami Herald article contended that certain aspects of Acosta's non-prosecution agreement violated federal law. "As part of the arrangement, Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims. As a result, the non-prosecution agreement was sealed until after it was approved by the judge, thereby averting any chance that the girls — or anyone else — might show up in court and try to derail it." Victims, former prosecutors, and the retired Palm Beach police chief were among those quoted criticizing the agreement and Acosta's role in it.

Victims' rights violation
After a lawsuit was filed in federal court, in 2019, a court ruled that the non-prosecution agreement was invalid and that prosecutors had violated the victim's rights with their non-prosecution agreement.

On February 21, 2019, a ruling in federal court returned Acosta's role in the Epstein case to the headlines. The decision to keep the deal with Epstein secret until after it was finalized was found to be a violation of the Crime Victims' Rights Act of 2004 (CVRA), which requires notifying victims of the progress of federal criminal cases. The CVRA was new and relatively untested at the time of the Epstein non-prosecution agreement. In 2008, representatives for two of Epstein's victims filed a lawsuit in federal court aiming to vacate the federal non-prosecution agreement on the grounds that it violated the CVRA. For more than a decade, the U.S. Attorney's office denied that it acted in violation of victims' rights laws and argued that the CVRA did not apply in the Epstein case. The government's contention that the CVRA did not apply was based on questions of timing (whether or not CVRA applied prior to filing of federal charges), relevance (whether the CVRA applied to non-prosecution agreements), and jurisdiction (whether the case should be considered a federal case or a state case under the CVRA). The court rejected those arguments in the February 21, 2019 ruling, finding that the CVRA did in fact apply and that victims should have been notified of the Epstein non-prosecution agreement in advance of its signing, to afford them the opportunity to influence its terms. At the conclusion of his ruling, the federal judge in the case noted that he was "not ruling that the decision not to prosecute was improper", but was "simply ruling that, under the facts of this case, there was a violation of the victims rights [for reasonable, accurate, and timely notice] under the CVRA."

Because the CVRA does not specify penalties for failure to meet victims notification requirements, the judge offered both parties opportunities to suggest remedies—Epstein's victims who were party to the suit asked for rescission of the federal non-prosecution agreement with Epstein, while the government suggested other approaches, maintaining that other victims were against rescinding the agreement due to privacy concerns and possible impacts to restitution paid under the agreement.
Following the Herald investigation and related news coverage, members of Congress submitted a formal request to the U.S. Department of Justice for review of Acosta's role in the Epstein deal, and several editorials called for Acosta's resignation or termination from his then-current position as U.S. Labor Secretary. In February 2019, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility notified Senator Ben Sasse that it had opened an investigation into Epstein's prosecution.

Epstein's arrest and Acosta's resignation

On July 6, 2019, Epstein was arrested by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force on sex trafficking charges stemming from activities alleged to have occurred in 2002–2005. The search of his townhouse turned up evidence of sex trafficking and also found "hundreds – and perhaps thousands – of sexually suggestive photographs of fully – or partially – nude females". Some of the photos were confirmed as those of underage females. In a locked safe, compact discs were found with handwritten labels including the descriptions: "Young [Name] + [Name]", "Misc nudes 1", and "Girl pics nude".

Amid criticism of his mishandling of the Epstein case, Acosta resigned his role as Secretary of Labor effective July 19, 2019, after a public outcry.

Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019.

According to an internal review conducted by the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, which was released in November 2020, Acosta showed "poor judgment" in granting Epstein a non-prosecution agreement and failing to notify Epstein's alleged victims about this agreement.

Law school dean
On July 1, 2009, Acosta became the second dean of Florida International University College of Law. He spearheaded the effort to establish the Master of Studies in Law in banking compliance, Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering at FIU Law.

Secretary of Labor

Nomination and confirmation

President Donald Trump announced in a press conference on February 16, 2017, that he would nominate Acosta to fill the position of Secretary of Labor after the nomination of Andrew Puzder was withdrawn. Acosta was recommended by White House counsel Don McGahn. Acosta is the first, and –  – the only Hispanic person to serve in Trump's cabinet.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held confirmation hearings on March 22, 2017, and Acosta's nomination was reported out of the committee on March 30, 2017.

