GN Store Nord A/S is a Danish manufacturer of hearing aids (GN ReSound/GN Hearing) and headsets (Jabra (GN Audio)). GN Store Nord A/S is listed on NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen (ISIN code DK0010272632).

History

The Great Northern Telegraph Company

The company was founded as The Great Northern Telegraph Company (Det Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab A/S) in Denmark in June 1869. It was set up as a merger of three recently established telegraph companies initiated by Danish industrial mogul Carl Frederik Tietgen. The aim of the firm was to create a worldwide telegraph company.

The starting point of The Great Northern Telegraph Company (now GN Store Nord) was a concession agreement, which C.F. Tietgen made with the Russian Tzar in 1869. The agreement gave The Great Northern Telegraph Company exclusive rights – and obligations – to establish and run a telegraph line in Russia. This represented a great pioneer task for the company in establishing connections from Europe to the Far East. The Russian authorities ran the actual construction work in Russia. They had already set up a telegraph line in parts of Siberia but were looking for a business partner to cover China and Japan before continuing the Russian line all the way east to Vladivostok. Thus, The Great Northern Telegraph Company was given the responsibility to establish and run its own telegraph line in Asia and additionally assist the Russians with operations, maintenance, technical assistance, and education.
In the following years, the telegraph line expanded massively – both in Europe and in Asia. First, Oslo, London and Paris were covered. Later, operations took place along the coast of China ranging from Hong Kong to Shanghai and further into Japan, where the first telegraph station opened in Nagasaki in 1897. In addition to the telegraph line, telegraph stations and offices opened at several locations.

In 1897, negotiations began about a potential connection going from Scotland to the United States through the Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland. In 1906, the cable was established, although without the final connection to the United States, which had to wait for almost 60 years to become a reality. When the transatlantic connection was finally established, however, it represented a remarkable expansion, which significantly facilitated communication between people around the world.

The beginning of the 20th century was characterized by several wars and disputes, which affected the company's operations. World War I and largely the Russian Revolution changed the map of Europe, but this only meant an increase in demand for telegraphy. Thus, the company succeeded in prolonging its concession agreement in 1921, signed by Lenin.
The 1920s, and the early 1930s represented great decades for The Great Northern Telegraph Company as it had managed to acquire a reputation as being one of the leading international telecommunication companies in the world. The late 1930s, however, presented great challenges as competition from wireless telegraphy was becoming increasingly severe. In addition, World War II caused great damage to the telegraph lines around the world, which meant that in 1945 the company had only two lines left; the England-Faroes-Iceland line and the Sweden-Finland line. Although broken lines were repaired and re-established after the war, the company had to acknowledge that an era was over.

Thus, the new strategy was to focus on a broader segment by investing in various companies across sectors. This strategy was initiated in 1939 with the investment in the battery factory Hellesens. Over the following decades, The Great Northern Telegraph Company balanced between investing in the telecommunications industry and other industries. On the industry side, it invested in companies such as Lauritz Knudsen, which produced electrical goods, and in 1947, the radiotelephone production company Storno (a contraction of Store Nordiske (Great Northern)) was founded. Other acquisitions were Telematic, which produced telephones, Elmi, which produced measuring equipment, and Danavox, which produced hearing aids.

GN Store Nord since 1985

In 1985, The Great Northern Telegraph Company changed its name to GN Store Nord (GN = Great Nordic) with the aim of creating a new group identity and organizing its businesses. In this process, all subsidiaries were renamed to include GN: GN Danavox, GN NetTest, GN Automatic, etc. A major change happened in 1991 when GN was assigned the attractive GMS concession from the national Danish telecommunication authorities. In March 1992, GN's new subsidiary Sonofon opened the first private mobile telephone network in Denmark. Although GN was not the only investor in Sonofon, it owned the majority of the shares. With the blossoming of the data communications and telephony industry, and under CEO Jørgen Lindegaard, GN was back on track and enjoyed big success in the late 1990s. In 2000, the company sold Sonofon to Norwegian telecom operator Telenor for a price of DKK 14,7 billion.
A large amount was invested in the GN subsidiary NetTest, which had evolved from the former Elmi and considered GN's prospective core business. It was decided to let NetTest acquire the French company Photonetics for a price of DKK 9,1 billion. The optimistic view of the future was also reflected in the share price, which had increased fivefold in only one year, from September 1, 1999, to September 1, 2000. Same year the American Jabra Corporation was acquired.
The focus and investment in NetTest, however, resulted in a serious downturn since GN had misjudged the market development of NetTest's products. In 2001, net profit ended at DKK -9,2 billion, followed by a share price decline equivalent to previous years' gains. Thereby major parts of the yield from Sonofon was lost within one year, and shareholders were raging in the media and at the annual general meeting.

The following years' turbulence led to the company selling most of its subsidiaries and leaving Tietgen's old headquarters in 1893 at Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. GN Store Nord's headquarter currently resides in Ballerup North of Copenhagen, Denmark. GN continued focusing on its two core businesses; hearing aids and headsets, produced by GN Hearing and GN Audio, respectively.
On October 2, 2006, GN announced its decision to divest GN Hearing (formerly GN ReSound) and GN Otometrics (a company producing audio measuring equipment) to Swiss competitor Sonova (formerly known as Phonak). The deal, however, was annulled after being blocked by the German Cartel Office. After this, GN announced that it intended to keep the two companies but filed an appeal against the court ruling. The case is still pending.

The blocked deal, however, left GN challenged to the extreme with two underperforming businesses, a thin product pipeline, a heavy debt position, and facing a highly adverse macroeconomic environment. Nonetheless, with comprehensive restructuring and management efforts, the company managed to survive. Since then, GN has gradually fought its way back.
In 2009, GN Audio (then GN Netcom) made a decision to globally market all its products under the same brand, Jabra (a company that GN had acquired in 2000). The purpose of consolidating all products under the same brand was to strengthen the company's position as the world's leading supplier of headsets.
Today, GN Audio is a world leader in Unified Communications headsets, and within the last couple of years, the company has managed to be the first at introducing a number of innovative products on the market. In 2014, the company launched the world's first sports headset with a built-in heart rate monitor. In addition, a series of noise cancellation headsets with a concentration zone has been launched, which are specially designed to improve employees' ability to concentrate in noisy open offices.
GN Hearing also got back on track. In 2010, the company launched the world's first hearing aid with 2.4 GHz technology – the new wireless technology was groundbreaking compared to the previous inductive technology. In 2014, GN Hearing changed the industry once more with the introduction of the world's first Made for iPhone hearing aid, which, based on the 2.4 GHz technology enables the streaming of sound directly from an iPhone without any body-worn devices.

In October 2016, GN Audio acquired VXi Corporation, the manufacturer of both the VXi and BlueParrott headset brands.

Business
Today, the GN Group consists of GN Store Nord A/S, GN Hearing A/S, and GN Audio A/S. GN develops and manufactures intelligent hearing, audio, video, and gaming solutions. GN's offerings are marketed by the brands ReSound, Jabra, SteelSeries, Beltone, Interton, Danavox, and FalCom in more than 100 markets globally.

Directors
(Incomplete)
(1873-1908) Edouard Suenson
(1908-1938) Kay Suenson
(1938-1966) Bent Suenson
(1985-2000) Christian Tillisch (GN Netcom)
(1987-1993) Thomas Duer
(2000-2003) Niels B. Christiansen (GN Netcom)
(1995-2001) Jørgen Lindegaard
(2001-2006) Jørn Kildegaard
(1997-2008) Jesper Mailind (GN ReSound)
(2006-2009) Toon Bouten (GN Netcom)
(2008-2010) Mike Van der Wallen (GN ReSound)
(2009-2013) Mogens Elsberg (GN Netcom)
(2014–2015) Niels Svenningsen (GN Netcom)
(2010-2014) Lars Viksmoen (GN ReSound)
(2014–2018) Anders Hedegaard(GN ReSound/GN Hearing)
(2018–2019) Jakob Gudbrand(GN ReSound / GN Hearing)
(2019–present) Gitte Pugholm Aabo (GN ReSound / GN Hearing)
(2015–present) René Svendsen-Tune (GN Netcom/GN Audio)

Further reading
 Baark, Erik. Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization 1860-1890 (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood. 1997)
 Iversen, Martin Jes. "Via Northern: Strategic and organisational upheavals of Great Northern Telegraph Company, 1939–1948 and 1966–1977." Scandinavian Economic History Review 51.1 (2003): 29–45.
 Jacobsen, Kurt. "Wasted opportunities? The Great Northern Telegraph Company and the wireless challenge." Business History 52.2 (2010): 231–250.
 Helge Holst, Elektriciteten, Nordisk Forlag, 1911.
 Kurt Jacobsen, Den røde tråd. Det Store Nordiske Telegraf-Selskabs storpolitiske spil efter den russiske revolution, København: Gyldendal 1997.
 GN Store Nord's 125th anniversary publication: From dots and dashes to tele - and data communication, June 1, 1994.
 Martin Jes-Iversen, Turn Around - Kampen om GN Store Nord, Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2015

External links

GN at NASDAQ OMX
Great Northern Telegraph History
www.stornotime.dk The story about a Storno radiotelefonfabrik.

References

Companies listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen
Electronics companies of Denmark
Telegraph companies of Denmark
Conglomerate companies of Denmark
Companies based in Ballerup Municipality
Technology companies based in Copenhagen
Manufacturing companies established in 1869
Danish companies established in 1869


The Minnesota Twins are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the American League Central division. They formerly played in Washington, D.C. as the Washington Senators before moving to Minnesota after the 1960 season. The first game of the new baseball season for a team is played on Opening Day, and being named the Opening Day starter is an honor, which is often given to the player who is expected to lead the pitching staff that season, though there are various strategic reasons why a team's best pitcher might not start on Opening Day. The Twins have used 26 different Opening Day starting pitchers in their 51 seasons in Minnesota. Starters have a combined Opening Day record of 14 wins, 25 losses and 12 no decisions. No decisions are only awarded to the starting pitcher if the game is won or lost after the starting pitcher has left the game.

