The Spătac is a left tributary of the river Târnava Mare in Romania. It discharges into the Târnava Mare in the village Spătac. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Alba County


There are several Australian motor racing teams which have been called Team Brock.
 Paul Weel Racing - Team Brock identity from 2003.
 Rod Nash Racing - Team Brock identity from 2002.
 Team Brock (1976) - Short lived Group C team from 1976/77.
 Team Brock (Procar) - Team run by James Brock in Nations Cup and V8 Utes.

See also
Peter Brock

Auto racing teams in Australia
Supercars Championship teams


Donald E. Murphy (born July 8, 1960) was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 12A, which covered portions of Baltimore and Howard County Maryland.  He served alongside Democrat James E. Malone Jr.  In 1993, he defeated Democratic incumbent Kenneth H. Masters.

Education
Murphy graduated from the former Andover High School, in Linthicum, Maryland.   He later graduated from the University of Baltimore with his bachelor's degree in real estate and science in 1983.

Career
Murphy was and continues to be a real estate consultant.  He was a delegate to the Republican Party National Convention.  He was the chair of the [www.baltimorecountyrepublicans.org Baltimore County Republican Central Committee] from 2002 until 2003. He is a co-founder of the Patapsco Valley Republican Club and a past president of the Holmehurst Community Association.

While a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, he was a member of the Judiciary Committee and the civil law and procedure subcommittee. He served as Deputy Minority Whip from 2002 until 2003.  Murphy did not seek reelection in 2002.

Murphy is now a GOP strategist, serving in 2010 as advisor to Senate candidate Dr. Eric Wargotz of Maryland, according to Fox News.

Currently, Murphy works as a federal-policies analyst for the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), a national group looking to liberalize laws on marijuana.  As state delegate he had sponsored the first medical marijuana protection bill.

Election results
1998 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 12A
Voters to choose two:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
!Votes
!Percent
!Outcome
|-
|-
|James E. Malone Jr., Dem.
|13,222
|  31%
|   Won
|-
|-
|Donald E. Murphy, Rep.
|10,920
|  26%
|   Won
|-
|-
|Steven J. DeBoy, Sr., Dem.
|10,669
|  25%
|   Lost
|-
|-
|Loyd V. Smith, Rep.
|7,245
|  17%
|   Lost
|-
|}

1994 Race for Maryland House of Delegates – District 12A
Voters to choose two:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
!Votes
!Percent
!Outcome
|-
|-
|Donald E. Murphy, Rep.
|10,340
|  27%
|   Won
|-
|-
|James E. Malone Jr., Dem.
|9,712
|  25%
|   Won
|-
|-
|Donald Drehoff, Rep.
|9,596
|  25%
|   Lost
|-
|-
|Kenneth H. Masters, Dem.
|8,527
|  22%
|   Lost
|-
|}

References and notes

See also
 http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/former/html/msa12279.html Maryland Manual

People from Baltimore County, Maryland
Republican Party members of the Maryland House of Delegates
Living people
University of Baltimore alumni
1960 births
People from Linthicum, Maryland


Donald Murphy may refer to:

Don Murphy (born 1967), American film producer
Donald E. Murphy (born 1960), Maryland politician
Don Murphy (Cubmaster), creator of the Pinewood derby
Donald Wayne Murphy (born 1950), author and parks and recreation official
Donald Murphy (actor), American film and television actor
Donald Murphy (serial killer), American serial killer, sex offender and bank robber
Donal Murphy (born 1955), Irish footballer

See also
Don Murray (disambiguation)
Donald Murray (disambiguation)


John Sealy Livermore (April 16, 1918 – February 7, 2013) was an American geologist who discovered or helped to discover four major gold deposits in northern Nevada.

Livermore was born in San Francisco, California, and was descended from a pioneer California family with roots in Maine.
An ancestor, Elijah Livermore, built a grist mill and a saw mill on the Androscoggin River in 1791.  The town of Livermore Falls, Maine, is named after him.

His great-grandfather, Horatio Gates Livermore, came to California from Maine during the Gold Rush in 1850, and later became a California State Senator from Eldorado County.  His great-grandfather and his grandfather, Horatio Putnam Livermore, who came to California in 1856, used their Maine mill experience to become involved in the earliest days of hydroelectric power, helping to build the original Folsom Dam.  His father, Norman Banks Livermore was a founding board member of Pacific Gas and Electric.  His mother, Caroline Sealy Livermore, was a conservationist in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on protection of the Marin Headlands and Richardson Bay.  Mount Livermore on Angel Island is named after her. He had four brothers, environmentalist and timber executive Norman Livermore (1911-2006), Putnam Livermore, Robert Livermore and George Livermore.

The Carlin deposit, from which the current Nevada gold-mining industry grew, was his first discovery. In 1961, after reading an article by Ralph J. Roberts, Alignment of Mining Districts in North-Central Nevada, and then hearing a talk by Roberts,  Livermore, then a Newmont Mining  geologist, pursued Roberts' theory to track down the 4 million ounce gold ore body now known as the Carlin Mine. The entire Carlin Trend has now produced well over 50 million ounces of gold.

Carlin–type gold deposits are characterized by extremely fine-grained gold — gold that cannot be seen by the naked eye, nor concentrated by panning.  Nevertheless, several small Carlin-type deposits were discovered in northern Nevada and worked as mines prior to the discovery of the Carlin orebody.  John Livermore examined one such deposit at the Standard Mine near Lovelock, Nevada in the late 1940s and believed that other, possibly richer, "invisible gold" deposits remained to be found.

Guided by Ralph Roberts’ ideas, John Livermore and Alan Coope, a fellow Newmont geologist who had a strong background in geochemistry, began an intensive search for “invisible gold.”  Success came quickly.  In October 1961, they staked the claims that became the Carlin Mine.

