The Vicini family is the wealthiest family in the Dominican Republic and is best known for their vast holdings in the sugar industry. The family business was started by Juan Bautista Vicini Canepa, who migrated to the Dominican Republic from Italy in 1860.

Juan Bautista Vicini
Juan Bautista Vicini Canepa, was born on February 25, 1847, in Zoagli, a coastal village near Genoa to Angelo Vicini and Anna Canepa. Vicini left Italy and went to the Dominican Republic in 1860 at the age of 21
.  He was invited to travel to the Dominican Republic as an apprentice to join his countryman Nicole Genevaro who was an exporter of coffee and sugar. After a few years, he purchased the operations belonging to Mr. Genevaro.

Juan Bautista, better known as "Baciccia", was very successful in business. Thanks in part to his hard work and his savings, he managed to acquire land for the cultivation of sugar cane.

His family residence is located on the Avenida Isabel la Católica No. 158, in the city of Santo Domingo, marked with a placard reading J.B. Vicini. This designation is still preserved on the facades of the building belonging to the family. This residence was his place of work. Locals gave it the name Casa Vicini.

Eleven children were born of his marriage to Mercedes Laura Perdomo Santamaría. Seven of them went to live with her to Genoa, Italy. While being married, he had an affair with María Burgos Brito and begat 3 children, among them, President Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos.

Vicini Canepa, patriarch of the Vicini family, returned only once to Italy and died in 1900 at the age of 53.

Felipe and Juan  Vicini Perdomo

Upon his death, Juan and Felipe Vicini Perdomo, suspended their professional studies in Italy to take over the family business in the Dominican Republic.

Felipe and Juan Vicini Perdomo increased investment to modernize the factory and field work in the sugar, in real estate both in urban and rural areas of the country.

The political and economic pressure of the Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo by appropriating all the national wealth, forced the family Vicini Cabral to transfer their residence abroad.

Third generation

The third generation of the Vicinis was constituted by José María, Juan Bautista (Gianni), Felipe and Laura Vicini Cabral, under the leadership of Gianni; this generation participated actively in the process of overthrowing the dictatorship, the country's economic consolidation and democratic process of the nation.

The beginning of democracy with the death of Dominican dictator Trujillo in 1961, he found a country where almost all economic areas had been dominated by the dictator and his closest relatives and collaborators.

The active participation as well as the capital of the Vicini family was instrumental in creating private banks, universities, associations, businesses and nonprofit foundations, all promoters of the country's development and new business that channeled the nation towards development. The family Vicini Cabral participated in those efforts, both as advocates, with financial resources and with the participation and personal presence.

Laura and Felipe Vicini Cabral died childless.

Fourth generation
The 4th generation of the Vicini entrepreneurial dynasty is comprised by the siblings Amelia Stella, Felipe, and Juan Bautista Vicini Lluberes and their first cousins José Leopoldo and Marco Vicini Pérez.

Family tree

The Price of Sugar

The Vicini Family was depicted in the defamatory documentary The Price of Sugar, a 2007 documentary by Bill Haney about exploitation of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic involved with production of sugar. The documentary shows the poor working conditions in the sugar cane plantations, and describes the actions taken by the Vicini family to stifle efforts to change the situation.

Subjects of the film, Felipe and Juan Bautista Vicini Lluberes, filed a defamation suit on August 31, 2007, against Uncommon Productions and producer Bill Haney, alleging 53 factual inaccuracies.  According to Read McCaffrey, a partner in the law firm Patton Boggs representing the Vicinis, 'The misrepresentation are very egregious and as deceptive as I have seen in a very long time.'" However, according to the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the Vicini family "later winnowed the number of allegedly defamatory statements down to seven". The Appeals Court upheld a judgment from a lower court that the Vicini brothers were "public figures under the circumstances". The brothers thus must prove that the filmmakers made false depictions and knew about it. If they had been private figures, as the plaintiffs had unsuccessfully tried to prove, the filmmakers could have been liable for publishing information without verifying its truth. The appeals court sent the case back to the lower court to decide if the filmmakers have to hand over a report that they prepared to obtain insurance coverage for the film. After that, the lower court can determine whether information shown in the film was false and, if it was the case, if the filmmakers knew about it.

References

Ferran, Fernando. The legacy of Jose Maria Vicini Cabral, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2007.

See also
 Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos

Italian families
Dominican Republic families
Dominican Republic people of Italian descent
People of Ligurian descent
White Dominicans


The South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of South Carolina.  It currently has about 4,500 employees and just over 15,000 inmates, in 21 institutions. The agency has its headquarters in Columbia.

History
The South Carolina penal system was essentially founded in 1866, when the first state penitentiary was constructed. The SCDC was created in 1960, when the state governor decided to end abuses in the previous system (particularly the use of convict labor on private property as a form of political reward).  The new SCDC removed chains and stripes from inmates' uniforms, and it established inmate education programs.

The numbers of inmates since the SCDC creation are as follows: 2,073 (1960); 2,705 (1970); 7,869 (1980); 16,149 (1990); 22,053 (2000); 24,710 (2010); 16,169 (2020).

Operations
The Palmetto Unified School District (PUSD), established in 1981, provides educational services to inmates in the system. The district board of trustees meetings are held at the William D. Leeke Administration Building.

In 2018, press reports indicated the department was short five hundred corrections officers.

Death row
The state's death row for men is located at Kirkland Correctional Institution (KCI). The state's death row for women is located at the Camille Griffin Graham Correctional Institution. Executions occur at the Broad River Correctional Institution.

From 1912 to January 1990 male death row inmates were housed in the Central Correctional Institution (CCI). BRCI held male death row inmates from January 1990 to April 12, 1997, when male death row inmates were moved to Lieber. In September 2017, male death row inmates were moved to Kirkland. From 1912 to 1986 executions were carried out at CCI. From 1990 onwards executions occur at BRCI.

Fallen officers

Since the establishment of the South Carolina Department of Corrections, four officers have died in the line of duty.

See also

 Lee Correctional Prison Riot
 List of South Carolina state prisons
 List of law enforcement agencies in South Carolina
 List of United States state correction agencies
 List of people executed in South Carolina
 Capital punishment in South Carolina

Further reading

References

External links
SCDC web site  (This site includes the historical information cited here.)
SCDC Incarcerated Inmate Search (Search by name or by SCDC ID.)

State corrections departments of the United States
1866 establishments in South Carolina
Corrections
Government agencies established in 1866


The Constitution of Tajikistan (; ) was adopted on 6 November 1994 and amended three times, on 26 September 1999, on 22 June 2003 and on 22 May 2016.

The Constitution has the highest legal power, direct application (Article 10) and supremacy on the whole territory of Tajikistan. The Constitution proclaims the establishment of a democratic, legal, secular and unitary State (Article 1), where the State power is based on the principle of separation of powers (Article 9). As the fundamental law of the State, the Constitution defines the structure of the government, basic rights, liberties and responsibilities of its citizens, as well as the powers of the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Article 2 of the Constitution defines Tajik and Russian as the official languages of Tajikistan; the former being the national (state) language and the second being the "language of interethnic communication".

The bicameral Supreme Assembly (the parliament) adopts constitutional laws (Article 61), laws (Article 60) and resolutions (Articles 56-57), while the President adopts decrees and orders (Article 70) and the Cabinet of Ministers (the highest body of the executive branch) adopts resolutions and orders (Article 74).

Article 1
The Republic of Tajikistan is a sovereign, democratic, constitutional, secular, and unitary state.

Article 2
The state (national) language of Tajikistan shall be Tajik. Russian shall be the language of international communication. All nationalities and peoples living on the territory of the republic shall have the right to use their mother tongue.

Article 4
The capital of Tajikistan is the city of Dushanbe.

Article 5
The life, the honor, the dignity, and other natural human rights are inviolable. Human rights and freedoms are recognized, observed, and protected by the state.

Article 8
Public life in Tajikistan develops on the basis of political and ideological pluralism. No single ideology, including a religious ideology, may be adopted as the ideology of the state.

Article 9
The state power is divided into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

Article 11
Tajikistan implements a peace-loving policy, respects the sovereignty and independence of other states, determines its external policy on the basis of international norms. War propaganda is prohibited.

Article 12
The economy of Tajikistan is based on different forms of ownership. The state guarantees freedom of economic and entrepreneurial activity, equality of rights, and legal protection of all forms of ownership, including private property.

Article 13
The land, the mineral resources, the water, the air space, the animal and plant kingdom, and other natural resources are the exclusive property of the state, and the state guarantees their efficient use in the interest of the people.

Other chapters
Chapter 2 (Articles 14–47) deals with human rights, freedoms, and basic duties of citizens and residents
Chapter 3 (Articles 48–63) is devoted to the legislative branch Majlisi Oli (; ). According to the 1999 Constitution, Majlisi Oli (Supreme Assembly) consists of two chambers:  The National Assembly, the upper chamber (; ) and the Assembly of Representatives, the lower chamber (; ).
Chapter 4 (Articles 64–72) is devoted to the President. According to the 1999 Constitution, the President is elected for a term of 7 years in direct popular elections. A president may not serve more than two consecutive terms (Article 65 as amended in the June 2003 referendum).
Chapter 5 (Articles 73–75) is devoted to the executive branch
Chapter 6 (Articles 76–80) deals with local government
Chapters 8 and 9 (Articles 84–97) deal with the judicial branch

References
The Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan, September 1999 ; the English version given on the official site is the old 1994 Constitution.
The 1994 Constitution of the Republic of Tajikistan, in: Constitutions of the Participating Countries of the CIS, Russian Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law, Normal Publishing House, Moscow (2001), pp. 497-522.
Constitution of Tajikistan, English translation
Law of the Republic of Tajikistan: A Guide to Web Based Resources

Tajikistan
Government of Tajikistan
Law of Tajikistan


Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev (September 6, 1984 – September 28, 2016) was a Russian male freestyle wrestler who represented Azerbaijan. He was born in Sergokalinsky, Dagestan, Russia.

