The Cafe is a talk show aimed at young people in Ireland. The show debuted in 2004. It was broadcast on RTÉ Two each Friday evening at 19:00, having switched from its previous location in the Thursday scheduling from 7 November 2008.

It was presented by Aidan Power, although Laura Woods and Liam McCormack were his previous co-presenters. The waitress was Avril Kelly, who served drinks to the audience and guests and acts as the announcer of what would occur following the commercial break.opening .

Chats were conducted with two or three guests, there were comic inserts and a musical performance rounded off the show (although sometimes a musical performance may have started the show a well). Past guests included Jason Byrne and Donna and Joseph McCaul, PJ Gallagher and Tom McGurk, Glen Wallace and Jennifer Metcalfe, Caroline Morahan, Amanda Byram, Michelle Heaton, Nicola McLean, Daithí Ó Sé, The Kinetiks, The Coronas, Rosanna Davision, Jacob Byrne, Oliver Callan (aka Gay Byrne) and Pat Kenny, wrestlers Scotty 2 Hotty and Joe Legend, The Saw Doctors, panellist John Bishop and Skins actors Mike Bailey, Daniel Kaluuya and Larissa Wilson.

The Cafe completed transmission of its fifth season on 27 March 2009. A sixth season was revealed on 14 August 2009 by Aidan Power to be on the way. The last episode was broadcast on 2 April 2010 due to its axing by RTÉ to make way for new programming.

Season one

Season two
Guests in season two included Keith Duffy, Adam Woodyatt, Tony Fenton, Nicholas Hoult, Marty Whelan, Ronnie Drew, Larry Gogan and Liz Bonnin. Music was provided by Turn, Ham Sandwich, Gemma Hayes, Luan Parle, The Answer, Katie Melua and Damien Dempsey.

Exam specials

1. Byrne was hired as a waiter for these five episodes. He served coffee to The Cafe'''s guests.

Season three
Season three included twenty-seven editions of The Cafe, thirteen of which were in 2006 and fourteen of which were in 2007. Among those to provide music were Director, Messiah J & The Expert, The Frank and Walters, Fionn Regan, The Blizzards, Boss Volenti, The Coronas, Vyvienne Long, Luan Parle, Delorentos, Iain Archer and Royseven

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| 28 September 2006 || Spiral, Bernard O'Shea, Sinéad Beirne || Spiral || "So Sexy" || Details
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| 5 October 2006 || Oliver Callan, Mickey Harte, Bubble Hits (James Hyland and Lee Walsh) || Mickey Harte || "Can't Let Go" || Details
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| 12 October 2006 || Mr. Ireland (Simon Hales), Rasher || In-Flight Safety || "Surround" || Details
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| 19 October 2006 || Brent Pope, Bernard O'Shea, Mark Pollock || Director || "Come with a Friend" || Details
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| 26 October 2006 || Bronagh Gallagher, Oliver Callan, Irish Ghostbusters || Nylon || "Closer" || Details
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| 2 November 2006 || Oliver Callan, Jimmy Magee, Jack Wise || Superjimenez || "Helicopters" || Details
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| 9 November 2006 || Oliver Callan, Joe Duffy, Tadhg Kennelly || Messiah J & The Expert || "Something Outta Nothing" || Details
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| 16 November 2006 || Fitzy, Karl Spain, Oliver Callan, GP Taylor || The Frank and Walters || "Miles and Miles" || Details
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| 23 November 2006 || TJ and TJ, Fair City's Barry, Jo and Heather (Patrick David Nolan, Rachel Sarah Murphy and Una Kavanagh), Kieran Donaghy and Aidan O'Mahony || Republic of Loose || "The Idiots" || Details
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| 30 November 2006 || Jason Byrne, Robin Cousins || Neosupervital || "Now That I Found It" || Details
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| 7 December 2006 || Gary Cooke, Oliver Callan, Bryan Dobson || Fionn Regan || "Put a Penny in the Slot" || Details
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| 14 (17?) December 2006 || Maeve Higgins, Jack Wise, PJ Gallagher || The Charlatans and Jake Stevens || "Blackened Blue Eyes" and"Merry Christmas Jakey Boy" || Details
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| 21 December 2006 || Fran Cosgrave, Oliver Callan, Keith Barry || The Blizzards || "Fantasy" || Details
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| 1 January 2007 || Oliver Callan as Joe Duffy in an end of year Top 10 review ||  ||  || Details
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| 18 January 2007 || Ryan Tubridy, Oliver Callan, Dave Coffey || David Kitt || "One Clear Way" || Details
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| 25 January 2007 || Bill O'Herlihy, Oliver Callan, Ben Ramazani || Mista.BNG and Boss Volenti || "Stronger Than Before"and "The Gun" || Details
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| 1 February 2007 || Briain Gleeson and Charlene Gleeson and Tara Leinston (Trouble in Paradise), Oliver Callan, Eamon Horan and Brendan Fanning || The Coronas || "Decision Time" || Details
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| 8 February 2007 || Derval O'Rourke, Oliver Callan, Blind Date || Vyvienne Long || "She Wants to Move" || Details
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| 15 February 2007 || Blind Date Catch Up, Dáithí Ó Sé, TJ and TJ, Monica Loughman || Luan Parle || "Make It on My Own" || Details
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| 22 February 2007 || Oliver Callan, Keith Duffy and Brian Ormond, TJ and TJ, Paul Howard || My Alamo || "1994" || Details
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| 1 March 2007 || Louis Walsh, Kevin J Ryan, Bernard O'Shea, Manchán Magan || Delorentos || "Basis of Everything" || Details
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| 8 March 2007 || Colm & Jim-Jim, Oliver Callan, Baz/Michael/Mark (How Low Can You Go?) || Iain Archer || "Minus Ten" || Details
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| 15 March 2007 || James Alexandrou, TJ and TJ, Oliver Callan, You're a Star || Royseven || "Crash" || Details
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| 22 March 2007 || Caroline Morahan, TJ and TJ, Raj Khan, Oliver Callan, Gavin McConnon and Emmet O'Brien || The Cooper Temple Clause || "Waiting Game" || Details
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| 29 March 2007 || Lucy Kennedy, Bernard O'Shea, George McMahon, Oliver Callan, Gavin McConnon and Emmet O'Brien || J-90 || "Freak" || Details
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| 12 April 2007 || Ken Doherty, Oliver Callan, Bernard Dunne || Discovery Gospel Choir and The Rags || "I Still Haven't FoundWhat I'm Looking For"and "Monsters & I" || Details
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| 19 April 2007 || Brian McFadden, Oliver Callan, Don Wycherley || Brian McFadden || "Like Only a Woman Can" and "Jones" || Details
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|}The Best of the CafeThroughout June and July 2007, RTÉ broadcast six special editions of The Cafe. These included past interviews and performances.

Season four
For season four, Aidan Power's co-presenter Laura Woods left for pastures new and was replaced by Liam McCormack. On 25 October Ziggy Lichman guest presented instead of Aidan Power, alongside Liam McCormack. The opening sequence also changed to feature past guests such as The Blizzards, Lucy Kennedy and Ken Doherty in black and white. Among those to provide music were Duke Special, Messiah J and the Expert, The Flaws, Declan O'Rourke, Republic of Loose, East 17, Juno Falls, David Geraghty and Seasick Steve.The Cafe SelectThroughout June, July and into August 2008, RTÉ broadcast six special editions of The Cafe. These included past interviews and performances.

Season five
For season five, Aidan Power's co-presenter Liam McCormack left for pastures new and wasn't replaced as Power became the show's sole presenter.  The 7 November episode marked the beginning of Friday broadcasts, this change would remain in effect until the programme's end in 2010. Among those to provide music were Republic of Loose, The Flaws, Fight Like Apes, Ham Sandwich, The Blizzards and The Coronas.

Olympian Kenny Egan produced his silver medal. Economist George Lee was shown predicting doom and gloom sixteen years earlier Pat Kenny featured on the night of The Late Late Toy Show where he encountered the mimicry of Oliver Callan who took on the persona of Kenny and his predecessor Gay Byrne. Ryle Nugent guested on 20 March 2009 to talk about Ireland's attempt to win the 2009 Six Nations Championship Grand Slam. The final episode of the fifth series was broadcast on 27 March 2009, featuring guests Eamon Dunphy and John Bishop, with music from Republic of Loose and a new Louis Walsh girlband.

Season six
Keith Duffy appeared to promote the stage show My First Time''; this was cancelled after the sudden death of fellow Boyzone member Stephen Gately the following day.

Guests on the final episode, aired on 26 March 2010, were Katie Taylor, Daithi O'Se, Kathryn Thomas, Andrew Stanley and Dustin the Turkey, with music from Smash Hits and Beardyman.

References

External links
 The Cafe at RTÉ Television

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2010 Irish television series endings
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A special election was held in Illinois's 5th congressional district in 2009 to fill the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel. On April 7, Democratic nominee Michael Quigley defeated Republican nominee Rosanna Pulido and Green nominee Matt Reichel. Quigley was sworn in on April 21 and served out the congressional term.

Emanuel officially resigned from the House of Representatives, effective January 2, in a letter to his constituents and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Emanuel was named White House Chief of Staff by incoming President-elect Barack Obama.  Emanuel was first elected to Congress from Illinois's 5th congressional district in 2002.  His resignation followed being re-elected to a fourth term.

The governor's office announced that a special primary election would be held on March 3 and special general election would be held on April 7.  State law requires the governor to set a date for a congressional special election within five days of a vacancy being created. State law mandates that a general election must be held within 115 days of the vacancy.  In an effort to cut costs and help save money, the date of the special general election coincided with municipal elections scheduled in Chicago, Cook County, and surrounding metropolitan areas.

There were 24 candidates representing three political parties in the March 3 special primary election. The Democrats had 13 candidates; the Republicans had six candidates; and the Greens had five candidates.

Quigley, a 50-year-old Cook County commissioner, won the Democratic Party's primary with 22% of the vote. He defeated a strong field of Democrats, including state representatives John Fritchey (District 11) and Sara Feigenholtz (District 12), physician Victor Forys, and Chicago City Council alderman Patrick J. O'Connor (40th Ward).

