The Festivals of Thessaloniki are a group of festivals held throughout the year in Thessaloniki, Greece.

International Trade Fair

The Thessaloniki International Fair has a venerable modern history dating to 1926. Hosted every September for 10 days at the 180,000 m² Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center, in the heart of the city, the fair is organised by HELEXPO, which also organises themed exhibitions and congresses throughout the year. The International Trade Fair is inaugurated by the Prime Minister and attended by more than 300,000 visitors every year.

International Film Festival

The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has become the primary showcase in Southeastern Europe for the work of new and emerging filmmakers, as well as the leading film festival of the region. The event features an International Section, its Panorama of Greek Film, the New Horizons program, the Balkan Survey, and numerous retrospectives and tributes to leading figures in the world of film. Since 1993, a succession of leading lights of international cinema, including Francis Ford Coppola, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve and Irene Papas, have visited the Festival.

Documentary Festival
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival was  launched in March 1999, inspired by Dimitri Elpides and benefiting from the local public's enthusiastic response, alongside extensive coverage in the local and international press. In 2005, 22,000 admissions were registered. The main programme focuses on documentaries that explore global social and cultural developments, and also now introduces a number of new side sections and events based on important works by new documentarists. Films from the main programme will be candidates for the FIPRESCI and also the Audience Awards.

The festival attracts a filmgoing public which rediscovers, year after year, images of the new century, new film ecritures, new directors, new technologies, but also representatives of the film world who find in it a reliable organisation appropriate for promoting their work. The event revolves around a sequence of unchanging sections: stories to tell, views of the world, the recording of memory, and portraits, but each year's programme is also supplemented with several others.

The Festival aims to the offer the filmgoing public annually gathering in Thessaloniki an exploration of the common images of the early 21st century, and to explore its human landscape through documentary.

International Festival of Photography

The Thessaloniki International Festival of Photography (Photosynkyria) takes place in Thessaloniki from February to mid-April of every year, attracting the interest of both the photographic world and the wider public, while also functioning as a meeting point for the Greek and the international photographic scene. Photosynkyria exhibitions and events are hosted in a variety of venues around Thessaloniki, including museums, heritage landmarks, galleries, bookshops and cafes.

Photosynkyria was launched in 1988 by photographer Aris Georgiou, and over the past five years has been organized  by the Museum of Photography, which annually appoints the artistic director of the festival.

Thessaloniki International Book Fair

The TIBF began in 2003 and has grown is the leading cultural event for books in Greece, as well as to become a focal point for the book world in Greece and the wider Balkan and Mediterranean region.

Dimitria

This three-month-long festival of cultural events has been held every September–December since 1966. Named after Agios Dimitrios (St. Demetrius), the patron saint of the city, it has become something of an institution for the city and very popular with the local population. It includes musical, theatrical, dance events, street happenings and exhibitions, and is organised and overseen by the Municipality of Thessaloniki, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2015.

Video Dance Festival

The Video Dance Festival started in 2000 at Thessaloniki as an international dance film festival, but soon widened to include additional experimental forms incorporating movement and the moving image.

DMC DJ Championship
The Greek DMC DJ Championship is hosted in Thessaloniki at the International Trade Fair Of Thessaloniki.

DMC’s World DJ Championships, sponsored internationally by Technics and Ortofon, has grown over the years and the formats of its competitions have developed along with demand. Originally intended to be a DJ mixing battle, DJ Cheese introduced scratching in his routine in 1986, changing the course of future DMC battles.

The only equipment permitted in Technics' DJ Championships worldwide are Technics SL1200 turntables and the Technics EX-DJ1200 mixer; the DJs are allowed a period of exactly six minutes to perform.

Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival (THHF)
THHF (Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival) is Greece's biggest HipHop & Underground Rap festivals and it's organised and promoted by Zoltan Tribe.
THHF was foundered in 2003 and since then it has hosted world-famous artists as RA The Rugged Man (USA), DJ Vadim & Yarah Bravo (UK), Afu-Ra (USA), Foreign Beggars (UK), Lowkey (UK), Da Shogunz (NL), Snowgoons Soundsystem (DE), Freestyle (The Arsonists), Lerroy of the Saian Supa Crew (France), Wax Tailor (France), DJ Flip (ITF world), Zion I (USA), Zontanoi Nekroi, FF.C, Razastarr, Eisvoleas, Voreia Asteria, Ladose, Apexeis, Phase 3, Orthologistes, Psychodrama07, RNS, Sifu VERSUS, Sugahspank!, Professional Sinnerz, Rodes and many more.

See also
List of hip hop music festivals
Hip hop culture

External links
The official city of Thessaloniki Tourism Organization
Thessaloniki International Festival of Photography
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
Thessaloniki International Book Fair
Thessaloniki Hip Hop Festival
Thessaloniki Extreme Sports Festival

Thessaloniki (regional unit)
Annual events in Thessaloniki
Tourist attractions in Thessaloniki
Culture in Thessaloniki
Electronic music festivals in Greece
Music festivals established in 2003


The Albany Club in Toronto, Ontario, was founded in 1882 and is one of Canada's oldest private social clubs. Named after Queen Victoria's youngest son, the Duke of Albany, the club has been situated at its present location of 91 King Street East since 1898.

Overview
According to the club's prospectus, it views itself as: "The exclusive social and business club for those who influence, celebrate, debate, and promote Canada's conservative and political history, ideals, values and leadership."

The club is traditionally seen as a home for Conservative supporters. Its members have included every Conservative prime minister from Sir John A. Macdonald to Stephen Harper. Members have also included Ontario Conservative premiers Sir James Whitney, Sir William Hearst, Howard Ferguson, George Henry, Thomas Kennedy, George A. Drew, Leslie Frost, John Robarts, Bill Davis, Frank Miller and Mike Harris.

Clubhouse

The current clubhouse at 91 King Street East was designed by Charles J. Gibson (1862–1935) and completed in the early 1930s. Its west side is directly adjacent to the last remaining portion of "Victoria Row", which was originally constructed by John George Howard from 1840 to 1842 as a commercial building. The remainder of that site has been redeveloped as part of the 65 King Street East office tower, which preserved the historic facades along King Street.

The club was closed to members for much of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

See also
 List of gentlemen's clubs in Canada
 Royal eponyms in Canada

References

Further reading
 "Albany: A Celebration", History of Albany Club of Toronto, 1882–1982. Written by John Hewitt Amys, Q.C., 154 pages.

External links

 By-laws and Rules of the Club (1888–1899)

Gentlemen's clubs in Canada
Buildings and structures in Toronto
Clubs and societies based in Toronto


Hugh Stollmeyer (13 January 1912 – 12 June 1982) was an artist from Trinidad and Tobago.

Early life and the Trinidad Independents

Hugh Stollmeyer was born in Trinidad and Tobago, the southernmost country in the Caribbean, on 13 January 1912. The influence of his idyllic early years in this lush tropical paradise is apparent in his art, both in his use of vibrant colors and in his portrayal of island people. He was an artistic child; always painting, reading, drawing and writing poetry and plays. After he finished school he joined the "Trinidad Independent", a group of creative thinkers who questioned the social and artistic "norm" of the day and whose interests included: the abolishment of class divisions, capitalism, racism, religious extremism and prejudice against homosexuality. A consciousness of Trinidad's cultural heritage was visible for the first time in the artwork of Stollmeyer and the Trinidad Independents; the influences of Amerindian iconography and the symbols of African Obeah are two such examples. Stollmeyer exhibited his work with others from the Independents in Trinidad and abroad; among them was Amy Leong Pang, with whom he developed an especially close working relationship.

The Beacon

Collectively, the Independents published a magazine called The Beacon as a means to manifest their collective desire to make the nation of Trinidad a vital intellectual center where new ideas could be tested and new avenues of racial and political justice could be discussed in the Caribbean. The magazine included articles on politics, sociology and philosophy, as well as reviews of book and art exhibitions, original poetry and short stories. Stollmeyer wrote articles on art, art restoration and reviews of art exhibitions, as well as poetry.

Artistic maturity
Stollmeyer left Trinidad and Tobago for New York City in the summer of 1930 and lived with his older brothers who were already working and studying there. Stollmeyer apprenticed at a photographic advertising company, and attended classes at the Art Students League. He continued his correspondence with the Trinidad Independents and wrote for The Beacon. In 1933 he moved back to Trinidad. Stollmeyer continued exhibiting his work locally and abroad and was active in the Trinidad art scene. By 1938, he was increasingly uncomfortable within the confines of Trinidad society, and he returned to New York City. The work from the late 1930s, particularly after his return to New York, marks the beginning of Stollmeyer's artistic maturity. His work captures the character and mixed ethnicity of the Trinidad people as well as the vibrant color and the lush and varied forms of tropical foliage.

He was very active in the Greenwich Village creative community and spent much time frequenting the galleries, critiquing and learning from others art. While his subject matter and palette continued to reflect both Trinidad's culture, people and tropical foliage as well as the influence of artists such as Botticelli, Gauguin, Matisse, Van Gogh, and Picasso, his style increasingly reflected his knowledge and understanding of avant garde painting in New York City at that time.

Later years
In the mid-1950s, Stollmeyer and his friend Arthur Repkin moved to the countryside north of New York City. Stollmeyer planted extensive gardens here and both the flowers and vegetables he grew became the subjects for his painting. He was also vitally interested in abstract painting, but not the action‚ painting of the abstract expressionists for which he had little sympathy. Much of his abstract work is on an intimate scale in gouache and reflects his continuing interest in surrealism as well as in clear and vibrant color, and in the juxtaposition of mass rather than line.

By 1959 Stollmeyer's relationship with Repkin was disintegrating and he returned to New York City briefly and then to Trinidad where he lived for the major part of each year until 1964. He immediately immersed himself in the artistic life of the island and exhibited frequently. This was a very productive period, marked by his return to painting Trinidadian women, in all their diversity, surrounded by the lush vibrant color of tropical flowers and foliage. There is a new, almost ecstatic freedom in the design of these works which conveys his love for tropical people and tropical plants.