Livermore then headed Newmont’s exploration effort in Canada in the 1960s. He returned to Nevada in 1971 to form Cordex Exploration.  By 1970, only one other new gold mine, the Cortez mine near Crescent Valley, Nevada, had been discovered and developed in northern Nevada.  Exploration had all but stopped.  Livermore felt that a return to basic prospecting might lead to further discoveries.

Livermore hired Whit “Dee” DeLaMare, a mining engineer of long experience, to prospect on behalf of Cordex.  DeLaMare’s work led to the discovery of the Pinson, Preble, Sterling, and Dee mines and development of the Getchell Trend, second only to the Carlin Trend in Nevada gold production.  These successes and higher gold prices fueled a Nevada gold exploration boom during the 1980s.  New gold mines were found and developed. Nevada gold production continues to expand.

Livermore  remained active in geology, mineral exploration, and public service. He endowed a chair in Geophysics at the Mackay School of Mines, and supported major programs at Stanford University and the University of Nevada, Reno, usually anonymously.  He died in Reno, Nevada, aged 94.

See also
Gold mining in Nevada
Getchell Mine

References

John Livermore, oral history at University of California. Primary source for article.
Livermore bio at National Mining Hall of Fame
Biographical sketch at University of Nevada

External links
John Livermore obituary, Reno Gazette-Journal, 2/11/13
A Guide to the Public Resource Associates Records, 2006-05. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno.

American geologists
Stanford University alumni
1918 births
2013 deaths
Gold mining in Nevada
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area


Kilrossanty GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club located in Lemybrien, County Waterford, Ireland. The club is named for the nearby village of Kilrossanty. It plays home games at Pairc Naomh Brid. Kilrossanty is one of the oldest GAA clubs in Waterford and one of the larger Gaelic Football clubs there.

They also play underage hurling and have fielded a number of adult hurling teams on many occasions. They won the Junior B Hurling title in 1990.and 2016 Defeating Mount Sion 1-20 to 07

In the early days of the GAA, Kerry GAA wore red and green as their colours. In 1903, they traveled east to play a tournament in Dungarvan and inexplicably left the green and red jerseys at home. Percy Kirwan borrowed the green and gold kit off local club Kilrossanty Kerry GAA Liked the Jerseys as they Brought Them Luck.

Honours
Waterford Senior Football Championship 15
 1888, 1919, 1939, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1957, 1960, 1964, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989
 [Runners up] 1886, 1887, 1894, 1901, 1906, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946, 1966, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2018
Waterford Junior Football Championships: 6
 1918, 1926, 1937, 1998, 2010, 2013
Waterford Minor Football Championships: 2
 2004, 2016(Div 3)
Waterford Under-21 Football Championships: 4
1983, 1992, 1993, 2011
Waterford Under-20 B Hurling Championships:1
2022Waterford Junior B Hurling Championships: 2
1990, 2016Senior Football League - Phelan Cup: 8
1956,1957,1982,1984,1987,1990,2011,2016Waterford Minor Hurling Division 3 Championships:''' 1
 2018

History
Kilrossanty was founded in 1885 and took part in the first Waterford Senior Football Championship the following year. The club reached its first final in 1886 and reached the finals again the following year, before winning its first title in 1888, without recording a single score against them. Kilrossanty won fifteen Waterford Senior Football Titles. They hold the distinction of being the Waterford club to have held on to their senior status the longest without relegation to intermediate ranks. On winning the junior title in 1937, Kilrossanty was promoted to the senior grade, where they have remained ever since.
In 1888, Kilrossanty won their first senior football title, beating Fenor 0-3 to 0-0[1] in the final.

This crowning victory was a fruit of their perseverance. For, despite the short of history of the club at that point, they had lost back-to-back finals in ’86 and ’87. In a way, these back-to-back county final defeats baptised the team. For from this heartache, resolve was borne, and in the spring of 1888, hope flared anew.

This patience was rewarded as they rose from the ashes of ’86 and ‘87. In an unforgettable brilliance, they swept to coronation in ’88 with an unblemished six-game campaign. Their prestige that year was well-earned. In roughly 390 minutes of football, they did not once concede a single score. This is a feat that has come to define that historic first title and is undoubtedly one unparalleled in the county since, if not the country.

Notable players

  Declan Troy
  Mick Prendergast
  Jimineen Power
  Sean Ormonde
 Darren Mulhearne
Padraig Fitzgerald (WIT's Fitzgibbon hurler of the year 2022)

References

External links

Gaelic games clubs in County Waterford
Gaelic football clubs in County Waterford


Judith Grace Pordon (born 1954) is an American poet, writer, and poetry editor. The central themes in her poetry are: the multicultural experience, celebration of various types of love, and contemporary social issues. Some of her more well known works include, How Will You Kiss?, Expiration, and  At The Top Of The Food Chain But The Bottom Of The Line.

Life
Judith Grace Pordon was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother, Eleanor Haggett Pordon, left an administrative and scientific career in chemistry to raise her children and was Judith's principal muse.

At age five, her family moved from Georgia to suburban Boston. Her high school education was completed in Concord, Massachusetts, a few blocks from Thoreau's Walden Pond. She graduated from New College of California in 1978.

Poetry
Her early poems, in the 1970s and 1980s, explored various themes including contact with nature,
and social criticism. In the 1990s, she lived in Hawaii and a multicultural emphasis appeared in her work. She was befriended and mentored by Aemilia Laracuen, artist and primary muse of poet Robert Graves, who encouraged her to seek publication.