Career
He participated in Men's freestyle 74 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated from the competition losing to Murad Gaidarov in the 1/8 of final. He won a bronze medal on 2007 FILA Wrestling World Championships. He was killed in Mosul, Iraq after joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

References

External links

 Wrestler bio on NBC.com

1984 births
2016 deaths
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic wrestlers for Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani male sport wrestlers
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members
European Wrestling Championships medalists
Azerbaijani military personnel killed in action
Military personnel killed in the Syrian civil war


JEF United Chiba Ladies, also known by their full name, , is a Japanese women's football club that plays in the WE League.

Kits

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Players

First-team squad

Former players

Former notable players
 Karina Maruyama (2010–2011)
 Yuika Sugasawa (2013–2016)
 Erina Yamane (2012 – June 2017)

Club officials

Honours

Domestic
Empress's Cup
Runners-up (2): 2012, 2021
Nadeshiko League Cup
Champions (1): 2017
Runners-up (1): 2016

Season-by-season record

Transition of team name
JEF United Ichihara Ladies: 1992–2004
JEF United Chiba Ladies: 2005–present

See also
Japan Football Association (JFA)
List of women's football clubs in Japan
2022–23 in Japanese football

References

External links
 (in Japanese)

JEF United Chiba
Women's football clubs in Japan
1992 establishments in Japan
Nadeshiko League teams
Sports teams in Chiba Prefecture
WE League clubs


The winners of the 1997–98 Asian Cup Winners' Cup, the association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation, are listed below.

First round

West Asia

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1 both matches in UAE

East Asia

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1 Both matches played in China, 1st leg at Beijing, 2nd leg at Wenzhou.

Second round

West Asia

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1 Al Shabab withdrew
2 both matches in Qatar

East Asia

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Quarterfinals

West Asia

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East Asia

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Semifinals

Third place match

Final

References
 Asian Cup Winners Cup 1998

Asian Cup Winners' Cup
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Liam Bradley, commonly known by his nickname Baker, is a Gaelic football manager and former player for Glenullin and the Derry county team. He twice managed the senior Antrim county team between October 2008 and August 2012 and from November 2013 until 2014.

Personal life
Bradley comes from a family with a strong footballing background. Two of his uncles, James and Paddy Rafferty had played for Derry. When Bradley won the Derry Championship with Glenullin in 1985, five of his brothers were also on the team. His brother Gabriel won two Ulster Championship medals with Derry in 1975 and 1976. His cousin Colm Rafferty won the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with Derry in 1993.

He is father of Derry players Paddy and Eoin Bradley. He is also an uncle to Glenullin and Derry player Gerard O'Kane.

Playing career

Inter-county
Bradley represented Derry at minor, under-21 and senior levels. Frankie O'Loan and Harry Shivers drafted him into the senior panel. However, he was not part of Mickey Moran's plans when he became manager – Bradley held no grudge, saying "That is just the way it goes". His senior career was mainly limited to a few Dr McKenna Cup games. He later recalled: "I never really cut it at senior with Derry as in the early '80s I was just down the pecking order a bit".

Club
When Bradley was growing up, his home-club Glenullin, did not have any underage teams at the time due to a lack of population in the area. He instead played for neighbouring club Pádraig Pearse's GAC Kilrea. His team-mates on the Kilrea team included a young Martin O'Neill, who would go on to play and coach professional soccer. He played in an under-16 final against Glack in 1974.

He, however, played for Glenullin at senior level and experienced a long career with them. He won the Derry Senior Football Championship with the club in 1985. He retired from playing in 1996 at the age of 36, he even played in the Reserve Championship semi-final against Dungiven that year alongside his son Paddy.

School
Bradley played full back when St Pat's, Maghera won the 1977 MacRory Cup final against Abbey C.B.S., Newry. It was the first time the school had won the competition – the most important in Ulster Colleges football.

Early managerial influences
When playing underage football for Kilrea, he played under Father Leo Deery, the parish priest of Kilrea at the time. He described him as "a great GAA man" and one of the first people to introduce him to Gaelic football.

Bradley also hails Ballinderry's Adrian McGuckin as an inspirational influence, who taught him most of what he knows about coaching football. McGuckin was manager when Bradley won a MacRory Cup playing with St. Pat's in 1977. He says "Adrian was a brilliant man. He was probably the greatest coach I ever played under, or the greatest coach I've ever seen". He continued "Adrian installed a will to win with us that was unbelievable".

Club management
By the early 1980s, despite only being in his early 20s, Bradley was part of Glenullin's underage management team with Danny McIlvar and Gerard O'Kane. He says "That's when I started coaching and it's just progressed from there." His first stint as Senior manager of Glenullin came in the late 1980s, when both he and Gerard O'Kane were player-managers. He coached St Matthew's GAC Drumsurn when Richard Ferris was manager. and has also been manager of John Mitchel's GAC Claudy between 2002 and 2004. Bradley took over as manager of home-club Glenullin in 2005, and guided them to success in the 2007 Derry Championship, where they beat Bellaghy in the final after a replay. It was Glenullin's first victorious Championship since 1985. He also led them to victory in the Ulster Club Football League earlier that year. He was manager of Banagher in 2008.

Inter-county management

Derry roles
When Richard Ferris was manager of the Derry minor team, he brought Bradley in as coach / joint manager. And along with Ferris he has managed Derry Under 21s in the past. He applied for the Derry Senior manager's job in late 2004 for the 2005 season, but the role eventually went to Mickey Moran. He was also involved in the Derry Senior set-up for a season under manager Paddy Crozier. Bradley was a selector in 2006, but stood down from the role in February 2007, stating he wanted to concentrate on managing Glenullin. He applied for the vacant Derry job in 2008, with the position eventually going to Damian Cassidy.

Antrim seniors

Shortly before the nomination deadline of 17 October 2008, on the advice of his sons Paddy and Eoin, "good friend" Richard Ferris and Tony Scullion, Bradley applied for the vacant Antrim senior football manager's job. Interviews for the position were held on Wednesday 22 October, and a day later the Antrim County Board secretary Frankie Quinn released a statement stating Bradley had been installed as new Antrim manager for three years, subject to an annual review. Also applying for the job were Brian White, Frank Delargy and Conor MacSherry. Bradley commented "I wanted he job because I see a lot of potential in Antrim," and went on to say "But I am under no illusions about the work me and my backroom team will have to do." Bradley chose Niall Conway of the Ballinderry club in Derry as his assistant manager. Conway guided the Derry minor team to the finals of both the Ulster Minor and All-Ireland Minor Championships in 2007 and Bradley described him as "one of the best young coaches in Ulster". His other selector was Paddy McNeill of Rasharkin, and Creggan's Tony McCollum served as liaison officer. The new physio was Patrina Scullion.

Bradley's first season in charge of Antrim was seen as a hughly successful one. He stated their aim at the start of the year as gaining promotion from Division 4 of the National Football League. Antrim achieved this feat by going undefeated and finishing top of Division 4. Along with second-placed Sligo they qualified for the National League Division 4 final. They were defeated in the final.

The 2009 Championship was Antrim's best in many years. Against the odds they defeated both Donegal and Cavan to qualify for the county's first Ulster Championship final in 39 years. Antrim were aiming to win their first Ulster title since 1951. They were beaten in the decider by reigning All-Ireland champions Tyrone, but Antrim gained a lot of admiration for their performance in the match. They exited the Championship following a defeat to Kerry in Round 4 of the Qualifiers. Contrary to most predictions (Kerry were expected to win comfortably), the game was very close and Antrim were unfortunate not to win.

On 27 August 2012, Bradley's departure as Antrim's senior football manager was announced. On 5 November 2013, Bradley's return as Antrim's senior football manager was announced. On 10 September 2014, Bradley's redeparture as Antrim's senior football manager was announced, having led Antrim to a first championship win in five years during his brief return.

Return to club management
Since leaving Antrim for the second time, Bradley has managed Donegal side Malin.

Bradley joined Ballinascreen in 2018 during a relegation battle. He managed the team to beat the drop. In 2020 Bradley was joined by Ballinascreen minor winning manager Jerome Bradley. Jerome moves up his minor winning team into the first team set-up, including notable players such as Noel Rafferty, Ruairi O'Hagan, José Heron and Daniel Flet.

References

External links

Interview with Irish Independent (June 2009)

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Derry inter-county Gaelic footballers
Gaelic football managers
Glenullin Gaelic footballers


Alfred Ian Watt  was an Anglican priest in the second half of the 20th century.

He was born in 1934, trained at Edinburgh Theological College and was ordained in 1960. Initially a curate at St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, he was then Rector of Arbroath  before becoming Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in 1969. After 13 years in post  he became Rector of St Paul's Kinross before his appointment as Dean of  St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. He retired in 1998.

References

1934 births
Provosts of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth
Deans of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
Living people


Ivarstown () is a small village in County Clare, Munster in Ireland. The village covered a total area of  and was located within the parish of Kilfinaghta, in the baronry of Lower Bunratty. It takes its name from the Ievers family and is located on the opposite bank of the O'Garney river from the village of Sixmilebridge.

