Khushal Khan Khattak Memorial Library is a public library in Akora Khattak, Pakistan. The library was constructed in memory of the famous Pashto poet Khushal Khan Khattak  (also known as Khushal Baba) as he was born Akora Khattak. The library was established in 1994 by the Government of Pakistan.  The library is composed of various segments, including the library itself, a museum (which is a sub-section of Peshawar Museum), an internet café and an auditorium.

The library segment is further divided into three major sections based on the nature and literary genres of the materials:

Urdu-Pashto (native linguistics) section
English section
Reference Section.

The library has a vast variety of literature and books.

Because this library is located in a small city that has a relatively low literacy rate, it does not have many visitors.  It mainly attracts the attention of students and competitive examination aspirants e.g. CSS and PMS aspirants.

References

Libraries in Pakistan
Buildings and structures in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Libraries established in 1994


Thierry Laurey (born 17 February 1964) is a French professional football manager and former player who played as a defender and midfielder.

As a manager, he led Gazélec Ajaccio to consecutive promotions from the Championnat National to Ligue 1. In five years as manager of RC Strasbourg Alsace, he won Ligue 2 in 2016–17 and the Coupe de la Ligue in 2018–19.

Playing career
Laurey earned one cap for France on 8 March 1989. He played in a 2–0 loss to Scotland at Hampden Park in 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Managerial career

Early years
After ending his club career at Montpellier HSC, Laurey began his coaching career at an assistant manager at the same club, serving several managers over the next eight years. His first job as a head coach was at FC Sète 34 in the third-tier Championnat National for 2007–08, finishing 6th.

In June 2008, Laurey was hired by Amiens SC in Ligue 2. His one season ended with relegation to the Championnat National.

Laurey became director of football at AS Saint-Étienne – where he had played – in March 2011. In November, he returned to Ligue 2 management at AC Arles-Avignon. His team were in last place when he replaced Faruk Hadžibegić, but climbed to safety with a long unbeaten run. In the 2012–13 Coupe de la Ligue, he led the team into the last 16 with wins over En Avant Guingamp, Gazélec Ajaccio and AC Ajaccio, but was fired on 5 November 2012 after a 4–1 loss at nearby Nîmes Olympique.

Gazélec
In February 2013, Laurey was the third manager of the season at Gazélec, who were six points inside the relegation zone. Their season ended with relegation to the Championnat National, followed by immediate return in third place behind US Orléans and Luzenac AP, the latter of whom were barred from Ligue 2 for licensing reasons.

In the 2014–15 Ligue 2, Gazélec were promoted in second place behind ES Troyes AC to reach Ligue 1 for the first time; the club prepared for their maiden top-flight season with a budget of €12 million, half of that of Corsican neighbours S.C. Bastia and one-fortieth of the budget for champions Paris Saint-Germain FC. Laurey's team reached the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France in 2015–16 before a 3–0 loss at FC Lorient. The season ended in relegation and Laurey was permitted to speak to other clubs, despite having a year left on his contract.

Strasbourg
On 31 May 2016, Laurey was signed to a two-year contract by newly promoted Ligue 2 team RC Strasbourg Alsace, a day after Jacky Duguépéroux left their managerial post. He led the team to the title in his first season, ending a nine-year exile from the top flight, and was rewarded with a new contract to last until 2019.

Laurey added another year to his contract in December 2018, to last until June 2020. On 30 March 2019, he won the Coupe de la Ligue final on penalties against Guingamp after a goalless draw; it was the Alsatian club's third such title and first since 2005. The result put the team in European competition for the first time in 14 years, and the first of Laurey's career: they eliminated Maccabi Haifa F.C. and PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv in UEFA Europa League qualifying rounds before falling to Eintracht Frankfurt in the playoffs.

In March 2020, Laurey signed a new contract to stay for one more year at the Stade de la Meinau. Club president Marc Keller chose to let it expire in May 2021.

Paris FC
On 20 June 2021, Laurey was appointed as head coach of Ligue 2 side Paris FC, on a two-year contract. The team had recently finished fifth and been eliminated from the play-offs by Grenoble Foot 38. In the 2021–22 Coupe de France, his team won 14–0 at home to CSC de Cayenne from French Guiana in the eighth round, but the next round at the Stade Sébastien Charléty against Olympique Lyonnais was abandoned due to fan violence, leading to both clubs being expelled. A 4th-place league finish was met with another play-off elimination, by FC Sochaux-Montbéliard in the last second after missing two penalties in a 2–1 home loss.

On 3 June 2023, Laurey left the 13th arrondissement club at the end of his contract, having come 7th in his latter season. His assistant  succeeded him.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player
Marseille
Division 1 runner-up: 1986–87
Coupe de France runner-up: 1986–87

Montpellier
Coupe de France runner-up: 1993–94
Coupe d'Été runner-up: 1994

Manager
Strasbourg
Ligue 2: 2016–17
Coupe de la Ligue: 2018–19

References

External links

Thierry Laurey at PlanetePSG.com

1964 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Troyes
Footballers from Aube
French men's footballers
France men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Men's association football midfielders
Valenciennes FC players
Olympique de Marseille players
Montpellier HSC players
FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
AS Saint-Étienne players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
French football managers
Ligue 1 managers
Ligue 2 managers
Championnat National managers
FC Sète 34 managers
Amiens SC managers
AC Arlésien managers
Gazélec Ajaccio managers
RC Strasbourg Alsace managers
Paris FC managers


"Con Los Años Que Me Quedan" ()  is a song by Cuban American singer Gloria Estefan from her third studio album, Mi Tierra (1993). The song was written by the artist and her husband Emilio Estefan, with Emilio, Jorge Casas, and Clay Ostwald handling its production. An English-language version titled "If We Were Lovers" was also recorded. It was released as the second single from the album in 1993 by Epic Records. A pop bolero ballad, it speaks of an melancholy lament. The song received positive reactions from music critics, who saw it as one of the best tracks from the album.

Commercially, the song topped the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States. The accompanying music video was directed by Alberto Tolot and features the artist reminiscing an old love. "Con Los Años Que Me Quedan" was nominated in the category of Pop Song of the Year at the 1994 Lo Nuestro Awards and was acknowledged as an award-winning song at the 1995 BMI Latin Awards. The song has been covered live by Puerto Rican singer José Feliciano as part of The Latin Recording Academy tribute to Estefan in 2008 and by Mexican artist Thalía for her album Habítame Siempre (2012).

Background and composition
In January 1993, Gloria Estefan announced that she was working on a Spanish-language album titled Mi Tierra. The artist had wanted to record a Spanish-language album reflecting her Cuban heritage since the beginning of her musical career. Before recording in English Estefan and her band performed at Latin nightclubs;
she also remembered her grandmother teaching her old Cuban songs. Music had an important role in Estefan's family; her paternal grandmother was a poet, and an uncle played the flute in a salsa band. The singer's desire to record an album in Spanish was also influenced by her son Nayib; she wanted him to recognize his Cuban heritage.

Mi Tierra was produced by Gloria's husband Emilio Estefan, and fellow Miami Sound Machine members Clay Ostwald and Jorge Casas. Recording took place at the Crescent Moon Studios in Miami, Florida.  Gloria penned six tracks in the album, including "Con Los Años Que Me Quedan", which she co-wrote with her husband. A pop bolero ballad, it speaks of a "melancholy lament". The tune features Los Tres Caballeros on the background vocals with one of its members Chamín Correa performing the requinto, Cachao on the double bass, Luis Enrique playing percussion, and London Symphony Orchestra on the strings. In the lyrics, Estefan chants: "Con los años que me quedan yo viviré para darte amor borrando cada dolor con besos llenos de pasión como te amé por vez primera." The album booklet translates it as "With the years that I have left, I will live to give you love, I'll erase every hurt, with kisses filled with passion I'll love you like it was the first time." An English-language version, "If We Were Lovers", was also recorded.

Critical reception and accolades
In an retrospective review, Quentin Harrison from Albumism described the song as a "lush, filmic number" and the "most memorable single" of the album. AllMusic editor Jose F. Promis felt it is "among her most compelling" songs, with "beautiful lyrics and guitars augmenting the lovely melodies". He also declared it as one of Estefan's "loveliest and classiest ballads". Upon the release, Larry Flick from Billboard called the song "another sweet moment" from the album. He noted, "Soft but percussive tune gains its depth from acoustic instrumentation and a delicate string arrangement. Estefan is at her loveliest and her most relaxed here". Josef Woodard from Entertainment Weekly remarked that "heartfelt emotionality tinges" "If We Were Lovers". Ron Fell from the Gavin Report commented, "Gloria finds new words to express fresh thoughts, not just a translation from Spanish to English. With her successes as a kinetic musician, it's always nice to have Gloria in such an unplugged and mellow state once in a while."

In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton said that "If We Were Lovers" "tries to be slightly more commercial, its an English re-recording of the album track, paced at a ballroom waltz and is not what you would describe as a pop hit". Alan Jones from Music Week gave the song three out of five, calling it "a lushly orchestrated, atmospheric, guitar-picked Latin delight in strictly ballroom tempo. No dance mixes this time around, but the beauty of the song should win thorugh." Parry Gettelman from Orlando Sentinel felt that "such lovely ballads", as "Con Los Años Que Me Quedan", "find Estefan abandoning melodrama for real color and emotional shading".

"Con Los Años Que Me Quedan" was nominated in the category of Pop Song of the Year at the 6th Annual Lo Nuestro Awards in 1994, but ultimately lost to "Nunca Voy a Olvidarte" by Cristian Castro. It was acknowledged as an award-winning song at the 1995 BMI Latin Awards.

Promotion and commercial performance
"Con los Años Que Me Quedan" was released as the album's second single in 1993 by Epic Records. An accompanying music video was directed by Alberto Tolot and features the artist reminiscing with her old lover. The video won Latin Clip of the Year at the 1994 Billboard Music Video Awards. A re-recording of the song was included on Estefan's 14th studio album Brazil305 (2020), and incorporates Brazilian music. As part of The Latin Recording Academy tribute to Estefan, who was presented with the Person of the Year accolade in 2008, Puerto Rican singer José Feliciano sung a live cover version of "Con los Años Que Me Quedan". In 2012, Mexican singer Thalía recorded a cover version of the track for the album Habítame Siempre. Commercially, it topped the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart in the United States, becoming her third number one single on the chart. In the UK, the English version peaked at number 40.

