Austin Aztex FC was an American professional soccer team based in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 2008, the team played in USL First Division, and in USL Division of the USSF D2 Pro League, the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. In October 2010, the Aztex were relocated to Orlando, Florida and became Orlando City after Orlando USL's rights were purchased by Phil Rawlins. The team was resurrected in 2011 by minority owner David Markley as the Austin Aztex, which began play in the USL Premier Development League in 2012 and moved to United Soccer League in 2014.

The team played its home games at Nelson Field, and House Park in Austin. The team's colors were red and white. Their head coach was Englishman and former Everton midfielder Adrian Heath.

History
The club was owned by English-born Austin businessman Phil Rawlins. Originally from the UK, Rawlins serves on the board of English Premier League club Stoke City. Austin and Stoke had a formal partnership which included sharing training information and players, with Austin acting as a potential player resource for Stoke.

Immediately after announcing their intention to join USL1, the Aztex purchased the 2008 USL PDL expansion side Austin Stampede and rebranded it as Austin Aztex U23. Wolfgang Suhnholz was named coach of the U23 team, which commenced play in 2008.

On August 8, 2008, the Aztex announced the 2008 PDL Goalkeeper of the Year and former Austin Aztex U23 player, Miguel Gallardo, as their first professional signing for the 2009 season. Gallardo was signed with the team through 2011.

The Aztex began their inaugural season as a professional team by playing 4 MLS teams in preseason exhibition matches. The first three games were held in Austin at Nelson Field while the fourth MLS match was in Rio Tinto Stadium on the MLS opening weekend. A fifth exhibition match was scheduled against the CONCACAF semi-finalist Puerto Rico Islanders in between their home and away series against Cruz Azul.

On May 19, 2010, Austin played the Tampa Bay Rowdies in front of 6,051 fans, their largest home crowd in franchise history.

On October 22, 2010, an article was published that indicated that the team was likely to move to Orlando, Florida, for the 2011 season. This was confirmed on October 25, as the team became Orlando City SC.

Players

Final roster

Staff

  Adrian Heath – Head Coach
  Bobby Murphy – Assistant Coach
  David Winner – Goalkeeping Coach
  Shermin Patel – Athletic Trainer

Year-by-year

Head coaches
  Adrian Heath (2009–2010)

Stadiums
 Nelson Field; Austin, Texas (2009)
 House Park; Austin, Texas (2010)

See also
 Austin Aztex U23
 Austin Lightning
 Austin Aztex (2012–)

References

Austin Aztex
Soccer clubs in Texas
Association football clubs established in 2008
USL First Division teams
2008 establishments in Texas
2010 disestablishments in Texas


The Starting Line is composed of two program presentations, both of which are highly edited versions of shows that were originally broadcast on KPFA's Over the Edge radio show, hosted by Don Joyce weekly and featuring members of Negativland.  The first program, "The Starting Line," is Tracks 1-5, and features a mock call-in radio show focusing on various aspects of cars, hosted by a character (and used car dealer) named Dick Goodbody.  The second program, "The Rototiller Singalong," takes up Tracks 6 - 9, and is hosted by two people claiming not to be involved with Over the Edge, but are in fact David Wills & Richard Lyons.  The program features a recording of a Rototiller (as captured by David Wills when his neighbor was using it, which has become a bit of an inside-joke for fans of the show), and over-the-phone "karaoke," where callers provide the vocal parts for music being played in the studio.

Originally released in 1985 by SST Records on cassette only, it appeared as the Second Side of the JAMCON'84 cassette.  It was re-released in 1995 by Negativland's own label, Seeland Records, as a CD.  Given that JAMCON'84 had already been released, and with additional material, "The Rototiller Singalong," program was added to it.

Track listing
"The Drive Line: World's Most Beloved & Exalted Status Symbol, Metallic Root Beer, Lada, etc."
"Stir the Stumps: Answer Man, Hitler's Staff Car, Chappaquiddick, Transient Peaks, Carnuba Wax, etc."
"Receptacle Programming, Fear of Freeways Mix, Defend the Fuel, Total Asshole, etc."
"Auto Trivia: Cool Cars, Cheaper Cheese, Limousines of Pope Paul VII, etc."
"Chevy Innovation and JamJamJam"
"It Fell in Port Costa, Rototiller Mix, Bottlebrush Bushes, etc." [CD only]
"Phone-In Singalong, Song List, What the World Needs Now, Tammy, Drug Free, Transient Peaks, etc." [CD only]
"This Disco's Out of Sight, A Lot About Mucus, Sammy the Whammy, LIFE'S Unanswered Questions, No Other Possibility, etc." [CD only]
"Pure Full Stereo Rototiller and So Long" [CD only]

Personnel
The CD re-issue does not list personnel, but the SST Cassette release listed the following people participating in both JAMCON'84 & THE STARTING LINE:
Don Joyce
David Wills
Mark Hosler
Richard Lyons
Chris Grigg
Ian Allen
Anonymous callers

Given that OTE is Don's show, and that both Richard & David's voices host THE ROTOTILLER SINGALONG, we can assume that at least those three were involved with that Program.

Negativland albums
1995 compilation albums
SST Records compilation albums
Seeland Records compilation albums


Oakley was a railway station on the West of England Main Line in Hampshire, England which served the village of Oakley.

History
The station was opened on 3 July 1854 by the London & South Western Railway. It closed on 17 June 1963.

References

External links
 Oakley station on navigable 1947 O. S. map

Disused railway stations in Hampshire
Former London and South Western Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1963
Beeching closures in England


Andreas Seelig (born July 6, 1970 in Berlin) is a retired discus thrower from Germany. He won the 1989 European Junior Championships and ended up in seventh place at the 1998 European Championships. Seelig also won the men's discus throw event (63.52 m) at the Military World Games in 1999 (Zagreb).

Achievements

References

1970 births
Living people
German male discus throwers
Athletes from Berlin


Karl Ludwig, Count of Ficquelmont (; ; 23 March 1777 – 7 April 1857) was an Austrian aristocrat, statesman and Field marshal of the Austrian Imperial army of French noble origin.

Biography

French nobleman
He was born Gabriel-Charles-Louis-Bonnaventure, Count de Ficquelmont at the Castle of Dieuze, in his family's estate in the present-day French département of Moselle. A member of a noble family from Lorraine dating back to the 14th century (House of Ficquelmont), he was introduced to King Louis XVI at Versailles in 1789.

Only a few months later, the French Revolution started. His family, as aristocrats, were targeted by the Revolution; several of his relatives were beheaded and many of their estates were confiscated during the Terreur era. Ficquelmont chose to join the "Army of the Princes" fighting against revolutionary France.

Austrian military
He eventually entered the military service of the Habsburg monarchy in 1793. Ficquelmont participated in all Austrian campaigns in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was regarded as a brilliant military officer. In 1809, he rose to the rank of Oberst and was appointed chief of staff of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este. In 1811 and 1812, he led troops in Spain, where his victories attracted the attention of Emperor Napoleon I, who unsuccessfully tried to recruit him. He was then elevated to the rank of Generalmajor in 1814 and received the capitulation of Lyon a few months later.

In the following decades, Ficquelmont continued his rise in the imperial Austrian military, achieving the following promotions:
1830: Feldmarschallleutnant
1831: General of the Dragoons
1840-1848: Minister of the State and conferences, in charge of the Imperial Army
1843: Generalfeldmarschall

Austrian diplomat
In 1815, thanks to his credentials as a gifted military officer loyal to the Habsburgs, Ficquelmont was approached to represent Austria as a diplomat.

As the War of the Sixth Coalition ended, he was sent to Stockholm as the Austrian Ambassador Extraordinary to Sweden. His mission was to smooth relations between Austria and the newly elected heir to the Swedish throne and former French General Bernadotte in order to maintain him within the coalition during the progressing towards the Congress of Vienna. The mission was a success, launching Ficquelmont's diplomatic career.

After the fall of Napoleon, Italy was once again the key sphere of influence of the Austrian Empire, which intended to exert control over its many states. In 1820, Ficquelmont was appointed Ambassador to Tuscany and Lucca, in order to increase Austrian influence over Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany. He met his future wife, Russian countess Dorothea von Tiesenhaussen, while in Florence.

In 1821 he was appointed ambassador plenipotentiary to the Naples in the midst of the political crisis that followed the 1820 Carbonari Revolution. In July 1820 a military revolt broke out in Naples, forcing their king into signing a constitution based on the model of the Spanish Constitution of 1812. The Holy Alliance feared the revolt might spread to other Italian states and turn into a general European conflagration, so Austria sent an army to march into Naples to restore order. The Austrians defeated the Neapolitans at Rieti (7 March 1821) and entered Naples. Ficquelmont was sent to manage the following occupation. He soon gained enormous influence over king Ferdinand I and Neapolitan elites and practically administrated the kingdom, ensuring Austria's grasp over its domestic and foreign policies. While in Naples, Ficquelmont was recognized as Austria's main diplomatic asset for his political subtlety as well as his social skills, "Count de Ficquelmont's personality is made of Germanic seriousness, Italian subtlety but, above all, it is made of the prodigious 18th century French nobility's wit"

In 1829, Ficquelmont was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to Russia. Ficquelmont's wife, countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen, was the heiress of the prominent Tiesenhausen family as well as the granddaughter of Prince Kutuzov and became influential on the politics of Emperor Nicholas I. The Saltykov Mansion that was the Austrian Embassy had been described as a "place of wisdom and intelligence" and as "(...) the setting the two most illustrious salon of the period (1830s), reigned over by Ficquelmont's wife". Ficquelmont's and Dorothea's influence in Russia was long-lasting and as a sign of his appreciation, Emperor Nicolas I awarded him the Orders of St. Andrew, St. Alexander Nevsky, St. Vladimir, and St. Anna.

Austrian statesman
In 1839, Ficquelmont was recalled to Vienna to assume the duties of the Foreign Office during the absence of Prince Metternich.

In 1840, he was appointed Minister of the State and Conferences and chief of staff of the Imperial Army. Ficquelmont was not only Prince Metternich's right-hand man but officially the second most senior statesmen of the Empire, "Count de Ficquelmont stands just behind or next to Prince Metternich (..) Every conference starts with Count de Ficquelmont and ends with Prince Metternich".

