MS Azura is a cruise ship operated by P&O Cruises and owned by Carnival plc. The ship was built by Fincantieri at their shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. She officially entered service with the company in April 2010 and was named by Darcey Bussell.

Delivery
Azura is a  ship, with a modified design which distinguishes her from early ships of the same class. Construction of Azura began in 2008 when her keel was officially laid on 27 October 2008. A ceremonial float out took place on Friday 26 June 2009, with Amanda Dowds, wife of the ship's captain, acting as her godmother. The formal handover took place on 26 March 2010.

Maiden voyage
Azuras maiden voyage began on 31 March 2010, when she departed from the Fincantieri shipyard en route to Southampton. She arrived in the UK on 7 April 2010. Azura first cruise with passengers began on 12 April 2010.

Naming

Azura was formally named on 10 April 2010, by godmother Darcey Bussell.  As well as performing the traditional bottle breaking ceremony, as a former principal dancer of the Royal Ballet, Bussell presented a dance performance by Royal Ballet School as part of the celebrations. Azura was originally registered in her homeport of Southampton, UK, but in November 2011 she was re-registered to Hamilton, Bermuda to enable wedding ceremonies to be conducted on board.

Facilities
The ship's facilities include a dance floor in the atrium, a show lounge and an interpretation of a London pub.
An open-air cinema screen is situated in front of the funnel.

In total, the ship has eleven restaurants and eating areas, twelve bars and places to drink, four pools, a gym, two spas, outdoor cinema, a theatre and two show lounges.

Design, refits and COVID-19
Azura is the only Grand-class ship to feature a "Duck Tail" stern.

She completed a minor refit in April 2015 at Blohm and Voss's shipyard in Hamburg. This included painting P&O's large Union flag design on to the bow, repainting the funnel in blue with P&O's "sunburst" logo plus minor interior updates.

Azura was berthed out of use at Port of Tyne International Passenger Terminal, North Shields, Tyne and Wear from 21 January 2021 to June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She left for Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 29 June 2021 at 06:45 BST where she remained until returned to service.

References

External links

 P&O Cruises official website for Azura

2009 ships
Passenger ships of Bermuda
Ships of P&O Cruises
Ships built in Monfalcone
Ships built by Fincantieri


Efecto Dominó is an album by Chetes, released on April 15, 2008. The album received a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album.

Track list
All songs written by Chetes except where noted:

Efecto Dominó (4:10)
Fuera de Lugar (3:36)
Querer (3:38)
Quédate (Chetes/ Ken Coomer/ Charlie Brocco) (3:32)
La Primera Vez (4:09)
Destino (4:12)
Canción Optimista (2:29)
Sobrenatural (3:09)
Blues Del Diablo (3:18)
Ahora (3:17)
Como Lo Siento (9:00)

Musicians
 Chetes: vocals, acoustic guitar, bariton guitar, nylon string guitar, electric guitar,  resonator guitar, optigan, harpsichord, banjo on "La primera vez", string arrangements for "Ahora", toy piano, stylophone, rhodes, mellotron, piano
 Ken Coomer: production, drums except on "Sobrenatural" and "Blues del Diablo", percussion, glockenspiel on "Quedate", Walkie Talkie Radio on "La primera vez"
 Fred Eltringham: drums on "Sobrenatural" and "Blues del Diablo"
 Peter Stround: electric guitar, nylon string guitar on "Querer"
 Audley Freed: electric guitar
 Tim Marks: bass
 Rami Yaffee: organ, piano, wurlitzer, harmonium, chamberlin strings on "Destino", vibraphone on "Como lo Siento"
 Chris Carmichel: cello
 Keith Gattis: pedal steel guitar
 Scotty Huff: trumpet, flugelhomy and whistling on "La primera vez"
 Sarah Hays: backup vocals on "Blues del Diablo"
 Charlie Brocco: production, backup vocals on "Blues del Diablo"
 Jonathan Brocco: saxophone on bonus track of “Como Lo Siento”

References

2008 albums
Chetes albums
Spanish-language albums


Villosa taeniata, the painted creekshell, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae.

The glochidia of this species are hosted by the rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris).

References

taeniata
Bivalves described in 1834


Ivan Dimov () was a Bulgarian actor. He finished the acting school at the Ivan Vazov National Theatre and spent the next 39 years playing on the stage. Meanwhile he managed to star in some of the most prominent Bulgarian films of the 1950s and 1960s like "Kalin Orelat" and "Tyutyun". For his contribution to the cinema Dimov was awarded the title People's artist (very popular in the People's Republic of Bulgaria).

Full filmography

 Tyutyun (1962) as Barutchiev
 Tzarska milost (1962) as Doychin Radionov
 Komandirat na otryada (1959) as Bay Nikola
 Malkata (1959) as Yatakat
 Siromashka radost (1958) as Dyado Mateyko
 Geratzite (1958) as Margalaka
 Dimitrovgradtsy (1956) as Enev
 Pod igoto (1952) as Marin vaglishtarya
 Kalin orela''' (1950) as Kalin
 Izpitanie (1942) as Alexander Kamenov, eng.
 Strahil voyvoda (1938) as Strahil voyvoda
 Bezkrustni grobove'' (1931) as Kocho

References

External links

1897 births
1965 deaths
Bulgarian male film actors
People from Chirpan


Liuxing Hudie Jian () is a wuxia novel by Gu Long. It was first published in Taiwan in August 1973 by Laureate () and subsequently reproduced by other publishing companies. It has been adapted into the 1976 film Killer Clans, a 1978 television series produced by Hong Kong's CTS, the 1993 film Butterfly and Sword, a 2003 mainland Chinese television series, and a franchise of video games.

Plot
In the jianghu (martial artists' community), there are two major martial arts clans engaged in an intense rivalry. On one side stands the Dragon Gate Clan () led by "Old Uncle" Sun Yubo (). On the other side is the Twelve Flying Peng Clan () led by "King of Ten Thousand Pengs" Fan Xuan ().

Apart from the two clans, there is an assassin organisation led by "Boss Gao" Gao Jiping (), who pretends to operate a brothel called Forest of Delight (). Gao Jiping has adopted and trained four orphans to serve as assassins under her: Ye Xiang (), Shi Qun (), Meng Xinghun (), and Xiaohe ().

Lü Xiangchuan (), Sun Yubo's deputy, has long wanted to kill his boss but he knows he cannot do so on his own. He secretly makes a deal with Gao Jiping, who sends Meng Xinghun to assassinate Sun Yubo. However, Lü Xiangchuan's plan ultimately fails and he dies at the hands of his friend who has remained loyal to the clan. Gao Jiping commits suicide after the loss of her four assassins: Meng Xinghun falls in love with Sun Die, marries her and joins Sun Yubo; Ye Xiang is killed; Xiaohe survives but becomes disabled; only Shi Qun is still alive and well.

Around the same time, internal conflict breaks out within the Twelve Flying Peng Clan. Although Fan Xuan emerges victorious, he also loses many of his loyal followers. After these incidents, the major clans have sustained heavy losses so they are forced to put aside their rivalry. Peace is restored in the jianghu.

Adaptations

Meteor, Butterfly, Sword (mobile game)
Meteor, Butterfly, Sword (mobile game) is a 2018 free-to-play action game published in game markets including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, and Japan. The story of Meteor, Butterfly, Sword is based on a martial arts novel, Liuxing Hudie Jian. In the game, the character continues to fight and pass the levels and chapters to reach the next one. The character will also be in the process of unlocking his own ability attributes and various weapons. The development and operating process is supported by Thunder Fire UX.

References

External links

Novels by Gu Long
Adaptations of works by Gu Long
1973 novels
Chinese novels adapted into films


The incident at Antioch was an Apostolic Age dispute between the apostles Paul and Peter which occurred in the city of Antioch around the middle of the first century. The primary source for the incident is Paul's Epistle to the Galatians . Since the 19th century figure Ferdinand Christian Baur, biblical scholars have found evidence of conflict among the leaders of early Christianity; for example, James D. G. Dunn proposes that Peter was a "bridge-man" between the opposing views of Paul and James, brother of Jesus. The final outcome of the incident remains uncertain, resulting in several Christian views on the Old Covenant.

Gentile Christians and the Torah

Paul was responsible for bringing Christianity to Ephesus, Corinth, Philippi, and Thessalonica. According to Larry Hurtado, "Paul saw Jesus' resurrection as ushering in the eschatological time foretold by biblical prophets in which the pagan 'Gentile' nations would turn from their idols and embrace the one true God of Israel (e.g., ), and Paul saw himself as specially called by God to declare God's eschatological acceptance of the Gentiles and summon them to turn to God."
According to Krister Stendahl, the main concern of Paul's writings on Jesus' role and salvation by faith is not the individual conscience of human sinners and their doubts about being chosen by God or not, but the problem of the inclusion of Gentile (Greek) Torah-observers into God's covenant.
As Gentiles began to convert from Paganism to early Christianity, a dispute arose among Jewish Christian leaders as to whether or not Gentile Christians needed to observe all the tenets of the Law of Moses.

The inclusion of Gentiles into early Christianity posed a problem for the Jewish identity of some of the early Christians: the new Gentile converts were neither required to be circumcised nor to observe the Mosaic Law. Observance of the Jewish commandments, including circumcision, was regarded as a token of the membership of the Abrahamic covenant, and the most traditionalist faction of Jewish Christians (i.e., converted Pharisees) insisted that Gentile converts had to be circumcised as well. By contrast, the rite of circumcision was considered execrable and repulsive during the period of Hellenization of the Eastern Mediterranean, and was especially opposed in Classical civilization both by ancient Greeks and Romans, who instead valued the foreskin positively.

Around the same time period, the subject of Gentiles and the Torah was also debated among the Tannaitic rabbis as recorded in the Talmud. This resulted in the doctrine of the Seven Laws of Noah, to be followed by Gentiles, as well as the determination that "Gentiles may not be taught the Torah." The 18th-century Rabbi Jacob Emden was of the opinion that Jesus' original objective, and especially Paul's, was only to convert Gentiles to follow the Seven Laws of Noah while allowing Jews to keep the Mosaic Law for themselves (see also Dual-covenant theology).