Formats and track listing
Promotional single
Con Los Años Que Me Quedan4:38
If We Were Lovers4:38

Personnel
Adapted from the Mi Tierra liner notes:

Performance credits
 Cachao – double bass
 Jorge Casas – double bass
 Chamín Correa – guitar, requinto
 Luis Enriquez – percussion
 London Symphony Orchestraz – strings
 Juanito R. Marquez – music arranger, guitar
 Los Tres Caballeros (Chamín Correa, Alejandro Correa, Alfredo Correa) – backing vocalist

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 1993

References

1993 songs
1993 singles
1990s ballads
Boleros
Pop ballads
Gloria Estefan songs
Spanish-language songs
Songs written by Emilio Estefan
Songs written by Gloria Estefan
Epic Records singles
Thalía songs


The Mangal () are a tribe of the Pashtun people residing in eastern Paktia and adjacent Khost provinces of Afghanistan.

Distribution
They live in the town of Tari Mangal, district Kurram, Pakistan. Some also live in the Loya Paktia (Greater Paktia) region.

History
In 1924 to 1925, the Mangal fought in the Khost rebellion (1924–1925).'

The Mangals also played a notable role in the late 20th century history of Afghanistan. The son and grandsons of the Mangals who toppled Habibullah Kalakani were recruited in the Afghan Army and educated in Soviet Military Academies. Consequently, they came back as ideological Communists who eventually joined military corp of the KHALQ faction and overthrew the Monarchy

See also
Tari Mangal
Loya Paktia

Sources
Henry Walter Bellew. An inquiry into the ethnography of Afghanistan''

References

Karlani Pashtun tribes
Ethnic groups in Khost Province


The International Turbine Engine Company LLC (ITEC, formerly the International Turbine Engine Corporation) is a joint venture between Honeywell Aerospace (formerly Garrett AiResearch, and later AlliedSignal), and the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). The company produces the F124/F125 turbofan engine series, which is used in the Aermacchi M-346, Aero L-159 Alca, AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo, and AIDC T-5 Brave Eagle. In 2017 the F124 and F125 Engines reached 1,000,000 operating hours.

Products
 Honeywell F124 - standard
 Honeywell F125 - with afterburner

See also
 Defense industry of Taiwan

References

External links
 Honeywell Tests First Production Configuration F124-GA-200
 Honeywell F124 Product Page

Honeywell
Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation
Defence companies of Taiwan


SS George Washington Carver was a Liberty ship built for the United States Maritime Commission during World War II. The ship was named in honor of George Washington Carver, and was the second Liberty ship named for an African American.

The ship was initially assigned by the War Shipping Administration (WSA) to the American South African Line (Farrell Lines), Inc. for merchant service. In November 1943 the ship was allocated to the United States Army by the WSA and was converted to hospital ship USAHS Dogwood. The ship made multiple trips to ports in England from its homeport of Charleston, South Carolina, before sailing for duty in the Philippines in 1945.

In January 1946, the ship was converted to carry a combination of troops and military dependents as USAT George Washington Carver. The ship was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in 1947 and was sold for scrapping in 1964.

History

Construction
SS George Washington Carver (MC Hull No. 542) was laid down on 12 April 1943 on shipway 7 at Yard No. 1 by Permanente Metals Corp. of Richmond, California, as a standard Liberty ship. The ship was launched on 7 May 1943 and sponsored by Lena Horne, and delivered 24 May 1943, taking 42 days from start to delivery.

During the ship's construction, photographer E. F. Joseph, on behalf of the Office of War Information, took a series of photographs showing predominantly African American men and women working on George Washington Carver.

Launching ceremony
A crowd of 1,500 gathered to watch the launching of George Washington Carver on 7 May 1943. The ceremonies were organized by the United Negro Labor Committee, and that organization's president, C. L. Dellums, spoke to crowd. Lena Horne, on a break from filming Stormy Weather, was the sponsor, and welder Beatrice Turner, the first African American female hired at the Richmond Shipyards, was the matron of honor. Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Horne's Stormy Weather co-star, and actresses Dorothy Dandridge and Etta Moten were all scheduled to be in attendance at the event. The Carver was the second Liberty ship – out of a then-planned series of three – named for an African American and the 90th ship launched at the No. 1 yard in Richmond.

Merchant service
The ship was assigned by the WSA to the American South African Line (Farrell Lines) for merchant operation in the Mediterranean. The ship made convoy runs from Alexandria to Malta in September 1943, and from Alexandria to Bizerte the following month. From Bizerte the ship headed to Hampton Roads, Virginia, arriving there on 6 November 1943.

On 23 November 1943, after her brief civilian career, the WSA transferred the ship to the War Department for U.S. Army use as a hospital ship.

U.S. Army service
From November 1943 to July 1944 the ship underwent conversion to a Hague Convention hospital ship at the Atlantic Basin Iron Works yard in New York. During this time the ship was assigned the name USAHS Dogwood by recommendation of the Surgeon General.

Dogwood embarked on her first trip as a hospital ship in late July 1944 and returned to her new homeport of Charleston in August. The ship made six transatlantic round trips, usually calling at Avonmouth, Liverpool, and the Mersey, before being ordered to the Pacific.

In May 1945, Dogwood transited the Panama Canal and sailed directly to the Philippines, arriving at Leyte and Manila there in late June. She steamed on to Biak, Hollandia, and back to Manila. In August the ship made another circuit to Biak, Hollandia, and Finschhafen before heading to Los Angeles. Departing there for Manila again in November, the hospital ship returned stateside, putting in at San Francisco in January 1946.

The ship was no longer needed as a hospital ship at that time and put into the Marine Repair Shop at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation for conversion to carry a combination of troops and military dependents. During this interval, the ship reverted to her original name as USAT George Washington Carver. After the work was completed, the ship departed for her new homeport of Seattle.

The ship was assigned to duty between Seattle and ports in Alaska. George Washington Carver'''s first voyage in this role took her to Dutch Harbor, Shemya, Attu, Adak, Whittier, with a return to Seattle. A second voyage, in late March 1946, had the ship visit Anchorage, Seward, Dutch Harbor, Adak, Amchitka, Shemya, Adak a second time, eventually returning to Seattle. The ship continued on similar runs into 1947.

On 21 March 1947, George Washington Carver entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, California. On 9 January 1964 the ship was withdrawn by First Steel & Ship Corp. for scrapping.

Notes

References

External links

 Gallery of photos taken during building of SS George Washington Carver'' at the Library of Congress

Liberty ships
Transport ships of the United States Army
Hospital ships of the United States Army
1943 ships


Joseph Howard (died 5 December 1797 in Berthierville) was born in England and came to Montreal in 1760. He became one of the first English merchants from Montreal to enter the fur trade, an enterprise controlled by the French from that city until the Seven Years' War. One of his partners was George Allsopp and they conducted a substantial trade, much of it unlicensed.

Biography
Joseph Howard arrived in Montreal in 1760. Starting in 1774 and throughout the 1770s, he was trading furs at Michilimackinac. In August 1775, he purchased lands from the Ramezay property on the Yamaska River. In the early 1780s, after being refused its permit to produce furs 3 years in a row, Joseph Howard went bankrupt.

References

1797 deaths
Canadian fur traders
Year of birth unknown
1763 births


Willis Gaylord Clark (October 5, 1808 – June 12, 1841) was an American poet.

He was born in Otisco, New York and the twin-brother of Lewis Gaylord Clark. Clark wrote a series of amusing articles called Ollapodiana for the magazine The Knickerbocker. Among his best known poems is The Spirit of Life (1833). In the latter part of his life, he was the chief editor of the Philadelphia Gazette.  Clark died from tuberculosis in Philadelphia, June 12, 1841. His Literary Remains were published in 1844, and a reissue of his collected poems in 1846.

Sources
New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
The letters of William Cullen Bryant, Volume 2

References

External links

1810 births
1841 deaths
Poets from Philadelphia
People from Otisco, New York
19th-century American poets
American male poets
19th-century American male writers


Thomas John Metcalf (born July 16, 1940) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who appeared in eight games, all in relief, in Major League Baseball for the  New York Yankees. Born in Amherst, Wisconsin, Metcalf graduated from Lincoln High School in Wisconsin Rapids and attended Northwestern University. He threw and batted right-handed, and stood  tall during his active career.

He signed with the Yankees in 1961 and was in his third year in their farm system when he was called to the majors in August 1963. He was treated roughly by the Baltimore Orioles in his August 4 debut, allowing a home run to John Orsino, five hits and three earned runs in two innings pitched, but, over his last seven appearances and 11 innings pitched in the majors, he permitted only one run. Metcalf gained a measure of revenge against Baltimore on September 1. He entered the game in the sixth inning with New York trailing 3–0, and worked two innings, allowing three hits and one run. He then departed for a pinch hitter—Mickey Mantle—with the Orioles leading, 4–1. Mantle belted a two-run home run off Mike McCormick to bring the Yankees to within a run, and three batters later, Tom Tresh hit another two-run blast, giving New York a 5–4 lead. Hal Reniff the held the Orioles scoreless, registering a save, and preserving Metcalf's only MLB victory.

The 1963 season was Metcalf's only campaign in the majors. In his eight games pitched and 13 innings, he posted a 1–0 won–lost mark with an earned run average of 2.77, allowing four runs, 12 hits and three bases on balls, with three strikeouts. He retired after the 1965 minor-league season.

Metcalf currently resides in Wisconsin Rapids and is the owner of Metcalf Lumber.

References

External links

1940 births
Living people
Augusta Yankees players
Baseball players from Wisconsin
New York Yankees players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Northwestern Wildcats baseball players
People from Amherst, Wisconsin
People from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
Richmond Virginians (minor league) players
St. Petersburg Saints players
Syracuse Chiefs players
Toledo Mud Hens players


The St. Louis Brown Stockings joined the newly formed National League as a charter member in 1876. Although both St. Louis and Hartford finished the season 6 games behind the pennant-winning Chicago White Stockings, the Brown Stockings were officially the third place team as, in 1877, the standings were determined by number of wins, not games behind. As Hartford had 47 wins and St. Louis only had 45, Hartford finished in second and St. Louis finished in third.  Nonetheless, St. Louis had won its season series against Chicago 6 games to 4 – winning all of its season series against all National League opponents. Due to the politics between the teams at the time, an unofficial five-game post-season was created between those two teams to determine the "Championship of the West."  St. Louis won the series 4 games to 1. According to Stathead, the 1876 Brown Stockings hold the lowest team ERA in MLB history (1.22).

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

References
1876 St. Louis Brown Stockings season at Baseball Reference

St. Louis Brown Stockings seasons
Saint Louis Brown Stockings season
St. Louis Brown Stockings


Marden is a civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the South Downs and comprises the villages of North Marden and East Marden.