Back in Vienna, the Ficquelmonts were some of the most prominent social figures of the Imperial court, "Count de Ficquelmont's salon is the most sophisticated, the most erudite, the most mindful, and the most beloved of Vienna". In 1841, Ficquelmont's daughter, countess Elizabeth Alexandrine, married Prince Edmund von Clary-und-Aldringen, heir to one of the Empire's most prominent princely family.

In 1847, Ficquelmont was sent to Milan as acting Chancellor of Lombardy–Venetia and senior advisor of its viceroy, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria. Resentment against Austrian rule was growing and Ficquelmont was appointed to restore it while taking over Northern Italy's administration. After just a few months, he was recalled to Vienna to assume the leadership of the Council of War as the Revolutions of 1848 started.

Minister-President of the Austrian Empire

As the Revolutions of 1848 continued, Ficquelmont played an instrumental role. From early 1848 to 13 March, he led the Austrian Council of War. On 13 March Prince Metternich gave his resignation and fled the country. Ficquelmont then assumed his duties until 17 March, when Count Franz Anton von Kolowrat was appointed Minister-President. From 17 March until the fall of the Kolowrat cabinet on 3 April, Ficquelmont took charge of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the War Ministry.

On 4 April Ficquelmont became Minister-President of the Empire. However, due to his close ties with the "Metternich System" and the Russian tsar, popular feeling against him compelled him to resign on 4 May. It was a violent period, his wife Countess Dolly, who was at their Venice's palace at the time, was arrested twice by the Venetian guarda civil and finally had to flee the city on board an English ship with her daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren. Moreover, Ficquelmont's kinsman in the War Ministry, count Theodor Franz Baillet von Latour, was lynched during the Vienna Uprising of October 1848.

Later life
After the end of the revolutions, Ficquelmont refused to return to politics to dedicated himself to the writing and publishing of several political essays that gained wide recognition throughout Europe.

Germany, Austria and Prussia published in Vienna in 1851
Lord Palmerston, England and the Continent published in Vienna in 1852
The Religious Side of the Eastern Question and Politics of Russia and the Danubian Principalitie published in Vienna in 1854
The Peace to Come: A Matter of Conscience published in Vienna in 1856
Moral and Political thoughts of the Count de Ficquelmont, State Minister of Austria, published posthumously in Paris in 1859

In 1852, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria made Ficquelmont a Knight of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious order of the Empire.

In his later years, Ficquelmont retired first to his palace of Vienna and later to his Venetian palace, where he died in 1857 at the age of 81.

Family

As a consequence of the French Revolution, the Ficquelmont family spread across Europe. Beyond Austria and France, members of the family settled in Italy, Hungary, England and the Netherlands, where one of Charles-Louis's uncle, Count Antoine-Charles de Ficquelmont (1753−1833), recreated the title Count de Ficquelmont in the Dutch nobility (16 July 1822).

Charles-Louis had five siblings of which only one had issue, one girl and one boy. His niece was Clotilde de Vaux (Paris 1815–Paris 1846), who gave philosopher Auguste Comte the inspiration for the Religion of Humanity organized around the public veneration of Humanity through a Goddess made after her.
In 1821, Ficquelmont, 44, married countess Dorothea von Tiesenhausen (St. Petersburg 1804 − Venice 1863), 17, granddaughter of Prince Kutuzov. Countess Dorothea de Ficquelmont was famous for her beauty, while living in Naples a famous Neapolitan proverb was diverted to praise her looks « Vedi Napoli, la Ficquelmont e poi muori ! » (« To see Naples, the countess Ficquelmont, and die ! »). Countess Dolly was also famous for her letter-writing and diary (the former was published in Italian and Russian in 1950) telling of her life as a high society's aristocrat in 19th-century Europe.

The couple had only one daughter, Elisabeth-Alexandrine-Marie-Thérèse de Ficquelmont (Naples 1825 − Venice 1878), Countess de Ficquelmont by birth and Princess Clary und Aldringen by marriage. Prince Siegfried von Clary-Aldringen (Teplitz 1848 − Teplitz 1929) and Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen (Vienna 1852 − Salzburg 1928) are Ficquelmont's grandsons.

Decorations
 Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
 Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Januarius

Works
 Aufklärungen über die Zeit vom 20 März bis zum 4 Mai, 1848 (second edition, 1850)
 Die religiöse Seite der orientalischen Frage (second edition, 1854)
Deutschland, Österreich und Preußen (1851)
Lord Palmerston, England und der Kontinent (2 volumes, 1852)
Die religiöse Seite der orientalischen Frage (1854)
Russlands Politik und die Donaufürstentümer (1854)
Zum künftigen Frieden: e. Gewissensfrage (1856)
Pensées et réflexions morales et politiques du Comte de Ficquelmont, ministre d'état en Autriche (1859)

References

1777 births
1857 deaths
19th-century Ministers-President of Austria
People from Dieuze
Counts of Austria
Austrian people of French descent
Austrian generals
Ministers-President of Austria
Politicians from the Austrian Empire
Foreign ministers of Austria
Austrian non-fiction writers
Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria
Austrian Empire military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars


John Patrick Barry (December 23, 1893 – August 17, 1946) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Defeating candidates Frances Fish and John Adams Creaghan, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1935 election as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of Northumberland. He was defeated in the 1940 election as an Independent Liberal candidate.

Barry was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada.

References

External links

1893 births
1946 deaths
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from New Brunswick


Magdalena is a town on the Itonomas River in the Beni Department in northern Bolivia, capital of the Iténez Province and the Magdalena Municipality.

It is served by Magdalena Airport.

History
The Jesuit mission of Santa María Magdalena (or Santa Magdalena) was founded in 1720. Itonama Indians resided at the mission.

Climate
The yearly precipitation of the region is 1,600 mm, with a distinct dry season from May to September. Monthly average temperatures vary from 24 °C und 29 °C over the year. According to the Köppen classification system Magdalenas has a Tropical savanna climate, abbreviated "Aw".

References

 www.ine.gov.bo

Populated places in Beni Department
Jesuit Missions of Moxos


The Hyatt Regency Phoenix is a convention hotel in Downtown Phoenix, Arizona, United States.  It is 317 feet (97 m) tall and has 24 floors. It was completed in 1976. The top floor has a revolving restaurant. It was designed by Charles Luckman and Associates to complement the Phoenix Civic Plaza (now called Phoenix Convention Center) and Phoenix Symphony Hall. The building was constructed by Chanen Construction Company. The hotel's façade is clad in textured split ribbed concrete block.

The hotel lobby and restaurants occupy the main level. The second floor features meeting rooms and an additional restaurant while an atrium rises 8 stories. Floors 9 through 21 house guest rooms. Floors 22 and 23 house mechanical equipment and are called "the neck of the Compass". The Compass Restaurant sits atop the hotel on floor 24. The Compass is Arizona's only revolving restaurant. The elevator bank offers two enclosed guest elevators and three "scenic elevators", which glide upward from the lobby, through the atrium and, finally, on the building's exterior, offering views of downtown Phoenix and of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

The hotel has 693 guest rooms, two restaurants, a grab n' go market, a swimming pool, of meeting space, and a retail shop.

The Hyatt Regency Phoenix was chosen by the NFL as the headquarters hotel for Super Bowl XLII which was played in nearby Glendale in February 2008.

On July 1, 2008, the Hyatt Regency Phoenix was sold for $96 million to Los Angeles-based DiNapoli Capital Partners.

References

External links
 Official website

Skyscraper hotels in Phoenix, Arizona
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts
Buildings and structures with revolving restaurants
Hotel buildings completed in 1976
Hotels established in 1976
1976 establishments in Arizona
Charles Luckman buildings


Cardedeu () is a small town in the comarca of Vallès Oriental in the province of Barcelona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. It is near Granollers, the capital of Vallès Oriental, and it is placed between Serralada Litoral and Montseny.

Cardedeu is a small town of medieval origin, with the first written reference known dated in the year 941.

Demography

References

 Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya, Barcelona: Caixa de Catalunya.  (Catalan).

External links

 Cardedeu official page
 Government data pages

Municipalities in Vallès Oriental
Populated places in Vallès Oriental


Michael Inzlicht is professor of psychology at the University of Toronto recognized in the areas of social psychology and neuroscience. Although he has published papers on the topics of prejudice, academic performance, and religion, his most recent interests have been in the topics of self-control, where he borrows methods from affective and cognitive neuroscience to understand the underlying nature of self-control, including how it is driven by motivation.

In the early 2000s, he and his colleagues claimed to demonstrate that small, seemingly benign characteristics of an environment could play a large role in determining how stereotyped groups perform on academic tests. They found, for example, that the number of men in a small group could determine whether women succeeded (fewer men) or failed (more men) a math test. Although this work on stereotype threat was well received, Professor Inzlicht has of late suggested that work on stereotype threat might not be replicable.

In his more recent work,  Professor Inzlicht has primarily focused on improving our understanding of self-control and the related concepts of cognitive control and executive function (mental processes that allow behavior to vary adaptively depending on current goals). Much of his work explores the building blocks of control, including its neural, cognitive, emotional, and motivational foundations. At the same time—and at a different level of analysis—he also explores the various ways that self-control can be influenced by various cultural and situational factors, including mindfulness meditation, quality of motivation, religious belief, and stigmatization. Another feature of his work is that he takes a social affective neuroscience approach to address questions of interest. Thus, he combines neuroimaging, cognitive reaction time, physiological, and behavioral techniques to understand and explain social behaviour. This interdisciplinary approach provides a fuller, more integrated understanding of social behavior, emotion, and the brain.

In recent years, Professor Inzlicht's has become a vocal and often passionate advocate for open science reform. Part of his advocacy included not only criticizing the status quo and lamenting the clear evidence that psychology was suffering from a replication crisis; but also examining his own past scientific work, asking how much his own work might be simply false.