Paul objected strongly to the insistence on keeping all of the Jewish commandments, considering it a great threat to his doctrine of salvation through faith in Christ. According to Paula Fredriksen, Paul's opposition to male circumcison for Gentiles is in line with the Old Testament predictions that "in the last days the gentile nations would come to the God of Israel, as gentiles (e.g., ), not as proselytes to Israel." For Paul, Gentile male circumcision was therefore an affront to God's intentions. According to Hurtado, "Paul saw himself as what Munck called a salvation-historical figure in his own right", who was "personally and singularly deputized by God to bring about the predicted ingathering (the "fullness") of the nations ()."

Council of Jerusalem

Paul left Antioch and traveled to Jerusalem to discuss his mission to the Gentiles with the Pillars of the Church. Describing the outcome of this meeting, Paul said that "they recognized that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised". The Acts of the Apostles describe the dispute as being resolved by Peter's speech and concluding with a decision by James, the brother of Jesus not to require circumcision from Gentile converts. Acts quotes Peter and James as saying:

This Apostolic Decree is still observed by the Eastern Orthodox Church.

The historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles is disputed. While the Council of Jerusalem was described as resulting in an agreement to allow Gentile converts exemption from most Jewish commandments, another group of Jewish Christians, sometimes termed Judaizers, felt that Gentile Christians needed to fully comply with the Law of Moses, and opposed the Council's decision.

Incident
According to the Epistle to the Galatians chapter 2, Peter had traveled to Antioch and there was a dispute between him and Paul. The Epistle does not exactly say if this happened after the Council of Jerusalem or before it, but the incident is mentioned in Paul's letter as his next subject after describing a meeting in Jerusalem which some scholars consider to be the council. An alternate theory, which many believe to be better suited to the facts of the incident, is that it took place long before the Jerusalem Council, perhaps shortly after Paul's famine visit of Acts 11. This conclusion makes more sense of Peter's apparent change of heart.  says:
When Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong. Before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group.

To Paul's dismay, the rest of the Jewish Christians in Antioch sided with Peter, including Paul's long-time associate Barnabas:
The rest of the Jews joined in this charade and even Barnabas was drawn into the hypocrisy.

The Acts of the Apostles relates a fallout between Paul and Barnabas soon after the Council of Jerusalem, but gives the reason as the fitness of John Mark to join Paul's mission ().  Acts also describes the time when Peter went to the house of a gentile.  says:
The apostles and the believers throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him and said, "You went into the house of the uncircumcised and ate with them."

This is described as having happened before the death of King Herod (Agrippa) in 44 AD, and thus years before the Council of Jerusalem (dated c. 50). Acts is entirely silent about any confrontation between Peter and Paul, at that or any other time.

A minority of scholars argues that the confrontation was actually not between Paul and Peter the Apostle, but another one of the identified 70 disciples of the time who was also named Peter. In 1708, a French Jesuit, Jean Hardouin, wrote a dissertation that argues "Peter" was actually "another Peter", thus the emphasis of using the name Cephas (Aramaic for Peter). In 1990 Bart D. Ehrman wrote an article on the Journal of Biblical Literature, similarly arguing that Peter and Cephas should be understood as different people, citing the writing of Clement of Alexandria and the Epistula Apostolorum in support of his theory; Ehrman's article received a detailed critique by Dale Allison, who argued that Peter and Cephas are the same person. Most scholars now agree with Allison on the matter, and Ehrman himself has partially backed down from his position, stating that he is undecided on the matter.

Outcome
The final outcome of the incident remains uncertain; indeed the issue of Biblical law in Christianity remains disputed.  The Catholic Encyclopedia states: "St. Paul's account of the incident leaves no doubt that St. Peter saw the justice of the rebuke." In contrast, L. Michael White's From Jesus to Christianity states: "The blowup with Peter was a total failure of political bravado, and Paul soon left Antioch as persona non grata, never again to return."

According to church tradition, Peter and Paul taught together in Rome and founded Christianity in that city. Eusebius cites Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth as saying, "They taught together in like manner in Italy, and suffered martyrdom at the same time." This may indicate their reconciliation. In , Paul's letters are referred to as "scripture", which indicates the respect the writer had for Paul's apostolic authority. However, most modern scholars regard the Second Epistle of Peter as written in Peter's name by another author.

See also
 Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
 New Perspective on Paul
 Proselyte

References

Bibliography

External links
  With subsection titled "The Incident at Antioch".
 Paul N. Tobin, The Incident at Antioch
 Jewish Encyclopedia: Saul of Tarsus: Paul's Opposition to the Law

1st-century Christianity
Ancient Christian controversies
Christian terminology
Judaism in the New Testament
Mosaic law in Christian theology
Saints Peter and Paul
Ancient Antioch


Pavel Mikšík (born July 27, 1943) is a Slovak architect and designer working in the field of fountain design.

Biography
Pavel Mikšík was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He was introduced to fine arts in early childhood by his father. In school he excelled in both drawing and technical subjects. He decided on the Faculty of Architecture at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Mikšík changed to the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He graduated in 1968.

Early works
After graduation Mikšík won another First prize, this time for Dr. Clementis Memorial.

Contemporary works
Mikšík has specialised in the creation of fountains, from interior and drinking fountains to large-scale monumental pieces.

Memberships
Mikšík is a member of Professional Artist Group ART-CLUB+8. He takes part in annual exhibitions. He works and lives near Bratislava, Slovakia.

List of major works
 (2006)         Monument with light effects in Zahorska Bystrica (Slovakia)
 (2005)         Fountain in the Main Square in Šamorín (Slovakia)
 (1995)         Fountain in the historical square in Dolny Kubin (Slovakia)
 (1993)         Fountain for the Karlskrohn Town Hall (Germany)
 (1993)         Fountain in Cham (Germany)

Exhibitions
 (1995) Pictures and Bronze Figures - Ingolstadt (Germany)
 (1988) Artprotis - Newark (USA)
 (1982) Bronze Figures - Zurich (Switzerland)

References

External links
 Official website

1943 births
Living people
Architects from Bratislava
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava alumni


Juan Martínez may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
Juan Martínez Montañés (1568–1649), sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar (1583–1641), poet and painter of the Spanish Golden Age
Juan Martínez Abades (1862–1920), Spanish painter
 (1901–1976), Chilean architect
Juan Luis Martínez (1942–1993), Chilean poet and writer

Law and politics
Juan Martínez de Ampiés (died 1533), Spanish army officer, first governor of Venezuela Province
Juan Martínez de Rozas (1759–1813), Chilean lawyer and politician
Juan Antonio Martínez (died 1854), interim President of Guatemala
Juan Ramón Martínez (politician) (born 1941), Honduran newspaper columnist and politician
Juan Manuel Martínez Nava (born 1954), Mexican politician
Juan Antonio Martínez Varela (Minister of Defense of El Salvador) (fl. 1999–2004), Salvadoran defense minister

Religion
Juan Martínez (bishop of Lugo) (), Galician clergyman
Juan Martínez Silíceo (1486–1557), Spanish Roman Catholic bishop, cardinal and mathematician
Juan Manual Martínez de Manzanillo (died 1592), Venezuelan Roman Catholic bishop
Juan Martínez de Ripalda (1594–1668), Spanish Jesuit theologian

Sports

Association football (soccer)
Juan Ramón Martínez (footballer) (born 1948), Salvadoran footballer
Juan Martínez Martínez (born 1955), Spanish footballer, and current coach of CD Castellón
Juan Ignacio Martínez (born 1964), Spanish footballer
Juan Martínez Munuera (born 1982), Spanish football referee
Juan Martínez Marconi (born 1982), Chilean footballer
Juan Manuel Martínez (born 1985), Argentine footballer
Juan Carlos Martínez Camarena (born 1991), Mexican footballer
Juan David Martínez (born 2001), Colombian footballer

Track and field
Juan Máximo Martínez (1947–2021), Mexican long-distance runner
Juan Martínez Brito (born 1958), Cuban discus thrower
Juan Martínez Martin (born 1980), Spanish track and field athlete

Water sports
Juan Martínez (swimmer) (born 1946), Spanish swimmer
Juan Martínez (canoeist born 1950), Mexican sprint canoer who competed in the 1960s and 1970s
Juan Martínez (1990s canoeist), Mexican sprint canoer who competed in the 1990s

Other sports
Juan Antonio Martínez (fencer) (born 1920), Cuban fencer
Juan Martínez (equestrian) (1924–1994), Spanish Olympic equestrian
Juan Antonio Martínez (basketball) (born 1944), Spanish basketball player
Juan Tomás Martínez (born 1962), Spanish cyclist
Juan Martínez Oliver (born 1964), Spanish road bicycle racer
Juan Martínez de Irujo (born 1981), Spanish Basque pelota player

Others
Juan Martínez de Recalde (c.1540–1588), Spanish naval officer
Juan Martinez, managing partner of Australian law firm HWL Ebsworth

Other uses
Portrait of Juan Martínez Montañés, Spanish oil painting by Diego Velázquez

See also
San Juan y Martínez


The Indoor Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of both men's and women's Indoor Cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the World Indoor Cricket Federation (WICF) and is held every two or three years. The first Indoor Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1995. Separate world championships are held for both junior and masters age groups with the Junior World Series of Indoor Cricket and the Masters World Series of Indoor Cricket held at similar intervals.

The World Cup is contested by the members of the WICF (though member nations have not always entered teams) and beyond being an affiliated member of that body there are no formal qualifications for entry. Australia have been the most successful side having won every world title in both divisions to date.

The 2017 Indoor Cricket World Cup was held in Dubai in United Arab Emirates, with Insportz Club serving as the host venue.

Tournament Format
Whilst the precise nature of the tournament has varied slightly over the years, each tournament usually follows a simple round robin format followed by finals contested by the highest placed sides. The semi finals are contested by the top four sides.

The tournament usually takes place over the course of 7 to 10 days and is sometimes run in conjunction with the Masters World Series or the Junior World Series.

Results

See also
Junior World Series of Indoor Cricket
Masters World Series of Indoor Cricket

References

Indoor cricket
World championships in cricket
World cups
Recurring sporting events established in 1995


The Executive Council of the Province of Canada had a similar function to the Cabinet in England but was not responsible to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from its inception in 1841 to 1848.

Members were advisers to the Governor and later to the Premier of the Province of Canada. Members of the Executive Council were generally members of the elected Legislative Assembly, but there were also some members from the appointed Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. The council replaced the Executive Councils of Upper and Lower Canada. It lasted from 1841 to 1867, when the Province of Canada was abolished as part of Canadian Confederation.  It was replaced at the federal level by the Queen's Privy Council of Canada, and at the provincial level by the executive councils of the two new provinces, Ontario and Quebec.

