Apocalipsur  () is a 2005 Colombian drama film written and directed by Javier Mejía Osorio. It won the National Film Announcement of the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2002. The film was chosen as the best film at the Cartagena Film Festival in 2007.

Plot
Apocalipsur tells the story of a group of friends in 1991 Medellín, when Medellín was dominated by Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel and its rival los Pepes.

One of the friends, el Flaco, leaves his home in Medellín for (suiza) because of threats against his mother. Before leaving, He cuts his hair to be bald and goes to a bar where his friends Carlos 'Caliche', Comadreja y Felipe 'Pipe', a cripple boy, and his girlfriend Maria Adelaida 'Malala' give him a great farewell with a rock band included.

After a few months he comes back to Medellín, but the city is the same war zone he had left behind. Caliche and Malala are dating although Malala loves yet El Flaco. Caliche, after waking up and looking after 'Marihuana', the pet iguana of El Flaco steals money from his mother's boyfriend shortly before going to his van to pick up his friend at the airport. El Flaco’s best friends pick him up at the airport in their "Bola de Nieve," a Volkswagen van in which they have travelled many kilometers together and has become everyone’s refuge. But before leaving, Malala berates Caliche not tell they were going to pick up El Flaco, since the night before being drunk she was not going, and going in the van but chairs passengers and not the co- pilot. Soon pick up Pipe and 'Comadreja', he suffered diarrhea so he had flatulences. The plane whose travel El Flaco pass by Jamaica, Caracas, Bogota for what would 17 hours. When they arrive at a traffic light observed at 4 policemen knowing they could be bought by drug trafficking. Caliche shares their friends the remains of cocaine on a ballot owned by his mother and her boyfriend.

Caliche remembers when he met El Flaco; being kidnapped by gunmen and where is locked in a laundry room, turned into a cage, where he meets El Flaco and befriends. That same night after taking the dishes and their droppings, El Flaco asks his two captors sicarios that allow them to walk him and Caliche. Hitmen after discussing between them allow both young go for a walk in addition to express his desire to kill them. The next day El Flaco tells Caliche is kidnapped being the son of a judge investigating the case of a gunman working for drug traffickers and after receiving multiple death threats, was later kidnapped reciting a poem by Porfirio Barba Jacob. Caliche for his part was kidnapped by former partners of his father who had refused to give them money for their war against the authorities, and Caliche knows her father has called for several gunmen to rescue him. These assassins arrive that night to where El Flaco and Caliche are kidnapped. The two assassins decide to kill El Flaco and let live Caliche who insists the life of his friend but he was locked gunmen and two shots are heard, Caliche believes they killed El Flaco but Caliche when released by the gunmen at the service of his father notes that El Flaco was alive and that the dead had been his two captors so Caliche accompanied by El Flaco and assassins leave the place.

During the trip, Malala tells his friends when his grandmother had known El Flaco and the group of friends stop near a bridge where Malala is temporarily away urinating and three fun. Pipe recalls that even being crippled masturbates with an inflatable sex doll drawing his pain by a bride who betrayed him and at that time El Flaco accompanies him in his grief. By following the trip, the group of friends watch several helicopters are apparently Block search, looking for Escobar. Therefore, the friends end up discussing business by Caliche's dad, Malala concluding that the war against drug trafficking in Colombia is because the United States prohibits the cocaine exported by the Colombian mafia. The gang of friends passing through a checkpoint where police gives young pamphlets for the capture of Escobar.

'Comadreja' tells his friends that 'The Papito' Jibaro (Colombian trafficker) in the neighborhood had been arrested and then released and remember that a year ago he and El Flaco ride bicycle through the streets home of El Papito and buys 'bareta' (marijuana). After selling it plus an additional cannabis, El Papito warns hide drugs by constant police checkpoints. Both friends travel by bicycle where smoking marijuana then retains police captain whose forces them to smoke marijuana tucked in the back of the patrol car and then not tolerate a joke El Flaco, and the cops confiscate the bicycle of both. El Flaco and Comadreja talk while smoking marijuana and being drugged start laughing, and the police captain wants rebuke them in the same way his father rebuked him for smoking cigarettes. The captain hear them laugh and going to the back of the patrol where the hits until the patrol stops at the time a thief in the street is killed by another. The police take the pistol shot thief and abandon the Flaco and Comadreja in the street.

The group continues its journey listening favorite song Flaco after they stop on a cafe to rest. Malala remains far from Caliche confessing that by Flaco she is sad; months ago during the farewell party Flaco in the women's bathroom, Malala confesses to her best friend pregnant with her boyfriend thinking in principle ask Flaco not to go and arm themselves a family, but her friend convinces her to abort and swear not to say anything, but Caliche and Flaco being in the men's bathroom listen and Flaco breaks into tears being comforted by Caliche. Caliche and Malala fight over this matter until are soothed. Meanwhile, Comadreja and Pipe being in the cafeteria joke making believe that the storekeeper that Comadreja is a Latin guy who has lived in the United States, to speak in English. Later the gang remembers that night traveling around the city, pick up in the van to a transvestite prostitute named 'Maria Antonieta' (after the queen of France) and Flaco makes him believe she is foreigner and Flaco risks kiss him.

Caliche recalls that the Flaco, according to his mother, was very lonely in London walking barefoot through the snow. During the trip Pipe in his wheelchair adventure travel is towed to the van and the gang arrives at a vacant lot near the Airport José María Córdoba. Caliche recalls that the Flaco, according to his mother, was very lonely in London walking barefoot through the snow. During the trip Pipe in his wheelchair adventure travel is towed to the van and the gang arrives at a vacant lot near the airport. However, when they come down from the van, Comadreja is not properly closed the door and 'Marihuana', the iguana escapes of the van. As he expected, Comadreja remembers having dreamed Flaco being naked in the snow in London. The boys hope the plane while consuming psychoactives. Seeing that the plane arrives at the airport, the gang goes up there to meet his exiled friend, but when you get seek to 'Marihuana' but nobody takes responsibility that the iguana has escaped and Malala assimilates the iguana is gone forever.

The gang arrives at the airport, waiting for the flight whose last stop was Bogotá. After searching collect the corpse of Flaco, who had died (without explaining how and whose death is spoken by his friends for several excerpts from the film) in London. The gang returns to Medellin with the cadaver in a coffin with the philosophical experience of friendship between 5 and whose youth was already finished. But in the return, apparently Caliche steamrolled the iguana with the van and brakes abruptly causing the coffin with the corpse of Flaco fell into a creek nearby. Flaco's last wish was that wanted to die and reincarnate in the iguana well be close to friends. The cadaver is lost in the stream. At the end a dedication of the director appears:

"For Flaco, Carlos Bernal, who disappeared in Geneva (Switzerland) on 23 October of 1991" (Spanish: "Para el Flaco, Carlos Bernal, desaparecido en Ginebra (Suiza) el 23 de octubre de 1991").

Cast
 Andrés Echavarría Molletti....El Flaco
 Maricela Gómez....Malala
 Pedro Pabo Ochoa....Caliche
 Ramón Marulanda....Comadreja
 Camilo Díaz....Pipe
 Hernando Casanova ''el culebro....El Papito
 Sergio Valencia....The storekeeper

Awards
Cartagena Film Festival
 Best Colombian Film 2007
 Special Jury Prize: Javier Mejía Osorio

References

External links

2005 films
2000s Spanish-language films
2005 drama films
Colombian drama films


Stephen Worgu (born 6 April 1990 in Brass, Nigeria) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Bowsher Club in Oman.

Club career

Ocean Boys (2005–2007) and Enyimba (2007)
In 2006, Worgu was a member of the Ocean Boys F.C. team that won the Nigerian Premier League under the tutelage of former Enyimba International F.C. manager, Maurice Cooreman. Throughout his two-year stay with the Bayelsa State club, the diminutive player enjoyed a low profile rating compared to Ideye Aide Brown, team captain Blessing Okardi and goalkeeper Ikechukwu Ezenwa, before joining Enyimba in July 2007.

Worgu spent one year with Enyimba, which turned out to be a very successful year for the rising star. He lifted Enyimba to the semi-final of the CAF Champions League 2008, their best position since their championship title in 2004. Worgu was the top scorer in the competition accumulating 13 goals, five goals ahead of Daouda Kamilou of Cotonsport Garoua.

Al-Merrikh (2009–2010)
On 22 October 2008, Worgu agreed to a 4-year contract with the Sudanese giant, Al-Merreikh who outbid the Egyptian club Al Ahly. The deal was worth an estimated $2.5 million, with $1 million annual salary and the remaining $1.5 million to the former club. Worgu cited the favour of the Sudanese bid over others, due to the seriousness of their offer. Along with his compatriots Idahor and Osunwa, Worgu becomes the third Nigerian attacker to join the Al-Merreikh squad that competed in the African Champions' League for the first time since 2003.

At Al-Merreikh, Worgu was given the number 10 jersey, that replaced the number 27 jersey that he wore in Enyimba. With the high salary and the former Champion's league top scoring performance, the expectations were set high for the Nigerian youth star. He got to a slow start, with Al-Merreikh defending their Sudan Premier League title, and he was yet to score a goal in seven premier league and three champion's league matches. On 21 April 2009, in an interview with the BBC, Worgu uttered his struggle to adapt to his new professional destination away from home, citing language and cultural barriers. "Going onto the pitch the fans are singing your name, but I don't know what they're saying, I have to ask a friend," he said.

On 23 April 2009, in the first match following the interview, Worgu managed to score his first goal in the Sudanese league against Al-Ittihad, where Al-Merreikh won 2/0. Despite his earlier yellow card in that match, Worgu rushed towards Al-Merreikh fans to celebrate his first league goal by taking his shirt off. He was shown a second yellow booking, which warranted him also his first red card in the competition.
Later on in August, Worgu was caught drinking which is illegal in Sudan. The club paid 24 million pounds on his behalf and he punished by 40 lashes.

Al-Ahly Benghazi (2010–2011)

Striker Stephen Worgu agreed to join Libyan side, Al-Ahly Benghazi, from Sudanese giants, Al-Merreikh, for a period of eight months. The deal for Worgu's move was concluded when Al-Merreikh undersecretary, Mutwakil Ahmed Ali and a representative of Al-Ahly Benghazi of Libya met and agreed on a fee for the short-term deal. Worgu, 20, confirmed this after his last game for the Sudanese side when they secured a 3–1 win over Hay Al-Arab in which he scored a hat-trick. He is expected to earn as much as $500,000 from the deal, while Al-Merreikh will be paid the sum of $200,000.