Pulido, a Mexican-American and director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, won the Republican Party's primary with 25% of the vote. She defeated a handful of local businessmen, including Tom Hanson, David Anderson, Gregory Bedell, Daniel S. Kay, and Jon Stewart.

Reichel, a 27-year-old activist and political operative, won the Green Party's primary with 34% of the vote. He defeated four other candidates for the party's nomination. Reichel's margin of victory over fellow Green Party nominee Deb Gordils was extremely small—only 11 votes. Reichel won with 166 compared to Gordils' 155.

Nearly a month after the primaries, the three candidates took part in the April 7 special general election. Democratic Party candidate Michael Quigley defeated Republican Party candidate Rosanna Pulido and Green Party candidate Matt Reichel. Quigley won with 30,561 votes (69.2%); Pulido had 10,662 (24.2%) and Reichel had 2,911 (6.6%).

The election did not receive a great deal of coverage, due to the district's heavy Democratic lean. The Republican Party did not put up a top-tier candidate, acknowledging that they were not even focusing on the race  This is highlighted in the fact that the Republican nominee was the founder of an anti-illegal-immigration group, running in a district that is one-quarter Hispanic. The real fight was for the Democratic nomination, which would almost assure being elected to Congress. In fact, over 12,000 more votes were cast in the Democratic Primary than there were in the general election.

Results

General election

Primary elections

Democratic Party primary

Republican Party primary

Green Party primary

Candidates

Democratic Party candidates
Mike Quigley (campaign website), county commissioner for Cook County
Frank Annunzio (campaign website), great nephew and namesake of longtime Chicago Rep. Frank Annunzio
Paul Bryar (campaign website), physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Cary Capparelli (campaign website), marketing consultant
Jan H. Donatelli (campaign website), former Mission Commander in the United States Navy and former airline pilot.
Sara Feigenholtz (campaign website), State representative
Victor Forys (campaign website), physician
John Fritchey (campaign website), State representative
Thomas Geoghegan (campaign website), labor attorney and author
Carlos Monteagudo (campaign website), public sector psychiatrist and social entrepreneur
Patrick J. O'Connor (campaign website), Chicago alderman
Roger Thompson (campaign website), businessman
Charles Wheelan (campaign website), Senior lecturer at the University of Chicago and author of Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

Republican Party candidates
Rosanna Pulido (campaign website), State Director of the Illinois Minuteman Project
David Anderson (campaign website), chemist and small business owner
Gregory Bedell (campaign website), attorney and lecturer on U.S. constitutional law
Tom Hanson (campaign website), businessman who ran against Emanuel in 2008 and received 49,000 votes
Daniel S. Kay (campaign website), businessman, long time Motorcyclist's Rights Activist
Jon Stewart (campaign website), former professional wrestler, and previous candidate for Illinois's 10th district

Green Party candidates
Matt Reichel (campaign website), activist and journalist (formerly candidate for the Democratic nomination)
Mark Arnold Fredrickson (campaign website), community activist, investigative blogger and financial analyst (2004 Democratic primary candidate)
Deb Leticia Gordils (campaign website), businesswoman, (2003 33rd Ward Chicago aldermanic candidate)
Simon Ribeiro (campaign website), former private tutor

Other candidates
Alan Augustson, social scientist, planning specialist and management consultant left race due to wife's health issues. Will still appear on ballot
Pete Dagher, former Bill Clinton and Barack Obama staffer.
Jay Paul Deratany (campaign website), attorney and former Cook County Board of Review candidate
Deb Mell, State representative
Justin Oberman (campaign website), former Transportation Security Administration director
Eugene Schulter, Chicago alderman
 Joey Vartanian (campaign website), bar owner
Israel Vasquez

References

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Antonio Missaglia (1416/17–1495/96) was an Italian armourer.

Missaglia's last name was a nickname taken by the artist based on where he was born (Missaglia). The original family name was Negroni. Both Antonio and his brother Tommaso created armor by trade, primarily to nobles and knights in Milan. Some of Missaglia's pieces can be seen at the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

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1495 deaths
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Bjørn Flatgård (born September 13, 1949) is a Norwegian businessperson.

He is the deputy chair of Aker Solutions and chair of SalMar.

He was educated with a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and also holds a degree from BI Norwegian Business School. He has been vice president for Hafslund Nycomed and Nycomed, and CEO of Nycomed Pharma. From 1996 to 2007 he was the CEO of Elopak.

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Cooper Elementary School may refer to elementary schools in the following school districts:
W. J. Cooper Elementary School - Gwinnett County Public Schools
Garland Independent School District - Garland, Texas
Johnston County Schools - Clayton, North Carolina
Georgetown Independent School District
Sheboygan Area School District
Bentonville Public Schools - Bella Vista, Arkansas
Spring Independent School District
Hampton City Schools


Paul Kjer is a Danish ophthalmologist who studied a condition in nineteen families that was characterized by infantile optic atrophy along with a dominant inheritance mode.  In 1959, the condition was named Kjer's optic neuropathy in his honor.

Partial bibliography
 Kjer, P. (1959). "Infantile optic atrophy with dominant mode of inheritance; A clinical and genetic study of 19 Danish families". [Tr. from the Danish]. Acta ophthalmologica, 54. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. OCLC 13752952
 Thiselton, Dawn L, Christiane Alexander, Alex Morris, Simon Brooks, Thomas Rosenberg, Hans Eiberg, Birgit Kjer, Poul Kjer, Shomi S Bhattacharya, and Marcela Votruba. 2001. "A Frameshift Mutation in Exon28 of the OPA1 Gene Explains the High Prevalence of Dominant Optic Atrophy in the Danish Population: Evidence for a Founder Effect". Human Genetics. 109, no. 5: 498.

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The Pont de Pierre (French; ), meaning "Stone Bridge", is a Roman bridge in the Italian city of Aosta in the Aosta Valley. The bridge crossed the Buthier about  from the eastern exit of the Roman colony Augusta Praetoria; in later times the torrente changed its course, leaving the ancient bridge today without water.

The single-arch bridge has a span of  and a width of . The arch vault consists of large voussoirs and shows a comparatively flat profile (span to rise ratio 3:1). The facing was built of pudding stone, the spandrels filled with Roman concrete.

The structure is dated to the second half of the reign of Augustus (30 BC–14 AD), who had earlier founded the military colony Augusta Praetoria at an important road junction (24 BC). The Pont de Pierre was of particularly strategic importance, since in Aosta the transalpine routes to Gaul branched off into the Little St Bernard and the Great St Bernard Pass. In southeasterly direction towards the Po Valley, the road led over another segmental arch bridge, the excellently preserved Pont-Saint-Martin Bridge, located at the exit of the Aosta valley.

See also
 Roman bridge
 List of Roman bridges
 Pont d'Aël

References

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External links

 Traianus – Technical investigation of Roman public works

Roman bridges in Italy
Roman segmental arch bridges
Deck arch bridges
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Buildings and structures in Aosta


Heidi Marie Petersen (born 22 March 1958) is a Norwegian businessperson.

She was educated with a Master of Science from the University of Trondheim. She was employed in Kværner Oil & Gas in 1988, moving to Rambøll Oil & Gas as managing director in 2000. She left in 2007, and is now an independent businesswoman.

She is the chair of Sandefjord Lufthavn AS and is a member of the boards of Aker Solutions, Norsk Hydro, Ocean Heavy Lift and Awilco Offshore.

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Living people
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Carter Paterson (CP) was a British road haulage firm, closely associated with the railway industry.

History
It was founded in 1860, formed into a private company (Carter, Paterson & Co., Ltd.) in 1887, and converted into a public company in February 1934.  In October 1933, the Big Four railway companies purchased control of the company in equal shares.  Its head office was at 128 Goswell Road, London EC1.

Ownership passed on nationalisation to the British Transport Commission and CP was subsequently absorbed into British Road Services.

Popular media
The lovelorn batman to Clive Brook’s Major Daviot, Tandy, played by Gus McNaughton, compares their peripatetic lifestyle unfavourably to a career in Carter Paterson, in the 1937 film, Action for Slander.

In Hugh Lofing’s “Dr. Doolittle’s Post Office,”  Mudface the turtle (a witness to Noah’s Ark) is asked to bring the doctor a souvenir of the drowned city of Shalba in the depths of Lake Junganyika. He returns with a huge carved stone window ledge.  Cheapface the sparrow exclaims “ Great Carter Patterson!”

In the 1950 film The 20 Questions Murder Mystery, Mary Rona Anderson says her uncle's name was Carter, her aunt's Paterson, but that doesn't make them Carter Paterson.

In Dad's army episode Sons of the Sea Captain Mainwaring asks Pike to ask Carter Paterson to move his cart as it is in the way of his bren gun target.

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Further reading
Hays Wharf Cartage Company (1947) Transport Saga, 1646 - 1947. London: Hays Wharf Cartage Company (a history of Pickford's Ltd and Carter Paterson & Co.)

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Transport companies based in London
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Transport companies established in 1860
British companies established in 1860


Rollin Augustus "Rod" Daniel III (August 4, 1942 – April 16, 2016) was an American television and film director, active from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. His films include the 1985 Michael J. Fox comedy film Teen Wolf, which was a considerable box office success.

Daniel, the son of a noted surgeon, was expected to follow in his father's footsteps. After returning to his native Tennessee from the Vietnam War, he chose to enter the advertising business, where he directed several commercials before moving to Los Angeles. There, his friendship with television producer Hugh Wilson enabled him to start a career in the television industry as a director and producer for Wilson's sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Daniel continued to work on shows like Magnum, P.I. and Newhart, until he eventually grew restless with television following the failure of a sitcom he had worked on and chose to make the leap into feature films.

Daniel continued to direct throughout the 1980s and 1990s, with his other works including the comedies Like Father Like Son, K-9, The Super, and Beethoven's 2nd. He continued to helm episodes of television as well, directing episodes of shows including Everybody Loves Raymond and Caroline in the City. His final film, Home Alone 4, premiered on television in late 2002, after which he retired from the entertainment industry. Daniel then moved to Tennessee for several years and began refocusing on his passion for photography and music. In later interviews he described his entertainment career in a negative light. Eventually, he moved to Chicago, where he died in April 2016 from complications of Parkinson's disease.

