Nicholas Spaling (born September 19, 1988) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He last played with Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL). He was drafted 58th overall by the Nashville Predators in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. He played his three-year major junior career with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League.

Playing career

Minor
Spaling grew up playing most of his minor hockey for his hometown Drayton Defenders of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association (OMHA) before playing high school hockey for Norwell District Secondary School at age 16.

Spaling went undrafted in the OHL after his minor midget season and signed as a free agent with the Listowel Cyclones Jr. B. club of the OHA. After a solid season with the Cyclones, Spaling was chosen in the sixth round of 2005 OHL Priority Selection as a major midget-aged player by the Kitchener Rangers.

Junior
Prior to playing in the OHL, Spaling played with the Listowel Cyclones of the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League. The Cyclones had won the league's Cherry Cup, despite placing seventh (of nine teams) in the regular season. This was the team's only league title in the MWJBHL, although they had won the 1976–77 title while in the Central Junior "C" Hockey League.

The Kitchener Rangers selected Spaling in the sixth round of the 2005 OHL Priority Draft, 118th overall. He played with the Rangers for the duration of his OHL career from 2005 to 2008. He was named the Kitchener Rangers' rookie of the year for the 2005–06 season.

In 2007, he played in the CHL Top Prospects Game. He also played for the OHL All-Stars in the 2007 ADT Canada-Russia Challenge; the OHL team was the only Canadian team to have won both games against the Russian team—the QMJHL and WHL teams both won and lost one game each. Spaling competed in the 2008 OHL All-Star Classic for the Western Conference All-Stars, scoring one goal.

Spaling was named an alternate captain for his last season with the Rangers, 2007–08. He contributed with high offensive numbers during the 2008 playoffs, scoring 30 points in 20 games. At the 2008 Memorial Cup, he was tied in third in points with eight points in five games. Spaling won the William Hanley Trophy in the 2007–08 season, awarded to the OHL's most sportsmanlike player.

Spaling was selected for Team Canada's junior training camp for the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, but he was forced to return home early as he had been diagnosed with mononucleosis.

Professional
Among North American skaters, Spaling was ranked 24th in by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's final report for 2007; he was 30th in the mid-season rankings. At the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, he was selected in the second round, 58th overall, by the Nashville Predators.

Spaling signed an entry-level contract with the Predators in the summer of 2008. The contract was reported to worth $1.95 million over three years. He attended the Predators' training camp and was later reassigned to the team's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Milwaukee Admirals. He began the 2008–09 season playing for the Admirals wearing jersey number 13. After beginning the 2009–10 season with Milwaukee, he was recalled by Nashville, where he played his first NHL game on December 15, 2009, and assisted on a goal by Ryan Jones in Nashville's 7–4 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning. On December 13, 2010, he scored his first NHL goal in a 5–0 win against the New York Islanders.

On July 7, 2011, Spaling signed a two-year contract extension with the Predators.

On June 27, 2014, at the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, Spaling, as an impending restricted free agent, was traded along with Patric Hörnqvist to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for forward James Neal. The Penguins avoided arbitration with Spaling on July 31 when they agreed on a two-year, $4.4 million deal. He then scored his first goal with the Penguins on October 22 in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers.

On July 1, 2015, Spaling was part of a blockbuster trade that sent himself, Kasperi Kapanen, Scott Harrington and two draft picks (conditional first- and third-round picks in 2016) to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Phil Kessel, Tyler Biggs, Tim Erixon and a 2016 second-round pick.

In his first season with the Maple Leafs in 2015–16, he assumed his customary checking-line role however was unable to replicate his offensive numbers from previous seasons. Spaling also battled injuries throughout the year, being limited to 35 games with the Leafs, where he producing 1 goal and 7 points. Entering the final days leading up to trade deadline, on February 22, 2016, Spaling was traded by the Maple Leafs, along with Roman Polák, to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for two second-round draft selections (2017 and 2018) and Raffi Torres. Spaling made his Sharks debut on February 24, where he recorded a goal on his first shot, playing in his first shift with the club.

He left for Switzerland in the summer of 2016, signing a one-year deal with Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL) in August. Spaling made his NL debut on September 23, 2016, on home ice against Fribourg-Gottéron, after missing the first 6 games with a shoulder injury. He scored his first NL goal on September 24, 2016, in a 5–2 win against HC Lugano at the Resega. His option for a second year was activated on August 8, 2017.

Personal life
Nick Spaling was born in Palmerston, Ontario, but raised in nearby Drayton. His parents are Charles and Lorrie. He has three siblings: older sister Nicole, older brother Nathan, and younger sister Natasha. Nathan also played hockey and was a standout Canadian university player with the UOIT Ridgebacks, as well as having represented the Guelph Storm in the OHL.

His favourite players are Joe Sakic and Doug Gilmour, and he was a fan of the Maple Leafs growing up.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey centres
Genève-Servette HC players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Kitchener Rangers players
Milwaukee Admirals players
Nashville Predators draft picks
Nashville Predators players
People from Wellington County, Ontario
Pittsburgh Penguins players
San Jose Sharks players
Toronto Maple Leafs players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland


John McKager "Mac" Stipanovich (born November 26, 1948) is an American lobbyist, political strategist, and activist, best known for his role in the 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida, in which he helped advise then-Secretary of State of Florida, Katherine Harris.

Early life and education
Stipanovich was born in Ocala, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida in 1972, followed by a Juris Doctor from the Fredric G. Levin College of Law in 1974.

Career
Stipanovich previously served as chief of staff to Florida Governor Bob Martinez from 1987 to 1991. After that, he served on Jeb Bush's gubernatorial campaign against Lawton Chiles during the 1994 Florida gubernatorial election.

Stipanovich is portrayed in the HBO film Recount by Bruce McGill. The film, which had a broadcast premiere on May 25, 2008, chronicled the events in Florida during the presidential election lawsuits and appeals.

Stipanovich has written op-ed columns for The New York Times, Tampa Bay Times, Sun-Sentinel, and others. Since the 2016 United States presidential election, Stipanovich has been critical of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party, calling the latter "...isolationist, protectionist, nativist, and xenophobic." In 2019, Stipanovich registered as a Democrat, stating that he was supportive of 2020 candidates Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar. In a February 2020 op-ed for the Tampa Bay Times, Stipanovich stated that he would be "voting in the Democratic primary for the first time in 40 years." In March 2020, Stipanovich officially endorsed Joe Biden.

References

External links
Official Profile
St. Petersburg Times article about Stipanovich
Fowler White Lobbying information (archived)

American people of Croatian descent
1948 births
Florida Republicans
Fredric G. Levin College of Law alumni
Living people
Politicians from Ocala, Florida
University of Florida alumni


The Ariel W/NG 350 is a motorcycle based on the well-proven Ariel Red Hunter singles built by Ariel Motorcycles for the British military, and designed by the firm's chief designer Val Page in 1932 around an engine he had developed six years earlier.  Although the Ariel was not initially selected by the War Department, they were in great demand after the evacuation of Dunkirk when much of the British Army's materiel had been left behind.

Development
On the outbreak of the Second World War, Ariel submitted the 1939 VA  overhead valve single for evaluation against the War Office's Norton 16H. The  1939 W/VA 497cc side-valve single was also tested.  Both performed well and Ariel developed the W/NG specifically for military use. This was a  OHV single based on a Scottish six-day Trials winning model and went into production in 1940.

Although the French military immediately placed orders for the W/NG, the British War Office rated it as "fair – for use only in emergency purposes". Following the loss of equipment resulting from the evacuation of Dunkirk in May 1940 the "emergency purposes" became necessary, and Ariel turned over as many motorcycles as possible to the war effort, including converted civilian machines – many of which still carried an Ariel badge painted over with green or sand paint. VH & VG (500 OHV singles), NH & NG (350 OHV singles), and even the VB ( SV single) models were put into military service, although most were used for training and civil defence. The British Army, Royal Air Force, Admiralty, Ministry of Agriculture and Women's Land Army all used Ariel W/NG 350s.

Production
W/NG  motorcycles were supplied from 1940 to 1945 and featured dual triangular tool boxes, pannier frames for bags, rear carrying racks and headlamp masks.   Rubber items were impossible to source from 1942 because of a shortage of rubber, therefore handgrips were made from canvas and footrests from steel.  As the war progressed, aluminium also became scarce and pressed steel was used for the primary chaincase and timing covers.

Post war
After the war over 800 W/NG motorcycles were supplied to the Danish Army between 1946 and 1947. The remaining W/NGs that survived were mostly converted back into civilian specification for resale by dealers, so good examples of the military model are now rare.

In popular culture
An example attached to a sidecar appears in the film, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang. The motorcycle, ridden by the title character, also appeared in versions of the advertising poster upon release.

See also
Matchless G3/L
List of motorcycles of the 1940s

References

External links
Background

W NG 350
Military motorcycles
Motorcycles introduced in the 1940s


Dimitrios "Mimis" Stefanidis (, born 28 October 1931) is a former international professional basketball player and basketball coach, from Greece. He was born in Athens.

Professional career
Stefanidis was a member of the Panellinios Basketball Club and its famous 1950s era "Chrysi Pentada", or "The Golden Five" in English. With Panellinios, he won 3 Greek League championships, in the years 1953, 1955, and 1957. He also won two European Club Championships with the club, as he won the 1955 Brussels Basketball Tournament and the 1956 San Remo Basketball Tournament. While he was also a runner-up at the 1954 San Remo Tournament.

National team career
Stefanidis was a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team. With Greece, he competed at the following tournaments: the 1951 Mediterranean Games, the 1951 EuroBasket, the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, and the 1955 Mediterranean Games, where he won a bronze medal.

Coaching career
After his basketball playing career ended, Stefanidis became a basketball coach. He worked as a coach in teams such as Panellinios, Pagrati, Sporting, Panathinaikos, and Olympiacos.

Personal
His daughter is Tatiana Stefanidou.

References

External links
   (English translation via Google)
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1931 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Greek basketball coaches
Greek Basket League players
Greek men's basketball players
Olimpia Milano players
Olympic basketball players for Greece
Pagrati B.C. coaches
Panellinios B.C. players
Power forwards (basketball)
Reyer Venezia players
Small forwards
Basketball players from Athens
Basketball players at the 1955 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball


The  is a river that flows from Hanyu, Saitama to Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan, where it merges with the Arakawa River. It is  long.

