Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana (born 23 January 1949), known as Tutut Suharto, is an Indonesian politician who is the eldest daughter of former Indonesian president Suharto and the wife of Global Mediacom (then known as Bimantara Citra) co-founder and former RCTI's commissioner Indra Rukmana.

Business career
Tutut built part of her fortune as a major shareholder of the Citra Lamtoro Gung Group, with interests in more than 90 companies ranging from telecommunications to infrastructure, including tollway projects in Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines. Most of Indonesia’s toll roads were built and operated by the stateowned firm Jasa Marga, with untold markups and opportunities for skimming and theft for oligarchs as the projects were completed. In 1989, Suharto issued a decree granting his daughter Tutut 75% of profits from all toll roads her group operated jointly with Jasa Marga, driving costs up still further. Time magazine in a May 1999 cover story titled Suharto Inc. estimated her wealth at $700 million.

In January 2000, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) confiscated land assets valued at Rp 216.8 billion of PT Sinar Slipi Sejahtera (SSS) and owned by Tutut. The land has been mortgaged by PT SSS to Bapindo as collateral. On February 19, 2001, Tutut was banned from leaving Indonesia for one year due to corruption allegations. The legal move on Indonesia's former first family was due to a promise by President Abdurrahman Wahid to prosecute those responsible for corruption during Suharto's 32 years in power.

Political career
Tutut served as deputy chairperson of Golkar from 1993–98. Following the death of her mother in 1996, she was regarded as the first lady of Indonesia. In addition, Suharto appointed her as Social Affairs Minister in March 1998 in his short-lived final cabinet. It was believed he had been grooming her as his successor. Following his father's fall in May 1998, Golkar in July announced it had recalled Tutut, her brothers Bambang Trihatmodjo and Hutomo 'Tommy' Mandala Putra and Bambang's wife Halimah from the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR).

Golkar officials in 2008 said they would not object to Suharto's children, especially Tutut, rejoining the party's board, provided they were not involved in any outstanding legal cases. Golkar Deputy Secretary General Rully Chairul Anwar said Tutut, Bambang Trihatmodjo and their sister Titiek Suharto were still listed as Golkar members albeit as non-active members.

Presidential aspirations
Tutut planned to run for the presidency in the 2004 presidential election on the ticket of the Concern for the Nation Functional Party (PKPB). But she was ineligible to run because of PKPB's poor performance in the 2004 general election. The party won only 2.1% of the popular vote, giving it just two seats in the House of Representatives (DPR). At that time, political parties needed to receive at least 5% of the popular vote or 3% of seats in the DPR to field a presidential candidate, or they could form a coalition with other parties. The election was ultimately won by former General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, defeating popular incumbent Megawati Soekarnoputri.

In Indonesia's 2009 general election, PKPB won only 1.4% of the popular vote, losing its two seats in parliament and failing to qualify for the 2014 general election.

Honours
  Star of Mahaputera, 4th Class () (11 August 1997)

References

Further reading
 (2004) Mbak Tutut : Hj. Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana : membangun bangsa menuju ketenteraman dan kesejahteraan rakyat. Jakarta: Institute for Justice and Peace

1949 births
Living people
Javanese people
Indonesian Muslims
Cendana family
Suharto family and associates
Indonesian socialites
Children of presidents of Indonesia


Blizzard is an Austrian sports equipment company, based in Mittersill, Salzburg, Austria. Blizzard is currently a division of the italian Tecnica Group S.p.A. and is specialized in the manufacturing of alpine skiing equipment, more specifically skis and accessories (backpacks, ski bags).

History
Blizzard was established in 1945 by Anton Arnsteiner (1925–2013, "der Toni"), as he returned home from the second world war, in the family joinery workshop, and started producing skis besides wooden furniture.

The "Blizzard" brand was registered in 1953. In 1954, Blizzard became the first manufacturer to mass-produce polyethylene ski bases. Blizzard's first expansion occurred in 1957 as well as the introduction of metal and fiberglass as new materials.
1963 saw a great part of the factory burned down.
In 1970, as production reached 500,000 skis per year, company name was changed from "Blizzard Skifabrik Anton Arnsteiner" to "Blizzard GmbH". In 1976 a second production site was opened near Munich.

In 1980 Blizzard introduced the "Thermoski", after 6 years of development. In 1996 Blizzard introduced its first Carving ski, but it also applied for insolvency and was bought up by US company SCOTT Sports.

It was sold to Karl Hofstätter (33.3%) and Anton Stöckl (66.6%) in 2005, who sold it to the Tecnica Group in 2006 and 2007, respectively.
Sales of Blizzard skis are now completely integrated in the sale organization of Tecnica Group.

Alpine racing

Blizzard's presence on the FIS Alpine World Cup circuit is represented by several racers, including Austrian Reinfried Herbst and Japanese racer Akira Sasaki.

Throughout the years, Blizzard won many awards with its skiers team:
 1958: Frieda Dänzer (CH) wins the first champion title on Blizzard skis in the triple combination. Roger Staub wins silver in the giant slalom, Jean Vuarnet (FR) fetches bronze in downhill.
 1962: Christl Haas, Erika Netzer and Marianne Jahn: won 3-times victory and World Championship Gold. Silver at the giant slalom on the new EPOXI-Ski.
 1964: Gold at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck for Christl Haas in downhill.
 1983: Franz Klammer wins the downhill World Cup and Blizzard is the most successful brand at the men's downhill 1982/83.
 1990: Petra Kronberger won 3 seasons in a row, the Ladies World Cup. The Austrian athlete wins as the first woman all 5 disciplines in the World Cup.
 1992: Gold medals in the combination and downhill at the Olympics in Albertville. Kronberger is one of the most successful skiers in history.
 1998: Michaela Dorfmeister finished the Olympic Games in Nagano with silver in the Super-G.
 2000: Renate Götschl wins the overall World Cup and the small crystal globe in Super-G. The overall standings at the giant slalom goes to Michaela Dorfmeister.
 2002: the overall World Cup victory goes to Michaela Dorfmeister.

As of February 25, 2007, Blizzard placed 10th in the overall World Cup points standings.

In March 2007, Blizzard announced that former World Cup racer and US Pro Tour champion Bernhard Knauss would be taking over as Blizzard's race manager.

In 2010, Reinfried Herbst wins on the new Blizzard Ski the Slalom World Cup and gets the small crystal globe.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Blizzard won the first Olympic gold medal in the men's slalom won by Mario Matt and a victory in the Freeride World Tour by Loic Collomb-Patton.

References

External links

 Tecnica Group Website

Sporting goods manufacturers of Austria
Ski equipment manufacturers
Tecnica Group
Austrian brands


Steve Lambert is an American artist (born  1976) who works with issues of advertising and the use of public space. He is a founder of the Anti-Advertising Agency, an artist-run initiative which critiques advertising through artistic interventions, and of the Budget Gallery (with Cynthia Burgess) which creates exhibitions by painting over outdoor advertisements and hanging submitted art in its place. Lambert's artistic practice includes drawing, performance, intervention, culture jamming, public art, video, and internet art. He has worked with the Graffiti Research Lab, Glowlab, and as a senior fellow at Eyebeam.

Lambert is a member of the New York based artist group Free Art and Technology Lab. He has won several awards including from Turbulence, the Creative Work Fund, Rhizome/The New Museum, Adbusters Media Foundation, and the California Arts Council.

Biography
Steve Lambert was born in Los Angeles in 1976. He and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area four days later. His father was a former Franciscan friar, and his mother, an ex-Dominican nun. He dropped out of high school in 1993, but went on to study sociology and film, receiving a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000, and an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 2006. He teaches at SUNY Purchase.

Projects

The Budget Gallery
Before creating the "Anti-Advertising Agency", Lambert founded The Budget Gallery with the help of several others. The Budget Gallery is a non-profit organization that works to set up art galleries in public spaces, such as vacant walls and fences, located throughout the city of choice. An effort is put forth beforehand to publicize and prepare the shows, and such shows are often accompanied by "hundreds". The goal of such shows is to "bring art into public spaces that need diverse messages expressing emotion and depicting issues that represent the depth and breadth of humanity."

The Budget Gallery allows and encourages people to organize an outdoor guerrilla art gallery in their own town. They provide a how-to manual for how to choose a place, make calls, and sell art for the gallery.

Add-Art
Lambert has made a free Firefox plugin, called Add-Art which replaces ads with art in conjunction with the Firefox Plugin Adblock Plus. The artwork used in the plug-in is from contemporary artists that curators set up and each show is shown for two weeks. There is also information about the current artist and curator for each selection of art pieces displayed. All of the art submitted has the opportunity to be displayed in the bimonthly exhibit.

Adblock is supported by a small website that also contains information on the current artists and curators, as well as a schedule of past and upcoming AddArt shows. Every two weeks, 5 to 8 artists are selected by emerging and established curators. Images used have to be cropped in order to fit properly in the banner space.

Self Control
In 2009, Steve developed "Self Control" at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. The application, which is open source and licensed under the GPL, was developed for Mac OS X to block access to incoming and outgoing mail servers, as well as websites for a specified period of time. The application acts as a tool to remove the temptation to access sources of distraction to those who have trouble with self-control. Steve came up with the idea from his own personal experiences with being distracted on the internet. This would help him, as an artist, to block out outside stimuli in order to get focused work done. Once the timer has been started, the process cannot be undone.

Why They Hate US
In 2006 Steve Lambert, with the help of Steve Calderon, launched Why They Hate US. The project invited users to tag photos on Flickr with "whytheyhateus", acting as a display of pictures that users suggest contribute to a negative view of the United States or have the potential to be misinterpreted as negative. Some of the themes include gun violence, war, crude humor, consumerism, obesity, and Big Government and Big Business.

The site is an open forum and images displayed are not curated, edited, or censored. Anyone is allowed to contribute an image to the forum. Eventually, any image brought to the site will be shown in the random display.

