Vespaiola is a white Italian wine grape variety planted primarily in the Veneto region of northeastern Italy, where it is often dried to produce passito style dessert wines. Along with Friulano, Vespaiola is an important component in the Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) white wine of Breganze produced in the province of Vicenza.

Vespaiola grapes ripen to high sugar levels and are used to produce sweet wines with a characteristic golden hue. In fact, the grapes of Vespaiola get so concentrated with sugars that the name Vespaiola comes from Vespa, in reference to wasps that are attracted to the sugary aromas in vineyards.

Despite its similar-sounding name, Vespaiola should not be confused with red Italian wine grape, Vespolina, which is grown in the Piedmont and Lombardy regions.

Wine regions

The Breganze DOC, located in the foothills of the Alps, contains a significant number of plantings of Vespaiola where the grape can be included in the generic Breganze blend or produced in a varietal wine. To be included in the DOC wine, the grapes must be harvested up to a maximum yield 14 tonnes/hectare (13 tonnes for the varietal) with the finished wine fermented to a minimum alcohol level of 11% (11.5% for the varietal).

For the Breganze white blend, up to 15% Vespaiola is permitted to blended primarily with Friulano with Pinot bianco, Pinot grigio, Riesling Italico and Sauvignon blanc also potentially included in the blend. The varietal wine Vespaiola must be made entirely of the single variety, harvested to more limited yields and produced with a higher alcohol level. A superiore style is also permitted if the wine achieves at least a 12% alcohol level. When Vespaiola is used to produce a dessert style wine from partially dried grapes (a passito) it maybe labeled as Torcolato.

DOC regions
The following is a list of DOC wines, beyond Breganze, that include Vespaiola as a permitted grape variety, along with other grapes that may be included in the blend under varying percentages that are regulated under the DOC label.

Bagnolo di Sopra DOC – Primarily Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc and Friulano with up to 10% permitted to be Vespaiola and/or other local white grape varieties.
Merlara DOC – Primarily Friulano with up to 50% permitted to be Vespaiola and/or other local white grape varieties.
Vicenza DOC – Primarily Garganega with up to 50% permitted to be Vespaiola and/or other local white grape varieties.

Viticulture and winemaking

The name Vespaiola is derived from the Latin vespa and refers to the wasps that are attracted to the high sugar content in the grapes as they ripen late into the growing season. The wasps' presence can be considered a viticultural hazard due to not only their propensity to damage the grapes in order to get to the sweet pulp inside, but also the danger they may cause to vineyard workers in the area.

In vintages where the climate conditions are favorable, the grapes maybe left on the vine to desiccate and further concentrate the sugars well into January. They could also be harvested earlier and left to dry inside special drying rooms where they are may be hung from the ceilings or spread out on mats to dry.

Even with the long ripening periods and high sugar concentrations, the Vespaiola grape can still maintain a relatively high level of acidity that can help balance the sweetness in the resulting wines. After fermentation, some producers will age the wines in oak barrels.

Wine styles
The passito styles of Vespaiola are characterized by a golden color with aromas of apricots, honeysuckles and spice that can be a byproduct of aging in oak. The naturally high acidity of the grapes can help balance the high sugar content producing what wine expert Oz Clarke describes as "one of Italy's finest sweet wines." In recent years, producers in Breganze have experimented with producing Sauternes-style wine from Vespaiola, Friulano and other white grapes that have been infected with Botrytis cinerea.

While Vespaiola is often used to produce sweet dessert wines, it can also be fermented to dryness where it usually produces a light-bodied wines with high acidity and very little of the aroma notes that tend to characterize the grape's sweeter incarnations.

Synonyms
Over the years Vespaiola and its wines have been known under various synonyms including  Bresparola, Bresparola Bianca, Orisi bianca, Uva Vespera, Vespaia, Vespaiolo, Vespajola, Vespajuola Di Bassano, Vesparola, and Vespera.

References

White wine grape varieties


Lartington Hall is a 17th-century country house, at Lartington, Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Architecture
The earliest part of the house, built for the Appleby family, is the three-storey four-bayed central block and projecting three-storey porch, which dates from about 1635. The west wing and chapel dedicated to St Lawrence were added in about 1800, and an east wing in the early 19th century, to which was added a ballroom in 1836 possibly to a design by Ignatius Bonomi. A curved porte-cochère on the north side, and adjoining vestibule and corridor, were added in 1861-5 by Joseph Hansom.

History
The Roman Catholic family of Maire acquired the manor of Lartington by marriage in 1654. It passed to the Lawson family when Sir Henry Lawson Bt (d. 1834)
of Brough Hall married Anna Anastasia, the Maire heiress. Their grandson Henry Thomas Maire Silvertop, who inherited the estate, married Eliza Witham and changed his surname to Witham. As Henry Witham he was High Sheriff of Durham in 1844.

When the Hall was Grade II* listed in 1986, the report added specifics, stating that in the 12th Century, the property had been owned by Robert de Lascelles. After several later sales, it was acquired in 1639 by "Francis Appleby and passed through marriage to the Maire family". The principal building "probably originated in the late C17, though there may have been an earlier building on the site".  The report also indicates that additions were made in the late 18th century "including a chapel, and of the early C19, including a ballroom (formerly museum) of c 1836".

Henry Witham's fourth son, the Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas Edward Witham, lived in the Hall from 1847 until his death. Witham had arranged to add a porte-cochere. In 1987, the property was inherited by his grandnephew Francis Silvertop of Minsteracres. This family sold it in 1910 and the new owner sold it again after WW I to a wealthy American, Norman Field. During WW II, the Hall was used by the Red Cross as a hospital for injured soldiers; Army tanks caused damage to the building and the grounds. Afterwards, the Field family again occupied it until 1973, and allowed it to deteriorate. The Hall then stood empty and neglected for some years, until it was purchased Robin Rackham. The most recent owners are Shona and John Harper-Wilkes.

A restoration project by Robin Rackham was completed with the assistance of the Historic Buildings Countil. It commenced in 1980, beginning with extensive works to the roof and moving on to the ballroom and corridor.

The more extensive "restoration, modernisation and redecoration" by the Harper-Wilkes ran from 2011 until 2015. In a 2013 interview, the couple said that the previous owners had "turned this chapel into a squash court" and the ballroom "into a recording studio for rock bands".

The property was listed for sale in late August 2022; at the time, the listing indicated that it had been used as a wedding and events venue until recently.

References

  English Heritage: Images of England, photograph and architestural description of listed building
    A Topographical Dictionary of  England  Samuel Lewis (1848) p 30-32 from British History Online: Lartington
   A History of the County of York: North Riding Vol I (1914) p117-27 from British History Online: Lartington

Grade II* listed buildings in County Durham
Country houses in County Durham
History of County Durham


Vilana () is a white Greek wine grape variety planted primarily in Crete. The grape is a difficult one to cultivate and produces delicate wines rarely seen outside Greece.

Synonyms
Vilana is also known under the synonyms Belana and Velana.

References

White wine grape varieties
Grape varieties of Greece


Michele Marie Granger (born January 15, 1970) is an American, former collegiate four-time NCAA Division I First Team All-American and 1996 gold medal-winning Olympian softball pitcher. She played college softball for four seasons, over five years, for California. She won a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with Team USA. She currently holds numerous pitching records for the Bears, and is the Pac-12 Conference career leader in perfect games, no hitters, shutouts and innings pitched, simultaneously holding the NCAA lead in no-hitters (25), along with several other top-10 career records. She is a USA Softball Hall of Fame inductee.

Valencia High School
Granger was a standout pitcher from 1985–1988 and still holds national top-10 records for career ERA (0.10), no-hitters (36) and strikeouts (1,635). On two occasions she also struck out a single-game record 21 batters over 7 innings pitched during her 1986 and 1987 campaigns. Against La Mirada High School on June 2, 1988, Granger ended her career tallying 40 strikeouts in the Southern Section 3-A softball semifinals.

As a sophomore, Granger would also make her first Team USA roster during the summer of 1986 and competed at the World Championships under head coach Ralph Raymond. She remained a member until after the 1996 Olympics.

College
1989:
On February 16, Granger tossed her first career no-hitter against the New Mexico State Aggies, an 8-0, 5-inning perfect game. Owing to an inflammation in her pitching hand, Granger withdrew midway through the season to recover.

1990:
Resuming her freshman season, Granger twirled 5 no-hitters (a season top-5 and NCAA tying Freshman Class record), led her team with a career best ERA and posted the best strikeout ratio with the most strikeouts in the NCAA to garner National Fastpitch Coaches' Association All-American status and All-Pac-10 honors. This also led her to a conference Triple Crown for the best ERA, wins and strikeout totals.

1991:
Granger threw four no-hitters and one perfect game. She broke and set school season records for wins, strikeouts (both led the Pac-10) and shutouts, all of which now rank top-5 all-time for the Bears; she also set a career best WHIP. And she maintained her hold on the best season strikeout ratio, improving by two strikeouts per inning from the previous year, and strikeouts overall for that year to again be honored All-American and All-Pac-10.

For one of her no-hitters, Granger set a school, NCAA Sophomore Class and overall single 7-inning game record for strikeouts when she whiffed 21 batters in a 3-0 win over the Creighton Bluejays on March 22, 1991.

1992:
Adding 6 more no-hitters (another top-5 NCAA season record), two perfect games and all-season honors, Granger would break her own shutout record by pitching 26, which is the Junior Class record and was second all-time only to Debbie Nichols' NCAA Division I total of 36, set in 1988. In addition, that season's no-hitters gave her a career 16 to break the record originally held by Lisa Ishikawa (14).

That year Granger led her team to the only Women's College World Series appearance of her career. She responded by shutting out the USF Bulls in their opening game but eventually suffered their second loss 2-0 to defending champions the Arizona Wildcats.