Rivers of Ibaraki Prefecture
Rivers of Saitama Prefecture
Rivers of Tokyo
Rivers of Japan


is a Japanese football player who plays for FC Ryukyu.

Club statistics
Updated to 23 February 2018.

References

External links

Profile at Roasso Kumamoto

1986 births
Living people
Association football people from Okinawa Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
FC Tokyo players
Tokushima Vortis players
Roasso Kumamoto players
FC Ryukyu players
Men's association football midfielders


The Calabasas Pro Tennis Championships is a tennis tournament held in Calabasas, California, United States since 2001. The event was part of the ATP Challenger Tour from 2001 until 2010. However, since 2012 the tournament has been part of the ITF Men's Circuit. It is played on outdoor hard courts. Former French Open champion Michael Chang won the event in 2002.

Past finals

Singles

Doubles

External links
Official website
ITF search

ATP Challenger Tour
Hard court tennis tournaments in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 2001
Tennis in California
Calabasas, California


MTV Roadies is a youth-based reality show. It was launched in 2003 and airs on MTV India. The show is also digitally available on Voot and JioCinema.

In this show, a group of contestants travel to different destinations and participate in various tasks that challenge their physical, social and mental strength.

Overview

History
The Roadies format was created by Nikhil J Alva, founder of Miditech Studios.  Miditech Studios produced the first 2 seasons of the Roadies series. In those early days, the format creator, Nikhil J Alva, had conceptualized the format as one that would unite the youth of India through social work and random acts of kindness as the contestants travelled across India.

Seeing its popularity soar, the series was taken over by MTV from Miditech, to be produced in-house after the second season. Raghu Ram and Rajiv Ram, former Miditech Studio employees, were tasked with producing and anchoring the show for MTV. Under Raghu and Rajiv's guidance, the show took a dramatic turn away from its feel-good-social-flavor, to a more crass, and in-your-face tone.  Raghu and Rajiv left the show in 2014. They told the media that they had done enough to popularise the show and wanted to give opportunities to the new generation to carry the show forward. With a 17-year history, it is one of India's longest running reality shows.

During the course of the journey there are vote outs, vote ins, eliminations and game changing twists. Eventually the contestant who manages to survive vote outs and succeed in the finale is chosen as the winner. The show has enjoyed relative success among the youth.

Format
The first two seasons had a cap on the daily budget allocated to the contestants. During the show, apart from learning about India's diversity, they were also given tasks to get to know each other. The tasks became more aggressive with over-the-top-reality sequences, from the third season onwards, when it was taken over from Miditech Studios by MTV.

Since the fourth season, Battleground (2006-2009, 2014–present) later known as Graveyard (2010-2011, 2013-2014) the show introduced the choice wild cards.

In the fifth season, The "Advantage task" was introduced. The winner of the task would get an advantage in the vote out, which could be multiple votes or being the only one(s) to vote. That was the first time the show went international.

In the tenth season, a team of former contestants mentored by Raghu Ram were pitted against a team of fresh contestants mentored by Rannvijay Singha, who was the winner of the first version of the contest.

In the twelfth season, during the auditions, "Gang Leaders" were introduced. Four Gang Leaders had to hit a buzzer to express their interest in a contestant. Contestants in return had the option to choose which gang they would like to be a part of.

In the fourteenth season, bikes, which had been a common aspect of the show, were discontinued and the makers opted for a car. That continued into the fifteenth season as well and so on.

Season nineteen was introduced with a new concept of debut roadies and ex-roadies competing against each other for the title. Bikes, which had been a common aspect of the earlier seasons, were introduced again. That was the first season without the presence of Rannvijay Singha.

Across all seasons, vote outs, vote ins, immunity, eliminations, captaincy, twists introduced by the makers, and special appearances by guests like actors, sportspersons and musicians have been regular features of the show.

Series synopses

Notes

 Prince Narula replaced Sushil Kumar for journey due to Kumar leaving the show for his wrestling training.
 Nikhil Chinapa replaced Karan Kundra for journey after Kundra left the show due to work commitments.
 Gurmeet Singh Rehal returns as guest gang leader for Gang Nikhil as he wasn't available for a day during journey.
 Harbhajan Singh was introduced as a judge present during auditions and occasionally during journey who holds powers.
 Varun Sood substitute Raftaar as gang leader during journey after he leaves for few days due to work commitments.Later he replaced him due to Raftaar being medically unfit.
 Roadies: Journey in South Africa was played in the format of buddy pairs. Hence there were two winners and runner-ups.

References

External links
 Roadies official website

Adventure reality television series
2003 Indian television series debuts
Indian reality television series


One million is the natural number following 999,999 and preceding 1,000,001.

One million or million may also refer to:

 A Greek or Byzantine mile (), composed of 8 stades (furlongs) or 5000 Greek feet
 For the year 1,000,000 AD see Timeline of the far future

Entertainment
 "DC One Million", a crossover storyline published by DC Comics in 1998
 One Million B.C., a 1940 American film directed by Hal Roach
 One Million Years B.C., a 1966 British film directed by Don Chaffey, remake of the 1940 American film

Music
 "1.000.000" (song), by Alexandra Stan
 "1,000,000", song by R.E.M. from the Chronic Town EP
 "1,000,000" (song), song by Nine Inch Nails The Slip
 1000000 (Million) (song), a 2016 song by Bon Iver

Other topics
 Million, Kentucky, a community in the United States
 The Travels of Marco Polo, or The Million, a transcription by Rustichello da Pisa of Marco Polo's travels between 1271 and 1298

See also

 Milion, the Byzantine zero-mile marker in present-day Istanbul
 myr (million years), the unit for Mya (million years ago)

 Millions (disambiguation)


Francis Underhill (16 May 187824 January 1943) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century.

Underhill was educated at Shrewsbury School and Exeter College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1901 and was a curate at St Paul's Swindon and St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford and then Vicar of St Alban the Martyr, Birmingham until 1925. He was the first secretary of the Federation of Catholic Priests and from 1925 until 1932 he was Warden of Liddon House, and priest in charge of the Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair when he was appointed Dean of Rochester, a position he held until his confirmation as Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1937. Shortly after confirmation, he was consecrated a bishop on St Andrew's Day 1937 (30 November), by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral. An author, he was a cousin of Evelyn Underhill.

References

External links
Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

1878 births
People educated at Shrewsbury School
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
Deans of Rochester
20th-century Church of England bishops
Bishops of Bath and Wells
1943 deaths


is a Japanese footballer who plays for Ehime FC from 2023.

Club career
On 18 December 2022, Hiraoka joined to J3 club, Ehime FC for upcoming 2023 season.

Career statistics
Updated to the end 2022 season.

References

External links
Profile at Vegalta Sendai

1986 births
Living people
People from Fujinomiya, Shizuoka
Association football people from Shizuoka Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
J3 League players
Shimizu S-Pulse players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
Vegalta Sendai players
Ehime FC players
Men's association football defenders


Whew may refer to:

Whew!, American game show
WHEW-AM, American radio station
WHEW-FM, American radio station now broadcasting as WWGR


Deutsche Post is a brand of the DHL Group used for its domestic mail services in Germany. The services offered under the brand are those of a traditional mail service, making the brand the successor of the former state-owned mail monopoly, Deutsche Bundespost. As of 2008, the monopoly for Deutsche Post on these services has expired.

Most businesses unrelated to traditional mail services have transitioned to the DHL brand, which was acquired with the original DHL company. This is why the group uses the name DHL Group.

Products
The group currently offers the following services under the brand, all within its Mail division:

 Mail Communication handles the domestic mail service (except parcels).
 Press Services handles domestic distribution of print products (newspapers and magazines).
 Retail Outlets operates domestic retail outlets (post offices), which offer letter mail, parcel and Postbank services.
 Dialogue Marketing provides services for direct marketing such as market research and address verification.

Other services within the Mail division, such as Parcel Germany and Global Mail, use the DHL brand.

See also
Postal codes in Germany

References

Postal organizations
DHL Group
German brands
1995 establishments in Germany


The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks () is a 1924 comedy film by Soviet director Lev Kuleshov. It is notable as the first Soviet film that explicitly challenges American supposed "stereotypes" about Soviet Russia. The American characters are depicted sympathetically, and the film itself was a reflection of Kuleshov's general love for American cinema and culture.

Plot
A broad satire of what the director claims are American misconceptions of the Soviet Union, the film centers on the misadventures of the naive Harold Lloyd-esque John West (Porfiri Podobed), a YMCA president from the Cleveland suburb of Brecksville, Ohio. West is planning a trip to the newly founded USSR to spread the idea of the YMCA. However, his wife, Madge, is worried for him, especially after receiving popular American magazines from New York that depict Russia as being full of "savage" Bolsheviks who wear primitive rags and fur for clothing. For protection, West takes along his loyal cowboy sidekick Jeddy (Boris Barnet) on the trip.

However, on arriving in Moscow, his briefcase is stolen, he gets separated from Jeddy and he falls into the hands of a group of thieves, including a run-down countess (Aleksandra Khokhlova), who masquerade as counter-revolutionaries. The thieves play on West's fears and engineer his abduction by crooks dressed up as caricature Bolshevik "barbarians." The thieves then "rescue" West from the clutches of these fictional Bolsheviks, extorting thousands of dollars from him along the way.

In the end, it is the real Bolshevik police who rescue West. Meanwhile, Jeddy has hooked up with Ellie, an American girl residing in the Soviet capital. West then takes a sightseeing tour of NEP-era Moscow, where he sees that the Soviet government did not destroy all cultural landmarks, such as Moscow State University and the Bolshoi Theater, as the thieves suggested. The film culminates in Mr. West watching a military parade with the policeman and concluding that the American view of the Soviet Union is wrong. He telegraphs Madge, instructing her to hang a portrait of Lenin in his study.