Brad Radke holds the Minnesota Twins record for most Opening Day starts with nine.  He has a record in Opening Day starts for the Twins of four wins and two losses (4–2) with three no decisions.  Bert Blyleven had six Opening Day starts for the Twins and Frank Viola had four. Radke has the record for most wins in Minnesota Twins Opening Day starts with four. Liván Hernández, Mudcat Grant, and Dean Chance share the best winning percentage in Opening Day starts with one win and no losses (1–0) each.  Kevin Tapani has the worst winning percentage, losing both Opening Day starts he made for the Twins (0–2).

Overall, Minnesota Twins Opening Day starting pitchers have a record of 4–7 with three no decisions at Metropolitan Stadium and a 1–4 record with one no decision at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. Their first home opener in their current ballpark of Target Field was in 2013. This gives their Opening Day starting pitchers' combined home record 5–11 with four no no decisions.  Their away record is 9–14 with eight no decisions. The Twins went on to play in the World Series in , , and , winning in 1987 and 1991. The Twins lost both Opening Day games in the years in which they won the World Series.

Key

Pitchers

References

Opening day starters
Lists of Major League Baseball Opening Day starting pitchers


Charles Isidore Douin (1858 – 1944) was a French bryologist who was a native of Bouville, Eure-et-Loir.

Biography
He taught school in Chartres, and was the author of a highly regarded work on mosses and liverworts titled Nouvelle flore des mousses et des hépatiques pour la détermination facile des espèces (1892). He also published a book involving bryology of Eure-et-Loir, Muscinées d'Eure-et-Loir (1906).

The liverwort genus Douinia from the family Scapaniaceae is named in his honor in 1928.

References
 Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the French Wikipedia.

1858 births
1944 deaths
People from Eure-et-Loir
20th-century French botanists
Bryologists
19th-century French botanists


Mitchell Gene Ben Hanson (born 2 September 1988) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent 2006 to 2011 at Derby County, playing on loan at Port Vale and Notts County, before signing with Eastwood Town via Oxford United in 2011, where he became joint-caretaker manager in October 2012. He moved to Gresley in summer 2013.

Club career
Born in Derby, Derbyshire, Hanson had extensive reserve team experience and made his debut for the reserve team whilst a schoolboy. Hanson's first taste of first team at Derby was appearing as an unused substitute in the 5–0 defeat away to Reading in April 2006. Hanson, who graduated through the academy, signed his first professional contract with Derby in June 2007. After struggling to break into Paul Jewell's first team, Hanson joined League One strugglers Port Vale on a season long loan, despite struggling with a calf injury. He returned to Derby in April 2008, without making a first team appearance for the "Valiants".

He made his first team debut for Derby as an 89th-minute substitute in a 4–1 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion on 4 November 2008. and joined Notts County on a months loan in November 2008. He returned to Derby County on New Years Day 2009, after having appeared in five league games for the "Magpies" He signed a new two-year deal with the "Rams" in January 2009.

Early in the 2009–10 season, Hanson sustained a dislocated kneecap which ruled him out of contention for a year, eventually resuming full training in late September 2010. He returned to action with a 60-minute appearance in the reserves 3–1 defeat at Rotherham United the following month. After failing to break into the first team picture, Hanson's Derby contract was cancelled by mutual consent five months early in January 2011. He played for Oxford United reserves on trial in February 2011. Two months later he signed a contract until the end of the season; he made two substitute appearances for the club and was not offered a new contract in the summer.

In September 2011, he signed for Conference North club Eastwood Town. The "Badgers" suffered relegation in last place in 2011–12, winning just four games all season. He was appointed caretaker manager, alongside Paul Riley, following the departure of former manager John Ramshaw in October 2012.

He signed with Gresley of Northern Premier League Division One South in September 2013. He helped the "Moatmen" to a ninth-place finish in 2013–14. He became Gresley's first choice penalty taker in the 2014–15 season, and successfully converted the first five penalties of the season. Gresley reached the play-off semi-finals in 2015, losing to Leek Town. He retired in September 2015 due to injury.

International career
Hanson has played for England at under-18 level, showing his versatility by adapting to a holding midfielder role, rather than his preferred position in defence.

Career statistics

References

1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Derby
English men's footballers
Black British sportsmen
Men's association football defenders
Derby County F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
Oxford United F.C. players
Eastwood Town F.C. players
Gresley Rovers F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Northern Premier League players
English football managers
Eastwood Town F.C. managers
Northern Premier League managers


The Leontes Bridge is a Roman bridge in Lebanon; it crosses the Litani River (the ancient Leontes) in the vicinity of Nahr Abou Assouad, 10 km north of Tyre. The bridge, which is dated to the 3rd or 4th century AD, features a comparatively flat arch with a span-to-rise ratio of 3.1 to 1.

According to examination modern satellite data (Google Earth), it appears that the Roman Bridge over the Litani is in fact destroyed, apparently beyond repair.  One can see the approach masonry from the north and south, in addition to the center support ruins still visible in the river.

According to Wikipedia, the bridge was destroyed during the Battle of the Litani River during WWII:

"The 21st Australian Brigade advanced along the coast road heading for Beirut and attempted to cross the Litani River. A surprise night time landing by the British No. 11 (Scottish) Commando, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel R.L. Pedder (Highland Light Infantry), was attempted in order to seize the bridge near the mouth of the river, but was delayed by rough seas on the proposed landing beach. This gave the Vichy French defenders enough time to destroy the bridge. When the commandos eventually landed in daylight, in three separate places, the initial landing was almost unopposed due to the defenders being in combat against the Australian troops,[2] subsequently in the fighting they took heavy casualties, among them Pedder, who was killed in an assault on the French barracks. He was succeeded in command by Geoffrey Keyes, whose party was ultimately able to secure the crossing by getting over the river in canvas boats with the help of some of the Australian troops."

See also
 List of Roman bridges
 Roman architecture
 Roman engineering

Notes

Sources

External links
 Jafet Library (American University of Beirut) - old photo
 New York Public Library Digital Gallery – old woodcut

Bridges in Lebanon
Roman segmental arch bridges
Stone arch bridges


Joerg Deisinger (born Jörg Deisinger) is a German photographer, musician and the former bassist and a founding member of the German 1980s heavy metal band Bonfire.

Early life and Bonfire

Deisinger was born in Nuremberg, Germany, on 23 April 1966. His pre-teen obsession with learning how to play guitar eventually became a full-fledged pursuit of becoming a rock star. When it became clear he had a genuine chance of realizing his dream, Deisinger quit his apprenticeship as an electrician to devote himself to music full-time.

Deisinger joined German hard rock band as a bassist Cacumen in 1985, which would change its name to Bonfire in May 1986 in the interest of having a catchier moniker to push their new album, Don't Touch the Light. The name was suggested by Deisinger and after some consideration replaced Cacumen. He recorded four albums with the band – Don't Touch the Light (1986), Fireworks (1987), Point Blank (1989), and Knock Out (1991).  During his time with the band touring Europe extensively with acts such as Victory, Krokus, ZZ Top and Judas Priest. They sold almost 750,000 albums over a four-year period even though the North American market failed to embrace Bonfire as Europe had. Deisinger played his last show with Bonfire on 29 July 1994.

On 3 July 1996, a one-time one-payment offer was made by Claus Lessmann and original Bonfire guitarist Hans Ziller to buy the band name back from Deisinger, guitarist Angel Schleifer and drummer Edgar Patrik, as the trio had no desire to resurrect Bonfire.

After Bonfire
Deisinger went on to record two albums with Paul Sabu (self-titled – 1996, Between the Light – 1998). In 1999 he formed Soul Doctor with Fair Warning singer Tommy Heart, and while the band's 2001 self-titled debut held promise, the 2003 follow-up, Systems Go Wild, suffered from creative differences between Deisinger and Heart. Following its release, Deisinger left the band in April 2003.

In 2003 Deisinger received a Gold record for Bonfire's Fireworks album, which had officially sold 250,000 copies in Germany alone, since its 1987 release.

Deisinger relocated to Thailand in 2004. In addition to doing occasional live gigs as a session player, he opened an English school in Sichon with his girlfriend. In December of that year, the last minute cancellation of a planned Christmas vacation to Koh Phi Phi Don ultimately saved Deisinger's life; the tsunami that decimated parts of Thailand, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Malaysia on 26 December 2004 laid waste to the resort where he was supposed to be staying.

On 17 March 2005 Deisinger returned to Nuremberg, Germany and started working as a freelance photographer, eventually founding Deisinger Photography, which specializes in wedding, travel and event photographs and portfolios.

Fire and Fame

In 2005 Deisinger approached Canadian music journalist and writer Carl Begai about co-writing his memoirs, which focused on his Bonfire career. The project, eventually dubbed Fire and Fame by Carl, wrapped up in late 2007 and was released independently in August 2008.

Discography

Bonfire

Albums
 1986: Don't Touch the Light
 1987: Fireworks
 1989: Point Blank
 1991: Knock Out
 1993: Live... The Best

DVD
 2001: Golden Bullets (DVD, reissue of The Best)

Other
 1989: Sword and Stone (Shocker soundtrack)

Axel Rudi Pell
 1989: Wild Obsession

Sabu
 1996: self-titled
 1998: Between the Light
 2003: Resurfaced

Soul Doctor
 2001: self-titled
 2002: Systems Go Wild

References

External links
www.joergdeisinger.com – Deisinger Photography (German)
fireandfame.com – official website of the book Fire and Fame

1966 births
Musicians from Nuremberg
Photographers from Bavaria
Living people
German rock bass guitarists
Male bass guitarists
German memoirists
German male non-fiction writers
German male guitarists
Bonfire (band) members


Baba Sampana (born 14 December 1991 in Ghana) is a Ghanaian football player currently playing for the Philippines Football League side Ilocos United F.C. in the Philippines.