Cricket
In 1680, lines written in an old bible invite: "All you that do delight in Cricket, come to Marden, pitch your wickets". This is the earliest known reference in cricket history to the wicket.

References

Cricket in Sussex
English cricket in the 14th to 17th centuries
Civil parishes in West Sussex


Brodie Dupont (born February 17, 1987) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey forward and current coach. He was most recently head coach of the UK Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) side Cardiff Devils. He was drafted in the 3rd round, 66th overall by the New York Rangers in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career
After playing in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Hartford Wolfpack for more than three seasons, Dupont was first called up to the New York Rangers on January 19, 2011 and made his NHL debut on January 22, playing seven shifts during a 3–2 shoot-out win over the Atlanta Thrashers.

On July 2, 2011, he was traded by the Rangers to the Nashville Predators for Andreas Thuresson.

After parts of three seasons abroad with the German club, Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, Dupont returned to North America in initially signing with ECHL club, the Norfolk Admirals. As captain of the club in the 2016–17 season, Dupont was the leading point scorer with 41 in 40 games before he was signed to a professional tryout (PTO) contract with AHL affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors. After concluding the regular season with 21 games with Bakersfield, his ECHL rights were traded to the Greenville Swamp Rabbits, with whom he played 2 post-season games.

As a free agent in the following off-season, Dupont returned to the Norfolk Admirals, securing a one-year deal on September 21, 2017. Regaining his role as team captain through the 2017–18 season, Dupont led the club in scoring at a point-per game rate through 68 appearances. He also had a one-game PTO stint with the Stockton Heat of the AHL.

On July 9, 2018, Dupont left the Admirals for a second time, agreeing to a one-year contract with the Austrian club, Dornbirn Bulldogs of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL).

Later years and coaching career

After two years in Denmark with Herning Blue Fox, Dupont agreed terms with UK EIHL side Cardiff Devils for the 2021-22 season - joining as player/assistant coach.

In April 2022, Dupont - alongside Cardiff assistant coach Neil Francis - took interim charge until the end of the season following the departure of head coach Jarrod Skalde. Dupont then led Cardiff to the 2022 Elite League play-off championship with a 6-3 win over Belfast Giants in the final.

In May 2022, Cardiff confirmed the appointment of Dupont as their permanent head coach. As a result, Dupont retired from playing.

However, in April 2023, Dupont and assistant coach Christian Horn left Cardiff after one full season in charge. Dupont led Cardiff to 4th in the league standings, and to the runners-up spot in the Elite League play-offs.

Personal
Dupont was born in Russell, Manitoba, but grew up in St. Lazare, Manitoba. On July 6, 2013, Brodie Dupont married Kayleen Kelly. Brody now resides with Kayleen and his two children in the town of Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

See also
List of players who played only one game in the NHL

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Bakersfield Condors players
Calgary Hitmen players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Cardiff Devils players
Connecticut Whale (AHL) players
Dornbirn Bulldogs players
Greenville Swamp Rabbits players
Hartford Wolf Pack players
Herning Blue Fox players
HC Valpellice players
Ice hockey people from Manitoba
Iserlohn Roosters players
Milwaukee Admirals players
New York Rangers draft picks
New York Rangers players
Norfolk Admirals (ECHL) players
Stockton Heat players
Swan Valley Stampeders players
Canadian ice hockey coaches
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Wales


Gjerstad Station () is a railway station located in the village of Gjerstad in the municipality of Gjerstad in Agder county, Norway.  The station sits along the Sørlandsbanen railway line and it is served by express trains to Kristiansand and Oslo.  The small station has a waiting room, parking for up to 25 cars, and bus and taxi connections to the surrounding area.

History
The station was opened in 1935 when the Sørlandet Line was extended from Neslandsvatn Station to Arendal Station.

References

Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations in Agder
Railway stations opened in 1935
1935 establishments in Norway
Gjerstad
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1930s


Sulekha Sanyal (15 June 1928 – c. 1962) was a Bengali writer and activist. She emerged as an early feminist in the region through her work Nabankur (The Seedling) in 1956. The work has been translated to English in 2001 by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay.

Early life and career
Sanyal grew up in Korokdi, now in Faridpur Bangladesh, in a decaying zamindar family that had once been indigo planters, and was to become a member of the Communist Party of India. An early influence on her was the Brahmo philosopher and reformer, Ramtanu Lahiri, who was related to her mother. Senyal passed the matriculation exam as a private candidate in 1944 and intermediate exam from Rajendra College, Faridpur, in 1946. She then went to Kolkata and enrolled herself in Victoria Institute.

Nabankur was published in English by Stree in 2001. Its heroine, Chhobi, is a young girl from a rural zamindar family in Bengal of the 1930s, and the book follows her as she learns to fight injustice, protest against the privileges denied her but granted to her brothers, and the restrictions of the patriarchal society around her. World War II breaks out, cutting short Chhobi's education in the city. She returns to the village, gets involved with relief work and witnesses the Bengal famine of 1943.

Much of the story mirrors Sanyal's own life, for she was born into a similar family, educated briefly in Chittagong, went for undergraduate studies at the Scottish Church College, where she became involved in politics during the Bengal Famine. On 21 January 1947, following a police assault, she was arrested along with her college friends Anjana Guha and Anima Ghosh, and that put an end to formal education. Late in life, she was awarded a degree in Bengali literature by the University of Burdwan.

Sanyal's first stories were accepted by the newspaper Jugantar. Sanyal also wrote a collection of short stories, Sindure Megh (Clouds Tinged with Red). Her Dewal Padma (Wallflowers) was published in 1964, after her death from leukemia in 1962.

Personal life
Sanyal was married from 1948 to 1956. She had a sister Sujata Sanyal and an elder brother Abanti Kumar Sanyal.

References

Further reading
 Women Writing in India: 600 BCE to the Present, edited by Susie Tharu and K. Lalitha, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993)
 Nabankur (The Seedling), translated by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay, (Calcutta: Stree, 2001)

External links
A Critique on Sulekha Sanyal

1928 births
1962 deaths
Indian women novelists
Indian communists
Deaths from leukemia
Deaths from cancer in India
Scottish Church College alumni
University of Burdwan alumni
20th-century Indian women writers
20th-century Indian novelists
Communist women writers
Indian political writers
Indian women political writers
Bengali writers
21st-century Indian women writers
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Ecumenical apologetics is "an explanation (defense) of the Christian Faith, in an ecumenical fashion"; presenting a defense of one's own faith while advocating and recognizing "a greater sense of shared spirituality" with those of other confessions or faith traditions.

While neither apologetics nor ecumenism is a new term, "ecumenical apologetics" came into use early in the 21st century in an effort to combine the two, which were previously presumed to be opposing efforts or ideas.  Likewise, both apologetics and ecumenism are terms used by people of different religious orientations; however, the term is used primarily, if not exclusively, to refer to a form of Christian apologetics.

Further reading
 Fr. Benedict M. Ashley, Choosing a World-View and Value-System: An Ecumenical Apologetics. Published by Alba House (May 2000).
 Konrad Raiser, Ecumenism in Transition: A Paradigm Shift in the Ecumenical Movement. Published by World Council of Churches (October 1991).
 George E. Griener, Ernst Troeltsch and Herman Schell: Christianity and the World Religions : An Ecumenical Contribution to the History of Apologetics.  Published by Peter Lang Pub Inc. (June 1990).

Footnotes

Christian apologetics


John Debrett (8 January 1753 – 15 November 1822) was an English publisher and compiler. His name has become associated with reference books.

Life
Debrett was of French Huguenot background and took over the business of John Almon, opposite Burlington House in Piccadilly, in 1781. His shop continued to be the resort of the whigs, the Pittites going chiefly to his neighbour, Stockdale.

Debrett retired from business about 1814, and lived partly upon a pension from his wife and partly from his compilations. He is described as a kindly, good-natured man, but without business aptitudes. He died at his lodgings in Upper Gloucester Street, Regent's Park, on 15 November 1822.

Publications
Among Debrett's publications were a new edition of The New Foundling Hospital for Wit (1784), 6 vols., and Asylum for Fugitive Pieces in Prose and Verse (1785–1788), 4 vols.  At the end of the former work, The New Peerage (1784), 3 vols., is advertised. This had been Almon's, who published peerages, but is not known to have had any share in their compilation. He is also known as the publisher of the first British printing of the United States Constitution in 1787.

The first edition of Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland, containing an Account of all the Peers, 2 vols., was published in May 1802, with plates of arms, a second edition appeared in September 1802, a third in June 1803, a fourth in 1805, a fifth in 1806, a sixth in 1808, a seventh in 1809, an eighth in 1812, a ninth in 1814, a tenth in 1816, an eleventh in 1817, a twelfth in 1819, a thirteenth in 1820, a fourteenth in 1822, a fifteenth in 1823, which was the last edition edited by Debrett, and not published until after his death. The next edition came out in 1825. The first edition of The Baronetage of England, containing their Descent and Present State, by John Debrett, 2 vols., appeared in 1808. For a time the British Imperial Calendar was edited by Debrett.

See also
Debrett's

References

"Debrett, John Field (1752-1822)" in Chamber's Encyclopaedia. International Learning Systems. 1968. Volume 4. Page 409. Google Books
The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. "Debrett, John (c. 1750-1822)" in The Riverside Dictionary of Biography. Houghton Mifflin. 2005. Page 220.
"Mr. John Debrett" (1822) Gentleman's Magazine, volume 92 (New Series, volume 15), part 2, p 474
"Debrett, John" The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1823. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. 1823. Volume 7. Page 441.
Timperly, Charles Henry. A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. London: H Johnson. 1839. Pages 823 and 886.
Nichols, John Bowyer. Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. J B Nichols and Sons. London. 1858. Volume 8. Page 497.
"A Toast to John Debrett" (1953) 49 The Listener 129 Google Books
"Debrett" in Fourth Leaders from the Times: A Selection from the Past Twelve Months. Times Publishing Company. 1953. Page 77. Google Books
Charles Arnold-Baker. "Debrett, John" in The Companion to British History. Routledge. 2015. Page 402.
"Debrett, John" (1881) Notes and Queries 464 Google Books
The Antiquarian Book Review Monthly. 1974. Volumes 1 and 2. Pages ccxxx and ccxxxi. Google Books
(1921) 70 The Bookseller 71 Google Books
Bamber Gascoigne. Encyclopedia of Britain. Macmillan. 1994. Page 179. Google Books
Cross, Nigel. The Common Writer. Cambridge University Press. 1985. Page 43. Google Books
Edinburgh Annual Register, 1822. Page 462.
"Register - Deaths" (Dec 1822) The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany (The Scots Magazine, New Series), vol 9, p 752
"Register - Deaths" (1822) 12 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 803
Cyril Francis James Hankinson. My Forty Years with Debrett. Robert Hale Limited. London. 1963. Pages 11 to 14. Google Books
Committee of Council on Education. First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art. Chapman and Hall. London. 1870. Volume 1. Page 390.
Paul Hubert Smith. "Charles Thomson to John Debrett" in Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774- 1789. Library of Congress. 1994. Volume 21. Page 204. Google Books
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (ed). The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence with William Mason. Yale University Press. 1955. Volume 29. Page 213. Google Books

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1822 deaths
English publishers (people)


Lucy Sketch (commonly known as Sketch) is a fictional character in British teen drama series Skins. She is portrayed by Aimee-Ffion Edwards.