Credited cast
 Porfiri Podobed - Mr. John West
 Boris Barnet - Cowboy Jeddy
 Aleksandra Khokhlova - The 'Countess'
 Vsevolod Pudovkin - Zhban
 Sergey Komarov - The One-Eyed Man
 Leonid Obolensky - The Dandy
 Vera Lopatina - Ellie, the American girl
 G. Kharlampiev - Senka Svishch
 Pyotr Galadzhev - Crook

Trivia
The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, which was later destroyed under Stalin in 1931, appears in the film.

References

External links

  (English subtitles)
 "Mr. West" Program Notes

1924 films
1924 comedy films
Soviet comedy films
Russian comedy films
Soviet propaganda films
Soviet silent feature films
Anti-Americanism
Films directed by Lev Kuleshov
Soviet Union–United States relations
Articles containing video clips
Soviet black-and-white films
Russian black-and-white films
Russian silent feature films
Films set in Moscow
Films set in Ohio
Silent comedy films


Sunday sporting events were not usually played until the early 20th century. In North America, they were prohibited due to blue laws at first, but then cities like Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati later decided to legalize them. Other cities such as New York City and Philadelphia had intense political and court battles to legalize the games. Nowadays, professional sports leagues schedule games on Sundays in the United States, though this practice continues to be opposed by some Christian denominations upholding first-day Sabbatarian doctrine.

Origins

Due to blue laws, it was considered offensive to work on Sunday, which was expected to be a day of worship and rest from servile labour. In 1794, the Pennsylvania Assembly restricted activities on Sunday by passing what they called "an Act for the prevention of vice and immorality, and of unlawful gaming, and to restrain disorderly sports and dissipation".

By sport

Baseball

In 1902, Sunday baseball games were legalized in Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.

In 1907, New York City Democrats introduced two bills in Albany, New York that attempted to legalize Sunday baseball. State Assemblyman Al Smith spoke out against the ban of Sunday Baseball arguing that it was better for young men to be playing baseball than to "be driven to places where they play Waltz Me Around Again, Willie." However, both bills were unsuccessful.

In 1911, Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack expressed a desire for the Athletics to play on Sunday. The main driving force behind his interest in playing on Sunday was to earn money. The Athletics were not a wealthy baseball club, and Athletics vice-president John Shibe estimated that the team would make $20,000 for each Sunday game that they played in Philadelphia. Mack thought that, for the team, it was financially necessary to play on Sundays, explaining  that "we [the Athletics] cannot meet our payrolls playing on seventy-seven weekdays at home". Many Pennsylvania politicians and religious groups opposed Shibe and Mack's effort for Sunday baseball, claiming that playing on that day was a "breach of peace" and that the games would be "a disturbance to persons in that neighborhood desirous of preserving the peace and quiet of Sunday so that they may in such peace and quiet pursue their religious worship and meditation". Unfortunately for the Athletics, Philadelphia's other baseball team, the Phillies, took no public position on the subject, undermining the Athletics' case.

In 1917, the New York Giants and Cincinnati Reds played the first Sunday game ever at the Polo Grounds, New York's home field. It was a benefit game, held during the First World War, to assist dependents of a military regiment.  However, after the game both managers, John McGraw and Christy Mathewson, were arrested for violating the blue laws. Judge Francis Xavier McQuade found them not guilty and commended them for their patriotic motives.

The following year, Sunday baseball was legalized in Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and Detroit. One year after that, New York legalized baseball games on Sunday, and baseball teams that played in New York (the New York Giants, the New York Yankees, and the Brooklyn Dodgers) were allowed to have home games on Sunday.

The Athletics fight for Sunday baseball
In 1926, the Philadelphia Athletics were selected to host the Sesquicentennial Exposition to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of American Independence. The Exposition was running a deficit, so the board of directors voted to open on Sundays and charge an admission fee. A few days later, the Athletics announced that they would play a game on August 22, 1926 against the Chicago White Sox. Officials for the Athletics felt that there was no difference between charging people admission for Exposition amusements on Sunday, and charging a fee for a baseball game. Philadelphia mayor W. Freeland Kendrick objected to the Athletics' decision and announced that he would use police to keep Shibe Park closed. The Athletics went to court to request that Kendrick's decision be overturned. Judge Frank Smith granted the A's request and ruled on Saturday, August 21, 1926 that those seeking to prohibit Sunday baseball could only do so if "their right to quiet and undisturbed religious worship is encroached upon as a result of the game". Smith's ruling also declared that to prove the game had created "a breach of peace", the game first had to be played, so the earliest legal action that could take place would be on the following Monday.

12,000 spectators attended the game, where the Athletics defeated the White Sox 3-2. During the game, Rev. William B. Forney drove around the park multiple times, and said that he was "ashamed that such an exhibition could be held on the Sabbath", and called the cheers from the crowd a "disgusting noise". Athletics manager Connie Mack was glad that baseball was played on Sunday, and was quoted as saying "I am glad that we won, of course, but I am more than glad that nothing happened that could be construed as a breach of the peace… I wish all those who oppose Sunday baseball could have been here today. They would see that we are not causing a lessening in church attendance."

Mayor Kendrick said that although the crowd for Sunday's game was "unusually subdued", he thought that any Sunday game was a breach of peace and the law. He also announced that the city of Philadelphia would seek a higher court to overturn Judge Smith's ruling. Connie Mack quickly announced that scheduling difficulties would prevent any more Sunday games in 1926. Even owner John Shibe told fans that "we are not going out of our way to play Sunday games... As there are no open Sundays left we shall probably leave things as they are until next season."

The City of Philadelphia took the case to Dauphin County Court, were the court decided the baseball being played on Sunday was unlawful "worldly employment". The Athletics then announced that they would take their case to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, who ruled in September 1927, by a vote of 7 to 2, the Sunday Baseball was both "unholy" and "worldly employment". The Pennsylvania Supreme Court also threatened the Athletics, saying that if the A's continued to play on Sunday, their club corporation franchise would be revoked. After this ruling, Athletics attorney  announced that although the Athletics were going to drop their appeal, they did not plan on giving up.

In 1931, a bill to liberalize the Blue Sunday Laws was introduced by supporters in the Pennsylvania State Legislature. The bill was passed by the house 106-98, but was soundly defeated by the State Senate. This caused A's attorney Gartling to announce plans to build a 50,000 seat stadium in Camden, New Jersey and move the team if Sunday restrictions were not eliminated. A public outcry ensued, which caused owner Shibe to quickly say that the plan was only visionary.

In 1933, the House and Senate of Pennsylvania finally passed a bill that allowed local jurisdictions to vote on whether Sunday sports would be legalized in their area. When Philadelphia voted on the proposal, they easily won the right to play sports on Sunday. However, the A's had already sold many of their star players (including Al Simmons, Mickey Cochrane, and Lefty Grove) to pay for team finances, and in 1954 the A's moved to Kansas City, Missouri. The bill also didn't help the Philadelphia Phillies, who were struggling financially, until the team was bought by owner R. R. M. Carpenter, Jr., who was able to fix the Phillies' financial situation.

Football

Lobbying efforts by team owner Connie Mack influenced Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot to modify the state's blue law on 25 April 1933 "so that local jurisdictions could choose whether to allow baseball or football games to be played on Sunday."

In Pittsburgh, team founder Art Rooney faced opposition as the city's blue laws prevented him from holding NFL football games on Sundays. Realizing that a large amount of the city's residents who supported blue laws were planning to protest the upcoming Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Giants game, Rooney "hurried down to city hall to get some answers", where the Director of Public Safety, Harmar Denny, informed him that only two people held the authority to stop the sporting event from happening, one being himself and the other being Franklin McQuaide, the superintendent of police. Denny said that he would be out of town on that Sunday. As such, Rooney stopped at McQuaide's office and invited him to sit at the 50-yard line, an offer that MQuaide accepted, which resulted in the football game not being shut down.

Present-day practice

Once the last of the blue laws preventing Sunday baseball were gone, most teams scheduled Sunday games regularly. In the 1950s and 1960s, most teams frequently scheduled doubleheaders on Sunday to maximize attendance. Although rising attendance has led to the elimination of regularly scheduled doubleheaders (with rare exceptions), Major League Baseball still schedules a full slate of games for each Sunday during the season, including Sunday night games televised by ESPN. Minor leagues play regularly on Sunday as well.

Opposition to Sunday sports
Churches teaching the doctrine of first-day Sabbatarianism (Sunday Sabbatarianism), such as the Presbyterian Churches and Methodist Churches, traditionally believe that the Lord's Day should be dedicated to worship (through attendance at church services and family prayer), works of mercy (such as visiting the sick), as well as rest from servile labour.  They believe that viewing and participating in sporting events held on Sundays are in violation of the Ten Commandments dictum to "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy". As such, many Christian sports leagues do not hold games on Sundays.

Certain Christian denominations oppose professional sports as a whole, believing that the industry is guilty of Sabbath desecration because many participating leagues hold sporting events on the Lord's Day.

See also
Bob Davenport
Donn Moomaw
Eric Liddell

References

History of sports in the United States
Baseball culture
Baseball competitions in the United States
Base
American football culture


Konstantinos "Dinos" Papadimas (; born 1932) is a Greek former international professional basketball player. During his club playing career, he played at the shooting guard position.

Professional career
Papadimas was a member of the Panellinios Basketball Club and its famous 1950s era "Chrysi Pentada", or "The Golden Five" in English. With Panellinios, he won 3 Greek League championships, in the years 1953, 1955, and 1957. He also won two European Club Championships with the club, as he won the 1955 Brussels Basketball Tournament and the 1956 San Remo Basketball Tournament. While he was also a runner-up at the 1954 San Remo Tournament.

National team career
Papadimas was a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team. With Greece, he competed at the 1951 Mediterranean Games, the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, and the 1955 Mediterranean Games, where he won a bronze medal.

References

External links
 Basket.gr
 Segas.gr

1932 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Greek men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Greece
Panellinios B.C. players
Point guards
Shooting guards
Basketball players at the 1955 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
Basketball players from Athens


is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right back for J3 League club Iwate Grulla Morioka, on loan from J1 League club, Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo.

Club career

Youth period
He played as a regular member in U-15, U-18 Consadole Sapporo (currently J league Div.1). In U-15 team, he played as forward with Mike Havenaar, and in U-18 team played as offensive- and defensive-midfielder.

In 2004, he took part in the training with Portuguese club, CS Maritimo.

In 2005, the team participated in the All Japan youth championship and he contributed to the runners-up.

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
In 2006, he started his professional career in Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo with Seiya Fujita, but at the beginning, he had few chances to play in the matches. In 2007, he went to Brasil to join in the training in EC Viroria with Shunsuke Iwanuma. He went there on 30 September and the contract would continue until December, but due to many injured players in Consadole, he was brought back to Sapporo on 24 October. On 27 October, he played in J league match against Ehime FC from in the middle and scored the primary goal as a professional in the additional time, which resulted in the winning of the team. In 2008, he marked 3 goals in total, all of them were scored in the additional time, including the winning goal against Kashiwa Reysol on 30 March. He changed his position from right wing-half to right wing-back in 2009 and participated in 42 matches and scored 7 goals.

Albirex Niigata
He transferred to Albirex Niigata on loan in 2010. At the beginning, he was a substitute member for midfielder, but afterward played 29 matches regularly as a right-back and marked 1 goal.

Kashima Antlers
In 2011, he transferred to Kashima Antlers on a permanent deal and changed his position to defender.

His direct volley goal marked on 2 August against Sanfrecce Hiroshima was chosen for the best goal award 2014 of J league.

He was assigned to be a head of players association of the team for 2 years, from 2015 to 2016.

Returns to Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo

On 4 February 2022, it was announced that Nishi made his return to Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo, having previously played 25 times for Urawa Reds in 2021 season.

Iwate Grulla Morioka

On 17 August 2023, Nishi signed on loan with J3 League club, Iwate Grulla Morioka.

International career

National Team
On 6 December 2010, he was selected for back-up members of AFC Asian Cup 2011.

In KIRIN Cup against Peru on 1 June 2011, he played for the national team for the first time.

On 1 October 2014, he was elected for the national team by the head coach Javier Aguirre.

On 26 March 2019, Nishi played his first match since 2011 for Japan against Bolivia.

FIFA Club World Cup 2016
He participated in FIFA Club World Cup 2016. He played the final against Real Madrid C.F. for full-time.

He is the first player in the world who was judged by VAR (Video Assistant Referee) in the semi-final against Atletico Nacional.

Style of play
He is a leader in team defence, often coordinating the other defenders from the right wing. He is also known as good playmaker as his number of passes are often top in the team, building up games from the right wing. Because of his experience as a midfielder, his technical skills enable him to exchange passes in narrow spaces and provide key passes. By improving defensive skill, accurate crossing ability, physical strength and an ability to concentrate, he is an asset in both attack and defence.

Personal life
When he was an elementary school student, he appeared on TV program "1×8 Ikoyo" as a kids master of lifting. His sister, Sakurako Nishi belonged to the cheerleading team of Consadole Sapporo.

Club statistics
Updated to 13 December 2020.

1Includes Japanese Super Cup, J. League Championship, Suruga Bank Championship and FIFA Club World Cup.

National team statistics

Honours
Kashima Antlers
J1 League: 2016
J. League Cup: 2011, 2012, 2015
Emperor's Cup: 2016
Japanese Super Cup: 2017
Suruga Bank Championship: 2012, 2013
AFC Champions League: 2018

Vissel Kobe
Emperor's Cup: 2019

Individual
J.League Best XI: 2017, 2018

References

External links

 Daigo Nishi at the Japan National Football Team

 Profile at Consadole Sapporo

1987 births
Living people
Japanese men's footballers
Japan men's international footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
Albirex Niigata players
Kashima Antlers players
Vissel Kobe players
Iwate Grulla Morioka players
Men's association football defenders
Association football people from Sapporo


Povilas Aksomaitis (29 March 1938 – 23 August 2004) was a Lithuanian engineer, politician, and signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.

Biography

Born in Kaunas, Aksomaitis and his family were exiled to Barnaul, Russia, soon after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania during World War II. He was brought back to Lithuania by the International Red Cross in September 1946. After graduating from a secondary school in Kaunas, he studied hydropower engineering at the Lithuanian University of Agriculture. After graduation, he was appointed to the Hydrotechnics and Melioration Research Institute in Kėdainiai. As a scientist, he wrote over 100 academic articles and co-authored four books.

His involvement in the independence movement during the 1980s included arranging the return of the remains of Lithuanian deportees to Siberia. He was elected a member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania in 1990. As a member of the Homeland Union, he was elected to the Municipal Council of the Kėdainiai district municipality in 1995.

Aksomaitis was awarded a Medal of Lithuanian Independence in 2000. He died in 2004 following complications of a kidney transplant almost twenty years ago.

References

1938 births
2004 deaths
Engineers from Kaunas
Politicians from Kaunas
20th-century Lithuanian politicians
Homeland Union politicians
Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy alumni
Kidney transplant recipients
Signatories of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania


Wind power in Croatia has been growing since the first wind farm was installed in the country in 2004. During 2021, the energy produced from wind farms amounted to 1,904 GWh. The total wind power grid-connected capacity in Croatia was 1,043 MW as of 2022.

History
The first wind farm was installed on the island of Pag in 2004. In 2006 another farm opened near Šibenik. On July 1, 2007 the Croatian Government enacted five bylaws on incentives to electricity generation from renewable resources, including feed-in tariffs.

Currently in Croatia there's a total of 364 wind turbines which generate total of 970.15 MW or electric energy, but with new turbines coming on-line all the time, it is expected that by mid 2020s total installed power will reach 3,200 MW, As of early 2020 Croatia generates around 28.3% renewable energy, Government hopes Croatia could generate around 37.5% renewable energy from wind and solar by 2030 and has adopted new strategy to achieve that target. By the end of 2021 renewable energy in Croatia is expected to generate around 1060 MW from Wind and Solar alone or around 32% of all energy consumption from renewable energy source, Croatia exceeded EU's renewable energy targets and exceed that by a wide margin. In 2020 country generated 28.3% of all its energy from the renewable sources of energy, installed capacity at the end of 2020 includes 89 MW Solar farms and these are set to double in 2021 to 184 MW installed capacity, 803.1 MW Wind farm are set to increase to at least 875 MW by end of 2021, and other sources such as biomass and other sources will exceed 2020 figure of total 3,226 MW installed renewable energy generation by significant margin.
At present rate of growth and planned investments over next 5-7 year period, energy generated from Wind and solar should easily reach 40% of total energy consumption in Croatia with 50% highly probable, achieving targets set by Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Austria. Although Croatian Government has set modest targets in terms of renewable energy share of total energy consumption, initially 20% by 2020 and now modest 37.5% by 2030 or 54% by 2050, the country is rapidly approaching targets set for 2050, at current rate of expansion of renewable sources in Croatia, it is quite possible by 2035 Croatia will meet its 2050 targets, some 15 years ahead.

List of wind farms

See also

Renewable energy in the European Union
Renewable energy development
Energy in Croatia
Renewable energy by country

References

External links


Mount Mangengenge is a mountain of the Democratic Republic of the Congo located southeast of Kinshasa, about ten kilometers south of the Ndjili International Airport. It is part of the Crystal Mountains range. The mountain can be reached from the outskirts of the parish of Sainte Angèle de Mérici, along a track hardly passable.

Toponymy
The name Mangengenge derives from the Lingala word kongenge, which means "shining". The mountain was first called Mabangu or Manguele.

History
In June 1885
, the medical doctor Carl Anton Mense (1861–1938) was the first European to climb the mountain. To remember this historical ascent, the mountain was called "pic Mense" for almost a century.

Geography
Overlooking the plain of the Pool Malebo, it reaches an altitude of , which makes it the highest point in Kinshasa.

Religion
The path of the ascent is punctuated with crucifix sculptures with a large cross at the summit. This is because the Bishop of Kinshasa, Frederic Etsou Nzabi Bamungwabi took the initiative in 1992 to make it a spiritual place. Since then, thousands and thousands of pilgrims have climbed the peak.

Tourism
Being the highest point of Kinshasa and a rather beautiful and natural site, the mountain is also a significant tourist spot. There are about 100 foreign tourists ascending it every single month, all year round.

World Cleanup Day
A couple of participants of the World Cleanup Day collected garbage left by pilgrims and tourists for the first time in September 2019. Their aim is to keep doing it two or three times a year. They hope that other tourists and pilgrims will start doing it as well.

Gallery

References

External links
 Le Mont Mangengenge

Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


Marvel UK is a British comic publishing company. It started life as an imprint of Marvel Comics before being bought by Panini Comics in the mid-1990s. The titles include a mix or original stories as well as reprints from Marvel Comics' comic books.

Titles

A
 The A-team Summer Special
 Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer
 Acorn Green
 Action Force
 Action Force Monthly
 Action Man
 The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
 Amazing X-Men
 Astonishing Spider-Man
 Avengers Unconquered
 Avengers United

B
 Battletide
 Battletide II
 Beavis & Butt-head
 Biker Mice From Mars
 Black Axe
 Blake's 7
 Blockbuster
 Bloodseed
 Body Count (comics)

C
 Captain America
 Captain Britain Weekly
 Children of the Voyager
 The Complete Spider-Man
 Cyberspace 3000

D
 Dances With Demons
 Daredevil & Captain America: Dead On Arrival
 The Daredevils
 Dark Angel
 Dark Guard
 Death Metal
 Death Wreck
 Death's Head
 Die Cut
 Die Cut vs. G-Force
 Digitek
 Doctor Who Magazine
 Dracula Lives
 Dragon's Claws

E
 Essential X-Men
 The Exploits of Spider-Man

F
 Fantastic Four Adventures
 Frantic Magazine

G
 Gene Dogs
 Genetix
 Glam Metal Detectives
 Gun Runner

H
 Hell's Angel
 Hulk Comic

I
 The Incredible Hulks
 Indiana Jones
 Inspector Gadget

K
 Killpower: The Early Years King Arthur and the Knights of Justice Knights of PendragonM
 Marvel Action Marvel Bumper Comic Marvel Heroes Marvel Heroes Reborn Marvel Legends Marvel Rampage Marvel Super Adventure The Mighty Thor (1983) The Mighty World of Marvel Mortigan Goth: Immortalis Motormouth Motormouth & Killpower
 Mys-Tech Wars

N
 Night Raven: House of Cards

O
 The Original X-Men
 Overkill

P
 Planet of the Apes
 Plasmer

R
 The Real Ghostbusters
 Ren & Stimpy
 Rugrats
 Rupert and Friends
 Rupert Weekly

S
 Savage Sword of Conan
 Shadow Riders
 Spectacular Spider-Man Adventures
 Spider-Man Comics Weekly
 Star Wars Weekly
 Starburst
 Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain
 Super Soldiers

T
 Target: 2006
 Thor and the X-Men
 ThunderCats
 Tiny Toon Adventures
 Tom and Jerry
 Top Cat
 The Transformers

U
 Ultimate Spider-Man
 The Union

W
 Warheads
 Warheads: Black Dawn
 Wild Thing
 Wolverine and Deadpool
 Wolverine: Saudade

Z
 Zoids

References

External links

Panini Comics titles list

Marvel UK
Marvel UK


Steve Green (born 1960, Solihull, England) is a former newspaper reporter (1978–84) turned freelance journalist, who has also written short fiction and poetry. He is an active member of the science fiction press and fan community.

Journalism and other writings
Subsequent to his career as a newspaper reporter (initially on The Walsall Observer, later on The Solihull News), Green has contributed to such magazines as The Dark Side (for which he wrote 51 instalments of the review column "Fanzine Focus"), Interzone (interviewing the comics writer and editor Stan Lee and the author/screenwriter Peter Atkins), Fantasia and SFX, as well as being an occasional contributor to the 1990s BBC Radio 5 series The Way Out. He wrote an online column on real ale and the British pub industry for The Sunday Mercury in the late 2000s and returned to The Dark Side as a movie reviewer in 2015.

With Martin Tudor, he was also the co-editor/publisher of the science fiction journal Critical Wave, from its launch in October 1987 to its financial heat-death in mid-1996; a new, online edition was announced in September 2008, with the same editorial team; the first issue of this new series was released in November 2008, but a second has yet to appear.

In addition to having several of his own short stories published, including "Cracking" in The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, plus a large number of poems, Green appears as a supporting character in both David Langford's comic novel The Leaky Establishment and Joel Lane's novella The Witnesses Are Gone (the latter also features his late wife, Ann Green).

During the mid-1990s, Green was a regular columnist for both the Seattle freesheet Mansplat! and the focal point American fanzine Apparatchik (examples:). His Apparatchik column, "Fannish Memory Syndrome", was relaunched in the Hugo Award-nominated US fanzine The Drink Tank in September 2007. Selected examples of this writing can be found on his professional blog The Shadow Library.

In the autumn of 2019, Green co-founded Birmingham Now TV with Des Tong, Gary James and Chrissie Harper. The first episode of the magazine show 'Birmingham Now' was posted online on 25 November 2019.

Related activities
Green joined the Birmingham Science Fiction Group in February 1977 and has held several posts with that organisation, including editor of its monthly newsletter. He also became a member of the British Science Fiction Association, eventually taking over the clubs column ("Life on Mars") for its newsletter Matrix. Later, he collaborated with artist Kevin Clarke on a short-lived comic strip for Matrix, "The Tavern at the End of Time".

He was chair of the British science fiction conventions Novacon 14 (1984), Novacon 37 (2007), and Novacon 44 (2014); he also ran the "Fan Lounge" at Intervention, the 1997 Eastercon. Other roles include: Fantasy Amateur Press Association vice-president, 2005–07, and president-elect in 2009 (as the post was dissolved in the same ballot, Green never took office, but was briefly listed in official publications as "president emeritus"); administrator of the Nova Awards for British fanzines, presented annually at Novacon, 2002–09 (he reassumed the role in late 2010); former administrator of the Delta Film Award, presented annually at Manchester's Festival of Fantastic Films until 2014.

In November 2008, Green announced himself as a candidate for the TransAtlantic Fan Fund. He won and subsequently attended the 2009 world sf convention, Anticipation, before travelling across Canada and the United States. He is currently working on a series of articles about his trip and acted as European TAFF administrator for two years, a requirement of the post.

He was a regular guest speaker at the Exeter University convention Microcon, 2008–10, 2012–13 and 2015 (the final year it was held).

Joel Lane's 2009 short story collection The Terrible Changes is dedicated to Green and to the memory of his late wife, Ann.

He is currently a director of the UK publishing imprint Rose of Eibon.

Personal life
Green married fellow science fiction fan Ann Thomas (born 1961, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales) in December 1983. She died in July 2008, aged 46, following a brief diabetes-related illness.

References

External links
Ghostwords, Steve Green's website
Cartoon by Dave Hicks, originally published in Have Bag, Will Travel #2 (1996)
Rose of Eibon website

English magazine editors
English science fiction writers
English fantasy writers
English horror writers
English male journalists
English poets
English cartoonists
1960 births
Living people
British male poets
English male short story writers
English short story writers
English male novelists


Niña Dolino (born October 26, 1982) is a Filipino actress.

Filmography

Television

Film

References

External links

Star Magic
Actresses from Cebu
Filipino film actresses
Filipino television actresses
1982 births
Living people
21st-century Filipino actresses

Actresses from Manila


Panagiotis "Panos" Manias (, alternate spelling: Panayiotis, 1933 – 10 July 2020) was an international basketball player, track athlete and bridge player from Greece. During his club playing career, he played at the power forward position.

Track and field career
Manias began his career as an athlete competing in track competitions. He competed in both the high jump and the long jump.

Basketball career

Club career
Manias was a member of the Panellinios Basketball Club and its famous 1950s era "Chrysi Pentada", or “The Golden Five” in English. With Panellinios, he won 3 Greek League championships, in the years 1953, 1955, and 1957. He also won two European Club Championships with the club, as he won the 1955 Brussels Basketball Tournament and the 1956 San Remo Basketball Tournament. While he was also a runner-up at the 1954 San Remo Tournament.

National team career
Manias was also a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team. With Greece, he competed at the following tournaments: the 1951 Mediterranean Games, the 1951 EuroBasket, the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, and the 1955 Mediterranean Games, where he won a bronze medal.

Bridge career
Manias was a member of the Greek bridge national team. He competed at both the 1976 and 1980 editions of the World Team Olympiad.

Death
Manias died in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, on 10 July, 2020, at the age of 87, due to drowning.

References

External links
 Basket.gr
 Segas.gr

1933 births
2020 deaths
Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Greek Basket League players
Greek men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Greece
Panellinios B.C. players
Power forwards (basketball)
Small forwards
Basketball players from Athens
Basketball players at the 1955 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
Contract bridge players


A campus is the land on which an institution, either academic or non-academic, is located.

Campus may also refer to:

Campus (anime)
Campus (college), a private community college in Sacrament, California
CAMPUS (database), a database of plastics properties
Campus (film), an Indian film
Campus (train), an American passenger train
Campus (TV series), a British sitcom television series
Campus novel, a genre of novel
Campus Party, a kind of LAN party
Campus radio, a radio station run by students of an educational institution
Campus Station (OC Transpo), a transit station in Ottawa, Canada
Campus university, a type of university in Britain
DWRT-FM, an FM-radio station in the Philippines, formerly known as "Campus 99.5"
Virtual campus, the online offerings of a college or university
 a climbing move, see Glossary of climbing terms

Places
Campus, Illinois, a village in the United States
Campus, West Virginia
Campus Bay
Campus Geesseknäppchen, Luxembourg

People with the surname
Filomena Campus, jazz singer, composer, lyricist and theatre director
Peter Campus (born 1937), American video artist


is a former Japanese football player.

Club career
Nishitani was born in Tokushima on September 16, 1978. After graduating from high school, he joined Cerezo Osaka in 1997. He was originally forward, he played as left midfielder in professional career. He played many matches from 1998. However his opportunity to play decreased in 2001 and the club was relegated to J2 League end of 2001 season. From 2002, he played some clubs, Vissel Kobe (2002-03), Vegalta Sendai (2004) and Urawa Reds (2005). However he could hardly play in the match in both clubs. In September 2005, he moved to J2 League club Consadole Sapporo. He played many matches and the club won the champions in 2007 and was promoted to J1 League. He retired end of 2008 season.

National team career
In August 1995, Nishitani was selected Japan U-17 national team for 1995 U-17 World Championship, but he did not play in the match.

Club statistics

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
Association football people from Tokushima Prefecture
People from Tokushima (city)
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Cerezo Osaka players
Vissel Kobe players
Vegalta Sendai players
Urawa Red Diamonds players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
Men's association football midfielders


Rufus Wainwright is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has released eight studio albums of original music: Rufus Wainwright (1998), Poses (2001), Want One (2003), Want Two (2004), Release the Stars (2007), All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010), Out of the Game (2012), and Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets (2016). In addition, he has released three live albums: Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007), Milwaukee at Last!!! (2009), and Rufus Wainwright: Live from the Artists Den (2014). Several of Wainwright's singles have appeared on the UK Singles Chart, including "I Don't Know What It Is" which peaked at No. 74, "Hallelujah" which peaked at No. 100, and "Going to a Town" which peaked at No. 54.

Wainwright's first major recognition came from Rolling Stone, when the magazine named him 1998's "Best New Artist" after the release of his debut album. Since then, he has received nominations from the BRIT Awards, Genie Awards, Grammy Awards, Meteor Music Awards, MOJO Awards and Shortlist Music Prize, but has yet to receive one of these awards. He has received two Juno Awards from seven nominations. For his success and excellence as an LGBT artist, he has been awarded once (from four nominations) by the Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards, and five times (from seven nominations) by the GLAAD Media Awards. Overall, Wainwright has received 10 awards from 35 nominations.

Annie Awards
The Annie Awards is an animation award show created and produced by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood, since 1972. Originally designed to celebrate lifetime or career contributions to animation in the fields of producing, directing, animation, design, writing, voice acting, sound and sound effects, etc., in 1992 it began to honor animation as a whole, and created the category of Best Animated Feature. New categories were subsequently added for different animation media. Wainwright has been nominated once.

BRIT Awards
The BRIT Awards are the British Phonographic Industry's (BPI) annual pop music awards. Wainwright has been nominated once.

Dora Mavor Moore Awards
The Dora Mavor Moore Awards, presented annually by the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, honor quality theatre in Toronto. Wainwright has received one award from two nominations.

GAFFA Awards

Denmark GAFFA Awards
Delivered since 1991, the GAFFA Awards are a Danish award that rewards popular music by the magazine of the same name.

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Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards
The Gay & Lesbian American Music Awards spanned five years and provided the foundation for the recognition of the excellence of LGBT artists. The first awards covered an eligibility period of June 1, 1995, through May 31, 1996, with a ceremony held on October 6. Following awards covered the calendar year releases for 1997, 1998 and 1999, with ceremonies held on March 9, 1998, April 12, 1999, and April 22, 2000. Wainwright received one award from four nominations.

Genie Awards
Genie Awards are given out annually to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Wainwright has been nominated once.

GLAAD Media Awards
The GLAAD Media Awards were created in 1990 by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to recognize and honor the mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community and the issues that affect their lives. Wainwright has received five awards from seven nominations.

GQ Awards
The annual GQ Men of the Year awards gives GQ magazine readers the chance to vote for the most influential figures in a variety of fields over the past year. Winners are chosen from nominees in the fields of film, television, sports, music, fashion, theatre, literature and food through online voting by GQ readers. Winners are typically featured in an issue of GQ, and honored at an annual "Men of the Year" awards show. Wainwright has been nominated once.

Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the record industry. Often considered the highest music honor, the awards were established in 1958. Wainwright has received two nominations.

Helpmann Awards
The Helpmann Awards recognize distinguished artistic achievement and excellence in Australia's live performing arts sectors. Recognized disciplines include musical and physical theatre, contemporary and classical music, opera, and dance, with a comedy category introduced in 2006. The Helpmann Awards also incorporates the J. C. Williamson Award for outstanding contribution to the Australian entertainment industry. Wainwright has been nominated once.

Juno Awards
Juno Awards are presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. Winners are currently chosen by members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or, depending on the award, a panel of experts. In almost all of the main general categories, such as Album of the Year or Artist of the Year, nominees are determined by sales during the qualifying period; in genre-specific categories, they are determined by panel. Wainwright has received two awards from seven nominations.

Meteor Music Awards
The Meteor Music Awards are distributed by MCD Productions and are the national music awards of Ireland. Wainwright has been nominated two times.

MOJO Awards
MOJO Awards are awarded by the popular British music magazine, Mojo, published monthly by Bauer Media Group. Wainwright has been nominated three times.

OutMusic Awards
OutMusic is an organization that started with the objective to raise the awareness about openly gay and lesbian artists and their music. In 2001, the organization introduced the first annual OutMusic Awards to increase the popularity of LGBT musicians. Wainwright has received one award from two nominations.

Shortlist Music Prize
The Shortlist Music Prize is a music award given annually to an album released in the United States within the last year, as chosen by a panel of musicians, producers and journalists, known as the "Listmakers". Albums are eligible only if they have not been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America by the time of nomination. The Shortlist Music Prize was first given in 2001. Wainwright has been nominated once.

Stonewall Awards
The Stonewall Awards is an annual event to celebrate people that have had a positive impact on the lives of British LGBT people. Wainwright has received one nomination.

Other recognitions
1998 – Rolling Stone magazine named Wainwright "Best New Artist" following the release of Rufus Wainwright
 2006 – Both Want One and Want Two are included in Robert Dimery's book, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
2006 – Out magazine titled Wainwright "Entertainer of the Year" in its December 2006 issue
2008 – Out magazine ranked Poses number 50 and Want One number 80 on its list of the "100 Greatest, Gayest Albums"
2009 – Paste ranked Want One number 16 and "Across the Universe" number 28 on its lists of the "50 best albums" and "30 best cover songs" of the decade
2009 – NME ranked Poses number 52 on its list of the "Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade"
2013 – CBC Music ranked Wainwright number 9 on its list of the "25 greatest Canadian singers ever"

References

Wainwright, Rufus
Wainwright, Rufus
Awards and nominations


In electronics, a split-pi topology is a pattern of component interconnections used in a kind of power converter that can theoretically produce an arbitrary output voltage, either higher or lower than the input voltage. In practice the upper voltage output is limited to the voltage rating of components used. It is essentially a boost (step-up) converter followed by a buck (step-down) converter. The topology and use of MOSFETs make it inherently bi-directional which lends itself to applications requiring regenerative braking.

The split-pi converter is a type of DC-to-DC converter that has an output voltage magnitude either greater than or less than the input voltage magnitude. It is a switched-mode power supply with a similar circuit configuration to a boost converter followed by a buck converter. Split-pi gets its name from the pi circuit due to the use of two pi filters in series and split with the switching MOSFET bridges.

Other DC–DC converter topologies that can produce output voltage magnitude either greater than or less than the input voltage magnitude include the boost-buck converter topologies (the split-pi, the Ćuk converter, the SEPIC, etc.) and the buck–boost converter topologies.

Principle of operation
In typical operation where a source voltage is located at the left-hand side input terminals, the left-hand bridge operates as a boost converter and the right-hand bridge operates as a buck converter. In regenerative mode, the reverse is true with the left-hand bridge operating as a buck converter and the right as the boost converter.

Only one bridge switches at any time to provide voltage conversion, with the unswitched bridge's top switch always switched on. A straight through 1:1 voltage output is achieved with the top switch of each bridge switch on and the bottom switches off. The output voltage is adjustable based on the duty cycle of the switching MOSFET bridge.

Applications
 Electric drivetrain
 Motor control
 Battery balancing
 Regenerative braking

References
 British Patent GB2376357B - Power converter and method for power conversion

DC-to-DC converters
Voltage regulation


The 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division ( ( ( was a German infantry division of the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. The division was commanded for most of its existence by SS-Brigadeführer, Gustav Lombard. The division was formed of German, Hungarian, Serbian and other Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), mostly from the Batschka region. In addition to this, it was formed from the German personnel and equipment from the dissolved 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS 'Kama'. By October 26th, 1944, Army Group South deployed the division to the frontlines to assist in securing the Danube, despite its inadequate weaponry, complete lack of heavy weapons, and inadequate training.

During the division’s stay in Lower Styria, an order from the 16th of January, 1945 reorganised the division from a Type 1944 division to a Type 1945 division. A month later on the 17th of February, 1945, orders were given for the immediate transfer of the division to Silesia in the Görlitz area in preparation for an upcoming offensive operation. Portions of the division were still under the 17th Army's command in the Hirschberg region, incorporated into their order of battle as army reservists.

Organization

The 31st SS Division was created by combining the 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS 'Kama' and the conscription of Volksdeutsche in the Batschka region, primarily in Hungary after the third drive of recruitment in 1944 which saw the Hungarian government withdraw their control over its German minority’s. The formation order issued on the 4th of September, 1944 shows that the Order of Battle was of a typical German-horse-drawn division. The division assumed the form of what the Germans designated as a "Type 1944 Infantry Division", which is partially motorised but still mostly horse-drawn, possessing three infantry regiments comprising three battalions and about 100 artillery pieces. The order decreed that the division was to be organised as follows:

 Division Staff
Motorised Mapping Office
SS Field Police Troop 31 (Partially motorised)

 SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 78
Regimental Staff
Staff Company
I Battalion with 1st-4th Grenadier Companies
II Battalion with 5th-8th Grenadier Companies
III Battalion with 9th-12th Grenadier Companies
13th Infantry Gun Company (2 heavy and 6 light mortars)
14th Panzerzerstörer Company (1 motorised Panzerjäger platoon with 3 x 7.5cm anti-tank guns, and 2 Panzerzerstörer platoons)

 SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 79
Regimental Staff
Staff Company
I Battalion with 1st-4th Grenadier Companies
II Battalion with 5th-8th Grenadier Companies
III Battalion with 9th-12th Grenadier Companies
13th Infantry Gun Company (2 heavy and 6 light mortars)
14th Panzerzerstörer Company (1 motorised Panzerjäger platoon with 3 x 7.5cm anti-tank guns, and 2 Panzerzerstörer platoons)

 SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 80
Regimental Staff
Staff Company
I Battalion with 1st-4th Grenadier Companies
II Battalion with 5th-8th Grenadier Companies
III Battalion with 9th-12th Grenadier Companies
13th Infantry Gun Company (2 heavy and 6 light mortars)
14th Panzerzerstörer Company (1 motorised Panzerjäger platoon with 3 x 7.5cm anti-tank guns, and 2 Panzerzerstörer platoons)

 SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment 31
Regimental Staff
Staff Battery
I Abteilung with Staff Battery and 1st-3rd Batteries (Each with 4 x 10.5cm light field howitzers)
II Abteilung with Staff Battery and 4th-6th Batteries (Each with 4 x 10.5cm light field howitzers)
III Abteilung with Staff Battery and 7th-9th Batteries (Each with 4 x 10.5cm light field howitzers)
IV Abteilung with Staff Battery and 10th-12th Batteries (Each with 4 x 15cm heavy field howitzers)

 SS Volunteer Panzerjäger Abteilung 31
Staff Company
Mixed Staff Company
1st Motorised Panzerjäger Company (9-12 guns)
2nd Sturmgeschütz Company (10-14 guns, also known as a Sturmgeschütz Abteilung)
3rd Flak Company (12 x 2cm self-propelled guns)

 SS Volunteer Verwaltungstruppen Abteilung 31
Staff Company (Motorised)
SS Bakery Company 31 (Motorised)
SS Butchery Company 31 (Motorised)
SS Administrative Company 31 (Motorised)
SS Field Post Office 31 (Motorised)

 SS Volunteer Fusilier Battalion 31
Staff Company
1st Motorcycle Company
2nd-3rd Fusilier Companies (Bicycles)
4th (Heavy Weapons) Company

 SS Volunteer Nachrichten Battalion 31
Staff Company(Partially motorised with a messenger dog section)
1st Telephone Company (Partially motorised)
2nd Radio Company (Motorised)
Supplies section (Partially motorised, also known as a Light Signals Column)

 SS Volunteer Supply Abteilung 31
Staff, Commander Divisional Supply Troops (Partially motorised)
1st and 2nd Supply Columns (Motorised, also known as Motor Vehicle Companies)
3rd and 4th Supply Columns (Horse-drawn, also known as Supply Squadrons)
SS Volunteer Supply Company

 SS Volunteer Medical Abteilung 31
Staff Company
1st SS Volunteer Medical Company 31
2nd SS Volunteer Medical Company 31 (Motorised)
SS Volunteer Motor Ambulance Company 31 (Motorised)

 SS Volunteer Feldersatz Battalion 31
Staff Company
1st-5th Companies
Supplies Company

 SS Volunteer Veterinary Company 31
1st SS Veterinary Company 31
2nd SS Veterinary Company 31

 SS Volunteer Pioneer Battalion 31
Staff Company
1st-3rd Pioneer Companies (Partially equipped with bicycles)

 SS Volunteer Motor Vehicle Workshop Company 31 (Motorised)

See also
List of German divisions in World War II
List of Waffen-SS divisions
List of SS personnel
23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian)
Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

Infantry divisions of the Waffen-SS
Military units and formations established in 1944
Military units and formations disestablished in 1945


The 2009 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament began with the first round on March 11, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with quarterfinals on March 12, semifinals on March 13, and the finals on March 14 (3:00 p.m. PT). In front of a crowd of 16,988, #6 seed USC defeated #4 seed Arizona State for the Pac-10 Tournament Championship, which was the first and only time for their program. This was also the first time a team seeded sixth in the tournament went on to win the championship, although it would happen again three years later. The Trojans  received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA National Tournament.

Seeds

All Pacific-10 schools played in the tournament. Teams are seeded by conference record, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with identical conference records.

2009 Pac-10 tournament
Game time: First round – March 11, 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.; Quarterfinals – March 12, 12:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.; Semi-finals – March 13, 6:00 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.; Championship game – March 14, 3:00 p.m. (Pacific time)

Tournament notes
Washington Huskies won the Pac-10 regular season title with a win over Arizona, 83–78, on Saturday, February 28, 2009, ending UCLA's three-year reign. They then went on to defeat Washington State, 67–60, for their first outright conference title since 1953.
The Oregon State Beavers are coached by President Obama's brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, who in his first season has improved the team's last year record of 5–25, finishing with 13 regular season wins.
 As a part of the tournament, a Pride of the Pac-10 luncheon was held on Friday, March 13, to honor the 2007-2008 Pac-10 Medal Winners, male and female athletes from each school for their excellence in athletics, academics and community service.
 Regular season honors: James Harden, Arizona State, player of the year; Isaiah Thomas, Washington, freshman of the year; Taj Gibson, USC, defensive player of the year; Justin Dentmon, Washington, most improved player of the year; Lorenzo Romar, Washington, coach of the year.
 Game officials for the championship game were Dick Cartmell, Dave Libbey and Michael Reed.
 This tournament had not one but two pairs of arch-rivals meet (a first). Arizona and ASU met (for the 2nd time in tournament history) in the second round and UCLA met USC (also for the 2nd time in tournament history) in the third round.
 Six teams were invited to play in the 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Division I Championship: Washington, UCLA, California, Arizona State, USC, and Arizona.

All-Tournament Team
Daniel Hackett, USC
Taj Gibson, USC
Derek Glasser, Arizona State
James Harden, Arizona State
Jeff Pendergraph, Arizona State

Most Outstanding Player
DeMar DeRozan, USC

2009 Hall of Honor inductees

Pac-10 men’s basketball Hall of Honor banquet was held on Saturday, March 14, 2009 to honor the following individuals from each of the Pac-10 member schools.
 Lute Olson – Arizona
 Royce Youree – Arizona State
 Nibs Price – Cal
 Michael Warren – UCLA
 Greg Ballard – Oregon
 Paul Valenti – Oregon State
 Gus Williams – USC
 Jim Pollard – Stanford
 Detlef Schrempf – Washington
 Isaac Fontaine – Washington State

See also
2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament
2008–09 Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball standings

References

External links
 Pac-10 Basketball Tournament site

Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament


is a Japanese football player currently playing for Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo.

Career statistics

Club
Updated to the start of 2023 season.

National team career statistics

Appearances in major competitions

References

External links

Profile at Consadole Sapporo

1989 births
Living people
Association football people from Hokkaido
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
Men's association football midfielders
People from Date, Hokkaido


The structured support-vector machine is a machine learning algorithm that generalizes the Support-Vector Machine (SVM) classifier.  Whereas the SVM classifier supports binary classification, multiclass classification and regression, the structured SVM allows training of a classifier for general structured output labels.

As an example, a sample instance might be a natural language sentence, and the output label is an annotated parse tree.  Training a classifier consists of showing pairs of correct sample and output label pairs.  After training, the structured SVM model allows one to predict for new sample instances the corresponding output label; that is, given a natural language sentence, the classifier can produce the most likely parse tree.

Training

For a set of  training instances ,  from a sample space  and label space , the structured SVM minimizes the following regularized risk function.

The function is convex in  because the maximum of a set of affine functions is convex.  The function  measures a distance in label space and is an arbitrary function (not necessarily a metric) satisfying  and .  The function  is a feature function, extracting some feature vector from a given sample and label.  The design of this function depends very much on the application.

Because the regularized risk function above is non-differentiable, it is often reformulated in terms of a quadratic program by introducing one slack variable  for each sample, each representing the value of the maximum.  The standard structured SVM primal formulation is given as follows.

Inference

At test time, only a sample  is known, and a prediction function  maps it to a predicted label from the label space .  For structured SVMs, given the vector  obtained from training, the prediction function is the following.

Therefore, the maximizer over the label space is the predicted label.  Solving for this maximizer is the so-called inference problem and similar to making a maximum a-posteriori (MAP) prediction in probabilistic models.  Depending on the structure of the function , solving for the maximizer can be a hard problem.

Separation

The above quadratic program involves a very large, possibly infinite number of linear inequality constraints.  In general, the number of inequalities is too large to be optimized over explicitly.  Instead the problem is solved by using delayed constraint generation where only a finite and small subset of the constraints is used.  Optimizing over a subset of the constraints enlarges the feasible set and will yield a solution that provides a lower bound on the objective.  To test whether the solution  violates constraints of the complete set inequalities, a separation problem needs to be solved.   As the inequalities decompose over the samples, for each sample  the following problem needs to be solved.

The right hand side objective to be maximized is composed of the constant  and a term dependent on the variables optimized over, namely .  If the achieved right hand side objective is smaller or equal to zero, no violated constraints for this sample exist.  If it is strictly larger than zero, the most violated constraint with respect to this sample has been identified.  The problem is enlarged by this constraint and resolved.  The process continues until no violated inequalities can be identified.

If the constants are dropped from the above problem, we obtain the following problem to be solved.

This problem looks very similar to the inference problem.  The only difference is the addition of the term .  Most often, it is chosen such that it has a natural decomposition in label space.  In that case, the influence of  can be encoded into the inference problem and solving for the most violating constraint is equivalent to solving the inference problem.

References

 Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Thorsten Joachims, Thomas Hofmann and Yasemin Altun (2005), Large Margin Methods for Structured and Interdependent Output Variables, JMLR, Vol. 6, pages 1453-1484.
 Thomas Finley and Thorsten Joachims (2008), Training Structural SVMs when Exact Inference is Intractable, ICML 2008.
 Sunita Sarawagi and Rahul Gupta (2008), Accurate Max-margin Training for Structured Output Spaces, ICML 2008.
 Gökhan BakIr, Ben Taskar, Thomas Hofmann, Bernhard Schölkopf, Alex Smola and SVN Vishwanathan (2007), Predicting Structured Data, MIT Press.
 Vojtěch Franc and Bogdan Savchynskyy Discriminative Learning of Max-Sum Classifiers, 	Journal of Machine Learning Research, 9(Jan):67—104, 2008, Microtome Publishing
 Kevin Murphy  Machine Learning, MIT Press

Structured prediction
Support vector machines


Kenneth Wandersee Johnson (January 14, 1923 – April 6, 2004), nicknamed "Hook" for his curveball, was an American professional baseball player, a pitcher who appeared in 74 games pitched in Major League Baseball for three different teams between the 1947 and 1952 seasons. Listed at , , he batted and threw left-handed.

The native of Topeka, Kansas, served in World War II in the United States Army in the Pacific Theater of Operations, where he was a tank commander.

Johnson entered the Majors in 1947 with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing for them in part of four seasons (1947–50) before joining the Philadelphia Phillies (1950–51) and Detroit Tigers (1952). In his first major league start, he pitched a one-hitter for the Cardinals against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field (September 27).  He struggled with his control after that and was sent by St. Louis to the Phillies in exchange for outfielder Johnny Blatnik. He went 4–1 as a member of the famous Phillies Whiz Kids, on the way to the National League pennant. Although he did not pitch in the 1950 World Series, Johnson appeared as a pinch runner for Dick Sisler in the ninth inning of Game 4, and scored the Phils' last run of the Fall Classic on an error by New York Yankees leftfielder Gene Woodling. New York won that game, 5–2, and the Series, four games to none. Johnson also pitched in nine games for Detroit in 1952, his last Major League season.

In a six-season career, Johnson posted a 12–14 record with a 4.58 ERA in 74 appearances, including 34 starts, eight complete games, four shutouts, 147 strikeouts, 195 bases on balls, and a 1.32 walk-to-strikeout ratio in 269 innings of work. Johnson died in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 81.

References

External links

Retrosheet
1947 St. Louis Cardinals game log
 Baseball Digest - 1950: when Philadelphia's Whiz Kids won the NL pennant

1923 births
2004 deaths
United States Army personnel of World War II
Asheville Tourists players
Baseball players from Kansas
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Columbus Red Birds players
Detroit Tigers players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Omaha Cardinals players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Rochester Red Wings players
St. Louis Cardinals players
Sportspeople from Topeka, Kansas
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players
Tank commanders


Themistokles "Themis" Cholevas (; 12 April 1926 – 30 December 2007) was an international Greek professional basketball player and professional basketball coach.

Professional career
Cholevas was the team captain of the Panellinios Basketball Club and its famous 1950s era "Chrysi Pentada", or "The Golden Five" in English. With Panellinios, he won 3 Greek League championships, in the years 1953, 1955, and 1957. He also won two European Club Championships with the club, as he won the 1955 Brussels Basketball Tournament and the 1956 San Remo Basketball Tournament. While he was also a runner-up at the 1954 San Remo Tournament.

National team career
Cholevas also a member of the senior men's Greek national basketball team. With Greece, he competed at the 1951 Mediterranean Games, the 1951 EuroBasket, the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, and the 1955 Mediterranean Games, where he won a bronze medal.

Coaching career
Cholevas also worked as a basketball coach. He coached AEK Athens, and with them, he won the Greek League's 1965–66 season championship. He also won the bronze medal at the 1971 Mediterranean Games, while coaching the Greek national basketball team. He was also Greece's head coach at the 1982 Balkan Championship.

Track and field
Cholevis was also a track and field athlete that competed in the 800 meters.

References

External links
Segas.gr Profile
Hellenic Basketball Federation Profile

1926 births
2007 deaths
AEK B.C. coaches
Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Greek basketball coaches
Greek Basket League players
Greek men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Greece
Panellinios B.C. players
Point guards
Shooting guards
Basketball players at the 1955 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece
Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball
Basketball players from Athens


WLRD (96.9 FM) is a radio station  broadcasting a Southern Gospel format. Licensed to Willard, Ohio, United States, the station serves the Mid-Ohio area.  The station is currently owned by Christian Faith Broadcast, Inc.

History
The station went on the air as WHHA on 1998-11-02.  on 1998-12-28, the station changed its call sign to the current WLRD.

References

External links

Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States
LRD


"Eternally" is a song by Japanese musician Hikaru Utada, from their 2001 album Distance. It was re-arranged in 2008 as "Eternally (Drama Mix)" for use in the Maki Horikita starring Fuji TV drama Innocent Love. It was released as a digital single on October 31, 2008, and eventually released onto CD in March 2009, on an EMI compilation album .

Innocent Love director Toshiyuki Nakano originally decided that Utada's voice would suit the themes of the drama well. Hearing "Eternally", he felt the song was a perfect choice for the drama, as the song's melody, lyrics and title fitted, in his opinion, as if the song had been specifically commissioned for the drama.

Writing
The song is a R&B ballad featuring an arrangement of strings, background percussion and guitar. The lyrics describe a person addressing their lover, describing how much they treasure a single moment they are sharing with this person. They believe that even if they cannot stay with their lover forever, at least .

The drama mix of the song features a different take of Utada's vocals during the recording sessions of Distance in 2001, however it was given a new mix in 2008. The new version is very similar in structure to the original, however with more prominent strings during the chorus.

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2001 songs
Japanese television drama theme songs
Hikaru Utada songs
Songs written by Hikaru Utada


The Metropolitan Library System (MLS) was an association of academic, public, school, and special libraries in Chicago and its suburbs in Cook, DuPage and Will counties.  On July 1, 2011, Metropolitan Library System merged with Alliance Library System, DuPage Library System, North Suburban Library System, and Prairie Area Library System to form the Reaching Across Illinois Library System. Sarah Ann Long, director of the North Suburban Library System,  summarized the evolution of organizations in northern Illinois in a 2011 essay,"Context is Everything."

SWAN
SWAN (System Wide Automated Network) maintains a shared online catalog for its 80 members.

Member Libraries
Grande Prairie Public Library
Orland Park Public Library
Richton Park Public Library District
River Forest Public Library

References

External links
Metropolitan Library System
SWAN catalog

Public libraries in Illinois
1966 establishments in Illinois
Burr Ridge, Illinois


Olivier Jules Richard (22 March 1836 – 7 January 1896) was a French botanist, mycologist and lichenologist who published on the anatomy and symbiosis of lichens.

A native of La Mothe-Saint-Héray, he studied law in Paris. He later served as procureur de république (prosecutor) in Marennes (1873–76), La Roche-sur-Yon (1876–85) and Poitiers (1885–91). In 1890 he became a member of the Société botanique de France.

He was an outspoken opponent of Simon Schwendener's theory of lichenization.

Publications

Articles
 1883. La synthèse byro-lichénique. 7 pp. (reprinted from Le naturaliste)
 1884. "Les céphalodies des lichens et le Schwendenerisme". Guide scientifique: Journal de l'amateur des sciences: 4 pp.
 1887. "Encore le Schwendenerisme". Revue Mycologique 9: 98–100. (2 pp.)
 1891. Notice sur la culture de la ramie. 7 pp. (reprinted from Bulletin de la Société d'agriculture, belles-lettres, sciences et arts de Poitiers 1891, no. 309)

Books
 1877. Catalogue des lichens des Deux-Sèvres. L. Clouzot. 50 pp.
 1881. De la Culture, au point de vue ornemental, des plantes indigènes de la Vendée et des départements voisins.  de L. Gasté. 99 pp.
 1883. Étude sur les substratums des Lichens. L. Clouzot, 87 pp.
 1884. L'autonomie des lichens: ou, Réfutation du Schwendenérisme.  Lechevalier. 59 pp.
 1884. Instructions pratiques pour la formation et la conservation d'un herbier de lichens.  Lechevalier. 44 pp.
 1888. Florule des clochers et des toitures des églises de Poitiers (Vienne).  Lechevalier. 50 pp.

References

French mycologists
French lichenologists
1836 births
1896 deaths
French taxonomists
People from Deux-Sèvres
19th-century French botanists


WLRY (88.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to serve Rushville, Ohio, United States.  The station, established in 1999, is owned by the Arcangel Broadcasting Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.  WLRY currently airs a Contemporary Christian format of music and talk under the slogan "Radio for Life".

Programming
WLRY broadcasts a Christian radio format featuring Christian talk and educational programs plus contemporary Christian music to the greater Columbus, Ohio, area.  Local programming includes a weekday morning show called O'Riley in the Morning featuring Mike O'Riley with music, local information and special guests.  Syndicated programming includes Focus on the FamilyThe Urban Alternative with Tony Evans, Turning Point with David Jeremiah, and the drama/comedy Adventures in Odyssey''.

History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on May 19, 1998.  The new station was assigned the WLRY call sign by the FCC on June 22, 1998.  WLRY received its license to cover from the FCC on December 7, 1999.

In August 2005, WLRY applied to the FCC to change its licensed broadcast frequency from 88.5 MHz to 88.9 MHz in an effort to improve the coverage area of its signal. The FCC granted the station a new construction permit to authorize this change on February 16, 2006.  WLRY received a license to cover these changes on December 14, 2006.

Awards and honors
WLRY received the Christian Radio Station Of The Year Award from The Ohio Christian Music Association on August 6, 2017.

References

External links
WLRY official website

Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1999
Fairfield County, Ohio
1999 establishments in Ohio
LRY


is a Japanese football player.

Club statistics
Updated to 8 March 2018.

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Association football people from Hokkaido
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
J3 League players
Japan Football League players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
Zweigen Kanazawa players
Fukushima United FC players
ReinMeer Aomori players
Nara Club players
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Men's association football forwards


Perumbadavam Sreedharan () (born 12 February 1938) is a Malayalam author from Kerala, India. He is former Chairman of Kerala Sahitya Akademi. He has written several novels and short stories. One of his best known novels is Oru Sankeerthanam Pole (1993) for which he won the Vayalar Award in 1996. He got Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Ashtapadi. In 2006, he was awarded the Malayattoor Award for his novel, Narayanam.

Born in the village of Perumpadavam, in Elanji Panchayath Piravom, Ernakulam district of Kerala, Perumpadavam (as he is often called) started his literary career by writing poetry. He later shifted to short stories and novels. Perumpadavam has also authored scripts for 12 Malayalam films. He has been noted for his connection with the Russian language and is recognised by some as a doyen of Malayalam literature.

Oru Sankeerthanam Pole

The novel Oru Sankeerthanam Pole was first published in 1993 and was released in its 37th edition on 1 November 2008 after setting publishing records in 2005. It is a story based on the life of famous Russian writer, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna.
This highly successful novel has sold over 100,000 copies in about 12 years. This is a record in Malayalam literature. The book surpassed 100th edition, with above 200,000 copies in about 24 years.

List of works

Perumpadavam's works include:

Novels

Short story collections

Children's literature

Other works

Awards
 1975: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel (Ashtapadi)
 1980: Kerala State Film Award for Best Story (Surya Daham)
 1980: Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Story (Surya Daham)
 1983: Kerala Film Critics Association Award for Best Story (Ashtapadi)
 1996: Vayalar Award (Oru Sankeerthanam Pole)
 1996: Bala Sahitya Award by Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature (Nilavinte Bhangi)
 2013: Vallathol Award
 2020: Kerala Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
 2006: Malayattoor Award (Narayanam)
 2014: Thakazhi Award
 2020: Benigna Award

References

Novelists from Kerala
Malayali people
Malayalam-language writers
Malayalam novelists
Malayalam-language dramatists and playwrights
Living people
1938 births
Recipients of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award
People from Muvattupuzha
Indian male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
Screenwriters from Kerala
Malayalam screenwriters
20th-century Indian male writers


The Confederate Monument in Paducah, located northwest of downtown Paducah, Kentucky is a historic monument located in Paducah's Oak Grove Cemetery.

It was built in 1907 on behalf of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  It is a  granite obelisk.  Six Confederate war dead are buried by the monument.

On July 17, 1997, it was one of sixty-one different monuments to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission.  One other monument on the list, the Lloyd Tilghman Memorial, is nearby.

References

1907 sculptures
Buildings and structures in Paducah, Kentucky
Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS
National Register of Historic Places in McCracken County, Kentucky
Obelisks in the United States
United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials in Kentucky
1907 establishments in Kentucky


WLZZ (104.5 FM, "Z104") is a radio station  broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Montpelier, Ohio, United States, the station is currently owned by Swick Broadcasting Company .

History
The station went on the air as WYDF on 1991-02-01. On 1991-04-15, the station changed its call sign to the current WLZZ.

On December 28, 2018, WLZZ changed their format from country to classic rock, branded as "Z104".

In August 2019, WLZZ changed their format from classic rock back to country, branded as "Superstar Country Z-104".

Previous logo

References

External links

LZZ
Radio stations established in 1991