Career
He moved in January 2008 from Shelter Force to Real Sportive, with whom he played one year. He then left Real Sportive for Eleven Wise in 2009 and in August 2009 signed for Accra Hearts of Oak SC.

International
He was member of the Ghana national under-17 football team in 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Korea Republic. On 19 August 2008 he was first called for the Satellites.

Honours

Club
Loyola
UFL Cup: 2013

Individual
UFL Cup Golden Gloves: 2013

References

1991 births
Living people
Ghanaian men's footballers
Accra Hearts of Oak S.C. players
Sekondi Eleven Wise F.C. players
Real Sportive players
Expatriate men's footballers in the Philippines
Ilocos United F.C. players
Loyola F.C. players
Men's association football goalkeepers
Philippines Football League players


Dalí·Jewels () is a permanent exhibition at the Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain, for which the architect Òscar Tusquets has completely refurbished a building annexed to the museum. The two floors that house the collection of jewels have an entrance independent from that of the museum, and can therefore be visited separately. The exhibition, includes the thirty-seven jewels in gold and precious stones from the old Owen Cheatham collection, two jewels made later, and the twenty-seven drawings and paintings on paper that Salvador Dalí made in designing the jewels. The whole forms an extensive collection of works carried out by the artist between 1941 and 1970, providing a perfect illustration of the various phases of his artistic development.

With the consultancy and supervision of the Spanish Gemmology Association, the collection was acquired by the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation from a Japanese organisation in 1999. Since that time, the association's experts, in collaboration with technicians from the foundation's Conservation Department and the Dalí Study Centre, have been cataloguing each of the pieces and designing a permanent exhibition for them.

History
The history of these jewels started in 1911. The first 22 were acquired by the US millionaire Cummins Catherwood. Salvador Dalí made the designs for the pieces on paper, with all kinds of details and great precision of shapes, materials and colours, while they were made up in New York by the team of the Argentinean-born silversmith Carlos Alemany under the close supervision of the artist himself. In 1958 they were acquired by The Owen Cheatham Foundation, a prestigious US foundation created in 1934 that lent the jewel collection out so that various charitable, educational and cultural organisations could raise funds by exhibiting it, and finally deposited it at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Dalí, in collaboration with the Dutch American framemaker Henry Heydenryk, Jr. and Alemany, created special settings and illuminated frames for a traveling exhibition of the jewels sponsored by the Cheatham Foundation. The collection of jewels had already been exhibited temporarily at the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres during the months of August and September 1973, a year before the museum was inaugurated and while the Master was still alive. In 1981 the collection was acquired by a Saudi multimillionaire, and later by three Japanese entities, the last of which agreed to sell it to the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation.

Collection
All the pieces in the collection are unique items, and the combination of materials, dimensions and shapes used by Salvador Dalí make this a one-off set in which the artist managed to express in a unique way the wealth of his singular iconography. Gold, platinum, precious stones (diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, aquamarines, topazes, etc.), pearls, corals and other noble materials combine to form hearts, lips, eyes, plant and animal forms, religious and mythological symbols and anthropomorphic forms.

As well as designing the forms of the jewels, Salvador Dalí personally selected each of the materials used, not only for their colours or value but also for their meaning and the symbolic connotations of each and every one of the previous stones and noble metals. Some of the jewels that form part of this collection, such as The Eye of Time (1949), Royal Heart (1953), or The Space Elephant (1961), have become key works and are considered to be as exceptional as some of his paintings.

External links

 Dalí·Jewels official website

Salvador Dalí
Jewellery museums


Harry Walker Wellford (August 6, 1924 – April 17, 2021) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

Education and early career
Wellford was born on August 6, 1924, in Memphis, Tennessee. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Lee University in 1947. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1950. He was in the United States Navy as an Ensign from 1944 to 1946. He was in private practice of law in Memphis from 1950 to 1970. He also was active in political affairs, managing the successful campaigns of Howard Baker for United States Senate in 1966 and Winfield Dunn for Governor of Tennessee in 1970.

Federal judicial service
Wellford was nominated by President Richard Nixon on November 24, 1970, to the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, to a new seat created by 84 Stat. 294. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 11, 1970, and received commission on December 12, 1970. His service was terminated on September 10, 1982, due to elevation to the Sixth Circuit.

On August 4, 1976 President Gerald Ford nominated Wellford to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to replace William Ernest Miller, who had died on April 12, 1976. Civil rights groups objected to Wellford's nomination and, with the nomination coming so late in Ford's presidency, the Senate never took a vote on his nomination before Ford left office. President Jimmy Carter declined to renominate Wellford when he took office, nominating Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. instead.

On July 27, 1982, he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated by Judge Bailey Brown. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 20, 1982, and received commission the same day. He assumed senior status on January 15, 1991.

Personal life
Wellford was married to Katherine Estes Potts Wellford, and they had five children. He died in Memphis in April 2021 at the age of 96. On September 2, 2022, his granddaughter Eliza Fletcher, a kindergarten teacher, was kidnapped, raped and murdered while out for an early morning jog in Memphis in a case that attracted national media attention.

See also
 Gerald Ford judicial appointment controversies
 List of United States federal judges by longevity of service

References

Sources

1924 births
2021 deaths
20th-century American judges
21st-century American judges
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
Military personnel from Tennessee
Politicians from Memphis, Tennessee
Tennessee Republicans
United States court of appeals judges appointed by Ronald Reagan
United States district court judges appointed by Richard Nixon
United States Navy officers
Vanderbilt University alumni
Washington and Lee University alumni
United States Navy personnel of World War II


Oregon Ballot Measure 58 may refer to:

Oregon Ballot Measure 58 (1998), measure that restored the right of adopted adults to access their original birth certificates
Oregon Ballot Measure 58 (2008), measure to require "English immersion" in Oregon's public schools


Dr. Daniel Granger is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera Doctors, portrayed by Matthew Chambers. Daniel was introduced as a general practitioner at the Mill Health Centre on 9 July 2007. His storylines in the programme have included his addiction to gambling, on-off relationship with Zara Carmichael (Elisabeth Dermot Walsh), becoming a father and suffering from post-natal depression, briefly going to prison and becoming a partner at the Mill Health Centre. Chambers departed the soap in 2023 after 16 years in the role.

Casting and characterisation
Daniel was introduced as the nephew of established character Joe Fenton (Stephen Boxer). He arrives "somewhat under a cloud", hiding a gambling addiction that he lies about. On his BBC Online profile, he was billed as "a friendly, charming man who's always well turned out and is very much aware of his attractiveness", as well as "embodying all that is charm and sophistication". Daniel is shown to be a good and effective doctor, but also a "big kid" who focuses on the short term rather than long. His BBC profile also mentioned his "darker side" and ability to lie easily, something which causes him trouble. It noted his close relationship with Joe, who always "inevitably comes to his rescue".

Storylines
Daniel arrives hiding dangerous secrets, following the theft of a large sum of money from his former practice partner in London. He uses the money to clear part of a £200,000 debt he had run up as a result of an ongoing gambling addiction. With no intention of facing up to his problem, his addiction continues to spiral out of control, resulting in a confrontation with his criminal debtors. The criminals' actions worsen when they take Melody Bell (Elizabeth Bower) and Joe Fenton (Stephen Boxer) hostage to force Daniel to repay them. Following the ordeal, Daniel comes to terms with his addiction and turns himself in to the police. He is faced with a tribunal. Daniel goes through further turmoil as his mentally ill colleague Ruth Pearce (Selina Chilton) holds him captive in the medical centre's sick bay. Daniel makes an escape attempt and injures his leg, cutting it on the glass from a window.

When a new nurse, Cherry Malone (Sophie Abelson), begins working at the practice, Daniel finds himself growing attracted to her, and the pair later have sex, despite Cherry's husband Jimmi (Adrian Lewis Morgan) being a colleague of Daniel's. It was during this time that Daniel discovers that one of his patients, Cybil, has died, leaving him a large amount of money in her will. Daniel spends this money on a high-end sports car and a luxury apartment. Zara Carmichael (Elisabeth Dermot Walsh) comes over to his flat, but she ends the relationship within the same day, stating that they needed to get it out of the way before they could work together. A story is sold to the Letherbridge newspaper about Daniel conning Cybil. Julia Parsons (Diane Keen) sees it and calls a meeting with Lily Hassan (Seeta Indrani) and Heston Carter (Owen Brenman); Daniel claims that he shouldn't have to apologise because the money was a gift; however, Lily insists that he should. With the backing of the partners, Daniel opened the Granger Clinic, a botox clinic which is run within the Mill.

Daniel is enrolled on a team building course with Zara by Julia, after she is fed up with constantly seeing Daniel and Zara arguing at the surgery. At the session, he tries his best to comfort Zara when the whole class was assigned to tell each other about their personal lives. She talks emotionally about her father and his imprisonment, and that she is helping him battle to prove his innocence of manslaughter. They got very close and nearly kissed. Zara sleeps with Daniel numerous times, and she pretends to be his girlfriend so Daniel could have access to his daughter. Afterwards, Daniel takes Zara bowling and they become a couple.