Sketch appears in only 6 episodes, which is the least for any lead character in the history of the show.

Characterization
Sketch is portrayed as an obsessive and somewhat delusional Welsh girl. When officially first introduced in Sketch, she is seen to have a huge, bordering on pathological, infatuation with Maxxie Oliver, a boy with whom she goes to school. It is unclear when or how her infatuation developed, but several factors which can lead to obsessive love seem to have been experienced by Sketch. She harbors some rage towards her mother, Sheila, who she feels has never looked after her properly due to her suffering from multiple sclerosis. On top of this, she seems quite distant from a lot of her peers and most likely has feelings of unworthiness or low self-esteem. She sees Maxxie as someone who can make her life much better, and is so 'in love' with him that she pretends to her mother that they're boyfriend and girlfriend. She also wears male clothing and flattens her chest with a sash to appeal to Maxxie, who is gay. She displays manipulative and deceitful behavior showing little regard for anyone she hurts in her delusional quest to become Maxxie's girlfriend. As her story progresses, she later shows some regret for how she acted, though continues to be besotted with Maxxie, and even enters into a relationship with Maxxie's friend Anwar Kharral, in hopes to stay close to him. Although her first name is Lucy, the episode title and all of her peers refer to her by her last name, Sketch.

Character history

Series 2
Introduced in the second episode of series 2, Sketch is shown to be a pathologically obsessed stalker of Maxxie Oliver's and dreams of becoming his girlfriend, even though she is well aware that he is gay. She works on the lighting for a play directed by Mr. Gelpart, the school drama teacher. After she sees Michelle kissing Maxxie as part of her role, she drops a light from the rafters, surprising even herself. Later, Sketch attends a house party held by Mr. Gelpart where she pleads with him to give her Michelle's part. After he refuses the part, saying she was too unattractive to act, she tells the headteacher of the school that he kissed and rubbed her, resulting in Mr. Gelpart being fired. That same evening, Maxxie asked if she is single, and becomes distraught when she realizes he is asking for his friend, Anwar. She escapes to a cupboard and hides underneath a table. Michelle and Tony walk in, and she accidentally witnesses Tony turn down Michelle. After he leaves, Sketch offers her a beer, and they bond over their disdain for men.

After leaving the party, she breaks into Maxxie's home by picking the lock with her hair clip. She proceeds to put on his clothing and masturbate on his bed. Maxxie then arrives back home from the party, and Sketch stays the night underneath his bed. The next morning Maxxie finds a red hair clip on the floor in his bedroom. He later sees Sketch wearing the same hair clip, and realizes that Sketch is his stalker. After seeing another picture taken of him, he calls at her flat, and he discovers that Sketch has made out to her mother that Maxxie is her boyfriend. Her mother discovers the truth about her infatuation and realizes she lied about Mr. Gelpart as well. When she threatens to reveal this, Sketch, in panic and desperation, ties her mother to her bed.

Finally, she steals Michelle's main role in the school play (Osama: The Musical) by giving her emetics, which she got from her mother. Maxxie confronts her and she confesses her love for him. He frustratedly tells her he is gay. She places his hand on her breast and tells him she's "as close to a boy as you can get", and that after they kiss he will see. At the moment of their kiss, Maxxie whispers to her that he 'felt nothing' and that she disgusts him. She proceeds to slap him on stage, and Maxxie yells at her and walks off. The play abruptly ends to an awkward and confused audience. She goes home, after removing her sash and putting on a low-cut dress, proceeds to Anwar's house. He tells her that Maxxie told him about how she'd stalked him, and she convinced him he was delusional and claimed to have fancied Anwar all along. She goes up to his room to have sex with him, whilst concentrating on a photograph of Maxxie, showing her obsession is not yet resolved. She breaks the fourth wall by looking directly at the camera, at the very end of her centric episode, she, Effy and Rich are the only characters in Skins to do so.

She makes an appearance in Sid, where she is shown to be continuing her sexual relationship with Anwar, even going as far as having sex with him in Sid Jenkins's bed. Sketch states in Anwar and Sketch's date that she still loves Maxxie (even though she does state that she is rethinking her actions and seeking redemption), however her attempts at dumping Anwar are stifled when he calls her his girlfriend, to get rid of an overbearing waiter.

In Michelle, Sketch crashes Michelle's birthday camping trip. She is caught having sex with Anwar by Michelle and Maxxie, who are both outraged that Anwar is now in a relationship with her, considering her past history. Sketch apologises for what she has done, tells Maxxie that she is over him, and that she now likes Anwar. Later over the campfire, she sings If You're Not The One with Scarlett. She stares at Maxxie intensely as she sings, obviously still infatuated with him.

At Chris Miles's house party in Chris, Sketch once again meets Maxxie. The two still have a very hostile relationship even though she insists she is over him. Her relationship with Anwar continues, but she has persuaded him into dressing in a style exactly like Maxxie's with a matching hairstyle as well. When Maxxie forces Anwar to realise this, he dumps Sketch on the spot.

In the last episode of Skins's second series, Sketch tries to convince the emotional and isolated Anwar that he perhaps has no future with his friends—that they will move on without him. We learn that after school she plans on remaining at home to take care of her mother, where she further explains that nothing is wrong with that kind of life style to ease Anwar's doubts. She seems to have accepted that she and Anwar should be together, as the ones left behind. Eventually Anwar is invited to share a flat with Maxxie in London, where he leaves a distraught Sketch behind.

Post-Series 2
In the fourth Skins Short, which was made alongside series 4, Thomas and JJ are applying for a job at the cinema, where JJ is seen wearing Maxxie's and later Sketch's costumes at the fancy-dress party in her central episode.

References

External links
 Sketch on the official E4 Skins site
 Sketch on Myspace

Skins (British TV series) characters
Television characters introduced in 2008
Fictional Welsh people
Fictional stalkers
British female characters in television
Teenage characters in television
Female characters in television


Vegårshei Station () is a railway station located in the village of Myra in Vegårshei municipality in Agder county, Norway.  The station is located along the Sørlandet Line and it is served by express trains to Kristiansand and Oslo. The station is owned and operated by Bane NOR.

History
The station was opened on 10 November 1935 when the Sørlandet Line was extended from Neslandsvatn Station to Arendal Station.

References

Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations in Agder
Railway stations opened in 1935
1935 establishments in Norway
Vegårshei
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1930s


Anarchism in Turkey only began to emerge in 1986 with publication of the magazine Kara.

Historical background

Ottoman Period
The first signs of anarchism in the Ottoman period emerged around Armenian intellectuals. Hamanykh magazine, published in 1895 by Aleksandr Atabekyan, one of the pioneers of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, has a rich content regarding both anarchist philosophy and the Armenian revolutionary movement. In the same period, Turkish Cypriot Kıbrıslızade Osman Bey's French work Socialisme et Anarchisme (1895) became the first anarchist book published in the Ottomans.

Baha Tevfik, who is often regarded as the first Turkish anarchist, states in his Felsefe-i Ferd (1913) that from wage slavery to socialism and from socialism to anarchism, a new age will be achieved.

Republican Period
The first written source of Turkish anarchism is Kropotkin's Ethics, translated by Ahmet Ağaoğlu and published in 1935. There is an ongoing debate on why anarchism has not gained visibility as an alternative leftist policy in the first half of the Republican period.

In the 1970s, while Marxist approaches dominated the leftist perspective, interest in anarchism remained pale in left-wing publishing. While articles on anarchism were featured in the Yeni Ufuklar magazine published in the 1960s, Proudhon's book What Is Property? was translated into Turkish and published.

After the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, anarchism began to take its place in Turkey's political scene. In particular, anarchism gained a lot of traction in the Turkish diaspora in Germany, where many people had fled from the coup.

Launched in 1986, Kara magazine was taken as a turning point in terms of the anarchist movement in Turkey. Kara was published at a time when the mainstream Turkish left could not overcome the shock of the 1980 military coup d'état, defined itself as "libertarian" instead of "anarchist", due to the general perception of anarchy as chaos. In addition to broader social movements, anarchist groups and publications formed in the late 1990s and early 2000s, such as Anarşist Kadınlar, Anarşist Komünist İnisiyatif, and Devrimci Anarşist Federasyon.

See also

References

Further reading

Turkey
Anarchism


The Honeywell/ITEC F124 is a low-bypass turbofan engine derived from the civilian Honeywell TFE731. The F125 is an afterburning version of the engine. The engine began development in the late 1970s for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force AIDC F-CK Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF), and it first ran in 1979. The F124/F125 engine has since been proposed for use on other aircraft, such as the T-45 Goshawk and the SEPECAT Jaguar, and currently powers the Aero L-159 Alca and the Alenia Aermacchi M-346. The F124 has a rather unusual design for a two spool gas turbine engine, using both axial and centrifugal compressors in its high-pressure compressor. There are currently only three production variants of the engine, although several more have been proposed throughout its lifespan.

Development

In 1978, Garrett announced joint research on the TFE1042 afterburner with Swedish company Volvo Flygmotor AB in order to provide an engine for the AIDC F-CK Indigenous Defence Fighter (IDF) being developed for the Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force (ROCAF).  The TFE731 Model 1042 was touted as a low bypass ratio "military derivative of the proven commercial TFE731 engine" and "provides efficient, reliable, cost effective propulsion for the next generation of light strike and advanced trainer aircraft", with thrust of 4260 lbf (18.9 kN) dry and 6790 lbf (30.2 kN) with afterburner.  After initial negotiation, the investment was going to be divided between Garrett, Volvo, AIDC, and Italian company Piaggio.  The development would consist of the non-afterburning TFE1042-6 for light attack aircraft/advanced trainer, and TFE1042-7 for the AMX or F-5 upgrade. Garrett would be responsible for the core engine, and Volvo would be responsible for the fan section and the afterburner. The engine first ran for 3 hours at a Volvo test facility in 1979.

