Alex Crockett (born 20 November 1981 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a former English rugby union player, who played at centre.

Career
Crockett started his professional career at Bath.

He was called into the England Saxons squad to face Italy A in Ragusa, Sicily on 9 February 2008.

He was appointed joint captain (with Michael Lipman) for Bath in the 2008/9 season

Crockett resigned from Bath along with co-captain Michael Lipman, and Andrew Higgins on 1 June 2009

On 4 December 2009, it was announced that Crockett had signed a contract with Bristol which will last until the end of the 2009/10 season. Crockett joined Bristol for training in January but was unable to play a competitive game until 1 March 2010.

His first game for his new club came against Nottingham in the British and Irish Cup on 7 March 2010. Bristol won the game with Crockett scoring a try in the first half.

Crockett signed for Worcester Warriors on 2 June 2010 on a two-year deal. In 2012, it was announced Crockett would leave Worcester Warriors at the end of the season.

On 23 May 2012, Crockett signed for Newcastle Falcons on a two-year contract for the 2012 to 2013 season. On 20 May 2014, Crockett announced his retirement from professional rugby.

References

External links
Bath profile
England profile
Crockett's double destroys Irish
Crockett sidelined after surgery
Crockett signs new Bath contract
Bristol profile

1981 births
Living people
Rugby union centres
Rugby union players from Bath, Somerset
English rugby union players
Doping cases in rugby union
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The Day of the Beast may refer to:

 The Day of the Beast (film), 1995 Spanish film
 The Day of the Beast (book), 1922 novel by Zane Grey
 Frankenstein: Day of the Beast, 2011 horror film


Hubert Gagnon (September 29, 1947 – June 7, 2020) was a Canadian actor from Quebec.  He was noted for being the voice-over of Homer Simpson and Grampa Simpson in the Canadian French-version of The Simpsons.  He also acted in television and theatre.

Career
Gagnon voiced Homer Simpson in the Quebec version of The Simpsons beginning in 1991.  He continued in that role for 27 years until 2017, when he retired due to health reasons.  He was described as having a completely differently personality than Homer, with Gagnon remembered as "charming, polite and refined" by fellow voice actor Natalie Hamel-Roy.  Nonetheless, his voice became so synonymous with the character that during a week-long visit to Cuba, he was constantly asked by children there to repeat Homer's catchphrase "D'oh!"  He also did the voice-over for Grampa Simpson after the death of the previous voice-actor, Jean-Louis Millette.  On the occasion of the series' 500th episode in 2012, Gagnon observed how voice acting was no longer disdained by the theatre industry, given that it was now being taught in stage schools.  He added that he was able to make a decent living from that line of work.

Gagnon provided the voice of Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, Richard Gere, and Christopher Walken, among others, in several English-language movies dubbed into French, as well as the character Picabo on the Québécois TV show Les Oraliens.  He dubbed the character Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter film series.  He was also the voice of Optimus Prime in the Quebec dubbing of the original Transformers cartoon, but for the 2007 film, he was replaced by Guy Nadon, who had coincidentally portrayed Sideshow Bob alongside Gagnon in the Québécois dubbed version of The Simpsons.  His ability to communicate an action solely through his voice was dubbed a "Gagnonerie".

Gagnon died on June 7, 2020, at his home in Longueuil, Quebec.  He was 72, and had been suffering from cancer in the years leading up to his death.

Filmography
 1968–1970: Les Oraliens (TV series): Picabo (voice)
 1970: Mont-Joye (TV series): Denis Meunier
 1971: Nic et Pic (TV series)
 1974: Les Beaux dimanches
 1974–1975: La Petite Patrie (TV series): Laurent
 1982: Monsieur le ministre
 1984–1985: Transformers (The Transformers) (TV series): Optimus Primus (Optimus Prime) (québécoise voice)
 1991–2017: Les Simpson (The Simpsons) (Animation): Homer Simpson (québécoise voice)
 1994–2001: 4 et demi
 2007: Les Simpson: Le Film (The Simpsons Movie) (Animated movie): Homer Simpson (québécois voice)

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1946 births
2020 deaths
Canadian male voice actors
French Quebecers
Deaths from cancer in Quebec
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Place of birth missing


Bill Tom Closs (January 8, 1922 – June 6, 2011) was an American basketball player. He played collegiately for Rice University.  In his final year, he led the Southwest Conference in scoring and was All-American in 1943. In 1971 he was inducted into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 2003 his basketball jersey was retired.

He joined the Marine Reserve while still at Rice, and was posted in the Fleet Marine Force Pacific Headquarters in Oahu, Hawaii in 1944.

Closs started professional basketball with Indianapolis in 1946.  He played for the Anderson Packers (1948–50), Philadelphia Warriors (1950–51) and Fort Wayne Pistons (1951–52) in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 186 games.  Following the conclusion of his professional basketball career, Closs enjoyed over 35 years of success in the sporting goods industry.

Closs died on June 6, 2011.

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Fort Wayne Pistons players
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People from Brazos County, Texas
Philadelphia Warriors players
Professional Basketball League of America players
Rice Owls men's basketball players
Small forwards
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The Day of the Beast is a 1922 novel by Zane Grey.

Plot introduction
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postwar Jazz Age society whose revelers are tired of hearing about the war. Lane attempts to stem the tide of hedonism and debauchery that is sweeping the town with mixed results.

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Novels by Zane Grey
Novels set in the Roaring Twenties


Paul V. Cloyd (June 13, 1920 – December 28, 2005) was an American basketball player. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, he played college basketball for the University of Wisconsin. He was selected by the Washington Capitols in the 1947 BAA draft, but never played for the team.

Cloyd, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound guard-forward, began his professional career with the National Basketball League's Sheboygan Red Skins during the 1947–48 season, when he finished second on the team in scoring to the NBL rookie of the year and league first-team pick Mike Todorovich with 555 points in 60 games. In 1948–49, he scored 336 points in 56 games for Sheboygan, which finished with a 35–29 record and advanced to the NBL playoffs.

After the NBL merged with the Basketball Association of America on August 3, 1949, Cloyd played for the Baltimore Bullets and Waterloo Hawks in the NBA for seven games during the 1949–50 season.

In 1950–51, Cloyd became player-coach of the Kansas City Hi-Spots in the ill-fated National Professional Basketball League, an organization that dissolved after one season. He led the team in scoring with 243 points in 23 games, but he relinquished his coaching duties on December 4, 1950. He continued as a player, and the Hi-Spots finished with a 4–19 record, last in the four-team Western division. Kansas City, which played its games at the old Pla-Mor Arena, dropped out of the league before the season ended.

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Matt Kaeberlein (born 1971) is an American biologist and biogerontologist best known for his research on evolutionarily conserved mechanisms of aging.  He is currently a professor of pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Education
Kaeberlin attended Western Washington University as an undergraduate and received a B.S. in biochemistry and a B.A. in mathematics in 1997. He received his Ph.D. in biology from MIT in 2002, advised by Leonard Guarente, and did his post-doctoral work with Stanley Fields in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.

Academic career
Kaeberlein became an assistant professor at UW in 2006, an associate professor in 2011, and a full professor in 2015. He has received several awards for his work, including a Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award, an Alzheimer's Association New Investigator Award, and an Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar in Aging Award. In 2011, he was named the Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research by the American Federation for Aging Research and appointed as a GSA Fellow. Kaeberlein was also recognized as an Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year in 2010.

Kaeberlein is a distinguished visiting professor of biochemistry at the Aging Research Institute of Guangdong Medical College in Dongguan, China. He is also the co-director of the University of Washington Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging, the director of SAGEWEB, and the founding director of the Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute at the University of Washington. He is also a co-director of the Dog Aging Project.

Kaeberlein has expressed the view that current advances in aging research could enable most people to potentially live to 100 or even 120 in good health.

Honors and awards
2017                   Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2017			Elected Chair of the Biological Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America
2015			Elected President of the American Aging Association
2011			Selected as a Gerontological Society of America Fellow
2010			Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star in Aging Research Award
2010			Appointed co-director of the University of Washington Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging
2009			Appointed distinguished visiting professor, Institute for Aging Research, Guangdong Medical College, Dongguan, China
2009			University of Washington Young Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture
2009			University of Washington Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
2008			New Scholar in Aging Award, The Ellison Medical Foundation
2008			Alzheimer's Association New Investigator Award
2007			Breakthroughs in Gerontology Award, American Federation for Aging Research and the Glenn Foundation
2006			American Federation for Aging Research Junior Faculty Research Award

Professional Societies
American Aging Association
Gerontological Society of America

References

External links
 Kaeberlein Lab Website
 Kaeberlein’s Faculty Page at University of Washington
 SAGEWEB Website
University of Washington Nathan Shock Center Website

21st-century American biologists
Living people
1971 births
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni


Edmund Hartt (1744-1824) was a master carpenter and owned the shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts where  was constructed in 1797.  The shipyard was located in the North End of Boston, near the location of the present Coast Guard base.   He also built , , and .

Hartt and his descendants lived for many years in "Hartt House" at 24-26 Hull Street in Boston. He is buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston. His son, Samuel Hartt, was also a prominent shipbuilder for the U.S. Navy who built the first steamship and ironclad ships for the Navy.

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American shipbuilders
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19th century in Boston
Economic history of Boston
Year of death unknown
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Peter Short (born 20 June 1979 in Liverpool, England) was a rugby union footballer who played as a lock forward predominantly for Bath in the Aviva Premiership.

He began playing rugby at Adams' Grammar School, in Shropshire, captaining the team from the no. 8 position. He went on to attend UWIC, before moving to Loughborough University.

Short began his professional career with Moseley, before moving to top English side Leicester Tigers.  There, he mostly played  in the back row at blindside flanker. He spent four years at Leicester Tigers as part of the squad that were Premiership Champions from 1999-02 and back to back Heineken Cup winners 2001 & 2002, making 49 first XV appearances, before he moved to RC Narbonne of France and then to Bath. Bath went on to win the European Challenge Cup in the 2007-08 season.

He has converted from no. 8 to flanker to lock,

He was called into the England Saxons squad to face Italy A in Ragusa, Sicily on 9 February 2008.