Stollmeyer's productivity and involvement in the art scene was counterbalanced by bouts of depression which he had suffered throughout his life. At this time the depression was accompanied by increasingly heavy drinking and this began to take its toll. After he returned to New York City in 1964, he found it increasingly difficult to paint and stopped painting seriously in 1965.

In 1966 he was asked to design the curtain for the stage at the Trinidad and Tobago Pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada. He was both gratified and perplexed to be asked. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Trinidad independence (in 1962), but was also quite aware of his status as an "old colonial". This may have been his last work.

In 1967 he went to work at the Elmhurst Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, in the physiotherapy department. He viewed his work there as a kind of performance, healing through love and laughter as well as physiotherapy. He found the constant contact with people invigorating after the solitary pursuit of painting.

In 1971 he left the hospital, hoping to return to painting but found that he could not. His previous work, however, was taken up by the Ligoa Duncan Gallery in Uptown Manhattan and he had exhibitions there and at their gallery in Paris.

In 1976 Stollmeyer returned to Trinidad and Tobago at his family's insistence and was treated for alcoholism. In 1977 he returned to New York, where he died on 12 June 1982, aged 70.

Stollmeyer was one of Trinidad and Tobago's great painters.  His work was very influential towards the Caribbean art movement.  Many of his paintings have been published by Fine Island Arts Inc., a publishing, marketing and distribution company established by a relative in 2006.

References

External links
The Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago
The Best of Trinidad; Painters

1912 births
1982 deaths
Art Students League of New York alumni
Trinidad and Tobago expatriates in the United States
20th-century Trinidad and Tobago painters


16879 Campai, provisional designation , is a stony Witt asteroid and slow rotator from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately   in diameter. The S-type asteroid was discovered on 24 January 1998, by Italian astronomers Andrea Boattini and Maura Tombelli at the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory in San Marcello Pistoiese, Tuscany, central Italy. It was named for Italian amateur astronomer Paolo Campai.

Orbit and classification

Campai is a member of the Witt family (), a large family of (predominantly) stony asteroids with more than 1,600 known members. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.7–2.8 AU once every 4 years and 7 months (1,673 days; semi-major axis of 2.76 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.02 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic. The first precovery was obtained at Siding Spring Observatory in July 1977, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 22 years prior to its discovery.

Physical characteristics

Campai has been characterized as a common, stony S-type asteroid, in line with the overall spectral type for members of the Witt family.

Slow rotator

In October 2010, a rotational lightcurve of Campai was obtained from photometric observations made at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. It rendered an exceptionally long period of  hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.68 magnitude (). While the result is based on less than full coverage, and may be refined by future observations, Campai is one of the slowest rotating asteroids known to exist.

Diameter and albedo

The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link calculates a diameter of 10.5 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.6 and an assumed standard albedo for a carbonaceous asteroid of 0.057.

Naming

This minor planet was named for Italian amateur astronomer Paolo Campai (born 1957) from Florence, who is specialized in teaching and astrophotography. Both discoverers made his acquaintance near Florence on a night in 1985, while observing comet 1P/Halley and α Phoenicis. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2003 ().

References

External links
 Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info )
 Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books
 Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend
 Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (15001)-(20000) – Minor Planet Center

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Discoveries by Andrea Boattini
Discoveries by Maura Tombelli
Named minor planets
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Northwest Local School District may refer to:

Northwest Local School District (Hamilton County), Hamilton County, Ohio
Northwest Local School District (Scioto County), Scioto County, Ohio
Northwest Local School District (Stark County), Stark County, Ohio


Highway 3 is a highway in Israel. It begins at Highway 4 on the outskirts of Ashkelon, running east-northeast, passing through Kiryat Malakhi and Latrun, and ending just short of Modi'in.

Plan for the future

The Israeli Ministry of Transportation plans for Highway 3 to be a major route that will connect the South District to Jerusalem via Latrun Interchange and Highway 1. The National Roads Company of Israel is converting the road to a multi-lane divided highway. Despite this, the road will not become an expressway because it is the only means of entrance to many nearby communities.

Israel Railways is constructing flying junctions between Highway 3 and the rail tracks that cross it.

Path of Highway 3 from northeast to southwest
The northeast part of Highway 3 begins at Beit Horon Junction near Modi'in. It intersects Highways 1 and 6 and then passes several kibbutzim and moshavim until Re'em Junction where it joins Highway 40, running concurrently for 4 km until Malakhi Junction in Kiryat Malakhi. The Latrun–Nahshon section (between the intersections with highways 1 and 44) is the first concrete highway in Israel.

After the roads split, Highway 3 continues in Kiryat Malakhi and past more kibbutzim and moshavim until Abba Hillel Silver Junction east of Ashkelon, which intersects with Highway 4.

In the past, Highway 3 reached Ramallah and Jericho and terminated at Allenby bridge across the Jordan River. After the Oslo Accords in 1993, the portion of the road that passes through Ramallah and Jericho was transferred to Palestinian control (as with Highway 60), and portions of the road that remained under Israeli control were renamed as local roads.

Junctions and Interchanges

Hazardous road
15 km of highway 3 had been declared as a red road by the Israeli police in 2015.

References

See also

 List of highways in Israel

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Pennsylvania State Senate District 30 includes all of Blair County, Fulton County, Huntingdon County, Juniata County, and Mifflin County. It is currently represented by Republican Judy Ward.

Senators

References

Pennsylvania Senate districts
Government of Blair County, Pennsylvania
Government of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Government of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
Government of Fulton County, Pennsylvania
Government of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania


Tasiujarjuaq (Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᓯᐅᔭᕐᔪᐊᖅ, meaning "big lake-like lake") formerly Soper Lake is a large, irregularly shaped lake in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Baffin Island's Meta Incognita Peninsula. The Inuit name references the lake's meromictic attribute, a mixture of fresh and salt water caused by a set of reversing falls and  tides in Pleasant Inlet. The fresh water of Soper River drains into the lake which then drains into the salt water of Pleasant Inlet before reaching the Arctic Ocean.

The hamlet of Kimmirut (previously, Lake Harbour) is situated at Glasgow Bay. In 1911, Hudson's Bay Company established its first south Baffin trading post at Lake Harbour.

The river and lake were named by Canadian biologist and Arctic explorer, J. Dewey Soper who travelled in the area in 1931.

Fauna
The lake is home to Greenland cod.

References

External links
 Summer temperature reconstruction based on laminae thickness in sediments from Upper Soper Lake, Baffin Island, Canada

Bodies of water of Baffin Island
Lakes of Qikiqtaaluk Region


The Upper Valley Land Trust (UVLT), headquartered in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit land conservation organization that serves over 40 towns in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. Founded in 1985, UVLT helps landowners and communities in its region protect lands that have important natural resource values and help define the rural character of the Upper Valley. UVLT works with willing landowners to protect working farms, forest lands, river and stream frontage, wildlife habitat, scenic landscapes, and recreational resources from future development. The primary tool that UVLT uses to conserve land is a legal document known as a conservation easement which runs with the land in perpetuity. As of 2008, UVLT had conserved over  in its region. In a recent Land Trust Alliance (LTA) census, UVLT was ranked 7th in the nation for the number of conservation easements it holds out of more than 1,600 LTA-member land trusts.

External links
Official website

References

Land trusts in the United States
Environment of New Hampshire
Charities based in New Hampshire
Environmental organizations established in 1985
1985 establishments in New Hampshire


was a senior retainer under the Chōsokabe clan, during the late Sengoku period of Feudal Japan.

Samurai
1563 births
1588 deaths


Lake Local School District may refer to:

Lake Local School District (Stark County), Stark County, Ohio
Lake Local School District (Wood County), Wood County, Ohio


Yorick van Wageningen (born 16 April 1964) is a Dutch actor who has performed in Dutch and American films, including The Chronicles of Riddick and the 2011 remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Life and career
Van Wageningen was born in Baarn. After acting in several Dutch plays, movies, and television series, van Wageningen was asked to come to Hollywood to appear in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. Due to problems with his visa, he was unable to work on that movie, but thereafter acted in a number of American movies, achieving a breakthrough with his role in The Chronicles of Riddick.

Back in the Netherlands, he starred in Winter in Wartime, based on a Dutch novel about World War II.

In 2011, he appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo along with Daniel Craig, in the role of Nils Bjurman, the sexually abusive guardian of Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). He garnered praise in the Dutch press for his portrayal of Ronnie, an Amsterdam gangster who experiences a spiritual resurrection after miraculously surviving an assassination attempt, in the 2013 film De wederopstanding van een klootzak.

In 2017, Van Wageningen was reported to be filming one of his last major roles, a remake of 1973's Papillon, and in pre-production for Simon de Waal's The Fear of God, before shifting his attention to "improving the position of creators in the Netherlands".

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

1964 births
20th-century Dutch male actors
21st-century Dutch male actors
Dutch expatriates in the United States
Dutch male film actors
Dutch male stage actors
Dutch male television actors
Living people
People from Baarn


Gracilidris is a genus of dolichoderine ants with nocturnal behaviour; thought to have gone extinct 15-20 million years ago, they have been found in Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina and were described in 2006.