AIDC also suggested upgrading TFE1042-7 to 8000 lbf (31 to 36 kN) thrust as twin engine solution, in order to compete with General Electric F404 for applications such as the JAS 39 Gripen. However, the Gripen project decided to continue with a single engine F404 variant, built by Volvo, and Volvo left the project to at that point to focus on the Gripen work. Piaggio asked to participate at a later date due to financial reasons and left the program as well.  Thus only Garrett and AIDC invested in the new International Turbine Engine Corporation (ITEC), with the contract signed in 1982.

In 1988, ITEC decided to invest in the 12,000 lb TFE1088-12, which was re-designated as TFE1042-70A (for political reason as well).  Preliminary study had shown that IDF could supercruise with the new engine.  At the same time, GE decided to enter the market with J101/SF, a smaller version of F404.  However, after the IDF order was cut in half due to budget concerns, the TFE1088-12 engine upgrade plan ended as well. The F-CK IDF first flew in 1989, and aircraft were delivered through 1999.

Garrett introduced the TFE742 concept in the early 1990s. Consisting of an uprated core from the TFE1042, the TFE742 was promoted for a twin-engine version of the BAe 146, the MPC 75, and other prospective aircraft. Targeting the 70-130 seat passenger aircraft market, the TFE742 was a , high-bypass turbofan driven by a gearbox.

In the mid-1990s, AlliedSignal considered developing a turboprop engine for the European Future Large Aircraft military transport (later known as the Airbus A400M), which was to be based on the core of the TFE1042. AlliedSignal, AIDC, and other Asian partners also derived an industrial gas turbine from the TFE1042, initially as the  AS1042, which evolved into the  ASE120.

T-45 Goshawk / BAE Systems Hawk
In the early 1990s, the United States Navy considered the re-engining their fleet of T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft with the F124. In 1994, after flight testing a T-45 with the engine, the USN elected not to.

The possibility of a F124-powered T-45 arose again in 1996 when McDonnell Douglas offered an F124-engined T-45 to the Royal Australian Air Force as a competitor for their trainer requirement. BAe wanted to offer the F124 as an option on their entry for the RAAF trainer requirement, the BAE Hawk (which the T-45 is based on), but ITEC refused to give BAe permission to offer it. ITEC's decision turned out to be a mistake, as the RAAF select the Hawk as their trainer. However, after the selection of the aircraft, the RAAF decided to have a separate competition between the F124 and the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour (which was BAe's selection) to power the new trainers. In 1997 the RAAF elected to use the Adour engine, effectively ending the F124's chances of being used on Hawk or T-45 aircraft.

L-159
In 1994, the F124 engine was selected to power the Czech Aero L-159 Alca light combat aircraft. The combination first flew in 1997.

M-346
In 2000, Alenia Aermacchi announced that their new M-346 trainer/light attack aircraft would be powered by the F124 engine, choosing it over its common rival, the Adour. In 2009, the United Arab Emirates announced that their M-346 trainers would be powered by the F124-GA-200.

X-45A
The F124 engine powered the Boeing X-45A unmanned combat aerial vehicle demonstrator in the early 2000s.

T-5 Brave Eagle
In 2017 the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation announced that their AIDC T-5 Brave Eagle would use a variant of the F124.

Possible Jaguar usage

The afterburning F125 engine was being considered, in 2009, by the Indian Air Force as a replacement for the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour engines in their SEPECAT Jaguar aircraft. The new engine would be both lighter and more powerful. It was successfully demonstrated in 2007. This proposal of Indian Air Force to up-engine its fleet of SEPECAT Jaguar ground attack aircraft stalled after a decade in August 2019 owing to the high cost involved. Jane's quoted that Honeywell quoted a price of USD2.4 billion  for 180 F-125IN turbofan engines as replacements for the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca Adour Mk 811 powerpacks originally installed in the Jaguars.

Design
The F124 engine is a low-bypass, two-spool engine (meaning that there are two rotating shafts, a high-pressure shaft and a low-pressure shaft). The fan/low-pressure compressor has three stages with titanium blades. The first stage has 30 blades, and the overall pressure ratio for the three-stage fan is 2.5:1. Some of the air is bypassed (Bypass ratio of 0.472:1), and the rest is fed to the high-pressure compressor.

The high-pressure compressor (HPC) has four axial stages and a fifth centrifugal stage. All the blades and the impeller are made from titanium.

The fuel is burned in an annular combustor and the core flow passes through a single-stage high-pressure turbine (HPT) followed by a single-stage low-pressure turbine. The HPT is air-cooled. The bypass air from the fan and the exhaust from the core are mixed before exiting through a common nozzle. In the F125 variant of the engine, the mixed flow passes through the afterburner section. The F124 does not have an afterburner.

Variants
F124-GA-100
This is the original variant of the engine. It powered the Boeing X-45 demonstrator.
F124-GA-200
Slightly de-rated variant of the F124-GA-100; the maximum thrust is 6250 lbf (27.80 kN) and the engine weighs 28 lb (13 kg) less. This variant utilizes an all-new accessory gearbox, as well as other small upgrades. This variant is used in the Aermacchi M-346.
F124-GA-400
Variation of the F124-GA-100, modified for the T-45 Goshawk and the BAE Hawk. The engine was flight tested in the T-45, but the United States Navy decided not to re-engine the aircraft with this engine.
F125-GA-100
Also known as the TFE1042-70. This is the basic afterburning variant of the engine. 325 produced for the AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo program.
F125X
Proposed advanced variant of the F125 engine, with a maximum thrust of 12,500 lbf (56 kN).
F125XX
Further advanced variant of the F125 engine, this one producing 16,400 lbf (73 kN) of thrust. If it were built, there would have been a related F124XX non-afterburning variant, producing 10,800 lbf (48 kN) of thrust.
Vega Project
Taiwan NCSIST has formulated a plan for the "Vega Project" since 2014 to develop a propulsion system based on the needs of a new generation of fighters after 2020, but the overall budget is not large, and the initial stage is mainly based on evaluation, and in 2016, the board of directors of the Chinese Academy of Sciences approved the application for the annual national defense key technology research and development donation subsidy, and reported it to the Taiwan National Defense Armaments Bureau for construction. Since the TFE-1042-70 engine was funded and owned by the Republic of China, the "Vega Star" program was developed on this basis.  The director of the general discipline department of Taiwan Air Force Aviation Technology College said that after the successful development of the AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo fighter, Taiwan Air Force Aviation Technology College has the number 1011~1014 (TFE-1042) engine, in order to cooperate with the Air Force to develop the next generation of fighters. Reverse engineer engine No.1014 to develop a next-generation engine.

Applications
F124
 Aero L-159 Alca
 AIDC T-5 Brave Eagle
 Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master
 Boeing X-45

F125
 AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo

Specifications (F124-GA-100)

See also

References

 Ching-Kuo (IDF) page on airforce-technology.com
 Honeywell Tests First Production Configuration F124-GA-200

External links
 Honeywell Aerospace F124 page
 Honeywell Aerospace F125 page

Low-bypass turbofan engines
Honeywell
1970s turbofan engines
Centrifugal-flow turbojet engines
Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation

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The STacy is a portable computer version of the Atari ST.

The computer was originally designed to operate on 12 standard C cell flashlight batteries for portability. When Atari realized how quickly the machine would use up a set of batteries (especially when rechargeable batteries of the time supplied insufficient power compared to the intended alkalines), they simply glued the lid of the battery compartment shut.

The STacy has features similar to the Macintosh Portable, a version of Apple's Macintosh computer which contained a built in keyboard and monitor.

With built-in MIDI, the STacy enjoyed success for running music-sequencer software and as a controller of musical instruments among both amateurs and well-known musicians.

History
The Stacy was a global project, design work was carried out in the Sunnyvale HQ, Cambridge UK, final PCB layouts were produced by Atari in Japan, which is where the first units were manufactured, with final manufacturing occurring in Taiwan.

The distinctive sculptured charcoal-gray case was designed by Ira Velinsky, Atari's chief Industrial Designer.

Models
There are 4 STacy Models
 Stacy : 1 MB Ram, 1× 3.5" internal Floppy (Model code: LST-1141)
 Stacy 2: 2 MB Ram, 1× 3.5" internal Floppy, 20 MB HD (Model code: LST-2144)
 Stacy 2: 2 MB Ram, 2× 3.5" internal Floppy (Model code: LST-2124)
 Stacy 4: 4 MB Ram, 1× 3.5" internal Floppy, 40 MB HD (Model code: LST-4144)

Specifications
 Atari TOS 1.04
 Blitter
 Character set: Atari ST character set (based on codepage 437)
 Real-time clock lithium battery
 Hard disk: ACSI-SCSI 20-40 MB
 Floppy disk
 ACSI, ACSI internal (same as in Mega STE)
 Trackball

Ports
 Parallel: 1 port
 Serial: 1 port
 FDD: 1 port
 MIDI: 2 ports

Optional
 Modem

In pop culture
The STacy appears in the 1991 films Nothing but Trouble and Delusion.

Gallery

References

External links

Atari History Museum
Atari Stacy computer
A Stacy user page Overview, screen captures, photos.
STacy Owners Manual - Addendum(1990)

Products introduced in 1989
Atari ST
Portable computers


Aleksandrs Laime (, ) was a famous Latvian-born explorer. He is most noted for being the first recorded human to reach Angel Falls, located in Venezuela, by foot. He also established, together with Charles Baughan, the tourist camp of Canaima, created solely for the purpose of bringing tourists to Angel Falls.

Early life
Aleksandrs Laime was born on July 9, 1911, in Riga. He grew up in Grīziņkalns neighborhood, and since early childhood was interested in adventure stories and shipping. At the age of 15, he learned basic principles of sailing in Ķīšezers. Together with some friends, they stole a sailboat and traveled to Liepāja. They planned to sail across the Baltic sea to Sweden, but due to a storm were washed ashore on the Estonian island of Saaremaa.
At age 16, Laime went to Paris, from where he traveled by foot through France. In Marseilles, he boarded a merchant ship and traveled to Egypt, where he lived in Cairo for several months until his parents sent him money for his journey back home.