See also
 List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

Towns and villages in County Clare


Lawnie Wallace (born April 15, 1977) is a Canadian country singer. Wallace recorded one studio album for MCA Canada, Thought I Was Dreaming, in 1996. Four singles from the album charted on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada, including the number 8-peaking title track.

Biography

Wallace was born in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada. At age seven she began performing and writing songs. At the age of fifteen Wallace signed a publishing deal with TMP Publishing, and an artist development deal with Warner Chappell. After relocating to Nashville she began co-writing songs.

Before the age of seventeen Wallace had signed a major record deal with MCA Records and began touring to promote her first album Thought I was Dreaming. Following this tour she took a break from the stage, working with students wanting to get into the Radio and TV business. In 2015 Wallace released her second album, The Lost Years, and has returned to performing live with her band The Chosen Ones.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

References

Canadian women country singers
Canadian country singer-songwriters
Living people
MCA Records artists
1977 births
Musicians from Ontario
21st-century Canadian women singers
21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters


Irará is a city in Bahia, Brazil. The municipality is the hometown of former professional footballer Dida, of A.C. Milan and Brazil national football team fame and musician Tom Zé.

Until the 17th century, the region was inhabited by the

Irará was settled by the Paiaiá, a subgroup of the Quiriris peoples. The land was annexed by the Portuguese in the 16th century, and became part of the vast land holdings of Garcia d'Ávila (1528-1609) in the Captaincy of Bahia. The Jesuits explored the area from the north via their settlement in present-day Água Fria. Bandeirantes entered the city to both hunt for precious stones in the Serra de Irará and to enslave indigenous people. Two structures remain from the bandeirantes, a church in the Vila de Bento Simões and a chapel in Caroba.

In mid-1717, the first explorations of the lands in the center of the current municipality were registered, where

Antônio Homem da Fonseca Correia was an early permanent Portuguese settler to the area. He built a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Conception in 1717, and left the land to his son. The farmhouse of the family gave rise to the village of Irará, which was also a site of a Paiaiá settlement.

References

Municipalities in Bahia


Mattias Ohlin (born 4 February 1978) is a former international freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Sweden, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000.

Ohlin is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 4×100 m freestyle at the 2000 FINA Short Course World Championships in Athens, Greece.

References

1978 births
Living people
Swedish male backstroke swimmers
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Sweden
People from Trelleborg
World record setters in swimming
Swedish male freestyle swimmers
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Trelleborgs SS swimmers
Sportspeople from Skåne County
21st-century Swedish people


Locomotive numbers 1 to 3 on the Lübeck-Büchen railway (Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn or LBE) in Germany were  streamlined tank locomotives. The locomotives had a 2-4-2T wheel arrangement, a two-cylinder, superheated engine and were capable of push-pull operations. In order to ensure a symmetrical running gear, both carrying axles were built as Bissel bogies, which were fitted with return devices for improved running.

In order to run faster passenger train services between Hamburg and Lübeck, the LBE ordered the construction of three engines in 1935 from the locomotive works of Henschel in Kassel. At the same time, the coach building firms of WUMAG in Görlitz and Linke-Hofmann in Breslau were tasked to manufacture the double-decker coaches to go with the locomotives.

Locomotives LBE 1 and 2 were delivered in 1936; LBE 3, which with its larger water tank and boiler appeared somewhat heavier, followed one year later. The engines had a top speed of 120 km/h and were used in push-pull services. Due to their appearance and grey livery they were soon nicknamed "Micky Mouse".

On the nationalisation of the LBE on 1 January 1938 the locomotives were incorporated into the Reichsbahn's numbering scheme as DRG Class 60 with numbers 60 001 to 60 003 and homed in Lübeck locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) in Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin. Nevertheless, their duties did not change until the outbreak of war in 1939. Then express services were withdrawn and the three engines were to be retired.

There were attempts to sell the engines to the Frankfurt-Königstein railway, but these locomotives were designed for express services on the north German plain and not for the Königsteiner Bahn, which had very steep sections. During the trial only two of the 14 wagons attached at Frankfurt-Höchst arrived at Königstein, the rest had to be uncoupled en route.

Number 60 001 was used as a heating engine and went missing during the war. The other two ended up in the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the GDR. Number 60 002 worked in the area of Berlin until 1958 and was scrapped in 1962 at Leipzig. Number 60 003 remained in service until 1954 at Stralsund locomotive depot.

References

Steam locomotives of Germany
2-4-2T locomotives
Private locomotives of Germany
Henschel locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1936
Streamlined steam locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Germany
1′B1′ h2 locomotives


Miles Staveley (born 12 August 1846) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm round-arm bowler who played for Surrey. He was born in St. Pancras.

Staveley made a single first-class appearance for the side, in 1870, against Sussex. He scored 3 runs in the first innings and a duck in the second - and took figures of 1-24 with the ball.

External links
Miles Staveley at CricketArchive

1846 births
English cricketers
Surrey cricketers
Sportspeople from St Pancras, London
Year of death missing


John Cowderoy (19 April 1851 – 15 January 1934) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a left-arm roundarm bowler who played for Surrey. He was born in Battersea and died in Fulham.

Cowderoy made a single first-class appearance for the side, in 1876, against Nottinghamshire. He scored 2 runs in each innings in which he batted, in a game in which, in their first innings, Surrey finished 26 all out, a total which remained, for four years, their lowest total in first-class cricket.

External links
John Cowderoy at CricketArchive

1851 births
1934 deaths
English cricketers
Surrey cricketers


Klaus Lanzarini (born 18 January 1977 in Latina) is a former international freestyle swimmer from Italy, who participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics for his native country. He is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle at the 2006 FINA Short Course World Championships in Shanghai, PR China.

References

1977 births
Living people
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Italy
Italian male freestyle swimmers
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Sportspeople from Latina, Lazio


Don Neilson is a Canadian country music artist best known for three studio albums released through Epic Records in the 1990s. He charted twelve singles on the Canadian country music charts, of which the highest was "You're My Hometown", peaking at #9 in 1993. Neilson was nominated for two Juno Awards in 1993 for Most Promising Male Vocalist and Best Country Male Vocalist, and again for the latter in 1996.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

Canadian male singer-songwriters
Canadian country singer-songwriters
Living people
Singers from Toronto
Year of birth missing (living people)


Children of Mata Hari (, , , also known as Pill of Death and The Deathmakers) is a 1970 international co-production crime film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Klaus Kinski.

Cast

 Stéphane Audran as Dominique
 Klaus Kinski as Pavel Richko / Torpédo I
 Lilli Palmer as Helen
 Michel Constantin as Coster
 Angelo Infanti as Jean / Gianni
 Jean Claudio as La Filature
 Frédéric de Pasquale as Nicolas Baslier
 Noëlle Adam as L'amie de Dominique
 Philippe March as Le vendeur (as Aimé de March)
 Christine Fabréga as Sylvianne Collet
 Jacques Harden as L'inspecteur de Police de Paris
 Micheline Luccioni as L'employée des postes
 Georges Lycan as Torpédo II
 Philippine Pascal
 Bernard Musson as L'inspecteur de Police de Fécamp
 Roger Lumont as Le chauffeur routier
 Robert Favart
 Catherine Jacobsen as La 'boîte aux lettres'
 Henri Gilabert
 Pierre Koulak as Un inspecteur
 Alexandre Klimenko
 Michel Charrel as Un inspecteur
 Gérard Dauzat
 Paul Bisciglia
 Rita Maiden as La prostituée
 Driss Kettani
 Aldo Bastoni

References

External links

1970 films
1970s spy thriller films
1970s crime thriller films
French spy thriller films
French crime thriller films
1970s French-language films
Films directed by Jean Delannoy
Cold War spy films
Films based on French novels
Films scored by François de Roubaix
1970s French films


Heinrich Kling (10 September 1913 – 30 September 1951) was a German Waffen-SS commander during the Nazi era, who served with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH).

Biography
Kling graduated from the SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz in 1938. On November 14, 1939 he joined the 12th SS Totenkopf Standarte in Łódź, which shot a thousand residents of the psychiatric hospital in Owinsk near Poznań. He participated in so called operations against "partisans", which meant the execution of Polish intellectuals and Jews. For his service he was awarded with the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the War Merit Cross with swords. Prior to Operation Barbarossa he came to the Leibstandarte, and commanded its 13th (heavy) company of Tiger I tanks. As an ardent Nazi, Kling was popular among his fellow Waffen-SS soldiers.

Since late November 1943 the SS Panzer Regiment 1 was commanded by Joachim Peiper, of whom Kling was a personal favorite. Peiper consequently made Kling leader of the 2nd Battalion, and nominated him for the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Kling received the award on 23 February 1944.

Kling was heavily wounded during Operation Overlord. On 19 March 1945, he was appointed commander of the 501st Heavy SS Panzer Battalion.

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1913 births
1951 deaths
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Holocaust perpetrators in Poland
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The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales.

County Championship may also refer to:

England and Wales
 The County Championship (rugby league), a defunct rugby league competition in England held between 1895 and 1983
 The County Championship (rugby union), an annual rugby union competition in England between teams representing English counties
 The Women's County Championship, a 50-over limited overs cricket competition organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board and the equivalent of the (men's) County Championship

Ireland
 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, contested by the top inter-county teams
 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, contested by the top inter-county teams


Patrick Murray "Pat" Smythe (24 March 1860 – 19 March 1935) was an Anglican priest in the second quarter of the 20th century. He was born into a clerical family on 24 March 1860 and educated at Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford.