The signing of Short was confirmed by Exeter Chiefs official website on 14 June 2011.  Unfortunately, Short was forced to retire from rugby in 2012 having failed to recover from a badly broken leg.

Short represented England Saxons at the 2009 Churchill Cup.

Short now coaches sport at Canford School in Dorset.

References

External links
Bath profile
England profile
Leicester profile
Short sidelined for three months
Short secures new Bath contract

1979 births
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Moseley Rugby Football Club players
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Bath Rugby players
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Rugby union players from Liverpool


Robert Marion Cluggish (September 18, 1917 – September 5, 2008) was an American professional basketball player. He played collegiately for the University of Kentucky and for the New York Knicks in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) for 54 games during the 1946–47 season. He worked at Howard High School in Orlando where the gym was named after him when he retired.

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2008 deaths
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Kentucky Wildcats football players
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Centers (basketball)


David W. Snoke is a physics professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his pioneering work on the experimental and theoretical understanding of dynamical optical processes in semiconductor systems." In 2004 he co-wrote a controversial paper with prominent intelligent design proponent Michael Behe. In 2007, his research group was the first to report Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in a trap.
David Snoke and theoretical physicist Jonathan Keeling recently published an article announcing a new era for polariton condensates saying that polaritons are arguably the "...best hope for harnessing the strange effects of quantum condensation and superfluidity in everyday applications."

Academic career
Snoke received his bachelor's degree in physics from Cornell University and his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked for The Aerospace Corporation and was a visiting scientist and Fellow at the Max Planck Institute.

His experimental and theoretical research has focused on fundamental quantum mechanical processes in semiconductor optics, i.e. phase transitions of electrons and holes. Two main thrusts have been Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons

and polaritons.
 He has also had minor efforts in numerical biology, and has published on the topic of the interaction of science and theology.

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Polaritons

In 2007, Snoke's research group at the University of Pittsburgh used stress to trap polaritons in confined regions,
 similar to the way atoms are confined in traps for Bose–Einstein condensation experiments. The observation of polariton condensation in a trap was significant because the polaritons were displaced from the laser excitation spot, so that the effect could not be attributed to a simple nonlinear effect of the laser light. Later milestones from Snoke and collaborators include showing a clear difference between polariton condensation and standard lasing,
 showing quantized circulation of a polariton condensate in a ring,
 and the first clear demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons in equilibrium
 (see Figure 1), in collaboration with the Keith Nelson group at MIT. Prior to this result, polariton condensates were always observed out of equilibrium.

 For a general discussion of Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons, see this page.

Nonequilibrium dynamics
The basic questions of how systems out of equilibrium approach equilibrium (“equilibration”, or “thermalization”) have involved longstanding deep questions of physics, sometimes called the thermodynamic “arrow of time,” with debates going back to Boltzmann. In 1989 Snoke was one of the first to perform simulations of the equilibration of a Bose-Einstein condensate, using numerical solution of the quantum Boltzmann equation
. In 1994 Snoke showed agreement of time-resolved experimental measurements of a particle distribution to solution of the quantum Boltzmann equation
. In 2012 he and theorist Steve Girvin published a seminal paper
 on the justification of the Second Law of Thermodynamics based on analysis of the quantum Boltzmann equation, which has impacted the philosophy of the Second Law.
 Other work by Snoke has included nonequilibrium dynamics of electron plasma
 and  the Mott transition from exciton gas to electron-hole plasma.

Numerical biology
In 2004, Snoke co-authored an article with Michael Behe, a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, in the scientific journal Protein Science, which received widespread criticism. Snoke's contribution to the paper was an appendix which verified the numerical results with analytical calculations that showed the relevant power law, namely that for a novel feature requiring multiple neutral mutations, the time to fixation has a sublinear dependence on population size.

Behe has stated that the results of the paper support his notion of irreducible complexity, based on the calculation of the probability of mutations required for evolution to succeed. However, the published version did not address the concept directly; according to Behe, all references to irreducible complexity were eliminated prior to the paper's publication at the behest of the reviewers. Michael Lynch authored a response, to which Behe and Snoke responded. Protein Science discussed the papers in an editorial. Protein Science received letters that "contained many points of disagreement with the Behe and Snoke article", including the points that:

The paper's assumptions have been severely criticised and the conclusions it draws from its mathematical model have been both criticised and contradicted:
 An essay criticised the paper for an "over-simplified the process, resulting in questionable conclusions", that "[t]heir assumptions bias their results towards more pessimistic numbers", including one assumption that is "probably false under all circumstances", another that is "probably false as a general rule" and assuming "much too high" a level of substitutions that would destroy the protein's function. It concludes "[a]nd ironically, despite these faulty assumptions, Behe and Snoke show that the probability of small multi-residue features evolving is extremely high, given the types of organisms that Behe and Snoke's model applies to."
 More recent research suggests that Behe and Snoke's model, and even Lynch's response, may have been "substantial underestimates" "of the rate of obtaining an adaptive combination of mutations".
 Biochemical analysis of the question has supported an orthodox evolutionary view and rejected Behe and Snoke's approach as an "unreasonable model which assume[s] 'leaps in thin air', such as the evolution of completely novel activities via multiple and simultaneous amino acid changes".

On May 7, 2005, Behe described the paper in presenting arguments for irreducible complexity in his testimony at the Kansas evolution hearings. At the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial later that year it was the one article referenced by both Behe and Scott Minnich as supporting intelligent design. In his ruling, Judge Jones noted that "A review of the article indicates that it does not mention either irreducible complexity or ID. In fact, Professor Behe admitted that the study which forms the basis for the article did not rule out many known evolutionary mechanisms and that the research actually might support evolutionary pathways if a biologically realistic population size were used."

In 2014 David Snoke, along with coauthors Jeffrey Cox and Donald Petcher, published a numerical study of the evolution of novel structures, in the journal Complexity. The model claimed to address the fundamental problem of the tradeoff of the cost of allowing novel structures which are not yet functional, versus the benefit of the eventual new function.

Science and theology
His book, A Biblical Case for an Old Earth (Baker Books, 2006) was described in a review by Law Professor David W. Opderbeck, in the American Scientific Affiliation's Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith as "succeed[ing] admirably" in "establish[ing] that the 'day-age' view is a valid alternative for Christians who hold to biblical inerrancy", but as "less persuasive" at "argu[ing] for a concordist understanding of the Genesis texts and modern science." Snoke was elected a Fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation in 2006. In 2014 he published a review article for the Discovery Institute, arguing that the prevailing paradigm of modern systems biology favors an intelligent design perspective, namely that systems biologists commonly assume a “good design” paradigm.

Bibliography
 Solid State Physics: Essential Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley (2008). ; 2nd edition, 2020
 A Biblical Case for an Old Earth, published by Baker Books (2006).
 Natural Philosophy: Physics and Western Thought, distributed by Access Research Network (2003).
 as editor with Allan Griffin and Sandro Stringari: Bose–Einstein Condensation, published by Cambridge University Press (1996).  ;
 with : Bose-Einstein Condensation of Excitons and Biexcitons: and Coherent Nonlinear Optics with Excitons, published by Cambridge University Press (1999). ;
 as editor with Nick P. Proukakis and Peter B. Littlewood: Universal Themes of Bose-Einstein Condensation, published by Cambridge University Press (2017). ;

References

External links
 Snoke Lab – Official website

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American physicists
University of Pittsburgh faculty
Grainger College of Engineering alumni


Unai Emery Etxegoien (born 3 November 1971) is a Spanish football manager and former player who is the manager of the Premier League club Aston Villa.

After a career spent playing mostly in Spain's Segunda División, Emery transitioned into coaching after retiring in 2004. He began at Lorca Deportiva, where he achieved promotion to the Segunda División in his first season. He then joined Almería, whom he led to promotion to La Liga for the first time in the club's history. He subsequently moved to Valencia, leading the team to top-three finishes. After leaving Valencia, he coached Spartak Moscow for six months, before moving to Sevilla in 2013.

At Sevilla, Emery won an unprecedented three consecutive Europa Leagues, and moved to French club Paris Saint-Germain in 2016. There, he won a Ligue 1 title, two Coupe de France titles, two Coupe de la Ligues, and two Trophée des Champions, which included a domestic quadruple in his second season. After the expiry of his contract, Emery was appointed as head coach of English club Arsenal in 2018, succeeding Arsène Wenger. He finished Europa League runner-up in his first season, before being dismissed in November 2019 after a string of poor results. He was hired by Villarreal in July 2020, where he won the Europa League in his first season and guided the club to a Champions League semi-final run in the following season. In October 2022, he left Villarreal and returned to the Premier League to manage Aston Villa and guided them to the UEFA Conference League.

Early life and playing career
Emery was born in Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country. He is a native speaker of the Basque language. His father and grandfather, named Juan and Antonio respectively, were also footballers, both goalkeepers. The former appeared for several clubs in the second tier including Real Unión, while the latter competed with that club in the top division. Emery's uncle, Román, played as a midfielder.

Emery, a left-sided midfielder, was a youth graduate of Real Sociedad, but never really broke into the first team (aged 24 he appeared in five La Liga games, scoring against Albacete Balompié in an 8–1 home win). After that, he resumed his career mostly in the Segunda División, amassing totals of 215 matches and nine goals over seven seasons. He retired with Lorca Deportiva CF at the age of 32, after one season in Segunda División B. In 2002, he signed for Burgos CF but was one of several players released before making a single competitive appearance due to lack of funds.

In July 2021, Emery, along with his family completed the takeover of Spanish club Real Unión, a Basque club based in Irun, where his brother, Igor, is the active club president.

Coaching career

Lorca and Almería

Emery suffered a serious knee injury while at Lorca in the 2004–05 season, and he was offered the vacant coach's position by the club president. He immediately helped the club achieve promotion to the second division for the first time in its history, as well as beating top-level side Málaga in the Copa del Rey. He was subsequently awarded the Miguel Muñoz Trophy as coach of the season. In his second season, the Murcians' first ever in the second division, the team finished fifth with 69 points, only five points off promotion to the top flight; they suffered relegation in 2007, after Emery's departure.

Emery then moved to Almería in division two, and again helped his squad overachieve: after guiding them to a first ever promotion in 2007, the Andalusian side finished eighth in La Liga in 2007–08. This prompted a move to Valencia, where he succeeded Ronald Koeman as coach.