Early life
Daniel was born as Rollin Augustus Daniel III in Nashville, Tennessee on August 4, 1942. His father, Dr. Rollin A. Daniel Jr., was Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery At Vanderbilt University and a founding member of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
Rod Daniel attended high school at Battle Ground Academy in Franklin, Tennessee (near Nashville) and graduated in 1960. He was inducted into the school's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2013. He was a student at Davidson College for two years, but then transferred to Vanderbilt University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1964. Daniel said that although there was an expectation for him to be like his father, who had also attended Vanderbilt, he chose instead to enter the advertising business after returning to Nashville following his service in the Vietnam War as a lieutenant of the United States Army.

Daniel's first job in advertising was at the Nashville firm of Dawson, Daniels, Sullivan, & Dillon, where he began making commercials for one of their clients, department store chain Cain-Sloan. Daniel soon accepted a job opportunity in Atlanta for a broadcast producer, but he eventually ended up cycling through jobs all over the city before eventually settling at production company Jayan Films. Although Daniel professed he was initially only interested in the business side of the company, he soon began directing commercials for it as well. Daniel then went to Chicago in 1976 to work at Topol, a commercial production company. He directed commercials for companies including Hallmark Cards and Procter & Gamble before heading to Los Angeles about one year later.

Career
While in Los Angeles, Daniel began working alongside television producer Hugh Wilson. Wilson had a new show in development, called WKRP in Cincinnati, and invited Daniel to watch the taping of the pilot. Daniel agreed to come, and while watching the taping, he felt that he "just instinctively knew how to do what they were doing so I pursued it aggressively." Daniel saw an opportunity to leave his job in commercials, and told Wilson that he wanted a job on the show if production went well. Wilson obliged, and gave Daniel the associate producer position. Eventually, he moved up to director, and eventually directed 33 episodes over the series' run. Daniel found the show to be "a great training ground in terms of storyline and character. It really spoils you."

After three years at WKRP, Daniel then directed more episodic television, including episodes of shows like Newhart and Magnum, P.I.. He directed several episodes of The Duck Factory, starring Jim Carrey, but the series was unsuccessful, and Daniel decided to switch to films. In a 1985 interview with The Tennessean, Daniel opined that "On television there is some really good writing, but not much. Television is just a machine, a sausage machine. If you really want to do some quality work, you just don't have time." Daniel changed his agent, something he described as "almost an impossible move", and told them he wanted to make a film.

A month after he changed agents, Daniel received the script to Teen Wolf and enjoyed it. He met with Michael J. Fox and "liked him instantly". According to Daniel, he was hired after every other director interviewed by 20th Century Fox simply said the film was about a werewolf, while Daniel said it was about a father and son. Daniel told the Chicago Tribune that "a whole lot of Teen Wolf is who I wish I could have been, who I wanted my father to be more like." Shot over 25 days, Teen Wolf was a box office success upon its early fall release in 1985, grossing $80 million on a $1.4 million budget. Daniel reflected positively on the film, saying to The Tennessean, "I'm so proud of Teen Wolf. It was a chance for me to start over. It really was a well-written script. It makes a little statement. It's a clean, classy little movie."

After Teen Wolfs success, Daniel began searching for his next project. To The Tennessean, he expressed his desire to be selective with his screenplay choices, something television had not allowed him to do. Daniel's next film was the 1987 comedy Like Father Like Son, a film starring Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore that again allowed him to explore father-son themes. The film grossed $34 million at the domestic box office. After Like Father, Like Son, he directed the 1989 film K-9, a comedy starring Jim Belushi. Critical reception was mostly negative, but the film grossed $78 million worldwide and spawned two direct-to-video sequels, K-911 and K-9: P.I., both of which featured Belushi reprising his role.

Next, Daniel directed The Super, released in 1991, which starred Joe Pesci as a wealthy superintendent forced to live in one of his own poorly-maintained buildings. The film received negative reviews from critics and, produced at a cost of $22 million, failed to recoup its budget at the domestic box office, only taking in $11 million. Roger Ebert criticized Daniel's direction, saying that the cast deserved better, and that Daniel failed to deliver solid comic payoffs. Janet Maslin was more positive and wrote that Daniel's direction was "snappy and broad" and that he offered many opportunities for Pesci to "show off his talents for physical clowning".

The next film directed by Daniel was the 1993 film Beethoven's 2nd, the sequel to the successful comedy film Beethoven. It was his final theatrical film. The film was not a critical success, but it ended up grossing $53 million domestically and $64 million in foreign markets, leading to a total gross of $118 million. "The Day I Fall in Love", an original song performed by James Ingram and Dolly Parton for the film, was nominated for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe.

After Beethoven's 2nd, Daniel signed on as director for military comedy McHale's Navy, based on the television series of the same name; he was eventually replaced by Bryan Spicer. He returned to directing television in the 1990s, including episodes of shows like Caroline in the City, Everybody Loves Raymond, and Suddenly Susan. He also directed several television films, such as Genius and Alley Cats Strike, both for the Disney Channel. In 2002, his final directing credit, the television film Home Alone 4, premiered. After the film aired, Daniel retired from the business, noting to the Tribune that he anticipated to do much more work but found himself receiving very few offers. "And I know why: If you work in the arts for a living, you are paid to know what's in the air, what the mood is, the whole societal thing. And I don't care how hip you are, when it's over, it's over. I couldn't artistically reflect how the world changed."

Personal life
Daniel married Martha "Marti" Mueller in 1965 and they remained married until Daniel's death. They had two children, Lucas and John. Lucas spoke warmly of his childhood, believing that Daniel's ability to channel his feelings and issues about his own father in Teen Wolf had helped him. Daniel and his family had lived in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tarzana. After Daniel's retirement from the industry, he moved back to a rural home in Franklin, Tennessee for a few years, but found himself longing for city living. He then moved to downtown Chicago, where he lived the remainder of his life. He had a vacation home in Glen Arbor, Michigan which is on a small strip of land between Lake Michigan and Glen Lake. In the summer he enjoyed salmon fishing there.

Daniel was a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Daniel was an amateur musician, and played bass in a rock group called "The Wild Hots". The band consisted of a group of former Battleground Academy and Vanderbilt University students with whom he performed in the 1960s. They continued to rejoin for a reunion show about every five years, often without Daniel who was busy in California making films. When he moved back to Tennessee, he reunited with his band members and began performing around Nashville, mostly for charity functions.

Another of Daniel's hobbies was photography. He did fine art photographs, mostly black and white, which are largely scenes of rural America. To get his images, he often took time off to ride his Harley-Davidson motorcycle through the rural southwest U.S. for weeks, capturing scenes of forgotten towns and empty buildings. His work has been exhibited in juried shows and galleries in the U.S.

Daniel was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002. He underwent deep brain stimulation surgery in 2012. He was an advocate for research on the disorder and participated in a volunteer program to help other patients with the disease. Daniel died at his Chicago home from complications of Parkinson's disease on April 16, 2016. He was 73 years old.<ref name="HollywoodReporter">{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rod-daniel-dead-teen-wolf-885796|title=Rod Daniel, Director of Michael J. Fox's 'Teen Wolf, Dies at 73|last=Barnes|first=Mike|date=April 19, 2016|work=The Hollywood Reporter|accessdate=April 19, 2016}}</ref>

Filmography
 Teen Wolf (1985)
 Like Father Like Son (1987)
 K-9 (1989)
 The Super (1991)
 Beethoven's 2nd (1993)
 Genius (1999 TV film)
 Alley Cats Strike (2000 TV film)
 How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale (2000 TV film)
 Home Alone 4'' (2002 TV film)

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2016 deaths
American television directors
Comedy film directors
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Neurological disease deaths in Illinois
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Military personnel from Nashville, Tennessee
Film directors from Tennessee
United States Army officers
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
Vanderbilt University alumni


Vibeke Hammer Madsen (born 27 October 1955) is a Norwegian businessperson.

She is the CEO of the Federation of Norwegian Commercial and Service Enterprises since 2002. Educated at the Norwegian School of Radiography, she worked in Statoil from 1993 to 1999 and in PA Consulting Group from 1999 to 2002.

She has been a member of the board of Aker Solutions.

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1955 births
Living people
Aker Group people
21st-century Norwegian businesswomen
21st-century Norwegian businesspeople
Norwegian chief executives
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Women corporate directors
20th-century Norwegian businesswomen
20th-century Norwegian businesspeople


Romina Lanaro (born October 19, 1986) is an Argentine fashion model.

She was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, and began to work as model at the age of 14 when she moved to Buenos Aires. At 17 years old she moved to Paris and then to Milan where she worked for notable designers and fashion houses, such as Prada, Armani, Chloé, Emanuel Ungaro, Elie Saab, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Gucci, Jean Paul Gaultier, Paco Rabanne, Versace and Viktor and Rolf and magazines like Numéro, Marie Claire, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar UK, Allure and German and Spanish Vogue. She has appeared in many advertisement campaigns, including Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Dolce & Gabbana and Mulberry.

Personal
On Saturday, 27 December 2008, Lanaro married model Federico Moyano in La Plata, Argentina. Their son, Máximo, was born on 22 September 2010.

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Argentine female models
Living people
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Patrick Howard Ahearne (born December 10, 1969) is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

Career

Amateur career
Ahearne grew up in Albuquerque but later moved to Playa del Rey, Los Angeles where he attended St. Bernard High School. At St. Bernard, he and Royce Clayton led the baseball team to the California Interscholastic Federation semifinal as seniors in 1988.

Ahearne did not receive any NCAA Division I scholarship offers after high school and, as a result, enrolled at Los Angeles Harbor College. At Harbor College, he set a school record with 24 wins in two seasons and, in 1990, led the team to a state title and was a first-team community college All-American and all-conference selection. He was later inducted into the Harbor College Athletic Hall of Fame.

Ahearned received several scholarship offers on the strength of his junior college performance and chose to play college baseball for Pepperdine. As a junior in 1991, he was named to the All-West Coast Conference team. The following year, he was the winning pitcher in the clinching game of the 1992 College World Series; he was also named to the All-Tournament Team. He was unanimously selected to the 1992 College Baseball All-America Team and was named the West Coast Conference Pitcher of the Year. He finished his career at Pepperdine with 26 wins, a 2.86 ERA and 209 strikeouts. In 2007, he was named to the conference's 40th Anniversary Baseball Team.