Simmer Down Sprinter
Simmer Down Sprinter is a two-player, sit-down, arcade-style video game that Lambert designed and programmed in which players compete to move runners around a track. The game is controlled by the player's bio-feedback. The more relaxed the player becomes, the faster the runner moves around the track. It is essentially a competitive relaxation.

The game uses what is essentially a polygraph test, as the player rests his or her arm on a metal pad. It senses changes in the users' body temperature and galvanic skin resistance. Exciting warm-up music is played before each game, to make the challenge of keeping calm more difficult.

NY Times Special Edition
Lambert was recently in the news for helping with the organization of the New York Times Special Edition, a hoax edition of 1.2 million copies of the venerable paper that was distributed for free on the streets of New York City. A team of 35 people wrote and edited the paper, including representatives from The Yes Men, CodePINK, and other activist groups. The paper was post-dated for July 4, 2009, several months into President Obama's term, and envisioned a world where the Iraq war was over, Bush and Cheney were tried for war crimes, and congress had passed a maximum wage cap. The stunt created a stir, as many people were temporarily fooled by the otherwise reliable newspaper. The project was honored with the "Award of Distinction Hybrid Art" at Prix Ars Electronica in September 2009.

The Anti Advertising Agency
Steve Lambert founded the AAA in 2004 and has acted as CEO since. The goal of the Anti Advertising Agency is to change the role that advertising has played in our day-to-day lives, an unavoidable nuisance. They believe that through long-term commercial saturation, it has been understood that advertising has the right to occupy and control every inch of available space. Their work calls into question the purpose and effects of advertising in the public space. Using the tools of public relations industries, they constructively parody today's marketing media. The AAA's work ranges from traditional styles (images, stickers, signs, etc.) to more conventional artistic formats (performance, artist books), as well as combinations of the two. It was through this company that Lambert released Add-Art.

Other projects
He has also been a part of another project Wish You Were Here! Postcards From Our Awesome Future. He worked on this project with Packard Jennings and within the project they questioned  "What would you do if you didn't have to worry about budgets, bureaucracy, politics, or physics?" The finished result was a satirical commentary on civil engineering. The project developed into six posters for the Art on Market Street Program. The posters were installed on city streets. All posters are available for use and have been released into the public domain without copyright.

Exhibitions
2009 - (October) Eyebeam Open Studios, New York NY | "Uncommon Ground" - "Uncommon Ground is a sound installation created in collaboration with Victoria Estok. Using stethoscopes against a five by five-foot planter box, people can hear the plant's commentary, discussions, and inner thoughts – which are normally inaudible to human beings. The plants are voiced by comedians and neighbors."

2009 - Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA | "Everything You Want Right Now!" -
"Lambert takes on the vernacular of commercial signage with a regional emphasis unique to Los Angeles. Visually, he is interested in what makes certain styles of signage feel so innately familiar, and in the methods that signage employs to grab our attention."

References

Additional References
 "Advertising Counterprogramming" by Elise Soukup, Newsweek October 11, 2004
 "Wish You Were Here! Postcards From our Awesome Future." by Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings
 Operation: Anti-Ad by Caitlin Moneypenny-Johnston, Xpress Magazine February 14, 2007
 Web Fight: Blocking Ads and Adding Art by Andrew Adam Newman New York Times, May 14, 2007

External links
 Steve Lambert Website

American performance artists
American multimedia artists
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
1976 births
Living people
University of California, Davis alumni


Punk Globe, is a punk fanzine and online magazine started by Ginger Coyote in July 1977. It was originally distributed on photocopied pages folded together. After its first anniversary, Chris Coyle, manager for SVT, a San Francisco–based punk band, suggested a newsprint format. Ginger Coyote wrote on the website, "We found Grant Printing—a company owned by the influential Fang Family, publishers of Asian Week and the San Francisco Independent Community newspapers (and for a while, the San Francisco Examiner)—for the following 7 years. For our last 2 years, the magazine upgraded to heavier stock white paper printed at SF Litho."

It was published as a fanzine until 1989, when Ginger Coyote started a band called White Trash Debutantes. The content of Punk Globe included a calendar of events, gossip, interviews, record reviews, photos, artwork, the Punk Of the Month Award and the humorous advice column, "Ask Sonny Bono". According to its publisher, "The magazine was lighthearted and a lot of fun... It became a hit, and in the last few years, 25,000 copies were being printed." The online version of Punk Globe surfaced in 2005, and contains some of the old content: articles, ads, artwork, photos and letters from past issues, as well as new artwork and photographs, gossip, news, interviews, CD, DVD, film and book reviews. Recent additions include an Internet forum, Facebook page, and Twitter account. According to Ginger Coyote, the website gets approximately 8,000 hits per day.

Punk Globe contributors included Bebe Buell as associate editor and writer, Jello Biafra writing record reviews under the name "The Taste Police", Dorothy Lyman, Marc Floyd (AKA The Floydian Device), Robert Crumb, Jayne County, John Balano, Liz Derringer, De Fen, Rebecca G. Wilson, Joe Jackson, Jon Gries, Lisa Zane, Matt Dillon, August Bernadicou, Ernie Townsend, Lisa Lunney, Joe Dallesandro, Gerry-Jenn Wilson, Ms. Ligaya, Andrew Stevens, Judd Nelson, Lisa Booth, Sharla Cartner, Kim Acrylic, Arika Kaosa, Kathy Peck, Nikki Palomino, Josie Cotton, John Synder, Mark Arnold, Courtney Love, Johnny Paris and Billy Gould.

See also
Maximum RocknRoll

External links

Music magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1977
Punk zines


Thorndon Hall is a Georgian Palladian country house within Thorndon Park, Ingrave, Essex, England, approximately two miles south of Brentwood and   from central London.

Formerly the country seat of the Petre family who now reside at nearby Ingatestone Hall, the house is located within nearly  of ancient medieval deer park, meadows and forest. The garden is designed by Capability Brown.

Thorndon Hall is Grade-I listed with English Heritage, and the park is Grade II*-listed.

Old Thorndon Hall
The estate of Thorndon Hall, known previously as the manor of West Horndon, can trace its records back to the 1086 Domesday Survey commissioned by William the Conqueror. However, a building on the site of Old Thorndon Hall was first recorded in 1414 when King Henry V of England gave licence for its new owner, a merchant from South Wales called Lewis John, to "empark , to surround his lodge within this park with walls and to crenellate and embattle the lodge". The current house replaced Old Thorndon Hall which was located about a mile to the south in what is now known as "ruin wood" next to Old Hall pond. The old hall was damaged by fire in the early 18th century and was subsequently pulled down after being used briefly as farm buildings.

Present house
The present house was designed by the fashionable neoclassical architect James Paine and construction started in 1764. The portico of the present house was originally commissioned and imported from Italy in 1742 for use on the old hall which had been remodelled by Giacomo Leoni in the Palladian style. Following the fire at the Old Hall, it was kept, and reused in the design of the present house.

The estate and newly finished house was visited in 1778 by King George III and Queen Charlotte on their visit to see the troops at nearby Warley Common.

Following a fire in 1878, much of the main house and west wing were gutted leaving a shell and destroying or damaging many of the Petre picture collection. The surviving east wing was adapted into partial residential use with plans to renovate the house back to its original grandeur. However Petre family finances were in a poor state after the Great War and in 1920 the house and a portion of the estate was leased to Thorndon Park Golf Club. Originally, the company had planned to develop the estate into a luxury housing development and golf course, much the same as the Wentworth Club and St. George's Hill in Surrey, but with the introduction of London green belt legislation limiting house building on farm and parkland, the plan could not go ahead and the company folded.

Garden

The park was landscaped between 1766 and 1772 by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown at a cost of £5,000, much of which still survives, albeit merged into the landscaping of Thorndon Park Golf Course. The main driveway extended from what is now Shenfield Common for nearly two miles southwards to the northern face of the house. It can still be traced with maps, although it is now made up of public country parks and golf courses.

The first recorded camellia  – a cousin of the tea plant, camellia sinensis – to grow in Great Britain was at Thorndon Hall in the 1730s. Fifteen years later, the camellia was thriving around the country, and by the 19th century country houses were adding camelia houses just to grow the pink flowers.

Recent years
Eventually the golf club acquired the house and grounds, but chose to move out of the main hall and construct its purpose-built clubhouse within the grounds. In 1976, Thorndon Hall was sold to a developer, Thomas Bates & Son, Romford, who converted the mansion sympathetically to luxury apartments and cottages in landscaped surroundings, woodlands and parkland.  Parts of the former park had been sold off during the twentieth century for development on the outskirts of Brentwood. Essex County Council manages extensive areas as the public Thorndon Country Park. The nearby Petre family mortuary chapel is now owned by the Historic Chapels Trust.

Nearest places
 Brentwood
 Ingrave
 East Horndon
 West Horndon
 Bulphan
 Warley
 Laindon

References

External links

Photos of Thorndon Hall and surrounding area on geograph
Thorndon Park Golf Club website

Buildings and structures in the Borough of Brentwood
Gardens by Capability Brown
Grade I listed buildings in Essex
Grade I listed houses
Grade II* listed parks and gardens in Essex
Palladian architecture
Petre family


Elden Harvey Johnson (February 13, 1921 – June 3, 1944) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.

Johnson was born in the Bivalve section of Commercial Township, New Jersey. He joined the Army from East Weymouth, Massachusetts in April 1943, and by June 3, 1944, was serving as a private in the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division. When his unit was ambushed on that day, near Valmontone, Italy, he deliberately drew the hostile German fire onto himself so that his comrades could escape. He succeeded in destroying a German machine gun position before he was killed. For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor a year later, on May 16, 1945.

Johnson, aged 23 at his death, was buried in Union Cemetery, Scituate, Massachusetts.

Medal of Honor citation
Private Johnson's official Medal of Honor citation reads:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. Pvt. Johnson elected to sacrifice his life in order that his comrades might extricate themselves from an ambush. Braving the massed fire of about 60 riflemen, 3 machineguns, and 3 tanks from positions only 25 yards distant, he stood erect and signaled his patrol leader to withdraw. The whole area was brightly illuminated by enemy flares. Then, despite 20mm. machineguns, machine pistol, and rifle fire directed at him, Pvt. Johnson advanced beyond the enemy in a slow deliberate walk. Firing his automatic rifle from the hip, he succeeded in distracting the enemy and enabled his 12 comrades to escape. Advancing to within 5 yards of a machinegun, emptying his weapon, Pvt. Johnson killed its crew. Standing in full view of the enemy he reloaded and turned on the riflemen to the left, firing directly into their positions. He either killed or wounded 4 of them. A burst of machinegun fire tore into Pvt. Johnson and he dropped to his knees. Fighting to the very last, he steadied himself on his knees and sent a final burst of fire crashing into another German. With that he slumped forward dead. Pvt. Johnson had willingly given his life in order that his comrades might live. These acts on the part of Pvt. Johnson were an inspiration to the entire command and are in keeping with the highest traditions of the armed forces.

Honored in ship naming
The United States Army ship  which operated in the Pacific Ocean at the end of World War II was named in his honor.

Johnson Barracks
In 1949 the former German "Panzerkaserne" at Fuerth/Germany was renamed to Johnson Barracks. From the 1970s Johnson Barracks was home of the 16th Engineer Battalion which supported two brigades of the 1st Armored Division and one brigade of the 2nd AD. It also contained warehouses and other facilities for various supply elements from William O. Darby Barracks.

Honored in school naming
An elementary school in Weymouth, Massachusetts, now housing the Johnson Early Childhood Center, was named in his honor and prominently displays a copy of his Medal of Honor citation.

See also

List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War II

References

1921 births
1944 deaths
United States Army personnel killed in World War II
United States Army Medal of Honor recipients
People from Commercial Township, New Jersey
People from Weymouth, Massachusetts
United States Army soldiers
World War II recipients of the Medal of Honor
People from Scituate, Massachusetts


The Diocese of San Severo () is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Apulia. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino.

History
The diocese of San Severo was established on 9 March 1580 by Pope Gregory XIII, with the bull "In Eminenti". The bull specifically states that the city of Civitas (Città),a town now called San Paolo di Civitate, was practically uninhabited and levelled to the ground, and that there were scarcely any traces of a cathedral. The See of Civitas was vacant, since its bishop, Cardinal Francesco Alciati, had just resigned. Therefore, the seat of the vacant bishopric and the name and title of cathedral was transferred to the town (oppidum) of San Severo, which was fortified by walls and towers, and had a moderate population and several nobles, as well as four parishes. The parish church of S. Mary the Virgin was promoted to the status of a cathedral, and the seat of the bishop erected there. The diocese of San Severo was made a suffragan (subordinate) of the Archbishop of Benevento.

To this diocese was later added the territory of the ancient Dragonara, a city built in 1005 by the Byzantine Governor of Apulia. Cappelletti gives the names of twenty-eight bishops of Dragonara between 1061 and 1657.

On 30 July 1627, a major earthquake struck San Severo, with a loss of life of some 800 persons. Churches and buildings were ruined. "Sansevero città è disfatta in tutto," wrote one witness. Tremors continued for a year, causing many inhabitants to give up and migrate elsewhere.

Between November 1656 and May 1657, the province of Capitanata and the city of San Severo were visited by the plague, causing the deaths of 3,000 people in the city, including Bishop Giovanni Battista Monti.

In 1703 the population was only around 3,000 persons.

Other earthquakes caused serious damage in February 1828 and on 14 August 1851.

Cathedral and Chapter
The cathedral of San Severo, dedicated to the taking up (assumption) of the body of the Virgin Mary into heaven, was consecrated by Cardinal Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O.P., Archbishop of Manfredonia (Siponto). The church of S. Antonio was united to the cathedral, along with its hospice, at which travellers would be received for three nights' sleeping accommodation; it also received the sick. The Prior of the hospice was elected annually by the cathedral Chapter.

The cathedral was administered by a Chapter, composed of three dignities (the Archdeacon, the Archpriest and the Primicerius) and twelve Canons. One of the Canons was designated the Canon Penitentiarius and another the Canon Theologus, according to a decree of Bishop Malaspina.

Synods
A diocesan synod was an irregularly held, but important, meeting of the bishop of a diocese and his clergy. Its purpose was (1) to proclaim generally the various decrees already issued by the bishop; (2) to discuss and ratify measures on which the bishop chose to consult with his clergy; (3) to publish statutes and decrees of the diocesan synod, of the provincial synod, and of the Holy See.

Synods were held by: Bishops Malaspina (1583–1604) in 1598; Densa (1658-1670), and Fortunato (1670-1678). Bishop Francesco Antonio Sacchetti (1635-1648) held two synods. Bishop Carlo Felice de Matta (1678-1701) held his third diocesan synod on 15 August 1681; it was the ninth synod in the diocese's history. A diocesan synod was held by Bishop Adeodato Summantico, O.E.S.A. (1717-
1735) on 30–31 October 1720; he held a second synod on 15 August 1726. Bishop Giovanni Camillo Rossi held a diocesan synod on 18 May 1823, and published its decrees. Bishop Francesco Orlando (1942-1960) held a diocesan synod in San Severo in 1949.

A different metropolitan
A major administrative reorganization of the dioceses of Apulia took place in 1979.

Following the Second Vatican Council, and in accordance with the norms laid out in the council's decree, Christus Dominus chapter 40, the Episcopal Conference of Apulia petitioned the Holy See (Pope) that Foggio be made a metropolitan and that a new ecclesiastical province be organized; Foggia was, at the time, directly dependent upon the Holy See, even though it was the capital of a civil province of Italy.

After wide consultations among all affected parties, Pope John Paul II issued the bull "Sacrorum Antistites" on 30 April 1979, in which he, first of all, dissolved the ecclesiastical province of Siponto (Manfredonia), and elevated Foggia to the status of metropolitan see. He then created the new ecclesiastical province of Foggia, whose constituent bishoprics (suffragans) were to be: Manfredonia (no longer a metropolitanate, though the archbishop was allowed to retain the title of archbishop); Troiana (which had previously been directly subject to the Holy See); Ascoli e Cerinola, Bovino, Lucera and San Severo (all of which had been suffragans of the metropolitanate of Benevento); and Vestana (which had been a suffragan of Manfredonia).

Bishops of Civitas (Civitate, Città)

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Amalgerius (attested 1057–1065)
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Rogerius (attested 1075)
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Joannes (attested 1144)
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Robertus (attested 1179)
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Donadeus (1254– ? )
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Petrus (attested 1303, 1304)
Joannes (attested 1310)
Hugo (attested 1318–1324)
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Joannes
Christianus
Matthaeus, O.Min.
Matthaeus
Jacobus
Benedictus Roman Obedience
Petrus (1388-1401) Roman Obedience
Stephanus
Joannes (1401-1412)
Sede vacante (1412–1477)
Jacopo Minutolo (1412–1425) Administrator
Jacopo Caracciolo (1425–1439) Administrator
From 1439 to 1471 the diocese of S. Severo was united to the diocese of Lucera, in the person of one single bishop.
Antonius (1477–1479)
Nicolaus (1480–1495)
Gudiel de Cervatos (1495– c.1500)
Thomas da Nola (1500–1503)
Pancratius Rotondi (1504)
Roberto Tebaldeschi (1505–1517)
Gaspare Antonio del Monte (1517–1545)
Lucas Gauricus (1545–1550)
Geraldo Rambaldo (1550–1571)
Francesco Alciati (1571–1580)

Bishops of San Severo

1581 to 1804

Martino de Martini, S.J. (1581–1583)
Germanicus Malaspina (1583–1604)
Ottaviano della Vipera (15 Dec 1604- 13 Jan 1606)
Cardinal Fabrizio Verallo (1606-1615 Resigned)
Vincenzo Caputo (23 Mar 1615–1625)
Francesco Venturi (9 Jun 1625- 1629 Resigned)
Domenico Ferro (3 Dec 1629- Jul 1635)
Francesco Antonio Sacchetti (1 Oct 1635–1648)
Leonardus Severoli (27 Jun 1650- 1652)
Giovanni Battista Monti (11 Oct 1655- 1657)
Francesco Densa (28 Jan 1658- 6 Aug 1670)
Orazio Fortunato (1670-1678)
Carlo Felice de Matta (6 Jun 1678- 26 Feb 1701)
Carlo Francesco Giocoli (16 Jul 1703–1717)
Adeodato Summantico, O.E.S.A. (1717-1735)
Gennaro Scalea (1736-1739)
Bartolomeo Mollo (16 Nov 1739- 20 Jul 1761)
Angelo Antonio Pallante (23 Nov 1761- 1 Oct 1765)
Tommaso Battiloro (14 Apr 1766- 25 Nov 1767 Resigned)
Eugenio Benedetto Scaramuccia (25 Jan 1768- 19 Jan 1775)
Giuseppe Antonio Farao (13 Nov 1775- 1794)
Giovanni Gaetano del Muscio, Sch. P.  (18 Dec 1797–1804)

1804 to present

Sede vacante (1804–1818)
Camillo Giovanni Rossi (26 Jun 1818 - 9 Apr 1827 Resigned)
Bernardo Rossi (3 Jul 1826 - 27 Jul 1829)
Sede vacante (1829–1832)
Giulio de Tommasi (1832-1843)
Rocco de Gregorio (1843-1858)
Antonio La Scala (1858-1889)
Bernardo Gaetani d’Aragona, O.S.B. (25 Apr 1889 - 9 Feb 1893)
Stanislao Maria de Luca (18 May 1894 - 7 Jan 1895)
Bonaventura Gargiulo, O.F.M. Cap. (18 Mar 1895 - 9 May 1904)
Emanuele Merra (27 Mar 1905 Appointed - 21 Jul 1911)
Gaetano Pizzi (5 Nov 1912 Appointed - 16 Jun 1921)
Oronzo Luciano Durante (7 Jun 1922 Appointed - 5 Nov 1941)
Francesco Orlando (4 Sep 1942 Appointed - 2 Aug 1960)
Valentino Vailati (8 Dec 1960 Appointed -1970)
Angelo Criscito (27 Jun 1970 Appointed - 7 Sep 1985 Retired)
Carmelo Cassati, M.S.C. (7 Sep 1985 Appointed -1990)
Silvio Cesare Bonicelli (2 Sep 1991 Appointed -1996)
Michele Seccia (20 Jun 1997 Appointed - 2006)
Lucio Angelo Renna, O. Carm. (2 Sep 2006 - 13 Jan 2017)
Giovanni Checchinato (13 Jan 2017- )

See also
Roman Catholic Diocese of Dragonara

Notes and references

Bibliography

Reference for bishops

Studies

Tura, Severino (1848), "San Severino," in:

San Severo
Diocese
San Severo


Jochen Kientz (born 17 September 1972) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

Career
Born in Mannheim, Kientz played youth football at several clubs, including local VfR Mannheim and SV Waldhof Mannheim, but made his professional debuts with Eintracht Frankfurt, with whom he signed in January 1991; during the course of three Bundesliga seasons, he only made one league appearance and, in another winter transfer market move, in 1994, dropped down to the 2. Bundesliga and joined TSV 1860 Munich.

After only seven matches with the Lions, Kientz tried an abroad adventure, playing two seasons in Spain, one apiece with RCD Mallorca and CD Logroñés – the former in Segunda División where he appeared and scored regularly, the latter in La Liga, in a season which ended in relegation.

In the summer of 1997, Kientz returned to his country and to 1860 Munich, now in the top level, starting in one season and being backup in the other. He scored his first goal in the competition on 7 November 1998, albeit in a 3–1 derby loss against FC Bayern Munich.

After a very brief spell in Greece with Panionios FC, Kientz signed for Hamburger SV. At the Hanseatic club, he also appeared in the 2000–01 edition of the UEFA Champions League; during the competition, man-marking Zinedine Zidane in a home fixture, he was eventually headbutted by the French, who was sent off – the hosts won 3–1.

In 2001, Kientz joined neighbouring FC St. Pauli, being ejected from a game for the only time in his career, during a 2–0 loss at VfB Stuttgart, as his team eventually ranked last. After two injury-ravaged campaigns at F.C. Hansa Rostock (mainly ankle), he was forced to retire at the age of 32.

Post-retirement life
Subsequently, Kientz worked as a model for Amaze Models, owned by former Eintracht player Patrick Glöckner.

References

External links

Jochen Kientz at Eintracht archives

1972 births
Living people
Footballers from Mannheim
German men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Bundesliga players
2. Bundesliga players
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Super League Greece players
SV Sandhausen players
Eintracht Frankfurt players
Eintracht Frankfurt II players
TSV 1860 Munich players
Hamburger SV players
FC St. Pauli players
FC Hansa Rostock players
RCD Mallorca players
CD Logroñés footballers
Panionios F.C. players
Germany men's youth international footballers
German expatriate men's footballers
German expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
German expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece


Take It Home is the twenty sixth studio album by B.B. King, released in 1979.

Track listing
"Better Not Look Down" (Will Jennings, Joe Sample) – 3:22
"Same Old Story (Same Old Song)" (Jennings, Sample) – 4:32
"Happy Birthday Blues" (Jennings, Sample) – 3:15
"I've Always Been Lonely" (Jennings, Sample) – 5:28
"Second Hand Woman" (Jennings, Sample) – 3:20
"Tonight I'm Gonna Make You a Star" (Jennings, King) – 3:26
"The Beginning of the End" (Jennings, King) – 2:21
"A Story Everybody Knows" (Stix Hooper, Jennings) – 2:47
"Take It Home" (Wilton Felder, Jennings) – 3:07

Personnel
B.B. King – guitar, vocals
Dean Parks, Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
Wilton Felder – double bass, saxophone on "Take It Home"
Joe Sample – keyboards
Stix Hooper, James Gadson – drums, percussion
Paulinho da Costa – percussion
Larry Williams, Quitman Dennis – saxophone
Chuck Findley, Jack Richmond – trombone
Gary Grant, Steve Madaio – trumpet
Julia Tillman, Luther Waters, Maxine Williard, Oren Waters – background vocals

References

1979 albums
B. B. King albums
Albums produced by Stewart Levine
MCA Records albums


was a Japanese ace army aviator, credited with at least 18 aerial victories and who was honored posthumously by an award of the Order of the Golden Kite.

Biography
Katō was born and raised in present-day Asahikawa, Hokkaidō. His father Sergeant Tetsuzo Katō was killed in the Russo-Japanese War. He graduated from the 37th class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1925, and enrolled in the Tokorozawa Flying School two years later.

In May 1927, he was posted to the 6th Hiko Rentai (flight regiment) in Heijō, Chōsen. His flying skill with the Kawasaki Ko-4 biplane fighter (a license-built Nieuport-Delage NiD 29) was so outstanding that he was selected to become a flight instructor at Tokorozawa in 1928.  In 1932, Katō was promoted to head instructor at the Akeno Flying School, the premier air academy for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. In 1936, Kato became commander of the 5th Rentai, and with the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, he became commander of the 2nd Daitai, equipped with Kawasaki Ki-10 "Perry" biplane fighters, which achieved a level of air superiority in operations over northern China. On 25 March 1937, during the Battle of Taierzhuang, Capt. Katō led the 1st Chutai of the 2nd Daitai with 1Lt. Kosuke Kawahara leading the 2nd Chutai on an attack over Gui'de Airbase  and claimed over a dozen Chinese Air Force I-15bis shot down, however, his co-commander 1Lt. Kawahara was himself shot down and killed; distraught at the loss, Katō shaved-off his signature moustache the following morning. His unit's Type 95 fighters were being replaced by the new Type 97 fighters the following month. Katō claimed nine Chinese fighters during his rotation, making him the top-scoring Army pilot in China during the period 1937–1941.

Katō returned to Japan in 1939 to attend the Army Staff College and was assigned to the headquarters staff of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He also visited Europe on assignment, together with General Hisaichi Terauchi, and inspected the Luftwaffe in Germany. During this period, he was also promoted to major.

In 1941, with the start of the Pacific War, Katō was again given a combat command – this time as commander of the 64th Sentai, based at Guangzhou, China, and equipped with the latest Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa fighters. His unit participated in the early stages of the war, especially distinguishing itself during the Battle of Malaya. The 64th Sentai was based at Duong Dong airfield on Phu Quoc Island to provide cover for the Japanese invasion fleet bound for Malaya, and to attack ground targets in Malaya and Burma. The 64th Sentai had its first combat experience against the Flying Tigers on 25 December 1941, escorting a bomber raid on Rangoon.  Under Katō's command, the unit recorded over 260 aerial victories over Allied aircraft. He disallowed individual victory credits for the sake of teamwork. Katō was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1942.

On May 22, 1942, while over the Bay of Bengal, Katō was killed in action while attacking a flight of No. 60 Squadron RAF Bristol Blenheim bombers. As Kato pulled up after making his first diving pass on the Blenheims, turret gunner Flight Sergeant "Jock" McLuckie raked the fighter's exposed belly with a long burst and the Ki-43 started to burn and crashed into the sea.  Katō was posthumously promoted two steps in rank to major general, and was honored by a special State Shinto ceremony at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine as a "god of war" in mid-October 1942.

Katō's heroism had considerable propaganda value, and the Japanese government sponsored a movie titled  (1944) glorifying his life story.

See also

 Japanese invasion of Malaya
 List of World War II aces from Japan

Notes

References
 Hata, Ikuhiko Hata (2002). Japanese Army Air Force Units and Their Aces: 1931-1945. London:Grub Street.   (cloth)
 Sakaida, Henry. (1997). Japanese Army Air Force Aces, 1937-45. London: Osprey Publishing.
 Stanaway, John. (1998). Nakajima Ki.43 "Hayabusa": Allied Code Name "Oscar." Bennington, Vermont: Merriam Press.

External links
 "Japan's Hero's", , Time October 26, 1942.
 Biplane Fighter Aces from the Second World War: Credibly researched bio notes + digitized photographic image

1903 births
1942 deaths
People from Asahikawa
Japanese World War II flying aces
Japanese generals
Aviators killed by being shot down
Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II
Military history of Malaysia
Japanese military personnel killed in World War II


Marbury High School in Autauga County, Alabama serves grades 9-12 and is part of the Autauga County School System. As of the 2017–2018 school year, the schools student body consisted of 590 high school students.

Notable alumni
 Brandon Dickson, Current MLB player (St. Louis Cardinals)
 Pierre Warren, NFL player
 Dewayne White, NFL Football player

References

External links
 Official Website of Marbury School
 Old Website of Marbury High School

Public high schools in Alabama
Educational institutions established in 1910
Schools in Autauga County, Alabama
1910 establishments in Alabama


Smilla's Sense of Snow is a 1997 mystery thriller film directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris. Based on the 1992 novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (this was also the title of the UK release of the film) by Danish author Peter Høeg, the film is about a transplanted Greenlander, Smilla Jaspersen, who investigates the mysterious death of a small Inuit boy who lived in her housing complex in Copenhagen. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland.

Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen; Kiruna, Sweden; and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, at which August was nominated for the Golden Bear.

Plot
In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuit fisherman.

In present-day Copenhagen, Smilla Jaspersen, a transplanted Greenlander, is studying ice crystals at a university lab. Although an Arctic ice specialist, Smilla has not completed her credentials and is unemployed, with a troubled past. When she returns to her apartment complex at the end of the day, she finds the body of six-year-old Isaiah Christiansen, a neighbor Inuit boy. He is lying in the snow by the edge of the building. The police say that he must have been playing and fallen from the roof. Smilla knew he was afraid of heights and, on the roof, sees that his footprints show he ran straight to the edge of the roof, as if threatened.

At the morgue Smilla meets with Dr. Lagermann. She is surprised when he tells her that a prominent professor, Dr. Johannes Loyen, performed the autopsy on the boy, who was from a poor working-class family. When she consults with Loyen the next day, he declares the boy's death to be an accident. Unconvinced, Smilla files a complaint with the District Attorney. She goes to Lagermann's home seeking more information, and he says that he found a puncture wound on the boy's thigh, made by a biopsy needle after his death. He also says that Loyen was examining the boy every month.

At the funeral, Smilla notices Dr. Andreas Tork, the CEO of Greenland Mining, offering money to Isaiah's mother, who rejects it angrily. Following her husband's accidental death in Greenland in mining, the company had offered her a pension. Detective Ravn from the District Attorney's office agrees to look into the case, but Smilla discovers he is involved with Tork. Smilla tracks down the company's former accountant, and gains access to a company report about activities in Greenland. A neighbor mechanic becomes involved and offers to help her.

Detective Ravn threatens Smilla with jail for stealing Greenland Mining property. She agrees to suspend her investigation but, after learning from Isaiah's mother that her husband died from something in the mine's melt water, she continues. Smilla asks her father, Moritz Jaspersen, to help her in making sense of the Expedition Report; he agrees to look into it.

At the apartment complex, Smilla searches around Isaiah's former hiding place by a stairwell, and discovers a cassette tape hidden behind the wall. Unable to understand the audio, she takes the tape to a blind audio expert, Licht. Shortly after he tells her that it is Isaiah's father talking to his son, Licht is murdered. Smilla barely escapes with her life and the mechanic picks her up. They follow their pursuers to a ship, which Tork is preparing for another Greenland expedition.

Smilla's father shows her medical x-rays from the report, which reveal that a type of lethal, prehistoric "Arctic worm," long thought to be extinct, apparently was the cause of the "accidental" deaths of mine workers. When the worm entered individual's bodies and attacked organs, it caused toxic shock and death.

Aided by others, Smilla gets aboard the mining ship as an employee. She meets Nils Jakkelsen, who helps her discover videotapes that reveal the mining company had discovered an energy-producing meteorite. Tork believes this will give his company a dominant position in the industry. Smilla is chased throughout the ship by Tork's men, who kill Nils. Smilla is helped again by the mechanic, who tells her he has been working for the government to investigate the company.

As the ship approaches shore, Smilla leaves and makes her way across the frozen landscape. She finds the entrance to the Greenland Mining ice cave, where the company is conducting research on the meteorite. Prof. Loyen is among those present. An armed confrontation takes place, but Smilla is rescued by the mechanic and another man. Tork is wounded and runs out across the ice. Loyen falls into the icy pool (containing said meteorite) in the cave, instantly freezing to death (as he sinks below the depths). From outside, the mechanic/agent sets off a powerful bomb that destroys the cave and buries all still inside.

The resulting waves cause Tork to fall from the ice and drown in the freezing water. Smilla gazes over the landscape of ice and snow, the land of her childhood.

Cast

Production
The film was shot largely in Germany, Denmark, Greenland, and Sweden. Locations include Bavaria Film Studios, Munich, Germany; Copenhagen; Hotel D'Angleterre, Copenhagen;  Ilulissat, Greenland; Kiruna and Norrbottens län, Sweden; and Ata, Greenland.

Reception

Critical response
Smilla's Sense of Snow received mixed reviews, with most of the negative reviews focused on the unrealistic ending. In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote, "Smilla's Sense of Snow begins grippingly, then devolves into ever less credible derring-do as the action turns Smilla from a self-styled detective into an adventurer. The story finally leaves credibility behind as it sails off to the frozen north. The film has an elegant Smilla in Julia Ormond, whose remoteness works better here than it has in other roles. Ms. Ormond plays Smilla in the chic, alert, unsmiling fashion of a French film star, and she richly rewards the camera's many beautiful close-ups of Smilla cogitating on crime."

In his review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert gave the film three stars. Despite the implausible ending, he found that the movie worked, writing, "Here is a movie so absorbing, so atmospheric, so suspenseful and so dumb, that it proves my point: The subject matter doesn't matter in a movie nearly as much as mood, tone and style. Smilla's Sense of Snow is a superbly made film with one of the goofiest plots in many moons. Nothing in the final 30 minutes can possibly be taken seriously, and yet the movie works. Even the ending works, sort of, because the film has built up so much momentum."

In her review in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Carol Cling wrote, "Fascinating setting and strong performances make up for the far-fetched plotting." In his review in the Flipside Movie Emporium, Rob Vaux wrote, "An underrated and effective thriller, buoyed by a fine performance from Julia Ormond." In his review in the Capital Times (Madison, WI), Rob Thomas wrote, "An atmospheric and enjoyably preposterous mystery." And in her review in Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies, Nell Minow wrote, "The idiotic ending seems to belong to another movie."

The Rotten Tomatoes website reports that the film received an aggregate 52% positive rating from critics (based on 33 reviews). On Metacritic, the film received mixed to average reviews, scoring 48% which was based on 18 reviews.

Box office
The film opened on 251 screens in Germany and grossed 2.9 million Deutsche Mark ($1.8 million) over the 4-day weekend, placing fifth at the German box office. It went on to gross $23.1 million worldwide.

Awards and nominations
1997 Berlin International Film Festival - Golden Berlin Bear Nomination (Bille August)

References

External links

English-language Danish films
English-language German films
English-language Swedish films
English-language Greenlandic films
1990s mystery thriller films
Danish crime films
Danish thriller films
Films about child death
Films based on Danish novels
Films based on mystery novels
Films based on thriller novels
Films directed by Bille August
Films produced by Bernd Eichinger
Films scored by Hans Zimmer
Films scored by Harry Gregson-Williams
Films set in the Arctic
Films set in Greenland
Films set on ships
Films shot in Denmark
Films shot in Germany
Films shot in Greenland
Films shot in Copenhagen
Films shot in Sweden
German mystery thriller films
Swedish thriller films
Constantin Film films
Fox Searchlight Pictures films
1997 drama films
1997 films
1990s German films
1990s Swedish films


Bobby Wayne Gray (born April 30, 1978) is a former safety in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted in the fifth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played for the Chicago Bears from 2002 to 2004. He played college football at Louisiana Tech and high school football at Aldine High School in Houston, Texas.

1978 births
Living people
Players of American football from Houston
American football safeties
Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football players
Chicago Bears players


Tasha Kheiriddin (born 1970) is a Canadian public affairs commentator, consultant, lawyer, policy analyst and writer.

Early life and education
Born on June 25, 1970, Kheiriddin was born and raised in Montreal and earned a law degree from McGill University.

Career
Kheiriddin began her career as a litigation lawyer for Spiegel Sohmer in Montreal where she practiced for three years.

After practising law in Montreal, she moved to Toronto, where she was legislative assistant to the Attorney General of Ontario. Kheiriddin was president of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation of Canada from 1995 to 1998. She subsequently worked as a television producer at CBC Newsworld and a host and producer on the Cable Public Affairs Channel.

Kheiriddin was the Ontario director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for several years before returning to Quebec to join the Montreal Economic Institute, a free-market think tank. She then worked as the director for Quebec in the Montreal office of the Fraser Institute.

From 2011 to 2012, she hosted a Sunday afternoon talk show on Newstalk 1010 and then a business and politics television program, National Affairs, airing weekdays on CTV News Channel. She served on the editorial board for the National Post from 2010 to 2011.

She hosted The Tasha Kheiriddin Show on CFMJ in Toronto. She is also a faculty member at McGill University's Max Bell School of Public Policy and has lectured in politics at the university. In 2022 she served as co-chair for Jean Charest's bid for the Conservative Party Leadership.

Works
In November 2005 she co-wrote Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, with journalist Adam Daifallah. In 2022 she published The Right Path: How Conservatives Can Unite, Inspire and Take Canada Forward.

Recognition
The Canadian Bar Association recognized her in 2003 with the Justicia Award for Excellence in Journalism for her television program, Legal Talk.

In 2016 she was ranked amongst Canada's most powerful women by the W network.

In 2012 she was recognized by the Montreal Economic Institute for her contribution to economic education in Canadian media.

References

1970 births
Living people
Canadian political writers
Canadian television hosts
Canadian television producers
Journalists from Montreal
Canadian women television producers
McGill University Faculty of Law alumni
National Post people
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada politicians
Writers from Montreal
Canadian women journalists
Canadian women non-fiction writers
Canadian women television hosts


Salvatore Macchia (born 1947) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Macchia studied music composition with Yehudi Wyner and Hall Overton at the Yale School of Music, where he earned a DMA.

In a career spanning 35 years, Macchia has created over 140 works. His catalog contains music in virtually every genre, including fifteen large orchestral works, an oboe concerto, 4 chamber concertos, a cantata and a ballet, as well as four chamber operas. In addition there is a large amount of solo and chamber music comprising six string quartets, a piano quartet, a substantial repertoire of music for diverse small ensembles and an ongoing series of pieces for solo instruments and tape. His works have been performed throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Russia and Japan.

As a contrabassist he has performed in the European and jazz traditions throughout America and Europe and has premiered nearly 100 compositions featuring the contrabass.

He has recorded with, among others, Michael William Gilbert.

A 2006-2007 Samuel Conti Award fellowship winner, Salvatore Macchia is a professor of composition and contrabass at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he serves as chair of the Department of Music and Dance.

References

External links
Salvatore Macchia's official site
Amherst Bulletin: La Passione di Macchia...

21st-century classical composers
American male classical composers
American classical composers
Living people
1947 births
21st-century American composers
21st-century American male musicians


Campbell Morrison (born William Morrison; 21 June 1952 – 10 January 2008) was a Scottish actor.

He played one of the main characters, Drew Lockhead in the soap opera Eldorado and also appeared in EastEnders playing DCI Charlie Mason.  Morrison was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in the early eighties.

Other roles included Police Constable Eustace Oates in Jeeves & Wooster and Gordon Gallagher in the Sky One series Dream Team.

He had two sons, Tom and Luke, from a previous marriage, and a daughter, Lily, with his wife, Nicki Ballantyne.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1952 births
2008 deaths
Scottish male television actors
Royal Shakespeare Company members


Welcome Here Kind Stranger is a 1978 album by Paul Brady. After leaving The Johnstons, Brady toured with Planxty until they disbanded in 1975, and recorded a duo album with Andy Irvine in 1976.

Welcome Here Kind Stranger

Welcome Here Kind Stranger is Brady's first solo album and his final folk recording before switching to mainstream rock. Its title is a phrase taken from one of the album's songs: "The Lakes of Pontchartrain". The album was initially released (vinyl and cassette) on Dónal Lunny's Mulligan label (LUN024) in 1978 and was voted "Folk Album of the Year" by Melody Maker magazine.

Release history
The album was never officially released on CD due to a breakdown in the relationship between Brady and the Mulligan label and remained out of print for many years, until finally re-mastered by Aidan Foley at Masterlabs and released in 2009 on Brady's own label, PeeBee Music.

Overview
The songs on Welcome Here Kind Stranger are highly arranged – instruments are heard then disappear as they are replaced by others. Brady added musical accompaniment to his interpretation of "Don't Come Again", a song recorded by Hugh Shields of Eddie Butcher and his wife Gracie singing it in 1975. "I Am A Youth That's Inclined To Ramble" is Number 788 in Sam Henry's Songs of the People. The lyrics of "Jackson and Jane" are from Robin Morton's collection Folk Songs Sung in Ulster, for which Brady wrote a new melody. "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" was previously recorded by Christy Moore on Planxty's album Cold Blow and the Rainy Night, though Brady's version is quite different. He later re-recorded it in Irish as "Bruach Loch Pontchartrain" for the 2002 compilation album Eist Vol.2: Éist Arís, Songs In Their Native Language. The historical context of an Irishman in Louisiana is unclear but may be set during the Battle of New Orleans.

"The Creel" is another version of "The Keach in the Creel" (Child 281) and the tune and most of the words come from Packie Manus Byrne from Corkermore, Killybegs, County Donegal, to which Brady added verses from other versions in the Child collection as well as a few lines of his own. It is followed by "Out the Door and Over the Wall", an instrumental piece composed by Brady as an exercise in Balkan time signatures, on which he plays tin whistle and overdubs three bouzoukis; it was arranged by Lunny, who also plays bass bouzouki. Brady sings "Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low" unaccompanied, a song he learnt from Geordie Hanna from the townland of Derrytresk near Coalisland in east Tyrone. "The Boy on the Hilltop"/"Johnny Goin' to Ceilidh" is a set of reels; the first was originally recorded in the 1930s by Sligo fiddler Paddy Killoran in New York, and the second comes from Fermanagh flute player Cathal McConnell. "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" is a variant of Sam Henry's H192 that Brady learnt from Kevin Mitchell of Derry.

Track listing

 "Don't Come Again" (Traditional; arranged by Paul Brady) – 3:35
 "I Am a Youth That's Inclined to Ramble" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Irvine and Lunny) – 6:10
 "Jackson and Jane" (Music: Paul Brady; Words: Traditional) – 4:22
 "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" (Traditional; arranged by Paul Brady) – 6:45
 "The Creel" (Traditional; arranged by Paul Brady) – 5:22
 "Out the Door and Over the Wall" (Paul Brady) – 2:45
 "Young Edmund in the Lowlands Low" (Traditional; arranged by Paul Brady) – 5:48
 "The Boy on the Hilltop"/"Johnny Goin' to Ceilidh" (Traditional; arranged by Paul Brady) – 2:09
 "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" (Traditional; arranged by Brady and Irvine) – 6:07

Personnel

 Paul Brady – vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonium, 12-string guitar, bouzouki & tin whistle
 Dónal Lunny – bouzouki, bass bouzouki & guitar (tracks 2 and 6)
 Andy Irvine – hurdy-gurdy, mandolin & harmonica (tracks 2, 3 and 9)
 Noel Hill – concertina (tracks 1 and 3)
 Tommy Peoples – fiddle (tracks 1, 3, 5 and 8)

The Missing Liberty Tapes

To launch Welcome Here Kind Stranger, Brady gave a concert on 21 July 1978 at Liberty Hall, Dublin.

With the participation of Irvine, Lunny, Liam O'Flynn, Matt Molloy, Paddy Glackin and Noel Hill, he presented the music from the album, minus "Young Edmund In The Lowlands Low" and "The Boy On The Hilltop/Johnny Goin' To Ceilidh", but adding three songs from the album Andy Irvine/Paul Brady: "The Jolly Soldier", "Mary and the Soldier", and his own version of "Arthur McBride", plus two reels: "The Crooked Road to Dublin/The Bucks of Oranmore".

At Brady's request, The Liberty Hall performance was recorded on his own domestic Akai 4000DB reel-to-reel tape machine by Brian Masterson, who had engineered Welcome Here Kind Stranger and knew the music well.

After forgetting that he had stored the tapes in a box of old vinyl albums, Brady found them in his attic in 2000, still in excellent condition. Intent on having them transferred to CD but unable to secure interest from a major label, he decided to release these recordings as a live album on his own PeeBee Music label in 2002, under the title of The Missing Liberty Tapes.

Track listing

 "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" (Traditional; arranged by Brady and Irvine) – 6:49
 "I Am a Youth That's Inclined to Ramble" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Lunny and Irvine) – 7:44
 "The Creel" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Lunny, Irvine and Glackin) / "Out the Door and Over the Wall" (Paul Brady) – 7:20
 "The Jolly Soldier"/"The Blarney Pilgrim" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Lunny, Molloy, Irvine, Glackin and O'Flynn) – 5:43
 "Mary and the Soldier" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Lunny, Molloy, Irvine, Glackin and O'Flynn) – 4:06
 "Jackson and Jane" (music: Paul Brady; words: Traditional) – 4:47
 "Don't Come Again" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Lunny, Molloy, Irvine, Glackin, O'Flynn and Hill) – 4:07
 "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Lunny, Molloy, Irvine and O'Flynn) – 7:01
 "The Crooked Road to Dublin"/"The Bucks of Oranmore" (Traditional; arranged by Brady, Lunny, Molloy, Irvine, Glackin, O'Flynn and Hill) – 3:27
 "Arthur McBride and the Sergeant" (Traditional; arranged and adapted Paul Brady) – 7:34

Personnel

 Paul Brady – vocals, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki & tin whistle
 Andy Irvine – hurdy-gurdy, bouzouki, mandolin & harmonica
 Dónal Lunny – bouzouki & guitar
 Paddy Glackin – fiddle
 Liam O'Flynn – uilleann pipes, tin whistle
 Matt Molloy – concert flute, tin whistle
 Noel Hill – concertina

References

External links
Welcome Here Kind Stranger at Paul Brady's website
The Missing Liberty Tapes at Paul Brady's website
Review of The Missing Liberty Tapes at Irish Music Review website

1978 debut albums
Paul Brady albums


P. K. Mohammed or Chekannur Maulavi
(born in 1936) was an Indian secular Islamicist from  Chekannur, Malappuram district of Kerala, India. He is the founder of the Quran Sunnath. He disappeared on 29 July 1993. His death is uncertain.

Career
Maulavi founded  Quran Sunnath Society which is known for Jamitha Teacher, the first Indian woman imam.

Disappearance and investigation
The CBI took over the case in 1996, and in 2000 arrested two members of the ultra orthodox Muslim sect under suspicion of murder.

The case was hampered by the disappearance of a number of witnesses, whose property was seized when they fled abroad rather than appear to testify in 2008.

Mohammed’s wife filed a petition seeking to arraign A.P. Aboobacker Musaliyar as a murder suspect through her lawyer, Advocate S.K. Premraj which was allowed.
The court had found that Mohammed’s body was disposed of in some mysterious manner so as never to be recovered, which was dismissed by High Court later

A Decision Bench of the Kerala High Court in 2018 acquitted the first accused. With this, all accused in the case, including the first accused V. V. Hamsa, who had been sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment in 2010 have been let off. Even Chekannur Moulavi's death could not be proved.

In popular culture
His disappearance is the subject of a 2009 documentary, Ore Oru Chekannur.

See also
List of people who disappeared
List of unsolved murders

References

External links
 www.moulavichekanoor.com
 Khur'aan Sunnath Society

1936 births
1990s missing person cases
1993 deaths
Hate crimes in India
Indian Quranist Muslims
Malayali people
Male murder victims
Missing person cases in India
Murder convictions without a body
People declared dead in absentia
People from Malappuram
Unsolved murders in India


"Por Amarte" (English: To Love You) is the title of the third single released by Spanish singer-songwriter Enrique Iglesias from his eponymous debut studio album Enrique Iglesias (1995), It was released by Fonovisa on 8 January 1996 (see 1996 in music).

Song information
The track was written by Enrique Iglesias and co-written by Roberto Morales, produced by Rafael Pérez-Botija, and became Iglesias’ third consecutive chart topper in U.S. The song also was featured on the Mexican telenovela Marisol (1996), produced by Juan Osorio, starring Eduardo Santamarina and Erika Buenfil. with a few changes in the lyrics. Instead of Por amarte daría mi vida ("To love you, I’d give my life"), the words were: Por amarte Marisol, moriría ("To love you, Marisol, I’d die"). The singer won an ASCAP award for Por Amarte in 1996 and at the 9th Lo Nuestro Awards received a nomination for "Pop Song of the Year", losing to Iglesias own "Experiencia Religiosa".

Chart performance
The track debuted in the United States Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart at number 8 on 18 May 1996, and rise to number 1 in only three weeks (the fastest for the singer) and spent eight weeks at pole position. The single spent twelve weeks in the Top Ten and also peaked at number 1 in Mexico for two weeks. Por Amarte peaked at number-one one week after the album Enrique Iglesias climbed to number-one in the Top Latin Albums chart for the first time. According to the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón, the music was well performed in cities of Bolivia.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also
Billboard Hot Latin Songs Year-End Chart
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 1996
List of Billboard Latin Pop Airplay number ones of 1996

References

1996 singles
1995 songs
Enrique Iglesias songs
Spanish-language songs
Songs written by Enrique Iglesias
Songs written by Roberto Morales
Telenovela theme songs
Fonovisa Records singles
1990s ballads
Pop ballads
Rock ballads


The Porterfield Model 35 Flyabout was an American two-seat cabin monoplane built by the Porterfield Aircraft Corporation of Kansas City.

Development
The aircraft was designed by Noel Hockaday and was built by students at the Wyandotte High School as the Wyandotte Pup. Porterfield Aircraft recognised the potential of the aircraft design and bought the design rights and also the services of Hockaday as works manager and designer. The Pup was developed to appear in 1935 as the Porterfield Model 35 Flyabout a braced high-wing-monoplane. It had a fixed tailskid landing gear and room for two. It was originally powered by a 60 hp (45 kW) LeBlond 5D radial engine. Variants later appeared with different engine installations and a deluxe model the De Luxe Sport. Over 240 aircraft were built.

Variants

35
1935 production variant with a 60hp (45kW) LeBlond 5D radial engine
35-70  Flyabout
1937 production variant with a 70hp (52kW) LeBlond 5DE radial engine.
35-V
Variant powered by a 65hp (48kW) Velie M-5 engine.
35-W
Luxury model (also known as the Model 90) with a 90hp (67kW) Warner Scarab Junior radial engine.
Porterfield 75-C
75hp Continental A-75
Porterfield 90 (De Luxe Sport)
Sporty, deluxe version of 35-W

Operators

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Specifications (Model 35-70)

References

Bibliography

 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985), 1985, Orbis Publishing, Page 2760

1930s United States civil utility aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1935


Dalton Airport may refer to:

 Dalton Airport (Michigan) in Flushing, Michigan, United States (FAA: 3DA)
 Dalton Municipal Airport in Dalton, Georgia, United States (FAA: DNN)


The cube teapot is a teapot whose main purpose was to be used on a ship.  The cube shape of the teapot would stabilise it so that it would not roll over and scald the person making the drink, whereas conventional curved teapots would roll over when the ship rocked from side to side.

Invention

The cube teapot was invented by Englishman Robert Crawford Johnson (1882–1937), who was responsible for the design and registered "Cube Teapots Ltd" in 1917. Johnson specified in his  patent application that the design could be made in either ceramic or metal. He perfected the design, one that did not drip, poured easily, was chip resistant and stacked together for easy storage. With no spout or projecting handle the cube teapot looked exactly as it sounds - a cube.

The cube teapot was first put into production in 1920, in earthenware by Arthur Wood of Stoke-on-Trent, England.  It was later licensed to other firms including Wedgwood & Co Ltd. and silversmiths Napper and Davenport of Birmingham, whose silver version is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.  It was also produced by T G Green Cornishware.

Use
They were used by Cunard on the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 until the 1980s and on the Queen Mary.  They were also commonly used in tea shops because of their robustness.

Recent studies
In 2000, there was a touring exhibition on cube teapots, sponsored by Twinings, at Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool and Leicester's New Walk Museum.  Anne Anderson wrote a book on the teapots, The Cube Teapot (Richard Dennis, 1999).

See also
 Utah teapot
 Chester teapot
 Tea urn

References

External links
Myott Collectors Club

Teapots
Cubes
Product design


The Fleț is a right tributary of the river Luț in Romania. It discharges into the Luț in Breaza. Its length is  and its basin size is .

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Mureș County


Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Peterel:

  (ex-Duchess of Manchester) was a survey sloop,  purchased in 1777 and sold in 1788.
  (also known as Peterell) was a 24-gun sloop launched in 1794. In 1798 she was captured by four Spanish frigates off Minorca, but was recaptured the next day by . She was sold in 1827.
  was a 6-gun packet brig-sloop launched in 1838 and sold off in 1862.
  was a wooden screw  sloop launched in 1860 and sold off in 1901.
  was a  launched in 1899 and sold off in 1919.
  was a river gunboat launched in 1927 and sunk in 1941.
  was a  launched in 1976 and sold in 1991.

References

Royal Navy ship names


Storlien [ˈstuːrˌliːən] is a village and ski resort located in Åre municipality in  Jämtland, Sweden, two kilometres from the Swedish-Norwegian border. The primary bases of the settlement are tourism and outdoor life – alpine skiing, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, hunting, fishing and hiking. During the 2000s, retail sales to customers from Norway become important, and most of the tourists in Storlien are Norwegians. The Swedish royal family has a house in Storlien, where they usually celebrate Easter and the New Year. There was also previously a sanitarium. Storlien was formerly the centre of winter activities for , now , an organisation that promotes outdoor leisure, and played a major role in developing downhill skiing in Sweden.

Storlien has, among other services, a hotel called  ('Storlien Mountain Lodge') and a holiday village called . A large part of the village is owned by the Lars Nilsson estate, a real estate agent. The hotel was formerly the largest in the country. In 2011 Ulrich John, a Stockholm real-estate investor, bought it, the lifts and "a few thousand hectares of mountain", but he sold the hotel in 2013.

History

Until the beginning of the 19th century, Storlien was mostly used by Norwegians for hunting, fishing and summer pasturing. The village was first settled in 1844, and late in the 19th century began its development into a tourist centre. The Central Line opened in 1882, and the physician Ernst Westerlund opened a summer practice there in the same year. A few years later, two hotels opened. Thanks to its easily accessible high mountain terrain and railway station, Storlien soon became a centre for the activities of the outdoor activities organisation . In 1924, on the initiative of female instructors, they held a four-day course in "modern ski technique" at Storlien in collaboration with the Swedish Ski Delegation and the Swedish Tourist Association. The instructor was Gunnar Dyhlén, who taught different ways to turn the skis, and the course is thus also considered the starting point for organised Alpine skiing in Sweden. At New Year's in 1931, the first slalom course in Sweden, Möllers Backe, was spontaneously cleared on the mountain slopes of Skurdalshöjden. In 1933 Prince Gustaf Adolf and Princess Sibylla received as a wedding gift from Skidfrämjandet a holiday cabin which is still owned by the royal family.

The Swedish ski pioneer Olle Rimfors visited the Austrian and Swiss Alps and returned with lots practical knowledge of alpine skiing. On his return in 1934 he established  at Storlien; this was the first purpose-built slalom slope in Sweden after the old slalom course at Östeberget in Östersund. In 1935, under Rimfors' leadership,  held there the first international slalom competition in Jämtland under International Ski Federation rules; it was the second in Sweden if an event in Riksgränsen at Pentecost 1934, in which an American tourist took part, is included. Sweden's first slalom club, , was also organised in Storlien, with the entire country as its region.

During World War II Storlien was used by the military and was a restricted destination. In 1940, top-secret military negotiations between Sweden and Nazi Germany were held there in a railway carriage.

In 1942 the first ski lift opened in Storlien, the second one to be built in Sweden. In 1958 the hotel was expanded to a capacity of 550 guests; it was the largest in the country and in the mid-1960s employed 274 people.

Between 1972 and 1995, the industrialist Matts Carlgren was majority shareholder of the hotel, which went bankrupt in 1998. The following year Lars Nilsson bought the hotel and the surrounding land, around , for 37 million kronor. In July 2011, Stockholm real-estate investor Ulrich John bought the hotel and a substantial part of the mountain. The hotel did not open for the 2012–13 season, but a new owner has held it open during the 2013–14 season.

Storlien has been popular among visitors from the Norwegian county of Trøndelag, who go there for border shopping, mountain cabins, and skiing. After traditionally only having a small grocery store in the village centre, the shopping selection sharply increased in the 2010s, with a Coop Extra opening in 2011, and Eurocash in 2014, culminating in the shopping centre  opening in 2020.

Ski area

The ski area at Storlien has nine lifts and 23 slopes. However, the vertical drop is a comparatively low , and consequently the slopes are quite short. There are three children's areas with platter lifts and easy slopes, and night skiing under lights every Friday at Slalombacken.

Climate
Storlien's climate is a maritime-influenced subarctic climate. Considering it being a ski resort, Storlien has a relatively mild winter climate, being influenced by the North Atlantic and its warming influence. This means that in spite of the relatively high elevation Storlien averages milder winters than the coastline of the Bothnian Bay on the east coast. It is also the Swedish weather station closest to the main Atlantic, if weather stations located by the shores of Kattegat and Skagerrak are excluded. Summers are also influenced by the elevated North Atlantic air with cool daytime temperatures and very cool and sometimes cold nights. Storlien receives plenty of precipitation by Swedish standards, peaking in July, August and September. However, winter precipitation is still significant enough to nearly guarantee skiing conditions. Especially during milder winters dominated the North Atlantic low pressure systems, snow accumulation can be very high. In May 2020,  of snow was remaining on the ground in spite of being during late spring.

Storlien is cooled down sizeably by its elevation of , which renders summers a lot cooler than in coastal towns on similar latitudes such as Trondheim and Sundsvall in spite of being located in the interior.

Transport
Storlien Station, in the centre of the village and at almost  above sea level the highest in Sweden, is on the Central Line / Meråker Line which runs from Trondheim in Norway to Sundsvall in Sweden. Norrtåg operates trains between Sundsvall and Storlien. SJ Norge has trains between Trondheim and Storlien, so now Storlien is a border station where passengers need to change trains (the railway on the Norwegian side not being electrified). There are no night trains here anymore, they end in Duved now, but formerly there were night trains run all year in both directions between Storlien and Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmö.

The closest airports are Trondheim Airport, Værnes, approximately  to the west in Norway, and Åre Östersund Airport, about  to the east.
The E14 highway passes through Storlien.

In popular culture
Storlien is mentioned in The Boys From Brazil.

References

Populated places in Åre Municipality
Jämtland
Ski areas and resorts in Sweden


The Choral Temple () is a synagogue located in Bucharest, Romania.  Designed by Enderle and Freiwald and built between 1864 and 1866, it is a very close copy of Vienna's Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse Great Synagogue, which had been built in 1855–1858. The synagogue was devastated by the far-right Legionaries in January 1941, but was then restored after World War II, in 1945. The main hall was recently refurbished, and re-opened in 2015. The synagogue is still hosts daily religious services in the small hall, being one of the few active synagogues in the city and in Romania.

Bibliography

See also
 History of the Jews in Romania
 List of synagogues in Romania

Synagogues in Bucharest
Historic monuments in Bucharest
Synagogues completed in 1866
1866 establishments in Romania
Moorish Revival synagogues
19th-century architecture in Romania


Arnaud Brocard (born 19 August 1986 in Dijon) is a French goalkeeper. He previously played in Ligue 2 with RC Lens and Troyes AC in the Championnat National. He made the jump into professional football from the RC Lens youth academy in 2007. Brocard also previously played for Paris FC and Gap.

In August 2011, Brocard joined Ligue 1 side Valenciennes FC as a reserve goalkeeper but could not get chance to play any match.

References

1986 births
Living people
French men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Ligue 2 players
Paris FC players
RC Lens players
ES Troyes AC players
Gap HAFC players
Valenciennes FC players
Sportspeople from Dijon

Championnat National players
Footballers from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
20th-century French people
21st-century French people


Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation. The name was derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform named Android.

Examples

* Unlike other sans fonts, the capital letter I retains its serifs, which is also present in Noto Sans.

Typefaces
The Droid font family consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif:

The Droid Sans typeface features Regular and Bold weights. The regular weight includes support for simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Georgian, Hebrew, and Thai support for the GB2312, Big 5, JIS X0208 and KSC 5601 character sets respectively which the design style for all the Ideographs are using the Simplified Chinese writing style. There is no italic variant of Droid Sans; italics would be synthesized by Android by generating an oblique form in order to save storage space. However, it is present in the fonts Open Sans and Noto Sans. Known variations include:
Droid Sans Arabic [Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Armenian [Bold and Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Devanagari [Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Georgian [Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Hangul [Regular] available from Google Code
Droid Sans Hebrew [Bold and Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Japanese [Regular] available from Google Fonts API or Github
Droid Sans SEMC [Regular] available from Nokia Website
Droid Sans SEMC CJK [Regular] available from HTC website
Droid Sans Subset [Bold and Regular] embedded font in Google Docs
Droid Sans Tamil [Bold and Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Thai [Regular] available from Google Fonts API

Droid Sans Fallback font could be found on other language rich websites, especially those with Hindi or Khmer language support, are listed below:
Droid Sans Fallback Full [Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Fallback Fan Dal [Regular] available from Google Code China
Droid Sans Fallback HTC [Regular] available from HTC website
Droid Sans Fallback Indic [Regular] font support for Hindi, Devanagari, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Punjabi languages
Droid Sans Fallback Khmer [Regular] font support for the Khmer language
Droid Sans Fallback Legacy [Regular] available from Google Fonts API
Droid Sans Fallback QVGA [Regular] font support for old VGA based systems

Designed by Steve Matteson and Terrance Weinzierl of Monotype Imaging, Droid Sans Mono consists of only the Regular font. The design is similar to Matteson's closed source Andalé Mono typeface design. Taking advantage of the license under which the original typefaces were released, modifications of this Droid Sans Mono have appeared on the internet. Of particular note are those modifications that replace the plain zero glyph with dotted or slashed versions. Such modifications are particularly desired by users making heavy use of monospaced typefaces, including software developers, because they provide a more prominent differentiation between the two characters. They include:
Droid Sans Mono Dotted [with dotted zeros]
Droid Sans Mono Slashed [with slashed zeros]
Droid Sans Mono Py [adapted for the Python programming language, with adjacent underscores separated]

The Droid Serif typeface consists of Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic styles. Other variations of the Droid Serif font includes:
Droid Serif Subset [Regular] embedded font in Google Docs
Droid Serif Thai [Bold and Regular] available from Google Fonts API

Each typeface has an extensive character set including coverage of Western European, Eastern/Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish languages.

Droid Pro (2009)
On 12 February 2009, Ascender Corporation announced the retail version of the Droid fonts under the Droid Pro family. The fonts were sold in OpenType and TrueType font format. The Droid Pro family consists of Droid Sans Pro (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Condensed (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Mono (Regular, Bold), Droid Serif Pro (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), Droid Sans Fallback. Initial releases include Droid Sans Pro, Droid Serif Pro. OpenType features include Old Style Figures, as well as dotted and plain variants of the zero glyph for Droid Sans Pro Mono (the default zero is slashed). Droid Sans Pro Mono went on sale on 31 July 2009.

Handset Condensed (2010)
Handset Condensed is a condensed version of Droid Sans Pro designed by Ascender Corp's Steve Matteson and released on 1 March 2013 to be compatible with the Droid family of fonts, but without OpenType features. Similar to Droid Sans Pro, the family includes two fonts in Bold and Regular weights without italics. It supports the WGL character set.

Droid Arabic Kufi and Droid Arabic Naskh
In 2009, Ascender Corporation designed specially customed fonts for Google Fonts API as language support for the Arabic and Persian languages. The fonts that were released are available at the Google Fonts website and are Droid Arabic Naskh [both Bold and Regular weights] and Droid Arabic Kufi [both Bold and Regular weights]. Other variations that were found until recently includes the Droid Persian Naskh, a specific font for the Persian Farsi language distributed by Open Font Library in May 2014.

Special Droid typefaces in Android phones
In some Android smartphones that uses Android 4.2 Jellybean, the following fonts have been found in the phone's "/system/fonts" folder. The fonts include:
 Droid Naskh Shift Alt [a font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic, Urdu, Uighur and Farsi languages]
 Droid Naskh Shift [a font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic, Urdu, Uighur and Farsi language calligraphies]
 Droid Naskh System UI [a system font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic and Farsi languages]
 Droid Naskh UI [a system font found only in Android phones supporting the Arabic and Farsi language calligraphies]

Other variations of the Droid font that aimed to depict the Android 'robot' image logo include [Droid Robot Regular font] and [Droid Robot Japanese Regular font – for Japanese language support]. Aims by specific language font designers to adapt fonts for particular Southern Asian languages include Droid Hindi [support for the Hindi language], Droid Telugu [support for the Telugu language] and Droid India [support for the Indian languages all over India]. These fonts could be found on GitHub or in the XDA Developers forum for Android smartphones.

See also
 Roboto, the default font for newer versions of Android
 Noto, the default fallback font for newer versions of Android
 Open-source Unicode typefaces

References

External links

Ascender Corporation Droid font page
29arabicletters page: Droid Naskh (custom) Droid Naskh (retail)
Google Web Fonts page: Droid Naskh, thai-droidsans

Fonts in the GitHub mirror of the Android repository
The Cosmix.org Slashed and Dotted zero modified versions of Droid Sans Mono

Unified serif and sans-serif typeface families
Monospaced typefaces
Free software Unicode typefaces
Android (operating system)
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2007
Typefaces designed by Steve Matteson
Humanist sans-serif typefaces
Latin-script typefaces
Greek typefaces
Cyrillic typefaces
CJK typefaces


The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The team was founded in 1993 when they were accepted into the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team. The Panthers are owned by David Tepper.

The Carolina Panthers began play in 1995, and spent their first 7 seasons in the NFC West division, making it to the NFC Championship game in 1996, which was only their 2nd year as a football franchise.

In 2002, the Panthers were moved to the NFC South after the NFL realigned their divisions due to the Houston Texans joining the league as an expansion team. Over their 28 seasons in the NFL, the Panthers have played in over 300 games, winning 6 division titles (one in the NFC West and five in the NFC South) and reaching the NFL playoffs 8 times. The Panthers have never had back-to-back winning seasons, but recorded their first back-to-back-to-back playoff seasons in 2013 and 2014, becoming the first team in the history of the NFC South to win consecutive division titles in the process. They won a third consecutive division title in 2015, finishing with a league-best 15–1 record and securing homefield advantage in the playoffs for the first time in team history.

The team's worst regular season record was 2001, where they finished 1–15, worst in the league for that season; although they won their first game, they lost each of the remaining 15. The team has reached the Super Bowl twice; in 2003, when they lost Super Bowl XXXVIII 32–29 to the New England Patriots, and 2015, when they lost Super Bowl 50 24–10 to the Denver Broncos. Overall, the team has recorded seven winning seasons, 18 losing seasons, and three 8–8 seasons; they have reached the playoffs eight times. They also finished with a 7–9 record eight times. Including the playoffs, they have an overall record of 221 wins, 245 losses, and 1 tie (.474 winning percentage).

Seasons

All-time records

Footnotes

References

External links
 ESPN.com. Carolina Panthers News, Schedule, Players, Stats, Video – NFL.

Seasons
National Football League teams seasons