After his return to Riga, Laime studied at the Riga Technical School and graduated as a land surveyor. In 1936, Laime and a friend took a sailing trip to Danzig. There they changed their sailboat for kayaks and traveled through Poland. They wanted to reach the Black Sea, but were discouraged from such move by Romanian border guards. His friend went back home, but Laime traveled to Paris on a bicycle.

In 1939, Laime started a sailing trip from Riga to Africa, but due to start of World War II was stopped in Kiel. However, he managed to reach Africa via the United Kingdom and Spain. He traveled across the western coast of Africa until he reached Cape Town. Laime then boarded a merchant ship and traveled to the coasts of the United States and Canada. In 1940, he landed in Caracas and settled in Venezuela.

Activity in Venezuela
After moving to Venezuela in 1940, Laime led many explorations through the jungles of the south of the country.
During his first years in Venezuela, Laime worked as a topographer for a road construction department, and later he worked for the oil company Socony and Ingenerie de Orinoko.
In 1942, Laime visited Canaima for the first time, and he settled there. Together with Charles Baughan and some other European partners, they started to develop tourism in Canaima and built an airfield and houses for visitors.
In 1949, he was part of Ruth Robertson's team that reached Angel Falls by ground and surveyed the falls. He reached the summit of Auyantepui in 1955, and, along with his native companion Manuel Fiorentino, were the first to reach Jimmie Angel's crashed plane "Flamingo." Laime explored the surface of the tepui, and named formerly unnamed rivers there. He gave the river on which Angel Falls is located the name Gauja, after the Latvian river of the same name. It is sometimes written as Río Gauya. He also named three other rivers, Río Venta, Río Daugava and Río Ogre, all after celebrated rivers of Latvia.  He was married to Vilma Laime, who died in April 2009 at her residence in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, and is survived by his son Alexander Laime, stepdaughter Ilse Wood, grandchildren Robert Wood Jr. and Sandra Jones, and great-grandchildren, Rachel Wood, Carissa Wood, Zackary Wood, and Richard Jones, all of whom reside in the states of Pennsylvania or New Jersey.

Search for the "Golden River"
After hearing news of Jimmie Angel's famed "Golden River", Laime, like many of his contemporaries, went in search of the river. He never publicized if he actually found it, but close friends claim that he actually had found it. After Laime's death in 1994, approximately $20,000  were found in a tin can, underneath Laime's fireplace in his house on Isla Orquidea (an island on the Río Carrao, two hours upstream from Canaima).

Death
Laime came down the Churun River on March 20, 1994, to stockpile food and supplies for the next few weeks, as he usually did. He spoke to the wife of Ramón Jiménez, asking for him. He complained to her about chest pains, and said that he knew that the end was near. He is reported as saying that he wanted to climb the great tepui (Auyantepui) one last time, to die up there. He then went to the nearby Waku Lodge for a drink. He died shortly thereafter in the bathroom, having had a heart attack.

References

 Stavro, Andris., "Aleksandrs Laime un viņa zelta upe" (Apgāds Jāņa Sēta, Rīga, 1999, )
 Personal account of Maria Jimenez, March 13, 2008

External links
 Well-known Latvian Adventurers
 Commentary about meeting Laime

1911 births
1994 deaths
Explorers of South America
People from Riga
Immigrants to Venezuela
Latvian emigrants


China Joe (1834 - May 17/18, 1917, also nicknamed Joe the Baker ) was a Chinese-American merchant who worked in Alaska during its gold-mining boom days in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

His Chinese name is not known exactly, and varies from source to source:
As Hie in Juneau in 1881
Chew Chung Thui
Hi Ching as listed in an 1880 census conducted by the United States Navy
Hi Chung in Juneau newspapers of 1892 and 1894, and upon joining the '87 Pioneers Association
Lee Hing
Ting Tu Wee or Chung Thui upon registering under a Chinese Registration Act of 1893

Joe first came to North America in 1864, landing in Victoria, British Columbia and moving to Boise, Idaho.  He moved to the Cassiar region in 1874 and operated a bakery near Dease Lake.  He was known for fair prices of his goods, especially around 1875 when the area's primary supply route, the Stikine River, froze early and steamboats were unable to deliver items such as flour.  He was well known for his generosity toward miners.

He moved to Wrangell about 1878.  He purchased an abandoned steam wheeler named the Hope, built a restaurant and bakery in the hull, and rented out the staterooms.  The business worked well for about a year until Wrangell began to decline. Joe then moved to Sitka, Alaska and operated a bakery there.

In the summer of 1881 Joe moved to Juneau. He bought half of a town lot on July 18 at the corner of Third and Main streets.  The estate cost US$60.  There he opened the city's first bakery, where he lived for 36 years.  Supporters worked to keep Joe in Juneau when Chinese workers in the Treadwell gold mine were forced out of the city in 1886.  Joe was proud to be an active member of the early Juneau community.  He is buried in Juneau's Evergreen Cemetery.

References

1834 births
1917 deaths
American bakers
American gold prospectors
American people of Chinese descent
Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Juneau, Alaska)
Businesspeople from Alaska
Gold prospectors
Qing dynasty emigrants
People from the Department of Alaska
Immigrants to Canada
Immigrants to the United States
People from the District of Alaska


Lauterborn is a quarter (Stadtteil) of Offenbach am Main, Germany, with approximately 9,500 inhabitants (2020). It is located in the south-east part of the town and borders Frankfurt and the municipal forest.

History
Lauterborn was the historic name of a fountain. The district was built from the 1960s on with terraced houses and apartment blocks. A half dozen atrium houses were constructed by the famous architect Egon Eiermann. The central park is called "John-F.-Kennedy-Promenade".

Until the 1990s there were some smaller factories and a truck garage of the US Army next to Lauterborn. These facilities closed and offices and the distribution center Briefzentrum 63 of the Deutsche Post were built.
Honda Europa (North) has its headquarters in Lauterborn. In 1999 opened the shopping mall "Ring-Center".

Gallery
Impressions of Lauterborn

References

External links

 Website Offenbach am Main

Lauterborn


Alexey Yevgrafovich Favorsky (;  – 8 August 1945), was a Russian and Soviet chemist. Hero of Socialist Labour (1945).

Life
Favorsky studied chemistry at the imperial Saint Petersburg State University from 1878 to 1882. He joined Alexander Butlerov's laboratory for several years, and in 1891 became a lecturer. In 1895, Favorksy received his PhD and became professor for technical chemistry. His discovery of the Favorskii rearrangement in 1894 and the Favorskii reaction between 1900 and 1905 are connected to his name. He worked at the new organics department from 1897, and served as its director from 1934 to 1937. For his improvement of the production of synthetic rubber, Favorsky was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.

The artist Vladimir Favorsky was his nephew.

Favorsky died in 1945 and was buried at the Volkovskoye Orthodox cemetery.

Further reading
Biography (St. Petersburg Encyclopedia)

(Favorskii's academic lineage)

1860 births
1945 deaths
20th-century chemists
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University
Heroes of Socialist Labour
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Chemists from the Russian Empire
Soviet chemists
Soviet inventors
Russian scientists


The Broken Coin is a 1915 American adventure-mystery film serial directed by Francis Ford.  This serial is presumed to be lost.

Cast
 Grace Cunard - Kitty Gray
 Francis Ford - Count Frederick
 Eddie Polo - Roleau
 Harry Schumm - King Michael II
 Ernest Shields - Count Sacchio
 John Ford - Sacchio's Accomplice (as Jack Ford)
W.C. Canfield - Gorgas the Outlaw
 Reese Gardiner - The Apache
 Doc Crane - Pawnbroker
 Harry Mann - Servant
 Victor Goss - Servant (as Vic Goss)
 Lew Short - Prime Minister (as Lewis Short)
 George Utell - Henchman (as G.J. Uttal)
 Bert Wilson - Confidante
Mina Cunard - King's Sweetheart
 Carl Laemmle - Editor-in-Chief
 Jack Holt - Captain Williams
 Mark Fenton - King of Grahaffen
 John George- uncredited

Chapter titles
The Broken Coin
The Satan of the Sands
When the Throne Rocked
The Face at the Window
The Underground Foe
A Startling Discovery
Between Two Fires
The Prison in the Palace
Room 22
Cornered
The Clash of Arms
A Cry in the Dark
War
On the Battlefield
 Either
The Deluge
Kitty in Danger
The Castaways
The Underground City
The Sacred Fire
Between Two Fires
A Timely Rescue
An American Queen

See also
 List of film serials
 List of film serials by studio
List of lost films

References

External links

1915 films
1915 adventure films
1915 lost films
American silent serial films
American mystery films
American black-and-white films
Lost American films
Films directed by Francis Ford
Films with screenplays by Grace Cunard
Universal Pictures film serials
Lost adventure films
1910s American films
Silent adventure films
Silent mystery films
1910s English-language films


HMS Sunderland was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Southampton on 17 March 1694.

Sunderland was hulked in 1715, and sunk as part of the foundation of a breakwater in 1737.

Notes

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .

Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
1690s ships
Ships sunk as breakwaters


Savvy & Mandy are a country-pop duo from Southern California in the United States. Savvy and Mandy are sisters, Savannah Shay Burhoe (born August 10, 1993) and Amanda Quinn Burhoe (born October 12, 1995). The Burhoe sisters professional career began with acting and modeling at the ages of 9 and 11.

Background

The Burhoe sisters began singing together as children and formed the duo Savvy & Mandy after they both learned to play guitar. They began recording their debut release on the Firm Music label in 2007 with The Collective (T-Squad) and Ken Hauptmann as well as Colleen Fitzpatrick (Vitamin C). In October 2007 they released a digital-only EP entitled Christmas in California which was featured on the ym.com website's What’s Hot This Week on November 6, 2007

"Waiting for the Heartbreak", their debut single, was featured on the MTV series Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County, episode 201, "Are We or Aren't We". It won Radio Disney's Music Mailbag on January 19, 2008, earning them online and regional airplay on Radio Disney stations. The song also received airplay on AOL Radio's Kid station and Yahoo!'s Launchcast Radio. It was featured on the iTunes home page from January 15 to January 22 and on the iTunes Pop page. In December 2007 they performed at the ProScout Talent Conference in Anaheim, California. They performed at the International Family Film festival on March 2, 2008, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

The Burhoes are part of the Milkrocks program to bring music to children in school in the United States through milk cartons and have previously appeared in a variety of catalog and print ads including Pottery Barn Kids.