Selected Awards & Honours
 2016-2019 - Research Excellence Faculty Scholar, University of Toronto Scarborough
 2017 - NeuroLeadership Application of Science Award
 2015 - Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
 2015 - Principal's Research Award, University of Toronto Scarborough
 2013 - Best Social Cognition Paper Award, International Society for Social Cognition
 2013 - Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
 2009 - Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
 2006 - Louise Kidder Early Career Award, American Psychological Association (Division 9)
 2004-2006 - Fellow of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation
 2002 - Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Dissertation Award, finalist

See also
 Replication crisis

Selected publications

 Inzlicht, M., Legault, L., & *Teper, R. (2014). Exploring the mechanisms of self-control improvement. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23, 302-307. doi: 10.1177/0963721414534256

 *Tritt, S M., Page-Gould, E., Peterson, J. B., & Inzlicht, M. (2014). System justification and electrophysiological responses to feedback: Support for a positivity bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1004-1010. doi:10.1037/a0035179

 Inzlicht, M. & Schmader, T. (2011). Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application. New York: Oxford University Press.

References

External links
 Michael Inzlicht's Academic Website at the University of Toronto

Social psychologists
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Living people
1972 births
McGill University Faculty of Medicine alumni
Brown University alumni


, in Shinto, is the equivalent to the soul or spirit in western culture.

Japanese tradition
When a person dies, it is believed that their reikon will remain in a type of purgatory until they are given proper funeral rites. After which, the reikon will join their ancestors in the afterlife and only returning to the living world every August for the Obon Festival.

Yūrei
When a person dies in an unexpected, violent or traumatic way, the reikon remains amongst the living as a yūrei, or ghost, who must complete an unfinished duty amongst the living or be given a proper ritual to ease its passing into the next world. A yūrei is thought to be produced by violent means such as murder or suicide. These tend to take on a fixed desire emotion such as revenge, love, jealousy, hatred, or sorrow while carrying out their hauntings.

See also
 Mitama

Sources

Buddhism in Japan
Ghosts
Shinto


Puerto Siles is a town in the Mamoré Province in the Beni Department of northern Bolivia. It is the capital of the Puerto Siles Municipality.

It is located around a lake.

References

External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com

Populated places in Beni Department


Big Enough is a 2004 documentary film about Anu Trombino, Karla and John Lizzo, Len and Lenette Sawisch, and Sharon and Ron Roskamp, who are all typical Americans in every respect, except that they are dwarfs. Twenty years after her first film, Jan Krawitz finds out what has happened to her subjects.

Big Enough was met with high critical acclaim, receiving an Independent Filmmaker Award from the Carolina Film & Video Festival and was aired as part of PBS's Point of View series in 2005.

References

External links
 Big Enough on IMDb
 P.O.V. Hardwood - PBS's site dedicated to the film

2004 films
POV (TV series) films
Documentary films about people with disability
Films about people with dwarfism
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Lutley is a hamlet near Halesowen in the Dudley district, in the county of the West Midlands, England. Lutley Mill is nearby in Halesowen and is also the name of a local pub. Lutley Mill is situated on Puddings Brook. The Lutley Gutter runs through Lutley. In 1951 the parish had a population of 457.

History

Lutley was historically a township in the ancient parish of Halesowen. Most of the parish formed the manor of Halesowen, which was transferred from Worcestershire to become a detached part of Shropshire on being acquired to the Earl of Shrewsbury in the thirteenth century. However, Lutley was not part of the manor, belonging instead to the priests of Wolverhampton, being the only one of their possessions outside Staffordshire. The ownership resulted in the manor of Lutley being with Codsall and various other places part of the manor of the Deanery of Wolverhampton. It was therefore also one of the few parts of the parish of Halesowen to remain in Worcestershire, along with Cradley and Warley Wigorn, which were also part of the parish but not the manor of Halesowen.

In 1866 Lutley became a separate civil parish. From 1894 to 1925 it was part of Halesowen Rural District. In 1925 it was incorporated into to the municipal borough of Halesowen. It remained a civil parish until 1974, but as an urban parish it had no parish council of its own after 1925, being directly administered by Halesowen Town Council. The parish was abolished in 1974 along with the borough of Halesowen, becoming part of the wider metropolitan borough of Dudley.

The original village has become a hamlet with a few farms at , while the southern portion of the township at Hayley Green has been built up in modern times, as the town of Halesowen expanded. This became as ribbon development along Hagley Road, but expanded in the 1980s with the development of Portsdown Road and the roads leading off it.

Community facilities
The area contains Lutley Primary School and the Lutley Community Centre.

See also
Evolution of Worcestershire county boundaries
History of the West Midlands
Shropshire (Detached)

References

Hamlets in the West Midlands (county)
Former civil parishes in the West Midlands (county)
Halesowen


Diego Fortuna (born 14 February 1968) is a retired male discus thrower from Italy.

Biography
He represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000). He won the men's discus throw event at the 2001 Mediterranean Games, and set his personal best (64.69 m) on 24 June 2000 at a meet in Ravenna.

Achievements

National titles
Fortuna won 14 national championships at individual senior level.

Italian Athletics Championships
Discus throw: 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 (8)
Italian Winter Throwing Championships
Discus throw: 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2008 (6)

See also
 Italian all-time top lists - Discus throw
 List of Italian records in masters athletics

References

External links

1968 births
Living people
Italian male discus throwers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Italy
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
Italian masters athletes
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Universiade bronze medalists for Italy
Sportspeople from Vicenza
Athletics competitors of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade
20th-century Italian people


Park Jieun (born November 4, 1983) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. In 2008, she became the third female go player in history to achieve 9-dan rank, following Rui Naiwei and Feng Yun.

Career

Park became a professional Go player in 1997. She studied Go under .

In 2008, she won an international women's title in the Sino-Ocean Cup (), a tournament held one time only. She defeated Rui Naiwei in the finals to win the championship. Under the Korea Baduk Association's rules, she was promoted to 9 dan for the victory, becoming the first Korean female 9 dan professional.

She won the Bingsheng Cup in 2010, and again in 2011.

In 2017, she became the first Korean female professional Go player to reach 1000 career games played.

References

External links
 Biography on Sensei's Library
 Korea Baduk Association profile (in Korean)

South Korean Go players
Living people
1983 births
Female Go players


The Lord of Miracles (in Spanish: Señor de los Milagros), also known as "Christ of Miracles", is an image painted of Jesus Christ that is venerated in Lima, Peru. The image was painted during the 17th century by Benito or Pedro Dalcon, an African taken from what is now Angola to Peru as a slave. An annual procession commemorating the image occurs every October. It is one of the oldest Catholic traditions in Peru. It is one of the largest religious processions in the world.

Description of the Image

Jesus Christ is depicted on the cross, with the Holy Spirit and God the Father above. On the left is the Virgin Mary, and on the right is Mary Magdalene.

Its name originated in the 17 and 18th centuries, after earthquakes in 1655, 1687, and 1746 destroyed most of the city, leaving only the mural standing. This is considered a miraculous occurrence by many living there. What began as an Afro-Peruvian tradition was increasingly adopted by the Creole middle class in the 18th century after the third earthquake, which destroyed the city of Lima and much of the coast what is now the department of Lima and its provinces from Chancay to Canete.

Veneration
Every year in October, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from all walks of life participate in a religious procession honoring the image through the streets of downtown Lima.
The predominant color for the procession and the habits are purple with white rope. The procession route circles downtown Lima and takes approximately 20 hours to complete.
In the main plaza of Lima, the image is honored in three different building sharing the same square, by The President of Peru, The mayor of Lima, and the Archbishop of Lima in their respective buildings. Prior to this, The National Congress and Federico Villarreal National University honor the procession. On its path, people release purple and white balloons and throw flowers.
In Peru, the month of October is known as the purple month due to the colors of the procession.  There are seasonal delicious sweets like mazamorra morada ("purple pudding") and "Turron de Dona Pepa" that are very traditional for October traditions related to the history of the procession.

"The Fair of The Lord of The Miracles" is a celebration of bullfights since 1946, gathering the best bullfighters of the world, the months of October, November, and the first days of December, competing for "The Golden and Silver Scapulars of The Lord of the Miracles," taking place in Acho bullring in Lima.

See also
Lord of Miracles of Buga

References

External links
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4QAYkqUy8
  http://limacitykings.com/senor-milagros/
  https://www.peruhop.com/senor-de-los-milagros/
  https://www.americatv.com.pe/noticias/actualidad/senor-milagros-conoce-desvios-18-y-19-octubre-recorrido-procesional-n392198?ref=irela
  Pachacamac y el Señor de los Milagros: una trayectoria milenaria by Maria Rostworowski

Catholic Church in Peru
Lima
Festivals in Peru


A gate in cytometry is a set of value limits (boundaries) that serve to isolate a specific group of cytometric events from a large set. Gates can be defined by discrimination analysis, or can simply be drawn around a given set of data points on a printout and then converted to a computer-useful form. Gates can be implemented with a physical blinder. Gates may be used either to selectively gather data or to segregate data for analysis.

Division
Gates are divided mathematically into inclusive gates and exclusive gates. Inclusive gates select data that falls within the limits set, while exclusive gates select data that falls outside the limits.

Live gate
A live gate is a term used for a process that prevents the acquisition by the computer of non-selected data from the flow cytometer.

External links
"General Flow Cytometry Glossary and Cell Cycle Analysis Terminology" The Janis V. Giorgi Flow Cytometry Laboratory, UCLA
Osborne, G. W. (2000) "Regions and Gates"  Flow Cytometry Software Workshop: 2000, page 3

Flow cytometry
Technology systems


Enrique Vila-Matas (born 31 March 1948 in Barcelona) is a Spanish author. He has authored several award-winning books that mix genres and has been branded as one of the most original and prominent writers in the Spanish language.

He is a founding Knight of the Order of Finnegans, a group which meets in Dublin every year on June 16 to honour James Joyce and his novel Ulysses.

Biography
Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948 to Enrique, who worked in the real estate business, and Tayo Vila-Mata. When he was 12 he began writing and later studied law and journalism. In 1968 became editor of the film magazine Fotogramas. In 1970 he directed two short films, Todos los jóvenes tristes (All the sad youngsters) and Fin de verano (The end of summer). In 1971 he did his military service in Melilla, where in the back room of a military supplies store, he wrote his first book, Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje. On his return to Barcelona, he worked as a film critic for the magazines Bocaccio and Destino. Between 1974 and 1976 he lived in Paris in a garret he rented from the writer Marguerite Duras, where he wrote his second novel, La asesina ilustrada. His third and fourth books, Al sur de los párpados and Nunca voy al cine, appeared in 1980 and 1982. With the publication of his book Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil in 1985 Vila-Matas began to be recognised.