Zara starts having hot flushes and menopausal symptoms. At first, he asks if she is pregnant, but she lies and said it was probably just premenstrual syndrome. Zara later comes clean about the menopause, thinking Daniel wants to end their relationship. Misreading the situation, she ended it first. Daniel trapped Zara in her office and they got back together. They were seen leaving The Mill holding hands. Daniel later dumps Zara for Lisa Torres (Michelle Lukes), leaving Zara devastated. Daniel does not appear happy with Lisa, and in April 2011, Daniel and Zara get back together. Later that month, Lisa leaves Letherbridge, meaning that Daniel only sees his daughter Izzie Torres (Jasmin and Nicole Parkinson) every other weekend. In 2011, Daniel and Zara try in vitro fertilisation. They are left devastated when they discover it did not work, and Zara is not pregnant. However, she later discovers that she is pregnant. On 13 February 2012, Zara went into early labour at The Mill. Daniel was unaware of this as he had gone to town with Jimmi. Daniel was driven back to The Mill and held his newborn baby boy for the first time. Daniel, his baby and Zara were taken to hospital. Following a phone call from Joe, the couple decided to name their son Joe Granger Carmichael (Emily and Lewis Whitehouse).

Daniel finds Zara having sex with Sid Vere (Ashley Rice). Daniel attempts to get over it and continue his marriage with Zara, but when Zara slaps Izzie (now Bethan Moore), he ends their relationship. In 2019, he begins a relationship with Practice Manager Becky Clarke (Ali Bastian). However, while attending a medical conference at a hotel alongside Zara, the pair sleep together. Becky later reveals to Daniel that she is pregnant, and he is the father. When she miscarries the baby and expresses an interest in trying again for a child, Daniel tells her that he does not want to have another child. He later tells Becky that he is not over Zara, and confesses that he slept with her at the conference. Becky ends the relationship with Daniel, and finds a new job in order to escape the tension. As a result of the breakup, Jimmi suggests that Daniel should attend therapy, to which he begins attending. One of the issues that is brought up in therapy is that Daniel is worried about the environment for the sake of his children. As a result, he talks business manager Bear Sylvester (Dex Lee) into buying an electric car for The Mill. When Izzie visits, she sees netting placed over the trees, placed to stop birds from roosting in them. Upset, she convinces Daniel and Valerie Pitman (Sarah Moyle) to cut down the nets at night. However, a resident calls the police, and Daniel is arrested. The charge is dropped as the owner of the car park does not want bad publicity. Both single, Zara and Daniel begin their relationship again.

Development

Parenthood and post-natal depression
In September 2010, Walsh, who portrays Zara, revealed details of a storyline involving Zara and Daniel. Speaking at the Inside Soap Awards, she said: "There's a fantastic five-part story coming up in the next few weeks involving my character and Daniel. I don't want to give everything away, but something terrible happens to Daniel's baby daughter and Zara steps in to help. It's all very dramatic! It's nice to be the good guy for a change. Normally Zara plays the baddie and for once she gets to play the heroine, which makes a nice change for me!" This was later revealed to be an abduction plot, which Chambers described as one of his favourite storylines to film.

In 2011, Digital Spy journalist Daniel Kilkelly noted that Daniel and Zara were a popular couple. He asked producer Peter Eryl Lloyd what was coming up for them, to which he confirmed that the pair would become parents together. He hinted that neither of them are ready for parenthood at the time. Daniel "makes a great play of being experienced" in parenting but Lloyd confirmed that his confidence is a con. At the same time as this storyline, Chambers was directing episodes of Doctors, filming scenes with Zara in-between looking for locations and auditioning actors.

Following the birth of Joe, Daniel gets post-natal depression. Chambers thought it was wonderful that he had been given the storyline, since he felt that men having it is not covered on television or daily life enough. He found that most people associated it with women and thought the story was "a great chance to explore it and bring it to the fore". Chambers explained that while most men in Daniel's place would receive help for their depression, Daniel does not understand it. For Daniel, it becomes "a question of realising what is actually going on. Having a child is such a massive change to your life, so trying to figure out what's making you feel this way when you have depression can be difficult". He also liked that the story represented men who do not get help for their mental health.

Chambers was asked if he had been contacted by any men who had been through post-natal depression. He recalled that during the storyline airing, his friend, who had a four-month-old baby, began to change in personality. The two had a conversation and it led to his friend realising he had post-natal depression, who later got therapy for it. Chambers said: "I hope people who watch the show and have suffered from this now feel more at ease when it comes to speaking about it."

Infidelity
In 2012, Chambers enjoyed one of the biggest years for Daniel regarding storylines. The year, which had ups and downs for Daniel, was well-received by Chambers since he felt that long-running characters need ups and downs. It begins with Daniel having an affair with Cherry, which gets exposed. This leads to Daniel and Zara separating, with Chambers finding it strange filming without Walsh. Prior to his affair, Daniel had steadied as a character following his tumultuous arrival. However, Chambers was not surprised at Daniel relapsing to bad behaviour. He explained: "I think it's always been lurking beneath the surface with him, as he's such a volatile character." However, he was taken aback by the affair being with Cherry, due to her marriage to his best friend, Jimmi. Despite this, he liked the twist since it was controversial. Daniel is shown to be relieved when the secrets of the affair come out. Daniel had known that it would come out eventually and he is glad that he does not have to admit to it. Daniel believes that Jimmi will never forgive him, but hopes that he does. Chambers knew that Daniel and Zara would get back together following the storyline; he described them as "volatile creatures [who] have quite a bit in common".

Departure
In March 2023, Chambers announced that he would be departing Doctors after 16 years. He filmed his final scenes on 4 April 2023.

Reception
In 2009, Chambers was nominated for Best Acting Performance at the RTS Midlands Awards. In 2012, Chambers and Dermot Walsh were nominated for Best On-Screen Partnership at the British Soap Awards, but lost out to Jake Wood and Jo Joyner who play Max and Tanya Branning on EastEnders; they were nominated again a year later. At the 2016 and 2018 British Soap Awards, Chambers was longlisted for Best Actor. At the 24th National Television Awards, he was longlisted for Serial Drama Performance. Later that year, he was nominated for Best Villain at the 2019 British Soap Awards, as well as Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards.

See also
 List of Doctors characters (2007)
 List of soap opera villains

References

External links
 Daniel Granger at BBC Online

Doctors (2000 TV series) characters
Fictional British medical doctors
British male characters in television
Male villains
Television characters introduced in 2007


Joseph Addo (born November 2, 1990, in Ghana) is a Ghanaian footballer currently playing for Ghanaian club Aduana Stars in the Glo Premier, as a goalkeeper.

Career
Addo began his career on youth team of Sekondi Hasaacas F.C. and was promoted to the club's senior Glo Premier League team in January 2006. After his return from the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup he became the starting goalie for his club Sekondi Hasaacas. Addo left the club following its relegation to the Poly Tank Division One League and from the 2010–11 Glo Premier League season and joined Glo Premier League club and joined Heart of Lions in start for the 2011–12 Glo Premier League season.

International career
Addo was member for Ghana national under-17 football team in 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in South Korea and played 7 games. He was the first choice goalkeeper for the under 17 tournament in Korea 2007 where Ghana placed third in the championship. On 19 August 2008 was called for the Satellites and with the team  won the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt where he was taken the second choice goalkeeper.

He was called up to the senior Ghana squad for a World Cup qualifier against Egypt in October 2017.

Titles and honours

International
Ghana U-20
 FIFA U-20 World Cup Champion: 2009

References

External links
 FIFA Profile

1990 births
Living people
Ghanaian men's footballers
Ghana men's under-20 international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
King Faisal Babes F.C. players
Sekondi Hasaacas F.C. players
African Games gold medalists for Ghana
African Games medalists in football
Aduana Stars F.C. players
Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games
People from Central Region (Ghana)


Vanilla Ice Is Back! is a cover album by the rapper Vanilla Ice. Released in 2008 by Cleopatra Records, it is a cover album containing covers of several popular hip hop tracks, as well as one reggae selection: "Buffalo Soldier", originally performed by Bob Marley.

Production and release
Vanilla Ice chose most of the songs for the record, but he says he had no creative control over the production process.  The album was first released as a digital download on November 4, 2008, and on digital compact disc on November 11, 2008.

The cover is modeled after that of Elvis Presley's 1960 album Elvis Is Back!.

Reception

IGN reviewer Spence Abbott wrote: "From uninspired nu metal interpretations to thin voiced funk interpretations on down to the poor synth break beats, [the album] is an embarrassing endeavor that sounds like it should have stayed locked inside Ice's studio (or at the very least leaked on YouTube and passed off as a piss take)."

Track listing

Samples
Buffalo Soldier
"Change the Beat (Female Version)" by Beside
Insane in the Brain
"Hits From the Bong" by Cypress Hill

References

Covers albums
Vanilla Ice remix albums
2008 remix albums
Cleopatra Records albums


The Addiction: Hope Is Near is the seventh album released by rapper Fiend. It was released on June 27, 2006, for Fiend Entertainment and was produced by Fiend and Beats By the Pound members KLC & Craig B. The album peaked at No. 70 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.

Track listing
"Want It All"- 4:35 (feat. Hound)
"Thugg'n and Drugg'n"- 4:03
"Sell It"- 3:30
"Thug Shit"- 3:05
"That Iron Gang"- 3:49 (feat. Corner Boy P)
"Do Right, Do Better"- 3:34
"B.C.O.O.C.N."- 3:25
"Get it Bitch"- 4:44 (feat. Shorty Redd)
"Gotta Get It"- 4:22
"That's What U Want"- 4:46
"Press Play"- 3:23 (feat. Corner Boy P)
"Wired Up"- 3:28
"Oprah" (Color Purple)- 5:31
"What U Ain't"- 4:08
"What Is U Sayin"- 3:56
"Why iz U Playin'"- 3:48
"That's Survival"- 2:27
"Bottom of the Map"- 2:40 (feat. Corner Boy P & Calicoe)

References

2006 albums
Fiend (rapper) albums


Colin Bryce (born 4 August 1974, in Newcastle upon Tyne) is a former Great Britain Olympic bobsledder, Strongman, now working as a television presenter and producer. He currently works as a sports commentator for the BBC, ESPN, Fox Sports, Eurosport, Channel Five, Channel 4 and CBBC.