The Executive Council sat at several capitals of the Province of Canada:

 Kingston 1841–1843
 Montreal 1843–1849
 Toronto 1849–1852
 Quebec City 1852–1856
 Toronto 1856–1858
 Quebec City 1859–1866
 Ottawa 1866–1867

Presidents of the Executive Council

 William Morris 1846–1848
 James Leslie 1848
 Philip Michael Matthew Scott VanKoughnet 1856
 Isidore Thibaudeau, May 16, 1863 – March 29, 1864
 George Brown June 30, 1864 – December 1865
 Adam Johnston Fergusson Blair 1866

Clerks

 Samuel Boies Smith - son of Samuel Smith, British Army officer and former member of the Executive Council of Upper Canada (1817-1818, 1820) and Administrator of Upper Canada 1817-1818

References

Province of Canada
Privy councils
Monarchy in Canada
Former Canadian ministers
1841 establishments in Canada
1867 disestablishments in Canada


Shane Battelle (born October 5, 1971)  is a retired American soccer player who played with the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer.

College
After capping off his senior year at Hazelwood Central High School with a state championship, Missouri Player of the Year honors and being named a Parade Magazine All-American, Battalle spent one season (1990) playing soccer at Southern Methodist University.   He was named to the Soccer America Magazine Freshman All-American Team as one of the best 11 freshman in the entire country that year.  In 1991, he transferred to St. Louis University, where he played for the men's soccer team.  SLU finished the 1991 season ranked second in the nation.  Battelle was team captain his senior year. The Billikens went to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I post-season tournament that season, and Battelle was selected as a 1993 first-team All-American.  Battelle was also nominated for the MAC Award and Hermann Trophy as the best player in college soccer but finished behind Claudio Reyna in the voting.  He was inducted to the Saint Louis University Hall of Fame in 1999 with teammate and longtime friend Brian McBride.

Professional
In January 1994, the St. Louis Ambush selected Battelle in the first round of the National Professional Soccer League draft. The Ambush went on to win the NPSL Championship that season. In the summer of 1995, he played for the St. Louis Knights in the USISL In February 1996, the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer selected Battelle in the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft. Battelle spent one season playing for Columbus, starting at defensive center midfield. A knee injury suffered that season ended his career.

International
In 1990, Battelle played with the United States U-20 National Soccer Team (US U-20) in its bid to qualify for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship. Battelle also played with the U.S. National B Team, a group of the best college players in the country who were seen as prospects for the full U.S. National Team, from 1992 to 1994. The full National Team, at that time, was composed of only players who had graduated from college. This included a win over Trinidad & Tobago in Trinidad.  He was co-captain of the U.S. at the 1993 World University games along with Claudio Reyna, scoring key goals in wins against Ireland and Australia, and notching two goals and an assist in a victory over Nigeria.  Battelle also played in the 1990 U.S. Olympic Festival, captaining the North team to the gold medal.

References

External links
St. Louis University Player Profile

1971 births
American men's soccer players
Columbus Crew players
National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) players
Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer players
SMU Mustangs men's soccer players
St. Louis Ambush (1992–2000) players
St. Louis Knights players
USL Second Division players
Living people
Major League Soccer players
United States men's under-20 international soccer players
All-American college men's soccer players
Men's association football defenders
Columbus Crew draft picks


Cape Charles is a headland, or cape, in Northampton County, Virginia. Located at the southern tip of Northampton County, it forms the southern tip of the Delmarva Peninsula and the northern side of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. Cape Charles was named in honor of Charles I of England, the second son of King James I and his eventual successor to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Cape Henry, which forms the southern side of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, and Cape Charles are collectively known as the Virginia Capes.

See also
Cape Charles, Virginia
Cape Henry
Virginia Capes

Notes

References
Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1997. .

Headlands of Virginia
Landforms of Northampton County, Virginia


Arthur Emmett may refer to:

Arthur Emmett (judge) (born 1943), judge of the Federal Court of Australia
Arthur Emmett (cricketer) (1869–1935), English cricketer


Xiang-Dong Kong ( born 1968, in Shanghai) is a Chinese pianist. He was one of the young musicians featured in From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China.

Kong was Gold Medalist at the 1988 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.  In 1992 he won the Sydney International Piano Competition. He is a 75th descendant of Confucius.

References

1968 births
Living people
Chinese classical pianists
Sydney International Piano Competition prize-winners
Prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition
Prize-winners of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition
Musicians from Shanghai
21st-century classical pianists
Descendants of Confucius


Jeffrey Lawrence Price (born December 18, 1949) and Peter Stewart Seaman (born October 26, 1951) are an American screenwriting and producing duo whose notable works include Trenchcoat (1983), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Doc Hollywood (1991), Wild Wild West (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Last Holiday (2006) and Shrek the Third (2007).

Filmography
Film

Television

References

External links

1949 births
1951 births
American comedy writers
American film producers
American male screenwriters
American television writers
American male television writers
Animation screenwriters
Hugo Award-winning writers
Living people
Screenwriting duos


Andreas Hanakamp (born 1 July 1966) is an Austrian sailor who has competed in two Olympic Games as well many other sailing events including the 1996 Hong-Kong-Challenge, Bacardi Cup, Rolex Fastnet Race and most recently, is competing in the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race.

Hanakamp has sailed over 150,000 miles offshore, with 30,000 miles offshore racing experience. Andreas works as a professional sailor and also owns his own sailing services company based in Austria.
He is married to Nicole, they have three children; Lisa, Nicola and Marie.

Achievements

Hanakamp is an ambassador to the Year of the Dolphin project.

Volvo Ocean Race

Hanakamp was the press officer for the 2001–02 Volvo Ocean Race, and skipper for Team Russia in the 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race.

Star class results

References

External links

 Andreas Hanakamp: Homepage
 Team Russia Homepage

1966 births
Living people
Austrian male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Austria
Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Star
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Star
Volvo Ocean Race sailors
Sportspeople from Wiener Neustadt


Shalamov () is a Russian male surname, its feminine counterpart is Shalamova. Notable people with the surname include:

Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982), Russian writer, journalist and poet
Yelena Shalamova (born 1982), Russian rhythmic gymnast

Russian-language surnames


Jeff(rey) or Geoff(rey) Price may refer to:

Jeffrey Price (screenwriter), part of the Hollywood screenwriting team
Jeff Price, head men's basketball coach at Georgia Southern University
Geoff Price, American football player
Jeffrey L. Price, chronobiologist
David Price (mineral physicist) (Geoffrey David Price, born 1956), British mineral physicist


Peter Seaman may refer to:

 Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman
 Peter Seaman (Mayor of Norwich)


Staff captain is the English translation of a number of military ranks:

Historical use of the rank

Czechoslovakia
In the Czechoslovak Army, until 1953, staff captain (, ) was a senior captain rank, ranking between captain and major.

Estonia
The rank of staff captain () was adopted from the Russian Imperial Army and used briefly by the Estonian military right before the German occupation of Estonia during World War I. During the occupation, it was replaced with the rank of captain.

Ireland
The rank of Staff Captain () was used by the Irish Republican Army during the Irish revolutionary period (1917–23).
During The Troubles the rank was used by the Official IRA & Provisional IRA. Joe McCann was a Staff Captain in the Officials and killed unarmed by the British Army in 1972. John Francis Green was a Staff Captain in the Provisionals North Armagh Brigade & killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1975 allegedly with the help of Royal Ulster Constabulary members from the infamous Glenanne gang.

Prussia
Staff captain (Stabskapitän, also: Stabshauptmann) is a historic military rank used in the Prussian army.

It ranked between the Premierleutnant (later called Oberleutnant) and Hauptmann/Rittmeister in the Prussian army.  Its holder represented the actual captain and company commander in his absence, frequently and often for long periods, should his (usually noble) Hauptmann show no interest in leading the company, though the Hauptmann would retain his rank, status and uniform.

In the army of Frederick the Great, a regiment's Regimentschef, Oberst, staff officers, company commanders and those of nearby rank received a far higher rank than the staff captains who actually led the company.  From this difference later developed the salary difference between a first class "Hauptleute first class" and "Hauptleute second class".

Russia

In the Russian Imperial Army (RIA) the OF-2b rank of Stabs-kapitan () counted as a lieutenant captain ("light" captain) or senior lieutenant (ru: старший лейтенант; starshy leytenant) who ranked between poruchik (ru: пору́чик (OF-1a)) and captain (ru: капитан; kapitan (OF-2a)) and was in charge of a company-size military unit.

Sweden
Staff captain was a rank in the Swedish Army from 1750 until 1833, ranking above Lieutenant but under captain.
A staff captain was the actual commander of one of the three companies in a foot regiment that had the field grade officers as formal commanding officers: the Colonel's Company, the Lieutenant Colonel's Company and the Major's Company. The corresponding rank before 1750 was kaptenlöjtnant.

United Kingdom
In the Royal Navy the master of the fleet was ranked as a staff captain after 1864, just below the captain, but he was not considered an executive branch officer and was not eligible for further promotion. Some exceptions were made to this rule, such as transfer to the executive officers list and promotion to Captain of Sir Frederick Evans upon his retirement in 1872, in recognition of his hydrographic survey work and scientific merits.

Current use of the rank

Finland
A rank similar to Stabskapitän, yliluutnantti, is in use in Finnish military ranks.

Germany
Stabshauptmann (StHptm) meaning "Staff Captain", is the highest military rank in the Bundeswehr for limited duty officers (Offiziere des Militärfachlichen Dienstes (OffzMilFD)).

Bundeswehr

Staff captain is the top rank for officers of the MilFD-career. They have the same paygrade (A13) as majors. It is one of the rarest ranks in the German military.  Those are former NCOs who have accomplished a special training programme through which they are given the opportunity to become officers. The navy equivalent is Stabskapitänleutnant (staff lieutenant captain (navy)).

Historically, a rank named "Stabshauptmann" (also: "Stabskapitän") existed in several German armies (such as Prussia) in the 18th century. However, while the modern Stabshauptman is a Senior Captain senior to a regular Hauptmann, the historical Stabshauptmann was a Junior captain, ranking below Hauptmann rank. In 18th century armies companies often were "owned" by a nobleman, who formally was the company's captain, but did not actually command the unit. Instead, the owner of the company appointed an officer from the company his "Stabshauptmann", who technically served as the Hauptmann's mere staff assistant, but actually led the unit in his place.