He then published the short story collections Una casa para siempre, Suicidios ejemplares and Hijos sin hijos; Recuerdos inventados is an anthology of his best stories. His following works were novels, including Lejos de Veracruz, Extraña forma de vida, El viaje vertical, Bartleby & Co. and Montano's Malady, among others. In 1992 he published a collection of articles and literary essays under the title El viajero más lento, which he followed up in 1995 with El traje de los domingos. Other books containing literary essays include Para acabar entendamos nada (2003, Chile), El viento ligero en Parma (2004, Mexico; re-published in Spain, 2008), and And Pasavento ya no estaba (2008, Argentina). Never Any End to Paris (2003) tells of his Parisian experiences. In 2005 Doctor Pasavento came out, a book about the subject of disappearance and ‘the difficulty of being nobody’. This book closes his meta-literary trilogy on the pathologies of writing (Bartleby, Montano and Pasavento).

In September 2007 Vila-Matas returned to the short story, publishing Exploradores del abismo with Anagrama. In 2008 came Dietario voluble, in which he opts more than ever for a formula that erases the borders between fiction, essay and biography. The book is a literary diary or a kind of guide that allows the reader to glimpse the work's internal structure, and combines experiences of reading and life, personal memory, and an essayist's literary ideas. It was followed by Ella era Hemingway / No soy Auster, two short texts published by Alfabia in the Cuadernos Collection.

In 2010 he has returned once more to the novel with Dublinesca, a book that deals with a publisher in crisis, and has since published several novels including Kassel no invita a la lógica (2014, The Illogic of Kassel), Marienbad electrique (2015) and Mac y su contratiempo (2017, Mac and His Problem), as well as two short story collections. Described as "a masterpiece of metafiction", The English translation of Mac and His Problem was longlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize.

Distinctions and prizes
Vila-Matas is a knight of the French Legion of Honour, and has an honorary doctorate from the University of the Andes, Venezuela. He has won the Ciudad de Barcelona prize and the Venezuelan Rómulo Gallegos Prize (2001); the Meilleur Livre Etranger prize and the Fernando Aguirre-Libralire prize (2002); the Herralde prize, the Nacional de la Crítica prize, the Medicis-Etranger Prize, the Círculo de Críticos de Chile prize (2003), the Internazionale Ennio Flaiano prize (2006), the Fundación José Manuel Lara prize 2006, and the Real Academia Española prize 2006. In 2007 he won the Elsa Morante literary prize in the category Scrittori del Mondo, which each year honours a great foreign writer. In 2009 he received the Internazionale Mondello prize for the novel Dottor Pasavento, translated into Italian by Feltrinelli. In 2011 he received the Bottari Lattes Grinzane Prize (Italy) the Prix Jean Carriere (France) and the Leteo Award (Spain) for Dublinesque. In 2012 he received the Argital Award Bilbao City for Air of Dylan and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori for the Italian translation of Exploradores del abismo (Esploratori dell’abisso). In 2014, he won the Premio Formentor de las Letras. In 2015, he won the FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages valued at $150,000.
In 2016 he received the National Award of Catalonia.

He is a founding member of the Order of Finnegans, which takes its name from a pub in Dalkey, Ireland, although there are those who believe it also comes from James Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake. The knights of the Order of Finnegans must venerate James Joyce's novel Ulysses and, if possible, attend Bloomsday, June 16th, each year in Dublin on the sixteenth of June. This is a long day that culminates, at dusk, at the Martello tower in Sandycove (where the novel begins) with participants reading sections from Ulysses and then walking to Finnegans pub in the neighbouring village of Dalkey. The other four founding members are Eduardo Lago, Jordi Soler, Antonio Soler and Malcolm Otero Barral.
His must recent novel is Montevideo. A metafiction work which reflects on writing and interconnected hotel rooms, such as one in Montevideo at Cervantes hotel that has been previously mentioned in the two short stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Julio Cortázar La puerta condenada.

His work has so far been translated into thirty languages, including French, English, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Greek, Serbian, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Hebrew, Turkish, Norwegian, Romanian, Polish, Korean, Catalan, Slovenian, Czech, Bulgarian, Finnish, Danish, Lithuanian, Slovakian, Mandarin, Portuguese and Croatian.

Of his novel Dublinesque, Jacqueline McCarrick of The Times Literary Supplement wrote "...Vila-Matas has created a masterpiece".

Bibliography

Novels
Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje (Tusquets, 1973).
La asesina ilustrada (Tusquets, 1977. Lumen, 2005).
Al sur de los párpados (Fundamentos, 1980).
Impostura (Anagrama, 1984).
Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil (Anagrama, 1985).
Recuerdos inventados. Primera antología personal (Anagrama, 1994).
Lejos de Veracruz (Anagrama, 1995).
Extraña forma de vida (Anagrama, 1997).
El viaje vertical (Anagrama, 1999).
Bartleby y compañía (Anagrama, 2000).
El mal de Montano (Anagrama, 2002).
París no se acaba nunca (Anagrama, 2003).
Doctor Pasavento (Anagrama, 2005).
Exploradores del abismo (Anagrama, 2007).
Dietario voluble (Anagrama, 2008).
Dublinesca (Seix Barral, 2010).
Perder teorías (Seix Barral, 2010).
En un lugar solitario. Narrativa 1973-1984 (Mondadori/Debolsillo, 2011).
Aire de Dylan (Seix Barral, 2012).
Kassel no invita a la lógica (Seix Barral, 2014).
Marienbad electrique (Bourgois editeur, 2015).
Mac y su contratiempo (Seix Barral, 2017)

Short story collections
Nunca voy al cine (Laertes, 1982).
Una casa para siempre (Anagrama, 1988).
Suicidios ejemplares (Anagrama, 1991).
Hijos sin hijos (Anagrama, 1993).
Chet Baker piensa en su arte. Relatos selectos (Mondadori/Debolsillo, 2011).
El día señalado [short story] (Nórdica libros, 2015).
Vampire in Love (New Directions, September 2016).

Essays
El viajero más lento (Anagrama, 1992. Edición aumentada: El viajero más lento. El arte de no terminar nada, Seix Barral, 2011).
El traje de los domingos (Huerga & Fierro, 1995).
Para acabar con los números redondos (Pre-Textos, 1997).
Desde la ciudad nerviosa (Alfaguara, 2000. Edición aumentada: Alfaguara, 2004).
Extrañas notas de laboratorio (Ediciones El otro el mismo/CELARG, 2003. Edición aumentada: Ediciones El otro, el mismo, 2007).
Aunque no entendamos nada (J. C. Sáez editor, 2003).
El viento ligero en Parma (México, Sexto Piso, 2004. Madrid, Sexto Piso, 2008).
Ella era Hemingway / No soy Auster (Ediciones Alfabia, 2008).
Y Pasavento ya no estaba (Mansalva, 2008).
Una vida absolutamente maravillosa. Ensayos selectos (Mondadori/De Bolsillo, 2011).
Fuera de aquí. Conversaciones con André Gabastou (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013). (Vila-Matas, pile et face, rencontre avec André Gabastou. Paris: Argol éditions, 2010).

Works translated into English
A Brief History of Portable Literature (New Directions, 2015). Translated by Anne McLean.
Bartleby & Co. (New Directions, 2004). Translated by Jonathan Dunne.
Montano's Malady (New Directions, 2007). Translated by Jonathan Dunne.
Never Any End to Paris (New Directions, 2011). Translated by Anne McLean.
Dublinesque (New Directions in USA, Harvill in UK, 2012). Translated by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey.
The Illogic of Kassel (New Directions, 2015). Translated by Anne McLean.
Because She Never Asked (New Directions, 2015). Translated by Valerie Miles.
Vampire in Love (New Directions, 2016). Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Mac's Problem (New Directions, 2019). Translated by Margaert Jull Costa and Sophie Hughes.

Further reading
Andres-Suárez, Irene y Ana Casas (eds.) Enrique Vila-Matas. Madrid: Arco/ Libros, 2007 (Col. «Cuadernos de Narrativa»).
Heredia, Margarita (ed.) Vila-Matas portátil. Un escritor ante la crítica. Barcelona: Candaya, 2007. [Includes a DVD: Café con Shandy (30’), a talk between Vila-Matas and Juan Villoro].
Salas, Lisbeth. Infinitamente serio. Caracas: La cámara escrita, 2009.
Pozuelo Yvancos, José María. Figuraciones del yo en la narrativa. Javier Marías y E. Vila-Matas. Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, Junta de Castilla y León, 2010. (Cátedra Miguel Delibes).
Ríos Baeza, Felipe A. (ed.) Enrique Vila-matas. Los espejos de la ficción. México: Ediciones Eón/Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2012.
Badia, Alain, Anne-Lise Blanc y Mar García (eds.) Geographies du vertige dans l'oeuvre d'Enrique Vila-Matas. Perpignan: Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2013.
Carrera, Guillermo. Crítica portátil. La estructura ausente en Doctor Pasavento (una aproximación narratológica). Puebla: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, 2013.

References

External links

 "Enrique Vila-Matas on ‘Never Any End to Paris’", Interview by Scott Esposito, Paris Review, June 6, 2011
  Vila-Matas blog
 http://www.enriquevilamatas.com (in English http://www.enriquevilamatas.com/pagein.html)
 ALMODOVAR about Vila-Matas. https://web.archive.org/web/20081217031358/http://www.pedroalmodovar.es/PAB_ES_09_T.asp
 New Republic Review of The Illogic of Kassel and A Brief History of Portable Literature

 LibHub. VILA-MATAS TAKES A WALK

1948 births
Living people
Writers from Barcelona
Spanish novelists
Spanish male novelists
Spanish male writers
20th-century Spanish male writers
21st-century Spanish male writers
Prix Médicis étranger winners
Postmodern writers


Don Sakers (June 16, 1958 – May 17, 2021) was an American science fiction writer and fan who lived in Maryland, and wrote several novels and edited a short story collection. In 2009 he succeeded Thomas Easton as book reviewer for Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine. Sakers is probably best known in the science fiction community as a frequent guest speaker at science fiction conventions.