Early life and education
Although born in Newcastle, Bryce grew up in Craigie, Perthshire, as well as spending six years living in the US where he made the Pennsylvania state finals as a wrestler.

He is a graduate of the University of Glasgow in Physiology and Sport Science.

Brian Shaw revealed that Colin had been in a music video "Space Cowboy" when he was younger and often references it in his videos when around Colin.

Career

Colin was a reserve in World's Strongest Man in 1997 and competed in Britain's Strongest Man in 1999.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, he participated in the two-man bobsleigh event only two years after taking up the sport competitively. He was the brakeman for the British team despite recovering from a broken leg only five months before.  He competed in the two-man Bobsleigh alongside Neil Scarisbrick, and placed 22nd.  In 2004, he came out of the commentary booth and retirement to help an injury-ridden British team at the World Championships in Schoenau am Koenigsee, Germany, where he placed in the top 20 with driver Lee Johnston.

He has also done some high-profile refereeing work on TV shows including ITV's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, BBC's Superstars, ESPN's World's Strongest Man coverage and CBBC's Airmageddon.

Some of his Eurosport work includes commentaries on the World Bobsleigh, Skeleton and Luge tour, the Sydney Olympics, Japanese game show Viking: The Ultimate Obstacle Course, the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, the Stihl Lumberjack World Championships, K-1 Total Knock Out and the BDO World Darts Championship.

Bryce was a BBC commentator at the Winter Olympics in Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010, working alongside Paul Dickenson. They commentated on the only British medal when Amy Williams took Gold in the Skeleton event.

Since 2009, Bryce has been involved in the televised coverage of the World's Strongest Man contest initially on Bravo and subsequently on Channel 5 in the UK. Since 2003, he has presented the World Strongest Man Qualifying Tours, Giants Live and the Strongman Super Series, often with former England rugby player Martin Bayfield.

Bryce commentated the Highlander Challenge 2009 series which took place at Scone Palace and aired on Channel 4. Recently, he presented coverage of the Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge in 2009 and 2010 on Eurosport. The event is an extreme 5-day adventure race all around the emirates.

References

External links
colinbryce.com, official website
2002 bobsleigh two-man results
British Olympic Association profile

1974 births
Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics
British male bobsledders
Scottish television presenters
Scottish television producers
Sportspeople from Newcastle upon Tyne
Scottish strength athletes
Living people
Olympic bobsledders for Great Britain


Claes Johansson Uggla (1614 – 1 June 1676) was a Swedish military officer of the 17th century, who served in both the army and the navy, reaching the rank of Admiral before he was killed in action during the naval Battle of Öland.

Biography
Uggla was born in the village of Afverstad in Ölseruds parish, Värmland, the son of Colonel Johan Uggla and Margareta Gyllenmärs. As a young man he was a page at the royal court. During the Torstenson War of 1643-1645 he served as a volunteer in the navy, seeing action in the fleet under the command of Clas Fleming. From 1646 Uggla served in the Swedish army. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Prague in 1648, and was promoted to captain lieutenant. In 1650, he was promoted to captain in the Life Guards, accompanying Charles X during the Second Northern War. When the Dano-Swedish War broke out in 1657 Uggla returned to naval service. He was promoted to major and in November 1658 participated in the Battle of the Sound against the Dutch fleet. In 1660, he was promoted to lieutenant admiral. During a three-year stay in Lübeck, he oversaw the construction of warships being built for the Swedish Navy. In 1670 he was promoted to admiral, and in 1676 was elevated to the status of Friherre. When further conflict broke out in 1675 in the Scanian War, Uggla was given command of a squadron under Generalamiral Lorentz Creutz.

Battle of Öland
On 1 June 1676, during the Battle of Öland, against the allied Danish and Dutch fleets under Niels Juel and Cornelis Tromp, Creutz's flagship Kronan capsized, as a result of intemperately turning hard south, even though under full sail with open cannon ports. The Swedish fleet's line of battle was thrown into confusion, and the enemy, taking advantage of the situation, surrounded Uggla's 94-gun flagship Svärdet. He found himself attacked by four enemy vessels simultaneously, including both the Danish and Dutch flagships. After a fierce battle lasting two hours Uggla's ship was dismasted and holed below the waterline. Uggla finally surrendered to Tromp, but a Dutch fire ship failed to recognize that the ship had surrendered and attacked, and Uggla was killed when his ship blew up. Only 51 of the 670 crew survived.

See also
  - Swedish torpedo cruiser, 1900–1917

Notes

References

Bibliography

1614 births
1676 deaths
Swedish admirals
People from Säffle Municipality
Swedish nobility


Dechen Phrodrang. meaning "Palace of Great Bliss". is a Buddhist monastery in Thimphu, Bhutan. It is located to the north of the city.

In 1971 it became a monastic school, called a lobdra, and currently it has 450 student monks enrolled in eight-year courses with a staff of 15. The monastery contains a number of important historical Bhutanese artifacts including 12th century paintings monitored by UNESCO and a noted statue of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal on the upper floor. In the downstairs  chapel, there is a central Sakyamuni Buddha.

References

Buddhist monasteries in Bhutan
Tibetan Buddhism in Bhutan


Melvin Morgan (born March 31, 1953) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for Mississippi Valley State University, Morgan was an 11th round selection (314th overall pick) of the 1976 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals. He would play for the Bengals (1976–1978) and the San Francisco 49ers (1979–1980). Morgan injured his shoulder in 1980, ending his career.

References

1953 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gulfport, Mississippi
Players of American football from Mississippi
American football defensive backs
Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football players
Cincinnati Bengals players
San Francisco 49ers players


David Henley (February 5/12, 1748/9 – January 1, 1823) was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War, who served as George Washington's intelligence officer and prisoner of war commandant. He later served as the Agent for the United States Department of War for the Southwest Territory (later Tennessee) in the 1790s.

Life and career
Henley was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Samuel and Elizabeth Cheever Henley. On January 8, 1776, he set fire to Charlestown which was occupied by the British. In that same year, he served a brigade-major under General William Heath, and briefly as an adjutant general under General Joseph Spencer. On January 1, 1777, he was made lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment. He was in command at Cambridge, Massachusetts, when the troops that had been captured at Saratoga were brought there. Henley stabbed an insolent but unarmed British prisoner. Court-martial proceedings were held at Cambridge from January 20, 1778, to February 25, 1778, but he was acquitted. British General Burgoyne challenged him to a duel, which was to take place in Bermuda. He accepted the challenge, but the duel never took place.

General Washington selected him in November 1778 to be his spymaster, and charged him with compiling information to give him a snapshot of British capabilities. He largely succeeded in that task. Henley retired from the Army the following year.

In 1793, Colonel Henley was appointed by President Washington as the Agent of the Department of War for the Southwest Territory, in Knoxville, Tennessee. In this capacity, he was Superintendent of Indian Affairs, as well as quartermaster and paymaster for locally stationed troops and militia. He was known to be a hothead, but was also a strong law-and-order man. Tennessee's Constitutional Convention was held in his office at the corner of what is now Gay Street and Church Avenue in Downtown Knoxville in 1796.

He died in Washington, D.C., in 1823, while a clerk in the War Department.

Legacy
In 1994, the Knoxville Federal Courthouse was proposed the site of his office. However it was later constructed at the northwest corner of Main Street and Gay Street. Both Henley Street and the Henley Street Bridge (or Henley Bridge) in Downtown Knoxville are named after him. A tablet was placed by the state of Tennessee at the location of his office in 1947.

Henley-Putnam University, a highly specialized university devoted to intelligence, security, and counterterrorism founded in 2001, is named for Henley and Israel Putnam.

See also
Intelligence in the American Revolutionary War
Intelligence operations in the American Revolutionary War

References

 Rose, Alexander. Washington's Spies. The story of America's first spy ring. Bantam, 2006.
 Henley, David. The proceedings of a general court-martial held at Cambridge, on Tuesday the twentieth of January, and continued by several adjournments to Wednesday the 25th of February, 1778, upon the trial of Colonel David Henley. Published in 1778. Printed by J. Gill (Boston).
 Neely, Jack. Knoxville’s Secret History. Scruffy City Publishing (Knoxville), 1995.
 Tennessee State Library and Archives: David Henley Papers

External links
 Letter from Henley to George Washington, dated November 19, 1778

1740s births
1823 deaths
American spies during the American Revolution
Continental Army officers from Massachusetts
Continental Army personnel who were court-martialed
Military personnel from Knoxville, Tennessee
People from Charlestown, Boston
United States Indian agents
People indicted for war crimes
People acquitted of international crimes
People acquitted of attempted murder


Robert Dabou (born 10 November 1990) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays for the Ghana Premier League side Ashanti Gold as a goalkeeper.

Career
Dabou began his career at All Stars F.C. Before being promoted to the first team, he played his first game in 2007 for the squad.

International
Dabuo was a member of the Ghana national under-17 football team in 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Korea Republic. On 19 August 2008, Dabuo was called up to the Satellites, and was part of the Ghana national under-20 football team that won the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt.

Titles and Honours

International
Ghana U-20
 FIFA U-20 World Cup Champion: 2009

Trivia
 Fifa Profile

References

1990 births
Living people
Ghanaian men's footballers
Ghana men's under-20 international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Legon Cities FC players
Ashanti Gold S.C. players


The Gloster IV was a British racing floatplane of the 1920s. A single-engined biplane, the Gloster IV was a development of the earlier Gloster III intended to compete in the 1927 Schneider Trophy race. One aircraft competed in the race, but retired part way through.  The three aircraft built continued to be used as trainers by the High Speed Flight for several years.

Design and development
To compete for the 1927 Schneider Trophy, Britain's Air Ministry was determined to improve Britain's performance for the last few competitions, with British entries being soundly beaten by American Curtiss floatplanes in 1923 and 1925, and failing to even enter the 1926 competition which was won by the Italian Macchi M.39. To improve on this disappointing state of affairs, the Air Ministry placed orders for designs of high speed floatplanes from Gloster, Supermarine (the S.5) and Shorts (the Crusader).

Gloster's design, the Gloster IV was a development of the Gloster III which had finished second in the 1925 race.  Henry Folland, the Chief designer of Gloster, redesigned the aircraft to reduce drag. Like its predecessors, the Gloster IV was of wooden construction, with a monocoque fuselage and single bay wings. Both the upper and lower wings were gulled to allow the drag of the wing/fuselage junction to be minimised, while radiators were built into the surfaces of the wings and floats.

Three aircraft were built, differing in the surface area of the wings and the arrangement of the tail.

Operational history
The three Gloster IVs were first flown in July–August 1927, with the two short-span aircraft (the Gloster IVA and IVB) being shipped to Venice in August 1927.  The Gloster IVB was finally chosen to compete with the two S.5s in the race, the Crusader having crashed due to having its control cables crossed on re-assembly.

On the day of the race, 26 September 1927, the Gloster IVB, piloted by Flight Lieutenant Samuel Kinkead was the first aircraft to take off, completing five laps before retiring, with the race being won by Flight Lieutenant Sidney Webster flying the S.5. On inspection, it was found that the Gloster's propeller shaft was seriously cracked and would probably have failed if Kinkead had not retired.

Following the race, the Gloster IVA and IVB were returned to the United Kingdom, where they were modified to improve the pilot's view by raising the upper wing and used as high speed trainers. They were used to train pilots for the 1929 race, with the IVB crashing during a landing accident in December 1930 and the IVA used again as a trainer for the 1931 race.  The original Gloster IV was meanwhile sold with the intention of being converted to a landplane and used in attempt on the world air speed record but these plans came to nothing.

Variants
Gloster IV
Serial number N224. Original larger wings. Powered by 900 hp (671 kW) direct-drive Napier Lion VIIA.
Gloster IVA
Serial number N222. Reduced span wings and modified tail. Powered by direct-drive Lion VIIA
Gloster IVB
Serial number N223. Reduced span wings and powered by geared Napier Lion VIIB engine.

Operators

Royal Air Force
High Speed Flight

Specifications (Gloster IVB)

See also
Gloster II
Gloster III
 Gloster VI
Supermarine S.5
Macchi M.52

References

James, Derek J. Gloster Aircraft since 1917. London:Putnam, 1971. .
Mondey, David. "Britain Captures Schneider Trophy". Air Enthusiast, Seventeen, December 1981 – March 1982. Bromley, Kent, UK:Pilot Press. pp. 36–50.

External links

Painting of Gloster IV

1920s British sport aircraft
Gull-wing aircraft
Schneider Trophy
Floatplanes
IV
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1927
Sesquiplanes


The 114th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in northeast Pennsylvania and has been represented by Democrat Bridget Malloy Kosierowski since 2019.

District profile
The 114th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located entirely in Lackawanna County, including the following areas:

 Benton Township
 Clarks Green
 Clarks Summit
 Dickson City
 Greenfield Township
 North Abington Township
 Scott Township
 Scranton (PART)
 Ward 01, 02, 03, 07, 13, 21, 23
 Ward 04 (PART)
 Division 02
 South Abington Township
 Waverly Township

Representatives

Recent election results

References

Government of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
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FC Haray Zhovkva is an amateur Ukrainian football team based in Zhovkva, Lviv Oblast.

The team spent several years in the Ukrainian Second Division before was relegated at the end of the 1998–99 season along with FC Krystal Chortkiv. On the amateur level Haray has won the cup competition of the Amateur Association in 2002. Currently, the club competes on the regional level in the Lviv Oblast competition with more modest results than in the past.

League and cup history

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Amateur football clubs in Ukraine
Sport in Zhovkva
Football clubs in Lviv Oblast
Association football clubs established in 1990
1990 establishments in Ukraine


TP Formula is an auto racing team based in Italy.

References

External links
Official Website

Auto racing teams in Italy
Italian Formula 3 teams
Auto GP teams


The Trinity Paradox is a time travel novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason, exploring the premise of an anti-nuclear activist from 1990s being transported back in time to the Manhattan Project, giving her the potential to sabotage the project in an attempt to prevent the development of nuclear weapons altogether.

Her attempt to do so, however, has far-reaching and unpredictable results, changing the outcome of the Second World War and the face of the post-war world.

Reception
Donald Erbschloe in his review for Physics Today said that "the setting and the people of Los Alamos come alive", "the cast is impressive" and "the climax is thrilling and, as one might suspect, explosive".
James P. Hogan noted that it "soberingly shows the perils of the sheep solemnly pledging themselves to vegetarianism while the wolves remain unconverted".

Notes

External links
 Review on the "Books" website

1991 American novels
1991 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Novels about time travel
Books about the Manhattan Project
Novels set during World War II


Bridgers is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Aaron Bridgers (1918–2003), French jazz pianist
John Bridgers (died 2006), American football coach
Luther B. Bridgers (1884–1948), American minister and songwriter
Robert Rufus Bridgers (1819–1888), American politician
Phoebe Bridgers (born 1994), American singer-songwriter
Sean Bridgers (born 1968), American actor, screenwriter, and producer


Gareth John Evans (born 14 January 1967) is an English football player and coach. He played for Coventry City, Rotherham United, Hibernian, Stoke City, Northampton Town, Partick Thistle, Airdrie and Alloa Athletic. Evans has been the caretaker manager of Hibernian and Livingston, and was head coach of the Scotland women's under-19 national team for four years.

Career
Evans was born in Coventry and played for his local club Coventry City making ten appearances for the "Sky Blues" in two seasons before dropping down to the Third Division to play for Rotherham United. At Millmoor Evans played 39 times in 1986–87 scoring 11 goals as the "Millers" finished in a mid-table position of 14th however a poor season under John Breckin and Dave Cusack saw Rotherham relegated to the Fourth Division. With Rotherham heading for relegation Evans moved to Scottish Scottish Premier Division side Hibernian.

It was at Easter Road where Evans enjoyed the most success in his career where he spent nine seasons. In total he played 301 matches for Hibs scoring 37 goals helping the Edinburgh side to lift the Scottish League Cup in 1991. In the 1990–91 season Evans spent time out on loan at Stoke City where he played seven times scoring twice, which came in a 1–0 win over Bolton Wanderers and in a 2–1 defeat against West Ham United in the Football League Cup. In the same season he also played twice for Northampton Town.

After leaving Hibernian in 1996 Evans continued to play in Scotland, initially signing for Partick Thistle. He then joined Airdrieonians in 1998 and Alloa Athletic in 2000.

Managerial career
After ending his playing career in 2004, he joined the Alloa Athletic coaching staff. He eventually became assistant manager, before taking a similar position at Brechin City, where he assisted former Hibs teammate Michael O'Neill. Evans then moved back into full-time football in 2007 by accepting the position of reserve team coach at Hibs. Following the departure of John Hughes on 4 October 2010, Evans was appointed caretaker manager at Hibernian alongside fellow coach Alistair Stevenson. Evans left Hibernian in November 2011, as new manager Pat Fenlon assembled his coaching staff.

Livingston appointed Evans as first team coach in July 2012. After John Hughes left Livingston to manage Hartlepool United in November, Evans and Richie Burke were placed in caretaker charge of the team. Evans left the club on 28 February 2013.

Evans was appointed as Scotland women's under-19 national coach in June 2013. He left this position in August 2017. He was appointed as Head of Youth by Hibernian Football Club on 24 September 2018.

Career statistics

As a player
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A.  The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Full Members Cup, Football League Trophy, Scottish Challenge Cup and UEFA Cup.

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Count of Peniche (in Portuguese Conde de Peniche) was a Portuguese title of nobility created by a royal decree, dated from December 6, 1806, by Prince Regent John, on behalf of Queen Maria I of Portugal, and granted to Caetano José de Noronha e Albuquerque, younger son of the 3rd Marquis of Angeja and 4th Count of Vila Verde.

This collateral Branch of the House of Angeja later inherited the titles of Marquis of Angeja and Count of Vila Verde when the Noronha'a senior line was extinguished.

List of the Counts of Peniche
 Caetano José de Noronha e Albuquerque (1753-1829), 1st Count of Peniche;
Manuel Lourenço de Almeida e Noronha (1788-1824), 2nd Count of Peniche;
Caetano Gaspar de Almeida Noronha Albuquerque e Sousa (1820-1881), 3rd Count of Peniche; became 8th Marquis of Angeja in 1833 with the extinction of the Noronha's senior line;
Maria Antónia de Almeida e Noronha (1902- ? ), 4th Countess of Peniche;
Francisco de Almeida e Noronha Azevedo Coutinho (born 1983) – current representative of the title.

Family Name
The family name associated with this title was Noronha, the same used by its parent House, the Marquesses of Angeja.

See also
List of Marquesses in Portugal
List of Countships in Portugal
Marquis of Angeja
Count of Vila Verde

External links
Genealogy of the Counts of Peniche, in Portuguese

Bibliography
”Nobreza de Portugal e do Brasil" – Vol. III, page 122. Published by Zairol Lda., Lisbon 1989.

Peniche
1806 establishments in Portugal


Kilton is a large suburban area in the northeast of the market town of Worksop in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands of England. It consists of a series of large post-World War II housing developments, some of which are council estates.

The suburb was, since the late nineteenth century, home to Kilton Hospital, which was, along with Victoria Hospital, located on Memorial Avenue in Worksop, one of the town's main hospitals. The hospital existed until the late 1980s, at a time when it chiefly dealt with maternity. Today the surviving main building, with its yellow brick facade, and stag frieze in its pediment, has been incorporated into Bassetlaw District General Hospital, which is located just behind it, and now used as the administration block.

Populated places in Nottinghamshire
Worksop


Olea paniculata, commonly known as the native olive, is a plant of the genus Olea and a relative of the olive. It grows natively in Pakistan and southwestern China (Yunnan) through tropical Asia to Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) and the Pacific islands of New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Lord Howe Island.

Description
It grows as a bushy tree to , often with a sparse canopy. The trunk has smooth grey-brown bark and reaches a maximum diameter of  with some buttressing. The shiny green ovate to elliptical leaves measure  in length, and  in width, and have a pointed (acuminate) end. The blue-black fruit are oval and measure 0.8–1.2 (0.3–0.5 in) cm long. They are ripe from May to September.

It resembles the introduced and weedy African olive Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, but the latter lacks O. paniculatas small depressions between the main and secondary veins on the back of the leaf. The introduced species is found in disturbed areas such as roadsides and waterways.

Taxonomy
One of many species first described by Robert Brown in his 1810 work Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae, it still bears its original binomial name. Other common names include Australian olive, pigeonberry ash, maulwood, and clove berry'''. In Chinese, it is called 腺叶木犀榄 (). The specific name is derived from the Latin panicula "tuft", from the arrangement of flowers.

Distribution and habitatOlea paniculata'' is found from North East Queensland to the vicinity of the Hunter Region in New South Wales. In Australia it is found near watercourses in dry rainforests. Outside Australia it is found in  Yunnan province in southwestern China, where it occurs in sheltered wetter valleys  in altitude, as well as India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Malaysia, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. On Lord Howe Island it is widespread below around  elevation. It is also found on New Caledonia and Vanuatu.

Ecology
The fruit are consumed by the Australian king parrot, brown cuckoo-dove, topknot pigeon, rose-crowned fruit-dove, wompoo fruit-dove, white-headed pigeon, green catbird and regent bowerbird in Australia.

Uses
It is a fast pioneer species on sunny protected sites, but needs well drained soil for good growth. It is a butterfly host plant whose black fruit attracts birds. The fruit was traditionally eaten by Aboriginal Australians.

References

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The White Bridge () was a Roman bridge across the river Granicus in Mysia in the north west of modern-day Turkey. Presumably constructed in the 4th century AD, it belonged in Ottoman times to the important road to Gallipoli on the Dardanelles. The structure was praised by early European travellers for its fine construction and marble facing, but was plundered for building material during the 19th century.

Exploration
The White Bridge was first mentioned by Edmund Chishull in 1699, who found it still intact. Later visitors included William Turner in 1815, Pyotr Chikhachyov in 1847 and Arthur W. Janke in the 1890s, who all judged the structure to be of ancient origin.

Turner described a very magnificent Roman bridge of brick and small stones with retaining walls of fine marble. It consisted of eight arches, the largest four spanning the river, flanked by two smaller openings at each bank. The span of the largest vault was eighteen paces, its width eight. Small arched chambers immediately under the pavement reduced the load of the bridge; similar relieving chambers also appear in neighbouring ancient bridges such as the Makestos Bridge and the Aesepus Bridge, leading Frederick William Hasluck to postulate a common origin under the reign of emperor Constantine († 337 AD).

Eighty years later, Janke could still identify several semi-circular arches at the left bank, along with piers featuring polished ashlar of 100 × 50 cm, as characteristically for Roman bridge building. Hardly a decade later, however, Hasluck essentially only found a tile-vaulted arch of the western abutment and an adjoining pier, the bridge having been plundered in the meantime for building material for the Karabogha–Boghashehr () road. The span could still be established as , the width of the roadway as . The remaining upper parts showed carelessly executed Turkish repairs with rough rubble and tiles.

The current state of the remains of the White Bridge is unknown; it is not listed in O’Connor's compilation of Roman bridges.

See also
 List of Roman bridges
 Roman architecture
 Roman engineering

References

Sources

Roman bridges in Turkey
Deck arch bridges
Demolished bridges
Mysia


Dale Elizabeth Tryon, Baroness Tryon (née Harper; 3 January 1948 – 15 November 1997) was a socialite and a successful businesswoman in the international fashion world. She created the fashion label "Kanga" and the couture line "The Dale Tryon Collection". "Kanga" also came to be her own nickname. Tryon gave her support to a number of charities including SANE—the mental health charity of which she was the chairwoman. She was an ex-girlfriend and close friend of King Charles III (then Prince of Wales).

Early life
Born in Melbourne, Australia, she was the eldest of three children of a wealthy printing magnate, Barry Harper, and his wife, Jean Harper. In early childhood Dale was diagnosed with Perthes disease, which affects the hip joint, and which she had until the age of nine, spending time in a children's hospital in irons, from feet to chest. She had also received a diagnosis for spina bifida since childhood. On her graduation, she worked in London as a public relations officer for the airline Qantas.

Marriage
An active socialite described by family and friends as having "tremendous joie de vivre," within two weeks of arriving in England she had met Anthony Tryon, 3rd Baron Tryon (1940–2018), who was a member of Prince Charles's inner circle. Even though she had met the Prince of Wales briefly in 1966 at a school dance in Victoria, it was through her husband that she got to know him. Dale and Anthony married in 1973 in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace, and had four children: Zoë (born 1974), Charles (born 1976), and twins Edward and Victoria (born 1979). She and Prince Charles both enjoyed fly fishing, which they undertook regularly, and he publicly described Kanga as "the only woman who ever understood me."

Businesses
Tryon started her career in late 1960s by working as a reporter for The Australian Women's Weekly. In 1969 she moved to the UK and worked in the London office of the same magazine. In 1970s, she briefly worked as a fashion agent for an American designer in the UK. In 1983, Dale started a fashion business called Kanga, located in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge. Having persuaded Diana, Princess of Wales to wear a Kanga dress to the Live Aid concert, Kanga quickly became a favourite of the Sloane Ranger set and became a successful international business. Dale lived in both London and Lord Tryon's family home, the 18th-century Manor House at Great Durnford, near Salisbury. From the early 1980s her clothes were sold in shops in England, America, Australia, France and Spain, and her own boutique in Knightsbridge was later joined by branches in Salisbury, Hong Kong and Dublin. Both "Kanga" and her couture line named "The Dale Tryon Collection" were very successful.

Health
Dale had Perthes disease as a child, spina bifida since childhood and was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 1993. After living with spina bifida for years, she had a series of surgeries to correct the issue. After this point she travelled for a period with a nurse, a physiotherapist, and her daughter, Zoë, who would lie next to her as she slept, rolling her over regularly.

Soon after she received the 'all clear' from cancer, Tryon underwent treatment at Farm Place, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinic in Surrey. She was on a heavy dose of painkillers, and drank excessive quantities of vodka and champagne. While undergoing treatment for addiction at the clinic, she fell from a third-floor window, fractured her skull, broke her back and was paralysed.

Tryon was left a paraplegic from her fall, and for the last 18 months of her life was in a wheelchair.

Divorce
Living with recurring depression, and after being told by her husband that he wanted a divorce, she was detained on 17 June 1997 under the Mental Health Act 1983 for 28 days, after leaving the Black Horse Inn in Great Durnford. After discharge from the spinal injuries unit at Salisbury District Hospital, she returned home. The decree nisi was announced on 1 September, after which she renounced her title and moved into The Ritz hotel, where she intended to throw a party for her 50th birthday. From there she gave her last recorded interview with journalist Christopher Wilson.

Death
Towards the end of her life, Tryon took a trip to Australia to meet her mother and went to India to undergo homeopathic treatment by a doctor who was introduced to her by the Prince of Wales. On her return, she was admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital, Westminster, experiencing complications from severe bed sores for which she had plastic surgery. Tryon died there on 15 November 1997 from septicaemia, aged 49. She was buried four days later in England, and in her will left her £1.3 million estate to her children.

Legacy
On 4 November 2008, Tryon was the subject of a documentary, Prince Charles' Other Mistress, aired by Channel 4.

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Peru High School, also known as "PHS", is a high school located in Peru, Indiana, United States, serving students in grades 9–12 for Peru Community Schools since 1972.  The former high school building, built in 1939 and now serving as headquarters of the Miami Nation of Indiana, is included in the Peru High School Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2013.

Athletics
Peru High's school colors are old gold and black and their athletic nickname is the Bengal Tigers.

Peru High School won a state championship in boys tennis 1970-71.

The Peru High School Wrestling Program has won 6 Conferences, 14 Sectionals, and 6 Regionals in just the last 20 years.  Wrestling is a single class sport in Indiana.

The Peru High School Boys Basketball team has won 40 Sectional titles and 3 Regional titles dating back to 1927.

Peru High School's main rivals are the other two schools in Miami County: Maconaquah and North Miami.

Peru High School offers the following sports:

School media
The Peruvian is the school's bi-weekly paper with current news, editorials, special features, photos, and a complete sports section.

The Narcissus is the student yearbook that is published annually.

Notable alumni
G. David Thompson (1899-1965), investment banker, industrialist, and modern art collector.
Kyle Macy was the 22nd overall pick in the 1979 NBA Draft. He was selected by the Phoenix Suns. Macy went on to play one season each for the Chicago Bulls (1985-86) and the Indiana Pacers (1986-87) before retiring from the NBA.
John Francis O'Hara, Cardinal, Archbishop of Philadelphia, and President of the University of Notre Dame.
Frank Erhart Emmanuel Germann (1887–1974), physicist, physical chemist, and university professor. He was a founding member of the modern chemistry department of the University of Colorado.
Albert Fredrick Ottomar Germann (1886–1976), physical chemist, university professor, and chemical entrepreneur. He was a founder (1935) and President of Nutritional Research Associates, Inc., in South Whitley, Indiana.
B.J. Penn, served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment) from 2005-2009.

See also
 List of high schools in Indiana

References

External links
 Official website

Public high schools in Indiana
Schools in Miami County, Indiana


Nature's Great Events is a wildlife documentary series made for BBC television, first shown in the UK on BBC One and BBC HD in February 2009. The series looks at how seasonal changes powered by the sun cause shifting weather patterns and ocean currents, which in turn create the conditions for some of the planet's most spectacular wildlife events. Each episode focuses on the challenges and opportunities these changes present to a few key species.

Nature's Great Events was produced by the BBC Natural History Unit with the Discovery Channel and in association with Wanda Films. The British version of the series was narrated by David Attenborough. In United States, the series was shown under the alternative title Nature's Most Amazing Events beginning on 29 May 2009 and was narrated by Hasani Issa. In Australia, this program began airing on ABC1 each Sunday at 7:30pm from 14 June until 19 July 2009.

The title Nature's Great Events was previously used by Reader's Digest for an unrelated VHS series released in 1996.

Production

Production team
The series was first unveiled as a co-production deal with independent Wanda Films, under the working title of Earth's Great Events. The title was subsequently revised and the Discovery Channel revealed as additional co-producers. The Natural History Unit's production team includes series producer Karen Bass and executive producer Brian Leith. The score was composed by Barnaby Taylor and Ben Salisbury, orchestrated and conducted by William Goodchild and performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra. Views of the earth from space, that illustrate the climatic events around the world, were created by design company Burrell Durrant Hifle incorporating NASA photography.

Filming
Filming took place over a 25-month period, an unusually tight timescale for a natural history production of this scale. In some cases, the events were not guaranteed to occur every year, so working to such a rapid schedule meant that the film crews ran the risk of having nothing to film. Producer Karen Bass described the series as "a minor miracle, given the constraints of luck and timing - we were totally dependent on events happening when they were supposed to." One of the most challenging sequences to film was the climax of "The Great Tide" episode, featuring aerial and underwater footage of dolphins, sharks and gannets attacking a sardine shoal. In 2007, the sardine run didn't take place, and after weeks of fruitless searching, the crew had to give up. The following year, there was a second and final opportunity. Just in case they were unsuccessful again, the producers devised an alternative sixth episode which would have explored the science behind seasonal changes, looking at how the "Great Events" are triggered and how environmental change may be affecting them. As luck would have it, the sardine run returned for the first time in three years and the team captured the shots they needed.

Television firsts
The BBC claimed a number of TV firsts achieved by the production team. Many of the filming techniques first used on Planet Earth, such as the gyroscopically-stabilised helicopter camera known as the Heligimbal, were adopted again, along with new technology. In "The Great Tide", some of the surface-water footage was shot from a boat-mounted stabilised camera, previously used in the Hollywood film industry. Innovations on "The Great Flood" included FrankenCam, a motion-control macro camera developed by Ammonite Films and capable of shooting extreme close-ups of tiny subjects. The team were also the first to film narwhals from the air and the first to reveal how grizzly bears use their feet to scoop up dead salmon from deep pools. The crew of "The Great Migration" had the good fortune of witnessing the first eruption of a Tanzanian volcano in 40 years, and managed to shoot aerial footage of the event.

Episodes

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 Reception
The series drew an average of 4.0 million viewers and a 16.9% audience share, down on BBC One's average share of 24% for the same time slot in 2008. However, the Sunday evening repeats at a more family-friendly viewing time drew similar viewing figures to the first broadcast, and the episodes regularly featured in the top ten weekly chart on BBC iPlayer.

The series received almost universal praise in the British press. Writing in The Guardian of the scene in which a humpback whale swallows a shoal of herring, Lucy Mangan commented: "You can cradle your jaw safely in your lap for the rest of the evening, as you replay that moment in your mind's eye and reel at the slower but no less staggering evocation by the entire programme, the entire series, of the incredible force and fragility of it all." The sequence was also singled out by Tim Teeman in The Times, who wrote "now that was a money shot. Nature's Great Events: "The Great Feast" was no mis-sale". He went on to describe it as "the most surprising bit of television this week" and "the most mind-blowing, horrific and beautiful sequence of film". The series also gained a very favourable review in The Scotsman. Its critic Paul Whitelaw described it as "quite simply wonderful television. Visually stunning, immersive and mesmerising, it examined some of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth with characteristic verve and insight." He singled out praise for David Attenborough, noting that "even when he is merely narrating, [he] is quite brilliant at what he does, and I defy anyone to refute that."

Matt Warman of The Daily Telegraph was complimentary about the "wealth of surprising, beautiful images", but criticised the series for its superficial treatment of environmental issues. Writing about the plight of polar bears highlighted in "The Great Melt", he commented "it was tempting to ask whether the rise of one species, man, and the decline of another could not be considered a sad part of evolution by natural selection... Nature's Great Events, however, chose not to engage with the debate."

 Merchandise
DVD and Blu-ray
In United Kingdom, DVD has been released on 16 March 2009 (BBCDVD2863), while Blu-ray Disc was later released on 15 June 2009 by 2 Entertain. Both DVD and Blu-ray includes with ten-minute feature called "Nature's Great Events Diaries" which details the filming of a particular event after each episode.

In United States and Canada, both DVD and Blu-ray Disc was released under the title "Nature's Most Amazing Events" on 2 June 2009 by BBC Warner.

In Australia and New Zealand, DVD and Blu-ray was also released by ABC DVD/Village Roadshow on 6 August 2009.

In Japan, both DVD and Blu-ray Disc were released on 4 June 2010, and it was distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan. However, it does not included Nature's Great Events Diaries like any other regions.

Books
In United Kingdom, an accompanying hardback book has been published by Mitchell Beazley on 2 February 2009. Called Nature's Great Events: The Most Spectacular Natural Events on the Planet, it is authored by the BBC Natural History Unit, edited by Karen Bass and has an introduction by Brian Leith. ()

The companion volume for the US market, Nature's Great Events: The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet, was published by the University of Chicago Press on 15 May 2009. ()

Soundtrack

The musical score and songs featured in the series were composed by Ben Salisbury and Barnaby Taylor with the performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, and has been performed during "Nature's Great Events Live" as part of an event for the re-opening of Bristol's Colston Hall in the UK. The soundtrack was only available for digital release at iTunes Store on 9 September 2009.

 References

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http://www.gosainpost.com/out-of-the-shadows-the-wildcats-youve-never-see/
http://www.gosainpost.com/category/animals/
http://www.gosainpost.com/bengal-tiger-panthera-tigris-tigris/

 External links Nature's Great Events at HuluNature's Great Events at Hulu JapanNature's Great Events on the EdenNature's Most Amazing Events'' at Discovery Channel
UK publisher's webpage for Nature's Great Events book
US publisher's webpage for Nature's Great Events: The Most Amazing Natural Events on the Planet
Review, Leicester Mercury

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Alexander Korsantia (born 1965, Tbilisi) is a Georgian pianist.

Alexander immigrated to Canada in 1992, settling in Vancouver, British Columbia. After living in Vancouver for a number of years, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts.

He won the 1988 Sydney International Piano Competition (as a Soviet citizen) and the 1995 Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv. He is a member of the piano faculty at Boston's New England Conservatory.

In 1999 Korsantia was decorated with the National Honor Medal from the Georgian Government.

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Jheryl Busby (May 5, 1949 – November 4, 2008) was an American recording company executive who was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Motown Records.

Biography
Busby grew up in South Central Los Angeles, where he went to John C. Fremont High School. He attended Long Beach State College, dropping out after two years.

Busby began his business career at Mattel Toys, starting as an inventory clerk and ultimately being promoted to new-toy coordinator.

His first exposure to the recording industry was at Stax Records, where he was named head of West Coast promotion and marketing, After leaving Stax, he did promotional work for A&M Records and Casablanca Records.

At MCA Records, where he was hired in 1984, Busby was vice-president of the black music division building the unit largely from scratch, promoting established acts such as Patti LaBelle and helping to discover and market acts including family band The Jets, Jody Watley, Bobby Brown and New Edition. By the mid-'80s, the division's sales reached $50 million and was top-ranked for years in black album sales. By 1988, Busby was president of the black music division at MCA, and his business unit led the industry in black album sales.

When Boston Ventures and Music Corporation of America bought Motown Records from Berry Gordy in June 1988 for $61 million, Gordy stipulated that 20% of the firm be retained by African-American investors; Busby purchased an unspecified stake in the firm. Busby moved to Motown Records in 1988 as the company's President & CEO in 1988. Annual sales for Motown had dropped to $20 million (from a peak of $100 million, at Motown's height), with 60–70% of sales coming from sales of its old hits. Busby fostered the growth of younger talent, including Another Bad Creation, Boyz II Men, Johnny Gill and Queen Latifah. In early 1989, he was able to sign Diana Ross back to Motown after she left for RCA Records in 1981. Busby retained artists such as Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, and helped create hits from them and for Ross. When Polygram Records bought Motown for $301 million in 1993, Busby was retained as president. By 1990, the label had five songs reach number one on the R&B charts.

Busby was appointed head of the black music division at DreamWorks Records in 1998. He left DreamWorks in 2001. He was named president of Def Soul Classics in 2004. Umbrella Recordings, which he created with producer Mike City, released the Carl Thomas album So Much Better in 2007 and Patti LaBelle's The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle, her first gospel album.

Busby was a major shareholder along with Janet Jackson and Magic Johnson in the nation's first African-American-owned national bank, Founders National Bank, and served on the bank's board of directors.

Busby died at the age of 59 on November 4, 2008. He was found dead in the hot tub of his home in Malibu, the cause was later confirmed to be accidental drowning, it is believed preexisting medical conditions including "atheroscelerotic cardiovascular disease" and "diabetes mellitus may have contributed to the drowning.

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