On April 27, 2017, Acosta was confirmed as Secretary of Labor by the U.S. Senate in a 60–38 vote. He received the support of eight Democratic Senators and all Republican senators except Senator Pat Toomey, who did not participate in the vote. On April 28, 2017, Acosta was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence.

Tenure
In 2019, Acosta proposed cutting the funding of his department's International Labor Affairs Bureau from $68 million in 2018 to under $20 million in 2020. That agency combats human trafficking (including child sex trafficking), child labor and forced labor internationally.

During Acosta's confirmation hearing, he discussed the need and his support of apprenticeship as a workforce development tool to close the skills gap. On June 15, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13801, "Presidential Executive Order Expanding Apprenticeships in America", establishing the Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion with Acosta serving as the chair. The task force held five public meetings and issued their final report to President Trump on May 10, 2018.

Following the task force final report, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the following initiatives to expand and promote apprenticeship opportunities:
 Create a new industry-recognized apprenticeship program system to complement the registered apprenticeship system.
 Launch Apprenticeship.gov as a "one-stop source for all things apprenticeship."

Acosta announced that the Trump administration maintained a goal of one million new apprentices.

Acosta resigned as Labor Secretary, effective July 19, 2019, following criticism of his role in the Epstein case.

Recognition
Acosta has twice been named one of the nation's 50 most influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine. He serves or served on the Florida Innocence Commission, on the Florida Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism, Florida Supreme Court's Access to Justice Commission, and on the Commission for Hispanic Rights and Responsibilities. In 2008, Acosta was named as one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by the Ethisphere Institute.

References

External links

 Official biography from the U.S. Department of Labor (archive)
 Assistant Attorney General R. Alexander Acosta
 Secretary Acosta on Twitter

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The 1997 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation () was held in January 1998. It is part of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation series held in Hong Kong.

Top 10 song awards
The top 10 songs (十大勁歌金曲) of 1997 are as follows.

Additional awards

References
 Top ten songs award 1997, Tvcity.tvb.com
 Additional awards 1997, Tvcity.tvb.com

Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation, 1997


WNUB-FM (88.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Northfield, Vermont. It is the radio station of Norwich University, airing a college radio format from studios and transmitter on the university campus.

History
On February 28, 1967, Norwich applied for a new noncommercial educational radio station on 89.1 FM to broadcast from the university campus. The transmitter and studios would be located in Jackman Hall, the school's then-new administration building. WNUB-FM began at the suggestion of Cadet Victor P. Waryas, a senior at the university, and was put on the air with engineering assistance from WDEV in Waterbury. Another driving force behind the station was George Turner, who also doubled as Norwich's public relations director and sports information director.

WNUB-FM made it to air on December 8, 1967; while the university financed the more than $10,000 in startup expenses, students did much of the work in building the station, led by chief engineer David Bonney. It was the first FM station to broadcast in central Vermont; in fact, it was the third in the state and the first outside of Burlington, where WJOY-FM (1962) and WRUV-FM (1965) were already in operation. (WRUV was also the only other noncommercial radio station in the state at the time.) Programming on the new station included news and public affairs programming as well as light classical music.

Norwich was an all-male school at the time WNUB-FM began broadcasting. The first woman to work as a DJ on the station was Stephanie Donat, a senior at the Vermont College; she hosted an hourlong folk music show at WNUB-FM, whose signal was not receivable on Vermont College's campus, in 1968. In 1971, the station staged a 126-hour radiothon to benefit the Big Brothers, Big Sisters program run by Norwich and Vermont College; one day during the event, even WNUB-FM staff were stunned when Governor Deane C. Davis called in, commending the cadets' work and making a contribution.

In 1981, WNUB-FM filed to move from 88.3 to 93.9 FM, with a slight power boost from 10 to 18 watts; the school had previously pursued a change to 89.5 FM in 1975 but abandoned it after six months. Until the station became a part of the school's communications department in the 1980s, it was student run, operating irregular hours and only during the academic year. WNUB-FM ramped up to its present 285 watts of power when it moved to 88.3 MHz in 1988; it also began broadcasting in stereo for the first time as part of the upgrade. The transmitter and antenna were most recently replaced in 2003 and 2005, respectively.

