Alia Shanee Atkinson, OD (born 11 December 1988) is a Jamaican five-time Olympian and a former competitive swimmer whose international competition career spanned 19 years, 2003 to 2021 inclusive, at the senior level. At short course World Swimming Championships, she is a ten-time medalist in individual events, including four gold medals, four silver medals, and two bronze medals. She won a total of 124 medals, of which 74 were gold medals, at Swimming World Cup circuits over the course of her career. She won 14 total medals in individual events, 11 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze, from her first three Central American and Caribbean Games, in 2006, 2010, and 2018.

In 2014, Atkinson became the first Afro-Jamaican to win a world title in swimming, winning the short course 100-metre breaststroke at the 2014 World Swimming Championships with a world record time of 1:02.36. In 2016, she tied her world record in the short course 100 metre breaststroke on 26 August before setting a new world record in the short course 50-metre breaststroke on 26 October. Two years later, on 6 October 2018, she set her second new world record in the short course 50-metre breaststroke, marking her fourth world record time in an individual event. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she became the second Jamaican swimmer to place in the top four at an Olympic Games, finishing fourth in the 100-metre breaststroke.

Background
Atkinson calls Roehampton, Jamaica her hometown. At three years of age, she started swimming.  In 2000, when she was approximately 12 years old, her family permanently relocated to the United States, moving to Florida. When she was 13 years old, she to focused her swimming on breaststroke specialization. Before then she mostly swam freestyle and butterfly. She was coached by Chris Anderson from 2001 through to her retirement in 2021. She mostly trained with the South Florida Aquatic Club swim team in Pembroke Pines, Florida in an Olympic-size swimming pool. In college, she majored in Psychology, earning her Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University in 2010, where she also competed as part of the Texas A&M Aggies swim team. In international swimming competitions, she represented Jamaica.

Atkinson stated her swimming mission in her SwimSwam bio as, "To place Jamaica on the world map of swimming; to agitate for the improvement of the infrastructural support for swimming in Jamaica so as to be able to take it to the next level; and to realize my full potential for myself, my parents, and my country." She has also been vocal about not being related to Janelle Atkinson, who was the first Jamaican swimmer to finish in the top four at an Olympic Games.

Career

2004–2011
Atkinson was 15 years old and a high school junior at the time of her Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She competed in the 50-metre freestyle, ranking 44th overall, and the 100-metre breaststroke, ranking 32nd overall. In March 2006, Atkinson competed at her first Commonwealth Games, the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. She carried the flag for her Jamaica at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she set the Jamaican record in the 100-metre butterfly with a time of 1:02.40.

In the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China she finished 25th in the women's 200-metre breaststroke. She also competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India in October. She placed first in the 200-yard breaststroke at the 2010 NCAA Championships, swimming for Texas A&M. Her swim made her the second NCAA champion in swimming for Texas A&M after Julia Wilkinson. At the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, Atkinson won the silver medal in the 200-metre individual medley.

2012

2012 Summer Olympics

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, Atkinson competed in three individual events. She qualified for the 2012 Olympics 100 m women's breaststroke final after defeating Canadian rival Tera van Beilen with a time of 1:06.79 in a head-to-head swim-off for a spot in the final.  She subsequently placed 4th in the final of the 2012 Olympics 100 m women's breaststroke finishing with a time of 1:06.93. This made Atkinson the second Jamaican swimmer to place in the top four of a swimming event at an Olympic Games behind Janelle Atkinson who achieved the feat at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 400-metre freestyle.

In the 200-metre breaststroke, Atkinson ranked 27th in the prelims. She also competed in the 50-metre freestyle where she placed 37th overall.

2012 World Swimming Championships

Following the 2012 Olympics, Atkinson competed in the 2012 World Swimming Championships conducted in short course metres and held in Istanbul, Turkey in December 2012. She won the silver medal in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 29.67 in the final. In the final of the 100-metre breaststroke, she swam a 1:03.80 and won the silver medal.

2014

2014 Commonwealth Games
She won two medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the summer of 2014, silver in the 50 m breaststroke and bronze in the 100 m breaststroke.  She also set two Commonwealth Games records in the heats and semifinal of the 50 m breaststroke. Her swim of 2:25.48 in the long course 200-metre breaststroke set a new national record for Jamaica in the event.

2014 Swimming World Cup
At the 2014 FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Singapore in November 2014, Atkinson won the short course 200-metre breaststroke, setting a new national record with her time of 2:17.84.

2014 World Swimming Championships

Atkinson won the 100-metre breaststroke at the 2014 Short Course World Championships in Doha, Qatar in December (equaling the record of 1:02.36 set by Rūta Meilutytė in 2013), becoming the first Afro-Jamaican woman to win a world swimming title. Her swim was the second time a woman hit the 1:02.36 mark internationally after Meilutytė. Because Atkinson was the second woman to reach the world record time she was not awarded the $10,000 associated with setting a world record because she did not set a new world record, instead tying the pre-existing one Meilutytė set in 2013. In the 50-metre breaststroke she won the silver medal with a time of 28.91.

2015

2015 World Aquatics Championships

In August 2015 at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia, Atkinson medaled in two individual events. She won the silver medal in the 50-metre breaststroke with a time of 30.11 in the final. Her swim set a new national record for Jamaica in the 50-metre breaststroke. In the 100-metre breaststroke, she swam a 1:06.42 in the final and won the bronze medal.

2015 Swimming World Cup
At the 2015 FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in November 2015, Atkinson swam a personal best time of 1:05.93 in the long course 100-metre breaststroke and set a new national record in the event. Her swim tied her for the 16th fastest swimmer in the event globally with Rikke Pedersen who was the world record holder in the long course 200-metre breaststroke at the time.

2016

2016 Summer Olympics

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she placed eighth in the final of the 100-metre breaststroke, swimming a 1:08.10.

2016 Swimming World Cup
At the 2016 FINA Swimming World Cup stop in Chartres, France in August 2016, Atkinson again tied the world record in the short course 100-metre breaststroke with a time of 1:02.36. She did not win the $10,000 prize money for a world record as it was not a new world record.

In October 2016, at the Swimming World Cup stop in Tokyo, Japan, Atkinson swam a 28.64 in the short course 50-metre breaststroke setting a new world record in the event.

2016 World Swimming Championships

In December 2016 at the 2016 World Swimming Championships in Windsor, Canada and conducted in short course metres, Atkinson medaled in three individual events. She won the gold medal in the 100-metre breastsroke ahead of Lilly King. In the 50-metre breaststroke, she swam a 29.11 in the final and won the silver medal in the event. For the 100-metre individual medley she won the bronze medal, swimming a 58.04 in the final.

2018

2018 Swimming World Cup
Atkinson competed for Jamaica at the 2018 FINA Swimming World Cup in Budapest, Hungary. In the 50-metre breaststroke she swam a 28.56, breaking her own world record in the event she set in 2016.

2018 World Swimming Championships

After the Swimming World Cup, Atkinson went on to win two gold and one bronze medal in individual events at the 2018 Swimming World Championships in Hangzhou, China in December. The first medal she won in the competition was a gold medal in the 50-metre breaststroke, swimming a 29.05 and finishing ahead of second-place finisher Rūta Meilutytė. Her next medal was a bronze medal in the 100-metre individual medley, finishing third with a time of 58.11 in the final, less than one second behind Katinka Hosszú and Runa Imai. Atkinson's third and final medal of the competition was a gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke where she finished before American swimmer Katie Meili with a time of 1:03.51 in the final.

2019

2019 World Aquatics Championships
At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea in July 2019, Atkinson finished in fourth place with a time of 30.34 in the final of the 50-metre breaststroke.

International Swimming League
In 2019 Atkinson was a member of the 2019 International Swimming League representing Team Iron. She was a valuable member of the team winning the 50m breaststroke in all 3 matches the team competed in, and she also picked up two wins and one second-place finish in the 100m breaststroke.

2021–2022

2020 Summer Olympics

On 14 July 2021, FINA released its entry list for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan including that Atkinson was entered to compete in the 100-metre breaststroke. Prior to the start of competition of Jamaican athletes at the 2020 Olympics, the Jamaica Olympic Association saluted its athletes including Atkinson. In the preliminaries of the 100-metre breaststroke on Sunday 25 July, Atkinson swam a 1:07.70, finishing third in her heat, and did not advance to the semifinals. She ranked twenty-second across all the preliminary heats and finished her competition at her fifth and final Olympic Games.

International Swimming League
The International Swimming League team London Roar selected Atkinson to be a part of their roster for the 2021 International Swimming League. At the end of the 2021 season, Atkinson ranked 17th out of the 488 swimmers who had competed in the International Swimming League since it started in 2019 and earned a positive number of most valuable player points.

2021 World Swimming Championships
Atkinson entered to compete in the 50-metre and 100-metre breaststroke at the 2021 World Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Leading up to the start of competition, Atkinson attended the finale of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi with Zach Apple, Lydia Jacoby, and Melanie Margalis all of the United States.

On day one of competition, Atkinson tied Qianting Tang of China for first overall in the 50-metre breaststroke before Tang was disqualified, advancing Atkinson as the fastest swimmer to the semifinals with her time of 29.55 seconds. In the semifinals, she was disqualified, which marked the fourteenth disqualification in the preliminaries and semifinals of breaststroke events on day one. The following day, she helped place fourteenth in the 4×50-metre mixed freestyle relay, contributing a split of 25.04 seconds for the second 50 metre freestyle sprint leg of the relay. The third day of competition, she swam a 29.14 for the breaststroke leg of the 4×50-metre mixed medley relay, helping achieve a time of 1:45.62 and rank of seventeenth and not qualifying the relay to the final. She swam a 1:04.88 in the preliminaries of the 100-metre breaststroke on day four, qualifying for the semifinals ranking third. She ranked fourth in the semifinals, qualifying for the final with a time of 1:04.26. In the final she placed fourth, finishing in a time of 1:04.03 and eleven-hundredths of a second behind bronze medalist Mona McSharry of Ireland.