When asked about the reaction to the diversity elements in his SF, Sakers said:

Writing career and SF fandom
Sakers was the author of SF novels Dance for the Ivory Madonna (2002) and companion titles The Leaves of October (1988), A Voice in Every Wind (2003), Weaving the Web of Days (2004), and A Rose From Old Terra (2007);  and dark fantasy novel Curse of the Zwilling (2003).<ref>[http://www.sfandf.com/html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=2&p1=Don%20Sakers&p2=books Review of Curse of the Zwilling]. Accessed January 23, 2008.  </ref>  He was also author of the short story "The Cold Solution" (Analog, 1991) and other short fiction. Sakers was editor of Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three (1990), an anthology of stories based on Leslie Fish's song of the same name; the SF Book of Days (2004); and the Gaylaxicon 2006 Sampler. Sakers was also the author of two gay young adult novels: Act Well Your Part (1986) and Lucky in Love (1988). Melissa Scott called him "a left wing Heinlein."

A member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, he wrote numerous obituaries for their web site, including that of Lisa A. Barnett.

Dance for the Ivory Madonna
According to a Publishers Weekly review, Dance for the Ivory Madonna is about when;

Sakers described the book as being about "a lot of things: friendship, toleration, a celebration of the creative spirit, a paean to unconventionality. It's about what's wrong with today's world, what's right with today's world, and what hope there is for the future. It's about how our technology affects us, and about the decisions we can make regarding those effects."Dance for the Ivory Madonna was a Spectrum Award finalist.

Science fiction conventions

Sakers was guest of honor at the 1995 Gaylaxicon,Gaylaxicon 1995 Badges and was a frequent guest speaker at other Gaylaxicons, Albacon, Arisia, and Boskone.

 Personal life
Sakers was born in Yokosuka, Japan, but grew up in the United States. He was openly gay and had diabetes and autism. He shared a home in Anne Arundel County, Maryland with his spouse, costumer Thomas Atkinson.  Their house, known as Meerkat Meade, was featured in Weird Maryland.Reader's advice page about The Star Toys Museum.  Accessed June 23, 2008. His self-described "day job" was with the Anne Arundel County public library, where he worked for 42 years. Sakers was an active blogger.

Sakers died of a heart attack on May 17, 2021, aged 62.

Bibliography

 Novels
Scattered Worlds Mosaic

 The Leaves of October (started as a short story in August 1983's Analog'', and was expanded as a novel in 1988)

Short fiction
Collections

Stories

Review columns

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Notes

References

External links
 Official web site
 Scattered Worlds web site

1958 births
2021 deaths
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American short story writers
American librarians
American male novelists
American male short story writers
American science fiction writers
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
American gay writers
American LGBT novelists
People from Anne Arundel County, Maryland
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
People on the autism spectrum
21st-century American LGBT people


WYAR (88.3 MHz) is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting an Adult standards radio format.  Licensed to Yarmouth, Maine, United States, with the transmitter and tower located on nearby Cousins Island, the station serves the Portland and Lewiston-Auburn area.  The station is licensed to Heritage Radio Society, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

WYAR has a large collection of more than 10,000 78-rpm records, many of which have been enhanced by digital signal processing.  The station also airs some early jazz programming and community issues and news.

See also
List of community radio stations in the United States

References

External links

YAR
Community radio stations in the United States
Yarmouth, Maine
Radio stations established in 1998


Vitaliy Vladimirovich Sidorov (; born 6 March 1990) is a Russian former professional football player.

Club career

Vitaliy started to play football from childhood in his home town with his local club FC Sibir where he showed considerable promise. His professional career began with FC Sibir in 2005 when he signed a professional contract with the club. He continued to play with FC Sibir for five seasons.

In 2010, Sidorov received an offer to come to a professional football club in Israel. The club FC Hapoel Ramat Gan Israel participated in the Israeli Premier League. After that Vitaliy was invited to a professional football club in Moldova FC Olimpia Balti which participates in the Moldavian Premier League. Vitaliy performed well with FC Olimpia scoring a goal on 85 minutes against Dacia in the semifinal of the Moldova Cup, and helping his team FC Olimpia advance to the Cup final in Moldova in 2011.

In 2012, Vitaliy received an offer to come to United States. He spent a pre-season training camp with the professional football club participating in the MLS. Immediately thereafter Vitaliy received an offer from a Canadian professional soccer club Kingston FC, which plays in the Canadian Soccer League. He reached a mutual agreement with Kingston FC and signed a contract with the team midway through the 2012 CSL season.

In 2013 Vitaliy Sidorov signed a contract with BEC Tero Sasana F.C. in Thailand Premier League.

Due to injury in 2015 Sidorov has ended his professional player career.Vitaliy Sidorov.

Career statistics

References

External links
 Kingston FC Signs first Russian player
 Growth Potential is there for Kingston FC
 FC Olimpia approaching to Final National Cup
 FC Olimpia in Italy

1990 births
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Russian Premier League players
FC Sibir Novosibirsk players
Kingston FC players
Canadian Soccer League (1998–present) players
Men's association football midfielders


Selworthy is a small village and civil parish  from Minehead in Somerset, England. It is located in the National Trust's Holnicote Estate on the northern fringes of Exmoor. The parish includes the hamlets of Bossington, Tivington, Lynch, Brandish Street and Allerford.

At  Selworthy Beacon, rising above the village, is one of the highest points on Exmoor. Its height defines as one of the 'marilyns" in England. Near the summit are a series of cairns, thought to be the remains of round barrows, and the British Iron Age Bury Castle.

Bossington is separated from Porlock Bay by a shingle beach, through which flows the River Horner, forming part of the Porlock Ridge and Saltmarsh Site of Special Scientific Interest. In the 1990s rising sea levels created salt marshes, and lagoons developed in the area behind the boulder bank. The village is on the South West Coast Path.

History

The name of the village means "enclosure or settlement near sallows or willows". In the Domesday Book it was recorded as Selewrda. It was held by Queen Edith of Wessex in 1066 and, with Luccombe, was awarded to Ralph de Limesy by William the Conqueror. In 1301 Edward I awarded it to Henry de Pynkeny. It passed down through the family until acquired by marriage by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland in 1802.

Selworthy was part of the hundred of Carhampton.

Selworthy was rebuilt as a model village, to provide housing for the aged and infirm of the Holnicote estate, in 1828 by Sir Thomas Acland, in a similar style to Blaise Hamlet, Bristol, which had been built a few years earlier. One of the cottages, known as Periwinkle Cottage, is now an award-winning tea room. Many of the other cottages, whose walls are painted with limewash that has been tinted creamy yellow with ochre, some of which are now rented out, are still thatched and are listed buildings. The village and the surrounding Holnicote estate was given to the National Trust in 1944 by Sir Richard Acland, having been passed down through the Acland family for nearly 200 years.

Few of the buildings preceding 1828 survive, but those that do include the church, the tithe barn and Tithe Barn Cottage.

Governance

Selworthy shares a grouped parish council with the civil parish of Minehead Without. The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

Until the recent (2023) formation of the unitary Somerset Council, the village was within the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton, which was established on 1 April 2019. Before that, it was previously in the district of West Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and part of Williton Rural District before that.

Somerset Council is responsible for building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism. Somerset Council is also responsible for local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.

As Selworthy falls within the Exmoor National Park some functions (including those related to town planning) normally administered by district or county councils have, since 1997, fallen under the Exmoor National Park Authority, which is known as a 'single purpose' authority, which aims to "conserve and enhance the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of the National Parks" and "promote opportunities for the understanding and enjoyment of the special qualities of the Parks by the public", including responsibility for the conservation of the historic environment.

It is also part of the Bridgwater and West Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Church

On the hill above the village is the whitewashed 15th-century Church of All Saints, with a 14th-century tower. The pulpit includes a 17th-century hourglass and the iron-bound parish chest dates from the same time. Within the church is a copy of the Chained Book of 1609 by Bishop John Jewel, entitled Defense of the Apologie of the Church of England.

It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.

In the churchyard is a medieval cross with three octagonal steps, a square socket, and an octagonal shaft. The head is missing. The churchyard provides views across the valley to Dunkery Beacon.

The liturgical scholar and church historian Francis Carolus Eeles OBE is buried in the churchyard.

The thatched Chapel of St Leonard, Tivington was built in the mid 14th century as a chapel of ease. It is a Grade II* listed building.

The Lynch Chapel Of Ease at West Lynch dates from around 1530.

Demography
The population of the parish of Selworthy is 477; this has grown by 100 since 1801 when the population was 418. It has a predominantly ageing population with 80% being over 45 years old.

Gallery

References

Further reading

 Reminiscences of an Old West Country Clergyman by W H Thornton (edited by Duff Hart-Davis), Ludlow 2010. Thornton lived at Selworthy in the 1840s.

External links

 360-degree panorama from Selworthy Beacon

Villages in West Somerset
Exmoor
Civil parishes in Somerset
Populated coastal places in Somerset
Thatched buildings in Somerset
Beaches of Somerset


WBCI (105.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bath, Maine, United States, the station serves the Portland, Lewiston–Auburn, and Augusta-Waterville areas.  The station is owned by Blount Communications.

History
Originally on 95.3 MHz, WJTO-FM began in June 1971.  WJTO-FM was co-owned with WJTO (730 AM).  WJTO-FM later became WIGY with a contemporary hit radio format.  Later the station changed formats and calls to classic rock WKRH on January 10, 1991. WKRH eventually went silent and was purchased by Blount Communications; on May 1, 1995, the station changed its call sign to the current WBCI.

References

1992 Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook

External links

Bath, Maine
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Radio stations established in 1971
1971 establishments in Maine
BCI


The Kulai District is a district in the state of Johor, Malaysia. Its district capital is Kulai Town. It covers Kulai Town, Ayer Bemban, Bandar Putra Kulai, Bukit Batu, Indahpura, Bandar Baru Kangkar Pulai, Kelapa Sawit, Saleng, Sedenak, Seelong, Senai, and Sengkang. Kulai is also within Iskandar Malaysia economic zone.

