Presto is the proprietary software developed and used in-house by Pixar Animation Studios in the animation of its features and short films. Presto is not available for sale and is only used by Pixar. As a result, little is known outside Pixar about the detailed workings of this software. Pixar's older proprietary animation software menv (pronounced as "men-vee") — known more commonly by the press as Marionette — was superseded by Presto at some point prior to the 2012 release of Brave, the first feature film animated in Presto. Pixar claims that Presto is designed to be intuitive and familiar to animators who have traditional cel animation experience. The logo for Presto was designed by Parakeet, a design studio based in Portland, Oregon. Presto was named after the 2008 animated short of the same name, which itself is about the titular magician character.

Pixar chooses to use a proprietary system instead of the commercial products available and used by other companies because it can edit the software code to meet its own specific needs. One example of this editing is shown in extra features of The Incredibles DVD; it is explained that previous versions of Marionette were not able to stretch models in the ways needed to correctly animate Elastigirl, so the in-house Marionette development team created a new version that included this feature.

In 2018, Patrick Stewart presented Academy Technical Achievement Awards to Rob Jensen for the foundational design and continued development, to Thomas Hahn for the animation toolset, and to George ElKoura, Adam Woodbury and Dirk Van Gelder for the high-performance execution engine of the Presto Animation System.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award announcement stated "Presto allows artists to work interactively in scene context with full-resolution geometric models and sophisticated rig controls, and has significantly increased the productivity of character animators at Pixar."

References

Sources

External links

 Presto demonstration at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in Vimeo

Animation software
Pixar
Custom software projects


Admiral Charles Donald Griffin (January 12, 1906 – June 26, 1996) was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as commander in chief of United States Naval Forces Europe from 1963 to 1965 and as commander in chief of Allied Forces Southern Europe from 1965 to 1968.

Early career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Joseph Richard Griffin and the former Maude Spicknall, Griffin moved to Washington, D.C. as a child, where he graduated from Central High School in 1923. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in 1927 and was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy.

After initial duty in battleships and destroyers from 1927 to 1930, Griffin underwent flight training and was designated a naval aviator in 1930. During the 1930s, he served in an air patrol squadron and as a scouting pilot aboard the heavy cruiser , and studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, where he received a master's degree in 1937. From 1937 to 1940, he was attached to Scouting Squadron Six aboard the aircraft carrier , then was a flight test officer at Naval Air Station Anacostia from 1940 to 1942.

World War II
During World War II, Griffin was commander of Carrier Air Group 9 aboard the aircraft carrier  from 1942 to 1943, participating in air raids on Marcus Island, Wake Island, the Marshall Islands, and Rabaul, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. In 1943, he became operations officer for Task Force 58 in the Pacific. He was detached in 1944 to plan operations in the Pacific theater as a member of the Joint War Plans Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

After the war, Griffin was commanding officer of the escort carrier  from 1945 to 1946, making two transatlantic trips to ferry troops home from France as part of Operation Magic Carpet, then served as operations officer aboard the aircraft carrier . He was plans officer for the United States Atlantic Fleet from 1946 to 1947.

Revolt of the Admirals
Griffin played a key role in the Revolt of the Admirals, an incident of civil-military conflict over the long-term funding priorities of the armed services.

In September 1948, as a captain, Griffin received sudden orders to report to the Strategic Plans Division (OP-30) in the Department of the Navy as officer in charge of special projects.

In October 1949, Griffin was directed to prepare a position paper on the controversy for Chief of Naval Operations Louis E. Denfeld to present in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee. After placing the completed draft on Denfeld's desk, Griffin visited Denfeld's office every day to solicit feedback, but "it became quite apparent to me that Admiral Denfeld was not going to take any fast action on this because he, himself, was feeling his way along."

Finally, the day before Denfeld was scheduled to testify, Griffin received a call at 7 a.m. to appear at Denfeld's office at 8 a.m., where Griffin and three others were assigned to compose Denfeld's statement. Using Griffin's paper as a rough draft, the four men worked all day long, eating lunch and dinner in Denfeld's office.

Matthews relieved Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations after hearing Denfeld's testimony, which contradicted the official positions of the civilian Defense Department leadership. Other navy officers who participated in the controversy also saw their careers stalled or ended, but Griffin emerged unscathed. "The other people involved in it didn't all get hurt. I didn't get hurt and it was well known, I think, that I had a lot to do with writing that statement."

Korean War
Griffin completed his tour in the Strategic Plans Division in 1950 and became a student at the National War College, from which he graduated in 1951. He served as plans officer for Commander Air Forces, United States Pacific Fleet from 1951 to 1953. He was commanding officer of the attack carrier  from June 1953 to July 1954, operating with the Seventh Fleet to monitor the recent Armistice in Korea.

Flag officer
Promoted to rear admiral, Griffin was appointed the first director of the Long-Range Objectives Group (OP-93) when the group was established in February 1955, then served as special assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1955 to 1956, commanded Carrier Division 4 from 1957 to 1958, and was director of the Strategic Plans Division from 1959 to 1960.

Commander, Seventh Fleet
Griffin commanded the United States Seventh Fleet from March 7, 1960, to October 28, 1961. With 125 warships and 500 aircraft, the Seventh Fleet constituted the world's most powerful peacetime naval force, and its role was to concentrate so much United States naval and air power in the Pacific as to reduce the likelihood of war. Asked whether the Seventh Fleet had enough power for this purpose, Griffin admitted, "I've never seen a military commander say he had everything he wanted. It is just not the nature of the beast."

In 1960, after rioting in Japan forced the unexpected collapse of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's planned visit to Tokyo, the President sailed to Taiwan aboard the heavy cruiser  along a course that took him within  of the potentially hostile Chinese mainland, escorted by a Seventh Fleet protective force that included 100 planes, the aircraft carriers  and  and four destroyers. Griffin reassured newsmen that there was no indication of any unusual activity on the part of the Chinese Communists, but added that the motto of the Fleet was readiness and in the event of any threat the Fleet was ready to strike; in particular, should any submarine make any hostile move against the President and his escort force, he would do his best to destroy it. "The first thing I would do would be to get the St. Paul out of here as fast as possible."

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy moved the carriers of Griffin's Task Force 77 into the South China Sea, where Griffin conducted naval exercises in response to the escalating crisis in Laos.

Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
Griffin was a leading candidate to succeed Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke in 1961. Burke ranked Griffin high on a list of forty admirals that Burke submitted to Secretary of the Navy John B. Connally Jr. as eligible successors, and Newsweek rated Griffin's odds of succeeding Burke at 4 to 1. Burke was succeeded by Admiral George W. Anderson Jr. and Griffin became Anderson's deputy for fleet operations and readiness.

As deputy chief of naval operations for fleet operations and readiness from 1962 to 1963, Griffin supervised an influential navy study that reversed the navy's previous stance on its nuclear propulsion program by accepting the view of Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and the Atomic Energy Commission that nuclear power was not prohibitively expensive, and calling for the use of nuclear propulsion in all major surface ships, not just in submarines.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Griffin was one of three senior officers assigned by Anderson to monitor the navy's involvement in the crisis around the clock, and to act in Anderson's absence: "first, to make sure that the President and the Secretary of Defense were informed... and secondly, to prevent any civilian encroachments on military operations."

In 1963, Griffin was a candidate to succeed Admiral Robert L. Dennison as the four-star commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, under a proposal that would split that command from the unified Atlantic Command, which would go to Admiral Harold Page Smith. Although the Atlantic Fleet and Atlantic Command ultimately remained dual-hatted under Smith, Griffin gained his fourth star anyway when he was appointed commander in chief of United States Naval Forces Europe later that year.

Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces Europe
In June 1963, Griffin was advanced to the rank of full admiral when he succeeded Admiral David L. McDonald as the triple-hatted Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), Commander in Chief, United States Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean (CINCNELM), and United States Commander Eastern Atlantic (USCOMEASTLANT). He relinquished one of these hats when CINCNELM was disestablished on December 1, 1963. He was relieved by Admiral John S. Thach in March 1965.

Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Southern Europe

Griffin was Commander in Chief Allied Forces Southern Europe (CINCSOUTH) from March 31, 1965 to January 31, 1968, succeeding Admiral James S. Russell. As commander of all NATO forces in southern Europe, Griffin directed the land, sea and air forces deployed in the Mediterranean area by five nations: Italy, Greece, Turkey, Britain, and the United States.

While CINCSOUTH, Griffin frequently warned that Soviet efforts to undermine the Western position in the Middle East had "all the earmarks of a concerted effort to alter the strategic balance" as part of a broader campaign with the ultimate target of Europe. "While the Arab world is a rich prize in itself, Europe has been and remains the primary objective. A strong Soviet power position in the Mediterranean, supported by a string of client states along its southern shore, would give the Russians not only control of key resources essential to the European economy, but positions from which to menace the flow of shipping on which that economy's survival depends." However, Griffin's superiors in Washington remained convinced that the Soviet Union was not interested in a direct confrontation with American power.

Upon reaching the statutory retirement age, Griffin was relieved as CINCSOUTH by Admiral Horacio Rivero Jr. and retired from the navy effective February 1, 1968. At his retirement ceremony at his headquarters in Naples, Italy on January 31, 1968, Griffin asserted that the relatively peaceful Soviet posture in central Europe was a tactical move to cover a thrust of naval forces into the Mediterranean, and complained that France's recent withdrawal from NATO was tantamount to freeriding off the contributions of allies who met their treaty obligations.

Personal life

Griffin married Camilla Yvonne Ganteaume on September 14, 1935; after her death at the age of 49 on August 10, 1963, he remarried to Marion Hopkins Schaefer on November 21, 1964. He and his first wife had two children: Linda Louise Griffin, and navy officer Charles Donald Griffin Jr.

After retiring from the navy, Griffin resided in Washington D.C., where he was a vestryman at St. Alban's Episcopal Church and a member of the Army and Navy Club and the Chevy Chase Club. He died of a heart attack at the age of 90 while playing golf at his summer residence, Bald Peak Colony Club, in Melvin Village, New Hampshire.

Awards and honors

Griffin held the Gray Eagle Award as the senior active-duty aviator in the Navy from July 31, 1967, until his retirement on February 1, 1968.

Griffin is grandfather to Charles Donald Griffin III and Maria Griffin LeStage, and Donald Griffin Collins and Constance Yvonne ("Sam") Collins Nickell; and great-grandfather to Elizabeth Garner LeStage, Charles Richard Griffin LeStage, Cora Abigail Griffin, Xyacery Bryant, Donovan Collins, Kiley Collins, and Mackenzie Collins.

An oral history is archived at the United States Naval Institute.

References

External links

Charles Donald Griffin Speeches, 1965–1968 MS 313 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy

United States Navy admirals
United States Naval Academy alumni
United States Navy personnel of World War II
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
1906 births
1996 deaths
Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Grand Commanders of the Order of George I
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Recipients of the Philippine Legion of Honor
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Recipients of the Order of the Sacred Tripod
Burials at Arlington National Cemetery


This is a list of episodes of the 2008 Japanese television series Kamen Rider Kiva. Each episode title combines a word or phrase relating to music and a phrase more directly related to the episode. A symbol from musical notation is used to separate these two halves of the episodes' titles (an exception is the finale, which uses the music end barline at the end of the title).

Episodes

References

Kiva


Bernt Åke Rosengren (24 December 1937 – 15 May 2023) was a Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist. His recordings earned him five Gyllene Skivan awards in Sweden over more than forty years.

Biography
Rosengren first played professionally at age 19, as a member of the Jazz Club 57, and two years later in 1959, he played in the Newport Jazz Band. Roman Polanski's film score composer Krzysztof Komeda used Rosengren in the performance of his jazz score for Polanski's film Knife in the Water (1962). Rosengren recorded a string of highly regarded albums in the 1960s and 1970s, including Stockholm Dues (1965), Improvisations (1969), and Notes from Underground (1974).

Rosengren played in a sextet led by George Russell in the 1960s in Europe. Later in the decade, he moved from hard bop into post-bop experimentation, playing with Don Cherry; in the 1970s, as a member of Sevda led by trumpeter Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay, he began working with elements of Turkish and Middle Eastern music. He also formed his own big band in the 1970s.

In the 1980s, Rosengren worked frequently with American jazz musicians such as Doug Raney, George Russell, Don Cherry and Horace Parlan. He recorded an album of songs from Porgy & Bess in 1996.

Chris Mosey, a jazz critic from All About Jazz, said in his review of Rosengren's album I'm Flying (2009): "All in all, I'm Flying is a worthy Golden Record." Jack Bowers, also writing for All About Jazz, wrote in his review of the same album: "Rosengren, for his part, is a model of elegance and consistency, inspiring his companions without stealing their thunder. Together they comprise a tight-knit and consistently engaging foursome. Besides blowing superbly, Rosengren wrote seven of the album's twelve selections. – Rosengren rides their talents like an Indy car driver, and the result is an exemplary team effort that is as stylish as it is rewarding."

Awards
Rosengren won five Gyllene Skivan awards in Sweden, in 1965, 1968, 1969, 1974 and 2009. He was awarded the Django d'Or Contemporary Star of Jazz in 2000 and Master of Jazz in 2003. Rosengren was also awarded the Illis quorum in 2010.

Discography

As leader or co-leader
 Stockholm Dues (Columbia EMI, 1965)
 Improvisations (SJR, 1968/9)
 Fly Me To The Sun (Gazell, 1971)
 Notes from Underground (Harvest, 1974)
 Bernt Rosengren Quartet / Trio In Stockholm Vol. 1 (Amigo, 1975)
 Bernt Rosengren Quartet with Bobo Stenson In Stockholm Vol. 2 (Amigo, 1976)
 First Moves (EMI, 1977)
 Bernt Rosengren Big Band with Horace Parlan & Doug Raney (Caprice, 1980)
 Surprise Party (SteepleChase, 1983)
 Live! Featuring Doug Raney (Dragon, 1984)
 Summit Meeting (1984)
 The Hug (1992)
 Late Date: A Tribute to Lars Gullin (Mirrors, 1994)
 Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (Liphone, 1996)
 Bombastica! 1959-1960 (Jazzland) with Lars Werner (Dragon, 1996)
 Bernt Rosengren Octet Plays Porgy & Bess (Arietta, 1996)
 Bernt Rosengren Octet Plays Evert Taube (Arietta, 1999)
 Bernt Rosengren Tentet Plays Kurt Weill (Arietta, 2000)
 Bernt Rosengren Octet Plays Evert Taube Vol. 2 (Arietta, 2002)
 Inside Pictures: A Tribute to Lars Gullin, Vol. 2 (2002)
 I'm Flying (pb7, 2009)
 Plays Swedish Jazzcompositions (pb 7, 2012)
 In Copenhagen (Stunt, 2013)
 Ballads (pb7, 2015)
 Songs (pb7, 2017)

As sideman
With Lester Bowie
 Gittin' to Know Y'All (MPS, 1969)
With Don Cherry
 Eternal Rhythm (MPS, 1968)
 Eternal Now (Sonet, 1973)
 Live in Stockholm (Caprice, 2013)
 The Summer House Sessions (Blank Forms, 2021)
With Arne Domnérus
 Face to Face, Dragon, 1999
With Mongezi Feza
 Free Jam (Ayler, 2004)
With Krzysztof Komeda
 Jazz Jamboree '61 Nr. 4 (Muza, 1961) – more extensive CD reissues of this concert on Power Bros, Polonia and Jazz on Film; music from Knife on the Water
With Doug Raney
Cuttin' Loose (SteepleChase, 1978)
Listen (SteepleChase, 1980)
I'll Close My Eyes (SteepleChase, 1982)
Meeting the Tenors (Criss Cross, 1983)
Lazy Bird (SteepleChase, 1984)
The Doug Raney Quintet (SteepleChase, 1988)
With George Russell
 The Essence of George Russell (Sonet, 1971)
 New York Big Band (Soul Note, 1982)
With Tomasz Stańko
 Litania: Music of Krzysztof Komeda (ECM, 1997)
With Idrees Sulieman
 The Camel (Columbia, 1964)

References

External links
Bernt Rosengren's MySpace site
Rosengren at Discogs

1937 births
2023 deaths
Musicians from Stockholm
Swedish jazz musicians
Swedish jazz saxophonists
Male saxophonists
Jazz tenor saxophonists
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century Swedish male musicians
Male jazz musicians
Recipients of the Illis quorum


The 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment (also known as "Third Arkansas") was a regiment of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and the most celebrated unit from the state. Formed and initially commanded by Colonel Albert Rust, and later falling under the command of Colonel Van. H. Manning, the regiment was part of the Army of Northern Virginia, serving under General Robert E. Lee. The 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment served for the duration of the war, from the late months of 1861, through to its surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865. It was the only regiment from the state of Arkansas to serve the entire war in the Eastern Theater, where most of the major Civil War battles were fought. It was also the only Arkansas regiment to initially sign up for the duration of the Civil War, with all other regiments from the state signing on for a one-year enlistment.

Formation

The regiment was formed in May and June 1861, initially by Dr. W. H. Tebbs, who would be appointed a captain, and Van. H. Manning who would later command the regiment. Early in May, 1861, Dr. W. H. Tebbs, Captain of a volunteer company raised on Bayou Bartholomew, in Ashley county, and Captain Van. H. Manning, the captain of a company organized at Hamburg, in Ashley County, went to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in order to tender the services of their two companies, for service in the Confederate Army. They contacted Leroy P. Walker, Confederate Secretary of War, at Montgomery, by telegraph and received his reply declining the offer of the two companies, separate from a regiment. They then went to Montgomery, and Manning enlisted the help of Arkansas Confederate Senator Albert Rust. Rust help gain the acceptance as a part of the Confederate Army, conditioned on his raising the remaining companies needed to form a regiment. Rust, returned to Arkansas, and organized nine additional companies, and joined Captain Tebbs and Capt Manning in Virginia, where the regiment was mustered into service for the period of the war. The addition of nine companies made eleven when the regiment was organized. Tebbs' Company and Captain Mannings' were perhaps the first and only companies denied admission into the Confederate service, even for a day, and were the first companies enlisted for the war. When organized, the regiment was composed of 11 companies:

 Company A — "The Arkansas Travelers", commanded by Captain W. H. Tebbs, organized at Portland, Ashley county. On September 25, 1862, forty-two members of disbanded Company L—also from Ashley county—were assigned to this company. During its four years of service, 147 men served in Company A. Only twenty of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company B — "The Berlin Beauregards", commanded by Captain Capers, organized at Berlin, Ashley county. During its four years of service, 110 men served in Company B, only eight of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company C — "The Confederate Stars", commanded by Captain Thomas M. Whittington, organized at Monticello, Drew county. During its four years of service, 154 men served in Company C, only thirteen of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company D — "The Selma Rifles", commanded by Captain R. S. Taylor, organized at Selma, Drew county.  During its four years of service, 83 men served in Company D, only eight of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company E — "The Champagnolle Guards", commanded by Captain Thomas F. Nolan, organized at Champagnolle, Union county. On July 18, 1862, twenty-eight members of disbanded Company C, Second Arkansas Infantry Battalion, which was also from Union county, were assigned to this company.  During its four years of service, 131 men served in Company E, only twenty of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company F — "The Hot Spring Hornets", commanded by Captain Daniel A. Newman, organized at Rockport, Hot Spring county. On July 18, 1862, thirty-three members of disbanded Company A, 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion, were assigned to this company; however, most of them were soon discharged for various wounds and illnesses. During its four years of service, 119 men served in Company F, only ten of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company G — "The Three Creeks Rifles", commanded by Captain, later Major Reedy, organized at Three Creeks, Union county. On July 18, 1862, eighteen members of disbanded Company C, 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion—also from Union county—were assigned to this company. During its four years of service, 127 men served in Company G, only 23 of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company H — "The Orphan Company", commanded by Captain Reed, a mixed Arkansas/Kentucky company. The fledgling company had only gathered 33 volunteers, only a third of that needed to constitute a full company. Two companies of Arkansas volunteers from Ashley county, passing through Nashville, Tennessee, on their way to Virginia to form the Third Arkansas Infantry, met Samuel V. Reid, of Kentucky, who had brought 30 of his fellow Kentuckians down to Tennessee, looking for a regiment to attach themselves to. It was proposed that the two groups of volunteers join forces to fit out a full company for the Third Arkansas. The commissioned and non-commissioned officer appointments would be equally divided among the two groups, with Reid becoming captain and Gibson becoming First Lieutenant. Accordingly, the Kentuckians enlisted at Nashville on June 10; the Arkansawyers enlisted at Tyro on June 15; and the new company traveled to Lynchburg, Virginia, where it was assigned to the Third Regiment, Arkansas Volunteers, as Company H, July 1861. Colonel Albert Rust, regimental commander, referred to the company as "my orphans", a name which the men adopted as "The Orphan Company". In keeping with its cosmopolitan nature, Company H also recruited quite a few Virginians during the war. During its four years of service, 116 men served in Company H, only nine of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company I — "The Tulip Rifles", commanded by Captain Alexander, organized at Tulip, Dallas county. On July 18, 1862, thirty members of disbanded Company B, Second Arkansas Infantry Battalion, were assigned to this company. Company I was the only company in the Third Arkansas that made significant use of conscripts to reinforce its ranks. In March 1863, thirty farmers and furloughed soldiers from other regiments were conscripted at Camden, Arkansas, and sent to the company in Virginia. During its four years of service, 150 men served in Company I. Only thirteen of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company K — "The Ashley Volunteers", commanded by Captain Wilson Wilkins organized at Hamburg, Ashley county. During its four years of service, 134 men served in Company A, only twenty-four of them remained when the company was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
 Company L — "The Rust Guards", commanded by Captain Joseph H. Bell organized at Latonia, Ashley county (later consolidated with Company A). On September 25, 1862, the company was disbanded.  Forty-two of its members were transferred to company A—also from Ashley county. A total of seventy-three men were carried on the rolls of Company L during its existence. Only ten of them remained when the regiment was surrendered at Appomattox Court House.

Albert Rust was appointed Colonel, and the regiment was sent to Lynchburg, Virginia, for military training. While in Virginia, command level officers with formal military training were assigned to the regiment, to include West Point graduate Seth. M. Barton who was assigned as Lieutenant-Colonel, and with Virginia Military Institute graduate Thomas Middleton Semmes assigned as regimental adjutant. The regiment was then attached to General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and deployed to the area of what would soon after become West Virginia. By mid-1862, the regiment was under the command of Van. Manning following Albert Rust's promotion to Brigadier-General, with William H. Tebbs being promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel.

Battle actions
From its induction into the Confederate Army, the Third Arkansas would go on to become one of the most distinguished and well respected Confederate regiments of the war. However, prior to their first battle actions, the first impressions of them by their fellow Confederates were, by written accounts since, not good. In several accounts, relayed by author and historian Mauriel P. Joslyn, the regiment was first seen as a poorly dressed and poorly equipped lot of ignorant country boys. Once proven in combat, however, those opinions of them would change dramatically.

The regiment was ordered to the mountains of West Virginia, where it performed arduous and discouraging service in the campaign on the Gauley and Cheat rivers. The regiment was engaged in the Battle of Cheat Mountain and the Battle of Greenbrier River. This was followed by hard marching under Stonewall Jackson (whom Col Rust later described as "an impracticable old schoolmaster who said grace before he ate and prayed before going to bed") in the Valley Campaign. Under General Jackson at Winchester, in January, 1862, the Third Arkansas marched to Bath and Romney, returned to Winchester, and was ordered thence to Fredericksburg and assigned to the brigade of Gen. Theophilus H. Holmes. Colonel Rust was promoted to Brigadier-General about this time, and was transferred to a command in the western armies. Van. Manning was promoted to the Colonel of the regiment succeeding Rust.

The Third Arkansas was engaged in the battles of White Oak Swamp, June 3, 1862, in J.G. Walker's brigade, on July 1, 1862, participated in the battle of Malvern Hill.

In July, 1862, the ranks of the Third Arkansas was augmented by the addition of nearly 140 soldiers from the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion. The Second Arkansas Battalion had been organized in October, 1861, from three companies of volunteers from El Dorado, Hot Springs and Pine Bluff. In June, 1862, the 2nd Arkansas Battalion was decimated while leading an assault on the Federal position at Beaver Dam Creek, and its commander, Major William Naylor Bronaugh, mortally wounded. The War Department disbanded the battalion and transferred its survivors to the Third Arkansas.

On September 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, Companies A and L of the Third Arkansas were decimated. On September 25 the few survivors of Company L were transferred into Company A and Company L ceased to exist. Thus the regiment was reduced to ten companies, the normal complement for an infantry regiment. Col. Manning was seriously wounded during the battle.

In November, 1862, the Third Arkansas was assigned to the famous Texas Brigade of the Army of Northern Virginia. The Confederate War Department had determined that the troops would benefit from being brigaded with regiments from their home States. At this time, the standard brigade organization consisted of four regiments. There were three Texas regiments in the Army—the 1st, 4th and 5th—and only one Arkansas regiment. It was therefore decided to group these four western regiments together. The Third Arkansas remained an integral part of Hood's Texas Brigade until the end of the war. The first engagement that the unit participated in as part of the Texas Brigade was the Battle of Fredericksburg in December, 1862. The regiment was not engaged at Chancellorsville, being detached with the rest of Longstreet's Corps at Suffolk.

The Third Arkansas acquired a reputation as tenacious fighters, often finding themselves in the thickest fighting on the battlefield, such as their presence at the "sunken road" during the Battle of Antietam. Their most famous action was while serving as a part of the Texas Brigade during the Battle of Gettysburg, at the Devil's Den, where they took heavy casualties while serving under General John Bell Hood. Its place in the front of Hood's assault meant it was one of the first units, if not the first, to be heavily engaged during the second day of the battle. The regiment was commended for gallantry in that action, while under the direct command of Brigadier General Jerome B. Robertson, fighting in and in the vicinity of the "Devil's Den".

The regiment was transferred with Longstreet's Corps to Tennessee in September, 1863 in time to fight at the Battle of Chickamauga (where Major Reedy was mortally wounded).  The unit went on to participate in the battles of Chattanooga, Wauhatchie, and in the siege of Knoxville, Tennessee, returning to the Army of Northern Virginia in the spring of 1864.

The regiment suffered heavy casualties later in the Battle of the Wilderness, during which they lost many of their commanding officers in addition to heavy losses in their ranks. In that battle they lost Colonel Van. H. Manning and Lieutenant-Colonel Robert S. Taylor, both of whom were badly wounded and captured, in addition to Major William K. Wilkins who was killed in action.

The regiment continue the fight at Spotsylvania, and on to Cold Harbor. The regiment was at Deep Run on August 6, 1864; at Petersburg during the siege by Grant, at High Bridge and Farmville during the closing day of the war in 1865.

By the end of the war, the Texas Brigade as a whole, which included the 1st, 4th, and 5th Texas, and the Third Arkansas, had only 617 men remaining out of a total of 5,353. The 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment is entitled to the following campaign participation credit:

 Operations on Cheat Mountain, West Virginia, September 11–17, 1861.
 Skirmish, Elkwater, West Virginia, September 11, 1861.
 Skirmish, Point Mountain Turnpike, West Virginia, September 11–12, 1861.
 Skirmish, Petersburg, West Virginia, September 12, 1861.
 Engagement, Greenbrier River, Cheat Mountain, West Virginia, October 3–4, 1861.
 Operations in the Valley District and against Romney, West Virginia, November 26, 1861, to February 21, 1862.
 Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Virginia, May 31 to June 1, 1862.
 Skirmish, Gill's Bluff, Virginia (Company F), June 20, 1862.
 Seven Days Battles, Virginia, June 25 to July 1, 1862.
 Engagement, Turkey Bridge (Malvern Cliff), Virginia, June 30, 1862.
 Campaign in Northern Virginia (Second Bull Run Campaign), August 16 to September 2, 1862.
 Maryland Campaign, September 3–19, 1862.
 Siege, Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, September 13, 1862.
 Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), Maryland, September 16–17, 1862.
 Action, Bolivar Heights, West Virginia, September 19, 1862.
 Operations in Loudoun, Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties, Virginia, October 26 to November 10, 1862.
 Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 12–15, 1862.
 Siege, Suffolk, Virginia, April 11 to May 4, 1863.
 Skirmish, Somerton Road, Virginia, April 15, 1863.
 Skirmish, Somerton Road, Virginia, April 20, 1863.
 Action, Edenton Road, Suffolk, Virginia, April 24, 1863.
 Gettysburg Campaign, June 3 to August 1, 1863.
 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1–3, 1863.
 Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, September 19–21, 1863.
 Siege, Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 24 to November 1, 1863.
 Campaign, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 4 to December 23, 1863.
 Siege, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 17 to December 4, 1863.
 Assault, Forts Saunders and Loudoun, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 29, 1863.
 Operations about Dandridge, Tennessee, January 16 to January 17, 1864.
 Operations about Dandridge, Tennessee, January 26–28, 1864.
 Wilderness Campaign, May 4 to June 12, 1864.
 Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, May 5–7, 1864.
 Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Laurel Hill, Ny River and Fredericksburg Road, Virginia, May 8–21, 1864.
 Assault of the Salient, Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, May 12, 1864.
 Operations on the line of the North Anna River, Virginia, May 22–26, 1864.
 Operations on the line of the Pamunkey River, Virginia, May 26–28, 1864.
 Operations on the line of the Totopotomoy River, Virginia, May 28–31, 1864.
 Battles about Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1–12, 1864.
 Assault, Petersburg, Virginia, June 15, 1864.
 Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865.
 Assault, Petersburg, Virginia, June 18, 1864.
 Engagements at Deep Bottom (Darbytown), Strawberry Plains and New Market Road, Virginia, June 27–29, 1864.
 Engagements at Deep Bottom, New Market Road and Darbytown Road, Virginia, August 13–20, 1864.
 Engagement, Fair Oaks and Darbytown Road, Virginia, October 27–28, 1864.
 Appomattox Campaign, March 28 to April 9, 1865.
 Assault and capture, Petersburg Lines, Virginia, April 2, 1865.
 Surrender, Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865.

Regimental colors

The 3rd Arkansas is generally understood to have had at least four different regimental colors during the war, and there are at least three surviving examples of the battle flags of the 3rd Arkansas Infantry Regiment:

The first flag of the Third Arkansas was probably a First National Confederate Flag issued to either company C, the Confederate Starts, or Company K, the Ashley Volunteers. The unit carried this first flag during the Battle of Sharpsburg. If this flag has survived, it has not been identified.

Author Glenn Dedmondt identifies the second flag which was carried by the Third Arkansas as a three-foot-square flag which is currently in the collection of the Old State House Museum in Little Rock Arkansas. The Old State House Museum, Little Rock, identifies this flag as an artillery guidon. The flag was donated to the Old State House Museum by the family of Private R. Jessie Bailey, 3rd Arkansas Infantry, regimental band. The flag was allegedly made for the unit by the ladies of Fredericksburg, Virginia, while the regiment was stationed there in the winter of 1862. It is likely that regimental color bearer James M. Johnson was killed while carrying this flag at the Battle of Chickamauga, 19 September 1863. The flag, an Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag, is  inches ×  inches square; orange border; 5-inch stripe of the St. Andrew's cross; and thirteen stars made of bunting and cotton with a canvas lead.

The third flag carried by the Third Arkansas is an Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag pattern made of bunting and cotton with canvas lead, 47 inches × 46 inches. Glenn Dedmondt identifies the flag as a 3rd bunting issue flag made by the Richmond Depot. The flag was issued to the unit on September 20, 1863, on the field of Chickamauga, and was probably carried until approximately 1 January 1865. Private Spencer Young, who was wounded carrying the flag in the Battle of the Wilderness, saved the flag and carried it back to the state. It remained in his custody until donated to the Old State House Museum, Little Rock in the 1920s.

The fourth and final flag of the Third Arkansas was a Richmond Depot 4th Bunting issue flag which is currently in the collections of the Museum of the Confederacy, in Richmond, Virginia. The 51-inch by 50-inch flag has a red bunting field crossed with 7-inch blue bunting bars in a St. Andrew's Cross with -inch white cotton fimbriation. There are thirteen -inch stars on the cross.  This flag was surrendered by the regiment at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia and was assigned capture number 411.

Surrender
When General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, only 144 men of the Third Arkansas remained out of the 1,353 mustered into it from the start of the war.

See also

 List of Arkansas Civil War Confederate units
 Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State
 Confederate Units by State

References

Further reading

 Bledsoe, Andrew S. “The Homecircle: Kinship and Community in the Third Arkansas Infantry, Texas Brigade, 1861–1865.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 71 (Spring 2012): 22-43.
 Collier, Calvin L. "They'll Do to Tie To!": The Story of the Third Arkansas Infantry, C.S.A." Little Rock, AR, CWRT Associates, 1988, reprint of 1959 ed. 233 p. E553.5.3rd.C65.
 Dedmondt, Glenn "The Flags Of Civil War Arkansas", (Pelican Publishing Co., 2009). .
 Hawkins, Van. Duty Bound: The Hyatt Brothers and Confederates of the Third Arkansas Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. (Jonesboro: Arkansas State University, 2011).
 Jones, Alexander. "Arkansas Soldiers in Virginia", Confederate Veteran, Volume 20, 1912, Page 464, Accessed 16 February 2012, https://archive.org/stream/confederateveter20conf#page/464/mode/2up
 Joslyn, Mauriel P. "'For Ninety Nine Years or the War' The Story of the 3d Arkansas at Gettysburg." Gettysburg Magazine 14 (Jan 1996): pp. 52–63. E475.53E482no14.
 Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederacy: Florida and Arkansas. NY: Facts on File, 1992. pp. 73 74 E553S53.
 Winkler, Angelina V. The Confederate Capital and Hood's Texas Brigade. Austin, TX: E. Von Voeckmann, 1894. 312 p. E580.4H6W55.
 Wright, Marcus J. Arkansas in the War, 1861 1865. Batesville, AR: Independence CO Hist Soc, 1963. pp. 27 28. E553W7.

External links

 Third Arkansas Infantry Regiment, CSA at Couch Genealogy (Couchgenweb.com)

1861 establishments in Arkansas
1865 disestablishments in Virginia
Military units and formations established in 1861
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Texas Brigade


Teresa Forn Munné (born 1959) from Barcelona is a Catalan long-distance runner. She was champion of the Skyrunner World Series in 2003.

External links
 Further results

References

Living people
1959 births
Spanish female long-distance runners
Spanish sky runners


Ricardo Mejía Hernández (born 24 April 1963) is a Mexican long-distance runner. He was champion of the Skyrunner World Series in 2006 after winning four of the five races in which he participated. In 2009 he placed first in the Irazú SkyRace in Costa Rica.

World Cup wins

References

External links
 Ricardo Mejía results
 Ricardo Mejía profile at Association of Road Racing Statisticians

Living people
Mexican male long-distance runners
Mexican mountain runners
1963 births
Mexican sky runners
World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships winners
21st-century Mexican people


was a Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period. He was the second son of Ōtomo Sōrin.

References

Daimyo
1561 births
1641 deaths
Place of birth unknown
Place of death unknown
Date of birth unknown


Agustí Roc Amador (born 28 August 1971) is a Spanish ski mountaineer and long-distance runner. He is a three-time champion of the Skyrunner World Series from 2002 to 2004, European vertical race champion in 2005, and Spanish vertical race champion from 2005 to 2007.

Selected results

Ski mountaineering
 2004:
 4th, World Championship relay race, together with Javier Martín de Villa, Dani León Roca, and Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
 2005:
 1st, European Championship vertical race
 1st, Spanish Championship vertical race
 2nd, Spanish Cup
 2nd, Spanish Championship single race
 2006:
 1st, Spanish Championship vertical race
 3rd, Spanish Championship single race
 4th, World Championship vertical race
 6th, World Championship relay race, together with Javier Martín de Villa, Federico Galera Díez, and Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
 2007:
 1st, Spanish Championship vertical race
 2nd, European Championship vertical race
 4th, European Championship relay race, together with Javier Martín de Villa, Marc Solá Pastoret, and Manuel Pérez Brunicardi
 2008:
 6th, World Championship vertical race

Mountain running/skyrunning
 2002: Skyrunner World Series champion
 2003: Skyrunner World Series champion
 1st, Maraton Alpino Madrileno, Spain
 2004: Skyrunner World Series champion
 2006:
 1st, Dolomites SkyRace, Italy
 2008:
 1st, Mount Kinabalu Climbathon, Malaysia
 1st, Ben Nevis Race, Fort William, Scotland
 2009:
 7th, Skyrunner World Series

World Cup wins

References

External links
 Further race results

1971 births
Living people
Spanish male long-distance runners
Spanish male ski mountaineers
Duathletes
Spanish sky runners
Ski mountaineers from Catalonia
People from Baix Llobregat
Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona
Athletes from Catalonia


Anastasia Phillips is a Canadian actress. She appeared in films Don't Talk to Irene (2017), Ghostland (2018) and Tammy's Always Dying (2019), and the TV series Bomb Girls and Reign. In 2021, she began starring in the CBC drama series, Moonshine.

Life and career
Phillips was raised in Etobicoke, Ontario, and obtained her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. In 2008, she appeared as Tabbi in the TV hockey drama MVP. Her credits include the stageplay The Diary of Anne Frank as the title character, other television roles such as Tina on the MTV show Skins, and as Vera Burr in the wartime drama Bomb Girls. She also voiced Lo Ridgemount on the Fresh TV animated series Stoked. In 2010, Phillips was nominated for Gemini Award for her guest role in Murdoch Mysteries.

In 2013, Phillips was cast in the ABC drama series Lucky 7 as Leanne Maxwell. The series was cancelled after two episodes. She later guest starred on The Mentalist, Grey's Anatomy, and had a recurring role on Reign. She starred in films Don't Talk to Irene (2017) with Geena Davis, Ghostland (2018), and Tammy's Always Dying (2019) opposite Felicity Huffman.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

Living people
Actresses from Toronto
Canadian film actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian television actresses
University of British Columbia alumni
1972 births
21st-century Canadian actresses


Rudolf Frommer (fegyverneki Frommer Rudolf; 4 August 1868 – 1 September 1936) was a Hungarian weapon designer. He was raised to the Hungarian nobility with the pre-name 'fegyverneki' by Franz Joseph I for his achievements in weapons design. He had over 100 patents, among them was the Frommer Stop and the 37M.

Weapon designers from Hungary
1868 births
1936 deaths
Hungarian inventors
People from Austria-Hungary


Pennsylvania State Senate District 46 includes part of Beaver County and all of Greene County and Washington County. It is currently represented by Republican Camera Bartolotta.

District profile
The district includes the following areas:

Beaver County:
 Frankfort Springs
 Hanover Township
 Independence Township

All of Greene County

All of Washington County

Senators

Recent election results

References

Pennsylvania Senate districts
Government of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Government of Greene County, Pennsylvania
Government of Washington County, Pennsylvania


The Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex is the main exhibition space of Baku, Azerbaijan. Named after a former President Heydar Aliyev (whose presidency was marked with his large cult of personality), it is located on Tbilisi Avenue between Hyatt Hotel and Grand Hotel Europe. Since its opening in 1990, it held about 40 international competitions in different kinds of sports.

The facility seats 8,000 people and being the largest sports facility in Azerbaijan, the complex offers all the necessary conditions for major international competitions.

History

The construction of the building started in 1977 but was not completed until 1989. In 2006, the facility underwent renovation with a Serbian company, SERBAZ, replacing the glazing, repairing level one and two lobbies and installing the air conditioning system. The complex currently has an area of 18,000 square metres. After renovation the Complex was used as the nation's Gymnastics Centre.

In September 2014, due to hosting events for the 2015 European Games, it was announced that the facilities would be renovated, with a drawing hall, an athlete's canteen, a media centre, commentary studio, broadcasting centre and server rooms for processing results of events all to be installed. The finishing of the 7,500-seat auditorium is being done afresh, and provided with comfortable and new seating.

The lighting of the arena was completely replaced – it remained intact since 1989 – huge screens were installed and a new acoustic system developed, all the result of cooperation between leading European manufacturers of equipment, who were the official suppliers of the London and Sochi Olympic Games.

The complex was selected to host the Third Eurovision Dance Contest, which has been postponed indefinitely.

Notable sporting events
 2007 and 2009 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships
 2005 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
 2007 FILA Wrestling World Championships
 2007 European Taekwondo Championships
 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships
 2015 European Games (Judo, wrestling, sambo)
 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games (Judo, wrestling)

References

External links

Indoor arenas in Azerbaijan
Event venues established in 1990
Culture in Baku
Sports venues in Baku
2015 European Games venues


Peter Strauss (born 1947) is an American television and movie actor.

Peter Strauss may also refer to:

 Peter L. Strauss (born 1940), Columbia Law School professor
 Peter Strauss Ranch, Santa Monica mountains

See also
 R. Peter Straus (1923–2012), American media proprietor


Anna Serra Salamé (born 1968 in Barcelona) is a Catalan long-distance runner from Alt Urgell. She was champion of the Skyrunner World Series in 2004.

External links
 Results

References

External links

Living people
Sportswomen from Catalonia
Spanish female long-distance runners
1968 births
Athletes from Barcelona
Spanish sky runners


Agia Anna ( meaning Saint Anne) is a mountain village in the municipal unit of Oleni, Elis, Greece. In 2011 its population was 168.  Agia Anna is built on the slopes of the hill Axofolia, a western spur of the Foloi plateau. In the village square, the elevation is 450 m, and the top of the hill is around 670 m. Agia Anna is 2 km northeast of Goumero, 4 km west of Klindia, 10 km southeast of Simopoulo and 10 km northeast of Karatoula. The area is forested, but suffered damage from the 2007 Greek forest fires.

Population

History

The village Agia Anna was founded in a remote place during Ottoman rule, to hide from the Turks. The village is named after its church. Between 1841 and 1912, the community was part of the old municipality of Lampeia. It was an independent community until 1997, when it became part of the municipality of Oleni under the Kapodistrias reform.

See also
List of settlements in Elis

References

External links
 Agia Anna GTP Travel Pages

Populated places in Elis
Pyrgos, Elis


During the 1960s, many independence movements  emerged in countries near Rhodesia, which had significant effects on political affairs and social conditions within Rhodesia.

1960 to 1964
Iain Peter Butchart, a cricketer, was born in Bulawayo on 9 May 1960. Broadcasting of television started in November. The Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) was formed in 1961 with Joshua Nkomo as leader. The Rhodesian Front won the general elections of 1962 on 14 December. Winston Field then became the Prime Minister of Rhodesia. The Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) was formed in 1963 with Robert Mugabe as Secretary. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was dissolved on 31 December 1963 as Zambia and Malawi moved towards independence. The government placed Joshua Nkomo, leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union, under restriction on 16 April 1964. Northern Rhodesia gained its independence and Southern Rhodesia became the colony of Rhodesia on 24 October.

1965
Ian Smith unilaterally declared the independence (UDI) of Rhodesia from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965. The Rhodesian government then established a new constitution. Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, declared the UDI illegal and an act of rebellion on 12 November. The United Nations Security Council declared the UDI illegal on 19 November, calling on Britain to end the rebellion. The British government suspended the Governor and Directors of Reserve Bank of Rhodesia and froze Rhodesian reserves in Britain on 3 December. Britain imposed total economic sanctions against Rhodesia on 12 December. Harold Wilson appealed to the United Nations for support to end the Rhodesian rebellion on 16 December. The British government declared an oil embargo against Rhodesia on 17 December.

1966 to 1967
The United Nations Security Council agreed that the United Kingdom should use force to prevent oil from reaching Rhodesia via Beira, Mozambique on 10 April 1966. Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Prime Minister, and Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, met on 2 December 1966 on HMS Tiger to discuss the possibility of a settlement. The United Nations voted for selected mandatory sanctions, including oil, against Rhodesia on 16 December. Zimbabwe African People's Union and the South African African National Congress formed an alliance in January 1967 for armed struggle against Rhodesia and South Africa. Cuthbert Alport, Baron Alport and former High Commissioner to Central African Federation, visited Rhodesia on 14 June to discover whether the stalemate could be broken.

1968 to 1969
In 1968 the YMCA opened and the Gonarezhou National Park was declared. The United Nations Security Council approved comprehensive mandatory sanctions against Rhodesia through Resolution 253 on 29 May. Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Prime Minister, and Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, met on HMS Fearless for talks from 10–13 October. George Thomson, the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs and Maurice Foley, British Under-Secretary of State, visited Rhodesia for talks on 2 November. The talks ended in deadlock. George Thomson and Maurice Foley met with detained activists, Joshua Nkomo of the Zimbabwe African People's Union and Ndabaningi Sithole, founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union, on 7 November. Ebrahim Essop-Adam, a cricket player, was born in Salisbury on 16 November. The government held a referendum on a new Constitution and Republican status on 20 June 1969. Humphrey Gibbs resigned as Governor of Rhodesia on 24 June. The British Residual Mission in Salisbury, and Rhodesia House in London, both closed on 14 July.

Births
9 January 1967   – Gary Teichmann, rugby player

References

1960s decade overviews


Railings is a retired Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who is most notable for winning the 2005 Caulfield Cup when trained by John Hawkes.

He was later transferred to New Zealand trainer Roger James in the Spring of 2007 and finished his racing career under trainer Michael Maroney.

Railings retired from racing in December 2008 and started a career in show jumping and dressage events.

References

2001 racehorse births
Thoroughbred family 3-l
Racehorses trained in Australia
Racehorses bred in Australia

Caulfield Cup winners


Elections to Chorley Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007.  One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party retained overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Election result

Results Map

Ward results

Adlington and Anderton ward

Astley and Buckshaw ward

Chisnall ward

Chorley East ward

Chorley North East ward

Chorley North West ward

Chorley South East ward

Chorley South West ward

Clayton le Woods and Whittle-le-Woods ward

Clayton le Woods North ward

Clayton le Woods West and Cuerden

Coppull ward

Eccleston and Mawdesley ward

Euxton South ward

Lostock ward

References

Non-metropolitan Councils electing by thirds

2007
2007 English local elections
2000s in Lancashire


Pennsylvania State Senate District 47 includes parts of Beaver County, Butler County, and Lawrence County. It is currently represented by Republican Elder Vogel.

District profile
The district includes the following areas:

Beaver County:

Butler County:

Lawrence County:

Senators

References

Pennsylvania Senate districts
Government of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Government of Butler County, Pennsylvania
Government of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania


Metrodorus of Athens () was an Athenian philosopher and painter who flourished in the 2nd century BC. It chanced that Aemilius Paulus, visiting Athens on his return from his victory over Perseus of Macedon in 168 BC, asked for a tutor for his children and a painter to glorify his triumph. The inhabitants suggested Metrodorus as capable of discharging both duties, and it is recorded that Aemilius was entirely satisfied.

References

Sources

Hellenistic-era philosophers in Athens
Ancient Greek painters
2nd-century BC Athenians
2nd-century BC painters


Crocidura hikmiya (Sinharaja shrew or Sri Lankan rain forest shrew) is a species of shrew described from the rainforests of Sri Lanka, based on both morphological and molecular data. Its closest sister species is the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew, another Sri Lankan crocidurine shrew restricted to the high-elevation habitats of the Central Highlands. C. hikmiya has a shorter tail than the Sri Lankan long-tailed shrew. Most of the other characteristics that distinguish the two species are osteological natured .

Etymology
The specific epithet hikmiya is Sinhala for ‘shrew’, applied here as a substantive in apposition. It is known as ශ්‍රී ලංකා සිංහරාජ කුනු හික් මීයා in Sinhala.

Habitat
It is known only from two forest-edge sites in Sinharaja Forest Reserve, at Kudawa and Morningside.

References

External links
 Wildlife Extra - A New Species of Shrew Described in Sri Lanka
https://www.gbif.org/species/119382294

hikmiya
Mammals of Sri Lanka
Mammals described in 2007


Pawel B. Szajda ( ; born January 13, 1982) is an American screen and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in Under the Tuscan Sun, Generation Kill, Tatarak, and as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Poletov in the third season of the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind.

Early life and education
Szajda was born and raised in Farmington, Connecticut.

Szajda's maternal great-grandfather left Poland for Chicago in 1912, two years prior to the outbreak of World War I. He married Szajda's Polish grandmother, had children, and, after the war ended, moved to Poland. In 1964, the family moved back to the United States, which is where Szajda's mother graduated from college and then returned with the family to Poland. In Poland, she met Szajda's father, and they had Szajda's older sister, Barbara, and two older brothers, Marcin and Adam. Following the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981, Szajda's family relocated to the United States. Szajda also has a younger brother, Phil.

Growing up in the United States, his family spoke Polish and sent Pawel and his siblings to Polish-language school every Saturday. "I thought my parents' decision to send me to Polish-language classes every Saturday ruined my childhood, but it's actually been my stepping stone into acting," Szajda said. He was a Polish Boy Scout.

Szajda graduated from Farmington High School in 1999. During his time at the school he participated in track and field, was a state champion wrestler, played trumpet and was the marching band drum major. He also played the title role in the play The Foreigner by Larry Shue.

Career
Szajda's acting career started with a commercial for the 1996 Olympics.

In 2002, he won a role in Under the Tuscan Sun. Director Audrey Wells had wanted to use an actor from Poland, but due to visa issues, she was forced to look elsewhere and chose Szajda. Szajda plays a Polish immigrant handyman named Pawel, disapproved of by his Italian girlfriend's father.

After filming completed on Under the Tuscan Sun, Szajda returned from Italy to finish his studies in English literature and economics. He spent a year at Bridgewater State College before moving to New York City to attend Fordham University at the Lincoln Center campus.

He continued to act on screen and on stage while pursuing his education. He appeared in an episode of Hope and Faith (2004), Venom (2005), The Infliction of Cruelty (2006), and Death Without Consent (2007).

Szajda appeared in the 2008 HBO mini-series Generation Kill (2008) as Corporal Walt Hasser.

In the 2009 movie, Tatarak (Sweet Rush in English) by Academy Award winner Andrzej Wajda, Szajda made his Polish film debut in the leading role of Boguś. The film was a competitor in the 59th Berlin International Film Festival.

He has played in The Players Theater in New York City and Makor/Steinhardt Center at the 14th Street Y in Manhattan.

In 2022, Szajda had a recurring role in the third season of the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind as Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Poletov, a member of Roscosmos' Mars-94 mission and one of the first humans to land on Mars.

He is represented by The Glick Agency.

Personal life
Szajda's interests include traveling, photography, drawing, and playing the trumpet. "When we were filming Tatarak in Grudziądz, I took some wonderful photos of the sky—it’s amazing there! Maybe that’s why I’d like to act more in Poland—to be able to visit the country."

In 2019, he married his long time girlfriend Marina Polo in Italy.

Filmography
1996: Furby Commercial
1996: Pablow, An Olympic commercial in the United States
2003: Under the Tuscan Sun - Pawel
2004: Hope and Faith (TV Series) - College Guy
2005: Venom - Ricky
2007: Death Without Consent - Sean
2008: Generation Kill (TV Mini-Series) - Cpl. Walt Hasser
2009: Tatarak (Sweet Rush [English title]) - Bogus / Marta's lover
2011: Blue Bloods (TV Series) - Sergei Sokoloff
2011: Wygrany (The Winner) - Oliver Linovsky
2012: 3 Days of Normal - Trent Callender
2015: Agent Carter (Episode: "Snafu") - Ovechkin
2016: Our Kind of Traitor - Blue Eyed Killer
2016: Imperium - Vince Sargent
2018: Dynasty (Episode: "Twenty-Three Skidoo") - Nikolai Dimitrov
2019: The Haunting of Sharon Tate - Wojciech Frykowski
2019: Above the Shadows - Marjus
2022: For All Mankind (TV series) - Alexei Poletov

Stage work
1990s: Charlie Baker, The Foreigner by Larry Shue, at Farmington High School
2006: The Infliction of Cruelty by Sean McManus and Andrew Unterberg at the 10th Annual New York International Fringe Festival, August 18–26

References

External links

American male film actors
1982 births
Living people
Male actors from Connecticut
People from Farmington, Connecticut
Bridgewater State University alumni
Fordham University alumni
American people of Polish descent
20th-century American male actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
21st-century American male actors


Wilhelm Heckel GmbH is a manufacturer of woodwind instruments based in Wiesbaden, Germany. It is best known for its bassoons, which are considered some of the finest available.The company was established in 1831 by the instrument maker Johann Adam Heckel. It remains a family-owned business.

Wilhelm Heckel is also known for its production of contrabassoons and heckelphones. It also formerly produced oboes, piccolo heckelphones, and heckel-clarinas.

References

External links

Companies based in Wiesbaden
musical instrument manufacturing companies of Germany
Manufacturing companies established in 1831
1831 establishments in the Duchy of Nassau


Joanna Lauren Christie (born 10 April 1982) is an English actress and singer. She is noted for her work in the play Equus (2007) alongside Daniel Radcliffe, but is best known for her role as Girl in the Broadway musical Once. Christie played Connie Murphy, one of the lead female characters, in the hit Netflix television series Narcos.

Early life
Christie was born and raised in Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire until the age of 13, when she was awarded a music scholarship to study flute, piano, and voice at Oundle School in Northamptonshire. Five years later, she moved to London to attend drama school at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

She joined the National Youth Theatre at 17, where she made her breakthrough stage role in Immaculate Conceit, a play about a stripper who is pregnant with the next messiah. She then found small roles in television, before joining Kevin Spacey's Old Vic, New Voices collective for a year in 2005. She was delighted to be part of the collective of actors taking part in the 24-hour plays at The Old Vic. The group received its name because Spacey, who selected the actors, believed them to be the best new actors around.

After a five-month tour of India performing Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Jaipur in 2006, she returned to Britain, but endured a lean year and nearly gave up acting altogether when she landed the role of Jill Mason in her West End debut in Equus at the Gielgud Theatre. She beat over 300 other actresses to the role opposite Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe in Thea Sharrock's high-profile revival of Peter Shaffer's award-winning play.

Personal life
Christie has lived in New York since April of 2013 and her hobbies include yoga, running, kickboxing, and scuba diving. She used to be part of her brother's band called Luke J Christie & The Held Breath until she moved to New York City to star as Girl in Once.

Road to Broadway
Christie said that being on Broadway is "every dream [she's] ever had come true." However, right before she landed the role in Once, she was about to give up. "I felt like I was at my lowest, and I decided to go back to university to do anthropology," she said in an interview with broadway.com. Her audition process was rather strenuous, having to learn two full songs on the piano and three scenes in a Czech accent in a mere 24 hours.

Music projects
Christie recorded a song called "This Gift" with Glen Hansard, who composed many of the songs in Once. The song was released on his solo album, Rhythm and Repose. She says that it is "one of the biggest honours of my life so far...I still can't quite believe it!"

On 20 April 2014, she collaborated with her Once cast members and contributed her piano and vocal talents for a live-album recording of the Adam Brown and Friends performance at the Bowery Poetry Club.

Family
Christie's mother, Sue, in addition to conducting for the Millhouse Green Male Voice choir in Penistone, sings with The Mastersingers. Her father Paul, who died in 2012, was a property developer. Her brother Luke is also a musician, singer, and songwriter. The pair have a band together called Luke J Christie & The Held Breath. She was inspired by her parents, who taught her that she "could do anything [she] wanted in life and to always be [her]self and follow [her] own path." She has been highly influenced by her parents her whole life. "I owe all my success to my parents for giving me the opportunities to get to this point in my career and I would like to pay tribute to them...I'm just so grateful to my mum for giving me the gift of music and to both her and my dad for always supporting and encouraging me," she explained in a 2013 interview with the Huddersfield Daily Examiner.

Filmography

Television

Theatre

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
English stage actresses
National Youth Theatre members
English television actresses
Actresses from Huddersfield
People educated at Oundle School
Alumni of the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts


J.P. Davis  is an American screenwriter. Davis' first screenplay was Fighting Tommy Riley. The script was written with the sole intention of playing the title role. Oscar winner William Goldman was one of the first people to read the script, he mentored and encouraged Davis to move to Los Angeles. Davis procured a micro-budget of $130,000 to shoot Fighting Tommy Riley. Fighting Tommy Riley premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and then went on to play at the Hamptons Film Festival (where it won the Kodak Award) and at the San Francisco Film Festival. The film was well received and opened theatrically in Los Angeles, New York City and San Francisco. It is currently available on Netflix.

Raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Davis attended the Berkshire School before graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

References

External links
fightingtommyriley.com script_article.pdf
fightingtommyriley.com

Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male screenwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actors from the Upper West Side
Berkshire School alumni
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni


Mobile tagging is the process of providing data read from tags for display on mobile devices, commonly encoded in a two-dimensional barcode, using the camera of a camera phone as the reader device. The contents of the tag code is usually a URL for information addressed and accessible through Internet.

History
Mobile tagging is currently most prominent in Asia, especially Japan. It was developed in 2003 and ever since it has been used in several fields of mobile marketing. Denso's QR Code in Asia and the Data Matrix are currently the most popular 2D barcodes. Both are ISO-standardised. In 2009, prominent electronics company Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Tag format, based on the company's self-developed High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) standard, in an effort to establish the format through emerging mobile tagging markets in the west. Unlike most popular 2D barcodes, which use black-and-white square pixels, HCCBs are based on colors in a triangle-based arrangement.

The reason for the success of mobile tagging, besides the flexible and multiple fields of application, is the quick, precise and customer-driven access to information. According to the principle of physical world connection (see also Object hyperlinking), the user is able to gather digital information immediately by scanning a two-dimensional barcode, like one on an advertisement.

In Europe mobile tagging is now gaining traction, albeit that the primary usage has been direct linking of URLs to 2D codes. Indeed, several campaigns in relation to physical world connection have been launched, however a standard for multi-dimensional barcodes is still missing.

One of the key organizations driving wider implementation of two-dimensional barcodes is GS1 / GS1's main activity is the development of the GS1 System, a series of standards designed to improve supply chain management. The GS1 System is composed of four key product areas: Barcodes (used to automatically identify things), eCom (electronic business messaging allowing automatic electronic transmission of data), GDSN (Global Data Synchronisation Network which allows partners to have consistent item data in their systems at the same time) and EPCglobal (which uses RFID technology to immediately track an item).

Codes and readers

Currently about 70 different types of barcodes and their specific versions exist and are mostly in use in the field of logistics. In terms of mobile tagging, the number of codes is essentially restricted to a dozen types. For reading out 2d-barcodes it is essential to install specific software, a reader, on the mobile device.

The reader uses the camera of a mobile phone for the mobile tagging process. The producers of the reader are very involved in developing solutions to increase the number of compatible mobile phones. Most services on the corresponding websites offer the download directly onto the mobile device or PC. In addition, many providers offer the user a generator for creating their own codes.

Smartphone cameras can be used in Google's mobile Android operating system via both their own Google Goggles application or 3rd party mobile tag readers. Nokia's Symbian operating system features a scanner which can scan mobile tags, while mbarcode is a reader for the Maemo operating system. In the Apple iOS, a mobile tagging reader is natively included in the iOS 11 update through the camera app, although there are more than fifty paid and free apps are available with both scanning capabilities and hard-linking to URI. With BlackBerry devices, the App World application can natively scan mobile tags. Windows Phone 7.5 is able to scan tags through the Bing search app.

Due to the absence of a standard code, the readers are faced with the same problem. On the one hand there is a remarkable number of readers which aren't able to identify barcodes apart from their own proprietary codes. On the other hand, there are several readers which were created to read out non-proprietary code, these 'open source codes' are the most used for Optical Reading with Mobile like the QR Code and the Data Matrix. However, a QR code is always 60% larger than a DataMatrix code and this tends to mean that DM is the primary code used in packaging and enterprise solutions for example.

Application areas

At present, mobile tagging is not only finding its way into the day-to-day-life of campaigns in the fields of commercial, public and private tagging but also may end absolute convergence between information media. Mobile tagging connects static information carriers with the Internet and encourages the interactive behaviour of the user. At least this is not the only reason why leading experts are firmly convinced that performance in the European markets will almost reach Asian levels in the foreseeable future. However, the future success will not be attributed to simply linking to URL's, as with the internet no one will pay to connect to a URL. The real enterprise solutions are where the codes will be monetized and customization for business and commercial use will be at the forefront of intelligent and professional use, examples of which are; e-government, tourism, advertising and targeted marketing, packaging, supply chain management, brand management and brand protection, logistics, track and trace, anti-counterfeit or smuggling, id & passports, transport and ticketing, parking, disability, CRM, cross media campaigns, m-ticketing, m-payments, e-learning, complete integration of localization, personalization, objects and other data.

Commercial tagging
Commercial tagging includes the use of multi-dimensional barcodes, especially in the fields of mobile marketing and advertising. Showcases in this context are additional information on products
(such as the nutrient content on hamburgers), direct downloads such as free ringtones, clips or mobile games) and the direct link to a specific site of a company. Particularly in the field of commercial tagging it is vital for the code to be able to be branded (it is possible to integrate a logo in the code). It is hard to convince people to use this technology.

The first company used QR Code for IT Asset Inventory Tagging System was initiated last October 11, 2012 made by Castlewood Group Pte Ltd Singapore led by IT Manager, Engr. Men-She-Vik P. San Diego, MIT. This unique concept innovates the use of QR Code as a medium for proper handling and monitoring of IT devices and peripherals for this company.  Earlier concept made by other companies with the help of bar code tagging technology for IT asset inventory but now with the latest technology of encrypting and decrypting of information, QR Code may consider as one of the best application to manage IT asset of the company.

Public tagging
In terms of public tagging, barcodes serve as a hyperlink to additional information on public information carriers. This information may include maps, customer reviews or other non-commercial advice.

Private tagging
In view of private tagging, personal motives come to the fore. Besides the opportunity for creating direct hyperlinks on blogs or profiles, it is possible to participate immediately in online auctions (such as  barcodes on cars with eBay hyperlinks).

Furthermore, barcodes allow services like saving data automatically in the contact list of mobile phones by scanning a code printed on business cards.

In addition to higher user friendliness, private tagging offers novel opportunities for self-presentation.

See also
 CueCat
 Internet of Things
 Object hyperlinking
 QR code

References

Mobile telecommunications
Barcodes


"Party People" is a song recorded by American rapper Nelly, featuring American singer Fergie. It was recorded for Nelly's fifth studio album, Brass Knuckles, and the deluxe edition of Fergie's debut album, The Dutchess.

Background
The song was originally intended for Fergie's debut album, The Dutchess (on the Deluxe Edition of which it now appears), and featured Miami-based rapper Trina. Originally, the track was played and intended to feature Houston rapper Chamillionaire, before he passed up on the offer. In yet another (see "Love in This Club") example of Polow da Don releasing tracks or beats before they were intended, he then played the track for Nelly who immediately decided that he wanted to use the beat.

Music video

The video was shot in Los Angeles, California and directed by Marc Webb. Polow da Don, Keri Hilson and Ciara make cameos in the video.

The video premiered on MTV on April 14, 2008.
The video begins with many lights switching on revealing a large underground room where the room is suddenly filled with many people. We see Fergie on a swing high above the ground while Nelly rises up out of the ground in a cloud of smoke. The rest of the video continues with Nelly and Fergie rapping into the camera while breaking up fights at the party and images of Fergie walking along a walkway as well as jumping on Nelly's back. In the middle of the video Nelly and Fergie rap aggressively at each other atop a raised platform before another short image shows Fergie sitting on the swing again. The video ends with a cameo from R&B singer Keri Hilson sporting a black T-shirt sporting the slogan "Hip Hop Aint Dead".

Nelly and Fergie performed "Party People" at the 2008 BET Awards.

Track listing
UK CD single
 "Party People" (Clean)
 "Party People" (Explicit)
 "Cut It Out"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

2008 singles
Nelly songs
Song recordings produced by Polow da Don
Songs written by Polow da Don
Songs written by Sean Garrett
Music videos directed by Marc Webb
Universal Motown Records singles
Songs written by Nelly
Songs written by Fergie (singer)
Songs about parties
2007 songs


The Homorodul Nou is a left tributary of the river Someș in Romania. It discharges into the Someș in Ambud, east of the town Satu Mare. Its length is  and its basin size is .

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Rivers of Satu Mare County


Pennsylvania State Senate District 38 includes part of Allegheny County. It is currently represented by Democrat Lindsey Williams.

District profile
The district includes the following areas:

Senators

Recent election results

References

Pennsylvania Senate districts
Government of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania


Natalie Krill (born February 4, 1983) is a Canadian actress and former dancer. She appeared in the hockey drama MVP and in the independent film Below Her Mouth.

Early life
Natalie Krill was born and raised in Saskatchewan. She enjoyed the arts at an early age, encouraged by her mother. Krill signed herself up for dance lessons at age 6, and studied ballet, tap, and jazz dance until she was 18 years old, at which point she moved to Toronto to pursue an acting career.

Career
Krill has appeared as Lorraine Fleming in the Moscow production of the musical 42nd Street; the play based on the film Dirty Dancing when it made its North American premiere in Toronto in the fall of 2008; and the film Hollywoodland. She has been seen in the role of Alex Kendrick in The Listener and in the role of Phoebe on the Canadian family channel show The Next Step. In 2016, she co-starred in April Mullen's independent film Below Her Mouth, which was an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, despite lukewarm reception from film critics.

Personal life
Following her role in the erotic lesbian drama Below Her Mouth, Krill anticipated questions about her sexuality, and she told a journalist, "Personally, I’m open. Like I don’t feel the need to label myself and I believe love is love." She and her husband Daniel Kannimae have a son born in 2020.

Filmography

References

External links

 Natalie Krill's Official website

1983 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian actresses
Actresses from Saskatchewan
Canadian cheerleaders
Canadian female dancers
Canadian film actresses
Canadian musical theatre actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian television actresses
Place of birth missing (living people)


Skytraders is an Australian airline. It is headquartered at 180 Jersey Road, Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia. Skytraders was founded in 1979. It is the provider of specialist air services to the Australian Federal Government.

History
1979 – 1993
Commencing in 1979, Skytraders was contracted for the weekly movement of 40 tonne DC8 loads of chilled lamb and produce to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. With the introduction of 747 freighters, Skytraders pioneered the movement of live cattle by air from Australia. They also developed the 'Skybox', which allows for the transport of fresh carcass beef from abattoirs to end users in Japan without the need for refrigeration. This technology largely attributed to Australia becoming the largest supplier of high-end fresh chilled beef to the Japanese market. By 1990, Skytraders itself had become Australia's largest shipper of export airfreight and was awarded the Austrade Gold Medal by the Australian Federal Government.

1993 – 2002
In a joint-venture with Qantas and DHL, in 1993 Skytraders commenced a nightly express service between Sydney and Auckland that utilised a Boeing 727-100 freighter. The program addressed the need for moving large numbers of thoroughbred bloodstock at the same time as meeting the international express operator's requirement for trans-Tasman close of business pick up and next morning delivery.

2002–Present
In 2002, Skytraders was awarded a long-term contract by the Australian Antarctic Division for the provision of a range of Antarctic air services. Since then, the company's role in providing air services to Government has grown to also include long-term contracts with Special Operations Command, Home Affairs/Australian Border Force, Victoria Police, and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority.

Services

According to the Skytraders website, Skytraders have four key service areas including Antarctic Link, Government, Private Charter and Logistics. Skytraders operates flights to support the Australian Antarctic Division's scientific research programme in Antarctica. Skytraders' website also states the company offers charter services to executives and VIPs during the Northern Hemisphere summer.

Under a government contract with the Department of Home Affairs, Skytraders' Airbus A319 fleet have undertaken transfer flights of immigration detainees and asylum seekers across the Australian mainland and offshore locations including Christmas Island and Nauru. In 2012, Skytraders made a request to the global flight tracking organisation, FlightAware, that its detainee and asylum-seeker transportation flights not be tracked publicly.

Antarctic Link

In 2002, Skytraders was chosen out of 7 tenders to be the official air link to Antarctica. According to the ABC their world-renowned safety systems won them the tender. They operate an Airbus Corporate Jet between Hobart and a hard glacier runway near Casey Station. The service aims to provide 25 flights each summer, with the first flights launching in the summer of 2003–2004.

Government

In 2000, Skytraders responded to an Australian Commonwealth Government 'Call for Registration of Interest' for the design and construction of an Air Transport System for Antarctica. This was followed by a formal 'Request for Proposal' that resulted in Skytraders being awarded a contract for the provision of a range of Antarctic air services under a long-term agreement.

In 2002, the Australian Government selected Skytraders to provide an Intercontinental Airlink from Australia to Antarctica for the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). Scientists, support staff and cargo are flown in an Airbus A319 jet aircraft from Hobart to Wilkins Runway, near Casey Station. This continent-to-continent service takes approximately 4.5 hours.

The Airbus A319 operates to and from the purpose-built Wilkins Runway - a 4,000-metre long snow capped blue-ice runway in the Upper Petersen Glacier located 70 km from Casey Station. The Airlink operates between Hobart and Antarctica between mid-October to mid-March. This air link has increased the capability and flexibility of AAD's logistics system and provides access and opportunity for its science programs. The aircraft's configuration can be modified from passenger to "combi" (passenger and freighter) according to requirements.

The long range of the A319 gives it the capability for remote maritime work, and when not on Antarctic service, it is available for general air charter operations.
It is also able to easily complete the Hobart - Casey return trip without refuelling; this was an integral part of Skytraders' proposal for the Airlink. Eliminating the requirement for both the construction of an alternate runway site in Antarctica and any on site refueling has significant economic and environmental benefits.

In 2010 Skytraders was awarded a government contract to provide specialist air services to the Department of Home Affairs. As part of border management and enforcement, the Department of Home Affairs contracts commercial and charter airlines to carry out voluntary and involuntary transfers, removals and deportations of 'persons in custody' (PIC) under the Migration Act, including refugees and asylum seekers. Skytraders holds a current contract (December 2018-December 2021) which is valued at AUD$78.74 million. In December 2015, 1 News reported that Skytraders had been operating deportation flights from Australia to New Zealand. The New Zealand Ministry of Transport had criticised Skytraders for an unscheduled flight which arrived in Auckland on 19 November.

Fleet

As of April 2019 the Skytraders fleet consists of the following aircraft:

3 Airbus A319 (as of August 2019)
2 CASA 212-400
1 Beechcraft King Air 350

Incidents
On 9 May 2010, an incident involving a Skytraders aircraft sparked an enquiry by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB). A Skytraders Airbus A319, registered VH-VHD, taxied to the runway in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands for a flight to Christmas Island with the aircraft's integral staircase still extended as it began to move across the tarmac. When the crew realised what had happened, they stopped the aircraft and retracted the staircase. Skytraders gave an undertaking to the ATSB to revise its operational procedures as a result of this incident.
On 15 May 2015, a serious incident involving Skytraders Airbus A319, registered VH-VCJ sparked an ATSB enquiry when the aircraft positioned to commence an instrument approach and landing at Melbourne and descended approximately 800 feet below minimum altitude, following a series of pilot errors. During the descent below 3,000 ft, the aircraft's Terrain Avoidance and Warning System (TAWS) initiated a number of warning alerts, the speed limit for the aircraft flaps was exceeded, and the Minimum Safe Altitude Warning System (MSAW) initiated an alert to the ATC controller.

See also
List of airlines of Australia

References

External links

Airlines established in 1979
Australian companies established in 1979
Airlines of Australia
Charter airlines of Australia


Pennsylvania State Senate District 48 includes parts of Berks County and Lancaster County and all of Lebanon County. It is currently represented by Republican Chris Gebhard.

District profile
The district includes the following areas:

Berks County:

Lancaster County:

All of Lebanon County

Senators

References

Pennsylvania Senate districts
Government of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Government of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Government of York County, Pennsylvania


Eragrostis hypnoides is a species of grass known by the common name teal lovegrass. It is native to the Americas from Canada to Argentina. It is found in moist areas near water in substrates of sand or mud.

Description
Eragrostis hypnoides is a mat-forming, creeping annual, rooting at stolons and sending up short erect stem tips to about 10 centimeters in height at maximum. The inflorescences atop the erect portions have small spikelets about a centimeter long which are yellow-green to slightly purple.

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment - Eragrostis hypnoides
Grass Manual Treatment
Eragrostis hypnoides - Photo gallery

hypnoides
Grasses of North America
Grasses of South America
Plants described in 1791


Bedfordshire was a constituency of the European Parliament located in the United Kingdom, electing one Member of the European Parliament by the first-past-the-post electoral system. Created in 1979 for the first elections to the European Parliament, it was abolished in 1984 and succeeded by Cambridge and Bedfordshire North and Bedfordshire South.

Boundaries

It consisted of the parliamentary constituencies of Bedford, Mid Bedfordshire, South Bedfordshire, Hemel Hempstead, Hitchin, Luton East, and Luton West.

When it was abolished in 1984, the subsequent seats were based on the parliamentary constituencies created by the 1983 boundary changes. The area covered by the new parliamentary constituencies of Mid Bedfordshire and North Bedfordshire became part of the Cambridge and Bedfordshire North constituency, while the new constituencies of South West Bedfordshire, Stevenage, West Hertfordshire, Luton North and Luton South were transferred to Bedfordshire South.

MEPs

Elections

References

External links
 David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

European Parliament constituencies in England (1979–1999)
Politics of Bedfordshire
1979 establishments in England
1984 disestablishments in England
Constituencies established in 1979
Constituencies disestablished in 1984


Stephen N. Six (born December 11, 1965) is an American attorney and former judge from Kansas who served as the state's 43rd Attorney General. He was nominated to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on March 9, 2011. His nomination was returned to the President on December 17, 2011, pursuant to the rules of the Senate. He served as a partner at the Kansas City, New York, and San Diego based law firm, Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP.

Early life and education
Stephen Six is the son of former Kansas Supreme Court Justice Fred Six. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1988 and earned his J.D. degree from the University of Kansas in 1993.

Career
Following graduation from law school, Six served as a law clerk to Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. From 1994 to 2005, he served as a partner in the Kansas City, Missouri, law firm of Shamberg, Johnson, and Bergman. He was appointed as a judge on the Douglas County Circuit Court by Governor Sebelius in January 2005, serving in that post until his appointment as attorney general by Governor Kathleen Sebelius in 2008.

Six was defeated in the 2010 general election by Republican State Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt.

Following completion of his service as attorney general, he became a partner in the Kansas City, Missouri, firm Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP.

43rd Attorney General of Kansas
Six was recognized by Kansas editorial boards for restoring professionalism and stability to the office after the tenures of previous Attorneys General, Republican Phill Kline whose bar privileges were suspended, and Democrat Paul J. Morrison whose personal problems forced him from office.  Six was also recognized for cutting the office's taxpayer-funded budget almost in half.

Six focused the office on protecting consumers and cracking down on fraud and waste in the state Medicaid program. During Six's tenure, the Consumer Protection Division recovered $39.5 million on behalf of Kansans. The Medicaid Fraud Division recovered $66.2 million.

In 2008, Six became the first Kansas Attorney General in 35 years to personally prosecute a case.  He earned a jury conviction in 2008 of Kenneth Wilson for the first-degree murder of Scott Noel in Osborne County, Kansas.  He earned a jury conviction in 2009 of Israel Mireles for the capital murder of Emily Sander in Butler County, Kansas.

On December 1, 2008, Attorney General Six argued before the United States Supreme Court in Kansas v. Colorado, a dispute over Colorado's overuse of water in the Arkansas River.

Failed nomination to the Tenth Circuit
On March 9, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Six to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to fill the vacancy created by the decision by Judge Deanell Reece Tacha to take senior status.  His nomination was strongly opposed by his home state Senators, Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran. Because of that opposition, the Judiciary Committee chose not to take up his nomination. His nomination and others were returned to the president on December 17, 2011, pursuant to the rules of the Senate, and the president chose not to renominate him.

Personal
Six is married to Betsy Brand Six, a law professor at the University of Kansas, and is a member of the United Church of Christ.

See also
 Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies

References

1965 births
Living people
Carleton College alumni
Kansas Attorneys General
Kansas Democrats
Kansas state court judges
Politicians from Lawrence, Kansas
University of Kansas School of Law alumni
United Church of Christ members
Christians from Kansas
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American lawyers
21st-century American judges


The United States Department of Defense acknowledges holding six Bahraini detainees in Guantanamo.

A total of 778 captives have been held in extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba since the camps opened on January 11, 2002. The camp population peaked in 2004 at approximately 660. Only nineteen new detainees, all "high value detainees" have been transferred there since the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush.

Bahraini detainees in Guantanamo

References

Lists of Guantanamo Bay detainees by nationality
Bahrain–United States relations


Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

The constituency of Birmingham North was one of them.

It consisted of the Westminster Parliament constituencies of Aldridge-Brownhills, Birmingham Erdington, Birmingham Perry Barr, Birmingham Stechford, Sutton Coldfield, Warley East, Warley West, West Bromwich East, and West Bromwich West.

Members of the European Parliament

Results

References

External links
 David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

European Parliament constituencies in England (1979–1999)
Politics of Birmingham, West Midlands
1979 establishments in England
1984 disestablishments in England
Constituencies established in 1979
Constituencies disestablished in 1984


Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each. The constituency of Glasgow was one of them.

Boundaries
1979-1984: Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Central, Glasgow Craigton, Glasgow Garscadden, Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Hillhead, Glasgow Kelvingrove, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Provan, Glasgow Queen's Park, Glasgow Shettleston, Glasgow Springburn.

1984-1999: Glasgow Cathcart, Glasgow Central, Glasgow Garscadden, Glasgow Govan, Glasgow Hillhead, Glasgow Maryhill, Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Provan, Glasgow Shettleston, Glasgow Springburn.

Members of the European Parliament

Election results

References

External links
 David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

European Parliament constituencies in Scotland (1979–1999)
Politics of Glasgow
1979 establishments in Scotland
1999 disestablishments in Scotland
Constituencies established in 1979
Constituencies disestablished in 1999


Stafford High School may refer to:

Stafford High School (Stafford, Connecticut), a school in Stafford, Connecticut
Stafford Senior High School, a school in Stafford County, Virginia
Stafford High School, a school in the Stafford Municipal School District near Houston, Texas


South Wales was a European Parliament constituency covering south central Wales, including the city of Cardiff.

Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales. The European Parliament constituencies used under that system were smaller than the later regional constituencies and only had one Member of the European Parliament each.

The constituency was replaced by most of South Wales Central and part of South Wales West in 1994.  These seats became part of the much larger Wales constituency in 1999.

Boundaries
1979-1984: Aberavon, Barry, Cardiff North, Cardiff North West, Cardiff South East, Cardiff West, Neath, Ogmore, Pontypridd.

1984-1994: Aberavon, Bridgend, Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Ogmore, Pontypridd, Vale of Glamorgan.

Members of the European Parliament

Results

References

External links
 David Boothroyd's United Kingdom Election Results

European Parliament constituencies in Wales (1979–1999)
1979 establishments in Wales
1994 disestablishments in Wales
Constituencies established in 1979
Constituencies disestablished in 1994