Professional career
Ahearne was drafted by the Tigers in the seventh round of the 1992 draft. He made his Major League debut on June 14, 1995, against the New York Yankees. In his one-year Major League career, Ahearne had a 0–2 record, with an 11.70 ERA, in four games.

After his brief Major League career, he bounced back and forth between affiliated Minor League Baseball and independent baseball. He pitched in the minors until 2004 in the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners and Florida Marlins farm systems before ending his affiliated career with three seasons in the Detroit Tigers system. Between those stints in affiliated ball, he pitched in one game for the Duluth-Superior Dukes of the Northern League in 1996, giving up six runs in less than five innings. He also had three stints with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball in 1998, 1999 and 2002. After his affiliated career ended in 2004, he returned to the Atlantic League again in 2005 and remained there with Bridgeport and the Long Island Ducks until departing during the 2007 season for the Macoto Cobras of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. Ahearne also spent seven winters in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

After playing in Taiwan, Ahearne represented the United States in a series of exhibitions against Italy and Spain's national teams in Europe. From there, he began playing with Russian club Tornado Balashikha in 2008 and appeared in that year's European Cup. The following year, he helped coach the Czech national team in the 2009 Baseball World Cup and began pitching in Brno for AVG Draci Brno in the Czech Extraliga, a stint which continued until 2011. In 2011, he served as pitching coach for the Czech team which made it to the semifinals of the 2011 European Junior Baseball Championship. In 2012, he served as a player-coach for Kotlarka in Prague.

In 2011, at 41 years old, he returned to the Australian Baseball League, where he had pitched for three seasons earlier in his career. While pitching for the Adelaide Bite, he was 15.5 years older than the average pitcher in the league.

In 2013, he was hired as a pitching coach for the Bridgeport Bluefish. He also returned to the mound for his sixth season pitching for the club, his first since 2007. He was three years older than Brett Tomko, the second-oldest pitcher in the Atlantic League that season.

Ahearne was the head coach of the Hong Kong national baseball team at the 2018 Asian Games; the team beat Indonesia in its only victory of the tournament.

Ahearne was hired as the head coach of the varsity baseball team at Rye Country Day School beginning in 2018.

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Samuel Douglas Taylor (February 27, 1933 – October 8, 2019) was an American professional baseball player, a Major League catcher who appeared in 473 games over six seasons from 1958 to 1963 for the Chicago Cubs, New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians. The left-handed-batting Taylor was listed as  tall and .

Signed by the Milwaukee Braves in 1956, Taylor was traded with Taylor Phillips to the Cubs for Eddie Haas, Don Kaiser and Bob Rush on December 5, 1957. He made his big league debut on April 20, 1958 against the St. Louis Cardinals. Appearing as a pinch hitter for Gene Fodge, he drew a walk in his first plate appearance. Overall, Taylor appeared in 96 games in 1958, hitting .259 with 78 hits, six home runs and 36 RBI.

In 110 games in 1959, Taylor hit .269 with 13 home runs and 43 runs batted in in 110 games. His 13 intentional walks were the fourth most that season. Taylor was involved in a rather peculiar situation in a game on June 30 of that year, between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs. Stan Musial was at the plate, with a count of 3–1. Pitcher Bob Anderson's next pitch was errant, evading Taylor and rolling all the way to the backstop. Umpire Vic Delmore called ball four, however Anderson and Taylor contended that Musial foul tipped the ball. Because the ball was still in play, and because Delmore was embroiled in an argument with the catcher and pitcher, Musial took it upon himself to try for second base. Seeing that Musial was trying for second, Alvin Dark ran to the backstop to retrieve the ball. The ball wound up in the hands of field announcer Pat Pieper, but Dark ended up getting it back anyway. Absentmindedly, however, Delmore pulled out a new ball and gave it to Taylor. Anderson finally noticed that Musial was trying for second, took the new ball, and threw it to second baseman Tony Taylor. To Anderson's disappointment, the ball flew over Tony Taylor's head into the outfield. Dark, at the same time that Anderson threw the new ball, threw the original ball to shortstop Ernie Banks. Musial, though, did not see Dark's throw and only noticed Anderson's ball fly over the second baseman's head, so he tried to go to third base. On his way there, he was tagged by Banks, and after a delay he was ruled out.

Taylor slumped in 1960, hitting only .207 in 150 at-bats. He lost his starting catching role that year and played in only 74 games.

Taylor was the team's second most used catcher in 1961, behind Dick Bertell. In 1961, he hit .238 with eight home runs and 23 RBI in 235 at-bats (89 games).

Taylor began the 1962 season with the Cubs, hitting .133 in 15 at-bats with them. On April 26, he was traded to the Mets for Bob Smith. In 68 games with the Mets, he hit .222 with three home runs and 20 RBI. Overall, he hit .214 in 173 at-bats that season.

In 1963—his final season—Taylor played for three different teams. He began the year with the Mets and hit .257 in 41 at-bats with them. On July 1, he was traded with Charlie Neal to the Reds for another catcher, Jesse Gonder. He played in three games for the Reds, collecting no hits in six at-bats. On August 1, he was traded to the Indians for Gene Green. He collected three hits in 10 at-bats for the Indians. Overall, he hit .235 with no home runs and seven RBI in 51 at-bats. He played his final game on August 6.

Overall, Taylor played six years in the majors, hitting .245 with 309 hits, 47 doubles, nine triples, 33 home runs and 147 RBI in 473 games.

Taylor served in the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict. He died October 8, 2019.

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Susanne Brink's Arirang () is a 1991 South Korean/Swedish film based upon the life and experiences of Susanne Brink, an adult Korean adoptee from Sweden who suffered abuse and racism in her adoptive home and country. The real Susanne Brink died of cancer in January 2009 at the age of 45; she was interred in her hometown of Norrköping.

Cast
 Choi Jin-sil as Susanne
 Åsa Älmeby as Nurse
 Kim Yun-kyeong
 Malin Berghagen as Ulrika
 Pierre Boutros as Christer
 Lars Green as Rune
 Pia Green as Inger
 Jeon Suk
 Helena Lindblom
 Park Yong-soo
 Niclas Wahlgren as Willy
 Mona Seilitz as Birgitta
 Kim Ji-young

References

 Hübinette, Tobias. "The Nation is a Woman: The Korean Nation Embodied as an Overseas Adopted Korean Woman in Chang Kil-su's Susanne Brink's Arirang". Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 11, August 2005. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
 Hübinette, Tobias. "The suffering and shaming of Korea". Comforting an Orphaned Nation, pp. 126–143. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
 Hübinette, Tobias. "Susanne Brink's Arirang". The adopted Koreans of Sweden and the Korean adoption issue, pp. 9–11. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
 Hübinette, Tobias. "Representing Adopted Korean Women in Korean Feature Films". Nationalism, Subalternity, and the Adopted Koreans, pp. 118–119. Retrieved on 6 December 2008.

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The Leningrad Rock Club () was a historic music venue of the 1980s in Leningrad, situated on Rubinstein Street in the city centre. Opened in 1981 and overseen by Komsomol and KGB, it became the first legal rock music venue in Leningrad. Overall, it was the largest rock scene in the Soviet Union and influenced the development of Russian rock.

The example of the Leningrad Rock Club once inspired enthusiasts in various cities and even villages of the country to create their own rock clubs (the most famous venues were Moscow Rock Laboratory, the Sverdlovsk Rock Club).

History

Leningrad was a centre of rock music in the Soviet Union, perhaps due to its geographical proximity with Finland, which made it easier to access Western music. Attempts to create rock clubs began as early as 1973, but they were largely unsuccessful.

In March 7, 1981, the Leningrad Rock Club was formed in Leningrad Inter - Union House of Amateur Creativity house (LMDST). Association with trade unions that owned the LMDST, allowed to legally organize concerts and to avoid the attention of law enforcement agencies. The Regional Council of Trade Unions allocated 15 thousand rubles on the equipment. The club held seminars on rock aesthetics, rock poetry, and a rhythm studio.

It was intended to be organized similarly to the Union of Soviet Composers and censored lyrics and issued permits to perform in an effort to prevent the bands from making much that was too controversial. However, by providing musicians with a place to meet, perform, and discuss their music, the club provided for an unprecedented amount of creative freedom and helped lead to the Russian rock revolution. There were restrictions on which bands could perform at the club for most of its history, and groups had to audition before a commission. Membership card number one was issued to Beatles fan Kolya Vasin.

The Rock Club was engaged in concert and festival activities. At the festivals, Rock Club bands, by an unspoken rule, had to present a new program to the public and the jury. The first Rock Club festival happened in 1983, from then until the closure of the rock club, it was held annually. It was at that time that the rock club opened such groups as "Kino", "Alisa", "Televizor", "Pop-Mechanics", etc. Alexander Zhitinsky was a frequent guest of the festivals, who published notes in the "Aurora" magazine.

The club was monitored by the KGB, the Communist Party, and the Komsomol Communist Youth Organization. According to Zhitinsky and to Nikolay Mikhailov (a permanent president of LRC), KGB kurators "did not create much pressure" (one of them even married the kurator of LMDST). Moreover, George Gunitsky noted that "rockers turned out to be a completely unpredictable audience. The KGB continued to dejectedly supervise the rock club, but this gave good indicators only for reports". In the mid and late 1980s, administrative control over the LRC began to decline, and those groups that previously simply could not be admitted there due to ideological doubt were accepted into the club - "Avtomaticheskie udovletvoriteli", "Yugo-Zapad" etc.

In 1988, The Scorpions performed at the Leningrad Rock Club.

In 1989-1991, the Rock Club managed to hold two major promotions. In 1989, the LRC took part in the international movement "Next-stop Rock and Roll", which aimed to bring together the Soviet youth and the youth of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greenland and Iceland; a double live album "Laika" was released with the participation of Soviet and Danish bands. In 1991, a LRC 10th anniversary festival was held.

The club effectively closed in 1991.

Influence

The Leningrad Rock Club provided access to a new, Western form of music for an audience of unprecedented size in the Soviet Union. It led to an emergence of a rock industry in the Soviet Union. Its performers began to tour, perform on television, and have their songs played on the radio. This was part of a growing prominence of Western culture in the Soviet Union.