Name
The district was formerly a part of the Pulai Valley, which covered Mukim Pulai and the current subdistrict. The name Kulai 龟来 (), which means turtles are coming, was a Chinese mispronounciation of Pulai. Chinese Hakka peoples led by a man named Huang Guo Mao emigrated to Johor from Qing China during the late 19th century and opened a settlement in the area, and had renamed the place after the influx of turtles coming to the area after heavy flooding.

Geography
Kulai is one of three landlocked districts of Johor (the other two being Kluang and Segamat) with an area of , which is slightly smaller than the size of Singapore, a sovereign country situated approximately  to the south of the district. It has a population of 223,306 at the 2010 Census (provisional result). It has a mix of urban and rural settlements with a majority of the population settling in towns near Johor Bahru. These population centers, such as Kulai and Senai effectively became suburbs of the greater metropolitan area in Kulai district.

History

The earliest settlement in Kulai is located at Sayong River, now at Bandar Tenggara, which have existed since the Srivijayan era. The Orang Asli settlement at the upstream of Sayong River was the hometown to the Malay Singaporean folklore hero Badang. Badang was the Hulubalang during the reign of Sri Rana Wikrama of the Kingdom of Singapura, a city kingdom prior to the establishment of Sultanate of Malacca. This suggest that the settlement in Sungai Sayong should had been established no later than the 12th century.

In 1548, after the demise of last Sultan of Melaka in exile, Mahmud Shah, his prince Alauddin Shah moved his capital from Kampar, Sumatra to Sayong and established the new Kota Sayong Pinang. Kota Sayong was the first capital of Sultanate of Johor on the peninsular mainland. The Sultan later moved the capital city to Kota Batu at the mouth of Johor River.

The modern district of Kulai was a former sub-district of Johor Bahru. The subdistrict was upgraded to the full district status on 1 January 2008  as District of Kulaijaya. The district is recognised as the state's 9th district. On 28 August 2015, Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Ismail ibni Sultan Iskandar decreed to revert Kulaijaya's name back to its original name.

Government

The local authorities of Kulai are Kulai Municipal Council and Iskandar Puteri City Council, the part of southern Kulai, etc.: Kangkar Pulai. Kulai Town also the administry centre of Kulai District and Kulai Municipal Council.

Administrative divisions

Kulai District is divided into 4 mukims:
 Bukit Batu
 Kulai Town
 Sedenak
 Senai

Demography

Malay made up 44.3% of the total population in Kulai. This is followed by Malaysian Chinese (40.1%) and Malaysian Indian (4.1%).

Federal Parliament and State Assembly Seats

List of Kulai district representatives in the Federal Parliament (Dewan Rakyat)

List of Kulai district representatives in the State Legislative Assembly (Dewan Undangan Negeri)

Other Towns
 Kulai Town
 Ayer Bemban
 Bukit Batu
 Kangkar Pulai
 Kelapa Sawit
 Saleng
 Sedenak
 Seelong
 Senai

Economy
The main economy activities in the district are information and communication technology, biotechnology and logistics.

Tourist attractions

 Johor Premium Outlets
 Mount Pulai
 Hutan Bandar Putra Kulai (Putra Recreation Forest)
 Nanyan Aquarium Centre, Ayer Bemban
 Hua Guo Shan Temple, Sedenak (士年纳路口花果山)
 Kulai Putuo Village (古来普陀村)

Transportation

Roads

Skudai Highway or Federal route 1 is the most important inner link in Kulai District, with many access along the road such as Senai Airport Highway 16, Skudai–Pontian Highway 5,  Jalan Kulai-Kota Tinggi 94, Diamond Interchange (access to Bandar Putra, Indahpura and proposed new NSE exit), proposed Kulai Inner Ring Road. The government proposed to open a new road, Kulai-Senai Bypass, to resolve the traffic jam problem of the Skudai Highway.

Kulai was an important stopover on the Johor Bahru-Kuala Lumpur trunk road in the 1970s and 1980s until the North–South Expressway (NSE) E2 opened in 1994, which bypassed the town. Senai North Interchange (NSE)253 is the connection to Singapore (from the east to the west).NSE is also one of the access points to the Mount Pulai nature reserve. Senai Airport, the international airport which serves Johor is within the municipality.

The Second Link Expressway E3 is also an access to connect to Iskandar Puteri, Singapore (Tuas). The Senai–Desaru Expressway (SDE)  connects Senai and Desaru more quickly.

Rails
The district also has one railway station run by the Malayan Railway (KTM) in Kulai Town.

Airport

The district houses the Senai International Airport which is located in Senai.

See also
 Kulai
 Districts of Malaysia

References

External links

 Kulai District Education Department's Website


WDER (1320 AM) and WDER-FM (92.1 FM) are radio stations broadcasting a Christian radio format.  They are the flagship stations of the "Life Changing Radio" network.  WDER AM is licensed to Derry, New Hampshire, and WDER-FM is licensed to Peterborough, New Hampshire.  The stations are owned by Blount Communications, Inc. of NH and feature programming from Salem Radio Network.

In 2012, Blount Communications purchased 92.1 FM, then WFEX, from Phoenix Media/Communications Group, and changed the call letters to WDER-FM, providing WDER AM with a sister station on the FM band to extend its outreach. Prior to the purchase, WFEX had served as a simulcast of WFNX (now WBWL) in Boston.

References

External links

DER
Derry, New Hampshire
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Radio stations established in 1983


WARV (1590 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, the station serves the Providence area.  The station is owned by Blount Communications, Inc. and features programming from Salem Communications.

Translators

References

External links

ARV
Radio stations established in 1959
Warwick, Rhode Island
1959 establishments in Rhode Island


Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg (30 September 1842—22 September 1921) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Rennes from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1916.

Biography
Auguste Dubourg was born in Loguivy-Plougras, and studied at the seminary in Saint-Brieuc before being ordained to the priesthood on 22 December 1866. He then taught at the Minor Seminary of Saint-Brieuc, and served as secretary of the episcopal curia, vicar general, and vicar capitular of Saint-Brieuc.

On 19 January 1893, Dubourg was appointed Bishop of Moulins by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 16 April from Bishop Pierre-Marie-Frédéric Fallières, with Bishops François-Marie Trégaro and Etienne-Marie Potron, OFM, serving as co-consecrators, in Saint-Brieuc Cathedral.

Dubourg was later promoted to Archbishop of Rennes on 6 August 1906. Pope Benedict XV created him Cardinal Priest of S. Balbina in the consistory of 4 December 1916.

The Cardinal died in Rennes, at age 79. He is buried in the metropolitan cathedral of Rennes.

References

1842 births
1921 deaths
20th-century French cardinals
Bishops of Moulins
Archbishops of Rennes
19th-century French Roman Catholic bishops


Aynuk and Ayli are two mythical characters from the Black Country that figure in a large number of local jokes.  Their names are literal, phonetical translations of the names Enoch and Eli into the Black Country accent.  They also appeared as a cartoon strip in the Express & Star.

Aynuk and Ayli were personified by a comedy duo consisting of John Plant (7 December 1951 – 21 November 2006) and Alan Smith (1937 – 22 March 2022).  They performed across central England from 1984.

They were also employed on at least one occasion by an NHS trust to help medical staff from overseas become accustomed to the Black Country accent.

Plant died in November 2006 after a short illness, two weeks before what would have been his 55th birthday. He was buried in St Andrew's Parish Church near his lifelong home in Netherton, near Dudley.

References

External links
Tributes as comic Ayli dies
Memory of comic Ayli lives on

English comedy duos
Culture in the West Midlands (region)


Adam Setliff (born December 15, 1969) is a retired discus thrower from the United States, who represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics (1996 and 2000), finishing 12th and 5th respectively. He set his personal best (69.44 m) in the men's discus throw on July 21, 2001, at a meet in La Jolla, California. Adam picked up a discus for the first time as a young boy and began throwing it outside in his childhood yard in Big Horn, WY, this is where his love of throwing began.  He retired prior to the 2004 season. Currently, Adam lives in Dallas, Texas and practices real estate law while running a title agency.

Achievements

External links
 Adam Setliff at USATF

1969 births
Living people
People from El Dorado, Arkansas
American male discus throwers
American male shot putters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic track and field athletes for the United States


Frank Rehak (July 6, 1926, in New York City, New York – June 22, 1987, in Badger, California) was an American jazz trombonist. He began on piano and cello before switching to trombone. He worked with Gil Evans and Miles Davis. He also appeared with Davis on the broadcast "The Sounds of Miles Davis."

He had a failed marriage to nightclub dancer Jerri Gray. He also had a heroin addiction, which combined with other financial problems led to his withdrawal from music and lapsing into relative obscurity. In an effort to deal with these issues he spent time at Synanon, which led to his mention in Art Pepper's autobiography.  He died in Badger of throat cancer at the age of 60.

Discography

As leader
 Jazzville Vol. 2 (Dawn, 1987)

As sideman
With Tony Bennett
 My Heart Sings (Columbia, 1961)
 Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall Part I (CBS, 1962)
 At Carnegie Hall Recorded Live June 9, 1962 (Columbia, 1962)

With Al Cohn
 Mr. Music (RCA Victor, 1955)
 The Natural Seven (RCA Victor, 1955)
 Cohn on the Saxophone (Dawn, 1956)
 Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1961)

With Miles Davis
 Miles Ahead (Columbia, 1958)
 Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1959)
 Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1961)
 Facets (CBS, 1967)
 Sorcerer (CBS, 1967)
 Facets Vol. 1 (CBS/Sony, 1970)
 Directions (Columbia, 1981)
 Blue Christmas (CBS, 1983)

With Dizzy Gillespie
 World Statesman (Norgran, 1956)
 Dizzy in Greece (Verve, 1957)
 Gillespiana (Verve, 1960)

With Woody Herman
 Herman's Heat & Puente's Beat! (Everest, 1958)
 The Herd Rides Again (Everest, 1958)
 The Fourth Herd (Jazzland, 1960)
 Hey! Heard the Herd? (Verve, 1963)
 Woody Herman & the Fourth Herd (Windmill, 1972)
 The Third Herd Vol. 1 (Discovery, 1981)
 The Third Herd Vol. 2 (Discovery, 1982)
 Woody Herman and His Orchestra (Joker, 1983)

With Quincy Jones
 This Is How I Feel About Jazz (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
 The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones (Mercury, 1959)
 The Quintessential Charts (Impulse! ABC, 1978)

With Gene Krupa
 Burnin' Beat (Verve, 1962)
 Drummin' Man (Columbia, 1963)
 1949 (Alamac, 1974)
 The Drums (Verve, 1987)
 Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich (Verve, 1988)

With Hugo Montenegro
 Bongos and Brass (Time, 1960)
 Cha Chas for Dancing (Time, 1960)
 Great Songs from Motion Pictures Vol. 1 (1927–1937) (Time, 1961)
 Great Songs from Motion Pictures Vol. 2 (1938–1944) (Time, 1961)
 Great Songs from Motion Pictures Vol. 3 (1945–1960) (Time, 1961)
 The Great Hits of the 50's (Time, 1964)
 Montenegro & Mayhem (Time, 1965)

With others
 Cat Anderson, Cat On a Hot Tin Horn (Mercury, 1958)
 Ernestine Anderson, My Kinda Swing (Mercury, 1960)
 Buddy Arnold, Wailing (ABC-Paramount, 1956)
 Charlie Barnet, More Charlie Barnet (Everest, 1959)
 Big Maybelle, Blues, Candy & Big Maybelle (Savoy, 1986)
 Art Blakey, Art Blakey Big Band (Bethlehem, 1957)
 Art Blakey, Ain't Life Grand (Bethlehem, 1959)
 Bob Brookmeyer, Jazz Concerto Grosso (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
 Bob Brookmeyer, Portrait of the Artist (Atlantic, 1960)
 Ruth Brown, Late Date with Ruth Brown (Atlantic, 1959)
 Bobby Byrne, The Jazzbone's Connected to the Trombone (Grand Award, 1959)
 Cándido Camero, The Volcanic (ABC-Paramount, 1957)
 Al "Jazzbo" Collins, Presents Swinging at the Opera (Everest, 1960)
 Chris Connor, Sings Ballads of the Sad Cafe (Atlantic, 1959)
 Chris Connor, Witchcraft (Atlantic, 1959)
 Don Costa, Echoing Voices and Trombones (United Artists, 1960)
 Jimmy Dorsey, Vol. 3 1949–1951 (Hindsight, 1981)
 Jimmy Dorsey, The Uncollected Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra Vol. 4 1950 (Hindsight, 1982)
 Gil Evans, New Bottle Old Wine (World Pacific, 1958)
 Gil Evans, The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964)
 Art Farmer, The Aztec Suite (United Artists, 1959)
 Barry Galbraith, Guitar and the Wind (Decca, 1958)
 Marty Gold, Swingin' West (RCA Victor, 1960)
 Buddy Greco, I Like It Swinging (Columbia, 1961)
 Urbie Green, The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green Volume 2 (Command, 1962)
 George Handy, By George! (Handy, of Course) (X 1956)
 Johnny Hartman, All of Me (Bethlehem, 1978)
 Johnny Hartman, Songs from the Heart (Bethlehem, 1984)
 Andre Hodeir, American Jazzmen Play Andre Hodeir's Essais (Savoy, 1957)
 Kenyon Hopkins/Creed Taylor, The Sound of New York (ABC-Paramount, 1959)
 Kenyon Hopkins, The Hustler (Kapp, 1961)
 Michel Legrand, Legrand Jazz (Columbia, 1958)
 Michel Legrand, Michel Legrand Meets Miles Davis (Philips, 1970)
 Leiber-Stoller Big Band, Yakety Yak (Atlantic, 1960)
 Melba Liston, Melba Liston and Her 'Bones (MetroJazz, 1959)
 Mundell Lowe, Themes from Mr. Lucky, the Untouchables and Other TV Action Jazz (RCA Camden, 1960)
 Teo Macero, Teo (American Clave, 1980)
 Carmen McRae, Something to Swing About (Kapp, 1959)
 Red Mitchell, Whitey Mitchell, Blue Mitchell and André Previn, Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (MetroJazz, 1958)
 Sam Most, Plays Bird Bud Monk and Miles (Bethlehem, 1957)
 Gerry Mulligan/Bob Brookmeyer, Gerry Mulligan Bob Brookmeyer Play Phil Sunkel's Jazz Concerto Grosso (ABC-Paramount, 1958)
 Joe Newman, All I Wanna Do Is Swing (RCA Victor, 1955)
 Joe Newman, The Happy Cats (Coral, 1957)
 Claus Ogerman, Sounds for Sick? People (Shell, 1960)
 Nat Pierce, Big Band at the Savoy (RCA Victor, 1962)
 Bill Potts, The Jazz Soul of Porgy & Bess Conducted, Orchestrated and Arranged by Bill Potts (United Artists, 1959)
 Andre Previn, The Previn Scene (MGM, 1961)
 Gene Quill, 3 Bones and a Quill (Vogue, 1959)
 Johnny Richards, Wide Range (Capitol, 1957)
 Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass (MetroJazz, 1958)
 Pete Rugolo, Rugolomania (Columbia, 1955)
 Pete Rugolo, New Sounds by Pete Rugolo (Harmony, 1957)
 Jimmy Rushing, Little Jimmy Rushing and the Big Brass (Columbia, 1958)
 Jimmy Rushing, Mr. Five by Five (Columbia, 1980)
 George Russell, New York, N.Y. (Decca, 1959)
 George Russell, Jazz in the Space Age (Decca, 1960)
 Aaron Sachs, Clarinet and Co. (Fresh Sound, 1957)
 A. K. Salim, Flute Suite (Savoy, 1957)
 Sal Salvador, Colors in Sound (Decca, 1958)
 Hal Schaefer, U A Showcase: Great Songs from United Artists Pictures (London, 1958)
 Lalo Schifrin and Bob Brookmeyer, Samba Para Dos (Verve, 1963)
 Doc Severinsen, Tempestuous Trumpet (Command, 1961)
 Doc Severinsen, The Big Band's Back In Town (Command, 1962)
 George Siravo, Rodgers & Hart Percussion & Strings (Time, 1960)
 Idrees Sulieman,Roots (New Jazz, 1957)
 Creed Taylor, Lonelyville The Nervous Beat (ABC-Paramount, 1959)
 Sonny Truitt, Drummer Delights (Music Minus One, 1961)
 Frank Wess, Bobby Jaspar Seldon Powell, The Spirit of Charlie Parker (World Wide, 1958)
 Randy Weston, Destry Rides Again (United Artists, 1959)
 George Williams, Swing Classics in Hi-Fi (United Artists, 1959)
 George Williams, Put On Your Dancing Shoes (United Artists, 1960)
 Kai Winding, The Swingin' States (Columbia, 1958)
 Kai Winding, Dance to the City Beat (Columbia, 1959)

References

1926 births
1987 deaths
Jazz musicians from New York City
Mainstream jazz trombonists
American jazz trombonists
Male trombonists
Cool jazz trombonists
20th-century American musicians
20th-century trombonists
20th-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians


The following article presents a summary of the 1926 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 25th season of competitive football in the country.

Campeonato Paulista

In 1926 there were two different editions of the Campeonato Paulista. One was organized by the Associação Paulista de Esportes Atléticos (APEA) while the other one was organized by the Liga de Amadores de Futebol (LAF).

APEA's Campeonato Paulista

Final Standings

Palestra Itália-SP declared as the APEA's Campeonato Paulista champions.

LAF's Campeonato Paulista

Final Standings

Paulistano declared as the LAF's Campeonato Paulista champions.

State championship champions

Other competition champions

Brazil national team
The Brazil national football team did not play any matches in 1926.

References

 Brazilian competitions at RSSSF
 1923-1932 Brazil national team matches at RSSSF

Seasons in Brazilian football
Brazil


Linda Evans (born 1942) is an American actress.

Linda Evans may also refer to:

Linda Evans (radical) (born 1947), American activist
Linda Evans (author) (born 1958), American science fiction writer
Linda Evans (bowls), Welsh international lawn bowler


The Fiat 515 is a passenger car produced by Fiat between 1931 and 1935. The 515 is a "hybrid", with a Fiat 514 engine in the larger 522 chassis.
The car was also made in a long version as the 515 L. This model was produced in 3400 examples.

References
Fiat Personenwagen, by Fred Steiningen, 1994.

515
Cars introduced in 1931


WLLO-LP (102.9 FM, "Leo 103") is a high school radio station broadcasting a High school radio format. Programming includes rock, country, big band, and children's programming. Licensed to Londonderry, New Hampshire, United States, the station serves the Manchester area.  Broadcasts can also be heard on cable FM channel 28 of the local cable TV system.  The station is currently owned by Londonderry School District, School Administrative Unit 12 as an Educational-access television channel.

See also
 High school radio

References

External links

LLO-LP
LLO-LP
High school radio stations in the United States
Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Radio stations established in 2004


The University Club of Milwaukee is a private club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, located at 924 E. Wells Street.  The club, which was founded by a group of nineteen college alumni, received its charter November 7, 1898. Its first president was August H. Vogel.

History
The club first met in a modest residence at 508 Jackson Street, near what is now a surface parking lot at Clybourn and Jackson Streets.  In 1928, the club moved into its current clubhouse, newly designed by John Russell Pope, at the corner of Wells and Prospect Streets overlooking Lake Michigan.

University Club Tower
In 2007, construction of a namesake luxury condominium tower was completed on a site immediately north of the club.  The 36-floor, 446-feet tall University Club Tower is now the tallest residential building and fourth tallest building in Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin.  The tower houses a health club facility for residents that doubles as the University Club's own member health club.

See also
 List of American gentlemen's clubs

References

Official Site

External links
University Club of Milwaukee (official website)
Clubhouse images
University Club Tower Official Site

1898 establishments in Wisconsin
Buildings and structures completed in 1928
Buildings and structures in Milwaukee
Clubs and societies in the United States
John Russell Pope buildings
Gentlemen's clubs in the United States


"The Rain King" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on January 10, 1999. "The Rain King" was written by Jeffrey Bell and directed by Kim Manners. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "The Rain King" earned a Nielsen household rating of 12.5, being watched by 21.2 million people in its initial broadcast. Critical reception to the episode was mostly mixed, with results ranging from negative to positive.

