Leanne Rowe (born 1982) is an English actress and singer, known for portraying Nancy in Oliver Twist, May Moss in Lilies and Baby in Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage.

Background
Rowe is from Brentwood, Essex. She has two older sisters and a brother.

Rowe left school at the age of 16 to train as a dancer, attending Laine Theatre Arts. She graduated at the age of 19 with honours in musical theatre. Rowe also studied Drama, and after graduating, chose to pursue a career in acting instead of dance.

Career
Rowe made her film and professional debut at the age of 12, playing Helen Burns in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre. In 2005 she was chosen by Roman Polanski to play Nancy in his adaptation of Oliver Twist. Her television credits include Boudica, The Famous Five and Where the Heart Is. She also played the lead role of May Moss in the Liverpool-set BBC One drama Lilies.

Rowe's radio drama work includes Avoid London, Loving, Forget Me Not, One Chord Wonders, Roald Dahl's The Witches and To Sir with Love.

Rowe made her West End debut in Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage, playing the lead role of Frances 'Baby' Houseman. In 2009 she appeared in the revival of Victoria Wood's Talent at the Menier Chocolate Factory, playing Julie.

Filmography

Television

Film

Theatre

References

External links

People from Brentwood, Essex
English television actresses
English musical theatre actresses
English film actresses
English radio actresses
1982 births
Living people
Actresses from Essex


Shape waves are excitations propagating along Josephson vortices or fluxons. In the case of two-dimensional Josephson junctions (thick long Josephson junctions with an extra dimension) described by the 2D sine-Gordon equation, shape waves are distortions of a Josephson vortex line of an arbitrary profile. Shape waves have remarkable properties exhibiting Lorentz contraction and time dilation similar to that in special relativity. Position of the shape wave excitation on a Josephson vortex acts like a “minute-hand” showing the time in the rest-frame associated with the vortex. At some conditions, a moving vortex with the shape excitation can have less energy than the same vortex without it.

References

Waves


Psychemedics Corporation is a United States corporation which provides patented, FDA-cleared, CAP certified clinical laboratory services for the detection of drugs of abuse. The company's corporate headquarters are located in Acton, Massachusetts and its laboratory operations are located in Culver City, California.

Technology
Dr. Werner Baumgartner was responsible for founding Psychemedics and spearheading its initial research. A nationally recognized expert on drug testing through hair samples, Dr. Baumgartner gained acclaim by procuring some strands of hair from the 19th-century poet John Keats. Despite the age of the hair, Baumgartner was able to detect that the poet, who died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis, had been taking an increasing amount of opium before his death, most likely used in painkillers. Dr. Baumgartner's find created a minor sensation, enough to warrant a mention in a 1985 Time magazine cover story about drugs in the workplace.

After years of research proved that drugs deposited in the hair can be accurately measured, the company was formed in 1987 and pioneered the use of hair testing in commercial markets including banks, manufacturers, retailers, mining operations, hotels and casinos. The technology capitalizes on the way the body metabolizes ingested drugs as they flow through the blood stream and deposit in the cortex of the hair. Hair is stable and the deposits are permanently embedded in the hair, so hair acts like a tape recorder — “recording” drug deposits in proportion to use over time as drugs are deposited in proportion to use. Hair grows at approximately the rate of ½ an inch per month and takes about 5 days to grow out past the external layer of skin. Psychemedics’ standard test uses a 1 ½ inch sample of head hair, which provides an approximate 3 month history of drug use. Body hair can also be collected if head hair is not available.

Psychemedics hair tests are available in Brazil through the company's independent distributor, Psychemedics Brazil. The partnership goes back over 15 years and the drug tests are provided at clinics throughout Brazil, and then shipped to the lab in Culver City, California for analysis.

Hair testing analyzes the hair shaft, rather than body fluids like urine or saliva, to determine whether illegal drugs are present. Compared to analysis of body fluids, hair testing is highly resistant to evasion by adulterating or substituting samples, or by simply abstaining from drug use for a few days. Though Psychemedics previously used a proprietary radio immunoassay (RIA) method, they have since switched to the industry-standard enzyme immunoassay screening method, which has been successfully employed for years by competitors such as Quest Diagnostics. They use GC/MS/MS or LC/MS/MS confirmation to measure the drug molecules and metabolites within the hair which were incorporated following ingestion.

The Psychemedics technology includes tests for cocaine, marijuana, opiates (including heroin and oxycodone), methamphetamine, Ecstasy (MDMA), Eve (MDEA) and phencyclidine (PCP).  A standard test of approximately one-and-one-half inches of head hair cut close to the scalp can provide a several month window to detect drug ingestion.

In 2013, Psychemedics Corporation began offering hair based alcohol Ethyl glucuronide testing. This testing was previously attempted by laboratories in the United Kingdom, but has suffered from numerous lawsuits. Due to the concerns of legal risk, few laboratories offer this type of testing anymore, as they deem it unreliable and unsupportable. The Society of Hair Testing also notes the limitations of EtG, stating that this form of testing can determine "chronic excessive alcohol consumption only. This consensus is not applicable for determination of abstinence from alcohol or moderate consumption of alcohol." SoFT also states that "It is not advisable to use the results of the hair testing for alcohol markers in isolation," supporting the belief that additional testing evidence is required to properly identify an individual's alcohol usage. As such, this form of testing is only applicable for scenarios where severe alcohol abuse is present.

The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has cautioned that the test is "scientifically unsupportable as the sole basis for legal or disciplinary action" because the highly sensitive tests "are not able to distinguish between alcohol absorbed into the body from exposure to many common commercial and household products containing alcohol or from the actual consumption of alcohol."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not granted FDA clearance to the Psychemedics Corporation for their EtG Alcohol test at this time, which brings the accuracy of this test into question.

Controversies
In May, 2014, it was announced that The Psychemedics Corporation would be providing hair testing services to three private Cleveland-area schools. Journalists quickly noted a severe conflict of interest, as James Kubacki, Principal of St. Edward's High School, is the brother of Raymond Kubacki, CEO of The Psychemedics Corporation. The Plain Dealer noted that this fact was not disclosed to parents, revealing that it "wasn't stated at the institution-wide meetings to discuss with students their soon-to-be-curtailed privacy."

This is not the first time that The Psychemedics Corporation has been scrutinized for questionable business tactics, having previously hired the high ranking employees of their clients. "Dr. George Elder, a principal for decades, says he instituted drug testing for all students and faculty members at his school. Now he's Psychemedics vice president and pitchman."

Hair Testing History
 1858: Hoppe-Seyler publishes report finding arsenic in the hair in an 11-year old buried body.
 1978: Dr. Werner Baumgartner, PhD develops a radioimmunological(RIA)method for detecting drug use from hair specimens.
 1987: Psychemedics begins offering services commercially

References

External links
Corporate web site
Retail PDT90 Product web site
School Drug Testing Services web site

Companies based in Massachusetts
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Drug testing


Práxedis G. Guerrero is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Práxedis G. Guerrero, Chihuahua. The municipality covers an area of 808.97 km² and stands on the US border close to Ciudad Juárez.

Name
The municipality's name was given to it by the State Congress in December 1933, to honor the Revolutionary leader Práxedis G. Guerrero, who was killed in action in Janos, Chihuahua, on 30 December 1910. It was previously known as San Ignacio.

History

Demographics

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 4,799, dramatically down from 8,514 as of 2005.

As of 2010, the town of Práxedis G. Guerrero had a population of 2,128. Other than the town of Práxedis G. Guerrero, the municipality had 85 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 population in parentheses) was: El Porvenir (1,253), classified as rural.

Práxedis G. Guerrero has a very low population that rarely grows. In fact, much of the population, above all those of school age, leave for nearby Ciudad Juárez, due to the higher level of economic activity there.

Geography

Towns and villages
The municipality has 27 localities. The largest are:

Adjacent municipalities and counties
 Guadalupe Municipality - east, south, and west
 Hudspeth County, Texas - north and northeast

Climate and ecology
The climate is extremely arid, with very high temperatures in the summer and very low temperatures in the winter, with extreme recorded temperatures of 43°C and -23°C. It has very low levels of precipitation.

Its flora are plants typical of the desert, and its fauna includes species such as the puma and the coyote.

Politics

Municipal presidents
1998–2001: Diego Javier Cedillos Aguirre
2001–2004: Rafael Carreón González
2004–2007: Juvenal Rodela Campos

In 2010 20-year-old Marisol Valles García, a criminology student, became the municipality's main chief of police. As of that year the police department consisted of 13 members, mostly women, who are unarmed.

References

Municipalities of Chihuahua (state)
Chihuahua (state) populated places on the Rio Grande


The 2001–02 Asian Cup Winners' Cup was the final season of association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation specifically for its members cup holders.

First round

West Asia

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1 Al Salmiya withdrew.

East Asia

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1 Negombo Youth SC withdrew.
2 Công am were drawn against the representatives of Pakistan, but the Pakistani FA did not send a team.

Second round

West Asia

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East Asia

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Quarterfinals

West Asia

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East Asia

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Semifinals

Third place match

Final

References
Asian Cup Winners Cup 2002

Asian Cup Winners' Cup
2001 in Asian football
2002 in Asian football


Günther Schwab (7 October 1904 in Prague – 12 April 2006 in Salzburg, Austria) was an Austrian writer and author, and member of the Nazi party. He founded the World Union for Protection of Life.

Early life
After the First World War his family, who were merchants, moved to Vienna, Austria, where Schwab discovered his love for nature. In Vienna, he joined NSDAP (Nazi Party) as well as Sturmabteilung (SA or Brownshirts) in which he was a lieutenant from 1930.

As an editor of Lebenschutz (Protection of Life), he has been repeatedly accused of racism.