Ordained in 1883, he was initially a curate at St Mark's, Swindon and then held incumbencies at Rockingham, Westbury and Kettering before being appointed Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in 1911, a post he held for 24 years.

A great angler, he died on 19 March 1935, five days before his 75th birthday.

References

1860 births

1935 deaths
People educated at Charterhouse School

Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
Provosts of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth


ESMO may refer to:

 European Society for Medical Oncology
 European Student Moon Orbiter
 Oskarshamn Airport (ICAO code)


The Foundation for Science and Technology (, FCT) is an organization within the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education in Portugal which evaluates and funds scientific research activities, in particular in the areas of natural sciences, exact sciences, social sciences and humanities. FCT was founded in 1997, succeeding the Junta Nacional de Investigação Científica e Tecnológica.

Vision
 To establish Portugal as a global reference in science, technology and innovation
 Ensure that knowledge generated by scientific research is used fully, for economic growth and the well-being of all citizens

Research units funded by FCT
Most scientific research in Portugal takes place in R&D institutions financed and evaluated by FCT. As of 2019 there are 26 Associate Laboratories and 307 R&D Units, where 22,000 researchers work. These institutions are regularly evaluated by FCT.

Publications

The foundation, together with the University of Lisbon's Centre of Philosophy, publishes a biannual peer-reviewed open-access academic journal, Philosophica, International Journal for the History of Philosophy, which covers all areas of the history of philosophy. Beginning 2022 it is published on their behalf by the Philosophy Documentation Center.

References

External links

Government agencies of Portugal
Science and technology in Portugal
Research funding agencies
Multilingual journals
Philosophy journals
Biannual journals
Academic journals established in 1993
Philosophy Documentation Center academic journals


Covington & Burling LLP is an American multinational law firm. Known as a white shoe law firm, the firm is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and advises clients on transactional, litigation, regulatory, and public policy matters. The firm has additional offices in Beijing, Brussels, Frankfurt, Dubai, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Seoul, and Shanghai.

History
Judge J. Harry Covington and Edward B. Burling founded Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., on January 1, 1919.

In 1988, Covington opened a London office, followed by a Brussels office in 1990.  In 1999, Covington merged with a 60-lawyer New York firm called Howard, Smith & Levin and also opened its first West Coast office in San Francisco. In 2008, Covington entered into a strategic alliance with Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy (iQ), a Qatar-based transnational law firm and think-tank, for the joint provision of legal and consulting services in the Middle East. As of mid-2009, both firms share the same London office premises.

Pro bono
Covington's pro bono work focuses on providing legal services to people in local communities. Attorneys at the firm can participate in a six-month rotation program and work at each of three DC-based legal service organizations: Neighborhood Legal Services Program, the Children's Law Center and Bread for the City.

Covington's pro bono work includes representation in Buckley v. Valeo, Griffin v. Illinois, and Korematsu v. United States.  However, the firm's pro bono program encompasses a range of areas, including freedom of expression and religion; civil rights and civil liberties; gay rights; family law; education; landlord/tenant; homelessness; employment; criminal and court-appointed cases; police misconduct; environmental law; fairness in government procurements and grants; intellectual property; non-profit incorporation and tax. They supported the District of Columbia in District of Columbia v. Heller which argues that the District's ban on the possession of handguns and its storage provisions for other firearms in the home is not implicated by the Second Amendment

Representation of Guantanamo Bay inmates
Attorneys at Covington & Burling have been Guantanamo Bay attorneys for Ahmed al-Ghailani, fifteen Yemenis, one Pakistani, and one Algerian being held at Guantanamo Bay. The firm obtained favorable rulings that detainees have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.  The court ruled in March 2005 that the government could not transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to foreign custody without first giving the prisoners a chance to challenge the move in court.

According to The American Lawyer's annual pro bono survey, Covington lawyers spent 3,022 hours on Guantánamo litigation in 2007, "the firm's largest pro bono project that year". Lawyers from the firm who have become administration officials have been advised by ethics officials to recuse themselves in matters involving detainees represented by their former firms, but not from policy issues where they were not personally and substantially involved. Lanny Breuer is one of those who has had to recuse from some matters since leaving the firm for a government position. Covington also co-authored one of three petitioners' briefs filed in Boumediene v. Bush, "and was responsible for several detainee victories" in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. "At least one high-ranking appointee played a key role in advancing detainees' rights," but they did not participate in litigation over the Guantanamo Bay prison itself.

Pro bono accolades
First in Pro Bono Hours per Lawyer, 2019 and 2020—The American Lawyer
Law360, Pro Bono Firm of the Year, ranked No. 1 (2015).
DC Bar Association, Thurgood Marshall Award for commitment to excellence in the fields of civil rights and individual liberties (2006).

Recent notable clients

State of California
The State of California hired Covington & Burling attorney and former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to fight the Trump administration.

Commonwealth of Australia
According to press reports and filings with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, Covington & Burling assisted the government of Australia in pursuing the legislation to create a new visa category reserved exclusively for nationals of Australia following the enactment of the U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement.  The Covington team included Stuart Eizenstat, Martin Gold, Roderick DeArment, David Marchick, Elizabeth Letchworth, Les Carnegie, and Brian Smith.  On November 20, 2012, the LegalTimes reported that the Embassy of South Korea had hired Covington & Burling to advise on a similar visa for Korea.  Covington of counsel Brian Smith and senior international policy adviser Alan Larson reportedly led the matter, assisted by senior counsel Martin Gold and associate Jonathan Wakely.

Current and former attorneys

David Campion Acheson
Dean Acheson
Donald Alexander
Richard S. Arnold
Howard Berman
Stephanos Bibas
John R. Bolton
Kit Bond
Michael Boudin
Steven G. Bradbury
Lanny Breuer
William Bundy
Edward B. Burling
Bruno Campos
Vince Girdhari Chhabria
Abram Chayes
Michael Chertoff
W. Graham Claytor, Jr.
Christopher Reid Cooper
John Sherman Cooper
J. Harry Covington
Malik R. Dahlan
Roderick Allen DeArment
Joan Donoghue
John W. Douglas
John C. Dugan
Stuart E. Eizenstat
Leecia Eve
Adrian S. Fisher
Roger Fisher
Ivan K. Fong
Gerhard Gesell
Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr.
Jack L. Goldsmith
Lino Graglia
James Hamilton
Coleman Hicks
Donald Hiss
Elie Honig
Eric Holder
Charles Antone Horsky
Philip K. Howard
Nicholas Johnson
Michael Karlan
Yale Kamisar
Harold Hongju Koh
Alex Kozinski
Jon Kyl
Robert D. Lenhard
Robert Lighthizer
Eugene Ludwig
Kenneth W. Mack
Gerard Magliocca
David Marchick
Burke Marshall
James C. McKay
David E. McGiffert
Roderick R. McKelvie
Terrell McSweeny
Richard A. Merrill
Richard Meserve
Sandra Douglass Morgan
Alfred H. Moses
David Nason
Dawn Clark Netsch
Kevin Newsom
John W. Nields Jr.
John Lord O'Brian
Mary Ellen O'Connell
Roberts Bishop Owen
David Remes
Gary R. Roberts
George Rublee
Charles Ruff
Arjun Singh Sethi
Andrew J. Shapiro
Brad Smith
Cameron Stracher
Paul Tagliabue
Phyllis D. Thompson
Paul Warnke
Togo D. West, Jr.
Josh Whitman
Sarah L. Wilson
Wesley S. Williams Jr.
Robert Eric Wone
Diane Wood

References

External links

 National Law Review Profile

Intellectual property law firms
Biopharmaceutical law firms
Law firms established in 1919
Law firms based in Washington, D.C.
1919 establishments in Washington, D.C.


WFTU may refer to:

 World Federation of Trade Unions
 WFTU (AM), a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to serve Riverhead, New York, United States


Kaal  ( , )  is a Bengali  film released in 2007. The film directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay stars Chandrayee Ghosh, Rudranil Ghosh, Dola Chakraborty, Sandhya Shetty.

It was selected for screening at the Cairo International Film Festival, 2007, the São Paulo International Film Festival 2007 and the Stockholm International Film Festival 2007. Incidentally, this is the third successive year that Bandopadhyay's film is being screened at São Paulo International Film Festival. The film was already successfully screened at the Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, 2007, where it was one of the Indian films competing in the festival.

Plot
KAAL is about prostitution and call-girl services of Kolkata. The girls move from a rural area into a large city after being lured and offered lucrative money by the recruiter Ratan (Rudranil Ghosh). They ultimately become call-girls for the sake of survival. Ranidi (the boss, played by Sandhya Shetty) grooms the depressed and oppressed girls and gives them a complete make over in a short time.

The movie depicts the corruption associated with their entire business. The girls reasonably and rightfully accept the fact that money is better than sunshine and sweeter than honey because of poverty. They forget their miserable past. They get caught up in making more money and buying more fun. They understand that surviving in this treacherous world is not possible through love, honesty and humanity. Hence they let themselves drain away in the world of consuming and consumption. The girls are shown traveling to the top hotels in Kolkata. The middleman Ratan is shown trying to go to Singapore. The village police inspector and the other partners in the game(Indian Border Security Force) continue to operate.
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Director’s note
"In a way, this film is a sequel to my earlier film Kantatar (Barbed Wire). The partition, at one point of time, caused human displacement in a large scale in our country. The present trend of globalization has once again unleashed a massive displacement of human beings. The backdrop is also even more complex. It was therefore impossible to maintain a linear narration. Kaal is a multilayered film dealing with human displacement."