Retirement
Following her final event at the 2021 World Swimming Championships, Atkinson announced her retirement from swimming competitions in December 2021 via Instagram and said something she was glad she got to end her career with was, "I get to retire with my 2 world records in tact." In mid-2022, Atkinson was elected to serve as the chair for a first-ever FINA athlete committee focused on addressing gender and discipline-balance.

International championships (50 m)

International championships (25 m)

Career best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Swimming World Cup circuits
The following medals Atkinson has won at Swimming World Cup circuits.

Worlds records

Short course metres (25 m pool)

Notes
 Not recognized as a new world record as it tied a pre-existing world record.

Awards and honours
 2014 Swammy Award: Central American & Caribbean Female Athlete of the Year.
 2014 Jamaican Sportsperson of the Year: Swimming.
 2015 Swammy Award: Central American & Caribbean Female Athlete of the Year.
 2016 Swammy Award: Central American & Caribbean Female Athlete of the Year.
 In April 2018, Atkinson was selected to serve as the flag-bearer for Jamaica at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where she was the only swimmer representing the country at the Games.
 In October 2018, Atkinson received the fifth highest honor in Jamaica, the Order of Distinction, Rank of Commander from the Governor General.
 2018 Swammy Award: Central American & Caribbean Female Athlete of the Year.
 In 2019, Atkinson was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletics Hall of Fame.
 2019 Swammy Award: Central American & Caribbean Female Athlete of the Year.
 In December 2020, Atkinson was declared a champion ambassador to the Special Olympics with her outreach efforts focused on the Caribbean Community.
 2020 Swammy Award: Central American & Caribbean Female Athlete of the Year.
 SwimSwam Top 100 (Women's): 2021 (#56).
 In November 2021, Atkinson received an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from the University of the West Indies.

See also

World record progression 50 metres breaststroke
World record progression 100 metres breaststroke
List of World Swimming Championships (25 m) medalists (women)
List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
List of Jamaican records in swimming
List of Texas A&M University people
Texas A&M Aggies

References

External links

 Alia Atkinson at Texas A&M University
 NCAA Swimming and Diving DIVISION I WOMEN’S

1988 births
Living people
Olympic swimmers for Jamaica
Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
Pan American Games silver medalists for Jamaica
Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Swimmers at the 2015 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Jamaican female swimmers
Texas A&M Aggies women's swimmers
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
World record setters in swimming
World record holders in swimming
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Jamaica
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Jamaica
Pan American Games medalists in swimming
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Jamaica
Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Jamaica
Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Jamaica
Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
21st-century American women
People from Saint James Parish, Jamaica
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games


The Triad Theater, formerly known as Palsson's Supper Club, Steve McGraw's, and Stage 72, is a cabaret-style performing arts venue located on West 72nd Street on New York's Upper West Side. The theatre has been the original home to some of the longest running Off-Broadway shows including Forever Plaid, Forbidden Broadway, Spamilton, and Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know.

The Triad Theater is currently owned and operated by Peter Martin and partner Rick Newman, founder of New York's famed comedy and music venue, Catch a Rising Star.

History
The Theater was built in 1984 and was the original home of four of the most successful shows in off-Broadway History, including Forbidden Broadway, Forever Plaid, and Spamilton, as well as Celebrity Autobiography; the hit comedy show is now in its ninth year at the venue. A month-long workshop production of Seth Rudetsky’s show Disaster! went on to a Broadway production at the Nederlander Theater.

Some of the notable performers who have performed on the Triad stage include Martin Short, Kristen Wiig, Kevin Hart, Ryan Reynolds, Matthew Broderick, Bob Weir of Grateful Dead, Vanessa Williams, Jake LaMotta, Brooke Shields, Paul Rudd, David Steinberg, Slash, George Benson, Gregg Allman, Gavin DeGraw, Bebe Neuwirth, Jim Dale, Peter Boyle, Tracy Morgan, Tommy Tune, Ben Vereen, Air Supply, Dion, and many others from the worlds of comedy, music and theater. Lady Gaga made her professional debut on our stage as part of the Circle in the Square Cabaret Program. In the 1980s, Christopher Walken, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro and many other well known performers would use the Triad for their own weekly private performances.

The Triad Theater has also been used as a location for photo and film shoots; these include an episode of the Hulu comedy Difficult People, episodes of the interview series Speakeasy for Front and Center, and the cover photo shoot of Adrien Brody for Manhattan Magazine and Miami Magazine.

Productions
Productions at Stage 72 have included:

Forever Plaid (Original Production)
Forbidden Broadway (Original Production)
Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words (Original Production)
Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know
A Couple of Blaguards (Frank McCourt) (Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes)
American Rhapsody: A New Musical Revue (Gershwin)
Berlin to Broadway
Loose Lips (with Bebe Neuwirth and Peter Boyle)
Love is French by French singer Floanne
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah (featured Alan Dershowitz)
Nunsense (For the Holiday)
Forbidden Hollywood
Who Killed Woody Allen?
Boobs! The Musical
Last Jew in Europe
Love, Linda: The Life Of Mrs. Cole Porter
Katie Goodman's I Didn't F*ck It Up
You've Got Hate Mail
Disaster! (Pre-Broadway Tryout)
Spamilton
From My Hometown
Kaballah with Emily Stern
Jim Dale (Pre-Broadway Tryout)
Bill Bogg’s Talk Show Confidential
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Cabaret Series also got its start Triad.
Mercury Show with Andrea McCardle (Original Annie)
My Son The Waiter, A Jewish Tragedy
Dion (Pre-Broadway Tryout)
The Party Songs of Ruth Wallace
Mark Felt Superstar
Bush is Bad
Kurt Weil Berlin to Broadway
Jacque Brel Returns
Doug Bernstein Showing Off
Music of Maurey Festoon
Ruthless the Musical
Trump Family Special
Me The People
Tommy Tune (Pr-Broadway Tryout)
Broadway's Next Hit Musical

Music

Gregg Allman
Air Supply
Marc Cohn
Vanessa Carlton
Cher
Gavin DeGraw
Sean Lennon
Lenny Kravitz
Ace Frehley
Lady Gaga (Performance Debut)
Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan's bassist)
Debbie Gibson
Debby Harry
Christopher Cross
Joey Fatone
Art Garfunkel
Ratdog
Melissa Manchester
Joey Fatone
Jackie Paris
Jeff Pevar
Slash
Melissa Manchester
Tiffany Darwish
John Waite
Bob Weir of (Grateful Dead)
Zendaya
Dion
Livingston Taylor
Constantine Maroulis
GE Smith
Woody Guthrie Family Benefit
Cornell Dupree
Jonny Rosch - Blues Brothers, Cyndi Lauper
Jeff Golub (Rod Stewart's lead guitarist)
Frank Canino - Bass Benny King
Richard Crooke (drummer)
Mark Epstein (bassist)
Roy Bennet Jr. (Singer of the band Stuff)
Oz Noy
Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan's band)
Jon Herrington  of Steely Dan
Charles Giordano
Tiffany Darwish

Performers at The Triad

Peter Boyle
Matthew Broderick
David Carradine
Candy Clark
Tony Darrow
Victor Garber
Gina Gershon
Karen Lynn Gorney
Steve Guttenberg
William Hurt
Richard Kind
John Leguziamo
Justin Long
Andrew McCarthy
Liza Minnelli
Ralph Macchio
Marsha Mason
Annette O'Toole
Rosie Perez
Parker Posey
Ryan Reynolds
Tony Roberts
Paul Rudd
Martin Short
Kristen Wiig
Elizabeth Taylor
Christopher Walken
Treat Williams
Bruce Willis
John Goodman
Judy Gold
Sandra Bernhard
Joy Behar
Brooke Shields
Susie Essman
Jackie Hoffman
Robert Cuccioli
Carol Kane
David Harbour
Debbie Harry
Anthony Ramos
Doug Bernstein
Alice Ripley
Cast of Jersey Boys
Cast of Rent
Cast of School of Rock
Cast of Good Vibrations
Grand Hotel - CD Cast
Will Shorz

See also
 List of supper clubs

References

External links

Off-Broadway theaters
Theatres in Manhattan
Upper West Side
Supper clubs


Joyce Farrell is the author of many programming books for Course Technology, a part of Cengage Learning. Her books are widely used as textbooks in higher education institutions. She was formerly a professor of computer information systems at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, US, and earlier taught computer information systems at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point and McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Partial bibliography
 Java Programming, 8th Edition, .
 Java Programming, 6th Edition, .
 Java Programming, 5th Edition, . (found in 315 libraries, counting all editions
 Java Programming, 4th Edition, .
 Object-Oriented Programming Using C++, 4th Edition, . (found in 221 libraries, counting all editions
 Object-Oriented Programming Using C++, 2nd Edition, .
 Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 9th Edition,
 Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 8th Edition,
 Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 7th Edition, .
 Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 6th Edition, .
 Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 5th Edition, . (found in 200 libraries, counting all 8 editions
 Programming Logic and Design, Introductory, 5th Edition, .
 Programming Logic and Design, Comprehensive, 4th Edition, .
 Programming Logic and Design, Introductory, 4th Edition, .
 An Object-Oriented Approach to Programming Logic and Design, 2nd Edition, . (found in 59 libraries, counting all editions
 Microsoft Visual C# .NET, 1st Edition, . (found in 57 libraries, counting all editions
 Microsoft Visual C# 2008: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 3rd Edition, .
 Microsoft Visual C# 2005, An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming, 2nd Edition,  found in 20 libraries, counting all editions

With Don Gosselin:
 Java programming with Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0: comprehensive, (1998) (found in 77 libraries, counting all editions

References

Computer science educators
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Chimney Peak Wilderness is a   wilderness area located  northwest of Ridgecrest, in southeastern Tulare County, California.

The 1994 California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103–433) created the wilderness and it is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Department of the Interior.

The Chimney Peak Wilderness is a rugged and mountainous Mojave Desert environment on the eastern side of the Southern Sierra Nevada Range. The wilderness is named for Chimney Peak, elevation , located in the northeast corner of the wilderness.