For the first time, It was recorded that the dolichoderine ant genus Gracilidris and its sole species, G. pombero were found in the Colombia Amazon basin

Additional research on the Colombian Amazon Basin was conducted by the Department of Caqueta in Colombia in regard to the distribution of the Gracilidris genus. The department formed a Project called “Amaz_BD: Biodiversidad de los paisajes Amazónicos, determinantes socio-económicos y producción de bienes y servicios” to collect ant specimen from different areas of the Colombian Amazon Basin due to human effect such as logging on other areas. The extraction of these ant species consisted of topsoil sampling of 25 cm^2 in area by 10 cm deep. The samples were then placed into containers where they were preserved in ethyl alcohol. The Caqueta found this method to be uncommon which caused damage to the sample but was crucial in obtaining multiple samples. However, although the samples were damaged, they still could be identified through their unique characteristics. These samples were then taken to multiple institutions such as California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. (CASC); Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá D.C., Colombia (ICN); Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia (MEUV) for thorough research. During the identification of these specimens, a few individuals by the names of Wild and Cuezzo, were able to capture images of the Gracilidris pombero. After the research was completed at these institutions, it was concluded that the Gracilidris pombero derived from open areas in the western foothills of the Colombian Amazon basin. Moreover, G. pombero species from Colombia present similarities in behavior with the populations of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay. There were also physical differences found within the specimen of each sample. It was stated that the marginal ridge of the Colombian ants is straight with yellow to brown trochanters, while the Paraguayan and Brazilian ants have a smooth concavity with dark brown body parts. However, Gracilidris in Colombia is quite a rare sight due to their limited distribution and particularity. The hypothesis formed by this data is that the Amazon Basin creates a barrier for the dolichoderine ants, and because of climate change plus the evolution of the Amazon wet forest, this leads to the inevitable extinction of these ants. Furthermore, another hypothesis this the shift in the Amazon rivers, causing yet another barrier that separates the genus G. humiliodes and G. Pombero. These are just a few reasons as to what caused the distribution and potential extinction of the Gracilidris genus.

Furthermore, another group of workers assessed Gracilidris specimens at a few sites in Paraguay, Argentina, and the central and northeastern regions of Brazil. Their findings concluded with observations of the G. pombero species being present in the south of Brazil. This species tends to flourish in dry habitats like grasslands but has been found near Colombia, as discussed in the previous research project. Robert Guerrero concluded that during the Holocene when (Puerto Rico- Paraguay & Amazon) the climate was dense with rain, the genus became isolated, resulting in multiple species in the  Colombian Amazon. In this study, the researchers conducted records of the G. pombero species through the collection of many ground-dwelling ants near the South American savanna of Brazil. This method was chosen based on the previous failed attempts with other methods. The researchers located a total of 43 new records of G. pombero in Brazil (Koch 2018). Overall, the Gracilidris genus contained a highly dense population of ants, however, climate change drastically affected that, thus, making the genus rare to humans.

The single existing fossil in Dominican amber makes the genus a Lazarus taxon. The only known extant species, Gracilidris pombero, nests in small colonies in the soil. These ants have been described only very recently and little is known about them.

Species
 †Gracilidris humiloides (Wilson, 1985)
 Gracilidris pombero Wild & Cuezzo, 2006

References

External links

Dolichoderinae
Ant genera
Hymenoptera of South America
Aquitanian genus first appearances


This is a list of community radio stations in Canada.

See also
Community radio in Canada

References

Community


Delft is the main railway station of the city of Delft, South Holland, Netherlands. It is located on the oldest railway line in the country, between the stations of The Hague Central and Rotterdam Central. Along with a new 2.3 km rail tunnel under the city centre, the current station opened on 28 February 2015. The new building, which integrates the station hall with the city's municipal offices, was designed by Mecanoo, an international architecture firm that originated in Delft. The project also included a rebuilt bus station, tram stops and improved bicycle parking.

1885 building

The initial Delft railway station was located on the Houttuinen, close to the current building. The first train passed through it on 31 May 1847, and three days later the station opened to the public. Because of increasing numbers of passengers and goods transported, a new, larger railway station opened in 1885, just to the south of the original station. Christiaan Posthumus Meyjes, Sr. designed the latter building. This building was used until 2015 when the current building opened. The old station building is historically significant, and since 2018 has been occupied by an Italian restaurant.

Railway zone project

From 1964, the railway through Delft ran on a double track viaduct, created to eliminate level crossings, intending to improve the safety and fluidity of traffic through the city. However, the rail viaduct became unpopular for being visually unattractive, and because the line through Delft is busy—with between 300 and 350 trains passing daily—causing major noise pollution. Therefore, a large urban design project was formulated in 1999, designed by Spanish urban planner Joan Busquets, which saw the rail viaduct replaced by two tunnels.

The first phase was completed in February 2015, and brought the first tunnel tube with two rail tracks in operation. In 2015 the decommissioned viaduct was torn down, and a second tunnel tube with two more rail tracks was constructed underneath the path previously occupied by it. Redevelopment of the freed-up space above ground proceeded.

Currently the tube with the third en fourth tracks are complete and the above-ground railway lines are being altered to accompany the extra rails.

Gallery

References

External links

NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner

Railway stations in South Holland
Railway stations on the Oude Lijn
Railway stations located underground in the Netherlands
Buildings and structures in Delft
1847 establishments in the Netherlands
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in 1847


Eragrostis cilianensis is a species of grass known by several common names, including stinkgrass, candy grass, and gray lovegrass.

Distribution
This plant is native to much of Eurasia and Africa but it is widely naturalized elsewhere, including nearly all of North America.

Description
This is an annual bunchgrass forming tufts up to about half a meter in height. The stems are generally erect but may droop or bend. The stems have glandular tissue near the nodes and the long leaves are often dotted with glands as well. The plants have a strong scent.

The branching inflorescences have one to several spikelets per branch. Each spikelet is greenish brown, sometimes very slightly purple-tinted, and one half to two centimeters long. It is somewhat flattened and lined with 10 to over 40 florets.

References

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment — Eragrostis cilianensis
Eragrostis cilianensis - U.C. Photo gallery

cilianensis
Bunchgrasses of Africa
Bunchgrasses of Asia
Bunchgrasses of Europe


The Children's Hospital of Winnipeg is a children's hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is located on the campus of the Health Sciences Centre near downtown Winnipeg and is expressly devoted to the health care of children.

History
The hospital was founded in 1909 and was staffed by one nurse and volunteer doctors and surgeons.

The first complete hospital building was erected on William Avenue at Sherbrook Street and opened on December 2, 1956. The cost of the project was $3 million. To raise funds, a successful fundraising campaign begun in 1948, headed by prominent businessman John Draper Perrin.

Provisions would be made available for parents or  caregivers wanting to stay with their hospitalized children. At the time it was the only fully developed pediatric hospital in Canada, west of Toronto. At the opening, the hospital featured 250 beds, 5 operating rooms, a laboratory, a convalescing room, an X-ray room, patient records room, administration offices, cafeteria. Separate areas for admitting non-emergency patients, emergency patients and out-patients, where previously all types would be admitted in one area. Two electronically controlled passenger and one service elevator.

A used book market began in 1961 to raise funds for the hospital. Used books were gathered early in the spring, to be sold at the market in May at Polo Park Shopping Centre.

At the 55th annual meeting  of the Children's Hospital in 1964, chief administrator J. E. Robinson stated that the budget of the hospital had increased by five times that of the 1953 budget from $505,000 (1953) to $2.5 million (1963). In 1953, 91 children (as inpatients) were treated. Ten years later the number had jumped to 191. In 1953 the number of outpatients was 18,000. By 1963, outpatients treated were 29,900. By 1963 there were 508 full-time and 99 part-time employees working at the hospital. Occupancy was 86% of the 323 beds in 1963. The hospital stated that at the rate of inpatient and outpatient growth that at some point a hospital expansion would be required.

The Child Development Clinic opened in the spring of 1964 to serve the needs of developmentally delayed children.

At the annual meeting of the St. Agnes Guild of January 1965, members were asked to keep the hospital general purpose rather than become a hospital specializing in various diseases and conditions, saying that in the metro area there were already two hospitals that served pediatric needs — Children's Hospital and St. Boniface Hospital.

An additional 68 beds opened in early 1967, after a $5 million expansion project together with another 50 would be required by 1972 to keep pace with demand.  Said Mr. Robinson at the announcement:When this hospital was built, it was expected to become a straight community-type treatment institution with a minimum of services to take care of the run-of-the-mill conditions that have to be treated in the community.

We weren't going to be a research institution and there weren't going to be teaching of internes.

X-ray facilities, laboratories, emergency space, out-patients' department and special therapy provisions had been kept at an absolute minimum.

The 1967 addition added another four operating rooms and alterations and expansion of the existing five rooms, a new psychiatric unit, an improved poison centre to accommodate patients not ill enough to require an overnight stay, a new physiotherapy and occupational therapy space, administrative space for the home care program, new lab space for the respiratory and cystic fibrosis research and treatment centre, open heart diagnostic space, teaching space for interns. A central air conditioning system was installed at a cost of $600,000.

Part of the hospital is the Intensive Care Newborn Nursery where newborns that require surgery shortly after birth and also to care for premature infants. The nursery had a maximum capacity of 12 in the late-1960s with an additional four spaces in 1968. Although more common now, the newborn nursery served a wide area in the region, including the prairie provinces, northwest Ontario, the Northwest Territories, as well as some midwest states. In the late 1960s, 40 per cent of babies in the intensive care newborn nursery came from outside the Greater Winnipeg area.

In 1969 the Children's Hospital School of Nursing, the only one of its kind in western Canada, closed. The school had begun in 1909 just as the original hospital came into being and described as "based on the care of the well child and prevention of disease, progressed to care of the child during illness, and then to care of the adult patient." In the 60 years of its operation, 817 pediatric nurses graduated, later working in other parts of Canada and the United States. By 1916 there were 40 nurses at the school who were part of the staff.

A second hand store, located at 190 Sherbrook St. (now located at 961 Portage Ave.), The Nearly New Shop, operated by the McKinnon Guild of the hospital re-opened in September 1970, where proceeds go to research programs.

Starting in April 1981 The Children's Hospital created a closed circuit television channel, Children's Hospital TeleVision (CHTV), which broadcast on channel 4, for kids staying at the Hospital. However, by December there were threats to close down the station, claiming funds were exhausted. The operator of the station, Tom Lewicki, applied to the Winnipeg Foundation for $42,000 to continue to run the station through 1982. Lewicki said that because of a lack of entertainment options, young patients would tend to watch soap operas. Instead, CHTV programmed Charlie Brown and Disney movies, with a live in-hospital weekday show. Today children staying at the Hospital have more entertainment options such as YTV, Teletoon, videogames, YouTube (via tablet or smartphone), so there is less need for CHTV.

In the mid-1980s a large addition to the Children's Hospital was constructed and opened in 1986. During construction there were several delays.