Through Prof. Dr. Günther Schlesinger, an Austrian Nature Protection Referent, Günther Schwab got more involved with nature protection. He studied in those years, as expected of the family, at the commercial academy, but due to his love for nature he soon became a forest ranger.

Environment and literature
His first book Abenteuer am Fluss (Adventures At The River), published by Franz-Eher-Verlag, the Central publishing house of the Nazi party, was proof of his love. as were all his following books Der Wind über den Feldern (The wind across the fields), Kamerad mit dem haarigen Gesicht (A story about a dog), Land voller Grande (Land of grace), Das Glück am Rand (Fortune at the edge).

In 1951, he gave up his profession, moved to Salzburg and dedicated his life to writing. He realised that the new upcoming 1950s affluent society threatened to destroy all that he loved: the countryside with all its inhabitants, the solitude of the wilderness, the wildlife as he knew it up to then. Günther Schwab proved to be almost clairvoyant when, at the age of 50, he held a lecture with the title "The catastrophe has started already", at the Audi Max in Vienna in 1954.

The Dance with the Devil
To explain his fears more plainly and understandably for the man in the street, Günther Schwab wrote his book Der Tanz mit dem Teufel (The dance with the devil). It reads like a subtle, interesting detective story, which he finished in 1958. The theme was mankind's industrial sins causing environmental damage in condemning many Americans as degenerates. The book prophesied that improperly-managed population sizes from other continents would avalanche Europe. This was an effort to renew Social Darwinism and eugenics theories. The English translation was published in 1963.

Film
 The Forester of the Silver Wood (1954)

Society
Schwab was a member of the Nazi party and during his life would serve on the advisory panel of the Society for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics, and Behavior Research.

Awards
Günther Schwab reached 100 years of age in 2004 when he received the Cup of Honour of Salzburg and the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class. He died on 12 April 2006.

Selected Literature

 Schwab, Günther. Dance with the devil. A dramatic encounter.  Geoffrey Bles, London 1963.

References

External links

1904 births
2006 deaths
Writers from Prague
German-language writers
Austrian male writers
Austrian Nazis
Austrian centenarians
Men centenarians
Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class


Charles Edwin Kaulbach (July 13, 1834 – May 25, 1907) was a merchant, ship owner and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Lunenburg in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1882, from 1883 to 1887 and from 1891 to 1904 as a Conservative member.

Early life and education
He was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the son of John H. Kaulbach, who was high sheriff for Lunenburg, and Sophia Fredericka Newman. He was educated in Lunenburg.

Career
Kaulbach was a lieutenant-colonel in the militia and also served as high sheriff for Lunenburg. He was also a director of the Lunenburg Marine Insurance Company. He was defeated in the 1882 general election but won a subsequent by-election held in 1883 after the election results were appealed. Kaulbach was defeated in bids for reelection in 1887 and 1904. He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia at the age of 72.

Personal life
His older brother Henry served in the provincial assembly and the Senate of Canada.

Electoral record

References

1834 births
1907 deaths
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia


Kenneth L. Kantor is an audio designer and businessman who co-founded the Now Hear This (NHT) speaker company.

Psychoacoustics (the human perception of sound) were of particular interest to Kantor, and this became the underpinnings of much of the design work he has done for several companies.

Career
After graduating from MIT with degrees Electrical Engineering and Media Technology, Kantor joined NAD in London.  After this, he returned to the U.S. to head up the Research Department at Teledyne Acoustic Research and began a long career in audio, loudspeakers and acoustics. In 1986 Kantor co-founded and became executive vice president of Now Hear This (NHT), a successful speaker company, based on "Focused Image Geometry", a fundamental new psycho-acoustic technology.  He played a key role in formulation of the business, marketing and product development efforts.  Other designs include the SuperZero, the first affordable, high end bookshelf speaker according to Stereophile; the industry's first complete, matched home theater system; and a patent for in-ceiling loudspeakers that dramatically improved off-axis frequency response.  In 1990 NHT was sold to International Jensen, where Kantor was promoted to Vice President of Technology.

Kantor co-founded Tympany Corporation and founded ZT Amplifiers, a musical instrument amplifier company. ZT uses proprietary DSP and amplifier technologies in a product line it imports from China.

References

http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/232/
http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/nht_a20.htm
http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/1293nht/
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/08/71480
http://www.onhifi.com/product/nht_m00.htm
Ken Kantor, "DSP In Audio Technology: The Promise, Reality and Future of Digital Signal Processing." Audio Magazine, Dec 1996.
Ken Kantor, "50 Years of Loudspeakers." Audio Magazine, May 1997.

External links
kenkantor.com - official personal site
ztamplifiers.com
tymphany.com
nhthifi.com - Now Hear This official site
acoustic-research.com - Acoustic Research official site
Ken Kantor Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2013)

American acoustical engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Malikah may refer to:

Malik
Malikah, Yemen
Malikah or Al-Nadirah, princess of Hatra

See also
Malik (disambiguation)


Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Zeitz-Hoym (Bernburg, 28 June 1669 – Bad Ems, 17 May 1727), was a German prince of the House of Ascania.

The second son of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg and Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, he married Charlotte of Nassau-Schaumburg, heiress to the County of Holzappel and Lordship of Schaumburg and founded a cadet branch of the House of Anhalt-Bernburg later named Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym.

Life
Lebrecht was born on 28 June 1669 in Bernburg as the second son of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg by his wife Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, daughter of Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken.

Excluded from the government of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg after the introduction of primogeniture, Lebrecht acquired in 1707 the towns of Belleben, Hoym, Reinstedt, and Frose as compensation. When his father died in 1718, Lebrecht also inherited the town of Zeitz.

Marriages and issue

First marriage
By a contract made on 1 September 1690 between his father and Elisabeth Charlotte Melander, Countess of Holzappel, Lebrecht was betrothed to Charlotte (b. Schaumburg, 28 September 1673 – d. Bernburg, 31 January 1700), the youngest of the three surviving daughters of the Countess with her late husband, Adolph, Prince of Nassau-Schaumburg. Under the terms of that contract, Charlotte was declared the sole heiress of the County of Holzappel (which included the towns of Holzappel and Charlottenberg) and the Lordship of Schaumburg. The marriage was performed in Schaumburg on 12 April 1692. They had five children:
Victor I Amadeus Adolph, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (b. Schaumburg, 7 September 1693 – d. Schaumburg, 15 April 1772).
Frederick William (b. Schaumburg, 12 April 1695 – killed in action at Denain, 24 July 1712).
Elisabeth Charlotte (b. Bernburg, 4 December 1696 – d. Schaumburg, 14 June 1754).
Christian (b. Bernburg, 27 November 1698 – killed in action at Palermo, 29 April 1720).
Victoria Hedwig (b. Bernburg, 30 January 1700 – d. Schaumburg, 10 February 1701).

Charlotte died in 1700, before the death of her mother, Elisabeth Charlotte of Holzappel-Schaumburg, making her eldest son Victor the heir apparent of Holzappel and Schaumburg. When Countess Elisabeth Charlotte died in 1707, Victor Amadeus Adolph succeeded her as Count of Holzappel and Schaumburg.

Second marriage
A widower, Lebrecht was serving in the Netherlands when he fell in love with Baroness Eberhardine Jacobine Wilhelmine of Weede (b. Grave, 9 August 1685 – d. Grave, 13 February 1724), daughter of Baron Johann Georg von Weede, Governor of Grave (created a Baron by the Emperor in 1675; a Protestant himself, but married to a Catholic noblewoman Agnes Margaretha von Raesfeld, who raised their daughter in that religion). The couple was married in Grave on 27 June 1702. They had six children:
Victoria Sophie (b. Zeitz, 10 January 1704 – d. Zeitz, 18 May 1704).
Charlotte Wilhelmine (b. Schaumburg, 24 November 1704 – d. Barchfeld, 11 November 1766), married on 31 October 1724 to William, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld.
John George (b. Zeitz, 30 October 1705 – d. Zeitz, 18 May 1707).
Joseph Karl (b. Zeitz, 26 December 1706 – d. Zeitz, 18 February 1737).
Sophie Christine Eberhardine (b. Zeitz, 6 February 1710 – d. Neustadt an der Orla, 26 October 1784), married on 10 November 1728 to Christian, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, son of Christian William I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
Victor Lebrecht (b. Zeitz, 7 November 1711 – d. Zeitz, 5 December 1737).

By contract of 23 February 1703, Lebrecht explained that after the death of his wife he wished not to remarry, so as not to diminish the possessions of the House of Anhalt through further partitions; but he found a way to reconcile his conscience with this intention by marrying a person who only looked for companionship in marriage and had no desire for princely rank. Remarriages with persons of unequal rank after a first equal marriage leaving posterity were not unusual in Germany, and under these conditions he obtained the consent of his father to this union.

The contract, signed by a notary and two witnesses, specified that the Baroness of Weede would not usurp the rank of princess or seek to be raised to that rank but would remain a baroness under the name of "Baroness of Bähringen," and never use the name, title, or arms of Anhalt for herself. A sum of 45,000 Thalers was set for her upkeep and that of her children, which would be used to purchase a suitable estate. Should she die without heirs, or at the extinction of her issue, the sum or the estate purchased with it would be returned to her husband and his heirs.

This contract notwithstanding, Lebrecht sought and obtained from the Emperor her elevation to the rank of Countess with the style of "Hoch- und Wohlgebohren" and new arms (1 August 1705). Lebrecht's father fought in vain to have this elevation reversed.

After the death of Lebrecht, the two surviving sons from his marriage with the Countess of Weede obtained the Bailiwick of Zeitz, but both died unmarried and childless.

