Richard (Dick) May (November 7, 1930June 9, 2009) was a NASCAR driver who competed in 185 races in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup Series between 1967 and 1985.

Racing career
May began his racing career at the St. Lawrence Valley Speedway in Canton, New York.  He spent much of his early career racing at the Watertown Speedway, where he was 1962 Track Champion.

Known as NASCAR’s pinch hitter, May was a coveted as a relief driver and hailed for his ability to qualify cars and avoid crashing, and some estimates put his total NASCAR appearances at over 500.    In the 1975 running of the Mason-Dixon 500, May drove five different cars but did not finish the race.

After retiring as a driver, NASCAR, worked as a NASCAR inspector until 2003.
May was inducted into the Northeast Dirt Modified Hall of Fame in 2007.

Death
On June 9, 2009, May died following a long illness.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Grand National Series

Winston Cup Series

References

External links

1930 births
2009 deaths
NASCAR drivers
Sportspeople from Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Racing drivers from New York (state)
People from Ithaca, New York
Racing drivers from North Carolina


Josef Leopold Zvonař (22 January 1824 – 23 November 1865) was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and music critic.

Life and career
Zvonař was born in Kublov, studied at the organ school in Prague with Pitsch, and worked as an assistant teacher and organist there; he was briefly the school's director. In 1860 he became director of Žofín Academy, a woman's music school. He died in Prague.

Some of his early music is set to German texts, but after 1848 he aligned himself with Czech nationalism. His reviews of music appeared in Dalibor and Slavoj. He was a co-founder of the Hlahol choral society and the Umělecká Beseda, an artists' union. He may have taught Antonín Dvořák.

Zvonař composed overtures, chamber music, cantatas, an opera entitled Záboj, a requiem, and piano works, and his manuscripts are held at the National Museum in Prague. His songs were popular in his lifetime. However, he his best remembered as an educator; he was the author of the first history of Czech music, Dějiny české hudby (1860), as well as the first Czech language harmony treatise, Navedení k snadnému potřebných kadencí skládání (1859). His papers on Czech folk music were among the earliest founding documents of study in the field.

His name was often published as Leopold Zwonar, or similarly, in his day.

Selected works
Theory and pedagogy:
Varhanictví, umění učitelské (Organology, the Art of Teaching) (1858)
Navedení k snadnému potřebných kadencí skládání (Instructions to the Easy Composing of Needed Cadenzas) (1859)
Návod zpěvu, ohledem na národní školy (Instruction of Singing with Respect to the National Schools) (1860)
Základy harmonie a zpěvu s příslušným navedením pro učitele hudby vůbec a národních kol zvláště (1861)
Listy ředitelům zpěváckých sborů (1862-1863)
Slovo o příčině nedostatku hudebně vzdělaných mladých učitelů (1863)
Hudební vychovávání (Musical Education) (1863-1864)
Příspěvky k vědomostem varhanickým (1864)
Slovo hudebním učňům... (1865)
Příruční knížka při vyučování zpěvu pro I. tř. městské dívčí školy (1866, 1870)

Folk songs:
České národní písně (Czech National Folk Songs) (1859)
Slovo o českých národních písních (A Word about Czech National Folk Songs) (1860)
Zkumné příspěvky ku poznání povahy a ducha české hudby, čerpané z českých nár. písní duchovních i světských (Explorational Contributions to the Cognition of the Character and Spirit of the Czech Music, Acquired From the Czech Sacred and Secular National Folk Songs) (1863)

History:
Dějiny české hudby (History of the Czech Music) (1862)
Jan Křtitel Vaňhal (1859)
Slovo o mších Tůmových (A Word about the Masses by Tůma)
Hlídka po táboru hudby v Čechách (1861)
Listy z dějin české hudby: I. Jan Trojan (1862)
Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (1862)

Selected compositions:
Piano
Bei Sonnenuntergang, Op. 2 (impromptu, pub. 1854)
Lorelei, Op. 3 (Fantasiestück, pub. 1856)
Sonata in F minor, Op. 10 (1849, published by 1857)
Grande Suite, Op. 15 (1852, 1861) (1861 - piano 4 hands)
Prelude et Fugue (pub. 1854)
Primula veris, Op. 27 (1857, published posth. 1871)
Tonstück für Pf. in G major, Op. 40 (1861, pub. 1865)
Věneček aneb Robert Op. 17 (1861)

Organ
Šestero předeher (Six Pastoral Preludes; Sechs Pastoral-Präludien), Op. 12 (pub. 1858)
Sedmero skladeb (Seven Organ Compositions), Op. 14 (pub. posth. 1886)
Pastorale and 2 Pastoral Preludes for Organ, Op. 15 (pub. 1860)
Slavnostní předehra ("Alleluja") (Easter Overture), Op. 18
Album pro varhaníky (Album for Organists)

Chamber
Piano Trio in E major, Op. 22 (1854)
Piano Quintet, Op. 24 (1855)
String Quartet in B major, Op. 31 (1857)

Orchestral
Overture in C minor, Op. 9 (1848)
Overture in D major, Op. 23 (1855)
Overture in C minor, Op. 37 (1860)
Overture in B major

Vocal
Varyto a lyra (1856)
Zpěvy pro čtyři, tři i dva hlasy (Songs for Four, Three and Two Voices) (1862)
Gesänge religiosen Anhälts for men's chorus Op. 17 (book 1 published 1860)
Jaro lásky (Spring of Love)
Mladý cikán (Young Gypsy)
Kukačky (Cuckoos) (1858)
Věneček rozmarýnový z ohlasů písní národních (1858)
Vocal Mass in B minor, Op. 49
Animas fidelium

Cantatas
Der Ritt zum Elfenstein : Ballad after a Swedish saga, for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Op. 26 (1857, published 1860)
Cantata No. 4 in E major (Zdlouha, však ne příliš)

Opera
Záboj (1859-1862)
Lesní kaple (Forrest Chapel)

Notes

References
Cerny/Ludvova, "Josef Leopold Zvonař". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan, 2001.

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1824 births
1865 deaths
Czech composers
Czech male composers
Czech Romantic composers
Czech opera composers
Male opera composers
19th-century classical composers
Male classical composers
19th-century Czech male musicians


is a Japanese chemist and president of Tokyo University of Science. He is known for significant contributions to the discovery and research of photocatalytic and superhydrophilic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2), which is also known as the Honda-Fujishima effect.

Career and research
In 1966 he earned his B. A. (Engineering) at the Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, and in 1971 his Ph.D. (Engineering) at the Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo.

In 1967, while working on his Ph.D. under the supervision of professor Kenichi Honda (本多 健一), he discovered the phenomenon of photocatalytic water decomposition (water photolysis) when he exposed a titanium dioxide electrode to strong light, later called the Honda-Fujishima effect.
The discovery of self-cleaning properties of titanium dioxide by the group under his supervision initiated a  revolution in the ceramic, glass, and other industries (see e.g., self-cleaning glass).

On completing his Ph.D. in 1971 he became assistant professor at Kanagawa University but returned to the University of Tokyo in 1975 as assistant professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry. He was promoted to associate professor in 1978 and professor in 1986 within the same department. He became professor emeritus in 2003 and special university professor emeritus in 2005.

In 1989	he was appointed executive director of the Chemical Society of Japan. In 1998	he became chief of the optical science group at Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology Research,  and president of the Japanese Photochemistry Association.  In 1999	he was founder editor-in-chief of the editorial panel of the Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology C: Photochemistry Reviews  In 2001, he was nominated vice president of the Chemical Society of Japan, becoming its president in 2006.

In 2002	he was research supervisor for the development of advanced nanostructured materials for energy conversion and storage at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).  In 2003	he became president of the Electrochemical Society of Japan.
and chairman of the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology.  In 2010, Fujishima became the ninth president of Tokyo University of Science.

Recognition
Akira Fujishima has been the recipient of many prestigious awards and honours.

In 1983 he was awarded the Asahi Prize from the Asahi Shimbun. He received the Award for Research Excellence from the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 1987.

In 1998	he received the Inoue Harushige Award for technical innovation from the Research Development Corporation of Japan and the Innovations in Real Materials Award.

In 1999 he received the Award of the Electrochemical Society of Japan 1999 and in the following year, 2000, the	Chemical Society of Japan Award

In 2003	he was the recipient of the Heinz Gerischer Award of the European Section of The Electrochemical Society and Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon. The following year he was further recognised in his own country when in 2004 he received both the Japan Prize and the Japan Academy Prize

In 2006 he received the National Commendation for Invention Award and the Kanagawa Culture Award.

In 2012 he received the Laurea Honoris Causa in chemistry of the environment from the University of Turin.

In 2017 he received the Order of Culture from the Emperor of Japan.