Today the hospital has an emergency department for children and has pediatric and neo-natal intensive care units. There are also inpatient units for surgery, pediatric oncology, burns and plastic surgery. There are numerous outpatient clinics.

The Child Life Department is an integral part of Children's Hospital. This department of specialists is involved in running the playroom, the in-hospital television station (CHTV), provided for free, now on channel 7. The "Good Day Show" is broadcast at daily at 1 PM.  Music therapy and the clown program. This department exists to help children and their families cope with all aspects of illness and hospitalization by relieving stress and anxiety.

In late August 2019, David Langdon, the clown character of the Children's Hospital, announced his retirement after 30 years of doing the job for the Hospital.

Trivia
Tommy Douglas, the Father of Medicare in Canada, in an interview attributed the efforts of the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg and the "very famous orthopedic surgeon Dr. R. J. Smith" for saving his leg at age 10.

Notes

External links
 Winnipeg Children's Hospital Child Life Department
Children's Hospital Foundation: 2018 Annual Report
Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba

Hospitals in Winnipeg
Hospital buildings completed in 1958
Hospitals established in 1909
1909 establishments in Manitoba
Winnipeg


Utricularia radiata, the little floating bladderwort, is a medium-sized suspended aquatic carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus Utricularia. U. radiata is endemic to North America.

See also
 List of Utricularia species

References

Carnivorous plants of North America
Flora of the Eastern United States
radiata


HMP Bedford is a Category B men's prison, located in the Harpur area of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

History
The prison has been on its current site since 1801 and was designed by the architect John Wing (1756-1826), who also designed the Bedford town bridge, the Infirmary and the House of Industry. The previous site was on the corner of the High Street and Silver Street, then known as Gaol Lane. The location is marked with a plaque in the pavement due to its connection with John Bunyan, being the probable place where he wrote The Pilgrim's Progress. Wing's original building included "...a turnkey's lodge, cells for debtors, felons and house of correction prisoners, hot and cold baths and an oven to purify infected clothing. The silence system was enforced with great severity, wooden partitions being placed between any two prisoners at work on the treadmill. Separate exercise was allowed in the yards, and meals were taken in the cells." The prison has been twice expanded, in 1849 and 1990.

In December 2009, the prison's own Independent Monitoring Board issued a report citing concerns over the high number of prisoners serving life sentences being held at Bedford. The report praised mental healthcare provision and highlighted staff morale, prisoners' property and the visits booking line of the prison. It also praised levels of respect between staff and inmates at the jail, along with the prison's food provision and hygiene standards.

In June 2010, Donna Stanton, aged 27, a female prison officer from Bedford, was convicted after it emerged that she had a sexual relationship with an inmate from the gaol. The prison officer had also smuggled a mobile phone, food, tobacco and newspapers into the prison for the inmate while he served his sentence. She was jailed for two years.

In September 2012, it was revealed that Bedford Prison had the highest suicide rate of any prison in England and Wales during 2011/12. Four inmates committed suicide at the prison during this period, out of a population of 465.

In November 2016 riot police and emergency services were called to a prisoner riot at the facility.

The prison today
Bedford is a local prison holding Category B male prisoners who have been remanded from Luton Crown Court and all magistrates' courts in Bedfordshire. The term 'local' means that the prison holds people on remand to the local courts, as well as sentenced prisoners.

There is a split regime operating within the prison, offering work and education on a part-time basis. There is a resettlement unit within the prison, a daily library provision, and gymnasium available. The prison hosts a healthcare centre with 12 beds and 24-hour health care coverage, while those prisoners who may be at risk from suicide or self-harm are provided a prisoner listener scheme.

The Ormiston Children and Families Trust runs the Visitors Centre, which features wheelchair access, a children's play area with supervised play activity and baby changing facilities. Two Quiet Gardens, affiliated to The Quiet Garden Trust, have been established inside the prison for quiet contemplation and prayer for both prisoners and staff.

Michael Berry, 24, was the eighth prisoner to kill himself since 2017.  Berry told staff he found it hard to ignore voices in his head telling him to kill himself but despite this no GP saw him and anti psychotic medication was not prescribed for Berry.  The Prison and Probation Ombudsman said that, "significant issues remain" in mental health service provision at Bedford Prison.

Bedford Prison is overcrowded, inspection revealed 495 prisoners while the certified capacity is just 322.

Riot
On Sunday 6 November 2016, there was a riot in Bedford prison with 200 prisoners protesting against lockdowns due to staff shortages. Prisoners claim accessing drugs is easier than accessing clothing or bedding in the prison.  Basics like soap and toilet paper were not consistently supplied.  The Independent Monitoring Board at Bedford said that prisoners were not treated humanely before the riot.  The numbers claiming they developed a drug problem while in the prison rose from 4% to 14%.  The Prison Officers Association has been warning for some time about the risk of violence in British prisons.  Her Majesty's Prison inspection in May 2016 found poor physical conditions and stated, “Arrangements for managing violent and bullying behaviour and supporting victims were weak.”  The riot caused £1 million damage.
The Howard League for Penal Reform stated officers refused to unlock prisoners when it was considered too risky.  Andrew Neilson of the campaign said:

This is one of four serious incident within under two months, Riots also happened at Birmingham Prison, Lewes Prison and Swaleside Prison.

Following the riot
In May 2018 inspectors found the prison was making insufficient progress and Bedford Prison was put into special measures.  In September 2018 Peter Clarke activated the urgent notification protocol because inspectors had found high levels of violence and inexperienced staff having difficulty maintaining control.  Clarke wrote, “The clear view of the inspectorate is that immediate and decisive intervention is needed at HMP Bedford to avert further decline and an even more dangerous lack of control than is currently the case.  It is of great concern that for seven years the prison has been on a path of seemingly inexorable decline. Repeated inspection findings clearly show that this has been the case. For much of that time there was a marked inconsistency in the leadership of the prison, with frequent changes of governor.”  Prisoners were effectively in control choosing when to comply with authority, and regularly breaking rules.  There was a smell of drugs in all wings, 3 in 5 prisoners admitted developing a drug habit since getting into the prison, there was a rat and cockroach infestation.  There were 116 assaults on staff during the 6 months to September 2018.  Living conditions were bad and overcrowded and there was insufficient purposeful activity for prisoners.

Notable former inmates
 John Bunyan – author of The Pilgrim's Progress, convicted for unlicensed preaching.
 Ahmed Ali Awan - convicted of the racially motivated murder of Ross Parker.
 Sarah Dazley - poisoner, hanged in 1843.
 Chris Denning - former BBC radio DJ convicted of multiple child sex offences.
 James Hanratty (25) - the last person to be executed in Bedford. Hanged on 4 April 1962 for the murder of Michael Gregsten (34) near Dunstable in August 1961.
 Alfred Rouse (36) - hanged on 10 March 1931, for the Blazing car murder at Hardingstone which attracted sensational national interest. Rouse was tried at Northampton Assizes.

References

External links
History of Bedford Prison from theprison.org.uk
Ministry of Justice pages on HMP Bedford
HMP Bedford - HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports

Prison
Category B prisons in England
Prisons in Bedfordshire
1801 establishments in England
Men's prisons


Toby Johnson (born 1945 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American novelist and writer in the field of gay spirituality.

Life
After leaving seminary in 1970, Johnson moved to San Francisco and lived in the Bay Area throughout the 1970s. While a student at the California Institute of Asian Studies (later renamed the California Institute of Integral Studies), from which he received a graduate degree in Comparative Religion and a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, Johnson was on staff at the Mann Ranch Seminars, a Jungian-oriented summer retreat program. There he befriended religion scholar Joseph Campbell.

Johnson authored three novels: Plague: A Novel About Healing, Secret Matter, and Getting Life in Perspective.  Plague, produced by small gay-interest publisher Alyson Publications, was one of the first novels to treat AIDS through fiction.  Secret Matter, a speculative, romantic comedy about truth-telling and gay identity featuring a retelling of the Genesis myth with a gay-positive outcome, won a Lambda Literary Award in 1990 and in 1999 was a nominee to the Gay Lesbian Science-Fiction Hall of Fame, the first year of the award. He collaborated with historian, anthropologist Walter L. Williams on the novel Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo. And co-edited, with Steve Berman, publisher of Lethe Press, an anthology of gay-positive stories, Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling.

He is also author of Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness  and Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe, which explains how homosexuality can lead to a re-evaluation of people's role in the universe.

From 1996 to 2003, Johnson was editor/publisher of White Crane Journal, a periodical focusing on gay men's spirituality.  As of 2012, he worked as a literary editor with Lethe Press.

His papers are held at the Happy Foundation, San Antonio, Texas.

Bibliography

Gay Perspective: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe Peregrine Ventures, 2003,
Gay Spirituality: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness Peregrine Ventures, 2000, 2010,
Secret Matter. Peregrine Ventures, 2005,  . This is a science fiction novel, set in San Francisco.
Getting Life in Perspective Peregrine Ventures 1991, 2010,
Plague: A Novel about Healing Alyson Books, 1987, 9781555831257, Republished as "The Fourth Quill" by Peregrine Ventures, 2014
Two Spirits: A Story of Life With the Navajo (With Walter L. Williams, PhD) Peregrine Ventures, 2006,
The Myth of the Great Secret: A Search for Spiritual Meaning in the Face of Emptiness William Morrow and Company, 1981,
The Myth of the Great Secret (2nd Edition): An Appreciation of Joseph Campbell Celestial Arts, 1991,
In Search of God in the Sexual Underworld William Morrow and Company, 1983, 9780688020460
Finding Your Own True Myth: What I Learned from Joseph Campbell: The Myth of the Great Secret III Peregrine Ventures, 2018,
Finding God in the Sexual Underworld: The Journey Expanded Peregrine Ventures, 2020,

As editor

Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling (co-edited with Steve Berman) (2006). The inaugural title in the White Crane Wisdom Series, this anthology of inspirational essays and short fiction for gay men earned Johnson a Lambda Literary Award nomination.