Discography

EP
 2007: Christmas in California
 2008: Here We Are

Singles
 2008: "Waiting For The Heartbreak"
 2008: "Here I Am"
 2009: "This Is Me"
 2010: "Favorite Song"
 2010: "Words"
 2010: "Save Me" (Produced by: Manny Streetz of Silent String Entertainment and Eddie Galan & Alex Niceforo of Mach 1 Music)
 2011: "Rumors"
 2018: "Do You Lie Awake At Night"

Other songs
 "What You See Is What You Get"
 "Shell Shocked"
 "Heart Broken" duets album

References

External links
Official Website

Musical groups established in 2007
American pop music groups
Sibling musical duos
American pop girl groups
All-female bands
Musical groups from California
American child singers


Vennesla Station () is a railway station located in the village of Vennesla in the municipality of Vennesla in Agder county, Norway.  Located along the Sørlandet Line, the station is served by express trains to Oslo and Kristiansand.  The trains are operated by Go-Ahead Norge.

History
The station was opened in 1895 as part of the Setesdal Line. In 1935 it became part of Sørlandet Line when it was extended from Neslandsvatn Station to Kristiansand Station. The Setesdal Line has since closed and has been converted to a heritage railway.

External links

 Entry at Jernbaneverket

Railway stations in Agder
Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations opened in 1895
Vennesla
1895 establishments in Norway
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1890s


St Mary's Church is located on Overleigh Road in Handbridge, an area south of the River Dee, in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England.  It is also known as the Church of St Mary-without-the-Walls, which was to distinguish it from Church of St Mary-on-the-Hill across the River Dee within the city walls.  The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.  It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Chester.

History

The church was built between 1885 and 1887 to a design by F. B. Wade for the 1st Duke of Westminster.  A porch was added on the south face of the tower in 1914 which was designed by P. H. Lockwood.

Architecture

Exterior
St Mary's is constructed in ashlar Waverton stone with dressings of Runcorn sandstone.  It has Westmorland green slate roofs.  The plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, a three-bay chancel, a chapel at the southeast, an organ chamber and a vestry.  There are two porches, one on the south and one on the north.  At the west end is a three-stage tower with a recessed spire. It has clock faces to the north, west and south, paired louvred bell-openings on each face, a machicolated parapet, two pinnacles at each corner, lucarnes to each cardinal face of the spire and a weathervane.

Interior
The baptistry is in the tower and has an encaustic tiled floor and a stone font with an oak cover.  The stained glass in the baptistry is dated 1887 and is by Edward Frampton. It depicts Christ's baptism.  In the baptistry is a portrait memorial dated 1900 to the first Duke of Westminster.  The nave is floored with wood blocks.  There are three steps up to the chancel with wrought iron rails.  The chancel has a mosaic floor.  The southeast chapel has a wrought iron screen.  The  pulpit and lectern are in oak.  To the north of the chancel is a sedilia.  The east window is probably also by Frampton.  The reredos was designed by Frederic Shields and made in cloisonné by Clement Heaton.  There is a ring of eight bells which were cast by Mears and Stainbank at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in 1887.

External features
The walls, gates and railings of the churchyard were also designed by F. B. Wade for the first Duke of Westminster in 1887, and are listed Grade II.

See also

Grade II* listed buildings in Cheshire West and Chester

References

External links

Church of England church buildings in Cheshire
Grade II* listed churches in Cheshire
Churches completed in 1914
20th-century Church of England church buildings
Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Gothic Revival architecture in Cheshire
Churches in Chester
Diocese of Chester
Grade II listed buildings in Chester


HMS Pembroke was a 60-gun fourth-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Deptford on 22 November 1694.

Pembroke was captured by French warships in the Mediterranean in 1709, recaptured in 1711, and finally sold to Spain in Genoa in 1713 and renamed Lanfranco. She saw action in the Siege of Barcelona under D. Andrés del Pez and participated in the expeditions to Genoa in 1714, to Majorca in 1715, and to South America in 1716. In 1718 she captured two French privateer frigates off Montevideo. She sank shortly after in Buenos Aires.

The Pembroke's bell

Since the 1960s, the bell from Pembroke has served as a church bell at St. Bride's Anglican church in the town of Otorohanga, New Zealand. It was given to the church on its construction by a local family, the Westmacotts, and it was used for every service.  The bell, which weighs 150 kg, was reported stolen from the church in the week beginning 13 June 2011.  The bell's clapper, which was removed between uses is still in the church's possession. The bell was found by scrap metal merchants and returned.

See also
List of ships captured in the 18th century

Notes

References

Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .

Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
1690s ships
Maritime incidents in Argentina
Captured ships
Shipwrecks in rivers
Ships built in Deptford


North Marden is a tiny village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Marden, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of Chichesteron the spur of the South Downs and on the B2141 road. In 1931 the parish had a population of 12. On 1 April 1933 the parish was abolished to from "Marden".

North Marden is one of the smallest, out-of-the-way parishes in Sussex. At the end of the 19th century the population was between 20 and 30 inhabitants. The parish is mentioned in the Taxatio records of Pope Nicholas IV (1291) and in the Novae return (1341).

The plan of the Church of St Mary, approached through a farmyard, is simple but unusual in the chancel having an apsidal, or semi-circular termination. The elaborate Norman south doorway in Caen stone suggests a date of the middle of the 12th century. The three Norman windows in the apse have been restored, but the jambs and rere-arches are ancient along with the small Norman window at the west end. The Norman sandstone font was provided an octagonal stem base in the 14th century, and parts of the ancient flint walls were repaired in places with 18th-century brickwork. The single bell dates from 1829.

References

External links

Villages in West Sussex
Former civil parishes in West Sussex
Chichester District


The 1877 St. Louis Brown Stockings finished the season in fourth place in the National League. After the season, they signed Louisville Grays stars Jim Devlin and George Hall. However, both became involved in a game-fixing scandal that led to the permanent expulsion of the two players (and others) from the league. The Grays and Brown Stockings both folded in the aftermath of the scandal.

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

References
1877 St. Louis Brown Stockings season at Baseball Reference

St. Louis Brown Stockings seasons
Saint Louis Brown Stockings season


Nodeland Station () is a railway station of the Sørlandet Line situated in the village of Nodeland in Kristiansand municipality in Agder county, Norway. Located  from Oslo Central Station, it is served by long-distance trains operated by Go-Ahead Norge. In addition to intercity services to Oslo and Stavanger, the eight daily trains in each direction serve as a commuter link to Kristiansand, located nine minutes away. The station features two side platforms and a station building.

The station was opened on 17 December 1943 as part of the segment of the Sørlandet Line between Kristiasand and Sira. The line past the station was electrified from 1946 and the station automated in 1969. The following year the station became unmanned. A major upgrade in 2012 saw the lengthening of the passing loop to , new platforms and increased parking. Nodeland had 10,300 passengers in 2008.

History

The station was built during the Second World War under the German-administrated expansion of the Sørlandet Line west of Kristiansand. The station building was completed in 1942 after designs by NSB Arkitektkontor. It was originally proposed to be named Nodelandsmoen, but this was changed to Nodeland. Irregular revenue traffic commenced on the line on 17 December 1943 and the station became operative from the same day. Ordinary traffic commenced on 1 March 1944. Electric traction was not introduced until 16 May 1946, as part of the electrification from Marnardal Station to Kristiansand Station. An interlocking system became operational on 9 October 1969, allowing the station to become remotely controlled from 19 November 1969. The station became unmanned from 1 June 1970.

Due to low patronage Nodeland Station was closed in 2000, although it reopened in 2003. The first dense redevelopment started in 2006, when a 27-apartment complex with a mini-mall opened. It was followed up by a series of other apartment complexes. The line west of Kristiansand experienced a major growth in commuter traffic in the 2000s, including ridership from Nodeland. However, the station was in poor condition. The platform was only  long and only served a few of the carriages. Passengers would regularly disembark to a location without a platform. The passing loop was , too short for longer freight trains.

The Norwegian National Rail Administration therefore started a full renovation of the station in 2011. The two main components consisted of extending the passing loop to allow two  freight trains to pass, and replace the former island platform with new  side platforms. Extension of the passing loop was done to the west side of the station. This included building a new, parallel  bridge over Kuliaveien. Parking was improved, increasing from ten to fifty places. The new station was officially opened by Minister of Transport and Communications Magnhild Meltveit Kleppa. The upgrades cost NOK 150 million. The only aspect which was not built was an overpass.

Facilities

Nodeland Station is on the Sørlandet Line, located  from Oslo Central Station at an elevation of  above mean sea level. The station features a  passing loop. There are two side platforms, both  long and  tall. There is a waiting shed on both sides. Track 1 normally serves eastbound trains towards Kristiansand and Oslo, while track 2 serves westbound trains towards Stavanger.

Along track 2 there is roofed parking for 42 bicycles and free parking for 47 cars, including two electric vehicle charging stations. Including the parking on the track 1 side, this brings the parking capacity to 80 cars. Both platforms have stairs down to Kuliaveien, on the eastern end of the platforms. Access between the platforms is via this street.

Like the other stations along the Sørlandet Line, the station building at Nodeland received a standardized design. It was built in the overall Neoclassical architecture style adapted in the 1920s. By the 1940s the designs had been altered to include elements of functionalism. It has siding of weatherboard.

Services
The station is served by long-distance trains operated by Go-Ahead, counting eight daily services on weekdays, including a night train service. These operate from Oslo via Kristiansand to Stavanger. Songdalen is a suburb of Kristiansand and 69 percent of the municipality's workforce commutes to the city. The train uses nine minutes to Kristiansand Station. Driving time by car is about fifteen minutes, although significantly longer during rush-hour. The station had 10,300 annual passengers in 2008. There are bus services which connect to surrounding areas.

References

Railway stations in Agder
Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations opened in 1943
1943 establishments in Norway
Songdalen
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 2000s


Alberta Slim (February 2, 1910November 26, 2005) was a Canadian country music singer.

Biography

Slim was born Eric Charles Edwards in Wiltshire, England, and emigrated with his family to Canada as a child. He was a hobo during the Great Depression, riding the railroads and playing on street corners as a guitarist and yodeler. He played in an amateur talent show at Regina station CKCK; soon after, in 1938, he was offered a job singing there. After this he held radio spots at CFQC in Saskatoon from 1940 to 1944, and then on Regina's CKRM from 1945 to 1947.

Slim started a traveling circus in the 1940s which included an elephant who could play harmonica, a singing dog, a chimpanzee on a bicycle, and a horse which Slim claimed could see the future. In 1949, he had his first hit on record, "When It's Apple Blossom Time in Annapolis Valley", released on Gavotte Records. Later, RCA Victor signed him and released songs such as "Waltz Evelina Waltz", "You Say I'm a Fool", "My Annapolis Valley Home", and "It's Too Late to Care".