1993:
As a senior, Granger posted 9 no-hitters (one a perfect game) and for the final time repeated all-season honors. Her no-hitters are the Senior Class and  all-time NCAA season record; she also set the career record by reaching 25. For her fourth All-American honor, Granger, along with Lisa Fernandez became the first NCAA Division I softball players to be named to the First Team in four consecutive seasons. She broke her own strikeout total with 484, which led the conference and Nation—as she had all three years prior—and set a new NCAA season record, bettering Lisa Ishikawa's 1984 total of 469. On February 22, she broke Shawn Andaya's career strikeout record in an 8-0 win over the Northwestern Wildcats. Granger would reach a career record total of 1,640 and currently remains inside the top-10 all-time.

On March 28 Granger threw her 85th career shutout over the Sacramento State Hornets to claim a new NCAA Division I record. At the close of the season she would have a grand total of 94, now second best all-time. Granger set another single-game record in a 12-inning battle with the Oregon Ducks on March 30, posting a career best 26 strikeouts to crack the record of 25 held by Debbie Doom. This single-game record now stands second all-time in the NCAA and is the Senior Class record.

Granger would depart with California Golden Bears career records in wins, innings pitched, shutouts and strikeouts and still claims school dominance in all those categories except wins. She holds the now-named Pac-12 innings and shutout records, as well as strikeouts for both her single-game record totals. Finally, she holds the no-hitter crown at 25 and ranks second all-time in shutouts, third in perfect games (5), 6th in innings, 9th in strikeouts and 15th in ERA overall (10th for a four-year career) in the NCAA Division I.

1996 Olympics
Granger prepared to compete in the inaugural softball tournament to be held in Atlanta, Georgia while working and living in Alaska. After completing the exhibition tour, she would throw the first pitch ever in the Olympics in a 10-0 win over Puerto Rico. Granger struck out 10 and only gave up two hits and a walk.

On July 30, she would post her second win in the gold medal game in which Team USA defeated China 3-1, with Granger pitching the first 5 plus innings, giving up a run, a walk and striking out 8 batters. In 16-innings, Granger had two wins, gave up two earned runs and collected 25 strikeouts, all while three-months pregnant. Granger was second on the team in strikeouts and innings pitched.

Post-playing career
Granger was inducted in the California Golden Bears Hall of Fame in her first year of eligibility.

She nabbed her second and third Hall of Fame entries on the same night, November 9, 2006, by being inducted into the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) and International Softball Federation (ISF) Softball Halls of Fame.

She worked on the coaching staff of the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers softball team and currently volunteers at Sierra College while coaching high school softball.

Statistics

California Golden Bears

Team USA

References

Links
 NCAA Division I softball career strikeouts list
 NCAA Division I softball career wins list
 NCAA Division I softball career -1.00 ERAs list

External links

1970 births
Living people
Softball players from California
California Golden Bears softball players
American softball coaches
Tennessee Volunteers softball coaches
Olympic softball players for the United States
Softball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in softball
Softball players
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
People from Placentia, California
Sportspeople from Orange County, California


The Coolidge Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Osbourn, Saint George Parish, Antigua. It was previously known as the Airport Cricket Ground, before it was taken over by American businessman and cricket enthusiast Allen Stanford, rebuilt in 2004 and named the Stanford Cricket Ground. It was used as one of the many home grounds of the Leeward Islands and also hosted many Twenty20 matches, including both the 2006 & 2008 Stanford 20/20 tournaments and the 2008 Stanford Super Series. Stanford was convicted of fraud and multiple violations of US securities laws on 6 March 2012 and sentenced to 110 years in prison, and the stadium's name was changed to the Coolidge Cricket Ground in 2016-17 and it resumed staging cricket matches after an eight-year hiatus.

The stadium also hosted football matches for Antigua Barracuda FC of USL Pro from 2011 to 2012.

In February 2021, it was selected to host its first official International matches to be played by the West Indies Men's team during Sri Lanka tour of the West Indies.  On 3 March 2021, Kieron Pollard became only the third player to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket, off the bowling of Akila Dananjaya.

This ground has hosted many matches of 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

References

External links
 Cricinfo.com: Coolidge Cricket Ground profile webpage
 Cricket Archive.com: Coolidge Cricket Ground records

Cricket grounds in Antigua and Barbuda
Saint George Parish, Antigua and Barbuda
Football venues in Antigua and Barbuda
Sports venues completed in 2004
2004 establishments in Antigua and Barbuda


Zalema is a white Spanish wine grape variety planted mainly in Condado de Huelva. As a varietal, Zalema produces heavy, full bodied wines.

Synonyms
Zalema is also known under the synonyms Del Pipajo, Perruna, Torrontes de Motilla, Ignobilis, Rebazo, Salemo, Salerno, Zalemo, and Zalemo Rebazo.

References

Andalusian cuisine
Spanish wine
Grape varieties of Spain
White wine grape varieties


Pharmaceutical Statistics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers related to pharmaceutical statistics. It is the official journal of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry and is published by John Wiley & Sons.

Abstracting and indexing
Pharmaceutical Statistics is indexed in the following services:
Current Index to Statistics
MEDLINE
Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Scopus

External links
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1539-1612

Biostatistics journals


Arjula Ramachandra Reddy is a biologist who did research in the field of genetics and plant biotechnology. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore.
He is an Alexander von  Himboldt Fellow, Germany, at Max Planck Institute fur Zichtungsforsching, Cologne( 1885–87), Rockefeller Foundation (USA) Carrier Biotechnogy Fellow( 2000-2001), at Purdue University, USA.

After obtaining a Ph. D., from Osmania University, he moved on to USA where he did research in genetics both at Iowa State University and Johns Hopkins University. He then joined the faculty of the University of Hyderabad in 1978, and has been at the university since. Prof. Reddy played an important role in establishing several national and international collaborations, and developing advanced research programs using cutting edge technologies such as functional genomics, association genetics and genetic engineering.

He is the first vice-chancellor of Yogi Vemana University Kadapa; A. P, India during 2006-2009 and also second term, 2010-2013. He was Co-chair of National Genetic Engineering Committee, 2009–12, of Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. Of India. He served as a member of the Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation  of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India; Science Panel member, the Department for International Development/ Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (DFID/BBSRC) of the UK Government, 2006-2007. He is currently a member of Board Of Governors, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, AP, India.
His research interests are: capturing differentially expressed genes during drought stress, cloning and functional analysis of promoter regions of target genes of drought response; isolation and characterization of family of drought responsive transcriptional activators; study of processes and pathways that are common to drought, salt and submergence; expression profiling of stress responsive genes.
Currently, he is a Professor Emeritus, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, TS, India. He has to credit more than 50 publications to his credit in reputed international and national peer-reviewed journals. He has guided 25 Ph. D students besides training huge number of Post Graduate students. He is currently working on genome analysis of lice and the application of NextGen Sequencing Technologies in Crop Improvement .
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References

20th-century Indian botanists
Living people
Osmania University alumni
Scientists from Hyderabad, India
Year of birth missing (living people)


Eileen Donaghy (16 July 1930 – 26 October 2008) was an Irish traditional singer. Donaghy was well known for her recordings of ballads such as The Oul Lammas Fair and My Lagan Love and was known as the "First Lady of the Moy".

Eileen Donaghy was born Mary Josephine McNally in Brackaville, Coalisland, County Tyrone. Her family always called her "Maisie". She was the second of three children and the elder daughter of Hugh Patrick and Brigid (née Corey) McNally. She left school at 14 and worked as a darner in Derryvale weaving factory. She was a member of a variety group that performed in local halls.

Donaghy married Tyrone footballer Pat Donaghy in 1956. The couple lived for a while in Coalisland, before moving to Moy. Her big breakthrough was the 1958 Ulster Football Final at Clones, where she sang "The Boys from the County Armagh" to a packed stadium.

She toured the world as part of the traditional folk scene in the early 1960s and was successful in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, the US and Canada. One of her albums, Let's Sing with the Irish was issued on Fontana (Philips) Records in the UK and Epic Records in the US simultaneously. In 1971, during "the Troubles", she recorded an album of rebel songs which was released under the name of her grandmother, Brigid Corey. This album was reissued on CD by Outlet Recording Company, before they went defunct in the 1990s.

Family
Pat Donaghy died in 1991; the couple had nine children, including County Tyrone footballers Colm and Plunkett.

References

External links
 Eileen and Clancy Brothers in Moy

1930 births
2008 deaths
People from Coalisland
20th-century women singers from Northern Ireland
Women folk singers from Northern Ireland
Musicians from County Tyrone
People from Moy, County Tyrone
20th-century folk musicians from Northern Ireland


The 106th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in South Central Pennsylvania and has been represented since 2017 by Republican Tom Mehaffie.

District profile
The 106th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Dauphin County. It includes the unincorporated community of Hershey. It is made up of the following areas:

 Conewago Township
 Derry Township
 East Hanover Township
 Hummelstown
 Londonderry Township
 Lower Swatara Township (PART)
 District 01
 District 02
 District 04
 Middletown
 Royalton
 South Hanover Township

Representatives

Recent election results

References

External links
District map from the United States Census Bureau
Pennsylvania House Legislative District Maps from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.
Population Data for District 106 from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.

Government of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
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Magnolia Hill may refer to:

 Magnolia, Seattle, a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington
Magnolia Hill (Natchez, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in Adams County, Mississippi

See also
Magnolia Grove (disambiguation)
Magnolia Mound


Ronny Van Geneugden (; born 17 August 1968) is a Belgian football coach and former player, currently technical director at MVV Maastricht.

As a manager, Van Geneugden had most of his successes with Oud-Heverlee Leuven, leading them to the Belgian Second Division title in 2010–11, hence gaining promotion to the 1st division for season 2011–12, he was rewarded with a contract extension to 2015. Despite two successful seasons in the 1st division where Oud-Heverlee Leuven finished mid-table, his contract was terminated on 21 January 2014 as his team sat second bottom of the 1st division after a poor first half of the 2013–14 season.

In April 2017, Van Geneugden signed a 2-year-deal in Malawi as the head coach of the national team. The contract expired on 31 March 2019 and on 6 April 2019, the Football Association of Malawi announced that the contract would not be renewed.

Club career
He played for Thor Waterschei, RKC Waalwijk, Antwerp, SK Lommel, Germinal Ekeren, Lokeren and Verbroedering Geel.