See also
 LGBT rights in Texas

References

External links
 Official Website Toby Johnson

21st-century American novelists
American gay writers
1945 births
Living people
Lambda Literary Award winners
American spiritual writers
American LGBT novelists
LGBT people from Texas
American male novelists
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers


Route 117 is a state highway in southeastern Connecticut, running from Groton to Preston. Route 117 is designated the Colonel Ledyard Highway from its intersection with Route 184 in Groton to the Ledyard-Preston town line.

Route description
Route 117 begins at an intersection with US 1 in the village of Poquonnock Bridge in Groton. It starts out as Newtown Road then changes to North Road. About a mile north of US 1, Route 117 has an interchange with I-95 (Exit 88), then continues northward towards the village of Center Groton, where it meets Route 184. There is also access to the Star Plaza shopping area near this junction. Route 117 then enters the town of Ledyard as Center Groton Road. It intersects with Route 214 in Ledyard Center then continues north for another  until the town line with Preston. In Preston, the road becomes known as Hallville-Poquetanuck Road. Just north of the town line it meets Route 2A which joins Route 117 as they head north towards Route 2 in the village of Hallville. Immediately after crossing Indiantown Brook, Routes 117 and 2A end at Route 2.

History
Since the 1930s, the road between Center Groton and Ledyard center was an unsigned state road known as SR 588. In 1959, SR 588 was extended north using the Colonel Ledyard Highway to the village of Poquetanuck. Route 117 was established in 1963 as part of the 1962 Route Reclassification Act as a redesignation of old SR 588. One year later, the Route 117 designation was extended south to US 1 using a newly constructed extension of North Road. A portion of the current route in Ledyard used to be an old alignment of Route 27.

Junction list

References

External links

117
Transportation in New London County, Connecticut
Groton, Connecticut
Ledyard, Connecticut
Preston, Connecticut


Lance Corporal Maria Frances Lauterbach ( – December 14, 2007) of Vandalia, Ohio, was a United States Marine who disappeared from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina on December 14, 2007. At the time of her disappearance, Lauterbach was eight months pregnant. Authorities found the remains of Maria Lauterbach and her unborn child in the backyard of Corporal Cesar Armando Laurean, who was extradited from Mexico in 2009 and convicted of murder in 2010.

The murder prompted Congress to order the Defense Department to make several changes in the way it handles sexual assaults in the ranks.

Maria Lauterbach
Lauterbach grew up in Vandalia, Ohio, where she attended Butler High School. Lauterbach joined the Marines on June 6, 2006. She was a personnel clerk assigned to Combat Logistics Regiment 27, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force.

Background and death
According to her mother, Mary Lauterbach, LCpl. Lauterbach was preparing to testify that she was raped by a fellow Marine. Mary Lauterbach told police that her daughter "claimed she had been raped by a senior Marine at her command, and that the investigation had gone sour." Her father, Victor Lauterbach, had explained that Maria, an adoptive child, had long been troubled. "It all comes from fetal alcohol or fetal drug-use syndromes. Although our adoption agency claimed the child's background was satisfactory, we never met the mother. Maria's history was one of constant trouble—calls from the principals at her schools, arguments at sports activities, and a disrespectful attitude. We felt that enlisting in the Marines would be a turnaround for her, but it was a continuation of a problematic life." Her mother reported her missing on December 19, 2007, five days after their last conversation. Her cellphone was found on December 20, near the main gate at Camp Lejeune.

Authorities found the burned remains of Maria Lauterbach and her unborn child in a fire pit in the backyard of Corporal Cesar Armando Laurean. They also found a large quantity of her blood in Laurean's house in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Laurean was reported as having tried to clean up the scene.

During a press conference on January 11, 2008, Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown reported the death of Lauterbach. Brown stated that authorities "had gotten physical evidence of the woman's death that also linked Laurean to the death." Laurean claims in a note found by his wife that Maria Lauterbach committed suicide by cutting her own throat during an argument at the Laurean home. However, authorities found evidence that pointed to murder in the initial investigation, which was further supported by the autopsy results released in March 2008, which classified the neck wound as post-mortem and insufficient to cause death. The official cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head.

Cesar Laurean

Marine Corporal Cesar Laurean (SEH'-sahr LOHR'-ee-uhn), the 21-year-old prime suspect in the case, is the man whom Lauterbach accused of sexually assaulting her. A federal warrant for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution was issued for his arrest on January 12, 2008. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service issued a wanted flier on him. There was also a $25,000 reward offered by the FBI and $5,000 from the state of North Carolina for information leading to his capture. Onslow County has primary jurisdiction, but the Judge Advocate General's office may bring charges as well, to include but not limited to charges stemming from Laurean's deserter status.

Shortly after the murder, the press reported that Laurean fled to Mexico, his country of birth. Mexican officials issued an arrest warrant for Laurean as a suspect in the killing of his pregnant colleague, a U.S. Embassy official said on January 29 in Mexico City. Interpol also issued an international wanted notice for Laurean.
A cousin of the corporal informed reporters that Laurean visited family in the area of Guadalajara, Mexico in late January 2008, but left without saying where he was going. America's Most Wanted featured this story on its April 5, 2008 episode.

On April 10, 2008, the FBI announced that Laurean had been apprehended in Tacámbaro, Michoacán, Mexico. The popular press indicated that his extradition might involve at least two years of legal proceedings, considering the relationship between the United States and Mexico. In September 2008, Onslow County District Attorney Dewey Hudson agreed not to seek the death penalty, and a Mexican judge agreed to extradite Laurean.

However, in October 2008, Laurean launched another appeal to the Mexican courts to prevent his extradition, arguing that North Carolina's life-without-parole sentence for first-degree murder is not only barred under the countries' extradition treaty but is considered cruel and unusual punishment. (In North Carolina, a person convicted of first-degree murder can only be sentenced to death or life without parole.) On April 17, 2009, the FBI announced that Laurean had been extradited to the United States and was being held in the Onslow County jail. In December, an Onslow County judge agreed that the trial should be moved to a different county due to the extensive media coverage on the case, and scheduled it to begin on June 28, 2010. In January 2010, Wayne County was selected.

As concern grew through December 2007, Maria's mother, Mary Lauterbach, made frequent appeals for adequate investigation by the Marines. Her advocacy grew until she and Congressional Representatives, such as Rep. Tony Hall, became associated with the cause of safety from sexual predators in the military. Her father Victor was mostly absent from family appearances during the disappearance of and search for Maria. For the most part, the absence was explained as avoiding the observation that the parents' insistence was a conflict of interest with Victor Lauterbach's position in the Ohio National Guard as a Senior Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. In 2009, Mary Lauterbach filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Laurean and his wife Christina, accusing them of conspiring to conceal the murder.

On August 24, 2010, Laurean was convicted of murder, as well as theft and fraud charges relating to using Lauterbach's ATM card after the murder, and sentenced to life in prison. The jurors dismissed the defense's theory that Christina was in fact the real murderer, favoring the prosecution's argument that Laurean's desperation to save his career led to the incident. He initially conspired with Lauterbach to run to Mexico, supposedly with the intent of destroying her credibility with the desertion and continuing his career in the Corps, but reverted to killing her with a crowbar when that failed.

See also

Violence against women
Women in the Military

References

External links

2007 murders in the United States
Sexual assault in the United States military
Deaths by beating in the United States
Deaths by person in North Carolina
2007 in North Carolina
Jacksonville, North Carolina
Violence against women in North Carolina
December 2007 crimes in the United States


Cella is a municipality in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. In 2018 it had a population of 2,606 inhabitants.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Teruel


Fertő-Hanság National Park () is a national Park in North-West Hungary in Győr-Moson-Sopron county. It was created in 1991, and officially opened together with the connecting Austrian Neusiedler See-Seewinkel National Park the same year (both parks are attached to Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő). The park covers 235.88 km2, and consists of two main areas.

Lake Fertő is the third largest lake in Central-Europe, and the westernmost of the great continental salt lakes of Eurasia. Because of the shallow level of water and the prevailing wind, the size and shape of the lake changes very often. The area gives home to various kinds of birds, like the great egret, purple heron, common spoonbill and greylag goose. During the migration season species of the family Scolopacidae appear. Rare birds include red-breasted goose, white-tailed eagle and hen harrier. The lake is inhabited by weatherfish, northern pike and ziege. On the meadows west from the lake vegetation of rare plants like the yellow lady's slipper, fly orchid, the Hungarian iris and Iris pumila and various butterfly species can be found, while the eastern puszta areas are covered by Puccinellia peisonis, Aster tripolium, A. pannonicum and Suaeda maritima.

See also
 National Park Neusiedler See-Seewinkel (de)
 Hanság () (hu)
 Seewinkel () (de)
 Földsziget (hu)
 Tóköz
 List of national parks of Hungary

References

National parks of Hungary
Geography of Győr-Moson-Sopron County
Sopron
Tourist attractions in Győr-Moson-Sopron County
Protected areas established in 1991
1991 establishments in Hungary


was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He died in 1614.

References
http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/gutoku2/murakosinaoyosi.html
http://www.geocities.jp/onriedo_gongujodo/murakoshi-naoyoshi.html
http://www.harimaya.com/o_kamon1/hatamoto/hm_mu.html

Samurai
1562 births
1614 deaths


Tina's Pals ("Turma da Tina") is a Brazilian comic strip series, part of the Monica's Gang series, created in 1970. The stories are aimed at a more teenage group of readers, rather than the kids who would read other Mauricio de Sousa's works and thus center around teenagers. However, Mauricio prefers not to mention drugs, sex, alcoholic drinks, or other similar subjects, which are very popular among teenagers. Instead, the strips are written with themes related to school or university, dating, problems with parents, etc.

Originally the stories recounted the life of Tina and her family living in Salvador, Flip (Toneco) was the original protagonist. The stories changed when Tina joined the hippie culture and started to act alongside Curly (Rolo). In the late of 1970s, Mauricio left the hippie style and started to work with a less particular way of life for them, making the characters become more modern and changing their personalities over the years.