After writing poetry for 30 years, she began submitting her work to literary journals. In her first year her work was published in over two dozen journals, including Chiron Review, Tulane Review, Writers Journal, Buffalo Bones, The Rockford Review, The Ledge, The Orange Willow Review, VLQ, Black Bear Review, and The American Dissident.

Poetry anthologies such as Many Mountains Moving (on Spirituality), Comrades Anthology, The Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology (both in 1999 and in 2001) and Uno have published her poems.

She has also been published in dozens of poetry e-zines including The 2River View, Agnieska's Dowry, Stirring, Poetry Super Highway, Poetic Voices, Recursive Angel, ZeroZine, Facets Magazine, Southern Ocean Review, and Verse Libre.

Her first screenplay, sHe, was completed in 1993. Her first book of poems, The Body Speaks, was completed in 1999, and her second, The Long Way Home, was published in  2002.

Future works, currently in progress, include a book on creativity, several more books of poetry, an autobiography, and an amplification of her screenplay sHe into a novel.

Commissions and recognition
In 2001, she was commissioned by Andrew Levin of Clemson University Music Department to write lyrics for an operatic composition, Flourishing True which was performed in the winter of 2002 at the 10th anniversary of the Brooks Center at Clemson University.

She is listed in The Who's Who of American Women, and The Who's Who of the World.

Poetry editor
Since 2001, she has been the editor of an [online international poetry anthology] is a widely read website on anti-war poems, nature poetry, poems of loss and grieving, spiritual poetry, women poets, and poems in Spanish. She has helped popularize many contemporary poets including David Shumate, Lola Haskins, Quentin Huff, Susan Dane, Bill Mohr, Scott Wiggerman, Gaston Ng, and Marilyn Krysl.

References

1954 births
Living people
20th-century American poets
American women poets
American online publication editors
Bisexual women
20th-century American women
21st-century American women


Arbi Sanit (4 June 1939 – 25 March 2021) was an Indonesian political scientist and lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia. He wrote several books on Indonesian political system.

Early life
Sanit was born in Painan, West Sumatra. He obtained his bachelor's degree in political sciences from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia, in 1969. He also studied at the University of Wisconsin in 1973–1974.

References

1939 births
Minangkabau people
2021 deaths
People from Pesisir Selatan Regency
Indonesian political scientists
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Academic staff of the University of Indonesia


LAPD Hooper Heliport  is a city-owned private-use heliport located one nautical mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

History
Hooper Heliport is located on the roof of the C. Erwin Piper Technical Center, the world's largest rooftop airport.  It is centrally located next to Los Angeles Union Station.  It is home to the Los Angeles Police Department's Air Support Division which is the largest metropolitan police aviation unit in the U.S. with 16 helicopters.

The Piper Technical Center is also used as a parking lot for the LAPD motor pool including marked and unmarked units, vans, buses, motorcycles, and the V-100 SWAT armored cars.

Hooper Heliport served as home base for the fictional police helicopter Blue Thunder in the 1983 motion picture of the same name, while construction of the heliport was still being completed.

See also
 LAPD Air Support Division
 List of airports in the Los Angeles area
 Police aviation

References

External links

Airports in Los Angeles County, California
Heliports in the United States
Los Angeles Police Department
Police aviation


William George Chard (1812 - September 19, 1877) was a California pioneer.

Life
William George Chard was born in Columbia County, New York in 1812.  He came to California via New Mexico with trappers Cyrus Alexander and Lemuel Carpenter, arriving in Los Angeles in 1832.  He travelled to Santa Barbara, and Monterey.  Chard married Maria Esteven Robles (1823–1871) in 1837.  In 1844, he was granted the Rancho Las Flores Mexican land grant in present-day Tehama County, California.  Chard was Superintendent of the New Almaden quicksilver mine south of San Jose until 1846.

He died September 19, 1877.

References

External links
tigger.uic.edu

1812 births
1877 deaths
People from Columbia County, New York
People from Tehama County, California


Giá Rai is a district-level town or simply town (thị xã) of Bạc Liêu province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the town had a population of 125,690. The district covers an area of 348 km². The district capital lies at Giá Rai.

Administrative divisions
The town is divided into 3 wards: Ward 1 (formerly Giá Rai commune-level town), Hộ Phòng, Láng Tròn (formerly Phong Thạnh Đông A commune),  and 7 communes: Phong Thạnh, Phong Thạnh Đông, Phong Tân, Tân Phong, Phong Thạnh, Phong Thạnh Tây and Tân Thạnh.

References

Districts of Bạc Liêu province
County-level towns in Vietnam


Earle O. Latham (1908–1999) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Biography

Education
He attended Boston University, Rutgers University School of Banking and Columbia University Graduate School of Management.

Career
During 46 years of employment, Latham rose from a messenger to serve as the First Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He was designated as a special emissary for the U.S. Department of State to the State of Ethiopia in 1963-1964 to establish the National Bank of Ethiopia.

Personal life
Latham married Harriet Irene Morrison of Malden, Massachusetts in 1936. They had two children; Patricia Ruth Latham (1938–1956) and O. Bradley Latham (1940-). Earle Latham taught banking at Harvard University Extension School. He was an officer of the American Bankers Association and served on many boards of charitable organizations, such as the United Way.

Retirement
In retirement, he moved to Boxford, Massachusetts, where he served for many years as the Chairman of the Boxford Conservation Commission.

1908 births
1999 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
American bankers
American Bankers Association
Boston University alumni
Columbia Business School alumni
Harvard University staff
Rutgers University alumni


The Epi-Olmec culture was a cultural area in the central region of the present-day Mexican state of Veracruz. Concentrated in the Papaloapan River basin, a culture that existed during the Late Formative period, from roughly 300 BCE to roughly 250 CE. Epi-Olmec was a successor culture to the Olmec, hence the prefix "epi-" or "post-". Although Epi-Olmec did not attain the far-reaching achievements of that earlier culture, it did realize, with its sophisticated calendrics and writing system, a level of cultural complexity unknown to the Olmecs.

Tres Zapotes and eventually Cerro de las Mesas were the largest Epi-Olmec centers though neither would reach the size and importance of the great Olmec cities before them nor El Tajín after them. Other Epi-Olmec sites of note include El Mesón, Lerdo de Tejada, La Mojarra, Bezuapan, and Chuniapan de Abajo.

Cultural context

The rise of the Epi-Olmec culture on the western edge of the Olmec heartland coincides with the depopulation of the eastern half of the Olmec heartland and the decline of the Olmec culture in general. The Epi-Olmec culture represented a gradual transformation of, rather than a sharp break with, the Olmec culture. Many Olmec motifs, for example, were employed by its successor culture. Tres Zapotes, one of the largest Olmec sites, continued as a regional center under the Epi-Olmec culture. And daily life for the non-elites continued much the same: subsistence farming with opportunistic hunting and fishing, wattle-and-daub houses, thatched roofs, and bell-shaped storage pits.

On the other hand, the Late Formative period saw a widespread decline in trade and other interregional interaction throughout Mesoamerica, along with a marked decline in the use of exotic prestige items, such as greenstone beads. It has been proposed these exotic trade goods were replaced as prestige items by locally created luxury goods, such as cotton cloth and towering headdresses.  The decline in interregional interaction and trade was not uniform however: in particular, interaction with cultures across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec increased, and an increase in the import of obsidian has also been detected.

In contrast to earlier Olmec art, Epi-Olmec art displays a general loss of detail and quality. Ceramic figurines were less realistically detailed, and the basalt monuments and stelae at Tres Zapotes lacked the artisanship, refinement, and detail of the earlier San Lorenzo and La Venta work.

Based on the decentralized placement of mounds groups and monumental sculpture at Tres Zapotes, the Epi-Olmec hierarchy is assumed to have been less centralized than its Olmec predecessor, perhaps featuring a factionalized ruling assembly rather than a single ruler.

(See also Tres Zapotes site layout and societal organization)

Epi-Olmec sculpture

Script and calendrics
While the depiction of what appear to be historical events can be seen in La Venta Stela 3 ("Uncle Sam") and Monument 13 ("The Ambassador"), Olmec sculpture was more pre-occupied with the portraits of rulers, as is shown for example in the 17 colossal heads.  In contrast, Epi-Olmec monuments show a dramatic increasing concern with historicity, culminating in the eventual appearance of dated transcriptions.

These dated transcriptions were made possible by the Epi-Olmec culture's very early use of the Long Count calendar as well as a very early writing system, the Epi-Olmec or Isthmian script. The Isthmian script appears on several Epi-Olmec sculptures including La Mojarra Stela 1, the Tuxtla Statuette, and Tres Zapotes Stela C, each of which also contains a very early Long Count date.  These Epi-Olmec texts were the most detailed of this era in Mesoamerica.

While neither the Isthmian script nor the Long Count calendar were confined to the Epi-Olmec culture, their use, particularly in combination, is one of its hallmarks.

Subject matter
Whereas contemporaneous Izapan monuments, some 330 miles (500 km) to the southeast, display mythic and religious subjects, Epi-Olmec monuments glorified rulers. La Mojarra Stela 1, for example, shows a ruler in an elaborate outfit and headdress. Justeson and Kaufman's translation of the accompanying Isthmian script gives the figure's name as Harvester Mountain Lord and the script tells of his rise to power, warfare, a solar eclipse, his own bloodletting, and a "dripping sacrifice", perhaps of his brother-in-law.

Similar Epi-Olmec monuments featuring finely dressed figures with towering, flowing headdresses include the Alvarado Stela and El Mesón Stela 1. Unlike the La Mojarra Stela 1, these two monuments also show a subordinate, and likely intimidated, smaller figure. Some badly eroded Isthmian script glyphs may appear on the Alvarado Stela. El Mesón Stela 1 has no text.

This "exalted ruler" monumental art later became common in the Maya lands to the east during the Classic era.

Final transformation
By 250 CE, Cerro de las Mesas, Remojadas, and other sites further north along the Veracruz coast had eclipsed Tres Zapotes. Although Tres Zapotes would continue into the Classic era, its heyday had passed and Epi-Olmec had given way to the Classic Veracruz culture.

Notes

References
Diehl, Richard A. (2004), The Olmecs: America's First Civilization, Thames & Hudson, London.
Justeson, John S., and Terrence Kaufman (2001), Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing and Texts .
Pérez de Lara, Jorge and John Justeson, "Photographic Documentation of Monuments with Epi-Olmec Script/Imagery" at Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), accessed January 2008.
Pool, Christopher (2007), Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica, Cambridge University Press, .
Schuster, Angela M. H. (1997), "Epi-Olmec Decipherment" in Archaeology, online (accessed January 2008).
Stark, Barbara L. (2000), "Framing the Gulf Olmec" in Olmec Art and Archaeology in Meosamerica, National Gallery of Art, pp. 31–53.

External links

Pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico
Formative period in the Americas
3rd-century BC establishments
3rd-century disestablishments


The Tomb Raider comic book series is based on the video game franchise Tomb Raider, currently produced by Crystal Dynamics (formerly by Core Design), which features the character of Lara Croft. The original series of comics, which were released between 1999 and 2005, were published by Top Cow and were primarily based on the games released by Core Design. In 2014, following the reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, the series was revived and is currently being published by Dark Horse Comics. The new timeline of events is based upon the rebooted iteration of Lara Croft and her adventures.

Publication history
The series, which ran from 1999 to 2005 (in which the fiftieth and final issue was released), consisted of monthly issues published by Top Cow Productions, who secured the rights to producing comics after a long struggle. Preceding this series, French publisher Glenat got the green light from Eidos France to produce a comic series called Dark Eons based on the Tomb Raider games, which was taken off the market shortly after. Besides the monthly series, a parallel 12-part series called Journeys, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was also published.

The comics are primarily based on the same continuity as the games by Core Design, in which Lara's plane crashes when she is twenty-one years old (rather than the latter games by Crystal Dynamics, the plane crash happening when she was only nine years old), but the exact details are changed.  In the comic, Lara is accompanied by both her parents and her fiancé, on the plane trip taken to celebrate her impending marriage (in the game series, Lara's plane is chartered to take on a skiing holiday). Writers Dan Jurgens, John Nay Riber, and James Bonny worked on the series, which also featured the art of Andy Park, Michael Turner, Billy Tan, and Adam Hughes, amongst others.

There are one shots occasionally released and talk of the comic being reintroduced to tie into the Tomb Raider: Legend edited continuity. There have also been frequent crossovers with other Top Cow publications such as Fathom, The Darkness, Magdalena, and Witchblade. The debut issue of Tomb Raider was the number one-selling comic book of 1999.

In late 2006, Top Cow released the Tomb Raider Compendium. This was a large, single volume, collected edition of the Tomb Raider comic series; a hardcover version followed in 2008. The book encompasses all 50 issues (well over 1000 pages), as well as a cover gallery featuring select covers, most of them done by Adam Hughes. It is a full-size, full-color reproduction of all fifty issues on high-quality paper. This collection, however, does not include the various specials, minis, and one-shots from the series. This would probably explain why the compendium has "Volume One" written on the side.

Bandai Entertainment also published a "tankōbon" set of volumes, which reprints older stories in black-and-white in a smaller book.

Tomb Raider comics were announced to return in late 2007, but this was delayed due to licensing issues.

In 2014, Dark Horse Comics began publishing a new series of comics, set between the 2013 reboot and its sequel. Gail Simone wrote the first six issues, before collaborating with Rhianna Pratchett for the next arc. Pratchett took over for the rest of the series.

In 2016, another series started to bridge the gap between Rise of the Tomb Raider and the next game in the series, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Publications
Primary series
 Tomb Raider, Starring Lara Croft vol. 1 (1999-2005) changed to Lara Croft, Tomb Raider with issue #25 in 2002 due to the release of the movie of the same name in 2001 was the first ongoing series featuring the character published by Top Cow Productions. It ran for 50 issues with Tomb Raider #0 and #1/2.
 Tomb Raider vol. 2 (2014-2015) was the second ongoing series published by Dark Horse Comics. It ran for 18 issues and was written by Gail Simone and Rhianna Pratchett.
 Tomb Raider vol. 3 (2016-2017) was the third ongoing series published by Dark Horse Comics. It ran for 12 issues and was written by Mariko Tamaki.

Limited series
 Tomb Raider, Starring Lara Croft: Journeys (2001-2003) 12-issue limited series; written by Fiona Kai Avery; penciled by Drew Johnson, Gerardo Sandoval, Drew Green, Carlos Mota, Manny Clark, and Mun Kao Tan; inks by Jay Leisten and Marlo Alquiza; colors by J.D. Smith, Tyson Wengler, and Brian Buccelato
 Tomb Raider: Survivor's Crusade (2017) 4-issue limited series; written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, penciled by Ashley A. Woods
 Tomb Raider: Inferno (2018) 4-issue limited series; written by Jackson Lanzing, penciled by PJ Holden

One-shots
 Tomb Raider/Witchblade (1997) by writer and penciler Michael Turner, inks by Joe Weems V, colors by J.D. Smith
 Witchblade/Tomb Raider (1998) by writer Michael Turner and Bill O'Neil, pencils by Michael Turner, inks by Joe Weems V, colors by J.D. Smith
 Witchblade/Tomb Raider #1/2 (2000) by writer Michael Turner and Bill O'Neil, pencils by Ken Cha, inks by Andy Owens, colors by Matt Nelson
 Tomb Raider: Origins (2000) by writer Dan Jurgens; pencils by Mark Pajarillo; inks by Danny Miki
 Tomb Raider/The Darkness Special (2001) by writer David Wohl, art by Billy Tan, colors by Steve Firchow
 Tomb Raider: The Greatest Treasure of All (2002) by writer Dan Jurgens; art by Joe Jusko
 Tomb Raider: Epiphany (2003) by writer Dan Jurgens; pencils by Darryl Banks; inks by Al Vey
 Tomb Raider: Scarface’s Treasure (2003) by writer Geoff Johns, art by Mark Texeira, colors by Beth Sotelo
 Tomb Raider: Takeover (2004) by writer James Bonny; pencils by Scott Benefiel; inks by Jasen Rodriguez
 Tomb Raider: Arabian Nights (2004) by writer Fiona Kai Avery; art by Billy Tan
 Tomb Raider: Cover Gallery (2006) featuring art of: Marc Silvestri, Adam Hughes, Michael Turner and more
 Tomb Raider: The Beginning (2013) by writer Rhianna Pratchett; pencils by Andrea Mutti and Nicolás Daniel Selma

Collected editions
Tomb Raider Series Trades

Tomb Raider Compendium Edition

Tomb Raider Tankōbon

Tomb Raider Archives

Tomb Raider Library Edition

Tomb Raider Omnibus

References

External links
 Tomb Raider Comics.com

 Tomb Raider at the Big Comic Book DataBase
 Tomb Raider: Scarface's Treasure (previews). Newsarama. February 20, 2002.
 Tomb Raider #50 (previews). Newsarama. February 15, 2005.

Interviews
 Heroine Chic: Adam Hughes Talks 'Wonder Woman', 'Tomb Raider'. Comic Book Resources. February 15, 2001.
 Tomb Raider: Arabian Nights. Newsarama. August 2, 2004.

Works based on Tomb Raider
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Aria is a storage engine for the MariaDB and MySQL relational database management systems. Its goal is to make a crash-safe alternative to MyISAM. It is not transactional.

Aria has been in development since 2007 and was first announced by Michael "Monty" Widenius on his blog. Aria is used for internal temporary tables in MariaDB, a community-developed branch of the MySQL database led by Widenius. Aria is not shipped with MySQL or Percona Server.

The Maria project is hosted on Launchpad.

Aria was initially named "Maria", as a reference to Monty's youngest child.
It was renamed Aria in 2010 to avoid confusion with the main database it is developed for, MariaDB. Chris Tooley, who won a contest to suggest the name, wrote, "Aria is Maria without the 'M'; also it is a pleasant musical term."

Features

Aria is very similar to MyISAM, but its purpose is to be a crash-safe alternative to MyISAM.

Aria does not support foreign keys and, currently, transactions.

Aria supports:
 Fulltext indexes;
 OpenGIS data types;
 Virtual columns.

Files structure

Non-partitioned Aria tables consist of three physical files:
 table_name.frm
 table_name.MAD
 table_name.MAI

The .frm file contains the table definition (this file exists for all storage engines which write data to disk). The .MAD file contains the data. The .MAI file contains the indexes.

Formats

Three table formats are available for Aria tables:

 PAGE;
 FIXED;
 DYNAMIC.

PAGE is the only format available for "transactional" tables. It makes Aria tables crash-safe.

FIXED and DYNAMIC are the same formats used by MyISAM, and have been mainly implemented for compatibility. However, MyISAM's COMPRESSED format is not available in Aria.

In order to set the table format, one can use the ROW_FORMAT option in a CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE command.

See also

 Falcon
 InnoDB
 MyISAM
 XtraDB

References

External links
 Aria in the MariaDB KnowledgeBase
The Maria engine is released - written by Michael Widenius (founder of MySQL AB)
Maria: The new MySQL Storage Engine at Google Videos - A talk given by Michael Widenius

Database engines
MySQL
MariaDB


Hồng Dân is a rural district of Bạc Liêu province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 95,182. The district covers an area of 424 km². The district capital lies at Ngan Dừa.

Administrative divisions
The district is divided administratively into 1 township, Ngan Dừa (capital), and the following communes: Vĩnh Lộc, Vĩnh Lộc A, Lộc Ninh, Ninh Thạnh Lợi, Ninh Thạnh Lợi A, Ninh Hòa, Ninh Quới and Ninh Quới A.

Economy
The proportions of GDP by districts are as follows: Agriculture 73%, industry and construction 13%, trade and services 14%.

The value of agricultural production increased on average 5-6% annually. Industrial and handicraft industry increased from 14-15%. The total income is VND 250.386 billion (VND 2,763,000 per capita - equivalent to 184 USD).

The district also has 8,000 ha dedicated to shrimp farming, fish 400 ha, pineapple 2,570 ha, sugar cane 1,022 ha, and coconut 1,505 ha.

Traditional handicrafts also employ more than 10,000 in professions such as knitting, textile making, lace trade and carpentry.

Villages

Vĩnh Hồng

References

Districts of Bạc Liêu province


Phước Long is a rural district of Bạc Liêu province in the Mekong Delta region at the southern tip of Vietnam. The district was once a part of the old Minh Hải province and was established on 29 December 1978, with 19 communes and 1 town. It was merged with Hồng Dân district on 17 May 1984. On 25 September 2000 the district was separated from Hồng Dân District. As of 2004 the district had a population of 106,000. The district covers 404.8 km2. In 2009, bird flu killed 30 ducks in the district.

Administrative divisions
The district is divided into one township, Phước Long, and the communes of Phong Thạnh Tây A, Phong Thạnh Tây B, Vĩnh Phú Đông, Vĩnh Phú Tây, Hưng Phú and Vĩnh Thanh.

References

Districts of Bạc Liêu province


Dorothee Metlitzki (or Devora Metlitsky; July 27, 1914 – April 14, 2001) was a German-born, later American, author and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and, for most of her career, at Yale University. She was a specialist in medieval English literature and history, Arabic literature and language and of the author Herman Melville.

In addition she was a Zionist who played an important role in the foundation of the modern State of Israel.

Career

Dorothee Metlitzki obtained a BA and two MA degrees from the University of London, one in medieval English and one in classical Arabic. After helping found Hebrew University in Jerusalem's department of English she moved to the US to attend Yale University, graduating with a PhD in 1954.

She then took a position at the University of California, Berkeley's English department as lecturer and later, in 1964, as an associate professor, the department's second woman ever to be tenured. This was followed, in 1966, by teaching for 36 years at Yale University and also becoming the second woman ever to be tenured by that University's department of English as well.

She published several academic books dealing with her interests including Celestial Origin of Elpheta and Algarsyf in Chaucer's "Squire's Tale," Melville's "Orienda" and The Matter of Araby in Medieval England.

Personal life

Dorothee Metlitzki was born in 1914 in the city of Königsberg, (East Prussia)  but soon moved to Yekaterinburg, Russia, where her father worked as an international banker who is still waiting to be repaid by the King of Denmark.
Her father was imprisoned during the Russian Revolution and her mother moved the rest of the family to Lithuania, where her father rejoined them after his stay in prison.

Having left Lithuania for London following outbreaks of antisemitism, Metlitzki became an active Zionist in England, working with fellow Zionists Aubrey Eban, Golda Meir and Moshe Sharet on the development of the State of Israel. She moved to Jerusalem after World War II and spent 15 years there founding the English department at Hebrew University.

In 1943 she married the Arabist Paul Kraus who had come with his baby daughter from Cairo, after his wife's death at birth. Kraus left back to the University of Cairo alone, as Dorothee was ill at a Jerusalem hospital. Within several months Kraus was found dead, alleged to have committed suicide. She remarried the Jewish Egyptologist Bernhard Grdseloff in 1945, and the couple had a daughter, Ruth. In 1947 Grdseloff developed cancer, and was hospitalized in Cairo, before the family was able to leave for Palestine, towards the establishment of the State of Israel. Dorothee spent the next years traveling between Israel and Egypt - then enemy states, and tending to her husband, till his death in a Cairo hospital in 1950.

In 1953, she moved to Connecticut with her sole daughter, and worked at Yale University. There she had a short marriage with the Assyrologist Jacob Finkelstein, moving after him to Berkeley, California, but the two quickly parted, and she returned to Yale where she taught until her death.

Political and social activity
In the late 1930s, Before the establishment of the state of Israel, Metlitzki worked for advancing the Zionist movement, visiting various countries and speaking before Zionist women.

During the term of Golda Meir as Prime Minister of Israel, Metlitzki worked in the government there as a press officer for the Foreign Ministry and secretary for the affairs of Arab women in the Israeli Federation of Labor. Using her knowledge of the Arabic language and culture, she served the Arab women, protecting their rights, with the vision of a bi-lingual bi-cultural state.

References

Further reading
 Paul Kraus (Arabist) Metlitzki's first husband
 Her MA Thesis in London 1938 A study of Arabic influences on the literature and thought of the English Middle Ages.
 The Matter of Araby in Medieval England Metlitzki's most important book, Yale Press, () Reprint July 2005
 A tribute to Dorothee Metlitzky
 Newspaper clipping from the Canadian Jewish Review where Devorah Metlitzky, head of Arab Women's section in the Histadrut, is invited as guest speaker at a Zionist banquet.
 Melville's Orienda Book by Dorothee Metlitsky Finkelstein (), Yale Books, 1961
 Obituary of Berkeley University
 Eduard Said on Metlitzki (Hebrew) in his foreword for the Hebrew edition of his book.

1914 births
2001 deaths
Zionist activists
American academics of English literature
Writers from Königsberg
Alumni of the University of London
Jewish women writers
American Zionists
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Yale University faculty
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Historians of Arabic literature
Jewish American academics
20th-century American Jews
German emigrants to the United States


Roger Haroldo Rodas Melgar (29 May 1946 – 14 June  2020) was a Guatemalan economist, politician and diplomat.

Biography
He served as the foreign affairs minister in the cabinet of President Álvaro Colom, from 14 January 2008 to 14 January 2012. He was the only minister in the Colom administration who served out the entire four-year term. He had previously served as vice-minister for foreign affairs from 1 January 1991 to 30 June 1992.

Rodas studied economics at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and a master's in international economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Prior to being appointed foreign minister, he had been the Secretary General of the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA)  since April 1995.

He also held positions with the United Nations Development Programme, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Union of Banana Exporting Countries, the Organization of American States, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

Rodas died from COVID-19 on 14 June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala. He was 74, sixteen days short of his 75th birthday.

Honors
 Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon (Republic of China, 2008)

References

External links
 Haroldo Rodas Melgar's CV (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala)

1946 births
Foreign ministers of Guatemala
2020 deaths
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala alumni
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni
Recipients of the Order of Brilliant Star
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala


Gia Bình is a rural district of Bắc Ninh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.

History
The district was originally called Gia Định (Hán: ) district, but since this caused it to be confused with Thành Gia Định, the name of Saigon at the time, Nguyễn dynasty officials changed the name to Gia Bình () district in 1820.

On August 5, 1472, the second king of the Post-Lê dynasty, Lê Thái Tông died at the age of 20, at Lệ Chi Viên (which nowadays belongs to Đại Lai commune, a part of Gia Bình district). Nguyễn Trãi and his wife, Nguyễn Thị Lộ, were accused of murdering the King, which resulted in the death of Nguyễn Trãi's relatives (including his father's, his mother's and his wife's relatives) Lệ Chi Viên

In 1950, Gia Bình was united with Lương Tài to form Gia Lương district, which was separated again on August 9, 1999.

Today
As of 2003 the district had a population of 102,753. The district covers an area of 108 km2. The district capital lies at Gia Bình. The district has an area of 107.9 km2. Gia Bình is administratively divided into 14 subdivisions: one township (thị trấn), Gia Bình, and 13 communes (xã): Bình Dương, Cao Đức, Đại Bái, Đại Lai, Đông Cứu, Giang Sơn, Lãng Ngâm, Nhân Thắng, Quỳnh Phú, Song Giang, Thái Bảo, Vạn Ninh and Xuân Lai.

Economy
Gia Bình is well known for some products such as Đại Bái Bronze and Xuân Lai Bamboo.

Climate
Gia Bình district features a warm humid subtropical climate with plentiful precipitation. The annual average temperature is 24 °C. The highest is 30 °C in July; the lowest is 15 °C in January. The average annual sunshine is 1,530-1,776 hours, while the relative humidity is 79%. The district experiences the typical climate of northern Vietnam, where summers are hot and humid, and winters are, by national standards, relatively cold and dry. Summers, lasting from May to September, are hot and humid, receiving the majority of the annual 1,680 millimetres (66.1 in) of rainfall. The winters, lasting from November to March, are relatively mild, while spring in April can bring light rains. Autumn in October is the best time of the year in terms of weather.

References

Districts of Bắc Ninh province


Lương Tài is a rural district of Bắc Ninh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 103,156. The district covers an area of 101 km². The district capital lies at Thứa.

Notable people
Lương Tài is the hometown of Vũ Kính, Vũ Giới, Phạm Quang Tiến, Vũ Miên, Vũ Trinh, Vũ Tú

References

Districts of Bắc Ninh province


Quế Võ is a town of Bắc Ninh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the town had a population of 154,694. The district covers an area of 171 km². The district capital lies at Phố Mới.

Education
Vietnamese-Japanese Foreign Language-Technology College

References

Districts of Bắc Ninh province


Thuận Thành is a district-level town (thị xã) of Bắc Ninh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2022 the town had a population of 199,577. The district covers an area of 117.83 km². The town seat lies at Hồ.

Administrative subdivisions
The district is administratively divided into Hồ town and 19 rural communes (xã): An Bình, Đại Đồng Thành, Đình Tổ, Gia Đông, Hà Mãn, Hoài Thượng, Mão Điền, Nghĩa Đạo, Ngũ Thái, Nguyệt Đức, Ninh Xá, Song Hồ, Song Liễu, Thanh Khương, Trạm Lộ, Trí Quả and Xuân Lâm.

Culture

Kinh Dương Vương is the first king of the Vietnamese people, and was the father of Lạc Long Quân.
Đông Hồ painting is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut paintings originating from Đông Hồ village (làng Đông Hồ).
Luy Lâu was the ancient capital of Vietnam after it became a Han Dynasty Chinese province called Jiaozhou, or Jiaozhi under the Chinese Commander-in-chief Shi Xie.
Dâu Pagoda was built between AD 187 and 226. The pagoda is in the area of the remains of the ancient citadel and Buddhist center of Luy Lâu.
Bút Tháp Temple is one of the most famous pagodas in Vietnam. Inside, there are various valuable ancient objects and statues, which are considered to be Vietnamese masterpieces of 17th century wood carving.
Thuận Thành No 1 High School is one of the top-ranked high schools in Bắc Ninh Province and which was in Vietnam's Top 100 High Schools for many years.

Notable people
Hoàng Cầm
Nguyễn Gia Thiều

Gallery

References

Districts of Bắc Ninh province


Từ Sơn is a city of Bắc Ninh Province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2021, Từ Sơn had a population of 202,874, covering an area of 61.08 km². The district capital lies at Từ Sơn.

In 974, Lý Thái Tổ was born in this town and the Lý Bát Đế Shrine is located here.

References

Districts of Bắc Ninh province

Cities in Vietnam


Yên Phong is a rural district of Bắc Ninh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 146,040. The district covers an area of 113 km². The district capital lies at Chờ.

References

Districts of Bắc Ninh province


Tiên Du is a rural district of Bắc Ninh province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 131,118. The district covers an area of 108 km². The district capital lies at Lim.

Among local spirits traditionally worshipped is Thái Giám, a eunuch spirit.

References

Districts of Bắc Ninh province


The New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) serves as the statewide voice of more than 700 boards of education. The collective influence of some 5,000 school board members, who constitute half the elected officials in the state, enables NYSSBA to work toward the benefit of the elementary and secondary public school system in New York. School board members are the educational leaders of their communities; they determine policies that govern the operation of their local public school system.

NYSSBA provides current information and advice on matters affecting school boards and cooperates with other educational and related organizations in promoting excellence in education. NYSSBA provides advocacy information, leadership development, and custom services to public school boards.

NYSSBA was founded in 1896 in Utica, New York, as the New York State Association for School Boards. In 1920 it was known as the State Association of School Boards and Trustees of New York State.

By 1929 it became the Associated School Boards and Trustees of the State of New York. In 1932 this organization merged with the New York State Association of Central Rural School District Boards to form the New York State School Boards Association. Incorporation took place on December 12, 1935, and the organization's official name became the New York State School Boards Association, Inc.

The expenditure of public funds payable as dues to NYSSBA was given a legal foundation in Education Law by the state legislature in 1945.

See also
 New York City Department of Education
Education in New York (state)
National School Boards Association
New York State Education Department
List of school districts in New York
No Child Left Behind Act

References

External links
New York State School Boards Association
New York State Education Department
National School Boards Association

Education in New York (state)
Non-profit organizations based in New York (state)
School boards in the United States


White Suffolk is an Australian breed of meat sheep developed for Australian conditions. Work commenced on a breeding program in the mid-1970s with experimentation conducted by Professor E. Roberts (University of New South Wales). His aim was to produce a breed with the conformation, structure and growth of the Suffolk but with a white head, legs and body. Professor Roberts had observed that despite the Suffolk breed producing clearly the best lambs, it commanded only a small share of the Australian prime lamb market. The main reason for this reluctance was caused by the dark points and the reduced skin values, in which dropped prices dramatically. In the 1980s other breeders also took up the challenge to develop the breed with improved quality and numbers. It was then developed from breeding programs involving the Suffolk breed, initially, crossed with a white breed (mainly Poll Dorsets).

The White Suffolk is producing good results in a variety of pastoral, mixed farming and higher rainfall districts.

In 1992 U.S. genetics became available and have now been infused into a percentage of White Suffolk studs. Artificial insemination is used by breeders to source superior genetics that are available to association members.

Associations
The Australian White Suffolk Association was established in 1985 and aims to produce a breed that has all the Suffolk characteristics except the black points, while maintaining the superior growth rate and ability to produce carcasses ideally suited to all sections in the meat industry.

References

Sheep breeds originating in Australia
Sheep breeds