Low enrollment prompted the CM 351 radio class to be canceled for the first time in 15 years in 2014; this meant that there were no student programs for the entire spring 2014 semester over WNUB-FM, and the only live shows were being broadcast by two community volunteers on Saturday mornings. However, 2014 also saw the station stream online for the first time. WNUB-FM was able to rebound from the cancellation, and it also began adding additional community programming; Northfield Town Meeting coverage and three days of music from the Northfield Labor Day festival, the largest in Vermont, are now heard over WNUB-FM.

Programming

Most programs on WNUB are hosted by students in the CM 351 radio class. In addition to hosting live two-hour evening shows, students enrolled in the class also do voice-tracking; record promos and commercials; and complete class projects.

References

External links
WNUB official website

NUB-FM
NUB-FM
Norwich University
Radio stations established in 1967
1967 establishments in Vermont


José Ramón Cossío Díaz (born 26 December 1960) is a Mexican jurist and Associate Justice (ministro) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

Born in Mexico City, Cossío Díaz studied law at the University of Colima and a master's and doctorate (summa cum laude) at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. He has taught constitutional law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, where he was also director of the law faculty.

He was nominated for the Supreme Court by President Vicente Fox, and confirmed by the Senate, in 2003, one of the youngest justices in the Court's history.

External links
Ministro José Ramón Cossío Díaz SCJN

1960 births
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation justices
Lawyers from Mexico City
Living people


Michèle Arnaud (, born Micheline Caré; 18 March 1919 – 30 March 1998), was a French singer, recording artist, and director. She was buried on 18 September 1998 at Montparnasse Cemetery. She is the mother of the singer Dominique Walter and the photographer Florence Gruère.

Arnaud was awarded a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She was the first entrant for Luxembourg in the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956.

Biography

After completing her primary education in Cherbourg, she went to Paris where she took a course at the Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques. She gained two degrees in philosophy. Simultaneously with her studies, she regularly frequented cabaret clubs such as Le Tabou and La Rose Rouge.

In 1956 she was the first entrant for Luxembourg in the first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano, participating with the songs Ne crois pas and Les amants de minuit, but was unsuccessful in winning.

On 11 July 1962, she appeared in the first-ever live television transmission via satellite from France to the United States.  Because of the orbital path of the newly launched American satellite, Telstar, the program lasted only twenty minutes.  Also appearing that evening was Yves Montand.

Discography

Compilations

Gainsbourg sung by...
 2 CD EMI Music France 854067-2, 1996 and reedited in June 2006, all songs of Serge Gainsbourg sung by Michèle Arnaud (CD 1) :
La Recette de l'amour fou, 1958
Douze belles dans la peau, 1958
Jeunes femmes et vieux messieurs, 1958
La Femme des uns sous le corps des autres, 1958
Ronsard 58, lyrics by Serge Barthélémy and music by Serge Gainsbourg, 1959
Il était une oie, 1959
La Chanson de Prévert, 1961
Les Goémons, 1962
La Javanaise, 1963
Les Papillons noirs, a duo with Serge Gainsbourg, 1966
Ballade des oiseaux de croix, 1966
Les Papillons noirs, 1966
Ne dis rien, from the musical Anna, 1967
Rêves et caravelles, 1969

Michèle Arnaud
 2 CD EMI Music France 520486-2 (1999)
 CD 1:
Voulez-vous jouer avec moi ?, texts by Marcel Achard and music by Georges van Parys, 1956
Ne crois pas, texts and music by Christian Guitreau, 1956
La rue s'allume, texts by Louis Ducreux and music by André Popp – Louis Ducreux, 1955
Quand on s'est connu, texts and music by Jean-Pierre Moulin, 1958
L'Éloge des cocus, texts by Pierre Lambry and music by Simone Lorencin, 1957
Zon zon zon, texts by Maurice Vidalin and music by Jacques Datin, 1957
Sous le pont Mirabeau, poem by Guillaume Apollinaire and music by Jacques Lasry, 1955
Julie, texts by Maurice Vidalin and music by Jacques Datin, 1957
Sans l'amour de toi, paroles de Claude Delécluse and music by Michelle Senlis – Paul Misraki, 1957
Morte Fontaine, texts by Rolland Valade and music by Jean-Michel Arnaud, 1959
Van Gogh, texts by Pierre Lambry and music by Jacques Datin, 1959
Napoli, texts and music by Roger Riffard, 1960
Loulou de la Vache Noire, texts and music by Roger Riffard, 1960
Deux tourterelles, texts by Eddy Marnay and music by Emil Stern, 1957
Pourquoi mon dieu, French adaptation by Georges Moustaki et Jacques Kabanellis from Manos Hadjidakis, 1962
Pauvre Verlaine, texts and music by Salvatore Adamo, 1968
Amour perdu, texts and music by Salvatore Adamo, 1963
Toi qui marchais, texts by Jean-Pierre Chevrier and music by Guy Bontempelli, 1963
L'Inconnue, texts and music by Roger Riffard, 1960
Il y a des années, texts and music by Roger Riffard, 1960