The area has Mojave Desert plants such as Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) and creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) on the valley floors and alluvial fans and in the Sierra foothills. Higher Sierra elevations have single-leaf pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla).

Recreation
Recreational activities include  hiking, horseback riding, fishing and camping/backpacking. No motorized vehicles or mechanical equipment is allowed within a wilderness area. A backcountry byway for vehicles is adjacent to part of it.

The Pacific Crest Trail passes through the wilderness area.

A portion of the Sacatar Trail, an old wagon road into the Owens Valley once used by soldiers and cattlemen, cross the Chimney Peak Wilderness, .

Chimney Peak Backcountry Byway
The BLM began a "byway" program in 1989 which is a tour by automobile through or near scenic public lands. This program designates "backcountry byways" along secondary roads. The Chimney Peak Backcountry Byway can be accessed from State Route 178, is over  in length and travels through Lamont Meadow, circles around Chimney Peak,  and returns to Canebrake Road at Lamont Meadow.

See also
Sacatar Trail Wilderness — adjacent.

Notes

External links

Wilderness areas of California
Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
Protected areas of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Protected areas of Tulare County, California
Bureau of Land Management areas in California
Protected areas established in 1994
1994 establishments in California


Van Coevorden is one of the oldest aristocratic families from the Netherlands.

History
The family was already noble from earliest times ("Uradel"). The family's history began with Hendrik van Borculo, who in 1231 married Eufemia, a daughter of the lord of Coevorden, a municipality in the Drenthe province. Their grandson, Reinolt, started to call himself van Coeverden, after his grandmother. From this time onwards till the 17th century, the family played an important role in the region.

Reinolt's descendants still carry this name and belong to the Dutch nobility. In 1814 three member of the family were given the title Jonkheer. In 1991, 1992, 1993, and 2009 several members of the family were given the title of baron, near the end of 2018 another family member acquired the title of baron.

Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the family is in gold 3 red eagles (2:1). The family's motto is En Dieu mon espérence et mon epée à ma défence. (In God my hope and my sword to the defense).

Literature
 Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln Band XXVII (2012) Tafel 82.

Surnames
Dutch noble families
Barons of the Netherlands


Fedia Damianov (Bulgarian: Федя Дамянов; born August 14, 1950) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, he won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event.

Damianov also won two bronze medals at the 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade, earning them in the C-2 500 m and C-2 1000 m events.

References

External links

 Results at Canoeresults.eu

1950 births
Bulgarian male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists for Bulgaria
Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
Living people
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian

Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics


Conan the Barbarian is a comics book title starring the sword-and-sorcery character created by Robert E. Howard, published by the American company Marvel Comics. It debuted with a first issue cover-dated October 1970 and ran for 275 issues until 1993. A commercial success, the title launched a sword-and-sorcery vogue in American 1970s comics.

Marvel Comics reacquired the publishing rights in 2018 and started a new run of Conan the Barbarian in January 2019, at first with the creative team of writer Jason Aaron and artist Mahmud A. Asrar. This run ended in November 2021 after 25 issues, when Titan Comics acquired the license to publish Conan comic books in 2022.

Publication history
Conan the Barbarian ran for 275 issues (cover dated October 1970–December 1993). The book had a single writer, Roy Thomas, on issues #1–115 (October 1970–October 1980) and then #240–275 (January 1991–December 1993). It was also the signature work of artist Barry Smith, who pencilled most issues between #1 and #24. Artist John Buscema pencilled the vast bulk of issues #25–190. Interim writers included J. M. DeMatteis, Bruce Jones, Michael Fleisher, Doug Moench, Jim Owsley, Alan Zelenetz, Chuck Dixon, and Don Kraar.

Thomas, Marvel's associate editor at the time, had obtained the licensed property from the estate of its creator, Robert E. Howard, after finding Conan chief among readers' requests for literary properties to be adapted to comics, which also included the pulp magazine character Doc Savage, The Lord of the Rings oeuvre of writer J. R. R. Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs' characters Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. Elaborating in 2010, he said,

Thomas said another reason for pursuing Thongor was that Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee "liked that name the most. . . . I soon got stalled by Lin Carter's agent on Thongor . . . and I got a sudden impulse to go after Conan. Later, following on the success of the Conan series, Lin Carter allowed Marvel to publish a Thongor comic, which appeared as a miniseries in Creatures on the Loose."

After reading and enjoying the paperback Conan of Cimmeria, Thomas contacted Glen Lord, literary agent for the Howard estate, and "I said we can't offer much money but it might increase Conan's audience and so forth, what do you think? I didn't have much elasticity, but I was so embarrassed by the $150 that I upped it to $200 without thinking. So that when Glen agreed ... I decided I'd have to write the first issue or so, so that if Goodman objected I could knock a couple pages off my rate to even things out."

The extra cost meant, however, that Marvel could not budget for Buscema, Thomas' first choice, serendipitously opening the door to Smith. Buscema, in a 1994 interview, recalled,

Comics historian Les Daniels noted that "Conan the Barbarian was something of a gamble for Marvel. The series contained the usual elements of action and fantasy, to be sure, but it was set in a past that had no relation to the Marvel Universe, and it featured a hero who possessed no magical powers, little humor and comparatively few moral principles."

Marvel initially published Conan every two months. After sales of #1 were strong Marvel quickly made the title monthly, but sales dropped with each additional issue. Lee decided to cancel the comic with #7, not only because of the weak sales but to use Smith on more popular comics. Thomas argued against the decision and Lee relented, although the book became bimonthly again with #14. By #20 Conan again became monthly because of rising sales, and the comic became one of Marvel's most popular in the 1970s.

Elric of Melniboné first appeared in comics in Conan the Barbarian issues #14–15 (March–May 1972). The comics were written by Thomas and illustrated by Windsor-Smith, based on a story plotted by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn.  Red Sonja was introduced in issue #23 (February 1973).

In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Thomas' work on Conan the Barbarian with Smith and Buscema seventh on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels".

Annuals and Giant-Size series
Twelve issues of Conan Annual were published from 1973 to 1987. Giant-Size Conan was a series of 68 page giants which ran for five issues from September 1974 to 1975.

Awards
Academy of Comic Book Arts Shazam Awards

1970
Best New Talent: Barry Smith

1971
Best Continuing Feature: Conan the Barbarian
Best Writer (Dramatic): Roy Thomas

1973
Best Individual Story (Dramatic): Song of Red Sonja from Conan the Barbarian #24 by Roy Thomas and Barry Smith

1974
Best Continuing Feature: Conan the Barbarian
Best Penciller (Dramatic): John Buscema
Superior Achievement by an Individual: Roy Thomas

Collected editions

Essential Marvel
 Essential Conan collects Conan the Barbarian #1–25, 530 pages, July 2000, Marvel Comics,

Chronicles of Conan (reprints courtesy of Dark Horse)
Dark Horse Comics published the Chronicles of Conan series, which comprises 34 volumes released between 2003 and 2017. The chronicles are a digitally-recolored collection of the complete original 275-issue run of the Marvel Comics' title.

By Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith (unless noted):

Volume 1: Tower of the Elephant and Other Stories (2003) – collects issues 1–8.
Volume 2: Rogues In the House and Other Stories (2003) – collects issues 9–13, 16.
Volume 3: The Monster of the Monoliths and Other Stories (2003) – collects issues 14–15, 17–21 (also by Gil Kane).
Volume 4: The Song of Red Sonja and Other Stories (2004) – collects issues 23–26 and Red Nails, originally published in Savage Tales 2 & 3.

By Roy Thomas and John Buscema (unless noted):

Volume 5: The Shadow In the Tomb and Other Stories (2004) – collects issues 27–34.
Volume 6: The Curse of the Golden Skull and Other Stories (2004) – collects issues 35–42 (also by Neal Adams and Rich Buckler).
Volume 7: The Dweller In the Pool and Other Stories (2005) – collects issues 43–51.
Volume 8: Brothers of the Blade and Other Stories (2005) – collects issues 52–59 (also by Mike Ploog).
Volume 9: Riders of the River-Dragons and Other Stories (2006) – collects issues 60–63, 65, 69–71 (also by Val Mayerik).
Volume 10: When Giants Walk the Earth and Other Stories (2006) – collects issues 72–77, 79–81 (also by Howard Chaykin).
Volume 11: The Dance of the Skull and Other Stories (2007) – collects issues 82–86, 88–90 (also by Howard Chaykin).
Volume 12: The Beast King of Abombi and Other Stories (2007) – collects issues 91, 93–100.
Volume 13: Whispering Shadows and Other Stories (November 2007) – collects issues 92, 101–107 (also by Sal Buscema).
Volume 14: Shadow of the Beast and Other Stories (2008) – collects issues 108–115.

By J. M. DeMatteis and John Buscema and Others
Volume 15: The Corridor of Mullah-Kajar and Other Stories (July 2008) – collects issues 116–121 and Conan Annual #2
Volume 16: The Eternity War and Other Stories (December 2008) – collects issues 122–126 and Conan Annual #4–5

By J. M. DeMatteis, Bruce Jones, Gil Kane, and Others
Volume 17: The Creation Quest and Other Stories (February 2009) – collects issues 127–134 and Conan Annual #6.

By Bruce Jones and John Buscema and others
Volume 18: The Isle of the Dead and Other Stories (September 2009) – collects issues 135–142.
Volume 19: Deathmark and Other Stories (June 2010) – collects issues 143–150.

By Michael Fleisher and John Buscema and others
Volume 20: Night of the Wolf and Other Stories (December 2010) – collects issues 151–159.
Volume 21: Blood of the Titan and Other Stories (August 2011) – collects 160–167 and Conan Annual #7.
Volume 22: Reavers In the Borderland and Other Stories (July 2012) – collects Conan Annuals #8 and #9, and issues 168–173.