Cast
Chandrayee Ghosh...
Rudranil Ghosh....Ratan
Dola Chakraborty ...
Sandhya Shetty...
Sankar Debnath...
Samapika Debnath...
Rupsha Guha...
Nemai Ghosh...
Iqbal Sultan....
Mishar Ray...
Partha Sarathi Deb...

Censorship
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay is in trouble with the regional Censor Board for some scenes in Kaal being ‘too graphic’. The scene is about the rape of an illegal migrant girl from Bangladesh by personnel of the Border Security Force. The director says that his film is on human trafficking and is based on NGO reports. He is now waiting for the revision committee to see his film. "The problem is that any criticism against any authority is met with iron clamps. The basic principles of democracy are being violated and the right to self-expression is either denied completely, or censored conveniently," says Bappaditya.

References

External links
www.citwf.com-Devaki
www.gomolo.in
www.telegraphindia.com

2007 films
Bengali-language Indian films
2000s Bengali-language films
2007 drama films
Films set in Kolkata
Films directed by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay


vMessage is a file format used for the storage and exchange of short messages, typically SMS messages, between mobile devices and desktop computers.  The format is used by multiple vendors, including Nokia, Siemens, and Palm, Inc., and is similar to the commonly used vCard format.  vCard is used within the format to embed contact information for the sender of the message.

The  standard is defined by IrDA (Infrared Data Association) in the IrDA Infrared Mobile Communications (IrMC) v1.1 specification. The file extension used when transferring  is vmg.
This standard is mainly concerned with defining methods of exchanging personal data such as business cards, appointments, and notes between mobile devices.

A sub-set of the specification is available here.

References

Computer file formats


Churchill's Leopards (, ) is a 1970 Italian-Spanish "macaroni combat" war film directed by Maurizio Pradeaux and starring Richard Harrison and Klaus Kinski.

Plot
A British commando team heads into occupied France to blow up a German held dam in preparation for D-Day, while a British officer infiltrates the German garrison, posing as his recently dead German twin brother, in order to provide help from the inside. The German commander is, however, becoming very suspicious.

Main cast
 Richard Harrison as Lt. Richard Benson / Lt. Hans Müller
 Pilar Velázquez as Elise
 Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Major Powell
 Frank Braña as François Leduc
 Helga Liné as Marlene Schulman
 Antonio Casas as "La Tulipe"
 Klaus Kinski as Hauptsturmführer Holtz
 Herb Andress

See also
 Euro War
 War Film

References

External links

1970 films
Italian war films
Spanish war films
1970s Italian-language films
Western Front of World War II films
Macaroni Combat films
Films directed by Maurizio Pradeaux
Films produced by Ricardo Sanz
1970s Italian films


Rod Jay Rosenstein (; born January 13, 1965) is an American attorney who served as the 37th United States deputy attorney general from April 2017 until May 2019. Prior to his appointment, he served as a United States attorney for the District of Maryland. At the time of his confirmation as deputy attorney general in April 2017, he was the longest-serving U.S. attorney. Rosenstein had also been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2007, but his nomination was never considered by the U.S. Senate.

President Donald Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General on February 1, 2017. Rosenstein was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 25, 2017. In May 2017, at Trump's behest, he authored a memo that Trump then cited as the basis for his decision to dismiss FBI Director James Comey.

In May 2018, Rosenstein reportedly told the five U.S. Attorneys in districts along the border with Mexico that, where refugees were concerned, they should not "be categorically declining immigration prosecutions of adults in family units because of the age of a child." The directive, issued as part of the Trump administration family separation policy, led to the separation of thousands of small children from their parents, many of whom were seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing violence in Central America.

Following the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Comey's dismissal, Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the myriad links between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies and related matters. Rosenstein previously assumed authority over the parallel FBI probe after Sessions recused himself over misleading remarks he made to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during his confirmation process. The New York Times reported Rosenstein prevented the FBI and Mueller from investigating Trump's personal and financial dealings in Russia. On November 7, 2018, Trump transferred this oversight to acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.

Rosenstein submitted his resignation as deputy attorney general on April 29, 2019, which took effect on May 11, 2019. Rosenstein joined the law firm King & Spalding's D.C. office as a partner on the "Special Matters and Government Investigations" team in January 2020.

Early life and education
Rosenstein was born in 1965 to an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Philadelphia. His father, Robert, ran a small business, whilst his mother, Gerri Rosenstein, was a bookkeeper and local school board president. Rod grew up in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania. Rosenstein graduated from Lower Moreland High School. He has one sister, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, who directed the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during the COVID-19 epidemic until March 14, 2021 when her resignation became effective.

Rosenstein attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science in economics.

After graduating from Penn, Rosenstein attended Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Rosenstein graduated from Harvard in 1989 with a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude. He then served as a law clerk to Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Law School from 1997–98.

Career

Early career

After his clerkship, Rosenstein joined the United States Department of Justice through the Attorney General's Honors Program. From 1990 to 1993, he prosecuted public corruption cases as a trial attorney with the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division, the latter of which was led by then Assistant Attorney General Robert Mueller.

During the Clinton Administration, Rosenstein served as counsel to Deputy Attorney General Philip B. Heymann (1993–1994) and Special Assistant to Criminal Division Assistant Attorney General Jo Ann Harris (1994–1995). Rosenstein then worked in the United States Office of the Independent Counsel under Ken Starr on the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton. As an Associate Independent Counsel from 1995 to 1997, he was co-counsel in the trial of three defendants who were convicted of fraud, and he supervised the investigation that found no basis for criminal prosecution of White House officials who had obtained FBI background reports.

United States Attorney Lynne A. Battaglia hired Rosenstein as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland in 1997.

From 2001 to 2005, Rosenstein served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice. He coordinated the tax enforcement activities of the Tax Division, the U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the IRS, and he supervised 90 attorneys and 30 support employees. He oversaw civil litigation and served as the acting head of the Tax Division when Assistant Attorney General Eileen J. O'Connor was unavailable, and he personally briefed and argued civil appeals in several federal appellate courts.

U.S. Attorney
President George W. Bush nominated Rosenstein to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland on May 23, 2005. He took office on July 12, 2005, after the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed his nomination. He was the only U.S. Attorney retained by President Barack Obama.

As United States Attorney, he oversaw federal civil and criminal litigation, assisted with federal law enforcement strategies in Maryland, and presented cases in the U.S. District Court and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder directed Rosenstein to investigate leaks regarding the U.S.'s Stuxnet operation, which sabotaged Iran's nuclear program; as a result of the investigation, former U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI and acknowledged leaking information about the operation to New York Times journalist David E. Sanger. During his tenure as U.S. Attorney, Rosenstein successfully prosecuted leaks of classified information, corruption, murders and burglaries, and was "particularly effective taking on corruption within police departments."

Rosenstein secured several convictions against prison guards in Baltimore for conspiring with the Black Guerrilla Family. He indicted Baltimore police officers Wayne Jenkins, Momodu Gondo, Evodio Hendrix, Daniel Hersl, Jemell Rayam, Marcus Taylor, and Maurice Ward for racketeering. Rosenstein, with the aid of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Drug Enforcement Administration, secured convictions in large scale narcotics cases in the District of Maryland, including the arrest and conviction of Terrell Plummer, Richard Christopher Byrd, and Yasmine Geen Young.

The Attorney General appointed Rosenstein to serve on the Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys, which evaluates and recommends policies for the Department of Justice. He was vice-chair of the Violent and Organized Crime Subcommittee and a member of the Subcommittees on White Collar Crime, Sentencing Issues and Cyber/Intellectual Property Crime. He also served on the Attorney General's Anti-Gang Coordination Committee.

Attorney General Eric Holder appointed Rosenstein to prosecute General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for leaking to reporters.  Cartwright pled guilty, but he was later pardoned.

Rosenstein served as the U.S. Attorney in Maryland during a period in which homicides decreased by approximately one-third, in other words, double the decline at the national level. Additionally, the robbery and aggravated assault rates fell faster than the national average. According to Thiru Vignarajah, the former deputy attorney general of Maryland, "Collaboration between prosecutors, police, and the community combined with a dogged focus on violent repeat offenders was the anchor of Rosenstein’s approach." Rosenstein regarded the heroin and opioid epidemic as a public health crisis, hired a re-entry specialist to help ex-offenders adjust to life outside of prison, and prosecuted several individual cases of corrupt police officers.

Judicial nomination
In 2007, President Bush nominated Rosenstein to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Rosenstein was a Maryland resident at the time. Maryland's Democratic United States Senators, Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, blocked Rosenstein's nomination, claiming he did not have strong enough ties to Maryland.

Deputy Attorney General of the United States

Nomination and confirmation

President Trump nominated Rosenstein to serve as Deputy Attorney General on February 1, 2017. He was one of the 46 United States Attorneys ordered on March 10, 2017, to resign by Attorney General Jeff Sessions; Trump declined to accept his resignation. Rosenstein was confirmed by the Senate on April 25, 2017, by a vote of 94–6.

Comey memo

On May 8, 2017, President Trump directed Sessions and Rosenstein to make a case against FBI Director James Comey in writing. The next day, Rosenstein handed a memo to Sessions providing the basis for Sessions's recommendation to President Trump that Comey be dismissed. In his memo Rosenstein asserted that the FBI must have "a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them". He ends with an argument against keeping Comey as FBI director, on the grounds that he was given an opportunity to "admit his errors" but that there is no hope that he will "implement the necessary corrective actions."

Some critics argued that Rosenstein, in enabling the dismissal of Comey amid an investigation into Russian election interference, damaged his own reputation.

After administration officials cited Rosenstein's memo as the main reason for Comey's dismissal, an anonymous source in the White House said that Rosenstein threatened to resign. Rosenstein denied the claim and said he was "not quitting," when asked directly by a reporter from Sinclair Broadcast Group.

On May 17, Rosenstein told the Senate he knew that Comey would be fired before he wrote his memo that the White House initially used as justification for President Trump firing Comey.

The New York Times reported in August 2020 that concerns about a possible counterintelligence threat posed by Trump's personal and financial dealings with Russia increased after his May 9 firing of Comey, prompting the FBI to open an inquiry separate from the Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation) and the incipient Mueller investigation. Within days, Rosenstein curtailed that inquiry, giving the bureau the impression that Mueller would pursue it, though Rosenstein instructed Mueller not to, effectively ending the inquiry.

Special counsel appointment
On May 17, 2017, Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as a special counsel to conduct the investigation into "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump" as well as any matters arising directly from that investigation. Rosenstein's order authorizes Mueller to bring criminal charges in the event that he discovers any federal crimes.  Rosenstein said in a statement, "My decision is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted. I have made no such determination. What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command."

In an interview with the Associated Press, Rosenstein said he would recuse from supervision of Mueller, if he himself were to become a subject in the investigation due to his role in the dismissal of James Comey. Under that scenario, supervision would have fallen to DOJ's third-ranking official, Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand. Brand resigned on February 20, 2018, leaving the responsibility to Jesse Panuccio.

Michael Cohen investigation
In April 2018, Rosenstein reportedly personally approved the FBI raid on President Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, in which the FBI seized emails, tax documents, and records, some of them related to Cohen's payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels. After interim U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman had recused himself, the search was executed by others in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and approved by a federal judge.

Impeachment articles
Eleven House GOP members filed articles of impeachment against Rosenstein on July 25, 2018, alleging he has stonewalled document requests from Congress and he mishandled the 2016 election investigation. Rosenstein has denied the allegations. No such impeachment resolution was brought to the floor, with Ryan and Meadows backing down. Subsequently, it was revealed that Devin Nunes wanted to impeach Rosenstein, but was concerned that attempting to do so would delay the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Alleged 25th Amendment discussions
On September 21, 2018, The New York Times reported that Rosenstein suggested, in the spring of 2017 shortly after the dismissal of Comey, that he could secretly tape conversations between himself and Trump. He also allegedly suggested invoking the 25th amendment to attempt to remove Trump from office. Rosenstein strongly denied it, and other reporting suggested he had been sarcastic in his reference to taping Trump. The report gave rise to rumors that he would be fired.

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe stated in a February 2019 60 Minutes interview that during the days after Comey was fired, "the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president," including the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to have Trump removed from office. Rosenstein again denied such discussions occurred.

Rosenstein went to the White House on September 24, where he met with Chief of Staff John Kelly; according to some reports, he offered his resignation. Following the meeting, the White House issued a statement that Rosenstein retained his position as deputy attorney general and would meet with Trump on September 27. Due to the ongoing hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, Rosenstein instead met with Trump on October 8. Further, Rosenstein agreed to meet with House Republicans within the next two weeks.

Transfer of Mueller oversight and issuance of report
On November 7, 2018, Trump named Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General, and Whitaker took over the oversight of Mueller's investigation. Oversight of the investigation was later assumed by William Barr upon his confirmation as attorney general.

On March 22, 2019, Mueller released his report to Barr. On March 24, Barr sent a four-page letter to Congressional leaders "summarizing" the Mueller report, although he later said he had not intended the letter as a summary. In it,  he said that Mueller had made no determination about whether Trump had committed obstruction of justice, and that Barr and Rosenstein had concluded that the evidence in the report was "not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."

In an address at the Yale Club as he was preparing to leave the Justice Department following the release of the Mueller Report, Rosenstein criticized the Obama administration, the FBI, Congress, and the press for their conduct regarding Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Rosenstein asserted, "The previous administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America." He asserted that former FBI director James Comey had stated that Trump pressured him to end the investigation into the matter. Rosenstein went on to say, "In politics — as in journalism — the rules of evidence do not apply." He quoted President Trump advocating for the rule of law. He also criticized the FBI and Congress for leaks regarding the investigation.

Involvement in Trump administration's family separation policy
In May 2018, Rosenstein reportedly told five U.S. Attorneys in districts along the border with Mexico that, where refugees were concerned, they should not "be categorically declining immigration prosecutions of adults in family units because of the age of a child." The directive, issued under Attorney General Jeff Sessions and other Trump Justice Department officials as part of the Trump administration family separation policy, led to the separation of thousands of small children from their parents, many of whom were seeking asylum in the United States after fleeing violence in Central America. Rosenstein insisted that children should be separated from their parents irrespective of the child's age, even if they were infants.

In January 2021, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice concluded an investigation into the policy. The findings led Rosenstein to admit that family separations "should never have been implemented".

Departure
Rosenstein was expected to step down from his position in mid-March 2019. On February 19, 2019, President Trump announced his intention to nominate Jeffrey A. Rosen for the position of Deputy Attorney General. Rosenstein subsequently resigned effective May 11, 2019.

Post-government career
Rosenstein joined King & Spalding in January 2020, a white-shoe international law firm. He works primarily in assisting clients with federal investigations.

Rosenstein has served as an adjunct professor, teaching classes on federal criminal prosecution at the University of Maryland School of Law and trial advocacy at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Personal life
Rosenstein is married to Lisa Barsoomian, an Armenian American lawyer who worked for the National Institutes of Health until 2011. They have two daughters. As a government attorney, Barsoomian represented the United States in various matters, including Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases, and the FBI's "Carnivore" surveillance system, which monitors and captures e-mail. Rosenstein resides in Bethesda, Maryland.

Rosenstein is a registered Republican.

He was a member of Washington D.C.'s Temple Sinai, a Reform Jewish congregation, from 2008 to 2014. According to a questionnaire that Rosenstein completed ahead of a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee, he was a member of a Jewish Community Center's sports league from 1993 to 2012. Rosenstein served on the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2001 to 2011.

In popular culture
Rosenstein was the subject of a song by Ben Folds called "Mr Peepers", a reference to the supposed nickname given to him by President Trump.

Rosenstein was portrayed by actor Scoot McNairy in the Showtime TV miniseries The Comey Rule.

See also
 George W. Bush judicial appointment controversies
 List of Jewish American jurists
 Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

References

Sources

External links

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1965 births
American Reform Jews
George W. Bush administration personnel
Harvard Law School alumni
Jewish American attorneys
Lawyers from Philadelphia
Living people
Maryland Republicans
Lawyers from Bethesda, Maryland
Trump administration personnel
United States Attorneys for the District of Maryland
United States Department of Justice lawyers
United States Deputy Attorneys General
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni
People associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections


Stephanie S. Tolan (born 1942 in Ohio) is an American author of children's books. Her book Surviving the Applewhites received a Newbery Honor in 2003. She obtained a master's degree in English at Purdue University. Tolan is a senior fellow at the Institute for Educational Advancement. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband. Her papers are kept at the University of Central Missouri.

Bibliography

Children's books
 1978 Grandpa and Me Scribners
 1980 The Last of Eden, Warne
 1981 The Liberation of Tansy Warner, Scribners
 1981 No Safe Harbors
 1983 The Great Skinner Strike, Atheneum Books
 1983 A Time to Fly Free
 1986 Pride of the Peacock, Atheneum
 1987 The Great Skinner Getaway
 1987 The Great Skinner Homestead
 1988 A Good Courage
 1990 Plague Year, William Morrow
 1992 The Witch of Maple Park
 1992 Sophie and the Sidewalk Man
 1992 March Hooper and the Greatest Treasure in the World
 1993 Save Halloween William Morrow
 1994 Who's There?, HarperCollins
 1996 Welcome to the Ark (Volume 1 of the Ark Trilogy), William Morrow
 1996 The Great Skinner Enterprise
 1998 The Face in the Mirror, HarperCollins
 1999 Ordinary Miracles, HarperTeen
 2001 Flight of the Raven (Volume 2 of the Ark Trilogy), HarperTeen
 2002 Surviving the Applewhites 2003 Newbery Honor Book
 2004 Bartholomew's Blessing
 2006 Listen!, HarperCollins
 2009 Wishworks, Inc., Arthur A. Levine Books,
 2012 Applewhites at Wit's End (Applewhites Family #2)

Books for adults
2011 Change Your Story, Change Your Life, Createspace.

Adapted works
The Bridge to Terabithia, a theatrical adaption of the 1977 book by Katherine Paterson

Contributing author
2008 Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out, produced by the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (various authors/illustrators). Candlewick Press

Foreword
 2020 Connected: Intuition and Resonance in Smart People, by Alan D. Thompson.

Articles
 2008 "What We May Be: What Dabrowski's Work Can Do for Gifted Adults" (in the book Living With Intensity, edited by Susan Daniels & Michael M. Piechowski)

References

External links

Lectures by Tolan at the National Association for Gifted Children
Tolan at publisher HarperCollins
Tolan at Our White House, National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance
Stephanie S. Tolan Papers inventory at the James C. Kirkpatrick Library (University of Central Missouri), part of the Philip A. Sadler Research Collection of literature for children and young adults

1942 births
Living people
American children's writers
Newbery Honor winners
Writers from Charlotte, North Carolina
Purdue University alumni
University of Central Missouri people
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
American women children's writers
American women novelists
Novelists from North Carolina


John Newsinger (born 21 May 1948) is a British historian and academic, who is an emeritus professor of history at Bath Spa University.

Newsinger is a book reviewer for Race & Class and the New Left Review. He is also author of numerous books and articles, as well as studies of science fiction and of the cinema. He teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Newsinger assisted as a historical consultant on the BBC TV series on Scotland and the Empire. He has been guest speaker at the Folkestone Literary Festival (2006), guest speaker at the Brighton Holocaust Memorial Conference and Plenary Speaker at the Socialist Historians' Conference in London (2007). He is a member of the following historical societies: Society for the Study of Labour History; Irish Labour History Society; Military History Society of Ireland; and the US Military History Society.

Newsinger is a member of the Socialist Workers Party, speaking at their Marxism Festival in 2014 and participated in meetings for the Socialist Alliance.

Education
B.A., University of Hull,
M.A., University of Leicester.

Bibliography
Fenianism in Mid-Victorian Britain (1994)
Dangerous Men: The SAS and Popular Culture (1997)
Shaking the World: John Reed's Revolutionary Journalism (editor) (1999)
Orwell's Politics (1999)
The Dredd Phenomena: Comics and Contemporary Society (1999)
United Irishman: The Memoirs of James Hope (editor) (2000)
British Intervention and the Greek Revolution (2002)
British Counterinsurgency: from Palestine to Northern Ireland (2002) [second edition:2015]
Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement (2004)
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire (2006) [second edition:2013]
Cambridge Companion to George Orwell (2007) - a chapter on George Orwell and the Holocaust
America Right or Wrong: The Labour Party and Uncle Sam's Wars (2009)
Fighting Back - the American Working Class in the 1930s (2012).
Jim Larkin and the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913 (2013).
Them and Us : Fighting the Class War 1910–1939 (2015).
Sylvia Pankhurst, the Easter Rising and the Woman's Dreadnought (2016)
The Revolutionary Journalism of Big Bill Haywood : On the picket line with the IWW (2016).
1917: Russia's Red Year (with Tim Sanders) (2016)
One Big Union of All the Workers: Solidarity and the Fighting IWW (2017)
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left (2018).
Boris Johnson: A Dangerous Man (2019)
Chosen By God: Donald Trump, the Christian Right and American Capitalism (2020)
A Rebel's Guide to George Orwell (2021)

References

External links
John Newsinger Internet Archive
John Newsinger archive at Socialist Review

Living people
Alumni of the University of Hull
Alumni of the University of Leicester
Academics of Bath Spa University
British historians
British Marxists
British Jews
Socialist Workers Party (UK) members
1948 births


Dasvidaniya  is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film released on 7 November 2008.
The name of the movie is a pun on the list of ten things to be done before death made by Vinay Pathak, and is a play on the Russian phrase до свидания (do svidaniya), meaning bye.

Synopsis
Amar Kaul (Vinay Pathak) is a 37-year-old accounts manager at a company called Suraj Pharmaceuticals in Mumbai. He is single and lives with his mother (Sarita Joshi). He lives a nondescript life with people oblivious to his existence. One day his doctor tells him that he will die within three months due to stomach cancer. Realising that his time is limited, Amar makes a list of ten things he wants to do during his life, and sets out to do them. They are:

 Buy a red car.
 Tour abroad.
 Play guitar.
 Confess his unrequited love for his childhood crush Neha.
 Stand up to his boss.
 Visit his old friend Rajiv Jhulka.
 Experience romance.
 Reveal his condition to his mother.
 Have his photo published in the newspaper.
 Mend his relationship with his younger brother.

He finds the true joys of life in a few months which was hidden all his life. After three months, at the time of his death, he leaves something for all his loved ones, leaving them happy and thankful to him.

Cast
 Vinay Pathak as Amar Kaul
 Neha Dhupia as Neha Bhanot
 Gaurav Gera as Vivek Kaul
 Rajat Kapoor as Rajiv Jhulka
 Sarita Joshi as Amar's mother
 Saurabh Shukla as Dasgupta, Amar's boss
 Suchitra Pillai as Suchi R. Jhulka
 Ranvir Shorey as Jagtap
 Suresh Menon as self
 Joy Fernandes as Savio
 Purbi Joshi as Garima
 Manoylo Svitlana as Tatanya
 Brijendra Kala as Shiraz

Soundtrack

The music for all the songs were composed by Kailash Kher.

Release

Box office
Dasvidaniya collected  in its lifetime run.

Critical reception
The film received favourable reviews from critics. Martin D'Souza of Bollywood Trade News Network gave the movie 4 stars out of 5 calling it "a memorable experience, one that will leave you richer". Gaurav Malani of Indiatimes Movies gave the film 3 stars, praising the cast, dialogue and scripting and recommended that the movie "should top the list of your 10 most important things to do this weekend." The movie has also been referred by its pun line as "the best goodbye movie ever."

References

External links

2000s Hindi-language films
2008 comedy-drama films
2008 films
Indian comedy-drama films
Films scored by Kailash Kher
2008 comedy films
2008 drama films
Hindi-language comedy-drama films


Rena Gaile is a Canadian country music artist. Gaile's first single, "Make Time for Love," was released in 1983. She released an additional seven singles between 1989 and 1993 before issuing her first studio album, Out on a Limb, in 1995. This album produced seven singles for her on the Canadian country music charts, of which the highest was the No. 10-peaking "Cloud of Dust."

Gaile was nominated for Outstanding New Artist at the RPM Big Country Awards in 1993 and 1996. She also received a nomination for Female Artist of the Year at the 1997 Canadian Country Music Association Awards.

Her second album, At Your Feet, was released in 2001. "Just as I Am" was named Southern Gospel Song of the Year at the 2001 CGMA Covenant Awards. A third album, One People, followed in 2004.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

References

External links
Official Site

Canadian women country singers
Canadian women singers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Alana Dante (real name Christel Hoogewijs, born 1 December 1969) is a Belgium-born singer. Early in her life she went to a music academy to study violin and receive singing lessons. She would perform regularly at karaoke bars and clubs in Belgium before professional success.

Alana started her professional career in 1997 with a dance version of Celine Dion's song "Think Twice".

Her big breakthrough was with her 1998 hit "Take me for a ride". Her next single "The Life of the Party" became an even bigger hit. In 1999 Dante won the third semifinal of the Belgian selections for the Eurovision Song Contest with the single "Get ready for the Sunsand".

Albums
1997: Breaking Out
1998: Disco Suppa Girl

Singles
1996: "Think Twice"
1997: "Attention to Me"
1997: "Back Where We Belong"
1997: "Take Me for a Ride"
1998: "The Life of the Party"
1998: "Disco-Suppa-Girl"
1999: "Land of Eternal Love"
1999: "Get Ready for the Sunsand" – "Vakantie"
1999: "Saturday Baby"
1999: "Give You Up"
2000: "Star For a Night"
2000: "Back in the Summer"
2001: "Never Can Say Goodbye"
2005: "Disco"

References

1969 births
Living people
Belgian women singers


Rough Justice () is a 1970 Italian Western film directed by Mario Costa and starring Klaus Kinski.

Cast
 Klaus Kinski - Johnny Laster
 Gabriella Giorgelli - Juanita
 Steven Tedd - Riccardo
 Giovanni Pallavicino - Machete
 Andrea Aureli - Riccardo's Father
 Remo Capitani
 Giuliano Raffaelli - Gary Pinkerton
 Paolo Casella - Glen (as Paul Sullivan)
 Grazia Di Marzà
 Fiona Florence
 Gioia Garson
 Cristina Iosani - (as Cristina Josani)
 Vittorio Mangano
 Ivana Novak
 Pilù
 Guido Lollobrigida - Logan (as Lee Burton)
 Luisa Rivelli
 Antonio Anelli
 Bruno Arié
 Bruno Boschetti
 Carla Mancini
 Sergio Scarchilli

References

External links

1970 films
1970s Italian-language films
1970 Western (genre) films
Spaghetti Western films
Films scored by Stelvio Cipriani
Films directed by Mario Costa
1970s Italian films


Love Is Back is the fifth studio album by Love Unlimited.
The album starts with the track "I'm So Glad That I'm a Woman", an R&B song considered by many a hymn to women, written by Barry White (creator of the group), Frank Wilson and Paul Politi.
Three tracks entered the charts: "I'm So Glad That I'm a Woman", "High Steppin', Hip Dressin' Fella (You Got It Together)" and "If You Want Me, Say It" but  all three songs didn't get to a high position because of promotion problems.

Track listing

1979 albums
Love Unlimited albums


On the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, many sports are practiced, both outdoors and indoors in the various facilities available throughout the island.

Among the sports practiced on the island include the following:

Canary Islands sports

Canarian wrestling
Canarian wrestling is practiced on the island, and may be compared to other forms of western African wrestling such as Senegalese wrestling. The fight takes place in a circle, usually on sand, and the two fighters face each other and wrestle until one is felled. There are 26 fighters in Tenerife. The island has numerous teams including two German women's wrestling teams and a league organized by the island institutions, federations and clubs with 24 schools participating in wrestling.

Palo canario

The game of palo canario ("juego del palo") is a martial art that is practiced between two players who go into battle using sticks without actually making contact with the body of the adversary. The origin of the game was a method of warfare used by early settlers to ward off invaders and was not intended for leisure.

Tenerife has several notable Palo canario clubs: Club-Escuela Acosta de los Campitos, Club-Escuela Las Mercedes, Club-Escuela Maragat, Club-Escuela Tagoror Chiregua, Club-Grupo Bijache de Arafo, Club-Grupo Chimenchia Las Canteras, Club-Grupo Hirgwan.

Bola canaria
Similar to the French game of boules, bola canaria is a sport that basically consists of gaining points by bowling balls as close to an object as possible. It is played on a rectangular field of sand or soil between 18 and 25 m in length and a width of between 3.5 and 6 m. In Paris, there are some thirty teams that are organized into three categories (first, second and second B). In the third week of August there is a special independent competition when teams can be mixed.

Rural sports
On the island there are also sports events related to rural areas, primitive sports such as the lifting of stones and the carrying of livestock, the latter which has an official tournament organized by the Asociación Canaria de Arrastre. In April, there is a rural sports exhibition for the whole Canaries usually held in Tegueste.

Water sports
The island lies in an ideal location for water sports due to its climate and location.

Stand Up Pedal Board
This is a new type of surf provided in Tenerife at Las Vistas beach in Los Cristianos. The Pedal board is powered only by the legs and the steering control on the handlebar. No seat, paddle or overboard splashes required. A new way to "walk on the water" and to exercise your body. With a stable and dynamic design the Stand Up Pedal Board is a whole new experience for fun seekers and it's like the best alternative of the known types of surfs: like SUP, Hawaiian surf etc.

Surf, windsurfing and kitesurfing

On the island traditional surfing is practiced, as is windsurfing, and the latest, kitesurfing. The island has ten schools and several courses devoted to learning these sports. The main areas for the practice of these disciplines are at El Médano, Playa de Las Américas, the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Güímar, the coasts of Valle de La Orotava, and especially at Playa del Socorro in Los Realejos. Some of them have been held several Grand Slam contests for the World Cup in the disciplines of "waves", "slalom" and "race courses".

Diving

As with surfing and windsurfing, there are many diving schools and clubs throughout the coast of Tenerife. On the island there are up to thirty areas for diving where it is possible not only to discover interesting marine flora and fauna, but also in some places to explore the wrecks of sunken ships. Among the best places for diving are Las Galletas, Playa Paraíso and the Punta de la Rasca al Sur, as well as Garachico, Puerto de la Cruz or the Punta de Teno al Norte. The presence of species such as turtles, a permanent colony of pilot whales, and the existence of the bottlenose dolphin means that diving is never done alone.

Swimming

Swimming is one of the most practiced sports on the island, either in pools or on the shores of the island. There is not only swimming, but water polo, with the Club Natación Martiánez which competes in the National Spanish Water Polo League, synchronized swimming, and long distance "open water" swimming. In Tenerife, there are six teams in the swimming federation: C.N. Teneteide, C.N Alameda, C.N. Echeyde, C.D. Teimar, C.N. Tenerife Masters and C.N Martiánez.

Boating

Tenerife is ideally placed in the centre of the Canary Islands to offer all types of water sports such as sailing, motor cruising and powerboating.
Chartering a yacht, or joining a sailing course, enables one to explore the unspoilt areas of Tenerife as well as further afield to other islands such as La Gomera, La Palma and Gran Canaria.
Official competitions exist in regards to boating which include the Vellatina, Laser''', Snipe, Crucero and the Optimist'', for example.
Some events are held purely for competitors on the island, while others feature competition from throughout the Canary Islands, Spain, or even internationally.
The first ever RYA (Royal Yachting Association) overseas training centre Club Sail was established on the island and still offers training in all types of boating.
There are also various sport fishing clubs that exist on the island and a championship of offshore fishing.

Aerial sports

In another sense, sports such as skydiving and paragliding play an important role. The Festival Internacional de Parapente (International Festival of Paragliding) (FLYPA) is held in Los Realejos. There are more than 40 places on the island which are used for these aerial sports.

Motor sports
In Tenerife, motocross, karting and rallying are three motorsports practiced on the island. Throughout the year, rally competitions are held in their various divisions which take place as part of the regional championship of the Canary Islands. Asphalt rallies are conducted in three tests: Rally Isla de Tenerife, Rally de Granadilla and Rally Villa de Adeje. In the mountain rallying category, there are seven tests, including Güímar. There is also a slalom event held at Arico.

Other sports
In addition to the above, other sports are played on the island:

Volleyball

Volleyball is one of the island's most successful sports, particularly in women's volleyball where CV Tenerife were European champions and participate in the Spanish Super League. Two other teams are the women's CV Aguere 2009/2010 Super League champions and the men's Arona Playa de las Américas which competes in the Spanish Super League. There is a growing interest in this sport in Tenerife.

Football
As in much of the rest of Spain, football is, by far, the sport most practiced and followed by all the island. The Federación Tinerfeña de Fútbol (Football Federation of Tenerife) has a total of 305 teams competing in the different leagues, and football fields are spread throughout the island territory. Chelsea and Spain forward Pedro Rodriguez was born in Tenerife.

The most prominent football team in Tenerife is Club Deportivo Tenerife, who play in the Segunda División (Spanish Second Division). Another team from Tenerife is Club Deportivo San Isidro.

Roller Hockey
The city has a roller hockey team, CP Tenerife, one of the most important in Spain, and dispute the main League OK Liga.

Basketball
In Tenerife, there is also an opportunity to practice basketball, and many schools and colleges offer the chance to learn and practice the sport. Specifically, the Liga LEB, the second top level Spanish competition includes two teams from this island: Tenerife Rural and Club Baloncesto Canarias. Tenerife was the host city for the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.

Baseball

Tenerife is home to a baseball academy run by the Atlanta Braves, which has resulted in a number of amateur signings.  The island's baseball club, the Marlins Puerto Cruz, is among the more successful clubs in Spain's top baseball circuit, the Division de Honor de Beisbol.

Hiking
The extensive network of roads and pathways on the island allows hiking. Numerous associations or companies organize trips into the hills, mountains or along rural roads on the island. Canyoning is a speciality in regards to hiking, and takes the hiker to inaccessible places with high-value natural landscapes. Cliff top walking is common and there is also ropes and climbing equipment available in some places.

Golf
Golf is a sport that has extensive courses and facilities for practice in Tenerife. It is a discipline which is highly tourism-oriented and generates significant revenue on the island but consequently places a large demand on available water resources. There are a total of nine golf courses on the island. These include Real Club de Golf de Tenerife, Abama Golf, Golf Las Americas, Golf Costa Adeje, Golf del Sur, Amarilla Golf & Country Club, Centro de Golf Los Palos, Buenavista Golf and Golf La Rosaleda.

Rugby union
Tenerife has its own rugby team.

Other
Various other sports played on Tenerife include cycling, rowing, tennis, squash, horse riding, judo, karate, and athletics. Club Atletismo Tenerife CajaCanarias is the island's most noted athletic club. Also worth mentioning is the ultramarathon CajaMar Tenerife Bluetrail, the highest race in Spain and second in Europe, with the participation of several countries and great international repercussions.

References


The Consiglio Universitario Nazionale (CUN; Italian for National University Council) is an elected body representing the various sectors of the Italian university system. It was established by law n. 18 of 26 January, 2006. The current president is Antonio Vicino, Full Professor in Automation engineering at the University of Siena.

The council is composed of a president and fifty-seven members. Forty-two are elected by the professors and researchers, eight by the National Council of University Students, three by the Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane (Conference of Rectors of the Italian Universities), three from the technical and administrative staff of the universities, one from among the deans of faculties and one from among the university administrative directors.

Sources
This article originated as a partial translation of this version of :it:Consiglio Universitario Nazionale, its counterpart in the Italian Wikipedia.

External links
Official website

Education in Italy
College and university associations and consortia in Europe


North Rockhampton State High School is a co-educational State High School at Beserker Street, Frenchville, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. It currently has over 1000 students enrolled and over 80 teaching staff. North Rockhampton High School is currently an academy of excellence in hockey.

To its members, the school is commonly referred to as 'North Rocky'.

History

North Rockhampton State High School was founded in 1956, initially renting rooms from two churches and a nearby business when the school buildings were not completed in time for the start of the school year. In its early days, the school was the largest school in Queensland at the time, with over 1500 students.

House structure

North Rockhampton High School has four houses.

Berserker House. Mascot – Berserker Warrior. Colour – Blue.
Fitzroy House. Mascot – Fitzroy Falcon. Colour – Green.
Keppel House. Mascot – Keppel Cobra. Colour – Yellow.
Archer House. Archer Pegasus. Colour – Red

Sports

Every year, North Rocky High holds Interhouse Athletics and Swimming Carnivals. Before Easter, the school holds an Interhouse Cross-Country day at Kemp Beach on the Capricorn Coast.

Notable alumni

North Rockhampton High School was the high school of Olympic gold medallist hockey players, Mark Knowles and Jamie Dwyer.

Steve Baxter, Australian entrepreneur, known for his work at PIPE Networks, StartupAUS and River City Labs, is now a 'shark' on Network Ten reality television series, Shark Tank, which is based on the international Dragons' Den format.

Craig Zonca, Australian radio broadcaster, was presenter of ABC Local Radio's long-running rural affairs program, The Queensland Country Hour from 2013 until 2016. In December 2016, he was announced as Spencer Howson's replacement as breakfast presenter on 612 ABC Brisbane.

Beres Joyner was appointed "staff specialist" in 2012, by Queensland Health. There are only 27 such positions in Queensland. This comes after years working in a wide variety of medical practice areas, including indigenous health.

References

Public high schools in Queensland
Educational institutions established in 1956
Schools in Rockhampton
1956 establishments in Australia