However, some musicians disliked the mainstream fame and acceptance the Leningrad Rock Club brought them. "We are so official now, so taken to heart, that the people who were with us before are not sure of us," Boris Grebenshchikov of Aquarium said in an interview with The New York Times. "Nobody can believe that the system has changed. They think we must have changed." The Leningrad Rock Club was viewed by some artists as a sign of compliance with the Soviet government. Alexander Gradsky, a Russian composer, multi-instrumentalist and one of the earliest performers of rock music in Russia, commented on this position in 1989 in "Rumba" magazine:

Televizor, Kino, Alisa, Aquarium, Zoopark, Piknik, Automatic Satisfiers, DDT, NEP, and Grazhdanskaya Oborona (formally) were among the groups associated with the Leningrad Rock Club.

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Luckyhorse Industries is an independent record label and producer of music related artifacts and art, established in Seattle, Washington in 2001 by musician James Bertram. Bertram has played guitar, bass, and keyboards with Lync, Built to Spill, Beck, Red Stars Theory, Pennsy's Electric Workhorses, 764-Hero, and Amy Blaschke. Luckyhorse  works with Modest Mouse, The Fleet Foxes, The Fiery Furnaces, Tiny Vipers, The Cave Singers, Love as Laughter, The Murder City Devils, Minus the Bear, and The Blood Brothers.

Roster
Arthur & Yu
The Blood Brothers
Chris Brokaw
The Cave Singers
Cold Lake
The Electrical Guitar Company
The Fiery Furnaces
Fleet Foxes
Flexions
Frog Eyes
Gold Leaves
Damien Jurado
Love as Laughter/Sam Jayne
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Discography
LI019 Triumph of Lethargy, Old Jail CD, 2008
LI018 Tiny Vipers, Empire Prism CD, 2008
LI017 Whalebones, Morning Man CD, 2008 Rcrdlbl.com review, KEXP review
LI016 Tiny Vipers, Tiny Vipers EP CD, 2007 The Oregonian review
LI015 Sam Jayne, The Supernatural Sessions CD, 2005 All Tomorrow's Parties article
LI014 Vells, In the Hours, 7inch, 2004 Fense Post review,
LI013 Amy Blaschke, S/T CD, 2003 Seattle Weekly review, Neumu review
LI012 Winfred E Eye, The Dirt Tier CD & LP, 2003 Village Voice Review, East Bay Express article
LI011 FCS North CD & LP, Vocabulary, 2003 KEXP review
LI010 Vells, Vells EP CD, 2003 Minneapolis City Pages review, Delusions of Adequacy review
LI009 Minus The Bear, Highly Refined Pirates LP, 2002 (CD on Suicide Squeeze Records) Pitchfork review
LI008 The Sorts, Six Plus CD, 2002 (split release with After Hours Japan) Afterhours Magazine
LI007 FCS North, All Mvmnt Brings BONUS 7", 2002 (CD on Pacifico Records)
LI006 FCS North, All Mvmnt Brings LP, 2002 (CD on Pacifico Records)
LI005 Plan B, Like A Ship Sailing CD & LP, 2002 The Stranger article
LI004 Winfred E. Eye, The Day I Lost My Sea Legs CD & LP, 2002 (UNRELEASED)
LI003 Winfred E Eye, A Bottle, A Dog, Some Milk, A Bottle CD & LP, 2002 SF Weekly review, Pitchfork review
LI002 Love As Laughter, Sea To Shining Sea 2xLP, 2001(CD on Sub Pop Records) Pitchfork review
LI001 The Blood Brothers, Rumors Laid Waste CD,  2001 (vinyl on Sound Virus)  In Music We Trust review, Seattle Times article

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Atle Teigland (born 16 July 1957) is a Norwegian trade unionist.

A certified electrical fitter, he was employed by Kværner (now: Aker Solutions) in 1978. In 2004 he was elected to represent the employees on the board of directors at Aker Solutions, having previously held the same position in Aker RGI and Aker Maritime.

Representing 5,000 union members as a board representative of one of Norway's largest corporations, he was referred to as a "grassroots giant" by Norwegian newspaper VG in 2009. He was one of the spearheads in a union resistance to the Directive on services in the internal market, which however was ultimately passed. He has also supported the growth of the petroleum industry, such as a development of the Gudrun gas/oil field.

He resides in Tysnes.

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Beveren is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders.

Beveren may also refer to:

 Beveren (Alveringhem)
 Beveren (rabbit), one of the oldest and largest breeds of fur rabbits
 K.S.K. Beveren, Belgian football club

See also
 Van Beveren, a surname


Jurupa Valley/Pedley station (formerly Pedley station) is a Metrolink train station in the Pedley neighborhood in the city of Jurupa Valley in Riverside County, California, United States. Metrolink's Riverside Line trains between Los Angeles Union Station and Riverside–Downtown station stop here.

It is located just east of Van Buren Boulevard and just north of Limonite Avenue, and has 283 parking spaces. The station is owned by the Riverside County Transportation Commission. Riverside Transit Agency bus routes 21 and 29 also serve the station.

The station was renamed from Pedley to Jurupa Valley/Pedley station on October 3, 2016, to reflect Jurupa Valley's 2011 incorporation as a city.

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Eduardo Martini (born January 11, 1979), is a Brazilian professional football (soccer) goalkeeper who plays for Brasil de Pelotas. He has previously played for Grêmio, Juventude, Avaí, Ponte Preta, Novo Hamburgo and Lajeadense.

Career

Born on January 11, 1979, in Feliz, Rio Grande do Sul state, Eduardo Martini started his career in 1994, playing for Grêmio, of Porto Alegre, becoming a first-teamer in 2002, as a replacement for Danrlei. He played 18 Série A games for Grêmio, before joining Juventude in 2004, where he played 44 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A games. In 2006, he was transferred to Avaí, where, as of November 7, 2008, he played at least 100 games for the club. Eduardo Martini scored a goal for Avaí from his own box in a Série B game against Paraná Clube on August 22, 2008. Eduardo Martini joined Ponte Preta in December 2009 to play for the club in the 2010 season.

He joined Novo Hamburgo, on January 19, 2011, to play in the 2011 season. He moved to Lajeadense in 2013 and was close to sign with Icasa to play at the 2014 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, but opted to join Série D side Brasil de Pelotas to stay closer to his family, achieving back-to-back promotions at his new club.

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Muhammad 'Izzat Darwazeh (; 1888–1984) was a Palestinian politician, historian, and educator from Nablus. Early in his career, he worked as an Ottoman bureaucrat in Palestine and Lebanon. Darwaza had long been a sympathizer of Arab nationalism and became an activist of that cause following the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916, joining the nationalist al-Fatat society. As such, he campaigned for the union of Greater Syria (modern-day Levant) and vehemently opposed Zionism and foreign mandates in Arab lands. From 1922 to 1927, he served as an educator and as the principal at the an-Najah National School where he implemented a pro-Arab nationalist educational system, promoting the ideas of Arab independence and unity. Darwaza's particular brand of Arab nationalism was influenced by Islam and his beliefs in Arab unity and the oneness of Arabic culture.

Later, Darwaza co-founded the nationalist Istiqlal party in Palestine and was a principal organizer of anti-British demonstrations. In 1937, he was exiled to Damascus as a result of his activities and from there he helped support the Arab revolt in the Mandatory Palestine. He was incarcerated in Damascus by French authorities for his involvement in the revolt, and while in prison he began to study the Qur'an and its interpretations. In 1945, after he was released, Darwaza eventually compiled his own interpretation entitled al-Tafsir al-Hadith.

In 1946, he joined the Arab Higher Committee led by Haj Amin al-Husseini, but resigned the next year after being disenfranchised by al-Husayni's methods. He left for Syria afterward and briefly aided in the unity talks between Syria and Egypt in the mid-1950s. By the time of his death in 1984, Darwaza had written over thirty books and published numerous articles on the Palestinian question, Arab history, and Islam.

Biography

Early life and background
Darwaza was born to a middle-class Sunni Muslim mercantile family in Nablus. The Darwaza family had long been involved in textiles and had extensive trade relationships with merchants in Beirut and Damascus. In his memoirs, Izzat writes "The import of [textile] goods from the outside was, for the most part, through Beirut and Damascus." Izzat's father, 'Abd al-Hadi Darwaza and his paternal grandfather Darwish Darwaza, owned a store in the Khan al-Tujjar of Nablus.  Izzat recalled, "From what I remember from my father and through my grandfather, the title merchant or merchants in Nablus mostly referred to owners of commercial textile and cloth shops. In Nablus, these shops were confined, or mostly confined, to a caravansary called Khan al-Tujjar, in the middle of Nablus."

Izzat received elementary and preparatory education in Ottoman government-run schools in the city. In addition to Arabic, he learned Turkish and English, as well as a basic knowledge of French which he strengthened in by the end of his formal education. Darwaza left school without going to Istanbul or Beirut to finish his education as was the custom of his generation. Instead, he educated himself, and according to Rashid Khalidi, became "a self-taught intellectual."

Loyalty to dissidence toward the Ottoman Empire
Originally, Darwaza supported the Ottoman Empire based on his feelings of identification with Islam and of belonging to the larger Ottoman Muslim ummah ("nation"). In 1906, he served in the local Ottoman administration as a clerk in the Department of Telegraphic and Postal Services (DTPS) in Nablus. His first assignment in that department was for the District of Beisan and northern Palestine (the Galilee and northern Samaria). He was also an Arabist and was enthusiastic about the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, expecting that the new Ottoman government would institute reforms and grant the Arabs autonomy within the framework of the empire.

His loyalty to the Ottomans eroded, however, due to the impact of the new governments's Turkification policies which he viewed as repressive against his ideals. Because of his dissatisfaction with the Young Turks, Darwaza was driven to support Arab independence from the empire. In 1908, he joined the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), but withdrew soon after because of its Turkish nationalist political agenda. He played an active role in establishing a branch for the Party of Harmony and Freedom in Nablus in 1911. The party was founded in Istanbul and joined by Arab members to counter the policies of the CUP. In 1913, he joined an anti-Zionist group based in Nablus that sought to prevent the sale of Arab-owned land to Jews by submitting petitions to the Ottoman sultan, or by buying land for sale to preempt its purchase by Jews. In June 1913, he helped to prepare and became secretary of the First Palestinian Congress (also known as the Arab Congress of 1913) in Paris. In congress, he was also the delegate for the Jamma'in subdistrict of the District of Nablus. Meanwhile, Darwaza was still working in the DTPS.

In 1914, he established the Arab Scientific Society whose purpose was to spread Arabic culture in the region through the establishment of Arabic schools. The society did not succeed, however, due to the outbreak of World War I. Within the DTPS, Darwaza was appointed commissioner and deputy for the Nablus Post Office. He was promoted again—this time as director of postal stamp sales in Beirut.

Promoting unity with Syria

During World War I, Darwaza served as Postal Directorate-General of Beirut and retained this post until 1918. In 1916, while serving with the Ottoman army in the Sinai Peninsula, he joined the underground al-Fatat organization through Ahmad Qadri, a high-ranking member from Damascus. The aim of al-Fatat was to liberate and unite the Arab lands under Ottoman rule. In the wake of the Arab Revolt of 1916, Darwaza left the Ottoman civil service to serve in King Faisal's provisional government in Damascus. Ideologically, Darwaza became an Arab nationalist endorsing the concept of a Greater Syrian Arab state.

Following the World War I Armistice, Darwaza held several political posts including Secretary-General of al-Fatat from May 1919 to March 1920, Secretary of the Muslim-Christian Association's Nablus branch, and Secretary of the First Palestine Arab Congress in Jerusalem in 1919. During the spring and summer of 1919, a vigorous political campaign was waged by the Arab politicians in Palestine who were divided into "Younger Politicians" and "Older Politicians". The campaign was centered on the political future of Palestine, and Darwaza, a Younger Politician, played a central role. The Younger Politicians consisted of Arab nationalists who sought to unite Palestine with King Faisal's Syria while the Older Politicians consisted of Palestinian nationalists who preferred that Palestine be an independent entity.

Darwaza and Hafiz Kanaan—another leading al-Fatat member from Nablus—lobbied Arab groups in Jerusalem to advocate Syro-Palestinian unity before the arrival of the King-Crane Commission on 10 June 1919. They first met with Haj Amin al-Husseini and Kamil al-Husayni of al-Nadi al-Arabi party and they immediately expressed their support. They also suggested that Darwaza meet Raghib al-Nashashibi, Hussam ad-Din Jarallah, and Aref al-Dajani, supporters of independence. Darwaza convinced Nashashibi to gather some of the Older Politicians of Jerusalem to a meeting at his house. When it was made clear that Musa al-Husayni, a leader of the Older Politicians, was now in favor of unity, all of the other Older Politicians followed suit. When the commission arrived in Jaffa, it concluded on 27 June that it was in favor of Syro-Palestinian unity under a British Mandate.

In the first week of July 1919, the General Syrian Congress (GSC) held its first meeting in Damascus and Darwaza was its secretary. The GSC called for the immediate independence of Syria as a sovereign state under a constitutional monarchy and underlined its opposition to the establishment of Zionism in southern Syria (Palestine). Along with Haj Amin al-Husseini and Aref al-Aref, Darwaza founded and became an officer of the Palestinian Society in Damascus. The organization urged all societies and clubs in Palestine to cooperate and condemn the San Remo Conference's decision to grant Great Britain a mandate over Palestine and Transjordan.

The hope of Darwaza and the Younger Politicians for unity with Syria were curtailed when it became known that King Faisal was aligning himself with the leaders of the Zionist movement because "they [the Zionists] were helping us [the Arabs] in the [Paris Peace] conference." Afterward, Darwaza believed King Faisal did not devote to the Palestine issue its deserved attention. Faisal was deposed by the French in July 1920. An event that further deteriorated Darwaza's ambitions of Arab unity was the confirmation of the British Mandate over Palestine at the San Remo Conference on 24 April 1920. His experience in Damascus revealed to him that the universalism of Arab nationalism was not as concrete as its advocates had thought, and the military might of the European powers—France and Great Britain—were an overwhelming force to contend with.

Educator in Nablus
Darwaza continued his political activity, representing Nablus in the Fourth Palestinian Congress in May 1921 and the Seventh Palestinian Congress in June 1928. From 1922 to 1927, he served as the principal of the an-Najah National School (later to become an-Najah National University) where he initiated and nurtured an Arab nationalist political educational process. Darwaza wrote textbooks and was an educator himself. One of his students who later became a nationalist politician, Akram Zu'aiter, wrote that Darwaza "used to give us a weekly lesson on the principles of Nationalism and [modern] society, in a way which sharpened our thought and broadened our horizons." Zuaiter also recalls that Darwaza wrote up nationalist and historical plays that his students would perform in.

In 1927, Rashid al-Haj Ibrahim, the leader of the Young Men's Muslim Association of Haifa, a prominent merchant, and future associate of Darwaza, invited him to his home to speak to a large group of students and notables about nationalist (qawmiyya) and patriotic (wataniyya) education. This was recognition that Darwaza's contribution to the spread of Arab nationalist sentiments gained influence not only in an-Najah School, but throughout Palestine.

Fight against the British Mandate

Darwaza became a member of the Arab Executive Committee and in 1930 was appointed by rival nationalist Haj Amin al-Husseini (then the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem) as the General Administrator of the Waqf (Islamic religious trust) under the Supreme Muslim Council. In 1931, he convinced his city's MCA to change its name to the Patriotic Arab Association. Unlike other Arab politicians at the time, Darwaza supported a combination of pan-Arabism, Islamism, and dedication to the Palestinian nationalist ideal.

He began to edit in the al-Ja'miyya al-Arabiyya newspaper in the early 1930s and in December 1931-January 1932, he wrote articles encouraging Arabs to protest against British policies in the Middle East, to unite in the face of growing dangers, and to renew their drive towards freedom and independence. In August 1932, he along with Awni Abd al-Hadi and others founded the Istiqlal (Independence) party in Palestine, an offshoot of al-Fatat. Originally, the Istiqlal operated in Syria, then Transjordan, but reassembled in Palestine after facing disappointing circumstances in both those territories. The party coaxed Palestinians towards defying British rule by staging demonstrations and political and social boycotts. Darwaza refused to allow the Istiqlal to participate in meetings between local Palestinian political parties and the British high-commissioner. Darwaza wrote an article on 21 June 1933, vehemently attacking Palestinian "vested interests". He argued that the wealthy Arab notables of Palestine were subservient to the British and the Zionists and would willingly leave Palestine for other countries, while the poor and middle-class Arabs were forced by economic circumstances to remain in Palestine during their political struggles. Darwaza helped instigate and organize the 1933 demonstrations in Jaffa which protested British policies in Palestine and continued allowances of Jewish immigration.

Darwaza was one of the principal organizers of the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine which first erupted in his hometown of Nablus with the launch of the Palestinian general strike. Along with Abd al-Hadi, Darwaza was arrested by the British authorities in June and imprisoned in the military camp at Sarafand al-Amar. The Mufti sent a delegation consisting of Darwaza, Mu'in al-Madi, and Abd al-Hadi to Baghdad, then to Riyadh to discuss the situation and upon their return on 6 January 1937, they revealed that the advice given to them was to cease hostilities. During the revolt, in 1937, Darwaza was exiled from Palestine by British authorities to Damascus. Later in that year, Darwaza held several meetings with Nuri al-Sa'id of Iraq to explore various solutions to help the Arabs avoid appearing intransigent.

Despite attempts to calm the situation, in Damascus, Darwaza established and headed the Central Committee for National Jihad in Palestine which echoed Izz al-Din al-Qassam's call for a "holy war" against the British and Zionism. Darwaza had many encounters with al-Qassam, describing him as "a man lacking in arrogance or self-love. He was open and available to all of the people and the people loved him. And he lived the life of a mujahid." Darwaza worked closely with the Mufti, who was now under house arrest in Beirut, to garner support and supplies for the revolt and supervise the Arab rebels in Palestine.

In late 1939, he was accused by French military authorities of helping Palestinian rebels in the revolt, tried by a military court, and sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Citadel of Damascus. While his exile by the British abruptly curtailed his political life, his imprisonment marked the beginning of a new life wherein the Quran becomes a major concern for the next several years. He was released in November 1944. After his release, Darwaza was unable to return to Nablus because British authorities had issued an order preventing him from entering Palestine. As a result, he left for Turkey, mostly staying in Bursa until the end of 1945.

The Mufti re-established the Arab Higher Committee (AHC) in late 1946 and Darwaza joined the ten-member council upon a request from the Mufti. Darwaza, along with Emil Ghuri and Mu'in al-Madi, served as the AHC's delegates to the September 1947 convention of the Arab League's Political Committee in Lebanon. With support from the Transjordanian representative, Salih Jaber, the Prime Minister of Iraq, openly criticized the delegates and questioned the AHC's right to even send delegates to the convention. Later that year, Darwaza resigned from the AHC due to the Mufti's unbending attitude towards wider representation.

Later life
After resigning from the AHC, Darwaza spent the rest of his life in the modern state of Syria where he left politics to concentrate on literature. Although he did much of his writing in the 1930s and 1940s, he did not have any of his works published until the 1960s. As a pan-Arab intellectual, Darwaza aided in establishing the union between Syria and Egypt forming the short-lived United Arab Republic. After Egypt adopted its 1956 constitution declaring that it was an Arab country and its people a part of the Arab nation, Darwaza concluded that Egypt and Syria were in a position to unite. When unity negotiations underwent, he suggested several forms of federation, such as the American, Soviet, and Indian models, but did not recommend any specific model for an Arab state. Darwaza did, however, suggest that the institution of a federation between Egypt and Syria would be the first step towards the realization of a comprehensive union.

In 1983 Darwaza granted Palestinian historian Muhammad Y. Muslih an eight-day interview and allowed him to photo-copy his memoirs in entirety. Muslih noted that Darwaza was failing in health at the time. He died in Damascus in 1984 at the age of 96. Darwaza had three daughters, Najah, Salma, and Rudaina and a son, Zuhair.