Valencia
In 2008–09, his first season with Los Che, Emery led them to a sixth-place finish, with subsequent qualification to the UEFA Europa League, in spite of the club's serious financial problems. The team reached the Round of 32 in the UEFA Cup, losing on away goals after a 3–3 aggregate draw against Dynamo Kyiv, and the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, exiting against Sevilla.

In 2009–10, Emery led Valencia to third place, so the club returned to the UEFA Champions League after two years. After dropping down to Europa League (previously known as UEFA Cup), they lost in the quarter-finals to eventual winners Atlético Madrid on away goals, and exited in the round of 16 in the Copa del Rey against Deportivo La Coruña, losing 4–3 on aggregate. In May 2010, Emery renewed his contract for another year.

2010–11 started without David Villa and David Silva, sold to Barcelona and Manchester City respectively. Despite this, Valencia won five out of the first six league games (with one draw), starting the Champions League campaign with a 4–0 win in Turkey against Bursaspor, before being eliminated in the round of 16 by Schalke, and being knocked out in the same stage in the Copa del Rey by Villarreal. In the domestic league, the side finished third, thus again qualifying for the Champions League.

In 2011–12, Emery's side entered the Champions League and were paired with Chelsea, Bayer Leverkusen and Genk. They finished third in their group and subsequently entered the Europa League. Valencia lost in the semi-finals to eventual winners Atlético Madrid again. He left the club in June 2012, after again finishing third in 2011–12, ensuring Valencia's qualification for Champions League.

Spartak Moscow
On 13 May 2012, Leonid Fedun, owner of Spartak Moscow, announced Emery as the Russian club's coach for the following two seasons. On 25 November he was sacked after a run of poor results, after only managing the side for six months. His last game in charge was a 5–1 home loss in the derby against Dynamo Moscow.

Sevilla
Emery returned to Spanish football on 14 January 2013, replacing the sacked Míchel at the helm of Sevilla. He led the club to fifth position in 2013–14, his first full season. On 14 May 2014, he won the Europa League final, defeating Benfica on penalties.

After finishing the 2014–15 season in fifth place, one point behind former club Valencia, Emery again won the Europa League after defeating Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, thus qualifying for the following Champions League. The victory meant that Sevilla became the most successful club in the history of the UEFA Cup/Europa League, with four wins, and Emery signed a one-year contract extension on 5 June 2015 which would have kept him at the club until 2017, after reported interest from West Ham United and Napoli.

In 2015–16, Emery led Sevilla to seventh position, having played the final games of the domestic league with several reserves and youth team players after the team confirmed their place in the Europa League final. This season, Sevilla entered the UEFA Champions League group stage as title holders of UEFA Europa League the previous season, they were third in the group and transferred to UEFA Europa League again. On 18 May 2016, despite trailing 1–0 at half-time, a goal from Kevin Gameiro and two from Coke resulted in a 3–1 victory over Liverpool at St. Jakob-Park in Basel.

On 12 June 2016, after Emery expressed his desire to leave Sevilla, the club announced that they would be parting ways.

Paris Saint-Germain
On 28 June 2016, Emery signed a two-year deal, with the option of a third, to succeed Laurent Blanc at French quadruple-holders Paris Saint-Germain. In his first competitive match in charge, on 6 August, his side beat Lyon 4–1 in Austria to lift the Trophée des Champions.

Emery led PSG to second place in their group of the Champions League, behind Arsenal. In the first knockout round they defeated Barcelona 4–0 at the Parc des Princes, only to historically lose 6–1 in Spain and subsequently be eliminated.

In the next Champions League season, PSG finished top of their group, in which Emery led them to a 3–0 win over Bayern Munich in the second match. However, they were knocked out in the round of 16, as they lost both legs by the eventual winner Real Madrid.

On 1 April, he picked up his second honour with les Rouge-et-Bleu with a 4–1 win over title rivals Monaco in the final of the Coupe de la Ligue. On 28 April 2018, Emery announced his decision to leave the Parisian club at the end of the season with a year left on his contract. He was replaced by German coach Thomas Tuchel at PSG following the conclusion of the 2017–18 season.

Arsenal

On 23 May 2018, Emery was appointed head coach of Arsenal. He agreed to a two-year deal, with the club having the option to extend his deal for a further year.

In his first competitive game in charge, on 12 August, his side lost to Manchester City 2–0 in the Premier League. After a second consecutive loss to Chelsea on 18 August, Emery recorded his first win as Arsenal manager on 25 August, in a 3–1 home win over West Ham United. After this game, Arsenal won 11 games in a row, their best run of form since 2007. Arsenal then extended their unbeaten run to 22 games, including a 4–2 win over arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur in Emery's first North London derby. Their 3–2 loss to Southampton in December was the first time they had been defeated in all competitions since August. However Arsenal capitulated towards the end of the season, only receiving 4 points in their last 5 league matches, effectively discarding any chance of qualifying for the Champions League through league position. Emery yet again reached a Europa League final, but was unsuccessful as Arsenal were beaten 4–1 by fellow English side Chelsea. Arsenal finished the season in fifth position, one place higher than the previous season, narrowly missing out on a Champions League spot.

In the 2019 summer transfer window, Emery broke Arsenal's previous club record by signing Ivory Coast winger Nicolas Pépé. He also brought into the defence David Luiz from rivals Chelsea and Scotsman Kieran Tierney from Celtic, as well as midfielder Dani Ceballos on loan from Real Madrid.

On 29 November 2019, following a series of poor results and a winless run of seven games, Emery was sacked by Arsenal. His final game in charge was a 2–1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League. He was replaced on an interim basis by Freddie Ljungberg and later on a permanent basis by Mikel Arteta.

Villarreal
On 23 July 2020, Emery was announced as the new head coach of La Liga club Villarreal, succeeding Javier Calleja on a three-year deal. On 23 December, he broke the club record of 18 matches unbeaten, after a 1–1 draw at home to Athletic Bilbao.

In May 2021, he led Villarreal to their first European final, after a 2–1 win on aggregate over his former club Arsenal in the semi-finals; he was the first ex-Gunners boss to beat his former team since George Graham in 1999. On 26 May, Villarreal won the Europa League final against Manchester United in Gdańsk, 11–10 on penalties after a 1–1 draw, to give him his fourth and a record win in the competition.

In November 2021, Emery was approached for the vacant managerial spot at Newcastle United following their Saudi-led takeover. He turned down the interest, saying that he was "100% committed" to Villarreal and that the English team had a "lack of a clear vision". In the 2021–22 UEFA Champions League, he led Villarreal to the semi-finals by beating Juventus and Bayern Munich, before being eliminated by Liverpool.

Aston Villa

2022–23: From relegation fight to Europe
On 24 October 2022, Emery was appointed as head coach of Aston Villa after the Premier League team paid a buyout fee of a reported €6 million (£5.2 million) to Villarreal. Due to work permit formalities, the appointment did not complete until 1 November, with Villa having only won two of their first eleven games under previous manager Steven Gerrard before his sacking, and sitting in 16th place in the league table, two places above the relegation zone with only a point separating Villa from the relegation places. On 6 November, Emery won his first match in charge with a 3–1 win over Manchester United, Villa's first home Premier League victory against United since August 1995. His team were eliminated from the third round of the FA Cup 2–1 at home by EFL League Two team Stevenage on 8 January 2023, the seventh season in a row where Villa failed to make it past the third round. He criticised the mentality of his players after the game.

Villa would win fifteen of their twenty-five league games under Emery and 49 points from a possible 75 since his appointment during the 2022–23 campaign, with only 1st-place Manchester City, 2nd-place Arsenal, 3rd-place Manchester United and 5th-place Liverpool securing more points since Emery's appointment. A 1–1 draw with Brentford on 22 April 2023 at the Gtech Community Stadium, Emery's nineteenth league game in charge at Villa, saw Emery's Aston Villa break the record for the number of consecutive league games scored by a team at the start of a manager's tenure in Premier League history, also defeating Fulham 1–0 before losing 1–0 to Manchester United on 30 April 2023 which set the new record at twenty consecutive games. The 5 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat in April 2023, led to Emery being awarded Premier League Manager of the Month.

A 2–1 victory against Tottenham on 13 May not only meant Villa's first league double over The Lilywhites since the 1995–96 season, but also secured a top-half finish to the league, and a 1–1 draw with Liverpool on 20 May guaranteed a 9th-placed finish, Villa's highest finish in the Premier League since the 2010–11 season. On the final matchday, Villa won 2–1 against Brighton, to secure a 7th-place finish and qualification to the UEFA Europa Conference League, the club's first participation in European football since the 2010–11 season and Emery's sixteenth consecutive season of European football.
Many sports journalists and pundits praised Emery's transformation of Villa in such a short space of time, and Emery was nominated for the Premier League Manager of the Season Award. Recipient of the award, Pep Guardiola, would also acknowledge Emery in his acceptance speech, along with fellow nominated managers Mikel Arteta, Eddie Howe, Marco Silva, and Gary O'Neil for each's "incredible job this season".

Aston Villa also saw a number of club records broken during Emery's first seven months in charge, including striker Ollie Watkins not only break the record for number of consecutive games scored in for a Villa player in the Premier League era with five, but also number of consecutive Premier League away games scored in at six, and Emiliano Martínez, with five clean sheets upon the league's restart after the 2022 FIFA World Cup break the record for number of clean sheets for an Aston Villa goalkeeper in his first 100 Premier League games for the club at 34.
A 3–0 win against Newcastle United on 15 April 2023 saw Villa win five Premier League games in a row for the first time since 1998, and victory at Villa Park against Brighton on the final matchday not only meant The Villans first time winning seven consecutive league games at home since the 1992–93 season, but also their eighteenth league win of the season, fifteenth under Emery, for their joint-most league wins in a 38-game season.

2023–24
The summer of 2023 also saw major changes in Aston Villa's infrastructure as co-owners Nassef Sawiris and Wes Edens backed Emery wholeheartedly, including the recruitment of Sevilla's sporting director Monchi as President of Football Operations, and also Damian Vidagany as Director of Football Operations, with Emery and Monchi having worked together in Sevilla during the club's trilogy of UEFA Europa League cup wins from 2013 to 2016, and latter revealing the chance to work with Emery again was a key motivator behind his decision. Emery and Monchi signed Pau Torres from Villarreal for a reported £33m, and Moussa Diaby from Bayer Leverkusen for an undisclosed fee, with many outlets reporting the fee to be in excess of £50m and shattering Villa's previous transfer record, with the latter choosing Villa over reported interest from Saudi Pro League side Al-Nassr who, like many Saudi teams in 2023, signed a host of star players for lucrative offers.

After a 5–1 defeat to Newcastle United at St James' Park in their opening fixture of the 2023-24 Premier League season, where Villa were commended with positive analysis of their play, Emery would lead Villa to win five of their opening seven Premier League games of the season for the third time in the club’s history. Villa would also extend their streak of consecutive home league wins to twelve with a 4–0 victory over Everton, a 3-1 win against Crystal Palace, a 6-1 win over Brighton, a 4-1 win against West Ham, and a 3-1 win over Luton Town, their best tally since 1983, a run which also saw Douglas Luiz break Dwight Yorke’s record from December 1996 of five consecutive Premier League home league appearance goals with six, and become the first Aston Villa player to be directly involved in a goal in each of his last seven Premier League home appearances, with Emery stating a need “to feel something special at Villa Park and try to create a positive energy between us and the supporters and try to work on the pitch to connect with them”. An Ollie Watkins’s hat-trick against Brighton also saw Watkins become the first Villa player since Andy Gray in the 1976-77 season to score two hat-tricks in a single season.

Aston Villa defeated Hibernian 5–0 at Easter Road in the first leg of the UEFA Europa Conference League play-off round with striker Ollie Watkins also marking his debut appearance in European competition with a hat-trick, and setting a record-equalling European win for Emery's side. Villa would also win the reverse fixture 3-0 at Villa Park to confirm their place in the group stage of the competition, being drawn against AZ Alkmaar, Legia Warsaw, and Zrinjski Mostar. Villa would lose their opening group game 3-2 against Legia Warsaw at the Stadion Wojska Polskiego, with Emery admitting Europe is a learning curve for his side.
Aston Villa would also lose their opening round fixture in the Carabao Cup to Everton, with Emery admitting being disappointed with the result and mentioning the club’s need to “try to add some players into the team and try to get balance with them in every competition we are going to face”.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Manager
Sevilla
UEFA Europa League: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 1: 2017–18
Coupe de France: 2016–17, 2017–18
Coupe de la Ligue: 2016–17, 2017–18
Trophée des Champions: 2016, 2017

Arsenal
UEFA Europa League runner-up: 2018–19

Villarreal
UEFA Europa League: 2020–21

Individual
Miguel Muñoz Trophy (Segunda División): 2005–06, 2006–07
La Liga Manager of the Month: March 2014, January 2015
European Coach of the Season: 2013–14
UNFP Manager of the Year: 2017–18
Globe Soccer Awards Coach Career Award: 2022
Premier League Manager of the Month: April 2023

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List of UEFA Cup and Europa League winning managers

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Grethe Gynnild Johnsen (born 18 April 1959 in Bø i Vesterålen) is a Norwegian journalist. From 2004 to 2008 she was responsible for news production at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation headquarters in Oslo. That includes Dagsrevyen, Dagsnytt, the news channel NRK2, NRK Alltid Nyheter and the news production for nrk.no. Currently she is director for all regional offices for NRK.

She has previously worked as a reporter, correspondent in Copenhagen and editor of NRK Sports.

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Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Graham Donaldson was a senior officer in the British Army who died as a result of illness contracted during the disastrous Walcheren Campaign in 1809.  He was commissioned in the 1st Foot Guards (the Grenadier Guards).  There is a memorial to him in the Guards Officers Memorial at the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks.

Family

His eldest daughter, Eliza-Ann, married William Wright Esq, of Eyston Hall, Sudbury, in 1827.

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DiCamillo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Brandon DiCamillo (born 1976), American actor, stuntman, and screenwriter
Gary T. DiCamillo (born  1952), American businessman
Kate DiCamillo (born 1964), American writer

See also
 DiCamillo Bakery, Italian American family-run bakery chain founded in 1920


Guillaume Landré (24 February 1905 in The Hague – 6 November 1968 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch composer of operas, 4 symphonies, and chamber music. His father, Willem Landré (1874–1948) was also a composer; Guillaume studied under him. He also studied under Willem Pijper who had some influence on Landré's early works. Later in his career Landré experimented with serial techniques and jazz influences. From 1950 to 1962 he acted as chairman of the Dutch Society of Composers. In addition to composing he also studied and taught law.

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Benjamin James Clyde (born June 10, 1951) is a retired American basketball player. Born in Albany, Georgia, he played for Florida State University. He was selected by the Boston Celtics in the 5th round (89th pick overall) of the 1974 NBA draft, then played for the Celtics (1974–75) in the NBA for 25 games.

Sportswriter Vince Murray called Clyde "the best high school basketball player [he had] ever seen", and Barry McDermott of Sports Illustrated described Clyde as "a superior individual basketball talent", but Clyde's career suffered due to his repeated conflicts with other players and coaches.

Career
In 1971, while he attended Ellsworth Community College, Clyde was voted Most Valuable Player of the year by the National Junior College Athletic Association. He later transferred to Florida State University, where he played well but clashed with his coaches. After Clyde was suspended for punching an opposing player during one game, Coach Hugh Durham described him as "thinking about himself and the hell with Florida State".

On the Celtics, Clyde played frequently in the early part of the 1974–75 season, while Don Nelson was injured. However, after Nelson's recovery, Clyde was given less playing time. Ultimately, he refused to go into a game after being tapped to play a "clean-up operation" in the last two minutes. After this incident, Clyde was benched for the remainder of the season, and turned down a contract to play with the Celtics for another season.

Personal life
Clyde is one of eight siblings in his family. He was raised by a single mother, as his father left the family early in Clyde's life. He was also supported by Rubye Wysinger, one of his high school teachers, who has been described as a "pillar of support" for Clyde and as "one of [his] most trusted advisors".

Clyde was expelled from high school after an incident in which he allegedly extorted money from another student; however, he was later readmitted to the school.

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A Boston bun, also known as a Sally Lunn, is a large spiced bun with a thick layer of coconut icing, prevalent in Australia and New Zealand. Traditionally the bun contains sieved mashed potato, and modern versions sometimes contain raisins or sultanas, the inclusion of which dates from the 1930s. Records for the sale of a product named "Boston Bun" can be found dating from the early 20th century. It is often served sliced and buttered, to accompany a cup of tea. The origin of the name is unknown. In the North Island of New Zealand, it is also known as a "Sally Lunn", although it has no relation to the traditional English bun of the same name.

See also
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was an Edo period Japanese author of popular fiction who also wrote a number of works in the field of rangaku (Western studies).  He wrote under many pen names, including Manzōtei, Shinra Manzō (or, conventionally, Shinra Banshō), and Tenjiku Rōjin ("old man from India").  The latter constituted an allusion to the pen name Tenjiku Rōnin ("masterless samurai from India"), used by Hiraga Gennai, to whom Chūryō was the principal literary successor.  Chūryō co-authored several plays with Gennai early in his career, and went on to write in almost all of the many genres of popular fiction that were collectively known as gesaku.  He also wrote kyōka, or comic waka poetry, under the pen name Taketsue no Sugaru.  Chūryō was the younger brother of Katsuragawa Hoshū, a shogunal physician and leading scholar of rangaku.

References
Imaizumi Genkichi (1965). Rangaku no ie Katsuragawa no hitobito. Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin.

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Deformation is the rate of change of shape of fluid bodies. Meteorologically, this quantity is very important in the formation of atmospheric fronts, in the explanation of cloud shapes, and in the diffusion of materials and properties.

Equations
The deformation of horizontal wind is defined as , where  and , representing the derivatives of wind component. Because these derivatives vary greatly with the rotation of the coordinate system, so do  and .

Stretching direction
The deformation elements  and  (above) can be used to find the direction of the dilatation axis, the line along which the material elements stretch (also known as the stretching direction). Several flow patterns are characteristic of large deformation: confluence, diffluence, and shear flow. , also known as stretching, is the elongating of a fluid body along the flow (streamline convergence). , also known as shearing, is the elongating of a fluid body normal to the flow (streamline divergence).

See also
Wind shear
Convergence zone
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Delta Kappa Delta (Also known as B.E.T.I.S., , and DKD) is a United States-based college sorority. Delta Kappa Delta is a cultural interest sorority oriented towards South Asian culture. It was founded at Texas A&M University in 1999. It is a founding member of the National APIDA Panhellenic Association.

History
The precursor to Delta Kappa Delta was a grassroots service organization named B.E.T.I.S. or Behind Every True Indian Sister. Its founders felt the need for a community service-oriented organization. The sorority was formed  at Texas A&M University. Its thirteen founders are:

The sorority's philanthropy is child abuse prevention and awareness. In 2014, it was one of the fourteen founding members of the National Asian Pacific Islander American Panhellenic Association (NAPA).

Symbols
The sorority's symbol is the Diya and its flower is the lotus. Its mascot is the peacock. Its colors are black, silver, and violet. Its motto is “I slept and dreamt that life was joy, I awoke and saw that life was service, I acted, and behold, service was joy.”

Charters
Following are the 'charters' or chapters of Delta Kappa Delta. Active chapters are indicated in bold. Inactive chapters are indicated in italic.

References

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The 2008 Cincinnati Bengals season was the franchise's 39th season in the National Football League (NFL), the 41st overall, and the 6th under head coach Marvin Lewis. The team finished the season with 4 wins, 11 losses, and 1 tie, and missing out of the playoffs for the 3rd consecutive year.

Offseason

Coaching changes
This season marked head coach Marvin Lewis's sixth year with the Bengals. His offensive coordinator, Bob Bratkowski, remained with the team, but his defensive coordinator from 2007 to 2008, Chuck Bresnahan, was not retained. He was replaced by Mike Zimmer and Jeff FitzGerald replaced Ricky Hunley as linebacker coach.

Season theme
Typically Lewis has had a theme for the upcoming season for the team to rally around. For the 2008 season it was "Now"

Departures

 Madieu Williams, Safety signed with the Minnesota Vikings.
 Justin Smith, Defensive end signed with the San Francisco 49ers.
 Landon Johnson, Linebacker signed with the Carolina Panthers.
 Willie Anderson, the long time Offensive Lineman was released and signed by the division rival Baltimore Ravens.
 Rudi Johnson was released and signed by the Detroit Lions.
 Ahmad Brooks, Linebacker, who was allegedly involved in an assault for punching a woman in the face late April, was released before the season began.
 David Pollack, who was injured during his second season in the NFL with the Bengals and suffered paralysis, declined to return to football and officially retired.
 Chris Henry was released from the team on the same day a press release in the local paper announced his alleged involvement in an assault occurring within Cincinnati. A few weeks after Marvin Lewis made the public declaration that Henry would never play for the Bengals again he was re-signed. He was ineligible to play the first 4 regular season games as punishment for his involvement with criminal charges against him which were dropped before his reinstatement.
 Odell Thurman, a linebacker suspended for two consecutive years, was declared eligible to return to the NFL. He was then waived in May when Lewis cited that they had not seen enough of Odell to evaluate him properly. Less than a month later Odell was indefinitely suspended from the NFL for violating their substance abuse policy.

Signings
 Ben Utecht, a tight end previously with the Indianapolis Colts
 Antwan Odom, a defensive end previously with the Tennessee Titans
 Doug Gabriel, a wide receiver previously with the Oakland Raiders. He was released from the Bengals on May 29, 2008.

NFL Draft

The Bengals gained an additional four picks for compensation of losing certain players.

Roster

Schedule

Preseason

Regular season

Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

Standings

Regular season results

Week 1: at Baltimore Ravens

Starter, Dexter Jackson, was inactive due to injury.

The Bengals began their 2008 campaign on the road against their AFC North foe, the Baltimore Ravens.  In the first quarter, Cincinnati trailed early as Ravens WR Mark Clayton turned a double reverse play into a 42-yard TD run.  In the second quarter, the Bengals continued to struggle as kicker Matt Stover gave Baltimore a 21-yard field goal.  Cincinnati would reply as kicker Shayne Graham nailed a 43-yard field goal.  However, in the third quarter, the Bengals continued to show their dismal defense as Ravens QB Joe Flacco got a 38-yard TD run.  In the fourth quarter, the Bengals tried to rally as CB Johnathan Joseph returned a fumble 65 yards for a touchdown.  However, Baltimore's defense stiffened and held on for the win.

With the loss, Cincinnati began their season at 0–1.  It became the team's first regular season opening loss since 2004.

Week 2: vs. Tennessee Titans

Starter Dexter Jackson was inactive for the game due to injury.

Hoping to rebound from their divisional road loss to the Ravens, the Bengals played their Week 2 home opener against the Tennessee Titans. At the beginning of the game the winds were marked at  and picked up intensity as the game continued, with gusts to hurricane force at times due to the passage of the remnants of Hurricane Ike. After a scoreless first quarter, Cincinnati trailed as Titans RB LenDale White got a 1-yard TD run.  The Bengals would respond with RB Chris Perry getting his first career TD on a 13-yard run.  However, Tennessee would begin its domination with QB Kerry Collins completing an 11-yard TD pass to WR Justin Gage.  In the third quarter, Cincinnati continued to struggle as kicker Rob Bironas nailed a 34-yard field goal.  In the fourth quarter, the Titans sealed the win with LB Keith Bulluck blocking and recovering a punt within Cincy's endzone for a touchdown.

During the game, the wind was such a factor that it aided the Titan's punter who, with a quick 1-step drop, kicked a punt travelling 70 yards past scrimmage before hitting the ground. It appeared to contribute to difficulties with short passes and long snaps.

With the loss, the Bengals fell to 0–2.  It became the team's first 0-2 start since 2003.

Week 3: at New York Giants

Starters Ben Utecht, Johnathan Joseph, & Dexter Jackson, were inactive for the game due to injuries.

Trying to snap their two-game losing skid, the Bengals flew to Giants Stadium for a Week 3 matchup with the defending Super Bowl champions, the New York Giants.  In the first quarter, Cincinnati scratched first with kicker Shayne Graham getting a 22-yard field goal.  In the second quarter, the Giants responded with RB Brandon Jacobs getting a 1-yard TD run.  The Bengals would strike back with RB Chris Perry getting a 25-yard TD run.  New York tied the game with kicker John Carney getting a 24-yard field goal, yet Cincinnati would close out the half with Graham's 30-yard field goal.

In the third quarter, the Giants would tie the game with Carney kicking a 46-yard field goal.  In the fourth quarter, New York would take the lead with Carney's 26-yard field goal.  The Bengals would reclaim its lead with QB Carson Palmer completing a 17-yard TD pass to WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh.  The Giants responded with QB Eli Manning completing a 4-yard TD pass to TE Kevin Boss, yet Cincinnati tied the game with Graham's 21-yard field goal.  However, in overtime, New York came out on top as Carney nailing the game-winning 22-yard field goal.

With the loss, the Bengals fell to 0–3 as they prepared to face the Cleveland Browns the next game who were also 0–3.  This was the team's first 0-3 start since 2003.

Week 4: vs. Cleveland Browns

Still searching for their first win, the Bengals went home for a Week 4 AFC North duel with the Cleveland Browns in Round 1 of 2008's Battle of Ohio.  With QB Carson Palmer out with a sore right elbow, back-up QB Ryan Fitzpatrick was named the starter.

In the first quarter, Cincinnati trailed early as Browns kicker Phil Dawson got a 25-yard field goal.  In the second quarter, the Bengals took the lead with kicker Shayne Graham getting a 42-yard and a 45-yard field goal.  After a scoreless third quarter, Cleveland regained the lead in the fourth quarter with QB Derek Anderson completing a 4-yard TD pass to WR Braylon Edwards, along with RB Jamal Lewis getting a 1-yard TD run.  Cincinnati would respond with Fitzpatrick completing a 4-yard TD pass to WR Chad Ocho Cinco, yet the Browns pulled away with Dawson nailing a 29-yard field goal.

With yet another loss, the Bengals fell to 0–4 for the first time since 2002, while the Browns improved to 1–3.

Week 5: at Dallas Cowboys

Still searching for their first win, the Bengals flew to Texas Stadium for a Week 5 interconference duel with the Dallas Cowboys.  In the first quarter, Cincinnati trailed early as Cowboys kicker Nick Folk got a 30-yard field goal, along with RB Felix Jones getting a 33-yard TD run.  In the second quarter, Dallas increased its lead as QB Tony Romo completed a 4-yard TD pass to TE Jason Witten.  The Bengals would end the half with kicker Shayne Graham getting a 41-yard and a 31-yard field goal.

In the third quarter, Cincinnati tried to rally as QB Carson Palmer completed an 18-yard TD pass to WR T. J. Houshmandzadeh.  In the fourth quarter, the Bengals got closer as Graham got a 40-yard field goal, yet the Cowboys answered with Romo completing a 57-yard TD pass to WR Terrell Owens.  Cincinnati tried to come back as Palmer completed a 10-yard TD pass to Houshmandzadeh (with a failed 2-point conversion), but Dallas pulled away with Romo completing a 15-yard TD pass to WR Patrick Crayton.

With the loss, the Bengals fell to 0–5.

Week 6: at New York Jets

Still looking for their first win, the Bengals flew to The Meadowlands for a Week 6 duel with the throwback-clad New York Jets.  With QB Carson Palmer out again nursing an injured elbow, QB Ryan Fitzpatrick was again named the starter.

In the first quarter, Cincinnati pounced first as strong safety Chinedum Ndukwe returned a fumble 15 yards for a touchdown.  The Jets responded with QB Brett Favre completing a 2-yard TD pass to RB Thomas Jones.  In the second quarter, New York took the lead as kicker Jay Feely got a 38-yard field goal, while Jones got a 7-yard TD run.  The Bengals closed out the half with Fitzpatrick getting a 1-yard TD run.

In the third quarter, the Jets began to pull away as Feely got a 43-yard field goal.  In the fourth quarter, New York sealed the win as Jones got a 1-yard TD run (with a failed 2-point conversion).

With the loss, Cincinnati fell to 0–6 and it became their first 0–6 start as well as 6-game losing streak since 2002.

Week 7: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers

Still searching for their first win of the season, the Bengals went home for a Week 7 AFC North duel with the Pittsburgh Steelers.  With Carson Palmer still out with a sore elbow, QB Ryan Fitzpatrick was given the start.

In the first quarter, Cincinnati trailed early as Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger completed a 2-yard TD pass to RB Mewelde Moore, along with kicker Jeff Reed getting a 21-yard field goal.  In the second quarter, the Bengals answered with Fitzpatrick completing a 5-yard TD pass to WR Chad Ocho Cinco.  In the third quarter, Pittsburgh responded with Moore getting a 13-yard TD run.  Cincinnati would respond with kicker Dave Rayner nailing a 26-yard field goal.  However, in the fourth quarter, the Steelers pulled away with Roethlisberger completing a 50-yard TD pass to WR Nate Washington, Moore getting a 2-yard TD run, and QB Byron Leftwich completing a 16-yard TD pass to WR Hines Ward.  Earlier in the game, Ward destroyed Bengals linebacker Keith Rivers with a vicious then-legal hit, breaking Rivers' jaw. NFL rules were changed after the season to make similar hits illegal in the future.

With the loss, Cincinnati dropped to 0–7.  The team's first such start since 2002.

Week 8: at Houston Texans

Still trying to acquire their first win of the season, the Bengals flew to Reliant Stadium for a Week 8 duel with the Houston Texans.  In the first quarter, Cincinnati's struggles continued as Texans WR Jacoby Jones returned a punt 73 yards for a touchdown.  The Bengals responded with kicker Shayne Graham getting a 43-yard field goal.  In the second quarter, Houston increased its lead as QB Matt Schaub completed a 6-yard TD pass to WR David Anderson.  Cincinnati closed out the half with Graham nailing a 32-yard field goal.

In the third quarter, the Texans began to pull away as Schaub completed a 7-yard and a 39-yard TD pass to WR Kevin Walter.  In the fourth quarter, Houston sealed the win with RB Steve Slaton getting a 20-yard TD run.

With yet another loss, the Bengals would fall to 0–8 and start a season with such a record for the first time since 1994.

Week 9: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars

Still looking for their first win of the season, the Bengals went home, donned their alternate uniforms, and played a Week 9 duel with the Jacksonville Jaguars.  In the first quarter, Cincinnati clawed first as QB Ryan Fitzpatrick completed a 2-yard TD pass to WR Chad Ocho Cinco.  In the second quarter, the Bengals increased their lead as Fitzpatrick hooked up with Ocho Cinco again on a 10-yard TD pass.  The Jaguars would end the half on kicker Josh Scobee's 52-yard field goal.

In the third quarter, Cincinnati continued its hot streak as RB Cedric Benson got a 7-yard TD run.  In the fourth quarter, Jacksonville began to rally as Scobee nailed a 26-yard field goal, FB Montell Owens returned the fumbled kickoff 18 yards for a touchdown, and RB Maurice Jones-Drew got a 1-yard TD pass.  Fortunately, the Bengals' defense prevented the Jaguars from getting the 2-point conversion, allowing Cincinnati to finally get its first win of the season.

With the win, not only did the Bengals go into their bye week at 1–8, the win also made the Lions the only winless NFL team (the same Lions that would go 0–16).

Week 11: vs. Philadelphia Eagles

Coming off their bye week, the Bengals stayed at home for a Week 11 interconference duel with the Philadelphia Eagles.  After a scoreless first quarter, Cincinnati pounced as kicker Shayne Graham got a 20-yard field goal.  The Eagles responded as kicker David Akers got a 42-yard field goal.  The Bengals would close out the half as QB Ryan Fitzpatrick completed a 26-yard TD pass to WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh.

In the third quarter, Cincinnati increased their lead as Graham got a 41-yard field goal.  Philadelphia answered with QB Donovan McNabb completing a 4-yard TD pass to TE L.J. Smith.  In the fourth quarter, the Eagles tied the game with Aker nailing a 27-yard field goal.  In overtime, both teams had opportunities for game-winning scores, yet both defenses kept them down.

With the tie, the Bengals improved to 1–8–1.

This was the first game to end in a tie in the NFL since 2002, when the Atlanta Falcons played the Pittsburgh Steelers to a 34–34 tie. At the post-game press conference, Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb famously stated that he didn't know games could end tied. A minor controversy arose from this, claiming that the Eagles could have changed their overtime strategy had McNabb known about ties.

Week 12: at Pittsburgh Steelers

Coming off their tie with the Eagles, the Bengals flew to Heinz Field for a Week 12 AFC North rematch with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football.  Prior to the game, it was announced that due to arriving at a team meeting 45 minutes late and arguing with head coach Marvin Lewis, WR Chad Ocho Cinco was deactivated for the game.

In the first quarter, Cincinnati struck first as QB Ryan Fitzpatrick completed a 10-yard TD pass to WR Glenn Holt.  In the second quarter, the Steelers took the lead as QB Ben Roethlisberger completed a 3-yard TD pass to TE Heath Miller, along with kicker Jeff Reed getting a 37-yard field goal.  In the third quarter, Pittsburgh increased its lead as Reed made a 38-yard field goal, along with RB Gary Russell getting a 2-yard TD run.  In the fourth quarter, the Bengals tried to rally as kicker Shayne Graham nailed a 26-yard field goal.  However, the Steelers pulled away with Roethlisberger's 8-yard TD run.

With the loss, Cincinnati fell to 1–9–1. It was also the Bengals' 332nd loss since the originating of the AFC-NFC format in 1970, temporarily tying them with the New York Jets for the most all-time losses among AFC teams.

Week 13: vs. Baltimore Ravens

Hoping to rebound from their road loss to the Steelers, the Bengals went home for a Week 13 AFC North rematch with the Baltimore Ravens.  In the first quarter, Cincinnati trailed early as Ravens kicker Matt Stover made a 27-yard field goal.  In the second quarter, Baltimore increased its lead as Stover got a 21-yard field goal, along with QB Joe Flacco completing a 4-yard TD pass to TE Todd Heap.  The Bengals would close out the half as kicker Shayne Graham nailed a 21-yard field goal.

In the third quarter, the Ravens pulled away as WR Mark Clayton completed a 32-yard TD pass to WR Derrick Mason and caught a 70-yard TD pass from Flacco.  In the fourth quarter, Baltimore pulled away as safety Jim Leonhard returned an interception 35 yards for a touchdown.

With the loss, not only did Cincinnati fall to 1–10–1.  They surpassed their 2007 loss total and were swept by the Ravens for the first time since 2002.

Week 14: at Indianapolis Colts

Trying to rebound from back-to-back divisional losses, the Bengals flew to Lucas Oil Stadium for a Week 14 duel with the Indianapolis Colts.  In the first quarter, Cincinnati trailed as Colts RB Dominic Rhodes got a 17-yard TD run.  The Bengals would answer in the second quarter as kicker Shayne Graham nailed a 19-yard field goal, but Indianapolis answered right back with QB Peyton Manning completing a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Marvin Harrison.  Manning would help the Colts pull away in the third quarter with a 2-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez and a 4-yard touchdown pass to TE Dallas Clark.  Indianapolis would seal the game in the fourth quarter as CB Kelvin Hayden returned an interception 85 yards for a touchdown.

With the loss, Cincinnati fell to 1–11–1.

Week 15 vs. Redskins

Week 16: at Cleveland Browns

Coming off their home win over the Redskins, the Bengals flew to Cleveland Browns Stadium for Round 2 of 2008's Battle of Ohio with the Cleveland Browns.  Cincinnati would get the lead in the first quarter as cornerback Leon Hall returned an interception 50 yards for a touchdown which was his first interception of the year. Hall also intercepted two other passes giving him 3 total in the game. RB Cedric Benson carried the ball for a career-high 38 times for a career-high 171 yards.  The Bengals would then add onto their lead in the second quarter as quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick completed a 20-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Chris Henry.  From there on out, the defense prevented Cleveland from getting any kind of momentum.

With the win, the Bengals improved to 3–11–1.

Week 17: vs. Kansas City Chiefs

Coming off their divisional road win over the Browns, the Bengals went home, donned their alternate uniforms again, and closed out their season with a Week 17 duel with the Kansas City Chiefs.  Cincinnati would get the first punch in the first quarter as kicker Shayne Graham got a 38-yard field goal.  In the second quarter, the Bengals would increase their lead as running back Cedric Benson got a 2-yard touchdown run, followed by Graham's 30-yard field goal.  After a scoreless third quarter, Cincinnati wrapped up its dominating day with Graham's 43-yard field goal.  The Chiefs would respond with quarterback Tyler Thigpen completing a 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tony Gonzalez (with a failed 2-point conversion).

With the win, the Bengals finished their season at 4–11–1.

Notes

References

External links

 ""Now" by Geoff Hobson on May 21, 2008"

Cincinnati Bengals seasons
Cin
Cincin


Kenth Thure "Nubben" Norberg (born June 12, 1967) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player and head coach. He later became the sports manager of Timrå IK in the Swedish Swedish Elite League (SEL).

Playing career
Norberg debuted as a young player for Sollefteå HK, and during his second season in 1987 he helped the team take a surprising spot in Allsvenskan in the spring of 1988. After Sollefteå, Norberg was signed by Modo Hockey in Elitserien. Following a good debut season in Elitserien, Norberg had trouble establishing himself as a sophomore. He signed with recently demoted Skellefteå AIK the following season, and became one of the team's most valuable players. After four seasons with Skellefteå AIK, Norberg signed with Timrå IK where he played his final three seasons before retirement.

Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Norberg took the job as assistant coach to Peo Larsson in Timrå IK in 1997. Together they managed to bring Timrå back to Elitserien in 2000. In their first Elitserien season they managed to avoid Kvalserien.

Management career
Prior to the 2001–02 season Norberg left Larsson's side and took the job as the sports manager for Timrå. Timrå struggled and Norberg was forced to fire his former coaching partner Larsson. Timrå led by interim head coach Lars Molin avoided relegation and won Kvalserien. During the off season Norberg's competence was questioned by some. The already struggling team lost their star player Henrik Zetterberg to the Detroit Red Wings. Norberg signed several relatively unknown players such as Niklas Nordgren, Sanny Lindström, and goaltender Kimmo Kapanen. The team led by new head coach Kent Johansson surprised everyone as they finished third in the regular season and reaching the semifinals in the playoff. Norberg was praised for his effort, being commended as leader of the year by the ice hockey journalist association.

Norberg continued to work for Timrå as the sports manager until February 4, 2008, when Frölunda HC announced that he would induct their general manager position on May 1, 2008. Timrå announced the same day that they had released Norberg despite the fact that he had another four years remaining on his contract. Norberg is the first person in Elitserien with the title General Manager.

Norberg resigned from Frölunda HC mid-season during the 2010–11 season. After Timrå's then sports manager Stefan Lindqvist had been forced out from the organization, Norberg re-joined Timrå as the club's sports manager.

Career statistics

References

External links

1967 births
Living people
Modo Hockey players
Skellefteå AIK players
Timrå IK players
Swedish ice hockey forwards
Swedish ice hockey general managers
Sportspeople from Härnösand
Ice hockey people from Västernorrland County


AC4 is a Swedish hardcore punk band from Umeå, Sweden. Refused members Dennis Lyxzén and David Sandström had been talking about starting a new band for a long time. In the spring of 2008 Karl Backman had written songs for the new band and they started to rehearse. Jens Nordén had played with Lyxzén in pre-Refused straight edge hardcore band Step Forward (1987-1991) and since 1990 with Backman in punk band The Vectors. The "AC" in the name is the regional code for the Västerbotten province where Umeå is located.

The first show was at a squat on Parkgatan in Umeå on May 5, 2008.

In May 2008 someone posted a live song on YouTube. It got on Kerrang's playlist and had over 14,000 hits the first week.

They performed at Storsjöyran and Umeå Punkfest in 2008.

In 2009 they performed at Way Out West Festival and released the self-titled debut album on Lyxzén's label Ny Våg.

In 2010 their European tour took them around their native Sweden, as well as Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Austria, France, Italy, England and Wales. They also released the Umeå Hardcore 7-inch EP in Europe, a special 7-inch for Australia only and the debut album came out in America.

AC4 initially refused to do interviews with mainstream media and would only answer questions from fanzine writers who were under the age of 18. To promote their Australian tour in April, 2011, Dennis conducted a number of interviews with the local press, including Melbourne radio show Bullying The Jukebox.

While on tour in Australia a short documentary film about the band entitled "A few minutes with AC4" was filmed, along with a promotional video for the song "Won't Bow Down" from their debut album.

In May 2012 the band announced that Sandström had been replaced by Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson (DS-13) and that the recording of a second album had begun. The album Burn The World was released in March 2013 on Ny Våg records and Deathwish Inc.

The band is also performing at some upcoming festivals including Groezrock on a spring 2013 tour. A week before the tour the band announced that Nordén had suddenly left AC4, but is being replaced by their producer Fredrik Lyxzén.

Members
Current members
Dennis Lyxzén – lead vocals (2008–present)
Karl Backman – guitar, backing vocals (2008–present)
Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson – bass, backing vocals (2012–present)
Fredrik Lyxzén – drums (2013–present)

 Former members
David Sandström – bass, backing vocals (2008-2012)
Jens Nordén – drums (2008-2013)

Discography

Albums
AC4
CD/LP Ny Våg (Ny Våg No. 123), Sweden 2009
LP Deranged Records (DY#161), Canada 2010
CD Shock Entertainment (CTX611CD), Australia 2011
Burn the World
CD/LP Ny Våg records (Ny Våg No. 133), Sweden 2013
LP Deathwish Inc. (DW145), USA 2013

EPs
split 7-inch w/ Surprise Sex Attack
7" Aniseed records (Aniseed 001) 2010
Umeå Hardcore
7" P-Trash records (p.trash62) 2010

Compilations
Umeå Vråljazz Giganter
CD/LP Ny Våg records (Ny Våg No. 120) 2010

Music videos
 "Curva del Diablo" (2013)
 "Burn the World" (2013)

References

External links

 Official AC4 Facebook
 Official AC4 Myspace
 Rockfoto AC4
 Ny Våg
 Triple R interview with Dennis

Swedish hardcore punk groups
Musical groups established in 2008
Deathwish Inc. artists


Kfar Menahem (, lit. Menahem Village) is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located about 7 km east of Kiryat Malakhi, it falls under the jurisdiction of Yoav Regional Council. In  it had a population of .

History
Kfar Menahem (originally Irgun Menahem) was founded in 1935 by a group of pioneers from Rehovot. The village was named for Menachem Ussishkin. During the Arab revolt in 1936, the place was abandoned by Jews and destroyed by Arabs. On 28 July 1937, it  was re-established as a moshav but could not sustain itself. In 1939, the Irgun Menachem group was replaced by the Kvutzat Krit group from the United States, members of Hashomer Hatzair who were training in the moshava of Hadar, near Ramatayim. That year, members of the Irgun Menachem group who had left Kfar Menahem founded Kfar Warburg.

Kfar Menahem was established as a Tower and Stockade colony on December 6, 1939 on a 3,650 dunam tract which had been purchased in 1935. The founders were a group of 32 American immigrants. By 1943, there were 245 inhabitants who worked in mixed farming (grains, vegetables, cattle, sheep and poultry) and industry (carpentry and garage).

After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the kibbutz expanded onto about 9,000 dunams on land of the depopulated Arab village of Idnibba.

The Yoav Regional Council high school "Tzafit" is located in Kfar Menahem. The kibbutz also operates a regional museum with a model of the original tower and stockade.

Architecture
The Beit Habanim culture hall in Kfar Menachem was designed by renowned architect R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. It is an example of Brutalist architecture, using exposed concrete.

Notable people
 Juval Aviv (born 1947), former Mossad officer, later security consultant
 Sandra Bernhard, American comedian who worked as a volunteer in Kfar Menachem in the early 1970s

Gallery

References

External links
Official website

Kibbutzim
Kibbutz Movement
Populated places established in 1935
Populated places established in 1937
1935 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
1937 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)


Dave Attwood (born 5 April 1987 in Bristol, England) is a rugby union player who plays at Lock for Bath in Premiership Rugby.  In 2017 he was described as a "big traditional tight-head lock, a master of the set piece, indeed arguably the best scrummaging second row in the country". He has previously played for Bristol Bears, over two spells, Gloucester and Toulon.

Education and early career
Attwood attended The Ridings High School in Bristol.  He graduated from Bristol University with a joint Honours degree in Physics and Philosophy with the support of the Bristol Rugby Academy before moving on to the First Team squad. His rugby heroes include Alex Brown, Will Greenwood and coach and personal friend Phil Cue, his then coach at Bristol Minis and Juniors and Dings Crusaders. In 2007 aged 20, he was described as "the thinking man's Martin Johnson" (rugby union). He was England under 16 discus champion and still enjoys throwing although he complains that "he never finds the time."

Club career
Attwood spent two years (2007-2009) with the Bristol Rugby first team squad.  The 2008–09 season saw him feature more regularly in the first team, playing in the Anglo-Welsh Cup as well as the European Challenge Cup.  He joined Gloucester in the summer of 2009.  In February 2011, it was announced that he had agreed a two-year deal with Bath Rugby, from the beginning of the 2011–12 season.

In February 2019, it was announced that Attwood would be rejoining Bristol Bears at the start of the 2019–2020 season on a two-year deal

International career
Attwood represented England under 19s in the 2006 Junior World Cup, scoring against New Zealand in the semi-final. He played for the England under 20 team in 2007.

He was called into the England Saxons squad to face Italy A on 9 February 2008, although he did not play in the match.  He made his playing debut for the England Saxons against Ireland Wolfhounds in January 2010.

Attwood was called up to the senior England team for the 2010 Summer tour to Australia. He played two games with the second-string squad against the Australian Barbarians, but was cited at the end of the first game for stamping.  This was dismissed on technicalities before being reviewed.

Attwood made his senior England debut as a replacement for Tom Palmer in the game against New Zealand on 7 November 2010. He made his third appearance for England against Argentina on 8 June 2013 in a 32–3 victory for England.  He captained England Saxons to a 2–0 series win away to South Africa A in 2016.

As at January 2017, Attwood had won 24 England caps.

Interests
Attwood funds a performance sports scholarship at the University of Bristol called the Dave Attwood Rugby Scholarship Scheme.

He has "donated and raised tens of thousands of pounds for research into degenerative brain disease" through his continued support for the School of Clinical Sciences at Bristol University.

References

External links
Bath Rugby Profile
England Rugby Profile

1987 births
Living people
English rugby union players
Rugby union players from Bristol
Bath Rugby players
Bristol Bears players
Gloucester Rugby players
RC Toulon players
Rugby union locks
Alumni of the University of Bristol
England international rugby union players


Deformation can refer to:

 Deformation (engineering), changes in an object's shape or form due to the application of a force or forces.
 Deformation (physics), such changes considered and analyzed as displacements of continuum bodies.
 Deformation (meteorology), a measure of the rate at which the shapes of clouds and other fluid bodies change.
 Deformation (mathematics), the study of conditions leading to slightly different solutions of mathematical equations, models and problems.
 Deformation (volcanology), a measure of the rate at which the shapes of volcanoes change.
 Deformation (biology), a harmful mutation or other deformation in an organism.

See also
 Deformity (medicine), a major difference in the shape of a body part or organ compared to its common or average shape.
 Plasticity (physics), the study of the non-reversible deformation of materials subjected to forces.
 Super-deformed, or the chibi style of art associated with anime and manga


Central South () was a planned MTR station on the Sha Tin to Central Link. If it was constructed, the station would have served as the southern terminus of the North South Corridor. In the 2012 and 2013 MTR annual reports, Central South station was still marked on the Future Stations and Network Map.

History
When KCRC submitted its first proposal on the new line, the station was named Central West, and had a site to the west of the one in the current proposal.

In 2004, KCRC submitted a new proposal, which pointed out that there are technical problems on the original planned location of the station, due to the soft soil found there. The proposal suggested an option of placing the station somewhere south of Upper Albert Road.

In 2008, the Government announced that it was considering the proposal that MTR had recently submitted, in which Central South station will be cancelled. The Government had promised that the details of the final plan will be revealed in early February.

On 11 March 2008, a new proposal of the project was announced, in which Central South station will not be built during the meantime as a better site has yet to be found.

References

Central, Hong Kong
Proposed railway stations in Hong Kong


is a railway station of Chūō Main Line, East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Ryūō-shinmachi, in the city of Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The station is also a container terminal for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).

Lines
Ryūō Station is served by the Chūō Main Line, and is 138.6 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Tokyo Station.

Layout
Ryūō Station has an elevated station building with one side platform and one island platform, serving three tracks. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office.

Platforms

History
Ryūō Station opened on December 15, 1903 as a station on the Japanese Government Railways (JGR). The JGR became the JNR (Japanese National Railways) after the end of World War II.  With the dissolution and privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the station came under the joint control of the East Japan Railway Company and the Japan Freight Railway Company. A container terminal was established on June 1, 1988. Automated turnstiles using the Suica IC Card system came into operation from October 16, 2004. A new station building was completed in March 2008.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2017, the station was used by an average of 2,355 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Gallery

Bus terminals

Highway Buses
Highway buses depart from the south exit.
 Chūō Kōsoku Bus; For Shinjuku Station (Yamanashi Kōtsū, Keio Bus East)
 Airport Limousine; For Haneda Airport (YamanashiKotsu, Keihin Kyuko Line)
 For Yokohama Station (Yamanashi Kotsu, Keihin Kyuko Bus)
 Airport Limousine; For Narita International Airport (Yamanashi Kotsu, Chiba Kotsu)
 For Minobu, Shin-Shizuoka Station, and Shizuoka Station (Yamanashi Kotsu, Shizutetsu Justline)
 Nagoya Liner Kofu; For Iida, Nakatsugawa, and Nagoya Station (Yamanashi Kotsu, JR Tokai Bus)
 Crystal Liner; For Kyōto Station, Ōsaka Station, Ōsaka Namba Station, and Universal Studios Japan (Yamanashi Kotsu, Kintetsu Bus)

Surrounding area
 Ryūō post office
 Kōfu City Hall

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

 Miyoshi Kozo. Chuo-sen Machi to eki Hyaku-niju nen. JT Publishing (2009)

External links

JR East Ryūō Station

Railway stations in Yamanashi Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1903
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Stations of Japan Freight Railway Company
Chūō Main Line
Kai, Yamanashi


Magic Shadows was a 30-min Canadian television series produced by the TVOntario public television network hosted by Elwy Yost that ran on weekday evenings from 1974 to the mid 1980s.

The format was that the host would present classic feature films in a serialized format over the week from Monday to Friday. In addition, Yost presented material related to the film in question such as interviews, and visits to interesting places in Ontario that related to the featured film.

When the main film was concluded early, the Friday night airing would present classic film serials including acclaimed productions from Republic Studios such as The Adventures of Captain Marvel, Mysterious Doctor Satan, Daredevils of the Red Circle and Captain America.

References

External links

1974 Canadian television series debuts
TVO original programming
Canadian motion picture television series


Eriophyllum confertiflorum, commonly called golden yarrow or yellow yarrow, is a North American species of plant in the family Asteraceae, native to California and Baja California. It has wooly leaves when young, and yellow flower heads. "Eriophyllum" means "wooly leaved."

Eriophyllum confertiflorum gets its common name from the similar appearance of its inflorescence to the true yarrow, which has white flowers.

Habitat and distribution
Eriophyllum confertiflorum is a highly variable plant which is generally a small shrub. It grows primarily in the Sierra Nevada and Coastal Ranges in California and Baja California. It can be found in a number of plant communities and habitats. In the Santa Monica Mountains of California, it is common in open places that are away from the coast.

Eriophyllum confertiflorum grows in large clumps or stands of many erect stems often exceeding  in height. Botanist Nancy Dale describes the growth pattern as "tidy". Leaves are alternate. Leaves and stems are whitish when young, because of being covered in wooly white hairs, then become greenish to gray-green. Leaves have 3-5 deep lobes. Yellow flowers are crowded in the head, which is up to  across, flat-topped, with both disc flowers and ray flowers. "Confertiflorum" means densely flowered. It blooms from January to July. The fruit is an achene with a very short pappus. The top of each stem forms an inflorescence of up to 30 flower heads, each bright golden yellow head with a large center of disc florets and usually a fringe of rounded to oval ray florets.

Varieties
Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. confertiflorum - most of species range
Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. tanacetiflorum (Greene) Jeps. - Sierra Nevada foothills + San Gabriel Mountains
Eriophyllum confertiflorum var. trifidum (Nutt.) A.Gray - California coast between Santa Barbara + Monterey

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment: Eriophyllum confertiflorum
United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
Eriophyllum confertiflorum - Calphotos Photo gallery, University of California

confertiflorum
Flora of California
Flora of Baja California
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Plants described in 1836
Taxa named by Asa Gray
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


China National Materials Group or Sinoma, established in 1983, is a central government-administered enterprise directly under the administration of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest cement equipment and engineering service provider and China's leading non-metal materials manufacturer. It is also the only enterprise that possesses a series of core technologies and complete innovation system in non-metal materials industry in China.

The group's subsidiaries listed as A shares in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange are Sinoma International Engineering (), Ningxia Saima Industry () and Xinjiang Guotong Pipeline ().

Another of the group's subsidiaries, China National Materials (), was listed as H shares in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 20 December 2007 while the IPO price was HK$4.5 per share. It attracted six investors including China Construction Bank, China Life Insurance, China Communications Construction, Citigroup, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) and Leslie Lee Alexander, owner of the Houston Rockets basketball team. Xinjiang Tianshan Cement (), a company listed in Shenzhen, was China National Materials's subsidiary

Business areas
China National Materials Company Limited and its subsidiaries, provides cement equipment and engineering services, as well as manufactures cement, glass fiber, and non-metal materials.

It operates in four segments: Cement Equipment and Engineering Services, Glass Fiber, Cement, and High-Tech Materials.

The Cement Equipment and Engineering Services segment provides engineering and construction services for mines, roads, bridges, and tunnels projects; builds equipment used in new dry process cement production lines; engages in equipment purchasing; offers project research, development, and design services; and provides turnkey services.

The Glass Fiber segment engages in the production and sale of glass fiber and glass fiber products, such as roving, glass fiber mats, electronic yarn, chopped strands, and woven roving.

The Cement segment produces and sells cements, clinkers, and standard sand.

The High-Tech Materials segment involves in the production and sale of glass microfiber paper, high strength glass fiber, high temperature filtration materials, and composite materials; and the provision of design, equipment, and technology services for glass fiber production and non metal mineral fine processing. This segment also provides microcrystalline alumina ceramics and fine fused quartz ceramics; high pressure electric porcelain and used silica ceramic crucible; and KTP, infrared crystals, and microcrystalline glass. The company sells its products in the People's Republic of China, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and other Asian countries.

See also
Advanced materials industry in China

References

External links
China National Materials Group Corporation
China National Materials Company Limited
Sinoma International Engineering Company Limited
Sinoma Rus Co., Ltd

Manufacturing companies based in Beijing
Construction and civil engineering companies of China
Cement companies of China
Government-owned companies of China
Manufacturing companies established in 1953
Chinese companies established in 1953
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1953


Jan Anthony Sapp (born June 12, 1954) is a professor in the Department of Biology, York University, Canada. His writings focus especially on evolutionary biology beyond the classical neo-Darwinian framework, and emphasize the fundamental importance of symbiosis and horizontal gene transfer in heredity and evolution.

Career
Sapp was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He completed his BSc hons (Biology) at Dalhousie University in 1976 before earning his MSc and Phd at the Institut d’histoire et de sociopolitique des sciences, at l'Université de Montréal in 1984. He subsequently held an appointment at the University of Melbourne for eight years, where he also served as chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. He was Andrew Mellon Fellow at the Rockefeller University, 1991–92. He held the Canada Research Chair (tier 1) in the History of the Biological Sciences at l’Université du Québec à Montréal from 2001 to 2003 before returning to York University where he has been a professor since 1992.

Sapp's  book Evolution by Association (1994) is the first book to document the history of symbiosis in depth. It was described in a review as a "fine piece of scholarship". He subsequently introduced the terms "symbiome" and "symbiomics" to biology in his book Genesis: The Evolution of Biology (2003). He developed this line of historical research beyond classical neoDarwinian biology further in his book on the history of microbial phylogenetics, The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life (2009). He is also known for his writing on the coral reef crisis, focusing in detail on the outbreaks of crown of thorns starfish and coral bleaching. Coexistence: The Ecology and Evolution of Tropical Biology (2016) focuses on the history of tropical biology, and on what he calls the "central enigma" in tropical ecology.

In 2021, Sapp published Genes, Germs and Medicine, an exploration of the development of modern biomedical science in the United States through the life of Joshua Lederberg, an influential scientist. Lederberg his collaborators founded the field of bacterial genetics, and age 33, was the second youngest person in history to win the Nobel Prize. He helped to lay the foundations for genetic engineering, made fundamental revisions to immunological and evolutionary theory, and developed medical genetics.

Bibliography

Recent publications

References

External links
 Biography pages at York University: Department of Biology

1954 births
Canada Research Chairs
Canadian science writers
Historians of science
Living people
Symbiogenesis researchers
Academic staff of York University


The following is a list of Twisted ToyFare Theatre stories from the magazine ToyFare.

Issues 1 -

Collections

 Parody comics | Comics based on toys | Action figures | American comic strips
Twisted Toyfare Theater stories


The 2008 Delray Beach International Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships, and was part of the International Series of the 2008 ATP Tour. It took place at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida, United States, from February 11 through February 17, 2008.

The field was headlined by ATP No. 12, 2007 Davis Cup champion and Australian Open quarterfinalist James Blake, 2007 U.S. Open quarterfinalist Tommy Haas, and 2007 Cincinnati Masters quarterfinalist Sam Querrey. Other top seeds competing were 2007 Tokyo quarterfinalist Dudi Sela, Auckland quarterfinalist Florian Mayer, Vincent Spadea, Victor Hănescu and Mardy Fish.

In winning the tournament Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese man in nearly sixteen years to win an ATP Tour event. Shuzo Matsuoka, the last one to do so, against Todd Woodbridge at the 1992 Seoul Open, used to coach Nishikori.

Finals

Singles

 Kei Nishikori defeated  James Blake, 3–6, 6–1, 6–4
It was Kei Nishikori's 1st career singles title.

Doubles

 Max Mirnyi /  Jamie Murray defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan, 6–4, 3–6, [10–6]

References

External links
 Official website
 ITF tournament edition details
 Singles draw
 Doubles draw
 Qualifying Singles draw


Dead Gentlemen Productions is an independent film company based in Seattle, Washington.

They have released a number of films, including the award-winning cult classic The Gamers, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising and The Gamers: Hands of Fate.

All of the films have featured "The Purple Ninja", a ninja wearing purple garbs who is mostly brutally killed during a fight scene. The character is credited as playing himself. While the website implies that The Purple Ninja is a real person of superhuman qualities, the special features for Gamers: Dorkness Rising reveal The Purple Ninja to be Nathan Rice.

Filmography
 Demon Hunters (1999)
 Demon Hunters: Dead Camper Lake (2000)
 The Gamers (2002)
 The Gamers: Dorkness Rising (2008)
 JourneyQuest: Season 1 (2010)
 S.J. Tucker “Playing D&D” Music Video (2011)
 JourneyQuest: Season 2: City of the Dead (2012)
 The Gamers: Hands of Fate (2013)
 The Gamers: Natural One (2013)
 The Gamers: Households & Humans (2013)
 JourneyQuest: Season 3: The Pale Lady (2016)
 The Gamers: The Series (2016)
 The Gamers: The Shadow Menace (2017)
 JourneyQuest Season 3.5 (2018)

External links
Official Site
podcast/interview w/ matt vancil

Film production companies of the United States