 CD 2:
Angelo, texts and music by Robert Ardray, 1964
Comment dire, texts and music by Guy Bontempelli, 1964
Et après ?, texts by Armand Seggian and music by Jacques Pezet, 1964
La Chanson de Tessa, texts by Jean Giraudoux and music by Maurice Jaubert, 1965
Ne vous mariez pas les filles, texts by Boris Vian and music by Alain Goraguer, 1964
Si les eaux de la mer, texts by Bernard Dimey and music by Henri Salvador, 1965
Les Papillons noirs, a duo with Serge Gainsbourg, texts and music by Serge Gainsbourg, 1966
Ballade des oiseaux de croix, texts and music by Serge Gainsbourg, 1966
Chanson sur une seule note, French adaptation by Eddy Marnay of Samba de una nota so from the Brazilian texts by Newton Mandonga, music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1962
Sans toi, texts by Agnès Varda and music by Michel Legrand from the movie Cléo from 5 to 7, 1963
Un soir, texts by Bernard Dimey and music by Henri Salvador, 1964
La Marche arrière, texts by Boris Vian and music by Henri Salvador, 1964
Je croyais, adaptation by Hugues Auffray and Georges Aber from Yesterday by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, 1966
La Grammaire et l'amour, texts and music by Guy Bontempelli, 1966
La Chabraque, texts by Marcel Aymé and music by Guy Béart, 1960
Marie d'Aquitaine, texts by René Ruet and music by André Grassi, 1962
Cherbourg avait raison, texts by Jacques Larue and Eddy Marnay, music by Guy Magenta, 1961
La Chanson des vieux amants, texts by Jacques Brel and music by Gérard Jouannest, 1967
Le Bleu de l'été, French adaptation by Henri Contet of Green leaves of summer from the American texts of Paul Francis Webster, music by Dimitri Tiomkin from the movie Alamo, 1961
Timoléon le jardinier, texts and music by Roger Riffard, 1960

References

Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Luxembourg
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1956
Musicians from Toulon
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Burials at Montparnasse Cemetery
1919 births
1998 deaths
20th-century French women singers


Ed Buchanan (July 16, 1934 – August 31, 1991) was a Canadian football running back who played nine seasons in the Canadian Football League for three teams. He was a CFL All-Star in 1964 while setting a record with 2,071 yards from scrimmage.  Though injured for most of that year, he was part of the Saskatchewan Roughriders 1966 Grey Cup winning team.

High school and college
Ed Buchanan graduated from Kearny High School in San Diego, California and attended San Diego Junior College.

CFL
Ed Buchanan began his CFL career with the Calgary Stampeders in 1961. He played sparingly for them in the first year but blossomed in 1962 with 824 yards rushing and a 6.0 rushing average. Nevertheless, he was traded the following year to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. In 1964, Buchanan became an elite running back, rushing for 1,390 yards (7.8 yards per carry) and receiving for 681 yards (18.9 yards per catch, astounding for a running back), plus 352 yards in kick returns (27.0 yards per return). He specialized in outside runs, in contrast to his running partner, George Reed, who specialized in inside runs and ran for 1,012 yards, both running backs rushing for over 1,000 yards. However, injuries curtailed Buchanan's 1965 and 1966 seasons to only 4 and 6 games, respectively. He came back strong in 1967 with 695 yards rushing (5.8 yards per carry). He did not play in 1968 and was traded in 1969 to the Hamilton Tiger Cats, where he played for two more years before retiring.

Honors
Buchanan was inducted in the Plaza of Honor in Saskatchewan in 2012.

Death
Buchanan died of Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) causing paralysis in San Diego on August 31, 1991, at the age of 51.

Video clips
7 min biography as a Plaza of Honor inductee, 2012

4 min biography as an inductee of the Stephen W Kearny High School Hall of Fame, 2013

References

1934 births
1991 deaths
Calgary Stampeders players
Canadian football running backs
Neurological disease deaths in California
Deaths from motor neuron disease
Hamilton Tiger-Cats players
Players of Canadian football from San Diego
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
Kearny High School (California) alumni


Bob Almond (born January 4, 1967, in Seoul, South Korea) is an American comic book inker whose credits include the Marvel Comics publications Warlock and the Infinity Watch, Black Panther and Annihilation: Conquest: Quasar. Almond is also known for his spearheading of the Inkwell Awards to honor comics inkers.

Early life
Almond became interested in comics by age nine. As a young teen he began drawing the independent comic book Torpedo Comics, with his friends and his brother Mike. He majored in illustration at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and graduated in 1990 with a BFA in Illustration.

Career
Almond's entry into the comic book industry came as a result of the efforts of fellow artists Bernie Wrightson and Jim Starlin. In October 1991 Almond met Wrightson at Wrightson's annual Halloween party. Starlin convinced his editor at Marvel Comics to hire Almond as Terry Austin's replacement as inker on Warlock and the Infinity Watch.

Almond moved on to other projects in 1999, freelancing on such titles as Black Panther, Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar, Heroes for Hire, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has worked for publishers including DC Comics, Penny-Farthing Press, Malibu Comics, Acclaim Comics, Wildstorm, IDW Publishing, Harris Publications, Valiant Comics, and Kingstone Media. In February 2018, the movie Black Panther thanked him in its credits, along with other creators. He and many other Black Panther creators were flown to Los Angeles for a screening of the movie on January 29, 2018. On October 26, 2022, the world premiere of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was released with Bob and his storyteller creative partners receiving “Special Thanks” end credits.

Award and accolades
From 2006 to 2009, Almond wrote the column "Inkblots" in Sketch magazine. During those years, he also unofficially assisted the Comics Buyer's Guide in identifying and crediting inkers. This led him in 2008 to found the Inkwell Awards, to honor comic book inkers. Since January 2008, Almond has served on the Inkwell Awards committee as its founder, director, and treasurer. He introduced the concept of Ms. Inkwell, the promotional model and personification of the Awards.

References

External links

1967 births
American comics artists
Comics inkers
Living people
South Korean emigrants to the United States


Barry S. Coe (born Barry Clark Heacock; November 26, 1934 – July 16, 2019) was an American actor who appeared in film and on television from 1956 to 1978. Many of his movie parts were minor, but he co-starred in one series, titled Follow the Sun, which aired on ABC during the 1961–62 season. He also played "Mr. Goodwrench" on TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life and career

Early life
Born Barry Clark Heacock, his name was changed to Joseph Spalding Coe when his mother, Jean Elizabeth Shea, married Joseph Spalding Coe in 1940 in Los Angeles. His father, Francis Elmer "Frank" Heacock, a writer and publicist for Warner Bros., was killed in an auto accident in North Hollywood, California, on April 5, 1940. Coe attended the University of Southern California and was discovered by a talent scout during a trip with his fraternity to Palm Springs in the mid-1950s. He was signed by 20th Century Fox.

20th Century Fox
Coe's early film roles included appearances in House of Bamboo (1955), How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955), On the Threshold of Space (1956), and D-Day the Sixth of June (1956). He had a small role in Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender (1956). He was in adaptations of The Late George Apley and Deep Water for The 20th Century Fox Hour.

Coe's first really notable role was playing the lustful Rodney Harrington in Peyton Place (1957), based on the best-selling Grace Metalious 1956 novel of the same name. This was followed by a supporting part in Thundering Jets (1958), then went back to Fox for The Bravados (1958) with Gregory Peck, and A Private's Affair (1959). He played Carroll Baker's more age-appropriate boyfriend in But Not for Me at Paramount.

Coe had supporting roles in One Foot in Hell (1960) with Alan Ladd and The Wizard of Baghdad (1961). In 1960, he received a Golden Globe for the Most Promising Newcomer - Male, along with James Shigeta, Troy Donahue, and George Hamilton.

Follow the Sun
In 1961, Coe and Brett Halsey played magazine writers Paul Templin and Ben Gregory, respectively, with Gary Lockwood as Eric Jason, on the ABC television network series Follow the Sun from September 17, 1961, through April 8, 1962. The program was set in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the writers often ventured into private detective work. Despite some memorable episodes, Follow the Sun was cancelled after 29 segments.

After Follow the Sun folded, Coe appeared in a supporting role in Fox's The 300 Spartans (1962) then guest-starred in 1962 on the first episode of the fourth season of Bonanza. He portrayed Clay Stafford, who reveals himself to be the "fifth" Cartwright, a half brother to Little Joe (Michael Landon) via their mother Marie. Although stepfather Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and Joe take Clay at his word, the other Cartwright brothers, Hoss (Dan Blocker) and Adam (Pernell Roberts) are skeptical and intend to investigate Clay's claim. The episode, "The First Born", could have introduced Coe as a new cast member. Entertainment writer Hal Ericson reported that friction (i.e., job security) on the set caused Bonanza producers to stick with the three brothers. Coe guest-starred on Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and appeared as a communications aide in Fantastic Voyage (1966) and as Walt Kilby in The Cat (1966) and The Seven Minutes (1971). He had a semiregular role on Bracken's World.

Later career
He starred as Fred Saunders in Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls in 1973 and as a reporter in Gregory Peck's MacArthur in 1977. His last film role was as diving instructor Tom Andrews in Jaws 2 in 1978. He had a brief stint as Dr. Rex Pierce in the soap opera General Hospital in 1974. His other television appearances include Mission: Impossible and The Moneychangers. From the late 1970s into the early 1980s, Coe was "Mr. Goodwrench" in television advertising for General Motors’ passenger vehicle dealer services.

Personal life and death
Until his death, Coe was married to the former Jorunn Kristiansen (born 1940), who was a Norwegian beauty queen in the 1950s and later became a painter. Their son is William Shea Coe (born 1966). In the 1980s, Barry Coe's daughter attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He had a side business in nutritional supplements—Adventures in Nutrition; labels for the containers were printed by Joe Faust. He lived in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood for several years. Coe died on July 16, 2019, from myelodysplastic syndrome at the age of 84 in Palm Desert, California.

Filmography

References

External links

1934 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
2019 deaths
New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners
Male actors from Los Angeles
20th Century Studios contract players
Male actors from Santa Monica, California
People from Palm Desert, California


Kenneth Guy Summers (born November 12, 1953) is a retired Colorado legislator. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2006, Summers represented House District 22, including southern Lakewood, Colorado and portions of Jefferson County from 2006 to 2012.

Biography
Born in Denver, Colorado, Summers was raised in Englewood, Colorado and graduated from Englewood High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in business education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1976, and was a business teacher at Englewood High School for two years before beginning a career in Christian ministry.

Summers became associate pastor of Lakewood First Assembly of God in 1978 and then senior pastor of High Plains Christian Center in Strasburg, Colorado in 1982. While in Strasburg, Summers was a member of the Strasburg Parks and Recreation District Board, and the Board of Education for Strasburg School District 31J from 1986 to 1989; he was also a volunteer coach at Strasburg High School.

In 1989, Summers relocated to Colby, Kansas, where he was senior pastor of College Drive Assembly. In Colby, he was a volunteer assistant baseball coach alongside Joe Giarratano at Colby Community College and was a volunteer National Guard Chaplain.

He returned to Colorado in 1992 as senior pastor of Dakota Ridge Assembly in Littleton. While a pastor, he served as a sectional presbyter in the Rocky Mountain District Council of the Assemblies of God. Summers' community service while leading Dakota Ridge Assembly includes being a member and president of the South Jeffco Rotary Club, advisor to the Sox Place youth drop-in center in Denver, treasurer of NeighborHope Ministries, and a board member of Teen Challenge of the Rocky Mountains. He also helped found and served as president of Jericho Road Mentoring, a program to recruit mentors for children of prisoners.

Summers earned a master's degree in nonprofit management from Regis University in 2005 and served as the executive director of Teen Challenge of the Rocky Mountains from 2006 to 2013. He has also served on the board of Arapahoe Credit Union in Littleton, Colorado Summers is married; he and his wife, Debbie have two children: Christian and Stephanie.
He currently serves as an affiliate faculty member at Colorado Christian University in the School of Nonprofit Management.

In 2013, within a month after moving to Fort Collins, Colorado, Summers was hospitalized with a life-threatening case of West Nile Virus. This resulted in almost five months of hospitalization and rehabilitation and some permanent mobility impairment. His book entitled, "The Longest Campaign" chronicles his health crisis and personal reflections on lessons learned.

Political activities
Summers served on the precinct committee of the Jefferson County Republican Party from 2002 to 2006. In 2007, as a state legislator, Summers was named a member of the Colorado Legislative Leadership Team for former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Shortly before Super Tuesday in February, he was announced as a Jefferson County chair for Romney's campaign.

Legislative career

2006 election
Summers faced Democrat Jayson Haberkorn, an elementary school teacher, in the 2006 race for the 22nd house district seat. Summers was endorsed by the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. Summers won in the Republican-leaning district with 53 percent of the popular vote.

2007 legislative session
During the 2007 legislative session, Summers served on the House Education Committee and the House Local Government Committee.

Summers sponsored a resolution declaring Colorado Charter Schools Week in April 2007, and unsuccessful legislation to allow individuals to deduct out-of-pocket medical expenses from taxable income.

2008 legislative session
In the 2008 session of the Colorado General Assembly, Summers sits on the House Education Committee and the House Local Government Committee.

For the 2008 legislative session, Summers has sponsored legislation to restrict the eminent domain power of Denver's RTD, after the transit agency attempted to take property used by private businesses along a new rail line. Another of Summers' bills would have required voters to present photo identification, but was killed in committee. He has also introduced bills to create performance incentives for public school teachers, and to facilitate the continuation of specialized license plates for state colleges.

2008 election
Summers sought a second term in the 2008 Colorado legislative elections, running against Democrat Camille Ryckman. His re-election bid was endorsed by the Denver Post, and he won with 54 percent of the popular vote.

2009 legislative session
For the 2009 legislative session, Summers was named to seats on the House Education Committee and the House Finance Committee. Shortly before the beginning of the session, Summers was also named to an ethics panel charged with investigating allegations of vote-buying on the part of Rep. David Balmer in a house leadership election.

Summers plans to sponsor legislation to provide tax credits to investors in startup companies that stem from university research projects.
Summers also reintroduce his legislation to require photo IDs in order to vote, a measure which was killed in committee on a party-line vote. Summers also sponsored legislation to limit damages collected by uninsured drivers in automobile accidents.

2010 legislative session
Summers sponsored an overhaul of the state's food stamp system, now known as SNAP with centrist Jefferson County Democrat Sara Gagliardi.  The measure, House Bill 1022, underwent extensive revisions due to its contentious nature.  As introduced, it would have expanded food stamp eligibility, removed an asset test, extended the certification period for food assistance, and created an outreach plan to pair private volunteer groups with the government in order to promote awareness of SNAP and to help counties deal with increased caseloads.  Though the original bill proved expensive in light of the state's dire economic forecast, subsequent amendments brought costs under control while still preserving the core of the measure.  After a lengthy period in negotiation, the measure was passed 52–10 in the House, and 22–12 in the Senate.  Once signed into law, 1022 became the new backbone of Colorado's food assistance program.

2010 election

2011 legislative session

2012 legislative session

Representative Summers announced that he would not seek re-election to the Colorado House, and would instead run for the state senate in district 22.

2012 election
In the 2012 General Election, Representative Summers faced Democratic opponent Andy Kerr, also a fellow member of the Colorado House, in the race for the Colorado State Senate District 22 seat.  Kerr was elected to the Senate by a narrow margin of 52% to 48%.

2017 election
Summers faced Gordon Coombes in the 2017 race for the Fort Collins City Council district 3 seat. He won with 54 percent of the popular vote.

References

External links
 Legislative web site

1953 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives
University of Northern Colorado alumni
American Assemblies of God pastors
Politicians from Denver
Regis University alumni
21st-century American politicians
People from Colby, Kansas
People from Englewood, Colorado


The School of Computer Science is an academic unit located within the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). It conducts both research and teaching activities related to computer science at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These activities focus on the roots of the computing discipline, including mathematical foundations and system building principles and practices.

History
The School of Computer Science was formed in February 2007, when the former Computing Science and Systems Division was renamed and promoted to "School" status. Ellen Zegura was appointed as the school's first chair. Along with its sibling academic unit, the School of Interactive Computing, the School of Computer Science represents the first time a college-level computing program has delineated the field into separate but related bodies of study. In July 2012, Lance Fortnow, formerly at Northwestern University, replaced Zegura as school chair. During Fornow's time as chair, the number of pre-tenure faculty in the school more than doubled, and the total faculty grew to 37 members. Fortnow departed his role as chair in 2019 to accept a position as Dean of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Mostafa Ammar served as interim chair until Vivek Sarkar was named school chair in July 2020.

Degrees offered
The School of Computer Science offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in several fields. These degrees are technically granted by the School's parent organization, the Georgia Tech College of Computing, and often awarded in conjunction with other academic units within Georgia Tech.

Doctoral degrees
 Ph.D. in Computer Science
 Ph.D. in Bioengineering
 Ph.D. in Bioinformatics
 Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics & Optimization

Master's degrees
 M.S. in Computer Science
 M.S. in Bioengineering
 M.S. in Information Security

Bachelor's degrees
 B.S. in Computer Science

Notable faculty

 Tom Conte
 Lance Fortnow
 Richard J. Lipton
 Ralph Merkle
 Dana Randall
 Vijay Vazirani
 Karsten Schwan
 Santosh Vempala

Location

The School of Computer Science's administrative offices were located in the College of Computing Building on Georgia Tech's Central Campus. Additionally, many College of Computing faculty and graduate students had offices in this building until recently. In 2006, the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, donated by Georgia Tech alum Chris Klaus, was completed to provide additional offices, laboratories, and classrooms for the College of Computing. All of the School of Computer Science personnel have since moved to the second and third floor of the Klaus Building.

See also
 Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
 GVU Center

References

External links
 Georgia Institute of Technology School of Computer Science

Computer Science
Computer science departments in the United States
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)


This is a list of notable industrial metal bands.

List of bands

 16Volt
 2wo
 3Teeth
 Aborym
 Acumen Nation
 The Amenta
 American Head Charge
 Apollyon Sun
 Arkaea
 The Axis of Perdition
 Bile
Bizarra Locomotiva
 Blacklodge
 Black Light Burns
 Black Magnet
 Blood from the Soul
 Blue Stahli
 Blut Aus Nord
 Celldweller
 Circle of Dust
 Clawfinger
 The Clay People
 Code Orange
 Combichrist
 Crossbreed
 Cyanotic
 Cypecore
 Dagoba
 Deadstar Assembly
 Deathstars
 Death Therapy
 Device
 Dope
 Eisbrecher
 Emigrate
 Engel
 Fear Factory
 Filter
 Freak XXI
 Genitorturers
 Godflesh
 Gothminister
 Gravity Kills
 Hanzel und Gretyl
 In This Moment
 Julien-K (later)
 Kill the Thrill
 Klank
 KMFDM
The Kovenant
 Kreator (90's)
 Kryoburn
 Lindemann
 Malhavoc
 Marilyn Manson
 Meathook Seed
 Megaherz
 Ministry
 Misery Loves Co.
 Mnemic
 Mortal
 Motionless in White
 Mushroomhead
 N17
 Nailbomb
 Oomph!
 Pain
 Painflow
 Pitchshifter
 Powerman 5000
 Prong
 Punish Yourself
 Rammstein
 Raubtier
 Raunchy
 Red Harvest
 Rob Zombie
 Samael
 Skin Chamber
 Skrew
 Society 1
 Spineshank
 Static-X
 Strapping Young Lad
 Sub Dub Micromachine
 Sybreed
 Treponem Pal
 Turmion Kätilöt
 Uniform
 White Zombie

See also
List of industrial music bands
List of industrial rock bands
List of electro-industrial bands

References

Industrial

Industrial metal