References

External links
 Profile & stats - Lokeren
 Ronny Van Geneugden Interview

Living people
Belgian men's footballers
Belgian football managers
1968 births
Challenger Pro League players
Belgian Pro League players
Eredivisie players
RKC Waalwijk players
Royal Antwerp F.C. players
K.F.C. Lommel S.K. players
Beerschot A.C. players
K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players
K.R.C. Genk managers
Oud-Heverlee Leuven managers
Enosis Neon Paralimni FC managers
Footballers from Hasselt
Expatriate football managers in Malawi
Malawi national football team managers
Men's association football midfielders


Žilavka is a white wine grape variety planted primarily in the Mostar region of Herzegovina, the southern area of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a varietal wine, Žilavka is known for its bright freshness and acidity.  Ideal for general meal pairings, it is often oak aged as a "barrique" vintage that present more full bodied and earthy wines with nutty aspects that were more prevalent in the wines produced in the early 2000s and before.

Widely planted throughout the former Yugoslavia, Žilavka used to only be a minor blending grape that was used throughout the former country.  These days, the wine has come into its own and is bottled as a single varietal alongside the other main grape of Herzegovina wine production, Blatina.

Production is generally focused in the area south of Mostar around the villages of Čitluk, Međugorje, Ljubuški, and Čapljina with notable producers such as Nuić, Škegro, Brkić, Vinarija Čitluk, Zadro and Vitai/Gangaš.

Synonyms
Žilavka is also known under the synonyms Mostarska, Mostarska Žilavka, Zhelavka Biella, Žilava Hercegovačka, Zilavka, Žilavka Bijela, and Žilavka Mostarska.

References

White wine grape varieties
Bosnia and Herzegovina cuisine
Grape varieties of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wines of Bosnia and Herzegovina


The 1879 Atlantic hurricane season ran from the summer to near the end of autumn in 1879. In 1879 there were two tropical storms, four hurricanes, and two major hurricanes (Category 3+). However, in the absence of modern satellite and other remote-sensing technologies, only storms that affected populated land areas or encountered ships at sea were recorded, so the actual total could be higher. An undercount bias of zero to six tropical cyclones per year between 1851 and 1885 and zero to four per year between 1886 and 1910 has been estimated. Of the known 1879 cyclones, Hurricane One were first documented in 1995 by Jose Fernandez-Partagas and Henry Diaz. They also proposed large changes to the known tracks of Hurricanes Two, Three, Seven and Eight. Later one storm was deemed not to be a tropical cyclone at all and was dropped from the database.

Season summary

The Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT) recognizes eight tropical cyclones for the 1879 season. Two were tropical storms and six were hurricanes, with winds of 75 mph (119 km/h) or greater. The first storm of the season formed as a tropical storm off the Carolinas on August 9. It briefly reached Category 1 hurricane strength before dissipating on August 12 off Newfoundland. The second cyclone of the year was a major Category 3 hurricane. Known as The Great Beaufort Hurricane, it caused extensive damage to both North Carolina and Virginia. Hurricane Three made landfalls at both the Yucatan Peninsula and near Galveston, Texas, causing great damage along the Louisiana coast. Hurricane Four was the second Category 3 cyclone of the year and, like Hurricane Three, also struck the Gulf coast. In this case the damage and destruction were centred on Morgan City, Louisiana. Tropical Storm Five existed between October 3 and 7th and dissipated over Louisiana. Tropical Storm Six travelled from east of Barbados to make landfall first on Isla de la Juventud, then Cuba and later Florida. Hurricane Seven began as a tropical storm in the Caribbean Sea, before crossing Florida and travelling north, parallel to the US east coast. The last cyclone of the year was a Category 2 hurricane that developed from a tropical storm as it travelled from close to Hispaniola to a point off Atlantic Canada before dissipating on November 20.

Timeline

Systems

Hurricane One

A tropical storm was first discovered on August 9, offshore of the Carolinas. It grew to a Category 1 hurricane as it paralleled the North Carolina coast throughout August 11. It moved out to sea, dissipating offshore of Atlantic Canada on August 12.

Hurricane Two

The Great Beaufort Hurricane of 1879 was first seen on August 13 as a tropical storm near the Windward Islands. It passed to the north of the islands, and became a hurricane near the Bahamas on August  16. It continued northward, and hit eastern North Carolina on the morning of August 18 as a  hurricane. At 6 a.m. that morning anemometer cups at Cape Lookout were blown away when indicating  and the wind was afterward estimated to have reached . Anemometers were also destroyed at Hatteras, Fort Macon, Kitty Hawk, Portsmouth, and Cape Henry, Virginia, with speeds estimated at  or more. A storm surge up to 8 feet high was seen at Norfolk, Virginia.
After crossing the state it moved into the northwestern Atlantic, crossing Cape Cod and Nova Scotia before becoming extratropical on August 20. The hurricane was responsible for 46 deaths, as well as great damage in North Carolina and Virginia.

Hurricane Three

A tropical storm was first seen in the Western Caribbean on August 19. On August 20, it made landfall in the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 1 hurricane. The hurricane weakened to a tropical storm and restrengthened into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. There it reached its peak intensity of 100 mph and a minimal pressure of 964 mb. It made landfall east of Galveston, Texas near the border with Louisiana. At Calcasieu Pass a wave grounded twelve vessels high and dry. Further along the Louisiana coast many buildings were destroyed and crops ruined. The system rapidly weakened and dissipated on August 24.

Hurricane Four

The Louisiana Hurricane of 1879

A tropical storm was first seen on August 28 in the Gulf of Mexico. By the end of the next day it had strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, and by the end of August 31, it had reached Category 3 status. Throughout the morning of September 1 the hurricane maintained wind speeds of 130 mph while making landfall in Louisiana, near Morgan City. Damage was extensive - trees were uprooted, a sawmill, some cabins and two churches were destroyed while flooding washed away bridges. One person died.  It weakened to a Category 2 hurricane by the end of September 1, and the next day weakened further to a tropical depression. Hurricane Four caused $500,000 in damage.

Tropical Storm Five

A tropical storm formed on October 2, about halfway between Jamaica and Panama. It grazed Cuba and made landfall in Louisiana before it dissipated on October 7.

Tropical Storm Six

A tropical storm was first seen on October 8 east of Barbados. On October 9 it moved through the Leeward and Windward Islands. It moved across the Caribbean and passed near Jamaica on October 12. On October 13, the storm made landfall on Isla de la Juventud and on Cuba itself shortly thereafter. Early on October 16, it made landfall on the Florida Panhandle and dissipated later that day.

Hurricane Seven

A tropical storm was discovered in the northwestern Caribbean Sea on October 24. It made landfall in Florida in the Big Bend Area as a 70 mph tropical storm. Later the storm paralleled the Eastern Seaboard of the United States and Atlantic Canada. On October 29 it briefly became a Category 1 hurricane before it dissipated the same day.

Hurricane Eight

On November 18, a tropical storm formed to the north of Hispaniola. It grew to a Category 1 hurricane the next day. On November 20 it reached its peak intensity of 100 mph winds, before becoming extratropical. The extratropical storm affected Atlantic Canada with winds equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane.

See also

 Tropical cyclone observation
 Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project

References

External links
 HURDAT Data for the 1879 Atlantic hurricane season

Atlantic Hurricane Season, 1879
Articles which contain graphical timelines
1879 natural disasters


NZ Classic Car is a monthly automotive magazine that has been published since December 1990. Its first issue was January 1991.

The magazine also has an associated website that covers all things related to classic and historic cars, events, clubs, and related car culture in New Zealand and to a lesser extent Australia.

History
It was the first magazine to be published after the inception of Parkside Publishing by Gregory and Carolyn Vincent. The publication began as a simple idea to put local classic car owners in touch with shows, events, car clubs and trade professionals. The people chosen to write for the magazine, and to highlight the local classic car scene, were passionate about the subject, and were generally classic car owners themselves.

It is one of the longest running motoring magazines in New Zealand and is the third biggest selling car magazine behind NZ Performance Car and NZ Autocar.

The magazine celebrated its 200th issue in August 2007. Originally in black and white newsprint format the magazine is now glossy and bound.

The magazine and its contributors act as a voice for, and stand up for the rights of, people who want to enjoy classic and historic motoring. It has also featured many New Zealand motorsport personalities whose stories would have otherwise been forgotten or ignored, including Ross Jensen, Robbie Francevic, Ron Roycroft, Hec Green, Ralph Watson, Johnny Riley, Ken Smith, Spinner Black, and Howden Ganley.

A NZ Classic Car Yearbook is published just before Christmas. Five special issues on New Zealand motorsport and motoring history have also been published.

NZ Classic Car's offices are in Grey Lynn, Auckland, New Zealand.

Government policy
The magazine is one of several that are recognised authorities by the New Zealand Government for defining a classic car or special interest vehicle and is usually mentioned in policy documents relating to transport changes that will affect classic and historic cars by Land Transport New Zealand.

Magazine contents

As of the November 2008 issue, the typical magazine contents include:
Feature car reviews (including old vs new comparisons and group tests)
Historic photographs (predominantly of New Zealand's motoring history)
Event overviews (such as historic racing, concours, etc.)
Car and SUV news (new car news)
Short high-end car reviews (e.g. Bentley, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Maserati and the like)
Editor and contributor columns
Crossword
Scale model reviews
Book reviews
Events calendar
Readers' letters
Reader classifieds
Restoration project
Mystery car

Website
Daily news articles are available weekdays which are additional to magazine content. Full magazine articles are available from previous issues, often including additional photos and information (including videos) that could not be fitted into the magazine.
Some writers run blogs on the website, and a forum is run as a subsite to encourage user interaction.

Users can purchase books related to classic and historic cars, as well as back issues and subscriptions in the online shop. Crosswords from previous issues are loaded online.

Editorial staff
The first editor of NZ Classic Car was Greg Vincent, the owner of Parkside Media. He passed editorial responsibility over in about 2000 (issue 101) to Allan Walton who had been with the magazine since its inception. Walton was well known in the classic motoring scene having been involved with classic cars since the early 1980s. Walton co-authored – along with acclaimed Christchurch photographer, Terry Marshall – Looking Back: The Motorsport Photography of Terry Marshall, a photo-book highlighting New Zealand motorsport from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Controversy
NZ Classic Car has argued for the continued enjoyment of classic and historic cars by their owners. This has occasionally seen it make submissions to New Zealand government that may not be considered to be the most environmentally friendly options. NZ Classic Car argued to keep leaded petrol, and for exemptions on exhaust emissions for classic cars.

Support of Targa in New Zealand
NZ Classic Car supported and sponsored Targa New Zealand from the first running in 1995. NZ Classic Car and Targa parted ways after the 2006 event.

Intermarque Concours d'Elegance
Located at Ellerslie Racecourse, the Intermarque Concours d'Elegance runs every February. Held in Auckland, it is New Zealand's largest concours event. NZ Classic Car has had a presence at every event since 1991, and since 2004 has been the event's main sponsor.

Awards
Long-time contributor Trevor Stanley-Joblin, and publisher Greg Vincent have both been recipients of the Meguiar's Collector's Car Person of the Year Award.

References

External links
NZ Classic Car website

1990 establishments in New Zealand
Automotive industry in New Zealand
Automobile magazines
Automotive websites
Magazines established in 1990
Magazines published in New Zealand
Monthly magazines published in New Zealand


David Michael Kennedy (November 21, 1941 – June 14, 2015) was an American film producer and talent agent. His work includes Saving Milly and Dark Shadows, based on the popular gothic soap opera created by Dan Curtis. Kennedy coincidentally ran Dan Curtis Productions until Curtis' death in March 2006.

Kennedy was born in Stamford Connecticut in November 1941, the son of J. Walter Kennedy, who served as commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He attended University of Notre Dame where he played football and was on the track team. His first job after college was as a producer with NBC Sports.

He died in June 2015, following knee replacement surgery in Los Angeles, at the age of 73.

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1941 births
2015 deaths
American film producers


The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law is the law school of the University of Missouri–Kansas City. It is located on the university's main campus in Kansas City, Missouri, near the Country Club Plaza.

It was founded in 1895 as the Kansas City School of Law, a private, independent law school located in Downtown Kansas City, and was purchased by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1938. The law school moved to UMKC's main campus soon after, where it is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.

Rankings
The school is ranked #114 best law school in the U.S., placing it in the third tier according to the four tier system of law schools based on the U.S. News & World Report Annual Rankings (2023 rankings). In 2017, the U.S. News & World Report ranked the Trial Advocacy Program as number 21 in the nation, tied with Stanford University, University of Georgia, University of Houston, and Campbell University (North Carolina). UMKC School of Law has repeatedly been ranked as a "Best Value Law School" by The National Jurist. In the Fall 2017 of preLaw Magazine, UMKC was given an A− designation on the list of "Best Value Law Schools." In the Winter 2018 issue of preLaw Magazine, a National Jurist publication, UMKC School of Law was ranked A− on the list of Best Schools for Trial Advocacy. In Spring 2018, UMKC School of Law was recognized as a top Upper Midwest School for its Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation course and entrepreneurship concentration. In the same issue, it was given an A− on the list of "Best Schools of Practical Training." The law school was also given an A− in Intellectual Property and Tax Law and B+ in Technology Law. In April 2018 a student team from UMKC was recognized as National Champion and also won the Best Draft Award at the Transactional LawMeet, the leading transactional moot court competition for law school students. UMKC School of Law Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program was ranked the #1 traditional CLE program provider in the state of Kansas by the Kansas CLE Commission (Missouri does not have these rankings for CLE).

History
It is one of four law schools in Missouri (Saint Louis University School of Law, University of Missouri School of Law, Washington University School of Law). It is one of seven American law schools to have had both a President of the United States (Harry S. Truman) and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Charles Evans Whittaker) attend. Truman attended but did not graduate from the law school and never practiced law.  However,  Truman served as the presiding judge at the historic Truman Courthouse in Independence, MO. The other schools that have had President-Supreme Court graduates who practiced law are Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and the Albany Law School. In February 2017, UMKC received forty linear feet of private papers for Justice Charles Evan Whittaker from the U.S. Supreme Court Archive. The archivist is curating these documents at the Miller Nichols LaBudde Special Collections Library.

Clinics
Eight clinical programs permit students, acting under faculty supervision, to develop legal skills and learn professional values in actual practice settings:
Abandoned Housing Clinic
Advocacy Master Class
Appellate Practice (Unemployment) Clinic
Child & Family Services Clinic
Death Penalty Clinic
Entrepreneurial Legal Services Clinic
Guardian Ad Litem Workshop
Intellectual Property Clinic
Kansas City Tax Clinic
UMKC Innocence Project/Wrongful Convictions Clinic

Publications
The UMKC Law Review
Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers

Employment
According to UMKC School of Law's official 2017 ABA-required disclosures, 74.07% of the Class of 2017 obtained full-time, long-term, bar passage required ten months after graduation. The same 2017 ABA-required disclosures reports that 89.62% of the Class of 2017 obtained bar passage required or J.D. advantage positions. UMKC School of Law's Law School Transparency under-employment score is 23%, indicating the percentage of the Class of 2016 unemployed, pursuing an additional degree, or working in a non-professional, short-term, or part-time job ten months after graduation.

Costs
Tuition and fees for 2017-2018, full-time, first year law students who are Missouri residents: $19,038/year. Non-resident fees are an additional $16,318, but many students qualify for non-resident fee scholarships that allow them to pay the in-state rate while they establish Missouri residency. The approximate cost of attendance (including the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at UMKC School of Law for the nine-month academic year for a typical first-year, Missouri resident, law student living off campus is $34,488.

Notable alumni

Politics

Edwin J. Brown (class of 1899), Mayor of Seattle
Barbara Allen (class of 1985), Kansas politician
Edward F. Arn (class of 1932), 32nd Governor of Kansas
James P. Aylward (class of 1908), Missouri politician associated with the Tom Pendergast political machine
William M. Boyle (class of 1926), Chairman, Democratic National Committee (1949–51)
Hilary A. Bush (class of 1932), Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1961–65)
George H. Combs, Jr. (class of 1921), Missouri politician
Scott Ferris (class of 1901), Oklahoma politician
Jolie Justus (class of 1998), Missouri politician
Clarence M. Kelley (class of 1940), Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1973–78)
Wesley Lloyd (class of 1906), U.S. Representative from Washington
Susan Montee (class of 2000), State Auditor of Missouri (2007–present)
Edward H. Moore (class of 1900), U.S. Senator from Oklahoma (1942–49)
Jim Polsinelli (class of 1969), founder Polsinelli law firm
William J. Randall (class of 1936), Missouri politician
Katheryn Shields (class of 1978), Jackson County, Missouri Executive (1995–2006)
Roger C. Slaughter (class of 1932), Missouri politician
Harry S. Truman (attended), 33rd President of the United States (1945–53); 34th Vice President of the United States (1945); U.S. Senator from Missouri (1935–1945)
Sarah Lucille Turner (class of 1922), one of the first two women elected to the Missouri General Assembly

Judiciary
Bower Slack Broaddus (class of 1910), Judge, United States District Courts for the Western District of Oklahoma, Eastern District of Oklahoma, and Northern District of Oklahoma (1940–49)
Wesley E. Brown (class of 1933), Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas (1962–2012) (was oldest serving federal judge at 103 years old)
Gary A. Fenner (class of 1973), Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1996–present)
Zel Fischer (class of 1988), Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri (2008–present)
Fernando J. Gaitan Jr. (class of 1974), Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1991–present)
Shelby Highsmith (class of 1958), Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1991–2002)
Rubey Mosley Hulen (class of 1914), Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1943–56)
Charles Henry Leavy (class of 1912), Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (1942–51)
Arthur Johnson Mellott (class of 1917), Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas (1947–57)
Ross Rizley (class of 1915), Judge, United States District Courts for the Western District of Oklahoma, (1956–69)
Edward D. Robertson, Jr. (class of 1977), Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri (1985–98) (Chief Justice, 1991–93)
Ortrie D. Smith (class of 1971), Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1995–present)
Melissa Taylor Standridge (class of 1993), Justice, Kansas Supreme Court (2020–present)
Arthur Jehu Stanley, Jr. (class of 1928), Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas (1958–71)
Dean Whipple (class of 1965), Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1987–2007)
Ronnie L. White (class of 1983), Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri (1995–2007) (Chief Justice, 2003–05)
Charles Evans Whittaker (class of 1924), Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1957–62)
Stephen R. Bough (class of 1997), Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri (2014-present)

Business and practice
Lyda Conley (class of 1902), first woman admitted to the Kansas Bar and first Native American woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court; championed Native American causes
Jay B. Dillingham (class of 1935), president of the Kansas City Stockyards and president of the Chambers of Commerce for both Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas.
Donald Fehr (class of 1973), Executive Director, Major League Baseball Players Association (1986–2009) and National Hockey League Players Association (2012–2023)
Thomas Calloway Lea, Jr. (class of 1898), noted Texas criminal lawyer
Bob Stein (class of 1973), Kansas City Chiefs American football player; youngest person ever to play in a Super Bowl

Sports

 Mike Racy (J.D. class of 1992) – former NCAA vice president (1993–2013); 5th commissioner for the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
Bob Stein (born 1948), American football linebacker, College Football Hall of Fame, Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Super Bowl champion, played for the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings, and San Diego Chargers graduated in the top 10% of the UMKC Law School.

Notable faculty and former faculty

William K. Black
William Patterson Borland
Pasco Bowman II
Robert Klonoff
Kris Kobach
Henry L. Jost
Steve Leben
Albert L. Reeves
Kevin Warren

References

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Educational institutions established in 1895
Universities and colleges in Kansas City, Missouri
Law schools in Missouri
Law
1895 establishments in Missouri


Revolutionary Guard may refer to:

 Revolutionary Guard Corps of Libya
 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran

See also
 Republican guard


Dionna M. Harris (born 4 March 1968) is an American, former collegiate right-handed softball second basemen and outfielder, originally from Wilmington, Delaware. She played two years for the defunct Temple Owls softball team from 1989 to 1990 in the Atlantic 10 Conference, where as a junior was named Player of The Year. She was also an Olympic champion and competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Career
Harris attended and played softball at Delcastle Technical High School in Wilmington, Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College. After graduating from community college, she attended Temple University, where she played second base and was named the 1990 Temple University Player of the Year. Following college, Harris joined the Amateur Softball Association and played outfielder for the Connecticut Brakettes (1990-1994) and the California Jazz (1995-1996). Harris made the United States National team from 1993 to 1996, earning gold medals at the 1993 Intercontinental Cup, 1994 PanAm Games, 1995 Australian Games and 1996 Olympic Games. In 2001, Harris was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame.

Statistics

Temple Owls

Team USA

References

External links

1968 births
Living people
Softball players from Delaware
Temple Owls softball players
Olympic softball players for the United States
Softball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in softball
Softball players
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Junior college softball players in the United States


Stord is an island in Vestland county, Norway. Located in the traditional district of Sunnhordland, the island is part of the municipalities of Stord (southern part) and Fitjar (northern part). The largest settlements on the island are the town of Leirvik (granted town status in 1997) and the villages of Sagvåg and Fitjar.

Geography

Stord has an area of  and the highest point is the  tall mountain Mehammarsåto.  The island lies on the northern side of the mouth of the great Hardangerfjorden.   The Selbjørnsfjorden lies on the north end of the island.  On the east side of the island, the Langenuen strait separates Stord from the neighboring island of Tysnesøya.  On the west side of the island, the Stokksundet strait separates Stord from the neighboring island of Bømlo.  There are over 350 small islands and skerries lying off the northeastern coast.  Most of the central part of the island is mountainous, leaving the islands population living mostly along the coasts.  The vast majority of the population lives on the southern coastal area near the Hardangerfjorden.

The mountains on Stord contain a lot of pyrite.  There was a pyrite mine at Litlabø until 1968. At Vikanes, there are marble quarries.  Huglo has limestone quarries that have been an important source of extra income since the 1500s. Beyond the lowlands, along a line from Sagvåg in the southwest to Jektevik in the northeast, rises a mountainous ridge with peaks of over .  The highest of which is the  tall mountain Mehammarsåto furthest to the north. In this mountainous area, the rock varies from basalt lava, gabbro, and granite.

History
The area around Fitjar has been settled since the Stone Age. At that time, the sea was  higher than today, which means that it went into the present lake Storavatnet and far up Fitjar river. The mild climate of the last ice age meant that much of the area was covered by forest, most probably oak, ash, and lime/linden.  The area was rich with wildlife, deer, and wild boar. Archaeologists say there have been people in Fitjar for the last 10,000 years.  They have made many discoveries of stone tools around Fitjar.  Near the Rimbareid farm, a dwelling under a cairn was discovered by archaeologist E. de Lange in 1906. This residence is probably from the late stone age, but could also be from the early Bronze Age, since residue showed a square house, while the round house was more common in the stone age.  The Rimsvarden site dates back tor the Bronze Age.

Fitjar mentioned in many of the historical sagas. Harald I had a royal residence at Fitjar, and it was there Håkon the Good was mortally wounded in the Battle of Fitjar against the sons of Eirik (961).  The current coat of arms of Fitjar shows a battle helmet reminiscent of the Battle of Fitjar.

During World War II, Stord Island was the location of a British-led commando raid known as "Operation Cartoon".

Industry and business
The main industries found on the northern part of the island (other than the municipal government) include engineering and agriculture (including cattle and sheep farming).  Fitjar ranks second after Austevoll in Sunnhordland in terms of landed volume of fish, so fishing is a major part of the economy too.

In Stord municipality, industry began developing from 1920 until the 1970s.  Manufacturing was the main industry with Kværner and Apply Leirvik as the large enterprises. Both concentrates on offshore oil installations and onshore facilities for oil recovery. Aker Solutions (Aker Stord) built supertankers of up to 370,000 tonnes dv. (until 1975).  When the crash of tanker market came, the company went on to build the large production platforms in the North Sea. The year 2000, manufacturing included 63% of the economically active employees within the trade and service industries, while only 1% were related to primary industries.

Culture
There are two historic churches on the island: Fitjar Church, built in 1867, and Stord Church, built in 1857.  Nysæter Church was built in 1992.  In Hystadmarkjo, one can see 12 burial mounds, some of them have given rich finds from the Bronze Age. The Sunnhordland Museum in Leirvik has collections in their ten buildings from different places in Sunnhordland.  There is also a rich collection of models made by sculptor Torleiv Agdestein from Stord. The Stord Maritime Museum in Leirvik has a rich collection also. Litlabø is the site of a mining museum that shows many interesting remains of the last 100 years of mining. Leirvik also has a great recreational center with a  long swimming pool.

See also
List of islands of Norway

References

Islands of Vestland
Stord
Fitjar


Kim Ly Maher (born September 5, 1971 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is an Vietnamese-American, former collegiate All-American, Olympic champion, right-handed softball player and current Head Coach originally from Fresno, California. She competed in college for the Fresno State Bulldogs in both the Big West and Western Athletic Conference from 1991-94, ranking in the latter for career batting average (.401) for her last two years and leading them in two semifinal finishes at the 1991 and 1992 Women's College World Series, being named All-Tournament for both events. Maher won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics with Team USA. Maher is head of the SWOSU Bulldogs softball team.

Career

She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where she received a gold medal with the American team.

Maher played NCAA Division I softball for the Fresno State Bulldogs.  She is the former head coach of the Purdue University softball team.   Maher resigned after her Boilers posted a 23-32 record during the 2013 season and failed to qualify for postseason play for the fourth consecutive season.

Statistics

Fresno State Bulldogs

College

References

External links

1971 births
Living people
Softball players from California
Fresno State Bulldogs softball players
Olympic softball players for the United States
Softball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in softball
American softball coaches
Softball coaches from California
Purdue Boilermakers softball coaches
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Ventura County, California
Vietnamese emigrants to the United States
Sportspeople from Ho Chi Minh City
Sportspeople of Vietnamese descent


Shogi, like western chess, can be divided into the opening, middle game and endgame, each requiring a different strategy. The opening consists of arranging one's defenses and positioning for attack, the middle game consists of attempting to break through the opposing defenses while maintaining one's own, and the endgame starts when one side's defenses have been compromised.

Tactics

Many basic tactics (手筋 tesuji) of shogi are similar to those of chess tactics, involving forks, pins, removing the defender and other techniques, all of which are considered very strong when used effectively.

However, other tactics, particularly ones involving dropped pieces, have no parallel in western chess.

Relative piece value

Shogi pieces may be considered to have different valuations in which some pieces are generally more valuable than others – all other things being equal. (Cf. piece value in western chess.)

There are three main valuation groups:

 the king which has an absolute value since the game is lost if mated
 the two major (most mobile) ranging pieces (大駒 oogoma): rook, bishop
 the minor pieces (小駒 kogoma): pawn, lance, knight, silver, gold

The minor pieces can be further grouped in the following valuation hierarchy:

 gold > silver > (knight, lance) > pawn

Sometimes, the relative pieces are formalized with specific numerical values. This is particularly common in the explicit formalizations found in computer shogi. For instance, Reijer Grimbergen uses the following relative values in a Move Merit Analysis formalization:

Grimbergen notes that, unlike western chess, shogi piece valuation is not standardized as different players disagree on the exact values.

Another formalization used by program YSS 7.0 of 1997 had the following relative values:

Kōji Tanigawa, Yasumitsu Satoh (佐藤康光), and Larry Kaufman suggest the following values:

Under two of these valuation schemes, the promoted pawn, lance and knight all have a higher value than a gold even though when promoted they move the same as a gold. The reason for this is that they will return to their lesser values when captured by an opponent whereas a captured gold gives the opponent a relatively more valuable piece.

Kaufman, for example, notes that exchanging a promoted pawn for a real gold is often a good material gain tactic because the player with the promoted pawn loses only two points while his opponent loses seven.

Relative piece valuations are used to roughly evaluate piece exchanges. For example, if there is an opportunity to capture two golds from an opponent by giving up a rook and a pawn, using Kaufman's scheme, this is seem as a favorable trade (all else equal):

 (gold + gold) > (rook + pawn)
 (8 + 8) > (13 + 1)

However, this wouldn't be a good trade if the rook was promoted:

 (gold + gold) < (dragon + pawn)
 (8 + 8) < (17 + 1)

Castles

In shogi, strong defensive fortifications protecting the king are known as castles. There are many types of castles and variations which can be used, but it is essential to understand which ones are useful in the current situation and how to compensate for its weak points. Three commonly used castles are listed below.

The Fortress castle was considered by many to be the strongest defensive position in shogi in the 1980s. Although there are many variants, a common Fortress structure is the Gold Fortress. The Fortress opening, in which both players adopt Fortress castles, has a strongly protected king; a well-fortified line of pawns; and the bishop, rook, and a pawn all support a later attack by the rook's silver or knight. It is notoriously difficult to break down with a frontal assault although it is weaker from the side. It is typically used against Static Rook openings that involve advancing the rook's pawn. However, one's opponent may just as easily adopt this defense, giving neither side an advantage. The Fortress castle can also be used against Bishop-Exchange Ranging Rook opponents, and there is a variant of Fortress built on the right side of the board for use in Double Ranging Rook positions as well.

A defensive position that is considered easier for beginners but still popular with professionals is the Mino castle. The king is placed in a safe position, while the three generals work well to back each other up. This is often used when a player chooses a Ranging Rook opening rather than a Static Rook opening. However, it is also relatively common for Static Rook variant of Mino built on the left side of the board for use against Static Rook or Ranging Rook opponents.

A third common castle often used in professional shogi is the Bear-in-the-hole castle, commonly called the Bear In The Hole castle in English. A player utilizing the Ranging Rook strategy uses a Ranging Rook Bear-in-the-hole on the right side. The result will place the king in the corner square where the lance started, defended by two gold generals and one silver. This way, the king cannot be easily checked by a knight or a ranging piece.