Return to Sudan

When the conflict in Libya started, it completely disrupted the Libyan Football league and he was forced to return to his hometown. His Sudanese club El-Merriekh, took him back following the expiration of loan term.

He was a key player in helping El-Merriekh win the Sudanese League, scoring several important goals during the last part of the season. During this time he was invited to the Nigerian U-23 team for the U-23 Olympic qualifying tournament in Morocco.

Position
Worgu plays in variable positions, but mainly as attacking midfielder or striker.

Honours
2006: Eritrean Premier League Winner
2008: CAF Champions League 2008 top scorer with 13 goals

References

External links
Football.com Profile

1990 births
Living people
Nigerian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Enyimba F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Sudan
Expatriate men's footballers in Libya
Ocean Boys F.C. players
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Sudan
Nigerian expatriates in Libya
Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman) players
Al-Merrikh SC players


Duncan McDonald (May 15, 1839 – 1903) was a Canadian merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Victoria in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1882 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Harris, Scotland. In 1869, he married Jessie Agnes N. Brown.

References

The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1882, CH Mackintosh

1839 births
1903 deaths
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia
Liberal Party of Canada MPs


James Allen Byrne (27 January 1911 – 5 September 1975) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, United States and became a miner by career.

He was first elected at the Kootenay East riding in the 1949 general election, then re-elected there in the 1953, 1957, 1962, 1963 and 1965 elections.

Byrne was not in Parliament for one term during this time due to his defeat in the 1958 election by Murray McFarlane of the Progressive Conservative party.

Byrne was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport from 1966 to 1968, and also served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour from 1963 to 1965.

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1911 births
1975 deaths
People from Grand Rapids, Minnesota
American emigrants to Canada
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
Liberal Party of Canada MPs


Timing Is Everything is singer Chris de Burgh's fourteenth original album, released in 2002.

Track listing
All compositions by Chris de Burgh except as noted.
"Guilty Secret" – 3:50
"If Beds Could Talk" – 3:47
"Lebanese Night" featuring Elissa  – 4:46
"Timing Is Everything" – 4:47
"There's Room in This Heart Tonight" – 3:37
"She Must Have Known" – 3:30 (de Burgh, Mark Spiro)
"The Best That Love Can Be" – 3:58
"Bal Masqué" – 3:28
"Love and Time" – 4:16
"Another Rainbow" – 3:47
"Save Me" – 2:47

Personnel

 Chris de Burgh – lead and backing vocals
 Peter Gordeno – keyboards
 James Nisbet – guitars
 Phil Palmer – guitars
 Rick Mitra – bass, drums, percussion
 Tee Green – backing vocals
 Shelley Nelson – backing vocals
 Elissa Khoury – guest vocals on "Lebanese Night"

Production

 Produced by Chris de Burgh and Chris Porter
 Engineered and Mixed by Chris Porter
 Sleeve Design – Chris de Burgh, David Larkham and Mike McCraith.
 Portrait Photo – David Morley
 Russian Photos – Alex "Professor" Lebedinsky

Chris de Burgh albums
2002 albums
A&M Records albums


June Levine (31 December 1931 – 14 October 2008) was an Irish journalist, novelist  and feminist, who played a central part in the Irish women's movement.

Early life and family
Levine was born into a Jewish-Catholic family. Her parents Charles Solomon Levine, the son of Jewish parents who fled from Latvia and Muriel Ruth McMahon from Co Clare secretly got married at a Catholic church in Marlborough Street, Dublin at a young age. June, the eldest of five children, was baptised a Catholic and attended a Jewish school in Dublin. In 1947, the family decided to convert to Judaism.

At the age of 15, Levine began her career in journalism for The Irish Times as a teenager instead of pursuing further education. She met and married Canadian Jewish medical student, Kenneth Mesbur. In the 1950s, the married couple and their two children emigrated to Ontario, Canada, where they settled, and a third baby was born. The marriage ended and Levine returned to Dublin with her three children. In 1999, June Levine married her partner of thirty years, psychiatrist Professor Ivor Browne.

Career
In 1965, Levine returned to her career in journalism and was elected assistant editor of the Irish Woman’s Journal. She wrote two best selling books, Sisters, a personal history of the feminist movement, and, with Lyn Madden, Lyn: A Story of Prostitution.

She was also involved with the Irish women's movement, alongside figures such as Mary Kenny, Margaret Gaj and Mary Maher. In 1971 she travelled with other feminists, including Mary Kenny and Nell McCafferty, on the so-called "Contraceptive Train"  when they travelled to Belfast to buy condoms.

Later life
In Levine’s later life, she became interested in India's women's movement. She only wrote one work of fiction, A Season of Weddings, which was published in 1992 and told the tale of a Dublin woman who went to New Delhi for a Jewish wedding.

Levine had a number of strokes in her last year, which impacted her speech. Having regained some ability to communicate, she experienced a second stroke in the first week of October, lost consciousness, and died on 14 October 2008 in Tallaght Hospital. In 2009 Attic Press reissued her book Sisters with a preface written by Levine's friend Nell McCafferty.

References

1931 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Irish women writers
21st-century Irish women writers
Irish Jews
Irish birth control activists
Irish feminists
Irish women's rights activists
Writers from County Dublin
20th-century Irish Jews
21st-century Irish Jews


Duncan McDonald may refer to:
Duncan McDonald (Scottish footballer), Scottish footballer for Woolwich Arsenal
Duncan McDonald (English footballer), English footballer for Crewe Alexandra
Duncan McDonald (Nova Scotia politician) (1839–1903), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia
Duncan McDonald (industrialist) (1921–1997), Scottish industrialist

See also
Duncan MacDonald (disambiguation)


The 1924 Oxford by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 June 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of Oxford.

Vacancy
The seat had become vacant when the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Frank Gray was unseated on petition on 14 May, after his agent had falsified the account for his expenses at the 1923 election. Gray had held the seat since the 1922 election.

Electoral history
The result of the last General Election;

Candidates

On 16 May, the Oxford Liberal Association immediately invited the 52-year-old C.B. Fry, to defend the seat. He had been an all-round sportsman who was best known as an England cricketer. Fry had contested Brighton in the 1922 election and the neighbouring seat of Banbury in the 1923 election.
The Conservative Party selected the 35-year-old Robert Bourne, who had been a member of the New College boat which won silver in the men’s eights at the 1912 Olympics.
The Labour Party who had not fielded a candidate before, selected the 26-year-old Kenneth Lindsay, recently down from Worcester and contesting his first Parliamentary election. He had been President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas 1922.

Campaign
All three candidates were former Oxford Blues enabling the popular press to dub the campaign 'The Battle of the Blues'.

Former Liberal MP Frank Gray, despite being barred from standing, was still very popular in the constituency and he was active in support of Fry throughout the campaign. During the campaign Fry advocated the introduction of equal opportunities for women, the imposition of responsibilities on the fathers of illegitimate children and the introduction of a tax system that would give privacy and independence to married women.

Result
The result was a gain for the Conservatives.

Aftermath
Bourne would hold the seat at the following General Election;

References

1924 elections in the United Kingdom
Elections in Oxford
1924 in England
June 1924 events
By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom in Oxfordshire constituencies
20th century in Oxford


Reginald James Hugh Arbuthnot (2 June 1853 – 19 September 1917) was an English businessman and amateur cricketer who played two first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club.

Early life
Arbuthnot was born at Brighton in Sussex, the son of William Urquhart Arbuthnot and Elizabeth Arbuthnot. His father was a partner in the Indian banking firm Arbuthnot & Co based in Madras and was a member of the Indian Council. He was the grandson of Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet.

The family lived at Brigden Place in Bexley in Kent and Arbuthnot was educated at Rugby School. Whilst at Rugby he played cricket in the school XI.

Business career
After leaving school Arbuthnot spent an extended time in India on business working for the family firm as well as working in England as a coffee broker. He was a member of the Madras Legislative Council in 1891–1892. The firm failed "spectacularly" in 1906, although Arbuthnot was wealthy enough to continue to live in London without needing to work.

Cricket
Arbuthnot played cricket twice for Kent. His first-class debut came in 1881 and, after time in India, his second appearance was in 1890. He played non first-class cricket for a range of teams, including MCC, Blackheath Cricket Club and Madras Cricket Club.

Later life and family
Arbuthnot died suddenly of heart failure in 1917 aged 64 leaving an estate worth over £14,000. His nephew, Hugh Spottiswoode, also played two first-class matches for Kent.

References

External links

English cricketers
Kent cricketers
Reginald
1853 births
1917 deaths
Cricketers from Brighton


The 2003 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament began on December 4, 2003 with 64 teams and ended December 18 when Southern California defeated Florida 3 games to 1 in Dallas, Texas for the program's third NCAA title and sixth national title overall.

It was Southern California's second consecutive NCAA title.  The team capped off the 2003 season undefeated at 35-0, becoming the third team in NCAA history to accomplish the feat, the first repeat NCAA national champion to go undefeated, and the first team in the NCAA era to be ranked #1 in the coaches poll for the entire season.

Florida made the school's first national championship match in the program's seventh final four appearance. Minnesota also made the program's first NCAA final four appearance.

Records
Three teams in the 2003 NCAA Volleyball Tournament qualified with either 0 or 1 losses: USC (29-0), Hawaii (32-1), and Florida (31-1). It is the most recent tournament to feature at least three such teams.

Lincoln Regional

Long Beach Regional

Gainesville Regional

Honolulu Regional

Final Four – Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas

National Semifinals

Southern California vs. Minnesota

Minnesota, making their first NCAA Final Four appearance in program history, played top-seeded USC tough in the first two sets, falling 30-27, 30-28. USC rode the momentum in the third set, winning easily 30-20 to advance to the national championship match for the second consecutive year. USC's balanced attack consisted off three players with double digit kills, including Bibiana Candelas with 12, Keao Burdine with 13 and April Ross with 11. Minnesota was led by Cassie Busse with 23 kills and Erin Martin with 11.

Florida vs. Hawaii

Florida and Hawaii battled in the second semifinal, with Florida looking to advance to their first final in school history after being 0-for-6 in previous NCAA semifinals, while Hawaii was looking to advance to their first final since 1996.

Both teams played even in the first two games, but it was Florida who won them by the scores of 30-28, 30-28. Hawaii answered back after the break to win 30-23. The 30-23 loss was the first individual game the Gators lost since August 23, breaking their NCAA record of 105 straight game wins. Florida and Hawaii once again played even in the fourth set, but Hawaii was unable to force a fifth set as Florida won the fourth set, 30-28. Hawaii was paced by AVCA National Player of the Year Kim Willoughby and Lily Kahumoku who both had 21 kills.

National Championship: Southern California vs. Florida

Florida started out the match well by winning the first set off of undefeated Southern California. USC answered back by taking the second set 30-27 and used a 6-0 run in the third set to win easily, 30-19. In the fourth set, USC never trailed and led 22-15 before Florida mounted a comeback to cut USC's lead to 25-23. USC did not let up and won the fourth and final set 30-26 to cap off an undefeated season at 35-0. Florida ended their season at 36-2 with their only other loss coming to USC in the season opening AVCA Showcase tournament.

References

NCAA women's volleyball tournament
NCAA
Sports competitions in Dallas
Volleyball in Texas
2003 in sports in Texas
December 2003 sports events in the United States
Women's sports in Texas


Mischief Makers was a children's television series created by National Telepix that debuted on television syndication in 1960. The fifteen-minute series consisted of shortened Our Gang silent shorts that were originally released through Pathé, as well as various shorts from rival series including Mickey McGuire, Buster Brown, and others. Films from Hal Roach's all animal series the Dippy Doo Dads were also occasionally shown. The series ended production in 1961, but continued to be aired by certain local television stations well into the 1970s, and even during the 80's in Latin America.

Overview
The series mainly featured shorts from Hal Roach's Our Gang series, but shorts from other series were also sometimes shown. Each episode ran about fifteen minutes, with the featured short only being about twelve minutes in length (the shorts originally ran about twenty minutes long).

The shorts were always given a new, relatively simple title (i.e. Every Man For Himself became Shoeshine Shop). Most of what was deleted from the shorts were from the first half of the film, though some of the first half were retained in the episodes. The deleted footage sometimes wound up in other episodes, known as 'hybrid episodes'; these contained clips from more than one short. The original inter-titles were usually cut, though a few episodes did retain some of the titles. To compensate for the absence of the titles, most episodes were narrated by two kids who are identified as 'Bobby' and 'Bunny'. Bunny typically used the catchphrase "Skeedly Skeedly!". Carnival-like music (composed by Jack Saunders) and rather inappropriate sound effects were also added onto the films.

Theme
The animated opening and closing theme featured a song titled "Hip, Hip, Hooray". It was written by Jack Saunders and Phyllis Brandell Saunders. An instrumental version of this song was among the several soundtrack tunes added onto the silent films.

The animation was produced by Gene Deitch. It featured four animated characters in front of a picket fence doing various activities. The animated characters were a fat kid with a beanie hat (probably meant to be Joe Cobb, a girl (probably Mary Kornman), a freckled-face boy (probably Mickey Daniels), and a dog with a ring around his eye (obviously meant to be Pete the Pup).

Narration
Most episodes were narrated by two kids identified as 'Bobby' and 'Bunny'. The way the two interact with each other makes it seem plausible that the two are intended to be siblings, with Bobby being the older of the two. When narrating an episode, they typically leave very little space in between their comments. Today, most fans of the Our Gang series who have come across narrated Mischief Makers episodes find the narration to be rather irritating.

The writers for the narration sometimes gave rather odd names to some of the kids in the shorts. Others however were identified by their familiar names. Our Gang members  Mickey, Mary, Ernie, Farina, Jackie, and Johnny all had their familiar names retained. Meanwhile, Joe Cobb was called 'Joey', Jack Davis was referred to as 'Rocky', and Jay R. Smith was called 'Freckles'.

Episode List
Currently Incomplete

[*] indicates hybrid episode with more than one short used.

Episode production numbers for the following titles are still unknown.
Sparky the Star
Summer Daze (Buster Brown short)
Sparky at School (Buster Brown short)
Monkey Mischief
Rival Circus
The Monkey Story

Comedy Capers
After the cancellation of Mischief Makers, National Telepix produced Comedy Capers, a spin-off series consisting of various comedy films produced by Hal Roach and Mack Sennett. Top billing for the series went to Laurel and Hardy (even though very few of their films as a team were shown), Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon, Billy Bevan, and The Keystone Kops. Other films shown starred Will Rogers, Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, Billy West, Larry Semon, Clyde Cook, and Mabel Normand, among others.

The beginning to the opening theme immediately recognized the series as a spin-off of Mischief Makers, as the singers of the theme song mention "The Mischief Makers present...". Although actual Our Gang shorts were not featured on Comedy Capers, the opening theme featured clips from Our Gang shorts Official Officers and Playin' Hookey.

References

External links
The Lucky Corner - Our Gang, Little Rascals
Mischief Makers Copyright Status
Mischief Makers Copyright Status 2
Mischief Makers Copyright Status 3
Mischief Makers Copyright Status 4
Mischief Makers Opening and Closing
The Barber Shop (part 1) (dubbed)
The Barber Shop (part 2) (dubbed)
The Secret Meeting (part 1) (dubbed)
The Secret Meeting (part 2) (dubbed)
A Double Birthday (part 1) (dubbed)
A Double Birthday (part 2) (dubbed)
Little Officers (part 1) (dubbed)
Little Officers (part 2) (dubbed)
A Roamin' Holiday (part 1) (dubbed)
A Roamin' Holiday (part 2) (dubbed)
The Big Switch (excerpt) (dubbed)
Comedy Capers Do Detectives Think?
Comedy Capers Opening Theme (announcer dubbed)

1960 American television series debuts
1961 American television series endings
1960s American children's television series
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States


These are the results of the men's C-1 slalom competition in canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics. The C-1 (canoe single) event is raced by one-man canoes through a whitewater course. The venue for the 1992 Olympic competition was in La Seu d'Urgell.

Medalists

Results
The 31 competitors each took two runs through the whitewater slalom course on August 1. The best time of the two runs counted for the event.

References

1992 Summer Olympics official report Volume 5.  pp. 150–1.
1992 men's C-1 results
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Slalom Singles". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited. p. 486.

Men's Slalom C-1
Men's events at the 1992 Summer Olympics


You're for Me is an album by American country music artist Buck Owens, released in 1962.

It was re-issued in 1995 by Sundazed Records with two bonus tracks.

Track listing
 "You're for Me" (Tommy Collins, Buck Owens) – 2:15
 "Fool Me Again" (Dusty Rhodes, Rolly Weber) – 2:36
 "Down on the Corner of Love" (Owens) – 2:22
 "Mexican Polka" (Owens) – 2:08
 "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" (Owens, Don Rollins) – 2:12
 "Bad Bad Dream" (Owens) – 2:30
 "Under the Influence of Love" (Harlan Howard, Owens) – 2:21
 "Nobody's Fool But Yours" (Owens) – 2:30
 "House Down the Block" (Owens) – 2:29
 "Country Polka" (Owens) – 2:14
 "Down to the River" (Owens) – 2:51
 "Blues for Life" (Owens) – 2:20
1995 reissue bonus tracks:
 "Under the Influence of Love" (Howard, Owens) – 2:22
 "You're for Me" (Collins, Owens) – 2:14

Recorded
May 24, 1961, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (6,7,8)
Sept 26, 1961, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (1,9)
Dec 5, 1961, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (5)
Jan 1962, Capitol Recording Studio, Hollywood (2,3,4,10,11,12)

References

1962 albums
Buck Owens albums
Capitol Records albums
Albums recorded at Capitol Studios


Richard Grant (born 1963) is a freelance British travel writer based in Arizona.

Life and career
He was born in Malaysia, lived in Kuwait as a boy and then moved to London. He went to school in Hammersmith and received a history degree from University College, London. After graduation, he worked as a security guard, a janitor, a house painter and a club DJ before moving to America where he lived a nomadic life in the American West, eventually settling in Tucson, Arizona, as a base from which to travel. He supported himself by writing articles for Men's Journal, Esquire and Details, among others. Grant and girlfriend Mariah, moved to New York City briefly, before relocation to Pluto, Mississippi in August 2012. They got married there, then moved to Jackson, Mississippi in 2015.

As of 2022, Richard Grant is again living in Tucson.

Grant's first book American Nomads (2003, UK: Ghost Riders) looks at nomadism and people who choose to live on the road in America. It won the 2004 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Grant wrote the script for a BBC documentary called American Nomads, based in part on the book, which aired in the fall of 2011.

His next book God's Middle Finger (UK: Bandit Roads, 2008) is about the lawless region of the Sierra Madre mountains in northwestern Mexico in which Grant travelled. It was nominated for the 2009 Dolman Best Travel Book Award. Grant co-wrote a screenplay about the Mexican border with Johnny Ferguson and Ruben Ruiz entitled Tres Huevos/A Burning Thing.

His third book Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011) is about Grant's travels in harrowing situations around East Africa, including an attempt at the first descent of the Malagarasi River in Tanzania.

Grant's fourth book Dispatches from Pluto, released in October 2015, describes his move to Pluto, Mississippi, with his then girlfriend Mariah, and their life and impressions about the Mississippi Delta. Tom Zoellner in the New York Times observed "Grant’s British accent doubtlessly served him well, allowing him to move through the tradition-bound society of the Mississippi Delta like a neutron, without obvious allegiances or biases." The book was the best-selling book in Mississippi for two years and won a Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize.

Released in September 2020, The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi, sought to explore the contradictions and eccentricities of a complex city.

Bibliography
American Nomads: Travels with Lost Conquistadors, Mountain Men, Cowboys, Indians, Hoboes, Truckers, and Bullriders, [UK: Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads] (2003)
God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre [UK: Bandit Roads: Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico] (2008)
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa (2011)
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta (2015)
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi (2020)

References

External links
Richard Grant's Website
"Review: Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads". review of Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads in The Observer, February 2, 2003; Page 17
"Into the Wild", review of God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre in The Washington Post, March 30, 2008; Page BW04
"Richard Grant Has Returned from Mexico Alive", September 2008.

1963 births
British travel writers
Living people


Miiluranta is a village in Finland, the municipality of Kärsämäki, Northern Ostrobothnia. It is the youngest village of Kärsämäki. The village was founded after the war. There was a school which abolished in 2006. The book of the village is named Kylä keskelle korpea (The village among backwoods).

Villages in Finland


"Undisputed" is the second single off Ludacris' album, Theater of the Mind. The song features Floyd Mayweather Jr. The song was released on iTunes on October 14, 2008.

The song samples "We'll Find a Way" by Edwin Starr and Blinky Williams.

Music video
A music video was shot for "Undisputed". It features Ludacris, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and 6-year old boxer Pretty Boy Bam Bam.

Chart positions

References

External links

2008 singles
Ludacris songs
Songs written by Ludacris
2008 songs
Def Jam Recordings singles
Songs written by Ivory Joe Hunter
Song recordings produced by Don Cannon
Songs written by Don Cannon


Arthur Somerville Archdale, DSO (8 September 1882 – 30 March 1948) was an English cricketer and Royal Artillery officer. He was born in Baldock and died in Camberley. His father was F. Archdale of Baldock; he married Mildred Barbara Funnell in 1907.

Military career
Archdale was educated at Repton School, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in December 1901.

At the start of World War I, he had attained the rank of captain and in May 1915, he was appointed as adjutant, 4th North Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. In February 1917 he was appointed as brigade major. In June 1918, he joined the General Staff as a general staff officer, 2nd grade (GSO2) until early 1919.

In April 1922, Archdale was Staff Officer RA, Western Command for just over a year. In August 1924, he once again became a GSO2, until 21 May 1927. For four years until January 1935 he was commander, 9th Field Brigade Royal Artillery, based at Bulford. From October 1935 until November 1939, two months after the outbreak of World War II, he was Commander, Royal Artillery, 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division.

By this time, Archdale was 57 years old and he was transferred to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers (Royal Artillery) in May 1942 and thence, at 60, he was retired, as an honorary brigadier.

Cricketing appearances
Archdale made three appearances for the Army in first-class cricket, as well as two appearances for the Combined Services. Having spent eight years out of the game, he played one miscellaneous fixture for the Free Foresters against the Royal Engineers in 1929.

Honours and awards
Distinguished Service Order 4 June 1917
Croix de Guerre (France) 17 December 1917
Mentioned in dispatches four times during World War I

External links
Arthur Archdale at Cricket Archive
Generals of World War II

1882 births
1948 deaths
English cricketers
People from Baldock
Royal Artillery officers
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
British Army cricketers
Combined Services cricketers
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army brigadiers of World War II
Royal Field Artillery officers
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Military personnel from Hertfordshire
People educated at Repton School
Cricketers from Hertfordshire


Adem is a given name and surname.

Adem may also refer to:

Acronyms
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Alabama Department of Environmental Management

Other uses
Adem (1912 car), an Italian car
Adem Ilhan, an English musician who releases music under the name "Adem"

See also
Adam (disambiguation)


Giampiero Simoni (born 12 September 1969 in Porto San Giorgio) is an Italian former racing driver who made his name in Touring Car racing.

Racing career

His racing career started in karting, becoming world kart champion in 1987. In 1990 he entered the Italian Formula Three Championship. After driving for two years in Formula 3000 (1992–93), he spent two years in the British Touring Car Championship (1994–95), driving for the Alfa Romeo works team in an Alfa Romeo 155. In his first year, he finished 5th in the championship in a dominant team alongside eventual champion Gabriele Tarquini, winning one race in the season. In 1995 the car no longer had the aerodynamic advantage over other teams and he finished a lowly 17th after only driving a part season. 1995 was also spent driving selected races in the DTM. Afterwards, 1996 saw him race in the All Japan GT Championship in a GT500 Toyota Supra. Thereafter his racing activities were sporadic, including a couple of appearances in the 1997 Belgian Procar Championship.

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft Results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Spanish Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

† Not eligible for points.

References

1969 births
Living people
Sportspeople from the Province of Fermo
Italian racing drivers
British Touring Car Championship drivers
Italian Formula Three Championship drivers
Karting World Championship drivers


Chasing Yesterday is a series of books written by Robin Wasserman. The series follows a girl after she wakes up in the middle of rubble, with no memory of her past. The series includes Awakening, Betrayal, and Truth.

References

Young adult novel series
American young adult novels


John Cross may refer to:

Politicians
John Kynaston Cross (1832–1887), British politician
John Cross (fl. 1402), MP for Guildford
John Michael Cross (1859–1934), journalist and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Others
John Cross (artist) (1819–1861), English painter
John Cross (footballer) (1881–1954), Scottish footballer
John Cross (rugby league) (born 1972), Australian rugby league footballer
John Cross Jr. (1925–2007), American pastor
John H. Cross (1925–2010), American parasitologist

See also
John Crosse (disambiguation)
John of the Cross (1542–1591), Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest
John Joseph of the Cross (1654–1739), Italian saint


The 1924 City of London by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 1 February 1924 for the British House of Commons constituency of City of London, which covered the "Square Mile" which was the United Kingdom's traditional financial district.

The seat had become vacant on the elevation to the peerage of one of the constituency's two Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs), Sir Frederick Banbury, as Baron Banbury of Southam.

Banbury had held the seat since a 1906 by-election, following his defeat at Peckham in the 1906 general election. He had represented Peckham since 1892.

Candidates
The Conservative Party selected as its candidate Sir Vansittart Bowater, who had been Lord Mayor of London in 1913. He had stood as an Independent Conservative in the 1922 by-election.

The Liberal Party selected Henry Bell, who was a managing director of Lloyds Bank. This was the first time the Liberals had contested the City since the January 1910 election.

Results
Bowater was comfortably elected, and would represent the constituency until his death in 1938, precipitating another by-election.

Votes

See also
 List of United Kingdom by-elections
 City of London constituency
 1922 City of London by-election
 1935 City of London by-election
 1938 City of London by-election
 1940 City of London by-election
 1945 City of London by-election

References

1924 elections in the United Kingdom
1924 in London
City of London,1924
1924


Phil Kosin (August 1950 – August 10, 2009) was an American journalist, columnist, radio host, commentator, blogger and newspaper publisher from Chicago. In 1989 he founded the Chicagoland Golf newspaper, serving as its editor and publisher until his death.

Beginning to write professionally about sports while 14, still in high school and playing them, he became a full-time journalist while in college. From 1975, he started covering golf and had work in many national magazines.

From 1980-1988, he reported on all Chicago sports and teams, and hosted "magazine" shows on two radio stations. Since 1992, he hosted the seasonal Chicagoland Golf Show, a talk radio program on CBS Radio-owned WSCR SportsRadio 670 in Chicago. He also covered Midwest events for Boxing Digest.

Early life
Kosin was born in Chicago and started playing sports at an early age.

Education and career
Kosin began covering sports at his high school at age 14 for the City News Bureau of Chicago and two competing local newspapers, getting bylines in each and earning himself the princely sum of $32.50 a week. He did this while playing on some of those teams and figuring out the balance between being accurate in his stories and getting along with his coaches and teammates.

He continued to write part-time for both local newspapers and freelanced stories to magazines through his college years. He worked full-time in the production department on the third shift at a Chicago daily newspaper while attending junior college, then majored in broadcasting and journalism at Western Illinois University.

From 1980 through 1988, Kosin reported on all Chicago sports and teams while hosting weeknight “magazine” shows on two radio stations, WTAQ and WMRO. These covered all of the Chicago market under the banner “The Sportsweek Radio Network”. His magazine shows, consisting of lengthy interviews and multiple-guest discussions, were a first on Chicago radio, pre-dating by three years other shows which make the same claim. He served as Midwest writer for Boxing Digest. He was hired by Eddie Einhorn as a boxing analyst and teamed with Al Bernstein on bi-weekly telecasts. In 1982 they did the first-ever broadcast on the SportsVision pay-TV channel.

At that time Kosin also wrote syndicated semi-weekly newspaper columns, in addition to stringing for The Associated Press at major sporting events. On Chicago radio, he pioneered the concept of moving the sports talk show and its guests out of the studio and before a live audience at sports bars. In the early 1980s, he hosted a Sunday night show, Inside Baseball, co-hosted in alternate weeks by the Chicago White Sox manager Tony LaRussa and the Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia, depending on which team was in town.

Kosin covered golf since the 1975 Western Open, where he gathered quotes and did sidebars for the AP under the tutelage of the legendary AP sports editor Joe Mooshil. Kosin covered 32 straight Westerns (until its contentious demise in 2006) and more than 500 golf tournaments, including nearly 60 major championships. His work has appeared in Golf Digest, Sports Illustrated, Golf Traveler, American Bar Association Journal and the first revival of Golf Illustrated. An experienced photographer, he took his own photographs to accompany his articles.

After freelancing for several marginally successful regional golf publications for many years, Kosin became editor of Illinois Golfer in 1986. Three years later, in 1989, Kosin struck out on his own, founding Chicagoland Golf. Since then it has become the longest-running golf publication in Chicago history. After taking it online, Kosin posted articles frequently at the Chicagoland GolfChicagoland Golf website, and his blog "Phil Kosin's Worm Castings".

In 1992, he started a non-profit, the Chicago Friends of Golf, Inc., which has provided financial assistance to needy junior golf programs and wherever else needed. In its ”Used Clubs for Kids” program from 1993 through 2006, The Chicago Friends of Golf, inc., collected from readers and redistributed free to needy juniors and junior programs more than 50,000 clubs, 3,500 golf bags, 900 pairs of golf shoes, and over 200,000 golf balls.

In 1993, Kosin wrote an article conceptualizing a golf school limited to beginner adults. He called it the "No Embarrassment Golf School." The model and the name were first used by Jemsek golf courses in the Chicago area to great success. They are now being used nationally, rights-free, as Kosin desired.

Since 1994, his "Phil Kosin's Chicagoland Golf Show" was on the air on powerful stations in the nation’s third-largest media market. After three years on WMVP-AM1000 (now ESPN Radio), for the last 13 seasons, he hosted a Saturday morning, two-hour weekend show from March through September on WSCR TheScore, SportsRadio 670AM in Chicago, in addition to being streamed live on the Internet at www.670thescore.com. The Score is also the flagship station for the Chicago White Sox baseball club.

In 1995 Kosin founded the Illinois Women's Open state championship of golf and served as tournament director.

Kosin was a longtime member of the Golf Digest Top 100 Ranking Panel. Until his death, he was the only original member on the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame Nominating Committee (1989). He was listed as an Advisory Board member of Illinois' "Hook a Kid on Golf". Always a public golfer, he joked that the only club he belonged to was "Sam's Club". Kosin has served as a consultant to many golf courses.

Kosin died on August 10, 2009, after a four-year battle with cancer.

References

External links
 Chicagoland Golf official website
 "Phil Kosin's Worm Castings Blog"

American reporters and correspondents
1950 births
2009 deaths


Renaissance is a 1973 album by R&B group The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. It was the first album by the group not to feature original lead singer Smokey Robinson on lead vocals, instead featuring him as executive producer. Robinson was replaced by lead singer Billy Griffin.

History
Once Robinson decided to retire from the group to concentrate on his duties as Vice President of the Motown Record Corporation,Original  Miracles members Claudette Robinson (Smokey's wife) , and Marv Tarplin, decided to leave as well. Tarplin, after staying for a year, decided to leave the Miracles and began touring and working with Smokey Robinson. Claudette Robinson retired to concentrate on raising the couple's two children, Berry and Tamla. The other Miracles, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, and Ronnie White, conducted a nationwide search for a singer to replace Smokey Robinson. After auditioning some 60 hopefuls, the group decided on Billy Griffin, a native of Baltimore, Maryland. In the 2006 Miracles DVD release The Definitive Performances (1963-1987), Miracles Pete Moore and Bobby Rogers commented that the group decided on Griffin because, in addition to being a great singer, he also demonstrated some songwriting ability. Smokey Robinson served as the album's executive producer, and took pains to write in the album's liner notes that Griffin was "a determined young man with a fresh new sound, who is sure to become dynamic in the industry".

Renaissance included several songs from noted writer-producers, including Marvin Gaye, Willie Hutch, Leon Ware, Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren, and Pam Sawyer. The album's first intended single was "What Is a Heart Good For", which was performed by the group on a July 13, 1973 telecast on NBC's The Midnight Special, which marked the group's first national television appearance with Griffin and was hosted by Smokey Robinson himself. The Miracles also performed the song on June 23, 1973, and a repeat performance on a September 28, 1974 telecast of Don Cornelius's "Soul Train". Radio began playing the uptempo single, when it was inexplicably withdrawn, and replaced with a ballad "Don't Let It End ('Til You Let It Begin)".

Release
Several songs from Renaissance appear on the 2003 Motown compilation CD The Miracles-Love Machine: The 70's Collection. Renaissance was released on CD in June 2012 as a bundle the Miracles' 1974 album Do It Baby.

Reception

"Don't Let It End ('Til You Let It Begin)" only reached #56 Pop, #26 R&B on the Billboard chart. Without a big hit single to promote it, Renaissance only reached #174 Pop, #33 R&B on the Billboard album chart. Critics at the time gave the album almost universally positive reviews. The group's next album, Do It Baby, based on their #13 million-selling hit single of the same name, would fare far better.

Track listing

All lead vocals by Billy Griffin, except where noted.

Side one
"What is a Heart Good For" (Arthur Ross, Leon Ware)
 "If You're Ever in the Neighborhood" (Don Fenceton, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson)
 "I Wanna Be With You" (Willie Hutch)
 "Wigs and Lashes" (Larry Mizell) (lead vocals: Billy Griffin, Ronnie White)
 "Don't Let It End ('Til You Let It Begin)" (Christine Yarian, Freddie Perren) (lead vocals: Billy Griffin, Ronnie White; spoken word segment: Bobby Rogers)

Side two
 "I Love You Secretly" (Anna Gordy Gaye, Elgie Stover, Marvin Gaye)
 "I Don't Need No Reason" (Leon Ware, Pam Sawyer)
 "Nowhere To Go" (Clay McMurray, Dennis Jackson, Gary Fears) (lead vocals: Billy Griffin, Pete Moore, Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers)
 "I Didn't Realize The Show Was Over" (Richard Hutch, Willie Hutch)

Personnel
Billy Griffin - lead vocals
Ronnie White - baritone backing vocals
Pete Moore - bass backing vocals
Bobby Rogers - tenor backing vocals
Marv Tarplin - guitar
Smokey Robinson - executive producer
Assorted Los Angeles studio musicians - instrumentation

Charts

Singles

References

External links
 The Miracles-Renaissance at Discogs
 The Miracles- Renaissance: Original album cover artwork
 "RENAISSANCE" MEN: a Landmark MIRACLES Album turns 35

1973 albums
The Miracles albums
Albums produced by Smokey Robinson
Albums produced by the Mizell Brothers
Albums produced by Hal Davis
Albums produced by Marvin Gaye
Albums produced by Freddie Perren
Tamla Records albums


and a body to remember with is a book of short stories by the Chilean-Canadian writer Carmen Rodríguez. It was written and published almost simultaneously in both English and Spanish (as De Cuerpo Entero). The book was short-listed for the City of Vancouver Book Award (1997) and won the City of Santiago Book Award (1998)

References

2002 short story collections
Canadian short story collections


Julius Nicolai Jacobsen (19 May 1829 – 25 December 1894) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician.  He founded J. N. Jacobsen & Co. which became one of the country's larger forest product companies.

Biography
He was born in the borough of Strømsø in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway. He was the son of Andreas Jacobsen (1798–1876) and his wife Adelgunda Margaretha Schive (1808–38). His father was a sexton and school teacher.  He graduated from the three-year commercial school at Drammen (Drammens lærde skole) in 1844. After that, he was employed by A. J. Boger in Christiania (now Oslo). He moved to Fredrikstad (then Fredriksstad) in 1848 where he was first employed by Peder Gelertsen & Co.

In 1852, Jacobsen started his own wooden shop, based in the village of Græsvig. He became a self-made businessman acquiring other mills and exporting cargo loads to the Netherlands. He settled at the Lykkeberg estate  in the parish of Glemmen which he bought in 1855. Through transactions in 1856 and 1859, he amassed a large property at the village of Græsvig on the peninsula  of Onsøy outside of Fredrikstad. He  founded a sawmill Græsvig Brug on 1 January 1860, the same day as national sawmill privileges limiting private enterprise were abolished. The sawmill was a catalyst of growth, spurring a significant migration to the district. Græsvig Brugs Skole, a school for  children of workers at the sawmill, was founded in 1862.  Later followed a town hall in 1866 and Græsvig Church which was consecrated in 1884, but burned in 1915. The company was renamed J. N. Jacobsen & Co. in 1863 when his brother, Johan Fredrik Thorne Jacobsen (1835-1917), entering as a business partner.

Jacobsen served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1877–1879, representing the constituency of Fredriksstad. He was also a member of the city council's executive committee from 1868 to 1894 and served as deputy mayor for some time.

Following his death, J. N. Jacobsen & Co. was transformed to a limited company. His brother took over the leadership, together with Julius' son-in-law Julius Christian Juel (1853-1930). The youngest son Andreas Julius Jacobsen (1879- 1967) was involved from 1907.
Facing the economic hardships of the time, J. N. Jacobsen & Co. went bankrupt in 1926.
The assets were seized and  the house at Lykkeberg was sold, the buyer being Fredrikstad municipality. From 1931, Lykkeberg served as central administration offices for Fredrikstad Municipality.

Personal life
In 1858, he married Olivia Fredrikke Bredesen (1841–1879). Jacobsen subsequently ordered the erection of a new house at Lykkeberg, drawn in Gothic style by the nationally known architect Paul Due. The house was finished in 1875. Tragically, Olivia died in 1879 after giving birth to their eighth child.

His daughter Elna Andrea Jacobsen (1870–1958) was married to sports official Johan Sverre between 1893 and 1917.

Jacobsen was proclaimed Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 1882 and Commander of the same order in 1894. The city council named a street in Fredrikstad after him in 1894.

References

External links
 Julius Nicolai Jacobsen (1829-1894) (Fredrikstad Museum)
Fredrikstad Municipality Administration Building, Lykkeberg ( Østfold Museum)

1829 births
1894 deaths
Businesspeople from Drammen
Politicians from Drammen
19th-century Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian company founders
Norwegian industrialists
Members of the Storting
Østfold politicians
People from Fredrikstad
Recipients of the St. Olav's Medal


Events in the year 1848 in India.

Incumbents
The Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General, 1848-56.

Events
 2nd Sikh War, 1848-49.
 Annexation of Sattara.

Law
 Indian Insolvency Act

Births
28 September – Kabibar Radhanath Ray, poet (died 1908).

See also

References

India
Years of the 19th century in India


Audley Mervyn Archdall or Archdale (6 June 1826 – 27 February 1893) was an Irish amateur cricketer. He was born at Riversdale House near Ballycassidy in County Fermanagh in 1826 and educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man. Archdall's father was Edward Archdale, a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant who had been High Sheriff of Fermanagh and had built Riversdale House close to the Archdale family seat, Castle Archdale.

Archdall served in the Royal Artillery (RA). He was commissioned as a Second lieutenant in December 1844 and rose to the rank of captain by the time he left the army in 1855.

Archdall made his sole first-class cricket appearance for the Gentlemen of Kent against the Gentlemen of England in 1851 whilst he was serving with the RA. He is also known to have played non-first-class cricket for Royal Artillery Cricket Club, I Zingari and the Gentlemen of Devon.

Archdall married Sybilla Miles in 1854 and lived at Ledbury in Herefordshire, serving as a JP for the county. The couple had five children. He reverted to the spelling of his surname as Archdale in around 1875. Archdall died at Newent in Gloucestershire in February 1893 aged 67.

References

External links

1825 births
1893 deaths
Audley
Cricketers from County Fermanagh
Irish cricketers
Gentlemen of Kent cricketers
Royal Artillery officers


Aaron Michael Maybin (born April 6, 1988) is a former linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL). His college football career was at Penn State University where he received consensus All-American honors. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft, and also played for the New York Jets.

Maybin's professional football career lasted until 2013, after which he became a full-time professional artist. He is also the founder of Project Mayhem, and the author of the 2017 book Art Activism. He is a teacher at Matthew A. Henson Elementary in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.

College career
Maybin attended Pennsylvania State University, where he played for coach Joe Paterno's Penn State Nittany Lions football team from 2006 to 2008.  He redshirted during the 2006 season. He had 12 tackles, with 4.5 tackles for losses, one forced fumble and one pass breakup in 2007. He was fourth on the team with four sacks and was named to the Sporting News Freshman All-Big Ten team.

Maybin had a breakout season in 2008. He was selected as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week following a six-tackle, two-sack performance in Penn State's 48–7 defeat of Wisconsin, in which he also forced two key fumbles. He was named a Mid-season All-American by Sports Illustrated, College Football News and CBS Sports. At the end of the season, he was named a consensus All-American and a consensus first-team All-Big Ten selection.

Maybin was on the 2008 Walter Camp Award watchlist and was one of three finalists for the 2008 Ted Hendricks and Chuck Bednarik awards, awarded annually to collegiate football's top defensive end and defensive players, respectively. He was named the Pigskin Club of Washington, D.C. National Defensive Player of the Year.

Professional career

2009 NFL Draft
On January 9, 2009, Maybin indicated he would be going pro and make himself available for the 2009 NFL Draft. He was projected as a late first round pick. Maybin trained for the NFL Scouting Combine at Power Train Sports Performance in Millersville, Pennsylvania.

Buffalo Bills
On August 21, 2009, Maybin agreed to a five-year deal with the Buffalo Bills after being drafted with the 11th pick in the first round. He finished the season with 18 tackles and zero sacks while playing in all 16 regular season games during his 2009 rookie year.

In his second season, through six games he played on only 66 downs with five tackles and zero sacks. He was deactivated as a healthy-scratch for the team's sixth game at Baltimore.

On August 15, 2011, Maybin was waived by the Bills.

New York Jets
The New York Jets signed Maybin to a one-year contract for the league minimum on August 17, 2011. He was waived on September 4, 2011. Maybin was re-signed by the Jets on September 28, 2011.

In his first regular season game with the Jets, Maybin recorded his first career sack, a strip-sack, against Joe Flacco on October 2, 2011. Maybin recorded his second career sack, another strip sack, on October 17 against Matt Moore. He recorded another sack for the second consecutive week on October 23 against Philip Rivers. Maybin recorded the first two-sack game of his career against the Bills, on November 27, 2011. On December 4, 2011, against the Washington Redskins, Maybin sacked Rex Grossman and forced a fumble that was recovered by Calvin Pace. After that the Jets went on to win the game 34–19. Maybin's ability to get to the quarterback made it difficult for some offensive linemen to contain him, resulting in his team-leading 6 sacks in 2011.

Maybin was released by the Jets on November 13, 2012. Maybin, in limited playing time, recorded one tackle and no sacks and was credited with nine quarterback hits through ten games.

Cincinnati Bengals
On January 25, 2013, Maybin was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals to a Reserve/Future contract. On August 18, 2013, he was released by the Bengals.

NFL statistics

Toronto Argonauts
On October 27, 2013, the Toronto Argonauts announced that they had signed Maybin.  He was added to their practice roster. Maybin played in one game against the Montreal Alouettes on November 1, 2013, recording 2 defensive tackles.

On May 13, 2014, Maybin announced his retirement.

Artistic career
Prior to college Maybin received college level courses from Maryland Institute College of Art, and then majored in integrative arts at Penn State. His first commission as an artist was for the State of Maryland when Maybin was eleven years old. Maybin, one of four children, was one of the first people to attend college in his family. He then continued his art career throughout his NFL tenure. During his career his paintings were a major part of the Hard Knocks reality television show when it covered the Bengals. During this time, Maybin claims to have used the pressure and stress of performing in professional football to influence his artistic output.

Maybin focused on his art full-time after his NFL career, with paintings sold for as much as $20,000 as of 2013, and prints of his original sold online. He has also set about specific artistic projects. For example, following an incident he had with a police officer racial profiling him in Baltimore following in the first two weeks of the death of Freddie Gray, Maybin began a photography project in the surrounding area and painted images of the neighborhood as it reacted to the social trauma.

Maybin's studio is based in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also the founder of "Project Mayhem", taking his college football nickname, which performs non-profit artistic activities in the public. The foundation supports the artwork of students in the Baltimore area. In 2017 Maybin released the book Art Activism. In describing the book, The Undefeated wrote, "The work is both an ode to Maybin's hometown and a lament of the city's many challenges. He uses his paintings, photography, poetry and prose to convey both the pride and pain of Baltimore."

Personal life
Maybin was born to Constance and Michael Maybin in Baltimore. He was diagnosed with borderline attention deficit disorder when he was young. His parents sought out alternatives to drug treatment which included sketching, sculpting, wrestling, baseball and football, which he began play at the Pee-Wee level at the age of 5. When Maybin was 6, his mother died after going into cardiac arrest during child birth. His father later remarried to an English missionary, Violette Grant, whom Maybin calls his mother. He attended Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City.

While at Penn State, Maybin spoke frequently by phone with former Nittany Lion linebacker LaVar Arrington. The two first met during Arrington's stint with the Washington Redskins, when Maybin was playing at nearby Mount Hebron High School. Arrington has joked about knowing Maybin "before he had muscles." Arrington now serves as Maybin's manager.

In 2009, Maybin founded Project Mayhem, a charitable organization established to "provide aid, both personal and economic, to help underprivileged and at risk youth excel beyond their current conditions."

Maybin's cousin Cameron Maybin plays in Major League Baseball.

Maybin was roommates with linebacker NaVorro Bowman while at Penn State. He pursued a double major in communications and integrative arts. Maybin became a member of the Delta Theta chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity in April 2008.

References

External links
Toronto Argonauts bio
New York Jets bio
Buffalo Bills bio

1988 births
Living people
People from Ellicott City, Maryland
Sportspeople from Howard County, Maryland
Players of American football from Maryland
All-American college football players
American football defensive ends
American football linebackers
Canadian football defensive linemen
American players of Canadian football
Penn State Nittany Lions football players
Buffalo Bills players
New York Jets players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Toronto Argonauts players
Educators from Maryland


Mohammad Ja'far Kalani (born 1 May 1928) was the Iranian record holder in the small rifle 50m prone shooting category, with a record of 591 (out of a maximum of 600).

Shooting career
He started shooting at the age of 33, when most sportsmen in this field retire. He was a member of the Iranian shooting team at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and in 1967, he matched the Asian record in 50 m prone category that was set in the Bangkok Asian Olympics with a score of 585. He was the Iranian record holder for 11 years.

Later life
He spent most of his career working for sports-related organisations. As well as working in Tarbiate Badani physical education organization, he was the Head of the accounting department for football, weightlifting, and wrestling federations in Iran. He was the organiser of the 1974 Munich Olympics readiness camp and many other camps for different sports. After retiring in 1975, he continued to work part-time with football, shooting and horse riding federations.

References

1928 births
Living people
Iranian male sport shooters
ISSF rifle shooters
Shooters at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic shooters for Iran
Shooters at the 1974 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Iran
20th-century Iranian people
Place of birth missing (living people)


"What's So Different?" is a song by American R&B singer Ginuwine. It was co-written and produced by Timbaland for his second album 100% Ginuwine (1999). The song is built around a sample of "Valleri" (1968) by American band The Monkees. Due to the inclusion of the sample, Thomas Boyce and Bobby Hart are also credited as songwriters. Released as the album's second single, "What's So Different?" reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart and entered the top twenty in New Zealand. It the United States, the song peaked at number three on the Rhythmic chart, also reaching number 21 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Lyrical content and music video
"What's So Different" lyrically describes the narrator questioning his lover who is cheating on her boyfriend to be with him. He claims that if she is cheating on another man to be with him, she may also cheat on him to be with someone else. The music video was directed by Francis Lawrence. "What's So Different" samples the Monkees' 1968 hit "Valleri".

Track listing

Notes
 denotes additional producer
Sample credits
"What's So Different?" contains an interpolation of "Valleri" (1968) as performed by The Monkees.

Credits and personnel
Credits lifted from the liner notes of 100% Ginuwine.

Thomas Boyce – writer (sample)
Bobby Hart – writer (sample)
Ginuwine – vocals, writer
Timbaland – producer, writer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

1999 singles
Ginuwine songs
Music videos directed by Francis Lawrence
Song recordings produced by Timbaland
Songs written by Bobby Hart
Songs written by Tommy Boyce
Songs written by Ginuwine
Songs written by Timbaland
550 Music singles
Epic Records singles
1999 songs


A self-locating datum marker buoy (SLDMB) is a drifting surface buoy designed to measure surface ocean currents.  The design is based on those of the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment (CODE) and Davis-style oceanographic surface drifters – National Science Foundation (NSF) funded experiments exploring ocean surface currents.  The SLDMB was designed for deployment by United States Coast Guard (USCG) vessels in search and rescue (SAR) missions, and is equipped with a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) sensor that, upon deployment in fresh- or saltwater, transmits its location periodically to the USCG to aid in SAR missions.  Additionally, SLDMB are deployed in oceanographic research in order to study surface currents of the ocean.  This design has also been utilized by Nomis Connectivity for secure ocean-based communications.

Design

The SLDMB is based on the Davis-style drifter design, which attempts to minimize the effects of wind and surface waves. This is accomplished by reducing the area above the ocean surface to small floats and an antenna.  Below the surface is a series of drogue vanes to 70 cm. (less than the 1 m Davis-style buoy) in depth, which catch the ocean current, along with electronic equipment that deploys the vanes and antenna, receives the GPS signal and transmits the location to the USCG.

SLDMB construction varies by manufacturer, but those used by the USCG consists of four orthogonal drag vanes 0.5m wide and 0.7m high of nylon fabric.  These are supported by PVC arms at top and bottom, which extend from a cylindrical hull that contains the electronic equipment.  Small floats are attached to the end of each upper arm in order to maintain buoyancy, and a small antenna projects above the SLDMB.

Deployment of the SLDMB may be accomplished by aircraft (both fixed-wing and rotary) or by ship.  SLDMB deployed by aircraft are encased in a tube and attached to a parachute which decreases the impact produced upon hitting the water but without so much drag that the buoy can drift off-course according to USCG SAR guidelines.  Upon reaching the ocean surface, the outer casing and parachute break away from the SLDMB, and the spring-loaded antenna deploys. Electronics consist of a GPS receiver, electronic transmitter and sufficient batteries to provide continuous data collection for a period of two weeks to one month.

Specifications

The METOCEAN iSLDMB which received the Canadian Coast Guard Award in 2012 has the following dimensions and equipment:

Search-and-rescue application

Because it has a small above-water surface and high underwater surface area, the effect of surface winds and waves has a negligible effect, instead moving with the flow of the upper 1m of the water column.  The USCG has found that this instrument behaves as a 'zero-leeway' object, moving with the top meter of the water column, with no additional motion due to the direct effect of the wind on the SLDMB's exposed areas.  The USCG maintains several hundred SLDMBs for deployment and responds to more than 5,000 SAR cases each year.   In the year 2006, more than 400 SLDMBs were deployed in SAR applications, with an average lifetime of 22 days.
The USCG may release SLDMBs at their discretion to aid in search efforts.  In remote areas, SLDMBs are deployed via C-130 aircraft or helicopters.  The GPS unit on each SLDMB calculates its position every 30 minutes, and transmits the data via the ARGOS data collection system to USCG Operational Support Center (OSC).  During high traffic periods, the USCG may pre-deploy units in order to have existing data in areas where SAR operations are more likely, reducing the time required to collect ocean current data during the SAR process.
SLDMB may be released as single units or as a group, depending on the situation required.  In cases where the last known position is known and the time lag to SLDMB deployment are minimal, only a single unit may be necessary.  However, if a sufficient time lag exists, or the last known position is not available, multiple SLDMBs should be used.  An example of this second case would be a downed fishing vessel, in which only the approximate area of the vessel is known.

See also
 GPS buoy

References

Buoyage


Onegin most often refers to Alexander Pushkin's 1833 verse novel Eugene Onegin. Works based on Pushkin's poem titled "Onegin" include:
 Onegin (film), a 1999 British-American film, derived from the novel
 Onegin (Cranko), a ballet created by John Cranko, derived from the novel

People with the surname
Sigrid Onégin (1889-1943) opera singer

See also
 Eugene Onegin (disambiguation)


The Memorandum by Her Majesty's Government on the Report of the Constitution Committee, or the Hattersley Memorandum for short (by Roy Hattersley, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom), dated 26 June 1976, was the answer of the Labour British Government to proposed constitutional changes in Gibraltar ruling out the possibility of integration of Gibraltar with the United Kingdom.

In September 1975, Roy Hattersley (a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) had visited Gibraltar and made it clear that the integration with the United Kingdom was not an option for Gibraltar.
However, during early 1976, a Gibraltarian inter-party Constitution Committee began to work on a proposal of constitutional changes that involved a closer integration of Gibraltar with the United Kingdom, including responsibility for its affairs being transferred to the Home Office. A delegation of the Constitution Committee visited London in June 1976, but were unable to convince the United Kingdom Government which, as response, issued a memorandum dated 26 June 1976 rejecting the proposals on the grounds of "avoid innovations which might result in prolongation of the frontier restrictions imposed by Spain". The memorandum ruled out the option of integration of Gibraltar with the United Kingdom.

Apart for removing such an option from the constitutional and political development of Gibraltar, it effectively disbanded the Integration with Britain Party, which had been in office from 1969 to 1972, and was the main supporter of the integration of Gibraltar into the United Kingdom.

References

History of Gibraltar
1976 in Gibraltar


Karl Humenberger (25 October 1906 – 28 December 1989) was an Austrian association football player and manager, the brother of fellow player Ferdinand Humenberger.

Club career
Born in Vienna, Humenberger played in Austria for Floridsdorfer AC and Admira Vienna, in Switzerland for FC Zürich, and in France for RC Strasbourg and AS Saint-Étienne.

International career
Humenberger earned one cap for the Austrian national side in 1928.

Coaching career
Humenberger managed in a number of European countries, including Austria (with SC Ortmann and Austria Salzburg), the Netherlands (with Ajax), and in Belgium (with Royal Antwerp). With Ajax he won the championship in the first professional season (1956–57).

Personal life
Karl was born in Vienna, the son of Auguste Stroh and Ferdinand Humenberger. He was married to Emilie Janata.

References

1906 births
1989 deaths
Footballers from Vienna
Men's association football midfielders
Austria men's international footballers
Austrian men's footballers
Austrian football managers
Austrian expatriate football managers
RC Strasbourg Alsace players
AS Saint-Étienne players
FC Zürich players
Ligue 1 players
AFC Ajax managers
FC Dordrecht managers
Royal Antwerp F.C. managers
FC Red Bull Salzburg managers
Eredivisie managers
Austrian expatriate men's footballers
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland


Zabeel Investments is the personal investment vehicle of Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and chairman of the Dubai executive Council.

Founded in February 2006, Zabeel Investments is a Dubai-based diversified investment company focused on the areas of commercial real estate development and management, private equity and asset management across a wide range of economic sectors in the UAE.

From its base at Dubai International Financial Centre, Zabeel Investments built up an AED 12.4 billion portfolio in its first year, incorporating property development, construction, hospitality, media, finance and education.

In the first quarter of 2007, Zabeel Investments made significant headway into the financial sector, investing in Abraaj Capital, the region's leading private equity firm. The company as also invested in DICAM's US$2 billion Global Strategic Equities Fund. DICAM is the asset management subsidiary of Dubai International Capital.

Zabeel Investments as also developed Tiara Residence an AED 2.1 billion residential and hospitality resort located on Palm Jumeirah. Tiara Residence was the first real estate project of Zabeel Investments and it was inaugurated in 2009.

In addition, Zabeel Investments has entered into a joint venture in 2006 with United Holdings to build the AED 1.75 billion Tiara United Towers, a landmark commercial and leisure project on Sheikh Zayed Road in the neigbohood of Business Bay. The visually striking twin towers will represent a design first for the region. The project was delayed and was still not fully completed in 2011. Their completion is scheduled for 2020.

Zabeel investments acquired Electric Orange in 2006, a visual communications agency which has since been rebranded as Zed Communications.

On 27 December 2010 Jumeirah Group, the Dubai-based luxury hospitality company and subsidiary of Dubai Holding, was appointed by Zabeel Properties, a subsidiary of Zabeel Investments LLC to manage Jumeirah Zabeel Saray. The new 5-star hotel, located on the west crescent of Palm Jumeirah was open in January 2011.

Zabeel also temporarily held stakes in the Japanese conglomerate Sony and a participation of 3,16% in the aircraft manufacturer Airbus which have since been sold.

Heavily indebted and in ordres to restructure its debts (AED 6 billions or $1.6 billions), the company was dissolved on July 7, 2013 and its assets were incorporated into the Dubai Real Estate Corporation a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Dubai, the Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Emirate of Dubai.

External links
 www.zabeelinvestments.com

References

Financial services companies established in 2006
Companies based in Dubai
Investment companies of the United Arab Emirates


The Welsh Harlequin is a breed of domestic duck originating in Wales. In 1949, in Criccieth, Group Captain Leslie Bonnet discovered a colour mutation among his flock of Khaki Campbells and began selective breeding for the trait. By 1968, hatching eggs were exported to the United States, followed by the importation of live birds in 1981.

Today, the Welsh Harlequin is a light-weight duck breed known for its vivid plumage and egg laying ability. Over the years the colour and conformation of the breed has changed, indicating that likely new blood of another breed has been introduced. Welsh Harlequins weigh 4.5 to 5.5 pounds (2-2.5 kilos). Females have a black bill and brown legs and feet, and their plumage is similar to a mallard but heavily frosted with white. They also lack the eye stripes of mallard females. Drakes are also similar to a heavily frosted Mallard with a yellow/green bill and orange legs and feet. There is also a color variation known as "golden", popular in the UK, which replaces the black feather pigments with a light golden brown color. Welsh Harlequins have a unique, natural sex-linked characteristic. As day olds, sex can be determined based on bill colour with over 90% accuracy. Young drakes will have darker bills while female with have lighter with a dark spot at the tip of the bill.

The birds produce a lean carcass and are active foragers, though they are sometimes more vulnerable to predators such as birds of prey due to their light colouration. The egg laying ability is highly valued as the production exhibited by some ducks rivals that of hens. The breed is prone to broodiness and a pair can easily produce young without human interference. They have become a popular backyard pet in recent years due to the bird's calm demeanor and high egg production.

The Welsh Harlequin was admitted to the American Poultry Association's Standard of Perfection in 2001. As of 2016 the Welsh Harlequin in North America has jumped from critical to watched by the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy.

See also
 List of duck breeds

References

Duck breeds
Conservation Priority Breeds of the Livestock Conservancy
Duck breeds originating in the United Kingdom
1949 introductions
Animal breeds on the RBST Watchlist


The Brazilian records in swimming are the fastest ever performances of swimmers from Brazil, which are recognised and ratified by Brazil's national swimming federation: Confederação Brasileira de Desportos Aquáticos (CBDA).

All records were set in finals unless noted otherwise.

The stroke names in Portuguese are:
freestyle = livre
backstroke = costas
breaststroke = peito
butterfly = borboleta
medley = medley

Long Course (50 m)

Men

Women

Mixed relay

Short Course (25 m)

Men

Women

Mixed relay

References

External links
 CBDA web site
 Brazilian Swimming Records

Brazilian
Records
Swimming records
swimming


St. Mary's Bridge may refer to:
McPhee Bridge over the St. Mary's River in Cranbrook, British Columbia
Hi Carpenter Memorial Bridge over the Ohio River connecting Newport, Ohio and St. Marys, West Virginia


Lutellus Joseph Boone (May 6, 1890 – July 29, 1982) was an American professional baseball infielder.

He played in Major League Baseball from 1913 to 1918 for the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates. He worked after his baseball career ended as a pattern maker for the Mesta Machine Company in Homestead, Pennsylvania a suburb of Pittsburgh. From 1960 to 1962, Boone was the president of the Pittsburgh Professional Baseball Association.

External links

 Interview with Lute Boone conducted by Eugene Murdock, May 27, 1974, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1 hour 3 minutes) in three parts: Part 1 of 3, Part 2 of 3, Part 3 of 3
Lute Boone obituary

1890 births
1982 deaths
Major League Baseball second basemen
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
New York Yankees players
Pittsburgh Pirates players
Minor league baseball managers
Steubenville-Follansbee Stubs players
Dallas Giants players
Richmond Climbers players
Toledo Iron Men players
St. Paul Saints (AA) players
Kansas City Blues (baseball) players
Louisville Colonels (minor league) players
Columbus Senators players
Des Moines Demons players
Crookston Pirates players


Graeme Francis Archer is a former English first-class cricketer. A middle order batsman, he played 100 first-class matches for Nottinghamshire from 1992 to 1999.  He was awarded his Nottinghamshire cap in 1995.  He later played Minor Counties Championship cricket for Staffordshire and Cheshire and club cricket in the Derbyshire Premier Cricket League.

He made a bright start to his career, averaging 47.5 in seven matches in his debut season in 1992, but found runs harder to come by in 1993.  He established himself as a regular in 1994 and excelled in 1995, passing 1,000 runs for the first time in scoring 1,171 at 40.37.  He built on this with 918 at 43.71 the following year, but despite having his best one day season in 1997, scoring 489 runs at 44.45 with two centuries, his performances fell away and after three years of averaging under thirty in the County Championship he was released.  He scored ten first-class hundreds in all, with a best of 168 against Glamorgan, one of three centuries he recorded against the Welsh team.

References

1970 births
Living people
English cricketers
Nottinghamshire cricketers
Staffordshire cricketers
Sportspeople from Carlisle, Cumbria
Cricketers from Cumbria
Cheshire cricketers


The Piromalli 'ndrina is one of the most powerful clans of the 'Ndrangheta, a criminal and mafia-type organisation in Calabria, Italy. The 'ndrina is based in Gioia Tauro on the Tyrrhenian coast. The Piromalli's are allied with their relatives of the Molè family, also from Gioia Tauro. Often they are referred to as the Piromalli-Molè clan. The Piromalli clan contains more than 200 members.

Rise to prominence
The Piromalli-Molé clan was involved in a bloody feud with the Ventre-Carlino clan in the 1950s, in which Antonino Piromalli, a brother of Girolamo Mommo Piromalli, was killed in 1956. The clan rose to prominence under the rule of the brothers Mommo Piromalli and Giuseppe "Peppe" Piromalli. Together with Antonio Macrì from Siderno on the Ionic coast and Domenico Mico Tripodo, the boss of the city of Reggio Calabria, the elder Piromalli brother Mommo formed a sort of triumvirate since the beginning of the 1960s until the outbreak of the First 'Ndrangheta war in the mid-1970s. Their senior position was recognized by all other family chiefs and their advice was in most cases followed without protest.

When Girolamo Piromalli died of natural causes in 1979, his brother succeeded him as head of the clan. Since the mid-1970s, according to several pentiti, members of the Piromalli family and the Nirta family from San Luca rotated among themselves the position of capo crimine. In Gioia Tauro, blood relatives of the Piromalli long represented the interest of the clan in the city council. Peppe Piromalli was captured on February 24, 1984. At age 83, he died on February 19, 2005, and his nephew Giuseppe Piromalli succeeded him.

Giuseppe was a fugitive since 1993 and included in the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy until his capture in March 1999. While in the strict Article 41-bis prison regime he nevertheless keeps on conducting his business and direct the clan outside. The Piromalli clan tried to relax the strict regime for their boss. One of the plots was to deliver votes to Berlusconi’s People of Freedom (Il Popolo della Libertà, PdL) coalition during the election campaign in 2008 in return for a relaxation of Piromalli’s prison stature. Their go-between Aldo Micciché, a businessman who moved to Venezuela after being convicted of fraudulent bankruptcy in Italy, planned to fill in 50,000 blank ballot slips for Italian voters in Latin America obtained from corrupt officials. Micciché asked two leading members of the Piromalli clan to visit Marcello Dell'Utri – Berlusconi's right-hand man – at his Milan office.

Entrepreneurial mafia
The Piromallis redirected the 'Ndrangheta clan from its rural base to an entrepreneurial criminal organisation assuming dominance over several public works in the Gioia Tauro area, particularly in the construction and operation of the new container seaport. When in 1974 businesses involved in the expansion of the port and steelworks in Gioia Tauro offered a three per cent kickback to be left in peace the three leading 'Ndrangheta families at the time, Antonio Macrì, the Piromalli brothers and the De Stefano brothers rejected the offer and wanted to be sub-contracted on work carried in order to control the projects.

The subcontracts for the steelwork in Gioia Tauro, whose total value reached the astronomic amount of US$3.8 billion were largely distributed on the basis of territorial criteria. More than half the contracts were granted to the Piromalli family, which dominated the area where the steelwork was supposed to be built. The managers of the consortium responsible for the completion of the port and the steelworks made Gioacchino Piromalli an official associate – the company subsequently did not suffer from extortion or inflicted damage of any kind in an area where the previous 154 explosive attacks were committed.

The 'Ndrangheta exploited the construction of the steelworks until the project was abandoned when the government decided there was no economic base for it. In 1977 disagreements about business interests emerged between Piromalli and the De Stefano clan. A hit squad headed by Peppe Piromalli killed the clan's boss Giorgio De Stefano. Some 1,000 people were killed in clan wars over the construction contracts.

Controlling the Gioia Tauro port

The Piromalli clan managed to condition the management of the new container terminal in the port of Gioia Tauro. Established in the mid-1990s, it became the largest terminal in the Mediterranean, moving over 2 million containers in 1998. Since 1994, when Contship Italia rented the port area to start transhipment activity and the Medcenter Container Terminal was set up thanks to 138 billion lire (about US$86 million) in state financing, the Piromalli’s obliged the Medcenter company, through its vice president Walter Lugli, and the Contship company, through its president Enrico Ravano, to pay a kickback of US$1.50 for each transhipped container, a sum which corresponded to about half the net profits earned by the two companies.

Additionally, the Piromalli’s desired contracts, subcontracts, and jobs in the two firms that run the port, as well as from other companies in the surrounding area. Despite subscribing to an anti corruption pact with the government, the managers of both Contship and Medcenter gave in to the demands. The arrest warrant issued in January 1999 against members of the Piromalli group stated that the two companies contracted firms indicated by the clan (and in some cases belonging to it) in the port-servicing activities and hired people recommended by the Piromalli clan, reinforcing the clan’s power in the Gioia Tauro plain.”

In February 2008 the parliamentary Antimafia Commission concluded that the ‘Ndrangheta “controls or influences a large part of the economic activity around the port and uses the facility as a base for illegal trafficking.” In its report it said that “the entire gamma of internal or sub-contracted activities is mafia-influenced, from the management of distribution and forwarding to customs control and container storage.”  The extortion of Ravano and Contship, was part of a project that “did not involve simply this security tax, which grew with the port, but also control of activities tied to the port, the hiring of workers, and relations with port unions and local institutions,” the report added. “It effectively eliminated legitimate competition from companies not influenced or controlled by the mafia in providing goods and services, performing construction work and hiring personnel. And it threw a shadow over the behaviour of local government and other public bodies.”

Alliance with Molè 'ndrina
The Piromalli’s were allied with their relatives of the Molè family, also from Gioia Tauro. Often they are referred to as the Piromalli-Molè clan. "The Molè family is the military arm of the Piromalli clan," according to Francesco Forgione, chairman of Italian parliament's Antimafia Commission. Control of the Gioia Tauro container hub has allowed the Piromalli clan to dominate not only the illegal drug trade but also arms and other contraband smuggling. Within the Piromalli organization the Molè clan is responsible for drug trafficking and handles relations with 'Ndrangheta branches in central and northern Italy as well as with Colombian drug cartels.

A turf war between the two clans surfaced in February 2008 when Rocco Molè was gunned down near Gioia Tauro. According to the Direzione Distrettuale Antimafia (DDA) of Reggio Calabria, after the demise of Girolamo and Peppe Piromalli, their successors have been unable to maintain the necessary balance among the two clans. Background of the emerging conflict seems to be the future investments of hundreds of millions of euros in the Gioia Tauro port and the possibilities to take cuts of the investments.

Crackdown
In July 2008, police cracked down on the stranglehold of the 'Ndrangheta on the port in an operation dubbed "One Hundred Years of History" which netted 18 criminals and businessmen in Calabria, Rome and Milan. The operation also intended to end the start of a possibly bloody turf war between the Piromallis and their former military arm, the Molè family.

On October 13, 2008, one of the clan bosses, Gioacchino Piromalli, was arrested along with his nephew, also named Gioacchino Piromalli, who is a lawyer, as well as Gioia Tauro's former mayor and deputy mayor. Both had been forced to step down in April 2008 when the city council was dissolved on suspicion of Mafia infiltration. The mayors were accused of employing the younger Piromalli. Police believe the legal work was a front to enable the Piromallis to regain a slice of the business generated by Gioia Tauro, one of the largest container ports in Europe.

Notes

References
Arlacchi, Pino (1988). Mafia Business. The Mafia Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press
 Gratteri, Nicola & Antonio Nicaso (2006). Fratelli di Sangue, Cosenza: Luigi Pellegrini Editore
 Guarino, Mario (2004). Poteri segreti e criminalità. L'intreccio inconfessabile tra 'ndrangheta, massoneri a apparati dello stato, Bari: Edizioni Dedalo
Paoli, Letizia (2003). Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style, New York: Oxford University Press  (Review by Klaus Von Lampe) (Review by Alexandra V. Orlova)
Spotts, Frederic & Theodor Wieser (1986), Italy, a Difficult Democracy: A Survey of Italian Politics, Cambridge University Press,

1950s establishments in Italy
'Ndrine


The Insensitive Princess (French: ) is a 1983 French animated television series written and directed by Michel Ocelot. The animation is a combination of cel and cutout animation (with the opening credits in silhouette animation) while the elaborate architectural style of the production design has been said to be reminiscent, through visual association, of Charles Perrault and Jean de La Fontaine's fairy tales; like Ocelot's Les Trois Inventeurs before it and several episodes of the later Ciné si it takes place in a literary fairy-tale fantasy setting, specifically a palatial theater, which mixes the ornate styles of decoration and dress of the upper classes of both the time of the Ancien Régime and the Belle Époque and includes such fanciful technology as a baroque submarine, elements of outright fantasy such as dragons and such anachronisms as a reference to motorcycles.

It won first prize in its category at the 3rd Bourg-en-Bresse Animation Festival for Youth and the audience prize at the 6th Odense Film Festival.

Plot

The king's daughter, nicknamed the insensitive princess, is in need of a suitor. It has been decided that the prince who will make her show emotion will win her hand in marriage. Multiple princes attempt the feat of entertaining the princess, combining elaborate acts of artistry, prowess and more. However, at the end of each episode, the princess remains unfazed, appearing confused, to the dismay of the princes. At last, when all seems lost, a schoolboy prince presents himself in the palace theater with a large heart, surprising the princess. The schoolboy had correctly predicted that the princess was short-sighted. He suits her with a pair of glasses, allowing her to witness the acts and theatricals she had previously been unable to distinguish, and is now entertained. The schoolboy prince wins the princess over and everyone celebrates.

Episodes
  (The Tamer Prince)
  (The Gardener Prince)
  (The Transforming Prince)
  (The Meteorologist Prince)
  (The Dowser Prince)
  (The Flying Prince)
  (The Submarine Prince)
  (The Painter Prince)
  (The Decorator Prince)
  (The Magician Prince)
  (The Pretending Prince)
  (The Pyrotechnist Prince)
  (The Schoolboy Prince)

International broadcasts

References

External links
 Extract from the first episode
 Translation of the theme song

French children's animated fantasy television series
1983 French television series debuts
Steampunk television series
Films directed by Michel Ocelot
1980s French animated television series
Belle Époque