Third marriage
On 14 September 1725 Lebrecht married for a third time and again morganatically to Sophie Sibylla of Ingersleben (b. 18 March? 1684  – d. Hoym, 31 March 1726), a court lady at his court and daughter of Just Adam of Ingersleben, of an old and well-established Anhalt nobility. Despite all the efforts of her husband, the Reichshofrat denied Sophie the right to the styles "princely" and "Durchlaucht". Lebrecht survived her by only fourteen months.

References

1669 births
1727 deaths
People from Bernburg
People from Anhalt-Bernburg
House of Ascania


The Eye of the Storm is a 1970 American television documentary featuring schoolteacher Jane Elliott conducting her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise in discrimination, in her third-grade classroom at Riceville Elementary School in Riceville, Iowa. Riceville, a small town near the Minnesota border, is almost entirely white; in that context, young children had little understanding of the concept of discrimination. The documentary is narrated by Bill Beutel and directed by William Peters.

Premise
William Peters follows Jane Elliott's  schoolroom exercise, conducted over two consecutive days, during which an otherwise homogenous group of elementary school kids was divided by their eye color. On the first day, members of one group were favored and thus received deferential, even preferential, treatment all day. Meanwhile, the members of the other group were disfavored; their treatment was a reflection of that. On the second day, the roles were reversed.

Follow-up
This documentary was followed up with "A Class Divided", a 1985 Frontline episode in which The Eye of the Storm is shown to the original participating students—now adults 15 years later—and Elliott is given a chance to find out how much of the lesson her students retained.

References

External links

1970 films
American documentary television films
1970s short documentary films
Documentary films about racism
Peabody Award-winning broadcasts
Documentary films about psychology
1970s English-language films
1970s American films


Tupolev TB-6 (internal designation ANT-26; ) was a proposal by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1930s for a super-heavy bomber.  Had it been built, it would have been the biggest-ever Soviet bomber and the largest aircraft by wingspan of its time, nine feet short of the 320 foot span of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, although the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch is now the biggest plane by wingspan.

Development

While undertaking development of the Tupolev ANT-16 and ANT-20/PS-124, Tupolev began work in 1931 on an even larger bomber aircraft, powered by 12 engines and with a takeoff weight of . The resulting ANT-26 design was to have 12 Mikulin M-34FRN engines, eight on the leading edge of the wing and four in two tandem pairs above the wings. The tail empennage would have had three vertical stabilizers on the tailplane, the center vertical stabilizer taller than the others. An alternative TB-6 design featured a bomber aircraft with six Mikulin M-44 engines and a single rudder.

Given the sheer size of the TB-6, Tupolev decided to build a sub-scale aircraft to test the flight behavior of the TB-6. The subscale model flew in 1935, piloted by B.N. Koodrin. However, by the mid-1930s the trend in military aviation shifted towards smaller and faster aircraft and the TB-6 was cancelled, by which time the airframe was 75 percent complete and the entire aircraft 16 percent complete.

ANT-28

In parallel with design of the ANT-26, the Tupolev Design bureau envisaged a vastly scaled-up ANT-20 with the same dimensions as the ANT-26 under the internal designation ANT-28 It was intended as an airliner and cargo plane with a maximum payload of 15,000 kg and a range of 1,500 km, and the arrangement of the engines was the same as for the TB-6. Like the TB-6, the ANT-28 never progressed past the drawing board.

Specifications (TB-6 estimated)

References

Duffy, Paul and Andrei Kankdalov. (1996) Tupolev The Man and His aircraft. Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers.

TB-6
Twelve-engined push-pull aircraft
Abandoned military aircraft projects of the Soviet Union


Pinchas ("Pini") Ben-Porat (; October 10, 1914 - July 27, 1955) was one of Israel's first aviators. He was involved in the Palavir, Sherut Avir, the IAF's 101 Squadron, and EL AL.

History

Pinchas Ben-Porat was born in Krevoe Ozero, a small shtetl (Jewish village) in Ukraine. He was born Pinchas Anchipolovsky.

Pinchas Ben-Porat earned his flying license at the Aviron flying school, Israel's flying school before the establishment of the State of Israel. After acquiring 150 hours of flying time, he became the commander for Palmach's air platoon, the Palavir, in January 1944. The Palmach later sent him for further training in England, where he earned a commercial flying license.

Ben-Porat returned to Palestine in 1947 and joined the Sherut Avir. On December 17, 1947, Ben-Porat was assigned a support role to Nevatim, a Jewish settlement in the Negev desert. When Nevatim came under attack by Arab irregulars, Ben-Porat flew an RWD 13 or Auster to Nevatim. Upon arriving, he removed the right door of the plane and set up a Bren gun and gunner with several hand grenades. Ben-Porat and his gunner flew a half-hour of close air support. The tactic was emulated by many Jewish pilots and crew in the 1947–1949 Palestine war.

On May 9, 1948, Ben-Porat was one of ten pilots who left Israel to enroll in Avia S-199 training in Czechoslovakia. He broke his arm crash-landing an S-199 and flew transports during the first truce of the 1947–1949 Palestine war. After the war he flew B-17s with 69 Squadron, which he eventually went on to command.

After the war, Ben-Porat was the first Israeli instructor in the Israeli Air Force flight academy. After a further tour flying B-17s, he left the military in 1950 and joined the Israeli state-owned commercial airline, El Al. On July 27, 1955, while co-pilot on El Al Flight 402, he was shot down by the Bulgarian Air Force; all on board were killed.

References

External links
Pinchas Ben-Porat, 101 Squadron Pilots

1914 births
1955 deaths
Israeli Air Force personnel
Israeli military aviators
Bomber pilots
Palmach members
Ukrainian Jews
20th-century Israeli Jews
Aviators killed by being shot down
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Bulgaria
Victims of aircraft shootdowns
Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine


A4V may refer to:

 A4V mutation, which causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
 Acceptance for value or Accepted for value, a scam based on a phony payment method promoted in the redemption movement


Riva Palacio is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at San Andrés. Riva Palacio has an area of 808.97 km².

As of 2010, it had a  of 8,012, up from 7,811 as of 2005.

The municipality had 155 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.

The municipality's name is in honour of Vicente Riva Palacio.

Geography

Towns and villages
Riva Palacio has 98 localities. The largest are:

References

Municipalities of Chihuahua (state)


Siegfried Mehnert (born 3 March 1963 in Schenkenberg, Delitzsch, Bezirk Leipzig) is a former amateur boxer from East Germany. He is best known for twice winning the European title (1985 and 1989) in the men's welterweight (– 67 kg) division.  He also competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

1988 Olympic results
Below is the Olympic record of Siegfried Mehnert, an East German welterweight boxer who competed at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul.

 Round of 64: defeated Jose Ortiz (Puerto Rico) by decision, 5–0
 Round of 32: defeated Abdellas Taouane (Morocco) by decision, 5–0
 Round of 16: lost to Song Kyung-Sup (South Korea) by decision, 2–3

References
sports-reference

1963 births
Living people
People from Delitzsch
People from Bezirk Leipzig
German male boxers
Welterweight boxers
Sportspeople from Saxony
Olympic boxers for East Germany
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver


The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages over  of forest, range, agricultural, and commercial lands in the U.S. state of Washington. The DNR also manages  of aquatic areas which include shorelines, tidelands, lands under Puget Sound and the coast, and navigable lakes and rivers. Part of the DNR's management responsibility includes monitoring of mining cleanup, environmental restoration, providing scientific information about earthquakes, landslides, and ecologically sensitive areas. DNR also works towards conservation, in the form of Aquatic Reserves such as Maury Island and in the form of Natural Area Preserves like Mima Mounds or Natural Resource Conservation Areas like Woodard Bay Natural Resource Conservation Area.

The Department was created in 1957 to manage state trust lands for the people of Washington. DNR management of state-owned forests, farms, rangeland, aquatic, and commercial lands generates more than $200 million in annual revenue for public schools, state institutions, and county services. DNR is also Washington's largest firefighting force, with more than 1,500 firefighters who control wildland fires for more than 13 million acres of private and state-owned forest lands.

The main sources of funds for the department's activities are forestry and geoduck harvesting, rather than taxes. In addition, the State uses revenue generated from DNR-managed lands to fund the construction of public schools, colleges, universities, and other government institutions, and county and state services.

Commissioner of Public Lands
The head of DNR is an elected constitutional officer known as "the Commissioner of Public Lands". Fourteen individuals have served the State of Washington as Commissioner of Public Lands, two of whom (Taylor and Case) served non-consecutive terms. Otto A. Case also served as Washington State Treasurer from 1933–1937 and 1941–1945. The Commissioner of Public Lands is seventh  in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Washington, immediately after the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The current Commissioner of Public Lands is Hilary Franz, who was elected on November 8, 2016.

Divisions
 Aquatic Resources
 Conservation, Recreation, and Transactions
 Engineering and General Services
 Financial Management
 Forest Practices
 Forest Resources
 Geology and Earth Resources (often abbreviated as "DGER")
 Human Resources
 Information Technology
 Product Sales and Leasing

Management of public lands

Aquatic reserves
The Department of Natural Resources has established aquatic reserves throughout the state to protect important native ecosystems on state-owned aquatic lands. Through its aquatic reserves, DNR promotes the preservation, restoration, and enhancement of state-owned aquatic lands that are of special educational, scientific, or environmental interest. Managing aquatic reserves does not affect private or other adjacent land ownership.

Law enforcement
DNR employs approximately 10 law enforcement officers who are located throughout the state. These officers patrol lands owned or managed by the DNR. DNR officers are full-authority law enforcement officers while they are on DNR lands. Under state law DNR officers are considered to be limited authority law enforcement officers since their state law enforcement authority is only applicable on lands owned by DNR. The majority of the county sheriffs in Washington have commissioned all of their local DNR officers as county deputies allowing them to act as a full authority law enforcement officer throughout the county, not only on DNR lands. DNR officers are dispatched by the Washington State Patrol.

Natural hazards
The DNR maintains a portal with natural hazard information for the public including tsunamis; landslides and earthquakes; volcanoes and lahars; and "mineral hazards" (asbestos, heavy metals and naturally occurring uranium, and radon gas) in the State of Washington.

References

External links

Natural Resources
State environmental protection agencies of the United States
Natural resources agencies in the United States


Uncial 0121b (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), it was named as Fragmentum Uffenbachianum, or Codex Ruber. It is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 10th-century. The manuscript is very lacunose.

Description

The codex contains parts of Hebrews 1:1-4:3; 12:20-13:25 on two parchment leaves (). The text is written in two columns per page, 45 lines per page, in small semi-uncial letters, in red ink (hence Codex Ruber). The accents and notes of aspiration are carefully marked, but the iota subscriptum does not occur anywhere. The Iota adscriptum occurs three times, ν εφελκυστικον is rare. The interrogative (;) occurs once (Heb 3:7), and the inverted comma (>) is often repeated to mark quotations.

The letters are a little unusual, small in form, and their character is between uncial and minuscule, and in the 19th century the codex was classified as a minuscule manuscript (catalogue number 53). Tregelles argued that they are more uncial by character, they are almost entirely separate, and sometimes joined in the same word. "They are certainly by no means cursive, in the common acceptation of the term". According to Scrivener they "can hardly be called semicursive". According to Günther Zuntz it is an uncial manuscript, its letters are that kind of uncial script, which scribes of the 10th and later centuries used.

The size is the same as in Uncial 0121a, the number of lines is almost the same, and characters of letters are similar, therefore they were originally described and classified as the same manuscript (f.e. F. H. A. Scrivener). They received catalogue number 0121 in the  Gregory-Aland system. Now after more accurate examination, they are unanimously considered to belong to different manuscripts.

Text
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the mixed text-type. Aland placed it in Category III.

It does not contain Hebrews verse 2:1. The omission is supported by minuscules 1739 and 1881

In Hebrews 2:9 it reads χωρὶς θεοῦ (apart from God) for χάριτι θεοῦ (by the grace of God). The reading of the codex is supported by 424c, 1739, mss, Peshitta, Origen, Theodore of Mopsuestia, St. Ambrose of Milan, St. Jerome, Fulgentius, Theodoret.

History

Currently it is dated by the INTF to the 10th-century.

The manuscript came from Italy. It once belonged to H. van der Merk. In 1712 it was in The Hague.

The manuscript once belonged to Conrad von Uffenbach (hence the name Fragmentum Uffenbachianum), then to J. C. Wolf, and after his death in 1739 to the Public Library of Hamburg. It was very imperfectly described by Maius, Wettstein, Griesbach, and Bengel. Tregelles collated its text twice. Constantin von Tischendorf edited its text in 1855 (with 5 errors) and in 1861 corrected these 5 errors.

The codex now is located in the University of Hamburg (Cod. 50), in Hamburg.

See also

 List of New Testament uncials
 Textual criticism
 Uncial 0243

References

Further reading

 Constantin von Tischendorf, Anecdota sacra et profana (Leipzig, 1861), pp. 177–205.
 J. Neville Birdsall, The Two Fragments of the Epistles designated M (0121), JTS XI (1960), pp. 336–338.

External links

 Robert Waltz, Uncial 0121a at the Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism

Greek New Testament uncials
10th-century biblical manuscripts


The 1995 Piedmontese regional election took place on 23 April 1995. For the first time, the president of Piedmont was directly elected by the people; the election was not yet binding and the president-elect could have been replaced during the term.

In an upset, Enzo Ghigo of  (FI) was elected president of the region, defeating Giuseppe Pichetto, an independent politician running for the country's centre-left coalition, and Domenico Comino of the  (Northern League) regional branch Lega Nord Piemont (Northern League Piedmont). FI, which was founded the year before by Silvio Berlusconi, formed the People's Pole joint list and became the largest party in the region with 26.7% of the vote, while the Democrats of the Left came second with 21.7%.

Electoral system
Regional elections in Piedmont were ruled by the Tatarella law, which was approved in 1995 and provided for a mixed electoral system. Four fifths of the regional councilors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation, using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while the residual votes and the unassigned seats were grouped into a single regional constituency, where the whole ratios and the highest remainders were divided with the Hare quota among the provincial party lists; one fifth of the council seats instead was reserved for regional lists and assigned with a majoritarian representation system, in which the leader of the regional list that scored the highest number of votes was elected to the presidency of the region, while the other candidates were elected regional councilors.

A threshold of 3% had been established for the provincial lists, which could still have entered the regional council if the regional list to which they were connected had scored at least 5% of valid votes. The panachage was also allowed; the voter can indicate a candidate for the presidency but prefer a provincial list connected to another candidate.

Parties and candidates

Results

Elections in Piedmont
1995 elections in Italy


Aviron Palestine Aviation Company was established in April, 1936 in Mandatory Palestine (now Israel). The company was intended to train pilots and then operate a mainly internal airline, which would serve the security needs of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine.

Name
Aviron is the word for airplane invented in 1908 either by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda or by his son Itamar Ben-Avi, the first native speaker of Modern Hebrew. In the second half of 20th century, it fell out of use in favour of matos, invented in 1928 by Hayim Nahman Bialik.

History
The Aviron airline company was established in 1936 by Dov Hoz and Yitzhak Ben Ya'akov, one of the first members of Degania, at the initiative of the Histadrut trade union association and the Jewish Agency. At its beginnings, Aviron was based in three kibbutzim in the northern Jordan Valley, with the flight school in the attic of the cowshed at Degania Alef, an improvised airstrip at Afikim, and a hangar at Ashdot Ya'akov. In 1938, Aviron opened a flight school and held its first graduation ceremony of fifteen Jewish pilots on 21 April 1939.

Two years previously, in 1934, Zionist officials who dealt with Jewish immigration from Poland obtained from David Ben-Gurion, who acted on behalf of the Jewish Agency, the money for buying a de Havilland Tiger Moth. The airplane arrived in October that year, flown by a British instructor-pilot.

During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Aviron assisted the Haganah in reconnaissance missions and the transfer of supplies and medical aid to otherwise inaccessible settlements.

Besides two teaching planes, the company operated two aircraft with three passenger seats and two with two passenger seats, offering a daily service between Lydda, Haifa and Tiberias.

Gallery

See also
Palavir, the air branch of the Palmach
Sherut Avir, the air branch of the Haganah, which took over Aviron's materiel in 1947-48
Israeli Air Force

References

Aviation in Israel
Defunct airlines of Israel


Rosalie Bertell (April 4, 1929 – June 14, 2012) was an American scientist, author, environmental activist, epidemiologist, and Catholic nun. Bertell was a sister of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart, best known for her work in the field of ionizing radiation. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, she worked in environmental health since 1970. In 1986, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "raising public awareness about the destruction of the biosphere and human gene pool, especially by low-level radiation."

Biography
Rosalie Bertell was born to Paul G. and Helen (née Twohey) Bertell in Buffalo, New York, the third of four children. Her mother was Canadian and her father was American. She had an older sister, Mary Katherine Bertell (1925–2011), and a younger brother, John Twohey Bertell (1930–2002). A third sibling, Paul W. Bertell died in infancy in 1921. In 1966, she received a Ph.D in Biometrics from the Catholic University of America. She received her BA in Math/Physics/Education from D'Youville College, and later was an associate professor of mathematics at D'Youville from 1969–1973.

From 1969 to 1978, Bertell was senior cancer research scientist at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. She was a consultant to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and to Health Canada.

In 1983, she received the "Hans-Adalbert Schweigart"-Medal from the World Union for Protection of Life. She was president of International Institute of Concern for Public Health from 1987 to 2004. She founded the International Medical Commission Chernobyl in 1996.

Bertell was a coordinator for the International Medical Commission on Bhopal, and campaigned for an independent body "to coordinate health care, research and rehabilitation" for victims of the Bhopal disaster.

Bertell's Nuclear Contamination Act was adopted April 2006, as World Legislative Act 35 by the 9th session of the Provisional World Parliament.

Death
In 2012, Bertell died of cancer at age 83 at Saint Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

Awards
Bertell received many awards, including:

 Hans-Adalbert-Schweigart-Medal (1983)
 Right Livelihood Award (1986)
 World Federalist Peace Award
 Ontario Premier's Council on Health, Health Innovator Award (1991)
 United Nations Environment Programme Global 500 award
 Seán MacBride International Peace Prize

Filmography
Bertell appeared in at least five documentary films between 1985 and 2005. They include:

Bibliography

She wrote the books No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth (1985) and Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War (2000).

See also
 Irradiation
 Chemtrail conspiracy theory
 Alice Stewart
 Helen Caldicott

Archives
There is a Rosalie Bertell fond at Library and Archives Canada. The archival reference number is R6847, former archival reference number MG31-K39. The fond covers the date range 1942 to 2001. It contains textual records, audio-visual material and graphic material.

References

External links
 International Institute of Concern for Public Health

1929 births
2012 deaths
20th-century American Roman Catholic nuns
21st-century American Roman Catholic nuns
Activists from Buffalo, New York
American conspiracy theorists
American epidemiologists
American expatriates in Canada
American people of Canadian descent
American women epidemiologists
Cancer researchers
Deaths from cancer in Pennsylvania
Radiation health effects researchers
Writers from Buffalo, New York


Ven Begamudré (born 1956) is a Canadian poet, short story writer and novelist. He was born in Bangalore, India and moved with his family to Canada when he was six. During his writing career, he has been a part of six writers-in-residence. He currently divides his time between western Canada and the island of Bali.

Personal profile

In his memoir, Extended Families: A Memoir of India, Begamudré traces the history on both sides of his family in India. It was nominated for a 2018 Saskatchewan Book Award for Regina Public Library "Book of the Year". His other works include children's books and poetry collections, including The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen From Afar, published in 2006. His collection of short stories Laterna Magika was shortlisted for the 1997 Saskatchewan Book Awards Fiction Prize and Saskatchewan Book Awards Book of the Year.

In addition to short stories and novels, Begamudré has written a biography of Isaac Brock for young adults, and has edited or co-edited several literary collections. He has completed six writer-in-residence appointments including the University of Calgary's Calgary Distinguished Writers Program, the University of Alberta's Department of English, the Canada-Scotland Exchange, Regina Public Library, McMaster University's Department of English, and the Yukon Public Libraries. He has also taught fiction workshops at the Sage Hill Writing Experience. Most recently he has been teaching at Iowa State University.

He has a degree in public administration from Carleton University and an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan and on the island of Bali.

Publications
His books include:
 Sacrifices, Porcupine's Quill (1986)
 A Planet of Eccentrics (short stories), Oolichan Books (1990)
 Van de Graaff Days, Oolichan Books (1993)
 Laterna Magika (short stories), Oolichan Books (1997)
 Isaac Brock: Larger than Life (children's biography), XYZ Pubs. (2000)
 The Phantom Queen (children's fantasy), Coteau Books (2002)
 The Lightness Which is Our World, Seen from Afar (poetry), Frontenac House (2006)

He has also edited Lodestone: Stories by Regina Writers and co-edited Out of Place: Stories and Poems.

Vishnu Dreams, his latest work of fiction (published 9/30/2008), combines Hindu mythology with the story of a family. Through the veil of Vishnu's unions with Lakshmi and his incarnation in the tale of Manu and the fish, the novel portrays a pair of siblings as they navigate 1960s North American culture under the weight of their emotionally abusive father and ambitious mother.

Awards
He has received the F.G. Bressani Literary Prize for Prose, the City of Regina Writing Award, and prizes from various literary magazines. His second story collection, Laterna Magika, shared the City of Regina Book Award and was a best book finalist in the Canada-Caribbean region for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

References

External links
 A review of "Van de Graaff Days" on South of the Border, West of the Sun (a blog)
 A review of "The Lightness Which Is Our World, Seen From Afar" by Marie Powell on PoetryReview Canada.

 Oolichan Books

People from Punjab, India
Canadian male novelists
Canadian male short story writers
21st-century Canadian poets
Carleton University alumni
1956 births
Living people
Writers from Regina, Saskatchewan
Canadian writers of Asian descent
Indian emigrants to Canada
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian male poets
20th-century Canadian short story writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers


Alf Lüdtke (18 October 1943, Dresden – 29 January 2019) (also Alf Luedtke) was a historian and a leading German representative of the history of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte in German). He said his main fields of interest and research include work as a social practice, the connection of production and destruction through "work", forms of taking part and acquiescing in European dictatorships in the 20th century, and remembering and memorialising forms of dealing with war and genocide in the modern era.

Life

Together with Hans Medick, Alf Lüdtke can be considered a founder of Alltagsgeschichte, a form of microhistory that was particularly prevalent amongst German historians during the 1980s.

Lüdtke studied history along with sociology and philosophy in Tübingen (1965-1972, MA 1974). In 1980 he obtained his doctorate at the University of Konstanz. Lüdtke's dissertation Gemeinwohl, Polizei und Festungspraxis analysed governmental violence practices of Prussia in the early 19th century. One of his articles, "The Role of State Violence in the Period of Transition to Industrial Capitalism: The Example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848", was published in Social History in 1979. His article describes the idea that state violence under the feudal system was necessary to create control amongst the Prussian working class in order to prepare them for the different structures of capitalist society. Lüdtke was interested in how the growth of the state and the growth of capitalism related to each other.

In 1988 he attained his habilitation in the fields of Modern History (Neuere Geschichte) and Contemporary History (Zeitgeschichte) at the faculty of the humanities and social science of the University of Hannover, where he subsequently taught history from 1989 to 1999. In 1995 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Hannover and 1999 professor at the University of Erfurt. In Erfurt, Lüdtke was an honorary professor of historical anthropology since 2008.
Since 1975 Lüdtke worked at the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen. In 1999 Alf Lüdtke and Hans Medick founded the Arbeitsstelle für Historische Anthropologie ('(off-site)-Departement of Historical Anthropology') of the Max Planck Institute for History at the University of Erfurt.

Since the 1980s, Lüdtke has kept regular contacts in France and the USA, among other things through the International Round Table of History and Anthropology. Since the beginning of the 1990s he regularly was guest professor at the historical seminar at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago. At the end of the 1990s first contacts with South Korea developed, which evolved into regular scholarly exchanges. Beginning in 2005, Lüdtke took part in the conferences on Mass Dictatorship at the Research Institute on Comparative Culture and History (RICH) in Seoul. From November 2008 to August 2013 he did seminars and workshops in South Korea as part of the "World Class University" program of the Korean National Research Foundation.

Since 2011 Lüdtke had been a member of the work group Erfurter RaumZeit-Forschung, since 2014 he had been a fellow at the Internationales Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg "Work and Life Cycle in Global Perspective" at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Lüdtke was the founder and editor of the journal Sozialwissenschaftliche Informationen, as well as co-founder and co-editor of the journals Werkstatt Geschichte and Historische Anthropologie. Kultur – Gesellschaft – Alltag.

Lüdtke combined issues of sociology, ethnology and anthropology with those of history. Especially through his research on the life worlds of industrial workers and so-called "ordinary" people, he gave impetuses to German and international historical science. His final research projects were: Blockings and Passages: the Grenzübergangsstellen [border checkpoints] of the GDR, war as work, and the recent state of transnational historiography.

Works (selection)

Monographs
 „Gemeinwohl“, Polizei und „Festungspraxis“. Innere Verwaltung und staatliche Gewaltsamkeit in Preußen, 1815-50. (revised dissertation.), Göttingen 1982. (Police and State in Prussia, 1815–1850. Cambridge, New York 1989)
 (Deutscher Textilarbeiterverband, Hauptvorstand/Arbeiterinnensekretariat:) Mein Arbeitstag, mein Wochenende; Arbeiterinnen berichten von ihrem Alltag [Berlin, o.J. (1930?)], A. L. (Ed., Introduction), Ergebnisse Verlag, Hamburg, 1991. facsimile.
 Eigen-Sinn. Fabrikalltag, Arbeitererfahrungen und Politik vom Kaiserreich bis in den Faschismus. Ergebnisse Verlag, Hamburg 1993 (10 essays).
 Contains among other things: Lohn, Pausen, Neckereien: ‚‘Eigensinn’ und Politik bei Fabrikarbeitern in Deutschland um 1900, (S. 120-160), Wo blieb die ‚rote Glut‘? Arbeitererfahrungen und deutscher Faschismus (S. 221-282), ‚Ehre der Arbeit‘; Industriearbeiter und die Macht der Symbole, Zur Reichweite symbolischer Orientierung im Nationalsozialismus (pp. 283-350) and the revised and extended inaugural lecture of 10 May 1989: Arbeit, Arbeitserfahrung und Arbeiterpolitik (pp. 351-440).
 Des ouvriers dans l’Allemagne du XXe siècle. Le quotidien des dictatures. Paris 2000.
 Publication of the „Aufschreibebuch“ of Paul Maik (worker in the cast steel factory of Krupp in Essen, 1919–1956), see also Alf Lüdtke: Writing Time – Using Space. The Notebook of a Worker at Krupp's Steel Mill – an Example from the 1920s, in: Historical Social Research (HSR) vol. 39 (2013), no. 3, pp. 216–228.

Collective volumes
 Alltagsgeschichte. Zur Rekonstruktion historischer Erfahrungen und Lebensweisen. Frankfurt, 1989 (Histoire du quotidien. Paris 1994. History of Everyday Life. Reconstructing historical experiences and ways of life. Princeton 1995. Ilsangsaran muotinga? Seoul 2002).
 Herrschaft als soziale Praxis. Historische und sozialanthropologische Studien. Göttingen 1991.
 Sicherheit und >Wohlfahrt<. Polizei, Gesellschaft und Herrschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt am Main 1992.
 Physische Gewalt. Studien zur Geschichte der Neuzeit. Frankfurt 1995 (with Thomas Lindenberger).
 Was bleibt von marxistischen Perspektiven in der Geschichtsforschung? Göttingen 1997.
 Akten, Eingaben, Schaufenster: Die DDR und ihre Texte. Erkundungen zu Herrschaft und Alltag. Berlin 1997 (with Peter Becker).
 Die DDR im Bild. Zum Gebrauch der Fotografie im anderen deutschen Staat. Göttingen 2004 (with Karin Hartewig).
 The No Man’s Land of Violence. Extreme Wars in the 20th Century. Göttingen 2006. (with Bernd Weisbrod).
 Staats-Gewalt: Ausnahmezustand und Sicherheitsregimes. Historische Perspektiven. Göttingen 2008 (with Michael Wildt).
 Everyday Life in Mass Dictatorship: Collusion and Evasion. Palgrave 2016.

References

External links

 Alf Lüdtke on the website of the University of Erfurt (with complete list of publications)

1943 births
2019 deaths
German male writers
Social historians
Academic staff of the University of Erfurt
Academic staff of the University of Hanover
University of Konstanz alumni
University of Tübingen alumni


Lists of U-boats cover U-boats, military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
 List of German U-boats
 List of U-boat types of Germany
 List of U-boat flotillas of Germany
 List of U-boats never deployed of World War II Germany
 Uncompleted U-boat projects of World War II Germany
 List of most successful German U-boats of Germany for kill tonnage in World War I and World War II
 Foreign U-boats of World War II Germany
 List of Austro-Hungarian U-boats

See also
 List of U-boat regions of Germany during World War II

Lists of submarines
German military-related lists
.U-boats list


In the National Football League, the team captain designation is a team-appointed position that designates certain players as leaders on and off the field. The captains program was implemented by the NFL Player Advisory Council established by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in conjunction with the NFL Players Association. Starting in , the league began permitting teams to name up to six players as captains.

Rules
NFL rule 18 details the guidelines for team captains. Within Rule 18, there are four articles that pertain to:

 Number of team captains
 Coin toss procedures
 Choice on penalty option
 Change of [team] captains

Coin toss procedures – Each team can send as many as six team captains to the center of the field. On each team, one captain is designated the "speaking captain" of the delegation. The visiting team or the team designated "visitor" by the referee (if no team is declared 'visitor') shall choose "heads or tails" or in the case of a special ceremony coin, the options on the face and rear of that coin.

After the winning captain makes their choice, the opposing team captain chooses from the remaining two options.

Choice on penalty option(s) – The offended team captain has a choice of accepting a penalty enforcement or declining, except where said penalty is automatically "enforced by rule". In some circumstances, a team captain may elect to "decline" the penalty. This typically happens in a situation in which declining the penalty may mean that the next down should occur (3rd or 4th). A good example would be on an "offensive holding" enforcement, the defensive team might elect a "4th down and 5 yards to gain" v. a "3rd down and 15 yards to gain."

The "C" patch
Players who have been named a team captain typically wear a "C" patch on their jerseys. There is a standard design used by all teams participating in the captaincy program. The patches are in team colors and are worn on the front left or right breast (depending on other patches, etc. worn by the specific team). The number of gold stars on the patch represents the number of years that player has been named captain by a team. If he has been named captain for longer than four years, the "C" on the patch is gold. On some teams' color rush jerseys, plus the Cincinnati Bengals' white uniforms, the stars (and "C", for captains with over four years of service) use team colors.

During special recognitions, the patch may be a different color such as pink for breast cancer awareness or camouflage for military service recognition. In 2018, NFL began an partnership with the American Cancer Society using a multi-color captain patch.

Some teams (e.g. Pittsburgh and New England) do not use the patch on their jerseys but still designate captains.The decision to wear or not wear patches can come from the coach or a team vote. Pittsburgh and New England have never used the patch during the respective lengthy tenures of their head coaches Mike Tomlin and Bill Belichick, although they have named permanent captains. To date, these two teams and the Ravens have never worn the patch.

Other teams who do not use the patch designate captains weekly. John Harbaugh has followed this practice since becoming head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. In the case of the Green Bay Packers, the team named weekly captains during the regular season, but would switch to assigning captains (who wore patches) whenever they qualified for the playoffs.The Kansas City Chiefs followed the same practice in the 2019 regular season and postseason, naming six captains in advance of their divisional round game versus Houston. With the hiring of head coach Matt LaFleur in 2019, the Packers began assigning three weekly captains alongside three permanent captains.

By and large, teams do not adorn the jerseys of weekly captains with patches. However, in 2019 the Carolina Panthers voted Gerald McCoy as a captain for their Week 2 matchup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and affixed a patch to his jersey. He continued wearing the patch as the season continued in light of an injury to Kawann Short. Similarly, London native Efe Obada was voted a team captain for the Panthers' game there in 2019.

In 2019, the NFL changed captains' patches slightly, removing the white outline at the patch's edge. Also, instead of stars "filled-in" with gold coloring to indicate years as a captain alongside "unfilled-in" white stars (i.e. a player who was in his second year as a captain would have 2 gold stars and 2 white stars on his patch), the patch now simply has gold stars indicating years served.

Designation
While NFL rules state that teams may name up to six captains, this rule is not strictly enforced. In 2019, four teams named seven captains at the beginning of the regular season: the Detroit Lions, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, and New York Giants. That same year, the Carolina Panthers dressed seven players wearing captain patches for their week 2 matchup against Tampa Bay: Cam Newton, Greg Olsen, Trai Turner, Luke Kuechly, Gerald McCoy, Kawann Short, and Colin Jones.

Captains are sometimes decided by team-wide vote, and other times are chosen by the team's head coach. Captains are generally named after the preseason ends, and just prior to the start of the regular season. In the event of an injury to a team captain requiring them to miss one or more games during the season, a replacement may be named. The decision to name (whether weekly or permanently) or not name captains rests with the head coach, who can suspend captainships should they so choose.

One notable example of suspension occurred when the New York Jets ended the use of designated team captains after an incident involving Santonio Holmes in a 2011 game. In the fourth quarter of the final game of the 2011 season against the Miami Dolphins, Holmes appeared to get into an argument with Jets offensive tackle Wayne Hunter while the team was huddling. As a result of the argument, Holmes was benched for the remainder of the game, and the Jets ended up losing the game, which resulted in the Jets missing the postseason for the first time in three years. His leadership qualities and credibilities as captain have since been questioned. Rex Ryan, coach of the Jets at the time, suspended captains for the organization ever since. In 2015, under new head coach Todd Bowles, the Jets resumed appointing captains weekly.
In Week 2 of 2018, Bowles resumed permanent captains, introduced when the Jets played the Dolphins.

Because of the nature of the game, most teams include their starting quarterbacks as an offensive captain. The starting quarterback has no other responsibility or authority on field. However, he may, depending on the league or individual team, have various informal duties, such as participation in pre-game ceremonies, the coin toss, the trophy presentation, or other events outside the game. Often compared to captains of other team sports, the starting quarterback is considered the team's leader, even before the NFL implemented the team captain's patch in 2007.

Gold stars
Each gold star on a captain's patch indicates the number of seasons the player has served as a team captain. These are often consecutive, but not always as former Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston wore three stars on his 2019 patch despite not being named a captain the previous season; he wore four stars on his 2021 patch for New Orleans. The Panthers gave Trai Turner a gold patch in week 8 of their 2019 season after he missed 3 games due to an ankle injury, though he wore a patch with only 1 star during his previous game in week 3. Case Keenum wore a patch with two stars in week 1 of the 2019 season, but from week 2 on Keenum wore a captain's patch with 4 stars, despite only serving as a captain two seasons of his career. Teams have often used captains patches erroneously and without regard to the stars, with discrepancies occurring even mid-season. In 2017, Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Kyle Williams wore a patch with 5 stars and a gold 'C', but the Bills admitted this was a mistake.

List of current NFL captains
Players listed in bold currently wear the 4+ star all-gold captain patches. These players have been team captains for at least four seasons, but not necessarily consecutively.

†Indicates teams not using captain patches during the 2023 season.

Indicates the number of years a player has served as a captain, represented on the patch by stars.

References

team
Captain (z)


Challenge The Yankees was a popular baseball board game, sold only in 1964 and 1965 by Hasbro (Hassenfeld Bros.) of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The game and many of its components, especially the player cards is now a popular eBay item, consisting of 25 New York Yankees player cards, 25 All Star player cards (non-Yankees), a baseball diamond game board, cards representing different plays (single, double, triple, fly ball, ground ball) 4 pegs to move around the bases, manager strategy cards, and other accessories. The player up at bat rolls the dice, and refers to that "batter's" card, to check to see what that dice roll represents for that particular ball player, and moves a pegs accordingly. Each player's card is different, for example, a dice roll of 3 when Yogi Berra is at bat represents a home run, while a 3 rolled for Bill Mazeroski represents a base on balls. The object is to score the most runs at the end of 9 innings.

The 50 player cards in the set are approximately 4" × 5½", with a blank back, and feature a small black & white photo of the player, a facsimile autograph, and a few biographical details and stats. The only way to distinguish the cards between the two years is to compare the stats. There has been some confusion over the years about the 50 player cards in the 1964 set, and the 50 in the 1965 set. Some players are the same in both editions, and some are different.

Collectors
Collectors like to be certain which year player card they are buying. Below is the complete listing of 1964 and 1965 cards. The ERA for pitchers and batting averages for the position players are noted in order to distinguish between 1964 and 1965. Only four of the 100 cards are identical for the two years: Yankees Hector Lopez and Tom Metcalf, and All Stars Carl Yastrzemski and Johnny Podres. Every other card differs in some small way, either by player fact, ERA or Batting Average.

1964 Set
Position Player's Batting Ave or Pitcher's ERA

1965 Set

Notes for 1965 cards where Pitcher's ERA or Player's Batting Average are the same as in the 1964 set
Mickey Mantle - All Star Years Listed; Hank Aaron - 64 All Star noted; Dick Grote - 64 All Star noted; Bill Mazeroski - 64 All Star noted; Johnny Podres - Same Card 64/65; Carl Yastrzemski - Same Card 64/65; Héctor López - Same Card 64/65; Tom Metcalf - Same Card 64/65.

Also note that some of the 1965 cards have single digit numbers or letters in the top right or left hand corner of the card.

1965 Yankee Rollie Sheldon Card
Not all of the 1965 sets contain the NYY Rollie Sheldon card. Rollie was traded to Kansas City on May 3, 1965 and his card was withdrawn from the set, making it more scarce than the others.

References

Board games introduced in 1964
Sports board games
Hasbro games
Baseball board games


The Grand Council of Vaud () is the legislature of the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.  Vaud has a unicameral legislature.  The Great Council has 150 seats, with members elected every five years.

In May 1981, Marguerite Narbel became the first woman to serve as president of the Grand Council of Vaud, holding the position until the following year. Narbel left the Grand Council in 1986.

Composition
The largest groups are the Free Democratic Party (49 seats), followed by the Socialist group (35 seats), the People's Party (25 seats), the Green group (22 seats), the Green Liberals group (9 seats).
.

See also
 Council of State of Vaud
 List of cantonal legislatures of Switzerland

References

External links

  Official website

Vaud
Politics of the canton of Vaud
Vaud


Esa Juhani Hukkanen (born February 25, 1963 in Lahti) is a former amateur boxer from Finland. He is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1987 European Championships in Turin, Italy in the Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg) division. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

References
sports-reference

1963 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Lahti
Middleweight boxers
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Finland
Finnish male boxers


Rosales is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Santa Cruz de Rosales. The municipality covers an area of 1716.6 km².

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 16,785, up from 15,935 as of 2005.

The municipality had 572 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Santa Cruz de Rosales (5,570), Congregación Ortíz (2,620), classified as urban, and El Molino (2,191) and Kilómetro Noventa y Nueve (1,092), classified as rural.

Geography

Towns and villages
The municipality has 71 localities. The largest are:

References

Municipalities of Chihuahua (state)


Alfred "Fred" Rössner (August 16, 1911 – December 25, 2005) was an Austrian cross-country skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. He was born in Sankt Johann am Tauern and died in Salzburg.

In 1936 he was a member of the Austrian relay team which finished eighth in the 4x10 km relay competition. In the 18 km event he finished 39th.

External links

profile

1911 births
2005 deaths
Austrian male cross-country skiers
Olympic cross-country skiers for Austria
Cross-country skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics
People from Murtal District
Skiers from Styria
20th-century Austrian people


The Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg at the 1972 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program at the Fairgrounds, Judo and Wrestling Hall.

Medalists

Tournament results
The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall. Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler. When only two or three wrestlers remain, a special final round is used to determine the order of the medals.

Legend
DNA — Did not appear
TPP — Total penalty points
MPP — Match penalty points

Penalties
0 — Won by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit
0.5 — Won by Technical Superiority
1 — Won by Points
2 — Draw
2.5 — Draw, Passivity
3 — Lost by Points
3.5 — Lost by Technical Superiority
4 — Lost by Fall, Passivity, Injury and Forfeit

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Final

Results from the preliminary round are carried forward into the final (shown in yellow).

Final standings

References

External links
Official Report

Greco-Roman 74kg


CID The Dummy is an 3D adventure video game released for the PlayStation 2, Wii, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Portable on April 17, 2009, in Europe and July 7, 2009, in North America.

Plot
The game features a story about two scientists who were once colleagues and are now bitter rivals. After an experiment gone wrong, D. Troit, the game's villain, creates an army of sentient robots and kidnaps the daughter of B. M. Werken. Werken retaliates by creating a crash impact dummy, the hero and the game's playable character, to defeat D. Troit and his armies and save Werken's daughter. Werken is assisted by a small flying robot named Copcam.

Reception
CID The Dummy received negative reviews upon its release. On Metacritic, the game holds scores of 41/100 for the PlayStation Portable version based on 6 reviews, and 31/100 for the Wii version based on 7 reviews. On GameRankings, the game holds scores of 36.00% for the PlayStation 2 version based on 2 reviews, 35.60% for the PlayStation Portable version based on 5 reviews, and 33.43% for the Wii version based on 7 reviews.

Demake
The demake Crash Dummy was developed by Twelve Games and published by Funbox Media and released digitally on the Nintendo Switch on February 28, 2019, PC via Steam on Mar 1, 2019, and the Sony PlayStation 4 on Mar. 4, 2019 respectively as a 2D side-scroller. Links to both an iOS and Android versions of the game exist on the company's website but no longer function due to these versions being delisted from those platforms and instead were ported up to consoles and PC.

References

External links
 GameSpot Summary

2009 video games
Cancelled Xbox games
PlayStation 2 games
Video games developed in Italy
Wii games
Windows games
PlayStation Portable games
Oxygen Games games


When They Cry is a Japanese media franchise consisting of visual novel games and adaptations thereof, and may refer to:

 Higurashi When They Cry
 Umineko When They Cry
 Ciconia When They Cry

Higurashi When They Cry


The Way of the Sufi was the best-selling follow-up introduction to Sufism by the writer Idries Shah after the publication of his first book on the subject, The Sufis. Whereas The Sufis eschewed academic norms such as footnotes and an index, The Way of the Sufi provided a full section of notes and a bibliography at the end of its first chapter, entitled "The Study of Sufism in the West".

Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. As such, The Way of the Sufi can be read as part of a whole course of study.

Summary
As in The Sufis, Shah gave potted biographies of some of the best known Sufis of the ages, while adding brief descriptions of four of the major Sufi orders, or Tariqas: the Chisti Order, Qadiri Order, Suhrawardi Order and Naqshbandi Order. In addition there were a number of Sufi teaching stories as well as question-and-answer sessions with Sufi teachers. Continuing a theme from the previous book, Shah argued that Sufism had greatly influenced Western civilisation over the centuries, but that this had largely gone unrecognised, citing examples such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, the William Tell legend, the former United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjoeld and the works of Sir Richard Burton amongst others. In the East, he also said that Sufism had influenced certain aspects of Hinduism as well as Zen Buddhism.

Reception
The book was well received on publication, with the BBC's The Critics programme declaring it an "outstanding book of the year".
The New York Times also applauded the book, saying it was "like a door opening where one least expects it".
Writing in the British newspaper The Observer, Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing described it as "a key book".

References

External links
The Idries Shah Foundation
Free Online Read and Audiobook

Sufi literature
Books by Idries Shah
1968 books
Jonathan Cape books


Tropical Queensland is a region of the state of Queensland, Australia that lies north of latitude 23.5 degrees South in the tropical latitude.

It contains the Tropical North Queensland including the Far North Queensland, North Queensland and the Mackay Region as well as the Gulf Country in the west and parts of Central Queensland.

Except for the few major urban centres, such as Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and Mount Isa, these large tracts of land are largely undeveloped and have a low population density typical of remote, regional Australia. Much of the land is used for grazing; sugarcane is grown in the coastal areas where high rainfall occurs. Mining and tourism are the other significant industries in the region.

The region experiences cyclones mostly between the months of November and April.

See also

Regions of Queensland

References

External links
Rainforest Australia
Tropical Rainforest Places & Facts - North Queensland, Australia: Skyrail

Regions of Queensland
Northern Australia


The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance was awarded from 1964 to 1967. The award had several minor name changes:

From 1964 to 1965, the award was known as Best Instrumental Performance - Non-Jazz
In 1966, it was called the Best Instrumental Performance (Other Than Jazz)
In 1967, it was just Best Instrumental Performance

Although in the pop category of Grammy Awards, the award did not specify popular music performances. Since 1969, a specific pop award has been presented: Best Pop Instrumental Performance. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year..

Recipients

References

See also
 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)
 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance Vocal or Instrumental
 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)
 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
 Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo
 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance with Vocal Coloring
 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance
 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance
 Grammy Award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance
 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Instrumental Performance
Awards established in 1964
Awards disestablished in 1967


Kettenbrücke-Walzer (Chain Bridge Waltz), Op. 4, is a waltz composed by Johann Strauss in 1828. Its title commemorated the construction of the first chain bridge over the Donaukanal through the inner city,  in Vienna, built after a design by  and completed in 1825.

The composition employed the instrumentation of one flute, two clarinets, two horns, timpani, three violins and double bass.

References

External links

Compositions by Johann Strauss I


Armyworms are the caterpillars of some members of two genera:

 Many Spodoptera including:
 African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta) (Africa)
 Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) (North and South America)
 Lawn armyworm (Spodoptera mauritia)
 Some Mythimna including:
 Common armyworm or true armyworm (Mythimna unipuncta) (North and South America)
 Northern armyworm, Oriental armyworm or rice ear-cutting caterpillar (Mythimna separata) (Asia)

Animal common name disambiguation pages


Andrea Magi (born 14 July 1966 in Pesaro, Pesaro e Urbino) is a former amateur boxer from Italy. He is best known for winning the bronze medal at the 1987 European Championships in Turin, Italy in the Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg) division. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Professional boxing record

|-
|align="center" colspan=8|20 Wins (7 knockouts, 13 decisions), 4 Losses (2 knockouts, 2 decisions)
|-
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Result
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Record
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Opponent
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Type
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Round
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Date
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Location
| align="center" style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Notes
|-align=center
|Loss
|
|align=left| Dariusz "Tiger" Michalczewski
|TKO
|4
|20/03/1998
|align=left| Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Ignacio Orsola
|TKO
|1
|15/02/1998
|align=left| Rijeka, Croatia
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Frank Wuestenberghs
|PTS
|6
|06/12/1997
|align=left| Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| "Fast" Eddy Smulders
|TKO
|2
|20/01/1996
|align=left| Marsala, Sicily, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Karoly Kovacs
|TKO
|5
|01/09/1995
|align=left| Supino, Lazio, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Pietro Pellizzaro
|PTS
|8
|22/10/1994
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| "Gentleman" Henry Maske
|UD
|12
|04/06/1994
|align=left| Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
|align=left|
|-
|Loss
|
|align=left| Leeonzer Barber
|UD
|12
|29/09/1993
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Sylvester White
|PTS
|8
|30/04/1993
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Renald De Vulder
|TKO
|2
|22/10/1992
|align=left| Verbania, Piedmont, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Marco Rinaldo
|TKO
|11
|24/06/1992
|align=left| Godiasco, Lombardy, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Salvatore Di Salvatore
|PTS
|12
|12/03/1992
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Simon McDougall
|TKO
|5
|19/10/1991
|align=left| Terni, Umbria, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Marco Rinaldo
|UD
|12
|01/06/1991
|align=left| Ragusa, Sicily, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Jean-Noel Camara
|PTS
|4
|12/01/1991
|align=left| Saint Vincent d'Aoste, Valle d'Aosta, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Janos Ferenc Dobai
|PTS
|6
|12/10/1990
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Serge Kabongo
|PTS
|6
|02/06/1990
|align=left| Rome, Lazio, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| James "Sting" Wray
|DQ
|3
|29/11/1989
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| John "Ashes to" Ashton
|PTS
|6
|07/10/1989
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Kabunda Kamanga
|KO
|3
|28/07/1989
|align=left| Cecina, Tuscany, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Renald De Vulder
|TKO
|1
|14/07/1989
|align=left| San Vincenzo, Tuscany, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Oliver Kemayou
|PTS
|6
|03/06/1989
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Ngoy Muamba
|PTS
|6
|29/04/1989
|align=left| Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy
|align=left|
|-
|Win
|
|align=left| Ngoy Muamba
|PTS
|6
|24/02/1989
|align=left| Pesaro, Marche, Italy
|align=left|
|}

References

1966 births
Living people
Light-heavyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Italy
Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy
Sportspeople from Pesaro
Italian male boxers
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing


Pierre-Luc Létourneau-Leblond (born June 4, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the New Jersey Devils, Calgary Flames and Pittsburgh Penguins. He played a physical game and is known as an agitator and a fighter. He was an extremely tough player, who very rarely fell when fighting. He is known as having some of the longest fights.

Playing career
As a youth, Leblond played in the 1998 and 1999 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Pointe-Lévy.

Following his rookie season in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) with the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, Leblond was selected 216th overall in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the New Jersey Devils. He returned to Baie-Comeau for a second season before turning professional in 2005–06, splitting the season between Adirondack Frostbite of the United Hockey League (UHL) and the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League (AHL). Leblond continued to play with the Devils' minor league affiliates until being called up to the NHL during the 2008–09 season. After an injury to forward Bobby Holík, he made his NHL debut on October 22, 2008, and registered an assist on a David Clarkson goal during a 5-0 victory over the Dallas Stars. Leblond dressed for eight Devils games during the season, registering the lone assist, as well as 22 penalty minutes.

At the beginning of the 2009–10 season, Leblond signed a contract worth $1.575 million over three seasons. He played in a career-high 27 NHL games with the Devils, recording two assists. During the season, he also played five games in the AHL. Leblond began the 2010–11 season with the Devils. On October 9, 2010, in the final period of a 7–2 loss, Leblond attempted to fight Washington Capitals rookie Marcus Johansson. The fight took place with 4 minutes and 17 seconds remaining in the third period; Leblond was charged with an instigator penalty resulting in an automatic one-game suspension. Two days later, the Devils placed Leblond on waivers; after clearing, he was assigned to the Albany Devils. In 64 AHL games, he recorded 13 points (8 goals and 5 assists) and 334 penalty minutes.

On July 14, 2011, Leblond was traded to the Calgary Flames for a fifth-round selection in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. During his pre-season debut with the Flames, he received a two-minute penalty and ten-minute misconduct for hitting Vancouver Canucks forward Matt Clackson into the boards from behind. Following the game, he was suspended five games by the league, costing him $6,402.44 in salary, which was allocated to the NHL Players Association's Emergency Assistance Fund.

At the conclusion of the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Leblond was invited on a try-out to the Anaheim Ducks training camp on January 13, 2013. He was then subsequently signed to a one-year contract with the Ducks two days later and was assigned to AHL affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals.

On August 20, 2013, Leblond signed a one-year AHL contract as a free agent with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. During the 2013–14 season, on November 7, 2013, Leblond was signed to a two-year, two way NHL contract with parent affiliate, the Pittsburgh Penguins.

As a free agent on September 8, 2015, Leblond returned to his original team for the first time since 2011, agreeing to a one-year, two-way contract with the New Jersey Devils.

On July 1, 2016, Leblond signed as a free agent with his fourth NHL club, the Tampa Bay Lightning, on a one-year, two-way deal. Assigned to the AHL's Syracuse Crunch for the 2016–17 season, Leblond appeared in 37 games for 5 points and 121 penalty minutes, before he was loaned to the Toronto Marlies of the AHL on a condition of an NHL trade between the Lightning and Maple Leafs on February 27, 2017.

On August 12, 2017, Leblond initially announced his retirement from professional hockey. However, his retirement was short lived, agreeing to return to the professional circuit in signing midway into the 2017–18 season with the Devils' secondary affiliate, the Adirondack Thunder of the ECHL, on December 2, 2017. He featured in one game with the Thunder before re-announcing his retirement.

Career statistics

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Abbotsford Heat players
Adirondack Frostbite players
Adirondack Thunder players
Albany Devils players
Albany River Rats players
Baie-Comeau Drakkar players
Canadian ice hockey left wingers
Calgary Flames players
French Quebecers
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Lowell Devils players
Les Pétroliers du Nord players
New Jersey Devils draft picks
New Jersey Devils players
Norfolk Admirals players
Sportspeople from Lévis, Quebec
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Syracuse Crunch players
Toronto Marlies players
Trenton Devils players
Trenton Titans players
Trois-Rivières Lions players
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins players


Rosario is one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Valle del Rosario. The municipality covers an area of 1785.6 km².

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 2,235, down from 3,130 as of 2005.

The municipality had 62 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.

References

Municipalities of Chihuahua (state)


Cassibile may refer to:

 Cassibile (village), a village and frazione of the comune of Syracuse, Sicily
 Armistice of Cassibile, armistice between Italy and the Allies of World War II
 Cassibile (river), a river of the province of Syracuse, in Sicily
 Cassibile, archaeological site (Bronze-Iron Ages)


Pomacea diffusa, common name the spike-topped apple snail, is a species of freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Taxonomy
Pomacea diffusa was originally described as a subspecies of Pomacea bridgesii. Pain (1960) argued that Pomacea bridgesii bridgesii was a larger form with a restricted range, with the smaller Pomacea bridgesii diffusa being the common form throughout the Amazon Basin (Brazil, Peru, Bolivia). Cowie and Thiengo (2003) suggested that the latter might deserve full species status, and the two taxa have been confirmed as distinct species by genetic analyses.

Distribution
The type locality of Pomacea diffusa is in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, although the species is widespread throughout the Amazon Basin.

Non-indigenous distribution of Pomacea diffusa include:

 Thompson recorded this species (as Pomacea bridgesii) in Florida in Monroe, Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Pinellas Counties. The FLMNH electronic database also lists samples from Alachua County, but records cited from the FLMNH database for Brevard County are in fact from Broward County. Rawlings et al. (2007) also collected this species in Hillsborough and Collier Counties.
 Pomacea diffusa was first recorded in Florida (as Pomacea bridgesii) by William J. Clench. The FLMNH has specimens collected in Palm Beach County in 1967 (FLMNH 20295) and Miami-Dade and Broward Counties in the early 1970s (FLMNH 22175, 222247). Howells et al. (2006) reported its establishment in Mobile, Alabama in 2003.
 Cuba

Description

Pomacea diffusa is known as the spike-topped apple snail, because of its relatively raised spire. It lacks a channeled suture, and overlaps in size with the Pomacea paludosa.

The egg masses have an irregular honeycombed appearance, like those of Pomacea haustrum, but are smaller and have a tan to salmon color, although they are white when freshly laid.

Human use
It is a part of ornamental pet trade for freshwater aquaria.

See also

 Algae eater

References
This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference.

External links

Applesnails of Florida on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
 [The apple snail website species page]

diffusa
Gastropods described in 1957


Bowling Green High School may refer to:

Bowling Green High School (Kentucky)
Bowling Green High School (Missouri), in Bowling Green, Missouri
Bowling Green High School (Ohio)


The Octavia was an effects pedal designed for Jimi Hendrix by his sound technician, Roger Mayer. It reproduces the input signal from a guitar one octave higher in pitch, and mixes it with the original and added distortion fuzz.

Effect

The Octavia consisted of an analog electronic circuit, which included a frequency doubler, envelope generator and amplitude modulator, together with additional frequency-shaping filter circuitry. The effect generated varied depending on use. For example, a clean tone from an electric guitar produced ring modulated overtones (as heard on the guitar solo in "Who Knows" by Jimi Hendrix.)

History
The effect was used by Jimi Hendrix, and can be heard in guitar solos on the song "Purple Haze".  Hendrix preferred to call the device the “Octavio”, and it is often referred to as such.

After Hendrix's death in 1970 one of the original Octavias became the basis for the redesigned "Octavia (TM)", manufactured by Tycobrahe Sound Company in Hermosa Beach, California, during the mid-1970s.  A limited number of the devices were produced.

References

1967 introductions
Effects units


Castelfusano is an urban park in the comune of Rome. It divides the sea quarter of Ostia and the neighborhood of Casalpalocco. The castle and the park were founded in the 17th century by the Sacchetti family. Its vegetation consists mainly in a forest of colossal Maritime Pines and olm oaks (near the seaside). In the 18th century, the Sacchetti sold the property to the Chigi, who sold it in 1933 to the commune of Rome. In the park is still visible a stretch of the ancient Via Severiana. The park's vegetation was largely destroyed by arson in July 2000.

References

Gardens in Rome
Rome Q. XXXV Lido di Castel Fusano