Sabaki
The Japanese noun sabaki (捌き; verb form: 捌く sabaku) is a term of art used in shogi. The term has been borrowed into English instead of being translated.

Its meaning is context-dependent.

In the opening, sabaki usually simply means good piece development in preparation for the middle game.

However, in the middle game, it has a more nuanced meaning of developing pieces – especially major pieces (rook and bishop) – in ways such that they become fully activated with their attacking lines cleared for offensive purposes. In a shogi opening, piece development will often result in pieces being clustered together in cramped configurations. To achieve sabaki is to change the configuration by clearing off certain obstructing pieces via piece exchanges so that attacking pieces are dominant on the board with newly obtained freedom of movement. With respect to the major pieces, this is typically done by clearing off the bishop's diagonals and the rook's ranks and files. Although the term is associated with freeing pieces in cramped positions, it does not mean escaping from the cramped position in a successful defense. Rather the term refers to development for attacking.

The term sabaki as used in go has a very different meaning.

In western chess, a similar concept is sometimes referred to as a freeing move or maneuver (such as a pawn break). However, in shogi, the concept of sabaki often involves multiple moves and multiple pieces. (Cf. chess terms break and blocked position.)

Sabaki example 1

For a basic example, in the adjacent diagrams, the rook positioned on the central file (as in Central Rook openings) is blocked by pawns and its potential movement is restricted by both players' silvers. In order to achieve sabaki, an attack is started on the central file with 1. P-55.  White takes the pawn with subsequent captures by both silvers (1...Px55, 2. Sx55 Sx55, 3. Rx55). After the final capture of White's silver by Black's rook, the rook now has clear paths of attack (the entire middle rank and central file) including access to the promotion zone of White where the rook can promote into a dragon. Note that the central pawns and silvers were simply traded off the board and put in hand, there was no material gain or loss from this exchange in this simple example. Other examples may involve piece sacrifices in order to achieve sabaki.

Opening

The opening of shogi is generally slower than that of chess, due to the larger board and less mobile pieces. But since a quick offense will leave a player's home territory open to drop attacks as soon as pieces are exchanged, the aim of the opening is to build up defenses for the king, typically by moving the king to the side in a castle with three generals. Leaving a king on its original square (居玉 igyoku or "sitting king") may be a particularly dangerous position.

Both players can move the rook pawn forward (P-26), or, more commonly, advance the pawn above and to the right of the bishop (P-76). The former is known as a rook opening and the latter a bishop opening.

With a bishop opening, it is common to trade bishops by having one capture the other. This allows each player to put their newly captured bishop into play anywhere on the board, although care must be taken to avoid weaknesses in defense which may allow for a bishop drop. However, it is not advantageous to trade bishops if your opponent has a better defensive setup, or more lines of attack. Moreover, making a bishop trade constitutes tempo loss, so it is not advised without a good reason.

Many common opening attacks involve advancing a silver and ideally pawns, protected by other pieces. Because silvers have more possibilities for retreat, while golds better defend their sides, silvers are generally considered superior as attacking pieces, and golds superior as defensive pieces. It is common practice to defend the king with three generals, two golds and a silver.

Because defense is so important, and because shogi pieces are relatively slow movers, the opening game tends to be much longer in shogi than in international chess, commonly with a dozen or more moves to shore up defenses before the initial attack is made.

Over many decades, Japanese professional players have all invented various jōseki, which determine moves and sequences which are thought to be the best for a particular situation. It also covers a branch of different variations within an intricate strategy, including alternative options and the certain consequences that some moves may bring.

Openings are also classified as Static Rook openings, where the offense is supported by the rook in its original position, and Ranging Rook openings, where the rook moves to the center or left of the board to support an attack there, typically with the idea of allowing the opponent to attack while arranging a better defense and aiming for a counterattack. However, as the most powerful piece on the board, the rook invites attack, and in most cases, especially for weaker players, it is a good idea to keep the king well away from the rook. Relatedly, the Static vs Ranging Rook classification corresponds to castle development: Static Rook positions tend to have castles on the left side of the board while Ranging Rook positions tend to have castles on the right side.

Middle game
Professional shogi players tend to evaluate the flow of the game, that is, the sequence of moves leading to the current position and its likely development, much more than chess players.

Because pawns attack head on, and cannot defend each other, they tend to be lost early in the game, providing ammunition for such attacks. Dropping a pawn behind enemy lines, promoting it to a tokin (gold general), and dropping a second pawn immediately behind the tokin so that they protect each other makes a strong attack; it threatens the opponent's entire defense, but provides little value to the opponent if the attack fails and the pieces are captured.

Players raised on international chess often make poor use of drops, but dropping is half the game. If a player has more than a couple of captured pieces in hand, it is likely that dropping attacks are being overlooked. However, it is wise to keep a pawn in hand, and often to exchange pieces if necessary to get one.  Compared with international chess players, shogi players are more likely to sacrifice pieces, even powerful ones, if the resulting capture can be dropped back into play for a specific purpose.

Attacking pieces can easily become trapped behind enemy lines, as the opponent can often drop a pawn on a protected square to cut off the line of retreat. For this reason, rooks, which can retreat in only one direction, are commonly kept at a safe distance in the early parts of the game, and used to support attacks by weaker pieces. However, once the game has opened up, a promoted rook is an especially deadly piece behind enemy lines.

Advancing a lance pawn can open up the side of the board for attack. Therefore, when a player first advances a lance pawn, it is common, though not obligatory, for the opponent to answer by advancing the opposing pawn, in order to avoid complications later in the game.  It also allows the king to escape if attacked from the side.

Endgame
The collapse of one side's defense marks the beginning of the endgame. Once a player has broken through the enemy lines, the opponent's king can be easily trapped by its own pieces. A common last-ditch defensive tactic is to open the pawn line to allow the king to escape.  Kings are more difficult to checkmate in the open, especially if the opponent does not have many ranging pieces (rook, bishop, lance) in play.

In the endgame, it comes down to a race over who can checkmate the opponent first. A technique known as speed counting plays an important role in the endgame. By counting the number of moves until checkmate (assuming the opponent doesn't get to move) for both Black and White, this will help to influence decisions on whether to attack or defend. A simple mistake can change the flow of the game drastically. Among this, there are many other delicate factors to look out for within the endgame, including sacrificial attacks and traps.

A player's endgame play is strengthened by training on tsume shogi and brinkmate problems.

See also

 Shogi opening
 Castle (shogi)
 Shogi tactics
 Tsume shogi
 Brinkmate

Notes

References

Bibliography

 : Many shogi games (professional, online, AI) put into a decision tree structure with user-generated commentary and references and some opening classifications.

Further reading

External links
 Shogi Openings · strategy blog by 6-dan professional, Akira Nishio
 ShogiBase for Shogi Lovers · amateur games with commentary by professional players
 How to Defend in Shogi · partial translation of 将棋の受け方 shōgi no ukekata by Yasuharu Ōyama.
 Lightning Speed Endgame Technique · Translation of 光速の終盤術 kōsoku no shūbanjutsu by Lifetime Meijin, Koji Tanigawa.
 Shogi Shack
 Reijer Grimbergen's Shogi professional game records with comments 1997–2013
 Tiny Dictionary of Shogi Proverbs · Translation of 将棋格言豆事典 Shougi Kakugen Mame Jiten by 浦野真彦 Masahiko Urano
 Ricoh Shogi Club
 HIDETCHI's YouTube videos:
 How To Play Shogi (将棋): Lesson 14: Opening Principles
 Shogi Exercises · Playlist of various tactics, attack strategies, and mate problems


The Peruvian Corporation of Commercial Airports and Aviation Inc. (CORPAC) () operates various airports in Peru. It was founded by law (Decreto Legislativo No. 99 - Ley de CORPAC S.A) in June 1943.

See also
 Aeropuertos del Perú
 Lima Airport Partners

References

Airport operators
!CORPAC


Shelly Stokes (born October 26, 1967) is an American, former collegiate All-American and Olympic champion, right-handed softball player originally from Sacramento, California. Stokes was a catcher for the Fresno State Bulldogs in the Big West Conference from 1987-90. She led them to three back-to-back runner-up finishes in the 1988, 1989 and 1990 Women's College World Series, also being named All-Tournament in the 1989 series. Stokes would go on to win gold with Team USA in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

Career

She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where she received a gold medal with the American team. Stokes had a hit, RBI and walked twice at the games.

Stokes played NCAA softball for California State University, Fresno.

Statistics

Fresno State Bulldogs

References

External links

1967 births
Living people
Fresno State Bulldogs softball players
Olympic softball players for the United States
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in softball
Softball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Sacramento, California
Softball players from California


Peggy Sue Wright (née Webb; born March 25, 1943) is a country music singer and songwriter, who had brief success as a country singer in the late 1960s. She is the middle sister of two popular country performers, Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. Her older brother Willie "Jay" Lee Webb was a country music singer/songwriter in the 1960s.

Biography
Peggy Sue Wright was born Peggy Sue Webb in a cabin in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky on March 25, 1943. She is the second daughter and the sixth child born to Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24,  1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959). Mr. Webb was a coal miner and subsistence farmer.

The family was poor; living hand-to-mouth and relying on her father's meager income. The seven Webb siblings in addition to Wright:

 Melvin "Junior" Webb (December 4, 1929 – July 1, 1993)
 Loretta Lynn (née Webb; April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022)
 Herman Webb (September 3, 1934 – July 28, 2018)
 Willie "Jay" Lee Webb (February 12, 1937 – July 31, 1996)
 Donald Ray Webb (April 2, 1941 – October 13, 2017)
 Betty Ruth Hopkins (née Webb; born January 5, 1946)
 Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb; January 9, 1951)

The family moved to Wabash, Indiana in 1955 due to her father's illness from working in the coal mines; he would die in 1959 of black lung disease. She began performing with Loretta and her brothers at venues around Wabash, Indiana.
Wright then became a featured act in Loretta's early shows in the 1960s. She also helped write a few of Loretta's compositions, including "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)."
In 1969, she signed with Decca Records and released her debut single, "I'm Dynamite," which went into the Country Top 30. That same year she released an album of the same name. The second single from that album titled, "I'm Gettin' Tired of Babyin' You" also reached the Top 30.

After Peggy Sue had a hit with her most successful single, "All-American Husband," she left Decca Records after releasing two albums. Next, Wright recorded two albums in the 1970s for two small labels.

Peggy Sue was married twice. Her first marriage was to Douglas Wells (m.1964-div.1968); the second to Sonny Wright (m.1970-). From her first marriage, Peggy had one daughter: Doyletta Gayle; born May 30, 1967. Doyletta Gayle was named after Doyle Wilburn and Wright's sisters: Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. Doyletta became a victim of spousal abuse when she was killed by her spouse on February 22, 1991.

After 1970, she didn't appear on the Billboard country charts until 1980. Beginning then, she had a small string of minor hits on her second husband Sonny Wright's label, Doorknob.

In 1986 she began performing as a background singer and designing stage costumes for her younger sister, Crystal Gayle.
She continues to perform with Gayle today. Occasionally they would both join up with older sister Loretta Lynn for a concert at her Hurricane Mills, Tennessee ranch.

Discography

Albums

Singles

A"I'm Gettin' Tired of Babyin' You" also peaked at No. 27 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.

References

External links
 Peggy Sue discography at Slipcue.com

1943 births
Living people
Loretta Lynn
People from Johnson County, Kentucky
American women country singers
American country singer-songwriters
American people of Irish descent
Country musicians from Kentucky
Decca Records artists
Singer-songwriters from Kentucky


Swaminarayan Gadi  may refer to different "seats" of the Swaminarayan Sampraday, a Hindu sect:
 Swaminarayan Gadi
 LaxmiNarayan Dev Gadi
 NarNarayan Dev Gadi


Maalos (;  "virtues, steps") is a Hasidic monthly magazine published in New York and mostly geared for women featuring a token section devoted to children. Maalos was founded by Sarah Jungreisz in 1996.

The editors have a distinct Yiddish spelling and grammar, and a distinct graphic layout. Many of the articles are written with the goal of fighting against modern assimilation. They also have articles discussing education and psychology.

Although Maalos abides by the same stringent standards as other Hasidic publications—it provides moral instruction, features no images of women, and is anti-Zionist—it places more emphasis on literary excellence than its compatriots. For example, its fiction serials include historical fiction, YA fiction with a psychological bent,  and articles or stories that employ lyrical language and poetic techniques. The nonfiction pieces run the gamut from well-researched scholarly write-ups to biographies of noteworthy personalities; from self-help columns on marriage, parenting, and business to thought-provoking or controversial essays on mental health and art. Additionally—and perhaps unintentionally—Maalos serves a similar function to the work of pre-World War I classic Yiddish writers like I. L. Peretz and S. Ansky: it documents Hasidic life by highlighting the people, the pressing issues, and the tales that are central to modern-day Hasidim.

References

External links
 "klal-yidish tsvishn di frume". Mendele: Yiddish literature and language

Yiddish periodicals
Hasidic Judaism in New York City
Jewish anti-Zionism in the United States
Yiddish culture in New York (state)


CYT006-AngQb was an investigational vaccine against angiotensin II, designed to lower blood pressure. It was somewhat effective in clinical trials, but less so than conventional drugs against hypertension (elevated blood pressure).

Method of action
Angiotensin II causes blood vessels to constrict, and drives blood pressure up. CYT006-AngQb consists of virus-like particles covalently coupled to angiotensin II. Subcutaneous injection causes the immune system to produce antibodies which reduce angiotensin II blood levels, lowering blood pressure.

Studies
In a 2008 phase IIa study, 72 patients received 100 µg, 300 µg or placebo in weeks 0, 4, and 12. Blood pressure was lowered dose-dependently, by 5.6 mmHg (systolic) and 2.8 mmHg (diastolic) in the 300 µg group. Morning blood pressure (5:00-8:00) was lowered by 25 mmHg (systolic) and 13 mmHg (diastolic).

Side effects were mild and included local reactions, headache and fatigue.

The 2008 trial was small and exploratory. It did not address the question of whether the vaccine actually protects internal organs, nor did it address safety concerns such as whether the vaccine would cause autoimmune disease. If a standard drug treatment is found to dangerously inhibit the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, it can be withdrawn and the effects reversed quickly, but that would not be true of the vaccine. However, poor compliance to standard treatment is the main reason for inadequate control of blood pressure, and if vaccination were safe and effective in the long run, it may solve many compliance problems.

CYT006-AngQb did not reach Phase III studies because the antihypertensive effects were small compared to existing ACE inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists, and they were not reproducible across dosing schemes. Similar vaccines with modified immunogens and different adjuvants are being investigated.

References

Vaccines
Antihypertensive agents


San Francisco Javier de  Satevó (frequently apocopated to Satevó) is a village in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Satevó.

As of 2010, the town had a total population of 445, down from 450 as of 2005.

History
San Francisco Javier de  Satevó was founded as a mission by the Jesuit missionary José Pascual in 1640.
The mission was, however, destroyed in a Tarahumara revolt in 1652 and not rebuilt until 1674 under Fr. Juan Sarmiento.

Fidel Ávila, Governor of Chihuahua in 1914 and 1915, was born in San Francisco Javier de  Satevó in 1875.

On 24 December 1918, General Francisco Villa, at the head of a column of some 900 men of the División del Norte,  attacked San Francisco Javier de  Satevó. The settlement's defence, comprising 70 men under Pedro Alonso, refused to yield.
The Villistas gradually forced back the defenders into the parish church, to which they set fire before sacking the village.

References

Populated places in Chihuahua (state)
Populated places established in 1640
1640 establishments in New Spain


Julie M. Smith (born May 10, 1968) is an American, former collegiate All-American, gold-medal winning Olympian softball player and coach. Smith played college softball for Texas A&M and Fresno State. She represented Team USA at the 1996 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal. Smith most recently served as the head softball coach and assistant athletic director at the University of La Verne.

Playing career
Smith was born in Glendora, California, and competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where she won a gold medal with Team USA.

Smith played college softball at Texas A&M where she won a national championship at the 1987 Women's College World Series and Fresno State in the Big West Conference from 1990 to 1991. Along with a title, Smith was also named to All-Tournament team at the Women's College World Series in all three of her appearances.

Coaching career
Smith served as the general manager for the New York/New Jersey Juggernaut in 2005.
On August 3, 2007, Smith was named the head softball coach at the University of La Verne. On November 29, 2018, Smith stepped down as head coach after 11 years. During her career she compiled a record of 287–185 and led her teams to three SCIAC regular season championships, three SCIAC postseason tournament titles, and made the NCAA Playoffs four times.

Statistics
Texas A&M Aggies & Fresno State Bulldogs

References

External links

1968 births
Living people
Softball players from California
Olympic softball players for the United States
Softball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the United States in softball
Texas A&M Aggies softball players
American softball coaches
La Verne Leopards softball coaches
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics


Japan–Lithuania relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Japan and Lithuania. Japan has an embassy in Vilnius. Lithuania has an embassy in Tokyo. Japan was one of the few countries to recognize the Soviet occupation of the Baltic countries including Lithuania.

On February, 1992, Embassy of Japan to Lithuania was established in Denmark, and on January, 1997, it moved to Vilnius, Lithuania. On June, 1998, Embassy of Lithuania to Japan was established in Tokyo.

History

Interwar period
January 3, 1919, the date when Japan recognized Lithuania de facto is considered the beginning of the bilateral relations. On February 8, 1929, the agreement by which visas were abolished was signed between Japan and Lithuania, while in 1930 the Trade and shipping agreement was signed.

During the period of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
On November 23, 1939, the Japanese consulate was established, led by Vice Consul Chiune Sugihara. However, due to the occupation, the consulate was shut the following year. In 1940, Chiune Sugihara assisted the flight of Jewish refugees from the imminent Nazi invasion of Lithuania by issuing them transit visas from the consulate in Kaunas, despite instructions from the Japanese Government attempting to block his actions. Up to 10,000 refugees were saved with this action.

Modern relations
There is a significant close partnership between the city of Kuji and Klaipėda, established in 1989.

Japan de facto re-recognized Lithuania on September 6, 1991, and a month later diplomatic relations were re-established between these countries. In 1997 the Embassy of Japan was established in Vilnius and in 1998 the Embassy of Lithuania was established in Tokyo.

In March 2016, Japan and Lithuania agreed to cooperate on nuclear safety.

Military ties
In August 2016, Training Squadron vessels of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Kashima, Asagiri and Setoyuki sailed into Klaipėda port, to celebrate 25th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between this sovereign republic in the Baltic region and the maritime nation in the Far East. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Antanas Linkevičius welcomed the Japanese vessels and their steadfast partnership based on the same fundamental values since 1991 as well as referred an honorable and righteous diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who served as the Japanese Vice-Consul at Kaunas from 1939 to 1940 and granted visas to thousands of Jewish and other minority refugees in his short term of office. The JMSDF Training Squadron also visited Lithuanian Military Academy, where some students and officers train Kendo, a modern Japanese martial arts descended from Bushido and swordsmanship. On August 10, a sports exchange event between Japanese and Lithuanian officers was held at the military academy, and the Lithuanian team won the Kendo match to Japanese team.

High level visits
In April 2001, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus paid an official visit to Japan, and on April 11, he held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori about their views on several issues that includes their bilateral relations, Japan–Russia relations and Lithuania's accession to EU and NATO.

In May 2007, the Emperor and Empress of Japan, Akihito and Michiko, made an official visit to Lithuania.

See also

 Foreign relations of Japan
 Foreign relations of Lithuania

References

External links
  Embassy of Lithuania in Japan
 Embassy of Japan in Lithuania

Lithuania
Bilateral relations of Lithuania


Gaston d'Illiers (1876–1932), born at Boulogne-sur-Seine, France, was a French animalier sculptor who specialised in horses. His bronze statuettes are very realistic.

Biography
Gaston d'Illiers devoted all his life to his two passions: horses and sculpture. He was a very fine rider and showed a deep knowledge of horses. He decided to become a sculptor and took to modelling horses.

His statues were very appreciated from the start. He showed his productions in specialised exhibitions like "salon des artistes français" from 1899 to his death. He gained quite a reputation among horse experts and art connoisseurs. For example, during his life the statue avant la course (before the race) was often given as a prize to the winner of a horse race or jumping.

His private life was quiet. He was a student of the Count de Ruille and was himself a count and thus enjoyed a life of privilege and nobility, spending all his life in the centre of France, in Orléans and Olivet. He often went hunting on horseback with friends in the woods nearby (Orleans forest, Sologne), and some of his works are related to hunting, for example le piqueux, la curée, and retour de chasse.

He went twice on trips to Algeria in 1899 and 1910, and these trips gave him inspiration for some works which are still very appreciated: jument arabe, fauconniers, and fantasia.

Works

The works of Gaston d'Illiers, small bronze horses, are fine and elegant works of art. They are particularly appreciated by horse lovers because of their precision and fidelity to nature.  Although primarily a sculptor of equine subjects, he did produce at least one model of an Alsatian shepherd dog that appears for sale from time to time.  Unlike most of his contemporaries who generally used mid-brown colored patinas, d'Illiers almost exclusively used black patinas.  It is rare indeed to find a bronze by d'Illiers in a color other than black.

During his life, d'Illiers created around 200 statues. They are all of small size, less than half a meter in each of the 3 dimensions. He modelled them in wax or plaster. The models were then molded to produce a limited number of statues in bronze. Most of the models were damaged during World War II. The manufacturing of the bronze statues is still going on with the remaining models, but on an extremely limited scale. The existing bronze statues are kept by the owners, who seldom sell them. The appearance of a Gaston d'Illiers statue in a sale or a shop is therefore a rare event.

The works of d'Illiers show all types of horses including riding horses, driving horses, military horses, and draft horses. Many breeds are represented: Selle Français, Anglo-Arabian, Thoroughbred, Cob, Boulonnais, Percheron.  When persons are present (rider, driver, groom), they are of little importance whereas the horse remains the centre of attention.

Many works are actually portraits of real horses, which accounts for their realism and accuracy. Some are winners of jumping: Idylle, Bulletin rose, Rosette XIV... Others are his own horses or horses belonging to acquaintances: Violette, Jack, Colibri, Esmeralda, Miss, Prince, Dolly, Sydney, sous-off, Lady Hareford, la ruade or poney Coco ruant, cheval aux champs or Coquet au trot, cheval sans terrasse or Sweetheart. His work was also part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Signature

See also

 Animalier, French artists specialized in realistic portrayal of animals

References

External links

Modern sculptors
Horses in art
1876 births
1932 deaths
20th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
Olympic competitors in art competitions


The Women's K-1 500 metres event was an individual kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.

Medalists

Results

Heats
17 competitors entered in two heats. The top three finishers in each heat advanced to the finals. Fourth-place through seventh-place finishers and the fastest eighth-place finisher advanced to the semi-final.

Overall Results Heats

Semifinal
The top three finishers in the semifinal advanced to the final.

Final

Brunet had won the past three world championships in this event and was undefeated in this event in over two years. High winds delayed the final by five hours. The Canadian led at the halfway mark, but was passed by Idem, competing in her fifth Summer Olympics. Idem defeated Brunet by half a boat length.

References
2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results.
Sports-reference.com 2000 women's K-1 500 m results.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Women's Kayak Singles 500 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 492.

Women's K-1 500
Olympic
Women's events at the 2000 Summer Olympics


Beyond Humanity is the third full-length album by Interface. It was released by Nilaihah Records on March 14, 2006.

The album was the band's first to be recorded and produced entirely within the environment of the computer, with little hardware instrumentation. It was also the band's first album in nearly four years thanks to the demise of the Tinman record label at the end of 2005. By that point the band had already committed to recording a new album, and began to shop it to other labels. Landing on Nilaihah in early 2006, the album saw the light of day March 14 with a series of bonus tracks added on. Some of these were remixes of songs on the album while others were of earlier material from Angels In Disguise songs, and the last track "Doubts And Fears" was exclusive to a compilation CD. To make room for the latter, the band was forced to drop a track from the original listing named "Darkness Prevails", which did appear when the band held a listening party premiere on the Side Line chat room in October 2005.

The cover art was done by Evan Eldredge, who at the time was still a member of the band. (He left the band for good later in the year, and his name doesn't appear in the album's notes as a member.) It depicts human DNA superimposed over images of printed circuitry.

Track listing
 "Gravity" - 1:53
 "Age Of Computers" - 5:42
 "Mind Killer" - 4:10
 "Wonderland" - 4:16
 "Despair" - 5:33
 "Stranger In A Strange Land" - 5:47
 "Beyond Human" - 4:42
 "Insomniac" - 4:00
 "Nobody's Hero" - 5:21
 "Faith In Nothing" - 5:15

Nilaihah Records "Expanded Edition" Bonus Tracks:

 "Age Of Computers (Cross Platform Mix by Assemblage 23" - 4:45
 "Wasted Time (Stromkern Remix)" - 5:21
 "Faith In Nothing (No Faith Mix by Combichrist)" - 5:20
 "Age Of Computers (Data Corruption Remix by Imperative Reaction)" - 4:42
 "Clear Night (Sean Tyas Melodic Intervention)" - 8:06
 "Doubts And Fears" - 4:55

References

1. Entry on Official Website

2006 albums
Interface (band) albums


Just Peck  is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Michael A. Nickles and written by Marc Arneson.

Plot
A skinny high school sophomore dreams up a science project that will make him a living legend, and win him the heart of a pretty senior who sees his true potential. Michael Peck is the kid nobody sees while he's walking down the hall. But when popular senior Emily takes a liking to Michael, he starts to become a little less invisible. Meanwhile, Michael's well meaning yet misguided parents pressure him to enter the upcoming science fair - an event that could land him right back in the land of misfits. With his newfound popularity hanging precariously in the balance, the smart and stealthy teen dreams up a science project that will turn heads, and teach his parents a valuable lesson.

Cast
 Keir Gilchrist as Michael Peck
 Brie Larson as Emily Donaldson
 Marcia Cross as Cheryl Peck
 Adam Arkin as Mike Peck
 Camryn Manheim as Principal Wood
 Kyle Kaplan as Geiger
 Tiya Sircar as Becca
 Hayley Holmes as Annie
 Serena Berman as Sage

Release
Arneson has written the screenplay when he was a student at UCLA.

The film was picked up by American World Pictures and premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

References

External links

2009 films
American teen comedy films
American coming-of-age comedy films
Films shot in California
Films shot in Northern Ireland
American independent films
2000s teen comedy films
2009 comedy films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


Bud Heidgerken (September 27, 1943) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A Republican, he represented District 13A, which includes portions of Kandiyohi, Pope and Stearns counties in the west central part of the state.

Heidgerken was first elected in 2002, and was re-elected in 2004 and 2006. He did not seek re-election in 2008, and was succeeded by Rep. Paul Anderson of Starbuck.

Heidgerken graduated from St. John's Prep School in St. Joseph and St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud. He taught school in the Brooten School System and, later, the Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa School System for 21 years. He and his wife also owned Charlie's Cafe in Freeport for many years. He was a member of the Freeport City Council and the Freeport School Board, and also served as president of the Stearns Electric Trust Board.

Heidgerken made news in the 2008 legislative session by being one of six house Republicans to vote to override Governor Tim Pawlenty's veto of a transportation bill.  The bill increased money spent on transportation by raising the gas tax. Due to dissatisfaction in the Republican caucus with this vote, he and the other Republicans who voted to override the veto had their leadership positions taken away. He decided to retire after the session, partially due to the controversy surrounding this vote. Other house members who voted to override faced caucus challenges or decided to retire, as well.

References

External links

Minnesota Public Radio - Votetracker: Bud Heidgerken voting record
Follow the Money - Bud Heidgerken
2006 2004 2002 campaign contributions

Living people
1943 births
People from Stearns County, Minnesota
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University alumni
St. Cloud State University alumni
Republican Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
21st-century American politicians


The 76th edition of the KNVB Cup started on August 28, 1993. The final was played on May 12, 1994: Feyenoord beat NEC 2–1 and won the cup for the ninth time. A total of 63 clubs participated.

Teams
 All 18 participants of the Eredivisie 1993-94, eleven of which entering in the third round, the rest entering in the second round
 All 18 participants of the Eerste Divisie 1993-94, entering in the second round
 One youth team, entering in the second round
 26 teams from lower (amateur) leagues, five of which entering in the second round

First round
The matches of the first round were played on August 28 and 29, 1993. Only amateur teams participated.

Second round
The matches of the second round were played on October 8, 9 and 10, 1993. Except for eleven Eredivisie teams, all other participants entered the tournament here.

E Eredivisie; 1 Eerste Divisie; A Amateur teams

Third round
The matches of the third round were played on November 10, 11 and 14, 1993. The eleven highest ranked Eredivisie clubs from last season entered the tournament this round.

E eleven Eredivisie entrants

Round of 16
The matches of the round of 16 were played on December 15, 1993, and on January 9 and January 12, 1994.

Quarter finals
The quarter finals were played on February 9, 1994.

Semi-finals
The semi-finals were played on March 9 and 20, 1994.

Final

Feyenoord would participate in the Cup Winners' Cup.

See also
Eredivisie 1993-94
Eerste Divisie 1993-94

External links
 Netherlands Cup Full Results 1970–1994 by the RSSSF
 Results by Ronald Zwiers

1993-94
1993–94 domestic association football cups
1993–94 in Dutch football


is a single released by Gackt on October 27, 2004 under Nippon Crown. It peaked at second place on the Oricon weekly chart and charted for seventeen weeks. In 2004, it was the 96th best selling single of the year, with sales of 98,335 copies. It ultimately sold 124,280 copies, making it Gackt's ninth best selling single. It was certified gold by RIAJ.

Track listing

References

2004 singles
Gackt songs
Pop-folk songs
2004 songs