The reversing in ranking of "Hauptmann" and "Stabshauptmann" in modern times is consequence of the practice in modern German military organisations (Reichswehr, Wehrmacht) to name the highest rank of a rank group beginning with the prefix "Stabs-", indicating that the holder serves in staff position to officers of the next higher rank group, e.g. during World War II, the highest NCO rank in the German army was Stabsfeldwebel, who served as direct assistant to company-grade officers or in staff function. However, this is no longer represented in the Bundeswehr's post-World War II rank structure since the creation of rank levels senior to the "Stabs-" level of ranks, denoted by the prefix "Oberstabs-" ("Senior Staff-", e.g. Oberstabsfeldwebel). There are no plans to create the rank of "Oberstabshauptmann".

German pay grade of Stabshauptmann is A13, same as of major (Hauptmann: A11/A12). According to NATO's STANAG 2116, the NATO rank code of Stabshauptmann is OF-2, same as for regular Hauptmann and therefore equal to captain rank in other NATO armies. To express the seniority of Stabshauptmann, "OF-2a" or other modifications of the official NATO rank code are in use unofficially.

See also
Captain lieutenant — naval rank of junior captain (naval), equal to the Commonwealth or United States rank of lieutenant (naval)
Staff (military)
History of Russian military ranks
Captain (disambiguation)

References

Military ranks of Germany
Military ranks of Russia
Prussian Army


Richard Matthew Burwell (January 23, 1940 – May 1, 2023) was an American professional baseball pitcher. A right-hander, Burwell pitched parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball, 1960 and 1961, for the Chicago Cubs. The native of Alton, Illinois, attended Illinois Wesleyan University. He was listed as  tall and .

Burwell's pro career lasted for seven years (1959–1965), all in the Cubs' organization. He appeared in a total of five major league games, including one start, his maiden MLB appearance on September 13, 1960, against the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field. Burwell allowed six earned runs in five innings pitched on six hits (including home runs by Gordy Coleman and Eddie Kasko) and three bases on balls. He left the game for a pinch hitter with the Cubs trailing 6–4. However, he was not charged with the loss: the Cubs tied the score at six after Burwell's exit, and the decisive run in Chicago's 8–6 defeat was charged to relief pitcher Don Elston.

In Burwell's two late-season big-league trials, he allowed 17 hits and 11 bases on balls in 13 innings pitched, with one strikeout. He did not earn a decision and posted an earned run average of 6.59.

Burwell died in Arizona on May 1, 2023, at the age of 83.

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The 117th Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Lackawanna County, Luzerne County and all of Wyoming County and includes the following areas:

 Lackawanna County
 Benton Township
 Dalton
 La Plume Township
 West Abington Township
 Luzerne County
 Dallas
 Dallas Township
 Fairmount Township
 Franklin Township
 Harveys Lake
 Hunlock Township
 Lake Township
 Lehman Township
 Ross Township
 All of Wyoming County

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Emelyn Thatcher Whiton (née Leonard, later Righter, March 1, 1916 – March 1, 1962) was an American sailor.

Emelyn Leonard was born in New York City. In 1939 she married Herman Whiton, who was helmsman of the American boat Llanoria which won the 6 metre class at the 1948 Olympics. Herman repeated the feat at the 1952 Olympics with the same boat and a different crew, including his wife as an alternate. Since she had not participated in the Olympic regatta she did not receive a medal.

Emelyn divorced Herman Whiton in 1957 and married Brewster Righter in 1958. She died in the plane crash of American Airlines Flight 1 in Jamaica Bay, on her 46th birthday.

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The Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) is a free trade agreement (FTA) between the governments of the People's Republic of China (mainland China, PRC, commonly "China") and the Republic of China (ROC, commonly "Taiwan"), that aims to reduce tariffs and commercial barriers between the two sides, as well as improve cross-strait relations.

The pact was signed on June 29, 2010, in Chongqing, and was seen as the most significant agreement since the two sides split after the Chinese Civil War in 1949, since neither government recognize the other as being the sole government of China. It was expected to boost the then current US$197.28 billion bilateral trade between both sides.

Background

The government of the People's Republic of China uses its influence on neighboring economic powers to prevent them from signing free-trade agreements (FTAs) with the Republic of China ("Taiwan") which China claims that the ROC has been eliminated and so Taiwan is part of its territory. Instead, under the leadership of the Kuomintang, Taipei was motivated to sign the ECFA with mainland China partly in hope that once it has this agreement the PRC will stop pressuring other countries to avoid such agreements with Taiwan, as well as to counteract the negative consequences of China's free trade agreement with ASEAN.

The ECFA has been compared with the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangements mainland China signed with the Special Administrative Regions: Hong Kong and Macau.

The deal is also structured to benefit Taiwan far more than mainland China. The "early harvest" list of tariff concessions covers 539 Taiwanese products and 267 mainland Chinese goods. The advantage to Taiwan would amount to , while mainland China would receive benefits estimated at . Mainland China will also open markets in 11 service sectors such as banking, securities, insurance, hospitals and accounting, while Taiwan agreed to offer wider access in seven areas, including banking and movies.

Financial reforms were kicked off on January 16, 2010, with the signing of three Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) between Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Sean Chen and three counterpart agencies in Beijing for Banking, Insurance and Securities. The FSC is hoping that Taiwan will get more leniency in the hurdles set by the Chinese government for foreign players. These hurdles have limited the growth of these foreign players relative to their local peers.

Signing and review
The negotiation process took place over several rounds. Substantive yet informal discussions regarding the ECFA initially took place during the 4th round of SEF-ARATS discussions in December 2009. During this time the delegates for China and Taiwan laid down the framework for the first round of ECFA talks which took place on January 26, 2010, in Beijing. Kao Koong-lian, secretary general and vice chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), led the 13 member Taiwanese delegation while Zheng Lizhong, Vice President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), represented China's interests. Subsequent rounds of ECFA talks took place on March 31, 2010, in Taipei and June 13, 2010, in Beijing. The final agreement was signed during the 5th round of SEF-ARATS talks on June 29, 2010, in Chongqing. Chiang Pin-kung, the chairman of Taiwan's SEF represented Taiwan. Chen Yunlin, the President of ARATS, represented mainland China.  Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved the ECFA on July 2, 2010 and the Legislative Yuan (parliament) approved the deal on August 17, meaning the deal became law on January 1, 2011. The ECFA came into effect on September 12, 2010.

Response

Debate

ECFA was widely debated in Taiwan, in regards to potential effects on local Taiwanese businesses, as well as on how the government has presented it to the public. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and other pro–independence groups believe that the free trade agreement is a "cover" for unification with China by "inextricably linking" the two economies. According to Jie Huang of China Review, it is a means to maintain peace in cross-Strait relations and "ultimately to reach the goal of reunification." A debate was held and televised on April 25, 2010.

Referendum proposals

In 2010, the originally-from-China pan-blue-camp-controlled  several times rejected referendum proposals against Ma Ying-jeou administration's economic agreement with China even the numbers of petition forms for a referendum has been reached and nearly 200,000 signatures has been collected. The public opinion survey shows a majority of respondents opposed the signing of that package with China and many experts and politicians among protesters sees a referendum for this as essential.

Reception
There were some protests against the signing of the ECFA which would boost two-way trade organized by the Sunflower Student Movement, a popular movement that had the general support of, but was not led by, Taiwan's then opposition Democratic Progressive Party. A spokesman for the DPP said the trade agreement with China could damage the local economy and undermine Taiwan's sovereignty as he was against the One China market concept. President Ma Ying-jeou responded that the signing would not lead to a One China market.

Many protesters accuse the agreement as eventually leading Taiwan towards unification with mainland China. The DPP claimed that 100,000 took part in the protest, while the police said there were about 32,000 people.  The demonstration started at 3pm and ended by 7pm.

Clash in the legislature
On July 8, 2010, a Legislative Yuan meeting was held. The DPP insisted the ECFA agreement be reviewed article by article. That demand was rejected by the KMT caucus.  A six-minute fight then broke out among the legislators.  Wang Jin-pyng was at the podium surrounded by other KMT legislators. Liu Chien-kuo, Su Chen-ching (蘇震清) and Kuo Wen-chen (郭玟成) attempted to get to him and failed.  Lawmakers threw paper, water and trash at each other. KMT legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇) was hit in the head by a clock. He had to be transported to National Taiwan University Hospital.  A number of other people were involved in the scuffle. Two KMT legislators held DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen responsible for the clash.

See also
Cross-Strait relations
Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement
Political status of Taiwan
Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)

Notes

References

External links

 English translation of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement Ministry of Economic Affairs, Republic of China
 Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council
 Straits Exchange Foundation

2010 in China
Treaties concluded in 2010
2010 in Taiwan
Cross-Strait relations
Treaties of the People's Republic of China
Treaties of Taiwan
Treaties entered into force in 2010


The 2006 Bavarian Cup was the ninth edition of this competition, organised by the Bavarian Football Association (BFV), which was started in 1998. It ended with the TSG Thannhausen winning the competition. Together with the finalist, SpVgg Bayreuth, both clubs were qualified for the DFB Cup 2006-07.

The competition is open to all senior men's football teams playing within the Bavarian football league system and the Bavarian clubs in the Regionalliga Süd (III).

Rules & History
The seven Bezirke in Bavaria each play their own cup competition which in turn used to function as a qualifying to the German Cup (DFB-Pokal). Since 1998 these seven cup-winners plus the losing finalist of the region that won the previous event advance to the newly introduced Bavarian Cup, the Toto-Pokal. The two finalists of this competition advance to the German Cup. Bavarian clubs which play in the first or second Bundesliga are not permitted to take part in the event, their reserve teams however can. The seven regional cup winners plus the finalist from last season's winners region are qualified for the first round.

Participating clubs
The following eight clubs qualified for the 2006 Bavarian Cup:

Bavarian Cup season 2005-06
Teams qualified for the next round in bold.

Regional finals

 The SpVgg Weiden, runners-up of the Oberpfalz Cup is the eights team qualified for the Bavarian Cup due to Jahn Regensburg from Oberpfalz having won the Cup in the previous season.

First round

Semi-finals

Final

DFB Cup 2006-07
The two clubs, TSG Thannhausen and SpVgg Bayreuth, who qualified through the Bavarian Cup for the DFB Cup 2006-07 both were knocked out in the first round of the national cup competition:

References

Sources
 Deutschlands Fussball in Zahlen 2005/06  Yearbook of German football, author: DSFS, publisher: Agon Sport Verlag, published: 2006, page: 289–290

External links
 Bavarian FA website

2006
Bavarian


Olivier Cazal (born 1962, Toulouse) is a French pianist.

He was awarded 2nd prizes at the 1988 Maria Canals Competition, the 1991 Concorso Busoni (ex-aequo with Igor Kamenz), the 1991 Long-Thibaud Competition, and the 1992 Sydney International Piano Competition.  He won 1st prize at the 1993 Premio de Jaén.

Cazal is internationally active as a concert pianist, and has recorded Francis Poulenc's complete piano works for Naxos Records.

References
  Naxos Records

External links
 Performance of Sergey Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto (coda)

Living people
1962 births
21st-century French male classical pianists
20th-century French male classical pianists
Sydney International Piano Competition prize-winners
Prize-winners of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition prize-winners


Nat Mauldin is an American screenwriter and film producer.

Writing Credits
Barney Miller (1981-1982) (TV)
Newhart (1983) (TV)
Night Court (1984-1987) (TV)
Have Faith (1989) (TV)
Downtown (1990)
Howie and Rose (1991) (TV)
Capitol Critters (1992) (TV)
The Preacher's Wife (with Allan Scott) (1996)
Dr. Dolittle (with Larry Levin) (1998)
The In-Laws (with Andrew Fleming) (2003)
Open Season (with Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman) (2006)
The Perfect Holiday (with Lance Rivera, Marc Calixte and Jeff Stein) (2007)
A Christmas Story 2 (2012)

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Behnam () is an Iranian / Persian masculine given name or family name, which translates as "distinguished, honorable, reputable, or acclaimed".

The name is composed of two parts: bih (به, meaning "good" or "best") and nâm (نام, meaning "name or reputation").

Given name
Behnam Abolghasempour (born 1973), Iranian football player
Behnam Abu Alsoof (1931–2012), Iraqi Assyriologist, anthropologist, historian and writer
Behnam Afas (born 1934), Iraqi-New Zealander author and researcher
Behnam Afsheh (born 1983), Iranian footballer
Behnam Asbaghi (born 1986), Iranian taekwondo practitioner
Behnam Barzay (born 1993), Iranian footballer
Behnam Behzadi (born 1972), Iranian director, screenwriter, editor and producer
Behnam Beyranvand, Iranian footballer
Behnam Ehsanpour (born 1992), Iranian wrestler
Behnam Khosroshahi (born 1989), Iranian cyclist
Behnam Mahmoudi (born 1980), Iranian volleyball player
Behnam Malakooti, American professor
Behnam Maleki (born 1992), Iranian cyclist
Behnam Sadeghi (born 1969), scholar of Islamic law and history
Behnam Seraj (born 1971), Iranian football player and manager
Behnam Taebi (born 1977), Dutch-Iranian ethicist and academician
Behnam Tashakkor (born 1977), Iraqi actor
Behnam Tayyebi (born 1975), Iranian wrestler
Behnam Yakhchali (born 1995), Iranian basketball player

Surname
Farjam Behnam (born 1966), Iranian editor and researcher
Jamshid Behnam (1928–2021), Iranian sociologist, writer and translator
Mariam Behnam (1921–2014), Iranian-born Emirati writer, diplomat and activist
Rostin Behnam, American lawyer and government official

Persian masculine given names
Masculine given names


Half Thang is the second album by American rapper Richie Rich.

Track listing
"Intro" 0:32
"Ruff Neckin'" 5:06
"Half Thang" 3:55
"Busta Phree" 4:29
"As Usual (Skit)" 0:45
"80 Ounces" 3:05
"Fuck Dat Nigga (Skit)" 0:54
"Tastes Like Shit" 4:37
"Cheap Thrill" 4:32
"W. Dick (Skit)" (featuring Kev T.) 0:34
"Dirde Luv" 4:38
"Young Guns" (featuring T-Uni & Eclipz) 5:13
"Triple Gold (Outro)" 1:01

Samples
"Ruff Neckin'"
"Nuthin' but a "G" Thang" By Dr. Dre
"Half Thang"
"Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin" by MC Breed
"Let Me Ride" by Dr. Dre
"Cheap Thrill"
"Seven Minutes of Funk" by Tyrone Thomas & The Whole Darn Family
"Pop Life" by Prince
"Triple Gold" (Skit)
"Waterfalls" By TLC

Chart history

References

External links
 [ Half Thang] at Allmusic
 Half Thang at Discogs
 Half Thang at MusicBrainz

Richie Rich (rapper) albums
1996 albums
Gangsta rap albums by American artists


The Cypriot National Guard is a combined arms force and represents the organised air, land and sea capabilities of the Republic of Cyprus. Equipment is mostly imported from other countries, since the country has very limited heavy industrial and commercial industrial capacity due to its small population and land mass (excluding Northern Cyprus). The role of maintaining, upgrading and modifying military equipment is primarily the task of the National Guard Technical Corps, though more complex activities rely upon the availability of civil contracts. As of 2023, the Republic of Cyprus will no longer be under US Defence sanctions opening the National Guard to the sale of US defence products.

Equipment
This list contains equipment which is in use by the Cypriot National Guard.

Infantry weapons

Armored vehicles

Artillery

Air defense

Surface defense

Aircraft

Gallery

See also
 Military operations during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
 Turkish invasion of Cyprus
 Armoured vehicles of the Cypriot National Guard
 Cyprus Navy
 Cyprus Air Forces

References

Equipment
Equipment
Cyprus


Rotspitz (literally redpeak) is a mountain in Liechtenstein, located close to the Swiss border, due east of the Swiss town of Wartau.  It is in the Rätikon range of the Eastern Alps, and reaches a height of .

References
 www.hikr.org

Mountains of the Alps
Mountains of Liechtenstein


España, rhapsody for orchestra ( or Rapsodie España) is the most famous orchestral composition by French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894). Written in 1883 after a trip to Spain, it was dedicated to the conductor Charles Lamoureux, who conducted the first public performance on 4 November 1883, at the Théâtre du Château d’Eau for the Société des Nouveaux Concerts in Paris.

Background

From July to December 1882, Chabrier and his wife toured Spain, taking in San Sebastián, Burgos, Toledo, Sevilla, Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Cordoba, Valencia, Zaragoza and Barcelona. His letters written during his travels are full of good humour, keen observation and his reactions to the music and dance he came across – and demonstrate his genuine literary gift. In a letter to Édouard Moullé (1845–1923); a long-time musician friend of Chabrier (himself interested in folk music of Normandy and Spain), the composer details his researches into regional dance forms, giving notated musical examples. A later letter to Lamoureux, from Cadiz, dated 25 October (in Spanish) has Chabrier writing that on his return to Paris he would compose an 'extraordinary fantasia' which would incite the audience to a pitch of excitement, and that even Lamoureux would be obliged to hug the orchestral leader in his arms, so voluptuous would be his melodies.

Although at first Chabrier worked on the piece for piano duet, this evolved into a work for full orchestra. Composed between January and August 1883, it was originally called Jota but this became España in October 1883. Encored at its first performance, and received well by the critics, it sealed Chabrier's fame overnight. The work was praised by Lecocq, Duparc, Hahn, de Falla (who did not think any Spanish composer had succeeded in achieving so genuine a version of the jota) and even Mahler (who declared it to be "the start of modern music" to musicians of the New York Philharmonic). Chabrier more than once described it as "a piece in F and nothing more".

Music

After a short guitar-like introduction, the first theme appears low on muted trumpets, and recurs four times during the piece. This is followed by a flowing second theme (bassoons, horns, cellos). Bassoons introduce another idea ben giocoso, sempre con impeto after which instrumental sections take up a dialogue with another highly rhythmic theme. After a return to the first theme, another flowing melody dolce espressivo on upper strings leads to a climax only broken by a marcato theme on trombones. Instrumental and thematic variants lead the piece to its ecstatic and joyous conclusion.

Chabrier's España inaugurated the vogue for hispanically flavoured music which found further expression in Debussy's Ibéria and Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole. Erik Satie parodied this trend in his piano piece Españaña from the suite Croquis et agaceries d'un gros bonhomme en bois (1913).

Orchestration
Strings; 3 flutes (1 piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B flat, 4 bassoons; 2 horns in F (chromatiques), 2 horns in C (ordinaires), 2 trumpets, 2 cornets à piston, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine); 2 harps and strings.

Metronome marking:  = 80. Performances generally last between 6 and 6½ minutes.

Chabrier made two transcriptions of España:
 Song for soprano and piano
 Two pianos

Other appearances
Parts of España feature prominently in Émile Waldteufel's waltz España of 1886. It is also the basis of the melody of the 1956 American popular song "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning.

In 1961 Roland Petit created a ballet entitled España using the score of Emmanuel Chabrier; costumes were by Yves Saint Laurent.

References

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Compositions for symphony orchestra
Compositions for two pianos
Rhapsodies
1883 compositions


Martin Ingemar Gunnarsson (March 30, 1927 – September 23, 1982) was an American sport shooter who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Töreboda, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, and died in Chattahoochee County, Georgia. In 1964 he won the bronze medal in the 300 meter rifle three positions competition.

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Ruskeala (; ) is a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Sortavala in the Republic of Karelia, Russia. Within the framework of municipal divisions, Ruskeala is a part of Kaalamskoye Rural Settlement in Sortavalsky Municipal District.

An international tourist route, Blue Highway (Norway-Sweden-Finland-Russia) goes through Ruskeala.

History
Before the Winter War and Continuation War, it was the seat of Ruskeala Municipality of the Viipuri Province in Finland. Ruskeala became the main village of its own parish, independent of Kitee, in 1721.

Quarries

Not far from the settlement, the Ruskeala marble quarries are located. The deposit was discovered in 1765 and has been in operation since 1769. The integrity of the massif of the marble was cracked in the 20th century due to the use of dynamite. For this reason some quarries were abandoned and inundated. Now these picturesque deep quarries and adits with limpid water serve as a popular tourist attraction.

The length of the quarries from north to south is 460 meters, width - up to 100 meters. The distance from the highest point to the bottom is more than 50 meters. The transparency of the water reaches 15–18 meters.

The quarries, as well as some other marble deposits of Karelia, the Urals, and Italy, supplied various projects in St. Petersburg, including St. Isaac's Cathedral, Marble Palace, St. Michael's Castle, the interiors of the Winter Palace, New Hermitage and Kazan Cathedral, and decorations of the St. Petersburg Metro (namely the Primorskaya and Ladozhskaya stations).

Nature

The quarry site has been designed to become Ruskeala Park, a regional park. A series of small cascade waterfalls on the Tokhmayoki River is another popular tourist attraction situated near the settlement. The height of the waterfalls ranges from 3 to 4 meters. Waterfalls are known to tourists and extremes, overcoming them on kayaks.

Notable people
Teuvo Aura (1912–1999), former Mayor of Helsinki and Prime Minister of Finland; and Yrjö Keinonen (1912–1977), the Chief of Defence of the Finnish Defence Forces between 1965 and 1969; were both born in Ruskeala.

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The Masters World Series of Indoor Cricket is the premier international championship of both men's and women's masters Indoor Cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the World Indoor Cricket Federation (WICF) and is held at varying intervals. The first Masters World Series contest was organised in Australia in 2001. Separate world championships are held for both junior and open age groups with the Junior World Series of Indoor Cricket and the Indoor Cricket World Cup held at similar intervals.

The World Series is contested by the members of the WICF (though member nations have not always entered teams) and beyond being an affiliated member of that body there are no formal qualifications for entry. Australia have been the most successful side with 20 collective titles.

Tournament Format
Whilst the precise nature of the tournament has varied slightly over the years, each tournament usually follows a simple round robin format followed by finals contested by the highest placed sides. The semi finals are contested by the top four sides and more often than not the winner of each semi final progresses to the World Series final.

The tournament usually takes place over the course of 7 to 10 days and is sometimes run in conjunction with the Junior World Series or other international contests.

On occasions where insufficient nations enter sides a test series is played in place of a World Series. This occurred in 2005 and 2013 where the only entrants in the Over 30 Women division were Australia and South Africa. Whilst Australia earned the title of World Champions as a result of winning this series the tournament itself was not classified as a World Series and is therefore not included as such.

Results

See also
Indoor Cricket World Cup
Junior World Series of Indoor Cricket

Indoor cricket


Luis Mario Cabrera Molina (born 9 July 1956) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a striker.

He spent almost his entire career in Spain – 12 seasons in representation of three teams, mainly Atlético Madrid.

Club career
Cabrera was born in La Rioja. He started his career in his country with Club Atlético Huracán in 1975, scoring 19 goals in two years. In 1978, he moved to Spain, starting out at CD Castellón in its second division.

For the 1980–81 season, Cabrera joined Atlético Madrid, but struggled for most of his stay there, overshadowed by Mexican Hugo Sánchez. Eventually the pair complemented itself, combining for 33 La Liga goals in 1984–85 as the capital side finished second and won the Copa del Rey; after the latter's departure to Real Madrid he played even more, and started in the following year's UEFA Cup Winners' Cup final, lost to FC Dynamo Kyiv.

Towards the end of his career, Cabrera played for Cádiz CF and had a second spell with Castellón (helping them promote to the top flight in his debut campaign), retiring at 34 with 209 matches and 63 goals in Spain's main tier.

Honours

References

External links

Atlético's Encyclopedia bio

1956 births
Living people
Sportspeople from La Rioja Province, Argentina
Argentine men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Argentine Primera División players
Club Atlético Huracán footballers
La Liga players
Segunda División players
CD Castellón footballers
Atlético Madrid footballers
Cádiz CF players
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain


Allen Chandler (5 December 1849 – 25 December 1926) was a batsman for Surrey in the 1870s. He was born at Kensington in London in 1849.

Chandler played 29 first-class matches between 1873 and 1877, scoring a total of 716 runs. He recorded his highest score of 74 against Cambridge University at The Oval in 1875. He captained the Surrey team during the 1876 season.

Chandler died at Haslemere in Surrey in 1926. He was aged 77.

References

1849 births
1926 deaths
English cricketers
Surrey cricketers
Surrey cricket captains
People educated at Cheltenham College
Surrey Club cricketers
Gentlemen of the South cricketers
Cricketers from Gloucestershire


Kuhgrat (or Kuegrat) is the highest of a group of three peaks known as the Drei Schwestern which between them form part of the Austria-Liechtenstein border.  It reaches a height of .

References

Mountains of Liechtenstein
Austria–Liechtenstein border
International mountains of Europe
Mountains of the Alps


The Ponte del Gran Caso is a Roman bridge across the Torrente Gran Caso, 2 km east of Ascoli Piceno in central Italy.

The bridge has a span of 6 m, a width of 3.3 m and is built of travertine. The walls of one ramp feature two flood arches, one of which has a segmental shape and runs from the ground to the quarter point of the main arch rib. A similar segmental relieving arch can be found at another Roman bridge in central Italy, the Ponte di Pioraco.

The Gran Caso, in dialect "lu ran casc", derives its name from the Latin "casus", meaning "misfortune, an unhappy, disastrous event" and reflects the battles that took place near its banks. In 89 BC 75,000 Romans and 60,000 Picenes clashed nearby; evidence of the battle are the numerous lead bullets found. Pompey Strabo boasted strong ties with Spain and with Fermo, his city of origin, hence the FIR inscription on the recovered missile bullets. History tells us that hundreds of slingers were under his command in the ranks of the Roman army, and the knights of the so-called “Turna Sallutiana” were brought in from Spain, considered to be the main architects of the conquest of Ascoli. The Roman camp was located south of the Gran Caso ditch, towards the Tozzano plateau, where there are some hills still called "Pompè". Pompeius was later celebrated in the Campidoglio, with the “De Asculaneis Picentibus”, honours that were bestowed only for difficult undertakings and when the dead enemies amounted to at least five thousand.

A second important event took place nearby around 400, during the siege of town by Alaric I; the clash was particularly bloody so much so that the waters of the stream were tinged with the red of the blood of the corpses. However, it is said that the Goths fled, frightened by the appearance of Saint Emidius above the walls of Ascoli

See also
 List of Roman bridges
 Roman architecture
 Roman engineering

References

Sources

Roman bridges in Italy
Deck arch bridges
Stone bridges in Italy


Vitaly Samoshko (Ukrainian: Віталій Самошко, Vitaliy Samoshko; born 1973 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian pianist. He settled in Belgium in 2001.

His first significant achievement was a 6th prize at the 1992 Sydney International Piano Competition. He was subsequently awarded 2nd prizes at the 1993 Concorso Busoni, the 1996 Concours de Montreal and the 1998 Arthur Rubinstein Competition before winning the 1999 Queen Elisabeth Competition. He has built an international concert career since.

References

See also
Queen Elisabeth Music Competition

1973 births
Living people
Ukrainian classical pianists
Male classical pianists
Sydney International Piano Competition prize-winners
Prize-winners of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition
21st-century classical pianists
21st-century male musicians
Musicians from Kharkiv


The High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University Jiangning Campus (NSFJ-CN, Simplified Chinese: 南京师范大学附属中学江宁分校, nickname Fu-Zhong-Fen-Xiao 附中分校) is a high school located in Jiangning, Nanjing, People's Republic of China. It was founded in 2003, as the Jiangning Branch of the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University. The Jiangning Campus totally contains more than 6000 students from different places in Asia. Jiangning Campus also runs real property business, it is the owner of an estate called Long Hu, Wenxinyuan.

Campus History
Founded on October 5, 2002, The High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University Jiangning Campus is the Jiangning Branch of the Famous High School, the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University. While the Campus has only constructed its 20% of the building, it began its enrolment in July 2003. At that time, most of the staff are experienced staff from the city campus, students with high academic result from other cities who failed to enter the city campus, has been introduced to enroll in the Jiangning Campus rather than go back to their hometown, thus, For the first year of its teaching activities began, the Jiangning Campus achieve amazing result among private high schools around Nanjing. In the 2006 College Entrance Examination, 3 of the graduates enter Tsing-Hua University, the best University in China, while the percentage of the student who entered universities rated the 4th in the whole administrative area of Nanjing.

However, after its first successful result, most of the experienced staff from the city campus have been replaced with the staff from northern Jiangsu Province and new graduates from universities around Nanjing. With improper administration, the academic result have been reducing every year, in 2007 only 33% of the graduates enter universities, in 2008 the result is even low, less than 30%, while in 2009 the result become better than the past two years, as in 2006 the campus have loaded students with better background by its high achievement on College Entrance Examination, while compare to other high schools in Nanjing, such result is still inferior.

As unpleasant academic achievement in domestic College Entrance Examination, in late 2007, the new principal, Hai-Yein Lee, planned IELTS and TOEFL course within the campus, as student's successful enrollments in a foreign education institutes such as diploma course, foundation program, high school course in western countries and even language course provided by these institutes can be described as "entered famous universities in western countries" to the public. However, due to water high fee band for students from other cities in Jiangsu Province and lower teaching quality than the language education agency such as New Oriental in the Nanjing city, the language courses have never become operational as very few students will choose it.

In 2007, the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University joined in a sister school partnership with Charlotte Country Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, US. Since 2007, the two schools have organized annual teacher exchanges and student visits.

Students of this Campus
More than 95% of the students in the Jiangning Campus have Chinese Citizenship, mainly local students from Jiangning and the urban area of Nanjing(It requires less grade in the Nanjing High School Entrance Examination to enter Jiangning Campus than the Urban campus of High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University), besides there are students from Yancheng, Xuzhou, Huai'an and other places in Jiangsu Province.

Jiangning Campus is one of the Institutions in Jiangsu Province with authority from Chinese Education Administration to provide international education, most of the international students in this high school are from South Korea, others are mainly from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

From 2006,  due to the improper administration, several campus unexpected incidents have been taken place among the students. In November 2006, a skirmish between 300 Chinese students and 10 South Korean students, took place in the male students dormitory area, at least 2 Korean students were seriously wounded. Just two weeks later another skirmish between the campus high school students and foundation students of the JESIE took place, while light motorcycle and other weaponry has been used by the foundation students. In January 2008, a Year 9 female student committed suicide by jumping down from a campus building, after her death in the Tongren Hospital, the campus blocked all the information on the internet.

Facilities
According to initial planning, High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University Jiangning Campus should contain teaching buildings, a dining hall, laboratory buildings, swimming pool, two finished sports field, and a closed type overline bridge connects the teaching area and the dormitory area. Due to the campus' financial shortage, currently only a main building, six teaching buildings, five laboratory buildings, a dining hall, nine dormitory buildings for students and another three apartment buildings for the staff and teachers have been finished, while only one athletic field have been built without seats for the viewers. The Main Building locates in the centre of the Campus, it contains the school library, piano practice rooms, a meeting hall, a performance hall and other facilities. An astronomy observatory is located on the top of the C5 lab building which is run by the Astronomy Association of the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University Jiangning Campus. Each of the nine buildings dormitory of the Jiangning campus have six floors. Every floor contains around 28 chambers, one large bathroom and a public toilet with four positions. The bathroom uses voucher. Each chamber are equipped with an air conditioner, a toilet and a balcony. Normally 4 students share one chamber. The dining hall locates in the north of the school mall and the south of the dorm buildings with three floors, normally one meal in the dining hall cost 5-10 RMB Yuan.

Fees and Further costs
High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University Jiangning Campus is one of the most expensive high school in Nanjing. Compare with a normal market price of US$200 of a public high school in Nanjing the school fee for a single semester of a Chinese citizen student is around $1500 if his or her performance in High School Entrance Examination does not meet the threshold for a much reduced tuition (US$200). While school fee for a single semester of an international student is around $2500. Other expenses are also higher than other high schools in Nanjing.

Transport
Due to the distance between the city of Nanjing and the campus, only one branchline bus reach the campus. Thus, the school set up a shuttle bus service from Jiangning campus to the city, this service are provided mainly for students live in the city of Nanjing and one return trip cost US$15. Several route options have been made for the trip: Daqiaonanlu Road Route, High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University Urban Campus Route, Muxuyuan Street Route and Nanjing International Centre Route. Intercity service have also been established for the students live faraway, including, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge- Pukou Route, Dongshan Route. During public holidays airport express and countrylink services are also organized. Heavy transport vehicles have been used to deliver students from the campus to the airport, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an and Yancheng.

See also
 Nanjing Normal University
 High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University

External links
 Official site

High schools in Nanjing
Nanjing Normal University
Educational institutions established in 2003
2003 establishments in China


SS Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian ocean liner launched on 24 September 1961 for Lloyd Triestino's Genoa—Sydney service. Her sister ship was . Guglielmo Marconi left Genoa on her maiden voyage on November 18th 1963. In 1976, Guglielmo Marconi was transferred to the Naples-Brazil-River Plate service of Italian Line.

In 1979 she was transferred to Italia Crociere as a full-time cruise ship. This was not a success and she was sold to Costa Lines in 1983. After a two-year rebuild, the ship reappeared as Costa Riviera for Costa Cruises in 1985. Costa Riviera alternated between Caribbean and Alaskan cruising during her time with Costa Cruises.

In 1993, American Family Cruises was launched, a joint venture between Costa and Bruce Nierenburg, to operate cruises aimed at young American families with children. AFC were not successful, and the ship sailed for Genoa in September 1994 where she was converted back to the Costa Riviera, and began cruising her last years in Europe.

until Costa Riviera was sold for scrap under the name Liberty in 2001.

References

Ships of Costa Cruises
Ocean liners
Passenger ships of Italy
Ships built in Monfalcone
1961 ships
Ships built by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico
Guglielmo Marconi


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| authority = Jackman et al. 1988
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| synonyms = * Group JK Corynebacterium
}}Corynebacterium jeikeium is a rod-shaped, catalase-positive, aerobic species of Actinomycetota in the genus Corynebacterium. C. jeikeium is pathogenic, typically causing an opportunistic infection seen most frequently in bone marrow transplant patients. C. jeikeium is a strictly aerobic organism and forms tiny grayish white colonies when grown on blood agar. C. jeikeium'' is usually susceptible to vancomycin and tetracycline. Resistance to macrolide antibiotics is often encountered.

It can be acquired in hospitals. Its genome has been sequenced.

References

External links
Type strain of Corynebacterium jeikeium at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Corynebacterium
Gram-positive bacteria
Bacteria described in 1988


Cary Kaplan is the president and co-owner of the sports marketing firm Cosmos Sports & Entertainment with his wife Amelia Kaplan, which launched in 2003.  The company specializes in consulting for sports teams and leagues in sales, marketing and business operations. High-profile clients have included the NHL CFL, MLS, the Chicago Cubs the Houston Rockets and the Phoenix Suns.

Biography
In 1995, Kaplans's marketing firm Sports Marketing Results had an affiliation with the Canadian National Soccer League. Kaplan then worked for the Edmonton Oilers hockey team for six years, the last two as the president and alternate governor of the Oilers top affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs, of the American Hockey League (AHL). In 1999, he won the Ken McKenzie Award as the AHL's top marketing executive. In Hamilton, he was credited with keeping the team in Hamilton when he organized the 'Stay Dogs Stay' campaign in 2000, resulting in increased attendance and tickets sold. He also initiated the process that brought the Montreal Canadiens to take over the Bulldogs franchise and AHL team in the city when the Oilers withdrew following the 2002–03 season.

Kaplan has been owner and president of sports marketing firm Cosmos Sports & Entertainment since August 2003 when he and his wife Amelia opened the business.

From 2005 until October 2009, he served as the commissioner and chairman of Canada's only professional soccer league, the Canadian Soccer League. During his tenure, the league gained affiliations with Canada's governing body, the Canadian Soccer Association, as well as with Canada's top two professional teams Toronto FC and the Montreal Impact, the establishment of a television contract with Rogers TV, and reserve divisions for the league.

In 2013, Kaplan assumed the role of the president of the new Brampton Beast hockey team in the Central Hockey League (CHL). Kaplan was a minority owner that helped bring the first Canadian franchise in the CHL. The seven remaining CHL teams joined the ECHL prior to the 2014–15 season. The Beast folded in February 2021 after not being able to play since March 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2019, Kaplan further added the role of being Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Global T20 Canada, managing all revenue for the largest cricket event in Canada.

References

Living people
Canadian ice hockey owners
Dalhousie University alumni
1969 births


Scrabble is a board word game.

Scrabble may also refer to:

Related to the board game
 Scrabble (game show), an American television game show 1984–1990, 1993
 Scrabble (video game), the official computerized version, released in several versions since 1984, including:
 The Computer Edition of Scrabble, 1988, for Apple II, DOS, and Macintosh
 Scrabble 2007 Edition, for Nintendo DS

Other uses
 Scrabble, West Virginia, United States
 Marc Rzepczynski (b. 1985), nicknamed Scrabble, an American baseball player

See also
 Hardscrabble (disambiguation)
 Scrapple


Viktor Vasylyovych Hryshko (; born 2 November 1961) is a Ukrainian coach and former Soviet and Ukrainian footballer.

Career
He graduated from the Institute of Physical Education (Kyiv). As a Chornomorets player, in 1991 Hryshko became the best goalie in the Soviet Top League with the most shutout matches of "clean sheets". He was called to the Ukrainian football national team in 1992 by Viktor Prokopenko, but has never played a single game. From the late 2003, until he was appointed as the interim coach of FC Chornomorets in late 2008, V. Hryshko worked as the administrative staff in the Odesa's club.

Hryshko was given a permanent contract later that season, but was fired in August 2009 after a poor start to the following campaign. He was appointed as the vice-president of FC Chornomorets Odesa in September 2009.

Honours

Player
 Ukrainian Cup 1992
 Turkish Cup 1995

References

External links
Short Biography
Chornomorets have a new head coach Short Biography on Ukrainian Soccer.net

1961 births
Living people
Footballers from Kryvyi Rih
Ukrainian men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
FC Dynamo Kyiv players
FC Metalist Kharkiv players
FC Chornomorets Odesa players
Trabzonspor footballers
MFC Mykolaiv players
FC Odesa players
FC SKA-Lotto Odesa players
FC Chornomorets-2 Odesa players
Soviet Top League players
Soviet First League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
Ukrainian First League players
Ukrainian Second League players
Ukrainian Amateur Football Championship players
Süper Lig players
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Ukrainian football managers
FC Odesa managers
FC Chornomorets Odesa managers
Ukrainian Premier League managers
Ukrainian Second League managers


Joe Calzaghe vs. Roy Jones Jr., billed as Battle of the Superpowers, was a boxing light-heavyweight superfight. The fight was held on November 8, 2008, at Madison Square Garden. The fight was for Calzaghe's Ring light-heavyweight championship.

It ultimately proved to be Calzaghe's final professional bout, as he announced his retirement on February 5, 2009.

Build-up

After Calzaghe's split-decision points victory over Bernard Hopkins (see Bernard Hopkins vs. Joe Calzaghe), and Jones's victory over Félix Trinidad, the two signed to fight each other for the Ring magazine light-heavyweight championship of the world. After having been originally scheduled for September 20, 2008, the fight was rescheduled when Calzaghe injured his wrist in training. The bout was then rescheduled for November 8, 2008.
The fight received considerable media coverage, including the HBO pre-publicity series, 24/7, in three episodes.

The fight
The fight did not start well for Calzaghe, who was knocked down in the first round. Replays showed the knockdown was caused by an accidental forearm by Jones (a two-punch combination). However, he composed himself and went out strong in the third round. In round 6 Jones landed a thunderous uppercut that had the crowd on their feet. But in round seven Calzaghe opened a cut above Jones's left eye. Jones was clearly having difficulty as the blood completely impaired his vision. Essentially Calzaghe remained dominant and in control, something that was reflected in the judges' scorecards as he outclassed Jones. The fight continued all the way to the end of the twelfth round, when the judges awarded Calzaghe the UD win by a wide margin, each scoring the fight 118-109.

Aftermath
After the fight there were calls for Calzaghe to retire at the top. Former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis felt that Calzaghe had nothing left to prove in the world of boxing. Ricky Hatton and David Haye echoed this view by saying there was nothing more Joe could achieve,
though double light-heavyweight champion Chad Dawson challenged the champion to one last fight before he retired. In the end, Calzaghe chose to retire, telling the BBC,

Joe was also challenged by the then undefeated British boxer Carl Froch.

References

Calzaghe
2008 in boxing
2008 in sports in New York City
2000s in Manhattan
Golden Boy Promotions
Boxing matches at Madison Square Garden
November 2008 sports events in the United States


Eschnerberg, also Eschner Berg, Schellenberg, (especially used in the Austrian village of Feldkirch) is 698 m high (Klocker close to Hinterschellenberg) mountain of seven peaks in the Rhine Valley, on the borderline of Liechtenstein and the Austrian State Voralberg, close to Feldkirch.

Geography
The more extense southern part of the mountain is located in the Liechtensteiner Unterland, while the less extense northern part is in the district of Feldkirch, within a region called Voralberger Oberland. The whole mountain itself is about 7 km long and 2 km broad. It goes along the River Rhine.

Settlements on the mountain include Eschen, Mauren, Gamprin, Ruggell and Schellenberg on the Liechtenstein side and the minor districts of Feldkirch Tosters and Fresch (Nofels) on the Austrian side. The highest peak is located on the Liechtenstein side.

Geology
Eschnerberg is an inselberg, formed by the former Rhine Glacier, being an extension of the Walserkamm. It is part of the a part of the Rhenodanubic Flyschzone, called Voralberger Flysch, of which the neighboring Bregenz Forest Mountains consist, too. For though this classification is orographically and geographically correct, it is classified as part of the Rätikon by the AVE (1984), due to its location south to the River Ill.

History
This mountain was one of the earliest settled places in Rhine valley (Rössen culture, since 4400 ACN [Neolitics]), artefacts were found in the archeological site of Borscht, close to Schellenberg.

The name Schellenberg is due to the reign of the Schellenberger (see also: Lordship of Schellenberg), nonetheless most Liechtensteiner use the historical term Eschnerberg. The family of Schellenberg named the village of Schellenberg and erected two castles on the mountain Neu-Schellenberg [Obere Burg] (1200) and Alt-Schellenberg [Untere Burg] (1250). The names are given during the excavation in the 1960s, when the archeologes were convinced that the upper site would be the younger one, thus naming it Neu Schellenberg. The equivocation was discovered by the archeologe Jakob Bill in 1980, who additionally found out that they were named the other way round on historical maps and chronicles, also stating that both castles were ruins. They were used as quarrels during the 19th century. Nowadays they belong to the historical society.

Hiking
There is a hiking path over the Eschnerberg, along which information templates are placed informing about the castles and the history of the region.

References

Geography of Liechtenstein


The Ponte di Pioraco is a Roman bridge in Pioraco, central Italy, presumably erected under emperor Augustus (r. 30 BC–14 AD).

It belonged to a branch road of the Via Flaminia, which ran from Nocera Umbra to the east through Pioraco, San Severino, Treia and Osimo to Ancona. The structure has a single arch vault. At one end a small segmental arch springs from the ground to the quarter point of the main arch; it worked as a floodway. The Ponte del Gran Caso, which is also located in central Italy, features a similar design.

See also
 List of Roman bridges
 Roman architecture
 Roman engineering

References

Sources

External links

Picture of the bridge

Roman bridges in Italy
Deck arch bridges
Stone bridges in Italy
Buildings and structures in the Province of Macerata
Transport in le Marche


"Move" is the second single released by American rapper/producer Q-Tip from his album The Renaissance. Produced by J Dilla, it samples "Dancing Machine" by The Jackson 5.

Music video
The video for this single premiered on BET's 106 & Park on November 4, 2008.  Q-Tip appeared on the show and discussed the release date of his album. The video borrows from Michael Jackson's "Rock with You" video. It was directed by Rik Cordero.

External links

 Q-Tip — official site.
 Q-Tip at MySpace.

Q-Tip (musician) songs
2008 singles
Song recordings produced by J Dilla
Songs written by Dean Parks
Songs written by Q-Tip (musician)
Songs written by Hal Davis
2008 songs
Universal Motown Records singles


György Kárpáti (23 June 1935 – 17 June 2020)  was a Hungarian water polo player who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics,  1956 Summer Olympics, 1960 Summer Olympics, and 1964 Summer Olympics. He is one of eight male athletes who won four or more Olympic medals in water polo, and one of ten male athletes who won three Olympic gold medals in water polo.

Career
Kárpáti was born in Budapest, and was a member of the Hungarian team which won the gold medal in the 1952 tournament. He played five matches and scored four goals.

Four years later he was a member of the Hungarian team which won again the gold medal in the 1956 Olympic tournament. He played six matches and scored at least six goals (not all scorers are known).

At the 1960 Games he won the bronze medal with the Hungarian team. He played four matches and scored five goals.

His last Olympic tournament was in Tokyo 1964 where he won his third gold medal. He played six matches and scored four goals for the Hungarian team.

Kárpáti studied and gained a degree in law, but he never practised it, he also got a degree in coaching in 1964, which he used when he was assistant coach to Dezső Gyarmati for the national team between 1970-80. Their main success was winning the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

In 1982, Kárpáti was elected in to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, and from 1994 he became a member of the Association of Immortal Hungarian Athletes.

Death
After a long illness Kárpáti died on 17 June 2020, aged 84 years. He was buried in the Farkasréti Cemetery on 2 July 2020.

Personal life
György was born Jewish. He was a great friend of the former water polo player and distinguished Italian actor Bud Spencer.

See also
 Hungary men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
 List of multiple Olympic medalists in one event
 List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event
 List of Olympic champions in men's water polo
 List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
 List of players who have appeared in multiple men's Olympic water polo tournaments
 List of members of the International Swimming Hall of Fame
 List of select Jewish water polo players
 Blood in the Water match

References

External links

1935 births
2020 deaths
Water polo players from Budapest
Hungarian male water polo players
Olympic water polo players for Hungary
Water polo players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Water polo players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
Olympic medalists in water polo
Hungarian Jews
Jewish water polo players
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Hungarian water polo coaches
Burials at Farkasréti Cemetery


Arthur Emmett (1869 – 12 November 1935) was an English cricketer. He was the third of six children of Tom Emmett and Grace Emmett.

Emmett was a medium pace bowler who played three first-class matches for Leicestershire County Cricket Club during the 1902 English cricket season. He returned his best figures of 3/48 against London County at Aylestone Road, Leicester, where his victims included the former Australian captain, Billy Murdoch. His third and final appearance was at Lord's against the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Emmett's father, Tom, captained Yorkshire between 1878 and 1882, and played seven Test matches for England, including the inaugural Test match in 1877.

He died on 12 November 1935 in Evington, Leicestershire.

References

1869 births
1935 deaths
English cricketers
Leicestershire cricketers
Place of birth missing


Julien Noël Costantin (16 August 1857 – 17 November 1936) was a French botanist and mycologist who was a native of Paris.

He studied at École Normale Supérieure on the Rue d'Ulm. In 1881 he received his license in natural history and two years later earned his doctorate. In 1883 he was appointed adjunct professor at Bordeaux, and through influence from Philippe Van Tieghem (1839-1914), became an assistant naturalist at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle shortly afterwards.

In 1887 Costantin became a lecturer of botany at Ecole Normale Superieure. In 1901 he succeeded Marie Maxime Cornu (1843-1901) as chair of horticulture at the museum of natural history. Along with these duties, he taught classes at the École nationale d’horticulture in Versailles and at the École supérieure coloniale in Nogent-sur-Marne. In 1912 he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Costantin defended Lamarckian evolution until his death in 1936.

Publications
 Atlas en couleurs des orchidées cultivées (E. Orlhac, Paris) – Color atlas of cultivated orchids.
 Les Mucédinées simples. Histoire, classification, culture et rôle des champignons inférieurs dans les maladies des végétaux et des animaux (P. Klincksieck, Paris, 1888).
 Nouvelle flore des champignons, pour la détermination facile de toutes les espèces de France et de la plupart des espèces européennes (P. Dupont, Paris, 1891, re-edited in 1895, 1904, 1967 et 1997) — In the series of "Nouvelle Flore" by Gaston Bonnier (1851-1922) and Georges de Layens (1834-1897).
 Atlas des champignons comestibles et vénéneux (P. Dupont, Paris, 1895) – Atlas of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
 Petite flore des champignons comestibles et vénéneux, pour la détermination rapide des principales espèces de France (P. Dupont, Paris, 1895). with Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1862-1942),
 Les végétaux et les milieux cosmiques (F. Alcan, Paris, 1898).
 Le Mythe du chêne marin (E. Leroux, Paris, 1899).
 La nature tropicale (F. Alcan, Paris, 1899).
 L'Hérédité acquise, ses conséquences horticoles, agricoles et médicales (Durand, Chartres, 1901) – Acquired heredity, its horticultural, agricultural and medical consequences.
 Le transformisme appliqué à l'agriculture (F. Alcan, Paris, 1906) – Transformism applied to agriculture.
 La Vie des orchidées (Flammarion, Paris, 1917).
 Éléments de botanique with Philippe Van Tieghem (1839-1914) (Masson, Paris, 1918).
 Atlas des orchidées cultivées (Paris, 1927) – Atlas of cultivated orchids.

References
 Philippe Jaussaud & Édouard R. Brygoo, Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de Paris, 2004, 630 p.

1857 births
1936 deaths
19th-century French botanists
French mycologists
Lamarckism
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Scientists from Paris
20th-century French botanists


The  is a commuter railway line in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Izuhakone Railway. The line connects Odawara Station in the city of Odawara with the Daiyūzan Station in the city of Minamiashigara.

Stations

Rolling stock

, the line is operated using a fleet of seven three-car 5000 series electric multiple unit (EMU) trainsets.

History
The line opened on October 15, 1925, as the Daiyūzan Railway, between  and Daiyūzan Station, with a track gauge of  and an overhead power supply of 600 V. The terminus of the line was moved from Kari-Odawara to , close to the present-day Midorichō Station on April 10, 1927, and finally to Odawara Station on June 16, 1935. The Daiyūzan Line was merged with the Sunzu Line on August 23, 1941, and became part of the Izuhakone Railway from June 1, 1957. From November 25, 1976, the power rating on the line was raised from 600 volts to 1,500 volts. Automatic ticket gates were installed on all stations by 2003, and were upgraded to accept both the Suica and PASMO IC Card systems by March 2007.

See also
 List of railway lines in Japan

References

 Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008).

External links

Railway lines in Kanagawa Prefecture

Izuhakone Railway
Railway lines opened in 1925
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
1925 establishments in Japan