Literary works

One of the first modern histories of the Arab nation in contrast to a history of an individual Arab country was composed by Darwaza in the late 1920s under the title Lessons of Arab History: From Antiquity to Present Times. In the book, Darwaza begins by describing the origins of the Semitic peoples, the rise of Islam, the end of Arab rule in the Middle East by Turkic groups, and the foreign rule over the Arabs by Western powers. The book was intended to be used as a textbook in primary and secondary schools throughout the British Mandates of Palestine and later Iraq, hence its simplified and direct language. Nonetheless, it played a pioneering role in the development of pan-Arabism.

In 1934, Darwaza published a widely read story, The Angel and the Land Broker, reflecting popular Arab sentiments against the growing "Zionist threat" and attacking brokers who tempted Palestinian land owners to sell their land to Jews. The story describes methods used by Zionists to entice Arab landowners to sell their land and the main characters in the story are an illiterate farmer and a Jewish girl from Tel Aviv who encourages the former to spend himself deep into debt, forcing him to sell his land at a price far below its value.

Later in his lifetime after leaving politics, Darwaza published memoirs that discussed in detail the city of Nablus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to Youssef Choueiri, "he gives a graphic and almost exhaustive description of his hometown... its mosques, residential quarters, orchards, industries, and inhabitants. Moreover, he dwells at length of the social composition of the town endeavoring to reveal the open conflict between 'feudal families' and the new generation of middle traders, functionaries, civil servants, and teachers."

Quranic studies and interpretations
While he was imprisoned in Damascus, Darwaza was provided with an opportunity to read and reflect upon the Quran. He states "I considered [this opportunity] an act of divine [favor] and started reading whatever books of exegesis and qur'anic studies were accessible to me." During his incarceration, he compiled three books dealing with the Quran and conceived the idea of writing a modern tafsir ("interpretation").

His time in Turkey exposed him to the libraries of Bursa and it was there where he wrote the rough draft of his tafsir entitled al-Tafsir al-Hadith. Darwaza states in this exegesis he would "uncover the wisdom of revelation, the fundamental concepts of the Qur'an and the whole range of its subject matter and present it in a new style and new sequential order." Al-Tafsir al-Hadith was generally aimed at the Muslim youth who had been alienated by the traditional interpretations of the Quran. Darwaza placed much emphasis on the close relationship between the text of the Quran and the environment in which it was revealed. He rejected the hadith which states the Qur'an was originally preserved on a tablet in the seventh heaven, sent down to lowest heaven and from there gradually to Muhammad.

After the completion of the rough draft, he wrote a volume of four chapters, Qur'an al-Majid, which served as an introduction for the tafsir. Darwaza stresses a close connection between the Quran and the biography of the Muhammad (sira) and states that the Quran fully reflects various stages between the Quran and the career of Muhammad. He also emphasizes that both the angels and the jinn are spoken in the Quran not for their own sake, but to reinforce Muhammad's missions and goals.

He contends that the presentation of the Quran and its suras was dictated by Muhammad and that the task of Abu Bakr was to collect the Quran between its two covers and transcribe it into one copy, while Uthman's task was to fix the transcription and unify it to prevent variant readings. He also expresses doubts that Ali, as it is alleged, had made a chronologically arranged collection. Darwaza was very critical of other modern interpreters who used certain verses of the Quran to deduce and support scientific theories. He argues that those people have done harm to Islam by trivializing the sacred character of the Quran.

Darwaza was convinced that interpretations of the Quran were the only possible basis for any renewal and development of Islamic religious, political and social thought, and that the Quran was the only resource for Muslim reinterpretation of traditional norms in Islam and Islamic thinking. Since it was quite uncommon to follow a chronological order for a whole tafsir—which Darwaza did—he had to justify his position by seeking a fatwa from the muftis of Aleppo and Damascus.

Legacy
Throughout his life, Darwaza was an Arab nationalist and supported the unity of Syria and Palestine. His particular brand of Arab nationalism was influenced by Islam, his belief in Arab unity, and the oneness of Arabic culture. According to his perspective, the ideology's main points were the Arabic language, the Arab homeland, a shared Arab history and common Arab interests. Although Darwaza believed that Arab nationalism pre-dated Islam, he also maintained that Islam expanded Arab territory and "stamped them with the eternal mark of Arab nationalism." According to Muhammad Y. Muslih, this meant that Islam had provided Arabs with "spiritual, cultural, and legal unity and within the framework of that unity the Arab individual formed his moral and social beliefs, irrespective of where he lived and through it the Arabs were able to preserve national identity and maintain their culture in the face of foreign invaders, including the Ottomans". Darwaza contends that Arab nationalism is not a new concept borrowed from the West and asserts the constituents of Arab nationalism are stronger than those which make up the modern forms of nationalism in the world.

His ideas helped the spread the word of secular pan-Arabism against religious nationalists and those who believed in separate Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian destinies. In the mid-1950s, Darwaza asserted that the first stage of Arab union should be based on a merger between Egypt and Syria. In his opinion, a union between the northern Arabs (Syria) and the southern Arabs (Egypt) would facilitate the adherence of other Arab states. He believed that Egypt's capabilities and human resources compelled it to fill the role of an Arab "Prussia". Darwaza remarked on Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian president and founder of the short-lived union, saying "Since the Arab revolt against the Turks, no Arab leader has been up to the level of events except for Jamal 'Abd al-Nasir. He emerged and vanished like a shooting star."

Rashid Khalidi states about Darwaza, "Moved as he was by the civilization of Arabs, he evoked a distant Arab past. For obvious reasons Islam was central to that past. But in the case of Darwaza, Islam was important not as the binding substance of the nation, but as a culture and civilization. In other words, culture, language, and history not religious solidarity were posited as the glue that was to hold the Arab nation together." According to Khalidi, Darwaza contributed to Arab nationalism in the practical and intellectual domains greatly.

List of works

History
Turkīya al-ḥadīta. (1946).
Ta'rīḫ Banī Isrā'īl min asfārihim. (1958).
Al-äḍīya al-filasṭīnīya muḫtalaf marāḥilihā. (1959).
Al-'Arab wal-'urūba min al-qarn at-tālit ḥatta l-qarn ar-rābi' 'ašar al-hiǧrī. (1959).
'Urūbat Misr fi l-qadīm wal-hadīt au qåbl al-islām wa-ba'dahu. (1963).
'Asr an-nabī 'alaih as-salām wa-bai'atuhu qabl al-ba'ta. (1964).
Našʼat al-ḥaraka al-ʻarabīja al-ḥadīta. (1971).
Fī sabīl qaḍīyat Filasṭīn wal-waḥda al-'arabīya wa-min waḥy an-nakba wa li-aǧl mu'āla-ǧatihā. (1972).
al-Jihād fī sabīl Allāh fi l-Qur'an̄ wal-ḥadīt. (1975).
Az-ziʻāmāt wa-'l-usar al-lubnānīja al-iqṭāʻīja ʻalā iḫtilāf aṭ-ṭawā'if. (1978).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fī Lubnān. (1978).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fi Jazīrat al-Furāt wa-šamāl Sūrīya. (1978).
al- Yahūd fi 'l-qurān al-karīm: sīratuhum wa-ah̲lāquhum wa-aḥwāluhum qabla 'l-baʻt̲a. Wa-ǧinsīyat al-Yahūd fi 'l-Ḥiǧāz fī zaman an-nabī. Wa-aḥwāluhum wa-ah̲lāquhum wa-mawāqifuhum min ad-daʻwa al-islāmīya wa-ma. (1980).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fī šarq al-Urdunn wa-Filasṭīn. (1981).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fī Wādi 'n-Nīl. (1981).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fi 'l-Maġrib al-aqṣā wa-'l-Jazā'ir wa-Tūnis wa-Lībīya. (1981).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fī Sūrīya al-wusṭā. (1981).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fi 'l-ʻIrāq. (1981).
Al-imārāt al-ʻarabīya as-šāmila fi Jazīrat al-ʻarab. (1983).
Mudakkirāt: siǧill ḥāfil bi-masīrat al-ḥaraka al-ʻarabīya wa-'l-qaḍīya al-filasṭīnīya hilal qarn min az-zaman: 1305-1404 hijra, 1887-1984. (1993).

Islamic
Ad-Dustūr al-qur 'ānī fī šu'ūn al-ḥayāt. (1956).
At-Tafsīr al-ḥadīt̲ as-Suwar. (1962).
Sīrat ar-Rasūl. (1965).
Ad-Dustūr al-qur'ānī was-sunna an-nabawīya fī šu'ūn al-ḥayāt. (1966).
Al-Mar'a fi l-Qur'an was-sunna. (1967).

See also
 List of people from Nablus

References

Bibliography

1888 births
1984 deaths
20th-century Palestinian historians
20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
20th-century short story writers
Academic staff of An-Najah National University
Anti-Zionists
Arab people in Mandatory Palestine
Arab people from Ottoman Palestine
Date of birth missing
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Independence Party (Mandatory Palestine) politicians
Ottoman Arab nationalists
Palestinian Arab nationalists
Palestinian memoirists
Palestinian short story writers
Palestinian people imprisoned abroad
People from Nablus
People of the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
20th-century memoirists
Prisoners and detainees of France
Civilians who were court-martialed


Frederick L. Villepigue (1826–?) served as Secretary of State of Florida from July 1, 1853, to January 13, 1863.

Early life
Villepigue was born in South Carolina. He was descended from a Frenchman, Francois Villepigue, who immigrated from France to Saint-Domingue, a French colony, in 1788, but was killed by his slaves in a slave rebellion in 1800 in the Haitian Revolution. Francois' wife received a last-minute warning and escaped with their two sons, arriving with Pierre Laurent Jumelle at Charleston, and settling in Camden, South Carolina. One of the Villepigues' sons, Paul Francis became a prominent merchant in Camden, and one of his seven children was Fredrick L. Villepigue.

Villepigue graduated from South Carolina College and moved to Florida in the 1840s. The 1850 Census listed him as a 21-year-old lawyer living in Jefferson County.

Florida Secretary of State
Villepigue was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Charles W. Downing, Jr. as Secretary of State of Florida on July 1, 1853, and was elected to that post on July 25, 1853, serving until January 13, 1863.

The 1860 Census listed Villepigue having a personal estate of $200.00. On April 19 of that year, he was married to Margaret Watson Armstrong, the eldest daughter of General James Watson Armstrong in the Presbyterian Church by the Rev. David Willis, in Macon, Georgia. Villepigue had one son, Harry, born in November 1863, and a daughter, Jeanne, born around 1861.

Civil War service
On January 11, 1861, at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Villepigue publicly affixed the Great Seal of the State of Florida to Florida's Declaration of Independence on the east portico of the State Capitol, turned to face an assembled crowd, and "in a clear distinct voice proclaimed Florida an independent nation. A second later 15 cannons were fired in salute of the new state and shouting broke forth."

Villepigue enlisted in the Confederate States Army on March 3, 1862, at Tallahassee, joined Robert Howard Gamble's Artillery. In April 1862, he was appointed the first lieutenant of the Leon Light Artillery under Gamble, then a captain. Villepigue was promoted from lieutenant to captain of the Kilcrease Light Artillery on May 26, 1863. He served with the Kilcrease Light Artillery until November 22, 1864, when he resigned his commission to become Secretary of the Confederate Senate.

Later life
On January 22, 1867, he began to serve as a judge of the criminal court in Monticello, Florida until the next session Florida Legislature and was paid an annual salary of $200 and $5 for each case tried. 1867 tax records show Villepigue owned  assessed at $700 and one horse valued at $50, while records two years later show him as a lawyer worth $10. The 1870 Census listed Villepigue as having a personnel estate of $300.

He is interred at Roselawn Cemetery in Monticello, Florida.

References

External links
Record of Civil War Veterans of the Kilcrease Light Artillery
Collections of the Florida State Archives

1826 births
University of South Carolina alumni
People from Jefferson County, Florida
People from Leon County, Florida
Secretaries of State of Florida
Villepigue, Patrick L.
Year of death missing


The 2008–09 Tennessee Volunteers basketball team represented the University of Tennessee in the 2008-09 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. This was the fourth season for Bruce Pearl as the Volunteers' head coach. The team, a member of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference, played its home games at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Preseason
The 2007–08 Volunteers finished the season 31–5 overall with a 14–2 mark in conference play. They won their first outright SEC regular season men's basketball championship in 41 years. In postseason play, the Volunteers earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. The team went on to lose in the Sweet Sixteen to the Louisville Cardinals and finished ranked at #7 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.

The Vols lost three seniors from their team during the off-season: Chris Lofton, JaJuan Smith, and Jordan Howell. Also, sophomore forward Duke Crews and sophomore point guard Ramar Smith were dismissed from the team for a combination of "violations of the University of Tennessee’s substance-abuse policy and academic shortcomings."

On November 3, 2008, the SEC released the rosters for the preseason All-SEC first and second teams. Junior forward Tyler Smith was chosen for both SEC Player of the Year and first team All-SEC. Wayne Chism and J. P. Prince were selected for the second team All-SEC, thus tying Tennessee with LSU for the most All-SEC selections (3).

Recruiting
Bruce Pearl was able to pull together a highly ranked recruiting class for the 2008–09 season. The class included: Emmanuel Negedu, rated 13th among power forwards in the Class of 2008 by Rivals.com; Renaldo Woolridge, the 11th ranked small forward; Bobby Maze, a junior college guard averaging 20.7 points, 4.5 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game; and Scotty Hopson, a McDonald's All-American and ranked 5th overall by Rivals.com. The class also includes point guard Daniel West and center Philip Jurick. Rivals.com ranked the class as 7th best in the nation.

2008–09 Roster

Schedule and Results

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Rankings

References

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Tennessee
Tennessee Volunteers basketball seasons
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Tennessee Volunteers basketball


The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics (Allen & Unwin, 274pp) is a 2008 book by Professor Clive Hamilton.  This is a philosophical book related to the nature and consequences of advanced consumer capitalism.  In the book Hamilton proposes a system of "post-secular ethics" that will serve as a challenge to the "moral malaise" occasioned by the "freedom of the marketplace". The book consists of five parts:

"In the first of these parts, Hamilton systematically works through the paradox of "unfreedom" to reveal the pathological structures ... that have subverted the promise of freedom heralded by the several revolutions of the twentieth century, of which economic liberalism is the most recent and enduring".
"In part two, Hamilton provides the metaphysical basis for his analysis - and for his resolution. The moral life has its basis in a conformity - a creative and vibrant conformity - with Schopenhauer's noumenon, a "metaphysical absolute" or "universal essence"." The noumenon was an origincal idea by Immanuel Kant and refers to the thing in itself.
"In the final three parts, Hamilton anneals his ethics in the forge of his metaphysics, and provides several practical applications (to suicide, sex, non-human life, aesthetics, sociality, happiness)."

The Freedom Paradox was launched in Canberra by Justice Michael Kirby on 5 August 2008.

Quotes

"Freed from want, discrimination and oppression, we huddle together like sheep seeking one another's comfort after the fences have been taken down, habituated to the domesticated life and fearful of what lies beyond". (p. 218)
"Depression characterises contemporary consumer society". (p. 223)

References

2008 non-fiction books
Australian non-fiction books
Books by Clive Hamilton
Books in political philosophy
Books about freedom of speech
Allen & Unwin books


Il mare calmo della sera is the debut album by Italian tenor singer Andrea Bocelli, following his win of the Sanremo Festival in 1994, singing his first single and the leading single of the album of the same name. It was certified Gold in the Netherlands.

It was followed by the release of Bocelli, which topped charts all over Europe, in 1995.

History
In 1992, Bocelli's first break as a singer came when Italian rock singer Zucchero Fornaciari auditioned tenors to record a demo version of "Miserere", which he had written. Successfully passing the audition, Bocelli recorded the tune as a duet with Pavarotti, with whom he became very close friends, even singing at his second wedding, and funeral. After touring all over Europe with Zucchero in 1993, Bocelli was then invited to perform at the Pavarotti & Friends, held in Modena in September 1994.

Bocelli was then signed to Sugar Music by Caterina Caselli, who  persuaded him to participate in the Sanremo music festival. He eventually won the newcomer section of the competition in 1994, with "Il mare calmo della sera", a song written by Zucchero for him.

After the Festival, Bocelli released his first studio single also titled Il mare calmo della sera. The single was also included in both of Bocelli's Greatest hits albums, Romanza in 1997, and The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere in 2007.

Track listing
"Il mare calmo della sera"
"Ave Maria no morro"
"Vivere (feat. Gerardina Trovato)"
"Rapsodia"
"La Luna che non c'è"
"Caruso"
"Miserere"
"Panis angelicus"
"Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth)"
"E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)"
"Le fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)"
"L'anima ho stanca (from Adriana Lecouvreur)"
"Sogno"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

External links
 Bocelli on Ultratop.be

Andrea Bocelli albums
1994 debut albums
Classical crossover albums
PolyGram albums


William M. Hossak (12 January 1814 – 1896) was a Canadian politician, serving as mayor of Quebec City from November 1869 to January 1870.

Hossak worked at his father's grocery business until establishing his own business, a leather tannery. That enterprise was destroyed in the massive Quebec City fire of 1845 after which Hossak returned to selling groceries.

After retiring from business and travelling through Europe and Egypt, Hossak returned to Quebec City and became a city councillor in the St Louis ward for eight years until his appointment as the city's mayor in November 1869. However, Hossak was unable to legally maintain the mayor's chair because of his residency outside the city and therefore left office within two months.

In 1888, Hossak continued to contribute to public life as Chair of the Protestant Board of School Commissioners, the vice-president of the Literary and Historical Society and the president of the Quebec City Mission. He was a member of the city's Chalmers Church serving as treasurer in the late 1880s.

References

1814 births
1896 deaths
Canadian businesspeople in retailing
Mayors of Quebec City


Retno Kustijah (born 19 June 1942; as Retno Koestijah) is a former badminton player from Indonesia who competed internationally from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.

Career
Though she played singles in high level events, Kustijah's greatest success came in women's doubles with regular partner Minarni. They were the first of only two Indonesian teams to win women's doubles at the prestigious All England Championships (1968). Their titles together included the quadrennial Asian Games (1962, 1966),  and the Malaysia (1966, 1967), Singapore (1967), New Zealand (1968), Canadian (1969), and U.S. (1969) Opens. Kustijah also won mixed doubles at the 1967 Malaysia Open with Tan Joe Hok and at the 1971 Asian Championships with Christian Hadinata. She was a member of Indonesian teams which finished second to Japan in the 1969 and 1972 Uber Cup (women's world team) championships.

Achievements

Asian Games
Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Asian Championships
Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

International Open Tournaments (11 titles, 6 runners-up)
Women's singles

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

Other Tournaments

Women's doubles

References

1942 births
Living people
People from Kebumen Regency
Indonesian female badminton players
Badminton players at the 1962 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 1966 Asian Games
Badminton players at the 1970 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games silver medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia
Asian Games medalists in badminton
Medalists at the 1962 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games
20th-century Indonesian women


The following list of waterfalls of Canada include all waterfalls of superlative significance.

Tallest waterfalls

By overall height
, there are 18 confirmed waterfalls with an overall height of at least .

By tallest single drop
, there are 14 confirmed waterfalls to have a single unbroken drop with a height of at least .

Waterfalls by average flow rate

, there are 25 confirmed waterfalls with an average flow rate or discharge of at least .

Notable waterfalls by province

Alberta

British Columbia

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland & Labrador

Northwest Territories

Nova Scotia

Nunavut

Ontario

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Yukon

See also
List of waterfalls

Notes

References

External links

Waterfalls
Waterfalls


Digital China () is a company listed on the main board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in 2001 following a successful spin off from the Legend Group.

History
Digital China was created from Legend Holdings which became Lenovo in 2001.
In pursuit of its "Digitalized China" corporate strategy, Digital China is focused on providing electronic business platforms, solutions and services. A one-stop IT services concept, allows it to span across a range of different industries, from banking and telecommunications to government and public sectors. Leveraging on its partnership with over 100 top IT vendors worldwide, Digital China has become the largest integrated IT service provider in China.

See also
Legend Holdings
Lenovo

References

External links
 Digital China

Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Online companies of China
Hong Kong brands