After his career ended, he got a job in British Columbia selling real estate. In 1997, he was asked to perform again at the Vancouver Folk Festival. He continued to perform until he was 93.  He died in 2005 at the age of 95 in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada.

References

External links
Official Alberta Slim site
Alberta Slim is interviewed by 10-year-old Kim Campbell

1910 births
2005 deaths
Musicians from Wiltshire
Canadian country singers
Musicians from Alberta
20th-century Canadian male singers
British emigrants to Canada


Lucia Wijbrants or Wybrants (October 21, 1638 in Amsterdam – May 23, 1719 in Utrecht) was the daughter of Johannes Wijbrants, a silk merchant, whose ancestors had moved from Stavoren to Antwerp.
After 1585 when Antwerp was occupied by the Spanish army, the family moved to Amsterdam and lived in a house in the Warmoesstraat, then a fashionable shopping street. They had eight more children: only Hendrick (1623–1669), Helena (1628–1721), and Johannes (1638 - ?) survived.

Jan J. Hinlopen

Lucia grew up at Keizersgracht 213. On December 9, 1664 she gave notice to her marriage with Jan J. Hinlopen; she was accompanied by her mother, Machteld Pater. On January 6, 1665 the couple married in the Nieuwe Kerk. Jan Vos wrote a poem for the happy occasion. On November 13, 1665, Lucia gave birth to a still-born child, buried the next day. In 1666 Hinlopen commissioned a painting from Bartholomeus van der Helst of the 27-year-old Lucia, himself, and three hunting dogs, but showing his deceased first wife and children in the background.  In September 1666 Jan J. Hinlopen, rather stocky built, died at the age of forty. Lucia lived with her two stepchildren on Kloveniersburgwal, next to her brother-in-law Jacob J. Hinlopen.

Having a portrait of yourself became very popular in the Netherlands after 1660, and a portrait functioned as a sort of a personal web page. Lucia Wijbrants had herself painted in 1666 by Lodewijk van der Helst (1642–1684). This painting by the son of Bartholomeus van der Helst is now in the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest). According to her will on June 27, 1716, she had her portrait painted by Gabriel Metsu. Metsu painted only a few portraits in his lifetime; the resemblance with the one from 1667, now in Minneapolis, and two other portraits of Lucia is striking. On the painting, one can see a chandelier. It could be one of the two silver chandeliers given by Joan Huydecoper II and his wife to the parents of Sara Hinlopen on September 10, 1660, two months after her birth.

Within a few years it became clear she did not get along with Johanna Maria and Sara Hinlopen, two rich, self-aware, or maybe jaded orphans. Lucia moved in with her mother at Herengracht and remarried Johan van Nellesteyn (1617–1677) on February 29, 1672 in Sloten. In their marriage contract is stated she gave him her portrait by Jurriaen Ovens, a Holstein painter, who from time to time lived in Amsterdam. If he would die before her, she would inherit 8.000 guilders and the inventory, but not the library, nor the portraits. In the same year, she claimed from the estate of her late husband. In 1718 the ladies Hinlopen received a diamond ring, a necklace with 39 pearls, two silver chandeliers, a silver box, a silver comb and an oval silver plate(?) from their former stepmother.

When she died, it seems, everybody important attended her funeral in Westerkerk. She was related to Jan Commelin and Caspar Commelin, two famous Dutch botanists. Her sister Helena and Machteld Wijbrants, her niece, inherited all her belongings. Machteld on her turn left everything to Hester Hinlopen. In the 19th century the portrait of Lucia belonged to Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Since 1992 the painting can be seen in the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Johan van Nellesteyn
Van Nellesteyn was a burgomaster in the city of Utrecht in the years 1654–1656, 1658–1660, 1664, 1665. After his second wife, Hillegonda Pater, had died in 1670 married Lucia Wijbrants. In 1672, a year which is called by the Dutch the disaster year, Johan van Nellesteyn and his wife were fleeing from Utrecht, when the city was occupied by the French army under Louis XIV. Nellesteyn and his brother-in-law, Jacob Martens, moved their belongings to Amsterdam by boat. On their way back a few months later, Nellesteyn was attacked by the orangist mob, who regarded him as a traitor. Nellesteyn was one of the few members of the vroedschap reappointed by William III of Orange after 1672.

Sources

External links
 Birth certificate of the twins
 Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants (1667) the second wife of Jan Hinlopen, by Gabriel Metsu
 Website of the Utrecht Archives, search for Lucia Wybrants
 The Rijksmuseum on the Disaster Year

1638 births
1719 deaths
People from Amsterdam


HMS Gloucester was a 60-gun fourth rate ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1690s. She spent most of her career in the West Indies and participated in the 1701–15 War of the Spanish Succession. The ship was hulked in 1708 and broken up in 1731.

Description
Gloucester had a length at the gundeck of  and  at the keel. She had a beam of  and a depth of hold of . The ship's tonnage was 896  tons burthen. The ship was initially armed with twenty-two 24-pounder cannon on her main gundeck, twenty-two 9-pounder demi-culverins on her upper gundeck, ten 6-pounder cannon on the quarterdeck and  four 3-pounder guns on the poop deck. This was revised in 1703 to twenty-four 18-pounder culverins, twenty-six 9-pounder demi-culverins and fourteen 6-pounders. The ship had a crew of 240–365 officers and ratings.

Construction and career
Gloucester, named after the eponymous port, was the second ship of her name to serve in the Royal Navy. She was ordered on 27 March 1693 as a part of the 1691 Naval Programme from Thomas Clements of Bristol. The ship, however, was not launched until 5 May 1695. Commissioned that same year, she cost £8,659 to build; Clements was paid a further £47 for excess work done, but £241 was deducted for work not performed.

Gloucester served as the flagship for Rear-Admiral John Benbow in 1698 as he cruised the West Indies and remained there until 1703. The ship returned to home waters in 1704 before sailing to Brazil in 1706. She was hulked on 24 April 1708, and was broken up in October 1731.

Notes

References

 Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The Development of the Battlefleet 1650–1850. Conway Maritime Press. .
 Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603–1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing. .

Ships of the line of the Royal Navy
1690s ships


The Dogma is a progressive metal/power metal band from Ancona, Italy.

Line-Up

Current members
 Daniele Santori - Vocals
 Cosimo Binetti - Guitars
 Stefano Smeriglio - Keyboards and piano
 Marco Bianchella - Drums
 Jack Ast - Bass

Past members
 Giuseppe Chirico - Drums
 Steve Vawamas - Bass
 Masso - Bass

Discography

Demos

 Symphonies of Love and Hate (2002)

Studio albums

 Black Roses (2006)
 A Good Day to Die (2007)
 Black Widow (2010)

References

Musical groups established in 1999
Italian power metal musical groups
Italian progressive metal musical groups
Italian musical quintets
1999 establishments in Italy


Breland Station () is a railway station on the Sørlandet Line situated in the village of Breland in Lindesnes municipality in Agder county, Norway. Located  from Oslo Central Station, it is served by a single long-distance train in each direction, operated by Go-Ahead Norge, to serve commuter traffic to and from the town of Kristiansand. The station has two platforms and a passing loop, although the main platform is only  long.

The station was opened on 17 December 1943 as part of the segment of the Sørlandet Line between Kristiansand and Sira. The line past the station was electrified in 1946 and the station automated in 1969. The following year the station became unmanned and the station building was demolished in 1987. The Norwegian National Rail Administration has decided to close the station in 2019, as it only served 2,200 annual passengers in 2008.

History
Breland Station was built during the Second World War under the German-administrated expansion of the Sørlandet Line west of Kristiansand. The station building was completed in 1942 after designs by NSB Arkitektkontor. It was originally proposed to be named Bredland, but this was changed to Breland. Irregular revenue traffic commenced on the line on 17 December 1943 and the station became operative from the same day. Ordinary traffic commenced on 1 March 1944. Electric traction was not introduced until 16 May 1946, as part of the electrification from Marnardal Station to Kristiansand Station.

An interlocking system became operational on 10 September 1969, allowing the station to become remotely controlled from 19 November 1969. The station became unmanned from 1 June 1970, and the station building was demolished in 1987.

Facilities
Breland Station is a station on the Sørlandet Line, located  from Oslo Central Station at an elevation of  above mean sea level. The station features a  passing loop. There is a main side platform serving track 1, which is  long, and a  island platform serving track 2. Both are  tall. There is a waiting shed.

Like the other stations along the Sørlandet Line, the now demolished station building at Breland received a standardized design. It was built in the overall Neoclassical architecture style adapted in the 1920s. By the 1940s the designs had been altered to include elements of functionalism. It has siding of weatherboard.

Breland Station features free parking for eight cars. The station serves the village of Breland in Marnardal, which has about 70 residents within  of the station. The train is the sole form of public transport from the community. It had 2,200 annual passengers in 2008.

Service
The station is served by long-distance trains operated by the Norwegian State Railways. Because of the limit catchment, only a single train in each direction serves the station each day. This is aimed at commuting to Kristiansand—a morning train to town and an afternoon train from town. These trains continue onwards to Oslo and Stavanger, respectively. Travel time to Kristiansand is 18 minutes.

Future
The short platforms have caused the Norwegian Railway Authority to demand that they be lengthened by 2019, or the station will be closed. The National Rail Administration has decided that an  investment in the station was not worthwhile. The closing was announced in 2010, along with the closing of five other stations on the line. Passengers from Breland can drive  to Nodeland Station and take the train from there. Not stopping at Breland will allow the trains to save about two minutes. As the schedule is tied to passing loops, this will probably not save time overall for the line, but it will allow for more robustness.

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Railway stations in Agder
Railway stations on the Sørlandet Line
Railway stations opened in 1943
Marnardal
Railway stations in Norway opened in the 1940s


Unión Tres Cantos Fútbol Sala is a futsal club based in Tres Cantos, city of the autonomous community of Community of Madrid.

The club was founded in 1991 and its pavilion is Pabellón Municipal with capacity of 2,000 seaters.

The club has the sponsorship of Tien 21 and Uicesa.

In May, 2008, after of gaining the promotion to División de Honor de Futsal, they were forced to relegate to Primera Nacional A due to economic limitations.

From 2008–09 season, the club only competes with youth and women's teams.

Notable players
 Rafael Usín

External links
Official Website
Profile at lnfs.es

Futsal clubs in Spain
Sports clubs and teams in the Community of Madrid
Futsal clubs established in 1991
1991 establishments in Spain