The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In the episode, Mulder and Scully are asked to investigate the strange weather phenomena occurring in a small town. They find a man, Daryl Mootz, who claims to produce the rain.

"The Rain King" was written by Jeffrey Bell, his first script for the show. The episode was originally purchased as a freelance script, but Bell was later hired on as a full-time writer. Grapevine, Piru, and Culver City, California stood in for the fictional town of Kroner, Kansas during filming. The episode required several elaborate special effect sequences to create heart-shaped hail as well as to simulate a flying cow.

Plot
On Valentine's Day in Kroner, Kansas, Sheila Fontaine and Daryl Mootz get into an argument. Fontaine had put their engagement news in the paper, but Mootz had wanted to keep it a secret for as long as the drought makes business poor. After the argument, Mootz goes for a drunken drive but crashes after heart-shaped hailstones wreck his car.

Six months later, Mulder and Scully arrive in Kroner by request of the mayor. For several months a terrible drought has plagued the region. However, Mootz, now styling himself as "The Rain King", seems to have the power to control the weather. For a hefty sum, he is able to make it rain. Mulder and Scully obtain a client list and head to the local television station to talk to the weatherman, Holman Hardt. Hardt admits that while Mootz's talents are odd, he appears to truly have the power to control the weather. Mulder and Scully, both skeptical, attend one of Mootz's rituals. Despite their preconceived notions, Mulder and Scully witness Mootz apparently bring rain to a dry farm.

Mulder and Scully check into a motel, where a cow crashes through the roof of Mulder's room. After the incident, a tearful Sheila confesses that the cow might have been her fault. She admits that she's experienced a strange history of weather-related phenomena, and believes that she can unconsciously control the weather. Mulder assures her otherwise. During the conversation, Hardt overhears that Mootz was drunk the night of the accident, and is relieved. Immediately, Mootz's rain powers seem to disappear.

It is revealed that Holman Hardt is actually the one controlling the weather. All of the bizarre weather was the side-effect of his long-silent love for Sheila. He felt guilty that his weather-related problem caused Mootz to crash his car, so he would cause it to rain for Mootz. Once he realized Mootz had been drunk the night of the accident, however, he stopped. Unfortunately, Mulder begins to unintentionally attract Sheila, resulting in a massive thunderstorm that materializes due to the meteorologist's emotions. At the town's high school reunion, however, Hardt admits his love for Sheila, who accepts him. The storm stops, and Hardt and Sheila live happily ever after.

Production

Writing
"The Rain King" was the first episode written by Jeffrey Bell for the series. Bell never intended to work in television, but after he wrote three script ideas, he sent them to the producers of the show. The writing staff was impressed with the stories and agreed to buy one—which eventually became "The Rain King"—as a freelance script. While developing the final script, Bell was assisted by Frank Spotnitz, John Shiban, and Vince Gilligan; the three X-Files veterans taught Bell the process of "boarding", whereby note cards are used to flesh out a story. The three pitched the story idea to series creator Chris Carter in August, and Bell was later hired as a permanent show writer.

The script went through considerable changes. Initially, Bell was unaware that Daryl Mootz would "steal the show" and so the episode did not feature him as much. In early drafts the relationship between Holman and the FBI agents was not as strong. In the final draft, Bell attempted to parallel the emotional state of Mulder and Scully with Hardt's characterization, noting, "Here you have a guy who's affecting the weather because he's repressing his emotions [...] and who better to help him than two people whose emotions are repressed and never express their feelings for each other?"

Filming

The scene in which Daryl Mootz crashes his car into a pole after being pummeled by heart-shaped hail was filmed on a "lonely road" near Grapevine, California. The road was so seldom used that the California Department of Transportation had no problem shutting down the entire road so that the crew could film the scene. Director Kim Manners was happy with the way the filming turned out, although he did note that filming the actual crash was difficult, because the car kept crashing into the pole at an undesired angle.

Ilt Jones, the series' location manager, decided to use Piru, California as a stand-in for Kroner, Kansas—a fictitious city named after Bell's college roommate. Exterior shots for "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" would later be filmed in the same town. The climactic scenes in Kroner's high school were filmed at an abandoned high school in Culver City, California. Corey Kaplan and her art team were tasked with turning the derelict gym into a believable reunion set.

Effects

Property master Tom Day and costume designer Christine Peters were tasked with designing the fake prosthetic leg that Clayton Rohner wears in the episode. Because Rohner has both of his legs, Peters had to create a unique harness that pulled Rohner's actual leg out of the camera's sightline. Rohner later described the harness as "painful".

An actual motel called the Sierra Palona Motel was used to film the scene in which a cow crashes through Mulder's motel room roof. To secure permission, Jones struck a deal with the owners: if the production staff was allowed to cut a hole in the motel's roof, the show would pay for an entirely new roof afterwards. Duke Tomasick, The X-Files construction coordinator, later said that the "fun part" was "calling local roofers and explaining just what kind of damage they'd be repairing for us".

Special effects producer Bill Millar was tasked with creating a shot of the cow being sucked up into a storm. To do this, he photographed a number of cows in a field for reference. Then, using digital technology he animated the desire effect. This footage was then combined with a shot of a "cow puppet" being dropped on a re-creation of Mulder's motel room at Fox Studios. At the last minute, Millar noticed that the cow puppet's color was different than his computer-generated cow, which necessitated him to quickly change the color. Kim Manners later stated that his biggest regret with the episode is that he did not have David Duchovny respond "Got milk?" after the cow crashed through his roof.

Broadcast and reception

"The Rain King" premiered on the Fox network on January 10, 1999. Following its initial American broadcast, the episode earned a Nielsen household rating of 12.5, with an 18 share—meaning that roughly 12.5 percent of all television-equipped households, and 18 percent of households watching television, were tuned in to the episode. It was viewed by 21.20 million viewers. "The Rain King" was both the highest rated episode of Season 6 and the last episode of The X-Files to be viewed by more than 20 million viewers. The episode aired in the United Kingdom and Ireland on Sky1 on April 25, 1999 and received 0.75 million viewers, making it the third most watched episode that week. Fox promoted the episode with the tagline "Mulder's been abducted, infected, and discredited. Tonight, he faces his greatest peril ever... a woman in love."

Critical reception was mostly mixed, with results ranging from negative to positive. Tom Kessenich, in his book Examination: An Unauthorized Look at Seasons 6–9 of the X-Files wrote positively of the episode, saying, "'The Rain King' was cute. Very cute. […] And yet I never found myself suffering from cuteness overload. In fact, I laughed and smiled the entire way through." Starpulse named "The Rain King" as the ninth best X-Files episode and praised the lighter approach to the paranormal, saying that the episode was an "ingenious way to use the paranormal motif of the show for something other than thrills". Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club awarded the episode a "B+" grade. Despite criticizing the show for "filming in the land of sunshine and lemon drops" and "border[ing] on that overly twee independent movie vibe", Handlen noted that "the episode’s essential sweetness has enough snarky asides from our heroes […] that it never goes completely off the rails." He did, however, note that the episode's placement, after a string of several humorous episodes, hurt its reception; he argued that, had it appeared in an earlier, darker season, the entry would now be viewed as "a cock-eyed classic".

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, gave the episode a mixed review and rated the episode three out of five. The two praised the scene featuring the cow getting sucked up by the tornado, calling it "really, very funny" and "comic genius", but noted that "a romantic comedy cannot work by flying cows alone." Shearman and Pearson cited casting flaws as to why the episodes was not able to live up to its potential. Other reviews were more negative. In a review of the seventh season episode "Brand X", Sarah Kendzior from 11th Hour Magazine cited "The Rain King" as one of the worst episodes of The X-Files. Paula Vitaris from Cinefantastique gave the episode a mixed review and awarded it two stars out of four. Vitaris heavily criticized the "flying cow" scene—noting that the scene was both "poorly executed" and "offensive" for turning the death of a creature into a joke—as well as the final scene, which, according to her, featured a "false pastel sky". Andy Meisler, in The End and the Beginning noted that the episode was poorly received by fans on the Internet.

Footnotes

Bibliography

External links

1999 American television episodes
Television episodes set in Kansas
Television episodes set in Nebraska
The X-Files (season 6) episodes
Television episodes directed by Kim Manners


Marie Fajardo Ragghianti (born June 13, 1942) is an American parole board administrator, famous as the whistleblower who exposed Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton's "clemency for cash" scandal in 1977-79.

Ragghianti grew up in Florida, where she was regarded as a beauty queen. She married a boxer, but her husband became an alcoholic. Their son nearly died from a lung infection at the age of two. They divorced, leaving Ragghianti with three young children.

In 1971, at the age of 29, Ragghianti won a scholarship to Vanderbilt University, and earned a Bachelor of Science in English Literature and Psychology (1975). She was active in the Vanderbilt Young Democrats Club and caught the attention of newly elected governor Blanton's legal counsel, T. Edward "Eddie" Sisk. She was an extradition officer for the Tennessee Department of Correction (1975–76) and the chair of the Tennessee Board of Pardons and Paroles (1976–77).

Ragghianti earned a M.S. in Management of Human Services in 1978 from Vanderbilt University, and a Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1992. She worked as a consultant to the Tennessee legislature in 1979. From 1979 through 1997, she worked as a criminal justice consultant. From 1997 through 1999, she worked as the chief of staff for the United States Parole Commission.

Ragghianti was responsible for a federal investigation of corruption in the Tennessee parole and pardon process that led to the conviction of the governor and two aides, and was the subject of the 1985 movie Marie. Her attorney during the trial was Fred Thompson, who began his acting career portraying himself in the movie.

Ragghianti received the Goldsmith Award for journalism while attending the Kennedy School of Government and was a National Institute on Drug Abuse fellow while attending the graduate program in criminal justice at the University of Albany, SUNY.

She was appointed a member of the U.S. Parole Commission National Appeals Board on December 9, 1999, by President Bill Clinton in a recess appointment. She was designated as the board's vice chairperson on January 6, 2000. Her appointment expired December 15, 2000 after no action on her nomination had been taken by the United States Senate.

References

1942 births
Living people
American whistleblowers
Vanderbilt University alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
University at Albany, SUNY alumni
Seabreeze High School alumni
Probation and parole officers