By Jim Owsley and John Buscema and others
Volume 23: Well of Souls and Other Stories (April 2013) – collects issues 174–181 and Conan Annual #10.
Volume 24: Blood Dawn and Other Stories (July 2013) – collects issues 182–189 and Conan Annual #11.
Volume 25: Exodus and Other Stories (November 2013) – collects issues 190–198.
Volume 26: Legion of the Dead and Other Stories (April 2014) – collects issues 199–205 and Conan Annual #12.
Volume 27: Sands Upon the Earth and Other Stories (July 2014) – collects issues 206–214 and Handbook of the Conan Universe.

By Charles Santino and Val Semeiks and others
Volume 28: Blood And Ice and Other Stories (December 2014) – collects issues 215–223.

By Gerry Conway and others
Volume 29: The Shape In the Shadow and Other Stories (March 2015) – collects issues 224–232.

By Michael Higgins and others
Volume 30: The Death of Conan and Other Stories (December 2015) – collects issues 233–240.

By Roy Thomas, Gary Hartle, Michael Docherty, and others
Volume 31: Empire of the Undead and Other Stories (March 2016) – collects issues 241–249.
Volume 32: The Second Coming of Shuma-Gorath and Other Stories (August 2016) – collects issues 250–258.
Volume 33: The Mountain Where Crom Dwells and Other Stories (November 2016) – collects issues 259–267.
Volume 34: Betrayal in Zamora and Other Stories (March 2017) – collects issues 268–275.

The Barry Windsor-Smith Conan Archives
 Volume 1 collects Conan the Barbarian #1–11, 200 pages, February 2010, Dark Horse Comics,
 Volume 2 collects Conan the Barbarian #12–16 and #19–24, 288 pages, May 2010, Dark Horse Comics,

Conan the Barbarian: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus
 Volume 1 collects Conan the Barbarian #1–26 plus additional material,  776 pages, January 2019, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 2 collects Conan the Barbarian #27–51 plus additional material,  856 pages, August 2019, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 3 collects Conan the Barbarian #52–83 plus additional material,  832 pages, January 2020, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 4 collects Conan the Barbarian #84–115 plus additional material,  848 pages, October 2020, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 5 collects Conan the Barbarian #116–149 plus additional material,  1048 pages, March 2021, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 6 collects Conan the Barbarian #150–171 plus additional material,  672 pages, November 2021, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 7 collects Conan the Barbarian #172–194 plus additional material,  680 pages, January 2022, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 8 collects Conan the Barbarian #195–213 plus additional material,  624 pages, June 2022, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 9 collects Conan the Barbarian #214–240 plus additional material,  704 pages, October 2022, Marvel Comics,
 Volume 10 collects Conan the Barbarian #241–275 plus additional material,  944 pages, December 2022, Marvel Comics,

Marvel Epic Collections

See also
 Conan (comics)

References

External links

1970 comics debuts
1993 comics endings
Comics by Doug Moench
Comics by J. M. DeMatteis
Comics by Michael Fleisher
Comics by Neal Adams
Comics by Roy Thomas
Conan the Barbarian comics
Fantasy comics
Marvel Comics titles


Mulkhola   is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4076 people living in 674 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Bahar Mert Üçoklar (born 13 December 1975 in Kardzhali, Bulgaria) is a retired Turkish volleyball player. She is 180 cm and plays as setter.

She plays for Türk Telekom Ankara. She has been on the team since 2007 and wears the number 1. She is the team's captain.
She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the silver medal at the 2003 European Championship in Ankara.
She participated at the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship.

Clubs
 1990-94  Eczacıbaşı Istanbul
 1994-00  Vakıfbank Ankara
 2000-01  Volley Cats Berlin
 2002-05  Eczacıbaşı Istanbul
 2006-07  Asystel Novara
 2007-09  Türk Telekom Ankara

Individual awards
 1998/1999 Women's CEV Champions League "Best Setter"

See also
 Turkish women in sports

References

 Official website of Italian Woman Volleyball League

 Türk Telekom Ankara Official Website Profile

External links
 Bahar Urcu at the International Volleyball Federation

1975 births
Living people
Turkish women's volleyball players
Türk Telekom volleyballers
Turkish expatriate volleyball players
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Turkey
Mediterranean Games medalists in volleyball
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
21st-century Turkish women
People from Kardzhali


Nigalchula   is a village development committee in Salyan District in Karnali Province of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 2443 people living in 418 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Ivan Burtchin (Bulgarian: Иван Бурчин) (born December 9, 1952) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the C-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972.

Burtchin also won a bronze medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade.

References

Sports-reference.com profile (As Ivan Burchin)

1952 births
Bulgarian male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists for Bulgaria
Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
Living people
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics


Russia–Slovakia relations (, ) date back to when diplomatic relations were established upon Slovakia gaining its independence on January 1, 1993.  Russia opened its embassy in Bratislava in 1993.  Slovakia also has an embassy in Moscow. Unlike Slovakia's neighbour and close ally Czech Republic, which has some negative view over Russia due to the past, Slovakia tends to have better relations with Russia.

2022 Invasion of Ukraine

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine started, Slovakia, as one of the EU countries, imposed sanctions on Russia, and Russia added all EU countries to the list of "unfriendly nations".

Slovakia joined other countries in spring 2022 in declaring a number of Russian diplomats persona non grata.

On 16 February 2023, Slovakia's parliament defined the Putin regime as "terrorist" and formally designated Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

 Foreign relations of Russia
 Foreign relations of Slovakia

Slovak community & Czech community in Russia

References

External links
 http://www.rusemb.sk/
http://fakproject.hu/docs/04-Duleba.pdf

Slovakia
Bilateral relations of Slovakia


The 86th Flying Training Squadron is part of the 47th Flying Training Wing at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas.  It operates Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk aircraft conducting flight training.

Mission
Currently, the mission of the 86th Flying Training Squadron is to educate and train undergraduate pilots to fly the T-1A Jayhawk which prepares them to fly mobility and tanker aircraft, such as the C-130J Super Hercules.

History

World War II
On 20 November 1940, a new squadron was designated the 86th Bombardment Squadron, Light. Activated on 15 January 1941 and stationed at McChord Field, Washington, its primary mission was antisubmarine patrols utilizing Douglas B-18 Bolo aircraft. In the six years that followed, the 86th traveled to all parts of the world. The mission was later expanded to include training personnel for overseas duty and combat operations.

In 1942, the 86th started its journey through various parts of Europe and North Africa. It was stationed in approximately 20 different locations including French Morocco, Canrobert Airfield, Algeria, and Salon-de-Provence Airfield, France. During that time, the 86th supported combat operations with the Douglas DB-7 and Douglas A-20 Havoc and the Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft. The 86th Bombardment Squadron received numerous campaign streamers and the Distinguished Unit Citation in 1943 and again in 1945.  It went on to fly combat missions in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations from 14 December 1942 until 30 April 1945.

Bomber operations in the United States
In 1945, the 86th returned to the United States to begin training in support of a new mission of night tactical operations. Stationed at Biggs Field, Texas, in 1946, and then Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, in 1948, the 86th was redesigned the 86th Bombardment Squadron, Light, Jet, flying the A-26 and then B-45 aircraft. With the slowdown of military operations, the 86th was inactivated in 1949.

Bomber operations in Europe
On 23 March 1954, the 86th Bombardment Squadron, Light, jet was reactivated. It was stationed at Sculthorpe RAF Station and Alconbury RAF station, England, flying the B-45 and B-66 aircraft. On 1 Oct 1955, the 86th was redesigned as the 86th Bombardment Squadron, Tactical. The 86th remained in England, maintaining proficiency in a variety of tactical operations and was awarded the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for operations from July 1958 to June 1960.

Through the early years of the Cold War the 86th transitioned to the North American B-45 Tornado and later the Douglas B-66 Destroyer aircraft and served as a bomber unit, primarily stationed in England.

Flying training
On 22 March 1972, the 86th was redesignated the 86th Flying Training Squadron. The former 3646th Pilot Training Squadron at Laughlin Air Force Base was discontinued and its personnel and equipment transferred to the 86th and the squadron continued to train undergraduate student pilots in the Northrop T-38 Talon. From 1976 to 1979, the squadron also trained Strategic Air Command co-pilots in the ACE program. The squadron was inactivated in September 1992. During its twenty years as a pilot training squadron, the 86th Flying Training Squadron earned five Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards.

On 17 February 1994, the 86th Flying Training Squadron was reactivated. The training mission continues utilizing the T-1A Jay Hawk for Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training. Today, the squadron flies the Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk conducting the specialized undergraduate pilot training phase for airlift-tanker-bomber track pilots.

Lineage
 Constituted as the 86th Bombardment Squadron (Light) on 20 November 1940
 Activated on 15 January 1941
 Redesignated 86th Bombardment Squadron, Light on 20 August 1943
 Redesignated 86th Bombardment Squadron, Light (Night Attack) on 16 April 1946
 Redesignated 86 Bombardment Squadron, Light, Jet on 23 June 1948
 Inactivated on 2 October 1949
 Redesignated 86th Bombardment Squadron, Light on 1 March 1954
 Activated on 23 March 1954
 Redesignated 86th Bombardment Squadron, Tactical on 1 Oct 1955
 Discontinued and inactivated on 22 June 1962
 Redesignated 86th Flying Training Squadron on 22 March 1972
 Activated on 1 September 1972
 Inactivated on 15 September 1992
 Activated on 1 December 1993

Assignments
 47th Bombardment Group, 15 January 1941 – 2 October 1949
 47th Bombardment Group, 23 March 1954 (attached to 47th Bombardment Wing)
 47th Bombardment Wing, 8 February 1955 – 22 June 1962
 47th Flying Training Wing, 1 September 1972
 47th Operations Group, 15 December 1991 – 15 September 1992
 47th Operations Group, 1 December 1993 – present

Stations

 McChord Field, Washington, 15 January 1941
 Army Air Base Fresno, California, 11 August 1941
 Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma, 15 Feb 1942
 Greensboro Army Air Base, North Carolina, 16 July–17 October 1942
 Mediouna Airfield, French Morocco, 17 November 1942
 Youks-les-Bains Airfield, Algeria, December 1942
 Canrobert Airfield, Algeria, 21 February 1943
 Thelepte Airfield, Tunisia, 30 March 1943
 Souk-el-Arba Airfield, Tunisia, 16 April 1943
 Soliman Airfield, Tunisia, c. 1 Jun 1943
 Ta Kali Airdrome, Malta, 22 July 1943
 Torrente Comunelli, Sicily, Italy 13 Aug 1943
 Gerbini Airfield, Sicily, 19 August 1943
 Grottaglie Airfield, Italy, 27 September 1943
 Vincenzo Airfield, Italy, 12 October 1943
 Vesuvius Airfield, Italy, 13 Jan uary1944
 Capodichino Airport, Italy, 22 March 1944
 Vesuvius Airfield, Italy, 25 April 1944
 Ponte Galeria Airfield, Italy, 9 June 1944
 Ombrone Airfield, Italy, 23 June 1944
 Poretta Airfield, Corsica, France, 12 Jul 1944
 Salon-de-Provence Airfield (Y-16), France, 5 September 1944;
 Follonica Airfield, Italy, 19 September 1944
 Rosignano Airfield, Italy, 4 October 1944
 Grosseto Airfield, Italy, 2 January 1945
 Pisa Airport, Italy, 15–23 June 1945
 Seymour Johnson Field, North Carolina (1945)
 Lake Charles Army Air Field, Louisiana, 9 September 1945
 Biggs Field, (later Biggs Air Force Base), Texas, 20 October 1946
 Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 19 November 1948 – 2 October 1949
 RAF Sculthorpe, England, 23 March 1954
 RAF Alconbury, England, 15 September 1955
 RAF Sculthorpe, England, 5 August 1959 – 22 June 1962
 Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, 1 September 1972 – 15 September 1992
 Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, 1 December 1993 – present

Aircraft

 Douglas B-18 Bolo (1941–1942)
 Douglas DB-7 Boston (1942)
 Douglas A-20 Havoc (1942–1945)
 Douglas A-26 (later B-26) Invader (1945–1949)
 North American B-45 Tornado (1949, 1954–1958)
 Douglas B-66 Destroyer (1958–1962)
 Northrop T-38 Talon (1972–1992)
 Raytheon T-1 Jayhawk (1993 – present)

Campaigns
World War II: Antisubmarine, American Theater; Algeria-French Morocco; Tunisia; Sicily; Naples-Foggia; Anzio; Rome-Arno; Southern France; North Apennines; Po Valley; Air Combat, EAME Theater

Decorations
Distinguished Unit Citations: North Africa, 22 Feb 1943; Po Valley, 21-24 Apr 1945. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1 Jul 1958 – 30 Jun 1960; 1 Jan-31 Dec 1973; 1 Jan 1976 – 28 Feb 1977; 1 Jan 1979-30 Apr 1980; 1 May 1982 – 29 Feb 1984; 1 Mar 1985-28 Feb 1987; [1 Mar] 1987-31 Mar 1988; 16 Mar 1989 – 15 Mar 1991; 1 Jul 1991-[15 Sep 1992]; [1 Dec 1993]-30 Jun 1995; 1 Jul 1997 – 30 Jun 1999; 1 Sep 2003-30 Jun 2005; 1 Jul 2005 – 30 Jun 2007

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links
86th Flying Training Squadron Official Facebook Page

See also

Military units and formations in Texas
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Rebecca Egan is a British actress known mostly for the role of Marilyn Tanner in the Second Sight series, and has been seen in the guest role of Kendra Hills-Smythe in the soap opera EastEnders.

The daughter of Myra Frances (1943–2021) and Robert Taylor, and step-daughter of Peter Egan (born 1946), all actors, her first television appearance was in an episode of Cardiac Arrest in 1996 as a doctor. After a few bit parts in television series, Egan was given the role of Marilyn Tanner for the television film Second Sight in 1999. Its success brought on three sequels, all released in 2000, and led to Egan landing bigger parts in more well-known television series such as Murder in Mind, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, Doctors, The Bill and Casualty.

References

External links

Living people
British actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)


Phalawang () is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5078 people living in 858 individual households.

History
Phalawang historically was a kingdom ruled by rajas; in 1837, Tej Bahadur Shah became Raja of Phalawang. The main building of note is the Phalawang Palace which houses documents in the eastern wing. And in 1980 MITRA LAL BUDHATHOKI BECOME THE HEAD of Phalawang district he had helped so many people in Phalawang

Geography
Phalawang lies on a mountain top, with river valleys to both the north and south.
Highway 11 (also known as Rapti Rajmang) skirts the eastern perimeters of the VDC, connecting Tulsipur in the south to Jhula in the north. Phulawang VDC is located in the southeastern part of Salyan District, bordering Tulsipur, Pawan Nagar, Shantinagar and Baghmare to the south in Dang Deokhuri District, Kavra to the west, Karagithi to the northwest, Chhayachhetra to the north, Tribeni to the northeast, and Rim and Dhanwang to the east.

Other settlements in the area include Tribenghat, Gaunde, Lotaune, Dhunge Bagar, Baluwa and Dangchuli.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Pipal Neta   is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1780 people living in 315 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Design Hotels comprises more than 300 independent, design-driven hotels located around the globe. The company was founded in 1993 as a California Corporation, Design Hotels Inc., by J. Peter Schweitzer and Claus Sendlinger. In 2004, after several relocations of its headquarters from Arizona, California, to New York, New York, the firm settled its headquarters in its current location in Berlin, Germany, under the name Design Hotels AG. In 2011, Starwood Hotels & Resorts acquired 72% ownership of Design Hotels AG. Following the merger of Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Marriott International, Marriott International currently owns 100% of the company, now known as Design Hotels GmbH

Philosophy
The Design Hotels portfolio is formed by privately owned and operated hotels that reflect the "vision of independent hoteliers". A strong emphasis is placed on "culturally rooted hospitality experiences" and "leading-edge design and architecture".

History
Design Hotels was founded in 1993 as a California Corporation, Design Hotels Inc. by J. Peter Schweitzer and Claus Sendlinger. Claus was a part-owner (with Hans Peter Knodler and Oliver Jamitzky) of German full-service travel agency CO-ORDINATES GmbH, based in Augsburg, Germany; the two firms, and several others, consolidated in 1998 under the holding company lebensart.net GmbH, subsequently known as lebensart Global Networks AG in 1999. The holding company went public in Germany on Dec. 10, 1999.

In 2000 lebensart Global Networks AG, with Daniel Adams as the CFO raised sufficient capital to transfer trading from the over-the-counter (OTC) markets to the Börse München.

In 2001 the firm re-branded itself as Design Hotels with 23 initial member hotels. That same year the firm completed the corporate merger of wholly owned subsidiaries ResExpress, Inc., Younger Direct Marketing, Inc., and lebensart technology, Inc. The company began trading under the name lebensart technology Arizona, Inc., with headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.

In 2004, after several relocations of its headquarters from Arizona, California, to New York City, the firm settled its headquarters in its current location in Berlin, Germany, under the name Design Hotels AG.

In 2011, Starwood Hotels & Resorts acquired 72% ownership of Design Hotels AG. Following the merger of Starwood Hotels & Resorts and Marriott International, Marriott International acquired 100% of Design Hotels GmbH.

Accommodation

References

Hotel and leisure companies of Germany
Companies based in Berlin
Hospitality companies established in 1993
Marriott International brands


Rim, Nepal   is a village development committee in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3120 people living in 570 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Saijuwal Takura   is market center in Sharada Municipality in Salyan District in the Rapti Zone of western-central Nepal. The place formerly existing as Village Development Committee was annexed to form a new municipality since 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,137 living in 593 individual households.

Media
Saijuwal Takura has an FM community radio station, Radio Rapti - 104.8 MHz.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Salyan District

Populated places in Salyan District, Nepal


Gheorghe Danielov (also Danilov, 20 April 1948 –2 August 2017) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in doubles together with Gheorghe Simionov. They won a silver medal in the 1000 m event at the 1976 Olympics, placing fourth over 500 m, and four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (C-2 500 m: 1971) and three silvers (C-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; C-2 1000 m: 1975).

References

External links

1948 births
Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Romania
Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Romanian male canoeists
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Tulcea County


William Passmore Carlin (November 23, 1829 – October 4, 1903) was a career soldier from the state of Illinois who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and then in the postbellum United States Army. He led a brigade and then a division in the Army of the Cumberland in several of the most significant campaigns of the Western Theater of operations.

Early life
William P. Carlin was born at Rich Woods in Greene County, Illinois, and educated in the local schools. His parents were William B. Carlin (1804-1850) and Mary Carlin (née Goode, 1805-1888). His uncle Thomas Carlin, a Jacksonian Democrat and veteran of the War of 1812 served as Illinois' governor when William was a boy. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and graduated in 1850, ranking 20th out of 44. Among his classmates were future six Civil War generals, including Gouverneur K. Warren and William L. Cabell.

Early career

Carlin was appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the 6th U.S. Infantry and assigned to duty on the Western frontier at Fort Snelling and other subsequent posts.
He spent much of the next decade on garrison duty, although he participated in several minor campaigns and expeditions to quell warring Plains Indians, including William S. Harney's 1855 campaign against the Sioux (for which he was promoted to first lieutenant) and the 1857 expedition of Edwin V. Sumner against the Cheyenne tribe. He then was involved in the Utah War in 1858 in a U.S. Army force led by Albert Sidney Johnston, a future Confederate general. Carlin rose to the rank of captain in the Regular Army.

From September 1859 through May 1860, he commanded Fort Bragg in California.

Civil War
Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in early 1861, Carlin was commissioned on August 5 by the Governor of Illinois, Richard Yates, as the colonel and first commander of the new 38th Illinois Infantry. He and his regiment were shipped to Missouri to help stabilize the region under Federal control. He participated in the Battle of Fredericktown on October 21, where his men help rout part of the Missouri State Guard under M. Jeff Thompson.

As a reward for his performance, in November Carlin took command of the Southeastern Missouri District, a post he held through the winter into early spring of 1862 when he was assigned to lead a brigade of infantry. He first led his brigade into combat during the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi, in May of that year. Fighting against the Confederates of Braxton Bragg during the autumn Kentucky Campaign, Carlin received multiple commendations for bravery for a successful charge at the Battle of Perryville that almost cut off the Confederate line of retreat, but it was called back, under protest, by his corps commander. After the battle he protested the lack of recognition his command received and privately chided division commander Lovell H. Rousseau for "crawling around trees on his belly [which] is not such conduct as soldiers admire." Carlin was promoted to brigadier general in the Union Army on November 29, 1862. A month later, his brigade in the Army of the Cumberland suffered high casualties during the Battle of Stones River in Tennessee.

For the next year and a half, Carlin commanded the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division of the XX Corps. He participated in the Tullahoma Campaign and the subsequent Battle of Chickamauga. In the autumn of 1863, he fought at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge during the Battles for Chattanooga. In the summer of 1864, he led his brigade in the Atlanta Campaign, taking a brief furlough during the campaign to return to Illinois to be married. He was promoted to divisional command before the Battle of Jonesboro in September. He then took part in Sherman's March to the Sea and the capture of Savannah, Georgia.

In early 1865, Carlin's division was involved in the Carolinas Campaign. At the Battle of Bentonville on March 19, it conducted a "probing attack" that was routed by a major Confederate counterattack in which General Carlin narrowly escaped capture. At the end of the war, he received brevet appointments to major general in both the volunteer Union Army and the Regular Army.

Postbellum career
Carlin mustered out of the volunteers in the summer of 1865 and returned to the Regular Army as the major of the 16th U.S. Infantry. He was the assistant commissioner of the Tennessee office of the Freedmen's Bureau from 1867 until 1868. He was promoted to colonel in April 1882 and later to brigadier general, and held various commands at army posts throughout the country. He put down a miners' strike in the Idaho Territory and served in several posts in the South during Reconstruction.

Carlin retired from the Army in 1893 after 43 years of service. He wrote and published his autobiography, Memoirs of Brigadier General William Passmore Carlin, USA, which detailed his long career.

Carlin's son, William E. Carlin, was the leader of a hunting party that was lost and rescued, by a party dispatched by General Carlin, on the Lochsa river in Idaho in 1893.

Death and legacy

While traveling on a train near Whitehall, Montana, in 1903, Carlin died suddenly. His body was shipped home to Carrollton, Illinois, for burial.

The town of Carlin, Nevada, was named for him.

See also

List of American Civil War generals (Union)

Notes

References
 Carlin, William P. The Memoirs of Brigadier General William Passmore Carlin U.S.A. Edited by Robert I. Girardi and Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1999. .
 Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.

External links

Union Army generals
United States Military Academy alumni
People of Illinois in the American Civil War
People from Greene County, Illinois
Writers from Illinois
1829 births
1903 deaths


Gheorghe Simionov (born 4 June 1950) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. He competed in 500 m and 1000 m doubles at the 1976 Olympics, together with Gheorghe Danilov, and placed fourth and second, respectively. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (C-2 500 m: 1971; C-2 10000 m: 1966, 1970), five silvers (C-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; C-2 1000 m: 1975, 1978; C-2 10000 m: 1978), and two bronzes (C-2 500 m: 1978, C-2 1000 m: 1979). After 1975 he raced together with his younger brother Toma.

Simionov spent his entire career with CSA Steaua București, and after retiring from competitions stayed there as a coach. Since 1991 he trained canoers in Mexico.

References

External links

1950 births
Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Romania
Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Romanian male canoeists
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian

Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Tulcea County


Srednja Vas pri Šenčurju (; , ) is a village in the Municipality of Šenčur in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
The name of the settlement was changed from Srednja vas to Srednja vas pri Šenčurju in 1955. In the past the German name was Mitterdorf.

Churches
Twin churches with a single shared spire in the village are dedicated to Saint Radegund and Saint Catherine. Saint Radegunde's is the older of the two with a Romanesque nave and Gothic frescos from around 1440. The sanctuary has Gothic rib vaulting from the second half of the 15th century and the nave was vaulted in 1853. Saint Catherine's is younger with a choir dated 1535. Eight Stations of the Cross are displayed in the nave and a wooden polychrome pulpit from the 17th century can be seen on the south wall. The spire was probably built in the early 16th century at about the time the second church was erected.

Gallery

References

External links
Srednja Vas pri Šenčurju on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Šenčur


But Not for Me is a 1959 American comedy film directed by Walter Lang and starring Clark Gable, Carroll Baker and Lilli Palmer. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the 1934 play Accent on Youth  written by Samson Raphaelson.

Plot
Russ Ward is a Broadway producer with a 30-year record of success who has been out of town. On returning to New York, everybody wants a piece of him: ex-wife Kathryn Ward, hard-drinking playwright Jeremiah "Mac" MacDonald, magazine reporter Roy Morton, business manager Miles Atwood, and lawyer Charles Montgomery, one after another.

The main topic of discussion is Give Me Your Hand, the new play Russ is producing. The reporter hears it's in trouble, but Russ says that's untrue. He vows it will be ready for its Boston tryout right on schedule. He and writer Mac have a story about a middle-aged man romancing a 22-year-old woman, and just can't seem to make it work.

Kathryn keeps reminding him of his age, which Russ likes to lie about. Russ tells loyal young secretary and student actress Ellie Brown it is likely time to retire because the new show is a mess.

Ellie is in love with Russ, so much so she proposes marriage to him. That gives him an idea. What if the play had the young woman pursuing the man? That way he wouldn't seem such a lecher. A delighted Mac rewrites it, and everyone involved works on it at the Long Island mansion where the former actress Kathryn lives, partly thanks to her alimony from Russ.

A rich backer named Bacos wants in, but Atwood says his money isn't needed because an anonymous angel is financing the whole show. Ellie reads the woman's part, and strikes everybody as perfect for it. Gordon Reynolds, an up-and-coming young actor in Ellie's acting class, gets the male lead. Gordon has been in love for a long time with Ellie, but Russ doesn't discourage her love for him.

The show's so-so in Boston, and a few of them panic, but Russ insists it'll be a hit on Broadway, and, sure enough, he's right. Now, he needs to let down Ellie gently, and next thing he knows, she and Gordon have gotten married. Ellie returns exasperated because Gordon wants to give up theater and move to Butte, Montana. She strips and leaps into Russ's bed so Gordon can catch her there and demand an annulment.

Everybody gets every misunderstanding sorted out. The newlyweds decide to compromise, and Russ, who finally has figured out that Kathryn was the anonymous angel who financed the show, is ready to give their relationship a second act.

Cast
Clark Gable as Russell "Russ" Ward
Carroll Baker as Ellie Brown / Borden
Lilli Palmer as Kathryn Ward
Lee J. Cobb as Jeremiah MacDonald
Barry Coe as Gordon Reynolds
Thomas Gomez as Demetrios Bacos
Charles Lane as Miles Atwood
Wendell Holmes as Charles Montgomery
Tom Duggan as Roy Morton

Previous versions
The 1935 film Accent on Youth starred Herbert Marshall and Sylvia Sidney. The 1950 film version was a musical entitled Mr. Music, starring Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson.

Novelization
A worthwhile novelization of the screenplay was written by American writer Edward S. Aarons (1916-1975) under the mild pseudonym Edward Ronns, published in a mass market, tie-in paperback edition by Pyramid Books (cover price 35¢) with a release date of September, 1959 and copyright assigned to Paramount Pictures Corporation. (Aarons is best known for his prolific "Assignment" espionage series, featuring agent Sam Durell.)

References

External links

1959 films
American comedy films
American films based on plays
1950s English-language films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Walter Lang
Films scored by Leith Stevens
1959 comedy films
Films produced by William Perlberg
Films produced by George Seaton
1950s American films


The International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation (ILLF) was a government authorised and state controlled charitable foundation that operated Internet lotteries. The ILLF pioneered Internet gaming, having launched the web's first online lottery, PLUS Lotto, in 1995 and processed the first online gaming transaction ever. The ILLF supported charitable causes in Liechtenstein, many of which support projects in poorer nations internationally. The ILLF filed for bankruptcy in September 2011.

Chronology
In early 1995, executives of London Mall, a British software developer conceived the idea of an Internet lottery. A license to run a fixed odds Internet lottery, without international marketing restrictions, was obtained from the Liechtenstein government. The International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation (ILLF), a charitable foundation, was formed to operate this lottery, then called Interlotto. The International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation (ILLF) also introduced the first instant scratchcard games on the Internet during this time.

The first Interlotto ticket was sold to Mario Frick, the Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (December 15, 1993 - April 5, 2001). The first Interlotto draw took place at the Köfferli bar in the quaint capital of Vaduz, Liechtenstein on the Saturday evening of 7 October 1995. Caroline Burdet , Liechtenstein's first Olympic bobsledder, drew the winning six numbers for what is billed as the first nationally sanctioned lottery on the Internet.

Fourteen months later, on 13 January 1997 the lottery site was renamed from Interlotto to PLUS Lotto following an agreement with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), one of the world's best known and most respected humanitarian organisations, whereby the IFRC would become its major beneficiary. The first draw under the PLUS Lotto name took place on 18 April 1997.

Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein, a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Nations, is a small country located in Europe between Switzerland and Austria. This Principality is a constitutional hereditary monarchy operating on a democratic and parliamentary foundation.

Regulation
The ILLF was licensed by the government of Liechtenstein to operate its lotteries. The license was highly regulated, with government appointed auditors (Thöny Treuhand AG, Vaduz) auditing the ILLF books of account and overseeing all aspects of the operations including scrutinization of lottery pre-draw and draw procedures. This includes all lottery games as well as the instant win games.

The ILLF's partners were credible and well known:

Thawte certifies the ILLF sites to guarantee personal information such as credit card details is protected and securely processed.

The larger Jackpot prizes were insured through R K Harrison Group Limited , a Lloyd's broker, to ensure guaranteed Jackpot prize payouts.

Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG  held the player funds from transactions made on all the ILLF operated sites to assure funds were securely held and paid out to players. Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, a AAA rated bank, is predominately owned by the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Charity

An integral part of the International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation (ILLF) was its focus on charities.  All the lottery sites in the ILLF network set aside a portion of revenue to fund causes in Liechtenstein and around the world. All donations are made at the discretion of the Charity Allocation Committee which is controlled by the Liechtenstein government.

ILLF Network
The ILLF operated many websites, referred to as the ILLF brands. Combined, these brands offered a wide array of games to choose from.

 World Lotto Corporation
 Lotto.li
 PLUS Lotto

All sites now redirect to the main ILLF home page, discussing the reasons for the filing of bankruptcy.

Games
Several games operated under the ILLF brands:

 Lotteries
 Instant Win Games
 Scratchcards

Lotteries
The ILLF offered two weekly lotteries and one monthly lottery.

Weekly 6/49 Lottery
In every lotto draw, six numbers plus one bonus number were drawn from a range of balls numbered 1 to 49. Players choose six different numbers plus a bonus number by a method of their own choosing. Prizes were awarded for matching two, three, four, five or six numbers as well as five plus the bonus ball and six plus the bonus ball.
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Draw
The 6/49 lottery draw was conducted every Friday at the ILLF's studio in Liechtenstein and is scrutinized by an auditor from Thöny Treuhand AG, Vaduz. Draws were performed using one of two mechanical ball machines manufactured by Editec (France). Prior to the draw a ball set was selected at random and test draws were carried out to ensure that the machine and ball sets have not been tampered with. After the draw an independent program is run by the auditor and the results compared to the database to verify that the data is correct and there are no errors. The draw was filmed and then made available via the Internet.

The Prize Pool for the 6/49 lottery draw was 90% of the value of the ticket price. The allocation is as follows:

 2% for a 6 number match, plus bonus ball
 8% for a 6 number match
 10% for promotional incentive prizes
 on average 2% for a 5 number match, plus bonus ball
 on average 4% for a 5 number match
 on average 7% for a 4 number match
 on average 30% for a 3 number match
 on average 37% for a 2 number match

The overall odds of winning any prize were 1 in 6.63.

Little Big One
Little Big One was a weekly lotto where 5 from 15 balls are drawn. Each ticket contains 5 numbers chosen from 15. There were a maximum of 3003 tickets available in every weekly draw. There were three prize categories to be won, including winning for matching zero balls. Since each ticket number is sold only once, winners do not share prizes. The Jackpot is a guaranteed EUR 2,003.00 per week. The weekly draw was an automated draw using a certified Random Number Generator. The draw took place in Liechtenstein every Wednesday at 11h00 CET but occasionally, due to a "Must be Won Jackpot" feature of the LBO game, could occur earlier.

The Prize Pool for the Little Big One draw was 80% of the ticket price. The allocation is as follows:

 27.79% for a 5 number match
 49.95% for a 3 number match
 20.98% for a 0 number match
 1.28% for promotional incentive prizes

The overall odds of winning any prize were 1 in 4.27.

Equinox Lottery
The Equinox Lottery was a monthly lottery with draws occurring every month on the same date as the next Equinox (the days when the Sun is directly above the Earth's equator and day and night are about the same length everywhere in the world). In 2010, this was on January 22, February 22, March 22, April 20, May 20, June 21, July 20, August 20, September 22, October 22, November 22 and December 22. There were only 2,000 ticket numbers offered in each draw. The purchase price of a complete Ticket Number is EUR 45. Each Ticket Number consists of 3 Shares. The purchase price of a Share is EUR 15. Players can choose to purchase a complete Ticket Number and/or up to 3 shares, depending on the number of shares already sold in the ticket. It was a raffle style draw with a Prize Pool worth up to EUR 45,000.00 and up to 565 cash prizes were awarded.

The odds were 1 in 3.54 to win a prize and 1 in 5.45 to make a profit.

Instant Win Games
PLUS Lotto offered a variety of online instant win games. The player could win up to EUR 10,000.00 instantly.

Scratchcards
PLUS Lotto offered seven online scratchcard games. Each scratchcard ranges from a cost of EUR 1 to EUR 7. Prizes up to EUR 100,000.00 could be won.

References

External links
 The International Lottery in Liechtenstein Foundation website - explains the reasons for filing bankruptcy.

Lotteries
Economy of Liechtenstein


Uwe Madeja (born 6 February 1959) is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. He won a silver in the C-2 1000 m event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Madeja also won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (C-2 1000 m: 1981) and two bronzes (C-2 500 m: 1985, C-2 1000 m: 1982).

He is married to Silvia Rinka, who competed for East Germany in swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics in the breaststroke.

References

1959 births
Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
German male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for East Germany
Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics


Parti social-démocrate may refer to:

 Social Democratic Party (Benin)
 Social Democratic Party (France) (defunct)
 Social Democratic Party (Gabon)
 Social Democratic Party (Luxembourg) (defunct)
 Social Democratic Party (Rwanda)
 Social Democratic Party/Jant Bi, Senegal
 Mauritian Social Democrat Party

See also
 Social Democratic Party


Lifestyle Lift (stylized in uppercase in its logo) was a national facial cosmetic surgery practice with headquarters in Troy, Michigan, United States. The company's name in all caps is a trademarked brand name used to market a particular type of facial surgery called the lifestyle lift. In 2012, Debby Boone became the spokesperson for the company in its television commercials and its half-hour infomercial. The company discontinued using Boone in late 2013 shifting to a new advertising campaign.  The company abruptly closed all its offices in early March 2015 and announced its intention to declare bankruptcy.

The procedure is advertised as a minimally invasive, short-flap face lift performed under local anesthesia.  The procedure involves the excess skin and superficial muscular aponeurotic system (SMAS) layer.

Company history
Lifestyle Lift was founded by Dr. David Kent, whose previous medical practice focused on otolaryngology head and neck surgery, facial plastic surgery and hair replacement.  Kent completed an osteopathic residency in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and facial plastic surgery.  He is a member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and board certified by the American Osteopathic College of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. Kent was recently named Ernst & Young's 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year. He started Lifestyle Lift in 2001 with one office and has grown it to over 50 surgical, consultation and affiliated offices with more than 100 physicians. R. James Koch joined Lifestyle Lift in 2006 as medical director and oversaw medical training for the company.  Prior to joining Lifestyle Lift, Koch was a full-time faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine where he served as associate professor, co-director of the Division of Facial Plastic Surgery, and co-director of the Fellowship for Advanced Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. Koch resigned from the organization in 2010 and was replaced by three regional medical directors that same year and who were subsequently named medical directors in 2012: David Santos, Pacific and Mountain Regions; Jason Swerdloff, Southeast and Northeast Regions; Carlos Farias, Midwest and Northeast Regions. The company closed its operations and filed for bankruptcy on March 2, 2015.

Claims
The company website lists 172,255 completed surgeries as of 5 February 2014.  There are almost 200 reviews of the company out of over 150,000 customers—some of them negative—on RealSelf.com, which Lifestyle Lift sued for trademark infringement (the case was settled). Lifestyle Lift has attempted to sue other companies based on trademark infringement, including informercialscams.com (now defunct). In 2008, Lifestyle Lift was the subject of an eight-part mini-series by the CBS affiliate in Atlanta featuring three dissatisfied Lifestyle Lift patients, and former employees and their complaints against the company. In 2009, a Florida woman died just hours after undergoing a cosmetic facial surgery at a Lifestyle Lift center in Maitland, Florida.

Malpractice claims
Lifestyle Lift® and/or its doctors have been the subject of multiple alleged malpractice claims in the state of Florida.

Complaints

Marketing practices
In 2009 Lifestyle Lift reached a settlement with New York state over claims it had posted false customer endorsements on third-party websites, including RealSelf.com, and on some websites the company had created for the purpose. Lifestyle Lift was ordered to pay $300,000 to the state, and it agreed to cease the practice.
In 2013, after a three-year review of all aspects of Lifestyle Lift marketing, the Florida Attorney General found that Lifestyle Lift was compliant with all state regulations. As a result, no fines were levied, but Lifestyle Lift reimbursed the State of Florida for costs of the investigation and made a donation to a Florida Attorney General sponsored charity. During the course of the investigation, Lifestyle Lift voluntarily made several minor changes to its marketing materials to ensure clarity for consumers.

Safety issues
In 2008, an Orlando, Florida, plastic surgeon filed a complaint with the Florida Board of Medicine, seeking payment for emergency room services he provided to a Lifestyle Lift patient; the company denied that it was negligent. Lifestyle Lift was also the subject of a March 2010 lawsuit filed by the family of a Massachusetts patient who died as a result of complications with local anesthesia in July 2009. The suit alleged that doctors failed to monitor the woman's vital signs during the procedure; in a statement, Lifestyle Lift responded that the woman had failed to disclose pertinent medical information. In an August 2011 lawsuit filed in Broward County, Florida, a patient claimed she developed keloid scars within days following a Lifestyle Lift facelift, and that the doctor had lied about the risks of scarring. In a statement to the press, Lifestyle Lift indicated disagreement with the "accounting of events" described in the suit, and said it remained supportive of its surgeon.

Procedure
The procedure involves an incision made along the temple hairline and continuing down around the front of the ear or following the natural curves of the ear. The typical incision makes an S shape although the incision length and type can differ between surgeons and is individualized for each patient. The incision is made in front of and behind each ear.  Once these cuts are made, the deeper muscle or SMAS tissue is pulled up and back (and possibly trimmed) and sutured into place.  The excess skin is then trimmed off and the incision is closed.  Liposuction may be used to reduce fat from under the chin.  In addition, the muscle bands in the neck may be sutured together to lessen their appearance.
Lifestyle Lift surgeons also perform eyelid surgeries, brow lifting, fractional  laser skin resurfacing, fat grafting, and chin augmentation.

See also
Rhytidectomy

References

External links

Plastic surgery organizations
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Companies based in Troy, Michigan
Companies established in 2001
2001 establishments in the United States


Trboje (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Šenčur in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It lies east of Lake Trboje.

Geography

Trboje lies on the left bank of the Sava River along the road from Kranj to Smlednik. The soil in the area is sandy, and there are fields in the east part of the settlement toward Smlednik and Voklo. The Sava River was dammed in 1986, when the Mavčiče Hydroelectric Plant was built. The reservoir that was created is known as Lake Trboje.

Name
Trboje was attested in written records in 1118 as Trebesbach and Trebespach (and as Treffpach in 1313, Trespach in 1436, Treboyach in 1436, Triboyan in 1483, and Threwoiach in 1597). The origin of the name is unclear, but may be derived through haplology from *Trěbobǫďe selo 'Trěbobǫdъ's village', referring to an early settler. If so, the originally neuter adjective later became a plural noun. Theories deriving the name from the verb *trěbiti 'to clear (cut)' are less likely. In the past the German name was Terboje.

History
Most of the village was burned in a fire in 1883, destroying the church and 60 houses, which were later rebuilt. The village was also heavily damaged in an 1895 earthquake.

Church

The church in the village is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. It is a Baroque structure dating from 1743 (the year is carved on the exterior wall of the chancel). The church originally belonged to the Parish of Smlednik, was a quasi-parish from 1785 to 1795, and only a chapelry from 1795 to 1809. The church burned in 1883 and was then damaged in the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake, after which it was renovated. It was not elevated to parish status until 1912. Oral tradition states that the church was once a pilgrimage destination. The main altar features a statue of Mary holding the infant Jesus; the left side altar is dedicated to Saint Nicholas, and the right side altar to the Adoration of the Magi. The church contains paintings by Leopold Layer (1752–1828) and the bell tower contains four bells.

A chapel-shrine below the church in the village is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and contains a statue from the old church. The statue was adorned with various gifts, also displayed in the shrine, when requests to the Virgin Mary were fulfilled. Two additional shrines—a triangular masonry shrine in the middle of the village, and the Burgar shrine outside the village—are noteworthy for their paintings.

Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Trboje include:
Josip Tičar (1875–1946), healthcare and hiking specialist
Valentin Žun (1873–1918), lawyer and economist

References

External links

Trboje on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Šenčur


Didier Hoyer (born 3 February 1961) is a French sprint canoer who competed from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals in the C-2 1000 m event, earning them in 1984 and 1992.

Hoyer also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four silvers (C-2 1000 m: 1989, 1991, 1993; C-2 10000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (C-1 10000 m: 1986, C-2 500 m: 1991).

References

1961 births
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
French male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games medalists in canoeing
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games


"I Never Cry" is a song by American rock singer Alice Cooper. It was originally released on his second solo studio album Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976). The song was written by Cooper and Dick Wagner.

Background
On an episode of his radio show broadcast on November 23, 2009, Cooper stated that "I Never Cry" was his biggest selling single; it was one of only two gold records Cooper earned in the US, the other being for his 1989 comeback hit "Poison". "I Never Cry" was written about Cooper's experiences with alcoholism, which one year later sent the performer into rehab. He called the song "an alcoholic confession".

As with most of Cooper's softer ballads, it fared poorly in recurrent rotation; it was too soft for the classic rock format, while classic hits stations have largely ignored it.

"I Never Cry" was performed live by Cooper, though not consistently, during all tours up to his break in touring due to his addiction to crack cocaine and eventual relapse into alcoholism following 1981's Special Forces tour. When Cooper returned to touring after Constrictor (1986), "I Never Cry" was never again performed until the 2002 'Descent into Dragontown' tour, following which the song became was a regular part of setlists on the 2005–06 'Dirty Diamonds' and 2009–10 'Theatre of Death' tours.

Chart performance
The song peaked at No. 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and at No. 9 on Cash Box in January 1977. In Canada, it spent two weeks at No. 5.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Cover versions
 "I Never Cry" was covered by Spanish rock band Hombres G on their debut studio album as "No llorare".
 It was also covered by Poison on the 2007 studio album, Poison'd!

In popular culture
 OPM R&B artist Jay R performed the song in season 1 of the Philippine singing competition Your Face Sounds Familiar with a full impersonation of Alice Cooper. Cooper acknowledged the performance in a tweet.
 Child actor Awra Briguela performed the song in Kids 1 of the Philippine singing competition Your Face Sounds Familiar with a full impersonation of Alice Cooper.
 Actor Christian Bables performed the song in season 3 of the Philippine singing competition Your Face Sounds Familiar with a full impersonation of Alice Cooper. Cooper acknowledged the performance in a tweet.
 The song was used in the final scene and closing credits of the 2011 Bobcat Goldthwait action black comedy film, God Bless America.
 The song was covered by Filipina-Australian actress Iya Villania on her sole studio album, Finally! (2008)

References

External links

1976 singles
Alice Cooper songs
Songs written by Alice Cooper
Songs written by Dick Wagner
Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Warner Records singles
1976 songs
American soft rock songs
1970s ballads
Rock ballads


Randall Duane Williams (born September 18, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played with the Seattle Mariners, San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies, Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2004–2011. Williams played college baseball for the Lamar University Cardinals.

Career
Drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 12th round of the 1997 MLB draft, Williams was released by the Cubs on March 24, . He played all of  with the independent Central Baseball League for the Edinburg Roadrunners. In 42 games, he had a 1.42 ERA and 77 strikeouts.

On September 30, 2002, he signed with the Seattle Mariners and made his  MLB debut on September 11, . He appeared in 6 games for the Mariners in 2004 and during the offseason, he was traded to the San Diego Padres for Billy Hogan. After appearing in just 2 games for the Padres in , he was claimed off waivers by the Colorado Rockies. He went 2-1 with the Rockies the rest of the season and had a 5.73 ERA. He became a free agent at the end of the season.

In , he re-signed with the Rockies and played the entire year for their Triple-A affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. In , Williams played in the Texas Rangers organization and in , the Florida Marlins organization. He became a free agent at the end of the 2008 season and signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training the Chicago White Sox on January 12, .

After the 2011 season, he elected for free agency.

In 2012, Williams signed with the Saitama Seibu Lions in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
Albuquerque Isotopes players
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Arizona League Cubs players
Baseball players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Baseball players from Texas
Boston Red Sox players
Chicago White Sox players
Colorado Rockies players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Daytona Cubs players
Edinburg Roadrunners players
Frisco RoughRiders players
Lamar Cardinals baseball players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
Oklahoma RedHawks players
Pan American Games medalists in baseball
Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States
People from Harlingen, Texas
Sportspeople from Cameron County, Texas
Portland Beavers players
Saitama Seibu Lions players
San Antonio Missions players
San Diego Padres players
Seattle Mariners players
Tacoma Rainiers players
United States national baseball team players
Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games


Éric Renaud (born 30 May 1961) is a French sprint canoeist who competed in the 1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he won a bronze medal in the C-2 1000 m event.

References

Sports-reference.com profile

1961 births
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
French male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics


The M33 cluster bomb, also known as the (M33) Brucella cluster bomb, was a U.S. biological cluster bomb developed in the early 1950s and deployed in 1952. It was the first standardized biological weapon in the U.S. arsenal.

History
The U.S. Army Chemical Corps selected Brucella suis as its first mass-produced biological agent in 1949. Tests at Dugway Proving Ground followed in 1950 and 1951. These tests paved the way for the first mass-produced biological weapon in the U.S. arsenal in 1952.

Specifications
The M33 cluster bomb was a  biological munition that initially carried the biological agent Brucella suis. The M33 held 108 M114  anti-personnel bombs; each M114 held about 320 milliliters of B. suis culture. Besides B. suis the M33 was tested with other agents throughout the 1950s. The M33 was an air-released munition: released at high altitude, it would eject its bomblets while still aloft.  Each bomblet would then explode using its own detonator.

Issues
The M33 presented a special logistical problem. The agent used, B. suis, required refrigeration which created a logistical "nightmare". In addition, experts calculated that to attain a proper infection rate over an area of one square mile up to 16 separate M33s were required; around 1,500 individual bomblets. The large number of biological weapons made transport of the weapons for 1952 tests more difficult. The M33 cluster bomb was never used in battle.

Tests involving the M33
The M33 cluster bomb was used in a series of tests from August-October 1952. At Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, the Army Chemical Corps exposed over 11,000 guinea pigs to B. suis via air-dropped M33s. Although the guinea pig trials caused one Chemical Corps general to remark, "Now we know what to do if we ever go to war against guinea pigs", the tests resulted in the realization that the M33 could not compete with the casualty volume caused by atomic weapons.

References

Biological weapon delivery systems
Cluster munition
Military equipment introduced in the 1950s


Jacques Aymar de Roquefeuil du Bousquet (14 November 1665, in château du Bousquet, Montpeyroux, Rouergue – 8/9 March 1744) was a French Navy admiral.

Family
He was a member of the de Roquefeuil-Blanquefort family from Languedoc in France. His father left him the hereditary government of the town of Rodez, which the king invested him with upon his marriage in 1711. His mother was Victoire de Moret, granddaughter of Madeleine de Bourbon.

On 4 August 1712, he married Jeanne Louise du Main d'Angeret, and they had:
 Aymar-Joseph, Vice Amiral of France
 René-Aymar, Chef d'escadre

1665 births
1744 deaths
French Navy admirals
Admirals of France
Knights of the Order of Saint Louis


Christian Frederiksen (born 31 January 1965) is a Danish-Norwegian sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the C-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992.

Frederiksen moved from Denmark to Norway after the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

He found better success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight medals. This includes six golds (C-2 1000 m: 1989, 1993; C-2 10000 m: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1993), one silver (C-2 500 m: 1993), and one bronze (C-2 10000 m: 1986).

References

1965 births
Living people
Danish male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic canoeists for Denmark
Olympic silver medalists for Denmark
Norwegian male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Norway
Danish emigrants to Norway
Olympic medalists in canoeing
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian

Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics