The 1889–90 Football Alliance was the first season of the Football Alliance, an association football league which was set up in England as an alternative to The Football League, which had begun in the 1888–89 season. A proposal that the Football League be expanded to 24 teams was rejected, so a new league was formed to cater for those excluded. Twelve clubs were accepted for membership, the same number as in the Football League, and they were drawn from a similar geographical area, stretching from the Midlands to the North West, but also further east in Sheffield, Grimsby and Sunderland.

Two points were awarded for a win and one point for a draw, each team played every other team once at home and once away from home. The Wednesday were the first champions; after hitting an eight-match winning run which started in November, they found themselves at the top of the league by the end of December, and remained there for the rest of the season. Long Eaton Rangers finished last of the 12 clubs and dropped out to join the Midland Football League.

Final league table

Results

Stadia and locations

Team kits
These were the kits worn by the teams that season.

The Football League election process
At the Football League election meeting no vote was taken, but it was agreed that Burnley and Notts County were re-elected to the Football League and that Sunderland was elected to join the League in place of Stoke, who would play in the Football Alliance the following season.

The applications of Football Alliance sides Bootle, Darwen, Grimsby Town, Newton Heath and Sunderland Albion to join the League were rejected.

See also
 1889–90 in English football
 1889 in association football
 1890 in association football

References

1889-90
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The 1st constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is a French legislative constituency in the southeastern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department. Like all constituencies, it elects one deputy via the two-round voting system.

The current deputy, Christian Girard, of the National Rally (RN), unseated outgoing deputy Delphine Bagarry in 2022, who was elected as a member of La République En Marche! (LREM) in 2017, but in May 2020 was one of the 17 initial members of the Ecology Democracy Solidarity (EDS) group in the National Assembly.

List of deputies

Election results

2022

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2017

2012

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party
! colspan="2" | 1st round
! colspan="2" | 2nd round
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Gilbert Sauvan
| style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party
| PS
|
| 33.04%
|
| 58.60%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Éliane Barreille
| style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement
| UMP
|
| 23.68%
|
| 41.40%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Ghislaine Aubert
| style="text-align:left;" | National Front
| FN
|
| 16.57%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Louis Pin
| style="text-align:left;" | Left Front
| FG
|
| 9.83%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Gérard de Meester
| style="text-align:left;" | Europe Ecology – The Greens
| EELV
|
| 8.11%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Marie-Anne Baudoui-Maurel
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous right
| DVD
|
| 3.19%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Daniel Ragolski
| style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
| ECO
|
| 1.86%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Frédéric Santiago
| style="text-align:left;" |
| CEN
|
| 1.52%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Hubert Cabassut
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous left
| DVG
|
| 0.75%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Caroline Alonso
| style="text-align:left;" | Far-left
| EXG
|
| 0.52%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Joëlle Tebar
| style="text-align:left;" |
| NCE
|
| 0.48%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Mireille Carle
| style="text-align:left;" | Far-left
| EXG
|
| 0.46%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Ludivine Evano
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous right
| DVD
|
| 0.00%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/void ballots
|
| 1.89%
|
| 5.04%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
|
| 62.56%
|
| 61.66%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
|
| 37.44%
|
| 38.34%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
| colspan="2" style="background-color:" | PS hold
|}

2007

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party
! colspan="2" | 1st round
! colspan="2" | 2nd round
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Louis Bianco
| style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party
| PS
|
| 36.40%
|
| 52.33%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Éliane Barreille
| style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement
| UMP
|
| 38.60%
|
| 47.67%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Joëlle Tebar
| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Movement
| MoDem
|
| 4.82%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Mireille Jouzier-Berges
| style="text-align:left;" | National Front
| FN
|
| 4.19%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Aurore Hernandez
| style="text-align:left;" | Communist
| COM
|
| 3.41%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Martine Vallon
| style="text-align:left;" | The Greens
| VEC
|
| 3.33%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Venise Lafon
| style="text-align:left;" | Far-left
| EXG
|
| 2.24%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Monique Daniel
| style="text-align:left;" | Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions
| CPNT
|
| 1.87%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Claude Silvy
| style="text-align:left;" | Movement for France
| MPF
|
| 1.42%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Marie-France Lorenzelli
| style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
| ECO
|
| 1.04%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Micheline Panisse
| style="text-align:left;" | Far-right
| EXD
|
| 0.68%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Caroline Alonso
| style="text-align:left;" | Far-left
| EXG
|
| 0.66%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Bernard Jeanselme
| style="text-align:left;" | Far-left
| EXG
|
| 0.43%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Catherine Piechota
| style="text-align:left;" | Divers
| DIV
|
| 0.40%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Noël Chuisano
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous right
| DVD
|
| 0.29%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean Milanovic
| style="text-align:left;" | Divers
| DIV
|
| 0.22%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots
|
| 1.94%
|
| 2.93%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
|
| 66.59%
|
| 69.97%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
|
| 33.41%
|
| 30.03%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
| colspan="2" style="background-color:" | PS hold
|}

2002

|-
| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|-

1997

|-
| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|-

Notes

See also
 List of deputies from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence's 2nd constituency

References

 Official results of French elections from 1998:

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Ambulacral is a term typically used in the context of anatomical parts of the phylum Echinodermata or class Asteroidea and Edrioasteroidea. Echinoderms can have ambulacral parts that include ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers. For example, sea stars or "star fish" have an ambulacral groove on their oral side (underside). This ambulacral groove extends from the mouth to the end of each ray or arm. Each groove of each arm in turn has four rows of hollow tube feet that can be extended or withdrawn. Opposite the ambulacral groove is an ambulacral ridge on the aboral side of each ray, known as an ambulacrum. These have interambulacra between them.

Etymology
From the Latin 'ambulācrum', meaning 'walk planted with trees', 'avenue', 'alley' and 'walking place'
Derives from' 'ambulāre', meaning 'to walk' or  'Amble' meaning 'To walk slowly or leisurely'.

Has Indo-European roots - deriving from 'Ambhi'

References

Echinoderm anatomy


The ordinance of no quarter to the Irish was a decree of the English Long Parliament passed on 24 October 1644 in response to the Irish Catholic Confederation threat to send troops from Ireland to support King Charles I during the English Civil War. The decree ordered Parliamentary officers to give no quarter to Irish soldiers fighting in England and Wales, and Irish Confederate sailors at sea who surrendered.

Context
The Kilkenny Confederacy sent 2,000 troops in three regiments under the command of Alasdair MacColla to support Montrose's Royalist army in Scotland who were fighting against the Covenanters in 1644. During the years 1643 and 1644 they also promised to send 10,000 troops to England and Wales.  The troops were never sent, because the negotiations with Charles I broke down over the public practice of Catholicism and the independence of the Irish Parliament.  A ceasefire deal between the Irish Confederates and English Royalists did result in the return of some 5,000 Royalist troops from Ireland in 1643–44. The confusion of these regiments with the Irish Catholics, associated in Parliamentarian minds with the massacres of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, did much to frighten English Protestant opinion. English Parliamentarians had often taunted Prince Rupert that he was a German mercenary, and while they could just about tolerate foreign Protestants and English Roman Catholics fighting as Royalists, they considered support by foreign Roman Catholics a much greater threat.

Even before the Ordinance was passed Irish prisoners were in danger of being summarily executed. For example, in July 1644 Colonel William Sydenham defeated a Royalist plundering party from the garrison of Wareham at Dorchester, and hanged six or eight of his prisoners as being "mere Irish rebels". This gave rise to reprisals on the part of the Royalists.

Ordinance
The English Parliament's response to the Kilkenny Confederacy's proposed expeditionary force to England was to pass the  Ordinance of no quarter to the Irish:

This Ordinance was effective only in England and Wales and did not apply to Scotland or Ireland (as they were not part of the same realm, they were countries beyond English parliamentary jurisdiction).

Application
The relative absence of Irish Catholic soldiers in England meant that the Ordinance was rarely acted upon. However, after the cessation of arms between the Confederates and the Royalists in 1643, this allowed Ormonde to send 8,000 troops from Dublin and Munster and aid the King. Although most were in fact Englishmen, a small contingent consisted of Irish Royalists. In the instances where these Irish were captured, execution swiftly followed. After the Parliamentarians' capture of Shrewsbury, a number of Irish soldiers were hanged in accordance with the law.  In response, Prince Rupert executed an equal number of Parliamentarian troops, much to the English Parliament's disgust. Similarly, after the fall of Conwy Castle, seventy-five Irish prisoners were executed. One example of the severity of this law was the massacre of some Welsh civilian camp followers (who were mistaken for Irish) by Parliamentarian soldiers after the Battle of Naseby in 1645. The Welsh, mostly women, were speaking the Welsh language, which the Roundhead troops mistook for Irish. Historian Charles Carlton has commented that the incident "was so unusual that it caused considerable comment".

Irish military historian Pádraig Lenihan explains that, in practice, although the war at sea was covered by the Ordinance, as the Irish privateers captured more English sailors than the English did Irish and held English prisoners to exchange them for Irish prisoners, the ordinance for naval warfare lapsed. As he explains, "The 'laws' of war evolved like any primitive legal code, from the principle of reciprocity; self-interest counselled against brutality if there was the chance of being paid back in the same coin".

Reciprocity in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

In Ireland, the Irish Confederate Wars were waged with considerable brutality. Irish military historian Pádraig Lenihan makes the point that the Ordinance "illustrates the depth of the conviction that the Irish shared a common and irredeemable blood guilt. The pitiless execution of Covenanters by Mac Colla's followers would seem to show that for the Irish, too, battle against British forces was waged without moral restraint. In practice, however, [in Ireland] there were restraints. For example, O'Neill, immediately after Benburb, sent 150 prisoners (excluding officers, whom he kept for ransom) under escort back to Scottish quarters (Hogan, war in Ireland)".

In England as in Ireland and on the high seas, expedient reciprocity often won over other principles. For example, at the start of the First English Civil War Major John Lilburne was captured at the Battle of Brentford. Not only was he the most senior Parliamentary officer captured during the first campaigning season but also he was well known for his radical views. Plans to try him for treason, for bearing arms against the king, were dropped when the Parliamentary side threatened to retaliate in kind, and he was exchanged for a Royalist officer. At the end of the Second English Civil War and the apparent utter defeat of the Royalist cause, the Parliamentary side was far less lenient than at the end of the first war.

In the view of the Parliamentarians, Royalist leaders who had participated in the second war (and who in some cases had broken their parole given at the end of the first war not to take up arms against Parliament) had caused pointless bloodshed for a lost cause, and so, for example, three of the five prominent Royalist peers who fought in the second war and were captured by the Parliamentarians were beheaded at Westminster on 9 March 1648. This opinion reached all the way to the top of the Royalist cause, with the Grandees of the New Model Army, who before the second war had wanted a negotiated settlement with Charles I, reluctantly coming round to the radicals' point of view that "Charles Stuart, that man of blood" should be tried and possibly executed, as he was in January 1649.

Notes

References

 – a review of Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier by Charles Spencer (Weidenfeld)
Publisher, date of publication and ISBN are needed.

Further reading

1644 in law
1645 in law
1644 in England
English Civil War


Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao was an annual jazz festival held in July and August at Madarao, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.  The festival featured musicians from Japan and overseas. Owners of pension hotels in the Madarao ski resort wanted to hold an event; they called George Wein to help organize the festival. The first Festival was held in 1982, the last in 2004.

Notable musicians appearing at the Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao included Dizzy Gillespie, Spyro Gyra, Masahiko Sato, Stuff, Tania Maria, Toshiyuki Honda, Terumasa Hino, B. B. King, Gary Burton, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Ritenour, Wayne Shorter, Jackie McLean, Celia Cruz, Sérgio Mendes, Jonathan Butler, Gil Evans, Charmaine Neville, Larry Goldings, Regina Carter, Monday Michiru, Michael Brecker, Dianne Reeves, Ray Barretto, Angélique Kidjo, PE'Z, and Kurt Elling.

Live under the sky (established in 1977), Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao (established in 1982) and Mount Fuji Jazz Festival (established in 1986) are the big 3 jazz festival in the history of jazz in Japan.

References

Jazz festivals in Japan
Summer festivals
Recurring events established in 1982
Recurring events disestablished in 2004
1982 establishments in Japan
2004 disestablishments in Japan


Nansha Kalonji (born 16 February 1973) is a Belgian retired footballer who played in both defence and attack. He was most recently the manager of the Rutgers–Newark Scarlet Raiders at Rutgers–Newark.

Player
Kalonji attended Ramapo College where he played on the men's soccer team from 1994 to 1997.  He graduated with a bachelor's degree in social science in 2003.  He was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2007.  He played for the Central Jersey Riptide in the USISL.  In February 1999, the MetroStars selected Kalonji in the third round (thirty-first overall) of the 1999 MLS Supplemental Draft.  He played nineteen games and scored one goal before being released on 23 November 1999.  In 2002 and 2003, he played for the Carolina Dynamo in the fourth division Premier Development League.

Coach
Kalonji began his coaching career as an assistant at Ramapo College.  He then served as an assistant coach at West Orange High School before moving up to become an assistant at Greensboro College in 2002 and 2003.  In 2004, he became the head coach at Rutgers University–Newark.  After posting an 18–32–2 record over three seasons, Kalonji resigned on 4 November 2006.

Kalonji also holds Congolese  and American nationality.

References

1973 births
Living people
Belgian men's footballers
American people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
Belgian football managers
Belgian emigrants to the United States
Belgian sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
New York Red Bulls players
Footballers from Brussels
North Carolina Fusion U23 players
Central Jersey Riptide players
Major League Soccer players
USL Second Division players
USL League Two players
New York Red Bulls draft picks
Men's association football forwards
Men's association football defenders


Yasin Sülün (born December 17, 1977 in İstanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish football coach and a former player. During his playing career, Sülün played professionally at Beşiktaş J.K., Diyarbakırspor, Bursaspor, Altay S.K., Kasımpaşa S.K., Kocaelispor, Adana Demirspor and Sarıyer S.K.

Career
Yasin Sülün started his career at Beşiktaş J.K. where he played for 15 years, including his youth tenure. Promoted to the senior team by Welsh manager John Toschack, Sülün made his professional debut against Kocaelispor on 11 April 1998, which Beşiktaş lost with 3–2 final score.

He represented Turkey 10 times at U-21 level between 1998 and 2000.

References

External links
 Profile at TFF.org

1977 births
Living people
Turkish men's footballers
Turkey men's under-21 international footballers
Adana Demirspor footballers
Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
Bursaspor footballers
Diyarbakırspor footballers
Altay S.K. footballers
Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers
Kocaelispor footballers
Süper Lig players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Istanbul


Sir Herbert John Baptista Manzoni CBE MICE (21 March 1899 – 18 November 1972) was a British civil engineer known for holding the position of City Engineer and Surveyor of Birmingham from 1935 until 1963. This position put him in charge of all municipal works and his influence on the city, especially following World War II, completely changed the image of Birmingham.

Life
Manzoni was born in Birkenhead, the son of a Milanese sculptor, and was educated both in Birkenhead and Liverpool. He moved to Birmingham in 1923 and became an engineering assistant in the Sewers and Rivers Department. He became Chief Engineer for the department four years later. Unlike many other cities, planning and architectural issues came largely under the control of the city's Chief Engineer.

In 1935, Herbert Humphries retired from his post as City Surveyor and Manzoni took over the post at the age of 36. In 1941, Manzoni anticipated the damage that would be caused by the Birmingham Blitz and, in October 1941, announced the creation of four advisory panels within the council to focus upon Housing, Traffic, Redevelopment Areas and Limitation of the city. A 1938 report identified that there was a serious housing shortage that still needed to be addressed in Birmingham. Manzoni launched a citywide slum clearance scheme, and replaced the housing with high density schemes consisting of tower blocks. He used the Town and Country Planning Act 1944 (to which he contributed) to designate redevelopment areas in Birmingham. Manzoni took advantage of the Housing Act of 1936 to designate  of land in Duddeston and Nechells as a redevelopment area. This was approved in 1950. The first tower blocks to be built in the area were completed in 1954 and the entire scheme was completed in 1972. He also designated a further four in Newtown, Ladywood, Lee Bank, and Highgate, totalling around . Together, they contained nearly 250,000 houses that were considered unfit for habitation and they were one half of the entire slum property in the city. The houses were purchased by the council using Compulsory Purchase Orders.

Manzoni encouraged zoning of areas and redevelopment. He did not believe in the preservation of old buildings and saw their retention for sentimental purposes rather than valuable purposes. This was shown in his work which resulted in the loss of many old buildings and historic areas of the city. His attitudes became the orthodoxy and directly or indirectly led to the demolition of a number of much loved landmarks, such as the old Birmingham Central Library and the original Bull Ring market hall.

Manzoni's most famous utterance on the city's architecture neatly encapsulates his attitudes:

An urban motorway system was also launched by Manzoni. This had been advocated by William Haywood in his 1918 book, The Development of Birmingham. Manzoni began planning an Inner Ring Road from 1943, and an Act of Parliament was passed in 1946 allowing construction to commence. The first section, Smallbrook Queensway, was not started until 1957 and was completed in 1960. The entire ring road was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1971. Demolition of Masshouse Circus on the ring road began in March 2002 and further sections were demolished or demoted following it. The construction of the Inner Ring Road had resulted in the demolition of the Market Hall at the Bull Ring, the Central Library, Mason Science College and the Central Technical College. A Middle Ring Road was constructed following this, cutting through the Jewellery Quarter, and an Outer Ring Road was also designated. Following the demolition of parts of the Inner Ring Road, Birmingham City Centre is now considered to be the area within the Middle Ring Road. According to urban designer Nick Corbett, planners started realising from the 1980s that the Queensway "was stifling growth as well as having a rather brutal appearance."

In February 1960, Manzoni was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a position he served in for 21 months instead of the customary year-long tenure due to the untimely death of his predecessor Arthur Hartley.

References

Architects from Birmingham, West Midlands
1899 births
1972 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
English civil engineers
Knights Bachelor
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
People from Birkenhead
Chancellors of Loughborough University


Millard Fillmore Harmon Jr. (January 19, 1888 – February 26, 1945) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaign in World War II. He was presumed to have perished in February 1945 on a flight when the plane carrying him disappeared in transit.

Harmon, Frank Maxwell Andrews, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. and Lesley J. McNair, all lieutenant generals at the time of their deaths, were the highest-ranking Americans to die in World War II.

Biography

He was born on January 19, 1888, at Fort Mason, California. He was from a military family; his father Millard F. Harmon. Sr. was a colonel, one brother, Hubert R. Harmon, a lieutenant general and another, Kenneth B. Harmon, a colonel. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1912 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry, serving with the 28th and 9th Infantry Regiments. In 1914 he was ordered to the Philippines, and two years later detailed to the newly organized Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps. That year he accompanied the Mexican Punitive Expedition and did aerial patrol work along the border.

Two weeks before the United States entered World War I, Harmon, then a first lieutenant, was on his way to France. There he attended aviation schools in Paris, served at Allied and American headquarters, and was finally attached to the French 13th Group de Combat as a pilot during the Somme defensive, for which he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Regarding the U.S. Air Service fields under control of the Training Section in operation on January 20, 1919, Harmon was then a lieutenant colonel and wing commander of the 1st Provisional Wing (Active) at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, Long Island, New York.  Less than three months later, however, Lt. Col. Harmon was the commanding officer at France Field, Cristobal Canal Zone. (On April 16, he had sent a cablegram to the Director Air Service, stating that two of his Army fliers reported lost and delayed by engine trouble, were safe at Bluefields Bluffs.)  As of May 29, 1919, Lt. Col. Harmon's 7th Aero Squadron at France Field, Panama Station, was given a reduction in force to 32 officers and 146 regular Army personnel.  In March 1920, Lt. Col. Harmon was part of a hunting party operating in the interior of Panama near the Chepo River. The 7th Aero Squadron sent out four flights to locate and communicate with Harmon's party. This involved a great deal of difficulty, and it is unclear whether Harmon's party in the jungle was rescued or returned on their own.  At the end of WWI, flying officers who desired to remain in the Air Service to make it a career were permitted to do so, but career commissions in the Regular Army required written examinations, which did not begin until July 7, 1920. After taking this examination, however, Harmon would have to relinquish his (temporary) lieutenant colonel officer rank in order to accept a permanent Regular Army rank of major. This occurred sometime in the four-month period between August 5, when he was still reported to be a Lt. Col., and the first week of December 1920, when Maj. Harmon placed first among his fellow officers in pistol shooting competition at France Field.  On March 12, 1921, France Field reported that Maj. Harmon was ordered to report back to Washington and leaving by transport ship the last of March. During his time there, Harmon was an avid polo player who organized his France Field polo team in matches against teams from nearby Army bases.  Upon his return to Washington in April, he served as a member of the Advisory Board of the Air Service. In April 1927, Maj. Harmon was relieved from duty with the War Department General Staff and assigned to March Field, Riverside, California for duty.  When March Field officially reopened as an Air Corps Primary Flying School on November 1, 1927, Maj. Harmon was appointed as a Faculty Board member and listed as Commandant of March Field.  On March 10, 1928, Maj. Harmon commanded a formation of DH-4s and flew the California Lieutenant-Governor on a flight to Blythe for the official opening of the new bridge across the Colorado River.  During the years of peace, he continued his training, graduating from the Command and General Staff School and the Army War College. He taught military science and tactics at the University of Washington in Seattle, was assigned as an instructor in the Command and General Staff School, and served with the War Department General Staff for two years.

From 1927 to 1930, he was commandant of the Air Corps Primary Flying School at March Field, California, during which time he came into contact with the young men then entering aviation training. In 1930, Maj. Harmon was ordered to report by August 1 to the Commandant of Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for duty as an instructor.  In 1935, Maj. Harmon, commanding the 20th Pursuit Group at Barksdale Field, Louisiana in March, but within the following month was promoted back to Lt. Col. prior to April 6, and was temporarily commanding the 3rd Wing upon the absence of the wing commander.  He commanded Barksdale Field and the 20th Pursuit Group for four years. In 1936, as a lieutenant colonel, he went to Hawaii to command Luke Field and the 5th Bombardment Group. In 1938 he returned to the United States to become assistant commandant of the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Alabama. After two years of service there, he was assigned for brief periods to Randolph Field, Texas, and Hamilton Field, California. On October 1, 1940, while he was in command at Randolph Field, he was promoted to brigadier general.

In January 1941, Harmon was sent to the United Kingdom as an air observer — he was already rated a command pilot, combat observer and technical observer — serving in that capacity and as a member of the Harriman Mission until April. On his return to the United States, he was assigned as commanding general of IV Interceptor Command, Fourth Air Force. On July 11, 1942, he was appointed major general, and a week later was placed in command of the Second Air Force, with headquarters at Fort George Wright, Washington. In December of that year he was assigned as acting commanding general of the Air Force Combat Command.

On January 26, 1942, he became Chief of the Air Staff, Army Air Forces. With 30 years combat and command experience as a ground and air officer, General Harmon was well qualified to command Army Forces in an area of increasing strategic importance where air power was to play a dominant role. In July 1942, General Harmon was appointed Commanding General of U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area, an area that was under Navy command. In November, Admiral William Halsey Jr. assumed command of the South Pacific, and the two formed a perfect team. In 1944, at the conclusion of his mission and before he went to another command, Admiral Halsey wrote, "I was particularly fortunate in having Harmon as Commanding General of the Army Forces; his sound advice and wholehearted cooperation in attaining the common goal were outstanding contributions to the joint effort."

On February 2, 1943, Harmon was promoted to lieutenant general. Until September of the following year, he commanded the Army Forces in the South Pacific Area, and then moved to a new command, Army Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas (AAFPOA), created under the principle of unity of command in preparation for B-29 Superfortress strategic bombing operations against Japan from the Marianas. At the same time, he was "dual-hatted" as deputy commander of the Twentieth Air Force carrying out those operations, under the command of General Hap Arnold.

Harmon wanted his command of AAFPOA to be more than an administrative, service, and coordinating agency. He lobbied Headquarters AAF for operational control of all USAAF combat operations in the Pacific Ocean Area and partial operational control of the B-29 operations against Japan, from his headquarters on Guam. Wearing his AAFPOA hat, he gained control of all Army and Navy land-based bomber and fighter operations when theater commander Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz named him commander of Task Force 93 (Strategic Air Force, POA) in December. However, this role brought him into conflict with Arnold's objective of maintaining absolute control of Twentieth Air Force operations independent of any theater commands.

The issue came to a head in February 1945 when Harmon clashed with Major General Curtis E. LeMay, the new commander of the XXI Bomber Command, over command of five long-range fighter groups assigned to the Twentieth Air Force as escorts for strategic bombers, with LeMay prevailing. Harmon objected, contending that the result would be a seriously inefficient use of the forces. On February 25, 1945, a C-87A Liberator Express carrying Harmon, and Brigadier General James R. Andersen, his chief of staff, departed Guam for Washington, D.C. via Kwajalein and Hawaii to resolve the fighter dispute. Their aircraft reached Kwajalein Island safely, but disappeared the next day after taking off for Hawaii. The aircraft was never found and there were no survivors. As Japanese air power had been neutralized in the vicinity of the Marshall Islands for some time, it is highly unlikely that enemy fighters were the cause of loss. Harmon was declared dead on February 27, 1946, one year after he disappeared.

Legacy
Harmon Air Force Base, Guam was named after him. Harmon field was returned to the government of Guam, and has since become an industrial park. The area is still known as Harmon.

See also
List of people who disappeared mysteriously at sea

References

External links

  A General Airman. Millard Harmon and the South Pacific in World War II
 Plane loss report at Pacific Wrecks Forum

1888 births
1945 deaths
Army Black Knights men's ice hockey players
United States Army Air Service pilots of World War I
United States Army Air Forces personnel killed in World War II
Members of the Early Birds of Aviation
People declared dead in absentia
Military personnel from San Francisco
United States Military Academy alumni
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France)
United States Army Air Forces generals
Missing in action of World War II
Aerial disappearances of military personnel in action
United States Army Air Forces generals of World War II
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1945
United States Army personnel of World War I


World Education Services (WES) is a nonprofit organization that provides credential evaluations for international students and immigrants planning to study or work in the U.S. and Canada. Founded in 1974, it is based in New York, U.S. It also has operations in Toronto, Canada.

WES evaluates more than 200,000 credentials per year; they auto-authenticate and define foreign education in U.S. or Canadian terms. WES reports that its credential evaluations are nonbinding advisory opinions.

WES's proprietary database collects and stores information of academic certificates of more than 200 countries, 45,000 foreign institutions, and 20,000 academic credentials. However, WES does not have formal agreements with educational systems of any country, and the kept certificates are voluntarily provided by the candidates, and they operate with third-party motives.

WES is accredited by and is a charter member of the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) and the Alliance of Credential Evaluation Services of Canada (ACESC). The U.S. Department of Education's website lists NACES and AICE with a disclaimer that the listing of these organizations is not an endorsement.

References

Educational organizations based in the United States
Academic transfer
Education reform
Student assessment and evaluation
Educational evaluation methods


Sophie and Peter Johnston are a British brother and sister synthpop duo originally from Newcastle upon Tyne.

They caught the attention of BBC Radio 1 disc jockey John Peel in the 1980s and performed the theme music for the UK music television series TX45, an offshoot from The Tube.

In 1983, the radio session track (not a single until 1986) "Television Satellite" was included as number 37 in Peel's Festive Fifty, an end-of-year chart compiled from votes from listeners to his radio shows - the first track not to be commercially available to make the chart.

Their only entry to the charts came in 1986, when "Happy Together" reached number 99 on the UK Singles Chart.

Discography

Albums
 Sophie and Peter Johnston (1986)

Singles
 "Losing You"  (1985)
 "Happy Together"  (1986) – UK No. 99
 "Television Satellite"  (1987)
 "Torn Open"  (1987)

References

External links
 Website
 discography
 Sophie and Peter Johnston performing "Some Sunny Day" on TX45 - via AOL Video

English electronic music duos
English synth-pop groups
Male–female musical duos
Musical groups from Newcastle upon Tyne
Sibling musical duos
Warner Music Group artists


The 2nd constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is a French legislative constituency in the southeastern Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department. Like all constituencies, it elects one deputy via the two-round voting system.

Since 2022, its deputy has been Léo Walter of La France Insoumise (LFI). Walter unseated outgoing deputy Christophe Castaner of La République En Marche! (LREM), who served as Minister of the Interior from 2018 to 2020 under Prime Minister Édouard Philippe.

Members elected

Notes

Election results

2022

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| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
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2017

2012

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party
! colspan="2" | 1st round
! colspan="2" | 2nd round
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Christophe Castaner
| style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party
| PS
|
| 35.76%
|
| 54.04%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Claude Castel
| style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement
| UMP
|
| 29.77%
|
| 45.96%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Claude Diedrich
| style="text-align:left;" | National Front
| FN
|
| 15.25%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Martine Carriol
| style="text-align:left;" | Left Front
| FG
|
| 9.37%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Catherine Berthonneche
| style="text-align:left;" | The Greens
| VEC
|
| 4.39%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Isabelle Verschueren
| style="text-align:left;" |
| CEN
|
| 1.62%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Yamina Guebli
| style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
| ECO
|
| 0.84%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Bruno Morin
| style="text-align:left;" |
| NCE
|
| 0.82%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Noël Chuisano
| style="text-align:left;" | Miscellaneous Right
| DVD
|
| 0.81%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Michel Rovida
| style="text-align:left;" | Centrist Alliance
| ALLI
|
| 0.57%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Brigitte Picard
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 0.46%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Cyril Belmonte
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 0.36%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots
|
| 1.54%
|
| 3.31%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
|
| 62.22%
|
| 61.67%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
|
| 37.78%
|
| 38.33%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
| colspan="2" style="background-color:" | PS GAIN
|}

2007

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Candidate
! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party
! colspan="2" | 1st round
! colspan="2" | 2nd round
|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;"
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
! width="75" | Votes
! width="30" | %
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Daniel Spagnou
| style="text-align:left;" | Union for a Popular Movement
| UMP
|
| 46.25%
|
| 53.96%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Christophe Castaner
| style="text-align:left;" | Socialist Party
| PS
|
| 28.46%
|
| 46.04%
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Isabelle Verschueren
| style="text-align:left;" | Democratic Movement
| MoDem
|
| 5.75%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jean-Claude Cauvin
| style="text-align:left;" | Communist
| COM
|
| 4.53%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Mireille D'Ornano
| style="text-align:left;" | National Front
| FN
|
| 4.31%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Patrick Garnon
| style="text-align:left;" | The Greens
| VEC
|
| 2.85%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Karine Denko
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 2.09%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Gilles Ravera
| style="text-align:left;" | Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Traditions
| CPNT
|
| 1.59%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Jeannine Douzon
| style="text-align:left;" | Movement for France
| MPF
|
| 1.08%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Véronique Raphel
| style="text-align:left;" | Ecologist
| ECO
|
| 0.98%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Xavier Dejasmin
| style="text-align:left;" | Divers
| DIV
|
| 0.81%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Michèle Chassaing
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Right
| EXD
|
| 0.45%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Max Illy
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 0.45%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| style="background-color:" |
| style="text-align:left;" | Claude Senes
| style="text-align:left;" | Far Left
| EXG
|
| 0.40%
| colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" |
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Total
|
| 100%
|
| 100%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Registered voters
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|
| style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Blank/Void ballots
|
| 1.67%
|
| 2.96%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Turnout
|
| 65.94%
|
| 65.60%
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" | Abstentions
|
| 34.06%
|
| 34.40%
|-
| colspan="8" style="background-color:#E9E9E9;"|
|- style="font-weight:bold"
| colspan="6" style="text-align:left;" | Result
| colspan="2" style="background-color:" | UMP HOLD
|}

2002

|-
| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|-

1997

|-
| colspan="8" bgcolor="#E9E9E9"|
|-

Sources
 Official results of French elections from 1998:

References

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Uhm Ji-won (; born December 25, 1977) is a South Korean actress.

Career
Uhm Ji-won  made her acting debut in the late 1990s, and after an early role in the Korean tokusatsu series Vectorman, went on to appear in a number of films and television drama series. In 2004, she appeared alongside Han Suk-kyu and Lee Eun-ju in The Scarlet Letter, receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards.

In 2005, Uhm played a leading role in Hong Sang-soo's Tale of Cinema, and was praised for giving an "engaging, emotionally nuanced dual performance" as fictional actress Choi Young-shil. The film required her to perform her first nude scene, and she later remarked that, "After stripping in front of the camera, I felt that I could now take any role."

Uhm starred alongside Yoo Ji-tae and Kim Ji-soo in the 2006 film Traces of Love, portraying a survivor of the 1995 Sampoong Department Store collapse who still suffers from psychological trauma years later. She prepared for the role by studying news and documentaries of the event, as well as reading through various psychology texts. Uhm was once again nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, and later won the same category at the Chunsa Film Art Awards.

After a cameo in director Kim Jee-woon's 2008 epic western The Good, the Bad, the Weird, and a leading role in another Hong Sang-soo art film Like You Know It All, she was cast in her first period film, Private Eye. Uhm returned to lighter fare in 2010 with the romantic comedy series The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry.

In 2011, Uhm appeared an episode of BBC World's The Third Eye, a documentary series that spotlights up-and-coming countries. The installment of the eight-part segment on Korea is interspersed with interviews with Uhm giving her opinions on Korean culture, domestic movies and the Korean Wave. It also featured footage from her 2010 sex comedy movie Foxy Festival. Uhm, who was interviewed in Korea, was chosen in light of her impressive acting skills, natural charm and English fluency, producers said.

From 2012 to 2013, she starred in family dramas by renowned TV writer Kim Soo-hyun, Childless Comfort and Thrice Married Woman. This was followed by a well-received supporting performance in the gangster comedy Man on the Edge.

Uhm then played the mother of a sexually assaulted child in Hope; she said it was the first movie where she let go of everything, calling it one of her best works. Uhm won Best Actress at the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, and received nominations at the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Baeksang Arts Awards. This was followed by period mystery-thriller The Silenced, and fantasy thriller The Phone. This was followed by kidnapping drama Missing, which won her Best Actress award at the Women in Film Korea Awards. Uhm then featured in crime action film Master.

In 2017, Uhm made a small-screen comeback in SBS' legal thriller Distorted, playing a public prosecutor.

In 2019, Uhm starred in the body-swap comedy drama Spring Turns to Spring. The same year, she starred in the zombie comedy film The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale.

In May 2019, Uhm signed with new agency C-JeS Entertainment.

Personal life
Uhm is a member of Yeongwol Eom clan.

Uhm is a devout Protestant Christian, and together with Han Hye-jin was part of a church group called HaMiMo.

Uhm began dating architect Oh Young-wook in 2013; Oh is the founder of well-known architectural firm ogisadesign d'espacio architects (oddaa), and has also published several books on travel and art. They married on May 27, 2014, at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul.

Later on April 6, 2021, Uhm announced on her YouTube channel that she and her husband have amicably divorced and that they will remain just friends.

Philanthropy
On March 12, 2022, Uhm made a donation  millions to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association to help the victims of the massive wildfire that started in Uljin, Gyeongbuk and has spread to Samcheok, Gangwon.

On March 17, 2022, Uhm made a donation  millions to Save the Children's Children's Rights Film to help victims of the Ukrainian-Russian war.

Filmography

Film

Television series

Web series

Variety show

Music video

Musical theatre

Awards and nominations

References

External links

20th-century South Korean actresses
21st-century South Korean actresses
South Korean film actresses
South Korean television actresses
South Korean musical theatre actresses
1977 births
Living people
Actresses from Daegu
Yeongwol Eom clan
Kyungpook National University alumni
South Korean Protestants


Erman Güraçar (born 24 August 1974) is a Turkish football coach and former player who is the manager of Karşıyaka.

Career
Güraçar last played for Bucaspor in Turkey. He played as a left/right back and fullback. Standing at , he wore the number 22 jersey.

Güraçar was called up 1 time for the Turkey national football team and 1 time for Turkey B national football team.

He has previously played for Kocaelispor, Samsunspor, Beşiktaş J.K., Trabzonspor, Bursaspor, Gaziantepspor, MKE Ankaragücü and Denizlispor.

Honours

Club
Trabzonspor
Turkish Cup: 2002–03

References

External links
 Profile at TFF.org
 Coach profile at TFF

1974 births
Living people
Turkish men's footballers
Turkey men's B international footballers
Beşiktaş J.K. footballers
Trabzonspor footballers
Bursaspor footballers
Kocaelispor footballers
Samsunspor footballers
Gaziantepspor footballers
MKE Ankaragücü footballers
Denizlispor footballers
Süper Lig players
Bucaspor footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Turkish football managers
Karşıyaka S.K. managers
Footballers from Ankara


Claire Sproule (born 9 April 1984) is a singer-songwriter from County Donegal, Ireland.

She was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, into a musical family; her uncle is Dáithí Sproule of Altan.  After playing the clarinet for some time, she showed an interest in guitar, having been brought up listening to Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell and Elvis Costello in Derry and Donegal. At the age of 14 she started writing her own songs.

After leaving school, she began by performing Eva Cassidy songs in local pubs in Donegal, before starting to sing her own songs. She made a rough demo tape which was sent to both the Parlophone and Blue Note record labels, who jointly offered her a recording deal within a week — Parlophone publishing in Europe and Blue Note in the United States. Her self-titled debut album, Claire Sproule was released on Parlophone on 10 October 2005. The album was produced by Stewart Levine, and included top musicians such as Pino Palladino. The album consists of tracks which Sproule wrote between the ages of 17 and 19, and attracted widespread attention.

Following the release of her first album, Sproule played numerous Irish television and radio shows, including the BBC Northern Ireland's An Stuif Ceart, and RTÉ's Other Voices and The Late Late Show. Her second album, entitled Shades of Night, was released in May 2009.

Sproule toured with Paulo Nutini on his first album UK tour and has supported the likes of Al Green, playing in the Royal Albert Hall, and Irish artist Mary Black.

Discography
Albums
 Claire Sproule (10 October 2005)
 Shades of Night (May 2009)

Singles
"Wondering" (13 March 2006)
"Flame (31 July 2006)

References

External links
 Official website

1985 births
Living people
Women singer-songwriters from Northern Ireland
Musicians from County Donegal
21st-century Irish women singers
Musicians from Derry (city)
21st-century singer-songwriters from Northern Ireland


Katharine Basset (c. 1522 – after 1558, occasionally misnamed "Elizabeth") was an English gentlewoman who served at the court of King Henry VIII, namely in the household of Queen Anne of Cleves, and was briefly jailed for speaking against him. Three of her letters to her mother Honor Grenville survive in the Lisle Papers.

Life
Basset was the second daughter of Sir John Basset (1462–1528), KB, of Tehidy in Cornwall and Umberleigh in Devon (Sheriff of Cornwall in 1497, 1517 and 1522 and Sheriff of Devon in 1524) by his second wife, Honor Grenville (died 1566; later Viscountess Lisle), a daughter of Sir Thomas Grenville (died 1513) of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton, Cornwall, and lord of the manor of Bideford in North Devon, Sheriff of Cornwall in 1481 and in 1486.

Her siblings were: Philippa Basset (born 1516), eldest daughter; John Basset (1518–1541), his father's eldest son and heir, a lawyer and servant of Thomas Cromwell who died aged 23; Anne Basset (born 1521), third daughter and a fellow courtier, maid of honour successively to Queens Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Katharine Parr; George Basset (b.circa 1522–5), second son, MP; and James Basset, MP, third son and youngest child, a courtier first to Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor, and later a courtier to Queen Mary I. Katharine was brought up by her mother and stepfather, Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (died 1542), Governor of Calais, uncle of King Henry VIII.

Career

Servant to Countess of Rutland
The young Katharine was sent to live in the household of Eleanor Manners, Countess of Rutland (c. 1495 – 1551), (lady-in-waiting to four wives of King Henry VIII: Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard) whom she served as a gentlewoman-waiter, until about 1540. During this time, her mother wrote to the Countess of Rutland, asking if "Mistress Basset" could become one of the Queen's maids, but the Countess thought no more maids would be accepted at court.

Servant to Anne of Cleves
Later after 1540 she gained a position in the household of Anne of Cleves, 4th wife of King Henry VIII from 6 January 1540 to 9 July 1540. However, she never achieved the coveted position of maid of honour, as did her sister Anne Basset, as Anne of Cleves' marriage to the king was soon annulled to facilitate his marriage to Catherine Howard. Katharine Basset was referred to thereafter simply as  "The Lady Anne of Cleves' woman". Anne resided at Hever Castle, the old family seat of the Boleyn family. The pursuit of a place at court for Katharine is well documented in the Lisle Papers. In 1539 Katherine wrote to her mother: "...Madame, the cause of my writing to your ladyship is that we hear say that the King's grace shall be married and my lord and my lady (i.e. Rutland) as yet doth hear no word of their coming up to London. Wherefore I desire your ladyship that ye will be so good lady and mother unto me as to speak so that I may be one of the queen's maids..." (signed "Katherin Bassitt") Her mother took the opportunity of making the request via John Norris, brother of Henry Norris. On her way to England Queen Anne of Cleves in December 1539 had an enforced stay at Calais, and Lord Lisle used his influence as Lord Deputy of Calais, on behalf of his step-daughter Katharine, to speak to the vice-chancellor of the Duchy of Cleves, Henry Olisleger, who wrote to Lord Lisle on 6 January 1540 with disappointing news as follows:"My lord, very sorry at heart I am to advertise you that with the knowledge and goodwill of the Queen's Grace I have spoken with the king our master and also with my Lord Privy Seal (i.e. Thomas Cromwell) and the other gentlemen of the council to have Mistress Katharine, your wife's daughter, to be of the privy chamber with the queen; to the which I have had answer made me that the ladies and gentlewomen of the privy chamber were appointed before her grace's coming and that for this time patience must be had". On 17 February 1540 Lady Rutland wrote more positively to Lady Lisle: "My very good lady...And where ye be very desirous to have your daughter Mistress Basset to be one of the Queen's Grace's maids, and that ye would I should move her Grace in that behalf. These shall be to do your ladyship: to wit that I perceive right well the King's Highness' pleasure to be such that no more maids shall be taken in until such time as some of them that now be with the Queen's Grace be preferred. Albeit if ye will make some means unto Mother Lowe, who can do as much good in this matter as any one woman here, that she may make some means to get your said daughter with the Queen's said Grace; and in so doing I think ye shall obtain your purpose in every behalf and I for my part shall do the best I can to prefer her here for I would be right glad thereof both for the great honesty that is in her".

On 19 February 1540 Katharine wrote to her mother:"Madame, in my humble wyse my duty to your ladyship deserving you of your daily blessing...I humbly beseech your ladyship to be good lady and mother to me, for my Lady of Rutland sayeth that Mother Lowe, the Mother of the Dutch Maids, may do much for my preferment to the Queen's Highness; so that your ladyship would send her my good token that she might the better remember me. Trusting that your ladyship would be good lady unto me in this behalf..."
The suit to "Mother Lowe" was successful and after 1540 Katharine was taken into the household of Anne of Cleves.

Arrest and questioning
Her sister Anne Bassett was rumoured to be a mistress of Henry VIII, by whom she was showered with great gifts and kept at court even after her stepfather Viscount Lisle had been sent to the Tower of London for alleged treason, namely for having plotted to betray Calais, then an English dominion, to the French. According to rumour, Anne Basset was being considered as Henry's sixth wife on the eve of Queen Catherine Howard's execution.

Katharine came to public attention at the same time that her sister was supposedly being considered as a new wife for King Henry VIII, and was arrested and briefly imprisoned on suspicion of having made treasonable utterances. Katharine is said to have gossiped that Catherine Howard's misdemeanours and execution were the actions of God showing the king that his previous marriage to Anne of Cleves was still in force.

The Letters and Papers of Henry VIII record the following examination dated 4 December 1541 of Jane Rattsey, who it appears had been provoked by Katharine Basset's relation to her of the news of Catherine Howard's misdemeanours and by her expression of praise of Anne of Cleves, into making unconsidered and impolitic replies to her:
"Jane Rattsey, examined of her words to Eliz. (sic) Bassett, viz.: "What if God worketh this work to make the lady Anne of Cleves queen again?" says it was an idle saying suggested by Bassett's praising the lady Anne and dispraising the Queen that now is. Never spoke at any other time of the lady Anne, and she thinks the King's divorce from her good. Examined why she said, "What a man is the King! How many wives will he have?" She said it upon the sudden tidings declared to her by Bassett, when she was sorry for the change and knew not so much as she knows now".

Attends funeral of Henry VIII
At the funeral of King Henry VIII in 1547 Katharine Basset received a cloth allowance for clothing as one of the household of Anne of Cleves, and her sister Anne Basset received a cloth grant also as a servant of the king.

Marriage and progeny
On 8 December 1547 she married Sir Henry Ashley (1519–1588), MP, of Hever in Kent, later of St Giles, Upper Wimborne in Dorset, who was later knighted in 1553 the day after the coronation of Queen Mary I. She had the following progeny:
 Sir Henry Ashley (1548-post 1605), MP, knighted in 1603, a gentleman-pensioner to Queen Elizabeth I.

Death
Basset was still alive in 1558 when mentioned in the will of her brother James Basset, but appears to have predeceased her husband, who died in 1588.

Notes

References
Byrne, Muriel St. Clare, (ed.) The Lisle Letters, 6 vols, University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1981

1522 births
Year of death missing
16th-century  English women
Katharine
English courtiers
Household of Anne of Cleves


Dan Allen (April 12, 1832 – April 26, 1884) was a pioneer American gambler in Omaha, Nebraska. He had great influence throughout the young city and was the long-time companion of Anna Wilson, the city's foremost madam for almost 40 years. Allen was influential throughout early Omaha.

About
Allen was born in Jefferson County, New York, the son of Lyman Allen and Anna Duel, and lived in Peoria, Illinois for some time before coming to Omaha. He arrived in Omaha in 1866, and opened a gambling house in Downtown Omaha in 1878. It is believed that Dan met Anna Wilson in New Orleans, eventually persuading her to come to Omaha with him.

Omaha was known as a "wide-open" city for its first 50 years, with explicit prostitution in the Burnt District and gambling in the Sporting District, both located in Downtown Omaha. Allen ran one of the most infamous saloons and gambling houses in Omaha from the 1860s through the 1870s on the second floor of the city's Pioneer Block. On the first floor of the building, Allen ran a pawnshop; on the second, a gambling hall. The two enterprises worked in sync: if players were out of money they could lower watches, diamonds or other valuables on a dumbwaiter down to the pawnbroker, who in turn would hoist the equivalent value in money back to the players. In a contemporary account from 1880 Allen was alleged to have run Keno and poker rooms in the open, with little or no resistance from local police or politicians.

Personal life
Allen had a reputation as an honest man, and was considered well-matched with Anna Wilson, his romantic interest throughout his life. The couple was reputed to help out the needy whenever possible. In a case involving the theft of $10,000 worth of jewelry from Wilson, Allen told the accused thief that if he relinquished the items he would spare his life. The thief did and ended up going to jail instead.

When Allen died in 1884 Wilson spent considerable money keeping his grave adorned with fresh flowers for the rest of her life. They were buried together in Omaha's Prospect Hill Cemetery under a concrete slab and upright columns.

See also
History of Omaha

References

1832 births
1884 deaths
American gamblers
People from Omaha, Nebraska
People from Peoria, Illinois
Burials at Prospect Hill Cemetery (North Omaha, Nebraska)
Sporting District, Omaha
Crime in Omaha, Nebraska


Pieter de Bitter (15June 1666) was a 17th-century Dutch officer of the Dutch East India Company (, commonly abbreviated to VOC). On 12August 1665 (New Style) he won the Battle of Vågen against an English flotilla commanded by Thomas Teddeman.

Early years in the VOC
Of Pieter de Bitter's early life and career nothing is known. His name first emerges in 1653, when during the First Anglo-Dutch War he is mentioned as the captain of the , a vessel of forty cannon of the Dutch East India Company, that had been allocated to the squadron of Commodore Michiel de Ruyter, just prior to the Battle of Scheveningen. In that fight De Bitter distinguished himself by disabling  of 62 guns, the flagship of Vice-Admiral James Peacock who was killed. An hour later the Mercurius sank after having been penetrated below the waterline; De Bitter was saved with most of his crew.

In August 1655, during the Dutch–Portuguese War, De Bitter was flagcaptain on the  of Director-General Gerard Pietersz Hulft, who commanded a fleet attacking the Portuguese colony of Ceylon from Batavia, the main stronghold of the Dutch East Indies. After Colombo had been taken, De Bitter was in July 1656 sent on a galiot back to Batavia to inform the Council of the Indies of the good news – and bring the sad tidings that Hulft had been killed in action.

Blockade
In November 1656, De Bitter was made Vice-Commandeur, under Commandeur Adriaan Roothaas, of a fleet sent to blockade the Portuguese ports on the coast of Malabar. In the spring of 1657 he returned to Batavia; in August that year he again served under Roothaas on a flotilla blockading Goa. De Bitter's flagship  captured the  loaded with spices. De Bitter embezzled some of the cargo, for which he would later be lightly punished.

The flotilla having been joined by the main force of Colonel Rijcklof van Goens in November, it was decided to split off a large part of the fleet to attack the remaining Portuguese possessions on Ceylon. De Bitter was also used for this expedition, now commanding a larger ship, the . This ship and the  had the mission to mislead the Portuguese by first sailing to the north and only afterwards rejoin the main force leaving for Ceylon. This ruse failed, however, because adverse winds drove the vessels towards the Maldives. De Bitter only reached Colombo on 17 February 1658, too late to contribute to the capture of Manaar. However he participated in the fall of Jaffnapatnam on 21 June. Again he was used as a messenger to the council.

On 19July 1659, De Bitter, still serving under Roothaas, departed on a fleet of thirteen headed for Goa, on the yacht . Blockading the port De Bitter confiscated an English vessel, the , on accusations of carrying contraband.

Commandeur
In April 1661, De Bitter was appointed both Surveyor of the Ships and Master of Naval Ordnance in Batavia. On 22July he was appointed Commandeur of a fleet sent to, again, blockade Goa. On 7January 1663, he was present when Goens captured Kochi. De Bitter functioned as temporary governor of this city. On 12May 1664, he returned to Batavia; on 21June he was sent as an envoy to the court of the King of Siam, Narai the Great, and managed to secure a renewal of the Dutch – Siamese treaty on 22August, returning on 30November to Batavia.

In December De Bitter was appointed commandeur of a Return Fleet. Twice each year the company sent back spices to the Dutch Republic. As the Second Anglo-Dutch War threatened, it was decided to let an experienced officer command the treasure-laden fleet, which had been made as valuable as possible to assist the fatherland. It was of the utmost importance that this shipment did not fall into enemy hands and De Bitter had received secret instructions to avoid this. En route he learned that war had broken out and that the Dutch home fleet had been defeated in the Battle of Lowestoft. New instructions by the States General of the Netherlands ordered him to seek refuge in the neutral port of Bergen in Norway. There, on 12August 1665, he was attacked by an English flotilla, violating the neutrality of the port. De Bitter managed to inspire his crews to an effective defence and in this Battle of Vågen beat off the attack, with heavy losses for the English.

After being relieved by the Dutch home fleet commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral De Ruyter, De Bitter returned to the Republic and was rewarded by the States-General. He was also given two honorary golden chains by the directorate of the company and on 6March 1666, was appointed commandeur of the next fleet headed for the Indies. De Bitter was anxious to return, as his wife and children lived in Batavia. Departing on 15April, he died aboard his flagship the  on 15June from scurvy, off the west coast of Africa.

References

Further reading

1620s births
1666 deaths
Dutch naval personnel of the Anglo-Dutch Wars
Royal Netherlands Navy personnel
People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Dutch East India Company people


The 2010 World Junior Hockey Championships (2010 WJHC), was the 34th edition of Ice Hockey World Junior Championship. The tournament was hosted by Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, from December 26, 2009, to January 5, 2010. Saskatoon had hosted the tournament once before, in 1991. The medal round, as well as all Canada's preliminary round games, took place in Saskatoon at the Credit Union Centre. The arena underwent renovations and upgrades before the 2010 tournament, including an increase in capacity. Other games were played at the Brandt Centre in Regina, which also received upgrades. In addition, pre-tournament exhibition games were held in other towns and cities throughout the province as well as Calgary, Alberta. In the gold medal match, the United States defeated the pre-tournament favourites and host country Canada 6–5 in overtime on a goal by John Carlson to win their second gold medal and first since 2004, ending Canada's bid for a record-breaking sixth consecutive gold medal.

Other host candidates
Initially, Switzerland was chosen to host the tournament, but later withdrew.

Three bid groups submitted letters of intent to host the 2010 tournament prior to the February 1, 2008, deadline:
Joint bid by Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Moncton, New Brunswick;
Joint bid by Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan; and
Joint bid by Winnipeg and Brandon, Manitoba

All three bid groups formally placed their bids before the April 1, 2008, deadline and made their final presentations to the selection committee in Toronto on June 9–10, 2008.

On July 7, 2008, Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) announced Saskatoon and Regina have been chosen to host the tournament. This was Saskatchewan's first successful bid in five recent attempts, after failing to land the 1999, 2003, 2006 and 2009 tournaments.

Venues

Top division

The lowest-ranked teams in the top division are relegated to Division I for the following year's tournament.

Rosters

Preliminary round

Ten teams were divided into two groups of five, each of which play in a single round-robin format.  The winner of each group proceeded directly to the tournament semifinals, with the second- and third-place finishers advancing to the quarterfinals.  The remaining four teams participated in the relegation round to determine which teams will be relegated to Division I the following year.

Group A

All times local (CST/UTC−6)

Group B

All times local (CST/UTC−6)

Relegation round
Results from any games that were played during the preliminary round were carried forward to the relegation round.

All times local (CST/UTC−6)

 and  were relegated to Division I for the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Final round

* Decided in overtime.

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

5th place playoff

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Top 10 scorers

Top 10 goalscorers

Goaltending leaders
(minimum 40% team's total ice time)

Tournament awards

Most Valuable Player
  Jordan Eberle

All-star team

Goaltender:  Benjamin Conz
Defencemen:  Alex Pietrangelo,  John Carlson
Forwards:  Jordan Eberle,  Derek Stepan,  Nino Niederreiter

IIHF best player awards

Goaltender:  Benjamin Conz
Defenceman:  Alex Pietrangelo
Forward:  Jordan Eberle

Final standings

IIHF broadcasting rights

Division I

The following teams took part in the Division I tournament. Group A played in Megève and Saint-Gervais, France, between December 14 and December 20, 2009. Group B played in Gdańsk, Poland, between December 14 and December 20, 2009:

Group A

 was promoted to the Top Division and  was relegated to Division II for the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Group B

 was promoted to the Top Division and  was relegated to Division II for the 2011 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Division II

Division III

The tournament took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from January 4 to January 10, 2010.   and  have gained promotion to Division II for the 2011 IIHF World U20 Championship.

References

See also

 2010 World U-17 Hockey Challenge
 2010 Victoria Cup

Junior, World 2010
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
Ice hockey competitions in Regina, Saskatchewan
Sports competitions in Saskatoon
International ice hockey competitions hosted by Canada
2010
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships


Ender Alkan (born January 2, 1977, in Zara, Sivas Province) is a Turkish football coach and former player who currently serves as the manager of Darıca Gençlerbirliği. He played as an attacking midfielder. Standing at 181 cm.

He has played for the Turkey under-21 team.

He has previously played for Kartalspor, Bursaspor, Denizlispor, Diyarbakırspor, Kasımpaşa SK.

References

External links
 Profile at Turkish Football Federation

1977 births
Living people
People from Zara, Turkey
Turkish men's footballers
Turkey men's under-21 international footballers
Kartal S.K. footballers
Bursaspor footballers
Denizlispor footballers
Diyarbakırspor footballers
Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers
Süper Lig players
Turkish football managers
Men's association football midfielders


Willis "Will" N. Holcombe is an American academic. He became Chancellor of the Florida College System in October 2007 and previously served as President of Broward College from 1987 to 2004, and returned as interim President from November 2006 to July 2007.

Early life
Holcombe was born on April 18, 1945. He graduated in 1963 from Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio.  He ran track and still owns the school record in the 200 meter dash, with a time of 21.2 set in 1963.

He graduated in 1967 with a bachelor's degree from Baldwin-Wallace College, where he ran track and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.  He later earned a master's and doctorate in College Administration from the University of Florida.

In addition, he was a former U.S. Marine Corps Captain before he was honorably discharged.

Career
Holcombe began his teaching career at Ford Junior High School in Brook Park, Ohio. He later joined Florida's State College System, serving as an English professor at Santa Fe College and Broward College, where he eventually became president in 1987.

He has served as Interim Chancellor of the Florida Department of Education’s Division of Community Colleges.  In addition he was Vice-Chancellor of the Miami Chamber of Commerce. Holcombe has more than 30 years of experience in educational leadership and collegiate administration.

He has also served as Vice President of Brevard Community College, provost and academic dean for Broward Community College's Central Campus and assistant to the President for Broward Community College.

Dr. Holcombe has numerous professional affiliations. He is a member of the Florida Collegiate Consortium for International/Intercultural Education, the Steering Committee of statewide Council of Community College Presidents,
Florida Association of Community Colleges, Florida Association of Colleges and Universities, Florida Distance Learning Institute, College Consortium of International Studies, and the Community College of the Air Force.  Dr. Holcombe's community activities include the United Way of Broward County, the Coordinating Council of Broward, Community Blood Centers of South Florida, the
Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce, and the Broward Alliance.

Since 2003, he has been serving on the Board of Directors of BankAtlantic, on the compensation committee.

Awards and recognition
He was inducted into the Baldwin-Wallace College Athletic Hall of Fame.

Broward College would later name an ultra-high tech Higher Education Complex on its main downtown Fort Lauderdale as the "Willis Holcombe Center."

Holcombe was a torchbearer for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He has also received the "Miami Herald Spirit of Excellence Charles Whited Award," "Leader of the Year Award" from Leadership Broward, "Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters" from Nova Southeastern University, the "Silver Medallion Award" from the National Conference of Community and Justice, and the "President's Award for Professional Excellence" from the Florida Association of Community Colleges.

There is a transfer student scholarship in his name at Florida International University that is awarded to students who not only thrive in the classroom but outside as well through volunteer and community involvement. It is available to graduates of Broward College covers the full cost of in-state tuition and registration fees. A minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 is required.

See also
Education in Florida
List of Baldwin-Wallace College people

References

External links
 Official Bio for Chancellor Holcombe

Living people
University of Florida alumni
1945 births
Baldwin Wallace University alumni