References

Japanese chemists
1942 births
Scientists from Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
Academic staff of Kanagawa University
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Living people
Yokohama National University alumni
Recipients of the Order of Culture
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering


The NORTHBENZ Tiema XC2200 is a 7.5 ton 6x6 heavy military vehicle. It is based on the Mercedes-Benz NG manufactured by North-Benz Truck Corporation, Chongqing.

The vehicle is used by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), as a heavy materials transport and as a chassis for special bodies.

Development of the vehicle started in the 1970s, when China purchased a small quantity of heavy German Mercedes Benz 2060th Vehicles. These were used as artillery tractor for heavy guns. Vehicles are proved and it was decided to manufacture them in China. Prototype with the original name TM-SC2030 prototype was completed in 1982. After problems with the original Chinese designed engine and gearbox in 1985, it was decided to import the German air-cooled diesel engines and mechanical transmissions KHD413 ZF.

Serial production started in 1986 with the number of vehicles produced approximately 2000 pieces per year. Vehicles were able to work under different conditions across mainland China from warm areas in the south, across the hot sands of the Gobi Desert to the icy heights of Tibet.

In addition to service in the PLA and the civilian sector of the PRC, the vehicle was exported to Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

The NORTHBENZ Tiema XC2200 has a two-door cab with the engine located under the cab, with four seats and roof hatch. The vehicle is fitted with lockable differentials on all axles.

In addition to the basic freight vehicle variants, it is also produced in several variants including special options 4x4, 8x8, truck crane, box body, bridge Transport, boats Transport, pavement fitter chassis and bodies for armaments.

On the chassis of the vehicle is also built armored vehicle WZ-551 .

Specifications
Seats: 1 +2
Configuration: 6x6
Weight (communication, max.): 20000 kg
Weight (terrain, max.): 19000 kg
Weight (unloaded): 11000 kg
Max. cargo mass (communications): 9000 kg
Max. weight of load (terrain): 8000 kg
Length: 9422 cm
Width: 2500 cm
Height: 3200 cm
Wheelbase: 4,100 cm + 1,450 cm
Max speed: 85 km / h
Engine: air-cooled diesel engine BF8L413FG, 188 kW, 1200 rpm
Transmission: ZF5S-111GPA, 9 forward speeds, 1 reverse
Tires: 14.00 x 20

Variants
 Type 90 - People's Liberation Army Ground Forces

Military trucks of China
Military vehicles of the People's Republic of China


Alexandra Nicole Richards (born July 28, 1986) is an American model, artist, and DJ in New York City. She is the daughter of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and model and actress Patti Hansen, and the sister of Theodora Richards.

Her modeling portfolio includes images by Sante D'Orazio, Carter Smith, Annie Leibovitz, Craig McDean, Mario Testino, Bruce Weber, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Meisel and Tony Kelly.  Richards' face has appeared in magazines including Vogue, British Glamour, American Glamour, Italian Glamour, Vanity Fair, ID magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Jane, Teen Vogue, and French Jalouse. In 2010, she appeared in the French edition of Playboy.

She participated in the "Fashion for Relief" show on September 16, 2005, in New York, a benefit for AmeriCares to support victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Richards attended Weston High School in Connecticut.

References

External links

 Alexandra Richards at the Internet Fashion Database

1986 births
Living people
American female models
People from Fairfield County, Connecticut
American people of English descent
American people of Welsh descent
American people of Norwegian descent
People from Weston, Connecticut
Keith Richards


Mount Lincoln, , is a high point on the Pelham Dome or Pelham Hills, an upland plateau overlooking the Connecticut River Valley in Pelham, Massachusetts (near Amherst, Massachusetts). The mountain is mostly wooded, but a fire tower located on the summit provides views of the Holyoke Range and the east-central Pioneer Valley. The summit, located within the University of Massachusetts Amherst's  Cadwell Memorial Forest, is traversed by the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail and is the home of the Five Colleges radio station beacon.

The west side of Mount Lincoln drains into Hop Brook and Amethyst Brook, thence into Fort River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound. The east side drains into Jabish Brook, following its course into Belchertown, Massachusetts, where the watershed splits into the Jabish Canal and Jabish Brook. The Jabish Canal flows into Broad Brook, thence into the Chicopee River, the Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound; Jabish Brook flows into the Swift River, the Ware River, thence the Chicopee River, Connecticut River, and Long Island Sound.

Cadwell Memorial Forest

The forest is named after Frank A. Cadwell (1860–1935), a successful local businessman orphaned at age sixteen following a logging accident that killed his father. Cadwell began his business career as an apprentice at the Amherst Ice Company and quickly rose to prominence as a land speculator and banker. Cadwell's widow donated the land to the University of Massachusetts Department of Forestry in 1952 to divest herself of having to pay taxes on the property. The University currently uses the forest to conduct silviculture and ecosystem research.

Recreation
The Metacomet-Monadnock Trail traverses over the summit of Mt. Lincoln. Because this section, #11, of the M&M Trail is not entirely on public land, re-routing of the trail because of private ownership issues remains a concern. The Metacomet-Monadnock Trail is one leg of the larger New England Trail.

References

Lincoln
Lincoln


The omega equation is a culminating result in synoptic-scale meteorology. It is an elliptic partial differential equation, named because its left-hand side produces an estimate of vertical velocity, customarily expressed by symbol , in a pressure coordinate measuring height the atmosphere. Mathematically, , where  represents a material derivative. The underlying concept is more general, however, and can also be applied to the Boussinesq fluid equation system where vertical velocity is  in altitude coordinate z.

Concept and summary

Vertical wind is crucial to weather and storms of all types. Even slow, broad updrafts can create convective instability or bring air to its lifted condensation level creating stratiform cloud decks. Unfortunately, predicting vertical motion directly is difficult. For synoptic scales in Earth's broad and shallow troposphere, the vertical component of Newton's law of motion is sacrificed in meteorology's primitive equations, by accepting the hydrostatic approximation. Instead, vertical velocity must be solved through its link to horizontal laws of motion, via the mass continuity equation. But this presents further difficulties, because  horizontal winds are mostly geostrophic, to a good approximation. Geostrophic winds merely circulate horizontally, and do not significantly converge or diverge in the horizontal to provide the needed link to mass continuity and thus vertical motion.

The key insight embodied by the quasi-geostrophic omega equation is that thermal wind balance (the combination of hydrostatic and geostrophic force balances above) holds throughout time, even though the horizontal transport of momentum and heat by geostrophic winds will often tend to destroy that balance. Logically, then, a small non-geostrophic component of the wind (one which is divergent, and thus connected to vertical motion) must be acting as a secondary circulation to maintain balance of the geostrophic primary circulation. The quasi-geostrophic omega  is the hypothetical vertical motion whose adiabatic cooling or warming effect (based on the atmosphere's static stability) would prevent thermal wind imbalance from growing with time, by countering the balance-destroying (or imbalance-creating) effects of advection. Strictly speaking, QG theory approximates both the advected momentum and the advecting velocity as given by the geostrophic wind.

In summary, one may consider the vertical velocity that results from solving the omega equation as that which would be needed to maintain geostrophy and hydrostasy in the face of advection by the geostrophic wind.

The equation reads:

where  is the Coriolis parameter,  is related to the static stability,  is the geostrophic velocity vector,  is the geostrophic relative vorticity,  is the geopotential,  is the horizontal Laplacian operator and  is the horizontal del operator. Its sign and sense in typical weather applications is: upward motion is produced by positive vorticity advection above the level in question (the first term), plus warm advection (the second term).

Derivation

The derivation of the  equation is based on the vertical component of the vorticity equation, and the thermodynamic equation. The vertical vorticity equation for a frictionless atmosphere may be written using pressure as the vertical coordinate:

Here  is the relative vorticity,  the horizontal wind velocity vector, whose components in the  and  directions are  and  respectively,  the absolute vorticity ,  is the Coriolis parameter,  the material derivative of pressure ,  is the unit vertical vector,  is the isobaric Del (grad) operator,  is the vertical advection of vorticity and  represents the "tilting" term or transformation of horizontal vorticity into vertical vorticity.

The thermodynamic equation may be written as:

where , in which  is the heating rate (supply of energy per unit time and unit mass), is the specific heat of dry air,  is the gas constant for dry air,  is the potential temperature and  is geopotential .

The  equation () is obtained from equation () and () by casting both equations in terms of geopotential Z, and eliminating time derivatives based on the physical assumption that thermal wind imbalance remains small across time, or d/dt(imbalance) = 0. For the first step, the relative vorticity must be approximated as the geostrophic vorticity:

Expanding the final "tilting" term in () into Cartesian coordinates (although we will soon neglect it), the vorticity equation reads:

Differentiating () with respect to  gives:

Taking the Laplacian () of () gives:

Adding () to g/f times (), substituting , and approximating horizontal advection with geostrophic advection (using the Jacobian formalism) gives:

Equation () is now a diagnostic, linear differential equation for , which can be split into two terms, namely  and , such that:

and

where  is the vertical velocity attributable to all the flow-dependent advective tendencies in Equation (), and  is the vertical velocity due to the non-adiabatic heating, which includes the latent heat of condensation, sensible heat fluxes, radiative heating, etc. (Singh & Rathor, 1974). Since all advecting velocities in the horizontal have been replaced with geostrophic values, and geostrophic winds are nearly nondivergent, neglect of vertical advection terms is a consistent further assumption of the quasi-geostrophic set, leaving only the square bracketed term in Eqs. (7-8) to enter (1).

Interpretation

Equation (1) for adiabatic   is used by meteorologists and operational weather forecasters to anticipate where upward motion will occur on synoptic charts. For sinusoidal or wavelike motions, where Laplacian operators act simply as a negative sign, and the equation's meaning can be expressed with words indicating the sign of the effect: Upward motion is driven by positive vorticity advection increasing with height (or PVA for short), plus warm advection (or WA for short). The opposite signed case is logically opposite, for this linear equation.

In a location where the imbalancing effects of adiabatic advection are acting to drive upward motion (where  in Eq. 1), the inertia of the geostrophic wind field (that is, its propensity to carry on forward) is creating a demand for decreasing thickness  in order for thermal wind balance to continue to hold. For instance, when there is an approaching upper-level cyclone or trough above the level in question, the part of  attributable to the first term in Eq. 1 is upward motion needed to create the increasingly cool air column that is required hypsometrically under the falling heights. That adiabatic reasoning must be supplemented by an appreciation of feedbacks from flow-dependent heating, such as latent heat release. If latent heat is released as air cools, then an additional upward motion will be required based on Eq. (9) to counteract its effect, in order to still create the necessary cool core. Another way to think about such a feedback is to consider an effective static stability that is smaller in saturated air than in unsaturated air, although a complication of that view is that latent heating mediated by convection need not be vertically local to the altitude where cooling by  triggers its formation. For this reason, retaining a separate Q term like Equation (9) is a useful approach.

References

External links
 American Meteorological Society definition

Atmospheric dynamics
Partial differential equations


Princess Isabella Hedwig Franziska Natalie of Croÿ (27 February 1856 – 5 September 1931) was by birth member of House of Croÿ and by marriage member of House of Habsburg.

Biography

Early life and family
Princess Isabella was daughter of Rudolf, 11th Duke of Croÿ (1823–1902) and Princess Natalie of Ligne (1835–1863). Her paternal grandparents were
Alfred, 10th Duke of Croÿ (1789–1861) and Princess Eleonore of Salm-Salm (1794–1861). Her maternal grandparents were Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne (1804–1880) and Nathalie de Trazegnies (1811–1835).

Marriage and issue

She married Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen on 8 October 1878. They had eight daughters and one son:

 Maria Christina, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1879–1962), married Prince Emanuel of Salm-Salm
 Maria Anna, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1882–1940), married Elias, Duke of Parma
 Maria Henrietta, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1883–1956), married Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
 Natalie Maria, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1884–1898)
 Stephanie Maria Isabelle, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1886–1890)
 Gabriele Maria Theresia, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1887–1954)
 Isabella, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1888–1973), married Prince Georg of Bavaria
 Maria Alice, Archduchess of Austria-Teschen (1893–1962), married Baron Friedrich von Waldbott-Bassenheim (their daughter Countess Maria Immaculata Waldbott von Bassenheim was the second wife of Count Hans Heribert of Toerring-Jettenbach, son of Duchess Sophie Adelheid in Bavaria)
 Albrecht Franz, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1897–1955)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In the mid-1890s, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria began visiting Isabella and Friedrich's home. At first, it was assumed that he was there to court one of their many daughters. Eventually, it was discovered that in fact he was courting Countess Sophie Chotek von Wognin, lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella and daughter of Austrian ambassador Bohuslav, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin.

Isabella became infuriated that Franz Ferdinand had not singled out one of her eight daughters as his bride and future empress; as a result she engaged in a crusade to thwart the marriage of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie. Sophie was dismissed from service, thus beginning an ongoing conflict between Friedrich and Franz Ferdinand, who married Sophie in 1900. The marriage was morganatic; Sophie was subjected to the indignities of a much lower rank at court than that of her husband, and none of their children could succeed to their father's dynastic honours—all chiefly as a result of Isabella's machinations.

A decade later, Isabella created a similar furore when her nephew, Karl, 13th Prince von Croÿ, sought to marry Nancy Leishman, the charming young daughter of John George Alexander Leishman, United States Ambassador to Germany, the former president of Carnegie Steel. The Archduchess felt that Nancy, being an American and a commoner, was not an appropriate spouse for a prince of Croÿ. Karl and Nancy were wed, nonetheless, and their grandson became the Duke of Croÿ.

Honours
Isabella received the following awards:
  Grand Cross of the Imperial Austrian Order of Elizabeth, 1901 (Austria-Hungary)
  Dame of the Dame of the Starry Cross, 1st Class (Austria-Hungary)
  Order of Merit of the Red Cross, 1st Class with War Decoration (Austria-Hungary)
  Dame Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion, with Distinction for Jerusalem (Sovereign Military Order of Malta)
  Order of the Sun, 2nd Class in Diamonds (Persia)
  Dame of the Order of Queen Maria Luisa, 30 August 1883 (Spain)
  Dame of Honour of the Order of Theresa (Kingdom of Bavaria)
  Dame of the Order of Saint Elizabeth (Kingdom of Bavaria)
  Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Civil Merit (Kingdom of Bulgaria)

Sources

1856 births
1931 deaths
People from Dülmen
People from the Province of Westphalia
House of Croÿ
House of Habsburg-Lorraine
Duchesses of Teschen
Austrian princesses
Hungarian people of Austrian descent


Thorleif Lintrup Paus (6 January 1912 – 28 November 2006) was a Norwegian lawyer and diplomat.

Born at Rjukan, he finished law school in 1937 and worked as a judge before joining the diplomatic service after World War II. He was a bureau chief at the Foreign Ministry, first secretary at the embassy in Washington D.C. and the mission in Bern, counselor at the embassy in London, counselor at the embassy in Rome and, from 1962, consul general in Singapore.

In 1965, the King appointed him ambassador to Iran and, in 1969, the ambassador to Brazil. Finally, he was ambassador to Mexico until retiring in 1980.

Honours
Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav (1972)

References

1912 births
2006 deaths
Ambassadors of Norway to Iran
Ambassadors of Norway to Mexico
Ambassadors of Norway to Brazil
Norwegian judges
People from Rjukan
Thorleif
Place of death missing


GNUSim8085 is a graphical simulator, assembler and debugger for the Intel 8085 microprocessor in Linux and Windows. It is among the 20 winners of the FOSS India Awards announced on February, 2008.
GNUSim8085 was originally written by Sridhar Ratnakumar in fall 2003 when he realized that no proper simulators existed for Linux. Several patches, bug fixes and software packaging have been contributed by the GNUSim8085 community.
GNUSim8085 users are encouraged to contribute to the simulator through coding, documenting, testing, translating and porting the simulator.

GNUSim8085 development is becoming active as of 09/2016.

Features

Editor
 Program editor with interactive input wizard for all the standard instructions
 Syntax highlighting in editor to distinguish between instructions, operands, comments etc.
 A separate opcode view which displays assembled code in hex

Assembler
 Support for all standard instructions of the 8085
 Minimalistic support for three assembler directives (.equ, .db, .ds) to control data locations, there exist no directives to directly control code locations
 Code start is defined outside source code ("load me at" entry) - if not defined (default), code is generated (strangely) from 4200h (instead from the real reset vector 0000h)
 Assembly results can be stored as listing file only (no binary file output)

Debugger
 Complete view of registers and flags
 Support for breakpoints
 Step by step execution/debugging of program
 Hex / Decimal Converter
 Runtime inspection of stack and source code variables defined
 Runtime inspection and manipulation of memory and I/O ports

Printing
 Printing of program from editor as well as assembled hex code (known not to work well in Windows)

Code examples

Function of Division.
jmp start
;data
v_divisor: ds 1;
v_dividend: ds 1;
v_rest: ds 1;
v_result: ds 1;
;code
	;function to_divide_the party performs division by parts adding 1 to each "division"
para_dividir_parte: nop
		;saves the return address
		pop d;
		;takes the parameters in BC
		pop b;
	;throws the dividend in A
		mov a,b;
	cmp c; compares if the divisor is no bigger than the dividend
		jc end_division
		;a the division is made from here
		division: sub c; decreases the value of the dividend divisor
	         		 inr h; increments the value of the result
	         		 cmp c; compares if the dividend is bigger than the divisor
	         		 jnc division; jump to the division if not bigger
	fim_divisao: mov b,a; takes the rest of the division
			        push h;pile the result
	       		        push b;pile the rest
	             	        push d;pil the return
ret
start: nop
		;resetting all the registers
		mvi b,00h;
		mvi c,00h;
		mvi d,00h;
		mvi e,00h;
		mvi h,00h;
		mvi l,00h;
		;dividend = 10
		mvi a,02h;
		sta v_dividend;
		;divisor = 2
		mvi a,02h;
		sta v_divisor;
		;zera result
		mvi a,00h;
		sta v_result;
	;load the values to BC
		lda v_dividend;
	mov b,a;
	lda v_divisor;
		mov c,a;
	;put the parameters on the stack
		push b;
	;call the division
		call para_divide_part;
	;recover the rest of the division
		pop b;
	mov a,b;
		sta v_rest
	;recover the rest of the division
		pop h;
		mov a,h;
		sta v_result

hlt;

factorial Interactive.
jmp start

;declaring the variables: fat, i, n;
v_fat: ds 1;
v_i: ds 1;
v_n: ds 1;
;end of declaration;

start: nop; beginning of the program;

	mvi a, 05h; n <= 5 (registry A);
	sta v_n; variable v_n stores the value recorder A;

call void_fatiter; call the method void_fatiter;

void_fatiter: nop; method fatiter {

	mvi a, 01h; fat <= 1 (recorder A);
	sta v_fat; variable v_fat stores the value recorder A;

;begin do if (n > 0) {

   	lda v_n; loads the value of the variable v_n to the recorder A;
	mov b, a; moves the value of the register A to the recorder B;
	mvi a, 00h; clears the register A;
	cmp b; compares the value of register B with the recorder A;
	jnz fim_if; jumps to function end_if if it is not zero (if the value isem B for = 0);

fim_if: jnc return_fat; call the function return_fat case o if is not made;

inicio_for: nop; beginning for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

	mvi a, 01h; i <= 1 (Recorder A);
	sta v_i; variable v_i stores the value recorder A;

r1:	nop; rotina 1;
	mov c, a; moves the value of the register A to the recorder C;
	lda v_n; loads the value of the variable v_n to the recorder A;
	cmp c; compares the value of register C with recorder A;
	jc r4; jumps to routine 4 se der carry;

r4: 	call multi; routine 4; call the function multi;

r3:	lda v_i; rotina 3; loads the value of the variable v_i to the recorder A;
	inr a; increment the value of the recorder A;
	sta v_i; variable v_i stores the value recorder A;
	jmp r1; jumps to routine 1;

r2:	call return_fat; routine 2; call the function return_fat;

multi:  nop; função multi;
	lda v_fat; loads the value of the variable v_fat to the recorder A;
	mov b, a; moves the value of the register A to the recorder B;
	lda v_i; carrega o valor da variavel v_i to the recorder A;
	mov d, a; loads the value of the recorder A to the recorder D;
	mov e, a; moves the value of the register A to the recorder E;
	cmp b; compares the value of the recorder B with the recorder A;
	jz r3; jumps to routine 3 if it is not zero;
	dcr d; decrements the value of the recorder D;
	lda v_fat; loads the value of the variable v_fat to the recorder A;

r5:	add b; rotina 5; soma o valor do registrador A com o valor do registrador B;
	dcr d; decrementa o valor do registrador D;
	jnz r5; pula para rotina 5 se não der zero;
	sta v_fat; variable v_fat stores the value recorder A;
	lda v_n; loads the value of the recorder v_n to the recorder A;
	cmp e; compares the value of the recorder E with the recorder A;
	jz r2; jumps to routine 2 se der zero;
	ret; return to calling multi;

;end for }
;end if }

return_fat: nop; function return_fat;

	lda v_fat; loads the value of the variable v_fat para o registrador A;

hlt; end;

References

External links
 GNUSim8085 homepage
 GNUSim8085 Assembly Language Guide

Simulation software


The Southern Amateur is an amateur golf tournament. It has been played since 1902 and is organized by the Southern Golf Association. From 1902 to 1963, it was played at match play. Since 1964, it has been played at stroke play.

In December 2021, the Southern Amateur joined with six other tournaments to form the Elite Amateur Golf Series.

Winners

2023 Nick Gabrelcik
2022 David Ford
2021 Maxwell Moldovan
2020 Mac Meissner
2019 A. J. Ott
2018 Patrick Cover
2017 Karl Vilips
2016 Jimmy Stanger
2015 Taylor Funk
2014 M. J. Maguire
2013 Zachary Olsen
2012 Peter Williamson
2011 Harris English
2010 Alex Carpenter
2009 Gregor Main
2008 Kyle Stanley
2007 Webb Simpson
2006 Kyle Stanley
2005 Webb Simpson
2004 Michael Sim
2003 Casey Wittenberg
2002 Lee Williams
2001 Cody Freeman
2000 Ryan Hybl
1999 Edward Loar
1998 Kris Maffet
1997 Ed Brooks
1996 Rob Manor
1995 Lee Eagleton
1994 Trey Sones
1993 Justin Leonard
1992 Justin Leonard
1991 Bill Brown
1990 Jason Widener
1989 Jason Widener
1988 Joe Hamorski
1987 Rob McNamara
1986 Rob McNamara
1985 Len Mattiace
1984 Scott Dunlap
1983 Pat Stephens
1982 Steve Lowery
1981 Mark Brooks
1980 Bob Tway
1979 Rafael Alarcón
1978 Jim Woodward
1977 Lindy Miller
1976 Tim Simpson
1975 Vinny Giles
1974 Danny Yates
1973 Ben Crenshaw
1972 Bill Rogers
1971 Ben Crenshaw
1970 Lanny Wadkins
1969 Hubert Green
1968 Lanny Wadkins
1967 Vinny Giles
1966 Hubert Green
1965 Billy Joe Patton
1964 Dale Morey
1963 Mike Malarkey
1962 Bunky Henry
1961 Billy Joe Patton
1960 Charlie Smith
1959 Richard Crawford
1958 Hugh Royer Jr.
1957 Ed Brantly
1956 Arnold Blum
1955 Charlie Harrison
1954 Joe Conrad
1953 Joe Conrad
1952 Gay Brewer
1951 Arnold Blum
1950 Dale Morey
1949 Tommy Barnes
1948 Gene Dahlbender
1947 Tommy Barnes
1946 George Hamer
1942–45 No tournament
1941 Sam Perry
1940 Neil White
1939 Bobby Dunkelberger
1938 Carl Dann, Jr.
1937 Fred Haas
1936 Jack Munger
1935 Bobby Riegel
1934 Fred Haas
1933 Ralph Redmond
1932 Sam Perry
1931 Chasteen Harris
1930 R. E. Spicer, Jr.
1929 Sam Perry
1928 Watts Gunn
1927 Harry Ehle
1926 R. E. Spicer, Jr.
1925 Glenn Crisman
1924 Jack Wenzler
1923 Perry Adair
1922 Bobby Jones
1921 Perry Adair
1920 Bobby Jones
1919 Nelson Whitney
1918 No tournament
1917 Bobby Jones
1916 R. G. Bush
1915 C. L. Dexter
1914 Nelson Whitney
1913 Nelson Whitney
1912 W. P. Stewart
1911 W. P. Stewart
1910 F. G. Byrd
1909 J. P. Edrington
1908 Nelson Whitney
1907 Nelson Whitney
1906 Leigh Carroll
1905 Andrew Manson
1904 Andrew Manson
1903 A. W. Gaines
1902 A. F. Schwartz

Source:

References

External links
Southern Golf Association
Southern Amateur Championship

Amateur golf tournaments in the United States


The Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory was the personal observatory of George Ellery Hale, constructed by his father, William E. Hale, in 1890 at the family home in the Kenwood section of Chicago. It was here that the spectroheliograph, which Hale had invented while attending MIT, was first put to practical use; and it was here that Hale established the Astrophysical Journal. Kenwood's principal instrument was a twelve-inch refractor, which was used in conjunction with a Rowland grating as part of the spectroheliograph. Hale hired Ferdinand Ellerman as an assistant; years later, the two would work together again at the Mount Wilson Observatory.

Hale's work attracted the attention of many in the astronomical community, and when he was hired at the University of Chicago as a professor of astronomy, more advanced astronomy students initially used the Kenwood Observatory.  When Yerkes Observatory was established in 1897, the Kenwood instruments were donated to the University of Chicago and moved to the Yerkes facility in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

The 12-inch telescope was one of the instruments besides the large 40-inch aperture refractor for the start of Yerkes observatory in the 1890s. The observatory was also called Kenwood Observatory.

The 12-inch refractor is noted as being moved to the north dome of the Yerkes observatory, but was eventually replaced by a 24-inch reflector telescope.

The 12 inch refractor was a double telescope with one for visual observation and another objective for astrophotography,

See also
 List of astronomical observatories

References

External links
Photographs of the Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory and equipment
Image of the Kenwood Observatory courtesy of the UoC
Hale's double refractor at Yerkes

Astronomical observatories in Illinois
Defunct astronomical observatories
University of Chicago
Double telescopes


Gottlob Ferdinand Maximilian Gottfried von Schenkendorf (11 December 1783 in Tilsit in East Prussia – 11 December 1817 in Koblenz) was a German poet, born in Tilsit and educated at Königsberg. During the War of Liberation, in which he took an active part, Schenkendorf was associated with Arndt and Körner in the writing of patriotic songs.  His poems were published as Gedichte (1815), Poetischer Nachlass (1832), and Sämtliche Gedichte (1837; fifth edition, 1878). Some of his poems were set to music by lieder composer Pauline Volkstein.  For his Life, consult Hagen (Berlin, 1863); Knaake (Tilsit, 1890); E. von Klein, M. von Schenkendorf (Vienna, 1908).

Gallery

References

External links

1783 births
1817 deaths
People from Tilsit
Writers from East Prussia
German untitled nobility
German male songwriters
German poets
19th-century German musicians
University of Königsberg alumni
German military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars


Sir Thomas Rush (or Russhe) (by 1487 – June 1537), born in Sudbourne, Suffolk, England, was an English serjeant-at-arms who served Henry VII and Henry VIII and was knighted by the latter at the coronation of Anne Boleyn in 1533. He was also appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1533.

Career
Thomas Rush was a local politician in Ipswich who had served Henry VII as well as his son Henry VIII. He was a friend of Cardinal Wolsey (Henry VIII's first Lord Chancellor), survived the fallout from Wolsey's downfall, and attached himself to Wolsey's successor Thomas Cromwell. He was one of the King's sergeants-at-arms, the forerunners of the Yeomen of the Guard ("Beefeaters"); Debrett's Knightage says that he was one of those made a "Knight of the Bath" as part of the coronation ceremonies of Anne Boleyn.

Family
Sir Thomas married Anne Rivers, daughter of John Rivers of Ipswich and widow of Thomas Alvard (1460-1504). Together they had six children: Arthur, Thomas, Leonard, Anthony, John, and an unnamed daughter.  Leonard and John did not survive infancy.  Sir Thomas later married a woman named Christian, but produced no more children.

Legacy
Sir Thomas is interred in St. Stephen's Church in Ipswich, which no longer functions as a church.

A popular misconception is that Sir Thomas' most famous name-bearing descendant is Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.  Dr. Rush is Sir Thomas' descendant through the latter's eponymous son.

References

1490 births
1560 deaths
People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
Knights of the Bath
16th-century English people
High Sheriffs of Norfolk
High Sheriffs of Suffolk
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Ipswich


Our Redeemer's Christian School is a private Lutheran school in Minot, North Dakota. Founded in 1982, the school serves students in preschool through grade 12 and shares a building with Our Redeemer's Lutheran Brethren Church.

History
Our Redeemer's Lutheran Brethren Church began a kindergarten program in 1976, which led to the establishment of Our Redeemer's Christian School in 1982 with fifteen students. The school became a K-8 program in 1983 and a high school program was added in 1995.

The school is a member of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI).

Campus
The school has been housed with the church since the program's establishment. A new classroom and gymnasium building was dedicated in May 2001. The administrative offices, classroom space, chapel, and foyer were renovated in 2009.

Curriculum
The school places a strong focus on a biblical-based curriculum and teaching staff. Our Redeemer's Christian School was also one of the first schools in the state of North Dakota to implement a 7-12 grade Personal Learning Device initiative, with all students being issued their own tablet.

Extracurricular activities
Student activities include band, choir and student congress. The school's athletic teams, known as the Knights, compete in basketball, football (cooperatively with Berthold High School), golf, and volleyball. Students may participate in other sports cooperatively with Minot Public Schools.

References

External links

 Our Redeemer's Lutheran Brethren Church

Educational institutions established in 1982
Private elementary schools in North Dakota
Private high schools in North Dakota
Lutheran schools in North Dakota
Private middle schools in North Dakota
Schools in Ward County, North Dakota
1982 establishments in North Dakota
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America


Dominic Day (born 22 August 1985) is a Welsh rugby union player.

Early life
Born in Haverfordwest, Day grew up in Lamphey, two miles east of Pembroke. He attended Pembroke School, where he participated in track and field, competing for Wales Schools as a discus thrower.

Rugby playing career
Day played rugby union at the age of eight, and at the age of 15 starting as a Number 8 before being moved to the second row. The PE teacher at Pembroke School, Neil Truman, recommended Day for the Pembrokeshire 'Elite' squad, and at the age of 18, he was invited to join the Scarlets' academy. Around the same time, he applied to the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) to study for a degree in sports science. In his first year there, he played for the university rugby team, then Scarlets feeder club Carmarthen Quins RFC in his second year, before joining Llanelli RFC for the 2005–06 season in his final year. He made his debut on 21 January 2006, coming on as a replacement in a 19–16 defeat to Pontypool RFC.

Day made his regional debut for the Scarlets against Northampton Saints on 11 August 2006 in a pre-season friendly ahead of the 2006–07 season. That year, he became a regular in the second row for Llanelli, and scored his first senior try in another friendly against Pembroke Dock Quins RFC on 16 August. A second try followed on 27 January 2007, as Day scored the 10th of 13 tries in an 85–7 win over Seven Sisters RFC in the WRU Challenge Cup. Day made 27 appearances in total in 2006–07 as Llanelli finished fifth in the Welsh Premier Division.

As well as retaining his place in the Llanelli side, Day also made his competitive debut for the Scarlets in 2007–08. After featuring in both pre-season friendlies against Exeter Chiefs and Bath, Day was named in the starting line-up for the league season opener at home to the Newport Gwent Dragons; however, he was substituted at half-time as the Scarlets lost 30–23 and he did not play again for the region until January 2008, coming on for Adam Eustace in the 66th minute of a 40–7 away defeat to London Wasps in the Heineken Cup. He made two more substitute appearances for the Scarlets that season, as well as a further 24 for Llanelli.

Day started the 2008–09 season with Llanelli, but by October 2008, he had become a regular fixture in the Scarlets side; his last Llanelli game of the season came on 15 November 2008 against Cardiff RFC in a 32–3 home win. After 24 appearances for the regional side in 2008–09, Day capped the season first with a three-year contract extension in March 2009 and then a try in each of the final two games – away to the Cardiff Blues and at home to Ulster – his first tries in regional rugby. The 2009–10 season was much the same for Day, as he consolidated his place in the Scarlets starting line-up, playing in 24 of a possible 29 matches.

He started the 2010–11 season as the regular partner for Lou Reed in the Scarlets second row, and scored his first Heineken Cup try on 18 December 2010 in a 38–15 away win over Benetton Treviso; however, a shoulder injury suffered in the Scarlets' 34–7 defeat to Saracens on 29 January 2011 ruled Day out of contention for two months. He made his comeback for Llanelli in a 46–40 defeat away to Pontypool on 19 March, before making his regional comeback on 22 April in the Scarlets' 37–29 away win over Glasgow Warriors, which secured the Welsh side's qualification for the 2011–12 Heineken Cup.

Day regained his starting place in 2011–12, making 26 appearances. However, with the announcement of the introduction of a salary cap into Welsh regional rugby for 2012–13, the Scarlets elected not to extend Day's contract, and in February 2012, he signed a three-year deal to move to English team Bath at the end of the 2011–12 season. His time at the Scarlets ended on a high note as he scored the team's fourth try in a 26–14 away win over the Cardiff Blues on 24 March 2012.

At international level, Day played has played for Wales at under-19, under-21 and Senior levels. In 2004, he played in the U19 World Championships in South Africa, and earned 10 caps overall for the under-19s. The following year, he also participated in the U21 World Championships in Argentina before being selected for the same tournament in France in 2006. In total, he earned 15 caps for the under-21s. In June 2015, Day was named in Wales' initial training squad for the World Cup later in the year. Day made his full international debut aged 29 in the starting line-up for Wales against Ireland on 8 August 2015. In January 2016, Day was named in the Wales squad for the Six Nations Championship.

Despite offers to sign from France, Wales and Bath, Day signed a contract to play for one season with Toyota Verblitz in the top division of Japanese Rugby. His contract to begin in June 2016. In January 2017 he signed to play for Melbourne Rebels for a season. At the conclusion of the Rebels season he signed to play for Saracens in the English Premiership. After nearly three seasons with Saracens, a recurring knee injury forced Day to retire from professional rugby in November 2019.

Super Rugby statistics

References

External links
Bath profile
Scarlets profile

1985 births
Living people
Bath Rugby players
British expatriates in Japan
Expatriate rugby union players in Australia
Expatriate rugby union players in Japan
Melbourne Rebels players
Rugby union locks
Rugby union players from Haverfordwest
Saracens F.C. players
Scarlets players
Toyota Verblitz players
Wales international rugby union players
Welsh expatriate rugby union players
Welsh rugby union players
2015 Rugby World Cup players


Dongducheon Jungang Station is a train station on the Seoul Subway Line 1 and the Gyeongwon Line. The name means Dongducheon Central Station. It was also once known as Eosu-dong Station.

Platforms
 Platform 1: to Hoegi (Rapid Line)
 Platform 2: to Ganeung / Seoul Station / Incheon
 Platform 3: to Soyosan / Dongducheon
 Platform 4: to Dongducheon (Rapid Line)

Exits
 Exit 1: Saengyeon Post Office, Bus Terminal, Sadong Elementary School, Eosusageori, Dongducheon Public Health Center, Jangangjaerae Market, Jungang-dong Community Center, National Health Insurance Corporation
 Exit 2: Parking Lot
 Exit 3: Dongducheon City Hall, Dongducheon Regional Meteorological Office, Dongduchon Middle School, Dongducheon High School, Saengyeongeullin Park, Saengyeon Elementary School, Dongducheon Girls' Middle School
 Exit 4: Parking Lot

References

Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Railway stations opened in 1911
Metro stations in Dongducheon
Seoul Subway Line 1
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 2000s


Thahtay Island (), also known as Thahtay Kyun and Son Island, is a small Burmese island within the Mergui Archipelago in the Andaman Sea. The island is directly adjacent to Ranong, a city in the south of Thailand and to Kawthaung (formerly Victoria Point).  The island has been given by the Burmese government on a long term concession to a Thailand-based VES Group for development as a tourism. Grand Andaman is a five star casino club golf resort now operating on the island.

References

External links
 mergui.org

Mergui Archipelago


Punch is the debut album by Punch Brothers. It was released by Nonesuch Records on February 26, 2008.

The centerpiece of the album is mandolinist Chris Thile's ambitious four movement suite, "The Blind Leaving the Blind". Thile says the piece was written in part to deal with his divorce of 2004. It was composed over the course of a year and a half using Finale composition software. About 30% of the composition involves some improvisation, "like a jazz lead sheet or a written out fiddle tune". Chris Thile has said that his goal was "to fuse the formal disciplines of jazz or classical composition with the vibrancy of bluegrass or folk music song writing". The remainder of the album was co-written by the entire band.

This album, like the group's previous effort How to Grow a Woman from the Ground, was recorded live, with only minimal use of multi-track.

Track listing

Personnel

Producer: Steven Epstein
Engineer: Richard King
Assistant engineers: Hyomin Kang, Don Goodrick
Mixing: Steven Epstein, Richard King
Mastering: Steven Epstein, Richard King
Cover photography: Autumn de Wilde
Wardrobe: Shirley Kurata
Studio photography: John Peets
Design: Loren Witcher
Executive producer: Robert Hurwitz

References

External links
Punch Brothers official website

2008 debut albums
Chris Thile albums
Nonesuch Records albums
Punch Brothers albums


Steve Shapiro (born 1963) is an American music producer, session musician, and jazz vibraphonist.

Biography

Steve Shapiro is a veteran NYC studio vibraphonist, composer, and synth programmer. He has recorded or performed with artists such as  Steely Dan (Two Against Nature), Phil Collins, Whitney Houston, Ornette Coleman, Pat Martino, Regina Belle, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Heath, They Might Be Giants, and Spyro Gyra. Shapiro is also an accomplished producer and arranger whose work has appeared in hundreds of television and film projects, and is a long-time producer/arranger for the Walt Disney Company and Pixar Animation Studios, with credits on an array of projects related to over forty feature film releases. He has been a pioneer of using audio and midi technology with the vibraphone since the 1980s, and has developed a unique voice inspired by contemporary electric keyboards. The industry journal MIX Magazine writes, "Steve Shapiro is a legitimate triple-threat musician."

Shapiro grew up in Connecticut, and graduated from Yale University in 1985 after studying with artists Steve Swallow, Dave Samuels, and Anthony Davis. He was an early proponent of music technology and midi synthesizers, appearing as a sound programmer on many New York City sessions in the late 1980s. Shapiro performed throughout the 1990s using the K&K midi vibraphone, which was also used by mallet players such as Mike Mainieri.

Shapiro has released seven contemporary jazz recordings as a leader, two with acclaimed Nashville guitarist Pat Bergeson. He is a Yamaha performing artist, and plays Mike Balter Signature mallets.

Recordings as leader
1. Xylophobia (Curious/Sons of Sound, 2002), with Pat Bergeson, Marc Johnson, Danny Gottlieb, Kevin Hays, Tim Ries, Mike Davis, Jim Hynes
2. Low Standards (Sons of Sound, 2005), with Pat Bergeson, Doug Weiss, Scott Kreitzer, Jeff Williams, Annie Sellick
3. Backward Compatible (Apria/Vibraphonic, 2008), with Pat Bergeson, Annie Sellick, Marc Johnson, Jochen Reuckert, and others
4. Vibe Out (Vibraphonic, 2013), re-release of 1996 and previous multitrack analog sessions
5. Solomental (Solidtone 2015), solo acoustic & electric vibraphone, and marimba
6. TRi/O: Try the Veal (Solidtone, 2020), with Dave Anderson (bass) & Tyger MacNeal (drums)
7. Plan To Be Spontaneous (Solidtone, 2022), with Jeff Coffin, Pat Bergeson, Oz Noy, Mark Egan, Shane Theriot, Bob Lanzetti, Joel Rosenblatt, Carter McLean, and guest Lucy Woodward.

Recordings as sideman (selected)

Steely Dan, Two Against Nature, Giant Records
SpyroGyra, Rites of Summer, MCA Records
Various Artists, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Walt Disney Records
Joe Pesci, Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings, Sony
Various Artists, Preacher's Wife Soundtrack, Walt Disney Records
Various Artists, Chicken Little Soundtrack, Walt Disney Records
Dave Samuels, Living Colors, MCA Records
Dave Valentin, Musical Portraits, GRP Records
Regina Belle, Special Part of Me, CBS Records
Chris Walker, First Time, Pendulum/Elektra
Dave Valentin, Red Sun, GRP Records
Chris Walker, Sincerely Yours, Pendulum/Elektra
Kiku Collins, Here With Me, Innova
Mary Gatchell, Indigo Rose
Rebecca Sayre, New Girl
Marica Hiraga, Mona Lisa, 3D Japan

See also
Vibraphone
List of vibraphonists

References

 "Arranging Contemporary Cover Songs for Vibraphone"; by Steve Shapiro; Percussive Notes, Percussive Arts Society, Fall 2020
 Included in: "Masters Of The Vibes"; by Anthony Smith; Marimba Productions / Perfect Paperbacks, 2017. https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Vibes-Anthony-Smith/dp/0999068504
 Steve Shapiro - What's on Your Playlist? Jazzed Magazine • February 2009 • February 6, 2009  https://www.jazzedmagazine.com/articles/whats-on-your-playlist/steve-shapiro/
 https://www.allmusic.com/album/low-standards-mw0000261386?1656254469196

External links

Sons of Sound Records

1963 births
Living people
American jazz vibraphonists
Musicians from Hartford, Connecticut
American male jazz composers
American jazz composers


Megan Leanne Marcks (née Still), OAM (born 19 October 1972) is an Australian former national, Olympic and world champion rower. She is an Olympic and World Champion in the coxless pair who represented Australia at the Olympics in 1992 and 1996.

Club and state rowing
Marcks was born in 1972 in Queanbeyan, New South Wales. She was selected by the Australian Institute of Sport as a candidate rower (based on physique and aerobic capacity) through their Talent Identification program in 1988, having had no former involvement with the sport, although Marcks had had a successful career as a junior athlete.

Rowing in Canberra Rowing club colours in an AIS composite crew she contested the women's U19 coxless four title at the 1990 Australian Rowing Championships. In 1991 she first competed at the national level with Kate Slatter when they contested the Australian women's pair championship title in an AIS composite crew. That same year she won her first national championship titles with Kate Slatter – the open women's coxless four and the women's eight in AIS crews but wearing Canberra Rowing Club colours.

In 1993 she was selected in the New South Wales' state women's coxless four to contest the ULVA Trophy at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships. She raced in further New South Wales women's coxless fours in 1994 and 1995 and stroked the 1994 crew. In 1996 she stroked an ACT crew selected to compete for the ULVA Trophy.

International representative rowing
Marcks' first Australian representative selection came at age eighteen when she was selected in 1990 in the women's junior eight to contest the 1990 Junior World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France. The eight rowed to fourth place.  In 1991, only her third year of rowing she was elevated to the Australian senior women's squad and selected in the  women's coxless four with Jodie Dobson, Emmy Snook and Kate Slatter to compete at the 1991 World Rowing Championships in Vienna. All four girls doubled up in the Australian women's eight.

The coxless four stayed together into the 1992 Olympic year and were selected to compete at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. They had to defeat France in a qualification regatta to get through. Then in the Olympic lead-up Marcks suffered a stress fracture of the rib affecting the crew's preparation. They made the Olympic final in the coxless four, a good result given their lack of international racing experience but finished in overall sixth place.

With Snook and Dobson changed out for Courtney Johnstone and Gina Douglas, Slatter and Marcks stayed together in the coxless four into 1993 and they competed at the 1993 World Rowing Championships in Racice where again they were last in the A final and achieved a sixth place. At the 1994 World Rowing Championships Slatter and Marcks were still in the coxless four and now with Alison Davies and Tory Toogood they rowed to a bronze medal. All four girls backed up in the Australian women's eight and with Marcks in the three seat, they rowed to a sixth place finish.

In 1995 in their fifth year of rowing together Slatter and Marcks stepped into the Australian women's coxed pair. They were about to make Australian women's rowing history. At the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Tampere they won their heat, semi and the final claimed a world championship title and put their opponents on notice as to their Olympics aspirations. They also doubled up in the engine room – seated at three and four – of the women's eight who placed ninth overall.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in Still and Slatter in the coxless pair, prevailed over an equally fancied American crew with a 0.39 seconds margin to claim the first Olympic title by an Australian women’s crew. It was a tremendous day for Australian rowing as the girls' gold medal was matched by the Oarsome Foursome of Ginn, Tomkins, McKay, Green and was supplemented by a silver medal from the men’s coxless pair making it the best ever day for Australian rowing at an Olympic regatta till 2008.

Rowing palmares
1990   Junior World Championships-France, Women's Eight: 4th
1992   Olympics-Barcelona, Women's Four: 6th
1993   World Championships-Czech Republic, Women's Four: 6th
1994   World Championships-Indianapolis, Women's Four: 3rd
1994   C'Wealth Games Regatta-Canada, Women's Four: 2nd
1994   C'wealth Games Regatta-Canada, Women's Eight: 2nd
1995   World Championships-Finland, Women's Pair: 1st
1996   Olympics-Atlanta, Women's Pair: 1st

Post retirement rowing honours

1997: Medal of the Order of Australia
2000: Australian Sports Medal
2003: Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee

Marcks is honoured within her home city of Queanbeyan (New South Wales, Australia) by the naming of "Megan Still Court", located adjacent to the Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council chambers. She retired from the sport in 1997. She is married, has a daughter and a son and works with the ACT Academy of Sport on talent programs.
Inaugural inductee to University of Canberra Sport Walk of Fame in 2022.

Notes

References
Australian Rowing Results for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics

1972 births
Living people
People from Queanbeyan
Olympic rowers for Australia
Australian female rowers
Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in rowing
Australian Institute of Sport rowers
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees
World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Australia
Sportswomen from New South Wales
20th-century Australian women
University of Canberra alumni


Mícheál C. Cranitch (1 December 1912 – 23 November 1999) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann in 1973.

Cranitch was born in Rathcormac, County Cork. In 1969 he was nominated by the Taoiseach Jack Lynch to the 12th Seanad. In 1973, he stood for election on the Administrative Panel, but did not win a seat. However, in 1977 he won a seat in the 14th Seanad, which he held until his defeat in the 1983 election to the 18th Seanad.

He served as Cathaoirleach of the Seanad, from January to June 1973.

References

1912 births
1999 deaths
Fianna Fáil senators
Cathaoirligh of Seanad Éireann
Members of the 12th Seanad
Members of the 14th Seanad
Members of the 15th Seanad
Members of the 16th Seanad
Politicians from County Cork
Nominated members of Seanad Éireann
People from Rathcormac, County Cork
Administrative Panel senators


Mosque of Omar, Masjid Umar, Masjid-e-Umar, Al-Omari Mosque or Mosque of Omar ibn al-Khattab is a name given to many mosques, usually referring to Omar, a companion of Muhammad and Caliph (579-644) recognized by Sunni Muslims in the succession to Muhammad. Masjid is the Arabic word for a place of worship, commonly translated as mosque in English.

Notable examples
Notable ones include (alphabetically, by city):
Al-Omari Grand Mosque, Beirut, Lebanon
Mosque of Omar (Bethlehem), West Bank, Palestine
Al-Omari Mosque (Bosra), Syria
Al-Omari Mosque (Daraa), Syria. The Daraa mosque was allegedly built during the rule of Caliph Omar ibn al-Khattab in the seventh century. Its minaret collapsed after being shelled in 2013.
Al Farooq Omar Bin Al Khattab Mosque, Dubai, UAE
Omar ibn al-Khattab Mosque, Dumat al-Jandal, Saudi Arabia
Mesquita Omar Ibn Al-Khatab, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
Great Mosque of Gaza also known as al-Omari Mosque, Gaza City, Palestine
Omari Mosque (Jabalia), Gaza Strip, Palestine (see Jabalia#History)
Mosque of Omar (Jerusalem)
 Musalla of Omar (Mosque of Omar), Jerusalem: the east wing of the al-Aqsa Mosque (al-Qibli Mosque)
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem: in the past also known in the West as Mosque of Omar
Sidna Omar mosque, Jerusalem
Umar Mosque (Leicester), UK
Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, Maicao, Colombia

Others

United Kingdom
 Birmingham
 Bradford
 Cardiff
 Darlaston
 Gloucester
 Huddersfield
 London, Barking district of East London, where convicted terrorist plotter Umar Haque attended
 Nottingham
 Sheffield

United States
 Baltimore
 Brownstown Charter Township, Michigan
 Columbus, Ohio
 Kingston, New York
 Washington, D.C.
 Paterson, New Jersey

Latin America & the Caribbean
 Omar Mosque, San José, Costa Rica
 Omar Bin Al-Khattab Mosque, Willemstad, Curaçao

References

Lists of mosques


VES Group (VES Group Co. Ltd.) is a holding company based in Thailand.  VES is a leading investor in Burma with interests in its main industries of logging, gem mining, jewellery, pearl farming, commercial fishing and tourism.  It is also involved in various construction and infrastructure projects in Burma.  The group is headed by Vikrom Aisiri, a Thai businessman and politician.  Aisiri also owns and operates the Andaman Club, an island casino cum golf resort on the island of Thahtay Kyun, under a concession from the Burmese government.  The group also controls the Dusit Island Resort in Chiang Rai and is building a new four star hotel in Ranong.  The group also has a long term eco-tourism concession on St. Lukes Island.

References
Myanmar Times, October 22-28, 2007 - "Gem industry will shine on, say traders"
 Khaleej Times, 19 October 2006, by Reuters. "Myanmar rubies, sapphires for sale at gems fair"

External links
Andaman Club
Myanmar VES Joint Venture Co., Ltd.

Holding companies of Thailand
Holding companies with year of establishment missing


Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, is the oldest and most prestigious fine arts school in Cuba. It is also known as Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes "San Alejandro", Academia San Alejandro, or San Alejandro Academy. The school is located in Marianao, a suburb of Havana, and was founded in 1818 at the Convent of San Alejandro.

It is located today in a monumental building built in the early 1940s.

Beginning
The school was founded with the support of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country and the General Intendant of the Treasury and was founded under the direction of the French artist Jean Baptiste Vermay (1784–1833). The school was named after Don Alejandro Ramírez, general superintendent and director of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country.

It is the educational center with the largest number of years building the teaching on the lands of Latin America, preceded only by the University of Havana. It turned-from a number of changes that occurred in Spain in the 19th century and not surprisingly was felt in the colonies, in the climate of the Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 and enlightened absolutism. It was established by the Royal Patriotic Society and the Royal Consulate of Havana, as the Free School of Drawing and Painting. Its first director, Juan Bautista Vermay, who arrived in Cuba when the Bonaparte empire collapsed, when he was 31 years old.

Administration
The internal life at San Alejandro is governed by the Board of Directors who in turn appoints the Technical Council, who in turn run the different departments that make up the teaching faculty.

The Board of Directors consists of the Director and Deputy Director and the Secretaries  Speciality Teaching, Education, Health Care-Economic, Business and Education.

The Technical Board, in turn, is the body responsible for representing the teaching faculty to the Board of Directors. It consists of all deans of each departments. These are the Deans of Drawing, Painting, Engraving, Sculpture, Ceramics, Jewelry, Graphic Arts and Theoretical-Cultural Teachings.

San Alejandro has exchanges with many schools abroad, including in the UK The Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School. Over the past three years, three exchanges have taken place. The exchanges consisted of the students from Wiseman travelling to Cuba in February, and the Cuban students coming to London in June.

Directors

Notable alumni

Antonia Eiriz
Nela Arias-Misson
Manuel Carbonell
Pablo Borges Delgado
Agustín Fernández
Antonio Gattorno
Juan Esnard Heydrich
Alicia Leal
Víctor Manuel
Amelia Peláez
Roberto Juan Diago Querol
Manuel Rodulfo Tardo
Fernando Velázquez Vigil
Manuel Mendive
Belkis Ayón
Sandra Ramos
Tania Bruguera
José Toirac
Jose Bedia
Fayad Jamís
Osvaldo Salas
Eberto Escobedo Lazo
 Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy
 José Martí
 Wifredo Lam
 Flora Fong
 Rita Longa

References

External links

 Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes “San Alejandro” website

Buildings and structures in Havana
Education in Havana
Culture in Havana
Educational institutions established in 1818
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro


Fujishima may refer to one of the following.

Fujishima, Yamagata, a former Japanese town
Fujishima Station, a Japanese train station
Akira Fujishima, a Japanese chemist
Kōsuke Fujishima, a Japanese manga artist
Fujishima High School, Fukui, Japan
Fujishima Shrine, Fukui, Japan
Retirement name of sumo wrestlers, heads of the Fujishima stable
Akinoumi Setsuo
Musōyama Masashi
Mineko Fujishima, the vocal of the Swinging Popsicle indie pop/rock band from Japan
Fujishima Takeji, a Japanese artist
Tsuneoki Fujishima (1829–1898), Japanese artist
Haruka Fukushima, a shojo manga artist

Japanese-language surnames


Cono may refer to

 Cono Christian School, a Presbyterian church near Walker, Iowa
 City of New Orleans (train), a passenger train operated by Amtrak from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Chicago, Illinois
 Cono Township, Buchanan County, Iowa, one of sixteen townships in Buchanan County, Iowa

See also
Cuno (disambiguation)


Below are the rosters for the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships held in the United States.

Belarus
Coach: Mikhail Zakharov

Canada
Coach: Brent Sutter

Czech Republic
Coach: Alois Hadamczik

Finland
Coach: Risto Dufva

Germany
Coach: Ernst Hofner

Russia
Coach: Sergei Gersonsky

Switzerland
Coach: Jakob Kolliker

United States
Coach: Scott Sandelin

Rosters
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships rosters


Steven C.  Francis (born October 8, 1954) is an American politician and businessman. He served in the Nevada State Assembly for five years and twice ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of San Diego. He is a Republican. He is co-founder of AMN Healthcare.

Personal life
Francis was born in 1954 in Phoenix, Arizona. He attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 1978. He has lived in San Diego with his wife, Gayle, since 1987.

Government experience
Steve Francis was elected to a seat in the Nevada State Assembly in 1982. At only 28, he was one of the youngest assemblypersons ever. His colleagues elected him majority leader in 1985, which he held until 1987.

During his tenure, he authored successful legislation to outlaw the sale and use of armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets in the state. He also introduced legislation to reform the state's mental health system and stablish a state commission on mental health.

He sponsored a bill to strengthen tenants' rights against unfair landlord practices.

After moving to San Diego, Francis unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2005 and 2008.

Business entrepreneurship
In 1985, he and Gayle, a registered nurse, founded AMN Healthcare, a nurse staffing business. In 1987 after completing his legislative service in Nevada, they relocated AMN Healthcare to San Diego. As AMN Healthcare grew in its early years, Steven and Gayle oversaw the company's development. From 1990 to 2005, Francis served as AMN's chief executive officer and he became chairman of the board in 2005. He retired from the board of directors in 2008.

During the 22 years of AMN's history, the company transitioned from a private enterprise to a national public company with over 2,000 corporate employees, with over 8,000 nurse and allied healthcare professionals providing staffing services to over 2,000 healthcare facility clients. Today, AMN (NYSE:AMN) is the nation's largest healthcare staffing firm and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

Francis also founded the San Diego Institute for Policy Research (which now resides at National University), a non-partisan organization that generates economic and policy research for the San Diego region.

Francis served as chairman of the board of Medical Solutions, Inc., a national healthcare staffing company from 2012 to 2015.  Francis is currently executive chairman of the board of AHS Staffing.  In addition, Francis is president of Francis Enterprises, LLC., a healthcare staffing advisory firm.

Community leadership
Francis is a long-serving board member of Father Joe's Villages (chairman 2005–2015), which provides transitional housing for low-income families, rehabilitative services for the homeless, and residential and educational services for homeless teens. He has served in the past as the chairman of the San Diego Chapter of the American Red Cross as well as vice chairman of the local YMCA.  In addition, he has served as a director for the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.

Awards and honors
Francis has been honored as a Father of the Year by the American Diabetes Association/San Diego Father's Day Council, as Patriot of the Year by the Boy Scouts of America San Diego-Imperial Council and as Corporate Director of the Year by the Corporate Directors Forum.

References

External links

National University
AMN Healthcare Website
Medical Solutions

Living people
1954 births
Nevada Republicans
Businesspeople from Nevada
University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumni
Medical outsourcing


The episodes covering the first two seasons of The Prince of Tennis anime series are directed by Takayuki Hamana, animated by Trans Arts, and co-produced by Nihon Ad Systems, J.C.Staff, and Production I.G. It originally aired on the terrestrial Japanese network TV Tokyo from October 2001 to October 2002. The anime is an adaptation of Takeshi Konomi's Prince of Tennis manga series created in 2000, and the story revolves around a 12-year-old tennis prodigy named Ryoma Echizen, who moves back to his native Japan in order to attend his father's alma mater, Seishun Academy, a private middle school famous for its strong tennis team.

Viz Media handles the distribution of the series in North America, where the episodes debuted as streaming media on Viz's and Cartoon Network's joint online broadband service called Toonami Jetstream on July 14, 2006. It first began airing on North American television as part of Toonami's Saturday programming block on December 23, 2006. However, it was removed from Toonami's schedule on June 9, 2007, and was also removed from Toonami Jetstream after episode fifty's broadcast on December 3, 2007. As of January 15, 2008, a total of four DVD compilations, containing the first fifty episodes of the two seasons, have been released by Viz Media. All four compilations contain three discs, each containing four episodes, save the final discs of the first two compilations, which contain five episodes.

Five pieces of theme music are used for the Japanese language episodes; two opening themes and three ending themes. The two opening themes, "Future", used for the first season, and "Driving Myself", used for the second, are both performed by Hiro-X. The first ending theme, "You Got Game" by Kimeru, is used for the first season. For the second season, there are two ending themes which periodically alternates, "Keep your style" and "Walk On", both performed by Masataka Fujishige. In the English language episodes, the opening and ending themes were replaced with electronic music compositions.

Episode list

Season 1
Intraschool Rankings Saga – Part I (Eps. 1–10)

Tokyo Preliminaries Saga – Part I: Fudomine Jr. High (Eps. 11–20)

Seigaku's Training Saga – Part I (Eps. 21–26)

Season 2
Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament Saga – Part II: St. Rudolph Academy (Eps. 27–36)

Seigaku's Training Saga – Part II (Eps. 37–40)

Tokyo Metropolitan Tournament Saga – Part III: Yamabuki Jr. High (Eps. 41–45)

Intraschool Rankings Saga – Part II (Episodes 46–53)

References
General
 – Official list of original Japanese episode titles.

Specific

External links
Official Prince of Tennis website
TV Tokyo's Prince of Tennis website

2001 Japanese television seasons
2002 Japanese television seasons
Season 1-2


Llewellyn Jones (13 July 1884–1 July 1961) was a United States writer and literary editor. He was one of the signatories to Humanist Manifesto I.

Jones was literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post from 1914 to 1932 and then worked as an editor for Willett, Clark, and Company.  He moved to Boston in 1937, when he became president of the Greater Boston American–Scandinavian Forum.

Works
 First Impressions; Essays on Poetry, Criticism, and Prosody (1925)
 How to Criticize Books (1928)
 How to Read Books (1930)

External links
 Llewellyn Jones Papers at Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

References

1884 births
1961 deaths
American male poets
American literary editors
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers