Emmanuel College, formerly St. Paul's College, is a dual-campus private Roman Catholic comprehensive co-educational secondary day school, occupying campuses in Altona North and Point Cook, in the south-western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

History

Establishment
St. Paul's Campus was originally established as 'St. Paul's College' in 1965, under the auspices of the American Order of the Society of Marianists. The order had been invited to establish this Catholic Secondary Boys' College by the then Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix. The college's colours were then red, white and blue and its motto was Ecce Mater Tua (Latin: "Behold Thy Mother").

In 2008, the school opened a second campus at Point Cook called Notre Dame.

Building construction

St Pauls campus

In the early 1960s, the local parish priests purchased a large, 9-hectare, undeveloped block in Altona North. The parents of the school's initial students helped to build and landscape the school in the early years. The College's primary edifice, the three-storey building called the "Jubilee Building", was completed in 1969. Following to be completed were:

The Chaminade Library in 1971.
The Art/Craft/Science Lab and the senior classrooms known as the "Winters Building" in 1979.
The administrative complex and gymnasium in 1982.

The Jubilee Building was extensively renovated in 1998. In 2004, with the assistance of a Commonwealth Government grant, work commenced on enlarging the library complex and the building of two new computer labs. These developments were completed in 2005. In 2009–2010 three more developments were in place. These were the expansion of the Technology Building, construction of a new canteen, gym, changing rooms and toilets and the new McMahon Language Centre. These projects were funded by the National Building Stimulus Grant.

Notre Dame campus

Construction of the Notre Dame Campus in Point Cook commenced in mid-2007, with campus opening in 2008. The initial intake was restricted to year seven students, with construction continuing as further year levels commenced. The first group of year 12 students graduated from the Notre Dame campus in 2013.

Transition to Emmanuel College
In 2006, the plans for the transition to Emmanuel College and the future of the school were commenced. 2008 saw the full transition from 'St. Paul's College' to 'Emmanuel College' with the acquisition of a second co-educational campus. The school eventually incorporated a new emblem and changed its motto to Life To The Full, which comes from the Gospel according to John: "I have come that they may have life and have it to the full" (John 10:10).

Headmaster and current staff
Since 1997, the incumbent principal at the St. Paul's campus was Christopher Stock. In 2008 when the transition to Emmanuel College was complete, Stock became the principal of Emmanuel College with responsibility for the St. Paul's and the Notre Dame campuses until 2022, where Stock would step down as principal of the college after dedicating 26 years as College Principal.

Since 2023, the current principal is Dr, Janine Biggin who "strives for excellence as a Catholic educator and school leader."

House and homeroom system
The Emmanuel College house system consists of five houses:
 McCoy (Navy)
 Cassidy (Red)
 McCluskey (Gold)
 Winters (Green)
 Chaminade (Sky blue)

These houses are named after the Marianists that initially helped serve and found the school, and Father John Cassidy of St Mary's Parish, Williamstown, who was involved in the establishment of the college. The exception is Chaminade, which is named after William Chaminade, the founder of The Marianist order. Both the St Paul's and Notre Dame campuses have homerooms with about 25–30 students, ranging from years 7–12.

Yearly school moto
Every year the school's social justice team comes together and come up with a moto to follow throughout the year.

2022 "Nothing can dim the light that shines from within".

2023 "Faith can move mountains".

Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)

Emmanuel College has offered the VCE program at the St. Paul's Campus since its implementation in 1990. The school tends to perform well in the VCE, with a student achieving an ATAR score of 99.15 in 2019, the highest ATAR of the school thus far.

Sport
Emmanuel is a member of the Sports Association of Catholic Co-educational Secondary Schools (SACCSS) and the Associated Catholic Colleges (ACC).

ACC premierships
Emmanuel has won the following ACC premierships.

 Golf – 2021
Soccer (2) – 2010, 2014

Notable alumni
Jordan Bos, football player for Melbourne City FC
Jason Duff, hockey player
Daniel Giansiracusa, former AFL player
Mick Martyn, former AFL player
Trent McKenzie, AFL player for Gold Coast Suns
James Podsiadly, former AFL player
Antonio Sagona, archaeologist and University of Melbourne professor
Bill Sheahan, cricket umpire
Rohan Smith, former AFL player
Mangok Mathiang (born 1992), Australian-Sudanese basketball player for Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League, former NBA player

See also

Mount St. Joseph Girls' College
List of schools in Victoria
Education in Victoria

References

External links
Emmanuel College Website

Catholic secondary schools in Melbourne
Associated Catholic Colleges
Educational institutions established in 1965
1965 establishments in Australia
Marianist schools
Buildings and structures in the City of Hobsons Bay
Buildings and structures in the City of Wyndham


Sino-Ocean Group Holding Limited is an investment holding company that engages in the property investment and development activities in the People's Republic of China. The company develops real estate projects such as mid to high-end residential properties and also invests in and operates urban complexes, office buildings.

It also provides property management. For instance, its service includes community O2O and equity investment. In addition, the company is involved in the logistic property, real estate financing, pension, real estate fund, and environmental technology businesses.

The company was formerly known as Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited and changed its name to Sino-Ocean Group Holding Limited in May 2016.

See also
Real estate in China

References

External links

Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Companies based in Beijing
Real estate companies of China
Government-owned companies of China
Companies in the Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index
COSCO Shipping
Sinochem Group


This is a list of historical rate actions by the United States Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC controls the supply of credit to banks and the sale of treasury securities. The Federal Open Market Committee meets every two months during the fiscal year. At scheduled meetings, the FOMC meets and makes any changes it sees as necessary, notably to the federal funds rate and the discount rate.  The committee may also take actions with a less firm target, such as an increasing liquidity by the sale of a set amount of Treasury bonds, or affecting the price of currencies both foreign and domestic by selling dollar reserves (such as during the Mexican peso bailout in 1994). Jerome Powell is the current chairperson of the Federal Reserve and the FOMC.

Famous actions

Operation Twist (1961)
The Federal Open Market Committee action known as Operation Twist (named for the twist dance craze of the time) began in 1961. The intent was to flatten the yield curve in order to promote capital inflows and strengthen the dollar. The Fed utilized open market operations to shorten the maturity of public debt in the open market. It performs the 'twist' by selling some of the short term debt (with three years or less to maturity) it purchased as part of the quantitative easing policy back into the market and using the money received from this to buy longer term government debt. Although this action was marginally successful in reducing the spread between long-term maturities and short-term maturities, Vincent Reinhart and others have suggested it did not continue for a sufficient period of time to be effective.  Despite being considered a failure since a 1966 near-term analysis by Franco Modigliani and Richard Sutch, the action has subsequently been reexamined and in a 2011 paper economist Eric Swanson of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has suggested that "Operation Twist" was more effective than originally thought.  Swanson suggested similar action as an alternative to quantitative easing by central banks; the FOMC did in fact take an analogous action in 2011.

Saturday Night Massacre (1979)
Inflation in the US was persistent in the 1970s. Year-on-year inflation bottomed at 5% in December 1976 before moving higher once again. Paul Volcker was chosen as Fed Chairman in 1979 in order to deal with the challenge of high inflation. In a rare Saturday press conference on October 6, 1979, Paul Volcker's federal reserve increased the Fed Funds rate from 11% to 12%. The event was known as the "Saturday Night Massacre" because of its effect on US bond prices.

Quantitative Easing 1 (QE1, December 2008 to March 2010)
"On November 25, 2008, the Federal Reserve announced that it would purchase up to $600 billion in agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and agency debt. However, these purchases were to have no impact on the balance sheet, and would have been sterilized by Treasury sales by the SOMA desk. On December 1, Chairman Bernanke provided further details in a speech. On December 16 the program was formally approved by the FOMC, however their approval was not required as the SOMA desk was already authorized to acquire Agency debt and MBS as part of their OMOs.  On March 18, 2009, the FOMC announced that the program would be expanded by an additional $750 billion in purchases of agency MBS and agency debt and $300 billion in purchases of Treasury securities. These purchases would be unsterilized and this date more appropriately marks the beginning of QE in the US.

Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) (December 2008 to December 2015)
In August 2007, the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) target for the federal funds rate was 5.25 percent. Sixteen months later, with the financial crisis in full swing, the FOMC had lowered the target for the federal funds rate to nearly zero, thereby entering the unfamiliar territory of having to conduct monetary policy with the policy interest rate at its effective lower bound. The unusual severity of the recession and ongoing strains in financial markets made the challenges facing monetary policymakers all the greater.

In the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the Federal Open Market Committee decided to lower overnight interest rates to zero to help with easing of money and credit. Over the past five years, the Federal Reserve has acted to support economic growth and foster job creation, and it is important to achieve further progress, particularly in the labor market. Taking due account of the uncertainties and limits of its policy tools, the Federal Reserve will provide additional policy accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability.

Quantitative Easing 2 (QE2, November 2010 to June 2011)
On November 3, 2010, the Fed announced that it would purchase $600 billion of longer dated treasuries, at a rate of $75 billion per month. That program, popularly known as "QE2", concluded in June 2011.

Operation Twist (2011)
The Federal Open Market Committee concluded its September 21, 2011 Meeting at about 2:15 p.m. EDT by announcing the implementation of Operation Twist. This is a plan to purchase $400 billion of bonds with maturities of 6 to 30 years and to sell bonds with maturities less than 3 years, thereby extending the average maturity of the Fed's own portfolio. This is an attempt to do what Quantitative Easing (QE) tries to do, without printing more money and without expanding the Fed's balance sheet, therefore hopefully avoiding the inflationary pressure associated with QE. This announcement brought a bout of risk aversion in the equity markets and strengthened the US Dollar, whereas QE I had weakened the USD and supported the equity markets.
Further, on June 20, 2012, the Federal Open Market Committee announced an extension to the Twist programme by adding additionally $267 billion thereby extending it throughout 2012.

Quantitative Easing 3 (QE3, September 2012 to December 2013)
On September 13, 2012, the Federal Reserve announced a third round of quantitative easing (QE3). This new round of quantitative easing provided for an open-ended commitment to purchase $40 billion agency mortgage-backed securities per month until the labor market improves "substantially". Some economists believe that Scott Sumner's blog on nominal income targeting played a role in popularizing the "wonky, once-eccentric policy" of "unlimited QE".

The Federal Open Market Committee voted to expand its quantitative easing program further on December 12, 2012. This round continued to authorize up to $40 billion worth of agency mortgage-backed securities per month and added $45 billion worth of longer-term Treasury securities. The outright Treasury purchases as part of the augmented program continued at a pace comparable to that under "Operation Twist"; however, the Federal Reserve could no longer sell short-dated Treasury securities to buy longer-dated ones since they had insufficient holdings of short-dated Treasuries.

On December 18, 2013, the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee announced they would be tapering back on QE3 at a rate of $10 billion at each meeting. The Federal Reserve ended its monthly asset purchases program (QE3) in October 2014, ten months after it began the tapering process.

December 2015 historic interest rate hike
On December 16, 2015, the Fed increased its key interest rate, the Federal Funds Rate, for the first time since June 2006. The hike was from the range [0%, 0.25%] to the range [0.25%, 0.5%].

March 2020 Coronavirus interest rate cut
In an emergency decision the rate was cut by half a percentage point on March 3, 2020, to 1–1.25% in response to the risk that the Coronavirus pandemic in the United States poses to the American economy. It was the first emergency cut since the financial crisis of 2007–08.

March 2020 Coronavirus bond buying program
In an effort to calm markets and sustain market liquidity, the Federal Reserve announced to buy corporate debt in a series of emergency lending programs on March 23, 2020.
By July 2020, it has purchased $3 trillion financial assets, increasing its balance sheet from $4.2 trillion in February to $7 trillion.
Since August 2020, it was committed to monthly bond-buying program. By January 2021, its balance sheet stood at $7.3 trillion. It continued to pledge bond purchases in the pace of $120 billion a month to allow the economy to recover from the pandemic over the second half of the year as vaccinations against COVID-19 roll out.

Historical actions
Currently, this only shows meetings, both scheduled and unscheduled "emergency" meetings.  The FOMC makes a number of other important pronouncements as well such as during testimony to Congress whose effects are harder to quantify.

References

External links
 An analysis of The FED of San Francisco on the Operation Twist

History of the Federal Reserve System
Monetary policy of the United States


Who Loves the Sun is a 2006 Canadian film directed and written by Matt Bissonnette and starring Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott, R.H. Thomson, and Wendy Crewson.

Plot
Will Morrison (Lukas Haas) and Daniel Bloom (Adam Scott) were best friends. Daniel was Will's best man at his wedding to Maggie Claire (Molly Parker). Then one day Will disappeared without a word. Five years later, he resurfaces.
When Will and Daniel meet again, they go together to the docks to pick up Maggie, who slaps Will the minute she sees him.

Apparently, five years ago, Will walked in on Daniel and Maggie having sex, which Maggie said later was a one time thing. His sudden disappearance without any explanation upset her and now she demands an explanation. Will finally apologizes for that.

Daniel kisses Maggie and hopes to rekindle things with her. He had kept writing her throughout the many years of Will's absence with no response. Maggie refuses him, tells him it had been a great mistake. He spends the rest of the night drinking, having a conversation with his mom before she goes to bed. Very early the next morning, Daniel and his dad go fishing, where his dad inadvertently tells him that his mom's affair produced him. After Daniel confronts his mom, she tells him that it was with Will's dad, also finally explaining why Will's dad disappeared. Overwhelmed, with both having a different father and Will as his half-brother, disappears.

All four spend time looking for Daniel, eventually deciding to wait for him to show himself. Maggie and Will finally have some time alone, say they love one another, spend the night together and she sneaks off and away early the next morning. Daniel catches her as she's leaving, and she asks him to give Will an explanation. He, very generously, encourages him to reconnect with her and try to start over. The final scene is of the two boys having breakfast with Daniel's parents, as a family.

Cast
 Lukas Haas as Will Morrison
 Molly Parker as Maggie Claire
 Adam Scott as Daniel Bloom
 Wendy Crewson as Mary Bloom
 R.H. Thomson as Arthur Bloom

Production
The film was shot in the Canadian Shield.

Awards

 2006 AFI Fest - Grand Jury Prize - Nominated - Matt Bissonnette
 2007 WorldFest Houston - Bronze Award for Best Film - Won
 2007 Beverly Hills Film Festival for Best Female Performance - Molly Parker - Won
 2007 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Nominated - Molly Parker
 2008 Mississauga Independent Film Festival - Best Feature Film - Won
 2011 Film North – Huntsville International Film Festival - Film North Best Feature Award - Won

References

External links

2006 films
Canadian romantic comedy-drama films
English-language Canadian films
2006 romantic comedy-drama films
2006 comedy films
2006 drama films
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Matt Bissonnette
2000s Canadian films


Cát Tiên is a district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

As of 2003 the district had a population of 41,706 and includes the historic centre with one of the greatest concentrations of the Mạ people.  The district covers an area of 428 km². The district capital lies at Cát Tiên.

The district is in the southwest of the province. It borders Đăk R'Lấp in Đắk Nông province to the north, Bù Đăng in Bình Phước province to the northwest and west, Tân Phú District, Đồng Nai in the south, and Đạ Tẻh and Bảo Lâm in the east. The upper sources of the Đồng Nai River are in the district. The Đa Dâng River is the northern, southern and western boundary of the district.

The district consists of small mountains and hills as the Central Highlands dissipates into plains. The average elevation is 400 m. The soil is rich and moist. The area is often flooded during the monsoon.

The northern sector of Cát Tiên National Park, called Cát Loc, is in the district as is the Cát Tiên archaeological site.

As of 2018, the district is divided into two townships (Cát Tiên and Phước Cát) and nine communes (Đồng Nai Thượng, Đức Phổ, Gia Viễn, Mỹ Lâm, Nam Ninh, Phước Cát 2, Quảng Ngãi, Tiên Hoàng, and Tư Nghĩa).

91% of the population works in agriculture. The most important crops are soybeans, strawberries and wheat. Buffaloes can also be seen grazing in the area.

The district was created in 1987 due to the division of Đạ Huoai into the districts of Đạ Huoai, Đạ Tẻh and Cát Tiên.

See also
 Cát Tiên archaeological site
 Cát Tiên National Park

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Exapion ulicis (formerly Apion ulicis) is a species of straight-snouted weevil known by the general common name Gorse Seed Weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against Common Gorse (Ulex europaeus), which is classified as a noxious weed in some countries.

The adult weevil is light gray in color with a long snout half as long as its body. It is 2 to 3 millimeters long in total. The adult feeds on gorse by digging into the soft tissue of the stem and spines with its snout, creating characteristic round holes as evidence. The larva does more damage, however. It emerges from its egg inside the gorse seed pod and feeds on the seeds for six to eight weeks.   The larva then pupates for about two months.

This weevil is native to western Europe. It was first introduced to New Zealand in 1931 and to California as an agent of gorse control in the 1950s. It is currently established in gorse populations in the western United States and in Hawaii. Destruction of seeds may reduce the spread of gorse, which is the main method of biological control by this weevil. It does not eliminate existing stands of the plant, since the adults do not do enough damage to destroy or significantly weaken whole plants.

References

 Coombs, E. M., et al., Eds. (2004). Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United States. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 179.

External links

 hear.org Photo gallery

Brentidae
Insects used for control of invasive plants
Biological pest control beetles
Beetles of New Zealand
Beetles described in 1771


In Māori tradition, Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi (also known as Māhuhu) was one of the great ocean-going, voyaging canoes that was used in the migrations that settled New Zealand.

According to Māori traditions, the waka Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi explored the upper reaches of the North Island north of the Kaipara Harbour during early Māori settlement of New Zealand. Its crew explored Whangaroa, Tākou and Whangaruru. They continued south before returning to Pārengarenga and sailing down the west coast.

On the west coast there are two narratives of the captaincy of Māhuhu. Te Roroa people of the Waipoua forest say the Māhuhu canoe was captained by Whakatau and called at Kawerua on the west coast of the North Island where Whakatau's son married a local. The alternative narrative, told by the Te Uri-o-Hau and Te Taoū (from the Ngāti Whātua tribe of Helensville and Auckland) has Māhuhu under the command of Rongomai and stopping not at Kawerua but Tāporapora Island in the Kaipara Harbour (this island no longer exists). Rongomai was drowned when the canoe overturned after visiting the island and his body was eaten by the araara or trevally fish. Because of this incident, the Nga Puhi and Te Rarawa iwi who claim descent from Rongomai, did not dare to eat the trevally in the times before they embraced Christianity. The tradition then tells of Māhuhu heading back north to Rangaunu Harbour where the crew eventually settled. At the end of its service the waka was interred in a creek, Te Waipopo-o-Māhuhu in the Rangaunu Harbour.

As part of the 1990 commemorations of the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Ngāti Whātua made a large waka which also bears the name Māhuhu-ki-te-rangi or Māhuhu-o-te-rangi.

See also
List of Māori waka

References

E. Shortland, Traditions & Superstitions of the New Zealanders (Longman, Brown: London), 1856, 25.
E.R. Tregear, Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, (Lyon and Blair: Lambton Quay), 1891, 20–21.

Māori waka
Māori mythology


Dalian Shide Siwu Football Club () was a Chinese professional football club which was formed to play as a foreign team in Singapore's S.League in 2008.

The club was a satellite team of the Chinese Super League club Dalian Shide. Players from Dalian Shide's reserve and youth team made up the majority of its S.League squad.

The team played their home games at the Queenstown Stadium.

As part of a sponsorship deal with Trump Dragon Distillers, Dalian Shide's Singapore team took on the name Dalian Shide Siwu.

In 2008, the club took over Liaoning Guangyuan's position in the S.League. The club aimed for a top-six finish in their first season in 2008 and also targeted for the league title by 2010.

In 2009, the Football Association of Singapore has decided not to invite them to participate in the S.League again, they were replaced by Brunei DPMM FC.

2008 Squad

Former technical staff

 Team Manager: Liu Jiang Wei
 Head Coach: Pei Yong Jin

Notable players that plays in the Chinese Super League

  Wang Guoming
  Zheng Jianfeng
  Jiang Jihong
  Lü Peng
  Wang Liang
  Zhao Honglüe
  Xue Ya'nan
  Ni Yusong
  Bi Jinhao
  Guo Wei

Seasons
As of the end of 2008 season

Sponsors

 Main Sponsor: Trump Dragon Distillers
 Kit Supplier: Adidas

References

External links
 S.League website page on Dalian Shide Siwu FC
 S.League 2008 Fixtures
 Chinese Super League side Dalian Shide set for S.League bow
 Dalian Shide to field team in S.League
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Dalian Shide F.C.
Foreign teams in Singapore football leagues
Expatriated football clubs
2008 establishments in Singapore
Singapore Premier League clubs


Đạ Huoai is a rural district of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 34,039. The district covers an area of 490 km². The district capital lies at Ma Đa Guôi.

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Di Linh (; ) is a district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

As of 2003, the district had a population of 154,472. The district covers an area of 1,628 km². The district capital lies at Di Linh.

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Đạ Tẻh is a rural district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 48,590. The district covers an area of 524 km². The district capital lies at Đạ Tẻh.

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Đam Rông is a rural district of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. As of 2009 the district had a population of 38,400. The district covers an area of 892.2 km². The district capital lies at Đam Rông.

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Đơn Dương is a district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

As of 2003 the district had a population of 92,260. The district covers an area of 612 km². The district capital lies at Thạnh Mỹ.

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Đức Trọng is a rural district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam. Đức Trọng is located at the center of Lâm Đồng Province. Liên Nghĩa Town (thị trấn), the district capital, is 30 km to the south of Đà Lạt. National Highway No. 20 (Đà Lạt - Hồ Chí Minh City) and National Highway No. 27 (Đà Lạt - Ban Mê Thuột) run through the district. It also has two highways connecting Đà Lạt and the central coastal provinces.

The district is subdivided into one town (Liên Nghĩa) and 13 communes (xã): Hiệp Thạnh, Hiệp An, Liên Hiệp, Bình Thạnh, N'Thôl Hạ, Tân Hội, Tân Thành, Phú Hội, Ninh Gia, Tà Hine, Ninh Loan, Đà Loan, and Tà Năng.

Pongour Waterfall, well known as "Seven-Floor Fall" (Thác Bảy Tầng) or "the First Waterfall of the South" (Nam thiên đệ nhất thác) is an attractive tourist site of Đức Trọng.

As of 2003 the district had a population of 161,232. The district covers an area of 902 km2. The district capital lies at Liên Nghĩa.

Climate

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


The Blakely Bernardi is an automobile produced in the 1980s by Blakely Auto Works (also called Bernardi Auto Works in some references) of Princeton, Wisconsin, USA. Blakely produced a number of automobile models, including the Bearcat and Bantam. This model is named after Enrico Bernardi, Italian inventor of the gasoline internal-combustion engine and automobile pioneer. The Bernardi was available as a completed car or as a kit of parts to be assembled by the buyer.

Design and construction

The Bernardi is a neo-classic design reminiscent of the 1950s British MG TD. The chassis is front-engine, rear-wheel drive with the engine located behind the front axle. It has a two-seat cab under a removable hardtop or convertible fabric top, flat windshield, three windshield wipers (like the MGB Mark II), working doors, and detachable side curtains of fiberglass and plexiglass.

In keeping with the traditional look of post-WWII British sports cars, the Bernardi's front fenders stand away from the body, and the headlights perch on stalks between the fenders and the hood. There is a functional, though fairly small, trunk in the back and a trunk-mounted external luggage rack. A small bench behind the seats was available as a factory option, with enough room to store small packages or accommodate a stereo system. Cars without the bench are equipped with a two-point chromed roll bar behind the cab, which fits beneath the convertible roof. While the body style and proportions generally mimic the MG-TD, the Bernardi is noticeably larger in body width and has sufficient room under the hood easily to accommodate an American small-block V8 engine.

An overview of the build process for a Bernardi Blakely appeared in Kit Car World and gave significant detail about the Bernardi's general structure and some of its construction options. The basic construction is a Body-on-frame design with a fiberglass body mounted on a pre-fabricated metal chassis. The factory-provided chassis is a custom ladder frame built of  by  rectangular steel tubing with a 5/16th inch wall thickness. The factory attached fuel and brake plumbing, as well the tail-light wiring bundle, to the frame before shipping.

The mechanical components, including engine, suspension, and transmission, could be drawn from the Ford Pinto, Mercury Bobcat, or Ford Mustang II. Based on these donor choices, the suspension is relatively unsophisticated, with a solid rear axle mounted on quarter-elliptical leaf springs. The donor leaf springs are cut approximately in half, with just one of the halves on each side of the differential making up the rear springing. The rear axle is actually mounted above the side rails of the frame, which keeps the frame design simple but limits the axle's vertical range of movement. The front suspension is a somewhat sportier double-wishbone design, built from the donor car's lower A-arm and a custom upper A-arm, with coil-over shocks and the donor's disk brakes.

The car's body was built at the factory and featured an unusual form of fiberglass construction. Instead of a single layer of fiberglass, as is common in other kit cars, the Bernardi body tub (the portion between the passenger compartment and the frame or road) and other body components used a composite sandwich consisting of one layer of fiberglass, one of stiff plastic foam, and finally a second layer of fiberglass. The result is a heavier body than usual for kit cars, but one with reputedly greater stiffness and sound absorption than the single-layer approach. The colors for the visible parts of the body are molded into the fiberglass body parts as Gelcoat and the cars often appear with two-tone color schemes where the body color contrasts with the fenders and running boards.

The factory attached the body's doors, windshield, hood, and trunk lid before shipping the kit to the buyer. Major mounting points between the body and the chassis were also pre-drilled at the factory with the body placed on the chassis, so that these items would line up properly when the buyer began assembling the vehicle. The Bernardi's complete hood tilts forward for easy access to the engine area, and is trimmed at the front with chrome-work from the Oldsmobile Cutlass.

The vehicle's interior upholstery was provided, in the form of pre-cut carpet, door trim, seat covers, a tonneau cover, and dash upholstery. When completed, the Bernardi interior is similar to a commercial automobile's, with upholstery or trim for all interior fiberglass panels. The dash is finished with vinyl fabric, and contains the speedometer, tachometer, and several engine gauges in the center console. The doors are also fabric-trimmed, with elastic-topped map pouches on both sides. Vents are installed in the dash to direct heated air to the windshield and to passenger seating positions. Despite these advanced features, contemporary reports suggest that the buyer's assembly time for the Bernardi was expected to be a relatively low 100 to 120 hours.

The car has options for several types of engine. The smallest recommended powerplants included the 1.6 liter, 2 liter, or 2.3 liter 4-cylinder Ford Pinto / Bobcat engines used by the smaller Blakely Bantam. The Bernardi chassis is also amenable to larger engines like a 2.8 liter Ford or Chevrolet / Pontiac V6, and even the small-block Ford V8. All engine types mount behind the front axle, making the chassis a front-mid-engine design with the attendant benefits in front-rear weight balance and low polar moment of inertia. Although the Bernardi was marketed as comfortable touring car, the car's combination of chassis layout, low weight, and V8 engine option resemble aggressive sports designs like the AC Cobra.

Current status

The Blakely Bernardi was expensive for its time and marketplace. The company's 1984 price list listed the full set of kit parts at $US 8,495. To complete the car, the buyer would have to provide a donor car and optionally an additional engine. Blakely also offered a completed turnkey car for $US 19,900 to $US 22,900 depending on the engine choice. In 1984, driving a base-model Chevrolet Corvette off the dealer's lot cost around $US 22,000  and delivered a sportier suspension, better interior comfort, and a standard V8 engine.

A kit car's value lies not just in the cost of the car or its components, so a comparison with the Corvette's cost may not be fair. The Bernardi competed more directly against other neo-classic sports-car kits. Although the Bernardi offered superior body quality and the authentic front-engine design of the sports cars it resembled, its body and chassis were more complicated and costly than those of kits based on the Volkswagen Beetle, like the Fiberfab Migi MG-TD replica. These VW-based kits are much more common across the United States. Blakely Bernardis, although regularly appearing for sale at specialty dealers, do not have the contemporary high visibility of many other kit models.

References

External links
History of Blakely automobiles
Blakely Car blog
Do-it-yourselfer's dream: The real fun of building a kit car is driving it when it's finished! Article from Popular Mechanics, October 1981

Sports cars
Kit cars


Doar is the surname of an aristocratic family in the southern United States.  Prior to the American Civil War, family members were among the largest landowners in the South. The family's fortune in the U.S. originates mainly from plantations in Charleston, Georgetown, Berkeley, Orangeburg, Barnwell and Beaufort Counties, South Carolina. Among the plantations that the Doar family owned are: Doar Plantation, Doar Point Plantation, Palo Alto (now part of the University Of South Carolina International Center for Public Health Research), Harrietta (on the National Register of Historic Places including the Doar Family Cemetery), Woodville, Walnut Grove, Montgomery, Oak Grove, Buck Hall, Egremont, Elmwood, Woodside, Hopsewee (National Register of Historic Places and birthplace of Thomas Lynch, Jr., who signed the Declaration of Independence), Wedge and Windsor.

The Doars are related to other historic families including the Cordes, Duval, Porcher de Richbourg, Lucas, Gadsden, Screven, Heyward, Pinckney, Horry, Middleton, Hume, Heyward and the De Wolf family among others. They are included in Our Family Circle, which is a (private) guide to the Who's Who of Southern Families.

The Doars were among the founding members of the Church of England in the southeastern U.S. and were instrumental in helping to open the first public schools in the south, mainly in Charleston County, SC.

Doar Point (a geographical location) is on the S.C. coast.

Doar Road (State Road 432), Charleston to Awendaw, SC

See also
 List of most common surnames in North America

References

Sources
 Doar, David. 1936. Rice and Rice Planting in the South Carolina Lowcountry
 University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies

External links
 http://src1.cas.sc.edu/dept2/iss/SCNames/index.php?action=showPage&book=2&volume=14&page=35 - 35k - Cached - Similar pages
 http://src1.cas.sc.edu/dept2/iss/SCNames/index.php?action=showPage&book=1&volume=3&page=12
 South Carolina SC Plantations

 St. James-Santee Chapel of Ease | Wayback Machine
 McCLELLANVILLE EPISCOPAL CHURCH (c. 1890) | St. James-Santee Episcopal Church
 ST. JAMES SANTEE, PLANTATION PARISH, HISTORY AND RECORDS, 1685-1925

Families


Lạc Dương is a district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

As of 2003 the district had a population of 16,081. The district covers an area of 1,231 km². The district capital lies at Lạc Dương.

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Lâm Hà is a district (huyện) of Lâm Đồng province in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam.

Lâm Hà is the destination of Hanoians going to reclaim virgin soil, showing in its name: Lâm is from Lâm Đồng and Hà is the short form of Hanoi.

Lâm Hà is the home of a famous product: King- offering bananas named Laba. A tourist attraction here is Elephant waterfall ().

As of 2003, the district had a population of 135,809. The district covers an area of 979 km². The district capital lies at Đình Văn.

References

Districts of Lâm Đồng province


Bắc Sơn is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 65,073. The district covers an area of 698 km2. The district capital lies at Bắc Sơn.

Administrative divisions
Bắc Sơn, Long Đống, Quỳnh Sơn, Bắc Sơn, Hữu Vĩnh, Chiêu Vũ, Hưng Vũ, Trấn Yên, Nhất Tiến, Nhất Hòa, Vũ Lăng, Vũ Sơn, Vũ Lễ, Tân Thành, Tân Hương, Tân Lập, Tân Tri, Chiến Thắng, Đồng Ý, Vạn Thủy.

Climate

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Bình Gia is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 54,349. The district covers an area of 1,091 km2. The district capital lies at Bình Gia.

Administrative divisions
Bình Gia, Tô Hiệu, Hoàng Văn Thụ, Tân Văn, Hồng Thái, Mông Ân, Hồng Phong, Thiện Hòa, Thiện Long, Thiện Thuật,  Yên Lỗ, Hưng Đạo, Hoa Thám, Bình La, Minh Khai, Quang Trung, Quý Hòa, Tân Hòa, Hòa Bình, Vĩnh Yên.

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Cao Lộc is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 75,980. The district covers an area of 644 km². The district capital lies at Cao Lộc.

Administrative divisions
Cao Lộc, Đồng Đăng (site of the border crossing), Tân Thành, Xuân Long, Yên Trạch, Tân Liên, Gia Cát, Cống Sơn, Mẫu Sơn, Xuất Lễ, Cao Lâu, Hải Yến, Lộc Yên, Thanh Lòa, Hòa Cư, Hợp Thành, Thạch Đạn, Bảo Lâm, Thụy Hùng, Song Giáp, Phú Xá, Bình Trung, Hồng Phong.

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Chi Lăng is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeastern region of Vietnam. It is famous for many decisive battles at Chi Lăng pass in which the Vietnamese defeated the Chinese invaders.

As of 2003, the district had a population of 77,910. The district covers an area of 703 km2. The district capital lies at Đồng Mỏ.

Chi Lăng pass was the site of many battles between feudal Vietnam and northern armies. Lý Thường Kiệt, Trần Hưng Đạo and Lê Lợi were among the army leaders that won battles in the district. Nowadays, many streets and places across Vietnam are named after the Chi Lăng pass, most notably the Chi Lăng Stadium in Da Nang.

Geography

Chi Lang district is located in the south of Lạng Sơn province, 106 km from Hà Nội city, 35 km from Lạng Sơn city, with the geographical location:
East: borders Lộc Bình district
North: borders Cao Lộc, Văn Quan districts and Lạng Sơn city
West: border with Văn Quan district
Southwest: borders Hữu Lũng district
South: borders Lục Ngạn district, Bắc Giang province.

Chi Lăng district has an area of 707.45 km2, and the population in 2019 is 75,063. The district capital is Dồng Mỏ town, located on the National Route 1.

Chi Lăng is a mountainous district, with the famous Chi Lang pass. Chi Lang topography is divided by many hills, rivers and streams, the topography gradually slopes from the northeast to the southwest, the slope is quite large, especially the communes located along the Huu Kien massif. The highest place in the east of the district is also the border between Lộc Bình district, Lạng Sơn province and Lục Ngạn district, Bắc Giang province with the highest peak of 975 m, the lowest place is in the south of the district with an altitude of 35m, in Chi Lang town.

Chi Lăng district has the main river upstream of Thương River. Thương River originates from the high mountainous Na Pha Phuoc 600 m high, belongs to Bắc Thủy commune at the top northeast of Chi Lăng district. The river flows in the northeast-southwest direction, down to Hữu Lũng district to join the Trung river. (There are documents that consider the Trung River to be the main branch of the Thuong River, originating in the mountainous southeast of Vo Nhai district, Thai Nguyen province, flowing into Hữu Lũng district, confluence with the river branch flowing from Chi Lăng district).

Chi Lăng is located in the transitional position between the wet and rainy sub-region in the west, the cold sub-region with little rainfall in the east, and is influenced by the northern mountainous climate. Average annual temperature 22.7 °C annual average rainfall is 1,379mm. In 2019, the average population of Chi Lang is 75,063 people, accounting for 9.6% of the population of the whole province, the average population density is 106 people / km2, higher than the average of the province, with many different ethnic groups. live. Nearly 74% of the population lives in rural areas and in agricultural production, urban population about 26%

Administrative divisions
The district consists of two towns: Đồng Mỏ and Chi Lăng, and 18 communes: Bắc Thủy, Bằng Hữu, Bằng Mạc, Chi Lăng, Chiến Thắng, Gia Lộc, Hòa Bình, Hữu Kiên, Lâm Sơn, Liên Sơn, Mai Sao, Nhân Lý, Quan Sơn, Thượng Cường, Vân An, Vạn Linh, Vân Thủy and Y Tịch.

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Đình Lập is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeastern region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 28,125. The district covers an area of 1,183 km2. The district capital lies at Đình Lập.

Administrative divisions
Đình Lập, Nông Trường Thái Bình, Lâm Ca, Đồng Thắng, Bắc Lãng, Châu Sơn,  Cường Lợi, Thái Bình, Đình Lập, Bính Xá, Kiên Mộc, Bắc Xa.

Climate

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Hữu Lũng is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 114,638 . The district covers an area of 805 km2. The district capital lies at Hữu Lũng.

Administration subdivisions
Capital: Hữu Lũng Township (the only township in the district)
Communes: 25 communes:
Commune of Hòa Thắng
Commune of Minh Hòa
Commune of Minh Sơn
Commune of Sơn Hà
Commune of Hồ Sơn
Commune of Tân Thành
Commune of Hòa Sơn
Commune of Hòa Lạc
Commune of Yên Sơn
Commune of Cai Kinh
Commune of Đồng Tân
Commune of Nhật Tiến
Commune of Minh Tiến
Commune of Đô Lương
Commune of Vân Nham
Commune of Đồng Tiến
Commune of Thanh Sơn
Commune of Thiện Ky
Commune of Tân Lập
Commune of Quyết Thắng
Commune of Yên Bình
Commune of Hòa Bình
Commune of Yên Vượng
Commune of Yên Thịnh
Commune of Hữu Liên

Climate

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Lộc Bình is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. In 2003, the district had a population of 80,517. The district covers an area of 998 km². The district capital is Na Dương.

Administrative divisions

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 Lộc Bình
 Na Dương
 Ái Quốc
 Xuân Dương
 Hữu Lân
 Nam Quan
 Minh Phát
 Đông Quan
 Hiệp Hạ
 Xuân Tình
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 Như Khuê
 Nhượng Bạn
 Quan Bản
 Lục Thôn
 Vân Mộng
 Bằng Khánh
 Xuân Lễ
 Xuân Mãn
 Đồng Bục
 Hữu Khánh
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 Mẫu Sơn
 Yên Khoái
 Tú Mịch
 Tú Đoạn
 Khuất Xá
 Tam Gia
 Tĩnh Bắc
 Sàn Viên
 Lợi Bác

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Tràng Định is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeastern region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 62,869. The district covers an area of . The district capital lies at Thất Khê.

Administrative divisions
1 town: Thất Khê

22 communes: Khánh Long, Đoàn Kết, Cao Minh, Tân Yên, Vĩnh Tiến, Tân Tiến, Bắc Ái, Kim Đồng, Chí Minh, Chi Lăng, Đề Thám, Hùng Sơn Hùng Việt, Kháng Chiến, Đại Đồng, Tri Phương, Quốc Khánh, Đội Cấn, Tân Minh, Trung Thành, Quốc Việt, Đào Viên

Climate

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Văn Quan is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 57,050. The district covers an area of 549 km². The district capital lies at Văn Quan.

Administrative divisions
Văn Quan, Hữu Lễ, Tri Lễ, Yên Phúc, Bình Phúc, Lương Năng, Tú Xuyên, Tràng Sơn, Xuân Mai, Tràng Phái, Tân Đoàn, Tràng Các, Đồng Giáp, Chu Túc, Đại An, Văn An, Vĩnh Lai, Hòa Bình, Vân Mộng, Việt Yên, Phú Mỹ, Trấn Ninh, Song Giang, Khánh Khê.

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Văn Lãng is a rural district of Lạng Sơn province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 50,210. The district covers an area of 561 km². The district capital lies at Na Sầm.

References

Districts of Lạng Sơn province
Lạng Sơn province


Exapion is a genus of straight-snouted weevils.

Species include:
Exapion formaniki
Exapion fuscirostre - Scotch broom seed weevil
Exapion malvae
Exapion putoni
Exapion ulicis - gorse seed weevil

Several Exapion species were formerly included in genus Apion.

References

External links

 CTD species list

Brentidae


Bảo Thắng is a rural district (huyện) of Lào Cai province in the Northeast region of Vietnam.

As of 2020, the district had a population of 103,262. The district covers an area of 651.98 km². The district capital lies at Phố Lu.

History
The administrative unit of Bảo Thắng was first established in 1059 by the Lý dynasty.

Administrative divisions
Bảo Thắng district is subdivided to 14 commune-level subdivisions, including the townships of Phố Lu, Nông trường Phong Hải, Tằng Loỏng and the rural communes of:  Bản Cầm, Bản Phiệt, Gia Phú, Phong Niên, Phú Nhuận, Sơn Hà, Sơn Hải, Thái Niên, Trì Quang, Xuân Giao, Xuân Quang.

References

Districts of Lào Cai province
Lào Cai province


Bảo Yên is a rural district of Lào Cai province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 73,924. The district covers an area of 821 km2. The district capital lies at Phố Ràng.
The Giáy language is spoken in some parts of the district by local minorities.
The planned Sapa Airport will be built in this district.

Administrative divisions
Phố Ràng (district capital), Long Khánh, Long Phúc, Việt Tiến, Lương Sơn, Yên Sơn, Xuân Thượng, Minh Tân, Bảo Hà, Cam Con, Kim Sơn, Điện Quan, Thượng Hà, Tân Dương, Xuân Hòa, Vĩnh Yên, Nghĩa Đô and Tân Tiến.

Climate

References

Districts of Lào Cai province
Lào Cai province


Bát Xát is a rural district of Lào Cai province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 62,477. The district covers an area of 1,050 km2. The district capital lies at Bát Xát.

Administrative divisions
Bát Xát, Cốc San, Tòng Sanh, Phìn Ngan, Quang Kim, Bản Qua, Mường Vị, Bản Vược, Bản Xèo, Pa Cheo, Nậm Pung, Trung Lènh Hồ, Mường Hum, Dền Thàng, Sáng Ma Sáo, Dền Sáng, Cốc Mỳ, Y Tý, Ngải Thầu, A Lù, A Mú Sung, Nậm Chạc and Trịnh Tường.

References

Districts of Lào Cai province
Lào Cai province


Bắc Hà is a rural district of Lào Cai province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. It is the capital of the region of the Flower Hmong, one of the 54 minorities of Vietnam and one of the six groups of Hmong people. It is famous for its Sunday morning market, where thousands of locals gather, with the women dressed in their very intricate handmade costumes (it takes three to five months to embroider one by hand), as well as the Saturday morning smaller market of Cán Cấu,  north of Bắc Hà. The town is enjoying an economic boom thanks to tourism, centered on the markets and, more and more, excellent trekking in the mountains north of the town.

Bắc Hà was the location at which the adventure sport competition "Raid Gauloises" was held in 2002. Bắc Hà is also famous for its Tam Hoa plums; the flowers of the tree must bloom three times before the fruits are ripe. As of 2003, the district had a population of 48,988. The district covers an area of . The district capital lies at Bắc Hà.

Administrative divisions
Bắc Hà (district capital), Bản Phố, Bản Liền, Bản Già, Bảo Nhai, Bản Cái, Cốc Ly, Cốc Lầu, Nậm Mòn, Nậm Khánh, Nậm Đét, Na Hối, Lầu Thí Ngài, Lùng Phìn, Lùng Cải, Tả Củ Tỷ, Tả Van Chư, Tà Chải, Thải Giàng Phố, Hoàng Thu Phố and Nậm Lúc.

Climate

References

Districts of Lào Cai province
Hmong
Lào Cai province


Mường Khương is a rural district of Lào Cai province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. Mường is as variation of  Mueang. As of 2003, the district had a population of 48,242. The district covers an area of 552 km². The district capital lies at Mường Khương.

Administrative divisions
Mường Khương, Lào Ca, Cao Sơn, Bản Lầu, Nậm Chảy, Tung Chung Phố, Tả Gia Khâu, Pha Long, Dìn Chin, Tả Ngải Chồ, Thanh Bình, Bản Sen, Lùng Khấu Nhin, La Pan Tẩn, Nấm Lư, Tả Thàng and Lùng Vai.

Mường is a variation of  Mueang.

References

Districts of Lào Cai province
Lào Cai province


Si Ma Cai is a rural district of Lào Cai province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 25,554. The district covers an area of 241 km2. The district capital lies at Si Ma Cai.

Administrative divisions
Si Ma Cai, Thào Chư Phìn, Bản Mế, Sán Chải, Lùng Sui, Mản Thẩn, Cán Hồ, Sín Chéng, Lử Thẩn, Quan Thần Sán, Cán Cấu, Nàn Sín and Nàn Sán.

References

Districts of Lào Cai province
Lào Cai province


Văn Bàn is a rural district of Lào Cai province in the Northeastern region of Vietnam. As of 2019, the district had a population of 89,167. The district covers an area of 1,444 km². The district capital lies at Khánh Yên.

The district is located in the southern part of the province, on the right bank of the Red River.

Administrative divisions
Văn Bàn is officially divided into 22 commune-level sub-divisions, including the township of Khánh Yên and 21 rural communes (Chiềng Ken, Dần Thàng, Dương Quỳ, Hòa Mạc, Khánh Yên Hạ, Khánh Yên Thượng, Khánh Yên Trung, Làng Giàng, Liêm Phú, Minh Lương, Nậm Chày, Nậm Mả, Nậm Dạng, Nậm Tha, Nậm Xây, Nậm Xé, Sơn Thủy, Tân An, Tân Thượng, Thẩm Dương, Võ Lao).

References

Districts of Lào Cai province
Lào Cai province


The hermit thrush is a bird native to North America. Hermit Thrush may also refer to:

Hermit Thrush (band), an American folk band active in the mid 1990s whose members later formed the band Dispatch
Thrush Hermit, a Canadian alternative rock band active in the 1990s


Bến Lức is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.  the district had a population of 128,849. The district covers 290 km². The district capital lies at Bến Lức.

Divisions
The district is divided into 15 communes:

 Thị trấn Bến Lức
 Mỹ Yên
 Phước Lợi
 Long Hiệp
 Nhựt Chánh
 Thạnh Đức
 Bình Đức
 An Thạnh
 Thanh Phú
 Tân Bửu
 Tân Hòa
 Lương Hòa
 Thạnh Hòa
 Lương Bình
 Thạnh Lợi

References

Districts of Long An province


Cần Đước is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong River Delta region of Vietnam. Cần Đước is located in the south of Long An. As of 2003 the district had a population of 169,391. The district covers an area of 185 km2. The district capital lies at Cần Đước.

Cần Đước is famous for its Nàng Thơm Chợ Đào Rice.

Divisions
The district is divided into the following communes:

Cần Đước, Long Hựu Đông, Long Hựu Tây, Phước Đông, Tân Chánh, Tân Ân, Tân Lân, Mỹ Lệ, Phước Tuy, Long Trạch, Long Hoà, Tân trạch, Long Sơn, Phước Vân, Long Định, Long Cang and Long Khê.

History
At the beginning, Cần Đước was a small village located in a peninsula created by the Mương Ông Quỳnh and Rach Ben Ba distributaries. In 1698, the present-day Cần Đước belonged to Phiên Trấn fort. In 1808, it belonged to the town of Phiên An. In the 13th year of Minh Mạng's rule (1832), Cần Đước became part of Phước Lộc county, phủ (old subdivision of a province but larger than a county) Tân An, Gia Định Province. In 1867, Cần Đước became a county itself when Phước Lộc became a phủ. In 1871, Phước Lộc was merged into Chợ Lớn Province.

Located in center of Gò Công, Cần Giuộc, and Saigon, Cần Đước is a major rice growing area. It became a major stronghold for Trương Định's guerrilla campaign in southern Vietnam. This campaign is one of the earliest rebellions against the French invasion in defiance of Emperor Tự Đức. Emperor Tự Đức signed the Treaty of Saigon, ceding the three southern provinces of Gia Định, Định Tường and Biên Hòa to France. They became the colony of Cochinchina. Trương Định refused to recognise the treaty and continued guerrilla attacks against French patrols and their Vietnamese collaborators. During this time, many Cần Đước natives became part of the guerrilla leadership. Thong binh duong Bui Quan Dieu, who commanded the famous battle of Cần Giuộc, is from Cần Đước. Nguyen Van Tien, another Cần Đước native, led several groups of guerrilla in the area. He was later captured and killed by the French. After the death of Trương Định on August 19, 1864, Cần Đước became part of another guerrilla campaign against the French authority which was led by Nguyễn Trung Trực.

In the early 20th century, Cần Đước became part of many nationalist movements such as Thiên Địa Hội or the Nguyễn An Ninh society.

After the end of the First Indochina War, Cần Đước became a county part of Chợ Lớn Province in 1954 under the new state of South Vietnam. In 1956, Tân An and part of Chợ Lớn separated into a new province called Long An. Cần Đước then became a county of Long An Province. The government divided Cần Đước into two districts: Cần Đước and Rạch Kiến.

After the end of the Second Indochina War (Vietnam War), Cần Đước restored its original boundaries, as it is today.

References

Districts of Long An province


Pierre's Hole is a shallow valley in the western United States in eastern Idaho, just west of the Teton Range in Wyoming. At an elevation over  above sea level, it collects the headwaters of the Teton River, and was a strategic center of the fur trade of the northern Rocky Mountains. The nearby Jackson's Hole area in Wyoming is on the opposite side of the Tetons.

Today, the Idaho valley in Teton County is known as Teton Basin or Teton Valley. In 1984, it was designated a historic place as the site of the infamous events in the Battle of Pierre's Hole (below), following the well-attended Rendezvous in July 1832.

Historical overview
Explorer and mountain man John Colter, a member of the earlier Lewis and Clark Expedition, asserted that he passed through the valley in 1808.  The Teton River flows northward through the mountain meadows of Pierre's Hole and then conjoins Bitch Creek (once known as the North Fork of the Teton) just before it turns west and into Teton Canyon.  To mountain men, a large low-lying valley, such as this, with abundant beaver and game was called a "hole".  Mountain men preferred these areas of numerous beaver rich streams as they provided ample food and comfortable camping in addition to beaver pelts.  Pierre's Hole was named in honor of "le grand Pierre" Tivanitagon, a Hudson's Bay Company trader said to be of Iroquois descent, who was killed in a battle with Blackfoot Indians in 1827.

Pierre's Hole was the site of the huge Rendezvous of 1832.  Hundreds of mountain men, trappers, Indians and fur company traders met to sell furs or trade for supplies.  At the end of the 1832 rendezvous, an intense battle ensued between a group of Gros Ventre and the party of American trappers aided by their Nez Perce and Flathead allies.

After the fur trade subsided in the 1840s, Teton Basin returned to a quiet summer hunting valley for Native Americans. An Englishman named Richard "Beaver Dick" Leigh came to the Teton region sometime around 1860, and frequently trapped and hunted in Teton Basin and wintered on the lower Teton River near its confluence with the Henry's Fork of the Snake some miles below the basin. Beaver Dick guided F. V. Hayden and his geological survey through the Teton and Yellowstone region in 1872.  He guided the Stevenson party in exploration of Teton Basin and the first ascent of the Grand Teton and guided the entire Hayden Expedition in Yellowstone and in Jackson Hole.  In honor of his service, Leigh Lake in Grand Teton National Park is named after Richard Leigh and Jenny Lake is named after his Indian wife.  Teton Basin, was later settled by Mormon farmers, who used the fertile but elevated valley to graze cattle and raise hay and other feed.

Rendezvous at Pierre's Hole

The 1832 'rendezvous at Pierre's Hole', or 'Rendezvous of 1832' was one of the largest rendezvous held in the Rocky Mountains.  The meeting was held at the west foot of the Three Tetons in Teton County, Idaho.  The basin was accessed from a trail that reached the Snake River from Green River. The trail then branched off towards Pierre's Hole through a gap between the Big Hole Mountains and the Palisades range.

Indian and mountain man camps extended from Teton Creek on the south end of present-day Driggs,  north along the west side of the Teton Mountains to Tetonia. The camps covered an area of seven square miles, or more.  It is estimated there were four hundred mountain men, one hundred and eight lodges of Nez Perce, eighty lodges of Flatheads, and over three thousand horses.

Purpose of a rendezvous
A mountain man rendezvous was a yearly event held in the summer for American fur trappers to gather together, sell their furs, and resupply themselves for another season of trapping. Representatives of eastern fur-trading companies would arrive with pack mules loaded with trade goods to meet the needs of the trappers for the upcoming year.  If trappers were employed by a particular company, they turned their furs, mainly beaver, over to the company representative and received their pay, less the amount used to cover what they would need for another trapping season. Profits could purchase additional goods, including whiskey, tobacco, and other luxury items.  Free trappers, i.e. men not contracted with a company, could negotiate a purchase price for their accumulated furs.

In general, trappers and merchants settled into a protected valley for two to three weeks.  The larger group provided protection from hostile Indians and support during harsh weather.  Small hunting groups traveled outward from the valley to obtain meat.  The rendezvous would generally include recreation and entertainment, including contests, games and gambling.  Most participants had a good time, swapping tall tales and drinking.

Trappers in attendance
The 1832 rendezvous was well-attended by trappers affiliated with fur companies, independents, and a large number of allied Indians involved in the fur trade, primarily Flathead and Nez Perce. The Rocky Mountain Fur Company had between one hundred and two hundred men, many led by William L. Sublette, gather at the basin. Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of Sacagawea ("Pomp or Pompey"), was also in attendance on behalf of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and participated in the Battle described below. Sublette and his caravan arrived on July 8.  Men from the rival American Fur Company, under the leadership of W. H. Vanderburgh and Andrew Drips, also attended.  Other small groups of trappers trickled in to Pierre's Hole, including Jim Bridger, known for his tall tales.  Many of these companies were from the Colorado Rocky Mountain area.

Other well-known mountain men at the summer meeting included Joe Meek, a veteran of 22 years, and his friend Milton Sublette, brother of William.  Thomas Fitzpatrick, known as "Old Broken Hand", had been in the basin earlier in the year, but had backtracked to meet William Sublette. Events turned sour for Fitzpatrick during his return when he met a party of Blackfeet. Presumed dead by his fellows, the injured Fitzpatrick managed to escape captivity and, with the aid of Iroquois "breed" trapper Antoine Godin and some Flathead allies, return to the rendezvous before the pack trains headed back toward the east.

Two men new to the mountains, Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth of Cambridge, Massachusetts and explorer Captain Benjamin Bonneville (Irving, Chapter VI) made their first appearance at rendezvous that year.  Wyeth led a party of Eastern tenderfeet on their way to Oregon to trade in furs and salmon.  Bonneville left a description of the rendezvous:

In this valley was congregated the motley populace connected with the fur trade. Here the two rival companies had their encampments, with their retainers of all kinds: traders, trappers, hunters, and half-breeds, assembled from all quarters, awaiting their yearly supplies, and their orders to start off in new directions. Here, also, the savage tribes connected with the trade, the Nez Perces or Chopunnish Indians, and Flatheads, had pitched their lodges beside the streams, and with their squaws, awaited the distribution of goods and finery. There was, moreover, a band of fifteen free trappers, commanded by a gallant leader from Arkansas, named Sinclair, who held their encampment a little apart from the rest. Such was the wild and heterogeneous assemblage, amounting to several hundred men, civilized and savage, distributed in tents and lodges in the several camps. (Irving, Chapter VI)

Battle of Pierre's Hole

The Pierre's Hole 1832 Battle Area Site in Teton County, Idaho near Driggs, Idaho was the site of the Battle of Pierre's Hole in 1832.  A  area at the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

About July 17, the 1832 rendezvous began to break up and fur trappers gradually began to separate into smaller groups.  Henry Fraeb and Milton Sublette, with a group of some 100 trappers, planned to head for an area north of the Salt Lake desert. Wyeth and his group of ten or eleven men from New England also set out.  These and several other groups briefly traveled together for safety from the Blackfeet.

While in their first night's camp,  south of Pierre's Hole, the combined party was approached by a large migratory group of Gros Ventres – men, women and children with pack animals, traveling from one camping site to another.  A chief in the group came forward, apparently in greeting. Antoine Godin and a Flathead Indian "breed" (i.e. a half-breed) companion, sometimes identified as Baptiste Dorian, rode forward, appearing to greet the chief. As the three met, Godin shouted for the Flathead to shoot, which he did, and grabbed the chief's red blanket. The chief fell dead and Godin and the Flathead quickly retreated to the trappers' camp. Some accounts state that Godin paused to take the man's scalp.

The murder provoked an intense battle between the Gros Ventres, with an estimated 250 warriors, and the party of American trappers aided by their Nez Perce and Flathead allies. The badly outnumbered mountain men sent riders to the rendezvous site for aid and prepared the camp for attack. The Gros Ventres took shelter in a swampy thicket of willows and cottonwoods. The Indian women collected fallen trees, throwing them together in a crude fortress.

Aid from the rendezvous camp, under the leadership of William Sublette, including additional Nez Perce and Flatheads, rushed to the scene of the impending battle.  In one of five known eye witness accounts, Robert Campbell reported that the newly-arrived William Sublette (the founder of Fort William as one resultant career change because of this battle) made a speech to rouse the men, and he and some 20 trappers, including the experienced Campbell, rushed towards the Indian stronghold in the willows. Milton Sublette took another group and led them against the rear of the ad hoc fort the Gros Ventres had erected. The Flathead and Nez Perce closed on the flanks. Other trappers, including Wyeth and his party, held back and did not participate in the attack. During this initial foray, Milton Sublette was struck by a bullet, which later led to his leg's amputation and, subsequently, his death. The attackers then backed off for a time before renewing hostilities.

The battle raged all day with little gain on either side. As night fell, someone within the Gros Ventres barricade shouted that they had reinforcements, "many Blackfeet", coming. The trappers somehow understood that Gros Ventres reinforcements were attacking the rendezvous camp ground and goods back at Pierre's Hole, and quickly mounted their horses and raced to Pierre's Hole to save their fellow trappers and wealth. However, no hostile Indians had attacked the remnant of the rendezvous. The following morning, returning trappers found the Gros Ventres fortifications abandoned. Thirty horses found nearby included some that had been previously stolen from Sublette's supply train and two that had been taken from Thomas Fitzpatrick during his earlier escape from the Blackfeet.

In the brief but bloody battle at least 26 Gros Ventres were killed, including some women and children, and perhaps a dozen traders and Flatheads. Due to a bullet wound and a broken shoulder, William Sublette returned to the eastern US under the care of Robert Campbell. The party arrived in St. Louis on October 3, 1832.
After he recovered, he returned to the east slope of the Rockies to found the trading post and fort sitting aside the gateway to South Pass and the Oregon Country on what was (in 1832 already) being called the Oregon Trail.

See also
 Rocky Mountain Rendezvous  a.k.a. (Trapper's rendezvous)
 Geology of the Grand Teton area

References

 Beal, M.D., "A History of Southeast Idaho", Caxton Printers, copyright 1942.
 Carter, Harvey L., Robert Cambell, featured in Trappers of the Far West, Leroy R. Hafen, editor.  1972, Arthur H. Clark Company, reprint University of Nebraska Press, October 1983.
Hafen, LeRoy R. and Ghent, W.J., Broken Hand. The Life Story of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Chief of the Mountain Men. Denver: Old West Publishing Co., 1931.  Reprinted by University of Nebraska Press, 1973.
Thompson, Edith M. Schultz and William Leigh Thompson, Beaver Dick, The Honor and the Heartbreak, Jelm Mountain Press, copyright 1981.

Further reading
 Chittenden, Hiram Martin. The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 1. originally published:  New York: F. P. Harper, 1902.  Republished:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1986.
 De Voto, Bernard. Across the Wide Missouri Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1947.  .
 Russell, Osborne. Journal of a Trapper. .

External links

 Battle of Pierre's Hole
 History of Pierre's Hole
 National Register of Historic Places in Teton County, Idaho

Valleys of Idaho
Geography of Teton County, Idaho
Pre-statehood history of Idaho
Fur trade
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Wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America
Conflict sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho
National Register of Historic Places in Teton County, Idaho


South West Slammers is an NBL1 West club based in Bunbury, Western Australia. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 West. The Slammers play their home games at Eaton Recreation Centre and represent Western Australia's South West region.

The club was originally based in the City of Bunbury at Hay Park Recreation Centre (became known as South West Sports Centre in 2002) but relocated north to the suburb of Eaton in 2005 and moved into Eaton Recreation Centre.

Club history

Men's team
1989 saw the formation of the State Basketball League (SBL) with both a men's and women's competition. A team from Bunbury, known as the Slammers, entered the Men's SBL for its inaugural season. The Slammers were a dominant force in the first decade on the league, winning championships in 1995, 1996, 1998 and 1999, while also making grand final appearances in 1991 and 1992. However, after six grand final appearances and four championships in 11 years, things went decidedly south for the team. Following the 2001 season, the Slammers had a disastrous 11-year stretch without making the finals and an overall record of 46–225, which included two winless seasons and two years where they had just the one win.

Following the 2012 season, the Slammers knew they had to do something different to become a force again, and that's where the appointment of Ty Harrelson as player-coach came to fruition. Harrelson outlined a three-year plan that he hoped would set up the Slammers for long-term success. As a result, the Slammers played finals basketball in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The three-year plan culminated in making the 2015 MSBL Grand Final behind the likes of Harrelson, Clive Weeden, Tre Nichols, Brian Voelkel and Trent Worthington. In their first grand final since 1999, the Slammers were defeated 105–75 by the Joondalup Wolves.

Women's team
In 1992, a Slammers women's team entered the Women's SBL. The team struggled over their first three seasons, as they finished in ninth place each year while registering a 6–14 record in both 1992 and 1993, and a 3–17 record in 1994. The team subsequently exited the league following the 1994 season and had a five-year hiatus, returning in 2000. In 2012, after 15 seasons of not playing in the finals, the Slammers finished in third place with a 15–7 record. They went on to reach the WSBL Grand Final, where they defeated the Rockingham Flames 85–48 to win their maiden championship.

In 2021, the SBL was rebranded as NBL1 West.

Accolades

Women
Championships: 1 (2012)
Grand Final appearances: 1 (2012)
Minor premierships: Nil

Men
Championships: 4 (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999)
Grand Final appearances: 7 (1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2015)
Minor premierships: 3 (1992, 1996, 1999)

References

External links
Official website

Basketball teams established in 1989
1989 establishments in Australia
Basketball teams in Western Australia
NBL1 West teams


Cần Giuộc is a rural district of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 161,399. The district covers an area of 211 km². The district capital lies at Cần Giuộc.

Divisions
The district is divided into 16 communes:

Đông Thạnh
Long An
Long Hậu
Long Phụng
Long Thượng
Mỹ Lộc
Phước Hậu
Phước Lại
Phước Lâm
Phước Lý
Phước Vĩnh Đông
Phước Vĩnh Tây
Tân Kim
Tân Tập
Thuận Thành
Trường Bình

References

Districts of Long An province


Châu Thành is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong River Delta region of Vietnam. It is the birthplace of former Army of the Republic of Vietnam general Trần Thiện Khiêm. As of 2003 the district had a population of 102,409. The district covers an area of 151 km². The district capital lies at Tầm Vu.

References

Districts of Long An province


Đức Hòa is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 199,181. The district covers an area of 426 km². The district capital lies at Hậu Nghĩa.

Divisions
The district is subdivided into 20 commune-level subdivisions, including the townships of: Hậu Nghĩa, Đức Hòa and Hiệp Hòa, and the rural communes of: Lộc Giang, An Ninh Đông, An Ninh Tây, Tân Mỹ, Hiệp Hòa, Tân Phú, Hoà Khánh Tây, Hoà Khánh Đông, Hoà Khánh Nam, Đức Lập Thượng, Đức Lập Hạ, Đức Hoà Thượng, Đức Hoà Đông, Đức Hoà Hạ, Mỹ Hạnh Bắc, Mỹ Hạnh Nam and Hựu Thạnh.

References

Districts of Long An province


Đức Huệ is a rural district of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.  It has a western border with Cambodia; a southwest border with Thạnh Hóa district; an eastern border with Đức Hòa district; and a south and southeast border with Thủ Thừa district and Bến Lức district. As of 2003 the district had a population of 61,620. The district covers an area of 428 km². The district capital lies at Đông Thành.

Đức Huệ district was established under Decree No. 48-NV of the Republic of Vietnam on March 3, 1959.

Divisions
The district is divided into 10 communes:

Mỹ Thạnh Đông, Mỹ Quý Đông, Mỹ Quý Tây, Mỹ Thạnh Tây, Bình Thành, Mỹ Thạnh Bắc, Bình Hoà Bắc, Bình Hoà Nam, Bình Hoà Hưng and Mỹ Bình.

References

Districts of Long An province


Mộc Hóa is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

In 1963 team A-414 Special Forces set up operations at Kien Tuong.  In 1965 Seabee team 0503 upgraded the outpost to a B camp for team B-41.  In 1966 the camp became home to the Mobile Strike Force(Mike Force) for IV Corps. MACV-SOG ran reconnaissance missions into Cambodia from there and the RVN army took over the base in 1970.

Divisions
Since 2013, the district has been divided into seven communes:

Bình Phong Thạnh
Tân Thành
Tân Lập
Bình Hòa Đông
Bình Hòa Trung
Bình Hòa Tây
Bình Thạnh

In 2003 the district had a population of 67,753 and covered an area of 501 km².  The district capital was at the town also known as Mộc Hóa. In 2013, the town of Mộc Hóa and the nearby communes of Bình Hiệp, Bình Tân, , Thạnh Trị and Tuyên Thạnh were separated to create the district-level town of Kiến Tường. The headquarters of the new Mộc Hóa District were moved to Bình Phong Thạnh.

Climate

References

Districts of Long An province


William Scully may refer to:

William Scully (Australian politician) (1883–1966), Australian politician and farmer
William Scully (director) (1889–1949), American filmmaker and director
William Scully (bishop) (1894–1969), American Roman Catholic bishop of Albany
William Charles Scully (1855–1943), South African author

Fictional characters
William "Bill" Scully, the name of several characters The X-Files related to Dana Scully: her father, brother and son


Tân Hưng is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 41,813. The district covers an area of 536 km2. The district capital lies at Tân Hưng.

Divisions
The district is divided into 10 communes:

Vĩnh Đại
Vĩnh Châu A
Vĩnh Châu B
Vĩnh Lợi
Vĩnh Thạnh
Thạnh Hưng
Hưng Thạnh
Hưng Hà
Hưng Điền
Hưng Điền B

References

Districts of Long An province


Tan Thanh may refer to several populated places in Vietnam:

Tân Thành
Communes, wards in Bình Phước province
 Tân Thành, Đồng Xoài, a commune of Đồng Xoài
 Tân Thành, Bù Đốp District, a commune of Bù Đốp District
Communes, wards in Cà Mau province
 Tân Thành (ward), Cà Mau, a ward of Cà Mau
 Tân Thành (commune), Cà Mau, a commune of Cà Mau
Communes in Lạng Sơn Province
 Tân Thành, Bắc Sơn District, a commune of Bắc Sơn District
 Tân Thành, Cao Lộc District,  a commune of Cao Lộc District
 Tân Thành, Hữu Lũng District, a commune of Hữu Lũng District
Communes in Long An Province
 Tân Thành, Mộc Hóa District, a commune of Mộc Hóa District
 Tân Thành, Tân Thạnh District, a commune of Tân Thạnh District
 Tân Thành, Thủ Thừa District, a commune of Thủ Thừa District
Communes, wards in Ninh Bình Province
 Tân Thành, Ninh Bình, a ward of Ninh Bình
 Tân Thành, Kim Sơn District, a commune of Kim Sơn District
Communes, wards in Thái Nguyên Province
 Tân Thành, Thái Nguyên, a ward of Thái Nguyên
 Tân Thành, Phú Bình District, a commune of Phú Bình District
Communes, wards, townships in other provinces of Vietnam
 Tân Thành, Tân Phú, a ward of Tân Phú District, Ho Chi Minh City
 Tân Thành, Hải Phòng, a ward of Dương Kinh District
 Tân Thành, Đăk Lắk, a ward of Buôn Ma Thuột
 Tân Thành, Bình Dương, a township and capital of Bắc Tân Uyên District
 Tân Thành, Hậu Giang, a commune of Ngã Bảy
 Tân Thành, Bình Thuận, a commune of Hàm Thuận Nam District
 Tân Thành, Đăk Nông, a commune of Krông Nô District
 Tân Thành, Đồng Tháp, a commune of Lai Vung District
 Tân Thành, Hà Giang, a commune of Bắc Quang District
 Tân Thành, Hòa Bình, a commune of Lương Sơn District
 Tân Thành, Kiên Giang, a commune of Tân Hiệp District
 Tân Thành, Lâm Đồng, a commune of Đức Trọng District
 Tân Thành, Nam Định, a commune of Vụ Bản District
 Tân Thành, Nghệ An, a commune of Yên Thành District
 Tân Thành, Quảng Trị, a commune of Hướng Hóa District
 Tân Thành, Tây Ninh, a commune of Tân Châu District, Tây Ninh
 Tân Thành, Thanh Hóa, a commune of Thường Xuân District
 Tân Thành, Tiền Giang, a commune of Gò Công Đông District
 Tân Thành, Tuyên Quang, a commune of Hàm Yên District
 Tân Thành, Vĩnh Long, a commune of Bình Tân District, Vĩnh Long
 Former Tân Thành District of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, dissolved in 2018 to form the new district-level town of Phú Mỹ

Tân Thạnh
 Tân Thạnh District, a rural district of Long An Province
 Tân Thạnh, Quảng Nam, a ward of Tam Kỳ
 Tân Thạnh (township), a township and capital of Tân Thạnh District
 Tân Thạnh, Kiên Giang, a commune of An Minh District
 Tân Thạnh, Bạc Liêu, a commune of Giá Rai
 Tân Thạnh, Sóc Trăng, a commune of Long Phú District
 Tân Thạnh, An Giang, a commune of Tân Châu, An Giang
 Tân Thạnh, Tiền Giang, a commune of Tân Phú Đông District
 Tân Thạnh, Đồng Tháp, a commune of Thanh Bình District
 Tân Thạnh, Cần Thơ, a commune of Thới Lai District

Tân Thanh
 Tân Thanh, Điện Biên, a ward of Điện Biên Phủ
 Tân Thanh, Bến Tre, a commune of Giồng Trôm District
 Tân Thanh, Bắc Giang, a commune of Lạng Giang District
 Tân Thanh, Lâm Đồng, a commune of Lâm Hà District
 Tân Thanh, Lạng Sơn, a commune of Văn Lãng District
 Tân Thanh, Tiền Giang, a commune of Cái Bè District

See also
 The communes of Tân Thành A and Tân Thành B in Tân Hồng District, Đồng Tháp Province
 Thanh Tân (disambiguation)


Tân Thạnh is a rural district (huyện) of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

As of 2003 the district had a population of 78,970. The district covers an area of 408 km². The district capital lies at Tân Thạnh township.

Divisions
The district is divided into one urban municipality and 12 communes:

Tân Thạnh township, Bắc Hòa, Hậu Thạnh Đông, Hậu Thạnh Tây, Kiến Bình, Nhơn Hòa, Nhơn Hòa Lập, Nhơn Ninh, Tân Bình, Tân Hòa, Tân Lập and Tân Ninh.

References

Districts of Long An province


Tân Trụ is a rural district of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 62,633. The district covers an area of 175 km². The district capital lies at Tân Trụ.

Divisions
Nhựt Ninh
Đức Tân
Tân Phước Tây
Bình Tịnh
Bình Trinh Đông
Bình Lãng
Lạc Tấn
Quê Mỹ Thạnh
Mỹ Bình
An Nhựt Tân

References

Districts of Long An province


The 1962 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 9 to October 16, 1962.  The National League (NL) added two teams via expansion, the Houston Colt .45s and New York Mets. This marked the return of the NL to New York City after a four-year absence, although the Mets would lose 120 games and finish in last place. All major league teams now played 162-game schedules, which had been adopted by the American League (AL) the prior season, with each team facing the nine other clubs in the same league 18 times during the season.

The New York Yankees won the AL pennant, while the NL regular season concluded with both the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers having identical records, 101–61. A three-game tie-breaker series was held, which was won by the Giants, two games to one. The Yankees then defeated the Giants in the World Series, four games to three.

Awards and honors
Baseball Hall of Fame
Bob Feller
Bill McKechnie
Jackie Robinson
Edd Roush
Most Valuable Player
Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees, OF (AL)
Maury Wills, Los Angeles Dodgers, SS (NL)
Cy Young Award
Don Drysdale, Los Angeles Dodgers
Rookie of the Year
Tom Tresh, New York Yankees, SS (AL)
Ken Hubbs, Chicago Cubs, 2B (NL)

League leaders

Standings

American League

National League

  The San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in a best-of-three tie-breaker series to earn the National League pennant.

Postseason

Bracket

Managers

American League

National League

Home field attendance

Television coverage
CBS and NBC continued to air weekend Game of the Week broadcasts. CBS dropped its Sunday broadcasts once the NFL season started in mid-September, dropping the option clause for affiliates to carry baseball or football in place since 1957.

The All-Star Game, the National League tie-breaker series, and the World Series aired on NBC.

See also
1962 Nippon Professional Baseball season

References

External links
1962 Major League Baseball season schedule

Major League Baseball seasons


Thủ Thừa is a rural district of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 88,455. The district covers an area of 489 km2. The district capital lies at Thủ Thừa.

Divisions
The district is divided into one urban municipality and 12 communes:

Thủ Thừa (urban), Long Thành, Long Thuận, Mỹ Lạc, Mỹ Thạnh, Mỹ An, Mỹ Phú, Tân Thành, Bình An, Bình Thạnh, Nhị Thành, Long Thành and Tân Lập.

References

Districts of Long An province


Licuala orbicularis is a species of palm in the genus Licuala. It is endemic to southwestern Sarawak on the island of Borneo.

It grows as a rainforest understorey plant in mixed dipterocarp forest and kerangas forests, in moist valleys and on hill slopes, from 20 to 550 metres elevation.

References

External links
 Licuala orbicularis(LCLOR)  in EPPO Global Database

orbicularis
Endemic flora of Borneo
Trees of Borneo
Taxa named by Odoardo Beccari
Flora of the Borneo lowland rain forests
Flora of the Sundaland heath forests


Vĩnh Hưng is a rural district of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 43,777. The district covers an area of 382 km². The district capital lies at Vĩnh Hưng.

References

Districts of Long An province


Regin Dahl (5 November 1918 – 29 March 2007) was a Faroese author and composer.

Biography
Dahl came from a literary family; his father being the translator and provost Jákup Dahl. His own poetry has been described as more modernistic than that of many previous Faroese poets.

His family also contained musicians like his grandfather Georg Casper Hansen, and Dahl himself was noted as a composer. In youth he did not know how to transcribe his compositions so would work on them in his head before performing them at cultural events. As a composer he wrote musical settings for 34 Erik Axel Karlfeldt poems and created around 450 compositions in all.

In the mid 1990s, Marianne Clausen made musical transcriptions of his many compositions, and published them as Atlantsløg and Atlantsløg II under his name.

Recognition
Dahl was honoured in 1998 with the Faroese Cultural Prize (Mentanarvirðisløn Landsins). He was the first person to receive this annual award.

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1918 births
2007 deaths
Faroese male poets
Faroese composers
Faroese Literature Prize recipients
20th-century Faroese poets
People from Tórshavn
20th-century Danish male writers


Thạnh Hóa is a rural district of Long An province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. As of 2003, the district had a population of 52,691. The district covers an area of 455 km². The district capital lies at Thạnh Hóa.

Divisions
The district is divided into the following communes:
Thạnh Hóa (urban), Thủy Đông, Thủy Tây, Tân Đông, Tân Tây, Thạnh Phước, Thạnh Phú, Thuận Nghĩa Hòa, Thuận Bình, Thạnh An, and Tân Hiệp.

References

Districts of Long An province


Anh Sơn is a rural district of Nghệ An province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2009 the district had a population of 132,060. The district covers an area of 597 km². The district capital lies at Anh Sơn.

References

Districts of Nghệ An province


Con Cuông is a rural district of Nghệ An province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 66,702. The district covers an area of 1,745 km². The district capital lies at Con Cuông.

Climate

References

Districts of Nghệ An province


Hoang Mai can refer to:
 Hoàng Mai District of Hanoi
 Hoàng Mai, Nghệ An, a town in Quỳnh Lưu District, Nghệ An Province
 Hoang Mai (politician), a politician in Quebec.


Mike Kopp (born c. 1969) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a member of the Colorado Senate, representing Senate District 22, which encompassed southern Jefferson County. He served from 2007 and as Senate Minority Leader from 2009 until his resignation in October 2011 after his wife died from cancer. He was a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of Colorado in 2014.

Biography
Born in South Dakota (his father was elected to the South Dakota House of Representatives in 2008), Kopp enlisted in the United States Army after graduating from high school. A paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, Kopp trained to become a member of the United States Army Rangers,  graduating from Ranger School in 1990. Kopp also completed the Army Basic Leadership Course that same year. While in the Army, Kopp was deployed to Honduras in support of Operation Just Cause, as well as in the Gulf War in Operation Desert Storm. He was honorably discharged in 1991 at the rank of Sergeant, having also received two Army Commendation Medals, the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Army Achievement Medal.

While pursuing higher education, Kopp worked with fire-fighting crews for the National Park Service. He graduated in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in ministry from North Central University in Minneapolis. He also worked for two years as a clerk in the United States Border Patrol's Detention and Deportation Division.

Following graduation, Kopp worked in the non-profit and ministry fields in New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. Prior to running for the Colorado senate, Kopp earned a Masters of Public Administration degree from the University of Colorado at Denver. He is Manager of Corporate Affairs for Intermountain Rural Electric Association. Kopp and his wife, Shannon, currently reside in Belle Fourche, South Dakota.

Mike Kopp is currently the President and CEO of Colorado Concern, an alliance of top business executives with a mission of enhancing the Centennial State's business climate.

Legislative career

2006 election
In 2006, Kopp sought election to the state senate seat formerly held by term-limited Sen. Norma Anderson. Anderson had retired from her senate seat a year early, and Kiki Traylor had been appointed to the seat. Kopp had sought the vacancy appointment, protesting that the vacancy committee met with insufficient notice and was composed of only five committee members. Kopp faced Traylor and Justin Everett in a three-way Republican contest, and won 52 percent of the vote at the Republican party assembly to qualify for the primary; Traylor and Everett petitioned onto the primary ballot.

Kopp ran as a more conservative candidate than Traylor, criticizing her positions on spending and immigration. During the race, a supporter of the Kopp campaign filed, and later withdrew, a campaign finance complaint against Traylor regarding a donation from a teachers' union that Traylor refused to accept. Kopp received endorsements from former U.S. Senator Bill Armstrong and former Colorado Senate President John Andrews. Kopp achieved a narrow victory, taking 45 percent of the vote over Traylor's 44 percent, with and Everett receiving 8 percent. Citing tactics used by Kopp and his supporters, Traylor refused to endorse fellow Republican Kopp in the general election, even after a request from Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez.

Despite the district's strong Republican registration advantage, Kopp's right-leaning views and division among Republicans made the seat an attractive target for Colorado Democrats; he faced Democrat Paul Noonan, a business consultant, in the general election. Kopp won the senate seat with 53 percent of the popular vote.

Incumbent Sen. Traylor resigned slightly before the end of her term, in late December 2006. Kopp was appointed by a Republican Party vacancy committee to fill the remainder of Traylor's term, and was sworn in as a state senator on January 4, 2007, a few days ahead of when he would have otherwise taken office.

2007 legislative session

In the 2007 session of the General Assembly, Kopp served on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Education Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee.

During the session, Kopp, the only Gulf War veteran in the Colorado legislature, introduced legislation to create a memorial for Colorado soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan near the state capitol. Kopp also lead opposition to a Democratic resolution opposing the 2007 Iraq troop surge, introducing a competing resolution and leading a rally in support of the surge in Iraq at the state capitol.

Following the 2007 session, Kopp served on a school reform task force convened by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, and on the interim legislative Health Care Task Force.

In November 2007, Senate Republicans elected Kopp minority caucus chair, following the resignation of Sen. Ron May.

2008 legislative session
In the 2008 session of the General Assembly, Kopp serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Education Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee.

During the 2008 session, Kopp plans to sponsor bills to create a sales tax holiday for school supplies, to require students to pass standardized tests as a requirement for graduating from high school, to provide income tax credits for volunteer firefighters, and to create wildfire training programs for fire district boards. He was also the Senate sponsor of a measure to create an interim committee to study wildfire risks in the wildland–urban interface, calling it the "most pressing public-safety issue before the state."

After the 2008 session, Kopp proposed an "omnibus bill" with incentives for volunteer fire departments to retain personnel, and legislation to set "bookends" on the starting and ending dates for school years. Responding to a deal between labor and business leaders to remove several statewide referendums from the 2008 general election ballot, Kopp and Rep. Amy Stephens announced plans to introduce legislation that would prohibit financial deals for the removal of initiatives from Colorado election ballots.

2009 legislative session
For the 2009 legislative session, Kopp sponsored legislation to repeal the state tax on insurance premiums paid by employers to cover on-the-job injuries, legislation to require a special election to fill vacancies in the U.S. Senate, and legislation to require that the state of Colorado purchase vehicles fueled by natural gas to save money. On January 25, 2010, the Senator was awarded the 2009 Legislator of the Year award from the Colorado Youth Corps Association because of his work on forest health and job creation issues.

2010 legislative session
For the 2010 legislative session, Senator Kopp sponsored the "Blue Print for a Leaner Government Act." This bill was designed to make the Colorado government more efficient through the use of two task forces. These bipartisan task forces were intended to investigate the executive branch department and agencies as well as the current regulatory system. After a period of analysis, the task forces would then present their findings, recommendations, and estimated cost savings in an attempt to provide a leaner and more effective government.

References

External links
 Senator Mike Kopp for Governor - campaign site

1969 births
Republican Party Colorado state senators
Living people
United States Army soldiers
University of Colorado Denver alumni
North Central University alumni
Republican National Committee members
21st-century American politicians


Mohammed Yaqoub may refer to:
 Mohammed Yacoub (ISN 01004) is a captive held in extrajudicial detention, first in Bagram, then Guantanamo -- see Afghan captives in Guantanamo
 Mohammed Yaqoub Akhounzada, captive held in extrajudicial detention in Bagram Theater Internment Facility
 Muhammad Hussein Yacoub (born 1956), Egyptian cleric
 Mohammed Yaqoub Abbas, a sport hero, see Ajman Club
 Mohammed Yacoub Al Madadi, a former Quatari diplomat, fired after triggering a security alert aboard United Airlines Flight 663


Kỳ Sơn is a rural district in western Nghệ An Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 63,198. The district covers an area of 2,095 km². The district capital lies at Mường Xén.

Kỳ Sơn borders Xam Neua in the north, Nong Het and Mok May in the west, Khamkeut and Viengthong in the south, and Tương Dương in the east.

In the past, Kỳ Sơn was best known for opium poppy growing.

References

Districts of Nghệ An province