Publication history
During the year of 1970, during the debut of Monica's first comic book series Mauricio de Sousa decided to create a new comic strip series to replace the absence of his characters in the newspapers. In that same year several new characters were created, however the only characters that were kept were the boy Flip along their siblings Toim and Tina (that was a hippie kid in the first stories), his father and grandma, that later had their comics published also in the Monicas comic book starting at the 6th issue. After a few years Mauricio de Sousa began to be more interested in creating stories involving Tina, and later created their friends Curly (which was also another hippie character) and Puff in 1972, and the comics with Flip together family were becoming less frequent until get absent in the later comics.

At the end of the '70s the comics had gigantic changes in the art style and personalities of the characters: Tina and her friends become teenagers and have abandoned the hippie culture, Tina started to be drawn with more realistic and feminine features, and after the 80's appeared new characters like Puff's boyfriend: Steve (who eventually became a main character after a few years) and several other one-time characters. Since the '80s the comics have become one of the most popular franchises created by Mauricio de Sousa, continuing to have more modern stories and solding special titles and miniseries over the years.

 Characters

 Main characters
 Tina – A short form to say Cristina, Tina was introduced in 1970 as a hippie as young as Monica. During the eighties, she was redesigned as an older teenager with a more casual style. In the most recent stories she appears as a young adult. Tina is interested in fashion, music and beauty. She likes to dance and hang out with her friends. Among her pals, Tina is the least interested in dating.
 Curly (Rolo) – Curly was originally portrayed as a calm, easy-going hippie. His style was inspired by de Sousa's brother Márcio's own style. After the hippie attire was dismissed, women started to play the most frequent role of his strips. In most of these strips, he is flirting with any kind of girl who appears in his way, by any means necessary. Another passion of him is music. He plays the electric and acoustic guitar, sometimes alone, sometimes in a band.
 Puff (Pipa) – Tina's best friend, very cheerful, passionate, fat, and zaftig. But, above all those qualities, Puff is very jealous of her boyfriend Steve, which led to constant arguments between the couple. these arguments are a frequent subject for their strips. However, they always end together as strongly as before.
 Steve (Zecão) – Puff's boyfriend, suffer quite a lot with Puff's jealous of him. Like Curly, he enjoys music.

 Recurring
 Flip (Toneco) – Tina's little brother. In the first stories was a 6-year-old kid, but recently he appears as a pre-teen whose exact age is unknown. He complains that Tina doesn't allow him to hang out with his friends or girls, since she thinks that he's not old and mature enough. This distinction causes them to have a common sibling rivalry, in which, in most of his appearances, they're usually arguing. He rarely appears in the comics, although he had originally been the main protagonist in the first stories.
 Granny (Vovoca) – Tina's grandmother. With a calm and loving personality, she's always seen to have a good relationship with her granddaughter, in which she's always helping and giving her advice for dealing life issues.
 Tina's Dad – A very nervous and busy father. Always he is punishing his daughter for her actions, and often shows jealous about the guys that Tina dating. In the early stories was a widowed man, but his wife had recently revealed.
 Tina's Mom - She is a bit like her daughter, she is often at home and like Granny, she tends to help Tina with some advice. It was introduced in the 2000s.
 Curly's Parents - They were introduced in the late 90's. Curly is seen living with them, having a good relationship with them. The father has similarities with the son, while the mother is shown to be very kind to Curly.
 Toim - Tina and Flip's younger brother. He is characterized by being a pessimistic boy who often cries easily. He is usually seen as a supporting character for Flip. He only appeared in older comics and was removed around 1973. However in a more recent comic he had an appearance in one of the stories as a friend of Flip.
 Palestrino – Tina's family pet parrot. He was introduced in 1970 in a story starring Flip where he ends up being mistakenly bought by Flip. He is described as a mischievous foul-mouthed parrot sometimes arrogant and troublesome. For a while he became popular enough to star in his own strips in Folha de S. Paulo, however the character was discontinued in 1973. In current comics he has rare appearances, most of the time being remembered in crossovers with the other forgotten old characters of Mauricio de Sousa, and rarely is he seen being associated with Tina and her family. His name is a tribute to the old football team Palestra Itália, currently known as Palmeiras.
 Gargarejo and Porcãozinho - A pair of dogs that were recurring in early strips. Gargarejo was Tina's family pet dog, often characterized by his mania for howling, while Porcãozinho was Gargarejo's best friend and sidekick. Like Palestrino, they were introduced in 1970 for the children's supplement of the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, having been discontinued in 1973.
 José Francisco and Lúcia - A pair of siblings with no relation to Tina's family. José Francisco is a baby while Lúcia is his older sister. Like Palestrino, Gargarejo and Porcãozinho, they were introduced in 1970 for the children's supplement of the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, having been discontinued in 1973.
 Jaime – He was the Tina's first boyfriend. He first appeared in the early of 80s, but after a few stories the romance between the two characters was over. Since then he went on to appear as one of several recurring ex-boyfriends Tina in stories. He owns a motorcycle.
 Rúbia – Tina's rival, which first appeared in the miniseries "Tina e os Caçadores de Enigmas". Blonde, rich and envious, she has a personality similar to Carmem from Monica's Gang. She is constantly seen with Jaime, but as Tina the dating of the two was broken with the time.
 Baixinho (literally "Shorty") – Curly's best friend. As the name suggests (Baixinho is a slang for a short person), Baixinho is not a tall guy, at all. Although it is Curly who have to save him from the troubles he get himself involved to, he is frequently giving advice for Curly, specially when he is doing one of his many attempts to date a girl.
 Vanda and Valéria''' – A pair of twin sisters, very similar. They were based on Mauricio de Sousa's daughters.

 Media

In 1971 a song to Tina (based on her hippie version) was composed for the album "A Bandinha da Turma da Mônica", in 1987 another song for Tina was composed for the album "Turma da Mônica", entitled Tina Torna Tudo Legal (lit. Tina Makes It All Cool).

In 1979 there were plans for a live-action series starring the characters made in partnership with TV Cultura, and having as actors Beth Caruso as Tina, Vick Militello as Puff, and Kadu Moliterno as Curly, however the project was canceled before there was any filming.

The series had some special comic books (as part of the series Gibizinho) in the '90s by Editora Globo, four starring Tina, four starring Curly and one starring Puff.

In 2007 was published by Panini Comics a science-fiction miniseries starring Tina and her friends entitled "Tina e os Caçadores de Enigmas" (lit. Tina and the Enigma Hunters). The miniseries lasted with 3 issues, and subsequently had two sequels in 2008, in the same year was published a special comic entitled "Tina Especial". In May 2009 the series received its own comic book series entitled Tina, which ran until October 2011 with a total of 30 issues. After the cancellation, in 2014 was released a new version of the comic book featuring a new art style and new characters, but the changes have received a negative reception that resulted in the cancellation in 2015. The series also has an almanac with classic stories, the first series was published between 2004 and 2006 by Globo, currently the almanacs are published by Panini Comics since 2007.

Curly also makes a cameo in the Monica's Gang's 2007 animated film: Uma Aventura no Tempo.

In 2019 a graphical novel produced by Fefê Torquato based on Tina titled: Tina - Respeito'', was released as part of the Graphic MSP.

References

External links
Official Monica's Gang website
Official Monica's Gang website

Monica and Friends
Teen comedy comics
Teenage characters in comics
Humor comics
Fictional Brazilian people
1970 comics debuts
Comics characters introduced in 1970
Comics adapted into animated series
Brazilian comics titles
Comics about women
Comics set in Brazil
Hippie movement


Women's singles at the 1999 Pan American Games was won by María Vento-Kabchi of Venezuela.

Medalists

Draw

Final rounds

Women's singles


Peter Miller (born 1968) is a Canadian actor.

His credits have included the television series MVP, Virginie and Lance et Compte, and the films  Mambo Italiano and Rouge sang. Miller portrayed Galeazzo Maria Sforza in the 2009 short-film series Assassin's Creed: Lineage.

Miller graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan, New York City. He was born in Chibougamau, Quebec and spent part of his childhood in the Bahamas. His mother is of French descent and his father is of Irish descent. He is anglophone-francophone bilingual.

He is also a former professional football player in the Canadian Football League. He was drafted in the seventh round of the 1992 CFL draft by the Saskatchewan Roughriders and played six seasons in the CFL with the Roughriders, BC Lions, and Toronto Argonauts as a linebacker; he played college football for Pacific.

Filmography

Film

Series

See also
 Hero and the Terror (1988 film)

References

External links

1969 births
Living people
Male actors from Quebec
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian male film actors
Canadian people of Irish descent
Canadian male television actors
Francophone Quebec people
People from Chibougamau
Quebecers of French descent


Ningbo Cixi Stadium (Simplified Chinese: 宁波慈溪体育场) is a multi-use stadium in Cixi, Ningbo, China.  It is currently used mostly for football matches.  The stadium holds 16,000 people.

Footnotes

Football venues in China
Sports venues in Zhejiang


A mermithergate is an ant worker that has a changed appearance as a result of an Enoplia nematode infection.

Etymology

The word was coined by William M. Wheeler in 1910. It is a combination of the nematode genus Mermis, for which Wheeler first described the phenomenon, and ergate, which means ant worker. Infected females (queens) are called mermithogynes.

Infection cycle

Up to 5% of some populations of Cephalotes atratus suffer from an infection by the tetradonematid nematode Myrmeconema neotropicum. It causes the ant's abdomen to turn from black to bright red, strikingly resembling a red berry. In addition, the ant then holds it up most of the time, and it is easily ripped off. Birds easily mistake these for real fruit and pick them, while they avoid eating normal ants. The nematodes pass through the bird's digestive system as eggs without harming it. The circle closes when C. atratus workers feed on the bird droppings, thus getting infected.

See also
 Gamergate (type of ant)
 Honeypot ant

References

Further reading
 Wheeler, W.M. (1901): The parasitic origin of macroërgates among ants. American Naturalist 35: 877–886. PDF
 Wheeler, W.M. (1928): Mermis parasitism and intercastes among ants. Journal of Experimental Zoology 50: 165–237. PDF

External links
 Dale Ward: Ant Nematode

Parasitism
Ants
Enoplia


Villa Maipú is a localidad (district) of the General San Martín Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It forms part of the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires.

The localidad is home to Chacarita Juniors, a football club that won the 1969 Metropolitano.

External links

Populated places in Buenos Aires Province
General San Martín Partido


Elysia was an American deathcore band from Shingle Springs, California. Originally called Elysium's Revenge, the band was started in 2003 while the members were in high school. Since 2003 they have released two EPs and one full-length album and have completed two US tours despite almost constant line-up changes. Having settled into a more solid line-up, the band released Lion of Judas on June 10, 2008, through Ferret Records. The band disbanded in 2008 but announced their reformation in 2013.

They have toured and performed with acts like Arsonists Get All the Girls, Knights of the Abyss, Catherine, Emmure, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Impending Doom, Killwhitneydead, Suicide Silence and This Is Hell. They also have performed at the Saints & Sinners Festival in 2007.

History

Formation and early years
Elysia started as Elysium's Revenge, while the band members were still in high school. The band gained notoriety in the Shingle Springs-Cameron Park area with their empty shows at the Shingle Springs Community Center. By the end of 2003, they shortened their name to Elysia and added a second vocalist, Justin Chambers, who helped them record their first EP. Months later, they penned "Incinerate", a song that has grown to become a staple in their setlist. In the spring of 2004 they recorded a second EP with the first occurrence of "Incinerate". The release show for this EP features Suffokate and The Frontline. That summer and fall, they would write "Triumph" and "Filthy".

Masochist
Out of the Masochist writing sessions came their first full album, Masochist. Originally planned to be released on the  This City Is Burning Records, problems arose and it became a DIY effort. It was during this time that they started to become more known, touring with killwhitneydead. Around this time, most of the band graduated, and Kevin Marquez left the band to move to San Diego. After several band member changes, they toured along the west coast. In the spring of 2007, the band planned to rerecord the album for a re-release on Tribunal Records, with Jamie King as the producer. However, Joey Rommel, drummer at the time, left the band right before they went into Castle Ultimate Studios for the recording. Due to this they never re-released the album, although they are on a Tribunal Records sampler.  They found drummer Jacob Durrett (now playing drums in Fate) to fill in for a 10 Day tour with Impending Doom and Moria. After returning home they found Steven Sessler to play drums, who is still a member of the band. Alex Porte left the band in the summer of 2007, less than a month before their first full US tour. With Zak Vargas as the sole original member, the band almost broke up, but continued due to contractual obligations to perform. They toured with Knights of the Abyss and Arsonists Get All the Girls, and during the tour got jumped for a second time. In the low point of the band, when they were about to break up, Elysia got signed to Ferret Records. Elysia signed into a three-day mini-tour, and the day it started Mark Underwood, Alex's replacement, leaves the band. Once again, the fate of the band was at stake, but Zak agreed to continue and they found a replacement guitarist. To save the band, after the mini-tour Zak talked Garrett Gilardi, a high-school friend, into joining the band again, as well as Jon joining the band again as the bassist.

Lion of Judas
In December 2007, the band sat down to write their second album, Lion of Judas released through Ferret Records. They consider their new music to be "a new era for Elysia, so please do not expect the same band." They were on a tour with This Is Hell, where it concluded with a trip to Salem, Massachusetts where the new album was recorded with Kurt Ballou for a week. They dropped off the tour with Shai Hulud and Full Blown Chaos because of medical issues with Zak.

Disbanding and re-forming
After the drop-out of the last tour, there were hints of Elysia's then current state including their MySpace design removed and Zak's blog entries which included Elysia breaking up. Members including Zak, Steven, and Garrett looked into working together on a new project but nothing surfaced.

Through many sources, it was confirmed the band had reformed. Plans fell through with the other members, thus putting to rest of any plans of reformation. Zak Vargas would later form black metal outfit VRTRA.

Musical style, influences and lyrical themes
Elysia's lyrics cover a wide range of topics, such as homophobia and failed romantic love. The band admits that they sometimes have a hard time accurately portraying the meanings they want to put across, mainly because of "immaturity". For example, the lyrical content of "Incinerate" and "Filthy" has had the band criticized. They have also been banned from playing at venues because of their lyric's graphic violent content. Their sound has encompassed several facets of hardcore and metal. Their early material, to include Masochist, was of the death core style. Their second and final album, Lion of Judas, was of a style reminiscent of 90s hardcore in its sound; however it continued the band's socially minded lyrical themes, albeit in a more seasoned manner.

The band's first studio album Masochist pulls heavily on Metalcore and death metal influence (the two genres that make up death core). Although with breakdowns inspired directly from 90's hardcore rather than the typical metal core breakdown. Some of the band's influences include Entombed, Immolation, Dying Fetus, The Acacia Strain, Converge and Pantera.

Band members

Final line-up
Zak Vargas – vocals
Alex Porte – guitars
Mark Underwood – guitars
Danny Lomeli – guitars (2006-2007) drums
Chris Lemos– bass guitar, backing vocals

Former members
Justin Chambers – keyboard, vocals
Andre Vocino – guitar
Pat Guild – bass
John Sontag - bass
Kevin Marquez – drums
Joey Rommel – drums
Chris Cain– guitar
Jeremy Chavez – bass
Garrett Gilardi - guitar
Jon Malanowski – bass, backing vocals
Steven Sessler – drums

Timeline

Discography

As Elysia
Studio albums
Masochist (2006)
Lion of Judas (2008)

EPs
Killing Grounds EP (2004)
Tease Her, Please Her, Stick Her in the Freezer (2005)

Demos
Demo (2003)
04 Demo (2004)

As Elysium's Revenge
EPs
Demo (2003)

References

American deathcore musical groups
American musical quintets
Death metal musical groups from California
Ferret Music artists
Musical groups established in 2003
Musical groups disestablished in 2008
Metalcore musical groups from California


Giovanni Vincenzo Cardinal Bonzano PIME (27 September 1867 – 26 November 1927) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Delegate to United States from 1912 to 1922, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1922.

Biography
Giovanni Bonzano was born in Castelletto Monferrato to Giuseppe and Agostina (née Vescovo) Bonzano. He attended the seminary in Vigevano before going to Rome to study at the Mastai College for Chinese Missions and Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide. He was ordained a priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions by Cardinal Lucido Parocchi on 21 May 1890, and then did missionary work in China until 1897. Upon returning to Italy, Bonzano was made vicar general (26 August 1899) and chancellor (10 February 1900) of Vigevano. He then taught at the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide from 1901 to 1904, becoming its rector on 16 May.

On 2 February 1912, Bonzano was appointed Apostolic Delegate to United States and Titular Archbishop of Melitene by Pope Pius X. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 3 March from Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, with Bishops Pietro Barruti and Thomas Kennedy serving as co-consecrators, in Rome. Bonzano, in addition to his duties in Washington, D.C., was temporarily placed in charge of the Apostolic Delegation to Mexico on 22 June 1915.

Pope Pius XI created him Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio in the consistory of 11 December 1922, whereupon he ceased to serve as Apostolic Delegate. Cardinal Bonzano opted to assume the titular church of Santa Susanna on 18 December 1924, and later presided over the initial renovation of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi on 19 April 1925. He also served as papal legate to the 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago on 20–24 June 1926. He arrived at the Congress aboard the "Cardinal's Train", a special New York Central/Pullman train painted cardinal red and gold to carry Bonzano and several other cardinals from the port in New York to Chicago.

Cardinal Bonzano died in Rome, at age 60. He is buried in the church of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in Grottaferrata.

References

External links

Catholic-Hierarchy

Cardinal Bonzano's New York Central/Pullman Train to the 28th International Eucharistic Congress in Chicago in 1926

1867 births
1927 deaths
20th-century Italian cardinals
Apostolic Nuncios to the United States
Cardinals created by Pope Pius XI
People from the Province of Alessandria
Rectors of the Pontificio Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide


Cosa is a municipality located in the province of Teruel, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 87 inhabitants.

References

Municipalities in the Province of Teruel


Women's doubles at the 1999 Pan American Games was won by Joana Cortez and Vanessa Menga of Brazil.

Medalists

Draw

Final rounds

Women's doubles


Jan Maas can refer to:

 Jan Maas (cyclist, born 1900) (1900–1977), Dutch cyclist
 Jan Maas (cyclist, born 1996), Dutch cyclist
 Jan Maas (sailor) (1911–1962), Dutch sailor
 Jan Maas (character), a fictional footballer in the TV series Ted Lasso


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

References

Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Satu Mare County


Captain Macheath is a fictional character who appears both in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), its sequel Polly (1777), and roughly 150 years later in Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera (1928).  Even though written "Macheath", the name is pronounced as if it were "MacHeath".

Origins
Macheath made his first appearance in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera as a chivalrous highwayman. He then appeared as a pirate in Gay's sequel.

He was probably inspired in part by Jack Sheppard who, like Macheath, escaped from prison and enjoyed the affections of a prostitute, and despised violence. His nemesis is Peachum who, in John Gay's original work, keeps an account book of unproductive thieves, something that Macheath does for himself in Brecht's work. Both characters can be understood as satires of Robert Walpole and Jonathan Wild.

In popular culture
Captain Macheath is the chief protagonist of the 1841 Victorian penny dreadful Captain Macheath by Pierce Egan the Younger.

In Charles Dickens' novel, Little Dorrit, he is quoted by Bar, a lawyer attending a dinner party held by Mr. Merdle: "a high and solemn occasion, when, as Captain Macheath says, 'the judges are met: a terrible show!' We lawyers are sufficiently liberal, you see, to quote the Captain, though the Captain is severe upon us. Nevertheless, I think I could put in evidence an admission of the Captain's,' said Bar, with a little jocose roll of his head; for, in his legal current of speech, he always assumed the air of rallying himself with the best grace in the world; 'an admission of the Captain's that Law, in the gross, is at least intended to be impartial. For what says the Captain, if I quote him correctly—and if not,' with a light-comedy touch of his double eye-glass on his companion's shoulder, 'my learned friend will set me right:

'Since laws were made for every degree,
To curb vice in others as well as in me,
I wonder we ha'n't better company
Upon Tyburn Tree!'"

In The Threepenny Opera
In Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, he is referred to as "Mack the Knife", and is the subject of the song of the same name. While his character plays roughly the same role as in the work it is derived from, Macheath is a much less romantic character here, described as a cutthroat, rapist and seducer of underage girls.

References

Fictional pirate captains
Literary characters introduced in 1728
Fictional military captains
Fictional serial killers
Fictional rapists
Male literary villains
Male characters in literature
Fictional professional thieves


The Venetian National Party (Partito Nasionał Veneto, PNV) was a Venetist, separatist and libertarian political party active in Veneto, Lombardy and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In September 2010 the party suspended its activities and its members joined Veneto State. In May 2012 most of its former leaders seceded from it and formed Venetian Independence.

History

Background and foundation

The party was founded in 2007 by Gianluca Busato (who had been a founding member of the Venetians Movement in 2006), Claudio Ghiotto (also known as Claudio Hütte) and Alessia Bellon. The PNV was indeed a split of the Venetians Movement, whose leader Patrik Riondato did not want to actively participate to elective politics, but soon drew people from libertarian circles.

At the first party congress, which was held on 18 May 2008 in Castelfranco Veneto, Busato was elected secretary, whereas Paolo Bernardini was elected president.

2009 provincial elections
In 2009 the PNV took part for the first time in an election, by presenting candidates and lists for the provincial elections in Padua and Venice,

According to party officials, during the campaign, members and supporters experienced several interferences from the local Carabinieri. Gianluca Busato was interrogated at a Carabinieri's station of Limena (PD). On 13 May Stefano Venturato, candidate for president in Padua, started a hunger strike to protest against the misinformation of the local newspapers about the PNV and the interferences of the Italian police. Finally, on 14 May, the PNV's headquarters in Treviso were ransacked by Carabinieri.

The week before the election was also marked by tragedy. One of the party's candidates, Angela Cristina Oliveira da Silva, was killed in the explosion of Air France's flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. She was returning from her native Brazil to participate in the last week of campaigning.

Election results were highly disappointing as the PNV gained just 0.3% of the vote in Padua and 0.2% in Venice, but it did better in some municipal contests.

2010 regional election
At a congress in October 2009, in Limena, which was attended by several Venetist leaders, such as Patrik Riondato of Venetians Movement and Ettore Beggiato of North-East Project, the PNV chose to run the forthcoming regional election with an independentist candidate. Gianluca Busato was re-elected secretary, while Lodovico Pizzati (son of Giulio, leader of Liga Federativa Veneta in the 1980s) was elected president. Paolo Bernardini was appointed honorary president.

The party decided to choose its candidate for President of Veneto through an on-line open primary. Five candidates ran: Claudio Ghiotto (representing the libertarian wing of the party), Sabrina Tessari, Stefano Ventuarato, Alberto Gardin (leader of Venetian Independence and, later, candidate of the Party of the Venetians) and Michele Milanetto (a former member of the Democrats of the Left, on behalf of the party's left-wing). Soon Milanetto withdrew in favour of Tessari, while Venturato did the same to endorse Ghiotto, who was thus the front-runner. More than 10,000 people voted in the primary and Ghiotto won the nomination with 54.8% of the vote, ahead of Tessari (45.0%) and Gardin (0.2%). Shortly afterwards Ghiotto chose not to run and opened the way for the bid of his running-mate, Gianluca Panto, in accordance with party rules.

On election day, Panto managed to win a mere 0.4% of the vote, while the party was stuck at 0.3%. It was a big blow for the PNV, but its members saw it as the first step toward success. Busato resigned from secretary, and was replaced by Panto at a party congress in May.

Veneto State

On 12 September 2010 the PNV was merged with the Party of the Venetians (PdV) to form Veneto State (VS). Lodovico Pizzati, president of the PNV, was elected secretary of the new party. Gianluca Busato (PNV) was elected treasurer and Giustino Cherubin (PdV) president.

With the merger of the PNV into the new party, the website of the PNV was transformed into "Press News Veneto" (PNV), an online newspaper edited by Busato, covering Venetian, European, international, economic, cultural, political and, especially, separatist issues. The PNV magazine is quite independent from VS, as exposed also by the brief exit of Busato from the party in January 2011, and the critical views of the new party leadership elected in October 2011. Since then, the website became also the voice of the libertarian wing of the party, represented also by Pizzati, who had been replaced as secretary by Antonio Guadagnini.

In May 2012, after almost a year of clashes with the new leadership, most former PNV members left VS and formed Venetian Independence (IV).

Ideology and factions
The party campaigned for independence for the so-called Venetia, a country that would be composed of all the territories of the historical Venetian Republic, covering the current Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, some provinces of Lombardy (Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona and Mantova) and a portion of Trentino (see chart), in contrast with those Venetist parties, such as Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, currently campaigning for federal reform.

The core principles of the PNV included: individual rights, including the right to life, private property and the pursuit of happiness (a clear reference to the United States Declaration of Independence); the refusal of any discrimination based on race, sex, religion, language, etc.; nonviolence, democratic legitimacy and non aggression; respect of international law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, mainly, self-determination. The party proposed an independent Veneto, "tolerant and open to Europe" and takes example from the Scottish National Party, the Basque National Party, and Catalan nationalists.

The PNV early leader Bernardini was essentially a libertarian and most of party members, notably including Gianluca Panto, Claudio Ghiotto and Lodovico Pizzati, reflected his economic and political ideas. The party's core was indeed represented by the Venetian Libertarian Party envisioned and led by Ghiotto. However the party was open to people of all backgrounds.

The party proposed a flat tax at 20%, to be reduced over a few years to 15%, something that would be possible only in case of independence.

Leadership
Secretary: Gianluca Busato (2008–2010), Gianluca Panto (2010, office suspended)
Deputy Secretary: Stefano Venturato (2008–2010, office suspended)
President: Paolo Bernardini (2008–2009), Lodovico Pizzati (2009–2010, office suspended)
Vice President: Claudio Ghiotto (2009–2010, office suspended)
Honorary President: Paolo Bernardini (2009–2010, office suspended)
Treasurer: Ivano Durante (2008–2009), Stefano Venturato (2009–2010), Gianluca Busato (2010, office suspended)

References

External links
Official website

Political parties in Veneto
Venetian nationalism
Separatism in Italy
Libertarianism in Italy
Libertarian parties
Political parties established in 2007
2007 establishments in Italy


Stéphane Zeusnagapa Pounewatchy (born 10 February 1968) is a French former footballer, turned football agent. He was a defender who plied his trade in France, England and Scotland.

Career
Pounewatchy played in his native France for CS Sedan Ardennes from 1985 to 1987, suffering relegation from Ligue 2 in the 1985–86 season. In 1989, he returned to the second tier with FC Martigues and helped them to the Ligue 2 title and promotion to Ligue 1 in 1992–93. The club consolidated their top-flight status in 1993–94 and 1994–95, in part due to Didier Tholot's 13 league goals in both seasons. Pounewatchy spent the 1995–96 season with FC Gueugnon, though both Gueugnon and Martigues suffered relegation to Ligue 2.

Pounewatchy moved to England for the start of the 1996–97 season where he was a permanent fixture in the Third Division Carlisle United team in both 1996–97 and 1997–98. The club celebrated promotion to the Second Division in the former season and relegation from it in the latter. He was named as man of the match as Carlisle won the 1997 Football League Trophy Final at Wembley with a penalty shoot-out victory over Colchester United following a 0–0 draw.

Pounewatchy then briefly moved north to Scotland for the 1997–98 season, spending August with Dundee in the SPL, playing four games before joining Port Vale of the English Football League First Division on a monthly basis. He was only at Vale Park for September, playing just two games. On 20 February, he joined Colchester United, signing a contract to run for the rest of the season. He said: "I am very happy to be in the Second Division because when you are a professional footballer you want to play at the highest level you can." He played fifteen games that season and was released on 8 May.

On 25 January 2000, he turned out for Scunthorpe United in a 2–1 defeat by Chesterfield at Glanford Park in the Football League Trophy.

Career statistics
Source:

Honours
FC Martigues
Ligue 2: 1992–93

Carlisle United
Football League Trophy: 1997
Football League Third Division third-place promotion: 1996–97

References

Footballers from Paris
French men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
CS Sedan Ardennes players
FC Martigues players
FC Gueugnon players
French expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Carlisle United F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Dundee F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Scottish Premier League players
English Football League players
Association football agents
1968 births
Living people


Pennsylvania State Senate District 34 includes parts of Cumberland County and Dauphin County and all of Perry County. It is currently represented by Republican Greg Rothman.

District profile
The district includes the following areas:

Cumberland County

Dauphin County

All of Perry County

Senators

References

Pennsylvania Senate districts
Government of Centre County, Pennsylvania
Government of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Government of Juniata County, Pennsylvania
Government of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania


Delft Campus railway station is a railway station in Delft, Netherlands, located on the railway line between The Hague and Rotterdam. The railway station was opened on 31 May 1970. The station building was demolished in June 2006. The name of the station was Delft Zuid until 14 December 2019.

The station area is dominated by the overpassing viaduct, which carries the Kruithuisweg, a provincial highway, over the railroad. The viaduct is also used by pedestrians and travellers to reach the platforms at the other side.

Train services

The following services call at Delft Campus:
4x per hour local service (sprinter) The Hague CS - Rotterdam - Dordrecht (Mon-Fri 5 a.m. - 20 p.m.)
2x per hour local service (sprinter) The Hague CS - Rotterdam - Dordrecht (Mon-Fri after 20 p.m., all weekend)

Gallery

References

External links
Spoorzone Delft Zuid
stationsweb.nl
NS website
Dutch Public Transport journey planner

Railway stations in South Holland
Railway stations opened in 1970
Railway stations on the Oude Lijn
Buildings and structures in Delft
1970 establishments in the Netherlands
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1970s